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Butler County, Ohio
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ILLUSTRATIONS AND SKETCHES
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Representative Men and Pioneers
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Cincinnati, O
1882
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ROBERT CALDWELL, an Irishman, was
probably the first teacher of Pisgah, who applied the beech and
black-walnut methods of imparting instruction in an early day. He
believed in "the laying on of hands," and there are some of his pupils
still living who distinctly remember how they were thrashed through to
the Rule of Three. He was "master" for some years, and was then
followed by Michael Dalton, who became a prominent citizen of the
place, and is very kindly remembered by many people yet. Mrs.
James Hunt (formerly Miss Anna Ellsworth) was the first lady
teacher of these schools. She taught for a long while. She
was a woman of rare abilities; was finely educated, and was unexcelled
as a teacher. The Slayback brothers, John C. and James
N., taught here a number of years, and a good report of their work
follows them. The Pigsah schools have always been in a flourishing
condition, and have been successful in furnishing many good teachers to
the county.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 581 - Union Twp. |
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CHARLES M. CAMPBELL,
editor and proprietor of the Daily News and of the Hamilton
Telegraph, was born in Middletown, Guernsey County, Ohio, Jan.
1, 1852. He is the son of Dr. James Campbell, an eminent
physician, who enjoyed a large practice, and Susan Brown.
His father died in 1852, and his mother in 1882. C. M. Campbell
was educated in the common schools in his native place, and afterwards
went to Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and to the University of
Wooster, in Ohio. He learned the trade of a printer, and was
engaged as a partner in the publication of the Cambridge (Ohio) News,
and the Washington (Pennsylvania) Observer. During the
centennial year he was at Washington, D. C., representing a St. Louis
daily. In December, 1879, he purchased the Hamilton Telegraph,
and on the 22d of the same month began issuing the Hamilton
Daily News, which has been a great success, and at this writing
issues about two thousand copies a day. Mr. Campbell was
married to Miss Pauline Straub, in Hamilton, on the 2d of
December, 1881. Since being in this city, he has acquired an
excellent knowledge of the politics and social matters of the place, and
has made his journal a necessity in every family.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page Page 373 - Hamilton Twp. |
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EDWIN RUTHVEN CAMPBELL was
born in Franklin, Warren County, Apr. 27, 1818, and after going to
school at that place went to Middletown, living with his brother, Dr.
Andrew Campbell, an attended the academy established there by
Nathaniel Furman. Having substituted for an active life on his
father's farm, near Franklin, one indoors, without the exercise
requisite for health, in the course of a year he realized the injurious
effects of such neglect. About that time one of the old citizens
of Middletown built an old-fashioned flat-boat, which was launched in
the Miami Canal, taking aboard a full cargo of provisions and country
produce, some of the neighboring farmers joining in the enterprise, for
the purpose of trading along the shores of the Ohio and Mississippi,
between Cincinnati and New Orleans, and Campbell joined the expedition.
while the days when this voyage was made differed very materially form
those that preceded them, when the flat-boatmen, manning the historic
"broad-horn" of earlier times, were of the "half-horse and
half-alligator" type, they were at the same time composed of rougher,
though none the less warm-hearted and loyal material than that to be
found navigating the Western waters today.
Returning with health restored by his several months'
roughing it, he commenced reading law with Corwin & Campbell, in
Hamilton, the firm being composed of Jesse Corwin and
Lewis D. Campbell, being admitted to practice at the April term of
the Supreme Court, held in Warren County in 1840. Upon the
commencement of publication of the Cincinnati Daily Times, in the
Spring of 1840, having had some experience as a writer upon the Hamilton
Intelligencer, he was offered the position of editor, and accepted
it, and continued in that capacity for near two years, when failing
health compelled its relinquishment. Some years after he again
assumed the editorship of a daily paper in Cincinnati, and subsequently,
in connection with other parties, commenced the publication of the
Cincinnati Daily Dispatch, which, in the course of a few years, achieved
a high reputation and standing in the ranks of the newspaper press, but
during the general suspension of business attendant upon the fearful
devastation caused by the prevalence of the epidemic of 1849, and forced
to succumb to the pressure. Losing his wife and child the year
after, he made his arrangements to go to California, and arrived in San
Francisco in April, 1852. With the exception of the mining
experiences, common to the majority of adventurers to the Pacific coast,
and two years' service at the California capital, while holding the
office of State registrar, he has resided in San Francisco the greater
portion of the time, engaged in the profession of journalism.
Mr. Campbell early began the writing of verse, and attained a high
reputation as a poet long before leaving for the western slope.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 648 - Lemon Twp. |
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JOSEPH
CANN was born in Loudon County, Virginia, in 1804. His
parents were Wilson and Jane Cann, and he came with them to this
county in 1831. He has been twice married; the first time to
Harriet Joyce, by whom he had four children. Elizabeth Mary
was born Apr. 15, 1838; Andrew B., May 7, 1840;Sarepta
June 24, 1842; and William James, May 12, 1845. His second
wife was Catherine Bittinger, and by her he had four children,.
Joseph Norvell was born May 26, 1874; Sarah Jane, Dec. 21,
1876; Harmon Will, Sep. 14, 1878; and Phebe Elizabeth,
Oct. 17, 1880. His first wife died in 1866, and he married again
in 1872. The farm that he now lives on he settled in 1835, and he
has cleared it all himself.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 438 - Morgan Twp. |
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HUGH
CANNON, the eldest brother of his mother, was killed in St.
Clair's expedition, Nov. 4, 1791. Another brother of his mother,
Thomas Cannon, married Elizabeth Scott, a sister of
General Winfield Scott. They had one son and two daughters.
The son, William Scott Cannon, died in New Orleans in 1834.
