History of Clinton County, Ohio Its People, Industries, and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, Part 96

Author: Albert J. Brown (A.M.)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : W.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1108

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. Frank L. McDonald was born on November 17, 1871, near the Springfield meeting house in Adams township. Clinton county, the son of James W. and Sarah (Thatcher) McDonald. James W. McDonald was a native of Green township, born near Antioch, October 1, 1844. and died on April 1, 1907. He was the son of Thomas and Sarah ( Bloom) MeDonald.

Thomas MeDonald was a native of Virginia, who located along the Ohlo river, in Ohio, when a very young man, settling with his parents in Union township. Clinton county. Ohio, where they purchased two hundred acres of land at one dollar and fifty cents an acre. He cleared off the timber and established a home. Thomas and Sarah ( Bloom) McDonald were members of the Methodist Protestant church. The former, who was eighteen years older than his wife, died at the age of eighty-two years. His wife died on February 17, 1900, at the age of seventy-five. Thomas McDonald was the son of Jerod and Nancy ( Marshal) MeDonald, the former of whom was born on August 20. 1768, and died on April 2. 1845, and the latter born on January 3. 1776. and died on August 2, 1861. Roth were natives of Virginia and early settlers of Clinton county, Ohio. Ten children were born to Thomas and Sarah McDonald, of whom James W., the father of Frank L., was the eldest. Seven of the children are now deceased and three are living. The names of the children In the order of their births are as follow : James W .: John, deceased, who was horn on June 29. 1846; Cyrus B., July 30. 1847, deceased, who lived in Chicago; Alpheus. December 29. 1849, died May 28, 1870, who was a minister of the Methodist Protestant church; Charles H., April 11, 1852, deceased. who had a music store at Chicago, Illinois; Cornelius, May 3. 1854, who is a fruit tree salesman, of Chicago; George M., 1856, deceased, who was a real estate dealer in Dallas, Texas; Mary Ellen. 1850, who married John Watrous and lives in Evanston, Illinois; Thomas Elmer. 1862, deceased, who was a bank clerk at Des Moines, Iowa; and Anna May, April 14, 1870, who is the widow of Charles Compton and lives in Bradford, Pennsylvania.

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James W. McDonald, the eldest child of this family, grew up on his father's farm near New Antioch, and in 1863 enlisted in the Thirteenth Ohio Cavalry, serving until the end of the war, when he received an honorable discharge. During bis service he received a scalp wound but, with that exception, suffered no more than the ordinary hardships, which hard service entails. He was with the army which pursued Lee at the time of his surrender and at that time was on horseback constantly day and night for fifteen days. In 1864. when he was home on a furlough, he was married. After the war he rented farms for twenty-five years. His health falling in 1885, he moved to Wilmington and worked in a meat market as a meat cutter, following this trade until his death. He was prominent in local politics as a Republican and served as township assessor for several years after moving to Wilmington. He and his wife were members of the Wilmington meeting of the Friends church. In 1887 he purchased a comfortable home on Sugar Tree street, In Wilmington, where his widow now lives.

James W. McDonald was married on December 8, 1864, to Sarah Thatcher, a native of Union township, born three miles southeast of Wilmington, September 4, 1843. She is the daughter of Joseph and Deborah (Hadley) Thatcher, the former of whom was born on June 17, 1813, in Wilmington, Ohio, and died on May 3, 1857, and the latter, born on April 14, 1817. In the Springfield neighborhood of Clinton county, and died on September 1, 1862.

Joseph and Deborah Thatcher and eight children, four of whom are deceased. as follow : Mary Ellen, born on September 20, 1834, died December 25. 1854; William HI., October 30, 1837, died September 18, 1857; Susan, July 29. 1840, who married George Brown and lives at Hillsboro Ohio; Sarah, September 4, 1843. who is the widow of James W. McDonald and the mother of Frank L .; Lydia Maria, July 20, 1846. wbo married Samuel Stattler, of Wilmington; Annie J., May 28. 1849, died June 1, 1881; Emily. August 11, 1852, died April 12, 1879; and Oliver Joseph, November 10, 1857, who for several years prior to 1906 held the chair of medieval history in the I'niversity of Chicago.

