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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M. S.
SAGER, wholesale and retail tinware, Washington, was
born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1831, and is a son of
Charles and Jane (Smith) Sager. His father was
a Dane and his mother a Virginian. His father came to
this county when he was but sixteen years of age, and his
mother many years ago. They had a family of seven
children.
Mr. Sager, the subject of our sketch, was
married, in 1859, to Miss Ellen McMaster, daughter of
John O. and Mary McMaster, of this county. They
have two children living: Henry P. and Adolphus
W., and Emma, who died some seventeen years ago.
Our subject is a self-made man, never having the
advantages of an education; but from his untiring energy, he
has become master of his business, and at one time had
amassed a fortune; but by his good nature was induced to go
on paper until it swept nearly all he had. He has now
some fifteen thousand dollars worth of machinery lying idle
for the want of means, and which if put in motion would soon
regain his lost fortune. He is a man of too much
energy to lie still, and with half a chance he will come out
all right.
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Source #2: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Page 622) |
DR.
S. S. SALISBURY, physician, Washington, was born in
Georgetown, Brown County, this state, Jan. 29, 1848, and is
a son of John and Mary Salisbury. His father is
a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother of Virginia.
They had a family of nine children, and came to this state
about the year 1810.
Mr. Salisbury was married, in 1875, in
Hillsboro, this state, this state, to Miss Anna B. Brown,
daughter of S. R. and Sarah Brown, of Hillsboro.
He is a member of Fayette Lodge No. 107, F. & A. M.,
and is Master of the same. Also a member of Fayette
Chapter No. 103, and of Ely Commandry No. 28. Also of
Temple Lodge No. 227, I. O. O. F. He and his wife are
both members of the Presbyterian Church. He received
his education at Lebanon, this state, and at Peru, Illinois.
He studied medicine with Dr. W. H. McGrauaghan of
Maysville, Kentucky. Attended medical lectures, in
Philadelphia, at Hahnemann Medical College, and there
graduated, Mar. 10, 1873. He commenced practice at
Washington, May 10, 1873, and has continued to the present
time.
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Source #2: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Page 622) |
JAMES SANDERSON,
a Kentuckian, removed to Ohio with his family in 1812, settling on the Hite survey, No. 1,223,
consisting of one thousand acres, in this county. Two of his sons, James and
Aleck, were active
participants of the war of 1812, at the close of which they returned to their home, and assisted in
tilling the soil. One of the sons, Harvey, whose son now resides on the old homestead, assisted in
cutting out the first roads of this vicinity. The family followed an old Indian trace when removing
from Kentucky. The elder Sandersons have long since gone to that country from whose bourne
no traveler returns. Harvey, sen., died in 1876. His wife is still living at the advanced age of
eighty-six.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
WILLIAM
SCOTT, agent for Adams Express Company, Washington,
was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, Aug. 29, 1858. He
is a son of William and Mary Ann Scott, natives of
Ireland, who emigrated from there about the year 1840, with
a family of five children, and three sons and two daughters.
William, our subject, was married Oct. 8, 1878,
to Miss Laura Crawford, daughter of Charles and
Susan Crawford, of Zanesville, Ohio. They have one
child, Mary Ella.
Mr. Scott is a member of Temple Lodge No. 227, I.
O. O. F., and also a member of the First Presbyterian
Church, of Zanesville. Since 1877 he has been agent of
the Adams Express Company, at Washington. He
received his education in Zanesville, where the principal
portion of his life was passed.
