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History of Shelby County, Ohio
Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So.
1883

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Green Twp. -
JOHN C. C. LAUGHLIN, was born in Brown County, Ohio, Jan. 2, 1830, and came to Shelby County with his parents.  Robert and Isabella Laughlin, in the fall of 1839, and settled near New Palestine.  In 1840 Mr. R. Laughlin purchased and moved on a farm near Plattsville, where he passed the remainder of his days.  He reared a family of eleven children, six of whom are yet living, viz., William, John C. C., David, Joseph S., Elizabeth, and Nancy A.  John C. C. Laughlin has made farming his vocation, and at this date owns a farm of 120 acres in Champaign County, near the Shelby County line.  Dec. 3, 1854, he married Miss Sarah A. Clark daughter of William and Jemima Clark.  Miss Clark was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, Oct. 2, 1834, and came to Shelby County with her parents in 1838 and settled in Green Township.  By this union he had two children, viz., William R. and Jemima I.  Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin are now residing in New Palestine.  They have lived on five different farms since their marriage, all of which were in Shelby County.  He filled the office of trustee of Green Township about four years.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 208
JEREMIAH LAYMAN was born in Pennsylvania in 1799, removed to Hamilton County, Ohio, early in the present century.  Here in 1822 he married Mary Cummings, a daughter of Robert and Amy CummingsMr. Layman remained in Hamilton County until 1839, when they removed to Shelby County, and located in Orange Township.  They raised a family of seven children, only two of whom are now living, viz., Eliza C., wife of John A. Voress, and Amy H., wife of D. Brelsford.  Mrs. Layman died June 15, 1869, aged seventy-three years.  Mr. Layman died Apr. 8, 1875, aged seventy six years.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 190
Green Twp. -
JOHN C. LEEDOM, M. D.; P. O. Tawana, Ohio.
     Mr. Leedom was born in Bucks County, Pa., Nov. 13, 1817.  He was educated in the Philadelphia schools.  In 1837 he began the study of medicine in his native county.  He attended the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and in 1839 he moved to Ohio, and located in Champaign County, where he commenced the practice of medicine under the direction of and with Dr. A. K. Roots, of St. Paris, with whom he remained about two years, or until 1841, when he associated himself with his brother, Dr. S. K. Leedom, of Quincy, Logan County, Ohio, for one year.  Then in 1842 he came to Shelby County, and located near New Palestine, where he has since been engaged in the profession of medicine, and is known for many miles around as a successful practitioner.  On the 4th day of February, 1839, he married Miss Mary Johnson, of Bucks County, Pa., born April 23, 1819, daughter of John and John J., Mary J., Samuel K., and Elwood G.  Mr. Leedom owns a good farm in Green Township near New Palestine, on which he is residing and conducting the business of farming in connection with his profession, and is considered as among Green Township's most enterprising and leading business men, always in favor of any improvement that is beneficial to the community at large in which he lives.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 207
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Dinsmore Twp. -
DR. L. D. Le FEVRE was born in Salem Township, this county, Jan. 1, 1837.  Here he lived on the home farm until he commenced the study of medicine in Cincinnati, where he graduated in the spring of 1861.  On the 1st of March, 1862, he enlisted as hospital steward in Co. K, 57th O. V. I., but during his three years' service was acting assistant surgeon.  He was finally mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, and at once began the practice of medicine at Careysville, Champaign County, Ohio.  In 1875 he came to Sidney, but about a year later moved to Anna and opened a drugstore, practising medicine at the same time.  In about six months he found his practice so extensive that he abandoned the drug business, and turned his whole attention to his profession.  In this direction he has been unusually successful, his practice being really too extensive to be easily pursued.  In 1866 he married Elizabeth Cecil, who died about 1873.  In 1875 he married Clara Leckey, who is still living.  They have four children, named Lucius M., Louisa Jane, Courtland L., and Benjamin F.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 241