The oldest daughter, Jane Gray Cannon, married James Swisshelm,
a farmer's son living near McKeesport, and afterward became famous as an
editor and political and social writer. The other daughter married
Zachary Mitchell of the same place. The Cannons and
Swisshelms were early settlers of Pittsburg and that part of the
State. Mrs. Swisshelm was born and reared in the city of
Pittsburg.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 576, Union Twp. |
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J. H. CARLE,
who was born in Butler County, June 6, 1841, is the only son of
Pierson and Hannah (Scudder) Carle. Pierson Carle was
born in this county in 1815, and was the son of Thomas Carle, a
pioneer of this neighborhood, who settled, in 1802, in Madison Township,
close to what was afterward known as Ball's Ferry. Pierson
Carle was a carpenter by trade, and lived in Trenton. He was a
grain buyer, and came to Hamilton in 1865. He continued the grain
business here until about 1870, when eh organized the firm of P.
Carle & Co., purchasing the Miami Canal Flouring-mills, and carrying
them on for the remainder of his life, enlarged and improved. He
was a successful business man, and raised a family of one daughter and
one son, the former being the wife of J. H. Williamson, of
Milford Township. He died Oct. 7, 1878.
J. H. Carle was educated in the common schools
in Madison Township and assisted his father in purchasing grain.
After the mill was bought he became a partner, and after the death of
his father was the head of the firm, which consists of himself and
William Anderson. The mill is an extensive one, and with a
much increased capacity within the past two years, making a superior
brand of flour, and supplying a demand that exists in extensive
flouring-mill in Hamilton.
Mr. Carle was married Apr. 13, 1865, to Miss
Dorcas, daughter of Samuel Young, a former well known
resident of Milford Township. They are the parents of one son,
Charles C., born May 10, 1869. Mrs. Carle is a
member of the Presbyterian Church. In August, 1861, he enlisted in
Company C, Thirty-fifth Ohio, and was in the battles of Mill Springs,
Pittsburg Landing, and Stone River. Through an accident he lost
his left eye, and was discharged from the service. He re-enlisted
in the One Hundred and Sixty-seventh, and served in West Virginia for
four months, his full term, and was mustered out in the Fall.
After this he was a resident of Anderson, Indiana, for some seven years,
having grain for P. Carle & Son.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 366g - Hamilton Twp. |
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WILLIAM BARTON CARR
was born in Hanover Township in 1848, being the son of John W. and
Elizabeth J. Carr. He attended the common schools, afterwards
going to Otterbein University and the Miami University, and also
received a commercial education at the college in Hamilton. He was
married in 1872 to Clara Brown, daughter of William
E. Brown and Mary Beckett. The have had four children.
Bessie was born in 1873, Maynard in 1876, Mary in 1880, and
William Everett in 1881. He is a member of the United
Presbyterian Church. His occupation is that of the proprietor of a
flouring-mill. His great-grandfather was in the Revolutionary War,
and his grandfather in the War of 1812.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page g366 - Hamilton Twp. |
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FREEMAN GRANT CARY was born in
Cincinnati Apr. 7, 1810. His father, William Cary,
emigrated to the Northwest Territory in 1803, and settled on a farm he
had purchased at the head of Main Street, Cincinnati, where he resided
until 1814, when he removed to College Hill. His thirty-two acres
in Cincinnati were sold, and he bought Section 30, in Mill Creek
Township, now College Hill, where he resided until his death, Mar. 25,
1862.
In this place Freeman G. Cary, with his two
brothers, William Woodward and Samuel Fenton, received his
early education. He afterwards attended college at Miami
University, and graduated with honor in the class of 1831. This
was more than fifty years ago, and since that time Mr. Cary has
left a marked impress of his character for good, which, in the history
of the times, is inerasable. He has devoted more than thirty years
of his life to teaching. He established Cary's Academy and
originated Farmers' College, into which the academy was merged; also
originated for females what afterwards became the Ohio Female College.
These institutions were eminently successful until after he resigned the
presidency, the Farmers' College at that time numbering three hundred
students. The Female College was likewise successful.
Mr. Cary's strong point was in
government, and he was also a successful teacher. During his
presidency he associated with him men of ability in the various
departments of his institution. In the first period of its
existence under him, he educated, to a greater or less extent, some
three thousand young men, many of them occupying distinguished positions
North and South, in the ministry, the bar, or as physicians or business
men. Mr. Cary's character is marked by a combination
of striking traits; being possessed of a strong constitution, temperate
habits, and good health, giving him physical ability to accomplish
successfully whatever he attempts.
He has made his own place in society, and is known to be
persistent and energetic in all he undertakes. He has filled all
the duties that have fallen to his charge with ability and tact.
He is thoroughly conversant with all the branches of natural science,
especially those appertaining to agriculture and horticulture, of which
he has acquired both a practical and theoretical knowledge. He has
connected with his residence an admirably arranged conservatory and
greenhouse, on his own plan, in which he spends much of his time in
experimenting for his own gratification. He established and edited
an agricultural periodical, the Cincinnatus, which for five years
had a wide circulation, and only ceased by reason of the Rebellion.
He was one of the distinguished early leaders and supporters of the
Cincinnati Horticultural Society, being several times its honored
president. Mr. Cary is not only an adept in the natural
sciences, but is also a good classical and mathematical scholar, his
education and ability eminently fitting him for marked prominence.
He was selected as one of the two to represent the great State of Ohio,
under Buchanan's administration, in a congress of the States for
the promotion of agriculture, with Marshall P. Wilder at its
head. After over a quarter of a century's labors in the schools
originated and constructed by him he retired to a farm in Butler County,
where, with his wonted zeal and industry, he devoted himself to rural
pursuits, leading a quiet and retired life. His residence, planned
by himself, is a model of taste and fine architecture, combining as many
conveniences as any structure in the world. His place is set with
the choicest fruits grown in the climate, and his house is completely
encircled by evergreens and deciduous trees, all being in keeping with
the intelligence of the man. He has been an elder in the
Presbyterian Church for over forty years, and its active, zealous
supporter.
His first wife was Malvina McCan He was
married to her on the 4th of April, 1833. She was a native of
Chillicothe, and the daughter of an old pioneer, who was a man of fine
education and was an extensive surveyor. She died in the month of
January, 1872. By her he had eight children, five of whom survive.
