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Below is a family biography included in The History of Brown County, Ohio published by W. H. Beers & Co. in 1883. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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JOSEPH HEIZER, farmer, P. O. Higginsport, grandson of John Heizer, Sr., whose history appears in Lewis Township, and a son of Edward Heizer, who resides in Union Township, was born in the last-named township May 1, 1835. He grew to maturity on his father’s farm, and acquired a common school education. Soon after his majority, he engaged in the general mercantile business in Higginsport of this county, with favorable success, and while thus engaged, on April 3, 1859, he married Mary A. Ellis, of Pleasant Township. At the end of four years’ mercantile life, Mr. Heizer resumed his boyhood occupation in his native township, and in 1872 purchased his present farm of 98 ½ acres in Lewis Township, which is well improved and under good cultivation. His crops are principally corn, wheat and tobacco; of the latter he annually raises from eight to ten acres. Mr. and Mrs. Heizer are the parents of two daughters, viz.: Flora and Clara.
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