Benjamin Good
Benjamin Good was born near Reading, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1818. When he had attained the age of six years, or in 1824, his parents, Philip and Elizabeth Good, moved to Virginia, and located thirteen miles north of Richmond, where they remained until August, 1832, when they moved to Ohio, stopped in Greene County one year, and in August, 1833, they came to Shelby County, entered, and settled on the east half of the south west quarter of section 27, Dinsmore Township, on which they lived until 1823, when they moved to Wabash, Indiana, where they passed the remainder of their days.
Benjamin Good, subject of this sketch, came to Shelby County with his parents in 1833, and has since been a citizen of the township. On the 3d of October, 1847, he married Miss Sarah, daughter of John and Mary M. Munch. Miss Munch was born in Greene County, Ohio, December 13, 1824, and came to Shelby County with her parents in 1832. Mr. and Mrs. Good settled on the north half of the northwest quarter of section 21, on which he has since resided. They have a family of six children, viz., John M., William H., Mary M., Nancy J., Benjamin F., and Samuel E. Mr. Good has made farming his business, and now owns a farm of eighty acres.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883