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Robert and Sarah (Dillon) Dwiggins had ten children, born as follow : Daniel, 1807 : Elizabeth, 1809: Susannah, 1810; Lydia, 1812: Hannah, 1814: Sarah. 1817: Is, 1×20; Nancy. 1822; Martha. 1825; and Robert J., the father of Charles E., in 1832. The last three of the children lived and died in Clinton county.
Mr. Dwiggins' maternal grandparents were Edmund and Matilda ( Ballard) Kinsey. the latter of whom was the daughter of Enoch and Reberen Ballard, and was born in Clinton county. Edmund Kinsey was the son of Christopher and Mary Kinsey, who were among the earliest settlers in this county. He and his wife lived on a farm in I'nion township for some time, but later removed to Marshall county, Iowa, where they lived until their death.
Robert J. Dwiggins purchased the interest of his brothers and sisters in the home place and lived and died on his father's farm in Union township. He was a Republican In politics and served as school director. He was also a very strong temperance man, and during the Inter years of his life voted the Prohibition ticket. He was instrumental in the founding of Wilmington College, and was an elder and overseer in the Dover
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meeting of Friends. His wife was also an elder in the church. Robert Dwiggins, Sr., built the brick house in which Charles E. now lives in 1828. There were five children born to Robert J. and Rebecca B. (Kinsey) Dwiggins, of whom Charles E. Is the eldest; Sallie M., who married Allen Brackney, was born in 1862 and is now deceased; Emma, 1866, married Joseph McMillan, and they live near Waynesville, Ohio; Clara Anna, 1868, died in 1871; Mata lives with her brother, Charles E.
Charles E. Dwiggins attended the public and subscription schools of Union town- shlp, and later Wilmington College. During the time his father was living he remained on the farm and operated it. In 1880, he and A. L. Starbuck purchased a portable saw- mill and engaged in custom work for several years. Subsequently, he operated a thresh- ing machine In the neighborhood for twenty years. Ile and bis sister, Mata, operated the home place.
On October 29, 1885, Charles E. Dwiggins was married to Clara E. Hilling, a native of Union township. Clinton county, the daughter. of John and Mary (Postlewalte) Hilling. the former of whom died In 1867, and the latter in 1868, when Mrs. Dwiggins was two years old. She grew up with the family of Jesse G. Starbuck. Mr. and Mrs. Dwiggins have had one son, Arthur, who was born on June 11. 1886. He married Anna Carman, and they have two children, Howard C., born on March 24, 1908, and Edith Lucile. September 3, 1910.
Mr. Dwiggins has served as road supervisor of Union township ever since the law creating this office was passed. He is a Republican in politics. At present he is one of the overseers of the Dover meeting of Friends. All of the members of the family belong to the Dover meeting.
Charles F. Dwiggins is a good citizen and an upright, honorable man in all the relations of life. He Is popular in the community where he lives and enjoys the confl- dence of all his neighbors.
ARTHUR D. ANTRAM.
No event has occurred In recent years in Union township which cast a deeper gloom over the hearts of the people of this township than the unfortunate accident which resulted in the death of Arthur D. Antram on August 10. 1911. He was a well-to-do and popular farmer of Union township and a man who had a host of friends in this section of Clinton county and prominent in the political and civic life. He was devoted to his family and their interests and was admired by all with whom he had come In contact.
The late Arthur D. Antram was born on the farm where his widow now lives in I'nion township, Clinton county, Ohio, March 27. 1855, and died on August 10, 1911, as a result of injuries sustained when his horses ran away in the woods. He died three hours after the accident. He was a son of John M. and Catherine ( Rabb) Antram, the former of whom was born in Clinton county, Ohio, one mile west of Wilmington, June 19, 1825, and who is still living at the homes of her son, Frank William, and his daughter. Mrs, Arthur A. Antram, the Intter of whom was born on July 21, 1827, on a farm in Union township, where Frank Antram now lives, and died on June 24, 1898. John M. Antram Is the son of Hiram and Sarah IA (Whitson) Antram, the former of whom was born on January 29, 1798, in Frederick county, Virginia, and the latter of whom was born in 1800 in Center county, Pennsylvania, and who died in 1872. In 1817 Hiram Antram came to I'nion township, Clinton county, Ohio, with his parents, John and Ann ( Hackney) Antram, who were among the first families to settle in Clinton county. Sarah L. Whit- son came from Pennsylvania to Madison county, Ohio. in 1816 and to Clinton county in 1817. They were married in Clinton county. John Antram was a farmer and kept a hotel and store at Harveysburg in Warren county for a number of years. Sarah I .. Whitson was the daughter of John Whitson, who married a Miss Moore.
