History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 162

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co.
Number of Pages: 1096

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Dr. S. B. Potter was married to Eleanor B. Leonard, daugh- ter of Hon. Byram Leonard, of Knox county. They had two

children: Anna H. and Nellie A. Mrs. Eleanor Potter died March 10, 187r.

The doctor then married Delia M. Burns May 8, 1872, who was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio. She was a widow of Dr. Alfred Burns, and daughter of Dr. A. W. Swet- land, of Sparta, Ohio.

The doctor has been identified with the Baptist church, and still adheres strictly, and advocates those Christian doctrines. He has been connected with the Democratic party, has always voted that ticket, and promulgates its principles. He has had a number of students, and at present he has with him William M. Furgerson, son of Rev. W. M. Furgerson, of Frederick- town, and also Herbert S. Darling, son of William Darling, of this county.

PRATT, HENRY, Liberty township, retired farmer, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1802. He is the son of William and Elizabeth Pratt, nee Hooper, who came to Ohio in 1819 with a four horse team. They brought a family of six daughters and two sons, and settled in Clinton town- ship, near the Ewalt settlement, where they had a tract of two hundred acres of land. He remained here until 1829, when he was drowned in Owl creek while on his return from Mt. Ver- non. He was was on horse-back, and it is supposed was taken with a paralytic stroke and was unable to regain the shore. The horse which he rode upon finding the rider gone came home and neighed. The subject of this notice, Henry Pratt, rode the horse to the ford and dismounted leaving the horse unhitched. He (the horse) returned again to the farm, and again returned to the ford, seeming to understand that his master had met with some serious accident. Mrs. Pratt survived her husband until 1853. The children are all dead except Henry and Jane, the wife of D. C. Montgomery, esq., of Mt. Vernon.

The subject of this notice spent his youth on a farm and re- mained at home until he was twenty-six years of age. He worked at the carpenter trade and wagon making for some time. In 1829 he married Miss Penelope Buckingham, and in 1835 moved to his present farm where he has resided ever since. They have had seven children, three of whom are living, viz: Sylvester, farmer; John, in Tama county, Iowa; and Eliza J., who married William C. Parker, of Liberty township. Mrs. Pratt died in March, 1878. Mr. Pratt has always been an in- dustrious man, and has helped to improve the neighborhood in which he lives. He is social in his habits.

Sylvester Pratt, a son of Henry Pratt, was born in Liberty township in 1831, and has continued to reside there ever since. He is a good farmer and an excellent citizen. In 1852 he mar- ried Miss Cordelia Parrish. They had one child, John Frank- lin. In 1854 his wife died. His second wife was Mary E. Tarr. They had three children, only one living, viz: Sarah Isabelle.

PRICE, VEAZEY, was born in Washington county, Penn- sylvania, April 17, 1819. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents, Samuel and Margaret Price, in 1826, who located in Pleasant township, where they remained until 1856. when he, (Samuel Price), with wife and family, all except Veazey, emigrated to Iowa, where he deceased at the age of seventy-two years. His wife died aged eighty-two years. They reared a family of seven children: William, Thomas, Veazey, James, Samuel, Dorthus, and Sarah. Only three of the above named are now living: Sarah, Veazey, and Samuel. Veazey Price married Miss Eliza R. Veatch, in 1846, daugliter of Peter Veatch, and settled in Mt. Vernon. By trade he is a joiner and

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pattern maker. He commenced working at his trade in 1837, and served three years as an apprentice with John Arentrue at the joiner trade, after serving his time as an apprentice, which ended in 1840, he remained one year with his old employer, and in 1841 he commenced work with Charles Cooper, making the wood work on carding machines and spinning jacks, and making patterns. He continued with Mr. Cooper as pattern maker until 1854, when he purchased and moved on a farm in Morgan township, same county, where they lived twelve years, and in 1866, he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living, in Clinton township, two miles west of Mt. Vernon. Since leaving the employ of Mr. Cooper, and moving on a farm, he has made farming his vocation. They have three children -- one son and two daughters.

PRICE, SAMUEL, farmer, youngest son of Samuel Rice, deceased, was born in Knox county, Ohio, May 14, 1825. He married Miss Sarah A. Kerr in 1852, born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1828, daughter of Benjamin and Rose Kerr. They settled in same county, and remained two years. In 1854 they emigrated to Iowa, where they lived sixteen and a half years, and then returned to Knox county. In the spring of 1871 they purchased and moved on the property where they are now living, on the Newark road, a short distance from Mt. Vernon. He owns a farm in Pleasant township, and follows farming as his vocation.

