TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO -  BIO: SUNTHIMER, Frederick (published 1882)
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1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA
F.A. Battey & Co., 1882

        FREDERICK SUNTHIMER, son of Adam and Catherine (Shaw) Sunthimer,
natives of German: they emigrated to America, locating in Virginia, where
Frederick Sunthimer was born, 1836, in Wheeling. In 1840, they removed to
Ohio, and lived in the counties of Tuscarawas, Coshocton and Holmes. In the
latter place, eighteen years after the death of his wife, Adam Sunthimer
passed away, at the age of seventy-one. At the age of twenty-two, the
subject came to La Grange County, and worked two years, receiving $132 per
year, in a saw-mill, in Eden Township. Shortly succeeding his marriage,
which occurred November 28, 1860, he rented his father-in-law's farm, where
he has lived ever since, with the exception of four years, spent in working
his own farm of 77 acres in Section 19, that he subsequently exchanged for
the homestead property of 180 acres, which he has greatly improved. His
wife, Rachael, the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Miller, natives of
Pennsylvania, was born May 30, 1844. They have six children -Mary A.,
Joseph E., Rachael, Andrew J., Amanda and Edward. The subject and wife are
members of the Omish Church. He is worth about $12,000, and is a Republican
citizen of enterprise.


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