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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
CENTENNIAL HISTORY
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Troy, Piqua and Miami County, Ohio
And Representative Citizens.
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Edited and Compiled By
Thomas C. Harbaugh
Casstown, Ohio
Literary Journalist, Secretary of Maryland association of Ohio.
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"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples."
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Published by
Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.
Chicago.
1909
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DAVID ULLERY
- See G. C. ULLERY, M. D.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 816 |
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DAVID E. ULLERY
- See G. C.
ULLERY, M. D.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 816 |
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G. C. ULLERY, M. D., who is
successfully engaged in the practice of medicine at West
Milton, Miami County, Ohio, was born on a farm near
Covington, this county, in 1880, a son of David E. and
Rachel C. (Passage) Ullery. He is a grandson of
David and a great-grandson of Jacob Ullery, the
latter of whom was born on Chincoteague Island, off the
eastern coast of Maryland, Mar. 5, 1772, and who came to
Ohio about 1810. Jacob died in Newberry
Township, Miami County, Ohio, Aug. 7, 1847. He was of
German descent and a member of the Dunkard, or German
Baptist, Church.
DAVID ULLERY,
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in
Montgomery County, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1809, and was a boy when
he accompanied his parents to Miami County. He became
a prosperous agriculturist of Newberry Township and was a
man widely respected. He was married, Mar. 8, 1836, to
Alsey Gibbons, who was born in Wheeling, West
Virginia, Mar. 20, 1818, a daughter of James and Mary
Gibbons, who were natives of Ireland. Mr. and
Mrs. David Ullery were the parents of three children —
Jacob, who was killed in the Battle of Atlanta,
Georgia, July 21, 1864; James G., who died in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, and whose wife was Nellie
Surratt, a native of Tennessee; and Mary E., who
died Apr. 8, 1873. David Ullery died June 5,
1842. His wife survived him until Apr. 8, 1856.
DAVID E. ULLERY, father of Dr. G. C. Ullery,
was born on the parental homestead in Newberry Township,
Oct. 25, 1839. He was reared in the usual manner of
farmer lads, attending the district schools, and receiving a
good home training. While he was still a boy, his
father died, and the management of the farm, comprising a
quarter-section of land, passed into the hands of David's
elder brother. David began work in the fields
at a very early age. When the homestead was
subsequently sold, disliking to see it pass wholly into the
hands of strangers, he purchased 100 acres of it. In the
spring of 1872 he began the operation of a sawmill, which
business he followed in connection with farming for
twenty-eight years. His enterprise was successfully
conducted and his marked energy, perseverance and business
ability enabled him to acquire a comfortable competence.
In the spring of 1861, in company with Hugh
Hart, an old school friend, he started on horseback for
Illinois to visit his brother, Jacob Ullery,
but before they reached their destination Fort Sumter had
been fired on. This news stirred the patriotic blood
of these two travelers, and before reaching their journey's
end they had determined to enlist. When they arrived
in Illinois they found that Mr. Ullery's
brother, Jacob, had already joined the army, and
David became a member of the same company for three
months' service. Enlisting Apr. 22, 1861, he was
assigned to Company D, Twentieth Illinois Volunteers, under
Captain C. L. Paige, and afterwards re-enlisting as a
veteran, served until the close of the war. He and his
brother fought side by side until the Battle of Atlanta,
where the brother was killed, dying on the field. The
Twentieth Illinois was assigned to Gen. John A.
McClernand's Division, and after the Battle of Shiloh
was in the First Brigade, Third Division, under command of
Gen. John A. Logan, in the Seventeenth Army Corps,
under the command of Gen. McPherson. Mr. Ullery
participated in the Battles of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson,
Shiloh, where he was wounded by a piece of shell, and in
many smaller engagements in the Corinth Campaign and around
Vicksburg. He took part in the Battles of Fort Gibson
and Raymond, in the latter of which he received a wound
affecting the right lung, from which he never fully
recovered. His subsequent time was spent in the
hospital until October, 1863, when he returned to his
regiment. Promoted to the rank of sergeant, he
accompanied Sherman's command on the march to
Meridian. In the spring of 1864 he re-enlisted and was
granted a thirty-day furlough, at the end of which he joined
his regiment at Springfield Springfield, Illinois.
Soon after he joined Sherman's army at Ackworth,
Georgia, when he took part in the Battles of Kenesaw
Mountain and Atlanta, in the latter of which his regiment
suffered heavy loss, Mr. Ullery 's brother,
Jacob, as already mentioned, being among the slain.
On July 22d, after some desperate fighting and when the
Twentieth Illinois was reduced to a renmant, Mr.
