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BIOGRAPHIES
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JACOB FAST, " son of Martin Fast, the oldest son of
Christian Fast, the Delaware captive, was born in
Jackson township, Wayne county, State of Ohio, September 12,
1821. His father owned the farm upon which he (Jacob) has
resided since his birth.
Martin Fast, his father, unfortunately lost his
life June 13, 1838, at the age of fifty-six years. Like his
father he was remarkably venturesome. At the time of the fatal
accident he was attending a barn raising at the home of Mr.
Hankey Priest, a neighbor. During the day a hive of bees
swarmed and escaped. Mr. Fast and one or two
others followed them until they settled on a tall tree. He
ascended and hived them in a pillow case, and while in the act
of descending, accidentally placed his foot upon a dead limb
which gave way, and he fell to the ground, and was so injured
that he survived but a few minutes. He had great fondness for
bees, and could handle them without exciting their resentment.
At the time of his death he possessed one hundred hives. This
accident deprived his son Jacob, than seventeen years of
age, of many advantages he otherwise would have had. He was
compelled to remain on the homestead as a laborer, and his
opportunities to attend school were limited. In 1844, by
industry, he had acquired sufficient means to attend Ashland
academy one session. He returned to his farm, and in 1852 was
elected township clerk, and has held the office ever since. In
the fall of the same year he was elected justice of the peace,
and re-elected five times, serving until 1870. In the fall of
1873 he was again elected a justice of the peace, and in the
fall of 1875 re-elected; so that, if he survives to the end of
his present term, he will have acted as justice twenty-four
years. Mr. Fast is noted for his integrity, sobriety, and
intellectual worth. He is a member of the Christian church.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 339 |
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WILLIAM FAST
was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1794, and
went to school until he was sixteen years old. He came to
Orange township when about twenty-one years old, and entered
three hundred and twenty acres of land for himself and father,
and moved out in the spring of 1814. The family were
Martin, Nicholas, Jacob, William, Christian, David, Francis,
George, John, Margaret, Barbara, Betsy and Christina,
married to a cousin in Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
William Fast married Elizabeth Fast, a
cousin, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1817. His wife
lived until July 1869, when he died, aged seventy four.
Their children were: Frances, Elizabeth, Christena, Sarah,
Levi, Jesse, John V., William Jonas, Joshua B., and one who
died in childhood. Five of these are also dead:
Frances, Elizabeth, Christena, John N. and William.
Levi, Jesse and John live in Michigan; the rest in
Ashland county.
The mental faculties of Mr. Fast seem to be well
preserved, and he possesses fine physical powers for one of his
age. The old gentleman often relates incidents in relation
to Tom Lyons, Jonacake, and other Delawares
with whom he was acquainted in his youth. He knew many of the
Green and Jerometown Indians.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 251 |
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ABRAHAM FERRIS was born in Columbia county, New York,
June 16, 1788. He served in the war of 1812, and married
Marinda Phillips, and removed to Ruggles township in 1824.
He voyaged up the lake from Buffalo to Sandusky in a schooner,
and after being delayed by a lake storm, reached Ruggles, by way
of New London, and located on a lot seventeen, section three,
having erected a cabin. His family at his decease, which
took place August 13, 1850, consisted of Laura, Philetus,
Samuel, Sarah, Lois, Erastus, Elias, Jesse and Elmira.
His wife died September 17, 1850. Several members of the
family are now deceased.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 180 |
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ALEXANDER FINLEY
was born in Hartford County, Maryland, in the year 1770, of
Scotch-Irish parents. His father was descended from one of
seven brothers who emigrated to the north of Ireland during
"King William's war." They subsequently
immigrated to the State of New Jersey, from whence one of
the brothers migrated to Hartford County, in the State of
Maryland, about a century and a half ago. Here
Alexander Finley was born. Attended the schools
of his native country, and obtained a knowledge of the
English branches. Upon reaching manhood, he located in Green
County, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Mary Smith,
a relative of the Hon. Resolve Smith,
president of the first bank organized in Philadelphia. In
the fall of 1803, he emigrate, with his little family, to
Fairfield county, Ohio, then including the counties of what
are now Licking, Knox, Richland and Ashland, and stopped the
winter of 1803-4 in the cabin of Thomas Bell Paterson,
on the present site of Mount Vernon. In the spring of 1804,
he erected a cabin, about half a mile northwest of Mr.
