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DR. LOUIS H. CISLER, a
successful practitioner of medicine in Marietta, Washington
County, Ohio, was born near that city, and is a son of
Charles Henry and Mary (Blohm) Cisler.
Charles Henry Cisler was born in Marietta in 1838,
and is a son of Henry and Anna (Barnhardt) Cisler.
He was educated in Marietta township, and later moved with his
parents to the farm which is now his home. In 1869, he
married Mary Blohm, a daughter of Louis and Frances
Blohm, and they reared four children, as follows:
Louis H.; Reuben T., D. D. S., of Marietta; Clara L.,
a graduate of Marietta High School, who is living at home; and
John Wallace, who is also at home. Religiously the
family is Lutheran.
Reuben T. Cisler, D. D. S., was born near
Marietta, in 1874, and completed an academic course at Marietta.
He studied dentistry in the Cincinnati College of Dental
Surgery, and immediately after graduation, came to Marietta to
practice. He has received a liberal patronage from the
citizens of the community, and is everywhere held in high
esteem. His office is at No. 210 Front street, and he
resides at No. 209 Gilman street. He married a daughter of
J. A. Davis, of the wholesale grocery house of C. L.
Bailey & Company.
Dr. Louis H. Cisler was graduated from Marietta
College with the class of 1892, and thereafter received careful
preparation for his profession. He studied medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, from which
institution he was graduated in 1895, and has since practiced
successfully in Marietta. In 1898, he pursued a
post-graduate course in the New York Polycinic, and has always
been a student of his profession. He is a member of the
William Pepper Medical Society, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Cisler married Miss Walker, a lady of
Philadelphia birth, and they have three children, - Francis,
Walker and Anna. His office and residence are
at No. 317 Fourth street. Religiously he is a member of
hte Lutheran Church.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio -
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N. C. CISLER
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HIEL CHAPMAN
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WILLIAM A. CLARK
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JESSE D. CLINE,* who is the
proprietor of a livery stable in New Matamoras, was born in
Independence township, Washington County, Ohio, Mar. 24, 1856,
and is a son of Josiah and Harriet (Ward) Cline.
Isaiah Cline was born in Ludlow township,
Washington County, and was a farmer. He served in the 77th
Reg. Ohio Vol. Inf., and died at Memphis, Kentucky, in 1863.
His wife Harriet E. Ward, was also a native of Washington
County, and was born in 1838. She departed this life in
1869. Her father, Jesse M. Ward, was one of the
early settlers of Washington County. Isaiah Cline
and his wife reared four children, as follows: Jesse D.,
the subject of this sketch; Martin W., who teaches school
in Oklahoma; Mary E., of Wheeling, West Virginia; and
Andrew K., of Grand View.
Jesse D. Cline was very
young when his father died, and he was reared by his grandfather
Ward, and lived on his farm until he reached the age of
twenty-one years. He then went west, spent two years and a
half in Kansas, one year in Iowa, and returned to Washington
County in the spring of 1861. He lived in Marietta until
1883, and during part of the time, he was employed railroading.
He also spent two years in the meat business, while in Marietta.
In 1898, he engaged in the living business at Newport, and moved
to New Matamoras in 1899, where he has since conducted a livery
stable. His stable is well patronized, and he gives his
patrons the best of attention. He has a contract for the
Star Mail Route from New Matamoras to Marietta.
Mr. Cline was married in 1886, to Frances
Deigmiller, who was born in Noble County, Ohio, in 1867,
and was reared in Washington County. Her father, John
Noble, was a farmer. The subject of this sketch and
his wife have four children, namely: Bessie F.;
Harriet E.; Winford; and John W.
Mr. Cline is a Republican in politics. He was
elected town marshal in 1901. He is a member of the
Methodist Church.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio -
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MRS.
ANNA M. COLE, a well known resident of Marietta township,
Washington County, Ohio, is a daughter of Francis Gaylord
Guitteau. Her father was a farmer, of Fearing
township, Washington County, Ohio, where he was born and reared.
