Hancock-Portage County OhArchives Biographies.....Oman, Joseph 1807 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   JOSEPH OMAN, farmer, P. O. Arlington, was born in Columbia County, Penn.,
October 17, 1807. He moved to Portage County, Ohio, in 1833, and came from
there, in 1837, to Eagle Township, this county, where he had been and purchased
land the year before, paying for it in Canton bank notes, which money became
worthless a few days after he made the purchase, by the failure of the bank.
Joseph Oman was united in marriage. February 6, 1837, with Miss Eliza Ann Frees,
of Seneca County, Ohio, a native of Columbia County, Penn. After their marriage
Mr. and Mrs. Oman moved to their new place, and began the pioneer work of
clearing it up and making a home. There being no mill near, they had to grate
corn to make bread. He succeeded in developing a fine farm of 320 acres. The
children of Mr. and Mrs. Oman are Jacob F., now living in Schuyler, Colfax
County, Neb. (He was a soldier in Company B, Twenty-first Regiment Ohio
Volunteer Infantry ; was taken prisoner at Chickamauga, and held in various
prisons in the South until the close of the war. He earned an honorable record
as a brave and faithful soldier.) The next son, Henry, now at home, was a
soldier in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment Ohio National Guards;
Wesley B. F. was also a soldier in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment
Ohio National Guards. (He united in marriage, March 15, 1883, with Miss Amy D.
Mahon; they have one son, John Wesley.) John H. is at home; Rachel Ellen died at
the age of ten months. The mother of these children died of paralysis, June 19,
1884. The entire family are earnest Republicans. Joseph Oman is very firm in his
temperance principles, having signed the pledge during his pioneer days in
Portage County, Ohio. He would never join in the general custom of treating, and
his sons have followed in his footsteps in this regard. Mr. and Mrs. Oman were
two of the first seven to form the Keller Methodist Episcopal Church, and in
1879 they united with the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Mr. Oman is one the
leading and honored pioneers of Eagle Township.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Eagle Township




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