PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
17 November 2000
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Copyright Betty Ralph bralph@HiWAAY.net November 200


JOHN AREHART, farmer, P.O. Mogadore, Summit County, was born January 19,
1840, in Suffield Township, this county; son of Joseph and Eve Arehart,
natives of Rhenish, Bavaria, Germany, who immigrated to America and settled
in Suffield Township, this county, about 1832, where they went on an
entirely new farm which they cleared and improved.  Mrs. Arehart died August
15, 1856, leaving eight children:  Mary Ann (Mrs. May); Andrew; Joseph, in
Missouri; Cordelia (Mrs. Wehner) in Michigan; Barney, in Michigan; John;
Elizabeth (Mrs. Spielman) in Denver, Col., and Lawrence, in Michigan.  Mr.
Arehart is now living at the advanced age of eighty-two years.  Our subject
married, October 26, 1862, Miss Mary Ann Wilson, and located where they now
live in 1872.  They are the parents of the following children:  Meda,
Charles E., Ella (deceased), William J. and Jessie May.  Mr. Arehart has
served his township as Trustee, discharging his duties faithfully and to the
satisfaction of the people.  Politically he has been a life-long Democrat.