The history of Clinton County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest territory, Volume 2, Part 89

Author: Durant, Pliny A. ed; Beers (W.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : W. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1410

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ALFRED JAMES, farmer, P. O. Blanchester, son of Joseph and Catherine (Kel- ley) James, was born near Loveland, Warren County, in 1827. Reared on a farm. His parents emigrated from Virginia to Cincinnati about 1817. When four years of age they moved to this township and bought 344 acres of land, 148 of which our sub- ject now owns, eighty under cultivation. His father died in March, 1862, his mother in November, 1872. Mr. James served nearly ten months in the war of the rebellion. Enlisted at Hillsboro, in 1864, in Company G, Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,

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under Capt. Wolf. He was in the battle of Franklin, Tenn. The remainder of the time he was on guard duty.

JASPER N. LAZURE, butcher, Blanchester, son of Edward and Angeline (Dcen) was born in Wirt County, Va., in 1840. His father was a machinist. Jasper has en- gaged in various occupations, chiefly as sawyer. June 15, 1861, he enlisted at Camp Dennison in Company G, Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Served four years five months and fourteen days, during which time he had some remarkably narrow escapes with his life, and endured untold privations. He veteranized at Cincinnati, joining Com- pany. F, Fifth Regiment Regular Army. He was twice wounded, first at Searcy Creek, W. Va., in the left leg, below the knee. He suffered considerable pain, but did not leave the ranks. He was again wounded, at South Mountain, Md., first man wounded in the engagement, receiving a ball in the right leg close to the groin. He was sent to the hospital at Middletown, Md., where he lay a short time, and was then sent to Fred- erick Station, where he lay forty-eight hours in the hot sun and suffered intensely. His limb was swollen dreadfully and was full of maggots. Five physicians who were attend- ing the wounded wanted to remove the limb at the socket, but he said he would lose his life rather than the limb, and it is really a miracle he lived. Numbers of his com- panions around him died of exposure, the days being so very hot and no protection from the rays of the sun nor the chilling atmosphere of night to be procured. He was then sent to Washington, where he remained in the hospital some time, and then to Fort Schuyler, where he remained some time. He was finally offered his discharge, a sixty days' furlough, or to return to his regiment, and although not yet well, he accepted the latter, and remained with his regiment till November 29, 1865, when he was discharged at Hartford, Conn., and came to Blanchester, where he rented his father's saw-mill fif- teen months, and then engaged in buying and exchanging horses, hay, grain, etc. In the spring of 1876, he engaged in the butchering business on Broadway street, with his present partner, A. Hettisiner. They continued in business two years, and then sold out, but in April, 1881, they again opened out, established themselves where they are now on Broadway street, near Main, where they are having quite an extensive trade. Mr. Lazure was married in Blanchester, in 1867, to Jane, daughter of John and Maria Hitesman, born in Harlan Township, Warren County, Ohio. They have two children -Joseph R. and Maria. He owns a fine brick residence and five acres of land fronting on Lazenby street, one house and two lots on Fancy street, one lot and building corner Broadway street and Railroad, and two lots corner Church and Bourbon streets.

LEVI LEVER, deceased, was son of Joseph and Patience Lever, and was born in New Jersey July 5, 1799. He was reared on a farm. In 1810, his parents came to Warren County, Ohio, where they purchased a farm. Levi was married to Rebecca, daughter of Richard and Eve Templin. They had nine children, five still living- Lewis, Jacob, Isaac, Thomas and Maranda. About 1837, they came to Marion Town- ship and purchased 114} acres of timber land about one and a half miles northeast of Blanchester. They have cleared about eighty-six acres. Levi Lever departed this life May 21, 1866, and his wife July 12, 1881. The homestead is now occupied by Jacob and Maranda, both members of the Free-Will Baptist Church. Their brother, Thomas, enlisted in the Forty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served three years. He received a shock by a cannon-ball by which his hearing was impaired.

