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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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Richland County,
Ohio
BIOGRAPHIES
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Source#1: History of Richland Co., Ohio -
A. A., Graham & Co., Publishers.
1807 - 1880
 Source#2: History of Richland Co., Ohio - from 1808 to 1908
by A. J. Baughman - Chicago: The J. S. Clarke Publishing Co. 1908 -
Vol. II - starts at page 595.
 Source#3: North Central Ohio Biographies embracing Ashland,
Wayne, Medina, Lorain, Huron & Knox Counties by William A. Duff - 3
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GEORGE
BAKER,
stonemason, and
grocery and provision merchant: he was born in Prussia June 9,
1816; learned the trade of stonemason; came to Mansfield Aug.
29, 1848. Married in the old country, Feb. 10, 1842, to Mary
Nips, with whom he has raised six children-Peter, born in
Germany Sept. 18, 1842; Lizzie, born in Germany Feb. 6, 1847;
Rena, born in Mansfield Aug. 2, 1849 ; George, born in Mansfield
Feb. 8, 1856; William, July 3, 1858; Emma Louisa, March 12,
1861. Mr. Baker has resided in Mansfield thirty-two years, and
is one of the representative German citizens; has been a member
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T. R. BARNES.
An able business man and a citizen of broad public spirit,
T. R. Barnes has been a notable figure in the life
and affairs of Mansfield. He was born near Salem, in
Mahoning County, Ohio, on a farm, the son of R. A. and
Avarila Ann (Gilbert) Barnes.
R. A. Barnes was born in Maryland, as was his
wife. They came to Ohio in 1858 and settled on a farm
near Salem. T. R. Barnes received a
public school education and came to Mansfield when he was 21
years of age. For four years he was an employe of the
Adams Express Company, and then became secretary of
the Humphrey Manufacturing Company, a concern which engaged
in the manufacture of pumps. While there Mr.
Barnes acquired a practical knowledge of pump
manufacture and with that experience and some capital he
became interested in the promotion of the Barnes
Manufacturing Company in 1895. He is chairman of the
board of directors.
The Barnes Manufacturing Company was organized
with a capital stock of $100,000. The industry has
grown and steadily prospered, and in 1920 the capital was
increased to $500,000. From the beginning Mr.
Barnes had been secretary and general manager, and at
the date of its reorganization he was made chairman of the
board of director. C. Gorman is president.
The Barnes Manufacturing Company is a concern
that has had much to do with making Mansfield known to the
out side world as a source of manufactured products.
Its output consists of house and farm pumps, hand and power
pumps of all kinds, pumps operated by electric and gas
power, and pumping machinery for oil wells and highway road
construction. A few yeas ago a line of portable power
pumping units was added for contractors' uses. The
company also manufactures sanitary porcelain enamel ware.
In its early history the company employed about 50 men,
as compared with its present pay roll of 250. The
plant and equipment represent an investment of approximately
$700,000.
Mr. Barnes has been connected with a number of
Mansfield's progressive institutions. He is a director
of the Mansfield Savings & Trust Company, director of the
Mansfield Wire Spoke Company, director and president of the
Buckeye Tempered Copper & Brass Company, director of the
Superior Brass Company, vice president and director of the
Citizens Savings & Loan Company, director of the Richland
Mutual Insurance Company, director of Memorial Park and
Chairman of the Board of the Conservancy District. He
is also director in the Mansfield-Leland Hotel. He has
been a contributor to all worthy public causes and acted as
chairman of the Community Chest during the World War.
Mr. Barnes married Miss Lida R. Scott, a
daughter of George Scott, a veteran employe of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr. and Mrs.
Barnes have a daughter, Ruth, who is the wife of
James C. Gorman. He is a graduate of Lehigh
University, and is president of the Barnes
Manufacturing Company. Mrs. Gorman is a
graduate of Smith College, Northampton, Mass., and is
prominently identified with social work in Mansfield.
Mr. Barnes is a member of the county executive
committee of the Republican party, is past president of City
Club, and for six years was a member of the board of
trustees of the Presbyterian Church. He also has
served as a member of the city council. H belongs to
Mansfield Lodge, No. 35, F. & A. M.; Mansfield Chapter, R.
A. M.; Mansfield Council; R. & S. M. M.; Mansfield
Commandery, K. T. No. 21; Dayton Consistory, 32d degree; and
Al Koran Temple; and Jesters of Cleveland. He is also
a member of the Kiwanis Club.
Mr. Barnes recently built an attractive home on
Woodlawn Road, just within the city limits of Mansfield.
His beautiful flower gardens are a source of much pride and
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MORDECAI
BARTLEY,
deceased,
thirteenth Governor elected by the people of Ohio, was born in
Fayette Co., Penn., Dec. 18,1783. In 1804, he married Miss Welles, and five years afterward removed to Jefferson Co., Ohio,
where, upon the bank of that river, near the mouth of Cross
Creek, he purchased a farm and engaged in the business of
agriculture. Here his peaceful labors were interrupted by the
declaration of the war of 1812, when, in a few weeks, be
enlisted a company of volunteers, who elected him their Captain,
and took the field under Gen. Harrison. At the close of the war,
he removed to the almost unbroken wilderness of Richland Co.,
when Mansfield was the principal settlement; west of that place
he secured a sufficiently large space to satisfy him, and there,
with his ax, he opened a clearing in the forest, and erected his
home. Upon this farm, he worked diligently and successfully
several years, and then, removing to Mansfield with the savings
of his long years of farm labor, he entered into mercantile
business. He early developed a character that won the confidence
of those that knew him beat, for, is 1817, he was elected to the
State Senate, and appointed by the State Legislature to the then
important position of Register of the Land Office. This gave him
charge of the Virginia military district school lands. In 1823;
he was elected to Congress, and served Pour terms, when he
declined re-election. In Congress, he was the first to propose
the conversion of the land grants of Ohio into a permanent. food
for the support of the common school, and secured an
appropriation for the harbors of Cleveland, Sandusky City, Huron
and Vermillion. In 1844, having retired from Congress, and
engaged in mercantile and agricultural business, he was elected
Governor of Ohio on the Whig ticket. Both parties have testified
to the ability of his administration. In 1846, the war with
Mexico was strongly opposed by the anti-slavery people of Ohio,
they regarding its proclamation in the interest of slavery
extension, and, in response to the call for troops, they were
not in favor of Ohio filling her quota, but Gov Bartley
mentioned chat Ohio, in common with every other State, was
constitutionally bound to reaped the requisitions of the
National Government. He therefore adopted the proper measures,
and the necessary number of volunteers were enlisted, and
transferred to the authorities under his personal supervision.
