Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Steiner, Benedict 1828 - 
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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

BENEDICT STEINER, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in the Canton of Berne,
Switzerland, March 6, 1828. His father, John Steiner, was born in June, 1794;
his mother, Anna Hani, in 1792, died in 1832; both were natives of the Canton of
Berne, Switzerland. They were married in their native place in the year 1818. On
the decease of his wife, Anna, Mr. Steiner married Anna Dick, and, in 1837, left
Berne and crossed France to Havre in wagons, the journey occupying twenty-one
days. He then embarked with his wife on the ship Albany, crossed the ocean, and
landed at New York October 31. They went to Pittsburgh, where they remained till
spring, then came to Hardin County and settled in Pleasant Township, where Mr.
Steiner purchased and cleared eighty acres of land. He died in 1860; he had
seven children by his first wife, and seven by the second. Our subject is the
fifth child by the first marriage, and was brought up on a farm, obtaining a
very limited education at the common schools. In the spring of 1850, in company
with six others, he went to the gold mines of California. He followed mining,
packing and farming in the Trinity Mountains until 1861, when he returned to his
home; he made a trip to Switzerland in 1863, on account of ill health, and
returned the same year. The next year he bought 158 acres of his present farm,
and added to it until he has acquired 238 acres. In 1878, he built his barn, at
a cost of $2,500, and in 1881 his residence, at a cost of $5,000. He was united
in marriage August 24, 1865, to Mary A., daughter of Benedict Moy, and born in
the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, December 17, 1833. To this union four children
have been born, two living-Carl H. and Olga M. Laura M. and an infant son are
deceased. Mr. Steiner is occupied in farming and stock-raising. In politics, he
belongs to the Republican party.



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Bucks 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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