Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 7 February 2005

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W. C. HANKINSON, farmer and stock raiser; P. O. Blue Ball, Butler Co.; born in Franklin Township Dec. 3, 1831. He is a son of James and Sarah (Cheeseman) Hankinson, natives of Monmouth Co., N. J. Mr. Hankinson was born Nov. 14, 1787, and Mrs. Hankinson March 5,1798; they were married in 1815, and in 1818 came to this township, where the former died April 5, 1879, and the latter Oct. 1, 1867. They had seven children, of whom our subject is the youngest; their names are as follows: Deborah A., Lydia, Rachel, Eleanor, Margaret J., James and William C. Our subject was reared on his father's farm and received only a common-school education. May 9, 1853, he was married to Miss Hannah J. Craig, a native of Franklin Township, born May 9, 1834, and a daughter of Obadiah Craig, an old pioneer of Warren County; this union resulted with six children, viz., Clara, Sarah A., Craig, Nancy J., William and Charles. In 1869, Mr. Hankinson purchased of his father 100 acres of land, for which he gave $130 per acre, and in 1877 he erected on it a magnificent frame residence, at a cost of $3,000. Mr. Hankinson's farm, with its excellent improvements, ranks with the best in Warren County. Mr. Hankinson is by occupation a farmer and stock-raiser; he makes a very prominent specialty in the breeding of Poland-China hogs, and ranks with the leading breed-