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Centennial Biographical History
of Richland Co., Ohio
Illustrated
By A. J. Baughman, Editor
Published Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Co.
1901
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GEORGE W. REED,
George Willard Reed, editor and proprietor of the
Advertiser, of Plymouth, was born Mar. 30, 1859, in Salem, Ohio.
His father, James Reed, was a native of eastern Ohio,
born in 1819, and was of German lineage. He died at
Attica, Ohio. in 1884. His wife, Mrs. Delilah
Reed, was born in Ohio in 1819, and on the mother's side
was of Irish lineage. The grand parents of our subject,
however, were natives of Pennsylvania, removing to eastern Ohio
at an early period of its development and in that part of the
state spent their remaining days, and when death came were there
laid to rest. Mrs. Reed died in
Attica, Ohio, in 1987, in her sixty-eighth year. She
became the mother of four sons and four daughters, of whom all
but one daughter are yet living: James M. Reed,
now fifty-one years of age, is a mechanic living in Clyde, Ohio;
William F. is a contractor of Hutchinson, Kansas. and is
forty-nine years of age; Clifford W., aged thirty-two, is
in the service of the Western Union Telegraph Company, of
Chicago, Illinois. The sons are all married and are in
prosperous circumstances. The daughters are Mrs. Alvira
Spencer; Mrs. W. O. Heavler, of Attica, Ohio;
Mrs. Charles Hardie, of Clyde, Ohio; and Mrs. John
Stark, deceased, formerly of Rising Sun, Ohio.
George Willard Reed was only a
year old when his parents removed from Salem to Attica. A
year later they took up their abode at West Union, Fayette
county, Iowa, where they lived for two years. On the
expiration of that period they returned to Attica and Mr.
Reed, of this review, was a resident of the latter city
until 1882. He acquired his education in the public
schools and on laying aside his text-books to learn the more
difficult lessons in the school of experience he entered upon an
apprenticeship in a printing office. He was then seventeen
years of age. He soon mastered the business and was
employed for several years on the Attica Journal, owned and
published by Charles Clough. Following
Horace Greeley's advice to young men, to go west and
grow up with the country, he made his way to Pierre, South
Dakota, where he was employed on the Daily Signal for three
years. In 1885 he came to Plymouth and began work on the
paper which he now owns. For ten years he was its foreman
and for three years was its editor and manager. He then
purchased the paper, on the 1st of April, 1898, and has since
conducted it, still acting as its editor. The Advertiser
is a wide-awake and popular journal, independent in politics and
well supported by the citizens of Plymouth and vicinity.
It has a circulation of one thousand and its patronage is
steadily increasing.
On the 12th of May, 1886, in Plymouth, Mr. Reed
was united in marriage to Miss Rosa L. Derringer, of
Plymouth, one of the popular young ladies of the city.
They now have three children, Evan P., Amy E. and
Kenneth M., aged, respectively, thirteen, eleven and three
years. Mrs. Reed is a daughter of William
Derringer, of Plymouth, a cooper by trade. and one of the
most highly esteemed citizens of his town, where he and his wife
have resided since 1863. Mr. Reed is a past chief
of the Ben Hur Tribe of Plymouth. In politics he is a
stalwart Republican, and his wife is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church. They are widely known in this city and
in the county and enjoy the hospitality of many of the best
homes here. Mr. Reed is public-spirited and
progressive, and through the columns of his paper and through
personal influence and financial support contributes to the
advancement of all measures which he believes will prove of
general good. His social qualities and his sterling worth
render him popular and he enjoys the high regard of all with
whom he is brought in contact.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio
- Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 217 |
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JAMES REYNOLDS.
The great interests of the Aultman-Taylor Manufacturing Company
command the services of some of the ablest business men in
America. One of
the most efficient and best known of these is James
Reynolds, of Mansfield. Ohio, who has been connected
with the old company and the new since Apr. 1, 1878, and now
fills the resposible position of treasurer. His
first duties were in closing up settlements and starting
threshing machines. After experience in such work, he was
given charge of collections in Missouri and Kansas, with
headquarters at Kansas City. He came to Mansfield in 1877
and held several positions in the collection department, one
after the other, and Oct. 1, 1891, he was made the treasurer of
the concern. The business has
increased greatly during the past ten years. In 1894 the
water tube-boiler department was added, and that alone gives
employment to about four hundred people. A large number
are employed in the thresher and other departments. The
Aultman-Taylor threshers are known the world over and
the Cahall vertical boilers and the Cahall-Babcock-Wilcox
vertical steam boilers are being sent to every part of the world
where there is use for anything of the kind.
