Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Adam Dilsaver

ADAM DILSAVER

    Adam Dilsaver came to Claibourne about 1832 from Fairfield County, after stopping a short time in Delaware County until be could look up a good location.  His wife was Sally (Winstead), and his three children, Harrison, Elizabeth, and Ann Maria.  After living for a few years on the place he had purchased from Mr. Andrews, he removed with his family to Winnebago County, Ill.


ADAM DILSAVER

    Adam Dilsaver, a farmer and brick mason, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, January 3, 1817 ; his parents were George and Elizabeth (North) Dilsaver, natives of Virginia, and of English descent, who came to Ohio in 1810 and settled in Delaware County.  His father was a soldier of the war of 1812, and a life-long farmer of Delaware County. Our subject spent his youth on the farm, and in early life learned bricklaying, which he has since followed in connection with farming.  In 1841, he married Mary Ann Thrasher, by whom he had three children, John E., George T. and Mettle.  His wife died in 1859, and in the same year he married Margaret Kyle, by whom has had one child-Frank.  In 1872, he sold his farm in Marion County and moved to Delaware County, then to Marion, and, finally, to Union County, where he now owns ninety-seven acres of land.  He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for thirty years, and has occupied the offices of steward, class-leader and trustee in the church.  His wife has been a member of the same church over forty years.  He is a Republican in politics, and has retired from active life.

**The History of Union County gives two accounts for Adam Dilsaver.**