Ohio Biographies



Moses Argo


Moses Argo was born in the State of Delaware, in 1771. A farmer by choice, he came to this State and settled near Mount Pleasant, this county, in October, 1803. He married Sarah Bruin, of New Jersey, and his marriage license is the second on record in the probate court of this county. In politics, he was a Jacksonian Democrat. In 1813 he moved to Miami township, and began his home on the farm now owned by William Brawley. He died in 1842; his wife bad died nine years previously. They had nine children: Libbie, now the wife of Lewis Fowler; Lucinda, wife of Daniel Helterbrine, of Indiana; Alexander, married to Mary A. Walbrine, and residing in Illinois; Ebenezer, who had three wives, Amanda Tapel, Hannah Spinning, and Laura M. Oldruve; Anna, who was the wife of Thomas Kinkaid, and is now married to Enos Gray, and living in Indiana; William, Elizabeth, and one that died in infancy.

 

From History of Hamilton County, Ohio, Henry & Kate Ford, L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers, 1881

 


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