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A.
C. RAINSBERGER, the youngest business man in Sherrodsville, Orange
Township, Carroll County, was born Dec. 12, 1862, a son of John
Rainsberger. He was reared on a farm near Sherrodsville, and
received his education at the schools of the neighborhood. At the age
of eighteen he entered the employ of A. A. Davis, of Mineral Point,
Ohio, with whom he remained one year, when, desiring to further improve his
education, he took a two years' course of instruction at the Academy at New
Hagerstown. In 1882 he opened a drug store in Sherrodsville,
commencing with but a small stock, but gradually increasing same until he
has now one of the finest establishments of the kind in the town all the
result of his own industry, perseverance and close attention to business.
The store is well equipped in all departments, and with Mr. Rainsaberger
himself as pharmacist, the public are given excellent satisfaction.
On May 17, 1883, Mr. Rainsberger was united in
marriage with Emma T., daughter of Austin Belkamp, of Orange
Township, Carroll County, and one child, Mary, was born to them June
3, 1887. For many years our subject has been a stanch member and
liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church; in politics he is a
Republican, but does not take any very active part in the workings of the
party, as his business occupies all his time and attention. He is a
young man of good prospects, and his gentlemanly demeanor has brought him
the respect of many friends.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 1107 |
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JOHN
RAINSBERGER, farmer, Monroe Township, Carroll County, was born on the
farm where he now resides. His father, John Rainsberger, was
born in Pennsylvania in 1773, and his grandfather, also named John
Rainsberger, was born in Germany, where he was married, and whence in an
early day he emigrated to the United States, settling in Pennsylvania; he
served in the Revolutionary War as a private. About the year 1812,
John Rainsberger, the grandfather, came to Ohio, and entered land in
what is now Orange Township, near Sherrodsville, Carroll County, where he
resided till his death, which occurred in 1842, when he was aged ninety
seven years; he was a member of the Lutheran Church. When he first
came to Ohio he made several trips to Syracuse, N. Y., for salt, bringing it
on pack horses. His son, John, grew to manhood in Pennsylvania,
and married Miss Susanna Albaugh, of Jefferson County, Ohio, who was
born June 25, 1790. In July, 1819, Mr. Rainsberger entered the
farm of 146 acres now owned by our subject, and on this land he built a log
cabin, in which he resided for several years, when he erected a hewed log
house. He died in 1835, of fever. To Mr. and Mrs. Rainsberger
were born eight children ( of whom three are living), viz.: Josiah,
born Apr. 1, 1819 (he was married to Nancy Fowler, and to this union
were born eight children, of whom six are now living; he died Apr. 11, 1889,
of apoplexy); John, our subject David, born Apr. 19, 1823 (he
married Ann Tope, and to them was born one son, living; David
died Oct. 12, 1889, of paralysis); Isabelle, born Jan. 12, 1825 (was
married to Henry Dunster, and to them were born three children, of
whom one is living; she died Feb. 24, 1854; she belonged to the Methodist
Church at Leavittsville); Hiram, born Apr. 23, 1827 (was married to
Elizabeth Griffin, and to them were born five children, one living;
Hiram died July 17, 1869, of typhoid fever; in religion he was a
Methodist); Catharine, born Feb. 9, 1829, died Feb. 7, 1848, of lung
fever; Thomas, born Apr.30, 1831 (married Catherine Griffin, a
sister to Hiram's wife, and to them were born six children, three yet
living); William, born June 11, 1833 (married Martha Jane Hall,
and to their union were born four children, three now living; when at the
age of twenty-five he had one of his legs amputated at the knee; he resides
in Wood county, Ohio, close to the oil regions). John and Susanna
Rainsberger, our subject's parents, were active members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, at Leavittsville, Ohio, of which they were charter
members. Susanna was at the last one of the original members to
go to rest. The first class of this church was founded in Mr.
Rainsberger's house, and there continued until the erection of the
Monroe Church building, which is now called the Leavittsville Church.
Susanna died June 8, 1875, of paralysis.
John Rainsberger, whose name opens this sketch,
is the second son of the generation just spoken of, and was born Au. 20,
1821, grew to manhood on the farm he now owns, and received his education in
the district school. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Leavittsville, Ohio, in the twenty-first year of his age. He was
married twice, first time Apr. 18, 1844, to Patience Davis, daughter
of Evin and Nancy (McGuire) Davis, by Rev. Archibold (at the
time when Dr. Dehass and he travele3d on the Leavittsville charge).
