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 98

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

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To Philip C. and Elizabeth (Peterson) Pagett were born eight children, of whom five, Jennie, Susan, Jonas, Arthur and Hannah, are dereased. Susan died In January, 1902: Jonas died In 1901; Arthur died in 1883, and Hannah died at the age of two yenra. The living children are Davis, a farmer who lives at Port William, Ohlo: Ada, who married Elton Bentley, a resident of Wilmington, Ohio, and Philip Edmond. the subject of this biographical shatch.

Philip E. Pagett attended the public schools of Greene county, and later the public schools of Union township. this county, but received only a limited education. He lived with his father until the latter's death in 1001, and thereafter worked for a time in a store in Wilmington as a clerk. For a year and a half thereafter he worked in the Irwin auger-bit factory at Wilmington and in 1908 purchased a farm of sixty acres in L'nion township, and is now living on that farm.

On June 14, 1894, Philip E. Pagett was married to Alice Lewis, who was born in Chester township, this county, the daughter of John W. and Hannah Lewis, both of whom are deceased. John W. Lewis was a well-known farmer of Chester township. To this union three children have been born, all of whom are living, as follow : Harry, born on May 31, 1806; Myra, November 1, 1898, and Paul, January 16, 1912.

Although Mr. Pagett has devoted his time and attention principally to his own per- sonal business, he has always taken a keen Interest in politics and is a man of no little local Influence, having served as township assessor and as a school director for many years. The Pagett family belong to the Dover meeting of the Society of Friends and are prominent members of the church and Itberni contributors to its support. They take an earnest interest in the good work of the neighborhood aud are held In the highest esteem thereabout.

ALVIN STINGLEY.

Alvin I .. Stingley, one of the well-known descendants of John Stingley, who settled in Clinton county, nearly a century ago, son of Gilead E. Stingley and brother of Calvin and J. Albert Stingley, was born on June 5. 1873, on the farm in Chester township, this county. where he now Hives, Gilead F. Stingley was born In Ross county, Ohlo, on November 24. 1820, and died in 1909. His wife was born In Highland county. in 1831, the daughter of Richard and Mary (Curtindoll) Lucas, and Is still living.

Gllead E. Stingley was educated In the common schools of Chester township and was a prominent farmer of this county, owning seven or eight hundred acres of land. During the five years following 1873. be was engaged in the pork-packing business at Wilmington and for many years was a large cattle raiser. He voted the Democratic ticket and he and his wife and family were members of the Friends church. To him and his wife eleven children were born, namely : Eliza, who married John F. Oglesbee: Will- inm, who died In Mareb, 1913: Amanda, who married James Bailey. Is now deceased ; Elizabeth, who married James Swindler; Emma, who died at the age of five years: J. Albert and Calvin, who are referred to elsewhere in this volume: Ada, who married Lester Oglesher: Alonzo, who died at the age of two years; Nettie, who married Elijab Turner, and Alvin. the humediate subject of this biographical sketch.

Gilead E. Stingley was the son of John and Elizabeth (Bush) Stingley, the former

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of whom was born in Virginia on August 22, 1792, and the latter of whom born on May 21. 1798. After their marriage on April 16, 1818, they located in Ross county, this state, und four years later came to Clinton county. John Stingley had come to Ohio from Vir- ginla originally in 1800. He owned a farm of two hundred and nine acres in Chester township and was a well-known pioneer citizen. He and his wife were the parents of four children : Noah B., born on February 24. 1819; Gilead F., November 24, 1820; Talitha, April 27, 1823, and Julian, October 7. 1825. John Stingley died on September 6, 1826, and, after his death, bis widow married his twin brother, Sebastian Stingley, to which second union there was no issue. The Stingley family originally came to America from Germany, where George Stingley, the great-grandfather of Alvin I .. , was born on Sep- tember 12, 1763.

Alvin Stingley was educated in the common schools of Chester township and has farmed all his life. He owns one hundred acres of land in Chester township, and is very well circumstanced.

In 1896 Alvin' L. Stingley was married to Hattie J. Thomas, the daughter of Joshua and Martha Thomas, to which union four children have been born, namely : Alle L., horn in June, 1897; Luther A., In September, 1898; Clarence L., in November, 1900, and Charles T., in May, 1900.

Mr. Stingley is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Maccabees, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Daughters of Rebekah, the Knights of Pythins and the Pythian Sisters He is independent in politics and be and his family are members of the Methodist church at Lumberton.

