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PLATT H. PERRY, residing on his farm of 175 acres in Thompson Township, all of which he has under cultivation, was born in Leesburg Township, Union County, Ohio, October 20, 1869, and is a son of Albert T. and Laura A. (Irving) Perry.
     Henry Perry, the paternal grandfather of Platt H., was born in Wales and accompanied his parents to Radnor Township, Delaware County, when the country was still covered with forests and wolves and other wild animals were almost the only other live things in the wilderness.  When he grew to manhood he married Martha Lavender, who was probably born in Thompson Township, and they had a family of several children.  He subsequently removed to Thompson Township and later to Bokes Creek Township, in Logan County, where he lived during the last 25 years of his life, his death taking place in July, 1889, at the age of 63 years.
     ALBERT T. PERRY was born in Union County, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1846, and died Aug. 25, 1906.  Until within a year before his death he resided in Leesburg Township, Union County, but the last year of his life was passed at Marion.  He left an estate aggregating nearly 400 acres of land.  During the Civil War he saw service as a member of Company G, One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  He married a daughter of William Irving, of Thompson Township, who settled in Delaware County at Delaware County at an early day, and she is still living.  The three surviving children are:  Platt H.; Roland P., residing at Marion; and William, who manages the home place in Union County.  The late Albert T. Perry was a man of fine character and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens.  Politically he was a Republican.
     PLATT H. PERRY attended the country schools through boyhood and remained on the homestead farm until his marriage, shortly after which he moved to Logan County, where engaged in farming for two years.  In the spring of 1893 he came to Thompson Township, settling on his farm, where he has since been engaged in growing wheat, corn, oats and hay and in raising horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.  He is considered one of the successful agriculturists of this section.
     On March 16, 1889, Mr. Perry was married to Mary Della Hupp, who is a daughter of Henry Hupp, residing in Claybourn Township, Union County, and they have two children:  Jennie E. and Ora V.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Perry are social by nature and he is a member of Magnetic Springs Lodge No. 380, Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chancellor and has been a representative to the Grand Lodge, while she is a member of the Pythian Sisters and holds the office of past most excellent chief.
DR. CHARLES H. PICKETT made his advent to this favorite resort in 1831, after a short stay in Worthington.  He died here in 1855.  He was educated in New York City and came of a very influential family.  His father and brothers conducted a female seminary in the city, and the father was the author of several school books.  None questioned it himself.  His son, Alexander, read medicine with him and soon after died suddenly. ~ Page 347
HORACE PLUMB, retired farmer; P. O. Berkshire; is a son of Ichabod and Catherine (Hindsdale) Plumb; his father was born in Connecticut, and was a member of the Scioto Company; came to Ohio in 1807, settling in Berkshire Township, then a wilderness; he was a wagonmaker and farmer and died in 1847.  They had eleven children, but five survive.  The subject of these notes was born on a farm near Worthington, Ohio; in his younger days, he attended school as convenient and worked with his father; at 17, he began learning the blacksmith's trade at Mt. Vernon, with his Uncle Patrick; for two years he was under his instruction; he then blacksmithed at Newark, for the workers on the Ohio Canal; he then settled at Berkshire, where he has since resided.  Was married, Dec. 19, 1833, to Eliza Cables, a daughter of Isaac Cables of Connecticut; she was born and raised in the same State.  He and his wife are members of the M. E. Church.  His grandfather was a chaplain in the war of 1812.
HON. EARLY FRANKLYN POPPLETON, in whose death, which occurred May 6, 1899.  Delaware lost one of the most distinguished men who ever claimed that city as home, was a man of exceptional ability as a lawyer and statesman.  He had a very extensive practice during the 38 years of his professional career in that city, and was called upon to represent the people in the Ohio State Senate, and later in the halls of Congress.
     Mr. Poppleton was born at Belleville, Richland County, Ohio, Sept. 29, 1834, and was a son of Samuel and Julia A. (Smith) Poppleton.  He came of a prominent New England family of English extraction, the history of which is traceable back to Sir William Poppleton, who fought at Marston Moor.  The is also a town near York, named Poppleton.  Samuel Poppleton, great grandfather of our subject, came from the North of England to America some time during the colonial days.  He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was standard bearer with Ethan Allen at the taking of Ticonderoga.  He was in the battles of Crown Point and Quebec, and at the surrender of Cornwallis.  Eight times he went out as a minute man and participated in eight of the battles of the war.  He was buried at Belleville, Ohio.  Daniel Poppleton, grandfather of our subject, came from Vermont to Richland County, Ohio, where he was among the early settlers.  He was a farmer by occupation.  He and three brothers were soldiers in the Continental Army during the Revolution.
