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BIOGRAPHIES
The following biographies are extracted from:
Source:
The County of Ross: a history of Ross County, Ohio
By Henry Holcomb Bennett
Published by S. A. Brant, Madison, Wis.,
1902
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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
Methodist Episcopal church in Chillicothe.
The County of Ross: a history of Ross County, Ohio
by Henry Holcomb Bennett -
Published by S. A. Brant, Madison, Wis., 1902 - Page 373 |
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
a career of usefulness.
Source: The County of Ross: a history of Ross County, Ohio
by Henry Holcomb Bennett -
Published by S. A. Brant, Madison, Wis., 1902 - Page 374 |
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 year 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
the earth.
Source: The County of Ross: a history of Ross County, Ohio
by Henry Holcomb Bennett -
Published by S. A. Brant, Madison, Wis., 1902 - Page 374 |
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
which Mr. Arledge has been a member for many years.
Source: The County of Ross: a history of Ross County, Ohio
by Henry Holcomb Bennett -
Published by S. A. Brant, Madison, Wis., 1902 - Page 375 |
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