Jeremiah D. Ferree
The ancestors of the Ferrees were French and Protestant, and were banished from France on account of their religious belief, when the edict was issued for all to become Catholics, flee the country, or die. They came to America, and settled in Pennsylvania, where they lived and died, and all their descendants lived until about 1834, when Daniel Ferree came to Ohio, and located in Seneca County. where he lived one year, then removed to Miami County, thence to Shelby County in 1843, where he located on Plumb Creek, Salem Township, and built a woollen and carding mill, which he ran about thirty-five years. It was here that Jeremiah D. was born in 1845. As soon as old enough he was put in the mill to work, at which he was engaged until eighteen years of age, when he enlisted in the First Ohio Cavalry, and served under Gen. Wilson as first sergeant, and participated in the capture of Jeff. Davis, and drew his share of the reward of $100,000 offered by the Government for the capture of Davis. After the close of the war he returned to Shelby County, and again engaged in the woollen mill with his father as a partner. In 1870 he married Arvista Line. By this union they have three children: Ernest F., born 1872; Judson A., born 1874; and Clarence E., born 1877. He is located on section 23.
Edwin A. Ferree, a son of Daniel Ferree, was born in Shelby County in 1850. In 1876 he married Miss Alice G. Steel. They have one child, Elmer, born 1877. Mr. Ferree is engaged in the manufacture and sale of lumber, being the proprietor of a saw-mill, on which they can cut eight thousand feet per day, having a forty-horse power engine.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883