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PHILIP JACOB DAMBACH
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GEORGE DANIEL, born Aug.
5, 1811, in Hopewell township, on the farm of his uncle
John Daniel who died in 1848. George is the
only son of J. George Daniel who came from
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in the same year
his son was born. The mother of George
Daniel was Saloma Seitz. Two sisters of
George and elder than he, were born in Pennsylvania.
These were Katharine and Saloma. Another sister,
younger than George Daniel, was born in Perry county;
her name was Lydia. The father soon moved his
family to Somerset and here carried on the carpenter trade,
but he must have stayed in Hopewell township until after
1815, for it was while living there that he made the coffin
in which the Rev. William Foster was buried in that
same year. After a residence in Somerset, up to 1820,
four or five years perhaps, fatehr J. George Daniel
bought the southeast one-fourth section 22. Thorn,
Perry county. Grandfather Daniel died in
Pennsylvania, at the advance age of ninety-four. It
was this grandfather Daniel that was the brother of
grandmother Foster, wife of Rev. William Foster.
J. George, who made the coffin for Rev. William,
was therefore a full cousin of grandmother Foster, by
blood. This makes their children second cousins, and
old Uncle Ben Foster and his brothers and sisters
were second cousins to the present George Daniel and
his brothers and sisters, and the children of these are
third cousins. In 1820 there were only thirty acres
deadened on the farm. It had no buildings. The
father of the present George Daniel lived on the farm
forty years, and died in 1860. His wife died before
that date, and her maiden name being seitz, many interest
others of the same name in Fairfield county and elsewhere.
The first marriage of George Daniel was in 1833, to
Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew, and sister
of the present venerable George Smith of Hopewell.
By this marriage there were four sons and two daughters; one
son died when a child. Jacob became the husband
of Sophrona Dorris, Thornville post office; Samuel,
the husband of Eliza Chaney, Fredonia post office;
Levi, the husband of Martha From, Thornville post
office; Mary Elizabeth, became the wife of Samuel
Rarick, farmer, Middleport post office. Van Wert
county, Ohio and Miss Leah at home. The second
marriage of George Daniel, wad to Miss Elizabeth
Troup, in 1848, December 12th, a daughter of Adam
Troup and a sister of the present Israel
Troup, of Hopewell. The children by this marriage
are two sons - Noah, who became the husband of
Miss Martha, daughter of Harrison Lyle, of Thorn.
He is a farmer, and his post office is Thornville. The
other son, George W., became the husband of Miss
Mary K. Lyle, a sister of Martha, the
above name. To go back to 1851 or 1852, the present
venerable George Daniel, bought the then home farm of
his father, who, with his aged wife, retired to a small farm
of forty acres, in the same neighborhood. The
price agreed was $4,000, one thousand down, five hundred in
one year and two hundred dollars a year until paid, and one
-third of the crop during his father's life time, making
about $6,000, as it turned out. The head of Mr.
Daniel is twenty-two inches; height, five feet and seven
inches; weight, one hundred and sixty-five and up to one
hundred and eight-four pounds. He holds the original
papers, dated 1805, organizing Zion Church, and from him
were obtained many interesting particulars, which appear
under the head of Church History. He is Reform in
belief, and Democrat in Politics.
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HIRAM DANISON
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JEFFERSON DANISON
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DARST & REAM
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JOHN DAUGHERTY
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WILLIAM DAVEY
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GEORGE C. DAVY
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DAVID DAVIS,
superintendent Ore mines, Shawnee, Ohio, was born in April,
1840, in Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, Wales; son of John
and Mary (Davis) Davis. Was raised in his native
shire to the age of twelve years, when he went to the coal
regions at Aberdare, Glamorganshire, and was employed as a
driver in the mines until 1860. At this time he
emigrated to America, leaving Liverpool in February, and
landing in New York Apr. 3, 1860. From New York he
went direct to Coshocton, Ohio, and engaged as miner, and
was mine boss for four years at his uncle James
Davis' coal mine. In 1864 he began boating on the
Ohio canal, running from Newark, Ohio, to Cleveland, Ohio,
which he continued eight years, and owned the boat called
the " Three Brothers." At the end of this time he came
to Shawnee, in August of 1872, where he has been employed as
follows: Hauling coal out of Shawnee Valley coal mine, one
year; superintendent of drivers for Newark Coal Company,
until September, 1876, and at that time he, in partnership
with T. J. Davis, of Newark, Ohio, contracted to
deliver twenty thousand tons of iron ore from Iron Point to
the XX furnace, which contract they completed in eighteen
months from the date of commencement. At this time,
December of 1873, he was employed as superintendent of the
iron ore mines at Iron Point, by the XX Coal and Iron Ore
Company, which position he still holds. He owns
eighty-six acres of land in Trimble township, Athens county,
Ohio, with twelve feet vein of coal, and a three feet vein
of iron ore, the dwelling in which he lives, and one-half
interest in the new Upson Coal Company store building.
