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GEORGE D.
NEAL, carriage manufacturer, corner Front and Main
streets, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. A native of Mt. Vernon, was
born Sept. 20, 1844, and was educated in the public schools of
this city. His first business engagement was with the firm
of J. W. Weaver, wholesale and retain grocer, as
salesman, where he served about three years, and then was in the
employ of James George & Son one year. He then
entered employ of S. H. & L. W. Jackson, carriage
manufacturers, to learn carriage trimming, and remained with
them until the dissolution of the firm, after which he served
other firms as journeyman at carriage trimming until 1871, when
he established himself in the carriage business, in which he
still continues. In 1877 he added to the carriage business
that of shipping green fruits, cider, and vinegar, and in
favorable seasons he ships about five thousand barrels of
apples, and about five hundred barrels of vinegar. In the
carriage business he carries a stock of about four thousand
dollars, and manufactures all kinds of double and single
carriages and light wagons, and does a business of from ten to
twenty thousand dollars per year, and employs from eight to ten
hands in the different departments. He occupies the
commodious buildings erected by himself expressly for the
business, which consists of a two-story brick building,
thirty-two and sixty-three feet, with a two story frame
addition, twenty by thirty feet. Residence at No. 27 East
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GEORGE
W. NEIBEL, Milford township, deceased, was born in
Licking county, in 1829. He came to Knox county with his
parents, and was reared on a farm, and always followed it as his
occupation. He married Miss Mary A. Twist, Feb. 29,
1852; she is the daughter of Peter and Catharine Twist,
nee Beardsly. She was born in New York, and came to Ohio
about 1834, with her parents. Her father was a soldier in
the War of 1812. The subject of this notice enlisted in
company B, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National
guard. After his return home he was taken sick with lung
disease, from which he died, April 11, 1866. They had one
child, John H., born June 4, 1854. He is a man of
sterling qualities, is well read, and highly esteemed by the
community. He was married to Miss Ida A., daughter
of David H. Speelman, November 18, 1880. They
reside on the farm where he was reared. |
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JACOB
NEIDERHOUSE, Union township, farmer, past office,
Rossville, born in Switzerland, in 1829, and came to this
country in 1852. He settled in Holmes county, Ohio, where
he lied fourteen years, and 1867 settled in Union township,
where he now is. He was married in 1854, but his wife only
lived three years. His second marriage was in 1858, to
Miss C. Frederick. They have nine children - Mary,
John, Robert, Samuel, Caroline, Lavina, Edward, Cora, and
William. Mary married Dniel Kirk, and
moved to Coshocton county, where she now lives. |
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PETER
NEFF, Gambier, Knox county, Ohio - Resident twenty-one
years, and has been engaged for many years in the development of
the county for petroleum, and in the manufacture of Diamond
Black. See his pamphlets, and the Ohio State Geological
Survey, etc. |
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JAMES
NEWELL, deceased, born in Washington county,
Pennsylvania, May 20, 1782. He married Miss Polly
Fleming, July 11, 1811, who was born in Pennsylvania, July
17, 1792. Mr. Newell located in Clinton township in
1819. He died December 7, 1848, aged sixty-six years, and
his wife, April 15, 1850, aged fifty-eight. |
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ANDREW
NIXON, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Shaler's
Mills, was born in Jefferson county, in 1810, and was married to
Mary Scarlet. They had one son, Michael, a
resident of Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Nixon was deceased.
Mr. Nixon's second marriage was with Jane Knight
(Culberson), who was born in Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, in 1816. They have one son, Edwin,
who was born in 1862, and is living with his parents. |
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WILLIAM
H. NORRICK, salesman, Pike township, post office,
Democracy, born in 1850, in Harrison county, Ohio, and was
married, in 1876, to Mary M. Donel, who was born in Ohio,
in 1855. Mr. Norrick was engaged in selling buggies
for Louis Cook, of Cincinnati, and has had good success
being the only man in this section of Ohio representing this
manufacturing establishment. |
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JOHN M.
NYHART, Brown township, farmer, was born Dec. 13, 1839,
in Jefferson township. He is the son of Jacob and Mary
Nyhart, now residing in Jefferson township, Knox county.
He was reared on a farm. His education was obtained at a
select school taught at Danville, this county, and several terms
at Loudonville, Ashland county. During the winter of
1862-3 he taught a five months' term of school in Hanover
township, Ashland county. In 1863 he was united in
marriage with Miss Sophia Garrett, of Hanover township,
Ashland county, daughter of William and Prudence J. Garrett.
They settled on the farm where they are now
residing, located in Brown township, this county, near Jelloway.
He then turned his attention to farming and stock raising,
making sheep a specialty. He is the father of two children, one
son and one daughter. He filled the office of township
treasurer in Brown township for three years.
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