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

        SAMUEL OLMSTED is a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and came to
this county November 15, 1865, settling in Bloomfield Township, where he
lived until October, 1875, when he removed with his family to Clay
Township, where he now resides. During the ten years of his residence in
Bloomfield Township, he was occupied in running an old-fashioned
water-power saw-mill, and put in more hours per day during four months of
the year than any other man in the township. He was married to Miss Mary
Showalter, November 30, 1865, and has two children -Forest Foster and Allie
Alma, aged respectively seven years and eight months. Mr. Olmsted owns a
fine farm, consisting of eighty acres of enriched land. Mr. Olmsted is now
fulfilling his duties as Township Trustee, to which office he was elected
April 5, 1880.