His second wife was the widow of Dr. James Richardson, and
daughter of Clark Bates, one of the earliest pioneers of the
West. He was married to her Mar. 6, 1873. His mother,
Mrs. William Cary, now ninety-one years of age, intelligent and
still active, lives with him. Notwithstanding her advanced years
she enjoys all her faculties of mind. William Woodward,
named after William Woodward, the founder of Woodward College,
died in 1847. He was a farmer, a man of sound judgment and
mathematical education. General S. F. Cary, of world-wide
renown as a lecturer and popular author, is the youngest of the three
brothers. The Cary sisters, the celebrated writers, were
his cousins, and were greatly aided in their first efforts by the
subject of this sketch. Few men, in an independent and unaided
life, and on their own resources, have exerted a more extended influence
than F. G. Cary.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 479, Fairfield
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DR. JOHN CASS
was born in Westfield, Chautauqua County, New York, June 16, 1832.
He is the son of Joseph and Jane (Dickson) Cass. When
nineteen, he graduated from the Westville Academy, and afterwards, as
well as before, taught school. He had also read medicine,
beginning his books in the office of Dr. Levi A. Cass, in
Westfield, and continued in that for one year. He then entered the
Long Island Medical College, where he remained till he graduated from it
in June, 1857. He commenced to practice in Thirteenth Street, New
York, staying there some four years, coming to Ohio in 1861, where he
purchased a drug store in the northern part of the State. Before
arriving in Ohio he had taken two courses of lectures at Bellevue
Medical College, graduating at that, institute in 1863. He did a
successful business in the drug line for some time, also practicing his
profession. He then sold his drug store, locating afterwards in
Massillon, Ohio, for four years, coming to Hamilton in September, 1877,
and at once beginning practice, which is now extensive. The doctor
was married Dec. 22, 1858, to Miss Marianne Parker, of New
Hampshire, and has had two sons, Daniel and Harry G., who
are living with their father. Mrs. Cass died Dec. 10,
1872. He was again married on the 27th of September, 1876, at St.
Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Massillon, Ohio, to Miss Florence A.
Bucher. They were the parents of one daughter, Florence B.
, who was born April 19, 1878. Mrs. Cass died April
24, 1878. He adheres to the Episcopal Church, and has been active
in its behalf. He has belonged to the Masonic order for some
twenty-three years, and is a member of the city board of health.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 367 - Hamilton Twp. |
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ENOCH CHAMBERS, who lives near
Jones's Station, was born in Maryland, on the 21st of July, 1805.
His parents were Henry and Persilia Chambers, who came to this
county in 1812. He was married Mar. 16, 1839 to Mary Ann
Moore. They lived together with 1864, when Mrs. Chambers
died. They had seven children. Francis Marion was
born Nov. 10, 1839; Harriet Moore, Nov. 26, 1840; Orpha
Trender, Apr. 28, 1843; Emma Rebecca Duson, May
30, 1845; Lydia Ann Mills, Dec. 5, 1847; Sarah Jane Miller,
May 17, 1850; and Laura Cornelia Sweet, Apr. 17, 1850. The
two last named live in Kansas, and Lydia is dead. Since the
death of his wife, Mr. Chambers has remained on the farm
with his daughter, who is assiduous in his care. He has a fine
farm of one hundred acres, with every thing convenient. His first
vote for President was cast for Andrew Jackson, remaining with
the Democratic party until the Kansas imbroglio, since when he has voted
the Republican ticket. When he bought the place he now lives on,
only thirty acres were cleared. Mrs. Chambers was the
daughter of William and Ruth Moore, who came out here in 1830.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 480, Fairfield
Twp. |
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JOHN EDWARD CHATTEN
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 531, Union
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ABIJAH CHEESEMAN was
born in Monmouth County, New Jersey, Aug. 1, 1798, and was married in
that State to Hannah Parker, daughter of William Sarah
(Shepherd) Parker, on Feb. 5, 1821. She was born Nov. 24,
1803. They had eight children. Sarah was born May 13,
1823, and is the wife of William Kyle, who lives in Lemon;
Anna, born Oct. 8, 1825, is the wife of Stacey Brant, and
lives in Liberty; Lewis, born Oct. 13, 1827; Elizabeth,
born Sept. 16, 1830, is the wife of Peter Shafer, and lives in
Liberty; John, born Feb. 15, 1833, is married and lives in Lemon;
Lydia, born Nov. 7, 1836, died Mar. 31, 1849; William,
born Dec. 13, 1841, is married and lives in Lemon; Mary Jane,
born Feb. 18, 1845, wife of Samuel Mulford, lives in Lemon.
Mr. Cheeseman left New Jersey in 1835, forming a party of his
mother, brothers, and sisters, and his wife's mother, brothers, and
sisters, fourteen in all, in four wagons, and came overland the whole
way, taking four weeks on the road. They spent that Winter near
Franklin, Warren County, Ohio. In the Spring of 1836 he purchased
one hundred and two acres in Liberty, where he has resided ever since.
He had a farm of two hundred acres in New Jersey which had belonged to
his father, which he sold to divide among the other heirs, and with his
share, amounting to about two thousand dollars, settled in Liberty.
He has been a school director for many years, and also township
supervisor. His father, William Cheeseman, was born
September 24, 1753, in New Jersey, and was married Apr. 11, 1781, to
Lydia Dey, also born in that state, Sept. 20, 1863, and had
eight children: Lawrence, Margaret, Reuben, Mary, Enoch, Sarah,
Abijah, and Joseph, all now dead but Abijah.
Enoch came to this county and returned to New Jersey, and Sarah
died here. William Cheeseman died in New Jersey, July 6,
1834, and his wife died in Liberty Township, Nov.5, 1844. He was a
soldier in the war of the Revolution, and was promoted to lieutenant.
