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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Highland County, Ohio
by Rev. J. W. Klise -
Publ. Madison, Wis.,
Northwestern Historical Association
1902
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OSCAR E. HENRY,
treasurer and manager of the Greenfield Lumber
company, is one of the popular and prosperous young
business men of the thriving city where he makes his
home. His father was a Virginian who came to
Ohio in boyhood, lived for some time in Clinton
county but afterward went to Cincinnati, where he
became prominent in the live stock and commission
business. He married
Cynthia A. Hopkins, of Clinton county, and those
of their seven children who are living are residing
at different points. Louis A. Henry, of
Minneapolis, is a teacher by profession and has held
the position of superintendent of schools.
William A. is in the drug business at
Greenfield, Charles M. is with his brother
Oscar, and Alice E. is the wife of W.
A> Bennett, of Cincinnati. Oscar E.
Henry was born in Clinton county, Ohio, shortly
before his parents removed to Cincinnati and was
reared and educated in the last named city. In
early manhood he became identified with the lumber
business and later was employed by a wholesale
concern in Cincinnati as a traveling representative
to look after their interests in Bell county, Ky.
While thus employed he obtained a practical
education in the details of this great industry
which subsequently proved a valuable equipment and
recommendation. When the Greenfield Lumber
company was organized in 1895, Mr. Henry was
invited to take charge as treasurer and manager and
that no mistake was made has been proved by his
subsequent services in connection with the
corporation. His courteous address, knowledge
of his business and strict attention to duty have
made him a welcome addition to Greenfield's
commercial circles and given him rank as one of the
leading young men of affairs in the city. For
six years Mr. Henry has been president of the
board of water-works trustees, where his advice and
watchfulness have proved of value to the city's
interests. He pays considerable attention to
Free masonry and has reached the degrees of the
Royal Arch in that influential order. In 1891
he was married to Annie, daughter of the late
James Robertson of Cincinnati, and they have
two children, William and Lucius.
Source: History of
Highland County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ.
Madison, Wis., Northwestern Historical Association -
1902 ~ Page 336 |
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CHARLES
E. HIXSON, ex-treasurer of
Highland county and at present the efficient cashier
of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank at Leesburg,
comes of strong ancestral stock long connected with
Highland county affairs. His father was
Havilah B. Hixson, born in 1824 of parents who
came early to the country, and his mother was
Alice Woodmansee, of New Jersey, granddaughter
of Francis Woodmansee. The latter owned
nearly sixteen hundred acres of land between
Lexington and Vienna, and was one of an extensive
connection of Woodmansees who have been
strong and influential in Fairfield township affairs
since 1818. Charles E. Hixson was born
in Clinton county, Ohio, in New Vienna, in 1850, and
was well educated in the common schools supplemented
by a course at the Ohio Wesleyan university at
Delaware. His first venture in business was as
a farmer, which occupation was interrupted in 1892
by his acceptance of the position of deputy county
treasurer under Harrison Rhodes. An
acceptable discharge of his deputies placed him in
the line of succession and in 1895 he received the
Republican nomination as candidate for the office of
county treasurer. He was elected and after
serving one term was reelected in 1897 by one of the
largest votes ever cast in Highland county for any
local officers. An unusually successful career
in politics seemed now open to Mr. Hixson and
he was repeatedly urged to become a candidate for
county auditor or representative but these tempting
honors he declined for the purpose of entering the
banking business. He was offered and accepted
the position of cashier in the newly organized
Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Leesburg and was
also elected a director of the same corporation.
Among his associates in this enterprise are some of
the strongest business men in Highland county and
under his direction the new banking institution has
proved very successful. In fact, Mr. Hixson
is regarded as a cool-headed, conservative and
unusually able financier which valuable business
attainments are supplemented by a courteous personal
address and popular manners. In 1878, he was
married to Mattie E., daughter of S. W.
and Lydia C. Horseman, members of one of the
representative early families of Highland county.
This union has resulted in the birth of two
children, Roy P. and Bessie M.
Source: History of
Highland County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ.
