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** Source:
A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio
 - Vol. I  & II -
Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
1910
898 pgs.

  MRS. NANCY (NORMAN) BAILEY, who lives on her farm in Taylor Creek township, Hardin county, has been a resident of the county since childhood.  She was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, Feb. 13, 1832, a daughter of James and Mary (Brown) Norman, the former of Virginia.  Mr. Norman came to Taylor Creek township when his daughter was eleven years of age.  The family came by wagon and had two yoke of oxen for making the trip.   They stopped on their way at Wheeler's Tavern, on the Sandusky Road, also at Furney's Tavern in Kenton.  They located opposite the present home of Mrs. Bailey and took up one hundred and twenty-five acres of land, there being then but one house between their farm and Kenton, - the Scott house.  Their first home was a hewed log affair, and at the raising of the house little Nancy did all the cooking, providing food for all who attended, though she was then only eleven years old.  Mrs. Norman died in 1869.  Mrs. Bailey is the only survivor of the family of five children.  James Norman  was a son of Henry and Nancy (Knotts) Norman.
     Nancy Norman
spent her girlhood on a farm and in 1849 she married Silas Bailey, who was born in Logan county, Ohio, in 1824, a son of William and Mary (Olcott) Bailey, who married in 1817.  William Bailey was born in Martinsburg, Virginia, and moved to Hardin county in 1827; he died Dec. 6, 1853.  After their marriage Mr. Bailey and his wife lived some time in a small cabin on the Norman place, and in 1868 came to what is the present family homestead.  They began housekeeping there in a small log cabin which is now in the rear of the pleasant, modern farm house.  Mr. Bailey was a successful farmer and stock raiser and an enterprising, progressive citizen, who was actively interested in public affairs and in every good cause.  He enlisted in the Union army in 1864, serving until the end of the war, in Company B. One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  He died Mar. 10, 1882, and his loss was mourned by a large circle of friends.  He and his wife became the parents of children as follows:  Nathaniel, deceased; Jonathan, a farmer of Buck township married Sarah Frey; Martha wife of W. Bailey, had one child, Cora, who married W. Short, and she is deceased; Fletcher, of Goshen township, married Ida Kelley, and they have three children; B. Wells, married Joan Newell and lives in Georgia; Curtis, living at home, married Ada Stevenson, and they have one child.  Martha and Curtis both live with their mother and care for her interests.  Mrs. Bailey is well known in the community, having spent so large a part of her life in the township and has a large circle of friends.  She is blessed with good health and after a life of industry and toil enjoys a well-earned rest.  She is a member of the Disciples church.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 858
  JOHN A. BAIRD

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 669

  JAMES M. BALDWIN

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 86

 

  JOHN C. BALES

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 719

  AZEL FRANK BALLINGER

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 816

  ZELL H. BALLINGER

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 506

  JACOB N. BANNING

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 496

  WILLIAM M. BECKMAN

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 559

  WILLIAM ALVIN BELT, M. D.

