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* Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1899.
Transcribed by
Sharon Wick
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JACOB
BARTLETT
Jacob Bartlett, farmer, post
office, Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio
Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton. Published at Chicago:
J. H. Beers & Co. 1899 - Page 603
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LEANDER
BUXTON.
This truly representative citizen of Fulton county a
scientific farmer, a man of marked individuality and wide
experience, has for several years made his home in Section 3,
Town 10 S., Range 1 E., Franklin township.
A native of Ohio, Mr. Buxton was born October 1, 1842,
in Knox county, a son of John and Elizabeth (Todd) Buxton,
both natives of Maryland, the father born in June, 1804, the
mother on September 4, 1803. When John was a boy his
father moved the family from Maryland to Coshocton county,
Ohio, where they became pioneer settlers: Sons- Alvin,
Francis, John William, Noah and Thomas; daughters -
Susan and
Mary - all now deceased. The mother of these died in
Knox county, in 1858.
John and Elizabeth (Todd) Buxton were married in 1825,
in Coshocton county, and had a family of eleven children,
to-wit: (1) Francis married Rosana Pearson, and they live in
Knox county, Ohio, where he follows agricultural pursuits;
they have two children, Rev. E. O. Buxton, of Cincinnati,
being one of them. (2) Rebecca Ellen is the deceased
wife of S. A. Larason, of Delaware, Ohio; she left five
children - John (since deceased), Enseba M. (wife of a
Mr.
Parsons), of Delaware, Ohio; Almira E. (also married) is an
old school teacher; Alfred A. is also married; Sarah
Ellen is
a school teacher; and Edward (married) makes his home in
Xenia, Ohio. (3) Sarah Ann married Jacob Long, late of
Knox county, now deceased; she lives in Kansas; children -
John, Noah W., Benjamin, Newton and
Almira. (4) Noah W.
married (first) a Mrs. Butler, by whom he had two sons -
Dr.
John Butler, of Homer, Licking county, Ohio; and James, a
resident of Mt. Vernon; by his second marriage, with Miss
Candis Buxton, Noah W. had four children -
William, Ollis,
Mary (deceased) and Gertrude. (5) Mary
Jane wedded a Mr.
Frazier. (6) Minerva is deceased. (7)
John W.
(Rev.) is a minister of the Gospel at Yuba City, California.
(8) Louisa married (first) a Mr. Montour, and (second)
Erastus Bell, of Xenia. (9) Thomas
W. lives in Utica,
Ohio. (1) Leander is our subject. (11) Elizabeth
(twin of Leander) died in infancy. The father of this
family is his younger days was a blacksmith by trade, later
following farming in Knox county, Ohio, where he settled in
1839. He was ordained a minister of the M. E. Church,
and preached on Sundays, the rest of the week being devoted to
labor. Politically he was first a Whit, later a
Republican.
Leander Buxton received his education in Knox county,
Ohio, and at the age of sixteen commenced life for his own
account, working on farms at thirteen dollars per month.
After his marriage (which will presently be referred to) he
and his wife located temporarily on a farm in Knox county,
thence moving to Morrow county, where he enlisted, in 1863, in
Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, one of the regiments that did guard duty near
Washington. At the close of the war, in 1865, Mr. and
Mrs. Buxton settled on their present farm in Franklin
township, Fulton county, which he cleared and improved with
good substantial buildings. He now owns ninety acres,
having sold eighty.
On Christmas Day, 1861, Leander Buxton was united in
marriage with Miss Mary J. Brown, a native of Knox county,
Ohio, born in 1837, a daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Larison)
Brown, highly respectable farming people of Knox county, both
now deceased. To our subject and his wife have been born
three children, a brief record of them being as follows:
(1) Florence A., born July 18, 1862, was married to Rev. D. L.
Woods of Ohio, and they have two children - Homer E. and
David
Elmer. (2) Xalia A. married Robert R.
Johnson, of
Detroit, Michigan; have one son - Harvey Leroy. (3)
Elmer E. wedded Rhoda Prickett, and they have two children -
Henry Leland and Florence; they live in Detroit, Michigan.
In his political preferences our subject is a
Republican, has served in various township offices; was a
justice of the peace some eighteen years; and in 1896 was
elected county commissioner for a three-years' term.
Socially he is affiliated with the K. of P. and G. A. R.
In religious faith he and his wife are members of the Baptist
Church, and they rank among the leading and most influential
citizens of Fulton county.
Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton. Published at Chicago:
J. H. Beers & Co. 1899) |
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