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Butler County, Ohio
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1882
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James Patchell |
JAMES PATCHELL,
one of the oldest settlers of the township, occupies a farm on Section
5, in the second township, second range. He is a son of James
Patchell and Elizabeth Cannon, who were natives of Ireland.
He was born on Oil Creek, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Jul. 9, 1814.
His paternal ancestors were French Huguenots, who emigrated to the
northern part of Ireland in 1568, four years before the massacre of St.
Bartholomew. As early as 1515 the principles of Luther and
Zwinglius had gained an entrance into France (especially that part
bordering on Switzerland), as well as the doctrines of Calvin, which
were embraced by the Patchells, a very numerous and influential
family living near Vassey. In the struggle between the bourbons
and the five princes of Guise, they espoused the cause of the former;
but it was not until 1560 that there was anything like an armed
opposition to the tyranny of the latter. A plan was agreed upon by
the Huguenots to seize the Guises on a certain day, when a number of
them were to present a petition to the king in person (who then lived at
Blois), asking him to grant them the right of free exercise of their
worship. The plan was betrayed and twelve hundred Huguenots were
executed. Of that number seven were Patchells, where the
name first occurred in French history. Bloody scenes were the
result, and the massacre of Vassey in 1562 was the immediate cause of a
continued civil war between the Catholics and Protestants in that part
of France for over a century.
In leaving France and settling in Ireland, the
Patchells did not better their condition, for the same bloody scenes
were there enacted, though of a local and not a national character.
His great-great-great-great grandfather was one of the gallant few who
served under that famous Protestant clergyman, George Walker, in
the heroic defense of Derry against King James. For bravery
in the battle of Boyne, he was presented with a gold medal, now in the
possession of Samuel Patchell. His grandfather, Edward
Patchell, was keeper of the forest under Lord Fitzgerald.
The nobleman was killed by the Catholic tenantry, in the insurrection of
1788, in Derry County. He also owned a large farm five miles from
Londonderry, and would have shared the fate of his lordship had he not
been secretly released by a man named Dunbar, who he had
befriended in several ways.
In 1792 he emigrated to America, settling in
Pennsylvania. In 1800 he bought one thousand acres of land of the
Holland Land Company, through which Oil Creek runs, on which are some of
the largest oil-wells in the State. His father, James Patchell,
was next to the youngest of a family of two sons and three daughters,
and was born in the county of Derry, Ireland, in 1772, and married
Elizabeth Cannon in 1800. She was also a native of Ireland,
and was born in the county of Tyrone, in 1783. By this union there
were eight children: Edward, William, Mary A., Jane, Eliza, Jemima,
James, and Joseph, all of whom are now dead but James,
who resides at Port Union.
In the War of 1812 he was a major in the Pennsylvania
militia, and during the Winter of 1814 was stationed at Erie,
Pennsylvania. His brother Edward was a brigadier-general in
the Pennsylvania line during the War of 1812. He was also
appointed by President Jackson, during his second term, the
issuing commissary-general of the Army of the Southwest, with
head-quarters at New Orleans, which position he held for three yeas,
when he resigned on account of ill health. At the time of his
death he was one of hte wealthiest and most prominent citizens of
Pittsburg.
In the Spring of 1816 James Patchell, in company
with several other families, descended the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers to
Neville, Clermont County, Ohio, in a keel-boat. He was driven to
this course on account of going on the official bond of his friend
Samuel Plumer, as sheriff of Venango County. He defaulted in
office, for a large sum, and his security could not pay this without
selling his farm, which he had inherited from his father. He left
it in the hands of his brother Edward, to sell and pay the debt.
A short time after coming to Clermont County he purchased a farm in Tate
Township, where he resided until 1830, when he removed to Butler County,
where he died in 1846. He was a man of great energy and strong
will power. Although a Democrat in a Democratic county and
township, and possessed of a good education, he would never consent to
be a candidate for any office. These, combined with honesty and
good judgment made him a man of more than ordinary ability.
James Patchell, the son, was born on the 9th of
July, 1814, at Oil Creek, Venango Co., Penn., and remove with his
parents to Clermont Co., in Ohio, in 1816. He came to Union Twp.
in 1830. On the 28th of Aug., 1842, he was married, at Port Union,
to Mrs. Belinda McClellan Smith, widow of Dr. G. M. Smith.
