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BIOGRAPHIES
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History of Fairfield and Perry Counties
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1883
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JOHN JACOB ACHAUER
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PROF. H. F. ACKER, teacher of the High School,
New Lexington, Ohio. Professor Acker was born
Jan. 31, 1850, in the same house in which his father was
born. He is the son of Adam and Margaret (Brown)
Acker, both natives of Clayton township. His
paternal ancestry is German, his maternal, Irish.
Young Acker began teaching in 1867, and taught four terms,
then entered the Ohio University, at Athens, and graduated
in 1875. He came to this place in the fall of the same
year, when he took charge of the schools here as
Superintendent and teacher of the High School, which
position he held for two years. The following year he
had charge of the Madison Academy, in this county, since
which time he has held the present position. Prof.
Acker was married July 5, 1876, to Miss Lizzie,
daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Wilson) Rhodes.
They are the parents of one child, Mary Pauline, who
died in infancy.
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CHARLES ADAMS, engineer,
Shawnee, Ohio, was born Jan. 17, 1861, in Morgan, Morgan
county, West Virginia, son of Robert and Ellen
(Culbertson) Adams. Upon the breaking out of the
rebellion, and about six months after his birth, his father
moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he remained about
five years, and in the following places was engaged during
the time that his son remained at home: St. Louis,
Missouri, three years; Grand Tower, Illinois, one year;
Knightstown, Indiana, two years; Ironton, Ohio, one year;
Bellaire, Ohio, seven months; Ashland, Kentucky, four years,
when and where Charles began work at plate roles in a
rolling mill, remaining about two years from where he came
to Shawnee, Ohio, where he engaged as a striker at Fannie
Furnace blacksmith shop for about one year, when he went to
Ashland, Kentucky, remaining about six weeks, and again
returned to Shawnee, and to the same shop, working about
thirteen months, at which time he engaged as fireman on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, running from Newark to Shawnee,
where he remained about six months, and then worked as top
filler at the New York furnace about three months, at which
time he took his present position. He was married Dec.
30, 1880, to Miss Ella, daughter of George and
Catharine (Diller) Martzolff They are the parents
of one child, viz.: Robert George.
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ROBERT ADAMS, farmer;
postoffice, New Lexington, Clayton township; born in
Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1803; settled in Perry
county about the year 1827; a son of Joseph and Martha
(Moore) Adams; married in 1825, to Miss Margaret
McClelland, daughter of James and Mary (McKinley)
McClelland They are the parents of eight children,
viz.: Mary J., deceased; Joseph; James M.; John;
Margaret M., deceased; William, deceased;
Samuel; Calvin, deceased. Mr. Adams had
five sons in the late war.
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ROBERT ADAMS, Manager of
New York Furnace, Shawnee, Ohio, was born Nov. 1, 1820, in
Lanarkshire, near Glasgow, Scotland; son of James and
Margaret (Barclay) Adams. Mr. Adams was
brought up in a furnace region, and learned the trade of
moulder, beginning at the age of ten years, at Schott's
iron works. After learning his trade he has been
engaged as follows: Learning blast furnace trade,
where he worked eight years and nine months - at this place
there were sixteen furnaces. At the expiration of this
time a Quaker iron company, of Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, and situated on the Susquehanna River, induced
him to emigrate to America, and employed him as furnace
keeper for sixteen months, at Danville, Montour county,
Pennsylvania, keeping furnace; at Bloomsburg, Columbiana
county, Pennsylvania, two years, keeping furnace for the
Paxton Iron Company; this company then sent him to Bools'
Falls, Connecticut, where he blowed furnace one year; at
Stockbridge Plains, Massachusetts, where he blowed two
furnaces one year for D. T. Perry, at which time the
work stopped; at Prideville, Monongahela county, Virginia,
blowing two furnaces, three miles apart - one used charcoal
and the other used coke - for a Boston company, five years
and six months; was at this place at the opening of the
rebellion and when the first gun was fired upon Fort Sumter,
in 1861. Mr. Adams was at this time captain of
the militia company in this place, having been promoted from
first lieutenant, and was, by Governor Wise, order
into the service; but not being willing to take up arms
against the Government, he went to Alleghany, Pennsylvania,
where he blowed the American Furnace three or four months
for John Jamison, when he returned to his home in
Virginia, remaining about one year, blowing furnace six
months of the time at Independence, for George Hardman.
At Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, blowing furnace for Mr.
Loughlin three years and eight months. He next
superintended the building of two furnace at Sunebar, which
he afterward blowed two years and six months. At this
time, in 1868, the Boat Trade, near St. Louis, Missouri,
sent for him to come and start a furnace they had built in
1862, where he was employed eighteen months, and made the
first iron that ever was run from coal in Missouri. At
this time he again returned to the moulding trade, and was
employed at Grand Tower, one hundred and ten miles below St.
