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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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Bridgewater
Twp. -
JONATHAN M. HAINES, the eldest of a family of
twelve children, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, June 15, 1838.
His parents, Michael and Rebecca (Lowe) Haines, were natives of
Maryland, and removed from Columbiana to Williams County when our
subject was about fifteen years old. At the age of twenty-one, he
started in life on his own account; when to Indiana; worked there till
the war broke out, and then enlisted in the One Hundredth Indiana
Volunteer Infantry. He served over three years, and was engaged in
the Shiloh, Vicksburg and Chattanooga campaigns, and was with Sherman
in his march to the sea. On his return home, he assisted on his
father's farm for awhile, and then bought eighty acres, to which he soon
added forty more, and this farm is now one of the best improved in the
township, with first-class outbuildings, wind pump, etc. His
residence is a large, tasteful and expensive brick, and was finished in
the summer of 1881. after his purchase of this land, he returned
to Indiana, where he remained about two years. He then came back,
and in a short time after married Mary Waterson, a native of
Richland County, who was educated in Bryan, where she taught school
several terms. To this marriage have been born four children -
Alexander C., Walter L., Harriet and Emerson E. Mr. Haines
is an influential and useful citizen, and in politics is a
Republican.
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 789 |
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Bridgewater Twp. -
MICHAEL HAINES was born in Maryland, Feb. 10,
1810, and was one of the seven children of Abraham and Elizabeth
(Flickinger) Haines, natives of said State. Michael
lived with his parents in Maryland and in Columbiana County, Ohio, until
twenty-six years of age, when he married Rebecca Lowe, a native
of Maryland. There are now nine living children born to this
marriage, five sons and four daughters - Jonathan M., Eli, Abraham,
Jr., Charles and Hiram T., Melissa J., Lucretia, Elmira and
Anna. About eighteen years after his marriage, Mr.
Haines (having in the meantime tried other localities) came to this
township and bought 160 acres of land which now, like those of the other
old settlers, is a model farm. For some time he has retired from
active work, and the farm is now superintended by his youngest son,
Hiram T. Four of the sons, Jonathan M., Eli, Abraham
and Charles, were soldiers in the late war, and Mr. Haines
himself is a patriotic and reliable citizen. Hiram T. Haines,
now in charge of the homestead, was born June 17, 1850, in Stark County,
Ohio, and when about four years old, was brought by his father to his
present home, where he has passed his life and acquired a fair
common-school education. He is a promising and enterprising young
man, and in politics is Independent, while his father, who had been a
Democrat, is now inclined to Greenbackism.
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 788 |
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BENTLEY
HANNON was born in Lancaster County, Penn., Feb. 7, 1810, and was
one of hte eight children born to Robert C. and Sarah Hannon,
natives of Pennsylvania, and born respectively July 22, 1773, and Nov.
25, 1774, and married Apr. 11, 1797. They moved to Columbiana
County, Ohio, in the fall of 1817, and there the father died June 2,
1856, and the mother Dec. 12, 1858. At the age of nineteen,
Bentley Hannon began learning to be a stone-mason; served two years,
and then went to Pittsburgh, Penn., where he worked as a journeyman; he
then returned to Ohio, and was married in Columbiana County, Dec. 18,
1832, to Nancy A. Neer, who was born in Trumbull County in the
fall of 1815. For three years after married, farmed in Columbiana
County, and in 1837 moved to this township, settled on the eighty acre
farm he had entered the previous year, and has lived thereon ever since.
He is the father of seven children, viz., Robert N. (deceased),
Isavelia, Sarah A. (deceased), Elizabeth, Phebe J., John H.
and Frances E.
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 773 |
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WILLIAM HARDING, JR., son of William and Matilda (Bayliss)
Harding, was born in Licking Co., Ohio, June 9, 1848. The
father was a native of Buckinghamshire, England, and was born April 5,
1809. In 1832, he came alone to America and engaged in
boat-building at Utica, N. Y. January 8, 1834, he married
Miss Bayliss, who was born in Oxfordshire, England, Dec. 4, 1811,
and also came to America in 1832. They came to Licking County,
Ohio, in 1837, where he worked at carpentering and farming, and in 1863
moved to Bryan, and where Mrs. H.died Dec. 17, 1876.