The Antrum family have been members of the Friends church for many generations.
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Hiram Antratu's family came from Ireland to Virginia in an early day and the family is of Scotch-Irish descent. Hiram Antram owned a fartu of two hundred and thirty-six acres one mile west of Wilmington. He and his wife had nine children, of whom five are dereused. The living children are; James W., who is living at Monticello, Mis- souri, and who Is ninety-two years of age; John M., who is living with his son, Frank William, and is ninety years old: Calvin H., who lives in California ; and Priscilla, who married Frank Larzelere. The dereased children are: Emily, who died unmarried ; Amanda Louisa, who died In infancy; Joseph, who died in Warren county, Ohio, in 1912: Maria, who married Alfred Haines; and Mary, who died at the age of twenty.
The Antram family is noted for its longevity and John M., who is now ninety years old, has spent all of his life with the exception of six years, when he lived in Warren county, In Clinton county. He grew up on his father's farm and in 1861 was married. after which he purchased seventy-seven and three-quarter acres of land and added to it until he owned one hundred and forty acres at what is now known as Antram Corners. He lived there for thirty-seven years, or until 188, when he retired and moved to Wilmington. Since 1903 he has made his home with his son. He was trustee of Union township for four years and an ardent Republican in politics. In 1870 all the members of the Antram family Joined the Friends church and John M. Antram was an elder in the church for some time. He was not only a farmer during his active life but was engaged In buying and selling stock. He kept a tavern at Antrams Corners for several years. He had only two children by his marriage in 151 to Catherine Babb: Arthur D., the subject of this sketch. and Frank William.
Catherine Babb was the daughter of Azel and Hannah i Hollingsworthi Babb, the former of whom was the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Walker) Babh. Henry Babb came to Ohio in 1806 from Frederick county. Virginia, and settled about a mile and one- half north of the court house in Wilmington. His wife's father. Morderal Walker. in 1805. purchased a thousand acres of land from Thomas Posey. the owner of the survey on which Wilmington was laid out. and divided the same into four equal parts, giving ench of his four children, two sons and two daughters, one of these parts. Elizabeth Walker received her portion in the northeast corner of the one thousand-acre purchase. including the land on which Mr. Babb had settled. At the first election of bounty officers. Henry Babb was elected county commissioner and served two years. He was the father of five sons and six daughters. His sons were Peter. Thomas, Henry Azel and Saison. His daughters were Mary, who married Thomas Babb: Rebecca, who married William Crumley : Rachel, who married John Walters; Hannah, who married Joseph Smith : Lydia, who married a Mr. Smith; and Betsy, who married a Mr. Wall.
Arthur D. Antram attended the district school at Antram's Corners and later Wil- mington College. After leaving college, he was married and purchased a farm at the edge of Liberty, In Union township, comprising one hundred and fifty acres, in partner- ship with his brother, Frank W. Later he sold his share to Frank W., and lived with his parents, operating the home farm. In 1855, when his parents moved to Wilmington. he purchased a part of the home farm and later bought the entire tract of one hundred and twenty acres. Subsequently. he bought sixty acres of the Curl farm and added It to his land which he already heldt. In 1910 he remodeled his house.
Ou February 2. 1878, Arthur D. Antram was married to Margaret Welch, who was born in Ireland and came to the I'nited States with her parents when a baby. She was born on December 25. 1550, and was reared by George and Lydia Bailey, now decensed. who lived on a farm In Liberty township. Mrs. Antram bad a half-sister. Catherine. who married Samuel Brann, of Wilmington, but more than that she is not acquainted with her family history. Mr. and Mrs. Antram had three children : John, Ralph and Mary C. John was born on September 1. 1879, and lives on a part of the Antram farm which he purchased. He married Maud South. Ralph, who was born on March 7. 1851.
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is unmarried and operates the home farm for his mother. Mary C., who was born on December 27. 1853, lives at home. She attended Wilmington College and has taught school for five years. Mrs. Antram bas also taken a hoy to rear. His name Is Orville A. Paris and was born on March 21, 1904.
Arthur D. Antram was prominent in the political life of I'nion township, having served as township assessor and as road supervisor for a third of the township. He was identified with the Republican party. The family are members of the Dover meeting of the Friends church.
FRED STOLTZ.
