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BIOGRAPHIES
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Source:
A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio
Vol. II.
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York
1917
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THOMAS J. ORR,
JR. Since its
establishment in Ross County prior to the War of 1812,
the Orr family has unfailingly sustained
the most intelligent and practical interests of
community and county, and has been equally prominent in
manipulating the implements of the agriculturist and in
discharging the duties of citizenship. Its men
have demonstrated the worth of industry and integrity
and its women have reared their children to be fair,
honest and considerate in their dealings with their
fellow-men. It was in such an atmosphere of
encouragement that Thomas Orr, Jr.,
was reared by his parents, Zebulon and Mary Priscilla
(Purdum) Orr, in the home in Springfield Township,
Ross County, where he was born Aug. 1, 1855.
The great-grandfather of Mr. Orr was James
Orr, who came to Ross County among its earliest
settlers, and who here died and was buried at Schooley's
Station, in Liberty Township, in 1802. His son,
Thomas Orr, was born in the East, was a boy when he
went with the family to South Carolina, and thence to
Virginia and finally came to Ohio. As soon as he
reached manhood. Thomas Orr entered land
from the United States Government in Liberty Township,
but did not live there long, soon changing his place of
residence to Springfield Township, where he located
properties in 1812 and 1820, the patents for these
tracts still being in the possession of Thomas Orr,
Jr. In all he owned 320 acres, or a half
section, and was considered a fairly well-to-do man for
his day and locality. He was an ardent supporter
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a regular attendant,
and died in the faith.
Zebulon Orr, father of Thomas
Orr, was one of a large family of children, and was
born in Springfield Township, April 22, 1830.
Feeling that he could better his condition if alone, he
left home in young man hood, but returned to his home in
Springfield Township and secured a tract of 136 acres.
On this property he resided for about eight years, and
for seven years following made his home where Mrs.
Ellen Allen now resides, but this he also
sold to purchase the present home farm of 200 acres,
lying on Chillicothe Rural Route No. 2, on Londonderry
Pike and in Liberty Township, five and one-half miles
east of the City of Chillicothe. Here he has since
made his home and carried on his farming operations,
although he is now practically retired from the labor of
the farm and is enjoying the reward of rest and comfort
that is his due for his years of steady and unremitting
toil. Mary Purdum was born also in
Springfield Township, in 1832. She has been the
mother of seven children, as follows: Thomas, Jr.;
John N., who is a resident of California; Mary
E., who lives with her parents; Sarah E., who
has followed the vocation of an educator throughout her
life and is now assistant principal of the Butte
(Montana) High School; Laura E., also a teacher,
now in charge of a school in Ross County ; Lillian E.,
who is the widow of John E. Heizer, of Norwood,
Ohio; and James H., a resident of Liberty
Township. The father of these children is a rather
quiet man, caring nothing for public honors, but rather
preferring to devote him self to his farm and his
family. He is held in the highest esteem in the
community, where there are many to testify to his
generosity, his kind ness and his many sterling
qualities of mind and heart.
Thomas Orr received his education in the public
schools, and has always been a farmer. Like his
father, he has found his greatest satisfaction among his
fields and in the family circle, but he has been called
upon to serve as a member of the school board and as a
trustee of Liberty township. In his political
affiliations he is a republican. With the other
members of the family, he attends the Concord Methodist
Episcopal Church, and is serving as a member of the
official board. Mr. Orr has shown that he
is a good farmer, with a knowledge of every depart ment
of his calling; he is a business man who is maintaining
the family name for integrity; this is a combination
which makes for a fine and helpful citizenship, and one
particularly worthy of emulation.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 687 |
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GEORGE C.
PARRETT, superintendent of the Ross County
Infirmary, is a member of the Parrett family that
established a home in Buckskin Township fully a century
ago and through the activities and influence of its
various members has contributed a great deal to the
development of that section of Ross County. It was
from a farm in Buckskin Township that George C.
Parrett was called to his present position and for
fully three generations the Parrett family have
reaped the fruits of their industry as farmers in this
county.