In Oct., 1877, he married Mrs. Maria (Freeman) Baker, a
native of Virginia, and they are now living in retirement at Bryan.
He had born to him by his first wife the following children:
Sarah A., deceased; Annie deceased; Matilda, now
Mrs. Dally; George W.; Joseph H.; Susanna, deceased;
Hattie, now Mrs. Perkins; William; and Levi, deceased.
Mr. Harding is a Republican, and he and wife are members of
the English Lutheran Church. William Harding, Jr., came
from Licking County to Bryan with his parents, and here enlisted, Feb.
13, 1865, as private in Company C, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and was at first engaged in active duty with the
Twenty-second Army Corps of the Shenandoah Valley, but latterly was
chiefly engaged in guard duty, and received his discharge Dec. 16, 1865,
at Alexandria, Va. On his return home, he resumed his trade as
harness maker at Waterloo, Ind., and in 1868 opened out in Bryan on his
own account. He was married, April 2, 1878, to
Miss Ida L. Haller, and to his
marriage has been born one son- Bert O. Mr. Harding
is a Republican, a member of the G. A. R. and one of Bryan's successful
business men.
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 562 |
Frank O. Hart |
Brady Twp. -
FRANK O. HART, M. D., was born in Pulaski
Township, this county, May 22, 1855, and is the eldest of the three
children of Julius C. and Martha M. (Fish) Hart. Julius
C. Hart was of New England ancestry, and a direct descendant of
John Hart was of New England ancestry, and a direct descendant of
John Hart, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
One of the Hart family received a large military land grant on
the Western Reserve, in payment for services rendered during the
Revolutionary struggle, and to this, with many of his relatives, he
emigrated at a very early day. Julius C. Hart came to this
township with his patents when but a small boy, and was here reared amid
all the hardships and privations of a frontier life. He taught
several terms of school in this and Fulton Counties, and in the fall of
1861 he enlisted as a private in Company E, Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and served till the close of the war, when he was appointed
United States Detective for Tennessee. He died at Nashville, May
1, 1870, and was buried with Masonic honors. Frank O. Hart
was educated at the Shelby High School, in Richland County, Ohio, and in
September, 1873, commenced the study of medicine with Dr. J. C. Clay,
at Shelby. He graduated at Cincinnati in 1877, and at once began
practice at West Unity, where ever since he has been meeting with every
success. He has a fine library, and is possessor of one of the
rarest collections of relics of the Mound-Builders to be found in the
United States. Dec. 19, 1878, he married Celesta A. Arter,
a native of Crawford County, Ohio, and daughter of C. M. and Harriet
(Beam) Arter. The Doctor is an Odd Fellow, and a member of the
Patriarchal Circle, and in 1880 was elected Coroner of the County by the
Republicans. He is the father of one child - Lena M., born
Jan. 1, 1882.
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 669 |
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FREDERICK
HERRMANN, is the son of George F. and Eve Herrmann, who
were natives of Alsace, Germany, and born respectively in 1796 and 1800,
and married in 1824. In the spring of 1839, they came to America,
located in Stark County, Ohio, remained there till 1850, when they came
to this township and settled on a farm, where they ended their days July
23, 1862 and June, 1867, respectively. They had a family of five
children, of whom Frederick was the eldest. He was born in
Alsace in August, 1825, and came with his parents to this township and
now lives on the farm which they here located upon, and which he
purchased from the other heirs at their death. He was married,
Mar. 17, 1853 , to Dorothea Wagner, also a native of Alsace, and
born June 14, 1834. Mr. Herrmann owns a fine farm of eighty
acres, and has a family of seven children, viz., Emeline, Caroline,
Frederick, Henry, Matilda, Eleanor and Laura. He and
wife are members of the Lutheran Church, and are upright and industrious
citizens.
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 773 |
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SIDNEY S. HILL
was born in Royalton, Niagara Co., N. Y., Feb. 7, 1826, and is one of
the nine children of Henry and Mary (Avery) Hill, the former a
native of Connecticut and the latter of Vermont, who were married in
Royalton, a few miles from the grand cataract. Sidney lived
with his father until twenty-one years of age, when he married Mary
L. Graves, a native of New York, and brought her to this township,
where he settled on a farm of fifty acres, which he has since increased
to 160, and on which he still resides. His first log cabin is
still standing, and is at present need for sheltering stock, but in its
day was considered to be an extra fine dwelling for the backwoods.