In the history of agriculture in Clinton county, Ohio, Fred Stoltz, who owns one hundred and ninety-two acres of land in I'nion township, occupies a conspicuous place. During several decades he has been one of the representative farmers of the county. progressive, enterprising and persevering. Such qualities always win success sooner or Jater, and to Mr. Stoltz they have brought a satisfactory reward for his well-directed efforts. While he has benefited himself and the community In a material way. he has also been influential in the educational, political and moral advancement of the com- munity where he has lived so long.
Fred Stoltz was born six miles from Stutgart, in the province of Wurttemberg. Ger- many. March 28. 1546, the son of John nud Fransine ( Stoltz) Stoltz, who were second- rouxins. John Stoltz was horn near Stutgart. December 25. 1823. and died in February. 1903. and his wife was born at Stutgart in 1821 and died In 1872. They came to America In 1851 and located in Adams county. Ohio,
- The paternal grandparents of Fred Stoltz lived and died In Germany, as did also his maternal grandparents. They were all members of the Lutheran church. John Stoltz, before coming to America, owned fourteen acres of land in Germany, and this was considered no small amount in that country. After coming to America they pur- chased a farm in Adams county, and later be purchased another farm. In 1870 he sold out and moved to CHnton county aud purchased one hundred and fifty acres in Union township. John and Fransine Stoltz had eleven children : Rachel, who is the deceased wife of Janies Keach : Dora, who died unmarried at the age of fifty-two: Fred. the sub- Ject of this sketch: John, who is a retired farmer of Highland county. Ohio; Jacob, who is a retired farmer of Sabina, Ohio: Fannie, who is unmarried and lives in Wilmington ; Mary, who died in 1912: William, who lives in Greene township: Christian, who lives on n farm in Washington township; Callie, who is the deceased wife of Joe Sherman; and Lizzie, who married R. M. McCoy and lives in Wilmington.
Fred Stoltz was three years old when the Stoltz family Immigrated to the I'nited States. The voyage to Amerien required forty-two days. After the family settled m Adams county. he attended the public schools In a German settlement. He was twenty- four years old when the family came to Clinton county and shortly afterwards he pur- chased seventy-two and one-half acres on the New Vienna pike in I'nion township. Since 1884 he has added eighty-six acre in one traet and thirty-three acres In another and now OWEN one hundred and ninety-two neres altogether. In 1885 Mr. Stoltz built a new house and In 1910 he remodeled and enlarged this house. One year before building the house. he built a splendid barn. He makes a specialty of purebred Jersey enttle and has been very successful as a farmer and dairyman.
On September 4. 1884. Fred Stoltz was married to Mary J. O'Niel, who was born in Clinton county. Ohio, the daughter of William and Mary Ann ( Miskelly ) O'Niel. the former of whom was born in South Carolina, and is now deceased. and the latter of whom was born hear Philadelphia In 1810 and died In 1803. Mary J. O'Niel has lived all her life thus far in Clinton county and was a teacher in the public schools for eight years before her marriage.
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To Mr. and Mrs. Stoltz have been born five children, namely : Charles William, who was born on January 3, 1886, and who travels for the International Harvester Company ; Mary, June, 1887, died at the age of seven years In 1894; Cora O., who is a school teacher nt Batavia, Ohio; Viola, who is attending Wilmington College; and Winifred, who was born in January, 1893, and died in June, 1804, of scarlet fever. Cora O. received the scholarship for excellence in her senior year at Wilmington high school and used her scholarship at Ohlo Wesleyan University at Delaware, from which she was graduated in 1913 and is now a teacher of languages in high school at Batavia.
Mr. and Mrs. Stoltz and family are all members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Stoltz is a Republican.
DARIU'S J. MILLER.
Darius J. Miller, a successful farmer of Union township. Clinton county, was born on the farm where he now lives on April 21, 1852, the son of John D. and Jane ( Mckenzie) Miller, the former of whom was born in Center county, Pennsylvania, June 29. 1817, and died on March 18, 1802, and the latter of whom was born in Green town- ship. Clinton county, Ohio, in 1:16, and died on April 27, 1883.
John D. Miller was a son of David and Tamzen ( Whitson ) Miller, natives of Penn- sylvania and of German descent. The latter was born on June 23. 1792, and was mar- ried to David Miller on December 30. 1815. David Miller came to Clinton county. Ohio. from Pennsylvania, in 1819. He died on April 15, 1800. A brother of his. John, served in the War of 1812, in a company from Center county, Pennsylvania. After his removal to Clinton county, Ohio, he owned two different farms in Union township.