Her maiden name was McClellan, being the daughter of James
McClellan and Anna Giffin, and she was born in Hamilton Co.,
Ohio, Oct. 8, 815. Her father was a great-uncle of Gen. George
B. McClellan. They have six children. Joseph C.
was born Dec. 14, 1843; E. Jennie, Aug. 4, 1847; James E.,
Aug. 29, 1850; Stephen C., Jan. 29, 1853; Edward W., Aug.
14, 1855; and Rosalinda, Dec. 6, 1858. Joseph C. who
is married to Lizzie Gerwig, now lives in Cincinnati, and is a
dentist in good practice; E. Jennie is married to Samuel B.
Dean, and lives at Collinsville; James is married to
Ollie Cutler, and lives at Port Union; Stephen is married to
Jennie Easton; Edward W. is married to Millie Howard;
Rosalinda was married Sept. 28, 1881, to George Milton
Roudebush of Newtonville, Clermont Co.
Mr. Patchell began with about eighty acres of
land, but has since added steadily to it, until he now has two hundred
and forty-six acres in a state of high cultivation. He was trustee
of Union Township from 1843 to 849; Justice of the peace from Nov. 3,
18498, to Dec. 13, 1846, in all fifteen years; postmaster of Port
Union from May 11, 1850, to October, 1865, and notary public since Jan.
25, 1866. He was assessor of real estate in the township in 1859,
and also in 1880, and revalued them in both years. From 1855 to
1877 he settled nearly all the estates of deceased persons as
administrator, and acted as guardian of minors within the township,
their estates amounting in gross to nearly two hundred thousand dollars.
His family has had a long and honorable connection with the history of
this valley.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 574a, Union Twp. |
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JEREMIAH PAULIN
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 619, Wayne
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FRANCIS PEABODY. Among the
many movements looking toward the elevation and better education of the
women of America, perhaps none of the special ideas or departures from
the old routine, which have assumed form in effort, has attracted more
attention or proved more thoroughly practical than that of which Mrs.
Mary Lyon became the exponent. Her ideas took tangible form in
the opening of a school at South Hadley, Massachusetts, known as Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary, from which hundreds of finely educated and
accomplished young women have gone forth to take rank among the foremost
educators philanthropists, and practical women in all stations in life.
Among the early pupils of this school was Miss Helen Peabody, now
the head of the Oxford Female Seminary.
Some time in 1635 Francis Peabody,
of Hertfordshire, England, came to America in the ship Planter,
and settled in Massachusetts. As a descendant from this stock,
Ammi Peabody is recorded as having been born July 4, 1769, in
Boxford, Essex County, in that State. He was married to Miss
Sarah Johnson then a resident of Newport, New Hampshire, to which
place the Peabody family had but a short time, before removed.
To Mr. and Mrs. Peabody were born a family of fourteen children,
of whom four sons and three daughters are now living. The father
died at Newport, New Hampshire, in 1845, while the mother was spared
till March, 1859.
Helen Peabody, the youngest member of
their large family, was born May 6, 1826. Her girlhood was passed
in no manner dissimilar to that of other children of her day, her school
advantages being those common to the villagers of New England.
When fourteen or fifteen years of age she spent about a year at the
Concord Literary Institute, at Concord, New Hampshire, of which school
another brother, the Rev. Charles Peabody, was then the honored
and successful principal. After this Miss Helen was engaged
for some two years in teaching in district schools in the vicinity of
her Newport home. She then accepted a position in Kimball Union
Academy, in Meriden, New Hampshire, where she remained about a year.
In 1845 she entered Mt. Holyoke Seminary as a pupil
under Miss Lyon, and pursued the full curriculum of the
graduating course, taking her diploma in the Summer of 1848. Four
the four following years Miss Peabody was connected with her
alma mater as one of the faculty, and her relations to the school
were of the pleasantest character, she proving herself very efficient in
the duties and responsibilities here placed upon her. But in her
earnestness and zeal in her work she found her health becoming
undermined, and was compelled to relinquish her position, and the
following year she took for rest and visitation among her relatives and
friends. In the Summer of 1854 she engaged as a teacher in a
private seminary for young ladies, in the city of St. Louis, Missouri,
making her home with her brother Charles, who, at the time, was a
resident of that city, and district secretary for the American Tract
Society.
The corporators of the Western Female Seminary,
which had been located at Oxford about this time, had their seminary
buildings nearly completed, and the trustees were on the outlook for
just the right person in whose hands they might, with confidence, place
the affairs of the new educational venture, as its head and principal.