He has been a member of the school board for the past three
years in this place. Mr. Davis was
married in December of 1855 to Anna Davis, of
Carmarthenshire, Wales. He was married in Aberdare,
Wales. They became the parents of the following
children, viz.:
Benjamin John, James Howard, William, Mary Jane, Sarah
Ann, Dora, Belle and Thomas (deceased).
Mrs. Davis departed this life Feb. 3, 1882, and is
buried in Shawnee cemetery.
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DAVID E. DAVIS,
collier, Shawnee, Ohio, was born Feb. 10, 1828, in
Carmarthenshire, Wales; son of Samuel and Margaret
(Oldham) Davis. Mr. Davis was raised in
Carmarthenshire, and remained there until he was about
fifteen years of age, when he went to Glamorganshire, where
he learned the puddler trade, or what in Amrica is
called boiler in rolling mill, where he remained about eight
years, at which time he was chosen foreman of a rolling mill
at Llandaff, remaining three years, and afterward of a
rolling mill at Workington for two yeas, from where he went
to Aberdare, running a coal shaft engine for three years.
Emigrated to America and landed in New York, Oct. 6, 1857,
going directly to Covington, Kentucky, where he was employed
at his trade for a few months, and has been engaged as
follows: Minersville, Meigs county, Ohio, mining coal,
sixteen years, from which place he came to Shawnee, Ohio, in
April of 1875, where he has remained up to this time, and
has been engaged as a miner, except two years he was check-weighman.
Mr. DAvis was married August, 1850, to Elizabeth,
daughter of Robert and Margaret (Pugh) Lloyd, of
Glamorganshire, Wales. There are the parents of two
children, now living, viz.: Samuel E. and
John L., and six deceased, viz.: Robert,
William, David, Thomas, Mary Jane and Maggie.
While living in Meigs county he was school director twelve
years, and is at this time township trustee and cemetery
trustee of this place.
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G. R. DAVIS,
Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio, carpenter, was born Jan.
2, 1821, in Maryland, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Essecks)
Davis. Mr. Davis was raised a farmer, and followed
agricultural pursuits for some ten or twelve years after he
became of age. He was married Mar. 24, 1842, to
Rebecca, daughter of John and Ann (Guinn) Whips,
of Perry county, Ohio. They are the parents of eight
children, who are living, viz.: Ann, Jane, John, Letha,
Lydia, Susan, Thomas J., and Sarah Ellen,
and four dead, viz.: Martha, Elizabeth, Mary
and William. Mr. Davis came to Belmont county,
Ohio, in 1827, and ten years later to Perry county, of which
he has remained a resident up to the present time, at first
farming, and afterward running an engine of his own from
1852 to 1856, and afterward one at Sulphur grist mill for
three years, from that he took up the carpenter trade,
working one year, when he went to Athens, Ohio, where he run
an engine until the breaking out of the Rebellion of 1861,
at this time enlisting in Company H, Twenty-second Regiment
O. V. I., serving three months when he re-enlisted in
Company G, Eighteenth Regiment, O. V. I., of which Company
he was Fourth Sergeant. He remained in the service
about sixteen months, and was discharged because of
disability by heart disease. He now lives in New
Lexington, and owns, besides the house he lives in, three
acres in northwestern part of Real Estate addition.
