History of Delaware County and Ohio, Part 108

Author: O. L. Baskin & Co; Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892?
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, O.L. Baskin & Co.
Number of Pages: 818

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received a call from Columbus, and preached in Columbus three years and four in Brown Town- ship ; in 1863, he came to Delaware, where he has since been in charge of the Welsh Church ; in 1865, he moved to Delaware, which has been his home ever since; in 1878, he also took charge of a church in Putnam Co., where he preaches about two Sundays every month. He was married, in 1846, to Miss Lydia Jones, of Butler Co., Ohio; they have had four children, all deceased.

GEORGE W. JAMISON, stock-raiser and farmer ; P. O. Delaware; was born in Delaware Township, Delaware Co., Ohio, Jan. 18, 1841, and is the son of James M. Jamison, whose biog- raphy appears in this history. Mr. Jamison re- mained on the farm until he was about 13 years of age, when he went to Greenville, Darke Co., where he was engaged in the court house as a clerk in the Treasurer's and Clerk's office for some six years ; he went into the army from Greenville at the breaking-out of the late war in 1861, enlisting in the 11th O. V. I., and served in this regiment his full term, three months; in the same year he enlisted from Delaware in Co. E, 66th O. V. I. for three years as private, but was was made Ser- geant on the organization of the regiment. Mr. Jamison participated in all the battles and marches of his regiment up to November, 1862, when he was honorably mustered out on account of sick- ness ; he came home to Delaware, and soon after went out with the 55th O. V. I. as sutler, where he remained about eight months, then returned home and went to Greenville, where he filled the position as agent for the Columbus & Indian- apolis Central R. R., for some eighteen months, then came to Delaware Co., and engaged in farm- ing and stock-raising. Mr. Jamison married, in 1864, Miss M. J. Nigh, daughter of William Nigh ; they have two children.

REV. J. C. JACKSON, Pastor of St. Paul's M. E. Church, Delaware; was born in Fairfield Co., Ohio, June 14, 1850, and is the sou of Samuel and Elizabeth (Collins) Jackson ; his father was born in Perry Co., Ohio. Mr. Jackson was raised on a farm, where he remained until 19 years of age, when he entered the Union Academy of Fairfield Co., from which institution he gradu- ated; then engaged in teaching school ; in 1873, he came to Delaware and entered the junior class of the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he graduated in 1874, with a class of thirty-four. Mr. Jackson then went to Lancaster, Ohio, where

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he was Principal of the city schools for one year, and soon afterward commenced preaching; he was for three years Pastor of the Third Street M. E. Church of Columbus, when he came to Delaware, and took charge of St. Paul's M. E. Church. Mr. Jackson married, Nov. 25, 1879, Miss Eva M. See, daughter of the Rev. A. B. See.

JAMES M. JAMISON, retired; P. O. Dela- ware; is one of the oldest settlers of Delaware Co. now living; he was born in the Pan Handle district of Virginia on the 4th day of March, 1808, and is the son of Robert and Esther (Baird) Jamison, his mother a native of Virginia, and his father of Pennsylvania; in 1811, the family emigrated to this county and located in Delaware Township; here they commenced farming, in a wild and unsettled country ; the elder Jamison served as a soldier of the war of 1812, and died on the old homestead in Delaware Township, in 1840, at 72 years of age; Mr. Jamison's mother died in 1852, at 82 years of age; Mr. Jamison remained on the farm until 1866, when he moved into Delaware, where he has resided ever since. In 1835, he married Elizabeth High, who was born in Berks Co., Penn., in 1816, the daughter of Benjamin High, who came to Delaware Co. in 1832, and settled two miles north of the town of Delaware, where he died in 1834; Mr. and Mrs. Jamison have had eight children, two died in in- fancy ; by hard work and many sacrifices, three daughters-Angelina, Esther and Millie-qualified themselves as teachers, and each had taught school about five years when they were married; An- gelina married George Martz; Esther, Jacob Martz, of Darke Co., and Millie, William Mc- Geegin, one of the proprietors of Olive Furnace, Lawrence Co .; Annie Elizabeth died in 1876, loved by all; George W. married Mary J. Nigh ; when 18 years old, he enlisted in the Union army, and served nine months in the 66th O. V. I., in the Army of the Potomac ; after undergoing many perils and hardships, he was transferred with about eight hundred other sick and wounded, to Fair- fax Seminary, Virginia, where Mrs. Jamison went to nurse him, remaining there about two weeks, when he was transferred to Bellevue Hospital, New York ; Mrs. Jamison remained with him there about. four weeks, when he was discharged, and both came home; the youngest son, Robert B., graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, in 1879 ; Mrs. Jamison has lived in Delaware City and vicinity since her father came to Ohio, in 1832; Mr. Jamison has accumulated sufficient

property to render himself and family comfortable in his declining years.

