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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Defiance County, Ohio
containing a History of the County; Its Townships,
Towns, Etc.;
Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and
Prominent Men; Farm Views; Personal
Reminiscences, Etc.
Published at Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co.
1883
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Hicksville Twp. -
DR. B. M. RAKESTRAW was born at Goshen,
Columbiana County, Ohio, Dec. 19, 1818, of Quaker parents,
Levi and Rebecca Rakestraw. He was raised on a farm;
what schooling he received being at the Quaker school at Goshen.
In his twentieth year, he studied dentistry with Dr. Thompson,
but did not long pursue this avocation, entering in his twenty
third year, upon the study of medicine with Dr. B. D.
Williams, of Reedtown, Seneca Co., Ohio. In 1846, he
removed to Hicksville in his twenty-seventh year. He has
remained there ever since, chiefly engaged in the practice of
medicine, at which he obtained a good reputation. Of late,
his specialty has been the subject of cancer and its cure.
Politically, he commenced acting with the Democrats in
1841, but in 1852 transferred his allegiance to the Republican
party, with which he has acted ever since. The platform
that nominated Pierce in 1852 at Baltimore, aroused his
antagonism to the Democrats by coming in contact with his
abolition instincts. The Doctor united with the Methodist
Episcopal Church in 1861, to which he still belongs.
Dr. Rakestraw's habits are exceedingly regular,
he being strictly temperate, never having drank a glass of beer
in his life, or offered or received from anyone anything that
intoxicates.
He has been married four times. His first wife
Esther T. Hughes, of Burks County, Penn., to whom he was
married July 4, 1840, died June 24, 1841. His next
marriage was on May 14, 1846, to Carolina G. Taylor, of
Seneca County, with whom he lived eleven years, when, like his
first wife, she died of that terrible disease, pulmonary
consumption, leaving four children - Berton W., Ann viola,
who both died in infancy, Eliza J. and Rebecca,
both living. For his third wife he married Clarissa W.
Ensign, of Lake County, on Jan. 28, 1858, but Mar. 6, 1859,
she died leaving a little girl, four days old, now living at
Clinton Junction, Wis. His present wife of Miss C. A.
Alberton
As a professional man, the Doctor has always been
ready to give his time and skill to the care of the afflicted,
and not being at all of a grasping deposition he has often
failed to receive his proper reward. On Jan. 9, 1879, he
delivered the address before the District Medical Association at
Hicksville, which is replete with noble and eloquently expressed
thoughts.
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page 305 |
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Defiance Twp. -
JOSEPH RALSTON
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page 228 |
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Farmer Twp. -
DR. J. J. REYNOLDS was born in Henry
County, Ohio, Mar. 26 , 1854, and attended lectures at Detroit,
Mich., in 1877 and 1879, and graduated at Detroit; read medicine
under Dr. J. H. Bennett, of Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio;
came to Farmer Center in May, 1879, and entered into practice,
married Miss Mary Duncan of Detroit, Mar. 16, 1880.
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page 271 |
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Mark Twp. -
GEORGE N. RICE was born Feb. 26, 1829, on
the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, ten miles above Cincinnati.
In 1830, his parents, Payne and Margaret Rice, moved to
Woodstock, Champaign Co., Ohio, and the next year moved to Logan
County, into the woods, where they had to meet the hardships of
pioneer life, going thirty miles for milling. They
remained but a few years in this locality, and in 1835 moved to
Union County, Ohio, and located in Liberty Township, where they
remained till 1844, when they again returned to Logan County,
and after getting settled, where burned out and the children had
to go to school in winter barefoot. Mr. Rice was
married, Apr. 30, 1849, to Miss Sarah Ann Beighler of
Union County, Ohio, and located in said county for a time.
Nine children were born to them, as follows: Sarah M.
