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History of Ashland County, Ohio
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches,
by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros.
-1880 -

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JOSEPH HARVUOT was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1792.  In 1818 he married Lydia Bruce, and removed to Clearcreek, Richland county, Ohio, in the spring of 1820, and located on section twenty-five, where he resided until his decease in 1843. He was a member of the Disciple church, and an elder. His family, at his decease, consisted of Isaac, Anne, Richard, Elizabeth, Lewis, Sarah, Joseph, and Mary, by his first wife, and William, by his second wife, having been twice married. The only member of the family left in Clearcreek is Isaac. Isaac is a dealer in money, and is accumulating a fortune. He is married, and resides in Savannah.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 160
NATHANIEL HASKELL was born in Windsor county, Vermont, October 3, 1792.  He emigrated to Ohio in 1817, and located in Cleveland.  In July, 1818, he removed to Wooster, Wayne county, where he remained three years, and located in Loudonville, Richland, now Ashland county.  Soon after his arrival, he erected a carding-machine and fulling mill, which for several years was a great neighborhood convenience.  In April, 1823, he married Hettia A. Skinner, the daughter of a pioneer, who erected the first grist-mill in the vicinity of Loudonville.  Mr. Haskell was a thrifty business man and accumulated property quite rapidly.  He laid out an addition to Loudonville, and, by his business energy and strict integrity, contributed to the growth of the town.  He was long engaged in the mercantile business, and possessed tact and energy in its management.  He took a deep interest in the school system of Ohio, and was always liberal in forwarding the interest of education.  He was, for many years, an active member of the Masonic fraternity, and noted for his genial disposition and love for that ancient order.  In his later years - 1868 - he became the principal stockholder and owner of the Haskell bank of Loudonville, which was an institution of deposit and exchange, and was managed by him.  In 1855 his excellent wife deceased.  September 30, 1871, Mr. Haskell deceased, leaving his bank interest to a nephew, he having died childless.  The institution was conducted by the nephew until 1875, when he deceased.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page
  GEORGE WILLIAM HILL, of Ashland, was born in Marshall county, Virginia, April 22, 1823.  His ancestors were Scotch-Irish.  His great-grandfather settled in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia, in about the year 1750.  His grandfather Edward Hill, settled about four miles west of Mt. Pleasant, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1794, a region prior to that time claimed as a part of the territory of Virginia, where John Hill, father of George W. Hill, was born in 1801.  In the fall of 1822 John Hill located in Marshall county, Virginia, where he married Catharine Grandstaff, of German descent, and where George William Hill, their first child, was born.  In 1824 John Hill removed to Richhill township, Muskingum county, Ohio, on the head waters of Wills creek, then a wild and sparsely settled region.  In 1830, he removed to near Brownsville, in Licking county, where he remained until 1834, and then located near Hartford, in the same county, in the midst of the forest of that region, where deer and other game could be seen almost daily ranging through the deep woods, and commenced to prepare a new home.  After making some improvements upon his farm, he sold it and again located near Newark in 1836, and in September of the same year his wife deceased and was buried in the old cemetery of Newark.  John Hill then returned with his children, seven in number, to Richhill, in Muskingum county.  In March, 1840, while engaged in business, John Hill died at Providence City, in the Maumee region.  In 1842 the administrator of his estate became a bankrupt, and took the benefit of that law, and the children of John Hill were left penniless, owning to the defects of the administration laws of the State at that time.  Without money and in the possession of a few books, having a limited common school education, the subject of this sketch apprenticed himself to learn the trade of a tanner, and served about three years, on the principle that every young man should have a trade or occupation to warrant success in life.