The messages he wrote during his administration were papers of
ability, end plainly made apparent. his thorough knowledge of
the rather complex system of United State Government. He
declined a second nomination, though strongly urged to accept,
and, returning to his home, at Mansfield, he passed the evening
of his life in the retirement of his family, dividing his
attention between the practice of his profession as a lawyer,
and in the management of his farm near that city. He died Oct.
10, 1870.
(Mansfield, Ohio)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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MRS. ELIZABETH
BAUGHMAN, daughter of James and
Hannah Cunningham, was born near Black Hand, Licking Co., Ohio, March
8, 1805 her mother dying when she was only 6 months old. she was
raised by her grandfather, Michael Statler, a farmer near Black
hand. After her father's second marriage, be removed to this
Richland county, where he figured prominently in the early
history of this section of Ohio. In 1819, the subject of this
sketch joined her father's family in this county, they residing
at that time in the Clear Fork Valley, below Newville, near what
is now known as St. John's Church. The change from her
grandfather Statler's a wealthy farmer in a more civilized
county to the hardships and privations of pioneer life here was
not a pleasant transition, and was made only because of her
father's request. Her grandfather, she says, was one of the
kindest and best of men, but she, then is her 16th year, with a
deep sense of filial duty, left a home of wealth, comfort and
ease, for a cabin in the rude wilderness, where property and
life were alike insecure from the savages and wild beasts of the
forest. The journey from Black Hand to St. John's was made in a
sled, in the month of January, 1819, is two days, stopping over
night near Mount Vernon. Sept. 27, 1825, she was married to
Jacob Baughman, who had succeeded to his father's farm, now
known as the Dome farm, near Walnut Hall School-house, in Monroe
Township, this county. Soon afterward, her husband sold the Dome
farm and bought eighty acres of land, situated between the Lowrey (now
Welty), and the Stoul farms, where he erected a
cabin and they commenced housekeeping. He afterward sold and
bought a number of farms, living at different intervals, in
Monroe, Worthington and Jefferson Townships, but returned to
Monroe, where be died, March 20, 1855, aged 63 years; he was
buried at Perrysville. Mrs. Baughman then removed to Bellville,
where she resided until 1869, when she removed to Mansfield,
where she has since resided. She is the mother of five
children-Mary C. (wife of Abraham Lash), Hannah L. (wife of
David Herring) deceased; Margaret C., deceased (wife of
Freeman Carlile). Abraham J. Baughman and
Sade E. Baughman; the two
latter, remaining single, have always lived with their mother.
Mrs. Baughman possesses an organization of wonderful tenacity,
and is of that wiry physical constitution, well-knit and
close-fibered, that accompanies a character of great ambition,
high spirit end wonderful endurance. While mild and persuasive,
yet she always possessed that degree of positive energy that
would not give up or back down, no matter what obstacles were in
her way. She worked hard suffered much, and accomplished much.
But she has seen the shadows of life's adversities succeeded by
the sunshine of prosperity, and has lived to realize the full
fruition of the glorious promise, "Your children shall rise up
and call you blessed."
She is of a hopeful disposition and her great strength
has consisted in being able to look at the bright side of
things. Her mirthfulness gives her power of sarcasm and
considerable pungency of speech. She is no fox in character, but
frank and outspoken, and would never toady to say one. Although
not schooled in physiognomy, she could always read faces almost
unerringly. She has the mental temperament of the Intellectual
organization. Is causal, systematic and industrious, and,
believing that application will accomplish almost anything, she
never had patience with the idle and fickle. Without trying, she
always made friends wherever she want, and the tones of her
voice would skins win her way anywhere. She united with the
Disciple Church in June, 1838, of which organization she has
ever since been a worthy and consistent member. Her sympathies
are warm, and in sickness she is tender and attentive. In the
home circle, as a mother, her children say she is without a
peer. Mrs. Baughman is five feet and one inch in height, weighs
105 pounds, erect in poise and symmetrical in build.
March 8, 1880, upon the occasion of her attaining her
75th year, a pioneer birthday party was given her at the family
residence, No. 100 South Main st., Mansfield, which was the
first pioneer social party ever held in Richland Co.; about
fifty guests were present, one of whom, Mrs. Solomon
Gladden,
was a contemporaneous pioneer with Mrs Baughman and was present
at her wedding fifty-five years ago ; the exercises commenced at
6 o'clock, with music; the ballad, "We Meet Today;" composed and
set to music by Prof. Pontius, was sung by Miss
Kate Eichelberger, Prof. Pontius at the organ ; after which a pioneer
sketch, written by a pioneer's daughter, Mrs. Dr. Patterson,
daughter of Solomon Gladden (who performed the marriage ceremony
for Mr. and Mrs. Baughman), was read by Mrs.
Richard, wife of Prof. J. Fraise Richard, of the Normal College, on account of
the unavoidable absence of Mrs. Patterson; music was furnished
by Prof. Will H. Pontius, Miss Kate Eichelberger and
Mrs. W. L.
Gaston; other fine selections were rendered by the trio; later
in the evening, Miss Mary Cox sang end played.
Gen. Brinkerhoff
being the patron saint of the pioneers of Richland Co., was
first called upon for an address "appropriate to the occasion."
He responded in a neat little speech complimentary to the
pioneers and "their times," as follows:
"The occasion which has called us together this evening, is one
of more than usual interest; birthday celebrations are always
pleasant occasions, and we are happy to meet and greet our
friends at their recurrence, but yet some birthdays are more
interesting than others, sad this is one of them. The lady in
whose honor we meet to-night, and whom we ere glad to find upon
her 76th birthday cheerful and happy, not in the winter of life,
but in the golden autumn time, is one of the living witnesses of
the childhood of our city. Seventy-five years, when we look
forward, seems a long time, but looking backward it is not so
long, and I have no doubt the incidents recalled by Mrs.
Patterson, when Elizabeth Cunningham was a girl, seem to
Mrs. Baughman but recent memories. In fact, with us all, it is our
early recollections that test the longest. In our sleep we do
not locate our dreams amid recent surroundings; but we go back
to the homes of our childhood. Mrs. Baughman's father,
Capt. James Cunningham, was among the first settlers of Mansfield,
and, in the year 1809, when Mansfield first had a habitation and
a name, he lived in its first cabin on the Sturges corner. Mrs.
