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HENRY FLEIG is a native of Bavaria, Germany, where he was born in 1842. When three years of age he was brought with his parents, John F. and Mary (Ring) Fleig, to the United States. The family settled in Ripley, and John Fleig is today one of Ripley’s oldest respected citizens, now in the seventy-eighth year of his age. His estimable wife departed this life in May, 1870. Of the six children born to this couple three are living, viz.—John, Frederick, and our subject, who has been a resident of Brown County since 1848. During the rebellion, he served in the N. G. Second Ohio Artillery. His marriage to Miss Mary, daughter of Jacob Wyand, occurred in 1867. She was a native of Brown County, and the family number among the county’s early pilgrims. To this union seven children have been born, viz. — Henry H., Lulu, Lillie, Minnie, Sally, Mamie and Bertha. Mr. Fleig established business in his present location in August, 1873, and during this time he has established a permanent and lucrative trade, and numbers among the promising business men of this community. Is member of I. O. O. F.