His wife received a pension till her death.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 493, Liberty
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AUGUSTUS H. CISLE
was born in Mount Pleasant, Hamilton County, Aug. 18, 1847. He is
the oldest son of Thomas J. and Mercy (Seward) Cisle. With
his parents he removed to Preble County in 1856. He attended school in
these two counties, and afterwards in Morning Sun Academy, until 1863,
when he enlisted in Merrill’s Horse Regiment, and was with that command
in the Missouri campaign, also being in Arkansas, and at the battle of
Nashville. He served until after the close of the war, being
mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 1, 1865. Returning to
civil life, Mr. Cisle located in Hamilton in
November of the same year, beginning an apprenticeship at the trade of
blacksmithing at the establishment where he now is junior partner, then
M. Shipley & Co. After acquiring the trade he was placed in
charge of the shop as foreman, and continuing in that capacity till
becoming a partner, in 1879. The firm name is now Millikin
& Cisle, and the members are R. B. Millikin and A. H.
Cisle. They are the successors to the Hamilton Plow Company, and
employ on the average thirty-five men. Mr. Cisle was
married on the 3d of July, 1872, to Miss Amanda Walton.
They are the parents of one daughter, Susie Mercy, born
Oct. 30, 1876. Mr. Cisle is a member of the Knights
of Pythias.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 366h - Hamilton Twp. |
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MARTIN CLARK
is a native of New Jersey, where he was born Mar. 23, 1833. His
father was John Clark. He is married to Elizabeth Deem,
daughter of John F. Deem and Elizabeth Darr, and the marriage
took place on the farm where they now live, Nov. 1, 1856.
She was born Jan. 23, 1836. they have ten children. Mary,
the eldest, is dead. Hiram was born Dec. 20, 1858; John,
Mar. 23, 1860; Samuel, Feb. 6, 1862;b William, Aug. 7,
1864; Charles, Mar. 23, 1866; Jane, Oct. 27, 1867;
Laura, Oct. 23, 1871; Harry, Oct. 25, 1873; and Ida May,
Oct. 12, 1879. Hiram Dean was in the army, and died
in the service.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 603 - Madison Twp. |
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SALEM
CLARK, son of Isaac and Catherine Clark, was born in
Butler County, Feb. 26, 1818. His parents came to this county in
1810. He was married in 1841 to Susan Ragsdill, daughter of
Wilson P. Ragsdill. She was born in this county, Nov. 28,
1823. They have had four children. Mary Louisa Beard
was born Dec. 22, 1841; Alfred, Sept. 4, 1844; William
Edgar, Mar. 6, 1849; Henry Wills, Apr. 15, 1854. Mr.
Clark is a farmer, and was born within one mile of where he now
lives. His children, who are all married, live near to him.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 418 - Reily Twp. |
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UZEL
CLARK (deceased) came with his father, Jacob
Clark, to Ohio in 1866, and in the Fall of 1807 settled on a farm
near Monroe. His father carried Miss Sarah Beach, and
raised three children: Mrs. Mary Mulford, Mrs. Esther Kyle, and
Uzel Clark. Mary married John Mulford about the time
of the War of 1812, who was the father of David, Jacob, and
Job Mulford, the well-known citizens of Butler County.
David Mulford now lives in the north part of the State.
Esther Clark was the first wife of James Kyle. She died
full fifty years ago and her children are all dead but Mrs. Wyle,
of Jericho. Uzel married Margaret Sampson. She
died in1834. He became the father of three children - Eliza,
David Parkhurst, and Sarah Jane. Al are dead now but
Eliza. Uzel Clark was born May 24, 1803, and died Mar.
1, 1882. He lost his father when fourteen years of age, and thus,
when a boy, was initiated into the hardships of pioneer life, and
without paternal support. He always lived on the farm near Monroe
Station, a part of which he sold to the Cincinnati and Springfield
Railroad Company, now Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis
Railroad Company, for their depot grounds. Mr. Thoams Beach,
his maternal grandfather, was one of the minute-men of New Jersey in the
Revolutionary War.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 663 - Lemon Twp. |
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ANDREW CLAWSON,
the son of Cornelius Clawson, father of James, and
grandfather of Stephen, was born in Middlesex County, New Jersey,
in 1766, and removed to this county in 1802. His wife was Mary
Russell, who was born in Pennsylvania, in the year 1776. They
were married in the latter State, in 1794, and were the parents of nine
children. James is still living in Fairfield township;
Rachel died in Indiana; John died in Missouri; Joseph
lives in Morgan Township; Elizabeth died in Lafayette, Indiana;
Nancy lives in Liberty Township; Martha and Mary
died in this county; and George is living in Hamilton County.
The first three were born in Pennsylvania, and the others in Butler
County. When he first came here he settled in Madison Township.
He died in Liberty Township in 1852, at the residence of his son
James, at the age of eighty-six.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 494, Liberty
Twp. |
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JAMES CLAWSON was born in Fayette
County, Pennsylvania, in 1795, and was married for the first time in
1816. His wife was Rebecca Vail, born in Pennsylvania in
1798, and dying in Butler County in 1869. He had twelve children,
eight of whom reached maturity and married, and four of whom are still
living. Stephen V. is married and lives in Liberty
Township. He was born Dec. 26, 1819. Jephthah is
married and lives in Fairfield Township. He was born June 3, 1823.
Wilson T. is married and lives in Liberty Township. He was
born Nov. 21, 1829. Frederick D. is married and lives in
Hamilton. He was born in 1841. Mary, wife of James
Hancock, lives in Hamilton and was born in 1843. Henderson
is married and lives in Hamilton. He was born in 1846.
John is single and lives at home. He was born in 1852.
Jennie, widow of Frank Hair, was born Aug. 17, 1855, and
lives at home. Deziah, wife of Salem Pocock, was
born Apr. 13, 1857, and lives in Hanover Township. Mr. Clawson
was married a second time in 1869. His wife was Eliza Weaver,
born in Butler County, in 1812, and dying in 1870. He was married
the third time in 1871 to Mary A. Devou, widow of George W.
Louthan, born in Hamilton Sept. 17, 1819. She is still living.
