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Source:
History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
1884

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ELI HALTERMAN, son of Levi Halterman, was born Apr. 28, 1843, in Jackson County, Ohio, where he was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools.  Oct. 28, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Fifty-third Ohio Infantry, and participated in many hard-fought battles.  He received a severe wound at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864, which unfitted him for active duty till the following September, when he returned to his regiment and served till the war closed, when he was honorably discharged, Aug. 12, 1865.  He was married Nov. 12, 1865, to Mary E. Albin of Pike County.  Nine children have been born to this union, of whom eight are living - Ida E., William T., Oscar E., George N., Orpha M., Armina F., Ollie D. and Myrtie N.  Minnie L. is deceased.  Mr. Halterman has a good farm of eighty-four acres of improved land.  He is a member of Barnes Post, No. 280, G. A. R.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 813
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GEORGE L. HAYS was born Sept. 27, 1834, in Pike County, Ohio, a son of James and Margaret Hays, who were natives of Virginia, of German and Irish descent.  They moved to  Ohio and lived in Pee Pee Township till the father died, June 22, 1856.  The mother is still living at Waverly, Ohio, aged seventy-seven years.  Our subject followed farming till1882, when he sold his farm and engaged in the hardware business.  He soon built the Piketon Roller Mills, of which he is yet proprietor.  In July, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, as a private under his brother, Captain W. C. Hays.  He was commissioned Second Lieutenant Dec. 6, 1862, and Sept. 16, 1863, was made First Lieutenant.  He participated in a number of battles, and was mustered out at Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 12, 1865.  He was married Aug. 6, 1856, to Emily, daughter of Joseph and Matilda Coleman, who are of German descent.  They have had twelve children, five now living - Margaret, George, Emma, Hattie, Lizzie, and four who died in infancy.  Mr. Hays has passed all the chairs, and is now Treasurer of Piketon Lodge No. 223, I. O. O. F.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and Superintendent of the Sabbath-school.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 787
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HARRISON J. HAYES, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Meek) Hayes, was born Saturday, Sept. 8, 1838, in Ross County, Ohio, eight miles southwest of Chillicothe.  His father, a native of Maryland, was born July 5, 1790; his mother, a native of Virginia, was born Sept. 11, 1792.  His parents were married in Virginia, Aug. 20, 1810, ad shortly afterward settled in the northern part of Ohio.  His father was in the war of 1812.  In about 1820 they removed to Ross County, Ohio, and in 1854 to Pike County, one and a half miles north of Waverly, where his mother died Feb. 26, and his father Mar. 12, 1857.  They had a family of fourteen children -
Mary,
born Sept. 18, 1811; John E., Apr. 28, 1814; Susana, Dec. 2, 1815; Elizabeth, Sept. 20, 1817; Joseph, Sept. 11, 1819; William, June 21, 1821; Margaret Ann, Aug. 22, 1823; Robert M., Sept. 23, 1825; Samuel M., Nov. 28, 1827; Allen D., June 13, 1830; Thomas, May 17, 1832; Sarah Jane, Mar. 31, 1833; James M., Feb. 27, 1835, and Harrison J., Sept. 8, 1838.  John E., William, Margaret A., James M. and Harrison J. are the only ones now living.  The latter, H. J. Hayes, was reared on a farm eight miles southwest of Chillicothe, Ohio.  He was married on Thursday, Dec. 15, 1859, at Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio, by Sylvester Bacon, a Justice of the Peace, to Sarah Jane, daughter of Enos and Susana (Meighen) Rinehart and settled in Ross County, eight miles south of Chillicothe, on a farm.  In 1862, he removed to Macon County, Ill., and in 1865 returned to Ross County and bought property in Adelphi, eighteen miles northwest of Chillicothe, remaining there till the spring of 1869, when he removed to a farm in Pike County, five miles northeast of Waverly.  The next spring he went again to Illinois (Piatt County), remaining there until 1873, when he returned to Ross County, Ohio, and bought a farm and in connection with farming carried on a grocery on the farm.  Dec. 3, 1878, he moved to Waverly, Pike County, Ohio, where he has since resided, engaged in the mercantile and lumber business. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have had a family of eleven children -
Mary Etta
, born Friday, Aug. 16, 1861, in Ross County, Ohio; John Rinehart, born Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1862, in Ross County, Ohio, died Mar. 26, 1872, in Piatt County, Ill.; William Enos, born Saturday, Mar. 19, 1864, in Macon County, Ill., died Dec. 12, 1865, in Ross County, Ohio; Susana Elizabeth, born Thursday, Jan. 18, 1866, in Ross County, Ohio; James Allen, born Monday, Dec. 9, 1867, in Ross County, Ohio; Sarah Jane, born Thursday, Feb. 3, 1870, in Pike County, Ohio; Rosa Belle, born Sunday, Apr. 28, 1872, in Piatt County, Ill., died Aug. 27, 1872, in Piatt County, Ill.; Iantha Ann born Thursday, Apr. 2, 1874, in Ross County, Ohio; Florence Alice, born Sunday, Dec. 31, 1876, in Ross County, Ohio; Eli Horatio, born Saturday, May 24, 1879, in Pike County, Ohio; Ida May, born Thursday, June 16, 1881, in Pike County, Ohio.  Mrs. Hayes' parents were married May 11, 1827, in Guernsey County, Ohio. 
