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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
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1883
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S.
FAUTS, contractor and bridge builder,
was born in Morgan County, Ohio, Aug. 15,
1824, and lived there till twenty-two years
of age. From 1846 to 1852 he was
engaged in manufacturing windmills in Ohio
and Illinois. From 1853 to 1861 he was
engaged in general contracting and building.
May 15, 1862, he enlisted in Company H,
Eighty-seventh Ohio Infantry, and served
five months. He was taken prisoner at
Harper’s Ferry, Va., in September, 1862.
In 1863 he came to Albany, and took charge
of the wood work in the colored school
building, and has since that time been
engaged in contracting and bridge building.
He has a pleasant home in Albany, where his
family are surrounded with the comforts of
life. He was married July 4,1847, to
Catharine Neff, a native of
Pickaway County, Ohio, born May 2, 1830.
They have three children—Cydnor T.,
Charles W. and Mary A. Mr. and Mrs.
Fauts are members of the Methodist
church. He belongs to Columbus Golden
Post, Ho. 89, G. A. R., Athens.
Source: History of Hocking Valley,
Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State
Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 616 |
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JOHN FISHER,
born in Columbiana County, Ohio, July 15, 1839, is the eighth of eleven
children of Michael and Eliza (Dawson) Fisher. In October,
1862, he enlisted in Company F, Seventy-sixth Ohio Infantry. He
participated in some of the hardest fought battles of the Rebellion, among
them the siege of Vicksburg. Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge,
Ringgold, Resaca, and was with Sherman to the sea. After the
war he settled in Meigs County, Ohio, and lived there till 1881, when he
bought the place where he now resides. He has one of the best farms in
the township, having 310 acres all well improved, with a good two-story
dwelling and commodious farm buildings. He was married Dec. 15, 1869,
to Olive A., daughter of Elmer Armstrong, a prominent pioneer
of Athens County. They have one child - Mabel B., born July 15,
1873.
Source: History of Hocking Valley,
Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State
Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 558 |
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HUGH
FLETCHER was born in County Donegal,
Ireland, May 13, 1809, and came to America
in 1824. He landed in New Jersey and
went direct to Greene County, Penn. In
1836 he came to Athens County, Ohio, and
located in Alexander Township. In 1838
he went back to Europe but returned again to
America in 1840 and settled in Lee Township.
In 1843 he went to Wisconsin, and in the
fall of 1846 went again to Europe. In
1851 he came again to Lee Township. He
bought a farm in Waterloo Township and lived
there till 1857, when he came to Albany,
where he has since resided. He was
married Jan. 17, 1855, to Margaret
Entsler, a native of Vinton County,
Ohio. They have two children—Charles
E., born April 1, 1856, and Mary E.,
born March 14, 1866. Mr. and Mrs.
Fletcher are members of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church.
Source: History of Hocking Valley,
Ohio, Publ. Chicago: by Inter-State
Publishing Co., 1883 - Page 616 |
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ABNER FROST,
son of Samuel and Esther Frost, was
born in Meigs County, Ohio, Sept. 21, 1821.
He received but a limited education, his
early life being mostly spent in helping to
clear a timbered farm. When he first
moved on his present farm it was wild land,
but he has brought it under a good state of
cultivation and now has one of the finest
farms in the township. He has 184
acres, all well improved, with a nice
residence, and the largest barn in the
township. In June, 1869, he went to
Iowa and remained fourteen months, but
returned again to his old home. He was
married Mar. 18, 1865, to Mary A.,
daughter of John and Ruth (Cass) Secoy.
They have two children—Lucy, born
Mar. 30, 1867, and Minnie H., born
Aug. 12, 1878.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 802 |
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D. G. FROST,
born in Lodi Township, Athens Co., Ohio,
Mar. 7, 1831, is a son of Abner and
Rachel (Sullivan) Frost. In 1835
or ’6 his parents moved to Meigs County, and
years after his father went to Wisconsin,
where he died, in 1852. D. G.
was educated in the common schools, and when
twenty years of age went to learn the
cabinet-maker’s and carpenter’s trades,
working at the two combined a number of
years. July 1, 1855, he married
Ruth Ann, daughter of Aaron Stout,
a pioneer of Carthage Township. Aug.
12, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, One
Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Infantry.
The regiment was in the battles of Moorfield,
Winchester, New Market, Piedmont, Lynchburg,
Fisher’s Hill, Hatches Run, and numerous
others. He was discharged June 24,
1865, and returned home. In the
spring of 1867 he bought the farm where he
now resides. He has 100 acres of good
land, which he has improved in a fine
manner. Mr. and Mrs. Frost have
four children—Clarence, Elwood, Albert
and Allen. Politically
Mr. Frost is a Republican. He has
held most of the township offices. He is a
member of the Christian church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 719 |
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JACOB WILLIAM FROST,
Postmaster of Nelsonville, was born in
Athens, Ohio, Nov. 9, 1847, where he was
reared and received a common-school
education. He is the son of Jacob
C. and Mary (McCabe) Frost, with whom he
lived until manhood. His father being
a tailor, he learned that trade in his
boyhood. In the fall of 1863 he came
to Nelsonville and engaged in tailoring
until 1870, when, on account of his health,
he was obliged to change his business, and
was employed as a clerk in the stores of
Nelsonville until 1878, when he received the
appointment of Postmaster. He is a
Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight
Templar Mason and member of the lodge at
Nelsonville, and chapter and council at
Logan, and commandery at Athens. He
has served several terms as Senior Deacon of
his Lodge.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 457 |
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MRS. MELVINA L. (WASHBURN) FROST
was born in Coolville, Athens County, Feb.
10, 1827. Mar. 29, 1851, she married
C. C. Frost, of Rome Township, born
June 23, 1827. They had one
child — Leura B., born Sept. 9, 1856,
now Mrs. John Lemmon, of Baltimore,
Md. Mr. Frost enlisted in
Company I, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio
Infantry, and died June 29, 1864, of a
wound, received in the battle near Staunton,
Va. July 16, 1866, Mrs. Frost
married Harvey G. Frost, a native of
Athens County, born June 4, 1819. He
died May 3, 1881. He enlisted in
Company K, Thirty-ninth Ohio Infantry, and
served one year; was discharged on account
of disability. Mrs. Frost has
twenty-four acres of good land and
considerable village property in Frost.
She is a member of the Congregational
church. Her father was born in
Massachusetts, Dec. 18, 1794, and died May
17, 1874. Her mother, Leura (Cleveland)
Washburn, was a native of New York,
and died July 9, 1839. Her parents had
a family of ten children. Her father
married a second wife, Anna
Parsons, of Athens County. She
died July 9, 1859, leaving five children.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 587 |
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SAMUEL FROST,
deceased, son of Benjamin Frost, of
English descent, was born Nov. 14, 1791. He
was married Jan. 12, 1812 in Allegany
County, N. Y., to Esther Miles, a
native of Vermont. They came to Ohio
in 1816, first settling in Meigs County.
In 1825 they came to Athens County where he
lived till his death. They had a
family of eight children—Hiram, Miles,
William, Abner, Luther, Rosannah, Elizabeth
and Eunice. Mr. Frost was killed
Dec. 14, 1855, by falling through the
hatchway of a steamboat at Cincinnati.
Esther Frost remained with her son Abner
until her death, May 7, 1882, she being
nearly eighty-six years old. She was born
May 22, 1796.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 802 |
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Dover Twp.
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AUSTIN FULLER,
deceased, late of Millfield, was born in
Dover Township, this county, May 14, 1814,
and was a son of Resolved Fuller.
He was brought up on the farm, and educated
in a subscription school. He was
always a farmer. Oct. 19, 1835, he
married Miss Mary Pratt, daughter of
Azariah Pratt, and sister of Ebenezer
Pratt, of this township. They had
twelve children born to them, of whom eight
are living - George, Resolved, Dudley,
Carlin L., Abigail, Mary, Eva and
Flavius. Abigail is a wife of
Rev. Ephraim Wayman of Chillicothe, Ill.
Eva is the wife of Elder Samuel W.
Brown, of Washington, Pa. One
daughter, Mrs. Sarah Fuller Wyatt,
died and left four children. A son,
Melzer N., was also married, and left
two children at his death. Mr.
