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Le Grand Byington Thompson
was born on Blue Creek, in Adams County, September 24, 1846. His father was Thomas W. Thompson and his mother, Elizabeth Wilson Broomfield, both born in 1818. His maternal great-grandfather was John Williams, an Englishman and a carpenter. He located at the mouth of Brush Creek in 1794. He was known as Captain Jack Williams. He built the first house at the mouth of Blue Creek. It was a frame of two stories, ceiled, weatherboarded. and filled inside with timber and clay. It was known as the shop. John Williams died in 1853, and is buried at Union Chapel. His wife was Mary Duncan, who died in 1832. Our subject's grandfather, Isaac Thompson, and his wife, Mary Williams. were married in 1816. His father, Thomas W., was born in April. 1818, near the mouth of Blue Creek. His grandfather and grandmother Thomp- son moved to Indiana in 1821. near the present site of Muncie, and died there within a few days of each other of the fever and ague, leaving two sons, Thomas W. and Duncan. Their nearest white neighbors were forty miles distant. There were Indians near them who were kind to them. Their uncles, Thomas and Jesse Williams, learned of their condition and traveled overland from Adams County to take them home. They brought the two boys back to Adams County to their grandfather at the mouth of Blue Creek, where they both remained till they were married. Thomas W. Thompson was a prominent Methodist, and a soldier of the Civil War. He enlisted October 21, 1861, in Company B, 70th O. V. I., at the age of forty-four, for three years, and was discharged for disability on Sep- tember 22, 1862. He died in 1875.
Our subject was educated in the common schools. On September 23, 1864, he enlisted in Company I, 182d O. V. I., and served until July 7, 1865. He was Trustee of Jefferson Township in 1878 and 1879, and Clerk of the Township in 1880. He is a member of the Methodist Church and a Republican. He is one of the Trustees of Morris Chapel. He was married November 5, 1869, to. Miss Margaret E. Thacher, daughter of Elisha and Rebecca A. Thacher.
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Mr. Thompson is noted for his truthfulness, honesty and energy. He gives his word and promise carefully and considerately and then is never satisfied till he lives up to it. He never tires in any work he undertakes, and whatever he tries to do he does it with all the strong force of his nature. He is noted for his intelligence and for his strictly moral life. His qualities of character have endeared him to all of his acquaintance.
James M. Thorman
was born May 26, 1844, in Tiffin Township, Adams County, Ohio. His father was Samuel Thoroman and his mother's maiden name was Jane McNeilan. She was born near Omagh, in Ireland. His paternal great-
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grandmother was a sister of Col. William Crawford, who was burned by the Indians at Tymochtee on June 11, 1782. His maternal grand- father was an adventurous Orangeman in Ireland. Our subject re- ceived a common school education. Afterwards he took a complete mer- cantile course at Bacon's Mercantile College in Cincinnati. In the Fall of 1864, he began as school teacher and taught one term. He entered Company D, 19Ist O. V. I., February 12, 1865, and was made a Cor- . poral. He served until August 27, 1865, when he was discharged. . After his return from the army he taught school, at intervals, for eighteen years.
In 1885, he was a Township Trustee of Tiffin Township. In 1866, he was elected Treasurer of the Township and served in that capacity continuously for eleven years. He was a clerk and bookkeeper in the banking house of G. B. Grimes & Co., at West Union, from February 28, 1882, to September 20, 1889. He was retained by the assignees of the bank and held the funds until the bank paid sixty per cent. in settle- ment.
On September 19, 1889, he was nominated by his party for Clerk of the Courts, but the banking house of Grimes & Co., failed the fol- lowing day and he declined to stand for the office. Since 1868, he has been a member of the Christian Union Church and served as Record- ing elder and Superintendent of the Sunday School for many years.
