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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Logan County and Ohio
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers
186
Dearborn Street
1880
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Richland Twp. –
SAMUEL LAMBARD, former; P. O., Belle Centre.
This hardy pioneer was born in Augusta Co.,
Va., Aug. 18, 1804, and of
eleven children is the only living representative of the
family. His
parents were natives of Augusta Co., and were German
descent; his fathers name was
Abraham and his mother’s maiden name was
Barbara Hamaker His father
was a farmer by occupation and manufactured his own
implements of husbandry.
He emigrated to Ohio, in 1815, and settled in
Ross Co., where he lived one year and then moved to
Fayette Co., securing a farm in what was termed the “New
Purchase;” this he cleared and improved till 1832, when
he sold it and came to Logan Co.; he bought nearly 300
acres of new land, which he divided among his three
children then living, letting each one clear and improve
his own home.
Samuel has
always been a farmer and commenced doing for himself as
soon as married, although he never left his father’s
farm. He was
married April 18, 1826, to
Learna H.,
daughter of
William and Rebecca Dickey; she was born Jan. 18,
1809, and lived in Fayette Co., when married.
Her father was a Presbyterian preacher; by this
union eight children were born, only three of whom are
living – James
R., Rebecca J. and
Mary E.; they
are married, the eldest living on the old homestead, the
second in Missouri and the daughter of Champaign Co.
His wife died July 13, 1846, and June 25, 1847,
he was married to
Ellen, widow of
William Edmiston;
she had two children –
David and
Mary, who are
now married and living in
Clinton, Ill.,
she was born June 15, 1812, in York Co.,
Penn.
To them three children have been born, one is
living – John W.,
who is engineer on a railroad and lives at
Grand Island,
Neb.
The whole family belong to the Presbyterian
Church. He has
always been a Democrat, and cast his first vote for
Jackson.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - w/ some illustrations and
portraits ~ Page 806) |
ARCHIBALD
LAMENT, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania.
Robert Lament was the descendant of a Covenanter,
who left Scotland in consequence of the persecution, and
settled in County Antrim, Ireland. Robert
Lament, second, was born in County Antrim, and
married Nancy Creilman, and both died in Ireland.
Robert Lament, third, was born in County Antrim,
and came to America in 1833, settling first in
Washington Co., N. Y., and in 1838, removing to
Fairfield Co., Ohio. In December, 1845, he removed
to Logan Co., and settled on the head-waters of the
Miami River. He married Mary McDaniel, a
lady of Scotch descent; she was the daughter of
Archibald and Jane McDaniel. The family
of Robert Lament, third, are Archibald,
born April, 10, 1823, in County Antrim, Ireland, and who
came to America in 1833 with his parents, and removed
with them in all their changes, finally settling with
them in Logan Co. Archibald married Miss
Amy Johnson, Nov. 27, 1847; she was the daughter of
George and Mary Johnson, and her grandparents were
William and Mary Johnson, uniting families whose
origin was transatlantic, and whose systems of faith
were impregnated with the Calvinism and rigid orthodoxy
of the two countries, and so it comes on down as a
hereditary but healthy system of religious sentiments,
as strongly marked in the present as in the past
generations, respecting the last parties above
indicated. William was Irish and Mary
German by lineal descent. Now Archibald
Lament's family genealogy ends by giving the names
and births of his children, the deaths and marriages,
also. First, we have Robert Fillis, born
Oct. 11, 1848, married Sally Carter, and is now a
resident of Hardin Co.; William Boyd, born Oct.
14, 1849, died July 25, 1850; William Boyd,
second (named for his deceased brother), born Oct. 27,
1850, now in Pawnee City, Neb.; Euphemia Jane,
born Mar. 10, 1852; Mary Ann, Mar. 12, 1854;
John, Apr. 27, 1857, died Sept. 9, 1877; Sarah,
born Aug. 21, 1860; George, May 15, 1862;
Elizabeth, Aug. 16, 1864; James Wright, Feb.