Fuller was a faithful member of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley,
Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State
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Dover Twp.
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DUDLEY D. FULLER,
of Millfield, was born Mar. 4, 1847,
son of Austin Fuller. He was
reared on a farm, and educated in a common
school and Weethee's College.
He followed farming for some time. He
enlisted in the late war in Company A, One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry, and
served nine months; was discharged and
enlisted in the Navy Department, in which he
served on the United States steamer Huntress
until the close of the war. Mr.
Fuller was appointed Postmaster at
Millfield in March, 1879. He keeps a
general store, doing an annual business of
$8,000.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley,
Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State
Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 749 |
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Dover Twp.
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RUSSELL N. FULLER, M.
D., was born in this
township Jan. 3, 1817. His father,
Resolved Fuller, was a native of
Connecticut, and came to this county in
1796. He walked the entire distance
from Connecticut to this county with another
boy. He was born in 1780, and was
therefore but sixteen years old at that
time. When he reached this then
wilderness he had just three shillings, or
37˝ cents.
He was industrious and economical, worked
hard and grew wealthy. He bored the
Chauncey salt well, and owned all the land
where Chauncey now stands. He had a
family of nine children, but two of whom are
living - Russell N. and Hiram
of Marshfield, this county. The
subject of this sketch was married in 1840
to Eliza B. Cooley, daughter of
Caleb Cooley. They have eight
children - Charles, Mary, Emma, Kate,
Esther, John R., Milton and Henry H.
The Doctor was Assessor of this township two
terms, Township Trustee one term, and
Township Treasurer one term. He
commenced the practice of medicine in 1845,
but has give up most of his practice of
late. He owns a farm of 360 acres and
is engaged in farming and stock-raising.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley,
Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State
Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 749 |
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Dover Twp.
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DANIEL FULTON,
section 29, Dover Township, was born in
Alexander Township, this county, Aug. 21,
1822. His father, Loamia
Fulton, was a native of Pennsylvania,
and came with his parents to Athens County
when about five years old, and settled in
the woods among wolves, deer, panthers,
wildcats and Indians. The subject of
this sketch was reared on the farm and
educated in a subscription school. He
commenced to learn the carpenter's trade
when seventeen years old. He worked on
canal-locks on Hocking Canal about eight
years, and built bridges several years.
He has also carried on the farm until the
present time. He was in the employ of
the Hocking Valley Iron Company as their
agent for three years. Mr. Fulton
was married Dec. 24, 1846, to Lucy W.,
daughter of Josiah True. They
have five children - Harmon, Mary and
Emma (twins), Sarah Ida and
John A. Mr. Fulton is a member of
the Free Will Baptist church. He owns
361 acres of valuable land, and is engaged
in farming and stock-raising.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley,
Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State
Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 749 |
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Trimble Twp. -
LEWIS W. FULTON,
farmer, Trimble Township, Athens County, is
the oldest son of Zephania and Laura
(Fay) Fulton. He was born in Dover
Township, Athens County, Apr. 27, 1847 and
lived with his parents until seventeen years
of age, working on the farm and attending
the common schools. Sept. 27, 1864, he
enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and
Seventy-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, in Trimble, Ohio, as a private for
one year, and was engaged in the battles of
the Cedars near Stone River, Overhaul Creek,
Decatur, Ala., near Kingston, N. C., joined
Sherman near Goldsboro, N. C., and was
present at Johnson's surrender, returning to
Columbus, Ohio, where he was discharged,
July 6, 1865. He then returned home
and purchased a farm in Trimble Township.
In 1869 he sold his farm and removed to
Doniphan County, Kas., and purchased lands
and farmed one year. He then sold his
lands and returned to Trimble Township and
purchased the farm on which he at present
resides, though he sold it in February,
1883, and is now employed by O. D.
Jackson in managing his lumber
interests. July 15, 1867, he married
Miss Clarisa A, a daughter of A.
H. and Almira (Phillips) Chute, of Ward
Township, Hocking County. They have
three children - Laura L., Mary F.
and Chester A., all at home.
Two children, Augustus and Lucy,
died in infancy. Himself and wife are
members of the Disciple church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 774 |
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