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BIOGRAPHIES
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History of Fairfield and Perry Counties
Published: Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co.
1883
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MICHAEL O'FARRELL, M. D.,
Shawnee, Ohio; was born Mar. 14, 1852, in Perry county,
Ohio; son of Barnard and Julia (?Conway) O'Farrell,
natives of county Longford, Ireland; came to Perry county,
Ohio about the year 1850. Michael was brought
up on the farm where he remained until 1874. In 1870,
began teaching school, and taught three terms. Begun
the study of medicine in 1873, and was graduated at Bellevue
Hospital Medical College, New York, in 1876; began practice
at McCuneville, where he remained six months, then came to
his present location. Dr. O'Farrell was married
in 1878, to Miss Ellen, daughter of James and Mary
Barrett, natives of Ireland, but now residents of
Shawnee, Ohio. They became the parents of two
children, Julia Mary and James Bernard.
Mrs. O'Farrell died Mar. 20, 1881.
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JOHN W. OGG, farmer; Bearfield
township, Deavertown post office; born in Clayton township
in 1810; son of George and Rachel (Frend) Ogg.
His father was of Scotch descent and born in Baltimore, and
his mother was of English descent. His father
emigrated to Ohio in the year 1800 and entered land near the
town of Somerset; he died in Bearfield township in 1832, and
his mother died in 1819. The subject of this sketch
has always resided in this county with the exception of the
four years he was in Hocking county. In 1830 he
married Sarah Latmon, who died in 1831. He was
married again in 1833 to Mary Elston, of Muskingum
county, and they are the parents of the following named
children: Sylvester, married and lives in
Bearfield township; Sarah J.; George, married and
resides in Kansas; Ruth E., who was married and
her husband died in the army; Martha; Wesley, who
died in the army; Margaret, who is married and
resides in this township.
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ENOCH OLDROYD, collier,
Shawnee, Ohio, was born Aug. 10, 1842, in Thornhill,
Yorkshire, England; son of Thomas and Esther (Wilkinson)
Oldroyd. Mr. Oldroyd was raised in the town of his
nativity, where he remained until he was twenty-five years
of age, and was engaged in coal mining from the time he was
old enough to work at the business, probably from nine or
ten years of age, after which he was employed one year at
Beatty and at Ossett six years in mining, when he emigrated
to America, setting sail from Liverpool Mar. 2d, landing in
New York Mar. 14, 1870, and went to near Frostburg,
Maryland, where he was engaged as a miner four months, and
then went to Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River, where
he remained until 1873, when he moved to Shawnee, Ohio,
where he has since lived and been employed as a miner.
Mr. Oldroyd was married in March, 1865, to
Patience, daughter of William and Jane (Stubler)
Almond. They are the parents of nine children,
viz.: Joseph, Jeremiah, Hannah, Cyrus, Gracie, Patience,
Jamie, John, and Esther, living, and one
deceased, Dick. Mr. Oldroyd has served the P.
M. Church as local preacher, trustee, Sabbath school
superintendent, and Sabbath school teacher.
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JACOB H. OPPERMAN,
Superintendent Licking Iron Company, Shawnee, Ohio; was born
Jan. 26, 1845, in Cour Hessa, Germany, son of Jacob and
Gertrude Opperman. Jacob H. was brought to America
when three years of age by his parents, who located in
Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, after spending one year in
the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1866,
Jacob H. came to Steubenville, Ohio, and remained seven
years, then returned to Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, and
remained until January, 1878, when he took his present
charge. Mr. Opperman was married Nov. 7, 1867,
to Miss Catharine Ellen, daughter of John and
Margaret (Campbel) Starr, of German ancestry. They
are the parents of five children, viz.: Annie Mary, Adah
Gertrude, Margaret Jane, deceased, Minnie Alice
and Emma Dean
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HUGH
OWENS, boot and shoe manufacturer, Rendville, Ohio;
born about the year 1854, in county Mayo, Ireland, son of
John and Mary (Casey) Owens, now living in Ireland.
At about the age of twelve years Hugh went to his
present trade. After its completion he went to England
and located in London, where he remained to years.
Then he emigrated to America and located at
Washington, Fayette county, Ohio. He subsequently
resided at Lancaster and New Lexington, Ohio, and came to
the Sunday Creek Valley in the year 1880. Mr. Owens
is a good mechanic, being able to make first class pegged or
sewed work.
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WM. P.
OWENS, clerk in Ohio Central Coal Company's store,
Rendville, Ohio; was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, son
of Wm. P. and Jeannette (Black) Owens. His
paternal ancestry was Welsh, and maternal, Scotch.
William P. first began business as clerk at Greenock,
Pennsylvania. This town was laid out and named by
William Black, grand father of Mr. Owens, and was
named for a town in Scotland, of the same name. Mr.
Owens remained at Greenock about two years, after which
he did business a short time; subsequently he was engaged at
New Lexington, and Moxahala, Ohio, and came to Rendville,
Ohio, in February 1880. Mr. Owens was married
June 15, 1881, to Miss Eva M., daughter of Jona
and Hannah (Davis) Taylor, of Rendville, Ohio.
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JOEL W. OVERMEYER,
hardware, stoves, agricultural implements and tin shop, Main
street, New Lexington, Ohio. Mr. Overmeyer was
born Sept. 2, 1829, in Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio,
son of Jacob and Mary (Weaver) Overmeyer.