Madison, Wis., Northwestern Historical Association -
1902 ~ Page 339 |
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JAMES J. HUGHES,
a prominent farmer of Marshall township, is a
grandson of an early settler, well known in his day,
James Hughes, who came from Ireland with his
wife Hannah and six children to America in
1816. They settled first in Campbell county,
Va., and started out in June, 1825, for Chillicothe,
but were diverted by news of the malaria in the
Scioto valley, to Highland county, where they
settled a short distance east of the village of
Marshall. Seven of the ten children of
James Hughes grew up:
Peter L., Phillip, J. L., who served many years
as justice of the peace and was representative in
the legislature in 1857 to 1860 and again in 1867 to
1870; Catherine, Ann, James P.,
and Maria. James P., father of the
subject of this sketch, was born in Virginia,
Jan. 1, 1823, came with his parents to Marshall
township in infancy, and in early manhood married
Mary Stethem, of Adams county.
Their children were: Hannah, wife of A.
Davidson, of Kansas; Catherine, who lives with her
brother, J. J.; Ann, wife of James
Rice; Maria, who died Mar. 11, 1899;
Sarah Jane, who married Frank
Richert, of Cincinnati, and is now deceased;
Bridget, wife of John Ragan, of
Clinton county, and James J., whose name
heads this notice. By a second marriage, to
Jane, daughter of William Davidson,
James P. Hughes was the father of nine
children, of whom there are living: William
and Robert, of Liberty township; Teresa,
wife of James White, of Liberty; Joseph,
of Hillsboro, and Lucy, wife of Oscar
King, of Hillsboro. James P. Hughes
was not only the father of a number of the best
people of the county, but he was an active leading
man in his day, a staunch Democrat, and several
times trustee of his township. His son,
James J. Hughes, was born Feb. 22, 1861, and in
early manhood married Maggie, daughter of
James Spargur, a member of one of the old
and prominent families of the county. Their
children were: Mary Ann and
Florence, who died in infancy; Ruth, born
Sept. 16, 1894; James Ambrose, born
Dec. 7, 1896, and Helen, born Aug. 11, 1901.
Mr. Hughes is the owner of 185 acres
of land, two miles east of the town of Marshall,
which he bought in 1895. It was formerly his
father's farm, and is a valuable area for
agriculture, and one of the handsome places of the
township. He does his duty in public affairs
without seeking official preferment. He and
his wife are members of the Catholic church.
Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 -
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OLIVER H. HUGHES,
probate judge of Highland county and one of the
ablest of the younger members of the bar, comes of a
family long influential in public affairs and
prominent in all the relations of life. The
genealogical tree and its taproot in old Ireland,
whence have sprung so many of the strong, prosperous
and great men of earth, as well as the brawn and
muscle to which this country owes so much for its
gigantic industrial development.
James and Hannah Hughes, with their six
children, were part of the passengers on a vessel
which left Ireland in 1816 bound for the United
States. The little party made their way to
Campbell county, Va., where the father obtained work
on the pike roads then building and continued mostly
in this line of employment until 1825. In June
of that year the family started for Ohio with a view
of locating at Chillicothe, but owing to the
uneasiness then entertained as to the
unhealthfulness of the lower Scioto valley, they
moved on to Highland county, where land was bought
about two miles east of the present village of
Marshall. Among these immigrant children was
John L. Hughes, born in the old country March
29, 1809, and consequently at the time of his
arrival a bright Irish lad of some sixteen summers.
This youngster had the natural Irish brilliancy of
mind, united with the Irish energy of character, and
was destined to make a name for himself in the long
life which then lay before him. Before that
life of activity terminated he had acquired 1,300
acres of land in Marshall township and had risen to
be one of the leading public men of Highland county.
He was elected justice of the peace in 1843 and held
that office almost continuously for nearly forty
years. In 1857 he was elected to a seat in the
state legislature and served the three following
years; was again elected in 1867 and remained the
representative of Highland county until 1870.
