Robert Templeton
Robert Templeton, the subject of this sketch, was born May 14, 1794, in Washington County, Pa., and came with his parents to Ross County, Ohio, in 1812, settling near the site of the town of Kingston. He was married to Miss Jane, daughter of John Beaty, of New Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, on the 23d of November, 1820. Mrs Templeton died in 1872. Mr. T. is the father of eight children, Mary Ann, Eliza J., Agnes T., David W., Margaret, John B., Robert A., and J. Caruthers. Of these Mary Ann and Margaret are dead. Mr. Templeton came to Perry Township, (then a part of Wayne and Green) in April, 1822. He here lived on a farm ten miles south of Washington and three miles east of Martinsburg until the death of his wife, when he sold his home farm and has lived with his son John on the farm adjoined to the one he sold, until recently. His son Caruther's wife dying, the father, sympathizing with his son in his great loss, and wishing to minister to him in his affliction, went to reside with the stricken one.
Mr. Templeton has been an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Greenfield for over forty years. In early life he was a Whig; in later years a Republican. He is decidedly anti-secret society in his sentiments, and on the subject of temperance and the use of tobacco, he gives forth no uncertain sound.
Commencing life a poor man, he has amassed a fortune, so that he can give to each of his children a handsome start in life.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County