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WILLIAM
RAMBO, blacksmith; Pike township, post office, New
Lexington, Ohio, was born Jan. 8, 1812, in Muskingum county,
Ohio. Is a son of George and Mary (Fist) Rambo,
formerly of Pennsylvania. Mr. Rambo went to the
trade of blacksmithing with William Calvin, of his
native country, in 1825, serving an apprenticeship of five
years, and has made this the business of his life up to the
present time. He went as a soldier in the late war and
was engaged in the battles of Bull Run, South Mountain Gap,
and Antietem, participating also in several hard
marches, which so disabled him that he was discharged and
returned home, Jan. 29, 1863, having served from Jan. 2,
1861. The Crooks of Zanesville, some of the
first settlers, were near relatives of Mrs. Rambo.
Mr. Rambo was united in matrimony to Lovenia,
daughter of Samuel and Isabelle (Neal) Patterson, of
Virginia, Mar. 8, 1832. They are the parents of six
living children, viz.: Austin, Josiah, Elizabeth, Martha,
Emma and Amanda, and three deceased, George
Nelson, Mary Edmonday and Belinda. Mr. Rambo's
grandchild, William Rambo, was raised by them,
and is now about eighteen years old.
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ISAIAH RANDOLPH,
deceased; born in Pennsylvania in 1812. Married in
1850 to Miss Maria Ankrom, daughter of John and
Nancy (Rinehart) Ankrom. They were the parents of
five children, viz.: Angeline, Creighton, Everett, Lizzie
N. and Albert, three of whom are married.
The subject of this sketch died in 1878. His widow
still lives on the home farm, enjoying the fruits of his
early industry. Her son Everett was married in
1878 to Miss Susie Clayton. They have two
children.
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L. H. RANDOLPH,
merchant; Clayton township, post office, Rehoboth; born in
this county in 1848, son of William and Anna (McElhany)
Randolph, grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth (North)
Randolph. Married in 1873 to Miss M. E. Teal,
daughter of Ephriam and Elizabeth (Brown) Teal.
They have one child, Minnie D.
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PAUL RANDOLPH,
was born 1827, in Clayton township. His father John
Randolph, came from Cumberland county, Pennsylvania.
He was a carpenter by trade. Paul is a farmer,
stock raiser and carries on coal mining. He was
married in 1850 to Mary Barker, daughter of Samuel
Barker. His sons, Thomas T. and Perry
D., Lyman Jackson, Edwin M., Frank M. and Samuel C.,
are all single and living at home. His daughters,
Eliza J. and Rosa B., also are single and reside
at home. Paul began life poor; bought
twenty-five acres of land, paid for it, and by farming,
teaming, threshing, stock-raising and coal mining, has now
four hundred and ten acres of land, city and other property.
His example is that which may be held up for the emulation
of the rising generation. His property is clear of
mortgages; he never sued but once, for a horse that did not
fill the bill, but no trial was had, Paul considering
it better to pay than to litigate. He is a Methodist
in religion and a Republican in politics. He thinks
the credit business, except on land purchases, to be a curse
rather than a blessing.
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SIMON RARICK
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SAMUEL RAYBOULD
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DAVID REAM, JR.
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S. K. REAM
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SAMUEL REAM
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TOBIAS REAM
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ROGER G. REESE
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PHILIP REI
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JAMES D. RETALLIC
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ALVA RICHARDS, M. D.
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WILLIAM RICHARDS
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GEN. THOMAS RICHEY
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CHARLES W. RICHTER
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ABEL RICKET,
farmer, who has also worked at some of hte mechanical
trades; post office, Moxahala, Pleasant township, Perry
county, Ohio; was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania,
in 1820; son of John and Sarah (Clark) Ricket.
His father was of German, his mother of Welsh and Irish
descent. Began work with a millwright when fifteen;
remained with him one year, and then worked at house
carpentering until nineteen, in Carroll county. At
twenty he came to Pleasant township, engaged in teaching
school two years, then followed the carpenter trade about
seven years, and next worked in a machine shop in Morgan
county. He moved to Morgan county in 1850; returned
and located on the farm where he now resides, but continued
to work at his trade until the breaking out of the
Rebellion, when he enlisted in the 30th O. V. I., Company D,
and remained in the service three years. He
participated in all the battles the regiment was engaged in
until he left it. After the war closed he devoted most
of his time to the management of his farm. Feb. 24,
1842, he married Harriet Ellison. She was of
New England ancestry. She died five months after their
marriage. In October, 1843, he married Rachel
Minshel. Their children are Ezra E.,
married; Sarah F., married; Harriet, died in
infancy; Mary E., married; Emma, Walter S.,
married; Enoch H., Albert, deceased; Charles W.,
and Bell.
