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BENJAMIN SELLS, Jr., farmer. P. O. Feesburg. Benjamin Sells, the grandfather of this gentleman, emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio in the early part of the present century, settling in the present limits of Clermont County. His wife was Catherine, daughter of Charles Baum, an early pioneer of Lewis Township, Brown County, who is mentioned in the body of this history. Of their children, Samuel, the father of our subject, was born and raised in Ohio, and after having endured many years’ hard labor, died. Benjamin, Jr., was born on the farm he now owns, in the year 1835; he was raised to farm life and enjoyed the usual common school privileges. He gave his father the benefit of his time until his marriage with Emily Chapman, a native of Clermont County, in 1856. She died in 1862, the mother of three children — Ella, Mary S. and Emma. In 1864, Mr. Sells married for his second companion, Lucy Joslin, to whom has been born six children, viz., John, William, Bertha, Harvey, Silva and Ida. Mr. Sells still continues his boyhood occupation (farming) and owns 100 acres of good land fairly improved, and, as most of the land of Lewis Township is reasonably well adapted to the raising of tobacco, he makes that his principal crop. He is a man of medium size, possesses a fair constitution, and is politically inclined to the Democratic party.