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Source:
20th CENTURY HISTORY
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Springfield and Clark County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens
Publ: Biographical Publishing Co.
Geo. Richmond, Pres C. R. Arnold,
Sec'y and Treas.
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1908
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LUCIUS M. HARRIS, city
auditor of Springfield, Ohio, was born in 1849 Warren,
Trumbull County, Ohio, and has always been a resident of
this city since 1885. He is a son of Sullivan D.
and Marian Harris. Mr. Harris was reared and
educated in Columbus, Ohio, where his parents moved when he
was a small child. Early in life he entered his
father's office, the latter publishing the old "Ohio
Cultivator," and later went to Cleveland, where his father
published the "Ohio Farmer." Soon after locating at
Cleveland, Mr. Harris learned telegraphy, and in 1864
enlisted in Company A, Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania Regiment,
and was immediately transferred and assigned to duty in the
telegraph department. After the war he was engaged as
operator in the train dispatcher's office at Meadville,
Pennsylvania, for two years and was then employed for one
year in the Western Union offices at Savannah. After
returning north he became chief train dispatcher for the
Pennsylvania Railroad lines, being located at Logansport,
Indiana, for twelve years, and from there he went to
Chicago, where for a short time he was in the employ of the
Chicago and Atlantic Railroad. He then became
trainmaster of the L. N. A. & C. Railroad, being located at
LaFayette, Indiana, for three years. In 1885 Mr.
Harris came to Springfield and engaged in the wholesale
and retail tobacco and news business, in which he continued
with success for about eighteen years, when he disposed of
this business and assumed the city agency for the traction
line. In November, 1904, Mr. Harris was elected
auditor of Springfield and was re-elected to that office Nov
5, 1907. He is now serving his second terms therein
and has proved a faithful and capable officer and enjoys the
high esteem and good will of his fellow-citizens.
Mr. Harris was trustee of the water works, but had only
served one year when the new code was enacted.
In 1870 Mr. Harris was joined in marriage with
Miss Frances E. Gardner, and they have one child,
Carlton G. Harris, who is employed in the engineering
department of the city of Springfield. Fraternally
Mr. Harris is a member of the F. & A. M., also a
member and secretary of the B. P. O. E., of which he was
five years exalted ruler.
Source:
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EDWARD A. HAYS,
a representative citizen of Springfield Township, whose fine
farm of ninety-eight acres is all in one body and is
situated on the Gillett Road, about two and one-half miles
south of the city of Springfield was born May 7, 1859, at
Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of
Samuel and Emily (Otstot)
Hays.
The paternal grandfather of
Edward A. Hays came to America from Scotland and for
some years afterward he lived in Michigan. Later he
established his home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and
there Samuel Hays,
father of Edward A., was born Oct. 9, 1825. He
died on his farm in Springfield Township, Clark County,
Apr.23, 1894. When he came to Springfield in 1842 he had
completed his apprenticeship to the trade of cabinet-maker
and this he followed until about 1863, when he purchased a
team of good horses and rented a farm, that tract of land
now being practically a part of the city of Springfield.
He followed farming here for five years and then moved to
the farm on which Edward A. Hays resides. It
was the girlhood home of his wife, the old Otstot farm,
and here he continued agricultural pursuits until the close
of his life.
Samuel Hays was married at Springfield, to
Mrs. Emily (Otstot) Crossland who was the widow of
Jacob Crossland. She had one son born to her first
marriage, Albert Crossland, who resides on his farm
in Springfield Township. Mrs. Hays was a
daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hinkle) Otstot. She
was three years old when her parents left Pennsylvania and
came to Springfield Township, the long journey being made in
wagons. She was too young to remember the wild
condition of the country at that time or to recal the many
pioneer privations to which the family was subjected, but
learned of these as she grew older and left many stories of
the early days with her children. Her father secured
160 acres of Government land for which he paid $5.00 per
acre, and he built his first log cabin on the site of the
present Hays home. In this little cabin his
daughter grew to womanhood and she was quite regular in her
attendance at the district school. The log structure
used as a schoolhouse stood on the present site of Congress
Hall. Jacob Otstot came to Clark County with
money amounting to $1,700, which he had earned at the cooper
trade. He was an expert workman, but did not follow
his trade after leaving Pennsylvania, finding plenty to
occupy his time in clearing up his pioneer farm. This
death of his wife preceded his own and his last years were
spent with his daughter, Mrs. Hays, where he died in
1883, aged eighty-three years. The farm and household
possessions came then to his daughter and her husband.
