BIOGRAPHIES
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1798 -
History of Licking Co., Ohio -
It's Past and Present
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Monroe Twp. -
ALPHEUS REED (deceased), was born
Feb. 11, 1805, died Jan. 17, 1874. He came to
Johnstown in September, 1874. He came to Johnstown
in September, 1836, and engaged in the mercantile
business, in which he continued uninterruptedly for
thirty-seven years. He was married at Keesville,
New York, to Miss Almira Allen, Apr. 29, 1829, by
whom he had two children: Mary L., born Oct. 29,
1833; Helen M., born Dec. 24, 1835. In his
dealings Mr. Reed was honest and honorable.
His only rule of action was "do right," and it was well
said of him, "a good man has gone," when he was called
to that "bourne from whence no traveler returns."
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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Granville Twp. -
HENRY L. REED, was born in
Johnstown, Licking county, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1831. He
remained in the store with his father until in 1849,
when he began farming, which he followed until in 1880,
when he moved to Granville and engaged in the grocery
trade, which business he has since been conducting with
success. He deals in groceries, provisions,
queensware, glassware, etc. In Apr., 1852, he
married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Edwin
Bancroft, of Granville. By this union he had
two children - Charles H. and Edwin S.
Charles H. died Oct. 31, 1880.
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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St. Albans Twp.
JOHN REED, retired merchant, was born in Wheeling about 1828, and with
his parents emigrated to Racine, near Pomeroy, on the Ohio river, where his
parents, Reuben
and Hannah, died, leaving him to the charities of the world. He came to Alexandria when he was about fourteen years of age,
where he has been connected with mercantile business ever since. Feb. 14, 1850, he married
Mary Davis, who was born Dec. 25,
1832, in Huntingdon county,
Pennsylvania.
They have five children: three boys and two girls, only one of whom is
living, John E., born July 26, 1859.
Mr. Reed began life without a dollar,
and by honesty and strict economy has made himself a competency.
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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Mary Ann Twp. -
M. L. REID, farmer, born in Warren
county, Virginia, Jan. 22, 1853. He moved with his
father's family to Licking county in 1861, locating near
Elizabethtown. In 1873 his parents moved to
Danville, Knox county, where his mother died one year
after, at the age of thirty-seven years. Two years
after this his father moved to Missouri, where he is now
living. Mr. Reid is one of ten children -
three girls and seven boys. Soon after his
mother's death the youngest brother died. Previous
to this one sister had died during their stay at
Elizabethtown. He was married on the twenty-second
of March, 1877, to Mary Moats, daughter of
Benjamin Moats, of this township. They have
one child, Emily Ellen, born March, 15, 1880.
Mr. Reid is a carpenter by trade, as was also his
father. He is now farming the eighty acres of land
belonging to the Linn estate.
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
753 |
Madison Twp. -
THOMAS W. REID, farmer, was born
in Licking county, Ohio, August, 1851, son of Joseph
Reid. For many years he has worked at the
trade of carpentering. Some seven years since he
located on a little farm of twenty acres, some five
miles east of Newark, where he now lives. He was
married to Eliza Vermillian, born Nov. 23, 1856,
daughter of George Vermillian. They have three
children: John Henry, Sarah Emily,
Frances Ann.
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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FREDERICK
G. RICKLY. Switzerland, land of the tower
Alps, has given many worthy and industrious citizens to
this country and among them are Jacob and Katherine
(Garber) Rickly, who were natives of Canton Berne,
Switzerland, where they were born in the year 1796 and
1799, respectively. There they were united in
marriage and on Sept. 1, 1834, started for this country
with three children, two of whom died on the voyage.
They located in Baltimore, Fairfield county, Ohio,
subsequently removing to a farm near Kirkersville, where
he spent the remainder of his life in the pursuit of
agriculture on thirty acres of land. Jacob
Rickly departed this life in 1872 while his wife
lived to be ninety-four years of age and entered into
rest Mar. 16, 1893, while living at the residence of her
son in Kirksville. They had nine children, namely:
Mary and Jacob, who died in infancy
while enroute to this country from their native land;
Emanuel who was born in Switzerland and passed away
here in his sixtieth year; Jacob, a resident of
Kirkersville; John, who lives in Wood county,
Ohio; Frederick G.; Mary, wife of
Joseph Wells, of Missouri; Elizabeth, widow
of A. Kemple, of Wood county, Ohio; and
Caroline, deceased wife of Abram Frideger.
