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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 6 October 2005 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Deerfield Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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ROBERT MERCHANT, Mason; was born in Warren Co., Ohio, in 1844, and is a son of William and Lydia H. Merchant natives of Warren County. He (William) was a son of William and Mary Merchant, natives of Pennsylvania, who settled in this township in 1815 or 1816, where they lived and died. They had eight children, four sons and four daughters; probably all are deceased, and, with the exception of our subject and his brother, Isaac A., the family is extinct Mr. M. died June 11, 1851, aged about 45 years. Our subject was reared in Mason till 7 years of age, when he was put at work on the farm, where he worked till the war broke out. April 23, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, 12th O. V. I. under Capt. Williams, for the three-months' service. In September of the same year, he enlisted in Company A, 69th O. V. I., in which he served two years, when he veteraned at Chattanooga and served till the close of the war, being mustered out at Louisville, Ky. He passed through the battles of Stone River, Jonesboro, Mission Ridge, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Bentonville and a host of lesser engagements. At Stone River, he was wounded in the leg and taken prisoner and put in the Libby pens for two and a half months before being exchanged, when he was sent to Annapolis, Md.; thence to Columbus, Ohio, thence home, and, when he recovered from his wounds, went back to his regiment. In 1864, he was again captured, at Rome, Ga., while on a foraging expedition. His captors were bushwhackers, and they soon paroled him, and he, with three others, captured the leader of the same party. After his return home, he worked eleven years for one man, and for his present employer, nine years. He was married, in 1865, to Mary E. Gibbs. |
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