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Source:
History of Highland
County, Ohio
by Rev. J. W. Klise -
Publ. Madison,
Wis.,
Northwestern Historical Association
1902
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| MORGAN B. PARK Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 426 |
| JOSEPH J. PARKER Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 427 |
CHARLES R. PATTERSON & SONS
is the name of a popular and widely known firm of
carriage manufacturers at Greenfield which is one of
the largest concerns of the kind in Ohio and does an
interstate business. As at present constituted
it was established in 1893, prior to which time the
firm name was Lowe & Patterson, under
which title the business had been conducted for more
than twenty years. Besides carriages, they
manufacture buggies, road wagons and other wheeled
vehicles, being equipped to do any class of work
that falls in their line. Aside from
Cincinnati, Columbus and Springfield, this plant in
the lively little city of Greenfield yields to no
other in Southern Ohio as to size or amount and
quality of work or extent of trade. The firm
ships goods to every part of Kentucky, deals
extensively in distant Texas and in fact does more
or less business in a score of states.
Charles R. Patterson is not only the head of the
firm but he is also the father of the sons who
constitute the company. A native of Virginia,
he has spent practically all of his life at
Greenfield in the manufacturing business, and is a
mechanic of the very first order in his line, having
no superior as a smith. He is besides an
excellent business man, sound in judgment and full
of enterprise and push. The two sons of this
popular establishment were Frederick D. and S. C.
Patterson (deceased), both born and bred in
Greenfield and, so far as the literary part of their
education goes, products of its fine common school
system. Frederick D. Patterson, the
elder brother, after graduating in the high school
of his native city, took a course at the Ohio State
university. The next five years he occupied
the chair as professor of history in the Louisville
Central high school, but eventually concluded to
abandon the business of teaching to enter the
carriage business in which lay his principal
financial interests. With a view, therefore,
of returning to Greenfield and joining his father in
the manufacturing establishment he resigned his
professorship at Louisville. Aside from
business, he is quite conspicuous in politics on the
Republican side, being; connected with the party
clubs and a delegate to their last meeting in
Springfield. He is looked upon as a rising
young man, whose popularity aided by his marked
ability promises for him high honors in the ranks of
his party. The Foraker club at
Greenfield, of which he is an esteemed member,
recently honored him by selection as the orator at
one of their meetings. He takes great interest
in the grand work of Booker T. Washington,
and is associated with that famous educator in his
efforts to establish the National Business League.
In his religious affiliations Mr. Patterson
is an Episcopalian and his fraternal connections are
confined to Freemasonry in which he has reached the
degree of master mason. He was married in 1901
to Estelline Postill, an accomplished young
lady of Hopkinsville, Ky., and with his wife
occupies a front rank in Greenfield’s social
circles.
Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 428 |
| LOUIS PAUSCH Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 429 |
| HENRY A. PENCE Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 432 |
| LEWIS PENCE Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 431 |
| WESLEY PENCE Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 430 |
| LEWIS S. PITTSER Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 433 |
| SAMPSON T. PORTER Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 436 |
| WILLIAM F. PRICE Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 437 |
| WILLIAM H. PRICER Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 438 |
PROF.
CHILTON A. PUCKETT, the efficient
superintendent of the Lynchburg schools, was born
near Berrysville, Highland County, Ohio, Aug. 19,
1863. His parents, Alexander and Miriam
(Waldron) Puckett were also natives of
Highland county, the birth of the former occurring
on Feb. 22, 1833, and of the latter on Aug. 14,
1833. Superintendent Puckett spent his
youth on the farm assisting his father in its
management, and during the winter season attended
the district school. When he was about fifteen
years of age his parents removed to Hillsboro, and
this afforded young Puckett the opportunity
he had long wished for to secure a better education
and he entered the Hillsboro city schools and
studiously applied himself to bettering his
education. He made rapid progress and soon
qualified himself for teaching, and has continued in
that profession ever since. For three years he
had charge of the New Petersburg schools and in 1894
accepted a position as an instructor in the
Lynchburg high school, where his services were of
such a satisfactory nature that in 1898 he was
chosen superintendent, and has continued in that
capacity ever since. Under his excellent
management the Lynchburg schools rank second to none
in the county. It is worthy of remark, that
Prof. Puckett holds both grades of state life
certificates, which of itself is sufficient evidence
of his exceptional qualifications to fill the
responsible position he now holds. On Nov. 27,
1884, he was united in marriage with Clara E.
Ballentine, daughter of Andrew J. and
Catharine E. (Miller) Ballentine, the former of
Scotch descent, born in Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 8,
1834, and the latter a native of Highland county,
born June 7, 1841, both of whom are still living and
respected residents of Highland county.
Mrs. Puckett was born near Berrysville, March 7,
1863; and her entire life has been spent in the
county. To this union were born two children:
George C. on Oct. 10, 1886, and at present a
student in the Lynchburg high school, and Nellie
E., born Jan. 18, 1889, and who died Aug. 20,
1892. George C. has decided, for
himself, to study medicine as soon as qualified to
enter a first-class medical college and is bending
his energies in that direction. Professor
and Mrs. Puckett are members of the Methodist
church. He also belongs to the Masonic order
and is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
The family stands high, socially, in the estimation
of the people.
Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 439 |
FLAVIOUS O. PULSE,
a prosperous farmer of Salem township, belongs to a
family long identified with the agricultural
interests of Highland county, and mentioned above.
One of the sons of George Pulse, a settler of
Liberty township, in the first decade of the
nineteenth century, was John D. Pulse, born
in Liberty township in 1816. He maried
Cynthia A., daughter of Michael and Polly
(Walker) Stroup, a famous pioneer couple of New
Market township whose lives are sketched at some
length in another article of this volume.
After marriage, John D. Pulse located on a
farm in Dodson township, where he prospered and was
accumulating property rapidly when cut off in the
prime of life. In 1855 he had made a trip to
Iowa to buy land for investment and while there
contracted typhoid fever which terminated fatally
twelve days after he returned to his Ohio home.
His wife, however, assumed charge of the business
and managed it successfully until her death, which
occurred in 1899 at the age of seventy-nine years.
Her living children are Eliud S., of
Dodson township; the subject of this sketch;
Michael B., of Brown county, and John W.,
who resides on the old place. Besides these,
Mary E., the first born, and Eliza J.,
the fourth in order of birth, have passed away.
F. O. Pulse, third in age of the children,
was born in Dodson township Highland county, Ohio,
Mar. 13, 1845, and remained at home until he had
completed his twentieth year. Determined to
see something of the world before he settled down to
business, he started out on a long trip the
objective points of which were Vera Cruz and other
cities of Mexico. He was absent a considerable
time and, after traveling 12,000 miles without
seeing a single person whom he had known before,
returned home with the full conviction that the old
son was correct in saying there was no other place
like home. Shortly after returning, he married
Mary E., daughter of John Cramton,
of Highland county, and located himself to be not
only an industrious but progressive farmer and has
increased his original holdings of 122 acres to
nearly five times that amount, all of which with the
exception of seventy-five acres is under
cultivation. He has greatly improved his
estate while it was increasing in extent, and it is
now ornamented with a handsome and commodious
dwelling house, besides the numerous other buildings
necessary in first-class farming. Mr. Pulse
has been honored by having a postoffice named after
him and he deserves the compliment, as he is one of
the representative farmers of the prosperous
township of Salem. Of his five children, three
were lost in infancy, the living ones being
Lillie M., wife of Fred Granger, of
Hillsboro, and Clarence P., who is at home.
The family are members of the Christian church.
Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 441 |
HARLEY S. PULSE,
attorney and real estate agent, and otherwise
prominent in the affairs of Lynchburg, is descended
from one of the pioneer families now largely
represented in various parts of Highland county.
His grandfather, David Pulse, was born in
March, 1766, and in October, 1788, was married to
Sarah Fry, with whom he located near Smithfield,
Va. Their son, George W. Pulse, was
born at the last mentioned place Dec. 23, 1784, and
married Eliza Bonwell, a native of Kentucky.
In 1817, George with his wife and one child,
accompanied also by his parents, came to Ohio and
located in Highland county, two miles west of
Hillsboro. He lived there until 1833, when he
removed to Dodson township, when he taught school
and cultivated his farm. He died near
Dodsonville, April 7, 1888, in the ninety-fifth year
of his age, and his wife passed way in 1889 when
about eighty years old. This venerable couple
and fine sample of the early pioneers became the
parents of numerous progeny, whose descendants
have been conspicuous in the development of Highland
county. Among their children was Charles M.
Pulse, born in Dodson township in 1849 and
married about 1870 to Florence E., daughter
of Tavner Layman, a resident of the Webertown
neighborhood. The children springing from this
union were Walter S., born Jan. 6, 1872;
George B., born in September, 1881, an
electrician at Montpelier, Ind.; and
Harley S. Pulse, the subject of this sketch.
The latter was born on his father's farm in Highland
county, Ohio, June 22, 1875, and received his
academical education in the schools at Lebanon.
Subsequently he attended the National Law University
and after his graduation there in 1896 located at
Lynchburg, where he has since been engaged in
business. At his pleasant quarters in the new
Kleckner block, he carries on a real estate
and general fire insurance agency and represents the
Central Life insurance company, in addition to
conducting his regular law practice. Mr.
Pulse's popularity is attested by the fact of
his having been honored by two elections as mayor of
the corporation and his general activity in the
social and business life of the town. He is a
past grand of Lynchburg lodge, No. 151, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, past patriarch of Lynchburg
encampment, No. 172, and a member of Lynchburg
lodge, nights of Pythias. In 1897 he was
married to Josephine, daughter of W. H.
and Sarah E. (Landiss) Hopkins, of Lynchburg,
one of the old families of that partof the county.
Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 440 |
| ADNA P. PUSHEE Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 ~
Page 442 |
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