He married Sarah Fulton who was one of the first school
teachers of Marietta. He died in 1890, at the age of
eighty years, and his wife died in 1885, at the age of
seventy-four years.
Anna M. Guitteau was united in marriage with
William Henry Cole, who was born in Marietta in 1835, and
was a son of Sampson Cole. Sampson Cole
owned what was called the Fay Farm located where Norwood
now is, and this farm he traded for the Cole farm, one
mile east of Marietta, where Mrs. ole now lives.
William Henry Cole attended the public schools of Marietta,
after which he was engaged as clerk on a steamboat for about
three years. He was afterward connected with the lumber
business in Salem township, Washington County, and also with the
oil business, to some extent. Mr. Cole died at his
home, Aug. 20, 1899.
Mr. and Mrs. Cole became the parents of the
following children: Alice, who graduated as trained
nurse, from the Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, at
Brooklyn, New York, May 20, 1901, and is now located in
Marietta, Ohio; Charles Francis proprietor of the
Huntington Plumbing Company, of Huntington, West Virginia;
Arthur Fulton, a graduate of Marietta College in 1890, and a
civil engineer, of Marietta, who was first sergeant in the first
engineering corps that went to Cuba in 1898, and was afterward
promoted to the signal corps of the 2nd Reg. of Ill. Vol.
Inf.; John Plumer, who was graduated from Marietta
College in 1894, and is studying medicine in Baltimore,
Maryland; Walter Putnam, who is conducting a
livery stable in Marietta; Edwin, who is at home with his
mother; and Clara Jeanette, wife of Donald
Carl Snodgrass, who is in the clothing business in
Marietta. Mrs. Cole is a woman of many
admirable traits of character, and has many friends. She
is a Presbyterian in religious belief.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio -
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MRS.
LUCY M. COLE, a highly esteemed resident of Marietta, is
a direct descendant of one of the old and honored families of
New England, which was connected with the early settlement of
Dorchester, Massachusetts, and of Windsor, Connecticut.
Mr. Cole was born in West Marietta Oct. 13, 1854, and is a
daughter of Levi and Abigail (Kelly) Barber. Levi
Barber was of the seventh generation in descent from the
founder of the family in America.
The first generation of the Barber familyin this
country began with Thomas Barber, a native of Mildred
Bridestrat, England, who, in March, 1635, at the age of 21
years, took passage from London in the good ship "Christian,"
and finally landed on the shores of New England. After
taking the oath of allegiance, he resided among the early
settlers at Dorchester, Massachusetts, and later joined the
settlers at Windsor, Connecticut. He participated in the
Pequot War, under Stroughton and, doubtless, was prominent in
the affairs of the colony. He and his wife Jane,
died in 1662. They had a family of six children.
IN the second generation Samuel Barber, son of
Thomas and Jane, was born in 1648, an first married
either Mary Cousins or Mary Long, according to
different records. His second wife was a daughter of
John Drake. Two children were born of each marriage.
In the third generation Samuel Barber (2) son of
Samuel, was born in 1673, and married Mercy,
daughter of the first Thomas Holcomb. They had a
family of four sons and two daughters. After the death of
her husband. Mercy (Holcomb) Barber, with her six
children moved from Windsor, Connecticut, to West Shrewsbury,
now Canton, Connecticut; this was in 1738, when she was 47 years
old, 18 years younger than her husband. She died in 1787,
aged 96 years.
In the fourth generation, Dr. Samuel Barber, son
of Samuel (2), was born in 1713, and died in 1797.
For his first wife he married Tryphena Humphrey, born in
1722, a daughter of Samuel Humphrey; she died in 1752.
The second wife of Dr. Samuel Barber was Hannah
Humphrey, daughter of Capt. Noah Humphrey, who died
in 1819, aged 93 years. Seven children resulted from each
marriage.
In the fifth generation David Barber, son of
Dr. Samuel was born in 1746, and died in 1783. He
married Sarah Lawrence, who, after his death married
William Dyer of Hubbardton, Vermont. David and
Sarah Lawrence Barber had six children, who were named as
follows: David Humphrey, who died in 1860;
Tryphena, who died in 1802; David, who died in 1814;
Levi, who died in 1833; Timothy who died in 1851;
and Luther, who died in infancy, in 1783. The
father of this family, after the Battle of Lexington, became a
soldier in Massachusetts, and participated in the Battle of
Bunker Hill.
