BIOGRAPHIES
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City of Newark -
BURRELL B. TAYLOR, brother of
Jonathan Taylor, was for some years a member of the
Newark bar. He was also a prominent politician, and
one of the best political orators in the county. For
some twelve years he was editor of the Kentucky
Statesman, and died in Missouri several years ago.
Source: 1798 - History
of Licking Co., Ohio - It's Past and Present - Publ. -
Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 - Page
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City of Newark -
GENERAL JONATHAN TAYLOR,
deceased. - He was born in the State of Connecticut, in the
year 1796. His wife was Sarah Elliott, youngest
daughter of Captain Samuel Elliott, who was one of
the earliest pioneers of this county. Miss Elliott
was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, May 2, 1799, and was
brought by her father to Licking county, in 1800.
Mr. Taylor and Miss Elliott were married in 1821.
They had a family of eleven children, six sons and five
daughters: Mary Olive, born June 23, 1823; David
Elliott, born Jan. 12, 1826; Orlando, born Aug.
19, 1828; Jonathan Campbell, born Sept. 22,
1829; Harriet, born Nov. 4, 1831; Sarah, born
Jan. 12, 1834; Eliza, born Apr. 10, 1836; William
and Waldo, twins, born June 3, 1838; Margaret J.,
born June 19, 1841; Jonathan B., born Mar. 31, 1843.
General Taylor led a very active life, and was
a commanding character in the community. He attracted
to him, and brought under his personal influence, many young
men, gave direction to their views, moulded their opinions,
and exerted a controlling influence in forming their habits,
in establishing their characters, and shaping their
destinies. At an early day Mr. Taylor
was engaged in running the boundary lines between Michigan
and Ohio, and in the conflict that ensued he commanded the
Ohio forces in the same. He is remembered by many as
representative in both branches of the general assembly, and
as a member - elected in 1838 - of the Congress of the
United States. He died in April, 1848, near "the noon
of life," when he had just passed the meridian of his
manhood, and had just attained to the full maturity of his
intellectual powers. In the relations of husband,
father, friend, he met the requisitions made upon him to a
generous and unusual extent, and many that survived him had
abundant reasons to cherish sunny memories of him.
Source: 1798 - History
of Licking Co., Ohio - It's Past and Present - Publ. -
Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 - Page
780 |
City of Newark -
MRS. JONATHAN TAYLOR
was a model pioneer woman, who practiced all the matronly
virtues, led to industrious, useful life, and died regretted
by many friends. She had a fine intellect, sound
judgment, good sense, and had, by observation, intercourse
with the world, and also by reading, acquired a large fund
of information. She always cherished the Christian
faith, and was Presbyterian church. Living, during her
childhood and early womanhood, among the frontier settlers,
and being left in widowhood in charge of a large family for
nearly a quarter of a century, many requisitions were, of
course, made upon her for the exhibition of the qualities
above ascribed to her, and for the practice of the high
womanly virtues which distinguished her honored and
preeminently useful career of seventy-four years. She
died in Newark, May 13, 1872, aged seventy-four years.
Of the eleven children of these parents six are deceased.
Mary, the eldest daughter, who be came the wife of D.
D. Jewett, esq., of Newark, died Apr. 21, 1848. At
the time of General Taylor's death his oldest
son, David, was a soldier in Mexico. He was a
youth of genuine manhood, and was greatly relied upon to
take his father's place in the conduct of the business
affairs of the family, and came home to do so, but also died
in a few months after his return, leaving his widowed mother
with but three sons, and they all in early childhood.
The date of his death was Dec. 25, 1848. Orlando
died Aug. 27, 1829; Jonathan C. died September, 1830;
Harriet became the wife of William R. Iles;
she died June 20, 1856; Sarah married Theophilus
Little, and now resides in Abilene, Kansas; Eliza
died Aug. 10, 1837; William went down in the clash of
contending arms in the great Rebellion; he enlisted in 1861,
in company D, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was
killed in the gallant and successful attack upon the rebel
works at Arkansas Post, Jan. 11, 1863; Jonathan B.
married Bettie Cox, sister of Hon. S. S. Cox,
and now resides in Bloomington, Illinois.
