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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DR. P. P. OUTLAND.     The name of Outland is one of the most influential in Zanesville, and one of the most respected by the community.  Dr. Outland, who is at present the most efficient and worthy Postmaster of the city, discharges the duties of this office in a manner that meets the approval of all.  He was born in Perry Township, Logan County, Apr. 10, 18551, and as the people have known him all his life, they have had every chance to judge of his character and qualifications.      Dr. Outland's father, Thomas Outland, a native of the Buckeye State, was born in Zane Township, Logan County, Ohio, and was the grandson of Josiah Outland, a native of North Carolina.  The grandfather was reared in his native state, was there married, and at a very early date came to Ohio, settling in Zane Township, this county, where he entered land from the Government.  He soon had a comfortable home here, and on this place were born sixteen children, all of whom reached mature years, married, and reared families of their own.  Only four of this large family now survive.      Thomas Outland, father of our subject, was the eighth child and sixth son.  He was reared in his native township and was there married to Miss Eliza Freer, a native of Warren County, Ohio, who came to Logan County, this State, with her parents when a small child.  After marriage, this esteemed couple settled on a farm in Perry Township, near the place where Mr. Outland was born, and there continued to reside until 1857, when they removed to Union County, Ohio.  From there they removed to Hardin County, and settled six miles east of Kenton, where the father passed away Jan. 8, 1876.  The mother followed him to the grave on the 22d of February of the following year.  They were excellent citizens, none better in the county, and their loss was sadly deplored.  Eight children were born to them, as follows:  Alonzo; Dr. W. H.; Salathiel L.; Erasmus; Mary Jane, wife of E. E. Smith, of Hardin County, Ohio; Dr. Philander P.; George A.; and Laura F. wife of George McClaren of Hardin County, Ohio.      Dr. P. P. Outland, the sixth child and fifth son of the above-mentioned family, received the rudiments of an education in the district schools of Union county, afterward in the district schools of Union County, afterward in the district schools of Hardin County, Ohio, and subsequently entered the Normal School of Lebanon, Ohio, in the preparatory course, and then, like many of the prominent men of this and other counties, he began teaching school.  He continued to wield the ferrule in the district schools of Hardin County for a little over two years, and then began the study of medicine.  After three yeas of hard application, he was graduated at the Eclectic College, of Cincinnati, and then located in Zanesfield, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice among the best people.  He is genial, cheerful and sympathetic, and possesses all the other characteristics of a successful physician.      On the 3d of October, 1843, he led to the altar one of Zanesfields fair daughters, Emma R. Pope, daughter of F. T. and Mary E. (Roberts) Pope, her birth having occurred in that city.  One daughter has blessed this union, Clara, who is at home.  In his political views, Dr. Outland is an ardent Republican and was appointed to the office of Postmaster of Zanesfield in July, 1891.  He is also Clerk of Jefferson Township and the village of Zanesfield, and is a popular man of the section.  He was at one time a member of the Ohio Medical Society, and he is now a member of Lodge No. 424, I. O. O. F., of Zanesfield, having held all the offices in the order. Source:  Portrait and Biographical Record of Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 337

W. H. OUTLAND.     The value to any community of a professional man is not marked merely by his learning and skill, his proficiency in medical and surgical practice, but also by his character, both private and profession, has honorable adherence to medical ethics and his personal integrity and benevolence of purpose.  When a physician combines these characteristics, it is with pleasure that we record his life work, and such a man do we find in Dr. Outland.      This physician of Jefferson Township, Logan County, Ohio, was born in Perry Township, that county, on the 20th of January, 1842, and his parents, Thomas and Eliza (Freer) Outland, were also natives of the Buckeye State, the former of Logan and the latter of Warren County.  The Doctor's paternal grandfather, Josiah Outland, was born in North Carolina and was there reared and married.  At an early period, he came to Ohio and settled in Zane Township, this county, where he entered a large tract of land from the Government.  He made many improvements on his land and here reared his large family, sixteen children, to mature years.  