In 1841 Mr. Hughes was married to
Elizabeth Carlisle, born Mar. 3, 1822, and
daughter of Rynard Carlisle, an early settler
from Virginia. The children of John L. and
Elizabeth (Carlisle) Hughes were Hannah E.,
wife of J. N. Hogsett, now farming near New
Vienna; James R., who died in 1901, aged
fifty-seven years; Sinai C., widow of
A. J. C. Blount, late superintendent of the
Children's Home; Anna E., teacher in the
Hillsboro public schools; Laura E., wife of
Dr. J. F. Blair, of Cincinnati, who died in
1896; John N., who died in 1897 at the age of
thirty-nine years; the subject of this sketch, and
Sallie B., wife of A. A. Noble, who
resides on the Hughes homestead. Oliver H.
Hughes, next to the youngest of the above
enumerated children, was born in Marshall township,
Highland county, Dec. 29, 1863. He attended
the district schools, took a course at the Hillsboro
high school, studied law with De Bruin & Hogsett
of Hillsboro, and entered the Cincinnati Law school,
where he was graduated with the class of 1890.
The death of his father having occurred Feb. 2,
1891, shortly after his admission to the bar,
Mr. Hughes took charge of the home farm and
devoted some time to arranging and settling the
affairs of the estate. In 1895 he opened a law
office in Hillsboro, and he was elected probate
judge, November 18, 1896, taking charge of the
office in February of the following year.
Judge Hughes gave such satisfaction by
his first term that in 1899 he was honored with
re-election for another three years.Source:
History of Highland County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise
- Publ. Madison, Wis., Northwestern Historical
Association - 1902 - Page 349 |
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JOHN HUGHEY,
a well known farmer of Madison township, who for
some years has enjoyed the title of Squire, is of
staunch pioneer ancestry connected with the county's
history from a very early date. His grandfather was
Charles Hughey, whose parents came from
County Donegal, Ireland, to the eastern shore of
Maryland and thence to Pennsylvania.
Charles Hughey
went to Kentucky and became one of the band of
hunters and fighters whose exploits figure so
conspicuously in the history of "the dark and bloody
ground." He was a friend and follower of the
famous Simon Kenton and often came over into
Ohio with that bold borderer in pursuit of marauding
and murderous Indians. While living in
Kentucky he married Nancy Records, and in
1803 he became a settler on Sunfish creek in Pike
county Ohio. Five years later he changed his
location to Rattlesnake creek and in 1810 removed to
Madison township, Highland county, where he died in
1816, leaving a widow and ten children. Among
the latter was Josiah R. Hughey, who
subsequently became quite prominent in the politics
of the county, being an uncompromising Abolitionist
and one of the leaders in the famous underground
railroad device to assist runaway slaves. He
held the office of justice of the peace for many
years in Madison township and died there in 1862.
In early manhood he married Sarah Parker, of
Highland county, and reared a large family of
children, all but two of whom have passed away.
Two of the sons, Charles N. and James M.,
became soldiers of the Union army during the civil
war, the former dying in a hospital and the latter
serving over three years. After the war,
James M. Hughey served two terms in the lower
house of the legislature as representative from
Highland county, was later elected to the state
senate and died during his term of office.
Nicy L., only surviving daughter of Josiah R.
Hughey, is the wife of A. B. Butler of
Highland county. John Hughey, the only
son now living, was born in Madison township,
Highland county, Ohio, March 16th, 1845, where in
early manhood he engaged in farming and stockraising
and has followed that business all his life.
He inherited a taste for politics and always lends a
hand to his party in the numerous and heated
campaigns for which Ohio is noted. In
recognition of his services, as well as his business
ability, Mr. Hughey was chosen justice of the
peace and by successive re-elections has held that
office for the last five years. Like his
father before him, he has proved a popular and
efficient magistrate, dispatching business promptly,
methodically and satisfactorily to all concerned.
In 1875 he was married to Ellen Winegar, of
Madison township, by whom he has had three children,
the only survivor being Frank N., who assists
his father in the management of the farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Hughey are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, of which he is a class leader.
Source: History of Highland
County, Ohio by Rev. J. W. Klise - Publ. Madison,
Wis., Northwestern Historical Association - 1902 -
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