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History of Highland
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by Rev. J. W. Klise -
Publ. Madison,
Wis.,
Northwestern Historical Association
1902
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ROBERT
C. DAISLEY, breeder of thoroughbred cattle
and hogs and one of the substantial farmers in the
vicinity of Lynchburg, Ohio, is a native of Highland
county, of Irish parentage. His father,
William Daisley, was born at Mt. Charles, parish
of Inver, Donegal county, Ireland, in 1811 and came
to America in 1833, but did not reach Highland
county until six years later. He settled one
mile south of Fairview in Hamer township and as he
was in industrious young man of good address
he soon made headway in business. Some years
after his arrival he obtained the hand in marriage
of Margaret Barnes, member of a
wealthy and influential family who were identified
with the county from its organization. Her
parents were John and Christina (Tedrick) Barnes,
natives of Pennsylvania, who settled in Dodson
township and there spent the remainder of their
days. They had thirteen children and the
father was able to give to each son one hundred
acres and to each daughter fifty acres of land, his
whole estate amounting to about nine hundred acres.
The father died in 1857 and his wife a few years
previous to that time. William Daisley
and wife lived happily together for many years, her
death occurring in 1874, at the age of sixty-eight,
and his in 1891, when he was eighty years old.
They had four children and the only one living is
Robert C. Daisley, born in Hamer township,
Highland county, Ohio, Mar. 5, 1852. He
attended school with a view to qualifying himself as
a teacher and subsequently followed that useful
occupation for fifteen years, being so employed from
September, 1871, until March, 1886. In 1891 he
located on a farm of 110 acres in Dodson township,
where he has since been engaged in general farming
and the breeding of fine stock. He makes a
specialty of the Shorthorn Durham cattle and
Poland-China hogs, and has met with success as a
handler and producer of these popular varieties.
Aug. 12, 1877, Mr. Daisley was married to
Salina A. Clark, born in Clinton county, Ohio,
July 12, 1851, by whom he has two children, Maud
M. and Myra R. Maud attended
the Lynchburg high school and has been a successful
teacher for several years. The family are
members of the Christian church. Mrs.
Daisley is the eldest daughter of Carey and
Rebecca J. (Hildebrant) Clark. Her father
was born in Clinton county, Ohio, Nov. 26, 1828, and
died there on June 25th, 1901. Her mother also
was born in Clinton county, May 8, 1832. The
Clarks and Hildebrands were among the
pioneer settlers of Clinton county.
Source: History of Highland County, Ohio by Rev. J.
W. Klise - Publ. Madison, Wis., Northwestern
Historical Association - 1902 ~ Page 276 |
JAMES
B. DAVIS, member of the board of
commissioners of Highland county and well known as a
breeder of fine stock, is a representative farmer
and popular citizen. He was born and reared on
a farm and all his life has been devoted to
agricultural pursuits, in which he has achieved a
flattering measure of success. Mr. Davis
was born in Paint township, Highland county, Ohio,
Oct. 9, 1856, and when twenty years old the
responsibility of managing the home farm devolved
upon his youthful shoulders. He attended
closely to this laborious task and during the
nine years he had charge managed the estate with
entire satisfaction to all concerned. In 1885
he went to Montgomery county, Iowa, where he
assisted his brother in a grocery store and took
advantage of his leisure time by attending school
for the purpose of perfecting his education, which
had been somewhat neglected on account of the
exigencies of business. Eventually he returned
to his old duties as manager of his father's farm
and in a year or two became sole owner by purchasing
the interests of the other heirs. At present
Mr. Davis, owns a fine body of land,
consisting of 220 acres, well located and well
improved. He cultivates this farm by modern
methods and pays especial attention to breeding
Shorthorn cattle and other stock of the best grades.
In 1900 Dr. Davis held the important position
of land appraiser, and in the fall of 1901 was
elected commissioner of Highland county on the
Democratic ticket. He is a member of Paint
lodge, No. 453, Knights of Pythias, at Rainsboro,
and for five years has held the position of supreme
master of exchequer. He also had the honor of
being the first representative of the local body in
the grand lodge of the fraternity. Oct. 20,
1880, he was married to Cora M., the
accomplished daughter of Capt. David M. Barrett,
the well known mill owner and business man.
The children resulting from this union are Birdie
E., who is attending Earlham college at
Richmond, Ind.; Grace, whose promising life
was cut short at the age of sixteen; Georgia
and James, Jr. Mr. Davis is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church at Rainsboro and
holds the positions of steward, trustee and Sunday
school superintendent.
