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History of Shelby County, Ohio
Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So.
1883
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Disnmore
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PHILIP Y. RAGAN, son of Thomas
and Elizabeth Ragan, was born in Franklin Township,
this county, Mar. 9, 1831. He has made farming his
principal vocation, and now owns a good farm in Dinsmore
Township, which he is conducting with success. On
the 6th of April, 1854, he married Miss Sarah A.,
daughter of Hector and Ann Lemon, Miss
Lemon was born in Chester County, Pa., Nov. 12,
1832, and was brought to Shelby County by her parents in
June, 1833, who settled on the west half of section 27,
Dinsmore Township. Mr. and Mrs. Ragan
settled on her father's home farm, on which they have
since resided. They have a family of nine
children, two sons and seven daughters.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 243 |
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Dinsmore Twp.
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THOMAS RAGAN, deceased, was born
in Virginia in 1804. when he had attained the age
of eight years, his parents, Eli and Rebecca Ragan,
came to Ohio and located in Ross County, where young
Ragan grew to manhood. In 1824 he came with
his parents to Shelby County, and located in the
southeastern part of Franklin Township, remained a few
years, then moved to Wyandot County, and located near
Carey, where Thomas Ragan married Miss
Elizabeth Young, then of Wyandot County, but a
native of Pickaway County, daughter of Philip and
Nancy Young. Mr. Ragan returned to this
county with his wife and settled near Sidney. He
was a miller by trade, which he made his avocation for a
number of years, then turned his attention to farming,
which he followed as his occupation until death called
him home. In 1830 he made improvements on a piece
of land in Franklin township, which now belongs to the
Fridley farm. Mr. Ragan was a
citizen of Franklin and Dinsmore townships from 1830
until his death, except two years, during which time he
was residing in the State of Indiana. He did Dec.
26, 1876. His wife departed this life Jan. 3,
1877. He reared a family of nine children, viz.,
Eli, Philip Y., Rebecca, Emily J., George, Lovina,
Catharine, Harriet I., and John W. George
died in Andersonville prison in 1864.
Rebecca died in 1854. Eli served about
three years in the war of 1861.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 242 |
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Green
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SAMUEL RANDOLPH, Farmer; P. O.
Plattville, Ohio.
Mr. Randolph was born in Clarke County, Ohio,
May 19, 1833. He came to Shelby County in 1853,
and made his home with his brother William Randolph,
for several years. Dec. 25, 1860, he married
Miss Mary M. Platt, daughter of John and Dorcas
Platt, born in Shelby County, Green Township, June
11, 1844. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph settled on
her father's home farm, where they are now residing.
They have a family of five children, three sons and two
daughters.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 205 |
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Green
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WILLIAM RANDOLPH, Farmer; P. O.
Sidney, Ohio.
Mr. Randolph was born in Clarke County, Ohio,
July 13, 1826, and came with his parents, James B. F.
and Rachel Randolph to Miami County in 1838, who
settled near Piqua, where young Randolph grew to
manhood. Nov. 27, 1850, he married Miss Sarah
E. Bull, daughter of John and Eliza Bull.
Miss Bull was born in Green County, Ohio, Sept. 3,
1829, and came to Shelby County with her parents in
1832, who settled in Orange Township, where they now
reside. In 1853 Mr. and Mrs. Randolph
settled on the farm in Green Township in section 29,
where they are now living. They reared a family of
eight sons, five of whom are yet at home with their
parents. Mr. Randolph's first purchase of
land was the northwest quarter of section 29, Green
Township. He has made other purchases of land at
different times, until he now owns about two hundred and
eighty acres of land, all under a good state of
cultivation. He has one of the finest brick
dwellings in the township, which he erected in 1875, and
is one among the leading farmers in Green Township.
His parents, James B. F. and Rachel Randolph,
came to Shelby County in 1853, and settled in Turtle
Creek Township, where Mr. Randolph died Aug. 9,
1874, aged seventy-three years. Mrs. Randolph
is still living in that township at the advanced age of
eighty-nine years, and enjoying good health for one of
her age.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 204 |
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Washington
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DANIEL RASOR, the grandfather of
the above, was born in Pennsylvania about 1740. He
married and raised a family of eight children, and came
to Ohio at the beginning of the present century and
located in Montgomery County, ten miles north of Dayton,
where he died about 1820. Daniel Rasor,
a son of the above, was born in Pennsylvania in 1786,
and came to Ohio with his parents, where in 1810 he
married Elizabeth Weybright. They
raised a family of ten children, eight of whom are still
living. He died in-1860. His wife died in
1832. Of this family four came to Shelby County,
viz., Daniel, Abram, Jacob, and
Susannah.