Ullery was captured by the enemy. He spent the
time from that date until Feb. 27, 1865, in Southern
prisons, first in Andersonville, then at Savannah, Georgia;
Charleston, South Carolina, and Florence, South Carolina.
He was then paroled at Wilmington, North Carolina, and sent
to St. Louis, subsequently going to Springfield, Illinois,
where he was discharged July 13, 1865. He came home
shattered in health, and weighing only seventy pounds, as a
result of the hardships he had experienced.
On the 26th of August, 1865, only about a month after
his return from the war, Mr. Ullery was united
in marriage with Miss Rachel C. Passage, of
Piqua, Ohio, who was a representative of an old pioneer
family of the State. He parents were Peter
and Sarah (Lines) Passage, and she
was a granddaughter of Henry Passage, who was
married in New York City to a Miss Claussor, a
German lady. Henry Passage emigrated westward
at an early day and died near New "Waverly, Indiana.
Peter Passage, father of Mrs.
Ullery, was born in Connecticut, in 1801, and when
fourteen years of age went to New York City, where he was
reared to manhood. By trade he was a cabinet maker,
and at an early day he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
learned surveying. He followed the latter occupation
until a year prior to his marriage, which event took place
in Piqua, the lady of his choice being Miss Sarah
Lines, a daughter of Levi Lines. After
residing for some time in Piqua, Peter Passage
and his wife moved to New Carlisle, Ohio. He later
worked for some time as section boss on the canal, during
which time his family made their home at Houston, Shelby
County, Ohio. Here his death occurred, on Dec. 20,
1815. His widow and the family then located in Piqua,
and after the marriage of her daughter to Mr.
Ullery she made her home with them until she, too, was
called away, in 1887, at the age of eighty-six years.
She was a native of Cincinnati. Her other children
were, Cinderella, who married Anthony Harp,
of Polo; Elizabeth, who became the wife and then the
widow of James Harp, of Piqua; Levi,
who died in Fort Wayne, Indiana, about 1889; Rebecca,
wife of John Sprague; Peter, who died
in Polo, Ohio, in 1896; and Jennie, who married
Jacob Bowers.
Mr. and Mrs. David E. Ullery, after their
marriage, took up their residence in a home which he
prepared on a part of the Ullery homestead, where
they enjoyed many years of happiness, devoted to each other
and the family. They had six children: Minnie G.,
now the wife of William Drees, of Covington, Ohio;
James Ellison, who died at the age of two and a
half years; Sadie E., wife of William Orr, of
Piqua; Clifford C., who died at the age of eighteen;
Joseph C., and Gustin C., whose name appears
at the head of this article. The father of this family
died in 1902, at the age of about sixty-three years.
He had taken a prominent part in public affairs, serving
capably in various township offices. For fourteen
years he was a member of the School Board, during which time
he accomplished much for the cause of education locally.
For eleven years also he was township trustee. He was
elected real estate appraiser of Newberry Township in the
fall of 1899, without opposition. In politics he was a
stalwart Republican. He was a member of the Christian
Church, and of Langston Post, G. A. R., at Covington.
He was a man of genial personality, widely popular, and was
by general consent classed among the enterprising and
honored citizens of his native
county.
GUSTON C. ULLERY received his education in the
schools of Covington and subsequently became a student in
the Medical Department of the Indiana University, from which
he was graduated in 1907. He then located for practice
in West Milton, entering into association with Dr. H. R.
Pearson. This connection lasted nine months, since
which time Dr. Ullery has practiced alone, his
office being conveniently located on Main Street. He
married Vera Elizabeth Douglass, a daughter of D.
F. Douglass, of West Milton, and they are the parents of
one child, a daughter, Virginia. Politically Dr.
Ullery is a Republican. He belongs to the Sons of
Veterans, Col. J. C. Ullery Camp, No. 20, of
Covington; also to the Masons. He is a member of the
Christian Church. Though Dr. Ullery has
not been long in the practice of his profession, he has
already proved that he is a capable physician and surgeon.
He is a close student and there can be little doubt that as
the years go by he will be found well abreast of Twentieth
Century progress in medical science. As a man and
citizen he is held in high esteem by all who know him.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 816 |
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GIDEON G. UPDIKE
located on a well improved farm of forty acres in Section
34, Elizabeth Township, Miami County, Ohio, is engaged in
general farming and tobacco raising. He is a native of
New Jersey, having been born near the city of Princeton,
Dec. 25, 1847, and is a son of Jacob and
Johanna (Mount) Updike.