     In 1845 he entered Ashland academy, then under the superintendence of the lamented Lorin Andrews, one of the most successful instructors in Ohio, and who afterwards became president of Kenyon college, in Knox county, Ohio.  Mr. Hill remained at that school three years, paying his way by working nights, mornings, and during vacations.  In 1848 he became deputy for the auditor and treasurer, and remained in the county offices until 1851.  In 1850, having read law at nights after office hours, he was admitted to the bar as a practicing attorney.  In 1852 he was principal of Loudonville academy, which position he held until failing health compelled him to resign.  In 1853-4 he was official reporter for the Ohio senate.  In August, 1854, he was appointed a deputy in the office of the State auditor, that office being presided over by Hon. William D. Morgan, now of Newark, Ohio.  In Nov., 1855, he was appointed to a first-class clerkship in the treasury of the United States.  In 1859, he graduated in medicine in the medical department of Georgetown college, District of Columbia, lecture hours occurring after office hours in the treasury, thus enabling him to attend lectures without losing time.  In July, 1861, he was at teh first battle of Bull Run, as a volunteer surgeon.  In January, 1862, he returned to Ashland, Ohio, and entered upon the practice of Medicine, and continued in that profession until the fall of 1867.  In 1862 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Ashland county, and was re-elected in 1864.  In the winter of 1868-9, he was official reporter of the house of representatives of Ohio.  In April, 1868, he purchased the Ashland Union, the Democratic organ of the county, and changed its name to The States and Union.  He continued to edit said paper until August, 1872, when, differing with his party on the policy of nominating Horace Greeley for President, he sold said upper.
     In 1872 he was a delegate from the fourteenth district to the Baltimore convention, but refused to act with his delegation as to the time-serving policy of selecting a candidate from the ranks of the Republican party to head the National Democratic ticket for President.  In disgust he retired, selling to men who thought they sacrificed no principle in advocating the claims of Greeley for President, although he had often stated in Tribune, that he "would not say that every Democrat was a horse thief, but would say that every horse thief turned out to be a Democrat."  The people of the United States refused to sustain his nomination, and defeat and disaster overtook the old man, and from disappointment, he soon became a hopeless wreck, and died.  Such is the end of ambitious and ill-balanced men!  In the spring of 1873, Mr. Hill was elected a member of the Ohio Constitutional convention held at the cities of Columbus and Cincinnati in the summer of 1873 and winter of 1874.and served upon several committees int he convention, and was chairman of the committee of accounts and expenses.  He made a number of speeches, all of which are printed in the volumes of the debates.  He was active in opposing all schemes to deplete the treasury, and increase the burthens of the people, and finally voted against the constitution, feeling convinced that it was not what the people wished.  On the fourth of July, 1876, at a town meeting, the people selected him to deliver the Centennial address for Ashland county.  A large assemblage of people was present to hear the address, which was published in both the county papers.  In 1875-6-7-8 he wrote the sketches of Marion, Wyandot and Allen counties, with a full history of the ancient Wyandotts, Delawares and Shawnees, including their final removal west.   In 1880 he finished, for publication, the history of Ashland county.
     Mr. Hill married Miss Rebecca Draper, daughter of John Draper, formerly from near Boston, Massachusetts, May 17, 1850.  His family consists of three children: Margaret Amanda, Ida Rena and William Duane Hill all of age.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 126
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Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 404

PETER HUFF was born in Virginia, December 25, 1798, and when a child accompanied his parents to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1825, when he came west and located in Lake township.  He settled on the west side of Lake fork in the forest, and soon erected a cabin and began to improve his land.  Those residing on the west side of the stream were George Marks, John C. Young, John Emerick, Enoch Covert, Abraham Blue, Jabez Smith, Emer Akins, and Nathan Dolby.  Mr. Huff  has a fine property south of Mohicanville.  He is quite vigorous and retains all his faculties.  He has two sons, Samuel and William.  The former resides in Mohicanville and carries on a large woollen manufactory, and the latter resides on the homestead.  Mr. Huff stays with 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 177
