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URIAH
RENNER, physician, Spencerville. was born in West
Baltimore, Montgomery Co., Ohio, August 30, 1840; son of
Emanuel and Sarah (Cecil) Renner, former a native of Maryland,
latter of Pennsylvania. Our subject was raised on a farm. In 1861
he enlisted in Company E, Eighty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
and in August, 1862, was taken prisoner and soon after sent home.
In the fall of 1862 he entered Ottebine University, at Westville,
Ohio, for three terms, then went to Whitley County, Ind., and for
several years followed school teaching. While there he was
arrested as a deserter, and confined in jail two weeks before he
could prove to the contrary. In about 1864 he turned his attention
to the study of medicine, in addition to his duties as teacher.
During the winter of 1868-69 he attended lectures in the medical
schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating in May of the latter year;
previous to this, however, he had practiced medicine at Botkins
Station, Shelby Co., Ohio, about six months. Since then he has
spent about two years at St. John, two years at Bradford Junction,
five years in Kossuth, Auglaize County, and in the spring of 1879
located in Spencerville, where he has gained a leading place in
the medical profession. Dr. Renner was married, June 13,
1865, to Miss Martha Snorf, who was born in Montgomery
County, Ohio, March 21, 1840, and of whom he speaks as having been
in truth a helpmeet. The doctor is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He is a leader of the Prohibition party in his
vicinity.
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GEORGE M.
RIDENOUR (deceased) was born in Fairfield County, Ohio,
March 6, 1826, son of Michael and Hannah (Shotts)
Ridenour (deceased), natives of Westmoreland County, Penn.,
and who came to this county in a very early day. They were parents
of fourteen children, of whom only Daniel and Isabella
survive. Our subject was reared to farming, an occupation he
followed all through life. He was married, December 31, 1848, to
Miss Eleanor P. Lipsett of Sugar Creek
Township, this county, a native of Burlington County, N. J.,
born August 6, 1828, daughter of Joseph and Sarah
(Peacock) Lipsett, also natives of New Jersey, who
married in Burlington County. N. J., and moved to Warren County,
Ohio, in 1833. Sarah (Peacock) Lipsett was
born November 28, 1792, died in 1834 in Lebanon, Warren County,
Ohio, and Joseph Lipsett married his second wife
(nee Mary Shim), in Warren County, Ohio, and they
afterward came to this county where they passed the remainder of
their days; he was born June 30, 1799, died in 1864. Joseph
and Sarah Lipsett were the parents of five children,
of whom Eleanor P. is the only survivor. Mr.
Lipsett had three children, all now living, by his second
wife. To the union of George M. and Eleanor P. Ridenour,
were born seven children : Eliza J., Martha L., William J.,
Mary L., John E., Joshua A. and Emma, the sons all
deceased. Our subject died December 13, 1873, and since then his
widow has operated the farm which was left her by her father and
husband. She is a member of the United Brethren Church.
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JOHN G.
RIDENOUR, farmer, P. O. Elida, was born in Fairfield
County, Ohio, February 14, 1827, son of George and Mary
(Conrad) Ridenour, natives of Pennsylvania and Maryland,
respectively, and who were married in Fairfield County, Ohio, came
to this county in 1829, and settled in Sugar Creek Township on
land which the former had entered the previous year; they reared a
family of five children: Catherine, Christena,
Dorothea (deceased), John G., and Joseph.
George Ridenour being one of the first settlers of
this county endured many hardships and privations, and the
circumstances of the times gave to his employments a somewhat
versatile complexion, as he was a cooper, a maker of coffins,
tooth extractor, setter of broken bones, etc., etc.; he died at
the age of eighty-four; his widow still resides on the home farm,
and is now in her eighty-fourth year. Our subject was never
married. He became owner of land by the death of his father. He
had taught school for about nineteen quarters, was elected in 1858
(on Democratic ticket) to the office of county recorder, in which
he served six years, then followed merchandising in Elida, Ohio,
for several years, finally returning to the farm, where he now
resides. He also gives some attention to the manufacture of
baskets and brooms. Mr. Ridenour is a member of the Lutheran
Church at Elida, Ohio.
(Source #2) |
From: "History of Allen
County, Ohio" by Wm. Rusler
REV. GEORGE N. RILEY
While he was one of the pioneers of Allen County, Ohio in the
1830's, there is a still broader historical significance to the
name and career of the Rev. George N. Riley, who exemplified all
the devotion of a self-sacrificing minister of the gospel in
pioneer and frontier communities, and was one of the early Indian
missionaries of Ohio.
