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ENGELHART
R. REBSTOCK, now leading a retired life in Hallsville, Ohio,
after a successful career as a mechanic, is a sample of that
excellent citizenship obtained by the United States through German
channels. His parents, Christian and Madeline (Janna)
Rebstock, came from the fatherland in 1845, and located at
Chillicothe. In that city, Christian for some time
conducted a store, which he afterward moved on Little Walnut, about
nine miles from Chillicothe. His wife died Oct. 15, 1852, and
his death occurred Nov. 5, 1868. They reared a family of
four sons and five daughters, three of the former still living.
E. R. Rebstock, eighth of the children, was born in Germany,
Nov. 1, 1837, and crossed the ocean with his parents when about
seven years old. He grew up in Chillicothe and learned the
trade of wagon-making, which he was working at in Green township
when the civil war opened. He enlisted in Company B,
Twenty-sixth regiment Ohio infantry, with which he served through
many arduous campaigns. The principal battles in which he
participated were those of Stone River, Lookout Mountain,
Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, not to mention numerous lighter
engagements and skirmishes. He was severely wounded at the
battle of Missionary Ridge, receiving a bullet in the right leg,
which necessitated several months in the hospital and subsequent
discharge on account of disability. This occurred March 29,1
864, after which Mr. Rebstock made his way back to Ohio and
as soon as able resumed work at his trade in Hallsville. Feb.
12, 1867, he was married at Hallsville to Mary Pontious, a
native of Colerain township, and daughter of Conrad and Mary (Seebold)
Pontious, both born in Union county, Pa., of German ancestry.
Conrad Pontious settled in Ross county about 1822 and became
one of the wealthiest farmers in Colerain township, owning 400 acres
of land and much other valuable property. He reared a family
of five children, of whom three are living, and died at the age of
seventy-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Rebstock have one
son, Landis, born Apr. 20, 1872, and a butcher by trade.
He married Lydia, daughter of John Albin, who is
mentioned elsewhere in this volume, and has one child, Zelma Fay,
born in 1896. Mr. Rebstock is a member of Bookwalter
lodge, No. 155, Grand Army of the Republic. When he first
commenced work at his trade he received only $25 for the first year,
but did better later on, and continued the business for thirty-eight
years, when he ceased operations in that line. He owns a good
tract of land near Hallsville, which he cultivates in connection
with stock raising, and lives a retired life in the village, from
which he superintends work on the farm.
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ROBERT REED is a
widely known citizen of Ross County. He and his good wife for
a number of years have dispensed a generous hospitality and a real
service to the local and traveling public at the Place Hotel in
Adelphi.
Mr. Reed is a native of Ross County, born at
Kingston May 9, 1874, son of Nelson and Elmira (Marman) Reed.
These parents were also natives of Ross County. For a number
of years Nelson Reed owned and worked the old Hill farm
in Ross County, and then retired to a comfortable home in Kingston,
where he died at the age of eighty-eight. His wife lived to be
seventy-five. Many of the older residents of Ross County have
pleasant memories of Nelson Reed. He is especially
remembered for his powerful physique. In fact he was long
considered one of the strongest men in the community.
Robert Reed was the thirteenth in a family of
fourteen children. Daniel and Rebecca are now
deceased; Sarah is the wife of George Brooks; William
is a farmer at Frankfort; Samuel is in Adelphia; Anna
is the wife of Cliff Scott of Columbus; Ella is the
wife of P. D. Brown of Chillicothe; Nan is the wife of
Y. Randall; Emma is the wife of George Disk, a
merchant a Yellowbud, in Ross County; Tom and Harry
are deceased.
Mr. Robert Reed was educated in the public
schools at Kingston and from an early age has shown a capacity to do
things well and is therefore properly recognized as a successful
man.
Aug. 28, 1902, he married Miss Bessie Dunn.
Mrs. Reed was the fourth daughter in a family of eight
children, seven daughters and one son, born to James and Martha
(Smith) Dunn of Portsmouth, Ohio. A brief record of her
sisters and brother is as follows: Nora, wife of
Henry Burgess of Portsmouth; Molly, wife of Ed
Ridgehouse of Wheelersburg; Sarah wife of Frank
Wheeler of Ironton; Eunice, wife of J. Higgins, of
Ironton; Nellie, wife of Bert Tope of Oak Hill; and
James Dunn of Portsmouth. Mrs. Reed was reared and
educated at Portsmouth. Her maternal grandfather, James
Smith, came from West Virginia and was an early settler at Oak
Hill, Ohio. He lived to be ninety-eight years of age, while
her grandfather Dunn reached the venerable age of ninety-two.
The Place Hotel, of which Mr. and Mrs. Reed are the
proprietors, is the leading hostelry of the town. Mr. Reed
has shown the qualities of the affable and genial landlord and
everyone who comes to his house is pleased with the service rendered
and became a lasting friend of the Palace. Mr. Reed is
affiliated with the Order of Eagles at Chillicothe and with the
Cornplanter Tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men at Adelphi.
Source #2 - A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
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PHILLIP W. REEVES.
The master mechanic in the Baltimore & Ohio shops at Chillicothe,
Phillip W. Reeves began his railroad career as an office boy
with the old Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad. His career has
been one of consecutive advancement, and he has long enjoyed the
confidence of his superiors and of a large force of men under him at
Chillicothe.
He was born Aug. 1, 1853, in Ross County, son of
William and Ann (Linehar) Reeves. His father was born in
the City of Limerick, Ireland, and after coming to America spent a
time in Kentucky and then moved to Martinville in Clinton County,
Ohio, where he followed farming. In 1849 he located in
Chillicothe, and followed the business of teaming until his death in
January, 1873. He was a devout Catholic and possessed traits
that made him many friends and a highly esteemed citizen of his
community. His just dealings and uprightness were proverbial
and on account of his fine judgment he was known and called among
his friends Judge Reeves. He was the father of nineteen
children, six of whom are now living. Their mother was a very
kind woman, and she lived to be eighty-four years of age, while the
father died at the age of seventy-six.
