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History of Ashland County, Ohio
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-1880 -

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  JACOB FAST, " son of Martin Fast, the oldest son of Christian Fast, the Delaware captive, was born in Jackson township, Wayne county, State of Ohio, September 12, 1821. His father owned the farm upon which he (Jacob) has resided since his birth. Martin Fast, his father, unfortunately lost his life June 13, 1838, at the age of fifty-six years. Like his father he was remarkably venturesome. At the time of the fatal accident he was attending a barn raising at the home of Mr. Hankey Priest, a neighbor. During the day a hive of bees swarmed and escaped. Mr. Fast and one or two others followed them until they settled on a tall tree. He ascended and hived them in a pillow case, and while in the act of descending, accidentally placed his foot upon a dead limb which gave way, and he fell to the ground, and was so injured that he survived but a few minutes. He had great fondness for bees, and could handle them without exciting their resentment. At the time of his death he possessed one hundred hives. This accident deprived his son Jacob, than seventeen years of age, of many advantages he otherwise would have had. He was compelled to remain on the homestead as a laborer, and his opportunities to attend school were limited. In 1844, by industry, he had acquired sufficient means to attend Ashland academy one session. He returned to his farm, and in 1852 was elected township clerk, and has held the office ever since. In the fall of the same year he was elected justice of the peace, and re-elected five times, serving until 1870. In the fall of 1873 he was again elected a justice of the peace, and in the fall of 1875 re-elected; so that, if he survives to the end of his present term, he will have acted as justice twenty-four years. Mr. Fast is noted for his integrity, sobriety, and intellectual worth. He is a member of the Christian church.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. -
Page 339
  WILLIAM FAST was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1794, and went to school until he was sixteen years old.  He came to Orange township when about twenty-one years old, and entered three hundred and twenty acres of land for himself and father, and moved out in the spring of 1814.  The family were Martin, Nicholas, Jacob, William, Christian, David, Francis, George, John, Margaret, Barbara, Betsy and Christina, married to a cousin in Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
     William Fast married Elizabeth Fast, a cousin, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1817.  His wife lived until July 1869, when he died, aged seventy four.  Their children were: Frances, Elizabeth, Christena, Sarah, Levi, Jesse, John V., William Jonas, Joshua B., and one who died in childhood.  Five of these are also dead: Frances, Elizabeth, Christena, John N. and WilliamLevi, Jesse and John live in Michigan; the rest in Ashland county.
     The mental faculties of Mr. Fast seem to be well preserved, and he possesses fine physical powers for one of his age.  The old gentleman often relates incidents in relation to Tom Lyons, Jonacake, and other Delawares with whom he was acquainted in his youth. He knew many of the Green and Jerometown Indians.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 251
  ABRAHAM FERRIS was born in Columbia county, New York, June 16, 1788.  He served in the war of 1812, and married Marinda Phillips, and removed to Ruggles township in 1824.  He voyaged up the lake from Buffalo to Sandusky in a schooner, and after being delayed by a lake storm, reached Ruggles, by way of New London, and located on a lot seventeen, section three, having erected a cabin.  His family at his decease, which took place August 13, 1850, consisted of Laura, Philetus, Samuel, Sarah, Lois, Erastus, Elias, Jesse and Elmira.  His wife died September 17, 1850.  Several members of the family are now deceased.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. -  Page 180
  ALEXANDER FINLEY was born in Hartford County, Maryland, in the year 1770, of Scotch-Irish parents. His father was descended from one of seven brothers who emigrated to the north of Ireland during "King William's war." They subsequently immigrated to the State of New Jersey, from whence one of the brothers migrated to Hartford County, in the State of Maryland, about a century and a half ago.  Here Alexander Finley was born. Attended the schools of his native country, and obtained a knowledge of the English branches. Upon reaching manhood, he located in Green County, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Mary Smith, a relative of the Hon. Resolve Smith, president of the first bank organized in Philadelphia. In the fall of 1803, he emigrate, with his little family, to Fairfield county, Ohio, then including the counties of what are now Licking, Knox, Richland and Ashland, and stopped the winter of 1803-4 in the cabin of Thomas Bell Paterson, on the present site of Mount Vernon. In the spring of 1804, he erected a cabin, about half a mile northwest of Mr. Patterson, on what is now the Fredericktown road, and resided there until April 1809.
