RUTH
CALHOON. Mrs. Ruth A. (Corbitt-Kinkaid)
Calhoon, Jeffersonville, is a daughter of Samuel and
Catherine, who were married in this county a few years
after they came here.
Mr. Calhoon came here, about 1811, from
Virginia; she from Pennsylvania. They had a family of
five children; four are living.
Our subject was born, and twice married in this county;
first to John L. Kinkaid, in 1852. By this
marriage she had one child, Ella, who married
Elijah Allen January, 1875, and has one child,
Florence.
Mr. Kinkaid died, in 1874, aged thirty-one years.
He was a marble cutter by trade, a member of the Masonic
fraternity of Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Our subject then married David Calhoon, March,
1876; one child Irene, is the result of this
union. Mrs. Calhoon has a farm of one hundred
acres, situated two miles west of Jeffersonville. She,
Ella, and Mr. Allen, are members of the Universalist
Church of Jeffersonville.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 ~ pg. 672) NOTE: Also spelled
Calhoun |
CISMORE
CARR, farmer and stock raiser, Washington.
His parents were Joshua and Susy Carr, who came from
Virginia, to this county, in 1814. They are both dead.
Mrs. Carr survived her husband many years. They
were the parents of four children: two girls and two
boys. Jason M., married and moved to the
State of Missouri, and died there. Mary Susy
was married to Captain E. Henkle, and died some years
since. Their biography appears in this work.
Mary Jane was married to Henry Baughn, and
lives in the neighborhood. Cismore, the subject
of this sketch, was born Oct. 28, 1818, on the very spot of
the ground where he now resides. He spent his earlier
years in the vicinity of his residence. Mr. Carr
remained unmarried until Feb. 23, 1870, when he married
Miss Margaret Jane Isgrig, daughter of Madison Isgrig
of Missouri. They were married in Missouri, but
came to his home in this county at once. They have
four children: Christine Jane, Mary Susy, Wilber
Jason and Harman. Mr. Carr owns and
lives on a number one farm, containing three hundred and ten
acres situated three miles west from Washington, midway
between the Wilmington and Plymouth pike. His house is
built on a hill or elevation one hundred or more feet above
the town of Washington. This one of the most beautiful
locations for building purposes in the county, being on the
divide between the waters of Paint and Sugar creeks.
Mr. Carr, all his life, ahs been a very active,
energetic industrious man; but few men in the county have
performed so much hard labor as Mr. Carr. For a
number of years past, he has devoted much time and energy in
the late fall and early winter in the purchasing and
shipment of hogs on commission for Cincinnati parties and
elsewhere. Mr. Carr, for years, has had certain
interests which has called him west. He has been west
thirty-eight times. All of these trips may not have
been very remunerative; but some of them most assuredly
proved very profitable, for it was thus that Mr. Carr
secured a most estimable wife, which certainly is no small
thing, especially for an old bachelor to do. In
politics he is a Republican.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
JACOB
CARR, farmer and stock
raiser, Washington, is a son of Joab and Elizabeth Carr,
natives of Virginia. They immigrated to Ohio, on
horseback, in 1815; came to Fayette County and settled where
the subject of this sketch now lives, in 1818; where the
father died in 1824, and the mother in 1832. They were
the parents of four children- three sons and one daughter:
George, married, and living in Clinton County;
Joab, married, and living in White County, Indiana;
Mary Susan, died in 1832.
Jacob, our subject, was born Oct. 7, 1817, on
the spot where he now lives. January 22, 1842, he
married Miss Polly Herrod, daughter of Samuel
Herrod, of Madison County, Ohio, who raised a large
family, all of whom, including the father and mother, are
now dead, except Mrs. Carr and one sister.
Mr. and Mrs. Carr have had nine children - four
sons and five daughters - born unto them: Matilda
A., wife of William Thornton, of Madison County;
Salathiel H., married, and living on the home farm;
Elijah Scott, married, and living in Millidgeville, this
county. Ellen A., married to Elam Thornton,
and living in the neighborhood; David M., married,
and living in Clinton County; Angeletta, married, and
living in the neighborhood, and Susan and Jesse
Sherman, who are single, and remain at home with their
parents.
June 2, 1881, the entire family, consisting of father,
mother, and nine children, appeared before an artist in
Washington, and had their negatives taken for a family
picture.
