BIOGRAPHIES Source:
A History and Biographical Cyclopædia
of
Butler County, Ohio
with
ILLUSTRATIONS AND SKETCHES
of Its
Representative Men and Pioneers
Western Biographical Publishing Co.
Cincinnati, O
1882
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JAMES
M. EARP was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, December 23,
1850, and was married May 31, 1877, in Shelby County, Illinois, to
Miss Ida May, daughter of
Colonel Freeman B.
Thompson. They have two children. Mary Ellen was
born April 6, 1878, in Shelby County, Illinois, and Lillie
Mary was born March 18, 1880, in Butler County. Mr. Earp
came here from Illinois in 1879, and settled in Union Township, where he
resided on Mr. James Beatty's farm, removing in 1880 to Hamilton. In May, 1881, he began business in West Hamilton as a hatter and dealer
in gentlemen's furnishing goods.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 366d - Hamilton Twp. |
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JOHN W. EATON
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 557, St. Clair
Twp. |
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AUGUSTUS ECKERT
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 604, Madison
Twp. |
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JOSEPH ECKERT
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 604, Madison
Twp. |
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JOHN EDDY
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 651 - Lemon Twp. |
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JOHN
EGBY (Hanover Twp.) was born in Centerville, Indiana, Feb. 3,
1855, being the son of Armistead Egby and Emily Craig.
Mr. Egby served four years in the late war, and died while in the
army. John Egby was married at Hamilton, Oct. 4, 1879, to
Ida Hyers, daughter of Moses Hyers and Rachel Pembrew, who
was born in Centerville, Indiana, Aug. 14, 1861. Mr. Egby
is a farmer.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 447 - Hanover Twp. |
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JOHN J. EICHHORN, manufacturer and
dealer in cigars and tobacco, was born in Cincinnati, Aug. 13, 1859.
He is the son of John Eichhorn and Louisa Gross, who came here in
1866. John Eichhorn was in the military service of the
United States for three years. Johnh J. Eichhorn, at eleven
years of age, went to learn the cigar maker's trade, and at twenty-one
years entered into business for himself. He was married on the
27th of April, at Middletown, to Florence McClure, daughter of
Jackson McClure and Rachael McGill, who came here in 1860.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 649 - Lemon Twp. |
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STEPHEN H. ELKINS was born in
Frederick Co., Virginia, about 1781, and died about 1846, in Montgomery
Co., Indiana. He married Abigail Catterlin, born in New
Jersey, about 1763, who died about 1850, and had nine children, seven of
whom grew to maturity, and two of whom are living. Reuben
was born Apr. 28, 1808, and is married, and living at Symmes's Corners;
Joseph was born Oct. 7, 1814, and is married, living in Fairfield
Twp. Mr. Elkins came to Ohio in1805, and settled in
Fairfield Twp. He had no capital when he came, and worked on a
farm. He was drafted for the War of 1812, but was only out a few
days, under Colonel Sigleson. He was discharged at
Middletown. He was a member of the Baptist Church. His
grandfather on his mother's side, Joseph Catterlin, was a
captain in the Revolutionary War.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 370 -
Hamilton Twp. |
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THE REV. ARTHUR W. ELLIOTT was the
most famous of the early Methodist preachers in this county. Although
others f receded him, he was the contemporary of those who made the
beginnings and first uttered the Word of God to the hardy pioneers of
this county. He was born in the county of Baltimore, in the State of
Maryland, on the 22d of February, 1784. At the age of eighteen, moved by
the spirit of adventure, he fell in with the tide of emigration, just
then beginning to set powerfully toward the great Northwest Territory.
On horseback he crossed the Alleghanies, and continued his course
westward until he reached the Miami Valley, where he determined to make
his future home. He went back to Maryland soon after, where he was
married in 1804, and in the year 1805 returned, settling in Liberty
Township. Here he remained for many years.
In 1806 an event took place which gave a new current to
his thoughts, and changed his whole character and life. He was
converted, and after a brief time became a local preacher in the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He was admitted in the traveling connection
in 1818. From the beginning, however, he devoted himself almost entirely
to the work of the ministry, and his labors for the Church of his love
were more strenuous and more enduring than any other form of labor. He
had purchased a farm on his first arrival, which was swept away by the
duplicity of one of his supposed friends. With an effort, he made
another start, in which he was successful, and he was a farmer as well
as preacher for many years.
