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N. A. WATERMAN, farmer, P. O. Georgetown, was born in this township March 5, 1817, before Brown County was organized. He is the son of Solomon and Eleanor (Fredrick) Waterman. His father was a native of Maryland; his mother, a native of Lancaster County, Penn., the former of French and German descent, the latter of German. They were among the early pioneers of Brown County. The subject of this biography received an education at Georgetown and chose the occupation of his father, farming. His farm is well improved, his residence alone costing over $5,000. Mr. Waterman is a man of cultured mind, well stored with information. At one time he studied law and entered into the practice, but the sedentary life became irksome to him, and he abandoned it for the free, active life in the country. Politically, he is a Democrat, but does not obtrude his political opinions on others. At the age of nineteen, he married Miss Barbara Waters, a native of Mason County, Ky. The fruits of this union were five children — Mrs. Caroline Wilson, of Kansas; Mrs. Marian Pierce, of Franklin Township, this county; John W., deceased; Mrs. Anna Amanda Waters, of Texas, and Sanders J. Mrs. Waterman died in 1857, and he married Frances Rachford, who is a native of this county, and is of Irish descent. They have two children — Lucy Mary and Claud Nelson.