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BIOGRAPHIES
The following biographies are extracted from:
Source #1 - The County of Ross: a history of Ross County, Ohio
By Henry Holcomb Bennett
Published by S. A. Brant, Madison, Wis., 1902
Source #2 - A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio
Vol. II.
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York 1917
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ACTON,
W. A.
ADAMS, Harry S.
ALBIN, Albert B.
ALBRIGHT, Edward Louie
ALEXANDER, Robert D.
ALLEN, Caleb Case
ANDERSON, David Carrick
ANDERSON, James C., Maj. |
ANDERSON, L. C.
ANDREE,
William
ARGANBRIGHT, S. W.
ARLEDGE, Henry William
ARLEDGE,
Henry W.
ATWELL, William Joseph *
AULT, Charles |
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W. A. ACTON.
For many years Mr. W. A. Acton was in the service of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company, but his
inclinations were largely settled in the direction of farming as
a youth, and for the past six years he has enjoyed the fruits
and comforts of a fine farm of 138 acres a mile from Richmond
Dale on the Richmond Dale and Vigo road. This is a place
long known as the Heath farm, and is on rural route No. 2
out of Chillicothe.
The Acton family has been identified with Ross
County for fully a century. Mr. Acton was born on a
farm in Musselman, in this county, June 11, 1858. His
parents were Lott and Isabelle (Kellenbarger) Acton. (See
Note 1 below) His grandfather, William
Acton, was a Virginian. He enlisted from that state
for service in the War of 1812, and after leaving the army he
married in Virginia and at once brought his bride to Ross
County, locating in Union Township. A century ago nearly
all of Ross County was a wilderness, and the Actons were
among those who laid the foundations for the civilization which
the people of the present generation enjoy. William
Acton acquired a farm, and in his time was one of the
substantial citizens of the county.
Lott Acton was born in South Union Township,
grew up on a farm and for his first wife married Miss Houser.
She became the mother of two children, one of whom died in
infancy, and the other is Alfred Acton, of Chillicothe.
For his second wife Lott Acton married Isabelle
Kellenbarger, and they then settled on a farm close to
Musselman, in Ross County. In 1863 Lot Acton left
his farm and his family to give his services to the preservation
of the Union. He died at Camp Dennison from illness
contracted while in the service. He and his second wife
became the parents of five children: Joseph, of
Chillicothe; W. A. Acton; Mary Elizabeth, now
deceased; John, a resident of Concord Township; and
Lott Albert, of Chillicothe. (see Note
#2 below)
Mr. W. A. Acton was only a child when his father
died. He grew up on the home farm, made the best of his
advantages in the district schools, but early in life determined
to make his own way and do what he could to support himself and
contribute to the support of the household. He helped to
conduct the farm, worked out by the month, spending two years in
that way in Pickaway County, and for twenty-seven years he was
employed on the different branches of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Railway in the section service. He was made
foreman, and in that capacity spent nineteen years, with
headquarters at Richmond Dale. In 1910 Mr. Acton,
leaving the railroad service, bought his present farm and is
giving all his time and energies to its profitable management.
On Nov. 15, 1893, Mr. Acton married Miss
Margaret B. Woodring, who was born in Portsmouth, Scioto
County, Ohio, and came as a girl with her parents to Ross
County. She is a daughter of John and Jennie Woodring.
While growing up in Ross County she met Mr. Acton, and to
their marriage have been born six children. William
Herman, who graduated from the public schools of Richmond
Dale, furthered his education in Dennison University, has been a
successful teacher and is now in a business college at Columbus.
Ruth Juanita is the wife of D. D. Weinrich, a
telegraph operator. Clarence Franklin lives in
Chillicothe and married Mary Drummond. Floyd
Edward is still at home and in the eighth grade of the
public school. Herbert died in infancy.
Louise is still at home and a schoolgirl.
Mr. Acton is a past noble grand of Garfield
Lodge, No. 710, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
While always a busy man, he has found time to serve the
interests of his community, and for the past seven years
has administered the duties of trustee of Jefferson township.
