Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Dukes, Eli 1841 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   ELI DUKES, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Oak Ridge, was born in Blanchard
Township, this county, May 16, 1841, son of Richard and Mary (Blue) Dukes, the
latter born in Ohio, of German descent. The father of our subject was a native
of Virginia, of English descent; came to this county in 1828, and settled on a
farm in Blanchard Township, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in
1876, at Findlay, Ohio. Of his family of fourteen children, nine grew to
maturity, our subject being the tenth. Eli Dukes acquired his education in the
common schools, and in Oberlin and Delaware Colleges. He was clerk in a dry
goods store for one year, and taught school four winters, but his principal
business in life has been farming and dealing in stock. He is the owner of 486
acres of valuable land. At the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, Mr.
Dukes promptly enlisted in Company A, Twenty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and served three years as a soldier in the ranks. He was in the battle
of Chickamauga, and also at Stone River. When his regiment was captured, he,
with twenty-five others, escaped. Mr. Dukes was united in marriage, in 1865,
with Mary H. Delaney, daughter of Mark Delaney, a pioneer minister in the
Methodist Episcopal Church. She is of Irish, French and English descent. Five
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Dukes: Delevan D., Nannie B., Gustavus,
Clemma I. and Laura G. Our subject and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in which he has been class-leader for a number of years. Eli
Dukes' father was one of the prime movers in founding the first church erected
in this county. This building, a relic of the olden time, is still standing on
the farm belonging to our subject.

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




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