Vermillion Twp. -
JOHN FARVER immigrated to Vermillion Township, with his
wife and two children, on the 29th of April, 1817, and commenced
improvement on his present farm, being the west half of the
northeast quarter of section 2. Mr. Farver's whole
moneyed resources, when he settled in the county, amounted to
twelve dollars. His first stock of corn was purchased on
Owl Creek at fifty cents per bushel. Four days were
occupied in the journey to and from Owl Creek, and a team of
three horses labored hard to drag fifteen bushels of corn over
the roads in their then condition.
His first crop of wheat, raised in 1817, he commenced
harvesting on the twentieth of August. The wheat was none
too ripe. Corn, pumpkins, and all other crops were
proportionately late. Mr. Farver has this day (14th
of July, 1862,) reached his seventy-sixth birthday, and enjoys
moderate health.
 Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 - Page 279 |
JACOB FAST,
an emigrant from Green County, Pennsylvania, settled upon the
farm he has since owned and occupied in Orange Township, in
April, 1817 - being the southeast half of the southwest quarter
of section 21. His family, at this date, consisted of his
wife, son Martin M. daughter, Mary, and son Eli
R. Fast.
Source: History of Ashland Co., Ohio - Publ. 1863. - Page 510 |
| 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. |
WILLIAM
FAST, in company with his eldest brother, Martin,
(late of Jackson Township,) visited the country with a view of
selecting and entering land for their father, Christian Fast,
Sr., in the fall of 1814. The families were yet
residents of Green County, Pennsylvania. While viewing the
country, they made their home with the family of Jacob Mason
- being the farm now owned by Henry Myers.
Source: History of Ashland Co., Ohio - Publ. 1863. - Page 506 |
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 William.
Levi, 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. |
NICHOLAS
FAST, in May, 1815, having previously entered at the Land
Office, at Canton, the quarter section in Orange Township upon
which Abram C. Fast now resides, emigrated from
Pennsylvania to said place with his family, consisting then of
his wife and three sons, namely, Christian, Henry, and
John B.
In 1823 he sold this place to his cousin, Joseph
Fast, the father of the present owner and occupant.
Subsequently he removed to Elyria, where he remained one year;
and, in 1832, purchased of Mr. Sage the three hundred and
twenty-five acres, upon a part of which now resides Jesse
Simmons, in Troy Township. Abut seven years since he
became the owner of the seventy acres adjoining Troy Centre,
upon which he has since resided.
In the spring of 185 he embarked with his family,
household furniture, provisions, etc., on a keel-boat, at the
mouth of Cheat River, where that stream enters the Monongahela,
and proceeded down the latter to the Ohio; thence up the
Muskingum, White Woman, Mohican, and Jerome Fork, to Findley's
Landing, five miles below Jeromeville. In addition to his
own family, above named, his brothers, William and
David Fast, and brother-in-law, Henry Hampton, and his
wife, were also of the party.
The stock, in charge of his father, Christian
Fast, Sr., and brothers, Christian, Jr., Francis, George,
and John, were driven to the land of Christian Fast,
Sr., in Orange Township.
The portion of the families who adopted the river route
had a long and hazardous passage - being seven weeks and three
days on the water - their delays and dangers being in
consequence of the high stage of the water. When they
reached the mouth of the Muskingum, that river was so swollen,
the current so strong, and the "drift-wood," which covered
nearly its whole surface, offered such obstructions, that in the
effort to make their way against these obstacles, they only
made, during one afternoon and part of a night, about one mile.
On the next day they ascended about fifty rods higher to a
house, the lower part of which was submerged, and here they
continued during the remainder of that day and the whole of the
following night. On several succeeding days their boat
passed over fields and orchards and through the woods.
The parts of families who had traveled overland were
three weeks in advance of those who had taken the river route,
and suffered much anxiety of mind regarding the safety of their
friends union, however, in May, 1815, on the land of
Christian Fast, Sr., in Orange Township. Here rude
cabins and camps were hastily constructed, and the work of
improvement commenced with vigor.
Mr. Fast believes that his was the second white
family that settled in Troy Township - the name of the first not
being recollected by him. He is now seventy-five years of
age, and suffering much on account of physical infirmities.
Source: History of Ashland Co., Ohio - Publ. 1863. - Page 510 |
| 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. |
JOHN
FINGER emigrated from Frederick County, Maryland, to
Orange Township, in May, 1829. His father had, five years
previously, purchased of John Bishop the eighty acres
upon which he at present resides.
Source: History of Ashland Co., Ohio - Publ. 1863. - Page 511 |
Vermillion Twp. -
ROBERT FINLEY -
The family of this gentleman was the second that located in
Vermillion Township. In the early part of April, 1811, he
established himself upon the northeast quarter of section 12,
said land being now owned by Alexander Nelson, Adam Baum,
and Thomas Crone. The family of George Eckley
had preceded that of Mr. Finley to the township only
about two weeks. Mr. Finley died upon the farm
above mentioned on the 4th of July, 1825, at the age of
sixty-five.
Eli, (son of the above named), now the oldest
resident of Vermillion, (and whose marriage was the second that
was solemnized in the township,) is the only surviving member of
his father's family.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 - Page 279 |
FRED T.
FLINN, who
is identified with the F. & M. Pharmacy, 60 East Main Street,
Ashland, is numbered among the dependable business men of the
city. He was born at Utica, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1876, the son of
William and Sarah E. (Tallman) Flinn.
William Flinn was a native of Penn Yan, N. Y.,
and his wife was born at Utica. He spent his early life at
Coldwater, Mich., and received his education in the public
schools. He was a cigar maker and spent a number of years at
Utica, N. Y., as the owner of a cigar factory. He remained
in that city until 1879 when he came to Ashland and engaged in the
manufacture of cigars until 1913. He then served as deputy
internal revenue collector until the time of his death in 1920.
His wife died in 1926. Both are buried in Ashland.
Politically, Mr. Flinn was a Democrat. He took an
active interest in local politics and also served as central
committeeman for a number of years. There were three
children in the Flinn family: Fred T., the
subject of this sketch; Harry A., lives at Brea, Ohio; and
Harriet, married J. B. Mowiser, a registered
pharmacist, who is associated with the F. & M. Pharmacy.
Fred T. Flinn attended the public schools of
Ashland and at the age of 17 years was appointed assistant
postmaster under P. H. Murphy, and served in that capacity from
ay, 1894, until June, 1898. He was then connected with the
Ashland Grocery Company until February, 1902, at which time he
engaged in business for himself as the proprietor of a cigar
store. Mr. Flinn continued in this enterprise until
1925, when he sold his business and retired. He traveled
extensively until February, 1927, and in that year formed a
partnership with J. B. Mowiser, as proprietors of the F. &
M. Pharmacy, having purchased the Siegley Pharmacy.
In September, 1900, Mr. Flinn married Miss
Jennie McPherson, of Huron County, the daughter of George
and Emma (Willoughby) McPherson. Mr. McPherson died in
April, 1929, and his widow lives at Steuben, Ohio. Mr.
and Mrs. Flinn have a daughter, Helen S., born Nov. 7,
1902. She is a graduate of Ashland High School, the
University of Rochester, and of Mechanics Institute, also of
Rochester, N. Y., class of 1924. She spent four years in
charge of Home Economics department at Wadsworth High School, and
is now a member of the faculty of Alexander Hamilton Jr., High
School, Cleveland.
Mr. Flinn is a Democrat in politics and for a
number of years has been chairman of the board of County Central
Committee and Executive Committee. He has also been a member
and clerk of the board of elections since 1916 and has been
president of the board. He was a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention at St. Louis, Mo., in 1916.
Mr. Flinn has been secretary of the Ashland
Volunteer Fire Department for a number of years, and is identified
with the state organization, of which he served as president one
term. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Ashland
Chapter, R. A. M., No. 67. He was a member of the board of
directors of the old Commercial Club of Ashland for a number of
years, and is an active member of the present Chamber of Commerce,
serving at present as a member of the retail merchants board.
In 1920 he organized the Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson
Democratic Club, of which he served as its first president and
since its organization he has served in some official capacity. |
PHILIP
FLUKE emigrated from Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in
1816, and on the twenty-first of October, of that year, removed
to the house of Martin Hester. His family consisted
of his wife and sons, Henry, Lewis, Samuel, and Philip.
He had two years previously purchased of William Bryan
the southeast quarter of section 15, and upon his place he
proceeded at once to erect a cabin for his family. On
account of inclement weather, he only succeeded in raising his
cabin on the third day. Upon the farm above mentioned he
yet resides.
Life in the New Country...
Although Mr. Fluke had previously resided in
an old settled country, he recurs to his experience in the
wilderness of Orange Township as embracing the happiest period
of his life. The health of himself and his family, with
the exception of ague attacks during the first year, was good.
He realized from his first year's tillage sufficient wheat and
corn to subsist his family and stock, and to supply, to a
limited extent, new neighbors that come in. Prosperity
attended all his efforts, and the accumulations of this world's
goods, and the exchange of his old cabin home for the fine brick
dwelling in which he has for many years resided, has not,
according to his own testimony, added to his stock of happiness.
Source: History of Ashland Co., Ohio - Publ. 1863. - Page 511 |
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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 Co.,
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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 Co., Ohio – Publ. by William
Bros. – 1880 - Page 213 |
CONRAD
FRIDLINE emigrated from Pennsylvania to Perry Township,
during the spring of 1821. His family consisted of his
wife and two children, David and Ludwig. He
purchased of David Smith the land upon which he has since
resided.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 - Page
461 |
JOHN FRY
emigrated from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, to Plain Township,
Wayne County, in Mary, 1824. He removed to the southeast
quarter of section 16, Perry Township, in April, 1826; which
tract, when it came into market, was purchased by his family,
and is now occupied by his widow and son, Andrew J. Fry.
He resided upon this place until his death, which occurred on
June 10th, 1827. The widow and two sons, Rev. Jacob Fry
and Rev. Andrew J. Fry, are the only survivors of his
family.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 - Page
461 |
| 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. |
| 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
Mehican township. |
| 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. |
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