SHELBY COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Harrison Cromer (1883)

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History of Shelby County, R. Sutton, 1883
Page 273   Cynthian Township

Harrison Cromer

The Cromers, as far back as we can learn of them, are from Kentucky.  
Abraham Cromer, with his family came from Kentucky to Miami County, Ohio, 
some time prior to the war of 1812.  He served as a soldier in that war, and 
was one of the party who found and cared for Dilbone and Girard at their 
massacre by Indians in 1813.  He died near this place.  His wife, Hannah 
Cromer, died about 1876, aged ninety-eight years.  Elnathan, a son of the 
above, was born in Kentucky in the year 1808, was brought by his parents to 
Miami County when a small child, and has lived there from that time to the 
present.  He married Sarah Cavault in 1832.  They raised a family of nine 
children.

Harrison Cromer, of this township, was born in Miami County in 1834.  He is 
the eldest son of Elnathan Cromer.  He is a farmer and has made that his 
business through life.  In 1856 he married Phebe A. Gaskill of Miami County. 
  They have seven children, viz., Laura P., William H., Thomas H., Mary A., 
Elanthan E., John M., and Anna M.  In 1868 he bought a farm in this 
township, to which he moved his family.  His farm is among the best improved 
ones of the township.   He has erected upon it fine buildings and 
improvements, all of which have been made by his own industry, never having 
inherited anything.