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BIOGRAPHIES
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History of Fairfield and Perry Counties
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1883
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THOMAS NEIL, collier,
Shawnee, Ohio; was born Oct., 1838, in county Tyrone,
Ireland; son of Edward and Ellen (Menan) Neil.
Mr. Neil was raised a farmer, and continued to follow
agricultural pursuits until he was fifteen years of age,
when he went to White Haven Landing, England, and from
thence to New Castle, upon the Tyne, where he remained about
15 years, engaged as a miner; from whence he emigrated to
America, in June, 1869, landing in New York, and has been
engaged as follows: At Circleville, Elk County,
Pennsylvania, mining, about three months; Center county,
Pennsylvania, one month mining on eighteen inch vein of
coal; Powellton, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, remaining
there until January 1st, 1870, mining; Coal Valley, on
Monongahela River, until he came to Shawnee in October of
1872, where he has remained to this time, and in cemetery
trustee and treasurer at this time. Mr. Neil
was married May 12, 1868, to Jane, daughter of
Andrew and Ann (Witherington) Todd, of county Tyrone,
Ireland.
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THOMAS NEWMAN, retired
farmer, Pleasant township; post office, Oakfield. He
emigrated to this country in 1836, and located at
Zanesville, and was engaged in farming and distilling while
there. He came to Perry in 1846, and settled in this
township. He was married in England in 1836, to
Martha Carter of Hampshire. Their children
are as follows: Ellen, born August 121, 1837,
died in 1868; Sarah, born in 1840, married a Mr.
Curtis, a farmer who resides in California;
Charles W., born in 1842, married Annie Kelley
in 1863. Charles is deceased. George,
born in 1844, married Olive Conaway, and
resides in Oakfield. Annie is at home with her
parents. Mr. Newman now resides in Oakfield.
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MRS. ANN NEWMAN, Pleasant
township; post office, Moxahala. She was born Sept.
27, 1838. Daughter of John and Elizabeth Kelley.
Mr. Kelley was a native of Virginia, and Mrs. Kelley
of Pennsylvania; they came to this State in 1816, and
located in Clayton township. Mrs. Newman was
married June 18, 1863, to Charles W. Newman, son of
Thomas Newman; and they moved on the farm where she
now resides, in October, 1880. Mr. Newman died
February, 1881, aged thirty-six years. They became the
parents of the following named children: William A.,
born May 11, 1864; Rose M., Dec. 25, 1867; James
C., Jan. 22, 1872, and died in 1873; Martha E.,
Oct. 9, 1873; Joseph B., Oct. 22, 1875.
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JOHN S. NIXON, farmer and
breeder of thoroughbred sheep, post office, Rehoboth,
Clayton township, Perry county; born in Perry county in
1841; son of Levi and Mary (Goodlive) Nixon.
The former died in 1861, the latter in 1878. They were
of Scotch and German parentage; grandson of Robert and
Katharine (Sapp) Nixon; grandson of Jacob and Mary
Goodlive. Grandfather Goodlive was a soldier under
Napoleon Bonaparte. Mr. Nixon was married in
1861, to Miss Margaret Wolf, daughter of George
and Salvina Wolf. They are the parents of four
children, viz.: Almeda E., died Sept. 22, 1879;
Mary M., who died Feb. 28, 1879; William H., and
Clara J. Mr. Nixon commenced teaching in the
common schools when but sixteen years of age, and taught six
years. He was nominated in 1881 for County Treasurer
on the Democratic ticket. He has also held the
following township offices: Assessor, Clerk, and Justice of
the Peace.
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LEVI NIXON, farmer, post
office, Maxwille, Ohio; was born in Monday Creek township,
Jan. 8, 1855; son of Levi and Mary (Goodlive) Nixon.
Spent his early boyhood days on a farm. Was married
Sept. 21, 1876, to Rebecca M., daughter of James
and Magdalene (Garinger) Wilson. They are the
parents of four children, viz.: Gertie May, Mary M.,
and Clara.
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ANDREW J. NOE, ticket and
freight agent, and telegraph operator, at Maxahala, post
office, Moxahala, Pleasant township, Ohio; son of William
and Isabella (Pugh) Noe. His paternal grandfather
came from New Jersey in 1813, to Franklin county. He
was of French descent. His maternal grandfather came
to Franklin county from Wales in 1802. Mr. A. J.
Noe enlisted, in 1864, in the 123d Regiment, O. V. I.,
and remained one year in the service. He then went
into the telegraph office in Upper Sandusky, and has
remained on the railroad ever since. He married
Miss E. Robinson, of Pennsylvania. She is of
German descent. They are the parents of two children,
Lulu and Frances.
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ALBERT NOON, attorney, New
Lexington, Ohio. He was born in McLuney, Perry county,
Ohio, Jan. 17, 1854. His father, Charles Noon,
was born in Ireland in 1798, and came to America in 1821.
