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RAMER, HENRY, farmer; Sec. 29; P. O. Seehorn; was born March 18, 1825, in Harrison county, Ohio, to which place his parents came before marriage. His father, John Ramer, was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother, Lena (Jones) Ramer, was born in Maryland. He was brought up in his native county, with a limited common school education. The Fall before he was twenty-one years old he came to Miami county, Ind., and remained there till 1850, when he went to California, but returned to Adams county, Ill., the close of the same year. He hired by the month to Eli Seehorn, of Fall Creek township, and continued in his employ six years. He then went to Iowa, and with the savings of those years’ labor, bought 240 acres of land. He married Roseana J. Wells, June 12, 1856, of Knox county, Ky. — born Oct. 28, 1838; then removed to Illinois, rented a farm on the Mississippi bottom for ten years, and bought and settled on their present farm in the Spring of 1870. Have had seven children — six living — Eli, Mrs. Martha E. Thompson, Margaret L., Lola, Sarah E., and Henrietta. Their farm consists of 108 acres, worth $75 per acre.