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History of Shelby County, Ohio
Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So.
1883
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ABBOTT FAMILY. About the days of the
landing of the Pilgrim Fathers four brothers by the name
of Abbott came from England to America.
Religious persecutions drove them from their native
land, for they were of the same faith of the Pilgrim
Fathers. It is not known whether they had families
or not, neither is it known just where they located, but
it was somewhere on the coast of the New England
colonies. We have no account of them or their
descendants down to Bancroft Abbott, who
appeared on the "stage of action" some four generations
later. He was born in Massachusetts or Connecticut
about 1760. Whom or when he married we cannot
learn, but we known that he had a family of seven
children. Thomas, the eldest of the seven,
was born in Connecticut about 1785. When a young
man he went to Vermont. Here about 1813 he married
Anna Powers. They reared a family of four
children, viz., William, Martha, Mary, and
George E. He spent the most of his life in the
State of Vermont, but died in Georgetown, N. Y., about
1857.
Of his family William was born in Vermont.
Later in life he came to Ohio, but being of an
adventurous and pioneer disposition he sought the newer
and wilder sections of the country. He next went
next went to Western Illinois, remained there until
after the Rebellion, when he sought a home in the far
West, and finally located in Wyoming Territory, where he
now resides.
Martha, the eldest daughter, came to Sidney in
1847, and is the wife of James V. Wilkin, of
Sidney.
Mary came to Sidney in 1848. She is the
wife of Guy C. Kelsey, of Sidney.
George E., the youngest of the family, was born
in Newberry, Vt., in 1824. Came to Ohio in 1845,
and located in Sidney, where he engaged in the cabinet
business. He married Harriet Jackson (a
daughter of Edward Jackson, one of the pioneers
of Orange Township) in 1849. In 1850, when the
gold excitement was raging in California, he left his
wife and infant child, and, in company with a number of
others from Sidney, stated across the plains to seek
their fortunes, but, like thousands of others, he never
realized the desire of his ambition. After
spending about one year in October, 1851, and was buried
by his messmates, who had cared for him through his
sickness. His widow still lives in Sidney with her
only child, Alonzo E., who was born in Sidney
Jan. 9, 1850. He had made his home with his mother
all through life. At the age of eighteen years he
entered a dry-goods store as a clerk, which he followed
about ten years, for three years was a travelling
salesman for manufactories in Sidney. Is now
engaged in the real estate and insurance business.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia,
PA: R. Sutton & So. 1883 - Page 388 |
Dinsmore Twp. -
ELI ABBOTT was born in Dinsmore
Township, Shelby County, on the 30th of July, 1844.
He is a son of William H. and Susannah Abbott.
He was educated in the common schools of Dinsmore
Township; also attended normal school at Sidney.
In the fall of 1864, he began teaching school in
Auglaize County, taught three months, or until Feb. 13,
1865, when he enlisted in Company D, 192d O. V. I., and
served until some time after the close of the war.
He was discharged from the service Sept. 7, 1865, and
then returned to his home in Dinsmore Township. On
the 26th of October, 1865, he married Miss Charity,
daughter of George and Catharine Turner, who was
born in Dinsmore Township, this county, Aug. 21, 1843.
Mr. and Mrs. Abbott settled on the farm in
section 6, Dinsmore Township, on which they have since
resided. They have a family of four children,
three sons and one daughter. In the fall of 1868
he again began teaching, which he followed as his
vocation about four months each winter, and conducted
his farm during the summer months, until 1880, when he
retired from teaching, and has since given all of his
time to farming, which he has conducted successfully,
and now owns a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in
section 6, Dinsmore Township.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 244 |
Dinsmore
Twp. -
WILLIAM H. ABBOTT was born in
Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Jan. 18, 1818.
He is a son of William and Catharine Abbott, who
emigrated to Ohio in 1828, and located in Fairfield
County, remained four years, or until 1832, when they
came to Shelby County, and located in Franklin Township.
