The history of Hardin county, Ohio, Part 111

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

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HARVEY S. HORN, editor of the Review, Forest, is a grandson of a German physician who died in Findlay, Ohio, in 1868, and a son of J. B. Horn, who was a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and who came to America in 1837. Harvey was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, November 11, 1854, but from boyhood matured in Findlay, where he graduated in the union schools May 24, 1872. In 1873, he entered the office of the Hancock Courier as printer. After four years' experience there, he came to Forest, where he is editing and publishing the Forest Review, a weekly issue.

DAVID KELLOGG, farmer, P. O. Forest, is a son of David Kellogg, Sr., and a grandson of Daniel Kellogg. The latter was born in Massachusetts, but died in Connecticut. He was a farmer near North Hampton. Of his sons, Da- vid was the youngest, born in Hampshire County, Mass., about 1785, and died near Kenton, Hardin County, during the late war. He married, in his native State, Abigail Ward, and soon after was called in the service of the 1812 war.

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After a short service at Boston, he returned home, but not until 1835 did he conclude to make his home in the West. In that year, he settled near Kenton, this county, where he bought 40 acres and entered 160 acres. He was a stout, robust man, and able to withstand all the privations subject to those early days. He lived a widower several years. Of his children, David, our subject, is the second eldest, and was born in Mass. in 1816, but since 1835, has lived in Hardin County, and now owns 80 acres of land, which he has cleared and im- proved. His wife was Isabelle Howey, who died in 1841, leaving four chil- dren-Mary, Maggie, John and Jane. His second wife was Miss Sarah Reich- ert, of Pennsylvania, but for a number of years a resident of Ohio.

DANIEL KELLOGG, farmer, P. O. Patterson, is a brother of David Kel- logg, under whose name the ancestral history appears. Daniel was born in Massachusetts, November 22, 1814, but since 1835, has been a resident of Ohio, mainly of Hardin County ; when he came here he was just bordering on manhood, and commenced thinking of his future accumulation. The county was new and wild, land cheap and plenty still to be entered from the Govern- ment, but as he was poor, having nothing but energy, industry and good health to rely on, he concluded to enter a quarter-section of land now in Jackson Township, on which he resides ; soon after this, he engaged by the month as farm hand in Fairfield County, and while thus engaged bought forty acres of land near Kenton, to which he returned in 1842. In 1854, he married Caroline Eaton, and settled on his farm, where they remained until March, 1870, in which year they came to their present location in Section 35. His entire life has been devoted to agricultural pursuits, and he raises good stock. He and his wife have one child-H. B.

JOHN McELREE, farmer, P. O. Patterson, is a son of Thomas McElree, a native of the North of Ireland, where he learned and carried on the weaving trade and married Jane McFadden. In 1833, they emigrated to America with two children, settling near Lancaster, Penn., and, thirty years later, came to Hardin County, where Thomas died and his widow still survives. In Hardin County, he followed farming pursuits and accumulated a neat competency. He and his wife were both members of the Presbyterian Church. Of seven children born to them, John, our subject, is the fourth and was born in Lan- caster County, Penn., in 1840. He reached his majority in his native State, but, since 1862, has resided, uninterruptedly, in Hardin County, where he now owns 320 acres of land, all under good cultivation and well improved. In 1874, he was chosen one of the County Commissioners, and is now one of the Trustees of Jackson Township, in which capacity he served in 1867. In 1868, he married Leah M. Scribner, of Marion County, by whom he has had a family of five children. Mrs. McElree was originally a Miss Owen, and her first hus- band's name was Henry Scribner, by whom she had two children.

'JOHN McVITTY (deceased) was born in Franklin County, Penn., April 25, 1808, and died in Jackson Township, this county, December 11, 1881. His father was John, ISr., of Scotch descent, but who spent the greater part of his life in Pennsylvania. Our subject was raised in his native State, acquired a fair education, and learned the trade of millwright. He and his brother Noah came in 1835 to this county, and entered land in Section 14, of what is now Jackson Township-John on 160 acres and Noah on eighty. The following year they returned to the Keystone State and married sisters, John to Frances Culbertson, and Noah to Mary Culbertson. They all, in the same year, came to Hardin County and settled on their previously entered homes, where Noah died in 1839, leaving a widow, who now lives in Pennsyl- vania, but no family. John and wife were spared to face the pioneer hard- ships of the county. He was at all time ready to assist in any improvements beneficial to the county, and thereby won the esteem of his fellow-men, who

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elected him as a member of the Board of County Commissioners, in which capacity he served three years, besides being repeatedly elected Trustee and Treasurer of Jackson Township. Soon after coming to Hardin County, Mr. McVitty became, probably, the first school teacher in Jackson Township. His family consisted of twelve children, of whom N. T. is the eldest, being born on the old homestead of Jackson Township, in May, 1838, a life-long resident and farmer of Hardin County, and now owner of 200 acres. His wife is Zada, sister of Dr. Stansell. Their children are John E., William M. and Emma J.

