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LLOYD - History of Ohio [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #6 DR. JOHN M. EDMISTON [LeaAnn ] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:16:34, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: SHERWOOD D. MORGAN - Ohio connections WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 94-95 SHERWOOD D. MORGAN, of Huntington, took up when a young man the business which he has followed ever since, lumbering, both as a manufacturer and wholesaler. His experience makes him one of the oldest men in point of continuous service and experience in that line in the State of West Virginia. Mr. Morgan was born on a farm in Ashtabula County, Ohio, April 9, 1865, son of Charles E. and Nellie (Freer) Morgan, and grandson of Hiram Morgan, a native of Connecticut, who moved to Ohio in an early day, and was both a farmer and doctor, and of Josiah D. Freer, who came from New York and cleared up a farm in Northern Ohio. Charles E. Morgan was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and died in 1914, at the age of seventy-eight, having devoted his life to agriculture. His wife was born in New York State and died in 1912, at the age of seventy-six. They were members of the Methodist Church, and the father was a Democrat and held several township offices. Sherwood D. Morgan, third in a family of six children, three of whom are living, grew up on his father's farm in Northeastern Ohio, attended country schools and for a time taught school. At the age of twenty-four he left the home farm to go into business for himself, and in 1899 located at Sand Stone Station, West Virginia, becoming a representative there for the Crosby & Beckley Lumber Company of New Haven, Connecticut. After seven years he formed a partnership with B.E. Kile, the manufacturers of lumber with headquarters at Buckhannon, West Virginia. This company did a widely extended business for fourteen years, Mr. Morgan finally selling his interests. Since 1913 he has been conducting a wholesale lumber business, with headquarters at Huntington. He married, in 1891, Miss Nellie F. Kile, who was born in Ohio and educated in that state. Of their four children three are living: Robert K., sales manager for the Federal Motor Truck Company of Detroit; Walter E., manager and owner of the Morgan Lumber Sales Company, Columbus, Ohio; and Persis Charlene, a graduate of Marshall College in 1927, and prominent in school societies, now a teacher in the high school at New Martinsville, West Virginia. Mrs. Morgan has always been prominent in Methodist Church activities and gives much of her time to church, social and charitable movements. Mr. Morgan is a Democrat in politics. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 23:21:38 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: RICHARD J. FANNING History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub by Williams Bros., 1880 RICHARD J. FANNING Richard J. Fanning was born in Waterford, Ireland, July 31, 1845. He came with his parents to America in 1851, arriving in New York on the fifteenth of August. The family located in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was engaged in business until his death, in 1870, and was universally respected as a reliable citizen. He was a man of fine education, and an ardent admirer of the constitution and laws of the United States, and as soon as was permissible, he secured, by naturalization, the right of franchise, and cast his first vote for James Buchanan for president. Young Fanning passed his boyhood days in Cleveland, and made rapid progress in his studies. Physically and mentally he approached an early maturity, and so it was not strange that when the war broke out he had an intense interest and enthusiasm in the success of the Northern arms. He was only sixteen years of age, but having a strong desire to enter the army, he, notwithstanding the earnest opposition of his parents, enlisted, October 5, 1861, and was enrolled as a private soldier in battery C, Fifth United States artillery, at Cleveland, and was sent immediately to Camp Greble, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from which place the battery was ordered to the front in time to participate in the various battles before Richmond. Battery C was attached to the famous Pennsylvania Reserve, organized by Governor A.G. Curtin, of that State, and assigned to the army of the Potomac, under General George B. McClellan, commander in chief. The subject of this brief sketch was with battery C in the seven days battle of Bull Run; at South Mountain; and on September 17, 1862, at Antieam, where General McClellan defeated the combined forces of Lee and Jackson. At this battle Mr. Fanning received a painful, but not dangerous flesh wound on the leg, yet, although urged to do so, he would not leave the front. Three months later, December 13, 1862, he met with more serious experience. Upon that date, at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, he was severely wounded in the left arm. The bones and arteries were terribly shattered and cut, and the young soldier was totally incapacitated for further service; in fact he has never fully recovered the use of his arm. He was honorably discharged from the army, in June 1863, and returning to Cleveland, he