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History of Ashland County, Ohio
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches,
by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros.
-1880 -

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JOHN C. GAINES, son of Thomas Gaines, was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1835, and married Elizabeth Robinson in 1857.  They settled in Ashland county in 1869.  In June, 1876, he was admitted to the bar in Ashland, and began the practice of law in Loudonville the same year.  He was elected to the office of justice of the peace in 1874, and again elected in 1877.  He is the only Republican who ever held that office in Loudonville.  He is the father of four children, viz.: Irena, Loren A., Walter S. and Clara L., deceased.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. -
 Page 293
ISAAC GATES
Peter Gates was born in New Jersey, in 1778, of German descent, and emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1801, and married Sarah Spech in 1803. He removed to Mifflin township, Richland county, in 1830, and deceased in 1861, aged eighty-three years. His family consisted of Martin, Jacob, John, Isaac, Elizabeth, Eunice, Margaret, and Sarah. He was twice married, his second 'wife being Elizabeth, sister of Samuel Lewis, of Mifflin.
Isaac Gates, fourth son of Peter, was born near Hillsborough, Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 15, 1815. In 1830 he accompanied his father's family to Richland county, Ohio. Here he grew to manhood, attending the common schools of the neighborhood in the winter season, and labored on a farm in the summer. His father's family being in moderate circumstances, he was compelled to labor at wages to procure clothing and education, the schools at that period being sustained by individual subscriptions. In 1839 he was elected constable of Mifflin township, and was reelected five times successively. In November, 1834, he married Susan Newcomer, daughter of Christian Newcomer, who was subsequently commissioner of Ashland county. Mr. Gates moved to the village of Mifflin, where, in 1842, he was elected justice of the peace, and twice re-elected. In 1848 he was elected sheriff, and re-elected in 1850. In 1852 he was elected auditor, and re-elected in 1854. In 1862 he was again elected auditor, and re-elected in 1864. He now resides in Ashland. Since the expiration of his second term, as auditor he has followed the business of a public salesman or auctioneer. He has been an active member of the Lutheran church since 1847, and, much of the time, a deacon or elder. His family consists of Sarah J., Halstead, Margaret, deceased, Fannie E., Nelson, William H., Christian N., Reuben H., Arminda, Elizabeth, Frank and Martin L.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. -
 Page 159
DR. SAMUEL GLASS was born in Wayne county, Ohio, April 14, 1818. In early life he possessed no advantages of education beyond the district schools. The first eighteen years of his life were occupied in clearing the forests and in farm labor. Wages were low, and it took a long time to accumulate sufficient money to enter upon a course of study. He grew up in habits of industry and frugality, and these habits became a part of his maturer years. His first effort was at school teaching. In 1840, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Harrison Armstrong, of Hayesville, in this county, and in 1842 attended medical lectures at Cincinnati. In 1843, he opened an office in Mifflin, of this county, where he remained three years. In April, 1845, he married Miss Amanda A. Armentrout, of Hayesville, and opened an office in that place. In the winter of 1847-8, he attended a second course of lectures at Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, where he graduated. Shortly after his return, Dr. H. Armstrong retired from practice, and his son, Dr. David Armstrong, and Dr. S. Glass entered into partnership. This continued until the decease of Dr. Armstrong, which occurred in 1852. Dr. Glass continued in practice, a part of the time with Dr. Yocum, until he was elected State senator in 1861-2. He again resumed practice and continued until 1865, when he removed to Ashland, and formed a partnership with Dr. D. S. Sampsell in 1866, with whom he continued until his last illness. In the meantime he became a member of the Ohio State Medical association, and president of the Medical society of Ashland county. He died of congestion of the brain, February 26, 1873. Dr. Glass was a large, well-developed man, full six feet high, and would weigh about two hundred pounds. He had a large brain, a strong will, and tremendous endurance. He performed an uncommon amount of labor, in his practice, which was always quite extended. He accumulated a handsome fortune, and was esteemed a very thorough and successful physician. He was childless. His widow resides in Ashland.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 171
