History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio, from the earliest historical times down to the present, V. 2, Part 36

Author: Byron Williams
Publication date: 1913
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 925

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William D. Simmons is one of five children, of which but one sister, Hannah E., who resides at Laurel, is living. The others were, James Robert Hobson, Nathan Nichols, and Sarah Ann.

William D. Simmons was reared to young manhood in Mon- roe township, and received a good common school education. Having been trained to farm life he has followed that line of occupation to the present time. Until recently he owned some one hundred acres of fine farm land near Laurel.

Mr. Simmons was married in 1867 to Miss Mary Elizabeth Allen, who was born July 4, 1848, in Oxford, Butler county, Ohio, a daughter of Simeon and Rebecca (Ross) Allen, the latter of whom was born in 1824, and was a daughter of James and Vashti (Bowers) Ross, who came to this locality early in the Nineteenth century. Rebecca was the youngest of thirteen children and died in 1901. Simeon Allen was born in Massachusetts, September 3, 1819, and died in 1869. He came with his parents to the vicinity of Cincinnati, where he passed away.

Mrs. W. D. Simmons is one of three children :

Harriet, married George Price, and died in 1879.

Charles J. has been in the mining business for many years in Portland, Ore.

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Mrs. Simmons has resided in Clermont county since she was sixteen years of age, attending the schools of the county and at Cincinnati, having as a teacher, the late John Hancock. She taught seevral terms of school in Clermont county. The . union of Mr. and Mrs. Simmons has been blessed by four children :

Bertha Allen, who is the wife of Morton H. McNeill, a farmer of Monroe township. They have two daughters- Ruth Winnifred and Dorothy Allen.

Charles, a farmer of Laurel, married Elizabeth McNeill. They have one son, Charles, Jr.

Harriet Esther, married George Mofford, of Milford, Ohio. They are the parents of one daughter, Gladys Evelyn.

Anna Rebecca is Mrs. Franklin Tatman, of Salt Air, Cler- mont county.

Mr. Simmons is a staunch Republican, and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. He was a member of the State guard, subject to call at any time during the War of 1861-65, being called out in 1864 and served through the remainder of the war in Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, under Capt. Archie McNair.

In religious matters, Mr. and Mrs. Simmons are devoted members of the Methodist church, he being a steward and trustee of the Laurel church. He is also a member of the Sailors' and Soldiers' Association at Laurel, which was organ- ized in the early '60s.

The success in the battle of life which Mr. Simmons has achieved is due to his strict attention to whatever business he had to do, and with the help of his estimable wife has been rewarded with a substantial competence. His dealings with his fellowmen are just and honorable, and he is a gentle- man in every sense of the word.

NATHANIEL T. DAILEY.

Williamsburg takes pride in including among its foremost citizens the subject of this sketch, Mr. Nathaniel T. Dailey, who, for the past twenty-seven years has been most promi- nent in the business circles of the town, where he has con- ducted a finely and fully equipped undertaking business. He is a native son of Clermont county, his birth having occurred

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in Monroe township, six miles northeast of New Richmond, in 1856, a son of Rev. Nathaniel and Emeline Dailey.

Rev. Nathaniel Dailey was born in New Jersey in 1808 and died in 1885 in Clermont county. He came with his fa- ther, Rev. Evi Dailey, to Clermont county in 1814, where the family settled on a farm near Batavia. Rev. Nathaniel Dailey was a local minister of the Methodist church and an ordained elder for life, and from the age of twenty-three years to his death, at the age of seventy-seven years, he was actively en- gaged in preaching the Gospel. During his ministry he preached more funeral sermons than any other minister in this section of the country. In connection with the ministry Rev. Dailey was an active agriculturalist, having secured a fine farm in the county. He was thrice married and was the father of twelve children. The first union was to Elizabeth Winans, and to them were born eight children, of whom two sons and one daughter are now living.

Mr. O. W. Dailey, of Williamsburg.

Benjamin Dailey, of Ringgold, Ga.

Mrs. Mollie Rogers, a widow residing at Bethel, Ohio.

The second union was with Emeline Dailey, very distantly related. She was born in New Jersey, January 23, 1819, and accompanied her parents, Rev. David and Mary (Driver) Dailey, to Hamilton county, Ohio, in 1821. Rev. David Dailey was born April 3, 1761. and on February 14, 1799, married Mary Driver, who was born January 2, 1781. They are buried at Cheviot cemetery, near Cincinnati, their home for years. They were the parents of nine children. Emeline being the youngest. She died died about 1870, having been the mother of four children, two of whom died in infancy. The others are : Nathaniel T. Dailey, of this mention.