Mrs. Hill, who was a highly educated lady, and is said to have
been one of the most beautiful and intelligent of whom any pioneer could
boast with a wife died Jan. 26, 1873, leaving behind three of the seven
children she had borne her husband - Henry M., Charles S. and
Rachel M., the last a promising music teacher. Four years
after Sidney had settled here, his father and eldest brother also
came, but soon went to Noble County, Ind., where the father died in
1869, and where the brother still lives. The mother also survives,
and, at the age of ninety-two, retains the sue of her faculties to a
remarkable degree. In October, 1873, Sidney S. Hill married
his second wife, Mary O. Mack, a native of Ohio, who has borne
her husband two children - Mary A. and Grace. Mr.
Hill is a public-spirited and enterprising citizen, and since
Lincoln's time has been a Republican. He had held the office
of Township Treasurer for the usual period of seventeen years, and in
1880 was Real Estate Assessor of the township. He is a Royal Arch
Mason, and was initiated in 1861.
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 790 |
Thomas Hodson |
Madison Twp. -
THOMAS HODSON was born Apr. 28, 1814. His
father, George Hodson, was born Oct. 23, 1788, in Heington,
Lincolnshire, Eng., and his father, Martin Hodson, was born in
Bedfordshire and was Steward to the Duke of Bedfordshire. The
father of this subject left Heington when fourteen years old,
going to Navenby, Lincolnshire, England., where he was apprenticed to a
wheelwright; there he lived and labored at his trade until his
death October, 1823. He served as a Sergeant in the French war
from 1812 to 1815, marrying Sophia Sibcey, mother of Thomas
who was born in Lincolnshire in 1791, and who died in 1856. In
1827, Mrs. Hodson was married to William Dobbs, who had
been so favorably impressed with America that, with his family, he
removed hither in 1827, coming to Richland County, Ohio. By the
union of George Hodson and Sophia Sibcey, resulted seven
children, six of whom were brought to America, two only surviving.
Thomas attended school in England until twelve years of age, when
he was put to work on a farm. His step-father died in 1867.
He was married, Aug. 18, 1840, to Miss Elizabeth Stephenson,
daughter of Levi Stephenson, who came from Allegheny County,
Penn., in 1813 or 1814. By this union they had seven children, of
whom six are living - George, Mary Ann (Bostater), Joab, Sophia (Umbenhaur),
Minerva (Letcher), Martin T. and John H. (deceased).
Mr. Hodson came to Williams County, Ohio, in November, 1847,
purchasing from 600 to 700 acres of land, and moving thither in April,
1854. From 1854 to 1855, he lived at Bridgewater Centre (where his
two eldest sons yet reside); thence moved from the farm to Pioneer in
January, 1870, where he now lives. He has held the offices of Road
Supervisor and School Director; he has also since 1857, practiced law in
Justices' Courts. He is independent in politics, voting for the
best man and measures, taking active work and making speeches for the
establishment of his views. He is a Humaritarian and a
Rationalist; a leading citizen of Williams County, a man well versed in
general knowledge, and of an imperial and investigating mind.
During the war, though not actively engaged, he did much by his voice
and his money to sustain the Union. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow,
and was Master of the first Grange organized in Pioneer, and is still
working earnestly in these several orders. He also possesses one
of the finest libraries in the county, and is a solid, self-made man.
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 701 |
David Holmes |
Northwest Twp. -
REV. DAVID HOLMES was born in Richmond, Va., Mar.
17, 1824. He is one of seven children born to Alexander and
Jane Holmes. When nine years old, he was apprenticed to a
shoemaker, and while learning his trade lost all trace of his parents.
He remained with his master until his twenty-third year, when he worked
at various points in Columbiana and Carroll Counties, Ohio, for a number
of years. He came to Williams County in 1854, settling in Superior
Township. Here he engaged in teaching for three years; afterward
in preparation for the ministry of the United Brethren Church.
