Century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens 20th, Part 88

Author: Lytle, James Robert, 1841- [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: Chicago, Biographical publishing company
Number of Pages: 926

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suffering passed out of life, leaving behind him the record of a good man. His HI children were born to his first union and two of these died in infancy. James William. the oldest survivor, resides at Logan, Hocking County. Ohio. Andrew J., of Orange Township, is the second in order of birth. Spencer resides at Rock Island, Ilinois. John L. resides at Logan. in Hocking County. Samuel H. and Christopher both reside in Worth County, Missouri. Eliza Amanda died in Athens County, Ohio. Arie Jane and Martha reside at Columbus.

Andrew J. Bagley attended the district schools of Vinton County and spent his boy- hood on the home farm, after which he worked for a time through the neighborhood. When the Civil War was precipitated, Mr. Bagley's thoughts turned toward a military life, one strange enough to a country-bred youth, and his mind was, soon made up. On July 14. 1861, he enlisted in Company C. Thirty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a com- pany that was recruited in the neighborhood of Nelsonville. For a few days the regiment was detained at Cincinnati and at camp at Springfield and then was sent on to St. Louis, where it embarked for Island No. 10, down the Mississippi River. The military annals of the time tell how New Madrid was cap- tured, with 1,600 Confederates evacuating Island No. 10. The regiment went on down the mighty river to Fort Pillow, and from there to Hamburg Landing. There the Thir- ty-ninth Regiment formed a part of the left wing of the army that participated in the bat- tle of Shiloh which followed, and then con- tinued to pursue the enemy to Farmington. where the latter made a slight stand, and then fell back to Corinth. Four regiments, includ- ing the Thirty-ninth, with a battery. were then detailed to guard the M. & C. Railroad. From there nearly the entire brigade went to Mem- phis, Tennessee.

At Memphis, in the winter of 1863-64. Mr. Bagley re-enlisted as a veteran, marched with his regiment from that city to Chatta- nooga. There General Sherman consolidated his forces for the Atlanta campaign, and Mr.

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Bagley was with the part of the army that pursued General Joseph Johnson, participating in that series of great battles reaching from Ringgold Station to Resaca. Dallas, Big Shanty and Kenesaw Mountain, followed by Mari- etta. Bethel Church and Chattahoochee River. He was also in the engagement at Decatur and in the battle of Peach Tree Creek. His regiment marched then to Jonesboro and to Lovejoy Station and after following General Hood and fighting in the battle at Franklin. returned to Atlanta. As a member, succes- sively, of the 17th, 14th. 15th and 20th Army Corps, he saw extreme military hardship. He took part in the march to the sea and assisted in the taking of Atlanta and of the opening up of communication from there to Beaufort, South Carolina. His regiment reached that point by steamer, disembarked there and went on to Columbia. South Carolina, and from there to Goldsboro, North Carolina, and later to Raleigh, and at that city Mr. Bagley wit- nessed the meeting of those two great com- manders, Generals Grant and Sherman. The fight at Raleigh. North Carolina, was the last one in which Mr. Bagley took part. He was promoted several times and during the last year's service he was with a four-gun battery. He was present at the Grand Review at Wash- ington City. He is one of the 250.000 men out of the 300,000 first enlistments. who veter- anized. He was finally mustered out, after four years of faithful service, at De- troit. Michigan, and reached his home in June. 1865. He is a valued mem- ber of Price Post. Grand Army of the Republic, at Westerville. and prizes those occasions when he can talk over those old days of danger and hardship, but yet of great en- thusiasm and patriotism, with comrades some of whom stood at his side when both faced almost certain death on many a southern bat- tle-field.

Mr. Bagley has devoted himself to agri- cultural pursuits ever since the close of his army life, and he has been a resident of Dela- ware County for the past 30 years. His first purchase of land was of 901/2 acres, which he subsequently traded for his present farm. pay-

ing a difference of $6.500 in cash. This prop- erty Mr. Bagley acquired through his own per- sistent industry, he being entirely a self-made man. His farm is so situated that it is well adapted to both the growing of grains and the developing of fine stock. He has made many substantial improvements and his surroundings indicate thrift and good management.