Patterson, on what is now the Fredericktown road, and
resided there until April 1809.
On the fifteenth of April 1809, he landed on the west
bank of the Lake fork of Mohican, on the present site of
Tylertown, where he quartered a few months in a camp cabin.
In May, Benjamin Bunn and family, William and
Thomas Eagle and family arrived. These were the
settlers in what is now Mohican Township, in 1809.
When Mr. Finley arrived, the Indians of what
was then known as Jerometown, a village on the Jerome fork
of the Mohican, some five miles northwest of his cabin, soon
visited him. The inhabitants of the Indian village
were generally friendly. Mr. James Finley, of
Marquand, Madison County, Missouri, from whom was obtained
these particulars, says:
As near as I can recollect, the Indian village
contained perhaps about thirty bark and pole huts or
wigwams. The names of the heads of families were,
Aweepsah, Oppetete, Catotawa, Neshohawa,
Buckanddohee, Shias, Ground squirrel,
Buckwheat, Philip Canonicut, and
sometimes Thomas Lyons, Billy
Montour, and Thomas Jelloway. The
chief, Captain Pipe (Hobacon), resided some distance
from the village. He was a tall, dark, scowling old
Indian, and seemed hostile to the whites. I seldom saw him.
He did not associate with the whites of the neighborhood,
but did his trading abroad. I learned that he and
Armstrong, of Greentown, often made expeditions to attack
emigrants on the Ohio River, on their way to Kentucky.
John Jerry Bettis Jerome had a cabin on the present site
of Jeromeville, near the stream, when we moved to the
country. He had been a trader among the Indians
seventeen years in the northwest, and was a Frenchman; and
like most of the traders of that nation, married a squaw.
He had a daughter ten years old, named Aweepsah. He
had cleared some twenty-five or thirty acres, had horses,
cattle and hogs, and often entertained the pioneers.
After the declaration of war, his wife and daughter
accompanied the Jerometown Indians to Piqua, where they
died. Jerome sold his land and married a German
woman, and removed to the mouth of Huron, on the lake, where
he died some years afterward.
In 1809 the region along the Lake and Jerome forks of
Mohican, was an unbroken forest. Jerome, and
Benjamin Mills, who resided on the present site
of Wooster, as Mr. Finley supposes, were the
only white people in that part of Wayne County. He
became quite intimate with Jerome, and exchanged many
articles of food with him, and was indebted to him for many
acts of friendship. The Indian village was about one
mile southwest of Jerome's cabin, and surrounded on
three sides by almost impenetrable marshes, filled with
alder and other swamp growths. The emigrants of
1810-11, state, that the wigwams or huts were scattered over
a space of eight or ten acres, with the undergrowth cut
away, and a smooth play ground in the center, which was much
used as a bowling ground. Here the hunters and
warriors amused themselves. The council house was located
northwest of the village, and was some twenty-five feet wide
and fifty feet long, covered with clapboards and bark.
It was of poles and split timber. Years before the
arrival of Mr. Finley, this village was
conspicuous in the annals of the border wars. It was
located near the ancient trail leading from Pittsburgh to
Upper Sandusky, and many trembling captives ran the gauntlet
in passing through it, on their way to the Indian towns in
the northwest. This was the headquarters of those
warriors of the Wolf tribe that still followed the fortunes
of Captain Pipe. At that period the
Greentown Indians seemed quite intimate with the Jerometown
branch of the Delawares, and often associated with them in
celebrating their feasts.
In 1810, Vachel and William Metcalf, Thomas and
Joshua Oram, Benjamin and John Mackerel, James and Joseph
Conelly, Elisha Chilcote, John Shinnabarger, and their
families joined Mr. Finley.
