PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Betty Ralph
bralph@HiWAAY.net
December 1, 1999
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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

SAMUEL BUELL, farmer, P.O. Kent, was born in Berks County, Penn., June 11,
1809; son of Samuel and Barbara (Godfrey) Buell, who settled in Columbiana
County, Ohio, in 1826, and lived and died there.  They had eleven children,
of whom but two are now living - Elijah and Samuel.  Our subject was
married, November 14, 1833, to Catherine, daughter of George and Catherine
(Ecker) Freebye, of Coventry, Ohio, and the issue of this union has been six
children:  Henry A., killed in the late war of the Rebellion; Maria
(deceased); George; Annetta (Mrs. Eli Leonard); Marvin (deceased); and
Samuel, Jr.  The latter settled in the southeastern part of Brimfield
Township, removed to Shalersville, where he lived until 1847, and then
returned and located on the farm where he now resides.  Mr. Buell and his
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Kent.  In politics he
is a Republican.