HISTORY OF KNOX COUNTY, OHIO.
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ITS PAST AND PRESENT
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1903
Biographical Sketch of Hiram Fishburn, p 665
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FISHBURN, HIRAM, Milford township, farmer, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1843. His father, Samuel Fishburn, was a native of the same county, born September 5, 1803. Lewis Fishburn, father of Lewis, and grandfather of Hiram, was a soldier of the Revolution. He married Catharine Grimm. They had ten children, Samuel being the only one living. He married Elizabeth Muma in 1825. She died in September, 1876. They remained in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, until 1852, then emigrated to Ohio, and settled in Miller township. Mr. Fishburn now resides in Dauphin. He married Mrs. Margaret Brackbill. By his marriage they had ten childten: David, Attics, Catharine (married Henry Shupe), Jacob, Daniel, Elizabeth (married Peter, Beinhour) Mary (married James Chambers), Josiah and Hiram. Samuel has deceased.
The subject of this notice, Hiram Fishburn, was raised on a farm, and remained with his father on the home farm until he was about twenty-seven years of age. He married Miss Nancy E. Smoots, daughter of H. K. Smoots, of Miller township, October, 1868. In 1870 he removed to Milford township. He is a good farmer, and a good citizen. They have two children: Mary Estell, born January 17, 1871, and Olive Odell, born January 1, 1875.
[Note: The "Lewis" listed as Samuel's father and Hiriam's grandfather appears in the 1840 census of Dauphin county, Derry Twp. as "Ludwig", the German equivalent of Lewis. Also, in that census Ludwig Fishburn is listed as age 84 and served in the Revolutionary War.]