It had been at the outset decided that the plan, both of the edifice and
the school itself, should be modeled on the Mt. Holyoke pattern at South
Hadley, and with the faculty of that institution the trustees had
frequent correspondence, and it was upon their hearty recommendation
that the board first had their attention turned toward Miss Peabody.
In the Summer of 1855 a delegation from this body, consisting of the
Rev. Mr. Babb, of Cincinnati, and the Rev. Mr. Bonham, of
Oxford, went to St. Louis and had a personal conference with this lady,
laying their project before her, and in the name of the trustees
pressing the position upon her. Miss Peabody asked for a
little time in which to consider the matter, and the following morning,
although strongly drawn toward and attached to the family of her brother
Charles, who at this time were in deep sorrow from the recent demise
of the wife and mother, and feeling it a duty and privilege to remain,
and, in so far as her noble womanly heart and effort could try and
supply the loss, especially in the care of a sweet, motherless infant,
yet urged by the brother to look upon the opening as a providential one,
pointing to duty, she decided to give the committee a favorable answer,
accepting the position.
Soon after she came to Oxford, and at once entered with
zeal and enthusiasm upon the work which was thus committed to her care,
and with such success that about the middle of September following the
school was thrown open to the public, equipped with a fine corps of
teachers and starting off with an introductory class of about one
hundred and fifty pupils.
The entire machinery could hardly be expected to work
perfectly smooth, and the first few weeks of a new school, conducted as
this was proposed to be, naturally was subject to some unpleasant
friction. The immediate wants of this large family were pressing,
but the requisite conveniences were not all just in place. The
cooking range was not finished, nor had all its furniture yet arrived,
when the one hundred and fifty young ladies, some with their parents,
came swooping down upon the faculty. The young ladies were at once
assigned positions in the culinary department as well as elsewhere in
the curriculum of the institution, and strange and unexpected
perplexities suddenly arose. One of these nymphs of the kitchen,
referring to these early experiences, gives the following as one of the
first problems which confronted her as "freshman" in the first class in
the Western Female Seminary: "Given two dripping pans and a brass
kettle, it is required to cook meats and vegetables for over one hundred
and fifty persons:" and in addition facetiously remarks, "Never
before did we appreciate the capabilities of dripping pans." Of
the perplexities and annoyances consequent upon the opening of the new
school, Miss Peabody received and bore her full share, and by the
effort thus demanded and nobly performed, she was enabled to send the
enterprise prosperously along on its course toward the grand success to
which it has attained.
Early in life, probably when about fourteen years of
age, Miss Peabody became interested in the subject of personal
religion, and about this time made a public profession of her faith in
Christ, uniting with the Congregational Church of her native place.
But as with every thing else in her life, the profession of a hope in
the Savior meant earnest zealous work for the Master whose cause she had
thus early in life espoused, and through all of her subsequent career we
easily discover a grand Christian substratum underlying her whole
educational work, and constantly coming to the surface in her every-day
life and intercourse either with the world outside or the hundreds of
loving pupils upon whom in the providence of God, it has been her
gracious privilege to exert her personal influence. While the
great work of her life thus far has been that of an educator in the
popular acceptation of the term, yet to those to whom Miss Peabody
is best known, it is acknowledged that it has ever been her great aim to
let the thought, which found expression in the class motto in 1878, "Omnia
ad Dei Gloriam" (All to the glory of God), be the ruling principle
and motive of her lifework. When she came to reside at Oxford she
sought for and found a spiritual home in the Second Presbyterian Church,
continuing her membership with it when the two interests were united as
the First Presbyterian Church of Oxford.
Probably two of the most trying experiences in her life
were the repeated destruction of the seminary buildings by fire, first
on the 14th of January, 1860, and again on the 6th of April, 1871.
But the friends of the institution stood nobly by their heroic and
devoted principal, and since the last rebuilding the school ahs to pride
itself upon having one of the finest and most commodious edifices of
which the West can boast, seemingly complete in all its appointments,
and over which it is the heartfelt, earnest prayer of every alumna and
friend of the school Miss Helen Peabody may long be spared to
preside.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 546, Oxford Twp. |
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FREDERICK C. PETRI was born in
Bavaria December 19, 1838, being the son of George C. Petri and
Constance Fey. He same to America May 2, 1855, soon after
being in Liberty township, working for John Flenner.