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Source #2: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Page 623) |
MORRIS
SHARP. The success of men in business
or any vocation depends upon character as well as upon
knowledge, it being a self-evident proposition that honestly
and uprightness is held in higher value than the opposite
qualities. Business demands confidence, and where that
is lacking business ends. In every community some men
are known for their upright lives, strong common sense and
moral worth rather than for the wealth or political standing
they sense and moral worth rather than for the wealth or
political standing they may possess. Their neighbors
and acquaintances respect them, the younger generations heed
their example, and when they "wrap the drapery of their
couches about them and lie down to pleasant dreams"
posterity listens with reverence to the story of their quiet
and useful lives. Among such men of the past
generation in Fayette county was the late Morris
Sharp, who was not only of progressive man of affairs,
successful in material pursuits, but a man of modest and
unassuming demeanor, well educated, a fine type of the
reliable, self-made American, a friend to the poor,
charitable to the faults of his neighbors and one who always
stood ready to unite with them in every good work and active
in the support of laudable public enterprises. He was
a man who in every respect merited the high esteem in which
he was universally held, for he was a man of public spirit,
intellectual attainments and exemplary character.
Morris Sharp was born in Aberdeen, Brown
County, Ohio, on august 30, 1838, and was the son of
Morgan and Frances (Warren) Sharp.
These parents were natives, respectively, of Fayette county,
Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, and were the parents of three
children, namely: J. H. Baker of Jamestown, and
Samuel, who died in early childhood. In 1851
Morgan Sharp and his wife came to Jamestown,
Greene county, Ohio, where they settled and remained some
years, eventually removing to Washington C. H., where they
made their home with their son Morris until their
deaths. Morgan Sharp had passed an
active and strenuous life, having served as a pilot on
steamboats running from Cincinnati to New Orleans for
twenty-two years, during which period he lived at Aberdeen,
Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. After 1851, for some
years, he and his son Morris were engaged in the
mercantile business at Jamestown. He was a man of
strong character and enjoyed universal respect.
Morris Sharp's paternal grandfather,
Samuel Sharp, was born in 1780 and died in
Jamestown, Ohio, in 1846. He and his wife, whose
maiden name had been Susanna Cook, moved from
Fayette county, Pennsylvania, to Brown county, Ohio, and
thence to Jamestown, which was their last resting place.
They were the parents of nine children, Morgan,
Eliza, Thomas, Lydia, Henry,
Susan, Samuel, Melissa and one who died in
infancy. Susanna Cook was, on the
maternal side, descended from the Copes, whose
history dates back to Oliver Cope, who came
from Wilshire, England, and settled near Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, locating with his wife and children, on
Naaman's creek in about 1688.
Morris Sharp was about nine years of age when
his parents removed from Aberdeen to Covington, Kentucky,
whence they went to Jamestown, Ohio, and in the schools of
the latter place he received his education. Upon
leaving school he became associated with his father in the
mercantile business, but a few years later, on account of
the failure of his health, he was compelled to change his
vocation and for several years he was engaged in the banking
business there, serving as cashier of the Farmers' and
Traders' Bank from 1867 to 1873. In the year last
mentioned Mr. Sharp came to Washington C. H., and
became cashier of the Merchants' and Traders' Bank and later
president of the Commercial Bank, which he organized.
He quickly became recognized here as a man of unusual
business ability and sagacity and was numbered among the
foremost citizens of his adopted city. He remained
closely and actively identified with banking interests here
up to the time of his death, which occurred on February 5,
1905, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. Besides
his bank holdings, Mr. Sharp had other material
interests, being the owner of extensive tracts of farm
lands. His career was a long and useful one, and
although he devoted his attention primarily to his
individual affairs, as is quite natural and right, he never
allowed the pursuit of wealth to warp his kindly nature, but
preserved his faculties and the warmth of his heart for the
broadening and helpful influences of human life, being to
the end of a kindly, genial friend and gentleman, with whom
it was a pleasure to associate. Through the long years
of his residence in this locality he was ever true to all
trusts reposed in him and his reputation in a business way
was unassailable. He commanded the respect of all by
his upright life and engraved his name indelibly on the
pages of Fayette county's history. His career was
complete and rounded in its beautiful simplicity; he did his
full duty in all the relations of life, and he died beloved
by those near to him and respected and esteemed by his
fellow citizens.
