Benjamin D. Misner
Benjamin D. Misner, carpenter, P. O. Deerfield, is a native of Indiana County, Penn., where he was born in 1819; son of Benjamin and Eve (Ditch) Misner, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in 1822 and were among the early pioneers of Mahoning County, where the father died in 1854 They reared a family of ten children, as follows: John, Samuel, David, Jacob, George, Benjamin D., Joseph, Elizabeth, Catherine and Eve. Our subject was married, in Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1861, to Miss Caroline A. Hartzell, a native of Pennsylvania, who has borne him one daughter—Mary H., wife of William Wilson. Mr. Misner came to Deerfield Township, this county, in 1862. He is a carpenter by trade, an occupation he followed through life with considerable success, and as the fruits of his industry has secured the needed comforts for his old age.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885