OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 203 ************************************************************************ 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 203 Today's Topics: #1 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Chavis) [Archives ] #2 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Clark) [Archives ] #3 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Cook) [Archives ] #4 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Cutting) [Archives ] #5 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Dodds) [Archives ] #6 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Dunson) [Archives ] #7 Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Espy) [Archives ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: 21 Nov 2005 02:32:49 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121023249.9654.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Chavis) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Chavis, James M. 1813 - ************************************************ 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 November 20, 2005, 9:32 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. JAMES M. CHAVIS, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Mecklenburgh County, Va., May 17, 1813. His father, William Chavis, was born February 22, 1776, his mother September 11, 1784, both of Mecklenburgh County, Va. They were married in January, 1806. His mother's maiden name was Priscilla Drew. His grandfather, Jacob Chavis, served all through the war of the Revolution; he died in his native place. The father of our subject was drilled for the war of 1812, but was not called in active service. He died in Virginia January, 1848; his wife died in September, 1867. They had nine children, two living. The subject of this sketch was reared in Clarksville, Va., and when seventeen years old commenced a four years' apprenticeship at the wheelwright trade with his father. When of age, he worked at his trade in his native place, followed it until 1857, then sold out and came to Pickaway County, Ohio. He farmed there by renting until 1864, when he removed to Hardin County, bought eighty-five acres of his farm, which he has since cleared and improved In 1867, he purchased sixty-five acres for his son Alexander. He was married, December 17, 1835, to Nancy, daughter of Archer and Jane Stewart, and a native of Mecklenburgh County, Va., born October 1, 1811. Her grandfather served in the Revolution, under Gen. Washington, and died in Virginia. Mr. Chavis and his wife had ten children, three living-Alexander R., Matilda and Drury. Alexander enlisted at Circleville, Ohio, September 14, 1864, in Company E, Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was transferred to Company E, of the Sixteenth United States Colored Troops, and served in the Army of the Cumberland. He was on garrison duty, principally, and was honorably discharged September 14, 1865, at Chattanooga. He then returned home and engaged in farming. He was married, in July, 1860, to Mary Davis, and had nine children, six sons and three daughters-Inez J., William H., Martha A., James A., Enos E., Orin, Laura A., Horton and Clark. Additional Comments: Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/chavis326bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: 21 Nov 2005 02:34:39 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121023439.9921.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Clark) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Clark, John L. 1835 - ************************************************ 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 November 20, 2005, 9:34 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. JOHN L. CLARK, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Logan County, Ohio, October 16, 1835, and is a son of Alvan and Mary (Laughlin) Clark. His father was born in Beaver County, Penn., March 5, 1809, and his mother in Erie County, Penn., March 3, 1809. Their parents had removed to Guernsey County, Ohio, during the early settlements of that State. Alvan Clark's parents were Thomas B. and Nancy Clark. The latter died in Guernsey County, Ohio, leaving a family of five children, and Mr. Clark subsequently remarried and in 1832 removed to Logan County. He had five children by his second wife. He died in 1851, aged seventy-one years. Our subject's maternal grandparents were John and Deborah Laughlin, also Pennsylvanians, who removed to Guernsey County, Ohio, prior to the war of 1812. The father of our subject was married, in 1834, in Guernsey County, whence he removed in the fall of the same year. He died there on the farm of his settlement, August 10, 1878. Mrs. Clark died September 18, 1881. They had six children, three living, of whom our subject is the eldest. The subject of this sketch was reared on the homestead, and educated at the academy in Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio. On leaving school, be engaged in buying and shipping stock, in which business he remained for ten years. In October, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in the eastern division. He fought in the battle of Port Republic. He was a member of the band of engineers, from which he was discharged by order of the Secretary of War August 4, 1862. On May 10, 1864, he was enrolled as First Lieutenant of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-second Ohio National Guards, and was engaged on garrison duty in Virginia. He received honorable discharge at Columbus, Ohio. in September, 1861. His father also served in the late war; in September, 1861, he recruited Company D, of the Sixty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was Captain of Company D, of the same regiment. He was discharged, on account of disability, in October, 1862, and died from troubles contracted in the service. His son, Robert S., was a member of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment Ohio National Guards. Our subject, on his return from the war, lived in Logan County, Ohio, until 1876, when he purchased and settled on 220 acres of land in Buck Township, Hardin County. He has since been occupied in farming and stock-raising. He was married, January 15, 1867, to Elsie J., a daughter of William and Martha Ritchey, and born in Logan County, Ohio, February 11, 1844. