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family of old settlers and otherwise noted people, who came from the east about 1804 and settled near Cheviot. They were the first pioneers, and consequently were the first to erect school-houses, churches, establish roads, and otherwise improve the country. Mr. Carson lives comfortably in a nice homestead in Cheviot.
Washington Markland is of Chestnut farm, Green township, on which place he has lived during a life of seventy-one years, excepting four years he resided in Piqua, Ohio, to educate his children. His father, Thomas Markland, and mother, Anna Maria, were born in Maryland; moved to Boone county, Kentucky, in 18or; removed to the Chestnut farm (section thirty-two, Green township), in 1805, having then a family of seven children, viz: Elizabeth, Jonathan, Benjamin, John, William, Leah, and Noah; Martha, Washington, James, and Charles, were born on this farm; all are now dead but Noah, Washington, and Charles.
His mother, Anna Maria Summers, was of Welsh de- scent; his father was of English origin; he died in the year 1825, May/ 18th, leaving Washington in charge of the family. His mother died in the year 1830.
Thomas Markland, whose father was a companion of Daniel Boone, Kent and Cornelius Washburne, the lat- ter the grandfather of Hon. Washburne, of Illinois, lived near the family after they came to Ohio; was intensely bitter towards the Indians and a great friend to Washing- ton, teaching him old battle songs when he was but four or five years of age.
Washington Markland was married to Miss Mary Hammond, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 24, 1829. Her father was a minister of the gos- pel in the Methodist Episcopal church. She lived a Christian life, dying triumphant in the faith, July 20, 1878. She was the mother of eight children, three of whom are now dead. He is now conscious of his end approaching, and is waiting in joy the time when he may have the privilege of crossing over to meet his beloved wife and others, who have gone before. He was born October 25, 1809. The family records were destroyed by a dog, and much valuable history of the foreparents is lost. Of his children two sons were in the late war. Albert was under General Butler on the Potomac, and Samuel who was in the cavalry service under General Kilpatrick, was taken prisoner, and for two nights and a day before Lee's surrender was confined in Libby prison.
Mr. Markland has several relics of old times he highly prizes, viz: An Indian tomahawk of 1812; an iron kettle, ninety-nine years old; a grubbing hoe, seventy years old, and several parts of General Harrison's carriage. He still resides on the farm of his birthplace.
William Murphy was born in New Jersey in 1800. From this State he was carried to Ohio, and began his life two years later in Springfield township. His death occurred in 1872, in Delhi township. The wife, Mary Ann Murphy, was born September 7, 1803, and died in 1863. The children, George and Margaret, are now re- sidents of Green township, and Theodore, Christopher *and Robert are living in Delhi township. -
George Hay is a farmer, residing near Bridgetown,
Green township, and is also director and secretary of the Cleves Turnpike company. He was born on the twenty- third of August, 1837, received a good common school education, and has been honored by the people of his township in various positions of trust, having served three terms as township trustee, and been a member of the board of education; he is also a director and vice- president of the Harvest Home association. His father, Washington Hay, came from Baltimore about the year 1806, and purchased a farm near Bridgetown, a part of which George Hay now owns.
Catharine Thurston was the wife of Joshua Thurston, deceased, and daughter of Henry Applegate, an old settler of Green township, who died in the year 1877, about eighty-six years of age. Her father, Mr. Apple- gate, was born in New Jersey, July 1, 1791, came here in 1812, and remained on Dry Ridge the remainder of his days, dying March 12, 1877; was a bricklayer and plasterer on Long Island, but, longing for the west, travelled on foot and by stage coach to Pittsburgh, where he purchased a skiff and from there came on to Cincin- nati, in which vicinity he lived for sixty years. He was the father of twelve children, of which Catharine was the second. Her husband, Joshua Thurston was a minute man during the war; he died in St. Louis, in 1865, since which time Mrs. Thurston has resided on the old home- stead place.
Joseph Epley was a native of Pennsylvania, and emi- grated from that State to Ohio, and settled in this town- ship, on sections ten and eleven. He died here in 1835. His wife, Sarah Eply, lived till the year 1876. James Eply, the oldest son, resides in Green township; the sec- ond child, Joseph, is a resident of Kansas; and the youngest, Ann Barries, is in Colrain township. James has held the office of justice of peace for twenty-six years, he was also township trustee for two terms.
