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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio
Chicago:
Inter-State Publishing Co.
1884
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SAMUEL WARD was born June 15,
1843, and is a son of John L. and Sarah A. Ward,
natives of Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent.
In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company A., Thirty-ninth
Ohio Infantry, and served four years and twelve days,
and was mustered out July 9, 1865. He was in a
number of battles, the most important of which are New
Madrid, Corinth, Kenesaw Mountain, and was with
Sherman to the sea. He was married Aug. 4,
1867, to Edith, daughter of Vachel and Sabina
Castor. They have eight children - William
H., Jacob E., James A., Frances D., Mary E., Gertrude,
Sarah E. and Lavina L.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
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DAVID WARE was born Dec. 1, 1805,
in Jefferson County, Va., and is a son of John and
Elizabeth (Smurr) Ware, the former a native of
Pennsylvania and the latter of Virginia. In 1810
they moved to Chillicothe, where they lived, and in that
vicinity, till 1816, hen they settled in Piketon,
remaining there till their death. John Ware
died in 1837 aged seventy-eight years, and his wife died
at the age of seventy years, in 1838 or '39. Our
subject lived at home till he was sixteen years old,
when he went to Old Chillicothe and served an
apprenticeship of five years at the hatter's trade,
under George D. Hilt. In 1826 he opened a
hat shop in Piketon, and was engaged in the manufacture
of hats for ten years. In the fall of 1836 he
engaged in the tanner's grade, which he followed till
1872, since which time he has pursued farming. He
was married Nov. 22, 1832, to Harriet Amanda Kincaid.
They have had nine children, six of whom are living -
Maggie, George W., Florence E., Alice J., David E.
and Charles E. Thomas J., Caroline and
Elmira L. are deceased. Mr. Ware has
been a member of the School Board and served as Counselman,
and held other township offices for a number of years.
He is a Republican in politics and always votes that
ticket. He is a charter member of the I. O. O. F.,
at Piketon; has passed all the chairs, and is Past
Guard.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
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JAMES W. WARNE was born June 4,
1840, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and is a son of
Joseph and Mary A. Warne, the former a native of New
Jersey, of German descent, and the latter born in Ohio,
of Irish descent. They moved to Buchanan, Pike
County, and engaged in the mercantile business, and
built the first house in Buchanan. Since 1855 our
subject has followed agricultural pursuits and now owns
800 acres of fine land. He enlisted in the late
war in 1862, in Company H, Ninety-first Ohio Infantry,
as a private, but was soon promoted to Orderly Sergeant.
He was in the battles of Floyd Mountain, Panther Gap,
Fayetteville, and a number of others of less importance,
and was mustered out in June, 1865. He was married
Sept. 8, 1865. He was married Sept. 8, 1865, to
Mary A., daughter of John and Mary Row.
They have six children - Minnie, Lillian, Benjamin
C., Oscar, Annie and Ettie.
Source: History of Lower Scioto
Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 837 |
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JOHN COLLINS WASHBURN, second son
of John and Hannah (Burke) Washburn, was born in
Manchester, Adams Co., Ohio, May 18, 1819. His
father was born in Maryland, and came to Adams County in
an early day. He had a family of nine children,
of whom one daughter and our subject are living.
He died June 25, 1929. Our subject was thus thrown
upon his own resources at the age of ten years, and at
the age of sixteen years began working at the gunsmith's
trade. In 1840 he came to Pike County, where he
settled on the Burgess Elliott Farm, and a few years
later purchased thirty acres of land and followed
farming in connection with his trade. He has at
present 325 acres of land, and is devoting his entire
time to agricultural pursuits. He was married June
6, 1840, to Elvira, daughter of Burgess and
Sarah (Ackley) Elliott, of Pike County. They
have seven children - John W., an attorney at
Waverly, Ohio, and ex-Representative of Pike County;
Hiram E., of Colorado; George W., of
Chillicothe, Ohio; Dawson B., of Byington;
Charles L., of Chillicothe; Sarah J., wife of
R. S. McCoppin, of Pike County, Ohio; Mary E.,
of Byington, Ohio. Mr. Washburn has
been Trustee of Mifflin Township for a number of years.
He is a member of Sinking Spring Lodge No. 632, I. O. O.
F., Highland County, Ohio. Mrs. Washburn's
father was a native of Virginia. He served in the
war of 1812. He served eighteen years as
Commissioner of Pike County.
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John W. Washburn |
Waverly - Pee Pee Twp. -
JOHN W. WASHBURN was born in Pike
County, Ohio, Mar. 5, 1841, and is a son of John C.
