| Benjamin G. Fanning, for many years a well-known
and highly respected resident at Clarksfield
Township, was born in Ontario county New York, September 11 1823. At the age of about ten years, he accompanied his mother, mother, brothers, and a sister to Huron County, Ohio, locating in Clarksfield township. While a youth he learned the trade of a shoemaker, and after devoting some years to that industry he transferred his attention to the cultivation of fruit, fruit trees, and general farming, which proved a successful venture. He married on July 4, 1846, Miss Sabra, daughter of Sherman Smith of Clarksfield township, and to them were born five children. Mr. Fanning died December 11, 1891, at his home four miles north of New London. |
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