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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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Wayne Twp. -
HIRAM C. TAYLOR,
farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born in Frederick Co., Va., Feb.
19, 1832; is a son of Hiram W. and Rachel (Morgan) Taylor,
natives of Virginia. The grandfather, Abraham
Taylor, was also a native of Virginia, and lived and
died in his native State. Hiram W. was raised
and grew to manhood in his native State, and married and
became the father of eleven children; seven now survive -
Morgan, James, John, Hiram C., Martha, Edna and Elizabeth.
Mr. Taylor resided in Virginia till 1856, when he
emigrated to Ohio and settled in Wayne Township, Warren Co.
, and engaged in teaching school, which, with the mercantile
trade, he followed for the balance of his life. He
lost his wife in Virginia, who died June 9, 1856. He
married for his second wife Mary Ann Chenoweth,
by whom he had one child (deceased). Mr.
Taylor died Aug. 11, 1868. The subject of this
sketch was raised in Virginia, and married Margaret
Lloyd, Jan. 28, 1858, a daughter of James and
Sarah Lloyd, natives of Virginia, who, with Mr.
Taylor, emigrated to Ohio in November, 1860, and
located in Wayne Township. Mr. Taylor
and wife have had six children; five new survive -
Rochell, William, Charles, Lizzie
and John. Mr. Taylor followed
milling about four years in this county; the balance of his
life has been devoted to farming: he bought and located upon
the place where he now lives in March, 1880, where he has
since resided and has a very pleasant home and good farm.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 885 |
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Hamilton Twp. -
A. L. THOMPSON, farmer, P. O.,
Loveland, was born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, in the year 1842,
and is a son of John Thompson, a gentleman of Scotch
parentage. Our subject received the rudiments of his
education in the district schools, which was afterward
developed at the Farmers' College, of which institution he
is a graduate. In 1861 he enlisted in Birdsall's
4th Cav.; served three months and then enlisted in the three
years' service. With him were his brothers James
and William. John, another brother,
enlisted in 1864 in the 10th Cav. James came
home Lieut. Col. James came home Lieut. Col. of the
4th Cav., having seen active service all through the war and
participated in many of the hard-fought battles of the war.
He was taken prisoner in front of Atlanta while trying to
save one of his men. Our subject was quarter-master
and forage-master most of the time he was out. All
were honorably discharged at the close of the war.
After his return home he engaged in the grocery and livery
business, each in its turn, and eventually, on account of
his wife's ill-health, in 1880 purchased a farm of 128 acres
on which he resides. In 1866 he was married to Miss
Lydia Hunter, who was born in England. To them two
children have been born, viz.: Charles H. and
Jessie. He is an exemplary Christian gentleman
and a member of the Bethel Church. Is a Republican.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 958 |
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Deerfield Twp. -
J. M. THOMPSON, farmer;
P. O. Socialville. The gentleman whose name we present
at the head of this sketch is one of the well-known and
prominent citizens of Warren County. He was born in
Deerfield Township July 7, 1831, and is a son of J. L.
Thompson, a pioneer, whose sketch appears in this work.
The rudiments of his education were obtained in the district
schools, which were afterward developed in the Farmers’
College of Hamilton Co., Ohio, in which he took a year’s
course, and during that time, by close application to study,
he fitted himself to successfully cope with the business
relations of life. Upon attaining his majority, he
engaged in a mercantile enterprise in Socialville, where he
conducted a general store for five years, and was very
successful. At the termination of the above time, he
disposed of his stock and returned to his farm, which is the
best-kept place in the township; his surroundings and
improvements are far above the average. and everything
indicates the thrift and enterprise of the owner. Apr.
29, 1858, he was married to Lottie, daughter of
Henry Voorhis, of Butler Co., Ohio, who has borne
him two children, viz., Charles M. and Dora E.;
the former is a promising young attorney in Lebanon, and the
latter the wife of E. C. Morrison. Mr.
