Ner Rothrock Biographical Sketch from Beers History of Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 25 February 2005

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Franklin Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)
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NER ROTHROCK, butcher, Franklin, of the firm of Miller & Rothrock, on Fourth street, near Canal, and son of Joseph and Sarah McKinney Rothrock, was born in Adams Co., Ohio, July 23. 1845. He was reared on the farm. In 1860, he went to Cincinnati and learned the trade of house and sign painter; served two and one-half years. July 16. 1863, he enlisted, in Adams County, in Co. B, 2d O. V. H. A., under his brother, Capt. Phillip Rothrock, who was killed at the battle of Cleveland, Tenn., by the premature explosion of a shell. Our subject served twenty-six months, and then, being disabled by typhoid fever, he was discharged, at Camp Chase, Columbus, in September, 1865; he then returned to farming in Adams County, in which he was engaged till 1870, when he went to Macon, Ill., and engaged in painting three years; he then went to Iowa as General Agent of the Iowa Life Insurance Company one year. In 1876, he came to Jersey Settlement and remained two years, one year of which he was engaged in running a threshing machine, and two years in Franklin; he had the first road-propelling machine in this part of the county. July 29, 1881, he opened his present market in company with Mr. Miller, where they keep on hand constantly a choice stock of meats. He was married, in 1866, in Adams Co., Ohio, to Laura B., daughter of Alfred and Mary E. Young, born in Adams County in April, 1848; they have three children—Mary L., Joseph A. and Sylvia.


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