AUGUST PETERS, owner of a valuable farm of fifty-three and one- half acres located about two miles west of Piqua on what is known as the Jimtown Pike. is a well-known and progressive citizen of Washington Township, Miami County, Ohio. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 20, 1857, and is a son of John Henry and Catherine (Snyder) Peters.

The parents of August Peters were born in Germany, but were married at Cincinnati in 1849. John Henry Peters learned the trade of a nailsmith in his native land and for a time followed it in Cincinnati; about the year 1860 he moved to Shelby County, Ohio, and followed farming many years. Upon the death of his wife, November 20, 1904, he came to Miami County and made his home with the subject of this sketch until his death on February 18, 1906. Both lie buried at Newport, Shelby County, Ohio.

August Peters was about three years of age when his parents moved to Shelby County, Ohio, and there he was reared and educated. He was there married and continued to reside until 1891, when they moved to Miami County. He located on the Freeman Skinner farm at Eldean and lived there ten years, at the end of which time he purchased a farm of eighty-one acres in Shelby County, Ohio, but decided not to move there, instead locating on the old Dr. Coleman farm in Staunton Township, where they lived four years. In the spring of 1905 they sold the Shelby County farm and purchased what is known as the old Hattie Grey farm in Washington Township where they now live., Mr. Peters has always followed general farming and has archived a high degree of success. All that he has was earned by his own efforts with the assistance of his wife, and he can look with pride upon the advancement he has made.

September 8, 1885, Mr. Peters was married in Turtle Creek Township, Shelby County, Ohio, to Miss Sarah J. Ike, who was born and reared in that township. She is a daughter of John and Esther (Kruse) Ike, both now deceased. Her father (died in Shelby County, July 22, 1893, and her mother on March 28, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Peters became parents of four children, as follows: Leota May, who was graduated from Piqua High School in June, 1908 and is now a teacher at the Children's Home in Miami County; Harry Clifford; William Warren and Mary Esther. Religiously the family belongs to the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church at Piqua.