The History of Warren County, Ohio, Part 93

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

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gress, and since then has followed his profession at Washington, D. C., where he now resides. William W. Wilson, attorney at law, Lebanon, Ohio; admitted to the bar in August, 1854; served in the army as Captain of Company A, 79th O. V. I., and Major of the regiment from August, 1862, to November, 1864, when discharged for disability incurred in Sherman's "Atlanta campaign; " in April, 1865, was elected Mayor of Lebanon; in October, 1865, was elected Probate Judge of Warren County, and held that office until October, 1869, when he resigned and was elected Representative of the county in the Legisla- ture, serving one term in 1870 and 1871. James S. Wilson, of Kansas City, Mo., was engaged as clerk in a mercantile house at Hamilton, Ohio, at the beginning of the rebellion; went out in the 3d O. V. L., and served as Lieu- tenant, Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of his brigade throughout the war, taking part in all the hard campaigns and most of the great battles of the army commanded by Buell, Rosecrans and Thomas, known in the later years of the war as the Army of the Cumberland; since the war, he has been em- ployed in the internal revenue and railroad service. Providence M. Wilson was in mercantile employment at Franklin, Warren Co., and enlisted there in the 2d Ohio three-months' regiment of volunteers; was in the first battle of Bull Run, Va .; is now a merchant in Arkansas. Robert B. Wilson, attorney at law, Cincinnati, Ohio; at the beginning of the late war, was a student at Lebanon, and enlisted in Capt. Rigdon Williams' Company F, 12th O. V. I .; he was ap- pointed a Sergeant and served through the war, participating in the campaigns and battles in West Virginia and in Maryland and Pennsylvania, attending Lee's invasion; he was a Captain at the close of the war. Marshall'L. Wilson, at the beginning of the war was a boy on the home farm; in 1862, he served with the forces holding Cumberland Gap, Tenn .; has since been in the railway- telegraph service, and now resides in Illinois. Americus Wilson, the youngest son, near the close of the war enlisted in a 100-day regiment and served in Western Virginia; since the war, he has been engaged in the railway service, and now resides at Logan, Ohio.

J. HENRY WINNER, manufacturer of boots and shoes, Lebanon, was born in the State of Pennsylvania May 7, 1846; he is the son of Charles and Rebecca (Logan) Winner, natives of Pennsylvania, the former of German and the latter of Scotch descent. They emigrated to Warren Co., Ohio, in 1856, and settled near the town of Red Lion, where they remained three years and then came to Lebanon. Our subject received his education in the grammar and high schools of Lebanon, and, at the early age of 16 years, commenced learning shoemaking with his father. In 1864, he enlisted in Company B, 79th O. V. I., and served until the close of the rebellion. He was with Gen. Sherman in his grand march to the sea, and served in some of the hot engage- ments under that valorous commander. He received his final discharge at Louisville, Ky., in 1865. In 1871, he married Miss Kate Roszell, a native of Warren County, and a daughter of Nathaniel Roszell, Esq. Mr. Winner is an enterprising, wide-awake business man, of exemplary habits and good moral character. His shops and show-room, on Mechanic street, are fitted up in the neatest possible manner, and contain a stock of boots, shoes, slippers, etc., second to none in the village.

WILLIAM WOOD (deceased) was born in England Nov. 19, 1794, and, on the 8th of the same month, in 1821, was united in marriage with Elizabeth Best, who was born Dec. 23, 1802; to them were born two children. Mrs. Wood died Nov. 20, 1824. On the 22d of July, 1827, Mr. Wood was married to Asenath, daughter of Jedediah and Elizabeth (Reader) Tingle, who was born in Turtle Creek Township, this county. Her parents were born-the father in the State of Delaware in 1767, and the mother in Loudoun Co., Va,