Washburn. His ancestors were natives of
Gloucestershire or Worcestershire, England, and his
great-grandfather, Nathaniel Washburn, came from
England some time before the American Revolution and
settled in Maryland, where he raised a family, and owned
a very large landed estate and several fine mills.
He and seven of his sons engaged in the war of the
Revolution, and after the close of the war he sold his
property, and taking the purchase price in Continental
money he soon found it worthless, and nearly all of his
fortune swept from him. He and these sons came
West and located at Manchester, in Adams County, Ohio.
He and his sons, including the younger son, John,
who was too young to engage with them in the war of the
Revolution, were also in the war of 1812, going out when
the "general call" was made and serving to the end of
the war. After the country became more thickly
settled the family separated and settled in different
parts of the country, the younger son, John,
locating in Highland County, Ohio, where he bought a
farm and had a family of seven children, four sons and
had a family of seven children, four sons and three
daughters, John C. being the fifth child.
He was married in 1840 to Elvira Elliott, a
native of Pike County, Ohio, and settled in Highland
County. They removed to Pike County in the fall of
1840, and settled on the old Burgess Elliott
homestead, in Mifflin Township, where they still live.
John C. had learned the gunsmith trade, which
vocation he followed until his sons were large enough to
work on the farm, when he turned his attention entirely
to farming and raising and buying and selling stock.
He had a family of five sons and two daughters, John
W., the eldest and the subject of this sketch, was
reared on the farm above spoken of in Pike County.
He received an academic education and alternated his
school life with teaching in winter, and was for three
years engaged in the union schools of Piketon and
Waverly in said county. In 1866 he was elected
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county for a
term of three years; re-elected again in 1869 and
re-elected for a third term in 1872, and while serving
the last term he was admitted to the bar. In 1875
he was elected as a Democrat to represent Pike County in
the General Assembly of his State, and re-elected in
1877. During the first session he was placed on
several important committees, and during the last
session was a member of the Judiciary on Consolidated
Laws, which committee had charge of the consolidation of
the general laws of the State as consolidated by that
General Assembly. He was also Chairman of the
Committee on Enrollment in the House. On Dec. 20,
1875, he resigned the office of Clerk of the Courts and
opened a law office in Waverly, the county seat of his
county, and since which time he has been actively
engaged in the practice of his profession, except during
the time he was in attendance on the sessions of the
General Assembly. He is recognized as one of the
leading members of the bar of his county. He was
married May 2, 1876, to Eliza V. Johnson, a
native of Waverly and a daughter of John H. Johnson.
Mr. Washburn's grandfather, Burgess Elliott,
was a native of Virginia, of English descent. He
was one of the early settlers of Pike County, coming
here before the county was organized. He served
through the war of 1812. He was County
Commissioner many years. He was a great historian,
being well versed in ancient and modern history.
He reared a family of three sons and seven daughters,
Mrs. Washburn being the youngest. His wife was
Sarah Ackley, a daughter of John Ackley, of
Kentucky, who was with General Crawford's command
when defeated by the Indians, and was taken prisoner and
burned at the stake.
Source: History of Lower Scioto
Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 773 |
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AMOS COLE WATTS, farmer and
stock-raiser, was born in Portsmouth, Scioto County,
Mar. 2, 1834, son of John and Mary (Haterman) Watts.
When he was four years of age his mother died, after
which he moved with his father to Jackson, where he
remained till he was fifteen years of age. He then
settled in Newton Township, Pike County, with his
father, with whom he lived till he grew to manhood.
In 1868 he was appointed Superintendent of the County
Infirmary, which position he held five years, and in
1873 he purchased his present farm of about 200 acres of
highly improved land. With the exception of five
years he was always followed farming pursuits, in which
he has been very successful. He was married Feb.
17, 1854, to Ellen Cochran, a native of Pike
County and a daughter of John Cochran. They
were the parents of two children, of whom only one is
living - Richard K. Alexander died when two
years of age. Mr. Watts and wife are
members of the Christian church.
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Waverly - Pee Pee Twp. -
LOUIS WEISS, third son of
Phillip and Margaret (Senk) Weiss, was born in
Germany in 1833. In 1839 his parents, with a
family of five children, came to the United States and
located in Waverly, Ohio. His father was by trade
a shoemaker, and followed that vocation till his death
in 1859. His mother died in till his death
in 1859. His mother died in 1851. In 1847
our subject began working a distillery, as a rectifier.