Joseph Thatcher was the son of Thomas and Susannah ( Stratton) Thatcher, the former of whom was a native of Virginia and the latter of North Carolina. He was a tanner by trade and operated a large tannery in Wilmington in pioneer times. Thatch- er's addition in Wilmington was named for bim. Joseph Thatcher and his wife were farmers and throughout their lives were active members of the Quaker church. He was the clerk of the yearly meeting for many years. Her parents were William and Sarah (Lindley) Hadley, who were natives of North Carolina and early settlers in Clinton county, owning a home in Adams township. Besides being a farmer, Joseph Thatcher was also a blacksmith and operated a shop on his farm.

Frank L. MeDonald is one of four children born to his parents, namely : Mary Annetta, who was born on September 24. 1867, Is the widow of Frank L. Doan and Ives in Columbus, Ohlo: Frank L., the subject of this sketch : Thomas Russell, June 30, 1874, died November 20. 1913. in Chicago, where he was a grain merchant ; and William Estus, December 17, 1884, is unmarried and is a merchant in Columbus, Ohio.

Frank L. McDonald was educated in the public schools of I'nion township. He spent his boyhood and youth on a farm. He was fifteen years old in 1886 at the time his parents moved to Wilmington, and here he learned the undertaking and furniture business as an apprentice under C. A. Marble. Seven years after coming to Wilmington, in partnership with Cary A. Holliday, he purchased Mr. Marble's establishment. He continued the business successfully until 1903, when Mr. McDonald sold out to Mr. Holliday and purchased a half interest in the carpet store of Frank Gallup. After four years, Mr. McDonald sold his interest in the Gallup store and purchased the John Hirt farm in Union township. This farm comprised one hundred and forty-seven acres. In 1907 he sold this farm and purchased the Judge Doan homestead in Wilmington. Eight

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years later he traded the Judge Doan homestead for one hundred and twenty-five acres in the Center neighborhood of Union township.

On March 1, 1913, Mr. McDonald was appointed superintendent of the Clinton county Infirmary, a position which is now under the civil service and which he holds during good behavior and satisfactory service.

On September 18, 1895, Frank L. McDonald was married to Fannie M. Doan, who was born in Wilmington, Ohio, and who is the daughter of the late Judge Azariah Doan and his second wife, Martha G. Taylor, of Pennsylvania. Judge Azariah Doan was the son of Jonathan and Phoebe ( Wall) Doan, the former of whom was a native of North Carolina and a blacksmith, who came to Ohlo In 1804 and located in Union township, where he was a farmer. He died in July, 1874. Phoebe Wall was a native of Penn- sylvania, who accompanied her parents to Ohio in 1808. She died in November, 1869. The late Judge Azariah Doan was a well-known lawyer of Clinton county, who served n term of two years in the Ohio state senate and a term of fifteen years as judge of the common pleas court of Clinton county.

Mr. McDonald is a member of all of the branches of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his family are ardent members of the Friends church.

Mr. and Mrs. McDonald have had two children : Margery, who was born on Novem- ber 30, 1902; and Gerald, who was born on June 5, 1905.

HEBER W. CUSTIS.

Heber W. Custis, a prominent and successful young farmer of Union township, was born on the farm where he now lives, on the Washington pike, July 24, 1888, the son of Levi H. and Elizabeth Jane (Vanniman) Custis, the former of whom is a retired farmer of Richland township, and who was born on December 6, 1845, and the latter of whom is a daughter of Elias and Eva ( Early) Vanniman, and was born on February 8, 1850. Levi H. Custis is the son of Douglas W. and Rennial (Gustin) Custis, the former of whom was born on December 20, 1811, In Scioto county, Ohio, and the latter of whom is the daughter of Elkany Gustin. Douglas W. Custis was a son of William and Eliza- beth (Savage) Custis, the former of whom was twice married. By his first wife, Eliza- beth Savage, be had five children, Sallie, John, William, Harriet and Douglas W.