led, for two years, a life of enforced idleness, his injury making it impossible for him to follow any vocation. In 1865, he received an appointment as clerk in the Cleveland & Mahoning railroad office, and continued to work for that company, and the Atlantic & Great Western railroad company for ten years, or until 1875. In that year, Arnold Green, esq, clerk of the supreme court of Ohio, appointed him his deputy. His efficient and faithful service as Mr. Greens assistant, and a wide personal popularity, won for him in 1877, the nomination, upon the Democratic State ticket, for the office of clerk of the supreme court. He made a splendid run, being elected by a large majority, and has served ever since in the office to which then chosen, giving unqualified satisfaction, and securing the warm personal friendship of all with whom he has had official relations, without regard to party proclivities. On the eighth of November, in the same year, Mr. Fanning was united in wedlock to M. Cecilia Miller, third daughter of the late Hon. Thomas Miller, of Columbus. By this fortunate union, and the acquirement of property where, at first, he had put an official residence, he has doubtless become, as he considers himself, a permanent citizen at the State capital. -- ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 00:03:23 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: HON. JOHN M. PUGH History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub by Williams Bros., 1880 HON. JOHN M. PUGH, ex-probate judge of Franklin County, and otherwise long a prominent citizen of Columbus, was born in Truro Township, in that county, November 7, 1823, son of David and Jane (nee Murphy) Pugh, the former of whom is the subject of another notice in this history. He was educated, in the style prevalent at that early day, in the old log school houses, to which, in his case, a substantial addition was made at the Reynoldsburg High School, and subsequently at Central college. He supported himself at these schools in the summer by teaching school during the winter. His last school was taught in the summer of 1848, at Kirkersville, Licking County. September fourth, of that year, he began reading law with Major Samuel Brush, of Columbus, remaining with him until 1851, when he was admitted to practice at the November term of the supreme court, and sworn in by Hon. Peter Hitchcock, presiding judge of that court. In the spring of that year he had been elected to his first office, clerk of what was then Montgomery Township, and included the city of Columbus. He was nominated on the Democratic ticket, and although the city was then whig by nearly six hundred majority, he was elected by a majority of one hundred and fifty-nine. In 1853, when the contest in Franklin County between the two parties was very close, he was elected auditor of the county, by the then unprecedented majority of one thousand four hundred and fifty-six. He was re-elected in 1855, and at the close of his second term retired to form a partnership in law practice with his old preceptor, Major Bush. (transcribers note..The Majors surname is spelled both as Bush and Brush in this article) Upon the retirement of the latter from practice, Mr. Pugh formed a partnership with the Hon. L.L. Critchfield. In 1863 he was nominated by the Democrats for probate judge, and was triumphantly elected, receiving subsequently the honor of four successive re-elections, retiring at last in February, 1879, after fifteen years consecutive service, being in all probability the longest term in that office to be recorded for one man in Franklin County. He also served six years upon the State board of agriculture, two years as treasurer, and one year as president. For nearly six years he has been one of the commissioners of the State Reform School for Boys, near Lancaster, having been successfully appointed to that post by Governors Allen, Hayes and Bishop, and being two years president of the board. For eleven years he was treasurer of the Franklin County Agricultural Society, and three years its president. It does not often occur that a lawyer in full practice, as Judge Pugh now is, in association with his son, John C.L. Pugh, esq., manifests so hearty an interest in agricultural affairs, and is honored with so many offices of trust in connection with them. He is emphatically a Franklin County man, and also stands stoutly by the interests of Columbus. No enterprise has ever been projected for its true interest, that has not found in him a hearty supporter. Judge Pugh was married on Christmas day, 1851, to Miss Martha F. Cook, by whom he has seven children living, four boys and three girls, one daughter having gone before. -- ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 00:11:29 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: DAVID PUGH History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub by Williams Bros., 1880 DAVID PUGH, father of judge John M. Pugh, of Columbus, and other well known residents, was born in Radnorshire, South Wales, February 8, 1769. He emigrated to this country in the spring of 1801, landing in Baltimore on the fourth of May of that year. Here he engaged himself profitably, until the spring of 1802, when he came to Ohio, then, almost without exception, a wilderness, and made a settlement in what