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BIOGRAPHIES
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A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio
Vol. II.
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York
1917
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W. A. ACTON.
For many years Mr. W. A. Acton was in the service of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company, but his
inclinations were largely settled in the direction of farming as
a youth, and for the past six years he has enjoyed the fruits
and comforts of a fine farm of 138 acres a mile from Richmond
Dale on the Richmond Dale and Vigo road. This is a place
long known as the Heath farm, and is on rural route No. 2
out of Chillicothe.
The Acton family has been identified with Ross
County for fully a century. Mr. Acton was born on a
farm in Musselman, in this county, June 11, 1858. His
parents were Lott and Isabelle (Kellenbarger) Acton. (See
Note 1 below) His grandfather, William
Acton, was a Virginian. He enlisted from that state
for service in the War of 1812, and after leaving the army he
married in Virginia and at once brought his bride to Ross
County, locating in Union Township. A century ago nearly
all of Ross County was a wilderness, and the Actons were
among those who laid the foundations for the civilization which
the people of the present generation enjoy. William
Acton acquired a farm, and in his time was one of the
substantial citizens of the county.
Lott Acton was born in South Union Township,
grew up on a farm and for his first wife married Miss Houser.
She became the mother of two children, one of whom died in
infancy, and the other is Alfred Acton, of Chillicothe.
For his second wife Lott Acton married Isabelle
Kellenbarger, and they then settled on a farm close to
Musselman, in Ross County. In 1863 Lot Acton left
his farm and his family to give his services to the preservation
of the Union. He died at Camp Dennison from illness
contracted while in the service. He and his second wife
became the parents of five children: Joseph, of
Chillicothe; W. A. Acton; Mary Elizabeth, now
deceased; John, a resident of Concord Township; and
Lott Albert, of Chillicothe. (see Note
#2 below)
Mr. W. A. Acton was only a child when his father
died. He grew up on the home farm, made the best of his
advantages in the district schools, but early in life determined
to make his own way and do what he could to support himself and
contribute to the support of the household. He helped to
conduct the farm, worked out by the month, spending two years in
that way in Pickaway County, and for twenty-seven years he was
employed on the different branches of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Railway in the section service. He was made
foreman, and in that capacity spent nineteen years, with
headquarters at Richmond Dale. In 1910 Mr. Acton,
leaving the railroad service, bought his present farm and is
giving all his time and energies to its profitable management.
On Nov. 15, 1893, Mr. Acton married Miss
Margaret B. Woodring, who was born in Portsmouth, Scioto
County, Ohio, and came as a girl with her parents to Ross
County. She is a daughter of John and Jennie Woodring.
While growing up in Ross County she met Mr. Acton, and to
their marriage have been born six children. William
Herman, who graduated from the public schools of Richmond
Dale, furthered his education in Dennison University, has been a
successful teacher and is now in a business college at Columbus.
Ruth Juanita is the wife of D. D. Weinrich, a
telegraph operator. Clarence Franklin lives in
Chillicothe and married Mary Drummond. Floyd
Edward is still at home and in the eighth grade of the
public school. Herbert died in infancy.
Louise is still at home and a schoolgirl.
Mr. Acton is a past noble grand of Garfield
Lodge, No. 710, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
While always a busy man, he has found time to serve the
interests of his community, and for the past seven years
has administered the duties of trustee of Jefferson township.
Politically he is a democrat.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 564 |
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ALBERT B. ALBIN,
whose home is in Green Township of Ross County, represents a
family that has been identified with Southern Ohio for more than
a century. His own career has been successfully spent in
farming pursuits, and he is now proprietor of one of the
well-cultivated and highly improved farms of Green Township.
His birth occurred in Vinton County, Ohio, Jan. 1,
1858. His grandfather, William Albin, was a native
of Virginia and of Scotch ancestry. From Virginia he set
out with wagons and teams for the Ohio country, and after a few
years of residence in Guernsey County, moved to Vinton County,
where he bought a tract of wild timbered land and improved a
farm, which was his home until his death at the advanced age of
ninety-three. William Albin married a Miss Clark,
and they reared six sons and six daughters, named James,
William, John, Joseph, Samuel, Benjamin, Delilah, Sarah, Nancy,
Barbara, Rachel, and Polly.
