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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.
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Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co.,
1882
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Turtle Creek
Twp. -
CLARISSA PATTERSON, Shaker Elderess,
was born in Butler Co., Ohio, Mar. 12, 1801; her parents,
Joseph and Mary (Vankirk) Patterson, were natives of New
Jersey, the former of Irish and the latter of Holland Dutch
descent. They came to Ohio previous to 1795, and, in
1805, entered the Shaker Society. They had the
following children: Sallie, born Oct. 22, 1794;
Clarissa, Elsie, born in 1803, and John, born
Mar. 8, 1805; of these, our subject is the only survivor.
She received her education in Turtle Creek Township, and,
since 1849, has acted as Elderess in the Shaker
Church; she has also for several years been in charge of the
household affairs of the Center Family. Her parents
are both dead, her father dying in 1818 and her mother in
1851.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W.
H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 769 |
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Turtle Creek
Twp. -
GEORGE P. PATTERSON, photographer,
Lebanon; was born at Long Branch, Monmouth Co., N. J., June
23, 1844; his father, William Patterson, was a native
of New Jersey, of German descent; his mother, Jennette
(Anderson) Patterson, was a native of Vermont, of Scotch
descent, and a cousin of Maj. Anderson, who was made
famous by his heroic defense of Ft. Sumter, when treason's
guns first threatened the overthrow of our beloved
Government. Our subject received a thorough education
in the schools of New Jersey and New York City, and devoted
his early life to work in his father's mill, where he
remained six years. He then engaged for a short time
in mercantile pursuits. In 1861, he enlisted in
Company D, 48th N. J. V. I., in which he served three years,
receiving eleven different gunshot wounds; he enlisted as a
private, and, for bravery and good service, received a
Captain's commission, but was prevented by wounds from
serving in his advanced position. In 1863, he was
married to Miss Emily Higgins, who died during the
same year. In 1870, he married Miss Sarah M.
Duckworth, a native of Warren County, and the only
daughter of Robert Duckworth, with whom Mr.
Patterson was some time engaged in the grocery business
in Lebanon. Since 1872, he has devoted his whole
attention to photographing, in which art he has met with the
best success. He is an enthusiast in his business,
uses all new appliances that appear and takes great pains to
keep himself thoroughly posted in all the details of that
ever-improving art. He has an art gallery situated on
East Silver street, which he has fitted up with a true
artist's taste, and where he exhibits the work he does by
the various modern methods of taking, enlarging and
finishing pictures.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W.
H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 770 |
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Harlan Twp. -
JOHN A. PEEL, farmer; P. O.
Butlerville; born Oct. 18, 1837, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and
was educated at the Military Institute, of Frankfort, Ky.;
he has followed the occupation of farming; he is single and
a member of Cynthia Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 155. His
father was Samuel Peel, a native of England; he was
married to Miss D. Baker, Newark, N. J.; the former
was born Dec. 12, 1812; the latter a few years his junior;
they were the parents of ten children - four daughters and
six sons.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1039 |
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Washington Twp.
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STEPHEN PENQUITE (deceased); was born
in Fauquier Co., Va., Sept. 4, 1800; he was a son of
William Penquite, who was born Aug. 165, 1756. In
1837, our subject came to Washington and purchased the
present homestead; he was married in Upperville, Va., to
Margaret Jackson, who was born in Fauquier Co., Va., in
1806; nine children were the fruits of this union; of these,
seven are living, viz., Joseph J., John M., Burr F.,
Warren D., Frances A., Catharine and Mary. Mr.
Penquite departed this life Sept. 25, 1874; he was for
years a member of the M. E. Church, and in politics, was a
Republican. He had three sons who were soldiers in the
late war; John M., enlisted Dec., 1863, in Company K,
2d Ohio Artillery, and was honorably discharged Aug. 1865;
Joseph J. and Warren were also soldiers in the
rebellion.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W.
H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1047 |
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Deerfield Twp. -
J. N. PERRINE, merchant, Mason, was
born in Union Township, in Warren County, in the year 1836.