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Jan. 4, 1777. They died May 2, 1827, and Sept. 10, 1834, respectively. Mrs. Wood, the widow of our subject, is the only survivor of a family of fifteen chil- dren, and is herself the mother of eleven children, viz., Elizabeth, born Sept 8, 1828 (died at the age of 2 years and 7 months); Clara, born Dec. 13. 1830, who became the wife of Samuel Gould, May 21, 1857: James, born April 25, 1833 (died March 6, 1854); William, born April 28, 1835 (died May 22, 1838); Catharine A., born May 2, 1837 (deceased); Nathan, born Feb. 8, 1840, married Mary Cumming, Dec. 2, 1867, by whom he had one child, Bertie (both mother and son deceased). Nathan's second marriage occurred Aug. 26, 1881, when married to Joannah Cody; Mary, born March 16, 1842, and united in marriage with Capt. W. R. Harman, Aug. 30, 1860; the next child died in infancy; Lucy C., born June 26, 1845, and became the wife of Dr. E. W. Carnahan, died Feb. 22, 1873; Adalaide, born Nov. 16, 1847, and died Oct. 4, 1874, as the wife of H. W. Schenck; Charles E., born June 6, 1851, united in marriage with Ernie I. Cumming, July 17, 1875. By occupation our subject was a man- ufacturer of woolen goods, which trade he learned before leaving England, his father being engaged in that business. Mr. Wood was for many years a mer- chant of Lebanon, and, by industry and economy, accumulated quite a compe- tency. He was a member of the M. E. Church, and his second wife of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, with which she united in 1838. The grand- children of this couple number fourteen, and great-grandchildren, seven. Mrs. Wood is a descendant of one of the pioneer families of this section of the country, her father with his family having emigrated from the Redstone country in Pennsylvania to Columbia, six miles above Cincinnati, in October, 1791 or 1792, and, in the spring of 1797, removed into what is now Warren County, settling in Turtle Creek Township, about one and a half miles west of the village of Lebanon. He planted the first apple orchard in this section of the country.

DAVID M. WORLEY, farmer; P. O. Lebanon. This gentleman was born in the village of Deerfield, Warren Co., Ohio, Nov. 16, 1821. He was reared on the farm on which he now resides by his grandfather, Solomon Mil- ler, an honest, hard-working German, of the Dunkard persuasion, consequently his opportunities for getting an education were very limited. By considerable effort, he became sufficiently advanced to take charge of a country school. At the age of 20, he commenced teaching and continued in that employment over eight years. He was married, March 18, 1849, to Miss Eliza Jane Perrine, a native of Mason Co., Ky., and daughter of Joseph Perrine and Susannah Downing, who settled in Warren Co., Ohio, in March, 1826. They had six children, viz., Artemas M., Victor Hugo, Fergus F., Linnie L., Brice B. and Emmet D., of which number but three are living, viz., Victor, who married Josephine, daughter of Fred Hutchinson; Linnie, wife of Everett, a son of Samuel Iorns, and Brice, yet unmarried. When Mr. Worley married, he bid farewell to the school-room and commenced farming, in which occupation he still continues. His father, Brice Worley, was born in Shepherdstown, Jeffer- son Co., Va., Oct. 25, 1794, and emigrated from Harper's Ferry to Warren Co., Ohio, with his father's family, in 1815, and, in February, 1821, he married Elizabeth Miller, by whom he had four children, the subject of this sketch being the eldest. For his second wife, he married Margaret Ann Vinson, a native of Maryland, by whom he had ten children. Elizabeth Miller was born in Fred- erick Co., Md., Nov. 27, 1802, and, in 1817, came to Warren Co., Ohio, with her father, Solomon Miller, who also was born in Frederick Co., Md., Aug. 14, 1776. His father, Henry Miller, was born at Lancaster, Penn. Henry Miller married a Bigler, of which family one was Governor of Pennsylvania and another Governor of California at the same time. Henry Miller moved to Fred-

