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| JAMES E. SCOFIELD |
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JOHN N. SCOFIELD. In
the year 1855 Mr. Scofield became a resident of
Ridgeville township. Four years later he bought the
land upon which was afterwards built the little hamlet of
Ridgeville, being so named for the township. Perhaps
no man has been so instrumental in building up and improving
the place as he, and there are few, if any, who have done as
much for the welfare of the township at large as has Mr.
Scofield. With its civil and political history he
has been closely identified for upwards of thirty years, and
although his political convictions are not in accord with
the majority of the voters of the township, his personal
standing has been sufficient to break down party lines, and
place him in some most important of hits offices; still, he
has not been, by any means, a politician, nor has he ever
sought, while in office, to advance his own or his party's
interest at the expense of the opposing party; his efforts,
rather, have been directed toward the improvement and
development of the locality, thus benefiting the whole
people. As is well known, Mr. Scofield holds to
the doctrine of Republicanism, and, in the various offices
that he has been chosen to fill, he has always been the
representative of the Republican party. His candidacy
for the county office of probate judge is well re ran well
up with the ticket, notwithstanding the fact that he was
opposed by one of the strongest Democrats of the county - a
person of no less strength that James G. Haly.
John Newberry Scofield was born in Seneca county,
N. Y., August 30, 1814. When he was but three years
old his parents, Benjamin and Sally (Newberry) Scofield,
with their children, left Seneca county and came to Ohio,
locating in Strongville township, Cuyahoga county, where the
father purchased a tract of wild land, and upon which he
commenced an improvement, although his former occupation was
that of a carpenter. In the family of Benjamin
Scofield was thirteen children, and of these John
was the eighth in the order of their birth. John
lived with his parents until he became of age, and during
these years acquired a very good common school education.
At the age of twenty-one he went to Cleveland, where he
learned the carpenter trade, and at which he worked some six
or seven years, continuously thereafter, but he devoted
considerable of his time to teaching and farm work in
various portions of Cuyahoga county; in all his mechanical
labors in this county covered a period of something like
twenty years.
In the year 1837 he went to the town of Independence to
teach school, and while so employed, became acquainted with
Miss Anna L. Stafford one of his pupils, to whom, on
the 6th of September, 1838, he was married. From this
time until 1855, Mr. Scofield was variously
employed, part of the time on his father's farm, again at
his trade, then he bought and improved a piece of land, but,
in the year last named sold out and came to Henry county,
locating in Ridgeville township, where he purchased a
saw-mill property, completed the mill and set the machinery
in motion. This he owned and operated successfully for
about twenty-one years.
In connection with his business operations in this
locality Mr. Scofield has became possessed of large
tracts of wooded land, and many fine farms show the results
of his labor. In other branches of business, also, he
has been very active, and established and operated them with
good success. He built a cheese factory in the
township in 1867, but sold it after one season. In
January, 1878, he started a general store at Ridgeville, and
still owns and conducts it. In 1861, under the
administration of President Lincoln, Mr. Scofield was
appointed postmaster at this place, the name of the office
being Ridgeville Corners, but after about three or four
years he resigned; again, under President Hayes, he
was reappointed and held until the year 1887, when, under
the new administration, a successor was appointed.
In the year following that in which Mr. Scofield
became a resident of of Henry county, 1856, on the ad of
December, his wife, Anna, was taken away by the hand
of death. She bore him six children, but all of these,
save one, are dead. On the 16th of December, 1858,
Mr. Scofield married Margaret N. Harring, of Port
Byron, N. Y. She died March 26, 1886. Again, on
December 30, 1886, he was married to Sarah E. Harris,
of Ridgeville. |
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GENERAL ROBERT
KINGSTON SCOTT. Cooper declared that there was
"an instinctive tendency in men to look at any man who has
become distinguished.'' Two centuries before, the immortal
Bacon had said: "Men in great places are thrice servants
servants of the sovereign, or state; servants of fame, and
servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in
their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times."
The Honorable Robert Kingston Scott was born July 8,
1828, a son of John Scott and his wife, Jane Hamilton Scott.
John Scott was a son of Robert Scott, a colonel in the
Continental army during the Revolutionary war.
Doctor Scott, the father of the late Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison, and General Winfield Scott were also members of
this Scott family, all descending from the Scottish Clan
Buch Cleuch.
On the first day of October, 1861, R. K. Scott was
commissioned to organize the Sixty-eighth Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, which duty was done and the regiment
mustered into the service on the 29th day of November the
same year. The first battle in which the Sixty-eighth
participated was the battle of Fort Donelson, and from that
time until the close of the war this regiment helped to make
the history of the Second Brigade, Third Division,
Seventeenth Army Corps. During the last three years of the
war Brigadier-General Scott commanded the Second Brigade;
was taken prisoner in front of Atlanta on the 22d day of
July, 1864, and was exchanged after sixty-five days of
imprisonment, two weeks of which time were spent in the
swamps and in Forsyth, Georgia, while attempting to escape.
