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SHEER, DAVID, farmer; Sec. 24; P. O. Burton. The subject of this sketch was born in Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1828. When he was about two years old, his parents moved to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where he received his early education. In 1845, he, with the balance of his father’s family, removed to this county, and settled in Melrose township. In the spring of 1850, he made an overland trip to California, and returned home in January, 1852, and in February of the same year, he was married to Miss Eliza Herleman, a native of Pennsylvania. They have eight children, four sons and four daughters. Shortly after his marriage, he purchased the farm on which he now resides, which contains 430 acres, which, for fertility of soil and improvement, is rarely equaled, and not excelled, in the county. As a stock raiser, he has been a success, and pays a great deal of attention to the raising of fine blooded cattle and hogs. He was raised a Democrat, but flew the track, and voted for Mr. Lincoln for President both times, and then returned to the Democratic ranks, where he may be found today. He has represented Melrose township for seven terms in the county Board of Supervisors, and is numbered among the largest and most enterprising farmers of the county, notwithstanding he began life poor.