     On the fifteenth of April 1809, he landed on the west bank of the Lake fork of Mohican, on the present site of Tylertown, where he quartered a few months in a camp cabin. In May, Benjamin Bunn and family, William and Thomas Eagle and family arrived.  These were the settlers in what is now Mohican Township, in 1809.  When Mr. Finley arrived, the Indians of what was then known as Jerometown, a village on the Jerome fork of the Mohican, some five miles northwest of his cabin, soon visited him.  The inhabitants of the Indian village were generally friendly.  Mr. James Finley, of Marquand, Madison County, Missouri, from whom was obtained these particulars, says:
     As near as I can recollect, the Indian village contained perhaps about thirty bark and pole huts or wigwams. The names of the heads of families were, Aweepsah, Oppetete, Catotawa, Neshohawa, Buckanddohee, Shias, Ground squirrel, Buckwheat, Philip Canonicut, and sometimes Thomas Lyons, Billy Montour, and Thomas Jelloway.  The chief, Captain Pipe (Hobacon), resided some distance from the village.  He was a tall, dark, scowling old Indian, and seemed hostile to the whites. I seldom saw him.  He did not associate with the whites of the neighborhood, but did his trading abroad.  I learned that he and Armstrong, of Greentown, often made expeditions to attack emigrants on the Ohio River, on their way to Kentucky. John Jerry Bettis Jerome had a cabin on the present site of Jeromeville, near the stream, when we moved to the country.  He had been a trader among the Indians seventeen years in the northwest, and was a Frenchman; and like most of the traders of that nation, married a squaw.  He had a daughter ten years old, named Aweepsah. He had cleared some twenty-five or thirty acres, had horses, cattle and hogs, and often entertained the pioneers.  After the declaration of war, his wife and daughter accompanied the Jerometown Indians to Piqua, where they died.  Jerome sold his land and married a German woman, and removed to the mouth of Huron, on the lake, where he died some years afterward. 
     In 1809 the region along the Lake and Jerome forks of Mohican, was an unbroken forest.  Jerome, and Benjamin Mills, who resided on the present site of Wooster, as Mr. Finley supposes, were the only white people in that part of Wayne County.  He became quite intimate with Jerome, and exchanged many articles of food with him, and was indebted to him for many acts of friendship.  The Indian village was about one mile southwest of Jerome's cabin, and surrounded on three sides by almost impenetrable marshes, filled with alder and other swamp growths.  The emigrants of 1810-11, state, that the wigwams or huts were scattered over a space of eight or ten acres, with the undergrowth cut away, and a smooth play ground in the center, which was much used as a bowling ground.  Here the hunters and warriors amused themselves. The council house was located northwest of the village, and was some twenty-five feet wide and fifty feet long, covered with clapboards and bark.  It was of poles and split timber.  Years before the arrival of Mr. Finley, this village was conspicuous in the annals of the border wars.  It was located near the ancient trail leading from Pittsburgh to Upper Sandusky, and many trembling captives ran the gauntlet in passing through it, on their way to the Indian towns in the northwest.  This was the headquarters of those warriors of the Wolf tribe that still followed the fortunes of Captain Pipe.  At that period the Greentown Indians seemed quite intimate with the Jerometown branch of the Delawares, and often associated with them in celebrating their feasts.
     In 1810, Vachel and William Metcalf, Thomas and Joshua Oram, Benjamin and John Mackerel, James and Joseph Conelly, Elisha Chilcote, John Shinnabarger, and their families joined Mr. Finley
     When the war of 1812 came, and the Indians commenced hostile demonstrations, Mr. Finley, and some of his neighbors, forted in Wooster.  In 1813, he joined families and forted with his neighbor, John Shinnabarger, who had a strong cabin with port holes, one mile northwest of the present site of Tylertown. Save the affair at Colyer's, elsewhere alluded to, the settlement remained undisturbed. James Finley relates a number of amusing incidents connected with the flight of the pioneers to Wooster, and other places of safety.  After proceeding some distance along a circuitous path, with his family, his father remembered that he had left some young calves in pens, and fearing they would starve, returned to let them to the cows, and then attempted to pass straight through the forest to Wooster, eleven miles away, but soon became confused, and was out three days before he got to the fort, his family, in the meantime, arriving safely. At the same time, a neighbor, Mr. Jacob Lybarger, rolled his infant daughter in a small bed and took it on his back, proceeding rapidly on his way, followed by his wife, through the forest by narrow Indian trails.  From the speed made by her husband, Mrs. Lybarger supposed the danger very imminent.  Calling to her husband, who was some distance in advance, she said:" Jake-Jake, are you afraid?"  He promptly responded, "No," and they hurried forward in the narrow path.  In his flight, he dropped the infant, and his wife, coming up in haste, stumbled over it, exclaiming" "Jake, Jake, you need not tell me you are not afraid, for you have lost Maria out of the bed, and you didn't know it." The little daughter was speedily replaced, survived the war, and upon arriving at womanhood, became the wife of the late Justus S. Weatherbee
     After the close of the war, Mr. Finley continued to reside on his farm until December, 1825, when he deceased, aged about 50-9 years.  During the early part of his residence on the Lake Fork, it was navigable for small craft to the present site of Tylertown, known as Finley's bridge, where a structure of that sort spans the stream. Here the pioneers landed, making their way by forest paths to Orange, Montgomery, Perry, Vermillion and Mohican townships.