He is a son of Daniel and Eliza Perrine, early
pioneers, of whom a further notice is given elsewhere in
this work. Our subject, J. N., was reared on
the farm till 16 years of age, when he came to Mason to
learn the carriage-trimming business, which he followed till
the war broke out. In September, 1861, he enlisted in
Co. A, 69th O. V. I.; his regiment was stationed at
Columbus, guarding prisoners, until 1862, at which time they
were sent to the front and annexed to the 14th Corps and for
the first year were largely on detached duty; he followed
the fortunes of the regiment till after the battle of Stone
River, in which he participated; the following June, 1863,
on account of inability caused from a chronic disorder, he
was honorably discharged and returned to his home. He
again engaged at his former trade, which he followed till
1878, at which time he abandoned it and opened a grocery and
provision store at Mason. June 6, 1867, he was married
to Sarah A. Van Fossen, by whom he has had two
children, viz., Blanche and Birdie. He
is a member of the Masonic Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 15,
Lebanon, Ohio, and of the I. O. O. F., Mason Lodge, No. 209.
Both he and his estimable wife are consistent members of the
Presbyterian Church of Mason, with which they have been
connected about five years.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W.
H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 985 |
James Perrine |
Union Twp. -
JAMES PERRINE
(deceased). This venerable pioneer was, at the time of
his death, among the oldest resident settlers in the county;
he was a native of New Jersey, born Sept. 6, 1786; when he
was 6 years old, he was taken with the family to Kentucky,
where he lived till he was 25. On Aug. 27, 1807, he
became the husband of Miss Ann Applegate, who was
born May 17, 1790. In the spring of 1812, he emigrated
to Ohio, and settled in Union Township, Warren Co., on a
farm, upon which he spent the remainder of his life.
Here, in the wilds of a forest wilderness, he began the
arduous task of preparing a home for his family. Those
only who have braved the dangers, trials, and hardships of a
pioneer life can properly appreciate the self-sacrificing
labors of the early settlers of any country. The
following is the record of Mr. Perrine's family:
Mary Ann, born Sept. 9, 1809, died July 19, 1848;
Daniel J., born Oct. 9, 1811; William H., born
Sept. 24, 1813; George W., born Oct. 30, 1816 died
Jan. 14, 1863; Garrett, born Dec. 12, 1818; Lydia
E., born June 3, 1820. Mrs. Perrine died
Oct. 1, 1823, aged 33 years 4 months and 13 days.
Mary Ann married Thomas Keever; had seven
children and twenty-even grandchildren of whom one son and
five grandchildren are dead. Her son, George Keever,
enlisted under Capt. Williams in the three months'
service in the 12th O. V. I.; re-enlisted in the 35th O. V.
I., in Company A, Capt. Budd; was Orderly Sergeant of
his company. At the battle of Chickamauga, was
mortally wounded on the skirmish-line early in the first
day's fight, and was buried near the battle-field.
Daniel J. married Eliza Murphy; had five
children (three dead) and two grandchildren. James
N. enlisted in the 69th O. V. I., and served his country
faithfully until discharged. William H. married
Rebecca Randolph; has had eleven children, five dead,
twenty-three grandchildren, of whom seven are dead.
David S. enlisted in the 79th O. V. I., was mortally
wounded at Peach Tree Creek, died at Chattanooga, and
was buried in the National Cemetery at that place.
David Morris, son-in-law of William H. and Rebecca
Perrine, was also a companion with David in the
same regiment. George W. married Rhoda
Beedle; has had six daughters, one dead, and eight grand
children, two dead. Garrett married Margaret
Ann Monfort, now dead, by whom he had one child, also
dead; his second wife was Ay Ann Covert, by whom he
had three children, one grandchild. Garrett
enlisted in the 2d Colo. I., serving three years; he was
discharged on account of sickness; he resides in McDonough
Co., Ill. Lydia E. married Joseph Lamb,
deceased; had two children, both dead; her second
husband is Richard Loyd, who resides in Mason
Co., Ky., have had eight children (of whom four are dead),
and seven grandchildren. For a second companion Mr.
Perrine married Elizabeth Davis; by
this marriage he had the following family: Elizabeth Ann,
born Mar. 12, 1825; John, born Feb. 15,1827; James
H., born Dec. 29,1828, died Mar. 20, 1880; Joseph
C., born Dec. 10, 1830, died July 3, 1864; Eliza,
born Nov. 12, 1832, died Nov. 4. 1835; Robert M.,
born Oct. 6, 1834; Lyde, born Aug. 9, 1836; Thomas,
born Dec. 11, 1838; Henry Clay, born June 10,
1842, died Oct. 28, 1846; Sylvester, born June 10,
1845; Benjamin F., born May 24, 1848. Mrs.
