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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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Franklin
County,
Ohio
BIOGRAPHIES |
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F. W. SCHUMACHER |
DR. R.
ZENAS SEEDS was born in
Jackson township, Franklin county,
Ohio, January 12, 1845. His
parents were Dr. John Seeds and
Asenath Seeds (Britton), both of
whom were born in the United States,
the former in Ohio and the latter in
Virginia. When but four hears
of age his father died, leaving his
mother with a family of seven
children, himself the youngest.
His early life was one of privation
and hardship. Until he arrived
at the age of fourteen, his
education was obtained at the
district school, three miles
distant, and was consequently very
limited. He spent the winters,
from his fourteenth to his
eighteenth year, at the Union
schools of Mechanicsburg, Champaign
county, working on the farm of his
uncle, Lewis Britton, during
the summer months. He then
went to Antioch college, Green
county, Ohio, where he finished his
literary education in the fall of
1867. His early hopes and
aspirations were to be a physician,
and when a boy he was always, in
mimicry, making "pills and powders."
During his college course he had
paid particular attention to those
branches of study most nearly
connected with the science of
medicine, and now resolved to adopt
that as his profession.
He attended his first course of lectures at Starling
Medical college, Columbus, in the
winter of 1868-69, and graduated
second in a class of seventy-two
members, in the winter of 1869-70.
He then returned to his adopted home
in Hilliard, and to his uncle,
James S. Britton, who had always
been his best friend in his attempts
to obtain an education and prepare
himself for his life work, both
pecuniarily and by his sound advice.
He was married to Electa Davis, eldest daughter
of Asa Davis, esq., and
grand-daughter of Samuel Davis,
one of Franklin county's first
settlers, who was a comrade of
ex-governor McArthur, and
several times a prisoner of the
Indians. Asa Davis when
but a boy was in the war of 1812,
with "Mad Anthony Wayne,"
in some of his marches against
the hostile savages.
Dr. Seeds was in the war of the Rebellion,
although but nineteen years of age.
He and an older brother with the
General Sherman until after the
capture of Kenesaw mountain.
His brother, Dr. S. M. Seeds,
remained with the army as assistant
surgeon of the Thirteenth Ohio
volunteer infantry, until the close
of the war. In the spring of
1870 Dr. R. Z. Seeds
commenced the practice of medicine
at his present home, in Hilliard,
where he has built up a practice and
a character that any person might
well be proud of. |
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ALBERT
STANDISH |
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