Levi H. Custis was one of seven children born to his parents, as follow: William was born ou September 8, 1836; Isaiah, November 2, 1838; Myra, March 18, 1840; Han- nah J., July 21, 1843; Levi H., December 26, 1845; Rhoda, October 23, 1848, died on October 10, 1850; and Mary, February 13, 1851.

Heber W. Custis is one of five children born to his parents, and he is the youngest in order of birth. Lillian is the wife of Clark Haines, of Warren county, Ohio. Edna is the wife of Irving Peelle, of Wilmington, Ohio. Dwight married Nettie Hughes. He is a minister at Richwood, Ohio. Maude died in infancy.

Like most lads born and reared in Clinton county, Heber W. Custis attended the district schools, but he had unusual educational advantages in being permitted to attend Wilmington College for two years, after which he took an agricultural short course at Ohio State University, at Columbus. There he received a splendid training for prac- tieal farming, and completed the course in 1009. In 1911, Mr. Custis' father retired from active farm life and removed to Sabina, Ohio, since which time Heber W. has rented the home place of one hundred and twelve acres from his father. The farm has a very handsome brick house on the Washington pike, with an avenue of maples leading back to the house. Mr. Custis bought seventy-seven acres of land from his father near the home farm. In this community he is considered a very pleasant, agreeable young citizen.

. On August 10, 1910, Heber W. Custis was married to Hazel Reed, who was born In Wayne township, Clinton county. Ohlo, a daughter of Amos and Ella ( Driscoll ) Reed.

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Mrs. Custis graduated from the Reesville high school and also attended Wilmington Col- lege, after which she taught school two years in Wilson township. Amos Reed was born in Wayne township, Clinton county, Oblo. in 1852, and died in 1888. He was a son of William and Rachel Rede, the former of whom was born In Clinton county, Ohio, and the latter of whom was born in Virginia. William Reed was a farmer In Wayne town- ship. Ella (Driscoll) Reed, the mother of Mrs. Custis, was a daughter of Ephraim and Hester (Kaiser) Driscoll, the former of whom was a native of Clinton county, Oblo, and the latter of Indiana. Ephraim Driscoll was a farmer living near Cuba. Amos and Ella (Driscoll) Reed were farmers in Wayne township, and were the parents of two children: Orville, of Melvin, Ohio, and Hazel. Amos Reed died while Hazel was an infant, and in 1891 her mother, Ella ( Driscoll) Reed, married, secondly. William B. Vermilyen, who was born in Wabash county, Indiana, a son of Solomon and Mary Jane Vermilyea. William Vermilyen served three and one-half years in the Civil War in the Seventh Missouri Cavalry. He was a widower, his first marriage occurring In 1866. He and his wife, the mother of Mrs. Custls, are now living retired in Reesville. Ohio. By this second marriage, there were two children: Ethel, who married Virgil Ireland, of Dayton, Ohio; and Wright, who is unmarried and lives at Reesville with his parents.

Mr. and Mrs. Heber W. Curtis have had two children: Jenn, born on July 2. 1911. and Freda, January 2, 1914.

Mr. and Mrs. Custis belong to the Methodist Protestant eburch at Melvin, Ohio. Mr. Custis is a member of Sabina Lodge No. 324, Free and Accepted Masons.

ELIJAH MARMADUKE HAWORTH.

The Haworth family has been well established in Clinton county for more than a century, and the various members of the family have been prominent in the political, and religious life of the various sections in which they have lived. Elijah Marmaduke Haworth, one of the older members of the family now living in this county, is a well- known churchman and farmer of Union township, where be is prominent in the Dover meeting of Friends, and a former trustee of Wilmington College. In Clinton county the name Haworth stands for honesty, Integrity and the highest moral purpose, and the representative of the present generation are no exception to the rule established by the worthy pioneers and early members of this family.