Source: History of Highland County, Ohio by Rev. J.
W. Klise - Publ. Madison, Wis., Northwestern
Historical Association - 1902 ~ Page 277 |
THOMAS
D. DAVIS, of Mowrystown, who has been
prominent for many years as a township official and
business man, is descended from a Quaker family
established in Paint township at an early date in
the settlement of the county. His grandfather,
William Davis a native of South Carolina,
came to Ohio from that southern state with his wife
and family to Highland county, located near New
Petersburg, and was well known among the early
settlers as a skillful shoemaker in the days when
that trade was one of importance and profit.
He lived to the advanced age of eighty-five years,
and reared a family of six children: John,
Thomas, William, Tristram, Jane and
Elizabeth. William, Jr., was born near New
Petersburg, in Paint township, Feb. 22, 1797, and
was reared on the farm. Very early in his
manhood he rented a small saw mill, which he
conducted with considerable success, and afterward
purchased a small farm in Rattlesnake creek, where
he made his home, and took his young wife,
Elizabeth Elliott whom he married Apr. 15, 1824,
and who was a native of Pike county, and daughter of
Burgess Elliott, a native of Kentucky.
Some years later he bought the farm of two hundred
acres in Concord township, upon which he afterward
lived, and which is now known as the William
Davis farm There he reared a family of
twelve children - Elliott, now livingin
Missouri; Elvina and Alonzo, deceased;
Ellen, whose home is in Concord township;
Jane, deceased; Elizabeth, residing in
Missouri; John, who was a soldier of the
Union and died at the Andersonville (Ga.) military
prison; Thomas D., the subject of this
sketch, and Melissa, Joseph A., Sarah and
Mary, deceased. The father of these
children was a devoted member of the Society of
Friends, or Quakers, prospered in his worldly
affairs, and had the high esteem of his neighbors.
He died Nov. 21, 1870, at the age of seventy-three
years, and his wife died Mar. 7, 1891, at the age of
seventy-four years. Thomas D. Davis was
born Oct. 22, 1844, on the home farm in Concord
township, near Sugartree Ridge, and was educated in
the district school. He was a boy of sixteen
years when the war of the rebellion began, and as
has been noted, an older brother went into the army
he also offered his services to his State and the
Union, becoming a private soldier, July 23, 1863, in
Company E of the Sixty-sixth regiment Ohio National
Guard. On May 1, 1864, he was made a corporal
in Company A of the Hundred and Sixty-eighth
regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, a regiment that
was formed by uniting the Sixty-sixth and
Sixty-seventh National Guard. His regiment was
ordered on duty in Kentucky, and he was a
participant in the following summer in the famous
battle of Cynthiana, in which the Ohio troops were
surprised and over-whelmed by the noted rebel
raider, John H. Morgan. He and his
comrades were made prisoners but released on parole
next day, and returning to Cincinnati, he was
honorably discharged Sept. 8, 1864. This was
the end of his boyhood experience as a soldier.
Returning to Concord township, he resumed farming,
and on Oct. 14, 1868, was married to Martha J.
Collins, a native of Adams county, O. They
lived for twenty-six years on the farm where they
began housekeeping, until 1900, when Mr. Davis
bought his present home. Three children were
born by his first marriage: Ivah, living at
the old home place; Olin E., at Greenfield,
O., and Edward, who died in childhood.
The first wife died in 1896, and in 1897 he married
Mary E. Gailey, who was born an reared
in Brown county. In addition to farming Mr.
Davis has had success in a business way as agent
of a Dayton fertilizing manufactory and as agent and
director of the Farmers Mutual insurance company, of
Winchester, O. He has served many years as a
member of the school board, and several terms as
township trustee. In religious matters he is a
member of the Methodist church; in politics a
Republican. In association with his comrades
he has been active as adjutant, chaplain and two
terms commander of Lewis Bunn post, No. 724, Grand
Army of the Republic, at Sugartree Ridge, and he is
now adjutant of the John Ball post, No. 943, of the
same patriotic order, at Mowrystown.
Source: History of Highland County, Ohio by Rev.
J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison, Wis., Northwestern
Historical Association - 1902 ~ Page 277 |
DAVID T.
