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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 215 Today's Topics: #1 History, Hamilton County ; Green T ["Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0f1c01bfe3ab$c4c01a60$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: History, Hamilton County ; Green Township - pgs 302-310 (2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Tina Hursh frog158@juno.com April 15, 2000 Transcribed by Patti Graman *********************************************************************** Green Township - pgs 302-310 *********************************************************************** History of Hamilton County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches. Compiled by Henry A. Ford, A.M. and Mrs. Kate B. Ford, L.A. William & Co., Publishers; 1881. pages 302-312 NOTES OF SETTLEMENT William D. GOFORTH lives about one and a half miles south of Cheviot, in Green township, with an only daughter. The wife, now dead, was Miss Sallie GORDON, whose ancestry is traceable to Lord George GORDON, of Scotland. She died April 4, 1878. Mr. GOFORTH is descended from distinguished stock. His grandfather, Judge William GOFORTH, born April 1, 1731, was appointed a member of the State legislature and was judge of the Northwestern Territory, then comprising the district of Ohio. He came to Ohio in 1788, and died in 1805. His own father, Dr. William GOFORTH, was surgeon of the army in the War of 1812, and was also a member of the legislature of Louisiana, where he went in 1803, and came back to Ohio in 1816. His oldest son served in the capacity of lieutenant, and William D., then a lad of fifteen years, witnessed the engagement between the forces of Generals JACKSON and PACKENHAM at New Orleans. He also served under SCOTT in the Mexican war, as ensign, and planted the colors on the Mexican capitol. During the late war he carried the colors of the Fifth Ohio cavalry when they made the attack on the Louisiana Tigers at Shiloh. He was offered the pay and rank of a major, both of which he refused. He was crippled at Shiloh by his horse throwing him against a tree. His own son was in forty-seven engagements. Rev. Samuel J. BROWNE was born at Honiton, England, in 1786, and emigrated to this country in 1796 with his father, Rev. John W. BROWNE, who settled first at Chillicothe, Ohio, and afterward, in 1798, at Cincinnati, and a few years later was drowned in the Little Miami river while returning from one of his appointments to preach in that neighborhood. His son, Samuel J. BROWNE, learned the printing business with Nathaniel WILLIS, and in 1804 started the Liberty Hall newspaper, afterwards the Cincinnati Gazette, and in 1824 the Cincinnati Emporium, afterwards the first daily paper of large size printed in Cincinnati. Through his instigation and pecuniary aid his son, J. W. S. BROWNE, and his son-in-law, L. S. CURTISS, originated and placed on a paying basis the Cincinnati Daily Commercial. He early perceived the growing tendencies of his adopted city, and was among the first to show his faith by frequent investments in real estate in the city and its suburbs. In 1830 he purchased the late BROWNE homestead, consisting of twenty-five acres on the north side of the Miami canal, opposite Baymiller street, and erected thereon a fine residence which he occupied until his death. Mr. BROWNE was twice married. His first wife, a most estimable and handsome English lady, was wooed and won while Mr. BROWNE was on a visit to his brother in England, and by whom he had seven children, three of whom still survive. His second wife was a daughter of the late Dr. E. A. ATLEE, a lady of sweet disposition and most amiable character, by whom he had five children, of whom three are still living. Mr. BROWNE pursued a most active life, retaining both mental and physical vigor to within a short period of his death, which occurred in September, 1872, at the ripe old age of eighty-five years. Samuel W. CARSON of Cheviot, mail agent of the Great Eastern railroad from Cincinnati to Chicago, is the oldest member of his father's family, and was born January 1, 1816. In 1850 he went to California, being gone five years, and returning via Panama railroad, coming across the isthmus on the first train over that line. During the war he was provost marshal and afterwards for two years was revenue collector. In 1856 he was assigned a position in the mail service