When the war of 1812 came, and the Indians commenced
hostile demonstrations, Mr. Finley, and some
of his neighbors, forted in Wooster. In 1813, he
joined families and forted with his neighbor, John
Shinnabarger, who had a strong cabin with port holes,
one mile northwest of the present site of Tylertown. Save
the affair at Colyer's, elsewhere alluded to, the settlement
remained undisturbed. James Finley relates a
number of amusing incidents connected with the flight of the
pioneers to Wooster, and other places of safety. After
proceeding some distance along a circuitous path, with his
family, his father remembered that he had left some young
calves in pens, and fearing they would starve, returned to
let them to the cows, and then attempted to pass straight
through the forest to Wooster, eleven miles away, but soon
became confused, and was out three days before he got to the
fort, his family, in the meantime, arriving safely. At the
same time, a neighbor, Mr. Jacob Lybarger,
rolled his infant daughter in a small bed and took it on his
back, proceeding rapidly on his way, followed by his wife,
through the forest by narrow Indian trails. From the
speed made by her husband, Mrs. Lybarger
supposed the danger very imminent. Calling to her
husband, who was some distance in advance, she said:"
Jake-Jake, are you afraid?" He promptly
responded, "No," and they hurried forward in the narrow
path. In his flight, he dropped the infant, and his
wife, coming up in haste, stumbled over it, exclaiming" "Jake,
Jake, you need not tell me you are not afraid, for
you have lost Maria out of the bed, and you didn't
know it." The little daughter was speedily replaced,
survived the war, and upon arriving at womanhood, became the
wife of the late Justus S. Weatherbee.
After the close of the war, Mr. Finley
continued to reside on his farm until December, 1825, when
he deceased, aged about 50-9 years. During the early
part of his residence on the Lake Fork, it was navigable for
small craft to the present site of Tylertown, known as
Finley's bridge, where a structure of that sort spans the
stream. Here the pioneers landed, making their way by forest
paths to Orange, Montgomery, Perry, Vermillion and Mohican
townships.
His family consisted of James, Benjamin,
John, Hannah, Sarah, Abner,
Rachel, Elizabeth, and Mary.
James resides in Madison county, Missouri; Benjamin
and John are deceased; Hannah (widow
Glenn,) resides in Urbana, Illinois; Sarah, wife of
Daniel Pocock, reside near Hayesville; Abner
lives near Plympton, Holmes county, Ohio; Rachel,
wife of Sparks Bird, near Mohicanville,
Ashland county, Ohio.; Elizabeth, wife of James
Pocock, in Hayesville, Ohio; Mary, wife of
Elijah Pocock, died near Hayesville. Mrs.
Mary Finley, wife of Alexander
Finley, deceased March 23, 1856, aged about 70-9 years.
Mine La-Motte, April 10th, 1876.
George W. Hill, Esq.
I was absent when
your letter arrived, which accounts for not being answered
sooner. Jerome settled on Mohican. When we came to the
country, he was living at Jerometown, in a small cabin, a
short distance from the Indian houses. He cultivated
some six or eight acres of land, kept a few horses, cattle,
and swine. He and the Indians did not get along well.
They wished him to divide the products of his farm with
them. This he refused to do, and the consequence was, when
they got bad whiskey they whipped him. He built a
cabin near the trail, on the east side of the stream, at the
foot of Main street, in the present village of Jeromesville,
having bought the land where Jeromesville now stands, where
he kept a house of Entertainment. In 1812, when the Indians
were removed, he said he gave his squaw the privilege of
going or staying with him. She chose to go with the Indians.
