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BIOGRAPHIES
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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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WILLIAM TANGEMAN was born in the kingdom
of Hanover, Germany, Dec. 31, 1831. In 1851 he left
Germany with the determination of trying the new world, and upon
his landing here went directly to Cincinnati, Ohio, and remained
engaged in the wholesale tobacco trade, until 1855, when he
moved to Mansfield, Ohio. In April he married Miss
Margaret Schiedt. In Mansfield he remained two years
in the tobacco business, when he disposed of his business in
Mansfield and returned to Cincinnati, where he remained eight
years, and in 1865 he purchased a farm near Loudonville, Ashland
county, Ohio, and in 1867 sold this farm and bought and removed
to where he now resides, about one mile west of Hayesville,
Ohio. They have eight children - three sons and five
daughters, all except the oldest son being at home and single.
Mr. Tangeman has served his township as trustee, and his
school district as director. In politics he is a Democrat,
but is a man with many friends in both parties. Mr.
Tangeman and wife are members of the German Evangelical
church in Vermillion township. The medicine.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 300 |
THE
TANNEHILLS. Melzer Tannehill, sr., was
born in Frederick county, Maryland, July 12, 1716. He
emigrated to what is now Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and
located near Pittsburgh in the year 1777, during the
Revolutionary war. He married Miss Eleanor Lile,
Mar. 23, 1790. He emigrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, in
1805, and in September, 1811, removed to Green township, in what
is now Ashland county, and located on section twenty-three,
where he resided over fifty years. He was one of the first
commissioners of Richland county in 1813. In 1812 he was
assessor of Knox county. He was subsequently a justice of
the peace of Green township. During the exciting scenes of
1812, after the assassinations on the Black fork, he took a
vigilant part in preparing to repel any future assaults by the
savages. He deceased Apr. 24, 1851. He was an
exemplary and upright man, and had been a regular attendant upon
the services of the Presbyterian church for many years.
His family consisted of five sons and five daughters. Two
sons and three daughters yet survive.
Charles Tannehill was born in Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania, Jan. 30, 1792. He emigrated with his
father's family in 1811, and assisted in improving the homestead
in Green township. During the border troubles of 1812, he
served as a soldier in a company recruited in Knox county, Ohio,
by Captain Greer, and participated in all the dangers
incident to border life. In June, 1814, he married Miss
Mary, daughter of Allen Oliver, and located on
section twenty-seven, where he resided over fifty years.
He died at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Joseph
Cathcart, in Portage county, Indiana, Nov. 26, 1875, at the
advanced age of eighty-four years. His remains were
brought to Perrysville for interment, and now rest beside those
of the wife of his youth, who had preceded him to the grave.
He was a member of the Disciple church. His family
consisted of twelve children, nine sons and three daughters.
Four sons and two daughters survived him. Mr. Adamson
Tannehill, the oldest son, resides in Hicksville, Defiance
county, Ohio. He was born July 1, 1815, and is the oldest
living native of Green township.
MELZER TANNEHILL, JR., second son
of Melzer, sr., was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania,
June 18, 1801, and removed with his father's family to Jefferson
county, Ohio, and thence to Green township in 1811, and assisted
in improving the old homestead. He is now seventy-five
years old, and quite rugged. He wrights a fair hand, and
may survive many years. He is an influential farmer, and
takes a lively interest in the improvement of the county.
His recollections of the days of the pioneers are quite vivid.
At the organization of the pioneer and historical society of
Ashland county in 1875, he communicated many interesting
incidents, and became a member. He says the following
pioneers were citizens of Green township at the arrival of his
father's family in 1811: "George Pierce, John Davis,
George and Abram Baughman, John Murphy, Joseph Jones,
Sylvester Fisher, Ebenezer Rice, Solomon Hill, Josiah L. Hill,
Moses Adsit, Thomas Coulter, Allen Oliver and Jeremiah
Conine, and their families. In the fall of 1812, when
the Indians became hostile, the settlers erected strong cabins
and block-houses for their protection. Some three or four
families having friends at Clinton, Knox county, removed there
for greater safety. There was no stampede, as some state.
All the settlers, except the ones named, remained and occupied
their own places of defence."
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 163 |
WILLIAM
TAYLOR was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 14,
1774. His father had emigrated from Ireland two or three
years before the commencement of the American Revolution.
