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BIOGRAPHIES
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Perry Twp. -
SAMUEL
BAILOR, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Fairfield
County, Ohio, Apr. 16, 1816 ,a son of Samuel and Susan
(Shaffer) Bailor natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio
in an early day. The subject of this sketch was reared on
a farm and educated in the subscription schools. When
seven years old he went to his uncle, Isaac Shaffer, with
whom he lived till he reached his majority, after which he
engaged in the carpenter's trade for about ten years. He
was married Apr. 4, 1846, to Miss Susannah Buzzard, born
July 11, 1822, and a daughter of Jacob Buzzard, one of
Hocking County's pioneers, who lived to the advanced age of
ninety-nine years. This union was blessed with nine
children - Delila J., born Apr. 12, 1847, and died July
21, 1847; Amelia, born Jan. 28, 1849; Clark, born
Oct. 15, 1850; an infant, born Sept. 8, 1853, died Nov. 3, 1853;
George, born June 4, 1855; an infant, born Jan. 14,
158, died the same day; Charlotta, born May 30, 1859,
died July 7, 1859; John, born July 7, 1860; Charles,
born July 31, 1867, died Aug. 3, 1867. After marriage he
followed farming in different places till 1859, when he
purchased the farm in Perry Township, Hocking County, where he
has since resided, having accumulated a large property of 415
acres by his industry and exertion. He has given his
children a good education. His wife is a member of the
Baptist church.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
THOMAS
EDWIN BAKER, junior member of the firm of Work & Baker,
stove and tinware merchants of Logan, was born in Lancaster,
Ohio, July 14, 1828, where he was reared. He is the eldest
of five sons of Luman and Sarah (Hart) Baker, with whom
he lived till he was fifteen years old, when he became
apprenticed to John McClelland to learn the tinner's
trade, at which he served till his nineteenth year. He
then went to Columbus, Ohio, and worked as a journeyman for one
year, after which he worked for six months at Newark, Ohio.
In the fall of 1849 he went to Bainbridge, Ross Co., Ohio, where
he held the position of foreman in the shop of Grove W. Penny
until the following spring, when he came to Logan and engaged
with his father in the stove and tinware business, the firm name
being T. E. Baker & Co. In 1852 his father retired
from the firm, and he carried on the business alone till 1857,
when he sold out to G. M. Webb & Co., being employed by
them as a journeyman until July, 1862. He was then
commissioned First Lieutenant by Governor Tod, and
assisted in recruiting Company G, Ninetieth Regiment Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, with which he went into service and served
in the front until July, 1863, when he was wounded in the foot
at Stone River, which disabled him. In December, 1862, he
was ordered to a convalescent hospital at Jeffersonville, Ind.,
where he remained until October, 1863, when a veteran reserve
corps was organized of the convalescents, and he was ordered out
as Captain of Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Reserved Corps, he
having been promoted to Captain in June, 1863, serving with his
company on guard duty at Indianapolis until October, 1864.
He participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River and
several less important skirmishes, and in October, 1864,
resigned his commission and returned to Logan. In March,
1865, he formed a partnership with Robert R. Work in his
present business. He was married Oct. 10, 1850, to Miss
Mary D. Towers, of Lancaster, by whom he has had nine
children, six of whom are living, viz.: Frances Mary,
wife of George Mumford, of Logan; Annie E.,
wife of George Brashears, of Straitsville; Luman E.,
Hamden Culver, Gertrude and Nellie W. The
deceased ones were: John Borland, who died at the age of
twenty-four years; Sallie Alice, wife of A. Pettit,
of Troy, Ohio, who died at twenty-one years of age, and
Louisa, who died aged three years. Mr. Baker
has served as Councilman of Logan. He is a Master, Royal
Arch and Council Mason, and member of the lodge, chapter and
council at Logan. He is a charter member of J. K.
Rochester Post, No. 140, G. A. R., of Logan. He and
wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Logan, of
which he is a Trustee.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
ABRAHAM
WASHINGTON BEERY, a Director of the People's Bank, Logan,
was born near Staunton, Rockingham Co., Va., Dec. 12, 1799, a
son of John and Margaret (Shafer) Beery. In 1805
his parents came to Ohio and settled six miles east of
Lancaster, Fairfield County, where he was reared. April
20, 1820, he married Elizabeth Miracle, of Fairfield
County, and settled on a farm. In 1826, in connection with
farming, he ran a six-horse freight team from Lancaster to
Baltimore and Cincinnati. In 1834 he sold his farm and
team, and removed to Perry County, and in 1836 came to Hocking
County, and bought 300 acres of land near Logan, soon
after buying 200 acres more. He improved it all, and with
farming engaged also in stock-raising. In 1842 he was
elected Treasurer of Hocking County, and removed to Logan.
He held the office four years, and at the end of that time
returned to his farm. In 1852 he divided his farm with his
sons, and returned to Logan and engaged in the grocery business.
In 1856 he retired from all business except banking. April
17, 1858, his wife died, leaving thirteen children, only two of
whom are now living - Simeon and Amos. July
14, 1858, he married Elizabeth McFadden, of Hocking
County. At the organization of the First Bank of Logan he
was one of the stockholders and was elected a Director.
When the People's Bank was organized he was also a stockholder
and was elected Vice-President, resigning in 1882 on account of
defective hearing. He is a member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171,
A. F. & A. M.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
RAYMOND
BELT, Mr. Belt's parentage on the father's side
was purely English. When Wm. Claibourn, in the year
1632, erected a trading post on "Kent's Island" in the
Chesapeake Bay, near the site of the City of Baltimore, with a
little colony, it was in part comprised of Benjamin and
Humphries Belt, from County York, East Riding, England.
In a few years after their arrival, Benjamin Belt became
dissatisfied, returned to the mother country, leaving his
brother Humprhies, the progenitor of this branch of the
Belt family, behind. John Belt, the father
of Raymond Belt, was born in Prince Georges County,
Maryland, in 1769, the generation of Belts from Humphries
down, having resided in and around Baltimore since 1632.
In 1775 John Belt, with his father's family, emigrated to
the State of Pennsylvania, and in 1794, at the age of
twenty-five years, married Miss Elizabeth Bumgardner.
In 1804, with his small family, he emigrated to the State of
Ohio, settling in Licking County, on a farm near Newark, the
county seat. Here Raymond, the youngest of a family
of ten, was born March 4, 1819, He pursued the calling of a
husbandman until he was of the age of twenty-three years,
receiving in the meantime a good common school education each as
was imparted in that day and age by the pedagogues of district
schools. In 1842 Mr. Belt commenced working at the
carpenter's trade in the little village of Van Attasburg, in
Licking County, and being ingenious and was pronounced a
complete workman in wood. Van Attasburg containing an iron
foundry, plow-making was carried on to a considerable extent; in
the stocking or wooding of plows, handy, ingenious workmen were
required, and Mr. Belt's well-known mechanical ideas soon
called him to that branch of wood manufacturing business.
