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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
20th Century History of
Delaware County, Ohio
and
representative citizens
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Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., by James R. Lytle
1908
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CHARLES CARLSON, one of
Liberty Township's excellent citizens and representative farmers, was
born November 23, 1842, in Sweden, where his father, Charles
Carlson, lived and died.
In 1869, when 27 years of age, Mr. Carlson
came to America and after a pause in New York, proceeded to Burlington,
Iowa, remaining in that State for five years, variously engaged. Prior
to reaching Delaware County, September 10, 1875, he had worked at
Toledo. Ohio, and for a short time he engaged in railroad work in
Delaware County, but finally worked at farming on the place on which
he has resided ever since.
On September 26, 1876, Mr. Carlson was
married to Dora Case. The grandparents of Mrs.
Carlson were Lumis and Lucinda Case and
Roswell and Nancy Tuller. Both families came to Ohio
from Connecticut and the maternal grandparents died on the present
farm, their burial being at Powell. The paternal grandparents
settled at Beechtown, Ohio, and the grandfather died at Marietta, and
both he and wife were interred in Grove Cemetery, Delaware. August
Case, father of Mrs. Carlson, was born in 1816, and died
of cholera at Delaware, Ohio, in 1854. he had the contract to carry
the mail prior to the building of the railroad to Delaware, lie
married Cynthia Tuller. who was born at Powell, Ohio, in
.1819, and died in 1880, aged 6r years. They had three sons and two
daughters, namely: Oscar, born April 6, 1840, residing at
Powell: Josephine, born February 13, 1842, married Winfield
S. Marks, residing in Liberty Township; Cicero, born June
13. 1844, is engaged in farming in Liberty Township; Mrs.
Carlson, born February 18, 1851; and Lumis, born August 2,
1854, who is a conductor on the Hocking Valley Railroad.
Mr. and Mrs. Carlson have
had five children, as follows: Cicero, born July 11, 1877, is a
conductor on the Hocking Valley Railroad, married Gertrude
Johnston and they reside at Columbus; Fred, born March 1,
1879, is in the employ of the Wells-Fargo Express Company, at Chicago;
Worthy, born April 9, 1881, is an employe of the Hocking Valley
Railroad; Victor, born February 18, 1884, is also with the
Hocking Valley system; and Guy, born June 16, 1888, who died
September 28, 1888.
Mrs. Carlson has resided on the present
home farm, containing 147 acres, since she was eight years old, and
Mr. Carlson has resided here since 1875. In 1882 the
comfortable residence was built and many improvements have since been
made. Mr. Carlson is a member of Powell Lodge, No. 4,
Odd Fellows, and of Powell Lodge of Knights of Pythias. His eldest
son, Cicero, is a Mason. In politics, Mr. Carlson votes
independently, doing his own thinking and supporting the candidates
who, in his judgment, will best carry out the laws. The family is one
which stands very high in general esteem in Liberty Township.
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DR. ELIJAH CARNEY was
from Kentucky. He settled in old Berkshire in 1835. He
and Dr. Ralph Hills entered the profession about the same
year, the latter in Delaware. There are many yet living in the
county, and especially around Berkshire, who well remember old
Dr. Carney. His wonderful ability and ways gave him the
entire business for many miles in and around the village of
Berkshire. He graduated at the Cleveland Medical College.
His attention to his patients, his industrious and studious habits,
as well as his sympathetic power, gained him the confidence of the
people. He died in1869, leaving numerous relatives in this and
Morrow Counties.
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HOMER McKENDREE
CARPER was born in Licking County, Ohio, July 24, 1826.
He died at Delaware, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1895, having almost completed
his three score and ten years when called to his final reward.
He was the son of Rev. Joseph Carper, a minister of the
Gospel in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He received his
early education from the teachings of his mother and in the public
schools. He was a student for a short time in the Ohio
University at Athens, Ohio. In November, 1844, he entered the
Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and completed a
classical course, and was graduated with honors in 1848. His
attachment for his alma mater lead him to locate in Delaware and he
afterward became a member of the Board of Trustees of his chosen
university and was its trusted counsel at the time of his death.
Mr. Carper studied law at Lancaster, Ohio, under
the tutorship of those great masters of the profession, Thomas
Ewing and Hocking H. Hunter, and was admitted to the Bar
in the year 1850, having imbibed from these eminent teachers, the
great principles of the law, which he ever afterward taught and
followed. He settled in Delaware and commenced the practice of
his profession as a partner with Hon. James R. Hubbell, then
a leading member of the Delaware County Bar. At the end of
three years this partnership was dissolved and a new one was formed
with Hon. Thomas C. Jones, which continued until Mr. Jones
was elected Judge of the Common Pleas Court. In the year 1862
he came associated with Hon. J. D. Van Deman in a partnership
which continued for a period of almost thirty years. By the
time Mr. Carper had obtained a sufficiency for the support of
himself and family and he gradually retired from active practice and
often refused to accept new business. A few of his clients,
however, clung to him and insisted upon his legal services when they
needed a counsellor or had important litigation. One of those
clients was the C. C. C. & St. L. Railway Company, which he had
served as counsel for many years.
Mr. Carper had few aspirations for official
honors. He declined a nomination for the Common Pleas Bench in
the year 1881, although urged to accept by the members of the
Delaware County Bar. He was however a delegate from this
congressional district to the National Republican Convention which
nominated Benjamin F. Harrison for President of the United
States. He served Delaware County for two terms as prosecuting
attorney. Mr. Carper, like many of the older school of
attorneys, was well versed in the common law. He argued from
its principles and presented his cases to the court and jury upon
its theories and precepts rather than from cases cited. He
was, therefore, what would be styled an elementary practitioner
rather than a case lawyer. He was a man of great scholarly
attainments and he drew about him a circle of admirers who delighted
in his conversation. He enjoyed his home to which he was
greatly attached, and he rarely spent an evening away from his own
fireside. MR. Carper died very suddenly and his death created
a great chock in the community. The Bar in which he had been
so long a prominent figure adopted a memorial which was spread upon
the court records as an inspiration to his brethren and fellow
members of the Bar.
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CICERO T. CARSON was born
on the farm on which he now resides, in Concord Township, Delaware
County, Ohio, February 23, 1837. He is a son of William and Eliza
(Thompson) Carson, and a grandson of Samuel and Abigail
(Black) Carson.
The Carsons came to Delaware County among the
pioneers and Samuel Carson acquired a large body of land in Ohio,
amounting to about 1,200 acres. He was a soldier in the War of 1812.
He died December 25, 1834, in his sixty-second year. He married
Abigail Black, who died March 22, 1838, in her fifty-sixth
year. William Carson, the father of Cicero T.,
was born in March, 1802, before the family left Pennsylvania, and he
died in Delaware County, Ohio, May 9. 1873, in his seventy-second
year. He was the eldest born of a family of five sons and two
daughters, the others being: Mary, who remained unmarried;
Samuel, who went to California in 1849, was killed in Oregon, by
the Indians; John B., who married Jane Carson, of
Chillicothe, moved to McLean County, Illinois, where he died; James,
who married Isabella Johnson, moved to the vicinity of
Topeka, Kansas, where he died; Joseph M., who married Anna
Mary Isenberg, died in Delaware County; and Nancy
Jane, who never married. All members of the above family have
passed out of life.
William Carson was a small boy when his
parents came to Ohio and settled first at Chillicothe, in Ross County.
He was 19 years of age when his father settled on the east bank of the
Scioto River, opposite to the present State institution, the Girls
Industrial School. When William Carson married he brought his
bride to the house in which they thereafter lived and where their
children were all born. They were six in number, two of whom
died in infancy. Cicero T. was the second born in the family
and the others who survived were: Joan Abigail, Mary E. and
William W. Joan Abigail was married (first) to Thomas
B. Johnson and accompanied him to the South, where he died
prior to the Civil War. She returned to Delaware County and was
married (second) to John H. Shearer, who was then the editor of
the Marysville Tribune, to which his son, John Shearer
succeeded. Mary E. Carson was married (first) to
Edward Goddard, of Lexington, McLean County, Illinois, and
(second) to Dr. James Southard, of Marysville, and is the widow
of the latter. She resides on Oak Street, Columbus, Ohio. William
W. Carson married Rebecca Chenoweth, and he is
survived by hi» widow and one son and three daughters. The son
conducts the Hocking grocery store at Delaware.
