1855: THE BENJAMIN LORD FARM

I had been told by the late Fritz Kuser that Rosalie and Rudolph Kuser purchased their Kuser Road farm (Today's Homestead) back in March, 1888. This graphic indicates the sale of the property by the Lord family following Benjamin Lord's death in 1855. Perhaps there was a former landowner prior to the Kuser acquisition of the property. If so, It may explain the reason for the gap between the time the farm was up for auction in 1855, until the Rudolph and Rosalie Kuser purchased it in March, 1888. Rudolph Kuser came from Newark to Hamilton Township in 1861.