History of Logan County and Ohio, Part 83

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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WILLIAM H. CHANDLER, Co. Treas- urer; Bellefontaine. Among the prominent and well known men of Logan Co. is William H. Chandler, who was born in Elizabeth City, N. J., May 25, 1836, and is the son of Henry and Susan (Jewell) Chandler, Loth natives of New Jersey. William, when quite young- with parents-moved to Ohio and located in Knox Co., where he remained until 1859, during which time he learned the trade of carriage maker. Coming to Logan Co., in 1859, he located in Huntsville, where he worked at his trade until 1862, when, during the late civil war, he enlisted as private in Co. 1, 96th O. V. I. for three years, partiei- pating in sixteen regular battles and two seiges. Among the most prominent battles were Arkansas Post, Chickasaw Bluffs, Jack- son, Vicksburg, Carrion Crow, Parie, La. Ilere he was taken prisoner, and after remaining a prisoner of war for two months, was ex- changed, and rejoined his regiment, remain- ing until the expiration of enlistment. Mr. Chandler entered a private; from that he was made second lieutenant, then first lieutenant; from this he was made captain at the fall of Vicksburg, which he filled until his muster out, proving himself a brave soldier and an efficient commander. After serving three years in the army, he returned to Logan Co., and embarked in the dry goods business in Bellefontaine one year, also in Rushsylvania, where, in 1822, he was was elected to the of- fice of Sheriff of Logan Co., and was re-elected to the same office in 1874, where he served the people of Logan Co. with such credit, that in 1878 he was elected to the office of Treas- urer of Logan Co., by a majority of nearly 1,000 votes. Mr. Chandler is now filling the

office of Councilman of the Second Ward of Bellefontaine; he has faithfully performed his duty; is a Republican in politics and a hard worker in the party ranks; a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

PERRY DECATUR COVINGTON, eldest son of Samuel and Ruth Covington, was born in Liberty Tp., Logan Co., O., Dec. 27, 1842. fle lived on the farm until 1860, and taught two terms of school in Allen Co., O. In 1862 he enlisted in the 88th O. V. I .; was with his regiment about a year, and clerked in Draft Rendezvous, at Columbus, O., one year. lle was promoted to Capt. Co. F, 118th U. S. C. I. in 1864, and commanded the infantry (two companies) which held Fort Brady from the fall of 1864 until about March 30, 1865. Brady was the Union Fort on the James river nearest Richmond. His brigade was the first to enter Richmond, and went from Richmond with Gen. Weitzel's com- mand to Texas, and crossed into Mexico in command of 200 men, Jan. 6, 1866, and occu- pied the town of Bagdad during its bom- bardment by the French blockading fleet. lle was mustered out with his regiment, Feb. 6, 1866; was married May 15, 1866, near Lima, O., to Miss Sarah Ellen McClain, daughter of James McClain, Esq .; read med- icine with Dr. D. Watson, and gradnated at the Medical College of Ohio in the spring of 1869, and practiced medicine at Round Head, O., four years. He removed to Bellefontaine in April, 1873, and formed a partnership with Dr. Watson. Since dissolving partnership with Dr. Watson in July, 1822, he has con- tinned the practice of his profession alone.

I. R. CRAWFORD & SON, livery and sale stables; the oldest livery firm in Belle- fontaine is that of J. R. Crawford, who was born near Darlington, Md., in 1810, and moved to Ohio in 1824. Ile was married in 1834 to Miss Myra McMillan, who was born in Harri- son Co., Ohio, in 1811, and is the daughter of James McMillan, who came to Ohio in 1803. Mr. Crawford, after marrying, remained a resi- dent of IIarrison. In 1866, he removed with his family to Bellefontaine and embarked in the livery business. J. Crawford was born in Har- rison Co. in 1853, having removed from there with his parents to Bellefontaine, embarking in the livery business, where they are now doing ( a good, fair business, both in the livery and

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food business, keeping nine good livery horses and a number of vehicles: their place of business is located on cast Columbia street, where they are prepared to let livery at reas- onable rates.

