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ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO
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BIOGRAPHIES
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VALENTINE
H. HAFER, of Blue Creek, was born in Crawford
County, Pa., June 28, 1832. His father was John Hafer
and his mother Elizabeth Blackburn. Our subject
was reared on a farm, and when twelve years of age came to
Clayton, Adams County, Ohio. July 27, 1853, he married
Miss Nancy Webb, daughter of Thomas and Jane Cook Webb,
to whom has been borne three sons and five daughters:
George F., John W., Mary J., Sarah E., Elatha E. L., Nancy A.,
James A., and Ida D. A.
August 8, 1862, he enlisted for three years at
Buena Vista, Scioto County, and has mustered into the U. S.
Service as a private at Lima, Ohio, Company H, Capt. Henry,
81st Regiment O. V. I. He was promoted to Corporal and
then joined his regiment under Col. Morton, at Corinth,
Miss. He was in many battles of the war among which may
be mentioned Rome Cross Roads, Dallas, Siege of Atlanta,
Jonesboro, Sherman's March to the Sea, Siege of Atlanta,
Jonesboro, Sherman's March to the Sea, Siege of Savannah, and
Kenesaw Mountain. Was honorably discharged at Camp
Dennison, July 13, 1865.
Valentine Hafer is one of the prominent men of
Jefferson Township. He is an ardent Democrat in
politics, and a Universalist in religion. He is now
badly crippled with rheumatism contracted in the service of
his country, for which disability he draws a pension.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
CAPT.
WILLIAM HANNAH. John Hannah, the father
of William Hannah, lived in Virginia. He was
the maternal grandfather of John H. Kincaid, who was
a prominent citizen of Adams County. Little is known
concerning the early history of John Hannah except
that he was a soldier of the Revolution, and the story is
told of his having swam the Brandywine. As the
incident has been mentioned in history, it must have
occurred at a critical time and was to his credit.
William Hannah, one of three sons of John
Hannah, was born Sept. 13, 1770. He came from
Virginia into Kentucky where he remained a short time,
finally coming to Ohio and settling in Liberty Township at
Hannah's Run. During a recent visit to the
place, all that was found to remain of the old home was a
small heap of stones which marks the place where the chimney
stood. He then went to Cabin Creek where he conducted
a ferry. After twelve years, he returned to Liberty
Township and at Hill's Fork purchased 400 acres of land, all
in woods. Here he remained and made his home.
Part of the old homestead is still owned by the family,
having been in the Hannah name eighty-seven years.
Mr. David A. Hannah, of Hill's Fork, is the present
owner or 134 acres, all in a good state of cultivation.
Captain Hannah was a soldier of the War of 1812;
was made a Captain and served with distinction. The
following anecdote concerning him has often been related by
the members of the Hannah family. The incident
occurred while the troops were in camp and mustering at
Manchester, Ohio. One day while at dinner, on the
banks of the Ohio, a deer was seen to come out of the woods
on the Kentucky shore to get a drink. Seeing such a
sight, the idea uppermost in the minds of the men was to
gain the prize. It was next to an impossibility as it
was not thought any one would be able to shoot the deer for
the distance intervening was too great. However,
Captain Hannah being a marksman of note was challenged
to do so and he accepted the challenge with alacrity.
He aimed at a mark across the river at about ten feet above
where the deer was standing, the ball falling broke the
deer's back. The deer was then brought across the
river in a canoe and it was needless to state that
Captain Hannah remembered his friends. It is not
known what became of the gun with which he shot the deer.
The sword carried by Captain Hannah is in the
possession of David A. Hannah, his great-grandson.
Capt. Hannah was twice married. His first
wife was Martha Moore, by whom he was the father of
eleven children. Of these children, none are
surviving, but their descendants are numerous in Adams
County. Joseph and David M. Hannah, of
Hill's Fork, and Aaron Moore, of Winchester, are
grandsons of Captain Hannah. In this familly in
each generation, there has been a William and a
John.
One of Captain Hannah's sons, Aaron
Hannah, was born in 1803. He was a man generous to
a fault, dispensing his means with great magnanimity.
He married Mary Ann Aerl, by whom he was the father
of ten children. Of these children, five are
surviving. William Patterson Hannah, residing
at Boulder, Col.; Isaac Aerl Hannah, at Seaman, Ohio;
Mrs. Rebecca E. Kepperling, at Detroit, Mich.;
Dudley A. Kepperling, a prominent business man, Chicago,
Ill., and Miss Edna Inez Kepperling, Principal of
Custer School, Detroit, Mich., are grandchildren of Aaron
Hannah.
Aaron Hannah died Dec. 11,
1890, and is buried at Mt. Leigh, Adams County, Ohio.
His father, Captain William Hannah, died Sept. 10,
1849, and is buried at Kirker's cemetery, where several of
his children are buried.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - Publ.
