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POLK TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY.
REED, SAMUEL J., farmer ; was born in Oxford Co., Me., Dec. 13, 1809, and was married Sept. 6, 1832, to Miss Elizabeth Jackson ; he removed with his father's family to this county in 1823, and settled in that part of Sandusky now forming Polk Township, Crawford Co., where a cabin was erected in the woods, and where the family commenced clearing up the forest and converting the wilderness into fertile fields. Mr.
Reed first earned enough money, by hard work, to en- ter 80 acres of land, and, by his indomitable energy and industry, continued to add to his farm till he be- came the owner of 411 acres of most excellent land, now well improved, and proved himself to be one of the most successful farmers in the county. Four of his children are married, and living in the vicinity of their parents.
ASHLAND, ASHLAND COUNTY.
ABRAMS, JAMES S., was born in Ashland Co., in the month of January, 1855, where he has since resided. He is by profession a painter, having finished his trade
in 1875; he is considered by all to be proficient at his business and enjoys the respect of those in the com- munity in which he resides.
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HANOVER TOWNSHIP, ASHLAND COUNTY.
BULL, JOHN W., Loudonville. The grandfather of Mr. Bull was born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, and his grandmother in Manchester, England. George W. Bull, the father of J. W., ran away from home when 11 years of age, and went to sea ; in his roving, he visited America at the age of 17; came west to the then wilderness of Ohio and entered several quarter-sec- tions of land in what are now Greene and Lake Town- ships, Ashland Co., after which he returned to a sea- faring life, becoming a captain and vessel-owner. Be- coming tired of the sea, he came to America for the purpose of making it his permanent home, settling first in Hartford, Conn., in 1816, and removing, in 1817, to the southwest quarter of Sec. 1, in Greene Township. Here, in 1822, he married, and here he raised a family of seven children-George F., Sarah Jane, Mariah, Mary, Phebe, Emily and J. W. He was a man of much influence among the early pioneers, a large landholder, and, soon after his arrival, engaged in shipping pork, flour, whisky and other produce by flatboats to New
Orleans ; after the sale of a cargo in that city, he would usually sell his boats and set out on foot for home, walking sometimes as far as Nashville, where he would purchase a horse on which to complete the journey. In 1839, he was elected Justice of the Peace, which of- fice he held fifteen years ; in 1848, he was elected to the General Assembly, serving two terms in the House and one in the Senate. He was of stout build, a very forcible talker, a man of decision, good judgment, great energy and independence of character. Ilis son, the subject of this sketch, was engaged in railroading thirteen years, first as route agent and then as con- ductor, after which he resided in Fort Wayne, Ind., a few years, engaged in the hotel business ; during this time, he was a member of the Council of that city. He subsequently returned to Greene Township to live, and was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he now holds. In 1877, he was elected to the Sixty-third Gen- eral Assembly, and is now (February, 1880) a member of the Sixty-fourth.
GREEN TOWNSHIP, ASHLAND COUNTY.
RICE, ALEXANDER, Perryville ; was born in Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 2, 1801 ; he was the eldest son of Capt. Ebenezer Rice, who moved from Willsboro, Essex Co., N. Y., to Ohio, in 1810, stopping from November until February, 1811, in Newark, Licking Co .; then he came on to Green Township, Richland Co., and located on his land near Perryville. Capt. Rice died June, 1821, and his widow became the second wife of Judge Thomas Coulter. Alexander owns the old farm ; he has been twice married, and has three daughters and three sons living. Of all the old pioneers who have lived to
see the wilderness of the West bloom like unto a gar- den, none are more content, more happy, or freer from the ills of old age than he. Ebenezer Rice was born in Marlboro, Mass., in 1773 ; was the eldest son of Samuel Rice, who was the son of Gershom, who was the son of Ephraim, who was the son of Thomas, who was the son of Edmund and Tamazine Rice, who came from Bark- hampstead, England, in 1638, and lived and died in Sud- bury, Mass. The old homestead, with its broad meadows and beautiful spring, is still in possession of the Rice family.
