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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio
Chicago:
Inter-State Publishing Co.
1884
Perry
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DANIEL FERNEAU was born Nov. 9,
1814, in Pike County, on the farm where he now resides,
and is the eldest son of John H. and Christina (Freshour)
Ferneau, natives of Berkeley County, Va. He
worked in the tannery of his father till twenty-two
years of age, since which time he has been engaged in
farming and stock-raising, at which he has been very
successful. He was married Jan. 28, 1838, to
Minerva, daughter of Burgess Elliott, one of
the leading men of Pike County. This union was
blessed with four children, of whom two daughters
survive. Mr. Ferneau has been Justice of
the Peace nine years and has served as Township
Treasurer a number of years, and has also filled the
office of Commissioner of Pike County six years.
He is at present Trustee of the Christian Union church.
His wife is a member of the United Brethren church.
His father came to Pike County, Ohio, in 1808, and in
1812 erected a tannery in Perry Township where he
carried on business some twenty-five years, besides
dealing largely in real estate, after which he engaged
in agricultural pursuits. He reared a family of
nine children and died in Pike County at the age of
ninety years. His wife died about three yeas
later, in her eighty-ninth year. Mr. Elliott,
father of Mrs. Ferneau, was a native of Kentucky
and came to Ohio in an early day. He was a great
historian. He was a Commissioner of Pike County
fifteen years.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 860 |
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
G. C. FLEGEL was born in Fairfield
County, Ohio, Nov. 20, 1856. His parents, J. A.
and L. A. Flegel, still reside in that county, in
the village of Lithopolis. At the age of fourteen
our subject left his home to fight the battles of life
alone, and, following his inclinations, as a business
chose that of railroading, beginning at the foot of the
ladder by carrying water for the laborers along the
section. He acted in this capacity but for a short
time. Feeling he had a higher calling, he engaged
in and learned the business of telegraphing. He
took his first message at Marion, Ohio, on the C., Mt.
V. & T. R. R. From there he was transferred to
Fostoria, Ohio. Apr. 21, 1881, he went to
Chillicothe, Ohio. April 21, 1881, he went to
Chillicothe, were he accepted the position of chief
clerk in the freight office of the Scioto Valley
Railroad. In July following he was promoted to,
and accepted, the position of freight and ticket agent
and telegraph operator for the Scioto Valley Railroad at
Waverly, Ohio, in which capacity he still serves to the
full satisfaction of the company and public. He
married Apr. 20, 1879, Jennie Allcut, of
Fostoria, Ohio, a daughter of David and Sarah Allcut.
To them have been born two children - Elmer Woolcott
and Nellie Hays.
Source: History of Lower Scioto
Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 758 |
Newton
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W. H. FLOWERS, farmer at Jasper,
Ohio, was born Aug. 18, 1824, in Jackson, Ohio, where he
attended the public schools till he was sixteen years of
age. He was married June 9, 1846, to Eliza A.,
daughter of John and Nancy Green, who were
natives of Virginia. They have had seven children,
of whom six are living - John W., born Dec. 3,
1846; Mary A., Dec. 7, 1848; Rochcelena,
born July 2, 1851; Eemerilis, born Oct. 3, 1853;
Edgar S., born May 4, 1856, and died Aug. 15,
1867; Effie J., born Oct. 9, 1851, and
Frank, born Apr. 7, 1871. Mr. Flowers
has always been a Republican in politics and has served
as Township Trustee a few years. He owns a farm of
208 acres of land. His parents, William and
Elizabeth Flowers, were among the first settlers at
Jackson salt works. The former died at Jackson in
1867, aged sixty-six years, and the latter's death
occurred Aug. 10, 1855, at the age of fifty-four years.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 834 |
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J. M. FOSTER, son of Jeremiah
and Sarah (Kemper) Foster, was born in Ross County,
Ohio, Feb. 2, 1826. His father was born near
Uniontown, Pa., and came to Ross County, Ohio, with his
parents about 1810, where he was married. They had
three children, Mr. Foster having died shortly
before the birth of our subject. Mrs. Foster
afterward married James Nebergall They had
a family of four daughters. She died in 1849.