He afterwards married a white woman. He sold his farm
to Mr. Deardorff, and settled at Huron, In
Huron County, and shortly after died. He commenced
trading with the Indians when 17 years old; but how long he
continued a trader, I do not know. He then in Harmar's
and St. Clair's, I do not know. The Indians did not
have much cleared land. I never saw their field, but
it was situated out of sight of the village. I think
they had only a few small patches. The cleared land around
the village was a lawn, well set with blue grass, and
contained an occasional tree and a few shrubs, perhaps
amounting to 8 or 10 acres. I was in the village during the
residence of the Indians, some 3 or 4 times. It
consisted of some fine cabins, about 16 by 18 feet, one
story high, and a number of small huts or wigwams. The
council house, I think, was a temporary building, built
lodge fashion. I do not recollect of having seen it. I
saw the wigwam of captain Pipe. It was within
the cleared space of the village. I have no
recollection of wife or children. He appeared to be
upwards of 50 years old. Was a tall, dark, and
straight Indian. I never talked with him, perhaps father
did, but I think not much, as Pipe was a surly,
unrelenting enemy of the white, and had little intercourse
with them. I think he left early in the summer of 1812.
I have no knowledge of Captain Pipe, jr. The Captain
other Pipe, perhaps a son. I know that the
Captain Pipe I described resided in Jerometown in
the years 1809-11. I believe there was more Captain
Pipe than one. I think Jerome said the
Indians had been on Mohican about 10 or 12 years previous to
the white settlement; but of this I am not positive.
Very respectfully, yours,
James Finley.
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The above is a letter from James
Finley, in answer to one addressed him by the author, on
the subject of the Indian settlement at Jerometown, asking
him to be more definite concerning Jerome and Captain
Pipe. It seems that Jerome had at first a
cabin in or near the Indian village, but in consequence of
bad whisky, failed to agree with his red brethren. Mr.
Finley remembers the wigwam of old Captain
Pipe, but fails to recollect his wife or children. It is
probable that Pipe lived alone. Captain Pipe Jr.,
if Greentown, was undoubtedly his son.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 143 |
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DANIEL FOLK,
the subject of this sketch, was born in Crawford County,
Ohio, Mar. 6, 1845. When about ten years old, his
parents removed to this (Ashland) county, where he has since
resided. He was married Feb. 20, 1866, to Miss
Virginia I., daughter of Captain W. A. G. Emerson,
of whom mention is made elsewhere in this work. Mr.
Folk's occupation is that of a saddle and harness
making, having been engaged in that business for the past
fourteen or fifteen years, and he is considered by all to be
a very proficient workman in all the different branches
pertaining to the trade. For the past few years he has
been foreman for the firm of J. W. Davis, at Ashland.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 404 |
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ELIAS FORD was
born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1799. He
came with his father, Thomas Ford, from Jefferson
county, Ohio, to Clearcreek township, in 1819. His
father had entered a quarter section of land in section
twenty-two. They journeyed in a small, one-horse
wagon, in which they brought the necessary provisions for
their absence, and a few tools to erect a cabin. From
Wooster they passed along the path to the present site of
Rowsburgh, thence along the old trail to the house of
Jacob Young, on the Mohican, northeast of Uniontown;
thence, to near Mason's mill, and then, along a new cut road
to section twenty-two, where they erected a temporary
shelter, somewhat in the form of a camp house, with open
front, and covered with bark. Their bunk upon which
they slept was suspended by bark ropes from the roof and was
about three feet from the ground. The fire place was
immediately in front of this open cabin and fire was kept
burning during the night to frighten away the wolves, and
keep off the musquitoes. The wolves were
uncommonly numerous and mischievous. Rattlesnakes, and
other varieties of reptiles, were quite numerous. The
bed being thus elevated secured the occupants from the
reptiles. Mr. Ford was accompanied by a large
watch-dog, who slept at the open doorway in front of the
cabin, to alarm the occupants in case of intrusion or
danger. Thomas and Elias Ford were well
armed. Elias slept in the cabin while his
father made his home at Thomas McConnell's, a
son-in-law, in Orange township. At the time of the
arrival of Mr. Ford and son, a large number of
Delaware Indians were encamped in the neighborhood, engaged
in making sugar and hunting. They were well armed but
quite friendly. A strong attachment soon sprang up and
continued until the close of the hunting season. At
this date many Wyandots and Delawares hunted
annually along the Vermillion river and in the vicinity of
the Savannah lakes, and looked with suspicion upon the
intrusion of the white settlers. After a few weeks,
Thomas Ford returned to Jefferson county and removed
with the balance of his family to Clearcreek. Elias
had been engaged in clearing and fencing a field for corn,
and in the absence of a team, carried rails on his shoulders
to place them in a fence.