Mrs. Emma D. Baber, a resident of California. Mr. Baber was a teacher at Lebanon, Ohio, as was his wife.

Rev. Nathaniel Dailey was a son of Rev. Evi Dailey, also a Methodist minister, who was born in 1774 and died at the age of fifty-five years, in 1829. He is buried at Old Bethel cem- etery, having spent fifteen years in the county. He was a carpenter and builder. also a brick-mason, being a fine me- chanic. He was also an energetic farmer, securing a splendid farm in the county.

After he had received a preliminary education in the com- mon schools of the county. Nathaniel T. Dailey learned the carriage painting trade, which he followed for eight years with

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great success. He then embarked in the undertaking business at Nicholsville, and has taken courses of study in undertaking under F. A. Sullivan, J. H. Clark and Dr. Carl Barnes, and re- ceived a State license.

On October 15, 1885, Mr. Dailey came to Williamsburg, where he has had a better opportunity for advancement in his line of work. He has here builded a most flattering patronage and has one of the best and most fully equipped establishments in this part of the State. He is president of the First National Bank, of Williamsburg, being one of the organizers, in April,. IQII.

On March 22. 1877. Mr. Dailey was united in marriage to Miss Louie Banks, who was born in Clermont county, and is a daughter of Houghton and Frances (Smith) Banks. The latter was born June 5. 1836, and resides at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dailey. Mr. and Mrs. Banks were of the carly set- tlers of Hamilton and Clermont counties, and Mr. Banks passed away several years since. Mrs. Dailey is one of three children :

Mrs. Anne Hancock, of Lebanon, Ohio.

Walter, died in boyhood.

Mrs. Dailey was reared and educated in Hamilton county, Ohio.

An uncle of our subject, Dr. David T. Dailey, of Cincinnati, was born June 26, 1809. and practiced at 365 West Court street, Cincinnati, for many years. During the Civil war he was a medical student and practitioner and gave his services throughout the entire war. He received his diploma in Feb- ruary. 1865.

In politics. Mr. Dailey is a staunch Republican, and has served two terms as councilman. He is a staunch advocate of temperance and is very active in all movements for the cause of temperance. In fraternal circles, Mr. Dailey is widely and favorably known, having connection with numerous or- ders. He has membership in the Angola Lodge No. 231 and Angola Encampment No. 248, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is past grand chief patriarch and past deputy chief patriarch. He is past district deputy grand master of District C. Clermont county. He holds mem- bership in the Clermont Social Lodge No. 20. Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of which he is past master. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dailey are members of the Order of Eastern Star. Celestine chapter No. 185. of Williamsburg. Mrs. Dailey having filled

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some of the chairs. Mrs. Dailey is a member of the Daughters of Rebekah, Lodge No. 203, and of the Woman's Relief Corps, No. 117, of Williamsburg, having served as president of the latter organization. She is a member of the Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Dailey is an energetic worker and sup- porter.

Mr. Dailey has one of, if not the most complete collection of horns in the country, one that would be the pride of any natural history society or museum. Among this interesting collection are three magnificent pairs of elk horns, twelve- prong ; one pair of sacred cow; two pairs of Mexican lambs; one pair of Mazama or Rocky Mountain sheep; several native and one pair of wild goat horns from Africa, Alaska, Switzer- land and elsewhere; one pair of Buffalo horns measuring thir- ty-two inches; horns of water buffalo, deer from the Philip- pines, our native deer, antelope, and cattle of many kinds.

Among Texas cattle are horns measuring nearly four feet, and one pair of. Brazilian steer horns that measures seven feet and two inches from tip to tip. In Mr. Dailey's collection are many interesting Indian tools and weapons. He has also a fine collection of swords, pistols and muskets.

PHILIP CHATTERTON.

The death of Mr. Philip Chatterton, at his home in Wil- liamsburg, Ohio, in 1897, removed from Clermont county a man who had been identified with its interests for more than three-quarters of a century, and was one of the most prominent and useful citizens of the great State of Ohio. Mr. Chatterton was a native of New York, his birth having taken place there in 1806, his parents being Jacob and Abi- gail (Bates) Chatterton.

