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USA > Ohio > Clermont County > History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio, from the earliest historical times down to the present, V. 2 > Part 32
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Capt. William P. Flanegan had one brother, John, who was a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting first in Company B, Fifty- ninth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, later enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-third and Sixty-fourth regiments. He was engaged in the battles of Shiloh and many others. includ- ing Mill Springs, Nashville and Franklin. His death took place in 1884, in the forty-second year of his age, leaving a family of four children, beside his wife, Nannie (Chapman) Flanegan.
The subject of this mention. Capt. William P. Flanegan. was born in his present home. February 3, 1841, and was reared and educated in the schools of the county, also attend- ing the Clermont Academy, where he was secretary of the lyceum. He spent his youth on the farm and began his busi- ness life on the Ohio river. handling corn, tan bark and cord wood. During the thirty years he was engaged in this busi- ness he averaged shipping sixty thousand bushels of corn and two thousand cords of wood per year. He was the pioneer shipper of lime stone for building purposes, from his farm to Cincinnati, operating a large quarry on his farm and shipping by flat boat.
Of later years, Captain Flanegan has devoted more of his
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attention to general farming, in addition to which he takes contracts with the war department to furnish supplies to the military posts at Columbus, Indianapolis and Fort Thomas.
Captain Flanegan takes an active part in politics, and is an independent Republican, having been a candidate for county commissioner and township trustee, although he does not seek these offices, being prevailed upon by his friends to run for them.
The marriage of Capt. William P. Flanegan to Miss Laura Archard took place in this county in 1865. Mrs. Flanegan is a daughter of James and Jane (Warren) Archard, and a sister of the late Mrs. E. A. Conner, who was a literary woman, and was one of the editors of the "Cincinnati Commercial." She made a trip around the world, including Alaska, Honolulu and Japan.
Mr. and Mrs. Flanegan are the parents of four children, who are :
William A., who graduated from the normal school at Leba- non, Ohio, and is a lawyer of Chicago. He is married and has three children.
Mary, married J. W. Scribner, of near Spokane, Wash. They have five children.
Jennie married Grant Harris, a lawyer of St. Paul, Minn. They have four sons and one daughter.
Laura, married J. K. Day, of near Hamlet, Clermont county. There are six children in this family.
Mr. Flanegan takes a great interest in the farmers' insti- tute, and has presented several instructive papers before the institute. He has also been a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen for many years.
FREDERICK W. FRIDMAN.
Frederick W. Fridman is numbered among the progressive and successful business men of Clermont county, Ohio, whose diligence constitutes the force that has brought to him his .present enviable position in commercial circles, and is thus living up to the standard which the men of this family have always maintained.
The subject of this mention was born at the family home near the Ohio river, October 11, 1876, and there grew to young manhood. He pursued his education in the public
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schools, after which he became a student at Parker's Academy, this county. He then attended Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, later entering the Wesleyan University, where he spent one term.
The business career of Mr. F. W. Fridman began in 1896, when he became associated with his brothers in the lumber business, at New Richmond, Ohio, and for three years con- tinued with this company. He afterward spent eight years with the Fridman Seating Company, residing in the mean- time on the farm at Clermontville until the fall of 1906, when his present comfortable home at New Richmond was com- pleted. Since May, 1912, Mr. Fridman has again been asso- ciated with the Fridman Lumber Company, as assistant secre- tary and treasurer. He has also served as director of the First National Bank at New Richmond for the past two years. He is a member of the board of public works of the village of New Richmond.
Mr. Frederick W. Fridman was united in marriage to Miss Clara Bernice Moreton, May 24, 1899. She is a daughter of Isaac Moreton, who was a son of William and Mary (McNeill) Moreton, the latter of whom was a sister of the late Harbison McNeill, mentioned elsewhere in these volumes, and her death occurred March 6, 1884. Mrs. Fridman's father died in April, 1909, in his sixtieth year. Mr. and Mrs. Fridman are the parents of one son, Donald, who was born on January II, 1901. He is attending school.
Politically, Mr. Fridman is a standard advocate of the prin- ciples of the Democratic party and although he is not an office seeker, he is interested in all public affairs of the day.
Socially, Mr. Fridman is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also of the Masonic order, being past master of the Buckeye Lodge, No. 150. Religiously, both Mr. Fridman and his wife are devoted members of the Mt. . Zion Christian church at Clermontville. Mr. Fridman is meeting with success in all of his undertakings and enjoys an unassailable reputation for reliability and enterprise.
