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BIOGRAPHIES
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JOHN RAMSEY,
was born in Maryland, near Baltimore, Feb., 1790, and came
into Wayne county, Ohio, about 1822, and afterward settled on his
homestead in section thirty-five, in Orange township. His
father located in Jackson township, and by his assistance cleared
up the farm which came into the possession of John, after
the death of his father, whose name was William, and who
died at the age of eighty-six years. Mr. Ramsey
passed through all the early pioneer scenes, such as
cabin-raisings, log-rollings, corn-huskings, attending the first
mills, or in the use of hominy blocks, which were in extensive
demand, flax-pullings or scutchings, and the evening dances on
such occasions. These were regarded as occasions of much fun
by the young people. Those days are all gone. Age
gradually comes on, and many of his associates of fifty years ago
have been gathered to their long home. Mr. Ramsey has
a fine estate, and has always lived on agreeable terms with his
neighbors, and does not know of a single enemy in the world, He
states that he has always obeyed the dictates of conscience, and
treated all men kindly, and believes when his time is at an end,
the Good Being will reward his actions in a better world. He
has always lived a single life, believing that he would have less
trouble and be quite as happy as those who married. He has
one hundred and sixty-six acres of land in Orange township, and
ninety in Jackson, and thinks he is in no danger of coming to
want. William Ramsey, of Jackson, is a brother.
He is eighty-two years of age. Mr. Ramsey resides
with a widowed sister on his one hundred and sixty acres lot in
Orange township. The widow is the wife of the late Samuel
Tilton, and aged about seventy-two years. Mr. Ramsey
is quite cheerful and is perfectly contented and happy, and may
live to see his hundredth anniversary.
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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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WILLIAM RAMSEY
was born in Maryland and removed to
Jackson township, Wayne
county, in 1823, and has resided in Jackson
township about forty seven years.
When he located the original settlers were
Charles Hoy, John Baker, John Russell,
Noah Long, John Jackson, William Bryan, Elisha Chilcote, John Tucker, John
Davault, John Swaney and Robert Crawford, who owned a horse-mill, and finally went to Missouri.
He owns a good farm and has it under fine cultivation, with fine
buildings.
Mr. Ramsey is about eighty-two years
of age.
Source:
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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JAMES REDD,
father of J. F. Redd, was born in Pennsylvania, came
to Ohio at an early day, and married Lydia Nettles,
of Wayne county. By trade he was a carpenter, and in
politics was an old-line Whig. He died in 1840,
leaving but one child, a son, John F. Redd, who was
born in Wayne county, in 1836, came to Ashland county in
1840, and lived there with George Ream for three years; then
went to Holmes county and stayed three years, when he
returned to Ashland county and stayed until he was eighteen
years old. He then settled in Loudonville, and learned
harness making of J. T. Henderson worked at the trade
thirteen years, and at the end of that time, went into
business for himself, and worked three years more. In
1867 he bought the grocery store of P. J. Black and
has continued in that business up to the present time.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In
1858 he married Louisa Reinhardt. Two children
were born to them - Charles M. and Cora B.
Source:
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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ASA S. REED was
born in Lynn, Massachusetts,
Dec. 22, 1817. His father,
Josiah Reed, came to
Westfield,
Medina county, Ohio in the spring of 1829, and died Feb. 18, 1830. HE left his family in limited
circumstances.
Asa was apprenticed to a farmer until he was twenty years of age, to be instructed to the
rule of three in arithmetic, and in spelling, reading and writing. In 1834 he hired as a farm hand at
twelve dollars per month, and unfortunately wounded his limb, which had to be
amputated near the knee. He suffered
many months, and being unable to labor was reduced to the necessity of being
aided by charity. As soon as he
could regain sufficient strength, he engaged in various enterprises to recruit
his fortunes. In 1835 he taught
school three months. His chief
occupation until 1844 was that of teacher.
He then undertook to learn the trade of a tailor, and sewed three months
in Jeromeville with John D. Jones. In 1846 he was elected recorder of
Ashland county for the short term of six months,
and was re-elected continuously the three following terms. He acted at the same time as notary
public nine years. He then taught
one term in the Union school at Ashland. He has been remarkably successful as
a teacher, and has taught more terms than any teacher within the limits of the
county – in the aggregate amounting to near fifteen years. In 1859 he removed to Sullivan, and
became a successful farmer and teacher.
He married Priscilla Smalley,
of Perry township, by whom he had three sons –
George W., John F., and
Oliver F.
George is dead. In Dec.,
1872, Mrs. Reed deceased, aged fifty-one years.