In the sixth generation Levi Barber, son of
David, was born Oct. 16, 1777, and died Apr. 23, 1833.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. John Rouse,
on Feb. 15, 1803. She was born June 16, 1772, and died
June 28, 1831. They had five children, namely:
David; Elizabeth; Austin; Levi, who
died in infancy; and Levi, again. The father
of this family was known as Col. Levi Barber,
and was a very distinguished citizen of Ohio. He was
United States surveyor, aid to Gov. R. J. Meigs in the
War of 1812, was clerk of the court of common pleas court of
Washington County and the supreme court, receiver of public
moneys at the United States land office at Marietta, and a
member of Congress from the Marietta district from 1817 to 1819,
and from 1821 to 1823. Col. Levi Barber was the
grandfather of Mrs. Cole.
In the seventh generation of the
Barber family Levi (2), son of Col. Levi Barber, was
born at Marietta, Ohio, Nov. 1, 1814, and died Oct. 16, 1887.
He married Abigail Kelly, who was born May
18, 1818, and died Feb. 9, 1886. She was a daughter of
Joseph and Cynthia (Flagg) Kelly. Four children were
born to Levi and Abigail Barber, namely: Levi
deceased; Henry, a resident of St. Louis, Missouri;
David, deceased; and Lucy M., the subject of this
biography. Until 1861 Levi Barber followed
mercantile pursuits and steamboating on the river. In
1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the 36th
Rev. Ohio Vol. Inf., going out as quartermaster, and later, and
later served as provost marshal until the close of the war.
After his return he engaged in farming, near Carthage, Hancock
County, Illinois, where he accumulated large means. He
owned an extensive estate at the time of his death, which
occurred at the home of his second son, Henry Barber.
Col. Levi Barber also owned a large tract of land
bordering on the site of old Fort Harmar, and this property he
presented to his daughter, Mrs. Cole. With
excellent business foresight Mrs. Cole has
retained his land, which is very valuable, and upon it she has
erected six residences, from which she enjoys an excellent
income in rentals. Her handsome residence at No. 407 Fort
street, was erected in 1829 by her grandfather, Hon.
Levi Barber, and replaced a log house.
Previously he planted two pear trees at either end of the log
house, and these are still living and bearing fruit, and are
doubtless the oldest in the city of Marietta.
Mrs. Lucy M. Cole was educated in the schools of
her native city. In 1788 she was united in marriage with
James F. Cole, who was born June 16, 1840, at Briscoe,
West Virginia. He was a young man of unusual merit and
bright promise, graduating in the lass of 1871, at Marietta
College. He died May 4, 1881, leaving his widow and two
children, viz.: Seldon Barber, who was born
May 11, 1879, and is connected with the railway mail service
between Pittsburg, Conova and Cincinnati, Ohio; and Lucy
James, who was born Sept. 3, 1881. She was married
Dec. 27, 1900, to Edwin A. Fleming, of Alabama.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio -
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CAPT. REES M. COLE, an extensive
fruit grower and prominent resident of Warren township,
Washington County, Ohio, was born in Gallia County, Ohio, Dec.
27, 1839. He is a son of Samuel and Mary (Davis) Cole,
and grandson of Samuel Clay Cole.
Samuel Cole was born and reared in New York state,
and afterward settled in Saint Clairsville, Ohio, where he
followed farming. His wife was a native of Cork, Ireland,
and they were married in Belmont County, Ohio. Later
Samuel Cole purchased the farm in Gallia County, on
which Rees N. Cole was born. Nine children were
born to him and his wife, as follows: Rees N.;
Marshall G., who enlisted in 1861, when the call for
three-hundred-day men was issued, in the 7th Reg., Ohio Vol. Cav.,
in which he became a second lieutenant, and who was killed in
the Wilson Raid at Selma, Alabama, which occurred after the
declaration of peace; Sardis, who is a farmer of
Lancaster, Ohio; Samuel Clay, a railroad engineer,
who makes his home at Indianapolis, Indiana; Leroy F.,
who is a cabinet-maker of Indianapolis; William F., who
is a cabinet-maker of Indianapolis; Mary, wife of
Samuel McElhenny, who lives in Gallia, Ohio;
Celicia Jane, who is living at home with her mother;
and Emma, who married Warner Safford, of
Gallia County, Ohio. Samuel Cole died in
April, 1887. Mrs. Cole resides in Gallipolis, Ohio,
at the age of 86 years.