Jacob Chatterton was born in New York, in 1780. and was a militiaman before the war of 1812, in which he served for about one year. When he was called for the war of 1812 his wife decided that he must have a new suit, and in accordance with the methods of those days, a dark sheep was caught, the wool washed and carded, and being spun into varn, was woven into cloth. A suit was then made, the good wife hav- ing worked day and night to finish the garments in time. In 1815 Jacob brought his family to Ohio, coming down the

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Ohio river by flatboat, and landing at Chilo, Clermont county. A few years later he secured one hundred and twelve acres of land between Williamsburg and Bethel, which he cleared and developed, and followed farming as an occupation dur- ing his active life. In later life, however, Jacob retired and built a comfortable home on the pike at Clover Church, where he and his wife spent their declining years. They were devout members of the Chirstian church, Mrs. Chat- terton being a great reader of the Bible, in which she was extremely well informed. Mr. Chatterton passed away in August, 1860, in the eightieth year of his life. They became the parents of Abigail, Philip, James, Alvin, Benjamin, Aaron and Horatio.

Philip Chatterton spent the first nine years of his life in New York and came with his parents to Ohio in 1815 and re- ceived the education accorded the children of those days, after which he engaged in teaching for a number of years, at twelve dollars per month. He later secured and cleared a large farm near his father's, and during the remainder of his active life followed the business of farming most successfully, becoming one of the substantial men of the county.

In 1832, Mr. Chatterton married Miss Mary Ann Reed, who was born near Bethel, this county, in 1810, and was a daugh- ter of John and Mehetable (Kanaam) Reed, old residents of Clermont, who came from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, re- spectively.

In the family of Philip and Mary Ann (Reed) Chatterton were ten children :

William, who was born in 1833, died in 1910. He was a soldier in Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-third regi- ment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and served in the one hundred- day service. He was a resident farmer of Williamsburg town- ship and married Lavancha Poole, now deceased. They be- came the parents of three daughters, who also are deceased.

Alvin, who until his retirement was a farmer, died at his home at Fairfield, Iowa, April 10, 1913. He was a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting in the First Iowa cavalry, and spent four years in the service. He married Miss Sherman, of Ohio, and they had five children, four of whom are still living.

Ezra, of Williamsburg, was also a soldier, and served ex- actly thirty-seven months, having enlisted in Company E. Fifty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry, and participated in the battles of Shiloh. Perryville. Stone River, Chickamauga and

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others. A more complete mention appears elsewhere in these volumes.

Orlestus served three years in the Civil war, in Company E, Fifty-ninth Ohio volunteers, and was for many years a resi- dent of Clermont county, but during the last fifteen years of his life made his home at Salt Lake City. He never married.

John R. was a soldier in Company H, Eighty-fourth Ohio volunteers, and was taken ill and died at Nashville, Tenn., in 1864.

Amanda died in 1862, as a young lady, and was not mar- ried.

Mehetable married Benton H. Medary, both now deceased. They resided on the old home farm and left a family of five children, four of whom are residing near.

Lucinda died in infancy.

Barton married Sophronia Burk and they became the par- ents of one daughter. Ethel, who is the wife of William Elrod, the druggist, of Williamsburg.

Charles P., whose sketch will appear elsewhere.

Mr. Philip Chatterton, like his father, was a strong Aboli- tionist, and was one of the operators of the famous "under- ground railroad." He was a Whig in politics early in life, but became a Republican in later years. He served as township trustee and retired from the farm and active labors, residing during his declining years at Williamsburg. Mr. Chatterton was devoted to his family and his home and was esteemed by his friends and neighbors.

CHARLES P. CHATTERTON.

Mr. Charles P. Chatterton, who for many years has been prominently identified with the business life of Williams- burg. Ohio, is a general merchant of that place, handling gro- ceries, hardware and queensware. He has been in business for the past twenty-five years and enjoys a liberal patronage. He was born in Williamsburg township. Clermont county. September 8. 1854. and is a son of Philip and Mary Ann (Reed) Chatterton.

Mr. Charles Chatterton was reared on the parental farm and was properly educated in the common schools of the vicin- ity of his home. after which he attended the Lebanon. Ohio, Normal School. When twenty years of age he entered upon

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the business of farming for himself and for four years con- tinued along these lines.

In 1875 Mr. Chatterton became the husband of Miss Lorisa Kain, a daughter of J. W. Kain, and then engaged in the man- agement of the home farm, continuing until in 1878, when he removed to Williamsburg, engaging in the flouring-mill busi- ness, associated first with three others, his father, Philip Chatterton, W. L. and W. A. Kain, and later with the late Dan K. Peterson. In 1887 Mr. Chatterton sold out his mill interests and engaged in the mercantile business, which has occupied his attention to the present time, buying out Mr. D. K. Peterson. He has increased his business and is assisted by his son.