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erick Co., Md., prior to the Revolutionary war. William Worley, the grand- father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Virginia Nov. 16, 1760, of Quaker parents, and raised a Quaker; was a sicklesmith by trade; he married Nancy Aun Walling, in Virginia, moved to Warren Co., Ohio, in 1815, and died June 17, 1828. Nancy Ann Walling was born in Virginia July 17, 1754; died in Warren Co., Ohio, Feb. 19, 1837. She was the daughter of James Walling, a Revolutionary Colonel, who took part in the siege of Yorktown, which battle resulted in the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and the British Army. William Worley was a descendent of one of three brothers -- James, William and Brice Worley -- who came with William Penn to this country and settled where Phila- delphia now stands, and afterward, one of these settled in York Co., Penn., another in Western Pennsylvania and another in North Carolina. The sub- ject is presumed to have descended from one of these three brothers and most likely from one of the two who settled in Pennsylvania.

LOT WRIGHT, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Lebanon, was born near the village of New Garden, Columbiana Co., Ohio, Feb. 16, 1839; his parents were James and Mary (Hinchman) Wright, natives, the former of Ohio and the latter of New Jersey. The ancestral lineage on the father's side was English, and that on the mother's side German. Our subject's early life was passed upon a farnı. At the age of 16 years, he went to the State of Iowa and there remained four years, when he returned to Columbiana County. His pri- mary education was received in the common schools of the vicinity in which he was raised and solely through his own efforts. In 1860, he came to Lebanon and entered the South Western Normal School, which he attended, teaching at intervals in the district schools of Southwestern Ohio, until the summer of 1862. Aug. 13 of that year, he enlisted as a private in Company I, 79th O. V. I. On the 28th of June, 1864, he was discharged, having up to that time, and just prior thereto, taken part with Sherman's army in the battles from Chatta- nooga to Atlanta, and was severely wounded June 22, 1864. He was commis- sioned as Captain in the 100th U. S. C. L, taking command of Company D, at Nashville, Tenn., June 28, 1864, and was almost immediately thereafter taken to the hospital on account of the wound, where he remained two months, then assumed command of his company, which, with the balance of the regi- ment, was assigned to duty on the Northwestern Railroad, and soon thereafter he was placed in command of two companies of the regimeut. He went into the country, seized stock from the enemy and mounted these companies, which performed services as mounted infantry until the battle of Nashville, in which he commanded his company during the two days' fight, and was again seriously wounded about the close of the battle. After recovering from the wound, he was detailed as a member of the military commission in the department of the Cumberland, and there remained about three months, when he again assumed command of his company, with which he continued until the close of the war, when he returned to Lebanon, which has since been his home. On the 17th of July, 1867, Capt. Wright was united in marriage with Louisa Jury, a native of Ohio, whom he met while attending the normal school. Both the Captain and wife are graduates of this school. Mrs. Wright taught school in Warren County four years, one of which she was Principal of the Public Schools of Lebanon. In 1868, Capt. Wright was elected Treasurer of Warren County, to which office he was re-elected in 1870. Subsequent thereto he has been three times elected Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Wright are the parents of two sons-Willard J. and Raymond G. The parents are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Lebanon.