Her father, a son of Samuel and Armalia Rinehart, was born Apr. 3, 1808, in Greene County, Pa.  Her mother, a daughter of John and Christena (Watters) Meighen, was born June 16, 1808, in the same State.  Their children were -
Samuel E.
, born Apr. 2, 1828; Abigail, born Aug. 24, 1829; Jane E., born Aug. 7, 1831; Louisa, born June 26, 1833; Levi, born Jan. 31, 1835; Ezerias, born Dec. 28, 1836; Enos, born Mar. 6, 1839; Sarah Jane, born June 12, 1841; William Israel, born Apr. 15, 1854; Susana, born May 2, 1845; Nancy Jane, born Mar. 23, 1847; Mary Ann, born July 21, 1849; Ether Linda, born Apr. 22, 1851; Robert Hayes, born Jan. 6, 1855.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 759
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GEORGE HAYNES was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1806.  His father, one of the earliest pioneers of that place, settled there in 1800.  He was by trade a blacksmith, and did the iron work on the old covered bridge over the Scioto River on the Chillicothe and Adelphia turnpike.  When George was six years old his father moved into the country in Springfield Township.  In 1832 he married Isabelle Nichols.  To them were born eleven children - Henry, married Miss Karshner; Amanda, now Mrs. Milton Jones; John, married Rosa Cissna; Eliza, now Mrs. David Jones; Mary, now Mrs. Benjamin Lytle; Rose, now Mrs. Wesley Orr; Ellen, now Mrs. David Allen; George W., married Rebecca Cryder; Joseph; Martha, now Mrs. Terwilliger, and Wood. John is the only representative residing in Pike County.  He is a Republican in politics, and is a man interested in all educational and public interests.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 800
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OSCAR OLIVER HAZELBAKER, second son of Joseph and Harriet (Collings) Hazelbaker, was born June 7, 1862, in Adams County, Ohio.  He was reared principally on a farm, and spent some time on the Ohio on a steamer with his father.  He was driver on the Ohio Canal three years, after which he was engaged three years in James Hall's store at the mouth of Brush Creek, Scioto County.  He then engaged in agricultural pursuits till 1879.  He was educated at the common schools and attended the graded schools at Waverly one term.  In 1872 he removed with his father to Latham, and since 1880 has been engaged in teaching.  March, 1883, he was elected to his present position of Clerk of Mifflin Township.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 853
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HALLAM HEMSTEAD, SR., deceased, was born in New London, Conn., July 23, 1796.  June 10, 1802, his father left New London, and Aug. 8, landed at Marietta, Ohio.  He was by trade a rope-maker.  He represented his fellow citizens in the Legislature at Chillicothe in 1805, and in 1808 or 1809 was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.  In 1810 he removed to Cincinnati and was in business with a distant relative named L'Homedieu for a few months, when he removed about a mile above Maysville, where his wife died and he married his second wife, Elizabeth Slight.  He afterward removed to New York, where he lost his second wife, and then to Portsmouth, where he died in 1834, aged seventy-one years.  In 1813 our subject was hired as a clerk in the warehouse of J. H. Thornton, who was then a Government agent for receiving munitions of war, provisions, etc., for the war between this country and Great Britian.  In the spring and summer of 1814 he worked at brick-making, and the next year was employed as assistant to J. R. Turner, Clerk of the Court of Scioto County, and Nov. 15, 1815, came to Piketon.  He then clerked for Robert Lucas and Captain Cissna till the latter part of 1821, and Jan. 17, 1822, he was appointed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Recorder of the county.  He held the office of Clerk till Aug. 31, 1843, and that of Recorder till Oct. 1, 1842.  He was also Clerk of the Supreme Court several years, serving till the fall of 1843, when he was elected Treasurer of the county, continuing in the latter office till June, 1861.  His first official act was to issue himself a license to marry Mary H. B. Cissna, by whom he had seven children - Charles E., Clarissa, Henry, Hallam, Orlando P., George C. and Giles.  His wife died Mar. 5, 1859.  In the fall of 1852 he went into the boot and shoe business, in which he continued till 1861.  In April, 1858, he was elected Justice of the Peace of Seal Township, and in 1859-'60 was Mayor of Piketon.  In October, 1860, he was elected Probate Judge of Pike County, and served one term.  June 15, 1861, as Judge of Probate, he again issued himself a license of marry, and on the 16th was married to Mrs. Amanda V. Chapman.  Judge Hemstead was appointed Postmaster by President Lincoln in 1865, an office he held till his death.  He was very industrious, and correct in all his business transactions.  His father was a "Jeffersonian" in the latter's youthful days, and he himself voted for Andrew Jackson on his first election, but in 1829 voted against him.  On the organization of the Whig party he allied himself with it, but after its dissolution acted with the Republican party till after the war.  He judge the policy of that party on Reconstruction was wrong and withdrew his support of it, but the summer prior to his death expressed his abhorrence of the policy of the Democratic party and withdrew from politics.  Judge Hemstead was a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  He was not demonstrative, but was nevertheless a man of deep faith.  He died Dec. 9, 1869, and in his death Pike County lost one of her most substantial citizens.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 788
