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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History
of
Athens County, Ohio
And Incidentally
of the Ohio Land Company
and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta
with personal and biographical sketches of the early
settlers, narratives of pioneer adventures, etc.
By
Charles M. Walker
"Forsam et hæc olim
meminisse juvabit." - Virgil.
Publ. Cincinnati:
Robert Clarke & Co.
1869.
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PETER
HAMMOND was born in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1794, and
settled in Carthage township as a farmer in 1845. His oldest
son, John Hammond, is now a justice of the peace. Three
of his sons served in the Union army.
Source: History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M.
Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page 458 |
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ELIJAH
HATCH (Judge Hatch) migrated from the eastern part of the
state of New York to the northwestern territory, and settled in Rome
township in the year 1800. In 1801 he went back and removed
his father, Elijah Hatch, Sen., and his mother, with their
family, to this township - the former being seventy-two, and the
latter seventy-one years old at that time. They came in wagons
to the Youghiogheny, in Pennsylvania, where, in connection with
others, they procured a flat boat, twenty-five feet long by twelve
feet wide, which they loaded with seven horses, one wagon, one
carriage, a quantity of hardware and farming utensils, and fifteen
persons - men, women and children. Thus they proceeded down
the Youghiogheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers, to the Ohio
Company's purchase. Judge Hatch was the first man who
ever drove a team, with a wagon, through the woods, from the mouth
of little Hocking to the big Hockhocking. He struck the latter
stream two and a half miles below the mouth of Federal creek, about
half a mile below where the present ridge road now joins the Hocking
road.
Judge Hatch possessed talents above mediocrity,
a sound judgment in public affairs, and was an active and
influential man in the early settlement of the county. He was
appointed judge of the court of common pleas by Governor Tiffin, in
1805, and was afterward appointed or elected several times to that
position. He served nine terms in the state legislature, being
first elected in 1804, and was appointed by that body one of the
first board of trustees of the Ohio university, which position he
held for the remainder of his life. He was a man of affable
and courteous demeanor, possessing a large fund of anecdote and
social qualities, that made him always a welcome guest at pioneer
gatherings. He died Jan. 19, 1849, aged eighty-one years.
Source: History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M.
Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page 505 |
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CONRAD HAWK
was born in Chester county,
Pennsylvania. While a young man he removed to Harrison county, Virginia,
where he married Miss Nancy Read in 1805, and whence he moved to Athens
county in 1810. He settled as a farmer in Athens township, where he died,
October 1, 1841. Mr. Hawk's family, formerly well and favorably known in
this community, are now scattered. William, the oldest son, died in 1864,
while commanding a steamer in General Banks' expedition up the Red river.
John lives in Texas; James and Columbus in Clarke county, Ohio, and
Geo.
W. in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. One of the daughters, now Mrs. Dr. Huxford, lives
in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the other, Mrs. Durbin, in Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Source: History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M.
Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page 288 |
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JOHN HENRY,
a native of Ireland, settled in Bern township in 1817, being then
fifty-three years old. He bought a section of land here and
opened up the farm where his son Charles Henry now lives.
On this farm he lived till his death in February, 1854. Mr.
Henry was twice married. By his first wife he had four
sons and five daughters, and by his second four sons and six
daughters. He live to see eight sons and ten daughters married
and comfortably settled, and left behind him at his death eighteen
children, fifty-six grandchildren and a number of great
grandchildren. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and
a leading and influential citizen during the active years of his
life. Several of his descendants have intermarried with the
family of Abel Glazier and are well known throughout the
county.
Source: History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M.
Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page 438 |
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WILLIAM HENRY
was born in Newport, eight miles above Marietta, Oct. 18, 1804, and
came to Athens county with his father's family when sixteen years of
age. He married a daughter of Captain Parker Carpenter,
and ultimately settled in Canaan township on the farm formerly owned
by Colonel William Stewart, on the Hockhocking, about eight
miles below Athens. Mr. Henry is an excellent citizen
and highly respected.
