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History of Hocking Valley, Ohio
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Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portrait of Prominent Persons, and
Biographies of Representative Citizens.
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
1883

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S. FAUTS, contractor and bridge builder, was born in Morgan County, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1824, and lived there till twenty-two years of age.  From 1846 to 1852 he was engaged in manufacturing windmills in Ohio and Illinois.  From 1853 to 1861 he was engaged in general contracting and building.  May 15, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Eighty-seventh Ohio Infantry, and served five months.  He was taken prisoner at Harper’s Ferry, Va., in September, 1862.  In 1863 he came to Albany, and took charge of the wood work in the colored school building, and has since that time been engaged in contracting and bridge building.  He has a pleasant home in Albany, where his family are surrounded with the comforts of life.  He was married July 4,1847, to Catharine Neff, a native of Pickaway County, Ohio, born May 2, 1830.  They have three children—Cydnor T., Charles W. and Mary A. Mr. and Mrs. Fauts are members of the Methodist church.  He belongs to Columbus Golden Post, Ho. 89, G. A. R., Athens.
Source:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 616
JOHN FISHER, born in Columbiana County, Ohio, July 15, 1839, is the eighth of eleven children of Michael and Eliza (Dawson) Fisher.  In October, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, Seventy-sixth Ohio Infantry.  He participated in some of the hardest fought battles of the Rebellion, among them the siege of Vicksburg.  Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Ringgold, Resaca, and was with Sherman to the sea.  After the war he settled in Meigs County, Ohio, and lived there till 1881, when he bought the place where he now resides.  He has one of the best farms in the township, having 310 acres all well improved, with a good two-story dwelling and commodious farm buildings.  He was married Dec. 15, 1869, to Olive A., daughter of Elmer Armstrong, a prominent pioneer of Athens County.  They have one child - Mabel B., born July 15, 1873.
Source:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 558
HUGH FLETCHER was born in County Donegal, Ireland, May 13, 1809, and came to America in 1824.  He landed in New Jersey and went direct to Greene County, Penn.  In 1836 he came to Athens County, Ohio, and located in Alexander Township.  In 1838 he went back to Europe but returned again to America in 1840 and settled in Lee Township.  In 1843 he went to Wisconsin, and in the fall of 1846 went again to Europe.  In 1851 he came again to Lee Township.  He bought a farm in Waterloo Township and lived there till 1857, when he came to Albany, where he has since resided.  He was married Jan. 17, 1855, to Margaret Entsler, a native of Vinton County, Ohio.  They have two children—Charles E., born April 1, 1856, and Mary E., born March 14, 1866.  Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
Source:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 616
ABNER FROST, son of Samuel and Esther Frost, was born in Meigs County, Ohio, Sept. 21, 1821.  He received but a limited education, his early life being mostly spent in helping to clear a timbered farm.  When he first moved on his present farm it was wild land, but he has brought it under a good state of cultivation and now has one of the finest farms in the township.  He has 184 acres, all well improved, with a nice residence, and the largest barn in the township.  In June, 1869, he went to Iowa and remained fourteen months, but returned again to his old home.  He was married Mar. 18, 1865, to Mary A., daughter of John and Ruth (Cass) Secoy. They have two children—Lucy, born Mar. 30, 1867, and Minnie H., born Aug. 12, 1878.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 802
D. G. FROST, born in Lodi Township, Athens Co., Ohio, Mar. 7, 1831, is a son of Abner and Rachel (Sullivan) Frost.  In 1835 or ’6 his parents moved to Meigs County, and years after his father went to Wisconsin, where he died, in 1852.  D. G. was educated in the common schools, and when twenty years of age went to learn the cabinet-maker’s and carpenter’s trades, working at the two combined a number of years.  July 1, 1855, he married Ruth Ann, daughter of Aaron Stout, a pioneer of Carthage Township.  Aug. 12, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Infantry.  The regiment was in the battles of Moorfield, Winchester, New Market, Piedmont, Lynchburg, Fisher’s Hill, Hatches Run, and numerous others.  He was discharged June 24, 1865, and returned home.   In the spring of 1867 he bought the farm where he now resides.  He has 100 acres of good land, which he has improved in a fine manner.  Mr. and Mrs. Frost have four children—Clarence, Elwood, Albert and Allen.  Politically Mr. Frost is a Republican.  He has held most of the township offices. He is a member of the Christian church.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 719
JACOB WILLIAM FROST, Postmaster of Nelsonville, was born in Athens, Ohio, Nov. 9, 1847, where he was reared and received a common-school education.  He is the son of Jacob C. and Mary (McCabe) Frost, with whom he lived until manhood.  His father being a tailor, he learned that trade in his boyhood.  In the fall of 1863 he came to Nelsonville and engaged in tailoring until 1870, when, on account of his health, he was obliged to change his business, and was employed as a clerk in the stores of Nelsonville until 1878, when he received the appointment of Postmaster.  He is a Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason and member of the lodge at Nelsonville, and chapter and council at Logan, and commandery at Athens.  He has served several terms as Senior Deacon of his Lodge.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 457
MRS. MELVINA L. (WASHBURN) FROST was born in Coolville, Athens County, Feb. 10, 1827.  Mar. 29, 1851, she married C. C. Frost, of Rome Township, born June 23, 1827.   They had one child — Leura B., born Sept. 9, 1856, now Mrs. John Lemmon, of Baltimore, Md.  Mr. Frost enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, and died June 29, 1864, of a wound, received in the battle near Staunton, Va. July 16, 1866, Mrs. Frost married Harvey G. Frost, a native of Athens County, born June 4, 1819.  He died May 3, 1881.  He enlisted in Company K, Thirty-ninth Ohio Infantry, and served one year; was discharged on account of disability. Mrs. Frost has twenty-four acres of good land and considerable village property in Frost.  She is a member of the Congregational church.  Her father was born in Massachusetts, Dec. 18, 1794, and died May 17, 1874.  Her mother, Leura (Cleveland) Washburn, was a native of New York, and died July 9, 1839.  Her parents had a family of ten children.  Her father married a second wife, Anna Parsons, of Athens County.  She died July 9, 1859, leaving five children.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 587
SAMUEL FROST, deceased, son of Benjamin Frost, of English descent, was born Nov. 14, 1791. He was married Jan. 12, 1812 in Allegany County, N. Y., to Esther Miles, a native of Vermont.  They came to Ohio in 1816, first settling in Meigs County.  In 1825 they came to Athens County where he lived till his death.  They had a family of eight children—Hiram, Miles, William, Abner, Luther, Rosannah, Elizabeth and Eunice.  Mr. Frost was killed Dec. 14, 1855, by falling through the hatchway of a steamboat at Cincinnati. Esther Frost remained with her son Abner until her death, May 7, 1882, she being nearly eighty-six years old. She was born May 22, 1796.
SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 802

 

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