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WILLIAM H. DILL, merchant, Justice of the Peace and Postmaster, Pikeville; another of the old settlers of Darke Co., born in Beamsville, Richland Township, June 8, 1839; he was the oldest son of John H. C. Dill, who was born in Germany March 16, 1805; he emigrated to America and located in Butler Co., and, about the year 1837, came to Darke Co. and settled in Beamsville, where he lived until 1855; he then removed to Dallas and engaged in the grain trade one year, after which he followed farming three or four years; he then returned to Dallas and engaged in the dry-goods trade for one year, when he came to Pikesville, in the spring of 1862, and engaged in the general merchandise trade and the purchase of grain up to the time of his death, which occurred April 2, 1865. He married Martha C. Seigment, in Ohio, Nov. 17, 1834; she was a native of Germany, born Oct. 23, 1815, and died in Darke Co. March 7, 1858; they were the parents of eleven children, of whom eight are now living, six in Ohio, one in Indiana and one in Missouri. Our subject resided in Beamsville until 16 years of age, where he received some experience in the mercantile store of his father; he then assisted his father in farming, in Brown Township, some four years, when he commenced clerking in Dallas, and, the following year, his father located in Dallas, in the merchandise business, and he then assisted his father in his store one year; in the spring of 1862, he came to Pikeville with his father, and remained with him until the latter’s death; he continued the business two years, and, in 1867, the store and stock were destroyed by fire; he was then engaged in various pursuits until the spring of 1879, when he engaged in the merchandise trade, which business he now follows. He received the appointment of Postmaster under the administration of Lincoln, in 1862, and was the first Postmaster of the town; he has also held the office of Justice of the Peace for twelve years in succession. His marriage with Julia A. Reed was celebrated in Darke Co., Ohio, Sept. 8, 1861; she was born in Darke Co. March 28, 1843; they have two children—Ida E., born Sept. 3, 1862, and Frank E., April 26, 1874.