He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was born at Medford,
Burlington Co. NJ 27 Aug 1792. He was reared and educated in the
East and on 19 Nov 1826 he married at Mt. Holly, Burlington,
Burlington Co. New Jersey. Miss Meribah Springer Peacock. The
Peacock family originated in Scotland. Meribah Springer
Peacock
whose birthplace was also at Medford, Burlington Co, New Jersey,
was born 9 Nov 1805 daughter of Adonijah and Elizabeth
Springer Peacock. Her great grandfather John
Peacock of New Jersey was a
Deputy surveyor of the Colonial government. Her grandfather Adonijah
Peacock Sr., owned a powder mill at the time of the
Revolution while making gun powder for General George Washington's
army an explosion in the mill killed him. On her mothers side she
was a direct descendant of the Lady Hendreckson, Companion to
Queen Elenora of Sweden. The family kept the title until coming to
America in the early days of the colonies that settled with the
Swedish settlements of the King of Sweden at Wilmington, Delaware.
Soon after his entry into the ministry, Rev. George Riley, came to
Ohio, and for three years had the difficult task of acting as a
missionary at Lebanon to the Wyandotte Indians, where he and his
wife lived in the complete simplicity of frontier days. He then
went to Upper Sandusky for a year, where he built a mission house
for the use of the Indians. In 1835 he moved to Springfield, Ohio,
but after a few months came in the fall of 1835 to Allen County,
Ohio. In this county he bought from the government what is now the
Failor farm. He cleared off the land, developed it to agricultural
purposes, and in the community his industrious years were spent
until his death in 1882. Through his influence and help Wesley
Chapel was built. This was one of the first churches in the
county, and he attended regularly to his duties in the pulpit
until his death.
While he fully discharged his responsibilities to his family, he
was always keenly interested in the religious and moral life
around him, and was one of the truly noble men of the community.
Mrs. Meribah Riley, who survived him three years, was a woman of
rare refinement and charm. Her brave and courageous spirit was a
constant source of encouragement to her husband and family in the
pioneer days of the county. This noble couple were the parents of
nine children, five sons and four daughters.
(See Photograph)
(Submitted by Norita Shepherd Moss) |
SIMON
ROBBINS, hardware merchant, Spencerville, was born in
Mercer County, Ohio, July 7, 1841; son of James and Celia
(Brewer) Bobbins, natives of Clinton County, Ohio, and
early settlers of Auglaize County; they were the parents of eleven
children, of whom Simon is the fourth. Our subject was raised on a
farm, his education being limited to the common schools. He
entered upon his career in life as a farmer. In 1861 he enlisted
in Company E, One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
with Capt. Kennedy, served three years and received his
discharge as orderly sergeant. He was in several engagements in
which his regiment took part, the Atlanta campaign, Franklin,
Nashville, and others. He is an active member of Kishler Post, G.
A. R., at St. Mary's, and is also a member of the I. O. O. F. and
Methodist Episcopal Church. After he returned from the war he
engaged in mercantile business at Spencerville for five years,
then moved back to his farm in Auglaize County, and turned his
attention to agricultural pursuits and raising short-horn cattle,
of which he has the tiniest herd in that vicinity. In December,
1883, he retired from farm labor, but still owns his farm.
Returning to Spencerville Mr. Robbins purchased a stock of
hardware, in which business he still remains. He was married
December 13, 1866, to Orphelina Lawrence, who was
born in Auglaize County, Ohio. June 20, 1845, and to this union
were born eight children: O. Roscoe I., Cora A.,
Nora B., Jennie M., Mary C., Ida B.,
Albert R. and Zoa G. Mr. Robbins has
served the people in several township offices. He is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church; has always been identified with
the Democratic party.
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VALENTINE
ROSE was born in 1820 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, son
of Henry and Catherine (Ault) Rose, natives of Pennsylvania,
where they died. They were parents of ten children, six
now living: Jacob, Henry, Valentine, Elizabeth, Mary A.
and Susan. Our subject, who is the only one living
in Ohio, was married in 1843 to Caroline C. Carlin, and
to this union were born four children, of whom two are living:
Anthony J., married to Miss Mary J. Plummer (have
one child - Lula M.) and Margaret Jane, married to
David N. Moyer (have one child - Robert Franklin).
Mr. Rose came to Ohio in 1864, and settled where he now
lives. Beginning life with but little, he now owns a well
cultivated farm, which he purchased of Abraham Shockey,
and on which he has made all the improvements. Mr. Rose
has followed agricultural pursuits the great part of his life.
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PHILIP
ROUSH, a well-known farmer of
Bath township, Allen county, Ohio, is a native of the Keystone
state and was born in Juniata county in 1840 - a son of
HENRY and Elizabeth (Mohart) Roush.
