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CLERMONT COUNTY, OHIO
BIOGRAPHIES
SOURCE: HISTORY OF
CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES, OHIO
— VOLUME II —
1913 |
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DR.
ISAAC REDROW. Dr. Isaac
Redrow is known throughout Clermont county, Ohio, as
an able professional man of experience, ripened by years
of practice in his profession, and the result of this
experience gives ample proof of the esteem and confidence
in which he is held in the community where he has
practiced for forty-four years. His birth occurred in
Cincinnati, March 1, 1840. The parents of Dr. Redrow
were Enoch and Mary Jane (Snowhill) Redrow, the
former of whom was a native of New Jersey, but who came to
Ohio when quite young. While still in New Jersey, he
learned the shipbuilder's trade, which he followed in
Fulton, and later in Cincinnati. He lived an active life
and died in 1861, at the age of fifty-five years. He was
of the Methodist Episcopal faith. Mary Jane (Snowhill)
Redrow was born at Lebanon, Ohio, and died in
Cincinnati, in 1840.
Dr. Redrow was reared at
Fayetteville, Brown county, Ohio, attending the public
schools of that place, taking up the study of medicine
with Dr. W. C. Hall, 1865 to 1869.
September 11, 1861, Isaac Redrow enlisted, in
Cincinnati, in Company B, Fifth Ohio cavalry, as a soldier
and corporal, serving three years and three months. He was
in twenty-three important engagements, including Shiloh,
Hatchie, Holly Springs, Coldwater; Lexington, Corinth,
Pittsburg Landing, Davis Mills, Lebanon, Missionary Ridge
and others.
A remarkable fact is that in all these battles Dr.
Redrow was never once wounded.
Returning from the war, Dr. Redrow again
took up the study of medicine, and began to practice in
Fayetteville in 1868, continuing for one year, coming to
Williamsburg in 1869, at which place he has resided until
the present time. The marriage of Dr. Redrow
to Miss Katie Leffingwell
was solemnized in 1875. Mrs. Redrow is a
daughter of Sidney S. and Melissa (Byron) Leffingwell,
who owned and operated the grist and saw mills at
Williamsburg from 1848 to 1861. He also turned out chair
material, probably the first ever made here. His father,
Capt. Samuel Leffingwell, was in the
government service and received as his remuneration some
1,100 acres of land within three miles of Williamsburg,
which includes the farms owned by Mr. McKeever, Mr.
Reed and others. He was a merchant in Williamsburg, coming
here in 1832, from Norfolk, Va., where his wife's decease
occurred in 1810. The Leffingwell family was
founded in America by Thomas Leffingwell
about 1636. Mrs. Redrow is one of nine
children who grew to maturity, and is the only one who
remained in Clermont county. The others are:
Mrs. Harriet C. Richards, of Lawrence, Kan.
Mrs. Olive B. Warden, of Choctaw City, Okla.
Charles H. Leffingwell, of California, who was a
soldier in the Civil war.
Mrs. Judith P. Wageman, of Texas.
Horace Leffingwell, of San Marcus, Texas.
Dr. Redrow had one sister, Mrs. Matilda Lake,
who died in 1873; one half brother, William
Redrow, of Company B. Fifth Ohio cavalry, who was
wounded at Shiloh, from the effects of which he died
later.
To the union of Dr. and Mrs.
Redrow have been born two children:
Walter L. Redrow was graduated from the Ohio State
University, class of 1900. He received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws from Georgetown University, Washington,
D. C, 1903, and the degree of Master of Patent Law from
George Washington University in 1904. He is now in the
patent office at Washington, D. C. He married Eleanor,
daughter of George Daugherty, of Washington, D. C,
and they have two children—Eileen and Allen.
Clara Redrow was graduated from the Ohio
State University in the class of 1903. She married
William Ireton, who is in the mail service.
They have two children—Carl and Eleanor.
In political views, Dr. Redrow is a
Republican, but does not care to hold office, believing
that his first duty is to his profession. He is a member
of the Clermont County Medical Association, and was
formerly a member of the Ohio State and American Medical
associations, and is also a Mason. Dr. Redrow
is a member of the J. H. Jenkins Post, No. 242,
Grand Army of the Republic, in which he has filled all the
offices. He has given his life to a profession which is of
eminent service to his fellow men, and his zeal and
enthusiasm in his chosen calling have won for him the kind
regard from all. He lived during the Nation's peril and
offered himself with courage and energy in her defense.
His life has been one of usefulness to others. |
THE
RICKER FAMILY is of pure English extraction,
tracing its lineage through the celebrated Wentworth
family to Rynold (Reginald) de Wynterwade, a baron of
great wealth, renown, and power, who lived at the height
of his greatness in the year 1066, the time of the Norman
invasion.
