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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Guernsey County, Ohio
by Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet
- Illustrated -
Vols. I & 2.
B. F. Bowden & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana -
1911
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William T. Ramsey,
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WILLIAM T. RAMSEY, M. D.
The name of Dr. William T. Ramsey has long since become a
household word throughout Guernsey county, where he has
practiced his profession for more than a quarter of a century,
and he is regarded as one of the leading medical men of eastern
Ohio, keeping abreast of the times in all matters pertaining to
his calling and broad-minded and conscientious in the discharge
of his professional duties.
Doctor Ramsey was born Apr. 18, 1847, in
Frederick, Maryland, and he is the son of James M. and Mary
Eleanor Addison (Tyler) Ramsey. His father was a
lawyer by profession, and he filled the responsible position of
chief clerk to the first comptroller of the treasury for several
years, dying in the service at the early age of thirty-nine
years. He was a native Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and his
wife was born in Frederick, Maryland. Her death occurred
about thirty years ago in Washington, D. C.
Doctor Ramsey was educated at the academy at
Frederick and while yet a mere lad he entered the commissary
department of the Union army during the Civil war, and remained
in the same until September, 1865, when he was transferred to
the commissary-general's office in Washington and remained there
until 1869. Then he entered the commissary department of
the army located at Washington, D. C., and while in this service
studied medicine at Columbian College, in that city, having been
graduated from this institution in 1871. He resigned from
the commissary department in 1873, leaving the service to begin
the practice of medicine. He was at Providence Hospital in
Washington, D. C., until 1879. In 1880 he received an
appointment as surgeon with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
and remained in the same one year. He came to
Washington, Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1881 and began the
practice of his profession there, and in April, 1883, he came to
Cambridge and has been here ever since. He has enjoyed a
large practice from the fist and his reputation has far
transcended the limits of Guernsey county. He is kept very
busy as a general practitioner and won an envied reputation in a
community long noted for the high order of its medical talent.
Dr. Ramsey was married on Jan. 2, 1884, to
Martha Isabelle Lawrence, daughter of William A. and Mary
(Moore) Lawrence. Her father was a prominent citizen
and served as county treasurer for four years. At the time
of his death, in December, 1879, he was cashier of the Guernsey
National Bank. His wife died in the following month,
January, 1880. To Dr. and Mrs. Ramsey two children
have been born. William L., deceased, and James
M., now with the National Coal Company of Cambridge.
Politically Doctor Ramsey is a Democrat, and he
has always been active in public affairs and during two terms of
President Cleveland's administration he was a member of
the board of pension examiners. In 1907 he was appointed
health officer of Cambridge and is still serving very acceptably
in that capacity. He is a member of the state and county
medical societies, and he was for some time president of the
latter. He is a member of the Masonic order and is a
Knight Templar and a thirty-second-degree Mason. He is a
member of the Ohio Consistory at Cincinnati and he has filled
most of the offices of the order. He is active in lodge
matters. Doctor Ramsey, wife and son are members of
the Episcopal church and active church workers, - in fact
Mrs. Ramsey is an active worker in all church and charitable
circles, and, like the Doctor, she is held in high favor in a
wide circle of friends.
The Doctor's sterling old grandfather, Samuel Ramsey,
was reared on a farm, and one adjacent to that of President
James Buchanan near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They
attended school together and graduated from Dickinson College at
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the same class, studied law together
and were admitted to the bar at the same time.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vol. I. B. F. Bowden & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 784 |
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DANIEL L. RANKIN Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P.
B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden
& Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 804 |
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LYNN S. REASONER. From
an old and prominent family is descended Lynn S. Reasoner,
one of Cambridge's most representative men of affairs and one of
the honored and public-spirited citizens of Guernsey county,
having always striven to bear aloft the untarnished escutcheon
of his influential and worthy progenitors.
Mr. Reasoner was born on Apr. 24, 1851, in Adams
township, Guernsey county, Ohio, the son of
THOMAS H. and Nancy Ann (Lynn) Reasoner. The
Reasoners were French victims of religious persecution,
escaping to Germany and from Germany to America, and fist
settled in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Peter
Reasoner was the father of Benjamin, Joseph, John, Peter,
Spears and Nathan, six sons and the following
daughters: Nancy, Sarah and Catherine.
John was the first of the Reasoner's that came to
Guernsey county, in the year 1802, and found his location.
He returned to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and brought
his family and located near what is now New Concord on the line
dividing Muskingum and Guernsey counties. His family
landed in their new home July 4, 1803, and at a later date the
father of John, Peter Reasoner, came to the same location
from Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, with four of his
brothers, his wife being dead and his family grown, but his four
brothers all brought families; these brothers were John,
Solomon, Benjamin and William. These with their
families all settled in the vicinity of what is now New Concord,
and within the boundaries of what is now Muskingum and Guernsey
counties.
