LICKING COUNTY OHIO - WYETH, Arthur Biography (1894) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by William J. Bertini FZDQ55A@prodigy.com Licking County Ohio USGenWeb Registry Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohlickin/index.html February 19, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Biography of Arthur Wyeth Other surnames mentioned: DECROW WRIGHT MCCONOUGHEY KASSON BUTTE From the book "Memorial Record of Licking County, Ohio", Chicago Record Publishing Company, 1894. Contributed by William J. Bertini on 19 Feb 1998. ARTHUR WYETH, an agriculturist of intelligence and infuence, residing In Liberty Township, is numbered among the progressive and energetic young men of Licking County. He owns and operates the land comprising what was formerly known as the DeCrow farm and including one hundred and sixty acres. The soil is under a high state of cultivation, and a number of neat farm buildings have been erected; modern machinery has been introduced and all the improvements have been made that mark a first-class farm. In the township where he now lives the subject of this sketch was born February 16, 1866, to Stillman S. and Libbie (Wright) Wyeth, natives respectively of Massachusetts and Licking County, Ohio. The family of which he is a member consists of five sons and one daughter·, all of whom are living with the exception of Morton. They are Newton; Clinton E.; Jennie, wife of O. H. McConoughey; Arthur and Charles L. The father of this family accompanied his parents to Ohio in 1837, settling with them in McKean Township, Licking County, where he grew to manhood upon a farm. Receiving the advantages of a common school education, he was for a number of winters employed in teaching school, in which profession he was very successful. He entered upon the active career of a farmer when about twenty-one years old and continued thus employed during the summer seasons, while the winter months were devoted to teaching. He purchased one hundred and fifty-two acres, to which he added by subsequent purchase one hundred acres, the whole when improved constituting one of the beat farms of the county. There his death occurred April 1, 1891, at, the age of sixty-one years. His widow still survives, making her home in Liberty Township. The paternal grandfather. of our subject was named David Wyeth, and was a native of Massachusetts, where for some years he engaged in farming. His death occurred in 1879, at the age of seventy-eight years. He was a man of medium height, genial in manner and upright in character, one who by his habits of industry and perseverance gained the esteem of his associates. In early life he joined the Baptist Church, but in later years identified himself with the Methodist Church. The family numbered nine children. Our subject's maternal grandfather, Jacob Wright, was born in Pennsylvannia and in an early day came to Licking County, Ohio, and he was highly respected in this community. The subject of this sketch was born and reared apon his father's farm in Liberty Township, receiving his primary education in the district school and afterward attending the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware for four years. He then taught school for a few years and was afterward in the mail service as railway postal clerk, resigning the latter position at his father's death in order to take charge of the estate. On the 24th of October, 1888, he married Miss Allie, daughter of Wilson and Mary (Kasson) Butte, and two children have come to bless their home, Cleo and Claude. Politically Mr. Wyeth is an advocate of Republican principles, supporting the nominees and measures of that party. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is serving as Trustee and Steward, also as Superintendent of the Sunday-school.