Of this family, John Albin, who was born in
Guernsey County, Ohio, was the father of Albert B. Albin.
He was reared on a farm and spent most of his early life in
Vinton County, but in 1863 moved to Hocking County, where, with
his brother William, he bought a carding mill situated on
a large tract of land. There they laid out the Town of
Laurelville. John Albin continued to operate the
carding mill and was a resident there until 1875, when he bought
a farm in Green Township of Ross County. Thereafter he
followed a farming and stock raising for a number of years, but
finally returned to Vinton County, where his death occurred at
the age of seventy-seven. John Albin married
Martha Gaffney, who was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, a
daughter of Daniel Gaffney her mother's maiden name being
Reddick. Mrs. John Albin died at the age of eighty
years. Her eight children were Samantha, Nancy, Albert,
George, Grant, Edward, Linna and Elmer.
Albert B. Albin was reared at Laurelville, in
Hocking County, where he attended the country schools and where
he had practical experience assisting his father in the carding
mill and also as a farmer. He worked out by the month as a
farm hand, and after his marriage was for seven years a renter.
He then located on the farm which he now owns and occupies.
This is the Senff homestead, where Mrs. Albin was
born. There for a quarter of a century Mr. Albin
has carried on diversified agriculture, has reared his family,
and has gained a gratifying share of material prosperity and at
the same time has made himself a useful member of the community.
In 1884 Mr. Albin married Mattie Senff.
Her father, Andrew Senff, was born in 1820 on the farm
now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Albin Her grandfather
Michael Senff, was a native of Pennsylvania and was a native
of Pennsylvania and was the grandson of Casper Senff, a
native of Germany, who came to America in 1773 and served as a
spy in the colonial army during the Revolutionary war.
Michael Senff, grandfather of Mrs. Albin, emigraged
to Ohio in 1808, and after living for a time in Pickaway County,
set up a blacksmith shop at Chillicothe, but eventually bought a
farm in Green Township and was occupied with its management
until his death in 1845. Michael Senff married
Christine Helmer. Both are laid to rest in Whitechurch
Cemetery. Mrs. Albin's father succeeded to the
ownership of the old homestead in Green Township, and in time
erected a commodious frame dwelling house and other necessary
farm buildings, and was rated as one of the most successful
farmers and stock raisers in Ross County. He invested his
surplus capital in other tracts of land until he became owner of
upwards of 1,000 acres. He resided in the township until
his death, at the age of seventy-three. Mrs. Albin's
mother, who died at the age of fifty-three, was Eliza May,
who was born in Green Township, a daughter of John and Mary (Ulery)
May. Mrs. Albin was one of nine children:
Mary, Minerva, Samira, Addison, Loretta, Flora, Monroe, William
and Mattie.
To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Albin have
been born two children: Edna and Carl.
Edna married Rudolph Barclay, and their son
Donald, the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Albin, is the
fifth successive generation that has lived on the old Senff
homestead. The son Carl married Grace Hinton,
and he met his death by accident one week after his marriage, at
the age of twenty-three. Mrs. Albin is an
active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 740
NOTE: Found in 1880 Census Green Twp., Ross Co., Ohio -
Film Series T9 - Roll 1062 Pgs 230 & 231 (Pages in book 22 & 23)
ALSO found in 1910 Census Green Twp., Ross Co., Ohio in Film
Series T624 Roll 1227 Page 2 - ALSO: 1920 Census Green
Twp., Ross Co., Ohio - Film Series T625 Roll 1431 Page 4. |
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EDWARD LOUIE
ALBRIGHT. In the work of making Chillicothe a "City
Beautiful" in reality, and in adding to its reputation as a
clean, healthful, and attractive abiding place, much credit
should be given to Edward Louie Albright, director of
public service, who is performing the duties devolving upon him
in his responsible position so efficiently and conscientiously,
and with such thoroughness, as to win the approval of all
concerned. He was born in Chillicothe, Mar. 30, 1876, a
son of Frederick Augustus Ferdinand Albright, and a
representative of one of the first German families to locate in
the city.
