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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
THE
HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO
Volume 2 of 2
containing
A History of the County; Its Townships, Cities, Towns, Schools,
Churches, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of
Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the
Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of
Clinton County; Constitution of the
United States, Miscellaneous
Matters, Etc., Etc.
- Illustrated -
Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co.
1882
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Union Twp. -
JAMES W. FARREN, P.
O. Wilmington, a prominent retired farmer of Washington
Township, was born in Franklin County, Penn., Dec. 10, 1810.
His father was John Farren, also a native of the Keystone
State, and a distiller by occupation. He was the father of
one son and nine daughters, five of whom yet survive. He
died in Pennsylvania many years ago, in the sixtieth year of his
age. Mr. Farren's mother was Elizabeth Pinkstaff,
a native of Shenandoah County, Va. She departed this life
in Pennsylvania about twenty-five years ago. The subject
of this sketch was reared in his native State, and when eighteen
years of age went to Washington County, Md., where, on Jan. 12,
1832, he married Jemima James. In 1836, the young
husband and wife, with their three small children, started for
Ohio in a two horse wagon. Arriving in Clinton County,
Mr. Farren located eighty acres of land in Washington
Township, the property of his wife's father, on which he resided
till 1839. In that year, with five children, he returned
to Maryland on a visit, the trip consuming thirteen days each
way. Mr. Farren was a wagon and coach maker by
trade, but since locating in this county, has devoted his
attention to farming. During his early stay in the county,
he suffered many hardships, and would have moved back to the
East if he could have possibly got there. As settlers
poured in, times grew better, and with the succeeding years
Mr. Farren added to his possessions, until, at one time, he
owned 775 acres of land, lying in Washington, Green and Union
Townships. Mr. Farren resided on the old homestead
in Washington Township for forty-five years, and Oct. 12, 1881,
removed to Wilmington, where he is now enjoying the fruits of a
well spent life. Mr. Farren is probably one of the
oldest Masons in Clinton County. He is a Knight Templar
and has been a member of Cincinnati Commandery No. 3, since Jan.
5, 1860, being now exempt from further duties in that body.
In 1832, he cost his maiden vote for Gen. Andrew Jackson,
and the same year had the honor of taking that distinguished
statesman by the hand. Since then Mr. Farren has
been an earnest supporter of the principles set forth by the
Democratic party. Twelve children have been born to
himself and wife, eight of whom are living -
Seymour C., a farmer of
Washington Township; Watkins J., on the old homestead;
Sallie, John F., a farmer and large tobacco raiser of
Washington Township; Laura A., wife of O. F. Johnson,
of Leavenworth, Kan.; Milton M., residing at Chicago;
Emma E., and Flora J., wife of David B. Van Pelt,
of Wilmington. Mrs. Farren departed this life in
1872.
History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2,
Published 1882 - Page 858 |
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Washington Twp. -
SEYMOUR C. FARREN,
farmer, P. O. Morrisville, son of J. W. and Jemima Farren,
was born in Washington Township Dec. 30, 1832. He was
reared and brought up on a farm, and obtained an academic
education in Parker's Academy, of Clermont County. He was
a colleague with Charles and Frank Browning, of
Wilmington, and Thomas Paxton, lawyer of Cincinnati.
Mr. Farren was married, Jan. 29, 1859, to Eliza J.
Hardesty, daughter of Hezekiah and Sarah Hardesty.
Mrs. Farren was born in Union Township Dec., 1838.
Three sons and three daughters were given to bless this union -
Dora, John F., Jemima, James L., Louisa and William H.
Mr. Farren located on his farm in Washington Township in
1861. In contains 313 acres of excellently improved land.
In March, 1882, Mr. Farren removed to Wilmington, that
his children might enjoy better educational privileges. He
and family are members of the Christian Church.
Politically, he is Democratic. He was Trustee of
Washington Township two terms, and is a man of much enterprise
and moral worth.
History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2,
Published 1882 - Page 1141 |
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Green
Twp. -
LEWIS FRAZIER, farmer, P. O. New Vienna,
born on the farm where he now lives Apr. 24, 1826, is a son of
Abraham and Margaret Frazier, he a native of North
Carolina, and she of Tennessee. The grandfather,
William Frazier, emigrated from North Carolina to
Tennessee, where he lived and died, at the ripe old age of
nearly ninety years. Abraham Frazier was but
an infant child when his father moved from North Carolina to
Tennessee, and there he grew to manhood. In 1812, he came
to Ohio, and settled in Clinton County adjoining his brother
Eli, who had settled here one year previously. Here
Abraham purchased 100 acres of his brother, and remained one
year, then returned to Tennessee, and married Margaret
Coppock, of Strawberry Plains. Thence he took his wife
on horseback, with a feather bed and a few effects for
housekeeping, and thus journeyed all the way through the
wilderness to, his new home in Clinton County, Ohio, and here
commenced right in the woods, and lived the true log cabin life,
enduring all the hardships of those days. He was an
industrious, hardworking man; though a man of no education, yet
he was a man of great integrity of character, and lived a very
quiet and upright life; was never sued in law, and never sued
any man, and died highly esteemed and respected. He died
Mar. 22, 1862, aged seventy-seven. His wife died June 29,
1845, aged fifty-two years. They had nine children, six
now survive—William, Madison, Eliza
(married to Jacob Quigley), Lewis, Margery A.
(married to Abraham Skeen), and Aaron; the latter
resides in Oregon. The subject of this sketch grew to
manhood on the farm where he was born, and where he still lives;
was married May 28, 1853, to Margaret A. Quigley, who was
born in Berkeley County, Va., Dec. 24, 1832, a daughter of
Michael and Margaret Quigley, he a native of Lancaster
County, Penn., and she of North Carolina; they had nine
children, six now survive—Jacob, Mary Ellen (married to
William Tarr), Margaret A., Michael, Jane (married
to Simeon Pennington, and resides in Indiana), and
Alice Virginia (married to Peter Malott). Mr.
Frazier and wife have eight children— John W., born
Apr. 18, 1854; Abe, born Dec. 2, 1855; Alpheus,
born Aug. 25, 1858; Albron Gage, born Feb.
12, 1861; Carrie Ella, born July 27, 1863;
Maggie Oral, born Aug. 27, 1866; Aaron J.,
born Apr. 27, 1869, and Mary Lizzie, born July 27, 1877.
Mr. Frazier has spent his entire life upon the old home
farm, which has now been in possession of the Frazier family
for seventy years. This place, which in 1812 was one
unbroken forest, is now nearly all in fine cultivated fields
with good improvements, and now Mr. Frazier is very
comfortably situated and ranks among the “ well-to-do ” farmers
of Clinton County; is a man of integrity and high moral
character, and like his father was never sued and never sued any
man, and was never called before a court as a witness—a
remarkable incident for a man of his age.
History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 993 |
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