Philip Brideweeser
Philip Brideweeser, son of Philip and Dorothy Brideweeser, was born in Dinsmore Township, this county, Feb. 19, 1843. On the 17th of March, 1867, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Christian and Mary Fogt, of Franklin Township, where she was born March 17, 1837. Mr. and Mrs. B. settled on eighty acres of land in section 21, Dinsmore Township, on which they lived until 1874, when he traded his farm in section 21 for the farm in section 28, same township, on which he moved his family and has since resided. His companion died Feb. 12, 1879, leaving him with a family of six children, five of whom are now living, viz., Sophia C., Mary A. D., Christopher M., George E., and Joseph V. Mr. B. has made farming his principal avocation, which he has conducted with success.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883