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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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Milton Twp -
ALEXANDER REED immigrated to Milton
Township in 1814. He was the original purchaser of the
land adjacent to the old Hopewell Church. The body of his
wife, who died Nov. 17th, 1820, was the eleventh that was
interred in the old Hopewell churchyard. In 1821 Mr.
Reed sold to Joseph Marklay his farm above mentioned,
containing eighty acres, of which thirty were cleared, for 550
gallons of whisky. He was also the owner, at different
times, of town lots in Uniontown, (now Ashland,) among which are
some of the most valuable of any now in the town, which he sold
at from $12 to $14 per lot - payment mostly "in trade."
Mr. Reed was an emigrant from Pennsylvania.
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 |
Vermillion Twp. -
WILLIAM REED entered
the land he now occupies in Vermillion Township in the year
1811, and removed his family upon it April 14, 1814. He
was originally from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Reed enlisted in the military service during the first
year of the war with Great Britain in 1812, and served until
1814, when, from disability, he obtained a furlough-from his
captain (Jack) at Mansfield, and continuing physically unable,
he did not return to the service.
Mr. Reed was eighty years of age 11th June,
1862.
When he removed to his land, (southeast quarter section
5,) it was a wilderness; his nearest neighbors - except the
families of George, William, and Thomas Hughes,
and John Howard - were five miles distant.
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 289 |
ADAM
REICHARD emigrated from Centre County, Pennsylvania, and
removed to the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 8,
(which he had previously entered,) in April, 1829. His
family, at this time, consisted of his wife and an infant son,
Jacob. Mr. Reichard is among the very few in
Perry Township who reside upon the place they originally
entered.
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 467 |
Mohican Twp. -
RICHARD RHAMEY, SEN.,
immigrated to Jeromeville from Pennsylvania in 1813, his family then
consisting of his wife and three children.
Richard Rhamey, Jr., who was born in the old
block-house in Jeromeville, in September, 1815, is
the only surviving member of the family 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 425 |
Green Twp. -
CAPTAIN EBENEZER RICE and family
immigrated to Green Township, in February, 1811. He had
emigrated from Essex County, New York. In August, 1811, he
removed his family to the northwest quarter of section 29, which
tract he had entered in November, 1810.
Mr. Rice's family were the thirty-ninth which
settled in Richland County, and the fifth in Green Township.
He died in 1821, in the forty-ninth year of his age.
Alexander Rice occupies the farm originally
entered and improved by his father, and is the only son of
Ebenezer Rice now residing within Ashland County.
Captain Ebenezer Rice was born in Marlborough,
Massachusetts, and was the eldest son of Samuel and Abigail
Underwood Rice. Samuel was the son of
Gershom, who was the son of Ephraim who was the son
of Thomas who was the son of Edmund and Tamazine Rice,
who emigrated from Barkhamstead, England, in 1638, and lived and
died in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The old homestead, on the
banks of the Sudbury River, with its beautiful spring and its
broad meadows, is still in the possession of the Rice family.
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 334 |
Jackson Twp. -
MATTHIAS RICKEL
emigrated from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Jackson
Township, in March, 1818, having entered the northwest quarter
of section 26. His family at this time consisted of his
wife and three children, namely, Samuel, George and
Michael. The land above described he improved, and has
continued to make it his home.
Mr. Rickel purchased corn for his first year's
supply five miles east of Wooster, and paid one dollar and
twenty-five cents per bushel, although the corn was soft and
mouldy. It was, however, the best the country afforded at
that time. After the first year he raised his own
supplies. He cut the road from Cornelius Dorland's
to his place, when he removed his family.
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 496 |
Jackson Twp. -
MICHAEL RICKEL emigrated
from Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in October, 1817, and,
purchased of his brother Matthias,
the sixty acres in the northwest quarter of section 26, which he
improved, and upon which he has since resided. His family
consisted of his wife and three children, viz., Jacob
Sophia, and Michael. His
eldest son, Jacob,
was killed by the fall of a tree, during a storm, in the year
1832.
There were few of the early settlers who encountered more
adverse fortune than Mr.
Rickel during
the first years of his residence in Jackson Township. His
health had been much impaired by protracted illness, and he had
but a small portion of this world's goods. His health, however,
became renewed by the coarse diet which necessity compelled him
to use, (composed principally of corn bread and sassafras tea,)
and by his hard labor. To his regular and temperate habits, he
attributes his prolonged life and present vigor of body and
mind. He is now (March, 1862) in his seventy-sixth year.
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 |
CHRISTOPHER
RICKETT erected a cabin, upon the place he at present
occupies, in March, 1822. In the following June he removed
his family from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to their new
home. The land had been entered from him by his
father-in-law, John Horn, in the year 1814. His
family consisted of his wife and five children.
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 518 |
Montgomery Twp. -
MICHAEL RIDDLE removed to the land,
section 2, now occupied by his son, William Patterson Riddle,
in the spring of 1819. Mr. Riddle was one of the
founders of the Disciple Church, in Ashland County, and lived
and died honored among his neighbors. At the time of his
removal to the county, his family consisted of his wife, his
sons George W. and Aaron, and his daughter
Abigail. George W. Riddle is now a resident of
Montgomery Township. Aaron died 17th November,
1851. Abigail resides with her brother, William
P. Riddle, upon the old homestead.
Michael Riddle came to a sudden death on the
28th October, 1857, in consequence of a fall from an apple-tree,
surviving only three and a half hours after the accident.
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
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Green Twp. -
SIMON ROWLAND was an emigrant from
Pennsylvania. He visited the country during the war of
1812, when about seventeen years of age. Several years
later, he married Sarah, daughter of Calvin Hill,
and purchased the farm in Green Township, now owned by John
Maurer, which place he occupied until the time of his death,
which occurred in December, 1838, and his widow died on the 17th
day of March, 1859.
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 347 |
Montgomery Twp. -
SAMUEL ROWLAND, an emigrant from
Pennsylvania, removed to Orange Township in 1819. Now a
resident of Montgomery 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 203 |
Vermillion Twp. -
WILLIAM RYLAND
emigrated from Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and entered at the
land-office at Canton the farm upon which he now lives, in the
autumn of 1815. His family then consisted of his wife and
one daughter, Mary Ann, who is now the widow of
Jonathan Black. Among his neighbors were Robert
Jackman, who lived upon the farm now occupied by
Archibald Gillis; Lemuel Boulter, the only occupant of the
land upon which the flourishing town of Hayesville now stands;
John Vangilderb, who then resided upon the same place he
now occupies; John McCrory, who lived upon the land now
occupied by his descendants; Joseph Workman, who is now a
resident of another portion of the township from that in which
he at first resided; Ephrain Eckley, for an number
of years justice of the peace,) and who resided upon the farm
now owned by Abraham Johnson; George McClure, who lived
upon the land in section 10 now owned by John Scott, Sr.;
and William Karnahan, who resided upon the southeast
quarter of section 23.
Joseph Lake, at this date, was the only resident
of Jeromeville. He was the owner of a small stock of
goods. The block-house occupied during the war was yet
standing, but was only used occasionally for religious meetings.
Lemuel Boulter sold his interest in the land
upon which Hayesville was subsequently built to Linus Hayes.
Mr. Cox's purchase was of John Hersh - the lands
being in the Virginia Military Land District.
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 290 |
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