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ried to Miss Jane Dotey, of Carthage, at which place he lived a short time, but since then in Lockland where he has followed his business and in which he has been very sueeessful. He is at present engaged in building a large cotton factory. One son, Albert, the oldest, is married and lives at Cleveland, and is a telegraph operator on the Short Line. His son John is in business with his father. Mr. Sampson is not only comfortably located in the town, but owns considerable property in the country.
Captain Charles Ross, of Carthage, Springfield town- ship, the well known steamboat captain and pilot, was born in 1806 in Warren county, Pennsylvania, where his parents (Scotch descent) had removed from New Jersey in 1800. In 1810 the family removed to Columbia, Hamilton county, and from there to Cincinnati in 1815. When twelve years of age he went to New Orleans, go- ing on a barge down and walking part of the way baek. After this he took several trips down and back in steam- boats. In 1825 he commenced piloting steamboats to and from Cincinnati and New Orleans, and, when the river was too low, running keel-boats and flat-boats. Between the years 1825 and 1852 he commanded not less than thirty steamers of different classes, and during all that time never met with any serious accident. In Buchanan's administration he was appointed super- vising inspector of steamboats, with headquarters at St. Louis. During the war he helped to get up regiments, and volunteered to help the Cincinnati surgeons to the fight at Fort Donelson, and brought back a boat-load of sick and wounded to Cincinnati. His boat plied be- tween all the important places on the Mississippi and the Yazoo rivers, sometimes carrying troops, at other times bringing off sick and wounded. He did efficient service for Admiral Porter, and also transported Colonel Gar- field's regiment from the Big Sandy to the south. He was at Lexington, Kentucky, during the Morgan raids, and was at the siege of Vicksburgh; at this place he had an operation performed on his lip, to remove an epithelia or lip cancer, cutting off the whole of the lower lip. It would take a volume to recount all the romantic incidents connected with the captain's history during the war; suffice it to say he performed gallant service until he resigned, June 11, 1864. He has travelled with many distinguished men, such as Andrew Jackson, Gen- eral Scott, General MeComb, General Harrison, General Samuel Houston, Colonel David Crockett, Colonel Thomas Benton, Zachary Taylor, Prentiss, and a host of others. He has now two sons and three daughters grown up, twelve grandchildren and three great-grand- children. His wife is dead.
Mary I. Brown, of Wyoming, was born in Cincinnati in 1830, and when twelve years of age her father, An- thony Ireland, moved to Springfield township, where she has lived ever since. Her father, Mr. Ireland, was born in New Jersey in 1778, and settled in Ohio at an early day. He was a boss carpenter, and left many monu- ments of his life work in Cineinnati and elsewhere to attest to the industry and honesty of the man. In 1822 he was married to Miss Phœbe Collins, who was born in 1800, and by her had four children. He died in Lock-
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land in 1862; she died in 1854. In 1862 Mrs. Brown was married to Daniel Brown, whose father was an old settler of the township. Mr. Brown was through life an active, public-spirited citizen, and was one of the first to lay out and advance the interests of Wyoming. He died in 1877.
Nathan W. Hickox, of Glendale, came with his father from the battle-grounds of Wyoming in 1836 to Ohio, when but seventeen years of age. His father was a farmer, and was born near Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1793. In 1816 he married Miss Laura Waller, and in 1862 he died. Mr. Hickox, carpenter and builder, learned his trade in 1847, and followed the business in Cincinnati until 1852, since which time he has built many houses in the town in which he lives. Mr. Hick- ox has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for forty years, is one of the deacons, and is also superintendent of the Sabbath-school. He has been married twice, his last wife being Miss Ann Drake, of Butler county. He built himself a nice residence in 1869.
J. M. Miller was born in Lancaster county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1831, and was engaged while a boy on his father's farm, attending school through the winter. At the age of eighteen he commenced teaching, and while not thus engaged attended the academy in the village during the summer months. In the spring of 1856 he removed with his family to Illinois, and while there he taught a short time; then removed to Lawrenceburgh, Indiana, where he taught eight years. In the spring of 1863 he became principal of the Camp Washington school, now the twenty-fourth district; and after four years of successful teaching, he left for a more lucrative position at Lockwood, Ohio, where he has been engaged ever since, with the exception of four years that he taught at Carthage. In 1874 he was appointed one of the examiners of the county, which position he has held for seven years.
SYCAMORE TOWNSHIP.
