BIOGRAPHIES
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History of Licking Co., Ohio -
It's Past and Present
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City of Newark -
GEORGE
IDEN, county recorder, pro tem, was born July
9, 1845, in Hanover township. After finishing his
common school education, he took the commercial course at
the Vermillion institute, Ashland, and a course at the
Capital City college at Columbus, after which he engaged in
teaching, and followed his profession exclusively until his
appointment to complete the unexpired term of Recorder
Lingfelter. He was president of the Teacher's
institute for the year 1879. He enlisted in Sept.
1864, in company F, Ninety-ninth, Ohio volunteer infantry,
and served to the close of the war.
Source:
1798 - History of Licking Co.,
Ohio, It's Past and Present - by N. N. Hill, Jr. – Publ.
Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 –
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Bennington Twp. -
A. M. ILES, farmer - His great
grandfather, Henry Iles, was born in England in 1749;
came to America during the Revolution. His wife,
Mary M. Stine, was born near Reading, Pennsylvania, in
1764. Henry Iles died in 184, and his
wife in 1832. They were the parents of several
children, but only two lived in this county, viz.:
George and Frederick. George was
born in 1803, and in 1826 married Miss Elizabeth Weiant
of this county. She was born in Orange county, New
York, in 1809. George Iles died in 1871; his
wife died in 1866. They had no children, and at his
death, he, among other munificent bequests, donated a fund
of one thousand five hundred dollars to the Bethel Methodist
Episcopal Bennington chapel, to be administered by three
trustees - the fund to be perpetual and the trustees - the
fund to be perpetual and the trustees to serve for life.
Frederick Iles brother of George, married
Miss Hannah Conard, of this county. They were the
parents of one child, a son, Alexander, who was born
in this county in 1818; married Miss Martha Milligan,
of Monroe township, in 1844. Mrs. Iles is
living in this township. They were the parents of four
children: Alonzo M., the subject of this sketch,
married Miss Rice, daughter of E. G. Rice of
this county; Delano, married Miss Sarah E. Harris
daughter of Jesse Harris, of this county; Emma,
married Noah Dumbauld, of this county; Alice B.,
married William Moore, of this county.
Alonzo, the subject of this sketch, has a fine farm
north of Appleton, and will, in a few years, have as pretty
a place as can be found in this township. He has a son
named Marion I.
Source:
1798 - History of Licking Co.,
Ohio, It's Past and Present - by N. N. Hill, Jr. – Publ.
Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 –
Page 697 |
Granville Twp. -
THOMAS H. INGHAM, a son of Thomas
and Elizabeth Ingham, was born in Pittsfield, New York,
Oct. 22, 1798. He migrated to Licking Co., Ohio, with
his parents in 1814, who settled in Granville township
Their first purchase was a fifty acre tract of land in
Loudoun street, now owned by B. Jones, on which they
built a cabin, made improvements and lived for several yeas,
then he exchanged the fifty acres of land on the same
street, near the line between McKean and Granville
townships. On this he made improvements, and moved his
family, where he passed the balance of his days. His
companion deceased July 6, 1850, aged eighty years. He
died June 15, 1863, aged ninety-one years. Thomas
H. Ingham, married Clarissa Baker in the year
1821, born Nov 24, 1801. They settled on the land
first purchased by his father, and remained until that farm
was exchanged for the land further north, on the same
street; then, as soon as some improvements could be made and
a residence erected, they moved to their new home, where he
is now living. They reared a family of five children:
Lyman E., born Jan. 17, 1822; George H., born
May 18, 1824; Volney V., born June 30, 1828,
Marion, born Apr. 10, 1832; Sylvester A., born
Oct. 30, 1837; all are deceased except George H. and
Marvin. His companion deceased May 20, 1865.
He is still living at the age of eighty-two years.
Source:
1798 - History of Licking Co.,
Ohio, It's Past and Present - by N. N. Hill, Jr. – Publ.
Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 –
Page 697 |
City of Newark -
O. L. INGMAN, grocer, corner of Main
and Fifth streets, Newark. - Mr. Ingman is a native
of Newark, and was born Feb. 15, 2853; he received his
education in the public schools of this city, and made his
first start in life by selling papers as newsboy, and was
the first one that sold Cincinnati and Columbus papers in
this city. When about fourteen years old, he engaged
with T. H. Sites as salesman, with whom he remained
three years; he then went west, and located in Madison,
Wisconsin, where, in 1863, he enlisted in company D,
Twenty-third Wisconsin volunteer infantry, in which he
served as corporal until 1864, when he was promoted to
second lieutenant, and transferred to company I, Forty-third
Wisconsin volunteer infantry, in which he served until the
close of the war, after which he returned to Wisconsin, and
engaged as salesman in the hardware business, in which he
remained a short time, and then went to Vicksburgh,
Mississippi, where he served the firm of Myers & Co. about a
year. He then came to Memphis, and engaged in the
plastering business which he also followed in St. Louis and
in Newark until 1873, when he engaged in the grocery
business in company with L. O. Granger, under the
firm name of Granger & Ingman, which continued
until 1876, when he purchased his partner's interest, and
has since been sole proprietor. He occupies an
excellent location and commodious rooms at No. 101, on the
corner of Main and Fifth streets, where he has a salesroom,
twenty by ninety, four warerooms, fourteen by fifteen each,
and a cellar, twenty by twenty-five. He carries a
large, first-class stock of staple and fancy groceries,
confectionaries, fancy goods, toilet articles, tobacco and
cigars of the latest and best brands, stoneware, wooden and
willow ware, sugar cured and smoked hams, pickled pork,
fish, salt, flour, ham sausage, dried and fresh meats of all
kinds, bologna, etc.
Source:
1798 - History of Licking Co.,
Ohio, It's Past and Present - by N. N. Hill, Jr. – Publ.
Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 –
Page 697 |
City of Newark -
WILLIAM INGMAN was born in Newark, Ohio, Jul. 3, 1832; was
married Jun. 14, 1868, to Lizzie Hederson of Mt.
Vernon, Ohio. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland,
Sept. 6, 1843, and was the daughter of William B.
Henderson, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs.
Ingman have three children: Lottie B., born
Nov. 28, 1870; Sadie F., Dec. 7, 1871; Jessie M.,
May 20, 1873. Mr. Ingman was a member of
company H, Third Ohio volunteer infantry; enlisted Apr.,
1861, and was discharged Jan., 1863. Before the war he
worked with his father, who carried on the business of
manufacturing mill picks, axes, edge tools, iron fencing,
etc., in Newark, Ohio. Since his father, W. D.
Ingman's death, June 15, 1871, William carries on
the old business. His father was born in Bath county,
Virginia, Nov. 28, 1803; came to Fairfield county, Ohio, in
1804, with his father, and after his marriage he moved to
Newark where he died. He was the father of seven
children. Mother Ingman is one of the first
twelve members of the Methodist church of Newark.
Source:
1798 - History of Licking Co.,
Ohio, It's Past and Present - by N. N. Hill, Jr. – Publ.
Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 –
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