After his command was mustered out of the service he
was ordered to South Carolina, by the Secretary of War, to
relieve General Saxon of the Regular Army in the capacity of
Commissioner of the United States to adjust matters in North
and South Carolina, with the rank of Major-General.
General Scott proved equal to the obligations imposed upon
him by his noble ancestry, and with the calm and stately
bearing of a man born to rule, conscious of his own power,
he took his place among the leaders of men, and rapidly rose
step by step, until offered the highest office in the gift
of his State, South Carolina. Twice he took the oath as
Governor of South Carolina, and twice that State enjoyed an
administration where the highest good of the people was ever
the first consideration. Wise measures wisely executed seems
but a just summing up of the two administrations when Robert
K. Scott sat in the Governor's chair. On December 3, 1872,
he retired to private life, and for the next five years
devoted himself to the management of his plantation, located
just a mile without the city of Columbia, South Carolina. He
was the owner of some four thousand acres of land in Henry
county, Ohio, and in 1877 he came north that he might the
better care for this vast estate. In 1880 he disposed of a
great portion of this land, and has since sold other
sections, yet owning, however, some two thousand acres.
Governor Scott is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a
Knight Templar; he is also an Odd Fellow, having been made a
member of that order in Stark county, Ohio, in 1849. |
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| HON. ROBERT K. SCOTT |
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| A. B. SCRIBNER |
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F.
W. SHOWMAN,
Washington, Liberty
Center, P.O., was born in Fairfield county i 1850, and was a
son of John and Lovina (Hammond) Showman. She
was born in Washington county, Md., in 1816, and her
husband, John, was born in Kentucky, in 1812.
They were married in Washington county, Maryland in 1836,
and had a family of ten children, seven of whom are now
living; Robert W., John H., Annie L., Willialm B., Frank
M., Cahrles M., and Sarah C. Robert W., enlisted
in Co. D, 14th Ohio, John H. and William B. in the
128th Regiment. William B. now receives a
pension. John Showman settled in Henry county
in 1857, on the Judge Corey farm of 285 acres and
purchased the same in 1865. John died in 1877,
leaving a widow and eight children. F. M. Showman
now resides on the old homestead.
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ROBERT W. SHOWMAN,
Washington, Texas p. o., was born in Washington county, Md.,
near Harpers Ferry, in 1836, and was married in Dec., 1866,
to Martha Edwards, who was born in Washington
township, O., in 1836. They have had four children:
Blair C., born in 1867; Cynthia C., born 1869;
Lillie M., born 1872; Fanny F., born 1874;
Robert W., enlisted in August, 1861, in Co. D., 14th
Ohio Regiment, commanded by Colonel Steadman
and which was attached to the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 14th
Corps. He was discharged at Atlanta, Sept. 12, 1864.
His wife, Martha was a daughter of David and Cynthia
Ann (Meek) Edwards. Cynthia was born in
Clark County, O., in 1804, and her husband, David,
was born in Virginia, in 1797. They were married in
1824, and settled in 1834 in Henry County, on the Maumee
River, on his farm which he had purchased in 1832.
They had a family of nine children. David filed
in 1873, and his wife in 1858. Mrs. Martha Showmanis
the only one of the family now living. Robert W.,
was a son of John F. and Lavina (Hammond) Showman.
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GAVIN
SMELLIE, JR., Dover, Tedrow p. o., was born in
Cuyahoga county, O., in 1833, and was a son of Gavin and
Amanda (Norris) Smellie. Amanda was born in
New Jersey, and Gavin was born near Glasgow, in Scotland,
in 1801. They were married at Cleveland, O., and had a
family of ten children, four of whom are now living:
John, Gavin, Susan and W. R. (the publisher of
the ____ at Cleveland). Five of the sons, John,
Gavin, jr., Charles, Emerson and William
enlisted. Two were killed while in the service,
Emerson and Charles. Gavin, jr., enlisted
in Co. K., 30th Illinois, September, 1861, under Colonel
Fouk, served three years, and was discharged at
Springfield, Ill., in 1864. He was married in 1857 to
Julia A. Whittecar, of Madison county, O. They
have had five children: Alice A., Charles H., Harry B.,
Emma J., and Herman G. They settled in
Fulton county, on their present homestead farm on 74 acres
in 1869. Mr. Smellie was trustee for two years,
and is at present treasurer of the township.
