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BIOGRAPHIES
The following biographies are extracted from:
Source:
A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio
Vol. II.
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York
1917
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CHARLES DAILY
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 799 |
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WILLIAM R. DAILY
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 759 |
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W. W. DAVIS, M. D.
Not only a large circle of private patients but the
entire community of Bainbridge have profited by the
capable services and influence of Dr. W. W. Davis, who
has practiced in that community for the past fifteen
years. Doctor Davis is a splendidly equipped and widely
experienced physician and surgeon, and represents a
family that has been identified with the same profession
through three generations.
Doctor Davis was born in Bowling Green, Clay County,
Indiana. September 11, 1878. His grandfather,
Dr. H. T. Davis, was a graduate in medicine in 1827
at Columbia, South Carolina, and eventually became a
pioneer physician in Southern Indiana, locating at
Columbus. Dr. Ben Davis, father of W. W.
Davis, was born in Bartholomew County, Indiana,
studied medicine in the Indiana Medical College,
practiced for some years in Bartholomew County and now
lives near New Carlisle, Ohio. He is also one of
the capable physicians.
The early education of Dr. W. W. Davis was
acquired in the high school at New Carlisle, from which
he graduated in 1896. He then entered the Ohio Medical
College of Columbus, where he took the full four-year
course and graduated M. D. in 1900. He secured his first
practice in connection with his father, but in 1901
removed to Bainbridge, and there has built up a large
clientage and field of usefulness. He is local
surgeon for the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, is
health officer, and has proved a vigorous influence in
the public health movement in his section of Ross
County. He is also interested in farming and has a farm
in Clark County, Ohio.
Doctor Davis married Elizabeth
Spargur, a daughter of A. N. Spargur, who now
lives in Houston, Texas. Mrs. Davis
is a graduate of the high school of Hillsboro, Ohio.
She is a member of the official board of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in which denomination the doctor also
worships. T here are two children: Clara O., now
eleven years of age, and Leona, aged seven.
Doctor Davis is a member of the local school
board and at one time was its president.
Politically he is a republican.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 533 |
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HON. LOUIS M. DAY
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 525 |
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D. GARFIELD DeVOSS
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 707 |
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JAMES AUGUSTINE DEXTER
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 833 |
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HON. LEWIS G. DILL
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 876 |
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HIRAM DIXON
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 666 |
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SIMON R DIXON
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 651 |
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JOHN T. DOWLER
has been well known in Ross County for a great many
years. He owns a large amount of hte fine farming
land in this and adjoining counties, and is also a
successful merchant at Nipgen.
He was born in Athens County, Ohio, Jan. 2, 1850.
His parents were Richard and Elizabeth (Jordan)
Dowler, his father a native of Pennsylvania and his
mother of Morgan County, Ohio. His mother grew up
in that section of Ohio and lived there until there
until her marriage. After their marriage,
Richard Dowler and wife located on a farm in Athens
County. There he successfully followed farming and
became the owner of 130 acres. In 1867 he moved to
Ross County, locating in Twin Township, and finally
traded his farm of 360 acres for a store at Good Hope.
That place was his home until the death of his wife,
when he returned to Athens County and remained a
resident there until he passed away. He and his
wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and
for over thirty years he was one of the class leaders.
There were six children born to Richard Dowler
and wife, and the four now living are: Isaac,
a retired farmer living at Lawrence, Kansas; Almeda,
wife of John Young, living in Athens County;
Alice, widow of Joseph Moore, living near New
Holland, in Pickaway County; and John T.
The son Lorenzo gave his life for his country
while a soldier of the Union army during the Civil war.
John T. Dowler was seventeen years of age when
his father moved to Ross County. He had previously
attended the public schools of Athens County, and
completed his education in Ross. He has lived in
this county nearly half a century and has accomplished a
great deal worthy of the notice and recognition of
mankind. He lived at home until he was twenty-one,
and on starting out for himself had neither capital nor
any special experience except in farm work. He
accepted any employment that offered, and for two years
dug coal in the mines. Later he took an interest
in a store and has been more or less actively engaged in
the mercantile business for a great many years. At
the present time Mr. Dowler owns more than
400 acres of land in Ross and Pike counties. He
also owns property in Washington Court House, and his
activities as a business man were formerly quite widely
dispersed over this section of Ohio. He was in the
grain business at Williamsport and Good Hope, and
also at one time manufactured drain tile on a large
scale.
