Adam W. Peter Ferree

As printed in 1908

ADAM WESLEY FERREE, owner and operator of Grand View Farm, a tract of eighty-one acres, situated about six miles north of Springfield on the Urbana Turnpike, was born December 31, 1847, in German Township, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of Peter and Elizabeth (Baker) Ferree.

Peter Ferree was born in York County, Pennsylvania, a son of Jacob Ferree, who died when his son Peter was about fourteen years old. Peter was reared on a farm in York Countv, and when about twenty-two years old came to Ohio and located in German Township, Clark County, near Lawrenceville, where he and his cousin, Greorge Lautz, purchased a small farm. Shortly after his marriage he removed to Tremont, where he conducted a hotel for several years. About 1852 he removed to a farm one mile north of Tremont, on the Valley Turnpike, remaining there until 1865, when he removed to the farm now owned by his son, Adam W. Peter Ferree became a very prosperous and well-known farmer, and at one time owned three farms, but previous to his death he sold two of these, one of 114 acres in German Township, and another of seventy-six acres, north of his son's present home. In 1896 he erected the comfortable frame house which is on the farm and died here three years later. Peter Ferree married Elizabeth Baker, who was also born in York County, Pennsylvania, and died in 1889. She came to Clark County, Ohio, when fifteen years of age with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Baker, who settled near Eagle City, in German Township. There were four children born to Peter Ferree and wife, namely: Susan, who died, aged seventeen years; Adam Wesley; Mary, who married Edward Fish, of Spring-field, and Annie, who is the wife of Paul Grindell, of Springfield.

Adam W. Ferree was about five years old when his parents located on a farm north of Tremont, where he was reared and was instructed in practical farming. Since his marriage he has followed general farming on his present place, known as Grand View Farm, and is also extensively engaged in stock-raising, including horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. With the exception of three years, during which he resided one mile farther north, he has spent all of the past thirty-five years on his present farm. Mr. Ferree owns, in partnership with Edward Holman and James Caldwell, a corn bunker and shredder, which they operate principally for themselves.

Mr. Ferree was married February 10, 1875, to Ella Brannaman, a daughter of Joseph Brannaman, and to this union have been born six children, namely: Glenna, Carrol, Lizzie, Oram, Anna Belle and Royal. Glenna is the widow of George C. Neff, who was employed on the railroad and was accidentally killed in 1906. She has two children, Howard and Virgil. Carrol is married and is employed in an automobile shop in Dayton, Ohio. Lizzie lives at home. Oram, a plumber of Springfield, Ohio, is married and has two children, Pauline and Clara Belle. Mr. Ferree is a member of the First Lutheran Church at Spring-field.

As printed in 20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.