John Updike, grandfather of the subject
of this sketch, was born in 1790, and was married to Mary
Updike, who was born in 1786, and, although bearing the
same name, was of no blood relationship. They were
parents of the following children: Eliza, born
in 1810; Johnston, born in 1811; Jacob, born
in 1813; Sarah, born in 1816; Lydia, born in
1818; Priscilla, born in 1821; Theodore L.,
born in 1823; John S., born in 1825; Gideon,
born in 1828; Philomen, born in 1830; and one who
died in infancy.
Jacob Updike was joined in marriage with
Johannah Mount, a daughter of Hezekiah
Mount, and their children were Gideon G.,
whose name heads this sketch; Matthew G., deceased;
and Adeline, wife of Frank Vandeveer of
Warren County, Ohio.
Gideon G. Updike first attended school at Cedar
Grove, New Jersey, the school building being a small
structure, eight cornered and built of niggerhead stone.
Upon leaving school he worked on the home farm until he was
twenty-one years old, and then came west to Carlisle, Warren
County, Ohio, where he followed carpentering several years,
working in the construction of many houses and barns in that
vicinity. In 1870 he returned east and was married,
but again took his trade and residence at Carlisle, Ohio.
He afterward rented a farm in that vicinity, but after some
six years moved to Miami County. He fanned near Troy
for six years, then rented the Kline farm near Casstown,
from which he moved to the vicinity of Raper Church, where
he farmed for ten years. At the end of that time he
moved to the Husler farm near Troy, on which he was
located nine years, and from there moved to what was known
as the A. P. Barnes farm of forty acres, which
he purchased of George Ralston. It is located
on the Casstown Pike, three and a half miles east of Troy,
in Section 34, Elizabeth Township. He follows general
farming and tobacco growing, having about five acres planted
to that commodity. He is a Republican in politics, and
has always taken a progressive interest in the affairs of
the community in which he has resided. He was on the
school board of Staunton Township ten years, and is at the
present time serving as pike supervisor.
Feb. 16, 1870, Mr. Updike was united in
marriage with Louisa Carson, a daughter of
Isaac H. and Lydia Ann Carson, and they became parents
of three children, as follows: Walter G., who died in
infancy; Wilber D., who married Ora DeWeese,
daughter of Alexander and Esterline DeWeese, and has
a son, Robert F.; aud Ada C., deceased
wife of Larkin Hole of Piqua, by whom she had a son,
Harry. Fraternally, our subject is a member of
Franklin City Lodge, K. P., in Warren County. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Raper Chapel,
and is a director of the cemetery.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 461 |
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WILBUR DeBOIS UPDIKE,
who farms the DeWeese farm of eighty acres in
Concord Township, Miami County, Ohio, was born on a farm in
Warren County, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1875. He is a son of
Gideon G. and Louisa (Carson) Updike, and a grandson of
Jacob Updike.
Jacob Updike was born and reared in New
Jersey, and there cast his first presidential vote for
William Henry Harrison in 1840. Upon
his removal to Ohio, he located in Warren County, but the
last days of his life were spent in Miami County, on a farm
north of Troy. He and his wife both lived to advanced
age. They were parents of two children: Gideon Gray;
and Addie, who is the wife of Frank Vandeveer.
Gideon Gray Updike
was born in New Jersey, on Christmas Day, 1848, and was
reared to manhood in that state. As a young man he
came west to Warren County, Ohio, and worked at carpentering
a few years. One year after his arrival he returned to
New Jersey and was married to Miss Louisa
Carson, whom he brought back to his new home. They
lived in Warren County a short time, then moved to Miami
County and rented the Culberson farm north of Troy.
After renting for a few years he purchased a farm in
Elizabeth Township, near the Children's Home, where they
have since lived. He has raised tobacco quite
extensively and has done well in a business way. He
and his wife became parents of two children: Wilbur D.;
and Ada, deceased wife of Larkin Hole.
Wilbur D. Updike was about four years of age at
the time of his parents' removal to Miami County, where he
received his schooling and grew to maturity. As a boy
he worked in a nursery and when seventeen years old began
farming, continuing on the home place until his marriage.
Since 1906 he has farmed the place of his wife's mother,
located about three miles southwest of Troy, in Concord
Township, and has made good business progress. He
confines his activity to general farming.
In October, 1902, Mr. Updike was united
in marriage with Miss Ora J. DeWeese, a daughter of
Alexander and Sarah (Sayers) DeWeese. Mr.
DeWeese died in 1903 and is survied by his widow.
The subject of this record and his wife have one son,
Robert F., who was born in September, 1904.
Religiously, they are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He is a Republican in politics. He is a
member of Troy Lodge No. 43, I. O. O. F.; and Concord
Encampment No. 23, I. O. O. F.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 320 |
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