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JAMES
SANDY. James Sandy,
sr., the son of William and
Ermine Sandy, was born in
Westmoreland county, Virginia, Apr.
16, 1788, his parents being of
Scotch descent. Here he was
raised, and soon after the
declaration of war with Great
Britain, in 1812, he joined the
"Virginia Blues," and while a member
of that organization, was quartered,
during one winter, in the town of
Franklinton. At that time the
ground now occupied by the State
house was covered with its native
forest. After his return to
Virginia, sometime in the year of
1813, he was married to Miss
Delilah Dulin, daughter of
William and Charlotte Dulin, who
was born Feb. 1, 1797. To them
were born eight sons and four
daughters.
In 1821 he moved, with his family to Ohio, and in 1825
settled in Washington township,
Franklin county, where he resided
until 1862, since which time, and
until his death, Oct. 20, 1864, he
has lived with his children in
Madison township. His wife
died Nov. 15, 1837, at the age of
forty years.
Mr. Sandy was an ardent lover of his country, a
true patriot, and a faithful
soldier. He felt, and often
expressed, the most earnest
solicitude for the success of the
war for the preservation of our
government during the late
Rebellion. For many years he
was a member of the Christian
church, and at his death was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. The last few years of
his life were mostly devoted to the
reading of the holy scriptures, in
which he took great delight.
James Sandy, Jr., the subject of this sketch,
was the fourth son of James and
Delilah Sandy, and was born in
Norwich township, Franklin county,
Dec. 16, 1826. He remained on
the farm with his father until he
was eighteen years of age, and then
went to Pickaway county, where he
worked on a farm a year, after which
he went to Ross county, where he
also remained a year. He then
returned to Groveport, in this
county, where he learned the
carpenter's trade, at which he
worked eleven years. He then
moved on a farm east of Groveport,
where he has since resided, engaged
in agricultural pursuits.
He was married in Groveport, Feb. 28, 1848, to Sarah
Shoemaker, who was born Nov. 5,
1831. The result of this union
was one son, William Henry,
born Feb. 1, 1849. Mrs.
Sandy died June 6, 1850, aged
nineteen years.
Source:
History of Franklin & Pickaway
Counties, Ohio - Published by
Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 457 |
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DAVID SCOTT
was born in Peterborough, New
Hampshire, in 1786, came to
Franklinton in 1811, engaged in the
practice of the law, and was
appointed prosecuting attorney from
1813 to 1814, by the court, in which
last year he died. He was
married.
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DAVID SMITH,
son of John and Elizabeth Smith,
was born at Francistown Hills,
Conough county, New Hampshire, Oct.
2, 1785, came to Franklinton in
1812, and moved to Columbus in 1816,
and practiced law. In
connection with Ezra Griswold,
in 1812, he commenced publishing the
Ohio Monitor, and remained
sole editor thereof until 1836, when
he sold out to Jacob Medary,
and the paper was merged into the
Hemisphere - a weekly Jacksonian
Democratic paper - and finally
became the Ohio Statesman,
when Samuel Medary was
elected State printer. Mr.
Smith was elected associate
judge in 1817, and resigned, on his
election to the legislature, in
1822. He was a member; also,
in 1822, and State printer in
1831-1834. He was a fine
writer, and was engaged mostly in
newspaper enterprises. In the
latter years of his life he was
absent, most of his time, from
Columbus, visiting his children, but
returned, and died here on February
3, 1863, in the seventy-eighth year
of his age, and was buried in Green
Law cemetery.
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History of Franklin & Pickaway
Counties, Ohio - Published by
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J. W. Story
& Margaret Story |
J.
W. STORY,
Joseph W. Story was the fourth
child of
Marmer Duke Story and
Rachel Baggs. He was born
in Sussex county, Delaware, and came
to Ohio with his parents when he was
nine years old. The family
settled in Pickaway county.
The subject of this sketch settled in this county, on
the farm he now owns and occupied,
in the year 1834. He has been
three times married. His first
wife, whom he married in 1832, was
Nancy Turner, by whom he had
seven children, five of whom are now
living: Margaret, who
married Aaron Lambert, lives
in Iowa. John, who
married Elizabeth Thomas,
lives on the home farm.
Thomas, who married Miss
Louisa Moore, lives in
Georgesville, this county.
Sarah, who married Addison
Taylor lives in Nebraska.
Diana, who married Richard
Hay, lives in Pleasant township.
