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History
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Source:
History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co.
1884
BIOGRAPHIES
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JACOB PALMER, farmer, P. O. Bolivar,
was born May 19, 1827, son of Charles and Susan (Fisher)
Palmer, who emigrated from Pennsylvania and settled near
Sandyville in the autumn of 1830, and one and a half years
later came to the farm now occupied by Jacob.
It is pleasantly located on an elevation, and the grounds
are now beautified by the labor of its owner with flowers
and shrubbery. The country was then quite new only a
clearing and log cabin here and there. Everything was
made of wood, even the nails. Charles Palmer
was a member of the United Brethren Children. He had
only a limited education, but gave his children all the
advantages the times afforded. The Testament and
United States spelling book were the principal books used.
Jacob Palmer, the subject of this sketch, was one of
six children, five of whom are now living. He was
married, Dec. 2, 1849, to Barbara A. Shue one of two
children, she having a sister Margaret, a native of
Ohio. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Palmer
are Philip C., Principal of the Sparta Normal School;
Lucy A. and Sarah Melissa, also a teacher.
Mr. Palmer is a member of the Lutheran Church, and in
politics is a Republican.
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 789 |
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HAMILTON PARRISH, farmer, P. O. Port
Washington, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, Apr. 13, 1819,
the son of Joshua and Sarah (Roland) Parrish.
He came to this township in 1830, was raised on a farm and
received the education afforded by the common schools.
In 1841, he was married to Isabel McCoy, who was born
in Maryland, raised in Pennsylvania, and is of Irish
descent. Their five living children are Elza H.,
of this township, who served for six months in the Eightieth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry and afterward in the Ninety-eighth
to the close of the war; Solomon M., of Iowa;
Margaret, married and living in Washington Township;
Robert J. L., at home; and Gershon, at home.
Samuel R., the eldest child, died at Nashville,
Tenn., a member of the Fifty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry;
and Alvira died at the age of eighteen years.
Mr. Parrish has been a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church for forty years, and has been Class Leader
and Steward of the society, which was organized in 1841 and
disbanded in 1882. When Mr. Parrish first came
to this county in 1830, they built a house and settled in
the woods.
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 737 |
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J. PECK
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 876 |
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JOHN
PFAEFFLY, cheese manufacturer, Dundee, was born in
Switzerland, July 3, 1847, and is a son of Ulrich and May
(Huber) Pfaeffly. His mother died in Switzerland,
subsequent to which his father came to America, in 1876 and
settled in Stone Creek, Tuscarawas County, engaging in the
manufacture of cheese. The family consisted of two
children, John and Mary (twins), the latter
the wife of Edward Miller. Our subject was
united in marriage, Dec. 11, 1874, with Miss Kate Stukey
to which union there were born two children - Flora
and Kate. His wife died on Mar. 20, 1877, and
on May 9, 1878, he married Miss Mary Stukey.
One child, John Alexander, resulted from this union.
The family are members of the German Reformed Church.
Mr. Pfaeffly has a fine, comfortable home, and the
best cheese factory in Wayne Township. He has been
engaged in the business for about twenty years.
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 997 |
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J. W. PFEIFFER, teacher, Bolivar, was
born in Prussia Mar. 14, 1849, son of Henry and Margaret
(Laux) Pfeiffer, who emigrated to America in 1853, and
settled in Dover, Ohio. His family consisted of the
following children: Frederick (at home),
Charles (married to Catherine, daughter of
Francis Baker), Lewis (who died young), and
John W. (the subject of this sketch), who was married
Apr. 4, 1878, to Emma Morris, of Harrison County,
Ohio. They have two children - Daisy Mary and
Brook. Mr. Pfeiffer attended school at the
Dover Union Schools, and finished his education at Hopedale
Normal College. He was then teacher in the first
department of the Zoar Union School, and is now Principal of
the Bolivar Public Schools, having held the position for
four years. He is a successful teacher. Mr.
Pfeiffer has in his possession an Indian tomahawk of
ancient date and English pattern, found in a hollow tree in
this township.