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
GEORGE HENRY was born near Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 8, 1821, a son of Robert and Margaret (Wilbern) Henry the former a native of Philadelphia, Pa., and the latter of Maryland.  He was reared from his ninth year in Clinton County.  He remained with his father till he was twenty-one years old, when he began to work on a farm for $8 a month and his board.  At the age of twenty-two he began to learn the trade of a brick-layer, at which he worked ten years.  He then went to Illinois, where he bought and herded cattle about two years, this proving a very successful enterprise.  He invested $1,500 in cattle, and by careful management doubled his money at the end of two years.  In 1855 he and his brother went into the grocery business under the firm name of J. & G. Henry, which they carried on till 1863, since when his brother James  has continued it alone.  In 1868 our subject moved to Piketon, Pike County, and in the fall of 1869 moved to Waverly.  He is now engaged in the grocery business besides having a farm one and a half miles from Waverly.  The farm was in a very poor condition, and was purchased at the appraisement.  After coming into possession of it Mr. Henry began making improvements and invested considerable means on it, and to-day it is one of the finest farms in the valley.  He was married in May, 1862, to Harriet F., daughter of Peirre Nolind, a former old resident of Pike County.  They have two children living - Luella and Leroy.  One child died in infancy.  Robert Henry was a tin and copper smith until he moved to Ohio in 1828.  He then followed farming till his death in 1865.  His widow is still living at Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, aged eighty-seven years.  They had nine children, of whom four sons and two daughters are still living.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 760
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
GRANVILLE C. HIBBENS was born in Pee Pee Township, Pike County, Feb. 14, 1830.  His father, James R. Hibbens, was born Feb. 13, 1800, in Greenbrier County, Va., and when eight years old moved with his parents to Pennsylvania, and a year later came to Ohio and settled in Ohio near Richmond Dale, Ross County.  In 1828 he married Mary, daughter of Abraham Chenoweth, one of the first settlers in this locality  His parents were poor so he was obliged to work, and in this way educated himself till he was qualified to teach.  After his marriage he commenced farming, and about 1835 moved to Waverly and began the mercantile business, which he followed nearly twenty-five years.  In 1845 he bought a farm of 217 acres, below Waverly, and after retiring from business moved to it, when he spent the rest of his life.  He died Mar. 20, 1879, his wife having died May 10, 1877.  They reared a family of five children - Granville C., Samuel R., Abraham, Rebecca Ann, wife of David Downing of Peoria, Ill., and William, who was killed in the late war at the battle of Winchester.  Granville C. Hibbens, the name which heads this sketch, was about five years old when his father moved to Waverly.  He attended the schools of that place, and for a short time attended the school at Delaware, Ohio.  When old enough he entered his father's store, and when he retired from busienss Granville bought the stock, which he sold after two or three years.  In 1859 he was married to Desire Miller, a native of Frankfort, Ross County, and daughter of Israel Miller.  They have had six children, of whom five are living - Anna (wife of J. E. Elliott), James, Rebecca, William (deceased), Amy and Iona.  After his marriage Mr. Hibbens moved to his present residence.  In politics he is a Republican.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 761
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JOHN W. HIGGINS, attorney at law, was born Nov. 7, 1851, in McLean County, Ill.  His father, Jeffry Higgins, is a native of England, and emigrated to America when a boy.  He followed a cooper's trade till his marriage, when he pursued farming.  He was reared near Bainbridge, Ohio, and when twenty-two years old married Mary E. Jones, a native of Ross County, Ohio.  Soon after he moved to McLean County, where he made his home till 1865, when he went to Jones County, Iowa.  In 1867 he went to Missouri, where his wife died Feb. 18, 1870.  Shortly after his wife's death he came to Ohio and lived in Bainbridge, Ross County, after which he moved to Fayette County, where he afterward married Nancy Smith, a widower.  They now reside in Fayette County where he is at present engaged in the mercantile business.  