He was the founder of the Spring Church, the earliest
Methodist organization in Eastern Butler. He was a man of powerful
frame, and with great energy and force. As a preacher he was a man of
great fervor and power; he moved his audiences at his will, and many
were converted under his ministrations. He was a man of wit and humor,
and many of his sayings are still preserved by those who were fortunate
enough to hear him. He took a decided part in politics, at a time when
that was regarded as far more unseemly than now. He was a Whig, and as a
Whig speaker he accompanied General Harrison on his famous
electioneering campaign of 1840. He was an ardent Mason, and was a
member of that organization for more than forty years, in which society
he was the grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Ohio. In 1854 he removed
to Paris, Illinois, where he died January 18, 1858. He had seen his work
prosper; his Church, at the time of his birth, had only ninety-three
preachers in the United States, but at the time of his death it had
10,794. Few had done more for it than he had.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 365 - Hamilton Twp. |
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COLONEL GEORGE F. ELLIOTT
was born on the 8th of April, 1826, in Liberty Township, a quarter of a
mile from the old Spring Meeting-house. He is the youngest of
seven sons of the Rev. Arthur W. Elliott and Mary Pierce, both of
Baltimore County, Maryland. They had also four daughters, of whom
one was younger than George. At fourteen years of age he
went to St. Clair, where he worked on the farm, and going to school
occasionally. The last place of that kind which he attended was in
the basement of the Episcopal Church in Hamilton, kept by Mr. Wade.
He was married in September, 1852, to Miss Eleanor Hueston,
daughter of Thomas Hueston, who had been out with Wayne as
captain of pack-horses, and was also a soldier of the War of 1812.
He was a brother of Matthew Hueston. Mrs. Elliott's
mother's name was Mary Hardin. She was the daughter of
Samuel Hardin, an early settler of Colerain Township.
Colonel Elliott, upon his marriage, received from his father two
hundred acres of land, upon which he now lives, and which he cultivated
until 1857. He then went into the firm of Long, Black
& Alstatter, traveling and working for them four years, in the
sale of reapers and mowers.
When the war broke out he raised a company to defend
our imperiled Union. It was Company C, Sixty-ninth Ohio, and went
out in September, 1861, continuing in the service until March, 1861,
continuing in the service until March, 1863. He was appointed
major, Aug. 9, 1862, and lieutenant-colonel, Oct. 24, 1862. He
refused higher appointments. At the battle of Stone River he had
command of the regiment from the beginning to the end of that conflict,
a period of six days, having scarcely any thing to eat, and couching
upon the hard ground without a blanket. He came home on account of
the health of his wife, which had been seriously affected by the loss of
one of her children by a railroad accident. On his return, he
continued farming till 1866. He then went into the distilling
business, remaining in that until December, 1869. During the last
two years he ran distilleries No. 1 and No. 2, but on the date just
mentioned made an assignment. He refused to go into bankruptcy,
and finally nearly all of his indebtedness was settled up. The
establishment had paid the government over two millions of dollars as a
tax on distilled spirits during the time in which he had connection with
it. Out of the wreck was saved a farm of one hundred and sixty
acres, on which the colonel now lives. He continued in the same
business until September, 1873.
The first office he was elected to was that of member
of the decennial State board of equalization, in October, 1880.
This is a very important position. In 1881 he was a candidate for
State senator, being nominated by acclamation for the services he had
rendered in the board of equalization. He was defeated by
twenty-seven votes. He has had four children. Charles
was born in 1858, and Frank in 1864. Thomas Arthur
was the one who was killed by the railroad. He was three years old
at that time. Colonel Elliott was a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic. He is universally liked. After a long
life in this county, there is no one to whom he can not go up and shake
hands, whether he is white or black, rich or poor. He is never
idle.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 556,
St. Clair Twp. |
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JOSHUA ELLIOTT was the
first member of this family that settled in Butler County. He was
born in Baltimore County, Maryland, Jan. 24, 1782, and was married in
that State in September, 1807, to Betsey Hughes, who was born
Mar. 3, 1786, in the same county. They had eight children.
