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Source:
History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co.
1883 BIOGRAPHIES
GEORGE PAFFENBARGER was born in 1813
in Adelphi, Ross Co., Ohio, a son of John
Paffenbarger, a native of Pennsylvania, who
located in Ross County about 1809. He
served in the war of 1812 and died in Ross
County about 1809. He served in the war of
1812 and died in Ross County at the age of
seventy-seven years. Our subject was
reared on the home farm till attaining his
majority when he began life for himself.
He lived in Ross County, and afterward spent
eleven years in Pickaway County on rented land.
In 1847 he located on his present farm,
purchasing at that time 113-1/2 acres. He
farms largely in grain and is also engaged in
stock-raising, having a number of the finest
sheep in the county. He has been a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1837 and
has held the positions of Trustee and Steward
many years. He was married Nov. 22, 1835,
to Betsy Daymouth, a native of
Pennsylvania. They have had eleven
children, nine of whom are living - John W.,
Alfred, Henry P., Charles W., Andrew, Mary,
Catherine, Susan and Libbie.
Lydia and Rebecca are deceased.
Our subject's grandfather was a native of
Germany and immigrated to this country when a
young man and served during the Revolution.
His wife, Catherine (Will) Paffenbarger,
was also a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
Mr. Paffenbarger has given his children a
good education, six of whom have become
successful teachers. Alfred is a
lawyer and editor residing in Oregon, and
Andrew is a dentist in Zaleski, Ohio.
Alfred and Henry served in the
three months' service in the late war.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1255 - Elk Twp. |
B. R.
PAINE, farmer, was born on the old
homestead in 1848 and is a son of Lemuel
Paine, of whom mention is elsewhere made.
He received a practical education in the
district schools and has followed the avocation
of farming. In1878 he was married to
Alice Wilcox. They have one child -
Howard. Himself and wife are members
of the Presbyterian church, in which he has been
an Elder five or six years. He owns 190
acres of well-improved land.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1375 - Clinton Twp. |
JAMES
B. PAINE was born on the place where he
now resides in 1844. He was reared on a
farm and obtained the rudiments of his education
at the common school. He completed his
education at the Ohio Wesleyan University at
Delaware, Ohio, which he entered in 1867, and
graduated in the class of 1871. He then
taught three months in the university and the
two succeeding years his principal of the
schools at Greenfield, Ohio. He then took
charge of the academy at Hayesville, Ohio, for
one year. He studied law and was admitted
to the bar of Ohio, and began to practice his
profession at Jackson, Ohio, which he continued
till 1881. In 1879 he was elected to the
Legislature from Jackson to fill a vacancy, and
in 1880 he was re-elected. He is a
Republican in politics, and takes an interest in
all political movements. He is a member of
Mineral Lodge, No. 517, F. & A. M. He was
first married in 1875 to Fanny Allen, who
died in 1876. They had one child -
William W. (deceased). His second wife
was Cornelia Dickerson, who has borne him
two children - Fanny and an infant
(deceased). David Paine,
grandfather of our subject, was a native of
Massachusetts. He came to Ohio and settled
southeast of Hamden Junction in 1808, where he
entered 160 acres, remaining there till his
death. He had five children who grew to
maturity - Lemuel S., Dennison,
Douglas, Mahala and Caroline.
He was a farmer by occupation. He served
as one of the Associate Judges of Jackson
County. Lemuel Paine, our subject's
father, was born in Virginia and died when his
parents settled in Jackson County. He was
reared till manhood on his father's farm, and in
1833 or '34 he bought eighty acres on sections
19 and 30, which became his permanent home.
He was prosperous in business and a his death
owned about 1,000 acres. He served as
County Commissioner and was an active member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was
married to Elizabeth Robey who bore him
six children who grew to maturity - James B.,
David S., Bennett R., Delia E., William D.
and Clara M. He died Mar. 24, 1878, aged
seventy years, seven months and ten days.
His wife still survives him.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1376 - Clinton Twp. |
HENRY
PAYNE was born in London, England, Sept.
4, 1817. His father, Robert Payne,
was born at Cherry Valley, N. Y., in 1794.
When he was a young man he went to England and
there married an English lady named Ann Hall.
A short time after the birth of Henry his
father returned to the United States and brought
with him the first machine introduced into this
country for making our common pins. The
machine, however, was invented in England by a
Massachusetts man. Mr. Payne
located at Taunton, Massachusetts, and was there
employed in the manufacture of these machines.
