Hancock-Pike County OhArchives Biographies.....Downing, David 1815 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   DAVID DOWNING, retired farmer, at present a resident of Findlay, Ohio, was
born in Philadelphia, Penn., February 12, 1815, son of John and Mary (Boyler)
Downing, the latter of German descent. His father, a native of Kentucky, of
English descent, came to this county in 1832, and settled on a farm in Blanchard
Township; he died in Kansas. Our subject, David Downing, the eldest in a family
of eight children, was reared on a farm, acquired a common school education in
the Pike County, Ohio, subscription school, and from his youth has been engaged
in agricultural pursuits. He is the owner of 300 acres of well improved land,
and at one time owned 700 acres of land. He was united in marriage, in 1837,
with Marietta Dorsey, a lady of English and Scotch descent, and this union has
been blessed with five children: George T., Jane (wife of Oliver P. Shaw),
Lavina, John, a farmer in Kansas, and Dora (wife of Miles Dukes). Mrs. Downing
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Downing has been township
trustee and school director.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Blanchard Township




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