BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
Commemorative
Historical & Biographical Record
of Wood County, Ohio,
Past & Present - Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers &
Co. 1897
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GEORGE H. FEASEL,
a highly respected farmer of Montgomery township, was born
Nov. 21, 1830, in Fairfield county, Ohio. His parents,
Henry and Jane (Kendall) Feasel, removed to Seneca
county when our subject was three years old, and located on
a farm in the woods, near the center of Liberty township.
Here the father owned 100 acres of land, and on this place
reared his family of nine children, five of whom were boys,
and all of whom reached adult age. He was a quiet,
peaceful man, who never quarreled with his neighbors, was
never sued, and was known for miles around as "old uncle
Henry Feasel." He lived to the age of eighty-four
years, and his wife to that of seventy-two years, both dying
in Liberty township.
Our subject was the youngest son and seventh child of
his parents. His first schooling was in a building
made of logs, whose windows consisted of one pane of glass,
eight by ten inches. The seats were made of basswood
logs, split in two, with sticks inserted for legs, while the
writing desk, which extended all around the building, was
made of boards laid on pins stuck in the wall. A
chimney was built on the outside of sticks and mortar, and
big logs in the fire place heated the room. Such was
the kind of school houses in which the early pioneers of the
West obtained what little schooling they had. Our
subject was brought up as a farmer boy, and, it being in the
days before threshing machines were invented, he was often
kept at home from school to ride one of the horses while the
wheat was being tramped out on the barn floor. When
nineteen years old he left school, and the day after
reaching his majority he started out to work for himself,
his first occupation being that of chopping cord wood at
twenty-two cents a day.
On Jan. 22, 1854, when our subject was twenty-three
years old, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of
Charles and Keziah Dicken, was born in Crawford
county, Ohio, Nov. 29, 1833. The children born of this
union were as follows: Angeline married Philip
Stump, and died in Montgomery township; Charles D.
died in childhood; Mary married Jacob
Dieter, and died in the same township; Sevilla B.
died in childhood; Keziah D. married Frank
Warner, and is deceased; Ann E. married James
Hutton, and is also deceased; Henry G. is a
farmer in the township; John W. lives in West
Millgrove; Livona R. died in childhood; George W.
resides with his father. The mother of these children
died May 29, 1888, and is buried in Freeport cemetery. Mr.
Feasel was married to his present wife Oct. 10, 1889.
She was the widow of A. Rainey, her maiden name being
Regina Baker, and she is a daughter of
Frederick Baker.
After our subject's first marriage he rented land in
Jackson township, subsequently working the home farm of his
father in Seneca county. Later he bought one-half of
his father-in-law’s farm, in Liberty township, of the same
county, on which he lived until September, 1865, when he
bought his present place in Sections 32 and 33, Montgomery
township, which then comprised 190 acres, and of which he
has since sold about seventy acres. He has about 110
acres of this land cleared and under good cultivation, and
has a comfortable residence. This is the second house
he has built on the place, the first one having been
destroyed by fire. Mr. Feasel has al
ways been a Republican, has been township trustee, and has
held other local offices. He is a member of the
Methodist Protestant Church, in which he has held office for
over twenty-five years. He is a self-made man, and has
been a hard worker all his life, but at present does not
take an active part in farm work. He is highly
respected for his upright, honest life, and is one of the
best citizens of the township.
Source: Commemorative Historical & Biographical
Record of Wood County, Ohio, Past & Present - Publ.
Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1897 - Page 953 |
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WILLIAM ARTHUR
FINKBEINER, a well known, prosperous merchant of
Perrysburg, is one of the most clear headed and enterprising
young business men in the country.
Born in Perrysburg, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1869, he is a son of
Christopher Finkbeiner, formerly Recorder of Wood
County, and is no a leading furniture dealer of Bowling
Green. Our subject has spent the greater part of his 27
years in this county, attending the public schools during
boyhood, and serving as an apprentice to the mercantile
business in his father's store. For four years he was
employed in the wholesale house of E. C. Saw and
Company of Toledo, and then, returning to his native place,
he bought his present store, where as sole proprietor, his
energy and good judgment have met with gratifying success.
