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BIOGRAPHIES
Each Book has it's own separate biographical index.
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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX FOR SOURCE #1:
The History of Clark County, Ohio :
containing a
history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., general and local
statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history
of the Northwest Territory, history of Ohio, map of Clark County,
Constitution of the United States, miscellaneous matters, etc., etc.
Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1881,
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BIOGRAPHICAL
INDEX FOR SOURCE #2:
A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County,
Ohio: an
Volume 2 - Publ. 1922
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CLARENCE
E. LAYBOURNE has been a representative farmer in
Greene and Harmony townships for the past twenty years. His
home is in the Plattsburg community, and he is a native of
Clark County and member of one of its old and substantial
families. He was born on a farm in Green Township of this
county October 17, 1880, son of William and Anna (Madden)
Laybourne. His father was born in the same locality on
May 26, 1843, and grew up on the farm and acquired a public
school education. The mother was born July 9, 1852, and at
the age of seventeen qualified as a teacher and at the age
of nineteen was granted a life certificate. She and her
husband were married in 1876, and they then located on a
farm in Greene Township, where the father continued his
industrious career until his death in 1906. He was a
republican and an active member of the Baptist Church, with
which his widow is also affiliated. Of their five children
four are living: Lawrence, Clarence,
Stanley, Alice and Willie, who died aged
six years. Clarence E. Laybourne grew up on a farm,
attended the local schools and was at home with his parents
until he was twenty-one. Since then he has been farming for
himself, and his management of his farm and his private
interests have gained him the confidence of his fellow
citizens to the extent of conferring upon him offices of
trust and responsibility. He has been township trustee of
Greene Township, is a republican, is a member of Fielding
Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., is a thirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Antioch Temple of the
Shrine at Dayton. He is a Baptist, while Mrs.
Laybourne is a member of the Christian Church. October
29, 1903, he married Virginia Troxell,
daughter of William and Dora (Shryack)
Troxell, and a member of one of the best known
families in this section of Clark County. Mr. and
Mrs. Laybourne have three children: Troxell,
now in the third year of high school; Elizabeth, a
first year high school girl; and Esther, attending
the grade school.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 218 -
Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz |
LEWIS
J. LAYBOURN has contributed his quota to the
advancement of constructive farm enterprise in Clark County,
and is now one of the venerable native sons still residing
in the county, his homestead farm being situated in
Springfield Township, eight miles southeast of the City of
Springfield. Mr. Laybourn was born in this
county on the 15th of September, 1846, and is a son of
James and Mary (Skillings) Laybourn.
Christopher Laybourn, great-grandfather of the
subject of this review, came from England to the United
States and became one of the pioneer settlers in Clark
County, where he established his home in 1820. He founded
and successfully conducted the first nursery in this county,
where he remained until his death, when in his ninety-eighth
year. His son Joel became one of the substantial
farmers of his generation in Clark County and was the owner
of a good farm in Greene Township. It was on this farm that
James, son of Joel and father of Lewis J.,
was born, and he likewise did effective service as one of
the progressive representatives of farm industry in the
county, where both he and his wife passed the closing years
of their lives on the old homestead now occupied by their
son Lewis J., the second of their four children.
William H., eldest of the children, is deceased, as is
also Jerusha, who was the wife of Dr. W. P. Madden;
Sarah became the wife of Thomas Nave,
and they still reside in this county. Lewis J. Laybourn
gained his early education in the pioneer schools of
Springfield Township, and his entire active career has been
one of close alliance with farm enterprise. For twelve years
he farmed in Greene Township, where he owned a place of 240
acres, and he then removed to his present farm, one of the
best improved in Springfield Township, with a commodious
modern house situated in a fine grove of native trees and
constituting one of the most attractive rural homes in this
county. Mr. Laybourn has held rank as one of
the most extensive and successful farmers of his native
county, is a man of fine personality, a loyal and
progressive citizen, and commands the high regard of all who
know him. As a young man Mr. Laybourn married
Miss Jennie Bird, who likewise was born
and reared in this county and who was a daughter of
Herbert Bird. Mrs. Laybourn's death
occurred in 1886, and she is survived by one daughter,
Mary B., who became the wife of Myron Beckman,
now deceased, and who with her second husband resides with
her father on the old home farm.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 378 -
Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz |
Springfield Twp. -
JAMES
P. LEFFEL, retired farmer; P. O. Springfield. "Father"
Leffel is one of the few remaining pioneers who are yet
left to relate the scenes and incidents of the early
pioneers who are yet left to relate the scenes and incidents
of early pioneer life in this county. He was born Mar.
29, 1799, on the banks of the Potomac River, in Berkeley
Co., Va. Of John and Margaret's eleven
children, James is the only surviving one. When
James was but 2 years old, his father died, when the
care of the eleven children devolved upon the mother; at the
age of 15, James hired out at $6 per month, to work
on a farm, and at the age of 18 came to Ohio and to this
county, bringing with him his mother and one brother, the
rest of the children having come some three or four years
before. On his arrival here he hired to his brother
John to work in the mill, and at the end of four yeas
went into partnership with his brother, built the mill now
owned by Henry Snyder; and after running this mill
eight years, his health failed so much that he was obliged
to quit milling. He then sold his interest in the mill
to his brother John and moved to Medway, where he
remained two years, when he removed to his present home.
HE started for himself with no fortune except a good
character and willing hands, and has maintained the same
without a blemish. He owns 1,600 acres of land,
besides a considerable amount of city property. He was
married in 1822 to Elizabeth Miller; she departed
this life Sept. 18, 1874. Of their ten children, six
are now living, viz., Michael, Martin, Joseph, Reuben,
Elizabeth and Scott. He has twenty-five
grandchildren.
SOURCE
#1: The History of Clark County, Ohio; Publ.
Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1881 - Pg. 870 |
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