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SAMUEL HADDEN,
proprietor
planing mill, New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. Hadden
was born Feb. 14, 1842, in Union township, Muskingum county,
Ohio; son of Samuel M. and Ann (Lorimer) Hadden.
They were the parents of twelve children—nine sons and three
daughters. Four of the sons served in the late war,
two of whom lost their lives on the battlefield.
Samuel was brought up on the farm, where he remained
until twenty-two years of age. He came to this county
in 1868, and in the following year came to this place, and
engaged in his present business, with a partner the greater
part of the time. In the meantime Mr. Hadden
traveled in the West, one year, in the interest of a mining
company. He is now sole proprietor of an active
business in this line. Mr. Hadden was married
Oct. 8, 1867, to Almira, daughter of Dr. J. W. and
Sarah (McConnell) Law, of Tuscarawas county, Ohio.
They are the parents of six children, viz.: William,
Francis, Charles, Samuel, Annetta
and John.
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THOMAS H. HAMILTON, New
Lexington, Ohio, was born Sept. 14, 1859, in New Lexington,
Ohio; son of Thomas and Helen (Johnson) Hamilton.
Thomas Hamilton was a native of Virginia, and Helen
Johnson, of Perry county, Ohio. Mr.
Hamilton, the subject of this sketch, was married Nov.
24, 1881, to Miss Libbie, daughter of
William Haines, of Somerset, Ohio.
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SAMUEL HAMMITT, farmer,
Madison township; post office, Mt. Perry. He was born
Apr. 3, 1823, in Madison township. Perry county.
He is a son of George and Jane (Bergrin) Hammitt.
He was brought up as a farmer, which occupation he has since
followed. Mr. H. enlisted in Company H, 16oth
Regiment O.V. I., and served four months as a corporal.
He was married Dec. 22, 1850, to Mary J. Ford,
daughter of Charles and Harriet Ford. His
second marriage was to Mary J. Danison, daughter of
Edward and Aletha Danison.
Mr. and Mrs. H. are the parents of eight children,
viz.: William R., Charles N., Clarissa J., Andrew J.,
Jacob L. (deceased), John B., Adelaide R., and
George W.
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JESSE HAMMOND,
is the only survivor of all the sons of John and Rebecca
Hammond, and to whom descended a share of the ancestral
acres, and all of the manhood and social character of his
ancestry. He is the husband of Miss Elizabeth Cowen,
with whom he spent many years of a happy life, first clouded
by her departure from it, a few years since. He is
supported in his irreparable bereavement and in his
declining years by the kind offices of a niece to his
departed wife. Next in age to Jesse was
Cyrus, who died on his farm in sight of Somerset.
Elijah and William died before coming of age; and
next is Rebecca, wife of Mr. John Stewart, who
occupies the homestead, hallowed by all the holy
remembrances of childhood, and blessed with a daughter, now
sixteen, the only prospective heir to all the patrimonial
domain, and a husband, whose skill as a farmer and success
as a husbandman have added beauty, as well as acres, to the
hold home, where there ever has been, as there is now, an
unaffected welcome to its kindred and its friends. The
maiden name of Mr. Stewart's mother was Nancy
Meldrem, whom, with all his brothers, he left in county
Donegal, Ireland. His father was James Stewart.
His marriage ceremony was pronounced by Rev. P. V. Ferree,
in 1862.
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JOHN HAMMOND,
the venerable ancestor of the very respectable family which
bears his name, was born in county of Donegal, Ireland, from
whence he and his brother Thomas came to Dauphin
county, Pennsylvania, where John was married to
Miss Rebecca James. On the first day of November,
1805, he and his wife, with their mother and father,
and his brother Thomas, arrived in a four horse wagon
at a spot near where Trinity Church now stands in Somerset.
Here they began cutting a wagon road toward their
destination, and were soon discovered by Jacob Finck,
who at once offered his aid, and who, by his natural kind
heartedness, won the friendship of the Hammonds,
which was ardently reciprocated to the end of their long and
worthy lives. Arrived at last on the half section they
had selected for their future homes, they erected a tent
around a dogwood tree, yet standing as a living witness,
near the Sulphur spring, on the south side of the farm.
