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JOSEPH TAYLOR.  One of the substantial farmers of Richland county, Joseph Taylor is now practically living retired in Springfield township, where he owns a valuable tract of one hundred acres.  His life has been one of marked activity in business affairs and his present rest from labor is therefore well merited.  He was born in Lincolnshire, England, Feb. 9, 1814, a son of Robert Taylor.  The days of his youth were passed in his native land and in the year 1851 he sailed for America on the three-masted vessel, Constantine, of the Swallow Tail line, making the passage in four weeks and five days from Liverpool to New York.  He did not tarry in the eastern metropolis but went to Albany and thence to Buffalo by rail.  In the fall of the same year he came to Mansfield, accompanied by his brother, Robert Taylor, who died in this county, at the age of forty seven years, leaving two daughters a few hundred dollars.  They worked at ditching or anything that would yield them an honorable living.  After three years had passed the father came to America with his children, the mother having died in England.  Here he spent his remaining days, passing away in 1887, at the advanced age of ninety-one years.  Up to the time of his death he was still active in mind and body.
     At the age of thirty-two Joseph Taylor was united in marriage to Miss Maria Scott, a native of England, and until them were born six children, but only two survived the mother’s death.  One son, Joseph W., is now managing his own and his father’s farms.  He has one son and tow daughters.  After the death of his first wife Mr. Taylor was again married, his second union being with Sarah Ann Scrofield of England.  They became the parents of a daughter, Nellie Josephine, who is still at home.  They reside on the farm of one hundred acres, which is one of the best properties in this section of the county.
     Mr. Taylor has led a very energetic and busy life, performing much hard work.  He has cleared eighty acres of his land, but still has a good timber tract, which supplies him with all the fuel used on the place.  At present he is living retired, his son working the farm.  His rest is well deserved, for he has long been a stalwart Republican and for twenty-five years he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  In the evening of his days he is surrounded with many comforts which have come to him as the result of his earnest toil in former years.  He cam look back over the past without regret and forward to the future without fear, and today he is regarded as one of the most venerable and highly esteemed residents of his adopted county.
Source #4: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 – Page 670

D. F. TUCKER.  Capacity for business will tell in the country as unmistakably as in the city.  This thought is suggested by the successful career of the well known citizen of Monroe township, Richland county, hose name is above.  He was born in Merrimac county, New Hampshire, November 2, 1841, one of the six children of David and Clarissa (Patten) Tucker, who are named as follows, in the order of their nativity: Norman, a resident of Chicago; Alfred G., who is deceased; Mary P., the wife of James Reed; D. F., the subject of this sketch; Livonia; and one who died in infancy.
     In 1849, when he was eight years old, Mr. Tucker, the subject of proper of this sketch, was brought to Ohio by his parents, who located on a farm which the father had purchased many years before; for he had made a journey from New Hampshire to this place on foot in 1819, when he bought eighty acres where the village of Lucas afterward came into existence and where he lived about seven years, during which time he bought the one-hundred-and-sixty-acre farm first mentioned.  He returned to the old Granite state and married, and continued to reside there until, in 1849, he came again to Ohio, as has been stated.  Soon after his arrival here he erected the house which is still standing upon the place and in which he lived until his death, in 1888, when he was in the ninety-first year of his age.  His wife died Mar. 9, 1872, aged sixty-six years.  It fell to the lot of Mr. Tucker twice to do the work of the pioneer in Richland county; for on his return, after having redeemed his first and smaller farm from the wilderness, he found the other and larger one entirely unimproved.  But he was of the stuff of which good pioneers are made and had proved both his manhood and his patriotism by fighting for his country in the war of 1812.  He was a good and helpful citizen, influential in township affairs and an active worker in the church.  Before the removal of the family to Ohio Mrs. Tucker was a teacher in the schools of New Hampshire.
     D. F. Tucker had received some education under the instruction of his good mother before he had been brought to the Buckeye state; and this was supplemented by attendance at the place and select schools of Lucas.  His father reared him carefully to systematic and successful farming, and from the time he attained his majority until his father’s death the two were practically partners in a business way; and it is worthy of note that the most confidential understanding always existed between them.  At this time Mr. Tucker owns four hundred and fifty-nine acres in Monroe township and eighty acres in adjoining Worthington township.  This fine property he has gained by farming and good business methods.  HE has, while carrying on general farming on an extensive scale, also given attention very profitably to shipping sheep and hogs.  From time to time he has interested himself in business affairs distinct from farming, with a great deal of personal success, and at times greatly to the public benefit.  In 1899 he established the Mifflin & Lucas telephone line, and he is also interested in the Star Telephone Company. 
Source #4: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 – Page 690