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EZRA E. RICKET,
carpenter and undertaker, post office, Rendville, Ohio; was
born July 13, 1844, in Oakfield, Perry county, Ohio; son of
Abel and Rachel Ricket. Abel Ricket was
a native of Washington county, Penn. Ezra E.
was brought up on a farm. Aug. 12, 1862, he enlisted
in Company H, 90th O. V. I., and was discharged June 23,
1865. He followed the fortunes of General Sherman's
army in fifteen general engagements, without being seriously
wounded. At the battle in front of Kenesaw Mountain he
had the skin cut across the back part of his neck by a ball
from a sharp-shooter. On his return from the army he
engaged at carpenter work, which he has followed to the
present time. He established his present business in
this place in January, 1881. Mr. Ricket was
first married Mar. 15, 1866, to Miss Rachel, daughter
of Samuel and Mary (Straight) Green. They
became the parents of five children, viz.: Mary Ellen,
Annie, Charles C., Samuel T., and Leo Parker.
Mr. Ricket's second wife was Ettie, daughter of
William and Maria (Tharp) Berry. They are the
parents of two children, viz.: Albert D. and Laura
Bell.
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DANIEL RICKETTS,
minister of the Gospel and farmer, postoffice, McCuneville,
Monday Creek township, Ohio; was born Dec. 28, 1812, in
Randolph county, Virginia; son of Ignatius and Margaret
(Poling) Ricketts, both of Maryland. Mr.
Ricketts was brought up on a farm, and has followed
agricultural pursuits up to this time. Mr. Ricketts
came to Ohio with his father in the fall of 1816, who lived,
during that winter, near Dresden, Ohio, on Wakatomika Creek.
The next spring (1817) they moved to near Bremen, Ohio,
where they lived some two years, in both Fairfield and Perry
counties. At that time they moved to the sixteenth
section of Jackson township, Perry county, where Daniel,
the subject of this sketch, lived until he was thirty-three
years of age, when he moved to the twelfth section of Monday
Creek township, where he had bought eight acres of land the
previous year, and where he has since lived; he was obliged
to labor, the first year after his marriage, to get
sufficient goods to set up housekeeping. Upon coming
to this farm there were fifteen acres cleared, the remainder
he cleared up himself; and it took him thirteen years to pay
the balance of three hundred dollars he owed on the farm.
After this he purchased as follows: 40 acres in this
township, first section, for $450, about the year 1850; 120
acres in Saltlick township, for $1,500, in 1852; 60 acres
for $700, in 1854; 100 acres for $2,300, in Monday Creek
township, about 1858 or 1860; 40 acres for $570; 40 acres
for $700; 52½ acres in Jackson
township of which he inherited two-fifths and took the
three-fifths at the appraised valuation of $1,000; 20 acres
for $400 about 1865; 50 acres for $1,000, in 1866; 126 acres
for $3,000, about 1867; 159 acres in Hocking county, Ohio,
southwest of Logan, for $4,500 cash, in 1875; a house and
lot in New Straitsville, Ohio, for $500, about the same as
cash, and at this time owns 539 acres in all. The most
of his land is near and adjoining the first 80 acres that he
bought. Considering the mineral wealth, this land is
worth $100 per acre. Mr. Ricketts has given
$450 to each of twelve families starting in life, and has
assisted in building all the churches in the vicinity where
he lives. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in
his sixteenth year, and from his twenty-second to his
twenty-seventh year was class leader. Was licensed to
exhort by Rev. James Gurley, and afterwards to preach
by the Rev. M. C. Kellogg, both of the Ohio
Conference. Continued as local preacher twelve years,
when he entered the traveling connection, in 1852, and has
filled the following appointments: Mt. Pleasant circuit, one
year; Nelsonville circuit, one year; Logan circuit, six
months; Nelsonville again, over one year; New Baltimore, one
year; Fairview circuit, two years; Amesville circuit, one
year; again Nelsonville circuit, one year; again to
Amesville circuit, one year; Plymouth circuit, two years;
again at Fairview, two years; again at Plymouth, one year;
Maxville circuit, his home, one year; one year did not
travel; Deavertown circuit, two years; New Plymouth, Hocking
county, one year; Straitsville circuit, two years, and built
the two churches, one in Straitsville and one in Shawnee;
again Mt. Pleasant, one year; again without a charge one
year; again New Plymouth, one year; again without a charge
one year; east end of Straitsville circuit, two years;
Asbury circuit, Muskingum county; and this year at home, now
Junction City circuit. In this work he probably has
taken into membership of the church from 3,000 to 4,000
persons. Mr. Ricketts was married Jan. 31,
1833, to Lucy, daughter of Conrad and Lydia
(Wicks) Wickiser. They are the parents of ten
children now living, viz.: Benjamin, who has
been class leader in church some ten or twelve years;
Jacob W., a local preacher; Francis Asbury, William
Cochran, a local preacher; Thomas M., a traveling
preacher; Sophia Jane, Cyrus B.; six deceased, two of
whom lived to manhood, John W., who was licensed to
exhort, and Daniel W.; four died in childhood,
Stephen Hamilton, Lydia, Levi Bartlett, and an infant.