Emily Wood, wife of Emerson Wood, deceased, lives near Dent. Her husband was two years of age when his father settled in Green township, one mile northeast from the village, on one hundred acres of good land. They were married in 1832; in 1875 he died. The fruits of their marriage were four children-, three sons and one daughter. The daughter and two sons are teachers; one son is now taking a course in the Normal school at Lebanon, Ohio. One son is married.
William H. Markland is the third son living of the old pioneer Jonathan Markland, who 'settled on the Cleves road, near Dry Ridge, in the year 1815. Here they be- gan life, a family of thirteen children on a farm of ninety- five acres. Jonathan was born in Virginia in the year 1791, from which State he came. William H. began business in Bridgetown, where he remained two and one- half years-this was in 1850-then moved to Iowa, but returned again in the year 1853, to Dry Ridge, where he has remained ever since, in charge of a store. He also owns land on Cleves pike; was married in the year 1850.
Isaac W. Stathem, of the firm of Isaac and David Stathem, grocers in Cheviot, succeeded their father in this business, opening out on a somewhat more extensive scale, in the year 1865. His father, David E. Stathem, came
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to Green township in 1817, and was a teacher for a number of years, during which time the public school system not being in vogue, a general interest was awak- ened in the cause of education by a private school he conducted with great success, having for his patronage many of the first citizens of Green township. He kept grocery afterwards for a period of about thirty years, be- ginning in 1824. He died in 1853. He came from New Jersey, and is, probably, of English origin; was born May 12, 1792. His sons were soldiers in the late war.
David E. Stathem first settled in Green township in 1817. He was born in 1792, in Cumberland county, New Jersey, from which State he emigrated to Ohio. His death occurred in 1867, at Cheviot. In 1817 he was a school teacher, when the country was a wilderness. A list of the patrons of his school and the number of pupils sent by each may be of interest in this connection. Providence Ludlamor, 1; John Bacon, 4; Robert Dare, I; James Smith, 2; Samuel Anderson, 1; Louis Thor- nell, 3; James Turner, 2; Thomas Brown, 2; John Craig, 3; John Miller, 3; Roswell Fenton, 2; Ephraim Stathem, I; Benjamin Benn, 2; David Congar, 2; Achsah Car- son, 2; John Congar, 1; Mathias Johnson, 4; Mary Cain, I; 'Thomas Marshal, 3; Nathaniel Ryan, 2; Noah Smith, 2; Jonathan R. Tucker, 1 ; William Gain, 2; Elisha Fay, 6; Hugh Goudy, 1; Abner Scudder, 2; John Red- ish, 4, John Jones, 1; Francis Holt, I; Elijah Brown 2; George Smith, I. For twenty-one years he was township treasurer, when he resigned. Christian name of his wife was Dorcas Hildreth. Names of surviving members of the family are: Isaac W., Jacob H., and David T., all of Cheviot; and Phœbe, who died in 1871.
James Veazey resides on part of section seven, Green township, near Westwood, where he moved in 1870. His father came from Delaware to Ohio, settling in Clermont county in 1812. In 1824 he purchased a farm in Spring Grove; he died in 1876, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. James was born in 1818, bought his present home- stead in 1852, and was married to Miss Williams, daugh- ter of an old settler, in 1870. He is a farmer.
S. S. Jackson was born in Philadelphia in 1803. He came to Ohio from New York city, and made his first settlement in Green township, in the year 1826. His wife, Elizabeth Jackson, was born-in 1807. Of his seven children, only two are still living: Mary Jackson and Julia Herrick, both in Green township. John was wounded at Vicksburgh and died, Isaac and Lewis were drowned. The remaining two that are not alive are Elizabeth and Debby. Mr. Jackson has in his pos- session a journal of his grandfather, Mr. William Jack- son, dated August 26, 1768, at Philadelphia; also, a weather record kept by his father, Isaac H. Jackson, three times each day, for the years between 1813 and 1842.