Baughman at that time was with her grandfather in Licking Co.,
but ten years later she removed to Richland Co. where she has
since been a resident. Since then Mansfield has become a
populous city, and a massive block of brick and stone occupies
the site of the little log cabin on Sturges' corner; and instead
of the drum of the pheasant and the hoot of the owl in the leafy
wood lands, we have for music the whistle of the locomotive and
the clangor of machinery in the huge and smoky factories. We
have churches and schools, busy mills, and all the pride, pomp
and panoply of wealth and position and fame; and yet, I doubt
very much if we have the wisdom, or patriotism, or sincerity, or
happy uses of those among whom Mrs. Baughman passed the early
years of life. Thirty years ago, when I came to Mansfield, very
many of the early pioneers were still living, and they seemed to
me men of larger mold and broader sympathies than those of this
later generation. It was this fact that led me to seek to
preserve some record of their lives, and very soon commenced to
gather some of their history, and, after twenty-five years of
waiting, a man who has a genius for writing history has come to
complete the work, and we hope very soon to put into print an
enduring record of the giants of those early days, who founded
the civilization; of Richland Co. Mr. Graham is with us to-night
and I doubt not he will bear out my estimate of the worth of our
early pioneers. Mrs. Baughman's father was one of them, and Mrs.
Patterson's father was another. I do not remember to have met
Capt. Cunningham, but I knew Solomon Gladden very well, and he
was a typical pioneer, massive in body and massive in mind.
Reuben Evarts, who is here to-night and whom present to you a
sample of the early pioneers; knew all of these men in their
prime, and I hope be will tell us something about them. However,
years have come and years have gone, and the great globe swung
in its mighty orbit around the sun, these mighty men of valor
passed out into the infinite, and of those who knew them and
were among them, of them about the only one who remains in
Mansfield now is Mrs. Baughman, whose birthday we celebrate
to-night. She is happy in having lived to see the result of
their labors, and we are happy in seeking to contribute to the
enjoyment of this hour."
After supper, the presents on the occasion were
formally presented by Hon. M. May in a brief, but appropriated
speech. Among the numerous presents we mention specially a
beautiful China tea-set from, Elder G. M. Kemp, Gen. R.
Brinkerhoff; Hon. M. May, S. E. Jenner, H. W. Albach,
Capt. A. C. Cummins and J. Fraise Richard ; Elder Kemp, Mrs. Baughman's
Pastor, followed, responding to Mr. May, accepting the presents
in her behalf, in s speech brief, appropriate and touching in
its pathos; Reuben Evarts, a real and well preserved
representative pioneer, being called on, made some pleasing
allusions to pioneer life and character, and presented an
appropriate preamble and resolutions, which were adopted.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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BAUGHMAN
FAMILY, THE. The ancestor of the Baughman family
came from Germany, and boated in Pennsylvania. The only
knowledge the writer has of his family is of two sons-George and
Abraham; and one daughter, married W Joseph Charles.
George
emigrated to Ohio in 1805, and settled in Mifflin Township,
Franklin Co., where he spent the remainder of his life; he died
at a ripe old age, and is buried at Gahanna; be was the father
of the late Hon. Jesse Baughman, the founder of Gahanna, and one
of the originators of the Franklin County Pioneer Association.
Abraham was born on the Atlantic Ocean when his parents were en
route for America. He married Mary Catherine Deeds, and removed
from Cumberland to Washington Co., Penn., and afterward to
Richland Co., Ohio, settling in Monroe Township is 1811; they
had five sons and three daughters-Adam, John, Abraham,
Jacob and George, sad Catherine, Elisabeth and
Lovace; Catherine married
a Mr. Black, of Tuscarawas Co.; Elizabeth married a
Mr.
Stewart, and removed to Tennessee, and Lovace married
Mr. Gayman,
of Pittsburgh; Adam married a Miss Huffman, and removed to
Plain Township, Franklin Co., Ohio, and he and his wife are both
interred on the Baughman farm there, where they lived and where
they died; John married Elizabeth Wyandt, and settled in Wayne
Co., Ohio, and the township in which he lived was named for him;
Abraham married Susan Wyandt, and settled in Monroe Township,
Richland Co., Ohio, where he died is 1848 ; his children were
Margaret, wife of John Wolfe; David, married to
Rebecca Wolfs;
John, married to Catherine Castator; Aaron, married to
Catherine Schrack; Peter, married to Elise
Wyandt; George, married to
Minerva Merrell; Elisabeth, wife of Simon
McDanel; William,
married to Rachel Slater; Abraham, married to
Eliza Wrigton ;
Susanna; Simon, married to Susan Mercer.
Jacob Baughman married Elizabeth Cunningham; his life was principally passed in Monroe
Township, Richland Co., where be died March 20, 1855, aged 63
years. They had five children-Mary C., married to Abraham
Lash;
; Hannah L., married to David Herring; Margaret A., married to
Freeman Carlile; Abraham J. and Sarah E.; the two latter remain
single and live with their mother; they are printers, and
publish the Mansfield Call; they have also published
the Cleveland Temple Visitor, Mansfield (Ohio) Liberal,
Canal Fulton Herald and Medina Democrat. George
Baughman never married, and died is 1850.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
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JOSEPH A. BAYER.
Prominent among the younger attorneys of Mansfield is
Joseph A. Bayer, who has offices at 94½
North Main Street. He was born in Deutsch Stamora,
Austria-Hungary, Oct. 24,1896, the son of Jacob and
Magdalene (Egner) Bayer.
Jacob Bayer was born at Moravita, Austria-Hungary,
now Serbia. He was a civil and railroad engineer and
died at Klopodia, Austria-Hungary, now Roumania, in 1902.
His widow, born of Gross Zsam, Austria-Hungary, now Roumania,
resides at Mansfield. Their children were: Martin,
identified with the Mansfield Tire & Rubber Company,
Mansfield; John, deceased; Barbara,
married Lorenz Jerger, lives at Mansfield; and
Joseph A., the subject of this sketch.
