William H. Bare, farmer; P. O. New Carlisle, Clark Co., Ohio was born in York Co., Penn., June 20 1831, and removed with his parents to Cumberland Co., where they remained about ten years; they emigrated to Ohio about 1851, and stayed awhile in Clarke Co., Ohio; his father then bought 80 acres of land in Bethel Township, Miami Co., where he spent the remaimder of his days, departing this life June 9, 1878, in his 70th year of his age. They subject of this sketch has always followed agriculture pursuits, and now owns 50 acres in Sec. 6, adjoining the home place in connection with his farming, he trades in notes, and loans money; forty-two years elapsed before there was a marriage or a death in his father's family, when, on the 15th of June, 1873, William H. Bare was united in marriage with Almira Thompson, who was born in Miami Co., Ohio, Dec. 16,1836; she is a daughter of Mark and Rebecca Thompson, natives of New Jersey, who came to this State in 1831.