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(Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Crawford County, Ohio -
Chicago: 1902)
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J. AGNEW, D. D. S.
Although one of the younger representatives of the dental
fraternity in Crestline, Dr. Agnew possesses the skill
and ability which will win him success, and the ambition which
prompts energetic and continued action. He was born in
western Ontario, Canada, in May, 1872, and his parents are still
residing in Wingham, Ontario. He is the eighth in a family
of nine children, among whom are two dentists, two physicians,
two sisters who are nurses in the Pennsylvania hospital, at
Philadelphia, while the youngest brother is now studying
medicine. Such a record probably has scarcely ever been
paralleled, and the family is certainly doing its share toward
the alleviation of human suffering.
Dr. Agnew, whose name introduces this review,
pursued his education in the public schools of his native
county, and prepared for his professional career as a student in
the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, in which institution
he was graduated on the completion of the regular course, with
the class of 1899. He was located at Galion for some time,
but in June 1900, came to Crestline, where he opened an office.
Although hardly a year has passed since that time he has already
secured a large clientage. He is thoroughly in touch with
the most advanced and improved methods of the day, and the work
which he does in the line of his profession has given excellent
satisfaction. He is a young man of determined purpose, of
resolute spirit and commendable ambition, and these qualities
cannot fail to bring him success. |
ADAM ASHCROFT.
The subject of this sketch is the son of parents who were
pioneers in what is now Crawford county, Ohio, and was born
within the limits of Jefferson township at so early a date that
he might well claim pioneership for himself. He comes of the old
Pennsylvania family of Ashcroft and his father was
Newton Ashcroft, a son of Adam Ashcroft,
in honor of whom the present Adam Ashcroft was
named and who was himself an early settler in Crawford county.
Adam Ashcroft came out from Pennsylvania in 1828
accompanied by his son Newton and other members of his family
and settled in Jefferson township, where he bought the farm
which is now the property and home of his grandson, the second
Adam Ashcroft. It consisted of one hundred and
sixty acres of land, on which there had been a small clearing,
in the midst of which stood a lonely little log cabin. Adam
Ashcroft, who was a surveyor and school teacher, became
prominent in the county and being a member of the church, with a
gift for prayer and speech, he did effective work among the
early settlers as an exhorter and an evangelist. He was a very
industrious man and worked on his woodland farm early and late,
chopping down trees, logging, grubbing and burning out stumps
and in all necessary ways preparing for cultivation, and when he
died at the age of ninety-two years, it was a farm of which he
had long been proud.
Adam Ashcroft, grandson of
Adam Ashcroft and son of Newton Ashcroft,
was born in 1834 and passed his youth on the farm and in
obtaining a practical education in local subscription schools,
an ambition in which he was encouraged by his mother, who before
her marriage to Newton Ashcroft,. was Miss
Mary Hershener. Of the seven children of Newton
and Mary (Hershener) Ashcroft, three of whom -were
sons and four of whom were daughters, the subject of this sketch
and his sisters survive. Elizabeth is the widow of
Samuel Trosh. Mary is the wife of John
Creider. Catherine is the wife of John
Johnson. Lydia is the wife of Johnson Davis.
John and Henry are dead. Newton Ashcroft,
who is a carpenter and stone cutter by trade, was a constant
resident of Jefferson township, from his advent there in 1828,
until his death in 1892, at the age of ninety-two. His wife died
at the age of eighty-eight years. Their son Adam, who now
owns one hundred and eleven acres of his grandfather's original
homestead, has lived on the place ail his life, except during
two years and he took charge of the place in 1858. He owns
two other pieces of land of twenty-five and thirteen acres,
respectively. At the age of twenty-one he began working at the
carpenter's trade, at which he was employed four years.
In 1858 Mr. Ashcroft married Lydia
Crieder, who has borne him four-children, as follows:
Homer, who lives in Wells county, Indiana; Alice, who
is the wife of Richard Hiltner, of Jefferson
township; Edith, who is the wife of Harry Smith,
of Jefferson township: and Pearl, who is the wife of
William De Gray, of Jefferson township. Since he
married Mr. Ashcroft has given-his attention
entirely to farming, in which he has been very successful.
Politically he is a Republican, devoted to the principles and
measures of his party and, while he is not without influence in
local affairs, he is neither a practical politician nor an
office seeker, but he is a man of recognized public spirit. He
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is a liberal
supporter of Christian worship in his township. |
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