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WILLIAM GLENN
was born, in 1822, in Mohican township, Ashland county, Ohio.  His father Joshua Glenn emigrated from Harford county, Maryland, in 1818.  He was one of the pioneers of Ashland county.  His home was a log cabin, and was surrounded on all sides by forest.  Here the subject of this sketch was born.  He remained and labored on the farm until he was over thirty years of age, and many old oak fell beneath the heavy blows of his axe.  The forest gradually gave way and in its place waving fields of grain were to be seen.  On Sept. 23, 1852, Mr. Glenn married Miss Caroline Ewing, daughter of William Ewing, of Vermillion township, another of Ashland county's pioneers having come from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1813 and located in Mohican township on the 17th day of March, 1853.  William and his wife moved to Green township, on a farm owned by his father.  Here they remained four years, when he purchased a farm in Milton township, and moved there.  He sold this farm some two years later and returned to his mother's farm in Mohican township.  After a year's stay there he bought a farm in Mohican township and lived there five years, at the end of which time he sold and moved to a farm owned by his father-in-law, in Montgomery township.  At the end of one year he bought and moved where he now lives.  This, in all probability, will be his future home.  They have four children.  One daughter and three sons.  One son is married and lives on his father's farm.  Mr. Glenn has never sought public office.  He is a Republican in politics.  His wife and daughter are members of the English Lutheran church at Jeromeville.  Mr. Glenn does not belong to any church, but is in hearty sympathy with the truths of the Bible.  The son is a member of the Presbyterian church at Hayesville. 
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 302
M. R. GODFREY was born in Huron county, Ohio, August 3, 1842.  His father, William A. Godfrey, was born in New York State; his mother was also a native of the same State. They raised three children: Zera, who lives in Michigan; Elizabeth, who lives in Huron county; and Michael R., the subject of this sketch.  The latter enlisted in the Sixteenth Ohio volunteer infantry of the three months' service.  In October, 1864, he was married to Miss Delores Everet, and the day following his marriage he enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served until the close of the war.  To them have been born five children, as follows: Cora E., Ida May, William A., Charles and Mabel.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 395
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JOHN S. GRABILL was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1818.  In the fall of 1833 he left Germany in company with his parents and arrived in America Christmas week of 1833, spending the holidays of that year in Philadelphia.  In January, 1834, they left Philadelphia for Ashland county, Ohio, traveling some five or six weeks by team, and located in Vermillion township.  Mr. Grabill was fifteen years old when he arrived in Ashland county, and has resided in Ashland county ever since.  His father died in 1845, and his mother at a later date.  Mr. Grabill has given his whole time to farming, and by industry, economy and good management occupies a front rank among the best farmers of Ashland county.  On Aug. 21, 1845, he married Miss Nancy Harper of Vermillion township.  They had one son, Samuel, born Aug. 29, 1846, who was married Mar. 13, 1877, to Miss Anna Ewing, by whom he has two children.  Father and son live in the old house happily.  In 1877 Mr. Grabill made a southern tour, visiting Atlanta, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Charleston, and many other cities, returning by the way of Washington city.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 310
D. B. GRAY was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1813.  In 1847 he came to Ohio and settled in Ashland, from which point he run a stage line to Mansfield, Wooster, Oberlin, New London, and Shelby, for some twenty years, during the same time conducting a livery business at Ashland, at which he is still engaged.  He was married in 1849 to Catherine Stentz, of Ashland county, and has raised a family of seven children, all of whom are living.  They are Mary, Hattie, Nellie, Jennie, Will, Burr, and Addison.  Two are married - Hattie, who lives in Texas, and Mary, who lives in Illinois.  Will is a telegraph operator.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 402
