Two Lehman families came from Berks County, Pennsylvania, to Wayne Township in 1823, and each bought 160 acres there from Dennis Driscoll; the books never say whether the two were related. John Lehman, a miller born in 1790 and the youngest child of Martin Lehman, who had come from Germany as a small boy, paid $800 for his land, married twice, had seventeen children, and served as justice of the peace and in several township offices. His son Ephraim farmed the same land and served Wayne Township as trustee, clerk and treasurer. Henry Lehman and Margaret (Oberlin) Lehman settled the other tract, which their eldest son David, born in 1802, later bought from his father. David and Susan (Kintner) Lehman raised eleven children there before retiring to Madisonburgh, where he died in 1889, and their youngest son Simon came back to the old homestead. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Wayne County history.
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Martin Lehman and F. Christina (Speck) Lehmanborn 1744Most recent in our records
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Came from Germany; farmed in Berks and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania
Miller and farmer; township officer
Farmer on his father's land; township officer
EPHRAIM LEHMAN. The Lehman family originally came from
' Germany, where Martin Lehman was born in 1744, and whence, when two years old, he accompanied his parents to America. He was reared in Berks County, Penn., where he was married to F. Christina Speck, who was born in Alsace, Germany, in 1751; her parents were sold to pay their passage to this country. Martin Lehman remained in Berks County until 1796, when, with his wife, he removed to Lancaster County, in the same State, settling on a small tract of land, where he died in 1801; his widow survived him many years, her death occurring in
1822. They had a family of seven child"en: Catherine, Henry, Christian, George, Mary, Martin and John, all of whom reached years of maturity.
John Lehman, the youngest of the family, was born in Berks County, Penn., in 1790. He lived in his native State until
1823, when he moved to Wayne County, Ohio, and purchased of Dennis Driscoll
160 acres of laud in Vayne Township, for which he paid 800. He was a miller liy trade, which he carried on until he moved to "Wayue County, Ohio, from which time he followed farming, and by hard labor and good management he acquired a competency. Public-spirited and enterprising, he was not only ambitious to obtain property for his own use, but was also interested in the material welfare of his township and county, and always gave liberally of his means to all enterprises promising to advance, either financially or morally, the prosperity of the community. He occupied various official positions of trust and responsibility; was justice of the peace a number of years; was township clerk, trustee, treasurer and overseer of the poor. He was twice married, his first wife being Christina Smith, who bore him five children: Benjamin, Mary Ann, Catherine, Eliza and Nancy. His second wife was Nancy Bair, and by her he had a family of twelve children: Sarah, Ephraim, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Susan, John H., Caroline, Martin, Maria, Christi Ann. George D. and Cyrus E. Mr. Lehman lived to see his land cleared of primeval forest, and the wilderness become the home of a civilized and prosperous community, being at the time of his death one of the oldest citizens in AVayne County. Ephraim Lehman, the second child and eldest son of John and Nancy (Bair)
Lehman, was born August 11, 182B, in Wayne Township. He has all his life followed farming, and now owns the land purchased by his father. In 1852 he married Miss Susan, daujjhter of Jacob and Saloma (Billman) Freese, of Wayne Township, and by her has had seven children, viz.: Luther V., born November 29,1854; Cecelia Odessa, born in 1856; John E., in 1859; Franklin F., in 1861; Cora Bell, in 1864; Herman L., in 1871. and Floyd V., in 1874. Mr. Lehman has served his township in the varied capacities of trustee, clerk and treasurer, having held some official position for the past twenty-two years. He is recognized as one of the most prominent and public-spirited citizens of Wayne County, and is highly esteemed and cordially liked by all who know him. Like his father, he is a Democrat.
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Settled in Wayne Township in 1823
Farmer, Wayne Township
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from the position of lieutenant-colonel he held in the National Guards.
and eldest son. In 1823 (lie family left Berks County and settled in Wavne Town-
1855. Mr. Lehman had always been a hardworking man, as the result of which.
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Builder, teacher and farmer on the homestead
SIMON LEHMAN, the youngest son in the family of David and Susan (Kintner) Lehman, was born in 1849. He received his education at Smithville, this county, and when twenty-two years of age commenced contracting for buildings, teaching school during winters. He thus continued nine years, and then came to the old homestead in Wayne Township, where he at present resides; his aged mother (now seventy-nine years old) making her home with him.
At the age of twenty-two Mr. Lehman married Emily Speicher, who has borne him seven children, as follows: Eldo, Oscar, Stella, Mabel, Bovd, Jessie and Beulab, all at home. Mr. Lehman is a Prohibition-Democrat, and is at present township clerk. Both he and his wife are members of the U. B. Church.
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