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BIOGRAPHIES
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1883
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JOHN WAGNER, was born June
3, 1823, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; son of George
Wagner and Catharine Ritz; post office Rushville, Ohio.
The family is of German descent on both sides.
Father Wagner came to Ohio in 1831, bought the farm on
which he died, in 1850, and in the days prior to railroads,
kept a regular drove stand and hotel. The sons, who
came with him from Pennsylvania, were Simon Peter and
George Washington, and the daughter was Mary
Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Westall, who died in
Lawrence county, Illinois. Those born afterwards were
Susan Catharine, wife of Joel Petty; Henry M.,
who married Miss Leach; Jacob R., who married Mary
Haines; Anna Jane wife of Moses Petty; Matilda,
deceased, former wife of Daniel Berket, all of whom
reside in Lawrence county, Illinois. Apr. 18, 1844,
John Wagner was married to Ann Stoltz, who is the
mother of eight sons and three daughters now living.
These are: George W. married to Jane,
daughter of Lewis Combs, post office Rushville;
Simon Peter, married to Elizabeth, daughter of
John Neely; Henry M., married to Jessie,
daughter of Lucretia Baker, a widow near Linnville,
Licking county, Ohio; Samuel S., married to Belle,
daughter of William Rutherford, post office
Rushville, Ohio; Mary K., wife of Wesley, son
of Samuel Thomas; Margaret Ann, wife of Asa,
son of David Dennison, post office Rushville, Ohio,
and Matilda Jane, wife of Lewis A. Gillespie,
post office Hancock, Perry county, Ohio. The children
yet single and at home are: John R. Thaddeus, David Grant
and Sherman. The religious connection is of the
Brethren Church. The home of John Wagner, two
miles east of Rushville, ranks among the foremost in the
county both in size and value, and is the fruit of that
persevering adherence to one occupation, characteristic of
the Wagner name.
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JOHN WALKER, JR.
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ROWLAND WALKER
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WILLIAM WALLACE, miner,
Shawnee, Ohio, was born May, 1846, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Son of George and Jane (Wallace) Wallace. Was
raided in Edinburgh and learned the trade of lamp maker, and
was also a miner some eight years in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Mr. Wallace was married Sept. 10, 1869, to Isabel,
daughter of William and Margaret (Graham) Keay, of
Edinburgh, Scotland. They are the parents of five
children, viz.: George, Margaret, Jane, William and
Alfred. Mr. Wallace came to America in August
of 1872, leaving his family in Scotland, but in 1873 he sent
for them and they arrived in this place on May 14, of the
same year. He has made mining his business since
coming to this county, and is now inside bank boss in the
New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron Company's Mines, a
position he has held for one year past.
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ISRAEL WATT, farmer and stock
raiser, post office McLuney. Born in this county in
1825. Son of Joseph and Mary (Hitchcock) Watt.
Grandson of Robert Watt. Grandson of
Isaac and Susan (Fuller) Hitchcock.
Married in 1848 to Miss Rebecca Iliff, daughter of
Thomas and Saloma (Reed) Iliff. They are the
parents of five children, viz.: John I., Mary S.,
Thomas, deceased; J. W. and L. D.
Mr. Watt's father was a captain in the War of 1812.
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JAMES WATT, farmer, post
office, Saltillo. Born in Baltimore county, Maryland,
in 1809. Settled in Perry county in 1837. Son of
Charles Watt, who died in 1833, in Muskingum county.
Elizabeth (Longley), his mother, died in 1825.
Mr. Watt is a grandson of Richard and Elizabeth
Watt, and also grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth
Longley. They are of German and English descent.
Mr. Watt's grandfather was married in 1830 to Miss
Eliza A. Barnett, daughter of Peter and Mary (Owens)
Barnett. They are the parents of eight children,
viz.: Austin G., deceased; Elizabeth, Charles,
John W., William H., John J.; deceased; Jonathan,
deceased; and George W., deceased. Those living
are all married. Mr. Watt had three sons in the
late war. George W. enlisted in 1861, in
Company D, Thirty-first Regiment, Captain William Free,
Army of the Cumberland. He was engaged in the
following battles, viz.: Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga,
Mission Ridge and Resaca. Austin G. enlisted in
1861, Company H, Sixty-second Regiment, and William H.
in Company D, Thirty-first Regiment.
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THOMAS WEATHERBURN
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GEORGE C. WEAVER
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JACOB C. WEAVER, Shawnee,
Ohio, was born July 15, 1845, in Deavertown, Morgan county,
Ohio; son of John P. and Catharine (Lenhart) Weaer.