His paternal grandfather, Joseph Albright, was
born, reared and married in Littenweiler, by Freiburg, in
Breisach, Baden, Germany. In 1839, accompanied by his
family, he came to Chillicothe, leaving the fatherland April
17th and arriving in Chillicothe July 4th, seventy-eight days
after setting sail. He first lived in a log house, but
afterward purchased a vacant lot at 215 North Street, and there
built the house now occupied by his grandchildren.
Although a cabinetmaker by trade, he followed carpentry after
coming to this country, continuing it until his death, at the
age of sixty-nine years. On April 1, 1816, he was united
in marriage with Christine Elizabeth Oberlander, who was
born June 30, 1798, in Oberhain, by Konigsee, Furstenthum,
Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt, Germany, and died April 25, 1867, in
Chillicothe. Eight children were born of this union, as
follows: Margaret, Caroline, Julia, Louise, Frederick
Augustus Ferdinand, Pauline, Elizabeth, and John
Frederick.
Frederick A. F. Albright was born June 18, 1830, in
the same part of Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt, Germany, that his
mother was, and as a lad of nine years came with his parents to
Ohio. Learning carpentry when young, he was employed as a
bridge carpenter when the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad was
built. He also assisted in the building of the Chillicothe
Courthouse, and was the last survivor of the carpenters that
worked on St. Peter's Church. He was an expert workman,
and after a few years at carpentry became a millwright, and
followed that trade during the remainder of his active life.
Succeeding to the ownership of the old homestead, he occupied it
until his death, Jan. 30, 1906, at the age of seventy-five
years.
The maiden name of the wife of Frederick A. F.
Albright was Caroline Rosena Gehring. She was
born July 6, 1837, in Oberheldrung, Koniggratz, Breisach, and
died in 1882 in Chillicothe. Her parents, Henry and
Sousiana Gehring, came from Germany to America in 1854 and
after living a number of years in the Prussian settlement, about
nine miles south of Chillicothe, moved into this city,a nd here
spent the remainder of their lives. Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick A. F. Albright reared nine children, namely:
Christina Phillipena Louise, Annie, Carolina Sallie Mary,
Carolina Dora, Elizabeth Anna Carolina, Frederick Christian
Joseph, HEnry Philip, William Julian Ferdinand, and
Edward Louie.
Completing his early education in
the public schools of Chillicothe, Edward Louie Albright
secured a position with the Marfield Milling Company, serving a
part of the time as office clerk and bookkeeper, and part of the
time as manager of the feed store, remaining with the firm five
years. Learning then the millwright trade, he followed it
until 1903, when he was made assistant street superintendent.
At the end of four years in that position, Mr. Albright
was appointed superintendent of streets, and during the six
years that he served in that capacity proved himself so
eminently capable and efficient that he was appointed to his
present official position as director of public service, an
office that includes, among other duties, the superintendency of
the streets of the city.
Mr. Albright married, Apr. 29, 1908,
Nancy Ann Routt, who was born in a log house on the farm of
her father, Thomas Jefferson Routt near Hallsville, Ross
County. Her paternal grandfather, Henry Routt, was
born in Staunton, Virginia, Oct. 13, 1802, and after coming to
Ohio spent a few years in Chillicothe, from here making an
overland journey with teams to Clay City, Clay County, Illinois,
where he and his wife spent their remaining days. Born May
11, 1830 in Chillicothe, Thomas Jefferson Routt was
fifteen years old when he accompanied his parents to Clay City,
Illinois. Not liking his new home, he soon returned to
Chillicothe, walking the entire distance. After his
marriage he settled on a farm near Hallsville, and after
occupying it forty-two years, came to Chillicothe, and died at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Edward L. Albright, Dec.
13, 1913. He was three times married, Mrs. Edward L.
Albright having been the only child of his third wife, whose
maiden name was Clarissa Jane Hines. She was born
in Ross County July 19, 1835, and is now living with Mr. and
Mrs. Edward L. Albright. Her father, Philip Hines,
was born in Pennsylvania, a son of Jacob and
Mary Elizabeth Hines, who were born in
Pennsylvania, of German ancestry. Coming to Ross County,
Philip Hines purchased a farm in Harrison
Township, and there lived until his death, at the age of ninety
years. In addition to clearing and improving a farm, he
followed for many years his trade of a weaver, making carpets,
coverlets, and various kinds of cloth, all of which found a
ready sale. Sarah Maddox, who became the
wife of Philip Hines, was born in Kentucky, a
daughter of Isaiah Maddox, a pioneer of Ross
County. She died at the age of sixty-five years.
