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Below is a family biography included in The History of Darke County, Ohio published by W. H. Beers & Co. in 1880.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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A. I. SHULER, farmer and stock-raiser, also manufactures carriages, buggies and sleighs; P. O. Arcanum. Mr. Shuler was born in Pennsylvania in 1846; received a good common-school education, also attended one term at the High School of Middletown, Penn., and afterward took a course at the Commercial College at Hamilton, Ohio, clerking for different merchants in the meantime; was married to Miss Maggie, daughter of John Bobenmoyer, in 1872, being at that time interested in a carriage manufactory at Boyerstown, Penn; they went there, but soon after he sold his interest and returned to Butler Co., where her parents lived; in 1874, they removed to her father’s farm, in Sec. 1, Butler Township, and have resided here since; he having charge of the farm and is also manufacturing buggies, carriages, sleighs, etc.; having a shop on his farm, his expenses are low and enables him to put up first-class work at a very low price; always keeps a stock on hand, which he sells on easy terms and gives a warrant. Mr. S., although a young man, is already regarded as one of the substantial residents of Butler Township; is a member of the German Reformed Church, and both he and his wife are intelligent, respected members of society; they have three children— William A., Charles O. and Winford B.

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This family biography is one of 659 biographies included in The History of Darke County, Ohio published in 1880 by W. H. Beers & Co.  For the complete description, click here: Darke County, Ohio History and Genealogy

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