PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO - BIO:  Lanphere, Almon (1885)

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Bios:  Ferrey, Hart, King, Lanphere - Portage County, Ohio, from "History of
Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885

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ALMON LANPHARE, farmer, P.O. Brimfield, was born September 25, 1821, in
Brimfield Township, this county, son of Abner H. and Sophia (Moulton)
Lanphare, who had eight children:  an infant son (deceased), Almon, Eunice
(deceased), Eliza A., Nathan (deceased), infant twins (deceased), and Martha
C.  Abner H. Lanphare was a native of Woodstock, Vt., came to Brimfield
Township, this county, in October, 1816, and the following winter taught the
first public school in Franklin Township, this county.  He afterward bought
200 acres of land in Brimfield Township (a part of which is now owned and
occupied by our subject), clearing and improving a farm on which he lived,
and died October 4, 1879, in his eighty-fourth year.  The maternal
grandfather of our subject, Jeremiah Moulton, settled in Brimfield Township,
this county, in 1817.  Almon Lanphare was reared in Brimfield Township,
where he has always resided.  He has been twice married, his first wife
being Caroline, a daughter of Peletiah and Hannah Bard, of Brimfield, and by
her he had two children:  Charles, who served through the late war of the
Rebellion and died of consumption six months after his discharge, and Henry
A., deceased.  His present wife is Flora A., daughter of Col. Bissell and
Artemesia Austin, of Randolph Township, this county.  By this union there
are two children, Jennie and Stella.  Mr. Lanphare and wife are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He has held various offices in the gift of
the township; in politics he is a Democrat.