Mr. Clawson came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in 1802, and settled
in Lemon Township with his father. He is a self-made man, having
nothing when he began but a horse. He rented for the first three
years, and bought a lot in Middletown, which he built on, and afterwards
traded for twenty-five acres in Liberty Township, which was his first
farm. He has steadily added to this till now he owns six hundred
and fifteen acres in Butler County, besides other property to a large
amount. He has also assisted his children much. He is a
member of the Baptist Church, having been so since the year 1812.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 480, Fairfield
Twp. |
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JOSEPH CLAWSON was born in Butler
County, Ohio, March7, 1803, and married for his first wife Cynthia
Parkhurst, February 26, 1824, who was born June 14, 1806, and died
December 28, 1834. For his second wife he married Belinda
Parkhurst (born in Trumbull County, Ohio, November 21, 1809), April
14, 1836. Andrew and Mary Clawson, his father and mother, came to
this county in 1802; his wife's father and mother, David and Mary
Parkhurst, came to Butler County in 1814. Joseph Clawson
is the father of Belinda, born December 30, 1824; G. W.,
born July 23, 1832; Cynthia, born December 25, 1836; Maria
Sulser, born November 21, 1841, a resident of Kansas; Amos P.,
born June 14, 1844; Ellen Smith, born October 10, 1846; Malon
M., born March 17, 1849; Andrew P., born January 5, 1853;
G. W. and A. P. were soldiers in the late war. He is a
man of good habits, and has accumulated, by careful industry and
economy, a large share of this world's goods.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 437 - Morgan Twp. |
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HORACE P. CLOUGH was born in Clermont
County, Ohio, in 1825. His parents, John P. Clough and Minerva
Pratt, came to Clermont County, from Vermont, in 1820, and to this
county in 1837. He was married in 1845 to Mary Leibee, born
in Middletown in 1827, the daughter of Daniel Leibee and Sarah
Enyart. Mr. Enyart emigrated from New Jersey in 1802, and was
in the War of 1812. There are three children to this union -
Sarah M., Charles H., and D. L. A. Clough. Two members
of the Clough family went out in the late war, Hannibal
and William A., both serving in the Fourth Cavalry throughout the
struggle. Horace P. Clough is a contractor. He was
elected mayor in 1853, and member of the council in 1877, in both of
which positions he served with credit to himself and the town.
Having gained a reputation as a man of business, and being well
acquainted with the workings of our canals, he was honored at the
convention of 1876 by the Democratic party as its nominee on the State
ticket for the board of public works, In 1877 he was elected as
one of the representatives from Butler County to the General Assembly.
He was chairman of the standing committee on public works, and from long
experience and practical knowledge of the workings of the canals of the
State he was able to lead the committee to the adoption of such means as
would add to their business as well as enlarge the trade done upon them.
He is an efficient legislator, and was held in high esteem by all his
brother members. In 1878 he was appointed by Governor Bishop
to adjust all the claims of the State against the general government.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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VINCENT D. COHEE, son of Vincent
D. Cohee and Rebecca Moore, was born near Hamilton, Feb. 15, 1825.
Mr. Cohee, Sen., was born Jan. 8, 1781, in the State of Delaware,
and removed here in 1811. Mrs. Cohee was born May 14, 1786.
He died in 1868, and she about 1854. They reared a family of ten
children, six of whom are still living. Mr. Cohee was in
the War of 1812, and the muster roll of his company is still preserved
in the family, as also a government note calling for four hundred
dollars. It is now (1881) just one hundred years old, having been
issued in 1781. The present Mr. Cohee has been a resident
of Butler County for over fifty-five years, following farming until
eighteen years of age, and since then being a carpenter and cabinet
maker. The remainder of his family now reside in the State of
Indiana, excepting one sister, the widow of the late Charles Sprague,
who lives with him in Hamilton.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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JOSEPH D. COLLINS, son of Thomas
Collins and Mary Ann Bowen, both natives of Virginia, was born in
Franklin, Kentucky, Oct. 14, 1815. He was brought up on a farm
near Frankfort until he had attained the age of eighteen, when he went
to learn the carpenter's trade, following it until 1865, since that time
having been engaged in the trade in ice, lime, wood and coal, and in
transferring of freights. He has been a resident of this county
since 1839. While employed at his trade he did a great deal of
traveling, having traveled in three years about five thousand miles in
the South, and sometimes going by sea. He was married in December,
1837, at Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, to Margaret Jackson,
who was born in New Jersey, Mar. 9, 1821. She died on the 8th of
November, 1876. Her parents were Benjamin and Catherine Jackson.
They also became residents of this county, moving here in 1839.
Mr. and Mrs. Collins have had twelve children. Their names
were Thomas B., Henry H., Elizabeth Pullian, Charles E., Catharine P.
Kemp, Margaret A., James S., Ida, Joseph J., Anna G., Charles F.,
and Albert G. Six of these children are dead.
Charles E. died May 14, 1844; Catherine P. Kemp, Aug. 6,
1871; Joseph J., Jan. 14, 1856; Anna G., Jan. 28, 1875;
Charles F., Feb. 1, 1862, and Albert G., Mar. 24, 1863.
Mr. Collins has been a councilman in Middletown for about four
years. Both his grandfathers, Robert Collins and William
Bowen, were in the Revolutionary War. An uncle, Robert
Collins, was in the War of 1812, being at the battle of Orleans and
at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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THE REV. WILLIAM WIRT COLMERY, D. D.
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ALFRED COMPTON
was horn in Hamilton County, Ohio, July 16, 1883, being the son of
Abraham and Abigail (Phillips) Compton, the former of whom is still
living on the farm where he settled in the woods, in Springfield,
Hamilton County. He is now in his eighty-first year. He
raised a family of five daughters and five sons, of whom three daughters
and three sons survive. Alfred was educated in the common
schools in that township, and was brought up to farming until he was
sixteen, when be began an apprenticeship of three years at the trade of
carpenter, in Hamilton. Upon the completion of his term he worked
as a journeyman. In 1853 he went to Iowa, where he carried on
building and contracting for some three years. In 1854 he was
united in marriage to Miss Nancy Jane Luckey.