ROBERT T. COOK, merchant; Bellefon- taine; was born in Washington Co .. Pa., Feb. 28, 1809. When he was 3 or 4 years of age, he, with his parents, came to Ohio, and located in Guernsey Co. During this trip West Mr. Cook remembers seeing the soldiers of the war of 1812 along the route to Ohio. Romain- ing a resident of Guernsey Co. until he was about 19 years of age, when he returned to Pennsylvania and learned his trade as a cab- inet maker. In 1832, about the 1st of March, Mr. Cook arrived at Bellefontaine and began to work at his trade on Columbus street. After following his trade for some fifteen or sixteen years in Bellefontaine, he embarked in the grocery business, which he has con- tinned since, and to-day is the oldest grocery merchant, as well as the oldest settler of the original plat of Bellefontaine. In 1856 Mr. Cook was a heavy loser in the great fire of that year, losing his building and entire stock of groceries, without any insurance. He has been located at his present stand ever since. He married, in 1831, Miss MeClure, who came to lagran to, at an early day.

JAMES COWMAN, merchant; Bellefon- taine; was born in Anne Arundel Co., Md., March 16, 1825, and is the son of Jerod and Elizabeth ( Wright) Cowman, In 1827 he. with his parents, came to Ohio, and located in Springborongh, Warren Co., where he remained until 1815, during which t me he learned his trade as a saddler; coming to B Hefontaine in Isla, he embarked in the saddlery and har- ness business, working at his trade sonIO twelve years, when he entered into the meat market business, opening the first daily meat market in the city. In 1865 Mr. Cowman commenced the grocery business, in which he has continued ever since. Mr. Cowman is entirely blind, having lost his sight some fifteen years ago, but, nevertheless, he has bon one of Bellefontaine's most active busi- nes men. He wa- a member of the Building Association, which erected the Backeye and Empir . Backs, two of the leading business blocks in the city. He married twice, his first w f ping Ichiza Ann Strouther, deceased;

he afterwards married Harriet Ann Rhoads: they have two children. Edward and Eliza Ellen.

HON. ANTHONY CASAD, deceased; Bellefontaine; was born in Sussex Co., N. J., March 10, 1802, and he is the son of Aaron and Rhoda (Dunn) Casad, who, in 1805, with a large family, came to Ohio and settled in Greene C'o. Our subject's father was a me- chanic, in 'moderate circumstances, and, in the absence of common schools, and with the facilities for educating his children beyond his reach, Anthony Casad grew to man's es- tate with only the rudest elements of a com- mon English education. In 1823 he entered the law office of the late Judge Joseph Crain, of Dayton, as a law student. Ile was ad- mitted to the bar in 1826, and immediately came to Bellefontaine and settled, for the purpose of practicing his profession. Ile was literally destitute of means, and his income from his practice was necessarily very shen- der. Ou the 3:th of December, 182;, he was married to Miss Orpab Williams, daughter of John William. Judge Casad's limited means and precarious income from his profes- sion rendered it necessary for him to devote a considerable portion of his time and atten- tion to other pursuits. This prevented him from acquiring as large a store of professional learing as he otherwise might have done. In the fall of 1828, he attended the first court hold in Hancock Co., and was appointed the first Prosecuting Attorney of the county. In 1834 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Logan to. In 1838 he was elected representa- tive to the Ohio Legislature, and was re-elected in 1839; in FS51 he was again elected to the Ohio Legislature under the new Constitution, and served for two years. In 1857 he wasebert- ed Probate Judge of Logan Co., and was re. elected in 1800, and hold the office at the time of his death. He joined the Christian Church in 1842, and at the organization of the church he was made an Elder. He subscribed large. ly towards the erection of the church build- ing. Ile died a sincere, carnest and devoted Christian, with most undoubting confidence of a glorious resurrection. Remarks deliv- ered by Hon. Benjamin Stanton before the Court of Common Pleas of Logan Co., on the death of Hon. Anthony Casad: " Of his char- acter, I can speak with entire confidence, from a

