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    2. The next one in the book History of Warren County Ohio is on page 814. The first letter of two of the mans name appears to be missing. It reads like this: Ner Rothrock, butcher, Franklin of the firm of Miller & Rothrock on 4th st. near Canal, and son of Joseph and Sarah McKinney Rothrock was born in Adams Cty. Ohio, July 23, 1845. He was reared on the farm. In 1860 he went to Cincinnati and learned the trade of house and sign painter. served 2 1/2 years. July 16, 1863 he enlisted in Adams Cty. in Company B. 2d O. V. H. A. under his brother Capt. Phillip Rothrock, who was killed at the battle of Cleveland Tenn. by the premature explosion of a shell. Our subject served 26 mos. and then being disabled by typhoid fever, he was discharged at Camp Chase, Columbus in Sept. 1865. He then returned to farming in Adams Cty. in which he was engaged until 1870 when he went to Macon, Illinois, and engaged in painting 3 yrs. He then went to Iowa as general agent of the Iowa Life Insurance Co. 1 yr. In 1876 he came to Jersey settlement and remained 2 yrs. 1 yr. of which he was engaged in running a threshing machine, and 2 yrs. in Franklin. He had the 1st road propelling machine in this part of the county. July 29, 1881 he opened his present market in company with Mr. Miller, where they keep on hand constantly a choice of stock meats. He was married in 1866, Adams Cty. Ohio to daughter of Alfred and Mary E. Young. She was born in Adams Cty. in April 1848, they have 3 children, Mary L., Joseph A., and Sylvia. Judy Born with a twelve foot question, looking for a six inch answer.

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