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Paul Huston was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1767; Jean (Charters) Huston, his wife, was born in Glasgow. Scotland, December 14, 1771. Her parents emigrated to America and settled in Penn- sylvania in 1774. Their offspring were William, Mary, John, Paul, John, Jennet, Samuel, Martha, Nancy, James and Elizabeth, the last named being the mother of Paul H. Williamson. Paul was the grandfather of Paul S. and his cousin Paul A. J. Huston. Samuel was the grand- father of Andrew and James Huston.
James Huston, son of Paul and father of Paul A. J. Huston, was born in 1811 and died in 1878; was a farmer in Colerain township, and, like the Hustons in general, was remarkable for his thrift and good worth. Paul's mother was Martha Cone, daughter of an old pioneer of Crosby township. His father was married twice; the second time to Miss Mary Morris, and was the father of six children in all, of which Paul A. J. was the oldest. P. A. J. Huston owns part of the extensive tract of land possessed originally by his father, being in the vicinity of Pleasant run. He is a farmer and a prominent man in his county, having filled many town- ship offices and been a member of the State legislature. He was married to Miss Mary Bevis in 1859, and is the father of six 'children. He is public spirited, and lives an honored citizen of his community.
Andrew and James Huston are the grandsons of Sam- uel Huston. Their father, James Steward, was a dis- tiller, and owned an extensive tract of about fifteen hun- dred acres of land besides; a part of which Andrew and James received as patrimony. They also possess large interests in the Hamilton and Cincinnati turnpike, and are also large shareholders in the Springdale pike. The Hamilton and Cincinnati turnpike is probably one of the best managed pikes in the State. In addition to all this these brothers have considerable property in the city of Cincinnati.
Paul S. Huston, also of Colerain township, grandson of Paul Huston and son of William, was born in 1823. William died in 1848, since which time, until her death, Paul's mother lived with him on the old place near Pleasant run; his sister Ann Elizabeth also lived with him several years. Paul S. Huston was never married.
Thomas Hunter, of Pleasant run, Colerain township, is the only son, and Mrs. Arnold, of Louisville, Ken- tucky, is the only daughter of Paul Hunter, who is still living. William Hunter, his grandfather, came from Pennsylvania to Colerain township in 1800. Thomas Hunter was married in 1858 to Miss Gaston, of Mount Pleasant, from which union he had two children. He is a farmer.
Charles Stout was born in Hopewell township, New Jersey, in 1783. From this State he came directly to Ohio, and settled in Colerain township in 1801. His
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death occurred in the same region January 14, 1866. His business was that of a farmer, and he was a member of the Baptist church for about twenty-five years. His wife, Mary Duvall, was born March 3, 1790, and died January 10, 1859. Of their twelve children, Ann Eliza- beth Struble died in 1834, Stephen in 1821, and Mary R. in 1828. Jane Stout resides in Groesbeck, Joseph R. in Illinois, Oliver in Indiana, Charlotte Hill in Ham- ilton county ; and Eleanor Bevis, Axsher Bevis, Benajah, Andrew J., and William remain in Colerain.
Thomas Hubbard, sr., was born in North Carolina in 1780. He came from that State to Ohio, and settled in Colerain in 1807. His death took place May 25, 1852, at the same place. His wife, Elizabeth Hubbard, died also at their home in Colerain June 27, 1868. She was born in 1790. The twenty-one children are: William and Charles, now in Missouri; Laura Bolton, Aurelia Carnahan, Maria Kellogg and Margaret Wilkinson, of Indiana, Susan Tatershall, Sarah Hat and Matilda Kelly, of Illinois, and Ann Hubbard and Thomas Hubbard, jr., of Colerain. Those who have died, are Thomas dying August, 1815; Samuel, July, 1822; Cynthia, July, 1834; Wesley, June, 1837; Hannah, April, 1847; Mary, August, 1852; Elizabeth, 1869; Eleanor, 1865, and Dal- son, July, 1868.
The children are scattered, but ten only are living. Thomas Hubbard owns part of section seven of his township; was married in 1828, but has no children. His sister Ann lives with him.
David K. Johnson, the only son of twelve children of Abner Johnson, of New Jersey, came here in 1809. Abner Johnson was born in the year 1759, hauled government supplies for Washington's army during the war, and with the script made in that way pur- chased part of Judge Symmes' tract, near Ross, in But- ler county, on which farm David K. Johnston still lives. Mr. Johnson is now in the eightieth year of his age; has . been blind eleven years, but otherwise is hale and hearty. He has been successful in shipping much produce in his line to New Orleans, out of which he has made money. He was married in 1831 to Miss Elizabeth Hedges.
