Hancock-Franklin County OhArchives Biographies.....Burnap, Benjamin F. 1837 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   BENJAMIN F. BURNAP, P. O. Vanlue, born January 30, 1837, in Columbus, Ohio,
is a son of Daniel G. and Harriet (Baker) Burnap, natives of Vermont and
Pennsylvania respectively, and who were married June 2, 1822. Daniel G. Burnap,
by profession a physician, came to Ohio about the year 1818 and settled near
Lancaster, in Fairfield County, where he had quite an extensive practice. He
afterward moved to Orange Township, Delaware County, and there died. His widow
became the wife of William D. Whitney, a merchant, who moved in 1850 to Mt.
Blanchard, this county, where he kept a grocery, and later they removed to
Vanlue. Ohio. Mrs. Harriet Whitney died in Vanlue February 19, 1869. There were
seven children in the first family: John (deceased in California), Lampson S.,
Angeline E. (wife of Henry Cockrell), Eliza B. (wife of E. Ellis), Benjamin F.,
James K. and Daniel G. Daniel G. Burnap was a man of considerable talent and
natural tact. His son, Benjamin F., the subject of this sketch, has engaged
extensively in land speculations in the West, where he has at the present time
several hundred acres; he also owns a fine farm in Amanda Township, this county,
and a saw and planing-mill, picture gallery and harness shop, in Vanlue, Ohio.
He taught school for many terms, and has filled the office of mayor of Vanlue;
he has been school director, and held the office of justice of the peace for six
years, elected in a Democratic township although he is a Republican in politics.
He married, in 1877, Nancy J. Howard, and by her has one son, Guy F.

Additional Comments:
Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Amanda Township


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