WILLIAM HIGH, farmer, P. O. Adrian, was born in Wyandot County, Ohio, June 11, 1837. His parents, Jaronimus and Matilda High, natives of Pennsylvania, were married in Medina County, Ohio, and settled in Wyandot County, Ohio, where they remained until death. Jaronimus High departed this life in 1873, his wife in 1862. Our subject was united in marriage, September 6, 1869, with Emily Torrey, born in Wyandot County, Ohio, July 31, 1841, a daughter of Joseph T. and Elizabeth Torrey, the former born in Massachusetts, July 25, 1811, the latter born in New York, April 25, 1810. They were married in Ravenna, Portage Co., Ohio, and settled in Wyandot County, Ohio where they remained until Mrs. Torrey's death, March 12, 1884. Mr. Torrey is now a resident of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. High have two children: Bessie M., born February 7, 1875, and Isa M., born May 19, 1877. Our subject has followed farming all his life. He served his country during the late war of the Rebellion, in Company A, Fifth M. I., from August 14, 1861, until he was discharged, July 15, 1865. He was in all the engagements of the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular campaign, and was wounded in his right arm in the battle of the Wilderness.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.721-722
BIG SPRING TOWNSHIP