Elijah was born in 1810, and died in 1877; William, in
1812, and died in 1848; Sarah, in 1814, and died in 1816;
Arthur, Mar. 2, 1817; Betsy Ann, in 1819, and died in 1878;
Joshua, born in 1822, and died in 1826; John Taylor, Mar.
26, 1835; and Daniel, in 1827, and died in 1858. Mr.
Elliott was induced, by representations made by his brother, the
Rev. Arthur Elliott, to move to Ohio, and about 1840 he and his
family, consisting of a wife and one child, together with his father and
mother and five brothers and three sisters, came out here, and settled
in Liberty Township, near where the old Spring Church has since stood.
At this time there was not a stick of timber cut, so he began by
clearing the land sufficiently to build a house. He first
purchased about one hundred acres, finally acquiring upwards of five
hundred acres in all in this county, and four hundred in Indiana.
He was for many years consistent member of the Methodist Church, and his
house was always a stopping-place for the Methodist ministers. He
brought out with him a slave and a copper still. The slave, after
serving out his time of two years, was freed, and went to Liberia.
The still he never put up, being a strong temperance man.
Of his children Arthur is the only one living in
the county. He was married Jan. 15, 1840, to Emmeline Van
Gorden, who was a native of the township. She was born Feb. 7,
1819. They had seven children: James Corwin, born in 1841,
is married; Joshua, born in 1843, died in 1846; Newton,
born in 1847, died the same year; Benjamin F., born in 1848, is
married; Elmore T., born in 1852, is married; Arthur E.,
born in 1858, died in 1859, and Mollie, born in 1861, died in
1867. Mr. Elliott has been a township trustee, and a member
of the school board for several years. He is a farmer and stock
breeder, and owns over four hundred acres, which his sons farm.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 494, Liberty
Twp. |
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MRS. CHRISTINA EMERICK
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 604,
Madison Twp. |
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CHARLES EMRICK
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 466, Ross Twp. |
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JOSHUA B. EMERSON was born Mar. 23,
1782, in Vermont, and died Sept. 30, 1863. He married Mary
Burnham (widow of Samuel Phillips) born Aug. 14, 1798,
in Hartford, Connecticut. She died Jan. 5, 1879. They had
five children, of whom two are living. Anna Eliza was born
Sept. 4, 1829, in Fairfield Twp., and is the wife of Andrew
McCormick; Harriet was born Nov. 6, 1839, and is single.
The two who died were Mary, who was born Nov. 14, 1832, and died
Sept. 28, 1844, and Francis A., born June 22, 1835, who died Feb.
5, 1867. Mr. Emerson came to Fairfield Twp. in 1830 with
his father.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 370 - Hamilton Twp. |
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JOHN
W. ERWIN. No history of Hamilton would be complete that did
not include the name of John W. Erwin. He was born in the
State of Maryland, and came out here more than fifty years ago.
When he arrived there was no railroad, no canal, and no well-constructed
highway in Ohio. To these public labors he has devoted his life.
He has been a civil engineer for sixty years. To him and James
McBride must be attributed the first intelligent examination of the
prehistoric relics of the State.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 366a - Hamilton Twp. |
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EVAN
EVANS, of Morgan Township, was there born May 2, 1816, being the
youngest son of William and Jane Evans. William Evans was
a native of Wales, settling in Butler County about 1802. He reared a
family of six children, of whom four are living, and died in 1821. His
son received a limited education in the common schools, and was brought
up to farming. At thirteen years of age he began looking out for
himself, going to work for others. He was married May 28, 1842, to
Miss Anna Mering, daughter of John Mering,
a former well-known resident of Morgan Township. Mrs. Evans
was born in Morgan Township in 1824. They were the parents of eight
children, of whom seven are living. William E. is a resident of
Jasper County, Missouri; John M. is a farmer of Morgan Township;
Elizabeth J. is now the wife of A. L. Scott; Emma M. was
the wife of Erastus Robinson, and died in February, 1877, in her
nineteenth year; Albert E. is at home, fitting himself for the
medical profession; Cora Belle, Spencer E., and Chester C.
are still under the paternal roof.
