Allen-Trumbull County OhArchives Biographies.....Edgecomb, Phineas S. September 5, 1795 - 
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Author: Allen County Democrat


From The Allen County Democrat, September 9, 1880

Mr. PHINEAS S. EDGECOMB was born in Canton, Hartford county, Connecticut, 
September 5, 1795.  He has been married three times.  For his first wife he 
married MARIAH BROOKS at New Mulberry, Massachusetts, and they had born to 
them three children, two of whom are still living and married.  JOHN resides 
in Missouri and LUTHER somewhere in the west.  For his second wife he married 
MAIRAH (a transposition of Mariah) a sister of his first wife, who at the time 
was a young widow residing in Chenango county, New York, Mr. EDGECOMB going 
all the way from Ohio to marry her.  The fruit of this union was one child, 
who died a few years since.  On first coming to Ohio he settled in Trumbull 
county, where he lived until 1843, thirty-seven years ago, when he moved to 
Allen county and settled in Bath township.  He purchased eighty acres of 
uncultivated land, which by his industry he has made to “bud and blossom as 
the rose.”  For his third wife he married Miss TABITHA JANE SHAFFER, of 
Auglaize county.  She is still living and in excellent health.  They have nine 
children:  MARIAH, married to THOMAS RICE; NANCY, married to MARTIN BOOPE; and 
ELIZABETH, married to Mr. PATTERSON.  Six are unmarried, all of whom are at 
home but one.  Mr. EDGECOMB is probably well known to the people of Allen 
county as any man in it, and know him but to honor and respect him.  He is one 
of the charter members of the Masonic Lodge of this city, and the oldest 
member of the Masonic Fraternity in the State of Ohio.  He has been all 
through his long life an honest, upright, industrious man.  The cultivation 
and improvement of fruit has been his pride and delight, and he has one of the 
finest orchards in the county, and his fruit cannot be exceeded.  A farmer who 
has been awarded the first premium on apples for a number of years finally 
revealed the fact that the fruit came from Mr. EDGECOMB’S orchard.  


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