DECK, one of the thrifty and enterprising
farmers of Penn township, has spent his entire life
in agricultural pursuits and been identified during
all his adult years with the development of Highland
county. The founder of the family was
Jonathan Deck, born in West Virginia about 1813
of German parentage. In 1835 he came to
Clinton county, Ohio, where he married Sarah,
daughter of James and Martha Colvin, a
Kentucky family who had settled in that vicinity
some years previously. The children of
Jonathan and Sarah Deck were James C.,
who served about three years in the civil war,
married Angel Conner and died at the age of
thirty years; John C., a farmer in Warren
county, Indiana, married Kate Bloom;
Hannah Lizzie, wife of George Jenks,
farming in Clinton county near Ogden Station;
Henry, a farmer of Union township, married
Rachel Fenner; Nancy J., wife of William
Robaugh of Green county; Samuel, married
Louisa Dennis and farming near New Vienna;
Sarah Margaret, wife of Seneca Dennis, a
farmer of Clinton county; David, further
noticed below; Mary, wife of William
Hogue, grocery clerk in New Vienna; Mattie,
housekeeper for her brother David; George
C., married Minnie Hixson, and farming in
Penn township; Thomas works for his uncle
David and George C., a brother, is also a
member of the same hospitable household.
David T. Deck, the kind and fatherly head of
this family of brothers and sisters, manages a farm
of 150 acres belonging to Mary Woodmansee,
and is what is called a "cash renter." He has
lived twenty years on this place, which is situated
one mile west of Careytown, and has gathered around
him all the necessary requirements of a good home.
Being industrious and a careful manager, Mr. Deck
obtains a satisfactory remuneration from the sale of
his crops of wheat and corn, besides hogs and other
stock to the raising of which he pays considerable
attention.
Source: History of Highland County, Ohio by Rev.
J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison, Wis., Northwestern
Historical Association - 1902 ~ Page 279 |
JOHN
F. DOLLINGER, a retired farmer of Dodson
township residing near Lynchburg, is a German
contribution to the citizenship of Highland county.
He was born in Germany May 14, 1831, his parents
being Sixtus and Christine B. (Ueberreuther)
Dollinger, who ended their lives in the land of
their nativity. They had six children, and
John F. Dollinger, is one of the four living.
He received a good education in his native land,
acquiring a fair knowledge of French and Latin,
besides the more practical branches usually taught
in the German schools. The rule of that
country requiring all of its citizens to give up a
part of their lives to the military service operated
to make young Dollinger a soldier when
eighteen years old. He gave up six years of
his life to the regular army and during that time
got to see some active service as he participated in
two small wars. The first of these was the
Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark controversy in 1849
and the other the Hassen-Cassel, or Kur Hessen
affair in 1851. Mr. Dollinger received
two slight wounds during the fighting in which he
participated and made a very creditable record,
going in as corporal and coming out as second
lieutenant. It was in 1861 that he turned his
face westward for the long journey to the United
States and he arrived rather disqualified for
business in the new country, as he could not speak a
word of English. This, however, and other
difficulties were soon overcome by German
persistence and quickness to learn, and Mr.
Dillinger in time acquired a full knowledge of
the American language. His first venture was
made in Cincinnati, where he turned his attention to
such jobs as he could get, and later he secured
employment on a farm. Eventually he made his
way to Highland county, where he industry enabled
him to accumulate considerable property and he now
owns over 104 acres near Lynchburg and 125 acres in
Clinton county. He spent three years in Kansas
and became the owner of a farm in that state which
he disposed of and returned to Ohio in 1879, since
which time he has lived retired on his property near
Lynchburg. Mr. Dollinger is a member of
the Lutheran church, and of Lynchburg lodge, No.
178, in the Masonic order, and lodge No. 151, of the
Odd Fellows. June 26, 1864, he was married to
Amelia Sinning of Webertown, Ohio, by whom he
has had six children: Anna B., J. Nicholas, J.
Leonard, George (deceased), Dora, and
Leo H.
Source: History of Highland County, Ohio by Rev. J.