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J. W. DAVIS,
grocer, Shawnee, Ohio; was born Dec. 8, 1851, in Morgan
county, Ohio; son of Samuel and Mary (Keever) Davis.
Mr. Davis was brought up on a farm, and followed
agricultural pursuits up to 1874, at which time he came to
Shawnee, Ohio, where he engaged as a teamster, following
that occupation for about two years, and then began to dray,
and followed that for about five years, when an accident
occurred by which he broke his ankle, which so disabled him
that he was obliged to abandon that business, and has
established himself in a retail family grocery store, where
he is in business at this time. Was married Apr. 13,
1S69, to Mary J., daughter of James Devit, of
Morgan county, Ohio. They are the parents of three
children, viz.: Madgie, Charles C., and
Bertie Estella.
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SAMUEL E. DAVIS,
contractor, Shawnee, Ohio, was born Apr. 13, 1852, in
Monmouthshire, Wales; son of David E. and Elizabeth (Loyd)
Davis. His father lived about three or tour years
in Aberdiaire, England, previous to coming to America.
Emigrated June 10, 1859, landing in New York, whence he went
to Minersville, Meigs county, Ohio, where Samuel E.,
the subject of this sketch, made his home for thirteen
years. and has been engaged as follows: While in
Minersville, mining and driving in mines; Jackson Company,
at Star furnace, three months; returned home; Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, three months, mining; Raymond City, West
Virginia, thirty days, mining; returned home and went to
Ironton, Ohio, in a skiff with three other men, a distance
of seventy miles, where he employed in a boiler yard six
months; Ironton tunnel, three months, driving in mine and
mining; again at home, and next came to Shawnee, Ohio, where
has made his home to the present time. Since coming
here he made a trip West into Illinois; was also at
Coshocton about two months, mining. He is engaged at
this time bv a contract with the New York Furnace Company,
delivering coal for its use, which he has followed for the
last three years, and previous to this laid track in mine,
clerked thirteen months, and owned a grocery store at one
time in this place. He now owns the property in which
he lives, at 132 Elm street. He is a member of the
town
Council, and is Past Worthy Chief of Good Templars Lodge in
this place; clerk of Fire Department; and recording
secretary, trustee and treasurer of the Welch Congregational
Church of this place. Was married Jan. 1, 1873, to
Catharine, daughter of David and Mary (Reese) Reese.
They are the parents of four children, viz.: Mary
Elizabeth, Margaret, David S. and Rachel.
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JONAS B. DEAVER
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URIAH H. DEAVER
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WILLIAM E. DEAVER
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J. B.
DELONG, farmer; post office, Crooksville; born in
this county in 1817; son of Isaac and Nancy (Bowers)
Delong; married in 1841, to Miss Sarah J. Taylor,
daughter of Thomas and Mary A. Taylor. They are
the parents of twelve children, viz.: Susan, Nancy, J.
Wm., deceased; Mary R., George, James F., Sarah,
Catharine, Isaac deceased; Francis, deceased;
Thomas, deceased; John, deceased. Mr.
Delong is notary public at present. He served as
County Commissioner some twelve years, and as Justice of the
Peace about twenty years.
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PHILIP
B. DELONG, farmer and stock raiser, Clayton township;
post office, Buckeye Cottage; born in Perry county in 1833;
son of Isaac and Nancy (Bower) Delong. The
former was born Dec. 22d, 1779, the latter Apr. 5th, 1788.
The former died Apr. 6th, 1842, the latter in 1864.
The parents of the subject of this sketch were married Apr.
17th, 1808. Mr. Delong's father entered the
land now owned by the subject of this sketch, in 123.
The subject of this sketch is the youngest of a family of
eight children, two of whom are still living. He
purchased the homestead in 1865.
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T. J.
DELONG, farmer and carpenter; postoffice, Rehoboth;
born in Ohio, in 1818; settled in this county about the year
1833; son of Edward and Rachel (Baker) Delong.
The former died about the year 1846, the latter of 1855.
Mr. Delong's parents are of French and Irish descent.
