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History of Franklin &
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1880
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THOMAS
BACKUS was born at Norwich,
Connecticut, Aug. 8, 1785. His
father, Elijah Backus, was a
native of the same place.
After graduating at Yale college,
and being admitted to the bar in
Connecticut, in the year 1800, he
removed to Marietta, Ohio, and
engaged in the practice of the law
in partnership with Wyllis
Silliman, and established the
Gazette newspaper there,
and issued the first number Nov. 30,
1861, with Elijah Backus as
editor, who had been appointed
receiver of public moneys of the
United States. It sustained
the administration of President
Jefferson, and was the first
Democratic paper issued in Ohio.
Elijah Backus was a member of
the Ohio State senate in 1803.
Hon. Lewis Cass read law with
him, and was admitted to the bar at
Marietta. He was the
owner of the island in the Ohio
river below Marietta, which,
afterward, became celebrated as
Blannerhasset Island, he having sold
it to Mr. Blannerhasset Island,
he having sold it to Mr.
Blannerhasset. Elijah
Backus removed, in 1808, to
Ruskin, Illinois, and was Judge of
the court of claims when he died
there, in 1812.
Thomas Backus was educated in Connecticut, and
after graduating at Yale college,
returned to his father's home at
Marietta, Ohio, studied law in the
office of Backus and Silliman,
and was admitted to the bar, at
Marietta, in 1808, by the supreme
court. On Nov. 10, 1810, he
was married to Temperance Lord,
and in 1811 removed to Franklinton,
Franklin county, Ohio, and engaged
in the practice of law. In
1820 he was appointed prosecuting
attorney by the court. He
owned a large body of land, six
miles up the Scioto from
Franklinton, and was largely engaged
in real estate operations. He
removed, with his family, in 1823,
to Union, Ohio, and was there
appointed prosecuting attorney, and
during his term of office died, Oct.
25, 1825, and his wife soon after
removed back with the family to
Franklinton, and, in 1828, to
Columbus.
Mr. Backus wrote frequently for the newspapers.
He was an able and incisive writer.
He sometimes indulged i poetry.
His lines on the demolition of the
beautiful Indian mound, on the
corner of High and Mound streets,
Columbus, that was used up in the
manufacture of bricks for the first
State house, and from which human
bones were taken, became celebrated
for their pathos, and were published
i Martin's history of Franklin
county, page 51.
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History of Franklin & Pickaway
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JESSE BAUGHMAN |
JESSE
BAUGHMAN, son of George and
Barbara (Steele) Baughman, was
born in Washington county,
Pennsylvania, on the eleventh of
June, 1802. His parents were
of the well-known Pennsylvania
German blood. His father was a
carpenter, but Jesse was
brought up mainly on the farm,
giving, however, some attention to
education in the common schools of
that time. In 1805 his parents
removed to the country near New
Albany, Plain township, Franklin
County and when Jesse was
in his eleventh year, in 1812, they
again removed, this time going to
Mifflin township, where they lived
upon a farm, and where both died in
the fullness of years. Young
Baughman was married May 26,
1825 to Miss Catharine Turney,
of Mifflin, and settled on the old
farm till after his second marriage
(his first wife died Dec. 1, 1838),
which occurred May 3, 1840, and was
to Miss Mary Albery, a young
lady of a German-English family,
residing in Jefferson township, and
sister of Judge Albery,
of Columbus. He was the
founder and original proprietor of
the village of Bridgeport, which he
laid off in 1853. In 1859
Mr. Baughman built the
first grist-mill ever erected in
Mifflin township, at Gahanna, and
managed it with success until 1865,
when he sold out on account of poor
health, and afterwards did some
light labor in farming, but mostly
lived a retired, quiet life, free
from manual labor. He served
as county commissioner for Franklin
county one term - 1853-5, and was
quite often elected township
trustee, assessor, land appraiser,
and to various other minor offices.
He was one of the first to promote
the organization of the Franklin
county pioneer association, of which
he remained an active member.
He was a Democrat in politics, and a
Presbyterian in his religious
convictions, ever an active man in
church and Sabbath-school. He
died in Gahanna on the last day of
1878, much lamented by a great
number of relatives and friends.