ORRIN J. LYON, farmer, P. O. Woodville, son of John and Abigail (Weath-, erby), was born in Erie County, Penn., in 1828. When two years old, his parents came to Warren County, Ohio, and two years later they bought 225 acres of timber land. They cleared about 125 acres, and built a fine brick residence. Orrin has lived on the old homestead ever since, 100 acres of which he still owns, having sold the remainder, thirty-eight acres, situated in the southwest corner of Marion Township, the remainder in Harlan Township, Warren County. His father died March 21, 1879, and his mother January 25, 1867.

CHARLES F. McCORMICK, blacksmith, Blanchester, of the firm of Snider & McCormick, was born in Clermont County, in 1858. Reared on a farm till seven- een years of age, when he learned the blacksmith trade with David Hill, of New Bos-

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ton, Clermont County, serving three years. He then went to Milford, where he remained about fifteen months, and then came to Blanchester and worked for L. H. Johnson in his present shop. In the spring of 1881, himself and George W. Snider bought the shop, Mr. McCormick being the practical man and taking charge of the wood department. They employ from three to five hands and make wagons, sleighs, etc., besides horseshoeing, repairing, etc.

THOMAS MCKINNEY, farmer, P. O. Blanchester, son of David and Maria Mckinney, was born in Simms Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, June 27, 1836. In 1858, he came to Blanchester and engaged in the carriage shop of Amos Collins a few months. He worked at that trade in different localities till December 12, 1861, when he was married in this township to Phobe, daughter of Joseph and Ann Leech, who was born in this township. They have four children-Sylvanus, Wilson, Adella and James S. They have a nice farm of 1033 acres of land on the pike between Blanches- ter and Woodville, seventy acres under cultivation. Joseph Leech emigrated from York County, Penn., in 1840, and settled near Wilmington, where he remained two years, and then moved to this township and bought the farm where Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Kinney now live.

DARIUS H. MOON, druggist and hardware merchant, Blanchester, corner Broadway and Main streets, son of Henry H. and Mary A. (Paxton) Moon, was born in Martinsville, Clinton County, September 5, 1837. His parents were among the early settlers of this county. His father is still living in Dayton, Ohio ; mother died July 3, 1880. He was reared on a farm, attending schools winters till eighteen years of age when he learned the carpenter's trade and worked at it four years. He then enlisted in Arcanum, Darke Co., Ohio, in 1862, in Company B, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Vol- unteers, under Capt. Young, and was in a number of prominent battles, among others the battles of Winchester, Wilderness and Cedar Creek. He enlisted as private, and was promoted first to Orderly Sergeant, then Second Lieutenant, then First Lieutenant. He served two years and six months, and resigned near Winchester, Va., on account of ill health, and again returned to Martinsville and worked at his trade one year. He then opened a drug store at Westboro, which he kept two years, and then sold and came to Blanchester and opened his present place of business where he carries a choice stock of drugs and also hardware ; carries a stock of about 82,500, and does an annual business of about $8,000. He was married, February 22, 1870, in Blanchester, to Osce F., daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Williams) Strawn, born in Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio. They have one son-Alden M., born in Blanchester Septem- ber 1, 1872. Mr. Moon owns a fine residence on Main street, and a dwelling, which he rents, on Center street. He is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows associa- tions.

EZEKIEL M. MULFORD, merchant, P. O. Blanchester, son of Joseph and Rhoda (Smith) Mulford, was born near Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, October 14, 1818. Reared on a farm till fifteen years of age when he began clerking. He was married near Lebanon to Elizabeth Graham. This union was blessed with one daughter, Anna M., now wife of Phillip Surface. Mr. Mulford's wife died in 1850 at Westboro, Clinton Co., Ohio. He again married to Rachel Scal, of Westboro, by whom he had three children-Martha E., Lucius H. and Jehu R. In 1856, Mr. Mulford again became a widower. In 1858, he again married in Blanchester to a widow lady, Louisa Cast. They have one child, Hattie L. In 1860, he opened a general store in Cuba, this county, and in 1864 he opened his present place of business on Broadway street, Blanchester, where he carries a choice stock of dry goods, notions, boots, shoes, gro- ceries, etc., and does an annual business of $8,000 to $10,000. Mr. Mulford is a member of the Masonic Fraternity. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In Jefferson Township, he held numerous offices of trust ; has been Township Treasurer eight years, and Justice of Peace six years. He owns his residence and two lots, corner of Main and Wright streets, also thirty-three and one-third acres of" fine land within a half mile of the corporation.