Young Overmeyer, at sixteen went to the saddlery and
harness trade, and followed it about ten years. While
traveling as a journeyman he visited fourteen different
States and worked in the most of them, principally the
Southern States. He was proprietor of a hotel and
United States mail contractor at Somerset, this county, for
fifteen years. In 1867 he moved to Lancaster, Ohio,
and engaged in the first shovel factory established west of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in which he remained about eight
years; came to this place in 1875, and established his
present business, in which he is succeeding very well.
Mr. Overmeyer was married Sept. 6, 1853, to Miss
Eliza, daughter of George and Nancy (Ream) Morris,
of this county. They are the parents of seven
children, viz.: Clara, George Morris, Mary, Alice Lee,
Charles John, Eliza and Nellie.
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PETER OVERMEYER, was
born Aug. 24, 1799, in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania.
His father, also named Peter, and his mother, whose
maiden name was Eve Henig, came to Ohio in
1801, with a family of ten children, Peter being then
the youngest. In June of that year, while crossing the
Ohio River on a ferry boat, the wheel horses were drowned
and the rear end of the wagon with the bed and contents
floated down the angry flood. The three front horses,
with the family, had previously been safely landed, and the
front carriage was afterwards found fast under the roots of
a tree, but the wagon bed and hind carriage, containing the
household valuables, were never recovered, and Peter
himself made a narrow escape. He rested in Belmont
county with his family until the next year, when he came to
Perry county and joined Peter Whitmore in the
purchase of section one, at two dollars per acre, this being
the government price, one-third down, one-third in a year,
and one-third in two years—no less than one section then
being sold by the government. It was a brave heart
that could settle in the woods, with a loving wife and ten
children, dependent on it for protection against hunger,
cold and wild beasts, and the last payment on the land due
while there were no funds left to meet the obligation and
save even the cabin home from forced sale. The
situation was relieved by the arrival of Adam
Auspach, who fell in love with section one, the same on
which the widow Fisher resided, now in part
owned by James Love, Esq., and who bought it by
agency of Dupler, at five dollars per acre. Peter
Overmyer, Sr., then bought where Peter,
Jr., now has lived seventy-eight years, and Peter
Whitmore, Sr., bought where Peter,
Jr., lived until his death in 1880. Other men may
grow older, others may live longer, others may rise to
higher fame, but what citizen of Ohio has lived over three
quarters of a century on the same farm, drank water from the
same fountain, and never missed voting the Democratic ticket
at any fall, and only missed one spring election since 1820?
Peter Overmeyer's grandfather and grandmother
both died at the residence of their son, Jacob, who
then lived in Thorn township. His other uncles, beside
this same Jacob Overmeyer, were John, David
and Philip, all of whom, with his brothers George
and Jacob, died in Sandusky, Ohio, at ages varying
from seventy-two to ninety-five. He had also an uncle
George, who is buried in New Reading, a town laid out
by Peter Overmeyer, Sr., in 1805.
This venerable citizen died in 1842, at the age of
eighty-three years. His first wife, and mother of all
his children, having preceded him in 1823, and his second
wife, Sarah Harnet, having also died one week
before him. Peter Overmeyer was married
Sept. 25, 1824, to Miss Rosanna Bueb, and are
both yet living. This estimable lady was born in
Baden, on the banks of the Rhine, September, 1804. Her
father, John Bueb, was one of Napoleon's
soldiers, whose chief reward for service and valor was found
in the wounds which disabled him from pursuing any other
means of support than that of holding street concerts, both
vocal and instrumental. His famous songs were
translated into English by Rev. Hinkel, and
were listened to at one time by General Jackson,
who acknowledged his satisfaction by giving one dollar to
the crippled soldier, without a pension. He lived in
Rushville about the year 1818. His daughter,
Rosanna, must have been a beautiful young woman to have
captured so gallant a lover as Peter Overmeyer,
and this opinion is sustained by the pleasing lines of
beauty which still linger in the lines of her wrinkled brow
and the white teeth which defy time and decay, now in the
fifty-ninth year of her married life, the mother of eleven
children, five of whom died in childhood, and six of whom
are yet living. His sons are George W., who
first married a daughter of Bernard Bowman and sister
of Joel Bowman, who moved to Allen county in 1850,
where
he became, first. County Auditor, and afterwards Probate
Judge. After the death of his first wife he married a
lady by the name of Barnet. The first marriage
was productive of six, the last of four children. The
other son is John B. Overmeyer, born in 1835; a
farmer, who was married in 1856 to Miss Amanda Baker,
who deceased in 1862, leaving one son, Lewis, residence,
Columbus, Ohio, and clerk in a dry goods store. In
1868 he was again married to Miss Sarah R. Snyder.
The children by this marriage are Mary, Endora, Clara,
John J., Nancv and Robert Overmeyer. John B.
Overmeyer was elected, in 1873, to the office of County
Treasurer, and held it the two terms provided for by law,
confining it to four out of six consecutive years. He
invented a time lock during his incumbency of the
treasurer's office, which has large and respectable merit,
but so surrounded by other claims as to be of no practical
benefit to the finances of the inventor at the present time.
For some years prior to this he was trustee of his township,
and his popularity, based on his quiet honesty and sterling
capacity, continues to make him the hope of his party in any
close contest for supremacy in the county. He lives in
the family mansion where the Overmeyer name and
ancestry has been known and honored for more than three
quarters of a century.
Source: History of Fairfield and Perry Counties -
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