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Source: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883

THOMAS P. WATKINS, of the firm of Watkins Bros., importers and dealers in French horses, was born in Prospect Township, and at the formation of the firm of Watkins Bros., of Prospect, he became a member, and has since been identified with its extensive business. Since June, 1881, he has had charge of the livery business in Marion. This firm keeps the leading livery and back stable in the town, and their horses and carriages are first-class. (Source: Page 644 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

JOHN H. WEAVER was born in Womelsdof, Berks Co., Penn., Nov. 26, 1830. When about two years old, the family moved to Lebanon, Lebanon County, the same State. When fourteen, he went to learn the shoemaking trade, serving four years in its mastery. He followed this during his residence in Pennsylvania, except one year, while he was in the express and freight business between Lebanon and Philadelphia. Coming to Marion, Ohio, in October, 185, he continued in the shoe business, manufacturing the celebrated Star Boots, until January, 1872. Having been elected Sheriff of the county the previous fall, he assumed the duties of the office Jan. 3, 1872, becoming his own successor. He thus filled the position satisfactorily two terms. In politics, he is a Democrat. He served on the School Board three years, on the Agricultural Board two years, and at present represents the Fourth Ward in the City Council. He is also a member of the Masonic order.
(Source: Page 644 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

GEORGE J. WICK was born November 12, 1854, and is a native of Richland Township. He is a son of Jacob and Margaret (Wilt) Wick, who came from Germany in 1832. At first they bought eighty acres, where our subject now resides. But prosperity had so highly favored their labors, that when the father passed away, he left an estate of $50,000. The father died in 1878, aged fifty-eight years, while the mother died in 1866. Our subject having obtained a limited education, inherited by the death of his father his farm of eighty acres, upon which stands a house built in 1862, at a cost of $2,000. The large barn was built in 1874 for $1,000. Mr. Wick breeds the best of graded stock. He received from his father's estate in money and land $6,000, and is worth today some $8,000. April 1, 1877, he married Miss Minnie, daughter of Edward Stickel. The names of their two children are Jacob E. and Charles W. His family associate with the Lutheran Church.

ANDREW M. WILLIAMS, merchant, Claridon Township, Marion County, Ohio, was born in Lancaster County, Penn., Mar. 8, 1823, the son of Andrew and Mary (Allison) Williams, native of the same State, but of English and Irish ancestry respectively. In 1831, they removed with their family of eight children to Ohio, stopping in Fairfield County until 1834, when they came to Marion County, where they both died. Mr. Williams Feb. 1, 1870, having been born July 28, 1785. The common schools of Ohio gave Mr. Williams a practical education. He wedded, Mar. 14, 1844, Miss Susan Owen, a daughter of William and Rena Owen and born Oct. 14, 1827. Their eleven children are as follows: Sarah J., born Nov. 14, 1844; Ann E., born Oct. 16, 1849; William born Feb. 17, 1852; George, born Aug. 15, 1854; Perry E., born Nov. 13, 1858; Flora, born Sept. 16, 1865; Susan, born Jan. 5, 1869; Henry J., born Aug. 3, 1847, dying Apr. 10, 1849; Minerva S., born Aug. 16, 1861, dying April 19, 1865; Mary born Feb. 1, 1856, dying Mar. 27, 1876 and Martha E., born Jan. 22, 1864, dying Jul. 22, 1876. Mr. W. has continued a resident of this county since 1834, farming until 1850. He then moved to Claridon, engaging in the mercantile trade. which he has ever since successfully conducted. His is the only dry goods store in the place, having a stock of about $2,500; he is doing a profitable business. He is a respected citizen, and has been Chief Magistrate and Treasurer of the Township two years each. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church (a Trustee) and a generous supporter of the same, and is an honored member of the F. & A. M.
(Source: Page 755 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, of Welsh parentage, was born at Salem, N. J., in 1755. Soon afterward, his parents removed to Romney, Va. In 1801, her was married to Jane Hood, in Alleghany County, Md.; removed to Salt Creek Township, Ross Co., Ohio, in 1804, and from there to Delaware, Ohio, in 1812, and from there to Pickaway County in 1817. This last move was caused by the severe cold year of 1816, by which entire crops were destroyed. He returned to Waldo Township in 1822, and from there he removed to the village of Marion in 1825, and he died in Marion in 1857. They had three sons and six daughters, to wit: Deborah, who died in Ross County, at the age of seven years; Martha, married Alfred Randall, in Waldo Township, in 1824, and died near Indianapolis, Ind.; Sarah, married Levi H. Randall, in Marion, in 1826, and died in Marion; Elizabeth, married James Beatty, in Marion, in 1826, and died in Erie County, Ohio; John H., married Volinda Lampson, of Sandusky City, Ohio, and died in that city; Joseph J., married Jane S. Beatty, in Sandusky City and died in Marion; Benjamin H., married Nancy Leonard, in Marion, and now resides at Peoria, Ill.; Jane D., married Walter Williams, and is now living at Shelby, Ohio; Tabitha D. married B. F. Clark, Oct. 4, 1848, and died in Allentown, Mo., Sept. 13, 1859. No deaths occurred in this family for thirty years, and since then all these families have been separated by death, with the exception of Benjamin H. and wife. All the rest have died except Jane D., the youngest child, and Volinda, the widow of John H. In 1825, when Mr. Williams came to the village of Marion, there were fourteen families then living in the place, to-wit: Eber Baker, Benjamin Davis, John Tootle, George Holloway, H. Gorton, G. H. Busby, A. C. Priest, Andrew Smith, John O'Harra, James hillman, Henry Peters, William and Samuel Holmes, Adam Uncapher. All the above adults are dead, with the exception of Henry Peters.
(Source: Page 645 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, son of Andrew M. and Susan (Owen) Williams, a native of Claridon Township, born Aug. 15, 1854. He obtained a good education in the common schools, finishing when aged nineteen ears. He continued at home until he was wedded, Sept. 10, 1878, to Miss Mary L. Miller, a daughter of Obadiah and Martha (Thew) Miller, and two children were theirs - Walter W., born Nov. 16, 1880, and James, was born Feb. 13, 1856. Mr. Williams is an enterprising and respected young man. In the spring of 1882, he was elected Treasurer of the township, and re-elected in 1883. He is owner of a comfortable home in Claridon, and is a stanch Democrat.
(Source: Page 755 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

