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SELL - DELAWARE COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 JERRY O'SHAUGHNESSY - DELAWARE COU [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 09:58:14 -0400 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: John Pratt LANDEN, Meigs County From: "Jody Pendleton" Hi! I would like to post information about my great great grandfather who was born in Meigs County, OH. John Pratt Landen Born June 16, 1844 Place of Birth Meigs County, OH Civil War Veteran in the Company K, Second Ohio Battery Heavy Artillery Died Sept 14, 1917 Place Canon City, CO This information is posted in the Obituary of the Canon City Record, Thursday, Septmember 20, 1917 in Canon City, CO He married Sallie Barrett Born June 8, 1851 Place Ohio Died March 24, 1943 Place Canon City, CO They came to Colorado February 27, 1900. thank you for your assistance. Jody Pendleton email: ednjopen@ris.net ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 09:08:16, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: DANA D. LIVINGSTON - DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, 1925 Volume V - Page 423-424 DANA D. LIVINGSTON is a Columbus business man, a contractor and builder, a carpenter in his early years, and by a thorough knowledge of the building art and the faculty of organizing and executing contracts has become one of the successful men in his line in this city. Mr. Livingston was born at Delaware, Ohio, in 1884, son of E.W. and Mary Susannah (Young) Livingston. His parents were born in Ohio. His father was a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and for a number of years enjoyed a high place in educational circles. He was a professor in various colleges and schools. In 1890 he moved with his family to Columbus, where he engaged in the real estate business. Dana D. Livingston has lived at Columbus since early childhood, and finished his public school education there. He began learning the carpenter's trade when a boy, and was employed for several years as a journeyman, at first taking modest contracts, while within his ability and financial resources he has found his business growing rapidly in recent years so that he has contributed an important share to the modern upbuilding of Columbus. Among the more prominent structures erected by him in late years are the Third Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, the American Educational Press Building, the store of the J.M. Caren Company, the building occupied by the W.H. Conklin Company on Grant Avenue and the Ralston Building at 42 East Gay Street. Mr. Livingston has made a conspicuous financial success in the handling of down town business property, both as an owner and dealer. He has a spacious country home with forty-five acres of land on the Sunbury Pike, immediately northeast of Columbus. Mr. Livingston married Miss Blanch Edna Plimmer. Her father was a native of England, came to Columbus as a youth, and for many years was one of the prominent contractors and builders of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Livingston have two children, Robert Dana and Doris Jean. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 09:08:23, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: CHARLES A. LEACH - DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society Inc., 1925 Volume III - page 131 CHARLES A. LEACH, with an efficient staff of six assistants, is giving a most efficient administration in the office of city attorney of Columbus, and he has high rank as one of the representative members of the bar of the Ohio capital city. Concerning him the following appreciative statements have been made: "With the extensive financial and property interests of a wealthy and rapidly expanding city such as Columbus is, the legal business of the office of city attorney and the responsibility connected with the proper administration thereof, assume appreciable magnitude. The confidence in Mr. Leach's ability to handle these large matters competently and expeditiously is manifest in the attitude of both the city authorities and that of the local public at large, and this confidence is the result of his many years of faithful and effective service to the city as a lawyer and as an executive of the legal department of the municipal government." Mr. Leach was born on a farm in Porter Township, Delaware County, Ohio, on the 9th of April, 1881, and is a son of Watson and Kate (Kenney) Leach. Watson Leach likewise was born and reared in Delaware County, where his father established the family home in the pioneer days, upon coming to Ohio from Westchester County, New York, the Leach family having been founded in America in the Colonial period of our national history, and the Kenney family having been here established for several generations. The city attorney of Columbus has never regretted the early discipline that was his in connection with the activities of the home farm and the intervals of his attending the district school. He profited by the advantages offered in the public schools of his native county, and as a youth he taught in the rural schools, at a salary of $25 a month, in order to provide means for advancing his own education. After his graduation from high school at Marengo he entered the Ohio State University, in which he pursued a course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and also completed the curriculum of the law department from which he received in 1906 his degree of Bachelor of Laws. During the following year he was first assistant editor of the Ohio Cyclopedic Digest at Norwalk, and in 1907 he established himself in the practice of law at Columbus. In 1910 he was appointed third assistant city solicitor, under Edgar L. Wyman, and he retained this position two years. In 1912 he was the republican candidate for the office of state senator from Franklin County, but an attack of typhoid fever prevented him from making a campaign, and he was defeated by his democratic opponent. In January, in the capacity of special counsel, he resumed his connection with the office of the city solicitor, and after thus serving effectively two years he was appointed first assistant city solicitor. In this position he continued his characteristically loyal and efficient service until January 1, 1921, when he was elected by the City Council to fill out the unexpired term of Henry L. Scarlett as city attorney, an office to which he was returned by popular vote in the election of November, 1922, for a term of four years. Mr. Leach is an active member of the Buckeye Republican Club, is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, and is a member of various representative social organizations in his home city. Mr. Leach wedded Miss Hazel Thatcher of Circleville, Ohio, and they have four children: Dorothy, Robert, Jane and Russell. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 09:08:20, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: EDWIN H. SELL - DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society Inc., 1925 Volume III - page 173 EDWIN H. SELL, founder and executive head of E.H. Sell & Company, dealers in office equipment and manufacturers of blank books, has in this connection developed one of the important and well ordered business enterprises in the City of Columbus, and his prominence in his chosen sphere of commercial activity is indicated by his having been in October, 1923, elected vice president of the national Association of Stationers, Office Outfitters and Manufacturers, at the annual convention held by his organization at Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Sell was born at Delaware, judicial center of the Ohio county of that name, and the date of his nativity was October 19, 1870. He is a son of John A. and Hannah C. (Heller) Sell, his father having been a young man when he settled in Delaware County. Mrs. Hannah C. (Heller) Sell was born and reared in that county, where her parents became pioneer settlers, they having made the overland journey from Pennsylvania to Ohio with a covered wagon drawn by an ox team. In addition to receiving the advantages of the public schools of his native city of Edwin H. Sell there attended also the Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1890 he established his residence in Columbus, and here in 1894 he founded the modest enterprise which figures as the nucleus of the large and prosperous business now controlled by E.H. Sell & Company. Mr. Sell's original work at Columbus was in the capacity of typewriter salesman, and he eventually became the head of the Columbus agency of the Remington Typewriter Company. He gradually expanded the scope of his business by adding lines of office stationery, furniture and general equipment, and eventually he established a department for the manufacturing of blank books, this manufacturing enterprise being now one of the largest of its kind in the State of Ohio. Mr. Sell has built up a substantial and prosperous business enterprise, and the same is based upon effective service in all departments, with progressive policies and fair and honorable dealings ever in evidence. Mr. Sell has kept his business headquarters up to the best modern standards in equipment and service, and has made for himself a record of large and worthy achievement that has contributed not a little to the commercial importance and prestige of Ohio's fair capital city. Mr. Sell takes loyal interest in all that touches the civic and material welfare and advancement of his home city, and he is president of the Eastgate Improvement Association, organized for the advancing of the interests of the beautiful residential district of Eastgate, where he has his attractive home. He is a member of the local Kiwanis Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and other civic and fraternal organizations of representative character. His wife is his partner in the business of E.H. Sell & Company. The maiden name of Mrs. Sell was Carrie May Miller, and their marriage was solemnized in Columbus. Mrs. Sell is a great-granddaughter of the late member of the Columbus bar and who here gave many years of service as associate judge of Franklin County. Mr. and Mrs. Sell have two children: John M. and Mary Catharine. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 09:08:12, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JERRY O'SHAUGHNESSY - DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society Inc., 1925 Volume III - page 108-109 JERRY O'SHAUGHNESSY. At the time of his death and for half a century preceding, the late Jerry O'Shaughnessy was in the service of the Columbus Water Works Department. No city ever more appropriately honored long and faithful service than did Columbus when it named O'Shaughnessy Dam in his honor. The late Mr. O'Shaughnessy was born at Delaware, Ohio, in 1854, and died at Columbus, January 28, 1921. He began work May 9, 1870, before he had reached his seventeenth birthday, as a common laborer. The first day he swung pick and shovel in digging the foundation for the smoke stack at the old West Side pumping station. This was a part of the construction work on the modern water works system of Columbus. Having assisted in building the original plant, he was made "wiper of machinery" when it started operation in 1871. Six months later he was promoted to fireman. Industrious study by practical observation and otherwise brought him a knowledge of steam and stationary engineering and six months later he was promoted to engineer. This position was filled by him for seventeen years. Then occurred a temporary absence from the department, when he became engineer at the Wyandotte Building, which had just been completed as Columbus' first skyscraper. In 1896 he returned to the service of the city as superintendent of water works by appointment of Mayor Cotton Allen. he continued to serve until Samuel J. Schwartz was elected mayor in 1899. Two years later he was again appointed superintendent by Mayor John N. Hinkle, remaining through his administration and those of Robert H. Jeffrey and DeWitt C. Badger. When Charles A. Bond was elected mayor in 1908, Mr. O'Shaughnessy again retired temporarily. During the administration of Mayor George J. Karb he returned as superintendent of water works, and continued in the service under Mayor James J. Thomas, his death occurring during the latter administration. With the exception of the brief period noted he was with the water works department for half a century. His was a service that was appreciated during his lifetime and at his death brought out numerous tributes of respect and affection by the public and the press. However, the honor most fitting him and was which will perpetuate his name in the city was the result of the resolution unanimously passed by the City Council to give his name to the great storage dam now under construction in Delaware County, and which will furnish the water supply of Columbus for generations to come. Mr. O'Shaughnessy married Miss Anna Donovan, of Cardington, Ohio. He is survived by two sons and two daughters, Jerry Jr., Joseph, Mrs. Phil Schneider and Miss Nell O'Shaughnessy. In 1891 the late Mr. O'Shaughnessy founded the undertaking business of O'Shaughnessy and Hart. Under that name it was conducted for a number of years. Since 1916 the business has been conducted by his son, Mr. Jerry O'Shaughnessy Undertaking Company. The company moved in the new home purchased by them April 1, 1924, at 375 East Town Street, with complete modern mortuary. Jerry O'SHAUGHNESSY, Jr., was educated in the Sacred Heart School, in North High School and Ohio State University. He became one of the organizers and was cashier of the West Side Dime Savings Bank, and later became assistant cashier of the National Bank of Commerce. That position he resigned in 1916 to take charge of the undertaking business founded by his father. He married Miss Nelle Regina Fahy in 1905, and they have nine children. Jerry O'Shaughnessy, Sr., was very active in all Catholic and especially Irish affairs. He served for several terms as county president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, was their delegate to all national conventions, and organized and installed the first division of the Ladies Auxiliary of Ancient Order of Hibernians. He was also active in the Knights of Columbus, and was president, continuously, up to the beginning of the World war, when all social functions ceased, of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and also president at all their annual banquets. No St. Patrick's day parade was ever complete without Jerry as marshal. He was always active in politics, a member of the democratic organization for years, controlled local affairs and was chairman of the Public Works Committee and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #326 *******************************************