Frederick G. Rickly was born on a farm one mile
west of Kirkersville, on the National pike, in Etna
township, Nov. 20, 1839, and here he always resided,
engaging in general farming and stock-raising. His
boyhood days were largely spent in the work of the
fields and during the winter seasons he attended the
district schools, where he acquired his education.
He resided on the home farm with his parents until his
marriage when he purchased a farm containing
twenty-eight acres which he cultivated for twelve years,
subsequently disposing of it and purchasing his present
farm, which embraces fifty acres and lies east of St.
Jacob's Reformed church. It is a highly improved
tract of land, provided with substantial buildings, most
of which he erected, and here he pursued general
farming, engaging to some extent in stock-raising.
His farm is well cared for and Mr. Rickly, being
a practical agriculturist, making such study of his soil
as enables him to advantageously place his crops, he has
from year to year gleaned from his fields harvests far
in excess of those reaped from farms of a greater
acreage. During the Civil war Mr. Rickly
answered his country's call to arms and in 1864 enlisted
in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Hancock and,
serving with the one-hundred-day men, was stationed on
guard duty at Harper's Ferry.
In 1866 Mr. Rickly wedded Sarah Hagy, a
native of Etna, Ohio, where her birth occurred on Dec.
24, 1844, and where she had always resided. She is
a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Miller) Hagy, and
a sister of Squire S. E. Hagy, a noted capitalist
of this township. To Mr. and Mrs. Rickly
have been born seven children, namely: Mary
Katherine, whose birth occurred Sept. 1, 1867, and
who is the wife of Simon Smoke; Josephine L.,
born Mar. 25, 1869, the wife of Charles Heimberger,
of Etna township; Edward H., whose birth occurred
Aug. 29, 1871, and who resides with his wife, Edna (Rugg)
Rickly, in Reynoldsburg; Emma F., born Nov.
16, 1885, the wife of Peter Myers; William J., of
Outville, Ohio, born Mar. 29, 1882; Charles A.,
born Feb. 16, 1885; and Roy Rex, whose birth
occurred Mar. 17, 1892. Mr. Ricly has been
a republican in politics all his life and since he cast
his first vote for Abraham Lincoln has never seen
cause to swerve from his party since he believes its
principles to be in every sense adequate to maintain the
permanent prosperity of the nation. He is a
republic-spirited man who has taken quite an interests
in local affairs, having served in a number of township
offices, among which are those of road supervisor and
constable. He has also been a school director.
He belongs to Baird Post G. A. R., of Pataskala and is a
member of St. Jacob's Reformed church, in which for many
years he has been an elder. Mr. Rickly is a
worthy representative of the citizenship of the county
and his industry and upright character have stood him
well in the battle of life and won him the respect and
confidence of his neighbors.
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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Burlington Twp. -
EDWARD ROBINSON, farmer, born in
1832, near Ottawa, Canada West, came to this couty in
1856. He was married in 1858 to Miss Sarah
Ewing, of this county. She was born in 1833,
in Perry county, Ohio. They are the parents of
four children: Charles H., Eddie E., Lizzie B.,
and Emma L. He has lived in this county
since 1856, with the exception of three years spent in
Delaware county. He purchased the farm on which he
now lives in the spring of 1879.
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
748 |
Union Twp. -
S. H. ROSEBRAUGH, harness
manufacturer, post office, Hebron, was born in Hebron in
1854; his father was born in Virginia, and his mother in
Vermont. In 1878 Mr. Rosebraugh started his
present business, and is at present enjoying a big
trade, his success being brought about by skilful
industry and honest goods at bottom prices.
Although a young man, he is already recognized as one of
Hebron's foremost citizens; he also has charge of the
Western Union telegraph lines at Hebron, seven wires
running into his shop.
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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Jersey Twp. -
HENRY H. ROSS, born on Shamony Hill centennial grounds,
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, July 23, 1823, then the property of
Judge Warner. In 1833 his father came to Muskingum
county, Ohio, one and one-half miles below Zanesville. In 1837 they moved
to Zanesville,
living where the reservoir of the waterworks now is. Serving a three years apprenticeship
to James Bishop, boat builder, he
worked for him a short time; then as a carpenter and watchman, spent two years
on the boats Malta, Captain Dexter and Zanesville, Captain Hurd, plying between
Zanesville and Pittsburgh, and occasionally running down to Cincinnati. He once took a flat-boat trip to Memphis, Tennessee,
conveying a load of crockery, then called Putnam currency. While on the river cholera raged
among the boatmen, and many died but Mr.
