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Biographies
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History of Warren
Co., Ohio
containing
A History of the County; Its Townships, Towns,
Schools, Churches,
Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of
Early
Settlers and Prominent Men; History of The North-
West Territory; History of Ohio; Map of
Warren County; Constitution of the
United States, Miscellaneous
Matters, Etc., Etc.
- Illustrated -
Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co.,
1882
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Deerfield Twp. -
JACOB AND MARY (JACKSON) LE FEVRE,
Oxford. These two settlers were among the earliest and
most useful of the pioneer settlers of Ohio; both were born
in Frederick Co., Md.; Mr. LeFevre, Feb. 14, 1785,
and Mrs. Le Fevre, Dec. 24, 1784; the father of the
latter was Henry Jackson, who was born and educated
in London, England; her mother, Rebecca Pope Jackson,
was born in Maryland, of French parents, who, during the
persecution of the Huguenots by the Roman Catholics, were
driven from a happy and prosperous home in their
beloved France, to the strange and wild lands of America;
they chose exile, rather than disloyalty to conscience and
religious belief. Jacob Le Fevre claims a
similar interest in the Reformation; his mother was German
and his father a Frenchman and a Huguenot; in the history of
the French Reformation, the name Le Fevre is an
honored one among the Protestant heroes. Our subjects
were married May 1, 1804, and, in the spring of 1807, with
their oldest child, Mary, aged 1 year, they emigrated
to Ohio. They came in wagons to Pittsburgh, and from
there to Cincinnati in flat boat, which they sold in the
latter town for $10, the purchaser using it for a dwelling
house, as was the custom. Mr. Le Fevre was
offered land at a very low price in the vicinity of
Cincinnati, but he would not purchase it because it seemed
so worthless for farming purposes. He came out with
his family to the southern part of Warren County; he bought
land adjoining that on which Socialville was afterward
built, three miles south of the present town of Mason, and
known as the Thompson land. He finally owned
200 acres in all, and here they lived happily and
prosperously for thirty years, until Mr. Le Fevre's
death, in 1837. Mr. Le Fevre and family were
most earnest and active supporters of church, school and
every worthy enterprise. With money and labor, they
helped to build the old Presbyterian Church at Pisgah, and
assisted greatly in supporting its religious services
afterwards. Among the ministers who preached at Pisgah
at that early day were Rev. Peter Monfort, Dr. Lyman
Beecher, Dr. Henry Little, Rev. Benjamin Graves, Rev. Andrew
Morrison and other home missionary workers. Mr.
and Mr. LeFevre were actively interested in the cause of
education. Before the time of the free school system,
they took a prominent part in organizing and supporting
subscription schools. They raised ten children, four
sons and six daughters, all of whom have filled useful
positions in life; these children all lived to raise
families of their own, but two of the sons and four of the
daughters are now dead. The names of the ten children,
with their husbands and wives, are as follows: Mary
and Jane Baxter, Matilda and Josephus Dodds,
Elias and Henrietta Ingersoll, Catherine and Gilbert Barton,
Henry and Ellen Monfort, Rebecca and Thomas Moore, Mercy and
Nimrod Duvall, Sarah and Milton Coulson, Jacob and Elizabeth
Belch and Nimrod and Rebecca Tobias. Their
mother, Mrs. Mary Jackson Le Fevre, is still living,
and is now (1881) in her 97th year. She enjoys good
health and the use of all her faculties, except that of
hearing. She remembers quite distinctly the events of
her pioneer life; among her early neighbors in Deerfield
Township were John Wylie, David Slayback, Nimrod Duvall,
Abraham Probasco, Roland Kendall, Zebulon Eynons, Nicholas
Dawson, Ezekiel Blue, Jacob Hercules, Isaac Phillips, Daniel
Stout, Ezra Van Fossen and others. After many
years of toil and hardship as a pioneer, Mrs. Le Fevre
is now taking life easily; she is making her home at present
with her daughter, at Oxford, Ohio. She has fifty-one
grandchildren living and a number who have died. She
has about 300 descendants altogether. A great many of
these took a loyal and active part in the civil war; some
arose to places of eminence, and some sacrificed their lives
in the noble work of defending our flag and nation.