He removed, after the close of the war, in to Huntingdon county,
and subsequently into Bedford county near the iron works.
Here William remained until manhood, and married.
In August, 1821, he emigrated, with his family, to Richland
county, Ohio, landing at Mansfield. He brought with him
one five-horse, one four-horse and one two-horse team. The
large team was loaded principally with axes, grubbing hoes,
wedges, corn hoes and other necessary tools, and one set of
blacksmith tools, which were disposed of to the pioneers at a
fair profit. His route was by Pittsburgh, then along
Cook's and Beall's trails to Wooster, and thence
through Jeromeville, Hayes' cross roads, Petersburgh, and
to Mansfield along the old State road. In the fall of
1821, he purchased four quarter sections of land adjoining what
is now the Carey farm in Green township. He
improved this property, passing through all the struggles of
pioneer life, and resided on it until Mar. 7, 1851, when he
deceased. This homestead, in point of soil and location,
was one of the finest in the county. Mr. Taylor was
twice married. His family consisted of eight sons -
William, Thomas, Levi, James, Alexander, David, John and
Andrew, and one daughter, Sarah, wife of Thomas
McGuire, of Green. John has been repeatedly
elected justice of the peace, has served two terms in the Ohio
legislature, and was elected probate judge in 1875.
The family are all deceased but Levi, James, David,
John, Andrew and Mrs. McGuire.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 165 |
JOSIAH
THOMAS was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, March 9,
1804. His father George Thomas, of Welsh descent, removed to
Harrison county, Ohio, and located near Cadiz, in 1807. He
was a tailor by trade, and followed his business there until 1817,
when he emigrated to the village of Petersburgh, now Mifflin,
Mifflin township, Ashland county. He, George
Thomas, remained there several years engaged at his trade, and
in keeping a hotel, the village being on the main line of travel
from Canton, Wooster to Mansfield, and the west part of the State.
Jacob Beam being a brother-in-law of Mr.
George Thomas, and an uncle to Josiah, his two
older brothers, Henry and Peter, had visited Mr.
Beam, to see the country prior to the removal of the
family. In 1824 George Thomas, with his
family, removed to Orange township, and located upon the present
homestead of Josiah Thomas. Josiah
attended the common schools of the neighborhood, and adopted
farming as an occupation. In 1828 he married Miss
Eliza Zimmerman. His family consists of
seven children - George, Henry, Warren, Mary,
Elizabeth, Freelove, and Harriet.
George, Henry and Elizabeth were married.
Mr. Thomas is a quiet, industrious and exemplary farmer. He
has never been an office-seeker; yet, against his protests, the
people of his township have elected him trustee fifteen or sixteen
times. When Ashland county was organized in 1846, Mr.
Thomas was appointed commissioner for the short term, and
elected in October, for three years, and served until 1850.
He has been a member of the Disciple church about twenty years.
In 1879 he was elected president of the Historical and Pioneer
society of Ashland county, which office he yet holds.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 176 |
NELSON
THOMAS was born June 6, 1831. His father was a
native of Wales, where he was born about 1785; he died near
Jeromeville, Ohio, in 1853. His mother, Anna Thomas,
was born in New Jersey, about 1806. They had a family of
five children, of whom Jane Died in Kosciusko county,
Indiana; Elizabeth, who married J. M. Hess, and
lives in CAss county, Missouri; Amanda, who married
Thomas Norris, and lives in Fulton county, Indiana; Sarah
M., who married Joseph H. Page, and lives in
Cass county, Missouri. Nelson Thomas, the subject
of this sketch, was married when twenty-one years of age, to
Sarah Keister, of Hayesville, Ohio. They have had six
children, five of whom are living. One son, Franklin,
died October 30, 1877, at the age of nineteen.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 396 |
PETER THOMAS
was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1798, His
father, George Thomas, emigrated with his family, to Harrison
county, in the spring of 1807. In 1815 Peter Thomas, then sixteen
years of age, traveled on foot, accompanied by the family
watch-dog, a large and faithful mastiff, along a new path leading
from Cadiz to the village of Wooster, and rested one night at Stibbs' mill. The next night he reached the cabin of
John Raver,
near the present site of Rowsburgh. The following morning he
pursued his journey by paths until he struck Beall's trail, at
Jerome's place, and thence along a blazed path partly opened, to
Beam's mill, three miles below Mansfield, on the Rocky fork of
Mohican. Jacob Beam, the owner of the mill, was an uncle. He
remained a few weeks, and returned. In 1817, his father's family
came on and erected a cabin on the present site of Mifflin,
believed to have been the first shingled house in the township of
Mifflin. When the tide of emigration commenced, after the close of
the war, the road from Mansfield to Wooster, passed through
Peters-burgh, as the village was then called, and it became the
principal route to Richland and other western counties for
emigration. Mr. George Thomas, father of Peter, kept the first
house of entertainment, which was well patronized for six or eight
years. In 1823, George Thomas and family located on a farm now
owned by Josiah Thomas, in Orange township. Peter
Thomas purchased
two hundred acres adjoining the homestead, in Montgomery township,
and resided upon it until about 1860, when he removed to a new
residence, one and a half miles northeast of Ashland, where he
deceased, February 26, 1876. He was conscious of the approaching
termination of his life, arid was in the act of dictating a
codicil to a will, when he became faint, and expired in a few
moments, from paralysis of the heart. He had been three times
married, and left a large and reputable family to mourn his loss.
