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ENSLOW, T. W., farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Denmark; son of Thos. Enslow, who was born in Juniata Co., Penn., June 4, 1800, and married Catharine Noss, who was born in Pennsylvania July, 1807; they settled in Juniata Co., Penn., where were born three sons and four daughters; the second son and sixth born, T. W., was born Jan. 1, 1835, and at the age of 3 years, was brought by his parents to Lee Co., where they settled on Sec. 23 of this township; the year following their coming, his mother died; his father again marrying, remained at his first place of residence until his death, which occurred Nov. 19, 1853; T. W. remained with his father until his death, and May 1, 1862, in company with Louis Hosier and Henry Sophir, went the overland route to California, arriving at Stockton, after a stay at Virginia City of two months, the last of November of the same year; the first two years he engaged in farming, then in various speculations until 1865; then returned to Lee Co., after which, for six years he was employed as an attendant at the Hospital for the Insane, at Mount Pleasant, and Sept. 15, 1874, he married Mary E., daughter of W. W. Kendall; she was born at Mount Pleasant, Henry Co., Aug. 18, 1848; soon after his marriage, he settled where he now resides, and owns eighty acres of land valued at $50 per acre; they have two children — C. Stanley, born June 27, 1875; Thurlow Tice, born Nov. 8, 1876; Torrey, born Jan. 4, 1879, died Feb. 6, 1879. A member of the Mystic Lodge A. F. & A. M., at Mount Pleasant. Republican.