NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Andrew Somers (1887) *********************************************************************** 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. http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Submitter: Tina Hursh Email: ribbit@clubnet.isl.net Date: 18 July 2002 *********************************************************************** 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 Transcribed by Deb Murray. --------------- Freedom (Whigville P.O.) is a small village about four miles from Summerfield, in a northwesterly direction. About the year 1841 Andrew Somers, an itinerant shoemaker from Massachusetts, came into the neighborhood and worked from house to house, carrying his kit of tools with him. In 1843 he purchased a lot from Samuel Large, upon which he erected a small one-story frame house, in one corner of which he has his shop. He was an honest Christian man and reared a respectable family - nine children. History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887 Marion