Mr. Reynolds was born in New York city,
July 14, 1846, a son of William and Ann (Bowden) Reynolds.
His parents came from Clare, County Tyrone, Ireland, about 1836.
His mother is still living, but his father died at Utica,
Licking county, Ohio, at the age of sixty-four years, in 1885.
He came to Ohio in 1863 and located in Crawford county whence he
removed to Licking county in 1872. Young Reynolds
received a practical education in New York city. At the
age of sixteen he became errand boy in the office of a Wall
street broker. He accompanied his parents to Ohio in 1863,
and for eight years after his arrival taught country school.
After that he taught town schools and was superintendent of high
schools and inspector of schools at Crestline, Ohio, and
Warrensburg, Missouri, and other places. He came to
Mansfield in 1877 as the principal of the Fourth-ward school,
now the Tenth-ward school, and closed his career as a teacher in
1878 to enter the employment of the Aultman-Taylor
Company.
He has been active in Young Men's Christian Association
work at Mansfield and is one of the trustees of the Young Men's
Christian Association of that city, whose fine home on West Park
avenue he assisted to build with his, time and money. He
is a member of the Reformed Presbyterian church and was
superintendent of its Sunday-school for four years and taught
its bible class. He addressed the State Christian Endeavor
Society at Columbus in 1899 on “Practical Problems in Christian
Citizenship,” and is to supplement this address by another on
the same subject at the convention at Toledo in 1901. He
is greatly interested in the lines of study indicated.
Dec. 28, 1869, Mr. Reynolds married
Miss Charlotte A. Trimble, a daughter of William and Emma
Trimble, originally from Harrison county, Ohio, who were
pioneers in Crawford county. They have had four children:
Emma, who died Mar. 2, 1887, aged fifteen years;
Alexander Tully, who is his father's assistant in the
office of the Aultman-Taylor Company:
Mary Bowden Reynolds; and William Fielding,
another son, who married Miss Orpha Staninger, of
Mansfield, and is a resident of Galion, Ohio. The family
have a beautiful residence at Mansfield commanding a wide view
of the surrounding country, which has the reputation of being
one of the most hospitable in the city. Mr. Reynolds
is a hard-working business man of much progressiveness and
enterprise, who finds time to devote himself to the interests of
his fellow men along all helpful lines, and he is undoubtedly as
good an example of the up-to-date useful American citizen as
Mansfield can boast of.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio
- Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 244 |
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CALVIN ROBINSON.
Of the great department of agriculture which forms so important
an element in our national prosperity, Mr. Robinson
is a representative, being successfully engaged in farming and
stock-raising in Jefferson township. He was born in this
township Jan. 25, 1837, and, like so many residents of this
section of the state, comes of a family that was founded in Ohio
by emigrants from Pennsylvania. His grandfather, John
Robinson, was born in Ireland and when five years of age
became a resident of America.
He was reared in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and became a
farmer, following that business throughout an active business
career. He took up his abode in Richland county, Ohio, in
1814, and from the government entered one hundred and sixty
acres of timber land in Jefferson township. This tract he
cleared and transformed into richly cultivated fields. He
served in the war of 1812 and in return was given a land
warrant. Of the United Presbyterian church he was an active
member and died in that faith about 1864, at the age of
eighty-three years.
William Robinson, the father of our
subject, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1807,
and when five years of age was brought to this county, where he
was reared amid the wild scenes of the frontier, experiencing
all the hardships and trials of pioneer life. When a young
man he entered a farm in Marion county, Ohio, but remained there
only for a short time, and in 1840 purchased from a Mr.
Durbin the farm upon which his son Calvin now resides.
This he cleared and improved. making it his home until his
death, which occurred when he had attained the age of
seventy-five and a half years. His early political support
was given the Democracy, but later he joined the ranks of the
Republican party and was ever afterward one of its stanch
advocates. He held various offices. discharging his duties
in a prompt and faithful manner. Of the United
Presbyterian church he, too, was a member. In December, 1835, he
married Miss Maria Lafferty, who was born in
Harrison county, Ohio, in 1817, and came to Richland county with
her parents. Her father, John Lafferty, was
one of the representative agriculturists of his community and
died here, when about sixty-five years of age. Mr. Robinson's
grandfather. Thomas Leadom, was one of the heroes
of the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Robinson
survived her husband about ten years and was called to her final
rest at the age of seventy-five. She was a consistent
Christian woman, her church relations being with the United
Presbyterian.