NICHOLAS MILLER, farmer, P. O. Patterson, was born in Hesse- Darmstadt, Germany, October 18, 1823, and was left an orphan when only fourteen years old, but soon after, his cousin, Nicholas Leffert, with a family emigrated to America, bringing the young lad along. They settled near Kenton, where Leffert died. On reaching their destination, Miller owed his cousin for his passage, which he was to refund by working at the rate of $2.50 per month. Health was spared him, and in due time the passage or fare was worked out. He was now sixteen years old, without a parent's counsel, and penniless ; however, John H. Houser, an old pioneer, induced him to make his home with him and work two years, at the expiration of which time he would make him a deed for forty acres of land, now in Cessna Township. With a longing desire to be the owner of a farm, the time soon went by, and he, at the age of eighteen years, was one of Hardin County's land owners. In June, 1843, he married Martha A., daughter of Rev. Samuel Badley, and at once com- menced to clear his farm, when life began in earnest. In 1848, his wife died, leaving two children, both now dead. His second wife was Barbara Stall, of Champaign County, Ohio, but born in Pennsylvania October 12, 1830. With health and energy, he continued until he now owns 200 acres of land in Jackson Township, the result of his own legitimate efforts. He has, for twenty-three years, been Collector of delinquent taxes of Jackson Township. He and his present wife have eleven children-Malisca, Nicholas S. (deceased), John H. (now conductor on the B. & O. Railroad), Rufus B. (conductor on the I., B. & W. Railroad), George W., Fred T., Fannie M., Joseph H., William U., Horta and Hayes.

JACOB NAUS, farmer, P. O. Forest, is a son of William Naus, who was born in Virginia, of German parentage. He matured in his native State, but soon after went to Bedford County, Penn., where he married Christina Wean. They lived in said county, where he followed farming. At their death, they were nearly threescore years of age. Of their ten children, Jacob is the old- est, and was born June 20, 1813, in Bedford County, where he married Nancy. Pickering, a native of Bedford County also, where she was born March 28,' 1818. They came to Ohio in 1836, settling in Richland County, but thirteen years later came to Hardin, having in the meantime owned a home and lived in Hancock County. Two hundred and ten acres of his land lie in Hardin County, and forty in Hancock. Although his trade is shoe-making, he has done a great deal of hard work in clearing away the dense forest of Hardin County, having attained his present financial position through his own legitimate efforts. Mr. and Mrs. Naus have a family of six children, viz .: Joshua, Washington, John P., William H., David A. and Amanda E.

A. D. PIFER, merchant, Forest, was born in Hancock County, Ohio. in 1854. His father was killed in a saw mill in 1859, and our subject lived with his mother till he was fifteen years old, when he went to Michigan and lived with his brother two years. He had very poor health, so he returned to New Stark, Ohio, and obtained a clerkship in the store of S. W. Mock, where he worked for two years, and then went to Ada to school one term, which was al !! the schooling he ever had. He then went to Dunkirk and bought a half in terest in a store in that place. He was married while there, and then sold out

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and moved to Forest, Ohio, in 1876, and bought the store of L. Merriman & Co., and has had a prosperous business ever since.

JASPER M. PIMPERTON, farmer, P. O. Forest, is a son of William Pim- perton, who was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1791, where he married Su- sanna Bassatt. In March, 1827, they emigrated with four children to Canada, arriving in Port Hope, Upper Canada, now Ontario, where Mr. Pimperton, Sr., engaged in farming. In June, 1835, he came to Hardin County, where he took up 525 acres of land in Section 6, Jackson Township, but, returning to Canada, he did not move his wife and six children until 1838. With the assistance of

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his sons, he cleared up the greater part of his farm. having left him a widower in 1846. Jasper M. is the second child of the above parents, and was born in Lincolnshire, England, December 1, 1817, and came with his father to Hardin County, Ohio, in 1838, where he has ever since re- sided and followed farming. His farm consists of 100 acres in Section 6, which he inherited from his father. On October 20, 1842, he married Charlotte Copeland, of Lincolnshire, England, who in early life came to America. The issue of this union is seven children, viz .: Mary S. (deceased), Martha M., Mary C. (deceased), Malicia E. (deceased), Rebecca A., William W. and John T.