COL. JOHN J. WILLIAMS was born in Jefferson County, Ohio. He graduated at Franklin (Ohio) College in September, 1840, and the following December came to Marion. Early the next year he opened the following Academy and conducted it successfully for about a year; read law with Gen. James H. Godman, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1843. He practiced with Gen. Godman nine years, with J. F. Hume from 1852 to 1858, and subsequently with A. Osborne and J. C. Johnston, and since that time he has been alone. In 1851 - 52, he was a member of the State Senate, representing Marion, Logan, Union and Harden Counties and during both sessions was a member of the Standing Committees on the Public Schools, Municipal Corporations and the Penitentiary. He was one of only seven Whigs in this Senate, they being the last of that party in this State elected as such to that body. In 1853, he was a candidate for Governor before the last Whig Convention held in the State. He recruited, in May 1861, three companies for the Sixty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was commissioned Major, and in 1862 promoted to Colonel of the regiment. He served till some time in 1863, when he returned home and resumed the law business, which he has since followed. He has publicly participated in political campaigns as a Republican.
(Source: Page 372 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

JOHN A. WOLFORD, attorney, was born in Green Camp Township March 15, 1853. He is the youngest son and only living child of John and Louisa (Gephart) Wolford. He remained on the farm till the fall of 1871, when he entered upon a collegiate course in Hillsdale (Mich.) College, and graduated in the classical department in 1877. He had begun the study of law in 1876, and after his graduation he continued his legal studies with . F. McNeal. In December, 1878, he was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court, and Jan. 1, 1879, he formed a law partnership with his preceptor. July 1, 1882, he was admitted to practice in the United States' Courts. Mr. Wolford has taken the front rank among the younger lawyers of the Marion County bar, and as an attorney he has good success. Nov. 1, 1877, he was married to Miss Mary A. Johnston, daughter of Daniel Z. Johnston of Monroe County, Mich. Mrs. Wolford was born in Humberston, Ontario, Feb. 3, 1853, and graduated in the scientific course of Hillsdale College, in the class of 1877. Mr. Wolford is a member of the Masonic order, and is the youngest High Priest ever elected to preside over Marion Chapter, No. 62.
(Source: Page 645 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

