William J. Applegate
William J. Applegate, grocer and postmaster of Delhi, came here in 1872 from Green township, where he was born and reared. His father, Israel Applegate, came to this township when quite young from Pennsylvania; lived fifty-five years on the farm he bought, and died in 1870 in the eighty-first year of his age. His mother, Mary Jane Colsher also of Pennsylvania, died October, 1880, in the eighty-third year of her age. William J. Applegate, born August 17, 1839, was reared a farther, but began business on a small scale in a grocery in 1872, and at the same time kept the post office of the village which helped to increase his patronage. In the year 1878 he built a large three-story brick house, the first results of his successful business. He was married October 15, 1864, to Miss Katie Myers of Delhi, daughter of an old settler of the county. Mr. Applegate is one of the trustees of the township at this time.
From:
History of Hamilton Co., Ohio, 1881; Compiled by: Henry A. Ford, A.M. and Mrs. Kate B. Ford; Publisher: L. A. Williams