Under this temporary shelter grandmother James, most
probably wearied by the long journey just completed, took
sick and died, November 17th, 1805. Her venerable
husband followed her a few years later, and they are most
probably the first aged pair whose death may be recorded in
the county. John Hammond and his devoted wife,
now deprived of the affectionate support of her parents,
bravely adhered to the purpose of hewing a home ont
of the frowning forest for themselves and their children.
In this purpose they were also effectively assisted by
Thomas, who made hi home with them until June 30th,
1852, when he departed this life, at the age of
seventy-seven years, but not until his aim at success and
independence had been realized. He was a soldier in
the War of 1812. It was no uncommon thing for this
family, and others scattered here and there, to go as far as
Chillicothe or Zanesville for grain grinding, and often the
brave wife of John Hammond was left alone in her
cabin home, with her little ones, to answer the demands of
the roving Indian for salt or bread, and to defend her home
against the intrusions of wild beasts. The life of
John Hammond was prolonged to the age of eighty-eight
years and that of his wife to eighty-nine years. They
lived to behold the fruitful fields which their firmness and
industry had rescued from a forest waste, and to see their
children grow to the estate of womanhood and manhood and
take rank among the foremost in useful life and in the
esteem of society. Their children were Thomas,
husband of Miss Olive Spencer, and who, about
eighteen years since, removed from Perry county to McLane
county, Illinois; John, who died in East Rushville in
1832; Nancy, who preserves her maiden name, and
resides with her sister, Mrs. Stewart; Mary Ann Cowen,
wife of the late George Cowen, of Hopewell; James,
who died in California, and whose wife was Miss
Eliza Hukel, yet living with her sons in Iowa.
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WILLIAM
HAMMOND, farmer, Pike township, New Lexington, O.;
was born Feb. 15, 1843, in Clayton township, Perry county,
Ohio; son of Nicholas and Susan (Davidson) Hammond.
Mr. Hammond was raised a farmer, and has made
agricultural pursuits, together with fine sheep breeding of
the Merino stock, his business up to this time. The
mines of the Nuget Coal Company are excavations of his farm.
He was marred Oct. 15, 1872, to Margaret, daughter of
Thomas and Julie (Wright) Selby.
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EDWARD HANLEY, proprietor
of restaurant, New Straitsville. He was born May 5,
1830, in Glasgow Scotland; a son of P. Hanley, a
native of Ireland, who moved to Scotland when Edward
was young. His parents had four children, two of whom
are yet living. While the children were yet young,
Mr. Hanley lost his life in a coal mine.
Edward began work in the mines when but seven years and
eight months old. At the age of fifteen he was a
contractor, and at the age of twenty was married to
Elizabeth Holmes, a native of Ireland.
Mr. and Mrs. Hanley became the parents of seven
children, all born in Scotland, five of whom are still
living. In 1866 they came to America, and four months
after Mrs. Hanley died. Mr.
Hanley began mining in the Kanawha River region, in
Virginia, where he worked eleven days with a " pick and
drill," and had charge of two hundred men. In 1870
Mr. Hanley married Margaret Croal,
a native of Ireland, and daughter of Edward and
Catharine Croal. She had two brothers—James
and Francis—both of whom were killed in the late
war, the former at Spottsylvania Court House, the latter at
the White House Road, two miles from "Old Church," on the
13th of June, 1863. In 1871, Mr. and Mrs.
Hanley came to New Straitsville, where he took charge of
the Troy mines until 1874. For the excellent work in
this mine he received well merited praise from Andrew
Roy, State Inspecter of Mines. Mr.
Hanley now conducts an excellent restaurant.
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JOHN SYLVESTER HANNON
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JOEL J. HANSBERGER
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DANIEL HARBAUGH
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DAVID HARDY, farmer,
Maxville, Ohio; born in Fairfield county, Ohio, July 2,
1829; son of Thomas and Janen (Huston) Hardy.
At the age of three years he, with his father, came to Perry
county and located in Monday Creek township, where he has
ever since resided. His boyhood was spent on his
father's farm, and he has continued to till the soil through
his entire life. He was married Oct. 25, 1852, to
Lucretia R., daughter of Ralph and Sarah (Gunder)
Webb, to whom were born six children - Sarah, Jane,
Margaret, John R., Thomas W. and Gustavus A. all
living in Monday Creek township, except Margaret and
John, who died several years since. Mr.
