Samuel Sprague

Samuel Sprague, another son of James Sprague, the old pioneer, deserves a passing notice, as the oldest man in Monroe township at the time of his death, He was born in Bedford county, Penn., March 4, 1796, under Washington's second administration, and was brought to Ohio when a child. He died near Otsego July 4, 1890, and was ninety-four years, three months and twenty-six days old at the time of his death. His daughter, Mrs. Levenia Simmons, was the first white child born in Monroe township. She is yet living. Samuel Sprague set out the first orchard at Otsego, bringing the trees from Dresden on an ox sled.

Source: "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio" by Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1892, Columbus, Ohio.

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