Cicero T. Carson attended school at Delaware,
Ohio, until he was 14 years of age, and when 17, he went to Memphis,
Tennessee, and subsequently took a business course at the Male High
School, in Germantown, Shelby County, Tennessee. He remained in .that
State for two years and then returned to the North and became
bookkeeper in the Marysville Bank. After a business experience of two
years he spent one year in the university at Delaware. In 1860 he went
as far west as Atchison, Kansas, where he was engaged in teaching
school when the Civil War broke out. He remained there for two years,
during this period having enjoyed the privilege of casting his vote in
favor of the admission of Kansas as a State of the Union, and voted
for Abraham Lincoln, which was his first vote, and then
returned to Ohio and took up his residence on the farm where he now
lives. After his return he entered the Federal Army, enlisting in
Company K, One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, with the rank of sergeant. This regiment was stationed at
Fort Tillinghast and witnessed the first work done on Arlington
Heights, in preparing the beautiful grounds for a sacred resting-place
for the Nation's slain. He remained in the service until the close of
the war and was honorably discharged at Camp Chase, at Columbus.
On December 24, 1874, Mr. Carson was married to
Carrie Yeend, who died March 2, 1900. She was a most
estimable lady, one whose many personal attributes endeared her to all
who knew her. She was born at Cheltenham, England, and was a daughter
of John R. and Mary (Swain) Yeend. When she was seven years of
age, her parents came to America and settled in Geauga County, Ohio,
where she was reared and educated. She was appointed the first matron
of the Girls' Industrial Home, and she continued in that position for
five years. Having no children of their own, Mr. and Mrs.
Carson adopted an orphan babe, Minnie C., when she was but
three days old, whom they reared to happy womanhood. She subsequently
married Elijan Howard and they have one daughter,
Carrie Lillian.
Mr. Carson has been engaged in
agricultural pursuits ever since his marriage. Shortly after that
event he purchased a farm of almost 300 acres, in Delaware County, on
which he resided for over 20 years, but sold that property in 1903,
and then moved back to the old homestead, where he still continues to
farm, in association with his son-in-law, Elijah Howard.
The Springview Methodist Episcopal Church, in Concord
Township, was named by Mr. and Mrs. Carson, it being
chosen on account of its proximity to the White Sulphur Springs.
During the years following its founding Mrs. Carson was
a very active member and she and Mr. Carson started the
Sunday school which was the real beginning of the church which was
later erected. Mr. Carson remains one of the church
trustees. Both he and his wife were interested in the Liberty Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry, and assisted its early efforts very materially.
Mr. Carson takes no active part in political campaigns.
Source: 20th century history of Delaware
County, Ohio and representative citizens -
Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle -
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JOHN H. CARTER,* a
representative agriculturist of Marlborough Township, Delaware
County, Ohio, who, with his brother William, owns and
operates the Carter Brothers' farm, a tract of 640 acres of
excellent land, was born May 23, 1836, in Belmont County, Ohio, and
is a son of Hugh and Nancy (Cash) Carter.
Hugh Carter was born in Washington County,
Pennsylvania, in 1807, and as a boy came to Ohio with his
parents, settling in Belmont County, where he was reared to manhood.
In 1837, after his marriage, he removed to Troy Township, Delaware
County, where he became an early settler, and there the remainder of
his life was spent, his death occurring Dec. 25, 1888. Hugh
Carter was a hard-working and industrious farmer, and his
passing away lost to Troy Township one of its representative men.
John H. Carter was about nine months of age when
taken by his parents from Belmont County to Delaware County, and
here he was reared and received his education. Since attaining
his majority he has been engaged in farming and stock-raising, and
with his brother William operates the well-known Carter
Brothers' farm of 640 acres, one of hte most valuable in
Marlborough Township. In political matters Mr. Carter
is a Republican. With his wife he attends the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Norton, Ohio.
On Oct. 14, 1866, Mr. Carter was married to
Elizabeth Mayfield, who was a daughter of James and Jane
Mayfield (both now deceased), who were former residents of
Marlborough Township. There were four children born to Mr.
and Mrs. Carter, two of whom survive - Mary, who is the
wife of Watson Shaw, resides at Butte, Colorado; and
William C.
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BRUCE
CHARLES, an enterprising citizen of Thompson Township, who is
doing a prosperous grist and sawmill business, and also runs a cider
press, was born in Harrison Township, Licking County, Ohio, August 17,
1854, son of Simon and Amanda (Channel) 'Charles.
His paternal grandfather was one of the first settlers
in Licking County, there being but five others there when he arrived.
About the same time there arrived in Harrison Township. Solomon
Channel, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Charles.
SIMON CHARLES, father of
Bruce, was born in the State of New Jersey, and came to Ohio
with his parents. In 1859 he purchased the mill now owned by the
subject of this sketch. It had been built in 1834 by Roswell
Fields, from whom it passed into the possession of his son,
Samuel Fields, who sold it to Mr. Charles,
and it is still known as the Simon Charles Mill. The millwright
was Henry Waits, who became of unbalanced mind and one
of whose peculiarities it was to imagine that all the mills he had
built were his own personal property. He used frequently to visit
Mr. Charles, always carrying with his boot-jack, and
also a pole with a hook on the end for pulling people out of the
water. The sash, saw upright, and gearing that are still in the mill
were put in by Henry Waits 74 years ago. The framework,
hewed sills and braces, and the siding of black walnut, is all his
work, also the machinery, except two wooden cog-wheels. During the
Civil War Simon built the residence in which his son Bruce
now lives, the entire building, including 24 doors, being all of black
walnut. He was well qualified for such an undertaking, as he was a
cabinet-maker by trade and also a maker of caskets for burial
purposes. He manufactured the casket in which Waits was buried.
In the prosperous days of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal he spent 11
years at Warren, Ohio, engaged in building canal boats. He was a
member of the Grange and in politics a Democrat. His death took
place about 30 years ago. By his wife Amanda, daughter of
Solomon Channel, he had 11 children, nine of whom were born
in Licking County. Two were born in this (Thompson) Township, namely:
Stephen Charles, who died about fifteen years ago
and who was a partner of the subject of this sketch, and Almeda,
who married O. D. Browning, and died March 13, 1908. Of the
others, Caroline was accidentally burned to death at the age of
17 years; Griffith died from diphtheria in 1867; Bruce
is a miller of Thompson Township and the direct subject of this
article; Frank died from diphtheria at the same time as
Griffith—1867; James, the only living full brother of
Bruce Charles, resides in Gallion, Ohio, and is a freight
conductor in the employ of the Erie Railroad.
The mother of the above mentioned children died in
March, 1867, and Simon Charles subsequently married for
his second wife Mrs. Armentrout of Licking County. Of
this union there is one child, William Simon Charles,
who is a printer residing in Spokane, Washington.
Bruce Charles was five years old when he accompanied his
parents to Thompson Township, and he has ever since resided here. He
distinctly remembers helping to drive the cows from the old home when
the family made the journey here in wagons. He was early initiated
into the milling business, and for many years was a useful assistant
to his father. On the latter's death he came into possession of the
mill property, which he has since conducted and greatly improved,
having installed modern machinery, including a 25-horse-power steam
engine and a 14-horsepower gasoline engine. He owns in all about 90
acres of land, including the mill property which covers 11 acres. In
addition to the original milling plant he has installed a powerful
hydraulic cider-press. These enterprises are ail in flourishing
condition, due to Mr. Charles' capable business
management. In politics he is a Democrat and he belongs to the Modern
Woodmen, having first joined the order at Warrensburg but being now a
member of the Camp at Prospect.
Mr. Charles was married, December 9,
1881, to Miss Mary Love, a daughter of Leonard Love.
Mrs. Charles's father died when she was four years old.
Her mother was in maidenhood a Miss McVeigh. The
household of Mr. and Mrs. Charles has been enlarged by the
birth of four children sons and one daughter, namely: Blanche,
who married six years ago William Hansome, of Magnetic
Springs, a conductor on the Magnetic Spring Electric Road, and has a
daughter—Lucille; Carl, residing at home: Earl, residing
at home, who is assisting his father in the mill; and Melvin.
who is attending school.
Mrs. Charles died in March, 1908, at the
age of 49 years, rive months and 21 days.