MATTHIAS KRUCK, farmer; P. O. Dela- ware; was the son of George Kruck, of Pennsyl- vania, and was born Oct. 3, 1800, in Pennsylvania, and remained there until 1834, when he came to Delaware Co., Ohio, settling on the present farm of thirty-four acres. He married, in June, 1827, Mary Zeigler ; they have five children ; those liv- ing are Mary A., Jacob, Eliza and Harriet; one deceased-Maria; this union seems one of con- tentment ; for fifty-two years they have together traveled life's pathway. Mr. Kruck has worked in a foundry in Delaware, Ohio, for James Barn- ham for seven years ; has worked at cabinet work twelve years ; millwrighting seven years, and join- er's trade some time ; his allotted threescore years and ten have been extended nine years beyond; he enjoys uniform good health, and bids fair for many more years to enjoy the good things of this world.

JACOB KRUCK, Delaware, was born in Berks Co., Penn., in October, 1818, and is the son of N. Kruck; he came to Delaware Co. with his parents in 1834 ; they first stopped in what is known as the Horseshoe Settlement, and remained a short time, but not being satisfied with the out- look, started to return to Pennsylvania ; having arrived at Stratford, Delaware Township, they finally located in this vicinity, his father keeping hotel in Stratford and Delaware for several years ; at the age of 18 Mr. Kruck began to learn the printer's trade in Delaware, and worked at his trade in Columbus and Delaware. At the breaking- out of the war, he enlisted, April 16, 1861, in Co. C, 4th O. V. I., as Sergeant, and. served with this regiment three years and three and a half months, participating in all its battles and marches, and was a brave soldier and honorably mustered out ; he then returned to Delaware and resumed his trade, which he followed until 1875, when he took charge of his present billiard parlor, located on Sandusky street; Mr. Kruck was Chief of the fire department for six years, filling that office faithfully and with credit, and has been a member of the fire department for twenty-five or thirty years ; Mr. Kruck has two sons and two daugh- ters.

JACOB KLEE, carriage trimmer, Delaware; was born in Munster-Mayfeld, Province of the Rhine, Prussia, Dec. 25, 1827 ; son of Jacob and Annie Maria (Zenter) Klee, both born in Ger- many; Mr. Klee at 14 years of age, commenced

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to learn the trade of harness-maker ; in 1840, he, with his parents, emigrated to America, and, after remaining in Richland Co., Ohio, until 1845, came to Delaware, here Mr. Klee carried on the harness and saddlery business some five years, when he moved to Ashland Co., and carried on the same business six years ; he then returned to Delaware, where he has since been engaged in business ; in 1873, he embarked in his present business of car- riage trimming, which is the largest in Delaware, doing all the work for Frank Moyer and L. Mil- ler's carriage works ; Mr. Klee is a first-class workman and guarantees satisfaction ; he employs one hand besides himself. Mr. Klee has been a member of the Reform Church of the United States for the past twenty-four years.

REV. O. C. KLOCKSIEM, Pastor of the German M. E. Church, Delaware; is a native of Mecklenburg, Germany, where he was born May 12, 1842; is a son of John Klocksiem, who emi- grated with his family to America in 1854, and located in La Porte, Ind. At the breaking-out of the late civil war, he enlisted in the 5th Ind. Battery for three years, and participated in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga, Stone River, capture of Chattanooga and Atlanta, and others ; he did good duty, and served two months over his time, when he returned to his home in La Porte ; he then went to school at the German Wallace College, where he remained some two and a half years, after which he was engaged in mercantile business at La Porte for about five years. In 1873, he was licensed to preach, and was first given a charge at Galion, Ohio, where he remained two years ; thence to Canal Dover, Ohio, three years ; in 1878, he came to Delaware, where he has re- mained ever since. Rev. Klocksiem married, in 1866, Miss Elizabeth Brandau, of Ohio; they have had four children, one deceased.

