George and Mary (Wolfe) Leighninger raised their family in Lafayette Township, where George died in 1841; Mary was still living in 1881 at eighty-four. Their son Hiram, born in 1822, married Susannah Loos in 1847 and farmed eighty-eight acres near West Lafayette. Four younger brothers, Levi, Asa, Lewis and B. F., bought out the other heirs and worked the 180-acre home farm together as partners: Levi left in 1856 for the Mushrush farm in Oxford Township, Lewis in 1859 for a farm near West Lafayette, and Asa and B. F. kept the partnership until the spring before the 1881 history was written, when they divided the stock. B. F. Leighninger, born in 1838, was a second lieutenant in Company E of the 142nd Ohio National Guard and ran a lumber business in southern Indiana in 1866 until lung fever forced him to sell out. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Coshocton County history.
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Lafayette Township
Farmer, Lafayette Township
LEIGHNINGER HIRAM, Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice. West Lafayette; was born in this county in 1822; son of George and Mary Leighninger; was married to Miss Susannah Loos, daughter of Daniel Loos, October 30, 1847, and had the following children, viz: an infant, deceased; Seldan; Ernma J., deceased; Clara, an infant son, Maria; Olive and an infant son, both deceased; Elmer and Alta Carvetta. Mr. Leighninger is a prosperous farmer, and owns eighty-eight acres of fine land; has held offices of trust in his township, and he and his wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church, Mr. Leighninger having been a member for the past thirty years.
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Farmer, Lafayette Township
LEIGHNINGER ASA, Lafayette township; farmer; was born in this county in 1836; son of George Leighninger; was married in 1860 to Miss Sarah Foster, a native of England, who came to this country when quite young. They have had six children, viz: Norah, IT. Grant, Ernest, Ida; George, and an infant, Isoth deceased. He and his wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church. Mr. Leighninger owns 130 acres of land in this township; and twenty-four acres in Oxford township, and is an enterprising farmer.
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Civil War officer; lumberman and farmer
LEIGHNINGER B. F., Lafayette township; postoffice, West Lafayette; was born in this township, in 1838; son of George and Mary (Wolfe) Leighninger. His father died in 1841; his mother is still living, aged eighty-four years. He was married, in 1870, to Nelia Conaway, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Lovelace) Conaway, both Virginians. They have three children: Ella M.; Charley C, deceased, and Clyde H. Mr. Leighninger was a member of Company E., One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., holding the commission of Second Lieutenant; was in general hospital, at Fortress Monroe, three weeks, with the typhoid fever, and had charge of forty of the sick and disabled, in their transportation home. In 1866, Mr. Leighninger, in company with B. F. Fleming, was engaged very extensively in the lumber business, in Southern Indiana; running their own mill, buying and selling, and carrying on quite a successful business, when he was stricken with the lung fever, and remained sick four months; and, seeing he could not endure the exposure and hardships incident thereto, he sold his entire interest to Mr. John Grove, of Harrison county.
In early life, Mr. Leighninger, with his brothers Levi, Asa and Lewis, formed a partnership, with the home farm of 180 acres, after they had bought out the heirs, as their capital, and worked together until 1856, when Levi withdrew and located on a hill-farm in Oxford township, known as the Mushrush farm.
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Wife of Jacob Wolf, Oxford Township
Lumber and planing mill, West Lafayette
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