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Washington Twp. -
JONATHAN FIELDS, farmer, P. O.
Richwood, was born in Logan County, Ohio, Oct. 26,
1818. His parents were Robert and Susan
Fields, early settlers of Logan County. Of
a family of eight children seven are yet living,
viz.: Jonathan C., Jefferson C., Andrew J.,
Robert, Barbara, Lucinda and Charlotte.
Our subject was in his youth trained to the pursuits
of farming, and received the rudiments of education
in a district school. On Feb. 18, 1841, he was
united in matrimony with Miss Elizabeth J. Atha,
daughter of Thomas and Abigail Atha, of whom
we have made mention in another portion of this
work. To them have been born ten children,
viz.: Mary A., Susannah, Melissa J., Easrum,
Jasper N., James R., Emma O., Levi C., Thomas J.
and Sarah E., the latter two of whom are
deceased. In March, 1850, Mr. Fields
settled in the eastern portion of Washington
Township, this county, on the farm at present
occupied by him. He owns 108 acres of land,
and is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church.
 Source:
History Union County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - W. H.
Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 668 |
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Dover Twp. -
LEWIS FILLER, farmer, P. O.
New Dover, was born in Loudoun County, Va., July 6,
1814. His father was a native of Loudoun
County; his parents came from Germany. He
served in the war of 1812, and contracted a disease
from which he died. His mother, Elizabeth
Cordell, was also a native of Loudoun County,
and of German parents. Lewis is the
second son and third child. When a boy he was
taken by Samuel Cordell, who reared him to
maturity, and gave him teh privileges of the common
schools. He came to Marysville in 1834, and
worked one year at carpentering, then went to Union
Township, where he married, and teh succeeding year
(1836) came to Dover Township and purchased fifty
acres of land. In 1852, he bought 100 acres of
his present homestead, which was all in woods.
He now owns a well-improved farm of 155 acres, which
he cleared up from the stump. Aug. 11, 1835,
he was married to Mary Mather daughter of
Ebenezer and Elizabeth Mather by whom he had
eleven children, two of whom are living - Melva
F., wife of William Kelsey, and
Davison, who married Ella Craty. Mrs.
Filler was born in Union Township Jan. 14, 1818,
and died July 2, 1853. Mr. F. again
married, May 11, 1854, to Mrs. Elmina Irwin,
widow of Samuel Irwin. She died June
22, 1858, leaving two children, daughter of James
and Nancy Beck. Mrs. F. was born in Clark
County, W. Va., June 7, 1832. Of seven
children by this union two are living - Mina
and Laura B. Mr. and Mrs. Filler are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He
assisted is organizing Mount Harmon Methodist
Episcopal Church, and is the only surviving charter
member. He served as Township Trustee four
terms, and in politics is a Republican.
Source: History Union County, Ohio -
Publ. Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 373 |
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Claibourne Twp. -
GEORGE W. FINLEY, deceased,
was born in Virginia, and was educated in the graded
schools of Washington, D. C.; of his early life and
his ancestry but little is now known. He was a
coach-maker by trade and m early life taught school.
He was married in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1851, to
Angeline Williams, a daughter of
Rev. John Williams and
Anna Smart, his wife, who came to Ohio at an
early day and settled in Fairfield County, where
Mrs. Finley was born in 1828. Her father was a
minister of the Methodist denomination. Mr.
and Mrs. Finley had five children, viz.:
Ellen D., now the wife of T. T. Jones;
Olive A., wife of Chauncey Hill;
Otho Ray, deceased; Carrie
Bell, deceased; and Mary V., wife of
E. R. Finley. Mr. and Mrs. Finley
were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he
was a Whig in politics until the formation of the
Republican party, when he became a Democrat.
He was a successful business man, a good farmer and
an extensive stock dealer, and at his death owned
265 acres of land. Mrs. Finley
is a grand-daughter of Joshua Scritchfield,
a Revolutionary soldier, who lived until the year
1842.
Source: History Union County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago -
W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 617 |
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Claibourne Twp. -
C. E. FISH, farmer, P. O.
Richwood, was born in Maryland Feb. 24, 1824; he is
a son of James H. and Catherine (Easterday) Fish,
natives of Maryland, the former of English and the
latter of German discent. His father, who was
one of the early settlers of Ohio, was a miller by
trade, but after settling in this State devoted his
time to farming. Our subject was raised as a
farmer and since eighteen years of age has followed
that occupation successfully in this township.
At one time he owned 445 acres of land, but having
given some to his children he now only owns 200
acres. He is a Democrat in politics. In
1848, he married Elizabeth Rench, who
was born in Miami County, Ohio, Mar. 9, 1826; she is
a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Williams)
Rench, natives of Ohio, of German descent.
