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ASCHINGER - PIKE COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 PIKE COUNTY - PART 7 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:39:24 -0400 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: Ross J, PATTON Family Bible From: bridges The following information is from the hand written section of the Ross J. PATTON Family Bible that we recently bought at an antique shop. This bible is ca. 1872 (the earliest date that we have found so far). The Bible is very worn and fragile, as you can imagine. A few things even made it through also: like two different locks of hair, one says "Moms' hair", it is lighter than the second one. There are clippings from the newspaper obits for Mr. Ross PATTON, Birdie May HANNA and a memoriam for Jane GIVEN. Most of that can be copied, no problem. We haven't figured out the best way to go about getting the center pages (personal hand written pages) copied, but we will keep trying to figure out how to solve this problem. So far taking a digital photo has been the best, but produces a slightly blured picture when printed. The wedding certificate page is very ornate, I will give you the information that is hand written on these pages as follows. Ross J. PATTON of New Rumley , Ohio and Elizabeth GOODLIN of Bacon Ridge, Ohio were married Sept.20, 1866 at Springfield, Ohio. By Rev. J. CONNOR BIRTHS: Ross J. PATTON Sept. 12, 1843 Elizabeth GOODLIN Sept 13, 1843 CHILDREN: Clara Bell Aug. 10, 1867 William Edward Sept 12, 1869 Ina Dale Aug 24, 1871 Infant Son Nov. 11, 1873 Infant Son Feb. 21, 1875 Infant Daughter Nov. 17 1877 Harry Floyd Mar. 23, 1879 Tommy PATTON May 18, 1881 Anna PATTON Aug. 20, 1883 MARRIAGE: J.P L IGGETT of Hopedale, Ohio and Clara Bell PATTON of Hopedale, Ohio on Jan 27, 1886 at Hopedale, Ohio were married by Rev. STANN. De Los BENEDICK of Wheeling, W. Virginia and Ina D. PATTON were married, March 16, 1892, by the Rev. J.J. BILLINGSLEY at Toronto, Ohio. Edward W. PATTON of Toronto, Ohio and Miss Leota PARKINSON were married May 30, 1894 by Rev. W.D. STARKEYat Toronto, Ohio. DEATHS Children of Ross & Elizabeth PATTON AGE Infant son Nov. 28, 1873 17 days Infant Son Feb. 22, 1875 1 day Infant Daughter Nov 17, 1877 1 hour Harry Loyd Mar 22, 1880 1 year Tommy Feb.16, 1882 9 months Anna Feb. 7, 1885 16 months & 23 days Elizabeth PATTON June 9, 1920 76 years, 8 months & 26 days Ross PATTON Apr 1, 1925 81 years & 7 months Digital photos of any of the pages that we take can be had by sending us your e mail address and requesting same. Copies of the obituaries and other printed clippings can be had by sending a SAS envelope with 33 cents postage on a business size envelope. No, the bible is not for sale at this time or the locks of hair mentioned. Perhaps some time in the future we will determine if we will. Hope this will help anyone that is researching this family. Your friends in Genealogy, Shirley and Ron ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:59:42, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: W.F. ASCHINGER - PIKE COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, Page 149 W.F. ASCHINGER is president of one of Columbus' most important industries, The Columbus Show Case Company, a business with which he started in 1897. Experience has made him familiar with all the practical business as well as technical side of show case manufacture, and his individual promotions in the business have been matched with the rapid growth and expansion of the facilities of a concern, one of the foremost of its kind in the United States. Mr. Aschinger, who was born at Beaver in Pike County, Ohio, was two years of age when his parents located at Columbus. He grew up in the capital city, attended the public schools, and was a youth when in 1897 he went to work in the plant of what industry had been founded in 1895 by W.J. Deardorff. Mr. Deardorff was an expert in the wood working and cabinet making industry, and in addition he had always a kindly interest in his empoyes, particularly in young Aschinger, whom he encouraged in every way to master the show case making trade. Mr.Aschinger for several years was employed in the various technical and mechanical departments of the business, was also made acquainted with the business offices, and eventually became a member of the firm. In 1914 he acquired most of the interests of Mr. Deardorff, becoming president and active head of the corporation. Mr. Deardorff then retired and has since lived in his old home in Iowa. The magnificent new plant now occupied by the Columbus Show Case Company was completed early in 1923. The building, located on West Fifth Avenue, west of the Olentangy River, is of steel and concrete construction, two stories high, with a frontage of 500 feet on Fifth Avenue. It is one of the modern type of factory buildings that present a handsome architectural appearance. In construction and arrangement it has carried out the most modern ideas in industrial building, great windows affording a flood of light, and the building itself is always plenty of fresh air and light. Working conditions for employes are ideal, and arrangements permit not only perfect efficiency in operation, expeditious handling of each step in the manufacture, but also the advantage and welfare of the workers themselves. Many of the machines were specially made for the plant, and this is one of Ohio's industries that might profitably be studied for advanced lessons in shop practice. The company manufactures a complete line of all plate glass and wood frame floor cases, wood frame counter cases, bakery display cases for both wholesale and retail bakers, sectional unit wall cases, plate glass set-on-top cases and glass window display sets. These designs are carried in stock at all times in several different finishes and in many different lengths and it is the company's boast that they can equip the average store complete with display equipment which they carry in stock at all times. The company's products are sold by leading wholesale and jobbing houses in every state in the Union and in some foreign countries. A large part of the production is devoted to manufacturing special advertising display cases in large quantities which are used to promote the sale of small articles in the retail stores. The company has served some of the largest organizations in the United States and in several instances have manufactured thousands of cases for one concern. The officers of the company are: Mr. Aschinger, president and managing executive; James M. Hengst, vice president; A.L. Odebrecht, secretary and treasurer; John Aschinger and W.J. Deardorff, directors. A number of the expert workers have been with the organization for many years and the spirit of the personnel has had much to do with the success and the prosperity of the business. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:59:52, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: PIKE COUNTY - PART 7 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 In the day of flat-boating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, the mysterious disappearance of men who had started for New Orleans with cargoes of product, was no uncommon occurrence. It was the custom to take a cargo down the rivers, and if the pioneer merchant had escaped the perils of the river and successfully disposed of his cargo, he had a still greater peril to face when, with his gold on his person, he journeyed on horseback toward home. The Mississippi country was infested with robbers and murderers, ever on the lookout for unwary victims. THE SWEARINGEN MYSTERY. -A black mystery to this day enshrouds the fate of Duke Swearingen, who succeeded Gov. Lucas in his mercantile business at Piketon. About 1823 Swearingen started for New Orleans with a flat-boat load of flour and meat. After he passed out of the Ohio into the Mississippi he was never again heard of. When the time had passed when he was due at home, his friends at Piketon became uneasy about him. Weeks and months passed, and no word was received from him. A search was made for him up and down the river, and at New Orleans, and he was advertised for, but Duke Swearingen was never again heard from. Shortly after Mr. Swearingen's disappearance another merchant of Piketon, Mr. Willard, forever disappeared after a manner identical with the circumstances surrounding Swearingen, becoming lost to the knowledge of his friends. OPENING OF THE CANAL. -The canal was opened in 1832. It was announced that the water would reach Waverly on the morning of September 6th, of that year, and preparations had been made to welcome its advent. Almost the entire population of the surrounding country had flocked into Waverly "to see the water come down the big ditch." The citizens had arranged to give a grand public dinner in the open air, and Governor Lucas and Governor McArthur -who were opposing each other in the race for the governorship -were present. THE WATER DOES NOT COME. - The canal banks were packed for a long distance on either side with people eagerly awaiting the advent of the water. But it didn't come -although it was struggling bravely to reach the point where hundreds of people were waiting to greet, with ringing cheers and noisy salutes, its advancing, incurving amber wave. The trouble was, the canal was for long distances cut though gravelly land, and as a matter of course, when the water reached these gravel-bottomed channels, it was absorbed, as though by a huge sponge. It was not until such places had become well water-logged that the south-bound tide made much progress toward Waverly, but at noon a mighty shout announced its arrival at that point. THE FIRST CANAL BOAT. -Following close in the wake of the advancing tide was a boat bearing a party of jolly Chillicotheans -among them Gen. James Rowe, Dr. Coates, James Campbell and Edward Edwards -to whom the odd little craft belonged. They were the first navigators of the waters of the canal south from Chillicothe to Waverly. Their badly-built and leaky boat had an eccentric fashion of sinking every night, while they were afloat, and they were forced to amuse themselves every morning by "raising the craft" and pumping her out. The first regular passenger and and freight-boat that reached Waverly, and it came down with the water too, was the "Governor Worthington, "owned by Michael Miller and Martin Bowman of Chillicothe. It brought down quite a number of passengers from Chillicothe, and was a great curiosity. The owners had mounted a little brass cannon on the "Gov. Worthington's" deck, and fired it off at brief intervals on the way down, attracting the widest attention. All those who came either by land or water, were feasted at the great public dinner, bountifully served by a rejoicing people. Both Governor Lucas and Governor McArthur made after-dinner speeches -McArthur addressing himself directly to the Whig element present, and Lucas to the Democrats; but both joined in prophesying the incalculable blessings and wonderfully increased prosperity that would follow close upon the opening of travel and traffic on the then great waterway. The great developments of the past few years in the direction of combination and consolidation of financial enterprises, give historic interest to this combination of an early day. MUST HAVE HOGS. -In 1850 a very strong syndicate was formed by men of abundant capital with the view of getting up a corner on stock hogs. Their organization extended all over the country, their headquarters for Ohio being at Columbus. The syndicate sent out its agents everywhere and was rapidly getting the control of all the young hogs in the market. They seemed to make a particularly clean sweep of southern Ohio, and before the magnitude of their operations was discovered they had secured about every stock hog in sight. This was a move that Emmitt & Davis could not stand, as they were always in need of stock hogs to which to feed their distillery slops. Mr. Emmitt got track of a nice bunch of young hogs that could be secured in Franklin county. The hogs were held at a stiff price, and before deciding to buy them, Mr. Emmitt sent for Mr. Davis. "We need the hogs, don't we, Davis?" he asked. "Yes, sir." was the answer. "I think you had better go up and buy them." A TOUGH EXPERIENCE. -Mr. Davis mounted his little gray mare the next morning and rode up into Franklin county to buy the stock hogs and drive them home. It was a miserable journey of sixty miles, over rough roads and in very distressing weather. He reached his destination, bought and paid for the hogs, and made all arrangements for starting them on the homeward road the morning after the deal was completed. The hogs were quartered that night in an exposed field near the road. A heavy rain had fallen, and later on a terrible sleet veneered all creation outdoors with a thick encasement of ice. The poor hogs caught the full fury of the storm, and when Mr. Davis went into the field at daylight the next morning, he kicked hog after hog in the endeavor to get them to their feet, buy many of them were stark dead. With the animals that were in a condition to be driven, he started for Waverly. It was a terrible trip, but Davis, although an old man, never complained of the hardships of it. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #242 *******************************************