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Source: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883
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| JACOB
BALDINGER hails from Switzerland, Arjan City, where he was
born Oct. 22, 1824; his education is limited, but he early imbibed a
love for America and American institutions; accordingly, after
laboring faithfully seven long years with his uncle he earned from
him money enough to pay his way to America; he came to Galion,
having $1 left, and he twenty-two years old; he worked in Galion
twenty-eight years as switchman, accumulating sufficiently during
that time to pay for his present farm, some $8,900; he settled upon
this farm in 1874; he is an honest, straight-forward man, having
been a Christian all his life; he is a member of the Reformed
Church, which society he has served in every official capacity; his
present and second wife he married Mar. 22, 1869. She is one
of the intelligent women of Tully Township. They have eight
children, one dying in infancy; the names of the living are
John, Louisa (wife of Jacob Lowmiller),
Emma, Mary, Henry, Minnie, Caroline and
Fred. Mrs. B.'s maiden name was Elizabeth
Wiser, and she was a daughter of William Wiser. Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 993 - Tully Twp. |
| JOHN BEACH
was born Jan. 22, 1839, in Crawford Co., Ohio. His parents
George and Mary Beach, came from Germany, settling
in Whetstone township, and entering forty-four acres of land; he was
a cabinet-maker by trade. Our subject received a limited
education, and worked by day and month until Aug. of 1862, when he
enlisted in Company K, Eighty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, serving three years, going with Gen. Sherman
to the sea. His marriage took place Mar. 23, 1866, to
Miss Harriet A. Smith, daughter of Jefferson and
Catherine Smith, of Morrow County, Ohio, whose father owned
at one time nearly all the land where Climax, Ohio, now stands.
Their one child, Charles M. Beach, is being fitted
for college. Mr. B. works at repairing
considerably, and has invented the Eureka saw. In politics, he
is neutral, and in religion he communes with the Seventy-Day
Adventists, holding a membership at Pine Grove, Ohio. Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 993 - Tully Twp. |
| FRIEND BIGGERSTAFF (Prospect Twp.), farmer, died Nov. 17, 1874, aged seventy-four years. He was an early settler in Marion County, and entered and settled upon eighty acres of land in Prospect Township in 1821. He was a native of Hampshire County, Va., born March 20, 1790, a son of William and Phebe Biggerstaff. He was married to Phebe Harlan, and they had the following children: Rebecca, born Nov. 18, 1817, in Alleghany County, Md.; Mary, born in Fairfield County, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1820, Rachel, same county, August 23, 1822; Nancy, March 28, 1824, and William August 19, 1826. Friend Biggerstaff lost his wife by death and he was again married, in Fairfield County, Ohio, February 26, 1829, to the widow of John Cool, whose maiden name was Hannah Rice, a daughter of Michael and Rachel (Kester) Rice, all natives of Pennsylvania, where she was born Dec. 13, 1796. By her marriage with Friend Biggerstaff, there were the following children: Phebe, born Dec. 31, 1829; Michael R., born Nov. 11, 1832; and Elizabeth, July 31, 1836. The mother died Dec. 23, 1878. By her marriage with John Cool there were the following children: Sophia, born Apr. 25, 1822; Elsie, Jan. 18, 1824; and George, June 17, 1826. Michael R. Biggerstaff, farmer a son of the preceding, ahs always been engaged in farming and stock-raising, and now resides on his farm of 150 acres one and a half miles north of Prospect Village, on the east side of the Scioto River. He was married, June 14, 1855, to Lavina Welch, daughter of Solomon and Lavina (Smith) Welch, the former a native of Vermont and an early settler in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Biggerstaff have had a family of five children - Rachel, born Jul. 13, 1856; George, March 29, 1858; Elizabeth, Jan. 3, 1861; Hanna R., Aug. 18, 1867; Martha L., Jan. 10, 1880. Politically, Mr. Beggerstaff is a Democrat. |
| MEEKER BOTTENFIELD, farmer, was born near Waynesburg, Green County, Penn., August 23, 1818. His parents, John and Mary (Woodruff) Bottenfield, with their family, including the subject of this paragraph, moved to Knox County, Ohio, in 1839, where the father and mother both lived until their death. Meeker Bottenfield was married in Knox County, March 16, 1842, to Miss Bethiah Hubbel, born April 27, 1827, a daughter of John and Annis (McIntyre) Hubbell, formerly of Tioga County, N. Y., but then of Knox County, Ohio; both died in Knox County. For two eyars after Mr. Bottenfield's marriage, he lived near Galena, Delaware Co., Ohio, where he leased alnd and cleared fifty acres for other parties, taking as pay fifty acres of unimproved land; the property is located east of Prospect Village, and is now owned by John Q. Roads. They lived here