CALVIN STINGLEY.

Chester township owes much to the Stingley family, especially to the sons of Gilead Stingley, who was a well-known farmer of Clinton county, and one of the pioneer pork packers of Wilmington. The distinguished family in Clinton county, however, goes back to the time when John Stingley, the father of Gilead, purchased a farin of two hundred and nine acres in Chester township, nearly a century ago. For the most part, later generations of the family have been Identified with agriculture and more' than this the various members of the family have been good citizens and prominent In the neighbor- hoods and communities where they have lived.

Calvin Stingley, the son of Gilead and Nancy (Lucas) Stingley, was born on June 6. 1863, on the old Stingley farm in Chester township, where he now lives. His father was born on November 24, 1820, in Ross county, Ohio, and died in 1900, while his mother was born in 1831 in Highland county, the daughter of Richard and Mary (Curt- indoll) Lucas, and is still living.

The paternal grandparents of Calvin Stingley were John and Elizabeth (Bush) Stingley, who were married on April 16. 1818, the former a native of Virginia, born on August 22. 1792. who came to Ohio In 1800, Arst locating in Ross county, and the latter. born on May 31, 1798. About 1822 they purchased a farm of two hundred and nine seres in Chester township and there spent the remainder of their lives. John Stingley was one of the foremost farmers of the township and did much clearing. John and Elizabeth Stingley were the parents of four children : Noah B., born on February 24, 1819; Gilead, November 24, 1820; Talitha, April 27, 1823; and Julian, Ocobter 7, 1825. The father of these children died on September 6, 1826, and after his death, his widow married his twin brother, Sebastian, but to this Intter union no children were born. The original home of the Stingley family was in Germany, where John Stingley's father, George Stingley, the great grandfather of Calvin, was born on September 12, 1763.

Gilead Stingley received his education in the common schools of Chester township 'and. having taken up agriculture as a life vocation, became the owner of about eight hundred geres in this county. He was an extensive cattle raiser and about 1875 entered

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the pork-packing business at Wilmington and was thus engaged for five years. He was a member of the Friends church and voted the Democratic ticket. Gilead and Nancy Stingley were the parents of eleven children, namely: Eliza, who married John F. Oglesbee; William, who died In March, 1913: Amanda (deceased), who was the wife of James Bailey ; Elizabeth, who married James Swindler; Emma, who died at the age of five years; J. Albert, who is referred to elsewhere in this volume; Calvin, who is the subject of this biographical sketch; Ada, who married Lester Oglesbee; Alonzo, who died at the age of two years; Nettie, who married Elijah Turner, and Alvin, who In referred to elsewhere in this volume.

Calvin Stingley, who was educated in the common schools of Chester township, began farming when a young man on the land where he now lives. Except for three years during which he lived in Dayton, Ohio, he bas lived on the farm all of his life. In September, 1904, he went to Dayton, where, during the first year, he worked for the Dayton & Xenia Traction Company. The next year he was a merchant policeman and February, 1907, he returned to the farm, where he bas since resided.

On August 1, 1886, Calvin Stingley was married to Mary Hurley, the daughter of Henry and Lauretta (Colvin) Hurley, to which union two children have been born, Verna, who is still at home, and Velmer, who married Eva Hurley and has one child, Donald.

Mr. Stingley is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees. Nominally, he is identified with the Demo- cratic party but is independent in local politica The Stingley family are members of the Friends church and are held in high regard in the community in which they live.

ISAIAH MORRIS HAWORTH.

It is not common to judge American citizens as a class from the standpoint of their religious views because citizenship in America does not rest upon any religion, but when we look about to find a whole class of men who have fitted themselves into American ideals and have made, as a class, universally good citizens and then, after analyzing this class, we find, incidentally, that they all belong to one religious denomination, we are Inclined to conclude. that at least in this citizenship, religion-their religion-has been a desirable factor. And such has proven the truth in the Quaker or Friends church. In every community of Friends-and they usually abide in communities-we find that wholesome democratic character and ideals which have distinguished America, and among the first of these citizens might be included the subject of this sketch, Isaiah Morris Haworth, of Union township. Clinton county, Oblo.