Thompson has never craved political honors, yet he has
represented his party ticket in nearly ever office of the
county, which, though. is largely in the minority; he has
settled forty-one estates, besides settling up the old Miami
Valley Railroad Company’s business, which went into
bankruptcy in 1879, and he was appointed Receiver in
January, 1881. Be it said to his credit that in
settling up so many estates he has never lost a dollar by a
bad debt, nor failed to account for a cent that was charged
to him; some of the estates were large, and, as all estates
are more or less complicated, we consider this remarkable.
Politically. he is of Democratic proclivities, and upon all
questions of importance he clings tenaciously to the
principles of true Democracy. In point of improvement,
he stands at the head of every enterprise that has been
successfully carried to a terminus. Through his
instrumentality, the face of the country wears a much
different aspect than would otherwise have been the case. as
he has done much to help change and establish roads that are
now of real value and advantage to every citizen. In
the construction of pikes and other matters of equal
importance, he has always taken a leading part. which he
sustained with creditableness to him self in every instance.
Withal, J. M. Thompson is a representative man, and
no citizen of his township has more friends or wields a
greater influence than he. During the war, he took a
prominent part in the history of the township; purchased
credits, raised and paid for men, and in all, disbursed
$32,000; was also distributing agent to those whose husbands
and sons were in the army. He belongs to the Mason
Horse Ranger Company, and is one of the two men who drafted
its new constitution and assisted in organizing on a new
basis.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 989 |
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Deerfield Twp. -
JOHN L. THOMPSON,
retired farmer; P. O. Socialville. To the gentleman
whose name heads this sketch, we are pleased to accord a
place in the ranks of the early pioneers of Warren County;
he was born at Red Stone, Pennsylvania, Sept. 8, 1804, and
is a son of Aaron and Jane (Lee) Thompson, who were
born in the same State. In 1806, they emigrated by way
of the Ohio River to Ohio, and took up their residence in
Butler County close to Chester. There they cleared up
a farm and made a permanent home. To them were born
eighteen children, of whom only two live in Warren County.
The others who are living are scattered throughout the West
Mrs. Thompson died in 1827. Mr.
Thompson was again married to Julia Baird,
who here him three children; he died in 1841 or 1842.
Our subject was reared on the farm, and in the subscription
schools he learned to read and. write. He labored on
the farm for his father until his marriage. which was
celebrated Nov. 4, 1828, with Eleanor, daughter of
David Conover of New Jersey, and at that time of
Butler County; after the celebration of his nuptials he
located in Deerfield Township, where he has resided to the
present, and in all human probability will reside to the
end. His children who are living are seven in number,
and all reside in good homes within sight of their parents,
their names are as follows: - James M., Finley, Willson,
George D., Jonathan L., Lucinda L., and Mary A.
The deceased are - Abel S., Thomas J., David M.,
and Eva J. Mr. Thompson when married had
comparatively speaking nothing, and his father being a poor
man, he did much toward assisting him, which considerably
retarded his own progress, yet he struggled along gaining
little by little, and soon purchased thirty odd acres of
land. Their first home was on what is now the Abner
Ross farm, it being then nearly all timbered land;
then there was scarcely a wagon road, and everything was
carried in and out of the country on horseback. By the
most unrelenting labor and strictest economy this pioneer
gradually over came the obstacles which are akin to poverty,
and became one of the wealthy men of his township,
possessing at one time about 700 acres of land. In
politics Mr. Thompson is a Democrat; he has
served the people of the township in capacity of Trustee for
nine years; his children are greatly esteemed and are among
the most respected in the county, being moral and strictly
honest men and women; they are well calculated to perpetuate
the record of their father, which is without a spot or
blemish. He is an old member of the Company of Mason
Horse Rangers. To his children he has given good
homes; he was engaged for some time as a partner with his
son J. M. Thompson, in a store at Socialville.
