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Source:
History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co.
1883 BIOGRAPHIES
PERRIN
GARDNER, M. D., was born May 11, 1828 in
Gallia County, Ohio, where he attended a country
school until 1845 and in the winter of 1845-'46
he taught school. He then went to
Gallipolis, Ohio, where he remained till 1849
and engaged as a school teacher during the
winters. In the winter of 1849-'50 he
entered the Starling Medical College at
Columbus, Ohio, graduating in 1851. He
then practiced in Gallia County until the fall
of 1853, when he came to Wilkesville and
established a drug and general dry-goods store
with Dr. Cline. In the fall of 1855
he returned to Starling Medical College
remaining there during the sessions of 1855-'56,
when he located at Gallipolis and engaged in the
practice of medicine, remaining till October,
1860, when he removed to Cheshire where he lived
til July 19, 1862. He was commissioned
Assistant Surgeon, First Virginia Cavalry.
He was in the second battle of Bull Run, August,
1862, and all the intermediate engagements till
December of the same year when the battle of
Fredericksburg was fought, after which he was
granted leave of absence on account of ill
health. On his return in April, 1863, he
was appointed acting Assistant Surgeon at
Fairfax Court-house, where he had exclusive
control of embalming the officers and soldiers,
which he did by a method of his own which has
always given satisfaction wherever employed.
July 1, 1863, he was assigned the charge of the
hospital at Hanover, Pa., where he remained
until Aug. 14, 1863, when he was released from
hospital duty and reported to his command under
General Kilpatrick, remaining on duty
with his regiment till Dec. 11. The
regiment was then ordered to Wheeling Island, W.
Va., to reorganize and recruit as a veteran
regiment. During the summer of 1864 he
accompanied General W. W. Aurill in his
famous campaign through the mountains of West
Virginia, acting as Surgeon and chief of
division hospitals until the reorganization of
the cavalry corps. He was assigned to the
staff of General Custer and accompanied
the command of General Custer until they
reached Washington City, and was present at the
grand review of the army of the Potomac, May 24,
1865. On June 16 following, his division
was sent to Wheeling Island, W. Va.,
where they were mustered out of service and
discharged July 8, 1865, when he returned to his
home in Pine Grove, Ohio, in a state of
broken-down health. He then resumed his
practice, devoting himself almost entirely to
operative surgery. In April, 1879, he
resumed business with Dr. Cline at
Wilkesville with whom he remained til March,
1883, when he re-opened his present office in
Gallipolis, Mar. 15, 1856. Mr. Gardner
was married to Louzette Walker, a native
of New York State. He is a member of
Fearing Post, No. 79, G. A. R. He was a
delegate to the Encampment at Cincinnati in
1882.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1360 - Wilkesville |
O. W. GILMAN,
born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., is a son of
John T. and Mary (Fenton) Gilman, natives
of New Hampshire and Connecticut, now living in
Buffalo, N. Y. His mother is eighty-four
and his father eighty-seven years of age.
They have lived together since 1818. Of
their seven children our subject is the fourth
and was born in 1830, and from six years of age
lived in Buffalo, where he received the
common-school privileges and also learned the
trade of millwright, beginning at fourteen years
of age, completing when twenty-one. In
1852 he took a trip by Panama to California
where for three years he followed his trade
together with operating mills sixty miles above
San Francisco, in Bodaga Red Woods. In
1855 he returned to Buffalo and engaged in
contracting, but in 1856 came to McArthur under
contract to build the steam mill here, of which
he now owns a half interest, elsewhere
mentioned. The same year he married
Mary, daughter of Aaron Lantz.
Mr. Gilman is a practical miller, and in
1868 with C. P. Ward bought the water
mill now owned by Gilman & Gold.
Since in this county he has contracted and built
the County Infirmary in 1872 and 1873, a number
of the largest bridges in the county, furnishing
the plans for nearly all of them, and is still a
practical architect and draftsman. He and
wife have had five children, four now living.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1244 - Elk Twp. |
W. D. GOLD,
miller, McArthur, Ohio, is of German extraction.
His grandfather, Conrad Gold, was
born in Germany but came to America and married.
