OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 120 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 120 Today's Topics: #1 Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (May) [Archives ] #2 Oh-Hancock-Athens-Delaware Co. Bio [Archives ] #3 Oh-Hancock-Coshocton Co. Bios (Mus [Archives ] #4 Oh-Hancock-Athens Co. Bios (Philli [Archives ] #5 Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Ramsey) [Archives ] #6 Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Ramsey) [Archives ] #7 Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Rose) [Archives ] #8 Oh-Hancock-Knox Co. Bios (Shafer) [Archives ] #9 Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Treece) [Archives ] #10 Oh-Hancock-Medina Co. Bios (Wilson [Archives ] #11 Oh-Hancock-Perry-Licking Co. 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All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 18, 2005, 6:25 pm Author: Warner & Beers (1886) MILTON MAY, farmer, P. O. Mount Blanchard, was born in Brooke County, Va. (now West Virginia), January 30, 1829. In 1850 he went with the gold hunters to California and remained there six months; during this time he had a severe attack of mountain fever. He decided to return to his native county, and leaving San Franciso, with only one dime in his pocket, he worked before the mast for his passage to Panama, and arriving there, engaged at carpenting for two months, then crossed the Isthmus to Chagres, and shipped for New Orleans, being promoted on the voyage to second mate. Arriving in New Orleans, he made his way up the Mississippi River to Steubenville. Ohio, and in the spring of 1852, he came to Delaware Township, this county, where he had previously acquired a tract of land. This land he now began clearing up and improving, and September 15, 1853, he married Sarah Louisa Smith, daughter of the pioneer Abijah Smith, and they located in their present home in Delaware Township, this county, in the spring of 1857; here they have a fine farm of eighty-one acres of well improved land; they also own a tract of 137 acres in Delaware and Amanda Townships, this county. Mr. and Mrs. May have two children: Dr. A. S. May, in Donaldson, Marshall Co., Ind., and Lewis B., at home. Mr. May is a member of the Methodist Church, Mrs. May of the Presbyterian. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Delaware Township File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/may182bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: 18 Aug 2005 22:26:53 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050818222653.21834.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock-Athens-Delaware Co. Bios (Moore) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock-Athens-Delaware County OhArchives Biographies.....Moore, Joseph 1815 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 18, 2005, 6:26 pm Author: Warner & Beers (1886) JOSEPH MOORE, farmer, P. O. Forest, Hardin County, was born June 6, 1815, in Beaver County, Penn., and when he was seventeen months old his parents, William and Amelia Moore, brought him to Athens County, Ohio. The parents afterward spent nine years in Delaware County, Ohio, and came in 1839 to Delaware Township, this county, where they entered 160 acres of land from the Government, and cleared up a farm. Of their thirteen children seven are now living: Mrs. Margaret Durfee (in Rockport, Mo.), John (in Hancock County), Mrs. Eleanor Gallant (in Delaware County, Ohio), Mrs. Charlotte Calvert (in Athens County, Ohio), Samuel (in Delaware County, Ohio), Joseph and Mrs. Emily Gallant William Moore died December 12, 1852, aged seventy-seven years, and his widow May 18, 1858, aged seventy-seven years; they were upright pioneers, highly respected by all who knew them. The subject of this sketch spent eleven years of his life in Delaware County, Ohio. He married, October 20, 1836, Miss Martha E. Thompson of Athens County, Ohio, and they moved at once to Delaware County, Ohio, and from there, in 1843, to their present home in Delaware Township, this county. Here they have a fine farm of 236 acres of well improved land. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have been blessed with six children, three of whom are now living: Sidney F. (in Forest, Hardin Co., Ohio), Naaman T., and Mrs. Mary C. Gilbert, in Forest. Those deceased are Mrs. Paulina Miller, Eebecca and Eliza E. Sidney F. and Naaman T., gave their services, from September, 1862, to the close of the war, in defense of the Union. July 10, 1873, while cutting wheat with a reaper, our subject met with an accident which resulted in the loss of his left leg below the knee. Mr. Moore, formerly a Whig, has been a Republican since the organization of that party. He has served his township for several terms as trustee, and is one of the successful farmers and reliable citizens of Delaware Township, highly respected by his fellow citizens. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Delaware Township File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/moore183bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: 18 Aug 2005 22:28:04 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050818222804.22071.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock-Coshocton Co. Bios (Musgrave) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock-Coshocton County OhArchives Biographies.....Musgrave, Thomas 1827 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 18, 2005, 6:28 pm Author: Warner & Beers (1886) THOMAS MUSGRAVE (deceased) was born March 5, 1827, in Coshocton County, Ohio, son of William and Margaret Musgrave, who came to Delaware Township, this county, in 1832, where they still reside. Our subject was reared on his father's farm and shared the lot of a pioneer's son. He married, July 1, 1849, Miss Margaret Ann Wineland, born May 15, 1830, in Richland County, Ohio, and who came to this county in 1847 with her parents, John and Mary Wineland, who resided here until their death. Mr. and Mrs. Musgrave resided in Delaware Township, this county, from the date of their marriage. In 1863 they settled on their present homestead, where he had a fine farm of 200 acres of well improved land. To our subject and wife were born the following named children: John W. (married Miss Emma Moore and resides on the farm), Washington (in Jay County, Ind.), Franklin, Mary Jane, Mrs. Angeline Castor, Mrs. Laura Sink and Ulysses S. Mr. Musgrave died June 22, 1880. He was a Republican in politics and took a deep interest in public affairs, serving as township trustee. He was an upright citizen, a man of much influence in the community. His widow now resides on the family homestead. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Delaware Township File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/musgrave184bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: 18 Aug 2005 22:28:56 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050818222856.22228.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock-Athens Co. Bios (Phillips) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock-Athens County OhArchives Biographies.....Phillips, Samuel R. 1815 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 18, 2005, 6:28 pm Author: Warner & Beers (1886) SAMUEL R. PHILLIPS, farmer, P. O. Forest, Hardin County, born in Athens County, Ohio, July 30, 1815, is a son of Daniel and Abigail (Cady) Phillips, natives of Vermont and Connecticut, respectively, who resided for some years near Cooperstown, N. Y., and afterward moved to Pennsylvania; they came to Marietta, Ohio, in 1812, and finally settled in Ames Township, Athens Co., Ohio, in 1814, and there Daniel Phillips died in 1831; his father was a soldier under Gen. Washington in the war of the Revolution for seven years, and died in 1835. The mother of Daniel Phillips was present at the massacre at Wyoming. Samuel R. Phillips, the subject of this sketch, came to Delaware Township, this county, with his mother and an elder brother, Job, in the fall of 1835; his mother resided here until her death, which occurred in 1849, in her seventy-sixth year. In August, 1836, he entered eighty acres of land, which he still owns; there is but one other man in Delaware Township, this county, who is living on land originally entered by himself from the Government. Mr. Phillips has added eighty acres of land, to his original entry and now owns 160 acres of fine farming land. In 1842 he taught the first school in his district, teaching in all four terms. July 8, 1849, he married Miss Matilda Roby, who was born in Franklin County, Ohio, January 30, 1817, and came to Hardin County, Ohio, in 1S33 with her parents, Josiah and Margaret (Elsey) Roby. To Samuel E. Phillips and wife were born three sons: David Isaac, Daniel Josiah (deceased) and Samuel Hanson. Our subject cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, and has supported the Whig and Republican parties ever since. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Phillips is a man of upright principles and strict integrity, greatly respected and esteemed by all who know him. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Delaware Township File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/phillips185bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: 18 Aug 2005 22:29:55 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050818222955.22460.