BIOGRAPHIES
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History of Clinton County, Ohio
Its People, Industries and Institutions
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Albert J. Brown, A.M.
Supervising Editor
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With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families
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Indianapolis, Indiana
1915
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CHARLES A. RANNELLS.
Among the men who have played a large part in the development of the
varied interests of the city of Wilmington, this county, few are better
known than the gentleman whose name heads this interesting biographical
review. Born in this county, Mr. Rannells has been a
witness of all the marvelous advances which have been made along the way
during the past half century and has been a no small contributing factor
in the various movements which have promoted such advances. Laying
the groundwork of his successful career by acquiring a liberal education
in his youth, Mr. Rannells for a time served most acceptably as a
teacher in the Wilmington public schools and in 1882 entered upon his
business career, serving for a time as a clerk in the clothing store of
his brother, in Wilmington, later buying a half interest in this store,
the firm being continued as a partnership for some years, after which he
purchased his brother's interest and until 1911 conducted the business
alone. Upon selling his store in that year, Mr. Rannells
retired from business and since that time has been living very
comfortably and happily in his fine home in Wilmington, enjoying fully
the ample rewards of his active life of useful and painstaking endeavor.
Charles Allen Rannells was born on a farm in
Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, on Aug. 17, 1859, son of Thomas
G. and Massie (Wiley) Rannells, the former of whom was born in
Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1810, and died at his home in this
county in 1884, and the latter of whom was born near Barnesville, Ohio,
in 1820, and died in 1892.
Thomas G. Rannells, who was the son of
William and Leah (Wiley) Rannells, the former of whom was born in
Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1810, and died at his home in this
county in 1884, and the latter of whom was born near Barnesville, Ohio,
in 1820, and died in 1892.
Thomas G. Rannells, who was the son of
William and Leah Rannells, Pennsylvanians, of Scottish descent, was
four years of age when his parents emigrated to Ohio in 1814. They
settled in this county, entering a tract of land from the government,
covering about one hundred and twenty-five acres, two and one-half miles
northeast of the present city of Wilmington, the present county seat
town at that time consisting of but one dwelling house and a blacksmith
shop. William Rannells became one of the leaders in the
pioneer community and exerted a wholesome influence during the formative
period of that now rich and prosperous section. He and his wife
were members of the Christian church and were among the most active
workers in that communion, the power of their influence ever being
thrown on the side of all good works thereabout. Both lived to
good old ages and their memories are cherished among all persons of
pioneer descent in that community.
Thomas G. Rannells was reared on the
paternal farm, growing up amid pioneer conditions that would seem
harshly beset by hardships to young people of the present generation,
and upon reaching his majority bought a small farm of his own, this
original purchase consisting of sixty acres near the old homestead at
"Deserted Camp" corners. To this purchase he gradually
added, as prosperity attended his efforts, until presently he was the
owner of two hundred and forty-eight acres and was accounted one of the
substantial citizens of the county. Mr. Rannells was a
Republican and took an active part in local politics, constantly
exerting his strong personal influence in behalf of public improvements
and the general uplift of the community, his efforts in connection with
the elevation of educational standards thereabouts being especially well
remembered. Good roads was one of the phases of early public
improvement that he worked for most sedulously, and it is recalled that
it was he who was mainly instrumental in securing the first "pike" roads
through that part of the county. His wife, who was Massie Wiley,
whose parents, natives of eastern Ohio, earnest Quaker folk, came to
Clinton county at an early day in the settlement of the same, was an
ever-present helpmeet, aiding his efforts in every good way and was a
woman of large and beneficent influence in her day. Both were
active workers in the Christian church and their children were reared
conscientiously in the faith of that communion. Thomas G.
Rannells was one of the best farmers in his neighborhood and did
very much to bring about improved conditions in farming in his section
of the county. He made a specialty of raising a fine grade of
hogs, and found this phase of farming quite profitable, his example in
this respect being followed with profit by many of his neighbors.
To Thomas G. and Massie (Wiley) Rannells were
born seven children, namely: William Harvey, a well-known retired
merchant, of Wilmington, this county; Mrs. Sarah Hildebrant, now
deceased; Mary E., residing in Wilmington; Leah L., also
of Wilmington; John J., who now owns and makes his home on the
old homestead in Union township; Charles A., the immediate
subject of this sketch; and Etta, who lives in Wilmington.
Charles A. Rannells was reared on the home farm,
attending in his boyhood the Wilmington high school and was graduated
from the same in 1880, following which he took a course at Butler
University at Indianapolis. Upon completing this course he was
offered and accepted a position as teacher in the Wilmington grammar
school. He retained this position for but one year, the promise of
a commercial career appealing to him with force, and he entered the
clothing store of Rannells & Dunham, the senior member of this
firm being his brother, William H., who presently purchased his
partner's interest in the store and was the sole owner, his brother
retaining his position as clerk until 1889, in which year he bought a
half interest in the store. Rannells Brothers continued
this arrangement until 1894, Charles A., in that year, buying his
brother's interest, the latter retiring from business. From that
time until in September, 1911, Charles A. Rannells conducted the
popular clothing store alone and was very successful in his business
operations. In the year last named he sold the store to the
present owners, Champlain & Mitchell, and retired from the cares
of an active business life. He oversees his fine farm of one
hundred and thirty-eight acres on the outskirts of Wilmington.
On Sept. 6, 1882, Charles A. Rannells was united
in marriage to Clora Kirk, who was born in Wilmington, this
county, daughter of the late John M. Kirk, a former prominent
attorney of Wilmington, and his wife, Emily Kirk, and to this
union three children have been born, Edith, Sarah Wiley and
Mary Emilie. Edith Rannells married Robert L. Lewis a
brick manufacturer, of Athens, Ohio, and his two children.