Politically he is a democrat.
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HARRY S.
ADAMS, auditor of Ross
county, is a native of Franklin county, Pa., born March
11, 1861. His parents were John H. and Ann E.
(Stover) Adams, both natives of Pennsylvania and still
living at Waynesboro in that state. The father has
spent his life principally in hotel-keeping at
Greencastle, Pa., also dealing considerably in live stock,
making a specialty of horses. He has living a family
of four sons and five daughters: Maude, the wife of
Harvey Ziegler, Adams express agent at Hagerstown, Md.;
Harry S., the subject of this sketch; Ida, widow of Oscar
Thompson, at Waynesboro, Pa.; William G., engaged in the
stove and tin business at Waynesboro; Charles, employed by
the Frick company in building ice machinery and living in
Waynesboro; Myrtle, now Mrs. Frank Koontz, of Washington
D. C.; Clara, wife of Lee Deihl, jeweler at Shippensburg,
Pa.; Anna, unmarried; Stover D., engaged with the Frick
company. Harry S. Adams, the second born of the
children, was educated at the Greencastle (Pa.) high
school. March 19, 1879, he came west and located at
Tiffin, Ohio, where he remained for three years in the
clothing business. Subsequently he took a course in
the Cincinnati medical college, and later studied law.
He did not, however, enter professional life, and went to
Hamilton, where he was in business for several years.
The next move to Chillicothe, where he arrived in April,
1885, and embarked in merchant tailoring as a cutter.
In March, 1895, less than ten years after his arrival, he
was elected county auditor and re-elected in 1898.
Nov. 1, 1901, Mr. Adams purchased the business of the
Chillicothe Lumber company from S. and C. E. Bice, a
foreign corporation. He carries a full line of
building materials and operates a planing mill in
connection therewith. June 27, 1889, Mr. Adams was
married to Mattie B., daughter of Elmer H. Clark, a native
of Maysville, Ky., but a resident of Chillicothe from
childhood. They have one child, Arline C. of eleven
years. Mr. Adams, like all the family of that name,
is a stanch Republican, has been quite active in politics,
and is a popular both as an official and private citizen.
He is equally prominent and active in fraternity circles.
In Masonry he has attained the Knight Templar degrees and
is past principal officer in the various lodges of the
order. He is a past-grand in Odd Fellowship, and
past exalted ruler of the order of Elks. With his
wife and daughter he is a member of the Walnut street
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ALBERT B. ALBIN,
whose home is in Green Township of Ross County, represents a
family that has been identified with Southern Ohio for more than
a century. His own career has been successfully spent in
farming pursuits, and he is now proprietor of one of the
well-cultivated and highly improved farms of Green Township.
His birth occurred in Vinton County, Ohio, Jan. 1,
1858. His grandfather, William Albin, was a native
of Virginia and of Scotch ancestry. From Virginia he set
out with wagons and teams for the Ohio country, and after a few
years of residence in Guernsey County, moved to Vinton County,
where he bought a tract of wild timbered land and improved a
farm, which was his home until his death at the advanced age of
ninety-three. William Albin married a Miss Clark,
and they reared six sons and six daughters, named James,
William, John, Joseph, Samuel, Benjamin, Delilah, Sarah, Nancy,
Barbara, Rachel, and Polly.
Of this family, John Albin, who was born in
Guernsey County, Ohio, was the father of Albert B. Albin.
He was reared on a farm and spent most of his early life in
Vinton County, but in 1863 moved to Hocking County, where, with
his brother William, he bought a carding mill situated on
a large tract of land. There they laid out the Town of
Laurelville. John Albin continued to operate the
carding mill and was a resident there until 1875, when he bought
a farm in Green Township of Ross County. Thereafter he
followed a farming and stock raising for a number of years, but
finally returned to Vinton County, where his death occurred at
the age of seventy-seven. John Albin married
Martha Gaffney, who was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, a
daughter of Daniel Gaffney her mother's maiden name being
Reddick. Mrs. John Albin died at the age of eighty
years. Her eight children were Samantha, Nancy, Albert,
George, Grant, Edward, Linna and Elmer.