After a few years work in Maryland he came to Ohio and
bought a farm in Clayton township, Perry county, on which he
now resides. He was married in 1831, to Ann Fealty,
who died Feb. 8, 1881. Their family consisted of
eleven children, eight of whom are still living. The
youngest son now living, Albert, attended the
district school in the winter and worked on the farm in
summer, until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he
came to New Lexington, attended the high school two years,
then commenced teaching district schools, and so taught
until he reached the age of twenty. He then went to
Shawnee, Perry county, and took charge of the grammar school
four years; commenced the study of law in 1876, with
Jackson & Ferguson, at New Lexington; was admitted to
the bar Sept. 3, 1878, and formed a copartnership with
John Ferguson immediately after.
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CHARLES NOON, farmer,
Clayton township; born in Donegal county, Ireland, about the
year 1798; emigrated to America in 1821, and was married in
1831, to Miss Ann Fealty, native of Cumberland
county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Bernard and Ann (Carr)
Realty, natives of Donegal county, Ireland, who
emigrated to America in 1802. They became the parents
of fourteen children, viz.: Peter, Michael, Thomas, Mary,
married to John Sanders; Catharine, died in infancy;
Ann married to Charles Noon; John, Catharine,
married to George Piper; Dorothy, Rose Ann, married
to John Prindable; David, married to Catharine
McKana; Morgan, and an infant not named.
Charles and Ann Noon became the parents of eleven
children, viz.: James, deceased; John, married
to Mary A. Largey, now residing in Audubon county,
Iowa; Dennis, who went west some thirty years ago and
has not been heard of since; Mary Ann, married to
Patrick Coyle living in Shawnee, Ohio; Lydia R.,
deceased; Charles P., married to Anastasia P.
Hammond, living in Clayton township, this county;
Bernard married to Margaret Bennett, daughter of
George C. and Ann (Carroll) Bennett. (They are
the parents of five children, viz.: George D., Charles,
James, Mary Ann, and John Paul, and reside in
Clayton township; Philip, married to Josephine
Bennett, and resides in Rendville, O.; Albert,
attorney at law, New Lexington, Ohio; and David, who
died in infancy. The following named brothers and
sisters of Charles Noon emigrated to America in the
following years: James, about the year 1815;
Dennis, about 820; John, 1825; Philip,
Margaret, and Ellen, in 1845, and all located in
Perry county, Ohio. Charles Noon, the subject
of this sketch, is now eighty-four years of age, the only
surviving member of his father's family, and at present
enjoys good health, living upon the farm where he has
resided for the last fifty-one years. John Noon,
brother of Charles Noon, was born Aug. 10, 1805, and
was married Apr. 22, 1830, to Lydia DeLong, born May
2, 1809. They became the parents of one child, viz.:
Philip Dominick, born May 17, 1831. The Bible
record contains the following: "P. D. Noon went to
St. Joseph's Convent Aug. 14, 1843; commenced his novitiate
May 31, 1846; made his vows Aug. 22, 1827; was ordained
priest Sept. 28, 1853, and died Feb. 14, 1859."
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REV. H. D. NOON,
was born Oct. 10, 1819, in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, in
the town of Munster; when about fourteen years of age his
family removed out of town a few miles, and he engaged at
work on a farm. Poor as were his opportunities he
acquired a goodly knowledge of mathematics, including he
theory of Surveying; when at the age of twenty-four or
twenty-five he engaged as an employe on a railroad, serving
the most of his time as engineer, and thus for ten years
prior to his entrance at St. Joseph, he was a laboring man.
Here, after six or seven years of hard study, he was
admitted to the Priesthood and served congregations at
McLuney, South Perry and New Lexington. Afterwards he
became Procurator at St. Joseph's in which capacity he
served for five years. This office made him
Superintendent of the four hundred and eighty acres of land
there, and when added to his duty of purchases and sales,
and providing supplies for so large a household, and to the
sagacious selection of stock herds and seed for planting,
the magnitude of his work may be estimated. In 1869 he
came to Holy Trinity as Priest in charge. Here at
Somerset for thirteen years past his labors mark the life of
the man and of his congregation with mutual confidence and
affection which have grown with increasing fervency.
He found St. Mary's Convent a heap of neglected ruins, the
tower of Holy Trinity but half completed, and these outward
signs of material condition, looking down with sorrow upon
the ruins of an abandoned railroad at their feet, struggling
in doubtful effort to vocalize the reign of silence and
disaster with the voice of regenerating steam and commerce.
