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OH [David Zimmerman <73777.25@compuser] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:03:13, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: CALVIN C. DUNLAP - DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society Inc., 1925 Volume III - page 380-381 CALVIN C. DUNLAP. In accumulating business interests that represent a wide and useful range of important activities, in making himself a citizen of power and influence, and in rearing a large family of sturdy sons and daughters, constituting a splendid family group now including forty-three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, Calvin C. Dunlap, of Delaware, has achieved all the best elements of substantial success. What he has done he has accomplished through his individual energies and ambition. He is still a hard worker, and from industry has derived the best satisfaction of living. He was born in Delaware Township of Delaware County, May 5, 1858, son of James and Sarah (Cowells) Dunlap. His grandfather, David Dunlap, was a native of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish stock. As a boy he went to sea, and the boat on which he was employed was captured by pirates. For eleven years he was kept a prisoner. He was finally released, and about 1830 came to the United States and settled in Ohio. He was a Mason fraternally. James Dunlap, father of Calvin C., was born in Concord Township, Delaware County, and spent his life as a farmer there. He married Sarah Cowells, who was of Yankee ancestry and a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Chamberlain) Cowells, who were early settlers of Ohio. Calvin C. Dunlap attended country schools, and after receiving a common school education he entered high school. However, he remained only three days. He was then a strong boy of fifteen, and felt that he had enough book learning and could properly go to work to satisfy his ambition for useful employment. For six years he followed an apprenticeship at the butcher's trade. About 1885 Mr. Dunlap bought twenty-one acres of good timber, and put himself at the head of a crew to log it off. He sold the logs at a profit, and this opened for him what has proved his permanent business as a lumberman. His work was mainly logging for many years. In 1900 he built his first saw mill, and started his wholesale and retail yard on the site of his present plant at Delaware. He has developed a complete woodworking plant, manufacturing rough lumber, and he also has planing mill and flouring mill for the manufacture of interior finish of all kinds. He still keeps an organization busy in logging. He buys stumpage from farmers, and frequently buys the land outright. The lumber business in recent years has become with him almost secondary to his interests and responsibility as a practical farmer. He has improved a large number of tracts on which the timer has been removed, and he now operates over 600 acres of farm land. The farmers of Delaware County recognized him as the leading farm owner and farm operator of the county. Recently Mr. Dunlap sold to his two sons, Earl and Joy, each a one-third interest in the business, and while he still retains a third interest and is active in the supervision, he allows his sons to take the major part of the work, and he devotes more of his time to farming. Both in public as well as in a business way when Mr. Dunlap becomes connected with an undertaking there is every reason to believe that it will be prosecuted to a successful issue. He is a member of the City Council of Delaware. During the war he was on the County Food Commission, and he handled the work of that office with such good results that it attracted attention all over the country. He helped organize and is vice president of the Delaware Springs Sanitarium, and has held many township and other offices. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Knights of Pythias, and he and his family are members of Saint Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Dunlap evidently was born with a talent for hard work. However, from very early manhood he has had another strong incentive to accomplishment, and that was his growing family. He was only eighteen and still a butcher's apprentice when on November 28, 1876, in Delaware Township, he married Miss Mary S. Converse. Her parents were William and Jane (Sible) Converse, her mother of Pennsylvania-Dutch ancestry. Her father was a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap became the parents of twelve children, and their family circle still includes ten of them, besides the numerous grandchildren. A brief record of these children and grandchildren is as follows: Jennie Elizabeth, the oldest, is the wife of Rev. Sager Tryon, and their ten children are named Mary, Agnes, Margaret, Pauline, Anna, Martha, Sager, Jr., Calvin Converse, Genevieve and James. Iva Dunlap was married to E.B. Welch, and they likewise have a household of ten children, named Gladys, Mildred, Calvin S., Russell, Herbert, Georgie, Harold, Marion, Lillian and Bernard. The oldest son, Raymond B., married Marjorie Howison, and has four children, Paul, Marjorie, Dorothy and Lowis. Earl T. Dunlap by his marriage to Marie Newhouse likewise has four children, Edna, Elma, Harold and Dale. George, the third son, married for his first wife Effie Anderson, by whom he has one son, George, Jr., and his second wife was Elizabeth Bell. Wealthy, the sixth child, is the wife of Guy Mussard, and they have a group of seven children; Ruth, Winnifred, Beatrice, Carroll, Earl D., Grace and Warren G. Clarence E. Dunlap married Susie Adams, and they have a daughter Eleanor Virginia. Mary Grace Dunlap is the wife of Vernon Mast and has one child, Janet. Emma Opha married Herman Leady, and their two daughters are Mary Grace and Elizabeth, the older named in honor of her aunt. The youngest of the family is Calvin C., Jr., who married Betty Gladys Black, and their two children are Elizabeth Ann and Joy Howard. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:03:16, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: COL. ROBERT DILWORTH PALMER - DELAWARE HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III - Page 135-136 with photo COL. ROBERT DILWORTH PALMER, who died in New York City, December 21, 1922, had an exceptionally long and honorable career in the National Guard and the Federal Service during the World war. At Columbus he was known as a successful business man. He was founder and president of the Citizens Wholesale Supply Company. Colonel Palmer was born at Delaware, Ohio, February 4, 1870. After graduating from the Delaware High School in 1887 he entered the service of the American Express Company, and worked in various capacities in that organization until 1892. His home was in Columbus since early youth. In 1894 with J.W. Blue, J.O Cutler and E.M. Bryant he started the business of which he became president and general manager, the Citizens Wholesale Supply Company. This was a partnership until it was incorporated in 1896. This has become one of the notable enterprises in the Columbus business district. The company are manufacturing chemists and importers and Jobbers in pure food products and toilet necessities. Their trade mark is the Golden Rule and some of their products were awarded the gold medal at the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Receiving thirty-seven awards out of forty exhibits. Colonel Palmer was only seventeen when he enlisted in Company K of the Fourteenth Regiment of the old Ohio National Guard. He became a charter member of Troop B, of the Ohio Cavalry, December 12, 1891, and served successively as first sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant and captain until 1894. He became quartermaster of the Second Ohio Infantry Brigade with the rank of major in 1896 and was assigned to the staff of Brig.-Gen. John C. Speaks, commanding the Second Ohio Infantry Brigade. In 1908 he was promoted to brigade adjutant of the same organization and performed such duties until the summer of 1917. This brigade went into the National Army as the One Hundred Seventy-third Infantry Brigade. Colonel Palmer continued with it as adjutant until January, 1918, when he was ordered to Camp Jackson, South Carolina, to take command of the motor section of the First Corps Artillery park. He was soon relieved of those duties and ordered to report to the inspector general of the army at Washington, Maj.-Gen. John L. Chamerlain, and remained under the inspector general's direction until his honorable discharge February 4, 1919. In October, 1918, Mr. Palmer was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the inspector general's department. He retained a commission in the Officers Reserve Corps since the war having been assigned to duty as inspector-general in the Reserve Corps and assigned to the Fifth Corps Area. Colonel Palmer was a thirty-second degree Mason a Knight Templar and member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine and the Red Cross of Constantine. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Columbus Riding Club, Automobile Club, Athletic Club, Rotary Club, Old Colony Club and Franklin Post of the American Legion. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:03:08, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: DELAWARE COUNTY - PART 6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 DELAWARE COUNTY PART 6 JOHN ANTHONY QUITMAN, noted general of the Mexican war, and later governor of Mississippi, was a resident of Delaware for a number of years, studied law, and was admitted to the bar there. He was born in 1799, in Rhinebeck, N.Y. THOMAS CARNEY, governor of Kansas during the rebellion, was born in Kingston township, near Rosecrans' birthplace. His private secretary was John C. Vaughn, the veteran journalist of Ohio and Kansas, who now well in the eighties, with the memories of a useful life, is passing his remaining days an inmate of the "Old Gentlemen's Home," Cincinnati. PRESTON B. PLUMB, now United States Senator from Kansas, was born on Alum creek, in Berlin township. A.P. MOREHOUSE, now governor of Missouri (born in 1835), is a native of this county. GEN. JOHN CALVIN LEE, who did efficient service in the Rebellion, and served two terms as lieutenant-governor under Hayes, is a native of Brown township. JUDGE THOMAS W. POWELL, now deceased, resided in Delaware. He was one of Ohio's most eminent and learned jurists, and author of a historical work entitled "History of the Ancient Britons." His son, Hon. T.E. POWELL, was the Democratic candidate for governor of the State in 1887, versus J.B. Foraker. Mr. Philip Phillips, the famed Christian songster, has his home in Delaware -a pleasant residence. The annals of Delaware show a bevy of authors: Rev. Drs. Payne and Merrick, Profs. McCabe, Parsons and Grove -all of the University -in works of instruction or theology; Prof. T.C. O'Kane, in Sunday-school songbooks, and Prof. G.W. Michael, in "Michael's System of Rapid Writing." THE DELAWARE GRAPE. -This remarkable and celebrated grape was first sent forth from this county. It took its name from the town. This was about the year 1850, when it was discovered growing near the banks of the Scioto in the hands of a Mr. Heath who brought it from New Jersey years before. Its origin is doubtful, whether foreign or native. Mr. Thomspon, the editor of the Gazette, discovered its superior merits. Its introduction created a great furore in grape growing, called "the grape fever." The ability of grape propagators was