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History of Adams County, Ohio
from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers
West Union, Ohio
Published by E. B. Stivers
1900


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  LUCIEN J. FENTON

Source: History of Adams County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 - Page328

  SAMUEL R. FIELDS of Wamsley, was born at Sugar Tree Ridge, Highland County, Ohio April 17, 1845.  He is a son of Richard Fields and Janes Williams.  His boyhood days were spent on Scioto Brush Creek, attending school in the Winter, and helping on the farm the remainder of the year.  He enlisted at Camp Hamer, at West Union, in the service of the United States for a term of three years, October, 1861, in Company B, Capt. Summers, 70th Regiment O. V. I., Col. Cockerill.  At the expiration of his term he re-enlisted in Company B, O. V. I., Capt. Edgington, and served till the close of the war.  He was at Shiloh and all the important engagements in which his regiment participated.  Was honorable discharged June 13, 1885, having never made application until that time.
     August 3, 1865, he was united in wedlock to Miss Annie E. Williams, a descendant of a pioneer family of Adams County.  She has borne him fourteen children, of which there are two pairs of twins.  Each child's name begins with the letter E.  They are:  Elmer, Ettie, Evalena, Effie, Esther and Ezra, twins, Eska, Elvil, Esla, Edna, Edgar and Edith, twins, and Elry.
     Mr. Fields is a Methodist and an ardent Republican.  He has held many local offices, and is a man of prominence in the community in which he resides.  He belongs to Bailey Post, G. A. R., at Blue Creek.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900)
  SIMON FIELDS

Source: History of Adams County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 - Page564

  SIMON M. FIELDS

Source: History of Adams County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 - Page747