Elijah Marmaduke Haworth was born on September 9. 1849. on the farm where he now lives in I'nion township, the son of Elijah and Elizabeth (Walthall) Haworth, the former of whom was born on March 1, 1813. on Todd's fork. Union township, and died in 1:05, and the latter of whom was born in November, 1811, In Dinwiddie county, Virginia, and died In 1897.

Elijah Haworth was the son of Mahlon and Phoebe ( Bailey) Haworth, the former of whom settled on Todd's fork in 1504. This is a part of Clinton county. now com- prised in Union township. Mahlon Haworth was a son of George Haworth, said to have been the second settler in what is now Union township, and one of the earliest in Clinton county. He opened a farm and built a grist-mill. His son, James, settled on a farm long occupied by Ell Gaskill : Richard settled on the David Myers place, and Jobn the Morris farm; George owned the John Haines place, while Samuel and Dillon Ilved at home with their father. A year Inter Mahlon brought his family from Tennessee and settled on the farm since owned by William Walker, of Todd's fork, two miles north of Wilmington, on the Dover road. Other sons opened other well-known farms in this part of the county until each of the eight had homes of their own. Here George Haworth continued to reside until about 1825, when several of his sons, having sold their pos- sessions In Ohio, removed to Illinois. He also sold out and removed with his two younger sons, Samuel and Dillon, to Quaker Point, near Georgetown, Vermilion county.

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Illinois, in order to be near his children. Georgetown was laid out by bis son, James Haworth, and called after his father's given name. George Haworth was a worthy member of the Society of Friends and In the latter years of his life a minister. About 1807 or 1808, he traveled on horseback to Baltimore to attend the yearly meeting as n representative from the Miami quarterly meeting, then, as now, held at Waynesville.

Mablon Haworth, the son of George Haworth, who had settled on Todd's fork in 1803, visited Ohio first in 1800 on a prospecting tour and prosecuted his explorations up the Little Miami and Mad rivers, returning by way of Van Meter's. When he came from Tennessee with his family In 1804, he was accompanied by John and James Wright and their families. At this time Cincinnati contained altogether about eighteen houses. It Is said that Mahlon Haworth on the journey north rode the wheel horse and drove the tenm over Clinch mountain, bearing an Infant in his arms. This child, then nearly two years old, was his daughter, Susanna, who afterwards married Marmaduke Brackney. Besides Susanna. he brought to Ohio his three children older than she, Rebecca. George D. and Hezekiah. The families of George Haworth, Mahlon Haworth, James and Jolin Wright were among the first white familles to settle In Clinton county north of Wil- mington. In the bottom of the opposite side of Todd's fork, where they built their enbin, was a camping ground of Indians. In their rude enbin and during the cold winter season a daughter. Mary Haworth, or "Polly," as she was called, was born to Mablon Haworth. She grew so beautiful that she was admired of all the surrounding country. but in the midst of her loveliness, in her early womanhood, she was called away. Mahlon and Phoebe ( Bailey) Haworth had also born to them upon this farm other children, as follow : Phoebe. Minhlon, Jr., John, Elijah. James and Richard. Rebecca died in early womanhood, and Jobu and James in Infancy. The remaining children all lived to be respected and influential citizens of Clinton county and heads of families. Mablou Hrworth finally owned about two hundred acres. He died on his farm at the age of sixty-eight in 1849. All the members of his family were ardent Quakers and he helped to start the Dover meeting in his neighborhood.

William and Elizabeth Walthall, the maternal grandparents of Elijah Marmaduke Haworth, were born in Dinwiddie county. Virginia, about 1825. and came to the Dover neighborhood. In Clinton county, by wagon. He purchased a farm of a hundred acres one mile east of the Dover meeting house and lived there until his death. They were strict Quakers.

