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BIOGRAPHIES
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
REV. THOMAS JOSEPH CADY,
Rector of St. John's Catholic Church, Logan, was born near
Hancock, Addison Co., Vt., Jan. 14, 1835, a son of Ephraim C.
and Elizabeth (Safford) Cady. He received his
elementary education in the common schools, and in 1854 entered
St. Joseph's College, Perry County, Ohio. In 1860 he
entered St. Rose College, Washington County, Ky., remaining
there four years. He then returned to St. Joseph College
and passed his last examination prior to being ordained to the
priesthood. He was ordained Sub-Deacon, Deacon and Priest
during the latter part of November, 1863. His first charge
was a small parish in Perry County, where he remained three
years. In September, 1866, he was sent to New York City,
and served as assistant to the Rector of St. Vincent's parish,
corner of Sixty-sixth street and Lexington avenue. In May,
1868, he returned to Ohio and was assistant to the Rector of St.
Dominick's Church, at Zanesville, until May, 1874, when he was
sent to Nashville, Tenn., and served as assistant in St. Peter's
Church four months. Since September, 1874, he has been
Rector of St. John's Church, Logan.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 936 |
Abel Carpenter |
Good Hope Twp. -
ABEL CARPENTER, farmer and
stock-raiser, was born in Falls Township, Hocking County, July
22, 1836, and is the son of Sampson and Catherine Carpenter
who were among the early pioneers of the county. Our
subject was reared on the farm where he now resides and received
his early education in the common schools. He was married
Dec. 5, 1861, to Miss Phoebe Ridenour daughter of
William and Rachel Ridenour. They have seven children
- Simeon, Eliza, Ellen, Christina, William, Edward and
Emma. Mr. Carpenter has a fine farm containing 166
acres of improved land, on which he has erected a very pleasant
residence of modern style. He has held several offices of
trust in both township and county. He has been Township
Treasurer and Trustee for several years and is at present time
County Commissioner, this being his second term.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 1144
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Marion Twp. -
JEREMIAH CARPENTER,
farmer, second son of Sampson and Catherine (Walters)
Carpenter, was born in Falls Township, Hocking County, July
27, 1825. Soon after his birth his parents removed to Good
Hope Township, where he lived with them until manhood. His
first work for himself was shingle-making, which he followed for
a few months. He then rented a farm six years, and in 1852
purchased the farm first entered by Rickey and Davis.
He also owns and runs a saw-mill by water-power. He has
worked at the cooper's and wagon-maker's trades, but has been
principally engaged in farming, where he resides, in Marion
Township since 1852. June 26, 1847, he married Pheobe,
daughter of John and Christina, (Kline) Engle. They
have four children - Elizabeth, wife of Lewis McGill,
of Columbus, Ohio; Daniel, of Hocking County; Sarah,
wife of John Hufford, of Hocking County; and
Catharine, wife of David Dupler, of Hocking County.
His wife died Apr. 13, 1854, aged twenty-seven years. She
was a member of the Evangelist church. June 7, 1855,
Mr. Carpenter married Mrs. Magdaline, widow of
Henry Heyd and daughter of Daniel and Susan (Friesner)
Swartz, of Fairfield County, Ohio. They have six
children - Susan, wife of William Elick, of
Hocking County; Noah, Rachel, William, Wesley and
Amos, at home. Lewis died in infancy;
Frakie died in his second year. Mr. and Mrs.
Carpenter are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mrs. Carpenter had two children by her first husband,
both deceased - Lydia, born sept. 23, 1851, died Mar. 2,
1875; Daniel, born July 25, 1876, died Sept. 24, 1878.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - page 1151 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
OAKLEY CASE was born at
Simsbury, Conn., June 29, 1824, a son of Ambrose and Esther
(Chapman) Case. In 1839 his parents came to Ohio and
settled in Logan. His father died the same year and his
mother returned to Connecticut, and the following year, with her
family, again came to Logan. He was educated in the common
district schools of Connecticut, and after coming to Ohio
attended the Ohio University and Granville College. He was
reared a farmer, but at intervals worked in his brother's
printing office, there acquiring some knowledge of that trade,
and just before becoming of age, in January, 1845, he became the
proprietor and publisher of the Hocking Sentinel, a
Democratic journal. He was the publisher of the
Sentinel till 1857, when he was employed as bookkeeper for
his brother Flavius, and afterward as clerk in the
Probate office. In 1862 he was elected Probate Judge of
Hocking County Court, and re-elected in 1865, holding the office
two terms of three years each. Having studied law in the
meantime, he was admitted to the bar by the District Court at
Logan. In 1868 he became associated with James W.
