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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 20 Jul 2005 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Clear Creek Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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SOLOMON ROSNAGLE, farmer; P. O. Springboro; born in Union Co., Penn., Dec. 17, 1824; is a son of John and Mary Rosnagle, whose ancestral history is given in the sketch of F. Rosnagle. The subject of this sketch was about 3 years of age when his father died; he was then “bound out" by the Overseers of the Poor to John Keller till 21 years of age. Mr. Keller proved a "hard taskmaster," but Solomon endured it till 14 years of age, when his brother applied to the court to appoint a guardian for Solomon, and, after some difficulty, Frederick Rosnagle was appointed and took Solomon to New Jersey, where they remained till 1839; thence came to Cincinnati, thence to Warren County, thence, in his 19th year of age, he went to Cincinnati and lived four years and learned the carpenter trade with T. M. Bodley; thence returned to Warren County and worked at his trade till 1855, when he bought the farm where he now lives, erected all the buildings with his own, hands and here he has since resided; has a good farm of 60 acres with good improvements, constituting a pleasant home and farmer's residence. This is an example of a truly "self-made man," rising from a poor boy bound out by the Overseers of the Poor, passing through many trials and difficulties, becoming one of the substantial farmers of Warren County and honored and respected in the community in which he lives, On Oct. 13, 1847, he was married to Rebecca. daughter of John and Margaret (Null) Kesling, natives of Virginia, whose father, Teter Kesling and family, became settlers of Warren County on the farm where Adam Blose now lives, in 1797, being the first settlers between Lebanon and Montgomery County. There was at that time one settler in Lebanon - Ichabod Corwin. Here Mr. Kesling lived and died. The maternal grandfather was Henry Null, Sr., a native of Virginia, who settled in Warren County soon after the Kesling family. The grandparents, Teter and Mary Kesling, had a large family of children, one only now living - Mary, now Widow Armentrout, residing in Indiana. John and Margaret Kesling had seven sons and seven daughters; nine now survive - William, George, Mary, Abraham and Isaac (twins), John, Julia, Samuel and James W. Mr. Kesling died in the fall of 1844, aged 63 years; his wife died April 23, 1876. Mr. Rosnagle and wife had four children - Charles W., now a resident of Washington Territory; Francis E., Ellen E. and Benjamin F. Mrs. Rosnagle died Aug. 25, 1870, aged 47 years. |
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