Louis, for six months, from where he went to Hillman's
Furnace, Legreen, to Ohio, and to Knightstown, Clay county,
Indiana, where he was employed, keeping furnace and moulding,
about six months; next to Ironton, Ohio, remaining four
years, moulding, running and keeping furnace; at Bellaire,
Ohio, eight more, blowing furnace. While here he was
called to start the Stony Hollow furnace, near Steubenville,
Ohio, that had been chilled, taking form it twenty-six tons
of iron; at Ashland, Kentucky, two months, blowing furnace;
and again moulded for about two years, when he came to
Shawnee in June, 1877, where he has been employed up to this
time. Was married in August, of 1842, to Ellen,
daughter of Lewis and Ellen (Allen) Culbertson.
They are the parents of nine children: Robert,
deceased; Ellen; Margaret; William; Agnes; James,
deceased; Charles; Mary and Sarah.
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WM. WALLACE ADAMS,
engineer, Shawnee, Ohio, was born June 23, 1855, in Bulls
Falls, Connecticut; son of Robert and Helen (Culbertson)
Adams. Mr. Adams lived with his father
until 1870, which time found him at Knightsville, Indiana,
from where he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and engaged
at Jones & Loughlin's mills, firing engine boilers for three
years, from whence he went to Ashland, Boyd county,
Kentucky, where he remained up to the time of his coming to
Shawnee. During his stay at Ashland he was married to
Elizabeth M., daughter of Joel and Mary (Mayhew) West,
of Boyd county, Kentucky. They are the parents of
three children, viz.: Mabel C.; Agnes C., and
Robert L. After coming to this place he has
been engaged as follows: Laying brick, three months;
night watch at New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron
Furnace, about seven months; keeping furnace, two years;
working about furnace until about June, 1880, when he
employed in his present vocation and which he has held
during this time.
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PIUS V. ADAMSON
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MAXIMIN AID
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SAMUEL B. ALLEN
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H. C. ALLEN, MD.
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WILLIAM D. ALLISON
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CATHARINE C. ANDERSON
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THOMAS ANDREW
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JOSEPH ANSEL; post-office,
Buckeye Cottage, Clayton township; farmer; born in Muskingum
county in 1845; came to Perry county in 1870; son of
Peter and Louisa (Stoneburner) Ansel. The latter
died in 1881. Mr. Ansel was married, in 1870,
to Miss Esther T. Wilson, daughter of Ezra and
Elizabeth (Burgess) Wilson. They have four
children, viz.: Burgess C., Bertha L., Ezra B.,
and Cleopatra. Mr. Ansel enlisted in the late
war, in 1863, in Company B, Seventy-eighth O. V. I., Army of
the Cumberland. He was in the following battles, viz.:
Kenesaw Mountain, Brush Mountain, Siege of Atlanta, etc.;
was taken prisoner at Raleigh, North Carolina.
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JAMES R. ARDREY; farmer;
Madison township; post-office, Mt. Perry. He is a son
of John and Hannah (Huston) Ardrey, and was born Aug.
7, 1851, in this township, where he has since lived,
following his occupation. He now owns one hundred and
fifty-six acres of good land. He was married Nov. 10,
1875, to Edith Smith, daughter of Edward and
Harriet (Baird) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Ardrey
are the parents of four children: John C., Walter C.,
Randall C., and Hattie Emma.
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WILLIAM WRIGHT ARNOLD, M. D.
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WM. H. ASHBAUGH, baker,
Rendville, O., born Mar. 14, 1850, in Pike township, son of
Simeon and Annie (Blair) Ashbaugh His father
came to Fairfield county, O., from Pennsylvania, emigrating
from there to Perry county about sixty years ago. His
mother's ancestors were natives of Virginia.
William H. was brought up on a farm until above thirteen
years of age, when he went to Zanesville to learn his trade.
After completing which he first established himself in
business at Richwood, Union county, then at Zanesville, and
came to his present place in February, 1881, where he is
doing a good business.
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THOS. M. ASHBROOK
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JOHN D. AXLINE, M. D.,
Shawnee, Ohio, born Jan. 22, 1842, at Saltillo, Perry
county, Ohio, son of Dr. Jonathan and MAry (Fanley)
Axline, of German descent. John D. worked
on a farm when a boy. In August, 1853, he enlisted in
the Ninth O. V. C., and served to the close of the war.
He followed the fortunes of Sherman's army in their "March
to the Sea." On his return form the army he entered
the Ohio University at Athens. He was graduated at the
Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, in 1869. His
first professional practice was in Muskingum county, and
subsequently in Fairfield county, and in Missouri and
Illinois. He located in Shawnee in 1874. Dr.
Axline was married, Feb. 22, 1871, to Miss Laura E.,
daughter of Col. William and Mary J. (Smith) Spencer,
of English ancestry.
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