The history of Hardin county, Ohio, Part 103

Author: Warner Beers & co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago : Warner Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1076

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Z. T. THURMAN, farmer, P. O. Mount Victory, was born July 27, 1852, in Hardin County, Ohio, and is the son of George and Margaret (Care) Thur-

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man. His mother was a native of Ross County, Ohio, and died in this coun- ty, May 7, 1882, at the age of seventy-two years. His father was a native of Virginia, and moved to this State at an early day. His grandparents were in the Revolution and the war of 1812. The subject of this sketch, the youngest of a family of ten, five deceased, was born and reared on the home- stead, where his parents had settled in 1836, and where he is now residing. By occupation, he is a farmer and stock-raiser, making sheep a specialty .. He is generally successful, and owns 103 acres of land. He has formed two marriages in life; his first union was in December, 1877, to Belle, born 1855, native of this State, the daughter of David and Rebecca Cline, and who died without issue May 26, 1878. His second marriage was on the 4th of May, 1881, to Mary, born January 17, 1859, in Logan County, Ohio, the daughter of Nicholas and Lucinda (Tittsworth) Hathaway, both natives of this State, the former of English, the latter of Irish descent. Her parents reside at Mount Victory; her great-grandfather was killed in the war of the Revolution. Mr. Thurman is the father of two children, James D. and Bertha. In politics, he is a Republican, and is one of the useful citizens of Dudley Township.

SAMUEL F. WALKER, farmer, P. O. Mount Victory, was born Feb- ruary 18, 1833, in Stark County, and is a son of John Walker. He was married, January 1, 185 , in Logan County, to Charlotte Stark, born No- vember 17, 1832, in Union County, Ohio, and a daughter of Jonathan Stark. One child has blessed this union, namely, Florence C., born January 11, 185 , and married to Henry Newbold, by whom she has had two boys, Syl- vester and Owen L. The subject of our sketch enlisted July 20, 1861, at Bellefontaine, in the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company C, First Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Corps of the Army of the Cum- berland, and was in twenty-two engagements. He was through Savannah with Gen. Sherman. In politics, Mr. Walker is a Republican, and is an in- telligent farmer and a useful citizen of Dudley Township.

JOHN WARD, farmer, P. O. Mount Victory, was born October 11, 1849, in Richland County, this State, and is the son of Francis and Char- lotte (Holmes) Ward. His mother was a native of this State, her parents of Virginia. His father was born in England in 1815, and emigrated to Ohio at the age of seven years. The subject of this sketch was educated at, the schools of Richland County and Kenton, Hardin County. He has been a resident of this county for twenty-eight years. By occupation, is a farmer, owns fifty-five acres of land in Dudley Township, and is a repre- sentative citizen of his township.

AMOS WHEELER, deceased, was born December 25, 1820. in Scioto County, this State, and with his father came to this county in 1835. The latter entered and bought the land known as the old Wheeler farm; also built the first brick residence in the county, which is still good for genera- tions to come. This building was erected in 1836, and is an old tavern, of which the father of Amos Wheeler was landlord for eleven years, and our subject for seven years. Our subject was married, November 27, 1847, to Maria Banning, born in Knox County in 1824, and came to this county in 1838. By this union the following children were born-Portius, Alice, Frank, Eva, Amy and Maud. Mr. Amos Wheeler died on September 25, 1870, of lung disease, and was buried with all the honors of war, he having served as a soldier for nearly four years. He was deeply beloved by all who knew him.

