BIOGRAPHIES Source:
A History and Biographical Cyclopædia
of
Butler County, Ohio
with
ILLUSTRATIONS AND SKETCHES
of Its
Representative Men and Pioneers
Western Biographical Publishing Co.
Cincinnati, O
1882
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MELANCTHON S. WADE
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 469 - Ross
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THOMAS WALL
was born in Bristol, England, in 1800. His father, John Wall,
and his mother, Phebe Wall, were natives of that country.
Thomas came to America in 1832, and was married in Hamilton, in
1844, to Hannah Waller born in this county, in June, 1810,
daughter of Levi and Rhoda Waller, who arrived in Butler County
about the beginning of the century. He was in the War of 1812, and
Asahel Waller, the grandfather, was in the Revolution. They
had nine children: William, Thomas, John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Edward,
Perry, Salmon, and Louis. Mr. Wall followed the
occupations of farmer and brass-founder. He went across the ocean
thirteen times after first coming to this country, dying Oct. 19, 1880,
and leaving considerable property.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 486 - Fairfield
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TYLER S. WALTER
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 610 - Madison
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JOHN
F. WARD, son of Hugh and Sarah Ward, is one of the oldest
persons in the township of Reily. He was born in Morris County,
New Jersey, on the 17th of June, 1817. His parents were also
natives of that State, and his father was a soldier in the war of 1812.
Mr. Ward came to Reily in June, 1849, and was married on the 9th
of the same month to Amanda Hideley, daughter of Henry Hideley.
Mr. Ward is a painter and artist, and has a fine reputation
in his calling. He has established a fine cemetery a little west
of Reily. He is a man of enterprise, and is well situated.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 421 - Reily Twp. |
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THE REV. GEORGE P. WARVEL
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 469 -
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WARWICK FAMILY
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 559 - St. Clair
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LEONHARD WASSERMAN was born in
Germany, Feb. 18, 1820. His parents were John Conrad Wasserman
and Barbara Wolferd. Mr. Wasserman settled in this county in
1847, and was married two year after, or in August, 1849, at Hamilton,
to Maria Gailey, daughter of Balser Gailey and Mary Yeakle
They were early settlers, and are now both dead. Mrs. Wasserman
was born in Fairfield Township, Apr. 12, 1832. They have had
ten children. Mary was born Apr. 29, 1850; Elizabeth,
Apr. 19, 1852; Jacob, May 5, 1854; Henry, Mar. 26, 1856;
Sarah, July 18, 1858; Joseph, Mar. 6, 1860; Clara Oct.
9, 1862; Julia, Mar. 3, 1864; Susan, June 24, 1866, and
Ida, Nov. 2, 1868. Mr. Wasserman, is a farmer. He
has been supervisor and school director for several years.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 450 - Hanover Twp. |
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HENRY WAUSON
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 444 - Hanover Twp. |
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THE WEAVER FAMILY
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 622 - Wayne
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WILLIAM WEAVER
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 610 - Madison
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PETER WEBER
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 662 - St. Clair Twp. |
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JOHN GEORGE WEHR was
born in Bavaria, Jan. 10, 1800. He was the son of John Wehr and
Susannah Hauser. He received a fair education in Germany, and
was brought up a shepherd. He was married in 1839 to Barbara
Heilenger, born in Germany in 1810, on the 29th of June. They
were the parents of eight children, of whom six are now living.
Lena Barbara was born Feb. 2, 1840, and is now Mrs. Jackson
Meahl. Mary Elizabeth was born Dec. 2, 1844, and is now
the wife of George Muskopfof Butler County. Simon
D. was born June 25, 1846, and is now residing on the home place, as
is the next brother, George C., born Sept. 15, 1848.
Barbara was born Sept. 20, 1850, and is the wife of Charles H.
Shepherd, of Union Township. Andrew H. was born July 8,
1852. Mr. Wehr came to America in 1843, being in Hanover
Township four years, St. Clair two years, Liberty eight years, and
twelve years in Fairfield, renting places. In 1871 he purchased
the farm where he now lives from James Patchell. It
consists of ninety acres. They are members of the Lutheran Church.
