OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 13 ************************************************************************ 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 13 Today's Topics: #1 Oh-Jackson Co. Bios (Johnson) [Archives ] #2 Oh-Scioto Co. Bios (Bonzo) [Archives ] #3 Oh-Scioto-Jackson Co. Bios (Bonzo) [Archives ] #4 Fw: Henry M. Baker/Civil War/ Defi ["Ohio Archives EV1" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050219133840.5971.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Jackson Co. Bios (Johnson) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Jackson County OhArchives Biographies.....Johnson, James L. July 22, 1848 - December 5, 1935 ************************************************ 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: Lynn Byler lbyler111@direcway.com February 19, 2005, 8:38 am Author: From 1934 self interview from Wellston Telegram First biography came from the Wellston Telegram First is my great, great-grandfather, James L. Johnson, born July 22, 1848 and died December 5, 1935, who came to Wellston around 1884. He was a Civil war survivor and was in General Sherman's army after the famous march through Georgia. It was after Lee's surrender, after South Carolina had been devastated, after the war was lost, that General Joe Johnston was still dodging through North Carolina. James (Jim) L. Johnson saw him captured and his bedraggled Rebels paroled and sent home. "They were the raggedness hungriest soldiers I ever saw" said Mr. Johnson in the interview with the Wellston Telegram Reporter. Those were stirring times with victory crowning the banners of the Northern armies. Mr Johnson and his comrades of the 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry were ordered to Washington. The long Rebellion was at an end. There President Lincoln reviewed the northern armies and he remembered that on the day of the review he was detailed as a wagon guard, not a very desirable duty on such a day when the soldiers were to March before "old Abe". GOT IN AT PORTSMOUTH Jim Johnson, like Dr. Rogers ran away to join the army. He was between 15 and 16. "We were all boys who enlisted at the close of the war, for most of the able-bodied men were already in. All we had to do was to say we were 18 and they took us". It was on Feb 3, 1865. Jim Johnson was living at pioneer Furnace, north of Ironton, John Robinson, who was a year older, and Jim was sent out in the morning to get his father's horses. Instead of doing it we threw the bridles down and started for Portsmouth to enlist. Once there the enlisting officer, Capt. R.P. Fout, asked Jim to swear he was 18, but he refused. He took him anyway, and John Robinson too. We had to wait until the next morning for the medical examination. The next morning Jim's father and Mr Robinson arrived and took them back home. They stayed that night with Mose Burns, father of some of the Wellston Burns. Later, in the night the boys slipped off again. SENT TO SHERMAN They were mustered in and Jim was in Company B. Then went to South Carolina and joined General Sherman's army. Jim was with him at Columbia when it burned. He never thought Sherman ordered that, but some cotton got afire and soon the city was all in flames. Their hardest battle was at Bentonville, but it was fighting all the was for they were on General Johnston's trail every day. James L. Johnson was muster out at Louisville and returned home. Later Jim's father moved to Richland Furnace and them to Hamden Furnace in 1883. In 1884 Jim moved to Wellston and for many years has been an honored citizen of the west side. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/jackson/bios/bs72johnson.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: 19 Feb 2005 13:47:23 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050219134723.7775.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Scioto Co. Bios (Bonzo) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Scioto County OhArchives Biographies.....Bonzo, John June 5, 1838 - March 1915 ************************************************ 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: Lynn Byler lbyler111@direcway.com February 19, 2005, 8:47 am Author: From interview with Grandson in Portsmouth Times Biography was from the Portsmouth Times Second is My Great great, grandfather John Bonzo. He was born in Beaver county, Pa June 5, 1838 At the age of 8 years old he came to Portsmouth with his parents and located in Madison Township, where he still lived till his death in March 1915. He owned a fine farm, and was one on the most prosperous farmers in the county. He had a twin sister who lived in Carter county, Ky. the boat on which his parents came to Portsmouth from the Keystone state was fired by wood and a number of days was consumed in the trip. When he arrived her the present city was nothing but a village, Chillicothe street being the only street. For eighteen miles out to where he lived, there was nothing but dense wilderness. There was one hotel in Portsmouth, the Legler House, one wholesale whiskey house and, a store foundry.. There was nothing but dirt roads. The whole Scioto Valley was dense wooded. Mr. Bonzo's father came from Switzerland, France, and was four months on the was to this country. There is an entire web site on the Bonzo Family at, http://bonzofamily.com/index.html Additional Comments: Some of his decendents moved to Jackson County, Ohio. My father Joseph Osier Johnson met and Married Caroline Rachael Kronk. Her Mother was Lula A. Bonzo. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/scioto/bios/bs73bonzo.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: 19 Feb 2005 13:47:53 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050219134753.7882.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Scioto-Jackson Co. Bios (Bonzo) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Scioto-Jackson County OhArchives Biographies.....Bonzo, John June 5, 1838 - March 1915 ************************************************ 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: Lynn Byler lbyler111@direcway.com February 19, 2005, 8:47 am Author: From interview with Grandson in Portsmouth Times Biography was from the Portsmouth Times Second is My Great great, grandfather John Bonzo. He was born in Beaver county, Pa June 5, 1838 At the age of 8 years old he came to Portsmouth with his parents and located in Madison Township, where he still lived till his death in March 1915. He owned a fine farm, and was one on the most prosperous farmers in the county. He had a twin sister who lived in Carter county, Ky. the boat on which his parents came to Portsmouth from the Keystone state was fired by wood and a number of days was consumed in the trip. When he arrived her the present city was nothing but a village, Chillicothe street being the only street. For eighteen miles out to where he lived, there was nothing but dense wilderness. There was one hotel in Portsmouth, the Legler House, one wholesale whiskey house and, a store foundry.. There was nothing but dirt roads. The whole Scioto Valley was dense wooded. Mr. Bonzo's father came from Switzerland, France, and was four months on the was to this country. There is an entire web site on the Bonzo Family at, http://bonzofamily.com/index.html Additional Comments: Some of his decendents moved to Jackson County, Ohio. My father Joseph Osier Johnson met and Married Caroline Rachael Kronk. Her Mother was Lula A. Bonzo. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/scioto/bios/bs74bonzo.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:50:23 -0500 From: "Ohio Archives EV1" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0c7d01c516ee$8b0f4b30$0300a8c0@margaret> Subject: Fw: Henry M. Baker/Civil War/ Defiance, OH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob To: oharchives@ev1.net Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 1:35 AM Subject: Henry M. Baker/Civil War/ Defiance, OH Lima News, Mar 28, 1920 Henry M. BAKER, 73, for many years an employee of the Lake Erie freight offices, Lima, died suddenly in Waynesfield last Thursday. For the past year he had been making his home with his daughter Mrs. Mary Sanders, Waynesfield where death occurred. He was born in Defiance. At the age of 16 he enlisted in the Civil war, serving with the 116th regiment. After the war he was married to Miss Mary Mehre of that city, who died 23 years ago. a son and two daughters survive. Funeral services will be held Monday at 9:30 o'clock in the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Defiance. Interment will be at Riverside cemetery, Defiance. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:55:09 -0500 From: "Ohio Archives EV1" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0c9501c516ef$3531fb30$0300a8c0@margaret> Subject: Fw: STARK COUNTY MARRIAGES SURNAME HAIR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Thesenvitz" To: Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 7:10 PM Subject: STARK COUNTY MARRIAGES SURNAME HAIR TO: Web File Manager: Would like for this information to be entered in both Stark County genweb and Ohio archives if possible. FROM: Janice Thesenvitz, jcustom@intcon.net, thank you. Will also answer inquiries on HAIR in Pennsylvania and Ohio. HAIR MARRIAGES STARK COUNTY OHIO MARRIAGE RECORDS (listed by Neal Thompson Gardner, Genealogy Div. Assistant, Stark County District Library) *Elizabeth HAIR m. Samuel CATTELL, Oct 1838, Vol B, page 77 *James HAIR m. Lydia Ann GRANT 1 Jul 1847, Vol B, page 289 *Joseph HAIR m. Eliza EPERLY 28 Aug 1855, Vol C, page 136 *Ann Maria HAIR m. Caleb JOHNSON 17 Sep 1851, Vol B, page 386 Charles HAIR m. Mary MILLER 12 Aug 1856, Vol C, page 167 Henry W. HAIR m. Isabella HELM 6 Feb 1864, Vol 5, page 619 +Levi HAIR m. Sophia BLOUGH 3 Oct 1861, Vol 5 page 374 *Thomas G. HAIR m. Conradine (Deanie) J. GEIGER 25 Feb 1868, Vol 6, page 622 Elizabeth HAIR m. George W. KUHN 9 Feb 1865, Vol 6, page 101 *Harriet J. m. A. Eaton WARD 28 October 1861, Vol 5 page 370 +Juliann HAIR m. Philip BIXLER 12 Jan 1862, Vol 5, page 409 +Lucy HAIR m. Wm. H. Reed 4 Oct 1868, Vol 7, page 46 +Maria HAIR m. Joseph REED 20 Dec 1864, Vol 6, page 81 NOTES: * Children of John and Harriet BRENTON HAIR of PA (Have some ancestors and descendants of this family researched if anyone interested in this family. + Children of Henry and Delila LINT HAIR of PA ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:15:31 -0500 From: "Ohio Archives EV1" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0e9e01c51702$d3085800$0300a8c0@margaret> Subject: Fw: Tid Bits of Ohio -- Part 1. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darlene & Kathi kelley" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:31 AM Subject: Tid Bits of Ohio -- Part 1. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 Jan. 24, 2005. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Ohio And Then They Went West Series of Articles; Tid Bits of S.L. Kelly by Darlene E. Kelley. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tid Bits of Ohio are small articles of what made up some of the most interesting facts of our beautiful society. They are the backbone of Cleveland and its surrounding areas, which today make interesting reading. Perhaps boring to some, others may find them interesting and informative. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Charles Dicken's Visits Cleveland. Charles Dicken's visit to Cleveland was part of a tour to the U.S. in 1842. The English novelist, his wife, and a traveling friend, Mr. Putman, arrived in our fair parts, arriving just after midnight on Monday, the 25th of April. Traveling on the steamboat " Constitution " and having a rough voyage across Lake Erie from Sandusky, it did not prove to be a particularly successful stopover. It seems that while in Sandusky, Mr. Dickens had read a newspaper article appearing in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to which he took exception because of its chauvinistic bombast toward England. Evidentently failing to realize that the piece was merely a reprint from another newspaper, Dickens's ire had not abated upon his arrival in Cleveland. Although in his report, he described the town in glowing terms " a beautiful town " he felt that his reception left much to be desired. Upon returning to the " Constitution " and in his stateroom, after a walk around our town with Putnam. the Author and his wife were subjected to curious stares of the local residents, who peered in the windows trying to get a look at the famous gentlemen. Dickens was so upset by this unwanted attention, that when mayor, Dr. Joshua Mills, came on board, the Author refused to speak to him. Undaunted, the mayor moved to the end of the pier and passed the time whittling, in the futile hope that Dickens would change his mind. He sat there until 9 o'clock in the morning, till the " Constitution " sailed with the stubborn Author, and his party, to Buffalo. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ First Newspaper Thomas D. Webb, twenty eight, was the editor of the first Newspaper in the Western Reserve, with the pompous title, " The Trump of Fame." The first issue appeared on June 9, 1812, in Warren, which had been his home since 1807, when he arrived from Windham, Connecticut. The pioneer publication consisted of four small pages printed from minute type. There was little controversial copy, no local news, and only scanty editorials. Eastern papers were combed for material; and although the columns were stale when they reached the subscriber, they were eagerly welcomed. Four years later, the editor was able to secure the letters " V " and " W, " and the paper became know by the dignified title, " Western Reserve Chronicle." Later it became known as the " Warren Tribune Chronicle." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Old Cemetery One of the oldest cemeteries in the Western Reserve is a plot overlooking the valley of Nine mile Creek. The first grave was made in 1813 for Susannah Barr, wife of the Pastor of the Plan of Union Church, the Rev. Thomas Barr. Here were buried John Shaw, for whom Shaw High School was named, Andrew McIlrath, and Enoc Murray, the first Mason to settle in the Western Reserve. Soldiers and stout-hearted men and women found a last resting place in this obscure corner. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Leonard Case, Sr. The lack of a central bank made it difficult to finance the War of 1812 and the end of the conflict found the country flooded with unsound currency and its financial system in chaos. Despite arguements of unconstitutionality, enough support was secured to charter a new institution for twenty years, and the Second National Bank was established. Cleveland was to have a branch in the new Commercial Bank of Lake Erie. Leonard Case " wrote a good hand and was a good accountant, " and Judge James Kingsbury recommended that he be brought to Cleveland from Warren, Ohio, to be cashier of the new bank. Case came in June of 1816, as the first bank of the village was being organized. His salary was $800 annually. Case