To this union were born three children, all now married: Isabelle was
married to James Teter, merchant at Leavittsville (to them where born
four children,, three living, one married to J. H. McQueen); George D.,
married to Maggie A. McCarty (to them were born three children all
living; he, also, keeps store in Leavittsville); Thomas, a farmer
married to Maggie A. Pearch (to them were born four children, all
living). The mother of these children died of lung trouble Sept. 1,
1853; she was a Methodist and died very happy. On Dec. 27, 1853,
John Rainsberger married, for his second wife, Mary M. Sweasy,
who was born Mar. 12, 1833, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Smith) Sweasy,
natives of New Jersey. She joined the Methodist Church in 1849, under
the preaching of Rev. Jacobs. To this union were born four children,
viz.: a son that died in infancy; Clarissa Alice, married to
William Lichtenwaller a farmer of Crawford County, Ohio (to them were
born two children, living); Allen Chester, married to Lizzie
Belknap (to them was born one daughter; he is a druggist in
Sherrrodsville; on the night of July 18, 1890, his property was all
destroyed by fire, but he was built on the same place and started with a new
business), and Annie Florence who is now (1891) fifteen years of age,
and lives at home.
Mr. Rainsburger states that during the Civil War
he was treasurer of what was known as "a military fund" (in which leading
business men of Monroe Township, Carroll County, were interested), the
purpose being to raise, by subscription, money wherewith to hire substitutes
to the number of twenty-three, in order to fill the quota of Monroe
Township, under the President's call for men for military service at that
time. Mr. Rainsberger further says that he donated toward the
prosecution of the war in all one thousand four hundred and thirty-one
dollars, besides traveling expenses to and from Alliance several times,
whither he went to deposit money in the hands of the agents of the township.
He avers that he was authorized to borrow and furnish whatever more money
would be necessary to secure the twenty-three substitutes ("which amount the
township would repay him"), and that he did borrow one thousand dollars from
the county auditor, which he had to pay back himself. Mr.
Rainsberger says he demanded a settlement, but was refused; that law
suits followed to the number of six, the first five of which were decided in
his favor, but the last and conclusive one went against him. He
further says that the upshot of this unpleasant business was his having to
sell, in 1890, over four thousand dollars worth of his farm property, in
order to clear himself of the heavy indebtedness he had incurred.
Mr. Rainsberger further states that only one man in the township, by
name Alexander Long, compromised with him (Mr. Rainsberger) by
paying his share. The township of Monroe has had the use of one
thousand dollars since the year 1864. His lawyers, the witnesses,
county officers and a few other citizens of the county favored Mr.
Rainsberger in is law suits, or he might have been broken up years ago.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 1115 |
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THOMAS
RAINSBERGER is a sterling citizen who is specially entitled to
consideration in this publication, for he is not only one of the venerable
native sons of Carroll County, a representative of an honored pioneer family
and known for his worthy achievement in connection with farm industry, but
he is also a man whose character and ability have gained to him inviolable
esteem in the county which has ever represented his home. He resides
on and continues in the general supervision of his excellent farm of sixty
acres in Monroe Township, some distance from Sherodsville, from which
village the farm receives service on rural mail route No. 1.
On the old homestead farm of his father, in Monroe
Township, this county, Thomas Rainsberger was born July 27, 1849, a
son of John and Patience (Davis) Rainsberger, the former of German
and the latter of Welsh ancestry. John Rainsberger,
great-grandfather of Thomas Rainsberger, was born and reared in
Germany and was a young man when he immigrated to America and established
his home in Pennsylvania. From that commonwealth he went forth as a
loyal soldier of the Continental Line in the War of the Revolution, and
after the war he continued his residence in Pennsylvania, as a farmer, until
the close of his life. His son John, grandfather of him whose
name initiates this article, became the founder of the family in Carroll
County, Ohio, where he established his residence in 1812, more than a
quarter of a century before this county was created. He obtained a
quarter-section of government land near the present village of Sherodsville,
in Orange Township, and he reclaimed from the forest wilds a productive
farm,, this place having continued to be his home until his death, in1842,
at the patriarchal age of ninety-seven years. This sterling pioneer
endured his full share of the hardships and heavy labors that fell to the
early settlers of this section of the state, and contributed his quota to
the initial development of Carroll County. In the earlier period of
his residence here he found it necessary to make his way on horseback to
Syracuse, New York, to obtain the salt required in the proper maintenance of
his live stock. He was born in Pennsylvania, on the 25th of June,
1790. Mr. Rainsberger married Miss Susan Albaugh, a
member of the representative pioneer family of that name in Jefferson
County, Ohio. In July, 1819, the father of Mrs. Rainsberger
took up 146 acres of Government land in what is now Monroe Township, Carroll
County, which section was then included in Jefferson County, and here the
family home was established in a pioneer log cabin. Mr. Albaugh
continued to reside on this farm until his death, in an epidemic of fever,
in 1835, his children having been eight in number. It was in the
pioneer home of Mr. Albaugh that was organized the little religious
society which was the nucleus of the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Leavittsville, Carroll County.
