Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Arad Franklin
ARAD FRANKLIN
Arad
Franklin was born December 9, 1802, in New York. He removed, with his
father, in November 1813, to Hamilton County, Ohio, and eight years
later to Clark County. Here Arad married Nancy White, March 6, 1825,
and in October 1826, packed his few household goods in a wagon, and,
with his wife and infant child, made his way to the Culwell Williamson
land. He purchased fifty-seven acres north of Bokes Creek, paying for
it $2.50 per acre. He moved his family into the house of his
father-in-law, Joseph White, and returned to Clark County to harvest
his corn crop. During the ensuing winter, he built his cabin, and moved
into it in February 1827. Mr. Franklin has ever since been a resident
of the township, and though he is now eighty years old, is hale and
hearty, and still active and busy with his farm duties.