William H. Abbott, subject of this sketch,
came to this county with his parents in 1832, and has
since been a citizen of the county. On the 16th of
August, 1836, he married Miss Susannah, daughter
of Daniel and Susannah Woodring, then of this
county, but a native of Fairfield, Ohio, where she was
born Dec. 15, 1815. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott
came to Dinsmore Township in November, 1836, and settled
on the farm in section 6, on which they have since
resided. He has made farming his vocation, and now
owns a good farm of 162 acres, on which he has conducted
the business of farming with success. He reared a
family of six children, viz., Catharine, Sarah A..,
Daniel W., Eli, Mary J., and Margaret, one of
whom is now dead, viz., Mary J. His two
sons, Daniel W. and Eli, served in the war
of 1861.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 244 |
GEORGE ACKERLY was born in Bavaria, Dec. 27,
1821. When twenty-three years old he came to
America and landed in New York, proceeded at once to
Dayton, Ohio. He entered the Mexican war with the
1st Ohio Regiment, Colonel Weller, and started
for Mexico on the 1st of July. Reaching New
Orleans about the twelfth of the month, he went into
Camp Jackson a few days, when crossing the Gulf he
landed at Point Isabel. Crossing the Rio Grande
the troops with which he was proceeded to Cerro, where
they joined the main force of General Taylor.
Moving on they went into camp at Monterey, but on the
21st of July left camp for Black Ford and saw the rout
of the first Mexican force. About four months
later they went to Buena Vista expecting an engagement,
but found the city deserted and returned to Monterey.
When driving a wagon train he was attacked by Mexicans
and lost fifty-three wagons, the commandant being
Major Joshua R. Giddings. After serving out his full
enlistment, Mr. Ackerly was honorably discharged
at New Orleans and given transportation to Dayton, Ohio.
In November, 1848, he married Philakua Eicher,
this being three days before he cast his first vote for
Genl. Taylor. His first wife died, and
after a period of three years he married her sister
Barbara. They had six children. In 1856
Mr. Ackerly bought a farm in Shelby County and moved
to it in 1858. Eight years later he moved to
Sidney and bought the "Farmers' Hotel," which he managed
about nine years when he sold out and moved to his
present home. Was engaged at merchant tailoring
and clothing business about five years. He was a
member of the city council three years, and at this time
is an infirmary director of the county. When he
came to this country he had no means but his energy, but
by labor and persistence he has procured a competency of
worldly goods.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia,
PA: R. Sutton & So. 1883 - Page 376 |
HEZEKIAH S. AILES, of
Welsh descent, was born in Salem, New Jersey, in 1793.
He served through the war of 1812 in a Virginia
regiment. Moving to Ohio he settled in Franklin
Township, Shelby County, where he reared a family of five
children. Of these children Hezekiah S. Ailes
is the only survivor. He was born in Harrison
County, Virginia (West), May 19, 1840, before the
removal of his parents to Ohio in 1842. From his
eighteenth year he was engaged chiefly in the profession
of teaching until Aug. 18, 1862, when he enlisted in
Company I, 118th Regiment O. V. I. He entered the
service as a private, was wounded at the battle of
Resaca, May 14, 1864. He participated in the
battles of Franklin and Nashville, and the other
important engagements in which his regiment took part.
He was promoted to sergeant-major of his regiment, and
was mustered out at the close of the war.