John Rainsberger (III), father of the subject of
this sketch, was born on the pioneer homestead farm in the present Orange
Township, and the year of his nativity was 1821. Here he passed his
entire life, and as a farmer and as a loyal and substantial citizen he well
upheld the prestige of the family name. He became one of the
representative farmers of Monroe Township, was a staunch republican in
politics, served at one time as road supervisor, and he and his wife were
earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his wife
became the parents of three children - Isabelle, George D., and
Thomas.
Thomas Rainsberger was reared on the home farm
which is still his place of residence, and his youthful education was
obtained in the common schools of the locality and period. He attended
school during the winter months and during the summer seasons applied
himself vigorously to work on his father's farm, he having been a mere boy
when he began to do a man's work, including plowing and other arduous farm
service. He continued to attend school until he was eighteen years of
age, and upon attaining to his legal majority he further signalized his
independence by taking unto himself a wife, his marriage to Miss
Margaret A. Pearch, daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth Jane (McDevitt)
Pearch, of Monroe Township, having been solemnized in the year 1870.
After their marriage they remained nine years on the old farm of Mr.
Rainsberger's father, and then, in 1879, purchased and removed to their
present farm, which at first comprised only thirty-three acres and which a
subsequent purchase increased to its present area of sixty acres. Here
Mr. Rainsberger has continued his successful activities as an
agriculturist and stock-grower during the intervening years, and he has
secure status as one of the representative citizens of his native township,
of which he served one term as trustee, besides which he held for six years
the office of constable, and was a director of the county infirmary six yeas
- 1900-1906. He is a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican
party and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Rainsberger
brief record is given in this concluding paragraph: Electa Laura
is the wife of Henry A. Long, of Long, of Jewett, Carroll County,
and they have one child, Katherine Nellie, sixteen years of age at
the time of this writing, in 1920. Homer B. married Miss
Alice McCourt, of Loudon Township, this county, and they have three
children - Lois Patience, Wilma Edith, and Arthur Bruce.
Hattie Violet is the wife of T. I. Tope, of Monroe Township, and
their only child is a son, John Clayton. Leroy Ross, the
youngest of the children, resides in the city of Cleveland. He married
Miss Una B. Orin, of Monroe Township, Carroll County.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties,
Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub.
Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 815 |
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WILLIAM
RAINSBERGER has been a resident of Carroll County from the time of
his birth, and his entire active career has been marked by association with
farm industry. He now confines his operations to his well improved
little farm of eighteen acres in Monroe Township, seven miles from
Carrollton, from which city he receives service on rural mail route No. 4.
Mr. Rainsberger was born in Union Township, this
county, on the 12th of September, 1853, and is a son of Josiah and Nancy
(Fowler) Rainsberger, the former of German and the latter of Irish
lineage. Josiah Rainsberger was born in Monroe Township, where
his parents settled in the early days, and he continued his active alliance
with farm enterprise in his native county until his death, Apr. 11, 1911, at
the age of sixty-nine years, his wife having passed away on the 16th of
February, 1888. Of their family of three sons and six daughters the
subject of this review is the youngest. One of the sons, David,
was a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he
served as a member of the Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he having been
mustered out and having received his honorable discharge in 1864, a few
months prior to the close of the war. As a young man he was a
successful teacher in the rural schools of Carroll County.
William Rainsberger early began to assist in the
work of the home farm, and he continued to attend the district schools
during the winter terms until he had attained to his legal majority.
He was twenty-four years of age at the time of his marriage and thereafter
he continued to be associated in the work and management of the old home
farm until 1905, when he purchased a farm of ninety-one acres in Center
Township, one mile distant from Carrollton. Six years later he sold
this property, and after residing for a short time on another farm in the
same township he purchased in 1911 his present fine little farm, the
operations of which demand all of the time and effort he is justified in
giving, now that he is approaching the prophet's span of three score years
and ten. He has never wavered in loyal allegiance to the republican
party, has taken deep interest in public affairs of local order, but has had
no ambition for official preferment. He and his wife4 are active
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Carrollton.
In the year 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Rainsberger to Miss Dorinda J. Long, who likewise was born and
reared in Carroll County and who is a daughter of Alexander Scott and
Nancy (Brooks) Long, of Monroe Township. The father of Mrs.
Rainsberger was a son of Alexander Scott Long, Sr., and Nancy
(Scott) Long, the original American representatives of the Long
family having come from the north of Ireland. The maternal
grandparents of Mrs. Rainsberger were Henry and Dorinda (Fawcett)
Brooks, and they became the parents of one son and six daughters.
The lineage of the Brooks family likewise traces back to
staunch Irish origin.
In this concluding paragraph is entered brief record
concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Rainsberger: Nancy A.
is at home. David Reese died at the age of thirteen years.