REV. A. J. LYON, Presiding Elder of the M. E. Church, Delaware ; born in Knox Co., Ohio, June 6, 1828, and is the son of Daniel and Hannah (Dalrymple) Lyon ; his mother was born in Pennsylvania, and his father in New Jersey ; our subject was born on the farm, where he remained until about 19 years of age, when he came to Delaware and entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, graduating in 1854 ; the first years in the university he was engaged in studying medi- cine in Chesterville, where he was employed in the practice of the same for about one year ; he also, in order to pay his schooling, taught school in Morrow County and in Columbus ; after gradu-

ating from the Ohio Wesleyan University, he joined the North Ohio Conference of the M. E. Church, and commenced the ministry by first preaching at Eden, Delaware Co., where he re- mained for two years; thence to Galion three years, Olive Green one year, Martinsburg two years, Utica and Mt. Vernon one year each, Tiffin three years, Sandusky two years, Sandusky Dis- trict four years, Elyria three years, Mansfield one year, and Mansfield District, where he has been Presiding Elder since; he moved to Delaware in 1878; Rev. Mr. Lyon has filled the office of Treasurer of the Ohio Wesleyan University college fund of the Conference for two years. He was married, in 1854, to Miss Olive Weatherby, of Morrow Co., Ohio; they have four children- three daughters and one son.

B. F. LOOFBOURROW, merchant, Dela- ware; was born in Clark Co., Ohio, Dec. 18, 1820, and is the son of Benjamin W. Loofbour- row, a farmer, who died when the son was an in- fant ; he was then sent to his grandfather, Geo. Fryback, where he remained until about 13 years old; then his grandfather died, and he was placed in the hands of a guardian, with whom he remained engaged in farming until he was 18 years of age ; in 1839, he came to Delaware Co., and located in Eden, Brown Township, where he was engaged for a year as clerk in a dry-goods store ; he then went upon a farm, where he continued until 1852; during his residence in Brown Township he filled the offices of Township Clerk and Justice of. the Peace; in 1852, he moved to Delaware, where he was engaged in clerking in an auditor's office three years. In 1854, he was elected to the office of Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Dela- ware Co., and during this term of office he made a host of friends; he was re-elected to the same office for the five succeeding terms, being clerk for the county eighteen years. In 1872, Mr. Loof- bourrow became a partner in the Delaware Manu- facturing Co., and was appointed its Secretary and Treasurer, filling this position until the close of this establishment ; in 1879, he entered his pres- ent business-Pearson & Loofbourrow, queens- ware and crockery, located on the east side of San- dusky street, and is the leading house in this line of goods in Delaware. Mr. Loofbourrow was formerly a Whig, and was a hard worker in its ranks. He was married in 1841, to Miss M. E. Longwell, of Delaware Co., daughter of Ralph S. Longwell, one of the pioneer settlers of Delaware Co., and has two children living by his first wife; his wife died

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in 1856. In 1860, he married Miss Hannah M: McConica, of Morrow Co., Ohio.

DAVID LEWIS (deceased). One by one the old settlers of Delaware Co. are passing away ; among the highly honored men of the county may be mentioned Mr. Lewis, who was born in South Wales Aug. 29, 1817. He was married in that country at 19 years of age to Miss Anna Thomas, and came to America with his wife and one child, and located in Newark, Ohio, where he remained some ten years ; he then moved to Delaware Co., and settled on a farm about one and a half miles northwest of Delaware ; he worked at his trade of bricklaying in Delaware for a number of years ; by hard work and economy he managed to save enough money to purchase a farm, where he engaged in farming for a number of years before his death. He was a member of the Welsh Church from the time the present church was built, for a number of years being a Deacon of this church. After the death of his first wife, he married Miss Margaret Griffiths ; five children are living. Mr. Lewis ac cumulated a good farm of some 240 acres. He departed this life Sept. 29, 1877, a Christian man and a kind father and husband, and respected by his fellow-men. Geo. W. Lewis, who was born in Delaware Co. is conducting the farm.

DR. JOHN A. LITTLE, deceased, Delaware. (Sketch appears in the chapter devoted to the medical profession.)

CAPT. A. LYBRAND, JR., attorney at law, Delaware, was born in Pickaway Co., Ohio, May 23, 1840; came to Delaware in 1857. At the breaking-out of the late civil war, he recruited one of three companies raised in Delaware; upon the completion of his company, finding that the quota of Ohio was filled, he disbanded his com- mand and enlisted as a private in Co. I, 4th O. V. I. ; from this regiment he was transferred. to Co. E, 73d O. V. I, and made First Lieutenant ; Mr. Lybrand remained in service with the 73d for three and one-half years, the last two years of which he was Captain of his company, and had participated in the battles of Rich Mountain, Second Bull Run, Cedar Mountain, Fredericks- burg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and other minor engagements ; while in the East, Capt. Ly- brand served a portion of his time as Aid de Camp, under Gen. Steinwehr, and came West with Gen. Joe Hooker, and took part in the battle of Lookout Mountain, known as Hooker's fight above the clouds ; he also participated in other battles around Chattanooga, Tenn., and