They are parents of seven children, of whom four are living—Lester
K., Thomas L., John A., and Francis M. Mr. Compton
and family are members of the Christian Church. After marriage he
remained in Iowa until returning to Ohio in 1863, when he located at
Symmes’s Corner. He came to Hamilton in 1872, and organized the
firm of Compton & Brother, builders and contractors. That
continued till 1875, when he began the lumber business on the corner of
.Second and Sycamore Streets.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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DAVID D. CONOVER
was born in Dayton, Ohio, Nov. 1, 1818, and is the son of Isaac and
Elizabeth (Deardorff) Conover. The father was a native of New
Brunswick, New Jersey, and came to Ohio in 1802. He first settled
in what is now Lemon Township, two miles south of Middletown, afterward
removing to Dayton, where he married and remained till 1822.
Returning to Butler County, he located at Monroe, where he spent the
remainder of his days. He was engaged in mercantile business, in
which he was successful, and reared in family of five children, of whom
three survive. Thomas J. is a resident of Monroe, and
Caroline is the wife of D. Y. Wintersteen, of Indiana.
He died in 1832.
David D. Conover went to the common schools, but
improved his education in later years. When sixteen he was thrown
upon his own resources, and began an apprenticeship of four years at
wagon-making. Upon completing his term, in 1839, he married
Mary, daughter of Dr. Daniel Millikin. To
this marriage were horn two children, of whom one survives, Marietta,
wife of Joseph Rodefer, of Hamilton. Mrs.
Conover died in August, 1844. After marriage he removed to
Hamilton, and in 1840 engaged in wagon-making. He continued in
that till 1846, when lie confined his attention to spring carriages, at
which he remained until 1852. He was then in the grocery trade, on
High Street, some two years, and was also in the livery business for two
years. He was in Rock Island, Illinois, in the saw manufacture,
until 1859. He was then appointed general agent of the Butler
County Insurance Company, and on the outbreak of the Rebellion became
the commissary for supplying the recruits with provisions.
Afterward he was with Job E. Owens, engaged in the purchase of
forage for the government and supply of the camp in Hamilton, till the
close of the war. He has been engaged in raising broom-corn, and
also devotes attention to collections and real estate.
In 1847 he was married to Mary Easton,
and had by her three children. Ellen is the wife of John
Goodman, and Lizzie is the wife of William Long,
and is a resident of Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Conover died
in 1853, and in 1866 he was married to Miss Mary
Cornell, his present wife. He was appointed deputy United
Suites marshall in 1861, and held the place until his resignation
about 1867. He was reappointed in 1878, and is still filling that
position. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.
He has been a member of the Odd Fellows since 1850.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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CHRISTOPHER W. COOK
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 465, Ross
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THOMAS COOPER was born in Liverpool,
England, about 1785, and died in Fairfield, in 1858. He married in
England and had seven children, one only surviving - Robert, born
in 1812 in England. Mr. Cooper came to the United States
about 1815, and settled in the South, near Natchez, but in 1820 moved to
Ohio. In 1823 he moved to Fairfield, in this county, where he
resided till his death. He was educated for a surveyor, and
followed it for a few years. He taught in a high school in
Cincinnati before he settled in Butler County. His son, Robert,
married Eliza Jane Howard, born in Hamilton County in 1821.
They had eleven children, eight of them being living. Mary
Belle is the wife of Calvin Burridge; William is married;
Electa is the wife of Richard Applegate, M. D.; George;
Jennie, wife of George Vandergriff; Anne Eliza, wife of
Isaac B. Rice; Benton, and Jessie. Mr. Cooper is a
farmer, and one of the representative men of Butler County, owning over
eleven hundred acres of land all of which he made himself, commencing
life with nothing.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 480, Fairfield
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JOHN B. CORNELL,
cashier of the First National Bank, is the fourth of ten children of
Joseph Cornell and Elizabeth Beeler. He was born in Hamilton
County, Ohio, Feb. 1, 1833. The father was a native of Pennington,
New Jersey, and the mother was born in Hamilton County. The father
came to Ohio in 1816, with his father, when seventeen years old.
He was a school-teacher, John B. Weller being one of his
students. John B. Cornell was educated in a log
school-house, and at college in Cincinnati, but on account of his
health, withdrew at the age of twenty-one. He taught school a year
and a half. He then went into Dr. Peck’s private
hank as book-keeper till 1861, when the bank suspended. In
February, 1862, he engaged as book-keeper with Gwyn & Campbell,
in a gun manufactory which made government carbines. In August,
1883, the First National Bank was organized, and he was made assistant
cashier. In April, 1864, he became cashier, a position he has ever
since held. In 1878, he engaged in the ice business and has been
president of the Lake Erie Ice Company since that date, in company with
S. D. Fitton, its founder. He cast his first vote for
Chase, as governor, and has been a Republican and Abolitionist all
his life. He has been active in politics. He has been a
Mason for many years, and was for some time secretary of his lodge in
Sharonville.
Mr. Cornell was married April 9, 1857, to
Miss Phebe F. Hageman, of Sharonville, Hamilton County, the
daughter of Adrian and Mary Hageman. She died May 24, 1864,
leaving two children, Carrie, born October 18, 1839, and
Charles, born September 7, 1861. Carrie has spent the
year in Berlin, studying the languages and music. The son is a
book-keeper in the bank. Mr. Cornell was again married on
the 18th of April, 1866. One child, John, was born October
18, 1809. With his two oldest children. Mr.
Cornell went to Europe in 1881, taking a tour through the principal
cities, and going as far south as Rome and Venice.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 366h - Hamilton Twp. |
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MRS. JANE HUDSON CORWIN
was born in Mourne, County Down, Ireland, October 6, 1809, and came to I
this country with her father, the Rev. James McMechun, in the
Autumn of 1817, taking up her residence in this town in the Spring of
1818. She was thoroughly instructed by her mother and older
sister, and was possessed of great beauty and attractive manners.
April 15, 1829, she was married by the Rev. Dr. MacDill to
Jesse Corwin, one of the leading members of the Hamilton bar.