Returning home he resumed teaching, which he followed
until 1875, when he was appointed deputy auditor of
Shelby County, and served five years, at the expiration
of which period (1880) he was elected auditor. He
is at this time the candidate of the Democrats for
re-election to the same office. He was married in
October, 1867, to Miss Jane Elliott, of this
county. Three sons and four daughters are the
result of this union.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia,
PA: R. Sutton & So. 1883 - Page 372 |
Washington Twp. -
ALEXANDER FAMILYSource: History of Shelby County,
Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 -
Page 283 |
Dinsmore
Twp. -
PHILEMON B. ALLEN, son of
Silas D. Allen, was born
in Fairfield Co., Ohio, Feb. 27, 1826. He came to
Shelby County with his father in 1832, and located in
Dinsmore Township, where he was engaged at clearing land
and farming, until in the spring of 1850, when he bought
himself an ox-team and began teaming, which he followed
about five years, or until in 1855, when he turned his
attention to contracting and building, which he made his
vocation until 1863, or '64, when he engaged in farming,
which he has since been conducting with success, and now
owns a good far in Dinsmore Township, on which he has
resided since 1848. On the 11th of November, 1847,
he married Miss Lydia A. Coleman, daughter of
James H. and Susannah Coleman, who was born in
Franklin Township, Shelby County, Ohio, July 9, 1830.
They reared a family of nine children, three sons and
six daughters.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 243 |
Dinsmore Twp.
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SILAS D. ALLEN, deceased, was born
in Vermont May 22, 1801. When yet a small child,
his parents, Whiting and Mehitable Allen, came to
Ohio and settled in Fairfield County, where he passed
his minority days on a farm. When he arrived at
the age of eighteen years, or in 1819, he began working
at the wheelwright and chair-making trades, which he
followed about five years. He then turned his
attention to contracting and building, which he followed
until in 1832, when he turned his attention to clearing
land and farming, which he conducted with success until
his death. In 1824 he married Miss Elizabeth
George, then of Fairfield County, who died in the
autumn of 1828, leaving him with two small children
without the maternal care, viz.,
Philemon B. and
Elizabeth. In 1831 he married Miss Phebe A.
Fridley of Pickaway County, Ohio. Soon after
his second marriage, he came to Shelby County, entered
the east half of the northwest quarter of section 24,
Dinsmore Township. In 1832 he moved his family to
this county, made improvements and settled on his land
in section 25, where he passed the remainder of his
days. He died in June, 1850. His wife died
in March, 1861. They reared a family of five
children, viz. John S., George S., Oscar D., Isaac
C., and Benjamin. George S. died
February, 1861. Oscar D. and Isaac C.
served in the war of 1861. Mr. Allen's
father served about eighteen months in the war of 1812.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 243 |
| FERDINAND AMANN
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia,
PA: R. Sutton & So. 1883 - Page 390 |
GEN.
JAMES L. AMOS. Although not a pioneer of
Shelby County, Gen'l. Amos is entitled to rank
among the foremost men of the county, as well as among
the prominent men of the State. His ancestry
traces back to the settlement in Maryland under the Lord
Baltimore grant by Charles H. in 1629. The
descendants of this original stock are now distributed
throughout the United States. He was born near
Beallsville, Monroe County, Ohio, on the 30th day of
March, 1833, a little more than a half century ago.
He was reared on a farm, but after attaining his
eighteenth year his time was divided between the labors
of a teacher and those of a farmer until he was
twenty-seven years of age. With the exception of
one academic year, his education was acquired in the
public schools and by private study at his home.
While at his farm home he studied law, and was admitted
to the bar in 1859, when he immediately entered upon the
practice of his profession. In 1861 he was elected
prosecuting attorney of Monroe County, and was honored
by a re-election in 1863. In 1860 he became a
member of the board of school examiners of his county,
which position he remained until 1870, when he resigned,
and refused to further serve. In 1869 he was
elected to the State Senate from the 20th senatorial
district of Ohio, comprising the counties of Monroe and Geurnsey and a portion of Noble. He was
re-elected to the General Assembly at the succeeding
election, and thus served two terms in the Senate.