The grandfather of Mrs. Thompson served as Light
Horseman in the struggle of the colonists for liberty.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 990 |
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Turtle Creek Twp. -
JOHN S. THOMPSON, deceased, who was
one of Warren County’s most successful farmers, died Mar. 8,
1860, on the farm of 162 acres which he had accumulated
during life, and which at death he bequeathed to his family;
he was born in Virginia to Allen and Sarah Thompson,
who were both of Irish descent; he followed farming during
the whole of his life, and by his industrious and frugal
habits succeeded in accumulating a comfortable competency,
upon which his widow has since lived. He was married,
Oct. 25 1832, to Miss Janette Calvert, who was born
in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 21, 1814; they had seven children,
all now living, viz., Sarah, now Mrs.
Keever; Harriet, now Mrs. W. H. Gillispie;
James A., Frank S., David E., Lewis
H. and Stephen W., all of whom are married.
Mrs. Thompson is a well-preserved woman, and in good
health for one of her years.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 785 |
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Turtle Creek Twp. -
JOSEPH H. THOMPSON, farmer; P. O.
Lebanon; was born in Butler Co., Ohio, Apr. 26, 1824; his
parents were Joseph and Mary (Casson) Thompson, whose
parents were of Scotch descent, and who emigrated to Ohio at
an early day. Our subject was educated in the schools
of Warren County, with the exception of one year spent in an
academy located in Ross Co., Ohio. At the age of 17
years, he commenced the trade of a carpenter, which was
finished at Cincinnati. He soon became a contractor
and builder, and erected a great many houses throughout
southwestern Ohio; this occupation he pursued until of late
years, when he began farming, now making it a specialty.
On the 30th of May, 1850, he was united in marriage with
Amanda F., daughter of Robert and A. Curry, and
sister of Hon. William Curry, of Indiana. To
them were born the following children: Robert, William
B., Edwin G., Charles H., Horace, Milton Ellsworth, Albert
J., Arthur and Eva. Mr. Thompson is
the architect of his own home. which consists of a beautiful
residence, situated four and one-half miles northeast of
Lebanon, on the Lebanon & Freeport pike, where he owns a
farm of 200 acres of well improved land.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 784 |
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Union Twp. -
MOSES THOMPSON (deceased) was born in
Hamilton County, Ohio in 1816, and was reared on the farm,
which he followed for an occupation during his life.
In 1844, he was married to Elizabeth Whitehead, a
native of New Jersey. After the celebration of
marriage, he came to Warren Co., and purchased the farm on
which his widow now resides; he purchased the Eddie Drake
land in Union Township, a place well known; he was
almost a life long member of the Christian Church, and was
an exemplary Christian gentleman, and was universally
respected and esteemed by all who knew him. To their
union eight children were born, five living, viz.:
Marian, Sallie, Ada, Martha and Mary. The
deceased are - John, Aaron and Reeder. John
was a member of Company B, 79th O. V. I.; he died in
Gallatin, Tenn., Feb. 9, 1863, aged 18 years. Although
but a youth in years, he left the record of a good soldier,
as he was ever at his post and ready to discharge every
perilous duty. Mr. Thompson left at his death
149 acres of good land, which affords a comfortable home for
his widow and two daughters, who yet reside on the old home
place. John and Elizabeth Whitehead, parents of
Mrs. Thompson, were natives of New Jersey, and
settled in Union Township in 1818, in which they lived and
died. Mr. Whitehead was born Mar. 3, 1786; he
was married in 1811. Mrs. Whitehead died July
9, 1833, of cholera; two of her children (daughters), fell
victims to the same dreadful disease, the same work of her
death. They were parents of six children viz.:
George, Ann E., Martha, Sarah A., Mary C. and
Caroline. They (Mr. and Mrs. W.) were
members of the Christian Church, as is their daughter,
Mrs. T., who has been a member since 1833.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W.
H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1064 |
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Turtle Creek Twp. -
WILLIAM D. THOMPSON,
farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Nov.