Hardy is a substantial farmer, owning one hundred and
twenty acres in Monday Creek township, and enjoys the
respect of all who know him.
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B. F. HARLAN
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JACOB H. HARSH
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DANIEL F. HARSOUGH
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HUMPHREY HARVEY
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JOHN HATFIELD
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GEORGE L. HAYS
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HENRY HAZELTON, farer,
Saltlick township, Shawnee, Ohio; was born in this township;
son of John and Jane (Traverse) Hazelton.
Mr. Hazelton was brought up a farmer, and has made
farming the business of his life. Having all his life
been a citizen of Saltlick township, he is now the second
oldest citizen in it. Was married May 20, 1860, to
Lois Amanda, daughter of Joseph and Susan (Raymer)
Woodruff, of Orange county, New York. They are the
parents of three children, viz.: Ulysses S. Grant,
John M. and Mary Jane, who are living and one
that died in infancy. Mr. Hazelton's father
came from Pennsylvania to Ohio at an early day, and settled
on Congress land at $1.25 per acre; the same land is now
considered worth $100 per acres and some in the neighborhood
has sold as high as $300 per acre. The land here, as
farming land, yields about forty bushels of corn per acre;
wheat, about twenty bushels per acre. By good
management Mr. Hazelton raises fifty bushels of corn
per acre, and twenty-five bushels of wheat per acre.
He now owns one hundred and sixty acres in Pike township,
and four hundred and ninety acres in this township.
That in Pike township, and eighty acres in this township,
are optioned as mineral land. He enlisted in September
of 1861, in Company H, Sixty-second Regiment, O. V. I., as
Second Lieutenant for three years, or during the war, but
was discharged in May, 1864, by reason of disability, caused
by a wound received at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in the
attempt to carry the fort. Upon that charge the
regiment lost three hundred and fifty men, killed and
wounded, and every officer but one was killed or wounded.
The Brigade Commander was also killed. Mr. Hazelton
enlisted in the service as Second Lieutenant, and was
discharged as First Lieutenant. His wound has made him
a permanant cripple.
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JAMES P. HAZELTON,
teacher, Straitsville, Ohio; bornin Saltlick township, Perry
county, Ohio, May 7, 1870; son of Harrison and Louvina
(Marlow) Hazelton; brought up on his father's farm, and
attended school at Straitsville, and began teaching at the
age of twenty years, in the grammar department of the
Straitsville Public Schools. United with the Baptist
Church at Old Straitsville, at the age of fifteen years and
at the early age of seventeen years became superintendent of
the Baptist Sabbath school at that place, in which honored
position he remained for three years. At eighteen
years of age he was chosen clerk of the Baptist Church and
has continued to perform the duties of that office ever
since. Mr. Hazelton is a young man whose future
is bright. In the spring of 1882 he entered the
penmanship department of the Ohio Wesleyan Universary,
at Delaware, Ohio, and graduated in plain and ornamental
penmanship at the Art Hall, under the instruction of
Prof. G. W. Michael.
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A. R. HECK, born
Mar. 7, 1815, on the farm where he now lives, near Somerset,
Ohio; a successful and prosperous farmer. His father
was Judge John Heck, born in 1790, who came with his
father, Frederick Heck, from Franklin county,
Pennsylvania, to Ohio in 1796, and to Perry county in 1802.
Frederick's sons were Judge John of Perry
county, and George Heck, of Seneca county, Ohio; his
daughters were Susan, wife of Jacob Pence;
Margaret, wife of Peter Middaugh; Elizabeth, wife
of William McCormick; Katharine, wife of Isaac
Pence, and Maria, single. Frederick Heck,
on his arrival in Perry, purchased the splendid tract of
three hundred and twenty acres where his descendants yet
reside. The father of A. B. Heck was married in
1811, to Peggy Sanderson, a sister of the late
venerable General George Anderson, of Lancaster,
Ohio. Their sons were George and Alexander R.;
their daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Henry Brehm,
and Huldah, wife of Hiram Dennison.
