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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   REV. LYMAN SHARP, minister of the United Brethren Church, P. O. Findlay, was
born in Eagle Township, this county, February 7, 1836. His father, Jacob Sharp,
a native of Fairfield County, Ohio, of Welsh descent, came with John D. Bishop
to this county, about 1832, and entered 160 acres of land in Section 23, Eagle
Township; he was a blacksmith by trade, and carried on a shop in that line on
his farm for many years; in 1835 he married Miss Julia Ann Whitman, a native of
Orleans County, N. Y., an only child. When Mrs. Sharp was an infant her mother
died, and, her father being killed by the explosion of a cannon at Albion, N.
Y., she was reared by her uncle, Benjamin O. Whitman, with whom she came to this
county. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Sharp lived on their farm in Eagle Township, this
county, until her death from cholera, in 1854. Jacob Sharp afterward married
again, and after living about seven years in Hardin County, Ohio, he moved to
Whitley County, Ind., and in 1867 to Clinton County, Mich., where he died July
5, 1871, in his sixty-third year. The subject of this sketch was reared on his
father's farm, in Eagle Township, this county, and attended the schools of the
home district, also one term in the Findlay school. He joined the United
Brethren Church May 20, 1855. During his youth he was engaged in teaching; he
taught for three terms in Eagle Township, this county, and two terms in Allen
County, Ind. Mr. Sharp was united in marriage, October 16, 1859, with Miss Polly
A. Line, who was born June 6, 1837, in Eagle Township, this county, daughter of
the pioneer, Coonrad Line. Immediately after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Sharp
settled where they now reside, in Eagle Township, this county, where they have a
fine farm of eighty acres of well improved land. To Mr. and Mrs. Sharp have been
born five children: Mrs. Catharine E. Reider, of Bowling Green, Ohio; J. C.
Fremont: Matilda Jane; William Milton and Florence Luella. Mr. Sharp has been a
devoted member of the church of his choice (United Brethren), and in 1859 he was
licensed as an exhorter. In 1870 the quarterly conference gave him a license to
preach, and in 1875 he was licensed by the annual conference, since which time
he has been regularly engaged in the work of the ministry. He has filled the
following circuits: Bellmore, two years; Bluffton, two years; Vanlue, one year;
Blanchard, one year; Eden two years, and is now completing his second year on
the West Independence Circuit. Mr. Sharp is very earnest in the cause of the
gospel, devoting to it the best energies of his life. His wife and all his
children, except the youngest, are members of the church. Our subject is a
life-long Republican; has held the office of clerk of Eagle Township for one
term, and takes a deep interest in public affairs. From May 2 to September 2,
1864, he served as a soldier in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio
National Guards.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Eagle Township




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