History of Logan County and Ohio, Part 82

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892?; Battle, J. H; O.L. Baskin & Co
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, O.L. Baskin
Number of Pages: 798

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Stark Co., where he remained under medical treatment for about one year; after remain- ing in Stark Co. some three years, he re- turned to Logan Co., and located in Jeffer- son, where he remained until 1853. when he moved to his present farm in Lake Tp., which is one of the finest and best improved fruit farms in Logan Co. When Mr. Akey first came here he found it but little improved; he set out, and, by industry and good manage- ment, has brought his farm to the highest state

GEORGE H. ALLEN, Clerk of Courts, Logan Co .; Bellefontaine; was born in Picka- way Co., O., Sept. 6, 1846, and is the son of Harvey and Mary (Shawhan) Allen; his mother was born in Virginia; his father is a native of this State; he engaged in mercantile pursnits. Geo. H. remained a resident of his native conn- ty until 1863, where he received a good com- mon school education, and coming to Belle- fontaine, he received a clerkship in a hardware store, where he remained from 1863 to 1818, during which time he became a member of the Logan County Agricultural Society, filling the office of Secretary of this Society for some five years; here he came in contact with a great many leading farmers and business men of Logan Co., and in 182℃ his friends placed his name before the people of the county for the office of Clerk of Courts of Logan Co .; he received the nomination by a vote of 1,473, and elected to the office by a majority of 977 votes, being 248 votes over the regular ticket. Mr. Allen is a Repub- lican; he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he has been faithful to the office of Clerk of Logan' Co., proving

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himself a gentleman of acknowledged ability. REV. HONORATE'S F. BOURION, Pas- tor of the Catholic Church; Bellefontaine. This gentleman was born in Lorraine, France, June 1, 1840, and is the son of Francis Bour- ion, who was by profession an architect. After receiving a good common school education, Honoratus entered the schools of Paris, and graduated from the leading schools of learn- ing in that city; he came to America and was ordained priest of the Catholic Church by Rt. Rev. Bishop Baraga, of Marquette, Mich .; his first charge was at Negaunec, Mich .; Rov. Bonrion was the first regular priest of this place. Here he found no church, and but few workers; he went to work organizing, and with his faith- ful work and never tiring energy, he, after re- maining there some ten years, had organized and built four churches-two churches in Ne- gaunce, one at a cost of $5.000 and one at $35,- 000; one at Ishpeming cost $25,000, another in his field of labor at a cost of 85,000, leav- ing a charge of some 6,000 members. After remaining in this charge some ten years, al- most completely breaking down with his labor, working night and day, he went to Central City, Col., where he remained until 1822, during which time was erected a church at a cost of $20,000, and a school, Sisters' Academy, at a cost of $28,000, he came to Bellefontaine, and found the church in debt some $600; to- day, 1880, the church is out of debt, and has in its treasury some $2,000.

JOSEPH M. BLACK; Bellefontaine: was born in Mercer Co., Ponn., May 21, 1823, and is the son of William and Jane (B.]]) Black, both parents of Ireland, having come to America when young. Joseph, when 14 years of age, with his parents came to Logan Co., O., and located on a farm in Harrison Tp., where he was engaged in farming in Harison and Washington Tps, until 18;2. In 1862 Mr. Black enlisted as a private in Co. 1, 96th O. V. L., and served ten months; on account of sickness, he was honorably discharged; in 1864 he recruited Co. E. of the 1324 0. V. 1. for 100 day's service, serving as L'aptain of t'o. E. until the expiration of his time after which he returned to Logan Co .; in 1s; he went to Champaign Co., and was on- graged in the milling business some two years, when, in Isit, he came to Bellefontaine, entering the grocery business; he is now en-

gaged as salesman in the agricultural busi- ness. Both parents are dead. Capt. Black has chased wild game in Logan Co., killing the deer and wild turkeys.