George resided and died in Iowa, and of two sons, one
fell in the battle of Franklin Tennessee. Alexander
R. Heck was united in marriage, June 15, 1833, to
Rachel Linville, daughter of Solomon, who was the
brother of Joseph and Benjamin Linville, of Fairfield
county, Ohio. They had six daughters: Margaret,
wife of Isaac Brookhart, who has two daughters;
Elizabeth, wife of George L. Brehm, who has one
son and one daughter, Katharine, wife of Raymond
J. Dittoe, who has one son and one daughter: Susan,
wife of Clinton S. Dorris, who has one son, and
Hannah, wife of Hayden Arnold, died 1881.
Alexander A. Heck is a church member, conservative
independent in politics, a good, if not a superior specimen
of American citizenship, and the last of his name now living
in the county. His taxes in 1881, were $140.
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DANIEL HENRICKS,
farmer, Maxville, Ohio; was born in Monday Creek township,
Nov. 2, 1832; son of George and Elizabeth (Fink) Henricks.
He was brought up on a farm; in 1851 he was elected township
clerk; in 1856 he moved to Lyon county, Kansas, where he
lived fourteen years, and served as Justice of the Peace
seven years, resigning the office when he left there.
In 1870 he moved to the Indian Territory, where he remained
three years; in 1873 he moved to Texas, stopping in the
northern part, where he resided four years, and returned to
Monday Creek township in 1877, and located on his present
farm. Mr. Henricks was married the first
time Feb. 15, 1851, to Nancy, daughter of James P.
and Austis (Sherwood) Black, who died Feb. 28, 1875.
They became the parents of three children, viz.:
John W., Elizabeth J. and James C. He was
married the second time Apr. 10, 1879, to Annie,
daughter of Thomas and Jane (Huston) Hardy. Mr.
Henricks' grandfather, John Henricks, was a
native of Germany, and emigrated to America shortly after
the Revolutionary War, and settled in Bedford county,
Pennsylvania, but in 1809, moved with his son, George,
to Ohio and settled in Perry county, where he built the
first grist mill on Jonathan's Creek. Mr. Henricks'
father, George Henricks, moved into Monday Creek
township in 1826.
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FRANKLIN L. HENRY,
farmer, Ferrara, Perry county, Ohio; was born Aug. 5, 1849,
in Monroe township, Perry county, Ohio; son of Cyrus and
Abigail (Dye) Henry. Cyrus Henry was born
in Carroll county, Ohio, and came to Monroe township with
his father, John Henry, who entered a farm in the
township about the year 1837. Abigail Dye was
brought up near Clay's Monument, about five miles east of
Wheeling, West Virginia. Franklin L. Henry was
brought up on a farm. Began teaching school in 1869;
taught first in the Dougan school Monroe township; taught,
in all, about six terms. He received a preparatory
education at the Lebanon Academy. He entered the Ohio
University at Athens in the fall of 1871, and was graduated
in the spring of 1876. IN 1879 he formed one of a
surveying party, under the supervision of Major J. W.
Free and E. N. Maxwell. They first visited
Fort Griffin and Fort Worth, Texas. On his return to
the frontier he was taken with typhoid fever, compelling him
to abandon the enterprise and return to Albany, Texas, where
he lay fourteen weeks, a part of the time at the very point
of death. When he became convalescent he returned to
his native home, where he has remained up to the present
time.
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JAMES W. HEPPELL
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JAMES HIGGINS
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ROBERT HILL,
farmer, born in 1843, in Thorn township, Perry county, Ohio;
post office, Rushville. In 1867 he was married to
MissLevina Lehman, a daughter of Christian
Lehman, whose wife was the daughter of Frederick
Siple of Fairfield county, Ohio. The father of
Robert, was James Hill, deceased, in
Perry county, Ohio; and his grandfather was Robert
Hill, deceased, in Virginia. His mother's maiden
name was Margaret Tailor, and that of his
grandmother was Sarah White, a native of Maryland,
and deceased near Thornville. The children of
Robert and Levina Hill are: George, John
Richard, Martha, Rezella, Ann.
Robert served his country in Company L, Fourth U. S.
