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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
of
COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876
by William E. Hunt. -
Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers
1876
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ROBERT
M. LAMB was from Eastern Virginia. He came to
Coshocton, and was employed as miller in the Coshocton Steam
Mill, about 1834; afterward, as one of the Union Mill Co.,
was concerned with the building and running of the Union
Mill, in lower Roscoe. He went to California in 1849,
and died of cholera in San Francisco the next year, in the
forty-first year of his age.
He married a daughter of Dr. S. Lee, and by her
had three children, two of whom, Mrs. J. M. Thompson
and Miss Emily, are residents of Coshocton; the
third, Mrs. Barse, living at Michigan City, Indiana.
Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO
1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert
Clarke & Co., Printers - 1876 - Page 249 |
DR.
SAMUEL LEE was for more than sixty years a resident
of Coshocton. He was born, and spent his boyhood, on a
farm near Pultney, Vt. Having studied medicine at
Castleton, Vt., he came to Ohio in 1809 on invitation of,
and along with, Rev. Timothy Harris, of
Granville, Licking county, who was then minister of the
church of Granville, and had gone to visit his friends in
the east, and act as a sort of emigration agent. The
trip to Ohio was made on horseback. The
Doctor was always specially interested in horses, and once
remarked that the first thing he ever owned was a horse, and
he guessed it would be the last thing he would give up.
After he had been in Granville about two years (in which
time he married Miss Sabra Case, who was an help-meet
indeed, and who preceded him to the grave some three years),
he came to Coshocton on the hunt of an estrayed or stolen
horse. The town was then a mere hamlet, and wanted a
physician, and he removed at once. Practice was then
no play. A ride of forty miles in visiting a patient
was of common occurrence. The perils and exposures of
the new country gave the Doctor plenty of work, and his
originally vigorous constitution and active habits were
heavily taxed, and drafts made upon them bearing heavily
upon his later years. For years before his death he
was much crippled and very hard of hearing. He died at
the house of his son, Dr. S. H. Lee, on the 19th of
March, 1874, having completed within four days his
eighty-ninth year.
Dr. Lee had undoubted adaptations for his
time and place. The roughness and freedom and economy
of pioneer life did not misfit him. He was very
genial; could tell a good story, and crack a joke with the
jolliest of the men and women of his day. He used to
tell with zest how he had taken aback some old ladies who
had been summoned to attend a young unmarried woman who had
been "unfortunate," and was then in straits, by proposing
very gravely "a corn poultice," a favorite application of
that day, and pretending that he did not understand the
case, being misled by the fact that the woman was an
unmarried one.
His patriotism and philanthropy are pleasant things in
the remembrance of his friends. Although holding
public office but twice—that of county treasurer, in very
early days, and that of State senator in 1826-27—he was
always interested in public affairs. While an intense
hater of the system of slavery, he was anything but bitter
to those who were entangled, by their birth and
surroundings, in that system. There are abundant
evidences of his friendly disposition in his readiness to go
on their official bonds, and otherwise stand for his
neighbors. His conscientiousness and diligence in his
profession none have questioned. He had a
quick-wittedness and strong common sense that often stood in
lieu of profundity of attainment. Among those with
whom he had to do, he could, with a lancet and a little
calomel, and jalap and a corn poultice, effect all that many
now-a-days can do with the nicer instrumental appliances and
amply furnished apothecary shops. He was not what
might be called a scholarly man, but always the friend of
intelligence. The first school-house built in
Coshocton was on a site granted to Dr. Lee and
his associates. By industry and economy he always
lived comfortably, and at his death left a considerable
portion.
He really reared two sets of children—his own and those
of his daughter who married Robert M. Lamb—beside
having some care over the children of another daughter,
Mrs. Jamieson.
The Doctor, at an early day, owned almost the entire
square bounded by Fourth, Fifth, Main, and Walnut streets.
He had a farm just east of town; but his residence was for
the most of his life in the brick house at corner of Fourth
and Main streets.
His shrewdness and strict honesty in business
transactions were prominent features in his character.
His creditors were generally few, and debtors many.
Before leaving his New England home, Dr. Lee
openly committed himself to the service of God, and espoused
the religion that stood him instead unto the last.
For adherence to his convictions of duty in a religious
way, he was well known ; and in exhibiting gave and bore
much. For thirty-five years he was an elder in the
Presbyterian church.
Feeble in body and failing in mind, for some time in
latest years, he never forgot the Bible and his family
worship, and wanted to be reckoned a child of God.
Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO
1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert
Clarke & Co., Printers - 1876 - Page 234 |
JOHN
LOCKARD died near Chili, Sept. 20, 1868, in his
eightieth year. He was a native of county Donegal,
Ireland; emigrated to America in 1819; settled near
Steubenville, but after a few years removed to Coshocton
county.
Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO
1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert
Clarke & Co., Printers 1876 - Page 254 |
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