David and Tamsen ( Whitson) Miller were the parents of eight children : Emmeline, born on April 10, 1815, married John MeCool, of Wilmington ; Mary Ann. April 12, 1821. married Samuel Collins, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Almina Margaret, January 10, 1823. mar- ried Charles Jones, of Wilmington : Priscilla, October 7, 1824, died July 3. 1837; Angeline, June 5, 1828; Alfred Adams. May 5, 1826, was a farmer in Iowa where he died ; John D., the father of Darius J .. was the seventh born: Louisa Ellen, January 1, 1832. became the wife of Nathaniel Hale.
John D. Miller was married on October 31. 1841, to Jane Mckenzie, a daughter of John Mckenzie, a native of Kentucky, who emigrated to Warren county, Ohio. The settlement in the southeast part of I'nion township was made In 1804 and 1805, John Mckenzie and the Spencer family being the first to locate here, building their cabins on Cowan's creek. Although the families of Mckenzie and Spencer were unfriendly, It became a necessity for them to assist each other in raising cabins and at log rollings, At this period a number of Indian camps still remained along the brow of the hill facing the creek, where Mr. Mckenzie and the Spencers were making their improvements, but they were friendly to the whites, whose children often visited the Indian wigwams. Hunting parties of the Shawnee tribe made annual visits to their old camping ground on Allen's creek until 1811, when, on account of the approaching trouble with the whites. their hunting expeditions ceased.
When John D. Miller was brought to Clinton county, Ohio, by his parents in 1819. he was only two years old. He grew up on the farm, married and rented land. His wife Inherited seventy acres of land in I'nion township from her father, to which she and her husband moved, and here they lived the remainder of their lives. John D. and Jane (MaKenzie) Miller had the following children : Isabel. the eldest, who married William Carver, is dereased : Miles D. is a farmer living in U'nion township on a farm adjoining the one on which Darius J. Is living, who is the youngest of the family.
Darius J. Miller attended the Sugar Grove district school, and grew up on the farm. living at home with his father until the latter's death in 1802. Afterwards Darius J.
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Miller purchased the Interest of his sister in the farm and now owns fifty acres. In 1886 the house burned, and Mr. Miller built a new house, in which he now lives.
On August 17, 1883, Darius J. Miller was married to Anna M. Gumley, who was born on July 14, 1865, In Union township, the daughter of George and Mary ( Irvin) Gumley, both now deceased. Mrs. Miller's parents were both natives of County Tyrone, Ireland, who came to America in their younger days, he being eighteen years of age at the time of bis arrival in this country, and was married after coming to this county. George Gumley died on April 27, 1911, at the age of eighty acres, and his wife died on April 30, 1913, in her eightieth year. They were the parents of five sons and three daughters, who are still living, and two sons who died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of four children : Ennie, born on May 4, 1885, married Nell Elliott, has one daughter, Josephine, and lives on a farm in Adams town- ship: Pearl, April 28, 1888, married Russell Crouse, of Wilmington, and they have one daughter, Evelyn May, born May 18, 1912; May, October 19, 1800, lives at home with ber parents; and Lloyd, March 13, 1904, also lives at home.
In politics, Darius J. Miller is Independent and casts bis vote regardless of parties and party emblems for the man he belleves to be the best fitted to fill the office sought. Mrs. Miller is an earnest and consistent member of the Central Christian church, of Wilmington.
LORIN A. VANDERVORT.
It is an axiom demonstrated by human experience that a man gets out of this life what he puts into It with a reasonable interest on bis investment. The Individual who Inherits a large estate and adds nothing to his fortune cannot be called a successful man. The man who starts in the world unuided and by sheer force of his will, forges ahead and at length attains a position of honor among his fellow citizens, Is a success which can hardly be appreciated. To a considerable extent Lorin A. Vandervort is a creditable example of the man who has succeeded by his own unaided efforts.
Lorin A. Vandervort was born on December 14, 1800. In Greene township, Clinton county, Ohio, and is the son of Thaddeus H. and Minerva (Noble) Vandervort. the former of whom was born on October 30, 1530, in Greene township. near New Antioch. and died on July 5, 1900, and the latter of whom was born in 1836. In Greene township, and died in June. 1911. Thaddeus H. Vandervort was the son of Nicholas and Nancy Vandervort. Nicholas Vandervort was born at Columbia, near Cincinnati, in 1803, and his wife was born in Warren county, Ohio. Nicholas Vandervort was six years of age when brought to Clinton county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and married. He was an earnest worker In the Christian church and lived a most useful life, at his death having been a resident of Clinton county for sixty-four years. He passed away on June 23. 1876, and his wife on January 11, 1873. They had seven children besides Thaddeus HI., the father of Lorin A., as follow : James M., John M., Nicholas W .. Jonah S., Paul C., William V. and one unnamed, Paul C. and William V. were soldiers in the Civil War, having been members of the Company B. Fortieth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The former died of typhoid fever at Catlettsburg, Kentucky. February 8, 1802. The latter became a drummer boy and served throughout the war, being discharged at Atlanta, Georgia, in December, 1864. He came home, was married and died on April 14. 1880.