Morris Sharp was a big man in other
spheres than in the business world. He was a man of
strong and honest convictions, his actions being ever the
result of careful and conscientious thought, and on the
great questions of the day he took a definite stand.
The cause of temperance found in him an earnest and eloquent
advocate, who gave no thought to self when by his personal
effort the cause of temperance or prohibition could be
advanced. His ability and active efforts were
recognized and he was placed in nomination for the
governorship by the Prohibition party. That he was a
man of more than ordinary strength is shown by the statement
that he polled more votes than any other candidate on the
Prohibition ticket has ever received to the state of Ohio.
Religiously, Mr. Sharp was an earnest and
faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
supporting the various activities of that society and
serving a great many years as superintendent of the Sunday
schools in the different towns in which he lived.
On October 15, 1861, Morris Sharp married
Madeline Baker, who was born in Jamestown, Ohio, on the
20th of December, 1838. She is the daughter of
William G. and Thirza A. (Larken) Baker, her
father being a native of Kentucky and her mother of Ohio.
They are both deceased, Mr. Baker dying in Jamestown,
Ohio, when eighty years old and Mrs. Baker was a man
of versatile talents, being successful as saddler, merchant
and farmer. They were the parents of seven children.
Mrs. Sharp's paternal grandparents were William
and Mary (Winans) Baker, who were natives of
Kentucky and early settlers in Jamestown, Ohio. Their
children were Mathias, Elizabeth, William, Lydia, John,
Jacob, Douglas, Andrew, Mary, Hillary and George.
The maternal grandparents were David and Nancy
(Harper) Larkin, who came from Harper's Ferry and
settled in Clark county, Ohio. They had five children,
Eliza Ann, Thirza, Synthia, Perry and Oliver.
Mrs. Sharp was married on the 27th of June, 1911,
to Prof. William W. Davies, who is referred to
specifically elsewhere in this work. She is a lady of
culture and refinement, who, because of her hospitable ways,
her cheerful disposition and kindly attitude towards all
whom she meets, is popular in the circles in which she
moves. She is an earnest supporter of all local
movements for the betterment of the community and has been
an effectual worker in religious and charitable fields for
many years.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
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FRANKLIN SMITH |
ISAAC SMITH
is a sturdy blacksmith of New Martinsburg, and plies his trade diligently, year
after year. He was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, Jan. 28, 1822; he is a
son of Anthony Smith, a native of New Jersey, who came to Ohio soon after
it was admitted into the Union. Our subject learned his trade with
William Gold, of Tarlton, Ohio, and on the 19th of April, 1846, he was
married to Mary Smith, daughter of S. Smith of New Jersey.
The fruits of this union were six children: Melissa J., Elizabeth
Ellen, Ann Maria, Clara Adelia, Alice, and Orpha. Previous to
his residence in New Martinsburg he spent a number of years in Pickaway County,
and seven years in Vinton County. He located in New Martinsburg in 1862,
and has since then given his trade his principal attention.
* Source #2:
History of Fayette County, Ohio & State
of Ohio -
By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio -
1881 - Page 820 Perry Twp. |
OSWELL SMITH,
merchant tailor, Washington, was born in that city in 1850, and is a son of
James J. and Hannah Smith. His father is a native of Virginia, and
came to Fayette County in 1832, and immediately afterward married the mother of
our subject, who was a native of this county. The result of this union was
six children, five sons and one daughter.
Oswell was married to Laura E., daughter
of Rev. Richard and Hannah Pitzer, of Washington. They are blessed
with one son, Jesse, seven years of age, and one daughter, Chloe,
eighteen months old.
Mr. Smith was sheriff of the county from Jan. 1,
1877, to Jan. 1, 1881, inclusive. He is at present a member of the city
council. Is also a member of the Odd-fellows, Knights of Pythias, and
Royal Arcanum. His education was received in Washington, were his life,
with the exception of three years, has been passed. He is now engaged in
the merchant tailoring business, with Mr. Howat, under the firm-name of
Smith & Howat They occupy the "white hall" on Court Street,
Washington, and are meeting with the success they merit.