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LEWIS G. ANDERSON, State Senator and grain dealer, Franklin; son of Kenneth and Mary (Chamberlain) Anderson; was born near Carlisle Dec. 8, 1826; he was reared on a farm; he was married, in the Jersey Settlement, Dec. 13, 1848, to Jane D., daughter of John and Sally Teneick, born in Jersey Set- tlement Oct. 4, 1829; they have had six children, five living-Derrick B., Charles M., Sally E. (deceased), Mary B., Howard B. and William G. In the fall of 1856, he bought 175 acres of land in Jersey Settlement, on Sections 3 and 34; farm known as the William T. Barkalow farm. He carried on farming till 1873, when being engaged quite extensively in grain and other business, he left the management of it to his son. In 1868, he was elected County Com- missioner and served two terms. During his term of office, he worked very hard and was instrumental in some very important public improvements, among others the Orphans' Asylum, Children's Home and the Franklin Suspension Bridge, which crosses the Miami River and is a very fine piece of work. In 1876, he began in the grain and lumber business quite extensively, which he carries on in company with his son, Charles M., whom he admitted in 1879. He is a stockholder and director in the First National Bank. In the fall of 1881, he was elected to the State Senate from the Second Senatorial District. Himself and William A. Van Horn were the committee on construction of the Franklin Hydraulic water-power, of which he was also a director and treasurer. Mr. Anderson's father, Kenneth, was among the early settlers of this township. He was the son of Lewis and Jane (Gaston) Anderson, born in Monmouth Co., N. J., in 1791, Sept. 30; he was reared on a farm. His father was in the war of the Revolution, and was captured on Sandy Hook and imprisoned in New York City one year, when he escaped. He came to Franklin in 1832 and died in 1838. Kenneth came here in 1815 and was married, in 1817, to Mary, daughter of John and Nancy Chamberlain, born in New Jersey in 1801; they had seven children, six now living-John S., Nancy, Lewis G., James C. and Jane G., Joseph C. (deceased) and William G. John, Jane and William are now in Kansas; the others are living in Jersey Settlement. His wife inherited 92 acres of land, one mile southwest of Carlisle Station, where he resided un- til the spring of 1879, when he came to Jersey Settlement to live with his son, Lewis G. His wife died in 1850; he worked at carpentering about ten years in the early part of his life; some of the buildings which he erected are still standing.

GEORGE BALINTINE (deceased) was born near Lexington, Ky., in 1793. He engaged as clerk in a store several years, and then engaged in a flouring- mill. He was married, in Franklin Township, in the same house where his wife was born, Dec. 22, 1803. They were married May 1, 1823; they had eight children, three now living-Amanda, Jane and Eliza M. In 1833, Mr. B. bought a flouring-mill in Germantown, where they resided three years, and then came to Franklin, where he bought another flouring-mill and engaged in milling eight years. This mill was situated where the Franklin Paper Mills now are. He then began building a new mill, and, just before the completion, he died. Dec. 18, 1852, his son-in-law, Mr. E. B. Thirkield, taking charge of his business. Mr. B. had a choice farm of 400 acres near the village, on a part of which the new cemetery is now situated. He was engaged in the dry goods business with Mr. Thirkield at the time of his death, owning one-half

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interest in the building and stock. He was a member of the Odd Fellows' fra- ternity and himself and wife were members of the M. E. Church. His wife is still living at the advanced age of 78 years.

WILLIAM B. BALLINGER, hardware merchant, No. 3, Woodward's Block, Franklin; son of Isaac and Orinda Ballinger; was born in Union Co., Ind., May 6, 1855. When 19 years of age, he entered a grocery store as clerk, in Liberty. Ind., for Ballinger Bros .; he remained with them one year as a clerk, when he was admitted as a partner. In 1879, he came to Franklin and opened a hardware store, where he is at present; carries a full line of hardware, tinware. stoves. iron, steel, glass, etc .; carries a stock of $5,000, and has the leading business in his line in town. He was married, in Butler Co., Ohio, in 1877. to Laura, daughter of Alexander and Rebecca Young, born in Butler County. He has one house and lot in Liberty, Union Co., Ind.

