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BIOGRAPHIES
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1883
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J. B. LARIMER, proprietor of
hotel and postmaster, Junction City, Ohio; was born in
Jackson township, this county, in August, 1836; is a son of
William and Margaret (Brown) Larrimer; followed
carpentering until 1861, after which he enlisted in Company
C, Sixty-second O. V. I., and served until November of 1864,
during which time he was promoted to the rank of First
Lieutenant; after the war he followed his former occupation
until June, 1880, when he commenced his present business;
was married in 1860 to Miss Lizzie, daughter of
Josiah and Catharine (Thorn) Jones; they were the
parents of six children, viz.: Chas. J., Catharine,
Margaret, Mary, Gertrude and Alice; Mr. Larimer
is a kind, genial, accommodating landlord, and keeps the
best hotel in Junction City.
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BENJAMIN LARZELERE,
farmer and stock raiser; post office, Roseville; born in
Pennsylvania in 1803; settled in Perry county, Ohio, in
1837; son of Benjamin and Sarah (Brown) and grandson
of Nicholas Larzelere and of Joseph Brown;
married in 1835, to Miss Mary Daymond, who died in
1877. They have seven children, viz.: Sarah
P., G. W., Robert A. G., Mary E., John Q. A., Julia D.,
Morgan R., five of whom are married. G. W.
and Robert A., enlisted in the war of the Rebellion;
G. W., in the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment;
Robert in the Thirty-second. He was in the
battle of Cheat Mountain, where he was taken prisoner.
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ALBERT G. LATTA,
farmer and stock raiser, Rehoboth post office, Clayton
township, Perry county, Ohio; born in this county, in 1848;
son of Isaac B. and Nancy (Welsh) Latta; grandson of
George Latta, and of Henry and Mary Welsh;
married in 1869, to Miss Lizzie Brown, daughter of
William and Mary (Haworth) Brown; they have but one
child, Calia M.
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ADAM LAVERTY, farmer and
miner, New Straitsville, Ohio; was born Jan. 4, 1834, in
Cullybackey, a little village three miles west of Ballymena,
county Antrim, Ireland; son of Archibald and Mary
(Killen) Laverty. Mr. Laverty was raised in his
native country, and remained in Ireland until 1866, when he
emigrated to America, and, with his family, has resided in
Coal township, this county, since 1872. Mr.
Laverty's father was a native of Ireland. His
mother was born in Ireland, of Scottish parentage.
Mr. Laverty, the subject of this sketch, was married
June 5, 1862, to Miss Ellen Lynch, of Greenock,
Scotland, daughter of Thomas and Jane (McGuire) Lynch,
who were formerly of Londonderry. They are the parents
of seven children, viz.: Mary Ann, Archibald, Adam
J., Ellen, Thomas Philip, Theresa and Clara.
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ELZA LAZIER, potter by
trade. Buckeye Cottage post office, Ohio; born in this
county in 1852; son of Isaac and Clara (Kelly) Lazier.
The former emigrated from Maryland. Grandson of
John Lazier, and of James and Nellie Kelly.
Married in 1857, to Miss Phoebe J. Brooks, daughter
of Hiram and Sarah A. (Cline) Brooks. They have
nine children, viz.: Hiram H.; Chas. Henry,
deceased, Rosanna, Isaac, Ella E., Myrtle A. and two
infants. Mr. Lazier's grandfather was in the
War of 1812.
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WASHINGTON LEAMAN,
carpenter and wagon maker, post office Gore, Hocking county,
Ohio; was Jan. 22, 1824, in Montgomery county, Maryland; son
of Daniel and Jane (Sibley) Leaman. At an early
age, he went as an apprentice to the carpenter and wagon
maker's trades, which he learned; came to Ohio with his
parents in 1835, and remained four years in Pike township,
when they came in 1839 to Monday Creek township, where he
was since resided. Was married May 5, 1843, to
Hannah Massey, who died in 1845. Was married the
second time May 11, 1847, to Susan, daughter of
Jacob and Catharine (Valentine) Cavinee. They are
the parents of nine children, viz.: Daniel, died in
infancy; John, Eliza, Mary J., George, Sarah C., Martha
A., Matilda, died in infancy, and Samuel.