Among the latter is a clock that was made by John
Hoff, of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which is over
150 years old, an ancient spinning wheel and many tools and
implements. Another relic was a silver dollar that was
coined in 1800, the year of Mr. Otstot's
birth, which he had always carefully preserved, and it, with
all the other objects, are now just as carefully treasured
by his grandson, Edward A. Hays.
Samuel Hays and wife had two children:
Charles O., who was born in 1857, is engaged in farming in
Harmony Township, Clark County, and Edward A. The
mother of these two sons died Oct. 6, 1894.
Edward A. Hays was four years old when his
parents moved to Springfield Township and almost the whole
of his life has been spent on a farm. After his
marriage he continued to reside on the home place and from
his father he received sixty-one acres of the land that his
grandfather had obtained from the Government. In 1902
Mr. Hays purchased almost thirty-eight acres
of the old Hinkle land. In 1894 he built his
commodious and comfortable frame house and in 1895 he
remodeled his barn. The latter building was destroyed
by fire in April, 1906, but he lost no time in rebuilding
and had another structure ready by the time his crops were
harvested.
On Mar. 5, 1889, Mr. Hays was married to
Lily Garlough, who is a daughter of Owen
and Sarah (Littler) Garlough. The father of Mrs.
Hays died when she was one year old. Her mother
subsequently married Benjamin Garlough, a
relative of her first husband. Mr. and Mrs. Hays
have four children, namely: Glenn Garlough,
who is a student in the Springfield High School; Albert
Owen, who is also in the High School classes; and
Anson Erwin and Chester K. Mr. and Mrs.
Hays are members of the Second Lutheran Church at
Springfield. Mr. Hays belongs to the Junior
Order of American Mechanics.
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SAMUEL HAYS - See
EDWARD D. HAYS
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ABRAHAM C. HEISTAND,
a
representative citizen of Bethel Township, residing on his
valuable farm of 110 acres, which is situated on the north
side of the old Carlisle Turnpike Road, six miles west of
Springfield, was born on his father's farm in York County,
Pennsylvania, Jan. 11, 1838. His parents were
Abraham and Leah (Longenecker) Heistand.
Some of the family records of the Heistand family
indicate that members of it came to Pennsylvania in the days
of William Penn, but the first authentic date
is 1731, when John, Abraham, Balser, Barbara and
Anna Heistand sailed for America in the ship Brittania.
They were natives of Germany, but had been forced to flee to
Switzerland on account of religious persecution, and for
freedom of religious belief they crossed the Atlantic Ocean
and established a home in what was then largely an unsettled
country. In the fall of 1731 they landed at
Philadelphia and John and Abraham went to
Lancaster County, where they took up 500 acres of land, 200
of which still remains a possession of the family.
Balser went to the South and all trace of him or his
descendants have been lost sight of.
Abraham Heistand, son of John
Heistand,
was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he became
a man of wealth and influence. He subsequently moved
to York County, where his last years were spent. He was
twice married and his children were of his first union, as
follows: John, Abraham, William, Balser, Sarah, Nancy
and Susan.
Abraham Heistand, son of Abraham and
father of Abraham C, was born on his father's farm in
York County, Pennsylvania, where he lived a long and useful
life and died at the age of seventy-eight years. He
married Leah Longenecker, who survived to the
age of ninety-two years. They had eleven children, as
follows: John, Catherine, Sarah,
Christian L., Abraham, Susan, William,
Jacob and Amanda, twins, Anna and
Alice, all of whom survive with the exception of the
youngest.
Abraham C. Heistand was reared on his father's
farm and in boyhood went to school, a distance of three
miles, when his services were not required at home. In
1861 he joined his older brother. Christian L.,
in Clark County, Ohio, and together they bought a farm of
280 acres, the old General Mason place,
in Moorefield Township. They continued to farm that
place for seven years and then sold out to Jacob
Hertsler. Mr. Heistand then came to
his present farm, buying the first seventy acres from
Samuel Miller and the remainder he purchased from
other parties as he has seen a chance for a good investment.