Perrine died Jan. 6, 1863, aged 57 years 9 months and
10 days. Elizabeth Ann married George
W. Probasco; has three children. Mr.
Probasco died in 1865. John served for
three years as wagoner in Company A, 35th O. V. I., was
captured at Anderson’s Pass, Tenn., by Wheeler’s
cavalry, Oct. 2, 1863, and taken to McMinnville, where he
made his escape by traveling after night by the light of the
moon, and on the fifth day after capture, reached the camp
of the Union army; his portrait appears elsewhere.
James H. married Margaret Ann Luce; has had six
children (two now dead), and three grandchildren.
Joseph C. enlisted Aug. 20, 1861, in Company A, 35th O.
V. I.; died at Chattanooga July 3, 1864, and was buried in
the National Cemetery at that place. Robert M.
married Jennie Haines Nov. 20, 1872; has three
children living and two dead; enlisted in the 2d Ohio Heavy
Artillery; resides at Cleveland, Ohio. Benjamin F.
married Lillie R. Ramsey Jan. 1, 1873; has three
children; is a merchant of Valparaiso, Ind. Mr.
James Perrine died Apr. 11, 1872, aged 85
years 7 months and 5 days. He was the progenitor of a
very numerous family, which, including his grandchildren and
great-grandchildren, numbered 148; of these, forty-one are
now dead. In politics, Mr. Perrine was a
stanch Republican, having been, previous to the organization
of this party, an Old-Line Whig. During the late war,
his sympathies were strongly with the North, and he firmly
supported the Administration in the effort to put down the
slave-holders' rebellion. He was represented in the
struggle by five of his sons, two of whom laid down their
lives for their country. Five grandsons also served in
the war, and two of them died in the service. Mr.
Perrine was a man of high integrity, very correct and
safe in his financial transactions, and was a highly
respected citizen of the community. The father of this
James Perrine was Daniel Perrine, who
was born Oct. 27, 1762, and died in Kentucky, May 16, 1833.
His mother, Lydia Perrine, was born July 15,
1764, and died Nov. 28, 1848, in her 85th year. The
subject of this sketch is said to have shot the last deer
killed along Muddy Creek; it was an old buck, shot by Mr.
Perrine in 1814.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W.
H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1061 |
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Union Twp. -
JAMES H. PERRINE
(deceased) was born
in Union Township in the year 1828; he was a son of James
Perrine, an early settler, whose sketch appears in this
work; he was reared on the farm and in the district schools;
by close application to study, he fitted himself to teach -
a business he followed to some extent in his early life.
In 1854, he was married to Margaret A., daughter of
William and Mary Luce, of Warren Co. After his
marriage, he located where his widow now resides and where
he lived till his death, which occurred Mar. 20, 1880.
He has four years Director of the Horticultural Board of the
county. To Mr. and Mrs. P, six children were
born, four living viz., Mary E., Lydia E., Flora B.
and George G.; Henry F. and Willie C.,
deceased. William Luce, father of Mrs. P.,
came to Ohio in an early day and located in Warren Co.
Mrs. Luce was born in Clermont Co., Ohio; they were
parents of fifteen children. By his two other wives he
had nine children; he died in 1875, aged 79 years. She
(mother of Mrs. Perrine) died in September, 1864.
Mr. P., at his death, left a farm of 315 acres of
choice land which is well improved, making Mrs. P.
and her children a pleasant and comfortable home.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1062 |
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Harlan Twp. -
THOMAS J. PATTERSON, farmer; P. O.
Level. Among the solid, industrious and enterprising
men of Warren Co., Mr. Patterson stands meritoriously
high; he justly received the name of self-made, which is the
result of determined industry and self denying frugality; he
was careful of expenditures, invested his earnings
judiciously, and yet beginning at the foot of the ladder; he
is now the owner of 600 acres, and is considered one of the
leading farmers of the county. He was born in this
county Feb. 13, 1846, receiving a liberal education in the
graded schools of the county, and graduating in a commercial
course at Pittsburg, Penn., in the class of 1866. He
was married Dec. 24, 1867, to Miss Harriett J. Ingle,
a native of this county, and born Jan. 30, 1850. In
all the vicissitudes of life his wife has ever lent a
helping hand to him, and makes their home one of genuine
hospitality. Any one who calls at this pleasant
homestead receives a cordial welcome, void of cold formality
or intentional neglect. These parents have a family of
five children - Mollie (born Dec. 23, 1868, since
deceased), Luella F. (born June 20, 1871), John J.