Capt. Rees N. Cole was a captain on the river
for many years, following steamboating from 1856 until 1870.
He then moved on a farm, and at the present time is a prosperous
fruit grower, having a fine farm in Warren township. He
was united in marriage with Amelia Elizabeth Dyar, a
daughter of J. B. and Abigail (Proctor) Dyar, and
grand-daughter of Jeremiah Dyar. Her father ame to
Washington County, Ohio, from Nova Scotia, with his parents.
Eight children were born to bless this union, namely:
Abigail Proctor, who married P. E. Clark, of
Marietta, and died in 1898, leaving a daughter, Ruth, who
is now thirteen years old; Rees Herbert, a machinist by
trade; Caro Amelia who married John F. Bukey, by
whom she has a son, Joseph Dyar, aged fourteen years;
Harriet Estella, wife of Walter McNeal, of
Charleston, Virginia, who is cashier of the Standard Oil Company
at that place; Marshall Grasson, who lives in Gallipolis,
Ohio; Emma Safford, wife of W. J. Cram, of
Marietta, Ohio; and Chester Dyar and Joseph Dyar
who are at home. Captain Cole is a Republican in
politics. His wife is a member of the Congregational
Church.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio -
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JAMES COONEY
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EVERETT P. CORNER
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DR. JOHN COTTON was
a physician well known and highly esteemed in his time, and is still
remembered as a successful practitioner of physic and skillful
surgeon. He was the son of Rev. Josiah Cotton, and was
born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1792. Rev. Josiah
Cotton was a descendant of Rev. John Cotton, of Boston,
and a graduate of Harvard College. The subject of this sketch
entered Cambridge University at the age of 14 and graduated in 1810
with honorable standing in his class. He received his medical
degree at Cambridge in 1814, and began practicing in Andover,
Massachusetts. In 1815 he married Susan Buckminster and
came to Marietta, being attracted by the climate. In the
latter part of the year he opened an office on the west side of the
Muskingum, and soon acquired a comfortable practice, which grew with
age and experience.
Dr. Cotton was an
enthusiastic worker in the cause of religion. Immediately upon
his arrival, he set to work at organizing Sunday-schools, and in
1816 one had been opened on the west side and two on the east side.
He continued an enthusiastic. Sunday-school worker and
teacher. He accumulated a large collection of theological
books, and at the age of r0 studied Hebrew that he might be able to
understand more fully and explain more satisfactorily difficult
passages in the Old Testament.
Dr. Cotton was ardent in his opinions. He soon
became a local political leader, and in 1824 was chosen
Representative in the Legislature. In 1825 he was chosen
associate judge and filled the position until the time of his death.
For a number of years he was chairman of the Whig Central Committee,
and proved himself an adroit politician. He took delight in
scientific studies, and often lectured in the Marietta Lyceum and
the Young Ladies' Seminary. Astronomy was his favorite theme.
He delivered an address in Latin on the occasion of the installation
of the first president of Marietta College. He was one of the
original trustees of the College and for many years president of the
Board. He was also trustee of the Medical College of Ohio.
He died unexpectedly after a brief illness of three days, Apr. 2,
1847.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio - Published
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DR. JOSIAH DEXTER COTTON,
son of Dr. John Cotton, was born in Marietta, Ohio, May 18,
1822. He graduated at Marietta College in 1842, being the
youngest of a class of nine students. He began the study of
medicine in his father's office, and after attending lectures at the
medical college in New Orleans and the Ohio Medical College,
received the degree of M. D. from the medical department of the
university at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1847. He began
practicing at Mount Vernon Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, and there
married Ann M. Steece, on July 6, 1848.