Phillip W. Reeves after getting his education
became an office boy in that part of the Baltimore & Ohio system
formerly known as the Marietta & Cincinnati. For one year he
remained in the general offices of the company at Chillicothe, and
then began an apprenticeship in the railroad shops. After
completing his apprenticeship he served as a journeyman mechanic for
the company twelve years, followed by promotion to gang foreman, and
after four years in that work he was made top foreman. With a
thorough knowledge of the business of the shops, a capable executive
and with a faculty for courteous but firm handling of men, he was
finally promoted to the position of master mechanic at Chillicothe,
an office for which he has exceptional qualifications.
Mr. Reeves is a member of the Modern Woodmen of
America and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is
independent in politics, and belongs to the Catholic Church.
On Jan. 4, 1884, he married Miss Nellie Foltz, by which union
there were two children. Mr. Reeves died in 1895.
On Sept. 21, 1898, he married Miss Julia Gallagher, and there
are three daughters of this marriage, two of whom are in the local
high school, the elder a member of the graduating class of 1917.
One of Mr. Reeves' sons by his first marriage is a mechanic
in the Baltimore & Ohio shops at Chillicothe.
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ALEXANDER
RENICK.
A wide-awake, brainy man, possessing a
natural aptitude for dealing with matters of finance, Alexander Renick, a prominent business man of Chillicothe, holds a conspicuous
position among the leading financiers of Ross County, his official
connection with numerous moneyed institutions bearing testimony not
only to his ability and sound judgment, but to his integrity and
honesty of purpose. He was born in Chillicothe, a son of the
late Alexander Renick, Sr., and grandson of George Renick, a pioneer
settler of this section of Ohio. There is a well-established
tradition in the family that the early ancestors of the Renicks
lived in Scotland, where the name was spelled Renwick." Moving
to Holland and finally settling in Ireland, the family named assumed
its present spelling.
The emigrant ancestor of Mr. Renick was
George Renick,
who came to America in about 1720, from Enniskillen, County of
Fermanagh, Ireland. In 1738, he located to Dauphin County,
Pennsylvania. From there a part of his family went to Augusta
County, Virginia, and a part to Hardy County, Virginia, on the
south branch of the Potomac. George Renick, the grandfather of
the subject of this sketch, was born in Hardy County, Virginia, July
7, 1776. Attracted by the glowing descriptions of his brother,
Felix Renick, who had made several visits to the western country, he
came in early manhood to the Northwest Territory, on a prospecting
tour, and after spending some time seeking a suitable location, he
returned to Virginia. He was married in 1802 to Dorothy
Harness, and came with his bride to Ohio, journeying on horseback to
Chillicothe, where he started in business as a merchant.
He bought a tract of land west of the city, and having
erected a stone house thereon, assumed its occupancy in 1807.
He subsequently devoted his energies entirely to the improvement of
his property, and in addition to carrying on a general farming
business, he made a specialty of raising blooded stock, being among
the first to introduce Shorthorned cattle into this part of the
state. He was the owner of the noted Shorthorn cow, Rose of
Sharon, which, with her calf, he sold to Abram Renick, of Kentucky,
whose thus started his famous herd of Shorthorns. George Renick, with the exception of two years spent in Kentucky remained
on his home farm until his death, which occurred in September, 1863.
His wife, Dorothy Harness, also a native of Hardy County, Virginia,
died in September, 1820, leaving nine children, namely: William,
Josiah, Harness, Mortimer, Elizabeth Ann, Alexander, Lavina, George
and Dorothy. Subsequently Mr. Renick married
Mrs. Sarah Boggs,
who survived him.
Alexander Renick, Sr., was born at the homestead, one
mile west of Chillicothe, February, 11, 1815, and was reared to
Agricultural pursuits. Being presented, soon after attaining
his majority, by his father, with a tract of land lying two miles
southeast of Chillicothe, he was there successfully engaged in
farming and stock raising until 1864, when he removed to
Chillicothe. Previous to that time, in November, 1863, the
First National Bank was organized, and he was made a director.
After taking up his residence in Chillicothe, he devoted his entire
time to the bank and his own private affairs, remaining here until
his death, in September, 1875.
The maiden name of the wife of Alexander Renick,
Sr.,
was Jane Osborn. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1817.
Her father, Ralph Osborn, whose emigrant ancestor came to New
England in the good ship Speedwell, which followed the Mayflower,
was organized, he was elected state auditor, and held the position
many years, spending his last days in Columbus. Mr. Osborn
married Catherine Renick, a daughter of John Renick, who was a
brother of William Renick, of Hardy County, Virginia.
Mrs.
Jane (Osborn) Renick died in October, 1886, leaving four children,
namely: Ralph Osborn, Dorothy Harness, Henry
Turner, and Alexander, one son, George, having died a few years previous.
Having acquired his rudimentry education in the
Chillicothe schools, Alexander Renick attended the military school
at West Chester, Pennsylvania, and in 1865 entered the scientific
department of Yale University, from which he was graduated in 1868.
Returning home, Mr. Renick operated the home farm until the death of
his father, in 1875, when he succeeded to his father's position as a
director of the First National Bank. In 1887 Mr. Renick was
made vice president of that institution, and since 1892 has served
ably and faithfully as its president. In 1888, Mr. Renick
assisted in organizing the Mutual Loan and Savings Association, of
which he has ever sine been one of the directors, and the president.
In 1907, with George Hunter Smith and John H. Blacker, he organized
the Valley Savings Bank and Trust Company, which he has since served
as a director and vice president. Mr. Renick still owns and
operates the old home farm, which was improved by his father, and
takes an active and intelligent interest in agriculture and stock
raising.
Mr. Renick has always been a republican and takes an
active part in politics, but has never sought or held any political
office, except that of trustee for the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics,
located at Gallipolis, Ohio, having been appointed to this position
by Governor Herrick in 1904, holding it until 1911, when the boards
of trustees of all benevolent institutions of the state were
legislated out of office.
Mr. Renick married, December 29, 1874, Elizabeth
Waddle, a daughter of Dr.
William and Jane S. Waddle, of whom further account may be found
on another page of this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Renick have one
son, Alexander Mortimore Renick, who married Edyth Henrietta,
daughter of Charles A. Smith, and has two sons, Charles Alexander
and Ralph Osborn. Mr. and Mrs. Renick are true to the
religious faith in which they were reared, their parents having been
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CEPHUS C. RITTENHOUSE.
