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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Greene County, Ohio,
its people, industries & institutions
by Hon. M. A. Broadstone, Editor in Chief -
Vol. I. & II.
Publ. B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
1918
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CHARLES THOMPSON.
Charles Thompson, a veteran of the Civil War,
formerly and for years engaged in the retail meat business
at Xenia and later a rural mail carrier, now living retired
in the city which has been his home for many years, is a
native of the great Empire state, but has been a resident of
Ohio since the days of his boyhood and of Xenia since the
year 1867, having located there not long after his return
from service in the army at the close of the war. He
was born in Onondaga county, New York, Oct. 6, 1839, a son
of John Thompson and wife, the latter of whom
was a Gail, both natives of the state of Massachusetts,
whose last days were spent in Ohio. John Thompson
was a ship carpenter. He was married in Massachusetts
and after a sometime residence there moved to Onondaga
county, New York, whence, in 1845, he came with his family
to Ohio and located at Piqua, where he resumed work at his
trade and where he and his wife spent the remainder of their
lives. They were the parents of ten children,
Eliza, Deborah, John, Martha, Emma, Jane, James, Charles
and two who died in early youth.
Having been but about six years of age when his parents
moved from New York state to Piqua, Charles Thompson
grew to manhood in that city, receiving his schooling in the
public schools there, and was living there when the Civil
War broke out. On Apr. 18, 1861, three days after
President Lincoln issued his first call for volunteers to
put down the armed assault against the Union, Mr.
Thompson enlisted for service and went to the front as a
member of Company F, Eleventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, serving with that command until the end of
his period of enlistment, four months. He later
re-enlisted and was attached to Company A. One Hundred
and Tenth Ohio, attached to the Eighth Army Corps, and with
their command was sent to Virginia and with the Army of the
Potomac participated in all the battles from the Wilderness
to Spottsylvania Court House. Mr. Thompson
served as a soldier in the union for three years, two months
and thirteen days and received his discharge at Washington,
D. C., June 25, 1865, the war then being over. During
this period of service he served with the Third Brigade,
Army of West Virginia, to December, 1862; Eighth Corps.
Middle Department, to March, 1863; First Brigade, Second
Division Eighth Army Corps, Middle Department, to July,
1863; Second Brigade, Third Division, Third Corps, Army of
the Potomac, to March, 1864, and Second Brigade, Third
Division, Sixth Army Corps. to the time of his discharge,
the only period of disability he suffered during that time
being a period of eight weeks when he was laid up with
typhoid fever.
Upon the completion of his military service Mr.
Thompson returned to Ohio and was employed in the
neighboring county of Miami until 1867, when he moved to
Xenia and there engaged i the retail meat business,
continuing thus engaged in that business in that city for
twenty-four years, during more than twenty-two years of
which time he had his store on Main street. When the
system of rural mail delivery was inaugurated in the Xenia
postoffice Mr. Thompson was made the carrier on the
first route thus established out of that office and
continued to carry the mail on that route for seventeen
years, or until his retirement in March, 1913, since which
time he has been "taking things easy." Mr. Thompson
has been quite a traveler in his time and has at one time
and another visited most of the chief points of interest to
travelers in the United States. He is a Republican and
a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
On Dec. 31, 1867, the year in which he took up his
residence in Xenia, Charles Thompson was united in
marriage to Ada P. Harner, who was born in Greene
county, daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Kirshner) Harner,
both of Pennsylvania-Dutch stock, their respective parents
having come to this county from Pennsylvania in pioneer
days, and whose last days were spent in Xenia.
Jacob Harner was a Republican and had served for some
time as deputy sheriff of Green county, as well as having
served in township offices. He was a farmer and
landowner. He was a member of the Lutheran church and
his wife was a member of the Reformed church. They
were the parents of five children, of whom Mrs. Thompson
is now the only survivor. two of these children died
in early youth and Solomon and Caroline, the
two others who reached maturity, are also now dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. by
B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.,
1918 - Page 794 |
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ANDREW J. TOBIAS.