Mr. Carr owns and lives on a most excellent
farm, containing one hundred and thirty-one acres, located
two miles west of Washington, between the Wilmington and
Palmer or Jamestown pikes. Here he has lived all his
life, raised his family, and expects to remain the balance
of his days. Mr. Carr has never had a law suit,
and has never paid a dollar as fees to a lawyer. Was
elected assessor of his township in 1855, and has assessed
the township fifteen times, and assisted to do the same work
five times. Sold pork in the early part of his farm
life at one cent per pound, and delivered corn in Washington
at ten cents per bushel. In politics he is a
Republican, and is a straightforward, honest, truthful man.
The family are well-to-do, and much respected by all who
have to do with them.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
REV.
GEORGE CARPENTER, pastor of the Presbyterian Church
of Washington, was born May 9,1826, near "Carpenter's Mills"
on the Olentangy River, Delaware County. His father, Nathan
Carpenter, was born in New York, but in 1801, when eleven
years of age, the family immigrated to this state, and
settled in Delaware County.
In 1811, he was married to Miss Electa
Case, whose father's family came originally from New
Haven, Connecticut, with the " Worthington colony," in 1803.
They had eleven children, three sons and eight daughters.
When the subject of this sketch was eleven years old,
his father removed to a farm near Worthington, Franklin
County, and his youth was spent in alternately working the
farm and attending school. He graduated from the Ohio
Wesleyan University, in 1851, and in his theological course
at Cincinnati, in 1853. He was licensed by the Presbytery of
Columbus at Kingstown, Ross County, in the same church where
he afterwards ministered as pastor. He served for several
months the churches of Tarlton and Amanda; but being laid
aside by sickness for a year, afterwards accepted a call to
Kingston, where he was ordained and installed pastor
October, 1855; he remained there twelve years, when he
received and accepted an invitation to Washington where he
is still pastor.
Mr. Carpenter was married August 10,1852,
to Matilda, daughter of Rev. James
Gilruth of Davenport, Iowa; but formerly a pioneer in
this state of the Methodist Church. They have seven
children;, of whom two daughters—the oldest and the
youngest—have been called to their rest: Hattie
Gilruth, aged twenty-one, and baby Maud, only
live months. The eldest son, Willard Bryant,
is married and is a practicing physician in Columbus, Ohio.
Two sons, George Haywood and Charles
Kynett, and two daughters, Mary, Lisle and
Alice Boone are still at home.
Mr. Carpenter has always been prominent
in Christian and temperance work. His wife was one of the
leaders in the memorable "crusade" against the rum seller.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
DR.
JASPER N. CLARK, of Madison Mills, is the second son
of Alexander and Lydia (Adkins) Clark. His
parents were natives of Orange County, Virginia, and came to
Ohio in the year 1837.
Our subject was born, Oct. 6, 1843, in Mt. Sterling,
Ohio, and in 1859 his parents settled at Madison Mills.
He evinced a taste for study at an early age, and by close
application to his books, became the leading pupil of his
neighborhood and school. He worked for some years at
the trade of blacksmithing, but at the age of twenty-eight,
he turned his attention to the study of medicine, and began
reading with Dr. W. T. Wilerman, of Pickaway County.
During 1870-'71 he attended the usual lecture courses at
Starling Medical College, Columbus, and in March, 1872,
graduated from that institution. That same spring he
began practicing at Harrisburg, continuing there one year;
then at Buena Vista a year, when he located, in 1874, at
Madison Mills, where he now has a fine practice. He
was married, Dec. 28, 1877, to Ella, second daughter
of George and Emily (Bush) Parrot, of Madison
Township. To them have been born two children:
Mabel, born May, 19, 1879, and Lewis, born Feb.
13, 1880.
Dr. Clark has surmounted many obstacles to
attain the position he now occupies in his profession, and
he now stands among the first of the medical men of his
county, enjoying and deserving the utmost confidence of his
professional and unprofessional acquaintances. He is a
member of the Bloomingburg Lodge No. 449, F. & A. M.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
EDMUND
W. CLARRIDGE. Our subject was born in Madison
Township, this county, Oct., 4, 1827. (See
Note 1 below) His education was somewhat above the
ordinary. He availed himself of the advantages of the
common schools of his neighborhood, and spent one year at
Northwood College, in Logan County. He taught school
for several years in the counties of Fayette, Ross, Madison,
and Pickaway, and in this calling was unusually successful.
