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BIOGRAPHIES
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The History of Miami County, Ohio
Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co.,
1880
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Page 642
D. F. ANGLEBARGER,
blacksmith, Tippecanoe City; one of the
well-established business men of Tippecanoe City; was born in
Frederick Co., Md., June 17, 1840; he is of Irish-German descent; his
father, D. S. Anglebarger, and mother, Elizabeth Ramesburg,
were both natives of Maryland, and passed their entire lives there;
D. S. followed the pursuits of undertaking and farming; he had a
family of four sons and two daughters by his first marriage ; our
subject was the youngest son; at the age of 13. he immigrated to Ohio,
and located in Clark Co., where he engaged as a laborer at various
pursuits till he went to New Carlisle and began the smithing business;
here he remained seven years; then enlisted in Co. C, 110th O. V. I.,
and was employed as a blacksmith; he was in the fight of Winchester,
under Gen. Millroy, and was subsequently discharged on account
of physical disability ; returning, he located at Troy, Ohio, and, in
1864, came to Tippecanoe City, where he worked for three years at
"jour" work, and then set up shop for himself; he is now located on
Second, between Main and Dow streets ; his long experience as a smith,
and careful attention to business, have won for him the reputation of
a first-class workman. He is a Republican in politics, and an ardent
supporter of the party; he is also a member of the A., F. & A. M. He
was married Sept. 15, 1859, to Nancy Ross, a native of
Clark Co., Ohio; of the six children born to this union, two have
deceased.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
- Monroe Twp. |
Page 642
WILLIAM ASHWORTH,
nurseryman, Tippecanoe City; born in Middleton, Lancashire, Eng., in
1836; is a son of George and Betsy (Wult)
Ashworth; he followed the occupation of baker in his native country,
and immigrated to America, with his family, in 1839, landing in
Philadelphia, Penn., from where he came direct to the present site of
Tippecanoe; here he learned the shoemaker trade, which he followed
till his death, July 23, 1849: his wife died April 3, 1876; he had
three sons, all yet living—two in Tippecanoe, and one in Leadville,
Colo.; our subject is the oldest son, and was only 3 years old when he
came with his parents to his present place; he was educated in the
common school, and, at the age of 11, entered an apprenticeship at the
shoemaker trade, serving two years and a half; at the age of 16, went
to Dayton, Ohio, and served about three years at the harness trade; he
then turned his attention to gardening and the nursery business, which
he has since continued at Tippecanoe; with his brother, he cultivates
one of the most extensive nurseries in this county; he raises all
kinds of fruit-trees, ornamental shrubbery, vines and plants of all
kinds (see card in directory); his long experience in, and careful
attention to, the business, makes their firm one of the most reliable
in the country, and they have gained the reputation of first-class
nurserymen. In 1862, he left the nursery for the "tented field,"
enlisting in Co. D, 94th O. V. I., and served till the close of the
war (over three years), participating in the following battles;
Perryville, Ky., Stone River, Mission Ridge and numerous skirmishes;
joined his regiment, on Sherman's march, at the sea-coast,
having been detained on account of sickness; returned home and resumed
his former occupation. He is a Republican in politics, his father
being an "Old Line Whig," and is a member of the "Miami Valley
Nurserymen's Association." He married Sarah Wilson, of
this county, in 1857; two children, both now dead, have been the issue
of this union.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
- Monroe Twp. |
Page 643
ALBERT C. BESOM,
merchant and dealer in agricultural implements, Ginghamsburg; is a
person of note in the village of Ginghamsburg; his pleasant address
and correct business habits have made his name familiar to all as a
person of known honesty. The firm of Besom & Evans are
the only ones doing business at Ginghamsburg. He was born in Concord
Township, June 30,1850; his parents, Christian and
Rebecca Besom, were parents of five children—Montgomery,
John C, Albert C., Amanda and Catharine;
Christian commenced business at Ginghamsburg in 1855, continued
it for two years, when Albert took charge of it, and has
conducted it successfully since. His marriage to Miss
Harriet Cotterman. occurred in 1869. They have three
children—Warren H., Clarence H. and Norah B. Mrs.
Besom's parents, Henry and Sarah Cotterman,
emigrated from Pennsylvania in 1831, and were the parents of twelve
children, eight of whom are living-—Margaret, Elizabeth,
Mary A., Harriet, Sadie, John, Adam
and Franklin. Mr. Besom is a Republican, and a
prominent member of Vandalia, No. 657, I. O. O. F.; he is also a
member of the Christian Church, and, as he was never known to utter an
oath or take a dram in a saloon, we feel a just pride in placing such
facts upon record; he is also Postmaster of the village, and fills
that position with credit.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
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Page 643
J. W. BOWMAN,
merchant; Tippecanoe City; born in Frederickstown, Union Township, in
1845; is the son of James and Mary Bowman;
he passed his boyhood and youth in his native place, doing work on
the farm and in the store, and attending common school; he took a
business course in the Toledo Commercial College, graduating in 1864;
came to Tippecanoe in 1863 and managed a grocery under J.