When his father died, Dr. Cotton returned to
Marietta and has been engaged in active practice ever since, except
three years during the war, when he was a surgeon of the 92nd Reg.,
Ohio Vol. Inf. He was brigade surgeon of General Turchin's
brigade at the battle of Chickamauga and medical director of the
Provisional Division of the Army of the Cumberland and Tennessee at
the battle of Nashville. He was a member of the Council of the
city of Marietta for 10 years, from which he resigned to enter the
army.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio - Published
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ISAAC B. COULTER
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WILLIAM H.
CUNNINGHAM
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JOSEPH COX,
a courteous and estimable citizen of Lowell, Washington County,
Ohio, is well-known throughout Adams township, and accounted
among its first-class citizens. He was born in 1820, and
is a native of Marshall County, West Virginia. His parents
were George N. and Martha Cox.
George N. Cox was a native of Pennsylvania, and
was born May 15, 1787. During the year 1816 he removed
from his native State to Virginia, where he resided until 1838,
the date of his removal to Ohio and his settlement in Washington
County. For some years he lived in Aurelius township, but
afterward made his home in Salem township for a short time.
Still later, he went to Adams township, where he remained until
1879, the year of his death. He and his beloved wife
reared eleven children, as follows: Jane A.; James F.;
Sam N.; William F.; Ben M., and Joseph, twins;
George W.; John F.; Charles; Margaret, and Edwin R.
Jane, George and Charles are deceased.
Joseph Cox learned the trade of a tinner, and at
the age of 24 years, went to Adams township, Washington County,
and followed his trade for ten years. At the end of that
time he made his home in Lowell, and while still a resident of
that city embarked in mercantile pursuits. In which he
continued for twenty-three years. In 1887, however, he
sold his business to Sprague & Wolfram, and has since
lived in retirement.
The subject of this sketch was united in marriage with
Harriet Porter, of Salem township, in 1849. She was
born in 1826, daughter of Thomas and Rhoda (Sutton) Porter,
and the only survivor of the four children born of that union.
Her father was later married to Polly Stille.
Thomas Porter died in 1891, aged 90 years. The
Porter's family trace their ancestry directly back to one
John Porter, who was born in England in 1896. It was
not known at what date he arrived in the Massachusetts Colony,
but he was there as early as 1635. He first settled in
Hingham, but subsequently removed to Salem. At the time of
his death, in 1676, he was the most extensive land owner in that
colony.
The John Porter and his
wife, Mary, had a family, among whom was Joseph,
who married Ann Hawthorne, and they reared a son called
Joseph. He and his wife, Mary, reared a son
whom they also called Joseph, and thus the given name of
the father was perpetuated through several generations.
This last-mentioned Joseph and his wife, Mary,
reared a son, Amos, grandfather of Mrs. Cox, and
the first of the family concerning whom any authentic facts are
obtainable.
Amos Porter was born in Danvers, Massachusetts,
in 1742, and in 1764, married Annie Bradstreet, a direct
descendants from Governor Simon Bradstreet. In 1788
Amos went west, landing at Marietta, Ohio, in April, of that
year, and some time later his marriage with Sabra Tolman
was chronicled. His children were as follows:
Amos, William, Samuel, Thomas (the father of Mrs. Cox),
Rufus, Hiram, Lydia, Jerusha, and Almer.
A few facts concerning Governor
Bradstreet will not be inappropriate in this place.
Simon Bradstreet was born at Hurbling, England, in 1603.
When grown to manhood he attended Cambridge College, England,
and in 1630, in company with the Winthrops, Dudleys, and
other distinguished personages he crossed the stormy sea in the
"Arabella," and assisted in founding a colony in Massachusetts.
Before leaving England he was vested with the office of
assistant judge in the colony of Salem, to which he was annually
re-elected for a period of fifty years. He was afterward
deputy governor of the same colony, and in 1679 was appointed
governor, and served as such until the charter was revoked.
