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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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Springfield
Twp. -
AMOS WHITELEY, manufacturer, Springfield;
is a native of Clark County; was born near Springfield in 1838; he spent his
boyhood on the farm with his father,
Andrew Whiteley, but like his brother,
William N. Whiteley, early gave
mechanical pursuits nearly his entire attention, spending most of his time in
the same workshop, serving an apprenticeship, and thus rendering valuable
service to his brother, and assisting in producing the first Champion machine;
from the formation of the firm of Whiteley & Fassler and Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly, he was the principal business manager (the
firm devoting most of their time to the improving and perfecting of the Champion
machines), having charge of the accounting department and traveling salesman,
until 1867, when the Champion Machine Company, the history of which is fully
given elsewhere in this work, was organized with
Amos Whiteley at its head, since
which he has held the office of President of this company; he is also the
Treasurer and the General Ticket Agent of the Springfield Southern Railroad
Company, having entire charge of the accounting department; his rare energy and
business ability, the economy of his management and the value of his systematic
methods, under his supervision; he is one of the foremost citizens in all public
enterprises; is President of the City Council, and one of the men to whose
progressive energy and industry is due the development of Springfield, from a
country village to one of the leading manufacturing cities of the country; he
married, in 1860, Miss Josephine Ferrell,
daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah Ferrell. She has borne him two children,
both of whom were boys, and are receiving a thorough education at
Wittenberg College.
SOURCE: The History of Clark County, Ohio
: Publ. Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1881 ~ Page 944 |
Springfield Twp. –
ANDREW WHITELEY; resident of the city of
Springfield; was born in Harrison Co.,
Ky., May 31, 1812; his parents were natives of
North Carolina and Kentucky; the father,
John Whiteley, was born in the former State, and the mother,
Christiana Hall, in the latter; the
father, though born in the State of North Carolina, was reared in Virginia,
going to Kentucky in early manhood; the ancestrial lineage was English on the
side of the father, and likewise English on the mother’s side, the more remote
ancestors, however, on the father’s side have been traced back to France,
Ireland and Germany, and those of the mother to France, Scotland, Wales, Germany
and Spain. The father was married to
Christiana, daughter of
William Hall¸ at the house of the
latter, some five miles east of Springfield, Ohio (now owned by
William Wilson), in the year 1811, and returned to Kentucky, where they remained until 1814,
when they came to the Reid neighborhood, some three and a half miles east of Springfield, where he was occupied
for two years in teaching school, then permanently located in the vicinity of
the Hall farm. He was a man of considerable prominence,
having been for some years
County Commissioner and a Justice of the Peace. The subject of this sketch was united in
marriage with Nancy C. Nelson, of
New England parents, Sept. 24, 1833, to which union there were born
six children, viz.: William N., Amos N.,
Eliza J., Nancy C., Caroline and
James B., all of whom are married and have children.
William N. married Mary McDermitt; tey have two children; Amos married Josephine E. Ferrell¸ and has two
children; Eliza married
Johnson Morton, and has one child;
Nancy married
W. T. Stillwell, and has one boy;
Caroline married
Edward Myers, and has one child, and James married Maggie Johnson, and has one girl. Until the year 1852,
Mr. Whiteley had devoted his entire
attention to farming; then, for the next five years, in connection with farming,
he was engaged with his son, William N.,
in the invention of the reaping and mowing machine, which, as it were, has been
wafted by the four winds of heaven to all parts of the civilized globe, and the
genius of the inventor heralded to every clime.
Since that period, Mr. Whiteley has given his attention to inventions, principally, in the line of the same
machines – improving the reaping and mowing machines, and the automatic and
spring binder; taking out and re-issuing patents, etc., etc. Many of his best inventions are found in
the Champion reapers, mowers and binders.
The father of our subject was a strong Whig, in whose footsteps his son trod,
and on the coming of the Republican party, became an advocate of its principles,
to which he adhered until the close of the war.
In 1872, he voted for Horace
Greeley; in 1876, for Samuel J.
Tilden, and in 1880, for Weaver,
who, in his opinion, was an upholder and respector of the rights of the laboring
classes.