Few women in the community were more highly esteemed. She was a
faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which she joined in
Fulton Creek Chapel, subsequently becoming a member of Thompson
Chapel. In the winter of 1907-08 she spent four months in Tryon, North
Carolina, with the view of benefiting her health, which had become
impaired, and when she started on her journey 40 or more of her
friends and neighbors accompanied her to the train to bid her
farewell. While in Tryon, her active, helpful disposition prompted her
to organize the Aid Society, the first of its kind organized in that
place. She always took an active part in church and missionary work,
and for two years was superintendent of the Sunday school. Her loss
was deeply felt, not only by her husband and children, but also
throughout the community at large, the members of which realized that
a true Christian woman and a kind and hospitable neighbor had passed
from among them. Her memory will long be kept green in the hearts of
her many friends.
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REV. IRA CHASE
was born at Bangor, Maine, on the 12th day of April, A.
D., 1809. His progenitors were of English origin and came from
the nobility of England. His family still have in their
possession the design of their coat-of-arms. The motto
inscribed thereon is "Ne cede malis," "Never yield to
discouragements," which seems to have been a prominent
characteristic of the family and was very marked in the subject of
this sketch. The early history of the Chase family in
America dates back to the year 1630, when three brothers,
William, Thomas and Aquilla, landed on the continent
having come here with the fleet which brought John Winthrop,
the Puritan governor of Massachusetts, to American soil. In
1639, two of these brothers, Thomas and Aquilla,
became the first settlers of Hampton, New Hampshire. They
remained there until 1652, when Thomas died, after which
Aquilla removed to Newbury and remained there until his death.
HE left a large family of children who settled in various parts of
New England, and from this family came the subject of this sketch.
Rev. Ira Chase's father's name was Eliphalet
Chase, and he was born Mar. 26, 1775. His mother's name
was Susan Mugget, and she came from a prominent and wealthy
family of Massachusetts. His parents were married May 1, 1794,
and were both devout members of the Episcopal Church. They had
a family of ten children, some of whom died before they arrived at
their majority. The father was a merchant in Bangor, Maine.
After his death the family removed to the4 West. One of the
older brothers, John M. Chase, settled in the State of
Michigan, where he reared a family of six sons, all of whom became
professional men, and like their ancestors were enthusiastic
politicians, one son being elected governor of Indiana.
Another brother, Rev. Ebenezer B. Chase, was a prominent
minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and traveled through Ohio
and will be remembered by many as one of the most eloquent and
zealous preachers in the Ohio Conference. He married Miss
Catherine Rosecrnas, a sister of the late Bishop and General
Rosecrans. The youngest brother, Silas H. Chase,
graduated from the Medical College in Cincinnati and later completed
a course in law, after which he located in the above city where he
became intimately associated with its cousin, Salmon P. Chase,
who was United States senator, then governor of Ohio and later chief
justice of the United States. Dr. Silas Chase removed
to Washington, D. C., about the time his cousin became chief
justice, where he died while yet in the prime of life, and just
before his hopes for promotion had been realized. The subject
of this sketch was educated in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and studied
medicine for several months under the tutelage of Dr.
Russell, who of the most prominent physicians in the State.
But having been impressed, when but a boy, with the feeling that
he was called to preach the Gospel, he yielded to his early
convictions and abandoned his chosen profession and began the study
of theology. He was licensed to preach by the Quarterly
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the Ohio Conference,
when but 19 years of age, after which he continued his studies for
several years and in the autumn of 1834 he was appointed to
Greenville Circuit, Darke County, Ohio, his colleague being Rev.
William B. Christie, who later became a noted divine of the
Methodist Church.
It was during his pastorate at Greenville that he was
married to Jane Wilcox, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, who had
been spending several months in Ohio with her sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Stark, the wife of Mr. James Stark, one of the
oldest and wealthiest citizens of Kingston Township, Delaware
County. An incident occurred the day previous to his marriage,
which showed the true courage and devotion of Mr. Chase.
HE started from Greenville on horseback to meet his chosen bride in
Kingston Township. IT had been a very rainy season and when he
reached the Scioto, on the road between Marysville and Delaware, he
found the water raging and the river overflowing its banks, and
there being no bridge, he was advised that it was not safe for him
to cross, but he determined to stem the flood and he guided his
horse to land, between the two enormous boulders, on the east side
of the river. He had failed to land between these two
boulders, both rider and steed would have perished. But Mr.
Chase arrived safely and was married on the eleventh day of
June, 1835, according to promise.
Mr. Chase's next appointment was Medina, in the
Western Reserve. While traveling on this circuit he land as
his colleague, Edward Thompson, who afterward became Bishop
of the Methodist Church. His next work was on the Norwalk
circuit, which at that time extended as far west as the village of
Toledo, Ohio, and during his pastorate there, he established the
first Methodist Episcopal Church in what is now the city of Toledo.
In his travels he was obliged to cross what was then known as the
Great Black Swamp. Mr. Chase and his ever faithful wife
made many trips together through those dangerous and malarial
regions and while there he contracted what was at that time commonly
known as "preacher's sore throat," and he was obliged to withdraw
from the active work. With the hope of being benefited by a
pure country atmosphere, he located on a farm in Porter Township,
Delaware County, Ohio. He was during this time transferred to
the Central Ohio Conference and was called to fill a vacancy at
William Street Church of Delaware, the pastor, Rev. Mr. Sawyer,
having died. Mr. Chase filled his pulpit until the next
conference. While on his farm Mr. Chase still felt a
lively interest in all public affairs and filled numerous positions
of responsibility in the county as well as in the church in the
politics of his county and State. He originally belonged to
the old Whig party, but allied himself with the Republican party at
its organization. From his Puritan training he had early
learned to view all questions in their moral aspect and so from the
beginning of his career he was the friend of the slave and during
the anti-bellum days his home became a prominent station on the
Underground Railway, and many timid and frightened fugitives were
directed from thence to the next station north and their larders
were filled with supplies for the next night's journey.
The home of Rev. and Mrs. Chase during the time
they resided on the farm was also the hostelry for Methodism in all
that part of the county. Their doors were always open to the
ministers, who would often travel many hours overtime to reach this
pleasant and hospitable home.
Rev. Ira Chase married, as above stated, Miss
Jane Wilcox, whose parents were from Rhode Island. She was
born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and later removed to Wilkesbarre,
Pa., where her brothers and purchased many hundred acres of land in
Luzerne County and owned and opened the first anthracite and mines
in the Wyoming Valley. Mrs. Chase was related by
marriage to David Livingstone, the celebrated African
explorer, and was also a cousin by birth to General and Bishop
Rosecrans. Mrs. Chase was a woman of beauty and charm and
her married life was one of happiness, unbroken, until her death
which occurred on Dec. 2, 1882, and the memory of her virtues and
charities have never been forgotten.
To Rev. and Mrs. Chase were born six children,
one son and five daughters. The eldest daughter, Elizabeth
Jane, married Doctor Philander F. Beverly, who was a
prominent physician in Columbus, Ohio, and during the Civil War he
was appointed assistant surgeon of the Thirtieth Regiment of Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. His wife was a devout and efficient worker
in the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the church and was greatly
beloved by all who knew her. Mrs. Beverly died in
September, 1895, and her husband survived her but one year, he
having died in December, 1896.
Their son, William B. Christie (who was named
for his father's first colleague in the ministry), married
Elizabeth Marshall and resides in Marion, Ohio.
The second daughter, Cornelia Ann, married
James Robert Lytle, an attorney at law, and resides in Delaware,
Ohio.
The third daughter, Elnora Edmonia, married
Gilbert M. Blackford, who was at one time a hardware merchant,
but now a traveling salesman.
The fourth daughter, Mildred Madora, graduated
from Ohio Wesleyan University and became a successful teacher in the
West, having taught in the University of Arizona.
The fifth daughter, Viola Adelthia, married
Rev. John Collins Jackson, D. D., Ph. D., who is a prominent
minister of the Gospel in the Ohio Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He has filled the most prominent pulpits in
the conference, and was called to the leading Methodist Church at
Appleton, Wisconsin, also to Jersey City and Paterson, New Jersey.
He returned to Ohio and became one of the founders of the
Anti-Saloon League of Ohio and was later elected editor of the
American Issue, the leading organ of the Anti-Saloon League of
Ohio. He is now the National Editor of the American Issue
of the Anti-Saloon League of America, with headquarters at Chicago,
Illinois. Dr. Jackson has been one of the most faithful
and courageous workers in that organization.
Rev. Ira Chase has long since gone to his final
reward, he died on the fifteenth day of September, A. D., 1887.
