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Also See Individual Townships for biographies.
JOHN EDGAR,
who is engaged in farming pursuits within that goodly portion of
Trumbull county known as Bristol township, is a native of the north
of England, born Nov. 11, 1833, a son of George and Margaret
(Bird) Edgar. The grandparents were David Edgar, a
native of Scotland, and John and Mary Bird, of England.
John Edgar, of this biographical notice, worked
on the farms of England until 1863, when he saw better things in
store for him in free America. He came to our shores on a
steamer called Sidon. This was the boat's first trip over the
ocean and upon her return she was fitted out for Australia, but was
wrecked on the Irish coast and sank. After his arrival in this
country Mr. Edgar went to Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and
there enlisted in the Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry,
being a member of Company B. The date of his enlistment was
October, 1863. He was assigned to the Army of the James, under
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. Mr. Edgar was with his
command until the regiment was finally discharged, on July 4, at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He then returned to Mercer county,
and from there came to Mecca township, Trumbull county, Ohio, and
has followed farming from that time to the present. In 1893 he
purchased fifteen acres in Bristol township, where he now resides.
Mr. Edgar was happily united in marriage in
Nov., 1867, to Isabella McQuillen, born in Ireland, and who
came to this county in 1863. She died Feb. 16, 1908. The
children of this union were: Mary Elizabeth, at home;
Sarah E., Mrs. Andrew Marshall, of Ashtabula, Ohio; and
William D., of Champion, Ohio. Mr. Edgar is a
member of the Episcopal church. He is independent in politics
and belongs to Clayton Post of the G. A. R. of West Mecca. |
HON. EPHRAIM B.
ESHELMAN,
was born, December 8th, 1830, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He
is the son of Peter Eshelman and Mary (Carlysle)
Eshelman. He began
his education in the common schools of his native State, and
finished at a select boarding-school. He learned his trade as a
printer in the office of The Intelligencer, at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. Shortly after reaching his majority he went to Ohio
and worked a few years at his trade in Trumbull county. In 1853 he
purchased the Chillicothe Advertiser, which he edited and published
until January 1st, 1865, when he became connected with the daily
Ohio Statesman, as part owner and editor-in-chief. He retained this
connection until February, 1869, since which time he has been editor
and half owner of the Wayne County Democrat, published at Wooster.
Mr. Eshelman was Postmaster at Chillicothe under Buchanan's
administration. In 1873 he was elected from Wayne county, as a
Democrat, to the Ohio House of Representatives. He was Chairman of
the Committee on Finance and a member of the Committees on Federal
Relations and Public Printing. Mr. Eshelman is a forcible writer and
an effective speaker.
(Source: The Biographical encyclopaedia of Ohio of the nineteenth
century
Cincinnati: Galaxy Pub. Co., 1876) |
MARSHALL, JOHN G., Soldier
and Lawyer, was born, May 3d, 1823, in Trumbull county, Ohio, and is
the fourth of six children, whose parents were John and Margaret M.
(Grant) Marshall; the latter being a sister of Jesse Grant, an early
pioneer of Clermont county, and father of General Ulysses S. Grant,
now President of the United States. She was born in Pennsylvania.
John Marshall, her husband, was a native of Virginia who settled in
Trumbull county at an early day, and who followed through life both
agricultural and trading pursuits. John G. Marshall was early
trained to industry. From the age of nine until he was fourteen
years old he worked in the tannery of his uncle, Jesse Grant, and
then entered a printing office, where he learned the mysteries of
that art, and worked at this occupation in various parts of Ohio
and Kentucky until 1845.
In the latter year he commenced the study of law in
Georgetown, Brown county, under the supervision of Grafton B. White
and Hamon L. Penn, prominent attorneys of that place. He pursued his
studies with great industry and application, and having passed the
requisite examination, was admitted to the bar April 1st, 1846.
During his first year his receipts were actually less than one
dollar; but his practice began to increase, and he has continued to
reside in Georgetown until the present time, and has been constantly
occupied with professional duties, except when in the service of his
country as a soldier in the field. In June, 1847, he joined the 4th
Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and accompanied that command to Mexico. He
was an active participant in numerous skirmishes and minor
engagements in that country. Shortly after his enlistment he was
promoted to a Second Lieutenancy in Company G. His term of service
was about thirteen months, until the close of the war. In 1862 he
was commissioned Colonel of the 89th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and served with his command about three months in
Kentucky, when he resigned, and returning to Georgetown, resumed the
duties of his profession. He was Prosecuting Attorney of Brown
county for two years, and a member of the lower branch of the
Legislature for a like period. He has, in general, neither sought
nor accepted public offices of a political or partisan nature. He
was a Whig until the disintegration of that party, and has since
co-operated with the Democrats. He was enthusiastic in his
admiration of, and in his friendship for, the late Senator Stephen
A. Douglas. Religiously his views are not circumscribed by the
doctrines of any particular church. He is agreeable, affable, and
courteous in manner, and of unimpeachable honesty and integrity. He
was married in 1849 to Ann B., sister of Hon. Chilton White, of
Cincinnati. She died in 1863. During the following year he was
united in marriage to Amanda Jenkins, a native of Brown county,
Ohio.
(Source: The Biographical encyclopaedia of Ohio of the nineteenth
century
Cincinnati: Galaxy Pub. Co., 1876) |
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