Big Island Twp. -
F. M. WOOD is one of the reliable men of Big Island Twp., a native of the same, and the son of Isaac and Hannah Wood, who came here from New Jersey. Mr. Wood was the youngest of thirteen children. Sept. 20, 1865, he married Miss A. Z. Southwick, daughter of Jonathan Southwick, of Big Island Township. This union has been crowned by two daughters - Ada F. and Ira A. Mr. W. inherited forty-eight acres from his father, which by thrift he has increased to 110 acres, worth $70 per acre. He has improved this farm with a good house, a new barn and suitable buildings generally. Nearly every rod of his farm is arable. He makes a specialty of corn and grass. His farm is stocked with the best varieties. Mr. W. was Township Trustee for one year, and himself and wife are exemplary members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been Steward for several years.
(Source: Page 371 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

Big Island Twp. -
GEORGE S. WOOD is a native of Big Island Township, born Oct. 7, 1854, the son of Hampton and Susanna Wood. His marriage to Miss Sarah E. Tufts, daughter of Rev. John Tufts, of the Free-Will Baptist Church, took place Oct. 1, 1877. The names of their three living children are Clarence, Ethel and Jeannette. In 1879, he bought and inherited his home of ninety acres, valued now at $75 per acre. He is draining and improving his farm generally, and anticipates building soon. He has fine stock of all varieties. Mr. W. has owned a one-fifth interest in a Huber thresher and a Galion engine for three years. They threshed in one day 900 bushels of oats, setting twice, and 650 of wheat another day, setting the same number of times.
(Source: Page 371 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

Big Island Twp. -
HAMPTON WOOD is the oldest living settler in Big Island Twp. He was born in 1813, a native of New Jersey and a son of Isaac and Sarah Wood, of Scotch-Irish descent, who came to Marion Co., from Clark Co., Ohio, in the spring of 1822, entering 160 acres of land, raising a family of twelve children. They drove an ox-team and wagon, bringing plow and farm implements with them. Around him were Taylor, Beech, Clark, the Carpenters, Croy and Jones Cope; the latter he said was the first settler in this county. Isaac Wood was a great worker, raising frequently 100 acres of both wheat and corn. In that very early day he would split 100 rails for a bushel of corn, and take it thirty miles to mill. At first, his children were compelled to go barefooted all winter. Mr. Hampton Wood commenced teaching when aged twenty-one years, and taught fourteen terms very successfully. He married, in 1846, Miss Susanna Marsh, daughter of Mahlon and Mary A. Marsh, of Salt Rock Township. Twelve children were born to this union, two dying young; they are Olive (Jacob Yauger's widow), Marsh, John, Dr. James Wood (of La Rue), George, Scott, Eliza (wife of Absalom Rhodes), Pearl, Lawrence and Myrta. He purchased his present residence in 1843, then of eighty acres, which by industry he has increased to 488 acres. He owns land, also, elsewhere, having a total of 800 acres. His property was valued at one time at $45,000. He has given each child $3,100. He together with his wife, inherited $2,900 from their parents. Notwithstanding Mr. W. has been lame all his life, he has done some good days' work. In one season he mowed thirty days for his father, averaging two acres per day; he cradled 120 dozen of wheat in a day; split 400 rails in same time, and, with ten other hands, he reaped 480 dozen of wheat, with sickle. His brother Jeremiah cut 180 dozen stout wheat in a day, requiring a raker and two binders to follow. He could also split 200 rails per day easily. He and wife have been consistent members of the Free-Will Baptist Church, he holding nearly every office. His wife died in 1878, aged fifty-five years. His neighbors have honored him with many township offices - Constable, Treasurer, Clerk and Justice of the Peace. He is still strong, though somewhat deaf, waiting for the call of the Master. His portrait is found upon another page.
(Source: Page 371 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

Big Island Twp. -
ISAAC M. WOOD, son of the above was married, Sept. 11, 1873, to Miss Irene Young, daughter of Jacob and Mary Young. Their three living children are Grace, Harry and Dever. Mr. W. rented for three years in Salt Rock Twp., and bought there, in 1876, a farm of eighty acres. He sold that, and purchased, where he now resides, in 1882, eighty acres, paying $48 per acre, worth at present $62.50, per acre. He is buying considerable tile, and keeps fine grade stock. He has followed threshing for five seasons. He is an Odd Fellow, belonging to Kosciusko Lodge of Marion, No. 58.
(Source: Page 371 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

