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Hocking Valley, Ohio -
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1883 BIOGRAPHIES
G. W.
DALTON, agent of the C., H. V. & T. R.
R., at McArthur, Ohio, is a son of William
Dalton, who is an early settler of Vinton
County, now living in Swan Township. G.
W. was born in Hocking County in 1855.
He was reared to farm life and received the
rudiments of a common-school education. At
the age of twenty-two he commenced to learn
telegraphing at Zaleski, on the M. & C. R. R.,
and while there he learned the principle of
general railroad office work. In 1878 he
was employed to operate in an office for J.
W. Bowen of McArthur, who had a line of
telegraphy to Portsmouth, Ohio. Aug. 18,
1880, he took charge of the railroads office at
Creola, and in October, 1881, was transferred to
McArthur. Here he has charge of the
ticket, Freight, Adams Express and telegraphing.
In 1881 he married Isabelle Alexander.
They have one child.
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SAMUEL
G. DARBY was born in Jackson Township,
Vinton County, Sept. 9, 1851, a son of Steven
and Margaret (Grams) Darby, natives of this
county. He was reared a farmer and
educated in the common schools with the
exception of one term spent at Washington
College in Clinton County, Ohio. Sept. 21,
1873, he was married to Miss Eby E. Stevens,
born Nov. 28, 1853, a daughter of John and
Mary (Lonkester) Stevens. This union
has been blessed with the following children -
Ida May, born June 4, 1874; Delvan D.,
May 12, 1876; John S., Sept. 29, 1882.
Mr. Darby was elected Township Clerk Apr.
2, 1877, holding the office ever since with the
exception of one year. He has ninety-seven
acres of land on section 22 and is one of the
prominent farmers of Eagle Township. He
and his wife are members of the Christian
church.
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NATHAN
C. DARST, Deputy County Auditor,
McArthur, Ohio, is a son of Andrew J. and
grandson of Isaac Darst. The latter
was for a number of years a farmer in Meigs
County, Ohio, where he died soon after the close
of the late war. Of his sons Andrew J.
was the eldest, a native of Meigs County,
Ohio, but in 1865 he, with his family, moved to
Wilkesville, Vinton County, where he died in
1868. In early life he received a fair
education, and while quite young commenced
teaching, which he followed until his death.
By this avocation he accumulated some means and
became a landowner, but having been unfortunate
when a youth, sickness settling in his lower
limbs, he was unable to walk, and he never
cultivated his land himself. His wife was
Belinda Lamberson, whose parents were
from Pennsylvania, but she was a native of Ohio.
After his death his wife married and now lives
in Iowa. Her children by Andrew J.
Darst were three - Nathan C., Francis E.
and William D. The two youngest are
living with their mother. Nathan C.
was born in Meigs County, Ohio, Nov. 26, 1854,
but from eleven years of age lived in Vinton
County. He received his rudimentary
education in the common schools, which he
improved at the Wilkesville Academy. By
close application of study and stability of
mind, he, at the age of seventeen, commenced
teaching, which he followed until 1881, when he
was appointed deputy auditor of Vinton County,
Ohio, in which capacity he is now serving.
In January, 1880, he was married to Miss Mary
C. Schall, of German descent, but a native
of Vinton County. They have two children -
Lena M. and Thomas M.
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WILLIAM
BUCKLEY DAVIS, the first child born in
Mount Pleasant, Hocking (now Vinton) County,
Ohio, born June 17, 1844, is a living,
wide-awake, successful merchant at Sacramento
City, Cal. His great-grandfather,
Thomas Davis, a Revolutionary note, was at
the taking of Lord Cornwallis and his
grandfather, William B. Davis, a veteran
of the war of 1812, for whom he was named.
He takes great pride in having been born in this
quiet village of noted integrity and good
morals, and in its never having had a saloon.
Mr. Davis is a man of remarkable mind,
being able to relate the minutia and details of
business transactions of youth and early manhood
with as much fullness and certainty as the
trades of yesterday. He served as drummer
boy of the Eighteenth Ohio Infantry from 1861
till 1865, re-enlisting prior to the expiration
of his first term of service.
