|
BIOGRAPHIES
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
 Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio
with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches,
by George William Hill, M.D. -
Published by Williams Bros.
-1880 -
< CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO
1880 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX >
< CLICK HERE GO TO
lLIST OF BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES >
ELI W.
WALLACK was born Sept. 3, 1828, in Tuscarawas county,
Ohio, from whence, at the age of twenty years, he removed to
Ashtabula county, Ohio, and remained until 1848, when he located
in Ashland. At first he formed a partnership with J. W.
Harman in the provision business, which lasted about two
years, when he formed a partnership with R. and J. Freer
in the same business. About this time he married Miss
Anne Faws, who deceased in 1873 aged thirty-nine years.
He afterward married Mrs. Caroline Campbell in 1876.
Mr. Wallack has been an active business man in Ashland
for thirty-two years, and is one of the oldest business men of
the town. He has met many business reverses. The
failure of the Citizens' Bank in 1877, greatly shook his
confidence in men. The destruction of his store rooms, by
fire, in June, 1880, was a sad disaster and a great loss.
He is now in company with W. C. Frazee in a furniture
establishment on Main street, Ashland. Mr. Wallack
has often been called to fill the office of treasurer for
Montgomery township, and has many friends who respect him for
his undoubted integrity and honor.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 227 |
EPHRAIM WELCH
was born November 27, 1800, in Washington county, Pennsylvania,
and came to Orange township, Richland, but now Ashland, county, in
February, 1828. The farm upon which he located, and which he
cleared up and improved, section two, southeast quarter, had been
entered by his father, and some timber girdled prior to his
improving it. He married Miss Jane McAdoo, of
Scotch-Irish descent, Oct. 2, 1827, in Washington county,
Pennsylvania, who came with him when he put up his first cabin,
and submitted to all the hardships of pioneer life. The
union was blessed by four sons, James, John, Johnson, and
Rankin, and two daughters, Catharine, married to
Dr. Bailey, and Mary Jane, married to Levi Mason,
of Ashland.
Ephraim Welch deceased April 1, 1874, aged about
seventy-four years. Mrs. Welch resides in district
number one, and remembers many of the early teachers. She
mentions among their number: Isaac Stull, Clarissa
Rising, Shadrach Bryan, and others. Mrs. Welch
has one hundred and sixty acres of land in the old homestead,
which is well improved and valuable. She states that her
earliest neighbors were John McConnell, William McConnell,
Thomas McConnell, George McConnell, all from Washington
county, Pennsylvania; Jacob Ridenour, Robert Walters, Thomas
Donley, John Bishop, Samuel Mackerel, Robert Culberson, Peter
Biddinger, Robert Mickey, James Clark, John Sibert, John Haun,
and Jacob Hiffner. Mrs. Welch is a member of the
United Presbyterian church, of Savannah, and has been for fifty
years. She is at this time in good health, and seems to
possess a clear recollection of former events 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 246 |
JOHN
WELTMER was born in Wayne county, Ohio, November 22, 1829,
and in 1852 married Phebe Moses. In 1857 he settled
on the farm on which he now lives. He is a cabinet-maker and
carpenter by trade, but is at present engaged in farming. He is a
member of the Evangelical Association, and a class-leader in the
church; in politics he is a Republican. He is the father of four
children: Sylvania, deceased; Pinninnah, wife of
Charles Scott, of Ashland county; Epraim, who
married Mina Anderr, and lives in Ashland county,
and Lenna L.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 278 |
SAMUEL
GATES WIEST, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania,
June28, 1850. His parents are Jacob Wiestborn Mar.
22, 1828. They still lie in Pennsylvania, where they have
raised a family of seven children, as follows: Samuel G.,
the Subject of this sketch, came to Ashland in June, 1873, and
immediately engaged in the drug business with J. P. Harley.
He afterwards took the old stand of W. K. Foltz, one
door east of the Miller house, where he continued in
business by himself until 1880, when he assisted with himself
E. W. Reaser, and still continues in the drug business.
S. G. Wiest was married Sep. 4, 1876 to Belle
Mansfield, daughter of M. H. Mansfield, of Ashland,
and has one child, John M., born Feb. 4, 1879.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 -Page 397 |
RICHARD
WINBIGLER was born in Frederick county, Maryland, near
Frederick City, in 1782. He grew to manhood and married in
his native State. In 1818 he concluded to cast his lot
among the pioneers of the branches of Mohican, in Ohio, where
many other Marylanders found homes. He emigrated with his
family, and located about two miles southeast of Jeromeville.