Albert B. Albin was reared at Laurelville, in
Hocking County, where he attended the country schools and where
he had practical experience assisting his father in the carding
mill and also as a farmer. He worked out by the month as a
farm hand, and after his marriage was for seven years a renter.
He then located on the farm which he now owns and occupies.
This is the Senff homestead, where Mrs. Albin was
born. There for a quarter of a century Mr. Albin
has carried on diversified agriculture, has reared his family,
and has gained a gratifying share of material prosperity and at
the same time has made himself a useful member of the community.
In 1884 Mr. Albin married Mattie Senff.
Her father, Andrew Senff, was born in 1820 on the farm
now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Albin Her grandfather
Michael Senff, was a native of Pennsylvania and was a native
of Pennsylvania and was the grandson of Casper Senff, a
native of Germany, who came to America in 1773 and served as a
spy in the colonial army during the Revolutionary war.
Michael Senff, grandfather of Mrs. Albin, emigraged
to Ohio in 1808, and after living for a time in Pickaway County,
set up a blacksmith shop at Chillicothe, but eventually bought a
farm in Green Township and was occupied with its management
until his death in 1845. Michael Senff married
Christine Helmer. Both are laid to rest in Whitechurch
Cemetery. Mrs. Albin's father succeeded to the
ownership of the old homestead in Green Township, and in time
erected a commodious frame dwelling house and other necessary
farm buildings, and was rated as one of the most successful
farmers and stock raisers in Ross County. He invested his
surplus capital in other tracts of land until he became owner of
upwards of 1,000 acres. He resided in the township until
his death, at the age of seventy-three. Mrs. Albin's
mother, who died at the age of fifty-three, was Eliza May,
who was born in Green Township, a daughter of John and Mary (Ulery)
May. Mrs. Albin was one of nine children:
Mary, Minerva, Samira, Addison, Loretta, Flora, Monroe, William
and Mattie.
To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Albin have
been born two children: Edna and Carl.
Edna married Rudolph Barclay, and their son
Donald, the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Albin, is the
fifth successive generation that has lived on the old Senff
homestead. The son Carl married Grace Hinton,
and he met his death by accident one week after his marriage, at
the age of twenty-three. Mrs. Albin is an
active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source #2 - Page 740 -
NOTE: Found in 1880 Census Green Twp., Ross Co., Ohio -
Film Series T9 - Roll 1062 Pgs 230 & 231 (Pages in book 22 & 23)
ALSO found in 1910 Census Green Twp., Ross Co., Ohio in Film
Series T624 Roll 1227 Page 2 - ALSO: 1920 Census Green
Twp., Ross Co., Ohio - Film Series T625 Roll 1431 Page 4. |
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ROBERT D.
ALEXANDER, city clerk
of Chillicothe, was born in that city, February 3, 1879.
His father, Robert W. S. Alexander, a native of Danville,
Ill., born in 1851, was employed in early manhood for
seventeen years as a conductor on various railroads in
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. About 1870,
he located in Chillicothe and followed railroading for
some ten years, after which he engaged in the produce
business, to which he has sine added groceries. He
was married in Chicago to Anna Brown, who was born near
Milwaukee, Wis., and there grew up to womanhood.
They had a family of six children: Ella M., Robert
D., Charles Z., Mabel Elizabeth (now dead),
Earl Scott and Warner Franklin. All are at home except
Charles, who
is employed in a wholesale mercantile house at Kansas
City. Robert D. Alexander was educated in the public
schools of Chillicothe and was graduated from the high
school in the class of 1896. In November of the same
year, in company with friends, he made a trip through the
west, spending one month in Colorado, thence into New
Mexico and Lower California for several months' sojourn,
returning by way of San Francisco, British Columbia, and
Canada, reaching home in June, 1897. In October of
the following year he began the study of law under the
tutorship of Silas F. Garrett, of Chillicothe, which he
continued for about two years. In April, 1901, Mr.