Mr. and Mrs. Albright have one child,
Ferdinand Thomas Albright. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Albright attend the German Evangelical Church.
Fraternally he is a member of Aerie No. 600, Fraternal Order of
Eagles.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 598 |
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CALEB CASE ALLEN.
In the annals of Ross County, no name holds a more noteworthy
position than that of the late Caleb Case Allen, who
during the middle part of the last century, was a prominent
figure in the business life of Chillicothe, contributing largely
toward the development and advancement of its highest and best
interests. Coming on both sides of his family from honored
New England ancestry, he was born, July 11, 1814, in Westerly,
Rhode Island, a son of John Allen. His grandfather,
Joseph Allen, born Apr. 27, 1756, died Jan. 20, 1830.
He married Sarah Tillinghast, who was born Apr. 13, 1760,
and died Mar. 26, 1852. Sarah (Tillinghast) Allen,
the grandmother of Caleb Case Allen, was a descendant in
the fifth generation of Elder Pardon Tillinghast, the
emigrant ancestor, the line being continued through the
following named ancestors: Pardon Tillinghast, John
Tillinghast, Benjamin Tillinghast and Sarah Tillinghast.
Elder Pardon Tillinghast was born in England in
1622, and came to America in 1643, just after attaining his
majority. A man of energy and enterprise, he settled in
Rhode Island, and as a merchant and a preacher, he figured
conspicuously in the early history of the Providence
Plantations. It is said that he built the first dock and
the first warehouse there, and he is also accredited with having
been the first merchant to establish trade between Providence
and foreign ports. He lived to a venerable age, dying Jan.
20, 1718. The maiden name of his wife was Lydia Taber.
Pardon Tillinghast, born in Providence, Rhode
Island, Feb. 16, 1666, married Mary Keech, and settled at
East Greenwich, Rhode Island, where his death occurred, Oct. 15,
1743. John Tillinghast, born in 1690, married
Phoebe Green, and died Oct. 21, 1777. Judge
Benjamin Tillinghast, born in 17776, died July18, 1817,
while yet in the prime of life. The maiden name of his
wife was Sarah James. Their daughter, Sarah
Tillinghast, married Joseph Allen, as mentioned
above.
John Allen, father of Caleb Case Allen,
was born at Exeter, Rhode Island, Oct. 7, 1785, and was there
brought up and educated. Settling permanently in New York,
he established himself in business at Batavia, where he resided
until his death, Sept. 28, 1855. The maiden name of his
wife was Honor Maria Howard. Her father was for
many years engaged in freight trade, and one of his vessels, the
Prude, was destroyed by the French during the War of 1812, and
his descendants should have received a part of the fund paid out
as French Spoliation Claims. Mr. and Mrs. John Allen
reared six children, as follows: John Howard, George Weaver,
Sarah Ann, Honor Maria, James T., and Caleb Case.
John Howard Case, the first born, was graduated from West
Point. He established a military academy in Oxford,
Maryland, and later established one at Chillicothe, which was
discontinued about 1859. George Weaver Case, who
made his home in Columbus, was the author of the homestead law
enacted bay Congress.
Obtaining his early education in the schools of
Westerly, Rhode Island, and at Batavia, New York, Caleb Case
Allen, came to Chillicothe in early manhood, and ere many years
had passed he had attained a position of note among the citizens
of influence and prominence. While living in Batavia, he
was actively interested in military affairs, serving as captain
of a company of militia attached to the One Hundred and
Sixty-fourth Regiment, Sixth Brigade, Twenty-seventh Division of
the Militia of the State of New York. In Chillicothe
Mr. Allen established a prosperous business as a hardware
merchant and for a time published the Chillicothe Intelligencer,
one of the leading papers of the city at that day. He also
published the Scioto Gazette for a number of years, which was
the leading newspaper of the township at the time of the war.
He also published a temperance paper. He made extensive
investments in city property, and built the Allen Block.
Influential in politics, he was one of the organizers of the
republican party, and in 1857 was the candidate for his party
for secretary of state. He died at a comparatively early
age, his death occurring July 11, 1858.
