The History of Warren County, Ohio, Part 86

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

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J. P. HATHAWAY grocer, Lebanon, was born near the village of Leba- non, Warren Co., Ohio, February 22, 1819. He was one of a family of eleven children born to John W. and Polly (Phillips) Hathaway. His father emi- grated to Ohio and settled on a farm near Lebanon. He died at the advanced age of 96 years. His mother was a daughter of Maj. Phillips, of the war of 1812. Of their eleven children, three boys and three girls reached their major- ity and all but two married in Warren County, where they now live. Our subject received his education in Warren County, and at the age of 19 years he commenced learning the carpenter trade, which he followed exten- sively fifteen years, employing journeymen part of the time. On the 12th of October, 1846, he married Miss Elizabeth Ann Gustin, a native of Clear Creek Township, by whom he had four children, viz., Emma, Agnes, Florence and William. In 1853, Mr. Hathaway opened a grocery in Lebanon, and since that time has been identified with that branch of industry in the village. In 1867, he became afflicted with a partial blindness, caused by the formation of a cataract over the eyes, and two years later he became almost entirely blind under an operation performed by eminent opticians of Cincinnati. He has borne his great affliction, and the suffering incident thereto, with a forti- tude surprising in one of his years. He retains possession of his business and. with his long experience and natural shrewdness, is enabled with the help of his clerks, to conduct it very successfully. He is a stanch Democrat and takes an active interest in the affairs of his party.

GEORGE HENDERSON, retired farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Ireland May 28, 1802. His parents, John and Catharine (Gray) Henderson, were Protestants, of Scotch-Irish descent, and both natives of North Ireland. They emigrated to America in 1815, and, in 1816, settled in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., where our subject was raised and where he has since lived. His parents both lived to reach a ripe old age, the father dying at 98, and the mother at 90 years of age. Mr. Henderson, our subject, remained on the farm with his father until he was 32 years of age, and received all his edu- cation after he was 25 years of age. He was married, May 8, 1834, in less than two months after he left the home farm, to Miss Dorotha Knox, a native of Ireland. They had six children, of whom only two, the eldest an! youngest, survive. The elder of these, Catherine Gray, is now the wife of Frank Hart, son of Judge Hart; and the younger, Isabella, is the wife of Thomas E. Cor- win, of Warren County. Mr. Henderson started in life with nothing. He has labored diligently, lived frugally and succeeded in establishing himself on a firm financial footing. He has met with the usual reverses of fortune, and has lost considerable money at different times through the dishonesty of others, but he has still sufficient of this world's goods to support him in his declining years. He takes great pride in telling that his first vote was cast for John Quincy Adams. He now owns a splendid tract of 85 acres of land in the vicin- ity of Lebanon. He has been an earnest member of the First Presbyterian Church of Lebanon over sixty years.

AUGUSTUS F. HINSCH, civil engineer, Lebanon, was born in Adams Co., Penn., Feb. 9, 1805; his father, Lewis Hinsch, who was a native of Saxony, emigrated to America in 1789, and in 1835 came to Ohio; he died in Maimi

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Co., Ohio, at the advanced age of 96 years. Our subject received a classical education in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1827; he chose the occupation of civil engineer, and, in 1829, became assistant to Col. De Witt Clinton in his work on the Juniata Canal, in which capacity he continued until 1833, when he emigrated to Ohio and located in Lebanon, which has since been his residence. In 1836, he married Miss Louisa E. Den- man, of Cincinnati, a native of New Jersey, of English descent. By this union seven children-five boys and two girls-were born. Of these, two sons and one daughter only survive, viz., William, book-keeper of Merchants' National Bank, of Cincinnati; Mary J., wife of Thomas E. Drake, of Lebanon, and Al- fred M., now at home with his parents. Charles D. enlisted in 1861 in Com- pany F, 5th O. V. I., and was killed at the battle of Cedar Mountain, Va. Mr. Hinsch is an able engineer, and has had charge of some very important and arduous tasks. Soon after his arrival in Lebanon, he was appointed as- sistant engineer of the Miami Canal, and, after its completion, he became su- perintending engineer of the same work. In this capacity he continued until 1860, when he was elected Surveyor of Warren County and served three years. In 1871, he was again elected to fill the same office, and was continued in it until 1880. Mr. Hinsch can boast of an excellent public record, a reputation above reproach and a well-spent life full of good works; he is a Republican and is highly respected by the people of his community.