He was married, Oct. 4, 1859, to Mrs. Elizabeth Jane
Leavell, nee Timmons, of this county.
She was the widow of John B. Leavell, by whom she
bore one son, Benjamin, born Sept. 27, 1854.
Mrs. Clarridge was born, Apr. 11, 1835.
To Mr. and Mrs. Clarridge have been born two
daughters and one son: Inez G., born Jan. 11, 1861;
married Benjamin W. Leavell. Alta Errilla, born
Feb. 3, 1864. Howard Amasa, born Sept. 6, 1873.
In the year 1860 Mr. Clarridge and his wife
located on the farm on which they now reside, and have ever
since given their time and efforts to honest industry.
The farm comprises one hundred and forty acres, and is
situated on both sides of the Deer Creek pike. Mr.
Clarridge is a man of good judgment and public spirit,
having, ever since he became a man, stood in the front ranks
of enterprise. He is a leading member of the
Republican party in the county, and though residing in a
township largely Democratic, he has for many successive
years held the office of township trustee, and during
previous years was township clerk.
He and his wife both members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and Mr. Clarridge is superintendent of
Sabbath school at Waterloo.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
WILLIAM
CLAWSON was born, May 6, 1836, and is the seventh
child, and second son of William and Tabitha (Chambers)
Clawson, of Ross County, Ohio, who were married, Apr.
12, 1818, in that county. Grandfather Chambers
was for Ireland.
William Clawson, sr., was born, July 16, 1790,
and died, Mar. 2, 1852. His wife, Tabitha, was
born, July 30, 1793, and died, Feb. 2, 1866.
John, Sarah, Nancy, Richard, Keziah, Ollie, and
William, were the sons and daughters of Thomas and
Elizabeth Clawson, grandparents of this subject.
These were all born in Virginia, and came to Ohio in 1800,
settling at Frankfort. William, sen., was the
father of Strawder, Eliza, Elizabeth, Leeann, Ollie,
Keziah, and William. They were all born in
Ross County, Ohio, and where our subject lived to the age of
nineteen, then he came to this county, near New Holland.
His early education was limited by the disadvantages
surrounding his early life, and his qualifications are more
the result of business contact with a busy world, than of
close study. Mr. Clawson was married, Oct. 14,
1863, to Mary McCoy, daughter of James and Sophia
(Beck) McCoy, of Ross County. She was born, Sept.
20, 1845, and died, Oct. 25, 1874, at the age of
twenty-nine. She was a woman much esteemed, and her
death was lamented by a large circle of friends.
Mr. Clawson has had fair success as a farmer,
and by his indomitable energy, ahs surmounted difficulties
that would have overwhelmed the ordinary man. His
farm, on the Columbus road, near Madison Mills, shows signs
of careful management. He has been a successful stock
breeder and shipper.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
ALBERT
W. CLOUSER, clerk in grocery, was born September 14,
1852, in Ross County, and is a son of David and Eliza
Clouser, both natives of this state. They had a
family of four children, two sons and two daughters.
Albert, the subject of our sketch, was married
the 26th day of November, 1879, to Miss Ida
May Stingle, daughter of Robert Stingle,
of Washington. lie received his education at country
schools. His youth was spent in this county, and has lived
on a farm all his life until two years ago, since which he
has followed civil engineering until about four months ago,
when he went into Mr. Millikan's grocery as
clerk. In politics is a Republican.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
L.
C. COFFMAN, lumber dealer, son of Nathan
and Sarah Coffman. Born in this county,
January 25,1840. His parents were natives of this state.
They had a family of eight children.
Our subject was married April 4, 1861, to Miss
Alsina, daughter of Jackson and
Nancy Rodgen, who lived near Good Hope, this
county. Mr. Coftman has a family of six
children: Ehnira B., Nathen J., Grant,
Elwert, Alberta and Lewis C. He belongs
to lodge No. 107, F. A. M. He received his education in
Delaware, Ohio, and Washington. He was reared in this
county, and when nineteen years of age taught school. At the
end of two years he went on his farm and remained there some
ten or twelve years, then came to Washington to engage in
the pork business. After being in that business for three
years he went into the lumber business, in which he still
continues successfully. Politically he is a Republican.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
DR.
