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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Stark County:
with an outline sketch of
Ohio
Chicago: Baskin & Battey,
1881
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Marlborough Twp. -
ABNER
TAYLOR, New Baltimore; is a native of Crawford Co.,
Pa., and was born Oct. 29, 1818. He is a son of
John and Mary (Kirk) Taylor, who were natives
respectively of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and who were
parents of a family of ten - Samuel, Abigail, Joseph,
Aaron, Judith, Amy, Sarah, Levi, John and Abner -
are yet living. When the subject of this sketch was 8
years old, his father died, and two yeas later his mother
and family came to Marlborough Twp., where relatives had
preceded them. They located on Sec. 4 on the farm now
owned by our subject, it being all woods then, with the
exception of three acres. They here began pioneer life
in earnest, gradually clearing and improving the place as
years passed by. The mother died May 3, 1849.
Abner Taylor was reared principally in Marlborough Twp.
In July, 1844, he married Christiann Werner who bore
him six children - Joseph, Eliza, Isadore, John, Wilson
and Leora. Eliza is the only one dead.
Joseph married Belle Rogors, and lives in Indiana;
Isadore is the wife of D. Austin, and resides in
Marlborough Twp.; John married Maggie A. Bowman,
and lives in New Baltimore; the other two are single.
MR. Taylor has always retained the old farm on which
he still resides. Besides carrying on the farm, he
formed a partnership with his son John in September,
1871, under the firm name of A. Taylor & Son, dealers
in groceries, dry goods, &c., in New Baltimore. They
carry one of the largest stocks of general goods of any
house in the whole neighborhood. Mr. Taylor is
a Republican in politics, and he and his wife are members of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Taylors
are old and honorable citizens of Marlborough Twp.
Source: History of Stark County: with an outline sketch of
Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881 - Page
932 |
Osnaburg Twp. -
THOMAS TINKLER, dealer in iron ore,
and farmer; Paris, O.; was born in England, Sept. 9, 1826;
son of Joseph and Anna Tinkler, in whose company he
sailed for America, at the age of 7 years. At 12, he
was placed under the tutelage of Arvine Wales, a
farmer residing near Massillon, O. After arriving at
his majority, he engaged as a clerk in Massillon, in 1856.
In 1862 he was employed by Hon. J. P. Burton of
Massillon, to go to Tuscarawas Co., for making inspections
in the black iron-ore belt. But he subsequently
discovered the thickest stratum of black-band ore of the
entire belt in Osnaburg Twp., upon the farm that he now
resides upon, the maximum thickness measuring 18 feet, with
two to three feet of stripping underlaid with twenty-four
inches of coal deposit. Being employed as
Superintendent, he began at once to open up this mine, the
magnitude of which can be partially conceived when we
consider that twenty-five to thirty teams were employed in
the favorable seasons, for five years, with an average
delivery at Louisville, of forty tons daily. He was
employed by J. P. Burton, in Stark and Tuscarawas
Cos., for about fourteen years, which has given him a wide
and practical knowledge of the geological formations of the
black-band ore, and strata contiguous to it. In his
opinions he has met with opposition from the State
Geologist, Newberry, Mr. Tinkler claiming that no
other belt of black-band ore has ever been discovered
outside of a three-mile belt, beginning at Mineral Ridge,
Trumbull Co., and extending S. W. to the Ohio River.
Mr. Tinkler was married to Miss Harriet Hicks,
of Massillon, in February, 1856. This marriage is
blest with one child, a young lady of culture and
refinement, still at home. Mr. Tinkler is at
present engaged in ornamenting and improving his beautiful
home and farm.
Source: History of Stark County: with an outline sketch of
Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881 - Page
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