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Source:
History of Auglaize County, Ohio
- with the Indian History of Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement
of the County. -
Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton, Publisher - 1880
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ANDREW W. OVERHOLSER was born in Virginia
in 1811; married Angeline Northcott in 1834, and moved to
the farm where they now live in the fall of 1837. On their
first arrival they prepared a temporary shelter until they could
build a cabin. During all these early days they suffered
all the privations and hardships which attend a life in a new
country, undertaken without a dollar in hand. Under these
circumstances Mr. Overholser worked from home as much as
possible, earning fifty cents per day; while corn, on which they
depended for bread, sold at seventy-five cents per bushel.
Mrs. Overholser contributed her full share of labor
upon the home farm by assisting her husband in all kinds of
labor. The fruits of this toil and hardship, supplemented
by economy, may be seen in the pleasant home with which they are
provided, the two palatial residences they possess in Lima, and
the general prosperity by which they are surrounded.
Source: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - with the Indian
History of Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement of the County. -
Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton, Publisher - 1880 - Page 134 |
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