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CHRISTIAN LEHMAN, was
born in 1802, in Juniatta county, Pennsylvania; he was a son
of Jacob Lehman; his mother's maiden name was
Hannah Peterson. These pioneers came to Perry
county, in 1806, with eleven of their twelve children,
comprising eights sons and four daughters. He bought
eighty acres of land in Jackson township, resided for
several years in Rushville, and finally settled on the farm
where Christian, now in his eightieth year, resides, and
where his father, Jacob, died in the ninetieth year
of his age. A sister of Christian Lehman, Betsey
Turner, wife of Joseph Turner, is yet living in
Rushville with her son, Abraham, in her ninety-sixth
year. Christian was married in 1824, to
Rebecca Siple daughter of Frederick and
Barbara Siple, then of Fairfield county. Their
children are Richard, a blacksmith, Avlon post
office, who, in 1857 was married to Eliza, daughter
of Moses, a brother of Jacob Petty. Richard
has two sons Christian, a blacksmith who is offered
$14 per week for horse-shoeing in Columbus, and Clinton,
younger and at home. The daughters are, Miss Eva
and Martha, two sons and two daughters, from eight to
twenty years of age. Hannah Lehman, wife of
George Houtz, daughter of Christian and Rebecca
Lehman, resides in Missouri, post office Hamburg, Iowa.
John L. Lehman, architect and contracting carpenter,
married to Sally Vandermark, daughter of Rev.
Mathias Vandermark, residence, Columbus, Ohio.
Mary Levina, wife of Robert Hill, residence at
the homestead of her father, where, since the death of her
mother, she presides as chief of the household, post office
Avlon, Ohio.
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RICHARD LEHMAN, eldest
son of Christian, has acquired a comfortable home,
which his strong arm at the anvil has beautified with a new
and neat dwelling. He was a member of Company I, One
Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, O. V. I., Captain
Yontz, attached to the famous Sixth Corps, which saved
the day at Cedar Creek, after the rout of the Eighth and
Nineteenth Corps, and thus saved, also, the valley of the
Shenandoah from again falling back into the hands of the
enemy. He served to the end of his enlistment, and was
honorably discharged, when he resumed his occupation at the
anvil and his place in that family circle, which had prayed
for his safe return.
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RICHARD D. LEMERT,
engineer at mine No. 13, Corning, Ohio; was born Apr. 19,
1852, in Crawford county, Ohio; son of Joshua and
Caroline (Blackwell) Lemert. Richard D. Lemert was
brought up on a farm until about the age of fourteen years;
at eighteen began braking on the railroad, served four
years, then fired two years, then took an engine and ran as
railroad engineer two years. He took his present
position in November, 1881. Mr. Lemert was
married Jan. 6, 1881, to Annie, daughter of
Augustus and Mary Ucker of Columbus, Ohio. They
are the parents of one child, Maud Lemert.
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GEORGE LEWIS,
engineer, Shawnee, Ohio; was born Aug. 1, 1832, in Cardiff,
South Wales; son of George and Mary (Lewis) Lewis;
was raised in Cardiff, where he lived until 1868, and served
his apprenticeship of five years at machinist's trade with
Taff Bale Railroad. building engines.
After completing his apprenticeship he ran an engine on the
railroad three years; at this time he began work for Mr.
Booker, running an engine for tin and sheet-iron works
about five years up to 1861. He was next employed in
putting up the Grangetown Iron Works, and was overseer of
the engine at this place for seven years, until 1868, at
which time he came to America, landing in New York, and from
thence to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was employed at
the Superior Iron Mill and Furnace as engineer for five
years; at the end of this time he went to Newark, Ohio,
where he was engaged in the Rolling Mill as engineer, for
about two years, when he came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he has
been with the XX Coal and Iron Company, as engineer up to
this time. Mr. Lewis was married March 8, 1855,
to Joan, daughter of Evan and Ann Thomas, of
Cardiff, and niece of the manager of Booker's Furnace.
They are the parents of six children, viz.: Eugenia,
Frank, Henry, Edwin, Mary Ann and George, living,
and five dead. Thomas, Mary, George, John and
Herbert.