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JOSEPH
L. DEVAULT, farmer, a native of Harrison
County, Ohio, was born Mar. 8, 1837. At
the age of twelve years he came to Vinton County
where he has since made his home. When
thirteen years old he commenced to learn the
carpenter's trade at which he has been engaged
more or less since 1878, since which he has
followed farming and makes the raising of fine
sheep a specialty. He has a fine farm of
257 acres on fraction 24, Wilkesville Township.
He enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in July,
1862, in Company B, Ninetieth Ohio Infantry, and
participated in the battles of Perryville and
Stone River, Tenn., after which he was placed in
the Pioneer Corps, and served with the Engineer
Corps at the close of the war. He was
mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., when he
returned ot his home in Vinton County.
June 3, 1867, he was married to Eveline S.
Hawk, born in Vinton County in 1846.
She died in October, 1882. They were the
parents of six children - Ulysses, Lizzie,
John, Homer, Flora and Frank. He was
married a second time on Apr. 18, 1883, to
Anna Morrison born in Gallia County, Ohio,
Apr. 22, 1838. She is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Devault
belongs to the Presbyterian church.
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SIMEON
P. DEAVER was reared on a farm and
educated at the common schools. He was
born in Perry County, Mar. 24, 1825, and upon
attaining his majority began life for himself
with a capital of $250. He located in Swan
Township, Vinton County, in 1850, living on a
farm there till 1880, when he came to his
present place on section 9, Elk Township, where
he purchased 200 acres of excellent land.
He is also engaged in stock-raising and mines
considerable ore, the red limestone being
plentiful on his estate. He was married in
1850 to Elizabeth Milligan They
have had a family of seven children, three of
whom are living - Emma P., Susan and
George M. The deceased are -
Hypatia, Sullivan D., Trieunis and an
infant. Mrs. Deaver died in 1873,
aged forty-six years; and in 1874 he married
Cynthia (Aikin) Dunkle. Mr. Deaver has
served as Trustee of Swan Township two
consecutive terms. His parents, Jonas
and Susanna (Hoover Deaver, were natives of
Baltimore County, Md., and Loudoun County, Va.,
respectively. The former came with his
father, Jonas Deaver, to Ohio, in 1802,
Henry Hoover locating with his family in
the same county about that time. Jonas
Deaver made a permanent home in Perry County
and died July 4, 1871, at the age of eighty-five
years. He was the father of thirteen
children, three being deceased. Those
remaining are - Misael, Jonas B., David H.,
Nancy, Elizabeth, Simeon P., Martha, Mary,
Hamilton H. and Lloyd T.. Our
subject's grandfather, Jonas Deaver, Sr.,
was a native of Wales and served in the war of
the Revolution under General Sullivan.
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CAPT.
J. W. DELAY, Cashier of Vinton County
National Bank, is a son of Ambrose Delay
and a grandson of Rev. Jacob Delay. The
latter was born in Greenbrier County, Va., July
18, 1780, and died in Jackson County, Ohio, Oct.
13, 1845. His wife was Mary Crouch
who survived him until Dec. 24, 1854, when she
died at Berlin Cross-roads, Jackson Co., Ohio.
Jacob Delay was extensively known
throughout Southern Ohio as one of the pioneer
Methodist ministers, and was remarkable for his
great decision of character as well as his
forcible and positive manner of Preaching the
gospel. Although he was a native of
Virginia he was of English extraction and became
an early settler in Jackson County, Ohio.
He was the father of eleven sons and one
daughter, five sons still living.
Ambrose was the seventh, and was born in
Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1810, and died in
Jackson County, Ohio (Berlin Cross-roads), Apr.
1, 1864. His wife, Rebecca S. Whitman
was born in Greenbrier County, Va., in 1811, but
died in Union County, Iowa, June, 1881.