Mr. Winbigler deceased some twenty years since, over
seventy years of age. At his decease, his family consisted
of Mary Anne, Henry, Elizabeth and William, all of
whom are dead, except Henry.
Henry Winbigler was born in Frederick county,
Maryland, June 4, 1808. He accompanied his father's family
to Mohican township in 1818, and has a very distinct
recollection of the pioneer days of that township. He
attended the common schools of that period, and obtained a fair
knowledge of the elementary branches. In 1832 he married
Jane, daughter of John Hootman. He
has filled several township offices in Mohican, and been elected
justice of the peace four times, or twelve years. Mr.
Winbigler is a gentleman of intelligence and undisputed
integrity. His family consists of Richard M. and
Elizabeth, wife of Josephus Newbrough, of
Jackson county, Michigan. Mr. Winbigler is
an industrious farmer, and in possession of a valuable
homestead, where he lives quietly and contentedly.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 -Page 207 |
ROSWELL
WESTON, was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut,
July 28, 1811. He removed with his father, Salmon Weston,
to Ruggles township, Huron (now Ashland) county, in the spring
of 1826. His father died in 1864, aged about seventy-six
years. He left two sons, Phineas and Roswell,
the subject of this sketch. Roswell died May 21,
1875, aged sixty-four years. He resided two miles east of
the center. His family consisted of one daughter Lucy,
who married Milton N. Campbell, who resides at Mt.
Pleasant, Iowa, and one son, Clarendon, who resides with
his mother on the homestead. Phineas Weston resides
in Ruggles, two miles east of the center, adjoining the homestead
of Roswell.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 180 |
JUDGE
DANIEL W. WHITMORE was born in the town of Leicester,
county of Livingston, and State of New York, March 2, 1823. His
father was quite an extensive farmer when Daniel was a
small boy. He was the oldest of his father's children. Mr.
Whitmore remained with his parents, worked on the farm, and
attended to his father's business, until he was about eighteen
years of age, when he became afflicted with sciatic and
inflammatory rheumatism, and, consequently, could do but little
labor on, the farm. Up to this time he had attended a common
district school, only two or three months each winter, which was
one and a half miles from his father's residence. He could
imperfectly read, write, and cipher a little, which was about the
extent of his education. Being an invalid, and knowing, from the
condition of his physical organization, that he would not likely
ever be able to perform hard manual labor, and possessing an
ambitious disposition to be, or do, something in the world, with
the influence of his mother he obtained the consent of his stern
father to let him go to a select school at Perry center, three
terms, in all nine months. In the estimation of his father, nearly
all professional men were, more or less, contaminated with one, or
all, of the following vices: Intemperance, recklessness, and
dishonesty, and the laziest man made the best fiddler, and the
next laziest would come in as a country school-teacher.
School-teaching he had chosen as his profession. As a
student, his full determination was to know the principles of his
studies. All the time he attended the select school he did not
lose an hour, sometimes studying until midnight. To be a good and
successful school-teacher, was his aim. To. that end he spared
neither pains nor expense. After the close of the last term of the
select school, he returned home and attended a graded school
taught by Professor Nuland, a graduate of the normal
school at Albany, New York. In the autumn of 1845 he made
application to Mr. Crosby, town superintendent, for
a certificate to teach school, and draw public money for his
services. He had no difficulty in procuring a school, as he had a
recommendation from the professor and superintendent. He taught a
term of four months, and, at the close of the term, he received
for the services he had rendered, sixty-four dollars. He never had
so much money at one time before. He states that he would have
been well recompensed if he had not received a. dollar, for he
never passed a more agreeable winter. The following summer he
attended the district school at home, three months, which was
taught by a thorough and practical teacher, and studied the
remainder of that summer at home. The winter following he engaged
as assistant teacher in a graded normal school. The following
summer, his health being poor, he visited the sulphur springs, at
Avon, New York.
In the month of September, 1847, he came to Ashland,
Ohio, on a visit; and a long one it has proven, for it has lasted
thirty-three years. He had not been thirty miles from home before.
