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BIOGRAPHIES
 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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Mohican Twp. -
THOMAS
EAGLE arrived in the township of Mohican on the 2d day of
May, 1809, having succeeded the family of Alexander Finley
a few weeks. His family then consisted of his wife and
daughter Amelia. He first opened a small farm on
the land now owned and occupied by Henry Treace. In
the early part of the war, he, together with several of his
neighbors, removed their families to the fort, at Wooster, as
security against attacks by Indians.
Mr. Eagle was well acquainted with Baptiste
Jerome, who often related to Mr. Eagle
circumstances connected with the Indian war against General
Anthony Wayne - among other "yarns," one running to the
effect that himself and a party of eight Indians came upon a
reconnoitering party near the Maumee River, led by Wayne,
and that he, (Jerome), and the Indians leveled and
discharged their rifles at "Mad Anthony" without any effect.
Several years after the war of 1812, Jerome lost his
Indian wife and daughter, and subsequently married a white
woman, and removed to the mouth of Huron River, where he soon
after died, it is said, in a drunken revel.
The fort at Jeromeville, Mr. Eagle says, was
built under the authority of General Bell.
The fort at Wooster was under the command of
Captain George Stidger whose force amounted to about one
hundred and sixty men.
A few days prior to the massacre on the Black Fork,
Mr. Eagle left Wooster in charge of a company of men for the
defense of his neighbors, who had remained in Mohican Township,
having received information that they were threatened by an
attack from the Indians. Some hours after arriving at the
fort on James Collyer's place, the Indians, appeared and
made some hostile demonstrations; but it is supposed came to the
conclusion that Eagle's force was too formidable and too
well secured, and they retired toward Jeromeville, on their
route killing all the hogs that came in their way.
Mr. Eagle says that he piloted Bell's
army from Wooster to Jeromeville, and from thence several miles
west. He is now about eighty-one years of age, and in
feeble health.
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
407 |
Perry Twp. -
ABRAHAM ECKER.
The Ashland Times of Nov. 24, 1859, contained
the following: -
After an illness of twenty days, died at his residence,
near Rowsburg, November eleventh, Dr. Abraham Ecker, in
the seventy-fifth year of his age. He was a faithful
brother in the church for more than forty years, and died in
full hope of a blessed immortality. He emigrated from
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in May, 1818, and was known
as a physician upwards of thirty years. He leaves a kind
and loving companion, ten children, seventy-five grandchildren,
and twenty great-grandchildren, to mourn his loss. But
they need not sorrow as those who have no hope: -
"Friend after friend departs:
Who has not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts,
That find not here an end." |
His family have
lost an affectionate husband, a kind and indulgent father.
He has been called away by the "grim bailiff of the grave,"
but his precepts linger still. He has been called to
lie down in the narrow tomb, but the memory of one so dear
cannot perish. The example he has given cannot pass
unnoticed; the pattern he laid down cannot be forgotten; and
we would to be human could we remain unmoved and not startle
at the announcement. We would not be human could we
restrain our grief - restrain our tears. Oh, no! but
we sorrow not as those without hope. We believe he
died in the Lord, and now sweetly sleeps in Jesus,
and, in the morning of the resurrection, will arise to
immortality and eternal life. His seat is now vacant,
his gentle footsteps are no longer heard, his faltering
voice no longer greets our ears, his aching eyes are forever
closed to terrestrial objects, his throbbing heart has
ceased to beat, his weary head is now at rest, his suffering
and attenuated form is now part and parcel of the cold, damp
earth, and reposes by the side of those who preceded him to
the "silent city of the dead." May the Lord whom he
served be our comfort and support. May he sanctify
this solemn and trying bereavement to our present and
eternal good. We hope to meet again, "when the day of
life is fled," where sorrows and separations will be
forever unknown.
Oh! I would not live alway!
"A few short years - and then,
Impatient of its bliss,
The weary soul shall seek on high
A better home than this." |
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 459 |
Troy Twp.