Many of the oldest families of Ross County are found in Concord
Township. One of these is the Rittenhouse, represented by
Cephus C. Rittenhouse, an old and prominent farmer
of that section. His name has always had an honorable standing
in Ross County, and its bearers have been men of integrity and solid
worth, of great patriotism, serving in the various wars of their
country, and in many ways have contributed to the substantial
benefit of their communities.
The
founder of the family in America was Mr. Rittenhouse's
paternal great-grandfather, who came from Germany and settled near
Richmond, Virginia, where he spent the rest of his days. The
grandfather, Samuel Rittenhouse, was born near
Richmond, Virginia, grew up their, and soon after his marriage
brought his young bride to Ohio, which was then practically at the
beginning of its development. They made the journey across the
mountains to their destination on horseback. All their earthly
possessions they brought along with them, and on arriving in the
wilderness of Ross County they adapted themselves to the primitive
necessities of the time. They located near the present site of
Musselman's Station in Ross County, and at once
began clearing up their land and making a home. A man of
industry such as Samuel Rittenhouse
was had no special difficulty in providing all of the simple
necessities then demanded. People lived in very rude homes,
chiefly log cabins, clothing was obtained by spinning and weaving in
the house, and what food could not be grown on the land was supplied
largely rom the wild game which was then so abundant. Deer and
wild turkey were an important source of that meat supply. Samuel
Rittenhouse lived in Ross County many years and there
reared his family, but subsequently moved to Union County and spent
his last years there. He was a man of remarkable physical
vigor, and his death occurred in his one hundred eleventh year.
He had given active service to his country as a soldier in the
Mexican war. In his family were five sons and two daughters
named Henry, Thomas, William, David, Tilghman, Carrie
and Ann.
Tilghman Rittenhouse, father of Cephus C.,
was born near the present site of Musselman's
Station in Ross County in September, 1828. As a young man he
learned the carpenter's trade, and followed that at various places
in Ross and Union counties. Later he became an undertaker.
With the exception of four years his entire life was spent in Ross
County. His death occurred at the age of eighty-four.
Tilghman Rittenhouse married Rebecca Laird.
She was born in County Donegal, Ireland, a daughter of
Samuel and Catherine (Douglas) Laird, the former a native
of County Donegal and the latter of Scotland. Samuel
Laird's father was a Scotch baron and an extensive land
holder. During an uprising in Scotland he was unfortunately on
the losing side and his estate was confiscated by the crown.
Samuel Laird reared six sons and daughters named
Moses, Jane, Rebecca, James, Thomas and
Catherine. Of these the son Moses
emigrated to America when a young man, locating near New Holland in
Ohio, and became a successful farmer. A few years later he
induced his father, his mother in the meantime having died, to bring
the younger children to America. They made the voyage on a
sailing vessel, battling with the winds and waves for thirteen
weeks. After landing at Philadelphia they came on to Pickaway
County, where Samuel Laird made his home with his
son Moses. Mrs. Tilghman Rittenhouse
died at the age of eighty-seven years. Her six children were
named Cephus C., John, William, Thomas, George and
Jennie.
Cephus
C. Rittenhouse was born at Frankfort, Ross County, November
7, 1853. As a boy he attended public schools both in Ross and
in Union County. For two years he worked at the carpenter's
trade, and then took up farming as his regular vocation in life.
From a time he worked at monthly wages until he had saved sufficient
to buy a team, and with that equipment he rented some land.
From one step to another he has made constant progress, and for the
past thirty-two years has occupied one of the good farms in Concord
Township and has made a success as a general farmer and stock
raiser.
During his twenty-second year
Mr. Rittenhouse married Nancy Wornstaff.
She was born near the Village of Roxabell in Ross County, a daughter
of Richard and Elsie (Carmean) Wornstaff, both
natives of Ross County. Her father was a merchant in Ross
County when the war broke out and soon afterward left his store to
enlist in an Ohio regiment. He died while in service at
Acworth, Georgia, and was buried in the South.
Mr. and Mrs. Rittenhouse have reared six children:
Myrtle, Arthur, Emma, Faye, Maude and Bly.
Myrtle is a wife of Otto Roll.
Arthur married Anna Swires, and
their two children are Virgil and Curtis.
Emma married N. E. Bablet and
their three children are Lloyd, Mervin
and Marie. Faye is the wife of
Charles Milligan, with three children named
Pauline, Gladys and Charlotte.
In church affiliation Mr. and Mrs. Rittenhouse are
Methodists. He has always been an active democrat. He is
now serving his fourth consecutive term as township trustee.
He is a charter member of Frankfort Camp No. 4065 of the Modern
Woodmen of America, and has been its secretary since it was
organized in 1896. He is also a member of Frankfort Lodge No.
309, Free and Accepted Masons.
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GEORGE C. RITTENOUR, of
Richmond Dale, was born Mar. 11, 1825, in Ross County, on the farm
settled by his grandfather in the preceding century. His
parents were Jacob and Ann Claypool Rittenour, both
Virginians, the former born in 1787 in Frederick county and the
latter in 1790, in Randolph county. Jacob was
a son of Anthony Rittenour, born in 1752, who
married Margaret Slusher, of Virginia.
Anthony's father, named John, was a German who came
to Virginia in a very early day. Anthony Rittenour
came to Ross county, Ohio, in 1799, and settled in Jefferson
township near the place where his grandson now resides. The
grandfather owned about 600 acres of land and was a man of
consequence in his day. He was a member of the Methodist
church and the first religious services of that then sparsely
settled section were held at his house. He was well acquainted
with the pioneer preachers of the day, and among those who preached
at his house was the famous Peter Cartwright.
He donated one acre of ground (which is now included in the
Jefferson township cemetery) and bore the greater part of the
expense incurred in the erection of a stone church for the use of
the Methodist congregation. Anthony Rittenour
died in 1835 and his wife followed him to the grave in 1837.
They had a family of six sons and two daughters. All the sons,
except Jacob and those who died in youth and young manhood found
homes in Indiana. Jacob Rittenour united with
the Methodist church at the early age of fourteen years and remained
a consistent member until his death, his membership covering a
period of nearly eighty-two years. He died in 1883, at the age
of ninety-five years and eight months to a day. His wife, who
died June 3, 1873, was a daughter of Abraham Claypool,
son of James Claypool, a native of England who came
to America in an early day. Abraham Claypool
came to Ross county in 1799 and spent the rest of his days here.