April 29, 1873, he married Charlotte
Forbes, of Ashland, an experienced teacher,
and a resident of Ashland
for about forty-two years.
Mr. Reed and his former and present
wife were and are exemplary members of the Christian church. He possesses a neat and valuable
homestead, and is another illustration of what can be accomplished amid all
embarrassments by industry, perseverance, integrity and an upright life. Few in early life have undergone more
trials, and few have been more successful in mastering all obstacles
Source:
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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JAMES
REED, SR., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania,
came to Ashland county in 1829, and settled on the farm now
owned by Frederick Frank. For sixteen years
he held the office of justice of the peace in Loudonville, and
was a Jacksonian Democrat. At the organization of the
Republican party he became a Republican and remained one until
his death. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian
church in Perrysville. He married Rosanna Lyle,
of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and six children were born
to them, viz.: James O., who married Nellie
Allison, and lives in Louisiana; Sarah J., who
lives in Loudonville; Joseph R., who married Jeanette
Dinsmore; Elizabeth, wife of D. A. Newell,
who lives in Mercer county, Pennsylvania; William R., who
married Rebecca Robinson, and Rose, all
living in Ashland county.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 293 |
WILLIAM
R. REED, JR., was born in Ashland county, in 1846, and in
1870 married Rebecca Robinson. In 1874 he began
business in Loudonville as a hardware, merchant in company with
Joseph H. Hartupee. He is a Republican and the
father of five children: Ralph, Edgar, Marion, Annie
and an infant daughter.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 293 |
WILLIAM
REED, SR., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania,
came to Ashland county in 1829, and settled on the farm now
owned by Frederick Frank. For sixteen years he held
the office of justice of the peace in Loudonville, and was a
Jacksonian Democrat. At the organization of the Republican
party he became a Republican and remained one until his death.
He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church in
Perrysville. He married Rosanna Lyle, of Washington
county, Pennsylvania, and six children were born to them, viz.:
James O., who married Nellie Allison, and lives in
Louisiana; Sarah J. who lives in Loudonville; Joseph
R., who married Jeanette Dinsmore;
Elizabeth, wife of D. A. Newell, who lives in Mercer
county, Pennsylvania; William R. who married Rebecca
Robinson, and Rose, all living in Ashland county.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 293 |
EBENEZER
RICE was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Apr. 8,
1773. He was the eldest son of Samuel and Abigail
Underwood Rice. Samuel was born in
Sudbury, in November, 1752, and was the son of Gersham and
Elizabeth Rice. Gersham was born in Sudbury, in
June, 1703, and was the son of Ephraim and Hannah Livermore
Rice. Ephraim was born in Sudbury, in April,
1665, and was the son of Thomas and Mary Rice.
Thomas was born in 1611, and was the son of Edmund and
Tamazine Rice, who came from Barkhamstead, England, in
1638-9, and settled in Sudbury, and lived and died there, on the
beautiful old farm on the east side of Sudbury river, near the
border of the extensive meadows through which that river flows
in its course to the Merrimac. The old farm is now in the
possession of the Hon. John Whitmore Rice.
Ebenezer Rice married Martha, daughter of
Barnabas and Mary Clark Hammond, of New Salem,
Massachusetts. She was born in September, 1776, and they
were married May 5, 1796, and emigrated to Licking county, Ohio,
from Essex county, New York, in the year 1810. The
following February they came to Richland county, and entered the
farm upon which Alexander Rice now resides, in Green
township. Mr. Rice and his family experienced all
the privations and anxieties of pioneer life in their forest
home. He cheerfully aided the new settlers in the erection
of cabins, at log-rollings and other gatherings. For
several years the pioneers were mutually dependent upon each
other, and the social relations were largely cultivated.
The forests were to be cut away, farms to be opened,
school-houses to be erected, and public highways to be
constructed. Mr. Rice took an active and leading
part in all these enterprises. He was particularly
interested in the education of his children. He survived
until 1821. His family, at his decrease, consisted of
eleven children - four girls: Elizabeth, Martha,
Harriet, and Abigail; and seven boys: Ebenezer,
Alexander, Clark, Orson, Reuben, Levi, and Samuel.
Only four survive: Elizabeth, wife of the late John
Coulter; Martha, of Wisconsin; Alexander, of Green
township, and Samuel, of Iowa. The widow of
Ebenezer Rice subsequently married Judge Thomas Coulter,
and died in September, 1835.
Alexander Rice was born in Massachusetts, in
August, 1801, and emigrated with his parents to Green township,
in 1810. He grew up amid the wild and beautiful scenery of
the hills and valleys fringing the Black fork of the Mohican,
and a neighbor to the red men of the village of Greentown.
