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. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 692 Today's Topics: #1 UNRETURNING BRAVE [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 Researching Prophet/Proffet/Profet [RB14274@aol.com] #3 PETER E. STUDEBAKER - ASHLAND COUN [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 AMOS S. EVANS - HIGHLAND COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 JACOB F. STUDEBAKER - ASHLAND COUN [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #6 JOHN C. KNOBLOCK - STARK COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #7 HARVEY BATES - CINCINNATI, OHIO [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #8 REV. JAMES THOMPSON - HAMILTON COU [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #9 JOSEPH S. BUCKLES - CLARK COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:11:54, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909281711.NAA14416@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: UNRETURNING BRAVE Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 "THE UNRETURNING BRAVE" Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker is reported to have said that the real heroes of the World war were those who made the supreme sacrifice, who gave their lives in the service of their country. To this class belong more than 6,500 of the khaki-clad boys of Ohio, who won the golden star in the greatest of all the wars of history and in the supreme effort to win a peace, which we fondly trust shall be perpetual. MAHONING COUNTY * = killed in action + = died of wounds # = died as result of accident Where no mark is used the soldier died of disease. Allison, Clark *, Sebring, November 4, 1918 Anderson, Alex L. +, Youngstown, October 1, 1918 Anderson, Peter K. #, Youngstown, January 14, 1919 Angelo, John S. *, Youngstown, September 29, 1918 Anslow, George *, Youngstown, May 28, 1918 Ashbaugh, Clarence V., Youngstown, February 7, 1918 Bailey, Joseph M.*, Lowellville, September 13, 1918 Barek, Charlie, Youngstown, October 20, 1918 Bell, Edward +, Youngstown, September 29, 1918 Bessey, Harry J., Youngstown, October 7, 1918 Blake, Wilbur L.*, Youngstown, October 16, 1918 Bossert, Roy E. +, North Lima, August 22, 1918 Bouling, Charles A.*, Youngstown, October 28, 1918 Bradlyn, Yale *, Youngstown, November 1, 1918 Brickman, Roy E. #, New Springfield, December 23, 1918 Brigham, John I., Youngstown, October 18, 1918 Broberg, Charles H., Youngstown, October 21, 1918 Brooks, Alfred +, Youngstown, October 3, 1918 Buckley, James L., Youngstown, December 18, 1918 Bye, Arthur *, Damascus, July 28, 1918 Byers, Joseph, Struthers, October 20, 1918 Cail, John, Youngstown, November 29, 1918 Cailor, Marvin L., Youngstown, december 7, 1918 Campobassi, Panfilo *, Youngstown, September 28, 1918 Capezzdto, Joseph, Youngstown, January 2, 1919 Carder, Edgar A. +, Youngstown, November 12, 1918 Cawley, Raymond E., Youngstown, July 3, 1919 Clarke, Talcott H., Youngstown, December 5, 1918 Conroy, Mark I +, Youngstown, November 11, 1918 Cook, Herman W., Youngstown, September 20, 1918 Cousin, Robert *, Youngstown, September 26, 1918 Craig, Claude, Youngstown, January 25, 1919 Crites, William McK. *, Youngstown, August 6, 1918 Cronin, Herbert W., Youngstown, September 29, 1918 Crow, William B., Youngstown, March 8, 1918 Dailey, Perry T., Youngstown, September 16, 1918 Danko, George, Youngstown, May 10, 1919 Deangelo, Dominic +, Youngstown, September 29, 1918 Defrisco, John, Youngstown, October 15, 1918 Demos, William *, Youngstown, October 2, 1918 Detchon, Almar H., Youngstown, February 1, 1919 Devincenzo, Russanio, Youngstown, November 19, 1918 Dicicco, James, Struthers, October 19, 1918 Dignan, James L. *, Youngstown, October 15, 1918 Dingee, Harry J. *, Youngstown, November 3, 1918 Dixon, Andrew, Youngstown, October 28, 1918 Dunn, Frank *, Youngstown, September 29, 1918 Enno, John *, Youngstown, July 18, 1918 Erickson, Carl W. #, Youngstown, June 16, 1919 Evans, George +, Youngstown, October 16, 1918 Favors, Charlie, Youngstown, March 16, 1918 Fleming, James +, Youngstown, October 25, 1918 Flickinger, Joseph E. *, Sebring, October 4, 1918 Frain, John J. *, Youngstown, October 2, 1918 Franks, John *, Youngstown, October 5, 1918 Galyro, Tony *, Youngstown, June 6, 1918 Gardner, Francis T., Youngstown, October 14, 1918 Gibson, Sam R. *, Youngstown,October 16, 1918 Girard, Albert H. *, Sebring, October 17, 1918 Goldberg, Abraham *, Youngstown, Youngstown, October 4, 1918 Gourian, Sarguis *, Youngstown, November 8, 1918 Graham, Joseph M. *, Youngstown, October 8, 1918 Greek, John W., Youngstown, August 15, 1918 Griffin, Herbert C., Youngstown, April 14, 1919 Grindlay, Bert C. #, Youngstown, December 22, 1918 Groner, Fred +, Struthers, October 22, 1918 Gustawson, Edgar A. *, Youngstown, November 7, 1918 Haberland, George W., Sebring, October 3, 1918 Haddox, Fred *, Youngstown, August 8, 1918 Hadjimichel, Pelopidas, Youngstown, February 21, 1919 Hagan, John S., Youngstown, November 2, 1918 Hamrak, Andrew *, Youngstown, July 19, 1918 Hanley, Mike *, Youngstown, October 12, 1918 Harris, Gus +, Youngstown, October 15, 1918 Harter, Robert, Youngstown, April 5, 1918 Hayles, Aulman *, Youngstown, November 10, 1918 Hefner, Edward, Youngstown, October 10, 1918 Heller, Cyril L. *, Youngstown, October 5, 1918 Hennon, Clyde E. *, Youngstown, October 4, 1918 Higgins, William J., Youngstown, November 28, 1918 Higley, Earl L. +, Struthers, October 17, 1918 Hobaugh, John S. *, Youngstown, September 18, 