Mr. Weaver's father is a merchant, and he was raised in
Eagle Port, Morgan county, Ohio, until he was thirteen years
of age, when his father moved to Blue Rock, Muskingum
county, Ohio, and remained about eight years, where Jacob
C. was married, Aug. 19, 1865, to Matilda,
daughter of Hiram and Matilda (Larrison) Lucas.
They became the parents of four children, living, viz.:
Harlon C., Tillie K., Eva J. and Elcie D.; and
one deceased; Annie C. After his marriage he
moved to Delcarbo, and from there to Roseville, Ohio, where
he lived about two years, engaged at mining, and returned to
Blue Rock, where he remained five years at farming and then
came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he has lived ap to this
time. Since coming to this place his first wife died
Sept. 26, 1877. Mr. Weaver was married again
Dec. 18, 1879, to Elcedana, daughter of Anthony
and Delilah (Rusk) Townsend of Perry county, Ohio.
They are the parents of one child, Mary S.
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JOSEPH WEILAND
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DAVID WELLS
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FRANK C. WELLS
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JOSIAH WELLS
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J. L. WEST
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JOHN W. WESTALL
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HAMILTON WHITE
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REV. JAMES WHITE
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PETER WHITMORE
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REV. SAMUEL WHITMORE
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J. H. WIGTON
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JOHN WILKINS, farmer; post
office, Mount Perry; was born in 1816, in Frederick county,
Virginia; son of James, Jr., and grandson of James
Sr., who was an English soldier; and in consequence of a
severe wound in one of the battles of the Revolution, never
again returned to his native country, but remained in
Virginia, where he married a Highland Scotch wife, who
became the mother of an only child, James Wilkins, Jr.
This James was by tradition entitled to an estate in
England, which was lost by the slackness of the laws then in
force, and the infancy of the only heir in America, which
heir perhaps was entirely unknown, on the false supposition
that James, Sr. had died without heirs. The
father of John Wilkins was a solder in the War of
1812; the husband of Hannah Roberts, whom he married
about the beginning of the present century; a superintendent
of a large Virginia plantation, at a good salary for many
years; the owner of a few slaves there, at the death of one
of whom, John cried bitterly has having lost a kind
nurse. In 1830 the Wilkins family came to Perry
county, and a few years later to Muskingum county, where
James, the father, died, at the age of eighty-five
years. He was a man of remarkable physical endurance,
and in his eightieth year, could plow, sow and reap.
Mother Wilkins survived her husband only a few years.
Her children were Nancy, the wife of Joseph,
and the mother of Nathan Plank, who after the death
of her husband became the wife of Joseph Snyder, and
died as such in Hopewell township; Charles and
Mary, of Lawrence county, Ohio; Theodore, Lima,
Ohio; Rev. Llewellyn, of the New Light belief; and
two children, deceased, in Muskingum county. In 1839,
John Wilkins was married to Mary, daughter of
John Bowser. He soon settled where he now
lives, section thirteen, Hopewell, and where some of the
soil on his farm has been under cultivation for sixty
consecutive years, and the last crop of corn measured over
one hundred bushels to the acre. It thus supports its
fertility by alluvial deposit, and by its natural strength.
Their children are eight in number, all living, except
Mary, deceased wife of Samuel Bowman, Arcola,
Illinois; Leroy, farmer, post office same; James,
John T., Eliza, wife of Samuel Bowman and
Abraham, post office, Mount Perry, Ohio; Ann Maria,
wife of Daniel Siberds and Emanuel,
postoffice, North Manchester, Indiana. These sons and
daughters are all comfortably situated, and some of them
growing wealthy. Five of the sons weigh 1,160 pounds,
the lightest of whom is nearly 200. The mother was a
large, handsomely sized woman; the father was weighed at 180
pounds; head twenty-two and one-fourth inches, health good,
habits temperate, but not abstemious from stimulants.
After the death of his wife in 1879, Mr. Wilkins was
married to Mrs. Delilah Stine in 1881, whose maiden
name was Dollings; of Scotch and English parentage,
and whose father was a native of Virginia, and whose mother
was a native of Kentucky. By her first husband,
John Creighton Stine, she had two sons, both married;
one a teacher and the other a potter by occupation.
She alleges that her grandfather, Slover, was a Tory
in the Revolution, and that her father fought on the
American side, in 1812. At this second marriage, she
and her children were welcomed to the Wilkins home by
all of Mr. Wilkins sons and daughters, who reside in
the vicinity.