They have six children living, our subject, John W., being the eldest of the family.  He remained in Bainbridge about six months, when he came to Waverly and taught school, and during the summer months of 1873-'74-'75 attended the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio.  He taught ten years in Pike County,  six years in the Waverly schools, five years as Principal of the Waverly High School, his last position being Superintendent of the schools at Piketon.  In 1878, during the summer months, he studied law under Houstin James, a former member of the Pike County bar.  He was admitted to the bar at Columbus, June 7, 1881, after which he opened an office in Waverly, where he has since been engaged in active practice.  At present he is a United States Gauger.  He was married July 4, 1876, to Lilly M. Branch daughter of Orin Branch (deceased).  They have three children - John W., Edna M. and James.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 761
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COLONEL THOMAS W. HIGGINS, Attorney at law, was born June 18 1825, the second of four children of John and Parnella (Ashley) Higgins.  His father, a native of Vermont, was a farmer and lawyer and settled in Knox County Ohio, in 1810, where he accumulated considerable property and was prominently identified with the county's interest.  He died Mar. 1, 1874.  Mr. Higgins's mother was a native of New Hampshire and died in 1831, when he was but six years old.  Until his seventeenth year his time was spent alternately at the district school in winter and on the farm in summer.  He did not confine himself to the limited curriculum of the district school, but extended his course of reading to works of a higher order, and in 1845 entered Oberlin College, where, for several years, he applied himself to the classics and general literature.  While in college he taught school one term.  IN 1850 he entered the law school at Ballston Spa, N. N., and was subsequently admitted to the bar at Albany, N. Y.  He located at Buffalo, but a year later went to New York City, where he remained three years.  In 1855 he went to Europe and spent a year traveling in Great Britain.  In Dublin he met Miss Isabelle Wade, daughter of Samuel Wade, a prominent wool merchant of that city, and in 1856, shortly before leaving for America, they were married.  After his return to this country he wrote "The Crooked Elm; or, Life by the Wayside," which met with a large sale.  In 1858 Mr. Higgins took up his residence in Toledo, Ohio, where he practiced law till 1860, when he removed to Waverly.  In 1861 he recruited Company B, Seventy-third Ohio Infantry, and was appointed its Captain.  He bore a creditable part in the battle of Cross Keys, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Mission Ridge, Peach Tree Creek and Atlanta, and marched with Sherman to the sea.  At Resaca he was wounded in the left side by a minie-ball, and at the last battle in North Carolina was wounded in the head.  His gallantry secured him, first, a Major's and then a Lieutenant-Colonel's commission, and a portion of his term of service he was in command of his regiment.  He was mustered out in 1865.  He was achieved an enviable reputation as a lawyer, soldier and literature.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 762
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CHRISTIAN HOHENSTEIN, cabinet-maker, was born in Brakenheim, Germany, Dec. 22, 1819.  He attended school till fifteen years of age and then went to work at the cabinet-maker's trade, serving an apprenticeship of three years.  He worked as a journeyman several years and then opened a shop of his own in his native town.  In 1853 he came to the United States and a year later to Ohio.  He lived in Jackson County five years and then came to Pike County, settling in Marion Township, where he has worked at his trade, and also has a fine fruit farm.  He was married Feb. 2, 1845, to Christina Zinsmeister, a native of Germany, born July 14, 1822.  Mr. and Mrs. Hohenstein are members of the Lutheran church.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 814
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DR. W. H. HOOPER was born Sept. 5, 1840, in Adams County, Ohio, and is a son of James R. and Ursula (Pemberton) Hooper, the former a native of Pennsylvania, of French descent, and the latter a native of Ohio.  W. H. was reared on the farm and attended the public schools until he was about twenty years of age.  He then attended the High School at West Union for a time, after which he taught school for one year.  Jan. 27, 1862, he enlisted in Company K, Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, as a private.  He was appointed First Sergeant Mar. 24, 1862; was appointed First Lieutenant Oct. 19, 1864; was promoted to Captain Dec. 18, 1864.  He was mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 14, 1865, and returned home.  He then engaged in merchandising till 1870, at which time he entered the Staring Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, and a short time after began practicing his profession at Jasper, Pike Co., Ohio, where he has built up a large practice.  He was married Sept. 27, 1865, to Martha A., daughter of Jesse and Catherine Kendall  Five children were born to the, four now living - Lalla R., Iona Dell, Ragan and Orville.  Harry was killed by a horse kicking him.  Mrs. Hooper was born Feb. 22, 1841, and died Apr. 17, 1878.  The Doctor was nominated for the office of Sheriff on the Republican ticket, but failed to be elected.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 834
