Peter Buzzard
Peter Buzzard, farmer, P. O. Germantown, was born in Frederick County, Md., June 11, 1817, his parents, Samuel and Mary (Dellwater) Buzzard, coming to Ohio soon after his birth, where his father died in 1866, and his mother in 1873. Peter was married in 1838, to Elizabeth Emerick, a native of this county, born June 5, 1818, his parents being from Pennsylvania, of which union eight children were the issue, as follows: Wesley, Allen, Samuel L., Margaret E., Mary Ann, William J., Jacob E. and Annie A. Mr. Buzzard is a stone and brick mason, which trade he learned his boyhood days, operated a threshing-machine for twenty-five years, and has owned four of the best stable horses in Ohio, having at present a fine six-year-old, three-quarters Clydesdale stallion. Mr. Buzzard owns a nice farm of seventy-two acres in Darke County, and a well-improved homestead, where he now resides, and is a man of public spirit and enterprise.
From History of Montgomery County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1882