On July 12, 1841, Mr. Allen married Mary
Inglish, who was born Mar. 9, 1814. Her father,
James Inglish, born at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania Aug. 9,
1768, was an early settler of Chillicothe, and one of its
pioneer lumber dealers. He married, Feb. 7, 1799,
Rachel Wood Sadler, who was born on the eastern shore of
Maryland, Sept. 12, 1776, a daughter of William and Frances
Sadler. Mr. and Mrs. Allen reared five children,
namely: Myrtle Maria, who died at the age of
twenty-six years; William Inglish died at the age of
seventeen years; James Howard, who died at the age of
thirty-one years; Caleb Augustus, died at the age of
forty-three; and Mary Etta Trimble, the only member of
the family now living.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 598 |
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DAVID CARRICK
ANDERSON.
A long life, and one spent in many useful and honorable
activities, was that of the late David Carrick Anderson
of Concord Township.
His birth occurred in Concord Township Oct. 10, 1824,
and he died at his old home Mar. 23, 1908. His grandfather,
William Anderson was a native of South Carolina, spent
most of his life as a farmer, and came to Ohio in the very early
days. After remaining in the state five years he returned
to South Carolina, where he died in advanced years. Of his
eight children, Samuel, the third, was born May 17, 1780,
in South Carolina. He arrived in Ohio about 1803 and
locating in Concord Township of Ross County he bought land, and
his was one of the first cabins to arise among the trees in that
section. In 1824 his log house was replaced by a
substantial structure of hewed logs. He devoted his labors
for many years to the improvement of his farm and died there
Aug. 30, 1830. On Nov. 20, 1806, Samuel Anderson
married Elizabeth Edmiston of Paris, Kentucky. Her
family had come to Ohio and settled in Ross County a year before
Samuel Anderson did. She lived to be nearly ninety
years of age, and for more than seventy years was an active
member of the Concord Presbyterian Church, of which Samuel
Anderson was a charter member and for a number of years an
elder. Samuel Anderson also was distinguished by
service in the War of 1812.
David Carrick Anderson and his twin sixter were
the last born in a family of seven children. He was six
years of age when his father died and after that he remained
with his mother on the farm, and as his strength permitted,
participated in its cultivation until he was twenty years of
age. It was a primitive log schoolhouse in which he
received his early education. That schoolhouse was two
miles from home and he walked back and forth night and morning.
At the age of twenty he removed to Frankfort, became a
clerk in a dry goods store, and after three years had advanced
so far in capability and responsibility as to be able to
purchase an interest in the firm and take the duties of
partnership. He remained with the firm for three years,
and then engaged in the dry goods business for himself.
For more than thirty years David C. Anderson was one of
the most successful merchants of Frankfort, and his business
relations extended all over that part of Ross County.
In 1876, with several other citizens, he organized the
Merchants and Farmers Bank of Frankfort. He was elected
its first president, and two years afterward he sold his stock
of dry goods and thereafter devoted his unremitting attention to
the bank and his various other business affairs.
Though quite an old man at the time, he served as a
loyal soldier of the Union during the Civil war. Enlisting
May 2, 1864, he became regimental quartermaster of the One
Hundred and Forty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but most of the
time acted as brigade quartermaster on General
Kinley's staff. He was mustered out of service on
Sept. 1, 1864.
In February, 1851, Mr. Anderson married Sarah
A. Tulleys, of Frankfort. To their union were born
three children: Laura, who became the wife of John
Rockwell Entrekin; Clara, who married J. O. Pierce,
a Presbyterian minister of Columbus; and Sadie, who died
in infancy.
The late Mr. Anderson was a member of the
C. W. McNeill Post No. 645, Grand Army of the Republic, and
served as its chaplain. An active republican, he was a
delegate to various district and state conventions, and always
took a liberal share of public duties and responsibilities.
His life was spent as a devout Christian and he assisted in
organizing the Presbyterian Church in Frankfort, taught its
Sunday school for fifty-five years and was superintendent of the
Sunday school about twenty years.
Mr. Anderson was an extensive traveler,
the means which his well ordered industry had enabled him to
accumulate having put in his power the privilege of travel and
observation. He visited most of the interesting places in
his home country, several times crossed the ocean, and visited
in Europe, Asia and Africa.