Artillery, six years in the regular army; was discharged in
March, and married in May, 1867. His tirst lieutenant
was a son of Henry Ward Beecher. This
eminent divine was visiting his son and saw a soldier shot
down by the rebels while carr3nng sugar suspended from one
end of a stick and coffee at the other, the slick being
swung over his neck. The sight of this event, and the
carelessness of the soldiery which seemed to border on
indifference, made a deep impression on the manner and
conversation of their distinguished visitor. Mr.
Hill's wife is a descendent of that Rev.
Adam Lehman, whose name is connected with the
first United Brethren Conference ever held in America; a
name that will live in history while letters preserve its
records. Her grandfather, Jacob Adam
Lehman, was also a preacher in the same church.
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MARSHALL HILLERY
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EDWARD HILLIS,
farmer. Pike township, New Lexington, Ohio; was born May 31,
1833, in Jackson township, this county; son of Elijah and
Elizabeth (Freshour) Hillis. Mr, Hillis was
raised a farmer, and has followed agricultural pursuits up
to the present time. Mr. Hillis remained
at home until the date of his marriage, Oct. 26, 1852, to
Miss Ellis Ferguson, born in December,
1837, daughter of Patrick and Margaret
(McCabe) Ferguson. They are the parents oi six
children, viz.: Richard, John, deceased;
Mary, married to Clestin Mattingly;
George, Edward and Charles. Mr.
Hillis' father came to Ohio at an early day, and
after some time he entered eighty acres of land near what is
now known as North Ferrara, but soon after he was killed at
a house raising about one mile south of where the Moxahala
furnace now stands, on the Vanwey farm, leaving a
wife and ten children. After her husband's death,
Mrs. Hillis still remained upon the farm, and her
sons cleared it up and farmed it. Mrs.
Hillis was again married in two or three years, to
John Haughran, who lived with the Hillis
family until the time of his death, which occurred in
December, 1847, at which time Edward, the subject of
this sketch, took charge of the farm. Haughran,
after his marriage to Mrs. Hillis, bought the
eighty acres she lived upon, and also purchased eighty acres
that Mr. Hillis now lives upon; and upon the
occasion of his death, the property went into an
administrator's hands, when Mrs. Haughran
bought the eighty acres she lived upon at the time of her
last marriage, which her two sons, Edward and
Thomas, assisted her in pa3'ing for, but was afterward
allowed the amount of their assistance in the purchase in
partnership of this same eighty acres of land. She
also bought eighty-three acres at the same time, which she
sold to her two sons, James and Washington.
Two years after the partnership purchase by Edward
and Thomas, Edward bought the share belonging
to Thomas. At the administrator's sale,
David, her oldest son, bought the eighty acres entered
by Mr. Hillis, with whom she made her home
until she died. James bought out Washington;
and Edward, after the death of James, bought
out his heirs in 1879; and upon the death of his brother,
David, who was killed at a railroad bridge raising, on
the O. C. R. R., bought out his heirs also; and owns a house
and three lots in the Third ward, Zanesville, O. He
acted as administrator for his brother David's
estate. He also purchased in the spring of 1882,
seventy acres of the John Riley farm.
All of the original Hillis family were natural
mechanics. Edward does all of his own work, such as
blacksmithing, wagon Quaking, carpentering, etc. In
connection with his other work, he ran a threshing machine
fifteen years. His health has been remarkably good, as
there has never been a physician called to see him yet.
When he was a boy, deer were so plenty that they had to
guard the wheat held, having seen as many as twenty-five or
thirty in one herd.
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COL. N. F. HITCHCOCK
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C. E. HITE, M. D.
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CAPT. JAMES M. HOLMES
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ADAM HOUSEHOLDER
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MICHAEL
HOWDYSHELL
farmer, Monday Creek township, P. O., Webb
Summit, O.; born May 4, 1810, in Rockingham county,
Virginia, son of Jacob and Mary (Miller) Howdyshell.
He was brought up a farmer, and has made that the business
of his life. In 1814, his father came to Ohio and
located in Fairfield county, remaining about two years, when
he moved to Hocking county, Ohio, and from there he went to
Indiana, where both he and his wife died - Jacob at
eighty-five years of age, and Mary at
ninety-five years of age. Michael came to this
township about 1842, and located upon and entered the farm
where he now lives. At the time of his coming that
part of the county was a wilderness, and he cleared up his
own land. When his father lived in Hocking county,
Logan was unknown, there being but one log cabin at that
place, occupied by a man by the name of Rhodes. They
packed their wheat to Lancaster on horseback, and had to go
to Zanesville for salt, which cost one dollar per bushel,
and it required about four days to make the trip. When
a boy, Michael used to accompany his father, who made
hunting his special business. At one time his father
killed three bears without moving from his position.