Major James Huston, jr., farmer and teacher, the old- est of twelve children, was born of Irish parentage, No- vember 20, 1819, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. The parents, Paul and Mary (Carruthers) Huston, moved to Hamilton county in 1823, where they lived seven years; and thence to Logan county, Ohio. James Huston received a good frontier education in the schools of that day, and received a careful training at home. In 1837 he came to Hamilton county and found work on a farm, and in 1838 taught school one year in Warren county. In 1840 he went to New Orleans but returned to Ohio via Lebanon, Tennessee, where he taught school for six months and in 1841, resumed work in the school- room in Hamilton county, where he remained in that profession until 1850, when he went to California, by way of Panama, and where he remained digging in the mines until 1852. When he returned he came to Hamil- ton, and again taught school. At the breaking out of the war he entered the service as captain of company I, in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry. In 1861, he was elected member of the Ohio
legislature and reelected in 1863. In 1870 he was ap- pointed assistant in the county treasurer's office, and, since 1865, has devoted himself to farming in Sycamore township. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
Lloyd Smethurst Brown (deceased, of Reading) a re- tired merchant and capitalist of Sycamore township, was born October 24, 1822, in New York. His father was a shoemaker, and at an early date settled in Columbia, Hamilton county, Ohio. From here the family removed to Cairo, Illinois, and from there to Vevay, Indiana, thence to Evansville, Indiana, where the father died, in 1819, and the mother in 1822. They left an orphan. Mr. Brown went to live with his uncle, Lloyd Smethurst, near Montgomery, Hamilton county, Ohio. He learned tinsmithing, and, after two years spent at his trade, en- tered a store in Montgomery, where he remained until 1840, and embarked in business for himself in the same place, and, with the exception of one year in Cincinnati, remained in Montgomery until 1846, when he moved to Lockland, where he bought an interest in the Turnpike company (Cincinnati and Xenia), and was elected its secretary and treasurer, and has been devoted to the set- tling of estates and to the insurance business. In 1875 he was elected to the Ohio legislature, and became an honored and useful member of that body. On October I, 1840, he married Margaret A. Weaver, a native of Vir- ginia. In 1879, after living a prominent member of society, he died.
Wesley Smizer, M. D., was born in Clermont county, Ohio, February 28, 1828. He was the youngest son of seven children. His father, Phillip Smizer, was a farmer, engaging extensively in agricultural pursuits in Maryland. He was an early settler in Clermont county, and died there in 1839. His mother, Mary Carmon, was a native of Ohio, and died there in 1870. Wesley Smizer, al- though raised a farmer, received a liberal education, and - in 1849 began the study of medicine, under Henry Smizer, of Waynesville, Ohio, graduating, after a period of study of three years, in 1852. He first practiced in Paducah, Kentucky, but his health failing, at the end of eight months he was obliged to return to Waynesville, where he remained for three years. He attended a course of lectures at the Cincinnati Eclectic college, and graduated from that institution in 1856, and immediately afterwards went to Sharonville, where he has practiced his profession ever since, and has been successful in securing a large practice. He was married to Elizabeth Hook, a native of Hamilton county, in 1858. Her father, William Hook, was a prominent resident, and a successful farmer of that place.
Libues Marshall, a well-known fire insurance agent of Sharonville, was formerly in the saddlery, and harness business, which trade he learned when he was seventeen years of age; but in 1867 he took an agency for the Ætna insurance company, and has continued in the bus- iness ever since, having at this time the agency for sev- eral companies. His father was a citizen of Reading. During the War of 1812 he was a stone-mason on the forts then erected. Libues was born in Reading, Ham- ilton county, December 16, 1816. In 1838 he married
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Miss Belinda Voorhees. She died March 4, 1877. Of this marriage but one child survives, now married and living in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Marshall has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1842, of which he is trustee, steward, and class-leader.
H. I. Kessling, of Reading, was a native of Germany, born in Hanover, of that country, in 1821. He came to Cincinnati in 1849. His father was a good scholar and prominent man, being the mayor of the district court in Furstenan. 'Mr. Kessling is a well-known baker of Cin- cinnati, where he operated on the corner of Clinton and Linn streets in that business for over twenty years, and still carries on that enterprise in the person of his son, who is a young man of some ability and fitness for the business. Mr. Kessling came to Redding in 1866, and bought some valuable property, intending to start a coal and lumber yard; but the advent of the Short Line rail- road changed his intentions, and he has since kept a wine-room.