After working about two years in Van Attasburg he removed to
Toledo, Ohio; remained there one year and returned to the burg
once more, remaining and carrying on for himself and building up
the business of the village, until the spring of 1846, when he
pulled up stakes and moved his plow-stocking business to the
then village of Logan. There being no foundry in Logan at
that time, Mr. Belt transported the iron fixing for his
plows from Van Attasburg, by wagon, across the county, a
distance of over fifty miles, until the idea suggested itself
that castings could be manufactured at Logan as cheap as any
other point in Ohio, all that was wanting was the facilities for
do doing, and being a man of nerve as well as practical
mechanic, he, in 1848, associating with himself Robert Van
Atta, a thorough molder and foundryman, they immediately
proceeded to erect the first foundry and machine shop in the
alley of the Hockhocking, which proved a great success.
Oct. 1, 1848, Mr. Belt married Miss Susan Guthrie,
of Zanesville, O., formerly of Baltimore, Md. Mr. Belt
continued the foundry business as a copartnership business until
18860, when he became the sole owner. The same year Mr.
Belt assumed the business alone he enlarged the capacity of
the works, manufacturing not only plows, but machinery of every
description iron could be formed into, manufacturing during the
war great numbers of iron cane mills, and that with the
increasing demand of every thing in his line made for him,
during these years, an independency as far as worldly goods were
concerned.
In 1873 the main machine shop building and a portion of
the foundry were destroyed by fire, causing considerable loss,
but Mr. Belt, with that indomitable energy characteristic
of the man, immediately commenced building again on a more
extensive scale, this time using stone, brick and iron for
building material, instead of wood. Completing the outer
works, he filled the establishment with the latest and most
improved machinery, continued the business, increasing it year
by year, until today we find him conducting the most prosperous
machine and foundry works a Southern Ohio. During the
wedded life of Mr. Belt five children have been born unto
him, four of whom are still living, two of each sex, and all
grown up to manhood and womanhood, six grandchildren being
already added to the family list.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Starr Twp. -
DARIUS
BENNETT, a prominent mechanic of New Cadiz, was born in
Starr Township, Mar. 22, 1841, and is a son of Jacob Bennett,
a native of Madison County, N. Y., who came to Starr Township
nearly sixty years ago and settled in the woods. Our
subject was brought up on the homestead and received a
common-school education. He possesses much ingenuity and
early learned the use of mechanical tools. He mastered the
carpenter's trade while yet a boy without an instructor.
He also possesses a knowledge of machinery. He erected the
machinery and operated a stream engine at Straitsville for three
years. For the past two years he has been erecting
coal-hoppers and screens. He was married in the fall of
1860 to Frances A., daughter of Wesley Campbell,
of Cadiz. They have four children - Warren, Josephine
(Thompson), Cynthia L. and Herman. Mrs.
Bennett died July 10, 1878. Mr. Bennett was
married July 19, 1882, and Charlotte Stemler. His
father, Jacob Bennett, was born Feb. 1, 1788, and married
Mrs. Rueann Harper, April 22, 1840. She is a
daughter of John Matheny. Jacob Bennett died Apr.
12, 1861.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 1046 |
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Laurel Twp. -
JAMES BERRY was born
in Muskingum County, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1830. His father,
Benjamin Berry, was an old pioneer of that county, but when
James was ten years of age came to Hocking County and
located in Laurel Township. James spent his early
life on the farm and in attending school, and when sixteen years
of age he commenced teaching school, an occupation he followed
the greater part of twenty-two years. In 1874 he purchased
the farm where he now resides. He has ninety acres of land
on section 7, Laurel Township, with a good residence and farm
buildings. He was married when nineteen years of age to
Mary Sullivan, a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
They had six children, only one now living - Susanna E.
Mrs. Berry died Sept. 3, 1864. Sept. 19, 1865, Mr.
Berry married Jane L. Marshall, a native of Carroll
County, Ohio. Politically Mr. Berry is a
Republican. During the late war he served four months in
Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-first Ohio Infantry. He
has held the offices of Township Trustee and Assessor. He
is a member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity.
SOURCE: History
of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State
Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 1134 |
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Starr Twp. -
LEMUEL
TOBIAS BETHEL, a farmer of Starr Township, Hocking Co.,
Ohio, was born in Hampshire County, Va., Nov. 9, 1818, a son of
Joshua and Nancy (Kidwell) Bethel. His parents
moved to Ohio and settled near Senecaville, Guernsey Co. ,when
he was seven years of age. When he was twenty-two years of
age he purchased a farm near Senecaville and carried it on till
1855, when he came to Athens County and settled in Trimble
Township, living there till 1868. He then removed to
Harrison Township, Vinton County, and in 1880 purchased his
present farm in Starr Township. In February, 1842, he
married Rebecca Slater, of Guernsey County. They
have eight children - Caroline, now Mrs. John Maxwell;
Albert S., of Nelsonville; Joshua C.; Nancy M., now
Mrs. J. H. Anderson, of Vinton County; Lettice Ann,
now Mrs. D. Ogg, of Vinton County; George William;
John Lemuel; Mary I., now Mrs. Charles Collins, of
Pike County. They have lost one daughter, Rebecca J.,
wife of Levi Collins, who died Dec 14, 1881, aged
twenty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Bethel are members
of the Methodist church. He is a member of Hockhocking
Lodge, No. 339, I. O. O. F., Nelsonville. While a resident
of Trimble Township he served as Trustee and Justice of the
Peace.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page1046 - Starr
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Laurel Twp. -
REV. D. P.
BLACK, son of David and Mary Black, is a native of
Perry County, Ohio, born Jun. 1, 1833. He was the fifth of
a family of nine children, and his early life was spent on the
home farm, when eighteen years of age he went into Deavertown,
Morgan County, where he worked at the carpenter's trade five
years. In the month of April, 1856,, he went into
Muskingum County and lived nine years in that county. He
came to Hocking County in 1865 and resided in Benton Township
until two years ago, when he purchased a portable saw-mill of
twenty-five horse power, which he and his two sons are now
operating in Laurel Township. He was married to Oney S.
Sowers, of Muskingum County, Apr. 6, 1856. They have a
family of five children - DeWitt C., Addie, Caroline, John S.
and Rachel. Rev. Black is a member of the Disciple
church, in which he has labored as a preacher of the gospel for
seventeen years.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 1134 |
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Washington Twp. -
JAMES BLACKSTONE,
born Jan. 27, 1822, in Guernsey County, Ohio, son of James
and Nancy (Dennis) Blackstone, both natives of Chester
County, Penn. The parents of both Mr. and Mrs.
Blackstone settled in Guernsey County on adjoining farms
where they grew up and married, making that county their home
until the time of their death. Mr. Blackstone died
when James was about two years of age. Mrs.
Blackstone afterward married her brother-in-law, Thos.
