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DAVID S. MANSON, retired farmer; P. O. Fletcher; was born on the farm he now owns, in Sec. 23, Brown Township; July 2, 1817; his father was born in Pennsylvania, June 5, 1782; and emigrated to Ohio early in the nineteenth century; he was one of the patriots of the war of 1812; at the surrender of Gen. Hull he was taken prisoner by the Indians, who took him to Canada, where he afterward was released; he then returned to Miami Co., and in after years became the owner of a farm in Sec. 23; in 1816, his marriage occurred; when David was but 10 years of age, his father died, and the care of the family devolved exclusively upon the mother, who now survives at the advanced age of 83, David S. was brought up on the farm in the pioneer days, when log huts were called houses, and rude log cabins were the only schoolhouses; the term of school was very much limited, as were the branches and modes of teaching. Mr. Manson is the oldest man living in the township who has never made a permanent change in his place of residence. Jan. 23, 1840, he married Bathsheba Robbing who was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, Jan. 22, 1821, and died April 24, 1845, leaving two children, of whom both are now living, viz., Phebe, born March 26, 1841; William, born Nov. 26, 1842.