JUNE 4, 1832, the board of commissioners, in compliance with a petition presented by citizens of Township 1 south, Range 9, erected Union Township from territory previously embraced in Liberty.....................MORE TO COME

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     Pioneers -
     PHILIP CRAMER

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     NICHOLAS FOLK and family

     On the 17th of September, 1831, GEORGE BURKET

     The next settlers of Union were JACOB FIX, SR., and sons Jacob and William......

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of Hancock County.  William Fox died Oct. 30, 1863, and his widow, Sarah, in 1868.  Two of their children are living in the township.

     WENMAN WADE

     DAVID and CHRISTIAN FOX

     HENRY AND MARGARET DEEDS

     The year 1834 ushered in quite a number of families, Henry Stover, Jacob Huffman, Nicholas and Dillard Dukes, Joseph Baker, John Flick, Abraham Watkins, Joseph Sorbie and Shedlock Pancoast, all coming during that year.  On the 2d of November, 1833, Henry Stover, of Crawford County (now Wyandot), entered the southwest quarter of Section 7, Union Township, and the following spring located on his land.  He was a native of Virginia, and his wife, Margaret, of Ross County, Ohio.  In 1842 he was elected justice of hte peace and served one term.  He resided on his farm in Section 7 until his death in 1849.  His widow and son, Hezekiah, reside in Benton Ridge, and two of his daughters in Union Township.  Jacob and Susannah Huffman, he a native of Virginia and she of Pennsylvania, located in Liberty Township in 1833, and in 1834 moved into Union, locating on Section 15.  They reared a family of ten children, two of whom

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reside in the township.  The mother died June 6, 1869, and the father on the 7th of November following, and both are kindly spoken of by those who knew them best.

     NICHOLAS AND DILLARD R. DUKES

     JOSEPH AND ELIZABETH BAKER

     JOHN FLICK

     ABRAHAM WATKINS

     In 1835 Francis and Amasa Clymer, William Wade, Timothy Main, Eli Gilpin and Isaac Clabaugh settled in Union. .... MORE TO COME

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     Thomas Dewese, Isaac Wade, Collis Church, Charles Vermillion, Daniel Showalter, Daniel and David Stratton, Eleazur Perrigo, Harmon Baler and James Clark all located in the township in 1836.  Mr. Dewese entered the west half of the northeast quarter of Section22, May 26, 1834, but did not remove from Wayne County for two years afterward.  His wife, Sarah, bore him nine children, of whom Flavius J., of Orange Township, is the only survivor.  Mr. Dewese served one term as justice of the peace, and died in 1853.  His widow married Levi Showalter, and died in 1881.

     ISAAC WADE

     COLLIS CHURCH

     CHARLES AND ANN VERMILLION

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entered the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 35, Union Township, and settled upon it the same fall.  They were the parents of twelve children, nine of whom are living, and all residents of Iowa.

     DANIEL AND SUSAN SHOWALTER

     DANIEL STRATTON

     WILLIAM AND SUSAN GREEN

     BENJAMIN AND JANE MARSHALL

     REV. RICHARD BIGGS

     Other Settlers of this period were James BAurns, Edward Taylor, Abraham Spangler and James Watkins........ MORE TO COME

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JAMES PETER

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     Cannonsburg

     Rawson was laid out by

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