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 788

  GEORGE S. BINCKLEY

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 868

  HENRY J. BLOOM

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 741

  PHILIP AND PETER BOEHM

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 689

  H. M. BOROFF

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 824

  WILLIAM T. BOWDLE

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 681

  JAMES W. BOWEN

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 683

PHOTO JUDGE WILLIS W. BOWERS

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 738

  WILLIAM P. BOWMAN

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 720

  H. N. BRADLEY

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 712

PHOTOS WILLIAM BREECE

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 677

  THOMAS LINCOLN BREEDLOVE

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 679

  ANDREW BREITENSTIN

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 832

  PHILIP A. BRIELMAIER

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 870

  SAMUEL BRIGGS

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 697

  ADAM BROWN - Among the most extensive farmers of McDonald township, Hardin county, Ohio, is Adam Brown, who owns a fine farm of two hundred and fourteen acres, where he carried on general farming and has met with excellent success.  Mr. Brown is one of the influential, representative citizens of the county, is well known and universally esteemed.  He was born in Union county, Ohio, Oct. 13, 1858, a son of Josiah M. and Margaret Jane (Basil) Brown, the former born on Big Darby in Unionville, Ohio, Aug. 25, 1835, and the latter born in Lincoln county, Sept. 12, 1833.  Josiah M. Brown was a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting in the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio, in 1861, as a private.  He served as a private throughout the war and was mustered out in 1865.  He and his wife moved to Hardin county immediately after the close of his service, July 4, 1865, locating in Taylor Creek township, where he purchased forty-eight acres.  Three years later he removed to Hickory Grove.  He died on May 6, 1882, and his widow died on Mar. 3, 1893.  They were married Jan. 10, 1856, and to them were born nine children, including George A., Hester Jane, William, Charles, Aaron, Samuel and Mary LizzieGeorge A. was born Sept. 28, 1861, and died Mar. 30, 1874, being killed by a falling tree at the age of thirteen years, six months and twelve days.  Hester J. was born Jan. 8, 1866, and died June 15, 1909.  Charles was born Dec. 28, 1870, and resides in Zanesfield.  Aaron, born Nov. 27, 1872, lives in Taylor Creek.  Samuel, born Apr. 20, 1875, died in infancy.  Mary L. born June 3, 1876, lives in Taylor Creek township.
     The boyhood of Adam Brown was spent in Taylor Creek, and he attended the district school of his neighborhood.  He afterward took up the trade of carpenter, beginning to work at the same in 1881, and he followed the trade twenty-seven years in connection with farming.  Politically he is a Democrat, and he is a Democrat, and he never aspired to public office, though he takes an active interest in public affairs.
     On June 21, 1881, Mr. Brown married Tabatha C. Kissling, daughter of Hiram Kissling, who resides in Hardin county, and his wife, Mary Ann (Spencer) Kissling, deceased.  Mrs. Brown is one of seven children namely: John, Mary, William, Alta J., Nettie M., and Gertrude (oldest of the family and half-sister to the others).  To Mr. and Mrs. Brown fourteen children have been born, as follows:  Floyd H., born Sept. 14, 1882, married Eva Arbogast, and they reside in Logan county; Grover C. of McDonald township, born Sept. 9, 1884, married Carrie Fleece, and they have one child, Albert J.; Frank K., born Dec. 12, 1886, is unmarried and lives at home, where he assists in the duties of the farm; Alta J., born Mar. 1, 1888, married Chester Deardorff, who was killed at Bellefontaine July 9, 1909, by a street car, leaving one child, Herbert; Carrie M., born May 19, 1889, unmarried and living at home; Blanch, born Mar. 26, 1891, living at home; Emma V., born July 5, 1892; Mary L., born Oct. 25, 1893; Opal C., born Dec. 26, 1894; William J., born Mar. 18, 1897; Mattie C., born Sept. 20, 1898; Golda, born June 3, 1900, died Nov. 26, 1900, aged five months and twenty-three days; Ruth, born Oct. 23, 1901; and Edgar E., born Jan. 21, 1904.
     Mr. Brown first purchased forty acres in Union county, which he owned and conducted for ten years, then traded it for ninety-three acres in Logan county, which he owned four years, then traded it for his present farm in Hardin county.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 566