Six of his sons were in the army during the late Rebellion -
three in the three years' service; John W., who died
in the army; Francis A. and William C.; and
three in the one hundred days' service, Benjamin, Jacob
W., and James. He also had two sons-in-law
in the army; one, William A. Murphey, in the three
years' service, and one, William Terrell, in the
hundred days' service. Mr. Ricketts has been a
very successful minister, and all of his children, who lived
to manhood and womanhood, were converted from nine yeas to
fifteen years of age. He certainly has brought up a
remarkably useful family, both in the service of the church
and of their country. They truly have proved to be an
exemplary family.
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J. M. RIDENOUR
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JESSE RINEHART
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WESLEY RINKER
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EDWARD T. RISSLER
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THOMAS J. RISSLER
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JOHN T. ROBERTS, collier, Shawnee, Ohio, was
born September 18, 1827, in Anglesey, North Wales; son of
Thomas and Gwen (Ishmall) Roberts. Was married and
lived in Anglesey until he was eighteen years of age,
working in copper mines from the age of nine yeas, after
which he was employed as follows: Carmarthenshire,
working on railroad tunnel three years; Myrtha-tidvil
Glamorganshire, mining iron ore four years. At this
time he returned home and was married July 22, 1854, to
Catharine, daughter of Thomas R. and Jane
(Jones) Thomas. They are the parents of two
children, Thomas and Jane, deceased.
After his marriage he remained in Anglesey about three
years. Worked on breakwater at Hollyhead, that cost
$100,000, for about twenty years in building. In
Staffordshire, England, about fifteen years mining coal,
except about two years and six months he spent in Liverpool,
where he was employed in corporation warehouses. At
this time he emigrated to America, landing in New York, Dec.
29, 1870, and went to Pomeroy, Ohio, where he mined coal
seven months, when he went to Coalton, Kentucky, mined coal
about five months and returned to Pomeroy, where he stayed
about nine months, and then to New Straitsville, mining
about eighteen months, when he moved to Shawnee, where he
has since remained, employed as a miner, eight yeas.
In Staffordshire, he was leader of a church choir about
twelve yeas and is leader of a choir in the Welch church of
this place.
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JESSE ROCKHOLD
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CHARLES
M. RODGERS, stock dealer, Valley Falls, Jefferson
county, Kansas, was born Sept. 6, 1845, in Monroe township
Perry county, Ohio; son of Joseph and Catharine (Smith)
Rodgers. Charles M. was brought up on a farm in
his native township; located in Jefferson county, Kansas, in
1878, where he was married Mar. 7, 1878, to Miss Florence,
daughter of E. H. and Amanda (Law) Watkins.
They are the parents of two children, Mettie Dell and
Everett Garfield.
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JOSEPH
D. RODGERS, real estate, stock and grain dealer,
Corning, Ohio; son of Joseph and Catharine (Smith)
Rodgers. Joseph Rodgers, Sr., came to Perry
county, Ohio, from Wheeling, West Virginia, about the year
1831, with his father, Joseph Rodgers, and located
first on the west side of Monroe township. When
Joseph, Sr., married he located about one half mile west
of Corning, Ohio. The entire town is built on lands
formerly owned by him. He followed agriculture and
husbandry, by which he acquired an ample competency.
Joseph D. Rodgers, the subject of this sketch, was
married Feb. 29, 1872, to Miss Adaline, daughter of
V. W. and Ellen (Vanferson) Lewis, of Muskingum
county, Ohio. They are the parents of three children,
viz.: Chester Allen, Sheldon M. and George
M.
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NELSON
L. RODGERS, Corning, Ohio, was born Aug. 17, 1852, in
Monroe township, Perry county, Ohio; son of Joseph and
Catharine (Smith) Rodgers. Nelson L. was
brought up in his native township, and was married Sept. 18,
1873, to Miss Margaret, daughter of James and
Eliza (Nedgar) Cain. of Homer township, Morgan county,
Ohio, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. They are the parents
of three children, Granville J., deceased, Lily
Viola and Jessie Cloe.