In the fall of 1865, Mr. Bagley was mar- ried (first) to llannah Allen, who was a daughter of David Allen, of Athens County, Ohio, and three children were born to this union, namely: William Sherman, who re- sides at Portland, Oregon ; Sarah Agnes, who married William Jacox, and they reside in Orange Township and have two children, Harold and Wilbur : Samuel Fenton, who mar- ried Kate Sapp. They have four children- Glenn, Paul, Merrill and Edgar. On April 24. 1884. Mr. Bagley was married (second) to Sarah Frances Irwin, who was born in Ber- lin Township, Delaware County. Ohio, and is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Cashner ) Irwin. They have three children : Leroy, Leona and Lodemia. Leona married Arthur Freeman, a native of Delaware County, and they reside on the home place. They have three children. Frances Lucile, Willis and In infant. For 21 years Mr. Bagley has been a justice of the peace of Orange Township.

ITU'S KING CONE, a leading citizen of Thompson Township, was born on the old mill property on which he resides, July 9. 1846, and is a son of John W. and Mary ( Williams ) Cone.

Cephas Cone. the grandfather, was of New England origin. His parents at one time re- sided in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, from which region they came, at an early day, to Delaware County, Ohio. They were among the earliest settlers in Kingston Township. Cephas Cone married Almira Munson, a daughter of William Munson and a descend- ant of a Captain Munson, who came from England to America in 1637.

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John W. Cone, father of Titus King Cone. was born in Delaware County, Ohio, January 6. 1809. Ile learned the trade of a woolen mill worker and after following the same in various sections, in 1831. he located at Dela- ware and shortly afterward rented a woolen mill which he operated for several years. In 1838 he purchased the farm which is now the property of Titus King Cone, and here he built a woolen and a saw-mill. The land was heavily timbered when he came to it and in clearing and cultivating his farm and in ac- tively pushing his mill and other interests, his time was fully occupied into advanced age. He died November 24, 1891. In politics he was 1 Democrat and on account of his sterling char- acter he was frequently chosen for offices of trust and responsibility in the township, by his fellow citizens. Ile married Mary Wil- liams, who was born in Cardiganshire, South Wales, in 1814, and died in Ohio in 1885. Of the 13 children of this marriage eight sons and four daughters grew to maturity.

Titus King Cone attended the district schools through boyhood and the Radnor High School, and spent a short time at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, in the spring of 1867. After he returned home he continued working on the farm during the summers and in the woolen mill during the winters until the mill was burned in 1874. after which he gave his attention exclusively to farming. After his marriage he resided on a farm in Thompson Township located one mile west of his present property. His father was a large land owner, having 600 acres in Delaware and 160 acres in Wyandot County. and when he died, in the division of the estate the present farm came to Titus King, on which he settled in 1902. He has here tro acres, on which he carries on mixed farming, raising considerable grain and some excellent stock. Mr. Cone and his brother, F. P., are the only representatives of this old pioneer family of the township now residing within its bor- clers.

On April 2, 1885. Mr. Cone was married to Alice Detwiller, who is a daughter of John and Mary ( Ely) Detwiller. John Detwiller

was born in Switzerland and his wife in Penn- sylvania. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Cone was Benjamin Ely, who, at one time. kept a grocery store at Delaware, where he (lied. Mr. and Mrs. Detwiller lived on a farm one-half mile from that of Mr. Cone.

In politics, Mr. Cone, like his father, has been a supporter of the Democratic party since he reached manhood, but has never taken any very active part in local campaigns. His main interests are centered in his home and farm.

LINTON O. HAWES, one of Liberty Township's representative citizens. was born at Lewis Center. in Orange Township, Delaware County, Ohio, March 22, 1860, and is a son of Orlando O. and Lucy ( Searles) Ilawes.

The paternal grandfather was Benjamin A. Hawes, who was born in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and when he came to Ohio. set- tled first at Euclid, near Cleveland, where he married Mary Walton. She was a daughter of Davis Walton. Benjamin A. Hawes was born January 24, 1799, and his wife was born August 21, 1804. He died in 1885 at the age of 86 years and was survived four years by his wife, who died aged 85 years. They had the following children: Minerva, who married T. T. Wilcox, had her home in Orange Town- ship and died at Edison, Ohio: Fannie, who resided in Orange Township, married John Hall and died young ; Orlando O .: Luva, who married James Slane, died in Orange Town- ship: Elizabeth, who married John Keller ; and Mary, who married Philander Searles. All are dead except Elizabeth, who is a widow.

In 1826 Benjamin A. Hawes settled in Orange Township, Delaware County, later moved to Liberty Township for a short time and then returned to Orange Township. By trade he was a carpenter and he assisted to put up some of the first buildings at Cleveland. He worked on the frame jail which took the place of the old log calaboose at Cleveland, it too having long since given way to the march

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of progress, it being a fact that malefactors in modern times are much better housed than were honest man in the days of our grand- fathers.