HENRY C. COFFMAN, druggist and physician, was born in
Ripley, Brown County, Ohio, on the 4th day of August, 1823,
and is a son of Henry and Margaret Coffman. His
father is a native Kentucky, and his mother of Pennsylvania.
They came to this state about the year 1800, with a family
of seven children, four sons and three daughters. Henry,
the subject of our remarks, was married in 1846, to Miss
Mary J. Harlow, daughter of Jonas and Nancy
Harlow, of Dublin, Franklin County, Ohio, and have been
blessed with a family of eight children, six of whom are
living: Jeanette, Marilla, Virogua, Tasso, Harry and
Charles, and the two deceased are Angeline and
Margaret.
He is a member of Temple Lodge, No. 107, F. A. M., and
also of Fayette Lodge, No 227, Odd-fellows, and has been a
practicing physician some thirty-five years, twenty-five of
which has been at Washington, and is extensively engaged in
the drug business, and one of the finest in the country.
He graduated at Columbus, in the year 1850, at the
Starling Medical College. He first commenced the practice of
medicine at Good Hope, Ohio, without horse, saddle or
bridle, with but twenty-five cents in his pocket; and
through his indomitable perseverance and hard work he made
some thirty-five thousand dollars, and in one swoop had it
all taken from him; but being a man of perseverance and an
iron will, has again gained enough of this world's goods to
be easy in life, and today does not owe a dollar of personal
debts, and is now doing a business both in his store and
practice second to none in the county.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
BENJAMIN
F. COOK, farmer, is the son of Isaac T. and
Elizabeth (Lewis) Cook, and the grandson of Isaac
Cook, sen., who settled in Ross County, in 1804.
The grandfather died in that county, and of his ancestry,
little more can be said than that they were of Scotch
descent.
This subject was born Mar. 14, 1838, and was married,
Feb. 26, 1879, to Fannie J., daughter of Levin and
Susan Bennett, of Madison County. She was born
Jan. 18, 1856. They have one child, Benjamin F., jr.,
born Mar. 22, 1880.
Our subject gives the principal part of his time to
farming and stock raising, in which pursuits he has been
reasonably successful. During the late civil war, he
did honorable service as a sergeant in Company H, 60th O.V.I.,
and participated, with his regiment, in the eventful
campaigns in Virginia, during the early part of the great
conflict. He was captured and paroled by the enemy, at
Harper's Ferry, September, 1862. In politics he is a
Republican. His father, Isaac T. Cook, was born
March 6, 1797, and died, Apr. 9, 1873. His mother,
Elizabeth L. Cook, was born Jan. 15, 1804, and died Nov.
30, 1872. His brother, John J. Cook, died Sept.
23, 1852.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
JAMES
F. COOK, sheriff of Fayette County, was born in this
county, October 19, 1854. He is a son of Isaac and Betsey
Cook, the former a native of Ohio, and the latter of
Virginia. They had a family of nine children—six sons and
three daughters.
James, the subject of our
remarks, was married in 1864 to Miss Mary A. Myers,
daughter of John L. and Catherine Myers, of tins
county. They have a family of five children : Katie M.,
Lizzie L., Isaac T., James F., and
John W.
Mr. Cook enlisted, July, 1861, in the
three months service, and went to Camp Chase, where the
command was disbanded. In 1862 he enlisted in Company K,
90th O. V. I., and was commissioned first lieutenant. In 1864
he was promoted to captain, and in 1865 was commissioned as
major. Was mustered out of the service, June 13,1865, at
Camp Harker, Tennessee. He was at the battles of Stone
River, Chickamauga, and all the engagements of the Atlanta
campaign. lie then came back with General Thomas, and was
engaged in the battles of Franklin and Nashville.
He returned home and engaged in farming, until 1880,
when he was elected sheriff of the county, which office he
still holds. He is a member of Mount Sterling Lodge No.
269,1. O. O. F. He received his education in Madison
Township, where he was born and raised. His father came to
Fayette County in 1814, where he remained until his death,
in 1876.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
MATTHEW
S. COOK. (Madison Twp.) Isaac Cook,
the grandfather of M. Cook, was a native of Kentucky.
He came to Ohio, and located near Chillicothe, before the
year 1800. He was the father of Isaac, jr., Joseph,
Matthew S., sen., William, Maria, Phoebe, Lucy, and
Margaret.
