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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                    Volume 99 : Issue 64

Today's Topics:
  #1 SMITH - History of Ohio              [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #2 HIRAM COOK - History of Ohio         [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #3 Old letter 12/5/1898 Madison Co, O   ["Mike and Christi Brogan" <brogan@]
  #4 Funeral program: Margaret (Calvert   ["Mike and Christi Brogan" <brogan@]
  #5 Obit: Margaret F. (Grant) Calvert,   ["Mike and Christi Brogan" <brogan@]

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X-Message: #1
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 21:11:02, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: SMITH - History of Ohio


HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume I, page 440 (In the section COUNTIES OF OHIO, under UNION COUNTY, is
the following paragraph.)

        WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, born in New York, 1833, was brought to Union
County at the age of three years and here he grew up to young manhood. He
was journalist, private secretary to Governor Brough, Secretary of State of
Ohio, editor of the St. Clair Papers and an intimate friend of President
Rutherford B. Hayes.

Volume II, page 560 (under the heading FIFTY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY -
Regular Session, January 4 to April 12, 1858; Adjourned Session, January 2
to April 6, 1859 the following paragraph appears.)

        Another name which in after years became noted throughout the
United States appeared in the journals of this Fifty-third General
Assembly. William Henry Smith, then a young man of twenty-five years,
representing the Cincinnati Commercial as legislative correspondent, is
shown by the records to have been expelled from the privileges of the
floors of the houses because of some comments he had made upon the debates.
During the war Smith took an active part in the raising of troops, was
largely instrumental in bringing John Brough to the front for governor, and
was his private secretary after election to the office - the first of a
long line of newspaper men to hold that position. Later Mr. Smith was
collector of the port of Chicago, appointed by President Hayes in 1877. His
greatest title to distinction, however, was in the field of news
organization. In 1883 he effected a consolidation of the New York Press and
the Western Associated Press, and served as manager of the great
consolidated association continuously until his death in 1896. He edited
"The St. Clair Papers" and was author of "A Political History of the United
States," and he made many important contributions to American history
through his researches among original documents in the British Museum.

Volume III, page 161

        WILLIAM H. SMITH, of the Canton bar, of which he has been a member
for a third of a century, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, November 30,
1864, and grew up on a farm there. When he was sixteen years of age his
parents moved to Wellsville, Ohio where he completed his high school
education. In 1888 he graduated from Wooster University, and in 1890 was
graduated from the Cincinnati Law School and admitted to the bar by the
Ohio Supreme Court. In June, 1890, he came to Canton, where he has
practiced his profession ever since. He handles an important general
practice, and has a number of business interests, being a director in and
attorney for the Citizens Building & Loan Company. He was elected mayor of
Canton in 1904, serving one term, and is a member of the Stark County Bar
Association and the Masonic Order. He is a republican and belongs to the
Brookside and Congress Lake Country clubs.
        Mr. Smith married Miss Elizabeth Frease, a daughter of Judge Joseph
Frease, one of the most distinguished jurists in the early history of Stark
County. When Judge Frease was elected to the common please bench in 1867 he
was succeeded in the law firm of Belden & Frease by a young attorney,
William McKinley, who for a number of years practiced law in the courts
presided over by Judge Frease. Judge Frease was a member of the Ohio bar
from 1851 until his death in 1909.
        Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children, Elizabeth F., Joseph F. and
Eleanor R.