BENJAMIN F. OLIVER, farmer, P. O. Blanchester, son of Russell and Sarah.

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(Hudson) Oliver, was born in Jefferson Township, Clinton County, Ohio, in 1834. He was reared on a farm, and when nineteen years of age left home and went to Blan- chester and worked at blacksmithing one year. He was married in 1855 to Eliza J., daughter of James and Phoebe Clelland. They have six children-Sarah A., Mary E., Emma, Annis. Harriet and Eldon. Shortly after his marriage, Mr. Oliver bought sixty acres of land in Marion Township, close to the Jefferson Township line. He has since purchased thirty acres adjoining, seventy-eight under cultivation. He enlisted in Hills- boro in September, 1864, in Company F, One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, under Capt. McCoy, and served one year. During Hood's raid he was on duty at one time at Columbia, Tenn., and while at his post the Union troops retreated across Dutch River toward Nashville; without notifying the guards, they took up their bridges after the troops were across. The enemy advanced and the pickets retreated to the river, where they could not cross and our subject with several others were captured and sent to Corinth, Miss., where he remained confined a short time and was sent to two or three other prisons, but was finally exchanged in February, 1865, and was ordered to report to his regiment. Was discharged at Camp Dennison and returned to Blanchester. Mr. Oliver has a nice farm, and has erected a fine brick residence, outbuildings, orchards. . etc. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Grange societies, and himself and wife are members of the Christian Church.

W. F. RANDOLPH, merchant, Blanchester, of the firm of Whitacre & Ran. dolph, and son of Joel and Elizabeth ( Williams) Randolph, was born in Tyler County, W. Va., April 2, 1830. His father was a merchant in Monroe County, Ohio, and our subject was reared near the Ohio River, and having a liking for the water he was ap- prenticed to learn to be a pilot; served three years on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, where he has piloted thirty years, also on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. He was married in Wheeling, W. Va., in 1856, to Margaret J., daughter of John and Julia Smith, born in Greene County, Penr. They have seven children-Elizabeth, Edward, Julia, Frank, Florence, Clara and Annie. Mr. Randolph still follows his business on the river. In 1862. he was appointed pilot by the Government during three years of the war and was in a number of engagements. He is a member of the Pilots' Benevolent Association. . He has a fine farm close to Blanchester.

RICHARD M. RILEA, Justice of Peace, Blanchester, son of John and Frances ( Wisby) Rilea, was born in Highland County, Ohio, November 18, 1839. He was reared on a farm till seventeen years of age, when he worked in saw-mills till the . breaking-out of the war, when he enlisted at Fincastle, Brown Co., Ohio, under Capt. Seewright ; the company was an independent company of cavalry. They were not accepted by the Government. In February, 1862, he enlisted in Company K, Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. Stevenson, and was in a number of prominent battles, among others Second Bull Run, South Mountain and Antietam. Served two years, and re-enlisted at Fayetteville, W. Va., in same company. At the battle of Cloyd Mountain, he was wounded below the knee, the ball split, part going through the limb; the other piece was extracted fully nine inches below where it entered. After receiving the wound, he was taken prisoner, and sent to the Emery and Henry College Hospital where he lay over two months and was then sent to Lynchburg, thence to Richmond, where he remained one month. He was then paroled and sent to Annapolis, Md., thence to McClelland Hospital, Philadelphia, when he was discharged July 12, 1865, and came to this county and kept a sample room three months. He has been a strong advocate of the temperance cause ever since. He came to Blanchester in 1866, and worked in a wagon shop till 1868. He was then elected Constable and Assessor of this township three years. In the spring of 1873, he was elected Justice of the .. ! Peace, which office he has held ever since. He has been Mayor of Blanchester two terms, and at present acting Councilman, Marshal and Street Commissioner. He was married, November 18, 1866, to Rebecca M., daughter of Jacob and Jane (Higgins, Smith, born in this county. They have four children, Linnetta, Leonidas, Pearl and Sarah. Mr. R. is a member of the Odd Fellows society. He owns his residence and two lots, corner Center and Clark streets.