Their family consisted of six sons and four
daughters, three sons and one daughter still
living. J. W. Delay is the oldest
and was born in Jackson County, Ohio, Jan. 10,
1839. As his father was a farmer J. W.
devoted his summers to the farm and his winters
in school. At the age of seventeen years
he entered the Ohio University, where he spent
two years, at which time he was tendered a
clerkship in a store and accepted, but two years
later engaged at the Latrobe Furnace as
bookkeeper. In this capacity he served
until July, 1861, when he enlisted in the United
States army, and Aug. 10 was enrolled in Company
K, Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry, mustered and
appointed First Sergeant. June 6, 1862, he
was promoted to Second Lieutenant, and Jan. 16,
1863, to First Lieutenant. About this time
he was placed on detached service on staff duty
in the subsistence department, in which capacity
he served during the war, having been
commissioned Oct. 24, 1864, by the President of
the United States as Captain of United States
volunteers, and brevetted Major July 10, 1865,
just four years from the date of first
enlistment. He participated in the battles
of Lewisburg, Va., within five miles of the
settlement of his grandparents on both sides;
the second battle of Bull Run, Va., and South
Mountain, in 1862. During the following
winter his regiment was in General
Rosecrans's campaign from Murfreesboro,
participating in the battles of Chickamauga,
Mission Ridge and many incidental fights of that
campaign. In the winter of 1863-'4
returned east and participated in the campaign
of General Crooks and Hunter in
West Virginia; subsequently in all the battles
of the Shenandoah Valley under General Phil.
Sheridan, serving until the war was ended.
Upon his return home in July, , 1865, he entered
the firm of H. F. Austin & Co. at Buckeye
Furnace, Jackson Co., Ohio, and engaged in the
manufacturing of pig-iron, where he remained
until October, 1866, when, together with Mr.
Austin and others, he came to McArthur and
organized the Vinton County Bank, but did not
move his family until January, 1867. When
the above bank was organized he was elected
Cashier, and continued, by re-elections to hold
the same position until the consolidation with
the other bank in McArthur in 1872, forming the
Vinton County National Bank, of which he was
again chosen Cashier. During the late war,
Apr. 11, 1864, he was married to Miss Samilda
J. Buck. They have four sons three
daughters, all living.
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REV. J. F. DICKSON
was born in County Fermannah, Ireland, Nov. 21,
1836, a son of James and Margaret (Trimble)
Dickson. When he was thirteen years of
age he came to America with his elder brother
and sisters. In 1860 he came to Vinton
County, Ohio, where in 1862 he married Mary
R. Howell, a daughter of Joseph Howell,
an early settler of Meigs County, Ohio. He
moved to Vinton County in 1856, where he died in
1881, his widow still living, aged seventy-nine
years. In early life Mr. Dickson
was desirous of obtaining an education but was
obliged to rely on his own resources. He
attended the Ohio University at Athens and
subsequently taught in Jackson County, Ohio.
He taught live years, preaching occasionally in
the meantime, and in 1860 entered the ministry
of the Methodist church. He was on the Mt.
Pleasant circuit two years, but the most of the
time was in Meigs and Gallia counties.
Since 1872 has been located in Elk Township and
has superintended his farm. He has sixty-six
acres of ore and coal land, the most of his
livelihood being made from his coal.
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REV. JOHN DILLON,
a member of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, was one of the best men that
Vinton County ever contained. He was born
in Zanesville, Ohio, Oct. 27, A.D. 1815.
His father was John Dillon, Sr., owner of
the iron furnace and forge, mills, etc., of
Dillon's Falls, one of the most indefatigable
men that ever lived, and who by his industry and
public spirit added largely to the wealth of the
State. Rev. John Dillon received
his education at the Ohio State University, at
Athens, and then studied law in Zanesville,
under General C. C. Goddard. In
1838 he left Zanesville with Dr. Edwin H.
Hughes to seek a fortune in the further
west. He fixed upon Mt. Carmel, Ill., as
the field in which to practice his chosen
profession; but he had hardly commenced his
promising career as a lawyer before he was
converted at a Methodist camp-meeting and
immediately commenced to preach. Returning
to Zanesville he soon after joined the Ohio
Conference and became one of its leading and
most useful members. He tilled various and
important relations as Pastor and Presiding
Elder, and was a member of the General
Conference of 1868. At the breaking out of
the late war he entered the service of his
country and was elected Chaplain of the
Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Regiment, and for
three years did brave and valuable service for
his country. Mr. Dillon
settled upon his farm of 300 acres near Zaleski,
Vinton County, in 1854. His uniform
kindness and consistency of conduct won for him
the love and esteem of all who knew him.
