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RICHARDS, JOHN W., farmer and stock raiser; Sec. 16; P. O. Burton; son of Josiah and Hannah Richards; was born in Loudon county, Va., Nov. 9, 1821; came to this country in the spring of 1836; has 525 acres of land, valued at $22,000; married Margaret Potter. She was born in Adams county, Dec. 21, 1840. She is the mother of eleven children, viz.: Ann, Florence, Ellen, Clifford, James, Susan, Carrie, Willie, Austin, Melvin, and Clarence. Politics, Democratic. He emigrated with his parents to Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1832; lived there four years; thence to Adams county, and located on the place where he now lives. He built a log cabin the same year, 16x20, where a family of eleven resided; used prairie bedsteads. Mr. R. came to the county in an early day in limited circumstances, but, by good management, has accumulated a line property. He has 350 acres of land under good cultivation; turns off forty head of hogs, twenty head of cattle; raises 100 acres of wheat, eighty acres of corn, and thirty acres of oats, yearly; was among the earliest settlers, and well can be claimed one of its pioneers.