The offspring of such ancestors as are herein mentioned
should indeed be loyal to the truth, always and everywhere,
that they may honor and carry out their teachings of those
ancestors who toiled and suffered so nobly for the cause of
right.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 980 |
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Turtle Creek Twp.
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CHARLES A. LEWIS; P. O. Lebanon; was
born in Warren Co., Ohio, Oct. 28, 1826, of parents, Paul
and Mary (Thatcher) Lewis, natives of the State of New
Jersey, a full account of whom is given in this work in the
sketch of William C. Lewis. Our subject was but
6 years of age when his father died, but, by the thrift and
good management of his mother, the family was kept together
and Charles given an opportunity to attend school; he
was reared on a farm, and has, for the greater part of his
life, been a tiller of the soil. In 1852, Mr. Lewis
was united in marriage to Margaret E. Jeffrey, who,
too, is a native of Warren County, where she was born in
1833, and to them were born children as follows:
Sylvan A., Mary A., Ada V., Jennie M. (deceased),
William B., Charles K. and Horace W. Mr. Lewis
and wife are members of the United Brethren Church; in
politics, he is a Republican. He owns over 300 acres
of land in the county.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W.
H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 756 |
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Turtle Creek Twp. -
JOHN V. H. LEWIS, farmer; P. O.
Lebanon; was born in Clear Creek Township, Warren Co., Feb.
1, 1833; his father, Paul Lewis, was born in New
Jersey about 1796, and came to Ohio with his parents about
1812; is fully mentioned in the sketch of William C.
Lewis; his mother, Mary (Thatcher) Lewis, was
born in New Jersey about 1800. Our subject was reared
on a farm, received a limited education in his native
township, and, at 20 years of age, went into the dry goods
business at Lebanon, which he followed for sixteen years,
after which he returned to the farm, where he has since
continued. He was married, in 1858, to Sarah Evans,
a daughter of Isaac Evans, of Warren County; she was
born Dec. 25, 136, on the farm adjoining where they now
live; they have had seven children, viz.: Charles E., Eva
E., Frank, William, Hattie, Stanley J. and Laura
Ethel.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 757 |
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Turtle Creek Twp. -
WILLIAM C. LEWIS, retired merchant,
Lebanon. This well-known gentleman is the descendant
of a family who came to Warren County in the beginning of
the nineteenth century; his grandfather, Paul Lewis,
emigrated from Burlington County, near Mt. Holly, N. J., in
1809, and located in Wayne Township, about three miles
southwest of Waynesville. He brought with him his wife
and a family of four children, named as follows:
Nancy, William, Paul, Jr., and John; his wife
dying after he settled here, he married a second wife,
Miss Johanna Hunt, by whom he had two children, only one
of them now surviving, viz., Jackson, a citizen of
Waynesville. Mr. Lewis moved to Waynesville in
1825, and, seven years thereafter, died; he belonged to the
Society of Friends, and, for several years, served the
citizens of Clear Creek Township as a Justice of the Peace.
He was a man of more than ordinary natural ability, and was
held in the highest esteem by the people of his community;
his son, Paul Lewis, Jr., our subject's father, was
born in New Jersey in 1797, and was about 12 years of age
when his father came to Ohio; he was reared on the farm and
continued farming the homestead place until his death, Sept.
6, 1832; in addition to his farm operations, he teamed
between Cincinnati and Sandusky, a distance of over 200
miles, and, owing to the exposures and hardships he thereby
had to endure, he contracted a disease which culminated in
paralysis, which carried him off in early manhood. He
was married, in 1820, to Miss Mary Thatcher, a native
of Hunterdon County, near Morristown, N. J., and a daughter
of Evan and Nancy Thatcher, who emigrated from New
Jersey in 1814, bringing their family of five children -
Mary, Naomi, Sarah, David and Amos - and their
household effects on a two-horse wagon. By his
marriage to Miss Thatcher, Mr. Lewis had four
children, viz.: William C., Sarah A., Charles A.
and John V. H. After his death, his widow
retained the farm until her children were all grown and
married. She died Sept. 13, 1877, aged 77 years.