Daniel Lawrence, one of the most prominent men of Reading, was a native of New Jersey, born in that State April 7, 1809. His father, Jonathan, was a farmer, and had served a regular apprenticeship, and afterwards car- ried on the business in a successful and scientific man- ner. His grandfather, whose name also was Jonathan, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He was born in 1757. Jonathan, jr., was born in 1776, and removed to Ohio in 1817. Mr. Lawrence served an apprentice- ship in the tanning business, and worked in Deer Creek, on the old Hunt tan-yard, for four years. In 1836 he came to Reading and followed his business until 1869, when he sold out, having during that time made consid- erable money. He is now enjoying a retired life. In 1840 he was married to Laura Foster, daughter of Judge Foster, with whom he lived twenty-five years. In 1866 he married Mrs. Woodruff, nee Cortlewan, granddaughter of Abram Voorhees, and by her has two children living. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence are comfortably fixed in cosy quarters, and are highly cultivated people.
Harvey Voorhees, who lives on the same farm his father, Garret Voorhees, moved upon in 1794, was born on this place, near Reading, August 22, 1819. His grandfather, Abram Voorhees, was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, September 16, 1733, and emigrated to Hamilton county about the year 1793. Garret, his son, born June 9, 1763, moved from New Jersey to Hamilton county in 1791, coming down the river in a flat-boat, and landed at the fort in Columbia, and from there the family, after the war closed, settled upon sec- tion thirty-three, in a station-house-Garret moving to where Harvey now lives in 1794. Garret Voorhees died December 14, 1861. The family experienced a series of hardships common to the settlers of Indian times. Har- vey Voorhees was never married.
Jacob Voorhees, the well-known justice of the peace
in Reading, is a grandson of Abram Voorhees, the early pioneer, who settled on section thirty-three, Sycamore township, about the year 1794. Jacob Voorhees, sr., father of the subject of our sketch, was a public spirited citizen, and was a colonel at one time in the army. His son, Jacob Voorhees, was born and reared in Cincinnati, where he learned and followed the trade of carriage- making until about the year 1855, when he came to Read- ing, and has since that time lived a public life, filling the various offices of assessor, justice of the peace, etc., for several years. Mr. Voorhees is a prominent man and a highly esteemed citizen of his town and township.
John Cooper, of Sycamore township, was born in Mill Creek in 1820. In 1832 his father moved to Reading, and in 1853 moved to the farm upon which he now lives. In 1847 he married Miss Oliver, who is now dead. His grandfather came to Cincinnati in 1793, following in the wake of Wayne's army. He was also a spy in the Revolutionary war. His son Thomas, father of John, by his third wife, married Hannah Storrs, sister of Judge Storrs, about the year 1811, and by her had ten children. He was a prominent man in his time, having been a surveyor of the county ; also served as county commis- sioner for fourteen years. In 1831 he purchased three hundred acres of ground near Reading, part of which John now owns. Mr. Cooper is and ever has been a public spirited-citizen of his county. He has filled posi- tions of trust on the board of public works and has been identified as a leader of public improvements in general. The Cincinnati & Xenia turnpike is largely owned and controlled by him, and under his management it has been a successful, paying road.
Peter Jacob, of Reading, came from France. Was a stone-cutter by trade, and is the oldest saloonist in Read- ing, having been in that business in that place for thirty- five years, and in which he has made considerable money. He served one term as mayor of the town, and has been sixteen years member of the village council, and has also filled the office of street commissioner. He had a son-now dead-who served in the war, and was also marshal of the town. Mr. Jacob owns some valuable property in the town of Reading.
H. Ihlendorf, of Reading, proprietor of the livery sta- bles of that place, was born in Germany in 1848. His father was a prominent man of his place, and knowing the advantages of a good education sent him to college, where he became conversant with the ancient and modern languages. In 1870 he came to Cincinnati and took a course of instruction in St. Joseph's college, in the study of the English language, and was offered a position as teacher, but, preferring business to a sedentary life, came to Reading, where he first started the dairy business, but changed soon after for a livery and undertaking enterprise. He was married in 1874 to Miss Carrie Goeke, and by her has four children.
APPENDIX.
GENERAL HISTORY OF HAMILTON COUNTY.
The following statistical statement, from the returns made for the tenth census, should be read in connection with Chapter X, on the progress of Hamilton county:
MANUFACTURING STATISTICS OF 1880, FOR HAMILTON COUNTY, EXCLUSIVE OF CINCINNATI.
Flour and grist-milling.
12 $147,300
$179,767|
$263,420
Lumber and saw-milling.
14
29,400
56,209
97,900
Brick and tile making
6
9,200
4,410
21,085
Slaughtering and meat packing.
