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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 513 Today's Topics: #1 BARBEE/TULLIS FAMILY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 42 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 GRANT COUNTY INDIANA-WILL LOOK UP [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 21:15:41, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907180115.VAA06902@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: BARBEE/TULLIS FAMILY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Ohio The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families April-June 1963 Volume IV No. II Published by Esther Weygandt Powell- NO COPYRIGHT Contributed by Wallace Williamson, Bloomington, Indiana. THE BARBEE FAMILY The Barbees were among the first settlers in the Troy area, coming from Kentucky in 1804. William Barbee was the third of six sons born to John and Elizabeth (Welch) Barbee. He was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, on September 14, 1759. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the Revolutionary War with Colonel Elias Burwell's Regiment and he was with Washington the night he crossed the Delaware and captured one thousand Hessians. On February 23, 1781 he was married to Mary Smith, the daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Smith. They had 11 children: Elizabeth, Thomas, Lucy, William Jr., Polly, Sarah, Nancy, Susannah, Melinda, Elisa and Melissa. In 1807 William Barbee sold land to the Town Directors of Troy for $421.50. He was one of the first Associate Judges of Miami County, Ohio. William Barbee also took a conspicuous part in the War of 1812. He was captain of a company of older men formed for the purpose of the defense of the Miami county area. After a brief illness he died on October 21, 1813. He is buried with his wife in the old Barbee cemetery north of Troy. His wife later married Aaron TULLIS, and her history becomes part of his. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE TULLIS FAMILY The Tullis family were among the first arrivals in Miami County, Ohio and came north from Warren County in 1805. Aaron Tullis was one of 14 children born to Moses and Mary Elizabeth (Van Dyke) Tullis. Aaron served in the Revolution in Hugh Stephenson's Company of Berkely Riflemen. Aaron was first married to Jean (?), and 8 children were born to them: Sarah, Aaron, Jr., Stephen, John, William, Caty, David R. and Joel. Aaron married second Sarah THOMSON and a son John Thomson Tullis was born to them. In 1813, Aaron deeded 40 acres and 23 poles of his land to the Town Directors of Troy for $120.30, and this land became a part of the present day city of Troy. Sarah (Thomson) Tullis died on July 2, 1816, and on October 3, 1816, Aaron married for a third time Mary (Smith) Barbee, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Smith. Two of Mrs. Barbee's daughters, Sarah and Susannah, had married two of Aaron's sons, William and David. Aaron Tullis died October 29, 1840 aged 87. He is buried with his second wife Sarah in the old Rose Hill Cemetery in Troy. His third wife, Mary Barbee Tullis, passed away September 7, 1845. She is buried in the old Barbee Cemetery north of Troy. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 21:15:37, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907180115.VAA06878@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HAMILTON COUNTY PART 42 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 42 At the age of seventy-one, on July 14, 1883, on his beautiful place at North Bend, there died DR. JOHN ASTON WARDER, a most beneficent character. He was born in Philadelphia of Quaker parentage, and in early life saw at his father's house and associated with those eminent naturalists, Audubon, Michaux, Nuttal, Bartram, and Darlington, from whom he acquired great fondness for nature, and how to woo her sweet delights. He studied medicine in Philadelphia, practiced eighteen years in Cincinnati, and then moved to North Bend to give his entire attention to horticulture. Meanwhile he did everything in his power to advance education and science, and was a leader through his capacity and love. The public schools, the Astronomical Society, Western Academy of Natural Sciences, Horticultural Society, Ohio Medical College, and Natural History Society all felt his guiding power. Warren Higley, President of Ohio State Forestry Association, wrote of him: "His early surroundings and associations were powerful allies in his education as a naturalist. He read and studied and mastered the book of Nature in its varied teachings as but few have mastered it. A seed, a bud, a leaf, a plant, a branch, a tree, a shell, a rock, attracted his notice and elicited investigation. He was a veritable student of Nature, and his love among men was as lovingly beautiful as it was among, his plants and trees...He is justly called the Father of American Forestry." Associated for a time, about the year 1854, with Dr. Warder, in the publication of the "Botanical Magazine and Horticultural Review," was JAMES W. WARD, a gentleman highly accomplished by varied attainments in science, literature, art, and both a poet and the nephew of a poet. The best remembered