     His family consisted of James, Benjamin, John, Hannah, Sarah, Abner, Rachel, Elizabeth, and Mary James resides in Madison county, Missouri; Benjamin and John are deceased; Hannah (widow Glenn,) resides in Urbana, Illinois; Sarah, wife of Daniel Pocock, reside near Hayesville; Abner lives near Plympton, Holmes county, Ohio; Rachel, wife of Sparks Bird, near Mohicanville, Ashland county, Ohio.; Elizabeth, wife of James Pocock, in Hayesville, Ohio; Mary, wife of Elijah Pocock, died near Hayesville. Mrs. Mary Finley, wife of Alexander Finley, deceased March 23, 1856, aged about 70-9 years.
                                                           Mine La-Motte, April 10th, 1876.
George W. Hill, Esq
     I was absent when your letter arrived, which accounts for not being answered sooner. Jerome settled on Mohican.  When we came to the country, he was living at Jerometown, in a small cabin, a short distance from the Indian houses.  He cultivated some six or eight acres of land, kept a few horses, cattle, and swine.  He and the Indians did not get along well.  They wished him to divide the products of his farm with them. This he refused to do, and the consequence was, when they got bad whiskey they whipped him.  He built a cabin near the trail, on the east side of the stream, at the foot of Main street, in the present village of Jeromesville, having bought the land where Jeromesville now stands, where he kept a house of Entertainment. In 1812, when the Indians were removed, he said he gave his squaw the privilege of going or staying with him. She chose to go with the Indians. He afterwards married a white woman.  He sold his farm to Mr. Deardorff, and settled at Huron, In Huron County, and shortly after died.  He commenced trading with the Indians when 17 years old; but how long he continued a trader, I do not know.  He then in Harmar's and St. Clair's, I do not know.  The Indians did not have much cleared land.  I never saw their field, but it was situated out of sight of the village.  I think they had only a few small patches. The cleared land around the village was a lawn, well set with blue grass, and contained an occasional tree and a few shrubs, perhaps amounting to 8 or 10 acres. I was in the village during the residence of the Indians, some 3 or 4 times.  It consisted of some fine cabins, about 16 by 18 feet, one story high, and a number of small huts or wigwams.  The council house, I think, was a temporary building, built lodge fashion.  I do not recollect of having seen it. I saw the wigwam of captain Pipe.  It was within the cleared space of the village.  I have no recollection of wife or children.  He appeared to be upwards of 50 years old.  Was a tall, dark, and straight Indian. I never talked with him, perhaps father did, but I think not much, as Pipe was a surly, unrelenting enemy of the white, and had little intercourse with them. I think he left early in the summer of 1812.  I have no knowledge of Captain Pipe, jr. The Captain other Pipe, perhaps a son.  I know that the Captain Pipe I described resided in Jerometown in the years 1809-11. I believe there was more Captain Pipe than one.  I think Jerome said the Indians had been on Mohican about 10 or 12 years previous to the white settlement; but of this I am not positive.
Very respectfully, yours,
James Finley.