The Johnson family, with but few exceptions, lived to the good old age of eighty, and upwards.
Elias Johnson, nephew of David K. Johnson, and grandson of Abner, lives on part of the same purchase (Judge Symmes), in the vicinity of Ross, Butler county. Squire Johnson is known among his neighbors as a man of good judgment, of possessing more than ordinary abilities, and withal is noted for general thrift and good worth. He is a Republican, was a delegate to the gen- eral assembly in 1873 for revising the constitution; has always taken an active part in the public questions of the day. Has been a director of the Colerain turnpike, and secretary for the company since 1857. He was born December 30, 1816, and was married in August, 1871.
George Pouder made his first settlement in Ohio, at Cincinnati, in 1817. He came to this State from Balti- more, Maryland, where he was born October 17, 1804. In 1870, December 23, he died, at Colerain township. The wife, Hannah G., was born in this township in 1805,
and died in 1871. The surviving members of the fam- ily are George and Harriet West, both residing in Cole- rain township, and Mary. J. Collier, of Baltimore, Mary- land. Five have died: Samuel died in August, 1834; Elizabeth Collier, September, 1859; John, May, 1864; Margaret, May, 1848, and Mary, March, 1844.
George Pouder, of Barnesburgh, Colerain township, is a native of the county, but has only lived in the village during the past three years, in which he owns eighteen acres of good land and twenty-seven and a half acres of the old homestead near. He had a brother killed in the late war, near Dallas, Georgia, and was himself a mem- ber of the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Ohio national guard. . One company of this regiment was composed solely of teachers, of which John Hancock, superinten- dent of the Cincinnati schools, was a private.
John Pouder was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1764, and came to Ohio and settled in Cincinnati in 1817. He died in Colerain in 1836. His wife, Elizabeth Pouder, born in 1784, died four years before her hus- band. The surviving children are Joseph and Harriet, now residents of Indianapolis, Indiana; Mary, of Craw- fordsville, Indiana, and Lemuel, of Colerain.
Leonard Pouder owns forty acres two miles west of Taylor's, Colerain township, and came here in 1840. Andrew, his son, enlisted in the Fiftieth Ohio regiment, and was taken prisoner at Franklin, Tennessee, and sent to prison at Chahaba, Georgia, where he was closely guarded for three months. After being exchanged, in company with two thousand one hundred others, he was put on the ill fated Sultana, and when above Memphis, about two o'clock in the morning, the boiler burst and the boat was blown up. He secured a life-buoy, and after remaining on deck as long as possible, cast himself into the water, and swam to a sycamore log. He was picked up about four hours afterwards and taken to the hospital in Memphis, at which place he remained three weeks before going home. Only about three hundred of his comrades were saved.
A. H. Cone, of Ross township, Butler county, was born in Hamilton county, but now lives on a part of the Yankee purchase of two and a half sections near Venice, owned by his father and grandfather. Charles Cone was major of militia during the Hull engagement. His grandson, A. H. Cone, is at present justice of the peace of Ross township.
Giles Richards, the father of George Richards, was one of the old pioneers of Colerain township, a man of considerable ability, foresight, and sagacity, and one who did much towards public improvements, for both State.and county. He was the projector of the Colerain turnpike, of the river bridge on that road, and also of other undertakings. During the war he contributed about sixteen thousand dollars of his own funds in various ways for the furtherance of its cause. He was born January 6, 1792, in Boston, Massachu- setts, was a mechanic, merchant and farmer, and made his money during the War of 1812. He then had a button factory and made buttons for the army, and sad- dlery ornaments of various kinds. He came to Cincin-
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nati in 1820, where he soon had a saw-mill, grist-mill and woollen factory. In 1830 he purchased a large tract of land, of several hundred acres, surrounding what was then the thriving town of Colerain. Mr. Richards was successful in accumulating a large amount of property, and also in securing an enviable reputation among his fellows. He died in 1876, having lived during the last two years with his son George, who was born in 1843, and in 1869 married to Miss Josie Johnson.
In 1818 Isaac Erven made his first settlement in Ohio in Cincinnati. He was born in 1807, March 15th, in the State of Pennsylvania, and came from that State to Ohio. For fifteen years he was school director, and also served as ministerial director. His wife, Elizabeth Gos- sage, was born in Maryland in 1816, and died in Cole- rain township in the year 1879. The children are: Isaac Erven, of Illinois; Henry and Giles, of this town- ship; Ezra, and Ellen Wolverton, of Oregon; Francis M., also of Colerain; and Charlotte Wilson, living near Dayton, Ohio.
