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A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen & Putnam
Counties, Ohio
Containing Biographical Sketches of Many
Prominent and Representative Citizens,
Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the
Presidents of the United States
and Biographies of the
Governors of Ohio
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Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co.
1896
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JEREMIAH
BACON, a prosperous farmer of
Blanchard township, Putnam county, was born in
Licking county, Ohio, Apr. 5, 1836, a son of
George and Nancy (Stewart) Bacon. The
father, George Bacon, the eldest son of
Isaac and Ruth (Siler) Bacon, was born in
Berkeley county, Va., in 1803. He came to Ohio
in 1825 with his father who settled in Licking
county, and in 1836 came to Putnam county, where he
entered eighty acres of land in section No. 36,
Blanchard township, cleared up a fine farm, and here
passed the remainder of his life, dying Feb. 28,
1866, a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. In politics he was a democrat, and for
twenty years was assessor of his township. To
his marriage with Nancy Stewart were born
seven children as follows: Isaac,
deceased; Samuel, of Ottawa, Ohio;
Jeremiah, our subject, Eminger, deceased,
Homer, deceased; William, of
California, and Oscar, deceased. The
mother of this family died in 1886, and her mortal
remains now lie interred beside those of her husband
in the Harmon graveyard, in Blanchard township.
Jeremiah Bacon, whose name opens this biography,
received the usual common-school education furnished
to farmers' boys, his attention during his youthful
days being chiefly devoted to his farm duties and
the study of matters agricultural. In 1836 he
came to Putnam county with his parents and located
on forty acres of land in section No. 14, Blanchard
township, and here made his home for three years,
when he purchased the old homestead left by his
father. In 1883 he bought ninety additional
acres just west of the old, and now has under
cultivation 125 acres. He has built on his
place a substantial modern dwelling, has erected all
the necessary farm buildings, and the farm presents
as neat an appearance as any in the county, showing
the care it receives through the supervision of an
intelligent and skillful owner.
Oct. 19, 1862, Mr. Bacon was joined in wedlock
with Miss Catherine Smith and this union had
resulted in the birth of two children - Stoddard
and Rollo J., the last named having been
twice married, his first wife being a Miss
McClure and the second a Miss Eva
Moffitt. In politics Mr.
Bacon is a democrat, and has filled the office
of township trustee; in religion he is a Methodist,
being a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church at
Gilboa; fraternally he is a member of the Ottawa
lodge, No. 325, F. & A. M , and socially he stands
with the best people in the township.
Source: A Portrait
and Biographical Record of Allen & Putnam Counties,
Ohio, Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1896 - Page
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JOHN BACON,
one of the oldest and best known farmers of
Blanchard township, Putnam county, Ohio, was born in
Virginia, Aug. 8, 1820, and is the third son in the
family of nine children born to
Isaac and Ruth
(Siler) Bacon. His
grandfather, also named John, was a native of
Ireland, of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to
America prior to the Revolutionary war, in which he
served, later settling in Tennessee, where he passed
the remainder of his life, having reared five sons
and three daughters, four of the sons subsequently
finding homes in Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee.
ISAAC BACON,
the second son of John the elder, was born
Nov. 10, 1775, in Tennessee, and was reared a
fanner. He served in the war of 1812, as a
volunteer from Virginia, in which state he had
settled, and in September, 1825, came to Ohio and
located on a farm he had previously purchased in
Licking county, and on which he resided until 1852,
when he came to Putnam county and passed the
remainder of his life with his children in Blanchard
township, dying July 17, 1862. He was married,
Jan. 22, 1801, to Miss Ruth Siler, who was
born near Martinsburg, Va., June 13, 1778, a
daughter of Jacob Siler. This
lady died Aug. 15, 1866, the mother of the following
children: George; Elizabeth, who
married George Barnes and died in
1838; Jeremiah S., who died in Louisiana
after the close of the Civil war; Agnes, who
was first married to James McDowell,
then to William Sackett, and died in
1882; Mary, wife of Eli H. Maxwell,
died in Blanchard township; Ruth, died in
infancy; John, the subject of this sketch;
Jane, the wife of Henry Dusch,
died in Gilboa, Ohio, and Isaac who died in
Licking county, Ohio.
John Bacon, our subject, was brought to
Ohio by his parents, who located in nicking county.
At the age of twenty-one years he came to Putnam
county and purchased eighty acres of land in section
22, Blanchard township, cleared and improved the
tract, and added twenty acres additional, but now
retains forty acres only, living, as he does, in
comparative retirement Mr. Bacon was
first married to Miss Jane French,
daughter of Robert French, and there
resulted to this union five children, as follows:
James; Olivia; now Mrs. Theodore
Patrick; Harriet, married to D. S.