MARTHA R. BROWN; Bellefontaine, is the wife of the late Dr. M. D. Brown, who was born in Loudoun Co., Va., Sept. 23, 1832, and is the son of John and Susan G. Brown, of Virginia, who were members of the Quaker Church, consequently Dr. Brown was brought up in the Quaker Church. After remaining in Virginia until about 1858, he came to Ohio and was engaged in going to school for about one year, when he returned to Virginia and remaining there until the breaking out of the late civil war, ho in 1861 left his native State and came to Ohio, where he soon after began the study of medicine, under Dr. W. D. Scarff of Bellefontaine, and afterwards attended Medical lectures at the Cincinnati Medical College, also the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Penn., graduating from the lat- ter in 1866; he returned to Logan Co., and commenced the practice of medicine at De- Graff, where he remained until 1845, during which time he had built up a lucrative busi- ness. Coming to Bellefontaine in 1875, he continued the practice of his chosen profession until his death, which occurred Nov. 23. 1879, when after visiting one of his patients he went hunting, and the next found of him was three and one-half miles west of Bellefontaine, dead, where it is supposed he had died of heart disease. Thus passed away a man re- spected and loved by his fellow man, leaving a wife and two children to mourn his loss. Dr. Brown came to Logan Co. a poor boy, and taught school in order to pay his way in the study of medicine, but with his never-tiring energy and attention to his practice of medi- cine, he had built up a leading practice. He was married, Oct. 25, 1869, to Miss Martha Rodgers, of Behnont Co., ().

GERDON N. BROUGHTON, manufactur- er; Bellefontaine; was born in Windom ('o., Conn., Der. 30, 1804, and is the son of Na- than and Alida (Cads ) Broughton; both par- ents natives of Connecticut. When very young. Mr. Broughton, with his parents, moved to Jefferson Co., N. Y., where he ro- mained until FS14, when he moved West to Olio, first locating in Ashtabula Co., thence to Champaign Co. Mr. Broughton, in about

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1832, came to Logan Co., farming in Liberty Tp. for some fifteen years, when he moved to Bellefontaine, where he has been one of its honored and enterprising citizens ever since, entering the coopering business when he first came here, which he has been engaged in ever since, employing at one time as high as sixteen hands in the cooper shops; Mr. Broughton is the patentee of a churn, known as the " Peerless Churn," which is recognized as one of the best churns now in the market up to date; he has manufactured some 3,400 of these churns, finding sale for his goods in dif- ferent parts of the Union. Mr. Broughton was married in Champaign Co., to Miss Mary Miles. By this union they have seven chil- dren. Coming here, as Mr. Broughton did, at an early day, he had all the trials the old settlers had in a new country: he drove pack- horses from Urbana to Ft. Wayne when the Indians were here. By good management, with hard labor, he has accumulated a fine property.

F. O. BATCH, merchant; Bellefontaine; was born in Marion Co., O., in 1845, and is the son of J. S. Batch, who was a soldier in the late civil war, having enlisted in Co. K., 42nd O. V. I., he died in the service at Ash- land, Ky., in 1862, with heart disease. Our subject commenced to learn his trade of harness-making, in Marion, O. After learning this trade he worked in several places in Ohio and Indiana. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted for the three months' service in the 4th O. V. I., but after going to Columbus he was rejected on account of being too young-then only 16 years old; he returned to his work, but re-enlisted in Co. K., 42nd O. V. J., where he served somte three years and two months, having participated in most of the leading battles and marches of this regiment. We may here ment on that Mr. Batch had two other brothers in the Rebellion, R. J. was a member of the 13th O. V. I., W. W., a lientenant in the 191st. In 1861 Mr. Batch commenced the harness and saddle business in Bellefontaine, and to-day is the oldest in this line of business in the city. He commenced business a poor boy, but with hard work and attention to his business he has ac- cumulated a good start, and enjoys a leading trade; he is now occupying a room on Colum- bus street, where he employs some four men

in the manufacture of harness and saddlery; he also keeps on sale a full line of trunks and valises. Mr. Batch is now Adjutant of the Tth Ohio National Guards, he being a member of the Guards for the last five years.