Blackstone. Both are now dead, Mrs. Blackstone
dying in 1876. The children of her first marriage were -
James and William. By the second
there were seven children - Harriette (deceased),
Elizabeth, Thomas, Christiana J. (deceased), Vinston
(deceased), Eben and Isaac. James Blackstone,
the eldest, grew to manhood in Guernsey County. Although
the educational facilities were very limited, he received a fair
education. During the greater part of the time he helped
his father on the farm. He was married July 4, 1842, to
Maria E. Sheley, who was born in Guernsey County, Apr. 15,
1821. Previous to this he began working at the cabinet
trade which he continued after he was married. Then he
turned his attention to carpentering, which occupation he
followed in the vicinity of Claysville for nineteen years in
succession. In 1861 he came to Hocking County where he had
eighty acres, a part of the farm on which he now lives. He
moved into an old log cabin not three rods from where his
residence now stands. In connection with his work on farm
he also kept at his trade during the summer months, having
erected a number of buildings in this and Vinton counties.
At two different times he made additions to his farm, having at
present 226 acres under good cultivation. The land has
large veins of iron ore, also some coal running through it.
Mr. Blackstone has been connected with the United
Brethren church since 1862. He was reared a Methodist, and
has been a member of the church since he was sixteen years of
age. He has been School Director of Washington Township
for the last three years. They have had seven children,
five of whom are now living, two sons and three daughters -
Nancy Jane, Charlotte C. (deceased), Mary Maria, William
Brown, Joseph H., Martha Ellen and one dying infancy.
Mr. Blackstone has always been a hard-working man, and
although he has shared all the hardships common to the times in
which he lived he is now, at the age of sixty-one years,
enjoying remarkably good health. He is still full of that
afore and energy which have all along marked his life. He
has been a devout man, being a constant reader of the
scriptures. Taking Christ for his example, he has tried to
live in accordance with His teachings. For the last
fifteen years he has been Class-leader in his church, and has
lived to see all of his family brought within its protecting
folds. As a citizen, he has many friends, and is honored
and respected by them all. In 1861 he enlisted in the Ohio
National Guards, and, on the first of May, 1863, was mustered
into the regular army at Columbus for 100 days. He served
out his time and returned home. In the fall of 1864, he
was drafted into the army and served till the close of the war.
He was mustered out of the service at Richmond, Va., June, 1865,
and returned home in July, 1865. He was in Company G,
Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - page 1076 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
ANDREW
BLUM, farmer, second son of Martin and Jacobine E.,
nee Sheine, Blum, was born near Stuttgart,
Wurtemburg, Germany, Sept. 28, 1827. When three years of
age he came with his parents to the United States and settled
near Hanover, Penn., where they lived three years and then
removed to Thorn Township, Perry Co., Ohio, and resided nine
years. They then came to Laurel Township, Hocking County,
near Gibisonville. Mr. Blum has been engaged in
farming since twenty-one years of age. In February, 1873,
he came to Falls Township where he has since resided. Aug.
15, 1848, he married Sarah, daughter of Solomon and
Barbara A. (Fought) Kline, of Hocking County. They
have twelve living children - Margaret, wife of Henry
Miller of Laurel Township; Jacobine E., wife of
George Miller, of Washington Township; Barbara A.,
wife of John Risch, of Good Hope Township; Abraham,
Mary, Solomon, Caroline, Samuel, Ella, John H., Emma and
George. Andrew died in infancy in Van Wert County.
Mr. and Mrs. Blum are members of the Lutheran church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
LUTHER
STONE BORT, insurance agent, Logan, Ohio, was born near
Chautauqua Lake, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., July 18, 1818.
When he was quite small he removed with his parents, Barnard
H. and Polly (Dewey) Bort, to Erie, Pa., with whom he lived
until he was fourteen years of age, and till then had received
but a meager education. On leaving home he went to
Ravenna, Ohio, where he learned the printer's trade with his
uncle, Colonel N. Laurin Dewey, being with him four
years. He then worked in different offices of that place
until 1840, when he came to Columbus, Ohio, and was employed in
the Statesman Office during 1840 and '41. In June,
1841, he came to Logan and permanently settled, where he was
employed as foreman in the Hocking Sentinel office, he
issuing the first number of that paper. In 1845 he
purchased a half interest in the same paper, which he owned
until 1847, when he sold out, and in that year established in
Hocking Valley Republican, which he owned and published
until 1850, when he removed his paper to McArthur, Vinton
County, where he published it until 1853. He then sold out
and returned to Logan and was employed as clerk and assistant
manager of the Logan Furnace Company until the breaking out of
the Rebellion, when he returned to Logan, where he has since
been variously employed. In 1861 he was elected Assistant
Assessor of Hocking County serving three or four years. In
the spring of 1882 he was elected Justice of the Peace of Falls
Township, and is now the incumbent of that office. Nov.
14, 1843, he was married to Sallie Ann Case, of Logan, by
whom he has three living children - Laurin L. and
William F., both bookkeepers for W. B. Brooks & Son,
of Nelsonville, Ohio, and Lucius O., a clerk in the drug
store of Miller & Case, at Logan. They have lost
five by death - two in infancy, two between five and twelve, and
one who had reached maturity. Mr. Bort is a Master,
Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Green
Twp. -
SAMUEL M. BOTTS,
deceased, late of Green Township, was born in Coshocton County,
Ohio, Mar. 31, 1833, a son of John Botts, who brought his
family to Hocking County when Samuel was but a small boy.
He received his education in the common schools, and at the High
School at Albany, in Athens County, Ohio. He taught school
eight winters, and was a successful teacher, but failing health
forced him to abandon the profession. Oct. 28, 1856, he
married Lucinda C. Parker, a daughter of Albert Parker,
an early settler of Green Township. They had two children
- Mary Ellen and Clara M. The latter died
Apr. 9, 1883, at the age of twenty-three years. Mary
Ellen is now the wife of Charles H. Shaw, a son of
John A. Shaw. He was born Nov. 17, 1853, in this
township. They have had three children - Lucy M., Cora
F. (deceased) and Gertrude. Mr. Botts died Jan.
13, 1874, loved and respected by all. He was an Odd Fellow
in good standing, and a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Mrs. Botts and Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are also
members of the Methodist church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - page 1029 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
CHARLES
EDWARD BOWEN, son of Mead and Lucy (Drake) Bowen,
was born at Logan, Oct. 7, 1839, where he was reared, being
educated in the common and select schools till his fourteenth
year, when he began clerking in the store of Crooks & Ijams,
remaining three years. He then clerked in different stores
in Logan until he was twenty-one, when he was appointed Cashier
of the Citizens' Bank, of Logan. In 1863 he became a
stockholder in the First National Bank of Logan, of which he was
elected a Director and Cashier, retaining that position-until
July 14, 1881, when the First National Bank surrendered its
charter and reorganized as a private institution under the
name of the First Bank of Logan. He was a stockholder of
this bank and was again elected a Director. April 5, 1877,
he was married to Lucy E., youngest daughter of John
Rochester, of Logan. They have three children whose
names are - Francis Mead, Eveline and John Rochester.
He and wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of
Logan. He is a Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight
Templar Mason, and member of the lodge, chapter and council, at
Logan, and Commandery No. 2, at Lancaster, and is
Treasurer of the lodge, chapter and council at Logan. In
December, 1860, Mr. Brown was appointed City Treasurer to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Rochester,
which office he has ever since held by re-elections.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Green Twp. -
DAVID BOWEN, section 19, Green
Township, was born in Athens Township, Athens Co., Ohio, Dec.