The last tour which he made was to the Worlds Fourth
Sunday School Convention, which was held at Jerusalem in June,
1904, and it was while on this trip that he visited a great many
important cities in Southern Europe, Northern Asia and Africa.
On account of his advanced age, he being seventy-nine years old
and the oldest one of the party, he was accompanied by his
grandson and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Entrekin, of
Columbus, Ohio. This trip was the climax of his life, as
he had always had a desire to visit the Holy Land and Jerusalem,
and after he had made this trip he felt that his life's work was
finished. But it was with the thought that he had
fulfilled his Master's mission, while on this and other trips
that he has had, a large collection of rare articles were made
and which are now preserved in his old homestead at Frankfort,
Ohio.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 928 |
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MAJ. JAMES C. ANDERSON.
A prominent, popular and prosperous insurance man, Major
James C. Anderson, of Chillicothe, represents the Union
Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati in Ross and
Pickaway counties, and also has charge of special work for his
company throughout Southern Ohio. A son of James W.
Anderson, he was born, Mar. 22, 1854, in Cambridge, Guernsey
County, Ohio, of early pioneer stock.
His paternal grandfather, James Anderson, Jr.,
was born in Pennsylvania, where his father, James Anderson,
Sr. settled on leaving Virginia, which, it is thought, was
his native state. The grandfather came to Ohio in the very
early part of the nineteenth century, and having taken up a
tract of timber land in Salt Creek Township, Pickaway County,
improved the homestead on which he spent the remainder of his
long life of seventy-six years. All of his twelve children
married and reared families.
Born in 1833, on the parental homestead in Salt Creek
Township, Pickaway County, James W. Anderson attended the
short terms of the district school during his youthful days,
during seed time and harvest helping on the home farm. He
subsequently served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade
in Circleville, but at the breaking out of the Mexican War
enlisted in Company I, Third Ohio Regiment, and was with his
command in many engagements of note, continuing in the service
until the close of hte conflict. Returning then to Ohio,
he opened a smithy at Cambridge, Guernsey County, and there
followed his trade until the tocsin of war was again heard
throughout the land. At the first call by President
Lincoln for ninety-days' men, he enlisted in Company A,
Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and continued with his
command until honorably discharged, at the end of three months,
when he re-enlisted in the same regiment for three years.
Veteranizing in 1864, he remained in active service until after
the close of the war, being honorably discharged, Nov. 21, 1865,
at San Antonio, Texas. After spending a year in New
Concord, Ohio, and two years in Columbus, he located, in 1868,
in Salt Creek Township, where for two years he operated a
blacksmith's shop. Moving to Circleville in 1870, he
resided there until his death, which was the result of a mistake
he made in taking the wrong medicine while suffering from
rheumatism, his death occurring in 1873. His wife, Mary
Lucas, a member of the well-known Lucas family
of Ohio, was born in Guernsey County, near Cambridge, and died
in 1892, in Chillicothe, Ohio. She reared five children,
as follows: Lee O.; James C.; Harvey T.; Harriet M.;
and Charles, deceased.
Acquiring an excellent education in the schools of
Concord and Hilliard, James C. Anderson at the age of
seventeen years, took an examination in Franklin County, and was
granted a teacher's certificate. Instead of teaching,
however, he took a business course in Circleville, where he was
subsequently employed as a clerk and bookkeeper until 1880.
Embarking then in the insurance business, he has since been
agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Company of
Cincinnati, for awhile having been associated with Captain E.
A. Ramsey, at Washington Court House. In 1892,
Major Anderson located in Chillicothe, and now, as stated
above, has control of the insurance business of his company in
both Ross and Pickaway counties, and is doing special insurance
work in all parts of Southern Ohio.
Major Anderson married, in 1880, Jennie E.
Hosler, who was born in Salt Creek Township, a daughter of
George and Catherine Hosler. She died in 1890, in
early womanhood. Mr. Anderson subsequently married
for his second wife Alice L. Henry. She was born in
Ironton, Ohio, a daughter of James O. and Elizabeth (Sharp)
Henry, and a descendant of the Lee and Henry families
of Virginia. Her grandfather Sharp was a native of
England and came to Ohio in the early '50s. She comes of
distinguished patriotic ancestry, and is eligible to membership
in the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Major and
Mrs. Anderson have one daughter, Marie Elizabeth,
a student in the Ohio State University.
