20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens . ninety acres, was bornin German Township, Clark County, Ohio,December 1, 1855, a son of Philip andSarah (Baker) Trout. His parents werenatives of Virginia and Maryland respec-tively. Philip Trout came to Clark Coun-ty with his father, David Trout, when achild. Here he met Sarah Baker and theywere married in 1839. They settled on afarm in German Township and there theylived and died. Philip Trout was a Demo-crat. Religiously, he and his wife wereMethodists, while his father David wasa Dunkard and was a pr
20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens . ninety acres, was bornin German Township, Clark County, Ohio,December 1, 1855, a son of Philip andSarah (Baker) Trout. His parents werenatives of Virginia and Maryland respec-tively. Philip Trout came to Clark Coun-ty with his father, David Trout, when achild. Here he met Sarah Baker and theywere married in 1839. They settled on afarm in German Township and there theylived and died. Philip Trout was a Demo-crat. Religiously, he and his wife wereMethodists, while his father David wasa Dunkard and was a preacher of thatfaith. Philip Trout and his wife had four-teen children, of whom nine are still liv-ing. They are: Mary (Conard), residingin Springfield, Ohio; Lydia (Huffman),residing in Iowa; Rev. Philip, a Meth-odist Episcopal minister of Waynesville,Ohio; John F., of Springfield Township;Joseph D., subject of this sketcli; Cassie(Bevitt), residing in Spring-field; Carrie(Callison), whose husband is a farmer ofPike Township; Stephen A., a farmer ofGerman Township; and Jacob B., also a. AND EEPEESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 1005 farmer of Greraian Township. Those de-ceased are: William Edward, Eliza,Sarah and an infant daughter. PhilipTrout, the father, died at the age ofeighty-four years. Mrs. Trout died at theage of seventy. Joseph D. Trout received his educationin the local schools and was graduatedfrom the German Township High Schoolin the class of 1877. He taught school foreight years, since which time he has beenengaged in farming. In 1878 Mr. Trout was married to Em-ma E. Stephenson, a native of GermanTownship and daughter of James and Sa-bina (Overpeck) Stephenson, both ofwhom were natives of Clark County. , who was a farmer and stockdealer of German Township, was bornSeptember 23, 1824. His wife was bornSeptember 12, 1823, and they were mar-ried in 1847. They had eleven children,of whom six survive, namely: Harvey,William, Nancy (Bowers), Mary (Nis-sley), Emma E.,
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