Prof. William G. Williams of the Ohio Wesleyan University at
Delaware (in his life sketch of Rev. Chase, in the Western
Christian Advocate says: "Rev. Ira Chase was a man
of rare virtues, patient under all circumstances, never being known
to murmur or repine. He was a quiet yet firm Christian, and as
his own religious life ripened and deepened, he felt an increasing
solicitude for those around him. His life was good and his
death was triumphant."
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DR. JAMES MORGAN CHERRY
was born in 1821 in Oswego, New York, and in 1838 came with his
father's family to Marysville, Ohio. A few years later he
studied medicine with Dr. Ross, graduating from Starling
Medical College of Columbus. Soon after he commenced the
practice of medicine at Prospect, Ohio. In 1846 he married
Miss Susannah Gooding, of Delaware County, Ohio. He moved
to Delaware in 1850, where he lived for nearly half a century.
He early united with the Presbyterian Church of which he was a most
devoted member. He died in 1898.
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ELIHU
CLARK, retired farmer and veteran of the Civil War, is a
well-known resident of Ashley, Ohio. He was born in the
northwestern part of Oxford Township, Delaware County, Aug. 9, 1837,
and is a son of Isaac and Clarissa (Gale) Clark.
ISAAC CLARK, father of Elihu, was born in
New York State and at an early date came west to Ohio, locating in
Oxford Township, Delaware County, on what was known as the Henry
Foust farm, and near there he owned a tract of 50 acres on which
he resided some years, then moved to the farm of 50 acres on which
his son was born. Here he resided until his death. His
union with Clarissa Gale resulted in the birth of twelve
children, of whom three survive, namely: Elihu; John,
who is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Berlin Township; and
Mary Jane, who is the wife of Edward Morgan, now living
in Kansas.
Elihu Clark was reared on the home place and
received his educational training in the common schools of that
neighborhood. He helped to clear the home property, a part of
which was heavily timbered, and followed farming until he entered
the army. He enlisted August 13, 1862, in Company D, One
Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
after a service of 10 months re-enlisted in Company F, of the One
hundred and Twenty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
He continued in active service until the close of the Civil War, and
participated in many important engagements, among them Cedar Creek,
Petersburg and Sailor's Run. He was in the Army of the
Potomac, and in the summer of 1864 was with General Sheridan's
forces in the Shenandoah Valley, and was with General
Grant's through the Virginia campaign. He participated in
the Grand Review at Washington, D. C., and was then mustered out and
discharged in July 1865.
After returning home he remained until the following
spring, after which he followed general farming on the second
purchase of his father and with much success. In 1882 he
erected a handsome brick residence in which he lived until 1899,
when he sold his property and moved to Ashley, buying a small home
there. He in now living in retirement in the enjoyment of a
well earned rest after years of activity.
October 10, 1863, Mr. Clark was united in
marriage with Miss Margaret Felky, a native of Delaware
County, Ohio, and they became the parents of three children, as
follows: Eva, deceased, who married Byron
Porterfield, left two children, Vita and Fay;
Josephine, who married William Morehouse of Columbus, has
two children, Pearl and Verner; and Chesley,
who lives in Ashley, married Bertie Vining and has two
children. Merle and Lloyd. In 1885 Mr.
Clark has deprived of the companionship of his beloved wife and
helpmeet by death. Politically, he is a Republican. He
is a member of J. E. Coomer Post, No. 281, G. A. R., at Ashley.
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DR. COBART located at
Cheshire in 1889; but remained only a few months when he entered the
regular army.
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DR. M. M. COCHRAN was
located in Lewis Centre from 1889 to 1892. He read medicine
with Dr. J. W. Russel, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and graduated
from the Starling Medical College. He died at Independence,
Ohio, a few years ago from diphtheria.
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Capt. Elias Cole |
CAPT. ELIAS COLE
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TITUS KING CONE, a leading
citizen of Thompson Township, was born on the old mill property on
which he resides, July 9, 1846, and is a son of John W. and Mary
(Williams) Cone.
Cephas Cone, the grandfather, was of New England origin.
His parents at one time resided in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, from
which region they came, at an early day. to Delaware County, Ohio.
They were among the earliest settlers in Kingston Township. Cephas
Cone married Almira Munson, a daughter of William
Munson and a descendant of a Captain Munson, who came from England to
America in 1637.
John W. Cone, father of Titus King Cone, was
born in Delaware County, Ohio, January 6, 1809. He learned the trade
of a woolen mill worker and after following the same in various
sections, in 1831, he located at Delaware and shortly afterward rented
a woolen mill which he operated for several years. In 1838 he
purchased the farm which is now the property of Titus King Cone, and
here he built a woolen and a saw-mill. The land was heavily timbered
when he came to it and in clearing and cultivating his farm and in
actively pushing his mill and other interests, his time was fully
occupied into advanced age. He died November 24, 1891. In politics he
was a Democrat and on account of his sterling character he was
frequently chosen for offices of trust and responsibility in the
township, by his fellow citizens. He married Mary Williams,
who was born in Cardiganshire, South Wales, in 1814, and died in Ohio
in 1885. Of the 13 children of this marriage eight sons and four
daughters grew to maturity.
Titus King Cone attended the
district schools through boyhood and the Radnor High School, and spent
a short time at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, in the
spring of 1867. After he returned home he continued working on the
farm during the summers and in the woolen mill during the winters
until the mill was burned in 1874, after which he gave his attention
exclusively to farming. After his marriage he resided on a farm in
Thompson Township located one mile west of his present property. His
father was a large land owner, having 600 acres in Delaware and 160
acres in Wyandot County, and when he died, in the division of the
estate the present farm came to Titus King, on which he
settled in 1902. He has here no acres, on which he carries on mixed
farming, raising considerable grain and some excellent stock. Mr.
Cone and his brother, F. P., are the only
representatives of this old pioneer family of the township now
residing within its borders.
On April 2, 1885, Mr. Cone was married to
Alice Detwiller, who is a daughter of John and
Mary (Ely) Detwiller. John Detwiller was born in
Switzerland and his wife in Pennsylvania. The maternal grandfather of
Mrs. Cone was Benjamin Ely, who, at one
time, kept a grocery store at Delaware, where he died. Mr.
and Mrs. Detwiller lived on a farm one-half mile
from that of Mr. Cone.
In politics, Mr. Cone, like his father,
has been a supporter of the Democratic party since he reached manhood,
but has never taken any very active part in local campaigns. His main
interests are centered in his home and farm.
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Ashton Stover Conklin |
ASHTON STOVER CONKLIN
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A. V. CONKLIN. M. D., a
leading citizen of Troy Township, where he owns a valuable farm, 100
acres of land, well-improved and under thorough cultivation, Ins been
prominently identified with the Eclectic School of Medicine, in Ohio,
since he received his degree in 1860. He assisted to organize the Ohio
State Eclectic Society and was its first vice-president, and served
also as the president of that important medical body. Dr.
Conklin belongs to an old pioneer family of the State. He was born
in Morrow County. Ohio, November 21, 1832, and is a son of Jacob
and Orra (Payne) Conklin.
The parents of Dr. Conklin were of new
England birth, his father coming from Vermont and his mother from
Connecticut. Jacob Conklin was a soldier in the War of
1812, and alter its close, in 1814, he settled first in Delaware
County, Ohio, and later moved to that section which became Morrow
County, where he died in 1875.
Dr. Conklin was reared in Morrow County and
enjoyed educational advantages at Mt. Hesper Seminary, following which
he taught school for some years, in this way providing for his own
professional education. He was graduated from the Eclectic Medical
Institute at Cincinnati, in i860, and practiced subsequently at Waldo
and at South Wood-bury, in 1875 coining to Delaware County. For many
years Dr. Conklin was one of the leading medical
practitioners in this section and few men are better known. Public
affairs and-local good government have claimed his attention, in the
light of good citizenship, and he has long been identified with the
Republican party, with strong views in favor of temperance.
On November 12, 1861, Dr. Conklin
was married to Maria Hull, who was born in Marion
County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Nathaniel and Nancy (Wyatt)
Hull, both of whom died in Marion County. Dr. and Mrs. Conklin
have two children: Prof. Edwin G., Ph. 1)., a member of the
faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, filling the chair of
Biology; and Eva C, who married Charles Page,
residing at Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. and Mrs. Conklin are members of the Asbury
Methodist Episcopal Church, at Delaware, he is identified with several
leading fraternities and has been an Odd Fellow since 1856 and a Mason
for about 37 years.
