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BIOGRAPHIES
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J. C. REMLEY,
farmer; P. O. Spring
Hill. Was born Feb. 10, 1835, upon
the farm where he now lives, located in Sec. 2, Adams Township, Champaign Co.,
Ohio.
He is a son of Solomon Remley, a native of Pennsylvania, who came with
his parents to Ohio in the year 1802, and
located in Warren Co.; lived there till 1831, when he moved into Champaign Co.,
and purchased 80 acres in Adams Township, a part
of the farm above mentioned. He
opened and improved the farm. He was
born May 16, 1794, and died Oct. 12, 1868.
J. C.
was raised and educated a farmer, and has
always been engaged in that business.
His marriage was celebrated Mar. 22, 1860, with
Miss Mary E., daughter of Samuel Lambert, of
Logan Co. They had three children,
of whom two are living – Ella M. and
L. S.
Mr. Remley served in the
hundred-day service during the late rebellion.
He and family are members of the Old School Presbyterian Church.
Source: History of Champaign County,
Ohio
- Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co. – 1881
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BOYD RICHARDSON was a native
of Grayson County, Va. He came to Ohio in 1814, and bought
and cleared a farm in the southern part of the township.
He was a staid Baptist, and was noted as a man who attended to
his own business. He took the world easy; ate, drank,
slept and enjoyed himself more than one in a thousand. He
was a great hunter in his youth, and in his older days he
enjoyed telling of his youthful exploits, hair-breadth escapes
and deeds of daring. He died in 1862.
Source: History of Champaign County,
Ohio
- Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co. – 1881 |
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JOHN ROBINSON, farmer; P. O. Quincy. Is a son of
Samuel Robinson, a native of
Pennsylvania, who was born Mar. 3, 1780, in Philadelphia.
He emigrated to Ohio
in a very early day, and located first near Spring Hills,
Harrison Township,
this county. In the year 1817, he
entered land six miles southeast of Sibley, Shelby Co. He at first had only two neighbors,
and they lived three miles distant.
He opened and improved this farm, and lived there until death, which occurred in
1876, in his 97th year.
He served as a soldier in the war of 1812.
John Robinson was born Sept.
29, 1819, in Shelby Co., Ohio,
upon his father’s farm above mentioned; he was raised and educated there,
receiving a very limited education.
Mr. Robinson
was united in marriage Dec. 7, 1847, to
Miss Elizabeth, a daughter of William and
sister of Samuel Calland, whose biography
appears in this work. They had eight
children, of whom four are living – Samuel C., Mary E., Thomas J. and John W. He has also a grand-daughter whom they
have had bound to them – Leolah May Yohn. Mr. Robinson has a splendid farm
of 240 acres, with good improvements and under a high state of cultivation. He has been a faithful member of M.
E. Church for fifty-one years.
Source: History of Champaign County,
Ohio
- Publ. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co. – 1881
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