BIOGRAPHIES
* Source #1: History of
Fayette County, Ohio
Indianapolis, Ind. : B.F. Bowen & Co., 1914
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Source #2 - History of Fayette County,
Ohio & State of Ohio
By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio -
1881
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GEORGE
R. FENT, farmer is a son of James Fent,
and was born in this county, Aug. 21, 1833. He was
married, Apr. 14, 18654, to Miss Mary F. Christopher,
of Greene County, who has borne him six children:
Sarah E., Etta M., John D., Cora, Dellie, Dow
S., all living save Dellie, who died at the
early age of seventeen months.
Mr. Fent has a half interest in eight hundred
acres of land in this township, where he lives. He
has voluntarily shunned being elected to any township
office, on account of duties at home.
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Source #2: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Jefferson Twp. - Page 680) |
JAMES
P. FENT, farmer, Jeffersonville, is a son of
James and Anna Fent, natives of this county, and he
was born June 20, 1838. He was married to
Rachel Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith, Mar.
18, 1866, and is a member of one of the pioneer families
of the county. He enlisted in the Union army,
Company C, 90th O. V. I., Aug. 8, 1862, serving until
his discharge, which occurred, June, 1865, and made a
good record. He has a farm containing one hundred
and sixty acres, situated one and one half miles, south
of Jeffersonville. He and is wife are members of
the Methodist Protestant Church. He is township
trustee, having been elected Apr. 4, 1881, and is a
farmer and stock dealer, a highly respected citizen and
a good neighbor.
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Source #2: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Jefferson Twp. - Page 682) |
JOHN
B. FENT, grocer, Jeffersonville, is a son of
James Fent, who came from Tennessee to this township
about 1814, where he has since lived, and was married to
Anna B. Creamer in 1822. He was engaged in
farming until 1877, when he came to Jeffersonville to
live, retired from active business in his declining
years. Mr. Fent died Dec. 3, 1876, aged
seventy-two years. They had eight children, seven
of whom survive.
Our subject, the youngest of the family, was born May
21, 1845. He was married to Miss Deborah A.
Creamer, daughter of Philip Creamer, Dec. 31,
1868. He served one hundred days in Company D,
168th O. N. G. Has held the office of trustee of
this township four years. Is a member of
Jeffersonville Lodge No. 468, F. & A. M. His wife
and mother were members of the Methodist Protestant
Church.
Our subject was reared and lived on a farm until 1877,
when he engaged in the grocery business here, and has
been successful. He has a nice residence in town,
and ten acres planted in trees one mile and a half
southwest of town.
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Source #2: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Jefferson Twp. - Page 681) |
PHILIP FENT
came to this county from Green County, Tennessee, about the year 1814, accompanied by his
wife and five children. A native of Virginia, he married Catharine Parrett, also born in that state;
thence removed to Tennessee, and at the breaking out of the revolutionary war enlisted in the
American army, serving faithfully for a period of seven years. At the close of the war he received
a military warrant for a tract of land situated in this county, and determined to settle thereon. Accordingly a party of about thirty people, consisting of the
Fents, Parretts, and
Fancheers, started for Ohio in four wagons, and at the expiration of three weeks, found
themselves within the limits of Fayette County. Fent was entitled to two hundred acres of land,
and before leaving his native state, entrusted an uncle, who was a resident of Fayette, with the
selection, etc., of his property. The latter procured the land, but lost. it through bad management,
in consequence of which his nephew was forced to look for a new tract. He settled in what is now
known as Jefferson Township, on two hundred acres of land, now occupied by Eli
Parrett,
purchasing but fifty acres at first, and exchanging his wagon for the same. Fent's wife died about
the year 1816, and he survived until 1835. His son James, born in 1801, resides at Jeffersonville;
a daughter in Illinois. The descendants are thrifty farmers of this county.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton,
Ohio: Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
WILLIAM
C. FENT, farmer, is a son of James Fent,
and was born in this township, Oct. 26, 1829, where he
was reared and educated. He was married in Greene
County, June 19, 1858, to Miss Margaret Christopher,
a native of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, who was borne
him seven children: Charles, Josephine, Louis
S., James C., Andrew J., Lucy and Mary M.,
all living save Lucy, who died at the early age
of three years.
Mr. Fent taught school in winter and farmed in
summer, when a young man. For many years he has
devoted his time wholly to farming and trading.
His father gave him fifteen hundred dollars as a start,
and by industry and good management he has accumulated
property to the amount of ninety acres, one mile south
of Jeffersonville, twenty acres in the corporation of
this village, and a half interest in three hundred acres
in this township. He paid from forty to one
hundred dollars per acre for his land. He is a
liberal contributor to churches, a good neighbor, and a
highly respected citizen.
John B. Fent, grocer, Jeffersonville, is a son
of James Fent, who came from Tennessee to this
township about 1814, where he has since lived, and was
married to Anna B. Creamer in 1822. He was
engaged in farming until 1877, when he came to
Jeffersonville to live, retired from active business in
his declining years. Mr. Fent died Dec. 3,
1876, aged seventy-two years. They had eight
children, seven of whom survive.
Our subject, the youngest of the family, was born May
21, 1845. He was married to Miss Deborah A.
