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WOODRUFF - DELAWARE COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 DELAWARE COUNTY - PART 1 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 MATTHEW STRICKLAND - ASHLAND COUNT [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:29:48, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JAMES GREEN - COLUMBIANA COUNTY 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 JAMES GREEN is a native of the city of New York, and went to Columbiana County, Ohio, in about 1833, where he was married, May 28, 1842, to Miss Ann Brown, a native of Loudoun County, Va. In 1848 or 1849, he came to Clay Township, and bought 120 acres of timbered land, which he afterward cleared. The log cabin which he occupied when he first came to the county is still standing. In 1851, he built the first steam saw-mill in the township. This was burned in 1866, and rebuilt that year on the same site, a circular saw being substituted for the muley saw in the other mill. During the first year after coming here, they suffered a great deal from chills an fever, in getting acclimated, and experienced the other trials during the early history of the county. Of a family of nine children, only three are living, viz., Lucinda J., now Mrs. Cherry; Mary W., now Mrs. Doney; and Icey V. Mr. Green owns 200 acres of land, and is a man of sterling abilities, and a first-class farmer in all respects. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:29:44, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: CHARLES E. WEAVER - ASHLAND COUNTY 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 CHARLES E. WEAVER, son of John M. and Mary A. (Charles) Weaver, was born December 25, 1849, in Ashland County, Ohio, where his mother also was born. John M. Weaver was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1827. Of the three children born to them, the subject only is living. John W. Weaver died in Saginaw County, mich., June 13, 1871, in his twenty-second year. Harriet F. Weaver died in this township, March 13, 1871, in her 20th year. John M. Weaver came with his family to Clay Township in 1863, and bought the farm where Charles E. now lives. He died in La Grange, September 2, 1881; he was a prominent member of the I.O.O.F., having belonged to that order for more than thirty years; he was also a member of the Episcopal Church. Mary A. Weaver is still living in Ashland County, Ohio, and is a member of the Dunkard Church. Charles E. Weaver went to Loomis, Isabella Co., Mich., in 1865, where he was engineer in a large saw, shingle and extract factory, until 1877, when he returned to this township and moved on his farm. He was married January 14, 1871, to Miss Sarah E. Fancey, a native of Utica County, N.Y., born October 1, 1853. Her father Joseph Fancey, was born in 1821, in Devonshire, England; her mother, Ann Leckenby was born in Yorkshire, England, August 17, 1833. They had three children. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver have had two children -Anna M., who died February 5, 1876, aged two years and nine months, and Stanley E.H., aged three and a half years. They have adopted a cousin of Mrs. Weaver's, Freeman (Wilcox) Weaver, whose mother died when he was but one day old. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver belong to the Lutheran Church. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:29:56, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: O.L. WOODRUFF - DELAWARE COUNTY 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 O.L. WOODRUFF, merchant, Wolcottville, of the firm of O.L. Woodruff & Co., is a son of Charles and Jane (Landon) Woodruff, natives respectively of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Charles Woodruff in early life learned the tailor's trade, but when he arrived at maturity abandoned that business, and studied the Eclectic system of medicine, and that has been his chief employment since. After a successful practice in Ohio a number of years, he came to Huntington County, Ind., in 1845; but after a residence there of six months, returned to Ohio, and again, in 1852, emigrated to Indiana, locating in Albion, Noble Co. He purchased the Samuel Woodruff farm north of town, but soon afterward traded it for the Worden House. During the excitement regarding the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad at Albion, he subscribed almost his total possessions to the enterprise, and it ruined him financially. In 1869, he went to Ligonier, and engaged in the drug trade, and the practice of his profession. The spring of 1880, he purchased a farm near Ligonier, of