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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Adams County, Ohio
from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers
West Union, Ohio
Published by E. B. Stivers
1900
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LUCIEN J. FENTON
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SAMUEL
R. FIELDS of Wamsley, was born at Sugar Tree
Ridge, Highland County, Ohio April 17, 1845. He is a son
of Richard Fields and Janes Williams. His boyhood
days were spent on Scioto Brush Creek, attending school in the
Winter, and helping on the farm the remainder of the year.
He enlisted at Camp Hamer, at West Union, in the service of
the United States for a term of three years, October, 1861, in
Company B, Capt. Summers, 70th Regiment O. V. I., Col.
Cockerill. At the expiration of his term he
re-enlisted in Company B, O. V. I., Capt. Edgington,
and served till the close of the war. He was at Shiloh
and all the important engagements in which his regiment
participated. Was honorable discharged June 13, 1885,
having never made application until that time.
August 3, 1865, he was united in wedlock to Miss
Annie E. Williams, a descendant of a pioneer family of
Adams County. She has borne him fourteen children, of
which there are two pairs of twins. Each child's name
begins with the letter E. They are: Elmer,
Ettie, Evalena, Effie, Esther and Ezra, twins, Eska,
Elvil, Esla, Edna, Edgar and Edith, twins, and Elry.
Mr. Fields is a Methodist and an ardent
Republican. He has held many local offices, and is a man
of prominence in the community in which he resides. He
belongs to Bailey Post, G. A. R., at Blue Creek.
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Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
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SIMON FIELDS
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SIMON M. FIELDS
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MAJOR
JOSEPH L. FINLEY.
There is an old brown head-stone in the center of the little
village cemetery at West Union, which recites - "Joseph
L. Finley was born Feb. 20, 1753, and died May 23,
1839." Most of the people of West Union and of those
who have visited the cemetery or passed by have observed the
stone, but do not know the story of him who reposes beneath,
but we propose now to tell it so that hereafter so long as
this History is preserved, the head-stone will suggest its
own history.
Major Joseph L. Finley was born on the date
already given, near Greensburg, Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Princeton College
in the class of 1775. He entered the Revolutionary War
on the first day of April, 1776, as a Second Lieutenant in
Captain Moorehead's Company of Miles' Pennsylvania
Rifle Regiment, organized under a resolution of Congress on
July 15, 1776. He was made a Captain on the twentieth
day of October, 1777, and his regiment was designated as the
13th Pennsylvania. He was transferred to the 8th
Pennsylvania, July 1, 1778, and was made a Major July 20,
1780. He served until November, 1783, more than two
years after the surrender of Cornwallis, and he was seven
years and seven months in service in defense of his country.
He was in the battle of Long Island on the twenty-seventh of
August, 1776, and that of White Plains, the September
following. He was at the battle of Brandywine in
September, 1777; at Germantown, in October of the same year,
and he was in the battle of Monmouth on that memorable hot
Sunday, June 28, 1778. After that, he was sent with
Gen. Broadhead to the western part of Pennsylvania in
his expedition against the Indians. He subsequently
saw much hard fighting. He lost his left eye in
the service and was otherwise much disabled.
He emigrated to Adams County in 1815 and settled, first
on Gift Ridge and afterwards moved to the foot of the
hill west of West Union, and died there. His wife was
a daughter of Rev. Samuel Blair, a noted Presbyterian
minister in the early part of the history of that church in
this country. She was a woman of much beauty of person
and nobility of character, and their daughters were likewise
well educated and handsome. She was an aunt of
Francis P. Blair, the famous editor of the Globe,
of Washington, D. C. She was a sprightly woman, full
of energy and while small, was considered very handsome.
She had the blackest of black eyes; she wrote poetry for the
newspapers, and wrote several touching tributes to the
memory of deceased friends. She has been particularly
described to me and if I were to choose one of her
descendants who resembled her as a young woman, I would
choose Mrs. Dudley B. Hutchins, of Portsmouth, Ohio,
here great-granddaughter.
Major Finley and his wife were both members of
the Presbyterian Church of West Union. He was a man of
small structure, and in his old age his hair was silvery
white. When he and his wife attended church at West
Union, during the sermon he always sat on the pulpit steps,
as he was somewhat deaf.