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JUSTINE COOK
is said
to have been a very bright young man, who developed great hopes in
the mines of his friends for a resplendent professional career, but
they were disappointed by his early death, which occurred about the
year 1828.
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DR. H. N. COOMER
was born
in Ontario County, New York, in 1817. He read medicine in his
native State, and was engaged in a fair practice up to the time of
his death. He was a regular attendant of the State and County
Medical Societies for many years. He died from general
breaking-down a few years ago.
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Fleetwood Courtwright |
FLEETWOOD
COURTWRIGHT, a prominent resident of Columbus, where he has
large and valuable real estate interests, was born on a farm that he
still owns, a Concord Township, Delaware County, Ohio, Aug. 12,
1838. His parents were John and Martha (Mitchell)
Courtwright.
The earliest Courtwright to establish
himself in the United States was Jesse Courtwright, the
grandfather, who, it appears, made the grave mistake of leaving
Canada, his native land, when war was in progress, and on that
account was not permitted to return, even after peace was declared,
although, by that time, he had made a home for himself and family in
the alien country. He settled on land in Union County, Ohio,
and lived in this part of the State during the remainder of his
life. His remains lie buried in Franklin County, Ohio.
John Courtwright, father of Fleetwood was
eight years of age when the family settled in Ohio. He
acquired a large amount of land and lived in agricultural life.
He married Martha Mitchell and they resided many years in
Delaware County and then moved to Columbus, where they subsequently
passed away and their burial was in Green Lawn cemetery, Columbus.
The only survivor of their eight children is the subject of this
sketch.
Fleetwood Courtwright attended school in the
neighborhood of his home, all through his boyhood, but he acquired
further knowledge than that found in his school books. When
only twelve years of age his father encouraged him in exercising his
pronounced business talents, and since that age Mr. Courtwright
has been more or less of a trader. When his parents
subsequently decided to move to Columbus, he made up his mind to buy
255 acres of his father's farm, which was exceedingly valuable
property. To the elder Courtwright's surprise, his son
was able to make a cash payment of $4,000, and readily gave his
notes, agreeing to pay $1,000, annually, until the whole sum of
$12,500 should be paid. In less than six months, Mr.
Courtwright had purchased 150 acres more, giving notes for the
same. His growing indebtedness greatly worried his father, but
it in no way frightened the son, who never failed to pay his notes
when they came due. This has always been Mr. Courtwright's
policy in handling business deals of great magnitude and he has been
exceedingly successful. His remarkable foresight and business
acumen have enabled him to find fortunes where less favored men
would have only met with failure. He has prospered in various
speculative lines, including real estate, wool and stock. His
present property interests are large. He owns 600 acres of
valuable farming land in Delaware, Union and Franklin Counties,
together with property in the city of Columbus to the value of
Several hundred thousand dollars. He built the large structure
that stands on the corner of Long and Randolph Streets, Columbus,
and the fine brick residence which is on the home farm, where he
passes a great deal of his time.
Mr. Courtwright was married first to Mary
Jones, a daughter of Thomas Jones, who was engaged in the
milling business in Franklin County. They had two daughters
and two sons. The latter were twins and both are now deceased.
Of the daughters, Olive and Mary, the former married a
Mr. Price, and the latter became the wife of John
Freshwater, a resident of Concord Township. At her death
Mary left one daughter - Annie - and two sons -
Elmer and Stanley Freshwater. After the death of
her mother, Annie Freshwater took charge of her father's
house and looked after the comfort of the family. Later she
became a successful teacher in the public schools of Concord
Township.
Mr. Courtwright was married, secondly, to
Jennie E. Hill, who is a daughter of Robert Hill, of
Union County, Ohio, and of this union there are three children -
Nellie, Cydie and Fleetwood. Nellie married
J. P. Stoltz and they reside in New York city, where Mr.
Stoltz owns much valuable property. They have one son,
Fleetwood Stoltz. Clydie married a Mr. Goff and
they reside at Pueblo, Colorado, where the latter is engaged in
large business enterprises. Fleetwood Courtwright, the
only son, has already demonstrated much business ability, displayed
in the management of more than one hundred thousand dollars' worth
of property with which his father has endowed him.
Mr. Courtwright has taken pleasure in providing for different
members of his family during his life time and he has not forgotten
the claims of charity and benevolence.
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OTWAY CARY COWGILL was born in Logan Co., Ohio, on the
twenty-fifty day of September, 1846. His parents' names were
Daniel and Mary (Everett) Cowgill. He
received his early education in the public schools if his early
education in the public schools of his native county. The family
came to Delaware County in the year 1859, and located on a farm in
Delaware Township, where the subject of this sketch worked on his
father's farm and attended the public schools. He attended the
Ohio Wesleyan University for about two years and then entered the law
office of Messrs. Reid and Powell, attorneys at law,
where he studied for two years and in the year 1877 he was admitted to
the Bar. He was elected township clerk of Delaware Township in
the year 1875, and in the year 1876 was elected justice of the peace,
which office he held for two terms. He opened an office in
Delaware, Ohio, immediately after his admission to the Bar and began
to practice his chosen profession. In the year 1883 he returned
to Logan County and opened an office in Bellefontaine, the county
seat, where he continued his practice for three years. He then
moved to the west and located in Sterling, in the State of Kansas,
where he died July 31, 1888.
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representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub.
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G. E. COWLES, M. D.
was born in Bellpoint in 1862. He attended Columbus Medical
College, and located for practice in Ostrander in 1889. He
married Miss Johnson in 1894. He is a member of the
State and County Medical Societies.
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G. E. COWLES, M. D.,
physician and surgeon, residing at Ostrander, was born near Bell
Point, Delaware County, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1862, and is a son of Homer
J. and Julia A. (Bean) Cowles.
During his active years the father of Dr. Cowles
engaged in farming. He is now a resident of Pittsburg.
For some fifteen years he was clerk of Concord Township and also
served as a justice of the peace. He is a member of Edinburg
Lodge, Odd Fellows, of Ostrander, being past grand of the same.
The mother of Dr. Cowles was a daughter of Hiram Bean,
a resident of Scioto Township, who was a son of George Bean.
The latter was born in Virginia and settled in Scioto Township in
1817. He founded this pioneer family in this section.
The parents of Dr. Cowles had nine children, eight of whom
grew to mature years, as follows: Samuel J., residing
at Findlay, Ohio; G. E., residing at Ostrander; Olive S.,
who is deceased; Orva A., who married N. H. White,
residing at Delaware; Frank H., residing at White Sulphur,
Ohio; Ora E., who married J. C. McCrea, residing at
Delaware; Fred H., residing at Dayton; and Oma A., who
married William H. Miller.
Dr. Cowles belongs to a pioneer family of Delaware
also on the paternal side. His grandparents were Samuel J.
and Parthenia (Ackerman) Cowles. The grandfather was
born in New York and he was brought to the Western Reserve by his
parents who were among the earliest settlers of Concord Township.
He acquired a part of the old farm and lived in Concord Township
until his death, when almost 91 years of age. His father at
one time owned the property on which the old Mill Creek mill stood.
Dr. Cowles was educated in the public schools of
Bell Point. His medical reading was done under the supervision
of Dr. J. H. Field, a well-known practitioner of Ostrander,
after which he attended lectures at the Columbus Medical College,
where he was graduated in 1889. He located at Ostrander, where
he enjoys a large and lucrative practice. He keeps closely in
touch with the advance of medical science and is a member of both
Delaware County and Ohio State Medical Societies. He has taken
a more or less active interest in county politics and in 1907 he was
elected township treasurer. For three years he served as a
member of the School Board of Ostrander village. He belongs to
Lodge No. 348, Knights of Pythias, at Ostrander.
Dr. Cowles married Hattie, daughter of
James S. and Rebecca A. Seymour, residents of Findlay, Ohio, and
they have one son, Dorence S. Dr. and Mrs. Cowles are
members of the Baptist Church, of which he is treasurer and a
trustee. He occupies a leading place among the representative
citizens of Delaware County.
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LEONARD H. COWLES.
The first lawyer to settle in Delaware County was Leonard H.
Cowles He came from Connecticut about the year 1810, two
years after the organization of the county. He was said to be
a scholarly gentleman, a graduate of Yale College and a
college mate of the late John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina.