Mr. Dowler married Emma Pennisten, who
was born in Pike County, Ohio, in 1847. She was a
daughter of Joseph Pennisten, a pioneer of Ross
County. Mrs. Dowler's mother, Sarah Ann
Hill, was a native of Highland County, Ohio.
She lived to be eighty-nine years old. Mrs.
Dowler is the granddaughter of two revolutionary
soldiers. Of the four children born to them,
Mr. and Mrs. Dowler have only one still living,
Edwin E. Edwin graduated from the
Washington Court House High School and from the State
University, and is now actively engaged in business with
his father. The family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Washington Court House,
while Mr. Dowler belongs to Heber Lodge, No. 501,
Free and Accepted Masons, and politically is a
republican, though he has never sought nor cared for
office.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 850 |
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THOMAS DOWNS. It was in the last year of the eighteenth century
that the Downs family established a home in the wilderness of
Ross
County. Several generations of the name have spent their lives
industriously working out their own destinies, and contributing
to the improvement and progress of this section. The pioneers helped to clear
up the land, build houses, develop farms, improve communities
with institutions
and later members of the family have continued the good work
done by their ancestors, and one of these is Thomas Downs, who
is one of the
prosperous and popular farmer citizens near Kingston.
He was born in Springfield Township of Ross County
October 5, 1843. His Grandfather William Downs was a native of
Virginia of
Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was reared and married in his native
state and in 1799 accompanied by his family started for
Northwest Territory.
That was three years before Ohio was admitted to the Union.
After crossing the intervening barrier of mountains, they
drifted down the
Ohio on a flatboat as far as Portsmouth. While on that flatboat
journey a son was born, John Downs, who was the father of
Thomas Downs.
From Portsmouth the little party literally chopped their way
through the wilderness to Chillicothe, which was then only a
frontier hamlet.
They then proceeded into the wilds of what is now Springfield
Township, where Grandfather William Downs spent the rest of his
days. He died
at the age of sixty-eight, and he and his wife are buried in
Hopetown Cemetery.
John Downs, whose life began while his parents were
migrating to Ross County, grew up among pioneer scenes, and he
was a mature man before this section of the state had become
linked with the outside world by even such crude methods of
transportation as a canal. As a boy he hunted deer, wolves, wild
turkeys and other game in the forest, and his mother spun and
wove the cloth which clothed all members of the family. In
the early days all surplus products were sent down the river on
flatboats.
Later when settlement had progressed sufficiently
Chillicothe became the center for many diverging stage routes
which ran to all parts of the country. Reared on a farm,
John Downs naturally took up agricultural pursuits when he reached
manhood, and was a successful farmer, though his life terminated
in his prime, at the age of fifty-three. He
married Elizabeth Smith, also a native of Virginia, and a
daughter of Benjamin Smith, whose name should be recalled as one
of the pioneer
settlers of Green Township in Ross County. Mrs. John Downs died
at the age of fifty -eight. Her children were: Ellen; Mary;
Eliza; Thomas;
Flora; Clorinda, widow of Thomas Milliner; Sarah, wife of
Benjamin Brooks; and John, who died at the age of six years.
While a boy in Springfield Township Thomas
Downs
acquainted himself with the instruction imparted in the local
schools, and as he was one
of a large family and the burdens of material existence bore
heavily upon
all, he started out early to work at monthly wages, and these
wages were
contributed to meeting the family expenses. Later he had
opportunity
to save the larger part of his earnings, and with this capital
he bought
stock and tools and began an independent career on rented land.
He was
a renter for seventeen years, and then bought a farm a mile and
a half
south of Kingston. He still owns that farm, and occupied it as a
home
until 1912, when he moved to Kingston and bought the place where
he
now resides.