Henry Roush, the father, was born in Dauphin county,
Pa., in 1803, on his father's farm, on which he remained until
his marriage, the union resulting in the birth of nine children,
as follows: George, John, Joseph, William, Henry,
Catherine (wife of Willis Copeland), Franklin, Philip
and Jacob. The mother of this family died in 1843,
and in 1844 Mr. Roush married Susan Winegardner,
of Juniata county, in the same state, who bore four children, as
follows: Theodore, Jane, Emma, and Ephraim.
About the year 1851, Henry Roush came to
Ohio and purchased a farm of 100 acres in Bath township, just
east of the land on which the county infirmary now stands.
This farm he cleared from the woods and improved in every
respect; and, although a practical blacksmith, gave but little
attention to his trade, preferring the life of a farmer, and so
closed it in 1881 on this Bath township farm, in the faith of
the Lutheran church, and in politics a democrat. He was a
man of much energy of character, was industrious and frugal, and
was held in high esteem by the community in which he had passed
the closing years of his useful life. Here, also, his wife
died in 1887.
Philip Roush the subject of this sketch, was but
eleven years of age when he came to Allen county with his
parents. Here he was reared until eighteen years old on
the home farm, learning in the meantime much of the carpenter's
trade. At the age named he went to Orion, Richland
county, Wis., where, for a short period, he clerked in the
brother's store; but he soon tired of western life and returned
to the home place in Bath township, Allen county, Ohio, where he
remained until the outbreak of the late rebellion, when he took
u0 arms in defense of the flag of the Union by enlisting in
company A, Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry. On the
organization of his company he was elected corporal and later
on, for meritorious conduct in the field, was promoted sergeant.
He was in nearly all the battles fought in Virginia, in which
his regiment had any part, including Fair Oaks, Chapin's Farm,
Petersburg, Drury's Bluff, etc. and in all took a noble and
valiant part, reaping a reward through promotion, as has been
indicated a few lines above.
Mr. Roush was united in wedlock Jan. 1, 1866,
and Miss Nancy A. Mason, daughter of Jarvis and
Elizabeth (Hall) Mason, of Bath township, and the four
children born to the union all died in infancy, only one,
Jessie, the youngest, receiving a name. For a few
years Mr. Roush followed his trade of carpenter, but
preferred farm life and purchased forty-three acres in Bath
township, to which he has added twenty acres, on which he now
lives and which he has improved and cultivated until it is
readily recognized as a model. In politics Mr. Roush
is a republican, but seeks no office. He is a strictly
moral man, and has long been a member of the United Brethren
church, in which he has held the offices of trustee, treasurer
and Sunday-school superintendent. He is a public-spirited
citizen, and never is backward in his aid to matters that are
designed for the public good, and he enjoys the esteem of all
about him.
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DR. WILLIAM
ROUSH - Among the best known and most highly respected
citizens of Spencerville, Ohio, is Dr. William Roush, who
may be conspicuously mentioned. He has been a resident of
this place since October, 1893, and although his stay has been
comparatively short, has been sufficiently long to establish him
in his profession as a physician and surgeon, as well as to make
him many warm and ardent friends and admirers. He is a
native of Amanda township, Allen county, was born December 6,
1864, and is a son of Jacob M. and Elizabeth (Holtzapple)
Roush. The father died in April, 1894; the mother
still survives and resides in Amanda township. The doctor
was a farmer born and reared, and received his education in the
public schools and at Elida, with two terms at the Ada (Ohio)
normal. He lived on the farm until twenty-one years of
age, giving all possible time to his literary education.
He then taught school for four years, reading medicine, the last
year, with Dr. S. A. Hitchcock of Elida for preceptor,
afterward matriculating at the Cincinnati college of Medicine
and Surgery, graduating from there in March, 1891. He
first located in Elida, where he remained two years, when he
removed to Spencerville. His professional education has
fitted him for the general practitioner, being well equipped in
the various department of the healing art, and he has
established for himself a large and lucrative practice. He
is a valuable member of the Allen county Medical society, which
finds him a thoroughly live up-to-date doctor. In June of
1894 he was married to Miss Vada Wright, the accomplished
daughter of W. G. and Louisa Wright. Her birthplace
was Highland county, Ohio. Politically Dr. Roush is
a democrat and has unbounded faith in the future of the party.
In 1893 he was appointed to the pension board of examiners.
He is a member of the Odd Fellows' order of Spencerville, No.
311; also of the Daughters of Rebecca and Spencerville
encampment, No. 279, and is vice-grand subordinate. It is
superfluous to say that the doctor is an altogether very able
young man - just such as the world is depending upon for its
best future.
(Source #1 - Pg. 452) |
SHEPHERD
RUDY, farmer, P. O. Westminster, was born Feb. 16, 1823,
in Miami County, Ohio; son of Jacob and Fannie (Neff) Rudy,
the grandson of Frederick Rudy, who was a native of
Pennsylvania. Jacob Rudy came to Ohio in 1798, and
settled near Dayton, in Miami County, as one of the pioneers of
that county, before the county seat, Troy, was thought of.