He was said to have been one of the most thorough read lawyers of
his age. Not long after he came to Delaware he was married to
a daughter of Colonel Moses Byxbee, which brought him into
one of the wealthiest families of the county and the most of the
county. He was a scholarly own personal business, so that as a
lawyer he did not acquire as great a reputation in his professional
life as he might have done if his talents had been devoted to his
profession strictly. He was the only resident lawyer of
the county until the year 1818, and his name appears frequently on
the deed records of the county. He was a member of the
Twenty-first and Twenty-second General Assemblies of Ohio which
convened respectively on the second day of December, A. D., 1822,
and the first day of December, A. D. 1823. He is said to have
been a person of good and commanding presence, always well dressed
and gentlemanly in his appearance, and he devoted much of his time
to social life and was fond of and sociable with his friends.
He reared a large family, non of whom are living. At the close
of his life he had but little left of his large fortune.
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HOWARD CLIFTON CRANE, M. D.,
who has been continuously engaged in the practice of medicine at Eden,
for the past 14 years, was born in Porter Township, Delaware County,
Ohio, September 29, 1864. He is a son of Elbert and Ellen (Her)
Crane.
The paternal grandparents of Dr. Crane, Amza and
Ardilla (Hopkins) Crane, came to Ohio and settled in Morrow
County, in 1834. They had four sons and six daughters, namely:
Alson, Zebulon, Elbert, Washington, Mary
Ann, Sarah, Alba Cinda, Sarah (2),
Elizabeth and Jane. The maternal grandparents of Dr.
Crane were Captain William and Jane G. (Grey)
Iler. They came to Delaware County about 1833, and so wild was
all this territory that they had to cut a path through the forest in
order to reach their land in Porter Township. Captain Iler
operated a canal boat between Cleveland and Portsmouth, in 1834. There
were two daughters in the Her family, Ellen B. and Elizabeth.
The latter was married (first) to Samuel Marshall, who
died at Mansfield, Ohio, and (second) to Christopher Chase,
of Marion.
Elbert Crane, father of Dr.
Crane, was born in New York, his parents at that time being
residents of Putnam County, and he accompanied them to Morrow County,
Ohio, where they died. He still resides in Porter Township, Delaware
County, his age being 77 years. He married Ellen Iler,
who was born in Delaware County, and died January 22, 1908. They had
the following children : Alwyn M., who has been engaged
in the practice of medicine at Marion for 20 years, and is a graduate
of the Columbus Medical College, married (first) Mary Crouch,
and (second) Susan Johnson; Florence May,
who is deceased; Thurston, who manages the home farm in Porter
Township; Howard C.; William I., whose home is at Minneapolis,
Minnesota, is a traveling salesman, and married lone Oliver; Jennie
C., who was educated at the Ohio S. U. at Columbus and the O. W.
U. at Delaware, is a successful teacher in the public schools of
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; and Nellie M., who was also educated
as was her sister, is engaged in teaching at Troy, Ohio.
Dr. Crane was primarily
educated in the public schools and completed his medical training at
Starling Medical College, and was graduated in the class of 1894.
After a short residence with his brother at Marion, Dr.
Crane selected Eden as a promising field for himself
professionally, and here he has remained to the present day. He has
built up a large and satisfactory practice, to which he gives his
entire attention. Pie is a member of the Delaware County Medical
Society and of the Ohio State Medical Society. Fraternally he is a
Knight of Pythias, and is connected with Williams Lodge, No. 556. In
political sentiment he is a Democrat.
In 1903 Dr. Crane was married to
Margaret Ross, who is a daughter of Melancthon J. and
Ada (Matthews) Ross. She was born in Virginia. Her father was born
at Saratoga, New York, and her mother at Eden, Ohio. They reside in
Delaware County.
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DR. A. M. CRANE
was raised
in Porter Township. After reading medicine he located in
Kilbourne, Ohio, for a short time, when he moved to Waldo, and then
to Marion, Ohio. His brother, Adelbert Crane, who
married Miss Ross, of Delaware, a daughter of an old soldier,
took his place in Kilbourne.
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Col. James M. Crawford
Mrs. Sarah H. Crawford |
COL. JAMES M. CRAWFORD,
an honored resident of Delaware, has been identified with the
interests of Delaware County, in public office and private business,
all his life. He was born in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio, June 11,
1834, and is a son of Colonel James W. and Nancy (Stephen)
Crawford. The name of Crawford is a familiar one in Ohio
history, and has been particularly conspicuous in public and military
life. Colonel William Crawford, who was burned at
the stake by hostile Indians, on Sandusky Plain, was a kinsman of the
present representative of the name. This same Col. William Crawford
served in Braddock's army, and was Colonel of the Fifth Virginia
Regiment that served under General Washington during the war of the
Revolution. James W. Crawford, father of James M., was
an officer in the War of 1812. Two brothers served in the war with
Mexico, and two brothers and five nephews assisted, with Colonel
James M. Crawford, in suppressing the Rebellion of 1861-5. Of
these, two were killed in battle and two were mortally wounded, while
another died at the close of the war from disease contracted in the
service. Still another member—one of the younger generation—kept up
the family prestige by serving in the Spanish-American War, as a
member of President Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
James M. Crawford was reared and educated in
Delaware, where he learned the trade of painter, which he followed
until 1858. On the 1st of February, 1859, he joined with a party of
nine other men, at Galion, Ohio, who crossed the plains to the Rocky
Mountains, where he engaged in mining with various results. Returning
to Delaware in December, 1859, he there resumed his trade, which he
followed until the opening of the Civil war. Then, not content with
offering his own services to aid in preserving a united country he
exerted himself to secure the enlistment of his friends, and with such
good success that with one day's effort he raised a company, which was
organized April 16, 1861, of which he was made captain. This company
was immediately offered to the governor of Ohio, and through
Captain Crawford's energetic efforts, it became the first
accepted military organization of the State for the Civil War service.
The company, together with another Delaware County company, was
assigned to the Fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. These
Delaware companies were lettered respectively C and I, and the record
shows that the officers of Company C were the only ones commissioned
as early as April 16. 1861.
Early in May, 1861, this regiment was enlisted for the
three month' service, and before it was disbanded—in fact in June,
1861—it re-enlisted for three years. After serving with Company C
until November 14, 1862, Captain Crawford reluctantly
resigned his commission on account of severe and repeated hemorrhages
of the lungs, and returned to Delaware. As soon as his health
permitted, he entered actively into the recruiting service and so
continued until he was appointed colonel of the Ohio National Guard,
and was assigned to the duty of instructing and disciplining the
troops assembled at Columbus, in response to the Governor's call, for
the defense of the State against Morgan's raiders. In this
position Colonel Crawford won signal honors and was
complimented by the Governor as well as by the department commander.
This did not close his military career, for he subsequently enlisted
for the service of 100 days, in the One Hundred and Forty-fifth
Regiment, O. N. G., and commanded a detachment from the regiment for
garrison duty at Forts Tillinghast and Craig, which protected the
chain of fortifications south of Washington, D. C. On his return from
this service he was honored by election as colonel of the Twenty-first
Regiment. O. N. G.
In 1866 Colonel Crawford resumed work at
his trade and continued to be so occupied for a number of years. In
the spring of 1866 he was appointed United States revenue assessor in
Delaware County, and served in that office for five years. He then
engaged in a real estate and insurance business, in which he remained
interested until 1884. In the year last mentioned he and his wife were
elected superintendent and matron respectively of the Girls'
Industrial Home, and they continued, with slight intermissions, in
those positions until 1892. The records for those years show how
admirably the institution was conducted, and how thoroughly qualified
were both Colonel Crawford and his efficient wife for
the discharge of the duties they had assumed.
On his return to Delaware from the Girls' Industrial
Home, he was offered a lucrative position in Chicago, Ills. Mr. J.
K. Newcomer at that time was making a strenuous effort to organize
a local company for the purpose of building an electric railway within
the city limits. Thinking the project might prove to be a benefit to
the city, Colonel Crawford was induced to join in the
enterprise. He therefore declined the Chicago proposition, and at once
joined the promoters with his usual zeal, to help in carrying out
their plans. A company was soon organized and incorporated under the
laws of Ohio. When the company advertised for bids for the
construction of the road, he anticipating the advantages that might
accrue from the stimulus given to home labor, determined to put in a
bid. His bid, being much lower than that of any other contractor, was
accepted and the contract given to him. The work was immediately
commenced and was satisfactorily completed within the limits of the
contract.