Ross escaped an attack, and this without resorting to brandy as a preventive
, as he was urgently requested to do.
From 1843 to 1851 he made ten trips over the mountains to
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, working at his trade the most of the time, in various places,
one year in Cramps ship yards, Philadelphia. He was then
employed in the sops of the Central Ohio Railroad company, at
West Zanesville, where he remained until the great strike occurred. Since then he has been chiefly
engaged in portable saw-milling, at first in Bladensburgh, Knox county, then in
various localities in this vicinity.
Since 1875 he has turned his attention more to farming. Married July 20, 1862, to
Amanda J. Yantis, by whom he has six
children: John William, Henry Albion,
Mary Estella, and Amanda Luella,
twins; George S. C., and
Earnest Huntley.
Mrs. Ross father,
William Yantis came from
Maryland and Tarlton,
Ohio, in 1815, and in 1817 to Plain township, Franklin county.
He was one of the earliest settlers, and laid out the west half of
New Albany,
about 1830. Source:
1798
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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Madison Twp.
MRS. HANNAH ROWELL
Mrs. Rowell was a native of Pennsylvania,
and was born there in the summer of 1783.
While quite young her parents removed to Parkersburgh, now in West Virginia, where, at the age of eighteen years,
she married Mr. Wilson Rowell, who
died about twenty years thereafter.
She was the mother of a number of children, but out-lived them all except one.
Mr. Hannah Sargeant Rowell, to give
her full name, lived during the last forty years in Licking county, and died in Madison Township, Aug. 12, 1880, at the great age of ninety-seven years. She had been a member of the
Methodist church about sixty 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
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City of Newark -
RICHARD ROWLAND, was born at Aberystwith,
near Cardinganshire, South Wales, May 6, 1825. While in Wales he carried on the business of
manufacturing English flannels. Was
married to Ann Watkins Oct. 10, 1851. They had three children:
Mary AnnΈ born Oct. 17, 1854;
William W., born July 13, 1856, and
Ella, born Jan. 9, 1859. The subject of this sketch came to
Newark Dec. 12, 1868, where he sine
resided, on West Main street. He invested capital in the Newark
Rolling mills, but as they were not a success, he is not at present engaged in
business. His son, William, belongs
to the Newark fire department.
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
755
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Monroe Twp. -
HENRY B. RUSLER, manufacturer of
pumps, and dealer in agricultural implements, also has the
general agency of the celebrated Corey's patent rubber
bucket pump, Johnstown. He was born Aug. 11, 1847, in
Liberty township. He married Sarah E. James, of
Granville Township, Jan. 25, 1870. They had one child,
Ernest Dillon, born Nov. 28, 1871, died Sept. 12,
1878. Mr. Rusler is a Democrat in politics, and
is at present clerk of Monroe township, which position he
has held four years. He is also a member of the
Masonic fraternity; has been Master Mason of the lodge for
three years; is also a member of Johnstown lodge of
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 422.
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
754 |
Franklin Twp.
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WILLIAM D. RUTLEDGE,
is a descendant of the Virginia Rutledges, and was
born in Muskingum county, Ohio, June 27, 1827. His
father died when he was but six years old, and he was
obliged in early life to depend chiefly upon his own re
sources. At sixteen he learned the blacksmith trade,
and worked at it about sixteen months. Afterwards he
read medicine awhile in the office of Dr. Green, of
Gratiot, this county. Mr. Rutledge had acquired
a good education by private study and extensive reading, and
at twenty began teaching, a pursuit which he found congenial
to his taste, so much so that he continued to teach many
years, having taught about twenty-five terms in different
districts in the southeastern part of this county. As
an illustration of the advanced cost of living, Mr.
Rutledge states that he could procure boarding for
seventy-five cents per week when he first began to teach,
but latterly paid three dollars for the same. He was
married in 1853 to Rebecca A. Sigler, a native of
Hopewell township. He located at Gratiot, but soon
after came to this township, where he has since resided. In
his early married life, when not engaged in teaching, he
dealt extensively in sheep and cattle, having handled as
many as three thousand head of sheep in one season. Of
late he has given his attention more to general farming.
In 1870 he was elected justice of the peace, and served his
township creditably in this capacity for nine years. Mr.
Rutledge has five children: Glenna F.,
Thomas V., Margaret E., Edward Sturges and
James William, all of whom live with him at home.
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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