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History of Shelby County, Ohio
Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So.
1883
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Green Twp.
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JOHN C. C. LAUGHLIN, was born in
Brown County, Ohio, Jan. 2, 1830, and came to Shelby
County with his parents. Robert and Isabella
Laughlin, in the fall of 1839, and settled near New
Palestine. In 1840 Mr. R. Laughlin
purchased and moved on a farm near Plattsville, where he
passed the remainder of his days. He reared a
family of eleven children, six of whom are yet living,
viz., William, John C. C., David, Joseph S.,
Elizabeth, and Nancy A. John C. C. Laughlin
has made farming his vocation, and at this date owns a
farm of 120 acres in Champaign County, near the Shelby
County line. Dec. 3, 1854, he married Miss
Sarah A. Clark daughter of William and Jemima
Clark. Miss Clark was born in Montgomery
County, Ohio, Oct. 2, 1834, and came to Shelby County
with her parents in 1838 and settled in Green Township.
By this union he had two children, viz., William R.
and Jemima I. Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin are now
residing in New Palestine. They have lived on five
different farms since their marriage, all of which were
in Shelby County. He filled the office of trustee
of Green Township about four years.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 208 |
JEREMIAH LAYMAN was
born in Pennsylvania in 1799, removed to Hamilton
County, Ohio, early in the present century. Here
in 1822 he married Mary Cummings, a
daughter of Robert and Amy
Cummings. Mr. Layman remained in
Hamilton County until 1839, when they removed to Shelby
County, and located in Orange Township. They
raised a family of seven children, only two of whom are
now living, viz., Eliza C., wife of John A.
Voress, and Amy H., wife of D. Brelsford.
Mrs. Layman died June 15, 1869, aged
seventy-three years. Mr. Layman died
Apr. 8, 1875, aged seventy six years.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 190 |
Green Twp. -
JOHN C. LEEDOM, M. D.; P. O.
Tawana, Ohio.
Mr. Leedom was born in
Bucks County, Pa., Nov. 13, 1817. He was educated
in the Philadelphia schools. In 1837 he began the
study of medicine in his native county. He
attended the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia,
and in 1839 he moved to Ohio, and located in Champaign
County, where he commenced the practice of medicine
under the direction of and with Dr. A. K. Roots,
of St. Paris, with whom he remained about two years, or
until 1841, when he associated himself with his brother,
Dr. S. K. Leedom, of Quincy, Logan County, Ohio,
for one year. Then in 1842 he came to Shelby
County, and located near New Palestine, where he has
since been engaged in the profession of medicine, and is
known for many miles around as a successful
practitioner. On the 4th day of February, 1839, he
married Miss Mary Johnson, of Bucks County, Pa.,
born April 23, 1819, daughter of John and John J.,
Mary J., Samuel K., and Elwood G. Mr.
Leedom owns a good farm in Green Township near New
Palestine, on which he is residing and conducting the
business of farming in connection with his profession,
and is considered as among Green Township's most
enterprising and leading business men, always in favor
of any improvement that is beneficial to the community
at large in which he lives.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 207
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Dinsmore Twp. -
DR. L. D. Le FEVRE was born in
Salem Township, this county, Jan. 1, 1837. Here he
lived on the home farm until he commenced the study of
medicine in Cincinnati, where he graduated in the spring
of 1861. On the 1st of March, 1862, he enlisted as
hospital steward in Co. K, 57th O. V. I., but during his
three years' service was acting assistant surgeon.
He was finally mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, and at
once began the practice of medicine at Careysville,
Champaign County, Ohio. In 1875 he came to Sidney,
but about a year later moved to Anna and opened a
drugstore, practising medicine at the same time.
In about six months he found his practice so extensive
that he abandoned the drug business, and turned his
whole attention to his profession. In this
direction he has been unusually successful, his practice
being really too extensive to be easily pursued.
In 1866 he married Elizabeth Cecil, who died
about 1873. In 1875 he married Clara Leckey,
who is still living. They have four children,
named Lucius M., Louisa Jane, Courtland L., and
Benjamin F.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 241 |
Dinsmore Twp.
