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Source:
History
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Combination atlas map of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio
Strasburg, Ohio: Gordon Print.,
1875
359 pgs. L. H. Everts
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COLONEL ELISHA JANES. This old resident of
New Philadelphia was born in
Columbia County, New York,
June 19, 1802. His parents were
Roger Janes and Elizabeth Warner,
both natives of Connecticut. They had three sons and four
daughters, of whom the subject of this sketch is the third child and second son. The first twenty years of his life
were passed upon a farm. He came to
Ohio in 1821 from New York, passed some three years
in Middlebury, Summit
County, and about the same period in Zoar and
Trenton, New Philadelphia, where he purchased a farm, the greater portion of which
now lies within the corporation of the town.
For some five or six years he was engaged as contractor upon the
Ohio
Canal.
About the year 1839 he was elected Sheriff of Tuscarawas County, and served four
years. At an early day he was also
Colonel in the Ohio State Militia.
In 1831 he was
married to Miss Elizabeth Cryder,
daughter of Gabriel Cryder and Nancy
Wolgemuth. Mr. Cryder, was for
some fifteen years Treasurer of Tuscarawas County.
Colonel Janes has had two sons and
five daughters – one son and two daughters only are living. The eldest surviving daughter,
Ellen M., married
Lewis Anderman, of New Philadelphia,
in 1862. For several years
Mr. Anderman was in the government
employ in the Pension Office in Washington. He died in 1871,
leaving a wife and one daughter. The
other daughter, Mary, is now Mrs. Dr. John H. Curry, of
New Philadelphia. The youngest son,
Leroy L. Janes, graduated at West Point
in 1861, and served through the late war in the regular army. During this time he was made Captain. He then spent three years at Fort Stephens, Oregon,
which point he fortified and garrisoned.
HE married a daughter of Dr.
Scudder, of San Francisco, who was for
eighteen years a missionary to
India.
Returning to the east, Captain Janes passed some three years upon a farm in the vicinity of
Baltimore, Maryland. About this time the
Japanese Government sent to their agent in New York for a West Point graduate to come to Japan and establish a military academy for
that nation.
Captain Janes was chosen, and, in
July, 1871, left for his new position, which he has filled to the entire
satisfaction of the Government. For
many years Mr. Elisha Janes has been
an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
He is one of Philadelphia’s
oldest and most esteemed citizens.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of
Tuscarawas County,
Ohio
by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia
– 1875 ~ Page 18
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GEORGE JOHNSTON.
The subject of this notice is a native of Fairfield,
Connecticut, and was born on the 29th of July, 1825.
His father, Peter Johnston, was a miller by trade,
and educated himself in that line of business by the perusal
of treatises upon that subject. In 1829 the family
emigrated to the State of New York, and settled in
Rochester. Here young Johnston, when a very
small lad, was employed as paper-carrier upon the
Rochester Republican.
In the spring of 1838, Mr.
Peter Johnston removed to New Philadelphia, Ohio, where
he died in October, 1840. By the death of his father,
George was thrown upon his own resources. For
some time he found employment at what was known as the "Gray
House," kept by John Gray, in the capacity of general
servant boy. His work was driving team, cutting wood,
cleaning horses, tending bar, blacking boots, and any other
service that needed to be done in and around such an
establishment.
When about fifteen years of age he used to work for
Peter Williams, grinding bark at twenty-five cents per
day. Thus, early in life, by this hard yet wholesome
experience, were developed in his character those manly
virtues and business qualifications which constitute the
essential elements of success. He was never ashamed to
be honestly employed. No matter how menial the labor
or how meagre the remuneration, it was duty, and he must
do it. To a poor boy it was that nor nothing; to
an ambitious boy it was that until something better
presented itself; and young Johnston early realized
the truth of Pope's beautiful couplet, -
"Honor and fame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, - there all the honor lies!"
In 1843 he spent
nearly two years with Joseph Newburgh, in Canal
Dover, as an apprentice to the tailor' trade, and also two
or three years in Cadiz in the same capacity. In the
spring of 1848, he opened a tailor's shop in New
Philadelphia, and followed the business for some four years.
The four years subsequent he was engaged in the dry goods
trade, and during the decade which followed he was a lumber
merchant.
In the spring of 1867 he came to Ulrichsville, and
became the successor of Messrs. O'Donnell & Forbes in
the mercantile business, which he conducted for five years.
On the 21st of April, 1869, Mr. Johnston was
united in marriage with Miss Mary E. O'Donnell,
daughter of Samuel O'Donnell, an early resident of
Uhrichsville.
In the spring of 1872 he disposed of his store, and,
after spending a year or more in grain-dealing, on Jan. 1,
1874, opened the
UNION BANK OF UHRICHSVILLE,
which receives deposits, discounts notes,
buys and sells coin and exchange, deals in coupons, and does
a general banking business. Collections made and
promptly remitted.
Mr. Johnston is a gentleman of remarkably
reticent disposition, though sufficiently sociable with
acquaintances; and perhaps no trait in his character stands
out in more prominent relief than his scrupulous attention
to his own business, and a thorough letting alone of that of
others. This has been amply illustrated in the
remarkably quiet, unobtrusive manner in which he has
conducted the enterprises of his life. Possessing an
unusual degree of modesty, he naturally shrinks from
publicity; and so thoroughly true is this, that his most
intimate acquaintances are often at a loss to tell just what
this "quiet man" is doing. As a business man he
proceeds with more than ordinary caution; and as a citizen
he is conservative, yet public spirited.