1900 - Page 565) |
DANIEL
HUSTON HARSHA was born in Washington County, Pa., May
9, 1837. He came with his father to Adams County, in
1846. In 1853 and 1853, Rev. James Arbuthnot, James
Wright and he conducted the North Liberty Academy.
From 1854 to 1857, he attended Jefferson College at
Cannonsburg, Pa., and graduated from the institution in the
latter year. From 1859 to 1860 he again conducted the
North Liberty Academy. Since the latter date he has
carried on farming on the farm originally the property of
his father. Mr. Harsha has shown himself
a successful farmer and business man. He is prudent,
careful and conservative in all business transaction and his
excellent judgment has enabled him at most times to be on
the safe side of the market.
While a Republican in his political sentiments, he has
never sought or held public office. His tastes are
those of a diligent student of literature. While he
has decided views on all the subjects he has studied, he has
been content with the pleasures of rural life and has never
sought to obtrude his views on others.
He has, perhaps, obtained as much enjoyment out of his
life as those who have made it their mission to antagonize
others. Had he lived in the days of the Greek
Philosophers, he would undoubtedly have founded a school
whose teachings would have been for each to do the best for
himself and leave others to their own enjoyment, but as he
did not and does not live in the days in which
every kind of philosophy was in fashion, he simply lives up
to the principles without giving it a name or public
notoriety. The principles he has lived by have made
him a useful, honored and honorable citizen, a valuable unit
of our great country and whose record, when sealed by death,
will demonstrate that the world was better by his ministry
in it and to it.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
PAUL
HOWARD HARSHA was born August 19, 1859, in
Harshaville, Adams County. His father was William
Buchanan Harsha and his mother, Rachel McIntire,
daughter of General William McIntire. He was
the second son of his parents. He attended the
District school in the vicinity of his home and at one time
attended the Normal School at West Union, taught by Prof.
W. A. Clarke. He learned the practical business of
milling from his father. From the time he arrived at
the age of twenty-one years, until 1884, he was employed in
his father's mill at Harshaville, and had charge of the
entire milling operations. In 1884, he took an
interest with his father, under the firm name of W. B.
Harsh & Son, which has continued to the present time.
On January 11, 1884, he was married to Miss Ada
Barnard, of Cincinnati. He resided at Harshaville
from 1884 until 1892, when he removed to the city of
Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1889, he formed a partnership
with John P. Caskey, under the firm name of Harsha
& Caskey, and built a mill in the east end of the city
of Portsmouth, and that business had continued to the
present time. He was a Portsmouth from August, 1889,
but did not remove his family there until April, 1892.
He is the father of four children: Edith Armstrong,
aged fourteen years; Elizabeth Lucille, aged twelve
years; William Howard, aged ten years, and Philip
Barnard, aged eight years.
He and his wife are members of the Second Presbyterian
Church in the city of Portsmouth. He has always been a
Republican. He has never held any pubic office except
that of member of the City Council of Portsmouth, Ohio.
(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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JOSEPH
WARREN HAYSLIP, of West Union, Ohio, was born May 17,
1826. His father was John Hayslip, who was born
near Winchester, Virginia, in 1871, and came to West Union,
Adams County, Ohio, in the year 1808. His first wife
was Margaret Lockhart, who bore him five sons:
Isaac N., Thomas J., John J., James L., and
William L., and one daughter, Mary Ann.
After coming to Adams County, John Hayslip married
for his second wife Lettie Campbell, a daughter of
Frank Campbell. She was born at Kenton's Station,
Kentucky, and was married in 1825. John Hayslip
was a tailor by trade and for seven years kept the old
Browning Inn, where Lew Johnson now resides. He
afterwards kept hotel on Main Street, near the old public
well. He was an ardent Whig, and on the day of the
great Whig meeting in West Union, in 1840, he asked to the
raised in his bed so as to get a view of the procession
passing down Main Street, headed by Tom Corwin, the
orator of the day. He died June 9, 1840. He
commanded a company in the War of 1812.
Joseph W., the subject of this sketch, was a son
of John Hayslip and Lettie Campbell. He was
born in West Union, May 17, 1826, and received the rudiments
of a common school education, the most of his teaching
coming from old 'Squire Ralph McClure. He served an
apprenticeship with Peter B. Jones, of
Maysville, at cabinet making, which, together with that of
millwright, ahs been his occupation through life.
On Dec. 25, 18459, he married Lemira E. Montgomery,
daughter of Nathaniel Montgomery and Priscilla Rounsavell.
July 18, 1861, he enlisted in the 24th Regiment, O. V. I.,
Col. Jacob Ammen, as member of the Regimental Band,
for three years. Was at Cheat Mountain, Greenbrier,
Shiloh and Corinth. Organized Second Independent
Battery, Light Artillery, in 1864, and was stationed at
Johnson Island, Ohio. Was charter member of DeKalb
Lodge, No. 138, I. O. O. F., of West Union. First vote
cast for Zachariah Taylor as a Whig. Was a
Republican for organization of that party.
(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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