BIOGRAPHIES
History of Pickaway County
and Representative Citizens
Edited and Compiled by
Hon. Aaron R. Van Cleaf
Circleville, Ohio
Publ. 1906
WILLIAM
JACOB SLAGER, one of Wayne township's
representative men, township trustee, and for the past
14 years a successful farmer in Pickaway County, was
born Oct. 12, 1864, and is a son of Jacob and Mary
(Pendleton) Slager.
The parents of Mr. Slager were residents of Ross
Count, Ohio. They reared a family of three sons
and four daughters, viz.: Milton, Schuyler, William
Jacob, Alice, Nora, Florence Della and Jane.
The last named is deceased.
Mr. Slager was reared to the life of a
farmer and obtained his education in the country
schools. In Indiana, he married Sylvia
Talbott, a daughter of Daniel Talbott,
of Indiana, and they have these children: Ethel,
Fred, Glen, Opal, Harold, Foreman and William,
who is named for his father. Mrs. Slager
has two brothers - Oliver, who married Susan
Bell and Willard, who married Anna
Largent, and two sisters - Lillie, who
married William Cottingham and Eva.
Source: History of Pickaway County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens, Edited and Compiled by Hon.
Aaron R. Van Cleaf. Circleville, Ohio - Publ. 1906 -
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WILLIAM
H. SILBAUGH, M. D., who is engaged in the
practice of medicine at Ashville, was born Oct. 21,
1867, at Lawrence Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, and is
a son of William and Mary (Everly) Silbaugh.
William Silbaugh was born in the Duchy of Nassau,
Germany, July 10, 1835, and came to this country in
1851, locating in Ohio, where he engaged in the
manufacture of wagons and carriages. He died Mar.
3, 188e. Our subject's mother, who is of
Pennsylvania Dutch extraction, was born in Morgantown,
Virginia, (now West Virginia), June 7, 1839, and is
still living, at the age of 67 years.
William H. Silbaugh attended the Ironton (Ohio)
High School, and then worked at carriage building in
order to secure funds to complete his education.
In 1891 he entered Miami Medical College, from which
institution he was graduated in the class of 1894-95.
After his graduation he first located at Royalton,
Fairfield County, Ohio, where he had read medicine with
his brother, Dr. John J. Silbaugh, and here
practiced for two years. On Apr. 7, 1897, he moved
to Ashville where he has since been successfully engaged
in the practice of his profession. Dr. Silbaugh
spent a portion of the years 1891 and 1892 in
Philadelphia in the German Hospital under such eminent
specialists as Dr. John Dever and Dr. Joseph
Price's Hospital; and Dr. William H. Rodmon,
professor of surgery in the Medico-Chirurgical College
of Philadelphia. Dr. Silbaugh, also took a
post-graduate course at the College of Philadelphia.
Dr. Silbaugh also took a post-graduate course at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York and is
excellently equipped for the practice of his profession.
His brother, Dr. John J. Silbaugh, is a leading
physician and surgeon of Lancaster, Ohio, and another
brother, Leroy G. Silbaugh, is a prominent
attorney of Lancaster, of which city he was mayor in
1892-93.
Dr. William H. Silbaugh
was united in marriage on June 13, 1895, to Anna E.
Creed, a daughter of George and Alice Creed, of
Royalton, Fairfield County, Ohio. Mrs. Silbaugh
was a granddaughter of the late Andrew Peters.
She was a student at Delaware College for three years.
Dr. and Mrs. Silbaugh have had two children:
George Creed and William Harold.
Fraternally, Dr.
Silbaugh is a member of the Masonic lodge at
Circleville and is also a member of the Knights of
Pythias and the Odd Fellows lodges at Ashville.
Source: History of Pickaway County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens, Edited and Compiled by Hon.
Aaron R. Van Cleaf. Circleville, Ohio - Publ. 1906 -
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JOSEPH
SMITH, a successful farmer of Scioto township,
was born in Goodhope township, Hocking County, Ohio,
July 24, 1853. His father was a farmer, he was
trained to agricultural pursuits, and his entire life
has been devoted to the avocation whose results from the
basis of the wealth of the United States. Mr.
Smith attended the district schools of his
neighborhood and assisted on the family homestead until
he was 20 years of age, after which he worked out as a
farm hand until 1883. In that year he began
farming for himself near Pleasantville, Fairfield
County, this State, continuing in that locality for the
succeeding 10 years.
In 1893 Mr. Smith removed to the Ford farm,
in Scioto township, about a mile and a quarter from his
present location, and remained there for five years,
since which time he has been operating the well-known
H. H. Seeds farm of 155 acres. As a
portion of the land is given up to crops of corn, wheat
and oats and a portion to the raising of cattle, he is
engaged in what may be called mixed farming.
Mr. Smith's wife was before marriage
Elizabeth Asbell, and by her he has become the
father of the following children: Arthur E.
and William, living at home; Cora, wife of
Prentiss Seeds, residing at Orient; Alma,
wife of Curtiss Ryerson, of Columbus; Josie
Lee, wife of Oscar Bethards, a resident of
Orient; and Sadie and Grace, who live at
home with their parents.
Mr. Smith is active and influential in the politics
of the county, and a stanch supporter of Democracy.
He has served as township trustee for several terms -
once by appointment and twice by election - and
has been a member of the School Board for a period of
six years. He has once honored by election as a
delegate to a county convention, but declined to serve
on the ground that he had not been a resident of the
county for a sufficient length of time to be entitled to
such representation.
The father of Mr. Smith, who was a native of
Virginia, came to this State when a young man, and died
about 35 years ago, at the age of 73 years. His
mother was born in Guernsey County, this State, and died
in 1893, at the more advanced age of 82.
Source: History of Pickaway County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens, Edited and Compiled by Hon.
Aaron R. Van Cleaf. Circleville, Ohio - Publ. 1906 -
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