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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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Logan County,
Ohio
BIOGRAPHIES
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio -
Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186
Dearborn Street. - 1880 - w/ some illustrations and
portraits) |
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Richland Twp. -
JAMES D. CAMPBELL,
hardware; Belle Centre; is one of the most enterprising
and accommodating business men in the township. He is
the second of a family of seven children, and was born
June 19, 1847, in York Co.,
Penn.
His parents were natives of that county; his father's
name is William, and his mother's
maiden name was Jane A. Creswell. They
lived there till 1851, when they moved to this State;
lived in Highland Co. one year, and from there came to
Hardin Co., where they now live, on a farm. James
commenced clerking in a store when 16 years old; was one
year at Roundhead, and then came to Belle Centre, and
for several years clerked in the store of W. &
A. C. Ramsey. He remained in the store and
warehouse till the fill of 1872, when he went into
business for himself. He keeps all kinds of hardware,
and sewing machines, and has been Express Agent since
Aug. 1, 1875. He has been Township Clerk, and is a
member of the Masonic Order, and has always been a
Democrat. Oct. 2, 1872, he was married to Mary
E. Smith, daughter of John and Mary
(Miller) Smith. She was born in this county to
1852. By this union four children here been born -
Hugh M., Lacha L, Carl C. and Mark F.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio - Chicago: O.
L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186 Dearborn
Street. - 1880 - Page 799)
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Richland
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GUILFORD
CARNES, farmer;
P. O., Belle Centre; is one of the enterprising and
reliable farmers of this township; he was born Sept.
10,1833, in Madison Co., O. His father, Benjamin W.
Carnes; was born and raised in Cincinnati, where be
learned the trade of a hatter; when of age he commenced
doing for himself, and for two years worked as a
journeyman; he then married Sarah McCoy, of Fayette Co.,
and had a shop there a short time, when he moved to
Madison Co., and worked at his trade until about 1845,
and was ever after a farmer; he died March 12, 1875, his
wife having died Oct. 22, 1857. Guilford worked out from the time he was 16
until his marriage - Feb. 1, 1859 - to Arminta A.,
daughter of Elijah D. and Cellists (Stamats) Zimmerman.
She was born July 1, 1839, in Hardin Co. They lived in
Auglaize Co. until 1865, when he moved to where he now
lives; it was all forest, and he has now over 70 acres
of cleared land, and good improvements for a new farm.
Their union has been blessed with four children, the
eldest and youngest of whom are dead; the living are
Edgar E., and Byron R. He owns 150 acres of land, and
town property at Belle Centre. Has always been a
Republican.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio - Chicago: O.
L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186 Dearborn
Street. - 1880 - Page 799)
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Richland Twp. -
HENRY M. CLINE, Justice
of the Peace and Notary Public; Belle Centre; was born
March 12, 1834, in
Cleveland. His father, Joseph
Cline, was born Jun. 14, 1790, in Winchester, Va.,
and his mother was born exactly ten years later at the
same place, her maiden name being Leah Secrest.
His father was a wheelwright by trade, and lived in
Guernsey Co., O., when he was married. He lived in
Cleveland
six ,years, and in 1834 he moved to Auglaize Co., and
entered a farm of Government land where the
village
of New Hampshire
now stands. Both he and wife died near there in 1856.
Henry was married Oct. 23, 1853, to
Martha .T., daughter of James
and Nancy Mahin. She was born
Nov. 4, 1834, in Wayne Tp., Auglaize Co., and her father
was the first Justice of the Peace in that township. One
year after marriage he moved to Iowa, where he farmed four years and then
returned to this State and bought part of the old
homestead. At the breaking-out of the war he enlisted in
Co. B, 45th Regiment, O. V. I., and was captured in his
second engagement. He was a prisoner for two years,
being at Andersonville most of the time, and he alone lived
through, out of twenty-seven captured from his company.
He came home in poor health, and commenced keeping
grocery at New
Hampshire; here he lived till
1875, when he moved to Belle Centre. He dealt in grain
one year and then engaged in the mercantile business. He
is one of the many men who were unable to stand the
financial crisis, and in 1878 he made an assignment. His
creditors hall such faith in his integrity that he was
permitted to settle up the business; he has been elected
Justice of the Peace, and held that office in Auglaize
Co.; he received the nomination by the Republican party,
for Sheriff, in the spring of 1880, over seven other
aspirants; his wife died April 30, 1867, leaving five
children - Sarah D., Ella, Volney H., Ettie B.
and Elizabeth. Feb. 13, 1868 he was
married to Margaret A., daughter of
John and Eliza Conley: she was born May
25, 1844, in Auglaize Co., and has borne him four
children, George H., Charles H., Blanche
and Clara.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio - Chicago: O.