Matilda, who married Peter
Tanner, lives in Madison county,
Ohio, and Mary who married
Isaac tanner lives in Madison
county, Ohio.
His second wife was Susan Nichols whom he
married in the year 1853, and by
whom he had two children - a son and
daughter. Marmer Duke
is single and lives at home.
Virginia, the daughter, married
Richard Chaffin, and lives in
Pleasant township, Franklin county,
Ohio.
In 1872 he married his third wife, Margaret
White, who is very much his
junior, and by whom he has had two
children, only one of whom, little
Lora, is now living.
In politics, Mr. Story is a Democrat.
While he has suffered many losses,
financially and otherwise, for the
want of an education, now stain of
dishonesty has ever tarnished his
name. He is now seventy-one
years old, and lives at his ease,
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GUSTAVUS
SWAN, son of John and
Sarah (Mead) Swan, was born July
15, 1787, at Petersborough, New
Hampshire. His means of early
education were limited, as his
parents were poor, but, by his own
perseverance and exertion, he
obtained an excellent classical,
mathematical and scientific course
of instruction, at the Aurean
academy, Amherst, Hillsborough
county, New Hampshire. Dr.
Reuben D. Murrey, son of Dr.
John Murrey, and who
subsequently settled in the city of
Boston, and became one of the most
celebrated surveyors in the country,
was a fellow schoolmate.
Judge Swan always said he was
indebted to Dr. John Murrey's
aid in his studies, and
encouragement, more than to any one
else, for his subsequent success in
life. He studied law with
Samuel Bell, a celebrated
lawyer, at Concord, New Hampshire,
who was afterwards governor of the
State, and was admitted to the bar
in New Hampshire.
He first came to Marietta, Ohio in 1810, and remained a
year there, and was admitted to the
bar of Ohio. In 1811 he came to
Franklinton, then the county seat of
Franklin, and commenced the practice
of the law. His ability and
industry soon gave him high
professional reputation, and he was
employed in all the important cases,
which brought him in constant
conflict with Beecher, Ewing,
Irwin, Baldwin, Grimke, and
other distinguished leaders of the
Ohio bar, who then rode the circuit,
and practiced in the courts held at
the capitol of the State.
Judge Swan, in these legal
contests, involving nice questions,
under the old rules of pleading, and
requiring a thorough knowledge of
the land laws, especially in the
Virginia military district, soon
took rank among the first at the
bar. He was a diligent
student, and fine speaker, having
great power with a jury, and his
practice extended through Fayette,
Madison, Union, Delaware, Pickaway
and Fairfield counties, where his
name is still associated, in the
traditions of the people, with the
pioneer lawyers of his day. He
was the first representative elected
by Franklin county, to the
legislature, as soon as she was
entitled to elect alone, in 1812,
and was elected again in 1817.
He was constantly engaged in the
practice of his profession, until
1823, when he was appointed, by
Governor Morrow, judge of the
court of common pleas, in place of
Judge J. Adair McDowell,
deceased, and was elected by the
legislature, on its meeting, for the
term of seven years, and was the
judge when the court was removed
from Franklinton to Columbus, in
1824, and made an able one. In
pursuance of the resolutions of the
general assembly, passed Jan. 22,
1825, he compiled the land laws for
Ohio, including the State laws to
1815-16, an invaluable publication
to the practitioner.
In 1820 he resumed the practice of law in Columbus, to
which place he moved his residence,
in 1815. He continued, from
that date, in active practice, until
1832, doing a lucrative and
extensive business. By this
time he had acquired a large
fortune. He had been
president, from 1823, of the old
Franklin bank, of Columbus,
incorporated by the legislature,
Feb. 23, 1816, whose charger expired
Jan. 1, 1843. On the
organization of the State bank, of
Ohio, and its branches, under the
act of February, 1845 - the old
Franklin bank, on July 1, 1845,
organized as one of its branches -
Judge Swan was elected one of
the directors, and afterwards
president of the ablest financiers
in the State. The duties of
the place required his whole time,
in connection with his other large
private interests, and he retired
from practice.
The last time he appeared as counsel, in court, was in
defense of William Clark, a
convict in the penitentiary, tried
for the murder of Cyrus Sell,
one of the guards, by a single blow
with a cooper's axe. He was
tired at the December term, 1843, of
the supreme court for Franklin
county, reported in the eighth
volume of the Ohio State reports,
and convicted of murder in the first
degree, and hung on Feb. 9, 1844,
with a female colored convict,
Esther, who had killed another
prisoner. The The
defense was insanity, and there was
an army of eminent counsel on both
sides, Judge N. H. Swayne
conducted the prosecution, examining
the medical experts of the defense,
including his own family physician.
