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THOMAS SANDERS, farmer, Bakerstown, was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1820, son of John and Elizabeth (Kent) Sanders, former of whom was born fourteen miles north of here, at Duffield, and died Sept. 30, 1867, aged seventy-eight years; latter was born in Derbyshire, and died in 1859, aged sixty-six years. They immigrated to America in 1830, remaining from July until the following fall in Baltimore, Md., and came over the mountains in wagons, settling in Butler county. They lived on different farms near Bakerstown until 1849, when they purchased the place Thomas now lives on, and where his parents died. They were members of the M. P. Church, the present church at Bakerstown being organized by John Sanders in 1838; prior to that time Methodist meetings were held at his house. The paternal grandfather of our subject was William, and his grandfather was William; the latter lived to the age of one hundred and six years. Thomas says that from 1848 to 1860, owing to the hard times under democratic administration, he was obliged to go to New Orleans during the winter and cut cordwood, returning home in the summer. When twenty-eight years of age he began life for himself on his present farm. In 1845 he was married to Kezia Langdon, who was born on the coast of Cornwall, England, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Jane (Trabillcock) Langdon, who came to America about the same time as Thomas Sanders, settling in the east, where Mr. Langdon carried on a brewery; both of her parents are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders have eight children, six living and two deceased. Those living are William Crooks, Mary (Mrs. John Weber), Thomas, Maria, Charles Sumner and Evangeline, all of whom have received a good education. Elizabeth Jane died in 1863, aged thirteen years, and Augustus Miller died in 1873, aged eight years. The family are members of the Bakerstown M. P. Church. Mr. Sanders has a farm of sixty-two acres, after selling part of it to his son. He has been successful in business life.