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BIOGRAPHIES
** Source:
A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio
- Vol. I & II -
Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
1910
898 pgs.
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MRS. NANCY
(NORMAN) BAILEY, who lives on her farm in
Taylor Creek township, Hardin county, has been a resident of the
county since childhood. She was born in Jefferson county,
Ohio, Feb. 13, 1832, a daughter of James and Mary (Brown)
Norman, the former of Virginia. Mr. Norman came
to Taylor Creek township when his daughter was eleven years of
age. The family came by wagon and had two yoke of oxen for
making the trip. They stopped on their way at
Wheeler's Tavern, on the Sandusky Road, also at Furney's
Tavern in Kenton. They located opposite the present home
of Mrs. Bailey and took up one hundred and twenty-five
acres of land, there being then but one house between their farm
and Kenton, - the Scott house. Their first home was
a hewed log affair, and at the raising of the house little
Nancy did all the cooking, providing food for all who
attended, though she was then only eleven years old.
Mrs. Norman died in 1869. Mrs. Bailey is the
only survivor of the family of five children. James
Norman was a son of Henry and Nancy (Knotts)
Norman.
Nancy Norman spent her girlhood on a farm and in
1849 she married Silas Bailey, who was born in Logan
county, Ohio, in 1824, a son of William and Mary (Olcott)
Bailey, who married in 1817. William Bailey was
born in Martinsburg, Virginia, and moved to Hardin county in
1827; he died Dec. 6, 1853. After their marriage Mr.
Bailey and his wife lived some time in a small cabin on the
Norman place, and in 1868 came to what is the present
family homestead. They began housekeeping there in a small
log cabin which is now in the rear of the pleasant, modern farm
house. Mr. Bailey was a successful farmer and stock
raiser and an enterprising, progressive citizen, who was
actively interested in public affairs and in every good cause.
He enlisted in the Union army in 1864, serving until the end of
the war, in Company B. One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Regiment,
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He died Mar. 10, 1882, and his
loss was mourned by a large circle of friends. He and his
wife became the parents of children as follows:
Nathaniel, deceased; Jonathan, a farmer of Buck
township married Sarah Frey; Martha wife of W. Bailey,
had one child, Cora, who married W. Short, and she
is deceased; Fletcher, of Goshen township, married Ida
Kelley, and they have three children; B. Wells,
married Joan Newell and lives in Georgia; Curtis,
living at home, married Ada Stevenson, and they have one
child. Martha and Curtis both live with
their mother and care for her interests. Mrs. Bailey
is well known in the community, having spent so large a part of
her life in the township and has a large circle of friends.
She is blessed with good health and after a life of industry and
toil enjoys a well-earned rest. She is a member of the
Disciples church.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 858 |
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JOHN A. BAIRD Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 669 |
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JAMES M. BALDWIN Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 86
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JOHN C. BALES Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 719 |
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AZEL FRANK BALLINGER Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 816 |
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ZELL H. BALLINGER Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 506 |
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JACOB N. BANNING Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 496 |
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WILLIAM M. BECKMAN Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 559 |
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WILLIAM ALVIN BELT, M. D. Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 788 |
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GEORGE S. BINCKLEY Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 868 |
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HENRY J. BLOOM Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 741 |
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PHILIP AND PETER BOEHM Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 689 |
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H. M. BOROFF Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 824 |
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WILLIAM T. BOWDLE Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 681 |
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JAMES W. BOWEN Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 683 |
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JUDGE WILLIS W. BOWERS Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 738 |
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WILLIAM P. BOWMAN Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 720 |
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H. N. BRADLEY Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 712 |
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WILLIAM BREECE Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 677 |
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THOMAS LINCOLN BREEDLOVE Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 679 |
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ANDREW BREITENSTIN Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 832 |
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PHILIP A. BRIELMAIER Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 870 |
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SAMUEL BRIGGS Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 697 |
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ADAM BROWN
- Among the most extensive farmers of McDonald
township, Hardin county, Ohio, is Adam Brown, who owns a
fine farm of two hundred and fourteen acres, where he carried on
general farming and has met with excellent success. Mr.
Brown is one of the influential, representative citizens of
the county, is well known and universally esteemed. He was
born in Union county, Ohio, Oct. 13, 1858, a son of Josiah M.
and Margaret Jane (Basil) Brown, the former born on Big
Darby in Unionville, Ohio, Aug. 25, 1835, and the latter born in
Lincoln county, Sept. 12, 1833. Josiah M. Brown was
a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting in the One Hundred and
Twenty-first Ohio, in 1861, as a private. He served as a
private throughout the war and was mustered out in 1865.
He and his wife moved to Hardin county immediately after the
close of his service, July 4, 1865, locating in Taylor Creek
township, where he purchased forty-eight acres. Three
years later he removed to Hickory Grove. He died on May 6,
1882, and his widow died on Mar. 3, 1893. They were
married Jan. 10, 1856, and to them were born nine children,
including George A., Hester Jane, William, Charles, Aaron,
Samuel and Mary Lizzie. George A. was
born Sept. 28, 1861, and died Mar. 30, 1874, being killed by a
falling tree at the age of thirteen years, six months and twelve
days. Hester J. was born Jan. 8, 1866, and died
June 15, 1909. Charles was born Dec. 28, 1870, and
resides in Zanesfield. Aaron, born Nov. 27, 1872,
lives in Taylor Creek. Samuel, born Apr. 20, 1875,
died in infancy. Mary L. born June 3, 1876, lives
in Taylor Creek township.