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DAVID S. WILLIAMS
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EDMOND D. WILLIAMS
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ELIAS DAVID WILLIAMS
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JOHN L. WILLIAMS
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JOHN R. WILLIAMS
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REESE E. WILLIAMS
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THOMAS J. WILLIAMS
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THOMAS W. WILLIAMS
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WILLIAM E. WILLIAMS
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JAMES WILSON,
farmer and hotel keeper, Maxville, Ohio; born in Hopewell
township Perry county, Ohio. Mar. 24, 1821, son of Isaac
and Margaret (Rison) Wilson. Spent early
boyhood on a farm, and in 1838 came to Monday Creek township
with his father, where he has ever since resided.
Mr. Wilson was among the early settlers of that
township and has always been one of its most highly
respected citizens, having served in the capacity of trustee
of that township for two terms. He was, at one time,
extensively engaged in quarrying and burning limestone, but
is now quietly residing on his farm and keeping hotel in the
village of Maxville. He was married Feb. 8, 1844, to
Eliza, daughter of David and Sarah (Larimer)
Haggerty, of Fairfield county, to whom was born one
child, Isaac, who died at the early age of three
months. Mrs. Wilson died on the anniversary of
her marriage, in 1845, having been a bride but one year.
Mr. Wilson was married the second time to
Margaret, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Ray)
Larimer, Jan. 2, 1850.
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JOHN WILSON,
collier, Shawnee, Ohio; was born Feb. 21, 1848, in
Cockfield, county of Durham, England; son of John and
Elizabeth (Wanless) Wilson. Mr. Mason's father
moved to Crook, soon after his birth, where he was raised
and employed at brick making and mining until he was about
the age of twenty years. At nineteen years of age he
took the position of weighmaster and timekeeper, which he
held about five years, and again for three years was
employed in the mine, and a second time was weighmaster and
timekeeper for one year, at which time he emigrated to
America, leaving Liverpool September 22, and landing in New
York, Oct. 3, 1879, from where he came to this place where
he has lived to the present time, and enjoys his own home.
Was married June 28, 1873, to Hannah, daughter of
Judge and Isabel (Richardson) Scott, in county of
Durham. Mr. Wilson is a local preacher and
class leader in the Primitive Methodist Church of this
place.
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THOMAS WILSON,
farmer and stock raiser, post office Roseville, Muskingum
county; born in Muskingum in 1814; came to Perry county in
1828; son of Zedick and Elizabeth (Stewart) Wilson;
grandson of Matthew Wilson, grandson of Pozy and
Prudence Stewart. Married in 1842 to Miss
Christie A. Wylie, daughter of John and Hannah (McClain)
Wylie. They are the parents of eight children,
viz.: Harriet, John, deceased; Zadock,
George, Marion, deceased; Luther, Clara, Thomas.
Zadock served in the last war in the One Hundred and
Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteers.
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WILLIAM WILSON,
formerly of the firm of Wilson and Rutter, butchers,
New Lexington, Ohio; was born Oct. 11, 1841, in Falls
township, Hocking county; son of Ezra and Elizabeth
(Burgess) Wilson. William was brought up on the
farm and has followed agriculture, husbandry and butchering
to the present time. He came to this county about the
year 1857, and located in Clayton township, at his present
residence. The present firm was formed Nov. 5, 1881.
Mr. Wilson was married March 1, 1864, to Miss
Rachel C., daughter of George White and Harriet
(Richards) Moore. They are the parents of seven
children, viz.: Sorata Bell, Malcome Everett,
deceased; Edward Beecher, Howard Franklin, George Morris,
Jesse Heber and Valus Wilma.
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W. WINTER
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JUDGE JOSEPH G. WISEMAN,
was born Dec. 6, 1801, in Monroe county, now West Virginia;
post office Salem. By occupation in early life a
bricklayer and later, a farmer, also. He is a son of
Rev. John Wiseman, who came to section twenty-nine,
Thorn township, Perry county, Ohio, in 1818, and grandson of
Isaac Wiseman, who died in Virginia, at the age of
ninety-two. The brothers of Judge Wiseman were
James G., John R., Isaac, Philip S. and Jacob G.
Wiseman; all gone. His sisters were Elizabeth,
wife of John Brattin; Margaret, wife of Aaron
Morgan; and Ann, wife of George Stinchcomb;
all gone. His mother's maiden name of Sarah Green,
a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, and a niece of
Hugh McGarey, an Indian fighter, of Kentucky, a
companion of Daniel Boone. The memory of these
brave men is preserved in a poem by Bryant. The
father of Judge Wiseman was with Washington at
Valley Forge; died in 1842, in his eighty-second year, and
rests in the Methodist Episcopal cemetery, at Salem.