The late Andrew Jackson Tobias, who died at his farm
home in Beavercreek township on Apr. 10, 1910, and whose
widow is still living there, the farm being managed by her
son, Samuel E. Tobias, was born in that township in
1833, a son of Jacob Tobias and wife, who had come to
this county from Pennsylvania and who were the parents of
eight children, Andrew having had four brothers,
Peter, Jonathan, Samuel and John Tobias, and
three sisters, Margaret, Catherine and Susanna.
Later the family moved to Auglaize county, this state, and
thence to Illinois, where Andrew J. Tobias completed
his schooling. As a young man he returned to Green
county, took up carpentering here and here spent the
remainder of his life, in 1882 taking up farming and
becoming the proprietor of a farm of two hundred and five
acres in Beavercreek township, Sarah E. Harshman,
daughter of John C. and Maria (Miller) Harshman,
further mention of whom is made elsewhere, and in 1863 was
united in marriage to Andrew J. Tobias. To that
union two children were born, Samuel E. and Emily
Leonora, the latter of whom married L. E. Coy, a
grocer at Dayton, and has two children, Ethel, born
in 1889, and Herbert, born in 1897.
Samuel E. Tobias was born on Mar. 12, 1864, and
was educated in the schools of Beavercreek township.
He early became interested in blacksmithing and continued
engaged in that vocation for twenty years, at the end of
which time he began to give his particular attention to
gunsmithing and has since made a specialty along that line,
having become recognized as one of the expert gunsmiths in
the United States. Since the death of his father he
also has given his general oversight to the operations of
the home farm. Mr. Tobias is a Democrat
and for fifteen years served as a member of the local board
of education. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the
Knights of Pythias and he and his family are members of the
Mt. Zion Reformed church.
In January, 1883, Samuel E. Tobias was united in
marriage to Jennie Belle Bates, who also was born in
Beavercreek township, and to this union seven children have
been born, namely: Blanche Lenora, who married
Hiram Zimmer, now living in Logan county, and has two
children, Leon and Elza Juanita; Elmer
Fay, a farmer, living on his grandmother Tobias'
farm in Beavercreek township and operating the same,
who married Anna Zimmer and has four children,
Elsie, Elwood, Gladys and Alberta:
Thomas C., who is at home; Esta, who died in
infancy, and Elsie May, Winifred and
Edythe.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. by
B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.,
1918 - Page 643 |
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ORVILLE D. TOBIAS.
Orville Dewey Tobias,
proprietor of a Beavercreek township farm on rural mail
route No. 10 out of Xenia, was born on a farm in Sugarcreek
township, this county, Mar. 8, 1861, son of William and
Jane (Miller) Tobias, the former of whom also was born
in this county and whose last days were spent here.
William Tobias was born in the village of
Zimmerman on Mar. 14, 1821, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Hanney) Tobias, who had come to this county from
Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and had located in the
settlement that early took the name of Zimmerman, in
Beavercreek township. There Samuel Tobias
bought twenty-five acres of land, built a log cabin and
established his home. There he died in 1829, leaving
his widow with six children, three sons and three daughters,
those besides William who was eight years of age at
that time of his father's death, having been Lydia,
who became the wife of William Kirkpatrick; Margaret,
who married Noah Enry and moved to Illinois;
Daniel who made his home in the vicinity of Troy, this
state; Samuel, who died unmarried, and Catherine,
who married Wallace Haines. The widow Tobias
married Michael Swigart and lived to be seventy-six
years of age, her death occurring in 1871.
Following the death of his father William Tobias
was taken into the home of Peter Swigart, a brother
of his stepfather, and there remained until he was past
twenty-one years of age. When twenty-five years of age
he married and began farming on his own account, for some
years renting farms, and in 1869 bought the farm on which
his son, the subject of this sketch, is now living and there
spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in
January, 1911, he then lacking but three months of being
ninety years of age. William Tobias was a
Republican. Reared a Lutheran, he later became
affiliated with the Reformed church and for many years
served as a deacon of the Beavercreek congregation of the
latter communion.