Allen Rannells and Robert Ellis. Sarah Wiley Rannells
married Rendal H. Terrell, a well-known young farmer of this
county, and has two children, Charles David and Randal
Rannells. Mary Emilie Rannells is a student in the Wilmington
high schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Rannells are members of the Walnut
Street Christian church at Wilmington, Mr. Rannells serving the
congregation of that church in the capacity of a deacon. He is a
Republican and for years has taken a prominent part in t he
deliberations of the party managers in this county. For some time
he served on the city school boards and has also given the public
excellent service as a member of the city council. Mr. Rannells
is a prominent Mason, his blue lodge being No. 52, chapter No. 63,
council at Xenia, and commandery No. 37; and he is a past master, past
high priest and past commander.
Though retired from business life, Mr. Rannells
continues to take a warm interest in public affairs and no man in the
county is more deeply concerned in civic advancement than he. His
long connection with the commercial circles at the county seat gives
force to his judgments on local matters and his associates hold him in
the highest confidence and regard.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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JOHN L. RANNELLS.
When the successful farmer is spoken of, the inclination is to view his
success simply from the standpoint of finance and accomplishment; but
aside from this, there are many farmers who have accomplished good in a
community by improvement, by careful selection and by the study of farm
products and improved stock. These men are not alone in success in
themselves, but they are a real benefit to a community. Of such as
these is John L. Rannells, the subject of this sketch.
John L. Rannells was born on Mar. 24, 1857, on
the farm on which he now lives, in Union townshp, this county, the son
of Thomas G. and Massie Jane (Wiley) Rannells. Thomas G.
Rannells was born at Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, on
Nov. 9, 1810, and died on Sept. 11, 1886. He was the son of
William and Leah (Gaddis) Rannells, both of whom were born in
Fayette county, Pennsylvania. In 1814 they came by wagon and
horseback to Clinton county and located near New Vienna. There
they purchased a tract of one hundred and twenty acres of what is now
the W. D. Moorman farm, in Union township. Later they
bought one hundred acres on the Prairie road in Union township, where
they both died. They were members of the Christian church.
Massie Jane (Wiley) Rannells was born in
1821 and died in 1890. She was the daughter of Allen and Sarah
Wiley, who came from Belmont county, Ohio, about 1825 and settled on
what is now the Conrad farm, on the Prairie road, in Union
township, where they died. They were members of the Friends
church.
Thomas G. Rannells was only four years
old when he settled with his parents in Clinton county. He
attended the primary schools of that day and was always a faithful as
well as a helpful attendant at all old-fashioned "log-rollings" in his
neighborhood. After his marriage he bought an eighty-eight-acre
tract of land, which is a part of the farm which John L. Rannells
now owns, and there he went to housekeeping in a log cabin. In
1849 he built the comfortable brick house in which John L. Rannells
now lives and lived there until his death, in 1886. He was a
Republican. His wife, who was reared a Quaker, joined the
Christian church and they became active members. Thomas G.
Rannells as a great stock raiser and had the best improved breeds of
Shorthorn cattle, Merino sheep and Poland China hogs. He ahs seven
children, six of whom are still living, as follow: William H.,
who is in the insurance business and who lives in Wilmington; Sarah
E., who married Henry Hilderbrant, and who died in 1907;
Mary E., Leah L. and L. Etta, who live in Wilmington; John
L., the subject of this sketch and C. A. whose history will
be found elsewhere in this volume.
John L. Rannells attended the "Dutch" district
school in Union township. During his youth and early manhood he
stayed with his father on the farm and helped in the cultivation and
management of the same. After his marriage he continued to live on
the farm and after his father's death acquired all the interests of the
estate and now has an excellent farm of two hundred and thirty-eight
acres.
John L. Rannells was married on Feb. 24, 1887,
to Leulle Bentley, who was born in Wilson township, this county,
on Sept. 21, 1860, the daughter of E. V. and Nancy (Custis) Bentley,
retired farming people now living at Wilmington, this county, and to
this union the following children have been born: Thomas E.,
born on Jan. 1, 1888, and who helps his father run the farm, married
Daisy D. Wright and has one child, John Elwood, who was born
on Apr. 6, 1915; William Bentley, Sept. 20, 1890, a student of
osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, married Mae George, and has
one child, Matilda Jane, born on July 18, 1912; and Louise,
Oct. 19, 1900, who is attending high school at Wilmington.
John L. Rannells as a Republican and he and his
wife are active members of the Walnut Street Christian church.
Aside from the exemplary farmer and stock raiser that he is, he was one
of the promoters of the Clinton County Mutual Insurance Association,
which has proved a great benefit to the county. He was for years
one of the most active workers in that association and was a director in
this association for years.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ.
1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 735 |
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JOHN C. REARDON
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Residence of
Lafe Record,
in Union Twp.,
built in 1842 |
LAFE RECORD
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PATRICK REGAN
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THOMAS REGAN
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E. MARSHALL RENNER
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WILLIAM N. REYNOLDS
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FRANK RHONEMUS
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GEORGE M. RICE
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J. M. RICHARDS
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CHARLES PIERSON RICHARDSON. Charles Pierson Richardson was
widely known during his lifetime as one of the successful farmers of
Clinton county, Ohio. He had a prominent part in the development
of agriculture in this county and his well-directed energies in the
practical affairs of life, his capable management of his own business
and his sound judgment resulted in the acquisition and accumulation of a
very large competence. He began life with one hundred acres of
land, to which was later added three hundred and thirty-five acres, all
of which was inherited by Mrs. Richardson, which tract was
improved from time to time until at the time of his death he owned one
of the finest farms in Vernon township. He was a prominent
stockman and a highly respected citizen of this county.
The late Charles Pierson Richardson,
farmer and stockman of Clinton county, was born on Mar. 15, 1840.
In Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the son of Pierson Jackson and
Elizabeth (Schillinger) Richardson, the former of whom was
born in 1815 in Genesee county, New York, and who died on Dec. 17, 1902,
and the latter of whom was born on Apr. 27, 1814, in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and who died on Oct. 3, 1883. Her parents were natives of Germany.