Bowman & Son, and in 1866, went into the dry goods
business, under the firm style of Bowman, Wells and
Co.; after several changes made in the firm, Mr.
Bowman purchased the store in 1873, since when he has been
operating it on his own responsibility; his large and increasing
trade, with full stock of well-assorted goods, attests his skill and
success in this business; he is located in the Morrison Block, where,
in a large and spacious room, he displays the fullest stock of goods
in the place, which he sells at lowest prices. He married, Nov. 27,
1866, Maggie M. Penny, of Monroe Township. Two sons,
Frank P. and Howard E., have been the issue of this union.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
- Monroe Twp. |
Page 643
W. F. CALDWELL,
Editor Herald, Tippecanoe City; born in Tippecanoe Jan. 8, 1857; is
the son of C. L. and Mary (Stewart) Caldwell, the latter a
native of this county, and the former of Delaware Co., Ohio. C. L.
was a marble cutter by occupation, and came to this county when a
young man. He was married in Troy, Ohio, and had seven children; from
Troy he moved to Tippecanoe, and subsequently to Kansas, where his
death occurred in 1873. Our subject, the oldest of the family, was
reared and schooled in his native place, obtaining a good education;
at the age of 18 he left school, and entered the drug business at
Deshler, Ohio, which he soon abandoned and learned the printing
business, under Col. Horton, of Tippecanoe, which he has
since followed; he became one of the proprietors of the Tippecanoe
City Herald, March 1880. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, the
"Faithful Temperance League," and is a Republican in politics. Mr.
Caldwell is an enterprising and promising young man of
Tippecanoe.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
- Monroe Twp. |
Page 643
R. R. CARPENTER,
physician, Tippecanoe City; was born in Chenango Co., N. Y., in 1818;
his father, Noah C., a native of Massachusetts, was an early
settler in Chenango Co., and was a fuller by occupation; his death
occurred in 1869, at the age of 89. He was married to Judith
Waite, of Connecticut, who was a descendant of the first settlers
of Chenango Co., dying in 1850, and her mother in 1847, at the
advanced age of 98. Noah Carpenter had nine children,
eight of whom
still survive. R. R. is the fifth child, and passed his early
life in his native place, attending school till the age of 12, when he
was placed in a drug store; remained at this till the age of 20, thus
acquiring a good knowledge of materia medica, which has served him
well in his professional life; in the meantime he devoted all his
leisure time to reading medicine, and when he left the drug store he
entered the Bellevue Medical College of New York, and graduated in
1843; one year after, he began his career as a physician in Danville,
Penn.; in 1849, he left Danville and went to New York City, where he
continued his practice till 1856, when he came to Tippecanoe, where he
has since been in the practice; he gives special attention to chronic
diseases, and is a well-established and reliable physician;
personally, he is pleasant, affable and sociable in his intercourse
with his fellowmen. He has been married twice; first, in 1854 to
Fidelia Warford, of Pennsylvania, who died in 1866. His
second marriage was in the fall of 1866, to Julia King,
of this county, who died in April, 1877. One daughter, by the first
union, constitutes his family. The Doctor is a member of the A., F. &
A. M. of Tippecanoe.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
- Monroe Twp. |
Page 644
CHARLES B. CHAFFEE,
Tippecanoe City. He was born in Colesville, Monroe Township, this
county April 26, 1852, and is the son of S. L. and Barbara
(Cecil) Chaffee; S. L. is one of the foremost business men
of Tippecanoe, born in Ontario Co., N. Y., in 1818, and was brought up
to the manufacturing business; he emigrated to Ohio in 1833, and in
1838 to Miami Co. Our subject came to Tippecanoe City with his parents
when about 5 years old; he received his primary education in the
common school of this place, and, at the age of 14, entered Antioch
College, at yellow Springs, where he remained one year, and then spent
the two subsequent years in Oberlin College; but failing health
required him to abandon the schoolroom; in the fall of 1870, he went
to Buffalo, N. Y., and engaged in the general liquor trade till
January, 1872, when he returned to Tippecanoe, and embarked in the
distillery business till 1874, and then went to Toledo, where he
remained in the same occupation till 1878; since then, he has chiefly
given his attention to farming interests, operating a farm of 2,500
acres in White Co., Ind., 1,200 acres of which are under cultivation;
he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Congregational Church of
Toledo. He married Alma A. Freet, of Wyandot Co., Ohio, near
Tymochtee, in November, 1873 ; a son and daughter have been the issue
of this union.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
- Monroe Twp. |
Page 423
JOHN
CLARK, a native of Chester County,
Md., immigrated to Ohio with his parents in 1804. They located first
in Greene County, but, not being satisfied to remain there, removed to
Monroe Township in October of the same year, and settled permanently
one mile and a half west of Tippecanoe, where they resided till their
death. In early life, John was wholly dependent on his own exertions
for a livelihood, and, as the sequel shows, proved himself competent
for the emergency. In after years, he became one of the largest
land-holders in the township. Mr. C. was a man of great business
capacity, and, in the course of his business life, made four trips to
New Orleans with flat-boats loaded with produce; and, although such a
journey was considered very hazardous, under his management they
became very successful financially.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
- Monroe Twp. |
Page 644
LEVI CLARK,
farmer; P. O. Tippecanoe City. He is one of the few remaining early
native-born citizens of Monroe Township; he is the son of John Clark,
prominently mentioned in the township history; he was born Nov.