History says he was restored to office in 1680, and remained in
power until the new charter arrived in 1692, when he was made
first councilor.
Mr. and Mrs. Cox have one child, Flora M.,
who became the wife of A. W. Tompkins. The father
and mother are living a quiet, retired life at their beautiful
home on the Muskingum Rover, just on the outskirts of the city
of Lowell. In their day they have been prominent and
serviceable citizens, and their lives are now closing with the
rest they well deserve.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio -
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J. CLINTON CROOKS
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HON. AUSTIN L. CURTIS,
ex-member of the Ohio Legislature, has held all the township
offices in Belpre township, and represented his district in
1865, 1866 and 1867 in the State Legislature; he is now a
prominent farmer in Belpre township. His fine residence in
the Newbury settlement is not only one of the most attractive in
that section of Washington County but is the ancestral homestead
of the Curtis family.
Mr. Curtis was born Dec. 19, 1828. He is a
son of Judge Walter and Almira (Guthrie) Curtis, and
grandson of Eleazer Curtis. The Curtis family
are of English descent, and the grandfather of Austin L.
accompanied his parents from Connecticut in 1792. In
1828 he settled upon the property now owned by the subject of
this sketch, and soon afterward built the substantial brick
house upon his farm, the brick in which was manufactured from
clay found upon the property. He owned at one time 400
acres of land, and carried on general farming and stock raising.
He was one of the substantial men and progressive farmers of his
day.
Judge Walter Curtis was a native of Warren,
Litchfield County, Connecticut, where he was born Sept. 20,
1787. He was a Whig, and held all the township offices,
always taking a over prominent part of politics. He was a
member of the state legislature in 1837, and was associate judge
for a number of years. He and his wife were Universalists.
They reared four children, as follows: Augustus
Stephen; Caroline C.; Marion, and Austin L.
Austin L. Curtis was reared to agriculture
pursuits. He obtained, in Washington County, Ohio, such
meagre education as the district schools afforded, which was he
only mental training the youth of those early days received.
After reaching maturity he remained on the farm, and has made a
specialty of general farming.
The subject ot his sketch has been twice married.
In 1854 he was joined in matrimony with M. Bethia Putnam,
a daughter of William Pitt Putnam, of Belpre. This
union resulted in the following children: Henrietta D.,
wife of A. J. Hitt, of Chicago, Illinois; Laura G.;
Herbert S.; Elizabeth P.; and three others who are deceased.
A. J. Hitt was formerly general manager of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railway, and is still a prominent official
in connection with that road. Laura G. married
George Preston, of Marietta. Herbert S. is a
successful dentist of Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Elizabeth P. is unmarried.
In 1879 Mr. Curtis was called upon to sustain
the loss of his beloved companion, and some years later
contracted a second matrimonial alliance. This time
Mrs. Mary A. (Pennypacker) Tompkins was a lady of his
choice. The present Mrs. Curtis is a native of West
Virginia, and one child blessed her union with Mr. Curtis.
His name is Harry P., and he is still at home. By a
former marriage, with Dr. J. C. Tompkins, Mrs. Curtis had
one child, Anna L. Tompkins.
In religious belief, Mr. Curtis
and his family are Universalists. In his political
opinions, he is a stanch Republican, and has ever been faithful
to the interests of his party. During the Civil War he
enlisted with the 100-day men, as a member of Company H, 148th
Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf. At the expiration of his term, Sept.
4, 1864, he received an honorable discharge. In the
campaign along the James River Mr. Curtis contracted
malarial fever, and was many months in recovering. He is
recognized as one of the representative citizens of Belpre
township, and is exceedingly popular and influential throughout
Washington County.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio -
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DR. H. N. CURTIS and his wife (the
first lady physician in Marietta) occupy the old home and office of
Dr. Walter in Marietta.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio - Published
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CAPT.
JASON R. CURTIS, was born in 1785 at Warren, Litchfield
County, Connecticut, removed to arietta in 1792 and married
Mary Clark, daughter of Maj. John Clark.
Capt. Curtis served during the War in 1812, as aid-de-camp
of Governor R. J. Meigs, with the rank of captain.
