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Tuscarawas
County, Ohio
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History
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
(Source: History of
Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co.,
1884)
BIOGRAPHIES
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Wayne
Twp. -
JOHN PFAEFFLY,
cheese manufacturer, Dundee, was
born in Switzerland, July 3,
1847, and is a son of Ulrich
and May (Huber) Pfaeffly. His
mother died in Switzerland,
subsequent to which his father
came to America, in 1876 and
settled in Stone Creek,
Tuscarawas County, engaging in
the manufacture of cheese.
The family consisted of two
children, John and Mary
(twins), the latter the wife of Edward
Miller. Our subject was
united in marriage, Dec. 11,
1874, with Miss Kate Stukey
to which union there were born
two children - Flora and Kate.
His wife died on Mar.
20, 1877, and on May 9, 1878, he
married Miss Mary
Stukey. One child, John
Alexander, resulted from this
union. The family are
members of the German Reformed
Church. Mr. Pfaeffly
has a fine, comfortable home, and
the best cheese factory in Wayne
Township. He has been
engaged in the business for about
twenty years.
Source: History of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio - Chicago: Warner,
Beers & Co., 1884 - Page
997
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Mill Twp. -
NATHANIEL PITTENGER,
farmer, P. O. Dennison, was born
in Harrison County, Ohio Dec. 10,
1818. He is a son of Abraham
and Susanna (Osborn) Pittenger,
both natives of New Jersey, the
former of Yankee, the latter of
Dutch descent. Abraham
Pittenger was a farmer all
his life, and came to this State
in the latter part o f1700,
settling in Harrison
County. Our subject came to
this county in 1871; he received
a limited education in a log
schoolhouse. In 1841, he
was united in marriage with Maria,
daughter of William Atkinson.
Her parents were natives of
Pennsylvania. The two
children who have blessed this
union are William
A., editor of the Dennison
Paragraph, and Susanna,
wife of John Philips, a
resident of California. Our
subject is the owner of a house
and lot in Dennison, also one in
Uhrichsville; he was a Justice of
the Peace for two years, while a
resident of Greene Township,
Harrison County, and was also
School Director. Mr. and
Mrs. Pittenger are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
in which the former has held most
of the offices. In Harrison
County he was Superintendent for
about ten years, of a Sabbath
school. In politics he is a
Republican.
Source: History of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio - Chicago: Warner,
Beers & Co., 1884 -
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Mill Twp. -
WILLIAM A. PITTINGER,
editor of the Dennison
Paragraph, Dennison, is the
only son of Nathaniel and
Maria Pittenger, and was born
Aug. 19, 1842, in Rumley
Township, Harrison County,
Ohio. His father is a
farmer, and William's early life
was spent upon the farm, amid the
dewy fields, of which he learned,
not by imitation but by
application, the sublime
mysteries of husbandry. He
early developed a love of
knowledge, and during the winters
of his stay upon the farm was
sent to the district school,
where he threaded all the
classes, and his boyish thirst
for an education being not yet
satiated he was sent to the
Hopedale Normal School, and
subsequently to Mt. Union
College, his stay in those
institutions rounding up the
period of his collegiate
education. At the age of
nineteen, he embarked in his
chosen occupation, by entering
the office of the Cadiz
Republican as an apprentice
to the printing trade, and
subsequently became foreman and
assistant editor of that
journal. The breaking out
of the rebellion, about this
time, fired his patriotism, and
he enlisted as a private in
Company C, Ninety-eighth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and served
his country faithfully, until
honorably discharged, about the
close of the war. Returning
home, he located in Tuscarawas
County, and in connection with J.
L. McIlvaine, Esq., entered
upon the editorship and
management of the Tuscarawas
Advocate, the first paper
established in the county, where
he remained a partner until
December, 1868, when he purchased
the Tuscarawas Chronicle, then
published in New Philadelphia,
and moved it to Uhrichsville and
Dennison, and conducted it until
December, 1876, when the paper
changed hands, and he retired
from the editor's chair which he
had ably filled for eight
years. From 1877 to May
1879, Mr. Pittinger
resided at Washington City, where
he held the position in the
Government printing office,
resigning which he spent about
six months as foreman of a
newspaper in Idaho Territory, but
returned to Dennison in the fall,
and on Dec. 13, 1879, founded and
established the Dennison
Paragraph. This independent
local paper was liberally
patronized from the start, and
has been quite a business
success. He is its present
editor and business
manager. Mr. Pittinger
was married, Sept. 13, 1866, to Miss
Anna E. Getzan, youngest
daughter of Philip Getzman,
Esq., of New Philadelphia,
Ohio. The union has been a
very happy one, and has been
blessed with three children - Frank
G., born July 25, 1867; Herbert
Roy, born Jan. 10, 1875; and Nellie
Louise, born July 26,
1876. Mrs. Pittenger,
who is a well educated and
intelligent lady, assists her
husband in the editorial work of
the Paragraph. Mr.
Pittenger is in the prime of
life, and possesses a sound mind
in the sound body. As a
citizen, he is straightforward,
public-spirited and
progressive. He was a
member , and for some time
President of Board of Education
organized in Dennison. In
politics, he is a conservative
Republican; in religion a
Presbyterian, being a Ruling
Elder in the church of his
choice. As a newspaper
writer, he is second to none in
the county, his compositions
being stately, elegant and
dignified.
Source: History of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio - Chicago: Warner,
Beers & Co., 1884 - Page
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