William Martin is a descendant of Virginia stock, who were early settlers in Colerain township. William's grandfather, Samuel S., was a farmer and an undertaker. Samuel Martin, his father, lived on the farm William now owns. Mr. Martin, although born in 1822, has always preferred single blessedness to a married state.
Williamson Paul, of Colerain township, was born May 25, 1837. His paternal grandfather was William Wil- liamson, whose wife was Anna Vorhees; they were of Teutonic and English origin. His great-grandfather, on his father's side, was John Williamson, whose wife was Lucretia Tice. John was born fourth of May, 1749; Lu- cretia Tice the twenty-sixth of April, 1749. They raised a family of ten children: John, William, Jacob, Gar- ret, Mary, Henry, Ann, Sarah, David, and Luretia. John was married to Hannah Smith, August 29, 1771. They raised a family of ten children, Jacob, Cornelius, John, Lucretia, Simeon, Amos, Catharine, David Ann, and Henry. David Williamson, Paul's father, was born June 6, 1808; his mother Elizabeth Huston, was born April 24, 1814. They were married May 22, 1833. Their children were Hannah, Jean, Paul H., Mary E., and Al- bert. David Williamson came of Revolutionary stock, his grandfather, John, having served under Generals Greene and Washington, and fought and was taken pris- oner during the war. David was an edge tool maker and an early pioneer and settler of Colerain township, having emigrated to this place in 1811, and when twenty- five years of age married Elizabeth Huston. Paul Wil- liamson, their eldest son, was liberally educated and per- fected his studies at Farmer's college; for nine months following he was a successful teacher, for which he seems to have been adapted in manner and method. In May, 1857, he went to Iowa and found employment in agricul- tural pursuits, and in the fall of that year, with three friends, travelled by wagon through the greater portion of this State, Missouri, and Kansas, and during the follow- ing winter taught a flourishing school at Aviston, Illinois. In April, 1858, in company with a friend, he started
overland to California, meeting at Leavenworth an emi- grant train, which he accompanied to the same destina- tion. Their route was via Santa Fe and the thirty-fifth parallel, Lieutenant Beale's route across New Mexico. While on this wearisome journey the party was attacked on the Colorado river by Indians, and eight of their num- ber slain. They lost their wagons and stock, and, passing through a gauntlet of hostile Indians, suffered the most terrible privations, and were compelled to return east a distance of seven hundred miles to Albuquerque, at which place Mr. Williamson left the party, taking his way to El Paso, Mexico, remaining there two weeks, then joining a Mexican wagon train went to San Antonio, Texas. In a short time he left this place for Seguin, Texas, where, for nine months, he again taught school. In the fall of 1859 he made a journey to Columbia, Ar- kansas, on horseback, where he again became teacher, and filled this position with great success, until the break- ing out of the civil war; thence he proceeded to New Orleans, again north to St. Louis and to Cincinnati, in which vicinity he has since resided. From February, 1870, until 1874 he acted as deputy clerk of the probate court of Hamilton county. In October, 1873, he was elected county auditor, which position he filled with credit to himself and to his county for one term; was re- nominated, but defeated by a very small majority. He was married November 1, 1870, to Miss Ada Jayne, daughter of a pioneer of Clermont county, and of Ada- line Leonard, whose ancestry were of Scotch-Irish de- scent, and who came over in the Mayflower. Paul H. is a Democrat. His life is one of startling incidents and romantic adventure.
Baxter Vansicle, father of Eliza, came from Maryland with his father and settled on the present site-about one mile west of Sater-in the year 1812. Mr. Vansicle farmed in the summer and fished in the winter, the river at that time furnishing plenty of that kind of meat, and the market being as good then as now. Mr. Vansicle
died March 12, 1872.
Thomas McHenry came with his father to Colerain township in the year 1812, where he has resided since. The farm was purchased of a Mr. Richardson, and was then about the only settlement made in that vicinity. Mr. McHenry is a member of the Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Eliza Scott resides at the mouth of Dunlap creek, where James Henderson Scott, her husband, lived many years before his death. He was the proprietor of a saw- mill on the Miami river, and engaged chiefly in that business. Mrs. Scott was born in Hamilton county, but when six years of age her parents moved to Illinois, where she remained until twenty-one years of age. She was married in 1856, and in 1876 her husband died.