Ella Brown
Peter Brown
PETER BROWN - The substantial and well-to-do agriculturists of Buck township, Hardin county, have an excellent representative in the person of Peter Brown, who comes on both sides of the house of pioneer stock, and is successfully devoting his time and energies to his well improved and finely managed farming property.  He was born May 31, 1853, in Scioto county, Ohio, a son of Joseph Brown.  His paternal grandfather, William Brown, was born in Ireland, of thrifty Scotch ancestry.  Emigrating when young to the United States, he bought a tract of wild and wooded land in Scioto county, Ohio, and on the farm which he cleared and improved he resided until his death, at the age of four score years.
     Born, reared and married in Scioto county, Ohio, Joseph Brown lived there until 1855, when, accompanied by his wife and two children he migrated to Logan county, and bought a tract of land near Ridgeway.  A log house, a log stable, and a patch of cleared land constituted the improvements on the place.  He cleared more of the land and then sold at an advance, and bought eighty-seven acres on the north line of the county.  There were two log cabins on the land when he bought it.  He subsequently built a spacious hewed log house, and resided there a number of years.  Selling out then, he bought ninety-six acres, a part of which was in Hardin county.  He built a hewed log house, improved the land, and set out fruit and shade trees, rendering the estate one of the most attractive in the neighborhood, and was there a resident until his death, at the age of forty-nine years, while vet in the prime of life.
     Joseph Brown married Edey Riley, who was born near Zanesfield, Logan county, Ohio, eighty-seven years ago, a daughter of William and Nancy Riley, who were among the original settlers of Logan county.  When they located there wild game of all kinds was abundant, and Indians still inhabited the forests.  Mr. Riley cleared and improved a good homestead, and there he and his faithful wife and co-worker spent their remaining years.  Mr. Brown's mother is still living, and has a vivid recollection of the hardships and privations endured by the brave pioneers of this section of the country, who first uprooted the
trees, ploughed the sod. and made a broad track for the advance of civilization.  She reared four children, namely: John, Peter, Sarah Jane, and Margaret Ellen.
     But two years old when his parents moved to Logan county, Peter Brown attended school as opportunity offered, gaily trudging the two long miles between his home and the log school house.  After the death of his father he assisted in clearing the land and tilling the soil, remaining with his mother until ready to establish a home of his own.  He settled then on a portion of the old homestead, but at the end of two years sold and bought land three miles north of Rushsylvania, where he lived three years.  Selling that property Mr. Brown lived eleven years on rented farms in Buck township, and then moved to his present near-by farm, where he has since been actively and successfully engaged in general agriculture.
     Mr. Brown married in August, 1879, Ella Roberts, a native of Logan county, Ohio.  Her father, John Roberts, was born Mar. 7, 1827, in Tennessee, and when six years old came with his parents, Andrew and Margaret (McCamish) Roberts, to Logan county.  He served during the Civil war as a member of the One Hundred and Ninety-fifth  Regiment of Illinois, at the close of the conflict being honorably discharged from the service. lie was a farmer by occupation, owning land in Rush Creek township, Logan county, where he was engaged in his chosen vocation until his death, Nov. 28, 1899, being seventy-two years, eight months and twenty days at the time.  His wife, whose maiden name was Anna Kautzman, was born Feb. 9, 1824, in West Virginia, a daughter of John and Mary Kautzman, who became early settlers of Logan county, Ohio.  Anna Kautzman married John J. Roberts July 5, 1846, and she died Oct. 30, 1904. at the age of eighty years, eight months and twenty-one days.  She was the mother of eleven children of whom eight are living and Mrs. Brown is the third youngest, the date of her birth being Mar. 23, 1863.  Mrs. Brown's mother spun and wove the large canvas cover that was used in camping when they came here.  Mrs. Brown have two children, namely:  Harry and Stella Harry married Ella Dysart, and they have two children, Cleora and DwightStella married first Kerr Brooks, and they had one daughter Clara.  She married for her second husband William Clark.  Politically Mr. Brown is a stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and socially he is a member of Silver Creek Grange.  Mrs. Brown is a member of the Disciples church of Belle Center.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 482
  R. DOLPH BROWN - Among the most important residents of any community are the farmers; upon the success of agricultural operations depends the prosperity of the country.  Among the successful farmers of Dudley township, Hardin county, Ohio, is R. Dolph Brown, who was born Nov. 17, 1859, in Union county, Ohio, a son of Jacob Brown.  Jacob Brown died in 1874, at the age of sixty-seven years.  He came from Virginia to Union county, Ohio, with his father, as a small boy, and later they settled in Hardin county, in Dudley township, along the Scioto river.  He married Naomi Arhood.
     After reaching the age of sixteen years, R. Dolph Brown began working on the farm for his parents; at the death of his father, he and his brother took charge of the farm until Dolph was twenty-seven years of age, when he rented a farm twelve years and then bought his present place, where he carried on general farming and stock raising.  He is a prominent citizen of the township, and actively interested in public affairs.  He is well known and highly respected, and all who have had dealing with Mr. Brown are assured of his good business principles and high character.  Politically he is a Democrat, although he has never cared for the emoluments of public office.  He is a member of the United Brethren church, and served five years as trustee.  He belongs to the Macabees, of Hepburn, Ohio.
     In 1887 Mr. Brown married, at Hepburn parsonage, Maggie Kelly, born Mar. 27, 1863, daughter of Edward and Mary Ann (Lewis) Kelly.  They were the first couple married at this parsonage.  Edward Kelly was born Dec. 30, 1821, and died in 1894.  He came as a boy with his father, Benjamin Kelly from Eastern Pennsylvania to Ohio; the father was a cooper by trade and settled in Marion county, later in Hardin county.  Edward Kelly remained with his parents until his marriage; he then rented a farm in Marion county, but on account of his wife's poor health moved, in a covered wagon, to Greene county, Indiana, where he was employed for about a year teaming and freighting to different towns, and then settled in Hardin county ad brought what is now called the Old Kelly Home, which he cleared, and where the remainder of his life was spent.  His widow died in 1899.  He was a member of the United Brethren church, and was a Republican, holding many township offices.  Mr. Kelly was one of the pioneers of the county, and was widely known and highly esteemed.  Besides Mrs. Brown he and his wife had children as follows:  Willis, a farmer of Dudley township; Ellen, wife of Caleb Harmon, of Mt. Victory, Ohio; Emma, wife of Cyrus Dille, a farmer of Dudley township; Lewis also a farmer of Dudley township; Edward H., a farmer of Oklahoma; and Horace, who died in the Civil war, of illness, at Chattanooga, being the oldest of the family.
     To Mr. and Mrs. Brown were born children as follows:  Elsie, born May 16, 1888; Clella, deceased; Mary, deceased; Amy born Aug. 29, 1895; Dewey, April, 1899; Harley, Feb. 26, 1901; Mabel, July 30, 1903; Orvey, June 10, 1906; David Kelly, Feb. 11, 1907.  Mrs. Brown is an earnest member of the United Brethren church and of the Ladies Aid Society.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 606
  JOHN BRUNGARD

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 841

  OTIS DANIEL BRUNGARD

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 833

  GEORGE W. BRYANT

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 575

  HARVEY BUCKMINSTER

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 885

  JAMES R. BURNISON

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 800

  ORVA OTIS BUTLER

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 466

  WILLIAM GRANT BUTLER

Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 464

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