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REV. H. F. LILLY, the
present President of St. Joseph Convent and House of Studies
of the Dominican Order in the United States, is
distinguished not only as such, but for his executive
ability in advancing the interests, the usefulness and the
fame of his Alma Mater. This institution was founded
in 1818 by Rev. Edward Dominic Fenwick, afterwards
first Catholic Bishop of Ohio and the North West; the first
priest after Father Fenwick, was his nephew, Rev.
M. D. Young, who departed this life so recently as
November 1878; associated with Father Young were
Fathers Martin, De Rymacher, O'Larey and Hill.
These Rev. Fathers resided at St. Joseph's, and
performed missionary duty inside of a circle of one hundred
miles. As a house of education, properly so called,
the date is 1840, where students began to be received and a
faculty of distinguished professors were engaged.
Prior to this date no instructions were given in theology,
or physics, but since then there have always been from ten
to thirty students of philosophy and theology.
The College was opened in 1851 for youth not aspiring
to the Priesthood. It deservedly bore a high
reputation as a seat of learning, and was attended by
students from all sections of the United States. It
was closed in the first year of the war, chiefly on account
of the withdrawal of its southern patronage. The
Presidents were in order as follows: Rev. James Whelen,
to 1854; Rev. P. D. Noon to 1856; Rev. J. A. Kelly,
to 1858; Rev. M. D. Lilly, to 1860, and the
last President was Rev. J. A. Rochford; the last
three are still living. The College Building was one
hundred and twenty-by forty-five feet, of brick, three
stories high and was torn down in 1880, when the material
was used in the construction of the New Convent Building,
which was dedicated, Mar. 19, 1882. This
magnificent edifice is one hundred and thirty-five by
forty-five feet; of brick, three stories and basement of
stone, with slate roof; located a few miles south of
Somerset. In solidity, elegance and fitness for the
purpose intended it is unsurpassed in the United States.
There is a hall in every story, and these halls lead to not
less than seventy rooms or apartments, and are heated by a
furnace below. Gas and water supplied are carried to
all parts of the edifice, and the whole is completed with
elevators and all the modern improvements.
The Library is one of the most interesting features,
rich in ancient and modern works and contains about seven
thousand volumes, some of which were printed prior to the
discovery of America. There are manuscripts dated in
the thirteenth century, some of which are magnificently
illustrated on envellum. Among its principal
contributors were Bishop O'Finan, of Ireland, and
Father Thomas Martin, already mentioned. The
officers of the Convent at present, are in order of rank as
follows: Prior, Rev. H. F. Lilly, Rev. A. V.
Higgins, Rev. Stephen Byrne, Rev. P. V. Keogh, Rev. J. C.
Kent, Rev. T. A. Scallon, Rev. J. F. Colbert, and
Rev. E. F. Flood; at this writing, December, 1882, there
are twenty students.
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JOSHUA LINVILLE, born in
1823, in Richland township, Fairfield county, Ohio, on the
farm now known as Foresman's; his father was the late
venerable and much esteemed Joseph Linville, who came
to Ohio from Rockingham county, Virginia, some years prior
to 1820. The grandfather of Joshua was
Benjamin Linville, who died in Virginia. The
grandmother, wife of grandfather Linnville, was
Ann Matthews. There sons of Joseph, the father of
Joshua; Benjamin still living in Salem, Fairfield
county, at the advanced age of ninety odd years; Solomon,
William, and Hugh Foster Linville. The
mother of Joshua Linville, was Margaret
daughter of Samuel Parrot There were born to
her and her husband Joseph Linville. Bruce and
Samuel in Virginia; Joseph, Ann Armstrong, Sarah
Eynman, Joshua. Delilah Coulson and Benjamin
Linville, in Fairfield county. Bruce Linville,
went to Edina, , Knox county, Missouri, in charge of a stock
of god sent there by his patron and friend, a Mr. Cooney,
formerly of Somerset; he there rose to wealth and influence,
became the treasurer of the county, and engaged in banking;
Benjamin is in Circleville, Ohio, and Joseph
is one of the solid farmers and cattle dealers of Fairfield
county. In 1850, Joshua become the husband of
Ann Louisa Rissler daughter of an esteemed farmer,
Thomas Rissler whose wife, the mother of Ann, was
Margery Daily. The farms of Thomas Rissler
and of the Linvilles join, though separated by the
Perry and Fairfield line, and Mrs. Linville, when
married moved to the adjoining farm, where she yet remains
with her husband, having lived all her life in eight of her
paternal acres. Their children are Mary Alice,
wife of Rezin Baker, a druggist of Thornville,
Ohio; Thomas R., husband of Clara, daughter of
Alfred Melick; Carey, Martha, Coulson, James R.,
William and Benjamin F. Linville. Joshua
Linville, the father of these children, became the owner
of the Linville homestead to which eh has added not
only in area, but in substantial improvements and the
yielding capacity of his acres. He and his wife are
strict members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and enjoy
the confidence and social consideration due to virtue and
considerate hospitality, linked with social standing,
belonging to the oldest families of this vicinity.