our subject, and has since been engaged in farming. O.L. Woodruff, was born in Sunbury, Delaware Co., Ohio, in 1839, and is one of six children. He lived with his parents up to the time of his father's failure, and since the age of fourteen has been doing for himself. At eighteen he had saved sufficient money to attend the Wolcottville Seminary over a year, paying the expenses by teaching. Owing to ill-health, he left school, and in the spring of 1861 went to Albion, and there enlisted in the Nineteenth Indiana Infantry, but was rejected on account of poor health. He then clerked in a drug store at Albion, and from there went to Kendallville to clerk. By economy, he had saved a sufficient amount to enter into a partnership at Wolcottville in 1869 in a general store, and has continued that trade at this place. His present partner is Hon. O.B. Taylor. The firm name is O.L. Woodruff & Co., and they do an average annual business of $20,000. Mr. Woodruff was married in 1867 to Lydia Garrison, and they have one adopted daughter. Mr. Woodruff is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the M.E. Church. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:29:54, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: DELAWARE COUNTY - PART 1 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO, By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 DELAWARE DELAWARE COUNTY was formed from Franklin county, February 10, 1808. It lies north of Columbus. The surface is generally level and the soil clay, except the river bottoms. About one-third of the surface is adapted to meadow and pasture, and the remainder to the plough. The Scioto and branches run through north and south -the Olentangy, Alum creek, and Walnut creek. Area, 450 square miles. In 1885 the acres cultivated were 108,277; in pasture, 98,488; woodland, 43,371; lying waste, 1,009; produced in wheat, 279,917 bushels; corn, 1,410,875; wool, 606,665 pounds; sheep, 107,895. School census 1886, 8,487; teachers, 196. It has 72 miles of railroad. TOWNSHIPS AND CENSUS 1840 1880 Berkshire 1,407 1,656 Berlin 827 1,388 Brown 908 1,178 Concord 1,185 1,478 Delaware 1,917 8,091 Genoa 1,193 1,045 Harlem 963 1,144 Kingston 657 562 Liberty 811 1,481 Marlborough 1,182 360 Orange 789 1,227 Oxford 774 1,266 Porter 678 925 Radnor 1,174 1,209 Scioto 877 1,667 Thompson 660 851 Trenton 1,188 899 Troy 838 954 The population of the county in 1820 was 7,639; in 1840, 22,060; in 1860, 23,902; in 1880, 27,381, of whom 21,890 were Ohio-born. The name of this county originated from the Delaware tribe, some of whom once dwelt within its limits, and had extensive corn-fields adjacent to its seat of justice. John Johnston says: "The true name of this one powerful tribe is Wa-be-nugh-ka, that is, 'the people from the east,' or 'the sun rising.' The tradition among themselves is, that they originally, at some very remote period, emigrated from the West, crossed the Mississippi, ascending the Ohio, fighting their way, until they reached the Delaware river (so named from Lord Delaware), near where Philadelphia now stands, in which region of country they became fixed. About this time they were so numerous that no enumeration could be made of the nation. They welcomed to the shores of the new world that great lawgiver, William Penn, and his peaceful followers, and ever since this people have entertained a kind and grateful recollection of them; and to this day, speaking of good men are Quakers. In 1823 I removed to the west of the Mississippi persons of this tribe who were born and raised within thirty miles of Philadelphia. These chiefs with a subject of reproach against the whites, pointing to these of their people and saying to us, 'see how you have spoiled them,' meaning they had acquired all the bad habits of the white people, and were ignorant of hunting, and incapable of making a livelihood as other Indians. In 1819 there were belonging to my agency in Ohio 80 Delawares, who were stationed near Upper Sandusky, and in Indiana 2,300 of the same tribe. Bockinghelas was the principal chief of the Delawares for many years after my going into the Indian country; he was a distinguished warrior in his day, and an old man when I knew him. Killbuck, another Delaware chief, had received a liberal education at Princeton College, and retained until his death the great outlines of the morality of the Gospel." In the middle of the last century the Forks of the Muskingum, in Coshocton county, was the great central point of the Delawares. There are yet fragments of the nation in Canada and in the Indian Territory. The following historical sketch of Delaware