11, 1819, a son of David Bowen, a native of New England,
and an early settler of Athens County. Our subject was
reared on a farm and attended a subscription school. At
the age of seventeen years he learned the stone mason’s trade,
and cut stone on the Hocking Canal for three years, and has
worked at the trade at intervals since that time. He came
to Hocking County in 1843, and has since resided in Green
Township, where he owns 212 acres of valuable land, and is
engaged in farming and stock-raising, making line sheep a
specialty. He owns sixty acres in Starr Township. He
was married Jan 1, 1843, to Margaret Kirkland, by
whom he had six children - Russell, Mary J., John, Warren,
David and Edmond. Mrs. Bowen died July 26,
1871, and in 1872 he married Lucinda Lacy. They
have had two children - Hester A. (deceased) and
Charles O. Mr. Bowen was Township Trustee three years.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Presbyterian
church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
WILLIAM
MEAD BOWEN was born in Logan, Hocking Co., Ohio, Apr. 13,
1830, being the eighth child and eldest son of a family of
eleven children, an only brother being the eleventh child.
Mead Bowen, the father of W. M. Bowen, was the
Welsh extraction, born in Talbot County, Md., Jan. 3,
1782. Having removed to Frederick County, Va., in 1810, he
was married to Miss Lucy Drake, a daughter of Francis
Drake, an Englishman, and lineal descendant of Sir
Francis Drake, the famous English navigator of
Queen Elizabeth's time. In the year 1816 the Elder
Bowen removed from the valley in Virginia, crossing the
Allegheny Mountains with his small family, consisting of his
wife are two children, in a two wheeled vehicle, then known as a
gig or carryall, landing on Ohio soil in the month of June the
same year, stopping temporarily at the small village of
Westfall, Pickaway County, where his brother Isaac
resided, having preceded him to Ohio several years before.
In the month of June, 1817, Mead Bowen moved for the last
time, landing in the wilderness where Logan now stands on the
7th day of the month, and residing in the same community until
his death in 1877, being then nearly ninety-six years of age.
W. M. Bowen springs from a family notable for longevity,
his father living nearly ninety-six years and mother till
eighty-nine years of age. The early life of W. M. Bowen
was spent, in winter attending such subscription or so-called
district schools, as a country village could afford, changing
masters and books almost every term, and in summer about his
father's shop, his father carrying on a cabinet-making and
house-joining business, interspersed with hunting, fishing, and
the usual routine of fun and frolic always to be found in the
backwoods settlement. Advantages for acquiring an
education in those early days, such as the youth of this day and
generation enjoy, were not known, and when reading, writing and
arithmetic, as far as and including the Rule of Three were
mastered, the youth were considered competent for any branch of
business in life (barring the professions) to which they might
be called. At the age of sixteen years young Bowen,
having passed through the school ordeal, received a call, that
is, his father, having a large family of children to support,
all girls with this single exception, called the youthful
graduate into the cabinet and joiner ship, and inducted his
genius into the mysteries of the practical and profitable use of
the saw, plane and hammer. Three years spent in the shop
gave a sufficient knowledge to satisfy him that some other kind
of business would be more congenial if not more profitable.
During his apprenticeship Bowen had applied his leisure
hours to the reading of history and study of chemistry, natural
philosophy and the higher branches of mathematics. Leaving
the shop he entered as clerk in a grocery store. After
acting a year or more in this capacity he took a position in a
dry-goods store, and Dec. 25, 1851, being then past twenty-one
years of age, was married to Mary Elizabeth Crooks,
the daughter of James W. Crooks, an old dry-goods
merchant of Logan. They have had eight children, six still
living - Charles E., Kate B., James M., William M., Vernon
G., and Fannie E. In 1854 young Bowen
wishing to obtain a thorough knowledge of double-entry
bookkeeping, attended and graduated from Granger's Commercial
College, Columbus, Ohio, after having been a married man some
three years. On his return from his studies in 855, he
engaged to keep books for the Five Mile Furnace Company.
The iron interest at that time seeming in a healthy condition a
small property in Logan was sold and invested in furnace stock.
The financial crisis of 1857 came on, iron went to naught, and
organized companies followed, leaving penniless those who a few
years previous seemed riding on the topmost wave of prosperity.
Bowen's stock and earnings went the way of all things
tangible, and returning to Logan he for a time engaged in the
drug business. In 1858 he accepted a situation as Cashier
and bookkeeper in the Citizen's Bank of Logan, a position he
kept until the news of the first battle of Bull Run aroused all
the latent patriotism of the individual. Resigning his
position as Cashier in favor of his brother Charles, in
fourteen days he reported with 103 men, rank, and file, at Camp
Chase, the first three years' company raised in the valley.
Taking position as Captain he was assigned the second place in
the Thirty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, that is,
Company B. Having at that time never been exposed or
having had any out door exercise, and putting his whole soul and
energy in the business of drilling his company for the service,
he contracted while in Camp Chase the typhoid fever, and lay all
the month of September, 1861, and a portion of October at the
point of death. About the 1st of November, same year,
having recovered somewhat from his severe sickness, he reported
for duty at Camp Dick Robinson, Garrard County, Ky.
Remained in the services, passing through the campaign of the
winters of 1816 - '62, the battle Mill Springs, the occupation
of Nashville, and after the battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg
Landing, when, having had three several returns of the first
attack and completely broken down home, and for more than
one-half year remained an idle invalid. Having regained
health somewhat, in the fall of 1862 accepted a position in the
Venango Bank, Franklin, Pa., where he removed his family.
He continued in business in Franklin until the spring of 1864;
then removed to Corry, Pa., and started the First National Bank
of Corry, Pa., with a capital of $100,000, taking the position
of Cashier. Having been successful in several oil
enterprises Mr. Bowen sold out his banking interests in
Corry and purchased two thirds of the stock of the First
National Bank of Logan, whose capital was then $50,000, and in
the summer of 1866 removed, once more returning to his native
town, by his own business exertions being well fixed in life.
He took charge of the bank as its President, with his brother
C. E. Bowen, Cashier.
In the spring of 1866, by the collapsing of a large
private bank in New York City, where his bank had a deposit of
$29,000, a loss was sustained, falling heavily on him, when he
sold his own stock, making the losses good, but losing his
prestige as largest owner and President of the same. In
the same year he bought in connection with E. G. Collins
& Co.; bought Mr. Collins' interest afterward and
continued the business under the name of W. M. Bowen and sold to
Messrs, James & Bishop in 1871. Being largely
interested in fire insurance stock the fire in Chicago cleaned
the remainder of Mr. Bowen's fortune, he losing in the
destruction of property and depreciation in values consequent
upon the passage of the Specie Resumption Act over $25,000; yet,
nothing despairing, he is the same business man as of yore.