He is a Democrat in politics.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 593 - Union
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JACOB C. WEIKLE
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 611 - Madison
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CHARLES
L. WELLER was born in the town of Montgomery, Hamilton County,
September 4, 1821, from whence his parents moved to Ox£ord, Butler
County, Ohio, about the year 1826. Both parents died there. Charles
was appointed a cadet at West Point in 1841, but his health failing
under the rigorous discipline of that institution, he resigned after
about nine months' service. He was schooled at Miami University, though
not to graduation. In 1844, after the decease of his father, he took up
his residence at Hamilton, where he served about a year as deputy
sheriff under William J. Elliott. Then he went to
Washington City as a clerk in the general post-office under Cave
Johnson. In 1849 he resigned to take the position of disbursing
officer in the boundary commission under his brother John B., who
had been appointed to run the boundary line between the United States
and Mexico. On the way to the field of survey he was sent back from
Panama with dispatches to the government at Washington. He had there a
long controversy with the Secretary of the Interior, over an attempt to
remove him from the commission, in consequence of which he was detained
there some six months, during which time he was employed by the
secretary of the United States Senate in compiling a book of claims. At
the session of Congress in 1849 and 1850 he was the Democratic candidate
for sergeant-at-arms, and was within one vote of an election. In 1850 he
returned to his former home, Hamilton, bought out the newspaper organ of
the Democratic party, the Telegraph, which he edited for two years or
more, during which time he was sent by his party as representative to
the Ohio Legislature. After serving one session he resigned, and in
December, 1852, he started with his wife (Miranda Martindell),
whom he married in 1846, for California, where he arrived January 6,
1853, and located at San Francisco, where he still resides. He was
appointed under President Pierce assistant United States appraiser of
merchandise; also pension agent, both of which positions he resigned,
upon his being appointed postmaster of San Francisco in August, 1854.
This latter office he held until April, 1861, since which time he has
been engaged in the real estate and stock-broker's business, arid in
mining operations, being president of the Ophir, the Mexican, the Crown
Point, and the Exchequer mining companies, and also president of the
Pacific Stock Exchange Board, of San Francisco.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 350 - Hamilton Twp. |
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P. J. B. WELLIVER lives on the
Millville, Reily, and Milton Turnpike, three miles south-east of Reily
Village. He was born in the house in which he now resides, Oct.
31, 1817, and is the son of Obadiah and Hannah (Johnston) Welliver.
He was a native of Pennsylvania, and she of New Jersey, being married in
Pennsylvania in 1796, and coming to Ohio in a wagon in 1810. He
entered a quarter where his son now lives, dying in 1839. His wife
lived till 1865. There were nine children in the family, of whom
but two are now living, P. J. B. Welliver and Mrs. Samuel Jobe.
He has always resided on the farm, with the exception of about a year he
spent in a store at Brownsville, Indiana. His early education was
derived from the district school, attending the private school of
Aaron Powers one year. He was married Nov. 30, 1837, to
Elizabeth M., daughter of James and Rachel (Mills) Everson.
She was born Sept. 25, 1817. They have had nine children -
Emma, Cynthia Ann, Susan K., Minerva, Sarah S. (dead), Alfred J.,
James E., Lockey J., and Nannie H. (dead). Mr.
Welliver served as justice of the peace of Reily Township for nine
successive years, beginning about 1855, and one term of three years
since the war. He was a Master Mason of the Oxford Lodge, but has
taken out his withdrawal card. He is a member of Union Lodge, No.
2400, of the Knights of Honor of Reily. Their children are all
married. Emma is now Mrs. Henry Garner; Cynthia,
Mrs. George Clark; Susan, Mrs. G. W. Garner; Minerva,
Mrs. W. H. H. Pierson; Lockey, Mrs. James R. Van Ness. Mr.
Welliver is a Democrat.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 421 - Reily Twp. |
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FREDERICK WICKE was born
in the kingdom of Hanover, near Bremen, Mar. 16, 1839. He is the
son of Henry Wicke and Olive Koolman. He received a
fair education, but at the age of seventeen determined to emigrate to
America, and continued his journey until he reached Cincinnati.
There he was employed six months, thence going to Sharonville, where he
remained until coming to Westchester in the Spring of 1859. In
that year he commenced buying produce, doing a prosperous business.
He rented a small farm known as the Peter Moore place.