DAVID P. PRICE, farmer, P. O. Forest, is a son of Josiah Price, who was born in New Jersey, August 12, 1782, and died in Hardin County, Ohio, Octo- ber 3, 1862. He was left an orphan in early life, but attained manhood in Washington County, Penn. Subsequently he came to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he married Catharine Farber, who was born January 24, 1786, and died July 6, 1836. In the early part of this century, they settled in Stark County, where Mr. Price entered the army during the war of 1812. They remained in Stark County until 1848, when they came to Hardin County and settled near Patterson, where Mr. Price bought a farm of over 200 acres. Here he died, after a long and eventful life as a pioneer in Ohio, leaving his second wife (who still survives) a widow. Of his nine children, four were sons, and five daugh- ters, viz. : Philip (deceased), David P., Phebe (deceased), Eliza (deceased), Martha (deceased), Benjamin, Sarah (deceased), John (deceased), and Mar- garet. David P. is the eldest survivor, and was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, May 24, 1807, but reached his majority in Stark County, where he mar- ried Mary L., daughter of Joseph Tucker. She was born in Chittenden County, Vt., December 16, 1816. They came to Hardin County in the same year as his father (1848), and he is now owner of a good farm in Jackson Township of 165 acres ; and this fine farm by industry and perseverance he has redeemed from the wild forest to well subdued and cultivated soil. They are now among the leading and highly esteemed families of the county. They are chiefly members of the Methodist Church. The names of the children are Joseph R., Josiah B., Sarah C., Emma J. and Alonzo T.

RUSSELL PRICE, attorney at law and Mayor, Forest, is a son of Henry Price, who was born on the eastern shore of Maryland, but when a boy was stolen from home and carried into Ohio. While on the road, his people pursued the thieves in vain. He reached his majority near Athens. He finally married Elvira Corey, of Athens County, Ohio. They spent many years in Madison County, where he followed the stock-raising business. In 1847, they settled in Kenton, where he engaged in a " bus line," from Marion to Lima, which he con- tinued until his death in 1855. His widow died January 18, 1881, while vis- iting in Ottawa, Ohio. The children by this union were Shelby, John C., Hen- rietta, Annetta V., Robert E., and Russell, the subject of this sketch. He was born in Madison County, Ohio, in 1847, but has lived since childhood in Hardin County. He improved the privileges of the schools of Kenton, and soon after his majority commenced reading law under attorney John D. King. On August 25, 1871, he was admitted to the bar, since which he has practiced in the

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county. In 1879, he was admitted to the United States District and Circuit Courts, and in 1881 was elected Mayor of Forest, his present position. His wife is Addie B., daughter of W. H. Backus, and three children are the issue of this union, viz .: Henry B., Charles R. and William B.

B. F. PURDEY, farmer, P. O. Forest. He is a son of Stephen Purdey and a grandson of Gilbert Purdey. The latter was a native of New York State, but died in Richland County, Ohio, where he had followed farming and black- smithing. Of his sons, Stephen was born in New York State, but died in Har- din County, Ohio. He matured in his native State, where, on February 1, 1817, he married Ann Tibbs, who still survives, aged eighty-three years. In 1829, they came to Ohio, settling in Haysville, Richland County, where he followed his trade, but in 1836, he came to Hardin County with his wife and six chil- dren, buying eighty acres in Section 12 of Jackson Township. Here he began life anew as the first blacksmith in Jackson Township, following his trade until the misfortune of a runaway horse disabled him, rendering him ever afterward an invalid ; he died September 5, 1865, aged seventy-three years. The children · of this family were William (deceased), Phebe (deceased), P. Henry, John E., William E., George H. (who graduated at Delaware, Ohio, became an attorney and during the late war raised a company, served as Captain, and was killed at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863), Alfred, Anna E., Stephen (deceased), B. F. and James L. (deceased). Benjamin F. was born on the farm he now owns, in 1841. He received a common school education, and has always followed farm- ing, but for a number of years has been engaged in threshing wheat; his wife is Eddie C., daughter of E. P. Harman. She was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1850. To this union have been born seven children-Adin C., Harry B., George H., Earl A. (deceased), Tully E., Annie M. and Alice H.