There he stayed for three years and a half. Mr. Petri
was married on the 20th of March, 1862, to Elizabeth Miller,
born in Germany in 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Petri have been
granted five children, of whom three survive. Cora Anna
and born January 18, 1870; Fred C., Jr., July 3, 1872, and
Edward, November 1, 1874.
Mr. Petrie conducted the Gebhardt
farm, in St. Clair Township, for two years, was one year on the
Woodmansee, farm in Liberty Township, two years locating on the
place where he now lives in the Spring of 1867. It was known as the
Mills place. It consists if two hundred and forty acres. In
1874, Mr. Petrie made a trip to Germany with his family, and was
gone over six months. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran
Church, at Hamilton. Mr. Petri and served as school
director.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 589, Union
Twp. |
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JAMES R. C. PHARES, one of the sons
of W. W. Phares, is a farmer. He was born in Wayne
Township, Jan. 13, 1819, and was married on the 19th of May, at Keokuk,
Iowa, to Maria Oldenburg, daughter of Louis Oldenburg
and Mary Church. She was born in Pennsylvania, Apr. 10,
1807. Mr. Oldenburg was a native of Germany. Mr.
and Mrs. Phares have had eight children, - Edmund, born Aug.
19, 1848; Andrew B., Mar. 16, 1850; Lawrence T., Mar. 30,
1853; Louis A., Mar. 24, 1856; Samuel I., Jan. 10, 18590;
Bellamy S., Sept. 22, 1860; Hubert A., Oct. 8, 1864;
Tessie May, July 29, 1872. Mr. Phares was assessor in
1854, and member of the board of education from 1860 to 1877.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Evansville, Ind. 1882
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 619, Wayne
Twp. |
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SAMUEL A. PHARES,
farmer, was born in this township December 20, 1830. His father
was W. W. Phares, the first postmaster of Jacksonburg, and his
mother was Anna Caroline Phares. They came to this county
in 1805. Samuel A. Phares was a member of the One Hundred
and Sixty-seventh Regiment, Colonel Thomas Moore, in the
rebellion, during the year 1864, serving in Company D, Captain
Bookwalter. He was married Aug. 15, 1878, in Hamilton, to
Phebe A. Page, daughter of Benjamin A. and Sarah A. Page.
To this union there has been born Grace C. Phares, Dec. 27, 1879,
and they have adopted Edna M. Phares born Oct. 31, 1867.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 619 - Wayne Twp. |
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W. D. PHARES
is a farmer. He is a son of George W. Phares, who was born
Nov. 20, 1801, and Jane W. Phares, who was born Jan. 14, 1800.
They came to this county in 1805. W. D. Phares was born in
Wayne Township the 16th of December, 1837, and was married Nov. 23,
1860, to Hester F. Potchner. Her father and mother was
Dennis and Elizabeth Potchner. She came to this county in
1810, but Mr. Ptchner was born in Preble County, July 18, 1842.
Mr. and Mrs. Phares have two children, - Mary D., born
July 29, 1866, and Harry C., Sept. 28, 1872. He served in
the Sixty-third Ohio Regiment three years, from 1862 to 1864, and was
honorably discharged.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 619, Wayne Twp. |
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WILLIAM C. PHARES was
born in Butler County, May 11, 1829. He is the son of William
W. and Anna C. Phares. His father was a colonel of the militia
in 1812, and went up to Fort Meigs to the assistance of our troops.
The fighting, however, was over, and he returned. He came to this
county in 1805, and his wife in 1809. William C. Phares was
married on teh 29th of December, 1862, to Eliza M. Phares, who
was born in Evansville, Indiana, and the daughter of Joseph and
Lucinda Phares. She was born June 30, 1838. They have,
as fruits of their union, Susan, born Jan. 16, 1869, and
Joseph, born Dec. 23, 1866. Mr. Phares was out in the
war, serving under Colonel Thomas Moore, in the One Hundred and
Sixty-seventy Regiment. He follows the occupation of a farmer.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 619, Wayne
Twp. |
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ADAM PLANNETT
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 558, St. Clair
Twp. |
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HOMER PHILLIPS
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 609, Madison
Twp. |
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JOHN POCOCK
was born in Hanover Township, Butler County, Sept. 5, 1837, and is the
son of JAmes and Harriet S. Pocock. The father was a native
of Maryland, coming to Butler County early in the century. He was
a soldier in the War of 1812. He was married in this county, and
raised a family of children.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 589, Union Twp. |
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JOHN
G. POLSTER, the youngest son of John and Anne Polster, was
born in Bavaria, Oct. 10, 1829. He came to America in 1849, living
in Steuben County, New York, for fourteen years. He was married
Jan. 14, 1854, to Margaret Strobel who was born in Bavaria, Jan.
