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JOHN C. VANDAMENT, minister, New Hope, son of John and Catharine (Esther) Vandament, was born in Highland County, Ohio, December 27, 1828. His father, John Vandament, was born in Brown County, was a son of Henry Vandament, a native of Kentucky, of German descent, and one of the early settlers of Ohio. Mr. Vandament’s father died when he was three years old, and he was subject to the privations, and hardships incident to an orphan’s life, receiving little schooling until he was grown, after which he attended common and select schools until he had a good English education. He was engaged in teaching for ten or twelve years. He entered the ministry at twenty-six years of age, and has been a regular pastor in the Christian Church ever since. He was married, April 27, 1856, to Deliverance, daughter of Josiah and Deliverance (Hannah) Boothby; she was born in Clark Township, Brown Co., Ohio, December 23, 1831. They have six children, viz.: Solomon F. (now in Springfield, Ill.), Isadore (the wife of Alfred Swigart, deceased), Lorinda, George Collins (deceased), William Sherman and Rachel. Mr. Vandament has spent most of his life in Brown County, although he has been at short intervals employed out of the county; of late years he has been in the agency business to considerable extent.