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JOHN OSSUALD, farmer and stock-raiser, P. O. Tuscarawas, is a native of Switzerland, born July 4, 1819, and is a son of John George and Elizabeth (Linenberger) Ossuald.  His parents were born in Baden, Germany, and came to America in 1835, settling in Auburn Township, this county and State.  His father was a locksmith in early life, but afterward followed farming.  Of the family of five children, four attained maturity, of whom two, our subject and Mary, are residents of this township; the latter is the wife of Ferdinand Huok.  Our subject received his education in Switzerland, and learned the stone-cutting trade, at which he worked for many years.  He is now engaged in farming, and owns fifty-two acres of land in this township.  He was married in 1850 to Magdalena Knaus, who died after ten months of wedded life.  For his second wife, Mr. Ossuald married Elvina, a sister of his first wife, in 1853.  She was a daughter of Samuel (deceased) and Catherine (Warner) Knaus, both of Pennsylvanian Dutch, the former of whom has a sketch elsewhere in this history.  Our subject has had a family of seven children, of whom four died within eleven days, in the year 1865.  The three surviving are Charles, a farmer,,, Anna M. and Lucy Jane Sarah.  Mr. Ossuald and is wife are members of the Universalist Church.  In politics, is a Democrat.
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 977