Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 1 December 2004

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ROBERT DUCKWORTH, coal and wood dealer, Lebanon; born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren County, Jan. 19, 1817; he was the son of George and Sarah (Corwin) Duckworth, he a native of Lancaster, England, and she of New Jersey. They came to Ohio before 1805, and settled in Warren County. Our subject is one of a family of nine children, of whom eight reached their majority, married and settled in Warren County, where three of them yet remain. He received his education in the early subscription schools of Warren County, and spent the greater part of his life in farming, at which he was very successful. In 1854, he retired from the farm and engaged in the raising and selling of fruit, at which he continued with moderate success until 1858, when in company of his son in-law, George P. Patterson, he opened an extensive dry goods and grocery store in Lebanon. In this business, he was not successful, and was obliged ultimately to give it up. In 1873, he engaged in the traffic of coal and wood, and has since, by close application to his business, built up a good and substantial trade, in which he still continues; he was married, in 1841, to Miss Matilda R. Dyche, a native of Warren County, by whom he had one child, a daughter, now the wife of George P. Patterson, a prominent citizen and successful business man of Lebanon. Mr. Duckworth was bereft of the counsels and companionship of his wife by her death, in 1879; he is a consistent and highly-prized member of the Methodist Church, in which he has for many years been a trustee and class-leader; he is a Republican in politics and takes an active part in the work of his party; he is quiet and gentlemanly in his manners, a sincere and devoted Christian, and a man who bears the highest respect and esteem of all who know him.