In an autobiographical notice which
he contributed to the newspapers
some years ago, he said of himself,
and, doubtless, with the utmost
truthfulness: "In all my dealings I
have never been sued, neither have I
ever sued any one. I never
spent twenty-five cents for cigars
or tobacco, and was never
intoxicated in those seventy-three
years" - [the time he had then
resided in the county].
By his first marriage Mr. Baughman had
five children - four sons and one
daughter - of whom four are living:
Rev. George
Baughman, a clergyman resident
in Eaton, Preble county, Ohio; Joel,
a farmer near Gahanna; Josiah,
an engineer at Westerville, and
Mary Ann, now Mrs.
Eskridge Carter, wife
of a farmer in Blendon township.
Seven children - three sons and four
daughters - were the issue of the
second marriage. Four of them
yet survive: William
Sandford Baughman, a
farmer near Gahanna; Francis,
a lawyer at Battle Mountain, Nevada;
Esther Josephine, now
Mrs. Robert Collier,
residing at No. 152 Hamilton avenue,
Columbus, and Lewis
Clifford Baughman, the
youngest child, yet at the old home
in Gahanna, residing with his
mother, who is still, though
somewhat advanced in years, in
vigorous health, and gives promise
of long life.
Page 486a - Source:
History of Franklin & Pickaway
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Williams Bros. - 1880 |
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REUBEN
BONAM was born in Maryland,
and settled in Franklinton about the
same time as John S. Wills.
He was appointed prosecuting
attorney by the court in 1805, and
was a man of fine education, but
giving way to intemperate habits,
and was the vice of the times, he
became too poor to dress even
decently, got in some trouble about
money that was missing, went off,
and enlisted at Cincinnati, as a
private soldier, in one of the
regular regiments, going to New
Orleans. Tradition says that
there he became a reformed and sober
man, and, after his discharge from
the service, died, a respectable
citizen, and left descendants.
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THE
BORRER FAMILY.
The members of the Borrer family,
consisting of Mrs. Magdalene
Borror and seven children,
emigrated from Virginia, in 1809,
and settled in the south part of
Jackson township, Franklin county,
on a tract of two hundred and fifty
acres of land, given Mrs. Borror
by her father, Christopher
Strader, who had been a soldier
in the Revolutionary war, from
Virginia. Her husband,
Jacob Borror, also served as a
soldier in the war for independence,
and in the faithful discharge of his
duties to his country, suffered
untold hardships, which undermined a
naturally strong constitution, and
planted the seeds of disease which
caused his death in 1804. The
members of the family were:
the mother, Mrs. Magdalene Borror,
and her children - Martin,
Christine, Jacob, Solomon, Isaac,
Myomi, and Absalom.
The settlement and marriage of each
will be found in the history of
Jackson township.
Absalom Borror was the youngest son of seven
children, and was born in Hardy
county, Virginia, Dec. 21, 1804.
Some years after their settlement in
Ohio, he married Elizabeth Seeds,
by whom he had six children;
Hiram, Louis, John S., Harriet,
Ephraim, and Elizabeth.
Mrs. Borror died in about 1833,
and, in February, 1834, he married
Margaret Badger, who was born
Dec. 27, 1814. They have had
four children: William
Martin, Catharine, Martha Jane,
and Christine. Hiram,
the eldest child of Absalom
Borror, married Harriet Brunk,
and lives on the farm adjoining, on
the southeast; Louis married
Elizabeth Watts, and died at
Borror's corners, where his
widow now lives; John married
Angeline Seeds, and lives at
Borror's corners, where he
has a farm; he also owns a store
building on his land; Harriet
died, when a young woman; Ephraim
married Susan Beckett, and
died on his farm, north of the
"corners," where his widow now
lives; Elizabeth married
A. E. Brown, and lives west of
Commercial Point, in Pickaway
county; William Martin died
in infancy; Catharine married
Jonathan Swagler and died at
his home, north of the "corner;"
Martha Jane married Hiram V.
Malott, and lives in Grove City;
Christine married John
Haaines, and lives on the home
farm.
In this connection appears views of the residences of
Absalom Borror, John Haines, John
S. Borror, Ephraim Borror, Louis
Borror, Hiram Borror and H.