Her father was a farm er who settled in Claibourne
Township in 1844. By this union fourteen
children were born, of whom seven now survive, viz.:
J. L., a farmer of Jackson Township;
Margaret, wife of Cyrus Stamats;
William, a farmer; Joanna, wife of
Penrose Wiley; Orlando, a farmer;
David F., a farmer and Susan; Ella,
the two latter living at home unmarried.
Mrs. Fish is a member of the Disciples
Church, and the owner of 245 acres of land in her
own right, on which she resides. Mr.
Fish also owns a good farm which he now
cultivates.
Source: History Union County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago -
W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 617 |
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Claibourne
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BENJAMIN S. FISHER, retired
farmer, P. O. Richwood, was born in Fayette County,
Penn., Oct. 4, 1808, and was a son of Enoch and
Elizabeth (Stevens) Fisher, the former a native
of Maryland and the latter of Pennsylvania.
His father was a farmer and teamster by occupation
and came to the Northwest Territory in 1800,
settling at Mount Vernon. He was under Gen.
Anthony Wayne three years in the Indian war, and
lived to the remarkable old age of one hundred and
one years. Our subject was raised on the farm
in the wilderness of early Ohio and never had an
opportunity of receiving any education. His
father being in poor circumstances, he started out
in life with nothing and entirely dependent on his
own exertion for his success in life. He has
been a life-long farmer and has cleared three farms
in Claibourne Township where he has resided since
1836, and where he accumulated a handsome fortune,
the greater part of which he has already placed in
the hands of his posterity. He began farming
for himself at the age of twenty and retired at the
age of sixty, having spent forty years to a day in
tilling the soil. In 1829, he married
Catharine Cramer, by whom he had eleven
children, viz.: Larkins D., a farmer in this
township; Sarah J., deceased wife of J. J.
Thompson; Elizabeth Ellen, wife of
R. Farrier; Sisson S., wife of
James Merriott; William ; Margaret,
wife of Morris Hill, of Richwood;
Michael, deceased; Mary, wife of John
S. Phillips; George O.; Malissa,
wife of Frank Gill; and Viola, wife of
W. W. Brokaw. Mr. Fisher
has given his children $18,000 to start them in
life. He and his wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and he has filled the
office of trustee in the Church at Richwood.
He is a Democrat in politics. Mrs.
Fisher was born Apr. 30, 1812; she had two
brothers in the war of that year.
Source: History Union County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago -
W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 617 |
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Leesburg Twp. -
E. W. FISHER, proprietor of sample room.
Magnetic Springs, was born in Portage County, Ohio,
Aug. 26, 1857. He is a son of Eli and Susan
(Strong) Fisher, natives of Ohio. Our
subject was married December 27, 1876, to
Magdeline Finley, a daughter of Col.
J. H Finley; she was born in April, 1850.
Our subject lived in this county until nineteen
years of age, when he went to Madison County, and in
the fall of 1880 came to Magnetic Springs and
engaged in the grocery business, in which he
continued six months. He afterward opened
billiard rooms and ten pin alleys, which he is
conducting, and which furnish a source of recreation
to the many visitors at the Springs. Mr.
Fisher, though young in years, is an
enterprising gentleman and a good citizen. He
owns a nice property in the village, which he now
occupies.
Source: History Union County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago -
W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 437 |
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Claibourne Twp. -
GEORGE O. FISHER, farmer and
stock-raiser, P. O. Richwood, was born in Claibourne
Township Union Co., May 25, 1847, and is a son of
Benjamin S. Fisher, whose sketch appears in this
work. He was educated in his native township,
and brought up to farming,
which he has followed through life. He was
married in 1870, to Mary E. Kinney, daughter
of Israel Kinney, whose sketch also appears
in this volume. This union has been blessed
with two children, viz.: Charles F. and
Herbert J. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are
members of the Methodist Church, and he is steward
in the church at Richwood. In politics, he is
an unflinching Prohibitionist. He owns a farm
of fifty-two acres of land with good improvements,
on which stands a neat and substantial residence.
Source: History Union County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago -
W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 618 |
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Claibourne Twp. -
W. M. FISHER, farmer, P. O.
Richwood, was born Mar. 27, 1838, he is the son of
Benjamin S. and Catherine (Cramer) Fisher,
who came to this county in 1836, and now resides in
Richwood. The grandfather of our subject came
to Ohio in 1800, and settled in Knox County.
He was a soldier under Gen. Anthony Wayne,
and lived to be one hundred and one years of age.
Our subject received a common school education, and
has been a farmer most of his life, with the
exception of two years spent in the clothing
business at Richwood. He is the owner of a
good farm in this township on which he resides.
He was married, in 1866, to Mary Miller, by
whom he has four children, viz., Frederick,
Winfred, Gertrude and Albert E.
Mrs. Fisher is a member of the M. E. Church
in Richwood. Mr. Fisher is a Democrat,
in politics.