Peter Pool, deceased husband of Mary Jane Pool, was born March 2, 1822-died August 10, 1864; purchased about forty acres near the school-house, district No. 7, Colerain township, where he remained many years before his death.
James Poole resides on the Locus farm, the beautiful site near Groesbeck's, Colerain township. He was born March 29, 1824, in Hamilton county, and has been iden-
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tified in the interests of that portion of the State during his life. He was a soldier in the late war, and is an ac- tive member of the church. His father, William Poole, came from Vermont in 1816, and died in Springfield, Ohio, in 1868. James Poole was married January 3, 1857, to Emily Cilley, daughter of Bradbury Cilley.
John Gaiser was born in Germany in 1829. In 1850 he came to Ohio and first settled in Green township. His wife, Wilhelmina Gaiser, was born in 1835, and died in Cincinnati in May, 1871. The children living in that city are Katie, Eliza, and Lottie. John C., Caroline, George W., and William H. are now living in Colerain. Mr. Gaiser has been in township office and was a farrier at Camp Monroe during the war.
John Barnes was born in 1812, in Kentucky, from which State he came into Ohio and made settlement. His wife, Aremento Barnes, died in Colerain township in 1874. The surviving children are Abraham and Mary Jane, now of Colerain; Hugh of Harrison; Daniel, of Indianapolis, Indiana; Alfred W., of Mill Creek; and Catharine, of Miami. Peter Poole, the husband of Mary Jane Barnes, died of typhoid fever in the army of Virginia in 1864.
Charles Willey was a native of Massachusetts, and set- tled in Colerain township. In 1864 he died in Indiana. Tullitha Willey, his wife, born in 1802, is still living in Colerain, as also are his two daughters, Sarah and Mary. His son Joseph is now a resident of Indiana.
W. G. Arnold, of Taylor's, a farmer, was born in 1836. He bought land here in 1872, since which time he has resided in the village.
Louis R. Strong, of Taylor's was born and raised near the village, and owns fifty-three acres at that place. He was born on the sixth of August, 1827.
A. B. Luse, M. D., an experienced physician (old school) of over forty years standing, was born in Butler county in 1809; came to Mt. Pleasant in 1830, where he has practiced his profession ever since with an excep- tion of but three years, during which time he pursued his profession in Hamilton, and was there during the cholera epidemic of 1833-4-5. In 1835 he returned to Mt. Pleasant, where he still resides.
Mrs. Agnes Cilley is the. wife of Columbus Cilley, eldest son of Bradbury Hedges Cilley. Columbus Cil- ley was born November 4, 1839, in Colerain Station, Hamilton county, Ohio. After perfecting his studies at College Hill he enlisted as wheel-driver First regiment Ohio light artillery, December 2, 1861, and served until December, 1864. He was in the battles of Gettysburgh, Fredericksburgh, Chancellorsville, Manassas Gap, and other hotly contested engagements. Mr. Cilley was a good soldier, was a much respected man, and lived on the old homestead after the war and until his death, at which time he was a trustee of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Cilley now lives in Venice.
Henry Gulick, a farmer near Bevis, is one of the most . prominent fruit growers in the country, and is a promi- nent man in other respects. He began life empty handed, and has made his fortunes since by his own exertions. When two years of age he came with his parents from
New Jersey to Hamilton county. He was captain of a company in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Ohio volunteers, during the hundred day service, and has filled other positions of prominence. In 1856 he purchased the beautiful site near Bevis, his present homestead. His son Edward is a natural sculptor, studied the art without the assistance of a tutor, and has produced some remarkable results, of which may be mentioned "The Bachelor's Trial," "The Goddess of War," etc.
J. P. Waterhouse, M. D., of Bevis, came to Hamilton county in 1853-born in 1825. His father, Joseph, came to Indiana in 1844. He was a member of the Maine legislature and captain of the militia. Dr. Water- house graduated in the Miami Medical college in 1854. Practiced his profession in Charleston, Illinois, three years, then in Venice, Ohio, two years, and was for six years a member of the Methodist Episcopal conference. He was a private in the one hundred day service, in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth regiment Ohio national guard.
