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W. R. CHATTERTON, farmer, P. O. New Harmony, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, August 21, 1832, and is a son of Philip and Mary Ann Chatterton, who were married in 1830. He again married for his second wife, Lizza Jane Smith, in 1865. W. R. Chatterton at twenty-one years of age began business for himself. He first engaged as an apprentice to learn the carpenter trade, a business that he followed one summer. He next engaged in the saw-mill business at Henning’s Mills; thus he continued for three years, when he bought sixty-four acres of land in Clermont County, Ohio, which he farmed until the spring of 1864, when he sold and purchased 106 acres in Pike Township, where he resides, and has since added ninety acres, owning at the present time 196 acres of land with good buildings, constituting a pleasant farmer’s residence. He acquired a common school education, and has been Township Treasurer of Pike Township. He was united in marriage with Lavanchia Pool January 22, 1859, and to this union have been born three children, of whom two survive — Belle and Fannie. Mr. and Mrs. Chatterton have, through their indomitable perseverance, strict and honorable business habits, secured for themselves and their children a beautiful home, where they enjoy the highest respect and esteem of their neighbors and many friends.