His first night in Ohio was passed in Oberlin. In the coach that
carried him from Oberlin to Ashland, he met a tall, elderly
gentleman, who was very jovial and communicative. A couple of days
after arriving at Ashland, he was informed that there was an
interesting lawsuit in progress at the Stone church, then used as
a court-room, to decide whether Ashland village should remain the
county-seat of Ashland county. There, to his surprise, stood the
tall, spare man, who came in the coach with him, pleading in the
interests of Ashland village. Upon enquiry, he found the
interesting speaker to be Reuben Wood, the great expounder of law,
from Cleveland.
A few days after arriving at Ashland, he became
acquainted with one of Ohio's most gifted and talented sons—one of
the most energetic, generous, scholarly and self-sacrificing of
men, and who did everything in his power for the advancement of
the rising generation; that man was Lorin Andrews.
Being informed where Mr. Whitmore formerly resided,
and that he had taught school, and that he was familiar with the
methods employed in the common and graded schools in the State of
New York, Mr. Andrews strongly urged him to remain
in the county and teach school, and help him and other teachers in
the cause of education. He informed him that he had a district
school in view, that wanted to engage a school-teacher, and was
willing and able to pay the highest wages to a teacher who would
teach them a good school and give general satisfaction; he was
fully convinced it was a difficult school to govern. Mr.
Whitmore took Professor Andrews' advice, and
made application for the school referred to.
After several interviews with Mr. James
Anderson, one of the school directors, Mr.
Whitmore engaged to teach school for fifteen dollars per month
of twenty-four days, and to receive his board in the homes of his
pupils. He was admonished that the school would be a difficult one
to manage. He believed that good order was the first and leading
principle in successful school-teaching. He commenced his school
on the day agreed upon, and had a much larger number of pupils at
the commencement than he expected. He distinctly recollects this,
his first day of school-teaching in Ohio. The most of his pupils
on this day were from five to fifteen years old, and in appearance
robust and healthy, with sparkling eyes and anxious countenances,
and in their behavior quiet and mannerly. The second day a few
more came, and his school continued to so increase through the
winter that his average daily attendance was over forty. His
schoolroom was considered to be one of the best in the township,
and was of peculiar structure and greatly in contrast with what he
had been accustomed to see and use in the east. It was constructed
of logs, nearly twenty feet square, about seven feet high to the
eaves, and roofed with oak shingles. Yet it let in water and snow
when the storms were violent. The chimney was built on the
outside; the foundation was built of stone, brick and clay mortar.
Mr. Whitmore found, after he had taught a few days,
that he had the material for a good school, provided he could get
the parents and householders to purchase their children suitable
school books. This he finally accomplished after much persistent
effort. He persuaded Professor Andrews to visit his
school and give the parents of the pupils a lecture upon the
subject, which had a wholesome effect. Mr. Whitmore
offered to purchase school books for the pupils of such parents as
could not afford to buy them then, and wait until they could repay
him.
An effort was made, just before holiday time, by some
of the older pupils, lead on by young men not members of the
school, to have Mr. Whitmore agree to treat the
scholars, after the usual custom that then prevailed. The teacher
refused to agree to anything of the kind, much to the chagrin of
some of his pupils; but after the time had passed, and all hope of
a treat had been given up, he surprised his school with a most
liberal distribution of fruit and palatable delicacies. Mr.
Whitmore relates the following:
In one school district, a teacher was barred out, because of his
refusing to treat, and wanted possession of his school-room. His
scholars were all in, and had the doors and windows well fastened.
The teacher, expecting to be barred out, had prepared himself for
the emergency. He got a ladder, and ascending to the top of the
house, dropped sulphur down the flue into the stove, where there
was a good fire. It ignited so quickly that the room soon became
filled with a strong sulphurous odor, and the scholars were
obliged to open the doors and windows to breathe, putting the
teacher in victorious possession.
In another district the case was similar, but the
scholars were more shrewd. After the teacher had ascended the
ladder to the cone of the house, and was trying to smoke his
scholars out, by covering the top of the chimney, one of the boys
crawled out of a window, and took the ladder down, leaving the
gentleman teacher on the top of the house, with the cutting wind
whistling around, to keep him cool and bring him to time. He
begged to have the ladder replaced, but the boys would not unless
he would consent to treat. After a couple of hours of shivering
meditation, he came to the conclusion that he had better treat
than freeze, or kill himself by jumping down. The contract was not
considered binding unless it was in writing, so one of the boys
took a long pole, and, tying the agreement to be signed and a
pencil to the end of it, reached them up to him, when he signed
the agreement and threw it down.. The boys replaced the ladder,
and he came down nearly frozen. So they compelled the teacher to
treat, and had a jolly good time.