His educational advantages at that early day, were extremely
limited. Being a young man of excellent sense, he acquired
much information after reaching manhood. He is noted for
his practical ideas, and plainness of speech. He has
resided about sixty-six years on the homestead, and been
continuously engaged in cultivating the soil.
In 1826 he married Miss Sarah Johnson, of
Vermillion township. Their children were - Rosella,
Rosina, Orson, Reuben H., Isaac J., and Rosaline.
Mrs. Rice died in 1844. Miss Rosella is a lady
of talent and fine literary attainments, and has written a great
deal for the eastern magazines.
Mr. Rice subsequently married Mary Vanscoyoc,
by whom he had Russell B., Ida, Josephine, and Ada
Lenore.
Mr. Rice is yet in the full possession of all his
faculties, and is quite vigorous for a man of his age. He
remembers very distinctly and early scenes in Green township -
the excitement of cabin-raisings, log-rollings, cutting roads
and constructing corduroy bridges over marshes and sloughs.
He relates, with historic precision, the opening scenes of the
war of 1812, the Indian tragedies on the Black fork, the
erecting of block-houses, and modes of life from 1812 to 1815.
When about nine years of age, his father, mother and a
number of neighbors, were invited by the Indians to attend a
feast at their village. He accompanied the invited guests
to witness the performance. "There were between three and
four hundred Indians present. The invited guests were
permitted to enter the council house, a building, perhaps thirty
feet wide, and nearly sixty feet long. In the center of
the building was a mound of earth about three feet high and
eight or ten feet to diameter. Forks were driven into it
and poles placed upon them. Upon these a number of copper
kettles were suspended. they contained bear's meat,
venison and the like, which was being boiled for distribution
among the Indians and invited guests. The white and Indian
boys remained outside the building." While gazing at the
performance within, a young Indian came up behind young Rice,
seized him around the arms and body and held him firmly.
The alarm and amazement of young Rice were very great.
He states that his first sensation on being unable to extricate
himself, was that of despair. He thought he could almost
feel his scalp disappearing. By the intervention of a
squaw he escaped the grasp of the young savage, to the relief of
his fears. Although this scene occurred sixty-four years
ago he says he retains a most vivid recollection of his
sensations on that occasion. Subsequently he became well
acquainted with the Armstrong boys, young Pipe, a son of
old Captain Pipe, Jonacake, Lyons, Dowdee and other
Greentown Indians.
Mr. Rice possesses a most extraordinary memory
for dates, and the author of these pages is indebted to him for
many valuable reminiscences of the early settlements of Green
township. Mr. Rice is yet (1880) residing on his
homestead near Perrysville, aged nearly eighty years, and
retains all his mental faculties and much physical vigor.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros.
1880 -
Page 162 |
SAMUEL
RICHARDS was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, December 23,
1803. When a young man he located in Orange township, of this
county, and removed to Troy in 1857. The township was at that time
thinly settled. It was densely timbered, and the pioneers
performed a prodigy of labor in removing the forest and preparing
fields for culture. His family consisted of six sons and six
daughters. Four—two boys and two girls—are dead. The balance are
married and reside mostly within this county. His wife deceased in
1875. He resides at present with a son at Troy center. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros.
1880 - Page 181 |
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JOHN M. RITCHIE was born where he now
resides, Jan. 28, 1840. His parents emigrated to Ohio from
Pennsylvania in 1835. They purchased a farm that has been
their only home in this State for a period of forty-five years.
The parents names are Samuel and Elizabeth. Mr. Ritchie
died Feb. 13, 1844, at the age of thirty-one years and nineteen
days. Mrs. Ritchie is still living, at the advanced
age of about seventy-five years. The exact age cannot be
given, on account of the family record having been destroyed by
fire when she was a child. She is quite smart, and says
she is young, or at least feels as young as she did years ago.
She, with her daughter, Miss Martha Jane Ritchie, occupy
the home with John and his family. The old home is
now owned by Miss Martha and her brother John, the
subject of this sketch. In addition to his share of the
old home, John owns a tract of land of forty acres which
he purchased some years ago of Philip Smith. On
Sept. 2, 1875, Mr. Ritchie was married to Miss Mary A.
Robinson, of Richland county, Ohio. They have two sons
- Samuel N., born Oct. 7, 1876, and Charles E.,
born Oct. 18, 1877. Mr. Ritchie is a farmer.
