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CHRISTIAN KNODERER, butcher, Greenville; born in Baden, Germany, Aug. 5, 1820; he received a good education in German, French and Latin, and, at 18 years of age, was apprenticed to learn the butcher’s trade, and, after two years, he served four years in different countries at his trade; he then started the same business for himself in Emendingers, Germany, following the same until 1848, and he served in the revolution of 1848-49; he was taken prisoner, and, after two months’ imprisonment, emigrated to America, landing at New York July 4, 1850; he then followed farming two years in Pennsylvania, thence coming to Illinois, where he worked some nine months; he came to Ohio and settled in Darke Co. in 1856, and farmed in Wayne Township six years, and, in 1862, came to Greenville and engaged in the butchering business, which he has since successfully followed. He was Township Treasurer of Greenville Township for the year 1876. His marriage with Catherine Kern was celebrated in 1854; she was also a native of Baden; born in 1826; they have no children.