In 1875, Mr. Anderson enlisted in the Sixth
Regiment, Ohio National Guards, as a private. He was later
commissioned second lieutenant of his company, and having been
promoted to the rank of major in 1877, served in that capacity
until resigning from the company in 1886. Fraternally,
Major Anderson is a member, and past exalted ruler, of
Chillicothe Lodge No. 52, Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. He has served as secretary and director of the
Chillicothe Chamber of Commerce for the pasta five years.
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Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
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L. C. ANDERSON.
One of the well-known old residents of Ross County, proprietor
of the Lawnsmere farm in Paxton Township, L. C. Anderson
has spent his lifetime within the limits of this county, and his
people located here more than a century ago.
His fine country estate, ranking among the best in the
county, lies one mile southeast of Bainbridge. That farm
comprises 350 acres, and he also owns 200 acres in Perry
Township of Pike County. Mr. Anderson was born in
Union Township of Ross County, Mar. 18, 1865, a son of
James R. and Mary J. (Morris) Anderson. His father was
born in what was then the Village of Chillicothe, Oct. 22, 1817.
The paternal grandparents were Levi and Isabella (Swarts)
Anderson. Levi Anderson and his wife were Virginia
people, who moved from that state to Kentucky in pioneer
days, and in the early years of the nineteenth century moved to
Ross County. One of the pioneers of Chillicothe, Levi
Anderson was for a number of years the leading merchant
of that city, and built up a business which had a high place
among the commercial activities of the county. His
enterprise entered actively into much of the early industrial
life of the county. He was one of the first to manufacture
woolen goods, and his capital was also invested in the large
farm in Union Township where his son, James R., lived for
so many years.
James R. Anderson during his early youth
assisted his father in the store at Chillicothe and was also
connected with the Valley Bank, now the Ross County Bank.
Giving up a business career, he found a more congenial
occupation on the large homestead of his father, to which he
removed in his twenty-fourth year. This farm comprised
1,000 acres of fine land and under his ownership it was made one
of the most productive estates of the county. He lived
there until his death on Mar. 16, 1889. The name of
James R. Anderson should find a permanent place in Ross
County annals because of his pioneer efforts as a stock breeder.
He was among the first in this section of Ohio to introduce the
fancy shorthorn cattle. He brought in the nucleus of his
splendid herd in 1854, and he maintained this strain of cattle
until his death thirty five years later. His cattle were
shown all over the United States, and they took many of the
first prizes. James Anderson was one of the
wealthy men of his day and a very prominent citizen.
Besides shorthorn cattle, he kept some fine Berkshire hogs on
his farm and also indulged a fancy for trotting horses.
While a farmer, he had the training and instincts of the
thorough business man, and it was judgment and efficiency that
gained him so high a place in the esteem of his community.
James R. Anderson married Mary J. Morris, who was
descended from prominent American ancestry and was connected
with one of the prominent actors in the Rogers and Clark
expedition, by which the Northwest country was conquered from
the British during the war of the Revolution. James R.
Anderson and wife became the parents of ten children:
John S., who died at the age of about seventy years;
Thomas L., who lives in Kansas; Mary M., wife of
John S. Steele, of Chillicothe; Isabelle, who
died in infancy; Jeannette, living at Chillicothe, the
widow of Alexander Steele; James, Jr., of
Twin Township, Ross County; William D., of Union
Township; Lewis F., now deceased; Margaret M., who
died young; and L. C. Anderson.
L. C. Anderson grew up in a home of substantial
comfort and with those influences which mold and develop the
character of sterling man hood. He attended the country
schools and also was a student in the private academy at
Chillicothe conducted by Professor Poe. He finished
his early training in the National Normal University at Lebanon.
The chief interests of his early career were at the old home of
his father, where he employed himself as overseer of the farm
and for a number of years was in complete control of the cattle
department. He knows every phase and detail of cattle raising,
and is a worthy successor of his father in that respect.
On Oct. 29, 1891, Mr. Anderson married Sallie
Blosser, a daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Biszantz)
Blosser. Mrs. Anderson was born at the Slate Mills in
Twin Township of Ross County. Her father, Jacob,
died Mar. 8, 1908, and her mother on Sept. 28, 1906.