F. H. Oghlmann, of the law firm of Oehlmann & Lun- dy, room 24 Temple Bar, northwest corner of Court and Main streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, was born January 13, 1848, on Race street, Cincinnati. His father came to this county when but fourteen years of age (1833), and died October 3, 1875, at the age of fifty-eight years; his
mother is still living. F. H. Oehlmann received a good common school education in the public schools of Cincin- nati, perfecting his course in the Woodard high school at the age of seventeen years. Following his course in school, he obtained employment as clerk in the record- er's office, court house, where he remained for a period of eight years, when he went into the practice of law, and is to-day the senior member of the firm of Oehl- mann & Lundy. He, with his parents, removed from Cincinnati to Westwood in the spring of 1865, where he still resides. He was elected as assessor of Green town- ship when he was but twenty-one years of age, defeating a worthy and popular citizen in the election. He was elected member of the council of the village of West- wood, in which capacity he served until the spring of 1878, when he was elected mayor of said village, and was reelected in 1880, and is at present the presiding officer of that village. He married Miss Augusta Patzold in 1871, from which union he has been blessed with several children.
Joseph Siefert was born December 11, 1810, at Baden, Germany. Coming directly from that country to Ohio, he settled in Cincinnati in 1834. For eight years he was a member of the city council, twelve years director of the Longview Lunatic asylum, and two terms, or twelve years, president of the Cincinnati Relief union, of which soci- ety he was a member for twenty-one years. . He paid the relief fund to the soldiers' widows during thirteen years, for five years was appointed by the governor, and the re mainder of the time held the place through the council. His wife, Elizabeth Siefert, was born in Europe Novem- ber 1, 1813, and died December 7, 1875. Of the seven children, Charles only remains a resident of this township. Elizabeth Huy resides in Richmond, Indiana, and Ellen Drum, Rosa Hegle, Mary, Josephine, and Frank Joseph, are in Cincinnati.
D. R. Herrick was born in 1843, in Summit county, Ohio. He became a resident of Green township in 1876. His family consists of his wife-Mrs. Julia Herrick-and his two children, Sidney and Edna.
Dr. G. H. Musekamp was born in Prussia in 1802. He arrived in Cincinnati in 1837, after a protracted jour- ney of forty-two weeks, by sea, land, canal, and river. His death occurred in 1874, at his home in Green town- ship. He was one of the earliest German physicians of Cincinnati, practiced principally minor surgery. At his death he was one of the oldest German physicians in Hamilton county. He left Cincinnati and moved into Green township in 1850. Mrs. Musekamp (Charlotte Guttemuller) was born in 1803, and died in 1845. Their family consists of Louisa, now living in Goshen, Cler- mont county, and Elizabeth, Sophia, and Dr. George H. WV., all three of Green township.
Enoch Jacobs was born at Marlborough, Vermont, in 1809. He emigrated from New York to Ohio in 1843, and settled in Cincinnati. His wife, Electa Jacobs, was born in 1812. Their children are Electa and E. George, both living at Mount Airy. Mr. Jacobs was, at one time, appointed consul to Montevideo, South America, and acted as minister, in the absence of this officer, for one
SIDNEY S. JACKSON.
Sidney S. Jackson, a horticulturist of Green town- ship, was born in the year 1803 in the city of Philadelphia. His father, Isaac H. Jackson, was a native of that city, and was bred to the mercantile profession. In 1804 he removed to New York, where he established himself in that business and continued in the same until the breaking out of the last war with Great Britain, when he sold out and quit the business altogether. In 1813 he removed his family to the State of Ohio, purchased three quarter sections in Green township,and after settling upon them remained there until his death, which occurred in the seventy-ninth year of his age, Octo- ber 20, 1849.
Although Mr. Jackson was unacquainted with the business of farming he soon gained sufficient knowl- edge of it to support his family very nicely by that kind of employment, and, notwithstanding much of his time was taken up with com- mercial transactions of life, there were few men of his day who found time to read so extensively as he had done ; very few.men read so much to so good advantage, he becoming simply by his fondness for reading a walk- ing history of the transac- tions of his country and of matters pertaining to his government ever since he arrived at the age of matu- rity. He was also des- ignated by his fellows as a leader in the affairs of his county, having held among other offices that of com- missioner of Hamilton dis- trict. Mr. Sidney S. Jack- son received some education in Long Island before com- ing west,but it was limited, as he was but ten years old when he left for Ohio, which was but a barren wild region for great schools or col- leges ; nor had he ample opportunities for receiving much of the log cabin instruction then in vogue, but was compelled to be content with what he could obtain from contact with the world and by reading good books and papers.