Judge Swan, who had been
generally successful in criminal
cases, put forth his full powers,
and confidently remarked, it is
said, that he had never had a
client hung in his life, and if
Clark was, he never world
put his foot in the court house
again, as a lawyer; and he never
did, unless on his own business.
Judge Swan, from this time, devoted himself to
his duties as president of the State
bank of Ohio, and the management of
his large estate. He was very
fond of books and philosophical
discussions. On Oct. 14, 1819,
he was married, by Rev. Dr. James
Hoge, to Mrs. Amelia Weston,
daughter of George and Mary
Aldrich, born at Meriden,
Massachusetts, Dec. 20, 1785; died,
Nov. 5, 1859, and is buried under
the same monument, in Green Lawn
cemetery, with her husband who died
Feb. 6, 1860. Judge Swan
had two sons, both of whom died
before him. George was
lost at sea, on the ill-fated
steamer, Lexington. It was a
great grief to his father, which was
intensified by the death of
Charles, who, he hoped, would
have lived to take his position.
He had two daughters, Mrs. Sarah
Whitney, of New York city, and
Mrs. Jane Parsons, wife of
George M. Parsons, of Columbus,
Ohio.
Source:
History of Franklin & Pickaway
Counties, Ohio - Published by
Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 64 |
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HENRY C.
SWISHER. In the year
1805, John Swisher and family,
of Sussex county, New Jersey,
emigrated to Ohio, and in 1807
settled in Madison township,
Franklin county. His wife,
who, before marriage, was Mary
Peterson, died in 1836, and he
again married, a Mrs. Shepherd,
of Washington township, and lived
near Dublin until his death.
Jacob, the oldest child of John and Mary
Swisher, was born in Sussex
county, New Jersey, July 5, 1803.
He married, for his first wife,
Eliza Scothorn, and resided on
the school section until her death,
which occurred about a year after
her marriage. A few years
subsequently he was again married to
Anah, daughter of Philemon
Needels, when he settled on the
farm where he now lives, and resided
there until 1842. He then
removed to the place now occupied by
John Anderson, which farm he
cleared up and improved. He
finally, after a short residence in
Groveport, moved back to the farm he
had previously occupied, and on
which he now resides. Besides
that of farming, Mr. Swisher's
principal occupation has been the
buying and selling of live stock.
At an early period of his business
career he commenced buying hogs,
which he would fatten and drive to
the eastern markets. He has
walked to Baltimore and back on such
trips a number of times, and for
several years made an annual
journey. In 1840 or 1841 he
combined with his live stock
business that of pork packing, in
connection with other gentlemen, in
Groveport. This branch of the
business, however, proving
unprofitable, it was afterward
abandoned.
His second wife died in September, 1862. They had
a family of nine children, of whom
Henry C., the subject of this
sketch, is the oldest. He was
born in Madison township, Franklin
county, Ohio, Jan. 8, 1837, and
married, Dec. 18, 1866, Jennie
Nau, daughter of Jacob and
Mary Arch Nau, of Madison
township. She was born Oct.
15, 1844, in Hancock county, Ohio.
Her mother died in 1856, and her
father is still living on a portion
of the Swisher farm.
The subject of this sketch has been
engaged principally in agricultural
pursuits, and is among the energetic
and successful farmers of his
township. For seven years he
cultivated a farm in the school
section, taking a lease for nine
years. He purchased the farm
on which he now lives, and to which
he has recently added, in the spring
of 1866, and built his residence, a
view of which is given elsewhere,
about five years since.
Mr. Swisher has also been to a
considerable extent engaged in the
shipment of live stock to the east,
which he has uniformly found a
profitable business.
To
Mr. and Mrs. Swisher have been
born the following named children:
Ella M., born Nov. 2, 1867 in
Crawford county, Ohio, where the
parents resided the first year after
their marriage; Charles C.,
born Feb. 19, 1869; Walter,
born Dec. 25, 1870, who died Jan. 9,
1871; Edgar A., born Jan. 23,
1872; Anah A., born Dec. 16,
1873; and Florence, born Dec.
13, 1878.
Source:
History of Franklin & Pickaway
Counties, Ohio - Published by
Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 457 |
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