14, 1834; he was the son of John H. and Ann (McCarty)
Thompson, she of German descent and he a native of New
Jersey, of Irish descent; they settled in Warren County at
an early day, where he went to farming, successfully
following that occupation until his death, in 1876, at which
time he had accumulated 303 acres of land. Of his
children, seven reached their majority, and of these five
are still living and all doing well. Our subject and
his sister are living on the home place. where they occupy
121 acres; he had received an ordinary education, and then
settled down on his father’s place, where he has since
remained; he attends strictly to business, and, although a
Republican, has always refused nomination or election to any
office.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 785 |
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Turtle Creek Twp. -
WILLIAM M. THOMPSON,
farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township,
Sept. 8, 1840; he is the son of William and Nancy (Beed)
Thompson, the former a native of Virginia and the latter
of Ohio; his father came to Ohio in 1840, and for eight
years commanded a steamer on the Ohio River; he was a tanner
by trade, but spent most of his life on a farm; he was
married in Warren County, and raised nine children. all of
whom reached their majority, were married, and, with one
exception, are still living; Mr. Thompson was a most
successful farmer, and at the time of his death in 1871
owned 320 acres of land. Our subject received a fair
education and grew up on the farm; in 1869, he married
Clara Earnhart, by whom he had one child, a son,
Sylvan, born in 1871; Mr. Thompson is a
good farmer, and now owns a fine farm of 80 acres of land,
on which are a comfortable residence, and good and
substantial barns, cribs. etc.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 785 |
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Clear Creek Twp. -
EDMOND
THROCKMORTON, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born n
Warren County May 27, 1817; is a son of James and Leah
Throckmorton, natives of New Jersey. The
grandparents were Job and Jane Throckmorton, also
natives of New Jersey, who, with their family, emigrated to
Ohio and located in this township in 1816, where they lived
and died. Jane was a daughter of Amos Wooley,
a native of New Jersey, who came to Ohio in 1816, and died
in Clear Creek Township. The maternal grandfather,
Joseph Tucker, was also a native of New Jersey, and
lived and died in his native State, James, the father
of our subject, grew to manhood and married in New Jersey,
where he resided till 1816, when, with his father, he came
to Ohio and spent the balance of his life in Warren County,
except five years' residence in Miami Co., Ohio. He
died in Clear Creek Township June 28, 1872, aged 76 years;
his wife died Oct. 24, 1866, aged 70. They had ten
children: nine still survive - Edmond, John, Jane,
Job, Joseph, Susan, James, Lydia and Martha.
Our subject, who was born in this county, has, with the
exception of the five years' residence in Miami County with
his father, passed his entire life within three miles of his
birthplace; was married, April 11, 1849, to Eliza,
daughter of George S. and Jane Keever,
he is a native of Pennsylvania and she of Kentucky.
Mr. Keever came to Ohio and settled in 1801; was
married here and was among the early pioneers of this
county, and lived and died here. For further history
of the Keever family, see sketch of N. E. Lupton.
By this union, Mr. Throckmorton and wife had four
children: two now survive - John and Eliza
Jane; the latter married William H. Henry by whom
she has three children - Ellanora, Elsworth and
Viola May. Mrs. Throckmorton died Sept. 28, 1848,
aged 34 years. On Oct. 20, 1850, he married, for his
second wife, Belinda Keever, a sister of his first
wife. She died Feb. 5, 1879, aged 72 years.
Mr. T.'s oldest son, Absalom, enlisted in the
rebellion, Aug. 14, 1862, in the 79th O. V. I., and died
Jan. 6, 18632, in the hospital at Gallatin, Tenn., with the
measles. Mr. Throckmorton has made farming his
business through life. He, as were his ancestors
before him, is a man of unassuming habits, never held or
desired office, but is one of the best of citizens, kind and
accommodating as a neighbor, and whose integrity of
character is above reproach.
Source: History of Warren Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
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