those of Atlanta, Ga., receiving two slight wounds, one at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, and the other at Dallas, Ga .; in 1865, at the close of the war, he was mustered out, at Washington City, when he returned to Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business, at La Fayette, where he re- mained until 1868; he then returned to Dela- ware, where he entered the stove and tinware bus- iness. In 1869, he was elected Mayor of Dela- ware, which office he held for eighteen months, when he resigned and went to Texas, with the intention of locating and engaging in the practice of law, having been admitted to that profession in 1871; in 1872, he returned to Delaware, where he has since remained. Capt. Lybrand is a stock- owner in the Delaware Chair Company, one of the leading manufactories of Ohio; in 1877, he re- turned to the practice of law, under the firm name of Poppleton & Lybrand. He is a Republican and was a candidate for Representative before the Republican Convention, in 1879.

H. J. MCCULLOUGH, lumber dealer, Dela- ware ; his father, David F. Mccullough, was born in 1811, in Franklin Co., Penn., and came to Ohio in 1819, settling near Marietta ; about 1821, he came to this county ; his wife was Eunice Case, who was a daughter of Watson Case, of Connecti- cut ; she is now living with her son, the subject of this sketch; he was born March 14, 1837, in Delaware, and received a liberal education. In 1862, he enlisted in Co. E, 84th O. V. I., serving 100 days; in 1863, he became his father's suc- cessor in the lumber business, in which trade he has been eminently successful, having accumulated a liberal competency, and lives in a fine residence built by him at a cost of $10,000; Mr. Mc- Cullough is a man of sterling qualities, which has endeared him to the community of which he has been a member so long; he has been called upon to fill a position as Director in two different building associations, and is now the Director of an insurance company, also the Treasurer of the Delaware Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

J. W. MCCULLOUGH, grain merchant, Dela- ware ; was born in Scioto Township, Delaware Co., Ohio, Nov. 13, 1839, and is the son of John Mc- Cullough, who was born in Pennsylvania, and. came to Delaware Co., about 1818 ; married Mar- garet Flanigan, of Pennsylvania, and died in Scioto Township, September, 1877, at 69 years of age, a respected and highly honored citizen ; our subject's great-grandfather, Joseph Mccullough, was taken prisoner by the Indians, with whom he remained

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some eight years, traveling about with them in different parts of the country, and it is believed he was in what was now Delaware Co. Mr. Mc- Cullough remained on the farm until the break- ing out of the late civil war, when he enlisted Ang. 10, 1861, as private in Co. D, 20th O. V. I. (Capt. C. H. McElroy) ; was commissioned Second Lieutenant Aug. 9, 1862, and assigned to enlist- ing men for the service; at the expiration of one year, he was mustered out of the service; during a part of the last year, he had been assigned to the 121st O. V. I., where the men enlisted by him had been placed ; on the formation of the Ohio National Guard, he was appointed Commissary Sergeant of the 22d O. N. G. (Col. Harris com- manding); May 2, 1864, the regiment being or- dered into service for 100 days was re-organized as the 145th O. V. I., he receiving the appointment of Sergeant Major ; on the expiration of 100 days' service, he was elected by the members of the reg- iment Lieutenant Colonel, which commission he held till the final muster-out of the regiment ; he became a resident of Iowa some two years, where was engaged in the stock business; returning to Delaware Co., he engaged in farming for three years, when he came to Delaware and entered the commission business, in which he continued for three years, when he entered into the grain and milling business, which he carried on until 1880.

JOSEPH McCANN, M. D., Delaware, was born in Muskingum Co., Ohio, June 28, 1824, and is the son of Maxwell McCann, who moved to Ohio and located in Muskingum Co. about 1812 ; our subject was born on the farm and en- gaged in farming from the time he was able to handle the plow, and in the winter months at- tended district school; he remained on the farm until about 21 years old ; the two last winters en- gaged in teaching school; then he commenced the study of medicine in Irville, in the office of Drs. Bealmer & Ball, where he remained about three years; in 1849, Dr. McCann went to Nashport and engaged in the practice of medicine until 1853 ; he then entered the Starling Medical Col- lege, of Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from that institution in 1854 ; after graduation, he went to Irville and engaged in the practice of medicine until 1869, when he came to Delaware, and has been engaged in the practice of his profession ever since. Dr. McCann was married in 1850, to Miss Margaret R. Waters, of Somerset, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. R. A. Waters; they have four children, two sons and two daughters.

