John Sullenberger

John Sullenberger

• Birth: Circa 1796  Pennsylvania, United States
• Residence: 1850  Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA
• Age: 54 Schedule: Population
• Wife (implied): Mary Sullenberger
• Children (implied): John M Sullenberger, Catharine Sullenberger, Mary A Sullenberger, Jacob Sullenberger, David Sullenberger, Kesiah Sullenberger, Margaret J Sullenberger, Aaron T Sullenberger

John Sulenberger

• 1860 United States Federal Census
• Birth: Circa 1793 - Pennsylvania, United States
• Residence: 1860 - Spring Creek Township, Miami, Ohio, USA
• Wife (implied): Mary Sulenberger
• Child (implied): David Sulenberger

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sources

• Find A Grave Memorial# 17770004
• Sullenberger Family tree on MyHeritage

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notes

From pages 322-331 of the 1880 History of Miami County Ohio - Spring Creek Township:

" ....The first white settler in the township was John Hilliard, who emigrated from New Jersey in 1792 went first to West Virginia, where he remained till he came to Ohio, and located in Hamilton County, coming from there to Spring Creek Township, Miami County , the 4th of April 1797, and permanently located himself on fractional Sections 30 and 36, Range 12. Previous to this, a Frenchman had settled in a log-cabin near the same place, who kept a supply store and traded his wares to the Indians for their furs and venison, of which there was always a great supply at that period; but, as this trader had entered no land, Hilliard became the first land-holder and permanent settler in the township. Mr. H. was accompanied to his new home by his family of four boy s and two girls. ...Gardner Bobo immigrated to this township in 1808. He entered the northwest quarter of Section 21, now owned by William Geigerman. He was accompanied to his Western home by his large family of sons and daughters. ....

" ... After the excitement consequent upon the war was over and the fears of the people allayed, settlers again began to pour in from the older States. Among the first of these to reach Spring Creek Township was Samuel Wiley, who came here from Maryland in 1812 and settled on Section 25 and fractional Section 31. ...

" ...There are two towns in the township, the oldest being Shawaneetown, laid out on ground owned by Mr. Hunter, and surveyed. by J. Bellow previous to 1840. The first house in the place was a log cabin put up by David Gates; it has long since ceased to be n umbered among the occupied residences of the town. The village received its name from the Indian tribe that formerly had a permanent camp upon the spot.

" ... Rossville was laid out on land owned by Mr. Ross, for whom it was named. The plat was prepared by William Knowles, between 1835-40. There are no business houses in the place, neither are there any in Shawaneetown save the furniture factory owned by Mr. Cron, which does an extensive business. Both of these villages being separated from Piqua only by the Great Miami River, which is crossed at each of the places by substantial bridges, the necessity for stores and groceries in their midst is done away with, the inhabitants preferring to do their trading in the larger place, which is so near at hand that the casual observer would suppose them to form a part of the town from which they are only separated by the river.

" ... Several years previous to the building of the grist mill, Charles Manning had erected adistillery in the township, which takes precedence of all other manufacturing establishments in Spring Creek. Mr. Manning ran this some time, and made an excellent qu ality of whisky, when he disposed of it to Henry Orbison, who continued to operate it. Mr. Orbison, by the way, was quite an influential man in the community, and was frequently called upon to occupy responsible positions in his township and county ...