Charles Pierson Richardson died on July 30, 1894.
His father, P. J. Richardson, was a son of James
Richardson, who was a soldier in the patriot army during the
Revolutionary War, having served as a first lieutenant in a regiment of
the New York Infantry. He built and owned a one-half interest in
the first boat built in Cincinnati. His father grew up in New York
state and when he was a young man emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he married, near which place he farmed until about 1855, when he removed
to Clinton county with his family. Here he purchased his home,
which he built at Newport in 1846, and which is still standing, well
preserved. He died at Newport on Feb. 6, 1848. He was a
member of the Presbyterian church.
Pierson Jackson, a son of James and
father of the subject, a farmer, born in Genesee county, New York, Mar.
15, 1815, died in Cuba on Dec. 17, 1902. He attended a private
school and graduated in a Cincinnati college. He moved to Cuba,
Clinton county, in 1855 and was married in Cincinnati on jUne 15, 1836,
to Elizabeth Schillinger, daughter of Col. William Schillinger.
Charles Pierson Richardson was about fifteen years
of age when his parents came to Clinton county, Ohio. Here he grew
up on a farm and was married, and after his marriage he farmed in Vernon
township on land which Mrs. Richardson inherited from her father
and which amounted to four hundred and thirty-five acres. Mr.
Richardson raised a great deal of thoroughbred live stock and kept
registered trotting horses of the Wilkes and Hambletonian breeds.
He also specialized in raising Shropshire sheep and Shorthorn cattle.
He was killed in 1894 by the kick of a horse, having lived but a few
hours after the accident. After his death, Mrs. Richardson
remained on the farm until 1911, and then moved to Wilmington, where she
now resides with her daughter, Bessie.
On Oct. 3, 1865, the late Charles Pierson Richardson
was married to Miss Jane Villars, who is the daughter of
JAMES and Frances (Gregg) VILLARS, the former of whom was born on Oct. 20, 1800, in
Jefferson township, Greene county, Pennsylvania, and who died on June
29, 1890, the latter of whom, her mother having died when she was a
child, was reared by Mrs. Woodmansee. She was a daughter of
George and Margaret (Wiley) Gregg.
JAMES VILLARS was the son of
James and Rebecca (Davidson) Villars. James, Jr. was reared
on a farm and was six years old when his parents removed from
Pennsylvania to Deerfield, Portage county, Ohio, where they remained one
year. At the end of that period they removed to Washington
township, Warren county, where they purchased fifty acres of land, and
afterward one hundred acres nearby. In the summer of 1811 they
purchased three hundred and sixty-four acres of land in Clinton county,
adjoining the farm where James, Jr. later lived. They moved
to this farm in the fall of 1813, after they had some land cleared, a
house was built, the floors of which were laid with wide black walnut
boards. This old log house still stands and is used for an
outhouse, and some improvements made and the crops planted. They
had ten children, six sons and four daughters. In August, 1823,
James Villars, Sr., died and the care of the family and the
charge of the farm fell to James, Jr., who purchased the interest
of the other heirs in the homestead and who lived with his mother.
The first schooling of James Villars was
obtained in 1807 in a small round log cabin, daubed with mud, with a
stick and clay chimney and roofed with clapboards. It had a dirt
floor and stood about thirty rods west of the iron bridge, north of the
turnpike and about three-fourths of a mile west of Clarksville.
When he was eight or nine years old, James Villars, Jr., attended
school at another place, but in a building similar to the first.
The third school he attended was in a log school house with a stick and
clay chimney at each end and with a writing desk through the center.
It stood between a quarter and a half mile south of where the Mt.
Pleasant meeting house stood. His fourth experience was in a
vacated log house two and one-half miles east of Clarksville, on the
banks of Sewell's run. He had to walk three miles to this
school, but finally he attended school in a building formerly used as a
horse-mill, which was fitted up and used as a Methodist chapel in
Wilmington, and as a matter of fact was the first Methodist chapel ever
built there. It was also used for school purposes.
On June 15, 1830, James Villars, Jr., was
married to Frances Gregg. They had ten children, as follow:
Rebecca, John W., Mary D., Rachel, George W., James M., Jane F.,
Hiram J., Samuel H. and Alfred T. Rebecca died at the
age of twenty-four; John W. died at the age of fifty-five, a
farmer by occupation; Mary D. married Simeon Cast and they
lived on a farm in Washington township, both of whom are now deceased;
Rachel married Ed. Mulford, a resident of Warren County,
Ohio, who is now deceased: George W. died at the age of
twenty-one; James M. died at the age of nineteen; Jane F.
is the widow of Mr. Richardson; Hiram j. lives in Montana, and
Alfred T., who owned his father's home place, is deceased.
In 1837 James Villars, Jr., purchased the farm
where he lived until his death, which consisted of three hundred and
sixty-one acres. After buying this farm he did nothing more to it
until the spring of 1848. He was an industrious man and a careful
manager, accumulating a large amount of land. Before his death he
was one of the heaviest landowners in Clinton county. He owned six
hundred acres of land in Clark and Union counties, Illinois, beside
twelve hundred acres, which he gave to his children. He built a
fine brick chapel on part of his land, at a cost of fourteen thousand
dollars and presented this to the Methodist Protestant church, of which
he and his wife were members for a number of years, they having joined
the church together in 1845. Before this they had been members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, which Mr. Villars had joined in
1816. He also purchased the Baptist church of Clarksville, on
which he expended about three thousand dollars. He was a local
deacon and an ordained minister ever since he built the chapel and held
the office of township trustee and supervisor for several years.
