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BIOGRAPHIES

Source:
History
of
Athens County, Ohio
And Incidentally of the Ohio Land Company
and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta
with personal and biographical sketches of the early
settlers, narratives of pioneer adventures, etc.
By Charles M. Walker
"Forsam et hæc olim meminisse juvabit." - Virgil.
Publ. Cincinnati:
Robert Clarke & Co.
1869.

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  DAVID and DANIEL JAMES and PHILIP W. LAMPSON, well known citizens, settled here in 1820.  The James family still live in Bern.  Mr. Lampson went to Kansas in 1864.
Source:  History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M. Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page  440
  EDWARD LAWRENCE, born in New Hampshire in 1810, settled in Carthage in 1841.  His occupation is farming.  He was appointed postmaster at Lottridge, when the office was established, in 1851, and still holds the position.
Source:  History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M. Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page  459
  JOHN LAWRENCE was born in New Hampshire in 1808, and settled as a farmer in Carthage township in 1837, where he has since lived.  His oldest son, John W. Lawrence, an excellent man and citizen, served faithfully in the Union army, and was killed in battle near the close of the war.
Source:  History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M. Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page  459
  The REV. JACOB LINDLEY, seventh son of Demas Lindley, one of the early settlers of Washington county, Pennsylvania, was born in that county, June 13, 1774.  At the age of eighteen he was sent to Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Princeton, New Jersey, where he graduated in 1798.  After a course of Theological study he was licensed to preach by the "Washington Presbytery," and in 1803, he removed to Ohio, settling first at Beverly, on the Muskingum.  Having been selected by the first board of trustees of the Ohio university to organize and conduct that institution, he removed to Athens in 1808, and opened the academy there.  For several years he had entire charge of the infant college, which he conducted with distinguished ability and success.  He was the prime mover in securing the erection of the village of Athens.  He labored assiduously here for about twenty years, during part of which time he was the only Presbyterian minister in this portion of the state.  He returned in 1829 to Pennsylvania, where he spent the rest of his life, and died at the residence of his son, Dr. Licutellus Lindley in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, January 29th, 1857.
     Dr. Lindley was no common man, but an earnest thinker and conscientious worker.  The leading trait in his character was an inflexible and unswerving devotion to moral principle.  His whole life was a continuous effort to promote the moral welfare of others.  He was of an amiable disposition, possessed an eminent degree of sound common sense, and an unerring judgment of men.  His kindness of heart and known.   One who knew him well says: " I have seen him go into a crowd of rough backwoodsmen and hunters, who used to meet at the village tavern every Saturday, and settle and control them in their quarrels and fights, as no other man in that community could."  His control of the students under his charge was equally extraordinary, and was always marked not less by gentleness of manner than by firmness of purpose.  He led a laborious life at Athens, and his works live after him.
Source:  History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M. Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page
 258
  ISAAC LINSCOTT, a native of Maine, and of English extraction, came to Ames township in the year 1800, and settled with his large family on the farm now owned by George Linscott, Jun., where he lived till 1824.  His descendants, mostly farmers, are very numerous, being scattered through Ames, Bern and Dover townships, and inherit the energy, thrift and strict honesty of their ancestor.  The children of Isaac Linscott were Noah, Lydia, Joseph, Isaac, Miriam, Eleanor, Olive, Israel, Amos, John, Mary and Jonathan.  Linscott's run, a branch of Ewing's run, received its name from this family.
Source:  History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M. Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page  414
  ROBERT LINZEE, a native of western Pennsylvania, came to this county in 1801k, and settled on a farm two miles below the town of Athens, on the "River road," where he lived nearly thirty years.  Mr. Linzee was a leading man in the early history of the county.  He was the first sheriff of the county and held the office several years; was a member of the state legislature several terms, a trustee of the Ohio university and associate judge of the court of common pleas.  In 1830 he removed to Mercer county, Ohio, where he died in 1850.
     Mr. Linzee occupied a prominent place in county affairs during his residence here, and in private life was an amiable and interesting man.  His name is still kindly remembered by those who were acquainted with him, among whom he had many admirers and war friends.
Source:  History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M. Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page  265
  BERNARDUS B. LOTTRIDGE, born in New York in 1779, came to Athens county and settled in Carthage township in 1805 as a farmer.  Like most of the pioneers he had but slender means, and depended chiefly on his energy, industry and muscle.  These soon won him a good farm, and placed his family on a comfortable footing.  He held different local offices, and was an excellent citizen.  He held different local offices, and was an excellent citizen.  He died in 1849.  One of his sons, the late Isaac Lottridge, represented Athens county for one session in the state legislature.  Another, Simon H. Lottridge, born in Carthage township in 1807, lives on the farm that his father owned.  He is now a justice of the peace and highly respected.  The widow of Bernardus B. Lottridge still lives, aged eighty-seven years.  She thinks that there were not more than ten or twelve persons living within the present bounds of Carthage when she and her husband settled here.  The forests were full of game and wild animals.  She remembers that one evening a large panther walked into their house and stood before the fire.  His rifle not being in the house Mr. Lottridge seized the butcher knife and would have attacked the animal instantly but for the entreaties of his wife.  She supposes that her screams frightened the panther, for in a few moments he darted out at the door and made off.  Her husband frequently killed panthers and bears - the meat of the latter being a favorite article of diet.  She remembers that nearly the last, if not the very last, bear that Mr. Lottridge killed, he attacked and killed with no other weapon but a hickory club.
Source:  History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M. Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page  455
  CAPT. THOMAS S. LOVELL was born in Barnstable county, Massachusetts, Jan. 18, 1785.  At the age of fifteen he went to sea as cabin boy, and, during his first cruise of three years, was advanced before the mast.  Returning home he went to school for one or two terms, learned something of navigation and a little mathematics, then took to the sea again.  He was successful in his calling, became master of a ship before he was twenty-one years old, and before he had reached his twenty-ninth year had crossed the Atlantic forty-two times.  Capt. Lovell says:

     "In 1812, when the war began, I loaded my ship with corn in Philadelphia for a Spanish port, depending on the good sailing of my ship for safety.  In went through safely, sold my cargo at a good advance, and lay in the harbor five months, waiting for an opportunity to get out, the bay of Biscay being alive with armed vessels.  When I thought it was safe to come out I did so, but myself and crew were captured.  My ship was ballasted with sand.  The English were very anxious to know what had become of the proceeds of my cargo.  I told them I had remitted to London, but they thought that was a Yankee lie, and they probed the sand through and through to find the money, but to no effect.  I was then taken before the admiral (I forget his name), and he finally cleared me and gave me a permit to St. Ubes in Portugal, there to load with salt, and I made a good voyage home."

     Finding times dull (in 1814), and commerce languishing, he resolved to quit the sea.  We give Capt. Lovell's language again:

     "My brother Russell and myself were partners in business, and, as times were so very dull, awe decided to emigrate to the west.  So we sold our property, rigged what was called a Yankee wagon, and a small wagon and team of five horses, and started for Ohio.  We traveled by land to Redstone, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where we separated.  My brother took the teams down by land, while I, with a flat-bottomed boat, a queer kid of craft without mast, jib, or sail, took the families and most of the effects by water to Marietta.  From there we came on to Athens county, and settled on Sharp's fork of Federal creek, in what was then Ames township.  We reached here Nov. 18, 1814, after a journey of ten weeks.  For awhile both families lived in one cabin, not a large one either, belonging to Job Phillips, and we had hard sailing to get along.  I was willing to work but did not know any more about farming than a land-lubber does about working a ship - however, we got along.  Wolves were very troublesome; they killed our sheep constantly, and once they killed a yearling steer of mine.  Elijah Latimer, who lived near us, was a famous hunter.  I sold him thirty acres of land adjoining my farm, and took pay in hunting.  He would furnish venison for my family, and also fight off the wolves whenever they invaded my sheep flock.  Sugar making was quite an occupation when I came here.  When I commenced I tapped trees without regard to kind - smooth bark hickories, buckeyes, and sugar trees.  The first pig I ever owned in Ohio got badly scratched by a bear.  The men folks were all away from home, and the bear came into the door yard after some fresh pork, but piggy ran under the house and escaped with a sever cuff or two.  My dogs would often tree a bear twenty or thirty rods from the cabin, when I would call Latimer and he would shoot him.  They frequently weighed two hundred and fifty and three hundred pounds.  Wild turkeys were very plenty.  I have often set a square pen made of rails, then scattered a little corn about and into it, and caught eight or ten fine ones at at time.  The pen being covered at the top the turkeys could not fly out, and they never though of ducking their heads to get out by the same passage they came in.  We had great difficulty in getting grain ground.  We were far from any mill, and I have often ridden on horseback to Lancaster to get a bushel of corn ground.  Before coming west I had heard that there was shipbuilding on the Ohio river, and my real object in coming to Ohio was to take out ships.  There had been a few built at Marietta before I came out, but I think there was only one built after I came here, and I took that to New Orleans, where I fitted her for sea, then sailed across the gulf to Havana, and from there to Baltimore.  There I bought a horse and rode home, and made a good trip."

     Touching this vessel and voyage we are able to add a little to Capt. Lovell's reminiscence.
     We find the following item in the Cincinnati Gazette of April 15, 1816:

     "Came to anchor before this place (Cincinnati), on last Saturday evening, the schooner Maria, Captain Lovell, of and from Marietta, Ohio, bound to Boston, Mass., full cargo of pork, flour and lard.  The Maria is 50 tons burthen, has 51 feet straight rabbit, 18 feet beam, and draws six feet of water.  She was built, rigged, and loaded at Marietta, and is owned by Messrs. Moses McFarland and Edmund B. Dana - the latter gentleman on board.  The Maria sailed hence yesterday at 11 o'clock.  The present state of the water is favorable to her descent of the river.  May prosperous gales waft her to her port of destination."

     And the Niles' Weekly Register, published at Baltimore, we find the following item in the issue of July 13, 1816:

     "Singular arrival.  A fine schooner arrived at Baltimore last week, in 46 days from Marietta, Ohio, with a cargo of pork.  It is well observed that 'the mountains have melted away before the enterprise and indefatigability of our countrymen.'"

     The farmers of Athens county have a somewhat better mode now of getting their produce to market than by salt water.
     Captain Lovell is living on the farm where he first settled in 1814.  At that time it was in Ames township, Athens county, then in Homer township, and finally in Marion township, Morgan county.  Thus, living in one spot for fifty-four years, Captain Lovell has been a citizen of three different townships and two counties.  He is in his eighty-fifth year and is unusually bright for one of his age.
     The Lovell brothers married sisters and lived on adjoining farms for many years.  Russell was a painter and was killed by the kick of a horse in the town of Athens - year unknown.
Source:  History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M. Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page  429

 

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