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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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JAMES PATRICK |
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THOS. W. PRENTISS |
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BENJAMIN A. PRICE,
D.D.S., is a native of Ohio, born in Belmont
county, Feb. 17, i860. He is a son of
GEORGE and Sidney A.
(Wilson) PRICE, the father
deceased, and the mother still living in the above
county. Dr. Price is descended
paternally from English ancestors, and from the
mother he inherits the characteristics of the
English, Welsh and Irish races. The Price
family has been in America for several
generations, the doctor’s grandfather, a native of
Baltimore, having served with distinction in the
last war with Great Britain. He was a
physician, a school-teacher and a farmer, a
prominent man in his locality and an active member
of the society of Friends. He and wife had a
family of six children, all of whom are deceased.
The doctor’s father, George Price, was a
farmer and stock raiser, and died at the age of
thirty-nine years, leaving five children—John,
deceased; Sullivan, Benjamin A.,
George and Amos. Dr.
Price spent his boyhood on the home farm looking
after the interests of his mother and younger
members of the family, and attended, as
opportunities would admit, such schools as the
country afforded. At the age of twenty-two
years, he went to Arkansas, but failing to meet with
success in that state, returned after two years of
hardship and worked on the home farm in the summer,
and attended school during the winter season for a
couple of years, he proved a close student, and in
the spring of 1886 taught his first term of school,
and the same year went to Sedalia, Mo., where he
engaged in the cigar business. After a short
time spent in that city, Mr. Price
went Iowa, in which state he was engaged in teaching
from the fall of 1887 until 1890. In the
meantime, he pursued his studies, and in the fall of
the latter year was graduated from the normal school
of Greenfield, Iowa, after which he went to Afton,
to begin the study of dentistry, under the
instruction of Dr. Phillips. He
further prepared himself for efficiency in his
profession by taking a thorough course in the Iowa
State university of Iowa City, graduating from that
institution Mar. 10, 1892. After finishing his
course the doctor practiced at different places in
Iowa and Kansas, and while looking for a favorable
location selected the town of Malvern in the former
state. There he met Miss Mary L. Baird,
daughter of Chauncy and Martha (Silversides)
Baird, to whom he was united m manage May 22,
1895. Soon after his marriage, Dr. Price
concluded to seek a field further east; accordingly
he came direct to Ottawa, Ohio, May 23, 1895, and
has already succeeded in building up a lucrative
practice in this city. The doctor is a man of
energy, endowed with a goodly share of what is known
as pluck, and his friends predict for him success in
his chosen calling. He is amember of the K. of
P. and the I. O. O. F. fraternities, belongs to the
K. O. T. M., and is a member of the Iowa State
Dental association.
The parents of Mrs. Price were natives of
New York; the father died May 28, 1893. He was
for many years a minister of the Baptist church and
did much missionary work in Iowa, where he located
in an early day. He became the father of ten
children, the following of whom are still living,
O. W. Baird, physician of Marquette, Kans;
Channing C., business man of Iowa; Mary L.,
wife of the subject; Henry J., graduate of
the Iowa State university and attorney at law;
John L., farmer and stock raiser of Mills
county, Iowa, and Lila L., wife of H. K.
Wills, agent and operator at Union, Nebr.
Mrs. Price was born in Dallas county,
Iowa, Apr. 17, 1858, is a graduate of the Western
Normal school, taught school for some years and is
an expert stenographer and type-writer.
Source: A Portrait and
Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties,
Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co. - 1896 -
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WILLIAM PRICE,
a deceased farmer of Perry township, Putnam county,
Ohio, was a son of William and Susan (Decker)
Price and was born in Virginia Sept. 30, 1827.
The parents were also natives of Virginia and came
to Putnam county, Ohio, in 1830.
William Price our subject, was reared in Jackson
township, Putnam county, and at the age of fourteen
years began to make a living for himself, helping to
construct the canal. Dec. 5, 1846, he married
Miss Ruth Jones who was born in Richland
county, Ohio, Dec. 31, 1827, a daughter of Moses
and Mary (Gannin) Jones, the former a native of
New York and the latter of Pennsylvania, of Dutch
parentage. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs.
Price were born nine children, as follows:
Nathan George and William Henry,
deceased; Samuel on the home place;
Andrew, deceased; James Reuben, deceased;
Lucretia, deceased, Martha Ellen,
wife of Harvey Combs, of Perry
township, James, deceased and one who died in
infancy. A sister of Mrs. Price.
Mrs. Mary Elbin, is a resident of Columbus
Grove, Ohio. Moses Jones, father of
Mrs. Price, was a democrat in politics
and in religion a Presbyterian, in which church he
held several offices, in wife being a member of the
same denomination.
After marriage, William Price settled on the
home farm now occupied by his widow, which farm he
cleared from the woods and for several years the
family dwelt in a log cabin, but in 1863 erected the
modern dwelling that now adorns the place and which
was his happy home until his death from typhoid
fever, Feb. 11, 1880. Mr. Price
was a democrat in his politics and held the office
of school director; in religion he was liberal in
his view's, but was a regular attendant at the
United Brethren church, although he was not a member
of the congregation. He had been a
hard-working man, was an excellent farmer and a
shrewd and accomplished business man, and by his
unaided efforts and industry became the owner of 430
acres of good land. He was a kind and loving
husband and an indulgent father, a true friend and
obliging neighbor, and his death was sincerely
mourned by the entire community in which he had
passed so many years of his active life.
