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Born 1845
From History of Crawford County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1912)
JOHN LUST, a retired farmer and highly respected citizen of Cranberry township, Crawford county, O., where he owns T04 acres of very valuable land which is situated in section 1 5 and lies two miles southeast of New Washington. O.. was born in Chatfield township, Crawford county, June 5, 1 845. His parents were Conrad and Magdalena (Myer) Lust.
Conrad Lust was born in Germany but came to the United Stales when about live years old, his parents settling first in Pennsylvania and later coming to Ohio, where Conrad attended school m Marion county. He married Magdalena Myer, who was born in Pennsylvania, but was reared in Columbiana county, O. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Lust settled in Chatfield township, and continued to live there throughout life, the death of Conrad Lust occurring in his bath year, while his widow survived to the age of seventy-three. They were members of the Pietist church. Of their nine children, eight reside in Crawford county, Daniel and Solomon, together with John Beal, a son-in-law, residing on the old homestead of 433 acres.
John Lust has been engaged in farming all his mature life, first on the home place and later lor himself. For seven years he remained in Chatlleld township, but in 1873 moved to the present farm in Cranberry township, from which he moved to Liberty township in 1886 and remained for five and one-half years and then returned to his Cranberry township property.
Mr. Lust married Miss Susanna Pfleiderer, a daughter of Jacob Pfleiderer of Liberty township and two children were born to them: an infant son, deceased; and William, who lived to the age of eight months. Mr. and Mrs. Lust are members of the Pietist church. While Mr. Lust has never been active in politics, he has always been interested in the substantial progress made by his community and has lent his influence in the direction of temperance, education and religion.
As printed in History of Crawford County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: John Beal (b. 1857)
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