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Born 1849
From Commemorative biographical record of Wayne County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families .. (1889)
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.
As printed in Commemorative biographical record of Wayne County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families .. (1889). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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