He had three daughters and two sons. His
daughter, Hannah Finley, was the second wife of
Col. John Lodwick, and the mother of a numerous family.
Among her sons were Captain John N., Joseph, Pressley
and Lyle Lodwick, and among here daughters were
Mrs. Nancy McCabe, Mrs. Eli Kinney and Mrs. J.
Scott Peebles. She died in 1827, twelve years
before her father.
Another daughter, Mary Finley, married John
Patterson, once United States Marshal of Ohio, and the
father of Mrs. Benjamin F. Coates, of Portsmouth,
Ohio. She was the mother of seven children. She
was married in 1818 and died in 1831. The Hon.
Joseph P. Smith, late Secretary of the American Bureau
of Republics, was her grandson.
Margaret Finley married John Chipps and
died young. She left a son, John Chipps, who
died before his manhood and is buried in the West Union
cemetery.
James Finley married a Rothwell. He
died young and left several children. His wife
contracted a second marriage with Samuel Clark,
formerly a well known farmer south of West Union on the old
Manchester Road.
John Finley, another son, married down South.
No further account of him is known. A daughter of
Mr. James Finley, Mrs. John Kincaid, resides at
Hamersville, in Brown County, and another daughter resides
in Dayton, Ohio.
Major Finley is described in an edition of the
"Ohio Statesmen" of May 28, 1838, as one of the truest of
patriots and best of men.
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ISAAC TRIMBLE FOSTER
of Manchester, was born Dec. 1, 1824, in Greene Township,
Adams County. He is a son of Nathaniel Foster and
Martha Hayslip, his wife, a daughter of Richard
Hayslip. The grandfather of our subject was
Nathaniel Foster, Sr., who emigrated from New Jersey in
1796, and settled in Greene Township on Ohio Brush Creek,
opposite the mouth of Beasley's Fork. He was a
Revolutionary soldier and his record as such is given in
this volume under that title.
Jordan L. Foster was brought up on a farm in
Sprigg Township, where he resided until his marriage to
Elizabeth J. Campbell, daughter of Alexander Campbell
and Mary Keith, Feb. 2, 1854. Mary Keith
Campbell was a daughter of Dr. Joseph D. Keith, a
pioneer physician of Adams County, and whose practice
extended from Chillicothe to Cincinnati. He was a
Revolutionary soldier and a surgeon in a Virginia Regiment.
The children of our subject are Sarah, married
to Wilson A. Russell; Alexander C., who
married Iva Osman, and Hannah, who resides at
home.
Our subject enlisted as a private in Company E, 91st O.
V. I., Aug. 9, 1862, and served under Sheridan and
Cook in the Shenandoah Valley. He was at New River
Bridge, Stephenson's Depot, Winchester, Opequan, Cedar
Creek, and many other important engagements. He was
honorably discharged June 27, 1865.
He is an ardent Republican, and a member of the
M. E. Church. He now resides on his farm near
Manchester.
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JORDEN
L. FOSTER of Manchester, was born December 1, 1824, in
Greene Township, Adams County. He is a son of
Nathaniel Foster and Martha Hayslip, his wife, a daughter
of Richard Hayslip. The grandfather of our
subject was Nathaniel Foster, Sr., who emigrated from
New Jersey in 1796, and settled in Greene Township on Ohio
Brush Creek, opposite the mouth of Beasley's Fork. He
was a Revolutionary soldier and his record as such is given in
this volume under that title.
Jorden L. Foster was brought upon a farm in
Sprigg Township where he resided until his marriage to
Elizabeth J. Campbell, daughter of Alexander Campbell
and Mary Keith, February 2, 1854. Mary Keith
Campbell was a daughter of Dr. Joseph D. Keith,
a pioneer physician of Adams County, whose practice extended
from Chillicothe to Cincinnati. He was a Revolutionary
Soldier and a surgeon in a Virginia Regiment.
The children of our subject are Sarah, married
to Wilson A. Russell; Alexander C., who married Iva
Osman, and Hannah, who resides at home.
Our subject enlisted as a private in Company E, 91st O.
V. I., August 9, 1862, and served under Sheridan and Cook in
the Shenandoah Valley. He was at New River Bridge,
Stephenson's Depot, Winchester, Opequan, Cedar Creek, and many
other important engagements. He was honorably discharged
June 27, 1865.