SOURCE: History of Athens County, Ohio And Incidentally of the
Ohio Land Company and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta,
etc.
By Charles M. Walker - Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & 1869 -
Page 450 |
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MOSES HEWITT
Source: History of Athens
County, Ohio - By Charles M. Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke
& Co., 1869 - Page 281 |
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MOSES HEWITT
was the first white settler within the present limits of Waterloo.
He settled in this township with his family about 1806, and there
was not at that time another family within many miles of him.
The second family was Abram Fee's, who settled on the place
now owned by Mr. Warren Foster, son of Mr. Hull Foster,
of Athens. The third family was that of Ezekiel Robinett,
Sen., and the fourth that of Colonel William Lowry.
Col. Lowry was born Nov. 15, 1779, in Berkeley county, Virginia,
and was taken when an infant with his father's family to Green
county, Virginia. He says: "That country was then a dense
wilderness, infested with Indians. The settlers had to fight
every summer for four years after my father moved there. At
one time, my father's was the frontier house but one, and the
inmates of that one were all killed by the Indians except one boy
twelve years old, who made his escape. When I was eighteen
years old (1797) my father removed to the northwestern territory and
settled in what is now Athens county and near the town of Athens.
We came down the Ohio river to the mouth of Hockhocking, in
flat-boats, and up the Hockhocking in canoes. At that time we
had to bring our breadstuff from the Ohio river, the nearest mill
being a floating one at Vienna, eight miles above the mouth of
Kanawha river, on the Virginia shore. The second year after we
came here, we pounded our corn on a hominy-block, took the finer
part for bread and made the coarse into hominy. For meat we
depended on the woods and our rifles, and always had plenty of bear,
deer, and turkey meat. The first mill that I remember was
built by Capt. John Hewitt, on Margaret's creek, within a
mile of the mouth. It went into operation in the year 1801.
I came to Waterloo, from Athens, in February, 1820. This
region was all a wilderness then, there being only three families
besides mine in the township. Joseph Brookson started
the first grist and saw mill in Waterloo, where Newton Hewitt's
saw mill now stands. There were a great many bears and deer
here at that time, and wolves and panthers were also pretty numerous
and very annoying." Col. Lowry is still living in
Waterloo, in his seventy-ninth year.
Prominent among the citizens of Waterloo, are Mr.
Jesse Jones, a native of Virginia, who settled on Little Raccoon
at an early day; Mr. Hugh Boden, a native of Ireland,
who settled here in 1839, and now lives in Marshfield; Mr. James
Mayhugh, a native of Maryland, who settled here as a farmer in
1836, and now engaged in business in Marshfield, all of whom have
reared respectable families, and are highly esteemed.
Source: History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M.
Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page 538 |
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HIBBARD FAMILY.
A large family of Hibbards, originally from Vermont, came to Athens
county at an early day. Elisha and John in 1816,
Alanson and Elias and their sister Pamela (afterwards
Mrs. Sabinus Rice), in 1817, and Dr. James S. Hibbard in 1823.
The Rev. Ebenezer Hibbard, eldest brother of this family, who was
pastor of a church in Vermont forty years, came to Alexander township in
1831, and settled at Hebbardsville, giving his name, slightly altered, to
the village. He preached in this neighborhood some time, and then
removed to Amesville and preached there till his death in 1835.
Source: History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M.
Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page 359 |
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JOHN HOLDREN,
now living in Lee township, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
Oct. 15, 1777, and came to Athens county in 1798 accompanied by
another young man named John Konker. Soon after
reaching Athens they took up land in the south part of Alexander
township and made a temporary settlement on the waters of Margaret's
creek. Their neighbors, at intervals of several miles, were
the Hanings, the Brooks family, Joseph Long,
Esquire Merritt, and Henry Cassel. Mr. Cassel built
a grist mill soon afterward in Lee township on the place now owned
by William Minear. Mr. Holdren was engaged during six
or seven years working at the Scioto salt works at the site of the
present town of Jackson, and "could then cut his six cords of wood
in a day and help load it." He went out there the second year
after salt was discovered by the whites. Previous to this the
Indians had produced scanty supplies of salt by drilling holes into
the rocks fifteen or eighteen inches deep, when the cavity would
gradually fill up with the brinish water which, evaporated by the
heat of the sun, would produce salt. The whites bored wells to
some depth, built furnaces and for many years furnished salt for the
surrounding settlements to the distance of seventy-five or eighty
miles. Mr. Holdren, settled permanently in Lee township
in 1820. His nearest neighbors were James McGonnegal,
Israel Bobo, and George Canney, and soon afterward came
David Doughty, James Luckey, Thomas Jones, John Havner, John
and Ephraim Martin, Daniel Knowlton, Jacob Lentner,
and the Robinetts. When a young man Mr. Holdren
was a successful hunter. He and John Jones (a
brother-in-law of Judge Isaac Barker), killed forty-six bears
in six weeks' hunting on the head waters of Sunday, Monday, and Rush
creeks. They sometimes killed in a fall season forty to
fifty deer for their winter's stock of provisions and turkeys beyond
county. Mr. Holdren once killed four deer in one day,
and he and two of his boys in a hunt of two weeks killed thirty.
On one hunting expedition, having shot and wounded a large black
bear, his dog ran in to seize the animal, but bruin, though hurt,
was full of life, and was making quick work of the dog when
Holdren rushed in, knife in hand, to finish him. The bear
released the dog and sprang on the man, at the first dash tearing
his large blanket entirely form his body; Holdren plunged his
knife hilt deep into the animal and then turned to run. He
made his escape, but says it was the narrowest he ever had.
The bear got away. At that time the skins of bears brought
from three to five dollars each, and good hunters often made it
profitable. Mr. Holdren served in the war of 1812.
Among those who entered the army at that time he remembers Barnet
Brice, John Wood, Reuben Reeves, David Vaughn, Ira Foster, Joel
Stroud, Jehiel Gregory, Nehemiah Gregory, and William
McNichol. Mr. Holdren is the oldest person in the
county, being now ninety-one years old. He and his aged wife
live with a married daughter on a comfortable farm about two miles
from Albany, and the old man, aided by a staff in each hand,
sometimes walks to the village.
Source: History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M.
Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page 478 - Lee Township |
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JOSHUA
HOSKINSON was born in Maryland in 1791, and settled with his
father's family in Canaan township in 1810. Deer, bears, and
wolves were quite plenty in this region at that time. In his
younger days Mr. Hoskinson was fond of hunting, though he
says "Peter Mansfield and William Burch were the best;
they caught and killed more wolves than any men we had."
Mr. Hoskinson volunteered in the war of 1812, and entered the
service under Captain Jehiel Gregory of Athens. He
says:
"We went into winter
quarters on the head waters of the Scioto, about the time that the
British and Indians took possession of the French settlement on the
Maumee river. General Tappan called for volunteers from
his brigade to go on an expedition against the British on the
Maumee, and I volunteered. There were about seven hundred
officers and men. We took five days' rations and started, I
think, on the 7th of November, 1812. On the 13th, we came to
the rapids of the Maumee. That night our scouts reported that
the river was rising. Captain Gregory led the battalion
forward, and with great difficulty we waded the river. But we
went no further no met the enemy. The failure of our
provisions was, I suppose, the reason of our hasty return. On
our march back to camp we were three days without anything to eat
except spice-bush and slippery-elm bark. When we were about a
day and a half's march from camp, and nearly starved, we were met by
pack horses with flour."
Mr. Hoskinson was county
commissioner twelve years, justice of the peace six years, and has
held other local offices.
Source: History of Athens County, Ohio - By Charles M.
Walker, Publ. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869 - Page 449 |
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