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    C. F. CLASS

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    C. F .CLASS is a prominent farmer of Newton Township, Miami County, Ohio, and is the owner of 154 acres of valuable land, eighty-two acres of which is in the farm on which he lives. He was born near Trotwood, in Montgomery County Ohio, February 22, 1857 and is a son of Jacob and Louisa (Klopfer) Class.

    Jacob Class was born in Wittenberg, Germany, and was eighteen years old when he accompanied his parents to the United States. His father bought a farm near Trotwood, Montgomery County, Ohio. and also owned considerable land in Miami County. After his marriage, Jacob Class located on a farm in Randolph Township, Montgomery County, where he continued to reside until 1869, in which year he moved to the vicinity of the Fall Branch schoolhouse, in Newton Township, Miami County. He cleared a great deal of the land owned by his father, as well as his own farm, and continued to reside there until his death, in December, 1890. His wife died in October, 1868, and both were buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. He was married to Louisa Klopfer, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Klopfer, and they reared the following children: Philip, C. F. (subject of this record), John, Jacob, Louisa, and Isaac. Religiously they were members of the Lutheran Church.

    C. F. Class attended the Fall Branch school and continued to help his father on the home farm until he became of age, when he began working out by the month. After his marriage he farmed his father's p1ace for one year, and then moved to his present home farm. He cleared about two thirds of his land, which was heavily timbered, laid about 400 rods of tile for drainage, and made other important improvements. He has a complete set of substantial buildings on his land, all of which he has had built, as the place was entirely unimproved at the time of his coming. He is engaged in general farming and stock raising and devotes about thirty acres of his land each year to tobacco growing, at which he has met with much success. He is a substantial and progressive business man, and among his other interests is a stockholder in the Pleasant Hill Banking Company.

    April 29, 1879, Mr. Class was joined in marriage with Miss Laura Kinnison, a daughter of George and Elizabeth Kinnison, and they became parents of the following children: Elsie, deceased; Pearl, wife of Howard Furnas, of Dayton; Ola, wife of Opal Rench; Goldie, wife of Samuet Evervine; Sylvia; and lca. Religiously they attend the Lutheran Church. In fraternal affiliation Mr. Class is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Pleasant Hill. He is a Democrat in politics.

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