Stinchcomb, but in 1870 withdrew from the firm. In
1871 he was elected a Representative to the General Assembly of
Ohio, and re-elected in 1873. In January, 1875, he
resigned his seat in the Legislature to accept the appointment
of chief clerk of Secretary of the State, William Bell.
In 1877 he returned to Logan and became associated with Hon.
John Friesner in the practice of law, remaining with him
till Mr. Friesner was elected Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas. He then became associated with
L. J. Burgess, and practiced law under the firm name of
Burgess & Case till 1881, when, on account of failing
eye-sight, Mr. Case was obliged to give up the practice
and withdraw from the firm. Jan. 21, 1845, he married
Margaret Ann James, of Logan. They have four children
- Lemuel Alonzo, of Columbus; Amanda Ellen, Emily
(an attendant at the Columbus Central Lunatic Asylum), and
Maggie. They have lost four children, three dying in
infancy, and one, Mary Eliza, married George Cook,
of Logan, and died Mar. 11, 1883, leaving two children -
Amanda Ellen and Maggie. Mr. Case is a Master,
Royal Arch Council and Knight Templar Mason, and is Past Master,
Past High Priest and Past Illustrious Master.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 937 |
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Perry Twp. -
BENJAMIN
E. CAVE was born in Montgomery County, Ky., Jan. 19,
1810, a son of Benjamin and Mary (Mounts) Cave, his
father a native of Virginia and his mother of Kentucky.
His parents came to Ohio in 1815, arriving in Perry Township,
Dec. 24, and settled on the farm now owned by their son-in-law,
J. A. McClelland. Benjamin E. remained at home till
twenty-three years of age, working on the farm and at the
carpenter's trade. He now owns a farm of 130 acres.
July 5, 1832, he married Susan, daughter of James and
Abigail Roult, of Pickaway County. Ten children have
been born to them, nine still living - Mary J., Isaac
N., William H., Evaline M., Emily M., James R., Lubine E.,
Jasper C. and Chas. W. In October, 1861, Mr.
Cave enlisted in Company H, Seventy-fifth Ohio Infantry, and
was appointed Sergeant of the company. May 8, 1862, at the
battle of McDowell, Va., he was wounded in the left shoulder,
and after remaining in the hospital till the next September he
was discharged. His son, Isaac served three years
in the war and was wounded at the second battle of Bull Run.
Mr. Cave is an active worker in the temperance cause,
having been a member of a temperance organization since 1841.
He and his wife have been members of the Methodist church over
fifty years.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 939 |
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Ward Twp. -
SAMUEL CLEGG was born in
England, Feb. 29, 1804, and moved to this country in 1838 or '40
and lived here until his death, Mar. 16, 1876. He was a
member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity in England. He was a
member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity in England. He was
married to Lucetta Zarley, a daughter of Jonathan
Drake, who died in Pennsylvania. They had three
children - Ann J., Amanda L. and Sarah.
Mrs. Clegg was born Dec. 19, 1813, in Somerset County, Penn.
She owns 197 acres of land, on section 2, Ward Township, which
is under a good state of cultivation.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1016 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
CRAVEN WEBSTER CLOWE,
farmer, youngest child of C. W. and Sarah N. (Beveridge)
Clowe, was born near Uniontown, Muskingum Co., Ohio, Apr.
21, 1831. His parents removed from Loudoun County, Va., a
short time before his birth. His father died when the
subject of this sketch was but three months old, and his mother
removed to Perry County and there married her second husband,
and our subject lived with them until fourteen years of age.
He received a limited education at the common-schools. At
the age of fourteen years he packed his clothing in a
handkerchief, and with 12½ cents in
money started in the world for himself, and first hired to work
on a farm for John Cunningham, six miles west of
Lancaster, Ohio, for $6 per month. He worked in that
settlement until twenty years of age. In 1851 he was
employed by Colonel Messenger, a stock-dealer in Shelby
County, Ill., as boss stock-drover, and was with him four years.
His health failing, he returned to his mother's, in Ohio, and in
1856 purchased a farm in Green Township, Hocking County.
In 1859 he sold his farm and moved to Perry County, but during
the winters of 1859 and 1860 taught school in Green Township.
