Frederick Stonebrook
Frederick Stonebrook was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1830, the youngest of eleven children born to Frederick and Sarah (Clement) Stonebrook. Frederick Stonebrook, Sr., was a native of Kentucky, his wife being of Irish parentage. In 1825 he settled in Wooster, then a village of a few houses, buying 160 acres of woodland on Little Sugar Creek, where he remained eight years, when he moved to Holmes County and bought eighty acres of land in Ripley Township, where he made his home the rest of his life, dying at the age of eighty-four years.
Frederick Stonebrook, Jr., has spent the greater part of his life in Holmes County. He learned the shoemaker's trade in his youth, at which he worked about thirty years, and since then has been engaged in farming, now owning 300 acres of valuable land. He is one of the prominent citizens of Knox Township, and has hosts of friends who honor him for his many excellent qualities. He was married, in 1853, to Fanny Donley, daughter of John Donley, who was of Irish descent. They have two children: Harry O., a farmer of Knox Township, and Alice, now Mrs. Thome. In politics Mr. Stonebroook is a Republican.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889