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JAMES O. WILCOX, farmer, P. O. Larue, was born November 9, 1851, in this county, and is the son of Ebenezer R. and Emily (Carpenter) Wil- cox. His father was born September 4, 1819, in Franklin County, Ohio, and was the son of Asa and Mary (Carter) Wilcox, the former born Febru- ary 18, 1788, in Orange County, N. Y., of English descent, and the latter a daughter of Anthony Carter, a French soldier under La Fayette. E. R. Wilcox, the father of our subject, received a common school education and was married at the age of twenty-nine to Emily Hurlbert, who was born February 7, 1820, in Bradford County, Penn., and a daughter of Adriel. and Emily (Carpenter) Hurlbert; her father was born in Vermont and was of German descent; her mother was a native of Delaware. This union re- sulted in six children, of whom our subject is the second, as follows: William A., born September 21, 1850, died September 8, 1851; James O., our subject; Charles M., born November 21, 1853, in McLean County, Ill .; Mary D., born April 1, 1855, died September 8, 1856; Frank D., born Feb. ruary 12, 1860, in McLean County, Ill .; and Ebenezer, born October 12, 1863, in Ohio. E. R. Wilcox, the father of our subject, moved in 1852 with his family to McLean County, Ill., but returned in 1862 to Ohio, to take care of his aged father. He remained on the homestead until after the death of his father, which occurred February 12, 1873, when he sold out and moved to Kenton, where he lived for one year, and then purchased a farm eight miles east of Kenton, on the banks of the Scioto River. Af- ter living peacefully for four years, he departed this life April 13, 1881. His widow is still living, although an invalid, and has her father, who is a hale and hearty man of eighty-seven years, living with her. Frank Wil- cox, the brother of our subject, was the first of the boys to marry; he was married, December 28, 1882, to Miss Alice, the daughter of Perry Hardin, of Marion County. James, our subject, was united in marriage, January 10, 1883, to Miss Sarah, born May 22, 1861, in Clark County, this State, a daughter of Joshua and Eliza J. (Campbell) Heisler, the former of Ger- man parentage, born in 1829, in Pennsylvania.

JESSE WOOD, deceased, was born December 31, 1829, a native of Har- din County. He was the son of Isaac and Hannah (Baker) Wood, natives of Pennsylvania, of English descent, who emigrated to this State at an early day. The subject of this sketch was a farmer by occupation, and successful in business, owning at the time of his decease eighty-three acres of land in Dudley Township. He was united in marriage January 1, 1856, to Emily Anderson, who was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, April 7. 1832, and daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Clark) Anderson, both natives of Ohio and of English lineage. This union resulted in two children, Frank, born December 24, 1857; and Myrtie Jane, born October 27, 1861. Mr. Wood and his wife were members of the Christian Church. He furnished a sub- stitute during the late war, and died December, 1864, his loss deeply mourned by his wife and two children.

JOSEPH E. WOOD, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born April 5, 1833, in Union County, Ohio, and is a son of Michael and Eliza (Thayer) Wood, both of English descent, the former a native of New York, the latter a na- tive of Pennsylvania. His father was born April 3, 1801, and moved to Ohio at an early day, settling in Worthington, Franklin County, he died January 7, 1880. The subject of this sketch received a common school ed- ucation, and has followed farming for his occupation. He married, May 11, 1856, a daughter of James W. and Lena A. (Davis) Boyer, the former of whom was a native of Delaware and died in 1859. Our subject's wife was

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born August 23, 1837, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and has had thirteen children, eight boys and five girls, viz., Celia, born September, 1856, died April 28, 1866; Joseph R., born January 14, 1860; Charles W., born Octo- ber 14, 1857; Florence, born January 9, 1859; Laura, born March 17, 1862; Michael S., born January 17, 1866, died at the age of twenty months; William F., born March 18, 1865, died at the age of one month; Luther, born June, 15, 1867; John J., born October 16, 1869; Howard W., born November 27, 1871; twins, born June, 1874, died in infancy; Hat- tie; born May 3, 1878; Charles, born - Charles Wood was married, May 11, 1882, to Etta, daughter of Charles Smith; Laura Wood is the wife of William Lattimore, and has had two children, Beemer, born in October, 1879, and Bessie A., born February, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are members of the Christian Church. Six years ago Mr. Wood suffered a loss of about $1,000 from a fire that occurred in his absence. He owns 110 acres of land in Dudley Township; has filled the office of School Director, and in politics is a Republican.

