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D. W. FITE, former, P. O. Hamersville, was born in Clark Township on the farm he now occupies. He is the son of John W. and Millie (Cotterill) Fite, natives of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The former was in the American Army, and participated is its ignominious surrender at Detroit under Gen. Hull. In 1820, they left Kentucky and came to Brown County, Ohio, locating in Clark Township, where he rested till his death. Mrs. Fite still survives in her eighty-sixth year, and strong enough to do her own housework. They were the parents of ten children, five daughters and five sons, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. One son, B. F., enlisted in the Fifty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Mission Ridge. The subject of this notice was reared on the home farm, receiving a good common school education. In early life, he engaged in teaching, and has followed that profession twenty-four years, in the meantime carrying on a farm of 110 acres, where he resides. He has been successful in both his professional and farming operations. Politically, he is Democratic. He served as School Examiner six years, and once officiated as Trustee of the township. Mr. Fite was united in marriage, in 1857, to Johanna Daugherty, born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1841, and of Irish descent. Eleven children have been given them, ten living, six daughters and four sons — F. W., G. P., Eva J., Clara, Alice, Millie, Martha, Elizabeth and Edward and Ella (twins).