The family of Thomas Ford, at their arrival in
1819, consisted of four sons, Elias, Elijah, Thomas H.,
and John; and four daughters, Elizabeth, Rebecca,
Susannah, and Belinda. In the meantime a
larger and more commodious cabin had been erected by the aid
of the scattered settlers. Elias, subsequently,
Sept. 9, 1821, married Miss Elizabeth Parks, of
Jefferson county, and located on the late Daniel Huffneer
farm. At this time there was neither a church nor
school-house in the township. The people assembled at
the cabin of Thomas Ford, for public worship, for
many years. In 1830, Ford's meeting house was
erected; it was a fine structure for that period, and was
occupied by the Methodists as a place of worship.
Thomas Ford died Oct. 10, 1830; his funeral was preached
by Rev. Elmer Yocum.
Elias Ford performed arduous labor in clearing and
preparing his farm. For many years he experienced all
the privations of pioneer life, but by industry and
frugality accumulated a handsome property. Having
disposed of his old homestead, he purchased a new home in
1845, and subsequently, about 1865, sold it, and removed to
Troy township, where he deceased in the fall of 1874, aged
about seventy-five years. Mr. Ford was a large
man; would weigh about two hundred pounds. He had a
fine head, and bore a striking resemblance to Daniel
Webster. If he had possessed the advantage of a
thorough collegiate course of training, he would have left a
proud record. As it was, he was a leading man in his
township, as a farmer and a citizen. He was a man of
high moral attainments, and took a leading part in favor of
the public schools. Thomas H. Ford, a younger
brother, served in the Mexican war as a captain, and
subsequently become lieutenant governor of Ohio. He
was also a colonel in the war of 1861-5. He is dead.
The balance of the family are somewhat scattered.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 164 |
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Vermillion Twp. -
CONRAD FOX was born in Bavaria,
Germany, June 18, 1829, and at the age of three years, in
company with his parents, brothers, and sisters, he left the
old world for a home in the new. Soon after the
arrival of the Fox family in America they came to what is
now Vermillion township, Ashland county, and here the
children have lived and prospered by their own good
management and hard work. Conrad, the subject
of this sketch, remained with his parents until he was
married. Apr. 16, 1852, he married Miss Gertrude
Hirshler, daughter of Henry and Christena Hirshler,
who died in Germany when she was about eight years old.
When she was sixteen years old, in company with her
brothers, John and Henry, she came to Ohio.
Immediately after they were married they bought the farm on
which they still live, nearly three miles northwest of the
village of Hayesville. They have two children;
Adolph, born Apr. 16, 1854, and Amanda, born Feb.
21, 1859. Adolph is married and lives on his
father's farm. Amanda is single and remains at
home with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fox are
members of the German Lutheran church, near where they live.
Mr. Fox is a Democrat in politics, and is a man
highly esteemed by his neighbors. He has one hundred
and forty-two acres of land in one of hte most fertile
sections of Vermillion township. He is a good farmer,
and his family and farm have his whole time.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 304 |
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FREDERICK FOX was born in Bavaria,
Germany, Oct. 28, 1822, and emigrated to America with his
parents in 1833, Aug. 28th; they arrived in Vermillion
township, Ashland county, after a tedious journey of twenty
days from New York city. Vermillion township has been
the home of Mr. Fox ever since. Mr. Fox
left home to learn the saddler and harness trade in
Mansfield, Richland county, at the age of nineteen. On
Sept. 6, 1849, he was married to Miss Eliza Jane
Blackburn, of Green township, Ashland county; she came
from Bedford county, Pennsylvania, with her parents in 1832.