At the time of purchase an old brick house stood on the
place, which Mr. Heistand tore down and
replaced with a comfortable eight-room frame dwelling.
He erected all the substantial farm buildings and made all
the very noticeable improvements. He carries on
general farming and devotes considerable attention to
raising fine Durham cattle.
In 1869 Mr. Heistand was married to
Martha Fisher, who is a daughter of John
Fisher. They have one son, Clarence.
Mr. Heistand, like all other members of his
family, is a Democrat.
Source:
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CHRISTIAN L.
HEISTAND, one of Clark County's most highly respected
citizens, resides on a valuable farm containing 121½
acres, which is situated in Bethel Township, about six miles
west of Springfield, and owns an additional 165 acres which
is located in Springfield Township. Mr. Heistand was born on his father's farm in York County,
Pennsylvania, Dec. 26, 1836, and is a son
of Abraham and Leah (Lonnecker) Heistand.
The
Heistand family in America is cotemporary
with William Penn's settlement in
Pennsylvania. The first authentic record is when John Heistand sailed from Germany in the ship "Brittania,"
in 1731, accompanied by his two brothers, Abraham and
Balser, and two sisters, Barbara and Anna,
to join the Penn colony in Pennsylvania. They had fled
prior to this to Switzerland on account of religious
persecution. These emigrants landed at Philadelphia in
the fall of the above year and they settled in Lancaster
County. According to family tradition .the family had
been represented in Penn's earliest settlements, but
only authenticated records are here given. The John
Heistand above named took up 500 acres of government
land, and 200 acres of this remains in the possession and
the name of the Heistand family. John
and Abraham remained in Pennsylvania, but Balser
went to the South, and all trace of that line is lost.
Abraham, son of the above John Heistand, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
where he lived to the age of eighty-eight years. His
occupations were those of the prosperous men of his day,
tanning, distilling and milling. He was a man of
robust constitution, and it is recorded that he frequently
took a horseback ride of sixty miles between York,
Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland. He also
traveled over the country by the same means and visited
Niagara Falls. Later in life he removed to York County
and engaged in farming, becoming a man of large means for
his day. He was twice married, his children being
those of his union with his first wife, Elizabeth,
namely: John, Abraham, William, Balser, Sarah, Nancy and
Susan. His second marriage was to Anna Carl.
Abraham Heistand, father of Christian
L., was born on his father's farm in York County,
Pennsylvania, where his whole life was passed, his death
taking place at the age of seventy-eight years. He
married Leah Lonnenecker, who survived to be
ninety-two years old. They had eleven children, as
follows: John, Catherine, Sarah, Christian L.,
Abraham, Susan, Willam,
Jacob and Amanda, twins, Anna and Alice, all of whom still survive except
Alice,
who was the wife of J. Robaugh.
Christian L. Heistand remained on the home farm
until he was sixteen years of age, when he went to Baltimore
and learned the machinist's trade in the Pool & Hunt machine
shops, where he served an apprenticeship of four years.
From there, in 1860, he came to Ohio and worked for a short
time in the Pitts machine shops at Springfield. His
brother, Abraham, then joined him, and together they
bought the old General Mason farm in
Moorefield Township, situated on the Urbana Turnpike,
consisting of 220 acres, and on this place they lived for
four years.
On Dec. 22, 1863, Mr.
Heistand was
married to Catherine M. Leffel, who was born on the
present site of the Masonic Home, which then belonged to her
father, Daniel Leffel.
The latter married
Margaret Sintz, a
daughter of Peter Sintz, of Clark County.
They had four children, of whom Catherine (Mrs.
Heistand) was the youngest, and is the only survivor.
On the site above mentioned Mr. Heistand then
conducted the O. K. tavern, and is credited with having
originated that abbreviation so generally used. In
1867 Mr. and Mrs. Heistand came to the present farm,
having lived during 1866 at Sugar Grove. He bought
this land from the Miller estate in 1868 and
has greatly improved the place. He has erected
substantial farm buildings and has placed the land under a
fine state of cultivation. He carries on general
agriculture and sells a large quantity of milk by wholesale.
Mr. and Mrs. Heistand have four children, two
sons and two daughters, both of the former being physicians.
They are as follows: Horace, who is a graduate of the
Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, is engaged in practice
at Donnelsville; he married Anna Minnick.