Dinsmore Twp. -
HECTOR LEMON, deceased, was born in Maryland in 1789.  In about 1823 he migrated to Pennsylvania and located in Chester County, where in 1825 he married Miss Ann Smith, of that county, born Sept. 1, 1795.  Mr. and Mrs. Lemon settled in Chester County, Pa., remained until June, 1833, when they went to Ohio and located in Shelby County, entered, made improvements, on the west half of the southeast quarter of section 27, Dinsmore Township, on which Mr. Lemon died Apr. 18, 1851.  His companion survived him until Sept. 15, 1867, when she died in Sidney, this county, where she had resided about five years.  They reared a family of four children, Sarah A., Mary J., Esther C., and Rebecca E., Mary J., and Esther C. are now dead.  Sarah A. married Philip Ragan, and is now living on her father's home farm.  Rebecca E. married Philip Summers, and now resides in Henry County, Iowa.  Mr. Lemon served about one year in the war of 1812, and in 1852 his family received a warrant from the Government, calling for 160 acres of land for his services during that war.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 243
Washington Twp. -
JAMES LENOX.  The Lenox family traces back in a direct line to Scotland, although the date of immigration of the American branch of the family cannot be clearly ascertained.  Still that immigration was at least prior to the Revolutionary period, for it is known that John Lenox served in the continental army throughout the war for independence.  He came, then, during the colonial period, and passing through the Revolutionary war, married Rachel York and settled in Virginia at the dawn of the national period.  After his death, which occurred in Virginia, his widow and family came to Ohio in search of a new home.  This was in the year 1796, or seven years prior to the admission of Ohio as a State.  The family on coming to the Northwest Territory, settled near that old territorial town, Marietta, which had witnessed the solemn inauguration of the first court held in "the territory northwest of the Ohio River."  Here the Lenox family remained until 1811, when they sought the valley of the Great Miami and settled within the present limits of Turtle Creek Township, this date being eight years prior to the organization of Shelby County.  Of this family James Lenox became one of the leading spirits in the new community, and one of the principal citizens of the new county.  He was born in Virginia on the 14th of February, 1793,and was one of the children who, with his widowed mother, came to the county in 1811.  He was thus here just in time, although yet young, to breathe the spirit of war, for the air was then filled with that war germ which developed the second war for independence.  His father had served in the first, and he entered the second, serving throughout the campaigns of 1813 and 14 in the operations in Ohio, Michigan, and Canada.  Returning at the close of that war, he resumed the vocations of peace, and assisted in the development of that community which was yet to erect itself into a new county.  On the 12th of February, 1818, he married Sally, daughter of John and Anna (Webb) Wilson.  The Wilson family had come from Virginia to Ohio at an early date, even settling in this county's limits as early as 1807.  Before coming here they had settled for a time in Warren County, and it was at this place their daughter Sally was born, Jan. 1,1803.  After his marriage Mr. Lenox settled in Turtle Creek Township, on land which the family had entered in 1811.  Here he lived until 1845, when he moved to Washington Township, having purchased the old John Wilson farm, which had been entered by Wilson in 1807.