He has served the people of Ashland county as director of the
infirmary. In politics he is a Democrat. He makes no
profession of religion, but recognizes churches and schools as
very necessary to the well being of any community, and supports
them liberally. His aged mother is a member of the
Presbyterian church at Hayesville, Ohio.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880. - Page 300 |
SAMUEL
ROBERTSON was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania,
May 20, 1797. His father, James Robertson, of
Scotland, settled in that county about 1794. He removed,
with his family to Cross Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio,
in 1798, where he died. Samuel Robertson, grew to
manhood in Jefferson county, and in 1817 visited Milton,
Montgomery, and Orange townships, in what is now Ashland county.
The Burgetts and Montgomerys, of Milton township,
were friends and acquaintances. In 1817 he worked most of
the spring and summer for George Burgett, assisting him
in clearing his lands, and in cutting and prepare timber for a
new barn. He returned to Jefferson county and remained
during the winter. That next spring he was accompanied by
Alexander Morrow, a brother-in-law of the late Patrick
Elliot, of Clearcreek. Their route was from Cadiz to
Coshocton, thence up the Walhonding, to and up Owl creek to Mt.
Vernon, thence to Mansfield. For nearly twenty miles south
of Mansfield he found only an occasional cabin, and from there
to Burgetts an almost unbroken forest. In the fall
of 1818 and spring of 1819, he and John Grimes assisted
Isaac Charles in preparing a race and dam for a grist-
and saw-mill one and a half miles south of the present site of
Olivesburgh, on the black fork. Wages were very low and
money very scarce at that period. The pioneers were
crowding into Montgomery and the surrounding townships.
Cabin raisings and log-rollings were the chief occupation of the
new settlers. A wonderful amount of energy and
self-sacrifice were expended in assisting the incoming pioneers.
The woodman's axe could be heard ringing in every township.
Mr. Robertson states that wild game at this period was
very numerous, particularly deer and turkey. The lading
hunters were Solomon Urie, John McConnell, James Clark,
Christopher Mykrantz, and a Mr. Wheeler. In the
spring of 1824, he resided in what is now Seneca county, and
worked that summer for Mr. Gibson, father of General
William H. Gibson, and remembers the organization of the
county, and the location of the seat of justice at Tiffin.
There was an Indian reservation within the limits of the county
and the Senecas, or more properly, Cayugas,
were quite numerous, through generally friendly and
harmless. He remained there about one year. When he
entered the county, in 1824, he is of the opinion that there
were only about a dozen or twenty white families in that region,
among whom were the Gibsons, Welshes and H. C. Brish,
Indian agent. He reached the county by way of Beall's
trail, New Haven and Fort Ball. In 1833 he located in the
north part of Wayne county, where he cleared a small farm which,
in 1837, he sold and purchased lot one hundred, in Sullivan
Township, Lorain, now Ashland, county. It was densely
covered with tall timber. He cleared and resided upon this
farm about eighteen years. He then purchased a new
homestead in Orange township, known as the Linard farm.
Here his wife, with whom he had lived very happily for many
years, deceased. He afterward sold his farm, and now
(1876) resides in Ashland. His family consisted of
James, who died in the hospital in United States service in
1863; John who resides in; Michigan Margaret, wife
of Thomas Miller; Rebecca, wife of John Welsh; Mary,
wife of Michael Stentz; Isabel, wife of James
Campbell, and Sarah Jane, wife of John Crawford.
Mr. Robertson has passed through all the pioneer scenes of
the county, and still possesses a good deal of physical vigor.
His memory seems to be unimpaired, and he may survive many
years. Mr. Robertson died about 1878, in Orange
township.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros.
1880 - Page 182 |
JACOB
ROORBACK was born in Maryland, Feb. 27, 1795, and his
parents removed to Yates county, New York, where he was drafted
and served in the war of 1812. He married Amy Sutherland
in 1821, and in 1823 purchased four hundred acres of land in
section two, in Ruggles, to which he removed in 1824. He
died March 21, 1850. His wife deceased shortly afterward.
He had but one child, Sarah, who married A. W. Purdy,
of the same township.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros.
1880 -
Page 180 |
DARIUS RUST,
born in New York in 1824, came to Ohio with his father, and
settled in Ashland county. He was a moulder by trade, and worked
in the foundry with his father until 1874, when he went to Iowa
and remained four years, when he returned to Ohio and settled in
Loudonville, where he now lives, and where he has been township
clerk, village recorder, mayor, member of council, and member of
the school board. He is a member of the Disciple church, and in
politics is a Democrat. In 1859 he married Philena Priest,
who died in 1863. Afterwards he married Elizabeth Priest.
He is the father of six children, viz.: Stephen and
Francis, deceased; Fayette L., Jennie,
Arquette and Nettie.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros.
