BIOGRAPHIES

Source: 
20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio
and representative citizens
Publ: Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., by James R. Lytle 
1908

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DR. C. C. RANSBURGE came to Delaware about the same time (1831?), and became a partner of Dr. Pickett, but soon retired from ill heath.  Some of his descendants are yet living in this locality. Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle ~ Page 347 (NOTE:  This biography was just after the biography of Dr. Charles H. Pickett)

DR. KINGSLEY RAY came first to Worthington in 1820, and then here in 1837.  He graduated at Berkshire, Massachusetts.  Notwithstanding his superior qualifications, he never succeeded here very well in the practice.  In 1848 he moved to Circleville, Ohio, where he had a large business for many years before his final call. Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle ~ Page 347

SHERMAN REID, a prominent representative of the business interests of Delaware, until recently engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery line, on North Sandusky Street, was born in 1867,  in Union County, Ohio, where he was reared, and educated, and first entered into business as a grocery clerk.      Mr. Reid came to Delaware when about twenty years of age, and for two years was a clerk in a grocery store.  He then embarked in the same line, in partnership with ex-Postmaster L. Potter, the firm name being Potter & Reid, which continued for fourteen years.  After Mr. Potter retired from business in order to enter the political field, Mr. Reid continued the business alone, handling a large trade both retail and wholesale, and having traveling representatives.  He has recently retired from the grocery business, having sold his interests to the Kirchner Brothers, and is about to engage in other business.  He is interested also in real estate at Delaware, Columbus, Marion, and other points, and in addition to these interests, he is a director of the Standard Novelty Company, the Mahoning Oil Company, and other enterprises.      In 1888, Mr. Reid was married to Emma Burns, of Union County, and they have five children, namely:  Lelia Pauline, George Clifford, Percival B., Frederick Sherman, and Richard Everett.  Mr. Reid and family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church and he is a member of its Board of Trustees.  His fraternal relations are with the Knights of Pythias and the sons of Veterans.  Mr. Reid takes a good citizen's interests in civic matters and has served on the City Council. Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle - Page 501

DR. J. ROBINSON was born in Union County, Ohio, and educated at Dover.  He read medicine in Ohio Medical University, and graduated from there in 1904.  He began the practice at Ostrander, Ohio, and removed to Bellpoint.  He was married to Miss Edna Green, who died in 1906.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and K. of P. Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle - Page 365

HENRY M. ROGERS, a representative farmer and successful stock-raiser of Genoa Township, residing on his well-improved farm of 136 acres, was born in Genoa Township, Delaware County, Ohio, and is a son of Jeremiah H. and Sarah (Prosser) Rogers.      The Rogers family is of Scotch-Irish extraction.  It was the great-grandfather, Bixby Rogers, who came from Pennsylvania to Ohio, as the pioneer of the family and after serving as a soldier in the War of 1812, in the following year entered land in Delaware County which he cleared and occupied until his death.  He married in Pennsylvania and became the father of five sons, two of whom subsequently owned and cleared farms in Genoa Township.      Samuel Rogers, grandfather of Henry M., was born in Pennsylvania, Aug. 26, 1804, and hence was nine years old when he was brought to Delaware County, where the rest of his life was spent.  He taught the district school during young manhood and also engaged in farming.  He continued to live on the homestead until 1846, when he bought 50 acres of the farm in Genoa Township now owned by his grandson, Henry M., which he cleared and partly improved.  In Genoa Township he married Sarah Closson, who was born in Pennsylvania and was a daughter of Daniel Closson, who was born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 19, 1794, and who was a pioneer settler of Genoa Township, to which he came in 1818.  He took up a farm which was then covered with timber and which he cleared.  He brought with him three children and seven more were born in him in Genoa Township.  In 1850 he moved to Illinois, where he died nine years later.  One son, Jeremiah H., was born to Samuel Rogers and wife.  In politics, Samuel Rogers was a Democrat.      Jeremiah H. Rogers was born Jul. 3, 1832, in Genoa Township.  He attended the district schools and grew to manhood on his father's farm.  In 1851 he was married in Genoa Township to Sarah Prosser, who was born in Pennsylvania, Mar. 6, 1833.  There were nine children born to this union - seven sons and two daughters - namely:  George A., William Clark, Charles Daniel, Henry M., Samuel L., John P., Stephen H., Dora J. and Mary L.  Like his father and grandfather, he was a stanch supporter of the principles of the Democratic party.     Henry M. Rogers obtained his education in the district schools of Genoa Township.  When he was 17 years of age, he left home and from that time on made his own way in the world.  He purchased his present farm from his father and has made most of the substantial improvements on the place.  He carries on general agriculture and raises quite a large amount of valuable stock.      On Mar. 25, 1883, Mr. Rogers was married to Laura J. Meeker, who was born at Galena, Delaware County, being the second of four daughters of Wickliff C. and Mary L. (Cunningham) Meeker.  Mr. Meeker came to Delaware County in boyhood and was reared by his uncle.  Victor Arnold, and learned the tanning business which he followed in connection with farming.  He was married a second time and reared seven children by that marriage.  When Mrs. Rogers was 13 years old she went to reside in the home of her aunt, Margaret Yates, and she was educated in the schools of Delaware and Galena, and prior to her marriage taught school for two years.  She is an intelligent, well-informed lady.  Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have three children - Leonard G., born Jun. 20, 1884; Edna G., born Dec. 15, 1892; and Monna M., born Apr. 25, 1895.  Mr. Rogers and his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow and politically he is active in the Democratic party. Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle - Page 741