HENRY HIZAR, the son of Henry and Parthenia (Evans) Hizar, was born in Pennsylvania in 1808, and emigrated to Ohio with his parents July 4, 1816; he was educated in Warren County, and, on May 1, 1856, married Miss Eliza- beth Harris Young, daughter of J. H. and Catharine (Smith) Young; her father was born June 25, 1826, and emigrated to Ohio in 1835. Our subject by this union had born to him two children, viz., Charles L., born Feb. 26, 1857, and Louella, born Nov. 28, 1861, since deceased. Mr. Hizar owns a fine farm on the Lebanon & Wilmington pike, about three and a half miles east of the former place.

PROF. ALFRED HOLBROOK, President of the National Normal Uni- versity, Lebanon, Ohio; was born in Derby, Conn., Feb. 17, 1816; he was the elder of two sons, the only children of Josiah Holbrook, celebrated as the founder of Teachers' Institutes, the American Institute of Instruction and the lyceum or lecture system of popular instruction. He lost his mother when three years of age, but was tenderly cared for by several aunts, who faithfully laid a sturdy Christian foundation to his character; his school-days were almost en- tirely during his first twelve years; he read a chapter from the Bible when 3 years of age, his father giving to the aunt who was his instructor a promised silk dress for teaching him this feat. When about 11 years of age, he went to school to Elizur Wright, at Groton, Mass., where he boarded with the distin- guished John Todd, then a Congregational minister of that place. At the age of 13, he went to Boston, where he was employed a year and a half in his father's manufactory of school apparatus; he was here an indefatigable workman and a most zealous student, his studies being directed by his father. For a watch, promised by his father, if he should accomplish the task, he read Day's algebra through in three months, very thoroughly, working all the examples; but his work and his study broke his health, and he returned to his native village, where he lived until 17 years of age, when he entered upon his first experience as a teacher, in Monroe, Conn. A year later, he went to New York and en- gaged for some eighteen months in the manufacture of surveyors' instruments, he having determined to become an engineer. One of the few requests his father ever denied him was the one to go to Yale College, of which his father was a graduate. The reason assigned was the bad methods and the bad morals

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of colleges. Again overwork and study impaired his health and compelled him to relinquish this business. He migrated to Kirtland, Ohio, where he expected to engage in surveying, but his health was still too feeble; he went with his uncle, David Holbrook, to Booneville, Ind., where he remained a year and a half, occasionally employed in surveying; his health proving too feeble for such work, he returned, in 1840, to Ohio, on horseback, and began teaching in Berea (one of his father's lyceum villages), under the auspices of John Bald- win. The school rapidly increased in numbers and Mr. Baldwin soon erected a commodious building for the accommodation of his pupils. This was the founda- tion of Baldwin University. Here he remained nine years; here he married Melissa Pearson, who has shared most nobly and heroically the responsibilities and vicissitudes of her husband, not only presiding over his home with Chris- . tian refinement and faithfulness, but oftentimes aiding him as an efficient as- sistant in the school-room, and always exercising a most tender and pure influ- ence over his pupils. When they were married, his salary was $15 a month, and their home was without carpets; nevertheless, they were considered very prosperous by their friends and were the recipients of numerous congratula- tions to that effect. John Baldwin had given them a deed of a house and lot in Berea. He next took charge of an academy at Chardon, Ohio; soon after, he became a partner with Dr. John Nichols, in the Western Reserve Teachers' Seminary, at Kirtland, Ohio. He subsequently accepted a call to the superin- tendency of the public schools at Marlboro, Ohio, where he remained three years, when he moved to Salem, Ohio, to superintend the schools of that place. While there, he received the appointment as Principal of the South western Normal School, at Lebanon, Ohio, which position he has occupied since; his subsequent history will be found in the history of that institution, which is given in the educational department of this volume, under the title of National Normal University. President Holbrook is the author of two educational works. which have had very wide circulation, viz., "Normal Methods" and "School Management; " also of two text-books on the English language-"Training Lessons " and "English Grammar." His views and methods as given in these volumes have made a deep impression upon the educational work of the whole country. In an educational experience of nearly half a century, President Hol- brook has had under his direct instruction not less than 30,000 persons, a number equaled by very few teachers in our country. It has been remarked by those best acquainted with his work that no student has ever left any institution of which he has had control morally worse than when he or she entered it. Presi- dent Holbrook is of small stature, slightly gray, quick and vigorous in his move- ments; nervous and energetic; indomitable of will; immovable in any purpose; full of resources; ready and ingenious in invention; of a lofty and noble am- bition; grandly impressed, from the first, with the magnitude and importance of his work; crisp and incisive in conversation; genial, though somewhat re- tired; social and domestic, being exceedingly fond of his home, his family and his children and their children; faithful to the religion of his Puritan ances- tors; of the purest life; vigorously severe in every moral precept and practice; of unimpeachable integrity in all business transactions; faithful and generous to his friends, just to his enemies, benevolent to a fault, sustaining freely with purse and personal effort every worthy enterprise. He has always been a par- tial invalid, but now, in his 66th year, is healthier than ever in his life. By the most heroic self-management, he has made his feeble physical frame endure duties and responsibilities which would have crushed the most vigorous consti- tutions. His work as an author was entirely accomplished before an early breakfast and in addition to six and seven hours' teaching during the day, be- sides the more wearing responsibilities connected with the financial manage-