On June 30, 1891, Mr. Finkbeiner was married to
Miss Winifred C. See, who was born Oct. 4, 1871, in
Cleveland, Ohio. They have one son - Donald Arthur.
In politics Mr. Finkbeiner is a Republican, and
socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the Royal
Arcanum.
Source: Commemorative Historical & Biographical
Record of Wood County, Ohio, Past & Present - Publ. Chicago:
J. H. Beers & Co. 1897 - Page 1010
Contributed By:
Bob Weaver
Research Note:
- On Jan. 1, 1867, Christopher Finkbeiner
was married to Miss Mattie A. Bellville, a native of
Perrysburg, born Nov. 8, 1847 - Given Name: Martha
Ann Bellville.
- Christopher Finkbeiner, ex-recorder of Wood
County, and one of the most prominent residents of Bowling
Green, was born June 9, 1845, in Wurtemberg, Germany, where
his ancestors on both sides had for many generations been
worthy and industrious citizens. His parents, Friedrich
and Mary A. (Audee) Finkbeiner came to America in 1847,
settling finally in Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio.
- Christopher Finkbeiner - father of William
Arthur Finkbeiner, has his own Biography
listed on Page 473 of Historical & Biographical Record of
Wood County |
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EMERSON WEBSTER FISHER,
M. D., a young man of progressive
spirit. and enterprise, is successfully engaged in the
practice of medicine in Portage. He was born in Snyder
county, Penn., at the town of Selin’s Grove, Nov. 14, 1870,
and is a son of Ben and Lydia (Snyder) Fisher, also
natives of the Keystone State. The family is of German
origin, and the grandfather, Christian Fisher,
who was born in Germany, was the first of the name to seek a
home in America. He located in Pennsylvania, and
traded a rifle to some Indians for a large tract of land
along the Susquehanna river, there following farming until
his death. The father of our subject was born on the
old homestead, and was reared in the usual manner of farmer
lads. After his marriage he located on the Isle of Que,
and, by his well directed business efforts, accumulated
consider able property. His death occurred in 1875,
and several years later his widow married Solomon
Miller, and is now living in Wymore, Neb. Her
children are as follows: Mattie A., who became the
wife of Rev. W. C. McCool, and died in Ponca, Neb.;
Ben F., a merchant of De Witt, Neb.; William I.,
cashier in the bank at Wymore, Neb.; Peter A., a
resident of Lincoln, Neb.; Charles M., a farmer of
Logan, Neb.; John W., a machinist of North Platte,
Neb.; George C., an agriculturist of Logan, Neb.,
Emerson W., of this sketch; and Della May,
who is clerking in a store in Ponca, Nebraska.
Dr. Fisher, of this sketch, attended the common
schools of his native town until ten years of age, when he
went with the family to Nebraska, where his elder brother
Ben had previously moved and taken up a homestead for
the family. The Doctor attended school in the West
until seven teen years of age, then continued his studies in
the Homer Academy of Homer, Neb., and also spent one term in
college in the same State. During the winter of
1888-89, he was a student in the Midland College of
Atchison, Kans., after which he pursued a three-years’
course in the Rush Medical College of Chicago, from which he
was graduated Mar. 29, 1892. He immediately began
practice at Ponca, Neb., but four months later came to Wood
county, and for a short time was in the office of Dr.
Snyder, of Bowling Green. On Dec. 24, 1892, be
located at Portage, where he has since built up a good
business.
Dr. Fisher was married in Portage, Aug. 16,
1894, to Miss Henrietta L. Teller, who was born in
Portage township, Sept. 29, 1870. In his political
views, he is a Democrat, and his religious belief connects
him with the Evangelical Lutheran Church. His ability,
laudable ambition and well-directed efforts have already
secured him a good business.
Source: Commemorative Historical & Biographical
Record of Wood County, Ohio, Past & Present - Publ.
Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1897 - Page 582 |
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VINCENT FISHER,
, engaged in the clover-seed and wool businesses in
Bloomdale, is one of the prominent and representative
business men of Wood county. He was born in Cass
township, Hancock Co., Ohio, July 19, 1845, and is a son of
John and Catherine (Dunlap) Fisher. The father
was a native of Allegheny county, Penn., and, as he was but
three years old at the time of his father's death, he was
reared by others. He was married in his native State,
and, on coming to Ohio, located first in Ashland county,
where he remained a couple of years, and then went to
Washington township, Hancock county. There he remained
a short time, when he went to Cass township. The land
was all new, Indians still visited the neighborhood, and his
first home was a rude log cabin. The children of the
family were as follows: Samuel, born in Pennsylvania,
died in Cass township, Hancock county; Mary Ann, also
born in the Keystone State, married David Manning,
and died in Washington township, Hancock county;
Catherine, who became the wife of Joseph Smart,
died in Fostoria, Ohio; Abraham broke his leg in a
threshing machine, after which he took typhoid fever, and
passed away in Cass township, Hancock county; Elizabeth,
deceased, was the wife of Edson Foster, a
florist, of Findlay, Ohio; James resides in Allen
township, Hancock county; Vincent, our subject, is
next in order of birth; Joseph lives in Putnam
county, Ohio; Jackson makes his home in Findlay; and
Alice died from injuries sustained by being thrown
from a buggy. The father's death occurred in Cass
township, in May, 1865, at the age of fifty-six years, while
at the same place his wife died five years later, and both
were laid to rest in Fostoria cemetery.
Being the oldest son at home at the time of his
father's death, Vincent Fisher assumed charge
of the farm, though but eighteen years of age, and operated
the same for two years. In Bloom township, Wood
county, on Christmas. Day of 1866, was celebrated the
marriage of our subject and Miss Prudence
Loman, a daughter of Thomas Loman.
He then rented a house in Cass township, while he worked as
a laboring man; but, in 1868, he leased his father-in-law’s
farm, which he conducted for two years, when he purchased
eighty acres of timber land in Bloom township, there
erecting a log house, 18 x 28 feet, and began the
improvement of his place. In 1874, however, he
returned to Hancock county, where he rented land for a year,
and then, in partnership with his brother James,
embarked in the clothing business in Columbus Grove; but, at
the end of a year, removed the business to Arcadia, Ohio.
Later he conducted that enterprise alone for two years,
after which he sold out at a great loss.
On first coming to Bloomdale, in I878, Mr.
Fisher worked in the lumber yard of Bryant &
Linhart - first as fireman, then head sawyer, and later
as foreman; but, at the end of two years, he purchased
eighty acres of land in Section 26, Bloom township,
forty-five of which had been improved. His means were
such, however, that he had to go in debt $2,200 for his
place. He continued the improvement and cultivation of
his place until the spring of 1891, when he again came to
Bloomdale, and now rents his land. For two years he
engaged in the sale of farm implements, but is now
extensively interested in buying and selling clover seed and
wool, at the Bloomdale elevators, in which he has been very
successful. For about fifteen years, in connection
with his agricultural pursuits, he also operated a threshing
machine, his first experience in that line dating back to
the days of crude machinery, while his father was first to
introduce a separator into the northern part of Hancock
county, and the southern part of Wood county.
Two children grace the union of Mr. and Mrs. Fisher,
namely: Cora, now Mrs. William W. Wineland, of
Bloom township; and Addie, now Mrs. Ned Rosendale,
of the same township. The father has ever taken a
prominent part in the promotion of every enterprise for the
welfare of his town and county, and was one of the party of
citizens who helped to secure the station of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, by contribution of labor, in putting in the
railroad switch. He is an earnest worker in the
Democratic party, though no office-seeker, and was five
years Democratic township committeeman. He served an
unexpired term both as marshal and alderman of Bloomdale,
being chairman of the gas committee when the Northwestern
Gas Company undertook to charge exorbitant prices for gas,
and other companies were secured to start a competing line,
which would save Bloomdale citizens many thousands of
dollars. He is a stockholder in the Building & Loan
Association of Bloomdale; director of the Northwestern Fair
Association of Fostoria, Ohio, and director in the Bloomdale
Citizens Gas Company; socially, he is a member of Bloomdale
Lodge No. 406, I. O. O. F., while his wife has held
membership with the Methodist Episcopal Church since the age
of fourteen years. They have many friends through out
the community, and justly deserve the high regard in which
they are held. Although start ing out with meager
advantages, Mr. Fisher has, by his own labor
and good management, as well as by skillful, but fair,
manipulation, gathered a comfortable competence.