22,1818, about one and a half miles northwest of Tippecanoe; he is the
oldest of a family of ten, four of whom are dead; the scenes of his
boyhood and youth were in this vicinity, where his whole life has been
passed; his education was obtained under the difficulties of pioneer
times; reared on a farm, he has always made farming his principal
occupation; he served an apprenticeship at the tanner's trade, but
never followed the business; he located on the present site of the
township, with his parents, in December, 1839, and consequent has had
a residence here coeval with the town; under the gold excitement,
Mr. Clark made a trip to California in 1852, covering the
distance from the Missouri River in the remarkably short time of
sixty-two traveling days; he located in Georgetown, Eldorado Co., and
engaged in mining with fair success, returning by the Panama route and
New Orleans, consuming fourteen months on the entire trip; he has a
particular fondness for hunting, and makes his annual trips to the
hunting grounds of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, etc.,
being regarded an expert and successful hunter. Formerly an "old-line
Whig," casting his first vote for Gen. Harrison in 1840,
his political views naturally fell in with the Republican party, with
which he has always been identified. He was married, Feb. 13, 1840, to
Clarinda Ramsey, of this county, who was born in
Elizabeth Township in 1821, and is the daughter of Allen and
Hannah Ramsey, early pioneers; of their family of six sons
and five daughters, three sons and three daughters are dead, some
dying in infancy.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
- Monroe Twp. |
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COFFMAN & SPENCER,
grocers, Tippecanoe City; one of the leading firms of Tippecanoe.
Edward Coffman, member of above firm, was born in
Montgomery Co., Ohio, Sept. 10, 1844, and is the son of Jesse and
Eliza (McCord) Coffman, both natives of Pennsylvania;
Jesse was a cooper by trade, and emigrated to Ohio in 1833,
locating first in Little York, Montgomery Co., and subsequently in
West Milton, for a short time, and finally in Dayton, where his death
occurred in 1859 ; he had four sons and five daughters, two of whom
have died, one son in the late civil war. Our subject is the sixth
child of the family, and was reared and schooled in the city of
Dayton; at the latter place he was engaged as a clerk in a hotel, and
one year ago came to Tippecanoe City and has since been doing a large
trade in the grocery business; he is located in Room 2, Chaffee's
Block, where he keeps the largest stock of groceries in the city, and,
judging from the appearance of the goods in his large and spacious
room, he fully understands his business. Their motto is. excellence in
quality, integrity in transactions, low prices and quick sales. Mr.
C. is connected with another grocery in Dayton, Ohio, under the
same firm style. He married Miss Louisa Spencer, of Dayton,
Ohio, in 1871, and has one child, a daughter, 7 years old. Mr. C.
finds expression for his political views in the Republican party.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
- Monroe Twp. |
Page 645
B. F.
CUSHWA, confectioner and baker, Tippecanoe City;
was born in this county, in 1851, and is the son of G. W. Cushwa,
a native of Maryland, and a miller by trade; he emigrated to Ohio in
1840. and located in this county. He was married to Sarah J.
Nicholls, and had five children, of whom our subject is the
oldest; he was reared principally in the mill, and educated in the
common school, and so well did he improve his educational
opportunities, that he was early prepared to enter the profession of
teaching; this he continued about four years, and was telegraph
operator two years, and then embarked in the bakery and confectionery
business, which he has since continued with success; he is located on
the south side of Main street, between 1st and 2d, where he keeps on
hand a full stock of confectioneries, fresh bread, cigars and tobacco.
He has, also, a neatly arranged ice cream parlor, where he serves
fresh ice-cream at all times during the season (see card). He is one
of the enterprising young business men of Tippecanoe, and reliable;
his motto is, excellence in quality and integrity in all his
transactions.
Source:
The History of Miami County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1880
- Monroe Twp. |
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