Isniab Morris Haworth was born on August 16. 1848, on what is known as the Haworth homestead. in Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, on Todds fork and died on June 15. 1015. He was the son of Richard M. and Elizabeth M. (West) Haworth. Richard M. Haworth was born on July 1. 1823 on this same Haworth homestead and died in October of 1902. Elizabeth M. West was born near Martinsville, Oblo, on July 10. 1824, and died in November of 1862.

Richard M. Haworth was the son of Mahlon Haworth, whose pioneer ancestry is easily traceable to Revolutionary times. He was born on October 23. 1775, in Frederick county, Virginia. The father of Mahlon Haworth was George Haworth, whose father. James Haworth. was the son of George Haworth, who came from Lancashire. England. with William Penn in 1699. The mother of Mahlon Hnworth was Susannah Dillon. George and Susannah Haworth in their early married life moved to North Carolina and settled on the Yadkin river near the home of Daniel Boone. George Haworth and his brother. James, accompanied Daniel Boone on his second visit to Kentucky, their families being two of the six families which made up the party that attempted the first settlement of Kentucky. They were violently attacked by the Indians and were so discouraged that

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the Haworth brothers returned to North Carolina, where they remained for twelve years. They then went again to Kentucky, but finding the Indians still hostile they turned their course toward Greene county, Tennessee, where George settled the place for his new home and returned to North Carolina, where after a short stay he again started, with his two little sons, John and Mahlon, aged ten and twelve, for Tennessee. After a perll- ous and dangerous trip he reached the spot he had selected for a home and with the aid of these two boys be built a cabin on the site and made other preparations to receive his family. When this work was completed the party returned to North Carolina, for the wife and remainder of the children, leaving the two boys behind to guard the cabin until their return. The father had calculated that this trip would take about three weeks and had left more than an ample supply of provisions for the two boys during bis absence, but high water, and other impediments to travel on pack-horses, detained them and it was more than six weeks before they returned to the spot. During that time the provisions which were left for the boys gave out, and they were obliged to subsist on parched corn, roots and berries, such as they could gather in the woods, They were also much in fear of an attack from the Indians, and when at last their parents arrived they ran to meet them with outstretched arms, and the mother springing from her horse gathered the boys in her arms and they all wept for joy.

In Greene county, Tennessee, Mahlon Haworth married Phoebe Frazier and they bullt a home on the Little Holson river, near Greenville, where they resided until the pioneer spirit again influenced them to seek a new home in an unopened forest. In 1800 Mahlon Haworth made a prospecting tour to Ohio and pushed his explorations as far as the Little Miami and Mad rivers. Some authorities say his father accompanied him. He did not move to Ohio, however, at this time, because of objections made by his wife. but his father did move to Ohio in the fall of 1803, and Mahlon, with his family, and the families of John and James Wright, followed the next year, and on reaching the place early in November, selected for their home a spot across the river opposite Cincinnati which was at that time a village with about eighteen houses. A story is told of their passing through Cincinnati that might be of interest here. They moved in "old Virginia wagons"-a four-horse van-and drove their cattle and other stock with them. Mahlon Haworth had a very fine horse that he called "Major." In Cincinnati a citizen there took a fancy to this horse and offered Mahlon one hundred and fifty acres of land on which the city of Cincinnati now stands for him, but Mahlon because of his fondness for the horse and his mistrust for the future of the land refused to consider the trade and moved on with "Major."

In making this trip to Ohio, Mahlon Haworth rode the "wheel-horse" of his team-of- four and carried his infant daughter in his arms. He had with him his three elder children. Rebecen. George Dillon and Ezekial, and on his arrival in Ohio. as he drove on through the woods he "blazed" the trees as he went in order to find his way back if need be. The land selected on which to settle was on Todd's fork, two and one-half miles from where Wilmington now stands. George and Mahlon Haworth and John and James Wright were among the enrliest settlers north of Wilmington. They arrived at this spot too late to build comfortable houses before the winter set in, and so in haste they built a cabin of round logs, filling the cracks with moss and mud. and moved in without laying a floor. They built a fire-place in the middle of this cabin and left an opening in the roof for the smoke to pass out, their windows being openings over which they hung hedquilts to keep out the cold and rain. Their beds were made on poles laid neross sticks driven into the ground. One night, soon after their arrival in their new "northern" home, the horses seemed restless and awakened the household by moving about and shaking the chains by which they were tethered, and Mr. Haworth got up to see what the trouble was. He put his head out of the door and erled back to his wife:

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"Phoebe, hard times are at the door." Their first snow had begun to fall and continued to fall until the ground was covered to a depth of over two feet.