LEWIS L. FRIDMAN.
Lewis L. Fridman, well known in Clermont county, Ohio. where for sixty-five years he has been a resident, is one of a family who inherits an unusual amount of executive ability
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and business sagacity from their father, Franklin Fridman, and by following his example have earned prosperity as well as universal respect and esteem of all in the community in which they live.
Lewis L. Fridman was born at Clermontville, Ohio, Au- gust 25, 1847, and was reared and has since resided in the neighborhood of the village of his birth. He received a good education and was associated with his brothers, Franklin M., George Henry, and Lincoln W., in the mercantile business at Clermontville until they sold out, in 1890, after which, having been reared to agricultural pursuits, he turned his attention to that line of industry.
The marriage of Lewis Fridman and Miss Emma R. Shaw was solemnized in Ohio township, April 20, 1871. She was born in Monroe township and was reared there, she being a daughter of Jonathan and Lina (Wyatt) Shaw. Her educa- tion was acquired at Parker's Academy. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Fridman have been born the following chil- dren :
Rosamond, died in infancy.
Lina R., who was born September 5, 1873, is the wife of L. E. Rouse, of Cynthiana, Ky., a grocer of the firm of W. B. Rouse Grocery Company. They have two children, William Leonard and Anna Ruth.
Bertha, who was born September 28, 1875, is at home.
Bessie Pearl, born July 31, 1878, is Mrs. Philip A. Ireton, of Laurel. Mr. Ireton was formerly a merchant of Laurel, but is at present engaged in farming. They have two chil- dren, Harold and Elsie.
Edith Shaw, who was born April 7, 1885, is at home. She is a teacher in the Cincinnati schools. She has also taught several years at New Richmond, Ohio.
Mrs. Fridman's father, Jonathan Shaw, was born in 1824, in Ohio township, and passed away September 12, 1902. The mother, Lina (Wyatt) Shaw, was born March 22, 1830, and left this life December 17, 1886. They reared the following children :
Dr. William Shaw, now a resident of Idaho, was a teacher in this county for several years, where he owns some five hun- dred acres of land. He practiced a number of years at Cin- cinnati.
Mrs. L. L. Fridman, wife of the Mr. Fridman.
Mrs. Tillie Nichols, of Monroe township.
James E., of Fancy Prairie, Ill., is a farmer.
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Mrs. Anna S. Houston died December 23, 1911. She was fifty-one years of age at the time of her death. George Hous- ton is in the printing business at Cincinnati.
Laura, born April 17, 1857, died June 13, 1882.
Robert A., of Cincinnati, where for years he was in the grocery business, operating under the firm name of Robert A. Shaw Grocery Company. He is now with the street car com- pany.
Etta, married C. W. Hartman, of Buffalo, N. Y. He has charge of the Indian reservation at Collins, N. Y.
Nora, who married Elmer M. Armacost, of Cincinnati, died February 27, 1896. in her twenty-eight year.
May, who is Mrs. Ernest Armacost, of Point Pleasant, was born April 4, 1872.
Mr. L. L. Fridman is a Democrat in politics and has served his party as township treasurer for two terms, and has been a member of the school board for several years. He and his family evidence their faith in Christianity by their mem- bership in the Mt. Zion Christian Church.
FRANCIS A. McNEILL.
Francis A. McNeill, one of the leading and representative farmers of Clermont county, Ohio, who is living a retired life at Nicholsville, was born in Monroe township. this county, September 20, 1851. a son of Harbison and Susanna ( Moreton) McNeill.
Harbison McNeill was born in Monroe township, Clermont county, Ohio, in 1826, and died in 1890. He was one of thir- teen children, four of whom are residents of Clermont county. His father, John McNeill, was a native of Ireland. He was a son of wealthy parents, but when a young boy was influenced by sailors to leave home and to take passage for America. He drifted to Clermont county and securing some land was very successful along the lines of general farming, raising hay, grain and general farm produce. He married Lovina Stairs, whose parents were from Pennsylvania and came to Clermont county in the early days. John McNeill died in 1856, leaving quite an accumulated property. Harbison McNeill spent all his life on the old home farm, one and one-half miles from Laurel. Su- sanna Moreton was a native of Clermont county, having been
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born in 1832, and died August 31, 1909. She was a daughter of William Morton, and a half-sister of Mr. William L., known as "Zack" Moreton who lives near Clermontville. Both she and her husband were members of the Methodist church.
Francis A. McNeill is the oldest of eight children, the others being :
Miss Emma D., at present residing with her brother, Fran- cis A.