Jason R. Curtis, father of Hon. William F. Curtis,
died in Marietta Sept. 12, 1834.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio -
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CAPT. NATHAN CUSHING, a native of
Boston, Massachusetts, a soldier of the Revolution, and a true and
valuable officer, came with his family early to the settlement, and
settled in Belpre. Farmers' Castle stood partly on his land;
he was head of the police and had principal charge of the military
in that garrison. He was one of the most candid, industrious
and valuable citizens. He had a large family, which he took
the utmost pains to educate during the war, and who now occupy
reputable and respectable stations in the country.
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio - Published
by Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois - 1902 - Page
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EPHRAIM CUTLER. Eldest
son of Rev. Dr. Manasseh Cutler, was born in Martha's
Vineyard, Massachusetts, Apr. 13, 1767. At the age of
three years he was placed with his grandfather, Hezekiah
Cutler, in Killingsly, Connecticut, and remained with his
grandparents until their death, when, having lands in the Ohio
Company's Purchase, he determined to remove to the Northwest
Territory. He began this journey with his wife and four
children on the 15th of June, 1795, and reached Marietta
September 18th, having been three months on the way, and buried
two of his children in the wilderness between Simrell's Ferry
and Marietta.
The first location was at Waterford, where he engaged
for a short time in mercantile business, but in 1799 he moved
with his family to lands he owned in Ames township, now Athens
County. In 1806 he located in Warren, and built the stone
house which continued to be his residence until his death in
1853.
His life was one of great activity and usefulness.
He contributed his full share to the work of having the
foundations of civil society and material prosperity in the
section of country which he had chosen for a home.
He received, in 1796, the appointments from Governor
St. Clair of captain of militia, justice of the peace, and
quarter sessions, and judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
In 1801 he was elected a member of the Territorial Legislature,
and subsequently, in 1802, a member of the convention that
formed the first Constitution of Ohio. In the convention
he took a prominent part in securing the adoption of the clauses
that excluded slavery from the State, and made the encouragement
of schools and education obligatory upon future legislatures.
In these matters of most vital importance to a new
commonwealth he followed up, in practical application upon the
soil of Ohio, the same principles or organic law that had been
placed in the ordinance of 1787 by the efforts of his father,
Dr. Manasseh Cutler, when he negotiated with Congress for
the purchase of lands for the Ohio Company.
He also exerted himself successfully in introducing
into the Constitution a judiciary system, which, in opposition
to a proposed Virginia plan, brought the courts of justice
within convenient reach of all the people, instead to the
political center of the States.
He was appointed by the Territorial Legislature one of
the commissioners to take charge of the school and ministerial
lands in this part of the State, and to provide for their lease
and improvement.
In 1819 he was elected to the Legislature where he
devoted himself unceasingly to the accomplishment of two of the
most important objects that ever engaged the attention of that
body. One was an ad valorem system of taxation -
the mother a system of common schools. Although the
Constitution had imposed a positive obligation upon the law
making power to encourage schools, nothing had been done or
attempted until he introduced the first bill in 1819, providing
for a school system. He was a member of either the lower
House or the Senate until 1825, and had the satisfaction of
seeing both of his favorite measures so far matured that it
could be said that Ohio had systems of taxation and schools.
These systems have both progressed in their application to
growing wants, and had been perfected by subsequent legislation;
but at no period of their progress was more ability, industry
and energy required than was given to them in their incipient
state by Ephraim Cutler.
In presenting the unjust burden
imposed upon this section of Ohio by the prevailing system of
taxation, under which lands in Hamilton County worth $50 per
acre paid no more tax them our land worth 50 cents per acre.
Dr. Andrews in his "History of Washington County" thus
alludes to Mr. Cutler's success:
In the winter of 1819-20 Judge Ephraim Cutler, a
representative from this county, introduced into the Legislature
a joint resolution that property should be taxes according to
its true value, which passed the house of representatives.
In the fall of 1823 he was elected to the Senate and again
renewed his efforts to secure a reform in the revenue system.
He was appointed the chairman of the committee on the revenue.