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KELITA
AUSTIN ROGERS, farmer, Corning, Ohio, was born Aug.
5, 1855, in Monroe township, Ohio, son of Nelson and
Miram Elma (Sanders) Rogers. Austin was brought up
on the farm, but has learned the carpenter's trade and
understands coal mining. Mr. Rogers was married
Oct. 12, 1879, to Miss Hannah, daughter of Avery
and Sarah (Taggart) West, of Morgan county, Ohio.
They are the parents of one child, viz.: James Delmer.
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NELSON
ROGERS, retired farmer and stock dealer, Corning,
Ohio, was born May 6, 1826, in Wheeling, West Virginia, son
of Joseph and Elizabeth Rogers, who were natives of
Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Rogers,
named above, was daughter of Captain William Haney.
The parents of Nelson Rogers moved to near Rehoboth,
Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio, when he was about four
months old. Here they remained three years, then came
to Monroe township, where Nelson has made his home to
the present time, excepting two years of his boyhood spent
in Athens county, Ohio. Mr. Rogers' early life
was spent in real pioneer style. Then a deer, bear,
wild hog and wild turkey were abundant in the woods of
Monroe township. Game was so plenty as at times to be
killed for sport and not used. When young he has gone
alone, coon hunting, at night, and caught more coons than he
could carry home with him. He has lived to see those
rough and hardy pioneer times and customs change to the
modern advanced customs and luxuries of the present times.
Mr. Rogers has given his attention to agriculture and
stock dealing, and by honest industry and intelligent
economy, he has obtained an ample competence for himself and
family. He owns two hundred and forty-six acres of the
valuable mineral land, situated between Corning and
Rendville, Ohio, and eighty acres of equally as good mineral
land situated about one mile from the above tract.
Mr. Rogers was married Dec. 28, 1851, to Miss Miram
Elma, daughter of Jesse and Epsey (Batton) Sanders.
They are the parents of six children, viz.: Sarah Epsey,
Kelita Austin, Benj. F., Abish Lincol, David Merchant
and Ida May.
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EZEKIEL ROSE
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E. J. ROWAN
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GEORGE RUDDOCK
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W. H. RUSSELL
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WALTER
RUTTER, of the firm of Wilson & Rutter,
butchers, New Lexington Ohio; was born Mar. 25, 1828, in
Newton township Muskingum county, Ohio; son of Benjamin
and Sarah (Muse) Rutter, natives of Maryland. At
the age of seventeen Walter came to Clayton township,
where he followed farming until he was forty-five years of
age, when he came to this place and established his present
business. Mr. Wilson became partner in
December, 1881. Mr. Rutter was married in
March, 1850, to Miss Jane, daughter of Samuel and
Barzilla (Crogs) Croskey. They are the parents of
three children, viz.: Samantha Alice, and Ida,
and May, twins, who died in infancy.
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WILLIAM J. RYAN, druggist,
Junction City, Ohio; son of Roday and Mary (Donley) Ryan;
was born Aug. 14, 1831, in this county; began working at the
tanning business when sixteen years of age, and followed the
same until about the age of twenty-one, then attended school
for one year, after which he went to St. Joseph's College
one year, then went to Jackson county, Iowa, and followed
farming two years, from there to Knox county, Missouri, and
then Apr. 20, 1851, started for California, driving through
with a wagon via Salt Lake. Was three months reaching
Virginia City, Nevada; stayed there for a time, and then
went to California and stayed two years; landed there in
Sacramento City, at the time of the flood; he engaged in the
wood trade while there. Then came to Virginia City,
and opened a feed stable, in partnership with Mathew
Gisborn, and followed it two years; then went to San
Francisco, and from there to New York, via the Isthmus, and
from there to this county; followed farming, and serving
nine years as Justice of the Peace; established himself in
the drug business in Junction City, in April, 1876, and has
the largest stock of drugs and notions in town. He was
married in 1854, to Helen, daughter of Levi and
Ann (Lily) Burgoon; they are the parents of eleven
children, ten living, six boys and four girls, viz.:
Mary A., Levi I., Thomas A., Elizabeth L., John F., Mark
G., Joseph J., Lucy F., Hiram E., Sarah J. Levi is
in the Indian Territory. Thomas A. is one of
the officers at the Insane Asylum. Mr. Ryan's
father and mother were born in Ireland.
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CARLES H. RYLAND
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