Sept. 19, 1861, he was married to Miss Nancy Lemon, born in
Huntsville, Sept.17, 1844. She is the daughter of Christopher
Lemon, an early settler in Liberty Township. They have had
six children, of whom two are dead. Olive A. was born Feb.
28, 1865; Mary E., Apr. 5, 1868, dying in infancy; John T.
died at the age of fourteen months; Henry R., Nov. 28,
1875; and Anna C., Jan 1, 1878.
Mr. Wicke continued on the Pliny Moore
place till the Spring of 1862, when he went to Liberty Township,
engaging in farming and the buying of live stock. This he
continued until the Spring of 1865, when he purchased the Aug farm, near
Westchester, where he still lives. It consists of two
hundred and twenty-five acres of land adjoining Westchester, of a
valuable quality, and finely cultivated. He built his present
residence in 1869. It has fine barns and outbuildings.
Mr. Wicke is largely engaged in buying live stock and shipping it to
the Cincinnati markets, doing this in addition to managing his own
place. He had nothing to begin on, and his life is a good example
of what industry will accomplish. He has held the office of
township trustee for eight years. He is an ardent Democrat in
politics, and is an active and influential citizen. Mr. Wicke
is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and Mrs. Wicke of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 594 - Union
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EDWARD WILCOX
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 661 - St. Clair
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GIDEON WILKINSON was
born Jan. 5, 1815, on the farm where he now lives, in a log cabin, which
stood near his present residence, which was among the first erected in
this part of the township. His father, Gideon Wilkinson,
was a native of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and emigrated to
Ohio in 1806. He stopped on the Little Miami River, on what is
called Round Bottom, and raised one crop of corn. The next year he
purchased land in Reily of Jonathan Covalt, who had entered the
farm, but was not able to pay for it. His first dwelling consisted
of four forks set into the ground in the shape of a square, with a bark
roof, and three sides of bark and brush. At the front a sheet was
hung up for a door. He lived in this one season, from Spring till
Fall, until he could erect a more substantial cabin. He was
married about the year 1808 or 1809 to Mrs. Abigail Van Ness, and
had by her six children. They were Abraham, Margaret, Mary,
Gideon, Elisha and Abigail. They are all except
Mary. In the war of 1812 Mr. Wilkinson enlisted under
Captain Crooks, but when they had marched as far as Brookville,
Indiana, word was brought that peace had been declared, and they
discharged. Mr. Wilkinson and Mrs. Van Ness, in
1817, made a visit to their old home in New Jersey, traveling the whole
way on horseback. Mr. Wilkinson died in 1842 and his wife
in 1843. The present Mr. Wilkinson remained with his
parents until their death, they having deeded him the home farm.
The other children were otherwise provided for, the boys receiving one
hundred acres and the girls sixty acres each. By industry Mr.
Wilkinson has added to his fields, until now he owns seven hundred
and eighty acres of land. He was married in 1833 to Mary DeCamp,
daughter of Ezekiel and Mary (Baker) DeCamp. She was born
in Reily Township, June 18, 1818. They have had thirteen children
- Abraham, Miranda, Abigail, Rachel, Adaline, Mary J., Francis M.,
Rebecca E., John D., Sarah E., Harriet E., Gideon J. and Amadore.