PATRICK ELLIOTT removed from Washington
County, Pennsylvania, to the southwest quarter of section 12,
Clearcreek Township, where he arrived in the spring of 1817 -
having made the entry of the land in 1816. His family then
consisted of his wife and daughters, Sarah and Mary A.
This farm is now occupied by his sons, Hugh and Moses.
Mr. Elliott died in December, 1826, aged thirty-eight years.
Mrs. Elliott taught, in her own house, in the
winter of 1817 and 1818, the first school in Clearcreek
Township. Among her scholars were the children of Rev.
Mr. Haney, William Shaw, and John Hendricks.
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
137 |
BENJAMIN
EMMONS entered a quarter section of land in Perry
Township, in 1810; and from thence removed, in 1819, to
Montgomery Township, on the farm recently occupied by his sons,
(now owned by Matthias Boffenmire,) about one and a half
miles north of Ashland.
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 461 |
Lake Twp. -
JACOB EMRICK entered the southeast quarter
of section 3, Lake Township, at the land-office at Wooster, in
1830, after the government had reduced their lands to $1.25 per
acre. The whole farm is upland, and at the time of its
purchase Mr. Emrick's neighbors regarded his investment a
very unwise one; but him efforts at cultivation, after clearing
a few acres, proved successful, and he was among the first who
demonstrated the fertility of the hills, and showed that, for
wheat growing purposes, they were really superior to the bottom
lands, while for all other crops, excepting corn, they were not
inferior to the valleys.
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 387 |
Lake Twp. -
JOHN EMRICK removed to Lake Township from
Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in September, 1822, his father,
Andrew Emrick, having entered for him the northeast quarter
of section 9, and the southeast quarter of section 4, the
preceding year. At the date of his removal hither, his
family consisted of his wife and the following children, namely:
John, Jacob, Drusilla, Mary, Andrw Christiana, George,
and Rebecca.
At this date there was neither church nor school house in
the township.
Mr. Emrick died in July, 1847, aged sixty-six years.
John and George are residents of Indiana; Jacob
is a resident of Lake Township; Drusilla is the wife
of William North, of Vermillion Township; Mary is
the wife of George Connell, of Lake Township; Andrew
died in Van Wert County, in 1856; Christiana married
Simon Tapper, with whom she resides in Vermillion
Township; and Rebecca, wife of Michael Otto,
resides in Mohican 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 387 |
Lake Twp. -
JOHN EWALT, an emigrant from Pennsylvania,
removed with his family to Lake Township in the year 1820, and
entered the land now owned by Morgan Workman. He
died in 1847 at the age of sixty-three William D. Ewalt,
of Green Township is the only son of the deceased now residing
in Ashland County.
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 388 |
Mohican Twp. -
WILLIAM
EWING immigrated to Mohican Twp. in the fall of 1814,
from Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and removed to the farm which
had previously been entered for him by his father, John Ewing
- which farm is situated about two miles southeast of
Jeromeville, and is now occupied by the family of the late
Michael Heickle. His immediate neighbor was
John
Bryan.
Mills, Markets, etc.
Odell's mill, in Wayne County, was the most
convenient place for obtaining supplies of four.
The first year of his residence in the township,
wheat sold at $1.50 per bushel; but about the time
he had sufficient land under cultivation to enable
him to raise a surplus, the price fell to 25 cents
per bushel. Some years later the neighborhood
obtained their supplies of salt at Portland, on the
lake, at $4 per barrel. It was regarded as a
favorable exchange when a barrel of salt could be
obtained for a barrel of flour.
The Indian "Buckwheat."
Mr. Ewing's
acquaintance with this Indian commenced soon after
he settled in the country. He represents
Buckwheat as a man of good sense, benevolent
disposition, and remarkable for his fondness of
white children. He was never married.
The sins of his race were visited upon his
unoffending head, at an early age, in his death at
the hands of one whose brother had years previously
been murdered by Indians in a distant part of the
State.
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 408 |
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