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The above is a letter from James Finley, in answer to one addressed him by the author, on the subject of the Indian settlement at Jerometown, asking him to be more definite concerning Jerome and Captain Pipe. It seems that Jerome had at first a cabin in or near the Indian village, but in consequence of bad whisky, failed to agree with his red brethren. Mr. Finley remembers the wigwam of old Captain Pipe, but fails to recollect his wife or children. It is probable that Pipe lived alone. Captain Pipe Jr., if Greentown, was undoubtedly his son.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 -  Page 143
  DANIEL FOLK, the subject of this sketch, was born in Crawford County, Ohio, Mar. 6, 1845.  When about ten years old, his parents removed to this (Ashland) county, where he has since resided.  He was married Feb. 20, 1866, to Miss Virginia I., daughter of Captain W. A. G. Emerson, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this work.  Mr. Folk's occupation is that of a saddle and harness making, having been engaged in that business for the past fourteen or fifteen years, and he is considered by all to be a very proficient workman in all the different branches pertaining to the trade.  For the past few years he has been foreman for the firm of J. W. Davis, at Ashland.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 404
  ELIAS FORD was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1799.  He came with his father, Thomas Ford, from Jefferson county, Ohio, to Clearcreek township, in 1819.  His father had entered a quarter section of land in section twenty-two.  They journeyed in a small, one-horse wagon, in which they brought the necessary provisions for their absence, and a few tools to erect a cabin.  From Wooster they passed along the path to the present site of Rowsburgh, thence along the old trail to the house of Jacob Young, on the Mohican, northeast of Uniontown; thence, to near Mason's mill, and then, along a new cut road to section twenty-two, where they erected a temporary shelter, somewhat in the form of a camp house, with open front, and covered with bark.  Their bunk upon which they slept was suspended by bark ropes from the roof and was about three feet from the ground.  The fire place was immediately in front of this open cabin and fire was kept burning during the night to frighten away the wolves, and keep off the musquitoes.  The wolves were uncommonly numerous and mischievous.  Rattlesnakes, and other varieties of reptiles, were quite numerous.  The bed being thus elevated secured the occupants from the reptiles.  Mr. Ford was accompanied by a large watch-dog, who slept at the open doorway in front of the cabin, to alarm the occupants in case of intrusion or danger.  Thomas and Elias Ford were well armed.  Elias slept in the cabin while his father made his home at Thomas McConnell's, a son-in-law, in Orange township.  At the time of the arrival of Mr. Ford and son, a large number of Delaware Indians were encamped in the neighborhood, engaged in making sugar and hunting.  They were well armed but quite friendly.  A strong attachment soon sprang up and continued until the close of the hunting season.  At this date many Wyandots and Delawares hunted annually along the Vermillion river and in the vicinity of the Savannah lakes, and looked with suspicion upon the intrusion of the white settlers.  After a few weeks, Thomas Ford returned to Jefferson county and removed with the balance of his family to Clearcreek.  Elias had been engaged in clearing and fencing a field for corn, and in the absence of a team, carried rails on his shoulders to place them in a fence.
     The family of Thomas Ford, at their arrival in 1819, consisted of four sons, Elias, Elijah, Thomas H., and John; and four daughters, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Susannah, and Belinda.  In the meantime a larger and more commodious cabin had been erected by the aid of the scattered settlers.  Elias, subsequently, Sept. 9, 1821, married Miss Elizabeth Parks, of Jefferson county, and located on the late Daniel Huffneer farm.  At this time there was neither a church nor school-house in the township.  The people assembled at the cabin of Thomas Ford, for public worship, for many years.  In 1830, Ford's meeting house was erected; it was a fine structure for that period, and was occupied by the Methodists as a place of worship.  Thomas Ford died Oct. 10, 1830; his funeral was preached by Rev. Elmer Yocum.
