Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Pfeiffer, George William 1862 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com May 5, 2006, 2:38 am Author: Warner & Beers (1883) GEORGE WILLIAM PFEIFFER, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born July 1, 1862, in Goshen Township, this county. He is a son of George and Anna Mary (Strassar) Pfeiffer. His father was born in Germany August 19, 1818, and was educated at the common schools of Germany, where he also learned tailoring and various other trades, and then emigrated with his father, Michael Pfeiffer, from Germany in 1837, settling, in Springfield, Ohio. The next year, our subject's father came to Kenton, where he is now a farmer and owns 160 acres of land. He married, September 22, 1843, Anna Mary Strassar, who was born in Switzerland June 25, 1822, and was a daughter of Samuel and Barbara Ann (Lichtenweller), who emigrated to Ohio in 1832. Our subject is a member of a family of eight children, as follows: Margaret Ann (wife of John Heilman), Caroline (deceased, wife of William Wolf), Michael; Samuel, Henry, John Adain, infant (deceased) and George William. Our subject has just reached hismajority, and promises to be one of the rising farmers of Goshen Township. Additional Comments: Goshen 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/pfeiffer214gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb