Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Matthews, William DeF. 1820 - 1880
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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

WILLIAM DE F. MATTHEWS, farmer, P. O. Mount Victory, was born November 19, 1820,
in Williston, Crittenden Co., Vt. He is a son of William and Hannah Matthews
both natives of Connecticut, the former of Fairfield, the latter of New Haven
County. His father died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1824; his mother moved to Ohio,
this county, in 1837, and died January 22, 1875, aged eighty-one years. The
subject of this sketch is of English and French descent, and is a lineal
descendant on the maternal side of Thomas Pierson, the first white settler of
Derby, New Haven Co., Conn., where be immigrated in 1654. One of our subject's
ancestors was the first rector of Yale College, New Haven. William Matthews is
the only one living of a family of five, one daughter and four sons, of whom he
is the third son and fourth child. He was reared and educated in the East, where
he was a clerk for sixteen months in a drug store, and where he spent seventeen
years of his life. On May 26, 1864, he was drafted and assigned to the One
Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company D, and took part in a number
of battles, being discharged June 26, 1865. He is a farmer by occupation; has
filled the positions of Supervisor, School Director, Assessor and Trustee; is
serving his third term as Justice of the Peace, and is a prominent, man of
Dudley Township.

Additional Comments:
Dudley Township

Excerpt from

"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

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