Daniel Rasor, the
subject of this sketch, was born in Montgomery County in
1811, he being the eldest of his father’s family.
He lived with his parents until 25 years of age.
He worked at milling, in a distillery and woollen mills
up to the time of his marriage. In 1832 he was
married to Sarah Anderson. In 1836
they moved to Shelby County and located in Orange
Township on the banks of the Miami River, where
Joseph Fergus now lives, where he built a saw
mill which he ran some nineteen years, then sold and
bought a farm in Washington Township, which he lived on
some seven years, then sold his farm and removed to
Lockington in 1862, where he built a saw-mill on the
canal, winch he ran until 1873. This mill he sold
to the Summit Paper Company, and bought the site of the
Lockington Flouring Mills, of which he, together with
his son Daniel, are the present owners and
proprietors.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 285 |
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Washington
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DANIEL RASOR, JR. was born in
Orange Township in 1844. In 1866 he married
Sarah E. Bryan. They have by this union three
children, viz., John C., Jason, and
Fred C. He is in company with his father in
the Lockington Flouring Mills.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 286 |
Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Rasor |
Washington
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JACOB RASOR was born in Montgomery
County in 1819. He is the sixth of the family of
Daniel Rasor. He lived with his
father until he had passed his eighteenth year.
About a year and a half prior to this time his brother
Daniel had located in Shelby County and had built
a saw-mill, and desired to have his brother come and
work for him. Jacob being anxious to go
with his brother, his father gave him permission to go
on condition that he would pay him enough to hire
another man in his place. Jacob came to
Shelby County and lived with and worked for his brother
some sixteen years. His health then failed and he
retired from labor for about five years. In 1860,
he, together with his brother Daniel, bought the
site of the Lockington Saw-mills, and erected a mill
which they ran until 1873; then they sold it to the
paper company. They then bought the site of the
Lockington Flour Mills, upon which they built the
present mills. In 1875 he sold his interest in
these mills to his brother and his son, and has since
that time given his attention to farming.
In 1863 Mr. Rasor married Rebecca
Zigler, with whom he is living at the present
time. They have acquired a competence, and are
living a retired life in the enjoyment of a pleasant
home. Mr. R. has for many years been a.
member of the U. B. Church, and was one of the founders
of that church at Lockington. Mr. and Mrs.
Rasor have never had any children of their own, but
have raised a nephew and niece, Andrew and Emma J.
Hurley.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 286 |
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Green
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SAMUEL REDENBO, deceased, was born
in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Mar. 25, 1799, and was
brought to Ohio by his parents, John and Christina
Redenbo, May, 1799, who located in Hamilton County,
remained a few years, then, in 1810 or 1811, came to
Shelby County, and located in Orange Township.
John Redenbo and his son Jeremiah went from
this county, and served about six months in the war of
1812. The subject of this sketch married Miss
Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth
Robbins, born in Shelby County, Turtle Creek
Township, Apr. 1, 1805. Mr. and Mrs. Redenbo
settled in Green Township in 1819 or 1820, where they
made improvements, and remained a few years, and in 1827
or 1828 he sold his land, and purchased quarter of
section 26, Green Township, on which he passed the
remainder of his days. He died June 17,
1878. His companion is still living on the home
farm at the age of seventy-six years. They reared
a family of seven children, viz., Catharine ,
Harriet, Andrew, Alfred, Sylvester, Robert J., and
Lewis P. Robert J. and Catharine now
deceased.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 204 |
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Van Buren Twp. -
A. N. REDMAN was born in Virginia
in 1811, and came to this county with his father's
family in 1833. His father, Moses, lived
here the remainder of his life, and was one of the
oldest pioneers. He died in 1871 at the age of
eighty-four years. Our subject was married in
1861, his wife being a native of Virginia, where she was
born in1821.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 253 |
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Dinsmore
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GEORGE REYNOLDS, Retired Farmer;
P. O. Montra. Mr. Reynolds is a son of
William and Mary Reynolds. He was born
in Columbia County, N. Y., Apr. 16, 1812, where his
minority days were passed on a farm. Oct. 19,
1836, he married Miss Rebecca, daughter of
Amos and Martha Larkin, of Saratoga County, N. Y.