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BAUGHMAN, DANIEL, Charlotte, Mich. He came with his brother John and his family to Lexington Richland Co., in May, 1827; Samuel Baughman had settled in Millersburg, in Springfield Township, three years before, where he was also followed the next year by Isaac and Joseph Baughman, and thus the other Baughmans found relatives near them on their arrival in this, then the "Far West." In 1828, Jacob, Henry and Adam Baughman came, with Daniel's mother, and settled at Lexington. The en- tire family of Baughmans were from Cumberland Co., Penn .; of those mentioned, Joseph now lives
in Fairfield Co., Ohio; Jacob in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and Henry in Charlotte, Mich .; Adam died at Lexing- ton in January, 1844; John, at the same place, in Au- gust, 1863. A son of Daniel Baughman, Adelbert D., is now a merchant in Charlotte, Mich.
BEELMAN, J. FRANK, editor and proprietor of the Advertiser, Plymouth ; was born in Plymouth July 31, 1847 ; was raised and educated here and has grown up with the town ; when in 1869, he, together with Mr. Webber, opened up a book and notion store, under the firm name of Webber & Beelman, when, in August, 1872, he disposed of his interest in the book store and
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became associated with and in the Plymouth Adver- tiser office, with his brother, J. M. Beelman, and in 1876, sold back to J. M. Beelman, and in December, 1876, he purchased the office and became sole proprie- tor, since which time the Advertiser has been on a solid and firm basis, and has a circulation and support second to no other paper in the county; as to the jobbing department, it is complete as all can testify who have occasion to patronize it. On Oct. 8, 1874, was married to Miss Frank Gipson, a resident of Plymouth; and as a result of this union, they have one child, Grace W., born Oct. 10, 1876. Mr. B. is one of the first and foremost men in town, as the success of the Advertiser shows him to be, a thorough-going busi- ness man ; he is Secretary of the Plymouth Agricult- ural Society, Township Clerk, and has occupied other offices in the gift of the people, and with all, is a man well worthy the position he holds in society.
OBERLE, FRANCIS J., REV., Pastor Roman Catholic Church, Shelby ; Rev. Francis J. Oberle, was born in New York City May 7, 1832; he was educated in the Parochical School Church of the " Holy Redeemer," till at the age of 12 years; he then commenced the study of Latin and languages in New York City, and soon after went to the St. Charles College, Maryland, where he remained three years, finishing up his classi- cal course in 1855 ; he then entered the mission society, and remained in this connection for about sixteen years ; during this period, he completed his full course of study, while traveling extensively through the West, and elsewhere; during the war of 1861-65, was Chaplain of the "Irish Brigade," under "Mulligan" from Chicago, III., and still later became connected with the hospitals in Cumberland, Md .; in 1877, he came to Shelby, Ohio, from New York City, and being a man of fine education, and considerable executive ability, has done much toward establishing the Roman Catholic Church in this place; his energy and perseverance, with tact to accomplish, has enabled him, to not only overhaul the church, but to erect a residence on architectural plans, adapted to the best interest of the church, and the people at large.
LOOSE, NATHANIEL H., Rev. Pastor Reformed Church, Bellevue, Ohio ; was born near Bloomfield, Perry Co., Penn., Sept. 5, 1834; he is the oldest son of Peter Loose and Ann Mary Rauch, now residing near Wyoming, Del. When about 4 years of age, he with his parents moved to near Greencastle, Penn., and in 1845, settled in Monroe Co., Mich,; in 1853, he entered Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio and graduated in the sci- entific course in 1857 : he was ordained to the ministry of the Reformed Church in 1858. He was married the same year, by Dr. M. Kieffer, to Miss Alma T. Kroh, of Tiffin; four sons were born to them, one of whom is dead. Ursinus K., the oldest, is now in the National Exchange Bank, Tiffin ; Alvin and Clarence are attend- ing school. Rev. Loose's first charge was at Sugar Grove, Fairfield Co., Ohio; continued there five years ; settled at Shelby in 1863, and continued fourteen years. While at Shelby, he was for six years a member of the School- Board and its President during the erection of the high school building ; he always entertained a lively interest in the institutions and people of the town and vi- cinity. In August, 1877, he took charge of St. Paul's Re-
formed Church, Bellevue, Ohio, where he is now living.
