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History of
Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing
Co.
1883 BIOGRAPHIES
DAVID
LANTZ, stock dealer, McArthur, Ohio, is a
brother of George Lantz, mentioned in
this chapter. He was born in Vinton
County, Ohio, in 1837. When an infant his
parents settled in McArthur where he has since
resided. He received the rudiments of a
common-school education, and when a youth
learned the tinner's trade, but has not followed
it for a number of years. He has been for
a number of years engaged in trading in stock,
but now devotes the most of his time to fine
milch cows, real estate and general brokerage.
He was married to Margaret Bottonfield,
of Antioch, Monroe County, Ohio, where she was
born and reared. They have three children
— Archie, Mabel and
Maud.
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GEORGE LANTZ, ESQ.
, hardware merchant. Among the early and
representative families of Vinton County, Ohio,
there are perhaps few whose entering the
primeval forest, braving the dangers of such a
task, dates earlier than the Lantz family.
George, the subject of this sketch is the
son of Aaron and grandson of George
Lantz; the latter was born in Germany, where
he married a French lady. Soon after this
they embarked for America and settled in Sussex
county, N. J., where they had born to them eight
children, four sons and as many daughters.
About 1811 he, with his family, settled four
miles west of the present site of McArthur.
For some cause he only remained until 1818, when
he, with his three married daughters and their
families and two sons (Moses and
Vandall), settled near Batesville,
Independence Co., Ark. In the same year
George, the eldest son, settled in Williams
County, Ohio; Jesse, the youngest, in
Wheeling, Va., where he was for a long time
extensively engaged in the manufacturing of the
French burr millstones. Aaron Lantz,
the twin brother of Moses and the father
of our subject, in 1818 married Leah
Claypoole and settled three miles west of
McArthur, where he engaged in manufacturing the
Raccoon burr millstone, which at that time was
extensively used over Ohio and Indiana, and at
the same time he carried on farming on the
pioneer style by which a livelihood was
obtained. In 1838 he moved to McArthur and
engaged in the mercantile trade, which he
conducted until his death, Mar. 3, 1843, aged
forty-eight. He left six children -
George, the subject of this sketch; Henry,
now in Scioto County, Ohio; Elizabeth, David,
Mary and Anna. All are married and
have families, and all save one in Vinton
County. George was born in what is
now Vinton County, Ohio, Mar. 6, 1828. In
connection with his birth there is a remarkable
coincident we deem worthy of mention:
George's father, Aaron, his eldest
brother, George, and George,
the grandfather of our subject, were all
born on the sixth day of March. He reached
the age of ten years on the farm where he was
born, but at the above age his father moved to
McArthur, and George's boyhood days were then
mostly spent in driving cattle over the
mountains to Lancaster and Baltimore. In
May, 1851, he married Amanda, daughter of
Isaac B. Lottridge, by whom he has five
children living. In 1857 he was elected
Clerk of the Court of Vinton County by the
Democratic party, and in 1860 a re-election to
the same office followed, but at the expiration
of his term he retired from public life.
Owing to the ill-health of his successor in 1865
Mr. Lantz was appointed to his former
position and in 1865 elected, which term expired
in February, 1870. In the centennial year
he was elected Probate Judge. His term
expired in 1879; since then he has devoted his
time to the mercantile trade, with which he has
been identified more or less since 1861.
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ISAAC M. LANTZ,
dealer in stoves and tinware, McArthur, Ohio, a
son of George Lantz, was born in
McArthur, Ohio, a son of George Lantz,
was born in McArthur, Vinton Co., Ohio, Jan. 7,
1855, and has always resided in his native town.
In his boyhood days he received such an
education as the facilities of his own town
afforded. At the age of nineteen he
engaged in learning the tinner's trade, which he
still follows in connection with the handling of
stoves and such articles as are usually found in
that class of stores. He at the same time
makes a specialty of roofing class of stores.
He at the same time makes a specialty of roofing
and spouting. Mr. Lantz is a member
of the Masonic fraternity, and stands well in
the business as well as social circles of
McArthur. He was married Jan. 13, 1878, to
Fedora B. Parrott, of Monroe County,
Ohio, where she was born and reared.
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ISAAC
LASH, farmer, was born in Brown Township,
Mar. 8, 1829, and received his education in this
county, his home having always been in this
township. He has a good farm of 150 acres,
his residence being on section 29. His
land yields a good quality of coal and he now
has three veins open. Nov. 3, 1861, he
married Mary Ann Swift, a native of
Athens County, Ohio, born Sept. 22, 1842.
They have seven children - Mary F., born
Apr. 11, 1865; Elizabeth J., Dec. 15,
1867; Isaac G., Sept. 20, 1870; John
E., Jan. 7, 1873; William S., June
27, 1875; Christena A. Dec. 26, 1878; and
Parthena I., Sept. 18, 1881.
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DANIEL
LAWLER, farmer, was born in Ireland, Aug.
26, 1814. He came to America, May 21,
1840, landing at New York, and remained in the
State two years. Oct. 16, 1842, he went to
Pittsburg, Penn., staying in that place till
1853, when he came to Ohio and settled on his
present farm on section 34, Wilkesville
Township, Vinton County, where he has 160 acres
of land. He has also seventy acres in
Jackson County. He was married Sept. 25,
1845, in Pittsburg, to Ellen Shearlock a
native of Scotland. They have eight
children living - John L., James T., Mary E.,
Ellen M., Francis P., Michael S., Edward S.
and Catherine B. Mr. Lawler and
family are members of the Catholic church.