Source: 1798 - History
of Licking Co., Ohio - It's Past and Present - Publ. -
Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 - Page
780 |
Washington
Twp. -
JUSTUS W. TAYLOR,
farmer, was born in Saratoga County, New York, in 1826.
His parents came from Massachusetts and settled in New York.
There were four boys and four girls of the family. His
parents moved to Licking county, Bennington township, Ohio,
in 1837, and settled on a farm of one hundred and sixty-two
acres, of which eighty acres were clear, with a log cabin
and come other improvements, for which they paid fifteen
dollars per acre. His parents added to this purchase
lands until it was increased to three hundred acres.
In 1855 the subject of this sketch bought the interest of
the heirs of this estate in this farm, and his father's
interest, and remained here until 1859, when, his health
failing, he sold the farm and bought twenty-five acres of
land in Burlington township. As his health improved he
added to this purchase lands to two hundred acres. His
father died March, 1859, seventy-one years of age. His
mother died in 1868, seventy years old. Mr. Taylor
married Susan M. Stone, Nov. 30, 1848. She was
born July 6, 1827, in Granville township, Licking county.
By this marriage they had four children - Samuel S.,
born Oct. 4, 1849, died in infancy; Horace, born Dec.
30, 1851; Ella M., born Feb. 26, 1856, died Oct. 1,
1862; Lulu W., born June 19, 1864.
Mr. Taylor remained in Burlington township, when
he sold one hundred and sixty acres and moved to Utica,
where he purchased property in 1873 in the suburbs of the
town where he has since resided. He is one of the
trustees of the Presbyterian church, and is active in the
work. Mrs. Taylor's great-grandfather was a
soldier and died in the service of King George.
Her grandfather, Captain Jonathan Stone, was
apprenticed to his brother, who was a farmer and tanner.
Before his time expired he went to sea on a whaler, and was
gone two yeas. On his return he enlisted in the war of
the Revolution, which was in progress at that time. He
was appointed orderly sergant for good conduct, and was
promoted to lieutenant in March, 1776. He was actively
engaged in the siege of Boston, and was there when
General Putnam created his batteries at Dorchester Neck,
which compelled the British to evacuate the town. In
January, 1777, he was commissioned paymaster for General
Putnam's regiment.
In the summer was with the army at Saratoga, and in the
winter at Stillwater. He was with Gates at the
surrender of General Burgoyne, in 1778; was at West
Point and received his commission as captain, which rank he
served to the close of the war. Captain Stone's
education was limited, but he acquired a knowledge of
surveying, which became very beneficial to him. At the
close of the war he purchased a farm of General Putnam,
in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and in 1786 and 1787 was
engaged under General Putnam, surveying lands on the
eastern shore of Maine. About this time he was a
volunteer in the successful defence of the public stores and
arsenel at Springfield. After this, he and some of his
comrades formed the Ohio company. Captain Stone
purchased two shares. In 1788 he came to Ohio and
arranged for his family, and went east, and brought them to
Ohio, after coming across the mountains, and came down the
river in a flat-boat. They built a cabin and used
their boat for doors. They had scarcely got settled in
their Ohio home when the Indian war broke out. They
built four block-houses on his farm, where they remained til
the close of the war.
It was not until 1795 that the real success of Ohio
company was established. After the war the settlers
left the forts and went on improving their farms, and to
open the country. Captain Stone was appointed
treasurer of Washington county by Winthrop Sargent,
acting governor of the territory, in 1792. After the
war he was engaged in completing the survey of the Ohio
company's ands with Jeffry Mathewson, Rufus Putnam,
and B. J. Gilman, by territorial legislation, in
1799, to lay out university land at Athens. Captain
Stone died before completing this work. He was a
Federalist and remained firm to the cause of freedom, and
his descendants remained firm to the cause of freedom ever
since. Captain Stone died Mar. 24, 1801, fifty
yeas old, highly esteemed and respected by all, and his
early death very much regretted. His wife was a niece
of General Rufus Putnam. She was seventy-eight
years old at her death, which occurred Nov. 3, 1833.