     Samuel Poppleton, father of Hon E. F. Poppleton, was born in Vermont, Jul. 7, 1793, and made the most of a farm boy's educational opportunities.  In his younger days he united with the Methodist Church, in which he was subsequently ordained a minister.  He enlisted for service during the War of 1812, and at its close moved to New York state.  There he was united in marriage with Parthenia Stinbeck, who died early in life.  He later came to Ohio, locating in Richland County, where his father had settled; he served as local preacher in the M. E. Church and also traveled about considerably.  In 1839 or 1840, he embarked in the mercantile business with his son-in-law, F. W. Strong, at Mansfield, Ohio, and for many years was identified with the business interests of that city.  Then, in order to give his children superior educational advantages, he removed to Delaware, Ohio, where his death occurred on Sept. 23, 1864.  His second marriage was with Miss Julia Smith, Feb. 3, 1828, she being a native of Canada, where she was born Feb. 1, 1808, of New York parents.  Six children were born of their union: Emery, who for a period of 25 years was secretary of the Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad; Cora, wife of Judge Lake, of the Supreme Court of Nebraska; Zaida (Linnell), who died at Elyria; Parthenia, deceased wife of Judge Stevenson Burke, of Cleveland; H. H. Poppleton, a prominent lawyer of Cleveland, and for years general attorney for the Big Four Railroad System; and Early Franklyn.
     Early Franklyn Poppleton received a preliminary educational training in the schools of Belleville and Mansfield, Ohio, supplemented by a course of Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware.  He read law under the preceptorship of Judge Burke, of Elyria, and was admitted to the bar there, in Sept. 1858.  In 1861, he came to Delaware and opened an office for practice, and for many years thereafter was identified, either as attorney for the plaintiff or defense, with most of the important litigation tried in the courts of Delaware County.  Possessed of a keen, perceptive mind, a logical reasoner and eloquent speaker, he was quick to discern a salient point in an opponent's case and in forcible language drive home a telling blow.  He was accredited with having the greatest native ability of any lawyer who ever practiced at the bar of this county.  His brilliancy in professional work brought public recognition and he was frequently called upon to serve in official capacity.  He was for six years a member of the City Council of Delaware, most of that time as president of that body.  In 1870 he was elected to the Ohio State Senate, and in 1874 to the United States Congress, his work in both bodies evidencing the highest order of statesmanship.  He was highly esteemed as a man of true worth, and his rugged honesty and genial nature made him popular with all classes.
     Mr. Poppleton, in early life, was married to Miss Adaline Chase, of Detroit, who died in 1868, Mr. Frank Chase Poppleton, of Prospect, being their eldest son.  He was married the second time to Mary R. Miller, of Delaware.  They have two sons - William Miller and Early Samuel.
 
DR. A. J. POUNDS was born in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1858.  From the common schools he went to the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1876.  He graduated from the Columbus Medical College in 1881.  He began the practice at Ostrander, and moved to Delaware in 1906.  He was elected secretary of the Delaware County Medical Society in 1907.  He is a member of the State and County Societies.
GEORGE W. POWERS, cashier of the First National Bank, Delaware, is one of the leading business men of the city, in which he was born, in 1846.  He is a son of Benjamin Powers, who was an early settler in this part of Ohio.  After completing his education, he entered the First National Bank in a clerical position, remaining until 1872, when he went to Dayton, where he was in a grocery business until 1875.  He then returned to Delaware and to the First National Bank, soon afterward becoming assistant cashier, and he served as such until 1884, when he was elected cashier.
     In 1876, Mr. Powers was married to Mary E. McKinney, who is a daughter of Robert McKinney, a prominent farmer of Radnor Township, and they have four children:  Robert B., Harry W., Helen M. and Lawrence A.  Robert graduated with the degree of B. S., from the Ohio Wesleyan University, in 1902, since which time he has been assistant cashier of the First National Bank.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Phi Gamma Delta and the Theta Nu Epsilon college societies.  Harry W. Powers, teller in the First National Bank, was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University School of Business.  Helen M. Powers, like her brothers, was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University.  Lawrence A. is still a student in the Delaware schools.  The family is identified with the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Powers and two older sons are well known in banking circles, almost their whole business careers having been identified with banking interests.
DR. ROYAL N. POWERS located in Delaware in 1820.  He was given "a ride on a rail" after being here a short time.  Where he went was never known. ~ Page 346
WILLIAM PROSSER, farmer; P. O. Galena; is a son of John and Sarah (Perdue) Prosser; his father was born in Maryland and came to Ohio in 1837; was a tailor by trade, who died in 1850; his wife was born in Pennsylvania in 179; they had seven children, four survive.  Mr. Prosser, the subject of this sketch, was born Aug. 11, 1839, in Franklin Co., Ohio, and when quite young came with his parents to Delaware Co., Settling in Trenton Township, at an early age he began carpentering; his father died when he was young and he was compelled to make his way alone in life; he had the advantage of a district-school education.  In 1862, he enlisted in Co. G, 88th O. V. I., and remained nearly three years, serving as Sergeant; he was among the company who routed Morgan at the time he made is raid through Ohio, and had charge of the guard through the time Morgan was in the penitentiary in Columbus.  On his return, he worked at carpentering in Genoa Township.  In 1869, was married to Martha Perfect, a daughter of John Perfect; she was born in 1846 in Berkshire Township, Delaware Co., their union has been blessed with five children - Fred, Glen, Sina, Elmer, and an infant.  In 1867, Mr. Prosser moved on the present farm of 163 acres, owned by his mother's children, where he is still living.
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