PRICE, CALEB H., farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1818. He came to Ohio in 1860, and was married to Nancy Simmons, who was born in Jefferson township, Richland county. They have two children: Abraham, born in 1871, and Aldie, in 1874. Mr. Price has been engaged teaching school, and in the ministry in the German Baptist church.

PUGH, HENRY H., Pike township, tanner, post office Democracy, born in Newark, Licking county, August 19, 1841, and married December 31, 1868, to Josephine Wierick, who was born in Knox county, June 6, 1848. They have four chil- dren; Edward E., born March 24, 1870; Mary Jane, Decem- ber 17, 1871; William H., October 13, 1873; and Charles M., April 30, 1876.

Mrs. Pugh when a girl received a liberal education, and was engaged in teaching school for six terms in Knox county.

Mr. Pugh was a soldier in the late war, enlisted June 9, 1862, and was a member of company K, Eighty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in the following engagements. Perryville, Kentucky; Stone River, Tennessee; Gallatin Land- ing, Tennessee; Hovey's Gap, Tennessee; two battles at Frank- lin, Tennessee; Chicamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Mission- ary Ridge, 'Tennessee; battle of Ringgold, Georgia; battle of Resacca, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Etowah Creek, Geor- gia; Jonesborough, Savannah, Georgia; Bentonville, North Carolina; and Waynesborough, North Carolina. He was en- gaged in the service until 1865, and received an honorable dis- charge. He learned the tanner's trade in Wilmington, Ohio, and is now engaged in that business in Amity.

Mrs. Pugh's father, John Weirick, was born in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1810. When he was two years old he went with his parents to Pennsylvania. He learned the tanner's trade in Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania, and was engaged in that business for forty-seven years. He was first married November 23, 1838, to Nancy Long, who was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1838. They had three children: George B. S., born

in 1839; James L., in 1842; and Sarah M., in 1845. Mrs. Nancy Weirick departed this life February 15, 1846.

Mr. Weirick's second marriage was to Miss Eliza Steiner, who was born in Newville, Ohio. They had four children: Amanda E., born in 1847; Josephine, in 1848; Harriet, in 1850; and Mary E, in 1853.

The family have married as follows: George B. and Lousetta Anderson, in 1860; James L. and Nancy Simkins, in 1868; Amanda E. and Melleville B. Rowley; Josephine A. and H. H. Pugh, in 1868; Harriet W. and Milton Lattie, in 1866; Sarah M. and Asaph Rowley, in 1861; Mary E. and B. J. Porter, in 1873.

Mr. Weirick and two of his sons, George and Jaines, have been inarricd the second time, and are all living with their second wives. Mr. Weirick is proprietor of the Amity hotel, and has been engaged in the business since 1871, keeping a very respectable house. He and his wife have the ability to make their guests feel at home, and all who stop with them, find the Amity house a pleasant home for the traveller.

PUMPHREY, BASSILL WELLS, M. D., (deceased), was born August 22, 1812, in Brooke county, Virginia. His ances- tors on his father's side came with Lord Baltimore. One set- tled in South Carolina, and the other in Maryland, of which latter family the subject of this sketch is a descendant. His grandfather, on his mother's side was a captain in the Revo- lutionary army, and was one of the men who organized the State of Chio, and was a member of the first constitutional convention.

Until fourteen years young Pumphrey remained with his parents. He attended school at Athens, Ohio, and read medi- cine with Dr. Sellers, of Pittsburgh, and then went to the Uni- versity of Maryland, and graduated in 1832. He commenced the practice of medicine in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, in 1833, where he remained until 1842, when he removed to Mt. Vernon, where he continued to follow his profession till his death. He was appointed examining pension surgeon in 1842, and served ten years, and was reappointed and resigned his position. He died October 19, 1880, of apoplexy.

Dr. Pumphrey was married to Miss Maria J. Updegraff in 1832. She was the daughter of James Updegraff, one of the first settlers of Ohio. Three children were born to theni, one son and two daughters. The son died when young. His daughters are both married. His oldest daughter married An- drew Parrott, and lives near Mt. Vernon, and his other daugh- ter married Brooklyn I. Terry, and resides in Columbus.

