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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Delaware Co., Ohio
Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers
1880
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REV. JOHN UFFORD,
Rector of the Episcopal Church, Delaware, is the oldest resident
pastor of Delaware; he was born in Old Stratford, Conn., Nov. 14,
1810, and is the son of Elijah and Percy (Peabody) Ufford,
both natives of Connecticut; the father was a merchant. Mr.
Ufford was a resident of Stratford until he was about 14 years
of age, and then lived in Bridgeport, Conn., some five or six years;
in 1832, he came West to Ohio, and located at Gambier; here he
entered Knox College and graduated in 1837; in 1839 he was ordained,
taking charge of his first parish at Maumee City, Ohio, where he
remained one year; was then in Newark, Ohio, one year; he then went
to Virginia and remained some two years, engaging in teaching
school; Mr. Ufford then took a parish in Northampton Co.,
Va., where he remained about eight or nine years; then to Maysville,
Ky.; from there to Muscatine, Iowa, where he remained until 1861,
when he entered the army and was made Chaplain of the 6th Iowa V.
I.; after the capture of Vicksburg, on account of his health, he
left the army, in 1863, he came to Delaware, since which time he has
been the Rector of the Episcopal Church.
Source No. 2
- History of Delaware Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co.,
Historical Publishers; 1880 - Page 647 |
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W. A. ULREY,
photographer, Delaware; was born in Clermont Co., Ohio, in 1852, and
commenced to learn his trade as a photograph artist in Coles Co.,
Ill., where he remained a short time; in 1877, he came to Delaware
and worked in the photograph gallery of Mr. Bodurtha, where
he remained until 1878, when he purchased his present business, the
oldest photograph establishment in the county, located in the
Evans Block, on the third floor. Mr. Ulery, by close
attention to business and keeping pace with the improvements made in
the art of photography, is meeting with good success; any kind of
work that can be done by a photographer Mr. Ulrey can do; he
finishes pictures in both oil and water colors, and warrants them to
give good satisfaction.
Source: History of Delaware
County and Ohio; Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers,
1880, p. 647
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MRS.
H. L. UTTER, dry
goods; P. O. Ashley; was born at Limaville, Stark Co., Ohio, Sept.
18, 1835; the daughter of Robert and Rosetta Morrison; her
father came from Hartford, Conn., and her mother from Portage Co.,
Ohio; when Mrs. Utter was about 9 years of age, her parents
moved to Delaware Co. She was married March 12, 1851, to Adam
Sherman, by whom she had two children––one of whom died in
infancy; her son, Robert M. Sherman, engaged in business with
his mother now, was born Jan. 31, 1854, in Delaware Co. Mr.
Sherman died in Ashley the 10th day of May, 1876, having been
engaged in farming and the dry-goods business; his wife has since
carried on the store in her own name. She remained a widow until
Nov. 22, 1879, then married Joseph J. Utter, of Morrow Co.;
Adam Sherman was born Feb. 27, 1823, at Zanesville, O.; his
parents, John and Martha, came to that part of Delaware which
has since become Morrow Co.; he was one of thirteen children; in
1850, he went with Josephus McLeod overland to California,
arriving there in July; in October, he started for Central America;
in January, 1851, he crossed the Isthmus, and came to New Orleans,
and took passage to Vicksburg on the steamer John Adams; she was
overloaded and sunk near Vicksburg; Mr. Sherman was twelve
hours in the water, clinging to parts of the vessel; he lost all of
his clothing and the greater part of his gold, saving only about
$2,000, which he carried in a belt, reaching home in February,
1851. The village of Ashley owes much to him for its present state
of improvements. The ground on which it stands was his father’s
sugar-camp; he raised the second, fourth and fifth buildings in the
town, and built thirty-five in all. Robert M. Sherman was
married to Miss Rosa Leeds, of Ashley, Dec. 24, 1874; they
have two children. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Sherman were members of
the M. E. Church; he was honest in his dealings––a kind husband and
a friend to the homeless.
Source: History of
Delaware County and Ohio; Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical
Publishers, 1880, pp. 798-799
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