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BIOGRAPHIES
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History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
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1883
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Benton Twp. -
SOLOMON
PARRISH, born in Baltimore
County, Md., July 24, 1806, is a son of Joshua and Sarah
Parrish. His parents moved to Belmont County, Ohio, in
1809, where he was reared and educated. He commenced to
learn the blacksmith's trade when seventeen years of age and
worked at it in Belmont County till January, 1833. He then
went to Tuscarawas County and remained till 1854. In
October of the latter year he came to Hocking County and located
in Benton Township. He has made farming his chief
occupation, and now owns 252 acres of fine land. Feb. 21,
1828, he married Elizabeth Jones, a native of Montgomery
County, Md. They are the parents of ten children, five
only now living - Amanda, born Sept. 30, 1832; Thomas,
Oct. 7, 1834; Marion, Dec. 23, 1839; Abraham R.,
Sept. 19, 1842, and Esther V., Sept. 24, 1847.
Mr. and Mrs. Parrish joined the Methodist Episcopal church
at West Union, Tuscarawas County, Mar. 12, 1837. Their
family are all members of the church here.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 1096 |
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Ward Twp. -
LYNUS B. PELTON, late of Ward Township,
Hocking Co., Ohio, was born in Connecticut, Oct. 5, 1814.
His father, Samuel Pelton, was a tailor, and came to Ward
Township in 1853, where he died June 28, 1857. Our subject
also came here at the same time. He was married Sept. 23,
1838, to Hettie M. Woodruff, a daughter of Daniel and
Hannah Woodruff (deceased). The former was a
blacksmith. They had four children - Charlotte L.,
Julia A., Rachel E. (deceased), and Mary A. Mr.
Pelton died Oct. 15, 1877.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - page 1020 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
PARLEY
PHELPS, of Oreville, Falls-Gore, was born near
Crossenville, Perry Co., Ohio, June 7, 1843, a son of
Renodyne Phelps, also a native of Perry County. Our
subject's Grandfather Phelps was a very early settler in
Perry County, where Renodyne was born in 1807.
Mr. Phelps served as a soldier in the late war in Company D,
Thirty-first Ohio Infantry, and participated in the battle of
Stone River, Chickamauga, Pittsburg Landing, Perryville, Ky.,
Hoover's Gap, Tenn., and Mineral Springs, Ky. He was
wounded and taken prisoner at Chickamauga, where he was kept
nine days on the battle-field, then paroled. He came to
Camp Chase, and was exchanged the following May. After the
war he prepared himself for a teacher, and taught sixteen
months, when, in 1870, he engaged in the mercantile business in
Old Gore; removed the store to New Gore in 1871, and to Oreville
in 1872, where he has since resided, and carries on a good
business. He was married Dec. 14, 1871, to Margaret T.,
daughter of John Nutter, of Green Township. They
have four children - Cora E., Hester C., Maud M. and
Samuel N.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - Page 980 |
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Washington
Twp. -
PETER PLEUKHARP was born Oct. 15, 1824, in
Hocking County, Ohio. His father, Peter Pleukharp,
was a native of Germany, and when about twenty-five years of age
came to the United States and settled in Fairfield County, Ohio,
where he remained two years, and while there he was married to
Margaret Goss, also a native of Germany. In 1822 he
came to Falls Township, Hocking Co., Ohio, where he entered
land, and remained in the township till his death, which
occurred in Logan, Nov. 3, 1850. He had at the time of his
death 323 acres of land, and also some property in Logan.
His wife died in Fairfield County. They were the parents
of thirteen children of whom ten are living. Peter
Pleukharp was reared in Falls Township, and lived with his
parents till he attained his majority. Oct. 18, he was
married to Catherine Clark, a native of Falls Township.
They have six children - Mary Emily and Sarah Ann
(twins), the former married to George Keifer, of Ward
Township, and the latter to Clinton Walker, of Licking
County, Ohio; Maggie, wife of Frank Leamon, of
McArthur, Vinton County; Eli and Clara, residing
at home. After his marriage he lived eighteen months a
mile south south of Falls Mill, when he moved on his father's
old homestead which he rented for three years. In 1852 he
purchased his present place in Washington Township, buying at
first eighty acres; by subsequent purchases he has at present
155 acres. In 1878 he united with the Scotch Creek Baptist
church, in Falls Township. Politically he has always been
a Republican. George Clark, the father of
Mrs. Pleukharp, was a native of Virginia, born Oct. 16,
1786, settled in Fairfield County, Ohio, where he lived two
years. He then went to Scotch Creek, Hocking County, where
he entered forty acres of land, but at different times added to
it, so that at his death he had 345 acre, a part of which was
previously deeded to his children. Mr. Clark
married for his second wife Mary Harris, also a native of
Virginia, by whom he had seven children, three sons and four
daughters, all of whom are living. He died on the place he
settled, Nov. 16, 1878, after living on it over sixty years.