He was a preacher of uncommon ability, and in
the discussion of all law questions had few
equals in discernment, skill and tact. His
last illness was protracted and severe,
doubtless the result of exposure and overwork of
body and
mind. He died in full triumphs of the
Christian faith, Aug. 6, 1876, in the 61st year
of his age. His widow, Mrs. Ann Newell
Dillon, with two sons, Washington M.
and Asahel Dillon, and one
daughter, Hannah M., still live on the
farm three miles west of Zaleski. The eldest
daughter, Mrs. Belinda G. Chase, lives in
Salem, Oregon. Two sons, Edwin H.,
and Goodcelle B., live in Elmwood, Ill.,
practicing dentistry, their sister Edith,
living with them. Another son, John,
is with his cousin W. M. Dillon, in
Sterling, Ill., all of whom are respected and
beloved by all who know them.
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E. D. DODGE,
hardware merchant, is a son of James and
grandson of Caleb Dodge who were
both natives of Maine. In 1811 Caleb,
with his wife and two sons, James and
Edward, leaving some of the older children
in Maine, came through as far as Columbus, Ohio,
where he died, but the widow and her two sons
came on to what is now Vinton County and settled
in what is Elk Township, on the waters of
Raccoon Creek. Edward, the oldest
son, soon bought property and erected a
horse-mill and distillery, one of the first in
the county. He became a patriot in the war
of 1812 and rose to the rank of Major, serving
through the struggle. He then settled in
Vinton County and endured the hardships of the
early pioneer life, remaining until about 1835
when he with his wife and seven children moved
to Missouri. James, the youngest
brother, was born in Maine in 1802, but from
1811 lived in what is Vinton County, Ohio.
He lived with his brother Edward until
his marriage to Mary A. England. He
then settled on a farm on Raccoon Creek as
renter. He was a hard worker, close
observer and endured many hardships as a
pioneer, but by all these exertions he
accumulated a neat competency and cared for his
mother until her death, at the age of
ninety-three years. His early boyhood days
were mostly spent in the distillery and mill,
but from the time of his marriage he followed
farming. He was a man of systematic
principles and after he had once started would
save a little at a time till he had $50, when he
would enter forty acres. This he continued
until he had 320 acres. In 1840 he moved
to McArthur where he engaged in the trading of
cattle, mules and horses, but in 1847 engaged in
mercantile trade. He died in 1861 and his
wife in 1862. Of their four children—Caleb
(deceased), Edward D., Clarissa, and S.
Vinton— Edward D. is the eldest
living and was born in Elk Township, Mar. 16,
1827. He was reared through the pioneer
days and had few school privileges, but his
father moved to town mostly to educate his
children. Here Edward improved the
opportunities and acquired a fair education, and
in 1847 joined his father in business, since
which his business life in McArthur has been
unbroken save a short time. In 1856 he
married Sibilla, daughter of John
Simpson, of Morgan County, Ohio. She
had taught school several terms, was a practical
woman and made a valuable assistant in the
store, but died in 1863, leaving no children.
Mr. Dodge was married July 4,
1877, to Catharine Liston, who was
a native of Gallia County, Ohio. She
received a good education and has taught a
number of terms in the High School in McArthur.
They have one child—Mary. When the
banking business was started in McArthur, he was
one of the prime movers and devoted time to
obtaining stockholders. He has been one of
the stockholders as well as a director from the
beginning. Mr. Dodge as a
business man has been remarkably successful and
now owns about 400 acres in Vinton County,
besides Western land. His accumulations
are totally the result of his own legitimate
efforts together with that of his noble
companions.
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JAMES
DOWNARD, farmer, was born in Jackson
County, Ohio, Oct. 30, 1845, where he lived
until Oct. 25, 1881, when he came to Vinton
Township, Vinton Co., Ohio, and bought 363 acres
of good land. Since coming here he has
built a fine two-story frame dwelling. He
was married in July, 1871, to Mary Simms,
born in Athens County, Ohio, May 23, 1848.