The American ancestor of this sturdy stock was a native
of Switzerland. From the best available
information it is found that he came to America in 1730,
locating in Virginia, where he spent the rest of his
life. Five of his sons were soldiers in the
Revolutionary war. One of them, Frederick
great-grandfather of George C. Parrett, was born
in Virginia, and many years after he had helped to win
independence for the colonies he started for the western
frontier and in 1814 arrived with his family in Ross
county. He located in Buckskin Township and was
among the first to make clearings in the woods there.
The farm which he improved was his home at the time of
his death in 1842. Frederick Parrett
married Elizabeth Keller. She died many
years before him, and was the first person to be laid to
rest in the South Salem burying ground.
George Parrett, grandfather of George C.,
was a native of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and
was still very young when he came with his parents to
Buckskin Township. He became a prosperous farmer
and resided in that township until his death. The
maiden name of his wife was Millie Wilkins.
Her parents were Henry and Rachel Wilkins, both
of whom were of Swiss stock. Henry and Rachel
Wilkins came from Virginia to Ohio in 1802, the year
Ohio became a state, locating eight miles south of
Hillsboro in Highland County. Elizabeth Parrett
was a typical pioneer woman. In the early days she
did all her cooking by the fireplace. She also
spun and wove the cloth required to clothe her family,
and the old iron oven with its inverted cover which she
used in cooking and the grease lamp which furnished the
dim light for the house after dark are now carefully
preserved by Mr. George C. Parrett. The
latter has taken great interest in some of these old
time relics, and has also in the course of his lifetime
secured a valuable collection of Indian implements and
curios. One of them is a specially rare and
valuable specimen. It is a stone plowed up on the
Ashland farm in Buckskin Township and shows the
face of an Indian maiden chiseled probably by the hand
of some Indian artist of a bygone generation.
Frederick Parrett, father of George C.
was born on the same farm in Buckskin Township on which
George C., first saw the light of day in 1864.
He grew up amidst pioneer scenes, attended pioneer
schools, and eventually succeeded to the ownership of a
part of the old homestead. There he lived a useful
and honorable life and died a number of years ago.
He married Lucinda Kuhl. She was born in
Fayette County, Ohio, daughter of John and Charity
(Hopkins) Kuhl. She passed away at the age of
fifty-two, having reared four children named George
C., Charity and Ruth.
Mr. George C. Parrett grew up on the old homestead
in Buckskin Township. The rural schools supplied
him with his early advantages and he afterwards
continued his education in Salem Academy. When not
in school the farm supplied him with abundance of work
to do, and he thus acquired a valuable preparation for
his life career. At the time of his marriage he
located on a farm belonging to his wife and her brother,
Edgar M. Pinkerton, in Fayette County. He
operated that for seventeen years continuously, and then
returned to the Parrett homestead in Buckskin
Township. There he was closely identified with
general farming and stock raising until in May, 1815, he
was appointed superintendent of the Ross County
Infirmary in Union Township. He has proved an able
executive and manager in this position, and has
introduced many improvements during the year since he
took charge.
In 1885, Mr. Parrett married Miss Fannie
Wilson Pinkerton. She was born in Fayette
County, Ohio, daughter of William M. Pinkerton.
Mr. and Mrs. Parrett have six children, named
Agnes, Edgar, Lucy, Grace, Robert and Dorris.
Agnes is the wife of Rev. Edwin Lodwick
and her two children are Edwin and Robert.
Edgar married Lillian Porterfield.
Lucy is the wife of Frank E. Beard and has
two children, named Helen and Weldon.
Grace is the wife of Wilbur Smalley and
they have a son, Richard. Robert married
Ellen Hennegan.
Fraternally, Mr. Parrett is a prominent
member of the Knights of Pythias, being affiliated with
the lodge at Bloomington and also with the Uniform Rank
and has served on the staff of the brigadier general of
Ohio with rank of major. He is also a member of
Salem Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 519 |
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JOHN F. PERRY.
The business relations by which Mr. Perry has
become most widely known in Ross County have been conducted as a
building contractor. He has a long and varied experience
in business affairs and has been an independent worker in the
world since he was a small boy. Consequently his success
is all the more praiseworthy.
