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BELGIANS IN AMERICA:    Biographies of Belgian settlers  

JOHN P. BEGONVILLE, farmer, P. O. New Antioch, born in Belgium, August 17, 1817, is a' son of John and Catharine Begonville, natives of Belgium, and who lived and died in their native country. They had seven children; three now sur vive-John P., Mary Josepha (married Mr. Talbo and resides in Belgium) and Mary Jean. The subject of this sketch, in 1837, emigrated to America, when about twenty years of age, and first settled in Kentucky ; thence, in 1851, he removed to Clinton County, Ohio, and bought fifty acres of land, where he now lives and has since resided; since which, from time to time, he has added more land by purchase, till now he owns three hundred and five acres of good land, upon which he has erected good buildings and has good improvements, constituting a pleasant home and residence. When Mr. Begonville landed in America, he was a poor man, and by his own management and economy has accumulated a good competency, becoming one of the substantial farmers and land-holders of Wayne Township, whose character and integrity are undoubted throughout this community, where he has now lived for thirty years.

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