Joseph C. Templeton, retired, Piqua; born in Newberry Township, Miami Co., Dec. 25, 1811; is a son of Lemuel and Elizabeth Templeton, both natives of Franklin Co., Penn., where they married; in the same year that Joseph was born they emigrated to Ohio, locating in the unbroken forest of Newberry Township, where they took their farm to a good state of improvement and cultivation; Lemuel died Oct. 6, 1836, and Elizabeth July 9, 1842, their children were eight in number; Sarah, deceased Joseph C., Mary A., Eliza J., Maria, James, deceased; Beulah and Malinda. Our subject was raised to farm life and obtained his education in the common schools of Miami Co.; he remained at home assisting his father until 1839, when he started in life for himself; twelve years later, he purchased his present farm of 172 acres, in Newberry Township, which he cultivated until 1865, when he removed from the farm to his present dwelling on Chestnut street, Piqua; there he is comfortably situated, where he and his younger sister are enjoying a quiet and undisturbed home.