This pair of generous and genial people kept a hospitable home for many
years in this city, which was a pleasant resort for their many friends,
and those of them who still survive will recall with grateful memories
the cordial civilities of their departed, hosts. Eight children
were born to them, only three of whom are living. Thomas
Corwin, one of her sons, rushed to the defense of the country when
attacked by rebels, and in April, 1861, joined the Third Ohio Volunteer
Infantry. M rs. Corwin united with the Associate Reformed
Church in 1840, and sat under the preaching of the Rev. Messrs.
MacDill and Davidson for many years. She was
naturally a believer in the truths of religion, and gave them her
unquestioning assent. In both prose and poetry she wielded a
facile pen, and her productions were warmly received by her friends.
She was a welcome contributor to the newspapers, and five or six years
ago gathered her verses from their files, added a few new ones, and
published them in book form, entitling them The Harp of Home.” Her
death occurred March 6, 1881. Few have left behind them more
friends to lament their loss.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 366g - Hamilton Twp. |
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THE REV. TRUMAN S. COWDEN
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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JOSEPH COX
settled upon the Cox homestead in Union Township at the end of
1795 or beginning of 1796. He was a native of New Jersey, born
about 1767, and dying in 1842. He was a captain in the War of
1812, and always was known as Captain Cox. With his son
John he lies buried on the family homestead. Eliza, the
oldest daughter of John Cox, who was born June 6, 1836, was
married to Luther M. Hughes Sept. 7, 1859. This marriage
resulted in two children. Julia A. was born June 26, 1860,
and Emma L. June 10, 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes
occupy the old family homestead, a portion of which was built by
Captain Cox as early as 1812. Mr. McLean and son own
five hundred and forty acres.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 588, Union
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SAMUEL COX
was born in this county, June 2, 1835, and was married Dec. 25, 1862, to
Mary Ann Paullin, born Oct. 13, 1839. His parents were
John M. Cox and Nancy Hilt, and hers were Henry Paullin and
Eleanor Williamson. They were all born in this county.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cox have been the parents of four children,
Ira E. was born Aug. 23, 1869; Samuel F., Nov. 25, 1875;
Mary Elizabeth, June 9, 1877; and an infant, now dead, born May,
1866. Three of his brothers-in-law were the hundred-day service in
Virginia - Henry Paullin, Clinton Paullin, and Jacob W.
Paullin. Mr. Cox is a farmer.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 648 - Lemon Twp. |
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MAJOR
JOHN CRANE was born in the State of New Jersey in 1796, and died
on the 16th of March, 1864. He came with his family to this county in
the first quarter of the century, and first settled in Jacksonburg,
where in 1818 a post-office was established, he becoming the first
postmaster. In 1825 he was elected a county commissioner, serving in
this capacity for three years. In 1828 he was a member of the Ohio
Legislature, having as a fellow member Fergus Anderson, of
this county. From.
1841 to 1845 he was coroner. Major Crane removed to Hamilton in 1825,
keeping for several years a hotel in the frame building on the corner
fronting the public square. During his residence in this town he was
engaged for several years in the grocery and liquor business, in
company with William B. Van Hook, and was at the same time city
inspector. About 1855 he prepared with great labor and expense a useful
map of this county, being a loser by it to the amount of five hundred
dollars. He was for several years the commandant of a splendid battalion
of uniformed light infantry. One of the companies, known as the Miami
Guards, was composed of the finest young men in Hamilton. Major
Crane had taken the lodge, chapter, and encampment degrees of
Masonry. He was a Knight Templar, becoming such in the year 1827, in
Lebanon. For a few years before his death he resided in Covington,
Kentucky, but his remains were brought here, and he was buried in
Greenwood Cemetery.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 353 - Hamilton Twp |
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JOHN A. CRAWFORD
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 465, Ross
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TORRENCE EDGAR CRIDER
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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ALLISON B. CRIST was born in Franklin
County, Indiana, in 1826, and was married, in 1848, to Mary Davis,
who was born in the same county and State in 1824. By her he had
four children. Elbert is married and lives in
Illinois; Arbell is single, and lives in Preble County; Perry
is married, and lives in Wayne Township; and Mary is the
wife of James Merrill, who lives in Huntington County, Indiana.
Mrs. Crist died in 1852, and Mr. Crist was married, in
1855, to Annie Smart, born in Franklin County, Indiana, in 1835,
by whom he had one child, Marion, who is married, and lives in
Middletown. His wife died in 1858, and he was married, in 1838, to
phoebe Maddock, who was born in Butler County in 1837. By
her he has had nine children. They are John, Luella, Francis,
Ellwood, Retta, Mattie, Emma, Allison, and Eva.
Mr. Crist has held the various township offices -
township supervisor, school director, and clerk of the schools. He
emigrated from Indiana to Ohio in 1855, settling in Wayne Township on
his present farm. He was in the One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Ohio,
the hundred - days' service, and was first corporal of Company D.
They were stationed in the Kanawha Valley, West Virginia. He owns
and farms six hundred and seventy acres in Wayne Township. He and
has wife are Orthodox Quakers. He has always followed farming and
stock dealing, and is one of the most prominent farmers in the township.
He had but about a thousand dollars when he commenced, and lost all that
when he began farming in Ohio in 1855. He was then worse off than
nothing, being in debt about three thousand dollars.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 616, Wayne
Twp. |
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THE REV. DENNIS VINCENT CROWLEY
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WILLIAM
CULBERTSON was born in
Indiana County, Pennsylvania, in 1806, and came in Indiana County,
Pennsylvania, in 1806, and came to this county in 1843. His
parents were Joseph Culbertson and Nancy Dickson. He was
twice married. By the first marriage he had seven children.
James Coe was born Dec. 19, 1840; Joseph W., July 13,
1843; Eliza A. Mitchell, Apr. 23, 1846; Mary B. Hunt, Nov.
19, 1849; Anna M., Mar. 21, 1851, died July 10, 1854; Fanny J.