Prior to the extension of the line into the grounds at
Greenwood Lake, Colonel Crawford endeavored to secure a
lease on the premises for the purpose of developing more fully the
natural beauty of this pleasant resort. Not being able to secure
sufficiently satisfactory terms, according to the value of the
property, upon which to base a lease, he abandoned further effort
along this line and turned his attention toward the development of the
greatest natural asset within the limits of the city.
To this end he purchased and moved into the pleasant home place
afterward known as Five Oaks, on West Central Avenue, this being in
the fall of 1892. The property purchased lies in close proximity to
the well known Indian, or Little's Springs, whose healthful
waters have inspired him to a continued effort to get his neighbors
interested with him in the development of these beautiful grounds,
whose resources seem to be beyond all present calculation. At this
writing there is an organization known as the Mineral Springs and
Sanitarium Company, of which he is president, with a capitalization of
$150,000, and with bright .prospects of realizing their plans and
seeing their efforts for the construction of the necessary buildings
crowned with success.
Colonel Crawford entered the
political arena in 1855, and has been an active worker in the ranks of
the Democracy ever since, but side-stepped in 1860 and 1864 to vote
for that greater Democrat, Abraham Lincoln, holding that he violated
no tenet of his party in so doing. He has been many times called to
the chairmanship of the County Committee, and served as a member of
the State Central Committee in 1884, when he stood Spartan-like
against the machinations of the schemers in the committee to thwart
the will of the people by placing another candidate in the field from
Ohio against Judge Allan G. Thurman, the people's choice
for the Presidency. He went to Chicago with Judge Thurman
and was selected by him as the custodian of his headquarters during
the struggle in the National convention. During the Colonel's long
service he has been frequently chosen as a delegate to Democratic
State conventions. He was a delegate to the National convention at
Cincinnati in 1868, and an alternate at the National convention at
Chicago in 1890. While Colonel Crawford has displayed
much activity in business and political affairs, his home life has
been to him the sphere in which he realized the greatest degree of
happiness, and in which he found the deepest sentiments of his nature
capable of their fullest expansion. He married in 1864, Sarah M.
Henry, a refined and accomplished lady, who was a native of Shelby
County, Ohio. When he and his good wife moved to their suburban home,
they felt that they had found a real haven beneath the trees and among
the birds—a situation in which ethical culture becomes a pleasure and
the frequent touch of Nature leads to a closer touch with the Creator.
This quiet retreat became a refuge to all who sought its hospitality
and appreciated the privilege of a free pull at the latch string, that
ever hung on the outside of the door. Many of the recipients of the
fostering care bestowed upon them in earlier years, returned, bearing
mementos of their appreciation of the kindness .and consideration
extended to them in the days of their youth. To the Colonel and his
wife these visits were like bread cast upon the waters, that returns
after many days.
This retreat was their happy home until August 15,
1903, when the deepest shadows that ever fall upon any household,
encompassed theirs. It was then that the good wife and co-worker in
public and private life, who was the light and the joy of their home
for nearly forty years passed to her reward. Her death brought grief
to all who had had the privilege of knowing her, kind and affectionate
remembrance being shown by many wards of the State upon whom she had
lavished so much sympathizing care.
Colonel Crawford remained at the old
homestead until June, 1907, when he sold his place and located on
North Franklin Street, where he now resides.
Colonel Crawford has been
financially interested in a number of important enterprises in this
section. His connection with the Delaware Electric Railroad and its
construction, and with the Mineral Springs and Sanitarium Company, has
been already noticed. He is also a director in the Citizens Savings
Bank. He belongs to Hiram Lodge, No. 18, F. & A. M., to the Chapter
and Council at Delaware, and to the Commandery at Marion. He has been
a member of the local Grand Army post from its organization. For half
a century he has been a member of William Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, and also teaches a large class in the Sunday school. He has
served as justice of the peace for two terms, commencing in 1877 and
closing in 1883; and was a member of the city School Board six years,
1894 to 1900. A man of tried integrity and public spirit, with a
readiness to sacrifice himself for the interests of others, yet of
good business ability, social in his nature, with a cheerful
disposition and kind and genial manners, such is Colonel
Crawford as his neighbors see him. The weight of years has made
little impression on him, nor ever will in any essential respect, for
he is pre-eminently one of those who may wear out but will never rust
out.
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WILLIAM F. CRICKARD. M. D.,
physician and surgeon at Delaware, has been a resident of this city
for the past 30 years, but was . born in Muskingum County. Ohio. He is
a son of James and Eliza Ann (Southard) Crickard.
The parents of Dr. Crickard settled on a
farm in Delaware County, during the latter's boyhood. In 1861 the
father entered the Federal army as wagon-master of the Eighty-second
Regiment, O. V. I., and served in the conflict for four years, fie was
promoted to the rank of second and later to that of first lieutenant,
subsequently was commissioned a captain and still later brevet major.
For two years he faced all the chances of battle. When the Twentieth
Army Corps was organized it was sent to Tennessee, and the regiment
with which Major Crickard was connected participated in
all the battles from Chickamauga to Atlanta, was at Jonesboro and with
Sherman in his march to the sea. At Savannah he was placed in charge
of 1,000 men, commissioned to take them to New York. After this
service was performed, he rejoined his regiment. Major
Crickard had a record of being in 36 general engagements, and he
did not escape injury. He received a serious wound in the elbow of his
right arm—the bullet which caused it never being extracted, and
another wound in the temple, where he was struck by an exploding
shell. His subsequent life was spent on his farm. Six of his seven
children still survive, as follows: James, residing at
Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana; John and Dr.
William F., both residing at Delaware; Malissa; Lydia,
who is principal of the North Delaware Union School; and Cora
Belle, who married Charles Copeland. and with her
husband is a teacher in the Sandwich Islands.
Dr. Crickard obtained his literary education in
the schools of Delaware, and took his first course of medical lectures
at Cleveland and his second at Cincinnati. Subsequently he took
special courses in Philadelphia and New York, being under the direct
instruction of Dr. Hearn, the first assistant of Dr.
Gross, the eminent specialist, at Philadelphia. In New York he
went before the army Examining Board and after satisfactorily standing
all tests, he returned to Delaware and has been engaged in the
practice of his profession in this city ever since. He has always been
a close student and in 1874-75 he took a special course with the
celebrated Dr. Smith, of Cleveland, in diseases of the
eye, ear, nose and throat. Dr. Crickard is a member of
the Delaware County Medical Society and of the Ohio State Medical
Society, and keeps well posted on all the advances made in his
science.
In 1881 Dr. Crickard was married to Margaret
Edwards, then of Delaware County, but a native of Racine,
Wisconsin. They have a pleasant home in Delaware and Dr.
Crickard has well-appointed offices at No. 59 North Union Street.
He is a member of the William Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
Fraternally, he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the
Eagles.
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A. S. CRUIKSHANK, who was a leading general farmer and fruit grower of
Liberty Township, owns and resides on a very valuable farm of 221
acres, this being a part of the farm of 500 acres originally secured
by his grandfather, GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, soon after the war of
1812.
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
was a native of New York and
belonged to a family that came to America in 1760. He married
Elizabeth Conway, who was born in Ireland, and they came to
Delaware County from Salem, Washington County, New York. The
property that George Cruikshank secured had been obtained
from the Government prior to this, by General Stansbury.
No improvements had been made, but a few of the trees had been
slashed to mark a path through the forest. The children of
George and Elizabeth Cruikshank were: Mary, who married
John Dutcher; William, who died young; David G., who
was born in 1808, married Eliza Eaton; Jane C., who was born
Nov. 2, 1814, married Joseph Leonard; William (2), who was
born in 1816, married Cynthia Fisher; Elizabeth, who was born
in 1819, died in 1820; George H., who was born April 4, 1821,
was the father of A. S. Cruikshank; and James, who was
born in 1823, married Lucia Kenyon.
Of his father's estate, George H.
Cruikshank owned 221 acres. He followed agricultural
pursuits until his children were old enough to require educational
opportunities, when he moved to Delaware to give them the benefits
of excellent schools and resided there for about 25 years. He
died at the home of his son, A. S., on the present farm, Jan.
