MIAMI COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed for use in the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Billy J. Baker
billybak@erols.com
April 22, 2000
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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas 
First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

Franklin County --

EZRA V. SAYERS, farmer, Section 15, P. O. Ottawa, was born in Miami
County, Ohio, in 1838, and  reared on a farm. He taught school in the
Southern States for several years, and in August, 1861, went to  Macomb,
Ill., where he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-eighth Illinois Infantry,
serving three years. After  the war he read law at Troy, Ohio, for three
years, and during two years of that period held the office of  Deputy
Clerk of District Court. In July, 1868, he came to Franklin County, and
has since followed  agricultural pursuits. Since September, 1879 he has
resided in Ottawa. He has about 365 acres of land in  Lincoln and Ottawa
Townships, on which there are three residences. He cultivates 250 acres
of his land  and raises considerable live stock. Mr. Sayers is a
successful farmer, and is considered one of the  enterprising men of the
county.