He was a member of the first constitutional convention and earnestly
supported the clause prohibiting slavery. He was also a member
of the senate of the first state legislature. His wife was
Elizabeth Wilson, of the noted Virginia family of
that name, whose ancestry was Scotch Irish. Jacob
Rittenour and wife had a family of four children, all of
whom are dead except George Claypool Rittenour, the
subject of this sketch. The latter was educated in the common
schools of this county and, with but slight diversions, ahs devoted
his whole life to farming. In association with
John W. Rittenour, his nephew, and Austin
and Nelson Purdum, he put up a block of buildings
in Chillicothe which were afterward sold to Dr. Foulke.
For several years, George C. Rittenour was
interested in the hardware business in Chillicothe. He has
been one of the most extensive and successful of the farmers of
Jefferson township, owning a large amount of land in different
sections of Ross county, including the old homestead place of 1,112
acres, and 200 acres about two miles from Chillicothe, known as the
William Kerns farm. In addition to this he
has 400 acres of land in Pike county, another 700 near Piketon, and
over 500 at Sargent Station. In short he is one of the most
prominent of the progressive farmers who have made the Buckeye state
famous in the world of agriculture. He takes advantage of the
largest improvements and produces the best results. Though a
member of the Republican party from its organization, the only
office he held was that of township trustee during the war.
When only twenty-five years old, he united with the Good Samaritan
lodge, No. 164, I. O. O. F., at Richmond Dale, and he is a charter
member of Garfield lodge, No. 710, of the same fraternal order.
He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
On September 1, 1857, Mr. Rittenour was married to
Elizabeth C. Sargent, daughter of Thornton and
Elizabeth (Mustard) Sargent, of Pike county. Her
father owned one of the first grist mills in southern Ohio, built by
Eli Sargent, her grandfather. Mr. and Mrs. Rittenour
have three sons: Thornton Sargent Rittenour
lives on a farm at Piketon, Ohio. He is married to
Jennie Norton Higby, daughter of John W. and
Mathilda (Norton) Higby, of Franklin township. They
have one son, named George Milley.
James Milton Rittenour resides
on the farm with his father. He was married in Virginia to
Sarah Alberta Norton, and they have one son, named
George Norton. Henry Francis
Rittenour resides at Sargent Station. He is married
to Eliza Alice Du Bois, daughter of Jacob
and Margaret (Jones) Du Bois, of Liberty, Jefferson
township, and they have one son, named Everett Francis.
The Rittenours are among the oldest, most
substantial and most highly respected of Ohio families. Their
ancestors came to the State when it was a wilderness and they had
successors have done their full share toward the development of this
great commonwealth.
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GEORGE C. RITTENOUR.
Among the native-born citizens of Ross County who spent the major
part of their lives within it precincts, aiding as far as possible
its growth and development, whether relating to its agriculture,
mercantile, or financial interests, was George C. Rittenour,
who died December 30, 1915, at his home in Jefferson Township, aged
ninety-years, nine months and nineteen days. He had a good
record for length of days and useful activity. A son of
Jacob Rittenour, he was born March 11, 1825, in
Jefferson Township, of German ancestry, his great-grandfather,
John Rittenour, having emigrated from Germany to
America in colonial days, locating in Virginia, where he remained
permanently until his death.
Anthony Rittenour, the grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, was born and reared in Rockingham County, Virginia, and,
with the exception of one year spent in Washington County,
Pennsylvania, resided in Virginia until 1798. In that year,
accompanied by his wife and children, he made an overland journey to
that part of the Northwest Territory that is now known as Ross
County, and here, in Jefferson Township, secured a tract of
Government land. Al of the country roundabout was in its
virgin wildness, the dense forests being inhabited by deer,
panthers, wolves, and wild game of all kinds, while the sparkling
streams abounded with fish. With the assistance of his sons he
began the clearing of the land, and the following year erected a
substantial stone house, which he occupied until his death, in 1835.
He married Elizabeth Slusher, who was also of
German descent, and to them six sons and two daughters were born, as
follows: Henry; George; Jacob;
Frederick; John; William; Eve, who married first a
Mr. McNeil, and for her second husband married
Smiley Caldwell; and Margaret, who became
the wife of Rev. Hector Sanford. An ardent
Methodist in religion, Anthony Rittenour
contributed very liberally toward the building of the stone church,
and also gave an acre of ground for the Jefferson Township Cemetery.
Born in Frederick County, Virginia, February 15, 1787, Jacob
Rittenour was a lad of eleven years when brought by his
parents to Ross County, where he was reared in true pioneer style.
During his earlier life there were neither railroads nor canals in
the country; neither were there any convenient markets in the
territory; and very little money was in circulation. Live
stock, including the hogs, was driven across the country to
Baltimore and other eastern markets, the journeys to and fro being
long and tiresome. From the flax raised by the farmers the
diligent housewives spun and wove all of the material from which
they fashioned the clothes worn by their families. He began as
a boy to assist on the home farm, and was subsequently engaged in
agricultural pursuits in Jefferson Township the remainder of his
life, dying October 15, 1882. He married, April 3, 1812,
Anna Claypool, who was born in Randolph County,
Virginia, of honored English stock, one of her early English
ancestors, a certain John Claypool, having married
the favorite daughter of Oliver Cromwell. Her
father, Abraham Claypool, was born in Harding
County, West Virginia, April 2, 1762, and his father, James
Claypool, Jr., was born in Virginia, December 1, 1730, a
son of James Claypool, Sr.
This James Claypool, Sr., grandfather of
Anna Claypool, and great grandfather of Mr.
Rittenour, was born in Virginia, February 14, 1701, and
married October 9, 1753, Margaret Dunbar, who was born November 20,
1736, and died March 26, 1813. She reared nine daughters and
three sons. Abraham Claypool, Mr.
Rittenour's maternal grandfather, received an excellent
education in his native state, and there lived until coming to Ohio
in 1799. Selecting what he considered a desirable tract of
land in Liberty Township, he began the improvement of a homestead.
A man of broad capacity, energetic and forceful, he soon became
influential in public affairs, and served not only as a member of
the first state constitutional convention, but of the first State
Senate, which convened at Chillicothe in 1803. He improved a
valuable farm, and having built a commodious house of hewed logs was
there a resident until his death. He married Elizabeth
Wilson. Mrs. Anna (Claypool) Rittenour
died June 3, 1873. To her and her husband, four
children were born and reared, namely: James; Isaac Newton;
George C., the special subject of this sketch; and
Margaret, who died unmarried, February 22, 1898. James,
who settled at Independence, Indiana, married Ellen Hemphill.
Isaac N., who lived but thirty-three years,
married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Orr.
True to the religious faith in which they were brought up,
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Rittenour were also active and valued
members of the Methodist Church.
George C. Rittenour was educated in the district
schools, while on the home farm he was well trained in agricultural
arts. Soon after entering his teens, he went to Richmondale to
live with an older brother, and while there worked as a farm hand
during seed time and harvest, the remainder of the year being
employed as a clerk in his brother's store. On attaining his
majority, he engaged in mercantile pursuits on his own account,
forming a copartnership with his brother. After his marriage
Mr. Rittenour located in Chillicothe, and here, in
company with his nephew, John W. Rittenour, and
Austin and Nelson Purdum, erected a
building, and embarked in the hardware and farm implement business.
A little more than a year after the establishment of the firm,
Austin Purdum died, and the business was closed
out. Mr. Rittenour in the meantime had been
managing his father's estate, and had likewise built up a large and
lucrative trade as a cattle dealer. He soon purchased, in
company with his brother James, a tract of land in
Fayette County, near Bloomingburg, retaining, however, his residence
in Ross County. Subsequently selling his interest in his
Fayette County property to his brother, Mr. Rittenour
purchased land in Pike County, near the home of his father-in-law,
T. W. Sargent, and later, at different times, bought other
tracts in Ross County until his land holdings amounted to upwards of
3,000 acres of rich farm lands. For a period of nearly
three-score and ten years, Mr. Rittenour was
actively and successfully engaged in business, but afterward lived
retired in Chillicothe, enjoying the fruits of a long and well spent
life.
Mr. Rittenour
married, Sept. 1, 1857, Elizabeth Sargent, who was
born in Pike County, Ohio, a daughter of Thornton Williams
and Elizabeth (Mustard) Sargent. She died July 29,
1911, aged seventy-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Rittenour
reared three sons, namely: Thornton Sargent, James Milton,
and Henry Francis. Thornton S. married
Jennie Higbye, and they have one son, George Willey,
who spent two years at the Ohio Wesleyan University, later graduated
from the literary department of Yale, and was subsequently graduated
from the law department of Harvard University.
James M., the second son of the
parental household, married Alberta Norton, and
their only child, George Norton Rittenour, is a
student in the Chillicothe High School. Henry Francis,
the youngest son of Mr. Rittenour, married
Eliza DuBois, and they have one child, Everett
Francis, who is attending the Ohio Wesleyan University,
being a member of the class of 1918. In his religious belief,
Mr. Rittenour was a Methodist, both he and his wife
having adhered to the faith in which they were reared.
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J. M. RITTENOUR
is a prominent Ross County farmer. He looks after the
cultivation and management of one of the largest estates in the
county, a farm of 1,800 acres situated a mile and a quarter west of
Richmond Dale in Jefferson Township.
The
Rittenour family has been identified with Ross
County since the closing years of the eighteenth century. It
is one of the most honored as well as among the oldest names found
in Ross County annals. Mr. J. M. Rittenour
has proved himself a worthy descendant of this stock, and while
easily one of the most extensive farmers of the county he has
distinguished himself by fidelity to the public welfare on many
occasions, and is one of the most trusted substantial men of the
county.
He was born on part of the farm
where he now resides October 30, 1861. The Rittenour
family was established in this section of Ohio by his
great-grandfather Anthony Rittenour, a native of
Virginia and of German stock. Anthony came to
Ohio in 1799, when it was still a part of Northwest Territory.
A man of considerable means and of even greater energy and
enterprise Anthony Rittenour acquired some very
large tracts of land from the Government. On coming to Ross
County he brought with him some of his older children, including
Jacob, and leaving them behind to begin the heavy task of
improvement on the new land he went back to Virginia for the rest of
his family. He spent his last years in Ross County.
Jacob Rittenour, grandfather of J. M.
Rittenour, was a native of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and
was sixteen years of age when he accompanied his father to Ross
County. He took charge of some of the land entered by
Anthony Rittenour, and after his marriage he lived in a
little house until in 1852 he erected the substantial home which
remained his residence until his death. He accumulated about
1,100 acres of land, and was one of the foremost men of his
community in his time. He took much part in church affairs,
and for fifty years was identified with the Methodist denomination.
His death occurred October 16, 1882. Jacob
Rittenour was married in 1811 to Anna Claypool, who
died June 6, 1873. Jacob Rittenour was born
in 1787. He and his wife were the parents of four children,
named James, Margaret, Isaac and George C.
George Claypool Rittenour,
father of J. M. Rittenour, was born March 11, 1825,
on part of the old Rittenour homestead and his
birth occurred in the stone portion of the residence now occupied by
Jacob Caldwell. George C. Rittenour
died December 30, 1915. The youngest of four children, he grew
up on a farm and on September 1, 1857, married Elizabeth
Sargent, who was born November 1, 1832, and died July 29,
1910. After their marriage George C. Rittenour
and wife began housekeeping on the homestead, and their old
residence is still standing there. In 1878 George
bought the interests of the remaining heirs to the 1,100
acre estate, and moved to the old home of his father, where he lived
until his death. Three children were born to George C.
Rittenour and wife: T. S. Rittenour, now
living at Piketon, Ohio; J. M. Rittenour; and
H. F. Rittenour of Chillicothe. The late
George C. Rittenour was an official member of the
Methodist Church and was affiliated with Garfield Lodge, No. 710, at
Richmond Dale, and took a very active interest in republican
politics.
Mr. J. M.
Rittenour grew up as the son of prosperous parents, learned
the details of farming as a youth, and for many years has conducted
his agricultural operations on a very large scale. He was
liberally educated, in addition to the public schools spending two
years in Xenia Academy and one year in the Ohio Wesleyan College at
Delaware.
On Oct. 20, 1898, he married
Alberta Norton, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A. Norton, a well known Ross County family elsewhere
referred to. Mr. and Mrs. Rittenour have one
son, George N., who was born June 15, 1900, and is
now attending high school at Chillicothe. An interesting fact
which should be noted is that Mr. and Mrs. Rittenour
were married in Virginia and in the room of the building on James
River where Thomas Jefferson at one time held a
meeting of his cabinet when he was President of the United States.