After twenty-eight generations, we find Elder William
Wentworth, the first of the name in America, 1639. Mary
Wentworth, fourth generation from Elder William
Wentworth,
married Jabez Ricker, and they had ten children, of whom
Samuel Ricker married, 1790, Susanna, daughter of
Benjamin
and Mary Jewett. They were the first of the family to
settle in Clermont county, Ohio. To them were born, Rufus,
who laid out the city of Davenport, Iowa, where he was a
judge for ten years; Jabez, who taught the first school
in Union school house, in Monroe township; Benjamin
Jewett; Samuel; Susanna, who married John
Fitzpatrick; Eben, who married Harriet
Pompelly.
Benjamin Jewett Ricker, born at Poland, Maine, was married
November 24, 1816, in Campbell county, Kentucky, to Mary
Reed Wilson, born in Durham, Maine, February 12, 1800. He
died in October, 1861, and she died in December, 1859.
Their children were: Elbridge Gerry Ricker, born in
Clermont county, Ohio, July 31, 1818; Susan, born in Rush
county, Indiana, in 1821, and married Joseph R. Foster;
Adaline, born in Rush county, Indiana, 1824, married
Benjamin Frazee; Mary Ann, born in Rush county, Indiana,
married Jacob Clark, and William Wilson
Ricker, the
youngest child, born in Clermont county, Ohio, married Mary
Doane.
Elbridge Gerry Ricker was liberally educated in the best
schools in Southern Ohio. He made farming his profession,
and became one of the most noted agriculturists in the
State.
He was a very well known and active politician, being a
warm advocate of the rights of the negro slave, and
helping to found the Republican party in Ohio, in 1854-55.
In 1855, he was elected a member of the legislature of
Ohio, and in 1858, left his farm at Locust Corner, Ohio,
to become a member of the board of directors and professor
of agriculture of the Farmers' College, of College Hill,
Ohio, where he successfully operated the experimental farm
until the beginning of the War of the Rebellion. In the
war, he was major of the Fifth Ohio cavalry, and won a
glorious name by his gallant conduct. He was elected
treasurer of Clermont county in 1863, and served
efficiently for a period of two years. On December 13,
1836, he was united in marriage to Margaret Foster,
daughter of Lieut. Thomas and Sarah (Holly)
Foster, and a
granddaughter of Thomas Foster, who was a son of Nancy
Trigg, she being a daughter of Col. William and Jane
(Smith) Trigg, the former of whom was a son of Abraham and Dosia (Johnson) Trigg.
Abraham Trigg came from Cornwall,
England, in 1725, to Spottsylvania county, Virginia.
Leonard Raper, the maternal grandfather of
Margaret
(Foster) Ricker, received his education at Oxford College,
England, and came to America with Lord Cornwallis, acting
as the latter's secretary until the surrender of Yorktown,
after which he became loyal to the States government and
was appointed surveyor of the Second district of Ohio. He
first lived at the old block house, but later moved to
Williamsburg.
To the union of Elbridge Gerry and Margaret (Foster)
Ricker were born seven children:
Benjamin Jewett, who was born September 14, 1840, and was
major of the Thirty-fourth Ohio volunteers. Following the
close of the war, he studied law, and was admitted to the
Clermont county bar. He died at the home of his brother,
Dr. J. T. Ricker, at Glen Rose, Ohio, September, 1907.
Rosella A., who was born April 1, 1842, married
Dr. Edwin Freeman, a prominent surgeon of Cincinnati, who rendered
gallant service to his country as a member of the Ninth
army corps, and who afterward filled the chair of
professor of surgery at the Eclectic Medical College. They
had two sons and one daughter: Foster Freeman, unmarried;
Dr. E. R. Freeman, who became professor of dermatology in
the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, and was a
member of the staff of the Seaton Hospital, dying
unmarried in 1912, and Rosella Margaret Freeman, married
Alan Ross Raff, and to them have been born one child,
Rosella.
Thomas Foster, lost his life as a result of a wound
received while serving his country during the Civil war.
He died unmarried, 1874.
Maria, who was born July 24, 1845, died July 8, 1872,
unmarried.
Edward, born October 8, 1846, died unmarried.
Joseph Trimble, born May 18, 1848.
Sarah Foster, born November 22f 1855, was educated at the
Wesleyan Female College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and married
William T. Simpson, of College Hill, Ohio, who is vice-president
of the American Rolling Mills Company, of Middleton, Ohio,
and to them was born one child, Robert, who died in early
childhood.
There is perhaps no family in Clermont county who has more
intimate knowledge of the history of the county, its
advantages, improvements and advancement than the members
of the Ricker family, who for many years have witnessed
its growth and through long years have taken an active
part in the progress that conserves commercial development
and general prosperity of the community. |
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