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ANDREW ROBB, M. D., physician, Blanchester. Alexander Robb, the grand -. ' father of the subject of this sketch, was of Irish anecstry, and a protestant by faith. He was educated for a professional school teacher. He emigrated to this country from Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in Brownsville, Penn., on the Allegheny River. A few years later, he was married to Miss Barbara Light, and they in company with her three brothers Jacob, Peter and George C. and families, in the year 1793, floated down the Ohio River in a flat-boat, landing at Cincinnati. In 1794, they settled twenty miles above that city. Jacob laid out New Richmond, Clermont County, and lived to sce it a thriving little village. Peter was among the first surveyors of that county, and George C. became a prominent Methodist minister of Southern Ohio. Alexander Robb, with his little family, settled on a small farm three miles back of New Richmond, on the banks of Twelve Mile Creck, in a wild wooden country inhabit- ed only by wild animals and a few scattered Indians. Alexander, not being very strongly constituted, James the eldest son, undertook the hardest work, and finally his father died and he found himself, at the age of sixteen years, with a farm to clear up, and a mother and six small children to provide for. At the age of twenty-six, he mar- ried Catherine, daughter of Christian and Catherine Husong, who was born at Colum- bia, Hamilton Co., Ohio, where her parents, who were natives of Pennsylvania, were taking refuge in Jarred's Station, fearing the depredations of the Indians. After his marriage, James remained on the old homestead near New Richmond. He bought 300 acres of land, for which he paid by freighting salt in a keel-boat from Kanawha River, West Virginia, to New Madrid, Tenn., there being no steamboats on the river at that early date. Christian Husong, settled on the east fork of the Little Miami River, four miles cast of Batavia, where he lived to the ripe old age of one hundred and three years. Himself and wife were Germans, as also were the Light family. Andrew Robb, M. D., was the son of. James and Catherine Robb, and was born on the old homestead, near New Richmond, February 6, 1816. He worked on the farm with his father summers, attending school winters till sixteen years of age, when he attended the New Richmond Academy eighteen months. The distance from his home to the Academy was three miles, which he walked night and moro, although the road was rough and hilly. He then taught school in' that vicinity, studying medicine at the same time with Dr. Alfred Noble, of Goshen. While teaching his first school in Franklin District, Clermont County, he became interested in four bright little pupils, who took their primary lessons. in the same elass, but have since grown to manhood and taken their stations high up in the ranks of life. They were Perry Donham, a prominent attorney of Cincinnati ; Prof. John Hancock, one of. Ohio's ablest teachers and for a number of years Principal of the Cincinnati schools, and the two Browning brothers, Frank, deceased, the editor and proprietor of the Clermont Courier, and Charles N., the genial and . talented editor of the Clinton Republican. After teaching two years, he turned his whole attention to the reading of medicine till November, 1837, when he commeneed the practice with his preceptor. He attended lectures in 1840 and 1841, and graduated in the fall of the latter year, from the old Ohio Medical College of Cin- cinnati. He located in Anderson, Ind., and November 28, 1843, was married to Miss Clara, daughter of Duncan and Catherine Carmichael, of Rush County, Ind., a worthy pioneer family of Southern Indiana. In the fall of 1847, he returned to Goshen, and purchased the interests of his former preceptor. He came to Blanchester in 1860, where he has practiced successfully twenty two years, and is now, in,company with his worthy companion through life, enjoying the reward of a long and laborious professional life. They had three children born to them-William E., born September 12, 1848, and died at the age of two and a half years, of malignant diphtheria; James D., born May 20, 1850, and died December 5, 1864, of cerebro-spinal meningitis and Clara B., born December 11, 1854; she attended the common schools of Blanchester till sixteen, when she commenced a collegiate course at the Ohio Female College, at Oxford, Ohio, . and graduated with high honors. She delivered the valedictory address before nine- teen years of age, and the following year accepted the invitation to deliver the literary address and the literary diplomas. In August, 1875, she was married to Eberle D.,

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Smith, a graduate of the Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, and at present banker of Blanchester.