Clinton, who is also a graduate of the Ohio Medical
College, married Luella Forgy, and they have
two children, Robert and Richard. Nora,
who married Frank Carter, has three children, Floyd H., Christian D.
and Arthur H., and they
reside on the home farm. Anna, who married F. E.
Fundeberg, resides on the Springfield Township farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Heistand are members of the Baptist
Church. He has served as school director for some
eighteen years, but otherwise has taken no particular
interest in official life.
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LEON H. HOUSTON, who has
the reputation of being one of the shrewdest and most
capable and successful business man of Central Ohio, as a
merchant, banker and farmer, was born in South Charleston,
Clark County, Ohio, Mar. 1, 1842, a son of Thomas F.
Houston. His paternal grandparents, Joseph
Houston and his wife, Nancy (Fisher), were among
the early settlers of Clark County. They were born and
married in Sussex County, in the State of Delaware, lived a
short time in Kentucky, and came to Ohio in 1812, settling
about three miles northeast of Springfield, near what is now
Lagonda.
There was a large family of children who married and
had homes in Clark and adjoining counties of Ohio and other
states. THOMAS FISTER HOUSTON
was the youngest son of Joseph and Nancy Houston, and
was born Oct. 7, 1818, in their pioneer home. He was
married to Rachael A. DeLashmutt, Dec. 25, 1839, in
South Charleston, where they lived many year, and after five
years spent on their farm in Pleasant Township, Clark
County, they moved to Springfield, and in their Eat High
Street home Thomas Houston died June 28, 1874, and
his wife, Rachel, died Nov. 8, 1886. Their
family consisted of ten children namely: Catherine,
William L., Charles, Thornton, Mary, Emma, Leonidas Hamlin (subject of this sketch),
Edwin DeLashmutt, Foster B., and Elissa J.
The six first mentioned have all passed away, while of the
living members of the family Leon H., Edwin D. and
Foster B. are residents at South Charleston, Elissa
being a resident of Springfield, Ohio.
Leon H. Houston was their eldest son.
Edwin D. Houston was their fourth son, and was married
to Ethel A. Jones Feb. 22, 1905. Foster B.
Houston was their youngest son, and was married to
Ida Rose Arbogast June 24, 1890, in Springfield, where
he had lived until he was twenty years old. They have
a son, Roger, and daughter, Rachel.
WILLIAM LAWS HOUSTON was their
second son, and was one of the progressive farmers of Clark
County. He died in London, Madison County, leaving a
wife, two sons and a daughter.
These Houstons are lineal descendants of
Robert Houston, of Sussex County, Delaware, who
was a recognized patriot and rendered material aid to the
cause of independence during the Revolutionary War, and also
of Robert R. Houston, of near Paisley, Scotland,
whose name is found on the land register of Virginia and
Maryland as early as 1664. He died at Pokomoke City,
Maryland, in December, 1692. The parish, castle, and
town of Houston, in Scotland, near Glasgow, are objects of
present interest.
On Apr. 1, 1859, Leon H. Houston commenced his
business career with the firm of Houston & Brother,
composed of Henry Clay Houston and John R. Houston,
at a salary of $50.00 per year and board for the first year.
He continued as a clerk until Jan. 1, 1863, when he was
admitted as a partner into the firm of Houston &
Company, composed of H. C. Houston, J. R. Houston,
and Leon H. Houston, which partnership lasted until
Jan. 1, 1867. John R. and Henry C. Houston then
retired and the firm of Houston & Murray was
organized and continued until Jan. 1, 1875, with Leon H.
Houston and Peter Murray as partners, when
Peter Murray retired, and the firm of Houston &
Brother was organized by Leon H. Houston and
Edwin D. Houston. This firm continued until Jan.
1, 1893, when Foster B. Houston was admitted under
the firm name of Houston Brothers, this
co-partnership continuing up to Jan. 1, 1904, when the
business was incorporated under the name of The Houston
Company, with Edwin D. Houston as president,
Foster B. Houston, vice president, and Leon H.
Houston, secretary. The business conducted from
the beginning was the selling of general merchandise to
farmers and others, and the operation of grain elevators,
lumber and coal yards, including also extensive dealings in
wool.
Mr. Leon H. Houston has been actively engaged in
the said general business from April, 1859, to the present
time. In 1892 the Citizens' Bank, of South Charleston,
Ohio, was organized, Leon H. Houston and Edwin D.