Jacob Blosser was born in Page County, Virginia, and in
early childhood accompanied his parents to Pike County, Ohio.
He grew up there, married Miss Biszantz in that county,
and a little later they removed to Ross County, where Jacob
Blosser bought the Slate Mills. He operated those
mills for the grinding of flour and other grains for a number of
years, sold them about 1891, and devoted his remaining years to
the management and care of his extensive farm interests.
He was one of the foremost men of Ross County in his generation
in point of material interests and prosperity. His wife,
Margaret Biszantz, was born in Pike County, Ohio.
There were seven children in the Blosser family, five of
whom reached maturity and four are still living: Anna is
the wife of G. W. Struckman, of Celina, Ohio; the
second in age is Mrs. Anderson; Peter J. is a
large land owner and a practicing attorney at Chillicothe;
Margaret is the deceased wife of Rollo W. Marchant;
Elizabeth is the wife of Judge Frank L.
Touvelle, of Oregon.
After his marriage, Mr. Anderson lived for two
years on the old homestead, and then on Mar. 6, 1894, took
possession of his first place of 250 acres near Bainbridge.
He has since added 100 acres to his control, and now has enough
land and sufficient equipment in order to follow out his ideas
of practical farming and stock raising on a large scale. Mr.
Anderson is a republican and is a trustee of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Bainbridge, of which his family are members.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have one son, Jacob
Blosser Anderson, who was born Jan. 9, 1893. He
graduated from the Bainbridge High School, from the Ohio
Wesleyan University at Delaware, and took a course in
engineering which has made him a valuable assistant on the home
farm, where he has lived and worked with his father since
leaving college. He is also a member of the Ohio National
Guard and at this writing is in the training camp at Columbus.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 528 |
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S. W. ARGANBRIGHT
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HENRY WILLIAM ARLEDGE
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WILLIAM JOSEPH ATWELL
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CHARLES AULT.
In a great agricultural state like Ohio, where farming is
carried on so extensively and successfully as to produce more
wealth than from any other source, there are kindred industries
which engage the attention of many enterprising, practical men.
One of these is threshing, a very necessary adjunct to farming
and, in modern times, a scientific business by itself.
Almost all his business life Charles Ault, whose valuable
farm of 225 acres lies in Liberty Township, Ross County, has
worked in season as a thresher and now owns a fine outfit also
operates a portable sawmill.
Charles Ault was born on his present farm in
Liberty Township, Feb. 21, 1867, and is a son of William and
Elizabeth (Jones) Ault, the latter born also on his farm and
the former in Ross County. William Ault's people
came from Virginia. After marriage he settled on this farm
and here spent his life as a farmer. He was a well-known
and highly respected man. Of his large family of children
tehre are nine living, as follows: Mary, who is the
wife of Jesse Arganbrit; Sarah, who is the wife of
Orlando Meeker; Emily who is the wife of James Stewart;
Andrew, who lives in Missouri; George and Lyman,
both of whom live in Kansas. Jeremiah who lives in
Illinois; Charles of Liberty Township; Myrtle who
is the wife of Frank Fanby of Liberty Township.
Charles Ault is one of the best-known men of
Liberty Township, for this has always been his home. He
went to school with men and women who have always been his
neighbors and a very friendly spirit prevails through this
law-abiding section of the county. Before purchasing the
old homestead he lived on a farm along Walnut Creek for
twenty-two years. To the original 204 acres he has added
twenty-one acres and thus he now operates 225 acres. As
mentioned above, Mr. Ault has been a thresher for many
years and is a member in good standing of the Ross County
Brotherhood of Threshers.
In early manhood Mr. Ault was married to Mary
D. Rutherford, who was born at Londonderry, Ohio, and they
have twelve children, a happy, contented family of seven sons,
and five daughters, as follows: James, who lives in
Iowa; Tiffin, who is a resident of Chillicothe; Edwin
who lives in Iowa; and Hazel, Inella, Jennice, Everett,
Edith, Orville, Walter, Ruth, and Willard. All
have been given educational opportunities. In politics
Mr. Ault has always been a democrat, and for the last five
years he has been one of the trustees of Liberty Township,
succeeding himself. Both personally and as a public
official Mr. Ault stands high in his community.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. -
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York 1917
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