six years and in August, 1852, bought the farm of 101 acres where they now reside; about twenty acres of this farm was cleared at that time; there are now seventy acres of the homestead in a fine state of cultivation. They lived there just twenty-eight years in a log house, and then built, at an expense of $1,500, the fine frame building in which they now reside. Mr. and Mrs. Bottenfield have had eight children - Mary Annis, born December 15, 1843, and died January 24, 1861; John H., born Jan. 19, 1845, died Sep. 28, 1875; Stephen J., born August 30, 1816; Cary J., Feb. 20, 1849; Rozetta J., Jan. 3, 1851; Helen Drusella, June 6, 1854; Emma H., June 23, 1857; William M., Oct. 1, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Bottenfield have been members of the Baptist Church since 1847. |
| N. O. BRENIZER, B. S., M. D., a practicing physician at Prospect Village, was born in April, 1854, at Cardington, Morrow County, Ohio and is the son of William G. and Anna (Shaw) Brenizer. The Doctor's youth was passed on his father's farm in Morrow County, in the meantime attending the common schools of the neighborhood. When nineteen years of age, he became a student at Otterbein University, of Westerville, Ohio, where, at the end of five years, he graduated in the scientific course. The last year of his university course he applied himself to the study of medicine; after graduating, he continued his medical studies, and in the fall of 1878, became a student at the Homeopathic Hospital College at Cleveland, Ohio, graduating at that institution in 1880. On completing his medical course, he located at Prospect Village, where he is still practicing his profession. The Doctor was married, December 30, 1880, to Anna Clime, a daughter of William Clime, of Columbus, Ohio; They have one child named Vivian Perses. |
| D. W.
BROWNLEE is a bachelor, and a son of James and
Angelina Brownlee, with whom he lives, and for whom he
cares. His education was obtained in the common school, and he
lives a quiet, unostentatious life, "living and letting live."
He is benefiting his neighborhood and county by rearing fine stock
of all kinds, particularly cattle. His farm of 160 acres he
values at $100 per acre. Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 994 - Tully Twp. |
| JAMES
BROWNLEE, residing near the boundary line between Marion and
Morrow Counties, is one of the oldest of Tully's citizens. He
bears his seventy-five years gracefully, though nearly blind for the
past two years; his native place is Buffalo, Penn.
James Brownlee, his grandfather, of Scotch descent, came to
this country when seven years of age. James
is the eldest of eight children, who were educated in the vary
common schools of that day. He remained with his father,
farming and milling, until his marriage, which occurred Mar. 2,
1837, to Miss Angelina Danley, of Washington Co.,
Penn. Her grandfather sailed for America during the progress
of the Revolutionary war, and did duty in the war of 1812.
Mrs. B. is first cousin to ex-Governor Shannon, of
Ohio, and is at present (1883) in her sixty-fifth year. She
rode to Ohio on horseback, 180 miles. Their children are ten
in number, three deceased; the living are Rev. Hugh L.,
pastor of Portland Mills Associate Church; Nancy,
wife of James Jackson, of Kansas; James E.,
of Kansas; David W.; Archibald D., of
Kansas; Robert A., of Caledonia Mill;
William M., also of Kansas. The Kansas children all
have farms joining. In the spring of 1838 Mr. B. moved to
Tully Township, buying, in the southern part of the township, 240
acres. At one time they owned 500 acres. They lived in a
cabin fourteen years. In his prime, Mr. B. was a successful
cradler, never finding a man who could follow him with a rake, and
he has swept down 110 dozes "between sun and sun." He is a
stanch Republican, and himself and wife are members of the United
Brethren Church at Iberia. Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 994 - Tully Twp. |
| JOHN S.
BURKHART is one of the thoroughgoing young citizens of Tully,
He was born Feb. 22, 1834, in Lycoming County, Penn., and is the son
of Gottleib and Margaret Burkhart, the former dying
when our subject was an infant, but he remained with his mother
until twenty-one years of age. In his seventeenth year, his
mother brought the family to Tully Township, settling where
John S. now resides; she died in 1880, aged eighty-three
years. Mr. B. has added thirty acres to the
110 acres, which he inherited, and is worth about $10,000. In
the winter of 1856, he married Elizabeth Shafer, of
Morrow County, Ohio. Their children have numbered five, one
dying in infancy. The names of the living are Mary L.,
wife of Abraham Gunther; Sarah E., Sanford W. and
John O. Mr. B. and family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he has been identified for
thirty-two years, and of which he has been a Leader for fifteen
years, and Steward for the same length of time. Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 994 - Tully Twp. |
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