He remained with his father until the age of maturity and in the year 1826 married Miss Eliza- beth Hutchinson, whose father, John Hutchinson, was an early settler of Whitewater near Harrison; he came to Cincinnati about 1807, and to this place one year before she was born; she is now in the seventy-fourth year of her age. In 1830 Mr. Jack- son began the nursery business, and his green-house established then is now one of the oldest in the
United States. He deals extensively in rare exotic plants, and is a widely and well known horticulturist of the great west. He was one of the founders of the Horticultural society of Cincinnati, and has been identified with it many years. His farm consists of about eighty acres of which his nursery comprises thirty plat of this acres, and contains three green-houses. He has also one of the best amateur workshops in the country; formerly he was divided in his inclinations for fol- lowing the floral business with that of the mechan- ical; being of an ingenious turn of mind he was capable of handling tools in many kinds of man- ufacture, and has his shop well supplied with them. Mr. Jackson has now but two children living-having lost three sons, two of whom, John H. and Isaac H., born July 22, 1836, were twins, and were much alike, the family al- ways found difficulty in distinguishing them apart. They were much in each other's company, dressed alike, and took pride in their similarity of resemblance; their loss to the family was keenly felt. John H. was shot during the desper- ate attack his regiment, the Eighty-third Ohio volun- teers, made at Vicksburgh, and from the effects of which he died. He had received a flesh wound at Arkansas Post, and could have received a furlough to come home, but preferred to remain, and soon after en- gaged in the siege of Vicks- burgh. He was sent to the Cincinnati hospital, but died a few days after reaching that place. The Cincinnati Horticultural society, Peter Gibson in the chair, upon receiving news of this sad occurrence, passed resolutions very eulogistic of his character, both as a citizen and as a member of that body.
Isaac, the other twin, and his brother Lewis, the youngest of the family, were drowned in the Big Miami, while bathing. They were in company with a number of their companions on a gala ex- cursion, but the brothers going too near a whirlpool were drawn in and under one after the other and were lost before help could reach them, and thus lost their lives.
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson lately celebrated their golden wedding. Rev. Mr. Challen, the pastor who officiated at the former nuptials fifty years before, was present to sanctify the occasion and assist in bringing remembrance of the former times.
MRS. SIDNEY S. JACKSON.
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and a half years. He was also a member of the Walnut Hill school board, and laid the corner stone of the first school building built under the free school law. When the late war broke out he entered the army with four sons, two of whom were killed, one at Chancellorsville, the other murdered. He was in the first battle of the west at Vienna, and served, at one time, as a member of the staff. Colonel Kemple and himself had the honor of receiving twelve shots from the artillery, they being the only mark.
William Taylor was born in Schuylkill county, Penn- - sylvania, in 1797, from which State he emigrated to Ohio, and settled in Delhi. In 1875 he died, in Green town- ship. His wife, Nancy J. Taylor, is still living, as are also his four children, William E., David J., Robert, and Joshua P.
George Frondorf was born in Germany, came from that country to Ohio, and made settlement in Green township in the year 1840. Here he died at the age of seventy-three. F. Frondorf came with his father, and has lived in this township since 1840. He is the owner of the largest single tract of land lying in the township --- two hundred and forty-three acres. In 1847 he was mar- ried to Mary Frondorf, who is still living. His daughter, Mary, and son, George, both reside here, and Caroline is at St. Mary's convent, Cincinnati.
Charles Ries was born in Germany in 1826, and emi- grated to Ohio and settled in Cincinnati in the year 1853, In 1877 he removed to Green township. While in his native land he belonged to the army. His wife, Eva Ries, was born in 1830, and is still alive. His children, Charles Ries, jr., William, and Lizzie, remain also in the same township.
William Muller came to Cincinnati in 1844. He was born in Germany, and on emigrating to America came to Ohio at once. In 1874 he died in Green township, where his last home was located. His wife was Catharine Mul- ler. The children are William, Frank, Louis, Rosina, Mary, and Adam. William is still living in Green town- ship; Frank and Lewis near Taylor's creek; Rosina at the Four Mile house; Mary, near the New Baltimore pike ; and Adam, near Lick run.
Isaac Townsend, formerly the well known dairyman near Cheviot, came from Springborough, Warren county, where he was born in the year 1829; lived for a while in Clinton county, Ohio, where he kept a grocery. In 1860 he started his dairy, and at first began the business on a small scale, but afterwards increased it to larger di- mensions. In 1880 he sold out his interest in the busi- ness to his brother, since which time he has been a farmer. He lives near Cheviot, and is nicely situated on what is known as the Rose Hill farm. Mr. Townsend began life a poor boy, and was bound out until sixteen years of age, but by industry and perseverance has been successful in securing for himself finally a good home- stead. He is a Quaker.
