Ohio Biographies



Andrew W. Overholser


Andrew W. Overholser was born in Virginia in 1811; married Angeline Northcott in 1834, and moved to the farm where they now live in the fall of 1837. On their first arrival they prepared a temporary shelter until they could build a cabin. During all these early days they suffered all the privations and hardships which attend a life in a new country, undertaken without a dollar in hand. Under these circumstances Mr. Overholser worked from home as much as possible, earning fifty cents per day; while corn, on which they depended for bread, sold at seventy-five cents per bushel. Mrs. Overholser contributed her full share of labor upon the home farm by assisting her husband in all kinds of labor. The fruits of this toil and hardship, supplemented by economy, may be seen in the pleasant home with which they are provided, the two palatial residences they possess in Lima, and the general prosperity by which they are surrounded.

 

From History of Auglaize County, Ohio, with the Indian History of Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement of the County, Robert Sutton, Publishers, Wapakoneta, 1880

 


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