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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 02 : Issue 151 Today's Topics: #1 [OH-FOOT] KINDELL [KENDALL] 1880 O [Donna Heller Zinn ] #2 [OH-FOOT] Bio: Wagner, M. - Shelby [Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3D3472FF.72B@pa.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] KINDELL [KENDALL] 1880 Ohio Census Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Fellow Listers: Here is the transcript for my David KINDELL [KENDALL] on the 1880 Ohio Census. He and his family were living in either Wyandot Co. or Richland Co., OH. pg.449D KINDELL David 55 b.PA " Lydia Ann 55 b.PA [maiden name: GUTSHALL] " Andrew 22 b.PA " Jacob 19 b.PA " George 15 b.PA " David 11 b.PA " Catharine 8 b.PA " Willie 5 b.PA " Jennie 3 b.PA In 1870 he and his family were living in Newton Twp., Cumberland Co., PA. In 1860 he and his family were living in Toboyne Twp., Perry Co., PA. Their eldest son, John Franklin married a Mary Catharine HOLTRY and stayed in Cumberland and Franklin Co., PA. - these are my husband's great-grandparents. Does anyone have further information on this family? Thanks in advance for any assistance! Donna HELLER ZINN of Newville, Cumberland Co., PA. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:35:17 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020716233517.006df9dc@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Wagner, M. - Shelby Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Marcella Messer. --------------- >From The History of Shelby County, Ohio, published by R. Sutton & Co., Philadelphia, 1883. pg 379 M. Wagner was born in Alsace, France, April 24, 1818, and in 1830 came to America, and drove a team through to Pittsburg, where he met his father, who had preceded him by stage to Baltimore. Here he began to work in a tobacco factory for one dollar a week, but a few months later went to Butler County, PA., where he followed farm work about eighteen months. After this he moved back to Pittsburgh and labored at whatever work he could find. Coming to Ohio he settled in Columbiana County and engaged in farming. From there he went to Steubenville, Wheeling and other places, working as best he could at the different points. In this way he worked and struggled until 1837, when he started for Allen County, and after a little while came to Sidney, where, with his brother Peter, he worked on the canal until the winter arrested the work. He then returned to the Allen County farm and began improving it. Again he returned to the canal work and finally stated a business in Sidney, opening a meat market and prosecuting other enterprises, until he has become one of the strongest financial men of the town. In 1844 he married Miss Mary Rauth, and has seven children living, named Mary, William, Milton, Benjamin, Flora, Lewis, and Bertha. Four children, named Charles, John, Ellen, and Amelia, are dead. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:35:18 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020716233518.006d656c@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Robinson, Samuel - Shelby Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Marcella Messer. --------------- History of Shelby County, 1883 Sutton Green Township Pages 202-203 Samuel Robinson, deceased, A native of Pennsylvania, was born in Bucks County, March 24, 1780. He came to Ohio when a young man, with his mother, his father being dead, and located in Clarke County, near Springfield, remained a few years then moved to Champaign County, where he married Miss Elizabeth Sturm, daughter of Henry Sturm, then of Shelby County, born March 11, 1793. Mr. And Mrs. Robinson settled in Champaign County, remained until March 1815, when he entered and moved his family on the land in Green Township, Shelby County, now owned by George Ginn, in section 19 where they passed the remainder of their days. Mrs. Robinson died Nove 4, 1875, aged 82 years. Mr. Robinson died March 31, 1876, aged 96 years. They reared a family of eight children, viz: Henry, Rebeccca, Eliza, John, Mary, Rossiter, Elizabeth, and Lydia, all of whom are yet living except Eliza who died in August 1881. All married and had families. Mrs. Robinson is said to have been the second settler in what is now Green Township, the first being Mr. Sturm, the father in law of Mr. Robinson. His first improvement on hi land was the erection of a log cabin, 14 by 16, one story high, which served them as a dwelling about 10 years. Then, about 1825-6, he erected a hewed-log residence. He made clearing He made clearing land and farming his avocation through life. Shortly after Mr. Robinson settled on his land, one day while walking around in the woods he saw a black bear sitting in the forks of a large tree. In order to kill the bear he returned to his house to get the gun, but unfortunately there were no bullets run; so, while Mrs. R. made the bullets, he went back to the tree to