OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 173 Today's Topics: #1 P.B. STOLTZ - COLUMBIANA COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 COLUMBIANA COUNTY - PART 4 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 THOMAS G. LEWIS - COLUMBIANA COUNT [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 19:30:26, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: P.B. STOLTZ - COLUMBIANA COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 Page 467 P. B. STOLTZ, one of the enterprising citizens of Bear Creek Township, was born in this county September 5, 1844. His father, Adam Stoltz, was born December 11, 1808, in Alsace, Germany. When twenty-one years of age he came to America and located in Columbiana County, Ohio, where he worked seven years at stone-cutting. He was also engaged as lock contractor for several years. He married Miss Sarah Brown, born December 19, 1816, daughter of Aaron Brown. The family came to this county in 1839 locating on the farm where our subject now lives. He first built a log house, 24 x 26, which was one of the best houses in the township. Adam Stoltz and wife had five children, three of whom are living -Martha Ann, Mary Margaret and Philip B.; two died when young. Mrs. Adam Stoltz died December 10, 1878, and her husband March 22, 1886. Our subject was reared on the old homestead, and passed his youth in working on the farm and in attending the common schools of Jay County. During the Rebellion he enlisted, February 9, 1864, in Company K, Eighth Indiana Cavalry. He joined Sherman's army near Chattanooga, Tennessee, and participated in the Atlanta campaign, and was on Sherman's grand march to the sea and through the Carolinas. January 23, 1868, he was married to Miss Sarah Jane Hanlin, of this county, born in Jackson County, Ohio, January 28, 1844, daughter of Alexander and Jane Hanlin, who came to this county in 1856. In 1873 Mr. Stoltz removed to Kansas, locating in Anderson County, where he improved a farm and lived there until 1880, when he returned to Jay County and settled upon the old homestead. He owns 320 acres of as good land as can be found in the county. He also has a good residence and other farm buildings. Their children are -Loretta E., Gertrude J., Charles, Grant, George A. and Mary F. In politics Mr. Stoltz is a Republican. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 19:30:21, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: COLUMBIANA COUNTY - PART 4 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO, by Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 The 17th of September, 1863, was a proud day for the inmates of the mansion. It was in the midst of the exciting Vallandigham campaign when was witnessed the tremendous outpourings of the Democracy in every part of the State to bring back "their exiled hero" from Canada as Governor of Ohio. On that day one of those wild, surging, enthusiastic political processions passed by the place. "Over the gateway," said the Wellsville patriot, "was a plain white muslin, bearing the simple inscription, 'VALLANDIGHAM'S BIRTHPLACE,' and upon the grassy lawn, near the old homestead, now rendered dear to every freeman, stood the aged mother of Hon. C.L. Vallandigham, the great apostle and champion of human rights during the reign of terror and high-handed usurpations of the Lincoln administration. What must have been her feelings when that great procession of freemen as they passed sent forth their hearty huzzas in honor of her exiled and persecuted son!.....'Vallandigham's birthplace' is now consecrated and classical ground, and the present century will not have passed into eternity until pilgrimages will be made from every spot where the fire of liberty is unquenched and sages and patriots will revere the spot and love to look upon it as every freeman does the hallowed grounds of Mount Vernon, Monticello, the Hermitage or Ashland. The family still occupy the old home, and ere we left the place we obtained a pamphlet containing the lecture of Mr. Vallandigham upon the Bible, of which he was a close student, and a book, as he once wrote in a letter to his brother James, "without an intimate and constant study of which no man's education can be finished and no man's character can be complete." The ancestors of Mr. Vallandigham were on the paternal side, Huguenots and on the maternal Scotch-Irish. The family came from French Flanders and the original name was Van Lendeghem. It was under that name that his ancestors came to Stafford, county, Virginia, in 1690. These were Michael Van Lendeghem and Jane, his wife. A son of these, who had become a lessee in Fairfax county under Lord Fairfax, for more agreeable sound and easier pronunciation, changed his family name from Van Lendeghem to Vallandigham. His father, Clement Vallandigham, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, was an Old School Presbyterian clergyman and came to New Lisbon in 1807, where he was ordained pastor and commenced preaching the Gospel under a tent. His congregation were largely Scotch-Irish people who had settled in and around the place. He died in 1839 and is remembered