The project of a canal between Lake Erie and the Ohio River had
come up, and Judge Cutler had succeeded in convincing the
friend of that measure that it must inevitably fail unless based
upon a broad, judicious and equitable system of taxation.
To him more than any other are we indebted for the law then
enacted. The language of his contemporaries clearly shows
that he was regarded as the author.
Hon. Samuel F. Vinton writes from Washington
Dec. 21, 1824: "We ought to offer up our most unceasing prayers
that your plan for the equalization of taxes may at the same
time he adopted. Without it, inevitable ruin would await
the sparse peopled and sterile parts of the State. In fact
those parts of the State will be virtually ruined under the
present system of taxation in defraying the ordinary expenses of
the government.
"Ingenuity, in my opinion, could not devise a system
more unequal, unjust and offensive. I am decidedly in
favor of improving the inland navigation of the State by canals,
if possible, but I hope you will perseveringly press upon the
Legislature your plan of taxation in conjunction with it."
Hon. Eleutheros Cooke, in a
letter dated Sandusky, Oct. 13, 182, thus speaks of Mr.
Cutler's services: "As the author and founder of our new
and excellent system of revenue and taxation, I shall ever
consider you as richly entitled to the gratitude of the State.
In this part of the country you are known as the author."
Caleb Atwater, in a letter to Judge Cutler,
dated Circleville, Jan. 22, 1825, says: "You are doing
nobly. Press forward with your equal taxation, the school
system, the canals, and immortalize this Legislature. What
must be your sensations on the prospect you now have of carrying
into effect the greatest objects ever presented to our
Legislature. Press forward I say in your career of doing
good. Posterity will call you blessed."
Henry Dana Ward writes: Shrewsbury,
Massachusetts, Aug. 14, 1825. "I have heard from you and
of you through my brother (Nahum Ward, Esq., of
Marietta), and have felt with you and for your in wishing your
revenue and school bills into legislature being, and now rejoice
with you in the commencement of the grand Oio and Lake Erie
Canal, and pray that the school bill may go into as effectual
operation as the revenue law. These are great works, long
and ardently desired, and perseveringly labored for. You
have borne a distinguished part in giving them life, and I hope
they may long continue a source of satisfaction to you."
Nahum Ward, Esq., writes, Marietta, Ohio, Jan.
12, 1825: "We are greatly indebted to you for your
services in the Senate and all acknowledge it."
He was positive and earnest in his political vies, and
never swerved from his convictions upon questions of National
policy. In his youth he adopted the principles that
governed Washington, Adams, and their compeers, and thus
incurred in stigma of Federalist. This, of course, was
enough to shut his way to political promotion or success, but it
is true that no man in Ohio, in 1825, stood higher as a
statesman of integrity, ability, and comprehensive views of
State policy than himself.
He was ever the active promoter of every useful public
enterprise and accepted an appointment from the citizens of
Marietta in 1837, and again in 1839, to visit Baltimore for the
purpose of securing the examination of a railroad route to the
Ohio River, with a view to making Marietta its crossing point.
In 1839, he represented the Whigs of this district at
the national convention that nominated General
Harrison for president.
In 1836 he was a member of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church which met in Pittsburg, and also in 1837 at
their meeting in Philadelphia, at which time the separation of
the church into "Old School" and "New School" took place.
He was early appointed a member of the Board of
Trustees of the Ohio University at Athens, and gave the
interests of that institution his constant and devoted attention
for many years.
In all the private relations of life he was faithful
and true to his personal obligations: as husband, father,
neighbor, and friend. In 1828, he united with the
Presbyterian Church in Warren, then in its infancy, and
continued as a member, ruling elder and Sabbath-school teacher,
to be during his life one of its main supports and ornaments.
On the 8th of July 1853, he was gathered to his fathers - a
shock of corn fully ripe.
He was one of the busy workers, who at the right time,
and in their appointed sphere, "dug deep and laid broad the
foundations of many generations." Such labors may not be
heeded, may even be desecrated and destroyed - but history must
make their record "well done."
Source: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio -
Published by Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois
- 1902 - Page 885 |
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