27, 1833. Mr. and Mrs. Polster are the parents of nine
children. Mary was born Sept. 8, 1854, and is now the wife
of Conrad Huffnagle of Cincinnati. John George was
born Oct. 29, 1856, and lives at home. Margaret Elizabeth
was born Jan. 16, 1860; Louisa Jan. 29, 1862; Katie Rachel,
Mar. 30, 1863; John W., Oct. 16, 1865; Eli John, Mar. 4,
1868; Mary Ann, Sept. 28, 1871, and Lizzie Barbara, May
16, 1874. IN the Fall of 1863 he came to Ohio, locating in Butler
County in 1864, and purchasing the farm where he still resides. It
consists of over one hundred acres of fine land, under good cultivation.
He began without money, having but five francs left when he arrived in
New York State. He is a member of the Lutheran Church at Hamilton.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 589, Union Twp. |
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JOSEPH POPPEL
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 558, St. Clair
Twp. |
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EZRA POTTER
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 368 - Hamilton Twp. |
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DR.
S. H. POTTER. Dr. Stephen H. Potter is one of
the senior physicians and surgeons of Hamilton and vicinity. He
was born in Cortland County, New York, November 12, 1812. His
parents were Stephen and Lydia Potter, who were noted among the
early pioneer of Central New York for their enterprise, industry, and
integrity. Until his seventeenth year he was occupied on his
father's farm, attending the common schools about one-third of the year,
his parents then giving him his time, which he employed in improving his
education, working in Summers and teaching school during the Winters.
At the age of twenty-one in March, 1833, he was
employed as principal of a high school at Canandaigua, New York, with
three assistants, remaining there successfully two years and four
months. The next September after engaging in this school, he also
commenced the study of medicine with Dr. E. B. Carr, reciting to
him an hour daily, Sundays excepted, until July, 1837, when, in order to
pursue his studies more favorably, he went to Olean, New York, with his
brother-in-law, Dr. E. W. Finn, who owned a large drug store and
had an extensive practice. Here he devoted his time industriously
to these pursuits until September, 1837, when with two other medical
students he came to Ohio and attended a medical college six months,
graduating honorably, March 15, 1838. He immediately settled at
Canal Winchester, in the Scioto valley, where he enjoyed a large
practice until December, 1844, when his father was entirely disabled by
palsy, which necessitated his return to Cortland, is native place.
Here he soon received a large patronage among his early school
companions and friends, until May, 1849, when his father having died and
other relatives being provided for, he settled in the city of Syracuse,
New York. Here with others he organized and had incorporated the
Syracuse Medical College, and established, edited, and published the
Syracuse Medical and Surgical Journal, a monthly. The first
term of the institution opened the next November 5th, with eighty-seven
actual matriculants, and continued two terms each year, of four months
each, or thirteen terms, until June, 1855. In February, 1852, to
improve his knowledge of surgery, Dr. Potter went to
Philadelphia, and attended the clinics in the Pennsylvania hospital and
surgical lectures in the medical department of the University of
Pennsylvania, until the latter part of May.
He continued dean of the Syracuse Medical College and
in charge of the Journal until September, 1855, when his wife
suffered incipient consumption, rendering it necessary to return to this
valley, her native place, hoping that the change might restore her
health. He arranged with his partner, Dr. F. W. Walton, now
of Piqua, Ohio, to settled their business. Dr. Potter then
went to Cincinnati, where he accepted the position of lecturer on
principals and practice, in the American Medical College, where he
continued publishing his journal, and attending the clinics, twice
weekly in the Commercial Hospital of that city until June, 1856, when he
resigned, sold his journal, and settled with his family permanently in
this city, where he has ever since been in active practice, with the
exception of two brief intervals. At the urgent solicitation of
friends, in May, 1873, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and assisted in
organizing the American Medical College and the American Medical
Journal, which have both enjoyed surprising patronage. The
former is now holding its eighteenth term, and has become a leading
institution in the West, and the Journal has attained a large
circulation.
