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Note: Sometimes referred to as "J.P. Flora"
From "Descendants of Johannes Rupp" in Wauseon Library: 'In 1834 there were but 34 souls in German Township, but by 1850 German Township had shot up to 982 inhabitants, represented by 172 families. The 982 were fairly evenly divided as to sex as there were 511 males and 471 females. But virtually all of them were farmers, although they listed other trades when the 1850 census was taken. That record listed 201 farmers, 25 laborers, 6 carpenters, 2 millers, 2 harness workers, 2 cabinet makers, 3 shoemakers, and one representative in each of the following trades: tailor, physician, merchant, clerk, saddler, mason, blacksmith, weaver, and one Methodist Episcopel clergyman. They did not count the Amish-Mennonite preachers as clergyman. Of these 982 people in German Township, 181 were born in France (chiefly Alsace), 113 in Switzerland, 69 from Germany (chiefly Baden), 76 from Pennsylvania, 4 from England, and 486 were born in Ohio (chiefly the children born to these young couples).'
BIRTH: On immigrant ship passenger list he is shown as 24 years and six months old. There is probably some descrepancies between the French Republic Calender which was being used when he was born and the calendere being used during the time of immigration.
BIOGRAPHY: Living in Faverois, Canton Delle, District of Belfort, Department of Haute Rhin when son Jean Pierre Albert was born and temporarly living in Lure, France when he was baptized.
BIOGRAPHY: Times were hard in France in the 1830s with much poverty. Few of the neglected "Third Estate" did not own the land on which they toiled; It belonged to "the lords of the land". The working peasants paid crushing taxes to the crown. Whatever the farmers harvested, they took to market to sell, but often their profits were insufficient to pay the taxes. In his book, The Descendants of Francois Joseph Menegay & Jeanne Claude Vouron (1990), Richard Schrader writes "In general these people left because of heavy taxes, the absence of work outside of farming, the division of inherited property into smaller and smaller parcels and the increasing size of families." And Rolland Gladieux spoke to his cousins in France when he was writing his book, The Descendants of John Peter Gladieux: New York (1974). He quotes one of them as saying "I believe that what impelled Jean Pierre Gladieux and his family to leave for the USA were economic reasons and above all, perhaps political because France was undergoing a Republican period after Bonaparte's First Empire ended in 1815; and in 1833, there was a full restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, and surely Jean Pierre Gladieux was not perhaps a royalist and preferred to leave for the USA." Advertisements were published promising a better life in Stark County, Ohio in America. The promise of rich farmland in Ohio which they could actually own themselves was quite an inducement to leave France. This may have prompted Pierre Joseph Fleury to leave for America. He left around March, 25 1832 and arrived on board the ship Erie which departed Harve and arrived in New York on May 30, 1832 and came thru Wayne or Stark County, Ohio and then to Fulton County, Ohio in 1842. He may have traveled to Cleveland, Ohio by boat via the Erie Canal, which was opened in 1825, and then to Canton Ohio via the Wendall Canal, which was opened in 1827. Records for him in Stark County are missing because the county court house burned down in 1848.
BIOGRAPHY: 1840 census - Ohio-Stark-Nimishillen, wife listed 50-60years old, four boys listed one at 5-10 years, one at 10-15 years, and 2 at 15-20 years.
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