C. W. BUTLER, Superintendent of the Public Schools: Bellefontaine; was born in. Marion Co., O., Dec. 9, 1853, and is the son of Dr. W. A. and Martha (McElvy) Butler, both parents are natives of Marion Co., O., their parents having located in that county at an early day. Mr. Butler, after receiving a com- mon school education in his native county, entered the Northwestern Normal School of Ada, O., graduating from this place of learn- ing in 1874, when he received a call from Patterson, O., where he was Superintendent of the Public Schools of that place, for one year; thence to Plymouth, filling a similar position until 1829, when he was made Superintendent of the Public Schools of Bellefontaine, which position he has been filling ever since, prov- ing himself a gentleman of acknowledged ability. Mr. Butler is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church.

STEPHEN R. BLIZZARD, M. D .; Belle- fontaine; was born in Bellefontaine, O., Nov. ", 1832, and is the son of John and Elizabeth (Sharp) Blizzard, both natives of Delaware; leaving their native State in 1832, they came to Ohio. and the same year located in Belle- fontaine; here John Blizzard, our subject's father, worked at his trade of carpenter; he engaged in working on the first Court House of Logan Co .; he was a soldier of the war of 1812, and died at Bellefontaine in 1864, near 17 years of age. Mrs. Elizabeth Blizzard died at Iluntsville, in 1848, nearly 48 years of age. Of this family there are three chil- dren living-J. E. Blizzard, editing a leading paper; Dr. John W. Blizzard, practicing phy- sician in Mercer Co., O. He, after receiving a common school education in the schools of Bellefontaine and West Liberty, commenced the study of medicine; he taught school in the winters of 1851-2-3-4 in order to pay his way in the study of medicine; in 1856 he went to New Hampshire, Auglaize Co., O., and commeneed the practice of medicine; at- tended a course of lectures at the Starling Medical College of Columbus, and then en- tered the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, graduating from there in 1859, when he came

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to Bellefontaine, where the Doctor has been in the practice of his chosen profession ever since, with the exception of some twelve years practice in Huntsville, Logan Co. Dr. Blizzard did surgical work in the late war; attended the battle of Shiloh. He was mar- ried in 1856 to Miss Mary Neer, of Licking C'o., having moved to Logan Co. with her parents some five years before marriage. She is the daughter of John and Sarah Neer, who are now living in Harrison Tp., at the good old age-he 80 years, she in her 9th year. They have been married over sixty years. and have seven children, all living, the oklest near 58 years old. By the marriage of Dr. Blizzard to Miss Mary Neer, they have two children, son and daughter.

WILLIAM BARRINGER, job printing; Bellefontaine; was born in Pennsylvania, Dec. 25, 1829. He came to Ohio at an early day, having come to Bellefontaine in 1840, where he was engaged in working at his trade as a print- er in the office of the Logan Gazette. He, in company with Coates Kinney, in 1850 and '51 was engaged in publishing the West Liberty Banner, at West Liberty, Logan Co. After working at his trade as a printer, Mr. Bar- ringer was, for some seven or eight years, en- gaged in the photograph business. He is also known among the professional rope-walkers as being one among the best in the country during his day. Mr. Barrringer followed rope-walking for a number of years, traveling through Indiann and Ohio, walking for agri- cultural societies at fairs. His last walk was at ('anton. O., where he fell from the rope thirty feet from the ground, breaking his right arm in two places, suffering for some two months. In 1868 Mr. Barringer commenced his present business of job printing. where he is prepared to do all kinds of work usually done in a job office. His place of business is located on Main street, opp site the Court