Mr. and Mrs. Chatterton are the parents of four children :

Orlestus, who is his father's assistant, married Bertha Wean, and they have two sons, Victor, aged sixteen years, and Harold W., aged ten years.

Estelle died at the age of sixteen months.

Edna died at the age of two and one-half years.

Ramona is fifteen years of age and is at home attending school.

Politically. Mr. Chatterton is always Republican. Socially, a member of the Masonic order and of the Eastern Star, of which he went through the chairs and was worshipful master three years and district lecturer for Brown and Clermont coun- ties for three years. He was first worthy patron of Eastern Star, Chapter Celestine, No. 185, of which Mrs. Chatterton is also a member, and religiously both are members of the Meth- odist church.

Mr. Chatterton is well known in Williamsburg as an en- ergetic and reliable business man, well qualified to conduct his extensive business affairs. While devoting his energies to the welfare of his family. he has never been found wanting in public spirit, and is rightly judged one of the representa- tive men.

EZRA CHATTERTON.

Mr. Ezra Chatterton. who has been a valued citizen of Wil- liamsburg. Ohio, since July 25. 1908. has been a resident of Clermont county since his birth. January 31. 1837. and belongs . to a family which has long been conspicuous for its extensive

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agricultural operations. His parents were Philip and Mary Ann (Reed) Chatterton.

The education of Mr. Chatterton was acquired in the schools of Clermont county and also at the academy at College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio. He decided on agriculture as an occupa- tion early in life and immediately after the close of the Civil war purchased a farm adjoining the home farm, where he re- sided until his removal to Williamsburg.

On January 27, 1865, Mr. Chatterton was united in marriage to Miss Isaphine Everhart, who was born at Williamsburg, January 27, 1845, a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Peter- son) Everhart, both natives of Clermont county, the former having been born in 1805 and died in 1853, and the latter, whose birth occurred in 1806, died in 1870. They were the parents of seven children, two of whom died in infancy. The others are :

John, who was a soldier in the Civil war, in Company K, Twenty-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry, served about one year, when he lost his health and died about 1869, at Williams- burg.

Ora was in the three months' service in the Civil war, in the Twenty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He is a shoe merchant at Lafayette, Ind.

Mary, deceased, married Dolph Peterson, who is now a resident of Salt Lake City.

Isaphine, who is Mrs. Ezra Chatterton.

Fountain, a mute, who died many years ago in Cincinnati. He was married there.

Mr. and Mrs. Chatterton have had four children in their family, who are :

Harry E., who was born February 7, 1866, married Miss Sarah Moyer, of Lancaster, Ohio. He died in December, 1896, leaving a widow and two daughters, Bertha and Lucile, all now living at Delaware, Ohio.

George Philip, born November 22, 1867, is the principal of the Youngstown, Ohio, High School, where he is a resident. He is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, of Dela- ware, Ohio. He was united in marriage to Miss May Aber- nathy, who was an Ohio lady, a daughter of a Methodist minister.

Bertha was born October 20, 1869, married John Moyer, , and they are operating the farm of our subject. They have two sons, Richard E. and Robert C.

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Leona, who was born November 6, 1872, married Rev. Wil- liam E. Shriver, who is the pastor of the Methodist church, of Rainsboro, Ohio. Their only child died in infancy.

In politics, Mr. Chatterton is in unison with the Repub- lican party and served for six years as township trustee. Both he and his wife are consistent members of the Methodist church. He is an example of the sturdy business man and upright citizen, and to such as he Clermont county owes its prestige.

O. L. PAGE.

Among the native sons of Clermont county who have found here good business opportunity, which, improved, have led to success, is numbered O. L. Page, who has been county recorder of Clermont county since 1908. That he was re-elected in 1910 is a tribute to his efficiency and popularity.

Mr. Page was born in Tate township, Clermont county, January 6, 1874, being a son of S. A. and Mary E. (Kennedy) Page, the latter being a native of Clermont county, a daugh- ter of Samuel Kennedy. Her birth occurred in 1846, she pass- ing away in 1878. Mr. S. A. Page is a native of Union county, Ohio, though most of his life has been spent in Clermont county.