of his verses by the older citizens is a parody of Henry W. Longfellow's "Hiawatha," entitled "Higher Water," descriptive of a freshet on the Ohio river; other of his pieces were characterized by delicate fancy and refined instincts. ROBERT CLARKE was born in Annam, Dumfrieshire, Scotland, May 1, 1829. He removed with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1840, was educated at Woodward College, and became a bookseller and publisher in that city. He edited George Rogers Clarke's "Campaign in the 'Illinois' in 1178-9" (Cincinnati, 1869), James McBride's "Pioneer Biographies" (1869), Capt.James Smith's "Captives with the Indians" (1870), and is the author of a pamphlet entitled. "The Prehistoric Remains which were Found on the Site of the City of Cincinnati, with a Vindication of the Cincinnati Tablet," printed privately, 1876. -Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. The mystery of the fate of Sir John Franklin for a long term of years aroused the sympathy of the civilized world. He had sailed from England in May, 1845, in two British ships, the Erebus and Terror, on a voyage of discovery of the northwest passage across our continent, and never returned. Several expeditions were sent in search, two from our country. De Haven's and Griffith's in 1850, and the last under Dr. E.K. Kane in 1853. The last under McClintock sailed from England in 1857 in the little steam-yacht Fox, purchased by Lady Franklin, and brought back from the Eskimos intelligence of the sad fate of the expedition, with may relics. All further search for them in England was then considered as ended. Not so in this country. There was one individual -then a citizen of Cincinnati, and personally known to us a singularly modest and worthy man, doing business as a seal engraver at No. 12 West Forth street -CHARLES FRANCIS HALL, a native of Rochester, New Hampshire, born there in 1821, where he began life as a blacksmith. For years he had been an enthusiastic student of Arctic exploration, and when the mystery over the fate of Sir John Franklin had aroused universal sympathy he was intensely excited. He pondered over the subject by day and dreamed of it by night, and felt as though there might be some poor souls yet surviving of the lost, mariners among the Eskimos, whom to relieve from their savage, dreary, deathlike existence he was personally called upon to attempt by every attribute of humanity. Some of his townsmen, when they finally learned of his preparing to start off on a self-constituted expedition in search of the survivors of the Franklin Expedition, and, moreover, heard that he designed making scientific observations of natural phenomena, replied with supercilious smiles; "Pshaw! what in the way of Arctic explorations and scientific investigations can this fellow do? Why, he is nothing but a common seal engraver," they said, "who has received but the common schooling, and perhaps only from a common Yankee school-marm at that, and who in all his life has accomplished no greater feat than engraving the initials of sundry nobodies upon wedding-rings, With this do I thee wed!" Such commentators, with any amount of scholarly drill, prove incapable of a fresh thought, or else it would flash upon them, as it would upon any bright, well-read lad of fifteen, that the great names that come down to us from Moses to Socrates, from Shakespeare to one Ben Franklin, an almost the entire line of original inventors, Edison inclusive, are largely those of individuals who were powerless to display parchments of graduation. They seem dead to the fact that upon the basis of a common school education, with the abundant printed aids of our time -advantages which "MOses and the prophets," Socrates and the popes, had not -for the investigation of almost any single topic, that the naturally clear brain when will and enthusiasm absorb its entire power is capable of the most subtle fingerings, of giant grasps and far-reaching conquests. His townsmen little realized that in the person of this modest, quiet seal engraver was to be demonstrated from the days of the Norsemen to our days no greater hero in all Arctic history, and moreover that he was to win the singular distinction of penetrating nearer to the North Pole than any human being before him, and then filling the northernmost grave on the globe. When Hall returned from his first expedition he brought two natives, the Eskimos Joe and Hannah, afterwards of the Polaris Expedition, and came to Cincinnati with them. About that time Lady Franklin, who had come to this country to meet Hall, was also in Cincinnati, and gave a reception to such of the citizens as desired to call upon her in the ladies parlor of the Burnet House, when John D. Caldwell, Ohio's "Universal Secretary," acted as chaperon. This was in the war time, the winter of 1863-4. One evening at that period we saw Hall and Joe together in the Gazette office. The Eskimo, or more properly Innuits, are a small race, the men under five feet in stature. Joe looked alongside of Hall as a pigmy beside a giant. Hall was a tall, fleshy man, with rather a small head, the last man one would pick out for a hero, possessing very little self-assertion or fluency of speech. What may seem strange, his