     Elias Ford
performed arduous labor in clearing and preparing his farm.  For many years he experienced all the privations of pioneer life, but by industry and frugality accumulated a handsome property.  Having disposed of his old homestead, he purchased a new home in 1845, and subsequently, about 1865, sold it, and removed to Troy township, where he deceased in the fall of 1874, aged about seventy-five years.  Mr. Ford was a large man; would weigh about two hundred pounds.  He had a fine head, and bore a striking resemblance to Daniel Webster.  If he had possessed the advantage of a thorough collegiate course of training, he would have left a proud record.  As it was, he was a leading man in his township, as a farmer and a citizen.  He was a man of high moral attainments, and took a leading part in favor of the public schools.  Thomas H. Ford, a younger brother, served in the Mexican war as a captain, and subsequently become lieutenant governor of Ohio.  He was also a colonel in the war of 1861-5.  He is dead.  The balance of the family are somewhat scattered.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 164
  Vermillion Twp. -
CONRAD FOX was born in Bavaria, Germany, June 18, 1829, and at the age of three years, in company with his parents, brothers, and sisters, he left the old world for a home in the new.  Soon after the arrival of the Fox family in America they came to what is now Vermillion township, Ashland county, and here the children have lived and prospered by their own good management and hard work.  Conrad, the subject of this sketch, remained with his parents until he was married.  Apr. 16, 1852, he married Miss Gertrude Hirshler, daughter of Henry and Christena Hirshler, who died in Germany when she was about eight years old.  When she was sixteen years old, in company with her brothers, John and Henry, she came to Ohio.  Immediately after they were married they bought the farm on which they still live, nearly three miles northwest of the village of Hayesville.  They have two children; Adolph, born Apr. 16, 1854, and Amanda, born Feb. 21, 1859.  Adolph is married and lives on his father's farm.  Amanda is single and remains at home with her parents.  Mr. and Mrs. Fox are members of the German Lutheran church, near where they live.  Mr. Fox is a Democrat in politics, and is a man highly esteemed by his neighbors.  He has one hundred and forty-two acres of land in one of hte most fertile sections of Vermillion township.  He is a good farmer, and his family and farm have his whole time.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 304
  Vermillion Twp. -
FREDERICK FOX was born in Bavaria, Germany, Oct. 28, 1822, and emigrated to America with his parents in 1833, Aug. 28th; they arrived in Vermillion township, Ashland county, after a tedious journey of twenty days from New York city.  Vermillion township has been the home of Mr. Fox ever since.  Mr. Fox left home to learn the saddler and harness trade in Mansfield, Richland county, at the age of nineteen.  On Sept. 6, 1849, he was married to Miss Eliza Jane Blackburn, of Green township, Ashland county; she came from Bedford county, Pennsylvania, with her parents in 1832.  Mr. Fox worked at his chosen trade in  Hayesville continuously about sixteen years, at the end of which time he moved to his farm, where he worked winters at his trade and summers tilled and improved his farm.  At the end of four years he returned to Hayesville, stayed about two years, when he again returned to the farm, where he has remained ever since.  They have had ten children, eight sons and two daughters; nine of whom are living.  Charley died at the age of seventeen months, Jan. 25, 1868.  Joseph Benton, born Aug. 7, 1850; Lewis B., born Dec. 24, 1852; Justice, born Nov. 3, 1854; Curtis Buchanan, born Jan. 10, 1857; Lillie Irene, born May 5, 1859; Franklin, born Jul. 28, 1861; Conrad C., born Feb. 3, 1864; Coates, born Aug. 11, 1866; Morris, born Jan. 24, 1869; Mary Margreta, born Aug. 20, 1872.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 309
  Vermillion Twp. -
JOSEPH BENTON FOX was born in Hayesville, Ashland county, Ohio, in 1850.  He worked with his father on the farm until he was seventeen years old, when he learned the harness business, at which business he continued two years.  In 186o he returned to the farm, teaching school winters, and in 1876 engaged in the dry goods business with T. C. Harvey, at Hayesville, in which position we find him working earnestly, doing a little business outside of the mercantile in the way of a broker, buying and selling paper.  Mr. Fox is an earnest business man.  On Sept. 11, 1879, he married Miss Christiana Wallace, of Vermillion township, Ashland county, Ohio.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 310
 

WILLIAM C. FRAZEE was born Dec. 10, 1841, in Allegheny county, Maryland, and came to Ashland County, Ohio, in 1863, and taught school two winters and labored one summer on a farm, after which he formed a partnership with John Rebman in the provision business about one year, and then entered the same business with Joseph Stoffer, during which time he was elected clerk of the court of common pleas for Ashland county from 1870 to 1876.  Since his time as clerk has expired he formed a partnership with E. W. Wallack in the bed spring business, and subsequently in the furniture and undertaking business, and subsequently in the furniture and undertaking business in Ashland.  He married Miss Nancy Swineford, daughter of John Swineford, Dec. 26, 1864, by whom he had two children, one of whom yet survives
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 227

  JACOB FREES, of English-German descent, was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Nov. 22, 1808, and he came to Wayne county, Ohio, in Nov., 1822, and to Wayne township, with his father’s family.  He remained there until 1857, then removed to Smithville, same county, and, in 1864, removed to Ashland county.  He learned the trade of a shoemaker, and carried it on in Wayne county, with a shoe-store, until he came to Ashland county.  He attended common schools, and became a member of the Lutheran Reformed church in 1825.  He is now a member of the English Lutheran church of Ashland, and has been an elder six or seven years.  When he came to Ashland he became one of the proprietors of the steam saw-mill until 1870, and then retired.  His family consists of two sons and four daughters. 