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very close and intimate acquaintance of nearly twenty-eight years-residing in the same village, practicing at the same bar, candidates in the same contests, sometimes in opposition and sometimes on the same ticket. Many of the fondest and most dearly-cherished recol- lections of my early professional life are in- separably connected with my departed friend; and, in all my intercourse with the world, in my professional and political career, I have never found a man of more simplicity and purity of character than Anthony Casad. I have never had a friend upon whose integrity, sincerity and fidelity I could rely with more perfect and entire confidence than he whose loss I now so deeply deplore."

JOHN CANBY, merchant; Bellefontaine; was born in Lebanon, Warren Co., O., Sept. 24, 1824, and is the son of Joseph and Mar- garet (Haines) Canby. Our subject, with his parents, moved to Logan Co. in 1825, and located in Miami Tp., where he was engaged in farming and milling until he, in company with his brother, R. H. Canby, engaged in builling the Bellefontaine & Indiana R. R. from De Graff to Quincy (now the Bee Line); he was made Paymaster and Assistant Super- intendent of this road, and filled that position for nine years, when he was made its Presi- dent, filling that place for five years, when Mr. Canby resigned. In 1865 he embarked in the agricultural business, which he is now engaged in; his place is located on West Columbus street, where he is doing a leading business in his line. Mr. Canby married, in 1862, Miss C. W. Collier. of Boston, Mass .; they have three children.

ROBERT CROCKETT ; retired; is one of the oldest settlers of Logan Co., and was born in Clark Co., Ky., Nov. 8. 1808, the son of Rob- ert and Patsey (Cartmill) Crockett, both pa- rents natives of Virginia. They married in Kentucky, and in 1812, with ten children, they moved to Ohio, and located on a farm of 180 acres, one and one-half miles west of West Liberty, Logan Co., then a wild coun- try, with plenty of Indians and wolves. Here his father died about the year 1821, at 51 years of age. The mother then mov- ed to West Liberty, our subject having moved there with his sister in 1816. She (his sister) had married Thomas Clark, who kept the first hotel in West Liberty. Mr.

Crockett saw the first house raised in West Liberty; was a resident of Urbana a short time. In 1854 he was elected Sheriff of Lo- gan Co. by the Know-Nothing party, by a a majority of some 1,800 votes. This office he filled with honor and credit for four years and three months. In 1855 he moved to Bellefontaine, which has been his home ever since. He was Deputy-Sheriff two years, City Police two years, and Constab'e, which office he now fills. He was a soldier in the late civil war, recruited Co. D, of the 66th O.V. I., and enlisted in this Company as its 2d Lieu- tenant-was afterwards made its Ist Lieu- tenant, and served some twelve months, when, on account of sickness he was honorably mus- tered out of service, and returned to Bale- fontaine. He was married in 1832 to Miss Elizabeth Roberts, of Virgima, who came to Logan Co. at an early day. By this marriage they have had seven children. Mr. Crockett learned his trade as a tanner at li years of age, in West Liberty. His mother died in South Bend, Ind., at 49 years of age.