After marriage Mr. Evans located on a
partially improved place in Morgan Township, and bought and sold five
different farms in Morgan Township, settling on the John
Mering homestead in 1849, where he has since resided. There are one
hundred and sixty acres in this place, and in Missouri five hundred. He
has held all the township offices, and lately has acted much as
administrator and assignee. He is a member of the Butler County
Agricultural Society, and for the past ten years has been one of its
officials. He is a member of the Congregational Church at Paddy's Run.
Mr. Evans's oldest son, William E., was a member of the
Fifth Cavalry, participating in all of the battles of the regiment. He
served three years and three months before reaching the age of twenty.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 365 - Hamilton Twp. |
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JOHN
EVANS, born in North Wales, July 17, 1795, came to this
county in 1818, and settled on Paddy's Run. His wife, Sarah,
was born in this county in 1806, and married him June 28, 1821. By
trade Mr. Evans is a tanner. He is the father of fourteen
children: Mrs. Mary Jones, born December 9, 1827; Evan,
born November 4, 1823; William, born July 7, 1823; Mrs.
Elizabeth Davis, born March 26, 1827; James, Born
February 26, 1929; Mrs. Ann Jones, born November 26, 1830;
Mrs. Martha Griffith, born August 17, 1832; John, born July
17, 1834; Robert, born March 8, 1836; David, born July 21,
1838; Mrs. Sarah Davis, born November 3, 1840; Richard,
born December 1, 1842; Edward, born August 24, 1845; George,
born January 19, 1850. John Evan's father's given name was
Evan, his mother's name, Elizabeth; his wife's fathers and
mother's names were James and Mary Nicholas. They came to
this county in 1812. John Evans, Jr., was a soldier of the
Rebellion. John Evans, Sen., is a man of rip experience; he
has accumulated a large and handsome property about him, and in all the
active walks of life has acted his part well.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 437 - Morgan Twp. |
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JOHN LLOYD EVANS was born in
Culpepper County, Virginia, June 22, 1827, and is the son of William
Harris Evans and Lavina D. Evans. They came from Culpepper
County to this State in 1832, settling at Paddy's Run August 1st.
He was married Apr. 21, 1870, at Brookville, Indiana, to Josephine
Price, born Nov. 21, 1839, daughter of Henry and Sarah Price,
who lived in Franklin County, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Evans
have had two children, Le Roy, who was born Sept. 7, 1872, and
Lloyd Price, who was born Jan. 2, 1874. Mr. Evans is
engaged in general merchandise at New London, and was the postmaster at
Paddy's Run in 1852 and 1853, and from 1860 to 1872. His mother's
father, John Deane, was in the Revolutionary war. He was at
Princeton and Brandywine, going from Fauquier County, Virginia, and
serving three years. Mr. Evans's father, William Harris
Evans, was in the Seventy-third Welsh Fusileers from 1808 to 1815,
and was at the storming of Badajos and the battle of Waterloo. He
was born in 1870 and died June, 1843, at New London.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 438, Morgan Twp |
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SAMUEL R. EVANS, M. D., was born in
Hillsboro, Highland County, Apr. 21, 1819. His parents were
Isaac Evans and Jane Morton. Isaac Evans was out in the
War of 1812. The son was brought up on a farm until he was
twenty-five, studying at home in part. After leaving the farm he
went to a medical school. He practiced some time before he
obtained his diploma, having to take charge not only of his own but his
brother's business, which delayed him a good deal. He has had a
large practice for a great many years, but has had a good deal of
opposition to work against. He was brigade surgeon during the late
war at Covington Heights. He was married in 1851 to Emma Gaunt,
daughter of John Gaunt and Eliza Deeds. She is now dead,
having departed this life Mar. 14, 1857. He has one son, John
Gaunt Evans, M. D., born February 26, 1857.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 649 - Lemon Twp. |
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JAMES J. EVERSON
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 557, St.
Clair Twp. |
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