His beloved wife died on June 7, 1881, and he died, as heretofore
stated, in June, 1890.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pierson Richardson had nine
children, six of whom are still living. The deceased children are
Howard, the third born, who first saw the light of day, Mar. 21,
1869, and who died at the age of six years; Horace, who died at
the age of thirty-one, and Lillie, who died at the age of seven
weeks. The living children are James Pierson, Charles Hinkle,
Walter G., Frances, Herman and Bessie. James Pierson
was born on July 12, 1866, and lives in Adrian, Michigan, where he is a
piano maker. He was a missionary in Japan nine years; Charles
Hinkle, Dec. 20, 1867, and lives on the home place, is a farmer;
Walter G. also lives on the home place; Frances married
George Sewell, and they live in Vernon township; Herman
lives on the home place, and Bessie, who is unmarried, lives with
Mrs. Pierson.
Mrs. Pierson is an ardent member of the
Methodist Protestant church and prominent in the religious life of this
community. Mr. Richardson was not only an
enterprising farmer, but he was a good citizen, and a good man, one who
was entitled to the esteem and confidence of his fellows and one who
enjoyed this confidence and esteem in a large measure.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
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JONATHAN M. RICHARDSON.
Ohio has been especially honored in the character of her industrial
managers and directors. In every section of the state men have
lived who were born to leadership in industry; men who dominated because
of their superior intelligence, natural endowment and force of
character. It is always profitable to consider the careers of such
persons, and to weigh their motives and to discover their intimate
interests. The late Jonathan M. Richardson, a man who
forged his way to the front ranks in the industrial life of Clinton
county, was broad-minded and liberal and never permitted his business to
interfere with his larger duties as a citizen. Successful in
business as he was, he had other interests to which he devoted a
considerable portion of his time. In this county he will long be
remembered as one of the earnest and intelligent collectors of
pre-historic relics.
Jonathan M. Richardson was born in Dayton, Ohio,
in July, 1826, and died on June 6, 1907. He was a son of Dr.
Jacob and Henrietta (Harwood) Richardson, the latter of whom was
born in England, and who, when a child, was brought to America by her
parents. She died in Dayton, Ohio, when Jonathan M. was a
mere lad. Jacob Richardson was born in Fredericktown,
Maryland, and was of English descent. He was graduated from the
United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, but after his graduation left
the naval service and studied medicine. He began the active
practice of his profession at Chillicothe, Ohio, where he remained only
a short time. He was a physical giant, six feet two inches tall in
his stocking feet. After leaving Chillicothe Doctor Richardson
practiced his profession at Dayton, Ohio, for several years, and after
the death of his wife married, secondly, Jane Johnson,
subsequently moving to Waterloo, Fayette county, Indiana. In this
latter county he owned a large saw-mill, as well as a large farm.
Later he moved to Wilmington, Ohio, and purchased a drug store on the
site of what is now Farquhar's grocery, and divided his time
between conducting the drug store and the practice of his profession.
He also lived at Sabina, Ohio, for a short time, and later removed to
Grant county, Indiana, where he purchased one hundred and eighty acres
of land, continuing, however, the practice of medicine. He also
practiced in Nashville, Tennessee, and later at Bainbridge, Ohio, near
which city he owned a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He died
at Carrytown, Ohio, many years ago.
The late Jonathan M. Richardson studied medicine
under his father's direction and assisted him in operating the drug
store in Wilmington. He practiced medicine for a year, but did not
like the practice and later attended an architectural school at
Cincinnati, becoming a contractor and builder in Wilmington. He
erected the main building of Wilmington College, the First National Bank
building, the Catholic church, and practically every large dwelling
erected in Wilmington while he was engaged in business. His home
was in a magnificent brick house on West Locust street, built in 1865.
He was the first man in southern Ohio to engage in the wholesale
hardwood-lumber business and owned and operated at one time six portable
saw-mills. He sawed timber throughout this country and had three
lumber yards, in which he handled fancy timber and veneer goods.
About 1894 he retired from active business life, being succeeded by his
sons. Few men have hobbies in which they are able to accomplish so
much as the late Jonathan M. Richardson accomplished as a
collector of Indian and cave-dwellers' relics. He is said to have
had the best collection of any person living in Ohio. With the
assistance of his sons he explored many mounds throughout Ohio and
obtained a wide variety of interesting relics. In 1879 Mr.
Richardson, in collaboration with Dr. L. B. Welsh, published
"An Illustrated Description of Pre-Historic Relics Found Near
Wilmington, Ohio," a nine-page pamphlet, in which are described several
tablets found in the Sparks mound, located on the road leading from
Wilmington to Harveysburg. The various tablets found by Mr.
Richardson, together with the charges of fraud made against similar
discoveries, provoked him to say in this pamphlet: "We do
unhesitatingly say that in these tablets the fact is well established
that pre-historic man upon this continent possessed a written language;
not a pictorial language, but a language composed of different distinct
characters, well and plainly written."
Jonathan M. Richardson was one of a family of
four children, and was the second in order of birth. His elder
brother, John W., was a physician in Wilmington and other places.
His sister, Clarinda, married Morris Green, a wagon-maker
and painter, of Clinton, Illinois. Harwood was a farmer in
Greene county, Ohio, where he died. He had lived in Wilmington for
twenty-five or thirty years before moving to Greene county.
Jonathan M. Richardson was married to Mary
Jane Davis, who was born near the Cumberland mountains in Tennessee
in 1829, and died in 1898. She was a daughter of James Davis,
a native of Tennessee and a farmer by occupation, who moved to this
county, where he lived for a short time, and then located in Howard
county, Indiana, where he owned and operated a farm. He and his
wife were members of the Quaker church. At the age of eighty-two,
he fell off a foot log over a slough and was drowned. To
Jonathan M. and Mary Jane (Davis) Richardson were born two sons,
James E. and Frank.
