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Mrs. Fry was born in Concord township, Delaware county, Ohio, August 27, 1858. At the age of fifteen she moved with her parents to Jerome township where she grew to womanhood. Her father, James Her- riott, was born in Hickory township, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and her mother in Brown township, Delaware county, Ohio. The Herriotts origi- nally came from Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania on coming to this country. James Herriott and wife reared a family of thirteen children, twelve daughters and one son, and all of them grew to maturity, Jane, Joanna, Margery Ann, Mary Travis, Hannah Rachel, Alice Maria, Angeline, Lovina Sophia, James William Butler, Sarah Ellen, Nora Arabelle, Laura May and Frances. The parents of these thirteen children are both deceased, the father dying in March, 1882, and the mother in 1889.
James Herriott was a son of Samuel Herriott, and upon leaving school began to learn the blacksmith trade. Later he engaged in farming and fol- lowed this occupation for several years. He was only four years of age when he came with his parents from Pennsylvania to Jerome township. Union county, Ohio, and his father. Samuel Herriott, and his sons operated an ashery after coming to Delaware county. He bought a farm of one hun- dred acres in Delaware county and James helped his father to pay for this farm. Later his father deeded him one-half of the land and on that fifty acres all of the children of James Herriott, excepting the oldest, were born. She was born in Jerome township, Union county. James Herriott was a stanch Republican and took an active interest in the success of his party. In his early manhood he joined the Free and Accepted Masons, but later in life became a dimitted member. He was reared a Presbyterian and was a great student of the Bible. He was noted for his ability to quote Scripture, and was able to turn to any passage in Scripture which was called for. He was intensely interested in education and served as a school director in his neighborhood. Personally, he was a man of the highest integrity and was always helping those less fortunate than himself. Of the thirteen children born to James Herriott and wife, six are still living. The old Herriott home- stead where he died was the first farm his father, Samuel, bought in Jerome township and was kept in the Herriott family more than seventy years. It has now passed into other hands.
Mr. Fry has placed all the improvements on his present farm and now has one of the most attractive places in the county. In addition to his own farm of two hundred acres, he gave and sold one hundred acres to his two oldest sons. The family are all members of the United Presbyterian church
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at New California and have always been interested in its activities. Politi- cally, Mr. Fry is identified with the Republican party and for several years served as justice of the peace of Jerome township. For many years in his younger days he served as a member of the school board of Jerome town- ship, during which time he never failed to give his hearty support to all measures which he felt would benefit the schools.
SYLVESTER L. LOUGHREY.
A substantial farmer and sheep raiser of Taylor township, Union county, Ohio, is Sylvester L. Loughrey, who was born in this county seventy years ago. His parents settled in this county about ten years before that and con- sequently the Loughrey family has been identified with the history of the county for the past eighty years. Mr. Loughrey has been eminently success- ful as a farmer and has one of the finest farms in the county.
Sylvester L. Loughrey, the son of John and Mahala (Fry ) Loughrey, was born in Leesburg township, Union county, Ohio, September 26, 1845. His parents, who were natives of Knox and Union counties, respectively, lo- cated in Union county in 1835, in Leesburg township, where they lived un- til their death. John Loughrey was a teamster in the early history of the county and hauled goods from Columbus overland to Union county. He prospered and at the time of his death owned a farm of one hundred and thirty acres, which was the direct result of his unremitting labors. Ten children were born to John Loughrey and wife, only two of whom are now living. William, of Texas, and Sylvester L., of Union county, Ohio.
The education of Sylvester L. Loughrey was received in the subscrip- tion schools of Leesburg township. From his earliest boyhood days he was engaged in hard manual labor, and before reaching his majority he started out to work for himself. He was married when he was twenty years of age and with the five hundred dollars which was given him he made his start in life. He has been remarkably successful as a farmer and stock raiser, paying particular attention to the raising of Delaine sheep, making most of his money in the sheep business. He has a beautiful country home and everything on his farm indicates that he is a man of taste.
Mr. Loughrey was married October 23, 1865, to June Belville, of Paris township, and to this union one son, John L .. has been born. John is a
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graduate of the law department of the University of Ohio and is now prac- ticing law at Marysville.
