MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO - BIO: THOMAS, Frederick ************************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Tina Hursh frog158@juno.com October 24, 1999 From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html ************************************************************************** File transcribed by: Paula Talbert PTalb54355@aol.com ************************************************************************** "The History of Montgomery County, Ohio."; by W. H. Beers & Co., pub 1882 page 291 FREDERICK THOMAS, farmer, Germantown P. O., is a native of Maryland, born in Washington County October 21, 1802, and son of Gabriel and Christina (Wolf) Thomas, of that State, the former born in 1769 and dying in 1857. The family came to Ohio in 1804, and here our subject grew up and received his schooling. In 1846, he married Dinah Hetzler, born May 18, 1807, and in 1850 moved upon his present farm, of 102 acres, two and a half miles south of Germantown. He has been a member of the United Brethren Church since a young man.