The doctor was for four consecutive years president of
the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Society, and the past two its recording
secretary; he was one of the incorporators and first vice-president of
the National Eclectic Medical Association at Chicago in 1870, which
organization has since grown to thirty State auxiliary societies, with
prosperous working members; and has been the president the most of the
time for about twenty-two years of the Miami Medical Society. He
has also been for four years a member of the city council, and is at
present a member of the board of health.
The doctor has been married four times, each time
happily; has reared seven children to adult age, and, unfortunately,
lost as many in infancy and childhood. He is the well-known author
of a "Compendium of the Principles and Practice of Medicine," a book of
five hundred pages, a work full of research and a marvel of
condensation, for ready reference, and invaluable to busy practitioners
and medical students. It has a large demand, having passed two
editions, and has been adopted as a text-book in our medical colleges.
Perhaps the most notable incident in the extended and
eventful life of Dr. Potter was the rescue of a fugitive slave
named Jerry in Syracuse, New York, about 1852. It occurred
soon after the fugitive slave law was passed, and on the occasion of
holding a national anti-slavery convention at that place.
Daniel Webster had recently delivered a speech to an immense
concourse there, threatening that "when this convention thronged the
city, a noted fugitive would be arrested and taken back to slavery.
The United States Government would teach the people that there was
potency in law." Four United States marshals had been detailed
from as many adjacent cities, and the whole police force of Syracuse
were ready. Jerry was arrested and placed in chains.
About thirty thousand people were waiting to witness the scene.
The man, with blue eyes, red cheeks, and brown curly hair, with no other
semblance of a negro, was taken away from the officers by the mob, and
finally placed by Dr. Potter in the grounds of a residence
inhabited by a stiff pro-slavery man, where the most active search
failed to find him. After the lapse of a week, and search having
been made from house to house, when detection was imminent, the doctor
arranged with Jerry's host to drive in with a meat wagon, got
Jerry in, and, covered with blankets, he drove before the door of
the Syracuse House, hitched, went in with the doctor, took cigars, and
drove out through the city about 4 P. M. in beautiful sunshine, no one
suspecting the presence of Jerry. After reaching Brewerton,
seventeen miles, Dr. Potter took Jerry in his carriage,
sending the team back, and conveyed the fugitive to Mexicoville and by
the underground railroad to a small harbor on Lake Ontario, whence he
obtained a passage on a small sailing vessel to Canada. No more
noted fugitive slave case ever occurred in the United States, and in it
the doctor was the principal agent of success.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 361 - Hamilton Twp. |
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ALEXANDER PUGH was the
first member of this family that came to Ohio. He was born in
England, and was married to Hannah Stubbs, a native of Wales,
when quite young. He came to this country, with ten of his
brothers, all serving in the Revolutionary War. Since that time
nothing has been known of the brothers. Alexander Pugh
settled in the State of Alabama, after the close of the war, and in 1804
removed to Ohio, settling in Preble County, on the Twin Creek Valley.
There he resided for many years, but late in life removed to
Indianapolis, where he died. He had five children, only one of
whom is living. His name is Jared, and he resides in
Montgomery County.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 390 - Hamilton Twp. |
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JAMES BROOK PUGH
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 548, Oxford
Twp. |
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JOHN
PUGH was the only one that came to Butler County. He was
born in 1797, in Alabama, and moved to Ohio with his father in 1804,
while a child. He was married about 1817 to Kezia Jones,
born in North Carolina in 1797, by whom he had eight children.
Elizabeth wife of Ezekiel Samuels, lives in Seven-Mile;
Riley is deceased; Alexander is married, and lives in
Eaton; William is married, and lives in Hamilton; John is
married and lives in Preble County; Hannah, wife of John
Mikesell, lives in Preble County; Keziah, wife of James
Busenbark, lives in Cumminsville, Hamilton County.
Mr. Pugh came to Butler County in 1817, and
settled in Wayne Township, on the farm now owned by his son John.
He was a self-made man, for, although he received a small farm with
his wife, it was all he did get. Two of his children, John
and Isaac, were out in the late war. William Pugh,
born Nov. 7, 1825, was married Dec. 24, 1851, to Cynthia Ann Boatman,
born in Butler County, Ohio 24, 1834. They have had three
children: Charles Eugene, married, and living in Hamilton, and
Carey Riley and Cassius M. Clay.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 1882 - Page 390 - Hamilton Twp. |
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F.