DR. D. R. ROSS was born in Saratoga County, New York, in 1842.  He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1867, and located in Kilbourne the same year.  He married a daughter of John Matthews in 1868.  In 1872 he moved to Martinsburg, Virginia.  He is the chief surgeon of the B. & O. R. R. for that division.  He served during the war in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment.  During the war he was a prisoner in Andersonville Prison for for over ten months. Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle - Page 368

ARCHIBALD H. RUTHERFORD, a leading citizen of Concord Township, owns about 512 acres of fine Ohio land, 100 of which is situated in Morrow County, 262 acres in Liberty, and 150 acres in Concord Township, Delaware County.  Mr. Rutherford was born in Fairfield County, Ohio Sept. 23, 1833, and is a son of Henry and Ruth (Vanmitre) Rutherford.  His paternal grandfather was Archibald Rutherford, who settled in Fairfield County prior to 1821.  Archibald served as a soldier in the War of 1812.      Henry Rutherford was born in Virginia in 1801, and grew to manhood in that State, where he married Ruth Vanmitre, who was born there in 1804.  After removing to Ohio, they settled in Fairfield County, where they remained for a number of years.  Subsequently they removed to Delaware County, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1892.  His wife was aged 82 years at her death in 1890.  Their children were: Mary Ann, who married Thomas Hess, is deceased; Abraham, who is deceased, is survived by his widow; Isaac, who married, first, Sarah Webster and, secondly, a Miss Merrill; and Archibald H.      Archibald H. Rutherford came to Delaware County about 1848 and through boyhood and manhood assisted his father to clear the pioneer farm.  The father, who was a shoemaker by trade, needed the help of his sons when the heavy clearing of the land became a necessity, and the subject of this sketch remembers that he hewed every log that went to the building of the first house on the farm. The present residence, which succeeded the old log one, was built about the close of the Civil War.  For a few months the subject of this sketch attended the district schools.  On the death of his father, which occurred in 1892, Mr. Rutherford inherited One-half of the home farm, he earned his first money by raking wheat for his grandfather Rutherford, working by the day and month at fifty cents per day, and afterwards receiving $10 to $12 per month until his marriage.  He then bought 50 acres of wild land and set to work to bring it into a state of cultivation.  His entire time since has been spent in farming and stockraising, and as already noted, he has attained a gratifying success.  Each year has seen the amount and value of his possessions increased, and he is the more to be congratulated in that his present prosperity is the result of his own persevering industry backed by sound judgment.      On Sept. 29. 1858, Mr. Rutherford was married in Concord Township, to Eliza Jane Glazer, a daughter of William and Matilda (Warner) Glazer.  Her father was born in Pennsylvania and her mother in Maryland.  They settled, at an early day, near Norton Center, in Delaware County, and both subsequently died there.  Of their children to reach mature years: William, now 80 years of age, resides at Norton Center; Bennett is deceased; Mary Ann is the widow of Lewis Case and lives at Cleveland; Marian, wife of James Mark, lives in Missouri; and Eliza J. is now Mrs. Rutherford.  Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford have been the parents of the following children: Mary Ann, who married Marion Jones, resides in Concord Township and has seven children—Martha, Ruth, Henry, John, Mary Etta, and May and Jay (twins); Eugenia, who married Edward Kent, resides in Concord Township and has two children—Lura and Esther; John, who married Mary, daughter of James Mattox, resides in Morrow County and has four children—Harry, Lloyd. Archibald and Charles; Martha, who married William Hall, resides in Liberty Township and has two children—Bessie and William; Thomas, who married Edith Blaine, resides at Hyattsville and has two children—Frederick and Paul; Jessie, who married Frederick Harter, has two children—Dalton and Morris; Lee. who married Eva McComber, resides with his father and they have one child—Marshall; and Bennett, Peter and Ruth, are all deceased.  Until after the birth of four children, Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford lived in Liberty Township.  He purchased his farm in Concord Township during the Civil War.  He has continued to buy land, considering it one of the safest of invesments.      In politics. Mr. Rutherford is a Democrat.  for a time he was connected with the Grange but at present belongs to no fraternal organization.  He is a citizen of high standing in Concord Township and his judgment is consulted when matters of importance to the community are brought forward. Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle - Page 754

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