Thursday, March 23, 1797 Lydia Nighman (née Killen)
Lydia Killen was born in York County, Pennsylvania. in 1821 she married George Nighman and soon after moved to Canton, Ohio.
Geiorge, who had been working in his uncle David Halm's brewery in York, started a brewery in Canton, on the bank of Nimishillen Creek. When George died in 1833, Lydia took over beer making and operated the brewery until her son Thaddeus was old enough to take the reins, in around 1850.
Lydia Killen Nighman died on the 16th of July, 1880. She was 83 years of age.
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