Orlando Hawes, father of Clinton O., was born in Liberty Township, Delaware County, Ohio, June 9, 1831, and died in 1862, aged 31 years. He married Lucy Searles, who was born in 1840, and died in 1892, aged 52 years. Her father, Lewis Searles, came to Lewis Center from Galena, where he engaged in a mercantile business until his death. A family of five children was born to Orlando O. Hawes and wife, namely : Alice, Minerva and Wil- lard, all died young ; Lucy Luella, who was reared at Akron, married Michael Birming- ham, and died at Akron, in September, 1894; and Clinton O. Mrs. Hawes remained a widow for some years and then married Demp- ster Gifford and became the mother of four more children : Horace, Lelland, Minnie and Edward. Minnie is deceased.

Clinton O. Hawes remained in Orange Township until he was 25 years of age, attend- ing school at Lewis Center and keeping busy at various employments. He worked on farms in Orange and Liberty Townships to some ex- tent and then learned telegraphy, which he fol- lowed for seven years. He was both operator and agent at Radnor and later at Powell, working as night operator at the latter point until he turned his attention to farming and dairying, when he gave up work at the "keys." He owns a tidy little farm of 27 acres adjoin- ing Powell and its convenient location near the town, assists in making his dairy industry 3 profitable one.

On March 7. 1887, Mr. Hawes was mar- ried to Emma L. Bennett, who is a daughter of E. A. and Mary (Clements) Bennett, of Orange Township. Mrs. Hawes was born in Champaign County, Ohio, but her father was born in Orange Township, Delaware County, where both he and wife reside, in comfortable circumstances, his age being 70 and that of his wife 66 years.

In political sentiment, Mr. Hawes is in ac . cord with the Socialist party. He is a mem- ber of Powell Lodge. Knights of Pythias, No.

684. He has been clerk of Liberty Township for the past five years and served three years as notary public for the township.

R EUBEN G. DICKERSON, who is a leading citizen of Orange Township, where he has his valuable and well- improved farm of 991/2 acres under a fine state of cultivation, was born July 3. 1843, in Orange Township, Delaware County, Ohio, and is a son of Lewis and Cynthia ( Noble) Dickerson.

The Dickerson family is of English extrac- tion and it was founded in New Jersey by Lewis Dickerson, the great-grandfather of Reuben G. His son, also Lewis, became the grandfather, and the third Lewis was the father of Reuben G. Dickerson. Lewis Dickerson (3) was born in Tompkins County, New York, November 6, 1810, and in 1832 he came to Sandusky, Ohio, and from there. in 1833, to Orange Township, Delaware County. With the exception of one year later spent in New York, and two years of residence at Cardington, Lewis Dickerson lived continu- ously to his death on the present home farm to which he came in 1856. He died December 15, 1883.

On October 9, 1836, Lewis Dickerson was married to Cynthia Noble, who died October 20, 1898. She was born near Powell. in Liberty Township, Delaware County, Ohio, June 20, 1822, and was a daughter of James and Salomy ( Graves) Noble. The Graves family came to Licking County from Connecti- cut among the pioneer settlers. There were two sons born to Lewis Dickerson and wife: James H. and Reuben G. Both sons proved themselves brave men and loyal soldiers. James H. Dickerson enlisted in the Federal army from the State of New York, in 1801. becoming a member of Company D. Seventy- fifth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry. He accompanied his comrades to Santa Rosa Island, Florida, where he remained for a time at the navy yard and was then sent to Louisj- ana and after the capture of New Orleans, by

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Admiral Farragut, he was under the com- mand of General Benjamin Butler until Gen- eral Banks assumed command. Later he took part in the Red River campaign and was at Alexandria, Pleasant Hill and the siege of Port Hudson. After the fall of this strong- hold his corps joined Franklin's Corps of the Army of the Potomac, and they fought the battle of Cedar Creek, where he also served under General Sheridan. When he finally re- ceived his honorable discharge, he had already served fifty-eight days over his term of enlist- ment. Although he escaped serious injury, he had had two horses shot from under hin. After the close of his military service he went to New York, where he was married to Laura Fuller, after which he returned to Delaware County and took up his residence at Lewis Center, where he died May 4, 1903.