In the bottoms, on the opposite side of Todds fork, was an Indian camping ground, and in the season when the Indians occupied these grounds, the lights of their camps were plainly visible from the Haworth cabin and these Indians were not unfrequent visitors at this cabin, and once, when Mahlon Haworth was absent from home an Indian lifted the quilt at the door of the cabin and looked in, with a friendly grunt he then set bis gun outside and entering, walked over to a stool and deliberately took from his belt a butcher knife and began scraping the Spanish needles from his leggings, after thus grooming himself for a while, in broken English he asked for food and after being sup- plied with a hearty meal he departed in peace. To show the different dangers to which these earlier settlers were subject we might further relate that later on this very sume day three large bears came up to within a few feet of the cabin.

The question of food supplies was often a grave question with these earller settlers. Soon after the arrival of the Haworths in their new home they exchanged with a neigh- bor, Timothy Bennett, a horse for one hundred bushels of corn, a small quantity of hog meat and a small bog. This meat, in addition to the wild turkey, bear and venison, which they could kill, was all the meat which they had until they could raise it, and for a long time they ground corn with a hand-mill for their bread. In these surroundings during this cold winter was born to Mahlon and Phoebe Haworth a beautiful daughter, Mary (or "Polly" as she was called), who was admired by the whole country around but who died in her youth. Their other children were: Phoebe. Mahlon, who with his sons became inventors and invented the first check-row corn planter and settled at Decatur, Illinois, where they manufactured this machine and became very wealthy, and he is still living at Decatur: Elijah, James, and Richard, who was the father of the subject of this sketch. Rebecca, the eldest child died early in womanhood, John and James in infancy, and the remainder of the children lived to be respected and influential citizens of Clinton county.

At the close of the War of 1812, there came to Mahlon Haworth's house a company of "light horse," as they were called, which had been in the service during the war. The horses were almost dead. He took them all in and fed the horses and the men until they were able to go their way. Mahlon Haworth was a man of strong intellectual powers. He was an active. useful citizen in everything that related to the advancement of the people and the good of the community. High official positions in the state were offered him by his people but these he declined because of the conscientious scruples of his wife who was a Friend of the strictest type.

Richard M. Haworth, the father of the subject of this sketch. was the youngest child of Mahlon and Phoebe Haworth and was nursing on his mother's breast when she was fifty years old. He inherited the homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and took care of his parents until their death. In 1850 he traded with his brother George D. for a farm east of Wilmington. He Increased his holdings, until, at one time, he had five farms of over five hundred acres in all. He invested very heavily in the pork-packing business in Wilmington, Ohio, and reverses caused the loss of almost his entire property. In 1883 he moved to Hendricks county. Indiana, near Plainfield, and bought a small farm on the edge of Morgan county, where he did general farming. He was twice married : his first wife, Elizabeth M. West, was the mother of the following children : Thomas M .. who died in 1910. on his farm adjoining the subject's farm: James M., who died in south ; Isaiah M., subject of this sketch : Frances Elizabeth and Caroline Evalyn, who both died in infancy ; Harriet Ellen, who married Orlando Hadley, of Wilmington ; and Anna E., who was born on October 12. 1862, and died on August 22. 1882. The second wife ot Richard M. Haworth was Jane Janney, who was reared at Martinsville. Oblo, and who was the mother of two children : Lenora P., who was born on November 6, 1866, and

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who married Calvin Newlin and lives on a farm near Plainfield, Indiana; and Clinton R., who was born on March 23, 1869, and now lives near Plainfield, Indiana. Richard M. Haworth was a Republican and a stanch member of the Friends church.

The parents of Elizabeth M. West were Thomas and Detamer ( Hadley ) West, natives of North Carolina and members of the Friends church. They were the parents of the following children, all of whom are now dead: Sarah, who married David Pyle; Eliza- beth M., who was the mother of the subject of this sketch; Jeremiah, who died at the nge of sixteen ; Mary, who married Doctor Bond and lived in Iowa; Isulab, who lived on the farm where the subject of this sketch now lives, and Eldon, who married Micajah Moore and lived in Adams township, Clinton county ..

