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Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio
Illustrated
By A. J. Baughman, Editor
Published Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Co.
1901
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FRANK
ABBOTT. There is, in the anxious and laborious
struggle for an honorable competence and a solid career of the
business or professional an fighting the every-day battle of
life, but little to attract the idle reader in search of a
sensational chapter; but for a mind thoroughly awake to the
reality and meaning of human existence, there are noble and
immortal lessons in the life of the man, who, without other
means than a clear head, a strong arm, and a true heart,
conquers adversity, and toiling on through the work-a day years
of a long career finds that he has won not only wealth but also
something far greater and higher, - the deserved respect and
esteem of those with whom his years of active life placed him in
contact.
Such a man, and one of the leading citizens of Shelby,
Ohio, is Frank A. Abbott, who was born in "Spencer,
Medina county, Ohio, Mar. 8, 1857, his parents being Arby
Jennings and Martha M. (Thorp) Abbott. The Abbott
family is one well known in America, for the name figures
conspicuously on the pages of her history in connection with
important events. The subject of this review is descended
from one of three brothers who came from England in 1648,
settling in Massachusetts, and of the same family the celebrated
George Abbott was a representative. The paternal
grandparents of our subject were Daniel and Sally Bellows
Abbott, who removed from the Empire state to Ohio in the
year 1833. The father was a farmer and blacksmith, but he
was not long permitted to enjoy his new home, his death
occurring in February, 1837. In his family were ten
children, namely: Daniel, who was born Nov. 3, 1805, and
died Feb. 1, 1836; Charlotte, born Nov. 2, 807, and died
Sept. 1, 1836; Leverette, who was born July 15, 1809, and
died Feb. 8, 1878; Eliza A., who was born Apr. 20, 1811;
Sally, who was born Aug. 5, 1813; Abigail, born
Mar. 27, 1815; Charles, born Mar. 8, 1817; Arby
Jennings, born Nov. 10, 1819; Elvira, who was born
Aug. 10, 1821, and died at the age of ten years, ten months and
twenty days; and Sidney, who was born Mar. 8, 1825.
Arby Jennings Abbott, the father of our subject,
was born in Lebanon, Madison county, New York, Nov. 10, 1819,
and in 1833, when fourteen years of age, he came with his
parents to Ohio. In 1846 he was united in marriage with
Miss Martha M. Thorp, of New York. Their eldest son
was born in May, 1853, and died Sept. 1, 1879. Mr.
Abbott was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a
man of the highest respectability.
Frank A. Abbott, whose name introduces this
review, has spent his entire life in Ohio. The year 1875
witnessed his arrival in Shelby, where he has made his home for
a quarter of a century. With his brother, William L.,
he engaged in the drug business, the partnership continuing
until his brother's death in 1879. Mr. Abbott was
then alone in business for two years, when he sold his store to
J. Frank Rhooks and turned his attention to the hardwood
lumber business, to which he has since given his energies.
At the present time he is also dealing in carriages and is
interested in the patent-right business, under the firm name of
Bevans & Abbott, his partner being Dr. Bevans.
He has maintained a lively interest in the advancement of the
industrial and commercial interests of the city of his adoption
and has contributed largely to its progress and substantial
upbuilding. In all business transactions he is reliable,
energetic and determined, and these qualities have insured him a
gratifying success.
In 1884 occurred the marriage of Mr. Abbott to
Miss Amy Myers, a daughter of Professor John and Lydia
(Hurksler) Myers. Their union has been blessed with
three children: William Jennings, born Aug. 2, 1885, and
Martha and Myers, twins, born in September, 1886.
While Mr. Abbott has not been an aspirant for political
honors, he has twice been elected to serve as township
treasurer, being chosen for the position on the Republican
ticket. A man of genial and social nature and one who is
most appreciative of the amenities which go to make up the sum
of human happiness, he has identified himself with the Knights
of Pythias. He attends the services of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and as one of the public-spirited men of the
town he withholds his support from no interest or movement
calculated to prove of general good.
Source #4: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co.,
Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 655 |
WILLIAM
K. ALBERTSON, deceased, formerly of Shelby, Ohio, was
born in New York, a son of Cornelius and Margaret (Shiltz)
Albertson, who removed to Columbiana county, Pennsylvania,
in the early part of the nineteenth century. The date of
his birth was Mar. 13, 1823, and on Oct. 12, 1844, the autumn of
the election of James K. Polk to the presidency, he was
married to Sarah Valk, a daughter of Peter and Mary (Parkes)
Valk, the former of whom was a native of Holland and the
latter of New Jersey. She was a member of a family
consisting of seven daughters and two sons.
