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ANDERSON
ADAIR is of Irish descent. His father, Patrick
Adair, was a native of County Down, Ireland, but becoming
involved in the home rule insurrection headed by the lamented
Emmett, he found it necessary to leave his native
land about the beginning of the present century. On coming to
America he settled in Western Pennsylvania, where he soon after
married Mary Stuart, by whom he had five children,
only one of whom, Mrs. Mary Wilson, of Burlington,
Iowa, is living. His first wife died about 1815. Several
years later he married Ann Anderson,
and to them were born five children, all still living: Jane
E., Eliza (Mrs. J. T. Wisner),
James M., Thomas A. and Anderson.
In 1825 Mr. Adair removed to Wayne County, and
settled on the farm where his son still resides. His second
wife died shortly after this removal, aged thirty-nine years.
Several years later he married Ann McCracken, who
died in 1843, leaving no children. In early life Mr.
Adair enjoyed no educational advantages; but, being a
diligent reader, he acquired a great fund of useful knowledge.
In business he was not successful, having been possessed of those
qualities of mind and heart which make men interesting and honored,
rather than those which conduce to prosperity in worldly affairs.
Coming to this country about the time of the alien and sedition
agitation, he naturally accepted the political principles advocated
by Thomas Jefferson, and continued during the
remainder of a long life a steadfast adherent of Democratic party.
He served in the War of 1812 in the capacity of surgeon's mate.
He was a life-long Presbyterian. He died in 1866, at the
advanced age of eighty-nine. The subject of this sketch was
born in Westmoreland County, Penn., shortly before the family
removed to Ohio. As a boy he attended the district school.
As a young man he performed the ordinary duties of a farmer's life
till the age of twenty-five, when for one year he attended the
academy at Wooster, and for several years following he was engaged
in the work of teaching. At the age of twenty-seven he married
Henrietta McClure. To them were born five
children, only two of whom are living: Edward E.,
a teacher, and John S., an attorney. Mrs.
Adair died in 1861. Shortly after the death of his
first wife he married Miss Emeline Yocum, a young
lady of culture and refinement, a daughter of Rev. Elmer
Yocum, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
She was educated at Baldwin University, and afterward taught at West
Salem, Newburgh and Wooster. The result of this marriage was
two children: Robert and Jennie L. Anderson
Adair has held various offices of honor and trust. He
was for some years county commissioner of Wayne County. He has
always been active and prominent in all movements that have for
their end the advancement of popular education. He was one of
the organizers of the Board of Education of Wooster Township under
the present school law, and has been for the greater part of
thirty-five years a member of it. He is now one of the oldest
settlers, having lived for more than sixty-four years on the farm
where his father settled. He is a pleasant gentleman, and a
good neighbor, having a warm place in the esteem and friendship of
all his acquaintances. He is not a finished scholar, but a man
of considerable mental power, and possessed of a good fund of
general information.
Source:
Commemorative Biographical Record of Wayne
County, Ohio – Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. – 1889 -
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JOHN Q. ADAMS,
one of the oldest settlers and well-known citizens of Chippewa
Township, Wayne County, was born in Ann Arundel County, Md., Apr. 9,
1800, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Zepp) Adams,
the former of English parentage and the latter of German. They
were pioneers of Jefferson County, Ohio, where William
resided until his death; his widow died at the age of ninety-one
years, at the residence of their son, John Q., in
Chippawa Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. Our subject was reared in
Jefferson County, Ohio, and at the age of eighteen was apprenticed
to the blacksmith's trade, at which he served two and a half years,
in Steubenville, Ohio.
In 1823
Mr. Adams traded a tract of land in Pennsylvania for 160
acres in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, on which he settled the
same year, and three days after his arrival he had erected and
started a blacksmith's shop, where he worked at his trade steadily
for four years. He then gave his attention to making axes and
other edge tools, and to the clearing and improving the farm.
In 1835 he discovered coal on his farm, the right of mining which he
leased to others, and from which he has received a liberal income.
Mr. Adams married, in 1820, Mary Lewellyn,
of Washington County, Penn., by whom he had nine children who grew
to maturity, viz: William, Thomas, George, Sarah J., Mary
A., Rachel, Adeline, John and Elizabeth.
Although Mr. Adams is in his ninetieth year he is
remarkably strong and active, and bids fair to live to celebrate his
one hundredth birthday. For over forty years he was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, though he is not now connected
with any denomination. He has held various local offices in
his township, and is a stanch Democrat.