Oct. 4, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Sixty-second Ohio
Infantry, at Zanesville, Ohio, as a private, for three years.
Dec. 18, 1861, he was appointed First Sergeant of his company,
and was filling that position at the first battle of Winchester,
Va. July 1, 1863, he was promoted to Second Lieutenant,
and June 1, 1864, to First Lieutenant, Regimental Quartermaster.
He was engaged in the assault upon Fort Wagner, Morris Island,
July 18, 1863, where he was wounded and temporarily disabled.
Soon after he was placed in command of Company I, Sixty-second
Regiment, for one month; then commanded Company A, same
regiment, one month. He filled the position of Regimental
Quartermaster until Sept. 20, 1864. He was then
transferred to the Commissary Department of First Brigade, First
Division, Tenth Army Corps, as Captain, and served as such until
the close of the war. He was at the seven days' battle on
the peninsula, and soon after detailed on special recruiting
service, and was home on that business a short time. He
was mustered out Nov. 30, 1864, and returned home and purchased
the farm where he now resides, in Falls Township. He has
been President of the Hocking County Agricultural Society.
He is a Master Mason, member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171, A. F. & A.
M., Logan, Ohio. April 8, 1856, he married Barbara,
daughter of Henry and Nancy (Davis) Hazelton, of Perry
County. They have two children - Henry W. and
Alice C., wife of F. M. Rhoads, of Falls
Township. Captain Clowe has his army papers on file
showing the preceding army facts.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
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Co. - 1883 - page 938 |
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Green Twp. -
GEORGE W. COHOGAN,
section 3, Green Township, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio,
Apr. 7, 1818. His father, Thomas Cohogan, a native
of Virginia, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He
came to Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1817. Our subject was
reared on a farm and educated at the common schools. He
moved to Perry County in 1833, and in 1863 came to this county
and settled on the place where he now resides. Jan. 12,
1843, he was married to Mary A. Saffell, daughter of
Amos Saffell. They have had fourteen children, nine
still living, whose names are: William, John,
Elizabeth, Sarah C., Alice A., Martha J., Ann M., James A.
and Minerva. He and wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Cohogan owns a farm
of eighty acres and is engaged in general farming. He has
been Justice of the Peace for three years, and was re-elected in
the spring of 1883.
SOURCE: History
of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State
Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 1030 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
ENOCH
GEORGE COLLINS was born in Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio,
Jan. 6, 1818, a son of John A. and Sarah (Seitz) Collins
He was reared in his native county, and was educated in the
public schools, attending also one term at the Greenfield
Academy. When sixteen years of age he began teaching the
winter terms, working the rest of the year on the farm,
continuing that course till thirty-one years of age. In
1849 he came to Logan, and was employed as a clerk i the store
of his brother, Jesse L. Collins, two years. In
1851 he opened a general store in Maxwell, Perry County, and
remained there fourteen years, and during most of the time was
also Postmaster. In 1865 he returned to Logan, and with
William M. Bowen engaged in the hardware business. In
1868 he retired from the firm and engaged in the general
mercantile business till 1877, when he retired from active
business. He was soon after stricken with paralysis, from
which he has never fully recovered. He has been a member
of the City Council and Board of Education of Logan several
years each. Mar. 27, 1851, he married Elizabeth Butin
daughter of A. H. Butin. They have had a family of
six children, only three now living - Clara L., wife of
Charles T. Monroe; Frank B., of Straitsville,
Ohio, and Edwin C., of Columbus, Ohio. Charles
died at the age of three years; John A. at the age of two
years, and one died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Collins
are members of the Methodist church. He has been
Class-Leader, Steward and Sunday-school Superintendent many
years, having been a member of the church nearly fifty years.
He has taken all the degrees of Masonry through the Council, and
of Odd Fellowship through the Encampment.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
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Co. - 1883 - Page 939 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
JESSE
LEE COLLINS, senior member of the firm of Collins &
Moore is the son of John A. and Sarah (Seitz) Collins.
He was born near Lancaster, Fairfield County, Jan. 18, 1821.
He was reared on a farm, and educated in the common school and
in the Greenfield Academy. When eighteen years old he
became a clerk in the store of Myers & Fall, being in
their employ till 1842, when he became manager of a gore for
them at Logan. In 1843 he established himself in the
general mercantile business at Logan, being associated with
J. C. McCracken. They dissolved partnership in 1846,
after which Mr. Collins became associated with different
parties till 1868, when he formed a partnership with M. D.