Born Oct. 26, 1855, at Greenfield in Highland County,
Ohio, he is the only one of the three children still surviving
of James Perry, who was also a native of Highland
County. The Perry family ancestry goes back
to England and members came at an early date to American shores.
After a brief education in the public schools of
Greenfield, John F. Perry at the early age of eleven
years started to work and earn his living. For six months
he was a boy helper in a dry goods store, and all the
compensation he received was a suit of clothes and board.
After that he clerked in another dry goods store at Greenfield
for ten years, and he showed such industry and ability that his
wages were gradually increased until at the age of twenty-one he
was getting a salary of $100 a month, which considering not only
his age but also the time and other conditions was a splendid
testimonial to his usefulness. In the meantime his father
had moved out to Sedalia, Missouri, and was living in that city
at the time of his death. John F. Perry spent two
years at Sedalia and after his father's death settled up the
estate.
On returning to Ohio he located at Hopetown in Ross
County, where he subsequently married Miss Emma H. Gartner.
To their union have been born six children: Nellie M.;
Georgie; Glenn; Walter; Lottie and
Harold.
After his marriage Mr. Perry spent five
years on a farm. He then embarked in the contracting
business in Chillicothe, and continued it successfully for a
period of twenty-eight years. He was also in the hay and
livery business three years and the transfer business fifteen
years. For seven years he was proprietor of what was known
as the Lewis Coal Company. In 1913 Mr.
Perry turned all his energy once more to the contracting
business, especially in the construction of streets and roads,
and he now has a very efficient organization and all. the
facilities and equipment for the construction of concrete
pavement and other forms of modern highway. In this line
he has constructed many miles of improved roads in different
townships of Ross County and has constructed many of the
permanent streets in the city of Chillicothe.
Mr. Perry is a Democrat and spent six
years as a member of the Chillicothe City Council. In the
Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with the York Rite and is a
Knights Templar and is also a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 912 |
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JOHN P. PHILLIPS.
Identified with a profession demanding a veritable measure of
talent, and a vast amount of close research and hard work,
John P. Phillips has won distinction as a member of the Ross
County bar, and as one of the leading citizens of Chillicothe is
eminently worthy of representation in a work of this character.
He was born Mar. 12, 1864, in Frankfort, Ross county, of
Virginia ancestry, his father, John A. Phillips, and his
grandfather, Vincent Phillips, having been natives of
Raleigh County, Virginia.
His great-grandfather on the paternal side, James
Phillips, an Englishman by birth and breeding, came to
America as a British soldier during the Revolutionary war, but
it is supposed that his sympathies were with the Colonists, as
he never returned to England. Sending for his fiancee,
Nancy Piper, to join him in this country, they married, and
settled in Raleigh County, Virginia, where they lived happily
ever after.
Brought on the homestead in Virginia, Vincent
Phillips selected for his life work the occupation to which
he was reared, his farm being located in Raleigh County, about
twelve miles from Hinton. He belonged to a long-lived
family, and he, himself, attained the venerable age of
ninety-five years, dying in 1890. He married Mary Ball,
a life-long resident of Virginia, and they reared eleven
children, seven sons and four daughters.
Born in 1822, John A. Phillips became familiar
with the various branches of agriculture while young, and was
engaged in farming in Virginia until 1862, being at that time a
Union man in a confederate state. The neighborhood in
which he lived was subject to invasion by both armies, cattle
being taken, and crops and fences destroyed, first by one army,
and then by the other, and he was financially ruined. In
September, 1862, his land being laid waste, he came to Ross
County, locating in Frankfort, where he continued his farming
operations until his death, in 1882. His wife, whose
maiden name was Mary E. Hoback, was born, May 17, 1838,
in Floyd County, Virginia, a daughter of Joseph and Mary
(Gray) Hoback, and maternal granddaugher of Joseph and
Mary (Howard) Gray. Joseph Gray was born in England,
but came to America in colonial days, locating in Staunton,
Virginia, where he married Mary Howard, a native of
Montgomery county, Virginia. Mrs. Mary E. (Hoback)
Phillips died Apr. 13, 1872, when but thirty-three years of
age, leaving four children, namely: John P., the special
subject of this sketch; Milton G.; Belle; and Joseph
Elmer. The father had one daughter, Mary, by a
former marriage.