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HECTOR LEMON, deceased, was born
in Maryland in 1789. In about 1823 he migrated to
Pennsylvania and located in Chester County, where in
1825 he married Miss Ann Smith, of that county,
born Sept. 1, 1795. Mr. and Mrs. Lemon
settled in Chester County, Pa., remained until June,
1833, when they went to Ohio and located in Shelby
County, entered, made improvements, on the west half of
the southeast quarter of section 27, Dinsmore Township,
on which Mr. Lemon died Apr. 18, 1851. His
companion survived him until Sept. 15, 1867, when she
died in Sidney, this county, where she had resided about
five years. They reared a family of four children,
Sarah A., Mary J., Esther C., and Rebecca E.,
Mary J., and Esther C. are now dead.
Sarah A. married Philip Ragan, and is now
living on her father's home farm. Rebecca E.
married Philip Summers, and now resides in Henry
County, Iowa. Mr. Lemon served about one
year in the war of 1812, and in 1852 his family received
a warrant from the Government, calling for 160 acres of
land for his services during that war.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 243 |
Washington
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JAMES LENOX. The Lenox
family traces back in a direct line to Scotland,
although the date of immigration of the American branch
of the family cannot be clearly ascertained. Still
that immigration was at least prior to the Revolutionary
period, for it is known that John Lenox served in
the continental army throughout the war for
independence. He came, then, during the colonial
period, and passing through the Revolutionary war,
married Rachel York and settled in Virginia at
the dawn of the national period. After his death,
which occurred in Virginia, his widow and family came to
Ohio in search of a new home. This was in the year
1796, or seven years prior to the admission of Ohio as a
State. The family on coming to the Northwest
Territory, settled near that old territorial town,
Marietta, which had witnessed the solemn inauguration of
the first court held in "the territory northwest of the
Ohio River." Here the Lenox family remained
until 1811, when they sought the valley of the Great
Miami and settled within the present limits of Turtle
Creek Township, this date being eight years prior to the
organization of Shelby County. Of this family
James Lenox became one of the leading spirits in the
new community, and one of the principal citizens of the
new county. He was born in Virginia on the 14th of
February, 1793,and was one of the children who, with his
widowed mother, came to the county in 1811. He was
thus here just in time, although yet young, to breathe
the spirit of war, for the air was then filled with that
war germ which developed the second war for
independence. His father had served in the first,
and he entered the second, serving throughout the
campaigns of 1813 and 14 in the operations in Ohio,
Michigan, and Canada. Returning at the close of
that war, he resumed the vocations of peace, and
assisted in the development of that community which was
yet to erect itself into a new county. On the 12th
of February, 1818, he married Sally, daughter of
John and Anna (Webb) Wilson. The Wilson
family had come from Virginia to Ohio at an early
date, even settling in this county's limits as early as
1807. Before coming here they had settled for a
time in Warren County, and it was at this place their
daughter Sally was born, Jan. 1,1803. After
his marriage Mr. Lenox settled in Turtle Creek
Township, on land which the family had entered in 1811.
Here he lived until 1845, when he moved to Washington
Township, having purchased the old John Wilson farm,
which had been entered by Wilson in 1807.
From the date prior to the organization of Shelby
County, Mr. Lenox held a commission as justice of
the peace, an office he retained for many terms in
succession. At the erection of the county he
became the first treasurer, having been appointed to
this office by the Board of Commissioners on the 7th of
June, 1819. He also held the various township
offices, including the appraisership. He is said
to have been a man of reserved manners and domestic
tastes, who was greatly devoted to literature, and as
such a man is still highly revered by those who knew him
best. Having exceeded his "threescore years and
ten," he laid down the burdens of life Dec. 9, 1865,
having closely approached his seventy-third year.
Though greatly enfeebled by age, and wearied by the
burdens of a toiling life, Mrs. Lenox still
survives at the advanced age of seventy-nine years.
The family consisted of twelve children, viz.:
Emeline M., born May 19, 1819; died, 1822.
