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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 103 Today's Topics: #1 Fw: bio: William Murphy - Hamilton [christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.105630.-279005.5.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: bio: William Murphy - Hamilton County Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit William Murphy History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 305 Submitted by Patti Graman PMRHG@aol.com 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:56:28 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.105630.-279005.6.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: Bio: George Hay - Hamilton County Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit George Hay History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 305 Submitted by Patti Graman PMRHG@aol.com 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:55:35 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.105630.-279005.3.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: bio: Samuel W. Carson - Hamilton County Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Samuel W. Carson History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 304 Submitted by Patti Graman PMRHG@aol.com 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 (page 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:55:18 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.105630.-279005.2.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: bio: William D. Goforth - hamilton county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit William D. Goforth History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 304 Submitted by Patti Graman 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:55:02 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.105630.-279005.1.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: Bio: Samuel J. Browne - Hamilton County Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rev. Samuel J. Browne History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 304 Submitted by Patti Graman PMRHG@aol.com 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:55:54 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.105630.-279005.4.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: bio: Washington Markland - Hamilton county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Washington Markland History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 305 Submitted by Patti Graman PMRHG@aol.com 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:35:02 EST From: Cbm1189@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <2.1ca2f02.260928e6@aol.com> Subject: Charles F BRENNER-THE GERMANS IN CLEVELAND Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit THE GERMANS IN CLEVELAND Published in the Cleveland Press on December 12, 1927 by Dan W. Gallagher...copyright , 1927 Article No. 12---Mine Host Brenner and His Famous Smoked Sturgeon The most genial German boniface of the long ago was Charles F. Brenner. His tavern, known as the HARVEST HOME, situated on the road to Lorain, was famous throughtout the state. It was kept open all night in order that travelers journeying by night might be accorded the same comforts as those arriving by day. The bountiful table Brenner set won him renown. His dinners, with smoked sturgeon as the chief dish, were acclaimed by his patrons. Tavernkeeper Brenner bought up fresh catches of sturgeon from the lake and superintended their smoking. He also had a big farm in connection with his business, raising large quantities of vegetables. Here is a description of the now exterminated sturgeon, as published in 1837. "The sturgeon, with a form as terrible and a body as large as the shark, is yet harmless. Incapable and unwilling to injure others, it flies from the smallest fishes. It is a harmless fish, in no way voracious. It never attempts to seize any of the finny tribe. It lives by rooting at the bottom where it makes insects and waterplants its whole substance. This great fish must therefore be a slender feeder. Hence has arisen the German proverb, which is applied to a man extremely temperate, when they say 'he is as moderate as a sturgeon'. The sturgeon ought to be as numerous as it is powerful. For Leuwenhoek professes to have reckoned one hundred and fifty thousand millions of eggs in a single roe. This seems extravagance, yet Catesby declares that the female frequently contains a bushel of spawn. Either estimate is surprising." In winter, HARVEST HOME was the destination of a majority of sleighing parties out of Cleveland. And every evening during the summertime, scores of rigs stood in the tavern yard while swain and their sweethearts dined at the famous resort. Brenner was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, July 22, 1830. While still a boy, his parents brought him to America. They were seven weeks and two days on the Atlantic, making the passage in a sailing vessel. The family lived in Philadelphia, where Charles started to learn the trade of hatmaking. Becoming an expert in this industry, he met and married Sophia Dueringer, a native of Barbarie, Germany. Stories having reached them concerning opportunities for advancement to be found in Cleveland, they set forth with the view of establishing their home here, arriving in Cuyahoga county in 1849. Brenner followed his trade for a time in Cleveland. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the seventh New York Infantry. He served throughout the conflict, taking part in many battles. When he mustered out, he was a second lieutenant. Following the war, he opened his tavern, twelve miles from Cleveland on the road to Lorain, and the place soon became noted for its hospitality. In politics he was a Democrat. And during the Hayes-Tilden campaign in 1876, he raised a "hickory pole" in front of his tavern, a big throng from Cleveland and other places attending. Brenner was a member of the Masonic order, being affiliated with the Concordia lodge. He was also connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He died at the age of 64 and surviving members of his family ultimatly exchanged the tavern and farm for property in Cleveland. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:00:00 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.160053.-256863.2.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: Bio: Joseph Epley - Hamilton county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joseph Epley History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 305 Submitted by Patti Graman PMRHG@aol.com 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #9 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:00:14 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.160053.-256863.3.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: Bio: Emily Wood - Hamilton county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Emily Wood History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 305 Transcribed by Patti Graman 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #10 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:00:33 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.160053.-256863.4.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: bio: William Markland - Hamilton county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Willaim H. Markland History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 305 Transcribed by Patti Graman 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #11 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:59:43 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.160053.-256863.1.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: bio: Catharine Thurston - Hamilton County Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Catharine Thurston History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 305 Submitted by Patti Graman PMRHG@aol.com 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #12 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:00:52 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.160053.-256863.5.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: Bio: Isaac W. Stathem - Hamilton county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Isaac W. Stathem History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 305 Transcribed by Patti Graman 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 (page 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. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #13 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:10:22 -0600 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000321.210053.-317967.5.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Fw: Bio: Elizabeth Bates - Hamilton county Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Elizabeth Bates History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 309 Transcribed by Patti Graman Elizabeth Bates, wife of Joshua Bates, railroad contractor, resides in Mount Airy, Green township. Mr. Bates removed to his present elegant homestead in 1859. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. John Bates (son) was a soldier in the cavalry service under Kilpatrick, during the late war. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! 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