MILLER CARRIAGE COMPANY; Belle- fontaine. Every institution of a manufactur- ing nature is of direct and indirect benefit to any city where located, and equal advantages are given by its proprietor should always command the patronage of home consumers. as thereby each citizen receives his quota of profit. Among the institutions of Bellefon- taine, of which the citizens ought to be proud and help sustain, is the Miller Carriage Com- pany, which was organized in 1853, and has since then succeeded in making all kinds of carriages usually made in a first-class estab- lishment. Their work is unsurpassed in quality, which have brought the good name of this vicinity prominently before the people throughout the country. The oldest of the firm is Mr. Amos Miller, who was born in Stark Co., O., March 28. 182S, and is the son of lacob Miller, of Pennsylvania. Learning a trade as a carriage woodworker, in Paris, Stark Co .; he afterwards worked at his trade in Salem and Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853. He came to Bellefontaine and embarked in busi- ness with 1). J. Miller, as the firm of A. & D). 1. Miller, in the brick shop in the rear of the Miltenberger llouse, where they were engaged very extensively in the manufacture of car- riages; then moved to the frame building on

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the opposite side of the street; thence to the present place of business. They established a branch house at one time at Muncie, Ind., where they employed some thirteen hands, but on account of hard times this was closed. This firm is now principally engaged in the manufacture of the patent buggy body, for which they find sales throughout the country. From a small start, employing some three hands, the business has grown to a leading one, employing as high as fifty hands. Amos Miller, General Manager; J. N. Miller, Travel- ing Salesman; D. J. Miller, Superintendent of the Iron Department.

W. G. SHORT, livery; B -efontaine. We believe that many people fail of success in the livery business through a lack of atten- tion to the general wants of the public. One of the leading livery stables of the city is owned by Comer & Short, which is well equipped with good horses and carriages. The place of business is located on Main street, next to the New Opera House, where they are prepared to let livery on reasonable terms. Our subject's father, Leonard Short, of Delaware, came to Bellefontaine at an carly day; he was a carpenter by trade, and contractor, and was engaged in building a number of houses in Bellefontaine; he was engaged at work on the oil mill building west of the city, when, on the 4th day of March, 1851, a stick of timber fell on him and killed him instantly; he was a man re- sported and honored by all.

DI'NCAN DOW, attorney at law, Belle- fontaine; was born in Harrison Tp., Logan I'm, O., March 13, 1843, and is the son of Robert and Harriet (Brewster) Dow; his mother is a native of Pennsylvania, and his father of Scotland, he having emigrated to America when very young, locating in Lake Tp., Logan Co., in about 1825, he was Colonel at the Miltia, and during the late civil war, I recruited to. D, of the 40th O. V. I., serving in that regiment for one year, when he r .signed, and returned to Logan county, and is low living in Harrison Tp .; our subject re- mined a resident of his native township mail 1831, during which time he was engaged in theming and attending school. In isit h. cam . to Bellefontaine, and was appointed Deputy Suditor of Logan county, under Thus, MItenberger, (then D puty County

('lerk), and filling this office with marked abil- ity during his time as Deputy. Mr. Dow was engaged in the study of law with Judge Wm. Lawrence. In 1869 he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School of Cincinnati, (. In 1869 he entered into partnership in the prae- tice of law with J. B. MeLaughlin, which part- nership continued until the death of Mr. Mc- Laughlin in 1828, when Mr. Dow formed a partnership with .I. D. MeLaughlin, firm name, MeLaughlin & Dow, one of the strongest law firms ofthe Logan County Bar, enjoying a lead- ing practice. Mr. Dow in 1869 was elected to the office of Proseenting Attorney of Logan County, being re-elected to the same office in 1871, filling this office for four years. In 1×45 he was elected a member of the Ohio State Legislature from Logan county, being re-elected in IS33; he has given entire satis- faction, having proven himself a gentleman of acknowledged ability. Mr. Dow is a Repub- lican, and a member of the U. P. Church, of which he is one of its honored Elders; be mar- ried in 18;5 Miss Maggie A. Gregg of Phila- delphia, Pa., by whom he has two children, both are daughters. Mr. Dow is a director of the Firts National Bank of Bellefontaine.