Having acquired his rudimentary education in the public
schools of Frankfort, John P. Phillips continued his
studies in Lebanon, at the National Normal School, under the
instruction of Professor Holbrook a noted educator of
that time. Subsequently teaching school near Frankfort for
a time, he devoted his leisure to the study of law, and in 1888
was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School. Mr.
Phillips immediately opened a n office in Chillicothe, and
in the practice of his chosen profession has met with
unquestioned success, his patronage being large and
remunerative.
On Apr. 25, 1893, Mr. Phillips married Miss
Cora E. Ewing, who was born in Chillicothe, which was
likewise the birthplace of her father, Capt. Samuel E. EWING,
and of her grandfather, John EWING, whose birth occurred
in 1816. John Ewing was a son of Samuel Ewing,
and grandson of Alexander Ewing. During his early
life he was engaged in the saddlery and harness business, but
later had a general store at the corner of Main and Hickory
streets. He died at Chillicothe, in 1893. The maiden
name of John Ewing's wife was Evelyn Huffnagel.
She was born Jan. 26, 1820, in Ross County, a daughter of
Josiah Huffnagel.
Capt. Samuel H. Ewing, born in 1839, was reared and
educated in Chillicothe. Patriotic and public-spirited, he
enlisted June, 5, 1861, in Company B, Twenty-sixth Ohio Veteran
Volunteer Infantry, and was elected first lieutenant of the
company. On Nov. 8, 1861, he was promoted to the rank of
captain, and was then presented by the citizens of Chillicothe
with a very handsome sword. He was acting major at the
Battle of Chickamauga, where his horse was shot from under him,
and he was captured, and subsequently confined in Libby Prison
until exchanged Mar. 15, 1864. Immediately rejoining his
regiment, he remained with his command until honorably
discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment, July 25,
1864. Captain Ewing then resumed work as a clerk in
his father's store, later becoming a clerk in the Revenue
office, under the United States Civil Service. He died in
1891.
Capt. Samuel H. Ewing married Alice Maria
Thompson, who was born in Chillicothe, Sept. 4, 1840, a
daughter of Daniel Thompson. Her paternal
grandfather, John Thompson, who married Mary Wood,
came with his family from Virginia to Ross County, Ohio, about
1810, and having bought a tract of heavily timbered land in
Union township, hewed a farm from the wilderness, and was there
engaged in tilling the soil until his death.
Born at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, Apr. 11, 1809,
Daniel Thompson was scarce a year old when brought by his
parents to Ross County. He was reared on the farm, but as
a young man found a situation in the wood-working department of
a carriage factory in Chillicothe. Learning the trade, he
returned to Union Township, and having there established a shop
of his own was engaged in the carriage business a few years.
Removing to Chillicothe, he embarked in the livery business, and
was here a rsident until his death, in 1898. He married
Louisa Howard, who was born in Chillicothe, Mar. 12, 1812, a
daughter of James and Sarah (Haynes) Howard. James
Howard was born Jan. 11, 1786, in Martinsburg, Virginia.
Coming to Ross County in pioneer days, he erected a home in
Chillicothe, at what is now 139 East Second Street*, and in one
room of his house he manufactured spinning wheels, which found a
ready sale. He also carried on general farming to some
extent, raising corn and other crops, and grazing his cattle and
sheep on land now covered with brick buildings. The
house which he built, and which is still owned by the Howard
family, has been added to, and has given shelter to seven
generations. Sarah Haynes, who he married, was born
July 13, 1788, at Antietam, Maryland, and as a child came with
her parents to Huntington Township, Ross County. Mrs.
Phillip's mother Mrs. Alice Maria (Thompson) Ewing,
still occupies the old Howard homestead on Second Street,
the house in which she lives having been built about 1818.