It was not customary for the householders to take part
in the treating business, but let the children and teacher fight
it out. One of the parties would generally back down or give up in
a few days, or the school would be entirely closed for that term.
Mr. Whitmore had marked
success with his first school; and public funds being lacking,
money was raised by subscription, and he was invited to teach a
summer school in the same district, and was employed again for the
winter session. His further experience as a teacher extended over
a number of years, and it is to be regretted that sufficient space
cannot be given to recount the many interesting facts and events
connected with his school-teaching days. His contribution to
education in the county of Ashland was very great.
The text-books then used were the elementary
spelling-book, McGffeuy's readers, Mitchell's
geography, and atlas, Green's grammar and analysis, Adams' new
arithmetic, and Colburn's mental arithmetic; and a good
deal of writing was done. They had no steel or gold pens, and no
writing-books with plated copies. After arriving at the
school-houses in the morning and making a fire and sweeping the
room, Mr. Whitmore's next task was to write copies
and make pens out of geese quills, and sometimes his pupils would
bring turkey quills as a substitute when geese quills could not be
conveniently had. Their ink was mostly made by his pupils or their
parents out of the water which maple or chestnut bark had been
strongly boiled, then putting in coperas and boiling it with the
liquid to its proper thickness, and then straining. It made a very
good black ink.
The following principles were a guide to Mr.
Whitmore in his educational labors, and he endeavored to have
his pupils governed by them: 1st. That it is no disgrace to
perform manual labor, but an honor, a credit and a benefit to
themselves, to the community, and to their country. To be
industrious, economical and saving should be the aim of all, and
that physical and mental exercise are necessary to fulfill
nature's laws; and that they should not forget the old adage, that
"idleness is said to be the mother of crime." 2d. The sure way to
success was for them to depend upon themselves, and that
self-reliance, with proper exertions, would enable them to
accomplish whatever they might reasonably undertake, and that it
is all within their own power to have or not to have the
confidence and respect of their fellow-men, and a person without
friends is a miserable being. Wirt says, and it is true,
that every person is the architect of his own fortune. 3d. That
they should be honest in all their business transactions, tell the
truth on all occasions, and they would be well rewarded for their
uprightness and truthfulness; that they should never forget, but
always follow, the precepts of that good old maxim: "Honesty is
the best policy." 4th. That they should at all time reverence and
treat their parents with respect and kindness; be civil, quiet and
mannerly, and not forget the golden rule, but practice it: "Do
unto others as you would have others do unto you." Much other:
good advice he gave to his pupils.
Mr. Whitmore had determined to follow
farming for a livelihood, but in the spring of 1857 he was elected
town-ship treasurer, and the following spring moved back to Milton
township, in this county, and in the autumn of 1858 was
elected real estate appraiser for the township of Milton, and
assessed the value of the realty the following summer. In the
spring of 1861 he was elected justice of the peace. At the
expiration of three years he declined a re-election, but was
elected again in the spring of 1866, and was re-elected again in
the spring of 1869, and in the month of October, 1869, was elected
probate judge for Ashland county, and three years thereafter
re-elected probate judge for the second term, which expired in
February, 1876; since that time he has employed himself in
farming.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 241 |
ABRAM
WILLIAMS. Among the wigwams of Greentown when the
pioneers of 1809-10 entered the township, was that of Abram
Williams, an irritable, morose old Indian, who had formerly
married a white captive on the Sandusky river, from whom he
separated in consequence of the violence of his temper and long
continued jealousy and cruelty. The story of this unhappy
marriage, as near as I can learn, is as follows:
About the year 1785 a family by the name of Martin
and a Mr. Castleman were neighbors in Beaver county,
Pennsylvania, and resided near the east bank of the Ohio river.
It has been the custom of these families, for several years, to
cross the river in the spring to make sugar on the bottoms.
They had been engaged several days during the spring alluded to,
when Castleman's horses strayed from their enclosure.
He went in search of them on the river bottoms. During his
absence, Martin returned from the camp and requested
Mary Castleman, aged about thirteen, and Margaret,
about nine, to accompany him to assist in boiling and gathering
sugar water.