WILLIAM T. BARKALOW, Postmaster, Franklin; son of William P. and Mary (Tapscott) Barkalow; was born in Franklin June 24, 1810; his parents were natives of Monmouth Co., N. J., and came here in 1803, and bought over 1,000 acres of land on the west side of the Great Miami River; they paid $2.40 per acre; they sold most of it to their relatives, who came here later. His father died in 1852, in his 83d year. William T. now has 2} acres of the estate bordering on the river; he was reared on a farm till 15 years old, when he went to Lebanon and entered the office of Jonathan K. Wilds, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas; he remained one year and then came to Frank- lin. in 1826, and engaged as clerk in the general store of John N. C. Schenck, who also acted as Postmaster at that time; he remained with him three years. In 1830, he was married, in Lebanon, to Mary H., daughter of Joseph and Rachel Smith, born in Princeton, N. J., Sept. 27, 1810. They had three chil- dren, one still living -- Sarah, married to Arthur B. Barkalow. In 1832. he opened a dry goods store on the east side of the canal, which he kept three or four years; he then engaged in the manufacture of chairs and also as general house and sign painter till 1845. He then went to Cincinnati as book-keeper for Lot Pugh & Co., butchering and rendering establishment; he remained till 1848. ""In 1849, he engaged in the manufacture of soap, candles, neats' foot oil. glue, etc., in company with others; firm known as William T. Barkalow & Co. till 1860, when he again returned to Franklin and engaged in the nursery business until 1877, when he was appointed Postmaster Feb. 22. 1879; it was changed to a salary office and he was re appoint- ed to serve four years. He has been a member of the Odd Fellows society since 1842. His family are members of the Presbyterian Church. He had one son-Arthur B .; in the late war, he enlisted in Franklin in the 100-day serv- ice; their other child, Lydia, died in Cincinnati, at the age of 14. In 1853 and 1854, he was a member of the City Conncil in Cincinnati; was elected in the Eighth Ward; he was instrumental in establishing a first-class fire depart- ment there.

ARTHUR D. BARKALOW, farmer; P. O. Franklin; son of William and Ann Barkalow; was born in Lemon Township, Butler Co., May 2, 1846. Sept. 12. 1861, at the youthful age of 15, he enlisted in the defense of his country in Company K, 35th O. V. I .; he served in the army of the Cumberland under Gen. Thomas, and participated in the following battles: Perryville, Chicka- mauga and Mission Ridge; he re-enlisted September, 1864, at the expiration of his first term of service; this time in Company K, Ist Regiment of Veterans, of Gen. Hancock's Corps. He received his honorable discharge Feb. 7, 1866, having served almost through the war. Oct. 19, 1871, he was married to Miss Laura Garrison, a native of Butler County, born June 12, 1851. She is a daughter of Henry and Phoebe Garrison. Mr Barkalow settled on his present

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land in January, 1872. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church; he owns 31 acres of land, and in politics is a Republican.

WILLIAM V. BARKALOW, marble-yard, Franklin; son of Moses V. and Cornelia (Burgen) Barkalow; was born in Germantown, Montgomery Co., Jan. 25, 1846; his grandparents came here at an early period; his grand- mother, who still lives at the advanced age of 88 years, was Amy Vale; came here with her parents about 1800, and settled in Franklin Township, near Butler County line, where they bought 200 acres of land. They lived in the first house built in Middletown; they had twelve children, all of whom are dead, except the father of our subject, Moses V., who was married in 1845 to Cornelia Burgen, a native of Kentucky. They had six children, of whom William V. is the eldest. In 1866, he began to learn the trade of marble- cutting with W. S. Evans, with whom he remained till 1872, when he started his present yard on Front street, near the suspension bridge, where he makes all kinds of monuments and building material. He was married, in Franklin, in 1867, to Harriet C., daughter of Thomas Dodd.

JAMES A. BARNETT, farmer; P. O. Franklin; was born in Franklin Township Aug. 11, 1827; he is a son of Joseph and Sarah (Harrison) Barnett. His father was born in Dauphin Co., Penn., March, 1787, and died Jan. 1. 1870; he came to Warren County in 1810, and, in 1818, he located on the farm which our subject occupies; his father, Joseph Barnett, was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. Our subject was reared on his father's farm. Oct. 15, 1856, he was joined in marriage to Sarah E. Barker, a native of Ontario Co., N. Y., born in November, 1829, and a daughter of Samuel Barker. This union was blessed with two children, viz., Mary V., born June 27, 1857, wife of Charles P. Parker, and Joseph S., born July 15, 1863. Mr. Barnett is a man of considerable literary talent and has quite a library. He has taken great interest in relics of ancient origin and has accumulated a large museum, consisting of Egyptian, Roman, Grecian, Syrian, Arabian and Palestinian coins and relics found in excavations made in Egypt and also many Indian relics. Mr. Barnett owns a farm of 150 acres on Section 25, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. He is a member of the Grange and in politics is a Repub- lican.