Source:
Commemorative Biographical Record of Wayne
County, Ohio – Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. – 1889 -
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CALVIN
ARMSTRONG, farmer, Wayne Township, is prominent among the
most intelligent and well-to-do farmers of Wayne County. He
was born in Canaan Township, June 3, 1826, the youngest of ten
children of Thomas and Jane (Cook) Armstrong.
His early life was spent on his father's farm in Wayne Township,
receiving his education in the common schools. He chose the
occupation of his father, and has been successful in his calling,
having from his youth had habits of industry and thrift. In
all his undertakings he has been assisted by his faithful wife, and
their home is now one of the pleasantest in the township, where
hospitality abounds and good cheer and freedom reign.
Mr. Armstrong has always taken an interest in politics, and
was present at Buffalo when the Free Soil and Abolition party was
organized. He has held many public positions of trust, and
which he has filled with the faithfulness characteristic of the man.
Public spirited and generous, he has always been foremost in every
good work, and was one of the organizers of the Children's Home of
Wayne County, and served as trustee of the home six years.
Mr. Armstrong was marred Sept. 5, 1847, to
Mary McKee, of Congress Township, and they have four
children: Thomas A., David C., Jennie A. and
Ida M. Of late years Mr. Armstrong
has cast his suffrage independent of party ties. He and his
wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.
Source:
Commemorative Biographical Record of Wayne
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THOMAS ARMSTRONG,
one of the earliest pioneers of Wayne County, was born in
Northumberland County, Penn., Aug. 22, 1776, of Irish parentage.
In his boyhood he accompanied his parents to Columbiana County,
Ohio, where, in 1801, he married Jane Cook, a young lady
descended from Scotch ancestry. She possessed a finely
cultured mind, refined and manners an a genial disposition.
Her daily religious life made a deep impression on the members of
her family. The good seed thus sown by a mother's love is even
yet bearing its fruits in the third and fourth generations of her
offspring. Mr. Armstrong and his wife were living in
Columbiana County, Ohio, at the breaking out of the War of 1812.
After Hull's surrender he volunteered, and was commissioned
captain, serving under Gen. Buell. At the close of the
war he returned to his home, and in the spring of 1815 with his
family moved to Wayne County, settling on Clear Creek, four miles
north of Wooster, in Wayne Township.
In the spring of 1817 he removed to a farm seven and a
half miles north of Wooster, on the Lodi road, in that part of Wayne
Township which was in 1819 organized as a separate township and
named Canaan. This farm is now the property of Thomas
Armstrong, one of his grandsons. Mr. Armstrong was
of iron nerve and indomitable courage, over six feet in height,
large boned and of great physical strength. He had a genial
disposition, was generous and kind-hearted, and was loved by all for
his many virtues. The neighbor in need who called upon him was
never sent away empty-handed. He was considerate of young men
who were struggling with the privations of the times for a foothold
in life. Many, now old men, remember with gratitude the
assistance rendered just when assistance was most needed. He
was a positive man. None could be mistaken as to which side he
took on any question as to which side he took on any question that
agitated the public mind or affected the interests of the community
in which he lived. He was a Whig in politics, and always
active in political circles. He took a very active part in the
campaign of 1840. In his family he was a kind husband and an
indulgent parent. He trained his children to industry and
economy, and cultivated in them habits of sobriety, honesty,
integrity and virtue. He was among the foremost in securing
educational privileges for his family and the neighborhood.
His place at church was never vacant without substantial reason.
Nor was his purse closed when pecuniary aid was required. The
influence of this man and of others, his neighbors, men like
himself, is still felt in the neighborhood in which they lived.
It has been remarked by observers that the thrift, the industry, and
morality and intelligence of the Armstrong neighborhood is not
surpassed in any other locality in the county. Truly the
memory of such men is blessed.
Mr. Armstrong was the first justice of the peace
in Wayne Township, and married the first couple in the township.
When he moved to Canaan Township there were but three families
within a radius of three or four miles. James Rose, a
Scotchman and a nobleman, lived on the west, James Glass on
the south and William Ewing about two miles north. The
first school house in the township was built on the farm of James
Rose, by the early settlers. It was of the primitive
style, about sixteen feet square, with puncheon floor, clapboard
door and roof, greased paper for windows, and a large fire-place
occupying nearly the whole side of the room. the chimney was
made of clay and sticks, and was on the outside of the building.