W. Klise - Publ. Madison, Wis., Northwestern
Historical Association - 1902 ~ Page 280 |
JAMES NORMAN DOUGLASS,
one of the leading agriculturists in Highland county
and owner of one of the choicest stock farms in
Madison township, belongs to a family with an
ancient and honorable lineage. George
Douglass, who died in Pennsylvania at the age
of sixty-five, was a soldier in the Revolutionary
war and his son William, though a boy at the
time, also helped in the great struggle as a
teamster. When William Douglass grew to
manhood he married Mary, daughter of
Samuel Scott, also a veteran of the war
for independence. The latter migrated from
Pennsylvania to Kentucky and took part in the border
warfare with the Indians which was quite frequent in
those days. His wife, whose maiden name was
Fisher, fell a victim in one of the numerous
massacres perpetrated by the Indians on the white
settlers of Kentucky. In 1810, William
and Mary (Scott) Douglass
came to Ohio and, after a short halt at Pickaway
Plains, moved on to Highland county and settled
permanently in the vicinity of Greenfield. He
had brought with him $8,000 in silver, which enabled
him to purchase a large body of land which
subsequently became of great value. He resided
on his place a short distance south of Greenfield
until his death, which occurred Dec. 23, 1852, when
he was about eighty-eight years old.
William and Mary (Scott) Douglass became the
parents of ten children, including a son named
James, who was horn in Pennsylvania but came as
a very youthful immigrant to Highland county.
When he grew up he married Mary Mackerly,
member of a pioneer family who settled in Paint
township. As the result of this union there
were five children: Mary S., widow of J.
W. Quinn, residing at Greenfield; Martha
Lucinda, wife of Cyrus F. Wilson of
the same city; William H. Douglass, of
Greenfield, and Ariadne, wife of Robert
Dill, of Missouri. James Norman
Douglass, who completes the list, was horn on
the old homestead near Greenfield, Ohio, Nov. 29,
1849. In addition to the ordinary common
school education which he received, he for nearly a
year attended the private school taught by
Professor Blair some three miles from the
Douglass home. In October, 1873,
he entered the employment of Col. Jacob
Hyer, at that time engaged extensively in the
grain business at Greenfield. Though the
compensation was not large, the training was
valuable for a young farmer as it taught him the ins
and outs of the grain trade, the buying, storing,
shipping and selling. In May, 1874, he
returned to the home farm and took full charge with
a view of discharging financial obligations and
getting the estate in better order. At the
time of his father’s death, the farm comprised 365
acres of land, but it was considerably involved in
security debts. Mr. Douglass by
good management discharged about $6,000 of the
indebtedness, and then, in association with his
brother, William H. Douglass, purchased the
entire farm. The former now owns 340 acres,
most of which belonged to the original estate, and
this is one of the most valuable stock farms in that
part of the state. The brick house on the farm
was erected in 1848, being one of the first of the
kind built in Madison township, and at the time was
regarded as something extra, fine for that section.
For many years Mr. Douglass has been
extensively engaged in the stock business in its
various branches, as a breeder, feeder, buyer and
shipper. On Dec. 25, 1884, he was married to
Rose, daughter of Peter and
Rachel Porter, of Ross county.
Peter Porter is now living in Concord
township and is one of the oldest residents of the
county, more than ninety years of age. Mr.
and Mrs. Douglass have two children living,
Mary C. and Laura Lucile. Mr. Douglass
has been a member of the Masonic order over twenty
years and has reached the Royal Arch degrees.
Source: History of Highland County, Ohio by Rev.
J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison, Wis., Northwestern
Historical Association - 1902 ~ Page 281 |
WILLIAM HENRY DOUGLASS,
a prominent resident of Greenfield, and owner of one
of the choice Highland county stock farms, possesses
an honorable ancestral lineage of which much is said
in the preceding sketch. His grandfathers,
maternal and paternal, first assisted to fight the
British and then joined the army engaged in the
still harder contest involved in settling the
western wilderness. William Douglass,
born in Cumberland (now Perry) county, Pennsylvania,
in 1765, at the age of sixteen served as a teamster
with General Washington, later married
Mary, daughter of Samuel Scott,
also a revolutionary veteran who moved to Kentucky
and took part in those stirring scenes which gave
that state the name of “the dark and bloody ground.”
In 1810, as has been stated, William
Douglass started for Ohio, somewhat better
equipped than the average emigrants, and, in 1811,
purchased a large body of land, estimated at twelve
or fifteen hundred acres, lying mostly in the survey
of Gen. Duncan McArthur near Greenfield.
William Douglass cleared, improved and
cultivated this property until it became one of the
finest landed estates in Highland county and most of
it is still in the hands of the descendants.
James, son of William, horn in
Pennsylvania in 1807, married Mary, daughter
of Michael Mackerly, a pioneer from
New Jersey, and the subject of this sketch is one of
their children, as above stated. William H.