Source: History Union County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago -
W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 618 |
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Claibourne Twp. -
WILLIAM FISHER, farmer, P. O.
Richwood, was born in 1827, and is a son of Enoch
and
Elizabeth (Stevens) Fisher, the former a
life-long farmer, and one of the early settlers of
Ohio. Our subject was raised on a farm, and
received a common school education. When of
suitable age, he learned the carpenter's trade,
which he followed until fifty years of age. He
came to this county in 1837, and settled in
Richwood, where he married Margaret Graham,
by whom he has had eight children, viz.: Sarah L.,
Harriet M., wife of Elijah Lester;
Martha C., wife of H. C. Moffitt;
Margaret A., wife of Charles N. Biddle;
Thomas B., Samuel P., Benjamin
and John. Mr. Fisher died
January 23, 1880; she was a member of the M. E.
Church, and a consistant Christian woman.
Mr. Fisher is also a member of the
Methodist Church. He is a Republican in
politics, and now owns eighty-nine acres of choice
land, on which he resides.
Source: History Union County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago -
W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 618 |
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Claibourne Twp. -
JOHN FLESHER, farmer, P. O.
Richwood, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, Feb.
20, 1820, and is a son of Henry and Frances
(Burgess) Flesher, the former a native of
Virginia and the latter of Ohio. Our subject
was raised on a farm, and received a common school
education. He followed farming with his father
until 1865, when he came to Union County and settled
in Claibourne Township, on the farm he now occupies.
He owns 164½
acres of land, fifty of it in Jackson Township, all
of which he has made by his personal labor. On
Aug. 15, 1844, he married Lainey Haines,
a native of Ohio, of Dutch descent, by whom he has
had eight children, viz.: George W.,
deceased; Mary F., wife of S. H. Snowden;
Landora S., deceased; Emma J., wife of
James W. Shultz; Susannah, deceased;
A. A., deceased; Walter L. and
Arthur S. Mr. and Mrs. Flesher are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which
he has been a class leader forty years. He has
also been a trustee and superintendent of the
Sabbath school.
Source: History Union County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago -
W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 618 |
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Leesburg Twp. -
WILLIAM FOSTER, retired, P. O. Pharisburg, was born
in Muskingum County, Ohio, Oct. 7, 1811. HE is
a son of John and Elizabeth (Parker) Foster,
who were the parents of three sons and one daughter.
He was reared on a farm and educated in Champaign
County. He taught school for six months, and
is also a house joiner by occupation, but has
devoted himself principally to farming. He now
owns about forty-six acrs of land two iles northwest
of Pharisburg, pn which he and his family have
resided forty-two years. He was married Dec.
5, 1839, to Miss Elizabeth Wood, one of a
family of eight sons and four daughters, born to |
Henry Fox |
Jerome Twp. -
HENRY FOX
Source: History Union County, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co. 1883 - Page 311
(Portrait on Page 429 |
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Union Twp. -
JAMES FULLINGTON, farmer, P.
O. Irwin, was born in this township in 1828.
He is a son of Moses and Harriet (Guy) Fullington,
natives of Vermont, who emigrated to Ohio in 1816 or
1817, and for one year stopped at Granville, after
which they came to this township, and located on
land purchased by his father, George Fullington
who died in Madison County. George
Fullington was a man of literary habits, and
devoted the whole of his attention to literary
pursuits. He had six children that came to
Ohio with him, and two were born here after his
arrival, Moses being the only one that became
a resident of this county. The other children
were Abigail, wife of Charles Phellis;
Adelaide, second wife of William Guy; Claret,
first wife of William Guy; Salina, wife of
John Burnham; Mary, wife of R. Kimball,
deceased; Thomas J., who died in Illinois,
and Sallie, deceased. Moses
Fullington had four children, viz.: Jane,
wife of Charles A. Baker; James, Charles and
George, deceased. Mr. Fullington
died in 1850, aged forty-nine years; his wife died
in 1832. He was an energetic, hard-working
man, and succeeded in accumulating a handsome
property. Our subject was reared on a farm,
and until fifteen years of age attended the common
schools. In February, 1844, he went to Kansas
in the interest of his father, who was buying stock
and driving it over the mountains, and in this
business he participated for nine years. In
1852, he married Eliza H. McMullen of
Springfield, Ill., and after marriage located on his
farm in this township, where he has since resided.
In 1878, he was elected County Commissioner, and
during his term of service was an able advocate of
free pikes. He was also a member of the State
Board of Equalization for ten years, and at present
is a member of the State Board of Public Works.
He owns 1,200 or 1,300 acres of land located in this
township. He has had six children born to him,
viz.: Lucy V., wife of A. Howard,
Walter C., C. Phellis, Edward Mc., F. Guy and
Belle Brown.
Source: History
Union County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - W. H. Beers &
Co. 1883 - Page 204 |
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