In the spring of 1833 he moved with his family
to Ohio and settled in the woods of Hocking
County, Swan Township, now Vinton County.
His death occurred Aug. 29, 1855. He was a
natural mechanic and could turn out the most
difficult specimens of mechanical ingenuity.
His wife died in the spring of 1861. She
was born in London, England, May 15, 1784.
They had a family of thirteen children of whom
five lived to maturity. Henry Payne,
the subject of this sketch, is the only living
representative of the family. He was
employed in his father's machine shop from the
age of twelve to sixteen, and then worked on his
father's farm until he was twenty-eight years
old. He then engaged with T. B. Davis,
at Mount Pleasant, Hocking County, in the
tobacco trade for five years, part of this time,
however, being at McArthur. On the
formation of Vinton County in the spring of 1850
Mr. Payne was chosen as the first County
treasurer and served in this capacity seven
years. In 1864 and 1865 he was Assistant
Revenue Assessor for Vinton County, resigning on
the accession of Andrew Johnson to the
Presidential chair. For the next two years
Mr. Payne was Justice of the Peace in Elk
Township. He was afterward in the
mercantile business for three years with John
S. Hawk, but since then has lived a retired
life, a resident of McArthur. He was
married in 1856 to Priscilla Taylor, of
Somerset, Perry County. They have had four
children, of whom two are living - Joseph
Trimble, of Columbus, and Ann Eliza,
now Mrs. Lafayette W. Hays. Mr. Payne
is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
Religiously he inclines to the Episcopal church.
Mrs. Payne is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
Page 1255 - Elk Twp. |
GEORGE PAYNE,
deceased, was born Apr. 17, 1815, near London,
England, a son of Robert and Anna Payne.
His parents emigrated to America about 1828 and
located in Massachusetts where our subject lived
till twenty years of age. In 1835 the
family moved to Ohio, and settled in Hocking
County, where his parents died. They had a
family of five children - Elizabeth, George,
Henry, Sarah and Charles. George
Payne was married Mar. 7, 1842, to Anna
Lee, a native of Pennsylvania, born Sept.
14, 1813. They have been blessed with a
family of six children - Alice (wife of
M. M. Cherry, of McArthur), Lucius,
Cassius, Harriet, Henrietta (wife of A.
Murphy), and Marcellus. Mrs.
Payne's parents were James and Hannah
Lee. They came to Ohio in 1816, and
Hocking County, then Athens County, where they
entered three quarters of a section of land.
They had a family of nine sons and two
daughters. They are both deceased.
Mrs. Payne was reared by her grandfather,
James Lee, with whom she lived till his
death. The estate was divided among the
heirs, and Mr. Payne purchased 100 acres
of the home place. He was a successful
business man, and at the time of his death, Nov.
15, 1863, owned 260 acres of land. Mrs.
Payne has in her possession at present 445
acres. Politically Mr. Payne was a
strong Republican and in former days was a Whig.
He was Clerk of Swan Township from his
twenty-first year till his death, and for
twenty-two yeas previous held the office at
Justice of the Peace. His son, Lucius
Payne, was born Mar. 17, 1846, in Vinton
County, then Hocking County. At the age of
eighteen he enlisted in Company L, Twelfth Ohio
Cavalry, in August, 1864, and came home in June,
1865. In 1869 he went West - to Iowa,
Kansas and Nebraska - and remained there three
years, working on a farm and herding cattle.
He returned home in 1872 where he has since
resided. In August, 1880, he was appointed
to his present position, as station agent of the
C., H. V. & T. R. R., at Swan Station.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1256 - Swan Twp. |
CAPT.
ALEX. PEARCE, ex-Legislator, McArthur, is
a native of Bainbridge, Ross Co., Ohio, born in
1828. He received his education in the
schools of his native town, where he remained
until eighteen years of age. He then went
in the printing office at Portsmouth. From
1850 to 1854 he was editor and publisher of the
Portsmouth Inquirer, and during this
period he published the first daily paper of
that city, known as the Daily Dispatch.
It had been started by Cleveland & Miller
but Pearce succeeded Miller.
He was for two years engaged in other business,
but in the spring of 1856, while visiting at
McArthur, purchased the McArthur Democrat.