Matthew S. Cook, sen., was born in the year 1800.
In the prime of his life he was surveyor of Ross County.
In the yar 1837, he was Ellen, second daughter of
Edward Tiffin, the first governor of Ohio. By this
marriage they became the parents of Mary, Margaret,
Edward, Thea, Matthew S., Lucy Maria, Ellen, and
William, all of whom are living. The parents are
also living, and are residents of Chillicothe. The
daughter, Maria, married Dr. Webb, of
Kentucky, and their daughter Lucy became the wife of
R. B. Hayes, twenty-third governor of Ohio, and
nineteenth president of the United States.
Our subject was fairly educated, and at the age of
twenty-one, assumed the management of a large estate i this
township. He is a single man, of steady, studious
habits, giving his time to his own affairs - a man of few
words, but who impresses a stranger favorably.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
JOHN
COONS. The following was contributed to the
Herald by Dr. Mason, of Milledgeville, and
embraces the chief points in the life of a well known
pioneer:
"One by one the old pioneers are dropping off. He
who opened up and cleared the way for their future
generations to reap the boundless benefits of progress and
wealth, ahs laid down his armor of labor and taken on the
garb of those long gone before. Hardly an issue of our
county papers but gives instances of a similar kind.
In a few short years, few indeed, will be left to gather
their grandchildren around them, and tell the tale of
Fayette County's early pioneer life, when the wild woods
alone gave echo to his ax, and falling trees the answer to
the 'meal-time hallo' But such must be the constant
march of years, fraught with the many changes of the past,
surrounding us. Not long hence can we look upon one of
those gray and frosted fathers of early life, and listen to
the tales of hardships and deprivations passed through, that
the prairie might blossom, and the dense woods yield her now
verdant fields of promising crops, to those that are left to
occupy and further improve. Those that will follow
after can only appreciate the merits of our early pioneers.
"John Coons, or 'Uncle Johnny,' as he was
familiarly called, has gone. He died June 6th, after a
short illness, leaving a family of three children beyond the
age of fifty years - a daughter at Athens, O., one daughter
at Allentown, O., and a son living in Illinois - all blessed
with plenty of this world's goods to make them comfortable
through life.
"Uncle John was born at Fredericksburg,
Virginia, in October, 1792, and his life of teens was spent
in welding the old flint lock musket barrels at the
government shop at Fredericksburg. He afterwards
enlisted in the war of 1812, and served until peace was
declared, when he remained a pensioner until death.
"He was married to Miss Hannah Jones, in 1820,
and started for the 'Far West,' as it was then called,
travelling in a wagon, through an almost impassable
wilderness, with no one to share his lonely and perilous
undertaking, save his newly made wife of but a few days.
With due honor to her, we must say she proved to him to be a
faithful helpmate and sheet-anchor in times of adversity and
prosperity, until five years since she was called to prepare
the way for waiting ones below, at the age of ninety-four,
being ten years his senior.
"The land he spent his last days upon was bought by him
over fifty years ago for about $3 per acre, and now the
timber upon some of it could not be bought for $100 per
acre; and by his economy and strict sense of honor he
accumulated a fortune of at least $75,000.
"He never connected himself with any church, but
whenever sickness or affliction fell upon any within his
neighborhood or reach, his hand and purse were always open
to aid, and his presence at the sick bed was a friend
indeed, watching through the long hours of night in the most
contagious diseases; he felt it a duty when others lacked
the courage to give their services. His last moments
were peaceful, and life seemed to gradually sift out as the
sand of the hour glass, or the flickering light of a dying
taper, and those who watched at the bedside could not but
exclaim, "All is peace~' and one monument of byegone days
less.
"Too much can not be said in credit to his
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Rosa Coons. With more
than childlike care and tenderness has she made his decline
a path of comfort and ease, and no one will miss the vacant
chair and grandfather's cane more than she."
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Page 710 - Jasper Twp.) |
SAMUEL
MORGAN CORBITT. Though more than a score of
years have elapsed since Samuel Morgan Corbitt was
transferred from the life militant to the life triumphant,
his personality still remains fresh in the memory of his
many friends in Fayette county, where for many years he was
regarded as one of the leading citizens. He was well
known throughout this county and was a man respected and
honored, not because of the vigorous training of his special
talents, but because of his daily life. He set an
excellent example to the younger generation, for he was a
leader in his locality in all matters pertaining to its
upbuilding and in a conservative manner did what good he
could in all lines as he labored for his own advancement and
that of his family. While advancing his individual
interests he never lost sight of his obligations to the
community in general and during his entire life held a high
place in the confidence and esteem of all who knew him.
