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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago:
by Inter-State Publishing Co.
1883
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Falls
Twp. including Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
PROF. DAVID J. NEWMAN, Principal of the
Gore Schools, was born Aug. 6, 1842, in Morgan County, Ohio, and
is the son of David Newman, a native of Maryland,
residing near Malta, Morgan County. Our subject was
educated at the High School at McConnelsville, Ohio, and in the
fall of 1863 began teaching in Morgan County. He taught
there three years, and in 1867 came to Perry County, Ohio,
teaching near New Lexington three years. In 1870 he was
appointed Principal of the Straitsville school, which position
he held for seven years. He has been Principal of the Gore
Schools for the last three years, and as an instructor Mr.
Newman has been eminently successful. In September,
1863, he was married to Mary E., daughter of Thornton
L. Hickerson. They have a family of three children
whose names are - Ida M., Oscar S. and Howard L.
Mr. Newman is a member of the I. O. O. F. society.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 978 |
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Falls
Twp. including Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
AZARIAH NIXON, farmer, son of Isaac and Sarah (Sherlock)
Nixon, was born near Maxville, Perry Co., Ohio, Jan. 15,
1838. He lived there with his parents until nineteen years
of age, when he began teaching school and taught sixteen terms.
In 1867 he purchased a farm in Perry County. In 1870 he
sold his farm and removed to Falls Township, Hocking County, and
purchased the farm where he now resides. He was Trustee of
Falls Township for the yeas 1879, 1880 and 1881. Oct. 9,
1862, he married Mary A., daughter of Joseph D,
and Susan A. (Reyner) Woodruff, of Perry County, Ohio.
They have three children - Amma A., Susan A. and
William H., all at home. Mr. and Mrs. Nixon
are members of the Old School Baptist church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 978 |
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Washington Twp. -
SILAS NIXON, youngest of twelve children
of Robert and Catherine (Sapp) Nixon, was born Mar. 3,
1827, near Straitsville, Perry Co., Ohio. the family moved
from Virginia to Perry County, Ohio, where they settled about
1818. Our subject was married Apr. 5, 1849, to Mary
Cochran, a native of Perry County, where she was born Sept.
20, 1829. She is a daughter of Joseph Cochran.
They have six children - Sarah Jane, wife of Philip
Marx, residing near Lancaster, Fairfield County; Thomas
married to Lydia Clark, residing on Mr. Nixon's
farm in Perry County; Emanuel and Amanda
(twins), the former married to Mary Gordon; Clara and
Alva. After marriage Mr. Nixon lived in
different places till 1855, when he came to Hocking County where
he settled in his present residence. He has 165 acres of
land in a high state of cultivation, and has been very
successful in his business relations. In 1862 he joined
the Baptist church, holding his membership at the Scotch Creek
church in Falls Township. Politically he has always
associated himself with the Democratic party. Mr.
Robert Nixon died in December, 1828, and his wife survived
him twenty years.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - page 1081 |
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Washington
Twp. -
WILLIAM NOBLE, born Dec. 22, 1810, in
Washington County, Penn. His father, William Noble,
was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to America with his wife,
Elizabeth (O'Neil) Noble and an infant, where they
lived east of the mountains for three or four years, and then
settled in Pennsylvania, where Mr. Noble died. In
the fall of 1833 the family moved to Guernsey County, Ohio,
where Mr. Noble lived till his death. They had a
family of thirteen children, ten of whom lived to maturity.
William Noble, the subject of this sketch, was twenty-two
years of age when he moved with his father to Guernsey County.
He was married July 12, 1839, to Mary Ann Ogier, a native
of Germany. They have three living children - William,
married to Kate Sell; James, married to Jemima
Lautz, and Celia Ann, wife of Joseph Cherry.