  MAJOR JOSEPH L. FINLEY.     There is an old brown head-stone in the center of the little village cemetery at West Union, which recites - "Joseph L. Finley was born Feb. 20, 1753, and died May 23, 1839."  Most of the people of West Union and of those who have visited the cemetery or passed by have observed the stone, but do not know the story of him who reposes beneath, but we propose now to tell it so that hereafter so long as this History is preserved, the head-stone will suggest its own history.
     Major Joseph L. Finley was born on the date already given, near Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.  He was a graduate of Princeton College in the class of 1775.  He entered the Revolutionary War on the first day of April, 1776, as a Second Lieutenant in Captain Moorehead's Company of Miles' Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, organized under a resolution of Congress on July 15, 1776.  He was made a Captain on the twentieth day of October, 1777, and his regiment was designated as the 13th Pennsylvania.  He was transferred to the 8th Pennsylvania, July 1, 1778, and was made a Major July 20, 1780.  He served until November, 1783, more than two years after the surrender of Cornwallis, and he was seven years and seven months in service in defense of his country.  He was in the battle of Long Island on the twenty-seventh of August, 1776, and that of White Plains, the September following.  He was at the battle of Brandywine in September, 1777; at Germantown, in October of the same year, and he was in the battle of Monmouth on that memorable hot Sunday, June 28, 1778.  After that, he was sent with Gen. Broadhead to the western part of Pennsylvania in his expedition against the Indians.  He subsequently saw much hard fighting.  He lost his left eye  in the service and was otherwise much disabled.
     He emigrated to Adams County in 1815 and settled, first on  Gift Ridge and afterwards moved to the foot of the hill west of West Union, and died there.  His wife was a daughter of Rev. Samuel Blair, a noted Presbyterian minister in the early part of the history of that church in this country.  She was a woman of much beauty of person and nobility of character, and their daughters were likewise well educated and handsome.  She was an aunt of Francis P. Blair, the famous editor of the Globe, of Washington, D. C.  She was a sprightly woman, full of energy and while small, was considered very handsome.  She had the blackest of black eyes; she wrote poetry for the newspapers, and wrote several touching tributes to the memory of deceased friends.  She has been particularly described to me and if I were to choose one of her descendants who resembled her as a young woman, I would choose Mrs. Dudley B. Hutchins, of Portsmouth, Ohio, here great-granddaughter.
     Major Finley and his wife were both members of the Presbyterian Church of West Union.  He was a man of small structure, and in his old age his hair was silvery white.  When he and his wife attended church at West Union, during the sermon he always sat on the pulpit steps, as he was somewhat deaf.
     He had three daughters and two sons.  His daughter, Hannah Finley, was the second wife of Col. John Lodwick, and the mother of a numerous family.  Among her sons were Captain John N., Joseph, Pressley and Lyle Lodwick, and among here daughters were Mrs. Nancy McCabe, Mrs. Eli Kinney and Mrs. J. Scott Peebles.  She died in 1827, twelve years before her father.
     Another daughter, Mary Finley, married John Patterson, once United States Marshal of Ohio, and the father of Mrs. Benjamin F. Coates, of Portsmouth, Ohio.  She was the mother of seven children.  She was married in 1818 and died in 1831.  The Hon. Joseph P. Smith, late Secretary of the American Bureau of Republics, was her grandson.
     Margaret Finley married John Chipps and died young.  She left a son, John Chipps, who died before his manhood and is buried in the West Union cemetery.
     James Finley married a Rothwell.  He died young and left several children.  His wife contracted a second marriage with Samuel Clark, formerly a well known farmer south of West Union on the old Manchester Road.
     John Finley, another son, married down South.  No further account of him is known.  A daughter of Mr. James Finley, Mrs. John Kincaid, resides at Hamersville, in Brown County, and another daughter resides in Dayton, Ohio.
     Major Finley is described in an edition of the "Ohio Statesmen" of May 28, 1838, as one of the truest of patriots and best of men.
Source: History of Adams County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 - Page570
  ISAAC TRIMBLE FOSTER of Manchester, was born Dec. 1, 1824, in Greene Township, Adams County.  He is a son of Nathaniel Foster and Martha Hayslip, his wife, a daughter of Richard Hayslip.  The grandfather of our subject was Nathaniel Foster, Sr., who emigrated from New Jersey in 1796, and settled in Greene Township on Ohio Brush Creek, opposite the mouth of Beasley's Fork.  He was a Revolutionary soldier and his record as such is given in this volume under that title.
     Jordan L. Foster was brought up on a farm in Sprigg Township, where he resided until his marriage to Elizabeth J. Campbell, daughter of Alexander Campbell and Mary Keith, Feb. 2, 1854.  Mary Keith Campbell was a daughter of Dr. Joseph D. Keith, a pioneer physician of Adams County, and whose practice extended from Chillicothe to Cincinnati.  He was a Revolutionary soldier and a surgeon in a Virginia Regiment.
     The children of our subject are Sarah, married to Wilson A. Russell; Alexander C., who married Iva Osman, and Hannah, who resides at home.
     Our subject enlisted as a private in Company E, 91st O. V. I., Aug. 9, 1862, and served under Sheridan and Cook in the Shenandoah Valley.  He was at New River Bridge, Stephenson's Depot, Winchester, Opequan, Cedar Creek, and many other important engagements.  He was honorably discharged June 27, 1865.
     He is an ardent  Republican, and a member of the M. E. Church.  He now resides on his farm near Manchester.
Source: History of Adams County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 - Page749
  JORDEN L. FOSTER of Manchester, was born December 1, 1824, in Greene Township, Adams County.  He is a son of Nathaniel Foster and Martha Hayslip, his wife, a daughter of Richard Hayslip.  The grandfather of our subject was Nathaniel Foster, Sr., who emigrated from New Jersey in 1796, and settled in Greene Township on Ohio Brush Creek, opposite the mouth of Beasley's Fork.  He was a Revolutionary soldier and his record as such is given in this volume under that title.
     Jorden L. Foster was brought upon a farm in Sprigg Township where he resided until his marriage to Elizabeth J. Campbell, daughter of Alexander Campbell and Mary Keith, February 2, 1854.  Mary Keith Campbell was a daughter of Dr. Joseph D. Keith, a pioneer physician of Adams County, whose practice extended from Chillicothe to Cincinnati.  He was a Revolutionary Soldier and a surgeon in a Virginia Regiment.
     The children of our subject are Sarah, married to Wilson A. Russell; Alexander C., who married Iva Osman, and Hannah, who resides at home.
     Our subject enlisted as a private in Company E, 91st O. V. I., August 9, 1862, and served under Sheridan and Cook in the Shenandoah Valley.  He was at New River Bridge, Stephenson's Depot, Winchester, Opequan, Cedar Creek, and many other important engagements.  He was honorably discharged June 27, 1865.
     He is an ardent Republican, and a member of the M. E. Church.  He now resides on his farm near Manchester.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900)
  WILLIAM STEWART FOSTER,  attorney and Mayor of Manchester, was born in the old Buckeye Station residence, Oct. 19, 1868.  Attention is called to the article on "Buckeye Station" for the historical character of his birthplace.  His father was Charles Wilson Foster, born Jan. 13, 1839.  His wife was Miss Laura Jane Stewart, daughter of William K. StewartCharles Wilson Foster enlisted in Company G, 70th O. V. I., Oct. 17, 1861.  He was promoted to Corporal, Sergeant, First Lieutenant and Captain.  He veteranized, and at muster out, Aug. 14, 1865, was Captain of the company he had entered as a private.
     In 1867, he bought of Buckeye Station farm, and the same year, on Nov. 21, 1867, he was married.  He has our subject and another son, Charles Damarin, born Sept. 20, 1877.  Charles Wilson Foster lived on the Buckeye Station farm for nine years.  He then conducted a store at Soldier's Run for two years.  From 1878 to 1883, he was a merchant at Wrightsville.  Since Oct, 1883, he has resided at Manchester.
     Our subject began the study of law in 1886, with Dudley B. Phillips in Manchester.  In 1887 and 1888, he attended the Cincinnati Law School, and completed the course.  On Oct. 21, 1889, he was admitted to practice law.  He opened an office in Manchester, where he has since resided.  In 1890, he was the Republican candidate for prosecuting attorney of the county, but was defeated by Cyrus F. Wikoff.  In April, 1891, he formed a law partnership with his preceptor, Mr. Dudley B. Phillips.  In the Fall of 1891, when Mr. Phillips was elected to the State Senate.  Mr. Foster was elected Mayor of the village to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Phillips' resignation to take the office of Senator.  He was married Dec. 4, 1892, to Miss Grace Hundley, daughter of James P. Hundley.
   
