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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 -
ROBERT
SKINNER VAN ATTA, molder and machinist in the Logan
Foundry, was born near Belvidere, N. J., May 9, 1822, a son of
Samuel and Jane (Stout) Van Atta. His mother died
when he was an infant, and when he was four years of age his
father removed to New York City, where he lived with him till
fifteen years of age. He then returned to Washington
Village, N. J., and began to learn the trade of a molder in the
foundry of his uncle, Jesse S. Van Atta, remaining there
two years. In the fall of 1838 he came with his father and
his uncles, JEsse, Nelson and Ralph Van Atta, to
Ohio, and the following spring settled and founded a foundry
five miles north of Newark, in the Mt. Vernon road, at what was
afterward called and is now known as Van Attaville. He
worked in their foundry four years when he started out as a
journeyman molder, working in Pomeroy, Dayton, Newark and back
again to Van Attaville until 1848 when he came to Logan, and in
June of that year became associated with Raymond Belt,
and founded the Logan Foundry under the firm name of Belt &
Van Atta. In April, 1853, he retired from the firm and
returned to Van Attaville and with his Uncle Nelson and
Noah Clouse formed the firm of Clouse & Van
Atta and became proprietors of the Van Atta
Foundry. Mr. Clouse remained with them a number of
years when he retired, the firm then becoming N. & R. S. Van
Atta. In July 1,62, Mr. Van Atta retired from the
firm and was employed as a machinist in the shops of the Pan
Handle Railroad at Newark till the following spring. IN
1863 he returned to Logan and has since been employed in the
Logan Foundry. In 1859, while he was a member of the firm
of Clouse & Van Atta, he started for Pike's
Peak, but on reaching Fort Kearney changed his mind and
returned. From 1866 to 1858 he was Clerk of Falls
Township. Nov. 14, 1850, Mr. Van Atta married
Martha Jane Alexander of Logan. They are the parents
of five children, four now living - Frank A., an engineer
on the C. H. V. & T. R. R.; Albert B., telegraph messenger;
Harry B., assistant civil engineer o the C. H. V. & T. R.
R. and Florence Ells. A daughter, Mary Alice,
died in 1855 aged six months. Mr. Van Atta is a
Master, Royal Arch and Council Mason, and a member of the lodge,
chapter and council at Logan.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1002 -
Chapt. XXXVI - Falls Twp., including Falls-Gore & City of Logan |
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Marion Twp. -
ANDREW
W. VORIS, farmer, eldest son of Isaiah and Nancy
(Hughes) Voris, was born near Bremen, Fairfield Co., Ohio,
June 20, 1838. In 1849 his parents removed to Logan, and
lived two years. In 1852 his father purchased a farm three
miles east of Logan. He was reared on a farm and educated
at the common schools. At the age of twenty-one years he
rented a farm near Gore. A year later he purchased a farm
in Marion Township. Feb. 14, 1865, he enlisted in Company
H, Eighteenth Ohio Infantry, at Athens, Ohio, as a private
for one year and was on garrison duty at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
until the last of May, 1865. They were then transferred to
Augusta Ga., where he was detailed on special duty in the
commissary department. Nov. 9, 1865, he was mustered out
near Augusta, Ga., and returned to Columbus, Ohio, where he
received his discharge, and returned home. Some time after
returning from the army he sold his farm and rented a farm one
year. He then purchased the farm he had sold and in 1872
purchased the farm where he resides. Aug. 7, 1860, he
married Charlotte, daughter of Robert and Anna (McGee)
Sanderson, of Hocking County. They have six children -
Emma, wife of Noah Carpenter, of Hocking County;
Charles J., Lucy, Iona A., Francis A. and Shady V.
at home. William I. died, aged three years;
Benjamin J., in infancy; George, aged four years;
Asa, aged three years, and Augusta,,, in infancy.
His wife died June 22, 1881, aged forty-seven years. She
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is also
a member of the same church and Superintendent of
Sabbath-school.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 1157 |
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