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Biographies.
 Source:
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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Turtle Creek Twp. -
HIRAM NELSON, farmer; P. O. Lebanon;
was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Sept. 1, 1838; he was raised
on a farm and received his education in the district schools
of Turtle Creek Township. Mr. Nelson with
considerable pride relates the fact of having attended the
second fair held in Warren County; he was but a youth and
earned the money admitting him by working for William F.
Dill, Esq., of Turtle Creek Township. Our subject
worked at farm labor, and, being industrious and economical,
soon got a start in life, and, on the 14th of February,
1860, was united in marriage with Rebecca Tremble,
who is also a native of Warren County, born Dec. 10, 1839.
She is a daughter of Moses Tremble, a native of New
Jersey, and of French descent. Mr. Nelson owns
a well-improved farm of 60-odd acres, upon which is a neat
and modern built house and a good barn. He is one of
the live and active farmers of Warren County.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 765 |
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Salem Twp. -
JOSEPH C. NEWPORT, farmer; P. O.
Morrow. No one is more entitled to mention in the
history of Warren Co. than Mr. Newport; he was born
in Turtle Creek Township in the year 1816; he was educated
in the common schools of this county, and although not
completing any course of study, he has gained much
information by reading and observation. When quite
young he learned the carpenter trade, at which he labored
for a number of years.. In May, 1838, he was united in
marriage to Miss Elizabeth Montgomery, a native of
the State of New Jersey, and born in July, 1818. Their
children are - Mary J. (born Apr. 3, 1840, married to
J. R. Stephenson), Keziah (born Aug. 21, 1842,
married to J. B. Ross), Clarissa C. (born May
19, 1844, married to Joseph Luce), William J.
(born Feb. 27, 1846, was a member of the 2d Ohio Heavy
Artillery during the late war), Susia (born Mar. 6,
1848, married to Z. C. Dunham), John B. (born
July 28, 1852), Laura B. (born July 7, 1855, married
F. M. Cunningham), Cortland (born Mar. 11,
1858), and Harry (born July 9, 1862). His
father, James T. Newport, was a native of Fayette
Co., Penn., born in the Old Red Stone Fort Dec. 12, 1792; he
married Mary Corwin, a native of Bourbon Co., Ky.,
born Oct. 16, 1795; she was well connected, being a near
relative of the Corwin family of this county.
They were the parents of seven children, three sons and four
daughters. After a life of usefulness, he died Aug. 2,
1873, and she May 12, 1866. William Montgomery,
the father of Mrs. Newport, was born in Ireland,
about the year 1791; he married Jane Patterson, of
his own native land; she was about his own age; both
deceased. Mr. Newport is a Republican in
politics, and has held the office of Justice of the Peace of
his township for over nine years. He owns a good farm
of 153 acres of land, and is considered an honest, upright
citizen.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - page 1027 |
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Salem Twp. -
SAMUEL REED NICKERSON. The
subject of this sketch was born in the eastern part of
Clinton Co., Ohio, on the 14th day of June, 1823. His
father Artemas Nickerson was born in Putnam Co., N.
Y., in 1796, and emigrated to Ohio with his parents in 1805,
landing at Lebanon this county on the 4th of July of that
year, and finally settling on the banks of Todd's Fork, in
what was then a part of Warren County. His mother
Elizabeth Reed was born in Bourbon Co., Ky., in the year
1798, and emigrated with her parents to the eastern part of
Clinton County in 1811. The subject of this sketch
lived with his parents and labors on the farm, receiving
only a slight education, such as the pioneer was able to
give until the winter of 1844-45, when he attended an
Academy at Waynesville, in this county, returning to his
occupation as a farmer until the year 1846, when he married
a Miss Humphrey, the daughter of James Humphrey,
another of the pioneers of Warren County, who emigrated to
this county from the State of New Jersey in 1815. Soon
after Nickerson was married, he settled on a farm two
miles south of Wilmington in Clinton County, where he had
reared him a cabin in a dense forest, where he remained
until the year 1850, when he removed to Wilmington,
following different occupations until 1860, when he, in
company with L. C. Walker, now one of the Judges of
the Superior Courts of Indianapolis, Ind., I. W. Quinby,
late a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and
John H. Kirk, a member of the Clinton County bar, was
admitted to the practice of law in August 1862. He
entered the army as a private in Company C, of the 79th O.