He was married to Miss Mary M. McCormick, November 3, 1869. There are two sons of this marriage, William Mc. Thoroman, of West Union, and Floyd E .. Thoroman, of Portsmouth, Ohio. The mother of these sons died March 21, 1880. His son, Floyd E. Thoroman, was a member of Company H, Fourth O. V. I., in the Spanish War.
Our subject was married a second time to Miss Mary Eliza Cun- ningham, November 14, 1883. She died November 14, 1886. On July 17, 1889, he was married to Miss Emma F. Baird. Of this marriage there were three children: Arthur, a son, deceased, and two daughters, May and Olga.
Mr. Thoroman is a man of high character, and of correct life. He possesses the confidence of all who have ever known him and is re- spected by the entire community.
J. H. Van Deman, A. M., M. D.,
is a native of Ohio, born in Delaware County, October 7, 1829. He is a fair example of a self-made man, of an ambitious young American, who, without inherited wealth, overcame obstacles, conquered difficulties and achieved success. While a student. he worked hard for the means necessary to obtain and complete his education. He graduated in June, 1849, in the classical course of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Dela- ware. In the Spring of 1852, he graduated from the Cleveland Med- ical College. He began the practice of medicine at Delaware under difficulties, being in debt for his medical education and outfit, but he persevered and continued in practice, at Delaware, until 1857, when he was elected Clerk of the Ohio Senate and served at two sessions, from 1857 to 1859, during the term of the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, as Governor
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of Ohio. From the money obtained from this source, he paid his debts and continued to practice at Delaware until 1861. When the Rebellion broke out, he espoused the cause of the Union and became Captain of Company K, 66th O. V. I., which company he raised. He participated in the battles at Winchester, Port Republic and Cedar Mountain, Vir- ginia. In the latter engagement, he was wounded and captured while leading a reconnoisance at night. He was taken to Libby Prison, kept there for five months and was exchanged January 10, 1863, when he resigned his commission as Captain and went into the Medical Depart- ment of the Army of the Cumberland. He was assigned to duty as Assistant Surgeon, and joined the 10th O. V. L., May 5, 1863. He re- mained with that regiment one year, when he was promoted to Chief Surgeon with seven assistants and Medical Purveyor of the United States Military Railroad, Division of the Mississippi, and remained in that capacity at Chattanooga until 1865. In December of that year, he took charge, at Chattanooga, as Surgeon of the Refugee and Freedmen's De- partment under the United States Government, of which he remained in charge until the following July, when that division of the department was abolished. A short time after this, he was made Post Surgeon in charge of the Regulars, stationed at Chattanooga, and acted as such most of the time until 1878, when the post was discontinued.
During his residence in Chattanooga, now over thirty-five years, he passed through three epidemics of smallpox, two of cholera, and one of yellow fever, remaining at his post during the continuance of each. He was elected President of the Tennessee Medical Society in 1873, and presided over that body two years. For twenty-five years. he has been a member of the American Medical Association, and was for three years, 1867 to 1869, a member of the Judicial Council of that body. He has been a member of the American Public Health Association since 1874. He was appointed Pension Examining Surgeon in September, 1865, and served as such twelve years. He has frequently contributed to medical literature, notably two articles-one on the cholera of 1873 and one on the yellow fever epidemic in 1878, published in the reports and papers of the American Public Health Association. He retired from active practice in 1883, except as surgeon, which he continued until 1890. when he retired absolutely from the practice of both med- icine and surgery. He is of a social disposition, belonging to the Ma- sonic Order, Knights of Pythias, and G. A. R. His first political vote was cast for the Whig ticket in 1852, but when the Whig party was fol- lowed by the Republican party, he went with the Democratic party and has remained with it since.
Dr. Van Deman has one of the finest medical libraries in Tennessee. He was married in his native town, May 29, 1855, to Miss Rebecca Nor- ris, a daughter of the Hon. Wm. G. Norris. Dr. Van Deman's father was Rev. H. D. Van Deman, a Presbyterian minister, born and raised in Ohio. Our subject's paternal grandfather, John Van Deman, was a native of Holland. His mother was Sarah Darlinton, a daughter of Gen. Joseph Darlinton, of West Union. She was married to the Rev. Henry Van Deman in West Union in 1824, and soon afterwards moved to Delaware, Ohio, where the remaining portion of her life was spent.