In politics Mr. Bowen is a Democrat, and
in the year 1873 was elected to fill a vacancy in the
Sixty-first General Assembly (caused by the resignation of
Hon. O. Case to accept a position in the Secretary of
State's office) to represent Hocking County in the Ohio House of
Representatives; re-elected again and served through the
Sixty-second General Assembly. Previous to that he had
served as President of the School Board, and in various other
minor positions. He was the pioneer fire-brick business
man, having built largely for the purpose of manufacturing the
same when the crash overtook him. He was in every public
enterprise, among others started the first Building Association
in the valley. He was admitted to the practice of law in
April, 1877, and has served as Deputy Probate Judge three years,
as Township Clerk two years, and for the office of Auditor,
which is equivalent in this county to an election.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
WILLIAM
RIBBEL BOWLBY, senior member of the boot and shoe firm,
W. R. Bowlby & Son, Logan, was born near
Belvidere, Warren County, N. J., June 18, 1829, a son of
Charles and Rachel (Ribbel) Bowlby. In 1835 his
parents came to Ohio, and settled on a farm near Newark,
residing there till 1841. They then removed to Linnville,
remaining there two years, and in 1843 came to Hocking County.
William R. remained at home till he attained his
majority, and in 1851, having learned the shoemaker's trade, he
went to Sugar Grove and started a manufactory, hiring a number
of hands. He afterward engaged in the same business in
Urbana and Nelsonville, and in 1855 became permanently
established in Logan. Dec. 24, 1854, he married Miss
Jane Smith, of Somerset, Perry Co., Ohio. They have
had a family of three children - Kate, Charles and
Maggie. The latter died in 1881, aged fifteen years.
Mr. Bowlby was obliged in early life to rely on his own
resources, but by honesty and perseverance has accumulated an
extensive property. Besides his business house and
residence, he owns twenty-three tenement houses, which afford
him a good revenue. Politically he is a Republican, and
during the war of the Rebellion was a staunch Union man; has
cast a vote for every Republican President. Mr. Bowlby
is a man of sound judgment and strong will. In all his
business dealings he is strictly honest, considers his word as
binding as his note. Though quick to resent an insult, he
is withal a kind, considerate friend, and has done much toward
helping others in a business way, and in that way has lost
considerable money, very few deeming it necessary to repay what
had been given in an hour of need. Mr. Bowlby has
always been temperate and industrious. His weight is 213
pounds.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 928 |
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Salt Creek Twp. -
NELSON
BOWSHER, born Jan. 19, 1837, is a son of Abraham and
Elizabeth (Gaul) Bowsher, natives of Ohio. He was
married in September, 1861, to Susan, daughter of
Jacob and Debby (Grim) Seesholtz, her father a native of
Germany and her mother of Ohio. They have had four
children, three only now living - William L., who married
Mary Miller; George F., who married Dosha
Wilkins, and Rose E. Mr. Bowsher has an
interest in a saw-mill which he runs in connection with farming.
He has a well-cultivated farm of seventy acres, with good farm
buildings. He enlisted during the late war in Company.
One Hundred and fourteenth Infantry
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 1101 |
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Laurel Twp. -
JOHN BREHM, son of George and Margaret
(Myer) Brehm, is a native of Franklin County, Pa., born Aug.
22, 1803. In 1810 his parents removed to Perry County,
Ohio, near Somerset, where he was reared and educated. He
was married in 1828 to Dorothy Snook, They had a family
of five children, only three now living - Margaret, Mary
and John. Mrs. Brehm died, and in 1839 Mr. Brehm
married Margaret Marshall. They had two children,
only one now living - Hon. George Brehm, Mayor of Logan.
Mr. Brehm married for his third wife, in 1873, Rachel
Crawford When he came to his present farm it was all
wild land, but he now has 172 acres of finely cultivated land
with good farm buildings, his residence being on section
31. He has been a member of the Baptist church forty
years. Politically he is a Democrat.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 1135 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
GEORGE
WASHINGTON BREHM, Mayor of Logan and attorney, was born
in Laurel Township, Hocking County, Ohio, July 14, 1841, where
he was reared a farmer, being educated in the district school,
and by attending one term at a select school at Lancaster, Ohio.
When sixteen years of age he taught the school in his own
district, and afterward taught during the winter season twelve
years. In 1870 he was appointed Deputy Clerk in the
Probate Justice's office, under Hon George W. Alfred, and
filled that position three years, studying law privately during
the time. In January, 1872, he was admitted to the bar by
the District Court of Hocking County. In 1873 he began the
practice of law at Logan, being associated with G. W. Alfred.
This partnership continued, with the exception of two years,
1875-'75, till 1880. He has been Mayor of Logan since the
spring of 1876. In 1864 he was elected Clerk of Laurel
Township, serving till his removal to Logan in 1868. He
has been a Justice of the Peace of Falls Township since 1871.
In 1867 he was appointed School Examiner of Hocking County,
serving till 1876. Mar. 26, 1863, Mr. Brehm married
Eliza Snoke, of Fairfield County, who died Dec. 10, 1876,
leaving five children - Clara A., Frank H., Charles E.,
Willie E. and Ida E. Sept. 5, 1878, he married
Marian Josephine Rhodes, of Orleans County, N. Y.
They have two children - Mary and Kate Eliza.
Mr. and Mrs. Brehm are members of the Primitive Baptist
church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 929 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
JOHN
G. BRIGHT, farmer, cabinet maker, house carpenter and
joiner, fifth son of George and Frances (Bowman) Bright,
was born near Bremen, Fairfield Co., Ohio, Mar. 28, 1817.
When nineteen years of age he removed with his parents to Falls
Township, Hocking County. At the age of twenty-one he
rented lands of his father. In 1851 he removed to Elkhart
County, Ind., and purchased a farm. In 1858 he sold his
farm and returned to Falls Township and purchased a portion of
the homestead. Although he did not serve as an apprentice
at either of his trades, he has become efficient in both.
Jan. 6, 1839, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac
and Catharine (Fry) Red, of Marion Township. They have
five children - John, Frances (wife of William Fickle),
Franklin P., George and Nancy J. (wife of Isaac
Wolf), all of Hocking County. Mr. Bright is a
member of the Dunkard, or Brethren church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 929 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
JOSEPH
LEOHNER BRIGHT was born in Falls Township, Hocking Co.,
Ohio, Nov. 17, 1841, a son of Joseph 'B. and Catherine
(Leohner) Bright. He was reared a farmer, living with
his parents till manhood. When twenty-one years of age he
began teaching, and taught in many of the Hocking County
schools. From 1877 to 1881 he was employed to buy ore for
the Franklin Furnace Company, of Columbus, and other furnaces in
the Hocking Valley. In 1881 he was employed as bookkeeper
of the Akron Iron Company, of Athens County, remaining with them
till 1883, when he resigned his position. In 1876 he was
appointed by the Probate Court, County School Examiner in
Hocking County, holding the position three years, and in 1882 was
again appointed to the same office, still holding that position.
In September, 1863, Mr. Bright married Margaret
Elizabeth Weaver, of Hocking County, Ohio. They
have had nine children, only five now living, the others dying
in infancy - Lucy Alice, Ida May (wife of Henry Smith,
of Logan), Mattie Izora, Lillie Maud and Jennie Belle.