James Richardson was born in what is now
Wilmington, Ohio, but in a part of the city which was, at the time of
his birth, outside the corporation limits, on the old plank road, on
June 29, 1859. He attended the public schools of Wilmington and
Wilmington College. When a young man he became a timber
buyer for his father. Finally he and his brother, Frank,
were taken into the lumber business with their father under the firm
name of J. M. Richardson & Sons, and carried on a wholesale
hardwood-lumber business, handling fancy lumber for a number of years.
when the father retired from business, handling fancy lumber for a
number of years. When the father retired from business the two
sons continued under the old firm name. Jonathan M. Richardson
owned two hundred acres of land at the edge of Wilmington, and his sons,
who inherited the farm jointly, manage it together, as well as the
lumber business.
In August, 1777, Frank Richardson was married to
Jessie Crute, who was born at Waverly, Pike county, Ohio,
daughter of James and Ruanna Crute, both of whom are deceased,
and to this union two children have been born, Nellie, who
married George Preston, and Mary, who is living at home
with her parents. Frank Richardson is a Republican and
served four years as a member of the Wilmington city council.
Fraternally, he is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
James E. Richardson, who was born on Apr. 20,
1850, attended the public schools of Wilmington, and learned the
carpenter's trade after finishing his education. He became a
lumber buyer for his father under the firm of J. M. Richardson &
Sons, and is now in joint partnership with his brother, Frank, in
the management of the farm which they inherited from their father, on
which they keep some splendid draft horses and also raise Wilkes-bred
trotting horses, and are accustomed to sell the colts at a good profit.
The Richardson brothers also raise Poland China hogs and
registered Jersey cattle.
James E. Richardson was married on Feb. 7, 1889,
to Minnie Ferguson, who was born in Warren county, Ohio, daughter
of James and Anne (Seaman) Ferguson, both deceased. Mr.
and Mrs. James Richardson have no children.
Frank Richardson lives in the brick house on
West Locust street, in Wilmington, which his father built, and which is
a splendid example of his wonderful workmanship. It is finished in
fine cherry, mahogany and black walnut, all woods having been taken from
Clinton county's forests. The Richardson family is rightly
held in high esteem in Clinton county where the various members of the
family are well known. For generations representatives of this
family have been highly educated, cultured and refined people, men who
have taken a commendable part in the development and progress of this
great county.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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WALTER G. RICHARDSON.
Walter G. Richardson, now a well-known and prosperous young
farmer of Vernon township, this county, was born on Aug. 2, 1870, in the
township where he is still living, a son of the late Charles Pierson
and Jane (Villars) Richardson, the former born in Cincinnati, on
Mar. 15, 1840, and the latter on the old Villars homestead in
Vernon township, on Dec. 7, 1832.
Charles Pierson Richarson was widely known
during his life as one of the successful farmers of Clinton county.
He began life with one hundred acres of land inherited by Mrs.
Richardson, and gradually added to this tract until at the time of
his death on July 12, 1894, he was the owner of four hundred and
thirty-five acres of splendid land in Vernon township. He was a
son of Pierson Jackson and Elizabeth (Skillenger) Richardson,
the former born in 1815 in Genesee county, New York, who died on Dec.
17, 1902, and the latter born on Apr. 27, 1814, in Cincinnati, Ohio, who
died on Oct. 3, 1883. Her parents were natives of Germany.
Charles Pierson Richardson was a farmer and specialized in
pure-bred live stock and kept road-bred horses of the Wilkes and
Hambletonian breeds. He also made a specialty of raising
Shropshire sheep and Shorthorn cattle. After his death his widow
moved to Wilmington, where she now resides with her daughter, Bessie.
Before her marriage, Mrs. Richardson was Jane Villars, the
daughter of James and Frances (Gregg) Villars, the former of whom
was born on Oct. 28, 1800, in Jefferson township, Greene county,
Pennsylvania, and died in June, 1890, and the latter of whom, here
mother having died when she was a child, was reared by Mrs.
Woodmansee. She was a daughter of George and Margaret
(Wiley) Gregg. Charles P. Richardson was married to Jane
Villars on Oct. 3, 1865. James Villars was a son of
James and Rebecca (Davidson) Villars. Charles P. Richardson
and wife were the parents of nine children, three of whom, Howard,
Horace and Lillie, are deceased. The living children
are: James Pierson, Jr., Charles Hinkle, Walter G., Frances
Elizabeth, Herman and Bessie. Mrs. Richardson is a
member of the Methodist Protestant church.
Walter G. Richardson was reared on his father's
farm, receiving his education in the public schools and in the
Wilmington high school, from which he was graduated in 1895. He is
a farmer by occupation and lives in Vernon township on his mother's farm
of one hundred and twenty-five acres. He is a well-known breeder
of Shorthorn cattle.
On Jan. 29, 1903, Walter G. Richardson
was married to Edna Hadley, who was born on Mar. 28, 1873, in
Adams township, this county, daughter of Harlan H. and Susanna
(Kimbrough) Hadley, the former of whom was born on Oct. 21, 1833, in
Adams township, and the latter, on Nov. 15, 1836, on Cabin creek, in
Indiana. Mrs. Richardson's paternal grandparents were
Jonathan and Rebecca (Harvey) Hadley, the former of whom came from
North Carolina in 1810, and who died in Vernon township in 1879, at the
age of eighty-seven. His wife died in 1876, at the age of
eighty-three. Mrs. Richardson's maternal grandparents were
Thomas and Elizabeth (Hiatt) Kimbrough, pioneers in Clinton
county, the former of whom came from North Carolina and the latter, from
Virginia. He died in 1883, at the age of eighty-three, and his
wife lived to be the same age, her death occurring in 1885.
Mrs. Richardson is one of five children born to her parents, the
others being Ella Bevan, Atwell Miller, Isaac Parker, and
Horace Allen.
To Walter G. and Edna (Hadley)
Richardson three children have been born, Ruth Eleanor, born
on July 21, 1904; Horace Hadley, June 4, 1908, and Esther
Rebecca, Oct. 5, 1911.