8, 1867; Archibald Alexander, Sept. 6, 1869;
Samuel Martin, Mar. 13, 1872. Archibald
Lament is a farmer by choice, and delights in
agricultural pursuits. Like many Hibernians of
Protestant parentage he has received a liberal
education, as well as Christian training, and received
his catechism from his parents as regularly as his food
and raiment. A Covenanter then, he is one still, a
deacon in the church, and with determined precision
traveling on to Heaven in the way his fathers trod.
He is a natural-born mechanic, being a carpenter, a
mason and plasterer of more than average proficiency.
Nothwithstanding he never served an
apprenticeship to either trade. He raises cattle,
sheep, horses and hogs, and uses more care in their
improvement than is usual with farmers in general.
He not only has a share in the Public Library, but
subscribes for all good books, and, with true
intellectual foresight, places himself in the list for
his county's history, and thus sends the record and
genealogy of Archibald Lament adown the lines of
generations who are coming.
Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - w/ some illustrations and
portraits ~ Page 695 ~ Rush Creek Twp. |
Jefferson Twp. -
J. M. LANCE, farmer; P. O. New
Jerusalem. Was born Apr. 3, 1832, near Belvidere,
Warren Co., N. J. His father's name was Martin,
who married Margaret McMurtrie, the mother of
J. M. They were born and raised in New Jersey
- emigrating to this State when J. M. was but six
years of age; they first located in Richland Co., Cass
Twp., purchasing 80 acres of land, upon which he
settled, and remained on the same until death bore him
away, Aug. 13, 1851. The subject of until this
sketch remained on the home place he was 22 years of
age; he went to Michigan, where she purchased land, and
lived there about two years in all; returning home,
stayed one year, then went to Stark Co.; Sept, 3, 1857,
was married to Sarah H. Scott, who was born in
Marlborough Tp., Mar. 16, 1832., and is a daughter of
Israel and Sarah Holloway, both of whom were natives
of Virginia, and were "Friends," and came out to this
State at an early day. After he was married he
lived in Shiloh five years, and in 1866 he moved into
this township, and bought 94 acres east of Jerusalem,
where he lived until 1873, when he made an exchange and
moved to his present place of residence, one-half mile
west of Jerusalem, where he has 116 acres of land; has
had considerable experience in teaching, having taught
in Kentucky and Michigan as well as in this State.
Having learned the carpenter's trade when young, he
employed his time at this during the summer, and taught
during the winter. Has one child, Julius
Arthur, born Sept. 27, 1871.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - Page 760) |
ZEPHANIAH LAPORT
(Jefferson Twp.) mechanic; Zanesfield; born July 4,
1835, near Cadiz, in Harrison Co., O., son of Abraham
and Ellen (Wallace) Laport, who were natives of same
county. Abraham, the grandfather of
Zephaniah, was a native of Maryland, and came west
several years prior to the war of 1812, of which he was
an honored soldier, and located on the land where the
Harrison County Infirmary now stands; here Abraham,
the father of Zephaniah was born during 1812.
About the year 1835, Zephaniah's grandfather came
to Rush Creek Twp. and purchased land of Elijah Beal,
where Harper now stands, and settled upon the
same, where he lived until his death, which occurred
in1859, at the age of 83. Zephaniah's
father settled on Mill Creek, purchasing 80 acres, now
owned by James Jamison. In 1844 he traded
this land and moved to Rush Creek, lived there until
1851, and removed to Stark Co., and, after a few yeas
residence, moved to Iowa. Zehpahian's
father was a machinist, and raised his son to that
trade. In 1861, during the month of April,
Zephaniah enlisted in Co. F, O. V. I., three months
service; then re-enlisted in the 23d Reg't. O. V. I. for
three yeas, or during the war. At the battle of
Antietam he received a severe bullet wound on the head,
and was disabled for many months; the scar he yet
carries. Upon his return home he engaged in
teaching, which vocation he followed for about fourteen
years in Monroe Tp., all the time in three districts.