At the time of the marriage Mrs. Rittenour's father
was living in Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Rittenour
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Richmond
Dale, and he is one of the official board of that church. In
politics he is a republican and is a man who is ever ready to render
some service to his community. For three years he served as
township trustee and for two years as supervisor.
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JOHN WESLEY RITTENOUR.
It was in the closing years of the eighteenth century that the
various members of the Rittenour family and their connections
located in Ross
County.
The early generations had their full share of pioneer
experiences and hardships.
They were among the true builders of the
commonwealth
of Ohio.
They were thrifty and industrious people, morally upright,
kind neighbors, and built their lives into the character of the
community. A worthy
descendant of such stock,
John Wesley Rittenour has spent his entire lifetime in
Ross County and is one of the very prosperous farmer
citizens of Green Township, living near the historic old Town of Kingston.
The
founder of the family in this county was his great-grandfather
Anthony Rittenour, who
was born and reared in
Rockingham County, Virginia.
He also lived for some years in Frederick County
of that state and for one year in
Washington
County in
Southwestern Pennsylvania.
In 1798 he migrated into Northwest
Territory. A
team drew the wagon out of Pennsylvania and across the hills into the wilderness of Ross
County.
He was accompanied by his family and on arriving at his
destination he entered a tract of Government land in what is now
Jefferson Township of Ross County.
There he was one of the first to clear the forest and put a
plow into the soil. His
family occupied a log cabin until he replaced it with a substantial
stone house. There he
spent his last years and passed away in 1835.
Anthony Rittenour married
Elizabeth Flusher, who
was of German ancestry.
They reared six sons and two daughters.
Jacob Rittenour,
representing the next generation, was born in Frederick County,
Virginia, in 1787 and was eleven years of age
when he came to Ross
County.
Thus a part of his youth as well as his manhood were passed
within the borders of this county.
With a limited education, he had the practical training best
fitted to cope with the situation involved in life in a new country.
He spent his best years farming in
Jefferson
Township, where he died.
The maiden name of his wife was
Anna Claypool.
Her name introduces another pioneer family of
Ross County.
She was born in
Randolph County,
Virginia.
Her father Abraham Claypool was born in Hardy County,
Virginia, now West Virginia, on April 2, 1762.
Abraham’s father
James Claypool was born
in Virginia, February 14,
1701. On October 9,
1753, James Claypool, Jr.,
married Margaret Dunbar,
who was born November 20, 1736, and died March 26, 1813.
She reared a family of nine daughters and three sons.
Abraham Claypool
was reared and educated in his native state and from there came to
Northwest Territory in 1799, locating in what
is now Liberty Township of Ross County.
He bought timbered land and built for a family residence a
substantial hewed log house.
Abraham Claypool was a man of
considerable distinction in the early days.
He was a member of the First Constitutional Convention of
Ohio and also of the first State Senate.
The maiden name of his wife was
Elizabeth Wilson.
Both spent their last days on the home farm.
Jacob Rittenour and wife reared four children named
James, Isaac N., George C.
and Margaret.
Isaac
Newton Rittenour, father of
John Wesley, was born in
Jefferson Township of Ross County.
Growing up on a farm, he made the best of his limited
opportunities to obtain an education in the pioneer schools.
As a youth he made several trips over the mountains to the
eastern markets as a livestock drover.
His independent career began as a worker on shares of a part
of his father’s farm.
Subsequently he became owner of the land, and resided there until
his death in 1851.
Isaac N. Rittenour
married Sarah Orr.
She was born in Springfield
Township, a daughter of
Thomas Orr, who was born
in Hardy County, Virginia,
and a grand-daughter of James
Orr, who was born in
Belfast, Ireland.
James Orr
came from Ireland about 1770, locating first in South Carolina, but a few years alter on account of ill
health moved to Virginia
and lived near Moorefield in what is now
Hardy County, West Virginia,
until 1797. He then came
to the Northwest Territory and established a home in what is now
Liberty Township of Ross County.
He thus became the third successive stock from which
John Wesley Rittenour is descended of the early pioneers of Ross
County.
His first home in this county was on High Bank prairie, and
later he moved to Dry Run, six miles above the High Bank.
James Orr was very liberally educated, was a surveyor by profession
and one of the first school teachers in Ross County.
His death occurred in 1802.
Thomas Orr, the
maternal grandfather of John
W. Rittenour, accompanied his parents of
Ross
County and it is said that he and his
brother Zebulon did the
first plowing in Liberty Township, and he also carried a chain for
General Massie
when the road from Chillicothe to Gallipolis was surveyed.
He owned and operated a farm in Springfield Township, and there his life came to a
close in 1854. The
maiden name of his second wife was
Mary Jones, who was born
in New Jersey.
After the death of Isaac N. Rittenour his widow married
W. W. Crabb of Unioin
Township, and she died at
the home of her son John W.
Rittenour in her ninety-first year.
John Wesley Rittenour was
born in Jefferson
Township November 7, 1848.
As a boy he attended district schools in
Springfield and Union townships and prepared for college
in the Lebanon
Normal School.
Entering the Ohio
Wesleyan
University
at Delaware,
he remained a student there until the illness of his stepfather
called him home to superintend the farm.
At the time of his marriage he settled on the
Brown homestead belonging
to his wife in Green Township,
lived there eight years, and then bought the farm where he now
resides.
Mr. Rittenour and family
have one of the very attractive and pleasantly situated homes of
Ross
County.
His dwelling is a handsome and commodious brick house,
surrounded by a beautiful lawn.
The house is one of the old landmarks, having been built in
1842 and on the farm is a much older relic of early days, a barn
that was constructed in 1808, and whose solid timbers after more
than a century show the quality of pioneer construction.
Mr. Rittenour owns
540 acres while his wife has 216 acres.
In
1871 he married Mary Alice
Brown.
Mrs. Rittenour was born
in Green
Township February 17,
1849. Her father, Isaac Brown,
was a native of Virginia
and of colonial ancestry.
Her grandfather,
Timothy Brown, came to Ohio and one of the early settlers in the
fall and when only parts of the distance had been covered to the
destination they stopped for the winter.