McQUOWN, DAVID A. (deceased) ; was born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., July 16, 1813 ; at an early age, his father removed with his family, to Belmont Co., Ohio, and from there to Richland County ; some time between the years of 1820 and 1830; the exact date is not known. He was married to Mary Patterson, of Lexington, Ohio, Sept. 3, 1835, by Rev. Adam Torrence, at that time a Presbyterian minister living in Lexing- ton ; they had seven children-William, Leonidas, Margret Jane, Mary L., Thomas P., Andrew and War- ren, all of whom are living, except William and Margaret Jane. Mr. McQuown was Justice of the Peace in and for Troy Township, for the period of twenty-one years, or seven terms ; he was noted as the first Whig Justice of Troy Township ; some of the brightest local talent of Central Ohio was often engaged in trying cases in his office, and such young lawyers as Hon. John Sherman, Samuel J. Kirkwood (now United States Senator from Iowa), Hon. Thomas W. Bartly (now residing in Wash- ington, D. C.), Hon. George W. Geddes, Hon. James Stewart (afterward Judge Stewart), Barnabus Burns, and others. Mr. McQuown served several times as Mayor of the village of Lexington, and took a promi- nent part as a local Whig and Republican politician. After his removal to Michigan, he served several years as Justice of the Peace. He died in West Windsor, Eaton Co., Mich., Feb. 16, 1879.
NEWMAN, JACOB, dealer in marble and granite, La Grange, Ind. He was born in Richland Co., in 1832; at the age of 17 years, he moved with his parents to Williams Co., remaining there three years ; at the end of that time, he returned to Mansfield and engaged as clerk in the store of E. & C. Hedges, until the following, spring, when he went to La Grange, where he now resides. In September, 1861, Mr. Newman enlisted in Co. H, 44th, Ind. V. I., and was elected Second Lieu- tenant ; he commanded the company at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, where he was desperately wounded, being shot through the body, a wound that at first was considered certainly mortal, and one from which the surgeons declared not one man in a thousand could survive ; he, however, recovered ; Mr. N. was promoted Captain of the company (commission dating from the day of the battle), but his wound disabled him from further service, and he resigned Nov. 14, 1862, and returned home. In 1863, he was appointed Deputy Provost Mar- shal for La Grange County, of the Fourth District of Indiana, and as such had charge of the enrollment of the county. He was elected County Treasurer in 1864, and re-elected in 1866; since the expiration of the last term, he has been engaged in mercantile pursuits, and is now dealing in marble and granite.
SMITH, GEORGE H., Goodland, Benton Co., Ind. He was born in Jackson Township, Richland Co., Ohio, Feb. 22, 1844, remaining with his parents until 1861, when he enlisted in Company H, 64th O. V. I., better known as the Sherman Brigade, C. R. Lord commanding company ; he participated in the follow- ing engagements : Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, Perry- ville, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Resaca, and in the Atlanta campaign, until the 16th ofJune ; while on the skirmish line in front of Kenesaw Mountain, he received a gunshot-wound in the left forearm, severing the main
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artery, which disabled him for the rest of the campaign ; also was in the Army of the Cumberland ; served under Gens. Grant, Thomas, Sherman, Sheridan and Rosecrans ; the subject of this sketch veteranized in 1864, and was discharged Jan. 1; on his return home he rented his grandfather's farm, where he remained about four years and then went to Benton Co., Ind., and pur- chased 80 acres of land, on which he has made his home. Aug. 27, 1874, he married Miss M. E. Drake, of Jacken Township, taking his wife to Indiana; they have one child, Anna. Mr. Smith's grandfather, John Smith, emigrated to Ohio, from Pennsylvania,
with his family in 1835, locating near where he now lives, with his son George Smith, Sr .; he is past the age of 90, and is the oldest man living in the township; he was married to Miss Susan Wise; they had eight children, four of whom are living. The father of the subject of this notice, has remained in Richland Co., since he came from Cumberland Co., Penn., where he was from October, 1820, except two years when he was at Cincinnati, Ohio. He married Miss A. Miller in 1842. Mr. Smith the subject of this sketch is a genial honest man, and has a reputation that cannot be ex- celled.
ERRATA.
Page 787-David Light should be Ira Light.
Page 613, lines 10 and 11, Joseph H. Brown, Second Lieutenant, should read First Lieutenant ; Peter Sterritt, First Lieutenant, should read Second Lieutenant. Line 14, the word Orderly should be Corporal.
Page 816-Samuel Arc should be Samuel Au.
In Chapter XXVIII, the name Levi Franghiser should read Levi Bargahiser. Page 372, the name Samuel H. Tranger should read Samuel H. Trauger.
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