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Dr. Van Deman prides himself on his financial standing, never hav- ing a note of his go to protest and being prompt with every obligation. He is a man of considerable property, all made by his own efforts. He is a member of the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, elected May 6, 1866, insignia number 4744. He enjoys a respected and honored position in the city of his residence and calmly awaits old age, with a sense of duties well done.
William Nelson Watson
was born July 1. 1849, on the Watson homestead four miles above Man- chester on the Ohio River. His great-grandfather, Michael Watson, was born on the eastern shore of Maryland and went to Mason County. Ken- tucky, in 1790. His children were Aaron, Michael, Mrs. Simeon Strode, Mrs. Aaron Moore, Mrs. Solomon Shepherd. Mrs. McConaughy, an- other daughter, and Abraham, grandfather of our subject.
Abraham Watson was born in Maryland, October 25, 1773. In 1804, he removed to Adams County and purchased the present Watson homestead. In 1819, he purchased the brick house which is still stand- ing and occupied by James D. Mott. Abraham Watson's wife was Mary Moore, daughter of Joseph Moore, one of the earliest and most prom- inent pioneers of Adams County. He was a native of New Jersey, born June 9, 1854. He emigrated to Virginia in 1780, and in 1790 to Ken- tucky. In 1800, he emigrated to Blue Creek in Adams County, where he organized a congregation among his old New Jersey neighbors and built Moore's Chapel, the first meeting house in Adams County, and it is claimed by old settlers to be the oldest in the State. He afterward bought the Elijah Kimball farm on the Ohio River, where he resided until his death in 1822. The children of Abraham and Mary (Moore) Watson were twelve in number, six daughters and six sons, the youngest of whom was Enoch Lawson Watson, father of our subject. Abraham Watson died November 7, 1847. His wife died February 10, 1864, at the age of eighty-four. Enoch Lawson Watson remained on the home farm until after his father's death, buying out the interest of the other heirs. He conducted the farm until 1892, when he removed to Man- chester. On November 18, 1846, he married Miss Lucinda Boyles, daughter of Thomas and Anna (Bonner) Bovles. She was born May 22, 1824. Thomas Boyles resided where Nathan Ellis now resides, near Bentonville. The children of Enoch Lawson and Lucinda (Boyles) Watson are Anna Wiley, wife of the late Hon. John K. Pollard ; Wil- liam. Nelson, subject of this sketch : Mary, wife of Robert K. Moore, of Buena Vista, Ohio ; Eliza Arabella, wife of W. A. Underwood. deceased ; Alice Cora, wife of James D. Mott, and Emma Florence, wife of Wil- liam McNaley, of Orlinda. Tennessee.
Enoch L. Watson was a man of great force of character. He was a lifelong advocate of the temperance cause and when the Prohibition party was organized, he gave it his support and influence, believing it the best means of bringing about a reform for good in the cause he up- held. He died on November 8, 1895. His widow survives.
William Nelson Watson conducted his father's farm for some time, and began teaching in 1873. He continued teaching for three years,
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and took a commercial course in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and on May 3, 1887, entered the Farmers' Bank in Man- chester in the capacity of clerk. He was soon promoted to cashier, which position he still occupies. In 1893, he entered the firm of Ruggles, Shumate & Company, a leading dry goods house of Manchester, Ohio, and in 1897, Mr. Shumate retiring from the firm, he became an equal partner with Mr. Ruggles, under the name of Ruggles & Watson.
Mr. Watson was married February 9, 1898, to Hattie Mercer, daughter of James Mercer, of Youngstown, Ohio. They have one child, Eva Mercer, born April 13, 1899.
