‡Source: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portrait of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. 1883 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z < CLICK HERE to RETURN to 1883 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX >   RICHARD EDGERTON, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, April 7, 1827, and came with his father's family to Athens County, settled in Marion Township, now Morgan County, in 1835, where he was reared and educated, residing with his parents until he was twenty-one years of age.  He was married April 20, 1848, to Tama Vernon, a native of Belmont County.  Eight children were born to them, only six now living - William (deceased), Jeptha H., Mary Z., Sarah P., John C., Ruth A., Edward R. (deceased), James A.  Mr. Edgerton has always been engaged in farming, but in connection with his farming pursuits, from 1868 to 1876, he engaged in the mercantile business at Plantsville.  His farm contains 400 acres of good land where he makes a specialty of raising high grades of life stock.  He has been elected by the people to many local offices of trust and responsibility.  He and his wife are members of the society of Friends. Source:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 706   Athens Twp. - JOSEPH ELI EDMUNDSON, dentist at Athens, was born July 25, 1840, in Pittsburg, Pa., where he was reared, and educated in the common schools until he was fifteen.  He then attended the Iron City College of Pittsburg, for three years, and Duff's College, of the same city, one year.   He then taught bookkeeping and penmanship in Ohio about one year, and then began the study of medicine and dentistry in private.  In 1861 he entered the dental office of Dr. Jacob Greenawalt, of Pittsburg, and was under his tutorship some four years, in the meantime acting as an assistant in the surgical hospital at Pittsburg.  In 1865 he located on Smithfield street, Pittsburg, having formed a partnership in dentistry with Dr. Hoffman under the firm and traveled through Ohio and Pennsylvania until the spring of 1866, when he located at Plymouth, Ohio.  In the spring of 1870 he removed to Athens and established his present dental practice.  Mar. 7, 1867, he married Margaret Black, of Pittsburg, six children being born to them - Mary E., William T., James L., Charles G., Clyde M. and Edith.  Mr. Edmundson and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Athens.  Our subject is an Odd Fellow, and a member of Sereno Lodge, No. 479, of Athens. Source:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 334   RICHARD ELLIOTT was born in Highlandshire, Scotland, in 1831, and came with his father's family to the United States in 1837, and settled on a farm in Bern Township, where he was reared and educated.  He was married Sept. 18, 1857, to Miss Margaret J. Barton, a native of Athens County.  They have eight children - John B., Alphia, Mary J., Charles, George, Eva, William and Lewis.  He purchased his present farm in 1859, where he has since resided.  It contains 150 acres of good land under a high state of cultivation. Source:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 707   LORENZO ELLIS was born in Morgan County, Ohio, July 15, 1819, the oldest son of Levi Ellis who came from Vermont about the year 1815, and in 1843 came to Bern Township, Athens County.  He afterward moved to Chesterfield, where he passed the remainder of his days.  His wife, Lucy Gibson, was also a native of Vermont.  They were the parents of seven children, six of whom are still living.  They were active and consistent members of the Baptist church for many years.  Our subject was reared on a farm and received his education in the subscription schools.  He was married Mar. 17, 1851, to Miss Mahalia Dorithy, a native of Morgan County, Ohio.  They have two daughters - Emma J. and Lucy A.  Mr. Ellis purchased his present farm in 1865, containing 245 acres of improved land.  He and his wife are members of the Christian church. Source:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 706   Dover Twp. - THOMAS ELLIS, a prominent farmer of Dover Township, is a native of Lincolnshire, England, and was born in the city of Grantham, May 21, 1817.  His father, Richard Ellis, was a native of Doddington, England.  Mr. Ellis emigrated from his native land to Dover Township in 1842, where he since lived.  He was married Mar. 2, 1846, to Mary A. White, a daughter of John S. White.  They had three children, two living - Mary and Sarah.  For twenty-two years Mr. Ellis carried on a blacksmith shop in Millfield, when he sold out and bought his present farm on Sunday Creek, one mile north of Chauncey.  It consisted of 510 acres, 160 of which he gave his daughter.  He is now engaged in farming and stock-raising.  Mr. Ellis still ahs in his possession a piece of the first carriage that was run in the Sunday Creek Valley.  It was built by Mr. Reynolds, from Nova Scotia, in 1843. Source:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 748   WASHINGTON ENDICOTT was born in Belmont County, Ohio, a son of Charles Endicott, of Pennsylvania, and of English descent.  He was born Mar. 26, 1821.  His father died when he was thirteen years of age, and he went to live with an elder brother until he was seventeen, after which he worked by the month until he was twenty-two.  He was married Nov. 17,1 842, to Susana Hanson, a native of North Carolina.  To them were born nine children, only seven now living - Isaac N., Mary M., Hanna I., Charles E., Samuel M., Washington J. and Eliza M.  John W. and Elijah H. are deceased.  After his marriage he rented land and followed the avocation of farming, and by strict attention to his farming pursuits he has been highly successful, and gave his children a good and practical education, and fitted them for useful citizens.  In 1855 he came to Bern Township, Athens County, where he has since resided.  He has a fine farm with all the modern improvements.  He has been elected by the people to nearly all the local offices of trust and responsibility. Source:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 706 .