William, of Loveland, Ohio.
Miss Love, of Hyde Park, Cincinnati.
Robert, is a professor of music, teaching in the schools of Hyde Park.
M. H., is farming the home farm.
Mrs. Libbie L. Simmons, of Laurel, Ohio.
Charles, died in 1890, leaving three children. He was a farmer, thresher and general mechanic.
Mr. Francis A. McNeill pursued his education in the schools of Clermont county, finishing at Parker's Academy. In youth he assisted his father on the farm, familiarizing himself in all the details of the agricultural business, which has since been his occupation.
Mr. McNeill was united in marriage to Miss Lora J. Mc- Murchey, in 1879, she being a daughter of Archabald Mc- Murchey, who was a native of Clermont county, and a suc- cessful blacksmith and carriage maker of Nicholsville. His death occurred in 1885. Mrs. McNeill passed away March II, 1912, in the fifty-seventh year of her age. She was a devoted member of the Presbyterian church.
In political views, Mr. McNeill favors the Republican party and is a member of the Methodist church. His energy and industry have been rewarded by a measure of prosperity, and he is now enjoying the well earned rest from active labors.
T. P. WHITE and SON.
The business of Mr. T. P. White & Son, funeral directors and embalmers, of New Richmond, Ohio, is one of the best and most fully equipped in the State, and have branch offices at Forestville and also at Ross, Ky. They employ three funeral cars, eight rubber tired broughams, an ambulance,
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flower wagon, and, in fact, everything that goes with an up- to-date business of this kind. The company is prepared to do carriage painting, trimming and repair work and are recog- nized as progressive, successful business men.
Mr. T. P. White established a carriage manufacturing busi- ness in 1865, conducting the business for many years most successfully, thus gaining an enviable reputation in the com- mercial world of this section.
T. P. White was born at Bantam, Clermont county. Ohio, March 1, 1837, his parents being Forman and Mary (Rogers) White, the former a veteran of the War of 1812, and the latter a sister of the late Dr. John G. Rogers, a prominent physician of this county for many years. She was also an aunt of Mr. Frank White, of Batavia, Ohio, mentioned elsewhere in these volumes.
The early education of Mr. White was acquired in the schools of Clermont county at the same time assisting on the farm. He afterward learned the trade of carriage builder with his brother, Levi, a manufacturer at Bantam. He at- tended the first school of embalming at Cincinnati, which was the first school of its kind west of the New England States and still has the diploma received at that time. He served during the closing year of the Civil war in Company L, Ninth Ohio cavalry, and was many years an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic Post at New Richmond.
Mr. White was united in marriage to Flora, a daughter of Thomas L. and Evaline (Donham) Nichols, in 1865. The Nichols and Donham families were early and prominent repre- sentatives residents of Clermont county. Mr. and Mrs. White have the following children to bless their union :
Lew F., junior member of the firm of T. P. White & Son. who was born August 1, 1866, at New Richmond, and there received his early education, following which he attended the commercial college at Cincinnati. He then worked with his father for some years, becoming junior partner in 1901. and has since devoted his entire attention to the extensive business of the firm. From 1899 to 1950. Lew F. was an officer in the United States army transport service, on board the transport "Thomas," from the close of the Spanish-American war. in the Philippine insurrection. During his service. he twice circum- navigated the globe, spending nearly two years in the army service. When quite a young man Mr. L. F. White took a complete course in embalming at the New York Embalming
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College, and has passed examinations in both Ohio and Ken- tucky, where he practices. He married Miss Belle, daughter of C. W. and Mary (Walker) Short, in 1892. Mrs. White's mother was a daughter of Caleb Walker, a kinsman of the Ashburn family. Mrs. White was born and reared at New Richmond, and is the mother of three children-Irene E., Pauline J., and Lewellyn T.
Eva, is the wife of F. A. Roberts, a successful lawyer of Missoula, Mont., and they have two sons.
Clifford L., who married Miss Minnie Winspear, of Ten Mile, this county, is engaged in the livery and auto business at New Richmond, Ohio. They are the parents of one son, Clifford W.
John R., is a commercial traveler for the Crane & Breed Manufacturing Company, of Cincinnati, residing at New Rich- mond, Ohio. He married Miss Dora Darkin, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and they have one son and two daughters.
Jeanette is the wife of Harry Shaw, a hardware merchant of Texas. They have one son.