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CHRISTIAN ALTHAUSER, farmer, P. O. Kenton, is a native of Baton, Germany, where he was born, August 31, 1819. His father, John Althauser, emigrated to Ohio when our subject was fourteen years of age. Our subject learned the trade of carpenter when a youth, but of late years has given his attention chiefly to farming. He is the owner of a farm of seventy acres of land in this township. He was married, August 17, 1845, to Barbara Ann Pfeiffer, daughter of Michael and Cathem Pfeiffer. Bar- bara Pfeiffer was born in Hashia, Germany, November 1, 1823, and has lived in this county since fourteen years of age. Of the six children that resulted from this union, five are living, viz., George William, Elizabeth, John, Mary Ann and Caroline; the deceased was a child that died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Althauser are members of the German Lutheran Church, and the former is a well-known farmer of this county.

THOMAS ARMSTRONG, retired farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., June 14, 1804. He is a descendant of the old pioneers who settled in the eastern part of Pennsylvania in the colonial times, and moved, after the conflict for independence, with their families and goods on pack-horses Westward over mountain trails, and settled in various parts of Westmoreland, Allegheny and Armstrong Counties, where many of their descendants are still to be found. Of those families most nearly related to our subject, are the Armstrongs, Sloans, McCreas and Mc- Quowns. The Sloans went to Armstrong County, the McCreas to near Pitts- burgh and the others to Westmoreland County. Thomas Armstrong, grandfather of our subject, a native of Ireland, married Jane McCrea and died in 1820, at the age of ninety years. Ann (McQuoin) Armstrong, sub- ject's mother, was born in 1780, died in 1860. William Armstrong, father of our subject, was born in 1774 and in 1822, moved with his family to Mansfield, Richland Co., Ohio, and settled near the town on a farm of 160 acres, on which he lived fifteen years. He died in Goshen Township in 1861. Our subject received a good education, attending high school, and

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learned surveying under a competent teacher. For several winters he was teaching school, and for two or three years was busy studying medicine, but never entered into the practice of it. Mr. Armstrong was a Captain in the Mansfield company of volunteer riflemen in a regiment of ten companies. On April 8, 1830, he was married, by Rev. James Rowland, to Margaret McQuown, by whom he had three children-G. W., in Kenton; Eugenia, wife of Mr. W. Peck, of Wyandot County, and Margaret Jane, who died in her twentieth year.

JAMES M. BAKER, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in what was then. Brooke County, Va., October 19, 1824. His parents, Morris and Mary (Con- nard) Baker, were Virginians, and were there married, coming to Hardin County, Ohio, in 1836, when James was thirteen years of age. His father entered 160 acres of land in Section 8, Goshen Township, on which he erected a cabin, and there spent his pioneer days. For their bread, they were obliged to go to West Liberty, Champaign County, taking axes along there being no roads, and as no feed could be procured for the teams, the latter were worked only part of the day and then turned out in the woods. No roads were then built to Kenton. Mrs. Baker died in 1849, and Mr. Baker in 1873. The subject of this sketch was reared in a family of eight children, of whom five were boys and three were girls. After helping to clear the old home, he started out in life for himself, and bought seventy acres of land in Section 7, Goshen Township. He has been a prosperous farmer, adding acre to acre until he now owns 585 acres, mostly improved land, all paid for. He was married, January 9, 1851, to Miss Susanna, daughter of Thomas and Mary Scott. By this marriage the following children have been born, viz .: Chester J., born August 18, 1853; Mathew A., born September 11, 1855; Mary E., born September 9, 1857; Guernsey M., born October 20, 1859; Sarah J., born August 22, 1863; Eva R., born January 5, 1866, and Robinson, born July 6, 1868. Mrs. Baker was born on September 27, 1831. Her parents were born near Wooster, Ohio, and died in Wyandot County, Ohio, on the farm which they had entered. Mr. Baker has been Township Clerk several terms, Trustee for eight or nine years, and School Director almost continuously.

