Lewis M. Dair
Lewis M. Dair was born in New Jersey, Greenwich county, in 1798. He was a ship carpenter by trade, and came to Ohio in 1844 and settled in Harrison. While there he worked at the carpenter's trade. In politics he was a Democrat. His wife, Hannah Mulford, was a native of New Jersey. She died in Harrison in 1854. Her husband survived her fourteen years. They had eleven children - Benjamin, married to Julia A. Beard, and now living in Indiana; James, whose first wife was Charlotte Briggs, and whose present wife is Louisa Brakenridge; Mary J.; Elizabeth, the wife of Owen Williams; Amanda, the wife of Asa Curry, now of Indiana; Hannah, at present Mrs. Richard Bowles; Lewis, married to Elizabeth Perrine Jonathan M., married to Mary J. Campbell now living in Kentucky; Lucy A., Mrs. George Legget, at present a resident of Indiana; Edward, now married to Angeline Phillips and also in Indiana; and Emily, the wife of Theodore B. McCafferty.
From History of Hamilton county, Ohio, Henry & Kate Ford, L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers, 1881