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JOHN PURCEL LITSINGER,
was born Aug. 27, 1847; his father was John Litsinger,
and his brothers are Peter, Jacob, Albert and
William; his sisters are Isabel, single, living
at home, Sarah married to Joseph May, and
resides in Reading townships. All the brothers are
living in the township of Reading, Perry county, where they
were born, except Albert, machinist, married to
Maggie Quill, residing in St. Paul, Minnesota; his
grandfather was Jacob Litsinger, who settled here in
an early day and was the father of John and Jacob,
and Appie, who married Miles Clark, and is now
deceased. John Litsinger, at the age of
fourteen, went to Henry county, Indiana, and worked on a
farm twenty mohts. His wages were eight dollars per
month for the first eight months. His wages were eight
dollars per month for the first eight months, when his wages
were raised to twelve dollars per month. He returned
to Somerset and engaged with Jacob Grimm to learn the
art of carriage blacksmithing, boarding with his mother and
receiving three dollars per week, for three years, mainly
under the instruction of Lewis Chilcote. He
then worked in Logan at twelve dollars per week; then at
Saltillo for about a year; then again at Somerset for
Albert Grimm; then for Grimm & Bowman; then for
Grimm & Gallin and finally in 1876, he became a
partner with Thomas Smith under the firm name of
Smith & Litsinger, who have ever since carried on an
increasing and satisfactory business as carriage and buggy
manufacturers, employing six hands, in addition to
themselves. He was married in the year 1870, to
Martha Smyrr, a step-daughter of R. M. Barber;
their children are Flora Alice, Mary Laura, Elizabeth
Gertrude and John Orlistus. The firm of
Smith & Litsinger carried on business on one of the back
streets of Somerset, where the buildings became to small and
the location too obscure for their business, and they
erected a new factory on Main street upon the site where
Enzer Chilcote, in his life time resided, but which was
visited by the fire, which destroyed the Russel
hotel, the old Exchange, Mrs. Filler's residence, a
buggy factory, and the old residence of Dr. Pardee,
afterwards that of R. S. Cox and John Motz.
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JOHN LLOYD, JR., manager of
the mercantile department of the New York and Straitsville
Coal and Iron Company; Shawnee, Ohio; was born Mar. 27,
1848, in Carnarvanshire, North Wales, son of John and
Jane (Williams) Lloyd. When Mr. Loyd was
three years old his father emigrated to America, settling at
Utica, New York, remaining about one year, and went to
Nelson Flats, Madison county, New York, remaining about nine
years, from where he went to Palmyra, Portage county, Ohio,
living there four years, when he moved to Pomeroy, Meigs
county, Ohio, where his son, the subject of this sketch,
began the business of clerking in the wholesale and retail
grocery store of Shribner & Silverman, which he
continued over one year when he was employed as clerk in the
Coal Company store of E. L. Williams, remaining a
number of years, and was employed as a clerk in the Pomeroy
Coal Company store; soon after which he became a junior
partner, in which position he remained until 1868. At
this date he sold out his interest in the company
store and entered into partnership with his father, in a
general merchandise store, in the same place, and was
married June 28, 1869, to Miss Mary A., youngest
daughter of Morgan and Elizabeth Reese, of Palmyra,
Ohio. They are the parents of one child, viz.:
Laura Eva. After continuing four years in the
mercantile business they sold out and came to Shawnee, Ohio,
at which place he engaged as clerk with Frank L. Krumm,
in whose employ he remained only a short time, when he
accepted the position of superintendent of the store of
Huston & Hamilton and James Ash,
formed a copartnership under the firm name of Ash, Lloyd
& co. In a short time Ash withdrew and
James Finley was taken in, and the firm name became
Finley, Lloyd & Co., which proved short lived, Mr. Finley
withdrawing. In his stead Mr. Joseph Cratty was
associated; firm name, Hamilton, Cratty & Lloyd.