Mr. and Mrs. Watson are members of the Methodist Protestant Church at Manchester. Mr. Watson is a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge of Manchester. He was reared a Democrat, but cast his lot with the Prohibition party with his father, and at present prefers the plat- form of the Union Reform party. As a business man, his services in the bank have made that institution many friends, and as a banker, he enjoys the confidence of the entire community. Whilst kind and courteous to all, he has the manhood to do the right at all times regardless of the consequences. He is a gentleman of the highest type and a man who tries to square his life by the "Golden Rule."
Samuel Young Wasson
was born November 5, 1841, at Cherry Fork, the son of Thomas Camp- bell Wasson and Martha Campbell, his wife. He was reared on his father's farm. He attended the common schools of his district and the North Liberty Academy. He entered Miami University in the Fall of 1861, and graduated in 1866. The same Summer he went to Gallipolis and he and Capt. M. V. B. Kennedy, now of Zanesville, Ohio, purchased the Onder- donk book store and continued the business under the firm name of Wasson & Kennedy. On September 3, 1867, he was married to Miss Jennie Henderson, of Middletown, Butler County. In 1872, he dissolved partner- ship with Capt. Kennedy and continued the business alone. In the Fall of 1877, he was elected a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Gallia County, as a Republican and served one term. He declined a re- nomination and election, as he had changed his residence to near Middle- town, Butler County, where he engaged in farming and where he continued to reside there until 1889, when he removed to Hamilton, Ohio, where he has resided ever since.
He has always been a staunch Presbyterian and was an elder in the church at Gallipolis. On his removal to the city of Hamilton, he and his family connected with the United Presbyterian Church in which he is a ruling elder.
Mr. Wasson has a son, Clarence C., a physician in Hamilton, and a daughter, wife of Joseph L. Blair, purchasing agent of the Niles Tool Works of Hamilton. Mr. Wasson is fond of reading and study, and keeps abreast of the times. While he would not like to be styled a gentleman of leisure, he has the full command of his own time and devotes himself very largely to work in his church. He is a gentleman of the highest character and enjoys the respect and confidence of all who know him. His wife died
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July 3, 1899. She was a woman of the most estimable character, devoted to her family and good works. Since that time he has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Blair.
Napoleon Bonaparte West
was born September 13, 1846, in Highland County, Ohio. His mother's maiden name was Hannah Amanda Crawford and his father's name was Isaac Newton West. His father and mother were married in West Union, September 28, 1845. His father was born in Highland County, Ohio. His grandfather, James West, was from Virginia. His father died in Buford, Highland County, in 1852, of that "Fell Destroyer," consumption, leaving his mother with him and a sister, Josephine, born in 1848. His mother took her two children and went to the home of her mother, Mrs. Daniel Matheny, in West Union. Here she fell a victim of the same disease in 1854. James McClanahan was appointed guardian of the two children and he placed them with Thomas Reighley, of North Liberty, who reared them. Our subject enlisted in Company G, 129th O. V. I., July 14, 1863, and served in that regiment until March 8, 1864. He re-enlisted in Company H, 173d O. V: I., August 31, 1864; and served until June 26, 1865. At the date of his first enlistment, he was of the right age to make a good soldier and did make an excellent one. He knew what was most important to a soldier-he knew how to take care of himself, and for that quality he sur- vived the service to this day. After his return from the army, he removed to Peoria, Illinois, where he resided until 1868, when he went to Man- chester and resided there until 1871. December 31, 1870, he was united in marriage to Louisa A. Little, sister of Capt. W. W. Little, at Manchester. He removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, in March, 1871, where he has since re- sided. He worked for his brother-in-law, Capt. Little, until 1877, when he went into the Burgess mill and worked there until 1886, when he went to draying and carting. In politics, he has always been a Republican. He has had five children : James P. and Claude, electricians ; Anna, George and William. His son Otto died in the Regular Army, a member of the Sixth Infantry.