Mrs. Noble had one daughter, May Josephine, by a
previous marriage, who was reared by Mr. and Mrs. Noble
till her marriage with Albert Hartsell. In April,
1841, Mr. Noble moved to Hocking County, where he lived
till 1845, when for the following three years he resided in
Perry County. In the spring of 1849 he returned to Hocking
County and bought the place where he now lives, it being very
little cleared at that time. He went in debt for the land,
but in the course of ten years he had made the last payment, and
at the present time has 150 acres of land, which is well
supplied with iron ore and veins of coal. Mr. Noble
was reared in the Presbyterian church. In early life he
was a Democrat, but since the formation of the Republican party
he has associated himself with it.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1081 |
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Falls
Twp. including Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
JOHN T. NUTTER, residing on section 26, was born in Green
Township, this county, Sept. 14, 1835. He is a son of
John Nutter, of Green Township. He removed with his
father to Wells County, Ind., from whence he returned in 1845,
where he has since resided with the exception of two years spent
in Perry County, Ohio. During his life he has followed the
occupation of a farmer and dealer in real estate most of the
time, but for the past four years has mined ore. He owns
353 acres of land. At one time he owned over 1,300 acres,
besides a one-sixteenth interest in 6,000 acres on Snow Fork in
Ward Township. He was married June 11, 1857, to Clarissa,
daughter of Jacob Whetstone, of Perry County, Ohio.
They have had eleven children, ten still living - JAcob H.,
Mary E., Robert, John, Clara, Charles, Julia, Richard, Emmit
and Elmer. Mr. Nutter has served the
township as Constable for some time, and also as Township
Trustee a few years.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 978 |
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Falls
Twp. including Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
THOMAS SANSOM NUTTER was born in Harrison
County, W. Va., Sept. 4, 1839, a son of Jesse H. G. and Mary
(McWhorter) Nutter, both residents of Logan. His
grandfather, Thomas McWhorter, died in 1816, from disease
contracted in that war. A great-uncle, John McWhorter,
and another, Charles Nutter, were also soldiers in that
war. In the late war of the Rebellion Mr. Nutter
his father, brother and several relatives, were in the war for
the Union. In January, 1843, MR. Nutter's parents
came to Ohio and settled in Adelphi, Ross County and in the
spring of 1845 settled in what is now Perry Township, Hocking
County. In 1850 they went to Pickaway County, and after a
residence there of two years returned to Virginia, and settled
twelve miles north of Glenville, in Gilmer County. In the
spring of 1861, just at the breaking out of the Rebellion, they
removed to the adjoining county, Ritchie. At this time
Mr. Nutter was at work in the oil regions of Burning
Springs, Wirt County, and almost in a day after the firing on
Fort Sumter the works were deserted, and because they belonged
to Northern men were destroyed before the close of the war and
have never been rebuilt. Early in May, 1861, Mr. Nutter
returned home, and, with others of his neighbors, armed
himself against the depredations of small bands of rebel
guerrillas from the more southern counties, who were frequently
prowling through the neighborhood. In August Mr. Nutter
engaged to drive a team for General Rosecran's army, then
at Clarksburg. He accompanied them to Sutton, Big Birch
Rive, and was with them at the battle of Carnifax Ferry, Sept.
10, Oct. 10 he was discharged from the service as a
teamster, sick, and without a cent of money, and 200 miles from
home. He arrived at home a week later, by begging his way,
having never received any pay for his services thus far.
Feb. 6, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company K, Tenth West
Virginia Volunteers, and on the organization of the company was
elected Orderly Sergeant. His regiment was in active
service from that time till the close of the war. At the
battle of Winchester, July 24, 1864, he was wounded in the left
hip, from which forty-two pieces of bone were removed.
February, 1865, he rejoined his regiment, and March 22 was
commissioned First Lieutenant, and assigned to the command of
Company H. He was at the surrender of the city of
Richmond, and was discharged Aug. 21, 1865. The following
September he settled in Harrisburg, Franklin Co., Ohio, where he
resided till February, 1872, engaged in photography. Dec.
20 he removed to South Perry, Hocking County; in May, 1873, to
Gibisonville; in July, to Millville, and Sept. 15, to Logan,
where he still resides. Mr. Nutter has been
somewhat of a local politician, newspaper writer and
correspondent. He was at one time one of the editors of
the Hocking Valley Gazette. He was then a very
radical Republican, but is now somewhat conservative, voting, as
he says, "a badly scratched ticket." He has been twice
married, having by his first marriage one son - Walter Bruce,
who was born June 9, 1869. May 2, 1878, he married
Annetta Mitchel, of Nelsonville, Athens, Co., Ohio.
They have three children - Mary, born Apr. 7, 1879;
Jesse Mitchell, Sept. 22, 1880, and Garfield Blain,
July 22, 1882. Mr. Nutter is a member of James K.
Rochester Post, No. 140, G. A. R., and now holds the office of
Senior Vice Commander.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State
Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 979 |
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