This firm continued business for some time, when Mr.
Shields was taken in; firm name, Shields, Lloyd &
Co. After continuing business for some time Mr.
Lloyd withdrew and formed a copartnership with Joseph
Vilas, A. H. Blood, and George A. Blood; firm
name, Vilas, Blood & Co., and conducted store for New
York, and Straitsville Coal and Iron Company. In this
relation they did business for eighteen months, when they
sold out to the company, and Mr. Lloyd became
manager. Mr. Lloyd has previously been elected,
and is now, a member of the city council. He is now a
member of the school board, having served three years; the
first year a treasurer, and second and third as president.
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THOMAS LONGSHORE, post
office, Moxahala, Pleasant township; born June 8, 1812,
in Belmont county, Ohio; son of Amos and Ann (Cox)
Longshore. His mother was of English and his
father of Welsh extraction. Thomas Longshore
spent his younger days in the vicinity of Zanesville.
In 1836 he married Mary Ann Evans They are the
parents of the following named children: William
H., born Feb., 1841, married Emily Rodgers
in 1857, and now resides in Kansas; George W., born
Sept. 27, 1842, married Sarah Rose, and resides in
Kansas; Isaac, born Oct. 17, 1844, married
Elizabeth Griggs, and lives in Franklin county; Mary
C., born Nov. 7, 1846, deceased; Charles H., born
June 29, 1849, married a Miss Holcomb, and resides in
Kansas; Albert died in infancy; Howard, born
Jan. 1, 1860.
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M. H. LONGSTRETH, farmer
and dealer in live stock, post office, Rendville, Pleasant
township; born in this township in 1840; son of James
and Elizabeth (Hanesworth) Longstreth; maternal
ancestors were English and paternal ancestors were Scotch
and Irish. His father came to the United States when
quite young, and came to this township in 1836. April
3, 1864, the subject of this sketch married Elizabeth P.
Osburn, of Millerstown. She was of English
descent, and died Feb. 1, 1877. They are the parents
of the following named children: Mary, Cary Erastus,
who died April 12, 1866; Elmore S., Edgar O., Viola P.,
who died Oct. 25, 1876, and Clara E. Mr. Longstreth
enlisted July 17, 1863, in Company K, 129th O. V. I., and
remained in the service until March. He afterwards
served four months in the one hundred day service.
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DAVID LOVE, was born Jan. 24,
1852, in Reading township, Perry county, Ohio. He is a
son of William Love. His mother was Miss
Emily Church, of this county. He is the eldest of
four brothers and two sisters. He was reared a farmer
and grazer of stock, and also became qualified to teach the
schools of his neighborhood, requiring, at this time of
life, superior attainments in the fundamental branches.
He now resides on a farm of two hundred acres, cut in twin
by Rush Creek, and, because of its fertility and supply of
everlasting water, pre-eminently adapted to cattle grazing
and sheep husbandry. David Love is not only a
working man, but a reading man as well. He was also a
reading boy, and found at home abundant material to gratify
his mental nature. His father often said David was too
fond of Newspapers to be most useful as a helper on the
farm. At the age of twenty-four he was united in
marriage to Lydia J, daughter of John Fisher
deceased, a native of Kentucky, who inherited a number
of slaves, lost by the war, was a dealer in horses, and a
man of business capacity. Her mother, Susan
Mitchell sister of Mr. Frank Mitchell, wholesale
grocer of St. Louis Missouri, was therefore a daughter of
Randolph Mitchell. Lydia Fisher lost her mother by
death in St. Joseph, Missouri, when an infant only three
months old. She was taken to the home of her
grandmother - Mrs. Randolph Mitchell, of New Reading
- where she was tenderly reared and educated. It is a
comforting reflection to Mrs. Love, that she had it
in her power to return this affection by assistance and
kindness to her aged grandmother, the only mother she ever
knew. Mrs. Love has one brother, John
Breckinridge Fisher, who is yet unmarried and
unsettled in life. David Love and his wife
Lydia, have one son, Lestie, and one daughter,
Emma, now living. Their home overlooks the valley
of Rush Creek.