Alexander was appointed as a Democrat to the office of
city clerk of Chillicothe, for a two years' term. He
is a member of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order,
and attends the First Presbyterian church, being a worker
in the Sunday-school of the latter; is a young man of
excellent habits and popular address, and gives promise of
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WILLIAM ANDREE, pastor of the
German Methodist Episcopal church of Chillicothe, is the last of
a long line of hard working and zealous ministers that have had
charge of this well known house of worship. The church was
established in 1840 with a membership of eleven, the first
pastor being Rev. J. A. Geiger. For ten years it was a
mission, but in 1850, under the ministerial management of
Rev. Christian Helwig, the present building was erected at
89 South Mulberry street, since which time the church has been
in continuous existence, and at present has a membership of
seventy-seven. Mr. Andree was born in Germany, June
16, 1844. He was educated in his native country, and when
nineteen years old came with his parents ot America. His
mother died in the trip over; the father located in Canada, and
there William Andree prepared himself for the ministry
and preached five years. In 1872 he removed to Goshen,
Ind., where he remained two years and then entered upon one of
those periods of frequent changes and short sojourns which are
characteristic of the itinerant system of the Methodist
Episcopal church. From Goshen he went to Lansing, Mich.,
for three years; to Defiance, O., for a similar term; then to
Canal Dover for another three years, succeeded by an equal
period at Vermillion. The next appointment in Ohio lasted
four years, which was followed by three at Marietta, the same at
Akron and Pomeroy and one yar at Lawrenceburg, Ind. From
the place last mentioned Mr. Andree came in September,
1900, to Chillicothe, where he has since remained. July 4,
1871, he was married in Canada to Miss Elizabeth Mahler,
a native of that country, who died April 11, 1891, leaving eight
children, seven of whom are living. October 12, 1898,
Mr. Andree took a second wife in the person of Mrs.
Malinda E. (Unnewehr) Davis, of Batesville, Ind.
Herman J. Andree, son by the first marriage, was for six
years a student at Buchtel college in Akron, O. In June,
1901, he joined the Baldwin-Zeigler polar expedition, which set
out a few days later from one of the Scottish ports in hope of
being the first to reach the long sought northern extremity of
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HENRY W. ARLEDGE, a
well-to-do-farmer and extensive dealer in stock, is one of the
self-made men of Ross county, as his success has been due to his
own hard work and perseverance. His parents were been due
to his own hard work and perseverance. His parents were
Isaac and Polly (Morrison) Arledge, both natives of North
Carolina, who came to Vinton county, Ohio, in youth.
Having acquired a very fair education for those days, Isaac
put it to good use by earning a living as teacher for some
years. Eventually he settled down to farming and made that
the occupation of his life. He died about 1858, his wife's
death having occurred in 1844. They reared a family of
twelve children, of whom only three are now living.
Henry W. Arledge, ninth of the children, was born in Vinton
county, December 12, 1832. In early manhood he went to
Missouri, but soon returned to Ohio and settled permanently in
Ross county in 1853. Having no capital he was compelled to
support himself by work on the farm at daily or monthly wages.
This life of toil continued seven years, but being frugal and
temperate he managed to lay by something from his wages and in
future years had the satisfaction of owning part of the far on
which he had labored by the day. He accumulated gradually
until in course of time he found himself the independent owner
of 352 acres of excellent Ross county land. Mr. Arledge
has devoted his time largely to the raising of stock, which he
feeds and deals in on an extensive scale. Being a shrewd
buyer and well posted in all the branches of this business he
has prosecuted it with profit and is well known in connection
with the live stock industry of his county. In 1859, while
still struggling to get a start, Mr. Arledge was married
to Elizabeth Hoffman, who proved a loving companion and
helpmeet during all the days of her life. She became the
mother of his twelve children, of whom ten are still living, and
died Nov. 30, 1891. In Nov., 1892, Mr. Arledge
married Mrs. Mary R. Scott, a sister of his first wife.
The family are attendants of the Methodist Episcopal church, of
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