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My Maternal Grandparents -
Clarence Russell Viets (1876 - 1973) and Mary Harshman (1877 - 1945), Southington, Ohio.
"Dr." John Viets, of Holland or Germany, arrived in New York City before 1700. Within a few years he and his family removed to north-central Connecticut. Luke (4) Viets in 1805 was one of the first settlers of Southington, in the Connecticut Western Reserve of north-eastern Ohio. Andrew Harshman, from Baden-Baden, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia, October, 1751, was soon in central Maryland, and later lived in south-central Pennsylvania.
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