They are all living except Abraham, Rachel, Sarah E., and Mary
J. Mr. Wilkinson was one of the township trustees for several
terms, and was school director about thirty years.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 421 - Reily Twp. |
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HUGH WILLIAMS was born in
Anglesea, Wales, March, 1806, and married Eliza Gwilym, widow of
Abner Francis, Sen., in 1833. Mrs. Williams was born
February 5, 1809, in Morgan Township. This union produced eight
children, three of whom are living; Mark, born October 28, 1834,
married, and serving as a missionary in China; Jane, born June
17, 1844, the wife of D. Gaston Boyd, of Newtown, Ohio; Hannah,
born May 2, 1848, the widow of Professor James A. Clark, now of
New London. Mr. Williams came to America in 1829, stopping
in Pennsylvania for one year, then coming to Paddy's Run and beginning
business as a blacksmith, which trade be followed until 1845. In
1847 he purchased a farm of one hundred acres, on which he lived until
his death in March, 1870. He was one of the prominent men of
Morgan Township; was identified with all public improvements; and was a
prominent member of the New London Congregational Church of which he was
deacon, for more than forty years. Mark Williams married
Isabella Riggs, daughter of the Rev. S. R. Riggs, the
distinguished missionary. He graduated at Oxford in 1858, went to
Lane Seminary in the Fall of the same year, where he remained for three
years, joining the ministry in 1861. After his theological course
he preached for a short time in Illinois in Wisconsin, and in 1866 was
sent to China by the American Board of Missions, where he has since
resided.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 434 - Morgan Twp. |
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ABSALOM WILLIAMSON
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 610 -
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AUGUSTINE E. WILLIAMSON
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 501 -
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JAMES HARRISON WILLIAMSON, M. D.,
father of Dr. Henry Allen Williamson, was born in Scott County,
Kentucky, about 1824. Caroline Payne, his wife, was born in
Frankfort County, Kentucky, about 1821. This marriage resulted in
three children, one dying in infancy; Henry Allen, born October
10, 1845, married, and a resident of New London; Preston Emmett,
born March 4, 1848, married and a dentist at Frankfort, Kentucky.
Dr. Williamson, Sen., was one of the pioneer settlers of Scott
County, Kentucky, and ranked as one of the foremost citizens. He
gave both of his children a liberal education, and, though not a man of
large means, at one time lost all his property. His son, Henry
Allen, was born in Boone County, Kentucky, married Mary Belle
Sleet, of the same place, October 10, 1867. His wife was
born May 28, 1851. The results are four children two of whom live:
Lula Belle, born June 29, 1876; Weedie A., born January
18, 1876. Dr. Williamson, Jr., studied medicine for one
year under Dr. John Needham, of Newcastle, Indiana, and in 1867
began his studies at one of the medical colleges of Cincinnati, where he
graduated in 1870. He has since practiced in Paris, Kentucky, for
one year, and now follows his profession in the country of Paddy's Run.
All the Williamsons are Baptists, religiously. The father
of James H. was a Virginian by birth. He came down the Ohio
at an early day on a flat-boat, fighting his way through the Indian
nations. William Payne, the grandfather of Dr. H. A.
Williamson on his mother's side, was also a Virginian, a captain in
the war of 1812, and a great hunter, keeping a pack of hounds to the day
of his death. Dr. Williamson, Sen., died September
4, 1848.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 436 - Morgan Twp. |
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SILAS WILLIAMSON
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 501 -Liberty
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BURNS WILSON
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 622 - Wayne Twp. |
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JOHN WASHINGTON WILSON
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 662 - St.
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JOSIAH WILSON
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 550 - Oxford Twp. |
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GENERAL WINCHESTER
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 622 - Wayne
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JOHN WITHROW
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 621 - Wayne Twp. |
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ISAAC WOLVERTON
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 621 - Wayne
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WILLIAM WOLVERTON
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 621 - Wayne
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DANIEL WOODMANSEE
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 501 - Liberty
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JAMES WOODMANSS
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 502 - Liberty
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NATHAN WOODRUFF
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 550 - Oxford
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REUBEN WOODRUFF. A
well known gentleman in Morgan, Reuben Woodruff, was born in
Lemon Township, Butler County, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1804, and was married
Dec. 2, 1824, in Ross Township, to Elizabeth Fenton, born Aug.
11, 1808. This marriage resulted in John, born Sept. 6,
1826 - dead; George, born Nov. 3, 1828, now of Edwards County,
Illinois; Stacy, born July 11, 1831, now of St. Charles, this
county; James C., born Sept. 3, 1834; Daniel R., born Oct.
28, 1837, of Paddy's Run; Samuel W. born Dec. 26, 1839; Ensign,
born Aug. 13, 1845 - physician. Daniel and Sarah Woodruff
came to Butler County Jan. 5, 1800. Stacy and Mary Fenton
came also to the same county in 1808. Samuel Williamson, the
sixth son, was a soldier in the late war, in the Thirty-fifth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff have lived together for
over fifty-seven years, and have raised a family of respectable sons.
Daniel, his father, witnessed the battle of Bunker Hill, at the age
of ten years. His son has now a musket and bayonet used in that
memorable fight.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 437 - Morgan Twp |
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