In early boyhood, Joseph A. Bayer removed to Wersetz,
Austria-Hungary, now Serbia, with his parents, and received
his education at that place. He came to the United
States with his mother in 1911 and completed his schooling
in Mansfield, as a student for one year at St. Peter's
parochial school, and two years at Mansfield High School,
being graduated from the latter in 1914. He spent the
next two years as a machinist with the Roderick Lean
Manufacturing Company, and then became associated with
Anton Reiser, local contractor. His next
connection was with the Mansfield Tire & Rubber Company as
assistant master mechanic, and he later returned to the
Roderick Lean Manufacturing Company as assistant traffic
manager. Mr. Bayer spent some time as cashier
of the Ohio Textile Products Company, and was assistant
manager of the Constance Lumber Company, now the Home
Materials Company. During these years he had
registered with the Supreme Court of Ohio, and read law in
the office of attorney George W. Biddle, of
Mansfield. He was admitted to the Ohio bar, Jan. 26,
1824, and on Feb. 21, 1825, to the Federal Courts.
Mr. Bayer was also admitted to the Michigan State
Courts, Oct. 8, 1829.
Mr. Bayer has a daughter, Helen, who
resides with her father.
Politically, Mr. Bayer is a Democrat. He
is an active member of the Richland County, Ohio State, and
American Bar Associations.
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ARTHUR
SHERIDAN BECK, who is serving as auditor of
Richland
County, is numbered among
the popular public officials of North Central Ohio. He
was born at Mansfield, Sept. 17, 1886,
the son of Charles and Della May (Hughes)
Beck.
Charles Beck has always lived in Mansfield. As a young man he learned the
blacksmith and took dressing trade, and remained in the
employ of Aultman Taylor Company for a
period of forty years. He is now foreman in the shop
of the Hughes-Keenan Company, Mansfield. Mr.
Beck is a Democrat, a member of the First Christian
Church and Knights of Pythias. His wife was born in
Washington Twp.,
Richland County,
Ohio, and died in 1924. She
is buried at
Mansfield. Two children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Beck: Arthur
Sheridan, the subject of this sketch; and
Ruth, married Carl Kahl, lives at Mansfield.
Arthur Sheridan Beck attended the public schools of Mansfield and attended Ohio
Business
College
after his graduation from
Mansfield
High School in 1905.
He was employed by the Ohio Brass Company until 1909, at
which time he was employed by the office of the auditor of Richland County.
He served as deputy auditor until Feb. 1, 1927, and
at that time was appointed auditor to fill the unexpired
term of John A. Howard.
He was appointed auditor to fill the unexpired term
of John A. Howard.
He was elected in November, 1928, for the balance of
the term expiring in March, 1931.
Mr. Beck was married in 1912 to
Miss Mabel Stotts, a native of
Richland
County.
Mr. and Mrs. Beck
have a son, Charles, born in 1918.
Politically, Mr. Beck is a Democrat.
He holds membership in the First Christian Church and
belongs to the Chamber of Commerce.
He has the following lodge affiliations:
Venus Lodge, No. 152, Free and Accepted Masons;
Mansfield Chapter, R. A. M., No. 28; Mansfield Council R.
and S. M., No. 94; Mansfield Commandery, K. T., No. 21;
Scottish Rite, Valley of Dayton, District of Ohio; Baku
Grotto, M. O. V. P. E. R.; and Knights of Pythias.
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BERNO,
PETER, merchant, Mansfield, Ohio ; he was born
in Rhein Pfaltz, a province of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany,
and came to this country, with his parents, June 10, 1851, and
to Mansfield, Ohio, June 18, 1851 ; his father's name was Jacob
Berno, and his mother's Fredricka Profit. His grandfather, on
his father's aide, was a soldier in the French army during the
French Revolution, and, during the invasion of Germany by the
French, was taken prisoner. He subsequently remained and became
a citizen of that country. The name was originally spelled "Bernoux."
The subject of this sketch was married to Christianna Bohm,
whose parents were of German origin, and residents of Mansfield
since 1850.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
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PERKINS
BIGELOW,
druggist ; he was born in Marlboro, N.
H., Nov. 11, 1814: here we find him a farmer boy, alternately
attending school during the winter months, and working on his
father's farm during the remainder of the year, until 18 years
of age. The school being situated in a remote part of the
district, young Bigelow was compelled to traverse several miles
daily, in that bleak, winter climate, in order to gain that
knowledge which has been so useful to him in his after life.
Directly after leaving school, he was employed in dry goods, as
clerk, for five years previous to his removal to Ohio ; arriving
at Newark, be continued as a salesman in dry goods for three
years, where, joining a colony for Texas in 1841, he accompanied
them as far as Arkansas, then up the White River until near the
boundary of the Cherokee Nation, undergoing the hardships
incident to such a trip at that time. While there, be assisted
in building the first log cabins of the colony, but soon after
was compelled, by reason of sickness, to return to Newark, Ohio,
where he entered a drug store, reading medicine at the same
time; then to Mansfield, in the year 1847, on the same block in
which he has continued in that business up to the present time,
ranking now as the oldest living merchant in continuous business
in Mansfield. During Dr. Bigelow's long and useful life in
Mansfield, he had been prominently connected with all
enterprises undertaken in the improvement of the city and the
welfare of the inhabitants, and has frequently been called by
them to positions of honor and trust. Elected as Mayor of the
city in 1852, he was re-elected in 1853. For twenty years, he
has been a useful member of the Cemetery Association, the plane
and improvements of which have been, in a great measure, due to
his judgment and skill. For fifteen years, he held the position
of Worshipful Master of the Mansfield Masonic Lodge, and at
present is a member of the Richland Mutual Insurance Co. Perking
Bigelow was married in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1846, to Miss Anna
Maria Palmer; they have two children-one son and one daughter.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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SHARPLESS E.
BIRD,
long
connected with the St. James Hotel, in Mansfield, was born on
the 20th of December, 1844; his father and mother, William
and
Jane (Sharpless) Bird are residents of this city. S. E. Bird was
married July 4, 1869, in Mansfield, to Lizzie Vonhof, a daughter
of Louis Vonhof, proprietor of the St. James building ; to them
have been born four children, three of whom are dead and one
living. Mr. Bird, though a young man, has aided in years past in
giving Mansfield a high position by his skill in conducting one
of the best hotels in the State; he is now engaged in the
mercantile business.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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FRANK B. BLACK, who has been prominently
identified with Mansfield's business interests, is a native of
this city, born June 10, 1865. His father, Moses Black,
was born in Remelton, in the north of Ireland, and came to
America in 1855, settling at Zanesville, Ohio, whence he removed
to Mansfield in 1859. He became a prominent factor in
commercial circles of the latter city, conducting a dry-goods
establishment until 1892, when he retired from active business.