IRVIN S. BAKER, farmer, P. O. Larue, is a native of this county, and was born December 25, 1846. He is a son of Joseph and Matilda (Carmack) Baker, both natives of Pennsylvania and of German parentage. Our subject's father moved to this State in 1844 and settled in this county, where he died at the age of thirty-three years. The mother of our subject is still living, and resides in Kenton. Our subject was educated at the com- mon schools of this county, and since his youth has followed the occupation of a farmer. He is the owner of ninety acres of land in Goshen Township, where he has resided for five years. He also raises stock, making a special- ty of sheep, at which he has been very successful. Our subject was married, October 4, 1877, by the Rev. J. T. Sellers, to Miss Jane Hastings, daugh- ter of James and Rachel (Hones) Hastings, the latter a native of Virginia. Mr. Hastings emigrated from Ireland at an early day. Mrs. Baker was born in this county October 30, 1846. By this union there have been two children -- Hoyt L., born December 29, 1880, died May 8, 1881, and Minnie A., born July 24, 1882. Mrs. Baker is a member of the Presbyterian Church and Mr. Baker of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which be is Steward and Trustee and Assistant Superintendent of the Sunday school, and Class Leader. Mr Baker is a Republican in politics; has been a mem- ber of the Freemasons seven years, Larne Lodge, No. 463; was Township Assessor in 1882, and is one of the useful citizens of Goshen Township.

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M. V. BURNSIDE, farmer, P. O. Kenton, is a native of this State, Fairfield County, born March 22, 1855. His parents were J. R. and Loura- mah (Fish) Burnside. Our subject was educated at the common schools of this county, and has followed the occupation of farmer through life. On September 30, 1880, he married Sara M., a daughter of Thomas J. and Miranda (Melon) James. Mrs. Burnside was born in Noble County, Ohio, May 1, 1862, and has had but one child-Hattie L., who was born October 9, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Burnside are members of the United Brethren Church, and the latter owns ten acres of land in Noble County.

J. R. COATS, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Richmond County, Va., in 1829. His father, Joseph Coats, of Scotch descent, moved to Fair- field County, Ohio, when subject was three years of age, and resided there until 1852. In 1853, subject was in California, where he worked in the mines, and returned to this county in the fall of 1854, and lived here for ten years, when he spent another year in California, doing odd jobs. He was married, December 14, 1848, to Rebecca Jane Cross, daughter of Sam- uel Cross, who bore him twelve children, viz., Samantha J., Martha Eliza- beth, Robert P., William S. (deceased), an infant and twins (all deceased), Laura, John F., Joseph G., Ida May and Lilly Nancy. Mr. Coats owns a fine farm of 106 acres, eighty of which are cleared, and is one of our self-made men of Goshen Township.

WILLIAM C. COOK, farmer, P. O. Marseilles, is a native of Wyandot County, Ohio, where he was born in 1851. His parents were James and Hannah (Corwin) Cook, both natives of Pennsylvania. Our subject was married, April 10, 1872, to Dilla, daughter of Peter and Leah (Annesly) Johnson. Mrs. Cook was born in this State November 17, 1855. The re- sult of this union has been three children-James P., born May 5, 1876; Harley, born April 12, 1878, died in 1880, at the age of two years; and Lenora, born December 12, 1880. Mr. Cook owns a fine farm of forty-four acres, located ten miles east of Kenton, on the Bellefontaine pike, of which place he has been a resident the last six years.