1918 Holleran, Thomas *, Youngstown, Youngstown, October 7, 1918 Holowopun, Mike *, Youngstown, September 30, 1918 Hoose, Charles, Youngstown, June 1, 1918 Horning, Frank J., Youngstown, November 7, 1918 Hughes, James, Youngstown, October 23, 1918 Hyland, William B., Youngstown, November 27, 1918 Isodian, Arggiros *, Youngstown, October 14, 1918 Jackson, James, Struthers, October 5, 1918 Jameson, David W., Youngstown, March 11, 1918 Jones, Alexander H., Youngstown, October 1, 1918 Jordan, Arthur *, Youngstown, October 4, 1918 Kaifer, Paul J., Youngstown, March 14, 1919 Kane, Roy T. *, Youngstown, October 7, 1918 Keith, John F. *, Youngstown, September 30, 1918 Kelly, William L., Youngstown, October 13, 1918 Kessinger, Charles W. *, Youngstown, November 3, 1918 Key, John W. *, SEbring, November 11, 1918 Kite, Denny *, Youngstown, November 8, 1918 Kotheimer, Oscar L., Youngstown, December 8, 1918 Kres, John, Youngstown, September 30, 1918 Kubovicik, John, Youngstown, May 3, 1919 -continued in part 2 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:32:38 EDT From: RB14274@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Researching Prophet/Proffet/Profett/Proffett, etc. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I am hoping someone out there can help me with this stone wall! I am trying to find the parents of one Henry Proffett, born in 1844 in Staffordshire, Eng. came to U.S. approx. 1853 with parents (names unknown). Henry shows up on the 1860 Census in East Cleveland the name is spelled Profit; served in the Civil War 1863/1865 the name is spelled Prophet; I loose him until 1880 and he shows up in Cuyahoga County again, name spelled Profett. I have copies of the census indexes between 1850 and 1900, and have run down all the names on the 1860 index, none are his parents. There are two names on the 1870 index that are possibilities. One is a William Prophet in E. Cleveland, born in Eng. and the other is Henry Prophet, in Cardington Twp. born in Eng. I would like to find someone doing research on these names in Ohio. Also is there a site where the 1870 Census can be reviewed on line? Thank you Ruth ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:11:50, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909290111.VAA05032@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: PETER E. STUDEBAKER - ASHLAND COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA Richard S. Peale & Co., Publishers, 1875 Page 682-683 PETER E. STUDEBAKER The subject of this sketch, Peter Evans Studebaker, was born in Ashland county, Ohio, April first, 1836. He is the fourth of the five sons of John Studebaker, and the only one who was not bred a wagon maker. In boyhood Peter manifested a strong ambition to become a successful business man,and soon developed marked abilities in that direction. At an early age he engaged with a brother-in-law, who was a merchant, with whom he stayed two years, when he started west, arriving in South Bend with a five frank piece in his pocket as his sole moneyed capital. The day after his arrival, he engaged as a dry-goods clerk, which he retained for three years, with a constant increase in his salary. With a capital of one hundred and fifty dollars as the savings of his three years salary, he began business on his own account. Mounting a peddling wagon, he struck out into the country, in search of his fortune. Although meeting with many difficulties and rebuffs incident to his avocation, he managed to add to his small beginning, the handsome sum of seven hundred dollars. At the age of twenty-one he married, discontinued his itinerancy, and in April, 1856, opened a retail store at Goshen, Indiana. This he carried on with varied successes until 1860, when he engaged in selling wagons for his brothers, C. & M. In this he was eminently successful. He removed from Goshen to South Bend in 1863, and in the year following, at the age of twenty-eight, he became an equal partner with his brothers, C. & J. M., the new firm organizing under the name of Studebaker Brothers. Leaving immediately for the west, he settled at St. Joseph, Mo., that being the great outfitting point for California, Oregon, Montana, Santa Fe, and the entire west. He soon commanded a large trade in the sale of their wagons for the plains, and the Studebaker wagon was favorably known throughout the whole west to the Pacific coast. He remained in St. Joseph until 1871, when he returned to South Bend, where he is now settled for life. Peter E. Studebaker possesses rare financial ability, strict integrity, indomitable will, and great endurance. He is the treasurer of the concern, which position he fills with credit alike to himself and the company. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:12:00, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909290112.VAA12504@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: AMOS S. EVANS - HIGHLAND COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA Richard S. Peale & Co., Publisher, 1875 Page 673-674 AMOS S. EVANS In the spring of 1800, Richard Evans emigrated from Kentucky, and settled in Highland county, Ohio, where Amos S. Evans, his son, was born May sixteenth, 1816. Richard Evans was an extensive and successful farmer, and trained his son to the same occupation. The son, however, was born to be a merchant; and, in 1836, at the early age of twenty, in obedience to an instinct which had been manifest from boyhood, he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, F. Evans, and embarked in business on his own account at Defiance, Ohio. In the fall of 1838, he removed to Hillsboro, Ohio, where for twenty-five years he prosecuted the retail dry goods trade with success. Having determined to seek a larger and more promising locality for trade, he removed, in the spring of 1860, to Fort Wayne with a view of engaging ultimately in the wholesale trade. For two years, while making arrangements to that end, he continued the retail trade. At length, in August, 1862, in the dark days of the war, against the remonstrances and amid the forebodings of friends, he inaugurated the wholesale dry goods trade of Fort Wayne. Wholesale grocery houses had existed there for some years, but he was the pioneer of the dry goods jobbing trade in Northern Indiana. Up to this time he has continued the same business, with constant and increasing success; and with the aid of several well-chosen junior partners, all young men trained in business by himself, he has established a house second to none in the State in standing or prosperity. Mr. Evans is eminently fitted for the business which he has pursued with such unvarying constancy from boyhood up. With the keenest powers of observation, cautious in the midst of danger, and yet bold to take advantage of the rising tide, he never fails to catch the favoring breeze, and yet has always been found with all sails furled when a storm came. During this long, active and laborious life, he has not been unmindful of other and higher interests, both public and private. He is a man of extensive reading and culture, and accurate general information. In 1854 he traveled in Europe, and, in 1856, with his wife, made a second and more extended tour, embracing Europe, Egypt and Palestine. With many others of the State, he has been an active worker in behalf of prison reform. In 1871 he was appointed by Gov. Baker one of the commissioners of the house of refuge for juvenile offenders. In all religious enterprises, and especially in the Sunday-school work of his city and State, he has been particularly active. In 1867 he bought a lot, and built on it a neat and suitable chapel, at his own expense, for a mission Sunday-school in the destitute part of Fort Wayne; and he has personally superintended the school ever since with the exception of one year. In 1872 he was president of the State Sunday-school union, and has rarely ever missed one of its meetings. For fourteen years he has been one of the officers of the Allen county Bible society, and was for several years its president. Upon the whole Mr. Evans' life has been one of great labor and activity, and at the same time of great usefulness. He has shown how it is possible for a man to be a philanthropist, and a worker in all humane and christian causes, and a systematic and successful business man on the largest scale, at the same time. He has proved by his own example that a man may grow rich in trade and yet be doing good all the while. Such examples are not as numerous as they should be, and they deserve to be noted when they occur. Mr. Evans was married September twelfth, 1843, to Mary Poage, of Greenup, Ky. She died December thirteenth, 1853. On February eleventh, 1856, he was married to Sarah H. Hanna, of Fort Wayne, who is still living, and is a worthy co-laborer with her husband in all good works. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:11:46, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909290111.VAA05024@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JACOB F. STUDEBAKER - ASHLAND COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF INDIANA Richard S. Peale & Co., Publishers, 1875 Page 683 JACOB F. STUDEBAKER Jacob Franklin Studebaker, the fifth son of the family, and the junior member of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, was born in Ashland county, Ohio, May twenty-sixth, 1844, and is consequently now in his thirty first year. At the age of eight, young Jacob followed with the family train to South Bend, but afterwards returned to Tiffin, Ohio, where he learned the trade of wagon and carriage making with Peter Van Ness. Returning to St. Joseph county, he engaged three years at farming, before becoming a member of the company. He is the secretary of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing company, and has the sole charge of the carriage works, a post for which he is peculiarly fitted. No man in the west, perhaps, has a better knowledge of the wants and needs of the people in his specialty, and very few persons have better taste and judgement in all matters relating to the manufacture of fine carriage work. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:12:05, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909290112.VAA05098@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JOHN C. KNOBLOCK - STARK COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA Richard S. Peale & Co., Publishers, 1875 Page 668 JOHN C. KNOBLOCK He was born in Canton, Stark county, Ohio, November third, 1830. In 1843 he moved with his father to Marshall county, Ind., with an ox team. He helped to clear up a farm. In 1848 he commenced working for A.R. & I.H. Harper for ten dollars a month. He was soon promoted to a position in their large mills. In 1852 he engaged with M. DeCamp as clerk in the grocery trade, and in 1853 he commenced in the same business on his own account. In 1864 he went into the the milling and flouring business, and in 1871 he, with others, engaged in the manufacture of furniture with a capital stock of $750,000, and in 1873, with others, he commenced the manufacture of reapers, saw mills, lathes, etc., with a capital stock of $100,000. He is now forty-four years of age, and has been a successful business man. He is a resident of South Bend, Ind. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:12:07, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909290112.VAA05114@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HARVEY BATES - CINCINNATI, OHIO Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA Richard S. Peale & Co., Publishers, 1875 Page 667-668 HARVEY BATES Harvey Bates,one of the oldest pioneers of Indianapolis now living, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1795. When but four years of age his mother died leaving a family of four children all in tender years. The children were "put out" among friends. The parties with whom the subject of this sketch was intrusted moved to Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio, where he remained doing general farm work until he was fifteen years of age. At this age he went into a store in that place, owned by the postmaster. He had the full care of the postoffice until he was about twenty-one years of age. During his youth his educational advantages were limited. In other words he received only the education afforded in the pioneer country schools. At this age Mr. Bates bought out his employer and commenced merchandizing on his own account. In 1816 he moved to Brookville, Ind., and opened a store there. Soon after he cast his first vote for delegates to the constitutional convention of 1816. He remained only a short time in Brookville, when he moved to Connersville, where he erected a carding mill and fulling mill, in which he carried on a successful business for about ten years. He sold out his interest in this mill, and in 1822 came to what is now Indianapolis, then a wilderness, commissioned by Gov. Jennings as sheriff to assist in organizing the county of Marion. From that date he was resided continually in Indianapolis, and has been one of its most useful and successful citizens. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:12:15, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909290112.VAA03882@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: REV. JAMES THOMPSON - HAMILTON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA Richard S. Peale & Co., Publishers, 1875 Page 645 REV. JAMES THOMPSON He is another of the old pioneers of Crawfordsville; was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, in the year 1801. He graduated at the Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, in 1825, and moved to Montgomery county in 1828. He was the first regular Presbyterian preacher in Crawfordsville, and was instrumental in promoting the growth of Wabash College. He removed to Wabash, where he preached with great success for five years; after which he returned to Crawfordsville. In 1853 he moved to Mankato, Minn., where he preached for fifteen years. He died in October, 1873, and his remains were brought back to Crawfordsville and deposited in Mill's cemetery. His name is fresh and precious in the memory of the people of Montgomery county, as also among those who have met with him in Minnesota. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #9 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:12:13, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199909290112.VAA14098@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JOSEPH S. BUCKLES - CLARK COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA Richard S. Peale & Co., Publishers, 1875 Page, 671 JOSEPH S. BUCKLES Was born near Springfield, Clark county, Ohio, July twenty-ninth, 1819; came to Muncie, Indiana, with his father, October, 1833, where he has since resided; was educated in log schools houses, upon the forcible theory "that to spare the rod spoils the boy;" studied the legal profession, and commenced the practice in 1841. In 1846, was elected prosecuting attorney in a circuit opposed to him in politics, and composed of eight counties; served two years. In 1848, was elected State senator by the district composed of the counties of Grant and Delaware; served three sessions, the last two as chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1854, was the democratic nominee for Congress in the old burnt district, and was beaten by Hon. D.P. Hollaway, the fusion candidate. In 1858, was elected judge of the seventh judicial circuit, remained on the circuit bench twelve years, since which time he has been engaged in agriculture and horticulture, he says, as a means of morals, health, and amusement, and the practice of his profession for a livelihood. In politics, up to 1860, he was a democrat, and voted the ticket unscratched; supported Lincoln's administration during the rebellion, and has since voted the republican ticket. In 1872, he was one of the republican senatorial electors and as such canvassed the major part of the State, and has, since retiring from the bench, taken an active part in the political contests of the State. He has always taken a deep interest in all measures the tendency of which were to develop the resources of his county and State, consequently has been closely identified with the railroad and turnpike interests of western Indiana. He says, "he commenced the world poor, and has held his own remarkably well." -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #692 *******************************************