Elijah Haworth grew up on a farm in I'nion township, and with only three hundred dollars ersh for payment purchased ninety-seven acres of land out of the Wrightsman farm, where his son now lives, He built a cabin on the farm and kept adding to the pince until he owned two hundred acres. In 1840 he built the house which yet stands on the place and in which his son lives. It is a very comfortable dwelling. In 1844 he built the large barn which also stands on the place, hewing every stick of timber in It. He lived on this form until his death. He was a stock raiser and took especial pride in fattening large numbers of hogs. He served as township trustee, having been elected as a Whig, and during all his life was a radient Abolitionist, and on the formation of the Republican party became identified with It. He and his family were all active in the Dover meeting of the Friends church.

Elijah and Elizabeth (Walthall) Haworth had five children, three of whom, the eldest, are deceased. The living children are Elijah Marmaduke, the subject of this sketch, and Phoche, who married H. Mather, a farmer of Union township. The derensed children are: Henry, who was a farmer in the Dover neighborhood, and was killed in 1881 by the kick of a horse: William, who died in 1909, was a farmer in Union town- ship; Martha, who married Josiah Hoskins, died. February 15, 1915; her husband is also deceased.

Elijah Marmaduke Haworth attended the public schools and also the subscription

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schools in his neighborhood, and received a fair education. He also attended the Friends monthly meeting schools and lived at home with his father until after his marriage. As his father grew older he gradually took charge of the home farm and in 1895 purchased the interest of the other heirs. He now has a hundred and eighty-four acres in L'uion township. He keeps a fine grade of live stock and is well known as a stock breeder.

In 1870 Elijah Marmaduke Haworth was united in marriage to Louisa Gilpin, who was born in the Dover neighborhood of Union township, and died in July, 1883. After her death Mr. Haworth was married, secondly, In September, 1884, to Mary Jane Greene. who was born in Clark township, Clinton county, Ohio, the daughter of John Greene, deceased. By the first marriage there were three children, namely : Alma, who married Kelly Underwood. died in 1903; Henry is in the transfer business at Dayton; and Lindley M. Is a farmer in Union township. By the second marriage there were two children, Ila, who married Herald Mckay, a farmer of U'nion township, who operates his father-in-law's farm, and Elizabeth, who is unmarried and lives at home.

Elijah Marmaduke Haworth is a Republican. The Haworth family are members of the Dover meeting of Friends, where Mr. Haworth is an elder. He served as trustee of Wilmington College for six years.

WILLIAM C. PARLETT.

Specific mention is made in this volume of many worthy citizens of Clinton county who lived during a former generation, citizens who figured in the growth and develop- ment of the county and whose interests were Identified especially with its agricultural progress. Among such men was the late William C. Parlett.

William C. Parlett was born in Chester township, Clinton county, Oblo, on April 23, 1830, and died on June 13, 1904. He was the son of David and Elizabeth (Clark) Par- lett, both of whom were natives of Virginia. The father died in 1834 and his widow Inter married William Batheall, a resident of northern Ohio.

William C. Parlett grew up on the farm and after attaining manhood was married to Anna N. Woolery, who died in 1882. whereupon he came with his children to Clinton county, Ohio, and rented land.

On April 6, 1865, William C. Parlett was married to Sarah Elizabeth Kline, who was born on April 11, 1842, In Wilmington, the daughter of Henry and Sarah (Chipman) Kline. the former of whom was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, December 4. 1801, and who died on August 30. 1870, and the latter of whom was born on January 25, 1817. In Kentucky, and who died on July 11, 1907.

The parents of Henry Kline were Jacob and Catherine ( Brill) Kline, the latter of whom died when Henry was only six weeks old. Both Jacob and Catherine (Brill) Kline lived and died in Hampshire county, Virginia. They were born and married, however. in Germany, and came from their native land to Virginia. Sarah (Chipman) Kline's parents died when she was an infant and she was reared by several different families in succession. At the age of teu she went to live with Judge Jesse Hughes, in I'nion township, Clinton county, Ohio, and lived with them until her marriage.