He was a local preacher, regularly ordained, and solemnized
marriages. Judge Wiseman was married in 1827 to
Miss Susan, daughter of John Manley.
Four of her six children still survive. In 1844, after
the death of his wife, he was married to Mrs. Katharine
Parr. In 1855, after the death of his second wife,
he was married to Miss Nancy J. Melick, sister of
Alexander Melick, of Madison township. His
children are: Louisa, wife of N. H. Crouch,
of Newark; Minta S., wife of H. F. Winders,
Findlay, Ohio; J. Manley Wiseman, married to
Caroline Baker, sister of Andrew Baker, and
Katharine, wife of Charles Kelsey post office
Salem; one son and three daughters. His son,
Theodore, went into the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry at the beginning of the war, lost his health, and
died at the age of twenty-three. Joseph G. Wiseman
became Associate Justice on the Common Pleas bench of Perry
county and served six years. He was a Filmore elector
in 1856, and a Bell elector in 1860, and served six years as
Justice of the Peace. He supported the war policy of
Lincoln and has since voted with the Republicans. He
has acquired a handsome estate by plodding industry and
honest labor, enjoys a pleasant home, and the respect of his
neighbors, and except Elijah Kemper and Jonas
Groves, has voted longer in Thorn township than any
other man. He always was a great reader and patronized
literature.
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GEORGE WOLF, JR.,
dealer in hides, fur, sheep pelts, at Junction City, Ohio;
son of William D., and Susans (Chidester) Wolf.
Was born Mar. 10, 1842, in Ewing, Hocking county, Ohio.
He stayed on the farm till the age of nineteen, after which
he went to the saddler trade and served three years
apprenticeship; then worked as journeyman for a few years, a
part of the time running a shop of his own.. He
started a saddle and harness shop in Junction City, in 1871,
which he carried on until 1879; since that time has been
engaged in his present business, dealing in wool in the
summer season. Mr. Wolf was married in January
of 1871, to Catharine, daughter of John and
Christina Filing. They are the parents of one child,
Lizzie Idela. Spent one winter with the Osage
Indians, being at that time connected with a trading
post.
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LEWIS WOLF, Superintendent of
the German miners at Buckingham, Ohio; was born Apr. 22,
1840, in Knox township, Columbiana county, Ohio; son of
Henry and Margaret (Stoffer) Wolf. Was brought up
on a farm where he remained until twenty-one, when he
engaged in mining iron ore, at which he worked about five
years. He then superintended in the mining of iron ore
and coal, and prospecting for iron ore and coal until 1877,
when he came to Moxahala, and in the spring of 1880 came to
his present residence. Mr. Wolf was married in
the spring of 1861, to Miss Emma, daughter of
William McLaughlin, of Georgetown, Columbiana county,
Ohio. They are the parents of seven children, viz.:
Luander, William, Emerson, Charles, George, Leora and
Gertrude. Mr. Wolf has devoted the greater
part of his life to mining and prospecting for iron ore and
coal, by which he has acquired a very usefl experience.
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J. E. WOOD,
shoemaker, post office, Moxahala, Pleasant township; born in
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Left home when
eleven years old, went to Pittsburgh, obtained work on the
boat "Metropolis" for five years; then learned the shoemaker
trade at Pittsburgh; then for five years; then learned the
shoemaker trade at Pittsburgh; then went to New Orleans;
from there to Galveston, Charleston, Augusta, Nashville;
then worked in several towns in Kentucky. Then he went
back to New Orleans and through the southwest, Mexico,
Texas, and the Indian Territory; lived with the Comanche
Indians a while; rescued a white child from the Comanches,
brought it east, and his mother raised it. He enlisted
in 1861 in the Eighteenth U. S. Infantry; was captured at
the first Fredericksburg, fight, remained a prisoner on Bell
Island four months; he was then exchanged, returned to Camp
Chase and did guard duty for eight months, and was then sent
forward again and joined his regiment. He was in the
battles of Slaughter Penn, Spottsylvania, and Cold Harbor;
was wounded there and taken to City Point Hospital; was then
transferred to Emery Hospital; then to Little York, and then
discharged. Since then he has made his home in Clayton
township.
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JOHN W. WOODCOCK, SR.
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ROBERT BRUCE WOODWARD
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THOMAS D. WORSTALL
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JACKSON WRIGHT
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