Douglass was born on the old Douglass
homestead near Greenfield, Highland county,
Ohio, June 22, 1845. He passed his boyhood on
the farm, with the usual intermixture of work and
school attendance until April, 1864, when he
enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-eighth
regiment Ohio volunteer infantry and served with the
same until the expiration of the term of enlistment
in the following September. The command spent
six weeks in Kentucky looking after Morgan
and two months in charge of prisoners at Cincinnati.
In 1865 Mr. Douglass became a pupil of
the South Salem academy and spent two years at that
institution. This was followed by three years
attendance at Miami university, Oxford, which he
left before obtaining a degree for the purpose of
engaging in educational work. The next eight
years were devoted to teaching in the public schools
of Ross, Fayette and Highland counties.
Subsequently, he went through a course of law study
and was admitted to the bar at Chillicothe, but
abandoned the intention of entering the profession
in order to follow the more congenial occupation of
farming and stock raising. He owns a handsome
estate near Greenfield which is largely devoted to
breeding and feeding cattle, sheep and swine, and
holds a leading position in the livestock industry
of Highland county. June 19, 1884, he was
married to Susan W., daughter of Samuel
and Elizabeth Wyant, of Jackson county, Ohio.
Several years ago, Mr. Douglass built a
handsome residence on Lyndon avenue in Greenfield
and in 1897 removed to that city for the purpose of
better educating his only daughter, Lizzie
Mackerly Douglass. He is a member of the
United Veterans Union and the Grand Army of the
Republic. The family are communicants of the
Presbyterian church and occupy a worthy place in the
social circles of Greenfield and vicinity.
Source: History of Highland County, Ohio by Rev.
J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison, Wis., Northwestern
Historical Association - 1902 ~ Page 282 |
THOMAS J. DRISKILL,
of Clay township, a prominent citizen and veteran
soldier of the Union, is a grandson of John and
Catherine Driskill, natives of Maryland, who
came to Ohio in 1808, with their children, and
bought and cleared two hundred acres of land in
Fairfield township, Highland county, living there
until eighty years or more of age. Their eight
children, most of whom are now deceased, were
George, Lewis (living at Vienna, Ohio),
Allen (living in Indiana), William,
Henry, John, Haney, and Sarah.
John, father of the subject of this sketch,
was born in Maryland in the year 1800, was reared in
Ohio from eight years of age, and from eighteen
years of age lived at Lexington, Ohio, until his
marriage there to Phoebe (Woodmansee)
Conway. He was engaged in hotel keeping
at Lexington for several years, after which he
bought a farm of 112 acres in Fairfield township,
Highland county, where he resided until his death at
fifty years of age. He was a man of influence
and popularity, and was honored by his fellow
citizens with a number of local offices. His
wife survived him, dying at the age of eighty-five
years. Four children they reared: Charles
C., who lives at the old homestead; John W.,
of Vienna; Ivans D., deceased, and Thomas
J. The latter, whose name begins this
sketch, was born Dec. 28, 1835, at Lexington,
Highland county, and remained at the home of his
parents until, in early manhood, he enlisted as a
soldier in defense of the Union. He became a
member of Company D, Forty-eighth regiment Ohio
infantry Dec. 27, 1861, being mustered in at New
Vienna, and in the following spring he had his first
experience, in the great battle of Shiloh Apr. 6th
and 7th, 1862. Afterward he was on duty with
the army in Mississippi and Louisiana, fighting
under Grant and Sherman at Vicksburg
and Jackson, and in March, 1864, while taking part
in the Red River campaign, under General
Banks he was one of the prisoners taken by the
Confederates in the unfortunate battle of Mansfield,
La. Being sent to Texas, he was held in prison
camp for six months, after which he was exchanged
and permitted to rejoin his comrades at Natchez,
Miss. After various minor engagements he took
part finally in the battle and capture of
Blakeley, an outpost of Mobile, in the spring of
1865. Then they were sent to Texas to occupy
that state and menace the French in Mexico, and
Mr. Driskill was mustered out at
Galveston, at the close of over four years’ service.
He was a faithful and gallant soldier, making a
record which will be treasured by his descendants.
After his return to the Highland county home he
resumed farming and was married to Sarah C.
Barker, a native of the same county. They
first made their home in Adams county, moved thence
to Illinois, and from there to Iowa, where they
resided for eleven years. Finally they came
back to Highland county, and Mr. Driskill
bought the farm he now occupies. Nine children
have been born to them: Ivins D., deceased;
John, of Priceton, Ohio; Laura A., at
home; Cynthia A., of Salem township;
Charles W., at home; Mary E., of
Cincinnati; and Rosa, Clara B., and
Eva M., at home. Mr. Driskill
is successful in his enterprises as a farmer and
stock raiser, in politics is a Republican, and is
highly regarded by his fellow citizens.
