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BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County
from The Earliest to the Present Date
by H. S. Knapp
Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
- 1863 -
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Green Twp. -
CHARLES AND BAZEL TANNEHILL, in October,
1810, commenced improvement on the northwest quarter of section
33, Green Township. They had, the month previous, entered
the above described quarter, together with the southeast quarter
of section 29, (which was subsequently improved by Charles
Tannehill, and upon which he at present resides.)
They were emigrants from Jefferson County, Ohio.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 348 |
JOHN
TANYER, an emigrant from Pennsylvania, settled in Perry
Twp. in 1824. He is now a resident of Montgomery Twp.,
about one mile north of Ashland.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 470 |
Green Twp. -
WILLIAM TAYLOR removed from Bedford
County, Pennsylvania, to the northeast quarter of section 21,
Green Township, in August, 1821. He subsequently, at
different dates, purchased and became the owner of the whole of
section 21. His family, when he came to the county,
consisted of his wife, eight sons, and one daughter - of whom
John Taylor, Esq., and Mrs. Thomas McGuire are the
only survivors now residing in the county. Mr. Taylor
died on the 7th of March, 1851, at the age of seventy-seven
years - having been born one year before the Declaration of
American Independence.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 354 |
Montgomery Twp. -
GEORGE THOMAS, originally from
Pennsylvania, settled in Petersburg, Mifflin Township, in 1815,
and built the first house in that town. Died in 1841.
His sons now (May, 1861) living in the county are Henry,
Peter, and Josiah; the first and last named being
presidents of Orange, and Peter of Montgomery Township.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp,
Publ. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 214 |
Hanover Twp. -
PHILIP THUMA removed to the land he now
owns and occupies in Hanover Township, in April, 1830.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 385 |
JOHN
TILTON removed to Stark County from Washington County,
Pennsylvania, August 16, 1812; in 1814 he removed to Wayne
County, and in 1831 purchased the east half of section 35, in
Orange Township. His family at this time consisted of his
wife, and sons Samuel and James A. Mr. Tilton
enlisted in the American army during the war of the revolution,
when he was only fifteen years of age, and served five years.
In addition to less important engagements, he was in the battles
of Princeton, Germantown, Monmouth and Yorktown. He also
served three months in an expedition against the Indians in the
Northwest Territory. Mr. Tilton died on the 12th of
August, 1849, at the age of eighty-nine years nine months and
sixteen days - leaving, as the surviving members of that portion
of his family who removed with him to the county, his sons
Samuel and James A., who now occupy, with their families,
the half section originally purchased. His wife had died
on the 7th of May, 1849, at the age of eighty-four years.
Mr. and Mrs. Tilton had kept house over sixty-five years,
and within that period had removed thirty-two times. At
the date of his death he had had one hundred and sixty-seven
grand and great-grand-children.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 519 |
Mohican Twp. -
MAJOR TYLER immigrated
to
Mohican
Township
in February, 1814, having previously resided in
Buffalo,
New York,
from which town he took his departure a few weeks
after its having been burned by the British.
He entered the
south half of the northwest quarter of section 26.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 426 |
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