8
13,500
33,715
47,302
Boot and shoe making.
7,650
8,650
20, 137
Paper making.
370,000
332,480
530,000
Agricultural implements ..
15,000
1,350
4,650
Blacksmithing.
49
24,570
16,350
48,050
Carpentering and building.
9
7,450
13,500
36,230
Carriage and wagon making.
27
29,150
18,900
38,350
Coopering
3
175,700
301,200
466,500
Saddlery .
12
5,325
5,657
13,860
Cigar making ..
8
4,500
10,465
20,236
Hame making.
2
27,500
18,997
37,000
Marble cutting.
3
4,500
2,000
8,200
Tailoring and clothing.
II
. 29,000
118,480
142,370
7
3,675
7,100
13,350
Soap making.
I
2,900
3,000
5,000
Jewelry . ..
1 I
4,000
200
1,200
Brewing, distilling, and wine making.
3
315,000
308,700
422,650
Confectionery and baking. . . .
T
950
1,000
3,500
Furniture making ..
I
7,000
8,000
12,000
Painting, house and carriage.
6
1,925
3,000
9, 100
Stove manufacturing.
I
2,000
3,080
8,080
Planing-mill.
1 J
2,600
2,000
10,000
Starch making.
2
700,000
290,000
750,000
Willow ware making.
2
575
650
2,500
Bookbinders' tools
I
800
200
2,000
Fertilizers.
2
362,000
155,000
226,000
Total in 1880 (excepting Cincinnati).
227 $2,303, 170 $1,904,060 $3,261,670 Total in 1870 (including Cincinnati). . . . 2,469 42,646, 152 44,876, 148 78,905,980
JOHN FILSON .- Since the printing of the sheet con- taining a notice of Filson, in Chapter V, of this volume, we have found the following remark in the second edi- tion of Collins' History of Kentucky, volume I, page 640:
A memorandum left by his brother says he was killed by an Indian on the west side of the Ohio, October 1, 1788, about five miles from the Great Miami river, and twenty or twenty-five from the Ohio-a few miles northwest of Glendale, Hamilton county, Ohio.
[The possessor of this work is recommended to pass through it with pen or pencil, and correct it according to the memoranda below and the errata prefixed to the second volume. It will heighten the pleasure of subse- quent reading, and prevent some misconceptions of the text.]
Page 11-First-column, twenty-second line from the bottom, for " five," read " four."
Page 12-Sixth line, for " Little," read "Great." In the list of post offices, for " Banesburgh, " read " Barneshurgh;" for "Newton," read " Newtown;" for " Pleasan Ridge," "Pleasant Ridge;" for "Shann- ville," "Sharonville;" and insert an asterisk after " Walnut Hills," and a comma before the same.
Page 18-In the second line of the table, for " Land," read "Sand." Page 29-Read the latter part of the sentence just before the middle of first column thus: " Their system of signals placed on lofty sum- mits, visible from their settlements, and communicating with the great water courses at immense distances, rival the signal systems in use at the beginning of the present century."
Page 34-In seventeenth and twenty-fourth lines, for "Miamis," read " Munsees,"
Page 39-Eighteenth line, for " impartial," read " important."
Page 41-First column, fifteenth line from the bottom, for "mayor,"
read "major." In the second column, twenty-first line, for "north- westward, " read " northeastward."
Page 43-Second column, second line from the bottom, for "for" read "from."
Page 45- - Second column, twenty-third line, for "four," read "three." First column, thirty-fourth line, for "Green township," read "Springfield township, excepting the north tier of sections, which belong to another surveyed township." The statement in the text is that usually made in regard to the College township. It is, however, certainly wrong. In the Reply, published in Cincinnati in 1803, to Judge Symmes' appeal to the committee of Congress to accept the second township, in the second fractional range (now Green), as the College township, the "proprietors," after citing the familiar clause in Symmes' " terms of sale and settlement," promising the reservation, foracademic purposes, of the entire section nearest the point opposite the mouth of the Lick- ing, say : "Agreeably to this provision, the third townshipof the first entire range on Mill creek, was set apart and designated on the map of the purchase by Mr. Symmes as the College township, so early as the year 1789, and for a considerable time after he refused selling it." This statement is confirmed by an appended extract from the journal of the Territorial legislature, held in Cincinnati in 1799. The township described is now, of course, identified as six-sevenths of Springfield township. Green was never the College township, except in the desire and intention of Judge Synmes, who vainly, and through several.years, tried to secure its acceptance as such by the Territorial, State, or Federal authorities. The writer is very happy to be able thus to settle one of the vexed problems of local history.