Houston owning more than three-fourths of the
institution, Leon H. Houston acting as president,
Edwin D. Houston as vice president, and William A.
Malsbary, cashier. This is regarded, as the
strongest bank in Clark County, as it is a co-partnership,
and all the property of each and every co-partner is bound
for the liabilities of the bank. They make a specialty
of loaning money on farm mortgages.
Mr. Leon H. Houston has been several times
elected to the village council, and has taken much interest
in beautifying the village of South Charleston. He was
instrumental in the construction of the modern cement
sidewalks and macadamized streets, which are known to be the
best of any village in the state. He served with
credit as county commissioner from 1878 to 1881; was a
member of the State Board of Equalization in 1890 and 1891,
and was accredited with accomplishing great good for the
farming and other interests of the state.
Leon H. Houston owns over 4,000 acres and
Edwin D. Houston over 1,500 acres of the best farming
lands in Madison, Clark, and Green Counties.
Their Woodlawn Farm, about seven miles north of London,
in Madison County, is known as the best farm in the State.
They also own large tracts of timber land in Mississippi.
To operate these farm kinds there has been recently
organized The Houston Farm Company, with a capital
stock of $100,000.00—Leon H. Houston, Edwin D.
Houston, Foster B. Houston, Elissa J. Houston
and Howard Yeazell being owners and directors of said
farm company.
Leon H. Houston has been quite an extensive
traveler between this country and Europe, having crossed the
Atlantic twelve times, and profited much by his observations
in this and foreign countries. Edwin D. Houston
has made two trips around the world and one to South
America.
The subject of this sketch has a palatial residence in
South Charleston, of which place he is one of the
foremost and respected citizens, and is known for his
liberality and helpfulness to all worthy causes, and has
contributed largely to the benefit and welfare of the
community by aiding private and public interests.
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ROBERT HOUSTON - See
CHAPTER XXI - Medical Profession of Clark County
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THOMAS F. HOUSTON - See
LEON H. HOUSTON
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WILLIAM L. HOUSTON -
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DANIEL HOWETT - See
JOSEPH R. HOWETT
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JOSEPH R. HOWETT,
agriculturist and stock-raiser, residing on his valuable
farm of 245 acres, located jointly in Clark and Greene
Counties, was born in Clark County, Ohio, near Osborn, June
23, 1847, and is a son of Daniel and Eliza (Hastings)
Howett.
DANIEL HOWETT was of Scotch-Irish
descent. With his wife and two eldest children
he came originally from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to
Greene County, Ohio, locating in Bath Township, where he
followed farming on a rented farm for the succeeding three
years. At the end of this period he removed to near
Medway, Clark County, later moving to a farm in Mad River
Township, near the one now owned by his son, Joseph E.
While living here he met with the accident— a kick by a
horse—which caused his death in 1860, when aged forty-nine
years. He married Eliza Hastings, who
was of English descent. She lived to be seventy-two
years of age. To them were born the following
children: Rachel Ann, who died in 1884, married
William Maxton; Morris P., who died in 1903; John A., who
lives in Dayton, Ohio; Peter, who has a home in
Bethel Township; Mary Ann, who resides with
her brother Joseph, who is next younger; James
Taylor, who resides in Bethel Township; and
Roberta, who married Thomas Snyder,
resides in Osborn, Ohio.
Joseph R. Howett has been a resident of Clark
County since birth, the greater part of his boyhood having
been spent in Mad River Township. When Mr.
Howett was young the only educational facilities were
those afforded in the old-fashioned district school, which
he attended in the winter seasons until he was about sixteen
years old, when in February, 1864, he enlisted in the Eighth
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, under Captain Winger,
and served as a manly soldier until the close of the Civil
War, being mustered out in August, 1865. Mr. Howett
participated in a number of engagements, and although only a
boy in years, was one of the men who helped to open the
battle of Lynchburg, Virginia. After his return from
the war he worked on various farms by the month for eleven
years for Henry Coines, of Bath Township, Greene
County. During this time he was married, on Christmas
Day, to Jennie Molder, a daughter of
Michael and Lydia Ann (Koch) Molder. Her death
occurred one year later. On Christmas Day, 1878, he
married Theresa Molder, a sister of his first
wife, and to this union were born the following children:
Harry, who graduated from Antioch College, is now
serving in the capacity of superintendent of the Bethel
Township schools; Grace, residing at home, attended
Otterbine College and was also a piano student at Dayton,
Ohio; Ralph, who died aged eleven years; Lloyd,
who lives at home; and Mark, who
is attending the Enon High School.