Moore, forming the present mercantile firm of Collins &
Moore. In 1877 Mr. Collins made a tour through
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Indiana. He has been
a member of the City Council of Logan three years, and served as
Recorder. He has also been a member of the Board of
Education of Logan, being its President six years. Oct. 15,
1844, he married Miss Emma C. Rippey, of Logan.
They have four children - Sarah W., wife of John M.
Floyd, of Logan; Mary Caroline wife of M. D. Moore,
of the firm of Collins & Moore; Katie W., and
Jesse L. Mr. Collins and wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has served as Steward
some thirty-eight years. He is a Master, Royal Arch,
Council and Knight Templar Mason, and is a member of the lodge
chapter and council at Logan, and of the commandery at
Lancaster.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - Page 940 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
GEORGE COOK, foreman of the
Sentinel office, was born in Ilesboro, Hocking Co., Ohio,
Aug. 18, 1844. Oct. 1, 1861, he enlisted in Company F,
Forty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and served four years and three
months. He participated in the battles of Pittsburg
Landing, siege of Corinth, Holly Springs, Jackson, Black River,
Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Lookout Mountain, Mission
Ridge, Snake Creek, Resaca, Dallas, Atlanta and Jonesboro.
From Atlanta he went to the sea; was at Savannah, Bentonville
and Raleigh. During his entire term of service he was
never unfitted for duty. He was discharged at Louisville,
July 27, 1865. With the exception of one or two years
absence Mr. Cook has been foreman of the Sentinel
office since 1865. In 1873 he established the Nelsonville
Miner, the first paper printed in that town. In
1878 he removed the office to Shawnee and published the Shawnee
Journal till the Journal was succeeded by the
Banner. Mr. Cook was married Feb. 13, 1870, to
Mary E. Case.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 940 |
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Starr Twp. -
JAMES CONAWAY was
born in Steubenville, Ohio, Sept. 25, 1826. His father,
George Conaway, was a native of County Derry, Ireland.
He married Mary Kilpatrick, also a native of that county,
and in 1826 emigrated to America and settled in Steubenville,
Ohio, where they remained until 1828, when they removed to
Muskingum County and settled in the dense forests where the
nights were made hideous by the increasing cries of the prowling
wolves, and where many other wild animals roamed at will through
the wilderness of this then thinly settled country.
George and Mary Conaway had six children born to them; four
of whom, Martha, Sarah, John and Nancy were born
in Ireland; the other two, our subject and George, were
born in Ohio, the latter in Muskingum County. All are
living except the eldest, Martha. She married
Lenox Fisher in 1840, and was the mother of five children,
three of whom are living - Mary J. (Crown), Nancy E. (Krigger)
and Samantha (Cooms), all of whom reside near Gratiot,
Licking Co., Ohio. One of her daughters, Sarah A. (Loughman),
died at the age of thirty-two years, leaving a family of five
children. Sarah Conaway married William Fisher,
and has three children - Hon. John C., George and Mary
K. (Bassett). John Conaway married Emily Waterman,
of Massachusetts, by whom he has three children - George,
Laura and John. They reside in Gratiot, Licking
Co., Ohio. Nancy Conaway married Peter Triplett
and has two children - Mary E. (Irwin) and William A.
They reside in Newark, Ohio. George Conaway married
Maria McCann, by whom he has two children - Jane
and Mary A. They reside near Hanover, Licking Co.,
Ohio. The subject of this sketch was brought up on a farm
and educated in the common schools. His parents died when
he was young, and at the age of thirteen he was thrown upon his
own resources, and the remainder of his early life and 1849 he
went to Illinois, and returned in 1850. He went to Texas
in 1857, remained there and in Missouri till the fall of 1859,
when he returned to Ohio. Mr. Conaway was a soldier
for four months in Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-first
Regiment, Ohio National Guards. He was engaged on duty
most of the time in forts Sumner and De Russy, at Washington, D.
C., and was present when Breckenridge made his charge on
Washington. He purchased his present farm in November,
1849, and located permanently on it in 1860. He was
married Feb. 28, 1852, to Miss Rachel, daughter of
Patrick McKee, and in October, the following year (1853),
removed to his farm in Starr Township. May 25, 1854,
Mrs. Conaway died leaving one child - Mary E., who
died at the age of seven months. Aug. 22, 1860, Mr.