Mr. Bright is a member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171, A. F. & A.
M., Logan.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 929 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
SAMUEL
HAMILTON BRIGHT, attorney at law, and senior member of
the firm of Bright & Wright, Logan, was born near Logan,
Nov. 9, 1841, the second of two sons of Samuel S. and Rebecca
(Ijams) Bright. He was reared a farmer, commencing his
education in the common district schools but finishing it in the
Ohio University at Athens. He taught two terms in Hocking
County, and in April 1864, enlisted in Company K, Fiftieth Ohio
Infantry, to serve three years or during the war, going out as a
private. He was detailed a Quartermaster's clerk, serving
as such till May, 1865, when he was promoted to
Quartermaster-Sergeant. He was mustered out in September,
1865, and returned to Hocking County and resumed teaching.
In the spring of 1866 he entered the Ohio University, attending
four terms, and in the fall of 1867 he began the study of law in
the office of C. H. Rippey, Logan, and was admitted to
the bar by the District Court at Circleville, in May, 1869, and
at once began the practice of law in Logan. In 1872 P.
F. Price became associated with him, forming the law firm of
Bright & Price. About a year later Mr. Price
retired from the firm and in April, 1879, O. W. H. Wright,
a former student in his office, became associated with him.
In May, 1869, he was appointed United States Revenue Collector
for Hocking County. The following years the district was
enlarged, embracing Hocking, Fairfield and Perry counties.
Jan. 1, 1872, Mr. Bright resigned the Collectorship on
account of his increasing law business. For the last four
years he has been President of the Board of Education of Logan.
Feb. 10, 1870, he was married to Lydia T. Allen, of
Athens, Bradford Co., Pa. They have a family of six
children - Pascal Allen, Samuel Carlton, Frederick Ijams,
Martha Louise, Sumner Spurgeon, and Warren Harris.
Mr. and Mrs. Bright are members of the Methodist church.
He is a member of the James K. Rochester Post, No. 140,
G. A. R.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
ALLEN
HEZEKIAH BROOKE, attorney at law, Logan, was born in
Greenfield Township, Fairfield Co., Ohio, Nov. 17, 1852, a son
of Hezekiah and Frances (Brandt) Brooke. He was
educated in the Fairfield Union Academy at Pleasantville, Ohio,
and at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio. When
thirteen years of age he commenced to take care of himself,
although he remained at home till seventeen, and defrayed the
expenses of his education. When nineteen years of age he
began teaching and taught during the winter terms for three
years. In the spring of 1875 he began the study of law in
the office of S. H. Bright and was admitted to the bar by
the District Court in Newark, Ohio, in June, 1877. He
then, in company with F. S. Pursell, commenced the
publication of the Hocking Valley Gazette, but soon after
sold his interest to T. S. Nutter and began the practice
of his profession with C. H. Buerhaus, under the firm
name of Brooke & Buerhaus. They continued together
but a short time when, by mutual consent, they dissolved
partnership, and since then Mr. Brooke has practiced
alone. In 1881 he was elected City Solicitor of Logan and
served two years. July 20, 1881, he married Emma C.
Flenner of Lancaster, Ohio. They have one child -
Marie Theresa. Mr. Brooke is a member of Mingo Lodge,
No. 171, A. F. & A. M., and of Logan Lodge, No. 119, K. of P.
His grandfather was one of the pioneer settlers of Hocking
Valley, locating near the present site of Logan in 1810.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 931 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
OLIVER
BROOKE, son of Hezekiah and Frances (Brandt) Brooke,
was born Jan. 20, 1835, in Greenfield Township, Fairfield Co.,
Ohio, in which place he was reared to manhood. At the age
of eighteen he was apprenticed to Robert Hunter to learn
the trade of carriage making, but after serving nearly two years
he abandoned it and taught school during the winter months and
followed farming during the remainder of the year till 1869.
While living in Greenfield Township, he served as Assessor one
year and as Assistant Assessor another year. From 1869 to
1871 he dealt in produce at Logan, when he worked in the coal
mines at Straitsville until 1874, and in that year he
established his present grocery business at Logan. He has
been twice married, marrying his first wife, Miss Louisa J.
Myers, in 1857. She died in November, 1863, leaving
two children - Charles Luther and Emma Frances.
He married his second wife, Miss Louisa E. Bright, of
Logan, Jan. 29, 1867. They have had six children, viz.:
William H., Frank E., Louisa Belle, Mary Ruth, Samuel
Bright and George Mills, who died in May, 1873, at
the age of six years.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 931 |
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Marion Twp. -
ALFRED M. BROWN,
teacher, twelfth son of Thomas and Hannah (Beech) Brown,
was born in Marion Township, July 2, 1856. He was educated
at the common schools. When twenty-one years of age he
began teaching school. He attended the Normal School at
Lebanon, Ohio, two terms, and has attended the select schools
during his vacations, thus preparing himself to make teaching a
business.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 1150 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
CHARLES
D. BROWN, bank foreman for the Columbus & Hocking Coal
and Iron Company at Gore, was born in Guilford County, N. C.,
Sept. 22, 1847. He is the son of William W. Brown,
deceased, a native of Davidson, N. C., who moved with his family
to Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1849. Our subject lived in
Lawrence County till 1874, when he went to Zanesville, Ohio, and
was employed in the Ohio Iron Company there till 1876. He
then came to Gore where he has since resided. He was agent
for the Baird Iron Works two years, and afterward with the
Thomas Iron Works till 1883, still remaining with their
successors, having been foreman of their coal mines since
September, 1882. In 1873 he was married to Rebecca
Ratcliff, a native of Carter County, Ky., and daughter of
Samuel Ratcliff, of Greenup County, Ky. Mr. Brown
belongs to the I. O. O. F. society.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 932 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
JAMES
EZRA BROWN, shop-clerk of the C., H. V. & T. Railroad, is
the son of Edward M. and Martha J. (Rambo) Brown.
He was born near Roseville, Muskingum Co., Ohio, Aug. 25, 1846,
where he lived till August, 1854. He then moved with his
parents to Hocking County, they settling in Benton Township,
where his father died in 1861, and in the following year he
moved with his mother to Logan. He received a commercial
education at the Eastman National Business College, at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., graduating from that institution in July,
1871. From 1866 to 1871 he taught school in Perry and
Hocking counties. After graduating he entered the Union
school of Logan, and taught until 1880. In June, 1880, he
began to learn telegraphy in the office of the C., H. V. & T.
Railroad, at Logan, and was so engaged until May 3, 1881.
In 1878 he became Secretary of the Hocking Agricultural Society
which he resigned in 1881, to accept his present position.
Mr. Brown is an Odd Fellow and member of Hocking Lodge,
No. 262, at Logan, of which he is Past Grand, and is also a
member of Mineral Encampment, No. 91, I. O. O. F., of which he
is a Past Patriarch.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
MARTIN
B. BROWN, farmer, fifth son of James and Susan (Adams)
Brown, was born near Junction City, Perry Co., Ohio, Dec. 7,
1848, and lived there with his parents until manhood. At
the age of twenty-one years he began farming with his father for
an interest and worked with him five years. He then, in
1874, purchased and removed to a farm in Hocking County, and
lived there until the spring of 1882,when he sold his farm and
purchased the one where he resides. Nov. 12, 1874, he
married Amanda E., daughter of James and Maria
(Ashbaugh) Sherlock, of Perry County. They have one
son living - James A. They have lost one son -
Willie A., died aged three years. Mr. and Mrs.
