Turman Neff

As printed in 1902

Turman Neff, who is a retired farmer and stock-raiser, but is now engaged extensively in the practice of veterinary surgery and deserves the gratitude of agricultural classes and horsemen for his discovery in relation to the cure of tetanus or locked jaw, makes his home in German township and is widely and favorably known throughout this portion of the state. He was born March 4, 1843, near his present farm, his parents being Adam and Mar-

‘he served as trustee.

garet (Turman). Neff. His father was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, December 30, 1808, and was a son of Abram and Barbara (Weaver) Neff, who on emigrating to Ohio located near Tremont, where Adam Neff, Sr., became the owner of two farms. He was sixty-two years of age at the time of his death and his wife passed away at the age of sixty, their remains being interred on what is now the Emerson Gard farm. They had two sons and five daughters, and after the death of the parents the sons purchased the interests of the daughters in the two farms previously owned by the grandfather.

Adam Neff, the father of Dr. Neff, was about thirty years of age when his parents came to Ohio. He became the possessor of one of the farms which had been the property of his father and through many years carried on agricultural pursuits. He was married in March, 1841, in Clark county, to Margaret Turman, who was born February 6, 1823. Two children were born to them and the mother died August 22, 1843. The father afterward married again, but there were no children by the second union. Mr. Neff was an honorable, upright man and because he believed others were also, he trusted friends by going security and thus lost much that he had saved, although he still possessed a comfortable competence. In politics he was a Democrat and was a member of the Reformed church, in which His death occurred February 8, 1885, when he had reached an advanced age. There were but two children in the family, the daughter being Elnora, the wife of Jacob Mitzel, a farmer of this locality.

The mother of Dr. Neff died when he was only five months old. He was reared,

As printed in A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.