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 213
  DR. AMOS B. FULLER, was born in Ashland county, in 1842; studied medicine with his father, and began to practice in 1862.  In 1867 he graduated from Jefferson Medical college in Philadelphia, and in 187_ took the degree at Bellevue Medical college, New York.  In 1868 he married Mary B. Stewart.  He has built up a large practice, and is respected by all who know him; is a member of hte Methodist Episcopal church, and the father of four children, viz.: Mary M., Grace, Gertrude B., and Stewart E.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. -
Page 292 - Hanover Twp.

Susan Fuller Hildebrand, daughter of E. B. Fuller
(Picture contributed by gr-gr-granddaughter
E. B. FULLER, father of Dr. Amos B. Fuller, was born in New York, in 1799, and married Sarah Culver, in Tioga county, Pennsylvania.  In 1831 he first settled in Loudonville, and began the practice of medicine; was a doctor of the old school; was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  In politics he was a Democrat -one of the liberal kind, bitterly opposed to the fugitive slave law.  In 1856 two fugitives came to his house early in the morning.  He fed them and sent them to Robert Wilson, where they were cared for and taken beyond the reach of United States marshals, blood-hounds, etc.  He was the father of ten children, only four of whom are living:  Catharine, who became the wife of Gilbert Pell, afterward married Calvin Hibbard, and lives in Ashland county; Susan, who married J. W. Hildebrand, and lives in Columbus; Content, who married J. W. Stacker, of Ashland county; Amos B., who became the husband of Mary Stewart and lives in Loudonville.  
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. -
Page 291 - Hanover Twp.
  DR. EPHRAIM B. FULLER was born in Madison county, New York, July 8, 1799.  He read medicine in the office of Dr. Parkis, of Tioga county, Pennsylvania, and commenced practice at 1823.  He married Sarah Culver, of Elkland, Pennsylvania, in March, 1822.  He practiced in Potter county, Pennsylvania until the spring of 1832, when he located in Loudonville, Richland (now Ashland,) county, Ohio.
     Dr. Fuller was not a regularly educated physician, having read in a private office, according to the statutes of New York, was examined and admitted to practice medicine and surgery under a certificate issued by the county censors.  He was a man of marked industry, and possessed an iron will, which associated with a powerful physical organization, a love of his profession, and closed attention to medical authorities enabled him to accomplish a great deal in the line of his calling.  He had a most extensive practice, and was unusually successful in the treatment of the diseases of his locality.  He practiced continuously over thirty-six years, sometimes under circumstances the most adverse, and in the face of a well arranged competition, always sustaining himself honorably in his profession.  He should rank among the very best of the profession in the county.  He died at Loudonville, Dec. 23, 1867.  He left a family.
     Dr. Amos B. Fuller is a son, and Dr. A. J. Scott, a son-in-law.  The son is said to possess many of the peculiarities of the father, and will probably secured to a fair share of his practice.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. -
Page 167
  DANIEL FULMER, born in Ashland county in 1855, married Mary Sprang in 1879. He carried on the business of queensware, groceries and bakery combined, in partnership with his brother, John Fulmer, doing business under the firm name of Fulmer Brothers. They have the largest and best selected stock in Perrysville. In 1880 he was elected clerk of the township, and in 1878 was appointed postmaster by President Hayes, which office he still holds. He is a member of the Evangelical Association, and in politics is a Republican.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880. -
Page 280
  JACOB FULMER, born in Elsos, France, in 1809, married Mary Hoffman, and in 1837 came to Ohio, and settled in Lake township, Ashland county, on the farm now owned by Mrs. Fulmer. Mr. Fulmer was a stone mason by trade, but followed farming all his life. He was a member of the Evangelical Association, and in politics was a Republican. He was the father of eleven children, three of whom died in infancy. Eight are living, viz.: Margaret; John, who married Lucretia Tipton, of Perrysville; Jacob, who married Jennie McMorrill and lives in Wayne county, Ohio; Catharine, wife of Abel Metcalf, of Lake township; Julia, wife of Levi Shut, of Lake township; Frederick, who married Amanda Workman and lives in Holmes county, Ohio; Daniel, who married Mary Sprang and lives in Perrysville; Mary, wife of William Steward, who lives in Mohican township.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 280
  JOHN FULMER was born in in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1846, and in 1871 married Lucretia Tipton. He is a baker by trade, and is engaged in business with his brother, Daniel Fulmer. He has held the office of marshal in Perrysville for two years. Mr. Fulmer is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics is a Republican. He is the father of three children, viz.: Zella, Zada and Hattie.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 280
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