In 1874 Governor William Allen honored by his
appointment as adjutant-general of Ohio, an office which
he held two years. During his administration the
present system of volunteer militia was inaugurated, and
he also actively engaged in this settlement of the
ordnance accounts between the State of Ohio and the
United States. By this action he secured an
exchange of the condemned arms, which were charged to
the State account in 1863, for the new and improved arms
now used by the Ohio National Guards. Since the
close of his administration as adjutant-general he has
been engaged in the newspaper business. In 1876 he
came to Sidney, and purchased the Shelby County
Democrat, and has since retained its editorship and
proprietorship. Being a man of practical ideas,
liberal views, and social qualities he has carried the
Democrat to a higher level of ability and success
than it ever before attained. The Democrat
enjoys the distinction of ranking among the best
Democratic weeklies in Western Ohio. General
Amos was married Sept. 9, 1856, to Miss Nancy J.
Craig, whose ancestors were among the earliest
settlers of Westmoreland County, Pa., she, however,
being a native of Ohio. They have reared a family
of eight children. Of these, M. Emma is
married to Monroe C. Pegg, and resides near
Columbus, Ohio. The others are all at home, and
are named Delia E., who is connected with the
local business department of the Democrat,
Clara E., Kate J., William T., Ernest A., Howard Allen,
and Frank Beeman.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia,
PA: R. Sutton & So. 1883 - Page 372 |
Clinton Twp. -
GEORGE CRAWFORD ANDERSON was born
in Warren County, Ohio, on the 14th of January, 1834.
Of his paternal ancestors but little is known. His
grandfather, John Anderson, came to Pennsylvania
from the north of Ireland about the year 1780. In
1779 he emigrated to Kentucky, settling six miles below
Lexington, where on the 6th of March, 1800, James
Anderson, the father of the subject of this sketch,
was born. In 1806 the family came to Ohio, and
settled down in the wilderness a few miles east of the
present site of Loveland, in Clermont County, where the
grandparents died, having reared a family of twelve
children.
About the year 1825 James Anderson and Julia Dunham
were married at Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio. To
them were born Rudolph Warren, Oscar Josephus,
Semantha Adeline, and Adelbert
Huntington (the subject of this sketch), whose name,
after the death of his mother in 1835, was changed to
George Crawford, on his adoption by George B. and
Adeline C. Crawford, his maternal aunt.
Two years after the death of Mr. Crawford in
1844 he was taken by James Anderson - his father
- to Hamilton County, Ohio, where he had again married,
and was then living. While living with his father
the surname Anderson was added to that of
George Crawford since which time he has been written
and known as George Crawford Anderson. His
father died, and his adopted mother having in the mean
time married Mr. Isaac Harrison, a woollen
manufacturer living two and a half miles east of Sidney,
Shelby County, Ohio. He came in 1848 to live with
her. Here he learned the woollen manufacturing
business, and received a common school education, and in
1856 was married to Ruth Maxwell. In 1857
he bought the woollen mill of Mr. Harrison,
and began manufacturing on his own account. In
1862 he removed the woollen machinery to the east bank
of the Miami River at Sidney, Ohio, where he engaged
with B. W. Maxwell in woollen manufacturing.
During this year his wife died. Of their three
children one, Adelbert H. had preceded its mother
in 1861. Another, Willie A., survived her
but two months. The eldest, Benjamin Warren,
is still living, and graduated in 1883 at Wooster
University, preparatory to entering the theological
seminary.
G. C. A. was again married in 1865 to Permilia
Harris. There are five children from this
union: George C., Jr., Frank C., Harris H., D.
Rea, and Julia, all living. Mr.
Anderson continued in the woolen business until
1872. Since then he has engaged in the purchasing
of wool, Western emigration, and fire insurance, and has
for years been identified with the local boards of the
town, township, and corporation.
Through his maternal grandmother, Betsy Dunham, whose
maiden name was Huntington, his ancestry can be traced
back 250 years to one Simon Huntington, who
sailed from England in the year 1633 with his family of
seven persons, but who died of smallpox at sea, and
received an ocean burial. His widow, Margaret
Huntington, with her family of children were
landed in Connecticut. It is evident from a letter
received by her from her brother that they came from
London. Through this line of ancestry came
Samuel Huntington, of Connecticut, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence. Also
Samuel Huntington, one of the Governors of Ohio.
