PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
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Copyright © 1999 by  Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in
the OH Biographies Project.  bralph@hiwaay.net


from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., 
Chicago, 1885

FREDERICK BILES, farmer, P.O. Marlborough, Stark Co., Ohio, was born in
Germany, September 18, 1820, a son of Frederick and Dora Biles, who first
immigrated to Columbiana County, Ohio; afterward moved to Stark County,
where they remained until the father's death in 1842.  The mother
subsequently moved to Seneca County, Ohio, where she died in 1872.  Our
subject was married, October 8, 1848, to Elizabeth Frederick, born in
Columbiana County, Ohio, January 10, 1828, daughter of David and Charlotte
Frederick, who moved to Stark County, where the latter died in 1848, the
former August 20, 1883.  To this union have been born eleven children, nine
of whom survive:  David, Jacob, Samantha, Catharine, Eldora, William N.,
Ada, Delbert and Ona M.  Mary and Rebecca J. are deceased.  Mr. Biles owns
sixty-six acres of first-class land, where he and his family live.  He
settled in the county in 1860; has met with good success, and is now one of
the enterprising farmers of Portage County.