Grandson of George and Jane (Ward) Delong; grandson
of Tilman and Mary (McName) Bakrer. Mr. Delong
was married in 1847, to Miss Secalia Snider, daughter
of Jacob and Elizabeth Snider. They are the
parents of eight children, viz.: Jacob, deceased;
Francis, deceased; Elizabeth, deceased;
William, deceased; Albert, Liddie, Lil.
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ISAAC DENNY
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W. B. DENNY
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ANDREW J. DEW
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S. C. DICK,
born Apr, 27, 1817; married to Sarah Jones, Jan. 22,
1843; died May 20, 1876. After his marriage he lived
entirely in Reading township. Perry County, Ohio, except
nine years that he resided in Clayton township. Began
his married life with only a small portion of this world's
goods, but by teaching for twenty-seven winters and farming
in the summer he accumulated a property estimated to be
worth $15,000 in hind and chattels, free of all debts, which
he was never hasty to incur. His married children are
Mattie, married to David T. Shaw, near Bremen,
Fairfield county, a farmer, and Sarah, married to
James A. Biggs, near Junction, in Perry county.
The single children are John Wesley, the
executor of his father's will; Jehu Brook
Jones, Grafton Findley, Thomas
Wilson, and Hattie E., all of whom reside with
their mother at the family homestead, Stephen C. Dick's
example and success in life, working on the farm in summer,
and teaching twenty-seven winters, prove that all the great,
and good, and useful men are not bred to professions, or
selected to make and execute the laws. He repeatedly
sat down in the morning, and before closing his eyes to
sleep, had the Clayton township assessor's book ready for
the County Auditor the next day. Mrs. Dick's
memory, like her physical frame, is strong and healthful. In
1824 her father employed one Karshner to hew
puncheons for the kitchen floor. Karshner
employed William Williams, afterwards esteemed the
richest man in Perry county, to assist at 37 cents per day.
The floor wore smooth and soon became not only useful but
even beautiful.
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ANDERSON DICKSON
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MILTON DILTZ
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DANIEL DIMOND
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FRANK A. DITTOE
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PETER DITTOE
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PETER DITTOE, JR.
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WM.
A. DONALDSON, of the firm of Tussing &
Donaldson, attorneys-at-law, New Lexington, Ohio, was
born Dec. 21, 1853, in Hocking county, Ohio, son of
Joshua and Catharine (Marlow) Donaldson. Young
Donaldson was graduated at Denison University, at
Granville, Ohio, in 1876. He began teaching school
when about seventeen, and taught three terms. In the
spring of 1877 began reading law, and was admitted to the
bar in the fall of 1878. Began practice with A. W.
Scott, firm name, Scott & Donaldson, which
was dissolved in September, 1880, when the present firm was
formed.
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J. J. DONNELLY
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J. M. DRAKE, Monroe township, carpenter, Corning,
Ohio; was born Mar. 24, 1847, in Pennsville, Morgan county,
Ohio; son of C. D. and Hannah (Rusk) Drake. Mr.
Drake was brought up from four years of age to his
twenty-first year in Ringold, Morgan county, Ohio, where he
learned his trade, and at the age of twenty-one years he
went into business for himself. Was married Jan. 7,
1869, to Miss Sarah E. Shell, who was born June 15,
1852, in Morgansville, Morgan county, Ohio; daughter of
John and Mary (Dawson) Shell. They are the parents
of four children, viz.: Ara Ellen, Hannah Louisa,
Patience Elizabeth
and Austin Hermon. After his marriage he lived
in Morgan county, Ohio, for eleven years, when he moved to
where he now lives May 11, 1880. Mr. Drake's
father was born in Alexandria county, Virginia, and came to
Ohio at an early day and settled on Wolf creek, Morgan
county, where he lived up to the time of his death, Sept.
