The History of Warren County, Ohio, Part 85

Author: W. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1882
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Number of Pages: 1081

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P. F. FINCH, photographer, Lebanon; was born in Delaware Co., N. Y., May 4, 1833; his father, S. F. Finch, was born in New York in 1801, and his mother, Elizabeth (Brown) Finch, was also a native of the same State. Our subject received a good English education in the schools of Portage and Stark Counties; he was reared on the farm, where he remained until 1854, when he commenced teaching school, at which he continued until 1857; in 1859, he

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came to Lebanon and engaged in the business of photographer, and has so con- tinned until the present. In 1861, he married Miss Mary Longstreth, who died Jan. 17, 1881, leaving two children, viz., Carrie, born Aug. 6, 1865, and Nellie E., born Sept. 28, 1874. Mr. Finch has a large and showy gallery and a fine residence on the corner of High and Silver streets; he does oil painting, crayon and India ink work, and, in fact, anything pertaining to his art; he has a large and successful business, which he is daily increasing. He is a Re- publican in politics and a member of the M. E. Church.

JOHN GALLAHER (deceased), a native of Pennsylvania, was born Jan. 19, 1788, and was of Irish extraction; he came to Ohio about 1808, and, on the 16th of April, 1809, was married to Elizabeth Nye, who was born in Rock- ingham Co., Va., and was of German descent. In 1812, he opened and settled upon the farm, then in the woods near Green Tree, upon which he resided un- til his death; he was, perhaps, the most successful farmer of Warren County; by industry, prudence and strict attention to business, he accumulated a goodly share of this world's goods; he devoted much attention to the raising of hogs, in which he was very successful, and from this branch of business he derived much of his wealth. Unlike many men who rise from poverty to affluence, he was generous in the support of the church and benevolent causes. In 1836, he and his wife and other members of his family became members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Red Lion, during the ministry of Rev. David Reed and Rev. John W. Steel. He was a modest and retiring man, a kind and obliging neighbor, an affectionate husband and father and a sincere Chris- tian; his wife died on the seventy-eight anniversary of his birthday; in his old age, he lost about $30,000 by the failure of Boake & Hunt, bankers, in Lebanon; he had, however, more than a competency left, and his children were all settled and comfortably provided for by his own generosity. Mr. Gal- laher lived to be one of the oldest men in Warren County; he died June 17, 1881, of paralysis, aged 93 years 4 months and 28 days; he had by his mar- riage eleven children, nine of whom survived him; one died in infancy and one daughter had died before him, leaving a husband and three children. Mr. Gallaher left children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and one great-great- grandchild.

WILLIAM A. GALLAHER, farmer; P. O. Monroe; was born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, March 8, 1818; he is the son of John and Elizabeth (Nye) Gallaher, the former a native of Pennsylvania of Irish descent, and the latter a native of Rockingham Co., Va., of German descent. A biog- raphy of the father appears elsewhere in this work. Our subject was brought up as a farmer and has since been engaged in that occupation; he was married Sept. 15, 1846, to Caroline, daughter of John Young, of Turtle Creek Town- ship. They had three children, viz., John Franklin, Horace Q. and Lizzie M .; his children have all had the best educational advantages offered by the schools of Cincinnati, Oxford and Lebanon. Mr. G. is a Republican in politics, and, with his estimable wife, is a member of the M. E. Church; he has a handsome residence and 340 acres of well-improved land; his close attention to the minute details of his farm operations is fully attested by the neat and tidy appearance of his premises. Everything is in the best of order and all arranged for the greatest convenience of the residents. Truly, Mr. G. is a model farmer; his eldest son, John F., was born in this county Aug. 27, 1849, and, on the 11th of February, 1873, married Clara A., daughter of George and Harriet (Keever) Longstreet, and to them have been born Eva C., Birdie H., Lizzie K. and Will- iam L. He owns and occupies 200 acres of land adjoining his father's tract. Of the other son and daughter, Horace Q. is living with his parents, and Lizzie M. is the wife of L. D. Parker, a merchant of Piqua, Ohio.