Mrs. Taylor's father, Samuel Stone, one of six
children was born Dec. 22, 1784, and married to Nabby
Steadman, Jan. 1, 1809; she was born Aug. 23, 1787, and
died Sept. 22, 1853. He came to Licking county in
1815, Granville township, where he died in the year 1861.
Of this family there were ten children, seven of these were
boys and three girls, of whom seven are living.
Source: 1798 - History
of Licking Co., Ohio - It's Past and Present - Publ. -
Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 - Page
783 |
City
of Newark -
JUDGE WALDO TAYLOR,
twin brother of William, was bon in Licking county,
Ohio, Jan. 3, 1838. After passing his boyhood upon a
farm, he attended for a time upon Denison university, at
Granville, and Jefferson college, at Cannonsburgh,
Pennsylvania. For a man of his age the judge has been
heavily loaded with the honors of office. In April,
1861, when twenty-three years of age, he was made supervisor
of the road district from Newark to Granville. In
April, 1865, he was elected township clerk, and at the
expiration of his clerkship declined re-election. In
1863 was elected director of school district No. 5, and was
made president of the board of education. The same
year Mr. Taylor read law with Hon. Gibson Atherton,
of Newark, and was admitted to the bar June 10, 1861.
Admitted to practice in the United States courts Oct. 1,
1867. Mr. Taylor was put in nomination,
by several papers, for clerk of the Supreme court, but
declined to allow his name to go before the convention.
He was also nominated for clerk of the Ohio house of
representatives, and received the support of the
Democrats. He was one of the originators of the
Newark, Somerset & Straitsville railroad, in which
enterprise he took a prominent part, and was at one time one
of the heaviest stockholders in the same; he has also been
secretary and treasurer of the Licking County Agricultural
society. On July 4, 1863, he was elected captain
company A, First regiment Ohio militia, in Licking county,
and on August 31st, same year, was chosen lieutenant colonel
of the same regiment. As a compliment to his patriotic
response for aid to defend Cincinnati, he received a neatly
lithographed "Squirrel Hunter's" discharge, embellished with
the portrait and characteristic signature of his excellency,
Governor Tod. July 26, 1864, Mr.
Taylor was elected to the position of justice of the
peace, served three years, and declined a re-election.
After his admission to the bar he practiced his profession
till he was elected probate judge of Licking county, in
October, 1872. He took his seat Feb. 10, 1873, and
filled the position with ability and great satisfaction to
his constituents. He and his sister, Mrs. Margaret
J. Dickinson, wife of Charles T. Dickinson, are
the only ones of his father's family that remain in the
county. Mr. Taylor is a lawyer of talent and
promise, whose energy, go-a head-a-tive-ness, enterprise,
industry, and good qualities of head and heart, are a
guarantee of his future success.
Source: 1798 - History
of Licking Co., Ohio - It's Past and Present - Publ. -
Newark, Ohio - A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers - 1881 - Page
780 |
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Licking Twp. -
JOHN TEDRICK, was born in 1786, in
Alleghany county, Maryland, and is of German descent.
He came to this county in 1802, by himself, on horseback,
and located in what is now Licking township. He bought
one hundred acres of land one and a half miles west of
Jacksontown, lying north and south of the pike. The
land which he bought was all woods, and by his own industry
he cleared and improved the farm, and, at the time of his
death, he had and controlled three hundred and
forty-five acres. He built the first brick house in
the township, in 1827; it is the oldest house of its
dimensions in the county. The barn was built two years
previous, and is one of the oldest barns in the county.