The late Samuel Morgan Corbitt was born in
Fayette county, Ohio, Apr. 5, 1844, and died on teh farm
where he was born, Aug. 30, 1891. He was the son of
Samuel K. and Catherine (Jenkins) Corbitt. Samuel
Corbitt, Sr. was seventeen years of age when he came to
Fayette county, his parents having died when he was a mere
child. He grew to manhood in this county, married and
reared a family of five children, William Hickling, Mrs.
Ruth A. Calhoun, Mattison W., Oliver K., and Samuel
Morgan, with whom this narrative deals.
Samuel Morgan Corbitt received his education in
the schools of Jefferson township and finished at the high
school at Jeffersonville, after which he took a business
course in the Miami Commercial College at Dayton, Ohio, when
he returned to this county and took up the occupation of
farming, which he followed until his death. He was a
man of fine business ability, keenly interested in
everything pertaining to the welfare of his community, and
was justly regarded as one of the most progressive farmers
of the county. At the time of his death he was the
owner of two hundred and sixty-four acres of fine land, on
which he had modern buildings of all kinds.
Mr. Corbitt was married, Nov. 13, 1866, to
Mary E. Rowand, the daughter of Benijeh and Martha (Correll)
Rowand, and to this union were born five children:
Jessie Mildred, the wife of P. L. Rodgers; Laura
Vivian, who is married to Lewis Bates and has two
children, Mary Lucile and Morgan Willard; Minnie
Kee, the deceased wife of Charles Wilt; Lola B.,
deceased, and Roxa LeCare, who is still living with
her mother.
Politically, Mr. Corbitt was a Democrat and,
while never taking an active part in political matters,
always took an intelligent interest in the civic life of his
community. For many years he served on the school
board of his township and in that capacity always cast his
influence for every measure which he felt would benefit the
schools in any way. He built up a reputation as an
honest, upright and fearless business man and left a record
which stamps him as a man of high ideals and sound morals
principles. Though never animated by great ambitions
for public honors, yet he always gave his aid to the
furtherance of the general interests of his community.
His life was a busy one and his every-day affairs made heavy
demands upon his time, yet he never shrank from his duties
as a citizen and his obligations to his neighbors and
friends.
* Source #1: History of
Fayette County, Ohio
Indianapolis, Ind. : B.F. Bowen & Co., 1914 - Page
560 |
JONAH
B. CORSON, (Madison Twp.), farmer, was born in this
township. He is the second son of Benjamin and
Nancy (Baldwin) Corson, who were also natives of this
township. The education of our subject was obtained at
the common schools of the neighborhood, and is of no
inferior kind. He gives attention to farming, and
legitimate trading on a moderate scale, and is a young an of
good judgment in matters pertaining to his sphere of life.
He is a young man of good standing where he is known, and
bids fair for a bright future. His mother was the
youngest daughter of the family. She died, in 1854,
leaving four children: Minerva, Martha J., Margaret A.,
and Jonah B.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
WESLEY
COX (Madison Twp.), the father of this subject, was a
native of Maryland, and came to Ohio in about the year 1800.
He settled in Ross County, near the present city of
Chillicothe. His wife, Isabel Arington, was
also from Maryland. They were the parents of eight
children: Sarah, Phoebe, Mary, Joseph, David, Rebecca,
Nelson, and Wesley; these were all born in Ohio.
Wesley, the youngest of the family, was born in
Madison County, May 13, 1833. He was married, Nov. 12,
1857, to Mary Catharine Porter, of Madison County.
The Porters were Virginians, and immigrated to this
county about 1820. The Thomas family came a few
years later. To Robert and Mary Porter were
born eleven children: John, Milton, Robert, Moses,
Rebecca, Lucinda, Griffith, William, Daniel Benjamin, Isaac,
and Mary.
In coming to Ohio, Robert Porter started in
a two-horse wagon but one horse failing on the way, the
wagon was sold, the goods packed on the stoutest horse, and
the mother, with her son Robert in her arms, made the
rest of the trip riding upon the same horse which carried
the homestead effects. Mr. Porter died in
August, 1851.