PUMPHREY, R. J., Hilliar township, real estate dealer, Centreburgh .- He is the fourth child of Fleming and Mary J. Pumphrey, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, June 23, 1846. His parents moved to Knox county in 1852, and settled on a farm where the subject of this notice spent his early days assist- ing his father on the farm and attending school during the win- ter months.

When about twenty years of age he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of attending commercial college, but upon receiving an appointment as clerk in the city hospital he relinquished his object, He remained in the clerkship for a year, and then returned to Ohio and opened a general store in Centreburgh. By his judicious management and strict adher- ence to business principles he attained an enviable reputation for integrity, and was successful in his business. He is a close observer and weighs any undertaking in which he might engage,

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viewing the possibilities and probabilities of success. This, coupled with a comprehensive knowledge of the world, makes him a safe counsellor in matters of business.

He was elected justice of the peace and served for three years with satisfaction to those who had business to transact before him. He is a member of the council and takes an active in- tive interest in the improvement of the town. He has had more to do with improving the village, perhaps, than any other indi- vidual. He is social in his manner, and is calculated to make fast friends. He is in the heyday of his life, young, striving and vigorous.

He is a leading citizen. He was married to Miss Mary E. Conard, of.Hartford, Licking county, Ohio, October, 1872. Their union has been blessed with two children.

PUMPHREY, JOSIAH M., is owner of the "Prairie farm," one of the best in Clay. He was born in Belniont county, Ohio, June 4, A. D. 1821. He removed to Licking county in 1848, and to Clay township April, 1, 1858; was married to Miss Celia A. Ross, February 24, 1849, who was born in Clay town- ship in 1830. They have one child, Ross.

Mr. Pumphrey has been a prominent member of the Disciple church for twenty-seven years, and elder in the same twenty years.

PUTNAM, NORMAN WILLIAMS, College township, was born in Windsor county, Vermont, October 17, 1800. All the Putnams, of New England, descended from John Putnam, who, with two brothers, came from Buckinghamshire, England, in 1634, and settled at Salem, or Danruse, Massachusetts, John Putnam had three sons, John, Nathaniel, and Thomas. General Israel Putnam's father was Joseph, son of Thomas. A. great-grandson of General Israel Putnam (Douglas Putnam) now lives at Marietta, Ohio. Many others of his descendants are living there and in the neighborhood.

General Rufus Putnam's father was Elisha, son of Edward, son of Thomas. There are also a large number of the de- scendants of this branch of the Putnam family living in and about Marietta.

Daniel, the grandfather of N. W. Putnam, was born in Sut- ton, Massachusetts, the birthplace of General Rufus Putnam, about the year 1733. He married Ann, a daughter of Hon. Samuel Chase (the grandfather of Bishop Philander Chase), moved from Sutton to New Hampshire with the Chase colony, in 1764, and settled upon the township of land given to Deacon Dudley Chase, on account of his being the first settler on Con- necticut river north of Charlestown, New Hampshire, then known as Fort No. 4. He had three sons and several daughters.

The youngest son, Isaac, was the father of N. W. Putnam. He came with his family to Gambier in 1833, and died in Gam- bier in 1849, aged seventy-nine years. His wife died in Gam- bier in 1837.

His youngest daughter, Mary, married in 1835 Rev. S. A. Bronson, D. D., now of Mansfield, Ohio. She died in Gam- bier, in 1849, the next day after the death of her father, and were both buried in the same grave. His youngest son, Daniel, is still living near Potsdam, New York.

His son, N. W. Putnam, came to Ohio in 1829, and was at once employed as clerk in the college store. He remained in that capacity until the store was given up, in 1834. In Febru- ary, 1833, he was married to Maria, third daughter of Archibald Douglass. The result of this marriage was the birth of ten

children-five boys and five girls. Three of the girls and two boys are still living.

The eldest son, Rufus, died in August, 1851, from the acci- dental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of a companion and relative. The charge destroyed the knee joint, requiring am- putation. He would have entered the Freshman class in Sep- tember, had his life been spared.

His second son, Douglass, when of age, went to Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1858. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he en- listed for three months in the Eleventh Zouaves, under General Lew Wallace, now governor of New Mexico. The regiment was ordered to West Virginia. At the expiration of the three months they returned to Indiana, and was reorganized. A new regiment of infantry, the Seventy-first Indiana volunteers, was being raised in the neighborhood of Terre Haute. Young Put- nam joined the new regiment, and in a short time was made quartermaster. He held this position until near the close of the war, when he was promoted to a captaincy. In September, 1865, after the regiment was disbanded, he went to Kansas. For some years he has been employed in the United States rail- way mail service, and was head clerk in Superintendent, Col. Hunt's office, in St. Louis when his health failed, and in May, 1879, came home, and in June died at the family homestead in Gambier.