V. Malott, the later of Grove
City..
Page 390- Source:
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THE BUNN
FAMILY - Henry and
Elizabeth A. Bunn* were married
in Ross county, where they settled
in 1807. He was originally
from Virginia, and his wife from
Pennsylvania. Their first
child, Frederick A. Bunn, was
born in Ross county, Nov. 12, 1812.
When he was two or three years of
age, his parents removed to Franklin
county, and settled on the northwest
corner of section six, in Madison
township, where they remained two or
three years, after which they bought
one hundred and sixty acres of land
on the west bank of Walnut creek, in
section eight of the same township.
The farm on which they settled is at
this time owned by Nelson H. Bunn.
Frederick Bunn obtained a fair education at the
schools then taught in the
neighborhood, and passed his boyhood
and youth in the usual avocations of
the sons of the early pioneers -
chopping and deadening timber,
clearing the land, and planting the
crops in their season.
On May 30, 1841, he was united in marriage to
Charlotte Rarey a daughter of
Benjamin Rarey, who was an early
settler in Madison township, where
he located in 1808. She was
born Nov. 27, 1817. After
marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Bunn
settled in the house occupied by his
parents, who moved into the house
next south of their original home.
Henry Bunn died there in May,
1848, and after his death his widow
came to live with her son,
Frederick, where she died in
August, 1860.
To Frederick and Charlotte Bunn were born eight
children, as follows: Louis,
born July 19, 1842, who married
Sarah Jones, and lives on the
west bank of the Scioto river in
Jackson township - a representation
of his home appears in connection
with the history of that township;
Mary, born Sept. 12, 1843,
who married Joseph Wright,
and died Dec. 10, 1868; Jefferson
L., born Jun. 5, 1848, who lives
on the bank of Walnut creek in
Madison township; Nelson H.,
born Nov. 10, 1851, who married
Sarah Pauline Culp, and lives on
the old homestead; Elizabeth,
born May 7, 1854, who married
William Moore, and lives in
Pickaway county; an infant was born
Mar. 7, 1858, and died soon after
birth; Sarah, born Aug. 31,
1859, who died Oct. 6, 1859; and
Catharine, born Jul. 5, 1861,
who lives at home with her mother
and brother, Jefferson L., on
the west bank of Walnut creek.
Frederick Bunn died Oct. 27, 1871, aged nearly
fifty-nine years. He was a
good farmer and a careful business
man. Besides attending to his
farm work he dealt quite extensively
in stock, and during his life
accumulated quite a property, which
he disposed of by will before his
death. To his sons he gave
hiss landed property, and to his
wife and daughters an equivalent in
money.
Henry Bunn, the father of Frederick Bunn,
was a soldier in the war of 1812,
and was taken prisoner at the time
of Hull's surrender of
Detroit. When the prisoners
were exchanged, by some mishap, he
was left on board one of the enemy's
vessels, but being possessed of a
good voice and strong lungs, he
managed to make the fact known, and
a boat returned after him.
Portraits of Frederick Bunn and Charlotte Bunn,
his wife, appear in connection with
this sketch of the family.
Page 455 - Source: History of Franklin &
Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published
by Williams Bros. - 1880 |
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EBENEZER
BUTLER. Judge
Ebenezer Butler, of Mifflin
township, Franklin county, Ohio, was
one of the earliest settlers of that
township. He came from New
York some years previous to the war
of 1812. He was born in
Connecticut, near Hartford, in the
year 1758. Following in
biographical order the incidents of
his life, it appears that he was
among the first of the revolutionary
patriots who participated in the
struggle of the American colonies,
in resisting British oppression.
At the early age of eighteen, he
responded to the call upon the
people of Connecticut, and, in
conformity with the traditions of
those trying times, he "left his
plow standing in the furrow,"
received the ancient fire-lock from
the hands of his mother, and joined
General Putnam in the defence
of Bunker Hill. After that
memorable battle, he remained in the
army until sickness compelled him to
leave it.
