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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 8 December 2004 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Turtlecreek Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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CEPHAS GUTTERY, farmer; P. 0. Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township Oct. 30, 1806; he is the son of Andrew and Sarah (Milligan) Guttery, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Pennsylvania. Our subject was reared on the farm he now occupies, which he has tilled nearly three- |
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quarters of a century, and though now an old man his strength is in no way abated, with his strong constitution and robust health, he is enabled to do much hard work; he has a farm of 500 acres, mostly under cultivation, and the work on this he manages, oversees, and largely accomplishes by his own personal labor. He was married in 1831 to Rachel Hollingshead, a native of Virginia, and has by her seven children. Mr. Guttery is a Democrat, and for eighteen years has been a Director of his school district. He is a practical farmer, who has, to express it in his graphical language, "made his fortune by attending to his own business." |
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