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Orange Twp. -
JACOB YOUNG (originally from Pennsylvania) settled in
Orange Township in the year 1814. He reached his ninetieth
year on the 1st day of January, 1862. Mr. Young
raised a family of twelve children, and never employed a
physician. He was never defendant in a law suit, and never
sued but one man. He never had a quarrel with any man.
Born under a monarchy, in the reign of George III., he
lived to see the origin, progress, and decline of the great
American Union. He so arranged his worldly matters that,
although he had been the largest landholder in Orange Township,
his estate was all equitably and satisfactorily divided among
his numerous descendants.
(From the Ashland
Union, April 9, 1862.)
Another Old Pioneer Gone.
Jacob Young, an
old citizen of this township, died on the third instant, at the
advanced age of eighty-nine years and three months. HE was
born in Hardy County, Virginia, the 1st day of January, 1773.
He emigrated to Ohio in 1804, and to this county in 1814.
He lived with his companion (who still survives him) sixty-eight
years. He was the father of twelve children, and when he
died had one hundred and seventeen grandchildren, one hundred
and seventy-six great-grandchildren, and five
great-great-grand-children. Father Young was a
pious, devoted man, and, like a ripe shock of corn, has been
gathered into the garner above.
Election of Officers of the Township for
1862.
Trustees,
David Biddinger, Henry Worts, and Thomas Culbertson
- Clerk, J. Deal - Treasurer, Jacob
Smurr - Assessor, Emanuel Finger -
Constables, Daniel Summers and Henry Ricketts.
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 522 |
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Perry Twp. -
HENRY
ZIMMERMAN emigrated from Centre County, Pennsylvania, to
Jackson Twp., during June, 1823. Within the same year he
purchased, of Daniel Goodwin, eighty acres in section 3,
Perry Township, which he improved, and upon which he now
resides. When he removed to this place his wife and five
children constituted 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 471 |
