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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Portrait and Biographical Record
of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio.
containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and
Representative Citizens Together with
Biographies and Portraits of the Presidents of the
United States.
Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros.
1892
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DENNIS DENNY
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 190
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SAMUEL DETRICK
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 422
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SQUIRE J. N. DeVORE
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 592 |
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SQUIRE J. N. DeVORE.
Logan County is conspicuous for its magnificent farms,
that are faultless in the way of management, and the
order in which they are kept. Those in Zane
Township are especially advantageously located, and land
being rolling and well watered, fertile and productive.
No one is to be more complimented on the perfect method
and order with which his agricultural affairs are
conduced than he whose name is above. He is
engaged in farming and stock-raising one-half mile
northwest of West Middleburgh, where he has a good home,
the house being commodious and attractive, and the barns
and granaries capacious and well-filled. The
fields are wide-spreading and productive.
Squire De Vore was born in Champaign County, Ohio on
the 16th of October, 1835, and is a son of Moses and
Rachel (Inskeep) De Vore, both natives of Ohio, the
father born in Champaign, and the mother in Logan
County.
Our subject's grandfather, James De Vore, was
born in France, and came to America when a young man,
settling first in Washington County, Pa., and afterward
in Champaign County, Ohio, where he was one of the early
settlers. He was married in Pennsylvania to one of
that State's fair daughters, and reared a large family
of children. The father of our subject was born on
the 22d of February, 1811, and passed his boyhood and
youth in his native county. He married Miss
Inskeep, who was reared in Logan County, and who was
the daughter of Joshua Inskeep a native of the
Old Dominion. Mr. Inskeep came to Ohio at
an early day, was one of the pioneers of Logan County,
and a prominent man. He was a preacher in the
Methodist Church, was also in the Methodist Protestant
Church, and built one of the first churches in the
township. He was also engaged in the sawmill
business for many years. In politics, he was a
Whig. Moses De Vore and wife celebrated
their nuptials in Zane Township, Logan County, Ohio, in
1833, and afterward located in Union County, Ohio, where
they improved a large farm of four hundred acres.
A log cabin was first erected, but this was subsequently
removed and a good, substantial frame structure took its
place. The mother died when about forty-three
years of age, but the father is still living, and
resides on his farm in Union County, and although
eight-one years of age, time has dealt leniently with
him, and he is still quite active and vigorous. He
has remained on this farm ever since his marriage, with
the exception of about three years, when he went to take
care of his father and mother.
Of the nine children born to this worthy couple, four
sons and five daughters, all but one grew to mature
years, and four sons and three daughters still survive.
Our subject, the second son and second child, was
educated in the log schoolhouse of pioneer days, with
the slab seats and other crude contrivances in the way
of school furniture, and assisted his father in clearing
the home place. Before he was of age, he bought
his time of his father, paying $100 in cash for his
services from the age of twenty until he attained his
majority. On the 23d of October, 1855, he led to
the altar Miss Mary Morton, a native of Ohio,
born in Columbiana County, Dec. 2, 1835. She came
with her parents, Israel and Hannah (Conn) Morton,
to Logan County, Ohio, when nine years of age. She
was the youngest of ten children, and was left
motherless when but an infant. Her father and
mother were natives of the Keystone State.
Following his marriage, our subject located first in
Union County, Ohio, where he remained two years, and
then moved to Logan County, Zane Township, where he has
made his home ever since. He first settled in a
little log cabin of round logs, 18x18 feet, and in this
he and his most excellent and cultured wife resided for
seventeen years, gathering around them, by energy,
industry and good management, many comforts and
conveniences. They improved the place in every
way, and in 1875 erected a cozy and convenient house
which cost them $1,000. They now have one hundred
and seventy-one acres of as good land as is to be found
in the county, and the most of this Mr. De
Vore cleared himself, it being covered with heavy
timber.
To Mr. and Mrs. De Vore have been born seven
children, three daughters and four sons: Jacob A.,
born October, 1856, is at home; Rachel B.
(deceased); Jennie L., wife of F. N. Johnson,
of West Liberty, is a graduate of Adrian College,
Michigan; Moses G., at home; Lewis N.,
attending the State University of Columbus, Ohio, taking
a course in civil engineering; Laural M.,
attending school at West Middleburgh, is a bright
student, and is much interested in his studies;
Sylvia A., died at the age of five years.
Mr. and Mrs. De Vore have given their children every
advantage for receiving an education, and have every
reason to be proud of the progress they have made, for
there is not a more intelligent family in the county.
Mr. De Vore is an advocate of Democratic
principles, and his first Presidential vote was for
Buchanan in 1856. He was Trustee of the township
for about five years, and held the position of School
Director for many years. There are three
Republicans to one Democrat in the township, but Mr.
De Vore, who has a host of warm friends in both
parties, was elected Justice of the Peace in 1884, and
has discharged the duties incumbent upon this office in
a creditable and satisfactory manner. He was
elected without his consent, and there has been but one
appeal of all the cases he has tried. His docket
for the pat three years shows one hundred and thirty-six
cases settled, in most without suit. He is a
member of the ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Blue
Lodge of East Liberty, and Blazing Star Chapter No. 217,
North Lewisburgh.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 292 |
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SQUIRE
J. N. DEVORE.
Duplicate Biography of the above biography of Squire J.
N. DeVore.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 592 |
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ISAAC A. DORAN
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 125
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