The first fourteen years of Mr. Page's life was spent on the farm of his father in Tate township, where he obtained his early education in the district and public schools. In 1888, the the family moved to Felicity, which is still the home of the father. After the completion of his education, Mr. Page was connected with the Cincinnati shoe concern and with other activities until his marriage, April 4, 1897, to Miss Carrie L. Homan, a daughter of Louis and Elizabeth (Layfield) Ho- man, the latter residing in Bethel. Mr. Homan died several years ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Page have two children, who were born in Bethel :

Mary Lucile, born March 28, 1899.

Julia Elizabeth, born May 2, 1902.

After his marriage, Mr. Page located in Bethel, where he engaged in the real estate and insurance business until he accepted his present office, handling a general line of life and fire insurance, and real estate business.

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Mr. O. L. Page has one brother, John E., of Connersville, Ind., a sales manager for the Connersville Furniture Manu- facturing Company, having resided there for the past twenty years. He is a graduate of the Cincinnati Business College, and accepted his present position immediately after his grad- uation. Mr. John E. Page married a daughter of Prof. Saun- ders, now superintendent of schools in Connersville. They have two children-Elizabeth Ann and Mary Frances.

A baby sister of Mr. O. L. Page died in infancy.

In political views, Mr. Page is a Democrat, and has served his party in the various local offices, in the capacity of a member of the school board and of public affairs.

Mr. Page is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of Bethel. He is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is loyal in citi- zenship at all times, reliable in business and faithful in friend- ship. The strong and salient traits of his character are those which in every land and clime awaken confidence and re- spect.

JOSEPH F. KNIGHT.

Joseph F. Knight, who is actively interested in several im- portant enterprises at Williamsburg, Ohio, was born in Cler- mont county, near Branch Hill, Batavia township, September 4. 1849. He is one of the three children born to John and Catherine (Ogden) Knight, the other two being George L., who is a contractor and general mechanic in Pleasant Ridge, Ohio, and Mrs. Martha McNutt. who died leaving her hus- band. Obediah McNutt, and two daughters, Mrs. Dr. Frank McLean, of Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. John Hamilton, of St. Louis, Mo.

John Knight was born in 1817 at Frederick. Md. With his twin brother, Joseph, he went to Texas, where they were in the government employ among the Indians. Joseph remained in Texas, where his descendants still are located, but John went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he married and located on a farm in what is now Batavia township, where he was very successful and soon acquired a farm. To John and Mary (Davis) Knight one son was born. William Knight, who died when about sixty-five years of age. leaving a widow in Sar- dinia, Ohio, who still carries on the undertaking and furnish-

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ing business, in which he was engaged; also two sons and four daughters who reside in Clermont and Brown counties.

Catherine (Rogers) Ogden, who, as before mentioned, was the second wife of John Knight, was also formerly married, her first husband being Daniel Ogden. To this union two chil- dren were born: Ormel Ogden, who died in the army, and Mrs. Ella Hines, of Williamsburg, widow of Rev. William E. Hines, former minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a member of the Cincinnati conference until his death in June, 1892.

Joseph F. Knight, our subject, has resided at or near Wil- liamsburg since he was four years of age, except the two years he farmed in Preble county, Ohio. He followed the farming business until he was twenty-five years of age. Since then he has made himself very prominent as a business man. He spent some fifteen years in the mercantile business at Williamsburg. He was interested for eight years in the brick plant and has been president of the Williamsburg Furniture Company for years, of which company he was also manager until recently. He has been one of the six owners and directors of the Farm- ers' and Merchants' Bank, of Williamsburg, a private institu- tion, since its organization as the successor of the Lockard Banking Company. He is also interested in and is a director of the Building & Loan Company, and also of the Williams- burg Home Telephone Company. He has also been engaged in the real estate business for years, and owns property in Norwood and Pleasant Ridge and elsewhere. Mr. T. G. Foster was associated with him in the real estate business.

Our subject was married at Williamsburg to Ella M. Stock- ton, daughter of Volney Stockton, an early resident and chair manufacturer of Williamsburg. She died in 1881, leaving one daughter, Mrs. George Frazier, whose husband is in the mail service. In 1884 he was again married to Mrs. Centrilla ( Mc- Millan) Frazier, who by her first marriage was the mother of Charles Frazier, who is engaged with our subject in the chair business at Williamsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Knight are the par- ents of one daughter. Edna B., who is a graduate of the Wil- liamsburg schools, and is now at home.

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History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio, from the earliest historical times down to the present, V. 2, Part 36

Author: Byron Williams Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Number of Pages: 925

Author: Byron Williams
Publication date: 1913
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 925