Source: History of Highland County, Ohio by Rev.
J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison, Wis., Northwestern
Historical Association - 1902 ~ Page 283 |
JOHN W. DUNCAN,
one of the representative farmers of Highland
county, comes of a family whose ancestors settled in
Madison township as far back as 1806. The Ohio
branch originated from Robert and Esther Duncan,
who emigrated from Scotland to York county,
Pennsylvania, where the former died in 1838, when
ninety-five years old, and his wife in 1840 after
reaching the advanced age of ninety comes of a
family long prominent in Highland county. He
is a son of William, and grandson of
Milton Dunlap, M. D., for many years a physician
of high standing at Greenfield. The latter’s
brother, Dr. Alexander Dunlap, was one of the
most prominent surgeons in southern Ohio.
After finishing the sophomore year at Wooster
college, Irvin Dunlap matriculated at Cornell
university and received the degree of Ph. B. with
the class of 1891. Having made up his mind to
enter the legal profession he became a student in
the Cincinnati law school, where he was graduated as
bachelor of law in 1894. Immediately
thereafter he began the practice of his profession
at Greenfield and has continued it to the present
time. He is regarded by his friends as a young
man of fine promise and one of the best lawyers of
his age in southern Ohio. He served a term as
city solicitor of Greenfield with entire
satisfaction to all concerned and is looked upon as
in the line of promotion to much higher honors.
He is a young man of studious and exemplary habits,
a member of the Presbyterian church and connected
with the Masonic fraternity.
Source: History of Highland County, Ohio by Rev.
J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison, Wis., Northwestern
Historical Association - 1902 ~ Page 284 |
M.
IRVIN DUNLAP, a popular attorney of
Greenfield and regarded as one of the most promising
of the younger members of the bar, comes of a family
long prominent in Highland county. He is a son
of William and grandson of Milton Dunlap,
M. D., for many years a physician of high
standing at Greenfield. The latter's brother
Dr. Alexander Dunlap, was one of the most
prominent surgeons in southern Ohio. After
finishing the sophomore year at Wooster college,
Irvin Dunlap matriculated at Cornell university
and received the degree of Ph. B. with the class of
1891. Having made up his mind to enter the
legal profession he became a student in the
Cincinnati law school, where he was graduated as
bachelor of law in 1894. Immediately
thereafter he began the practice of his profession
at Greenfield and has continued it to the present
time. He is regarded by his friends as a young
man of fine promise and one of the best lawyers of
his age in southern Ohio. He served a germ as
city solicitor of Greenfield with entire
satisfaction to all concerned and is looked upon as
in the line of promotion to much higher grounds.
He is a young man of studious adn exemplary habits,
a member of the Presbyterian church and connected
with the Masonic fraternity.
Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 -
Page 285 |
ANDREW W. DWYER,
a well known farmer and stockraiser, has long been
identified with the agricultural interests of
Madison township. He is of Irish blood, his
grandfather James Dwyer having emigrated from
the Emerald isle in youth and settled in the western
part of old Virginia. He left a son named
Aaron, who migrated to Ohio in 1835 and settled in
Highland county where he became a leading farmer and
stockraiser. Aaron Dwyer married
Abigail Hedrick, a native of West Virginia of
German descent, by whom he reared a family of four
children: Esther, widow of Harvey
Murdock; Caleb, president of a hank at
Springfield, Kansas; Joseph, a resident of
Highland county, and Andrew W. Dwyer.
The latter was born, bred and educated in Highland
county, and in 1878 was married to Martha,
daughter of Noah Glascock, who was a.
native of Culpeper county, Virginia, and one of the
early settlers of Highland county. Mr. and Mrs.
Dwyer have five children : Earl, educated at the
Ohio State University, and now teaching in North
Dakota; Stanley, Frank, Laura
and John. Mr. Dwyer has
spent his whole life in agricultural pursuits,
making a specialty of the breeding of stock.
Among his choice possessions is a fine herd of
thirteen thoroughbred Polled Angus cattle, which are
among the best of their kind in the State. The
family are all members of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Greenfield, of which Mr. Dwyer
is a trustee.
Source: History of Highland County, Ohio by Rev.
J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison, Wis., Northwestern
Historical Association - 1902 ~ Page 286 |
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