In the spring they arrived in Ross County,
where grandfather secured timbered land in Green Township,
and erected the log buildings and other improvements which were the
beginning of a farm. The
grandfather died there at the age of eighty-five, his children
having been named William, David, Timothy, James, Maria, Amos, J. Wesley, Isaac, Rachel
and Amelia.
Isaac Brown, father of
Mrs. Rittenour, was
reared and educated in
Green Township, and eventually secured a part
of the old homestead.
There he erected a brick house and frame barn, and engaged in
farming until his death in 1853.
The maiden name of his wife was
Elizabeth Clingman, who
was also a native of
Green Township, and who died is 1851, leaving
two children, Clara, wife
of Joseph Rogers, and
Mrs. Rittenour. Mrs.
Rittenour after her mother’s death was cared for by her uncle,
Amos Brown, who had succeeded to the ownership of the old homestead.
Amos Brown was a man who rendered some very useful service to the
people of Ross County in early days.
He was a teacher and a man of fine integrity of character.
He never married, but cared for his mother in her last years,
and willed his estate to his nieces,
Mrs. Rittenour and
Mrs. Rogers. This estate
is still owned by them.
Mr. and Mrs. Rittenour
have four children, Floyd
Isaac, Ora Jeannette,
Charles Warren and
Lillian Jane. Floyd I.
married Marietta Gould, lives at
Calexico,
California, and has two children
named Ruth Jeanette and
Robert Gould.
The son Charles married Louise Irwin,
and lives at Kingston, Ohio, and has a son
Charles Warner. Mr. and Mrs.
Rittenour and children are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Mrs. Rittenour
and her daughters being members of the Foreign Missionary Society
and the Ladies’ Aid Society.
All the children received part of their education in the
Ohio Wesleyan University
at Delaware.
Charles, Ora and
Lillian are members of
Scioto Grange.
Politically Mr. Rittenour
is a republican.
Mr. Rittenour’s farm is
known as “Maple Bend.”
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ANDREW P. ROBINSON.
Prominent among the enterprising and progressive men who
have been instrumental in promoting the agricultural
prosperity of Ross County is Andrew P. Robinson,
who has accumulated wealth in his farming operations,
and is now living retired from active pursuits in
Chillicothe. A son of James McDill Robinson,
he was born June 28, 1859, in North Union Twp., Ross
County, coming from pioneer stock, his grandfather,
John Robinson, having been an early settler of that
section of the county.
Joshua Robinson, Mr. Robinson's
great-grandfather, came with his family to the Northwest
Territory in 1795, accompanying Gen. Nathaniel Massie
and his little band of followers. A short
distance below the falls of Paint Creek, near the
present site of Bainbridge, the party encountered a band
of Indians, and in the fight which ensued Joshua
Robinson was fatally wounded. He wore at the
time a red broadcloth vest which was later found on an
Indian, who had evidently exhumed the body and
appropriated the garment for his own use.
John Robinson was born in Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, in 1788, and at the age of seven years,
just after the death of his father, he was adopted by
his Uncle William. He grew to manhood in Ross
County, and during the War of 1812 served as a corporal
in Capt. Alexander Manary's company. He
subsequently bought a tract of timbered land on Dry Run,
South Union Township, and from the wilderness hewed a
farm, which is still owned by his descendants.
There he lived until his death, at the venerable age of
ninety-eight years, and his remains are now resting in
the McDill, died in middle life. Seven of their
children grew to years of maturity, as follows:
Joshua, John D., Wilson, Sarah, Isabelle, James M. D.,
and Hannah.
Born in 1815, on the parental homestead, in South
Union Township, James McDill Robinson became
familiar with all branches of agriculture when young.
In early manhood, in partnership with his brother
Wilson, he bought land in North Union Township, and
began life for himself as a general farmer and stock
raiser. Several years later he bought out the
interest of his brother Wilson, who moved to
Logan County, Illinois, and continued farming by
himself. Later he moved with his family to
Circleville, where his children might have good
educational advantages. In 1875 he bought the farm
in South Union Township, and there, three days after
assuming its possession, his death occurred, in the
month of March, 1875. He married Catherine Poe,
who was born in Chillicothe in 1816, a daughter of
Andrew Poe, Jr. Her grandfather, Andrew
Poe, Sr., was one of the early explorers of the
Northwest Territory, coming to this part of the country
when the Indians were numerous, and deeply resented the
invasion of the palefaced whites. From Volume I,
"Howe's History of Ohio," we make the following extract:
"Adam and Andrew Poe.
"In 1782 seven Wyandotte Indians invaded the
section some distance below Fort Pitt and killed an old
man living alone. Among them was a Wyandotte
chief. Eight men, including Adam and
Andrew Poe, started in pursuit. They used
every precaution against an ambuscade. A short
distance before they reached the river, Adam Poe
left the party, and went ahead to the river, and there
saw the Chief, a very powerful man, and a small Indian.
He raised his gun to shoot the Chief, but the gun missed
fire, the click, however, attracting the attention of
the Indians. Being too near to successfully
retreat, he sprang upon the Indians, and threw them both
to the ground. The smaller Indian got away and
tried to tomahawk him, but he kicked the Indian and
knocked the tomahawk from his hand, then broke from the
Chief, picked up the Indian's gun, and shot the smaller
one. Then the Chief seized him, and they struggled
and fell into the river, where each tried to drown the
other. After struggling for some time Adam Poe
drowned the Indian."
Andrew Poe, Jr., was born in Penn County, Oct.
21, 1781, the year prior to his father's encounter with
the Wyandotte chief. He was subsequently one of
the earlier settlers of Chillicothe, where he lived
several years. He then removed to his farm, in
West Scioto Township, and there he died, Oct. 30, 1861,
his body being buried in Grand View Cemetery.
Mrs. Catherine (Poe) Robinson died in November,
1875, leaving two children, Elwynn S. and
Andrew P.
Receiving his elementary education in the rural
schools of his native township, Andrew P. Robinson
continued his studies for a while in the Circleville
schools, later taking a course at the Chillicothe
Business College. Returning then to the home farm,
he assumed its management, and was there profitably
engaged in cultivating the soil until 1905, when he
removed to his present home in Chillicothe, where he is
living retired from active pursuits, enjoying a well
deserved leisure. Mr. Robinson did not sell
his land, however, but still owns, in Union Township,
two farms, aggregating 386 acres, which he operates
through tenants, and he also has an interest in valuable
farming property in Logan County, Illinois.