Source:
History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA:
R. Sutton & So. 1883 - Page 379 |
Green
Twp. -
WILLIAM B. ANDERSON, deceased, was
born in Bucks County, Pa., Sept. 12, 1818. He came
to Ohio with his parents, Thomas and Rachel Anderson
who located near Centerville for a short time or until
1837, when they came to Shelby County and settled on the
S. W. quarter of section 5, Green Township, on which
they made improvements and lived many years.
William B. Anderson, the subject of this sketch, was
brought up on a farm and made farming his avocation
through life. Nov. 18,1841, he married Miss
Elizabeth A. Dorsey, born in Green Township, Shelby
County, May 9, 1823, daughter of John and Catharine
Dorsey. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson settled on the
farm in section 5, Green Township, where she is now
living. Mr. Anderson died June 21, 1861.
They reared a family of seven children, viz., Elvira,
John D., Clara, Thomas J., William H., Charles A.,
and George D. Of these all are living,
except Clara.
Source:
History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA:
R. Sutton & So. 1883 - Page 208 |
Green Twp.
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ALLEN ARBOGAST, third son of
Cornelius and Sarah Arbogast, was born in Clarke
County, Ohio, Mar. 11, 1837. He came to Shelby
County with his parents in 1851, and located in Green
Township as aforesaid. He received a common school
education, also attended several terms of school at
Sidney and Troy. When at the age of sixteen years
he taught his first term of school. He attended
school during the summer, and taught from four to five
months each winter for two years. Then for six
years he followed farming during the summer, and taught
from four to five months each winter for two years.
Then for six years he followed farming during the summer
months, and teaching in the winter. Then for two
years he gave all of his time to teaching winter and
summer - in all making eleven years. A part of
which time he was employed at teaching. In 1866 he
retired from teaching, and has since given his attention
to farming and stockraising, which he has conducted with
success, and now owns a farm of 161 acres, on which he
now resides. Sept. 3, 1857, he married Miss
Lydia Schobey, of Miami County, Ohio, where she was
born Mar. 2, 1839, daughter of John and Margaret
Scobey. By this union he has a family of ten
children, five sons and five daughters.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 209 |
Green
Twp. -
CORNELIUS ARBOGAST, Retired
Farmer.
Mr. Arbogast was born in Greenbrier County, Va.,
in October, 1801. When he had attained the age of
ten years, or in 1811, his parents came to Ohio and
located in Clarke County, where he grew to manhood.
April 12, 1821, he married Miss Sarah Davidson,
then of Clarke County, but a native of Franklin County,
Ohio, where she was born in December, 1800. Mr.
and Mrs. Arbogast settled on a farm in Clarke
County, remained until 1851, when they came to Shelby
County, purchased and settled on the northwest quarter
of section seven, Green Township, remained until
1858, when he purchased and moved on a farm in Clinton
Township. In 1865 he sold his farm in Clinton,
returned to Green Township, purchased the farm which is
now owned by his son, Allen Arbogast. In
1865 he made a division of a part of his property among
his nine children, giving to each child one
thousand dollars, and still retaining for himself his
farm in section thirty, on which he resided until March,
1880, when he sold his farm, and has since made his home
among his children alternately. His companion died
Oct. 19, 1881. He raised a family of nine
children, viz., Adaline, Margaret, John H.,
Elizabeth, Lewis, Allen, Ruth, Lydia A., and
Cornelius. Lydia A. is now dead.
Allen Arbogast served three years in Company F, 20th
O. V. I. during the war of 1861. John H.
Arbogast served nearly two years in the war of 1861.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 209 |
Loramie
Twp. -
NAPOLEON B. ASHTONSource: History of Shelby
County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. -
1883 - Page 314 |
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