Mr. Fox worked at his chosen trade in
Hayesville continuously about sixteen years, at the end of
which time he moved to his farm, where he worked winters at
his trade and summers tilled and improved his farm. At
the end of four years he returned to Hayesville, stayed
about two years, when he again returned to the farm, where
he has remained ever since. They have had ten
children, eight sons and two daughters; nine of whom are
living. Charley died at the age of seventeen
months, Jan. 25, 1868. Joseph Benton, born Aug.
7, 1850; Lewis B., born Dec. 24, 1852; Justice,
born Nov. 3, 1854; Curtis Buchanan, born Jan. 10,
1857; Lillie Irene, born May 5, 1859; Franklin,
born Jul. 28, 1861; Conrad C., born Feb. 3, 1864;
Coates, born Aug. 11, 1866; Morris, born Jan. 24,
1869; Mary Margreta, born Aug. 20, 1872.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 309 |
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JOSEPH BENTON FOX was born in
Hayesville, Ashland county, Ohio, in 1850. He worked
with his father on the farm until he was seventeen years
old, when he learned the harness business, at which business
he continued two years. In 186o he returned to the
farm, teaching school winters, and in 1876 engaged in the
dry goods business with T. C. Harvey, at Hayesville,
in which position we find him working earnestly, doing a
little business outside of the mercantile in the way of a
broker, buying and selling paper. Mr. Fox is an
earnest business man. On Sept. 11, 1879, he married
Miss Christiana Wallace, of Vermillion township, Ashland
county, Ohio.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 310 |
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WILLIAM
C. FRAZEE
was born Dec. 10, 1841, in Allegheny county, Maryland, and
came to Ashland County, Ohio, in 1863, and taught school
two winters and labored one summer on a farm, after
which he formed a partnership with
John Rebman in
the provision business about one year, and then entered
the same business with
Joseph Stoffer,
during which time he was elected clerk of the court of
common pleas for Ashland county from 1870 to 1876.
Since his time as clerk has expired he formed a
partnership with
E. W. Wallack in the bed spring business, and subsequently in the
furniture and undertaking business, and subsequently in
the furniture and undertaking business in
Ashland. He married
Miss Nancy Swineford, daughter of John Swineford, Dec. 26, 1864, by whom he had two children, one of
whom yet survives
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros. 1880. -
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JACOB FREES, of
English-German descent, was born in
Uniontown,
Pennsylvania, Nov. 22, 1808, and he came to
Wayne county, Ohio, in Nov., 1822,
and to
Wayne
township, with his father’s family.
He remained there until 1857, then removed to Smithville,
same county, and, in 1864, removed to
Ashland
county. He learned
the trade of a shoemaker, and carried it on in Wayne
county, with a shoe-store, until he came to
Ashland
county. He
attended common schools, and became a member of the Lutheran
Reformed church in 1825. He is now a member
of the English Lutheran church of Ashland, and has been an elder six or
seven years. When he came to
Ashland he became one of the
proprietors of the steam saw-mill until 1870, and then
retired.
His family consists of two sons and four daughters.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros. 1880. -
Page 213 |
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DR. AMOS B. FULLER,
was born in Ashland county, in 1842; studied medicine with his
father, and began to practice in 1862. In 1867 he
graduated from Jefferson Medical college in Philadelphia, and in
187_ took the degree at Bellevue Medical college, New York.