Big Island Twp. -
WILLIAM B. WOOD is one of the old and respected men of Big Island Twp. He was born Nov. 24, 1825, the son of Isaac and Hannah Wood, settlers of this place. (See Hampton Wood's sketch for further particulars.) In eh winter of 1847, Mr. W. married Miss Malinda Wooley, daughter of Nicholas Wooley, of Hardin Co., Ohio. Two children were born in this family, Milton M. surviving. Mrs. W. died in 1854 aged twenty-three years, and Mr. W. married again, Feb. 1, 1855, Miss Rebecca Skates, daughter of Malachijah and Barbara Skates, of his place. Eleven children have been born to them, three dying young; the living are William, Flora C. (wife of Samuel Strutter), Malinda (wife of Daniel Strutter), Edwin, Clara M., Louella A., Nellie M. (most severely scalded Feb. 27, 1883). Mr. W. received by inheritance, fifty-five acres of his home, to which he has added forty acres, all valued at $75 per acre. He owns, also, 150 acres in Iowa. He lives in a respectable house, built in 1879. He has been a hard worker, having cleared fifty acres of timber land. In a single day he has cut and split 250 rails, mowed three acres of grass and cradled five acres of wheat, ad during the winter of 1845-46, he split 5,000 rails, at 50 cents per hundred.
(Source: Page 371 - History of Marion Co., Ohio - publ. 1883)

MRS. PRISCILLA WRENN is a pleasant landlady, living at Three Locusts, Ohio, and was born Dec. 22, 1836, in Kenton Co., Ky. She was the eldest child of John and Alice Atkinson, natives of New York. Her father came from Durham County, England, about 1820. The Lord Mayor of Sunderland, England, is her own cousin; his father built a ship with his own money, christening it "Mary Mathew" after his wife. Mrs. Wrenn's ancestors came from Scotland. When aged eighteen years, she married John W. Burton, a wealthy citizen of Boone Co., Ky., thus connecting herself by blood and marriage to many of the first families of Kentucky. Mr. Burton was a slaveholder, having at one time twenty-five slaves, many of them very valuable; one sold for $1,200, another for $950, and a third of $850. Mr. B. was "drafted" into the Confederate army, buying his way out, but her father and brothers were captured in Missouri by the Union army. Mr. Burton died of consumption at the age of forty-eight years. Mrs. B. married Alfred Wrenn, of Morrow County, Ohio, June 12, 1875. This union did not prove happy, so they lived together only three and a quarter years. In 1878, Mrs. W. purchased fifty-three acres of land near the village of Three Locusts, and is at present keeping (1883) a respectable boarding house. She presides very cheerfully at her board, giving the stranger little suspicion that she once was a belle of Kentucky. Her children by Mr. B. are John W., Susan M. (wife of Albert Tullilove), Laura M. (wife of Clay Vance), and William W. Mrs. W. has been a member of the Church of Christ, for thirty years.
Source #1: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883 - Page 1004 - Tully Twp.

DAVID H. WYATT (deceased) was born in what is now Waldo Township, Marion County, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1823, and was the second son and third child of Samuel and Levina (Brundige) Wyatt, who had a family of nine children. He was reared on the old homestead and educated at the common schools. His father died ___, 1842, aged forty-two years, and his mother resides in Waldo Township. Our subject was married, July 4, 1853, to Mary S., daughter of Abram and Margaret (Crawford) Conklin, of Vermont and New Jersey respectively. Mr. Conklin and his brother Jacob came to Ohio in 1816, and settled in Waldo Township. Mrs. Conklin came to this county with her mother immediately after the close of the war of 1812. They were married near the Waldo Mills, about the year 1821. Mr. Conklin died in February, 187_, aged __ years. Mrs. Conklin had preceded him in September, 1841. They were the parents of nine children, of whom Mrs. Wyatt is the third, born in Westfield Township, ____ County, Sept. 29, 1826. Our subject and his wife have had four children - Charles E. and Ada, living; John Q. and Eva are deceased. Mr. Wyatt became the owner of ninety-seven acres of the homestead, and on this farm the first tree was cut in Waldo Township. Fort Morrow is situated on the farm and it was on this land that the first log house was built in Marion County. The first brick house in Marion County, was erected on Mr. Wyatt's property. Our subject enlisted, Sept. 21, 1864, in Company I, One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken ill on the march, and died at Murfreesboro, Tenn. Oct. 11, 1864. He and his family were members of the United Brethren Church of Waldo of which Mr. Wyatt was one of the leading members and most active workers. In politics, he was a Republican. Mrs. Wyatt and the heirs still own the homestead of ninety-seven acres.
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