Isaiah Morris Haworth, the subject of this sketch, attended the district schools at Dover and later in Wilmington two years, and then at the Dutch district school In Union township. He had but a limited education and as a young man he worked on his father's farm for several years and then bought what is now known as the Charles Hunnicutt farm which he soon sold and bought a one-hundred-acre tract of the Thomas West farm, where he lived until he sold this tract and in 1883 be bought the present farm across the road from the George D. Haworth farm at Starbucktown, U'nion township. He then rented his farm and went to Hendricks county, Indiana, for eighteen months, after which he returned to his present home. There is a little over one hundred acres in this tract, which was formerly the old West homestead. The house was remodeled by Mr. Haworth.

On September 20, 1871, Isaiah Morris Haworth was married to Mary Johnson, who was born in the Center neighborhood of Union township. They were the last couple to be married by the Friends ceremony in the old Center meeting house. Mary Johnson was the daughter of Louis and Rachel (Stanton) Johnson. Louis Johnson was the son of Louis, Sr., and Mary Johnson, natives of Virginia, who emigrated to Ohlo, and was born near Port William, Ohio, on November 13. 1821, and died on December 5, 1908. Rachel Stanton was the daughter of William and. Margaret Stanton, who came from Virginia and settled in Wilmington, Ohio, where for many years he was a hatter. Rachel Stanton was born in Wilmington, Ohio, on January 15, 1818, and died on January 10, 1890.

Louis Johnson, Jr., and wife were farmers and owned a farm in the Center neighbor- hood which they cultivated for years until their retirement, when they moved into Wilmington, where they died. They had the following children: Ahira, who lives In Wilmington ; Sarah Ann; Mary, the wife of the subject of this sketch; Joseph, who lives in Indiana on a farm; and Mrs. Elizabeth Sprouse, who lives on a farm in Union town- ship.

Isaiah Morris and Mary (Johnson ) Haworth were the parents of six children, of whom three are dead and three living, as follow : Adelbert R., who was born on July 31, 1872, and died on September 19. 1872; Delena Ann, August 30, 1873, married Charles Hunni- cutt and now lives in Wilmington, Ohio; Rachel C., August 17, 1875, died on May 4, 1887 ; Alton M., July 2, 1877, Is a farmer now living on the Port William road in Liberty township on the old George Balley farm; Alice E., Angust 11, 1880, married Dr. C. B. Thomas and lives in Plainfield, Indiana ; and Marletta. October 14, 1882, died on Decem- ber 11, 1884.

Isatah Morris Haworth was, as are all his family, attached to the Friends church, of Wilmington, Ohio. Mr. Haworth was a Republican in politics, and was conservative in his beliefs. He was humble and unseeking in his attitude toward his fellow men and was held in the very highest esteem by all who knew him. He was one of the men who bas Indeed proved that true religion and true citizenship go hand-in-hand, and whenever he was called on gave full evidence "that a friend in need is a friend Indeed."

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ADDISON PEALE RUSSELL, LIT. D.

One of the greatest men which Wilmington and Clinton county, Ohio, ever produced was the late Dr. Addison Peale Russell, editor, statesman, critic and author. Wilmington people esteemed Doctor Russell for all of the public distinctions which he brought to the city, but they loved him for himself. Handsome and courtly in appearance, he was the most genial of companions and the most faithful of friends. During the long years of retirement be lived a social life in the highest and best sense of the term. As Doctor Venable beautifully expressed it-"at leisure, but never idle," the late Dr. Addison Peale Russell belonged to that school of writers produced in the Ohio valley, whose works constitute its chief claim to distinction in a literary way. Associated with the Hon. Addison Peale Russell, who was called the "Washington Irving of the West," were Col. Coates Kinney, Prof. William H. Venable, Cincinnati's Arnold of Rugby, and Mr. John James Platt, Cincinnati's Thoreau.

Addison Peale Russell, who was secretary of state of Ohlo during the governorship of Salmon P. Chase, and who was several times in the company of Abraham Lincoln, was born in the house now occupied by Harry Dalley on Main street near Mulberry. in Wilmington, Clinton county, Ohio, September 8, 1826, and died at his home in Wilmington, Wednesday, June 24, 1912, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. His father was of Revolu- tionary stock and his mother came from the Scottish clan, MacNabb. His death came not from the effects of disease so much as the natural and inevitable passing of all things earthly. During the last year of his life he was practically blind, but he went about familiar streets and mingled with his friends. During the declining years of his life he was faithfully cared for by the untiring ministrations of his niece. Clara Russell Burns.

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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 98

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