SOURCE: The History of
Clark County, Ohio : Publ. Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1881 ~ Page 942 |
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Springfield
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WILLIAM WHITELEY,
Springfield. Throughout Clark
County the name of Whiteley is a
household word, and there are few families more widely known over the State, in
fact, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and wherever machinery for farm labor
can be utilized, there the product of the inventive genius of the
Whiteley family have found a lasting
welcome. They come of English stock,
who settled in Virginia before the Revolution,
Willialm’s grandfather, Joseph, with his brother, John Whiteley, serving throughout
that struggle for liberty, the latter yielding up his life in that great cause.
Joseph raised a large family, John, the father of
William, being one of the number, he
being born in North Carolina while his parents were on a visit to that State,
but always claiming Virginia as the State of his nativity. In 1804,
John Whiteley came from Kentucky
to Ohio on a prospecting tour, and again, in
1810, made a like trip, and in the spring of 1811, was married in what is now
Clark County, to
Christiana Hall, a native of
Virginia, of English, German and Scotch extraction, whose parents came to this portion
of Ohio
at an early day.
John and wife went back to Kentucky where he engaged in teaching school, being a man of good
education, and there they remained until 1814, when they returned to Clark
County, where he continued school-teaching, being one of the early educators in
the neighborhood of “Fletcher Chapel;” they raised a family of seven children,
four sons and three daughters, as follows:
Andrew, Freelove,
William, Abner, Joseph, Nancy and
Sarah, the eldest being the father of
William N. Whiteley, head of the
Champion Works, and the leading spirit in their growth and development.
John and wife lived and died in this county, having done their duty well in the building up of
the moral and material interests of the neighborhood, in which they were honored
and respected people. The subject of
this sketch was born in the eastern part of
Springfield
Township Jan. 18, 1815, and grew to manhood, working
on the home farm; but the whole family being natural inventors, they early
turned their attention to the invention and improvement of farm machinery. Beginning in a small way on the farm
in the manufacture of plows, and later, mowers and reapers, which have developed
into the gigantic manufacturing interests known far and wide as the Champion
Company, the history of which will be found in this work.
William was married, in 1848, to Mary Ann Stickney, daughter John and Sarah Stickney,
natives of England.
Mrs. Whiteley was born in this
county, and has had one child, Mary E., and the family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Whiteley has been identified with nearly every manufacturing interest that Springfield can
boast of today, and has been prime mover in many of them; his time and money
have ever been devoted to all classes of public benefits, and few men have done
more, according to his means, for the material welfare of his native county,
than William Whiteley; charitable and
benevolent to all, his generosity in helping his neighbor has been the cause of
much financial trouble to himself, yet he has gone on in his path and his
indefatigable industry, coupled with his great natural inventive genius, has
again attained for him a competency; politically a Republican, he has filled
many positions of trust and confidence, and his only desire through life has
been to do his duty, benefit his fellow-man, by helping to build up the moral
and material interests of his native county, and thereby merit the respect of
all good citizens, as well as leave to his family an unsullied character.
SOURCE: The History of Clark
County, Ohio : Publ. Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1881 ~ Page 943 –
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Springfield
Twp. –
WILLIAM N. WHITELEY, a manufacturer, Springfield; is a son of
Andrew and Nancy (Nelson) Whiteley;
was born near Springfield,
Aug. 3, 1835.
NOTE: - Mr. Whiteley needs no
biography for the citizens of Clark Co., his ests. His native modesty moved him to
request that no personal mention be made of him.
SOURCE: The History of Clark County,
Ohio : Publ. Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1881 ~ Page 944
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Springfield
Twp. -
WILLIAM S. WILSON, Treasurer, Springfield.
Mr. Wilson was born in Moorefield
Township, Clark Co., Ohio, in 1836; removed to
the city of Springfield
in 1851; in 1861, enlisted as private in the 71st O. V. I., and
re-enlisted in 1864, when the regiment was veteranized; he was promoted, from
time to time, through all the intermediate grades, to the office of Captain; he
served on the staff of Maj. Gen. Rosseau
as Provost Marshal of the District of the Cumberland as Commissary of Musters;
he resigned in October, 1865, holding the last-named staff appointment. In 1880, he was elected Treasurer of
Clark County, receiving a larger majority of votes than any of the candidates
for the different offices on either the State or county tickets.
