James Shelton Smedley was born in South Farms, Connecticut on September 12, 1813. At some point he moved from North East, Pennsylvania to attended Oberlin College, graduating in 1841. He also continued his education at Oberlin in the Theological department and is...
The Carman family is notable for being one of the early families in the Berea area. Henry (1789-1869) and Hannah Jones Carman (1795-1863) came to Middleburgh Township from the state of New York and owned significant amounts of land in town. Their son William was born...
Gottlob/Gottlieb Buhrer was born in Switzerland in March of 1851. He immigrated to the United States in 1870 along with his wife Kathrina Ehrat Buhrer who was born in 1853. Both became naturalized citizens in 1880. A Buhrer child was listed as being buried in the...
Enoch G. Watrous was born in 1791 in Connecticut to Gideon and Fanny Franklin Watrous, and married Miss Abigail Green who was born in New York in 1791. Abigail and Enoch were some of the earliest pioneers of Middleburgh Township, arriving with the Silas Gardner family...
Louis B. Goette was born in Korbach, Germany on November 6, 1823 and arrived in the United States on September 15, 1859, settling in Cincinnati. Louis was a trained baker and was encouraged to move to Berea by missionary William Nast. Upon arrival in Berea that same...
