EBENEZER PADDOCK

     The subject of this sketch was born in Butler county, Ohio, on the first day of August, 1801.  Henry Paddock, his father, moved to Preble county, and settled on Four-mile creek, on the 5th day of April, 1806, he being one of hte first settlers in Jackson township. 
     When Mr. Paddock settled on Four-mile creek, the country for several miles around was almost an unbroken wilderness, and neighbors were very few.  When Ebenezer became of age, he worked out by the month.  He also went to Indiana and worked two or three years but he afterward came back and bought his father's farm, where he has lived ever since.
     Mr. Paddock was married in 1825 to Louanna Swain, who still lives.  They have raised twelve children, nine of whom are still living.  Mr. P. has been one of the most successful farmers of the county, having by industry and economy managed to secure quite a fortune.  He owned at one time about twelve hundred acres of land, in one body.  A considerable portion of this land he has divided among his children, but he still has enough left for several good farms.  His father died in 1854, in the 80th year of his age.

WILLIAM WOOLVERTON

     General Woolverton was born on the 1st day of January, 1800, in Greene county, Pennsylvania.  Thomas Woolverton, his father, was a revolutionary soldier, having served all through the war, going in as a private and coming out a colonel.  He emigrated from Pennsylvania to Butler county, Ohio, in 1804, coming down the Ohio river on flat-boats.  In 1807 he moved to Preble county, and settled on Seven-mile Creek, in the western part of Washington township, where Jacob Spacht now lives.  There were at that time only a few cabins in Eaton, while to the west of them there were no houses near, and no roads.  Soon after their arrival at their new home, they cut a road through the woods to Mr. Cormick's, on Four-mile creek.  When William was sixteen years old, he killed a wolf, for the scalp of which he received $4.00 from the County Commissioners.  With this money he bought cloth of C. Vanausdal, and had the first cloth coat made which he ever wore.
     In 1827 Mr. W. bought the farm of Wm. McCormick, in Jackson township, and has lived there ever since.  In 1828, he married a daughter of Silas Dooley's, she dying in 1847.  In 1851, he married Maria McCommas, whose maiden name was Perkins, and who still lives.  He has had four children by the first marriage, and seven by the last most of whom are still living.
     Mr. W. built the first frame barn in Jackson township, which he raised without giving the hands any whiskey, the custom being to use that article on such occasions.  He was also one of the first to banish whiskey from the harvest field.  Mr. W. was an officer of militia for many years, and from that fact is honored by the complimentary title of General.

RICHARD MORROW

     was born near Waynesville, Warren county, Ohio, on the 29th of January, 1i07, and was only two months old when his father moved on the farm where Richard now lives.  When he was about nine years old, he was sent to a school in Jefferson township.  The school houses of that time have been described so often that nothing need be said about them here.  The "State road," as it was called, passed through Mr. Morrows farm.  This was one of the first public improvements in this part of the country.  The Dayton and Western turnpike road was afterwards built, nearly on the same route, but it was out straight through to Richmond, Ind., not turning aside to go around hills or anything else.  This was considered a great improvement that time, but a few years later there was talk of putting up a wire along the pike, by which messages could be sent from one place to another, no matter how far apart.  This was at first thought to be an incredible thing by Mr. M. and others.
     Mr. Morrow was married to Sarah Barr on the 2d day of February, 1832.  Mr. Morrow is a very intelligent man, and is able to converse upon almost any subject.  He has the honor of being the oldest continuous resident of Jackson township, having resided in the township over sixty-eight years, sixty-five years of that time on the same spot where his father first settled in this county.

THOMAS POTTENGER

     This pioneer resident of Somers township, was born in Cumberland county, Tennessee, Jan. 16, 1801.  His Father, John Pottenger, came to this county in August, 1805, and settled one mile north of east of the present site of Camden.  Consequently, the subject of this sketch has been a resident of the county for seventy years.  It is probable that he has lived in Preble county a longer period of time than any other pioneer.  Hiram McNutt has been a citizen nearly as long.
     John Pottenger, besides being a farmer, was a manufacturer of powder, his knowledge in this direction did not come amiss, for powder was in great demand at that early day.  Again we may remember that by the use of powder, &c., men obtained their daily meat, which sometimes constituted more than half of the living for themselves and families.
     At the time Mr. Pottenger moved into that part of the county, wolves, deer, opossums, foxes, and otter, abounded in great numbers, as many as eleven otter were killed in one night.  Deer were so tame that after cutting down a hackberry tree, while the men would be working on the body, the deer would be brousing on the top.  Mr. Pottenger remarked "That they were as plenty as cattle are now."  A vegetable product, called "ramp," grew upon bottom lands.  Deer would collect in numbers and feed upon it.
     Thomas remained with his father, or had his house for a home, until 1831.  In 1830 he bought a farm and worked upon it, boarding at the old homestead.  In 1833 he married Eliza Robbins, and moved into his own house, which was far in advance of the houses of other pioneers - it being a brick, although not finished.  He completed the building, and established one of the most comfortable homes in the county at that time.  About ten years, later he built another residence and remained on the same farm until 1874, a period of about forty-one years.
     Besides being engaged in farming, he would sometimes deal in stock but he remarked that he raised his own corn to feed with.  He was economical as well as industrious.  His worthy companion,  Mrs. Pottenger passed from this state of existence in March, 1860.  They were the parents of eleven children - three are not living. - Four are married and four single.  He is now living in Camden, with his unmarried children - two sons and two daughters.  His appearance indicates that he is in the enjoyment of moderately good health, with a fair prospect of reaching the terminus of four score years.  The desire of the Publisher is that when the proper time arrives he may be found ready to enter the "Golden City," there to mingle with a noble host of pioneers, who have long since received rewards for well doing.