ALBERT BODEY. cigar numfacturer; Belle fontaine, was born in Crawford Co., 0)., in 1-51: he learned his trade as a cigar maker in tralon; in 1826 he came to Bellefon- tale with a small capital, and entered the to imuf staring business with Mr. Marsh; M rh & Boily started with a meager capital, emploine twohands. Continuing in business until Isis, when Mr. Bodey became sole

owner, since which time his trade has gradu- ally grown; that at the present time he is em- ploying four hands in the manufacture of ci- gars, doing a good business, his goods finding a ready sale where introduced; he mannfac- tures the celebrated " New Coin" live cent cigar, which is perhaps the best live cent cigar in the market ; his capacity in the manufactur- ing of cigars is from 5,000 to 5,000 weekly; finding sales for his cigars in Bellefontaine and neighboring towns. Mr. Bodey is also doing a retail business, keeping on hand a full line of smoking and chewing tobaccos; also a complete stock of pipes. His place of busi- ness is Columbus Street, opposite the Milton- berger House.

CHARLES E. BARTRAM, merchant; was born in Marion Co.,O., Ang. 25. 1854. and is the son of J. W. Bartram, who was born in Tomp- kins Co., N. Y., Feb. 25, 1831, and came to Ohio in 1832, located at Marion, and learned the trade of a tailor, which business he has continued in from 1843 till the present time, and to-day is perhaps the oldest tailor at the trade in the city. Our subject came to Belle- fontaine in 1862, entering the merchant-tai- Joring business, which he has continued ever since, with the exception of a short time that he was in the hat and cap trade. Ilis place of business and merchant-tailoring establish- ment is located at No. : W. Columbus St. Here he occupies two rooms on the first floor, 18x 60 feet, where he keeps a full line of gents' furnishing goods, hats, caps, and a complete stock of American and imported cloths, and is recognized as The Tailor.

EZRA BENNETT. furniture; Bellefon- taine: was born in Cumberland Co., N. J., on the 13th of March, 1812. and is the son of Timothy Bennett, a farmer. Our subject was born on the farm, where he remained un- til he was some 14 years of age, when he com- meneed to learn his trade asa cabinet-maker, in Cincinnati, O., having come Jo Ohio with his parents in the fall of 1817. Subsequently he worked at his trade at Cincinnati, Spring- field and Xenia. On the JOth of July. 181 .. he married Miss Mary A. Bryant. in Cla ke ('o., O. In his leisure hours he had studied law, and in 1844 was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court, at Urbana. In March, Is15, he moved to Bellefontaine, where he engaged in the practice of law, and in the

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fall of 1847 was elected Prosecuting Attor- ney of Logan Co. He was elected the first Probate Judge, nuder the new Constitution, in the fall of 185I, and re-elected in 1854. Not liking the practice of law as well as he anticipated, Mr. Bennett purchased an inter- est in a foundry and machine shop, which proved an unsuccessful venture. Himself and two sons, Lucius C. and John Q. 1., and a son-in-law, James Van Eaton, served in tlie late Rebellion. Mr. Bennett helped to recruit the 13th Ohio Battery, of which a his- tory will be found in another part of this work. He enlisted in this Battery as a Ist Lieutenant, and served faithfully. He was honorably discharged on account of sickness. After the war Mr. Bennett returned to the furniture business in Bellefontaine, which business he has continued ever since, being now in partnership with his son-in-law, Mr. Adams. Bennett & Adams' place of business is located on Columbus street.