Catherine, the daughter of John
Reasoner, who first came to Ohio, was the first white child
born within the boundaries of what is now Guernsey county.
She married John Connor, and for many years lived in the
vicinity of Claysville, living to the age of ninety-seven years.
John Reasoner's wife, the mother of Catherine,
was the seventh woman living within the boundaries of Guernsey
county at the time of the arrival of the family, and she lived
to be ninety-six years of age. Her husband, John
Reasoner, died a number of years prior. John
Reasoner built on his farm the first horse mill, for
grinding grain, the horse being the motive power and the grain
came from the mill simply ground, without any separation of the
meal and flour from the bran. A man by the name of
Arnold afterwards built a grist mill, of water power, on the
same site of the old horse mill.
The Reasoners, of which Lynn S. Reasoner
is the direct descendant, represent six generations in Guernsey
county, first Peter, the father of John, the
father of Benjamin, the father of Thomas H., the
father of Lynn S., the father of Jay A.
All have lived in what is now Adams township, of Guernsey
county, except Jay A., who was born in Byesville, Jackson
township, Guernsey county.
Thomas H., the father of the subject of this
sketch, the representative of the fourth generation, was a
farmer, as were all his ancestry, and a man prominent in the
affairs of Adams township. His family consisted of seven
children: Anna, deceased; Lynn S., the
subject of this sketch; Margaret, deceased; Benjamin,
deceased; McFarland, deceased; Jennie, who is now
Mrs. Elmer E. Lorimer, of Zanesville, Ohio. The
father died Sept. 16, 1864, in the hospital at Rome, Georgia,
being a member of Company H, of the Seventy-eighth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil war. His widow died at
the age of eighty years in April, 1904. Mrs. Reasoner's
ancestral line in Guernsey county is as follows: Hugh
Lynn, the father of Samuel, the father of Nancy,
the mother of Lynn S. Reasoner, the father of Jay A.
Hugh Lynn came from Pennsylvania and located in Adams
township, Guernsey county, Ohio, some years after the
Reasoners came. Hugh Lynn was a wealthy man in
Pennsylvania and disposed of his property, receiving in payment
Continental money. He deposited the money in the bank and
came to Ohio to seek a new location, found it and returned to
Pennsylvania to get his money to pay for the new land. The
banker would only give him Continental money such as he had
deposited and in the interim between the deposit and the demand
for his money again Continental money had become not worth a
continental, and he was transformed from a very wealthy man to a
very poor one, and he never recovered the reverse in fortune.
Lynn S. Reasoner, the subject of this sketch,
was born on a farm and spent his childhood and youth after his
father's death as a farm hand. He obtained his education
in the country district schools and for a few terms in the
schools of New Concord. He afterwards taught school for
five years in Muskingum county, Ohio, and from school teaching
he entered the mercantile business at Creighton in Knox
township, Guernsey county. He remained in Creighton two
and one-half years, when he went to Wakatonika, Coshocton
county, Ohio, for two years and a half, where he engaged in the
mercantile business. From there he came to Byesville,
Guernsey county, in 1884, and engaged in the mercantile business
there for seventeen years. In 1901 he sold out this
business in Byesville and came to Cambridge and engaged in the
real estate business and has continued ever since.
Mr. Reasoner was married Aug. 4, 1880, to
Catherine M. Houseman, daughter of Johnson and Nancy
(Gregory) Houseman. Mr. Houseman was a farmer
of near New Concord, Muskingum county, Ohio. The
Housemans were prosperous farmers. Both the parents of
Mrs. Reasoner are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs.
Reasoner were born two children, one son and one daughter,
Jay A. and Ethel. Both are graduates of the
Cambridge high school and Jay A., who is also a graduate
of the law department of the Ohio State University, has been
admitted to the bar and is now practicing law in Coshocton,
Ohio. The daughter, Ethel, is a graduate from the
Cambridge high school, taking both the classical and scientific
courses, either of which requires four years for completion,
and, combined, the two require six years for completion, but she
completed the combined courses in four years and on graduation
received two diplomas, a feat accomplished by no other girl
student in the Cambridge schools up to this date. She is
now a member of the class of 1913 in the art college at the
State University at Columbus.
Mr. Reasoner is a member of the Masonic of the
Masonic order, Cambridge Lodge, also a member of Red Prince
Lodge No. 250, Knights of Pythias, at Byesville. He is a
Republican in politics, his ancestors being Republicans from the
birth of the party in 1856. He has been active in public
matters, was mayor of Byesville for four years and a trustee of
Jackson township, and a member of the Byesville board of
education for some years and has always been active in
educational matters. In 1910 Mr. Reasoner was
appointed justice of the peace. The family are members of
the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Reasoner is a
Christian Scientist, being a member of the mother church at
Boston. The Reasoner home is at No. 230 North Sixth
street, and is prominent in the social life of Cambridge.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vol. I. B. F. Bowden & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 635 |
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JOHN REYNOLDS Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P.
