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JOHN NEW, farmer, P. O. Higginsport, is a son of Conrad and Elizabeth (Wiseman) New. They were both born in Bavaria, Germany, he in 1795, and she in 1793. They received a common school education, matured and married in their native country, coming in 1831, with eight children, to America, where three more were given them. They first settled in Pennsylvania temporarily, but in 1832 pressed on to Brown County, Ohio, settling near Russellville, where Conrad purchased a farm of nearly 100 acres, which he enlarged to nearly 300 acres. He and wife were members of the German Lutheran Church. Her death occurred January 4, 1864, and his in 1872. Of their eleven children, five are now living, viz., John, Conrad, Peter, Mary and Lizzie. Of the above family, John is the sixth, born in Bavaria, Germany, August 13, 1825. He was reared in Jackson Township, where he received a common school education and learned the rudiments of farming; during life, he devoted some time to the grocery business in Ripley, and since 1879 has lived on his present farm of eighty acres in F. Taylor’s Survey, which is rapidly being enriched by him; its product is tobacco. His marriage was celebrated May 11, 1848, with Margaret Roth, a native of Germany, born June 21, 1827, and since 1847 a resident of Brown County, Ohio. The issue of this union is thirteen children, of whom nine are now living, viz., Lizzie, Henry, Catharine, Peter, John A., Caroline L., Maggie, George E. and Flora. Mr. and Mrs. New are members of the Lutheran Church at Ripley. Mrs. New is a daughter of Frederick and Margaret (Bohl) Roth, natives of Bavaria, Germany, who came to United States in 1846, with a family of five children, stopping in New York City until 1847, when they came to Brown County, Ohio, where they both died in Levanna. He had devoted some time to his trade, shoemaking, in Ripley, Higginsport and the town in which they died.