Mr. Loughrey and his wife are members of the Christian church at Raymond and have always taken a very active part in all church work. Mr. Loughrey has served for twenty-four years as treasurer of the Ohio Cen- tral Christian conference, resigning his station in 1914. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for nearly a half cen- tury, and is past noble grand of the lodge at Marysville, and is a member of the grand lodge of Ohio. Politically, he became identified with the Pro- gressive party upon its organization in 1913, and has since been giving this party his liearty support. He has served as trustee of Taylor township and has always taken an active part in the civic life of his community. Mr. Loughrey is one of the most highly respected citizens of the county, and during his long career here he has built up a wide circle of friends and ac- quaintances who delight to honor him in his declining years.
JEFFERSON L. RICHEY.
One of the most highly esteemed men of Union county, Ohio, is Jeffer- son L. Richey, who was born in this county, served in an Ohio regiment in the Civil War, and has made his home here all his life with the exception of about ten years when he was living in Missouri. He has held various official positions and is now serving as county recorder.
Jefferson L. Richey, the son of James B. and Jane ( Dodge) Richey, was born in Dover township, Union county, Ohio, July 12, 1846. His father was born in Dover township. December 19, 1823, a son of William and Massie (Badley) Richey. She was born in Ross county. Ohio, and his grandfather, William Richey, Jr., was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. August 10. 1793. The grandmother of J. L. Richey was born September 26. 1804, in Ross county, Ohio, and she was married in 1820 in Dover town- ship. Her people located on the banks of Mill creek in 1815 and there her parents, William and Sarah ( Hurst) Badley, reared their children. The Hursts and Badleys were descendants of English ancestry and were the sec- ond white family to locate in what is now Dover township.
J. L. Richey's great-grandfather, William Richey, Sr., was born in Scot- land and came to the United States in the fall of 1757, and settled in Cum- berland county, Pennsylvania. There he married Mary King and moved to
MR. AND MRS. JEFFERSON L. RICHEY.
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Chillicothe, Ohio, and later to what was called Franklinton, now West Columbus, Ohio. The father of William Richey, Sr., was Adam Richey, who married Agnes Turner. Adam Richey's father was George, who mar- ried Nancy Bolton, also of Scottish ancestry. William Richey, Jr., was a self-made man and a member of the Ohio Legislature from 1846 to 1848. He only attended school two months in his life.
Adam Richey's great-grandfather had five sons and six daughters. Four of the sons were in the Revolutionary War. Two enlisted from Pennsyl- vania and the two who went with General Francis Marion in the Carolinas. located in the South after the close of the war. The other two sons located in Pennsylvania.
William Richey, Sr., the great-grandfather of Jefferson L., was a weaver and school teacher and taught school in Union county in what is now known as Dover township. William Richey first married Nancy Bolton, and to them were born two daughters. Nancy and Polly. He later married Mary Kane, and to this union four sons and six daughters were born, among whom were the following: William, Martha, James. Catherine, Anna, Sarah, Margaret, Adam and Joseph.
Jefferson L. Richey's grandfather, William Richey, Jr., married Massie Badley, and to them were born six children, Elizabeth, James, Edward Y., Sarah, Joseph and Calvin. James B. and Jane ( Dodge) Richey. the parents of Jefferson L., had three sons and three daughters: Jefferson L., of Marys- ville; Emma, the wife of Elijah G. Bates, residents of Crescent, Colorado; Judha, deceased ; Isabella, the wife of George W. Longbrake, a farmer of this county : Lucilla, the widow of S. O. McDowell, of Columbus. Kansas, and William G., a farmer, living in Kansas. The father of Jefferson L. Richey was a farmer, as have been all of the members of the family. He died January 8. 1880, near Peoria, Franklin county, Kansas, and his widow died in Salida, Colorado, in 1906. He was first lieutenant of Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry, having enlisted in 1864.