Mr. Ewing reared two children, Carrie and Cora E.,
twins. Carrie, who married Edward Mabury,
died in 1911, leaving one daughter, Cora.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have two children, John
P., Jr., and Gordon. John P. Phillips, Jr.,
married Esther M. Scott, a daughter of Milton J. and
Mary Alice (Johnson) Scott, and they have one son, John
Scott Phillips, and one daughter, Jane Phillips.
Active and prominent in legal circles, Mr. Phillips
is district counsel for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; for the
Southwestern Railroad; and also for the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton Railway. He is interested in financial matters,
being vice president of the Citizens National Bank of
Chillicothe, and of the Merchants and Farmers Bank of Frankfort.
He is now serving as vice president of the Chillicothe Electric
Railroad, Light & Power Company, and is president of the
Chillicothe Hospital, and a director of the Masonic Temple
Company.
Fraternally Mr. Phillips is a member of
Frankfort Lodge, No. 309, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of
Masons; of Chillicothe Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; of
Chillicothe Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters; of
Chillicothe Commandery, No. 8, Knight's Templar; and of Scottish
Rite at Columbus. Religiously both Mr. and Mrs.
Phillips are members of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church,
and Mr. Phillips is superintendent of its Sunday school.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 493-496
* Sharon Wick's Note: The building at 139 E. Second
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LAWRENCE GRANT
PINTO bears one of the old and honored
names of Ross County. The Pinto family was
established here more than a century ago. They have been
chiefly known as farmers, and in that vocation their success has
been measured not only by steady returns from their fields, but
also by a constantly increasing ownership of fertile lands and a
position of leadership in their respective communities.
The farm which he now owns and occupies in Union
Township was the birthplace of Lawrence Grant
Pinto on May 25, 1865. The family was established in
Ohio by his grandfather, Capt. Isaac Pinto.
Captain Pinto was born on one of the island
possessions of Portugal, and as a youth went to sea, working his
way from deck hand to captain of a sailing vessel. He was
in the merchant marine service, and for a number of years
commanded ocean going vessels. In 1812 he landed in the United
States, and coming west to Ross County bought 116 acres in Union
Township. There in 1813 he erected a substantial hewed log
house. That house is still in fair condition and is still
occupied and is one of the oldest houses north of the Ohio
River. Even after locating his family in Ross County
Captain Pinto continued to follow the sea for several
seasons. He married Margaret Marshall, who was
born in the United States of English ancestry. She spent
her last days on the old farm and reared four sons - Henry,
Jacob, Samuel, Miles Augustus - and
one daughter. The son Henry was for a number of
years in the boot and shoe business at Chillicothe and
afterwards an insurance man. Jacob followed
merchandising in Philadelphia. Samuel was a farmer
and was also a merchant and grain dealer at Yellowbud.
Miles Augustus Pinto, father of
Lawrence G., was born Mar. 6, 1832, on the farm that his
father established and which his son Lawrence now owns.
He was reared in Ross County, and after leaving school spent
eight years as a clerk in his brother Henry's store.
In the mean time the old Pinto homestead
had been bought by his maternal uncle. On leaving the
store of his brother at the conclusion of his eight years'
service, Miles A. bought the homestead from his uncle,
and spent the rest of his days as a general farmer, stock raiser
and fruit grower. He was one of the pioneers in fruit
growing, had a large orchard carefully tended, and one of the
chief revenues on the place under his management was from
vinegar which he manufactured and sold. He lived there
until his death in 1905. Miles A. Pinto
married Margaret Read, who was born in Ross
County, a daughter of John Read, one of the early
settlers. Mrs. Pinto was well educated and
at the age of sixteen began teaching, an occupation which she
followed until her marriage. She died at the age of
thirty-eight when in the prime of life. Her seven children
were Ernest M, Horace H., Lawrence G., Elsie Mi, Minnie E.,
Alvah Sherman and Rowland D.
Lawrence Grant Pinto's early and later associations
all center around the old Pinto homestead.