Josiah Clarke, who now resides in the state of South Dakota, married
Johanna Capper, of Perry Township, Carroll County, and they have one
son, Thomas William. Alexander L., who resides in the city of
Carrollton, married Miss Edna Nihart, of Center Township, and they
have two children - Roxey May and Horace Delbert. William Ira,
now a resident of the city of Canton, Stark County, married Miss Susan
Slusser, of that place, and they have two children - Richard Charles
and Ada Marie. Emmett Earl, the youngest of the children, died
at the age of twenty months, on the 10th of July, 1896.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties,
Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub.
Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page705 |
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NICHOLAS RANDOLPH Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 1068 |
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HOMER J.
RICHARDS. For over twenty years Mr. Richards' activities
have made him a factor in the business affairs of Carrollton, where he is
looked upon as one of the men of enterprise and distinctive leadership.
For the past ten years he has been one of the partners and manager of the L.
& M. Rubber, now the Tuscan Rubber & Tire Company (see history of the
company).
Mr. Richards was born at Harlem Springs in
Carroll County Dec. 28, 1876. Three generations of the family have
lived in the county from pioneer times to date. His paternal
grandfather, Otho Richards, came to Carroll County at a very early
time and married Miss Elizabeth Little. He spent his life as a
farmer and died in this county. John Richards, father of
Homer J., was born in Carroll County in 1842 and soon after completing
his education in the common schools he enlisted in 1861 in the Eightieth
Ohio Infantry. He was in service until wounded at Corinth, after which
he was granted an honorable discharge, but subsequently reenlisted in the
One Hundred and Ninetieth Ohio Infantry and served to the end of the war.
He was also captain of a company of Home Guards. He was an active
republican, a member of the Masonic Order and he and his wife were
Methodists. John Richards married Mary Hayes, who was
born in Carroll County in 1843. Her father, Richard Hayes, and
wife were natives of Ireland, but spent their active lives in Carroll
County. Mrs. Mary Hayes Richards is still living in Carrollton.
In the old community where he was born at Harlem
Springs, Homer J. Richards spent his youth, and in addition to the
advantages of the local schools attended Scio College one year. As a
young man he received a good commercial training in his father's store, and
when the family moved to Carrollton in 1897 he engaged in the hardware
business and was an active merchant here for about ten years.
Following that he assisted in the organization of the Carrollton Savings
Company and remained with that institution as its cashier for a year and a
half. He and his brother Howard Richards and Doctor Williams
then bought out the L. & M. Rubber Company in 1910 and since that
date Mr. Richards has been the moving spirit in that well known
business.
Politically a republican, he has never sought the cares
and responsibilities of office. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a
member of the Methodist Church. In 1904 he married Miss Martha
Lawler, a daughter of J. V. Lawler. The Lawler family
is one of prominence in Carroll County and more is said of them on other
pages. To Mr. and Mrs. Richards were born six children:
John; Emma, who died at the age of seven years; Joseph; Mary; Thomas,
and Martha.
Source: History of Carroll and
Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub.
Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 493 |
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LEMUEL O. RIPPETH Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 835 |
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SAMUEL W. RIPPETH Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 979 |
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EDMUND ROBERTSON Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 873 |
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WILL J. ROBINSON Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 1106 |
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LUTHER L. ROBY Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 1046 |
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MRS. MARY A. ROBY Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 1054 |
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ABRAHAM ROUDEBUSH Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 1082 |
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ELI R. ROUDEBUSH Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 983 |
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TOBIAS ROUDEBUSH Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 815 |
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REUBEN RUNYON,
one of the old and influential farmers of Monroe Township, Carroll County,
was born on the farm where he now resides, May 11, 1819. His father,
also named Reuben, was born in New Jersey, by trade was a shoemaker,
and when fifteen years of age moved to Washington County, Penn., where he
married Miss Mary M. Shuster, in 1817 he came to Ohio and entered the
farm our subject now owns. Here he put up a rude cabin, in which he
resided for a number of years, and finally erected a hewed log house, in
which he resided till his death.
Reuben Runyon, our subject proper, is the
youngest of a family of seventeen children born to his parents, and has
never lived elsewhere than on the farm on which he was born. In 1876
he married Mrs. Sarah Conover whose maiden name was Justus;
she was born in Huntingdon County, N. J. Politically, Mr. Runyon
is Democratic. His farm contains eighty acres, which are well tilled
and very productive. He is a progressive agriculturist, thrifty and
industrious, and is much respected by his neighbors.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 1135 |
L. L. ROBY |
LUTHER L. ROBY Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 1046 |
GEORGE ROBY |
MRS. MARY A. ROBY Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 1064 |
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ABRAHAM ROUDEBUSH |
ABRAHAM ROUDEBUSH Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 1082 |
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