Volume V, page 172

        WILLIAM A. SMITH is one of the active citizens and business men of
the town of Frankfort in Ross County. For a number of years he has been in
the automobile business, being representative of the Ford Motor Company in
his locality.
        He was born in Morgan County, Ohio, January 10, 1882, son of
William Penn and Margaret Jane (Adams) Smith. The Smith family came from
Pennsylvania and the Adams from old Virginia. His paternal grandparents
were John and Mary (Bush) Smith and the maternal grandparents were Joseph
and Violet (Breese) Adams. William Penn Smith has devoted his active career
to farming. He served thirty years on the school board, has been mayor of
Philo in Muskingum County, and was also a candidate for the State
Legislature. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife
died March 17, 1905. Of their seven children William A. is the oldest.
Arthur M. married Blanch Conway. Luke B. married Edna Chappelear. Mary J.
is the wife of Oscar Hale. Clarence E. married Wilda Reinhart. Emmett K.
married Bonnie Williams. Everett, who is married and living in Oklahoma,
was a solider in the late war in the Thirty-fifth Division, enlisting from
Oklahoma, and going overseas in August, 1917.
        William A. Smith finished his district and grammar school education
at the age of nineteen, and took up as a vocation that of stationary
engineer. For ten years he followed the work of an engineer and for two
years was in charge of the light and water plant at Frankfort. While thus
engaged he also took up the automobile repair business, opening a garage,
and finally resigned his work with the city. In 1913 he became a sub agent
under the Chillicothe Ford agent, and in the following year was appointed
an agent with full responsibility in his own territory direct from the Ford
Motor Company. Mr. Smith has a fine garage and has proved one of the very
capable Ford representatives in Ross County. During the World war he was in
the fourth class. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
        On June 27, 1906, he married Anna May Weller, third child of Albert
and Mary (Axline) Weller. Her parents are farmers. The other children in
the Weller family were: Homer, who married Eva French; Samuel, who married
Nora Daringer; Fred, who is married; Nora, wife of Joseph Pletcher; Roy,
who married Miss Miller; Mabel, wife of Thomas Mauler, and William, who was
a soldier in the World war. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith are:
Ellen T.; Russell, now deceased; and Mary Gladys.

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X-Message: #2
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:08:02, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: HIRAM COOK - History of Ohio


HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc. 195
Volume III, page 112-113

        HIRAM COOK, who died at his home in Columbus in the year 1921, was
one of the gallant young men who represented Ohio as soldiers of the Union
in the Civil war, and he had the further distinction of serving as member
of the bodyguard of President Lincoln.
        Mr. Cook was born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in the year
1836, and he was a lad of eleven years at the time of the family removal to
Ohio, the home having been established at Adelphia, Ross County, whence
removal later was made to Circleville, Pickaway County. At that place Hiram
Cook was residing at the inception of the Civil war, and he responded to
President Lincoln's first call for volunteers by enlisting in the Second
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, one of the first Ohio commands to become active in
warfare on Southern soil. He took part in the various engagements in which
this regiment was involved up to the year 1863, and was then assigned to
duty as a member of the Seventh Ohio Independent Cavalry, comprised of
soldiers and officers from every county in Ohio, the command having been
organized in consonance with a special request by Governor Tod. This
regiment was assigned to duty at the national capital, as a special guard
to President Lincoln, and Mr. Cook was bugl
er, now in the possession of Mr. Cook's son, Howard M., of Columbus, played
an important part on the tragic day that marked the assassination of
President Lincoln, and it is gratifying to be able to preserve in this
publication the statements given by Mr. Cook himself in an interview that
occurred several years prior to his death. Mr Cook said:
        "I had just sounded taps at the barracks in Fifteenth Street and
was sitting on my bunk, getting ready to turn in, when one of the guardsmen
came running in, and said Secretary of State William H. Seward had been
murdered. Without authority from superior officers, I sounded the call
"boots and saddles." In seven minutes the entire company was mounted and
off to the Seward residence. On the way we met another guardsman, who
excitedly told us the President had been shot at the Ford Theater. Turning
the horses, I led the company down Pennsylvania Avenue to the theater, in
Tenth Street. We were greeted by a wild roar of helpless fury and despair
from the thousands of men and women who crowded the entrance to the
theater. The President was carried to a residence across the street, while
we dispersed the crowd."
        Thereafter Mr. Cook was attached to the cortege which carried the
body of the martyred President from Washington to Springfield, Illinois,
and in that capacity he was in Columbus, Ohio, while the remains of the
President here lay in state at the capitol. At each place where services
were held en route the historic bugle was used in blowing taps, including
the final obsequies at Springfield, Illinois. From the Columbus Dispatch of
June 17, 1923, are taken the following quotations:
        "Battered and time stained, but still capable of service, the
historical bugle which sounded taps over the grave of Abraham Lincoln has
been located in Columbus and will be used in blowing the assembly call in
the "Pageant of Memories" which will be given in honor of the state G. A.
R. encampment June 26. The bugle is the property of H. M. Cook of Columbus,
who inherited it from his father, Hiram Cook, who was a member of President
Lincoln's bodyguard.
        For a short period after the close of the Civil war Hiram Cook was
engaged in the lumber-mill business at Columbus, and he then returned to
Circleville, where he established a lumber mill and engaged also in
contracting and building. Later, by reason of impaired health resulting
from the hardships he endured while serving as a soldier in the Civil war,
he disposed of these business interests and established at Circleville the
bookstore which he thereafter conducted about forty years, he having been
one of the honored and loved pioneer citizens of that place at the time of
his death and having been long and appreciatively affiliated with the Grand
Army of the Republic. Mr. Cook wedded Miss Delila Long, of Chillicothe,
Ross County, and she preceded him to the life eternal.
        Howard M. Cook, son of the honored subject of this memoir, was born
and reared at Circleville, and he has been for several years a resident of
Columbus, where he is associated with the real estate firm of Wollam &
Schleckman. He married Miss Bess Rosemond Henderson, of Circleville, Ohio,
and they have two children, Jane Barbara and Howard M., Jr.

