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SQUIRE WILLIAM ABBS, Ridgeville Corners, p.
o., was born in Cambridgeshire,
England, in 1837, and was a son of
Adna and Elizabeth (Wilson) Abbs, who emigrated to, and settled in Saratoga county, N. Y., in 1851, where
Adna died in 1871 leaving a widow and
eight children.
William enlisted in the 13th
New York Marine Artillery, Company F, Jan. 4, 1864; was mustered out of the 6th
New York Heavy Artillery, Company H, Aug. 26, 1865, at
Washington. He settled in
Ridgeville in 1866 and became engaged in the lumber business and in 1873 he
turned his attention toward farming.
He was married Dec. 20, 1866, o Mrs.
Polly (Welder) Thompson. They
had one child, Lizzie Ann.
Mrs. Polly’s first husband was
Mr. Isaac Thompson, who was born in Bangor, Maine, in
1832 and died in 1865, leaving four children:
R. A., M. J., L. C. and Ida E. Isaac enlisted in the 12th
Ohio Cavalry in 1863, was taken prisoner at
Richmond, wounded, and died Apr. 14, 1865.
Polly was a daughter of George and Catharine Welder,
of Ashland
county, who settled in Ridgeville in 1852, where they died leaving five
children.
William has been constable, supervisor, treasurer form 1872-79, school director and justice
of the peace.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Cos., Ohio
– Publ. 1888 – 643 |
JAMES D. ARCHER, M.
D. The leading physician and surgeon of
Holgate, Henry county, where he has successfully engaged in
practice since June, 1885, is Doctor J. D. Archer. He is a
native of Ohio, born in North Baltimore, October 30, 1858, a
son of Joseph and Nancy J. (Howard) Archer, who still live
at that place. They have three children: James D., John R.,
and Susan M.
Upon his father's farm in Wood county Doctor Archer
passed the days of his boyhood and youth, and in the
district schools of the locality began his literary
education, afterward attending Fostoria Academy for three
years. He then engaged in teaching school for five years,
and in the meantime, while conducting a school in Henry
township, Wood county, commenced the study of medicine. In
1881 he entered Starling Medical College, where he graduated
with the degree of M. D. three years later. Having received
his diploma. he opened an office in Dundee, Michigan, but at
the end of a year he came to Holgate, where he soon
succeeded in building up a large and lucrative practice.
In Holgate, Doctor Archer was married June 9, 1892, to
Mrs. Sarah Mangus, widow of William Mangus, and daughter of
W. P. Youngs, former of Henry county. Politically the Doctor
has always been identified with the Democratic party, and in
1894 he was appointed, by President Cleveland, a member of
the board of United States pension examiners for Henry
county. He belongs to Holgate Lodge, No. 271, Knights of
Pythias, and is surgeon for the Clover Leaf and Baltimore &
Ohio railroads. He is also an honored member of the
Northwestern Ohio Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical
Society, the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Surgeons Association,
the International Association of Railway Surgeons, and the
American Medical Association. Holding marked precedence
among the members of his profession in Henry county, and
retaining a patronage of so representative a character as to
alone stand in evidence of his professional ability and
personal popularity, Doctor Archer must assuredly be
accorded an honored place in this volume |
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