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Biography of Samuel Prugh

From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY
W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]


Page 1116

SAMUEL PRUGH, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Somerford, was born in Maryland October 28, 1811, and is a son of George and Margaret (Markley) Prugh, the former of German descent, and the latter a native of Maryland, where they were united in marriage. They emigrated to Ohio in 1812, and settled near Somerford, Madison County, where they remained until their death. Samuel, the third son and fourth child of the family, acquired a common school education, and remained at home with his parents until twenty-one years of age, when he went to work for himself by the day as a farm hand, but at the expiration of the first year, he engaged as a renter for a few years. he was united in marriage, March 1835, with Nancy Bradly, who was born in Greene County, Ohio, November 8, 1818. Soon after their marriage, he purchased and kept a grocery in London, a business he engaged in for three years, at the expiration of which time he and his brother bought 600 acres of land in Union Township, Madison County. He has since added to this purchase until he owns at the present time 960 acres of well-improved land. He and wife are the parents of thirteen children, of whom eleven are living, viz., Ellen, Margaret, Mary, George W., Nancy F., H. H., Malinda, Emma M., Samuel M., Laura E. and James B. Mr. Prugh is a member of the German Baptist Church.

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