He married Elizabeth Blymyer, a native of Shellsburg,
Pennsylvania and a daughter of Benjamin Blymyer, who came
to Mansfield.
Frank B. Black acquired his
education in the public schools of Mansfield and was graduated
from the high school in 1885. He then pursued a commercial
course in Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York,
and upon finishing there he entered the employ of the Barnet
Brass Company, of Mansfield, as bookkeeper where he remained for
two years. In 1888 he organized the Ohio Brass Company
with a paid in capital of five thousand dollars. This
company, of which he is president, ahs grown to be one of the
principal industries of Mansfield, with a paid up capital and
surplus of over one million dollars, employing between five and
six hundred workmen and doing a business of nearly two million
dollars annually.
Mr. Black, aside from the
presidency of the Ohio Brass Company, is vice president of the
Baxter Stove Company and a director of Citizens National Bank,
the Seneca Chain Company and the Humphryes Manufacturing
Company.
On the 5th of October, 1892, Mr.
Black was united in marriage to Miss Jessie M. Baxter,
and they have four children: John, Robert, Donald and
Roger.
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio from 1808 to 1908 - by
A. J. Baughman - Vol. II) |
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JOSEPH H.
BLACK, dealer in staple dry goods corner of Fourth
and Main streets; was born in 1833 at Ballgreen County,
Donegal, Ireland; emigrated in 1851 to McConnelsville, Morgan
Co., Ohio ; engaged as salesman "with Thomas W. Simpson, in dry
goods came to Mansfield in August, 1859 ; entered in partnership
with Moses Black, under the firm name of M. & J. H. Black, dry
goods; continued in partnership for sixteen years; dissolved in
1875, then resumed business in his own name; continues to do the
largest exclusive dry-goods trade in the city. He is a very hard
and earnest worker in the mercantile business; by his long
experience and close application, is thoroughly posted on all
matters connected with the dry-goods business, as he has been
almost raised in a dry-goods store ; he is a solid, practical,
business man, and an excellent financier. Was married in 1866 to
Miss Alice G. Graham, daughter of Francis
Graham, of Ashland,
Ohio; their children are Mary, Augusta F , Joseph H., Jr., and
William G. Black. Residence on Mulberry street, No. 45.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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S. P.
BLOSER, retired ; he was born in Cumberland Co.,
Penn., in 1824; he came to Ohio in 1850. He was married in 1852
to Elizabeth Snyder, who was born in Lockport, N. Y.; they have
one daughter-Minnie, who is married to Henry Uhlich.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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JERRY S.
BOLLMAN,
Recorder; was born in Lebanon Co.,
Penn., Jan. 20, 1834, and removed pith his parents to Richland
Co., where they settled in Franklin Township in 1849. Mr.
Bollman came to Mansfield and began the trade of cabinet-making
in 1852 with Capt. Reinaker, and served his full apprenticeship
of three years, when he entered the store of John H. Wigle,
where be remained for some time : then into Remy & Co.'s
dry-goods store, Scattergood & Penrose, Robinson &
Vance, C. L.
Avery's and Black's. In the year 1877, Mr. Bollman was elected
Recorder of Richland Co., on the Democratic ticket, and took
possession of the office on the 7th of January, 1878, and now
fills that position with credit to himself and to the
satisfaction of both political parties; the abstract office, in
connection with the one which he fills, is a model of
convenience, and reflects great credit on him, to whom it
personally belongs. Mr. Bollman was married to Miss Lydia A.
Dill in Mansfield July 7, 1858; they have four children, all
living-Burton T., now a telegraph operator in Mansfield;
Curtis
J., a druggist; Milton F., and Roy T. Mr. Bollman
is at present
a resident of the Third Ward, Mansfield, and enjoys the
confidence of the entire community.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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HENRY
BOSSLER,
woodworkman in the Mansfield Machine
Works; he was born in Madison Township, Richland Co., Jan. 14,
1839. Married. Sept. 27, 1863, Josephine Mcllvain, who was born
in Mansfield May 22, 1843; they have one son-William T., born
March 17, 1865. Mr. Bossler has been engaged with the Mansfield
Machine Works over two years, and has won the entire confidence
of his employers through his industry and frugality, and is
recognized as one of our substantial and active citizens.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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HON. JACOB
BRINKERHOFF, was born in
the town of Niles, Cayuga Co., N. Y , Aug. 31, 1810. His father,
Henry I. Brinkerhoff, was a native of Pennsylvania, having been
born near the town of Gettysburg; his grandfather, however, was
from Hackensack, N. J., and belonged to the old Dutch family of
New York, the progenitor of which came from Drentland, in
Holland, in the year 1638. His mother, nee Rachel Bevier, was of
Huguenot descent, and came from Ulster Co , N. Y. After a
thorough English education, obtained at the public schools and
at the academy at Prattsburgh, Steuben Co., N. Y., be entered
the law office of Messrs. Howell & Brother, in Bath, Steuben
Co., in 1834. Here he regularly prosecuted his studies two
years, and in the spring of 1836, removed to Mansfield, Ohio,
where, in May, 1837, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme
Court of the State, and immediately entered upon the practice of
Era profession. He soon acquired reputation as a lawyer of more
than average ability, and in the course of a year or two was
elected Prosecuting Attorney for Richland County, the duties of
which he performed successfully for four years; at the
expiration of his office, in the fall of 1843, be was elected to
Congress, on the Democratic ticket; while serving as a member of
this body, he became affiliated with the Free-Soil party, and
drew up the famous resolution introduced by David Wilmot, of
Pennsylvania, and since known as the Wilmot Proviso ; the
original draft of this resolution, in his own handwriting, is
still in his possession. Several copies of this resolution were
made and distributed among the Free Soil members of Congress,
with the understanding that whoever among them should catch the
Speaker's eye and get the floor should introduce it ; Wilmot was
the fortunate man, and thereby his name was attached to the
resolution, and it has gone into history as the "Wilmot
Proviso," instead of the Brinkerhoff Proviso, as it should have
been. At the close of his Congressional career, he resumed the
practice of law, at Mansfield, in which he successfully labored
until he was elevated to the Supreme Bench, his first term
commencing Jan. 9, 1856; in this highly honorable position, be
was retained for three successive terms, covering a period of
fifteen years, and it is but justice to mention that a fourth
term was offered him, but he declined a renomination. The Ohio
State Reports contain many of his opinions, delivered during his
term upon the Supreme Bench, and they are everywhere very highly
regarded by the profession. He was married, Oct. 4, 1837, to
Caroline Campbell, of Lodi, Seneca Co., N. Y., who died at that
place while on a visit., Nov. 18, 1839. His present wife was Marion
Titus, of Detroit, Mich., by whom he has four children
now living, two sons and two daughters, viz. : Malvina,
George, Roelof and Gertrude. The Judge has retired from his profession,
and still resides at Mansfield, but in feeble health.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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GEN. ROELIFF
BRINKERHOFF,
was born in
Owasco, Cayuga Co., N. Y. June 28, 1828. The Brinkerhoffs of
America are all descended from Joris Dericksen Brinckerhoff, who
came from Drentland, Holland, in 1638, with his wife Susannah,
and settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., then New Netherlands. The
members of the family are now numerous, and for the most part
are settled upon Long Island, and in the valley of the Hudson,
but still a few families of the name can be found in almost
every Western State. The Western Brinkerhoffs are mostly
descendants of Hendrick, son of Joris, who settled in New
Jersey, and who dropped the letter c from his name. Gen.