Mr. Putnam's third son, John Henry, was a graduate of Kenyon college class of 1864. There were fifty-five members entered the Freshman class in 1860, and only fifteen graduated. At the breaking out of the war quite a number of the class, and many other students of the college, with their esteemed president, Colonel Lorin Andrews, left the institution, and joined the Union army.

Mr. Putnam has occupied his present residence for over twenty years. He has, in connection with his boarding house, been engaged in a small way in gardening and fruit culture- mostly for the purpose of supplying his table with fresh fruits and vegetables, and has enjoyed better health than ever before in his life. He has long since come to the conclusion that he was not cut out for a merchant. Bishop Chase used to say that he (Bishop Chase) was not much of a preacher that his forte was in begging. He claimed to be the prince of beggars. He said he got nothing for preaching in Gambier, and it was "poor preach and poor pay."

Mr. Putnamn feels that his end is near, and when called to de- part this life, he desires to be at peace with God, and in perfect charity with all the world.

RANDALL, DANIEL, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Rensselaer county, New York, March 7, 1837, and was married in October, 1869, to Mary Allen, who was born in 1843 in Monroe county, Ohio. They have two sons-Edward, born November 1, 1872, and John, September 11, 1874.

Mr. Randall came to Knox county in the spring of 1850. He is justice of the peace in this township, and is an enterpris- ing citizen.

RANDALL, JOHN D., Fredericktown, deceased, was born in New York in 1838; married in 1866 to Alice McCaskey, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1842. They have one daughter-Maggie J. Randall-who was born in 1868.

Mr. Randall resided in this county for a number of years

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and then moved to Illinois, remaining there about seven years. His health became impaired and he moved to Michigan for its improvement. While there he died in 1873. He was a soldier in the late war. He first enlisted for three months, and then reenlisted for three years.

Mrs. Alice Randall and her daughter are now residents of Fredericktown.

RANKIN, L. D., deceased, was born November 5, 1804, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania; came to Ohio in 1815; located in Knox county in 1849; was married to Christena Livingston, who was born in Monongalia county, Virginia, July 1, 1803. They had six children-James, Margaret, Eliza Ann, Malissa, Rebecca J., and Elizabeth.

Mr. L. D. Rankin died in Fredericktown May 31, 1867. His wife, Christena Rankin, died in the same place June 10, 1869.

RANSOM, R. B., farmer, Wayne township, post office, Mt. Vernon; born in 1838, and was married to Mary Chancey, who was born i Berlin nship in 1842. They have four children: Laura T., born in 1862; Edwin M., in 1864, Bertha M., in 1868; Pearl, in 1874; and Edith Grace, in 1877.

Mr. Ransom has always resided in this township, and owns a beautiful farm in Green Valley-the garden spot of Knox county.

RANSOM, JOHN H., Mt. Vernon, of the firm of Penick & Ransom, leather manufacturers, was born in this city on the nineteenth day of September, 1847. He was a pupil of our public schools. His first effort in a business way was with the late George B. Potwin, produce dealer, with whom he remained two years. He then engaged with S. L. Taylor, dry goods dealer, as salesman and bookkeeper, where he was retained five years. For three years he was engaged as salesman with firm of Swetland & Bryant. He then engaged in the grocery business which he carried on some nine months, when he sold out and engaged in the butchering business with Mr. Penick, under the name of Penick & Ransom. This business he con- ducted for five and a half years, when they purchased the tan- nery of G. E. Raymond in the fall of 1878, and still continues the manufacture of leather. This is one of the best establish- ments in central Ohio, and is much the largest in the county, and has a capacity of about six thousand pieces a year. The establishment has steampower for pumping, grinding and leaching bark, and heating purposes. The building is eighty by one hundred feet and contains seventy vats, three finishing rooms, shaving room, boiler and engine room, and office, with machinery enough to run a first class tannery. Their specialty is in harness, also upper leather, calf, kip, etc.