Conaway was married to Mrs. Ann Mariah McCune, nee
Barnes, who was a native of Hocking County and of Scotch
ancestry. Two sons were born to this union - U. L.,
born June 13, 1861, now of the publishing firm of
Leggett, Conaway & Co., of Chicago, Ill., and Elmer
Carlton, the youngest, born Oct. 5, 1862. Mrs.
Conaway was born in 1835, and died Mar. 24, 1867.
Mrs. Conaway had one child by her first husband - Matthew
McCune. Mr. Conaway celebrated his last
marriage Mar. 23, 1869, with Miss Phoebe Jane, daughter
of John and Rachel Mason. They have had three
children; of these two are living - John Mason, born Oct.
20, 1872, and Fanny Estella, born Dec. 29, 1875.
Mr. Conaway is a member in good standing of the Masonic
fraternity, and with his family is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, with which he has been identified for thirty
years. He has served the church as Class-leader during
that entire period except one year. He was a member of the
Board of Trustees one term, and has been Ministerial Trustee for
twenty years. He owns 150 acres of land, and is engaged in
farming and stock raising.
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 -
ARTHUR M. CORTNEY, son of
Arthur and Nancy (Gordon) Cortney, was born in Waynesburgh,
Greene Co., Pa., Nov. 8, 1827. In 1834 he accompanied his
parents to Ohio, where they settled in Jackson Township, Perry
County, and resided there till our subject became of age.
He was educated in the district school and by his father, who
was a school teacher, being also a practical surveyor and civil
engineer. In his twentieth year our subject began to teach
and has taught in Perry and Hocking counties a great many years.
From 1852 till 1856 he was the Township Clerk of Jackson
Township, Perry County. In 1866 he settled at Logan and
engaged in the grocery business until 1872, after which he
taught in the district of that county six years. He was
then elected a member of the Council of Logan, and engaged in
civil engineering and teaching till the fall of 1881, when he
was elected on the Democratic ticket, Clerk of the Circuit Court
and Clerk of Common Pleas of Hocking County for a term of three
years. He was married May 5, 1852, to Miss Rosannah,
daughter of Hughand Rosa (Conley) Clark, of Perry County.
She has borne him twelve children, three sons and nine
daughters, seven of whom still survive, viz: Rosa, Hugh V.,
Lottie, Lucy, Kate, Laura and Estella, all living at
home. Of those who died, all lived to maturity with the
exception of one who died at the age of seven.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 941 |
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Starr Twp. -
PETER COURTER,
section 35, Starr Township, general farmer, was born in Lycoming
County, Pa., Sept. 11, 1811, and is a son of Peter Courter
(deceased), a native of Berks County, Pa. Mr. Courter
was brought up on the farm, and received a limited education in
a subscription school. He married Elizabeth Coalman
July 7, 1836, and has had ten children, of whom six are living -
Mary A. (Mrs. Sherlock), Charles, Isabelle (Mrs. Trobridge),
Rebecca (Mrs. Armstrong), Martha (Mrs. Buckingham), and
Catharine (Mrs. Hansel) One son, William, died
in the late war from the effects of a wound. One daughter,
Ella, was married to Isaac Lowry, and at her death
left one child. Mr. Courter brought his family to
Jackson County, Ohio, in 1855, where he worked at the blacksmith
trade until 1858, when he came to Union, or Five-Mile Furnace.
He came to his present farm in 1861. Mr. Courter is
a member of the Bible Christian church. Mrs. Courter
died Oct. 16, 1882. She was a church member for fifty-two
years, and a faithful Christian. Mr. Courter owns
ninety-two acres of fine land.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 1049 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
WILLIAM HENRY COWELL,
master mechanic in the shops of the C., H. V. & T. R. R. Company
at Logan, was born near Sandusky City, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1838.