Eudaly, Nov. 5, 1853; William A., Nov. 19, 1856. He was
again married on the 7th of May 1859, at Blue Ball, to Miss Mary Ann
Coe, and by her had one child, Ettie M., born Feb. 16, 1861.
The Rev. James Coe was among the first preachers in Miami County,
Ohio, where he labored for eighteen and a half years, when he moved to
Blue Ball, where and about Monroe he was for a good number of years.
For many years he married the people in Darke, Shelby, Greene, Miami,
and Butler Counties. His denomination was Presbyterian.
Mr. Culbertson has been an elder in the Church fro about fifteen
years, and has been a member since 1857. His wife has been a
member since she was ten years old. Her mother was Eliza Todd,
coming here with her husband in 1859. Mr. Culbertson was a
contractor on the canal, and was very successful, although he had some
of the hardest work on the whole line. He would take a contract
and make money when others failed. He also put up several locks.
He was a man of great perseverance. His oldest son, James C.
Culbertson, was in the military service during the war and was
discharged on account of ill health, afterwards enlisting, however,
again.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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FRANK CUNNINGHAM
was born in
Springfield, Clarke County, Ohio, Mar. 10, 1846. He is the son of
John Cunningham and Bridget Doud, who came here in 1856.
Mr. Cunningham the father, built the Montezuma reservoir, about
forty-five years ago. He traveled through a large portion of the
Northern States and Canada, making contracts for it. It is the
largest artificial lake in the United States. He made the deepest
cut on the Miami and Erie Canal, when the country was a wilderness, the
wolves coming up to the very door. Frank Cunningham, at
about eighteen, embarked in the manufacture of cigars, and continued at
this for seven or eight yeas, when he began his present business, that
of a dealer in clothing, hats, caps, and gentlemen's furnishing goods.
He was city treasurer in 1876.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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WILLIAM CURRYER
was born in Maryland, July 24, 1778, and was married Jan. 24, 1804, in
Maryland, to Sarah Pocock, also of that State, where she was born
June 6, 1787. They had six children, only two of whom are living.
Edward F. was born Dec. 15, 1805; Elizabeth S., Dec. 10,
1806, marrying Stephen Scudder; Charity, Dec. 28, 1808,
marrying William Smith; Daniel, June 25, 1813; and Sarah,
Oct. 2, 1814, widow of Stephen Scudder. The four former are
dead. Mr. Curryer came to Ohio in the Fall of 1812, and
settled in Liberty Township, where he purchased a quarter of Section 22.
His son, Daniel, has just purchased a part of the old homestead.
He volunteered for the War of 1812, but was not called out, as the war
ended soon after. He died in Liberty Township, Apr. 8, 1814, and
his widow died Sept. 17, 1857. His father, William Curryer,
was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. He was an Englishman,
coming over with the British troops, and stayed in America after the
close of the war.
Daniel, the son of the second William,
was married Nov. 10, 1836, to Phoebe D. Hunt, born in Huntsville,
Liberty Township, Aug. 9, 1817. She died in Shelby County, Ohio,
July 31, 1848. She had five children, three of whom are living.
Joseph C. was born Nov. 7, 1857, in Shelby County, Ohio. He
is a dentist and lives in Minnesota. Ira H. was born Aug.
23, 1842, and William F. was born June 5, 1845, and lives in
Thorntown, Indiana. He is a dentist. Mr. Curryer
was married the second time Mar. 22, 1849. His wife was Rachel
Squire who was born in Lemon Township, May 14, 1817. She died
July 2, 1855, having had two children, of whom one died an infant.
The other, Mary C. who was born Sept. 12, 1852, is the wife of
George C. Smith, and lives in Liberty Township. Mr. Curryer
was married for the third time to Rachel J. Carl, widow of
Samuel Simpson, who was born in Butler County, Aug. 22, 1826.
They had six children, four of them living, and two of them dying in
infancy. John S. was born Sept. 6, 1856; George W.,
July 10, 1859; Annie B., Dec. 11, 1861; Charles V., Jan.
13, 1865.
Daniel Curryer's father died leaving his
business unsettled, and his widow lost considerable money by the bank
breaking. She had to sell the original purchase, and bought
sixty-two acres, on which she reared her family of six children, so that
Mr. Curryer was obliged to begin for himself pretty early.
He received only a common-school education. He learned the
cabinet-maker's trade when he was about seventeen years of age, and
stayed at it four years. In 1834 he began cabinet-making in
Huntsville for himself, being thus engaged for two years. Then he
removed to Shelby County, following the cabinet business till 1842.
He purchased eighty acres while in Shelby County, and on his return to
Butler County bought a portion of his mother's farm, which he owned till
her death. He then sold it and divided the proceeds among the
heirs. He has traveled over a large portion of the United States,
and has been to the Pacific slope. He has held the office of
township trustee, and been school director for seventeen years. He
is a member of the Masonic order. Mr. Curryer is a strong
believer in spiritualism, although in early life he was a skeptic.
His daughter, Mary C., in 1866, developed signs of a medium,
which convinced him of its truth. She is one of the principal test
mediums, and has given many extraordinary manifestations in Cincinnati,
Hamilton, and other places. Other members of the family have also
become mediums. His son John, when twelve years old, was a
medium, and also George W.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 493, Liberty
Twp. |
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STEPHEN V. CURTIS, late president of
the First National Bank, was born Jan. 7, 1826; in Liberty Township.
He left school at the age of fourteen, but worked at home on the farm
until eighteen. He then entered a store in Hamilton, and was with
his brother Joseph about five years. During the meantime he
was in Louisiana, and afterwards went to Cincinnati. In 1849 he
was given an interest in a store in Hamilton with N. G. Curtis,
on account of his ability. In 1850 he went on a farm in Lemon
Township of two hundred and fifty-five acres, of which he bought one
hundred and ten. He conducted farming until 1860. In 1855 he
began auctioneering, which he followed till 1875, when he abandoned it
on account of poor health. He went into banking in 1865, and
except one year has been a director, and for eleven years, up to 1882,
was the president of the bank.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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