James S. De Nise
William De Nise was a native of New Jersey, He came to Butler County, Ohio, in 1808. Daniel De Nise, his son, was two years old at the time of their settlement in Ohio. He married Eliza J. Shank. He died in 1878, having lived on the same farm for seventy years. James S., a son of Daniel, was born in Butler County in 1832, and came to Shelby County in 1854. In 1853 he married Lydia M. Barkalow. They have had born to them five children, viz., James A., born 1855; Mary E., born 1857; George B., born 1859; Daniel, born 1868; and John B., born 1872. They are located on part of the old Barkalow farm in sec. 18.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883