10, 1902, aged 84 years. George H. Cruikshank was
married June 5, 1850, to Augusta F. Smith, who was a daughter
of Alwood Smith. She was born in 1822 and died
Dec. 25, 1899. The children of George H. Cruikshank and
wife are as follows: Harriett Jane, who was born May 4,
1851, died in 1854; Alwood Smith; George Thompson, who was
born Oct. 23, 1854, died in October, 1855; Frederick V., who
was born Aug. 10, 1856, died Aug. 27, 1856; Mary Augusta, who
was born June 25, 1858, married Rev. Edwin Brown, June 18,
1884, and they reside at Lawton, Oklahoma; Martha Elizabeth,
who was born Oct. 16, 1860, died Apr. 9, 1875; Peter, who was
born July 22, 1862, died Sept. 23, 1862; Lucy Joy, who was
born Sept. 2, 1863, married Newton H. Fairbanks and they
reside at Springfield, Ohio; and Dora, who was born Feb. 4,
1866, died July 8, 1866.
Alwood Smith was born Dec. 25, 1852. He
obtained his education in the schools at Delaware and the Wesleyan
University, and was about 21 years old when he adopted farming as
his life work. After his marriage he located on his present
farm and here he has engaged in general farming and has given
considerable attention to growing fine fruit. In 1878 he
married Viola J. Pollock, who is a daughter of S. D. and
Mary (Taylor) Pollock, of Delaware County, but formerly of Lodi,
Medina County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Cruikshank have had
four children: Alwood Pollock, Mabel Janett, Mary Augusta and
George Harvey. The eldest son was born Jan. 254, 1880.
He was educated in the common and High School at Delaware and served
in the Spanish-American War in Porto Rico, as a member of Company K,
Fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He is now engaged as
one of the engineers at the Stratford power house, for the C. D. M.
Company. He married Gertrude Snyder The eldest
daughter, Mabel Janette, was born Mar. 20, 1885, and died
while a student at the Wesleyan University, July 15, 1906. The
passing away of this daughter was a grievous affliction to the
family. Mary Augusta, born Oct. 28, 1887, is now a
student of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and George Harvey,
born Mar. 6, 1891, is a student in the Delaware High School.
The family residence was built stout and strong by the grandfather
of Mr. Cruikshank. The stone house on the farm, just
south of the residence, was erected by the father of Mr.
Cruikshank, and in it the latter was born.
In political views, the Cruikshanks have been
identified with the Republican party since its formation but in
addition to this they have been zealous prohibitionists and to such
an extent that the late George H. Cruikshank was at one time
the candidate for the State Assembly on the Prohibition ticket.
Like his father, Mr. Cruikshank is a member of the
Presbyterian Church at Delaware, in which he is an elder. He
has been active in all movements designed to promote agricultural
interests and for a number of years was a member of the Grange.
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LYMAN
JEROME CRUMB, a prosperous farmer of Delaware Township, was
born in Orange Township, Delaware County, Ohio, Feb. 15, 1857, son
of James H. and Elizabeth Martha (Faulkner) Crumb.
The father of Mr. Crumb was born in Madison
County, New York, and was 16 years of age when he accompanied his
father, Stephen Crumb, to Delaware County. In his
boyhood he drive two horses along the towpath on the canal and later
adopted farming for his life work. When 21 years old he
married and then bought a farm of 80 acres in Orange Township, from
which he cleared the heavy timber, all the work being accomplished
by his own hands. He subsequently became the owner of 180
acres, and as his means grew more ample, he invested in farm
machinery. He was a man of more progressive ideas than many of
his neighbors, and was proportionally successful. In early
life he was a Whig, but later became a Republican. He married
Martha Faulkner, and seven of their to children grew up to
maturity, namely: Mary N. who died at the age of 19
years; Eunice M., who married Gordon S. Furniss and,
with her husband, is now deceased; Lyman Jerome, whose name
begins this article; Harvey J., who resides in Lebanon,
Missouri; William B., who resides on the home farm in Orange
Township; Hiland F., who is a resident of Auburn, New York;
and Julia E., who married James Harris and resides at
Monett, Missouri. James H. Crumb was born Oct. 25,
1823, and died Jan. 15, 1890 in his 67th year. His wife, who
was born Apr. 1, 1826, survived him until January, 1900. They
were faithful and consistent members of the United Brethren Church,
quiet, unassuming, virtuous people, whose presence was a benefit to
the community in which they resided.
Lyman J. Crumb, the direct subject of this
sketch, remained on the home farm until he was 25 years old,
acquiring a good common school education and an agricultural
training that has proved of great advantage to him since. He
was subsequently engaged in a saw-mill and a tile manufacturing
business for three years, in partnership with Frank Johnson,
under the firm name of Crumb & Johnson. In 1885 Mr.
Crumb withdrew and came to Delaware, where he carried on a dairy
business for six years, during which time he had a paying milk
route, selling to private families. He had clean and sanitary
quarters at No. 55 West William Street. In 1891 he bought 50
acres of his present farm, subsequently acquiring the remainder - 65
acres, making 115 in all. He cultivates about 75 acres and
devotes the rest to pasturage, also retaining his interest in the
old homestead consisting of 32 acres. He keeps 30 or more head
of cattle, and from six to eight head of horses, raising a number
each year. His buildings, including a 120-ton silo, are
substantial and appropriate, their capacity being ample for the
needs of the farm. From 1895 to 1907 he supplied Monnett Hall
with milk, since which time he has sold to the creamery. In
1881 Mr. Crumb contracted for and built the brick school
building in Sub-district No. 10, Berlin Township.
Mr. Crumb married Ella May Besse, who is
a daughter of the late Dr. Henry Besse, of Delaware, and a
graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Class of '76.
They are the parents of three children - Stanley, Dale and
Pearl. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church.
In politics Mr. Crumb is a Democrat.
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DR. S. P. CUMMINS came
to Delaware in about 1870, from Beaver, Pennsylvania. He had a
limited practice, and died about 1882.
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GEO. CUNNINGHAM - See
JOSEPH H. CUNNINGHAM
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JOSEPH
H. CUNNINGHAM, who is engaged in the florist business in
Delaware, has been thus established in his present location on West
William Street, since 1890. He was born in Liberty Township
about three miles west of Hyattsville, son of George and Mary J.
(Harris) Cunningham. His father, a native of Edinburg,
Scotland, and a machinist by trade, emigrated to this country,
settling in Marietta, Ohio, where he followed his trade for a while,
subsequently removing to Liberty Township, Delaware County. He
enlisted in Company F, Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and died
in the spring of 1863, while serving with his regiment in the Civil
War. He was a Free Mason, belonging to the lodge of that order
at Marietta. His wife was a daughter of Joseph
Harris of Concord Township. They had two children:
Joseph H. the subject of this notice, who was born July 25,
1855, and Edward, who is now a resident of Cleveland, Ohio,
Mrs. George Cunningham died in June,
1905, at the age of about 65 years.
Joseph H. Cunningham acquired his education in
the schools of Marietta and Liberty and the old High school at
Delaware, he began industrial life in the employ of George W.
Campbell, who was formerly secretary of the Ohio State
Horticultural Society, and later its president, and who was a man
widely known in horticultural circles. Under his instruction
Mr. Cunningham acquired a thorough knowledge of
horticulture and floriculture, remaining with him until 1890, when,
as already noted, he started out for himself at his present
location. His first greenhouse was 72x20 feet. With the
gradual but steady increase in his business he enlarged his
facilities until he now has 10,000 feet of glass. He does a
general business in greenhouse, bedding and flowering plants,
shipping his floral products to all parts of the country. Few
people in Delaware realize what a complete and well ordered
establishment he has, containing every thing that can be needed for
any kind of floral decoration. His natural taste in such
matters has been cultivated and perfected by the thorough training
he received under his former noted employer, and the products of his
art, in the line of floral decorative work, in the highest degree
tasteful, and appropriate to the occasion for which they are
intended. The existence here of so complete an establishment
of this kind is another proof, added to the many contained in these
pages, that Delaware need not fear comparison with any city of its
size in all that goes to illustrate the progressive and up-to-date
character of its citizens.
Mr. Cunningham is a Republican in
politics and has served four years as a member of the City Council.
He belongs to Hiram Lodge, F. & A. M.; Olentangy Lodge. No. 53. I.
O. O. F., and to Lenape Lodge. No. 20, K. P., all of Delaware.
Mr. Cunningham married Emma J. Genier,
a daughter of John S. Genier, of France, he and his wife have
been the parents of five children, of whom four are now living,
namely: Irene M., George W., Mary M., and Jean J. The
family are members of St. Peter's Episcopal Church.
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