WILLIAM GREENLEE.  In the spring of 1811 Mr. Greenlee visited James L. Priest, a former neighbor, from Crawford county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Greenlee came by the way of Harrison county to Zanesville, then a new village, and up the banks of the Muskingum, the White-woman and the Lake fork on horseback. He found but few settlers between Mr. Priest and Zanesville. He selected and located a farm adjoining Mr. Priest, and returned for his family by the route he came. In October, 1811, he and his family, consisting of his wife, six daughters, and one son, started for the forests of Ohio. He had two teams, one with two and the other with four horses. The wagons were covered with linen canvas, and contained such household goods and provisions as were deemed essential to the comfort of a new settler. The route was through the village of Canton to what is now Wooster, and thence to the Lake fork. The trail was so narrow that Mr. Greenlee was compelled to widen it at many points before his teams could pass. His family slept in the wagons most of the way, doing their cooking by the side of the trail, nights and mornings. The route was wild and romantic, and it required some eight or ten days to complete the journey. He erected a plain log cabin, by the aid of Mr. Priest and a few friendly Indians, and moved into it. He resided on this farm until 1814, and sold it to Calvin Hibbard, father of Edward Hibbard, one of the first commissioners of Ashland county. He then purchased where  John Greenlee, his only son, now resides. When he landed in Lake, there were but the families of J. L. Priest, Samuel Marvin, William Hendrickson, Elijah Boiling and John Hendrickson, in what is now Washington township, Holmes county. The next settlement was that of the Odells, which contained the families of Joshua Oram, Thomas Oram, John Oram, and Mordecai Chilcote, near Odell's lake.
     On the morning of the tenth of September, 1813,. John Greenlee went in search of his father's horses, which had strayed in the direction of Odell's lake. About the middle of the day, a heavy, roaring sound was heard in the northwest, amid the forest. It resembled distant thunder, and he feared a tremendous tornado was approaching. What excited his surprise was, the sky was clear and cloudless, and the roaring seemed a phenomenon. In the afternoon he abandoned the search and returned home, convinced that a great storm was approaching. His parents and others had heard the same rumbling sound, and were unable to account for it. In a few days the little colony learned the particulars of the victory achieved by Commodore Perry over Commodore Barclay and the British fleet; and this accounted for the mysterious rumbling of the 10th. The sound of Perry's guns had been conveyed down the valleys, a distance of over seventy miles. It is related that the heavy cannonading was heard at Cleveland, about the same distance. Mr. Greenlee is a man of intelligence and unquestioned veracity, and relates the incident with minuteness and patriotic pride.
William Greenlee died in 1854, aged about eighty-two years.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 162
JAMES GRINOLD, was born in Washington county, New York, May 26, 1814.  Removed to Belleville, Richland county, Ohio, in company with his brother Thomas, in 1828.  Resided there until 1830, then located in Berlin, Huron county, and in 1836 removed to Ruggles Corners, where his brother had settled a few months prior.  He married Sarah Taylor in 1837.  He is a cooper by trade, but is now a farmer.  He is an active Democratic partisan, and takes an influential part in the party.  He was deputy sheriff from 1852 to 1854.  Thomas became justice of the peace in 1836, and was defeated in 1839, political lines being closely drawn.  He deceased, of consumption, in October, 1846. James  at present resides at the Corners.  He has no children.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 180
BENJAMIN GROSSCUP, son of Paul and Rebeccxa Grosscup, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, Sept. 15, 1818.  Benjamin's father was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1784, and his mother, whose maiden name was Rebecca Shearer, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1785, and died in 1859.  They were married in 1810.  Paul Grosscup removed to Milton township, Ashland county, Ohio, in 1830, with his family, consisting of five sons and two daughters, of whom two are now living - Benjamin and Daniel.  Benjamin owned the farm in Milton township, which he helped to clear, until 1872, when he removed to Ashland.  He was married in 1843 to Susannah Bowermaster, who was born Oct. 14, 1821, and came to Milton township with her parents in 1842.  Frederick Bowermaster, her father, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1782, and was married to Catharine Mohler, fo Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, who was born in 1782 and died in 1857.  They raised a family of four children, one son and three daughters.  Mr. Benjamin Grosscup has had four children: Lehman, who died; Peter S., born Feb. 15, 1852; Frederick P., born Apr. 5, 1854; Benjamin S., born Oct. 14, 1858.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 395

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