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WILLIAM PARENT, farmer, Sec. 32; P, O. Union City, Ind.; one of the early pioneers of Darke Co.; born in Monmouth Co., N. J., Nov. 15, 1804; he emigrated to Ohio, with his parents, about the year 1812, and located in German Township, Darke Co.; in 1824, he entered 120 and purchased 160 acres of land at Hill Grove, in Washington Township; in April, 1858, he came to Jackson Township and purchased 116 acres of land, where he has since lived. Mr. Parent commenced in life without means; he purchased his first land from the proceeds of his labor at cutting and splitting rails at 25 cents per hundred; he now owns upward of 350 acres of land, with good farm buildings, secured by his own exertions; he has suffered all the hardships and privations of frontier life, has frequently hauled oats, wheat, and pork to Cincinnati, selling oats at 10 and wheat at 60 cents per bushel, and pork at $1.25 per one hundred pounds, loading back with groceries, salt, etc. His marriage with Hannah Elsten was celebrated Feb. 18, 1829; she was born in Orange Co., N. J. and died Oct. 22, 1875, at the advanced age of 64 years 10 months and 22 days; they were the parents of eight children, of whom seven now survive, viz., John, George, Sarah, Elizabeth, Samuel, Harrison and Amery; the deceased, Accha, lived to grow up and become the mother of three children.