as a small man, who, though not a great preacher, was a most exemplary character, to whom his congregation were strongly attached, and he thus filled the very excellent role of a much-beloved village pastor. His salary being insufficient for his support, he to make up the deficiency and to prepare his four sons for college, established a classical school in his own house, which is here shown by the engraving. This school was later continued by his two oldest sons. Here were taught the Armstrongs, the Begges, the Blocksomes, the Brookes, the Grahams, the Harbaughs, the Hissins, the McCooks, the McKaigs, the McMillans, the Richardsons and others who have occupied high positions in the professions and in business. Among them was the late General Wm. T.H. Brookes, a gallant officer in the Mexican war and in the late civil war, and Col. Geo. W. McCook, who was in 1871 the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio. His son, Clement, here began his education, and before, he was two years old acquired the alphabet and was ready for college years before he was old enough to enter. All through his early life he was a great reader and an untiring student. Mr. Vallandigham graduated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and began the practice of the law at New Lisbon. In 1845 he was elected to the legislature, and, although the youngest member, became the leader of the Democratic party in the House, but voted against the repeal of the Black Laws, preferring to submit the question to popular vote, declaring that he so voted because the "measure would result in the most effectual putting down of this vexed question for perhaps twenty years to come. It would probably fail as the question of negro suffrage in New York, where the people had voted against it by a majority of 50,000." In 1847 he removed to Dayton, where he became part owner and editor of the Western Empire and continued the practice of his profession. In his salutatory address he said: 'We will support the Constitution of the United States in its whole integrity," "protect and defend the Union," "maintain the doctrine of strict construction" and "stand fast to the doctrine also of STATE RIGHTS, as embodied in Mr. Madison's Virginia report and Mr. Jefferson's Kentucky resolutions of 1798." He also advocated "free trade," "a fixed tenure to every office under the Federal Government that will properly admit it" and "popular educations." The newspaper was not a satisfying scope for his larger ambition. He was a thoughtful, studious writer, but his pen was not adapted to the lighter but no less important details necessary for successful editorship. In 1852 he made a strenuous effort to secure the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant-Governor, but was defeated by Wm. Medill, and over this result he felt very bitter. In 1856 he was nominated by the Democracy of his district for Congress, his competitor being Col. Lewis D. Campbell, called the "Butler County Pony." The latter was declared elected. The election being contested, Vallandigham was awarded the seat. He continued a member until March, 1863, he having been defeated in his canvass for re-election in the State election the year before by Gen. Robert L. Schenck. While in Congress he was adjudged one of the ablest debaters and best parliamentarians on the floor of the House and as honest in his purposes and sincere in his convictions. He opposed the war because he believed that it was impossible to conquer the South. Having returned home, Mr. Vallandigham engaged with his usual boldness to denounce the war, the draft then pending and, as Whitelaw Reid expresses it, "stirred up the people with violent talk and particularly excited them over alleged efforts on the part of the military authorities to interfere with freedom of speech and the press, which he conjured them to defend under any circumstances and at all hazards." It was then a most gloomy period in the progress of the war and Gen. Burnside, who had just been put in command of the military department of the Ohio, under date of April 13, 1863, issued form his headquarters at Cincinnati the famous "General Order No. 38," wherein he proclaimed that henceforth. ".......All persons within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and if convicted will suffer death....The habit of declaring sympathy for the enemy will not be allowed in this department. Persons committing such offences will be at once arrested, with a view to being tried as above stated or sent beyond our lines into the lines of their friends. It must be distinctly stated that treason expressed or implied will not be tolerated in this department.' Vallandigham, angered at this order, expressed his determination to defy it and to assert his constitutional right to discuss the policy of the administration in the conduct of the war, and announced that he would speak at a Democratic mass-meeting to be held at Mount Vernon on Friday, the 10th of May, which he did, and to a large audience. Beginning with an allusion to the American flag, which was flying over them, he said, "that was the flag of the Constitution; that