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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SAMUEL
WADDLE, Judge Daniel McLean's step-father, was a Kentuckian by birth ; removing to Ross County, Ohio,
from whence he came to Fayette, in March, 1810, locating on a piece of ground four or five miles south of Washington. During the
Indian troubles of 1812, he engaged in the defense of his country, being chosen major. In 1814 he
removed to Washington and two years later engaged in the mercantile business, continuing in the
same till his death, which occurred in 1828. In 1814 he purchased seven lots in the town of
Washington, for which he paid in cash $10,000. After his death the property did not realize
$1,000 outside of the dower set aside for his widow. This instance is cited to illustrate the terrible
depreciation of property during that period.
(Source: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881) |
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AUGUSTUS
WEST. Mr. West was born in Madison
County, Virginia, Mar. 20, 1814. His father being a
slave, he took the name of his mother, a free colored woman,
Dilcie West, who supported his family by selling
cakes and other pastry which she baked. She was the
mother of sixteen children.
Mr. West came to Ohio in 1837, and settled in
Highland County, three and a half miles from Hillsborough,
where he resided three years; thence he moved to a farm on
Falls Creek, and remained three years. Moving from
there he came to Fayette County, and bought fifty acres of
land, on which he lived fifteen years. Selling this
land, he purchased one hundred and seventy-seven acres,
eleven miles south of Washington, where he has resided for
twenty-two years, surrounded by many comforts.
He married Harriet Payton, in Culpepper County,
Virginia, by whom he had eleven children. She died in
1873. He married his second wife, Mary Ootes,
in 1877.
Mr. West is a member of the Baptist Church, and
a Republican. His wife is a Methodist. Two of
his sons served in the army in the late war. Andrew
was a member of the 27th Michigan Infantry, and was killed
at Honey Hill, North Carolina, in 1863. William
was wounded in the battle of the wilderness.
* Source #2:
History of Fayette County, Ohio & State
of Ohio - By R. S. Dills - Publ. Odell & Meyer Publishers,
Dayton, Ohio - 1881 - Page 823 Perry Twp. |
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MARSHALL J. WILLIAMS, attorney-at-law,
Washington, is a son of Dr. Charles M. Williams and
Margaret Jane Williams, nee Mark, and was
born Feb. 22, 1836. From childhood he has been a close
student, and at the age of nineteen graduated from the Ohio
Wesleyan University, at Delaware, and soon after began his
legal studies at Washington, with Nelson Rush.
He completed his legal course at the age of twenty-one, and
shortly after opened an office at Sigourney, Iowa, where he
remained about one year. Becoming displeased with his
location, he returned to Washington, and at once entered
into a lucrative practice. He married Bertha Taylor,
a lady of Clermont County, but no children followed the
union.
In 1870, he was elected to the Ohio Legislature, as
representative from Fayette County, and took a prominent
part in many of the debates of that session. In 1872,
he was returned to the legislature, and served through both
sessions of that body with distinction. At present he
stands at the head of his profession, and is recognized as
one of the leading lawyers of southern Ohio, and has
accumulated a fortune by his practice.
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Source #2: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Page 635) |
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JAMES
WILLIAM WILLIS. In the death of James W.
Willis, in 1906, there was removed another of those
prominent business men of Washington C. H., Ohio, who have
made their way in life by force of their own merit and
industry from small beginnings to great successes, and his
memory will long be revered and his influence for good felt
in this section of the state, for he belonged to that class
of worthy and noble citizens who leave behind them much that
is deathless. He was a man of absolute honesty, always
on the advance, and managed his extensive business affairs
with a skill and prudence which came of accurate knowledge
and wide experience. His rise in the world was at the
expense of no one, and in his death Washington C. H. and
Fayette county sustained a great loss and a wide circle of
friends was left to mourn his passing away, for he was
universally regarded as one of Washington's most useful and
enterprising men of affairs, of which city he had been an
active and influential citizen for many years.
There flowed in the veins of James W. Willis and
admixture of the blood of those sturdy races from across the
sea which have contributed so largely to the progress and
advancement of this great country of ours - England and
Ireland. From England came his paternal grandfather
Willis, who married Eleanor Montgomery. He
came to the United States when eighteen years of age and
settled at once in Fayette county, Ohio. He acquired a
farm in Jefferson township and there spent the remainder of
his days, dying there when past eighty years of age.