Since then, excepting about two years, when he kept a hardware store in
Edon, he has been a clergyman, holding charges more generally in
Ohio; but also in Michigan and Indiana. He has at present the
Maumee Circuit of the North Ohio Conference. In 1878, he came to
Northwest Township, where he has a farm of 160 acres, with good
buildings and other improvements. He was for four years Presiding
Elder, and has been very successful in the ministry. On Oct. 29,
1844, he married Margaret Cox, who died in August, 1852, leaving
a family of two children, one of whom is living - William, now a
resident of Kansas. He was married a second time July 23, 1853, to
Elizabeth M. Hart of Columbiana County, Ohio, with an issue of
six children - Catherine, Ellen, David A., Emma, Martha
(deceased) and Etta. Of these the three eldest are married.
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 814 |
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GEORGE W.
HOPKINS, son of George S. Hopkins, was born in New London
County, Conn., Apr. 1, 1844. His father was born in Rhode Island,
and was a direct descendant of Stephen Hopkins, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of English descent.
He married, for his first wife, Mrs. Esther (Rose) Cooley, who
died in 1838. Sept. 1, 1843, he married Dianthia Robinson,
who bore him one son - George W. George W. was reared in h
is native State, receiving a good common school and academical
education. At the age of about fifteen, he began doing for
himself, and in 1862 came to Bryan, Ohio, where he had friends living.
He has remained here ever since. He first embarked as clerk in
O. C. Ashton's dry goods store, with whom he continued six years.
He then became a partner of Samuel White, in the hat and cap
trade, in the building they now occupy, and they have ever since carried
on the business with success. He was appointed U. S. Express Agent
at Bryan the spring of 1882, and is serving in that capacity at present.
May 15, 1867, he was united in marriage with Miss Tillie E. White,
daughter of his present partner in business. To their union has
been born one daughter - Edith L. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins are
members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hopkisn is a
Democrat in politics and held the position of City Clerk of Bryan for
eight consecutive years, beginning in 1870. He has also been Clerk
of the Board of Education for a number of years, and was Democratic
candidate for County Auditor in 1881, but defeated by a Republican
majority in the county. Mr. Hopkins has taken an equal part
with the citizens of Bryan and Williams County in the support of all
laudable enterprises, and he is one of the successful business men of
Bryan.
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 562 |
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SETH B. HYATT
was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Feb. 1, 1818. His father,
Meshach Hyatt was a native of Maryland, where he was reared,
afterward moving to Pennsylvania, where he married Sarah Brownfield,
and this couple in 1815 moved to Wayne County, Ohio, and were among the
first settlers of that part of the State. They both died in Wayne
County, and they were the parents of four sons and four daughters, all
of whom are still living. S. B. Hyatt is the eldest son and
second child of this family. He was reared in Wayne County, Ohio,
first receiving a good education from the common schools, after
attending Apple Creek Academy, where he studied the higher branches,
paying particular attention to mathematics and surveying. He
expected to come West and make surveying his business, and accordingly
thoroughly posted himself in all the different branches of that study.
In the fall of 1843, he came to Williams County, Ohio, and that same
fall was appointed by the County Commissioners to the office of County
Surveyor, to fill the unexpired term of Miller Arrowsmith, who
was the Surveyor of the county before the boundary lines were changed.
The reason of the change was the making of Williams County what it now
comprises. After serving out his appointment he was elected to the
same office, and after serving out the regular term of three years was
re-elected. In 1843, he purchased his first land in the county,
consisting of town property in Bryan. He has made his residence in
the county since his first arrival, and in this time he has figured
considerably in important work here; has farmed, taught school, etc.
He was among the early teachers of the county, and has had an experience
of several terms. He is at present living retired in Bryan, and
confines his attention to brokerage. He owns 160 acres of land in
Brady Township, besides good town property in Bryan. The 160 acres
of land when he went upon it was only worth $400. Time and
improvements have wrought wonderful changes in the price of the property
as it is now worth $10,000. Mr. Hyatt is a Republican in
politics, and he and wife are members of long standing with the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He was married first to Ellen Bodel,
Nov. 27, 1845, and this lady died Feb. 28, 1854, leaving three children
- Alonzo R., Sarah I. and Cordelia G. Mr. Hyatt's
second marriage was solemnized May 23, 1856, his wife being Emily
Keeler.
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 563 |
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