Mrs. Ruth Price, whose grandfather was a soldier
in the Revolutionary war, was a faithful and
affectionate helpmate to her husband and aided him
acquiring a competency, and as a mother few have
excelled her in the exercise of her maternal duties.
Beside her own children, she has reared one
grandchild, Eva, now the wife of Stemen
Stevick, of Perry township, on whom she has
bestowed as much care and attention as she has upon
her own children. For twenty years Mrs.
Price was a
member of the United Brethren church, but for the
passed eighteen years has been a consistent member
of the Christian church. She is a truly pious
lady, charitable to all the poor about her, and
honored and respected throughout the township by
rich and poor alike. Beside the general
respect enjoyed by Mrs. Price, a large
circle of private and personal friends and
acquaintances never tire in manifesting for her an
ardent friendship.
Source: A Portrait and
Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties,
Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co. - 1896 -
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EPHRAIM
PROWANT is one of the most prominent and
successful farmers of Perry township, Putnam county,
Ohio, is the youngest son of
CHRISTIAN and Catherine (Gabel)
PROWANT, and was born Oct. 2,
1842, on a farm in the section joining the one where
he now lives. He laid the foundation of the
education in an old fashioned log school-house not
far from his home. Opportunities for acquiring
knowledge were few, but he made the most of his
advantages, and every since has sought diligently
after knowledge. His boyhood days were passed
on his father's farm, and when the time came for
choosing an occupation he decided to cast his lot
with the every-to-be respected and substantial class
of our citizens, the farmer.
On Feb. 15, 1863, he married Mary, the
daughter of JOSEPH D. and
Elizabeth (Shenk) MYERS;
she was born in Greensburg township, Putnam county,
Ohio, June 8, 1841. Her father was a native of
Maryland, and was born in 1802. He was reared
on a farm and married Elizabeth, the daughter
of Michael and Barbara (Wideman) Shenk, and
was born in Canada, near Toronto, June 20, 1816.
Mr. and Mrs. Shenk were among the first to
settle in Putnam county, coming here about 1836,
traveling the entire distance of 500 miles in a
small wagon drawn by one horse, and much of the way
they had to make their own road, cutting down timber
and underbrush so their small wagon could be drawn
through to their destination, then an unbroken
wilderness, where the Indians still loved to hunt,
where bears, wolves and deer and small game were
plentiful. Mr. Shenk located in
Greensburg township and went hard to work to erect a
small log house for his family and to clear a place
where he could raise something for their immediate
necessities. By hard and faithful work he
finally had a farm cleared for himself, and this he
continued to improve until he had one of the best in
that section; he was an active member of the
Menonnite church and a prominent and public-spirited
citizen. His death occurred in October, 1885, his
wife surviving him nearly four years, dying Apr. 19,
1889. Their family consisted of seven
children, Mary, the wife of the subject of
this sketch, being the eldest; Jonas,
deceased; Nancy, the widow of Daniel
Hoover, of Indiana; Michael, deceased;
Barbara and Fannie, still live on the
old home place, and Sophia, the wife of
Joseph T. Crow, a farmer of Palmer township.
After his marriage, Mr. Prowant, the
subject of our biographical sketch, took his young
wife to the old Prowant homestead,
where he took charge of the entire farm, relieving
his parents of the most of their duties. After
the death of his father, in 1867, he purchased the
old homestead place and live there until 1883, when
he moved to a piece of uncleared land, which he
purchased in 1863, six months after his marriage—a
son purchasing his former home, the original
Prowant home. Having moved upon the
new land, he set resolutely to work clearing it,
living in a log cabin for several years. By
hard work, early and late, he was soon able to see
tine fields of grain standing where but a short time
before stood nothing but large forest trees.
He continued to improve his farm and soon could
boast of one of the best tilled farms in the
township. In 1887 he built a fine large barn,
and tile following year his present large and
commodious two-story house. In 1895 he built
another large barn to hold his ever-increasing
harvests. Every year he added to his
improvements, but all his prosperity has not been
without some reverses. On Mar. 9, 1872, he
lost his home and entire contents by tire, and
again, Aug. 20, 1883, lire visited him, his barn
being struck by lightning and destroyed, but he had
the latter covered by insurance except about $800.
These tires occurred while living on the old
homestead. These losses did not discourage
him, but he set to work more resolutely to retrieve
them, and the prosperous looks of everything about
the place show that he has fully done so. He
has 120 acres under cultivation, and it is
considered one of the especially good farms in this
township. He makes a specialty of raising
short-horned cattle, Poland China hogs and horses of
the higher grades. Politically he is a stanch
republican and has been intrusted with the office of
township trustee for four terms. He has also
been a member of the school board for a number of
years and takes an active interest in all things
that are for the good of the neighborhood. He
is not a member of any church, although his wife is
member of the Menonnite church, to which he he gives
liberally. He is a thoroughly self-made man,
having begun life with only a team of horses, which
he had paid for by the savings of many months of
hard labor, working by the month. He is
prominent and influential in the neighborhood and is
known as one of the most progressive farmers in the
township. His family consists of six children:
Noah W., druggist of Dupont; Joseph C.,
who farms the old Myers place in
Greensburg township, and
with him Mrs. Prowant’s two maiden
sisters live; Jacob D., a farmer of Perry
township, owning and living on the original
Prowant homestead, where his father was born;
Henry Orlando, a farmer at home; Elizabeth E.,
the only daughter, who still lives at home, and
Michael E., also at home.
Source: A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and
Van Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen
& Co. - 1896 - Page 423 |
REV. JOHN PROWANT
MRS. JOHN PROWANT |
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