He prides himself on his honesty and fair dealing, and is highly respected by all his acquaintances. He belongs to no organization but the Grand Army. His wife died suddenly on December 7, 1888. He tries to do his part according to the best of his information and ability, and when death calls him, he will have no regrets.
West Union Lodge, No. 43, Free and Accepted Masons.
This lodge was organized Januarty 6, 1817. The charter members were Abraham Hollingsworth, Master; Samuel Treat, Senior Warden; John Kincaid, Junior Warden; James Roff, John Fisher, George Bryan and Aaron Wilson. The jewels were purchased June 24, 1819, and cost thirty-five dollars. They are Past Master, Master, Senior Warden, Junior Warden, Senior Deacon, Junior Deacon, Treasurer, Secretary and Tyler. They are of silver and engraved, No. 43. The first return to the Grand Lodge was June 24, 1817, to June 24, 1818, shows that Henry Young, Willis Lee, Samuel McClelland, Isaac Foster, James R. Baldridge, James
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Rogers and George R. Fitzgerald were made Masons, and Nicholas Black and Edwin Browning admitted as members. The records show that very many prominent men were members. Gov. Thomas Kirker was a member at one time and was Grand Junior Deacon.
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The lodge met from its organization in 1817 until 1835, when it sus- pended until advised by the Grand Lodge, and elected Abraham Hollings- worth to represent them in the Grand Lodge. The crusade against Masonry caused the lodge to remain suspended until October 22, 1846, when it resumed. That year Mr. Hollingsworth attended the Grand Lodge at Dayton. On June 5, 1846, the members of the old lodge met at their hall and agreed to reorganize. Then it was the grand Lodge issued a dis- pensation by William Thrall, Grand Master, to A. Hollingsworth, William Allen, E. S. Moore, Adam McGovney, D. W. Stableton, Joseph Sprague, William Records and John C. Scott, empowering them to begin work. The following officers were appointed by the Grand Master: Abraham Hol- lingsworth, Worshipful Master; William Allen, Senior Warden; E. S. Moore, Junior Warden: M. V. Cropper, Senior Deacon; Isaac Foster, Junior Deacon; Adam McGovney, Treasurer ; Joseph Sprague, Secretary; Nicholas Burwell, Tiler. The first meeting was held June 13, 1846. The first candidate for degrees was I. H. DeBruin, October 30, 1846, and he re- ceived the first degree, November 27, 1846.
In 1880, the lodge built a Masonic Hall and occupied it until 1889. January 11, 1889, the lodge met there for the last time. Through financial losses, they were compelled to give it up. They moved to the Miller & Bunn Building and remained there until December 18, 1885, when they moved to the Tolle Building. The hall is thirty by sixty feet with two ante rooms, ten by fifteen feet.
In the Ohio Masonic Home, at Springfield, West Union Lodge, No. 43, furnished one room at a cost of seventy-five dollars. The lodge has two old relics worthy of notice. One is the lambskin apron, which be- longed to its first Master. Abraham Hollingsworth, presented to the lodge in 1898 by the estate of his daughter. The other is the Royal Arch Apron, which belonged to Col. John Kincaid, the first Junior Warden. The latter was presented by W. S. Kincaid. It is a white silk satin with a silk border, worked with blue silk. It is not less than ninety years old. The Masters and Secretaries of the lodge have been as follows :
MASTERS-1817 and 1847. Abraham Hollingsworth; 1818 and 1822, John Kincaid; 1819, Thornby L. White; 1820, 1823, 1831, 1833 and 1834, John Fisher : 1821, George R. Fitzgerald; 1824-1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, Daniel P. Wilkins; 1827. John Rodgers ; 1848, H. Y. Copple ; 1849, I. H. DeBruin : 1850-1853, William M. Meek : 1853-1860 and 1864. Andrew Mehaffey ; 1861-1873, James N. Hook ; 1862, J. L. Summers; 1863, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1874-1877, 1880, Jacob M. Wells ; 1868, 1869, Henry B. Wood- row ; 1870, George Collings ; 1871, Franklin D. Bayless ; 1872, Joseph W. Shinn ; 1878, A. P. Kirkpatrick ; 1881, 1882, Henry F. McGovney ; 1883- 1886, 1890-1892, Dr. William K. Coleman ; 1887-1889, William C. Coryell ; 1893, J. A. Trotter ; 1894, W. S. Kincaid; 1895-1896, E. B. Edgington ; 1897-1898, E. A. Crawford.