Source: Commemorative Historical & Biographical
Record of Wood County, Ohio, Past & Present - Publ.
Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1897 - Page 1101 |
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ALBERT DELOS FOOTE,
the efficient and popular postmaster at Totogany, this
county, and a leading merchant of that town, is a native of
Weston township, where he was born Feb. 23, 1851. His
early education was obtained in the schools of his district,
and he had also the training in farm work which falls to the
average country boy. He had some experience as a
clerk, and continued in that vocation some five or six years
after his marriage, moving then to Belmore, Ohio, where he
engaged in the grocery trade on his own account; but three
years later he was burned out. After winding up his
affairs there he returned to his old situation, and in 1884
he and Frank Yost bought out the mercantile
business of Capt. Black, and together they
conducted the store, under the firm name of Foote &
Yost, some twelve years, or until Jan. 1, 1896, at
which date Mr. Foote bought out his partner,
and he has since carried on the business alone. Among
other commodities his lines of trade consist of general
groceries, boots and shoes, and queensware.
On Feb. 10, 1878, Mr. Foote was married
to Miss Viola Parsons, who was born in
Plain township, Mar. 27, 1855, and five children were the
result of this union: Clarence, Ella,
Albert, Glenn and Mildred. Mrs.
Foote is a daughter of John and Charlotte
(Whitehead) Parsons, the former of whom, a native of
Wood county, whose parents were of New York nativity, was a
soldier in the Civil war, having, in 1861, become captain of
Company H, 67th Regiment, O. V. I., and was killed at Deep
Run, Va., Aug. 11, 1864. Mrs. Charlotte
Parsons was born in 1835, on Station Island, in the
Maumee river, and died in 1891, the mother of three
children: Viola (Mrs. A. D. Foote); John A.,
a hardware merchant in Leipsic, Putnam county; and Sidney
B., who died in 1862.
Mr. Foote is an active and influential
worker in the Democratic party, and was appointed postmaster
at Tontogany during Cleveland’s first administration,
serving over four years. In 1893 he was again
appointed, and still discharges the duties of the office to
the entire satisfaction of the public. Socially he
belongs to the I. O. O. F., was a charter member of
Tontogany Lodge No. 755, and was the first noble grand in
that Lodge; in religious faith he and his wife are prominent
members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr.
Foote a ruling elder in the Church, and has been
superintendent of the Sabbath-school for a number of years,
and continues in that position.
Source: Commemorative Historical & Biographical
Record of Wood County, Ohio, Past & Present - Publ.
Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1897 - Page 774 |
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JOEL
FOOTE is a native of Massachusetts, he was born there
July 26, 1815 to Epaphroditus, a son of
Epaphroditus and Eunice Ringe
Foote. They were Connecticut people, and from that state
our subject's father went with his parents to Madison
County, New York, where he received his education. After his
marriage he removed to the Bay State, but later returned to
New York, this time locating in Genesee County. Leaving his
family there, he, in 1825, came to Ohio, where he remained
some four years, and then returned for them on an Indian
pony. In the spring of 1829 he brought them to this state by
water. From Utica, New York, to Black Rock they proceeded by
the Erie Canal and at Buffalo they took passage on the
schooner "Eagle," commanded by Captain David Wilkison,
but, on account of the laser mice, they were six weeks upon
the journey before reaching Maumee. They located at Granger
Island, where the mother died the same year. There the
father operated a distillery two years, at the expiration of
which time, in spring of 1831, he bought 80 acres of land,
and entered eight more 1 mile north of Haskins, Wood County.
This he improved and cultivated, and in 1850 treated for the
farm on which Joel now resides. In the meantime, from
1835 to 1841, he conducted a hotel at Miltonville, and after
disposing of the hotel, he removed to the farm, which
comprises 120 acres of rich and arable land.
