PETER APPLE, who owns 106 acres of very fine land in Lost Creek Township, the old Isaac Stensman farm, was born March 12, 1849, on his father's farm near St. Paris, Champaign, County, Ohio, and is a son of Adam and Mary Ann (Pence) Apple.

Adam Apple was born in Pennsylvania, of German parents. He came to Ohio in early manhood and started out in life with a sole capital of twenty-five cents, all he could call his own. Considering that he lived to be the owner of eleven farms of eighty acres each, his material success was very remarkable. He settled in the neighborhood of St. Paris, when he came to Ohio, and lived there at the time of his death, when aged seventy-five years. He was twice married and the children born to his first union were. Daniel, John, Adam J., Abraham, Godfrey, Lucy, Sarah, Nancy and David (killed in Civil War). Some are still living. His second marriage was to Mary Ann Pence who, died when aged sixty years. The children of this union were: James, who is deceased; Peter; Ella; Augusta, deceased, and two that died in infancy.

Peter Apple remained at home in Champaign County until his own marriage, working for his father on the farm and in boyhood attended the district schools when possible. His father was a strict and frugal man and expected a large, amount of hard work from his sons. After marriage, Mr. Apple lived on his own farm of seventy-eight acres, which was situated in Johnson Township, Champaign County, until 1906, when he sold it to his brother Abraham and then bought his present property, which lies on the north side of the Peterson Turnpike Road, in Lost Creek Township. Mr, Apple found it unnecessary to do much improving, as substantial farm buildings were already on the place. He raises the usual grains that do well in this section and enough good stock for his own use.

In April, 1869, Mr. Apple was married to Miss Barbara Poorman, a daughter of Jacob Poorman, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Apple have had the following children: Alfred, who lives near St. Paris, married Annie Hawes, and they have four children-- Ella, Grace, David and Paul; Elizabeth (deceased), who married Pierce Maggert; Maggie, who died young; Jacob, who operates the home farm for his father, married Doska Sturm, and they have two children-Marie and Leon and Mary, who married Charles Curtis, a farmer in Brown Township, and has three children-Goldie and Gladys (twins), and Helen. Mr. Apple and family are members of the Lutheran Church at St. Paris. In politics he is a Democrat.