L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186 Dearborn
Street. - 1880 - Page 799)
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WILLIAM L. COLMERY,
limekiln and stone quarry; Belle Center; is the youngest
member and only son of a family of six children but two
of whom are living, and was born Oct. 10, 1848, in
Morrow Co., O. His parents were natives of Washington
Co., Penn.;
his father's name was John and his
mother's maiden name was Rebecca Murdock.
They lived in Washington Co. several veers after
marriage and then emigrated to Morrow Co., O., where
they ever after lived, except for two years they lived
in
Allegheny City, Pa. He bought a farm of military land in
Canaan Tp:, which he kept improving till his death, at
the ripe old age of 75. William
commenced doing for himself at his father's death, and
has made farming his chief occupation till this year. In
1876 he moved to Logan Co., and bought the farm on which
he now lives. For four years he had the stone quarry and
limekiln conducted by George Fenn while
he attended the farm, but he is now superintending the
entire business. He has a good common school education,
having finished his school life at the
Ohio
Central
College
at
Iberia. His household
affairs are conducted by his only sister, and they are
both members of the Presbyterian Church, to which
denomination their parents belonged. His father was
Elder in the church for nearly thirty
years.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio - Chicago: O.
L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186 Dearborn
Street. - 1880 - Page 799)
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SAMUEL COVINGTON,
farmer; P. O.,
Huntsville; is one of the most
intelligent and respected citizens in this township, and
was born Sept. 22, 1819, in this county. His father,
Henry Covington, was born in Maryland, and soon after his birth the family moved to Delaware, where they
remained till he was 17 years old, and then came to
Montgomery Co., Ohio., He served in the war of 1812, and
in January 1815 was married to Anna Kavanagh,
in Champaign Co. She was born in
Kentucky, and her parents moved
to this State in 1805. After his marriage Henry
lived a short time in this county, and then went back to
Champaign Go., and lived there until 1832, when he
returned, and bought a farm near Lewiston. He soon after traded property with
Judge Shelby, receiving a farm in
Liberty Tp., on which he lived till his death, in 1850.
Samuel lived under the parental roof
until his marriage, Jan. 27, 1842; to Ruth
Watson. She died Jan. 7, 1849, leaving four
children , two of whom are living-Perry D.
and William H. The eldest is
practicing medicine in Bellefontaine, and the youngest
is living on the homestead. Feb. 7, 1850, he united
fortunes with Margaret Beacom. She died
Dec. 21, 1850, leaving an infant child Sarah A.
He was again married March 31, 1853, to Sarah
Watson. By this union six children have been
horn; three are living - Eliza M., Fanny B.
and Laura A. He owns over two
hundred acres of land, 160 of which he himself has
cleared; this being the third farm he has thus improved.
He was once a Democrat, but is now a Prohibitionist.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio - Chicago: O.
L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186 Dearborn
Street. - 1880 - Page 800)
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GEORGE
W. COX (Bloomfield Twp.), sawyer; Bloom Centre;
proprietor of the "Hall Saw Mill;"" was born Dec. 22,
1846, at Dayton, O.; he was a son of John and Rachel
(Steeth) Cox, of Greene Co., O. Mr. Cox
was raised at Osborne, O., until 1859, when he moved
with his parents to Logan Co., O. At the breaking
out of the late war he enlisted in the 57th O. V. I.,
Company K, for two years. He was captured at Cape
Fear River, N. C., and sent to the rebel hells of
Saulsbury, Milan and Andersonville, and was paroled at
Charlottesville, N. C., in July, 1865. He was
married to Miss Amanda Pence, on Sept. 17, 1858.
They have four children - Charles A., Lou Ellen,
Florence and Gerte Belle. He belongs to
Lodge No. 621, Odd Fellows, at Bloom Centre.
(Source: History of Logan County and Ohio - Chicago: O.
L. Basking & Co., Historical Publishers, 186 Dearborn
Street. - 1880 - Page 730) |
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B. CURL, farmer; P. O., Lewistown; was born in
Champaign Co., Ohio, in 1833; was the son of John Curl,
who, with his father, William Curl, moved to Ohio
in 1804, and settled in Champaign Co., William Curl was
one of the Revolutionary soldiers, and his son, John
Curl, was a soldier in 1812, and J. B. Curl also
enlisted in the late war as a private in Co. E, 132d O.
V. I. He was married to Miss Martha A. Hammond in
1854; they have five sons - Lewis H., Reuben O., William
A., Wilbur W. and Avery B. They came to this
county in 1855, and settled and improved the place they
now own, so that from a wilderness it is like a
paradise. He owns 100 acres of good land, well
improved. He is a Republican, and both he and his
excellent lady are members of the Methodist Episcopal
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