They subsequently settled in Fairfield County,
Ohio, and finally in Pickaway County, where they
both died. William, the father of
our subject, was the third son of the above,
born in Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1816. He
was reared in his native county and married, but
in 1851 moved into Hocking County, locating on
Pine Creek, Benton Township. In 1853 he
moved to Vinton County and engaged as engineer
at the Vinton Furnace. There he remained
until his election to the Sheriff's office of
this county, entering upon his official duty
Jan. 1, 1857, serving one term. He was
subsequently appointed to serve out the
unexpired term of Archibald Norris.
At the expiration of this term he resumed his
trade, blacksmithing, together with
fruit-growing, which he followed until 1881 when
he moved to Missouri. While he was living
at Vinton Furnace, in 1855, he buried his
wife, who left four sons, all now living.
He afterward married Lydia D. Lowell.
Three daughters have been born to them. Of
the sons above mentioned our subject is the
youngest and was born in Pickaway County, Ohio,
in 1841, but since a youth has been a resident
of Vinton County. Here he received a
common-school education. In 1862 he
enlisted in the Thirteenth Ohio Regimental Band
and served in military duty a little over a
year. He was during this time in the
battle of Pittsburg Landing. He returned
home and engaged in the sutler business with his
brother. Fifteen months later he returned
to Ohio and married. Then engaged in the
mercantile trade in Illinois, but in 1866 he
settled in McArthur where he has since been
engaged in the milling business and is now an
equal partner of O. W. Oilman in the two
mills of this place. He belongs to the
Masonic fraternity, both the blue lodge and
chapel. He and his wife have two
daughters. Mrs. Gold is
Eliza A., daughter of J. C. P. Brown,
and was born and reared in Vinton County.
Her mother is Mahala, daughter of
Isaac B. Lottridge. She was born in
Athens County and has always lived near Athens
and McArthur.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1245 - Elk Twp. |
NOAH
GRIM, farmer, second son of Jacob and
Margaret (Holt) Grimm, was born in Rush
Creek Township, Fairfield County, Jan. 18, 1822.
His parents came from Shenandoah Valley, Va., to
Ohio in 1818, and first settled on Rush Creek.
He lived with his parents until eighteen years
of age. At eighteen years of age he was
apprenticed to Jacob Beery to learn the
carpenter and joiner's, also cabinet-maker's
trade. He worked at the trade at few
months when his health failed and he returned to
his father's and worked on the farm two years.
He then worked at his trade till 1848.
From 1848 till 1860 he was engaged in milling.
He then returned to his father's farm and three
years later sold his interest and purchased the
farm where he now resides. He served as
Assessor of Marion Township one year.
Sept. 21, 1851, he married Nancy,
daughter of John and Aseneth (Speer) Hamilton
of Hocking County, by whom he has five children
- Aseneth, wife of Baxter M. Shaw,
of Neosho County, Kan.; Israel, a
machinist of Indianapolis, Ind.; Sarah A.,
Amos and Phoebe, at home.
John died aged twenty-three years, Jacob
aged eight years and William in
infancy. His wife died Oct. 7, 1882, aged
fifty-six years. She was a member of the
German Baptist church. He is a member of
the same church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1152 |
JOHN
GUARD, farmer, was born in Fayette
County, Pa., Mar. 6, 1829. He was reared
in his native State, and in 1840 went to
Kentucky, and in 1841 came to Lawrence County,
Ohio, where he lived till 1858, when he came to
Vinton County and resided till 1861, engaged in
the furnace business. He then returned to
Lawrence County, and resided there until 1874,
when he returned to his present place of
residence. He has been twice married,
first to Elizabeth Hale, of Jackson, who
died in 1858. His second wife was
Louisa, daughter of Joseph McKinness,
a pioneer of Vinton County, whose sketch appears
in this work. By his first wife he had
three children, two living - Osias Scott
and Ephraim. John A. is deceased.
Mr. Guard owns forty-nine acres of
well-improved land adjoining the corporation of
Hamden Junction. He belongs to the
Methodist Episcopal church. His parents,
Jacob and Elizabeth (Scott) Guard, settled
in Lawrence County, Ohio. His father was
born in Pennsylvania, and his mother in Preston
County, Va. From Ohio his father removed
to Maryland, where he died.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1373 - Clinton Twp. |
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