J. A. SIEFERT, farmer, P. O. Forest, is a son of Jacob and Ann M. (Mil- ler) Siefert, both natives of Hesse-Darmstadt, where they died. Of their five children, our subject is the third, and was born June 19, 1819, in Hesse-Darm- stadt, where he matured, and in September, 1852, married Anna Margaret Shenabarger, who was born in 1831. Soon after they were married, they came to Pittsburgh, Penn., and in 1854 to Wyandot County, Ohio, and the next year to Hardin County, where he bought his present farm of fifty-five acres. This was all in the wilderness, but he and his wife have transformed it into a neat and comfortable home. They have no family, but are raising a foster child. They belong to the Lutheran Church.

JOSIAH SMITH, retired merchant, Forest. Among the early merchants of Forest we record the above, with a brief notice of his father, John Smith, who was born, raised and married in Connecticut. In 1812, he moved with his wife and six children in an ox team to Ohio, settling in Fairfield County. For three decades they lived and farmed in the last-named county, but in 1842 settled near Mount Blanchard, Hancock County, where he and his wife both died. The following are the names of their children : Eliza M., Durias, John A., Alma, Josiah, Nelson, Martha E., Hannah and Mary. Of the entire family, our subject is the only survivor. He was born in Connecticut in 1809. In 1840, he went to Hancock County, Ohio, and there, the same year, married Ann Palmer, of Huron County. She died the following year near Mt. Blanch- ard. His second wife was Miss E. V. Lillibridge, who came with him to Forest in 1855, where he opened the second dry goods store in the place. His five years' experience as a merchant in Mount Blanchard enabled him, with his business talent and energy, to be very successful. His mercantile life ended in 1863, since which he has lived retired in a neat and comfortable home in the village of Forest.

DR. A. F. STANLEY (deceased) was a son of William Stanley, who lived in Hardin County, Ohio, from 1849 till 1854, in which latter year he and his

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wife settled near Wheeling, W. Va. The Doctor was born in Trumbllu County, Ohio, October 25, 1815, and died in Patterson, Hardin County, Feb- ruary 5, 1873. He was raised and educated in his native county, and took up the study of medicine, graduating in 1846, but in the following year properly commencing practice in Patterson, where he soon became known as a skillful physician, and one possessed of extraordinary good social qualities, and as a kind, obliging neighbor. His assistance was never lacking in the church of his choice (Methodist), while at the same time he was a zealous member of the Masonic Lodge. He was successful in life, and left at his death a neat competency for his family. The Doctor was married, March 15, 1842, to Angeline, daughter of John and Elizabeth Sapp, of Knox County, Ohio, where she was born in 1822. They had seven children, of whom five are living-William E., John R., Harriet J., Carrie L. and A. F. The sons are in Kansas and two daughters in Ohio.

DR. J. A. STANSELL, physician, P. O. Forest, is a son of George and grandson of William Stansell. The latter was of Holland parentage, but born in the State of New York, where he and his wife both died in Lockville. His personal observations of the Revolutionary war were limited, although two brothers were killed in that war. He was by occupation in early life a farmer and millwright, and owned 160 acres of land. When the Erie Canal was under construction, he contracted and graded three miles of it through his own farm, and also built three locks, laying out and naming the town of Lockport, N. Y. After its completion, George, his son, opened the locks and connected the first waters of Lake Erie and the Hudson River. Of his thirteen children, George, the father of Dr. J. A., was born in Wayne, now Ontario County, N. Y., January 12, 1801, and died in Wyandot County, Ohio, September 10, 1854. He was married in his native land, but, in 1835, they emigrated to Ohio and settled in Richland Township in the county in which he died. His early life was devoted to work on the Erie Canal, but, after coming to Ohio, he was a pioneer woodsman and farmer of Wyandot County. His wife was Zada P. Bristoll, of Connecticut, where she was born and raised. She was born De- cember 4, 1809, and died November 20, 1868. She was a daughter of David Bristoll, England, and whose wife was Sarah Prindell. Dr. Stansell, our sub- ject, is one of a family of nine children, and the second eldest of the five sur- vivors. He was born in Lockville, Ontario County, N. Y., in 1831, but since four years of age has been a resident of Ohio. He received his primary education in the common schools of Wyandot County, Ohio. At the age of seventeen, he commenced the study of medicine, although he was now four years under age. Subsequently he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, where nearly three years' hard study was engaged in. In 1856-57; he attended the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, and, soon after, located at Patterson, in partnership with his preceptor, Dr. Stanley, and commenced his practice. In March, 1865, he graduated from the Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, and the following autumn located at Forest, where he enjoyed a liberal patronage. He was married, September 28, 1854, to Eveline C., daughter of John Adams, of Delaware County, Ohio, where she was born in 1833. By this union, there are four children, viz. : Lilly J., wife of Capt. John Camp- bell ; Iva J., now Mrs. Allen T. West ; Nellie J. and J. Franklin.

