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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio
by E. M. P. Brister
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Vol. II -
Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co.
1909
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DR.
HOMER JURY DAVIS, a practitioner of
the regular school with thorough mastery of the science of
medicine in its relation to the needs of suffering humanity,
is accorded a liberal patronage by those who recognize that
his ability enables him to successfully cope with the
intricate problems that continually confront the physician.
He has a large practice in Newark and the surrounding
country. A native of Licking county he was born in
Licking township, the family being founded in this locality
by the great-grandparents of Dr. Davis, who arrived
from Virginia in pioneer times. They were accompanied
by their son, James Davis, the grandfather, who was
then a boy and was reared amid the wild scenes and
environments of the frontier. He eventually became one
of the enterprising agriculturists of Licking township and
on the old homestead there is son Joseph Davis
was born and reared. Throughout his entire life he has
been connected with agricultural pursuits and is still
farming in Licking township. On the 9th of September,
1858, he married Miss Helen Sutton, a
native of this county, and fifty years later they celebrated
their golden wedding, having for a half century traveled
life's journey together, their mutual love and confidence
increasing as the years have gone by. Dr. Davis
was educated in the district schools and in Doane Academy
and Denison University at Granville, Ohio. He is a
graduate of the last two, completing his University course
in 1897 when the degree of Bachelor of Science was conferred
upon him. He had made good use of his opportunities
for mental development and through the four years succeeding
his graduation be filled the position of professor of
chemistry and physics in Williamsburg College of Kentucky
but believing that the practice of medicine would prove more
congenial and profitable be prepared for that work as a
student in the Rush Medical College of Chicago, the medical
department of the University of Chicago, being graduated
therefrom in 1904. His high scholarship is indicated
by the fact that he secured as a result of a competitive
examination the internship in Cook County Hospital, his
service there continuing for eighteen months. In 1907
he came to Newark where he has since engaged in practicing
medicine, doing good work in both medical and surgical
lines. In addition to his private practice he is now a
member of the staff of the City Hospital and is surgeon for
the Pennsylvania Railroad at Newark.
Dr. Davis is popular in various social and
fraternal organisations with which he is connected. He
belongs to the Alpha Omega Alpha, and the Phi Rho Sigma,
both medical fraternities, and to the Beta Theta Pi, a
literary society. He has taken the degrees in Masonry
up to and including that of Knight Templar, belongs to
Newark Lodge, No. 391, B. P. O. E., is an honored member of
the alumni association of Rush Medical College and has
membership relations with the Licking County and Ohio
State Medical Societies and the American Medical
Association. He is actuated by high ideals in his
professional service and for this reason is continually
studying in order to promote his efficiency and attain still
greater capability in his work of checking disease.
His substantial qualities of manhood and citizenship
combined with his professional skill have rendered him
popular and have gained for him a circle of friends that is
continually increasing as the circle of his acquaintance
broadens.
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio by E. M. P. Brister - Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909 - Page 654 |
Joseph Davis |
JOSEPH DAVIS,
a well known farmer of Licking township, who comes of a
family the members of which were among the early pioneers of
this part of the county, was born near Jacksontown, May 9,
1832, his grandfather, Samuel Davis, whose
birth occurred Oct. 15, 1768, having come here by wagon in
the early days from Virginia, when the country was in a
primitive state. He built a large two-story log house,
which class of structure was out of the ordinary in those
times, and engaged in general farming until his death in
1851. He was united in marriage to · Miss Mary
Stone, by whom he had five children, namely: Sarah,
whose birth occurred Apr. 2, 1792; James, who was
born Mar. 4, 1798; Rhoda, born Sept. 7, 1800; and
Elizabeth and Rebecca, twins, who entered this
life Sept. 21, 1809.
James Davis; father of the subject of
this review, was born in Virginia and came to this county
with his parents in 1806, locating near Homers Mills, and
near the present Newark city waterworks. A year later
they removed to a farm a mile west of Jacksontown on the
national pike, where they remained for several years.
After James Davis was united in marriage to
Susan Grove he located on the farm where the
birth of Joseph Davis occurred, from which
place he subsequently removed to the national road, where he
erected a brick house which he occupied until his death and
which is still in good condition, being occupied by the
grandson. This residence is an old landmark,
considered one of the best homes in the county. He
owned three hundred and forty acres of land which he had
highly improved and kept continually under cultivation.
A man of great business ability, be was wide-awake to his
own interests and yet honest in all his dealings, and as an
instance of his foresight it may be related that with two of
his neighbors he was at the Licking county courthouse paying
taxes, when the cashier remarked that there was a quarter
section in Licking township unclaimed, upon which Mr.
Davis, deciding that he had as much right to it as
anyone else, at once made up his mind to gain possession of
the tract. Immediately making ready for the journey,
without breaking the secret to those about him he started
for the land office at Chillicothe on foot at three o'clock
Sunday morning, and finally arrived at that place, secured
possession of the land and was descending the courthouse
steps when the two neighbors, Thomas Baird and
William Harris, with whom he was standing when the
cashier spoke of the land, came in from different directions
on horseback and were crestfallen upon receiving information
from Mr. Davis that the unclaimed quarter section was
now his. He was a democrat who revered the principles
of his party and did all in his power to secure the election
of its candidates. He was of a highly religious turn of mind
and was an active member of the primitive Baptist church,
deeming his religious duties above all others.