Mr. Cox was born June 4, 1839. To the
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cox have been born three
children: A son, born Sept. 16, 1858, died in infancy;
Lucinda May, born Sept. 8, 1859, died Mar. 4, 1864;
Almer W., born Sept. 19, 1864. Following their
marriage, they spent four years in Madison County, the next
four in Fayette, and the next five in Madison. They
then came to their present location, near Madison Mills,
where they have ever since resided, on their comfortable
little farm. They have been members of the Christian
Church since 1859.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
ELI
CRAIG, county treasurer, Washington, was born in
Wayne Township, Ohio, January 10, 1838. He is a son of
David and Sarah Craig, the former a
native of New Jersey, and coming to Ohio about the year
1815, and the latter a native of this state.
They were blessed with ten children, six of whom are
living.
Eli, our subject, was married June 17, 1858, to
Miss May Ann Burnett, daughter of Thomas Burnett,
of this County. They have two children, Thomas II.
and David S., both grown to manhood.
Mr. Craig is a member of Temple Lodge No.
227, I. O. O. F., and also of the Methodist Church. He
received a common school education, and may be classed among
the self-made men of our county. He commenced in the
mercantile business when but a boy, remaining with his
father (who was a cripple) until 1869, since which time, in
connection with his brother, he has carried on business very
extensively in the I. O. O. F. building, on Court Street. He
was appointed treasurer in 1872, to fill the unexpired term
of John Sayers, and in 1877 was elected to the
same office, and re-elected in 1879. His youth, with the
exception of some five years, was spent in this county.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
GEORGE CREAMER
came to Fayette, in 1810, from Berkeley County, Virginia, in company with four sons,
Michael,
Joseph, David, and George. George and Michael had families. The others were married soon
after their arrival; Joseph to Margaret Miller, and David to
Elizabeth Smith. They settled in
Jefferson Township, on Sugar Creek, in which their posterity now reside. At the surrender of
Hull, Joseph, Michael, and David responded to the call for volunteers to aid in suppressing the
anticipated invasion by the British. The Creamers have frequently held offices of public trust.
David was long surveyor, and also justice of the peace.
George, sen., died about 1825; his son
George in 1861, Michael in 1840, David in 1860, and Joseph in 1872.
J. B. Creamer, son of
George, jr., was married in April, 1833, and settled on his present place, about. half a mile south
of Jeffersonville. He was county commissioner from 1844 to 1850, and also served as justice of
the peace and trustee, and was elected land appraiser in 1870. His son Andrew R. is the present
state senator from this district. The late M. S. Creamer was a son of
Wesley Creamer, and
grandson of Michael Creamer. He represented Fayette in the legislature, but died before his term
expired.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
| CHARLES CRUM CREAMER - 472 1914 |
GEORGE
H. CREAMER, (Jefferson Twp.), house painter and
farmer, Jeffersonville, is a son of David Creamer, a
native of Virginia, who came to Ohio in 1814, where he died
Jan. 21, 1875, aged sixty-eight years and two months.
He married Miss Eleanor Duncan, who bore him four
children, our subject (born May 30, 1840) being the
youngest. The family were all born in Highland County,
and came to this county about 1842. Mrs. Creamer
died May 14, 1880.
The subject of this sketch was twice married.
February 20, 1873, he was united to Miss Mary Sanderson,
daughter of Joseph Sanderson. She born him one
child, John D. Mrs. Creamer died Feb. 5,
1876, aged twenty-four years. On the 27th of October,
1878, he married Miss Sarah Porter, daughter of
Aaron Porter, of this county. By this marriage
there is one child, Louis B.
Mr. Creamer enlisted, Aug. 4, 1862, in Company C,
90th O. V. I., and was discharged June 21, 1865. He
has furnished for this work a copy of a speech by Captain
Noble, and one by Major Kimble. He was a
charter member of the I. O. O. F., of Jeffersonville, and
has held all the offices of the subordinate lodge.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
| |
| JOSEPH B. CREAMER |
| MICHAEL C. CREAMER 488 1914 |
| NATHAN CREAMER 429 1914 |
| PHILIP CREAMER |
| WALLACE CREAMER 496 1914 |
AARON
CRISPIN, farmer, and the subject of this sketch, is a
native Buckeye, and was born near South Charleston, Jan. 2,
1825. He is the first son, and third child, of
Francis and Fannie (Gaines) Crispin. The father of
our subject was a native of New Jersey; the mother of
Virginia. They came to Ohio early in the present
century, settling first in Ross County. In 1815, they
came to Clarke County.