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PHILIP HOUK was born in Pennsylvania in 1811, a son of Jacob and Polly (Connor) Houk.  He was married Sept. 15, 1836, to Duanna Binns, daughter of William and Nancy (Wildman) Binns.  They have no children.  Mr. Houk is one of the most thrifty and enterprising farmers of Pike County.  He owns and superintends the cultivation of 500 acres of land, situated three miles east of Waverly.  He and his wife are members of the Methodist church at Sharonville.  His father, Jacob Houk, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was married when twenty-three years of age to Polly Connor.  They had a family of nine children - Rebecca, William, Philip, Mary, John, Cornelius, Matilda, David and Jacob.  Mr. Houk came to Ohio with his family in 1819, locating in Scioto County, and six years later removed to Pike County.  He subsequently went West to visit his sons, and started to return but was never afterward heard from, and the date and cause of his death has never been known.  Mr. Houk died in 1828,
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 801
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HOWE BENNETT HUMPHREYS, son of Howe and Edith (McCracken) Humphreys, was born in Morgan County, Ohio, June 2, 1844.  He has made farming his principal occupation through life, but was engaged four years in the lumber trade, and during that time he and his brother John owned and operated a saw-mill.  He was married in December, 1866, to Emma, daughter of William and Amy Cross, of Pike County.  She died in 1873, leaving three children - Zura D., William E., and Cary B.  He was again married in December, 1878, to Mary C., daughter of Taylor and Julia Barton, of Pike County.  They have one child - Luella.  She is a member of the Christian church.  Our subject's father was a native of Virginia.  He moved to Morgan County, Ohio, in 1828, and in 1844 settled in Pike County, and is still living at the age of seventy-six years.  His wife died, aged seventy-one years.  They reared twelve children, of whom eight are still living - John F. M., William W., H. B., James H. G., Arena, Mary C., Edith A. and Lucinda A.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 853
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
AUSTIN HUTT, M. D., was born Apr. 5, 1852, in Waverly, Pike Co., Ohio, and is a son of Spence A. Hutt, Sr.  His education was received at the public schools of Waverly and at the age of eighteen he apprenticed himself to the trade of bricklaying, serving eight years.  In 1874 he began the study of medicine with his father, devoting his evenings and other leisure time to study during the remaining four years working at his trade.  He graduated from Starling Medical College, Feb. 25, 1878, and the following May he opened an office in Waverly and began the practice of medicine and surgery, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession and is meeting with much success.  He was married to Maggie Flanagan, of Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1883.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 763
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SPENCE ATWELL HUTT, SR., M. D., was born Sept. 19, 1824, in Ross County, Ohio, a son of Nimrod and Fanny B. (Atwell) Hutt.  His father was a Virginian, who followed mercantile pursuits the greater part of his life.  About 1805 he left his native place and settled in Circleville, Ohio.  From there he moved to Chillicothe and thence to Bainbridge, Ross Co., Ohio.  He was the proprietor of a hotel in Bainbridge and died there in 1849, his wife surviving him till June 3, 1875.  She died at Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio.  Spence A. Hutt was employed first as a farmer's boy till he went to Bainbridge, where he learned the blacksmith's trade, working at the forge two years and a half.  He then went to New Petersburg, Highland Co., Ohio, where he was engaged as a clerk in a mercantile store until 1845, when he took a position in a Chillicothe store.  Returning to New Petersburg he was again employed as clerk in a store.  He now began to read medicine with Dr. James D. Miller, devoting his days to business and his nights to study.  In the fall of 1848 he matriculated at the Sterling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, and in the spring of 1849 began the practice of medicine at Sharonville, Pike Co., Ohio.  In the following fall he took up his residence at Waverly, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, in which he has been very successful.  In politics he is a Democrat.  He was married July 13, 1851, to Kezia Hinson, of Waverly, Pike Co., Ohio.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 762

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