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ment of his school. Throughout his life he has retired early, in order to se- cure the early morning for work. President Holbrook has a family of five chil- dren -- three sons and two daughters-having lost one son, his youngest child, Henry, who was drowned when skating. In the order of their age, his childern are: Josiah, Reginald Heber, John Baldwin, Agnes Irene and Anna Lucy. Josial Holbrook is proprietor of a large book business and Secretary of the Univer- sity. R. Heber Holbrook is Vice President of the Normal University, editor of the Normal Teacher, a national educational journal, published at Indianapolis, Ind .; is the author of "Outlines of United States History," "The New Method or School Expositions," "Simple Experiments in Natural Philosophy," "Out- line of the New Testament " and "Botanical Record Book;" is the inventor of a school air-pump and pneumatic apparatus, besides innumerable expedients to bring the natural sciences, experimentally, within the reach of the country schools. He was for five years editor of the National Normal, published at Cincinnati, Ohio. In the university, he has charge of the scientific class and is Professor of Higher Mathematics and Natural Sciences. He was for two years superintendent of the public schools of Vineland, N. J. J. B. Holbrook is Pro- fessor of Civil Engineering in the university. Irene Holbrook is a professor of ancient languages in the university; she is the author of a text-book in Latin, published by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. Anna Holbrook is Professor of Rhet- oric in the university.

WILLIAM HOLLCROFT, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Wash- ington Co., Penn., Sept. 25, 1807; he is the twentieth child of John Hollcroft, who was twice married and had ten children by each wife, the subject being the youngest child by the second wife; his father was a native of England and his mother of New York. Our subject received a limited education in the sub- scription schools of his time, and, since he came to Ohio, in 1832, has followed farming up to the present date; he early learned the trade of a blacksmith, but never followed it. He was married, in 1834, to Miss Permelia McCreary, a daughter of James McCreary, of Turtle Creek Township; they have had six children, viz., John, James E. (deceased), William H., Hattie, Laura and Lucy. Mr. Hollcroft has a fine farm of 162g acres, well supplied with all modern conveniences. He is a successful farmer and a good, reliable citizen; · in politics, he is a Republican.

JOSEPH HOLLINGSWORTH, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in South Carolina May 25, 1802: he is the son of Abraham and Eunice (Steddom) Hollingsworth, who emigrated to Warren County in 1804; he was raised on the farm and received as liberal an education as the schools of the township afforded. He was married in 1833, to Miss Sallie Furnas, of Montgomery Co., Ohio, by whom he has had nine children-five now living. He is a Republican in poli- tics, and, with his wife, belongs to the Society of Friends; he owns several farms, amounting in all to 725 acres.

DAVID HOLLOWAY (deceased) was born on Duck Creek, Hamilton Co., Ohio, Feb. 20, 1799; his parents were Jacob and Hannah (Cory) Holloway, na- tives of New Jersey, of English descent; the former was born Oct. 26, 1767, and the latter Oct. 7, 1772. and they died April 2, 1852, and Nov. 26, 1862, respectively. The parents emigrated to Ohio toward the close of the eighteenth century, and about the year 1800 settled in what is now Warren County, on the present Shubal Vail farm. Our subject, at the age of 14, united with the Shakers, in company with his father, with which society he lived until about the year 1831. He married Ann, daughter of Thomas and Mercy (Curtis) Nicholson, who was born in Pennsylvania Nov. 5, 1809, of English descent, Dec. 8, 1835, and to them were born Hannah (deceased), Mary E., Thomas, John, Jacob C. and William. Mr. Holloway died Feb. 1, 1875, having passed his life on a farm, never living out of the sound of the Shaker bell.