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DAVID B. GLASSCOCK, Superintendent of Warren County Infirmary, Lebanon; was born in Fleming Co., Ky., Jan. 23, 1823; he is the son of Asa and Mary (Penquite) Glasscock; the former was a native of Virginia, of Scotch descent, and the latter a native of Berks Co., Penn., of English descent. Our subject was educated in the schools of Kentucky and Ohio, and, when 15 years of age, commenced working at the cabinet-making and carpentering trade, which he followed until the commencement of the Mexican war, when he en- tered Company K., 1st Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, under Gens. Taylor and Wood. He was married, in 1849, to F. A. V. Penquite, a native of Vir- ginia, of English descent. They have had four children, viz., Mary E., wife of Charles N. Scott, of Clermont Co., Ohio; Alpheus N., who died in August, 1881; John S., a carpenter of Knox Co., Mo .; and Emma, who is now living at home with her parents. Our subject became Superintendent of the County Infirmary in March, 1881, in which capacity he continues.

WEST GLENNY, retired druggist; Lebanon; was born in the State of New Jersey, Feb. 21, 1817; his parents, William and Mary (West) Glenny, were natives of the North of Ireland, where they were married. They emi- grated to America in 1800 and settled in Salem Co., N. J., where they remained until 1820, when they moved to Warren Co., Ohio, where they both died. The subject hereof received his education in the subscription schools of Lebanon, and early in life became a druggist and chemist. In about the year 1848, he opened a drug store in Lebanon, which he conducted with marked success until 1869, when he retired from business. He was married December 1, 1878. to Miss Anna R. Perrine, daughter of G. W. and Rhoda Perrine, of Warren County. Mr. G. is a stanch Republican and in every way a good citizen; he has amassed a comfortable fortune, including several houses and lots in Lebanon, and is now living in comfort and quiet off of the proceeds thereof.

J. P. GILCHRIST, merchant, Lebanon; was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, Nov. 28, 1812; his father, Robert Gilchrist, was born near Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., Penn., in 1780, and, in 1802, emigrated to Ohio, settling on Stillwater in Montgomery County. He was married, in 1800, to Miss Mary Wilson, daughter of James and Nancy Wilson, who was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Aug. 25, 1777, and died in Lebanon, Ohio, April 6, 1867, aged 90 years. Her father was born in Pennsylvania and was descended from a family who emigrated to America from Ireland, seven children were the result of the above union, and of these, two boys and one girl-Robert W., J. Parks and Jane are the only survivors. Their father lived in Montgomery County until May, 1812, when he volunteered under Col. Van Horne, in Hull's army, and was killed in the battle of Brownstown Aug. 12, 1812, just a few days before Hull's cowardly surrender; his father, our subject's grandfather, Robert, was born in Scotland, and emigrated to America with his wife and two brothers in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was twice married, having by his first wife two sons and seven daughters, and, by his second wife, Sarah McGuire, one boy and one girl. Our subject came to Warren County in 1817, with his mother and seven children, and settled in Lebanon, which has since been his home: his education has amounted to a very few weeks' attendance at a private school in Lebanon. In 1827, he commenced clerking in the store of William Lytle, where he remained until May, 1830, when he went to Cincinnati and engaged in the dry goods store of Brown & O'Brien; he next clerked in a store in Ross- ville, Ohio, and, in January, 1832, he went to Liberty, Ind., with a stock of goods furnished by J. & W. Anderson, which he was to sell for half profits. In this he proved successful, and, in 1833, purchased William Anderson's in- terest and conducted the store under the firm name of Gilchrist & Anderson until 1839, when they returned to Lebanon and opened the dry goods store in

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which he has since continued. His firm has been variously known under the name of Anderson & Gilchrist, Gilchrist & Gray, Gilchrist & Benham and now as J. P. Gilchrist & Co., he having associated with himself his son, J. A. Gil- christ, and his nephew, La France Coryell. Mr. Gilchrist was married, on the 12th of April, 1837, to Miss Euphemia Anderson, of Butler Co., Ohio; her father, Isaac Anderson, was born in Donegal Co., Ireland, Sept. 16, 1758, and emigrated to America previous to the Revolutionary war, during which struggle for independence he served for seven years, enlisting as a private and being promoted to a Lieutenancy. He was severely wounded in the head at the battle of Germantown, causing the loss of one eye; he subsequently served in the Indian war, in which he was taken prisoner by the savages in the neigh- borhood of Lawrenceburg, on the Ohio River. His captors took up their line of march for Montreal, Canada, camping one night on the Big Miami River. The country around their camp pleased Mr. Anderson so much that he resolved, if he ever escaped, to locate there, which he finally did. Some time after their arrival at Montreal, he and a comrade scaled the walls of their prison and es- caped, walking the whole distance to Philadelphia and suffering untold priva- tions on the way and subsisting on roots, frogs and anything they could find. On Nov. 14, 1788, Mr. Anderson was married to Miss Euphemia Moorehead, who was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Our subject by his marriage to Miss Anderson had the following children: Mary W., born Oct. 18, 1842; died Nov. 2, 1866; Robert, born April 19, 1846; died Dec. 6, 1871; Isaac, born March 28, 1848; died April 28, 1850; James Parks, born Sept. 1, 1850; died June 29, 1854, and Joseph A., born April 4, 1854. From 1867 to 1880, Mr. Gilchrist carried on an extensive business in Columbus, Ohio, in company with C. P. Gray and Andrew Dobbie. He has, for upward of twenty- five years, been a member of the Presbyterian Church. In politics, when a young man he espoused the Whig cause, and became one of the Republican party on its organization. During the civil war, he was an earnest supporter of the Union cause and assisted in raising men for and the organization of the 12th and 35th Regiments of O. V. I., in this county; he was also a member of the Christian and Sanitary Commissions at Lebanon.