In 1866, March 15, he was married to Sarah J.
Williams, who was born in Monroe Tp., in July, 1848;
she is a daughter of Jeffery and Lucy Williams.
Three children have been born them - Zephina A.,
Allen S. and Lucy E. Since 1879, he and
his brother have been engaged in carpentry, and doing
general repair work, also are carrying on a stove and
tinware business. Zephaniah is now
serving as Justice of the Peace and Notary Public.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - w/ some illustrations and
portraits ~ Page 758) |
Richland Twp. -
JOSIAH R.
LAUGHLIN, farmer; P. O., Belle Centre; is one of
the prominent famers of this township, owning a large
farm, on which beautiful and commodious buildings have
been constructed, making a convenient and tasty home; he
is the second child of Alexander and Sarah (Robe)
Laughlin, both of whom are living, the youngest
being near 65 years old. Josiah lived
under the parental roof until his marriage - Oct. 20,
1854 - to Martha, daughter of John and Mary
(Burns) Johnson. She was born Sept. 1, 1834,
in what is now Noble Co., O. He followed farming
in his native county until 1863, when he moved to where
he now lives. By their marriage seven children
have been born - Robert J., Anna M., Sarah A., Edwin
J., Jennie A., William and Clara M. The
eldest graduated at Wooster in 1878, and is now
attending the Theological Seminary at Princeton.
The second has lately finished a course at Geneva
College, in this county. Their third child -
Sarah Alice - was most foully murdered near
Lewiston Reservoir, in 1875, by James Shell.
He paid a penalty with his life, being taken from the
jail soon after by a body of enraged citizens and hung
to the nearest tree. The parents and the three
eldest children are members of the Presbyterian Church,
in which he has been Elder for several years. He
takes little interest in political affairs, and so far
has been a Democrat.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - w/ some illustrations and
portraits ~ Page 806) |
Richland
Twp. -
T. CLARK LAUGHLIN, farmer; P. O.,
Belle Centre; was born in this township Aug. 13, 1834.
His father, Hugh Laughlin, was born in Erie,
Penn., and was brought to Guernsey Co., O., in his
infancy. He was a farmer by occupation, and
married Maria Clark, a native of Beaver Co.,
Penn., and was brought to Guernsey Co., O., in his
infancy. He was a farmer by occupation, and
married Maria Clark, a native of Beaver Co.,
Penn. A few yeas after marriage they moved to this
township and cleared up and improved a good farm.
She died in 1857, and he is now living with his youngest
son in Rushcreek Tp. Clark lived with his
father till 28 years old, working on the farm, and
teaching school during the winter for several years.
He then commenced doing for himself on the farm on which
he now lives. It was all timber, and he has
changed its appearance greatly, having cleared over 100
acres of heavy forest and erected beautiful and
commodious buildings. He was married April
26, 1864, to Martha Jeffers. She was born
in Pennsylvania and raised in this State; she died Mar.
12, 1865, leaving one child - Hugh C., Feb. 6,
1868, he was married to Fannie Henry, a native of
Champaign Co., where she was born Aug. 18, 1844.
By this union five children have been born - Margaret
M., June E., Rhuda H., Edna G. and Carrie M.
He has been Township Clerk, Assessor, and was Land
Appraiser in 1880. He is a member of the Masonic
Order, and has always been a warm adherent of the
Republican party.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - w/ some illustrations and
portraits ~ Page 805) |
Rush Creek
Twp. -
ANDREW D. LEAS, farmer; P. O.,
Harper. Jacob Leas was a native of Germany,
and emigrated to Pennsylvania prior to the Revolutionary
war. Stephen Leas, his son, was born in
Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1812. His wife
was Susan Gates, who was the daughter of John
Gates, whose father also came from Germany.
Andrew D. Leas was Stephen's son, and was
born May 25, 1818, in Logan Co., O. On the 4th day
of October, 1845, he married Catharine Stirckland,
daughter of George Strickland, of York Co., Pa.;
she was born Oct. 10, 1818. The children of A.
