BIOGRAPHIES
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1798 -
History of Licking Co., Ohio -
It's Past and Present
Compiled by N. N. Hill, Jr.
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Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers
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Madison Twp. -
P. N. O'BANNON - Mr. O'Bannon
was born upon the farm on which he died, two miles below
Newark, Nov. 6, 1806, died, and was seventy-three years and
ten months old. He was a man of considerable
prominence and ability, and more than ordinary activity in
affairs of public interest. He was a member of the
State legislature in 1844-5, and had also been elected to
the position of a member of the board of equalization, once
or oftener, and was also president of the Licking County
Agricultural society in 1852, and since 1872 had been the
president of the Licking County Pioneer Historical and
Antiquarian society. Mr. Bannon had long been
associated with the Masonic fraternity, and also with the
various temperance organizations, and could always be
counted to give the weight of his precept and example to the
side of good order, sound morality and vigorous principles.
His life was chiefly devoted to agricultural pursuits and
general husbandry, although for perhaps thirty of the later
years of his life he exercised his gifts in the ministry of
the Lutheran church, as opportunity offered. Hon.
P. N. O'Bannon was the eldest son of the late Judge
William O'Bannon, a prominent pioneer of Licking valley,
who settled there on the banks of the Shawnee run in 1803.
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 735 |
Newark Twp. -
JAMES B. ODELL, a farmer, located on
the Sharon valley road, about four miles west of Newark.
He is the son of Stanton B. and Syndica
O'Dell, and was born Mar. 27, 1844, in Granville
township. He was married to Anna L. Gray, Oct.
28, 1875; she is the daughter of William T. and
Temperance Gray, and was born July 25, 1851, in Fayette
county, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. O'Dell have
two children: Lura Belle, born Oct. 28, 1876;
Blanche R., born Dec. 2, 1878. Mr. O'Dell
enlisted in the service during the late war Feb. 16, 1865,
in company E, One Hundred and Ninety-first Ohio volunteer
infantry, under Captain George E. Richards. He
received his discharge Aug. 27, 1865.
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 736 |
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Bowling
Green Twp. -
JOHN OLDHAM,
born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Mar. 3, 1814, son
of Robert and Martha (Morrison) Oldham. In 1821
he came with his parents to North Cambridge, Guernsey
county, Ohio, and completed an apprenticeship of four years
in the saddle and harness making trade there in 1832, then
worked at his trade two years in Zanesville. In 1834
Mr. Oldham came to Brownsville, where he has resided
ever since, engaged in saddle and harness making. He
has twice been postmaster at Brownsville - during the
administrations of Presidents Taylor and Johnson,
and has been township treasurer for fifteen years. He
was married to Miss Phoebe Dumm, Nov. 4, 1836.
Her father, Jacob Dumm, moved to Zanesville,
Ohio, in 1806, from Bedford county, Pennsylvania. In
1832 she came to Brownsville with her mother. They
taught a very popular and successful industrial school here
in a church, having as many as fifty pupils in attendance at
one time, some of them from quite a distance, Mrs.
Oldham giving instruction in sewing, working samples,
etc., and her mother teaching the common branches.
Mr. Oldham has seven children living - Ellen
T., wife of Thomas Tippet, of Delaware;
Lide M., wife of Albert Robinson, of
Albany, Ohio; C. A. Oldham, a druggist in Enfield,
Illinois; B. T. Oldham, a tobacconist in Delaware,
Ohio; Lizzie, Minnie, and Allion.
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 735 |
St.
Albans Twp. -
R. D. OLDHAM,
pioneer farmer and miller, was born May 7, 1814, in
Cambridge township, Guernsey county, Ohio, and migrated to
Licking county about Apr. 10, 1838. His parents are
Thomas and Nancy Oldham. The former was born in
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania; the latter in Washington
county, Pennsylvania, within two miles of the Virginia line.
Mrs. Oldham's maiden name was Davis.
R. D. Oldham located in St. Albans township, purchasing
ninety-eight acres, and con tinuing to add until he had four
hundred and thirty acres. He married Commillar
Brill, Sept. 22, 1836. They had one child, Mary
Elizabeth, born May 25, 1846, who graduated at the
Granville college, June, 1867. She married George
McLaughlin, Jan. 10, 1871, and died May 17, 1873.
Her mother died Aug. 20, 1867. Mr. Oldham's
second marriage took place Oct. 14, 1868, to Sarah
Carlock, who was born July 24, 1816, and died June 1,
1880. Mr. Oldham is one of the most
enterprising citizens of this county. He has erected
buildings in the township costing over eight thousand
dollars. He has cleared and improved about two hundred
acres. He has met with loss after loss, by death and
fire. November, 1840, he contracted with Paul
Roberts to run a grist-mill in Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas
county, Ohio, for three years, at twenty dollars per month.
He remained there two and one-half years, making enough
money to pay for his first purchase in the township.
November, 1844, they took a little girl, Rachel Robert,
to bring up, and gave her an excel lent education. She
was prevented from graduating on account of failing health.
Oct. 25, 1866, she married W. T. Chambers, and now
lives in West Virginia, five miles from Wheeling, at Elm
Grove. They have five children - Harry, William,
Samuel, Mary, and Sarah.
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 736 |
Franklin Twp. -
JOHN B. ORR - Mr. Orr was born
Mar. 30, 1828, in Bowling Green township. His
grandfather and family came to this county from Fayette
county, Pennsylvania, in 1803, when his father, James
Orr, was a small boy. They first lived on the
place near Newark, where Thomas Taylor now resides.