it had been rendered sacred by Democratic Presidents;" claimed that the Union could have been saved if the plans he had proposed had been sanctioned and adopted; he declared that he abided by the Constitution; that he "was a freeman;" that he did not ask Dave Tod, Abraham Lincoln or Ambrose E. Burnside for his right to speak as he had or was doing; that his "authority for so doing was higher than General Order No. 38; it was General Order No.1 - the Constitution!" that "the only remedy for all the evils was the ballot box." Some of his more intemperate remarks having been reported to Gen. Burnside, on the Monday following he dispatched a company of the 115th Ohio, under Capt. Hutton, by a special train to Dayton to arrest him, which was effected that night and he returned immediately to Cincinnati with his prisoner. A scene of wild excitement the next day ensued in Dayton; the streets were crowded with his friends and adherents and that night the office of the Republican newspaper was burnt by a mob. Gen. Burnside sent up an ample military force and, proclaiming martial law, quelled all further disturbance. The day after his arrest Mr. Vallandigham issued the following address: TO THE DEMOCRACY OF OHIO: I am here, in a military bastile for no other offence than my political opinions, and the defence of them and the rights of the people, and of your constitutional liberties. Speeches made in the hearing of thousands of you, in denunciation of the usurpation of power, infractions of the Constitution and laws, and of military, despotism, were the causes of my arrest and imprisonment. I am a Democrat; for Constitution for law, for Union, for liberty; this is my only crime. For no disobedience to the Constitution, for no violation of law, for no word, sign or gesture of sympathy with the men of the South, who are for disunion and Southern independence, but in obedience to their demand, as well as the demand of Northern Abolition disunionists and traitors, I am here to-day in bonds; but "Time, at last, sets all things even." Meanwhile, Democrats of Ohio, of the Northwest, of the United States, be firm, be true to your principles, to the Constitution, to the Union, and all will yet be well. As for myself, I adhere to every principle, and will make good, through imprisonment and life itself, every pledge and declaration which I have ever made, uttered or maintained from the beginning. To you, to the whole people, to time I again appeal. Stand firm! Falter not an instant! C.L. Vallandigham ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 19:30:23, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: THOMAS G. LEWIS - COLUMBIANA COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 Page 475 THOMAS G. LEWIS, carpenter, Penn Township, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, October 16, 1833, a son of Enos and Margaret (Grissell) Lewis. He was reared in Jay County, Indiana, where his parents moved when he was a child. In this county he was reared, receiving his education in the subscription school of the early days. When fifteen years old he went to learn the carpenter's trade of his uncle, Insley Lewis, remaining with him two years, and received his board and clothes and $5 in money for his two years work. In 1851 he went to Henry County, Iowa, and a year and a half later to Muscatine County, remaining there two years working as a journeyman. He then engaged in contracting and building until 1861, when he enlisted October 14, in the defense of Union and liberty and was assigned to Company H. Eleventh Iowa Infantry, Army of the Tennessee. He participated in the battle of Shiloh, where April 6, 1862, he was wounded, and was sent to the new House of Refuge, St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained three months. He then returned to his regiment at Bolivar, Tennessee, and participated in the battle at Corinth, when on account of disability, the result of his wound, he was discharged November 26, 1862. He returned to Iowa, but soon after returned to his home in Jay County, where for three years he was unable to attend to any kind of business. In the summer of 1865 he began work at his trade again. In September, 1865, he went with his brother Joseph to Kansas and Missouri, looking for a place to locate, and for a year and a half spent most of his time in hunting and trapping. In 1866 he located in Butler, Missouri, and engaged in the mercantile business, and worked at his trade until the following December, when he returned to Jay County, and has since been engaged in contracting and building. He also has a fine farm of 100 acres, eighty acres being land entered by his father, which he superintends in addition to working at his trade. Mr. Lewis was married December 25, 1882, to Ella R. Hunt, a native of Penn Township, daughter of Mahlon and Deborah (Smith) Hunt. They have two children -Luke Monroe, born January 10, 1884, and Donloe Enos, born August 13, 1887. Mr. Lewis is a member of James Cartwright Post, No. 358, G.A.R. In politics he is a Republican. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #173 *******************************************