John T. Estabrook
Charles Estabrook, the father of the above, was born in New YOrk in 1796. He married Nancy Willoughby in 1821. They removed to Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1836, where they remained until 1858, at which time they came to Shelby County, and bought part of the Berry farm at the old red mill. They reared a family of eleven children, ten of them still living. Mr. Estabrook is yet living. His wife died in 1882, at the age of eighty-five years.
John T., one of the above eleven, was born in Montgomery County in 1838. At the age of eighteen years he went to learn the carpenter trade, which he has followed the most of the time since. In 1858 he came with his parents to Shelby County. The following year, 1859, he married Miss Rachel Valentine, a daughter of Richard W. Valentine. By this union they have six children, viz., Ida F., Nora D., Charles R., Anna E., Lillie B., and Minnie L. In 1868 they moved to Van Buren Township on a piece of land given to his wife by her father. They remained on this land some eleven years, clearing ninety-five acres ready for tilling, but owing to the prevalence of milk sickness in their neighborhood (their family all having had it) they rented the farm in 1878, and moved near the town of Sidney.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883