Marion Twp. -
THOMAS TROVILLO, farmer, P. O. Blanchester, son of Jonathan and Martha (McKee) Trovillo, was born in Center County,  Penn., in 1807.  He was reared on a farm.  In 1812, his parents came to Cincinnati, where his father taught school a short time.  He taught in a number of places, being a cripple and not able to do anything else.  When twenty years of age, Thomas left home and began the world for himself.  In 1831, he was married to Maria, daughter of William and Ellen Vandervort, a native of Virginia.  They had nine children, eight living - Paul J. enlisted in Westboro in the One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was out six months and died at Camp Dennison.  The remainder were Joseph E., Martha E., James, Sarah, William, Ephraim K., Samuel H. and Mary E.  Mr. T. rented land several years after his marriage, and then bought sixty-seven acres of land in Simms Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, where he cleared fifteen acres and made numerous other improvements.  In the spring of 1864, he sold and purchased 125½ acres in Jefferson Township, this county, where he remained till 1869, when he came to this township and bought seventy-five and three fourths acres of land two and one-half miles northeast of Blanchester.  He has sixty-eight acres under cultivation.  Mr. Trovillo's wife died in April, 1880.  His son Ephraim and wife are now living with him.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 1085

Clark Twp. -
A. J. TURNER, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, a prominent worker in the order of Patrons of Husbandry, is a son of Daniel and Susan (Malott) Turner and a native of Clermont County, where he was born Mar. 30, 1830.  He passed his early life on his father's farm, and received his education in the high schools of Milford and New Boston and in Farmers' College.  In 1854, he came to Clark Township, and, in 1867, located on his present farm, where he has since resided engaged in farming and stock-raising, making a special pursuit in rearing hogs.  Mr. Turner has a well-cultivated farm of 265 acres.  He is Director of the Wilmington & Dayton Railroad, and also Director of the Joint Stock Company of Farmers Station.  The former position he has held for three years, and the latter five years.  Mr. Turner is a member of the Board of Trustees, having held that office for eight years.  His political views are Democratic.  He has been elected to his various official positions by the support of the Republican party, as 390 of the 500 voters of Clark Township are Republican.  Mr. Turner has been prominently identified with the Grange since its organization.  He has served that order as Secretary, Lecturer and Master; the latter position he occupies at the present; he is Lecturer in the Pomona Grange, and was a delegate to the State Grange.  Mr. Turner was married, Oct. 12, 1854, to Seraphina Potter, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Teal) Potter, and a native of Clermont County, where she was born Jan. 3, 1832.  Tis union resulted in six children, three sons and three daughters, viz., Eva, wife of Joseph Simmons, William E., married Emma Ford; Hannah M., wife of Francis Morris; Susie, Daniel M. and Charles W.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 792

Clark Twp. -
MICHAEL TURNER, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, son of Daniel and Susan Turner, was born in Clermont County Sept. 20, 1828.  He was reared to manhood on his father's farm, and was married, Oct. 24, 1854, to Mary A. Philhour, daughter of William and Lucinda Philhour born in Clermont County, Ohio, Apr. 28, 1838.  They have three children, viz., Alie born Mar. 30, 1856; Daniel, Aug. 12, 1863, and William P., Aug. 30, 1866.  IN 1852, Mr. Turner removed to Richland County, Ill., where he lived until 1855, when he came to Clinton County.  He owns a valuable farm of 234 acres.  In 1870, he erected a very substantial two-story brick residence, at a cost of $7,200.  Mr. Turner is by occupation a farmer and stock-raiser.  He makes the rearing of stock hogs a leading pursuit; he also keeps fine sheep.  In 1876, he purchased five sheep imported from Canada, for which he paid $105.  Mr. Turner is a good farmer and a law-abiding citizen.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and is a Democrat.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 792

