Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Pfeiffer, John 1838 - 
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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

JOHN PFEIFFER, merchant and farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Pleasant Township,
Hardin County, Ohio, July 13, 1838. He is the son of Adam and Sophia (Elssessor)
Pfeiffer, who emigrated from Hessia in 1837. (See sketch of Peter Pfeiffer). Our
subject has received a common school education and has pursued various
occupations during his lifetime. He opened in the grocery business, taking J. D.
Felty as partner for the first two years, and carried it on for the last three
years by himself. For fifteen years he has been running a threshing machine, and
the last nine years has been raising stock. He is generally successful in
business undertakings, and is the owner of 378 acres of land in Dudley Township
and the Wheeler farm on the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad. On June 26, 1859, he
was united in marriage to Margaret, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth
(Rosenmire) Hile. Mrs. Pfeiffer was born in Pleasant Township, Hardin County,
December 26, 1840. To this union have been born eleven children, as follows:
Peter (deceased), Lizzie, Mary, William D., Sophia, Eva. Anna B., Minnie,
Joseph, John N. and Charles E. Mr. Pfeiffer has boon a Director of the Infirmary
for five years; has been School Director for a number of years, Supervisor for
six years, Township Trustee two terms, and is one of the prosperous, prominent
farmers of Dudley Township.



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Dudley Township

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"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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