By his first marriage, Mr. Foot became
the father of five children, of whom our subject was the
eldest. The others are Delos, who died and was buried
at Lockport, New York; Mary, deceased wife of
James Blinn, a farmer of Perrysburg; Sarah
Ann, deceased wife of John Arnold, of
Iowa, where her death occurred; and Epaproditus, who
died in the fall of 1840, at the age of 20 years. In 1830,
Mr. Foote wedded his second wife, Charlotte
Smith, a native of Herkimer County, New York, and to
them were born children, to wit; Leroy, a farmer in
Canada; Oscar, deceased; Emily, wife of
Freeman Smith, of Wayne County, Indiana;
Frederick, a merchant of Kent, Portage County, Ohio,
where he is living with his wife; Eunice, wife of
John S. Matthews, of Tontogany; one who died at the age
of eight years; and Harriet, wife of Frank Yost,
a merchant of Tontogany.
Joel was 14 years old when he arrived in this
state, so his education had been acquired in New York before
that time; and he remained under the parental roof until he
attained his majority. In 1836 he began work for J. W.
Smith, a brother of D. B. Smith, with whom he
remained some three years, receiving $10 per month during
the first year; $15 during the second; and 20 during the
third. For the following two years he drove his stage for
the firm of Neal, Moore & Co., the former, the
builder of the Neal House in Columbus. Our subject was the
first to run a boat over the levee between Providence and
Miami, Ohio, and in 1842 began his farming operations, in
which he met with excellent success.
In 1841, Mr. Foot was United in marriage with
Margaret Canela, a native of Ireland, and to them
were born seven children, three of whom still survive:
Alice, wife of George E. Bliss, of
Kendallville, Indiana; Albert Delos,
postmaster of Tontogany; and Clara, wife of F. A.
Baldwin, of Bowling Green. Those deceased were: Ella,
who died when 15 years old; Calvin, who was a veteran
of the 100th Regiment, O. V. I., during the Civil War, and
was killed by being run over by a team after the close of
the struggle; Mary, who died when young; and James
Knox, who died at the age of 36. The mother of this
family died in 1864, and in 1867 Mr. Foote wedded
Emily Soash Oswald, widow of John
Oswald, and four children grace this union: Eddie
and Freddie (twins), the former of whom died 14 weeks
old, and the latter now conducts a livery stable at Liberty
Ctr., Ohio; Frank Forrest, a merchant of
Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana; and Joel W., a
clerk at Warsaw, Indiana.
The death of Joel Foote occurred Feb. 22,
1896. In politics he was an ardent and loyal Democrat, and
for several years, he served as a trustee of Weston
Township, also, later of Washington Township. In religious
faith he was a Universalist, while his first wife was a
Catholic, his second a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Source: Commemorative Historical & Biographical
Record of Wood County, Ohio, Past & Present - Publ. Chicago:
J. H. Beers & Co. 1897 - Page 778
Contributed By:
Bob Weaver
Research Notes by Bob Weaver:
Obituary of Joel Foote - Dated: 2-24-1896
Old Pioneer Gone - Uncle Joel Foote Passes Away at the Home
of his Son.
A Brief Review of the Early Life of One of Wood County's
Best Known Citizens.
Saturday morning Uncle Joel Foote, of Tontogany, and old
pioneer of Wood County, died at the home of his son: Frank,
at Rochester, Indiana, where he has been very low for some
time with a stroke of paralysis.
"Uncle Joel", as he was commonly called, was one of the
early veteran residents of Washington Township.
He was born at Salem, Mass, July 26th 1815. When but a small
child his parents moved to Oneida County, New York, where
they resided a short time, then moving to Genesee County. In
1824 they moved to Lockport, on the Erie Canal, then in
process of construction. They moved back to Oneida County in
1825. In that year Mr. Epaphroditus Foote came west to look
for a location, found a place on the Maumee River, and about
the middle of April 1829, he started with his family for his
new home.