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X-Message: #3
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:39:02 -0600
From: "Mike and Christi Brogan" <brogan@idworld.net>
Subject: Old letter 12/5/1898 Madison Co, OH


    Letter from Maude Vernella "Nellie" (Johnston) Wood in 
    South Bloomfield, OH to Mrs. Oscar Haney in Chenoweth, 
    Madison Co., OH, postmarked in South Bloomfield 
    December 6, 1898.
    
    [comments by transposer, Christi Calvert Brogan, 
    1/30/99]
    
    Dec 5, 1898.
    
    Mrs. Haney,
    
         It has been a long time since I last heard from 
    you.  We are real well except colds.  Mama & I were up 
    to Mt. S. [Mount Sterling] on business, and had to 
    stay allnight if we had time we would of stop at your 
    house.  It was dark when we passed your home, did not 
    see any body we knew.  We have been having the nicest 
    time down here.  I am kept busy.  I have played for 
    several entertainments and am organist at the Church.  
    Golly, Christmas is coming.  it doesn't seem like it 
    has been a year.
         Well Mrs. Haney, I have a secret to tell you.  
    don't tell anyone until comes out in the papers.  
    Arley and I were married last night at six (6) o'clock 
    P. M. by Rev. L. C. Alexander, we were married sooner 
    than we intended to be, we did not intend to be 
    married until holidays.  when i come up to Mt. 
    Sterling, I intend to go to see you.  I expect to go 
    home in a couple of weeks. we are not going to house 
    keeping until March.
         We want to keep a secret to avoid a helling, my 
    wedding dreww was Brown Mohair trimmed in silk ribbon 
    & lace, everything to match, my second day dress is 
    blue trimmed in satin folds.  Well this is all for 
    this time.  Hoping to hear from you soon.  
         I am your friend.     
              Nellie Wood - Box 158.
    
    P.S. Mama said she would love to see you.  Love to 
    all.  In care of papa.
    