The seats were benches of split logs, and the writing desks were of
split slabs. The first teacher was James Buchanan, a
Scotchman, who afterward lived and died near Dalton. The
pioneer wife and mother had many hardships to endure, and toils and
perils to undergo. There small cabins had no floors but
puncheons, and seldom a door except a quilt, which was poor
protection against the prowling savages and the wild animals.
Bears and wolves made night hideous with their howling but the brave
mother quieted her children, smothering her own fears to reassure
her family. The mother was the provident overseer of the
little home; kind and hospitable, no one ever left her home hungry
if she had the food to give them. Strangers and neighbors were
alike welcome. Wolves and bears were the source of great
annoyance to the early settlers on account of their thievish
propensities, often coming to the pen and killing a hog. But
they sometimes paid for the theft with their lives, the settlers
tracking them with the stolen property and making their life the
ransom.
Mr. Armstrong died Mar. 2, 1842, aged sixty-six
years, and his wife Apr. 14, 1856. Both were buried in the
Wayne church-yard. This church Mr. Armstrong helped to
build in 1840, and he was the first person buried in the church yard
adjoining. He and his wife had a family of six sons and four
daughters, the sons ranging from six feet to six feet four inches in
height and the daughters being large, robust women. Following
is their record;
William, the eldest son, was born in Columbiana
County, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1802. His early life was spent amid the
privations of a forest home. He was thus deprived of the early
advantages of schools, but made up the deficiency in a later period
of youth. He was fairly well educated, and a steady friend of
the people's schools. When the primitive school-houses were
passing away, the best school-house in the township was built on his
farm, he generously giving the lot for the purpose. when funds
failed to complete it, as he was desirous it should be finished, he
generously stepped forward and furnished what was required from his
own resources. The Presbyterian congregation of Wayne are
indebted largely to his efforts for their first church building.
He was untiring in his efforts to secure funds for the work, and
gave without compensation much of his valuable time in
superintending the construction until it was finished, and thus was
laid the foundation for a large and influential society, who have
lately erected on the site of the old building a new church, fully
up to the requirements of the times. He married Mary Rose,
by whom he had six children. She died in 1851 and he then
married Catherine McPherson, by whom he had two children.
He was a farmer, and accumulated a large landed estate. His
children nearly all reside in the neighborhood of the old homestead,
on farms acquired by the father's aid. These farms are
provided with valuable farm buildings. He was a member of the
Presbyterian Church all his long life, taking a great interest in
all religious and educational matters. He died Jan. 30, 1887,
respected and honored by all who were acquainted with him.
John was born Jan. 19 1804. In 1828, times
being hard, William and John went to McKeesport,
Penn., to work on a canal. William had his foot hurt,
and was obliged to return home, after his return John was
taken sick with a fever, and died and was buried before his father
could get to him, it taking ten days for a letter to reach his home.
Thomas was born Feb. 21, 1806. He learned
the tanner's trade under David Robison, of Wooster, and afterward
went to Michigan, but returned to Wayne, and died near Burbank in
1856. He married Nancy Thomas, and they had a large
family, only two of whom are living. David and
William Vincent, his sons, each served a full term of three
years in the Union army during the Civil War.
Harrison was born Nov. 25, 1810. He
studied with Dr. Day, and located at Hayesville, where he
built up a good practice, and died in the prime of life. He
married Margaret Cox. Their children all reside in the
vicinity of Hayesville. their eldest son, Thomas, died
after he had been promoted to a lieutenancy, of camp fever, at
Vicksburg, during the siege of that place. Jared,
another son, served under Gen. Sherman on his march from
Atlanta - Savannah.
Eliza was born Aug. 14, 1813, married J. P.
Smurr, and they had three children: Elinor, Thomas A.,
and Jennie and lived in Cleveland; Thomas A. is an
eminent physician, living in Ottawa, Ill., and Jennie married
John Blocker, and is living in Wooster. Mr. and Mrs.
Smurr lived for a time in Wooster, then moved to Canaan
Township, and finally to Wayne Township, where they both died within
a few months of each other. They were both members of the
Wayne Presbyterian Church, and led a consistent Christian life.