SOURCE: The History of Clark County, Ohio
: Publ. Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1881 ~ Page 945
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CHARLES F. WISE
has been an active figure in farming and stock raising
circles in Clark County for over forty years. While he has
turned over some of the heavier responsibilities to younger
shoulders, he still owns a large amount of valuable farm
property and lives on a farm in Greene Township, six miles
west of South Charleston. He was born on a farm in
Springfield Township, December 26, 1861, son of Lewis and
Malinda (Hatfield) Wise. His father was born in Madison
Township, near South Charleston, December 14, 1829, son of
Jesse and Debora (Strong) Wise. Jesse Wise was a
native of Virginia, and came on horseback with his mother
across the mountains to the vicinity of South Charleston
about 1810. His mother lived there the rest of her life, and
he grew up and at the age of eighteen married Debora
Strong. The Wise family has therefore been identified
with this part of Clark County for considerably more than a
century. The three children of Jesse Wise
were: Phoebe, wife of John Butcher;
Anna, who became the wife of Hamilton Wade;
and Lewis Wise. Charles F. Wise spent
his early life on the old farm in Springfield Township, and
while there attended the local schools. At the age of
twenty-one he went for himself and on August 1, 1883,
married Minnie A. Schukedantz, who was born in
Madison Township, November 5, 1863. After his marriage
Mr. Wise rented land from his father, and at his
father's death he secured 160 acres in Greene Township. He
lived on that place thirty-four years, and in 1920 moved to
his present home of seventy-nine acres. Altogether he owns
nearly four hundred acres. Mr. and Mrs.
Wise have three sons. Blain C., born June 1,
1884, is a graduate in the Pitchin High School, as are his
two brothers, and he is a farmer and married Emma
Truesdale. Clarence L., born June 16, 1886, is a farmer
and married Daisy Craig. Jesse C., born
December 14, 1891, married Louise Skillings.
He is a farmer, and is also a well trained and talented
vocal and instrumental musician. The entire Wise family are
members of the Pitchin Grange. Mr. Wise is a
republican, has served as trustee and a member of the School
Board, and is a stockholder in the Farmers National Bank at
Springfield. In live stock he has specialized in the
breeding of Poland-China hogs. Mrs. Wise is a
daughter of Christopher and Judith (Clemens)
Schukedantz. Her father was born near Frankfort,
Germany, and her mother near South Charleston, Ohio. Her
father was a boy when his parents came to America, locating
near South Charleston, where he grew up and married and
became a successful farmer and livestock shipper. Of the
nine children in the Schukedantz family five are
living: Sarah, wife of Thomas Day, of
Lagonda; Mary, wife of James Littler,
of Springfield; Anna C., widow of John Hess,
of Springfield: Mrs. Wise; and Henry,
living near Selma.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 92 -
Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz |
LEWIS
WISE, farmer; P. O. Springfield. Mr. Wise was born in
this county Dec. 14, 1829; he has followed farming all his
life, and is of a true, genuine, hospitable nature. He was
married, Sept 18, 1856, to Melinda Hatfield, daughter of
James and Margaret (Kitchen) Hatfield; they have had six
children, viz., Alice, Joseph, Charles C., James H., Minnie
E., John S., all living except Alice and Joseph, who have
crossed the river to that purer and better home in heaven.
Mrs. Wise was born in this county Sept. 8, 1833; Mr. and
Mrs. Wise moved to their present home a few days after their
marriage, being their first and only moving. Mr. Wise is the
son of Jesse and Debora (Strong) Wise; Jesse was a native of
Virginia, and, when but a small boy, his father died,
leaving the mother with the care of their two children,
Jesse and Polly, and, in 1801, she, with her children, came
to Ohio and to this county, traveling all the way from
Virginia here on horseback, with one of the children before
and the other behind her on the horse. Mrs. Wise's father,
James Hatfield, was a native of Kentucky, and her mother of
Pennsylvania, he coming to Clark County in 1806, and she in
1812. Lewis' mother died in 1832, and his father in 1876.
The farm on which Mr. and Mrs. Wise now live was entered by
her Grandmother Hatfield about the year 1808, and has
remained in the possession of some of the family ever since;
and on the 25th of August, 1880, when a family re-union was
held on the old farm, there being present 100 persons, all
relatives, except three, of Mrs. Wise; during the day, the
older ones related many interesting incidents which had
occurred on the old farm during their boyhood days.
SOURCE: The History of Clark County, Ohio : Publ.
Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1881 - Page 947 - Transcribed for
Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz |
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