In 1880 he completed one of the finest business
buildings in the city, and is now the proprietor of a
fine restaurant and billiard parlor. He was
married in 1852 to Margaret, daughter of
Philip Christman. They have three children -
Philip, Elizabeth and George. IN
1861 Mr. Weiss enlisted in Company B,
Seventy-third Ohio Infantry, and participated in some of
the most severe battles of the war: Bull Run,
Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Chattanooga, New Hope
Church, Atlanta, Bentonville and many others. He
was discharged after a service of nearly four years.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley,
Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884
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RICHARD H. WELLS, farmer and fruit
grower, Marion Township, Pike Co., Ohio, was born in
Madison Township, Scioto Co., Ohio, the sixth of a
family of thirteen children whose parents were James
and Eliphiel (Morris) Wells. The former
emigrating to Ohio in 1816, from New York, was a son of
Richard and Deborah (Overton) Wells, formerly of Long
Island, his father being English and his mother Scotch.
James Wells and Eliphiel Morris were
married Jan. 16, 1823, the former died in 1871, aged
seventy-eight years, six months, twenty-three days.
The latter came from Delaware in 1816. She was
born in Maryland and passed her early childhood on the
shores of Chesapeake Bay. She came over the
mountains with her parents to Wheeling, W. Va., then
down the Ohio on a keel-boat. Our subject came to
Pike County, Ohio, when two years of age, with his
parents, remaining at home with them until he reached
his majority. He then traveled for some months,
visiting Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Memphis and
other cities. Returning home he was married Jan.
23, 1853, to Mary Ann Samson, daughter of
David and Nancy (Bennett) Samson. Mr. and Mrs.
Wells are the parents of seven children four of whom
are still living - David Samson, born Nov. 10,
1853, and is unmarried, residing at California, Pike
Co., Ohio; James Henry, born Dec. 23, 1855, and
died Mar. 20, 1858, at Albany, Athens Co., Ohio;
Sarah Jane, born Dec. 7, 1857, was married to M.
H. Dawson, Dec. 25, 1874, and now resides at
Voorhies, Piatt Co., Ill.; Nancy Ellen, born Feb.
25, 1860, married Sept. 22, 1879, to John W. Gordon
and now resides in Ohio; John V. Logan, born Jan.
17, 1865, was accidentally drowned Aug. 6, 1875;
Maggie Abigail, born Oct. 3, 1867, is yet unmarried;
George Thomas, born Mar. 20, 1872, died Sept. 14,
1876. The subject of this sketch possessing a
large amount of physical strength and an independent
turn of mind, starting in the world without capital, has
ever striven by honest labor to earn the necessaries of
life, often for months working eighteen out of the
twenty-four hours. After his marriage he went West
anticipating a removal, but after returning he deemed it
inexpedient and moved to Athens County, Ohio, remaining
there about three years; then went West again to look at
the country, came back, moved to Pike County, Ohio,
engaged in farming and mercantile business, and was
doing well up to the fall of 1861 when he enlisted in
the Fifty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served
as Orderly of Company F for abut two years never being
excused from duty during the time. His health
having failed he was compelled to cease active service
and when his regiment veteranized he was rejected on
account of disability. After serving over three
years he was discharged, since which time he has been
engaged in various occupations, having invented and
patented a trap for the protection of fruit and bees
from insects, and is now in the fruit business. In
politics Mr. Wells is a Republican and one of the
strongest supporters of its principles in this section.
As to character, unflinching for the right. He and
his wife have been from youth members of the United
Brethren Church.
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JACOB R. WHITE, saddle and harness
maker, California, Pike Co., Ohio, was born in
Belmont County, Ohio, Aug. 24, 1843, a son of Isaac
J. and Margaret (Finley) White, his father a
native of Wheeling, W. Va., born in 1817, and his mother
a native of Belmont County, Ohio, born in 1820.
His parents were married in 1840, and remained in
Belmont County till 1848. In October of the latter
year they removed to Jackson County, Ohio, where the
mother died in March, 1861, and the father April 6,
1872. They had a family of eight sons and one
daughter, the four eldest born in Belmont county and the
rest in Jackson County - John F., born in 1841;
Jacob R., our subject; William L., born in
1845; Ebenezer, born in 1847; Thomas J.,
Samuel, Isaac J., James H. and Nancy.
The last three named died in infancy. John and
Samuel died after reaching manhood.
Ebenezer is a farm in Jackson County.
William is a saddle and harness maker of Waterloo,
Lawrence Co., Ohio. Thomas J. is a
blacksmith of Marion, Lawrence County. Isaac J.
White was a Democrat in politics till 1861, but from
that time affiliated with the Republican party. He
was elected to many offices of trust; held the office of
Justice of the Peace twelve years. Oct. 29, 1861,
he enlisted in Company K, Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and
served nineteen months; was discharged on account of
disability. Jacob R., our subject, remained
on the farm with his father until Oct. 29, 1861, when he
enlisted in the same regiment with his father and served
two years and six months; then re-enlisted as a veteran
in the same regiment and served till May, 1866. He
participated in fourteen regular engagements, some of
the more important being Grand Gulf, Port Gibson,
Champion Hills, Vicksburg, Sabine Cross Roads, Jackson,
Miss. After his discharge he returned home, but
having contracted disease in the army was unable to
engage in any regular occupation for some time.