This he successfully operated until 1861 when he
sold to B. P. Hewet, as he was serving at
the time his first term in the State Legislature
for the district composed of Vinton and Jackson
counties. In 1861 he volunteered in
Company D, Eighteenth Ohio Infantry, and was
discharged Nov. 9, 1864. He was gradually
promoted until he reached the position of
Captain. He participated in some of the
severest battles in Middle Tennessee, and many
other of less importance. After his return
from the army he was appointed Assistant
Assessor of general revenue, which he turned
over in 1869. In that year he associated
himself with with George Lantz in the
hardware trade, forming the firm of Lantz &
Pearce, and in 1875 Mr. Pearce became
sole proprietor, but in the fall of 1880, his
health being very poor, he desired to free
himself from business and sold his place of
business to Lantz, and is now Clerk of
the Recorder's office. He was married in
1858 to Amanda, daughter of Benjamin
Wood. Six children have been born to
them, all now living. The eldest is
operator of Nelsonville and the second eldest
son is operator at McArthur Junction.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1256 - Elk Twp. |
LORENZO
D. PHILLIPS was born about 1828, in
Jackson County, Ohio, now a part of Vinton
County. When twelve years of age he moved
to St. Joe County, Ind., and at the end of two
years returned to Ohio. He lived in
Jackson till 1881, when he moved to his present
farm on section 11, Vinton Township. He
has 185 acres of good land, which is worth
$5,000. He was married to Susan Martin
Oct. 15, 1845. She was born in Jackson
County and died in 1877. They were blessed
with eleven children - Mary, Delila, Harvey,
Eliza, Becca, Isaac, John, Samira, George, Mag
and Sherman. Mr. Phillips
has been a member of the United Brethren church
for twenty-nine years.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - Page 1363 |
JAMES
PIERCE, farmer, was born in Vinton
Township, Vinton Co., Ohio, then Athens County,
Feb. 9, 1821. His father, William
Pierce, was born in Montgomery County, Va.,
in 1787, and died in Vinton County, Ohio, Feb.
28, 1870. His mother was also a native of
Montgomery County, born in 1791. She died
in Vinton County, on the old homestead, July 12,
1874. They were the parents of nine boys
and five girls, our subject being the seventh
child. He was married May 17, 1849, to
Mahala Phillips. They have five
children - Daniel H., Mathias, Thurman A.,
William and Mary J. Mr. Pierce
and wife are members of the United Brethren
church. He owns 176 acres of good land on
fraction 31. He has held the office of
Township Trustee several terms, and has also
been Trustee of school and ministerial lands.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - Page 1370 - Vinton Twp. |
C. B.
PILCHER is a son of James and
grandson of Stephen Pilcher. The
latter was a native of Virginia, where he
married and reared a family. In 1800 he
settled on a farm near Athens, Ohio, where he
spent the remainder of his life. James,
the father of our subject, where he matured to
farm life and married Nancy, daughter of
Samuel Sage. In 1800 he emigrated
to Ohio with his father's family, but not liking
the country near Athens he settled at Zaleski,
Vinton County. IN a few years his farm was
overflowed by Raccoon Creek, and he went to the
farm where the infirmary now stands. This
was about the time of the breaking out of the
war of 1812. Here he remained until 1840
when he settled on section 22, where his death
occurred not many years after. His wife
also died and never aspired to office though
repeatedly holding the office of Township
Trustee. Politically he was a Democrat.
His wife bore him eighteen children - Lenecy,
Edward, Nancy, Charlotte, Harriet, Ann Maria,
Samantha, James, Henry, Amanda, Samuel, Minerva,
Melissa, Columbus B., George W., Hiram, Eliza
and Arminda. Two sons and five
daughters are yet living. Columbus B.,
the elder son and the subject of our sketch, was
born Nov. 14, 1826, on the infirmary farm,
Vinton County, Ohio. He received a
common-school education, and started out in life
empty handed. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Joseph Gill. Mr. Pilcher
follows farming and sheep-raising and is now
the owner of 260 acres of land in Elk Township.
His land is underlaid with a rich vein of coal
five feet thick. He is also the owner of
the farm and old home formerly belonging to his
wife's father. Mr. Pilcher and wife
have had eight children, six of whom are living
- two in Missouri, one in Columbus and three are
at home unmarried.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1257 - Elk Twp. |
REV. JOHN R. PROSE
was born in Gallia County, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1821,
where he was reared and educated at the common
school. He also attended the Wesleyan
University, Delaware, Ohio. He came to
Hocking County in the fall of 1848, and was
married Nov. 26, 1849, to Clarissa E. Johnson
a native of Hocking County, born Feb. 28, 1828,
daughter of David Johnson Their
children are - Harriet Ann, Benjamin H.,
Joseph Benson and Oliver Edmund.