Susan Grove, mother of our subject, was a native of
Rockingham county, Virginia, born Aug. 10, 1800, and died in
this county in 1891. She reared a family of nine
children, namely: John, Samuel, Sarah, Nancy and
Jackson, all of whom are deceased; Joseph; George,
an agriculturist of Hebron, Ohio; Rebecca; and
Oliver, deceased.
Joseph Davis had no educational advantages beyond those
afforded 'him in the old log schoolhouse near the farm, but
being inspired by a thirst for learning he was a great
reader and after completing his studies perused many volumes
from which he gleaned knowledge of various things, so that
he is now accounted one of the best read men in this part of
the county. He remained at home assisting in the
duties of the farm until he was twenty-six years of age,
when he began farming on an adjoining tract of land which he
still owns. He has met with such success as to enable
him to add to his land from time to time until he now
possesses five hundred acres in one tract, all of which is
highly improved and on which stands three fine dwelling
houses, the one which he occupies being one of the finest
and largest homes in the county. He engages in general
husbandry, producing crops of hay and the various grains,
and at the same time pays some attention to stock-raising.
On Sept. 9, 1858, Mr. Davis was united in
marriage to Miss Helen Sutton, a native of this
county, by whom he has had three children, namely:
Charles Franklin, who operates a farm adjoining
that of his father; James Perry, who is in
business in Newark; and Homer Jury, a
practicing physician and surgeon of Newark, Ohio, who was
graduated from Rush Medical College and Cook County
Hospital, of Chicago. The democratic party has always
received the vote of Mr. Davis, who has
interested himself in local politics, as well as state and
national. He bas served as one of the most efficient
members of the school board, and at one time during his
incumbency, when there was only fifty dollars in the school
treasury, and he was therefore unable to secure a teacher
his wife started out in a buggy and finally persuaded a
woman to take the position by boarding her free and thus the
situation was relieved. Mr. Davis for
many years also served as a trustee of the township and has
always been deeply concerned in the welfare of the immediate
community. He holds membership in the Primitive
Baptist church, the services of which his wife also attends,
and in this body he has for many years officiated in the
capacity of deacon. Mr. Davis is a good
man whose long life of uprightness has been of great benefit
to the community, and he is looked upon by all his neighbors
as a man deserving of the highest respect.
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio by E. M. P. Brister - Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909 - Page 380 |
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MRS. JOSEPH DAVIS.
Keziah Hellen (Sutton) Davis, wife of Joseph Davis,
was born in Licking county, Ohio, on Mar. 23, 1840.
Joseph Sutton, her grandfather, came from Fayette
county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1801 and put into
cultivation a hilly piece of ground now included in the farm
owned by James Richardson of Licking township, this
county. His excursion from Pennsylvania to this then
far western territory was made on foot and through a
trackless forest. The small crop of corn raised was
stored in a rudely constructed crib on the cleared ground
and late in the fall the pioneer returned to his old home in
Fayette county, Pennsylvania to make the necessary
preparations for bringing his family, consisting of a wife
and child to the new home in the forest. His
description of the locality so recently visited was such as
to induce his father to return with him to Ohio in the
following spring, bringing with them their families.
The party of emigrants returning to the newly prepared Ohio
home included the following: Isaac Sutton, the
father; Elizabeth Carr Sutton, the mother; and the
sons and daughters, Elizabeth, Jehu, Rhoda and
Eliza, - all led by the adventurous Joseph with
his wife and child. Two married daughters, Ruth
and Naomi, remained at the old Pennsylvania home, but
their descendants later followed along the old trail to the
new settlement.
A permanent settlement was not established by the
emigrants till the spring of 1805, when the combined family
entered a piece of land of four hundred acres two and a half
miles south of the present site of Newark. This land
is now the property of the late Jessie R. Moore heirs
and Mr. Charles Bader. Joseph Sutton was
married in Pennsylvania to Miss Keziah Gaskill of
Maryland. To this union were born the following
children: Benjamin, born in Fayette county,
Pennsylvania; Naomi; Amanda; Joseph Bentley; Elmer
Gaskill; Keziah Ann; Emaline; Alva Rigdon; Electa Fidellia;
and William Henry. In 1812 Joseph Sutton
enlisted a troop of cavalry and served as captain
throughout the war. His command embraced the Third
Regiment, under orders from General Tupper. He
saw much service and at the close of the war was mustered
out with honors. the war ended, he returned to his
farm and continued in its improvement. He built a
brick house, burning his own brick and laying them with his
own hands. The house still stands in a good state of
preservation. Later he purchased property in the
village of Granville, Licking county, and conducted a
tannery at that place. His children enjoyed the
education offered by the Granville schools - then as well as
now the educational center for central Ohio. Joseph
Sutton died on his farm south of Newark at the age of
seventy-nine years.