on the Great Eastern railroad from Cincinnati to Chicago, which position he still retains. Mr. CARSON is a descendant from a remarkable ~pg 305~ family of old settlers and otherwise noted people, who came from the east about 1804 and settled near Cheviot. They were the first pioneers, and consequently were the first to erect school-houses, churches, establish roads, and otherwise improve the country. Mr. CARSON lives comfortably in a nice homestead in Cheviot. Washington MARKLAND is of Chestnut farm, Green township, on which place he has lived during a life of seventy-one years, excepting four years he resided in Piqua, Ohio, to educate his children. His father, Thomas MARKLAND, and mother, Anna Maria, were born in Maryland; moved to Boone county, Kentucky, in 1801; removed to the Chestnut farm (section thirty-two, Green township), in 1805, having then a family of seven children, viz: Elizabeth, Jonathan, Benjamin, John, William, Leah, and Noah; Martha, Washington, James, and Charles, were born on this farm; all are now dead but Noah, Washington, and Charles. His mother, Anna Maria SUMMERS, was of Welsh descent; his father was of English origin; he died in the year 1825, May 18th, leaving Washington in charge of the family. His mother died in the year 1830. Thomas MARKLAND, whose father was a companion of Daniel BOONE, KENT and Cornelius WASHBURNE, the latter the grandfather of Hon. WASHBURNE, of Illinois, lived near the family after they came to Ohio; was intensely bitter towards the Indians and a great friend to WASHINGTON, teaching him old battle songs when he was but four or five years of age. Washington MARKLAND was married to Miss Mary HAMMOND, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1829. Her father was a minister of the gospel in the Methodist Episcopal church. She lived a Christian life, dying triumphant in the faith, July 20, 1878. She was the mother of eight children, three of whom are now dead. He is now conscious of his end approaching, and is waiting in joy the time when he may have the privilege of crossing over to meet his beloved wife and others, who have gone before. He was born October 25, 1809. The family records were destroyed by a dog, and much valuable history of the foreparents is lost. Of his children two sons were in the late war. Albert was under General BUTLER on the Potomac, and Samuel who was in the cavalry service under General KILPATRICK, was taken prisoner, and for two nights and a day before LEE's surrender was confined in Libby prison. Mr. MARKLAND has several relics of old times he highly prizes, viz: An Indian tomahawk of 1812; an iron kettle, ninety-nine years old; a grubbing hoe, seventy years old, and several parts of General HARRISON's carriage. He still resides on the farm of his birthplace. William MURPHY was born in New Jersey in 1800. From this State he was carried to Ohio, and began his life two years later in Springfield township. His death occurred in 1872, in Delhi township. The wife, Mary Ann MURPHY, was born September 7, 1803, and died in 1863. The children, George and Margaret, are now residents of Green township, and Theodore, Christopher and Robert are living in Delhi township. George HAY is a farmer, residing near Bridgetown, Green township, and is also director and secretary of the Cleves Turnpike company. He was born on the twenty-third of August, 1837, received a good common school education, and has been honored by the people of his township in various positions of trust, having served three terms as township trustee, and been a member of the board of education; he is also a director and vice-president of the Harvest Home association. His father, Washington HAY, came from Baltimore about the year 1806, and purchased a farm near Bridgetown, a part of which George HAY now owns. Catharine THURSTON was the wife of Joshua THURSTON, deceased, and daughter of Henry APPLEGATE, an old settler of Green township, who died in the year 1877, about eighty-six years of age. Her father, Mr. APPLEGATE, was born in New Jersey, July 1, 1791, came here in 1812, and remained on Dry Ridge the remainder of his days, dying March 12, 1877; was a bricklayer and plasterer on Long Island, but, longing for the west, traveled on foot and by stage coach to Pittsburgh, where he purchased a skiff and from there came on to Cincinnati, in which vicinity he lived for sixty years. He was the father of twelve children, of which Catharine was