18, 1879. His mother, Hannah Rusk, was born in
Perry county, Ohio, and moved into Morgan county when a
child, where she lived to the time of her death, Oct. 3,
1875. Mr. C. D. and Hannah Rusk Drake became
the parents of ten children, viz.: Rachel D., married
to Franklin Amos; Sarah, died Oct. 25, 1874, was
married to Richard Williams; Matilda, married to
John Hanesworth; George E., died in
Andersonville prison, Aug. 12, 1864; H. D., died June
10, 1882, in Corning; J. M., the subject of this
sketch; Elizabeth J., first married to Asbury
Kirkbridge, who died Apr. 5, 1874; married the second
time to Thomas Hamilton; Lucy E., married to
Charles Scott; William C., died Nov. 30, 1878, and
Mary C., died Sept. 2, 1875.
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ESTHER DRIVER
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EDWARD T. DROEGE
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RALPH DUCKWORTH
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PETER DUFFY
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JOHN DUNLAP,
born June 28th, 1834, in Muskingum county, Ohio; a working
man, whose post office is Somerset, Ohio. His father,
Adam Dunlap, a native of Virginia, died at Point
Pleasant, Virginia, at the age of fifty-eight yeas, a member
of Company C, Thirteenth Virginia Infantry. The mother
of John Dunlap was Lydia Bozman, eldest
daughter of Benjamin and Priscilla Bozman, whose
maiden name was Brady, and whose sister is the wife
of Benjamin Norris of New Lexington. The
grandfather of John was Josiah Dunlap, whose
wife was Sarah Cox. The ancestry is
Scotch-Irish. John Dunlap enlisted in Company
G, Fourth Regiment of West Virginia, afterward consolidated
with the Second Veteran Virginia Infantry. He taught
school in 1856, and was married Jan. 14th, 1858, to Miss
Elmira, daughter of Thomas and Martha Davis, a
native of Muskingum county, Ohio. Her parents went
back to Virginia, when she was quite young. She has
five sisters and two brothers. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap
have four children, all of whom are deceased. They
have an adopted son, William Benton Dunlap, who they
took at the age of two years. He is now past sixteen.
A former playmate of Mr. Dunlap, Mr. John Laughlin,
whose wife and three children are deceased, finds a welcome
and happy home with the friend of his childhood.
John Dunlap, who has been in twenty-seven battles for
the Union, owes his life to his wife's presence when sick in
hospital; where she also was taken sick, sent home on a free
pass from Colonel Lightburn, after which she renewed
her devotion to the Union cause by attendance on the sick.
John Dunlap was taken prisoner by Mosby, and
with twenty-one others drew lots to decide which of these
were to die. He was an inmate of Libby prison, and had
the good luck to capture the rebel guerrilla, Captain
Mobly. This Mobly had seven men, who would
dress in blue uniform, assume duty on our picket lines and
fix themselves for all kinds of mischief. This
Mobly was the son of a widow whose residence overlooked
the valley before, and sat at the foot of a mountain behind.
Private John Dunlap was sent out to capture Mobly
by strategy, a task to which he seems to have been fully
equal, for he marched Mobly into camp at the point of
the bayonet. The full particulars of this capture are
extremely thrilling, and exemplify the daring and address of
the soldier and his captive, but too lengthy for insertion
here. He is always hospital, and has a Virginia
welcome to his visitors. His head is twenty-two and a
fourth inches; weight, one hundred and sixty-five to one
hundred and ninety pounds; height, five feet, eleven and
one-half inches.
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JOHN
V. DUNN, of the firm of Dunn & McTeague,
druggists, Rendville, Ohio, was born May 14, 1855, in Pike
township, Perry county, Ohio; son of James and Elizabeth
(Ward) Dunn, of Irish descent. John . was
brought up on the farm and taught school five years.
In the spring of 1880, began the drug business at Junction
City, Ohio, and established the present firm in the spring
of 1882.
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JACOB DUNWOODY
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GILBERT W. DUPLER,
formerly marshal of New Lexington, Ohio, was born Aug. 16,
1854, in Millville, Hocking county, Ohio; son of Noah and
Elizabeth (Williams) Dupler. His father's
ancestors were German, his mother's English. At the
age of twelve he came to this place, and began the carpenter
trade at the age of fifteen, and followed it three years.
Then he took the mail contract on route No. 21,243, from
this place to Chancey, and held the place four years.
He was elected to his present office Apr. 5, 1880.