Jefferson L. Richey was reared amidst the rural conditions peculiar to any new county. He did not have much of a chance for an education in his boyhood days, and only attended school a few months altogether. When he enlisted he bought and took with him his school books and studied during his spare hours all through the war. At the age of sixteen he enlisted for service in the Union army in Company D. Eighty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private and was later detailed as drummer boy. He was at the front until July 3, 1865. In the same year that he returned (48)
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from the war he married and began farming in this county. He also worked at the carpenter trade. He lived in Union county until 1884, when he went to Dallas county, Missouri, and there worked at the carpenter trade for four years. He was then elected justice of the peace and took up the collection of accounts in addition to acting as a pension agent. For a time he was also mayor of the town in which he located. He collected claims for the soldiers in Dallas county and lived there until July 24, 1893, when he returned to his home county. Upon coming to Union county he bought stock for shippers and in 1895 engaged in the wool business with Walter Beecher, continuing in partnership with him until 1898. In 1900 he bought a farm of fifty acres in Dover township, and in connection with his farming still carries on a gen- eral pension agency. He also has been buying and shipping stock along with his other work.
Mr. Richey was married September 14, 1865, to Idy A. Longbrake, a daughter of Jacob and Susan ( Farnum) Longbrake. Her father was born in Clark county, Ohio, and her mother in New York state. Her father came with his mother when a small lad to Union county and located in Dover town- ship about 1835. Mr. Longbrake was born in Clark county in 1808, and Mrs. Longbrake's birth occurred September 17, 1811. He was a farmer until his death. January 10, 1865, his wife passing away February 5, 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Richey are the parents of two daughters. Rettie M. and Emma V. Rettie is the wife of Theodore Weidman, and has two daughters, Jessie M. and Essie Marie. Mrs. Weidman died December 9, 1893. Emma V. is the wife of Pearl McIlroy, of Marysville.
Mr. Richey is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, hav- ing belonged to this lodge since November 2, 1867. He is one of the oldest Masons in the county. He also holds his membership in the Improved Order of Red Men. He and his wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Marysville, having joined the church February 9. 1866, at New Dover, and have been members in good standing since that year. MIr. Richey is an active worker in the Grand Army of the Republic post at Marysville, and has been adjutant for the past five years. In politics he has always been a Republican and has taken an active part in public affairs all his life. He was elected on the 3d of November. 1914, to the office of county recorder. He has served as justice of the peace and school director in his township. He was superintendent of the Sunday school at New Dover for two years. and while in the West was superintendent of the Union Sabbath school for one year. and the Methodist Sabbath school for two years. He was a class
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leader for many years while living in Dover township. Enough has been said concerning the life of Mr. Richey to indicate that he has taken a promi- nent part in the life of his county, and is therefore eminently deserving of representation in his county's history.
CHARLES RAUSCH.
A public-spirited citizen of Mill Creek township. Union county, Ohio. is Charles Rausch, a man who has taken a prominent part in the various ac- tivities of his county for many years. A native of this county, he has spent all of his life here thus far and is well known throughout the county. He has been serving as county commissioner since 1910, and in this position is ren- (lering faithful and painstaking service to the citizens of the county. He has been active in church work and in all the various phases of community life which affect its welfare.
Charles Rausch, the son of John and Caroline ( Horch) Rausch, was born in Darby township, Union county, Ohio, September 29, 1863. His father was born in the same township, March 12, 1838, while his mother was a native of Germany and came to the United States with her parents when she was two years of age. After the marriage of his parents, they located in Darby township, where they lived until 1865, at which time they moved to Mill Creek township, settling there on February 26, 1865. In Mill Creek township John Rausch and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. He was an industrious farmer and accumulated a farm of two hun- dred and ten acres in Mill Creek township. John Rausch and his wife were both loyal members of the German Lutheran church, and liberal supporters of all the activities of his denomination. Ten children were born to John Rausch and wife, eight of whom are now living: Charles, of Mill Creek township; Amelia, the widow of J. M. Burger; Anna, the wife of John Mader; Clara, the wife of Philip Casper ; Maggie, the wife of C. L. Koer- ner; Leo P., who married Anna Wolfe; Pauline, the wife of Peter Renner. and Albert. who is still unmarried.