Thomas J. Bradford, of Dent, Green township, lives on the homestead owned by his father, John Bradford, who came from Ireland. M. T. J. Bradford, in the year 1876, married Miss Lydia Hart.
George W. Davis, is of the firm of Townsend & Davis, proprietors of an extensive dairy one mile south of Cheviot.
Thomas Morgan was born in North Wales in 1814; came to the United States in 1839, and since the year 1840 has been proprietor of a large lumber-yard on the corner of Twelfth and Plum streets, Cincinnati. The business has been to him a very profitable one, out of which he has made a fortune. Soon after coming to Cincinnati he was married to Miss Lucinda P. Terry, a native of Virginia, and is the father of two children-a son and a daughter. The son, John W. Morgan, was in the service, first as a lieutenant and finally as quarter- master. Mr. Morgan owns a beautiful property in West- wood.
Joseph M. Rearden, of Cheviot, formerly county com- missioner of Hamilton county, is of Irish descent, his father, Thomas R., having come from Ireland in 1812, leaving Limerick and coming by the way of England, where he stayed a while; landed in Philadelphia, where Joseph was born, in 1837, on the nineteenth of March. In 1852, Thomas removed to Green township, one mile west of Dent. Mr. Rearden completed his studies about the year 1851, in St. Xavier's college, Cincinnati, and then went south, making application to General Walker to enter the fillibuster service, but was not received on account of his age. From 1852 until 1875 he followed the bus- iness of farming, since which time his county has called him to various offices of trust. After the war, begin- ning in 1865, he served three terms as trustee of the township, was also deputy treasurer, member of the board of education, and in October, 1875, was elected county commissioner, serving until 1877, and receiving a county majority of 1,713, and a township majority of 146. He was married to Mary E. Miller in 1857.
Charley B. Lewis, proprietor of a bakery and lunch room at 194, West Sixth street, came from Portsmouth, Ohio, to Cincinnati in the year 1861. His father, Thomas C. Lewis, now living, owned the rolling-mills of that place, the only one west of Pittsburgh, in which mills Charley learned the business of machinest. The prop- erty is now owned by his brother-in-law, George Baylis, who is probably one of the wealthiest men in the State. Mr. Lewis was for three years after coming to Cincin- nati a driver of a bakery wagon, for which he received one dollar per day. From this he was promoted to a clerkship, and in 1866 he bought out the entire business, since which time he has run it himself. He also owns the building at 206.
Rev. Gottleib Brandstetter, pastor of the First German Evangelical Protestant church of Green township, was born in Rhein Baiern, Bavaria, in 1830. He belongs to a family of ministers. Gottlieb came alone to America and took a course in theology, completing his studies in 1856, after which he engaged in the ministerial work at Peppertown, near Evansville, Indiana, and other places. He came here May 1, 1876, and has since had charge of the congregation and Sabbath-school, acting as its superin- tendent. He also gives instruction three days in each week to the children of his congregation, who are taking a course
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preparatory to confirmation. The church building, a fine brick structure, was erected in the year 1871, in which, service and Sabbath-school have been held ever since. A graveyard of some four acres lies just back of the building. He was married July 24, 1857, to Miss Catharine Wittkamper, of Cincinnati. This union has been blessed with five children-four sons and one daughter. One son, Henry, born in 1859, died in 1880, and was a most promising young man. He possessed a natural genius for drawing, taking up the art and com- pleting the course almost without the aid of instruction. He, however, spent one year in Cooper Institute, New York. He was engraver for Stillman & Co., Front and Vine streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. He has left some beau- tiful sketchings, of which a "Scene on the Ohio," "Church Yard Scene," "Lick Run Church," show a master hand in the work. He was also of great assist- ance to his father in his church work-being a musician and of great use in Sabbath-school service. As the pride of the Bransdtetter home, he was much missed in that circle. Rev. Brandstetter is exercising a great in- fluence for good among his people of Cheviot, of which his people are proud.
Elizabeth Bates, wife of Joshua Bates, railroad con- tractor, resides in Mount Airy, Green township. Mr. Bates removed to his present elegant homestead in 1859. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. John Bates (son) was a soldier in the cavalry service under Kilpatrick, during the late war.
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