Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 8 January 2005

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ISAAC K. STEDDOM, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Sept. 18, 1827; he is a son of Samuel and Susannah (Teague) Steddom, natives of South Carolina, and a grandson of Henry Steddom, who emigrated from South Carolina in 1804 and settled upon the place where the subject of this sketch now resides. Henry Steddom made extensive purchases of land on the hills of the Little Miami, five miles below Waynesville; he was one of the organizers of the Turtle Creek Friends' Church, one of the first Quaker churches in the county; he built, in 1808, the first two-story stone house with a shingle roof in the vicinity; it was long known as the Old Stone House. He died in 1822, leaving two sons and two daughters. Henry Steddom was the ancestor of all the members of the Steddom family in the Miami country, so far as is known. Samuel, the youngest son, inherited the homestead; be was an honest Quaker, a keen sportsman and a trustworthy man, who became security for no man, and died owing no man anything in 1871, in the 78th year of his age. Isaac K. was educated at Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., and spent the early part of his life as a teacher; for thirteen terms he taught in the Red Oak School, Wayne Township, in which a