Brinkerhoff is of the seventh generation in America; his father,
George R., was born near Gettysburg, Penn., but his grandfather,
Roeliff, came from Hackensack, N. J.; his ancestors on his
mother's side (the Bouviers), and on his grandmother's (the
Demarests), were French Huguenots, fleeing from religious
persecution who found safety and a home among the tolerant
Dutchmen of the New Netherlands. Roeliff, the subject of this
sketch, at the age of 18 was a school teacher in his native town
; at 18, he was in charge of a school near Hendersonville,
Tenn.; at 19, he was a tutor in the family of Andrew Jackson,
Jr., at the Hermitage, and remained there until 1850, when he
came North and entered as a law student in the office of his
kinsman, the Hon. Jacob Brinkerhoff at Mansfield, Ohio; in 1852,
he was admitted to the bar, and entered the practice, and
remained in the profession until the war of the rebellion ;
during that time, June, 1855 to 1859, he was one of the editors
and proprietors of the Mansfield Herald. In September,
1861, he entered the military service as First Lieutenant and
Regimental Quartermaster of the 64th O. V. I.; in November of
the same year, be was promoted to the position of Captain and
Assistant Quartermaster, and during the winter was on duty at
Bardstown, Ky ; after the capture of Nashville, be was placed in
charge of transportation, land and river, is that city; after
the battle of Pittsburg Landing, be was ordered to the front,
and placed in charge of the field transportation of the Army of
the Ohio; after the capture of Corinth, be went home on sick
furlough, and was thence ordered to Maine as Chief Quartermaster
in that State ; subsequently, he was transferred to Pittsburgh,
Penn., in charge of transportation and army stores, and thence
to Washington City as Post Quartermaster, and remained on that
duty until June, 1865, when he was made a Colonel and Inspector
of the Quartermaster's Department ; he was then retained on duty
at the War Office, with Secretary Stanton, until November, when
he was ordered to Cincinnati as Chief Quartermaster of that
Department; in September, 1866, its was breveted a Brigadier
General of Volunteers; he was also tendered a commission in the
regular army, but declined ; on the 1st of October, at his own
request, he was mustered out of service, having completed five
years of continuous service in the army, Gen. Brinkerhoff is the
author of the book entitled "The Volunteer Quartermaster;' which
is still the standard guide for the officers and employee of the
Quartermaster's Department. After his retirement from the army,
be returned to the practice of his profession, at Mansfield. In
1873, upon the organization of the Mansfield Savings Bank, he
became its executive officer as cashier, and has since retained
that position ; he is also a member of the Board of State
Charities, and President of the National Conference of
Charities. Gen. Brinkerhoff, Feb. 8, 1852, married Mary
Lake Bentley, of Mansfield, daughter of Baldwin
Bentley, and
grand-daughter of Gen. Robert Bentley, by whom he has a family
of four children, two sons and two daughters-Robert Bentley,
Addis Horton, Mary and Roeliff, all now living at Mansfield.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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SAMUEL G.
BRINLEY,
(deceased) ; was
born in Mifflin Township Sept. 10, 1831 ; his father, John
Brinley, is a resident of La Grange Co., Ind. Samuel
G. was the
first child. When 16 years of age, he commenced clerking in a
dry-goods store in Petersburg, where he lived four years ; soon
after, he removed to this city, and was engaged in the dry-goods
store of James Weldon, where he remained ten years. For several
years during the war, he held the position of Deputy Provost
Marshal and United States Marshal, and was a clerk in the
Treasurer's office of this county under T. J. Robinson. He was
married, Oct. 30, 1853, in Mansfield, to Miss Elzina S. Grubaugh
; they are the parents of seven children. Charles Oscar was born
Aug. 7, 1854 ; John Allen was born Aug. 1, 1857 ; Joseph
Franklin was born March 27, 1860 ; Harry S. was born July 16,
1864; Elzina S. was born Dec. 15, 1866, and died April 15, 1868
; Aden wan born June 25, 1870, and Lee was born Feb. 19, 1872.
Mr. Brinley died in this city Dec. 26, 1876 ; be was, for a
number of years before his death, a successful contractor and
builder, and had the confidence and esteem of the community. He
was a member of the I. O. O. F. for a number of years, and of
the Methodist Church for twenty-five years. Mrs Elzina Brinley
was born near Loudenville, Ashland Co., Nov. 19, 1833 ; she is
now a resident of West Bloom street.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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T. G.
BRISTOR, dentist; he was
born in Washington, Washington Co., Penn., in 1837; he came to
Steubenville, Ohio, in 1844, where he studied dentistry ; he
came to Mansfield in 1858, and engaged in the practice of
dentistry. In 1865, he went to St. Louis, Mo., and practiced
dentistry until 1872, when he returned to Mansfield ; he has
been engaged here since. He is the oldest dentist in the city.
He has branch offices at Shelby, Shiloh, Bellville and
Hayesville, which places be visits once each month-Mondays and
Tuesdays.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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JAMES R.