William C., our subject was born Apr. 20, 1821, on
the old homestead, and, until the 25th year of his age, he
remained on the farm, in the meantime attending the common
schools of his township. On the 26th of August,
1846, he engaged as a clerk in a dry goods store in Lebanon;
in September, 1848, he married Caroline Noble, a
daughter of Edward Noble, of Lebanon; she died Dec.
30, 1850, and, in 1853, he was again married, to Miss
Abigail Morris, daughter of Adam B. and Lydia
(Matthews) Morris, natives of New Jersey, from where
they emigrated in 1810. By this union, Mr. Lewis
had two children, viz., Mary L., the wife of Dr.
W. S. Goodhue, of Lebanon, where they reside with their
two children, Bessie and an infant son; and Emma
G., who lived to be 18 years of age, when she died, Feb.
3, 1878, after an illness to two years. She was an
estimable young lady, a general favorite, and, for a long
time, a patient sufferer. In 1851, Mr. Lewis
engaged in the dry goods business in Lebanon with Edward
Noble, under the firm name of Noble Y Lewis.
This firm continued for four years, when the partnership was
dissolved, Mr. Noble retiring and Mr. Lewis'
brother John entering the firm, the name being
changed to Lewis & Bro., under which title they
continued business for several years; afterward, the name as
changed to Lewis & Co., and so continued until 1878,
when Mr. Lewis retired from business. With a
fine physique and perfect health, he is now prepared to
enjoy the competency he has accumulated through a life of
industry and frugality. He lost his wife on the 28th
of June, 1881, after twenty-eight years of married life.
He has always been a stanch though liberal Republican, and
has served his township and village as Treasurer for a
period of ten years, and as a member of the Lebanon Council
eight years. He is a member of no church, but liberal
in his religious opinions, with a kindly feeling for all
Christian denominations and a will to uphold and quicken the
interests of temperance, morality and education in his
native county. As a business man, he has been quite
successful, as is made manifest by the large property he now
possesses. As a citizen, he has always stood in
the front rank. Every work of reform finds in him a
warm advocate and earnest supporter. We present his
portrait on another page of this work.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio -
Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 755 |
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Franklin Twp. -
RANSOM S. LOCKWOOD, Justice of the
Peace, Franklin; son of John and Phoebe (Seeley) Lockwood,
was born in Union Village, Warren County, Feb. 13, 1810.
His father was a carpenter and millwright, and built the
first frame house in Union Village, which still stands,
opposite the church. His parents were of the Shaker
belief; this sect at that time owned 5,000 acres of land in
that vicinity, and were like a little empire; they had no
schoolhouses, and would not allow their children to attend
the district schools, so our subject never received a day's
learning inside a schoolhouse; in fact, when he attained his
8th year, his education was ended; when 12 years old,
he went to learn the tailor's trade, at which he worked
winters till 1833, laying brick during the summers; he then
went to Springfield on foot, with a companion by the name of
Farr; here they engaged in making clay smoking pipes;
they made about fifteen thousand, then gave it up, and he
went to Minktown and worked at the tailor's trade with a
Mr. Stephenson one year; he then went to Waynesville and
worked at his trade till 1835, when he came to Franklin and
engaged as journeyman tailor for Moses McPheeters
till the time of Mr. McPheeters' death, which
occurred in 1837, when himself and Gabriel Scharf
took the business, which they carried on nearly ten years.
