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MILTON CRABILL. This young gentleman has been rapidly coming to the front among the stock-raisers of Clark County, his home and place of business being a fine farm on section 7, Springfield Township. He also owns valuable property on South Yellow Springs Street, Springfield. He makes a specialty of raising sheep, his flocks being Merinos, either full-blooded or crossed with Shropshire Downs; of Poland-China hogs; of breeding and raising English Shire and Norman colts. During the year 1889, he sold over twelve thousand pounds of pork of his own raising. He takes quite an interest in his livestock and is well posted regarding the merits of different breeds.

Springfield Township has been the home of Mr. Crabill during his entire life, his birth having taken place on a farm therein, August 19, 1856. He is a son of the late Thomas Y. Crabill, several of whose sons are now following in their father’s footsteps in developing the resources of the soil and advancing the prosperity of the county. The subject of this sketch has lived in the country all his life except one year which he spent in the city of Springfield. He was educated in the common schools, where he acquired a good store of information and laid the foundation for more extended knowledge to be obtained through other means. He owns a snug farm of one hundred and thirty-eight and a half acres on section 7, on which good improvements have been made, the residence and other buildings being such as one would expect to find upon the land of a man of enterprise. Overwork has caused Mr. Crabill some suffering and weakness, his health not having been good since 1886.

At the home of the bride’s parents November 18, 1880, Mr. Crabill was united in marriage with Miss Mary, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Cosier) Leffel, of Springfield Township. The bride was born in that township, April 2, 1857, and is the sixth in a family of eight brothers and sisters. She is a well-informed woman, with useful habits and Christian character. She has borne her husband two children — Chester B. and Milton W.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Crabill are members of St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church, of Springfield. Mr. Crabill is a believer in the principles of the Republican party and to its candidates he gives his vote and influence. Upright and honorable in his dealings with mankind, kindly in domestic life, and exhibiting intelligence and good judgment in the management of his worldly affairs, he deserves and obtains the respect of all to whom he is known.