Mr. and Mrs. Albertson were the parents of one
son and four daughters, as follows: Manervia Ann,
the wife of Amos P. McBride, and who died in 1884, at the
age of thirty-two years; Mary Matilda, who died in 1882,
aged twenty-four years; two daughters that died in infancy; and
Lewis Butler, who was born in 1848, and has always
followed farming for a living. He married Miss Sarah
Sutter, a daughter of John Sutter, of Shelby, and to
this marriage there has been one son, William, in 1871.
William K. Albertson, the subject of this
sketch, four years after his marriage removed to Richland
county, Ohio, driving through from his former home in
Pennsylvania with a team of his own. For several years
after reaching this county he followed farming, then buying a
home in Shelby, where he lived the remainder of his years,
making his livelihood as a millwright and carpenter. He
was a most excellent citizen, was a stanch Democrat in politics,
and attended the United Brethren church. His death
occurred on Aug. 25, 1889, when he was sixty-six years of age,
and was keenly felt by all his friends as well as by his family
and other relatives. He is well remembered for his many
fine qualities, being an upright, honorable and highly esteemed
member of the community in which he lived.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio
- Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 116 |
SAMUEL ANDREWS.
A man's life and labors make him known to his fellow citizens,
and Samuel Andrews needs no introduction to the men and women of
Monroe township, Richland county, Ohio, but a man's life and
works entitled him to the remembrance of mankind in the
generations after he has passed away from the active field of
human endeavor, and it is to record the chief incidents in his
busy and useful career that this brief biographical sketch has
been prepared and is presented in this connection.
Samuel Andrews was born on the farm on which he
now lives July 29, 1840, a son of James and Lovina
(Carrick) Andrews. His father was a native of
Jefferson county, Ohio, married there and in 1823 located in
Monroe township, Richland county, on the farm now owned and
occupied by the subject of this sketch, which had been purchased
from the government by Colonel John Andrews, his father, who had
served this country in the battles of the war of 1812, who was
born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, and who died in Richland
county, Ohio. Few improvements had been made on the place
when James Andrews took up his home on it.
He built a log cabin for a temporary residence and later
provided his family with a more comfortable home and made a good
farm, on which he died in 1850, aged fifty-four years.
James and Lovina (Carrick) Andrews had children
as follows, mentioned in the order of their nativity:
John G., who lives at Freeport, Michigan;
James, who died in 1898; William,
who died in 1892; Mary J., who lives at Beaver
Dam, Indiana; David, a sergeant in the One
Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the
war of the Rebellion, who died at Vicksburg; Joseph,
who served in the Civil war in the Sixty-fourth Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and now lives at Atchison, Kansas; and
Samuel.
Samuel
Andrews was reared on his father's farm and educated in
the district schools. Like some of his brothers above
mentioned, he risked his life in defense of the Union in the
great war with the south. Oct. 9, 1861, he enlisted as a
private in the Sixth Ohio Battery for three years or during the
war. He was mustered into the service at Mansfield, Ohio,
and went in turn to Louisville, Columbia and Jamestown,
Kentucky. At the last mentioned place he helped to guard
the approaches to the Cumberland river. From Jamestown he
went to Nashville, Tennessee, and thence to Huntsville, Alabama,
and then to Stephenson, in the same state, and from there back
to Louisville, Kentucky, and there he was taken ill and was
taken to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was discharged from the
service on account of disability, November 2, 1862. He at
once returned home and assumed the management of the
Andrews homestead, which became his in 1874, when he
bought the interest of the other heirs of his father in the
same.
Mr. Andrews
was married, June 9, 1864, to Miss Amanda Wiles,
sister of Rev. Mr. Wiles, a minister of the
gospel well and favorably known in this vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have had children named as
follows: Cary S., of Shelby, Ohio;
Minnie; Alta, the wife of
Frank Inks; Lovina;
Lloyd; Herman, who is dead; and
another child who died in infancy. In politics Mr.
Andrews is a stanch Republican, a consistent voter and
worker for the prevalence of the principles of his party, but
not an office-seeker and not in the accepted sense of the term
an active politician. He ranks with the leading general
farmers of his township and is the owner of one hundred and
fifty-six acres of good land, one hundred and thirty-five acres
of which is under cultivation. He keeps alive the memory
of the days when he was a soldier by membership of Swigert Post,
Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is one of the honored
past commanders, and he is a devoted and generously helpful
member off the Lutheran church, upon the services of which he
and his family are attendants. In all things he is a good
and useful citizen, public-spirited to an unusual degree and
with the welfare of his township and county close to his heart.
Source #4: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio
- Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 557 |
MRS.