Julia Ann and Hannah Maria, twin sisters,
were born Oct. 15, 1816. Julia Ann married Neal
McCoy, and died leaving two children, one of whom, James A.,
is living. Hannah Maria married John McCoy, who
died, and she afterward married Robert Taggart. They
moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where her husband died and she still lives.
She has four children.
David was born Dec. 13, 1818. His early
youth was devoted to study, mixed with short intervals of farm life.
In person he was tall and well formed, possessing an easy address
and a commanding presence. His intellectual powers were of the
highest order. His moral qualities forbade his stooping
to any pursuit or amusement that was gross or degrading. With
a high sense of honor, he yielded to others what was due them, and
secured for himself the respect and esteem of all who knew him.
At school he was respectful to his teachers and thorough in all his
attainments. He was a universal favorite among his
schoolmates, and none knew him but to love him. He studied
medicine with his brother at Hayesville, finished his course at
Cincinnati, and became an eminent physician. He acquired a
large and lucrative practice during the few years that he lived, and
ornament to the medical profession. He married Matilda
Scott, of Hayesville, who died a short time after their
marriage, he surviving her but a few years.
Jane was born June 18, 1820, and married
Francis McConnel. She left a family of five children,
three of whom are living. Calvin, the only
representative of the family now in Wayne County, was born June 3,
1826, and Sept. 5, 1847, married Mary McKee. They have
two sons and two daughters.
Thus we have briefly sketched the lives of the family
of Thomas Armstrong, who were worthy children of a most
worthy father and mother.
Source:
Commemorative Biographical Record of Wayne
County, Ohio – Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. – 1889 -
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WILLIAM V. ARMSTRONG,
a son of Thomas and Nancy (Thomas) Armstrong, was born in
Burbank, Canaan Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, July 22, 1844. His
father died in Burbank, where he was one of the prominent old
settlers. The family of Thomas and Nancy (Thomas) Armstrong
consisted of eight children, viz.: Julian, Grace J., David,
Delia, William V., Lorette, Caroline and Alice M., of
whom David and William V. are the only ones living;
Grace J. died in 1857; Delia, in 1866, and Lorette,
Caroline and Alice M., later.
During the War of the Rebellion Mr. Armstrong
enlisted in the Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, and served three years
under Gen. Grant. Since his return home he has engaged
in farming, and now owns a good farm in Plain Township. He was
married in 1867 to Miss Vanluah Brandt, and to them have been
born six children, as follows: Zoe Geraldine, Calvin,
Jennie B., Maud Lenore, Don Cameron and Leo Tru. Mr.
Armstrong and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; in politics he is a Republican.
Source:
Commemorative Biographical Record of Wayne
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W. JAY ASHENHURST,
publisher of the Shreve News, Shreve, Wayne Co., Ohio, was
born June 10, 1855, in Dalton, Wayne Co., Ohio, a son of Rev.
James Y. and Martha Ashenhurst, who removed to this county from
West Virginia in 1853. When he was eighteen months old his
parents removed to Hayesville, Ashland County, where he resided
until he was eighteen years of age, when he moved to Southeastern
Virginia, where he remained a number of years, returning to Wayne
County in 1883. He was married to Miss Rilla C. Armstrong,
of Cleveland, Oct. 4, 1883, and moved to Shreve in December, 1883,
since which time he has been engaged in the publication of the
Shreve News. Mr. and Mrs. Ashenhurst have one
child, Edna Hope Ashenhurst, born Aug. 20, 1887.
The name Ashenhurst, or Ashenhust, is
formed from Eschen, a kind of wood or timber, in English called ash
or ashen when used adjectively. Hurst or hoist,
according to Webster, means an ash or ashen grove, and was probably
given to a farm or homestead. Hurst is a word frequently used
in composition with other words in the formation of proper names, as
Hazelhurst, Parkhurst and Barkhurst. Many other names of
similar formation might be given. The families emigrating from
Ireland to America did not use "r" in the last syllable. Some
made it Ashen and others Ashin. Often members of the same
family spell their name differently. It would not, therefore,
be strange that the "r" should be dropped out of the name in
successive generations, especially when literature had not advanced
to the degree it has attained at the present time, and when so
little care was observed in keeping names pure and so distinct and
uniform in their orthography as to indicate closely their origin.
The origin of the name as given above is so reasonable
and probable, and agreeable to the analogy in the formation of other
names, that the "r" has been restored by many bearing the name.