The ancestry of the Vandervort familly goes back to Michael Paulus Van Der Voort, who came from East Flanders, the region of Deudermonde, prior to 1040 and loented in New Amsterdam, now New York. The records show that Michael Paulus Van Der Voort was married to Marie Rapalye on November 18. 1640, and their marriage is the Afth recorded in New Amsterdam. Among their children is one son, Paul, who was baptized (29)
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on January 3, 1649. He married Lysbeth Paulus Deickson and they had one son, who was called Paul and who was born at Bedford, Long Island, and baptized in 1681. He married Nultze Staats and they had a son, Nicholas, born at Bedford. Long Island. Subsequently, the family moved to Orange county, New York, where Nicholas married Abigail Halstead and they had six children: John, Martha, l'aul, Peter, William and Jonah.
Jonah settled in Clinton county and sat on the first jury impuneled in Clinton county in 1810. He was born at Shepherdstown, Virginia, May 30, 1765, was married to Jane Tibbs, March 29, 1796, and moved to the Northwest Territory in 1800, locating at Columbia, now within the city limits of Cincinnati. He died at New Antioch in 1842 and she died in 1845. Jonah had eleven children, six sons and five daughters, among whom was Nicholas, the father of Thaddeus and grandfather of Lorin A. The descend- ants of Jonah now number about four hundred souls scattered over eight different states.
Mr. Vandervort's maternal grandfather, Elisha Noble, who married a Miss Mat- thewa, was one of the contractors who assisted in the erection of the present court house at Wilmington, about 1838. He lived on a farm near New Vienna, in Green township. Minerva Noble was one of eight children born to her parents: Elisba and John M., the two eldest, now deceased; Mrs. Vandervort ; Mrs. Melinda Elliot ; Mra, Emily Slocum; Mrs. Spear; Mrs. Williams, and Mrs. Bowers When a child Minerva Noble made her home with Doctor Runnells at New Antioch and was living with them at the time of her marriage to Thaddens HI. Vandervort.
Thaddeus HI. Vandervort grew up on a farm in Green township and attended the public schools at New Antloch. After his marriage he drove a buckster wagon for Wilson's store at New Antioch, but subsequently rented a farm at Snow Hill. Later he purchased a farm two and one-half miles north of New Antioch In Green township, where he lived until his death. He added to his farm from time to time until he owned two hundred acres. He was a Republican and served several years as township trustee. Hle was well known in (Hinton county as a hog raiser. Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus H. Van- dervort belonged to the Christian church at New Antioch. They had eight children : Andrew R., who married Allee Devers and lives on a farm in Washington township; William, who lives In Trumbull county, Ohio, where he is a farmer; Lorin A., the subject of this sketch; Nannie J., who married B. B. Vandervort, a distant cousin, and lives near Jamestown, Ohio, where he is a fruit grower; Mary E., who married Frank Hare, and lives on a farm in Jefferson township: E. Bert, who lives on his father's place In Green township: James S., who is a farmer in Trumbull county, Ohlo; and Nettie, who married Samuel Traum, a minister in the Christian church at Meadville. Pennsy !- vania.
Lorin A. Vandervort was educated in the public schools of Green township, assisting his father on the farm until he was twenty-one years old, at which time he was mar- ried. After his marriage he lived on his father-in-law's farm in Union township for ten years, and, in 1802. purchased one hundred acres of land from the Catherine Glass farm. Since that time he has added fifty-one acres, the farm now consisting of one hundred and fifty-one acres altogether. The house in which Mr. and Mrs. Vandervert live was built in 1891.
On December 29, 18$2. Lorin A. Vandervort was married to Alice C. Wilson, n native of I'nion township, daughter of James and Mary +Custis) Wilson, both of whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Vandervort have had two children. Lloyd and Augusta. Lloyd, who was born in September, 1863, died on April 25. 120. Augusta, who was born in October, 1590, married M. R. Snyder and lives on the James Wilson homestead in Union township.
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