JAMES B. GRAHAM, manager of Western Union Telegraph office, Lebanon, was born in Montgomery, Hamilton Co., Ohio, September 11, 1816; his paternal ancestors belonged to an old family, long settled in Orange Co., N. Y., but originally from Scotland. His maternal great-grandfather was a native of Holland, and his great grandmother of France; his maternal grand- father came with his family to Cincinnati in 1794, and after remaining a short time in Fort Washington settled near Montgomery. Andrew R. Graham, his father, in company with James McBurney (our subject's uncle, after whom he was named) and Nicholas Schoonmaker, emigrated from Newburg, Orange Co., N. Y., about 1814, and settled at Montgomery. In 1815, he married Catharine Felter, by whom he had three children, James (Mc) B., Florella and Adelia. The oldest of these, our subject, went to Cincinnati in 1830 to learn the tailor's trade, and remained there until February, 1835, when he came to Lebanon. Having been attacked with virulent ophthalmia, he studied dentistry, but the profession not being congenial to his tastes, on his recovery he resumed the business of tailor- ing, which he carried on for a number of years at Lebanon. In 1856, he assumed the management of the telegraph office at Lebanon, which he has con- tinned till the present time. He has served as Mayor of Lebanon two terms, member of the Town Council ten years or more, and for several years past as Justice of the Peace. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a Rul- ing Elder in the church at Lebanon. He devotes considerable time to music, possesses much mechanical ingenuity, and is a constant reader of scientific and

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mechanical journals. He is a man of decided convictions, and expresses his opinions without regard to public opinion. He has long been a decided advo- cate of total abstinence. He was married, Aug. 21, 1839, to Miss Mary A. Adams, a daughter of Henry Adams, of Lebanon, by whom he has had the fol- lowing children: Clara L. (deceased), Milton B. (deceased), F. Catharine, Alfred H., Charles G. (deceased), A. Cornelia, G. Florella, George A., Edgar M. and Willard Taulman. The eldest surviving son, Alfred H., is the present Auditor of Warren County.

H. J. GREATHOUSE, blacksmith, Lebanon, was born in Highland Co., Ohio, Sept. 1, 1822; he is the son of Jesse and Mary (Ross) Greathouse, natives of Virginia, of German descent. He received his education in Warren County, in a rude log schoolhouse; he was reared on the farm, and there remained until 24 years of age, when he commenced learning blacksmith- ing in Lebanon, at which he has since been engaged. In 1862, he opened a smithy at the head of Mulberry street, where he is still engaged in business, having now commenced the manufacture and sale of farm implements. He was married in 1849 to Matilda M. Banta, a native of Warren County, by whom he has had ten children, seven boys and three girls, all now living. He had two brothers in the war of the rebellion. He is a Republican in politics, and for three years has served as Township Trustee. He commenced life pen- niless, and by honest toil has placed himself in comfortable circumstances. He is a live, hard-working man, who by his honesty and integrity has gained a prominent place in the esteem of this people. He and his wife are Cumberland Presbyterians.

FRANK H. GREELY, miller, Lebanon, is a son of Seth B. and Mar- tha J. (Snook) Greely, and is a native of Warren Co., Ohio, where he was born in 1852; he received his education in the schools of his county, and attended for a time the Normal School of Lebanon. He was married in 1876 to Miss Ida Coddington, a native of Warren County, and has one child, Edith. In 1870, Mr. Greely engaged in learning the milling business, which he has since followed. On the 6th of July, 1881, he came to Lebanon and leased the mill where he is now doing business under the firm name of Davis & Greely. They have fitted the mill throughout with a complete set of mill machinery, and are prepared to do work on a grand scale. Thus far they have met with the best of success, being now obliged to run their mill night and day. Though a young firm, their ability, enterprise, and evident desire to prosper by pleasing their patrons has won them a reputation equal to that of many older firms.