ELIAS L. BONE, dentist, Franklin, over the Farmers' National Bank; the son of Adam and Susan (Lefever) Bone: was born near Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, March 26, 1841. When 6 years of age, his parents moved to Carroll Co., Ind., where they bought 160 acres of land and where he was reared. At the breaking-out of the war, he enlisted, in August, 1861, in Company K, 9th I. V. I., under Capt. Lasalle, and served over three years, and was in a number of the prominent battles, among others Greenbrier, W. Va., seven days' fight at Pittsburg Landing, siege at Corinth, battle at Murfreesboro and through the Eastern Tennessee campaign under Gen. Rosecrans, and was wounded at. the first day's fight at Chickamauga. He was mustered out at Indianapolis and returned to Lebanon, where he attended the normal school two terms. He then engaged as salesman in a dry goods house one year; also engaged in the revenue service about fifteen months as United States Storekeeper at German- town; he then engaged as book-keeper for S. W. Turner, of Carrollton, Ohio, one year; he then entered the office of Dr. Stephens, at Germantown, to learn the dentist's trade, where he remained nearly two years, and was then admitted to practice by the State Board of Dental Examinere, at Columbus, Ohio; he then came to Franklin, in December, 1871, and opened his present rooms, where he has the leading practice in the town. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity; also a member of the Presbyterian Church.

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THOMAS BRADY, jeweler, Franklin, in Merchants' Row; son of Paul and Martha Cobb Brady; was born in Queens County, Ireland, in 1833; he attended school till 14 years of age. His father being a jeweler, he then entered his store, where he remained until 1857, when he opened a shop of his own. In the spring of 1859, he was married to Sarah Taylor. They had nine children, five of whom are still living-Christina, Sarah J., Elizabeth, Edward and John T. He came to this country the same year of his marriage and settled in Greenville, Mercer Co., Penn., where he opened a shop and remained until 1869, when he purchased a farm of 178 acres near there and engaged in farm- ing eight years; he then rented it and came to Franklin, in 1877, and opened his present place of business, where he keeps a general assortment of jewelry and does repairing. He carries a nice, well-selected stock of goods to the amount of $2,500, and is doing a good business. Mr. B. is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

DANIEL BRININGER, retired farmer; P. O. Franklin; son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Young) Brininger; was born in Franklin Township July 15, 1818; he was reared on a farm and received a common-school education. His parents emigrated from Hagerstown, Md., in 1807, and bought over 500 acres of land south of the present village of Franklin, there being only three log houses in the village at that date. His father died in February, 1856; his mother in February, 1841. At their death, Daniel received 1104 acres of the estate; he cleared about 75 acres and erected a fine house, barn and out-build- ings. Mr. B. was married in Centerville, Washington Township, Montgomery Co., Ohio, Sept. 26, 1844, to Mary, daughter of Daniel B. and Susanna Fox, who were also old settlers; she was born near Centerville July 6, 1822. As they never had any children of their own, they took one to raise-Mary S. Johnson, of whom they thought as much as though she had been their own child. She was married to John H. Schenck, and has now five children, her oldest son, Daniel B., telegraph operator in the employ of the C., C., C. & I. R. R. Co. In September, 1873, they sold their farm and the following April, they moved to Franklin to lead a retired life, the health of Mr. B. being very much im- paired by overwork. He bought two lots on Center street. size 125x400 feet, where he has erected a fine brick residence, at a cost of over $5,000.

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The History of Warren County, Ohio, Part 93

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