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Source:
A Centennial Biographical History
of
Richland and Ashland County, Ohio
- ILLUSTRATED -
A. J. Baughman, Editor
Chicago
The Lewis Publishing Co.
1901
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
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A. J. Baughman
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ABRAHAM J.
BAUGHMAN, the only son of Jacob
and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Baughman, was born on
section 22, Monroe township, Richland county, Ohio,
Sept. 5, 1838. Abraham Baughman, the
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born on
the Atlantic ocean during the sail voyage of his parents
from Germany to America. He married Mary
Katherine Deeds and they were the parents of eight
children, - five sons and three daughters.
Jacob Baughman, the fourth son, was born at
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Feb. 19, 1792, and came to Ohio
with his parents about 1808, and the family settled in
the Black Fork valley, near the old historic Indian
village of Greentown, now in Ashland county.
Jacob Baughman married Miss
Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Captain
James Cunningham, in September, 1825.
They were the parents of five children, - M. K.,
Hannah L., Margaret A., Abraham J. and Sade
Elizabeth. Jacob Baughman died Feb. 21, 1855,
and his widow survived him nearly forty years, being
called away Nov. 23, 1894, in the ninetieth year of her
age. The three older children having been married
before the death of the husband and father, Mrs.
Baughman and her two younger children - A. J.
and Miss Sade - lived together
during the remainder of her life. Four decades may
seem long when counted by their forty several years, but
all too short when blessed with the happiness of a
mother's love, making the bereavement at the close the
more heartfelt and severe. Soon after being left a
widow Mrs. Baughman removed to Bellville,
and later to Mansfield, where the son and youngest
daughter still reside, at the old home on South Adams
street.
A. J. Baughman taught school and read law in his
'teens, but upon the breaking out of the war of the
Rebellion he volunteered in Captain Miller Moody's
Company I, Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, in 1861, and later
enlisted for three years in the Thirty-second Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, but was discharged for physical
disability before the expiration of his term of
enlistment. Mr. Baughman and his sister are
printers and have spent the greater part of their lives
in the newspaper business. In 1885 Mr. Baughman
was appointed a clerk in the United States senate, and
his sister, Miss Sade, was appointed to a
clerkship inthe treasury department at Washington, which
positions they held for several years, Mr. Baughman
during that time writing for New York and Chicago
papers. Upon his return to Ohio Mr. Baughman
devoted his time largely to historical work and the
writing of feature articles for the press, and during a
three-years engagement on the Mansfield News he wrote
over two hundred feature articles for its Sunday
edition, covering, perhaps, a hundred different topics.
Upon the unveiling of the Johnny Appleseed
monument in the Sherman-Heineman park, Mr. Baughman
delivered the address of the occasion, and the same was
copied in whole or part by the leading magazines and in
over a thousand newspapers. He has edited and
published the Canal Fulton Herald, the Medina Democrat,
the Mansfield Call and the Democrat, and the New
Philadelphia Evening News; and of the papers upon which
he has been engaged mention may be-made of the Marion
Star, the Steubenville Gazette and the New Philadelphia
(Ohio) Democrat: and while the editor of the latter,
during the Bryan campaign of 1896, he thinks he
did his best political writing and editorial work, the
Democracy regaining the county and electing its entire
ticket by majorities ranging from five hundred to one
thousand. Mr. Baughman has written
biographical histories and sketches of several counties,
and is conceded to be the best informed man on local
history in Richland county; and he knows its townships
as a farmer knows his fields. Through the efforts
and work of Mr. Baughman the Richland
County Historical Society was organized in November,
1898, and he became its secretary, which position he
continues to fill. He is also the secretary
of the Mansfield Lyceum.
Although German in name Mr. Baughman, in
sentiment, is inclined to his mother's (Irish) people,
but is thoroughly American in thought, purpose and
patriotism, and is a Buckeye, "to the manor born."
In his religious views he is a "churchman," believing in
the apostolic succession, and was confirmed by the late
Rt. Rev. G. T. Bedell, bishop of Ohio, in 1876.
Mr. Baughman is five feet, nine inches in
height, with an average weight of one hundred and
fifty-five pounds. He has blue-gray eyes, and the
dark hair of his youth silvered before he had
reached the age of fifty years.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of
Richland and Ashland County, Ohio - Publ. 1901 - Page
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