William Tobias was twice married. On Dec.
24, 1846, he was united in marriage to Sarah Swigart,
who died in 1851, at the age of twenty-four years, leaving
two sons, Martin Luther and Samuel, both of
whom are now deceased, the former of whom became a farmer in
Beavercreek township and the latter of whom made his home in
Dayton. Martin L. Tobias was twice married.
By his first wife, Christine Peeples, he had two
children, Eva, Grace and John. Samuel
Tobias married Emma John and had three children,
Homer, Harold and Howard. On June 19,
1852, William Tobias married, secondly, Jane
Miller who was born in Bath township, this county, Nov.
25, 1824, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Wheeler)
Miller, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the
latter of Maryland, who came to Ohio after their marriage,
first locating at Columbus, then at Cincinnati and then in
Greene county, becoming early settlers in Bath township,
where the former spent the remainder of his life.
James Miller was a soldier of the War of 1812. He
died in 1840 and was buried in the Byron cemetery. His
widow survived him until 1854, her death occurring at
Dayton. To William and Jane (Miller) Tobias
were born eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch
was the sixth in order of birth, the others being the
following: William A. who became a farmer in
Beavercreek township, where he died in April, 1917, and who
had married Jannie Alice Garlough and had one child,
a son, Emerson D.; Elizabeth and Catherine
twins, the former of whom is unmarried and both of whom are
now living at Dayton, the latter the widow of the late
John W. H. Barney, by whom she was the mother of four
children, Dora, Bertha, Eugene J., and Ralph;
Daniel and Calvin, who died in the days of their
young manhood; one who died in infancy, and Newton W.
now a druggist living at Ada, who married May Kemp
and has one child, Vivian G. Mrs. Jane Miller
Tobias survived her husband nearly two years, her death
occurring in December, 1912.
Orville D. Tobias was eight years of age when
his father bought the farm on which he is now living and
there he grew to manhood. He received his schooling in
the local schools and after his marriage in 1890 continued
to make his home on the home place, managing the same for
his father, and after the latter's death bought the place
from the other heirs and has since been the owner of the
same, a farm of something more than one hundred acres.
Mr. Tobias is a Republican and, fraternally, is
affiliated with Silver Star Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
at Alpha. He is a member of the Beaver Creek Reformed
church as is his wife, was formerly and for years a deacon
of that congregation and is now an elder in the church.
Mr. Tobias has been twice married. On Nov.
12, 1890, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Ana (Koogler)
Coffman a widow, who died eighteen months later, and on
Mar. 6, 1898, he married Mrs. Effie (Miller) Armstrong,
a widow and the mother by her first marriage, of four
children. Harry, who is now living in Bath
township; Mayme, wife of Vernon Ewing, of
Dayton; Louise, at home, and Nellie, who died
in the days of her childhood. Mrs. Tobias is a
daughter of Israel and Jane Miller, both now
deceased, who were residents of Bath township. To
Mr. and Mrs. Tobias one child has been born, a son,
Raymond, born on Dec. 27, 1900, who is now (1918), a
student in the Beaver Creek high school.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. by
B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.,
1918 - Page 821 |
William A. Tobias
& Family |
WILLIAM A. TOBIAS.
The late William A. Tobias, who died at his farm home
in Beavercreek township in the spring of 1917 and whose
widow is still living there, was a member of one of Greene
county's pioneer families and all his life was spent here.
He was born on a farm in Sugarcreek township on Jan. 19,
1853, son of William and Jane (Miller) Tobias, the
former of whom was born in the Zimmerman settlement in this
county, in 1821, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hanney)
Tobias, who had come here from Schuylkill county,
Pennsylvania. Jane Miller was born in Bath
township, this county, in 1824, daughter of James and
Elizabeth (Wheeler) Miller, the former of whom was a
soldier of the war of 1812, and who had come here after
their marriage in Maryland. William and Jane
(Miller) Tobias were the parents of eight children, of
whom William A. was the third in order of birth, and
further mention of whom is made in a somewhat more
comprehensive narrative relating to the Tobias family
in this county presented elsewhere in this volume.