He gained his education in the rural schools and trained himself
as a farmer by practical experience on the old place. When
ready to start out on his own account he rented for two years a
285-acre farm. He then bought the old Pinto
homestead of 116 acres, and since then has bought the
adjoining farm of 128 acres. He now occupies the latter
place, and enjoys the comforts of a substantial two-story brick
residence. This house is located on high table land and
commands an attractive view of all the countryside.
In 1902 Mr. Pinto married Irene I.
Morreis, who was born in Vinton County, Ohio, a daughter of
Lewis Morreis, a native of the same county, and a
granddaughter of William Morreis, who was born in
Pennsylvania and was an early settler in Vinton County.
Mrs. Pinto's father died at the age of seventy-eight.
Her mother, who passed away at the age of forty-five, was
Mary Jane Allen. Mrs. Pinto was one of nine
children named Louisa Ellen, Melissa
Jane, John William, Andrew J., Mary Alice,
Rufis T., Phebe Dora, Irene Isabel
and Alma Mary.
Mr. and Mrs. Pinto are members of the Dry Run
Church. Their family of four children are Luna E.,
Dollie M., Warren L. and James Theodore.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 657 |
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FRED
PUTNAM, prominent farmer in Concord Township, continues
the activities and influence of a very notable family in Boss
County. The Putnams have been identified with this part
of Ohio since pioneer times, and the lives and characters of its
members have made an indelible impress upon the farms, good
citizenship and the varied institutions of the county.
Mr. Putnam was born in Concord Township,
November 17, 1885. His father, Marcellus Putnam,
was born in the same Township. The Grandfather Alfred
Putnam was born also in Concord Township. Peter
Putnam, the great-grandfather, was a native of Virginia,
as was also his father, Philip Putnam.
Philip Putnam emigrated from Virginia to Ohio and was
one of the first to develop the lands of Concord Township in
Ross County. Peter Putnam bought land in
Concord Township, became a very successful farmer and lived to
the advanced age of ninety-two years. He married Keziah
Hoddy. That introduces another pioneer family of
Ross County. Her father, Richard Hoddy, was
born in Virginia, served with distinction in the Revolutionary
war, and afterward settled among the pioneers of Ross County.
Peter Putnam and wife reared a family of twelve
children.
Alfred Putnam grew up on a farm in Ross
County, and was widely known over this section of Ohio not only
as a farmer but as a stock raiser and dealer. He acquired
considerable wealth through his varied enterprises, but lived on
his farm until about five years before his death. He
married Rebecca Day.
Marcellus Putnam grew up on a farm, and
made that his vocation until his death. He married Mary
Belle James, who was born in Concord Township, a
daughter of Strawder James and a granddaughter of
Reuben James, one of Concord Township's early
settlers. Strawder James was a farmer and
spent all his life in Boss County. He married Rebecca
Bush. She was born on the present site of Austin in
Concord Township, a daughter of Jacob Bush, who
was a native of the same locality and a son of John
Bush, one of the very first settlers of the township. Jacob
Bush owned and operated a farm near the present site of
Austin, and lived there until his death in 1868. His wife
was Eve Mallow, of another pioneer family.
She was born about three miles north of Austin, and spent her
entire life in Concord Township. Mrs. Rebecca (Bush)
James died in 1907, having reared six children named
Milton, Mary Belle, Vina E., Clara, Charles and Nannie.
Fred Putnam was one of five children, the others
being named Lee S., Earl, Madge and Russ.
Mr. Fred Putnam spent his early life on his
father's farm and after leaving the common schools entered the
Clarksburg High School, where he was graduated in 1902. He
then took up farming on his grandfather's old homestead, and has
remained there successfully identified with agricultural affairs
to the present time. He has his farm completely stocked
and equipped with all the implements necessary for thorough
field and animal husbandry.
On October 29, 1908, he married Etta Jamison.
She was born in Deerfield Township of Ross County, a daughter of
David and Etta (Peek) Jamison. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam
have a son named Frederick Wendell, born May 1,
1911. The family are active members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Austin, and Mr. Putnam is
affiliated with Frankfort Lodge No. 309, Free and Accepted
Masons.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 729 |
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