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CEPHAS HOLLOWAY, Shaker Deacon, Lebanon; was born in what is now Turtle Creek Township Dec. 29, 1800, when all Southern Ohio was in one county, called Hamilton, and Ohio was the Northwest Territory. As he graphically expresses it, he was " born in a thicket and had to chop his way ont." His father came to the Shakers in 1805, but did not enter the regular organization until 1812. His parents, Jacob and Hannah (Cory) Holloway, were natives of Morris Co., N. J., of English descent. Our subject was bap- tized in his infancy as a Presbyterian, but united with the Shakers when old enough to act for himself. He learned shoemaking and conducted a shop at the village for ten years; he has occupied almost all of the offices in the society, and is one of the pillars on which the present church has been built; he is a thorough and consistent Shaker, and lives strictly in accordance with the tenets of his faith.

SILAS HURIN (deceased) was born in Morris Co., N. J., July 22, 1774; he was the ninth child of his father, Seth Hurin, and his wife Mary, formerly Mary Hazen; both Seth Hurin and his wife were natives of New England, but after their marriage removed to Morris Co., N. J., where all their children were born. After the birth of their children, he removed to Ulster Co., N. Y., and from thence to Hamilton Co., Ohio. He was born Nov. 22, 1729, and died in October, 1815; his wife was born May 22, 1735, and died June 30, 1794; they had ten children. Silas Hurin came with his father and family to Ohio per- haps about 1795, and settled near Cincinnati. On the 15th of September, 1799, when he was 25 years old, he was married to Agnes, a daughter of John Ludlow, who had removed to Ohio about 1790, and lived near White's Station on Mill Creek, in Hamilton Co., Ohio. By this marriage, Mr. Hurin had the following children, viz., Catharine C., Maria, Susan T., Sarah H., Amanda, James K., Agnes L. and four others who died before reaching their majority. Sarah H. was born Dec. 25, 1806, and was married to James M. Fisher Aug. 30. 1832; they had the following children, who lived to majority, viz., Samuel, who married Sue McCullugh and now lives at Denver, Colo .; Evalina, widow of Dr. James Findley, deceased, and Baker, deceased; Amanda, the widow of Rev. R. T. Drake, deceased; Mary, who died unmarried, and Henry, who en- listed in the war of the rebellion and died in the service. Silas Hurin removed to where Lebanon now stands in 1799; he was one of the original proprietors; he first occupied a cabin on Cherry street, south of Main; he afterward erected a brick residence near the same place; he was a tanner by trade, his tanyard being situated near his residence; he was an early Justice of the Peace, Presi- dent of the town of Lebanon and the first Treasurer of Warren County; he was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church at Lebanon from about the time of its or- ganization until his death; he died Jan. 19, 1862, in his 88th year; his wife died Nov. 6, 1831, in her 57th year.

THOMAS P. HUTCHINSON, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Cler- mont Co., Ohio, July 30, 1808; his father, Silas Hutchinson, was a native of Maryland and a soldier under Gen. Wayne in the war of 1812; he emigrated to Ohio at an early day and located in Clermont County, where he married Miss Margery Paxton, a native of that county, by whom he had eight children, viz., Joseph, Robert, Keziah, Elizabeth, Silas, Thomas P., Betsey and a child who died in infancy. Of these, our subject and Silas are the only survivors. Mr. Hutchinson died in Lebanon and his wife in Turtle Creek Township on what is called the "Ridge." Our subject received an ordinary education in the schools of his day, and at once commenced life by renting a farm on which he continued until able to purchase a small tract of land; he has followed farming all his life, adding little by little to his estate until now he has accumulated a comfortable competency; he was married in April, 1828, to Cynthia Benham,

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a native of Turtle Creek Township, and a daughter of John Benham, a Captain of the war of 1812. By this union twelve children were born, viz., Margery. the wife of William B. Blackburn, of Lebanon; John. a carpenter in Texas; Narcissus, the widow of Newton Smith, deceased; Ann, the deceased wife of James Bone; Eliza, the widow of John Stowell, of Lebanon; James, deceased; Mary, the wife of John Strickler, of Warren County; Thomas, a farmer; Silas; Madison; Frank, deceased, and Cynthia, deceased. All of the survivors, with one exception, are residents of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson are both mem- bers of the Baptist Church, of which he has been a member twenty-five years; Mr. H. is a Democrat in politics.