WILLIAM RUDE, farmer, P. O. Blanchester, son of Peter and Nancy (Abbott) Rude, was born on the farm where he now lives, August 31, 1836. IIc was reared on the farm, and was married in August, 1857, to Esther A., daughter of Asahel and Eliza J. Shull, born in this township, near their present home. They have five children-Pe- ter, Felix, Emeline, Nancy and Mattie. În 1864, Mr. Rudc enlisted at Hillsboro in Company I, One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. Wolf, of Wilmington, and served eleven months. He was wounded at the battle of Franklin, while conducting prisoners from the field. He was discharged at Nashville, Tenn., and returned to Marion Township. In 1875, he bought the homestead of 150 acres, 100 of which are under cultivation.

NICHOLAS RUDE, farmer, P. O. Blanchester, son of Peter and Nancy Rude, was born in this township in 1839. He was reared on a farm. In 1860, he was mar- ried to Elizabeth Smith. They have seven children-Nancy, Phoebe, John, Franklin, Mary, Alice and Estella. Mr. Rude served two years and nine months in defense of his country; enlisted at Blanchester August 18, 1862, in Company E, Forty-seventh · Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. Thomas. He was in a number of prominent en- gagements, among others the siege of Vicksburg, Jackson and Chattanooga. He was captured July 22, 1864, near Atlanta, Ga., was sent to Andersonville Prison, where "he lay till September 22, when he was exchanged and returned to his regiment, and was discharged at Washington and returned to Blanchester. He received fifty acres of land from his father, and has since bought fifty-eight ; has sixty-five under cultivation. Mr. Rude has been Supervisor one year.

BENJAMIN S. SAXTON, tailor, P. O. Blanchester, place of business situated over the post office, the son of Orene H. and Miriam (Eldridge) Saxton, was born in Dover County, Me., on the banks of the Piscataqua River, November 16, 1823. He was reared on a farm till eight years of age, when his mother and step-father moved to Cincinnati, his own father having died three months previous to the birth of our subject. While in Cincinnati, his step-father followed the business of a tanner and currier. In 1834, his mother also died, and Benjamin was apprenticed to John Martin on Fifth st., near where the Indiana House now stands, to learn the tailor's trade; here he remained till 1842, when he went to Springdale, Hamilton County, where he was married in 1845 to Elizabeth, daughter of Furman and Ann Hunt. They had eight children, one still living, Cordelia M. On March 15, 1873, his wife died at Reading, Hamilton County, and he was again married to Rebecca F. Baldwin, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Villars) Baldwin, first settlers of this township. She was born in Blanchester December 21, 1837. In 1875, he engaged in tailoring for Brush & Rice for several months, and was then employed several months by the railroad company to watch bridges near Loveland. He again returned to Blanchester and opened a tailor shop on Main street, near Broadway, where he remained nearly one year, and then bought twenty-eight acres of land in Marion Township, about one mile north of Blanchester, where he resided, also working at his trade till November, 1881, when he returned to Blanchester, and opened his present place of business, where he does a considerable business, making and repairing. Mr. Saxton still owns his farm, north of town, also eight acres one-fourth mile northwest of the village.

B. D. SCOTT was born in Harlan Township, Warren Co., Ohio, on the 31 st day of March, 1843, and at the age of eighteen months became cripple for life from a fall whilst learning to walk, dislocating the hip joint of the left leg. His father's name was Charles, and his mother's name Elizabeth Scott (formerly Elizabeth Norman ), the former a native of New Jersey, and the latter of Virginia, but of Scotch descent. He received his early education at Woodville, Ohio, and at the age of sixteen years, he, together with his brother, M. L. Saott, entered school at Farmers' College near Cin- cinnati, where he remained until the fall of Fort Sumter in 1861, which so demoral- ized both teachers and students that the school was entirely broken up. Whilst there, however, there was an incident worthy of record. Two of his warmest friends and