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Source #2: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Page 624) |
SOLOMON SMITH was born in
Pendleton County, Virginia, in 1802, and immigrated to Jasper in the early
settlement of the territory, renting land from Henry Coile. He is
till living in the township. Although eighty years of age, he is serving as
constable, having filled that office almost continuously for thirty-three years.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Page 712) |
WOODSON SMITH. Peter
Smith, the grandfather of Woodson Smith, was a native of Germany.
He came to America near the close of the Revolution settling for the first five
years in Virginia. He then removed to Kentucky, and during his residence
there, became personally acquainted with Daniel Boone of historic fame.
Adam Smith, the father of Woodson, was born in Virginia, five
years previous to the removal of the family to Kentucky. His wife was
Ann Woodson, daughter of Judge John Woodson, of Kentucky. The
Woodsons are of French descent. To Adam and Ann Smith were
born two sons and two daughters, Woodson, Maria, Wesley, and Betsey
Ann. He came to Ohio in 1821, and settled on the "Woodson
Survey," near where his descendants now reside. The land in that section
was then valued at $1.50 to $2 per acre. Adam Smith died in Iowa in
1860; his wife died in 1832.
Our subject was born in Ohio, Feb. 11, 1821, and was
educated in the pioneer school-house, with puncheon benches for seats and
greased paper for window-glass. He was married Aug. 16, 1843, to
Henrietta Limes, daughter of William and Athalia (Doster) Limes, who
were settlers east of New Martinsburg as early as 1811. Mr. Smith
was born in 1823. To their union was born two sons, Harvey, born
July 8, 1844, and Leander, born Oct. 4, 1846. Harvey married
Levina Irvin and is a resident of Fayette County. He is the father
of one son, Tucker, and one daughter, Lulu. Leander married
Mrs. Henrietta Cox, nee Bennett. She died Apr. 2,
1876, aged 31. To Leander and his wife two daughters were born,
Della, born Feb. 11, 1870; Ella, born May 3, 1875. Leander
is a member of Company "I," 168th O. V. I., under Captain Lewis Painter.
Our subject was one of the throng of adventurous spirits who sought the gold
fields of California when the precious ore was discovered there. He left
Ohio in Mar. 1852, spent more than five years in the trip from first to last,
and returned to his home in August, 1857. He recounts many thrilling
stories of his experience in the cities of Mexico, Acapulco, Vera Cruz, and
other important places visited by him and his party. He is a member of the
F. & A. M. at Greenfield. Mr. S. built his present brick residence
in 1876, at a cost of $5,000. He is the owner of a fine farm of two
hundred and twenty-five acres of land on the Buena Vista pike, two miles east of
New Martinsburg.
* Source #2:
History of Fayette County, Ohio & State
of Ohio -
By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio -
1881 - Page 819 Perry Twp. |
S. M. STEEN, music dealer,
Washington, was born in Adams County, Ohio, Dec. 14, 1849. He is a son of
Alexander B. and Nancy J. Steen - the former a native of Kentucky, and
the latter of Ohio - who had a family of eight children, all living but two.
S. M., our subject, was married, May 6, 1873, to
Miss Ettie Foster, (born Feb. 7, 1850,) daughter of Archibald and
Harriet Foster, of Worthington. By her he has had two children:
Dwight, born July 22, 1875, and Carl, born June 16, 1879.
He is a member of Temple Lodge No. 227, I. O. O. F.,
Fayette Lodge No. 107, and Chapter No.103, F. & A. M., and Ely
Commandery No. 28.
