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Title:  History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio
Authors:  Aldrich, Lewis Cass.
City of Publication:  Syracuse, N.Y. :
Publisher:  D. Mason & Co.,
Publication Date:  1888

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DIRR, Henry, Pleasant, New Bavaria p.o., one of the earliest settlers of
Pleasant township, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1816, was a son of
George Dirr, who with his four children emigrated to America in 1832, after
the death of his wife.  The children were George, Martin, Henry and
Barbara.  They settled in Springfield in 1836.  They all settled in
Pleasant township in the dense forest, cutting their road through, and upon
a clearing erected their cabin.  Henry is now the only surviving one.  He
was married in 1840 to Catharine Gardner, of Bavaria.  She died in 1862.
They had a family of eight children--Mary, Henry, Peter, Frederick, Andrew,
Charles, Eva and Wesley.  He married for his second wife, Frederica Shoor,
who was born in Wurtemburg.  They have had three children--Jacob A., George
A. and Catharine.  Henry owns the forty-acre homestead purchased by his
father in 1836, to which he has added one hundred acres, all of which he
has highly improved.  He is an active farmer, and now owns one hundred and
forty acres.

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