FREDERICK HUTCHINSON (deceased) was born at Lexington, Ky .; he was the son of John and Catharine (Snyder) Hutchinson, he a native of Lex- ington, Ky., and she of Fredericksburg, Va. Our subject was compelled by straitened circumstances to begin hard labor at a tender age and received very little, if any, education; he was married, in 1838, to Miss Mary Shawhen, daughter of John and Rebecca (Leggett) Shawhen, who was born in 1820. She emigrated with her parents to Ohio, from the Red Stone country, Penn- sylvania, when only four months old. By her marriage to our subject ten chil- dren were born, of whom three are deceased and the following seven survive: Rebecca, born in 1840, wife of Moses Crossley; Frank, born 1843; John, born in 1850, now married; Annice, born in 1852, now the wife of J. B. Todhunter; Josephine, born in 1854, wife of Victor Worley; Laura, born in 1859, wife of Christopher Stibbs, and William, born in 1862, now married. Mr. Hutchinson started in life with nothing, but, by industrious habits and close attention to his business, he had accumulated at the time of his death, Dec. 19, 1881, a large property, consisting of farming lands in different localities, amounting in the aggregate to nearly 700 acres; he was a man of indomitable energy and possessed more than ordinary business ability; his life was spent entirely on the farm, but he was an extensive dealer in pork and real estate; the surviving members of his family are all well-to-do residents of Warren County.

THOMAS J. HUTCHINSON, manufacturer, Lebanon. The subject of this sketch is one of the leading manufacturers of Warren County, having a large carriage and wagon shop in Lebanon. He was born March 22, 1831, in Clermont Co., Ohio; his father, Joseph Hutchinson, was one of the oldest set- tlers in the State; his mother, Elizabeth Rosa, was a native of Pennsylvania. When but 7 years of age, he came to Warren County and lived with his grand- father, Silas Hutchinson, until 16 years of age, when he began, in Lebanon, the trade at which he has since been engaged. In 1870, his manufactory was destroyed by fire; the present building is the largest carriage establishment in the county; he has attained a competency by his business; he is one of Leba- non's best citizens, has been a member of the Council several years, and is a member of the School Board; is a quiet, unassuming man in manners, and en- joys the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens; in politics, he is a Repub- lican; in religion, a Methodist. In 1854, he was married to Mary Van Note, daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth Van Note, of Lebanon; the children are seven in number, six living and one dead (Daisy). The oldest son, Oswald A., is engaged in business as trimmer with his father; was married, in 1878, to Theo- dosia Braninger; Adelia S., the oldest daughter, was married to Dr. W. M. Har- sha, of Illinois, in 1880; at home, are Ella, Lizzie, Albert and Huber.

JOSHUA IORNS, farmer; P. O. Lebanon. This gentleman was born in the State of New Jersey on the 19th of February, 1804; is the son of Samuel and Rebecca (Gibbs) Iorns, of German extraction. Mr. Iorns emigrated to Ohio with his parents in the spring of 1813; he was reared on a farm and re- ceived instruction in the rudimentary branches in the schools of the vicinity in

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which he lived. On the 26th of November, 1826, Mr. Iorns was united in mar- riage with Eliza, daughter of Eli and Esther (Leaming) Foster, natives of New Jersey, but of English descent. The wife of our subject was born in Warren County Sept. 16, 1810. To them were born seven children. viz., Hannah. born June 12, 1830, now the wife of David J. James, to whom she was married July 28, 1853; James T. S., born Feb. 8. 1832; N. S., born Jan. 6, 1834, and, in 1856, was married to Sarah Dunham; Rebecca W., born Feb. 13, 1837, who became the wife of Capt. J. W. Martin, of Wheeling. Va .. on the 11th of Oc- tober, 1854; Henry F., born Sept. 3, 1839, and married Rebecca Bovey, of Welton, Iowa; Lemuel, born October 30, 1841, who married Elizabeth St. John, and Charles C., born Sept. 10, 1847, and married Jemima Ulm. Capt. J. W. Martin, late husband of Rebecca Iorns, was born Dec. 19, 1828, and, at the age of 18 years became a pilot on the Muskingum River, and, on reaching his majority, purchased a steamboat and went South and continued in that line of business until his death, which occurred Oct. 12, 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Martin had born to them a daughter, Eliza L., Jan. 22, 1856; she was married to Joseph E., son of J. M. and Martha (Little) Hayner, Nov. 26, 1876, and to them were born two children, viz., Bessie L., born in Warren Co., Ohio, Sept. 5, 1877, and J. Mont, born on Red River Dec. 24, 1880.

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The History of Warren County, Ohio, Part 86

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