At the age of five years he went with his parents, Amasa and
Emily (Chapman) Cowell, to Adrian, where he lived until
manhood, receiving a good common-school education. At the
age of nineteen he began to learn the trade of a machinist in
the shops of Ripley and Whitehouse at Adrian, serving a little
over a year. He then bean to work as a journeyman at
Detroit, Mich., on the Detroit locomotive works, being employed
there some four months when the shops were closed, after which
he worked at different places till 1866, when he was employed as
foreman in the machine shops of the Columbus & Indianapolis
Central Railroad until the spring of 1868. He was employed
as engineer on several roads till the fall of 1869, when he was
engaged as foreman in the shops of the Atlantic & Pacific
Railroad, at Pacific, Mo., for four months, when he ran a
locomotive on the Wabash Railroad, from Springfield, Ill., to
Danville, Ill., until the fall of 1871, when he came to Logan
and was engineer till 1880, after which he was placed in his
present position. He was married Sept. 13, 1877, to
Miss Laura Dean, of Columbus, Ohio. He is a Master,
Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason and member of the
lodge, chapter, council and commandery at Columbus.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 941 |
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Starr Twp. -
REV. WM. M. CRAIG,
section 1, Starr Township, was born in Falls Township, Muskingum
Co., Ohio, Apr. 27, 1847. He was brought to this county by
his parents in the fall of 1848. His boyhood days were
spent on his father's farm. He attended the common school
and finished his education in the Otterbein University, at
Westerville, Ohio. He was first licensed as a local
preacher in the Lancaster district of the Ohio Methodist
Episcopal Conference in 1876, by Elder H. A. Gortner.
He traveled for five years as a supply in the regular work.
Mr. Craig is now extensively engaged in fruit culture,
making a specialty of fine budded peaches. As a
fruit-grower he is eminently successful. His fruits
command the highest prices in the Cincinnati, Columbus and
Baltimore markets. He was married Oct. 25, 1866, to
Miss Cynthia A. Mathews, daughter of Ephraim
Mathews. They have five children - Frank L.,
Minnie M., Eugene N., Linnie A. and Emma Grace.
Hugh Craig, father of the above, was born July 8, 1812,
in Washington County, Pa., and is of Irish parentage. He
came to Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1822, and to Hocking in 1848.
He married Jane Jenkins. They had nine children,
four now living - Mary, Martha, Jane and William M.
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD, chief
engineer Gore Furnace, was born in Greenup County, Ky., Jan. 22,
1847. His father, John Crawford (deceased), was a
native of County Tyrone, Ireland, who came to America when three
years old. Our subject has always worked in the furnace
with the exception of three years spent in the late war.
He enlisted in Company B, Twenty-second Kentucky Volunteer
Infantry. He served under the late General Garfield
and participated in the battles of Middle Creek, Cumberland Gap,
siege of Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss. He was then
transferred to New Orleans, under General Banks, and
participated in the Red River campaign and other smaller
engagements. He came to Gore in May, 1876, and was
appointed to his present position. He was married May 24,
1866, to Mary, daughter of Bailey Harding (deceased).
They have seven children- Elizabeth, John, Jennie, Anna L.,
Jessie P., Lettie and George. Mr. Crawford
belongs to the Masonic fraternity.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 942 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
DANIEL JOHN CRESAP,
merchant tailor, Logan, was born near Cumberland, Md., Nov. 14,
1814, a son of Joseph and Sidney (Sanford) Cresap.
His parents both died before he had reached his fourteenth year
and he was thus early thrown on his own resources. He was
educated in the academy at Cumberland. When in his
fifteenth year he became apprenticed to learn the tailor's
trade, to serve till he was twenty-one. Being dissatisfied
he served only a year and then came to Ohio and worked five
months in Cincinnati. He then went to Louisville, Ky., and
afterward worked as a journeyman in several Southern cities.
In 1834 he went to Washington, D. C., and in 1835 to Berkley
Springs, W. Va. In the fall of 1835 he returned to
Cumberland, and in 1837 came again to Ohio, settling in Dresden,
Muskingum County. In 1839 he went to Hills, and in 1842 to
Ripley. In 1848 he went to Louisa, Ky., and was the
proprietor of a steam saw-mill two years, when he returned again
to Ripley. In the winter of 1849-'50 he went to
California, returning East in 1853 and settling in Cincinnati.
In the spring of 1862 he went to Columbus, and soon after went
out as Sutler of the Eighteenth Regiment, remaining eight
months. In May, 1855, he came to Logan and was employed as
cutter for Rose & Gerson until the spring of 1858
when he became Mr. Gerson's successor, the name changing
to Rose & Cresap, this firm continuing till 1881.
During 1876 and 1877 Mr. Cresap served as a member
of the City Council of Logan. In November, 1840, he
married Sarah Baysman, who
died in 1843, leaving two children - Virginia, wife of
M. B. Lovett, of White Sulphur Springs, Ala., and Anna
Sanford, wife of Hon. R. S. Bebb, of Beatrice, Neb.