Our subject became a citizen of this county in 1838,
and on the 9th of May, 1846, was united in marriage to
Maria E., daughter of Isaac and Deborah (Grant)
Thomas, of this county. The Thomasas were
among the early settlers o this township.
The union resulted in six sons and two daughters:
Francis M. (deceased), Marion, Isaac M., Anderson M.,
Abraham (deceased), William Irvin, Mary Elizabeth,
and Eliza Jane.
Our subject has a military record worthy of a place
in history. He enlisted in September, 1864, serving in
Company L, Fifth Kentucky Cavalry. They campaigned in
Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina participating in
a number of engagements, and were at Fort McAllister, at the
taking the Savannah, December, 1864. He was honorably
discharged following the grand review at the nation's
capital. He is a gentleman of the old, substantial
sort, and is one of the few yet alive who has had the
experience of driving hogs from Ohio to the markets of the
East, returning on foot. This he has done repeatedly.
He now carries on a farm three and a half miles from Madison
Mills.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
C. L.
CURTIS, painter and paper-hanger, Washington, was
born July 15, 1846, and is a son of Charles and Rachel
Curtis, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio about
the year 1800. They had a family of four children, two sons
and two daughters. Our subject was married, in 1874, to
Miss S, J. Kern, daughter of Jeremiah Ivern, of
Franklin County. They have one child, John Clyde.
Our subject enlisted in Company A, 3d O. V. I, in 1861,
when only fifteen years of age, and remained with it a few
weeks, when lie was wounded in the hand, on the 6th of
April, 1862, at Pittsburgh Landing, and went home on a
furlough. When his hand got well he returned to his
regiment, and remained until the close of the war. He then
went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and worked at his trade
for about six years, when he came to Washington, where he is
now permanently located with a partner, doing business under
the firm name of Curtis & Barrett. They are both first-class
workmen, and command a large share of the work in the
county. He received his education in Pittsburgh, graduated
at Duff's Commercial College, and his life was principally
spent in the coal city.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
NOTES:
Note 1: Edmund Clarridge,
son of William and Rosana Clarridge, nee Mace,
was born in Maryland, Oct. 2, 1789, and in 1798 moved with his
father to Ross County, Ohio. His mother died before he
left Maryland, and his father, after arriving in Ross, married
Mrs. Mollie Cox, a widow lady. Edmund, on
the 20th day of March, 1812, at the age of twenty-two, was
married to Eleanor, daughter of John and Eleanor
McCafferty of Kentucky. She was born in 1796.
Edmund in 1814, enlisted, and served through the war of 1812
under Major Dunlap. Shortly before he enlisted in
the service of his country, he removed his family to Madison
Township, to which he returned after the close of the war, and
spent the remainder of his life.
He served several terms as justice of the peace, and
was elected to the office of township treasurer, and clerk also,
and the duties devolving on him in his several official
capacities were faithfully discharged. At his death, which
occurred, Sept. 14, 1858, he owned one hundred and sixty-acres
of highly cultivated land. His wife died, Nov. 10, 1860.
Edmund and Eleanor Clarridge were the parents of
sixteen children, nine boys and seven girls, whose names were as
follows: Elizabeth, born May 10, 1813; William
born Oct. 7, 1815; Mace, born May 10, 1813; William,
born Oct. 7, 1815; Dec. 14, 1820; Thomas, born Dec. 8,
1822; James, born Dec. 2, 1824; Eleanor, born Apr.
9, 1826; Edmund W., born Oct. 4, 1827; Rosana,
born Oct. 20, 1829; Joseph Hays, born June 19, 1831;
Clarinda, born Nov. 29, 1832; David, born Apr. 25,
1834; Christiann, born Jan. 5, 1836; Sarah Jane,
born Aug. 28, 1838; Anthony, born Dec. 27, 1840.
Christiann died, Aug. 2, 1836; Jane died Jan. 17,
1853; Eleanor died, Aug. 22, 1853; Anthony died,
July 2, 1867. |