Creamer, daughter of Philip Creamer,
Dec. 31, 1868. HE served one hundred days in
Company D, 168th O.N.G. Has held the office of
trustee of this township four years. Is a member
of Jeffersonville Lodge No. 468, F. & A. M. His
wife and mother were members of the Methodist Protestant
Church.
Our subject was reared and lived on a farm until 1877,
when he engaged in the grocery business here, and has
been successful. He has a nice residence in town,
and ten acres planted in trees one mile and a half
southwest of town.
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Source #2: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Jefferson Twp. - Page 681) |
WILLIAMSON FURGESON
was a pioneer settler of the Center neighborhood,
in the southwestern portion of the township. In
1842, he purchased a tract of land from General James
Taylor, of Kentucky, and removed to it the same
years. Other settlers son followed, and this
section is fast developing into one of the most
cultivated and flourishing of the township.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton,
Ohio: Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
FRED
C. FOSTER, books and stationery, Washington, was
born in Butler County, December 29,1845, and is a son of
Adam and Hannah Foster. His father is a native of
Germany, and his mother of Ohio. They had a family of
nine children, four sons and five daughters. Fred C.
was married July 15,1875, to Miss Francis A. Greene,
daughter of Patrick Greene, of Hocking
County. They have two children: Mabel C. and
Dane D. He and his wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He received a common school education
in Butler County, where his life was spent until he was
twenty-one years of age, when he came to Washington,
where he embarked in several different kinds of
business, until he finally settled down to the book and
stationery business, in which, with all his opposition,
he is doing a flourishing and profitable trade. His
place of business is just below the post office, on
Court Street.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton,
Ohio: Odell & Mayer, 1881 |
JOHN
S. FOSTER, liveryman, born in Clermont County,
Ohio, on the 16th day of June, 1822, and is a son of
Thomas and Sarah Foster. His father is a native of
Virginia, and his mother of Pennsylvania. They
immigrated to this state, in the year 1800, with a
family of eight children, two sons and six daughters.
John S., our subject, was married in 1848, to
Miss Margaret C. Thompson, daughter of Edward and
Susan Thompson, of Thompson's Mills, Brown County,
Ohio. They have a family of six children, five of whom
are living: Susan T., Sarah B., Kate J., Mollie V.,
and John K., and one dead, Edward T.
Our subject enlisted as a captain of Fourth Ohio
Independent Cavalry, and stood highest of any volunteer
cavalry captain in the United States service. He has
thirty-two regular battles inscribed on his banner; and
his company was body guard of General
McPherson for nearly two years, until his death, and
in all his battles never witnessed a single defeat. He
was mustered out and received an honorable discharge on
the 22d of July, 1864. He is a member of Georgetown
Lodge, No. 172, F. A. M., also a member of the Methodist
Church, and was elected sheriff of Brown County, Ohio,
in 1854, and served two years; received his education in
Clermont County and at Granville, Ohio. He is now
engaged in the livery and sale business at Washington,
and has followed auctioneering some twenty years of his
life, making a wide-spread reputation and a host of
friends, as may be seen from the very extensive business
he is engaged in.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton,
Ohio: Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
THOMAS FULLERTON
was a native of Greencastle, Pennsylvania. At a suitable age he attended Yale College, in which
he graduated with high honors. He then engaged in business in the city of Baltimore, and
continued until the year 1812, when he failed. Together with others, who had been alike
unfortunate, he conceived the idea of going to the northwest, and came to Fayette in 1814,
settling near Bloomingburgh. Being a fine penman, he was visited by many of the pioneers, and
requested to draw up various instruments for them. A fast friend of Batter
Harrison, he was often
consulted by him on matters of importance. A few years later he began teaching school,
continuing in this profession for upward of thirty years. A great many peaches were grown in this
locality, peach brandy being the favorite beverage of the inhabitants. At one time, five distilleries
in and about Bloomingburgh were engaged in the manufacture of' this drink. Rye was taken to
Chillicothe, and exchanged for whisky. Fullerton died many years ago. His son George S. is an
old and respected citizen of Marion Township.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton,
Ohio: Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
HENRY
FULTON, the eighth child, and fifth son, of
William and Eliza (Loofbourrow) Fulton, was
born in Ross County, Ohio, Aug. 3, 1826. His
grandparents, John A. and Lavina (Irwin) Fulton,
were of Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1801, settling
in Ross County.
John A. was a prominent surveyor of that early
day, and in later years his son William pursued
the same profession.
Henry, in his youth, enjoyed the meager
advantages of the early schools of that time, and the
prominent business qualities of the man Fulton,
are more the results of practical contact with the
world, than of his early schooling.
In November, 1846, he married Lettice, daughter
of Shreve Pancoast. To their union has been
born nine children: Wade, Shreve, Maggie, William,
Polly, Effie, Franklin P., Harry, and Laban.
Franklin P. died Aug. 8, 1868, aged eight years.
Our subject is a man of local prominence, having served
his township, either as trustee or treasurer, for the
past twenty years, and was land appraiser in 1880.
He owns two hundred and fifty acres of choice land at
Madison Mills. Is a member of Bloomingburg Lodge,
and of the Chapter, F. & A. M., at Washington, and
treasurer of Madison Grange No. 229.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
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