RAYMOND, RACHEL (BANNING), deceased. Mrs. Rachel B. Raymond, relict of the late Rev. Elnathan Raymond, was the third child of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Banning, and was born in the town of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, on the twelfth of November, 1796. Her death occurred on Friday morning, July 23, 1880, at Mt. Vernon, making her at the time of her death nearly eighty-four years of age. In the year 1812 Miss Banning, with her parents, emigrated to Ohio and settled in this city, when it was a mere hamlet in the wilderness. Seven years later, or in 1819, Miss Banning was married to Mr. Elna- than Raymond, and the same year the newly married couple left this comparatively new country and returned east, locating in New York. only to remain a few years, however, for in 1834 they returned, where they resided the balance of their lives. From this union six children were born, five of whom still sur-

vive, viz: Mrs. G. A. Jones, Mrs. G. K. Norton, Miss Mary Raymond, Mrs. James Blanchard, and George E. Raymond. Mrs. Raymond survived her husband six years, he having died in this city August, 1874. Her last illness was the first seri- ous indisposition that any of her surviving relatives remem- ber, as she was in excellent health to within a week of her de- mise. Her children all reside in this city, with the exception of George E. Raymond, who was at once advised of her condition, and at the hour of her death all of her children living were pres- ent. Her last illness was general congestion, though her mental faculties were unimpaired to within a few minutes of death. She was able to talk with her sorrowing children and grand- children gathered around her bedside. Five children, eleven grandchildren, and sixteen great-grandchildren mourn the loss of a kind and loving parent.

Mrs. Raymond was always actively engaged and ever ready to lend a helping hand to anything that was of a benevolent char- acter. Amongst the many organizations she was a member of and took a special interest in was The Soldiers Aid society, which was organized in 1861, at her residence. In 1863 the Union League society was organized, the object being to erect a monu- ment to the memory of the Union soldiers at the close of the war. She was its first proposer and its permanent presi- dent, and one of its most active members, being one of the first to solicit funds for the erection of the monument, and it was ever an object of great solicitude with her to see it erected dur- ing her lifetime, in which she was gratified. Great credit is due her for the zeal she manifested in that enterprise. Her family were its most liberal contributors. She was also a champion of temperance, and a most zealous worker in the cause.

REED, ELIAS, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in Brown township, this county, in 1847, and was married in 187r to Anna C. O'Bryan, who was born in Pike township, this county, in 1851. They have two children . Debert, born June 26, 1872, and Maude, February 4, 1874.

Mr. Reed came to Pike township in 1871, is a farmer, and one of the active men of this township.

RESSEL, L. D., Union township, farmer, post office, Ross- ville, was born in Brown township, Knox county, August 21, 1843. His father came to this county and settled on a farm which he cleared up himself. He died in his seventy-sixth year. I. D. Ressel went to Columbus in 1867 and married Miss M. E Moor. In 1872 he moved to Knox county, where he remained. He has been engaged in farming until the present time. He has bought and sold several farms, but finally has settled him- self permanently on his present farm. He has two children- Maggie and Carrie.

REYNOLDS, DANIEL, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Hardy county, Virginia, February 4, 18rr. He is the son of William and Rebecca Reynolds, nce Harris. They were born in Virginia, and married there, where they remained until about 1815, when they came to Licking county, Ohio, where they re- mained until about 1820, when they removed to Knox county, settling in Hilliar township, where they both died.

The subject of this sketch remained at home with his parents until they died, and now resides on the farm where they settled.

He is one of the few pioneers who are now living in the township. He remembers when the township was almost an unbroken forest. He was married to Miss Mary Battomfield June 19, 1840. They had a family of five children, four of whom are living, viz; Amanda, married to Stephen Rinehart;

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John W., farmer, Delaware county, Ohio; Miles M. and Leslie, who live at home.

Mr. Reynolds is a social and pleasant gentleman, and is es- teemed by the community.

RHINEHALT, DAVID, wagon maker, Middlebury town- ship, post office, Fredericktown, born in District of Columbia, October 13, 1844, came to Richland county, in 1848, and to Knox county in 1872, where he has remained since his marriage, in 1867, to Martha Warick, who was born in Richland county, February 2, 1849.

They have the following family: Olive, born March 17, 1868; Dellvan, October 24, 1870; Lide, May 31, 1873; Landon, March 13, 1876, and Hoy, July 23, 1878.

He is the owner of a stationary saw-mill, located on his place in this township with all of the modern improvements, and is doing custom-work to order. He is one of the active men of this township. David Rhinehalt was a soldier of the late war, having been a member of company D, One Hundred and Sixty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged in the service four months.

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History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 162

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co. Number of Pages: 1096

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co.
Number of Pages: 1096