SECRETARIES-1817-1819, John Fisher: 1820, John Patterson; 1821 and 1825, Edward Browning ; 1822, James Patterson ; 1823, John Rodgers;
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1824, Thornley White ; 1826-1828, 1832, John Hayslip; 1829-1830, Andrew Woodrow ; 1831, John Woodrow ; 1833-1834, 1848, William Allen ; 1847, Joseph Sprague ; 1849-1855, Abraham Hollingsworth ; 1856, Edward M. DeBruin; 1857-1858, Jacob M. Wells; 1859, Henry B. Woodrow; 1860, 1866-1872, 1877, 1879-1883. John K. Billings; 1861, 1863, Reason A. Wells; 1862. Lafayette Foster : 1864, James N. Hook; 1865, Frank M. Wells ; 1873, 1884-1885, Franklin D. Bayless; 1874-1876, 1878, Joseph W. Shinn ; 1886-1888, Isaac N. Tolle; 1889, 1890, John M. Boyles ; 1891, 1892, Thomas W. Ellison ; 1893, James O. McMannis ; 1894, Oscar C. Reynolds ; 1895, Robert C. Vance ; 1896-1898, Don C. Mullen.
Orville C. Wills,
proprietor of the Palace Hotel, at Bentonville, was born March 8, 1863, on Eagle Creek, in Brown County, Ohio. He is a son of Richard and Nancy (Edwards ) Wills. Thomas Edwards, grandfather of our subject, came from Scotland to Virginia, where he married Sarah Jacobs in 1786. He soon afterwards removed to Ohio. He purchased a thousand acres of land where Aberdeen now stands. His second son, James, grandfather of our subject, was born in January. 1800. In 1806, he removed with his parents to Byrd Township, on Eagle Creek, and settled on the farm now known as the William Edwards farm. In August 1821, he married Nancy Jacobs, and they reared a family of thirteen children, all of whom grew to maturity and married. James Edwards was a Justice of the Peace for a number of years. His wife died February 26, 1848, and in the Spring of 1850, he sold his farm and removed to Russellville, where he engaged in tanning for fifteen years. On December 1, 1859, he was married to Rachel Linton. Nancy A., a daughter by the first marriage, was born January I, 1837, and married Richard Wills. She died March 26, 1898.
Our subject received but a limited education in the Public schools. He chose the occupation of blacksmith and served for three years in the S. P. Tucker shops at Manchester, at the expiration of which time he en- gaged in the same business for himself.
On January 15. 1885, he was married to Florence Myrtle Roush, daughter of Michael Roush, of this county. They have two children, Flossie, aged nine years, and Dean. Mr. and Mrs. Wills are members of the Union Church at Bentonville. Mr. Wills moved to Bentonville in 1896 and opened a livery and feed stable in addition to his blacksmith shop, and in 1808 opened the Palace Hotel.
By industry and strict attention to business, he has built up quite a large hotel and livery business at Bentonville. He is a very excellent citizen and a good business man, enterprising, and an important factor in :he community.
Andrew Woods Williamson
was born at Lac Qui Parle, Minnesota. January 31, 1838. He graduated at Monilta College in 1857 and was a resident graduate of Yale University in 1858 and 1859. He served during the Civil War in the Fifth Minnesota, and 70th United States Cavalry more than four years. In skirmishing at one tiem, a bullet drew blood from his forehead, and at other tiems three bullets passed through his clothes, but he was not wounded. At the close
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