 In 1894, he was elected Solicitor of the village of Manchester, and served one farm.  In 1900, he was elected Mayor of Manchester on a straight Republican ticket over an Independent Republican on a reform ticket, of which office he is the incumbent.

(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 - Page 751)
  JOHN W. FRISTOE

NOTE:  CORRECTIONS - The name should read John R. Fristoe

  ALFRED RUST FULTON, was born in Franklin Township, Adams County, Nov. 28, 1834.  His father, David Fulton, and his mother, Phoebe Gibson, were both natives of Loudon County, Virginia, and resided near Upperville.  They came to Ohio in 1833.  At that time they had four children, sons.  They had five children born in Ohio, our subject and two daughters.  He obtained his education in the common schools and was brought up to be a farmer.  He was one of the few young men of Adams County who never taught schools.  He enlisted in Company E, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, Aug. 22, 1862, at the age of twenty-nine years and served until the twentieth of June, 1865.  This service was upon his conscience, as has been everything in his life.  On Nov. 7, 1867, he was maried to Miss Lydia Potts, of Marble Furnace, a daughter of Samuel Pitts.
    
They have three children, sons, Thomas, Clarence, who married Miss Jennie Williams and resides in Loudon; Charles Gibson, formerly a teacher, but now a clerk in an iron ore establishment at Sparta, Minn.; Homer Clayton, a lawyer in Duluth, Minn.
     Mr. Fulton's father was a Whig and Republican and he has always been a Republican.  He is a member of the Methodist Church in Loudon and lives his faith every day.
     He owns and cultivates over five hundred acres of good land, and everything about him has an air of care and thrift.  His word is a good as his bond and the latter is redeemable in gold on demand at any time.  Mr. Fulton has acquired a competence and knows how to enjoy it.  He has a pleasant home where he is surrounded by all the comforts of life and can spend the days of his old age in peace.  No man stands higher in the esteem of his neighbors and the public and his life and character entitle him to this estimate.  If good works would send any one to Heaven, Mr. Fulton is sure of it, but his good works all proceed from principle and from a sense of Christian duty and obligation.

(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 - Page 751)

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