On October 26, 1870, Mr. Downs married Amanda
Moore, a native of Vinton County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Downs
have reared three children: Carrie, Hattie May and
Edward. The daughter Carrie married John
Holderman and at her death left three daughters, Ellen,
Mary and Mildred. Hattie May is also
deceased. Edward, the only son, who died at the age of
thirty-three, was twice married, and by his first wife, whose
maiden name was Jenks, had two children, Bessie
and Villette. Mr. and Mrs. Downs, whose declining
years are comforted by the presence of their grandchildren, are
active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
politically he has always associated with the republican party.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 542 |
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CHARLES M. DRUMMOND. An old family name in Liberty
Township, Ross County, is that of Drummond, a well known
representative of his family being found in Charles M.
Drummond, farmer and thresher, whose 172 acres are situated
two miles northwest of Gillespieville. This is a part of
the old homestead farm and here, in a log cabin, Charles M.
Drummond was born Dec. 6, 1858. His parents were
Daniel and Mary (Smith) Drummond.
Ninety-two years have passed since
the grandparents of Mr. Drummond brought their son
Daniel to Ohio from New Jersey, where he was born in 1810,
landing at Chillicothe in September, 1824. The travelers
ate their first meal in that city under the shade of a large
sugar maple tree, standing near what is now the southwest corner
of Green Lawn Cemetery. Later on Daniel Drummond
purchased a portion of what became known as the Drummond
homestead, from his father, which brought his possessions up
to 244 acres. When he was married, Daniel Drummond
built a second cabin on the farm, and in that he and his wife
lived until some time in the '60s, at which time a frame
building was erected, in which they lived during the rest of
their lives. Her name was Mary Smith and she was
born in Ohio, but was of German descent. They had eight
children, five of whom are deceased: Robert V., Lewis
H., John, William and Elizabeth. The survivors
are: Alfred W., of Canton, Ohio; Mary J.,
widow of David Sollars, Jr., living on a portion of the
old farm; and Charles M., the youngest of the family.
Both parents were faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He was active in all church work and served long
as a trustee. His memory is perpetuated in a beautiful
memorial window in the Methodist Church in Londonderry. In
politics he was a democrat and by that party was elected to
local offices. He and wife were fine people in every way,
hospital, charitable and neighborly.
Charles M. Drummond remained at home with his
parents as long as they lived. He attended the district
schools in boyhood and afterward assisted in the carrying on of
the farm, and his interest in farming still continues. In
addition, for twenty years he has been in the threshing business
and owns one of the most modern and complete threshing outfits
in the county. He is secretary and treasurer of the Ross
County Brotherhood of Threshers and is vice president of the
Ohio Brotherhood of Thresher.
ON Feb. 18, 1891, Mr. Drummond was married to
Miss Hattie Ault, who was born in Ross County in 1866, and
is a daughter of Rhoda Ault. They have one sons,
Carl, who was born in February, 1893, and Robert L.,
who was born in November, 1895, both unmarried and living at
home. Mr. Drummond and family belong to the
Methodist Church at Londonderry, in which he has served as
chorister. In township affairs he is quite prominent,
serving in offices with the greatest efficiency and to the
entire satisfaction of his fellow citizens, these including two
terms as assessor of Liberty Township and one term as clerk of
the township, and one term and part of another as township
trustee. In the Improved Order of Red Men he has reached
high positions, being past sachem of the local body and twice a
representative to the great council of the State of Ohio.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 866 |
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MILEY E. DRUMMOND
is a life-long resident of Ross County, well known over the
county at large and in the City of Chillicothe, where he
resides, and is now one of the active rural mail carriers of the
county. Mr. Drummond is a quiet unassuming man,
believes in doing all things well, and is a highly respected and
honored citizen.
He was born on a farm near Londonderry in Ross County
November 16, 1856. His father, William Drummond,
was born in Ross County, and his grandfather, Benjamin
Drummond, was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was
one of the early settlers in Ross County. William
Drummond married Ruth Cox, a native of Ross County,
and also of a pioneer family.