William Tobias died on Jan. 15, 1910, and his widow
survived him less than a year, her death occurring on Dec.
15, of that same year. They were formerly members of
the Lutheran church, but later became members of the Beaver
Reformed church.
Reared on the home farm, William A. Tobias
received his schooling in the local schools and remained at
home until his marriage in the fall of 1881, after which he
rented a farm and began farming on his own account. In
1893 he bought the farm on which his widow is now living, on
rural mail route No. 10 out of Xenia, and there spent the
remainder of his life, his death occurring there on Apr. 13,
1917. Mr. Tobias was a Republican and was a
member of the Reformed church.
On Nov. 24, 1881, William A. Tobias was united
in marriage to Jennie Alice Gerlaugh, who was born in
Beavercreek township, this county, daughter of David and
Rebecca (Weaver) Gerlaugh, the former of whom was born
in that same township, son of Adam and Catherine (Haines)
Gerlaugh, both of whom were born in Washington county,
Maryland. Adam Gerlaugh was a son of Adam
Gerlaugh and was twenty-one years of age when he came
with his father and the other members of the family to Ohio
in 1807 and settled on a tract of land in Beavercreek
township, this county, which the senior Adam Gerlaugh
had bought some time previously when he made a prospecting
trip out this way with a neighbor, Mr. Haines, who
also had bought a tract of land here, the two then returning
to Maryland. Mr. Haines never returned to Ohio,
but the land he had bought here was later occupied by
members of his family who came out here at the time the
Gerlaughs came, among these being the daughter,
Catherine Haines, and her brother, and in the winter
following their arrival here the younger Adam Gerlaugh
and Catherine Haines were married and settled on the
Haines tract. There they reared their family
and there Mrs. Gerlaugh died in the spring of 1852.
Adam Gerlaugh survived his wife for four years, his
death occurring at the home of a son down in Warren county
in 1856. They were pioneer members of the Reformed
church in Beavercreek township and their children were
reared in that faith. There were ten of these
children, eight sons, David, Jacob, Otho, Adam, Robert,
Arthur, Jonathan and Henry, and two daughters,
Frances, who married Benjamin Clark, of
Montgomery county, and Mary Jane, who married one of
the Hawkers and became a resident of Dayton.
David Gerlaugh grew up on the home farm in
Beavercreek township and after his marriage to Rebecca
Weaver began farming for himself, he and his wife making
their home in a log cabin on the farm on which their
daughter, Mrs. Tobias, is now living. That was
a farm on one hundred and sixty-two acres, on which at that
time there was but a small clearing, but Mr. Gerlaugh
presently got the place under cultivation and in good time
built a substantial brick house, the house in which Mrs.
Tobias is living, burning the bricks for the same on his
place, and there he and his wife spent their last days, his
death occurring on Nov. 4, 1885, and hers, Apr. 27, 1889.
They were members of the local congregation of the Reformed
church. Of the four children born to them Mrs.
Tobias was the last-born, the others being Mary,
who married William Needles and is now deceased;
Harriet, who married Samuel Rahn and is also
deceased, and Alexander, a farmer, who spent his last
days at Springfield, in the neighboring county of Clark.
To William A. and Jennie Alice (Gerlaugh) Tobias
were born three children, D. Emerson, Edna, who died
at the age of nine years, and Irene, who died in
infancy. The Rev. D. Emerson Tobias, now a
minister of the Reformed church, stationed at Baltimore,
this state, was educated at Heidelburg College at Tiffin,
Ohio, and at the Central Theological Seminary at Dayton and
in 1909 was ordained to the ministry, later occupying
charges at Hillsboro and at West Salem, from which latter
place he was transferred to Baltimore, in Fairfield county,
where he is now stationed. He married Florence
Engle and has one child, a son, William A.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. by
B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.,
1918 - Page 640 |
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