JOSHUA M. DICKINSON, proprietor of the Logan House: Bellefontaine; was born one mile east of Zanesfield, Logan Co., O., Feb. 18, 1824, and is the son of Thomas and Maria (Lowe) Dickinson. His mother was born in West Virginia, and his father in Pennsylvania; they were married in West Virginia, and in 1810 came to Logan Co., and located in Jefferson Tp .; they came here very poor; they had but one horse and a few necessaries of life; after remaining in Jeffer- > at Tp, some three years, they moved near East Liberty, where Thomas Dickinson was employed by Duncan MeArthur, who was a lange land speculator, and remained in his service a short time, Duncan MeArthur pared the family of Dickinsons on 100 acres of land near Zanesfield, which afterwards belonged to them, and they, in 1832, sold the same for $4 per acre; they then moved to Rush Creek Tp., where the father, Thomas Dickinson. died May 19. 18;9, at 90} years of age, a respected and honored man, be- ing a member of the Quaker Church; he was a soldier of the war of 1812. His wife died in 1865. Our subject moved with his

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parents to Rush Creek in 1832. When he was 21 years of age he, in company, purchas- ed 150 acres of land; this is the first land that Mr. Dickinson owned; it was located in Jefferson Tp .; this land was paid for at 85 per acre, and Mr. Dickinson paid for the same in manufacturing maple sugar. At 24 years of age, he married Miss Martha Brun- son. At this marriage he was worth some 8600. By this marriage they had four chil- dren. After marrying, he lived on a rented farm for a number of years; he farmed near Rushsylvania from 1846 to 1854, when ho moved to Perry Tp., near East Liberty, where he remained until 1826, during which time he was engaged in farming and stock-raising, in which business he has been very success- ful, making a specialty in raising mules, and was the largest dealer in mules in Logan Co., having soll from his farm at one time, $9,000 worth of mules. To-day Mr. Dickinson owns 970 acres of land, and valuable city property in Bellefontaine; he is proprietor of the Lo- gan House, which is a neat three-story brick building, located in the central part of the city, and is recognized as one of the leading $2 houses of Central Ohio. Mr. Dickinson donated largely money to carry on the late civil war; his township never had a man drafted; he again married, his present wife being Ellen Armstrong, by whom there are three children.

HENRY C. DICKINSON, attorney-at- law; Bellefontaine; was born in Rush Creek Tp., Logan Co., O., June 30, 1839, and is the son of Robert and Rebecca (Stephenson) Dickinson, old pioneers of Logan Co. Our subject moved from Rush Creek Tp. to Perry Tp., where he remained until 1861, during which time he was engaged in farming and attending the district schools. In 1861 he moved to Union Co., O., where he remained ten years, engaged in farming, when he re- turned to Perry Tp. Here he devoted part of his time to reading law, and, in 1813, he was admitted to the Bar; in 1815 he moved to Bellefontaine and began the practice of his chosen profession; in 1822 and 1828 he was associated in the practice of law with Mr. Steen, the firm being Steen & Dick- inson. With this exception, Mr. Dickinson has been alone in the practice of law, and to- day ranks among the successful lawyers of

the Logan Co. Bar. Mr. Dickinson was for a short time in the livery business in Bollefon- taine, which is the only other business he has been in since his residence in this city. IFe is a Republican.

LEVI DURINGER, brick manufacturer; Bellefontaine. Of the leading brickyards of Bellefontaine, we mention that owned and operated by Mr. Duringer, who began the manufacture of brick upon the present site in 18:4, making that year 300,000 brick. Since that time they have made as high as 800,000 brick in one year; finding sale for them in Bellefontaine and vicinity. Mr. Duringer has, perhaps, traveled as much as any young man in Logan Co .; he was born in California in 1854, where he ro- mained until he was 13 years of age, then, with his parents, he made six ocean voy- ages, visiting the Sandwich Islands, Cuba, Vancouver's Island, Mexico, and several other prominent places on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. His father, John O. Duringer, is a native of Germany, where he learned the brewer's trade. Coming to America at an early day, he was for a short time a resident of New York, New Orleans, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Peoria, St. Joseph, and thenceto C'ali- fornia. In 1824 the family came to Belle- fontaine, where they have remained ever since. Mr. Duringer is meeting with fair suc- cess in the manufacture of bricks, of which he makes a superior article.