Blakeman; Mary J., deceased, wife of
Cyrus Worden, and Clement L., who
died at four years of age. The mother of this
family died in 1870, and for his second helpmate
Mr. Bacon chose Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon,
daughter of Henry Sherred, and this
union has been blessed by the birth of one daughter,
Ruth, who is now a public school-teacher.
In politics Mr. Bacon has been a
life-long democrat and has served as township
trustee, and for nine years has been a member of the
school board; he is a gentleman highly honored for
his integrity and public spirit, and his worth is
freely admitted by all who have ever had the
pleasure of his acquaintanceship.
Source: A Portrait and Biographical Record of
Allen & Putnam Counties, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: A. W.
Bowen & Co., 1896 - Page 28 |
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HON.
SAMUEL S. BACON, druggist,
Ottawa, Putnam county, Ohio, and a resident of the
city for over a quarter of a century, was born in
Licking county, Ohio, July 11, 1833, a son of
George and Nancy (Stewart) Bacon, natives,
respectively, of Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The Bacon family were doubtless of
English descent, but for several generations they
resided in Virginia. The grandparents of our
subject, Isaac and Ruth (Siler) Bacon, came
to Ohio from Virginia about 1825, and located in
Licking county, whence they came to Putnam county,
and died at the advanced age of eighty-two years. Isaac
Bacon was a patriot of the war of 1812, was a
man of the strictest integrity, and detested a
prevaricator. To Isaac and Ruth were
born nine children, viz: George, the father
of our subject; Elizabeth, deceased wife of
George Barnes, of Licking county;
Jeremiah S., a school-teacher, student of
medicine and a ripe scholar, died in Louisiana after
the close of the late war; Agnes, widow of
the late James McDowell, of Putnam
county, and the deceased wife of William
Sackett, she dying in 1882; Mary, wife of
Eli H. Maxwell, of Gilboa, Putnam county;
Ruth, who died in infancy; John, a farmer
of Blanchard township, Putnam county; Jane, deceased
wife of Henry Dush, of Putnam county,
also deceased, and Isaac, who died in boyhood, in
Licking county, Ohio.
GEORGE BACON,
the father Hon. of S. S. Bacon, passed the
early part of his manhood in Licking county, was
there married, and in 1836, with his wife and three
children came to Putnam county, bought eighty acres
of land in Blanchard township, to which he
subsequently added forty acres, making in all 120
acres, on which he resided until his death. Feb. 22,
1866, at the age of sixty-six years; his widow
survived until 1886, when she died at the age of
seventy-eight years. The\ had born to them a family
of seven children, named as follows: Isaac, a
deceased farmer of Putnam county; Samuel S., the
subject of this sketch; Jeremiah, a farmer of
Blanchard township; Homer, who died when
about nineteen years of age; Wilson, who also
died when a young man; William, who served in
the Ninth Ohio cavalry during the late war, was with
Sherman on his march to the sea, and is now a farmer
of Sacramento Valley, Cal., and Oscar, who
died in early manhood.
Hon. Samuel S. Bacon was reared on the home farm
in Blanchard township, Putnam county, Ohio, was
educated in the common schools, and at the age of
twenty years began teaching school during the winter
seasons, employing his vacations on the farm.
For one year he taught in Licking county, and for
five or six years followed the vocation in Putnam
county, acquiring a fine reputation as an educator.
In 1859 he engaged in mercantile business in Gilboa,
Putnam counts Ohio, and five years later engaged in
buying and shipping live stock, in which occupation
he employed himself for about twelve years, doing an
extensive business. Mr. Bacon is
quite popular with the democratic party, and for
several years was a a justice of the peace in
Blanchard township, and also served as mayor of
Gilboa. In 1878 he was elected probate judge
of Putnam county, was re-elected in 1881, and
occupied the bench in all six years. In 1885
he purchased a half interest in the drug store of
Justice Bros., at Ottawa, in 1887 became
the sole proprietor, and now carries one of the most
complete stocks pertaining to a first-class
establishment of the kind to be found in the county
of Putnam.
The marriage of Mr. Bacon took place Mar.
16, 1858, to Miss Emeline H. Stewart,
a daughter of Andrew, a soldier in the war of
1812, and Elizabeth (Borst) Stewart.