They are the parents of four children - Anna,
born Oct. 1, 1872; Electa, Feb. 2, 1875;
Samuel, Oct. 19, 1877; Frank, Mar.
5, 1881. Our subject's father, Samuel
Downard, is a native of Ohio, born in 1818.
He still resides in Jackson County. His
mother was born in 1816, near Hamden, Ohio, and
is still living. They were blessed with
five children - Eliza, James, Mahala, Armeda,
Abraham. Elias and Sarah (Norris)
Simms, parents of Mrs. Downard, were
natives of Ohio. They died when she was
quite young. Their children were -
Elias, Frank and Mary.
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HENRY DUDLESON
is a son of William Dudleson, a native of
Wyandot County, and Mahala (Dutcher) Dudleson,
a native of Delaware County, Ohio. They
were married in Wyandot County, and moved to
Hamden, Vinton County, in 1838. Two years
later they settled in Licking County, wherein
1841 our subject was born, and where both
parents died in 1850, just one month apart.
They had nine children, but our subject is the
only survivor. Part of his boyhood was
passed in Delaware County with his
Grandfather Dutcher. In 1852 he
went with his uncle, Jerry Dutcher,
to Vinton County, Ohio, where he has since
resided. In 1862 he enlisted in the One
Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, Company F, Ohio
Volunteers, under Captain Karns.
He was at Camp Circleville, Marietta, Memphis,
Tenn., and from there transported to Vicksburg.
In the first attack on that city Mr.
Dudleson was wounded in the hand, losing the
index finger. He was wounded in the left
knee also, by a rifle ball. He remained in
the service until after the attack on Arkansas
Post, when he was taken to the Pendacia
Hospital, and from there discharged in 1863.
In 1868 he married Eliza J. Dutcher (no
relation), by whom he has had three children —William
E., James H. and Nancy M. Mr. Dndleson's
wife died in 1881. Since the war he has followed
farming and stock-dealing. He is a
Democrat, and in 1882 was elected County
Commissioner by a handsome majority. He is
a well-to-do citizen, willing to assist in all
enterprises having for their object the benefit
of the
community.
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C. O.
DUNLAP, M. D., McArthur, Ohio.
Through a long line of genealogy the Doctor is a
lineal descendant from Scotland or North of
Ireland, where the name was spelled Dunlop.
His ancestors emigrated to America prior to the
Continental war, and settled in Pensley Ferry,
N. J. The Doctor, on his maternal side, is
grandson of Judge Joseph Kaler and great
grandson of Frederick Kaler. On his
paternal side he is a son of Samuel B.
and grandson of Joseph Dunlap. The
latter was a native of New York, born in 1791;
was reared there and married a Miss O'Neal.
They finally settled in Chillicothe, Ohio, where
he practiced dentistry until 1868, when he was
stricken down with paralysis and died in 1870.
They had two daughters and two sons The
daughters both married professional men, one a
dentist and the other a minister. The sons
both became dentists. Of the family,
Samuel B., the father of C. O., was
the youngest, and was born in Chillicothe in
1829. He was reared in his native town,
where he is now practicing his profession which
he has followed about thirty years. His
wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Judge
Kaler, of McArthur. She died in April,
1860, leaving two children - C. O. Dunlap,
and Ella F. (died in 1870).
Samuel B. married for his second wife Amy
F. Brown. They have three children.
Dr. C. O. Dunlap was born in Pontiac,
Oakland Co., Mich., July 12, 1856. The
next year his parents came to McArthur, but
later moved to Carlinsville, Ill., where his
mother died as above stated. Fro that time
the Doctor was under the jurisdiction of his
grandfather, Judge Kaler, of McArthur.
Here he received his literary education.
He then took up the study of medicine under
Dr. D. V. Rannells, his present partner.
In February, 1878, he graduated from the
Columbus Medical College, and immediately
entered upon his profession in McArthur where
success has attended his deserving efforts.
He was married Feb. 28, 1881, to Alice,
daughter of Henry S. Hamilton, of
McArthur.
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