taxed to the utmost to supply the demand, and Delaware grape-vines were sold in enormous quantities at prices ranging from $1 to $5 each. The wildest ideas prevailed in regard to it, and inexperienced cultivators suffered through their excess of zeal over knowledge. In soils suitable the Delaware grape maintains its original high character, but its cultivation requires great skill and care. "THE STATE REFORM SCHOOL FOR GIRLS," as it was originally called, but changed in 1872 by an act of the Legislature to the "Girls' Industrial Home," is on a beautiful site on the Scioto, ten miles southwest of Delaware, and eighteen above Columbus. The spot was long known as the "White Sulphur Springs." In early times a hole was bored here 460 feet for salt water, but, instead, was struck a spring of strong white sulphur water. In 1847 a large hotel and some cottages were put up for boarders,and the place was for a term of years quite a resort, but finally ran down. It becoming a home for girls was the result of a petition to the Legislature by some of the benevolent citizens of the county, who, seeing the fine property going to decay, desired that it should be purchased by the State, and converted into an asylum for unprotected girls. In 1869 the State purchased it, and founded the institution "for the instruction, employment, and reformation of exposed, helpless, evil-disposed, and vicious girls," above the age of seven years and under that of sixteen. The institution at times has over 200 pupils, and is on a well-conducted foundation. Col. James M. Crawford is the superintendent. Delaware county will be permanently rendered noted not only as the birthplace of a President but also of that of one of the most brilliant military strategists known to the art of war -that great soldier and patriot, WILLIAM S. ROSECRANS. Whitelaw Reid writes of Rosecrans: "As a strategist he stand among the foremost, if not himself the foremost, of all our generals....His tactical ability shone as conspicuously as his strategy. He handled troops with rare facility and judgment under the stress of battle. More than all, there came upon him in the hour of conflict the inspiration of war, so that men were magnetized by his presence into heroes. Stone River, under Rosecrans, and Cedar Creek, under Sheridan, are the sole examples in the war of defeats converted into a victories by the reinforcement of a single man." We give a sketch of his career from the pen of Mr. W.S. Furay, a native of Ross county, who was war correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, beginning with the opening campaign in Western Virginia and continuing until the close of the war. Since that period Mr. Furay has held various civil and journalistic positions, and is now on the editorial staff of the Ohio State Journal. WILLIAM STARKE ROSECRANS was born in Kingston township, of Delaware county, Sept. 6, 1819. He merited in one respect the title of "the Dutch General," given him by the Confederates early in the War of the Rebellion, for his ancestors on t he father's side came from Amsterdam, although his mother traced back her descent to Timothy Hopkins, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. At the age of fifteen Rosecrans entered the military academy at West Point, graduating thence in the class of 1842. Entering the Engineer Corps of the Army as Second Lieutenant, he served the Government efficiently and well in various capacities until 1853, when he was promoted to First Lieutenant,and shortly after, to the great regret of his superior officers, resigned. From this time until the breaking out of the rebellion, he devoted himself to civil engineering and kindred occupations, making his headquarters at Cincinnati. During all these years of his earlier career he exhibited, in the limited fields open to him, those characteristics of original conception, inventive genius, restless activity and tireless energy which were ever afterwards, to carry him through a career of wonderful success at the head of great armies and enroll his name amongst those of the most brilliant soldiers known to military history. -Continued in part 7- ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:26:34 -0400 From: David Zimmerman Subject: Obit, HOLCOMB, 1901 Gallia Co. OH From: Gsusa92@aol.com An Aged Lady Mrs. E. T. Holcomb of this place lays down lifes burden Friday. Died-at her residence in Vinton Ohio, March 29th 1901-Elizabeth, widow of the late Edward T. Holcomb, aged 83 years, 4 months and 16 days. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. M. Davis at the First Baptist Church, Sunday March 30th. Interment by undertaker Ambrose. Elizabeth Mitchell Holcomb was the daughter of John Mitchell and Mary Lord Mitchell and was born in Roachdale England, November 14, 1814. Her parents came to this country in 1819, leaving her, then a child of five years, to the care of relatives, she following two years later. She was married to Jesse Morlan, November 14, 1833. To this union were born two children, John Morlan, now residing in Dalghreen Illinois and Mary Jordon of Chasetown, Brown County of this state. Mr. Morlan died June 10, 1844. On February 23, 1847 the deceased was united in marriage to Edward T. Holcomb, the fruits of this marriage being four children; all of whom survive her, except the late C. M. Holcomb of Gallipolis Ohio. The names of the living are, Mrs. T. G. Trembly of Frazeyburg Ohio and Mrs. Victoria Robinson and Walter Holcomb of Vinton. Besides the aboved named children, the deceased leaves 22 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. She was a good wife, a loving mother and a kind neighbor and was esteemed and loved by all who knew her. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #335 *******************************************