B. PUTHOFF, mayor of the city of Hamilton, was. born at
Cincinnati, April 20, 1843. His parents, John Henry and
Mary Elizabeth (Borger) Puthoff, were natives of
Osnabrick, in Hanover. Mr. and Mrs. Puthoff came to this country
about 1834, settling in Cincinnati, where the father soon built up a
prosperous business, and where he still lives, at the age of.
seventy-five. Mrs. Puthoff died in 1879: Frederick B. Puthoff
attended the schools of Cincinnati, and at the age of eleven was sent to
boarding school at Dayton, where he remained for two years, and
exhibited marked proficiency in his studies. He then returned to
Cincinnati, where he entered St. Xavier College, being there for two
years more. He then was employed as a clerk in different stores, being
in this occupation until he had reached his eighteenth year.
He tried to enlist at the beginning of the war, but on
account of his age, and from the fact that he had two older brothers
already in the service, they refused to take him. Mr. Puthoff did
not take the refusal of the recruiting officers to accept him with
resignation. He ran away from home and boarded the boat that took the
regiment to Ripley, Ohio, where he found his two older brothers, who
informed the officers of the circumstances, and requested them to return
him to Cincinnati, which was done. Four months after, he ran away again,
joining the commissary department, and acting as one of the clerks. With
this department he remained for a year. He then returned home and began
learning the cabinet-maker's trade, at which he continued until of age
in 1864. One day shortly after, he left the shop with his working cap
and apron on, and walked up to the recruiting office, where he enlisted
in the Second Ohio Cavalry, returning to his employer's place in
uniform. With other recruits he was sent to Harpers Ferry, after being
drilled for some time at Columbus, and was placed in the. brigade under
command of General Custer. They remained in Virginia until
the close of the war, and after the grand review at Washington were sent
to Arkansas. Upon his return home to Cincinnati he engaged as a salesman
in the furniture business with Duncan & Williams,
wholesale dealers, remaining there until 1867. He was married in 1867,
and every thing went on well. He was then living in St. Louis, his
employers in that place being Corastock & Haywood. After
being there some months he was sent by them to Peoria, Illinois, to act
as salesman and assistant manager of a branch house. His wife died the
year following, on the 14th of May, 1868, one week after giving birth to
twins.
Mr. Puthoff remained in Peoria until
1870, when he came to Hamilton, where a brother was engaged in the drug
business. Here also was his daughter. With what means he had saved from
his salary as salesman he bought a stock of goods and opened a hat
store, continuing in that business until May, 1881. A short time after
his coming to the town his fellow citizens perceived that he had a
natural adaptability to the public service. He was always ready for
committee work or for labor at the polls, and spoke readily and
effectively. He was elected a member of the city council from the First
Ward in 1878, and signalized his term of two years in that capacity by
vigorous and successful efforts for sewerage, parks, improvements of
streets, and other municipal improvements. He refused a re-election,
which was proffered him, but his popularity brought him out as a
candidate, against his own wishes, for the State Legislature, but he
failed to secure the nomination in convention.
In 1881 he was named for the office of mayor, and was
triumphantly elected, receiving the largest majority ever given in the
city—six hundred. The candidate on the other side was the popular M.
N. Maginnis. During his administration of affairs the city has been
distinguished by its quiet and the respect paid to law. The death of
Garfield happened since he was in office. Every preparation had been
made here for celebrating the anniversary of the nation's birth with
unusual distinction. Mayor Puthoff issued a manifesto
requesting the citizens to desist from the public demonstrations
intended. A citizens' meeting was called by him to express sorrow and
detestation of the crime, and at this meeting the mayor spoke weightily
and with feeling. The proposed celebration was abandoned. He exerted
himself at the time of the proposed execution of the new liquor law by
his efforts to secure a hearty and free submission to it, and to allay
any animosities that might have sprung from this cause. Mayor
Puthoff is a member of the Knights of Honor and the Knights and
Ladies of Honor, and is a member of the Soldiers and Sailors'
Association. He was married to his second and present wife, Helen
McCafferty, of Macomb, Illinois, but a native of Nauvoo, in the
same State, on the 18th of July, 1870. Three, children by this wife are
living. The oldest, Fred. L., is nine years of age; the second,
Mary E., died at the age of three; Eva H. is two years of
age; and the youngest, a little girl a year old. Anna M., the
daughter of the first wife, is fourteen years of age, and attends a
boarding school in Cincinnati. Mr. Puthoff has well
discharged the duties of the offices confided to him, and has shown by
his ability his capacity to take other and larger trusts.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 359 - Hamilton Twp. |
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