SARAH JANE ARTER is one of the estimable ladies of
Sandusky township, Richland county. She has long resided
here, so that she is widely known in the community. She is
the widow of George Arter, who died on the old home farm
June 21, 1896, in his seventy-fifth year. He was born in
Sandusky county Dec. 20, 1822, and a son of Henry Arter
who was born in Maryland in 1799 and died in Wyandot county,
Ohio, in 1879. His father, George Arter, was a
slaveholder in Maryland. The family originated in Germany.
Henry Arter came to Ohio about 1830, previous to which
time he had wedded Miss Susannah Musselman, also a native
of Maryland. Coming to the Buckeye state, they began life
anew in the woods in Springfield township, two miles from the
present Arter homestead. There they reared seven of
their nine children. After the death of the mother the
father wedded Delilah Huddle, who bore him three
children, and of his ten sons and daughters who reached mature
age and were married four are yet living, namely: Musselman,
who resides in Williams county, Ohio, at the age of
seventy-four; Elizabeth, the widow of Timothy Young,
and is living in California, at the age of seventy-one years;
John, who is living in Bushnell, Illinois, at the age of
sixty-nine; and Daniel, who also is living in Bushnell,
at the age of sixty-seven.
George Arter was reared amid the wild scenes of
frontier life in Richland county, and after he had arrived at
man's estate he wedded Sarah Jane Walters, a daughter of
George and Mary (McGrew) Walters. Her father was
born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1799, and her
mother in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1803. They were
married about 820 and located on a tract of timber land east of
Mansfield, this having been entered by his father from the
government. There they became the parents of five
children, three of whom reached adult age, namely: John,
who was born in 1822 and is now a retired farmer of Crestline;
Rebecca, the wife of Matthew Reid, who went to
California, her death occurring in Los Angeles, that state,
about 1890; and Mrs. Sarah Jane Arter. The father
died in 1875, being killed on the railroad track. His wife
survived him until 1879, passing away at the age of seventy-six.
Mrs. Arter acquired a good education in the
district schools, and was early trained to the work of the
household. On the 31st of December, 1846, she gave her
hand in marriage to George Arter and they began their domestic
life in Putnam county in the midst of the forest. The land
had been entered from the government by her father, but was wild
and unimproved. After making some improvements there they
sold the property and removed to Crawford county, locating near
Crestline. This was in 1850. Again Mr. Arter
began the development of a new farm in the midst of a forest,
having sixty acres of land, which he cleared and placed under a
high state of cultivation. He erected good buildings on
the place and made many substantial improvements, after which he
sold the property and came to the homestead in Sandusky township
in 1874. Here he secured one hundred and five acres.
He improved the land and continued to make his home upon the
place until his death. He followed progressive methods of
farming. He built a new house upon his farm and carried on
his place with marked energy. His determined purpose
enabled him to conquer all difficulties and work his way
steadily upward. Thus he acquired a handsome competence,
becoming one of the wealthy agriculturists in his section of the
county.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Arter were born nine children.
They lost one son in infancy, and John D., their fourth
child, died at the age of seventeen years. The others are:
Rebecca Ellen, the wife of Daniel Bean,
a farmer of Sandusky township; George Fremont, who
follows farming in this locality; Mary Alwilda,
the wife of Aaron Oldfield, of Crawford county;
Sarah Jane, the wife of John Hout, of
Springfield township; Delilah Grace, the wife of
Frank Smith, of Crestline; Charles Henry,
who cultivates the old home farm of one hundred acres; and
Florence Bell, the wife of Willard Frank,
of Galion. These children were all reared to farm life and
received good educational privileges. Mrs. Arter
has lost one grandchild and now has eleven granddaughters, ten
grandsons and four great-grandchildren. She is till
vigorous in mind and body, - a most estimable lady, who enjoys
the high regard of many friends. Her home is close to that
of her son Charles, the two residences standing in the
same yard.
Charles Arter was married, in 1891, to
Miss Mollie L. Parke, who died in 1895, leaving two
children: Ruth E., born Oct. 24, 1891; and
Charles Parke, who is now seven years of age. The
father was again married in 1898, his second union being with
Nora Shambaugh, by whom he has a little son, Clarence
Albert, born Sept. 9, 1899. Mr. Arter is a
Republican and has served as highway commissioner and is a
member of the school board.
George Arter, the husband of Mrs. Sarah Jane
Arter, was a vigorous and healthy man during the greater
part of his life, and was a great worker, continuing his active
connection with business affairs until but a short time before
his death, when a small cancer developed upon his temple, soon
terminating his life. He possessed excellent business and
executive force. He was a man of keen discernment and of
marked energy, carrying forward to successful completion
whatever he undertook. He left to his family an estate
valued at about one hundred thousand dollars, and thus his widow
is amply provided with all the necessities and many of the
luxuries of life. He was a consistent member of the
Methodist Episcopal church and with that denomination Mr.
Arter is still identified.
Source #4: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co.,
Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 614 |
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