     From the date prior to the organization of Shelby County, Mr. Lenox held a commission as justice of the peace, an office he retained for many terms in succession.  At the erection of the county he became the first treasurer, having been appointed to this office by the Board of Commissioners on the 7th of June, 1819.  He also held the various township offices, including the appraisership.  He is said to have been a man of reserved manners and domestic tastes, who was greatly devoted to literature, and as such a man is still highly revered by those who knew him best.  Having exceeded his "threescore years and ten," he laid down the burdens of life Dec. 9, 1865, having closely approached his seventy-third year.  Though greatly enfeebled by age, and wearied by the burdens of a toiling life, Mrs. Lenox still survives at the advanced age of seventy-nine years.  The family consisted of twelve children, viz.:  Emeline M., born May 19, 1819; died, 1822.  Napoleon B. born June 9, 1821; died Nov. 28, 1862.  Anna W., born Aug. 4, 1823; died Oct. 5, 1823.  John W., born Sept. 21, 1824; died Sept. 12, 1851.  William F. born May 25, 1827; died Oct. 17, 1865.  Hamilton C., born Nov. 5, 1829; lives on homestead.  Jesse W., born Jan. 22, 1832; died Aug. 26, 1864.  Julia A., born April 12, 1834; resides in county.  Abraham, born Aug. 5, 1837; died Mar. 12, 1863.  Hiram, born July 24, 1839; resides in Illinois.  Laura L., born Dec. 28, 1841; resides at old home.  Virgil C., born April 5, 1844; resides in Illinois.  Of these, four sons were in the war of the Rebellion, one of whom died from the effects of a wound; one from disease while in service; one after the year, from disease contracted in the services; while one only of the four survives, viz., Virgil C., who resides in Illinois.  Hamilton C. now, together with his sister, Laura L., resides on the old homestead.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. 1883 - Page 282
Washington Twp. -
ELIJAH LINK was born in Ashland County, Ohio, in 1833.  In 1874 he came to Shelby County, where, in the year 1878, he married Maggie Marshall, a daughter of William and Martha (Sturgeon) Marshall.  They have had born to them two children, viz., George W. and John.  They are located on the old Sturgeon farm near Lockington.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. 1883 - Page 285
Dinsmore Twp. -
JOHN C. LINTON, son of James H. and Anna E. Linton, was born in Logan County, Ohio, July 12, 1851.  When at the age of fourteen years, he began working in a saw-mill at Belle Centre, Logan County, for Wm. H. Young, with whom he remained several years, and has since been engaged in the manufacturing of, and dealing in all kinds of hard wood lumber, which business he has made a success.  In 1874, he, in company with L. Davis, came to Shelby County and erected the steam saw-mill known as the Linton mills, which he has since been operating.  The mill is located in Dinsmore Township, two miles south of Botkins.  Nov. 4, 1872, he married Miss Catharine, daughter of Michael and Mary O'Donnell, then of Franklin County, Ohio, bur a native of New York State, where she was born Oct. 25, 1856.  By this union he has two children, viz., Ida M. and Emma E.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 246
Perry Twp. -
G. W. LIPPINCOTT was born in the State of New Jersey in 1826. His parents were Jacob Lippincott and Debro Burge Lippincott.  He came to Shelby County in 1847, and married Sarah J. Line in 1856.  They have raised a family of five children, viz., James, John, Edward, William, and Franklin.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 219
Perry Twp. -
G. W. LIPPINCOTT was born in New Jersey in 1826, came to Shelby County in 1847, and married Sarah J. Line in 1856.  Mrs. Lippincott is a daughter of John Line and the old lady who was so foully murdered by David Shank.  They have raised a family of five children, as follows: James, born 1861; John, born 1864; Edward, born 1866; William, born 1868; and Franklin, born 1874.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 221
Green Twp. -
ISAAC P. LOVETT, Farmer; P. O. Tawana, Ohio.
Mr. Lovett was born in Bucks County, Pa., Feb. 20, 1823, and came to Ohio with his parents, Joshua and Hepzibah Lovett, who settled in Champaign County, near the Shelby County line, Aug. 28, 1835, where young Lovett passed the remainder of his boyhood days on a farm.  May 26, 1842, he married Miss Hannah, daughter of Nicholas and Mary Speece, born in Virginia May 16, 1818,and came to Champaign County, Ohio, with her parents in 1823 or 1824.
     Mr. and Mrs. Lovett settled in Champaign County, remained until 1857, when they purchased and moved on the farm in section 2, Green Township, Shelby County, where they are now living.  They reared a family of four children, viz., Joshua, William S., Nicholas S. and George H., all of whom are now married, and have families.  Joshua and Nicholas served about four months each in the late war in Company H, 132d O. N. G.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page

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