WILLIAM F. GUNTHER, merchant tailor; was born in Alsace, Ger- many, April 27, 1837; he is the fourth of six children born to Christopher F. and Salome (Burgenneister) Gunther, natives of Alsace. He emigrated to America Sept. 1, 1864, and landed in New York, where he remained one year. He afterward went to Atlanta, Ga., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Muncie, Ind., remaining a short time in each place. In March, 1869, he came to Lebanon, and, after working in the tailor shop of L. E. Schwartz for four years, he com- menced business for himself, and has since continued in it. He was married in Muncie, Ind., in 1868, to Miss Caroline Krieger, daughter of Samuel and Eliz- abeth (Smith) Krieger, natives of Alsace, and by her had five children, three boys and two girls, all now living. Mr. Gunther is a member of the Masonic fraternity and Knights of Pythias. His trade, in which he is proficient, was acquired principally in the old country.

CEPHAS GUTTERY, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township Oct. 30, 1806; he is the son of Andrew and Sarah (Milligan) Gut- tery, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Pennsylvania. Our sub- ject was reared on the farm he now occupies, which he has tilled nearly three-

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quarters of a century, and though now an old man his strength is in no way abated: with his strong constitution and robust health, he is enabled to do much hard work; he has a farm of 500 acres, mostly under cultivation, and the work on this he manages, oversees, and largely accomplishes by his own personal labor. He was married in 1831 to Rachel Hollingshead, a native of Virginia, and has by her seven children. Mr. Guttery is a Democrat, and for eighteen years has been a Director of his school district. He is a practical farmer, who has, to express it in his graphical language, " made his fortune by attending to his own business."

LEVI GUSTIN, SR., farmer; P. O. Red Lion; was born in Clear Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, March 12, 1821; he is the son of James and Han- nah Gustin; he was reared on the farm, and has had very limited educational advantages; when 12 years of age, he was " bound out " to Henry Monger, a farmer, with whom he remained until he reached his majority. On the 28th of September, 1842, he married Miss Emeline Rhodes, of Warren County, by whom he has had nine children, all now living, viz., Hulda, Judith A., William, James B., Mary, Charlie, Granville, Alice and Carrie. Mrs. Gustin is the daughter of John Rhodes, a native of Pennsylvania, of Dutch descent. Mr. Gustin has fol- lowed farming during the whole of his life, and now owns a tract of 117 acres of land. He is a prominent Democrat, and was for several years a School Director.

CHARLES E. HALE, jeweler, Lebanon, was born in Clinton Co., Ohio, Sept. 9, 1854; his father, Armoni Hale, moved to Clinton County from North Carolina with his father in 1810; he was born in 1806, and, after arriving in Clinton County, married Miss Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of Archibald and Ann (Harvey) Edwards, of Clinton County; they were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters, of whom five sons and two daughters survive. Our subject received his primary education in the country schools of his native county. and afterward became a student in the National Normal School of Leb- anon, from which he graduated in the spring of 1876. In 1877, he purchased an interest in the jewelry establishment of E. M. Hale, and in two months after- ward he became the sole proprietor. He has since continued in the same estab- lishment, under the firm name of Charles E. Hale & Co.

WILLIAM H. HAMILTON, retired, Lebanon; was born in Greene Co., Penn., about one mile from Waynesburg, Oct. 31, 1795; his father, Robert Ham- ilton, was born in Banbridge, County Down, Ireland, May 16, 1760; came to America about 1774, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, being much of the time under command of Gen. Anthony Wayne; he served until the close of the war, when he married Susannah Kean; he worked as a blacksmith in Lan- caster Co., Penn., and about 1791 removed to Greene Co., Penn., where he mar- ried Ann Hays, a native of Berkeley Co., Va; in 1797, he moved to Morgan- town, Va ; 1803, to Trumbull Co., Ohio, where he lived until 1815, when he moved to Warren County and settled one mile west of Millgrove, where he lived until his death, in 1841. By his first marriage he had six children; by his second one child, the subject of this sketch. William H. came to Warren County in 1815 with his father; he worked for awhile as a blacksmith, but soon changed his trade to that of a carpenter and builder, which he followed for about forty five years, and did much work as a builder of bridges and mills; he was for about four years Superintendent of the bridges on the line of the Little Miami Railroad from Cincinnati to Columbus, and afterward on the Mari- etta and Cincinnati Railroad from Loveland to Marietta; on the latter road he superintended the construction of thirteen important bridges; he was an officer in the militia for seven years, being an Ensign, Captain, Adjutant and Lieu- tenant Colonel, and is generally known as Capt. Hamilton. For twelve years he