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NELSON
LEE was born in Hocking County, Ohio,
Sept. 10, 1826, a son of James and Hannah (Barttson)
Lee, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to
Ohio in 1814 and settled in Swan Township, then
in Hocking County, but now in Vinton. He
was reared in this county receiving his
education in the primitive log school-house.
When twenty-four years of age he went to work at
the carpenter's trade, but in April, 1859,
bought 102 acres of land in Jackson Township and
went to farming. In 1866 he sold his farm
and bought 200 acres in the same township where
he only remained a year. He now owns
eighty acres in this township. For the
past eight years he has been a preacher of the
gospel. He was married Nov. 11, 1858, to
Rachel Jordan, daughter of James and
Sarah A. (Bolener) Jordan, who was born Oct.
10, 1839. They are the parents of six
children - Sarah R., born Jan. 26, 1860,
died Nov. 23, 1874; John, born Aug. 21,
1861; Hannah E., born July 29, 1863;
Pinkney W., born Jan. 4, 1875; Charles S.,
born Apr. 15, 1877, and James H., born
Feb. 10, 1881.
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A. L.
LEWIS, dealer in drugs and notions, came
to Hamden, in April, 1865, and began
photographing, which he followed one summer
together with silversmithing. He was born
in Gallia County, in 1829. His early life
was passed upon the farm, and he received the
rudiments of his education in the common schools
which was developed by a course of study in a
High School. In 1858 he began teaching in
Ohio. In 1861 he taught in Virginia, after
which he returned to Ohio and taught two terms.
In 1848 he began the study of medicine under his
own direction at first and afterward under the
direction of a regular physician. In 1856
he began practicing and has made a specialty of
chronic diseases. He has been very
successful in the treatment of such cases,
having cured many serious cases. In 1865
he removed back to Gallia County, and for three
years traveled quite extensively, and returned
to Hamden in 1868. He now carries a full
line of drugs. He owns a good property in
the village, consisting in a dwelling and
business house.
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History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Page 1374 - Clinton Twp. |
I. N. LOTTRIDGE,
McArthur, Ohio, is a lineal German descent on
his paternal side. His great-grandfather,
John Lottridge, was born in Germany; his
mother was a distant descendant and relative of
Henry IV., King of Holland. John
matured in his native land and married
Miss Bratt. They came to America prior
to the Revolutionary war and settled near the
town of Hoosick, N. Y., where they both died.
He was by occupation a farmer. Of his ten
children, Barnadus, the grandfather of
our subject, was the second, and born near
Hoosick, N. Y., in 1779. There he lived
till maturity and married Abagail Bull,
of English extraction but a native of New York
State. In 1803 they moved to West
Virginia, and one year later to Ohio, to what is
now Carthage Township, Athens County, where they
both died, having through life followed farming.
He became a large land owner and transformed
many acres of it into open and productive
fields. When they settled in Hocking
Valley the country was new and night was made
hideous by the howling of the wild denizens of
the forest. They had twelve children,
Isaac B., the father of our subject being
the eldest. He was born in New York, Jan.
13, 1802, but from infancy lived in Athens
County, Ohio, where he married Experience R.
Cross, whose father, Dewy Cross, had
settled in the vicinity of Athens when this was
yet a Territory. They with their family
came to McArthur in February, 1830, where they
lived and died. He was a man of strong
mind and sound judgment, and in 1832 was elected
to the State Legislature but declined the
position. He operated a carding mill about
fifteen years after coming to McArthur. At
the time of his death he left his second wife a
widow, by whom he had four children, and six by
the first. Of the entire family Isaac
N. is the second son and was born in Athens
County, Ohio, Nov. 16, 1828. He received a
common-school education in Ohio, Nov. 16, 1828.
He received a common-school education in
McArthur, where he was reared. He was from
a youth handy with tools, and his younger life
was somewhat varied, but the last decade he has
been engaged in the carding mill and woolen
factory. He was married in 1853 to
Lydia A. Gaston, of Virginian birth, who
from infancy had lived in Ohio. They have
two children - Melvin M. and Eunice V.
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J. M. LOWRY,
farmer, postoffice McArthur, is a son of
Canada Lowry, who was born in Washington
County, Pa., and in the latter part of the last
century, with his parents, settled in what is
now Athens County, near the town of Athens,
where his parents died. Canada from
youth lived in Athens County, where he married
Sarah Rose, who was also born and reared
in Pennsylvania. He and wife subsequently
settled in Muskingum County, Ohio, where she
died in 1831, and he in Logan, Ohio, in 1856.
He was through life a farmer, hard worker, and
reared a large family, of whom our subject is
the fifth, and was born in Muskingum County,
Ohio, in September 1809. He was reared on
the farm; received a very limited education in
the pioneer log school-house three miles from
his home. He married Elizabeth Frontz,
who is a native of Virginia. In 1840 they
settled near Logan, Hocking Co., Ohio, in the
dense unbroken forest, where he bought and
cleared up a farm. In 1854 he moved to
McArthur and bought the water grist-mill, which
he operated until 1861, when he became
proprietor of the steam mill. Subsequently
sold this and bought 156 acres of land, of which
he still owns a part, and now lives almost
retired. He and wife have the following
family - Sarah, Felton, Grafton, Mary,
Austin, William, Martha, Rebecca and
Milton. Mr. Lowry at one time served
as Deputy United States Marshal, also Marshal of
McArthur.
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