The boyhood of Adam Brown was spent in Taylor
Creek, and he attended the district school of his neighborhood.
He afterward took up the trade of carpenter, beginning to work
at the same in 1881, and he followed the trade twenty-seven
years in connection with farming. Politically he is a
Democrat, and he is a Democrat, and he never aspired to public
office, though he takes an active interest in public affairs.
On June 21, 1881, Mr. Brown married Tabatha
C. Kissling, daughter of Hiram Kissling, who resides
in Hardin county, and his wife, Mary Ann (Spencer) Kissling,
deceased. Mrs. Brown is one of seven children
namely: John, Mary, William, Alta J., Nettie M., and
Gertrude (oldest of the family and half-sister to the
others). To Mr. and Mrs. Brown fourteen children
have been born, as follows: Floyd H., born Sept.
14, 1882, married Eva Arbogast, and they reside in Logan
county; Grover C. of McDonald township, born Sept. 9,
1884, married Carrie Fleece, and they have one child,
Albert J.; Frank K., born Dec. 12, 1886, is unmarried and
lives at home, where he assists in the duties of the farm;
Alta J., born Mar. 1, 1888, married Chester Deardorff,
who was killed at Bellefontaine July 9, 1909, by a street car,
leaving one child, Herbert; Carrie M., born May 19, 1889,
unmarried and living at home; Blanch, born Mar. 26, 1891,
living at home; Emma V., born July 5, 1892; Mary L.,
born Oct. 25, 1893; Opal C., born Dec. 26, 1894;
William J., born Mar. 18, 1897; Mattie C., born Sept.
20, 1898; Golda, born June 3, 1900, died Nov. 26, 1900,
aged five months and twenty-three days; Ruth, born Oct.
23, 1901; and Edgar E., born Jan. 21, 1904.
Mr. Brown first purchased forty acres in Union
county, which he owned and conducted for ten years, then traded
it for ninety-three acres in Logan county, which he owned four
years, then traded it for his present farm in Hardin county.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 566 |
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Peter Brown |
PETER BROWN
- The substantial and well-to-do agriculturists of Buck
township, Hardin county, have an excellent representative in the
person of Peter Brown, who comes on both sides of
the house of pioneer stock, and is successfully devoting his
time and energies to his well improved and finely managed
farming property. He was born May 31, 1853, in Scioto
county, Ohio, a son of Joseph Brown. His
paternal grandfather, William Brown, was born in
Ireland, of thrifty Scotch ancestry. Emigrating when young
to the United States, he bought a tract of wild and wooded land
in Scioto county, Ohio, and on the farm which he cleared and
improved he resided until his death, at the age of four score
years.
Born, reared and married in Scioto county, Ohio,
Joseph Brown lived there until 1855, when,
accompanied by his wife and two children he migrated to Logan
county, and bought a tract of land near Ridgeway. A log
house, a log stable, and a patch of cleared land constituted the
improvements on the place. He cleared more of the land and
then sold at an advance, and bought eighty-seven acres on the
north line of the county. There were two log cabins on the
land when he bought it. He subsequently built a spacious
hewed log house, and resided there a number of years.
Selling out then, he bought ninety-six acres, a part of which
was in Hardin county. He built a hewed log house, improved
the land, and set out fruit and shade trees, rendering the
estate one of the most attractive in the neighborhood, and was
there a resident until his death, at the age of forty-nine
years, while vet in the prime of life.
Joseph Brown married Edey Riley, who was
born near Zanesfield, Logan county, Ohio, eighty-seven years
ago, a daughter of William and Nancy Riley, who were
among the original settlers of Logan county. When they
located there wild game of all kinds was abundant, and Indians
still inhabited the forests. Mr. Riley cleared and
improved a good homestead, and there he and his faithful wife
and co-worker spent their remaining years. Mr. Brown's
mother is still living, and has a vivid recollection of the
hardships and privations endured by the brave pioneers of this
section of the country, who first uprooted the
trees, ploughed the sod. and made a broad track for the advance
of civilization. She reared four children, namely: John,
Peter, Sarah Jane, and Margaret Ellen.
But two years old when his parents moved to Logan
county, Peter Brown attended school as opportunity
offered, gaily trudging the two long miles between his home and
the log school house. After the death of his father he
assisted in clearing the land and tilling the soil, remaining
with his mother until ready to establish a home of his own.
He settled then on a portion of the old homestead, but at the
end of two years sold and bought land three miles north of
Rushsylvania, where he lived three years. Selling that
property Mr. Brown lived eleven years on rented farms in
Buck township, and then moved to his present near-by farm, where
he has since been actively and successfully engaged in general
agriculture.