Joseph Bentley Sutton was born in 1814 and died
Sept. 8, 1892, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joseph
Davis. On Apr. 11, 1836, he married Sarah Ann
Arthur, who was born in Ohio county, West Virginia, and
emigrated with her parents to Ohio, settling on the old
National road near Amsterdam in this county. She was
one of six daughters, a profoundly religious woman of
Presbyterian belief and always one most zealous for the
welfare of her family and home. Joseph Bentley
Sutton was a man of incommunicable courage, a leader in
all things pertaining to the development and advancement of
the community in which he lived. He never held office
aside from that pertaining to the school and township, but
his judgment and fearless execution of the plans he believed
to be just and for the best of all concerned made him a most
prominent and useful man. He was much interested in
the preservation of peace and order in the community during
the troublous times of hte "early days" and was held in
terror by all evil doers. He did much to promote and
assisted materially in the construction of the old plank
road extending south from Newark, Ohio, to Jacksontown.
In 1841 he was commissioned by Thomas Corwin, then
governor of Ohio, captain of the Seventh Company, First
Regiment of Cavalry, Second Brigade, Fourth Division in the
Ohio Militia. To Joseph Bentley Sutton and Sarah
Ann (Arthur) Sutton were born seven children, namely;
Phoebe Ellen, Susan Amanda, and Benjamin, all
dead; Keziah Hellen, now Mrs. Joseph Davis; Alva
Arthur, a contractor of Medway, Ohio; Thomas Franklin,
a farmer and stock-raiser of this county; and Edward
Augustus, engaged in the produce and exchange business
in Columbus, Ohio.
Mrs. Joseph Davis was born in the old Sutton
homestead a few miles south of Newark, Ohio, now the
property of Mr. Charles Bader and sisters. She
was the oldest of seven children and much of her early life
was spent in the assistant care of the home and younger
members of the family. She attended the township
school at the Lloyd schoolhouse and later the city high
school in Newark, Ohio. In 1858 she was married to
Mr. Joseph Davis and they began their early housekeeping
on a portion of the tract of land now included in their
splendid farm of five hundred acres. The family
consists of three sons, all grown to manhood. Mrs.
Davis is a member of the Primitive Baptist church, a
most worthy and highly respected woman, sympathetic, kind
and generous, - that type of womanhood portrayed in the
ideal wife and mother.
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio by E. M. P. Brister - Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909 - Page 601 |
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J. M. DUSTHIMER.
Licking county has never been wanting for representative men
to take hold of its farming interests and develop its
natural resources, and one of the prosperous agriculturists
of Franklin township is J. M. Dusthimer, whose birth
occurred in Hopewell township May 18, 1850, a son of
Isaiah and Mary (Brady) Dusthimer. His father was
a native of Franklin township, this county, where he engaged
in the pursuit of agriculture until his death.
Politically he was a supporter of the democratic party, was
affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church as one of its
leading factors, and was a man whose upright character was
well spoken of throughout these parts. The mother, a
native of this county, still survives and resides in
Brownsville, Ohio. Among their children were:
Elizabeth J., wife of Berban Coe, residing
in Brownsville; J. M., our subject; J. W., an
agriculturist of Jacksontown, this county; H. E., a
retired farmer of Linnville, Ohio; and Rebecca E.,
deceased.
J. M. Dusthimer attended the district schools of
Hopewell and Franklin townships, his father having removed
to the latter township when he was but eight years old, and
in the Newark public schools which he attended for one term.
He thus acquired sufficient education to enable him to teach
school, which vocation he followed for four terms.
His early life was spent upon the farm upon which he resided
until he was twenty-two years of age, when he rented a farm
in Franklin township where he engaged in farming for several
years and then purchased the farm upon which he has since
resided. His present farm consists of
sixty-eight and one-half acres of land upon which be has
made all the improvements, having done almost all carpentry
work on his barn and other building himself. Besides
this home place he and his wife own one hundred two and
one-half acres of land, and his wife one hundred and
twenty-seven acres of land in Franklin township. Mr.
Dusthimer gives his attention to general farming and
stock raising, has made a careful study of the soil and has
therefore been fortunate in reaping abundant harvests, for
the most part deriving the maximum yield per acre.
In 1872 he wedded Miss Elnora H. Motherspaugh,
and they have had three children, namely: Samuel L.,
an agriculturist and township clerk of Franklin township;
Mary A., wife of Alva Haslett, also a
farmer of that township; and Elmer Hay.
The democratic party has always received the vote of
Mr. Dusthimer and aside from taking an
interest in national and state politics be is also concerned
in local affairs, having been township clerk and for several
years a member of the board of education. While he is
not affiliated with any secret societies nor religious
organizations he attends divine services with his wife, who
is a member of the Lutheran church. He is a man whose
honest and straightforward life places his name above
reproach among the township's most industrious and worthy
citizens.
Source: Centennial History of City of Newark and Licking County,
Ohio by E. M. P. Brister - Vol. II - Publ. Chicago - Columbus: by
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909 - Page 831 |
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