He had been a member to the Disciple church for a number of years,
and adorned his profession by an upright and exemplary life. As a
citizen, he was highly respected. He was a man of uncommon
resolution and firmness when he had deliberately formed an
opinion. He was high-toned and exact in all his transactions with
men, and inflexibly opposed to every species of prevarication in
morals, business and politics. He was never an office-seeker, but
was always the advocate of a pure, economical and patriotic
administration of the government. He was a careful, frugal, and
shrewd business man, and had acquired a handsome property. Few men
have taken a deeper interest in the prosperity of the county, and
none will be more lamented.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 158 |
JOHN
TILTON was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1760.
He entered the army of the American Revolution when he was
sixteen years old, in 1776. He served in a regiment
commanded by Collonel Klon. He was in the battles
of Princeton, Jan. 3, 1777; Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777; Monmouth,
June 28, 1778; Sander's Creek, Aug. 16, 1780; Jamestown, July 9,
1781; at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, Oct. 19, 1781,
and in a number of heavy skirmishes and retreats. He was
in the service nearly five years, during which he experienced
all the privations and hardships incident to the Revolutionary
war. At the expiration of his service he returned to New
Jersey, and married.
In 1787 he removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania.
His family, at that time, consisted of himself, his wife, and
two children - Elizabeth and Ira.
In August, 1812, he removed to
Stark county, Ohio. In 1814 he removed to Stark county,
where he remained until May, 1831, when he located on section
thirty-five, in Orange township, Ashland county. He
purchased the farm of Robert Crawford, upon which had
been erected, by its owner, a noted horse-mill of the pioneer
period.
Mr. Tilton enlisted, for a tour of three months,
in the brigade of Colonel Robert Crooks, in the war of
1812, in the northeast, while residing in Stark county, and
accompanied the Pennsylvania troops, under General Robert
Crooks, from Pittsburgh to Jerome's place and
Mansfield, late in the fall of 1812.
He possessed great bodily vigor, which he retained to
an advanced age. He was inflexible in his purposes, and
retained a clear intellect until the time of his death. He
expired, after a brief illness, at his farm in Orange township,
Aug. 12, 1849, aged nearly ninety years. He was
accompanied to his final rest, in the cemetery at Orange, by
volunteer military companies under the command of the late
Colonel Alexander Miller, Major R. B. Fulkerson, and
Captain John S. Fulton, and hundreds of his old neighbors.
Mr. Tilton was regarded as an upright and
valuable citizen. His services in the war of Independence,
and of 1812, with Great Britain, won for him the esteem of all
his patriotic neighbors.
Mrs. Tilton preceded him to the grave about four
months, at the age of eighty-four years. The family
consisted of Elizabeth, Ira, Sarah, Amy, Phebe, Deborah,
Aaron, and James A. Of these, only two survive
- Mrs. Phebe Camybell, aged eighty-five, and James
Albert, aged sixty-five. The latter resides on the old
homestead and is remarkable for his extraordinary physical force
and mental determination. He is a successful farmer and
business man.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 165 |
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