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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.)
 ( Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863.)
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JOHN
TANYER, an emigrant from Pennsylvania, settled in Perry
Twp. in 1824. HE is now a resident of Montgomery Twp.,
about one mile north of Ashland.
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Source #2 -History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 -
Page 470) |
| JOSIAH
THOMAS was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, March 9,
1804. His father George Thomas, of Welsh descent, removed to
Harrison county, Ohio, and located near Cadiz, in 1807. He
was a tailor by trade, and followed his business there until 1817,
when he emigrated to the village of Petersburgh, now Mifflin,
Mifflin township, Ashland county. He, George
Thomas, remained there several years engaged at his trade, and
in keeping a hotel, the village being on the main line of travel
from Canton, Wooster to Mansfield, and the west part of the State.
Jacob Beam being a brother-in-law of Mr.
George Thomas, and an uncle to Josiah, his two
older brothers, Henry and Peter, had visited Mr.
Beam, to see the country prior to the removal of the
family. In 1824 George Thomas, with his
family, removed to Orange township, and located upon the present
homestead of Josiah Thomas. Josiah
attended the common schools of the neighborhood, and adopted
farming as an occupation. In 1828 he married Miss
Eliza Zimmerman. His family consists of
seven children - George, Henry, Warren, Mary,
Elizabeth, Freelove, and Harriet.
George, Henry and Elizabeth were married.
Mr. Thomas is a quiet, industrious and exemplary farmer. He
has never been an office-seeker; yet, against his protests, the
people of his township have elected him trustee fifteen or sixteen
times. When Ashland county was organized in 1846, Mr.
Thomas was appointed commissioner for the short term, and
elected in October, for three years, and served until 1850.
He has been a member of the Disciple church about twenty years.
In 1879 he was elected president of the Historical and Pioneer
society of Ashland county, which office he yet holds. |
| NELSON
THOMAS was born June 6, 1831. His father was a
native of Wales, where he was born about 1785; he died near
Jeromeville, Ohio, in 1853. His mother, Anna Thomas,
was born in New Jersey, about 1806. They had a family of
five children, of whom Jane Died in Kosciusko county,
Indiana; Elizabeth, who married J. M. Hess, and
lives in CAss county, Missouri; Amanda, who married
Thomas Norris, and lives in Fulton county, Indiana; Sarah
M., who married Joseph H. Page, and lives in
Cass county, Missouri. Nelson Thomas, the subject
of this sketch, was married when twenty-one years of age, to
Sarah Keister, of Hayesville, Ohio. They have had six
children, five of whom are living. One son, Franklin,
died October 30, 1877, at the age of nineteen. |
| PETER THOMAS
was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1798, His
father, George Thomas, emigrated with his family, to Harrison
county, in the spring of 1807. In 1815 Peter Thomas, then sixteen
years of age, traveled on foot, accompanied by the family
watch-dog, a large and faithful mastiff, along a new path leading
from Cadiz to the village of Wooster, and rested one night at Stibbs' mill. The next night he reached the cabin of
John Raver,
near the present site of Rowsburgh. The following morning he
pursued his journey by paths until he struck Beall's trail, at
Jerome's place, and thence along a blazed path partly opened, to
Beam's mill, three miles below Mansfield, on the Rocky fork of
Mohican. Jacob Beam, the owner of the mill, was an uncle. He
remained a few weeks, and returned. In 1817, his father's family
came on and erected a cabin on the present site of Mifflin,
believed to have been the first shingled house in the township of
Mifflin. When the tide of emigration commenced, after the close of
the war, the road from Mansfield to Wooster, passed through
Peters-burgh, as the village was then called, and it became the
principal route to Richland and other western counties for
emigration. Mr. George Thomas, father of Peter, kept the first
house of entertainment, which was well patronized for six or eight
years. In 1823, George Thomas and family located on a farm now
owned by Josiah Thomas, in Orange township. Peter
Thomas purchased
two hundred acres adjoining the homestead, in Montgomery township,
and resided upon it until about 1860, when he removed to a new
residence, one and a half miles northeast of Ashland, where he
deceased, February 26, 1876. He was conscious of the approaching
termination of his life, arid was in the act of dictating a
codicil to a will, when he became faint, and expired in a few
moments, from paralysis of the heart. He had been three times
married, and left a large and reputable family to mourn his loss.
He had been a member to the Disciple church for a number of years,
and adorned his profession by an upright and exemplary life. As a
citizen, he was highly respected. He was a man of uncommon
resolution and firmness when he had deliberately formed an
opinion. He was high-toned and exact in all his transactions with
men, and inflexibly opposed to every species of prevarication in
morals, business and politics. He was never an office-seeker, but
was always the advocate of a pure, economical and patriotic
administration of the government. He was a careful, frugal, and
shrewd business man, and had acquired a handsome property. Few men
have taken a deeper interest in the prosperity of the county, and
none will be more lamented. |
JOHN
TILTON removed to Stark County from Washington County,
Pennsylvania, August 16, 1812; in 1814 he removed to Wayne
County, and in 1831 purchased the east half of section 35, in
Orange Township. His family at this time consisted of his
wife, and sons Samuel and James A. Mr. Tilton
enlisted in the American army during the war of the revolution,
when he was only fifteen years of age, and served five years.
In addition to less important engagements, he was in the battles
of Princeton, Germantown, Monmouth and Yorktown. He also
served three months in an expedition against the Indians in the
Northwest Territory. Mr. Tilton died on the 12th of
August, 1849, at the age of eighty-nine years nine months and
sixteen days - leaving, as the surviving members of that portion
of his family who removed with him to the county, his sons
Samuel and James A., who now occupy, with their families,
the half section originally purchased. His wife had died
on the 7th of May, 1849, at the age of eighty-four years.
Mr. and Mrs. Tilton had kept house over sixty-five years,
and within that period had removed thirty-two times. At
the date of his death he had had one hundred and sixty-seven
grand and great-grand-children.
Source: History of Ashland Co., Ohio - Publ. 1863. - Page 519 |
| OWEN
TOMPKINS was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania,
February 7, 1839. His parents were John Tompkins, who was also
born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, and Mary, his wife, who
was a native of Montreal, Canada. They had a family of eight
children, as follows: Elizabeth, Emily, Mary, Margaret,
Peter, John Naomi and Owen. Soon after the birth of
the latter his mother died. He remained with his father and the
other members of the family until he became of age. In 1861 he
enlisted as a soldier in the war of the Rebellion for the term
of three months, and at the end of that time was appointed as
second lieutenant in the Eighty-second Pennsylvania volunteers
for the three years service. During that time he was promoted
from second to first lieutenant, and became adjutant of the
regiment. In 1864 he was commissioned as captain of the company
he first entered as lieutenant. After the close of the war, in
1867, he was commissioned by the Secretary of War as a second
lieutenant in the regular army, but from force of circumstances
did not serve. He held a» civil position under the State
government of Pennsylvania five years, and in 1872 went to
Columbus, Ohio, and in 1876 came to Ashland, where he has since
been engaged in business. In 1863 he was married to Prudence
A. Russel, by whom he has one child, William M.,
born in August, 1866. |
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