Only four now survive.      The father of our subject, Thomas Outland, was the eighth child and sixth son.  He passed his boyhood and youth in Zane Township and was married there to Miss Freer, who came to Logan County with her parents when a little girl.  After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Outland settled in Perry Township and there tilled the soil until 1857, when they moved to Union County, Ohio.  From there they moved to Hardin County, settled six miles east of Kenton, and there the father's death occurred Jan. 8, 1876.  The mother received her final summons on the 22d of February of the following year.  They were honest, upright citizens and were universally respected.  Eight children were the fruit of this union, six sons and two daughters, as follows: Alonzo, Dr. W. H., Salathial l., Erasmus W., Mary Jane, wife of E. E. Smith, of Hardin County, Ohio; Dr. Philander P., George A. and Laura F. wife of George McClaren of Hardin County, Ohio.      The original of this notice, the second child and second son born to the above-mentioned couple, received his primary education in the district schools of Perry Township and subsequently entered the Normal School at West Middleburgh, Logan County.  In the spring of 1861, he commenced teaching in the district school of Zane Township, this county, and during the winter of that year and the next, he taught in Union County, Ohio.  During the year 1863, he taught in Hardin County and during the fall of the same year attended the Union School of West Liberty.  He began another term of school in Hardin County, when he was taken down with the smallpox; after recovering he taught the remainder of the winter term in the spring of the same year.  Not one of his scholars took the disease.  During the winters of 1864 and 1865, he taught in Hardin County, eight miles east of Kenton, and in 1866 he taught in District No. 1, Dudley Township.  In 1867, he taught five miles east of Kenton and the same year he commenced attending the Union School of La Rue, Marion County, Ohio, remained in that institution three months and in the fall of the same year and in the following year he went back and taught in District No. 1, Dudley Township, Hardin County.  In the spring of 1868, he taught again and continued teaching until 1872, sixteen terms in all, and was a very successful and competent educator.  In1870, while teaching school, he commenced studying medicine and continued this in connection with teaching until 1872, when he went to Cincinnati and graduated with the Class of Feb. 4, 1873.  His first case was in Hardin County, a smallpox case in April, 1873.      The Doctor subsequently located at Mt. Victory, Hardin County, Ohio, in partnership with Dr. C. W. Morrow, and they continued together until November of the same year, after which Dr. Outland taught a district school in Hardin County, nine miles east of Kenton, and was engaged in teaching for three months.  On the 14th of February, 1874, he went to Cincinnati, to the same college he attended before and at the end of six weeks located in Zanesfield, where he has been in active practice, with the exception of three winters when he attended the Hahnemann College, Chicago, graduating with the Class of '82.  He is also a graduate of the Pulte College of Cincinnati and has graduated from three different medical colleges.  He also attended six terms of medical lectures while at college.      On the 11th of October, 1875, he led to the altar Miss Malinda F. Thompson a native of Zanesville, born Dec. 16, 1848, and the second daughter of Amos and Ruth (Rea) Thompson.  One child has been born to this union, Edwin Freeman born on the 6th of August, 1876, who is at home.  Dr. Outland is a member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Ohio, and is a very successful physician and surgeon.  He is pleasant and generous,, liberal in all his ideas, protector of the rights of a strong promoter of the welfare of, and in deep sympathy with, humanity.  He was made a Mason at Kenton, Ohio, in 1869, and is now a member of Latham Lodge No. 154, and also a member of Bellefontaine Lodge No. 209.  A Republican in politics, he has held the office of Township Village Clerk of Jefferson Township for seven years, discharging the duties of that office in a very satisfactory manner.  The Doctor owns a fine farm of eighty acres in Paulding County, Ohio, one mile from the Court House, and owns three good dwelling houses in Bellefontaine, two good houses in Zanesfield and other property, all the result of his own efforts.  Mrs. Outland died Apr. 19, 1892, and was laid to rest in the Zanesfield Cemetery.  In her death the community lost a valued member and the family a devoted wife and loving mother. Source:  Portrait and Biographical Record of Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 341

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