county and its noted characters was written for the first edition by Dr. H.C. Mann: The first settlement in the county was made May 1, 1801, on the east bank of the Olentangy, five miles below Delaware, by Nathan Carpenter and Avery Powers, from Chenango county, N.Y. Carpenter brought his family with him and built the first cabin near where the farm-house now stands. Powers family came out toward fall, but he had been out the year before to explore the country and select the location. In April, 1802, Thomas Celler, with Josiah McKinney, from Franklin county, Pa., moved in and settled two miles lower down, and in the fall of 1803 Henry Perry, from Wales, commenced a clearing and put up a cabin in Radnor, three-fourths of a mile south of Delhi. In the spring of 1804 Aaron, John and Ebenezer Welch (brothers) and Capt. Leonard Monroe, from Chenango, N.Y. settled in Carpenters neighborhood, and the next fall Col. Byxbe and his company from Berkshire, Mass., settled on Alum creek, and named their township Berkshire. The settlement at Norton, by William Drake and Nathaniel Wyatt; Lewis settlement, in Berlin, and the one at Westfield followed soon after. In 1804 Carpenter built the first mill in the county, where the factory of Gun, Jones & Co. now stands. It was a saw-mill, with a small pair of stones attached, made of boulders, or "nigger heads," as they were commonly called. it could only grind a few bushels a day but still it was a great advantage to the settlers. When the county was organized, in 1808, the following officers were elected, viz.: Avery Powers, John Welch and Ezekiel Brown, commissioners; Rev. Jacob Drake, treasurer; Dr. Reuben Lamb, recorder, and Azariah Root, surveyor. The officers of the court were Judge Belt, of Chillicothe, president; Josiah M'Kinney, Thomas Brown and Moses Byxbe, associate judges; Ralph Osborn, prosecuting attorney; Solomon Smith, sheriff, and Moses Byxbe, Jr., clerk. The first session was held in a little cabin that stood north of the sulphur spring. The grand jury sat under a cherry-tree, and the petit jury in a cluster of bushes on another part of the lot, with their constables at considerable distance to keep off intruders. BLOCK-HOUSES. -This being a border county during the last war, danger was apprehended from the Indians, and a block-house was built in 1812 at Norton, and another, still standing on Alum creek, seven miles east from Delaware, and the present dwelling of L.H. Cowles, Esq., northeast corner Main and William streets, was converted into a temporary stockade. During the war this county furnished a company of cavalry, that served several short campaigns as volunteers under Capt. Elias Murray, and several entire companies of infantry were called out from there at different times by Gov. Meigs, but the county never was invaded. Continued in Part 2 ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:37:05, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: MATTHEW STRICKLAND - ASHLAND COUNTY 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 MATTHEW STRICKLAND came to Clearspring Township, this county, with his parents, Mahlon and Martha (Williams) Strickland, in February, 1846. here his father purchased 240 acres of land, and also 160 acres in Clay Township, and moved into a log cabin having an elbow-joint fire-place. Mahlon and Martha Strickland were both born in the year 1801, he in Sussex County, N.J., in December, and she in Stark County, Ohio, in September. They had eleven children. April 3, 1825, Matthew Strickland was born in Ashland County, Ohio. November 4, 1852, he married Mary Kitchen, who was born June 4, 1831, in Brant Co., Ontario, Canada. In 1836, she went with her parents, Richard and Jane (Johnson) Kitchen, natives of Sussex County, N.J. to Richland County, Ohio, and the following year to Clearspring Township, this county. They were parents of fourteen children, eight now living. Since August, 1853, Mr. Strickland has lived on his farm in this township; they lived thirteen years in a log cabin, and planted peach seeds in their door-yard, that three years later commenced bearing. An orchard they planted in 1857 is still bearing excellent fruit, and the farm is now improved well and has substantial buildings. Mr. Strickland and wife have no children; both are communicants of the Methodist Church. Richard Kitchen was born May 1, 1798, died June 11, 1855. Jane Kitchen was born January 22, 1803, died December 14, 1876. They lived in Canada twelve years, and while there united with the Regular Baptist Church. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #308 *******************************************