Mrs. Richardson's maternal grandmother,
Elizabeth Hiatt, came on horseback from Virginia to this county in
1812, with her parents, Jesse and Martha (Stuyvesant) Hiatt.
Her paternal grandfather, Jonathan T. Hadley, came on horseback
from North Carolina in an early day and entered land from the government
in Clinton county.
Walter G. Richardson is a Republican, but he has
never taken an active interest in political affairs. He and his
family are earnest members of the Methodist Protestant church, in which
they are actively interested.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 707 |
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LEWIS M. RILEY
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 779 |
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THOMAS H. ROADS
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 905 |
Mr. & Mrs.
Nathan Roberts
Residence of
Miss Lida Roberts |
NATHAN ROBERTS
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 864 |
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DANIEL A. J. ROBINSON
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 501 |
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JOSEPH W. ROBINSON
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 895 |
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JAMES A. ROLSTON
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 920 |
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JOHN R.. ROLSTON
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 928 |
Matthew Rombach |
MATTHEW ROMBACH
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 496 |
Clifford Rolston
&
Mr. & Mrs.
John B. Rolston |
JOHN R. ROLSTON
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 928 |
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JOHN R. ROSS
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 843 |
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WILLIAM K. RUBLE, M. D.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 558 |
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FELIX RUDE
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 821 |
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PETER RUDE
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 815 |
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W. P. RUNK
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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CHARLES S. RUNYAN
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 965 |
Addison Peale Russell,
LIT.D. |
ADDISON PEALE RUSSELL, LIT.
D. One of the greatest men which Wilmington and Clinton
county, Ohio, ever produced was the late Dr. Addison Peale Russell,
editor, statesman, critic and author. Wilmington people esteemed
Doctor Russell for all of the public distinctions which he
brought to the city, but they loved him for himself. Handsome and
courtly in appearance, he was the most genial of companions and the most
faithful of friends. During the long years of retirement he lived
a social life in the highest and bet sense of the term. As doctor
Venable beautifully expressed it - "at leisure, but never idle," the
late Dr. Addision Peale Russell belong to that school of writers
produced in the Ohio valley, whose works constitute its chief claim to
distinction in a literary way. Associated with the Hon.
Addision Peale Russell, who was called the "Washington
Irving of the West," were Col. Coates Kinney, Prof. William H.
Venable, Cincinnati's Arnold of Rugby, and Mr. John James
Piatt, Cincinnati's Thoreau.
Addison Peale Russell, who was secretary of state
of Ohio during the governorship of Salmon P. Chase, and who was
several times in the company of Abraham Lincoln, was born in the
house now occupied by Harry Dailey on Main street near Mulberry,
in Wilmington, Clinton county, Ohio, Sept. 8, 1826, and died at his home
in Wilmington, Wednesday, June 24, 1912, in the eighty-sixth year of his
age. His father was of Revolutionary stock and his mother came
from the Scottish clan, McNabb. His death came not from the
effects of disease so much as the natural and inevitable passing of all
things earthly. During the last year of his life he was
practically blind, but he went about familiar streets and mingled with
his friends. During the declining years of his life he was
faithfully cared for by the untiring ministrations of his niece,
Clara Russell Burns.
The first work of Doctor Russell as an
author was a volume published anonymously by D. Appleton &
Company, entitled "Half Tints: Table d'Hote and Drawing-room." A
few years later Hurd & Houghton, of New York, published his
"Library Notes," which eventually went into a second edition. His
third book, "Thomas Corwin: a Sketch," volume to his "Library
Notes,: entitled "Characteristics" was published by Houghton,
Mifflin & Company. In 1887 appeared anonymously a volume of
essays, entitled, "A Club of One," which had an immense sale in this
country and abroad. In 1890 he published "In a Club Corner," and
in 1895 his last work, "Sub Coelum: A Sky-built Human World."
Addison Peale Russell was a son of Charles
and Mary (MacNabb) Russell, the former of whom was born at Harper's
Ferry, Virginia, July 2, 1794, and died, April 16, 1872, and the latter
of whom was born on the Isle of Man, Dec. 15, 1795, and died, Sept. 25,
1862. They were married May 15, 1815. Charles Russell
was the son of William and Jane (Sewall) Russell, the former of
whom was born Mar. 19, 1756, and died Nov. 25, 1829, at the age of
seventy-eight years, and the latter of whom was born Oct. 15, 1767, and
died Sept. 28, 1814. They married June 21, 1795. Both
parents of Charles Russell were born in Virginia, and about 1800
emigrated to Warren county, Ohio, and settled there. The father
was killed in a barn raising. Doctor Russell's maternal
grandparents were John and Catherine (Warnock) MacNabb, who were
born in Scotland and who emigrated from Scotland to the Isle of Man,
where he was a linen draper and dealer. Later they settled in
Virginia. Catherine (Warnock) MacNabb was a granddaughter
of Lord Warnock, of Scotland.
On May 16, 1815, Charles Russell arrived in
Warren county, Ohio, from Virginia. He had been brought by his
parents. He was an ambitious lad and wished to obtain a good
education. He chopped wood to earn money to buy a new dictionary.
He was married in Warren county, and with his wife moved to Wilmington,
where he built a woolen-mill, which is still standing on the corner of
South and Burdsall streets. For many years he operated this mill,
and finally failed in business because he had let his name to the
security of a friend's note. He was a strictly temperate man who
never touched liquor or tobacco, which was a remarkable thing for the
day and generation in which he lived. He and his wife were members
of the Methodist church. He was a great class leader and a
splendid singer. Charles Russell was an ardent Whig.
Charles and Mary (MacNabb) Russell had nine
children. J. Warnock, the eldest child, died at the age of
twelve. Jehiah L., who was born, Dec. 31, 1817, and died
Jan. 10, 1890, was married Jan. 12, 1841, to Mary Ann Crosby, a
native of Mason county, Kentucky, born on July 4, 1817, and died Sept.