Reuben G. Dickerson obtained his edu- cation in the district schools. He remained on his father's farm until 18 years of age, when he offered his patriotic services in defense of his country. On August 2, 1861, he enlisted at Delaware, Ohio, in Company A, Second Battery, United States Infantry, under Cap- tain Eystier, and was mustered in at Camp Thomas, then went to Lebanon, Kentucky, and from there, on February 14, 1862, the First and Second Battalions started on a march to Mill Springs, where they engaged in battle. after which they returned to Bardstown. where Mr. Dickerson was left in a hospital. where he remained for six weeks. He re- joined his regiment April 12, 1862, at Pitts- burg Landing, then went on to the approach- ing battle of Corinth, and after the siege and evacuation of that city, and his regiment was detailed to guard the line of the M. & C. Rail- road, he was discharged, on account of physi- cal disability. August 13. 1862. Mr. Dicker- son gave himself a few months in which to re- cuperate, and then re-enlisted, on June 29. 1803. entering Company M. First Regiment, Ohio Heavy Artillery. He was stationed at Fort Whittlesley, opposite Cincinnati, until February. 1864, when the battery was sent to Nicholasville. Kentucky, marched from there to Point Burnside near Somerset, and then crossed the mountains to Knoxville. Tennes-

see, conveying the baggage on the backs of pack mules. Mr. Dickerson, with his com- rades, did guard and garrison duty along the line of the East Tennessee & Virginia Rail- road, until November, 1864. when they en- tered the northeastern part of Tennessee in order to cut off General Lee's retreat through Tennessee Gap. The First Artillery took part in numerous skirmishes with General Jo- seph Wheeler. On July 25, 1865. Mr. Dick- erson was a second time honorably discharged from his country's military bonds, at Knox- ville, Tennessee, when the regiment was mus- tered out.

Mr. Dickerson returned to Ohio and for one year followed farming on the homestead and continued to be variously engaged until 1872, when he began railroad work on what was then the C., C., C. & I. line, but is now the Big Four Railroad. He worked seven years as foreman and fireman on a construction train and for 12 years he was employed by the line as an engineer. He continued railroading until July. 1890, when he' settled down to farming. Ile has greatly improved his prop- erty since settling on it, erecting a handsome residence and adding to the appearance and convenience of the other buildings. He carries on a general agricultural line. For about six years he has been engaged quite extensively also in contracting and has built a number of the excellent turnpike roads in this sec- tion.

On December 9, 1868, Mr. Dickerson was married to Amelia W. Lewis, who is a mem- ber of a very prominent family of Delaware County. Her father, the late William T. Lewis, was born in New Jersey, in February. 1811. and died at Lewis Center, Delaware County, in 1876. lle married Sarah Fowler. who was born also in New Jersey, January 3. 1822, and died in Ohio, April 20. 1900. They came to Delaware County in 1843 and settled on farming land which later became the site of the village of Lewis Center, which was named in honor of William T. Lewis. Hle was the first postmaster and the leading man of affairs in the town for many years, and donated a number of the public buildings to the place, including the public school and the

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Methodist Episcopal Church and parsonage. In 1849 he went to California, by the overland route, and returned by way of the Isthmus of Panama, remaining in the far West until 1851 and while there was engaged in mining. The children of William T. Lewis and wife were: Eliza J., who married George Hender- son. of Springfield; Mary P., who married Alexander S. Hempstead, residing in Colum- bus: Amelia : Sarah E., who married Lewis Carter, residing at Columbus; Augusta N., who married E. I. Prentice of Mississippi, died in Paulding County, Ohio; Anna C., who married Dr. R. C. Alexander, residing at Springfield; Katherine N., who died unmar- ried ; and Josie R., who married W. H. Taft, residing at Columbus.

Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson have had four children, two sons and two daughters, namely : Lewis H., who died aged one year and ten months; Charles, who died aged eleven years and ten months: Sarah Elizabeth, who mar- ried A. L. Grove, and they have three chil- dren, Ruby, Okey and Robert: and Ruby Catherine, who married Edwin Joslin. They have three children, Ruth, Charles and Rich- ard.

In politics, Mr. Dickerson is a Republican and he has served as justice of the peace, as .. member of the School Board and in other offices and is his party's candidate in the com- ing campaign for the office of county com- missioner. Fraternally, he is an Odd Fellow and a Mason, a member of Hiram Lodge, Chapter and Council at Delaware. Formerly he was a member of the Brotherhood of LoCo- mnotive Engineers. Ile is a valued comrade of George P. Torrance Post, Grand Army of the Republic. at Delaware.

D R. ALBERT ERNEST M'EST- BROOK, who has been engaged in medical practice in Ashley for a pe- riod of forty-two years, is also the proprietor of a drug store at this place. He was born December 17. 1840, in the hotel conducted by his parents at Wood-

bury, which at that time was quite a town in Pern Township, then in Delaware County, but now in Morrow County. Ile is a son of Solomon Westbrook, and a grandson of John Westbrook, who settled in Canandaigua County, New York. The Westbrook family originally came from Germany, two brothers, John and Leonard, coming to this country at an early date.

