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ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO
HISTORY & GENEALOGY
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BIOGRAPHIES
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JAMES W. BALDRIDGE,
merchant tailor, of Manchester, Ohio, and the subject of
this sketch, is a descendant of pioneer ancestry in Adams
County. The family name on the old records is
Boldridge, and it members were here at the time of the
organization of the county.
Our subject was born Aug. 12, 1857, in the village of
Youngsville, Wayne Township. He is a son of William
S., and a great-grandson of Rev. William Baldridge,
the first pastor of the U. P. Congregation at Cherry Fork.
His mother is Margaret Jane Kane, is a member of an
old and respected family of the county.
He spent his boyhood days on a farm and attended the
District schools until his eighteenth year, when he studied
at West Union and in the old academy at Cherry Fork.
In 1880, he went to Jackson, Ohio, and there followed coal
mining for two years.
In 1882 he began working at his present trade, and in
1883, worked with the well known tailor, A. D. Kirk.
He next worked at his trade in Kansas City, and then at
Augusta, Ky. Returning to Cherry Fork in 1892, he
remained a short time and then located at his present place
in Manchester, where he has a flourishing business, his
patrons being the best dressers of the town and surrounding
country. Dec. 12, 1891, he married Miss Mary
Alexander, by whom he has three children, Ada, Roy,
and William He is a Methodist and a
Prohibitionist.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 683) |
NEWTON DUNLAP BALDRIDGE
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
SAMUEL TURNER BALDRIDGE
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
JAMES S. BERRY, M. D.,
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
| JACOB F. BISSINGER,
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
AMBROSE O. BOWMAN
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
SAMUEL GRIMES BRADFORD
was born in West Union, Dec. 3, 1813. His father was
Samuel Bradford and his mother, Ruth Shoemaker.
They were married Aug. 11, 1811, by Job Dinning.
Her father was Peter Shoemaker, who lived below the
iron bridge, and whose will was recorded in 1799.
Samuel Grimes Bradford was Sheriff of Adams County in
1812 and 1813.
In October, 1810, he was appointed Recorder of Adams
County to succeed General Darlinton. On the
seventh of July, 1813, he was Captain of a militia company.
He left a deed partly recorded and started with his company
for the war. He never returned. He died Aug. 13,
1813, in the army and is buried at Urbana. His widow
was married June 1, 1815, to Col. Samuel R. Wood, by
whom she had five children, Mrs. Rev. Lock, of
Illinois; Mrs. Herdman, of Iowa; David Wood,
of Newport, Ky., and Frank Wood, of Urbana, Ohio.
David, the brother of our subject, who married a
daughter of Rev. John Meek, lived and died in West
Union. He, his father, General Bradford and his
mother, Barbara Grimes, are buried in the stone
enclosure in Branson's field just north of the
village cemetery at West Union. General David
Bradford was one of the most important factors in the
early settlement of Adams County. He owned a number of
lots in the town of Washington and resided there while it
flourished, and when it collapsed he went to West Union.
When West Union was located he bought lots 10, 11, 18, 19,
65, and 75 at the opening sale. He built the
Bradford House in 1804 and, from that time until his
death, kept tavern there. He was Country Treasurer of
Adams County from June 6, 1800, until June 6, 1832. As
he died in 1834 at the age of sixty-nine, he very nearly had
the treasurer's office for life. In 1804, he was made
a Quartermaster General of the militia. He was a very
popular man, and form holding the County Treasurership so
long without any complaint, must have been a very honest
one, but we must get back to our subject, his grand-son,
Samuel G. Bradford. He clerked in an iron store in
Cincinnati when he was about nineteen years of age for
James M. Baldridge. When he was twenty years of
age, he returned to West Union. He was married here on
Nov. 6, 1834, to Amanda M. T. Tapp. By her, he
had six children, Francis A. wife of Henry B.
Woodrow, of Cincinnati; James H. Bradford of
Winchester; Jennie, the wife of Gabriel McClatchy;
Matilda, who died a young woman; Harriet, widow
of Capt. George Collings, of Indianola, Iowa, and
Samuel N. Bradford, who lives in West Union. In
the same year, he succeeded to the management of Bradford's
Tavern, now the Downing Hose. He conducted it
until 1840, when he leased it. He contributed $200 to
the erection of the Maysville and Zanesville Turnpike.
In 1835, he took a drove of horses to Mississippi and sold
them. On his return, he purchased the George
Darling farm, formerly owned by Major Finley and
moved there. His wife died May 2, 1847. In 1849,
he returned to West Union and engaged in the tannery
business with Edwards Darlinton.
On Oct. 29, 1850, he was
married to Miss Sarah W. Smashea who survives him.
He continued the tannery business until 1851, when he drove
a notion wagon through the country until 1853. From
that date until 1863, he traveled and sold tinware for A.