Mr. Miley Drummond was reared and
educated in Liberty Township of this county. He attended
the public schools as a boy, and with the conclusion of his
schooling he remained on the old homestead and employed some of
the best years of his life in general farming pursuits. In
1901 he entered the service of the United States Postal
Department, and was one of the first rural mail carriers in
Ohio. He has been steadily at the work now for upwards of
seventeen years, and has since removed to Chillicothe. He
has never married, and makes his home with a widowed sister in
Chillicothe. He is an active member of the Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church, of the Rural Mail Carriers
Association, and he spends his best energies in rendering an
adequate service to his patrons along the rural mail route.
Mr. Drummond was the youngest in a family of
seven children. Benjamin is now deceased.
Wesley Drummond is referred to on other pages of this work.
William is also deceased. Martha is the wife
of S. Graves, of Beatrice, Nebraska. Mary A.
is the widow of Joseph Randall, and now resides in
Chillicothe with her brother, Miley. David J.
is a resident of Independence, Missouri. Mrs. Mary A.
Randall is the mother of six children, Alma Archer, James
E., Minnie Headley, Martha Dillie, and Ernest and
Mary, who are now deceased. Mrs. Mary A. Randall
is a member of the Friends Church, at Londonderry, Ohio.
Mr. Joseph Randall died in 1889.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 917 |
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WESLEY N. DRUMMOND.
Since early pioneer times the Drummond family has taken a
notable part in the improvement and development of Ross County.
Wesley N. Drummond, a grandson of the original settlers,
has shown all the best family characteristics in this regard.
He has taken an intelligent and purposeful part in the events
which have made up the history of Springfield Township during
the past half century, and is also an honored veteran of the
great war of the rebellion. He is impartial, honest,
earnest and has the faculty of getting things done in behalf of
the township as well as in his private affairs.
His home is on the Chillicothe Road, and his daily mail
comes over rural rout No. 2 from that city. There Mr.
Drummond is proprietor of a good homestead of 117 acres,
only four miles from the county seat.
He was born in Liberty Township of this county 2½
miles west of Londonderry on July 19, 1842. His parents
were William K. and Ruth (Cox) Drummond. William K.
Drummond was born on the old Drummond farm now owned
by Charles Hess in Liberty Township. His
birth occurred there in 1818, and his father, Benjamin
Drummond was a stone cutter by trade. The youngest
child of his parents, William K. Drummond remained at
home and finally bought the old homestead from the heirs, and in
time built it up to about 471 acres. He lived out his life
there, was an active church worker and a loyal republican in
politics. He and his wife became the parents of seven
children: Benjamin K., deceased; Wesley N.; William, who
died at the age of fourteen; Martha, wife of Sylvester
Graves of Beatrice, Nebraska; Mary, widow of
Joseph Randalls of Chillicothe; David, of Kansas
City, Missouri; and Miley, of Chillicothe.
During his early youth Wesley N. Drummond lived
on the home farm, and attended the district schools, and was
still little more than a boy when the war broke out in 1861.
In 1864, after reaching his majority he enlisted in Company D of
the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was
in service until the close of hostilities. He then spent a
year in the West and soon after returned to Ross County to take
a steady and active part in agricultural affairs.
Soon after the war Mr. Drummond married Emma
Vail, daughter of John Vail. After their
marriage they located on the farm where Mr. Drummond now
lives, and he has been identified with its management and
operation ever since. He put up a number of Substantial
buildings, and the farm as it is represents his energy and
wisely planned efforts continued through many years.
On the old homestead Mrs. Drummond passed to her
final reward on Dec. 29, 1907. Seven children were born to
their marriage, and they are briefly mentioned as follows:
Floyd E., deceased; Violet, wife of William
Erskine, Emma, wife of Charles Eibest; James of
Chillicothe; Nellie, widow of Vincent Graves, and
living at home with her father; Laura, also at home; and
John, who manages the home farm.
Mr. Drummond as an honored old soldier is an
active member of the A. L. Brown Post No. 162 of the
Grand Army of the Republic. He has been a republican ever
since casting his first vote, and one of the loyal citizens of
his county. He has served as school director and has
always been willing to give his time and energy to the welfare
of the locality where he has spent his best yeas.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 793 |
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JACOB E. DuBOIS
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 565 |
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WILLIAM DUGGGLEBY
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 792 |
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CHARLES M. DUNLAP
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 703 |
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