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ABRAHAM
SMITH, Liberty Centre, was born in Pennsylvania, in
1816, and was a son of Henry Smith. Abraham was
married in January, 1838, to Rebecca Bergstresa, of
Yates county, N. Y. They have had eleven sons and one
daughter; seven are now living as follows: Catharine,
Henry, George, William, Charles, Albert and Edward.
One son, Isaac, enlisted in Co. G, Ohio Vols., on Feb. 15,
1864, and died July 13, 1864, from wounds received while in
service. Nelson died leaving a widow and one
son, Werdna. Mr. Smith settled in Seneca county
in 1840, coming there from New York, and in 1863 settled in
Henry county, and then became engaged in farming.
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ANSON B. SMITH.
The editor and proprietor of the "Deshler Flag," of Deshler,
Henry county, Anson B. Smith, was born December 6,
1853, in Bellefontaine, Ohio, where he was reared and
educated, and afterward learned the printer's trade, serving
a three-years' apprenticeship.
Mr. Smith then went to South Bend, Indiana,
where for three years he was employed on the "South Bend
Register," at the time Schuyler Colfax (the owner of
the paper) was vice-president. Subsequently going to
Nappanee, Indiana, he there established the "Nappanee News,"
which he conducted for a year, and on selling out that
journal he worked at different places until the fall of
1882, when he purchased the North Baltimore (Ohio) Gazette."
After publishing the paper at that place for two years, he
removed the plant to Bowling Green, Ohio, where he printed
the first daily paper ever published in the town. Two
years later he disposed of the plant, and went to
Knightstown, Indiana, to take charge of the printing
department of the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans' Home, with
which he was connected for two years. In January,
1894, he came to Deshler, and has since been editor and
proprietor of the "Deshler Flag," which now has a
circulation of some nine hundred copies. It is one of
the most popular journals of the county, and as it is ably
edited it well deserves its popularity and success.
In Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Smith was married in April,
1882, to Miss Anna C. Thomas, a native of Columbus,
this State. |
FRANCIS
W. SMITH, Washington, Liberty p. o., was born in
Wayne County, O., in 1833, and was a son of Daniel C.,
and Elizabeth (McLaren) Smith, who were born and
married in Pennsylvania. They settled in Wayne county,
O., in 1820, and in 1833 came to Damascus, Henry County,
where they died; he in 1840, and his wife in 1842.
They had a family of eleven children, but two of whom are
now living; James M. and Francis W. Francis
W. enlisted in Co. D, 68th Ohio Volunteers, on Nov. 11,
1861, under Colonel R. K. Scott, was mustered out at
Savannah, Dec. 19, 1864, as corporal. He was married
in 1865 to Lavonia Buchanan. They have had a
family of five children: Lillie, Carrie, Scott, Gertrude,
and Frank. Lavonia was a daughter of
Matthew and Rachel M. (Scott) Buchanan, who were married
Jan. 28, 1830. Rachel was born in 1816, and
died in 1850. Her husband was born in 1806, and died
Jun. 25, 1887. They had a family of three children:
Joanna J., Elizabeth M., and Lavonia.
Matthew settled in Henry county in 1854, where he now
resides. He retired from business and has travelled
for some years.
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JOHN SMITH, Flat Rock,
Holgate p. o., one of the extensive and successful farmers
of Henry county, was born in Marion county, O., in 1836.
He was a son of Philip and Nancy Smith. John
was married in 1859 to Susan Curren, of Marion
county. They have had a family of seven children:
William M., Mary E., Martha A., James E., Philip
Sheridan, Nancy E., and Rosetta. The
father, Philip, was born in France, in 1800, and his
wife, Nancy, was born in Pennsylvania in 1810.
They were married in Pennsylvania, and settled in Marion
county in 1832. They have had a family of twelve
children, seven of whom are now living: John,
Philip, Mary, Eliza, Magdalena, Rebecca, Hannah, and
Catharine. Susan was a daughter of John and
Margaret Curren. Mr. Smith settled in Flat Rock in
1861, and purchased his homestead of 40 acres in 1863, and
now owns a farm of 260 acres. He is engaged largely in
the buying and selling of stock.
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JOHN SMITH, JR., Gorham,
Fayette p. o., an early settler in Chesterfield, who came
there in 1849, was born in Berne, Switzerland, in 1815, and
was a son of John and Rosine (Broker) Smith, was
emigrated to America in 1832, and settled in Detroit, Mich.,
and became engaged in farming. They had four sons and
three daughters. John, jr., was married in 1840
to Elizabeth Peiren. She was born in Berne,
Switzerland. They have a family of four children: Jacob
P., Alonzo, Elizabeth and Mary. John, jr.,
settled in Chesterfield township, Fulton county, in 1849,
and purchased a farm which he sold in 1875, and settled in
Gorham township, where he purchased a farm of 160 acres, for
which he paid $8,800. He retired from active life in
1884, and now resides with his son at Handy Corners.