Richland Twp. -
S. W. TURNER, silversmith and jeweler, Sabina.  The gentleman whose name heads this sketch was born in Preble County, Ohio, in 1836, and is a son of Calvin and Matilda Turner, natives of Virginia, who settled in Preble County, Ohio, in 1832, in which they lived until 1840, when they removed to Orange County, Ind., where they resided four years, then came to Clinton County and settled near Martinsville, they resided four years, and came to Clinton County and settled near Martinsville, where they made a permanent home.  Mr. T. died in October, 1872.  Eight children were born to them, of whom two daughters, viz., Mrs. Jennie Moon and Mrs. Rachel Holiday, and our subject, reside in Clinton County.  Two other daughters, viz.: Mrs. Piety Bisher and Mrs. Mary Dimitt, reside in Ohio; the former in Highland County, the latter in Hamilton County.  Two of the sons, James S. and George D., reside in Springfield, Ohio, and Joseph F., in Washington Court House.  The boyhood of our subject was passed on the farm, and at the age of sixteen began learning his trade, which he followed at intervals till 1861, at which time, being a resident of Lexington, Ky., he enlisted in Company A, of the Sixth Kentucky Cavalry.  Soon after he was transferred to the vicinity of Cumberland Gap, and was made Orderly to Gen. George W. Morgan, the resident served during the war in the department of the Cumberland.  He was wounded and captured at La Fayette, Ga., while on a cavalry raid.  The wound was a severe one in the right shoulder, terribly shattering the bone.  He made his escape the same day, and the manner in which it was effected speaks highly of Mr. T.'s persuasive powers.  Two guards were put over him, and these he enticed to desert and return with him to the Federal lines.  Afterwards he lay in hospitals until December, 1864, when he was honorably discharged.  Broken down in health, he went to Minnesota for his health.  In 1866, he went to Fort Scott, Kan., in which he kept a restaurant one year.  Eleven years were passed in Sumner, Ill., and during the time worked at his trade.  In March, 1881, he came to Washington Court House, and in 1882, came to Sabina, where he is now engaged at his trade.  He has been twice married; first, to Miss Mollie Schooler, of Lexington, Ky., Aug. 1, 1861; two children were born to them, one living, viz., Mattie.  Sherman, deceased, aged eleven months, died in 1866.  Mr. Turner died in Westboro, this county, of Cholera, in 1866, aged twenty-eight years.  His second marriage was celebrated May 21, 1870, with Gilla Campbell, of Blanchester, Ohio.  Mr. T. is a most reliable and excellent workman, and his success can only rightly be measured by his ability to please.  In politics, he is Republican, and thoroughly conversant with the affairs that pertain to the political status of the country.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 1115

Clark Twp. -
WILLIAM H. TURNER, P. O. Martinsville, a respected farmer of Clark Township, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, Jan. 13, 1820.  His parents, Michael and Elizabeth (Beltz) Turner, came to Hamilton County in 1808, and settled near Milford.  They lived there till 1824, when they removed to Union Township, Clermont County.  Mr. Turners ancestors were Germans.  His grandfather, Lewis Turner, and family, and his grandfather Beltz and family, on his mother's side, emigrated from Holland in 1756 and settled in New York City, where they had an interest in the celebrated Holland purchase.  Mr. Turner is the sixth son and eleventh child of a family of twelve children, of whom only two besides himself are living - Andrew J., and Amanda, wife of Harrison Carpenter.  Mr. Turner was reared on a farm, and received his education in the common district schools.  He was married in December, 1842, to Miss Elizabeth Schannahorn, who bore him eight children, of whom four are living - Nancy, J., born December, 1849; George W., born March, 1852, married Juda Prater; William F., born July 1854, and Daniel, born Sept. 1, 1857, married Flora Turner.  Isaac, Michael, Mary A. and Elizabeth are deceased.  The three former all died in one week in July, 1849 from cholera.  Mrs. Turner departed this life, October, 1857, and Mr. Turner again married Sept. 19, 1858; this time to Susan Snyder, a daughter of James and Elizabeth Snyder, and a native of Clermont County.  In January, 1853, Mr. Turner came to Clark Township, and in 1858 located on the farm that he now occupies.  When Mr. Turner started in life, he had a horse, saddle and bridle, and his own energy, which were his capital.  And through the able investment of his capital, and with perseverance and economy, he has obtained good possessions.  He owns a valuable farm of 340 acres, which is adorned with a substantial two-story brick residence erected in 1879, at a cost of $3,000.  This house replaced one burned in April, 1879, which was built at the cost of the present one.  The year of 1878, a misfortune befel him, in the burning of a $3,000 barn erected in 1876.  For thirty years, up to 1877, he was extensively engaged in rearing and buying and shipping hogs.  besides his farm here, Mr. Turner owns seventy acres in Marion Township, and also forty acres four miles from Kokomo, Ind.  Mr. Turner is a man of more than ordinary enterprise, and is highly esteemed.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 792

