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*» I J I HV JVHIOl !•» U' • *in Pony county, in 1815, nt n tfood old lire, lie wus iho father ot ibo writor of this atticlo. ;.John Trump, was n pinnccr pettier of the tpwn, and was living oiftlie north vAet corner of Muin eitfeet and I ho Public Squuro when hip poti Col P. Van Trump wat horn, in 1810. lie died ut his residence in Franklin county, Ohio, in 1835, aged 08 years.John U. Gicsy, a native of Switzerland, Europo, camo to Liberty town-ship, with his fujhor’s family in 1804 In 1809 ho became an empioyeo nf John Sliurr. and in a few years after common cod businosa for himself on the south sido oi Mufc street, west of and ndjojning tho present llockjng Valley National Bank. A few yours before bin death ho roll red from tho bustle and toils ota town lifotohis farm, half a milo south of our city, whoro eloped his lifo io 1856, aged (j8 years.Jacob qhteffer was living hero as curly as 1809.. IIo was a saddler by trade. His residence was on south wont cornur of Wheeling stret and Cen ter alley. He doparted this life several years since.Frederick ShaefTer; fixed hia abode among us in 1811. Ho is still living, is in the 75th year of his age, and was long and widely knoftn, is tho propri. otoroftho Washington Hotel, south west corner of Main street and Publio Square. The Sbaeffers woro from I/an-caater county, Pa.Amos llunter, born in Pennsylvania becarno a resident of the valley in 1799, but has for many yenrs past liv-od in tho city, llis dwelling is on Mulberry street, ind near Uioro ho carries on tlio blacken.ithing business.Cwpt. Joseph Hunter, the first settler of Fairfield county, died in Lancaster in 1826, aged 78 -years, lie was tho father of our follow cilisen Hocking H. Hunter, Esq.
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Lancaster Gazette
Lancaster, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 19, 1866
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