In imitation of the primitive custom, he married when
quite young. His wife was
Rebecca Davis. Not long
after this event, he discovered that
the central portion of the State of
New York, then a part of the extreme
western frontier of the country,
offered attractive inducements to
enterprise, and he determined to
seek a new home there. He
settled in the then small village of
Pompey, where he received the
appointment of land agent, for the
sale of the State lands, and
immediately began to prosper.
Here is somewhat numerous family of
children were born. Their
names were Martha, Belinda,
Aurelia, Flora, Mary, and
Rebecca, the latter of whom died
when quite young. To this
number two sons - Roswell and
Manly - and a second daughter
named Rebecca, were added. Belinda
and Aurelia were educated
at the Hamilton academy; Flora
and Mary were sent to
Hartford, for the advantages of the
higher studies and accomplishments.
In progress of time, Mr. Butler was appointed to
a judicial position on the local
bench, and elected to the
legislature of his adopted State.
He was the contemporary and neighbor
of the father of Gerrit Smith;
each the possessor of a very
extensive landed estate.
Judge Butler, in the prime of
life, was a man of remarkable
capacity for business enterprise,
engaging with equal facility and
uniform success in merchandise and
farming - in the milling business,
and in ocean commerce, becoming
largely interested in foreign trade,
and the owner of a considerable
investment in vessels. He had
formed a partnership with a Mr.
Phillips, and, during his
necessary presence in Albany, in
attendance upon the legislature, his
partner succeeded in defrauding him
of a large sum of money, with which
he absconded. Succeeding this
event, came the embargo of 1807,
which ruined his shipping interests.
The result of these successive
misfortunes was an embarrassment so
serious that he was compelled to
bring to a close his large and
varied business transactions.
Upon a settlement with his
creditors, which was accomplished
with rigid conformity to the rules
of honor, which governed him in all
his transactions, he found himself
still in possession of a small
reserve of capital, with which to
begin life anew, in the now populous
and prosperous State of Ohio, then
one of the youngest of the States,
presenting, in the superior
advantages of its agricultural
lands, inducements which attracted a
large emigration from the eastern
States, and offering, as he
conceived, an inviting opportunity
for the retrieval of his fortune.
He bravely resolved to make the
change, and, accordingly, joined the
throng of emigrants to this then far
western locality, 1 ringing with him
his entire family, with the
exception of his oldest daughter,
who had married Mr. Atwater,
an attorney-at-law in the State of
New York. He came directly to
Franklin county, and entered lands
to the amount of some seven hundred
acres, on Alum creek, about seven
miles north of the site of the
future city of Columbus. The
location was an almost unbroken
wilderness. The scattered
settlers were too few as yet, too
impoverished, and too laboriously
occupied in securing for their own
households the subsistence they
required, to render much of
neighborly aid to each other.
The lot of the early pioneer in this
State was one which it is hard to
realize. With his own hands,
and with such help as he could, with
difficulty, obtain, he built a log
house for an immediate home.
In his oldest son - Roswell -
he had a very efficient assistant,
in the struggle with the
difficulties which beset his
efforts. It is related of this
son; that he was very popular with
the pioneers, who were often
benefitted by his superior
intelligence. His death, by
drowning, at an early age, was felt
as a great loss in the neighborhood.
In their new and trying experience,
Judge Butler's daughters put
to practical use the advantages of
education which they had acquired in
their more prosperous days.
One of them - Aurelia -
opened a school in the village of
Franklinton, on the opposite side of
the river from Columbus. The
third daughter - Flora -
found an opportunity to establish a
school for young ladies, in
Lancaster, then one of the most
thriving towns in the State, some
thirty miles distant. Her hand
was soon sought by Mr. Christian
King, the leading merchant of
the place, and the fourth daughter -
Mary - took the school, and
retained it until her marriage and
Mr. Richard Douglass, an
attorney-at-law, residing in
Chillicothe. His daughter,
Aurelia, married Judge Orris
Parrish, of Columbus. The
exposure encountered at the burning
of his home, which caught fire by
some accident, and was consumed so
rapidly that the inmates barely
escaped, seriously impaired his
health, and an attack of fever
subsequently occurred, which
occasioned his death, in 1826, in
the sixty-eighth year of his age.
(Source:
‡ History of Franklin &
Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 489) |
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