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 789 |
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NATHANIEL
PITTENGER, farmer, P. O. Dennison, was born in
Harrison County, Ohio Dec. 10, 1818. He is a son of
Abraham and Susanna (Osborn) Pittenger, both natives of
New Jersey, the former of Yankee, the latter of Dutch
descent. Abraham Pittenger was a farmer all his
life, and came to this State in the latter part o f1700,
settling in Harrison County. Our subject came to this
county in 1871; he received a limited education in a log
schoolhouse. In 1841, he was united in marriage with
Maria, daughter of William Atkinson. Her
parents were natives of Pennsylvania. The two children
who have blessed this union are
William A., editor of the Dennison Paragraph,
and Susanna, wife of John Philips, a resident
of California. Our subject is the owner of a house and
lot in Dennison, also one in Uhrichsville; he was a Justice
of the Peace for two years, while a resident of Greene
Township, Harrison County, and was also School Director.
Mr. and Mrs. Pittenger are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in which the former has held most of the
offices. In Harrison County he was Superintendent for
about ten years, of a Sabbath school. In politics he
is a Republican.
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 838 |
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WILLIAM A.
PITTINGER, editor of the Dennison Paragraph,
Dennison, is the only son of Nathaniel and Maria
Pittenger, and was born Aug. 19, 1842, in Rumley
Township, Harrison County, Ohio. His father is a
farmer, and William's early life was spent upon the farm,
amid the dewy fields, of which he learned, not by imitation
but by application, the sublime mysteries of husbandry.
He early developed a love of knowledge, and during the
winters of his stay upon the farm was sent to the district
school, where he threaded all the classes, and his boyish
thirst for an education being not yet satiated he was sent
to the Hopedale Normal School, and subsequently to Mt. Union
College, his stay in those institutions rounding up the
period of his collegiate education. At the age of
nineteen, he embarked in his chosen occupation, by entering
the office of the Cadiz Republican as an apprentice
to the printing trade, and subsequently became foreman and
assistant editor of that journal. The breaking out of
the rebellion, about this time, fired his patriotism, and he
enlisted as a private in Company C, Ninety-eighth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and served his country faithfully, until
honorably discharged, about the close of the war.
Returning home, he located in Tuscarawas County, and in
connection with J. L. McIlvaine, Esq., entered upon
the editorship and management of the Tuscarawas Advocate,
the first paper established in the county, where he remained
a partner until December, 1868, when he purchased the
Tuscarawas Chronicle, then published in New
Philadelphia, and moved it to Uhrichsville and Dennison, and
conducted it until December, 1876, when the paper changed
hands, and he retired from the editor's chair which he had
ably filled for eight years. From 1877 to May 1879,
Mr. Pittinger resided at Washington City, where he held
the position in the Government printing office, resigning
which he spent about six months as foreman of a newspaper in
Idaho Territory, but returned to Dennison in the fall, and
on Dec. 13, 1879, founded and established the Dennison
Paragraph. This independent local paper was liberally
patronized from the start, and has been quite a business
success. He is its present editor and business
manager. Mr. Pittinger was married, Sept. 13,
1866, to Miss Anna E. Getzan, youngest daughter of
Philip Getzman, Esq., of New Philadelphia, Ohio.
The union has been a very happy one, and has been blessed
with three children - Frank G., born July 25, 1867;
Herbert Roy, born Jan. 10, 1875; and Nellie Louise,
born July 26, 1876. Mrs. Pittenger, who is a
well educated and intelligent lady, assists her husband in
the editorial work of the Paragraph. Mr. Pittenger
is in the prime of life, and possesses a sound mind in
the sound body. As a citizen, he is straightforward,
public-spirited and progressive. He was a member , and
for some time President of Board of Education organized in
Dennison. In politics, he is a conservative
Republican; in religion a Presbyterian, being a Ruling Elder
in the church of his choice. As a newspaper writer, he
is second to none in the county, his compositions being
stately, elegant and dignified.
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 839 |
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E. S. POCOCK
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 877 |
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J. T. POCOCK
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 877 |
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POTSCHNER FAMILY. Carl
Gottfried was born in Riess, Kingdom of Saxony, Germany,
Jan. 9, 1793. His parents, John Gottfried ( a
butcher by profession) and Hanna C. (Hauplin) Potschner,
died when he was quite young, and he was raised by his
grandparents, who were owners of a water-mill in Riesa.