Mr. Brown married in August, 1879, Ella
Roberts, a native of Logan county, Ohio. Her
father, John Roberts, was born Mar. 7, 1827, in
Tennessee, and when six years old came with his parents,
Andrew and Margaret (McCamish) Roberts, to Logan county.
He served during the Civil war as a member of the One Hundred
and Ninety-fifth Regiment of Illinois, at the close of the
conflict being honorably discharged from the service. lie was a
farmer by occupation, owning land in Rush Creek township, Logan
county, where he was engaged in his chosen vocation until his
death, Nov. 28, 1899, being seventy-two years, eight months and
twenty days at the time. His wife, whose maiden name was
Anna Kautzman, was born Feb. 9, 1824, in West
Virginia, a daughter of John and Mary Kautzman, who
became early settlers of Logan county, Ohio. Anna
Kautzman married John J. Roberts July 5, 1846, and
she died Oct. 30, 1904. at the age of eighty years, eight months
and twenty-one days. She was the mother of eleven children
of whom eight are living and Mrs. Brown is the
third youngest, the date of her birth being Mar. 23, 1863.
Mrs. Brown's mother spun and wove the large canvas cover
that was used in camping when they came here. Mrs.
Brown have two children, namely: Harry and
Stella Harry married Ella Dysart, and they have two
children, Cleora and Dwight. Stella
married first Kerr Brooks, and they had one daughter
Clara. She married for her second husband William
Clark. Politically Mr. Brown is a stanch
advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and socially
he is a member of Silver Creek Grange. Mrs. Brown
is a member of the Disciples church of Belle Center.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 482 |
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R. DOLPH BROWN
- Among the most important residents of any community are the
farmers; upon the success of agricultural operations depends the
prosperity of the country. Among the successful farmers of
Dudley township, Hardin county, Ohio, is R. Dolph Brown,
who was born Nov. 17, 1859, in Union county, Ohio, a son of
Jacob Brown. Jacob Brown died in 1874, at the age of
sixty-seven years. He came from Virginia to Union county,
Ohio, with his father, as a small boy, and later they settled in
Hardin county, in Dudley township, along the Scioto river.
He married Naomi Arhood.
After reaching the age of sixteen
years, R. Dolph Brown began working on the farm for his
parents; at the death of his father, he and his brother took
charge of the farm until Dolph was twenty-seven years of
age, when he rented a farm twelve years and then bought his
present place, where he carried on general farming and stock
raising. He is a prominent citizen of the township, and
actively interested in public affairs. He is well known
and highly respected, and all who have had dealing with Mr.
Brown are assured of his good business principles and high
character. Politically he is a Democrat, although he has
never cared for the emoluments of public office. He is a
member of the United Brethren church, and served five years as
trustee. He belongs to the Macabees, of Hepburn, Ohio.
In 1887 Mr. Brown married, at Hepburn parsonage,
Maggie Kelly, born Mar. 27, 1863, daughter of Edward
and Mary Ann (Lewis) Kelly. They were the first couple
married at this parsonage. Edward Kelly was born
Dec. 30, 1821, and died in 1894. He came as a boy with his
father, Benjamin Kelly from Eastern Pennsylvania to Ohio;
the father was a cooper by trade and settled in Marion county,
later in Hardin county. Edward Kelly remained with
his parents until his marriage; he then rented a farm in Marion
county, but on account of his wife's poor health moved, in a
covered wagon, to Greene county, Indiana, where he was employed
for about a year teaming and freighting to different towns, and
then settled in Hardin county ad brought what is now
called the Old Kelly Home, which he cleared, and where
the remainder of his life was spent. His widow died in
1899. He was a member of the United Brethren church, and
was a Republican, holding many township offices. Mr.
Kelly was one of the pioneers of the county, and was widely
known and highly esteemed. Besides Mrs. Brown he
and his wife had children as follows: Willis, a
farmer of Dudley township; Ellen, wife of Caleb Harmon,
of Mt. Victory, Ohio; Emma, wife of Cyrus Dille, a
farmer of Dudley township; Lewis also a farmer of Dudley
township; Edward H., a farmer of Oklahoma; and Horace,
who died in the Civil war, of illness, at Chattanooga, being the
oldest of the family.
To Mr. and Mrs. Brown were born children as
follows: Elsie, born May 16, 1888; Clella,
deceased; Mary, deceased; Amy born Aug. 29, 1895;
Dewey, April, 1899; Harley, Feb. 26, 1901;
Mabel, July 30, 1903; Orvey, June 10, 1906; David
Kelly, Feb. 11, 1907. Mrs. Brown is an earnest
member of the United Brethren church and of the Ladies Aid
Society.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 606 |
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JOHN BRUNGARD Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 841 |
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OTIS DANIEL BRUNGARD Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 833 |
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GEORGE W. BRYANT Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 575 |
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HARVEY BUCKMINSTER Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 885 |
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JAMES R. BURNISON Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 800 |
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ORVA OTIS BUTLER Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 466 |
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WILLIAM GRANT BUTLER Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 464 |
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