Dec. 28, 1868, he married Margaret R. Ramsey, a
native of Bloomfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio, born June 20,
1853. After his marriage he removed to Lucasville,
Scioto, Co., Ohio, and engaged in harnessmaking, in
partnership with A. M. Smith. In November,
1869, he withdrew and went to Porter, Gallia Co., Ohio,
and was in business there till October, 1872, when he
returned to Jackson County and resided on the farm of
J. L. Ramsey till April, 1875, when he removed to
California, where he has since been engaged in the
manufacture of saddles and harnesses. He has been
very successful in business and has built up a large and
lucrative trade. Politically he is a Democrat.
He has served as Township Clerk and Township Trustee
several terms each. He and his wife are members of
the Protestant Methodist church. They have had
four children - Presly R., born Sept. 4, 1869;
Maud R., Sept. 15, 1871; Frank B., Aug. 12,
1874; and an infant, deceased. Two of Mr. White's
brothers enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventeenth
Ohio Infantry, afterward the First Ohio Heavy Artillery
served three years and were discharged at Knoxville,
Tenn., June 20, 1865.
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JOSEPH L. WILLS, son of Peter
and Sarah Wills, was born Feb. 7, 1823, in Newton
Township. He was reared on his father's farm and
attended the public schools till he was nineteen years
of age, after which he taught school one term. In
1847 he was appointed Deputy Auditor of Pike County,
which office he filled a long time, when he resigned on
account of failing health, and engaged in agricultural
pursuits. He was married March 30, 1848, to
Miss Marvin, who was born on Long Island, May 2,
1828, and is a daughter of William and Nancy Marvin.
They have had two children - Jennie, born Nov.
14, 1853, now the wife of J. W. Stephenson, and
George A., born April, 28, 1850, and died June
22, 1873. Mr. Wills and his wife are active
members of the Methodist Episcopal church. His
parents were natives of New Jersey and moved to Ohio in
1818. His father died Oct. 15, 1867, at the age of
eighty-three years, and his mother died May 1, 1874,
aged eighty-four years. Mrs. Wills's parents
were of English descent and came to Ohio in 1830, where
his father died March 15, 1856, aged sixty-two years,
and her mother is still living in this State in her
eightieth year.
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LEWIS CYRUS WILSON was born July
23, 1847, in Highland County, Ohio, only son of James
H. and Rosana Wilson, who were also natives of Ohio.
In 1873 he purchased the mercantile interests of J.
E. Dewey, of Cynthiana, and carried on a general
mercantile business with success till April, 1883, when
he sold out and has since devoted his time to farming.
He has 214 acres of excellent land in Perry Township,
400 acres in Highland County and 192 acres in Ross
County. He was married Nov. 8, 1874, to E. A.
Steel, daughter of James and Jane Steel, of
Scioto Township, Ross Co., Ohio. They have been
blessed with four sons - James S., Lewis E.,
Alexander W. and Charles S. Mr.
Wilson has served as Postmaster at Cynthiana since
1873. In the spring of 1878 huge was elected Land
Appraiser in Perry Township, and in the spring of 1883
was elected Township Trustee. He and wife are
members of the Presbyterian church, of which he is a
Trustee, and in politics he is a Republican.
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GEORGE W. WOLFE, deceased, was
born in Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio, Nov. 3, 1830, a son
of George and Mary M. Wolfe. When he was
about five years of age his father removed to Waverly
where he was prominently engaged, and where he died
about the time of "Morgan's raid." George W.
was educated in the public schools of Waverly, and when
a young boy was hired by James Emmitt to weigh
out meal in his distillery. Proving himself
worthy, he was advanced from time to time, till in 1849
he was taken in as clerk in the mercantile store, where
he remained a number of years. In June, 1861, he
was taken in as partner in the store, and, with the
exception of two years he was out of business, remained
there till his death, Nov. 2, 1882. Mr. Wolfe
was a man of good business qualities, good judgment,
quick to act, energetic, and a good conversationalist.
He at one time took great interest and an active part in
politics. He was a Councilman of Waverly a number
of years, and was for some time a Director of the public
schools of Waverly. He was one of the Trustees of
the cemetery and superintended laying out the new
cemetery. He was married June 5, 1854, to
Francis Miller, a native of Pittsburg, Pa.
Their family consists of two sons - Joseph H.,
residing in California, and George L., a miller
at the flouring mills of Waverly.
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Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 774 |
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