IN a short time, however, they removed to the farm in
Bowling Green township, upon which James Orr has ever
since lived. Mr. Orr's mother, Elizabeth
Dusthimer was born in Loudoun county, Virginia.
His parents were married in 1824. Mr. Orr is
the second of nine children, three of whom have died.
He was married Sept. 18, 1851, to Eliza Ann Cooperider.
But this marriage he had six children: Martha,
Leroy, Harvey, Austin, Stephen and Millie Alice.
Martha and Stephen are dead. Mr. and
Mrs. Orr are members of the Lutheran church. He
moved to his present residence in 1856, and has, during his
whole life, pursued the quiet avocation of a farmer.
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 735 |
Newton Twp. -
THOMPSON E. OSBURN,
contractor and builder, post office, Vanatta, was born in
Franklin township, this county, July 27, 1842. About
1835 his father, Richard Osburn, came
from Virginia, settling on Clay lick, in Franklin township.
Mary (Humphrey Osburn, his mother, was
also a native of Virginia, and came to Muskingum county when
a child, and when that county was a wilderness.
Thompson E Osburn enlisted in company F, One Hundred and
Thirteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, Aug. 22, 1862,
and was honorably discharged, July 7, 1865. He took
part in the following battles Chickamauga, Mission Ridge,
Buzzard Roost, Resaca, Rome, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain (where
one- half of the company was killed or wounded) Peach Tree
Creek, New Hope Church, Front of Atlanta. Jonesborough, and
many skirmishes. He was also with Sherman on
his famous "march to the sea." During this march he
was connected with the foragers, who fought a small battle
by themselves whipping the rebels at Sandersville, Georgia,
driving them out of that place and capturing a good dinner
that had been prepared by the ladies of that village for the
gray-coats. He was also with Sherman in his
march through the Carolinas, and was engaged in the severe
battle of Bentonville, and also that of Black River.
He remained with Sherman until after the surrender of
Johnson's army, and fired one of the last shots of
the war on the tenth of April, 1865, the day following the
surrender of Lee, he being at the time on the
skirmish line near Smithfield, North Carolina.
Sergeant Osburn also fired one of the first and
one of the last shots at the battle of Chickamauga. In
this battle his company lost twenty-one ___ of thirty-five
men in killed and wounded. A the battle of Kenesaw
Mountain Sergeant Osburn rescued Andrew J.
Shaw who fell, desperately wounded near the enemy's
works. Shaw been his friend at home; and
afterward in the hospital. Mr. Osburn rescued
him by ___ __ing snake-like to the rebel works and taking
him away unperceived. He was never unable to do
duty, and never received a scratch, though in every
engagement in which the regiment was engaged. At
Jonesborough the regiment captured two pieces of artillery,
and more prisoners than there were men in the regiment.
The nearest he came to getting shot was at Kenesaw, where
his gun stock was shattered by a ball. He was in the
great review at Washington, at 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 –
page 736 |
City of Newark -
JAMES W. OWENS, a lawyer by
profession, actively engaged in the practice, with office on
west side of public square, over Franklin's bank, Newark,
Ohio. Mr. Owens was born Oct. 24, 1837, in
Franklin county, Indiana. He entered Miami university
at Oxford, Ohio, in 1859, and graduated in 1862. He
entered the army as a private in the Twentieth Ohio
volunteer infantry, and served during the tree months'
service. He re-enlisted and was made first lieutenant
of company A, Eighty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and, on
its re-organization, was made captain of company K. He
attended law school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1864-65, and
in March of the latter year he located at Newark, Ohio, and
was admitted to the bar the same year. July 23, 1867,
he married Miss Martha, daughter of Elias Kimler
of Oxford, Ohio. By this union he has one child,
Eva G. In 1867 he was elected prosecuting attorney
of Licking county, and was re-elected in 1869. In 1875
he was elected to the senate by a majority of eight hundred
and forty-four, and he was re-elected in 1877 by a majority
of two thousand and sixty-five. When the senate was
organized, there being no lieutenant governor, Mr. Owens
was elected president of the senate, and as such appointed
the committees. When Lieutenant Governor Fitch
was inaugurated he became president pro tem. He
is a fluent and forcible speaker, and a good
parliamentarian.
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 736 |
Newark Twp. -
JOHN R. OWENS, farmer, a native of
North Wales, was born Mar. 31, 1811. He was brought up
on a farm. After he reached his majority, in 1832, he
migrated to America, and located in New York State, where he
engaged as engineer in a distillery, and remained with the
same firm about nine years. In 1841 he emigrated to
Ohio, and located in Granville township, this county.
He then turned his attention to farming, which business he
has since been engaged in, and is counted one among the
leading farmers in the county. His first purchase of
land was fifty acres on burg street, Granville township, on
which he moved and lived for many years. He continued
buying land until he had in his possession about two hundred
and eighty acres of good land in Granville township.
In 1842 he was united in marriage to Miss Ann Jones,
born in Wales, in 1817, and came to this county with her
parents in 1841. They settled on his farm in Granville
township, where they resided until in 1872, when they
purchased and moved on the farm in Newark township where
they now reside; farm containing one hundred and sixty-three
acres. Their union resulted in four children:
Robert J., David R., Thomas D. and John J.
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
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