1880 -
Page 279 |
LUCIAN RUST
was born near Binghamton, New York, and received a common school
education. He began the study of law with George A. Elliot,
of Erie, Pennsylvania in 1842, but his health failing, he was
obliged to give it up in 1843, when he went south, but in 1844
returned to Erie and began clerking in a book store and express
office. In 1846-47-48 he was book-keeper for Williams & Wright,
who were in the dry goods business, and was afterwards with A.
King, wholesale grocer, and with Boyd, Cook & Co.,
contractors on the Lake Shore railroad. In 1850 he went into
partnership with Albert Becker, under the firm name
of Becker & Rust, general contractors, and
constructed the railroad bridge across Walnut creek, on the Lake
Shore railroad, in Pennsylvania; built the Akron branch of the
Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad, and commenced in 1853 the
construction of the Hillsborough & Parkersburgh railroad, and in
1854-5 ballasted the Hillsborough & Cincinnati railroad. In 1855
took the contract for laying the Nashville & Northwestern railroad
in Tennessee, but suspended operations on account of the approach
of war. He soon returned to Erie, and in 1861 built the
Carbon Oil company's refinery. In 1864 he built the Dale oil
works, in Franklin, Pennsylvania. In 1867 he moved to Loudonville,
and has since been employed by the Brundage Iron Bridge
company, and in 1871 built the iron bridge over the Kentucky
river, at Cogar's Landing. In 1873 he was appointed clerk
in the treasury department, under Commodore Douglas,
and held that position until July, 1875, when he returned to
Loudonville and engaged in the clothing business. In 1849 he
married Sarah Davis, of Washington county, New York.
She died in 1856. In 1857 he married Francis A. Smith, who
died in 1859. In 1861 he married Jeanette A. Whitney, of
Chautauqua county, New York. He is the father of five children,
viz.: Lucian, deceased; Helen, deceased; Frances
H.; Sarah J. and Lucian.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros.
1880 -
Page 279 |
STEPHEN RUST,
born in Connecticut in 1790, came to Ohio, in 1840, and settled in
Ashland county; He was a moulder by trade, and manufactured the
first cast-iron plow that was cast in the United States; he was
also the first patentee of the first wash-board that was ever
manufactured in the United States. It was made of copper,
sheet-iron, tin, and zinc. In 1845 he built the foundry in
Loudonville, and started the first steam-engine that was ever used
in a foundry in central Ohio, and in company with his sons, run
the foundry thirty years. In 1812, at Onondaga Hill, New York, he
manufactured from the ore, shot and shell for the United States
army. In 1817 he married Hannah Wiard. He died in
1870. Was a Democrat in politics, and was the father of six
children: Lucian, who married Sarah Davis,
then married Francis Smith, and afterwards
Jeanette Whitney, and lives in Loudonville; Morrell,
deceased, who married Mary Smith, of Loudonville;
Darius, who married Philena Priest, and
afterward married Elizabeth Priest, of Ashland
county; Halbert, who lives in Jeffersonville, Indiana;
Rosanna, deceased, wife of
J. C. Moltrup, of
Ashland county, and Helen, deceased.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros.
1880 -
Page 279 |
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N. D. RYLAND was born in Knox county, Ohio, Feb. 19,
1846. His parents came to Ashland county about the year
1850, and bought a farm about a mile and a half south of
Hayesville, where they remained until the fall of 1857, when
they sold the farm and emigrated to Randolph county, Missouri.
In the fall of 1861 they returned to Ohio, and bought a farm one
mile south of Hayesville. The next spring he sold his farm
and removed to the farm of James Ewing, and, at the end
of two years, bought a farm adjoining the one owned by N. D.
Ryland, where they lived some ten years, when they concluded
they would leave the farm, and try town life. They rented
the farm and moved to Hayesville, where they now reside.
The subject of this sketch, N. D. Ryland, where they
lived some ten years, when they concluded they would leave the
farm, and try town life. They rented the farm and moved to
Hayesville, where they now reside. The subject of this
sketch, N. D. Ryland was married Apr. 6, 1871, to
Eliza, daughter of John and Barbara Endinger, of
Mohican township. In 1874 they purchased the farm on which
they now live. They have two children, one son and one
daughter - Willis Howard, eight years old, and Effie
Blanche, four years old. In politics Mr. Ryland
is a Democrat, but is a man who does not allow politics to
interfere with his business affairs or his association with
neighbors. With the exception of running a
threshing-machine four years, his whole time has been given to
his farm. Mr. and Mrs. Ryland are members of the
Presbyterian church in Hayesville. They have bright
prospects before them, as both are young and hard workers, and
are highly respected by the community in which they live.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 302 |
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