18, 1892. Jehiah L. Russell was born at Lebanon, Ohio.
He was a physician by profession and studied at Cincinnati, and finally
at the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. He began
practicing at Lebanon, Ohio, and from Lebanon removed to Covington,
Ohio, and from Covington to Maysville, Kentucky, where he practiced
almost until the time of his death. He was an active Democrat.
Both he and his wife were members of the Christian church. He
served as clerk of the court in Clinton county, Ohio, when a young man.
Jehiah Russell and wife had four children, namely: Laura,
married David S. White, and they live on a farm in Kentucky;
Alice, married Sidney C. Neal and lived in Washington, D. C.,
but is now deceased; Jehiah, Jr., died at the age of eighteen;
Clara is referred to elsewhere in this sketch.
Amanda, the third child of Charles and Mary
Russell, was born Jan. 12, 1820, and married Jackson Marble.
They lived in Wilmington. He was a cabinetmaker and well-to-do.
Charles C. and William MacNabb were twins, born on Feb.
22, 1824. Charles C. married Louisa Moorehead and
was a banker in Zanesville, Ohio. William MacNabb, who
married Elizabeth Allen, a native of New York, was a physician
and lived at Port Gibson, Mississippi. They had one son, Irwin,
born at Port Gibson, who became a writer of prose and verse, especially
in Negro dialect. Irwin died in New Orleans at the age of
twenty-seven. Addison P. was the sixth child.
Phineas, died unmarried. Catherine, born on Sept. 15,
1831, died unmarried. Mary Elizabeth married Samuel
McQuilty, a blacksmith, and lived at Middletown.
Dr. Addison Peale Russell's great-grandfather on
his paternal side came from Ireland to America about 1720. He was
more of an Englishman, however, than an Irishman. A carpenter by
occupation, he was a large, fine looking man, and died about 1766.
Doctor Russell's great-grandmother on his paternal side was also
an English woman, and the mother of one daughter and four sons.
Mary, the eldest, married James Cowan about 1770.
Thomas, the eldest son, settled in the state of Georgia about 1786,
and nothing further was ever heard from him. William, who
was Doctor Russell's grandfather, was born in 1756, and at twelve
years of age was bound out as an apprentice to Adam Hope, in New
Jersey, were he became a wood-worker. As a skilled workman he made
many of the early spinning wheels used in his community and state.
He served in the War of the Revolution as a member of the militia from
Somerset county, New Jersey, and was a private. He also was in the
company of Capt. Jacob Martin, a battalion of the second degree,
establishment of the Continental line, from Somerset county, New Jersey.
Moses and Charles, the younger sons, settled near
Gallipolis, Ohio, and lived to very advanced ages.
On his maternal side Doctor Russell's
great-grandfather's name was Timothy Sewell, a strongly built and
powerful man, nevertheless kind and peaceful and a friend to everyone.
He died in 1807. He had one brother and two sisters. The
great-grandmother Sewell's maiden name was Tullis.
She was the eldest of a large family of twelve brothers and three
sisters, and died at an advanced age near Wilmington. Most of the
members of this family died in Ohio. Jane (Sewell) Russell,
who was Doctor Russell's grandmother, was the eldest of a large
family. Her sisters were Sarah, Mary, Hester, Hannah and
Nancy, and her brothers were Moses, Peter, Rion, David and
Amos. Jane (Sewell) Russell was an exceptional woman.
She was unusually talented as a conversationalist.
The education of Addison Peale Russell was
limited to the common schools, which he attended in Wilmington.
When he was sixteen years old he was indentured to a printer in the
office of the Zanesville Gazette, and in 1845 became editor and
publisher of the Hillsborough News, a Whit newspaper.
Two years later he removed to Lebanon, and was there connected with the
Western Star. These associations with the political press
led to his appointment as clerk to the Ohio state Senate in 1850.
Upon returning to Wilmington he purchased a half interest in the
Clinton Republican and in 1855, while editing the paper, was elected
by the Republicans of Clinton county as a member of the state
Legislature. He served as representative for two years, and in
1857 was elected secretary of state by the Republicans. In 1859 he
was re-elected to this office. During his administration the
statutes of Ohio required a financial agent for the state to reside in
New York City, and in 1862 Doctor Russell was appointed to this
important position by Governor Todd, and re-appointed in 1864 by
Governor Brough. He was again re-appointed in 1866 by
Governor Cox. In 1868 he retired from the public service with
an unstained and untarnished record.
Drawn naturally toward literary pursuits, Doctor
Russell had been a reader and writer from the time he was a small
lad.
In 1867 appeared "Half Tins' Table d'Hote and
Drawing-room" from the press of D. Appleton & Company.
Eight years later appeared the first edition of "Library Notes,"
published by Hurd & Houghton, of New York. This volume
gained a wide reputation and was commended uniformly for tis value and
interest. The first edition was soon out of print and soon after a
second edition, revised and enlarged, was published by Houghton,
Mifflin & Company of Boston. "Library Notes" was described as
"a sort of banquet of books, the author acting the part of symposium
with easy grace, now and then dropping a keen remark, or making a
comprehensive summary of his own." In 1881 appeared from the press
of Robert, Clark & Company, of Cincinnati, "Thomas Corwin:
a Sketch." This was a "brief sketch of a great genius by an
acquaintance and and admirer." the volume avoided a tedious
recital of dry fact and uninteresting incidents, and was confined to
statements, references and illustrations, such as to give a fair idea of
Corwin's character and genius. In 1884 appeared "Characterists,"
published by Houghton, Miffin & Company, which was well received,
not only in America, but in Great Britain. In 1887 appeared
anonymously, "A Club of One." Under the disguise of invalidism the
author indulges himself with the privilege of very free writing, witty,
quaint, keen, ponderous and most genial. Styles fascinating,
anecdotes, witticisms, epigrams abound, and all sorts of subjects are
discussed with ability of a high order. Altogether the volume is a
group of very charming essays. Three years later appeared the
companion volume, "In a Club Corner," published by Houghton, Mifflin
& Company, which the Philadelphia Press declared was "brighter
than its predecessor." Five years later was published "Sub Coelum;
a Sky-built Human World." This was a fanciful description of a
highly-improved human society, but really a strong protest against the
apparently growing materialistic and socialistic tendencies of the day.