His wife departed this life about eleven months previous.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - page 1082 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
WILLIAM EDGAR PLEUKHARPE,
Assistant Secretary of the Motherwell Iron and Steel Works,
was born in Falls Township, Hocking Co., Ohio, Dec. 25, 1854, a
son of Daniel and Hannah A. (North) Pleukharpe.
When he was sixteen years of age his parents moved to Logan.
He attended the common schools till eighteen years of age, when
he took a commercial course in the Zanesville Business College,
graduating in 1873. In 1874 he was employed as clerk in
the grocery store of H. C. Smith, remaining with him till
1877. He was then employed as weighmaster and bookkeeper
for Culver & Stalter, dealers in lime and limestone, till
1879. In the fall of the later year he was employed as
manager and bookkeeper in the store of the Winona Iron Company,
remaining there till December, 1881. He then went to
Columbus and engaged in the grocery business till January, 1883,
when he sold out and accepted his present position. Nov.
15, 1882, Mr. Pleukharpe married Margaret Boies,
of Perry County, Ohio. He is a member of the First
Presbyterian Church, of Logan.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co. - 1883 - Page 980 |
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Marion
Twp. -
NOAH POLING, section 36, Marion Township,
was born in Rush Township, Fairfield Co., Ohio, Nov. 22, 1825.
His father, Samuel R. (deceased), a native of Maryland,
came to Ohio over seventy years ago, and in 1829 brought his
family to Hocking County, where our subject has since resided.
His mother, Elizabeth (Stamey) Poling, drew a pension, as
her husband was a soldier in the war of 1812, under George
Sanderson, of Fairfield County, Ohio. She departed
this life Mar. 29, 1882, aged eighty-eight years. Noah
Poling was married Apr. 12, 1849, to Mrs. Susannah Rhoads,
daughter of Isaac Red. They were the parents of ten
children, eight of whom are still living - Alnora J. (McGlougin),
Samuel and Elizabeth (twins), Sarah A., Dwight A.,
JAmes T., Margaret and John O. He has
nearly 184 acres of land, his business being that of a farmer
and stock-raiser. He has been Township Trustee one year,
and Trustee of the Infirmary five years, and has also held other
smaller offices.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1156 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
MAYNARD POND, son of Erastus and
Sarepta (Stanton) Pond, was born at Rushville, N. Y., Sept.
15, 1837. He was elected in the public schools of his
native place till 1853, when he left home and came to Logan,
where he was employed by his father, a contractor on the Scioto
& Hocking Valley Railroad, until the following year., and in
1855 returned to Logan, where he was variously employed till
1860. In that year he took the contract to carry the
United States mail from Portsmouth, Ohio, to Guyandotte, W. Va.,
making his home at Ironton, Ohio. He remained in the mail
service until the spring of 1861, when he enlisted in the Union
service, under Captain John S. George, in an independent
company of cavalry, known as Company A. At the expiration
of his term of service he, in October, 1861, re-enlisted in
Company H, Fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, to serve
three years, and during his whole service he was Orderly
Sergeant of his company. He participated in the battle of
Pittsburg Landing, and a number of cavalry skirmishes, in the
last of which he was injured by his horse falling on him, after
which he was in the hospital at various places till Aug. 26,
1862, when he was discharged for disability. He then
returned to Logan, but soon after went to Eau Claire, Wis.,
where he was engaged in lumbering and farming till 1879, when he
again took up his residence in Logan, where he has since been
engaged in farming and stock-raising. In March, 1860, he
married Miss Janet Anderson, of Logan, by whom he has had
eight children, viz.: Hattie, Myron S., Willis M., Charles
A., Sarah E., Frank B., FAnny S. and Florence A.
Mr. Pond and wife are members of the First Presbyterian
Church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 981 |
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Green Twp. -
I. G. POSTON, Green Township, was born in
Nelsonville, Ohio, Sept. 3, 1854, a son of Lorenzo D. Poston
(deceased). Our subject was reared in Nelsonville and
educated at that place and in Duff's Commercial College,
Pittsburg, Pa. He was married May 15, 1878, to
Josephine, daughter of Joseph Mercer (deceased), and
has been blessed with two children - Edwin and Blanche.