Brown are members of the United Brethren church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Marion Twp. -
THOMAS
BROWN, farmer, fifth son of William and Hannah
(Taylor) Brown, was born in Westmoreland County, Pa., June
13, 1811, and lived with his parents until manhood. At
twenty-one years of age he began working on a farm for wages.
In 1846 he removed to Ohio and leased lands in Marion Township,
Hocking County. In 1850 he purchased the farm where he
resides. He has served as Assessor of Marion Township four
years. Sept. 11, 1832, he married Hannah, daughter
of John and Rosanna (Moore) Beech. They had nine
sons - William, of Licking County; David, of
Hocking County; Amos O., guard in Ohio Penitentiary;
James of Columbus; Joseph, of Franklin County;
Lewis, of Putnam; Noah H., of New Baltimore; Isra,
of Hocking County, and Alfred, at home. John,
the second son, died aged two years; Samuel died in the
army at Boliver, Tenn., aged twenty-one years; Jesse,
aged two years; Leroy, aged eleven years; Oliver T.,
aged one year; Anamary, aged one year; Nancy J.,
aged one year. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of
the Presbyterian church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
THOMAS
J. BROWN, farmer, second son of James and Susan
(Adams) Brown, was born near Junction City, Perry Co., Ohio,
Aug. 15, 1842, and lived there with his parents until nineteen
years of age, working on the farm and attending the common
schools. Oct. 4, 1861, he enlisted in Company C,
Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Zanesville, Ohio, as a
private for three years and was appointed Corporal at the
organization of the company. He was engaged in the first
battle of Winchester, Va., Port Republic, Blackwater, Va.,
Morris Island, S. C., and the assault upon Fort Wagner, where he
was wounded and disabled for five weeks. He was appointed
Sergeant of the company, dating for the battle of ort Wagner.
Nov. 18, 1863, was promoted to First Sergeant, and Jan. 1, 1864,
re-enlisted as a veteran. Jan. 3, 1864, was appointed
Sergeant-Major of his regiment and filled the position to the
close of the war. June 9, 1864, he was in the battle of
Petersburg, Va., afterward at Walthall Junction, Deep Bottom,
Va., Deep Run, Va., also at Chafen's Farm, same
date, where he was slightly wounded. He was at the siege
of Petersburg until Apr. 2, 1865, when he was engaged in the
assault upon Fort Gregg, near Petersburg, and was present at
Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court-House, Va., Apr. 9, 1865.
He was mustered out and discharged at City Point, Va., Sept. 1,
1865. He then returned home and worked on the farm for his
father until the fall of 1868. In April, 1869, he
purchased and moved to the farm where he now resides. Oct.
12, 1868, he married Mary A., daughter of Samuel and
Sarah (Houts) Van Atta, of Perry County. They have
three children - Joshua, Nettie M. and Sarah A.,
all at home. Himself and wife are members of the United
Brethren church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
WM. M. BROWN
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Starr Twp. -
WILLIAM D. BUCKINGHAM,
section 29, Starr Township, was born in Vinton (then Hocking)
County, Ohio, Mar. 29, 1842. He went with his parents to
York Township in 1856 and came to this township in 1861.
He was a soldier in the late war in Company E, Ninetieth
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Angle,
who was killed at the siege of Nashville. He participated
in the battle of Stone River, where he was wounded and thereby
rendered unable for duty, and nine months later was discharged
and now draws a small pension from the United States Government.
Since the war his business has been for the most part that of a
teamster. He was married July 31, 1862, to Almira
McCallister (her father, however, spells the name
McCollester), a daughter of Abram McCollester.
They have five children - Frank E., Charles G., Mary D.,
Martha J. and Abram Curtis. Mr. Buckingham owns
thirty acres of land. William Curtis Buckingham,
the father of the above, was born in Starr Township, Hocking
Co., Ohio, Mar. 8, 1819, and is a son of Philo Buckingham,
a native of Connecticut, who came to Starr Township in 1817, and
settled in the woods. He resided here about twenty-seven
years, then went to Jackson County, Ohio, and in 1850 removed to
Edgar County, Ill., where he died in the spring of 1851.
He was brought up on the farm and received a limited
common-school education. He was married Jan. 7, 1841, to
Frederica D., daughter of August Schaal. She
was born in Germany, and brought to America at the age of five
years. Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham had six children,
four now living - William D., Caroline M., John A. and
Andrew B. One son, George P., died at the age
of seven years, and another, Charles W., a promising
young man of twenty-two years, was killed by falling coal in the
mine at Straitsville, this county. Our subject removed to
York Township, as above stated, in1856, and to Starr in 1861,
where he now resides on section 29. He is a member of the
Odd Fellows fraternity./
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 1047 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
CARL
H. H. BUERHAUS, JR., Prosecuting Attorney for Hocking
County, was born at Circleville, Ohio, June 23, 1856. When
he was six years of age he removed with his parents to
Zanesville, Ohio. He attended the city English schools
during the day and the German select schools at night until
1864. When his parents returned to Circleville he attended
the common schools of Circleville until 1866, when the family
removed to Tarlton, Ohio. Young Buerhaus worked
here in his father's tannery during the day, and at night and at
odd times would read. He early formed a taste for solid
reading, making himself familiar with the leading ancient and
modern poets and historians. At the early age of twelve
years he was familiar with Rollin, Hume, Macaulay, Gibbon, and
the historians of the United States, storing his mind with a
knowledge far in advance of his years. His wonderful
memory enabled him to repeat almost all he read, word for word.
In 1874 he came with his parents to Logan, Ohio. He worked
here in his father's tannery, devoting his spare time and at
night in obtaining an education. He would borrow books
from neighboring libraries. He borrowed some histories of
the Hon. J. S. Friesner, who, observing his wonderful
memory, advance him to study law. Young Buerhaus
borrowed some law books of Mr. Friesner and studied law
at home nights for one year, then read law under Hon. J. S.
Friesner, and on June 23, 1877, was admitted to the bar,
this date being on his twenty-first birthday. He remained
in the office Mr. Friesner a short time, then practiced
law with Judge James Grogan until December, 1877, when he
was in partnership with Allen H. Brooks until 1878. In
April, 1878, he was elected Township Clerk and re-elected in
1879. In may, 1880, he was nominated, and in October,
1880, was elected, Prosecuting Attorney of Hocking County by the
Democratic party, and was re-elected in 1882, and still retains
that office. He was admitted to the United States bar June
13, 1883. Mr. Buerhaus is purely a self-made man,
and is one of the rising young lawyers of Ohio. He was
married to Miss Ida . Shawver, at Logan, Aug. 7, 1878.