His family consisted of a wife and four children, of whom
Joel was the oldest. Their voyage was by the Erie Canal from
Utica to Black Rock, thence up the lake aboard the Schooner:
Eagle, Captain David Wilkinson being in command. They left
the schooner at Miami, May 25th 1829 - 67 years ago. The
voyage took 40 days. At Miami they were met by Michael
Ireland, who is now a citizen of Bowling Green [Wood Co,
Ohio], who hauled the family and their goods with an ox team
to Waterville [Lucas Co, Ohio], where they settled on what
was then known as Granger Island. There was on the island at
that time a grist mill, a distillery and carding machine.
Coming from a very healthy country to a land of fever and
ague, as a matter of course were all sick. Mrs.
Foote died
about two months after they arrived here. Mr.
Foote went
back to New York state on horseback and married again.
In the spring of 1831 they moved from the Island to a farm
one mile north of Haskins {Wood Co, Ohio], which is still
known as: the Foote Farm.
Joel stayed at home with his father until 1836, when he
started out for himself. He went to Perrysburg [Wood Co,
Ohio] and commenced work for Elijah D Herrick, but afterward
was with J W Smith. He then went in the employ of the
Neal,
Moore & Co Stage Line, which was in operation between
Buffalo and Detroit. The line was divided into sections of
about 16 miles. He next went to the Canal, which was just
completed from Maumee [Wood Co, Ohio] to Providence, and ran
the first boat on this level, which was owned by Herrick & Kately.
Mr. Foote then married and moved on his father's farm north
of Haskins [Wood Co, Ohio] and remained there three years. In 1845 he moved to a farm one mile east of Grand Rapids,
owned by Mrs. George Laskey.
Here he lived until 1864 when he bought a farm half a mile
south of Otsego [Wood Co, Ohio]. He moved to his farm and
has lived there ever since, except the time spent with his
children. His wife died here in 1865, leaving him with six
children, three of whom are living. They are Mrs. F A
Baldwin, of Bowling Green, Albert D Foote, of Tontogany, and
Mrs. George E Bliss, of Kendalville, Indiana. In 1867 he
married Mrs. Emily Oswald, with whom he lived until July
1889, when she was called to that long home, leaving husband
and three sons to mourn her loss. They are Fred, of Tontogany,
Frank F and Joel W., of Warsaw, Indiana.
The funeral will be held at the Presbyterian Church in
Tontogany, Wednesday at 1pm |
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WILLIAM
FURRY, among the old pioneers and representative
agriculturalists of Lake Township, there is probably no more
prominent figure than Mr. Furry, who makes his home
in Section 27. He is a native of Stark County, born in 1833,
and is a son of Jacob Henry and Fannie (Butler) Furry,
the latter of whom died Aug. 20, 1885. The father's birth
occurred in Pennsylvania, where he was reared and married,
and in 1833 he took his family to Stark County, Ohio, but
the same year came to Wood County, locating at Stony Ridge. He was employed for a time on the Maumee Pike, and later
entered land in Lake Township, which he made his home until
his death in 1866. He was one of the first members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church of Stony Ridge, and helped to
build the first church erected at that place. He and
his wife were faithful members of that Church until God
called them to a better land.
Our subject is the third in order of birth in a family
of nine children - five sons and four daughters - the others
being as follows: Jacob enlisted in October, 1861, at
Stony Ridge, in the 72nd O. V. I. [Ohio Volunteer Infantry],
and was discharged at Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 21 1861; he
died at Pemberville, Wood County, in August, 1895. George
resides at Stony Ridge. Mrs. James Whitmore
lives at Haskins, this country. Mrs. Margaret Jennison
died at East Toledo in 1890. Mrs. Catherine McCutcheon
makes her home at Stony Ridge. John enlisted at Stony
Ridge, Oct. 19, 1861, in Company E, 72nd O. V. I. [Ohio
Volunteer Infantry], for three years, and was mustered in at
Columbus, Ohio; he served in the quartermaster's department
until honorably discharged at Woodville, Ohio, in 1887.
Mary is the wife of
Martin
Shook, of Stony Ridge.
Charles makes his home in Gibsonburg, Sandusky County,
Ohio.