Calvin Robinson, her only child, remained
at home with his parents through the period of childhood and
youth, and the public schools afforded him his educational
privileges. During the Civil war he responded to his
country's call for aid, enlisting on the 2d of May, 1864, as a
member of Company D, One Hundred and Sixty-third Ohio Infantry,
serving near Washington, D. C., for a time and afterward in the
vicinity of Petersburg and at Fort Pocahontas on the James
river. He was discharged at Camp Chase Sept. 10, 1864, and
then returned to his home.
At the time of his marriage Mr. Robinson
purchased a farm in Jefferson township and continued to
cultivate that land until his father's death, when he inherited
the old homestead, upon which he has since resided. He
here owns one hundred and sixty acres of land and also has a
small farm of forty-eight acres. He carries on general
farming and the breeding of sheep, and conducts both branches of
his business in a profitable manner. He has never
been an active politician in the sense of office-seeking, yet
for three years served as township trustee in a most capable
manner and then resigned. He voted with the Republican
party until 1884, since which time he has been a Prohibitionist,
and he holds membership in bloody Post, G. A. R., of Bellville.
He and his wife belong to the Presbyterian church, in which he
is serving as an elder. He has a nice home, a family which
does credit to his name, and his personal career has been an
honorable one, commending him to the confidence of all.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio
- Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 418 |
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THOMAS RIGDON ROBISON.
The value of high character in official and professional life is
being every year impressed upon the voting and business
population of the United States, and the declaration of
ex-President Cleveland that “public office is a public trust” is
now quite generally accepted as a truism. Mansfield, Ohio,
has in most periods of its history been favored with the
services of good and efficient officials, and few of these in
recent years have discharged the duties of public office with
greater personal credit or more entirely to the satisfaction of
the people than Thomas Rigdon Robison, who was for two
terms city attorney and who is now a member of the city council.
Thomas Rigdon Robison was born in Butler
township, Richland county, Ohio, in 1866, the only son of
George Washington and Mary E. (Stratton) Robison. His
father was a native of Juniata county, Pennsylvania, born Oct.
4, 1832, a son of James and Rebecca
Robison, who settled in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1835 and
removed to Richland county in 1837. In 1868 they went to
Indiana, and their son, George Washington
Robison, the father of Thomas Rigdon
Robison, died in Richland county in 1898. The families of
Robison and Stratton have a Civil-war record of which
any family in America might be justly proud, all of Mr.
Robison's uncles, five of his father's brothers and four
of his mother's brothers, having served in the Federal army with
bravery and credit, some of them with special distinction.
Mr. Robison attended school in Butler township
and then entered Baldwin University at Berea, and after a
thorough course in law was admitted to the bar, in 1891, and has
since practiced his profession successfully in Richland and
neighboring counties. Mr. Robison has served
two terms, being a period of four years, as city attorney of
Mansfield, and at this time is a member of the city council.
No administration of the office of city attorney was ever more
satisfactory to the people, and he is popularly regarded as a
model councilman. He has taken an active part in politics,
on the Democratic side, since he was a comparatively young man,
and he has not only been a delegate to several important
political conventions but has been the chairman of the Richland
county Democratic executive committee. He is a popular
Knight of Pythias, and has passed all the chairs in his lodge
and is now a representative of the order to the grand lodge of
the state of Ohio.
He married Miss Emma Gribben, a daughter of
Richard Gribben, a pioneer settler in Ashland county
who subsequently located in Richland county, and a niece of
Hon. John Gribben, who has ably represented
Hancock county in the legislature of the state of Ohio.
They have one child, a daughter named Verda S., a bright
scholar who has carried off the honors of her classes.
Mr. and Mrs. Robison are attendants upon the services of the
Lutheran church and liberal supporters of its various interests.
Mr. Robison's well known public spirit
renders him a particularly useful member of the city council, in
which he favors all measures which he believes promise good to
the public, and opposes all such as appear to him to have an
opposite tendency.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio
- Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 506 |
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