is now Radnor Township, Delaware County, so called by him in memory of his ancestral home in Wales. He remained there until 1815, when he removed to Truro Township, Franklin County, where he died, on the twenty-fourth of October, 1857, at the good old age of eighty-eight years, eight months and fifteen days. His wife, Mrs. Jane Pugh, preceeded him but a few months to the grave, dying on the eighth of March, next previous. They left children as follows: Judge John M. Pugh, of Columbus; David Pugh, Andrew Pugh, Mrs. may Shield, and Mrs. Jane Hutson. -- ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 01:16:58, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JOHN R. LLOYD - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1928 Volume III, page 390-391 JOHN RUSSELL LLOYD, postmaster of Cambridge, has for twenty years been a business man of that city, and is a veteran of the World war, having gone overseas with the Thirty-seventh Division, largely made up of Ohio troops. Born at Martins Ferry, Ohio, December 15, 1888, he is the son of Thomas Reese Lloyd, for many years identified with the iron and steel industry in Ohio. Thomas R. Lloyd was born at Merthyr, Tydfil, Wales, in 1854, and came to the United States at the age of sixteen. From the ranks of steel and iron workers he rose to executive responsibilities, and in 1902 came to Cambridge as the first superintendent of the Cambridge Rolling Mills Company. Later he became superintendent of the Greenville plant of the United States Steel Corporation, and continued there until he retired to private life. He is a republican, and while living at Martins Ferry was a member of the School Board. He is also a Mason and Presbyterian. Thomas R. Lloyd married Rosanna M. Thomas, who was born in Gallia County, Ohio, her father being a Congregational minister, Rev. John P. Thomas. Fifth in a family of ten children,John Russell Lloyd was fourteen years of age when the family moved to Cambridge, and after completing his education at the high school there he engaged in the retail shoe business in 1903. The firm of Lloyd & Ruby, shoe merchants, is still in existence in Cambridge. Subsequently Mr. Lloyd acquired other interests, and is now president of the Bellaire Stove Company, manufacturers of an extensive line of cast iron stoves. The plant is at Bellaire, Ohio. In July, 1917, Mr. Lloyd became a private in the One Hundred and Twelfth Ammunition Train of the Thirty-seventh Division, Ohio National Guard unit, subsequently being made first sergeant of Company E, and later regimental supply sergeant of Headquarters Company with that division. With the Thirty-seventh he had eleven months of overseas experience in France and Belgium. Mr. Lloyd after the war became one of the organizers and the first adjutant of Cambridge Post No. 84 of the American Legion. He was the first and has been the only secretary of the Kiwanis Club. The late President Harding appointed him postmaster of Cambridge, March 3, 1923, and his time is fully given to the administrative details of the office. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Lloyd married Miss Margaret Patterson of Cambridge, and their two sons are John Russell, Jr., and Thomas Reese. ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 00:33:33 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: DR. JOHN M. EDMISTON History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub by Williams Bros., 1880 DR. JOHN M. EDMISTON, was born near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-seventh day of November, 1790. He was graduated from Dickinson college, and afterwards from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. He came West, first visiting Lexington, Kentucky, where he had two sisters, and thence to Franklinton, early in 1814, with letters of introduction to Lucas Sullivant, whose family physician he became. Very soon afterwards he removed to Columbus, which had just been laid out, and was the first physician to locate in the new town. On the twenty-second day of June, 1820, he was married to Miss Matilda A. Gwynne, a native of Alleghany County, near Cumberland Maryland, but at that time residing with her mother in Columbus. Soon after, he erected a two-story brick residence, at the northeast corner of High street and Walnut alley. This was one of the first brick houses built on High street. it is still standing, and occupied by Dr. Tod. Dr. Edmiston was a fine physician, and a cultivated and refined gentleman. His professional services were greatly sought; but he was not well suited to endure the hardships of a physicians life in a sparsely settled country, where the calls were mostly at night, and the roads often almost impassable on horseback, the usual means of traveling in those pioneer days. The labor and exposure were great, and his health finally gave way. At the early age of forty-four, on the twenty-third day of July, 1834, he died, leaving a widow and five children. His family were well known in Columbus, after his death. Mrs. Edmiston died on the twenty-fourth day of November, 1874, highly beloved and esteemed by a very large circle of friends. The only survivor of the family is Elizabeth jane, wife of Henry C. Noble, of Columbus. -- -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #76 ******************************************