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GEORGE EMRICK, retired farmer and blacksmith, Sec. 34; P. O. New Castine; was born in Germantown, Montgomery Co., Ohio, Nov. 2, 1818; he learned the blacksmith’s trade while a boy and worked at it for a number of years. He was married to Frances Arnold June 16, 1842; they first commenced the duties of domestic life in Montgomery Co., and removed to Darke Co. in 1852, and carried on a shop at Versailles and afterward at Hill Grove, and still later farmed in the vicinity of Hill Grove two or three years, then returned to Montgomery Co. and purchased a farm there upon which they remained until 1863, when he purchased and removed to the farm in Sec. 33, Butler Township, Darke Co., where Samuel Emrick now resides; four years later, he purchased and removed to the farm on Sec. 34, where he now resides; Mr. Emrick now has 159 acres of well-improved land, with neat, commodious buildings, suggestive of industry and economy, and is a substantial, respected citizen; both he and his wife are members of the German Baptist Church, and useful members of society. They are the parents of fourteen children, eleven of whom are living, viz., Josiah, Silas, Zachariah, Barbara A., Matilda, Uriah; Benjamin F., Samuel, George W., Solomon and Sarah E. The first seven named are married and all residents of Darke Co. but one, who resides just over the line in Indiana.