BRISTOR, dentist, Mansfield ; he was born in
Washington, Washington Co., Penn., Jan. 28, 1834, and emigrated
to Steubenville, Ohio, April 1, 1845, with his father and mother
; in 1857, he connected himself with the dental profession and
moved to Mansfield, in 1860, and located. He was married, Jan.
6, 1873, to Hannah M. Duncan, widow of Alex. Critchfield,
of
Millersburg, Ohio ; she was born at Bloomfield, Coshocton Co.,
Ohio, Feb. 26, 1840, and moved with her father and mother to
Millersburg, Ohio, in the fall of 1852, and to Mansfield in
January, 1873; they have three children-John Henry, born April
25, 1874 ; Harriet Louisa, Sept. 14, 1875 ; Laura Virginia,
April 20, 1878. In 1876, Mr. Bristor was elected from the Fourth
Ward as one of the city Councilmen, and, in 1879, he was chosen
to preside as President of Council of the city of Mansfield.
James R. Bristor was born of Henry M. Bristor and
Minerva Ruple Bristor, his wife, both of whom were born in Washington Co.,
Penn. Henry M. Bristor was born of Thomas Bristor and
Elizabeth Dubany Bristor, his wife, both of whom were born near the James
River, in Eastern Virginia; their parents lived within hearing
distance of the cannon at the surrender of Cornwallis at
Yorktown, Va. Minerva Ruple Bristor was born to
James Ruple and
Dina G. Ruple, in Washington Co., Penn. Hannah Duncan
Bristor
was born of John Duncan and Nancy Casey
Duncan ; her father
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S. A.
BRONSON, D. D., Pastor Protestant Episcopal Church;
Dr. Bronson is a lineal descendant of Abraham Bronson, one of
the two Bronsons who, in 1673, petitioned the court for the
privilege of settling on a plantation in what is now the town of
Waterbury, Conn.; Dr. Bronson's father, Bela
Bronson, emigrated
from Connecticut to Ohio and settled in what is now Columbia,
Lorain Co., in 1807 ; the Doctor was then in his infancy, and
was carried in his mother's arms across the Cuyahoga, with the
first team that crossed in the tide of Western emigration; be
was taken to church by his mother and was baptized in Waterbury,
his native place; the first minister of the Gospel he remembers
to have seen was when he was about 9 years old ; his mother and
the church service, read by laymen, were his only teachers ; at
the age of 16, he traveled on horseback about seventy miles in
the fruitless search for a Latin dictionary ; he afterward
attended school at Kenyon College, where be graduated in 1833 ;
two years after, he was ordained to the ministry; from 1845 to
1850, he was President of Kenyon College; in 1867, be was
Professor of Ecclesiastical history in the same institution ; in
1872, he came to Mansfield to accept the pastorate of the church
here ; be had, however, filled the pulpit a year and a half
before coming.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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MRS. OLIVER W. BROWN, nee
Lodema Switzer, widow of O. W. Brown,
deceased, is a representative of a very old and cultured family,
which has taken high rank in legal and literary circles. The
celebrated Judge Hess of Wabash, Indiana, is an
uncle of our subject, while the equally noted Judge
Lowry of Canton is also a near relative.
Jacob Switzer, our subject's father, came
from Berne, Switzerland, to America, in the latter part of the
eighteenth century and settled in Pennsylvania in 1800, and
afterward moved to Richland county, Ohio, where he purchased a
large tract of land, in Clear Fork valley, and died in December,
1881. Mrs. Brown's mother was of French
extraction, and many of her people were fine scholars and
statesmen. The Curry Institute at Pittsburg is under the
direction of her relatives. Mrs. Switzer, with her
youngest son and daughter, resides in Richland county, Ohio.
Our subject is the eldest of ten children, nine of whom
survive. Edmund B., the second, resides in Belleville,
Ohio; Louis, the third, is a resident of Richland county,
Ohio; James, the fourth, is also a well-known citizen of
Belleville, Ohio. The fifth, Flora Pierce, is a
resident of Butler, Ohio. The Pierce family is one
of the oldest and most prominent of western Ohio. The sixth,
Alexander, who was united in marriage to one of New Lyme's
daughters, Alice Rathbone, whose father, Dr.
Rathbone, is one of the most prominent citizens of that
township, is also a resident of Butler. The seventh, Mrs.
Ella Cline, resides in Cleveland, Ohio. Delvan,
the youngest son, remains with his mother in Butler; the
youngest daughter, Birdie, is a very bright and
well-known magazine writer. Her sketches, which are to be found
in many of the best periodicals, are of a very high order of
literary merit. All the sisters are elocutionists of
considerable ability, and of great literary culture. Miss
Switzer is also a very successful instructor in the
public schools of Richland county. Oliver Brown,
to whom our subject was united in marriage, was one of New
Lyme's foremost and most highly respected citizens. He was
previously married to Mary Lee, whose brother,
Judge Lee, was one of the most prominent citizens of
Ashtabula county, and is still well remembered by the older
residents. Since the death of Mr. Brown our
subject has been compelled to devote much of her time to the
management of the great Brown estate, consisting
of 800 acres of highly improved land. In spite of this great
care, however, she finds time for church and social duties. Our
subject is a consistent. member of the Presbyterian Church of
New Lyme and takes an active interest in its spiritual and
temporal growth. Mrs. Brown has a host of friends
and is highly esteemed for her many excellent qualities of mind
and heart.
Source:
Biographical history of northeastern Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1893 - pages 1012 |
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BARNBUS BURNS, attorney at law. The parents of Mr.
Burns, Andrew and Sarah (Caldwell)
Burns, were Irish Catholics,
and emigrated to America about the year 1800 ; they had a family
of five children, three sons and two daughters. Mr. B., the
youngest of five children, was born in Fayette Co., Penn., June
29, 1817 ; he emigrated with his parents to Milton Township,
Ashland Co., settling there June 20, 1820; Mr. Burns remained on
a farm until he was of age; he received a common-school
education, and also spent a short time in the Ashland and
Mansfield schools. He came to Mansfield April 9, 1838, where he
has resided ever since. He was Deputy Clerk of the Courts, from
1839 to 1846, ; he studied law in the offices of Hon. Thomas W.