In 1868 he married Mary B. Stewart. He has built up
a large practice, and is respected by all who know him; is a
member of hte Methodist Episcopal church, and the father of four
children, viz.: Mary M., Grace, Gertrude B., and
Stewart E.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. -
Page 292 - Hanover Twp. |
Susan Fuller Hildebrand, daughter of E. B. Fuller
(Picture contributed by gr-gr-granddaughter |
E. B. FULLER,
father of Dr. Amos B. Fuller, was born in New York, in
1799, and married Sarah Culver, in Tioga county,
Pennsylvania. In 1831 he first settled in Loudonville, and
began the practice of medicine; was a doctor of the old school;
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In
politics he was a Democrat -one of the liberal kind, bitterly
opposed to the fugitive slave law. In 1856 two fugitives
came to his house early in the morning. He fed them and
sent them to Robert Wilson, where they were cared for and
taken beyond the reach of United States marshals, blood-hounds,
etc. He was the father of ten children, only four of whom
are living: Catharine, who became the wife of
Gilbert Pell, afterward married Calvin Hibbard,
and lives in Ashland county; Susan, who married J. W.
Hildebrand, and lives in Columbus; Content, who
married J. W. Stacker, of Ashland county; Amos B.,
who became the husband of Mary Stewart and lives in
Loudonville.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. -
Page 291 - Hanover Twp. |
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DR. EPHRAIM B.
FULLER was born in Madison county, New York, July 8,
1799. He read medicine in the office of Dr. Parkis,
of Tioga county, Pennsylvania, and commenced practice at 1823.
He married Sarah Culver, of Elkland, Pennsylvania, in
March, 1822. He practiced in Potter county, Pennsylvania
until the spring of 1832, when he located in Loudonville,
Richland (now Ashland,) county, Ohio.
Dr. Fuller was not a regularly educated
physician, having read in a private office, according to the
statutes of New York, was examined and admitted to practice
medicine and surgery under a certificate issued by the county
censors. He was a man of marked industry, and possessed an
iron will, which associated with a powerful physical
organization, a love of his profession, and closed attention to
medical authorities enabled him to accomplish a great deal in
the line of his calling. He had a most extensive practice,
and was unusually successful in the treatment of the diseases of
his locality. He practiced continuously over thirty-six
years, sometimes under circumstances the most adverse, and in
the face of a well arranged competition, always sustaining
himself honorably in his profession. He should rank among
the very best of the profession in the county. He died at
Loudonville, Dec. 23, 1867. He left a family.
Dr. Amos B. Fuller is a son, and
Dr. A. J. Scott, a son-in-law. The son is said to
possess many of the peculiarities of the father, and will
probably secured to a fair share of his practice.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. -
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DANIEL FULMER, born in Ashland county in 1855,
married Mary
Sprang in 1879. He carried on the business of queensware,
groceries and bakery combined, in partnership with his brother,
John Fulmer, doing business under the firm name of
Fulmer Brothers. They have the largest and best
selected stock in Perrysville. In 1880 he was elected clerk of
the township, and in 1878 was appointed postmaster by President
Hayes, which office he still holds. He is a member of the
Evangelical Association, and in politics is a Republican.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 280 |
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JACOB FULMER, born in Elsos, France, in 1809, married
Mary
Hoffman, and in 1837 came to Ohio, and settled in Lake
township, Ashland county, on the farm now owned by Mrs.
Fulmer.
Mr. Fulmer was a stone mason by trade, but followed
farming all his life. He was a member of the Evangelical
Association, and in politics was a Republican. He was the father
of eleven children, three of whom died in infancy. Eight are
living, viz.: Margaret; John, who married
Lucretia Tipton, of Perrysville; Jacob, who
married Jennie McMorrill and lives in Wayne
county, Ohio; Catharine, wife of Abel Metcalf,
of Lake township; Julia, wife of Levi Shut,
of Lake township; Frederick, who married Amanda
Workman and lives in Holmes county, Ohio; Daniel, who
married Mary Sprang and lives in Perrysville;
Mary, wife of William Steward, who lives in
Mohican township.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 280 |
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JOHN FULMER was born in in Ashland county, Ohio, in
1846, and in 1871 married Lucretia Tipton. He is a
baker by trade, and is engaged in business with his brother,
Daniel
Fulmer. He has held the office of marshal in Perrysville
for two years. Mr. Fulmer is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics is a Republican. He
is the father of three children, viz.: Zella, Zada
and
Hattie.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 280 |
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