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fellow-students rooming next door to him were of opposite politieal persuasion, and at the breaking-out of the war quarreled incessantly, until it almost culminated in blood- shedding, and after quarreling nearly all night, one expressed a determination to join the rebel forces, the other replying he would meet him upon the battle-field. Both parties shook hands and eommeneed paeking up their trunks for a trip to the Sunny South. At early dawn of day, cach gave a parting salute to the old school and many friends, each thoroughly determined to kill the other if they should ever meet upon the battle-field. Mr. Seott then returned to his father, upon the farm in Clermont County, where he remained until 1863, when taken down by a scrofulous eruption of his limb, and was confined to the house most of the time until November 22, 1867, when he had the same amputated at the hip-joint by Prof. Thomas Wood, of Cincinnati, assisted by Dr. Andrew Robb, of Blanchester, and eight other associate surgeons. During the whole of four years, he suffered 10,000 deaths, and at no time was free from the influence of morphine or some other powerful narcotic, and never remained in bed more than three nights during this whole time. In 1866, finding life a burden and death eertain, Dr. Robb proposed amputation as an experiment. Dr. Wood was sent for but refused, for the reason as he alleged, it would be an outright murder, and he would not be an ae- complice to the erime. In about a year afterward, Mr. Seott being endowed with an uncontrollable disposition to do or die, informed the Doctor that if he did not perform. the operation some one else would. This was sternly protested against by his father, mother and friends, his father making the excuse that he had not the necessary funds .. Whereupon Mr. Scott borrowed the money, sent for the Doctor, and had the operation successfully performed, and is to-day a hale, hearty man. When laid upon the scaffold, he was interrogated by the Doctor if he had anything to say to his friends, as it would in all probability be his only chance upon this earth, as statistics only showed one suc- eessful operation of the kind in a thousand, and if he recovered it would probably be the only ease in the United States. Mr. Scott replied, " I have nothing to say. Pour on the- chloroform. I will take that one chanee." In the spring of 1868, he engaged in teach- ing school in the Lacy District, near Wilmington, and taught three months ; he then taught at No. 3, near Blanchester, for nine months. When he engaged this school, he was informed by the Directors that he would in all probability be carried out, as they had some desperate boys, who had whipped out several teachers. Mr. Scott merely replied that he would never call upon the Directors. Sure enough all things went. smoothly for some time. A young man weighing about one hundred and seventy-five pounds then proposed to run the school according to his own notion. The fight then commeneed. The first move made by big boy was to snatch one of Scott's crutches and attempt to strike him with it, but the blow was warded off with the other cruteh in the hands of Mr. Seott with mueh dexterity, and down went Mr. big boy so quickly that none of the pupils could tell how it was done, and no doubt would have been ser- iously hurt had it not been for the timely interference of other large boys. It is useless. to say there has never been further trouble in that distriet to the present day. The boy was afterward arrested and fined for assault and battery, costing him some $30. In the summer of 1869, he commenced reading law under the instruction of Judge W. W. Wilson, at Lebanon, Ohio, and in April, 1871, was admitted to the bar by the Dis- . triet Court, and entered into the practice of that profession, but shortly obtained a posi - tion as Clerk of the Probate Court, under Judge Thomas Thatcher, which position he held until September, 1872. He then removed to Blanchester and engaged in the practice of law, where he has held the office of Mayor of the village for two years ; as Justice of the Peace for three years, and Township Clerk for. seven years, and still holds that position. November 25, 1874, he was married to Susie E. Beard, daughter of Jacob and Permelia Beard, of Wilmington, Ohio, two daughters being the fruits of the marriage, to wit : Ezella Pearl and Edna Beard. By energy and perseverance, he has acquired a comfortable home, 'a large law library, and quite a lucrative practice ; has always voted the Republican ticket; is strictly temperate, and a nephew of Hon. I. W. Quinby, of local option fame. He is not a member of any religious society. His wife, however, is a member of the Quaker Church at Wilmington.

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The history of Clinton County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest territory, Volume 2, Part 89

Author: Durant, Pliny A. ed; Beers (W.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Chicago : W. H. Beers Number of Pages: 1410

Author: Durant, Pliny A. ed; Beers (W.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : W. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1410