In doing this they yielded to an unswerving universal public
judgment, which stubbornly persisted in spelling the name
Ashenhurst. Besides there is more music in the smooth,
euphonius hurst than in the blunt, for bidding hust. According
to tradition received from the fathers, which has never been called
in question, the name originated in Germany.
Several centuries ago some families bearing the name
emigrated from Germany to England, and settled near London, and it
is probable, from the testimony of those who claim to know, that the
name is still common in that part of England. But be that as
it may, it is certain that at a later period some families of the
Ashenhursts passed over from England to Ireland, and settled in
County Tyrone, near Newton Stewart. In Tyrone the name is
still common. Their ecclesiastical connection is with the
English Church, and some of them have borne Episcopal honors.
In the year 1793 there was another exodus. The families of the
Ashenhursts set sail from Ireland to America with the purpose
of making it their future home. William Ashenhurst and
his family settled in Allegheny County, Penn., ten or twelve miles
below Pittsburgh. He had an only son, John, who lived
on the old homestead after the death of his parents. He died
childless, consequently in this branch of the family the name became
extinct. Oliver Ashenhurst, a brother of William,
came at the same time, and settled in Washington County, Penn., near
Hardscrabble, now West Alexander. Subsequently he removed to
Brown County, Ohio. Oliver had but one son, whom he
named John. John married,,,, and after some years
removed to Indiana, and settled on the Wabash. He had several
sons, one of whom was drowned in Brush Creek, Adams Co., Ohio, in
1830. Others of his sons with their families are probably
settled in Indiana and Kentucky. The daughters of Oliver
Ashenhurst all married and reared large families. Betty
was married to Benjamin Marshall; Nellie was married to
James Johnson; Peggy to William Reed, who lived and
died near West Alexander, Penn.; Mattie was the life of
Thomas Robinson. William Ashenhurst and Nancy, his
wife, with four children, immigrated at the same time with the
families mentioned above, in 1793. The children were John,
Margaret, Mary, Nancy. Another son was born to them on
their voyage before landing at Norfolk. This was Oliver,
the youngest child. William and Oliver
Ashenhurst, referred to above, were cousins of William
Ashenhurst, the subject of this reference. They were also
brothers-in-law, as Nancy his wife, was sister to William
and Oliver. William married his cousin. The
daughters of William and Nancy died, leaving no children.
Oliver, the younger son, married Euphemia Bishop, when
thirty years of age, by whom he had four sons and as many daughters.
He lost one son, James D., in the war of the Union.
William and Frank both died in 1881, Frank leaving
a wife and child, who are now at Londonderry, Ohio. John,
the second son of Oliver Ashenhurst, resides in Missouri.
Oliver's daughters were married, and are living in the West
or Southwest. Oliver Ashenhurst was a soldier in the
War of 1812. He was a volunteer, going into the service at
twenty years of age. He lived, after his marriage, until his
family were grown up, on Eagle Creek, Brown Co., Ohio. Thence
he removed with his family of Mercer County, Ill., where he died.
John Ashenhurst, the elder son of William and
Nancy Ashenhurst, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, about the
year 1773 and immigrated with his parents to America, in 1793.
He had been reared in the Church of England, but having settled,
soon after his arrival in this country, in Brooke County, Va., he
became connected with the Associate Church at Cross Creek, under the
pastoral care of Rev. Thomas Allison. He married, in
1802, Miss Mary Young, and to them were born ten children,
first five daughters, and after this five sons, two of the latter
dying in infancy. John Ashenhurst enlisted in the War
of 1812, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war.
In 1817 he removed, with his family, to Brown County, Ohio.
There he lived for many years, and in 1855 went to Dalton, Wayne
County, Ohio, where he died in May, 1856, aged eighty-four years.
Nancy, the eldest daughter of John and Mary Ashenhurst,
married Valentine Bishop. Their children are in
Illinois and Missouri. Margaret married Garret
Snedaker. Their children are still in Brown and Adams
Counties, Ohio. Esther married William Lane.
They are in Illinois. Ella married Stephen Bayles
They had but one son; he lives in Kansas. Elizabeth
married Oliver Robinson. They had several sons and one
daughter.
