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JOSHUA LEAR, miller, P. O. Westboro, Clinton Co., Ohio, son of Andrew and Catharine Lear, was born in Highland County, Ohio, July 16, 1826. His mother died in 1828. In 1834, his father came to this township and settled near Woodville, where he died in 1841. Mr. Lear married in this township, February 24, 1848, to Miss Elsie Adams, daughter of John and Zuba Adams, by whom he has six children — Jesse, Zimri, Dollie S., Winnie, Louisa and Elbridge. In 1873, Mr. Lear bought fifty acres, of land in the northern part of this township, on the West Fork of the East Fork, where he now lives. Mr. Lear has been a practical miller about thirty-two years. He was engaged ten years at the Bank Mill, this township; twelve years at the Westboro mill, and is now employed by John Boyle in his mill, about one mile above St. Martin’s, where he has been over nine years. During the war Mr. Lear was employed by the Government two years to take charge of the unserviceable stock, and had usually from fifty to two hundred men under him. Mr. Lear is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity.