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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.)
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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.
Source: History of Ashland Co.,
Ohio
Publ. by William Bros. 1880 - Page 246 |
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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 Co., Ohio
Publ. by William Bros. 1880 - Page 224
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Milton Twp -
ALEXANDER REED immigrated to Milton
Township in 1814. He was the original purchaser of the
land adjacent to the old Hopewell Church. The body of his
wife, who died Nov. 17th, 1820, was the eleventh that was
interred in the old Hopewell churchyard. In 1821 Mr.
Reed sold to Joseph Marklay his farm above mentioned,
containing eighty acres, of which thirty were cleared, for 550
gallons of whisky. He was also the owner, at different
times, of town lots in Uniontown, (now Ashland,) among which are
some of the most valuable of any now in the town, which he sold
at from $12 to $14 per lot - payment mostly "in trade."
Mr. Reed was an emigrant from Pennsylvania.
Source: History of Ashland Co., Ohio - Publ. 1863. - Page 537 |
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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 towsnhip, 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 Co., Ohio Publ. by William Bros. 1880 - Page 214
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Vermillion Twp. -
WILLIAM REED entered
the land he now occupies in Vermillion Township in the year
1811, and removed his family upon it April 14, 1814. He
was originally from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Reed enlisted in the military service during the first
year of the war with Great Britain in 1812, and served until
1814, when, from disability, he obtained a furlough-from his
captain (Jack) at Mansfield, and continuing physically unable,
he did not return to the service.
Mr. Reed was eighty years of age 11th June,
1862.
When he removed to his land, (southeast quarter section
5,) it was a wilderness; his nearest neighbors - except the
families of George, William, and Thomas Hughes,
and John Howard - were five miles distant.
Source: History of Ashland Co., Ohio - Publ. 1863. - Page 289 |
ADAM
REICHARD emigrated from Centre County, Pennsylvania, and
removed to the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 8,
(which he had previously entered,) in April, 1829. His
family, at this time, consisted of his wife and an infant son,
Jacob. Mr. Reichard is among the very few in
Perry Township who reside upon the place they originally
entered.|
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 - Page 467 |
| 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. Fourtwo boys and two girlsare 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. |
CHRISTOPHER
RICKETT erected a cabin, upon the place he at present
occupies, in March, 1822. In the following June he removed
his family from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to their new
home. The land had been entered from him by his
father-in-law, John Horn, in the year 1814. His
family consisted of his wife and five children.
Source: History of Ashland Co., Ohio - Publ. 1863. - Page 518 |
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 i 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, 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 Co.,
Ohio
Publ. by William 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 Co.,
Ohio
Publ. by William 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 Co.,
Ohio
Publ. by William 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 Co.,
Ohio
Publ. by William Bros. 1880 - Page 279 |
Vermillion Twp. -
WILLIAM RYLAND
emigrated from Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and entered at the
land-office at Canton the farm upon which he now lives, in the
autumn of 1815. His family then consisted of his wife and
one daughter, Mary Ann, who is now the widow of
Jonathan Black. Among his neighbors were Robert
Jackman, who lived upon the farm now occupied by
Archibald Gillis; Lemuel Boulter, the only occupant of the
land upon which the flourishing town of Hayesville now stands;
John Vangilderb, who then resided upon the same place he
now occupies; John McCrory, who lived upon the land now
occupied by his descendants; Joseph Workman, who is now a
resident of another portion of the township from that in which
he at first resided; Ephrain Eckley, for an number
of years justice of the peace,) and who resided upon the farm
now owned by Abraham Johnson; George McClure, who lived
upon the land in section 10 now owned by John Scott, Sr.;
and William Karnahan, who resided upon the southeast
quarter of section 23.
Joseph Lake, at this date, was the only resident
of Jeromeville. He was the owner of a small stock of
goods. The block-house occupied during the war was yet
standing, but was only used occasionally for religious meetings.
Lemuel Boulter sold his interest in the land
upon which Hayesville was subsequently built to Linus Hayes.
Mr. Cox's purchase was of John Hersh - the lands
being in the Virginia Military Land District.
Source: History of Ashland Co., Ohio - Publ. 1863. - Page 290 |
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