Wild turkeys were plentiful; deer and wild animals were a
daily sight. Michael's early school days were
spent in a log cabin schoolhouse with puncheon floor, a
split log for a seat, greased paper for window lights,
clapboard door, and split stick chimney that would take in a
backlog nine feet long. He is one of a family of
twelve children, seven of whom were boys. As a
citizen, he has had but one lawsuit, and that before a
Justice of the Peace. He was married, in 1831.
His wife, Sarah, came with her parents to Ohio from
Virginia. Mrs. Howdyshell died May 14, 1877.
They became the parents of seven children, viz.:
Silas, Delilah, Frances, William H., died at nine years
of age; Samuel S., Catharine, and Jerome, who
died at the age of thirty years.
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J. W. HOWERTH,
farmer, Pleasant township; post office, Moxahala; born in
Belmont county in 1843; son of Samuel and Sarah (Bolton)
Howerth, and is of English descent. Mr.
Howerth's parents emigrated to the United States about
1837. The subject of this sketch moved to Harrison
county in 1857, and remained there until he came to this
township, in 1871, and located on the farm where he now
resides. In 1864 he married Miss N. Herriman,
of Harrison county. They became the parents of three
children: Etty M., Lydia E., and Effie C. In
1872 he married Rebecca Speer; her mother was
born in Pennsylvania, and her father was of Irish
extraction. They are the parents of three children:
Dasie A., Sarah F., and William B. Miss
Lorena D. Randals, Mrs. Howerth's daughter
by her first husband, makes her home with the family.
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CHARLES HOY
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DANIEL HUFFORD
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JOHN H. HUFFORD
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DAVID HULL
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DAVID W. HULL
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JOHN S. HULL
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ADAM HUMBERGER, son of
Peter and Mary Humberger, was born in Thorn township,
Perry county, Ohio, in 1806. He worked on his father's
farm a few years, after becoming old enough, but evincing a
genius and desire from mechanical pursuits, he was
apprenticed to an uncle to learn the trade of a gunsmith.
After completing his apprenticeship, he was united in
marriage with a Miss Terrell, and soon afterward
moved to Somerset, where he established a shop and carried
on business successfully for many years. He had but a
limited education - such as the schools of the day afforded
- but he was a great reader and student all his life.
When some of his children were old enough to go to school
and study Comstock's Philosophy, he also became a very close
student of the book. When he came upon the statement
that Comstock then made and taught - that a ball shot from a
gun directly upward would return to the earth with the same
force and velocity that it left the gun - he declared that
"all nonsense: for," and he, "the resistance of the air
against the ball, both ascending and descending, must be
taken into account, and that would make it an impossibility
for the ball to return with the same force it leaves the
gun." Satisfied himself, he at once proceeded to make
a practical experiment, to convince Prof. Nourse and
others that Comstock's book was teaching erroneous
doctrine. He carefully weighed his powder and balls,
then loaded his gun and placed the muzzle thereof against a
board of a certain thickness. He then built a shed,
covered with boards of the same character and thickness, set
a gun upright in the center thereof, and sprung the trigger
by means of a pulley and string, held by him in an adjacent
building. The result was that, while the ball, shot
from the gun, went through one board, and part of the way
through another, the ball shot directly upward and
returning, only buried itself about half in the board upon
which it fell. Prof. Nourse was convinced, and
wrote to the publishers of the philosophy referred to.
The book was changed in this respect, and whoever will take
the pains to examine a Comstocks Philosophy,
published thirty years ago, will see that it contains and
teaches the error which the practical experiment herein
related disproved. Mr. Humberger also invented
and manufactured three revolvers, several years prior to
Colt's invention and patent. One of these
revolvers was fired on a general muster day, at Somerset, in
the presence of hundreds of people, years before Colt's
revolvers were heard of. The three revolvers made by
Humberger were hunted up, taken to the Eats, and used
in law suits growing out of the right to manufacture
revolvers. He also visited New York, Washington, C.