Both Mr. T. P. White and his son are Republicans, the lat- ter having taken an active part in the party councils, and has served in the various local offices. The elder Mr. White served as treasurer of Ohio township, and as a councilman of New Richmond several terms, and from 1884-86 was treasurer of Clermont county. These gentlemen hold membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias lodges, the latter being a member of the Modern Woodmen of America in addition. The families are members of the Presbyterian church.
The paternal great-grandfather of T. P. White operated a transport during the Revolution. The paternal grandfather of L. F. White served in the War of 1812; his maternal grand- father, Thomas L. Nichols, was a naval officer in the Civil war, and his own service is already chronicled. The family has thus been well represented in the various conflicts of our country.
Mr. White and his sons are interested in all matters per- taining to the material, political, social, intellectual and moral progress of the community, and have co-operated in many movements for the public good, while in business affairs they manifest that keen discernment and unfaltering diligence that are necessary concomitants to a prosperous career.
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THE PARK FAMILY.
As with most of their fellow people, the story of the Park family is one of frequent migration for many and long stay for only a few. Even the name has changed in form, but not in sound. Under an Act of Congress, June 1, 1832, a pension was granted August 9, 1833, for service in the Virginia militia, to John Parke, then for a time living in Brown county, who was the founder of his family in Ohio. His wife's maiden name was Lettice Moseley, who was the only child of a widow, Helen Moseley. Back of that no name has been kept.
Heads of families with the names of Parke and Moseley which came from a stay of quite a hundred years in Wind- ham county, Connecticut, and farther back from England, were associated in the Wyoming Enterprise. That enterprise, from the origin and through a fierce contention, not of State, but of Colony rights, including the "Pennite and Yankee War," until the close in the most awful of all Indian massacres, forms the most tragic episode of all the English settlements. Many refugees from the ill-fated valley boated down the Susque- hanna river, with little sympathy from the peaceful Pennites, and found protection south of the Potomac, and along the Shenandoah. A presumption that the Parkes and Moseleys were in the southward flight from the havoc of that first week of July, 1778, is strengthened by the fact that, after much search, no concurrent mention of the names has been found except in the annals of Windham county, Connecticut, the story of Wyoming, and in Hampshire county, Virginia, where John and Lettice Parke partly raised their family. Their sons were Enos, Jesse, David and John. The daughters were Leah, Sarah, Rachel, Lydia, Phoebe and Elizabeth. Lydia was born June 23, 1792, and in her infancy, 1793, the family moved to Tennessee, where they settled near Greenville. Green county. and kept a ferry on the Nollichucky river. There Elizabeth, the youngest daughter, was born, April 20, 1800, and John, the youngest son, just two years later. They were prosper- ous in Virginia and Tennessee. But they hated slavery so that rumors of freedom and fertility brought them in 1805, to set- tle in Highland county on Paint Creek, near Iron Furnace. There the family. transferred from mountain airs, suffered so much from fever and ague, that before the War of 1812. the father, with weakened means, brought the younger part of the family to the highlands of Clermont, about Amelia. where
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ELIZABETH A. PARK
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the Malicks, their former neighbors in Virginia, had come. There Leah married David Malick, and Lydia, John Malick, whence a worthy connection in Clermont still continues.
The presence of the family then and there is proved by sev- eral graves in the Christian Chapel cemetery, at Mt. Holly, on the Ohio Pike, a little east of Amelia. That cemetery began on the land of Michael Roseberry, with the grave of his wife, Betsey, who died June 14, 1819, the oldest burial date ex- tant in that vicinity. Nearby, the letters H. M. and the figures 1823 can still be deciphered in the inscription on a slab of native limestone. Another similar stone alongside more plain- ly shows L. Parke, October 5, 1823. They mark the end of the wanderings of Lettice Parke and the Widow Moseley. As described by some aged grandchildren now also long gone, Helen Moseley was "very old" and "upwards of ninety," so that she was a mother of the Revolution. The name is far from frequent. But whether she was one of the small, yet decidedly fine, families of Connecticut or from a line that will never be found, I still like to ponder her marches with the wandering brood of Parkes that made the world for her. "Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing onward through life," she went with those ten grandchildren, like Ruth of old, going as they did go, lodging where they lodged, with their people for her people. And when the youngest was reared and they were married : and when the mother of them was near to death, she died and they were buried together.
