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From New Philadelphia, Ohio, to the rolling hills of Daviess County, Missouri, Valentine Shuler’s journey, both physically and socially, was typical of many tradespeople of the 19th century. The patriarch of the Shuler family was a gunsmith named Johann Valentin Shuler (1759-1833) who, along with his wife Eva (1772-1833) and their children, relocated to LickingContinue reading “Gunsmith Valentine Shuler: New Philadelphia to Missouri”