In 1846, he was elected Justice of the Peace, which office
he has since filled, and is probably the oldest in the
county. He was married, in Franklin, in 1840, to
Hannah Ross; they have four children - Laura; Ross,
now in the dentist profession, office adjoining his
father's; Hope, a telegraph operator in Cincinnati;
and Clara. He owns a fine brick residence on
Center street, below Sixth, which he built in 1849; he also
owns a fine block, corner Center and Fifth streets, where
his office is located.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 807 |
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Hamilton Twp. -
B. F. LUDLUM, physician and surgeon,
P. O., Maineville, was born in Hamilton Township in the year
1835, and is a son of Benjamin Ludlum, who was a son
of Smith Ludlum, who settled in this township in the
year 1803 or 1804, from New Jersey. To Benjamin
Ludlum and wife were born eleven children, eight of whom
are living. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1844,where
he resided seven years, and was married to Margaret
McCarter, Mar. 14, 1814. He served in the War of
1812, and was a brick mason by trade. He also taught
in the schools of the county for a number of years; was a
man successful in business and accumulated considerable
property. He died July 14, 1881, and was born July 29,
1792. His wife died Sept. 9, 1867, and was born in
Pennsylvania in 1794. They were old and prominent
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which they
became connected in 1816. Our subject was reared on
the farm and received the rudiments of his education in the
district schools, which was developed by a course of study
in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, O. In
March, 1863, he enlisted in the 66th Ohio Vol. Inf., and was
commissioned Assistant Surgeon, he having previously studied
medicine under Drs. Paulding, Mounts and
Baker. With the regiment he remained until the
close of the war, and was discharged in July, 1865.
Upon his return to civil life he resumed his studies and
graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1867, and
also graduated from the Cincinnati School of Medicine and
Surgery in 1863. After practising several years in
Butlerville, O., in 1876 located in Maineville, where he
has since given his attention to the demands of his
practice. In 1866 he was married to Elizabeth Jones,
daughter of Thomas Jones, by whom he had four
children, viz.: Mattie, Benjamin J., John C.
and Margaret. He belongs to the medical society
of the county, and to the I. O. O. F., Maineville Lodge, No.
557, was elected Treasurer of his township in 1880, and
while living in Butlerville served as Clerk of Harlan
Township. Mrs. Ludlum died at her home
in Maineville, Sept 2, 1881.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - page 951 |
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Hamilton Twp. -
RICHARD LUDLUM, farmer, P. O., Morrow.
Richard Ludlum was born in Hamilton Township, Warren
Co., O., on the 11th day of December, 1831. He is the
son of Benjamin and Margaret Ludlum, who were among
the first settlers of Warren Co., and whose sketch appears
in connection with Dr. Ludlum's, of Maineville.
Mr. Ludlum was reared on a farm, and received the
rudiments of education in the ordinary district schools.
He afterwards attended Delaware University, in which
institution he remained about six months. He then
returned to his home on the farm, where his services were
required. He was married on Mar. 15, 1855, to Maria
Simonton, daughter of Alexander Simonton, of
Warren Co. To them were born three children, viz.:
Charles A., Alice C. and Elmer. Mr. Ludlum
is a zealous member of the Zoar Methodist Episcopal Church.
He has been successful in business, and is the owner of 235
acres of fine, tillable land.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - page 951 |
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Union Twp. -
NATHAN K. LYTLE, distiller, South
Lebanon. This gentleman was born in Union Township in
1843, and is a son of Robert Lytle, who was a son of
Andrew Lytle, one of the first settlers in Warren
County, of whom mention is made in this work.
Robert Lytle departed this life in 1872 or 1873.
Our subject was reared on the farm, and received a common
education in the district schools, which was extended by a
course of study in the Maineville Academy. He was
married in 1864 to Katie M., daughter of Col.
William Miner, who was once a prominent citizen of
Warren County. To them have been born three children,
viz.: Mary, William and John R.
Since his marriage, he has been engaged in distilling in
different parts of the country, and of which he has a
practical knowledge. His mother, Cynthia (Keever)
Lytle, is still living, and resides in California, and
her son, who is a quicksilver expert.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W.
H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1059 |
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