TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: KLINGERSMITH, ELI (published 1882)
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1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA
F.A. Battey & Co., 1882

        ELI KLINGERSMITH is the eldest of six children in the family of
Peter and Sarah (Gard) Klingersmith. He was born September 3, 1818, in
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and at the age of twenty-one began working for
himself. He learned the carpenter's trade and followed the same five years.
Before settling in this county, in 1864, on his present farm of eighty
acres, he invested in some real estate in Wabash County, Ind., which he
afterward sold; his land in this township he has cleared and converted into
valuable property. In 1849, Mr. Klingersmith and Miss Anna Knepp were
united in marriage, and to them have been born four children, viz., Daniel,
Henry, George and Mary. Mrs. Klingersmith was born February 1, 1829, in
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and in 1830, removed with her parents, John and
Mary (Price) Knepp, himself and wife are members of the Lutheran Church.
Mrs. Klingersmith's mother is yet living and reside with her children at
the advanced age of eighty-one.

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