She was reared in Huntington county, Pa., where she
was born Aug. 28, 1835. To this union were
born three children, viz: A son, who died in
infancy; Jessie M., who died Jan. 12, 1873,
at the age of six years; Gertrude P., born
Jan. 4, 1871, now wife of Alton R. Robenalt,
a pharmacist in the employ of Mr. Bacon,
and to this union one child, named Samuel S.,
was born Dec. 9, 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Bacon,
and their daughter and her husband, are members of
the Presbyterian church, of which Mr.
Bacon has been an elder for the past fifteen
years, and represented Lima Presbytery in the
general assembly of the Presbyterian church of the
United States of America, in conference at
Minneapolis in 1886. Mr. Bacon
was made a Mason in 1870, at Ottawa, and is now a
member of the Ottawa lodge, No. 325. He is a
thoroughly progressive gentleman, and as such is
fully recognized by his party and the public at
large. Beside the office held by him as alluded to
above he was appointed, in 1889, by the city
council, mayor of Ottawa to fill a vacancy, a
position he held for one year with credit to himself
and to the full satisfaction of the public.
It may be well here to add that while on the bench as
probate judge Mr. Bacon had a case
before him in which an appeal from his decision was
carried to the court of common pleas, in which
judgment was reversed; the case was then carried to
the district court, in which the decision of the
common pleas court was sustained; from the district
court the case was appealed to the supreme court of
the state, which gave a final judgment, sustaining
the decision of Judge Bacon. In
all his judicial career Mr. Bacon
carefully weighed every point in the cases brought
before him, and not one of his decisions was ever
successfully appealed from. He is a profound
thinker, is a gentleman of sound judgment, and
deservedly holds the full esteem and confidence of
the people of Putnam county.
Source: A Portrait
and Biographical Record of Allen & Putnam Counties,
Ohio, Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1896 - Page
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HENRY
BENROTH, an industrious farmer of Union
township, Putnam county, Ohio, was born in Openheim,
Germany, on the river Rhine, Apr. 26, 1842, a son of
Charles and Johannetta (Scheler) Benroth.
The father, Charles Benroth, was a cooper by
trade, and in religion was a Catholic, while his
wife, Johannetta, was an adherent of the
Lutheran church. Philip Benroth father
of Charles, was also a cooper, and was a man
of considerable wealth. These parents,
Charles and Johnetta, had born to them five
children, viz: Charley a farmer of
Hancock county, Ohio; Anton and Rosa,
deceased; Henry of this sketch; and George,
of Bluffton, Ohio. The father, Charles
Benroth, died when Henry, our subject,
was but four years of age, and Johannetta,
the mother died a year later, or when Henry had
reached his fifth year.
Henry Benroth, our subject, attended school in
Germany until fourteen years old and then learned
the locksmith's trade. May 20, 1864, he came
to America, landing in New York, whence he went to
Philadelphia, then to Chicago, passing six weeks in
each place, and then came to Ohio, where his eldest
brother had made his home, in Allen county.
Subsequently our subject found work in a machine
shop at Lima, Ohio, and here, also, Oct. 19, 1865,
he married Sallie Light, who was born in
Richland county, Ohio, June 25, 1843, a daughter of
David and Barbara (Fackler) Light, who, also
in 1863, moved to Allen county. David Light
was born in Pennsylvania in 1811, and was a
grandson of a hero of the Revolutionary war.
Barbara Light was also a native of
Pennsylvania, and more in relation to her family may
be found in the sketch of
Henry Fackler, of Van Wert county. To
this union of Henry and Sallie Benroth have
been born ten children, viz.: Mary,
wife of William Vandemark, of Union township;
Seymour farmer of same; Charles
machinist, of Deshler; Amos, farmer, at home;
Sadie, attending school; Minna, also a
school girl; Emma, born Jan. 24, 1887; and
David, George and Sarah died when young.
After his marriage Mr. Benroth continued to live
in Lima until 1867, working in the machine shop; and
then, coming to Putnam county shortly after,
engaged in saw-milling. In 1873 he bought his
present farm, which he cleared from the woods by his
own labor, and transformed in time into one of the
brightest spots in Putnam county. He continued
to operate his saw-mill until 1890, when he sold
out, but still keeps his farm up to his high
standard, and his dwelling, which he built in 1876,
is tidy, neat and handsome. Mr. Benroth
is a natural mechanic, and has put up a number of
both frame and brick dwellings and churches; in
politics he is a democrat, being at present a school
director, but he votes rather for a good man than
for a party nominee; in religion he affiliates, with
his wife, with the Christian church, although he was
reared a Lutheran and a Catholic, he is, in fact, a
man who thinks for himself, and of such as he are
communities made and put forward to positions of
prominence and usefulness.
Source: A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen & Putnam
Counties, Ohio, Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1896 - Page 52 |
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