Mrs. Castleman hesitated for some time to let
them go; but Martin being quite positive there were no
Indians in the vicinity, she finally consented to let them
return with him. A short time after they crossed the
river Mrs. Castleman heard the explosion of guns in the
vicinity of the camp, and being alarmed for the safety of her
daughters, hastened to the river side and called aloud, but
received no reply. Returning to her cabin she alarmed the
neighbors, and a number of men assembled on the east bank of the
river, but dared not pass over, for fear of an ambush. On
the succeeding morning, a number of volunteers crossed in a
canoe, and found Martin and his wife dead and scalped.
The Castleman girls, and a little daughter of
Martin were nowhere to be found. The volunteers
concluded they had been captured and carried away by the
Indians. Pursuit was not useless, as the savages were
doubtless many miles away. Years after, it was learned
that there were but three Indians at the capture. In
skulking along the banks of the Ohio, they happened on Martin's
camp, and finding it defenceless, concluded to kill him
and his wife, and take the girls to Sandusky.
After they had killed Martin and his wife they
secured the girls. While they were engaged in the fiendish
murder of the two old people, Margaret attempted to
conceal herself in a hollow sycamore log, while Mary fled
to the river and got into a canoe and began to push it from the
shore, but one of the Indians instantly pursued her into the
water and dragged the canoe back again, and secured her.
He asked her how many man were at the house, and knowing that
the safety of her mother and family depended upon her strategy,
she answered nine.
The Indians then took up their line of march for
Greentown, on the Black fork. After several days they
arrived at the Indian village, where they met some traders from
Detroit. They passed up the ancient trail from Fort Pitt,
by way of Jerometown, now known as the Portage trail. A
trader at Greentown, by the name of McIntosh, was much pleased
with the appearance of Margaret, and purchasing her for
twenty-five dollars, took her home with him to Detroit, where
she remained a number of years as a member of his family, and
attended school. Her father, through the traders, finally
learned of her whereabouts, and went to Detroit and took her
home.
The Indians took Mary and the Martin girl
to Sandusky, where they remained. The history of the
Martin girl, during her residence among the Delawares,
is a blank. Mary Castleman grew up to womanhood
among the Indians, learning all their customs and language.
During her residence among the Indians at Sandusky, she became
acquainted with Abram Williams, a half-blood, to whom she
was married. She had by him two children, George
and Sally. Williams was a jealous,
tyrannical and cruel husband, and he and his white squaw lived
very unhappily.
Williams, in his paroxysms of rage and jealousy,
often maltreated his wife, and threatened to kill her.
Fearing he would put his threat into execution, she resolved, if
possible, to make her escape and seek refuge among her friends
in Beaver county. By the traders, who often visited Fort
Pitt, she conveyed intelligence of her situation to her father,
and her desire to be relieved. The attempt to rescue her
would be attended with much danger. If not successful, it
would result in bringing upon her the vengeance of her
exasperated husband, and might terminate in great suffering and
death.
Mr. Castleman made arrangements with a man by
the name of George Foulks, a neighbor, to go to Sandusky
to obtain the release of Mary. In his youth, Mr.
Foulks had been captured by the Indians, taken to Sandusky
and adopted, where he resided for many years, and became versed
in their language and customs. He was well acquainted with
all the Indian trails, and it was presumed by Mr. Castleman,
that Foulks was just the man to secure the liberation of
his long missing daughter.
Mr. Foulks, after some preparation, set out for
Sandusky, passing up the old trail to Jerometown; thence near
where Olivesburgh now stands, through Bloominggrove, in Richland
county, to the place of his destination. He soon found
Williams and his wife. After spending a few days with
them he proposed to Williams to let Mary accompany
him on a visit to her friends in Beaver county. The
jealousy of Williams was at once aroused. He
refused to permit his wife to leave, and menaced the life of
Foulks if he persisted in making such a request.
Mr. Foulks determined to carry out his
intentions to bring Mary home. The rage of
Williams was to be baffled in strategy. Affecting to
acquiesce in the unwillingness of the dusky husband, he
alleviated his fears. Mr. Foulks then went to an
old Indian acquaintance and friend, and proposed to give him a
barrel of whisky and other presents if he would aid him in
getting Mary away from Williams. The Indian
feared the resentment of his Indian neighbor, and at first
refused; but the "fire water" was a tempting prize.
At the next interview he entered heartily into the
project, and agreed to go with Mary The plan was,
for Foulks to keep away from Williams, and remain
about the Indian camp. The confederate then took Mary
and started down the old Jerometown trail, while
Foulks remained a day in the camp, and then started by
another trail to meet his Indian friend and Mary at
Jerometown. When he arrived near the Indian village he
gave the signal, and Mary and his friend soon appeared in
the forest, and she was then taken home by Mr. Foulks and
restored to her friends and civilized society.
Some time after this desertion Williams came to
Greentown, built a wigwam, and was residing there with his
children, George and Sally, when the first
pioneers came into the neighborhood. Sally was then
a young woman, and had many admirers among the dusky warriors.
Mrs. James Cunningham, Mrs. James Irwin, Mrs. Sarah Vale,
and others, called at the wigwam of Williams to see what
kind of a housekeeper Sally appeared to be. These
ladies were all young then. They found a wigwam of
Williams neat and clean, and Sally a pleasant young
lady.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 128 |
CHARLES
WILSON was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, August 10,
1795, and came to Perry township, Wayne county, Ohio, in 1810.
In 1819 he married Mary Anderson. He has two sons,
William and Joseph, and four daughters including
Mrs. Z. Greenwald. When a youth he resided with his
parents in Jefferson county, Ohio, eight years, from whence he
came to Perry township, and thence to Montgomery.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 254 |
Vermillion Twp. -
ROBERT WILSON was born in Washington
county, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1816, and came to Ashland county
with his parents in 1820, his father having purchased eighty
acres of land where Robert now lives. At the time
they came to this place there was an abundance of game, turkey
and deer principally. Indians were numerous, but peaceably
inclined toward their white brethren. They were true
pioneers, and as such are quite well remembered by the old
settlers in the community at the present time. They began
the improvement of their land, and by perseverance and hard
knocks, such as our grand old forefathers and mothers could
endure, the old forests gave way and the waving fields of grain
took their place. Robert, the subject of this
sketch, remembers quite well the privations and hardships of
those early days. In 1839, November 14th, Mr. Wilson
married Martha Jeannette Roison, who came from
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, with her parents when she was
about three or four years of age. They had seven sons and
one daughter. Two sons died in infancy; one son, James,
the oldest of the family, died in the army; he was a private in
the One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry and served
as such from the date of his enlistment to the time of his
death, which took place at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, Feb. 11,
1863. Three sons and one daughter are married, and doing
for themselves. The youngest child, Robert, Jr.,
remains with his father. Mrs. Wilson having died
Mr. Wilson afterwards married Anna E. Greenwood,
widow of Charles Greenwood, of Holmes county, Ohio.
To them have been born one child. Mr. Wilson is one
of the best known men in this section of the county. In
politics he is a Republican. Both himself and wife are
members of the United 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 301 |
ISAAC WOLF,
born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1789, came to Ashland
county in 1819, and settled on the farm now owned by Warring
Wolf. He built the first house on the farm, and when built
there was not another house within a mile of it. He was engaged in
farming all his life, and, although not a mechanic, he
manufactured wooden plows for all the people near there. He was a
member of the Baptist church, and in 1813 married Nancy
Small. He died in October, 1840. He was the father of ten
children, eight of whom are living, viz: Warring, who
married Sarah Peterson; Sylvester, who
married Hannah Gladden, and lives in Indiana; Abrilla,
wife of Henry M. Hoover, of Shelby county, Ohio; Milo A.,
who married Elizabeth Priest, and lives in Iowa;
Boston F., who married Elizabeth Cotton, and
lives in Barre county, Michigan; Aletha, wife of Jacob
Rheinhardt, who lives in Morrow county, Ohio; Orsamus S.,
who married Pamela Fuller, and lives in Osceola
county, New York; and Samantha A.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 278 |
WARRING WOLF,
son of Isaac Wolf, was born in Beaver county,
Pennsylvania, in 1815, came to Ohio with his father, and, in 1841,
married Sarah Peterson. He has been engaged in
farming all his life, and has held the-office of trustee for
several years; has been justice of the peace for six years, and
assessor for three years. He is a member of the Baptist church,
and has been a deacon in the same ever since the death of his
father, which occurred forty years ago. In politics he is a
Democrat. He is the father of nine children, only four of whom are
living, viz.: Mary A., wife of John L. Metcalf,
of Ashland county; Isaac, who married Alice Freshwater,
and lives in Ashland county; Margaret E., and John P.,
who married Annie Workman, and lives in Holmes
county.
Source:
History of Ashland County, Ohio with Illustrations and
Biographical Sketches, by George William Hill, M.D. - Published
by Williams Bros. 1880 - Page 278 |
NOTES:
|