One of his sons, John, enlisted in December, 1861, in
Co. A, 67th Ohio Regiment, and lost his life at Fort
Waggoner, with others of his company.
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AMERICUS M. SPAFFORD,
Harrison, Napoleon p. o., was born in Jefferson county, N.
Y., in 1819, and was a son of Abner and Betsey (Leach)
Spafford. Abner was born in Jeffrey, N. H.
They settled in Tecumseh, Mich., in 1824, where Betsey
died leaving a family of eight children, three of whom are
now living: Mrs. H. M. Webster, Cynthia M. Tilton,
and Americus. Abner died in Wisconsin.
Americus M. purchased his time from his father, paying
therefore by a note of $50. At the age of nineteen
years he became engaged in driving stage, and in 1844
settled in Ohio, and became an employee of the Toledo and
Wabash packet. He settled in Napoleon in 1845, and in
1847 married Maria Glass, a sister of Jeremiah
Glass. She was born in Trumbull county, in 1829.
They had a family of five children, three of whom are now
living: Francis C., born 1853, married Alice
Omwake in 1877, had two children, one living; Harriet
L., born 1855, and Lester V., born 1863.
Harriet married William C. Nibel in 1876.
They have had four children. Mr. Spafford has
been treasurer, trustee and supervisor of his town. He
purchased his present homestead of sixty acres in 1858.
The Spaffords are descendants of one of the oldest
families in England, and were early settlers in America.
First settled in Georgetown, Mass., in 1638.
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DANIEL W. SPANGLER,
Freedom, Napoleon p. o., was born in Fairfield county in
1827, and was married in 1860 to Mary Meyers, who was
born in Wells county, Ind., and came to Ohio with her
parents at the age of twelve years. They settled in
Freedom, Henry county, in November, 1862, and have had a
family of three children: Mary, Elizabeth (who
died at the age of six years), and Daniel. Mr.
Spangler purchased his present farm in 1860. He
was engaged in teaching in 1865, after which he became a
farmer, erected his buildings, and cleared his farm.
He has taken an interest in all town and county affairs,
holding several of the township offices. He was
sheriff of the county in 1877 and 1878, but owing to
impaired health, was obliged to retire from active public
life in 1880. He was a son of John and Christina
Spangler. John died in Fairfield county, in 1834,
leaving a widow and four children: Catharine, Mary,
Christopher, and Daniel W. His widow,
Christina, died in Henry county in August, 1876, at the
age of seventy-six years. Mary was a daughter
of Jacob and Caroline Meyers, natives of Hanover,
Germany.
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SQUIRE FREDERICK STEWARD,
Liberty, Liberty Centre p. o., was born in Huron county, O.,
in 1845, and was a son of John and Elizabeth (Jerry)
Steward, who were born and married in England, near
Lynn. They emigrated to and settled in Huron county in
1837, with a family of four children. They came to
Liberty in 1852. They had ten children in all, eight
of whom are now living: John, Robert, Thomas, Ann,
Richard, Joseph, Frederick, and Matthew.
Three sons enlisted, Frederick, in Co. D, 124th Ohio
Vols., on Feb. 24, 1864; Joseph enlisted in the 124th
in October, 1862, and Richard in the 68th in 1861.
Joseph was wounded, but at the close of the war
all the boys returned home, and all on the same day.
Frederick S. is at present justice, having
held that office for three successive terms. He was
married in1870 to Emeline Hoover, a daughter of
Joseph and Mary Hoover. They had two children.
Squire Frederick Steward purchased his homestead in
1874. It consists of 100 acres, 90 of which have been
improved and are under cultivation.
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DOCTOR
J. M. STOUT, Pleasant, Holgate p. o., was born in
Knox county, O., in 1839, and was a son of William and
Ellen Stout, who settled near Napoleon in 1866,
and in 1871 settled in Missouri. They had a family of
six sons, and four of them enlisted and served in the late
war. The sons were
Felix D., Benjamin
F., Brad W., J. M., Stephen H., Isaac N. Doctor J. M.
Stout fitted himself for and became a teacher. In
1861 he enlisted in Co. H, 3d Ohio Vols., under Colonel
I. M. Morrow, and was discharged July, 1862, on account
of disability. He read medicine in St. Louisville,
Licking county, O., after which he settled in Knox county,
in the practice of his profession. He settled in
Florida, Henry county, O., in 1872, afterward in Holgate in
1882, where he has been engaged as physician and surgeon
ever since. He was married in 1866 to Sophia E.
Gilson, who died in 1878, leaving one son, William E.
Dr. J. M. then married for his second wife,
Christina Stout, in 1880,. She had one
child by her first husband.
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