In May, 1838, Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds came to Ohio
and located in Sidney. In Sept. 1838, he in
company with his brother-in-law, Henry Larkin,
purchased of James B. McKinney two hundred and
forty acres of land in the north half of section 24,
Dinsmore Township, on which he made some improvements,
erected a cabin, and in November, 1841, he moved on
his land, where he has since resided. In 1850 he
purchased his partner's interest in the farm, and now is
the owner of the entire farm, which ranks second to none
in Dinsmore Township. About 180 acres of land are
now under cultivation, with a good frame house and a
large barn, erected on the farm, which is the result of
Mr. R.'s own hard labor and energy, which classed
him among the best farmers in the township. His
companion died Oct. 31, 1879.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 245 |
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Loramie
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GEORGE RHOADES was born in
Montgomery County, Ohio, March 30, 1832. He is a
son of John and Catherine Rhoades. He
married Matilda Erisman, of Montgomery County,
Ohio, who was born in 1835, daughter of John and
Elizabeth Erisman. In 1861 Mr. and Mrs.
Rhoades came to Shelby County and purchased and
settled on the farm where they now reside. They
have a family of nine children now living, viz.,
Elizabeth C., Laura A., John E., Sarah A., William H.,
George W., Mary E., Lucinda I., and Peter M.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 315 |
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JOHN S. RHOADES
was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, Dec. 6, 1823.
He is a son of John and Catharine Rhoades, who
were natives of Virginia. He received a common
school education. He has made farming his
principal business. He has resided on the same
farm the past thirty-live years. In January, 1845,
he married Miss Elizabeth Rhidenour, who was born
in Maryland, and came to Montgomery County with her
parents, George and Susan Rhidenour. In
1847 Mr. and Mrs. Rhoades
came to Shelby County, purchased, and settled on the
farm in Loramie Township, on which they now reside.
They have a family of seven children, viz., Lewis,
Ann, Lydia, Harriett, Catharine, Emma, and Levi.
Mr. Rhoades it now filling the office of township
trustee, and he has occupied the position of local
director for school district No. 5, for the past six
years.
Source: History of Shelby County,
Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 -
Page 316 |
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THE ROBBINS FAMILY. About the middle of
the eighteenth century Richard Robbins, together
with his wife, came to the American colonies, and
settled in New Jersey. We can learn but little of
him, but it is known that, while travelling through the
woods of Maine, in the year 1775, he was frozen to
death.
BENJAMIN ROBBINS, a son of
the above, was born in New Jersey in the year 1760, and
married Bathsheba Nutt in 1782. In 1786
they moved to Pennsylvania, from there to Kentucky in
1789, then in 1789 to Montgomery County, Ohio, where he
died in 1837. His wife died in 1848. They
had born to them twelve children.
RICHARD ROBBINS, one of
these twelve children, was born in New Jersey in 1785.
About 1806 he married Lydia Archer, of Montgomery
County, Ohio. They reared a family of eleven
children. They moved to Miami County in 1814,
where he died in 1837.
DAVID ROBBINS, a son of
Richard Robbins, was born in Miami County in 1824.
At the age of seventeen years he went to Piqua to learn
the edge tool trade, which he followed only three years.
He then went on a farm. In 1848 he married Miss
Ann E. Gibson, daughter of Wm. and Mary Gibson.
She was born in England in 1826. Came with her
parents to the United States in 1827. Mr.
Robbins in 1845 bought 1835 acres of land in Van
Buren Township, but did not move on to it until 1852.
They reared a family of four children, viz., William
E., Clara A., Amanda V. and Emma A.
They also buried four children in infancy.
In 1861, Mr. Robbins enlisted in the 20th O. V.
I., in which he served three years, the full time of his
enlistment. He was wounded at the battle of
Raymond by a ball in the face, which he still carries.
While in the hospital he was taken prisoner, and was
taken to Libby prison, but was shortly afterward
parolled, then returned to his regiment and served his
full time.
In 1881 Mr. R. rented his farm and moved to
Sidney, where he has built a comfortable dwelling, and
is now living a retired life.
