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Source:
HISTORY of JEROME TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY, OHIO
Curry, W. L. : Columbus, Ohio: Press of the E. T. Miller Co.
1913

OUR BOYS OF OTHER STATES.

      A number of Jerome Township boys left the parental home and the old farm soon after the close of the Civil War, in 1865, and took up the duties of citizenship in other States. Robert A. Liggett went to Detroit, Mich., and was for many years a prominent official in the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company.  William M. Liggett, after serving two terms as Treasurer of Union County, moved with his family to Minnesota, where he was very prominent.  First serving as Commissioner of Railroads, for eighteen years he was Dean of the Agricultural Experiment Station in connection with the University of Minnesota.
     David G. Robinson, after graduation at college, was also

David Curry
121st O. V. I.
Corporal Emmer Robinson
174th O. V. I.

Addison Curry
86th O. V. I.

Forester Beard
88th O. V. I.

 

Captain Otway Curry
121st O. V. I.
Corporal James Curry
187th O. V. I.

Captain William L. Curry
1st O. V. C.

Andrew Gill
86th O. V. I.

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graduated as a theological student of the Presbyterian Church and was an ordained minister of that church. William McCrory went to Minneapolis, Minn., where he was a prominent business man. He projected and built the first interurban railroad line from Minneapolis to Lake Minetonka.  James D. Bain was graduated as a physician, went to Great Bend, Kansas, where he practiced a number of years and was elected a member of the Legislature in that State.
     All of the above named are deceased.
     Of those who survive, Henry A. Brinkerhoff, who first served as a Lieutenant in the 30th O. V. I., was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the U. S. Army before the close of the Civil War. He remained in the Army and was retired a few years ago with the rank of Colonel, and resides in Oak Park, Illinois.
     James Curry was graduated from the University of Wooster, Ohio, in 1872. He then went immediately to San Francisco, California, where, after two years' study, he was graduated from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in that city. He was immediately ordained as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of San Pablo and Berkeley, and has been in the ministry continuously for 40 years in the vicinity of San Francisco. He is a Doctor of Divinity, and in service is the oldest Presbyterian minister on the coast. He has written a history of Presbyterianism on the Pacific Coast, of which a large edition was published, and he has for a number of years been the Secretary of the Board of the Theological Seminary of San Francisco. He is now pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Newark, California.
     James Cone; Stephenson B. Cone, Daniel R. Cone, with their families, emigrated to Oregon many years ago. They live in the vicinity of McMinnville, excepting Stephenson and family, who live in Portland, and they have all prospered in a business way.
Alexander D. Gowans resides at Centerview, Mo., and is now Mayor of that city. Thompson O. Cole is a successful business man of Great Bend, Kansas.  James L. McCampbell resides at Orange, California.  David Curry, for many years a fruit grower in California, has recently changed his residence to Seattle, Washington.  William B. Brinkerhoff, piano manufacturer, Brazil, Indiana. Immer Robinson, produce merchant, Champaign, Ill..
     Robert McCrory served two years as Clerk of the Courts of Union County and afterward practiced law quite successfully a number of years', is now a resident of Spokane, Wash.  James F. Chapman, Pomona, Cal.; Heber Woodburn, Minneapolis, Minn.; Jacob Ruehlen, Hiawatha, Kan.; George Butler, Rush Center, Kan.; Festus Edwards, Chase, Mich.; Samuel Nonnemaker, Topeka, Kan.; Dunallen M. Woodburn, Hessington, Kan., druggist; A. M. Garner, railroad engineer for forty years, Mattoon, Ill.; Edgar G. Magill, a prominent physician of Peoria, Ill.
     They were all schoolboys of Jerome Township, and it is a pleasure to note that some of them have been prominent in public life and all are respected citizens of other States. There may be others whose names are not recalled, but every effort has been made to ascertain the present address of all who reside in other States.

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