J. R. TRISSLER, farmer, P. O. Forest, is a grandson of David Trissler, farmer, who was born in Germany, but many years ago emigrated to America and settled in Maryland, and in 1859 came to Hardin County, where he and his wife both died at advanced ages. Of their children, George W. was the father of our subject, and was born in Maryland in 1810. He reached his majority in Fayette County, Penn., where he married Ann Robinson, who was born in Lin- colnshire, Eng., in 1797. In March, 1839, they, with three children. reached Har-

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in County. He kept adding to what he already had, until a neat and com- fortable competeney marked the result of his untiring efforts. This he divided with his children. His occupation in early life was shoe-making, but latterly he devoted his time totally to rural pursuits. He and wife belonged to the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, but finally became members of the Christian Church, in which faith they died, he in April of 1875, and she in September of the same year. Two of the children still survive-Mrs. William Hempy and J. R. The latter was born in Fayette County, Penn., December 24, 1836, but has, since three years of age. lived in this county, now owning 222 acres of land. In 1859, he married Martha, daughter of Robert Wilson, Sr. She died in 1863, leaving one daughter, Annie Laurie. His second wife is Margaret J., daughter of Thomas Hueston, whom he married in 1864. She was born in Jackson Township in 1837. The issue of this union is two children-Thomas H. and Annie H.

B. W. WALTERMIER, attorney, Forest, was born in Missouri in 1858. His father lost his life in the war in 1863, and his mother soon after died, leaving three orphan children, who were brought to Wyandot County, Ohio, where our subject received a common school education, which he com- pleted at the Northwestern Ohio Normal, at Ada, Ohio, in 1876. He then im- mediately began the study of law under Russell Price, of Forest, in connection with school teaching, until 1880, when he was admitted to the bar, and is now practicing his profession.

DAVID H. WARNER, retired, P. O. Forest, is a grandson of a Revolution- ary soldier who fought under Gen. Washington, and a son of Richard Warner, farmer, who was born in Connecticut about the close of the war above men- tioned. He remained in his native State until after his marriage with Mary Hickox, when, in August of 1802, he, with his wife and seven children, settled in Cortland County, N. Y., but subsequently in the town of Ritcher, near which he died about 1860. His children were Obadiah (deceased), Sheldon, Adna (deceased), Minerva (deceased), Edward (now living in Forest, Ohio), Maria, David H., Curtis (deceased), Rachel (deceased), Electa (deceased), Flor- illa, Loucena, Elmina, Richard P. and Calvin (latter deceased). Of the entire family, Edward and David are the only two living in Hardin County, where they settled in 1836-37. David H. was born in Connecticut February 2, 1802, but matured in New York State, where he married Almira Robbins, of that State, but in 1837 he moved with his wife and four children to Hardin County, where he settled on eighty acres of land, which he soon converted into pro- ductive soil, and subsequently became the owner of 105 acres. His property is now all in town. He has been a leader in religion in the community, as will be seen in the history of the Presbyterian Church. On July 10, 1853, he buried his wife, who was the mother of six children, viz .: Elizabeth R., Ade- line, Mary, David S., Richard and Eliza. His second wife was Mary, widow of Samuel Shields, and daughter of Daniel Clayton. She was born in Washington County, Md., in 1819, and is now the mother of six children, three by each husband, viz .: Joseph, Rebecca and Nancy Shields, and Florilla, John H. and Lucy Warner. Mrs. Warner is an adherent of the Methodist Church.

JOHN WEIR, farmer, P. O. Forest, is a son of Robert Weir, who was born in Ireland in 1805, and died in the late American war, in 1862, near Falmouth, Ky., from fever contracted while in the service. He was a member of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from Hancock County, Ohio. His wife was Eliza Hamilton, of Irish birth, and who died in the last-named county in April, 1868. They had eight children, our subject being the fourth, born in Coshocton County, Ohio, February 28, 1844, and since 1857 has been a resident of Hardin County. He began life with no means, except a capital of energy and industry, which has secured for him a neat home of forty acres, in

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The history of Hardin county, Ohio, Part 111

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