Our subject received a limited education at the common
district school which he attended during the winter
seasons, being employed the remainder of the year on the
farm. He attended school after he became of age
and worked at farming by the month. He came to
Pike County in the spring of 1853, and located on a farm
two miles from Piketon, which belonged to D. P. March,
of Ross County. Mr. Foster became a clerk
in Mr. March's mercantile store, in which he
continued till 1861. He then began the mercantile
business for himself with his present partner, Adam
Rheinfrank. They first opened a small grocery
and meeting with success were soon enabled to increase
their stock. When Morgan raided Ohio in
June, 1863, the troops appropriated his stock to their
own use which was a heavy loss at that time, but their
credit being good they were soon able to replace it and
have since continued to be very successful in their
business. In politics Mr. Foster is a
Republican and always votes that ticket. He was
married in 1848 to Eulinda Brodess, of Ross
County and a daughter of John Brodess. They
have one daughter.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 786 |
Jackson
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JOSEPH FOSTER, son of John and
Rebecca (Russel) Foster, was born in Franklin
Township, Ross Co., Ohio, Dec. 16, 1822, in the same
house where his father was born, his grandfather,
Thomas Foster, having bought it in 1800. His
father in later life sold the old homestead and removed
to Clinton County, where he died Mar. 27, 1880.
Joseph Foster was married Sept. 4, 1845, to
Amanda, daughter of Alexander McMillin.
They have had nine children - Mary E., Eliza J., Emma
V., Rebecca (deceased), Alice, Newton P., Laura
B., Dudley H. and Franklin. Mr. Foster
has made farming his life-work and is one of the most
thrifty and substantial farmers of Pike County.
Political he is a Republican. Mr. Foster's
father, Colonel John Foster, died Mar. 27, 1880,
in Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, in the seventy-ninth
year of his age. He was born, reared and lived
till a few years prior to his death about seven miles
above Waverly, in Franklin Township, Ross County.
He and his wife had been for a few years making there
home with a son-in-law, James Davis, in Clinton
County, and both died there, his wife preceding him but
a few months. Colonel Foster held a number
of positions of trust and honor, in every one of which
he fully met the expectations of his friends. He
was an able exponent of the Whig party, and represented
Ross County in the Legislature, his associate being
Hon. Chauncey N. Olds, but refused a second
nomination. He was modest and unpretending in his
manners, but in his opinions was firm as a rock.
He could feel a wrong done him but never resented it.
His motto was, "Malice toward none, charity for all."
Mrs. Foster's grand-parents, Robert and Mary
Hampton, came to Ohio from York County, Pa., in 1800
and settled din either Pickaway or Ross County but
subsequently moved to Pike County, to the farm now owned
by Joseph Foster. They had a family of four
son and two daughters - William, Dudley, Eleanor,
Robert, Jane and Frank. Dudley
and Jane died after reaching maturity and
Frank in childhood. After the father's death
William remained on the homestead with his
mother, then owning half of the farm. He was Judge
of Court at Piketon a number of years. He was a
well-educated man and assisted many young men in their
studies. After his mother's death, in 1837, he
kept young men through the winter, and one winter had
twelve or fourteen with him. He was a member of
the Presbyterian church. He died in 1841.
Robert married Elizabeth Brown. They
had six children - Sarah, Mary, Wilson, William,
Eliza and James. He moved to Indiana,
where he and his wife and four children died. His
daughter, Sarah married George Shipley,
now of Independence, Kas. James is living
in Olathe, Kas. Eleanor Hampton married
Alexander McMillin in March, 1817. They lived
several years on a part of the old homestead and then
moved to the farm now owned by Condon, living there for
four years. They then bought Robert's share
of the Hampton homestead, and after William's
death the remainder. They had four children-
William, born in 1819 died in his fourteenth year;
Mary, born in 1821, married Henry Renicke,
Nov. 14, 1844, and died in 1857, leaving five children;
Eliza, born Sept. 9, 1823, married J. N. Poage,
Apr. 17, 1851, and has one child - Alice; Amanda,
born Nov. 11, 1825, now Mrs. Joseph Foster. Mr.
