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Transcription contributed by Leah L. Furnas 19 April 2005 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Union Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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WILLIAM W. SHUETS, grocer and coal dealer, South Lebanon. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch was born in Deerfield Township, April 4, 1826, and is twin brother of Andrew M.; he is a son of Michael Shuets, who was born in Huntington Co., N. J., and when a single man came to Warren Co., in 1816; he was afterward married to Elizabeth Worley, who, with her parents, William and Nancy Worley, came from Berkeley Co., Va., in the year 1814; they settled in Deerfield, Union Township, where they lived and died; he died in 1829, she departed this life about 1835. He was a sickle-maker by trade and his goods were in much demand. After Michael Shuets was married, he bought land in Deerfield Township, and later purchased a farm in Union Township, where he died Sept. 8, 1845, aged 50 years. She departed this |
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life in 1829, aged 29 years. They were parents of six children, four living-Deliverance, William W. and Andrew M., twins, and Ellen; the deceased are Sarah and John W.; the latter was a soldier in the Mexican War, and died from a chronic disease in Mexico City, in 1847. During the early history of the county, Mr. Shuets, Sr., was Overseer of the Poor of Union Township; he was an industrious man and possessed just the mettle necessary to make a true pioneer. The property he owned at his death was the result of his own labor. Our subject was brought up on the farm, where he labored till of age, when he began huxtering, a business he did not succeed in; he was married March 12, 1851, to Mary Ann, daughter of Joseph Brandenburg, of Maryland, who settled in Warren Co. in an early day and were pioneers. After his marriage he huxtered for a year, and afterward was elected to the office of Constable, and since has been identified in every office of Union Township, except Justice of the Peace; at present he is Treasurer of the same township. During the war, he kept hotel in Deerfield; in 1865, he built the property where he now does business; in 1869 he engaged in the grocery and coal business in the same property; he has been considerably engaged in other business, and in all fairly successful. To them have been born ten children, seven living - Laura, Henry, Catherine, Joseph, Annette, William W., Jr. and Lulu. The deceased are – Sarah E., Huldah D. and Cora. |
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