    [While it is unknown how Nellie and Mrs. Oscar Haney 
    (Martha Blue) became aquainted, they are related in 
    the end.  Nellie's granddaughter, my grandmother Betty 
    Carol Wood is married to Oscar Haney's grandnephew, my 
    grandfather, Harry Ross Calvert making me great-great 
    granddaughter to Arley and Nellie (Johnston) Wood  and 
    great-great-grandniece to Oscar and Martha (Blue) 
    Haney]

Christi Brogan
Rootsweb Listowner: Barton, Brogan, Burlingame, Calvert, Dunn, Perley, Voss and
Whitmer
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Whitmer
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X-Message: #4
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:56:16 -0600
From: "Mike and Christi Brogan" <brogan@idworld.net>
Subject: Funeral program: Margaret (Calvert) Gildersleeve Franklin Co., OH


Funeral program for Margaret E. (Calvert) Gildersleeve, 
1/9/1982, Westerville, Franklin Co., OH

"In Memory of
Margaret E. Gildersleeve
Date of Birth
September 30, 1892
Date of Death
January 6, 1982
Place and Time of Services
Hill Funeral Home
10:30 A.M. Saturday Jan. 9, 1982
Clergyman
Rev. Eugene Griffith
Place of Interment
Union Cemetary
Arrangements by
Hill Funeral Home
Westerville, Ohio"


Christi Brogan
Rootsweb Listowner: Barton, Brogan, Burlingame, Calvert, Dunn, Perley, Voss and
Whitmer
GenConnect Boardowner: Barton, Brogan, Burlingame, Calvert, Dunn, Perley and
Whitmer
Visit our listpages at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cbrogan/
Visit my personal pages at: http://users.idworld.net/brogan

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X-Message: #5
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 00:09:00 -0600
From: "Mike and Christi Brogan" <brogan@idworld.net>
Subject: Obit: Margaret F. (Grant) Calvert, Hocking Co., OH


Obituary for Margaret F. (Grant) Calvert, week of March 
3, 1897, Hocking Co., OH

"CALVERT
     Margaret F. (Grant) Calvert, was born in Frederick 
county, Virginia, October 6, 1828.  She was married to 
Jacob R. Calvert, October 15, 1851.  To them were born 
eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, her 
husband and four children have preceded her to the 
spirit land.  They traveled life's journey together for 
42 years, 10 months and 9 days, when her husband and 
father was called away.  Her widowhood days were not 
quite four years, when she departed this life at her 
home near the Rock House, Hocking county, March 3, 
1897, aged 68 years, 4 months and 27 days.
     She was converted in early life and united with the 
Baptist church in the year 1849, where she remained a 
faithful and influential member, and a worker in the 
vineyard of the Lord to the time of her departure. 
     All the days of her life she was a hearty woman, 
until about two months before her death she became 
ailing, and two weeks ago she had a stroke of 
paralysis.  Although her sufferings were but a few 
days, they were great, but through all her trials, 
temptations and afflictions, she trusted in God.  She 
was always cheerful up till the time her dear companion 
was taken from her, then she seemed sad and lonely, but 
she often expressed herself that it would not be long 
until she would depart and be with Christ and her dear 
husband and children and friends that had gone on 
before.  Her afflictions she bore with christian grace 
and fortitude and said she was ready to go home.
     When her four children and husband were taken from 
her she was never heard to complain, but said it was 
the Lord's will.
     She leaves six sons, one daughter, twenty-six grand-
children, one great-grand-child and a wide circle of 
friends to mourn thier loss.  She will be sadly missed 
by all who knew her, and especially by her son, who 
cared for her in her last sickness, her seat will be 
vacant in the home, and in the church.  She was a kind 
and an affectionate mother, a quiet and peaceful 
neighbor and loved and cherished by all who knew her.  
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. G. Roberts, 
of the U. B. Church, her remains were laid away in the 
Baptist Cemetary, there to await the resurrection morn. 
 Our loss is but her gain.  All her children will miss 
her sadly.
     A Friend."

Christi Brogan
Rootsweb Listowner: Barton, Brogan, Burlingame, Calvert, Dunn, Perley, Voss and
Whitmer
GenConnect Boardowner: Barton, Brogan, Burlingame, Calvert, Dunn, Perley and
Whitmer
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