McMillin when a boy worked for farmers in the summer
for $6 a month, and in the winter when not in school
worked at whatever he could find to do. After his
marriage he rented land and raised corn, at that time
worth but 6¼ cents per
bushel. It was worth 20 cents in New Orleans and
Natchez, and Mr. McMillen built flat-boats and
after buying all the corn that world fill them floated
down the river and after selling his corn and boats took
steamboat passage to Louisville and from there, with the
men he had hired to help him, walked home. After
making several trips he had money enough to buy a little
farm. About 1830 or 1831 he bought the place where
Joseph Foster now lives. In 1858 he bought
the "Gregg place" but remained there only eight
months, when he went to Bourneville, where he died in
January, 1865. His widow died at the home of her
son-in-law, J. N. Poage, near Cincinnati, in
July, 1877. They were both buried in the family
cemetery on the old homestead in Pike County.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 |
Jackson
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SETH CLARK FOSTER, was born in
Jackson Township, Pike Co., Ohio, in 1821, a son of
Richard and Rachel (Browning) Foster, and the only
representative of a once large family, now living in
Pike County. He was married in 1850 to Maria,
daughter of James and Mary (Condon) Day.
Three children have been born to them - a daughter,
Nancy, died in infancy, and two sons, James
Richard and Thomas Day. Mr. Foster is
one of the most prominent farmers in the county, and has
held some of the responsible offices of his township;
has been School Director eighteen years. He has a
farm of 217 acres, and is surrounded by all the comforts
of a good home. Mr. Foster's grandfather,
John Foster, came to Ohio from Maryland with his
two youngest sons, Joseph and Richard, in
1796. He had been twice married, but at the time
of coming to Ohio was a widower. He had a family
of eight children - Lewis, Cassandra, Thomas, Rachel,
John, Benjamin, Joseph and Richard. The
six elder children were married, but followed their
father to Ohio and settled near him. John
Foster was a local Methodist preacher in Maryland,
and was the earliest pioneer preacher in this part of
Ohio. He purchased 300 acres of land, all but
twenty acres of it heavily timbered, which he cleared
and cultivated, residing on it till his death, in 1800,
four years after coming to the county. Although he
had lived here so short a time he was widely known and
loved. His last sermon was preached from the text,
"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I
have kept the faith." His children became
scattered and are now all deceased. His youngest
son and the father of our subject, Richard, was
born in 1779, and resided with his father till manhood,
when he went to Hagerstown, Md., and married Rachel
was born in 1779, and resided with his father till
manhood, when he went to Hagerstown, Md., and married
Rachel Browning, remaining there till after the
birth of two sons. He then returned to Ohio,
having inherited the homestead of 300 acres, to which he
afterward added 130 acres, to which he afterward added
130 acres. To him were born ten children -
Jeremiah, John, Eliza, Zebulon, Cassandra, Lemuel G.,
Aseneth, Thomas, Seth Clark and
Rachel. Jeremiah, John, Lemuel and Aseneth
are deceased. Jeremiah married Elizabeth
Johnston; John married Jane Brown; Eliza
married Samuel Wilson, Jr.; Zebulon married
Caroline Ostrander; Cassandra married Rufus
Libbey; Lemuel married Barbara Hults; Aseneth
married Marshal Cumpton; Thomas married Susan
Burke; Seth C. married Maria Day; Rachel
married William A. Jones. Richard Foster
died June 7, 1831, and his wife Mar. 23, 1858. He
was a man of frugal habits, and, with the assistance of
a kind father, became one of the most prosperous men in
the county. He was Justice of the Peace eighteen
years. He was a member of no church, but his
influence was always on the side of Christianity and
morality. His wife was a member of the Methodist
church.
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