Charles Rausch was about two years of age when his parents moved from Darby township into Mill Creek township, and here he has lived since that time. He was educated in the German parochial schools and also in the public schools of his township, remaining in school until he was eighteen years of age. After his marriage. at the age of twenty-three, he began
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farming in Mill Creek township, and now has a well improved farm of one hundred and ten acres five miles southeast of Marysville, on the Columbus and Marysville pike.
Mr. Rausch was married August 29, 1886, to Anna K. Mader, the daughter of George Mader, a native of Germany, and was born in Darby township. this county, October 27, 1863. To Mr. and Mrs. Rausch have been born six children: Ida, born in March, 1888, the wife of William Casper : Ernest, born in 1890; Bertha, born in 1893; Martha, born in 1898; Edgar, born July 4, 1900; Hulda, born May 7, 1903.
Mr. Rausch and his family are earnest members of St. John's Lutheran church of Darby township, and Mr. Ransch was superintendent of the build- ing of the church which was erected in Darby township. He was treasurer of the church for eight years and also trustee for fifteen years. Politically, he has been one of the leaders in the Democratic party in township and county affairs for many years, and has also served as a delegate to conven- tions on numerous occasions. His party nominated and elected him to the position of county commissioner in 1910. re-electing him in 1912. He has given this office his careful attention and, as a public official, has served the interests of the people in a very satisfactory manner.
P. V. BURSON.
A prominent business man of Broadway. Union county, Ohio, is P. V. Burson, who has been an extensive dealer in hay and straw for the past twenty years in this section of the state. He has been a resident of this county practically all of his life, and has met with marked success as a farmer and business man. He owns a well improved farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Taylor township, but for more than a score of years he has given most of his attention to the buying and selling of hay and straw in carload lots. He is of an inventive turn of mind and has a patent for a road grader which has been pronounced as quite an improvement over any- thing hitherto made in that line.
P. V. Burson, the son of Monroe V. and Martha ( Yearsley) Burson, was born in Madison county, Ohio, October 20, 1858. His father was born in Union county, Ohio, and his mother in Chester county, Pennsylvania. After his parents' marriage they located in Madison county, but a year later
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came to Union county, where they lived until their death, his father passing away in 1866, while his mother lived until 1910.
P. V. Burson was the only child of his parents, and was reared on his father's farm in Taylor township, and attended the public schools of his home neighborhood. After his marriage in 1880, he took up farming and continued to follow agricultural pursuits until 1894, since which time he has been engaged in the hay and straw business. He makes a specialty of sell- ing hay and straw in carload lots and buys hay and straw in Union county and all of the surrounding counties as well.
Mr. Burson was married on July 15, 1880, to Rena Winter, who was born in Licking county, Ohio. To this union have been born four children, O. M., E. G., Wave and Martha. O. M. is a resident of Marysville, Ohio. E. G. graduated from the Ohio Normal University at Ada in the civil and mechanical engineering course, and is now with the American Bridge Com- pany, of Toledo, Ohio. Wave graduated from school before her marriage to C. O. Shearer, of Taylor township, in this county. Martha is still liv- ing at home with her parents and is now a student in the high school at Broadway.
Mr. Burson has taken out a patent for a road grader which is known at the patent office of the government as the Burson Economy Road Grader. He has devoted considerable time in developing and perfecting his grader and feels that he has an article which will eventually become of wide use throughout the United States and Canada. The patent number of his road grader in the United States is 1069524, while the patent number in Canada is 158208. Mr. Burson is a stanch member of the Republican party, and was the nominee of his party for the office of county commissioner from the eighth district of his county in the fall of 1914, being elected by the highest vote given any commissioner of the county.
CHARLES PARROTT.
Among the enterprising and successful farmers of Leesburg township, Union county, Ohio, is Charles Parrott, who came to this county from Eng- land, where his birth occurred, and has lived here for the past forty-five years. He was about thirteen years of age when his parents located in Union county, and after obtaining his education in the public schools of the county, he taught school for several years with marked success. He then engaged
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in agricultural pursuits, and now owns one hundred and sixty acres of land in Leesburg township about eight miles north of Marysville. He has been prominent in the civic life of the county and has served two terms as clerk of the court, and in all respects Mr. Parrott has been a good American citi- zen, taking his part in the everyday life about him in such a way as to indi- cate that he is a man of worth and character.