Source 2: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 386 |
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Green
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HENRY ROBINSON, Farmer and
Gardener; P. O. Plattsville, Ohio.
The eldest son of Samuel Robinson, deeased, was
born in Champaign County, Ohio, Feb. 19, 1814, and was
brought to this county by his parents March, 1815,
settled in Green Township as aforesaid, where young
Robinson grew to manhood. On the 7th day of
September, 1837, he married Miss Ann Neal, of
Champaign County, Ohio, born Nov. 29, 1817. They
settled in Green Township, where they have since
resided. They reared a family of eight children,
two sons and six daughters, all of whom are yet living.
Mr. Robinson is the oldest settler now living in
Green Township, and has been a member of the M. E.
Church at Plattsville since 1829.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 203 |
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Green
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SAMUEL ROBINSON, deceased, a
native of Pennsylvania, was born in Bucks County, Mar.
3d, 1780. He came to Ohio when a young man, with
his mother, his father being dead, and located in Clarke
County, near Springfield, remained a few years, then
moved to Champaign County, where he married Miss
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Sturm, then of
Shelby County, born Mar. 11, 1793. Mr. and Mrs.
Robinson settled in Champaign County, remained until
March, 1815, when he entered and moved his family on the
land in Green Township, Shelby County, now owned by
George Ginn, in section 19, where they passed the
remainder of their days. Mrs. Robinson died
Nov. 4, 1875, aged 82 years. Mr. Robinson
died mar. 31, 1876, aged 96 years. They reared a
family of eight children, viz.: Henry,
Rebecca, Eliza, John, Mary, Rossiter, Elizabeth, and
Lydia, all of whom are yet living except Eliza,
who died in August, 1881. All married and had
families. Mrs. Robinson is said to have
been the second settler in what is now Green Township,
the first being Henry Sturm, the father-in-law of
Mr. Robinson. His first improvement on his
land was the erection of a log cabin, 14 by 16, one
story high, which served them as a dwelling about ten
years. Then, about 1825-6, he erected a hewed-log
residence. He made clearing land and farming his
avocation through life. Shortly after Mr.
Robinson settled on his land, one day while walking
around in the woods he saw a black bear sitting in the
forks of a large tree. In order to kill the bear
he returned to his house to get the gun, but
unfortunately there were no bullets run; so, while
Mrs. R. made the bullets, he went back to the tree
to watch the bear. In a short time Mrs. R.
came with the bullets. He loaded his gun and
fired. The bear fell backwards; but instead of
coming to the ground, it fell in the hollow of the tree,
out of sight, and presently a young cub ran up the forks
where the old bear sat, and looked down at Mr. R.
He thought he had killed the old bear sure. He
then cut the tree down, and found the old bear and all
of her cubs were dead. But on examination he found
his bullet had not touched the bear, but they were all
killed by the falling of the tree.
In about 1830 a severe storm passed over the
settlement, blew the roof off of Mr. R.'s house,
and did other damage in the neighborhood. IN 1834
another storm came along, and moved the upper part of
Mr. R's house, down as low as the tops of the doors
and windows, about six feet out of its place, but,
fortunately, no one was seriously injured.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 202 |
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Green
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JAMES ROLFE, deceased, was born in
Butler County, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1809. He was brought
up on a farm, and followed farming as his avocation
through life. In Jan. 1830 he married Miss
Zilpha A. Hunt, daughter of Nathan and Zilpha
Hunt, born in New York State April 20, 1820.
Mr. and Mrs. Rolfe settled in Butler County,
remained eight years or until Dec. 1838, when they
migrated to Shelby County and located on the land which
now comprises the well improved farm owned by their son
Nathan F. Rolfe, in the N. E. quarter of section 12,
Green Township. They reared two children,
Nathan F. and Rachel A. Rachel A. is now dead.
Mrs. Rolfe died Mar. 27, 1869. Mr. Rolfe
died Dec. 27, 1869.
Nathan F. Rolfe, the subject of this sketch, is
now living on the home farm and following farming as
Iris vocation. May 27, 1862, he married Miss
Eliza J. Woolley daughter of Thomas C. and Mary
Woolley, by whom he has seven children, five sons
and two daughters.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 208 |
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Loramie Twp. -
CHARLES P. ROSSSource: History of Shelby County,
Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 -
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