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was County Commissioner, and, being the only mechanic on the board, he planned, drafted and superintended the construction of nearly all the bridges built while he held the office; he planned and superintended the building of the present County Infirmary .. In politics, he voted once for Andrew Jackson, but became an ardent Whig, and afterward a Republican. On Sept. 23, 1819, he was married to Elizabeth Shrack, who was born in Frederick Co., Va., Dec. 18, 1800, and to them have been born ten children, eight of whom are still living. The venerable parents, who have lived in the marriage relation for more than sixty-two years, after residing in several places in Warren County, now are passing their old age in a comfortable home in Lebanon. Capt. Ham- ilton is now one of the oldest, best known and most highly respected citizens of Warren County.

EMILY W. HAMPTON, Elderess, Lebanon, was born in Philidelphia, Penn., Jan. 17, 1814. She is the daughter of Charles D. and Julia (Carey) Hamp- ton, natives of Berks Co., Penn., of English descent. Her father was a pio- neer physician of Pennsylvania, and also practiced his profession here. She is a sister of Oliver Hampton, a noted shaker speaker, who is now at Union Vil- lage. She is one of the two Deaconesses of the Center Family and has occupied that position since 1876. Her father came to Ohio in 1815, and to Union Vil- lage in 1822; he died in 1863, and his wife in 1865. They had five children, two boys and three girls, of whom Emily and Oliver are the only survivors.

PETER B. HATFIELD, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township Nov. 3, 1809. His father, John Hatfield a native of New Jer- sey, and his mother, Elizabeth Banta, a native of Kentucky, both emigrated to Warren County about 1800, and were soon afterward married. Our subject re- ceived such education as was attainable at the time of his youth, and when young commenced working on the farm. He was married, Nov. 29, 1832, to Miss Mary Perrine, of Kentucky, by whom he has had six children, viz .: Eliza- beth, Daniel (deceased), John (deceased), Milton J., Louis P. and William C. Milton and Lewis are now married. Louis P. was a soldier in the late war, having enlisted in 1862 in the Ohio Heavy Artillery service, and remained until the close of the war. Mr. Hatfield is a Democrat in politics. He belongs to the class of substantial farmers. He owns 168 acres of good land, and this he cultivates in the most successful manner.

JOHN M. HATFIELD, deceased; was born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, May 16, 1818. He was a son of John and Elizabeth (Banta) Hatfield; he a native of New Jersey, and she of Kentucky. Our subject made farming his life occupation and followed it with good success until his death, which occurred in 1867. He left at his death a good farm of 147 acres, upon which his widow now lives. He was married to Mary Banta in 1840, and had born to him four children, viz .: Peter D., who served in the Heavy Artillery in the late rebellion, and after the war married and settled down on his mother's place; Melissa C., wife of Mr. Drake; George D., who is also married and farming in Warren County; and Lena, who is living at home with her mother. Mr. Hatfield was a member of the Republican party. and always gave its measures his hearty support. He stood very high in the estimation of the peo- ple, who deeply deplored his loss.

SMITH HATFIELD, farmer and stock dealer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Warren County, Ohio, March 29, 1837. His parents were Frazee and Eliza- beth (Dunham) Hatfield, natives of the State of New Jersey. Our subject was reared on a farm and received his schooling in what is known as the Rock Schoolhouse. On February 5, 1866, he was married to Naoma A. Jeffery, who was born Dec. 22, 1845. Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield are the parents of the fol- lowing children: Bertha, Chester, Elsie and Viola, Chester and Elsie being

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twins. Mr. Hatfield is the possessor of a well improved farm of some 107 acres, situated two miles east of Lebanon on the Fort Ancient pike. He is a farmer, but deals extensively in stock buying and selling, and trading princi- pally in horses, of which he generally keeps the very best. He has for many years been associated with William V. Bone, who together make a "team" in their line, both being excellent judges of good horse flesh, with the knack of get- ting them up and presenting them in good style.

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The History of Warren County, Ohio, Part 85

Author: W. H. Beers & Co. Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1081

Author: W. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1882
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1081