Wayne Twp. -
THOMAS C. TUTTLE, farmer, P. O. New Antioch, born in Cincinnati Jan. 1, 1844, is a son of Thomas C. and Elizabeth (Anderson) Tuttle, he a native of the State of Maine, and she of Ohio.  Mr. Tuttle, when a young man of about twenty years of age, came to Ohio and located in Cincinnati; was married and became the father of eight children: Cordelia, William Henry, Martha Ann, Thomas C., Oliver, Winfield, Mary and India.  Mr. Tuttle followed the river as a mate for nearly eighteen years.  About 1853, he, with his family, removed to Indiana, about twelve miles from Indianapolis, where he bought land and entered upon farming; also built a saw-mill; these he run till his death, which occurred about 1873 or 1874, being killed by his team running away and fracturing his skull.  His widow still survives, residing at the home-place.  Mr. Tuttle was a very active business man.  During the war of the rebellion, he was a active Union man, and politically a Democrat.  He organized a home company, of which he was elected Captain, and subsequently several companies were organized into a regiment, of which he was made Major.  Although they were not called into active service, except in the Morgan raid, yet he was very active in preserving peace and quiet home, as at that time they were having much trouble with the Knights of the Golden Circle.  The services of a few men like Mr. Tuttle were of great value in Indiana at that time, and their services have since been duly appreciated.  The subject of this sketch, when eighteen years of age, enlisted in the war of the rebellion, in the Fifteenth Indiana Battery, and served through the war, being first in the army of the East; thence sent into Georgia, under Gen. Sherman, and thence under Gen. Thomas in Tennessee, and again under Gen. Sherman, doing much active work under both of the last-mentioned Generals.  Two of Mr. Tuttle's brothers, William Henry and Oliver, were also in the service.  In 1867, March 7, Mr. Tuttle was united in marriage with Mrs. Emily Eaton, daughter of Amos and Sarah Underwood, natives of Greene County, Ohio.  They had but one child, Emily, who was born Apr. 12, 1848.  Mr. Underwood died about 1850z; subsequently, his widow married William Harris, by whom she had three children; two now survive, Sylvester and Lewis Allen.  Mr. Tuttle and wife have had seven children: Hattie, born Feb. 14, 1868; Charles H., July 12, 1870; Fannie, July 4, 1872; Jesse Clinton, Mar. 16, 1874; Jennie, Dec. 2, 1875; William Stanley, Jan. 14, 1879, and one infant son, born Apr. 8, 1881.  Mrs. Tuttle by her first husband had one child, Cyrus (deceased).  Mr. Tuttle, after his marriage, resided one year in Indiana; thence, in the fall of 1868, they moved to Ohio and located upon the place where they now live and have since resided.  This is the old home-place of Mr. Underwood, and the birth-place of Mr. Tuttle.  They have a fine farm of 108 acres, with good improvements.  Mr. Tuttle is one of the prominent farmers of Wayne Township; a man of undoubted character and integrity, and is highly esteemed by the people of his community.
Source: History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 1162