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A. A. LOWRY,
farmer, post office, New Lexington, Pike township, Ohio; was
born Feb. 12, 1853, Pleasant township, Perry county; son of
Joseph and Eliza (Pence) Lowry; was raised a farmer
and has followed farming to the present time. At the
age of twenty-one years he began teaching school in winter
season, and farming during the summer season, which he
continued for about three years, teaching at Miller's school
house, in Bearfield township, four months; in Richfield
township, Henry county, about seven months; and in another
district, same township, Barnhill school house, about eight
months. Returned to Perry county, and has been engaged
in farming since that time on the home place about two
years, and the Wesley Moore farm one year, when he,
in partnership with his mother and sister, bought the farm
they now live upon. Mr. Lowry's father was a
native of Muskingum county, Ohio, and went to California in
1854, where he died in the year 1864. His mother was
born in Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio about 1822.
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A. THEODORE LUCA,
merchant, Rendville, Ohio; was born July 22, 1842, in New
Haven, Connecticut; son of Alexander C. and Luzetta
(Lewis) Luca. Mr. Luca was brought up in
his native city, where he lived until about 1867 or 1868,
when he came to Ohio, where he has remained up to this time.
At his home, New Haven, he attended school, and from 1860 to
1865, he was on the Island of Hayti, as a cotton speculator.
Since he came to Ohio, he learned the shoemaker trade, which
he made his business for twelve or thirteen years, when he
entered his present business in this place in 1881.
Mr. Luca is a son of Alexander C. Luca, Sr.
musical director of the Luca Family of musicians who
have won many encomiums in the United States, both
collectively and individually, in vocal and instrumental
music. His brothers, Cleveland C., Alexander C.,
Jr., and John W., with their father, were the
Luca Family. That this family was possessed of
rare musical genius, will be clearly evinced by a perusal of
the book "Music and Some Musical People," by Trotter.
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MICHAEL LUTZ, farmer, born
September, 1836; son of David Lutz, and grandson of
Michael, the progenitor of the very numerous and
respectable connection bearing the name of Lutz, who
came from the State of Maryland. He was of German and
Lutheran extraction, and landed in Perry county in 1814.
His sons were, Jacob, George, John, Samuel and
Michael, and his daughters were, Rebecca Stimel,
Sarah Ann Souslin, Betsy Spohn and Katharine Sours.
He died on the farm where his son Michael died,
in sight of Somerset, and where Michael Lutz, a
nephew, succeeds not only to the name but the ancestral
acres, derived from his uncle Michael, who was a
bachelor, a Democrat, and one of the bet farmers of the
county. The farm, to-day, maintains its reputation for
fertility and thrift, and certifies that it has not fallen
into unworthy hands. Michael Lutz and his wife,
Rebecca (Sours) Lutz, have two children.
Mary Katharine, the wife of Jacob Shough, and
John A., just coming into manhood, and who will soon
assume the cares and responsibility of keeping the old farm
up to the standard of its merited renown.
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JEROME BONAPARTE LYON,
physician and surgeon, New Straitsville, Ohio; was born Oct.
10, 1853, in Hocking county, Ohio; son of James and
Margaret (Shelhammer) Lyon. Was raised a farmer,
until he was fifteen years of age, when he went to high
school in New Lexington, Ohio, where he spent about four
years, during part of which time he taught school in
Hocking, Perry and Fairfield counties, in all about two
years. At the expiration of this time he began the
study of medicine with Dr. A. R. Richards of New
Lexington, Ohio, and studied about four years with him,
attending lectures at the Ohio Medical College of
Cincinnati, graduating with the class of 1879 and 1880, in
the old school of medicine, after which he came directly to
this place and began his practice. Was married April
25, 1881, to Miss Etta R. Smith, born Aug. 2, 1861,
in Athens county, Ohio; daughter of Charles and Susan
(King) Smith.
Source: History of Fairfield and Perry Counties -
Published: Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page
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