the second. Her husband, Joshua THURSTON was a minute man during the war; he died in St. Louis, in 1865, since which time Mrs. THURSTON has resided on the old homestead place. Joseph EPLEY was a native of Pennsylvania, and emigrated froth that State to Ohio, and settled in this township, on sections ten and eleven. He died here in 1835. His wife, Sarah EPLEY, lived till the year 1876. James EPLEY, the oldest son, resides in Green township; the second child, Joseph, is a resident of Kansas; and the youngest, Ann BARRIES, is in Colerain township. James has held the office of justice of peace for twenty-six years, he was also township trustee for two terms. Emily WOOD, wife of Emerson WOOD, deceased, lives near Dent. Her husband was two years of age when his father settled in Green township, one mile northeast from the village, on one hundred acres of good land. They were married in 1832; in 1875 he died. The fruits of their marriage were four children three sons and one daughter. The daughter and two sons are teachers; one son is now taking a course in the Normal school at Lebanon, Ohio. One son is married. William H. MARKLAND is the third son living of the old pioneer Jonathan MARKLAND, who settled on the Cleves road, near Dry Ridge, in the year 1815. Here they began life, a family of thirteen children on a farm of ninety-five acres. Jonathan was born in Virginia in the year 1791, from which State he came. William H. began business in Bridgetown, where he remained two and one-half years - this was in 1850 - then moved to Iowa, but returned again in the year 1853, to Dry Ridge, where he has remained ever since, in charge of a store. He also owns land on Cleves pike; was married in the year 1850. Isaac W. STATHEM, of the firm of Isaac and David STATHEM, grocers in Cheviot, succeeded their father in this business, opening out on a somewhat more extensive scale, in the year 1865. His father, David E. STATHEM, came ~pg 306~ to Green township in 1817, and was a teacher for a number of years, during which time the public school system not being in vogue, a general interest was awakened in the cause of education by a private school he conducted with great success, having for his patronage many of the first citizens of Green township. He kept grocery afterwards for a period of about thirty years, beginning in 1824. He died in 1853. He came from New Jersey, and is, probably, of English origin; was born May 12, 1792. His sons were soldiers in the late war. David E. STATHEM first settled in Green township in 1817. He was born in 1792, in Cumberland county, New Jersey, from which State he emigrated to Ohio. His death occurred in 1867, at Cheviot. In 1817 he was a school teacher, when the country was a wilderness. A list of the patrons of his school and the number of pupils sent by each may be of interest in this connection. Providence LUDLAMOR, 1; John BACON, 4; Robert DARE, 1; James SMITH, 2; Samuel ANDERSON, 1; Louis THORNELL, 3; James TURNER, 2; Thomas BROWN, 2; John CRAIG, 3; John MILLER, 3; Roswell FENTON, 2; Ephraim STATHEM, 1; Benjamin BENN, 2; David CONGAR, 2; Achsah CARSON, 2; John CONGAR, 1; Mathias JOHNSON, 4; Mary CAIN, 1; Thomas MARSHAL, 3; Nathaniel RYAN, 2; Noah SMITH, 2; Jonathan R. TUCKER, 1; William GAIN, 2; Elisha FAY, 6; Hugh GOUDY, 1; Abner SCUDDER, 2; John REDISH, 4, John JONES, 1; Francis HOLT, 1; Elijah BROWN 2; George SMITH, 1. For twenty-one years he was township treasurer, when he resigned. Christian name of his wife was Dorcas HILDRETH. Names of surviving members of the family are: Isaac W., Jacob H., and David T., all of Cheviot; and Phoebe, who died in 1871. James VEAZEY resides on part of section seven, Green township, near Westwood, where he moved in 1870. His father came from Delaware to Ohio, settling in Clermont county in 1812. In 1824 he purchased a farm in Spring Grove; he died in 1876, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. James was born in 1818, bought his present homestead in 1852, and was married to Miss WILLIAMS, daughter of an old settler, in 1870. He is a farmer. S. S. JACKSON was born in Philadelphia in 1803. He came to Ohio from New York city, and made his first settlement in Green township, in the year 1826. His wife, Elizabeth JACKSON, was born in 1807. Of his seven children, only two are still living: Mary JACKSON and Julia HERRICK, both in Green township. John was wounded at Vicksburgh and died, Isaac and Lewis were