He entered 172 acres of land, which he cleared entire, and there
raised a family of eleven children, seven of whom are now
living: Frederick, Shepherd, Aaron, Nancy (now Mrs.
Studebaker), Elizabeth (now Mrs. Lancis),
Fannie (now Mrs. Sproul), and Sarah (now
Mrs. Shellabarger). Our subject received his early
education in Miami County, Ohio. He was married June 22,
1847, to Ann Stonburgur, by whom he has ten children,
eight now living: Almeda (now Mrs. E., Bowdle), Eliza
(now Mrs. J. Place), Cordelia (now Mrs. R.
Hutchinson) Mary F., Adam F., Jacob M., William E. and
Ollie M. Our subject came to this county in 1849, and
settled on his present farm of 160 acres, with good
improvements, now owned by him, formerly by David Gilmer.
Mr. Rudy has been active in school matters, having been
director for many years. He is a member of, and
leader, in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
(Source #2) |
DANIEL
RUSSELL, a well-known banker of Bluffton, and a gentleman
who has been largely interested in the other business interests
of the town, descends from an old Puritan family of New
Hampshire, of English extraction, and was born in Licking
County, Ohio, Nov. 24, 1821.
ELIJAH RUSSELL, father of our
subject, was born in New Hampshire, a son of a Revolutionary
patriot who also bore the name of Daniel. Elijah
was but seven years of age when he lost his father, and ever
afterward cared for himself. He learned cabinet-making at
Norfolk, Va., whither he had gone on a sailing vessel.
While yet a single man he came to Ohio, and in Granville,
Licking county, married Miss Elizabeth Wright, a native
of Shenandoah county, Va., and daughter of Alexander Wright,
who was a blacksmith by trade and who died in Illinois, the
father of nine children, viz: Alexander, John, Burgess,
Alvin, Elizabeth, Catherine, Thomas, Susan and Nancy.
After his marriage, Elijah Russell worked at his
trade in Granville for some years and then bought and cultivated
a farm near that town for some time, thence moved to Hebron,
Licking county, and in later life went to Ligonier, Ind., where
he died at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, in the faith
of the Baptist church, of which he had for a long time been a
deacon, leaving behind him, to mourn his loss, five children,
viz: Daniel, Mary S., Rachael, Burgess and John.
Daniel Russell passed his boyhood on his father's
farm in Licking county, about eight miles out of Newark, the
county-seat, and, besides farming, learned cabinet-making and
also gained a general knowledge of several other trades.
Feb. 11, 1844, he married Miss Fannie Townsend, who was
born in western New York, Jan. 23, 1822, was of Puritan stock,
and a daughter of Appleton and Roxey (Field) Townsend.
After marriage, Mr. Russell lived on the homestead until
November, 1851, when he brought his wife and two children to
Allen county, making the journey in a wagon, his wife, being
sick, lying on a bed. He purchased seventy acres of
woodland in Jackson township, on which was a log cabin, and this
land he cleared up and converted into a fine farm, and when he
moved from it, eighteen years later, he left behind, instead of
a rude log house in a wooded swamp, a fine frame dwelling in the
midst of fields of nodding grain and fruit bearing orchards.
In 1867, Mr. Russell engaged, in Bluffton, in the general
mercantile trade, in partnership with his brother-in-law, I.
M. Townsend, and this connection lasted six years, and for
the twenty years following Mr. Russell carried on a
prosperous trade on his sole account. In 1880, before
relinquishing his mercantile interests entirely, he and Mr.
Townsend being for three years in the lumber trade, Mr.
Russell embarked in banking, in which he has also prospered,
and now, besides other valuable real estate, owns the Commercial
block in Bluffton, a livery barn and three residence properties.
Mrs. FANNY RUSSELL departed this
life, Bluffton, Dec. 12, 1888, a member of the Disciples'
church, and teh mother of two child - Mary A. and Orin
J. - and sincerely mourned by her family and a large circle
of friends. In 1889 Mr. Russell chose, for his
second helpmate, Mrs. Martha Cunningham, who had borne
the maiden name of Church.
In politics Mr. Russell has been a life long
republican and voted for John C. Fremont, the first
republican candidate for the presidency of the United States.
Although one of the founders of the republican party in Allen
county, Mr. Russell has taken no real or personal
interest in office holding, yet has been a member of the town
council of Bluffton. He is widely known throughout the
county, is still an active business man, and has always taken a
lively interest in the weal of the public. His integrity
stands unimpeached, and, a well preserved gentleman and an
honored citizen, he is a credit to the business and society
circles of Bluffton and Allen county.
(Source #1) |
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