was born July 29, 1786 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the son of Meshach Case and Magdalene (Eckstein) Case, a poor frontier farmer. His parents brought their large family to Warren Township in 1800. In 1801, Leonard suffered from extreme outdoor exposure leading to an illness that left him a cripple and pain in his lifetime. This was, however, no handicap to his ambition. He served as confidential clerk to General Simon Perkins, land agent for the Connecticut Land Company in 1807, and studied law in his spare time. During the War of 1812, he collected delinquent taxes. When Case came to Cleveland, he brought a valuable knowledge of the Western Reserve gained in the Warren tax office; and besides serving as cashier of the bank, he practiced law and dealt in real estate. After the bank failed, Case stayed in Cleveland practicing law. From 1821-25, as President of the Cleveland village council, he was responsible for planting shade trees, earning Cleveland the nickname " Forest City." From 1824-27, he served in the Ohio legislature, drafting laws taxing land according to their value rather than size. He advocated railroads and canals. He was also an investor in the Cleveland-Columbus-Railroad. He married Elizabeth Gaylord in Stow, Portage County, in 1817, and in the late 1840's turned his affairs over to his sons William and Leonard, Jr. Case gave to many great chartiable organizations, including Cleveland's first school for the poor, the Cayahoga County Historical Society, the Cleveland Medical College, and the city's first lyceum for the arts. Case died in Cleveland and was buried in Lake View Cemetery. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Edison Family John Edison, the great-grandfather of the inventor, Thomas A. Edison, originally settled in New Jersey. Family fortunes fluctuated with the politics of the times. Like many well-to-do landowners, John Edison remained a Loyalist during the Revolution. Because of this, he was imprisoned and was for a time, under sentence of execution, but he was saved from this fate through the efforts of prominent Whig relatives. His lands were confiscated, however, and the family migrated to Nova Scotia. The Edisons remained in Nova Scotia until 1811, when they moved to Vienna, Ontario. Edison's grandfather, Captain Samuel Edison, served the British in the war of 1812. In Ontario, Edison's father, also named Samuel, met and married Nancy Elliott, a school teacher and daughter of Elenezer Mathews Elliott, who was a captain in Washington's army. The younger Samuel became involved in another political struggle-- a much later and unsuccessful Canadian counterpart of the American Revolution known as the Papineau-MacKenzie Rebellion. Upon the failure of this rebellion, he was forced to flee across the border to the United States. After innumerable dangers and hardships, Samuel finally reached the town of Milan, Ohio, where he decided to settle. In Milan, Samuel established himself as a manufacture of roof shingles and sent for Nancy and their five children to join him. When the Edison family arrived in town to join Samuel, about 1840, Milan was entering the period of its greatest glory. Due to its location on the Huron River and the Canal built to link Milan to the Great Lakes, the town soon became a busy grain port. All sorts of commodities from every point in the state were conveyed to Milan in long wagon trains, then loaded abroard ships from warehouses that lined the banks of the canal. In 1847, 917,800 bushels of wheat were shipped from this port, making the second largest wheat shipping port in the world after the Ukranian city of Odessa. At this time, Milan also became a shipbuilding center, producing 75 lake schooners in 1847. By 1850, the advent of the railroads and consequent changes in transportation methods had put an end to the town's great prosperity. The canal and the shipyard were eventually abandoned and the warehouses disappeared. Milan's " golden age," which had lasted only about ten years, was over-- though shipments of grain continued until 1865. The lot on which the Edison house stands was bought in 1841 by Nancy Elliott Edison, mother of Thomas Alva Edison. Nancy and Samuel Edison started building their home, designed by Samuel, in the same year. Thomas Alva Edison was born in this house on February 11, 1847. Edison's parents sold the house in 1854, and the family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. ( Note ++ ) [ The birthplace was out of family ownership for the next forty years. In 1894, Edison's sister, Marion Edison Page bought the house and added a bathroon and other then modern conveniences. Edison became the owner of his birthplace in 1906, and, on his last visit, he was shocked to find his old home still lighted by lamps and candles, in spite of all his 1001 patented inventions. ++] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Other Tid Bits in part 2. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V05 Issue #13 ******************************************