He is engaged in dealing in thoroughbred draft and trotting
horses, having a number of very fine horses of the Clydesdale
and Spartan stock, among them being Fanny Clyde, Sparton,
Jr., and Madrid. He is doing a good business
and is the owner of 300 acres of land.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1035 |
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Green
Twp. -
WINFIELD S. POSTON, section 21, Green
Township, was born at Nelsonville, Ohio, Oct. 30, 1852, a son of
L. D. Poston (deceased). He was reared and educated
in his native town, and also attended Eastman's Commercial
College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He then clerked in his
father's store in Nelsonville for three years, and in 1878 came
to his present farm. He owns 300 acres, his business being
that of a farmer and stock-raiser. His house is a two
story brick, situated on a beautiful eminence overlooking the
Hocking Valley bottoms, railroad and canal. He was married
Apr. 12, 1877, to Flora, daughter of Joseph Wilson
(deceased). They are the parents of one child - Bertie.
SOURCE: History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State
Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1035 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
AARON AIKIN PRICE, contractor and builder,
Logan, was born in McConnelsville, Morgan Co., Ohio, Feb. 20,
1837, the third of four sons of William P. and Sarah (Hanesworth)
Price. When an infant his parents came to Hocking
County, settling in Washington Township. When he was seven
years of age his father died. He remained with his mother
till twelve years of age, and then went to live with a married
sister in the same neighborhood, making his home with her till
seventeen years of age. He worked in Pickaway and Hocking
counties the next two years, and when nineteen began to learn
the carpenter's trade of Samuel Price (a cousin), working
with him till 1860. In the spring of that year he went to
Putnam County, Mo., thence to Wisconsin, returning to Morgan
County, Ohio, the following fall. In June, 1863, he
enlisted in Company I, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, for three
years. He had been drafted in 1862, but was rejected on
account of a crippled arm. He was in the Army of the
Cumberland in Kentucky and Tennessee, and was promoted to
Corporal. He was discharged Aug. 2, 1865, and returned to
Hocking County to his mother's farm. The following October
his mother died. He remained on the farm and worked at his
trade till the spring of 1867 when he went to Deerfield
Township, Morgan County, and worked with Samuel Price
till the following fall. They then went to McConnelsville
and worked in a sash and door factory till 1870, when he came to
Logan. He has had the contract for building Band's Iron
Works, Thomas's Iron Works, Craft's Iron Works, the furnaces of
the Hocking Iron Company and many of the substantial buildings
and bridges in Hocking County. June 10, 1858, he married
Minerva E. Remsen of Tridelphia, Morgan County.
They have had four children - William P., Mary Elizabeth,
Walter Cassius and Sarah Violet The latter died
in November, 1869, aged six years. Mr. and Mrs. Price
are members of the Methodist church. He is a Master and
Royal Arch Mason, a member of the lodge and chapter at Logan.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 981 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
FRANCIS
S. PURSELL, son of Daniel Elizabeth (Lacock) Pursell,
was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, Aug. 13, 1846. He was
educated in the public schools of Portsmouth, graduating from
the same in 1866. He had been through part of the war with
a brother who was a soldier, but, being too young, was not
enlisted, although making several attempts. He saw active
service, but never engaged in the same. He studied law
with Judge A. C. Thompson in 1866-'68; was admitted to
the bar in Portsmouth in 1868, and entered into partnership with
Judge Martin C. Crain. He remained in practice with
him one year, and then entered the office of Judge A. C.
Thompson, then Probate Judge of Scioto County, remaining two
years, after which he practiced alone until 1872. Mr.
Pursell was married in 1872 to Alma C. Wright, of
Logan, sister of Judge Silas H. Wright, of Lancaster.
He opened a law office in Logan in 1872, and practiced about six
months, when other business took all his attention. He
owned and ran the drug store now owned by Reber & Co., in
Logan, from December, 1872, on March, 1881, when he sold out to
the present owners. He started the Hocking Valley
Gazette, in connection with Mr. Brook, in February,
1877, and has been editor and publisher of the same up to the
present time. He was appointed by Governor Bishop
one of the Trustees of the Athens Insane Asylum, remaining such
through Governor Bishop's administration.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 982 |
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