Marshal Dupler was married Apr. 16, 1878, to Miss
Almeda M., daughter of Lyman and Elizabeth (Rambo)
Richards. They are the parents of three children,
viz.: Burt F., and Roy, F. (twins), born Mar.
19, 1879, and now, December, 1881, their weights are
equal; and Mort E., born Aug. 15, 1881.
Marshal Dupler is a member of Company A,
Seventeenth O. N. G., having enlisted in this company in
March, 1878.
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THOMAS DUPLER,
merchant, Pleasant township; post office, Moxahala; born in
Athens county, Aug. 14, 1846; son of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Edwards) Dupler. His father was of Irish descent,
and his
mother of English; both were natives of Pennsylvania, and
came to the State in 1835. His father was a shoemaker,
resided in this county, and died in Athens county.
Thomas Dupler enlisted in 1863, in the One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth O. V. I., and remained in the
service until the close of the war in 1865. He
was sergeant. After the close of the war, he farmed
until 1872, when he went into the drug business at Moxahala.
He is also proprietor of a dry goods store at Moxahala, and
a wholesale liquor store at Rendville. He is
postmaster at Moxahala. He is married to Sarah
Biddison of Athens county. They are the parents
of four children, viz.: Clarence, Harley,
Fred and William.
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J. W. DUSENBURY,
editor, publisher and proprietor of the Independent,
New Lexington, Ohio, was born June 22, 1858, in Harrison
township, Perry county, Ohio; son of a. J. and Sarah
(Hitchcock) Dusenbury. At the close of the late
civil war Mrs. Dusenbury, with her children then at
home, moved to New Lexington, where she has since resided,
and where J. W. spent his boyhood days in attending
school at the public school of this place, making such rapid
strides in his studies that at the early age of sixteen
years he graduated with the first graduating class of this
place. Soon after graduating he became a teacher, and
with good success taught in several parts of the county, the
last year of his teaching being in the grammar school
department of his own village. In 1880 he was employed
by a Chicago publishing house as general agent, and for them
traveled over the States of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
York, and Ohio, remaining with them until the fall of 1881,
when he returned to New Lexington, and in partnership with
Mr. A. F. Moore founded the newspaper known as the
Independent, which, by diligent and faithful effort upon
their part, soon became one of the leading and most
prosperous journals in the county, of which its
widespread circulation is convincing evidence. In
1882, A. F. Moore retiring from the newspaper
business, Mr. Dusenbury became sole
proprietor, which he successfully manages, in connection
with his school teaching. A business so aptly managed,
by one so young, certainly points to better things in the
future, as well as being an evidence of prosperity at the
present. Mr. Dusenbury is one of a family of
four children, viz.: Josie, married and living near
Beverly, Washington county, Ohio; Jemima, who
resides with her husband, Mr. Columbus Pletcher, of
Junction City, Ohio; and William J., who, having
graduated at the head of his class in the New Lexington High
School at the age of only fifteen years, is at present
teaching. Mr. Dusenbury's great
grandfather, John Dusenbury, came to Perry county in 1802,
and settled on Bear Run, in Bearfield township. His
grandfather, Benjamin Dusenbury, was also one of the
oldest settlers, and here passed through the ordeal of a
pioneer life, which is so well told elsewhere in this
history. Mr. Dusenbury's father was among the
first to take up arms in defense of his country in the time
of the late Rebellion, having enlisted in 1861, and served
over three years with the famous Thirtieth O. V. I.,
participating in all its battles, and at last laid down his
life to fill a soldier's grave. His memory is
perpetuated with those of fallen comrades by the monument
reared in New Lexington by the then surviving members of the
regiment. Dr. Dusenbury's ancestors,
upon his mother's side of the house, were of English
descent. His grandfather, Wesley Hitchcock,
came, when a boy, from Maryland to Ohio, with his father,
who on account of his anti-slavery principles, left that
State and came to what was then the frontier, having freed
all his slaves before starting, prefering to endure
the hardships of the Western wilds to the wealth and
affluence of a wrong-doing, slave-driving State. J.
W. is at present residing with his mother in New
Lexington.
Source: History of Fairfield and Perry Counties -
Published: Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page
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