ABRAHAM HUFFMAN was born in Brooke county, Virginia, November 19, 1785.  In 1813 he enlisted with the Brooke county soldiers to serve in the northwest part of Ohio; but before seeing active service the war closed.  He entered the east half of section thirty-one, in Clearcreek township,  Richland county, in the spring of 1815, and came on with a hand and erected a small open cabin, and returned about the middle of the summer, after having prepared a few acres of new ground for corn, and brought his family.  His was among the first families who located in Clearcreek - the families of Robert McBeth, James Haney, John and Richard Freeborn, and William Shaw having arrived about the same time.  When Mr. Huffman first landed he found large numbers of Delaware and Wyandot Indians encamped along the stream, engaged in hunting and trapping.  After a few weeks they returned to Sandusky.  In the fall they came on again.  A large and well worn trail passed near his cabin.  The hunters passed up and down this trail on their way to Wooster and Pittsburgh, on their trips to exchange furs and peltry for lead, powder, tomahawks, knives, clothing, and "white men's fire-water."  There were two burial spots on the farm of Mr. Huffman, one near the modern site of his barn, and where one Mr. Mykrants erected a residence, east of the Savannah road.  In their hunting excursions along the streams of Clearcreek, they frequently stopped at these cemeteries, and seemed to mourn the departed.  Mr. Huffman was careful not to disturb the last sleeping place of their braves.  It was his custom to feed the Indians when they called at his cabin, and by doing so he won their esteem.  They never disturbed him, although they passed in large numbers until about 1822.  Mr. Huffman was a large, energetic and thorough-going man.  His land contained a splendid sugar camp, and the second year he made enough sugar to complete his payments on his farm.  It sold at the trading points at eighteen cents per pound, in cash.  For three or four years his toil was constant, for, when not engaged in leveling the forests on his own premises, his services were freely given to aid his neighbors in erecting cabins, rolling logs and the like.  The timber of the native forests of Clearcreek was very dense and exceedingly tall.  To prepare fields for tillage, therefore, required much hard labor and toil for a number of years.  Mr. Huffman, in his prime, possessed uncommon endurance.  In a few years he had a model farm, and was surrounded by all the comforts of the thrifty agriculturist.  He resided on his homestead until his family had grown up and became somewhat scattered.  He had been foremost in encouraging the common schools of the township, in erecting public highways and in support of houses of worship.  He was always ready to aid the needy, and was the foe of every species of vice.  In his intercourse with his neighbors, he was frank and outspoken.  He was an active member and official of the Methodist Episcopal church for over fifty years.  He removed to Ashland in 1848, disposing of his farm, and died October 19, 1860, at the age of seventy-five years.  Mrs. Huffman died in 1862, aged seventy-three years.  The family consisted of Zachariah, Susan, Abraham, Benjamin, John, William, Mary Ann, Sarah Jane, Daniel and  Perrin,  Zachariah, Abraham, John, William and Sarah are dead, and the balance of the family are very much scattered.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 197
ANDREW HUMPHREY, born in Ireland, came to America when only twelve years old, and afterward married Mary Humphrey of Erie, Pennsylvania.  He came to Ashland county in 1824, and first settled on the farm now owned by William Humphrey.  He was a shoemaker by trade, but in the latter part of his life was engaged in farming.  He was a member of the Disciple church, and in politics was a Democrat.  He was the father of ten children, six of whom are living: William who married Nancy McIlvaine; Rebecca, wife of Lewis Patterson, of Missouri; Nancy, wife of Alexander McS___; Catharine, wife of John Ramsey, of Iowa; John, who married Rebecca Toney, and lives in Ashland county, Ohio; and Jane, wife of James Laird.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 282
ROBERT R. HUMPHREY, born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1851, was engaged in farming and school teaching until 1874, when in company with J. R. Swartz, he purchased A. D. Simmerman's stock of dry goods, groceries and notions in Perrysville, and continued in partnership until 1878, when he purchased Swartz's share, and still continues business under the firm name of Humphrey & Son  Apr. 14, 1880, their store and nearly their entire stock was destroyed by fire, but they immediately erected a temporary building adjoining their old stand, bought a new stock of goods, and still continue in business.  They deal largely in country produce; their sales in all amounting to between twenty-five thousand and thirty thousand dollars per annum.  In 1878 he married Jennie E. Wallace, and they have one child, Clyde.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 282
WILLIAM HUMPHREY, born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, in 1814, came to Ohio with his father, and in 1842 married Mary McIlvaine.  He is engaged in farming, and also in the dry goods business in Perrysville, and has the largest vineyard in Green township.  He has held the office of trustee, clerk and treasurer for a number of years, and is an honored and respected member of society.  He has eight children, viz.:  James A., who married Mary Wachel, and lives in Ashland County; Mary, wife of Benjamin Fry, of Ashland county; Annie; Robert, who married Jennie Wallace, and lives in Ashland county; William, Jane, Sadie 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 282

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