F. Shriver at Manchester. In 1864, he went into
the sutler business with Thomas Ellison and remained
with him until the end of the war. Then he went to
Mississippi and raised cotton until 1868. After that,
he engaged in the grocery business at West Union with his
son, Samuel N. Bradford. After continuing that
business for a short time, he took the mail contract between
West Union and Winchester and drove a hack on it for four
years. After that he conducted a livery stable in West
Union until his death which occurred Nov. 29, 1890.
In politics, he was a Whig and afterward a Republican.
He was a large, fine looking man in old age, and in youth,
he was handsome. He was genial and companionable.
He was always ready to do a kind act for a friend. He
was esteemed highly by all who knew him as a good man and
upright citizen. What characterized him above his
fellow men was his love of children and of horses.
When surrounded by children and encouraging their amusement,
he was never happier. He was always pleased to have
good horses and to be looking after them. He was in
his feelings and in his thoughts a relic of the older time
in which he was always delighted to dwell. He passed
away in peaceful sleep - "as one who wraps the drapery of
his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams.
(Source 1: History of Adams Co., Ohio - 1900 - Page
511) |
MOSES
ROUSH BRITTINGHAM, proprietor Hotel Britt,
Manchester, was born near the old Campmeeting Grounds in
Sprigg Township, Sept. 11, 1837. He is a son of
Purnel Brittingham and Mary Bryan, whose maiden name was
Cartwright, a daughter of Rev. Andrew Cartwright,
a celebrated divine in early days in Adams County.
Purnel Brittingham was of Scotch descent, born 1782, and
died in 1872. He was a soldier in the War of 1812.
The subject of our sketch
worked as a farm hand in Ross County, Ohio, in his youth,
and in 1862, volunteered in the Seventh Ohio Cavalry,
Col. Israel Garrard, and served until the close of the
war, taking part in every important battle in which his
regiment engaged.
In 1850, he was married to Mary E. Trotter,
daughter of James Trotter, of near West Union.
After the war, he kept a small store at Killinstown, and in
1868 conducted a general store at Clayton, moving to
Manchester in 1870, where for twenty years he has been in
the hotel business. During this time he has handled
live stock and produce, and for six seasons sold lightning
rods throughout the country. He is at present
interested in the buying and shipping of leaf tobacco.
In 1884, he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for
the office of Sheriff of Adams county, but was defeated by a
few votes through the treachery of some persons who should
have been his staunch supporters if fidelity to party and
party principles count for aught. By his energy and
integrity he has acquired a competency to support himself
and wife in their declining years.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
JACOB NEWTON BROWN
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
JAMES W. BROWN
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
WILLIAM BAKER BROWN
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
CHARLES H. BRATTON
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Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
GEORGE ELMER BRATTEN, D. D. S.,
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Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
THOMAS L. BRATTEN
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
WILLIAM P. BRECKINRIDGE,
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
MOSES ROUSH BRITTINGHAM
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
COL. WILLIAM E. BUNDY
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
DR. JAMES W. BUNN,
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
JACOB
BURR, farmer of West Union, was born February 6,
1856, on the old Burr homestead, near Cedar Mills in
Jefferson Township. He is a son of Frederick Burr
and Caroline Bieber. Frederick Burr was
a native of Alsace-Lorraine, France, and was born in 1816.
He emigrated to Pennsylvania when a young man, where he
married Caroline Bieber, a native of Germany.
In 1850, he came to Adams County and settled on the farm
above mentioned, where he reared a family of six sons and
one daughter. Jacob, the subject of this
sketch, married Jennie M. Piatt, daughter of James
Piatt, of near the Stone Chapel, in Tiffin Township.
One son, Stanlely, was born to them. After her
death, he married Mrs. Lizzie McKenzie, widow of
Peter McKenzie and daughter of John Crummie and
Hannah Collier, his wife, of Cedar Mills. Peter
McKenzie was killed in West Union by his horse running
away with him. He left four interesting children:
Susie, a bright and talented Miss of fifteen years;
Henry D., twelve years; Mary E., nine, and
Frank P., six. Peter McKenzie was a son of
Peter McKenzie, Sr., who married Susan Bayless,
and whose father was DUNCAN McKENZIE,
a native of Scotland and a pioneer of Adams County
contemporaneous with Massie, Donalson and Leedom.
He married Jane Ellison, a daughter of John
Ellison, Sr. He died on the farm selected by him
as his future home while the Indians yet laid claim to the
country on September 19, 1832, in his seventy-eighth year.
His wife died February 10, 1855, in her eighty-third year.
Their son, Peter McKenzie, was born January 14, 1811,
and died May 4, 1881. Susan, his wife, was born
January 11, 1815, and died July, 1895. Peter
McKenzie, son of Peter McKenzie, Sr., was born
August 16, 1849, and died December 31, 1896.
The subject of this sketch, Jacob Burr, is a
prominent farmer and stock raiser. He resided on the
old Duncan McKenzie farm. He is a member of the
Independent Order of Red Men, of West Union.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
SAMUEL BURWELL,
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
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