Mary Jane Davis, granddaughter of Paul Huston, and daughter of Thomas Burns and Jennie Huston, was born and raised near Carthage, Ohio. Her great-grandfather, Archibald Bourns, came from Scotland in 1751, and set- tled in Pennsylvania. Her father and grandfather were sickle makers; both raised large families, who were devo- ted Christians of the Presbyterian faith. Mrs. Davis was, for the space of four years, in the missionary work at Wapanauca, Indian Territory, teaching the mission school of that place. The school was composed of the Chickasaw Indians, out of which, during her stay, she wrought considerable success. Mrs. Davis is a devoted Christian, and took great interest in her work, for which she deserves great praise. One year previous to leaving this field of labor she was married to Leander Davis, March 16, 1855, and for a while lived in Illinois, where he died July, 1865, since which time Mrs. Davis has lived in Colerain township, on what is known as the sec- ond homestead.
John Gasser, of Barnesburgh, eame from Germany in 1849, and has lived in the county for thirty years; is a blacksmith-also a farmer-of that place. He raises fruit and vegetables, and markets in Cincinnati. He has been married three times.
A. L. Compton, of Mount Pleasant, lives on the old homestead farm, a part of which he owns; he also owns an extensive tract of land in Tennessee. Mr. Compton is a prominent member of the Masonie fraternity of this place, and is also secretary 'of the Jersey John Hyde as- sociation, of Cincinnati, for the recovery of the estate of John Hyde, of New Jersey, believed to be in the Bank of England, and amounting, it is said, to sixty or seventy millions of dollars.
J. R. Thompson, of Taylor's, principal of the public schools of that place, perfected his studies in the One Study university, of Harrison county, Ohio, came to Taylor's in 1875, since which time he has been engaged in teaching and dealing in real estate. He owns several lots and houses in the village.
M. T. Jones, of Colerain township, lives one mile
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south of Pleasant run, on the Hamilton pike. He is a native of Butler county, where he lived until 1817, at which time he moved to the above-named place.
COLERAIN VILLAGE.
The beginnings of this settlement, and the adventures of Dunlap's Station thereat, have been narrated. John Dunlap was one of Judge Symmes' confidential surveyors ; and, like most of his class, he easily inclined to land- speculation and the founding of towns, and, herein re- sembling his distinguished chief, the Miami purchaser, he did not hesitate to discount the future liberally, when it would serve his purposes. Hence he set his stakes down in the bend of the Great Miami, surveyed off a town-site, and offered lots for sale, before he had any valid title whatever to the land upon which they were located. He made some sales; cabins were erected; a fortified station built, and other improvements made. This, be it noted to the enduring honor of the now desolated site in the great bend of the Miami, was the first settlement of any size in the country back of the skirt of villages along the Ohio. But it presently appeared that Dunlap would be unable to perfect titles to his colonists; the fear of recurring Indian attack probably united with this to discourage the little band; Dunlap himself soon left, for a time at least ; the settlers gradually abandoned the once promising village, and its site returned in due time to its primitive wildness and desolation. The purchasers lost all they had paid Dunlap, and the value their im- provements. The chief memorial of the settlement is in the beautiful name given by the founder to it, and trans- ferred, probably perpetually, to the township itself.
The Colerain pioneer, according to the list of first officers of the township, given above, was here still in 1794. He gave the name to the post office of
DUNLAP.
This place, more commonly known as "Georgetown," is situated only about two miles from the original Cole- rain, or Dunlap's Station, and due east of it, at the junc- tion of the Colerain pike with two minor roads, on the west side of section eighteen, one and a half miles south of the county line. A place of this name is mistaken- ly set down on the map prefixed to the later editions (as that of 1793) of Filson's Account of the State of Ken- tucky, as a village on the other side of the county, on the Little Miami, about eight miles above Columbia.
It was somewhere in the northeast part of this town- ship, it will be remembered, and probably not far from the subsequent site of Dunlap, that one of these authors, John Filson, of the original trio of projectors of Losanti- ville or Cincinnati, was probably massacred by the Indi- ans. No word or trace of him was ever obtained, after his separation from Symmes's exploring party in the early fall of 1788. This place was laid off as Georgetown Sep- tember 2, 1829.
BEVIS
is also on the Colerain turnpike, something less than midway of its course across the township from the south- east, on the south side of section ten, and half-way across it. A post office and a few houses are here, and a ceme-
tery carefully laid out, with a regularly recorded plat. The village was named from Jesse Bevis. a native of Pennsylvania and an early settler of the township, first upon the farm now owned by Martin Bevis. He built the first hotel upon the village site some time in the '20's, and kept it for more than forty years, dying in it finally in 1868, at the age of eighty-six. It is remarked that, although many hundreds of people had been sheltered under the roof of this inn during his time, his was the first death that had ever occurred there. He held for many years the office of township treasurer, and fur- nished nearly all the means for building the Bevis (United Brethren) church.
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