J. S. CUMMINS, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in New Jersey Octo- ber 28, 1825, and is a son of G. M. and Delilah (Shaffer) Cummins, the former of German and the latter of English parentage, and who emigrated to Ohio in the year 1835. Our subject was brought up to the occupation of a farmer, has followed it through life and is now the owner of ninety-three acres of land on Section 22, Goshen Township. In 1850, Mr. Cummins was united in marriage, by Squire Jacob Yauger, to Sarah F., daughter of Peter and Ann Eliza (Robinson) Schwartz, natives of New York State. Mrs. Cummins was born February 2, 1835, and is of German lineage. To this union have been born eight children, four living-George W., deceased; Delilah, married; Peter W., deceased; Mary E. (deceased), Ida, James S. (deceased), Ann Eliza, single: and Willis H., married. Mrs. Cummins is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Cummins is a man of good judgment and a representative citizen of the township.

JOHN DICKSON, farmer and gardener, Kenton, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, in November, 1825. His parents were Robert and Mary (Ans- paugh) Dickson, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Pennsylvania and of German parentage. Our subject received a common school education, and selected the occupation of a farmer and gardener. He was married, in 1852, to Elizabeth Hamilton, by whom he has had nine children, eight boys. and one girl. Mr. Dickson owns three acres of land in Goshen Township; also owns land in Illinois. He is a quiet, energetic man and a good citizen.

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C. B. DRUM, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Pennsylvania Septem- ber 7, 1831. . His father, John Drum, who was of German descent, was born March 8, 1778, and died June 17, 1855. The mother of our subject was Martha (Lambertson) Drum, of Scotch extraction. She and her hus- band emigrated to Ohio when our subject was but six weeks old, and spent here the remainder of their lives. Mr. C. B. Drum received a common school education and learned farming as an occupation, and he has, after great toil, accumulated 228 acres of land, located in Section 30, Goshen Township. On January 18, 1876, he was united in marriage to Rebecca - Jane, daughter of Joseph and Isabel Cowan. Mr. Drum was a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company A, having enlisted Angust 22, 1862, and was discharged June 13, 1865. He participated in the following battles: Winchester, Va , June 13 and 15, 1863; Sucker's Ferry, Va., July 18, 1864; Winchester, July 24, 1864; Martinsburg, July 25, 1864; Berryville, September 3, 1864; Winchester, September 19, 1864; Fisher's Hill, September 22, 1864; Hatcher's Run, Va., March 3, 1865, and High Bridge, April 6, 1865, at which latter place they were captured. Mr. Drum is a member of the Grange Association, and for eight or nine years has acted as Township Treasurer.

MARTIN DRUSCHEL, farmer, P. O. Grant, son of Nicholas and Catharine (Winebrinner) Druschel, was born in Hesse-Cassel, Germany, January 7, 1836. He is a member of a family of seven children, of whom six were sons and one daughter. He came to this country in 1852, landing in New York on the 9th of June, and at Kenton on the 19th of the same month. He has followed railroading and farming ever since, with the ex- ception of about one year spent in the service of his country during the rebellion. He enlisted September 7, 1864, in Company K, One Hundred and Eightieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably dis- charged at the close of the war, having participated in several battles. He was married, June 11, 1868, to Amelia C., daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Gottier) Darendinger. The three children born to this union are as follows: George F., born March 15, 1869; Amelia C., born July 10, 1871, died Sep- tember 1, 1872, and one still-born October 4, 1872. Mrs. Druschel was born on March 3, 1847, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Her parents were natives of Switzerland, but were married in this country, coming to Wash- ington Township, Hardin Co., Ohio, in 1853. Mr. Druschel has a good farm which he cleared up from the stump, and is an energetic and enter- prising citizen.

JOHN FREY, deceased, was born in 1806 in Germany, whence he emigrated in 1835 to Ohio, and died in 1868 in Pleasant Township. He fol- lowed the occupation of a farmer. His wife was born in 1808, and was a daugh- ter of Marcus and Mary Elizabeth (Ream) Hide, who emigrated from Ger- many to Pennsylvania, where they lived three years, and thence moved to Crawford County, Ohio, and finally came to this county, the home of our subject. Mr. Frey had a family of seven children, two-A. F. and John- living; those deceased are Barbara Elizabeth, Mary, Rachel, and two sons who died in infancy.