drowned. The remaining two that are not alive are Elizabeth and Debby. Mr. JACKSON has in his possession a journal of his grandfather, Mr. William JACKSON, dated August 26, 1768, at Philadelphia; also, a weather record kept by his father, Isaac H. JACKSON, three times each day, for the years between 1813 and 1842. F. H. OEHLMANN, of the law firm of OEHLMANN & LUNDY, room 24 Temple Bar, northwest corner of Court and Main streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, was born January 13, 1848, on Race street, Cincinnati. His father came to this county when but fourteen years of age (1833), and died October 3, 1875, at the age of fifty-eight years; his mother is still living. F. H. OEHLMANN received a good common school education in the public schools of Cincinnati, perfecting his course in the Woodward high school at the age of seventeen years. Following his course in school, he obtained employment as clerk in the recorder's office, court house, where he remained for a period of eight years, when he went into the practice of law, and is today the senior member of the firm of OEHLMANN & LUNDY. He, with his parents, removed from Cincinnati to Westwood in the spring of 1865, where he still resides. He was elected as assessor of Green township when he was but twenty-one years of age, defeating a worthy and popular citizen in the election. He was elected member of the council of the village of Westwood, in which capacity he served until the spring of 1878, when he was elected mayor of said village, and was reelected in 1880, and is at present the presiding officer of that village. He married Miss Augusta PATZOLD in 1871, from which union he has been blessed with several children. Joseph SIEFERT was born December 11, 1810, at Baden, Germany. Coming directly from that country to Ohio, he settled in Cincinnati in 1834. For eight years he was a member of the city council, twelve years director of the Longview Lunatic asylum, and two terms, or twelve years, president of the Cincinnati Relief union, of which society he was a member for twenty-one years. lie paid the relief fund to the soldiers' widows during thirteen years, for five years was appointed by the governor, and the remainder of the time held the place through the council. His wife, Elizabeth SIEFERT, was born in Europe November 1, 1813, and died December 7, 1875. Of the seven children, Charles only remains a resident of this township. Elizabeth HUY resides in Richmond, Indiana, and Ellen DRUM, Rosa HEGLE, Mary, Josephine, and Frank Joseph, are in Cincinnati. D. R. HERRICK was born in 1843, in Summit county, Ohio. He became a resident of Green township in 1876. His family consists of his wife Mrs. Julia HERRICK and his two children, Sidney and Edna. Dr. G. H. MUSEKAMP was born in Prussia in 1802. He arrived in Cincinnati in 1837, after a protracted journey of forty-two weeks, by sea, land, canal, and river. His death occurred in 1874, at his home in Green township. He was one of the earliest German physicians of Cincinnati, practiced principally minor surgery. At his death he was one of the oldest German physicians in Hamilton county. He left Cincinnati and moved into Green township in 1850. Mrs. MUSEKAMP (Charlotte GUTTEMULLER) was born in 1803, and died in 1845. Their family consists of Louisa, now living in Goshen, Clermont county, and Elizabeth, Sophia, and Dr. George H. W., all three of Green township. Enoch JACOBS was born at Marlborough, Vermont, in 1809. He emigrated from New York to Ohio in 1843, and settled in Cincinnati. His wife, Electa JACOBS, was born in 1812. Their children are Electa and E. George, both living at Mount Airy. Mr. Jacobs was, at one time, appointed consul to Montevideo, South America, and acted as minister, in the absence of this officer, for one ~pg 307~ and a half years. He was also a member of the Walnut Hill school board, and laid the corner stone of the first school building built under the free school law. When the late war broke out he entered the army with four sons, two of whom were killed, one at Chancellorsville, the other murdered. He was in the first battle of the west at Vienna, and served, at one time, as a member of the staff. Colonel KEMPLE and himself had the honor of receiving twelve shots from the artillery, they being the only mark. -----Continued in Part 3----- -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #215 *******************************************