Page 47 -- Second column, twenty-fifth line, for " here," read "have." Page 50-Second column, eleventh line from the bottom, for "Gam," read "Gano."
Page 56-First column, twenty-third line from the bottom, for " too," read " the."
Page 62-First column, eleventh line from the bottom, for "feet." read " seat."
Page 63-Fifth line, for " Timmons," read "Truman."
Page 66-First column, twenty-first and twentieth lines from the bottom, for " seat of county," read " county seat."
Page 78-First column, seventeenth line from the bottom, for " ar- rived," read "armed;" second column, twenty-fourth line, for "which," read " what,"
Page 81-Second column, thirteenth line, for "Memories," read " Memoirs."
Page 83-Second column, thirty-first line, for "Colonel," read " Colonels;" next line, for "A. M. Mitchell, " read "O. M. Mitchel;', sixth line from the bottom, for "many," read "several."
Page 84-Twenty-sixth line, for "near the place," read "in the township;" twenty-ninth line, for " ridge," read " bridge."
Page 85-Second column, twenty-second line from the bottom, for
"introductionary," read "introductory."
Page 90-Fifteenth line, for "six months," read " three years."
Page 99-Second column, sixth line from the bottom, for " Cook, '' read " McCook."
Page 112-last line, for " Merr," read " Moor."
Page 113-Twenty-second line, for " Mori," read " Moor." First column, sixteenth and fifteenth lines from the bottom, for "centre - charge," read " counter-charge."
Page 120-First column, fourteenth and twenty-fifth lines from the bottom, for "Lewell," read " Sewell;" tenth line, for "twenty-seventh,' read "forty-seventh;" second column, twenty-first line from the bottom, for "star, " read "southern."
Page 122-Twenty-second line, for "now," read " recently."
Page 195 -- Sixteenth line, for "with them," read "them to with,', similarly correct fourth line, second column, page 196; foot note, for " thousand," read " business;" second column, sixteenth line, for " Sunmanville," read "Summansville."
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Page 196-Eighteenth line, for "closer," read " closed."
Page 197-Fifth line, for " A. M.," read " P. M."
Page 198-First column, ninth line from the bottom, for " three hours," read "the hour."
Page 199-First column, sixth line from the bottom, for "Remkle," read " Runkle;" second column, twelfth and sixteenth lines from the bottom, and in several places thereafter, for "Brubeck," read "Bur- beck."
Page 204-Second column, thirteenth line, for "T. S. Potter," read "J. A. Booth."
Page 207-First column, twenty-fifth line from the bottom, for "re- puted, " read "reported."
Page 210-Second column, twelfth line, for "nine-five," read "nine- ty-five."
Page 214-Second column, fifteenth line from the bottom, for "mil- lion," read "hundred thousand;" thirteenth line, for "forty," read "forty-two;" twelfth line, strike ont "two hundred;" eleventh line, for "fifty," read "fifty-eight;" tenth line, for "one," read "two, " and after "cents," insert "and $1,000, 000 six per cents."
Page 216-Second column, twenty-first line from the bottom, strike out "and sixty."
Page 217-Second column, seventeenth line from the bottom, for "1814," read "1824."
Page 218-Twenty-third line, for "four," read "five."
Page 224-Second column, fifth line from the bottom, for "1857' read "1857."
Page 230-Second column, fourteenth line from the bottom, for "de- lay" read "day."
Page 236-First column, twelfth line from the bottom, for "prompt" read "pomp and."
Page 240-Second column, eighth line from the bottom, for "1878-8" read "1877-8."
Page 242-Eleventh line, for the third "of," read "to;" ninth line from the bottom, first column, for "Newton," read "Newtown."
Page 246-Second column, twelfth line from the bottom, for "ridge," read "bridge."
Page 255-First column, sixteenth line from the bottom, for "thrice," read "twice;" second column, twenty-second line from the bottom, for "first," read "just."
Page 257-Second column, ninth line, for "southeast," read "south- west."
Page 260-First column, for " Williamson Paul," read "Paul Wil- liamson."
Page 262-Transfer the paragraph relating to the Morgan raid from Pleasant Run to Bevis ; in the second line of the paragraph, for "occu- pied," read "crossed."
Page 264-First column, eighth line from the bottom, for "county," read "township."
Page 267-Second column, eleventh line from the bottom, for "1705," read "1795."
Page 273-Second column, twenty-third line, for "Gazette," read "Gazetteer."
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