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HUSTON RHOTEN, P. O. Arnheim, a life resident of Brown Co., and a prominent farmer of the northeastern part of this township, was born in Jackson Township, Brown Co., Ohio, July 26, 1822. He is a son of Josiah Rhoten, a native of Pennsylvania, who located in Kentucky, and, in 1814, settled on a farm on the present site of Carlisle, in Jackson Township, this county. He lived there about one year, and then removed to Franklin Township, where he resided until 1833. He then went back to Jackson Township, where he lived till his death, in 1865. He married Mary Perrine, a native of New Jersey. Mrs. Rhoten departed this life in 1855. Huston Rhoten is the seventh child and fifth son of a family of nine children, five of whom are yet living. He was reared on the home farm in both Jackson and Franklin Townships, remaining with his father till twenty-six years of age. He was married, February 10, 1848, to Mahala Pindell, a native of this township, born on the farm where she now resides. After marriage, Mr. Rhoten rented the farm now occupied by Lee Spencer, and two years latter purchased it. The farm contained 115 acres. He there resided from 1848 till the fall of 1873, when he purchased 125 acres of his present farm, and subsequently added forty-two acres to it. Mr. Rhoten has since made another purchase of 107 acres, mostly woodland, his landed possessions now numbering 274 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Rhoten have six children — Michael H., William A. (married Hattie Pindell), Mary Jane (wife of William G. Waters), James B. (a former of Jackson Township), George T. and Gary H. Mr. Rhoten and wife are members of the Christian Union denomination, which meets in the school house near his farm.