(dead), Jonathan D., Eliza J. (dead), Mary
A., Celia R., George C., Ida Pearl, Hattie (dead) and
Netta He removed from Union to Logan County, and ran a
cabinet shop there from 1855 to 1861. At the breaking-out
of the war, Mr. Rice enlisted on the first call for
three-months' men, and next on Nov. 22, 1861, for three years'
service as Sergeant of Company H, Eighty-second Regiment Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, which was organized at Camp Simon Kenton, in
Hardin County, Ohio. Next January they were forwarded to
Grafton, W. Va., and from that time Mr. Rice was in many
bloody engagements, among which were McDowell, Cross Keys, Cedar
Mountain, second Bull Run and Antietam. In December, 1862,
he was one of a squad left at Fairfax Station to guard supplies,
and while on their way to Fredericksburg, he was captured at
Occoqua Ferry by Wade Hampton, and was obliged to march four
days and nights without food on their way to Libby Prison, where
227 were put in one room. They were paroled out two months
thereafter and were exchanged June 1, 1863. He was in the
Gettysburg fight of July 1, 2 and 3, 1863. He was
transferred to Hooker's brigade. Was at Lookout Mountain
and Mission Ridge. Was with Gen. Sherman at
Knoxville, who raised siege in front of Burnside in 1864.
He was in all of the battles under Sherman from there to
Savannah, at which place he was discharged, January, 1865, and
returned home to Union County and came to Defiance County in
1868 and located in Hicksville Township. In 1878, he moved
to Mark Township and located on Section 29, and engaged in
lumbering, carrying on his farm in Hicksville Township.
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio -
Published at Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page 321 |
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Farmer Twp. -
MRS. LYDIA RICE, widow of Dr. Oney Rice,
was born in Bennington County, Vt., Nov. 20, 1808, and came to
St. Lawrence county, N. Y., with her father, Aaron Barrows
and Huldah Langdon his wife, in 1813, and there,
having married Dr. Oney Rice, Jr. Nov. 10, 1831 (Rev.
Mr. Cannon having performed the marriage ceremony), came to
what was then Farmer Township, in Defiance County, Ohio, in
1836. The family of John Rice, Laura Hopkins,
Oney Rice, Sr., came in June, 1836. The families of
Oney Rice, Sr. Jacob Conkey and wife, William G.
Pierce and wife, Randall Lord and wife, entered the
township at the same time. The township was organized in
the fall. Dr. Oney Rice and family settled on
Section 21. The Doctor built a log cabin, in which he and
his family lived. The settlers were Edward Lacost, John
Rice, Spencer Hopkins, Harrison Conkey all came and helped
raise his cabin. It was of split logs, for the upper and
lower floor, made of basswood logs, and window frames and sashes
bought in Defiance; the door was made of pine boxes. The
cabin was about the third raised in the township, that of Mr.
Wartenbe being the first. The Doctor continued to
practice until July, 1848 and had a great ride in the county and
in the adjoining parts of Indiana. The only rival he had
was Dr. Ladd, in Clarksville. He (Dr. Ladd)
died about 1870, near Clarksville. Dr. Rice kept up
a large practice until he was compelled to suspend the
increasing labor. He was about fifty-one years old in
1848, when he died. His family, Uretta M., Ellen A.,
Hiram F., Aaron A., all living. Hiram was in
the war of 1861-65. He was wounded in August, 1862, and
came back in July, 1865. He was wounded in the right hip
bone in the battle of Dallas, Ga. The limb injures him
when he plows and it is easily lamed. Mrs. Rice is
now seventy-five years old, and resides with her son at the old
homestead. Mr. Oney Rice served as Justice of the
Peace, and was appointed the first Postmaster at Farmer Center;
was also a Commissioner of the county, and one of the founders
of the Universalist Church in this township. Was a man
greatly respected and esteemed by all who knew him.
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page 270 |
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Defiance Twp. -
LAY WHITNEY RICHARDSON
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page 225 |
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Farmer Twp. -
SUSANNAH RIDENOUR was born Oct. 13, 1811,
in Frederick County, Md., and came to Harrison County, Ohio,
with her father, Daniel Helbert and Catharine Helbert,
her mother. She married John Ridenour Jan. 29,
1839. He removed to Jefferson County, Ohio, and remained
two years, and then to Wayne County, where he remained five
years, and in 1845 removed to Farmer Township, on Section 18,
where Mrs. R. now resides with a daughter, Mrs. Aaron
Sellers. Mr. John Ridenour died Nov. 11,1860, aged
fifty-three years. His family was Alfred, Augustus L.,
Rebecca, Martha, Lowman, David, Daniel, Darius, Margaret J.
(dead), Ralha, Anne (dead). She is a member
of the Lutheran Church, and has been since she was fourteen
years of age. She has been a widow twenty years, and in
raising her family saw many hard times. Her sons are all
grown and married.
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page 270 |
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Defiance Twp. -
JOHN ROWE
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page 249 |
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Defiance Twp. -
CHARLES V. ROYCE
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page 212 |
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