THOMAS SANDS BROWN, lawyer and farmer; Bellefontaine, is the youngest child of Asa and Hannah (Sands) Brown, who were residing in Zanesfield at the time our subject was born, June 5, 1852. Three years later, the family moved on a farm one mile and a half east of Zanesfield. Thomas's early boy- hood was spent at home; after attending the public schools, and receiving all the benefits that could be acquired there, he entered Earl- ham College, Sept. 1, 1868, while in his six- teenth year, entering the senior preparatory year. graduating with honors in 18;3. Til September, same year, he married M. Eliza Knight, who was born in Gray Co., Canada, May 16, 1855, daughter of Benjamin and Ann Knight, who are of English birth and parent- age. After their marriage he located on the homestead farm, consisting of 220 acres; 150 acres of this land was embraced in a deed, the first recorded in the county. In Novem- ber, 1879, he began the study of law with West, Walker & West, attorneys in Bellefontaine. Since October, 1880, Mr. Brown has been a resident of Bellefontaine, having rented his farm, he purposes remaining with a view to enter the practice of law in 1882, and to affil- inte himself permanently with the place and its interests. He and wife have three children -Lola F., born Nov. 1, 1874; Benjamin S., July 22, 1876, and Arthur C., Sept. 18, 1819.

He is a member of Wapatomica Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 424 ..

JEO. R. CHIRISTIE, the hatter; Belle- fontaine; was born in Ft. Wayne, Ind., Aug. 22, 1851. After attaining his majority he, with his mother (father having died), moved to Urbana, remaining there a few years, then to Toledo; here our subject, when a young lad, entered as a drummer in the 100-day service, serving in the 130th O. V. I., where he re- mained for four months, returning he re-en- listed, and served about one year in the 195th O. V. 1., as a drummer, participating in some of the most severe battles and marches dur- ing the late civil war-Shiloh, Sheridan's raid around Richmond, Petersburg, etc .; after the war, Mr. Christie went to Boston, Mass., where he learned his trade as a hatter, remaining and working at his trade for about nine and half years, when he returned to Toledo, work- ing at his trade there two years, when in 1818, he came to Bellefontaine, working at his trade, in 1880, he embarked in the hat, cap and gent's furnishing goods business, and to-day, keeps one of the most complete stocks of this line of goods in Bellefontaine; he manufactures his own silk hats, and is recog- nized as one of the leading hatters of the State; his place of business is next to the postoffice.

CHARLES L. COOLEY, merchant; Belle- fontaine; was born in West Springfield, Mass , July 4, 1822; ont ring the railroad contracting business, he took leading contracts for build- ing the North Hampton R. R., Hartford & New Haven R. R., Hudson River .R. R., East Tennessee & Georgia R. R., Montgomery & Pensacola R. R., Cleveland & Pittsburg R. R., C., C., C. & I. R. R., etc. Coming to Bellefon- taine in 1852, he took a contract to lay track and ballasting on the C., C., C. & 1. R. R. from Galion to Union: he continued the railroad contracting until 1869, when he embarked in the grocery business in Belleforaine, which He carried on some ten years, when he en- gaged in agriculture. His place of business is located on West Columbus St., where he is enjoying a leading trade in the agricultural line. Mr. Cooley has one-third interest in the Bellefontaine woolen mills.

R. H. CANBY, Superintendent of Gas Works; Bellefontaine ; was born in Warren Co., O., Feb. 25, 1821, and is the son of

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Joseph and Margaret ( Haines) Canby; he re- mamed a resident of Warren Co. until 1825, when he, with his parents, moved to Miami Tp., Logan C'o .; here Mr. Canby remained until 1851, during which time he was farming and working in his father's grist-mill, the first grist-mill built in the township; coming to Bellefontaine, Mr. Canby and his brother John took a contract for building the Belle- fontaine & Indiana R. R. (now known as the Bre Line C., (., C. & 1. R. R.) from De Graff to Quincy. He was also a Director of this railroad for eleven years. In 1854 he entered the milling business in Bellefontaine, build- ing a large grist-mill near the C., C., C. & I. R. R. engine-house, operating this mill until 1860; he then went to De Graff, and was en- gaged in the milling business there until 1869, when he returned to Bellefontaine, where he entered the employ of the gas-works as stoker, and in 1874 was made Superintendent of these works, which position he is now lilling. Mr. Canby married first, in 1812, Miss Mary Ann Leister, of Ross Co., () .; she died in 1843; he married his present wife, Miss Catharine Wolfe, of Green Co. O., in 1847. They have six children-one by first wife and five by second wife.