B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden
& Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 661 |
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LINCOLN O. RIDDLE Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P.
B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden
& Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 759 |
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EUGENE C. RIGGS Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P.
B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden
& Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 887 |
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ARTHUR G. RINGER Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P.
B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden
& Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 667 |
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JAMES E. ROBINS Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P.
B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden
& Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 583 |
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JOHN ROBINS, SR. Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P.
B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden
& Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 583 |
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MARTIN L. ROBINS Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P.
B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden
& Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 584 |
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LILBURN C. ROGERS. As
long as history endures will the American nation acknowledge its
indebtedness to the heroes who between 1861 and 1865 fought for
the preservation if the Union and the honor of that starry
banner which has never been trailed in the dust of defeat in a
single polemic struggle in which the country has been involved.
Among those whose military records as valiant soldiers of the
war of the Rebellion reflect lasting honor upon them and their
descendants is Lilburn C. Rogers, who is one of the
honored citizens of Byesville, Guernsey county, where he has
long maintained his home and led a life consistent with the
truth.
Mr. Rogers was born on Apr. 12, 1840, in Jackson
township, this county, above Trail Run, and is the son of
Roland and Mary (Cummings) Rogers. The father was
born, it is believed, in Harrison county, Ohio, and was the son
of William Rogers, who probably came from Harford county,
Maryland; at least a large number of the Rogers family,
his near relatives, came from there. Mary Cummings
was born, probably near Mansfield, Ohio, and was the daughter of
James Cummings, a Protestant, who came from Ireland.
Roland Rogers and wife were married prior to 1838, and
about 1839 moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, and settled along
Wills creek, less than a mile from Trail run, in Jackson
township. There his father bought a farm and established
the Rogers homestead. There, too, the parents of
the subject spent the major part of their lives; although they
lived awhile near Byesville, they died on the farm, the father's
death occurring on Aug. 15, 1895, and that of the mother three
months later, November 16th. Roland Rogers was a
Republican, having been a Whig in his earlier life; he became an
active Abolitionist and took part in assisting slaves to escape
by way of the "underground railroad," when his son, Lilburn
C., was a child. In the lat years of his life the
father was a Prohibitionist. He was a charter member of
the Methodist Protestant church at Trail Run, and was an active
and earnest worker in the same. In politics and religion
he was by nature a reformer. In his family were seven
children, of whom fie lived to maturity, namely: Mrs.
Ellen Jane Hutton, deceased, was the widow of John
Hutton; Lilburn C., of this review; James
O., deceased; William B., deceased; Roland Jarvis
lives between Trail Run and Senecaville on the home farm.
Lilburn C. Rogers grew to maturity on the home
farm, and when twenty-one years of age he went west, spending
nearly two years, principally in California and Oregon.
The balance of his life has been spent in Jackson township, this
county. During the war between the states he proved his
patriotism by enlisting in Company H, One Hundred and
Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served very
faithfully and made a good record as a soldier.
On July 31, 1866, Mr. Rogers was married to
Sarah Louisa Hutton, daughter of Solomon and Mary
(Stewart) Hutton. She is the sister of William A.
Hutton, whose sketch appears on another page of this work,
and in which may be found complete records of her ancestors who
were an old and prominent family here.
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are the parents of three
children, namely: Francis A., who married Jenette Hood,
lives in Cambridge, where he engages as a plasterer and concrete
worker; Charles T., who married Elizabeth Hinchcliffe,
lives in Byesville where he is following plastering; they have
five children living, and one dead, Clarence C., Lilburn
Carl, Irene, Gladys, Edmund, deceased and Cecil Albert Rogers.
Mary A. B. Rogers, the subject's daughter, married Ed. J.
Nichols and lives in Byesville, and they are the parents of
three children, Edward Lilburn, Mary Marie and Russell.
Mr. Nichols is also a plasterer.
For fourteen years after his marriage Mr. Rogers
lived a mile northwest of Byesville, where he owned a farm.
In April, 1882, he moved into Byesville, having sold his farm.
He bought a small farm in Oakwood, now in the northwest part of
Byesville, which he farmed, but made his home in Byesville at
the time. That land is now laid off in city lots and is
well built up. Mr. Rogers has lived to see and take
part in the remarkable growth of this vicinity, remembering when
Byesville was little more than an unimproved field, consisting
only of a grist-mill and about seven houses along the north side
of what is now Main street and a shoe shop along the south side
of the street. The only store was east of Wills creek
where the Jonathan Bye have still stands. He is
been an interested spectator in witnessing the place grow from a
straggling hamlet to a city. Politically, Mr.
Rogers is a Republican and he and his wife belong to the
Methodist Protestant church.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vol. I. B. F. Bowden & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 940 |
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