He is now acting as a general agent for the house of
Baldwin & Co., of Cincinnati, for the sale of pianos, organs, and musical
instruments generally. Having had some ten years experience with this
house, he has become master of his profession, and well knows how to suit his
customers. His place of business is on Court Street, opposite the
Arlington House, where he is doing an extensive business, amounting to $45,000
per year. He handles nothing but first-class goods, among which are
Steinway & Sons, Decker Bro's., Haines Bro's, J. & C. Fischer's, and other
standard pianos, and Estey and Shoninger organs, with a full line of smaller
musical instruments, and a complete line of musical merchandise.
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HUGH STEWARD was born in 1805 and at the age of five he came to Bloomingburg to "carry chips" for his sister,
who kept house for James. In a few years he went back to Ross County, but in 1828 settled in
Bloomingburg, where he still resides.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio: Odell & Mayer, 1881)
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COLONEL JAMES
STEWART. Perhaps none of the early settlers labored with more zeal in the interest of the new county, or
enjoyed a greater influence than Colonel James Stewart. With his father he came from Maryland,
his native state, in 1807. They purchased land in Ross County—five hundred acres—in Marion
Township, where George Fullerton now resides; two hundred and fifty acres on the waters of
Compton's Creek, and two hundred and fifty acres adjoining the latter tract. They then returned to
Maryland, and in 1800 came with the family and settled in Ross County, near Frankfort. In 1810
James came to this county and located on land adjoining Bloomingburg, where his son
George
now resides. In 1812 he was appointed colonel of a regiment which was made up of Fayette
County men. They were ordered to the frontier and participated in several engagements. After the
war lie was appointed surveyor and was kept very busy by purchasers of lands. His brother
Robert was the original director of the town of Washington, and upon his resignation the colonel
was appointed to fill the vacancy.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio: Odell & Mayer, 1881)
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HENRY STROPE
- July 7, 1812, witnessed the departure of Henry Strope, a native of Pennsylvania, who,
accompanied by his family, consisting of his wife and nine children, crossed the Alleghanies in
the "old-fashioned wagon," and arrived at Chillicothe on the 15th of September, remaining there
until 1814, at which time they removed to this county, settling on a farm in the present limits of
Marion Township, now owned by Burnett Mooney, consisting of twelve hundred acres, which
was rented of Adam Turner. During the war of' 1812 he drove cattle to Fort Meigs, for the use of
the American army. He lived a quiet life, raised a large family, but accumulated little property,
and died in 1848. His son, 'Squire Strope, has lived on the farm he now owns sixty-five years,
was the first justice of the peace of Marion Township, and still continues in that office.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
HUGH
SWIFT, (Green Twp.), farmer, was born in the north of
Ireland, in 1808, and emigrated to America in 1820. He
settled in York County, Pennsylvania, where he remained
until 1836, when he removed to Wayne County, Ohio, and from
thence, in the following year, to his present location in
this township.
In 1856 he married Mary Jane Griffith, of
Highland County, Ohio, who has borne him four children:
John G., born January 16, 1857; Harriet A.,
born October 22, 1858; William, born September 24,
1860; Benjamin F., born October 22, 1867.
Mr. Swift has a well improved farm of about two
hundred and twenty-five acres, a part of which is in
Highland County.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
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ROBERT
S. SUTHERLAND, county commissioner, Washington, was
born in Ross County, Ohio, July 14, 1825. He is a son
of Robert and Hannah Sutherland, county
commissioners, Washington, was born in Ross County, Ohio,
July 14, 1825. He is a son of Robert and Hannah
Sutherland, natives of Pennsylvania, who immigrated to
Ohio about the year 1814, with a family of seven children,
two sons and five daughters.
Robert S., our subject, was married in the year
1850, to Miss Hannah Parrett, daughter of
Frederick Parrett, of Ross County. They had one
child, Frederick R., who died in 1851.
Mr. Sutherland was elected county commissioner
in 1873, and has filled the office since that time. He
received his education in this county, where he has passed
the principal portion of his life.
He now resides on a farm of one hundred and eight
acres, situated three miles north of Washington, in Union
Township.
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