It was an original work and many readers and some critics pronounced it
the author's masterpiece.
In 1894 Doctor Russell was elected a
member of the Author's Club of New York City. In 1898 the Ohio
University at Athens conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of
Literature. In December, 1910, he was elected a member of the
Author's Club of London, England.
On the occasion of Doctor Russell's eightieth
birthday he received from the well-known Davis Wasgatt Clark, of
Cincinnati, the following letter:
"My Dear Friend: Hail to you as you come to be, as
Oliver Wendell Holmes puts it, 'eighty years young.' I
belonged to you before you ever saw me! It was by that inaudible
and invisible proprietorship which the true author has in his true
reader. But far thro' memory will shine that day of first personal
touch. With best wishes. Ever your affectionate admirer.
Davis Wasgatt Clark
Of the late Doctor Russell, Dr. William
H. Venable, the author of "A Dream of Empire," wrote in the Ohio
Educational Monthly in October, 1901: "I may say that Doctor
Russell's books are obvious growths - results of many years' study,
observation and reflection. Of his processes, little or nothing is
known; indeed he has said he hardly knows them himself. In
assimilation he has been likened to Bayle, who had 'the art of
writing down his curious quotations with his own subtle ideas.' In
the analogical, there seems to be no limit to his range and ability.
It is only after a close study of his books that one can have any
intelligent comprehension of their scope, and the universality of their
application to life in every phase of experience, effort and
development."
It was Dr. Addison Peale Russell's niece,
Clara, the daughter of his brother, Jehiah L. Russell, now
Mrs. Clara Burns, who cared for him during the last five years of
his life. Before that his home was cared for by Mrs. Katherine
Worster, the daughter of Mrs. Jackson Marble, his sister.
Clara Russell was married on Jan. 16, 1900, to
James M. Burns, who was born near Steubenville, Ohio, Nov. 14,
1837, and died on June 14, 1906. James M. was the son of
Thomas and Sarah (McKinley) Burns, both of whom were born near
Steubenville, Ohio. Thomas Burns was a potter and had a
large pottery and brick-yard near Steubenville. He also operated a
large livery stable. He and his wife were members of the Methodist
church. James M. Burns was educated at Beatty College in
Steubenville, and became a proof-reader and printer in Wheeling and
later worked in Cincinnati. Subsequently he removed to Maysville,
Kentucky, and after his marriage lived in Alleghany. He was a
member of the Methodist church. For a few months he served in
Gen. Lew Wallace's regiment of "home guards" during the Civil War.
Mrs. Burns received a good education, having
been enabled to attend college in Cincinnati. Later she taught
private students in her home in Maysville, Kentucky, for seventeen
years, and then became a private tutor in Cincinnati. when a young
woman she had attended the Science Hill "Seminary, in Maysville,
Kentucky, and had never been a student in the public schools.
After her husband's death she made her home with the late Doctor
Russell, and was one of his favorites. At his death she inherited
his home and estate in Wilmington, where she is still living.
Mrs. Burns' mother was Mary Ann Crosby, whose parents were
John and Nancy (Colvin) Crosby, the former of whom was born in New
Jersey and the latter of whom was born in Maryland. They settled
in Mason county, Kentucky, where he was a farmer.
Mrs. Burns is a cultivated and refined woman,
who is well known and widely admired by the people of Wilmington and
Clinton county. Her beloved uncle, who never married, who brought
honor and distinction to the Russell family as well as to the
great state where he lived and worked, is gone, but his influence goes
on in the hearts not only of the members of his immediate family but of
those who come under the influence of his gracious personality. He
was a noble man and a noble citizen.
There hangs in Mrs. Burns' parlor an oil
painting of Doctor Russell by Charles T. Weber, of Ohio
valley artist, dean of the Cincinnati artists. The painting
received favorable notice in Cincinnati, Boston and Paris.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 664
SHARON WICK'S NOTES:
There is a portrait of Addision P. Russell in this history but the copy
I have is not clear at all. It is best you contact the Historical
Library in Clinton County, Ohio and request a good copy of this
portrait. ~ sw.
The following found in Ohio State Journal dated July 29,
1857: The Xenia Torch Light is in favor of
nominating Addision P. Russell, Esq., editor of the Clinton Co.,
Republican for Secretary of State.
The following found in Springfield Republican, Massachusetts, dated
Sept. 12, 1915: FROM THE GOLDEN BOOKS - The Religion of the People
of Sub-Coleum. That charming essayist, the late Addison P.
Russell, is perhaps best known by his "Library Notes," discursive
rambles in the work of books, through "A Club of One: Passages from the
Notebook of a Man who might have been sociable," is the most delightful
of his writings. Al of them are on the Houghton Mifflin list even
yet, we believe, and "Sub-Coelum: a Skybuilt Human World." is - what
shall we call it? - not a utopia, for it is so nearly what our familiar
human world is that in reading it one wonders why our human world is not
as perfectly sky-built. The picture of the religion of the Sub-Coelumites
is just the simplest that could be drawn. - simple and sufficient to
live by and die by: and yet what an amount of unnecessary lumber
it dispenses with! Therefore it is well to to read something of
it: - etc. etc. (no family data here)
The following is found in the Cleveland Leader, Ohio, dated Jun. 21,
1864: FROM COLUMBUS [Special Dispatch to the Cleveland Leader.]
Columbus, June 20. The Governor has re-appointed Addison P.
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