Harlan Twp. -
JOHN A. PEEL, farmer; P. O.
Butlerville; born Oct. 18, 1837, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and
was educated at the Military Institute, of Frankfort, Ky.;
he has followed the occupation of farming; he is single and
a member of Cynthia Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 155. His
father was Samuel Peel, a native of England; he was
married to Miss D. Baker, Newark, N. J.; the former
was born Dec. 12, 1812; the latter a few years his junior;
they were the parents of ten children - four daughters and
six sons.
Source: History of Wayne Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1039 |
Harlan Twp. -
HERSCHEL W. PRICE, carriage and
wagonmaker and undertaker; P. O. Butlerville; a native of
Hamilton Co., Ohio, and born Jan. 2, 1835. He received
a common school education in the rural schools, peculiar to
those days; he being of an industrious term of mind, he
learned the carriage and wagonmaker trade. His
ingenuity and close application to business soon made him a
successful and good mechanic. In July, 1858, Mr.
Price was united in marriage to Elizabeth McMullen,
born in this State Nov. 20, 1836; to this union three
children were born, of which two are living - Frank H.,
born April 6, 1860, and Robert, Dec. 6, 1873.
Mr. Price, being a War Democrat, aided the Union
cause in various ways; he assisted the Governor in
recruiting volunteers for the war, in which he was eminently
successful, and was frequently sent on secret missions after
deserters and derelict army officials; in 1864 he was
commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 27th Regiment of United
States Colored Troops, and followed the fortunes of the Army
of the Potomac in its terrible ordeal of fire, sword and
blood from North Anna to Petersburg, Spotsylvania, the
Wilderness, Coal Harbor, Mine Run and Petersburg are
familiar names to him, and the awful conflicts around and
about Richmond are images that are ever impressed upon his
mind. Some three yeasr prior to the war, Mr. Price
located at Butlerville, where he is now engaged in the
carriage, wagon and undertaking business; he does a good
business, and at this time is in the enjoyment of a good
constitution and has lost none of his original industry; he
is of German and Scotch descent, and to those nations he
traces much of his generous and hospitable nature. His
father was a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, born Jan. 19,
1808; his mother was also of Hamilton County and born Nov.
18, 1811; they settled in this county in 1870. The
family are historic, settling at Fort Washington, now
Cincinnati, in 1790; the grandfather of the subject of this
sketch participated in the war of 1812, beginning with
Hull's surrender and terminating some two years after.
The family was originally from Virginia. Mr. Price
is an ardent I. O. O. F., being a member of Pleasant Plain
Lodge, No. 656.
Source: History of Wayne Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: W. H.
Beers & Co., 1882 - Page 1039 |
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