Solomon Westbrook, the Doctor's father, was born in 1798 in Canandaigua County. New York, and in 1816 moved to Johnstown. Licking County, Ohio. He married Mrs. Mathena Crawford, nee Edmunds, it being the second marriage for both. He had one son by his first marriage, and she had six children by her first marriage to William Crawford. She was a daughter of Samuel Edmunds, who also came from Canandaigua County, New York to Johnstown, Ohio. Of the children of their several unions, but one aside from Dr. Westbrook is living-the latter's full sister. Jane, who is the widow of Robert Gardner, and lives one mile north of South Woodbury.

Solomon Westbrook followed farming un- til after his marriage, at Johnstown, and then conducted a hotel until 1836. He then went on horseback to New Orleans, where he practiced medicine for one year, after which he returned to his old home, and then shortly afterward journeyed in the same manner to Canada and back. In 1849 he went to Missouri, and from St. Joseph crossed the plains to San Francisco with a company from Delaware, Ohio. He drove three yoke of oxen and walked every step of the way. Many were the hardships endured by the party, and their condition upon their arrival in San Francisco was pitiable. Mr. Westbrook had nothing to eat but one cracker per day for twenty-six days and one of the party. Dr. Mann of Delaware, died of scurvy after his arrival. Mr. Westbrook re- mained two years in the West, working in the gold mines, and upon his return to Ohio had $500. in gold, being no richer and no poorer than when he left home.

Dr. Albert E. Westbrook was reared in Woodbury and attended Mt. Hesper Semi- nary, a well known institution of learning of

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that day located little more than a mile south of the village. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware one year, in 1857, and afterward read medicine under the preceptor- ship of Dr. 1. II. Pennock, preparatory to entering Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, from which institution he was grad- uated with the degree of M. D. on February 22, 1863. In August of that year he entered the 100th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf., as as- sistant surgeon, and served until the war closed. He was on detached duty at Gallitan. Tennessee, where he had charge of the Post Hospital, and was medical director on the staff of Brig .- Gen. E. A. Payne. He had charge of Fts. Negley, Huston and Morton, at Nash- ville, and was on duty also at Stevenson, Ala- bama. For a time he served as surgeon in the 68th Regiment. N. Y. Vol. Inf., at Bridgeport. Alabama. He was mustered out June 29. 1865. at Nashville. The Doctor has preserved every order received while in the service and also has the bridle, saddle and spurs which he used. At present he is the only physician living in Delaware County who served as such in the army.

On August 10, 1865. Dr. Westbrook came to .Ashley and engaged in the practice of medi- cine, in which he has since continued-a period of forty-two years. For the past twenty-five years he has also conducted the only drug store in Ashley. He is a prominent citizen and a successful man. lle is a member of the American Medical Association ; the Ohio State Medical Society, and the Delaware County Medical Society, having served one term as president and also as vice-president of the latter.

In 1866 Dr. Westbrook married Amanda E. Cunard. a daughter of Judge S. T. Cunard, who was a prominent jurist of Mt. Gilead, Ohio. She died April 17, 1885, leaving three children, as follows: Edward Cimard West- brook, who is engaged in farming in Oxford Township, and who married Britta Cline, by when he has one son-Cline Edmunds; Blanch Alberta, wife of John T. Olds, a hardware merchant of Ashley, who has one son-Neil Albert: and Grace Sumner, who married

Wesley McCurdy, a clothing merchant of Ash- ley, and has children-Lois, Amanda, Lawton W., Lloyd, and Rose Cunard. Dr. Westbrook was married a second time, in 1886, to Rose M. Cunard, a daughter of Cap- tain L. M. Cunard of Mt. Gilead, Ohio.

. Dr. Westbrook is a Republican in politics and has held numerous local offices. He was instrumental in establishing a graded school here, but it was only after a determined fight on his part and that of a few other enterpris- ing and public spirited men who stood with him. He was elected on the first Board of Education and served nine years, and was three times a member of the Town Council. Fraternally, Dr. Westbrook is a member of Ashley Lodge, No. 404, F. & A. M., and was formerly a member of the Chapter at Dela- ware.

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Century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens 20th, Part 88

Author: Lytle, James Robert, 1841- [from old catalog] ed Publication date: 1908 Publisher: Chicago, Biographical publishing company Number of Pages: 926

Author: Lytle, James Robert, 1841- [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: Chicago, Biographical publishing company
Number of Pages: 926