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BIOGRAPHIES
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
 Source:
A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County
from The Earliest to the Present Date
by H. S. Knapp
Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
- 1863 -
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Perry Twp. -
JAMES ALLISON emigrated from Jefferson
County, Ohio, to Perry Township during March, 1818. His
wife and six children, namely, John, Alexander, Mary, Ann,
Jane, and Catherine, constituted his family at that
date. Of the sons and daughters mentioned, Alexander
is the only survivor in Perry. Mrs. Jane, wife of
Daniel Ellenbarger, and Miss Catherine Allison,
reside in Mohican Township.
Mr. Allison died May 2d, 1839, at the age of
sixty-four years. His wife had died in April of the
previous year at the age of sixty-two years. Mr.
Allison and wife died upon the place he originally purchased
of David Smith, being fifty acres in section 2.
Death of Arthur Campbell, Sen.
Alexander Allison was an
eye-witness of this event, which is mentioned in another place.
It was on the premises of Mr. Allison's uncle, John
Pittinger, whose land was in process of being cleared.
Messrs. Campbell and Pittinger were sitting upon
the ground near a tree, engaged in conversation, when an oak
tree, which had been several hours burning at its base,
commenced falling in the direction of where the men were
stationed. Mr. Allison, who was near, but outside
the range of the falling tree, happened to discover the danger,
and instantly notified the men. Mr. Pittinger
escaped by seeking refuge behind a tree near which they were
sitting; but Mr. Campbell, being less active, was struck,
while in the act of rising, upon the back by a heavy limb,
crushing the bones and producing instant death.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 439 |
Perry Twp. -
JOHN ALLISON, an emigrant from
Pennsylvania. He settled in Congress Township, Wayne
County, in January, 1820. That township had been but
recently organized. Under the laws then in force it
required fifteen legal voters to accomplish an organization.
There were about that number in the township at that time, being
one family to 2½ square
miles.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 435 |
Vermillion Twp. -
HENRY ANDRESS,
an emigrant from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, removed with
his family to Montgomery Township, in September, 1826. He
is now a resident of Vermillion. As incidents of public
importance which occurred within his knowledge are related by
others, his reminiscences are omitted.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 274 |
Milton Twp. -
JAMES ANDREWS immigrated to the eastern
division of the territory of the United States, within the
limits of what is now Columbiana County, about the year 1800.
In 1816 he purchased and removed to the farm upon the year 1800.
In 1816 he purchased and removed to the farm upon which he now
resides. Mr. Andrews served in the war of 1812, as
captain in a company of the 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, Ohio
Militia, and subsequently as brigade inspector. He served
twenty-seven years as justice of the peace in Milton Township.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 537 |
Clearcreek Twp.
JOHN ATON removed to the northwest quarter
of section 26, Clearcreek Township, in April, 1821. He was
a native of, and had, up to the time named, resided in Alleghany
County, Pennsylvania. When he removed to his land, he was
unmarried, and while making his improvements during the first
two years after his arrival, he boarded at the house of John
McWilliams, who occupied the northeast quarter of the same
section, being the same land now owned by Andrew Ekey.
In April, 1823, having in the mean time married Miss Margaret
Ferguson, and erected a cabin, he removed upon his own land.
This Mr. McWilliams referred to was the first
settler of section 26, having removed to the country a year or
two after Abram Huffman; and, having resided upon this
land about eighteen years, removed to Illinois, where he died.
On the second Sabbath after his removal into his cabin, Mr.
McWilliams received a call from a band of about seventy
Indians, which so frightened him and family that they fled to
the house of their neighbor, Mr. Burns - leaving their
visitors in possession of their home and premises. The
Indians, however, disturbed nothing, and had no intention of
doing so, and were evidently much grieved at the fear their
presence had created.
A few months after this affair, an Indian, aged about
sixty years, named Isaac George, called one mooring upon
Mr. McWilliams, and met there, among others, a visitor at
the house from Pennsylvania, named Charles Russell, who,
with Mr. McWilliams, had just concluded preparations for
a trip to Mansfield. After they had started on their
journey, this Indian informed Mr. Aton and the family
that some thirty years previous, he, with another Indian,
captured, at his home in Washington County, Pennsylvania, this
identical Mr. Russell, then a boy of about twelve years
of age; and at the close of a hard day's travel, they made a
supper on a turkey roasted in Indian style, with its feathers
and entrails. To secure their prisoner at night, the
Indians placed withs over the boy, and planted themselves one on
each side of him, their bodies resting upon the ends of the
withs. The boy, however, was sleepless; and during the
night his captors rolled their bodies off the ends of the withs,
which released their prisoner, and afforded him an opportunity
of making good his escape. On the return of Mr. Russell,
the statement of Isaac George, the Indian, was repeated
to him, and he confirmed its truth in every particular - adding,
however, that had he recognized in the Indian one of his
captors, he would have cast his body into the flames. The
mysterious part of the matter was, in the almost instant
recognition by the Indian, in the mature man of gray hairs, of
the boy he had more than a quarter of a century before so deeply
wronged.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page
118) |
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