John Tedrick was married to Mrs. Naomi Messmore
(formerly Miss Sutton), of this county. They
had four children, two boys and two girls.
Catharine was born in 1818; she was married to
Jacob Wintrode, of Stark County, and they now reside in
Topeka, Kansas. Elizabeth was born in 1821; she
was married to Dr. Vorse, of Knox county. He
afterwards located at Des Moines, Iowa. Linsley
was born in 1826; he was married to Mahala Shafer, of
this county, and at present resides in Litchfield, Illinois.
He is a hotel man. Jehiel was born May 11,
1829, in the same house where he now lives, which was built
in 1827. He was married Dec. 24, 1850, to Louisa
Larimore, of this county. They have had six
children - Alice B., Minnie E., Mary, Eva, Elmore,
and Susan Kate. Minnie E. married Oscar
Downey, of this county. They are now living in
Lancaster, Fairfield County. He is a tinner by trade.
Eva, married T. J. Clerry, of this county.
He is a hotel man. The other children are all single
and live at home with their parents. John Tedrick
departed this life in 1851, aged seventy-five years.
He was a minister of the Christian church at Hebron.
Mrs. J. Tedrick died in 1877, aged ninety-one years.
She was a member of the Old School Baptist Church.
Their remains lie in Friendship church graveyard.
John Tedrick was captain of a military company for a
number of years, and was always called Captain Tedrick.
He was one of the leading men of the township.
Source:
1798 -
History of Licking Co., Ohio -
It's Past and Present -
Compiled by N. N. Hill, Jr. -
Illustrated -
Newark, Ohio -
A. A. Graham & Co., Publishers -
1881 - Page 779 |
Lima Twp. -
P. THARP, post office, Pataskala.
Mr. Tharp was born in Lima, Licking county, in 1827,
April 9th. He is the son of Isaac and Magdelena
Tharp, of Hampshire county, Virginia; he came to this
county in 1814, and settled on Hog run, in 1819; he moved to
this township when there were but five families, including
his own, the country at the time being a wilderness.
Mr. Isaac Tharp died in July, 1871; he was a member
of the Pioneer association of Licking county. Mr.
Tharp married, in 1848, Miss Mary Swigart,
daughter of Samuel and Susan Swigart, of
Pennsylvania. Mr. Tharp has lived at his
present home since the spring of 1848; he has been trustee
of the township for ten years, and is the present
trustee. Isaac was born in Hampshire county,
Virginia, and Magdelena in Hardy county.
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 779 |
Perry Twp. -
WILLIAM THARP, deceased, was born in
this county in the year 1832. In the year 1853 he was
married to Miss Lucy Jane Johnson of Muskingum
county, Ohio. They had two children - Hannah Jane,
and James. Mr. Tharp took an active part in
the late war, going out in company G, Seventy-sixth Ohio
volunteer infantry, and serving some ten months, when death
relieved him of further duty. His widow, Mrs. Tharp,
has a pleasant home, made comfortable by her industry.
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 782 |
City of Newark -
DAVID L. THOMPSON, dry goods merchant,
was born in Hanover township, Licking county, April, 1831.
Nov. 3, 1857, he was married to Sarah A. Haughey of
Newark, who was born Nov. 16, 1839. They had nine
children: Delano H., born Oct. 3, 1858; May A.,
born Apr. 30, 1861; Clarence W. C., born Sept. 24,
1862; James W., born Oct. 21, 1864; Eugene W.
born Nov. 22, 1866; Albert J., born Aug. 21, 1869;
Eunice Estella, born July 8, 1872; Mabel Grace,
born Sept. 16, 1874; David M., born Nov. 17, 1879.
Mr. Thompson worked on a farm until he was sixteen
years of age, and has since been in the dry goods trade.
He is the son of John Thompson, of Hanover township,
who died in 1843, at the age of sixty years; his mother died
two years later, at the age of forty-five years.