To him and his wife were born the following children:
Henry, James, Robert, Samuel, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Mongomery,
Mrs. Gifford, Mrs. Boyer, Mrs. Fichthorn, Mrs. Thornburg,
John. On the maternal side, the subject was
descended from Robert Hogue, who, with wife, came
from the Emerald isle and also became early settlers in
Fayette county, their home being in Jasper township.
Their children were John, Robert, William and
Belinda. Of the children of these respective
families, Samuel, Willis and Belinda Hogue,
who were both born in Fayette county, married, and to them
were born ten children, namely: Samantha (Stover),
Lucinda, Sallie, Ida, James W., Tillie, Lina, Linda and
Jennie.
Samuel Willis passed his entire life in Fayette
county, following the vocation of farming in Jasper
township, where he owned one hundred and ten acres of
excellent land. He was a man of splendid character,
who enjoyed the respect of all who knew him, and his death
occurred there in 1871, when about fifty-one years of age.
His wife died in 1881, when sixty-five years of age.
They were Methodists in their religious belief and were
known for their kindness and benevolence. Mr.
Willis was a soldier in the Civil War during the last
year of that great struggle.
James W. Willis was born in Jasper township on
the 4th day of June 1853, and he remained on the paternal
homestead until he had attained his maturity. He had
received a good practical education in the district schools,
and sometime after attaining his majority he moved to
Jamestown and for a short time was engaged in the hotel
business. He then went to Milledgeville and built a
home, engaging there in the timber and lumber business.
Later he engaged in agricultural pursuits, which always had
for him a special attraction and in which he was always
successful, though at the same time he gave some of his
attention to the lumber business. About that same time
Mr. Willis and John L. Barnes engaged in the
buying and selling of live stock for several years, meeting
with very satisfactory results. In 1887, Mr. Willis
came to Washington C. H. and engaged first in the butchering
business, later adding the handling of live stock, and still
later he again embarked in the lumber business and ran a saw
mill, which commanded his attention up to the time of his
death. It was a testimonial to his versatility of
talent and his ready ability to adapt himself to any
circumstances or demands upon him, that he could engage in
so many different lines of enterprise and handle all of them
successfully. In addition to the lines already
mentioned, Mr. Willis established and built the
present chair factory and engaged quite extensively in the
manufacture of chair and he was the chief actor in the
promotion and establishment of the P. Haggerty Shoe
Company. He was the owner of the Millwood addition to
the city of Washington C. H., which he improved with
splendid pavements and sidewalks, so that it became one of
the most attractive suburbs of the city. He was a
stockholder and director of the Commercial Bank, one of the
solid financial institutions of Fayette county. Mr.
Willis bought the old D. I. Worthington home and
here he lived and dispensed an old-fashioned hospitality
that was greatly enjoyed by his large circle of warm and
loyal friends. He was a man of genial and kindly
impulses, who continually made friends and never sacrificed
any.
Politically, Mr. Willis was a Republican from
principle, and took a keen and intelligent interest in
public affairs, though too busy a man himself to mix much in
political affairs. Fraternally, he was a member of and
took a deep interest in the time-honored order of Free and
Accepted Masons, in which he took the degrees up to and
including those of Knight Templar. Though not a member
of any church, Mr. Willis was an attendant of the
Baptist church to which Mrs. Willis belongs, and he
was a firm believer in every movement the object of which
was the uplift of the human race. The death of Mr.
Willis occurred on the 25th day of July, 1906, at the
age of fifty-three years.