JAMES COOPER. physician; Bellefon- taine; is one of the oldest and most promi- nent physicians in Logan Co .; who was born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., Ang. 3, 1821, and is the son of Sammel Cooper, an attorney by profession, now 93 years of age, and a captain in the war of 1812. When but 5 years of age, James, with his parents, moved to Pittsburg. Penn., remaining there until he was 13 years of age, during which time he rrecived a good education, attending school in a lecture room of the First Presbyterian Church of that city; he afterwards went to Central America and commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Baldwin in Nicaragua; after remaining in Central America some eight months he returned to Pittsburg, con- tinuing the study of medicine; in 1836 he went to lowa; in 1839 and 1810 he attended medical lectures at St. Louis. During his stay in lowa he had considerable practice among the Indians. In 181? he went to Lan- aster Co. J'en., thener to York Co. same State; in ]>BB he came to Ohio and located in Stark Co., remaining there until 1855, and

came to Bellefontaine, where he has remained ever since, and is recognized as one of the most able physicians of Logan Co. During his practice in Bellefontaine he has made three professional visits to the far West on geology and mineralogy; two visits in 18 1. and one in 1875, during which time he wrote a series of letters for the press, which were acknowledged to be very valuable. Dr. Cooper has also written several articles for the medical journals; a number of pieces of poetry for publication, one " The Stream of Life." He has delivered a mimber of lectures on Natural Science in different parts of the United States, to large and appreciative andi- ences. Dr. Co mer is a member of the State Eclectic Medical Society. He has filled the office as member of the City Council, of the First Ward of Bellefontaine, for some six years, with honor and credit.

DR. JOHN A. COULTER, of Bellefon- taine, was the fourth son of eight children born to John and Margaret ( Elder) Coulter; his father was born in Jefferson Co., (,, in the year 1804. He learned the tanning busmess at Newark, O., and in 1825 located in Belle- fontaine, O., starting a tanyard in company with Robert Patterson. Sept. 11, 1832, he sold his interest to his partner, and in the same vear bought a farm and tanyard of Isaac Coop- er, near Huntsville, in this county, where ho at once removed; he continued his residence here until his death, on Dec. 26, 185 %, Mr. Coulter was a man of fine education. and held the office of Justice of the Peace in MeArthur Tp. for twenty years; he was married to Mar- garet Elder, Inly 10, 1832, by whom he had eight children, three sons and five daughters, the latter of whom are all dead. Dr. John 1. Coulter was born in Me Arthur Tp., Logan Co., O., March 31, 1843; was educated in the common schools and by a private tutor; en- tered the mercantile business as clerk, and was employed in various establishments in Huntsville, Bellefontaine, Findley, Columbus and Cincinnati; at the latter place he served with the well-known tobacco Touse of Mad- dox Bras. for two years. In July of 1861, he enlisted as a private sollier in Co. G. 1st {). V. I., and was discharged in June, 1862, at Jackson's Ford, Ala., on account of sickness; he subsequently studied at the Cincinna- ti College of Medicine and Surgery, and

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graduated with the degree of M. D., March I, 1872. In 1815 he was acting Assistant Physi- cian at the Cleveland Hospital for the Insane, and had full charge of 300 insane patients. Subsequently he engaged in active practice of his profession, at Huntsville, O., until Nov. 21, 18:8, when he removed to Bellefontaine to accept the office of County Recorder, to which office he had been elected for three years, in the preceding October. Dr. Coulter was married to Lou. J. Dewey, daughter of Dr. S. S. Dewey, of Huntsville, on July 8, 1861. One child, a daughter, was born to him Oct. 30, 1812.

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History of Logan County and Ohio, Part 82

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892?; Battle, J. H; O.L. Baskin & Co Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago, O.L. Baskin Number of Pages: 798

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892?; Battle, J. H; O.L. Baskin & Co
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago, O.L. Baskin
Number of Pages: 798