C., and Hartford, Connecticut, as a witness in some
celebrated law suits pertaining to the same subject.
Mr. Humberger also invented, and took out three
patents, upon a corn harvester, upon which he worked and
studied much during his later years. His harvester was
tried, and worked with some degree of success, but he would
never engage in selling the patent right, for the reason
that the machine was not perfected, and not what he designed
it to be. He was still thinking and working about his
harvester when his health began to decline, and his labors
were done. Mr. Humberger died in May, 1865, at
the residence of a daughter in New Lexington. He has
three daughters - Melinda, married to Samuel Boyer
living at Pleasant Hill, Missouri; Matilda, married
to Jackson Boyer, lives at Cass county, Missouri;
Mary A., married to E. S. Colborn, and lives at
New Lexington, Ohio.
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HENRY HUMBERGER,
farmer, post office Thornville. He was born Dec. 26,
1842, in section 26, Thorn township, Perry county, Ohio,
where he still resides. His father was John
Humberger, born in section 35, Thorn township, February
22, 18103, the same year Louisiana was purchased from France
by Thomas Jefferson. Oct. 9, 1828, he was
united in marriage to Miss Mary Ann Basore, who was
born Feb. 24, 1809, whose father was Frederick Basore,
who settled south from Rushville, in Richland township,
Fairfield county, in 1803. Her mother's maiden name
was Mary E. Keister, and her parents were of the
Reform Presbyterian belief. Her father died at the age
of sixty-five, her mother in her eightieth year, near New
Reading, Perry county. The grandfather of Henry and
Peter Humberger, who must have landed in Perry county in
1802, where his brothers John and Henry also
came, and settled on section 35, where they found John
King. The children of this Peter Humberger
were, beside two who died young - Katharine,
the wife of Philip King; Peter, deceased in
Thorn township; Margaret, wife of John Louis;
Hannah; and Adam, who lived as a gunsmith
in Somerset, is said to be the true inventor of the first
revolving pistol; died in New Lexington, buried in Somerset,
and was the first Universalist who had a M. E. minister
promise to preach his funeral, and tell the congregation he
died in the faith, as he had lived in it, that all mankind
would be ultimately happy in the land beyond the grave.
In addition there was Adam's brother
Benjamin, who died in Sandusky county, Ohio; David,
who moved to Whitley county, Indiana, and died there;
Henry, who died in the same county; Mary wife of
Jacob Civits, post office Columbia City, Whitley county,
Indiana. The children of John and Mary Ann
Humberger were David, the husband of Eliza Ann
Karr, Columbia City, Indiana; Frederick, husband
of Elizabeth Hetrick, same post office; Mary Ann,
wife of Simon Long, deceased, post office Tiffin,
Ohio; Peter, who was three times married, and died,
leaving sons and daughters in Pike county, Indiana;
Elizabeth Rankin, whose post office is Thornville;
Margaret, deceased wife of Bernard Mechling, of
Hopewell; Rev. John, husband of Mary Coolman,
of Somerset, post office Petersburg, Mahoning county, Ohio;
George W., husband of Emma Hudgel, Plymouth,
Jefferson county, Nebraska; Benjamin F., husband of
Elenora Karr, post office Thornville; and Henry,
the youngest, except the last two named, who was married on
the 14th of April, 1867, to Miss Eliza Ann, daughter
of Daniel Snyder, of Thorn township. They have two
living children - Miss Mary and Elva May. Henry
Humberger, their father is the proprietor of the
ancient homestead, around which the precious memories of the
family cling as a vine to the ancient oak. He joined
the One Hundred and Fifty-second Indiana Regiment in 1865,
and having served to the end of the war, was honorably
discharged at Indianapolis. After the death of his
father in 1846, his mother, yet living, at the age of
seventy-four, and her maintenance in the homestead, which
went into Henry's name in 1867, subject to her
rights. The family mansion is a spacious two-story
brick; the farm is just a round one hundred acres; the
spring, like the location, ranks among the foremost in the
county, and, to Henry, it is matchless in beauty and
contentment.