Mrs. Thompson is the niece of John Johnson, one
of the pioneers of Newark; her mother is now living in
Newark at the age of seventy 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 781 |
Monroe Twp. -
J. D. THOMPSON, physician, Johnstown,
was born Jan. 14, 1853, in Granville township. He
remained on the farm attending teh district school until
1870, when he entered the Denison university, where he
attended for five faithful years. In the fall of 1875
he began to read medicine with Dr. Hamill of Newark.
He graduated and received his diploma in the spring of 1878,
at Jefferson Medical college at Philadelphia.
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 779 |
Monroe Twp. -
THOMAS TIPPET, farmer, Johnstown, was
born April 13, 1818, in Prince George's county, Maryland.
About the year 1833 or 1834, his parents William and
Nancy Tippet, emigrated to Newark township with a family
of five children. When the subject of this sketch was
twenty years of age the family moved to Hartford township,
where he remained until he was married, Dec. 23, 1841, to
Caroline Green she was born June 15, 1823, and was the
eighth daughter of George and Diadema Green.
They had ten children, six of whom are living: Green,
born Jan. 28, 1843; Smith Aug. 20, 1844; Lee,
Nov. 27, 1845; Emma, July 6, 1847; Eva, Nov.
17, 1848; Parker, July 8, 1852; Ida, Jan. 27,
1856; Edith, Apr. 5, 1859; Bertha, July 13,
1861; Odie June 12, 1865; Smith, died Apr. 9,
1851; Emma, June 9, 1851; Eva, April 19, 1864.
Mr. Tippet began in life a poor man and accumulated
four hundred acres of as good land as there is in the
township. He is a genial, whole-souled man, highly
respected, and a man of mark.
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 779 |
Bennington Twp. -
GEORGE P. TROTTER,
farmer. - His father Isaac, was born in 1793, in
Augusta county, Virginia. He was a soldier in the War of
1812, and came to this county at the close of that war, and
was almost twenty-five years of age when he married Miss
Butcher, daughter of James Butcher, of
Burlington township. She died in 1830. They had
four children, viz: I. F., married and living in
Champaign county, Illinois; J., married and living in
Auglaize county, this State; Rebecca, unmarried and
living in this township; and Mary Jane, married to
Mr. Wheeler, of this county, but removed to Auglaize
county, where she died. Mr. Trotter was again
married in 1831, to Miss Catharine
Patterson, of Augusta county, Virginia. She was
born in 1807, and died in 1862. By the second marriage
there were Archibald, living in this township;
Barbara A., married to Mr. DeWitt, of Auglaize
county, where she lives; Cynthia died unmarried, and
George, the subject of this sketch. George
was born in 1834, in this county. In 1859 he married
Mrs. Susannah Burgoon, a widow living in this county.
She was born in 1824, in Knox county. They are the
parents of one child. Mr. Trotter was a member
of the independent company that was gotten up in Mt. Vernon
to enter the one hundred days service.
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 777 |
Bennington
Twp. -
DERILUS TROUT,
farmer, was born in 1837 in this county. His
grandfather, Nicholas Trout, was born in Rockingham
county, Virginia, in 1769. He came to this county in
1820, and died in1854. John Trout, his son, and
father of D. Trout, was born in Rockingham county,
Virginia, in 1810, and came to this county with his father,
Nicholas. John Trout married Maria
Bergh, daughter of William Bergh, of this county,
in 1835. John Trout died in 1857. They
were the parents of four children, all boys. D.
Trout was married in 1856 to Miss Hatch, daughter
of Seth Hatch, of this county. She was born in
1840 and died in 1875. They had six children. He
was again married in 1876 to Mrs. Melissa Truex,
daughter of Henry Welch, of this county. She
was born in 1844. They have two children. Two
girls by the first wife are married. Lydia
married Jerome Hall, and Orlinda married J.
B. Buckstone.
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 777 |
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