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BIOGRAPHIES
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County of Williams, Ohio.
Historical & Biographical
with An outline Sketch of the Northwest Territory, of the State, and
Miscellaneous Matters.
ILLUSTRATED
Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical
Editor
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO., PUBLISHERS -
1882
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THOMAS G. ELLIOTT was born in York County, Penn.,
Sept. 1, 1816, and is the eldest of six children born to William and
Ann (Underwood) Elliott William Elliott was a militia
Captain during the war of 1812, but was not in active service. He
was afterward Colonel of militia both in Pennsylvania and in Ohio.
He brought his family to Stark County, Ohio, in 1817, and located on 163
acres of wild land, which, by hard toil, he converted into a productive
farm. Here he died, on his eightieth birthday, Feb. 15, 1860.
Thomas G. Elliott rereived a very good education in the
district schools and seminaries of Stark County, and at the age of
nineteen began clerking in a dry goods store, at which he continued for
three years. He then passed a year at Norwalk Seminary, after
which he was engaged as book-keeper in a forwarding and commission
house, at Huron, Ohio, and on the lake steamers "Sheldon Thompson,"
"Columbus' and "Great Western," and was thus employed when the
last-named vessel was burned in 1840. He then returned to Stark
County and entered the dry goods trade, and served there as book-keeper
about six years; then went to Massillon for three years; then returned
to Stark and adjusted the accounts of his old employers, who had become
insolvent. This task he performed to the satisfaction of all
concerned. In 1851, he went to Cleveland as book-keeper for
Gardner, McMillan & Co., wholesale grocers, whom he served nine
years. In 1860, he joined Dr. Morrison in the dry goods
business at West Unity; sold out in 1864 to R. P. Hollington, and
then, in 1866, joined that gentleman in the trade, under the firm name
of Hollington & Elliott. In 1881, they sold out to Ely &
Smith. Mr. Elliott was married, in 1842, to Narcissa
Pearce, a native of Norwalk, Ohio, and daughter of Dr. Pearce,
of Angola, Ind. For the past eleven years, Mr. Elliott has
been both Town and Township Treasurer, and also Treasurer of the
American Bible Society. He has had three children born in him -
Madison H. (deceased) George P. and William G.
Source: County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical -
Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles
Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers
- 1882 - Page 663 |
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O.
E. ENSIGN (Centre Township) comes from good old Puritan stock.
His father, Owen Ensign, was born in Massachusetts in 1784, and
Nancy Ensign, his mother, was a native of Connecticut, born in
1794. They were married in Lake County, Ohio, in 1814, which was
their home until 1836, when they moved to Farmer Township, Defiance
County, where they purchased property and remained until the death of
Mr. Ensign, which took place in 1857. Mrs. Ensign soon
afterward went to Wisconsin, where her death occurred in 1869.
Their family consisted of six children, but four now living, one son and
one daughter deceased. The son, W. O., filled at one time
the office of Judge of Defiance County. Of those remaining, H.
A. Ensign, M. D., resides in Kansas; D. T. Ensign
follows farming in Defiance County; F. E., is attorney at law in
Boise City, Idaho, and O. E. is engaged in farming and
stock-raising in Centre Township, Williams Co., Ohio, where he ahs a
fine farm of 160 acres under cultivation. O. E. Ensign was
born at Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, November 29, 1831, coming with
his parents to Defiance County, and remaining with them until twenty
years of age, attending school during the winter and assisting on the
farm in the summer months; he also was a student at Painesville Academy,
and availed himself of collegiate instruction. He was afterward
engaged in teaching during the winter months until the marriage, which
occurred April 8, 1857. Mrs. Ensign was Miss Clarissa L.
Dunkle, a native of New York State, where she was born June 18,
1839. She is a mother of four children, but two of whom are now
living. Mr. and Mrs. Ensign are members of the United
Brethren Church.
Source: County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical
- Illustrated - Publ.
Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical
Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 770 |
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