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-- R.
H. TANEYHILL
located at Olive in 1851, and practiced law and edited a
newspaper there for a time. He afterward practiced his
profession in Batesville for a number of years. He
removed to Barnesville, where he at present resides.
He is now largely engaged in the culture of strawberries.
Mr. Tannyhill was an able and forcible editorial
writer and possessed legal ability of a high order.
His brother, Mordecai H. Tanneyhill, also a lawyer,
was located at Sarahsville a few years prior to the removal
of the county seat to Caldwell.
Source:
History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H.
Watkins & Co., 1887 - Page 179 -- |
Stevenson Trimmer |
Brookfield Twp. -
-- TRIMMER FAMILY.
- Samuel Trimmer was born in New Jersey and when a
child immigrated with his parents to Pennsylvania. His
father, Paul Trimmer, was a soldier of the Revolution
and participated in several notable engagements. He
followed the sea for several years and died about
1830, aged nearly one hundred years. His wife was a
sister of General Anthony Wayne. Samuel Trimmer
was a farmer, a very worthy citizen and an exemplary member
of the Presbyterian church, as was also his wife. He
died in 1847, aged fifty-seven.
Stevenson Trimmer was born in Washington County,
Penn., Mar. 11, 1815, and Oct. 14, 1843, was married to
Miss Ann McAdams. His worldly effects at this time
inventoried one horse and $25 in money. After his
marriage he began life as a farmer on leased lands, and by
his industry and thrift he prospered and soon acquired the
nucleus of a competency. In 1852 he came from
Pennsylvania to his present farm, which originally consisted
of eighty acres of unimproved land, which by repeated
accessions now contains 4320 acres, highly improved.
In 1882 Mrs. Trimmer died. Her only child,
James A., enlisted May 2, 1864, in Company H., One
Hundred and Sixty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died in
hospital at Cumberland, Md., June 9,1864, in his twentieth
year. He was an estimable young man, a member of the
Presbyterian church and a good soldier. In 1885 Mr.
Trimmer was again married to Mrs. Malinda Butterbaugh.
In religious and political affiliation Mr. Trimmer is
a Presbyterian and a Republican. For six years he has
served the county as Infirmary director, receiving the
suffrages of both parties. He is an elder in the
Cumberland Presbyterian church and every worthy cause finds
in him a warm friend and patron. He is one of those
liberal, public-spirited gentlemen whose identification with
any community is always productive of good. Five
orphan children have been the recipients of his generosity,
and throughout the entire county he is known as one of the
most respected citizens of Brookfield Township.
Source:
History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H.
Watkins & Co., 1887 - Page 437 |