JOHN HALEY, farmer and manufacturer of drain tiles, P. O. Kenton, was born in New York City January 8, 1837, and was brought by his par- ents to Goshen Township, Hardin Co., Ohio, in the same fall. His mother carried him on her back from Sandusky, performing the journey on foot, while his father carried the household effects. His father, Patrick Haley, was born in County Sligo, Ireland, in 1812, and his mother, Susan, also

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in Ireland in 1805. They were married in New York, and had six children born to them, our subject being the only surviving member. No roads had been built in those early days, the father of our subject having to carry two bushels of corn nine miles to mill and back, by paths through woods. He witnessed the clearing of the ground where the public square now is. He has cut twenty-five acres of grass in a season, assisted only by John, when the latter was but fourteen years old, doing all by hand and carrying it on poles to the stack. John used to mow two acres of grass for a day's work, receiving for same 37} cents. The parents are still living, and are residing in Goshen Township, on the farm which they settled. Our sub- ject was married, October 11, 1859, to Miss Sarah L., daughter of Harrison and Emma (Freszell) Barrett. She was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, March 27, 1836. The results of this union have been ten children, viz., Emma S. (deceased), Mary R., Patrick R. Harrison Y., Peter G., John F., Charles E., William I. (deceased), Sarah J. and Alice M. Mr. Haley is a self-made man, having started in life a poor man. After his marriage, he took a job of clearing ten acres of land ready for plowing, receiving only $30 for same. In 1862, he bought and cleared forty acres of land in Sec- tion 23, Goshen Township, and in. 1864 bought 160 more acres of wild land, and being inclined to speculate, he eventually sold and bought out the heirs of his father-in law in Section 26, Goshen Township, but which he afterward sold out for the old Wheeler farm, a pioneer farm, and this he subsequently exchanged for his present home in Section 8. He has been for four years a Representative, being elected in 1875, and again in 1877, and is a prominent and popular citizen.

JOHN HARROLD, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born March 8, 1822, in Columbiana County, this State. He is a son of David and Rebecca (Beau) Harrold, both of German lineage. He was married, September 11, 1845, to Caroline Welk, born January 24, 1823, and died leaving a family of seven children, viz., Mary Ann, Sarah M., David, William, John H., Amanda E. and George E. Our subject formed a second union October 3, 1872, with Martha, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Bolinger. Martha was the widow of John Smith. She was born in Huntingdon County, Penn., February, 1840, and was married to Mr. Smith March 19, 1861. She had, by her first husband, three children-Samuel B., Noah and Mary E. Our subject resides with his family on his farm of eighty acres, and is one of the stirring, enterprising farmers of Goshen Township.

JOHN HEILMAN, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1840. His father was born in 1804 and died in 1874, in Goshen Township. Our subject's mother was born in 1808, and is still liv- ing, residing at the home of our subject, who was educated at the common schools of Ashland County until fourteen years of age, when his parents moved to this county. For his occupation, he selected farming, which he has followed successfully, and is now the owner of 140 acres of well-im- proved land. Ninety of these acres are in Range 12 and fifty in Section 30. In 1874, Mr. Heilman bought a saw mill, which he still retains. He was married, in 1866, by the Rev. Mr. Timbler, to Margaret A., daughter of George and Mary the former a native of Germany and the latter of Switzerland. Mr. Heilman built his residence, which cost $3,000, in 1881, and his barn, costing $1,000, in 1879. For nine years, he has acted as Township Trustee; is a member of Grange, No. 578, and is one of our intelligent, industrious citizens of Goshen Township.

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The history of Hardin county, Ohio, Part 103

Author: Warner Beers & co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Chicago : Warner Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1076

Author: Warner Beers & co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago : Warner Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1076