Charles Parrott, a son of Charles and Mary ( Bown) Parrott, was born in Wiltshire, England, December 26, 1857. His parents, who were born, reared and married in England, moved to Ireland in 1867, and lived in Cork county until 1870, when they came to the United States, and for a few months lived near Bellpoint, near Delaware, Ohio. In the fall of 1870 they located in Dover township, Union county, where they lived the remainder of their days. The mother died January 31, 1903. There were nine children born to Charles Parrott, Sr., and wife: Mrs. Elizabeth J. Meyers, of Dela- ware county, Ohio; Mrs. Lucy Mary Hallett, who came to this country with hier parents and later went back to England to take care of her grandmother, and while there was married, in 1873, to Mr. Hallett, and has since made her home in England; Charles, of Leesburg township; Mrs. Harriett E. Low, deceased; Mrs. Charlotte L. Rittenhouse, who is living with her son, Frank, a Baptist minister, and now the pastor of the First Baptist church of Middle- town, Ohio; William J., a farmer of Leesburg township; Mrs. Emma B. Gibson, deceased; Mrs. Anna M. Vigor, the wife of Dr. W. C. Vigor, of New California, Ohio; Mrs. Ellen Matilda Lindville, of Delaware county, Ohio.
Charles Parrott received part of his education in England and cont- pleted it in the schools of Union county, Ohio. After finishing his school- ing he began to teach and for six years taught in the public schools of Union county. He finally decided to leave the pedagogical profession and engage in farming, and as a farmer he has been no less successful than as a teacher. He now owns one hundred and sixty acres, which is well improved and under his skilful management gives a satisfactory return year after year. He is engaged in a diversified system of farming and pays particular attention to the raising of a high-grade class of live stock.
Mr. Parrott was married December 23, 1891, to Clara A. Bonnett, a daughter of William H. and Hannah A. ( Scott) Bonnett. Her father was a native of West Virginia and came to Union county with his parents when a boy, while her mother was a native of Union county. Mr. and Mrs. Bon- nett were the parents of nine children, all of whom are living: Millard C.,
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a resident of this county; John L., of Licking county, Ohio; William L., of Dover township, Union county ; James W., of Licking county ; Clara A., the wife of Mr. Parrott; Rose A., the wife of William J. Parrott, of this county ; Charles U., of Mansfield, Ohio; May, the wife of William James, of Dover township, and Arthur M., of La Rue, Ohio. The mother of these children died on April 5, 1912. Mr. Bonnett served three years during the Civil War in the One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and is now living in Dover township with his daughter, Mrs. William James.
Mr. Parrott and his wife are the parents of three sons and one daughter, Charles W., Clarence E., Hannah Ruth and Frank L. Charles W. was born August 4, 1894, and graduated from the Marysville high school. He served as deputy under his father when the latter was clerk of the court of Union county. Clarence E., who was born January 1, 1897, graduated from the Pharisburg high school in the spring of 1915: Hannah Ruth, born July 16, 1901, and Frank L., born May 18, 1903, are both attending the public schools at Pharisburg.
Mr. Parrott has always been identified with the Republican party and has taken an active part in its councils. His party nominated and elected him as clerk of the court of Union county, and his first term was so satisfac- tory that he was re-elected. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Ma- sons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Marysville, while his membership in the Knights of Pythias is maintained at Magnetic Springs. The family are all members of the Methodist Protestant church at Pharis- burg, and Mr. Parrott has been superintendent of the Sunday school of this church for several years.
JAMES W. HAMILTON.
The Hamilton family have been residents of Union county, Ohio, since 1839. The grandfather of James W. Hamilton settled in Taylor township, in this county, and bought land for three dollars an acre. During all of these years the family have been interested in the general welfare of the county and have contributed in no small measure to its present prosperity and stand- ing among the counties of the state.
James W. Hamilton. a life-long farmer of this county, and the son of James and Elizabeth (Graham) Hamilton, was born in Taylor township. May 27. 1858. His father was born and lived all of his life in this county.
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