William Ashenhurst, son of John and Mary
Ashenhurst, was born in Brooke County, Va., in 1816, and married
Mary Mahaffey in 1843. They had four children born to
them. He lived on the old homestead in Brown County, Ohio, but
was on the point of moving to Illinois, when, before his
preparations were completed, he was murdered by two of his wife's
brothers, who escaped punishment by the influence of secret
oath-bound fraternities. His wife afterward removed to
Illinois with her children, a daughter and three sons. She
died in a short time after her removal to the West. The
daughter and sons are still living in Western Illinois. Some
of them, at least, have families. James Young Ashenhurst,
son of John and Mary Ashenhurst, was born in Brown County,
Ohio, in the year 1818; was licensed to preach by the Reformed
Dissenting Presbytery in 1845. The presbytery uniting with the
Associate Synod, he became a minister of that church. The
Associate Synod uniting with the Associate Reformed Synod in 1858,
and by this union forming the United Presbyterian Church, he became
a member of that body. James Young Ashenhurst was
married to Miss Martha Johnson, of Belmont County, Ohio, June
6, 1844. He was settled at Short Creek, Va., and afterward in
Wayne County, Ohio. He removed to Hayesville, Ashland County,
in 1856. After a pastorate there of sixteen years he removed
to Mecklenburg, Va., in 1872; from thence to a farm in Belmont
County, Ohio, and subsequently to Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio.
Source:
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CHRISTOPHER
AUKERMAN was born in Congress Township, Wayne County, Ohio,
Aug. 18, 1820, and is a son of George and Reeca (Kishtler)
Aukerman, early settlers of Wayne County, Ohio. George
Aukerman was a native of Westmoreland County, Penn., born to
Philip and Christina Aukerman natives of Germany, who settled in
Westmoreland County, Penn., where they died. George and
Rebecca Aukerman were married in that county and State, and two
children were born to them. About 1818 they came to Wayne
County, Ohio, and entered a tract of 164 acres of land in Congress
Township, where where they passed the remainder of their days.
They were members of the Lutheran Church, and Mr. Aukerman
was a prominent Democrat. He began life humbly, and died
comparatively rich, having been successful in all his undertakings,
especially as a breeder of blooded horses. His family
consisted of thirteen children, as follows: John, born
Jan. 20, 1816; Christina, born Nov. 10, 1817; Mary,
born May 22, 1819; Christopher; Philip, Born Nov. 13, 1821;
George, born May 16, 1823; Henry, born Dec. 25, 1824;
William, born Apr. 9, 1826 (now in Iowa); David, born
Jan. 20, 1829; Jacob, born Jan. 26, 1831; Nathaniel,
born June 2, 1833; Adam, born Oct. 2, 1835; Ludwic,
born Feb. 17, 1839 (in Congress Township, Wayne County), all born in
Congress Township, Wayne County, Ohio, except John and Christina,
who were natives of Pennsylvania, and all are deceased except
Christopher, William and Ludwic.
The subject of this memoir was reared on the
homestead, and received a limited education at the schools of his
locality. At the age of seventeen years he commenced to learn
carpentering, a trade he followed for three years. June 9,
1840, Mr. Aukerman married Miss Rebecca, daughter of
John Clinker, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, who became
a settler of Congress Township, Wayne County; and after marriage the
young couple located on their present homestead. To them were
born nine children, five of whom are living, as follows:
Mary is the wife of Henry Dull, of Congress
Township, Wayne County, and has three children, Franklin Enos G.,
Sarah Christina and Christopher A..; Lewis E., in
Congress Township, married Catherine, daughter of Joseph
Bellinger, of Morrow County, Ohio, and has six children,
Lydia J., Amanda A., Ada M., Susan E., Minnie B. and Joseph
C.; Martin L., in Congress Township, married Emma E.,
daughter of Ephraim Whitmore, of Congress Township, Wayne
County, and has one child, Edith V.; Josiah C., also
of Congress Township, married Apama C., daughter of John
Barnard, of Canaan Township, Wayne County, and has two children,
Christopher M. and Grace May; and Rebecca J.,
living at home.
Those deceased are an infant son, born May 7, 1841;
George A., born Feb. 7, 1849, died at the age of six years,
seven months and fifteen days; John and Christian (twins),
the former of whom died on the 12th and the latter on the 14th of
February, 1849.
Mr. Aukerman is an ardent Democrat, has always
taken an active part in politics, and has filled various township
offices. He and his family are members of the United Brethren
Church, and are highly respected citizens of the county.
Source:
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Warren Aylesworth |
WARREN AYLESWORTH Source:
Commemorative Biographical Record of Wayne
County, Ohio – Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. – 1889 -
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