After his marriage Mr. Howett purchased a
tract of sixty-seven acres in Greene County, where he lived
a short time, when he sold this property. In 1883, in
connection with his brother, Morris P. Howett, he
bought his present farm from Reuben Miller and
moved on the same the following spring. Mr.
Howett and brother operated this farm together until the
death of the latter, since when he has had full charge of
the place, carrying on general farming and stock-raising.
Politically Mr. Howett is a Republican,
and fraternally is a member of the I. O. O. F., having
belonged to this organization since 1874. He is a
member of the Reformed Church and has served as deacon for
the past ten years.
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JAMES M. HUNT - See
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RALPH HUNT - See
MAJOR WILLIAM
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DR. RICHARD HUNT - See
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MAJOR WILLIAM HUNT,
was formerly one of the leading men of Clark County, Ohio.
He was the first president of the Mad River and Lake Erie
Railroad, now known as the Sandusky branch of the Big Four
Railroad, was the first president of the Clark County
Agricultural Society, and was identified with improvement
and progress during the whole of his active life.
Major Hunt was born in Hunterdon County, New
Jersey, Oct. 25, 1797, and died while on a visit to a
daughter at Springfield, Ohio, May 17, 1867.
The parents of Major Hunt were Ralph and
Lydia (Eyre) Hunt. Prior to coming to Clark
County, Ohio, Ralph Hunt operated Hunt's Mills
in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and after reaching this
section he bought, in association with his sons, about 600
acres of land. The Hunts soon began the
building of a fine residence, which was completed in 1830,
and at the time was the best house in Clark County. In
early manhood he married Lydia Eyre, who was a
daughter of Manuel Eyre, who was an officer in the
War of the Revolution. He was born in Philadelphia and
was a ship builder by tradeand testified to his loyalty not
only by serving as a soldier but also by contributing to pay
war expenses. There were five sons and one daughter
born to Ralph and Lydia Hunt, namely: William,
Manuel Eyre, Ishi Van Cleve, Daniel and Franklin Eyre.
The youngest son was a student at the military post at West
Point when his father came to Ohio. The eldest son had
preceded his father and the two next in order accompanied
him. These two sons never married but remained in
Ohio, where they acquired large tracts of land in Clark and
Champaign Counties. The other son, Daniel, came
also to Clark County, where he married but did not remain in
Ohio, his record being lost. Ralph Hunt died in 1838.
Major William Hunt probably acquired his title
through service in the New Jersey militia and in the War of
1812. He was afforded educational opportunities and in
young manhood came to Ohio in search of a business opening,
which he found at Urbana, in Champaign County, where he
entered into a mercantile business and was subsequently made
postmaster. It was during his residence at Urbana that
his father and brothers came to Clark County. Several
years after his marriage, when his father died, William
Hunt left Urbana and came to Moorefield Township, Clark
County, and took possession of the home farm and he
continued to reside in Clark County during the remainder of
his life, which was one of great activity and usefulness.
At Urbana, Ohio, Major William Hunt was married
to Mary McCord, a most estimable woman, who survived
until Dec. 25, 1881, having outlived her husband for
fourteen years. They had born to them six sons and six
daughters, the sons, Ralph, Samuel, William,
Robert, George and Edward, all having
passed out of life. Ralph and William
were soldiers in the Civil War. All the daughters of
the family survive, as follows: Kate, who is the
widow of E. B. Cassilly; Mary, who is the
widow of William H. Tiers, residing at Philadelphia;
Meta, who married Chandler Robbins,
residing at Springfield; Eleanor, Rose and
Virginia, residing on the homestead in Moorefield
Township.
Major Hunt took a deep interest in politics and
public matters prior to the Civil War and was a zealous
supporter of Stephen A. Douglas. He remained a
Democrat in his convictions but never voted the ticket after
the defeat of his chosen candidate.
Source:
20th Century History
of
Springfield and Clark County, Ohio and Representative Citizens -
Publ: Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Illinois - 1908 - Page
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