(born Feb. 14, 1874), Iva B. (July 17, 1877) and
Giffin (Apr. 10, 1881). Mr. Patterson is a
Democrat in politics, and has held the office of Township
Trustee for four terms of one year each; he is President of
the Blanchester Agricultural Society, and a director of the
Warren Co. Board of Agriculture; he is an ardent Mason,
being a member of Blanchester Lodge, No. 53. He is of
a religious turn of mind, temperate in all things, and he
and his worthy lady are members of the M. E. Church.
He farms extensively, and has one of the most productive and
well improved farms in the county; his crops are
proportioned as follows: Meadow, 100 acres; corn, 70
acres; wheat, 60 acres; potatoes, 25 acres; clover, 60
acres; oats, 30 acres, and pasture 130 acres, thus leaving
125 acres of timber. He also deals extensively in fine
stock, which consists of sheep, hogs, horses and cattle; he
has a flock of forty pure bred merino sheep, which are fine
specimens of their class, and which took first class
premiums at the fairs last fall. He furnishes these
celebrated sheep to parties on most reasonable terms; he is
also a breeder of regstered Poland-China hogs, the
finest in the country; these together with his short horn
cattle give his farm a notoriety seldom surpassed. His
father, Thomas Patterson, was a native of
Pennsylvania, born Mar. 11, 1806. He married
Elizabeth Estel, a native of Ohio, and one day his
junior. They settled in Hamilton Township, this
county, in the year 1830. They were of German-Irish
descent, and well and favorably known.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1038 |
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Union Twp. -
JOHN H. PHILLIPS, farmer; P. O.
Lebanon; was born in Saratoga Co., N. Y., Dec. 19, 1838; he
is a son of Elijah and Lorinda Philips, natives of
New York, who settled here about 1874. The early
boyhood of our subject was passed with his father, who was a
dealer and shipper of stock; he received common education,
such as could be obtained in the district schools. In
1855, he came to Ohio, a single man, and for three and
one-half years worked as a hand for $10 per month, and
during the time saved $65 per annum. Nov. 22, 1858, he
was married to Deborah, daughter of John Irons;
after that event he rented land for six years, when he
bought a home in Washington Township, on which he lived six
years, when he sold and came to where he now resides; at
present he owns 137½ acres of
fine land, all of which lies in Union Township but 26 acres.
He is one of our county's self-made men, is an industrious
and intelligent farmer, and one whose integrity and
character is above reproach. To Mr. and Mrs. P.
three children were born, viz., Melvin R., Indiola
and John. Mrs. P. was born in Warren Co. in
1842. Politically, Mr. P. is a Republican and
has always voted with that party upon all questions at
issue.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1062 |
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Harlan Twp. -
HERSCHEL W. PRICE, carriage and
wagonmaker and undertaker; P. O. Butlerville; a native of
Hamilton Co., Ohio, and born Jan. 2, 1835. He received
a common school education in the rural schools, peculiar to
those days; he being of an industrious term of mind, he
learned the carriage and wagonmaker trade. His
ingenuity and close application to business soon made him a
successful and good mechanic. In July, 1858, Mr.
Price was united in marriage to Elizabeth McMullen,
born in this State Nov. 20, 1836; to this union three
children were born, of which two are living - Frank H.,
born April 6, 1860, and Robert, Dec. 6, 1873.
Mr. Price, being a War Democrat, aided the Union
cause in various ways; he assisted the Governor in
recruiting volunteers for the war, in which he was eminently
successful, and was frequently sent on secret missions after
deserters and derelict army officials; in 1864 he was
commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 27th Regiment of United
States Colored Troops, and followed the fortunes of the Army
of the Potomac in its terrible ordeal of fire, sword and
blood from North Anna to Petersburg, Spotsylvania, the
Wilderness, Coal Harbor, Mine Run and Petersburg are
familiar names to him, and the awful conflicts around and
about Richmond are images that are ever impressed upon his
mind. Some three years prior to the war, Mr. Price
located at Butlerville, where he is now engaged in the
carriage, wagon and undertaking business; he does a good
business, and at this time is in the enjoyment of a good
constitution and has lost none of his original industry; he
is of German and Scotch descent, and to those nations he
traces much of his generous and hospitable nature. His
father was a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, born Jan. 19,
1808; his mother was also of Hamilton County and born Nov.
18, 1811; they settled in this county in 1870. The
family are historic, settling at Fort Washington, now
Cincinnati, in 1790; the grandfather of the subject of this
sketch participated in the war of 1812, beginning with
Hull's surrender and terminating some two years after.
The family was originally from Virginia. Mr. Price
is an ardent I. O. O. F., being a member of Pleasant Plain
Lodge, No. 656.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1039 |
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