G. W. EMERSON, attorney-at-law; Belle- fontaine. Among the successful attorneys of the Logan Co. Bar, we may mention the above-uamed gentleman, who was born in Logan Co., Ohio, Dec. 19, 1849, and is the son of Moses Emerson, one of the oldest settlers of Logan ('o., a farmer, and a strong temper- ance advocate. Our subject graduated from the Hillsdale College, in the classical course, in 1870. He then engaged in teaching school and in surveying Government land in the West. He read law in the office of West, Walker & Kennedy; in 1825, was admitted to the bar, and in 1876 he commenced the practice of his chosen profession, entering into partnership with E. J. Howenstine, which continued up to 1822, since which time Mr. Emerson has been alone in the practice of law. In ISI7, he was elected to the office of Prosecuting Attorney of Logan Co., and

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re-elected in 1829; this office he has filled with acknowledged ability.

S. W. FULLER, physician; Bellefontaine. Of the old and highly respected members of the Logan Co. medical profession is the above named gentleman, who was born in Athens Co., O., Jan. 25, 1814, and is the son of Seth and llannah (Fisher) Fuller, a daughter of Col. Fisher, of the Revolutionary War; his father is from Massachusetts, and came to Ohio in about 1805; both parents died in Athens Co., when S. W. was quite young. He, at 10 years of age, went to Washington Co., O., where he remained until he was 23 years of age, during which time he received a good common school education; in 183; he went to Cincinnati and took a regular course of lec- tures in the Medical College of Cincinnati; in 1838 he came to Logan Co., and located in West Liberty, where he began the practice of medicine, and remained there until 1855, and then went to Xenia, O .; 1856 he came to Bellefontaine, where he has been engaged in the practice of medicine ever since. In 1856 he entered the drug business in connection with his profession; the same year his drug store burned in the great fre, he losing very heavily in this fire. He afterward commenced anew in the drug business, which he contin- noll some two years, when he sold out his business and turned his entire attention to the practice of medicine, and to-day is one of the oldest as well as one of the most successful physcins of Logan C'o. Ile is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and the Lo- gan County Medical Society; is President of the latter society. Dr. Fuller has held several offices of public trust: he has been a mem- ber of the Board of Education of Bellefon- taine for some nineteen years, during which time he was Chairman of the Board for some fifteen years; he was Councilman of the city for two terms: he is a Republican, and belongs to the Presbyterian Church, having been a member of that church for some thirty years, filling prominent offices of the church; he is is associated with Dr. J. P. Wallace in the practice of medicine, who is a graduate of the the Medical and Belleview Hospital Meli il College, two of the leading Medical U'iler softhe country. Dr. Fuller married. in 151 ;. Mo - Frances M. Hull; by this marriage they have bad eight children five living.

WILLIAM F. FUNK, cooper; Bellefon- taine; was born in Adams Co., O., in 1851. When five years of age he, with his pa- rents, came to Logan Co., and settled in Rushsylvania. Here he began to learn his trade-that of cooper-when he was about thirteen years of age. After learning his trade, he traveled in different parts of Ohio and Indiana, working at his trade. 1813 he came to Bellefontaine and accepted a position as clerk in a dry-goods store, where he remained for several years, and where he, with assistance, saved enough money to start a cooper shop of his own, and in 1822, he erected a shop 20 x 40 feet, where he is pre- pared to do all kinds of coopering usually done in a first-class shop. In busy seasons he has employed as high as eight men in his shops. His principal business is now in man- ufacturing flour barrels for the flour-mill at Bellefontaine. With the push and energy that Mr. Funk is showing in his business, his success is certain.

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History of Logan County and Ohio, Part 83

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