He is an ardent Republican, and a member of the M. E.
Church. He now resides on his farm near Manchester.
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Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
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WILLIAM STEWART FOSTER,
attorney and Mayor of Manchester, was born in the old
Buckeye Station residence, Oct. 19, 1868. Attention is
called to the article on "Buckeye Station" for the
historical character of his birthplace. His father was
Charles Wilson Foster, born Jan. 13, 1839. His
wife was Miss Laura Jane Stewart, daughter of
William K. Stewart. Charles Wilson Foster
enlisted in Company G, 70th O. V. I., Oct. 17, 1861.
He was promoted to Corporal, Sergeant, First Lieutenant and
Captain. He veteranized, and at muster out, Aug. 14,
1865, was Captain of the company he had entered as a
private.
In 1867, he bought of Buckeye Station farm, and the
same year, on Nov. 21, 1867, he was married. He has
our subject and another son, Charles Damarin, born
Sept. 20, 1877. Charles Wilson Foster lived on
the Buckeye Station farm for nine years. He then
conducted a store at Soldier's Run for two years. From
1878 to 1883, he was a merchant at Wrightsville. Since
Oct, 1883, he has resided at Manchester.
Our subject began the study of law in 1886, with
Dudley B. Phillips in Manchester. In 1887 and
1888, he attended the Cincinnati Law School, and completed
the course. On Oct. 21, 1889, he was admitted to
practice law. He opened an office in Manchester, where
he has since resided. In 1890, he was the Republican
candidate for prosecuting attorney of the county, but was
defeated by Cyrus F. Wikoff. In April, 1891, he
formed a law partnership with his preceptor, Mr. Dudley
B. Phillips. In the Fall of 1891, when Mr.
Phillips was elected to the State Senate. Mr.
Foster was elected Mayor of the village to fill the
vacancy caused by Mr. Phillips' resignation to take
the office of Senator. He was married Dec. 4, 1892, to
Miss Grace Hundley, daughter of James P. Hundley.
In 1894, he was elected Solicitor of the village of
Manchester, and served one farm. In 1900, he was
elected Mayor of Manchester on a straight Republican ticket
over an Independent Republican on a reform ticket, of which
office he is the incumbent.
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JOHN W. FRISTOE
NOTE: CORRECTIONS - The name should read
John R. Fristoe |
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ALFRED
RUST FULTON, was born in Franklin Township, Adams
County, Nov. 28, 1834. His father, David Fulton,
and his mother, Phoebe Gibson, were both natives of
Loudon County, Virginia, and resided near Upperville.
They came to Ohio in 1833. At that time they had four
children, sons. They had five children born in Ohio,
our subject and two daughters. He obtained his
education in the common schools and was brought up to be a
farmer. He was one of the few young men of Adams
County who never taught schools. He enlisted in
Company E, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, Aug. 22, 1862, at the
age of twenty-nine years and served until the twentieth of
June, 1865. This service was upon his conscience, as
has been everything in his life. On Nov. 7, 1867, he
was maried to Miss Lydia Potts, of Marble
Furnace, a daughter of Samuel Pitts.
They have three children, sons, Thomas, Clarence,
who married Miss Jennie Williams and resides in
Loudon; Charles Gibson, formerly a teacher, but now a
clerk in an iron ore establishment at Sparta, Minn.;
Homer Clayton, a lawyer in Duluth, Minn.
Mr. Fulton's father was a Whig and Republican
and he has always been a Republican. He is a member of
the Methodist Church in Loudon and lives his faith every
day.
He owns and cultivates over five hundred acres of good
land, and everything about him has an air of care and
thrift. His word is a good as his bond and the latter
is redeemable in gold on demand at any time. Mr.
Fulton has acquired a competence and knows how to enjoy
it. He has a pleasant home where he is surrounded by
all the comforts of life and can spend the days of his old
age in peace. No man stands higher in the esteem of
his neighbors and the public and his life and character
entitle him to this estimate. If good works would send
any one to Heaven, Mr. Fulton is sure of it, but his
good works all proceed from principle and from a sense of
Christian duty and obligation.
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Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
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