On element of his great success in life is found in the
fact that he always reduced his "promises to pay" to a "cash
basis." He never was met with an obligation but the
"cash" was ready. This trait was developed at an early
age. Even when a very young boy, with nothing but his
hands and poverty, - at a time, too, when he was working for
the insignificant pittance of twenty-five cents a day, - his
credit was good, from th fact that he lived within his
income, was satisfied with supplying simply his positive
necessities, die without luxuries, paid down promptly for
what he bought, and would not run in debt. His boyhood
was characterized by industry, promptness, perseverance,
honesty, and economy; and the adage, "as the boy, so the
man," has been fully exemplified in his subsequent history.
The same noble spirit of quiet self-reliance and
independence that found a place in his boyhood nature has
prominently developed itself in the business transactions of
his manhood. Such characteristics as these are found
only in the ascending pathway, and are sure guarantees of
future eminence
One element of his great success in life is found in
that fact that he always reduced his "promises to pay" to a
"cash basis." He never was met with an obligation but
the "cash" was ready. This trait was developed at an
early age. Even when a very young boy, with nothing
but his hands and poverty, - at a time, too, when he was
working for the insignificant pittance of twenty-five cents
a day, - his credit was good, from the fact that he lived
within his income, was satisfied with supplying simply his
positive necessities, did without luxuries, paid down
promptly for what he bought, and would not run in debt.
His boyhood was characterized by industry, promptness,
perseverance, honesty, and economy; and the adage, "as the
boy, so the man," has been fully exemplified in this
subsequent history.
The same noble spirit of quiet self-reliance and
independence that found a place in his boyhood nature has
prominently developed itself in the business transaction of
his manhood. Such characteristics as these are found
only in the ascending pathway, and are sure guarantees of
future eminence and success, and no boy can exhibit them
without enlisting in his behalf the interest, respect, and
confidence of all good and substantial citizens.
Business men, especially, have their eye on such boys.
Let all young men remember this and act accordingly.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of
Tuscarawas County, Ohio
by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia
– 1875 ~ Page 14 |
JOHN JUDY. This
gentleman is of Swiss parentage, and is the second child and
eldest son of John Judy (Tschudy), who emigrated from
Switzerland in the year 1808 and settled in Tuscarawas
County, Ohio. His wife was Mrs. Maria Shaffner,
whose maiden name was Tschudy, and whom he married in
Hagerstown, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1808. By her
first husband Mrs. Shaffner had three children:
Maria, Elizabeth, and Matthias.
The family of Mr. Judy comprised one
daughter and two sons: Susan, John and
David. Susan married Abraham Knisely; she
died in 1833. Mr. Judy's occupation was that of
a tailor. He was a man of very retiring disposition
and of great integrity. He died October 1, 1871, at
the advanced age of almost ninety-one. Mrs. Judy
died September 18, 1858, in her seventy-eighth year.
Mr. John Judy, the subject of this notice, was
born in New Philadelphia, Ohio, January 4, 1812. The
first seventeen years of his life were passed upon a farm.
At the age of eighteen he commenced working at the
carpenter's trade, and that, too, without having served any
apprenticeship whatever. But being of a mechanical
turn of mind and possessing a natural genius in that
direction, he soon acquired great proficiency in his chosen
profession, and followed the business for some five years.
Subsequently, for a number if years, his chief employment
was that of farming. He was also engaged in the
manufacture of brick.
Mr. Judy has been three times married; first in
1832, to Miss Elizabeth Landers, daughter of Felix
and Christina Landers, who were early pioneers to this
County from Virginia. This union was dissolved by the
death of Mrs. Judy on the 21st of August, 1863.
His second companion was Miss Christena Kitch,
daughter of David and Lydia Kitch, who were also
early settlers of Tuscarawas County, and came from
Pennsylvania. The married occurred October 16, 1864.
But this relation lasted less than five years. Mrs.
Judy died August 27, 1869.
The present Mrs. Judy was Miss Mary Seaton,
daughter of Andrew and Lucinda Seaton, early
settlers.
Mrs. Judy had held a number of honorable
positions, both in civil and in religious circles. For
nine years he served as Justice of the Peace. For a
period of sixteen years he has been Treasurer of the
American Bible Society, and for the past thirteen years he
has been devoting his time almost exclusively to the
interests of Sunday-schools, laboring in Sunday-school
conventions not only in counties in Ohio, but also in
neighboring States. He stands in the front rank of
Sunday-school workers, and believes, with all Christian
philosophers, that his department of benevolent effort
offers the most inviting and most hopeful field for
Christian labor. Mr. Judy combines all the
elements of a thorough Christian gentleman, and is held in
high esteem by the community in which he has so long
resided. He has in his possession some very
interesting relics of the last century. One is a
translation of the Bible into German, accompanied with
comments by the translator, Martin Luther. It
is a huge volume about twice the size of Webster's
Unabridged, is firmly bound in leather, and weighs some
twenty-five pounds. It was published in Tubingen,
1729. Another relic consists of a large German Bible,
once the property of Mr. Judy's great-grandfather.
It was published in Basel, Switzerland, in 1707. |
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