Napoleon B. born June 9, 1821; died Nov. 28, 1862.
Anna W., born Aug. 4, 1823; died Oct. 5, 1823.
John W., born Sept. 21, 1824; died Sept. 12,
1851. William F. born May 25, 1827; died
Oct. 17, 1865. Hamilton C., born Nov. 5,
1829; lives on homestead. Jesse W., born
Jan. 22, 1832; died Aug. 26, 1864. Julia A.,
born April 12, 1834; resides in county. Abraham,
born Aug. 5, 1837; died Mar. 12, 1863. Hiram,
born July 24, 1839; resides in Illinois. Laura
L., born Dec. 28, 1841; resides at old home.
Virgil C., born April 5, 1844; resides in
Illinois. Of these, four sons were in the war of
the Rebellion, one of whom died from the effects of a
wound; one from disease while in service; one after the
year, from disease contracted in the services; while one
only of the four survives, viz., Virgil C., who
resides in Illinois. Hamilton C. now,
together with his sister, Laura L., resides on
the old homestead.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. 1883 - Page 282 |
Washington
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ELIJAH LINK was born in Ashland
County, Ohio, in 1833. In 1874 he came to Shelby
County, where, in the year 1878, he married Maggie
Marshall, a daughter of William and Martha
(Sturgeon) Marshall. They have had born to
them two children, viz., George W. and John.
They are located on the old Sturgeon farm
near Lockington.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. 1883 - Page 285 |
Dinsmore Twp.
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JOHN C. LINTON, son of James H.
and Anna E. Linton, was born in Logan County, Ohio,
July 12, 1851. When at the age of fourteen years,
he began working in a saw-mill at Belle Centre, Logan
County, for Wm. H. Young, with whom he remained
several years, and has since been engaged in the
manufacturing of, and dealing in all kinds of hard wood
lumber, which business he has made a success. In
1874, he, in company with L. Davis, came to
Shelby County and erected the steam saw-mill known as
the Linton mills, which he has since been operating.
The mill is located in Dinsmore Township, two miles
south of Botkins. Nov. 4, 1872, he married Miss
Catharine, daughter of Michael and Mary
O'Donnell, then of Franklin County, Ohio, bur a
native of New York State, where she was born Oct. 25,
1856. By this union he has two children, viz.,
Ida M. and Emma E.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 246 |
Perry Twp. -
G. W. LIPPINCOTT was born in the
State of New Jersey in 1826. His parents were Jacob
Lippincott and Debro Burge Lippincott. He came
to Shelby County in 1847, and married Sarah J. Line
in 1856. They have raised a family of five
children, viz., James, John, Edward, William, and
Franklin.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 219 |
Perry
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G. W. LIPPINCOTT was born in New
Jersey in 1826, came to Shelby County in 1847, and
married Sarah J. Line in 1856. Mrs.
Lippincott is a daughter of John Line and
the old lady who was so foully murdered by David
Shank. They have raised a family of five
children, as follows: James, born 1861; John,
born 1864; Edward, born 1866; William,
born 1868; and Franklin, born 1874.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 221 |
Green Twp. -
ISAAC P. LOVETT, Farmer; P. O.
Tawana, Ohio.
Mr. Lovett was born in Bucks County, Pa., Feb.
20, 1823, and came to Ohio with his parents, Joshua
and Hepzibah Lovett, who settled in Champaign
County, near the Shelby County line, Aug. 28, 1835,
where young Lovett passed the remainder of his
boyhood days on a farm. May 26, 1842, he married
Miss Hannah, daughter of Nicholas and Mary
Speece, born in Virginia May 16, 1818,and came to
Champaign County, Ohio, with her parents in 1823 or
1824.
Mr. and Mrs. Lovett settled in Champaign County,
remained until 1857, when they purchased and moved on
the farm in section 2, Green Township, Shelby County,
where they are now living. They reared a family of
four children, viz., Joshua, William S.,
Nicholas S. and George H., all of whom are
now married, and have families. Joshua and
Nicholas served about four months each in the late
war in Company H, 132d O. N. G.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ.
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