From the marriage record of Brown county, John Parke was married to Margaret Darrell, April 1, 1824, and there was his home until induced by his oldest son, Enos, once more to migrate, in 1834, to Wea Wea, near Lafayette, Ind., where he died, in 1835, leaving other children by his second wife. Of the other first children, David married Matilda Taliaferro and moved near Urbana, whence his children went to Knox coun- ty, Illinois. John married Susan Rounds and moved to Griggs- ville, Pike county, Illinois. Rachel married George Hunt, son of Levi Hunt, a pioneer of Tate township. They and theirs went to Illinois. Sarah married John Allen and died soon after. Phoebe married Christopher Ault and went to Indiana. Elizabeth married Jacob Hair and raised a family on Upper Five Mile, in Brown county. David and Leah Parke Malick eventually settled with their children at and near North Ver- non, Jennings county, Indiana. Lydia Parke Malick, after passing into her ninety-seventh year, died November 10, 1888.
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at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Maria Baldwin, of Baldwin Station, or East Liberty, northwest of Batavia.
Jesse. the second son of John and Lettice Parke, married Catherine Zimmerman, who had come from Pennsylvania. They remained a while after the rest of the family started north. Their first son, named Lamanda, married Sarah Willis, of Bethel, Ohio, who lived and raised a family in Clermont county. Mary, the only daughter of Jesse Park, married James Vanosdol, in Clermont, and later moved to Jennings county, Indiana. and raised four children. On the way to Ohio, Jesse found fine work at his trade as a wheelwright at Lexington, Ky .; and, while living there. his second son was born, January 22, 1815, and named John. About a year later. Jesse Parke sickened and died rather suddenly, leaving his wife and three small children among strangers. As soon as those slow times permitted, Jesse's brother, Enos, took the widow and little ones to his home between Rainsborough and Bainbridge. After while, the widow of Jesse Parke married a farmer. Isaac Stewart, with whom she had five sons-Dan- iel, William, Isaac, Barney and James, and one daughter. Ellen. Isaac Stewart died leaving his children well grown, who came with their mother to her first children near Bethel. where Daniel married Hulda Fred, and then Hulda's father married Daniel's mother in 1856, when both couples moved to Perry, Pike county, Illinois, where, shortly after, Catherine Fred, who had been the wife of the early-fated Jesse Parke, forty years before, died from a fall through a trap door of a cellar.
The children of Jesse Parke found early homes with their uncles and aunts in Clermont county. About 1831 Thomas Hunt. the noted rifle maker of that period, and before in Brown and Clermont, and a brother of young John Parke's uncle. George Hunt, took the bright, clear-eyed lad into his gun shop, cast of Bethel. and thoroughly taught him gun- smithing, the most exact and best paid art of the time, and an art not then gathered into large factories. On reaching man- hood and noting a confused use of the name, such as Parkes, Parker or Parks, he conferred with his brother, Lamanda, and they decided to drop the silent e and use the simple and not easily mistaken form of Park.
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Late in 1837 John Park opened a gunsmith shop in Williams- burg, where on Wednesday morning. July 25. 1838, he and Elizabeth Ann Wright were married in the large frame house
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of her stepfather and mother, George and Susanna Jenkins Peterson, which they had built diagonally beyond the crossing of the streets from the Williamsburg Flour Mill, then owned by them.
Elizabeth A. Wright was the elder daughter of Robert and Susanna Jenkins Wright. Susanna, born February 5, 1798, was a daughter of John and Catherine Vaughan Jenkins, noted in the sketch of the Jenkins Family. Several sons of John Jenkins went to work for Samuel Perin in the enterprise that resulted in Perin's Mills, or Perintown, and their sister, Su- sanna, also went as their housekeeper. The Wright family coming from Virginia and settled about Lexington, Ky., fur- nished several for the same enterprise, among whom was Rob- ert Wright, with his sisters, Sarah and Margaret. His brothers, William, Richard and Zephaniah, either remained in or re- turned to Lexington. But Sarah married Joseph Harvey, of Miami township, and mothered a fine posterity, including the names of Gatch, McGrew, Lemming and Cazel. Margaret Wright married Christopher Clark and lived about Bantam. Robert and Susanna Wright were married in February, 1818, and settled at Milford, where he was employed in the mill. Their children were: Joseph W., born January 9, 1819, and died April 9, 1822; Elizabeth Ann, born May 10, 1821; John Harvey, born October 29, 1823; and Nancy R., born Decem- ber 4, 1825, who married Andrew V. Boulware, a noted chair maker, and died December 15, 1891. John Harvey Wright married Mary Ann McNutt, mentioned with the McNutt fam- : ily and in the sketch of Thomas K. Ellis.
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