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GEORGE PUTERBAUGH, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 8; P. O. Potsdam, Miami Co., Ohio. The subject of this memoir was born in Pennsylvania Dec. 7, 1811, and is a son of Samuel and Eve (Croner) Puterbaugh, who moved to Montgomery County, near Dayton, in 1814, and were among the early pioneers of that county; our subject was only 5 years old at the time, and remained at home and assisted his father on the farm, as his help was a grand acquisition to his parents, to assist in clearing the heavy growth of timber that everywhere met the eye of the settler before the land could be satisfactorily tilled; our subject has lived to see the monarchs of the forest succumb to the onward march of civilization and improvement; the ax has done its work, the forest has been leveled, the wilderness made to blossom as the rose; at the age of 20, our subject served an apprenticeship under his brother and learned the blacksmith’s trade, which he followed for three years, when he again resumed farming, and labored for his father’s benefit till he was 26 years of age, when he went out into the world to battle for an existence, amid the turmoil and strife of the world’s doings, with no capital save a horse that was a present from his father; he rented a farm in Montgomery County which he carried on for three years, and was very successful, making about $l,500, which enabled him to purchase 160 acres of land, for which he paid $3,200; he now being a real-estate holder, he went to work with renewed energy and a determination to clear himself from debt, which he soon accomplished, and had sufficient ahead to buy 80 acres more land, for which he paid $2,600; He resided on the farm for twelve years, when, in 1860, he purchased a water paper mill, on the Stillwater, but was not successful in this undertaking, as he suffered a loss of $8,000; thus the fruits of labor were swept from him in a short time, that took years of incessant labor to amass; in 1866, he removed to Darke County, where he purchased 240 acres of land where he now resides. Samuel Puterbaugh was born in Franklin Co., Penn., in February, 1790, and was a son of George and Mary Puterbaugh, natives of Pennsylvania; their parents were European born on both sides, and died at advanced ages; his mother was born in Bedford Co., Penn., in 1790 or 1791, and died in 1849, aged 58 years; his father died, aged 59 years; they were the parents of eleven children, of whom seven are living. Our subject was united in marriage with Miss Sarah, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Weybright, May 26, 1836, and are the parents of eleven children, viz.: Harriett, born Aug. 13, 1837; Samuel, born Jan. 8, 1840; Jacob, born Aug. 28, 1842; Allen, born March 16, 1845; John E., born Jan. 9, 1851; Mary, born April 24, 1853; Davis, born May 23, 1855; Sarah C., born April 26, 1857; Sarena, born April 24, 1859; George W., born March 3, 1863; Emma J., born March 16, 1865; John E. died Sept. 27, 1852; Samuel died Sept. 28, 1853; Sarah C. died April 28, 1857; Emma J. died Jan. 11, 1868; George W. died March 5, 1863; Jacob married Miss Sarah Wagner March 20, 1863; Allen married Hannah Spittler April 7, 1868; Harriet married John Kessler the latter part of March, 1858; Davis married Thurzy H. Porter Feb. 10, 1876; Sarena married Ira Landis May 4, 1878; Mary E. married John Oaks Oct. 3, 1878; Mrs. P.’s father was born in Somerset Co., Penn., in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and removed to Montgomery County in 1800; Mrs. P. was born about the same time as her husband, and emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio on horseback; they were married in 1812, and were the parents of nine children, of whom seven are living.