D. Leas are - Stephen C., born Jan. 18, 1847;
Mary Ann, July 5, 1854; Susan, July 15,
1855, and Sarah, Oct. 14, 1860. By
occupation, Andrew D. Leas is a farmer, and many
of his broad acres are the rich alluvial deposits of the
historic Rush Creek Bottom lands, and near the romantic
lake of that name; he raises and deals in stock, making
sheep a specialty, but the other stocks also, to an
unusual extent amongst farmers; he is a member of the
Patrons of Husbandry, Rush Creek Lodge, No. 24, and the
church connections of the family are with that branch
known as the Christian Church. By this, the name
and example of A. D. Leas are handed to the
succeeding generations of those who take descent from
him.
Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - w/ some illustrations and
portraits ~ Page 696 - Rush Creek Twp. |
LEVI
N. LEIDIGH, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania; Jacob
Rudy was born Jan. 28, 1792, in Montgomery Co.,
Penn.; in 1818, he married Harriet Bastian in the
city of Philadelphia, and in the same year removed to
Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio; in 1823 his wife died,
leaving three children - Catherine, Josiah and
Harriet. In 1826, he returned to Philadelphia
on foot, walking from Circleville to Philadelphia in
just two weeks arriving in the city on New Years' Day.
In the spring of 1833 he again married, his wife being
Mrs. Anna Zeigler, a widow lady. In 1838,
he removed to where he now, in his 89th year, still
resides with his son-in-law, Mr. Levi Leidigh, a
sturdy old gentleman of some 65 summers, who was born
Sept. 4, 1815, in Durham Tp., Bucks Co., Penn.; Jacob
Rudy has but one child living - Mrs. Catharine
Leidigh. Levi Leidigh was married on the 20th
day of July, 1839, in Logan Co., and, after marriage,
returned to Philadelphia; he remained there two years,
and again went to Ohio, where he remained two years, and
returned to the "City of Brotherly Love" again,
remaining there until 1849, when he again came to Ohio,
where he has since remained. The children of this
family are- Henrietta B., born Oct. 30, 1840,
died Nov. 10, 1840, in Philadelphia, Penn.; Jacob
Rudy, born Apr. 14, 1845, and died Dec. 31, 1845, in
Philadelphia, Penn.; Jonathan, born July 21,
1847, died Sept. 4, 1848, in Philadelphia; Anne
Adelaide, born Aug. 23, 1849, in Philadelphia; she
married Andrew Wren, Oct. 14, 1869; Philip
Henry, born Feb. 19, 1852, in Logan Co., Ohio;
Franklin Goldman, Jan. 19, 1855, in Logan Co.;
George Corwin, Jan. 28, 1857, in Logan Co.;
Clarissa Estella, July 15, 159, in Logan Co.,
married Isaac Bramwell; Titus, Oct. 16,
1879, a citizen of this county. The history of the
family in somewhat remarkable; Jacob Rudy, now in
his 89th year, is a man remarkable for his clear and
vivid recollection of dates, whilst his daughter, 61
years old, and his husband, 65 years old, recount events
of their childhood with remarkable precision, and a
recital of the same strikes the listener at once with
surprise; Jacob Rudy states that he was
apprenticed four years, seven months and thirteen days
to learn the shoemaker's trade; this was in 1808; he
followed that occupation for five years in Pennsylvania,
and for some time in time in Circleville, Ohio, finally
settling down in Logan Co., where he now resides;
Levidigh is a thrifty farmer, held in high esteem in
the community in which he resides. The family are
members of the Lutheran Church at New Jerusalem, Logan
Co., Ohio.
Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - w/ some illustrations and
portraits ~ Page 696 ~ Rush Creek Twp. |
JOHN
R. LONG, miller and lawyer; Logansville; born in
Pennsylvania, in 1827, and lived with his uncle till 14
years of age; then he went to Seneca Co., Ohio, and
farmed there one year, from whence he moved to Logan
Co., in the winter of 1843, driving the entire distance
with a team. His uncle rented a farm in Bloomfield
Tp., and he remained with him three years; now being of
age, he started in life for himself; he commenced
surveying and working at the carpenter's trade,
mastering both arts by diligent industry, without the
aid of a teacher. In 1846 he began teaching at $8
per month, and he taught during the winter for six or
seven years following, and worked at carpentering and
surveying through summer. In 1854 he married
Elizabeth Quick, who was born in Licking Co., Ohio,
in 1836; he followed his regular business till 1862,
when he purchased the grist and saw-mill, which he still
owns and is running. It is located on the "Big
Miami River." He saws about 150,000 feet of lumber
and grinds from 1,000 to 2,000 bushels of grain
annually. Mr. Long is of a philosophical
turn of mind, and possesses a natural skill at
machinery. He makes and repairs most everything
pertaining to the machinery of his mill. They have
four children - Marco W., Viola, Minnie V., Edwin
Grant; one child, Jessie A., died, aged six
months. Mr. Long has held the office of
Supervisor two years, Township Clerk ten years, and has
been School Director and Justice of the Peace. He
was a Democrat till 1854, when he swung into the
Republican ranks, and has stood there ever since.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - w/ some illustrations and
portraits ~ Page 837). |
Perry Twp. -
JOHN F. LUKENS, farmer; P. O.,
North Greenfield; was born Jan. 7, 1824, in Warren Co.,
O.; is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Fawcett) Lukens.
The Fawcetts are of Irish extraction, and came to
Ohio in 1822. John's parents were married
in 1819, and removed to this State when the country was
new, and John was innured to privation and
hard labor; having a keen thirst for knowledge, he
applied himself closely, and soon mastered the common
branches; in 1845, he began teaching and continued his
course of study; one of his preceptors was A. G.
Gregg. On Jan. 1, 1863, he was united by
marriage to Miss Louisa K. Swartz, of Stark Co.,
a lady of talent and culture, a graduate of Mt. Union
College, and daughter of Martin and Hannah (Southcard)
Swartz; he was born Mar. 28, 1797, and was a local
preacher for fifty years; his wife, Jan. 10, 1799; he
died Sept. 1, 1878; she, Mar. 2, 1880. Joseph
Lukens, the father of John, was born Aug.
31, 1795; Jonathan, his father, and the grandfather of
John, was born June, 1758. Mr. Lukens
has a large farm of about 250 acres, and he ranks among
the best farmers in the county, and does a deal of head
farming; neat and tidy in his work, he requires those in
his employ to exercise the same taste; his fences and
gates, as well as all the appliances that are about him,
are models for imitation; he is a man of sound judgment,
and has a mind well stored with facts and useful
information; he is a progressive man and keeps pace with
the times in literature and the improvements of the day;
in short, he is one of the best scholars in the
township; he is thoroughly practical, is as good a
surveyor as necessity might require, somewhat eccentric
in his manner, yet of honest and intelligent
convictions; a strictly moral man, temperate and with an
innate regard for truth and uprightness; he has one
child only, a youth of some promise.
Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - Page 653 |
Richland Twp.
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ASBERY F. LYLE,
merchant; Belle Centre; is the youngest son of John
and Mary Lyle, and junior member of the firm of
Lyle & Bro.; he was born May 6, 1858, in Muskingum
Co., O.; he worked on the farm until his father engaged
in the mercantile business, when he commenced clerking
in the store. His father soon withdrew from the
business, and he has since been a member o the firm.
May 25, 1876, he joined his fortunes with those of
Frovolia G. Porter, daughter of J. C. and
Elizabeth Porter. She was born Nov. 15, 1855,
in this county. By this happy union two children
have been born - Franklin O. and Elmer W.
She is a consistent member of the Disciple Church at
this place. He has so far been identified with the
Democratic party.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - w/ some illustrations and
portraits ~ Page 805) |
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