In 1844 Mr. Cresap married Elizabeth Campbell,
of Ripley. They have had nine children, only four now
living - Belle, wife of Webster W. Poston, of
Nelsonville; James C., a Lieutenant in the U. S. navy;
Robert E. L., in business with his father; and Edward O.
Katie died in1864 aged eight years; Nellie in
1880, and the others in infancy. He is a member of Mingo
Lodge, No. 171, A. F. & A. M.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - page 942 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
CROMWELL
B. CULVER, of Old Gore, was born Jan. 15, 1803. His
father, Reuben Culver (deceased), was a native of
Connecticut and came to Ohio about the year 1796. Olive
Buel, the mother of our subject, was a daughter of
Timothy Buel, who came out of the battle of Stonington
bareheaded. Our subject was married in 1833 to
Elizabeth Gilmer (deceased). They were the parents of
three children, all deceased. He was again married in 1853
to Sarah J. Perry and they have been blessed with two
children whose names are - Mary E. (Donaldson) and
Edwin S.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 943 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
EDWIN
S. CULVER was born Mar. 21, 1856, at Old Gore, where he
was reared and educated. He also attended school for two
years in Logan. In May, 1879, he entered the employ of the
Thomas Iron Works Company, as assistant book-keeper,
which position he held till Mar. 1, 1883, when he was employed
by the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company as chief clerk
of their mammoth store at New Gore, his present position.
He is also Justice of the Peace and assistant Postmaster at New
Gore, or Hamlin. Mr. Culver is a member of the
Masonic fraternity.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 943 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
LAWRENCE AUGUSTUS CULVER,
President of the People's Bank of Logan, was born in Logan, Oct.
9, 1834, the son of Reuben and Hannah D. (Brooks) Culver.
His education was obtained in the Logan public schools.
When sixteen years of age he commenced clerking, and in his
nineteenth year, in 1853, became engaged in the drug and
dry-goods business in Logan. In 1857 or '58 he became
associated with J. C. Tool. In 1859 Mr. Tool
retired from the business and Mr. Culver carried it on
alone till 1861, when he sold out and removed to his farm in the
vicinity of Logan. In 1863 he, with C. E. Bowen, A. W.
Beery, C. V. Culver, L. H. Culver, and C. B. Culver
(an uncle), organized the First National Bank of Logan, and he
was chosen President. In 1865 he resigned his position,
still retaining an interest in the business, and went to Reno,
Pa., with the intention of organizing a bank at that place, but,
instead, became engaged with his brother, C. V. Culver,
in constructing a railroad. In the fall of 1866 he
returned to Logan. In March, 1867, he sold his interest in
the First National Bank, and with others established the
People's Bank of Logan, he again being chosen President.
Since 1867 Mr. Culver has been largely interested in real
estate. In the fall of 1880, he, with other capitalists,
organized the Motherwell Iron and Steel Company of Logan, of
which he is President. In February, 1882, he purchased an
interest in the Logan Gas Light and Coke Company, and is its
present Treasurer. July 29, 1859, he was married to
Lucy H. Brooke, daughter of M. D. Brooke, of Madison,
Ind. They have had four children - Reuben D., a law
student; Sophia, a student at the Western Female
Seminary, Oxford, Ohio; Florence E., and Lawrence A.,
Jr. Two children are deceased - Lucia H., died
in July, 1861, aged nine months, and Lucy H., in
February, 1878, aged eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Culver
are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a
Master, Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar Mason, a member
of Lancaster Commandery, No. 2, and a demitted member of the
other orders.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 943 |
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Laurel Twp. -
CHARLES CUPP, son of Christopher Cupp,
is a native of Licking County, Ohio, born Dec. 7, 1824.
When eight years of age his parents moved to Fairfield County,
Ohio, born Dec. 7, 1824. when eight years of age his
parents moved to Fairfield County, where he lived till eighteen
years of age. He was reared a farmer and received a
common-school education. He came to Hocking County in
1842, and located in Laurel Township. In 1850 he bought
the farm where he now resides, on section 27. At that time
it was wild timbered land, but now he has 205 acres of fine
well-cultivated land. July 8, 1846, he married Mary Ann
Hood, a sister of his first wife. They have five
children - John C., Jacob A., Charles W., Clarissa E. and
George W. Politically Mr. Cupp is a
Democrat. He has held the offices of Township Treasurer
and Justice of the Peace. He is a member of the Protestant
Methodist church.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 1135 |
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