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Chapman (1880), Liberty Township biographies
b. 7 Mar. 1838, Rockingham Co., Va., son of Jacob and Mary (Summons — as transcribed; Howard: Simmons) Early, natives of Virginia (p. 725). Went at age two to Allen Co., Ohio; common-school education in a log house; taught school for a while in Ohio (p. 725). Came to this county in 1865, farming and stock-raising (p. 725). M. 18 Apr. 1861 Mary E. Irvin, a native of Rockingham Co., Va.; eight children named (Sarah M., Hattie E., Mary E., Charles E. and Ella M. twins, Mattie A., William I., John J.) (p. 725). Owns a farm of 240 acres at $50 per acre (p. 725). [REGISTER] Carrying fact: the Chapman form of the man Howard Vol. 2 carries whole as Rev. Isaac Early, German Baptist minister and former county commissioner — §4, where the spelling Early/Earley problem (P-C3) is printed. Do not split him into two men.