She was born in Liberty, Miss., a daughter of William and
Nancy (Myers) Shawver.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 934 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
CARL HENRY HARMON
BUERHAUS, proprietor of the largest tannery in Hocking
County, at Logan, was born in the city of Hagen, Westphalia,
Prussia, Germany, Jan.23, 1823. He was the son of Henry
G. and Joanna (Lucas) Buerhaus. Carl was the youngest
of two sons. He attended school until sixteen, then worked
at the tanner's trade until twenty-one, when he served one year
in the Thirty-seventh Regiment of Luxenburg, German army.
He then returned home and traveled for his father, who was a
rectifier of fine liquors. In may, 1851, he came alone to
America, landed in New York City; went to Freehold, N. J.,
worked one month at his trade; then came to Ohio, worked at
Marietta two months, then at Zanesville two months, thence came
to Lancaster and worked at his trade; was married here to
Miss Joanna P. Roof, Nov. 23, 1852. She was born in
Dobel, Wurtemburg, Germany, Dec. 17, 1830, a daughter of
Fredric adn CAtherine (Munsch) Roof, who came to the
United States in 1837. In the spring of 1856 Mr. and
Mrs. Buerhaus removed to Circleville, Ohio, and he was
foreman of a large steam tannery for eleven years. He then
purchased a tannery at Tarlton, Ohio, and engaged in business
here until April, 1874, when he purchased his present tannery,
which is the largest tannery in the county. Mr. and
Mrs. Buerhaus have had a family of six daughters and four
sons, viz.: Joanna C. M., born Sept. 12, 1853, died
Aug. 4, 1854; Matilda, born Feb. 12, 1855, died Mar. 15,
1855; Carl H. H., born June 23, 1856; Mary, born
Sept. 12, 1858, died Apr. 9, 1873; Frederic Wm., born
Sept. 1, 1860, died Nov. 12, 1872; Emma, born June 10,
1863; Charles J., born July 30, 1865; Anna C.,
born April 18, 1869; Edward, born Feb. 23, 1871;
Bertha J., born May 28, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Buerhaus
are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr.
Buerhauas is one of the leading business men and
representative citizens of Logan County.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 934 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
ANDREW
J. BURGESS, section 36, Falls-Gore, is the son of
Richard Burgess, deceased. He was born in Perry
County, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1825, and the following year he was
brought by his parents to Falls-Gore, where he has since
resided. He was reared on a farm and attended the
subscription schools, his educational advantages being very
limited. He was married Oct. 12, 1845, to Elizabeth
Taylor, by whom he has had eight children, six of whom are
living - Clara A., John W., Richard, Mary, Lovina
(deceased), Andrew J., Jr., Samantha and Amanda J.
(deceased). Mr. Burgess has held the office of
Supervisor for the past seventeen years, and has also been
Township Trustee four years. He owns a farm of
eighty-seven acres of land and is employed in general farming.
He is a great hunter, having, in connection with four others, in
the fall of 1880, killed fifty-seven deer and three bears in
four weeks.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 935 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
HENSON
T. BURGESS, of New Gore, or Hamlin, was born near
Somerset, Perry Co., Ohio, Feb. 4, 1822. He was married
Jan. 7, 1841, to Miss Catherine, daughter of John
Hayne. This union has been blessed with ten children -
Mary A., Gabriel, Richard, John B. (deceased),
Elizabeth M., Philemon, Louisa C., Mark V., Emanuel H. and
George W. In 1846 he moved to Indiana and settled
in French Township, Adams County, and in 1867 returned to Gore
Township. His brother, A. J., and Maxfield Hite
first struck the six-foot vein of coal near Gore. His
father, Richard Burgess, settled in Perry County before
the war of 1812, and was a soldier of that war. He then
came to what is now Burgessville, or a part of New Gore, in the
fall of 1825.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 935 |
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Perry Twp. -
JAMES
R. BUSHEE, blacksmith, South Perry, was born in Pickaway
County, Ohio, July 10, 1829. When he was about two years
old came with his father's family to Hocking County, where he
was reared and received his education in the common schools.
His father being a blacksmith, he was early put at work in
assisting his father in the shop, and there became master o the
trade, remaining with his father until he was about eighteen
years of age, when his mother died and the family was broken up.
He then went to work as a journeyman in Adelphi and other towns
of Ross County. He was married Nov. 9, 1851, to Sarah
Mettler, a native of New Jersey, born Oct. 4, 1831, and came
to Hocking County when about nine years of age. They have
had eight children, five still living - Adolphus C., born
June 3, 1854; Margaret A., born July 17, 1855; Hannah
A., born Sept. 27, 1856; Francis E., born Mar. 8,
1860; began business in South Perry, where he has since been
located. During the late war he enlisted in Company B,
Seventy-first Ohio Infantry, where he participated in the
battles of Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville. He served
until the close of the war and received his discharge June 12,
1865. He returned to his home in South Perry and engaged
in his present business, which he has since followed. He
is a member of the I. O. O. F., Silver Moon Lodge, No. 440.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 1113 - Perry Twp. |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
JESSE
BOWEN BUTIN, of the law firm of Brooke & Butin,
and the real-estate firm of Myers, Brooke & Butin, was
born in Logan, June 23, 1846, a son of Jacob E. and Mary
(Bowen) Butin. He was educated in the common schools,
living with his parents till manhood. At the age of
fourteen he went into the office of the Hocking Sentinel
to learn the trade of printer, working some three years, when he
abandoned the trade and was employed by L. H. Culver a
year. He then worked for J. D. Poston till the
spring of 1867 when he went to Philadelphia and traveled for the
wholesale house of Bancroft, Bates & Co. till the following
fall, when he was taken sick and was unable to work till the
fall of 1870. In the fall of 1869 he went to Garnett, Kas.
(his brother-in-law, Major Elmer Golden, residing there),
and while there became associated with Major Golden in the
hardware business, remaining till the fall of 1873. He
then returned to Ohio, and was employed in the store of the
Baird Iron Works in Perry County till 1875, when he came to
Logan and began the study of law in the office of Rippey &
Friesner. He was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1878 by
the District Court at Long. He remained in the office of
Colonel C. H. Rippey till the spring of 1879,when he
engaged in the practice of his profession alone. In
January, 1883, Lloyd Myers and A. H. Brooke became
associated with him, establishing a collecting, abstract, real
estate and general insurance agency, and at the same time Mr.
Brooke became associated with him in the practice of law.
Oct. 3, 1872, Mr. Butin married Vina A. Hunter, of
Garnett, Kas. They have one child - Roy Hunter.
Mr. Butin is a member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171, A. F. & A.
M., Logan.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 936 |
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Green Twp. -
RUSSEL J. BUTIN,
born in Starr Township, Apr. 1, 1840, a son of Peter Butin,
deceased, a native of the city of Amsterdam, New Holland.
His grandfather, James Butin, left Germany for America in
1797, and settled in New York. Our subject has been a
mechanic since boyhood. He was united in marriage in 1866
to Fredonia A., daughter of William C. Atkins.
Four children have been born to them whose names are:
Lydia I., Clara J., William A. and James W. Mr.
Butin belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 1030 |
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