Mr. Robinson married, in 1886, Jennie
Isabelle Woodside Clark, who was born in
Chillicothe, a daughter of Hon. Milton Lee Clark,
of whom a sketch may be found elsewhere in this work.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have three sons, namely:
Elwynn Wilson; John Drew, who served fro three years
in the Regular Army, having been sergeant of Company B,
First United States Infantry, one year in Vancouver
barracks, State of Washington, and two years at
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JUDSON G. ROBINSON,
one of the popular farmers of Concord township, Ross
county, belongs to a family which owes its origin in
America to a pretty romance of a kind that delights all
who "love a lover." During the latter half of the
eighteenth century, so the story runs, a young Irishman
employed in his native country as coachman for Lord
Somebody, was audacious enough to fall in love with
his master's daughter, and, as sometimes happens in real
life as well as in novels, the fine young lady
reciprocated the affections of her humble admirer.
But the parents, of course, objected, as they always do
when wealth and title are on one side and poverty with
humble birth on the other. Were this not the case,
however, the "course of true love" would run smoothly
instead of always roughly, as declared by the
Shakespearean maxim. However this may be, the
young Irishman and his lady love took the only step that
was left to them - they defied parental authority and
eloped to America. Usually the moral which follows
in such cases is involved in that old saw about marrying
in haste and repenting at leisure. But young Robinson
and his bride, though they married in haste did not
repent at all but "lived happily ever afterward."
They located in Pennsylvania, worked industriously and
accumulated considerable property. In course of
time the parents of the bride relented and wrote for the
runaway couple to return home, be forgiven and receive
the parental blessing. But the proud pair rejected
the overtures with scorn, obstinately refused to go back
and even went so far as to reject their share of the
legacy that was subsequently left them. From this
self-respecting parentage sprang a numerous progeny,
including a son named Joseph Robinson, who was
born and grew to manhood in Pennsylvania. He
married a Miss Thornton, migrated with her to
Ohio, settled in Ross county and joined the industrious
army that was cultivating the virgin soil of that rich
agricultural region. Joseph Robinson was
the father of five children, one of whom, named after
himself, was born in Pennsylvania in 1803 and brought to
Ohio while quite young. Joseph Robinson, Jr.,
grew up in Ross county and in early manhood married
Mary, daughter of William Kilgore, who was a
notable man in his day. A native of Virginia, he
came to Ross county with the first rush of settlers,
enlisted as a soldier in the war of 1812, rose to the
rank of captain and was killed in battle.
Joseph Robinson and his wife had twelve children, of
whom ten grew to maturity. The youngest of this
household was Judson G. Robinson, born in
Buckskin township Ross county, in 1848. After he
grew up he entered naturally into the ancestral pursuit
of agriculture and that has been his constant occupation
since arriving at adult age. He was married in
1878 to Sallie Shobe, a native of Indiana, and
they have five children: Bessie, Minnie, Harry,
Della and Daisy. Mr. Robinson is
a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity.
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RAMEAL
D. ROBINSON, M. D., of Hallsville, a recent
recruit and promising addition to the younger members of
the medical brotherhood in Ross county, is an Ohioan by
nativity with a long and honorable lineage constituting
his ancestral tree. It was in 1818, when the
western wilderness was still an unknown land in the
East, that Dr. Fenn Robinson left his home in
Watkins, Schuyler county, N. Y., to seek a location for
the practice of his profession. He crossed the
mountains to the Alleghany river and went down that
stream on one of those crude but useful mediums of
communication known as a flatboat. After many
delays he made his way to Meigs county, where he settled
and for many years afterward pursued his vocation in
Ohio and the neighboring state of Virginia. Before
leaving the East, his oldtime physician and married a
Miss Chapman by whom he had seven children, among
the number being Phineas Robinson, whose
birth occurred in Lewis county, N. Y., in 1803.
The latter grew up to be a man of influence in the Whig
and Republican parties and took a prominent part in the
political contests of his time. Eventually, also,
he accumulated much property and became a farmer on an
extensive scale for those days. He sent many
flatboat cargoes of wheat, flour and other products of
the Ohio valley to the great southern mart at New
Orleans and amassed wealth as the result of this
primitive trade. Phineas Robinson married
Sula Elliott, who through her mother was a
descendant of Gen. Rufus Putnam, brother of the
more celebrated Israel Putnam of Revolutionary
fame. The wife died early in life but her husband
survived until 1892. His son, E. D. Robinson,
was born in Meigs county in April, 1841, was educated at
the Chester Academy and afterward taught school for a
while. About this time the civil war opened and he
promptly enlisted in the Eighteenth regiment of Ohio
volunteer infantry. He served the three months for
which his command had been engaged and then reenlisted
in Company A, Second West Virginia cavalry, with which
he remained until the close of hostilities. He
took part in the battles of Winchester, Cedar Creek and
Five Forks, receiving a wound on the last mentioned
field which caused his detention in hospital until after
the surrender of Lee. He was mustered out in July,
18655, with the rank of first lieutenant, returned to
his farm in Meigs county, figured in politics on the
Republican side, was elected sheriff twice and served
out both terms. He is a member of the Masonic
order and the Grand Army of the Republic. He
married Emily F., daughter of Jeremiah and
Emily (Dudley) Hoyt, and by her had seven children,
of whom five are living. Included in this number
is Dr. R. D. Robinson, who was born in Meigs
county, Ohio, Nov. 1, 1869, and in early youth became a
graduate of the academy at Chester. After
finishing his literary course, he entered the office of
Dr. Rine at Long Bottom, and took up the study of
medicine. This preliminary preparation having
qualified him for the higher work, he matriculated at
the Ohio Medical college in Cincinnati, and received his
medical degree from that institution with the graduating
class of 1893. Dr. Robinson first opened an
office at Pomeroy, Ohio, but better inducements were
offered at Hallsville, and there, accordingly, he
settled in September, 1893. HE received a friendly
welcome and was soon numbered among the busy physicians,
gradually building up a substantial and steadily growing
patronage. He is a member of the Ross County
Medical society, and his fraternal connections are with
the Adelphi lodge, No. 675, Knights of Pythias, and
Hallsville camp, No. 9,543, Modern Woodmen of America.
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