watch the bear. In a short time Mrs. R. came with the bullets. He loaded his gun and fired. The bear fell backwards; but instead of coming to the ground, it fell in the hollow of the tree, out of sight, and presently a young cub ran up the forks where the old bear sat, and looked down at Mr. R. He thought he had killed the old bear sure. He then cut the tree down, and found the old bear and all her cubs were dead. But on examination he found his bullet had not touched the bear, but they were killed by the falling of the tree. In about 1830 a severe storm passed over the settlement, blew the roof of Mr. R.'s house, and did other damage in the neighborhood. In 1834 another storm came along, and moved the upper part of Mr. R.'s house, dow as low as the tops of the doors and windows, about six feet out of its place, but fortunately, no one was seriously injured. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:35:20 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020716233520.006d1058@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Early settlement, Petty twp, shelby co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Marcella Messer. --------------- History of Shelby County Sutton 1883 Perry Township Early Settlement pg. 215 The first settlement made within the present limits of this township was made by Judge David Henry in February, 1814. He located in section 28, on the farm now owned by Wm. R. Ried, Esq., on the banks of the Mosquito Creek. We cannot learn that there were any others who came that year. The following year Samuel and William Robinson, with their families, found their way to the same neighborhood. They were followed by Wm. Marrs in 1816; he by George Chiles, Charles Johnston, Thomas Wilkinson, Peter Musselman, and Benjamin Manning, all of whom were her prior to the organization of the county in 1819. The irst road laid out in the township is the one known as the Sidney and Urbana Road. The first log and also the first frame house was built by David Henry. The first frame barn was erected by Wm. Marrs. The same is still standing on the farm of Henry R. Miller. The lumber was sawed for it in this township on a mill built by Peter Musselman on Mosquito Creek. First brick house was built by Henry C. Line in 1836. The first flouring mill was built by Charles Mason, a colored man. He built a log mill on Mosquito Creek, near where the Manning & Line mill now stands. It had a corn and wheat buhr, the bolt was turned by hand. The second flouring mill was werected by Wm. Pepper, on the place now owned by E. F. Henry. The first carding machine was owned by Peter Musselman and was built about 1835. The first births were (twins) David and Sally Henry, born February 17, 1815. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:35:21 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020716233521.006de874@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Henry, Judge David - Shelby Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Marcella Messer. --------------- History of Shelby County Sutton 1883 Perry Township p. 218 Judge David Henry This early pioneer and settler of Shelby County was born in Pennsylvania in 1770. The first place we know of him living was in Kentucky; his next place of residence was in Champaign County, Ohio. February , 1814, he moved to Perry Township, then in Miami County, where he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in section 28. He was the first white settler in Perry Township. At the time of his location there was not a settler within three miles of him. In the spring of 1817 he was elected clerk of his township, and acted as such for a number of years. In the fall of the same year (1817) he was elected justice of the peace, and received his commission from Thomas Worthington, then Governor of Ohio. He was re-elected to the same office in 1821, 1824, 1826, 1829, and 1832. Also was the first commissioner's clerk of the county, which position he filled from the organization of the county until the fall of 1820, when he was elected commissioner of the county, but resigned the same in the fall of 1821. He was appointed by the court as director for the survey and sale of lots of the town of Sidney. In the year 1826, he received a commission from Governor Jeremiah Morrow as Associate Judge for the Court of Common Pleas of Shelby County. To his papers, which have been kept on file, and preserved by his daughter, Mrs. Ried, we are indebted for much of our information in regard to the county as well as Perry Township. Judge Henry was one of the most prominent and leading citizens at the organization of the county, and filled some official postion in both county and township from their organization to the time of his death, which occured on March 29, 1834. He raised a family of ten children, only two of whom now are living in the county, viz., David Henry Jr., and Mrs. Wm. R. Ried, both of Perry Township. David Henry , Jr. was born February 17, 1815. He and a sister who were twins are said to be the first births in what is now Perry Township. David Henry is now the oldest settler in the townhsip, having had his home in the township for over sixty seven years. He has seen the woods of Perry become a fine, fertile, and well-improved portion of the county. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:35:23 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020716233523.006dc794@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Henry, E.F. - Shelby county Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Marcella Messer. --------------- History of Shelby County Sutton 1883 Perry Township p. 217 E. F. Henry was born in Shelby County in 1848. He is the son of Richard and Barbara Henry. Richard Henry, the father of E. F. , was a son of Judge David Henry, and was the oldest of the family. In 1829 he married Barbara Jackson, a daughter of Jesse Jackson, who was among the first settlers of Shelby County, having come to the county prior to the war of 1812. They built a block house on the land of Edward Jackson, in which they lived and resorted to during Indian trouble. This was on the bank of the Miami River, two miles south of the site of Sidney. They lived on this place some ten years, then moved to where Port Jefferson now is; lived there two years, then located on section 27, Perry Township. It was here that E. F. was born. In 1877 he married Miss Anna B Fish, who was born in the county in 1856. They reside on part of the old homestead. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:35:24 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020716233524.006da210@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Sturm, George - Shelby co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Marcella Messer. --------------- History of Shelby County Sutton 1883 Perry Township P. 221 George Sturm The first we can learn of the Sturms is that in 1757 Henry Sturm was born in Virginia, and came to Ohio, and located in Clarke County; but the time is not known, but was prior to the war of 1812, for he had three sons in the army who went from Clarke County. He was married to Elizabeth Weaver, and had a family of fourteen children. George and John, twin brothers, were the youngest of the family, and were born in Clarke County, January 321, 1813. In August or September, 1814, Henry Sturm and his family moved to what is now Shelby County, and located in Green Township. The nearest white settler to them at the time was David Henry, nearly six miles distant, and A. Wilkinson in Champaign County, six miles distant. Here in the woods, George Sturm was raised without privelege of schools, the Indians being far more numerous in those days than the whites. George and John at the death of their father in 1832 bought the old homestead. This they owned together for a number of years, when George sold his interest to his brother, and removed to Illinois, but remained there only a few months, when he returned and bought the homestead of his wife's father- Isaac Stout- in Perry Township, section 9, where he now resides. He was married to Mary A. Stout in 1833. They have raised a family of five children, Matilda, Rebecca, Martha, Hannah E., and Rachel A. Isaac Stout located in Perry in 1831. Mr. Sturm has retired from labor, being afflicted with a nervousness that prevents him from labor. His wife also has been a sufferer for years, and is compelled to walk with crutches. Mr. Sturm has been living in the county sixty-eight years. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:35:25 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020716233525.006da3b8@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Lippincott, G.W. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Marcella Messer. --------------- History of Shelby County Sutton 1883 Perry Township Pg. 221 G. W. Lippincott was born in New Jersey in 1826, came to Shelby County in 1847,and married Sarah J. Line in 1856. Mrs. Lippincott is a daughter of John Line and the old lady who was so foully murdered by David Shank. They have raised a family of five children, as follows: James, born 1861; John , born 1864; Edward , born 1866; and Franlin, born 1874. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #9 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:35:26 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020716233526.006db568@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Robinson, John - Shelby Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Marcella Messer. --------------- History of Shelby County Sutton 1883 Clinton Township P. 389 John S. Robinson a son of Henry and Ann ( Neal ) Robinson, was born in Shelby County in 1849. His place of residence is Sidney and business that of restarteur. In 1871 he married Mary Yohe. They have had born to them two children, Jennie May and Bonnie A. The history of the Robinson family can be found elsewhere in this work. They were among the first settlers of the county. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #10 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:35:27 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020716233527.006db654@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Sturm, John - shelby co Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Marcella Messer. --------------- History Of Shelby County, 1883 Sutton Green Township Page 204 John Sturm, Farmer; P.O. Tawawa, Ohio Mr. Sturm was born in Clarke County, Ohio Jan. 31, 1813, and was brought to Shelby County by his parents, Henry and Elizabeth Sturm, in 1814, who settled in what is now Green Township, where they made improvements, and passed the remainder of their days. They were, as mear as can be ascertained, the first settlers in Green Township, their nearest neighbors being six miles distant, and their home was what we can justly call a home in the woods,with no one except the Indians near them, and they were everyday visitors, calling to ask some favor of the white man. They reared a family of twelve children, viz., Matthias, Margaret, Nicholas, Henry, Peter, William, Jacob, Frederick, Ephraim, Elizabeth, George, and John. Mathias, Nicholas, and Henry served in the war of 1812. All of the above named children are now dead, expect George and John, twin brothers. George is now living in Perry Township, Shelby County, and John is living on the home farm in Green Township. Mr. Sturm died June 14, 1832 aged seventy five years. His comanion departed this life April 3, 1840, aged eighty five years. He had a reputation as an expert with his rifle and was a successful hunter. Mr. John Sturm, the subject of this sketch, was reared a farmer and spent his minority days on the farm, clearing, grubbing and preparing the soil for cultivation. On the 30th day of July, 1834, he married Mrs. Rachel M. Barbee, by whom he reared six children, viz., Elias B., Julia A., John F., David I., Mary E., and Eliza J. Mr. and Mrs. Sturm settled on his father's home farm where they have resided since. Miss Barbee, wife of Mr. Sturm, was born in Butler County, Ohio, Aug. 28, 1817, and came to Shelby County with her parents, Elias and Mary Barbee, in 1834, who setttled on the N.W. quarter of section 2, Green Township, where Mr. Barbee died Feb. 1, 1842. His companion died Oct. 17, 1871. Submitted by Marcella Messer ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #11 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:35:29 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20020716233529.006decc0@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Bio: Trimmer, Samuel - Noble Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb Murray. --------------- Samuel Trimmer was born in New Jersey and when a child immigrated with his parents to Pennsylvania. His father, Paul Trimmer, was a soldier of the Revolution and participated in several notable engagements. He followed the sea for several years and died about 1830, aged nearly one hundred years. His wife was a sister of General Anthony Wayne. Samuel Trimmer was a farmer, a very worthy citizen and an exemplary member of the Presbyterian church, as was also his wife. He died in 1847, aged fifty-seven. Stevenson Trimmer was born in Washington County, Penn., March 11, 1815, and October 14, 1843 was married to Miss Ann McAdams. His worldly effects at this time inventoried one horse and $25 in money. After his marriage he began life as a farmer on leased lands, and by his industry and thrift he prospered and soon acquired the nucleus of a competency. In 1852 he came from Pennsylvania to his present farm, which originally consisted of eighty acres of unimproved land, which by repeated accessions now contains 420 acres, highly improved. In 1882 Mrs. Trimmer died. Her only child, James A., enlisted May 2, 1864, in Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died in hospital at Cumberland, Md., June 9, 1864 in his twentieth year. He was an estimable young man, a member of the Presbyterian church and a good soldier. In 1885 Mr. Trimmer was again married to Mrs. Malinda Butterbaugh. In religious and political affiliation Mr. Trimmer is a Presbyterian and a Republican. For six years he has served the county as Infirmary director, receiving the sufferages of both parties. He is an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian church and every worthy cause finds in him a warm friend and patron. He is one of those liberal, public-spirited gentlemen whose identification with any community is always productive of good. Five orphan children have been the recipients of his generosity, and throughout the entire county he is known as one of the most respected citizens of Brookfield Township. History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887 Brookfield -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V02 Issue #151 *******************************************