Eskimo companions Joe and Hannah on their arrival in this country, consequent upon the inhospitality of our climate, had caught severe colds. As we looked upon Joe that winter evening in the Gazette office, we felt we would like to know his emotions on a first introduction to civilized life. Ruskin said: "What a thought that was when God first thought of a tree." We felt we would like to know Joe's emotions when he first saw a tree. He was of a race of our fellow-creatures who never see a tree nor a shrub their entire lives through, but dwell in seeming utter desolation and solitude, where the whole earth lies dead under an eternal snowy shroud. EDWARD FOLLENSBEE NOYES was born in Haverhill, Mass., October 3, 1832, and becoming an orphan, served five years apprenticeship in the office of the Morning Star, a religious newspaper published at Dover, N. H. He then prepared and "went through" Dartmouth College, graduating near the head of his class, moved to Cincinnati and graduated in the Cincinnati Law School in 1858. When the civil war broke out he was one of the members of the Literary Club who enlisted. He changed his law office into recruiting headquarters and was commissioned July 27, 1861. Major of the 39th Ohio Infantry, and later in Colonel. He was with his regiment in every march and in every battle and skirmish in which the command was engaged, until he lost a leg in an assault of the enemy's works at Ruff's Mills in the Atlanta campaign. While yet on crutches he reported for duty to Gen. Hooker, and was assigned to the command of Camp Dennison, and later was commissioned Brigadier-General. In 1871 he was chosen Governor of Ohio; at the next election was defeated; in 1877 he was appointed by his old friend and club mate, President Hayes, Minister to France. During his service there he was sent on an especial mission to the East, visiting all the countries that border on the Mediterranean. He resigned in 1881 and assumed his law practice in Cincinnati. He possesses fine oratorical powers, and is remarkable for his enthusiastic, cheery disposition and kindly manners. He was so beloved by the soldiers that he induced a larger number of veterans to re-enlist in his regiment than was secured to any other in the National army from Ohio. He died Sept. 4, 1890. In our boy days we often saw in our fathers bookstore in New Haven, ALPHONSO TAFT, then a Yale student. He was tall, broad -even as a youth -heavy and strong, and then noted for his strong common sense and masculine grasp of intellect. He was a warm admirer of Daniel Webster, whom in some important aspects he resembled, and of the many eulogies pronounced upon that great man his tribute to his life and services is regarded by the family and friends of Mr. Webster as the most truthful and masterly. He once made a remark that is worth any printers ink: "It is a pretty bad case that has not to it two sides." Judge Taft was born in Townsend, Vermont, November 5, 1810; graduated at Yale in 1833; tutor there, 1835-1837; in 1838 admitted to the bar and after 1840 practiced in Cincinnati, where he won high reputation. In 1856 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention, and in the same year was defeated for Congress by George H. Pendleton; from 1866 to 1872 was Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, when he resigned to associate himself in practice with two of his sons. In 1875 he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the governorship; but a dissenting opinion that he had delivered on the question of the Bible in the public schools was the cause of much opposition to him. The opinion that defeated his nomination was unanimously affirmed by the Supreme Court of Ohio, and is now the law of the State. He became Secretary of War March 8, 1876, on the resignation of Gen. William W. Belknap, and on 22d May following was transferred to the attorney-following was transferred to the attorney-generalship, serving until the close of Gen. Grant's administration. Judge Taft was appointed United States minister to Austria April 26, 1882, and in 1884 was transferred to Russia, where he served till August 1, 1885. He has been a trustee of the University of Cincinnati since its foundation, and in 1872-82 served on the corporation of Yale, which gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1867." Four of his sons have graduated at that institution. He died may 21, 1891. -continued in part 43 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 21:16:07, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907180116.VAA06712@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: GRANT COUNTY INDIANA-WILL LOOK UP Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF GRANT COUNTY, INDIANA 1812-1912 The Lewis Publishing Company, 1914 I have obtained another set of books for my library. If you had relatives that wandered into Grant County, Indiana, I would happy to check the books to see if they are listed. Please e-mail me at aupq38a@prodigy.com with the name/names you would like looked up. If there is a biography I will post it to the list. At quick glance I found 170 biographies with Ohio connections, as time permits I will post those. 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