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ANDREW HUSTON,
farmer, Monday Creek township, post office New Straitsville,
Ohio; born Aug. 16, 1805, in Erie County, Pennsylvania; son
of Christopher and Elizabeth (Work) Huston. He
came to Fairfield county, Ohio, with his father, in 1806;
spent his boyhood days on a farm; came to Monday Creek
township in the spring of 1836, where he has lived, except a
short time, ever since. Was married to Anna E.,
daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Love) Buchanan,
of Fairfield County. They became the parents of one
child, John. Mrs. (Buchanan) Huston died some
time after. He was married the second time to
Elizabeth Hardy, to whom was born one child. Was
married the third time to Margaret Gosser, by whom he
had one daughter, Elizabeth C. Mr. Huston took
charge of the post office at Old Straitsville, under
President Fillmore's Administration, for nearly seven
years. He was elected justice of the peace in Saltlick
township in 1859 and re-elected in 1862, and served
six years.
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JOHN W. HUSTON,
farmer, Madison township, post office, Mount Perry. He
was born Sept. 27, 1829, in Madison township, and is a son
of Edward and Jane Huston. His father was born
in Ireland, and came to this township in 1812. Mr.
H. has always followed farming, and now owns an
excellent farm. He enlisted in Company H, One Hundred
and Sixtieth Regiment, serving four months as Lieutenant in
that company. He was married Mar. 30, 1852, to
Eliza McBride, daughter of Andrew and Mary McBride.
They are the parents of seven children, Edward G., Mary
M., (deceased, Andrew J., Malanthon F., Hannah j.,
Anna R., and Leslie A.
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R. W. HUSTON,
proprietor provision grocery, corner of Main and Brown
streets, New Lexington, Ohio. He carries a large stock
of groceries, queensware and glassware; also oysters and ice
cream in season. He has a full share of the trade in
his line.
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JAMES A. HUSTON,
druggist, New Lexington, Ohio.
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HENRY HYNUS,
born May 20, 1834, in Cambria county, Pennsylvania; post
office, Somerset, Ohio. His father was Myrod Hynus,
and his mother's maiden name was Mary Ann Swope.
He had one brother, Joseph, who died belonging to the
Regular Army, and who left a widow and one daughter in
Newark, Ohio, from whence he enlisted. Henry's
father died in Newark in 1877, at the age of eighty-two.
His mother died at the age of fifty-six, and is buried in
the Catholic cemetery in Somerset. His sisters were
Martha, wife of Martin Kureth; Rachel, wife of
Henry Flowers; Maria, wife of Ellis Bader, all of
Newark, Ohio; and Mary Ann, wife of Jacob Petry
supposed residence in California. After his marriage
to Miss Rebecca Barker daughter of John Barker
an old settler of Perry, and sister of Rev. David Barker,
an Old School Baptist minister, who deceased at
Pleasantville in 1882, they emigrated to Crawford county,
Illinois, came back to Perry county in six months, and three
years later, in 1867, again moved west to Adams county,
Iowa, and from here he again returned to Perry county, where
he has since resided, in prosperous circumstances.
These journeys were performed in a wagon, and that to Iowa
required thirty-two days going, and the same returning.
Mr. Hynus exhibits "Old Nance," a mare twenty-two
years old, which has performed all these journeys, and which
animal, if she had kept a strict book account against her
master at twenty-five cents per day for her work, and a fair
allowance for her colts, would have him in debt over $4,000.
Mr. Hynus is an enterprising gardener, and has proved
that onions as large as tea cups can be raised from the seed
in one year. During 1881, he experimented with
forty-eight kinds of potatoes and forty of corn. He
took the first premium at the Ohio State Fair in 1881, on
best amber and red wheat, and bushel of meal, and yellow
corn; also first on best display of cereals, and best new
varieties of Potatoes, the Belle, and best on other
varieties, Mammoth and Pearl. Also a premium on the
ten best kinds of potatoes, with many second premiums on
other articles. His presence at the State Fair
has elevated Perry to a high rank in premium winning.
He is equally up in hogs and horses, and is called far and
near as a doctor of the last named animals. His sons
are Jefferson J., Vincent, a teacher; Isaac Y.,
Arthur and John H. Hynus. His daughters are
Miss Mary E., Nancy Jane, and Clara E. Hynus.
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