Under the energetic ministrations of Father Noon, the
church tower and spire soon pierced the air one hundred and
fifty-seven feet above the hill on which it rests,
surrounded by the cross, and vocalized by a bell weighing
two thousand one hundred and fifty pounds, which sends its
sound for miles into the surrounding country. Holy
Trinity was first built on its present site in 1826, and the
new building was erected in 1857, thirty-one years later,
and greatly enlarged. It stands in honor, beauty and
comfort a monument to the skill and architecture of its
time, an ornament to Somerset, and is a certificate of the
zeal and liberty, and devotion of its builders. The
plastering, done by Nagle, may challenge the art for
a superior in designs, in beauty, or ornament, in taste and
in durability. The finishing touches are now being
added by the erection of an altar from Anton Kloster,
274 East Twenty-sixth street, New York, at a cost of $2,000.
What has been said of the plastering may be said also of the
altar; it ranks in the front of all that is beautiful,
ornamental and useful, of the French and Grecian style.
The great work, however, which attests the splendid
executive ability of Father Noon, as well as the
liberality and appreciation of the Somerset community, is
the rebuilding of St. Mary's Academy, which was burned in
June, 1866, at a time when it held the front rank as a
Catholic institution of learning in, and enjoyed a patronage
co-extensive with the United States. It was founded in
1830, and built opposite Holy Trinity, on a lot purchased
from Drury Harper, deceased. The Sisters of the
Dominican Order, who occupied it, went to Columbus, and it
was not until 1879, that the foundations of the new building
were laid on the same site of the old, but in proportion of
great magnitude and elegance of style. This work has
now progressed (in December 1882) to the third story, but is
not yet under roof. It has a one hundred and eight
feet front, sides fifty feet, and a rear wing seventy-two
feet in length and twenty-four feet in width. It is
provided with ventilating flues; a cistern is to be erected
in the third story to supply drinking water to the rooms,
the baths, and the water-closets below, and there is
provision made for additional wings, should the future
demand them. The baths are to be hot or cold, and so
connected with sewerage as to insure the utmost riddance of
the premises from miasmatic effects, the entire cost
reaching nearly $20,000, even under the utmost economy and
sagacity of Father Noon, who has thus inside of
thirteen years added improvements which, in cost of material
and labor, verges near to $26,000 in value. This
excellent and devoted man keeps no horse or livery. He
visits the sick on foot, and it is not unusual for him to
join in the heaviest work connected with his improvements,
and has been known to walk from Lancaster to Somerset a
distance of eighteen miles, where the cars were unable to
reach, the latter place on the same night.
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PHILIP NOON,
of the firm of Bennett & Noon, merchants, post
office, Rendville, Ohio; born July 19, 1850, in Clayton
township, Perry county, Ohio; son of Charles and Ann
(Fealty) Noon. Philip was brought up on a
farm, where he remained until twenty-one, when he began
teaching school in the winter seasons and farming in the
summer, until May, 1881, when he formed a copartnership with
Albert Bennett, in merchandising, which lasted until
the present firm was formed, Nov. 21, 1881. This firm
is having quite an extensive trade. Mr. Noon
was married Sept. 6, 1881, to Miss Josephine,
daughter of George and Anne (McDonald) Bennett, of
"Bearfield township, Perry county, Ohio.
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J. S. NORTH,
farmer and breeder of thoroughbred Atwood sheep, Clayton
township, post office New Lexington; born in Hocking county,
Ohio, in 1851; came to Perry county in 1876; son of
William and Rebecca (Randolph) North. The former
died in 1876. He is a grand son of John and Sarah
(Collins) North, and grandson of John and Eliza (McElheny)
Randolph. He married, in 1876, Miss Phebe Allen,
daughter of Richard and Maria (Lanning) Allen.
They are the parents of two children, William H. B.,
and Grace D. L. Mr. North's people are of
English descent. The subject of this sketch has in his
possession his grandfather's Bible, bearing date of 1793.
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JOHN NUGANT,
marshal, New Straitsville; he was born in Laundee Glen,
Morganshire, South Wales, Jan. 2, 1857; is a son of
William and Mary Nugant, natives of Ireland. In
1864, he moved to Ireland, and after attending school there
for seven years, returned to Wales, where he remained two
years. In 1873, he came to America, locating in New
Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county, Ohio. In 8177, he
married Mary Devine, whose parents were natives of
New York State. Mr. Nugent came to New
Straitsville in 1877, and engaged in mining coal, until
January, 1881, when he was appointed marshal of New
Straitsville, the position he occupies at this writing.
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SOLOMON NUNEMAKER,
farmer, Monday Creek township, P. O., Maxville, Ohio; was
born in Hopewell township, Perry county, Ohio; son of
Daniel and Christina (Shue) Nunemaker; was brought up on
a farm, and came to this township in the spring of 1836, and
has resided here ever since. Was married Jan. 7, 1836,
to Sarah, daughter of Nicholas and Magdalene (Kister)
Strohl; she was born June 12, 1819. They are the
parents of eight children, viz.: Henry, Amy, Gilbert,
Martha J., Sarah A. Louisa, Clara M. and George.
Mrs. Nunemaker died in 1862. He was elected
Justice of the Peace in 1838, and remained in that office
twenty-four years; he was elected Representative of the
county in 1854, served one term. Mr. Nunemaker
is a very active man in politics, and was always the
champion of right.
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