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BIOGRAPHIES
CHARLES W. MARSHALL, State
agent of Home Insurance Company of New York, Urbana; is a native
of Massachusetts, and was born in Belchertown in 1823. He
has been engaged in insurance the past twenty-five years.
In 1865, he was proffered and accepted his present position, he
then being a resident of Columbus and superintends the business
in this State for that company, having his residence and office
in Urbana since 1866. He has 120 agencies under his
supervision, and not a dollar has been lost by the company in
consequence of either the defalcation or death of one of these
agents during the fifteen years in which he has had charge.
Mr. M. made himself very popular in Champaign County as
an insurance agent by his prompt and generous action after the
"Chicago fire." That disaster carried down sixty
companies, two of whom were represented by Mr. M. who
immediately re-insured all his policy-holders in other
companies, at an expense to himself of over $600. From the
tax reports it appears his office received three-fourths of all
the money received in Urbana for insurance in 1879. Mr.
M. is a member of the Grace Methodist Episcopal
Church, and also of the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic
Fraternity. He married, in 1849, Miss Loruhamah Simpson,
of New York State. They have one daughter - Mrs. J. R.
McDonald
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DAVID AND ABRAM MARTIN settled
in the northeast part of the township in 1831. David
was born in 1805, and Abram in 1811. Their father,
Benjamin, and his wife, Mary, came at the same
time. They were of German stock, and well
calculated to subdue the wild forests around them.
Benjamin died in the year 1834, and his wife died in 1840.
Their children were David, Abram, Rachel, Mary and
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ERASTUS MARTZ (Adams Twp.),
retired farmer; P. O. Carysville. Erastus Martz was
born July 9, 1813; was reared and educated on a farm, and has
always been engaged in agriculture until five years ago, when he
retired from hard labor. He emigrated to Ohio in the year
1835, located in Fairfield Co., and lived there several years.
He was united in marriage Aug. 21, 1836, to Miss Grace C.,
daughter of Jacob Cowen, of Fairfield Co. In 1837,
he moved into this county, and located in Adams Twp., living
upon rented lands until the year 1843, when he purchased a farm
of 80 acres, one mile east of Carysville, where he now
resides. Mr. Martz has done a great deal of hard
work in his time. His farm was all timber when he bought
it, and he cleared most all of it himself. He had ten
children, of whom four are living - Martha R., Michael J.,
Adelaide C. and Clara A. Mr. Martz has held
several public offices; was Township Clerk five years, Trustee
one eyar, and is now entering upon his third year as Justice of
the Peace. His father, Michael Martz, a native of
Virginia, died in 1814. |
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MATTHEW MASON was a native of
Virginia, and was born in 1789. He came to Ohio about the
year 1824. He was the principal partner in the building of
the mill on King's Creek, which bears his name, and was, during
a long and busy life, a man who never ceased in his efforts to
accumulate wealth. He was a man of many good qualities,
lived well, worked in connection with Mason's mill for
some years, and died October 3, 1869, in his eighty-first year.
He was never married. His brother John was older,
lived more secluded, was somewhat eccentric and lived to the
ripe age of ninety-five years. He outlived Matthew
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JOHN MIDDLETON, SR.,
and Elizabeth, his wife, came to Wayne Township from
Brown County in 1833. They were natives of Fairfax County,
Va., and were born in 1778 and 1773 respectively. The
husband was precisely five years the wife's senior.
Mrs. Middleton's maiden name was West. They
reared a family of six sons and five daughters - William,
Letta, James, Ellen, Susan, Winnifred, Thomas, Elizabeth, John,
Sarah, George and Edward. William, the oldest
of the family, was twice married. His first wife was
Rachel Middleton, who died in 1838; for his second wife he
married Estavilla, daughter of William Guthridge.
Letta married David Hatfield. James married
Margerie Gillespie; he died in Iowa. Ellen
married Stephen Thompson. Susan
married Abraham Thompson. Winnifred died at the age
of fourteen. Thomas was twice married; his first
wife was Ibbie Keeley; his second Mary Bailor.
John married Mary, daughter of Samuel McCumber.
Elizabeth married Hamet Hatfield for her first
husband, and Evans Perry for her second. Sarah
married Hiram Durnell. George died at the age of
eighteen. Edward married Elizabeth Clinton.
These sons and daughters, with their families, in time
became quite numerous, and at one time outnumbered any other
name in the township. Mr. Middleton purchased a
tract of land in the southeast part of the township, near the
source of Treakle's Creek; paying 87 cents per acre for a part
of it, and $1.50 for the rest. He lived surrounded by his
family, devoted himself to subduing the forest, and took some
interest in the affairs of the township. He died in 1873,
at the age of ninety-five. His wife died the same year,
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WILLIAM MIDDLETON was born in
1802, and came to Wayne Township from Brown County in August,
1824. He settled on the Ridge, on the headwaters of
Treakles Creek, and occupied that farm nearly fifty years.
His first wife was a Middleton, by whom he had seven
children. This wife died in 1838. Thomas and
John C., his sons, became citizens of the township.
The latter did honorable service in the Sixty-sixth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. Elizabeth married Jehu
Guthridge, bore eleven children - Rachel, Martha, Fannie,
Diantha, Eliza J., Laura, Cyrus W., William G. Ida and Melatiah.
Uncle Billy sustains the reputation of a man of honesty and
integrity, and now lives near his old homestead at the age of
seventy-eight.
Source: History of Champaign County,
Ohio
- Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co. – 1881 |
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JOHN MONK, tile factory, Carysville; was born Feb. 11, 1836, in Springfield,
Clark Co., Ohio;
he was raised principally in town.
When 9 years of age, he began working at brick-making, and worked eleven
summers. After his majority, he
engaged in the mercantile business in Donnelsville, seven miles west of
Springfield, and carried on business there
eighteen years, six years of this time he was also engage din the manufacture of
drain tile. In 1875, he sold out and
moved to Carysville, Champaign Co., Ohio, and was engaged in selling goods for five years. He sold out to
John L. Bodey, and moved upon his
farm one mile southeast of Carysville, on the
Urbana
and Sidney Pike, where he is engaged in making tile and farming. In the year 1862, he married
Miss Ann Elizabeth, daughter of
James Alexander, of this county. They had three children, viz.,
Ceneith, Susanna and
Burton. His farm contains 78 acres. He has also a tract of 960 acres in
Missouri.
Source: History of Champaign County,
Ohio
- Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co. – 1881
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HESTER MORECRAFT came to
Ohio, with her family, about the year 1812, and settled near the
present site of Cable, not many rods from the "Eden Home" of
Joseph W. Johnson. She had five sons and two
daughters. Richard was the oldest son, and was
never a resident of this part of Ohio. He lived and died
in Cincinnati. James lived in Northwestern
Ohio during the greater part of his life. Samuel,
we think, became a citizen of Auglaize County. Polly
married Jesse Wickson. Jonathan was never
married. He was widely known throughout the country; was a
man of great muscular strength, with courage to act when imposed
upon, but not quarrelsome. Was a man of laborious habits
and remarkably fine social qualities. He accumulated
considerable property, and his aged other found a comfortable
home with this, her favorite son, until death claimed him.
He died in 1835, in his thirty-seventy year. He was a
favorite remark of his mother, :I have raised a number of sons,
but only one Jonathan." Nancy married
George Williams, and lives in Kingston, at an advanced age.
Source: History of Champaign County,
Ohio
- Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co. – 1881 |
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