Henry Kline learned the gunsmith trade in Virginia, and about 1820 came to Wil- mington, Ohio, and built a house and shop on the lot on Columbus street where the Meth- odist Episcopal parsonage is now situated. He was first married to Catherine Eaton and she died two years after their marriage. They had no children. Afterwards he was married to Sarab Chipman. They lived in Wilmington until their death. They attended the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Sarah Kline was a member of the church. Early in life he was a member of the Whig party, but became a Republican later on. Hle was a natural mechanic and an especially fine carpenter. In the latter year of his life he suffered a great deal from "white swelling."

There. were six children born to Heury and Sarah (Chipman) Kline, namely :

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William David died soon after the Civil War in which he had served under Colonel Doan in the Twelfth Regiment, Oblo Volunteer Infantry ; Catherine Lydia died at the age of nineteen, in 1858, and was the first person buried in the Wilmington cemetery : Mary Virginia is unmarried and lives on Columbus street in Wilmington: Mrs. Parlett was the fourth born; Rachel Ann married Benjamin Kingery, a resident of Kansas, where both died; and Melissa Jane died at the age of twenty-one.

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth (Kline) Parlett, who received her education in a school in Wilmington where the Friends church now standa, is the mother of one child. Frances Catherine, who was born on September 27, 1876. She married Vincent Rollison and they live on a farm in Adams township and have four children, Lola, Dora, Russell H. and Clarence V.

Mrs. Parlett is a member of the Friends church as was her husband also during his life. He was identified with the Republican party, but was a man who never took an active interest in political matters, leaving those matters to others who had more time and a keener inclination for them. William C. Parlett was a highly-respected and well- known citizen.

SETH RICHARD SNOWDEN.

Among the younger farmers of Union township. Clinton county, Ohio, who have established comfortable homes and surrounded themselves with valuable personal and real property, few have attained a greater success than Seth Richard Snowden, who has overcome many discouragements, and who, though in the prime of life, has the satisfae- tion of knowing that the community has been benefited by his presence and his counsel. He is descended from two very old families in this county and comes from a line of hardy and vigorous pioneer ancestry.

Seth Richard Snowden, who was horn on January 2. 1877. on the Waynesville pike, in Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, is the son of Charles Edward and Rachel (Linton) Snowden. Mr. Snowden's father was born in Maryland, October 19, 1836, and died In 1802. He was the son of Richard and Mary ( West) Snowden, natives of Mary- Inud and of English descent. They immigrated to Obio in 1837, and located in Clinton county. Charles E. received his education in the Ohio public schools, and for many years was engaged as a school teacher. Later In life he became a farmer. In 1962 he was married to Rachel Linton, daughter of Seth and Sarah Ann (Moore) Linton. Seth Linton was born in Union township, October 10, 1812, and was married to Sarah Ann (Moore), September 21. 1836. A complete history of the Liuton family is found In the sketch of Walter Welden Linton, contained elsewhere in this volume. The late Charles Edward Snowden was an infant when his parents, Richard and Mary ( West) Snowden, removed to Clinton county, Oblo. He grew up in Chester township. He owned a nice home of one hundred and twenty acres, two and one-half miles from Wilmington, but in later years spent his winters in Florida. He was a member of the board of trustees of Wilmington College, and president of the Clinton County Farmers Institute for several years. Although a Republican early in life. he later became n Prohibitionist. He and his wife were members of the Center meeting of the Quaker church and were regular attendants. They had four children, namely: Mary, the eldest, died in 1885, at the age of twenty-one; Alton I., forinerly was a farmer. but is now a salesman for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company; Seth is the subject of this sketch: Sarah married Carl Lukens, of Wilmington.

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History of Clinton County, Ohio Its People, Industries, and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, Part 96

Author: Albert J. Brown (A.M.) Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Chicago : W.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1108

Author: Albert J. Brown (A.M.)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : W.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1108