The childhood and youth of our subject were passed at
Stony Ridge and in Lake Township, where hi was educated, and
he remained under the parental roof until the outbreak of
the Civil War, when in 1861, he enlisted at Stony Ridge, in
Company E, 72nd O. V. I. [Ohio Volunteer Infantry], for
three years. He was mustered into the United States Service
at Columbus, [Ohio] and was assigned to the Western Army. He
participated in the Battle of Shiloh and the Siege of
Vicksburg, where he received a gunshot wound, and at the
battle near Ripley, Mississippi, he was taken prisoner.
After three months and a half confinement in Andersonville
Prison, he was sent to Florence, and later to Lawton, thus
experiencing nine months of Rebel prison life. At
Salisbury, North Carolina, he was honorably discharged in
1865, and returned to his home in Lake township, Wood
County, where it took him some months to recuperate. He has
since made his home upon his present farm.
In 1865, in that township, he wedded Miss Hannah
Akersberger, a native of Wood County, and a daughter of
George Akersberger, an early pioneer of the township, who
died in 1895, but upon the old home farm his widow still
resides. Mrs. Furry died in 1868, leaving one child
Edgar George. For his second wife our subject
wedded, in 1869, Miss Hattie Wicks, a
native of Sandusky County. Her parents, John and
Sarah (Hartzel) Wicks, were born in Union County,
Pennsylvania, thence removed to Wayne County, Ohio, and
later to Sandusky County, where they were numbered among the
earliest pioneers, and in 1868 became residents of Lake
Township, Wood County, locating upon a farm. In that
township the father died in 1887, and the mother in 1891.
Mr. and Mrs, Furry have had eight children: Jonas
William, who is married and lives in Lake Township;
John James; Henry B.; Floyd A.; Palmer E.; Irvin E.; Ray R.;
and Harry, who died in 1883, at the age of eighteen
months.
For sixty three years Mr. Furry has been a resident
of Wood County, during which time he has witnessed its
wonderful development, and has been of material assistance
in its advancement. On his fine farm of sixty five acres he
is now engaged in general farming, and the place well
indicates his careful supervision, enterprise and industry.
He takes considerable interest in political affairs, always
supporting the Republican Party. He and his wife are members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Stony Ridge, and are
faithful workers in same.
Source: Commemorative Historical & Biographical
Record of Wood County, Ohio, Past & Present - Publ. Chicago:
J. H. Beers & Co. 1897 - Page 611
Contributed By:
Bob Weaver
Research Notes by Bob
Weaver:
Civil War Research Notes:
- Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg
Landing - located near a small log church named Shiloh on
the Tennessee River, Tennessee, the battle was fought Apr. 6-7, 1862
- The Siege of Vicksburg was fought May 18 - July 4, 1863,
and was the final major military action in the Vicksburg
Campaign of the Civil War
- Andersonville Prison, also known as Camp Sumter, is the
most well-known and notorious of all the Civil War prisons,
north and south. Union prisoners of war were kept here. The
Camp Sumter military prison at Andersonville was one of the
largest Confederate military prisons during the Civil War --
Andersonville, Georgia
- Camp Florence was located in Florence County, South
Carolina and was one of the largest Southern Civil War
prisons. The prison was 23 acres in size and was enclosed by
a wall of logs 12 feet high. The prison was open for five
months from September 1864 to February 1865. Florence
National Cemetery, in Florence, South Carolina, consists of
5-3/4 acres. Because the listing of the deaths was lost,
there are 21,167 unknowns.
- Camp Lawton was located about five miles from Millen,
Georgia, and on the Augusta Railroad. The Prison walls were
15 feet high and sufficient wood was left inside the walls
so that the prisoners could construct crude huts. Rations
were somewhat better than Andersonville but were still not
sufficient to sustain life. The prison was open for two
months. The Lawton cemetery held 784 bodies. These bodies
were moved to Beaufort National Cemetery in South Carolina
in February 1868. Where Camp Lawton stood in 1868 there is
now a state park, Magnolia Springs
- Salisbury Confederate Prison -- An empty textile mill,
Maxwell Chambers mill, in Salisbury, Rowan County, was
selected as North Carolina's only prison during the War
Between the States. Prison operations began in December
1861, when over 100 Union prisoners were moved from the
Raleigh State Fairgrounds to the Salisbury Confederate
Prison. |
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