On August 20, 1882, James W. Willis married
Carrie Spangler, who was born in Ross county, Ohio on
April 23, 1863, the daughter of Dr. Robert W. and
Margaret (Somerville) Spangler, the former a native of
Kentucky and the latter of Ohio. Mrs. Margaret
Spangler died in Ross county, Ohio, at the age of
forty-one years. She had borne her husband five
children, Lucy Jane, John Mosby, Charles Somerville,
Carrie Belle and Fred Arthur. Doctor
Spangler was a practicing physician in Ross county for
about twenty years and in Milledgeville for a like period,
thus rounding out in honorable and successful professional
career of four decades. His death occurred in 1897, at
the age of about sixty-one years, having survived his wife
more than thirty years. Mrs. Willis' paternal
grandfather, Frederick Arthur Spangler, was a native
of Pennsylvania, and his wife, whose maiden name was Lucy
Jane Cornelius, was born in Kentucky. She died in
middle life and he at the age of about seventy years.
Mrs. Willis' maternal grandfather, John A.
Somerville, was born in Scotland. He came to the
United States in 1808, settling in Ross county, Ohio, and
there married Elizabeth Smith, who was born in
Highland county, Ohio. She died when past sixty years
of age, and he lived to the remarkable age of ninety-three
years. They were the parents of the following
children: Jane (Steele), Rebecca (Dill), Mary
(Howells), Nancy (Reed), Margaret (Spangler), Sarah
Somerville, and several who died before reaching mature
years.
To Mr. and Mrs. Willis were born eleven
children, namely: Bessie Janet, who is the wife
of Ralph O. Young and the mother of a daughter,
Jane; Lina Marion, who is doing settlement work in
Knoxville, Tennessee; Willard S., who remains at home
with his mother, is manager of the Willis Lumber
Company, at Washington C. H.; Helen May is the wife
of C. G. Beckel, of Dayton, Ohio, and they have a
son, Cambridge; Robert Ervin, Charles Somerville, Carrie
Eleanor, Richard Rochester and Willis Hegler are
at home, and two who died in infancy.
James W. Willis was in the fullest sense of the
word a progressive, verile American citizen, thoroughly in
harmony with the spirit of the advanced age in which he
lived. He made good use of his opportunities and
prospered from year to year, conducting all business matters
carefully and systematically, and in all his acts displaying
an aptitude for successful management. He did not
permit the accumulation of fortune to affect in any way his
actions toward those less fortunate than he, and he always
had a cheerful word and a helping hand for those in need.
He was a most companionable gentleman and all who came
within range of his influence were loud in their praise of
his splendid qualities.
(Source: History of
Fayette County, Ohio -
Indianapolis, Ind. : B.F. Bowen & Co., 1914) |
JAMES
WILSON, farmer and teamster, is the second son of
William and Sarah (Santee) Wilson, natives of Ohio.
He was born Oct. 3, 1825. His father's family
consisted of ten children: Eli, James, Sarah,
William, John, George, Joseph, Cynthia, Sophia, and
Margaret. The parents died in Highland County,
near Centerfield.
George Santee, the maternal grandfather of this
subject, served in the war of 1812, and died near
Petersburg, Highland County, at an advanced age.
Our subject was married, May 11, 1854, to Mrs.
Elizabeth (Dowden) Wilson. She was a native of
Ohio, and was born April 5, 1823. By a previous
marriage she is a mother of two children: Margaret
J., born Feb. 11, 1844; William O., born May 5,
1847.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are the parents of six
children: Sarah F. A., born Jan. 28, 1855; married
John Cooper. Thomas L., born Sept. 17, 1856;
Samuel A., born June 21, 1859; John E., born Feb.
3, 1862; Samantha F., born Jan. 2, 1864; Alwilda
E., born July 20, 1866.
* 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. |
| JAMES F. WILSON
* 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. |
JOHN
L. WILSON, carpenter, Washington, was born Sept. 18,
1835, and is a son of James N. and Maria Wilson.
His father is a native of North Carolina, and his mother of
Ross County, Ohio. The former came to Ohio in 1823,
the latter in 1827. They had six children.
Our subject was married Jan. 21, 1867, to Anna,
daughter of James G. and Tabitha Jolly, of Clinton
County, Ohio, who bore him two children: James G. and
Zeda B. He is a member of Fayette Lodge No.
107, and Chapter No. 103, F. & A. M. He received his
education in Washington, where his youth was spent. In
politics he is a Republican.
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Source #2: History of Fayette Co.., Ohio - Dayton, Ohio:
Odell & Mayer, 1881 - Page 636) |
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