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Ramsey) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Ramsey, Charles 1804 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 18, 2005, 6:29 pm Author: Warner & Beers (1886) CHARLES RAMSEY, retired farmer, P. O. Dunkirk, Hardin County, was born in Montgomery County, Md., in 1804. He was declared free at the age of twenty-one by the will of his owner, but did not really obtain his freedom until he was thirty years old. Our subject ran a ferry-boat twenty-five years on the Ohio River at Steubenville, and amassed a considerable sum of money. In 1853 he came to Delaware Township, this county, and began clearing up and farming 240 acres of land he had purchased in 1837; at one time he owned 520 acres of land. In 1868 his wife died. Of her ten children three are now living: Mrs. Christyann L. Hawkins, Martha Jane and Emily L. In August, 1871, Charles Ramsey married, for his second wife, Mrs. Louisa Watson, who died of heart disease May 16, 1885, while visiting her daughter at Forest, Ohio. Mr. Ramsey now owns a fine farm of 240 acres of land in this county, besides having given liberally to his children. He also owns a comfortable house in Dunkirk, Hardin Co., Ohio, to which he moved in 1882 and where he is living a somewhat retired life, enjoying the peace and quiet of a prosperous old. age. His daughters are members of the United Brethren Church. He has been a church member since he was eleven years of age, and is now a member of the Wesleyan Church. When he was a little boy, on being reproved by a gentleman for swearing, Charles made the remark: "I throw it all in the fire," and he has never been known to swear since that time. He also formed his habit of saving while very young, by taking the timely advice of a Mend. Charles Ramsey has been an industrious and energetic citizen and is very highly respected wherever known. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Delaware Township File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/ramsey186bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: 18 Aug 2005 22:30:36 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050818223036.22627.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Ramsey) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Ramsey, James 1805 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 18, 2005, 6:30 pm Author: Warner & Beers (1886) JAMES RAMSEY, retired farmer, P, O. Williamstown, was born June 1, 1805. in Montgomery County, Md. He left Maryland in 1835 and came to Steubenville, Ohio. He ferried and farmed for seven years. He purchased 100 acres of land in Delaware Township, this county, in 1839, which he paid for by working for 50 cents per day; he came out and took possession of his property in April. 1842. His sister, Eletha Ramsey, came here and resided with him until her death, which occurred April 18, 1884, in her eighty-third year. James Ramsey is an earnest member of the United Brethren Church. He has never taken upon himself the cares of the matrimonial relation, but his life has been devoted principally to the benefit of others. He is strictly a self-made man, and his record in this community is such that he is respected wherever he is known. In politics he is a life-long Republican. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Delaware Township File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/ramsey187bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: 18 Aug 2005 22:31:35 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050818223135.22820.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Rose) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Rose, Aaron F. Burson 1841 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 18, 2005, 6:31 pm Author: Warner & Beers (1886) AARON F. BURSON ROSE, farmer, P. O. Mount Blanchard, was born August 13, 1841, in Delaware Township, this county. His parents, John and Margaret (Berry) Rose, natives of Maryland and Virginia, respectively, and early settlers of Fairfield County, Ohio, located in Delaware Township, this county, in 1828, the former having previously entered a farm, in 1828, on Blanchard River, and this farm they then began to clear and improve. John Rose was a strong Whig, afterward a Republican; he was one of the early commissioners of this county, and for seventeen years he was treasurer of Delaware Township, this county; a man of wonderful energy and strength of character, he exerted a powerful influence over those with whom he associated; he was very firm in his temperance principles, which he exemplified by practice as well as precept. His wife died January 6, 1863, and he followed her March 21, 1883, in his ninetieth year. They were parents of the following named children: Joel B., deceased, at the age of twenty-three years; James G., in Michigan; Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, in Carroll County, Mo.; Elias Y., in Howard County, Wis.: John A., in Carroll County, Mo.; Mrs. Sarah Eairleywine, deceased, at age of thirty-three years; Amos H., in Carroll County, Mo.; Mrs. Amanda Elder, in Pike County, Mo.; two who died in infancy, and Aaron F. Burson. The subject of this sketch enlisted September 1, 1862, in the One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving in the Army of the Cumberland and taking part in many of the memorable engagements throughout Tennessee, Georgia and vicinity. He received his discharge August 8, 1865, leaving an honorable record as a brave and faithful soldier, and on returning home he married, December 7, 1865, Miss Mary A. Roller. Our subject and wife now own and occupy the old homestead farm of 167 acres of well improved land; this farm has never been out of the Rose family's possession since it was first entered. Mr. and Mrs. Rose have eight children: John M., Elmer W., Hettie J., William R., Samuel E., Arthur K., Perry B. and Maggie E. Our subject is an enthusiastic Republican and takes a deep interest in public affairs. He is at present trustee of Delaware Township, a position he has filled for three years. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Delaware Township File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/rose188bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: 18 Aug 2005 22:33:18 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050818223318.23258.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock-Knox Co. Bios (Shafer) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock-Knox County OhArchives Biographies.....Shafer, Solomon 1836 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 18, 2005, 6:33 pm Author: Warner & Beers (1886) SOLOMON SHAFER, farmer, P. O. Mount Blanchard, was born near Mount Vernon, Knox Co., Ohio, March 23, 1836. His father, Michael Shafer, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Knox County, Ohio, in early boyhood, and there, in 1819, married Miss Nancy Ireland. Michael Shafer came to this county in 1835 with part of his family, and in 1836 returned to Knox County, Ohio, for the rest of them, bringing them back with him to this county. He cleared up two farms in Delaware Township, this county, and was one of the earliest settlers, as well as one of the foremost in the development and improvement of the town. He kept the Mount Blanchard Hotel from 1837 to 1850, and was one of the most highly respected and honored of our pioneer citizens. His death occurred in 1852; his widow died in 1869, while residing with her son. Solomon. The children of Michael Shafer and wife were Hezekiah, in Mexico, Mo.; Mrs. Rhoda Miller (deceased); Mrs. Christy Ann Taylor, in Decatur, Ill.; Michael Jackson, in Dubuque, Iowa; Mrs. Mary Fahl, in Mount Blanchard, Ohio; Isaiah, in Forest, Ohio: Solomon (deceased); Henry Witt, in Hebron, Ind.; Solomon, in Mount Blanchard, Ohio; Morgan D., in Findlay, Ohio; Aaron B. in Findlay, Ohio, and Mrs. Laura J. Smith, in Lacon, Ill. They are an intelligent and enterprising family, and are occupying high positions in business and society. The subject of this sketch received his education in the schools of Mount Blanchard. He married Miss Mary Elizabeth Hoge, of Amanda Township, this county, September 20, 1860, and they located in Delaware Township, this county, where they now reside, and where they have a fine farm of 100 acres of land, all in the corporation of Mount Blanchard. They also own about 500 acres of land in other farms in this and Van "Wert Counties. To Mr. and Mrs. Shafer has been born one daughter-Anna Lorena. Mr. Shafer was elected auditor of this county in the fall of 1864, on the Democratic ticket. He took his position in March following, and was re-elected in 1866, serving in all four years; he was the youngest man who ever occupied that position. Mrs. Shafer is a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Delaware Township File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/shafer189bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #9 Date: 18 Aug 2005 22:34:33 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050818223433.23492.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Treece) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Treece, James C. 1851 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 18, 2005, 6:34 pm Author: Warner & Beers (1886) JAMES C. TREECE, postmaster at Mount Blanchard, was born in Jackson Township, this county, March 1, 1851. His father, John, the son of Henry Treece, a native of New England, married, May 12, 1841, Sarah, daughter of Henry Treece, of Pennsylvania, and they reared a family of four sons and one daughter: William B., born November 24, 1843, married to Mary J. Marshall; Mary C., born February 6, 1845, married to William W. Anderson; James C.; Isaac N., born January 7, 1854, married to Mary E. Gobrecht; John T., born April 24, 1860, married to Minnie E. Fahl. They came to this county in 1832, and resided in Delaware Township until his death, which occurred March 7, 1861. His widow, the mother of our subject, afterward married Daniel Aurand, and after living in Michigan for fifteen years returned to Jackson Township, this county, where she now resides. James C. Treece carried on the harness-making business in Mount Blanchard, this county, for three years (in 1871-73). He then went to the Northwestern Ohio Normal School, at Ada, Ohio, where he attended in all five years, and on returning he engaged in teaching, a profession he has since followed in Delaware Township, this county, and in Wyandot County, Ohio. During this time he taught for eight years continuously hi his home district, and made a fine record as a faithful and efficient educator. He was elected justice of the peace in 1884, and was appointed postmaster of Mount Blanchard, under President Cleveland, April 23, 1885. Mr. Treece is uniformly polite and courteous, and discharges his duties to the satisfaction of the public. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Delaware Township File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/treece190bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #10 Date: 18 Aug 2005 22:36:11 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050818223611.24100.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock-Medina Co. Bios (Wilson) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock-Medina County OhArchives Biographies.....Wilson, John G. 1829 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 18, 2005, 6:36 pm Author: Warner & Beers (1886) JOHN G. WILSON, farmer, P. 0. Forest, Hardin County, was born November 28, 1829, in Medina County, Ohio. His parents, Robert and Betsey E. Wilson, settled in Delaware Township, this county, in April, 1835, after having spent the winter in Hardin County, Ohio, and here they went into the woods and began clearing up and developing a farm. Robert Wilson died in February, 1850, and his widow in February, 1867. John G. Wilson, the subject of this sketch, was reared on his father's farm, and received his education in the schools of the home district. He married Miss Mary Ann Higgins, October 16, 1854, and then settled in Delaware Township, this county. They have acquired, by their own industry and good management, a fine farm of 400 acres of land, with excellent buildings and other improvements. Their children are Mrs. Amanda E. Spencer, Mrs. Harriet K. Porter, Mrs. Mary Ann McElrie, Alva M., Mrs. Maggie Cooper, Mrs. Martha Jane Smith, William H. and Effie B. Mr. Wilson is a Republican in politics; has served two terms as township trustee. He is a leading and representative citizen of Delaware Township, this county. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Delaware Township File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/wilson191bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #11 Date: 18 Aug 2005 22:37:04 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050818223704.24288.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock-Perry-Licking Co. Bios (Yost) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock-Perry-Licking County OhArchives Biographies.....Yost, William N. 1836 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 18, 2005, 6:37 pm Author: Warner & Beers (1886) WILLIAM N. YOST, M. D., Mount Blanchard, was born April 14, 1836, in Thornville, Perry Co., Ohio, son of Peter and Elizabeth Yost, natives of Virginia, and who were among the early settlers of Perry County, Ohio. The father died in 1868; the mother is now residing in Jackson Township, this county. When our subject was a lad of ten years of age his parents moved across the county line into Licking County, Ohio, where he was reared and educated. In 1860 he began the study of medicine with Dr. J. R. Black, in Hebron, Licking Co., Ohio. In 1862 Dr. Black entered the Federal Army as surgeon, and William N. Yost went as hospital steward, under Dr. Black's instruction. Our subject served in the Army of the Cumberland, under Gen. Sherman, throughout Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and on the famous "march to the sea." He received an honorable discharge July 15, 1865, and the following September he entered the Miami Medical College, from which he graduated March 3, 1867. After remaining as house physician at the Commercial Hospital one year, Dr. Yost established himself in Jacksontown, Licking Co., Ohio., and in 1872 located at Houcktown, this county, and in 1877 removed to Mount Blanchard, this county, and here, by strict attention to his profession, the Doctor has succeeded in building up a large practice. Dr. Yost was married, May 12, 1868, to Miss Rebecca A. Stewart, daughter of Capt. James Stewart, of Licking County, Ohio, and their children are Minnie Laura, Maggie May, Gertrude, Charles C. and Clarence. Dr. Yost is recognized as one of the leading and influential citizens of this county. In politics he is a Democrat. He has been an active and useful member of the school board of Mount Blanchard ever since his location here. He is a member of the Northwestern Ohio Medical Association, and of the Ohio State Medical Society. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and helped to organize the lodge of Master Masons at Mount Blanchard, and was its Master for the first three years. The Doctor has also filled all the chairs in Odd Fellowship, and is a leading member of the G. A. R. at Mount Blanchard. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Delaware Township File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/yost192bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V05 Issue #120 *******************************************