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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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A. Ramsey |
ANTHONY RAMSEY,
who owns and occupies a farm of ninety acres in Washington
township, Hardin county, Ohio, was born at Kenton this county,
in 1840. Here he grew to manhood, receiving his education
in the common schools, and early in life giving his attention to
the shipping of stock. This business he followed for
twenty-five years. He was reared on a farm, and in later
years he naturally turned to the farm again. First, he
bought eighty acres in Pleasant township. Afterward he
owned other farms, aggregating in all nine hundred sixty-five
acres.
Mr. Ramsey is a son of George and Lizzie (Peifer)
Ramsey natives of Germany, who emigrated to the united
States in 1836, coming direct to Hardin county. Here
George Ramsey purchased one hundred acres of unclaimed land.
He was the first man in Hardin county to do any milling.
His mill was a portable one, operated by horse power, and while
he conducted business on a small scale it was sufficient for
those pioneer days. Also he was the first man in the
county to distill liquor. By trade he was a tailor, having
served an apprenticeship in the old country; but in the new
country in which they had settled they found new conditions to
which they adapted themselves. His brothers had learned
milling and distilling in Germany, and it was with their
assistance that he engaged in these occupations here. George
Ramsey was the father of four children: Anthony,
Lizzie, Maggie and George, deceased, and
when the children were small the father died, his death
occurring in 1849. The mother lived to rear her little
family, and to reach the ripe old age of eighty-six. She
died Apr. 27, 1905. The paternal grandfather of our
subject was Henry Ramsey. He was the head of
the family which emigrated to this country from Germany in 1836,
as above stated, and his children were George, Lewis,
Anthony, Coen, Dorotha and Lizzie. The maternal
grandfather was Michael Peifer, also a German. The
Peifer family came to America about the time the
Ramseys did, and settled at Kenton. The children of
Michael Peifer were: Adam, John, Michael,
George, Barbara and Lizzie.
Apr. 27, 1877, Anthony Ramsey married
Miss Rose, daughter of Jacob and Harriet Hufnagle,
who bore him three children: Hattie, who married
Alexander Eberhart and has two children.
Anna and Frederick; Georgiana died at the age of
twenty-four; and Mark. Mrs. Ramsey
was born in Crawford county, Ohio, Mar. 2, 1851. Mr.
Ramsey's mother came from Germany.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 588 |
Jasper N. Richards |
JASPER NEWTON RICHARDSON
Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 499 |
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