From 1806 to 1808, he learned the shoe-maker's trade with
John G. Ahligen, and after that he went to traveling as
"jour." In 1814 or 1815, he went to Freienwalde, on
the Oder River, Brandenburg Province, Prussia, where he
worked at his trade; united with the Evangelisch Church
there, and, Oct. 15, 1818, married Louisa F., the
only daughter of John C. Mechelke, born Feb. 25,
1796, at the same place. He worked at his trade here
until his death, which occurred Feb. 8, 1873, his wife dying
several years earlier (June 6, 1858). They raised a
family of six children - Carl Frederick (deceased),
August, Caroline (deceased), Henriette, Maria
and Ernst. The survivors reside at their
birthplace, except August, who lives in Christian County,
Ill. All the male members, since Carl Gottfried,
who lives in Christian County, Ill. All the male
members, since Carl Gottfried, were and are practical
shoe-makers. Carl Frederick Potschner, the
oldest son of Carl Gottfried Potschner, was born Nov.
18, 1819, reared in the Evangelisch Church, learned his
father's trade, and is spring of 1847 emigrated to America.
He worked at his trade in Buffalo, N. Y., for two years;
then engaged in the service of the America Tract Society of
New York City as colporteur, and was sent to Ohio in the
fall of 1849. For nine years he labored in Wayne,
Stark, Tuscarawas and Carroll Counties, traveling afoot, and
carrying his books in a large hand trunk. The first
two years he made Bolivar his home, residing with Henry
Stallman. He married Rosina Catharine,
oldest daughter of Cristoph Bader, Oct. 8, 1852, and
settled near Navarre, Stark County. In the spring of
1859, he removed to near Dover, Tuscarawas County, and
resumed his trade. In the spring of 1862, he removed
to Huntington County, Ind., where he died of dropsy, Feb.
15, 1866, after an illness of two years. The widow
returned to Ohio, and is now living at Strasburg, Tuscarawas
County. The children are Charles (who died when
quite young), William Peter, Caroline Louisa, Emilie,
Maria Sophia, Rosina Wilhelmina and John Henry.
All are now living in this county except Emilie, wife
of Edwin Kryder who resides at Napoleon, Ohio.
(Carl F. was a Democrat in politics.)
William Peter Potschner, son of Carl F., was born
Sept. 15, 1854, in Stark County. He was married, Apr.
23, 1878, to Catharine, oldest daughter of Henry
Vogt, a native of Hesse-Cassel, Germany. Their
children are Charles H. (born Aug. 21, 1879),
Stella L. (born Feb. 27, 1881) and Annie Mary
(born Jan. 28, 1883). Mr. Potschner is engaged
in the boot and shoe trade at Bolivar, and does an extensive
business. He is a member of the Evangelical Church,
and in politics is Republican.
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 790 |
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O. C. POWLESON
Source: History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 - Page 877 |
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S. P. PUTT, physician, P. O. Stone
Creek, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 10, 1853.
He is a son of Phillip and Mary A. (Benell) Putt,
both natives of this county, where they were married, and
have had born to them a family of nine children. Our
subject's grandfather, Harman Putt, came from Prussia
to the United States in 1795, and for five years worked as a
ship carpenter at Boston, Mass. In 1800, he came to
this county and settled in York Township, where he reared a
large family. There were but three families in the
township when he first came here; and he and his family
became well known to all the early settlers. The
Benells were also early settlers of Tuscarawas County.
Our subject's father has always followed farming, and is now
a resident of York Township. His wife died September
16, 1881. The subject of this sketch remained with his
parents until nearly sixteen years of age, receiving a good
common school education. He then left home, and after
teaching school for one term entered Buchtel College, Akron,
Ohio. He attended school there during the spring,
summer and autumn for four years, obtaining the means for
his education by teaching in the winters. He then took
up the study of medicine at Phillipsburg and attended his
first course of lectures at the Starling Medical College of
Columbus, Ohio, in the winter of 1875 and 1876. He
graduated from that institution in the winter of 1877 and
1878, and soon after commenced practice at Phillipsburg,
where he has since remained, and by his skill and close
attention to his profession has built up a good and steadily
increasing business. He has a good drug store which he
runs in connection with his profession. He married
Miss Elizabeth Knoblock December, 23, 1875. She
was born in Dover, this county, April 20, 1854. By
this union two children have been born - Florence A.
and Mary Edna. The Doctor is a Democrat.
Source: History of Tuscarawas County,
Ohio - Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884 – Page
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