Bartley and Hon. Samuel J. Kirkwood, and was admitted to
practice in the summer of 1848, and has practiced law in
Mansfield from that date to the present time. In the fall of
1849, Mr. Burns was elected to the Ohio State Senate, and
re-elected in the fall of 1849 ; he was Presidential Elector for
the State at large, on the Democratic ticket, in 1852; be
served as Colonel of the 86th O. V. I. in the war of the
rebellion, doing excellent service there; after his return, he
again began the practice of his profession. In 1873, he was
elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, and the same
year was nominated on the Democratic ticket as Lieutenant
Governor; out of a vote of nearly 600,000, be was defeated by
only about five hundred votes; in 1876, Col. Burns was one of
the Ohio Commissioners at the Centennial Exposition, filling
that office, like all others, in a manner satisfactory to all
the interests concerned therein; Col. B. has served several
terms as one of the Trustees of the Ohio Soldiers' Orphans'
Home; he is now, although 63 years old, actively engaged in the
practice of his profession, being one of the oldest members of
the Mansfield bar now in practice; he has always been an active
and consistent Democrat. Col. Burns was married, Sept, 18, 1841,
to Miss Urath Gore ; Mr, and Mrs. B. became the parents of seven
children, two of whom died in infancy; three sons and two
daughters yet survive - Mary (wife of Dr. Geo. Mitchell),
John Caldwell, Kate, Jerrie H. and
Barna G.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
Publishers. 1807 - 1880) |
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WILLIAM
BUSHNELL,
physician. The
family from which Dr. Bushnell descends dates back, in America,
to early in the sixteenth century. Sometime in that period, Francis
Bushnell came from England to America, and located in
Guilford, Hartford Co., Conn.; be died in 1646, as the records
show, his death being the first authentic date in possession of
the family. He left five sons-Francis, William, John,
Richard
and Isaac. The second son, William, married and settled in
Connecticut, and, at his death, left four children, the second
of whom, Ephraim, also lived in Connecticut, and raised a family
of seven children. His third child, James, was born March 12,
1716, and, about the year 1736, married a Miss Dudley. He was a
seafaring man, and, soon after his marriage, went to sea on one
of his voyages, and was never afterward heard from. It is
supposed his vessel was lost at sea. After his departure to sea,
his only son, Alexander, was born ; June 2, 1737. Feb. 12, 1761,
he married Chloe Waite, a member of the Waite family of Lyme,
Conn. (Chief Justice Waits, of Ohio, is a descendant of the same
family). Miss Waits was born June 20, 1738. She lived to be 94
years old, dying Oct. 28, 1832. She became the mother of eleven
children. The sixth child, Sterling G., the father of Dr.
Buahnell, was born in Hartford Co., Conn., in 1781. The exact
date is not known, as the record has been lost. Mr. Bushnell
came to Trumbull Co., Ohio, in 1805, and to Vermillion Township,
Ashland Co., May 20, 1820. His family then consisted of eleven
children-Betsey, Lury, William, Collins,
Sedelia, Jotham, Huldah,
Rosella, Horner, Olive and Thomas. Of these, six are now
living-Betsey, William, Sedelia, Huldah,
Rosella and Thomas. Mr.
Bushnell lived in this township until August, 1847, when his
death occurred. He was 76 years of age. His wife lived several
years after her husband's death, dying in the old homestead; she
lives with her son Thomas, who is there yet. Mr.
Bushnell was a
man of scholarly attainments, and great force of character. He
was a surveyor, and surveyed parts of the Reserve in the
counties of Ashtabula, Medina and Lorain ; while living in
Trumbull Co., be surveyed a good deal of its territory there.
William B. remained at home in Vermillion Township, teaching
school about one year, assisted in opening the farm, and
studying medicine; he then went to Trumbull Co. to study
medicine; in 1825, he went to the old Ohio Medical College, at
Cincinnati, where he remained about one year at the medical
school ; at the end of the time, he went to New Orleans, and
settled at Point Coupee, where he practiced medicine one year;
while there, he taught in an academy seven months: from there he
returned to this county, and located in Mansfield; this was in
July, 1828. The Doctor has since lived here, engaged in the
practice of medicine. When Dr. Bushnell was s boy, he took a
small part in the war of 1812. He was quite ambitious of
military life then, as were all boys of the day, and enjoyed at
least one adventure. After Hull's surrender, when in his 12th
year, the 1st Regiment of the 3d Brigade, and the 4th Division
of the Ohio Militia, on its way to the frontier, halted and took
dinner at the residence of his father, who was Adjutant of that
regiment. William, believing he was old enough to go with the
troops, pleaded his cause so earnestly to accompany the
regiment, that he was allowed to do so, and marched with it to
the vicinity of Cleveland, where the troops were encamped. A
battle being imminent with the Indians, his father told him he
most go back home. He obeyed very reluctantly, as he desired to
take a hand in the fighting. He retraced his steps alone through
the dense wilderness, guided only by the trail left by the
regiment.
April 5, 1836, Dr. Bushnell married Mary, only daughter of
Gen Robert Bentley, a man of much ability, who resided in this
county. Of their children only one is living-Martin B., a
resident of Mansfield. During his long and successful career as
a physician, Dr. Bushnell has also devoted himself to public
business, and held several places of responsibility. Many of the
internal improvements in the northern portion of the State were
either projected by him, or owe their existence to his energy
end influence. He was one of the Directors of the Atlantic &
Great Western Railway, not only during its construction, but for
some years after its completion. In 1849, Dr. Bushnell was
elected a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and
subsequently re-elected, and served several terms in that
legislative body. After the establishment of the Cleveland
Medical College, he was connected with it as a Censor for about
fifteen years. He is a member of the American Medical
Association, and also of the Ohio Medical Association ; and, as
a physician and surgeon, be ranks with the most eminent in the
State. Possessed of a remarkably vigorous constitution, he has
been enabled to perform an unusual amount of work. In the early
days of his practice, with almost impassable roads to travel
long distances, it required the constant exercise of those
virtues. He is possessed of an exceedingly dignified and
pleasant appearance, and commands the respect of the community
where he has lived so long, and with satisfaction to his
constituents, whom he has represented. In June, 1878, he wee
appointed by Gov. Bishop the Delegate of Ohio to the
International Congress on prison reform, called by and under the
auspices of Sweden, to take place in Stockholm on the 29th of
June. The Doctor took passage on the Inman steamer City of
Chester, to attend to the duties of his delegation, and at the
some time enjoy a European tour. Since his return, be has been
quietly living in the city, enjoying the fruits of a long and
busy life.
(Mansfield Township)
(Source: History of Richland Co., Ohio - A. A., Graham & Co.,
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