SIDNEY MOORE, Cashier of the Delaware Co. Bank, Delaware; was born in Delaware, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1822; his parents were Sidney and Phobe (Mann) Moore ; his father was a native of Vermont, and made his home in Delaware at an early day ; his trade was that of a brick and stone mason, which occupation he followed for a number of years. He was married in Delaware, to Miss Phobe Mann, who is now living in Delaware and is one of the oldest residents of the city. Sidney Moore received his education at the public school of Delaware, attending the school taught by Mr. Murray, which was at that time the leading school in this vicinity ; for a few years he was a clerk in the court house, and afterward, through the in- fluence of Judge Hosea Williams, obtained a clerk- ship in the Delaware County Bank, in 1845 ; be- fore occupying this position he was sent to Col- umbus, where he learned the banking business, when he returned to Delaware and entered the bank as book-keeper ; in 1855, he became Cashier, which position he has filled ever since, with the exception of some three years when he was in the banking business at Indianapolis.

FRANCIS W. MORRISON, M. D., Delaware; was born near Mansfield, Ohio, July 13, 1831, and is the son of James and Ruth (Billings) Morrison; he entered college at Delaware in the spring of 1853, and graduated in June, 1856; being without means, he earned what he could by manual labor and teaching school, both to to carry him through college and while in pursuit of his medical education. He graduated at the medical schools of Cincinnati in the spring of 1860, when he commenced the practice of his profession with his former preceptor, Dr. A. Blymyer. In the spring of 1861, he enlisted as a private in Co. I of the 4th O. V. I., in the three- months service; he again, July 7, 1861, en- listed for three years in the 11th O. V. I. as Hospital Steward, and continued with that com- mand in Western Virginia until August, 1862, when he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the 4th O. V. I., and was ordered East to join his new command, with which he was ever present on active service ; in November, 1863, the Doctor was commissioned Surgeon of the regiment, in which capacity he served until the regiment was mustered out of service in June, 1864. He then married Miss Elizabeth Willey, of Troy Township, Delaware Co., June 29, 1864, and, on the 10th of July following, entered the contract serv- ice as Surgeon at Camp Dennison, Ohio, where he

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continued until Sept. 20, when he was commis- sioned Surgeon of the 174th O. V. I., and in this position he faithfully served until January, 1865, when he was detailed as Brigade Surgeon on the staff of Gen. Minor T. Thomas, where he con- tinued until ordered home to be mustered out with his regiment in July, 1865, at the close of the war. Since then he has continued to reside in Delaware, excepting four years of residence in Richland Co., his native place. Dr. Morrison is a member of the Delaware County Medical Asso- ciation ; has been twice annually chosen its Sec- retary ; he is independent and self-reliant, and, like many others, made his own fortune unaided, and is thus in a position to comprehend the many ob- stacles and inconveniences which beset the path- way of the youth who would obtain an education and a competency in life.

REV. FREDERICK MERRICK was born in Wilbraham, Mass., Jan. 29, 1810, and is the son of Noah Merrick, of Massachusetts, a farmer ; Frederick remained with his parents on the farm until he was 15 years of age, when he accepted a position as a clerk in a store in Springfield, Mass., and, at 19 years of age, became a partner in the business, at which he continued until he was about 21 years old, when he commenced his pre- paration for college, first attending an academy at Wilbraham, then entered the Wesleyan University of Middletown and graduated from this institution in 1836 ; the same year he was elected President of the Armenia Seminary of Dutchess Co., N. Y., and was one year a member of the Geological Survey of same State. In 1838, Mr. Merrick was made Professor of Natural Science of the Ohio University at Athens, where he remained until 1842, when he was Pastor of the Methodist Church at Marietta, Ohio; in 1843 and 1845, he was acting as agent for the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity at Delaware; in the latter year, he was elected Professor of Natural Sciences in that in- stitution, then Professor of Biblical Theology and Literature ; in 1860, he was elected President of the institution and filled this office until 1873, when he resigned on account of ill health ; since that time, Prof. Merrick has performed the duties in the university of Lecturer on Natural and Revealed Religion ; in about 1846 to 1853, he delivered lectures in the Starling Medical Col- leges of Columbus, Ohio. On the organization of the Girls' Industrial Home, the Professor was made President of the Board of Trustees, which position he filled for eight years; he is now

financial agent of the Home. He has been a member of the Ohio Methodist Conference since 1841.

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History of Delaware County and Ohio, Part 108

Author: O. L. Baskin & Co; Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago, O.L. Baskin & Co. Number of Pages: 818

Author: O. L. Baskin & Co; Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892?
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, O.L. Baskin & Co.
Number of Pages: 818