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W. C. LECKLIDER, merchant and farmer, Horatio. Jacob, the father of W. C, is a native of Maryland, born on the 12th of April, 1802; came with his parents to Ohio, while he was quite young. He married a Miss Willey; two children were born to them, of whom one is living, viz., W. C.; his wife died in about 1836. He celebrated his second marriage with Nancy Eshleman; they now reside near Greenville, Ohio. W. C. Lecklider, the subject of this sketch, was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, on the 13th of February, 1834; spent his boyhood days on his father’s farm, assisting in the cultivation of the soil during the summer months, and in the winter attending the district school, where he obtained a good common-school education; when he was about 18 years old, he went to Greenville, Ohio, where he clerked in the dry-goods and grocery store of Swisher & Co. for about ten months; after which he went to Beamsville, same county, and clerked for J. H. C. Dill for a period of two years. He now came to the conclusion that it was not good to be alone, and on the 8th of March, 1855, he celebrated his marriage with Miss Margaret Riffle, who was born in Darke Co., Ohio, on the 4th of March, 1834; after his marriage, he moved to Ansonia, Darke Co., and engaged in the grocery and dry-goods business, which he followed for a period of twenty-four years, meeting with good success; he sold out and moved to Horatio in 1865 and engaged in the same business, carrying a full line of groceries and dry goods; in 1870, he purchased 90 acres of land, for which he paid $4,150; he has erected a large two-story frame house, at a cost of about $1,500; also a barn, 40x60, and other out buildings; all of said property he has accumulated by his hard labor, in which he has been nobly assisted by his good and amiable wife; he is also strictly temperate in all his habits; Mr. Lecklider has never been a political aspirant, although he has been identified with nearly all of the township offices; served as Township Clerk for two years; was elected Justice of the Peace in the fall of 1875, which office he still holds; was appointed Postmaster at Horatio in 1870, which office he now holds, and during his residence in Ansonia, he was Postmaster for several years; was appointed ticket and freight agent at Horatio in 1869, of the P., C. & St. L. R. R., which agency he still holds. Seven children have been born to this union, viz.: Ira H., Jan. 18, 1856; W. Charles, July 30, 1857; Jacob H., March 2, 1859; Claudius G., Dec. 26, 1860; Ulysses G., Aug. 14, 1862; Arthur E., Nov. 19, 1867; Harvey B., March 11, 1870.