. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. in the month of January, 1872. He had by her eight children, five of whom sur-vive. His second wife was the widow of Dr. James Rich-ardson, and daughter of Clark Bates, one of the earliestpioneers of the west. He was married to her March 6, 1873, with whom he still lives. His mother, Mrs. WilliamCary, now ninety years of age, intelligent and still active,lives with him. Notwithstanding her advancement inyears she enjoys all her faculties of mind. WilliamWoodward, named after William Woodward, the founderof Woodwa
. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. in the month of January, 1872. He had by her eight children, five of whom sur-vive. His second wife was the widow of Dr. James Rich-ardson, and daughter of Clark Bates, one of the earliestpioneers of the west. He was married to her March 6, 1873, with whom he still lives. His mother, Mrs. WilliamCary, now ninety years of age, intelligent and still active,lives with him. Notwithstanding her advancement inyears she enjoys all her faculties of mind. WilliamWoodward, named after William Woodward, the founderof Woodward college, died in He was a farmer,a man of sound judgment and mathematical S. F. Carey, of world wide renown as a lecturerand popular orator, is the youngest of three Cary sisters, the celebrated writers, are his cousins,and were greatly aided in their first efforts by the subjectof this sketch. We may say, few men, in an independent and unaidedlife and on their own resourses, have exerted a more ex-tended influence than has F. G. -tee^i^i^a^^ a.^^-^Z-C^ SPENCER. FORMATION AND GEOGRAPHY. Spencer township was erected some time in the early40s, to reUeve the embarrassment caused to some ofthe people in transacting township business or voting,from the size of Columbia, which had always been alarge township, and had now become populous. Thenew municipality began at the eastern line of Cincinnatitownship, being the second meridian referred to fre-quently in a previous chapter, or the range line dividingMill Creek and Columbia townships, and extending to theOhio nearly at the foot of Barr, a short street runningfrom the river to Eastern avenue, west of upon this meridian to the second section line,at the northwest corner of section thirty-two; thencedue east to the Little Miami river; thence by the LittleMiami and Ohio rivers to the place of beginning, com-pleted the boundaries of the township. It containedwithin its limi
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