In October, 1847, he entered the ministry of
the Methodist church, and has since been an
itinerant minister of that denomination.
In 1865 he purchased his present farm, then
containing ninety-five acres, but now has 185
acres. His father, Daniel Prose,
was born in October, 1791, in Greenbrier County,
W. Va., and came to Ohio when about twenty years
of age. He was drafted into the war of
1812 for six months under Colonel Robert
Safford, and returned home in the spring of
1812. He was married in Gallia County
about 1819 or 1820 to Catherine Rodomor,
a native of Rockingham County, born in 1793, a
daughter of Jacob Rodomor, of German
descent. After his marriage he remained in
Gallia County, where he bought land and died in
July, 1867. He was a Magistrate of the
township eight yeas. There were six sons
and two daughters in his family, of whom two
sons are deceased. Our subject's
grandfather came from Denmark and located in
Pennsylvania.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1323 - Swan Twp. |
E. B.
PUGH, ESQ., wagon-maker, McArthur, is a
son of William and Bashaba (Johnson) Pugh,
his mother a daughter of Benjamin
Johnson. He is a grandson of John
Pugh, who with Benjamin Johnson
crossed the Ohio River at Wheeling, Va., in
1792. John Pugh had served
five years as a teamster in the Revolutionary
war. Johnson and Pugh both settled
in what is now Harrison County, Ohio.
There they farmed until their death.
William Pugh was a native of
Pennsylvania and his wife of Maryland.
They were married in Ohio. He died in
Harrison County, Ohio, and she in Grant County,
Ind. She was at the time of her death the
wife of John Heaflin.
William Pugh was through life a
farmer. He and wife had seven children,
five sons and two daughters, E. B. being
the sixth and only son living. He was born
in Harrison County, Ohio, Oct. 18, 1819.
He received a fair education and at the age of
fourteen commenced his trade, serving five
years. He then followed journey work until
1843 when he opened a shop in Morefield,
Harrison County. In March, 1846, he
married Casandra Selfridge and in 1851
came to McArthur where he has ever since lived
save fourteen months in Holmes County, Ohio.
He is now the only wagon-maker in town. He
and wife have three children, all living -
John C., Martha A. and Helen L.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1258 - Elk Twp. |
JOHN
C. PUGH, attorney and County School
Examiner, McArthur, emanates from Wales, and is
a lineal descendant from the Pughs of
Philadelphia, Pa., and is a son of Ellis B.
and Cassie Pugh. He was born in
Harrison County, Ohio, in 1848, but from 1851
was reared in Vinton County. His education
was mostly received in this county and by his
own unceasing efforts. In 1868 he
commenced teaching; subsequently taught one year
in Tennessee. In 1870 he commenced reading law
under the tutorship of J. M. McGillivray.
He jointly pursued this with teaching until
1879, when he was admitted to the bar and has
since been practicing in McArthur. He is
one of the school examiners of the present
board, in which capacity he has served five
years. In 1881 he married Alice
Hanning. They have one daughter Georgiana.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1258 - Elk Twp. |
JOHN
A. PUTZ was born Apr. 14, 1832, in
Germany, a son of John J. and Sophia Putz.
He came to this country with his parents in 1846
and settled in Milwaukee, Wis. In 1864 he
came to Ohio, locating in Chillicothe, where he
took charge of the paint shops for the M. &
C. R. R. Co. He came to Zaleski in1871
and has since been general superintendent of the
paint-shops here. Mr. Putz was
educated in Germany, where he graduated in the
scientific course when he was about sixteen
years old. He afterward took a theological
course in Milwaukee and Chillicothe, where he
was prepared for the ministry, and in 1867 was
ordained in the Old School Presbyterian church.
He is a very fine scholar and a fluent speaker.
He was married on Feb .15, 1851, to Miss
Matilda Esslinger, a daughter of George
Esslinger, who lived in Wisconsin.
They are the parents of eleven children, nine of
whom are living - Ida, Augustus, Iddo, Oscar,
Matilda, George, Charles, Frank and
Edward. Monroe died at the age of
five, and Johnny at the age of two years.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 -
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