V. I., and was discharged from the service in February,
1864, by reason of a broken arm received while in said
service. In April, 1864, he removed to Blanchester,
Clinton Co., Ohio, where he entered into the practice of law
until the 1st of March, 1870, when he commenced editing the
Blanchester Herald, a paper which he and his two sons
started at that time, selling out the office to James L.
Turk in October, 1871. In 1873, being compelled to
take possession of the printing office again, removed the
material to Sabina, Ohio, where, with his son, A. R. S.,
he commenced the publication of the Sabina Telegram
which he continued to edit until in the year 1875, when
they sold out to one E. E. Man who also failed to pay
for the office, thus compelling him again to resume the
editorial chair, this time as editor of the Morrow
Telegram which he commenced December, 1i876, and
continued to manage until the 1st of January, 1882, when
they sold the office and good will to Wm. H. Sanders,
of the Sabina News, and who this time clinched the
trade by paying for the same at the time of taking
possession.
Source: History of Warren
Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page
1026 |
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Salem Twp.
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ARTEMAS REED NICKERSON was born in the
town of Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio, June 22, 1853,
residing with his parents and receiving a fair common school
education until the year 1870, when he entered the office of
the Blanchester Herald as a type, where he worked
under a foreman for near eight months when in connection
with his brother William, took entire control of the
office and job work; removing with that office to Sabina, he
commenced as publisher of the Sabina Telegram, and
continued the same until it was sold in 1875. Removing
to Morrow, Ohio, he commenced the publication of the Morrow
Telegram, as proprietor and publisher, until that
office was sold to William H. Sanders in January,
1882. Resides now in Indianapolis, Inc., and is
engaged as a compositor of the Journal office of that
city.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1026 |
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Turtle Creek Twp. -
ALLEN NIXONSource: History of Warren Co., Ohio -
Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 765 |
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Turtle Creek Twp. -
W. C. NIXON, farmer, P. O. Lebanon; was born Apr. 5, 1838;
he is a son of Samuel and Rachel (Hatfield) Nixon,
natives of Ohio, of English descent; he received a
common-school education while living on the farm with his
father. He has spent the greater part of his life on
the farm, and, by steadiness of habits and close attention
to business, he has made farming prove more than ordinarily
successful. During the years from 1860 to 1867, he
conducted a grist-mill between Lebanon and Morrow known as
the Stubb's Mill. In 1868, he married Hannah
Vandoren, daughter of Peter Vandoren, an old
settler of Warren County, who now lives in Sangamon Co.,
Ill. By this marriage six
children were born, viz., Frank V., John H., Peter E.,
Amy M., Mary E. and Adolphus. Mr. Nixon is
a Democrat and has held the office of Justice of the Peace
in Washington Township.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 765
NOTE: See
Biography of Joseph Van Doren, in Sangamon Co.,
Illinois. |
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Washington Twp.
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CORNELIUS H. NIXON, farmer; P. O.
Clarksville, Clinton Co.; was born in Turtle Creek Township,
May 2, 1851, and is a son of Samuel and Mary A.
(McClain). He was reared on a farm and has always
followed its pursuits. He was married Sept. 16, 1875,
to Miss Isabell Harlan, daughter of Alexander and
Ann Harlan, born in Washington Township, June 9, 1857;
Anna H., their only child, was born Aug. 6, 1876.
Mr. Nixon located on his present farm in the spring
of 1876; he owns 56 acres of land. Politically, he is
a Republican.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1047 |
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