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are the parents of five children, viz.: William B., Alvan L., Walter H., James P. and Mary J. Mr. Clark and his wife are connected with the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Clark is a member of a Masonic order. In politics, he is a Republican, and for one year was Trustee of Buck Township, and several years of Richland Township, Logan County. Additional Comments: Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/clark327bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: 21 Nov 2005 02:36:00 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121023600.10128.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Cook) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Cook, Isaac 1801 - before 1883 ************************************************ 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 November 20, 2005, 9:35 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. ISAAC COOK (deceased) was born in New Jersey May 3, 1801; he was a son of Mordecai and Sarah (Havens) Cook, natives of New Jersey and New York respectively. In 1802, his parents removed to Fairfield County, Ohio, purchasing near Lancaster over 300 acres of land. Of this land Mr. Cook cleared a portion, then sold the greater part, retaining forty acres; be died in the fall of 1847, aced seventy-five years; his father was an emigrant from France before the Revolution. Mrs. Cook, the wife of Mordecai, died about 1852. Isaac served a three years' apprenticeship at the wagon-maker's trade in Newark. He then married and settled on a farm in Fairfield County, where he farmed till 1830; then removed to Hardin County, and the following year to Marion County. He was there three years, and in 1848 removed to Kenton, where he resumed his trade, following it to within two years of his decease: he died December 28, 1871. He was married, in 1825, to Sarah, a daughter of John and Mary Ice, and born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1804. Mr. and Mrs. Cook were the parents of ten children, six living, viz.: Nathaniel, John P., Isaac. Emily, Lila (the wife of Warren Kellogg) and Samantha L. Nathaniel was born in Marion County, Ohio, October 14, 1835; was brought up on a farm until thirteen years of age; he followed milling for four years, then learned the trade of a blacksmith, followed it for one year, and was subsequently employed as foreman on the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railway. He continued in that position till March 1873, when he removed to his present farm in Buck Township. He was married, October 14, 1862, to Huldah, daughter of Leonard and Mary Richards, and born in Ross County, Ohio, July 16, 1841. Of the three children born, one is living-Willie L., born December 28, 1863; Eddie and Katie are deceased. Mr. Cook is engaged in farming and stock-raising, and owns eighty-six acres of land. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kenton. Mr. Cook has filled the office of Township Trustee for two terms, and is politically a Democrat. Additional Comments: Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/cook328bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: 21 Nov 2005 02:37:08 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121023708.10307.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Cutting) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Cutting, A. P. 1832 - ************************************************ 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 November 20, 2005, 9:37 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. CAPT A. P. CUTTING, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Wyandot County, Ohio, December 18, 1832, and is a son of Linus and Eliza (Conklin) Cutting. His father was born in Shoreham, Vt., April 20, 1794, and his mother in Fort Hamilton, now Cincinnati, Ohio, December 18, 1802, and died January 13, 1871. They were married January 14, 1821. Linus Cutting's parents, Elijah and Lucy (Douglas) Cutting (the latter an aunt on the paternal side to Stephen A. Douglas), were natives of Vermont. On the death of Lucy Cutting, Elijah Cutting married Betsey Hale, whose mother died at Fort McArthur and was the first white person that died in Hardin County. Our subject's father came to Miami County, Ohio, where he followed his trade of millwright. He was a member of Capt. James Bigger's Mounted Rangers Company, and served one and a half years, principally in the frontier service. He then returned to Miami County, lived there two years, and then removed to Wyandot (then Crawford) County in 1823. At this time he was employed by the Government to construct the Indian Mills on the Sandusky River. He subsequently bought 160 acres of land, on which he built a mill of his own. In the fall of 1833, he removed to Logan County, and in March, 1854, to Buck Township, Hardin County, where he died February 19, 1874. He and wife had reared eight out of their nine children, all still living. Four of the six sons were Union soldiers. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, receiving a common school education. On November 16, 1861, he enlisted in Company A Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served two years in the Army of the Potomac, and one and a half in the Cumberland Army. He was at first Second Sergeant, the following year First Sergeant; on July 15, 1863, was promoted to the Second Lieutenancy, then First Lieutenancy, finally reached the rank of a Captain. He fought at McDowell, Va., Chancellorsville, Wauhatchie, New Hope Church, Peach Tree Creek; at the latter engagement, he received a bullet wound in the right shoulder, July 20, 1864. He was confined in the officer's hospital at Nashville, Tenn., and received his discharge April 4, 1865. He is now drawing a pension. On October 2, 1860, he was married to Mary A., a daughter of Henry and Anna (Hayward) Thew. To this union there have been born nine children, five living, viz.: Henry T., Emma B., Don D. and Mary A. and Clara E., twins. The deceased are Martha J., James H., Luella M. and Daisy A. Mr. Cutting and family are members of the Universalist Church of Kenton, and Mr. Cutting is a member of the Masonic order. He is now retired from business, and is the owner of 123 acres of land. He is a Republican in politics, and has filled the office of County School Examiner of Hardin County six years. Additional Comments: Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/cutting329bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: 21 Nov 2005 02:38:24 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121023824.10458.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Dodds) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Dodds, Joseph O. 1845 - ************************************************ 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 November 20, 2005, 9:38 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. JOSEPH O. DODDS, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Union County, Ohio, July 7, 1845; his father, John Dodds, was born in Erie County, Penn., February 3, 1806; his mother, Nancy Gary, was a native of Champaign County, Ohio, born April 17, 1820. James Dodd, the grandfather of our subject, moved with his family in 1818, to Delaware County, Ohio, where he died. John Dodd subsequently went to Union County and married Nancy Gary at North Lewisburg. Her father, James Gary, was the founder of Lewisburg, the name of which town had been formerly Garysville. Our subject's parents were married, December 3, 1840, and resided in Union County till 1847, when they removed to within three and a half miles south of Kenton. Mr. John Dodds owned a small farm, now belonging to George P. Frame, and died in McDonald Township, Hardin County, in October, 1872; his wife died November 4, 1868. They had eleven children, of whom our subject is the third son. He enlisted, October 16, 1861, in Company K, Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in the Cumberland Army. He fought in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain. He received a slight flesh wound at Mission Ridge, which disabled him for six months; he veteranized February 3, 1864; came home on a furlough, and then rejoined his regiment at Camp Dennison, and returned to the South; he was disabled from duty and was detailed to guard the baggage. On July 8, 1865, he was honorably discharged at Camp Dennison, Ohio. On his return home, he resumed farming, which he has since followed. In 1870, he settled on his present farm, which, at the time, was in the woods, and has cleared and improved the land. Under his farm he has 360 rods of tiling. On March 17, 1870, he married Amelia, a daughter of Henry and Anna E. Battles, and a native of Germany, born January 1, 1851. The four children that resulted from this union are as follows: George H., James O., William O. and Anna M. Mr. Dodds and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian Church of Kenton. He is politically a Republican. His father was Treasurer and Clerk of Buck Township two years and one year respectively. Additional Comments: Bucks Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/dodds330bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: 21 Nov 2005 02:40:06 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121024006.10760.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Dunson) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Dunson, Lewis 1828 - ************************************************ 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 November 20, 2005, 9:39 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. LEWIS DUNSON, farmer, P. O. Mount Victory, was born in Logan County, Ohio, September 22, 1828; he is a son of Thomas and Beulah (Patrick) Dunson, natives of Virginia and New Jersey respectively, and married in Logan County, Ohio, of which their parents were the earliest pioneers. Our subject is the eldest son and second child of a family of eleven children, six living; he was reared principally on a farm in Hale Township, Hardin County, to which his father had moved when the former was six years old; his education was derived from the common schools. On August 22, 1862, he enlisted in the Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Company F; served in Tennessee, and fought in the battle of Stone River and several other minor engagements; he was wounded at Stone River, and discharged on that account February 20, 1863. He received a gunshot wound in the right knee, and is now drawing a pension of $6 per month. In the spring of 1865, he purchased his present farm, and has cleared and improved it. Besides farming, he raises stock and keeps Poland-China and Chesterwhite hogs. He was married, in June, 1849, to Miss Margaret Plews, born in Northumberland County, Penn., July 16, 1827, and a daughter of William and Mary Plows, Of the nine children born, eight are living-Beulah, wife of John W. Thompson; John O., Benair W., Thomas, Alice M., Temperance, W. Mark and Rush. Mr. Dunson's paternal grandfather, Thomas Dunson, served in the Revolutionary war, in which he was wounded; he removed from Virginia to Logan County, Ohio, before the war of 1812: married Miss Corbing, and both died in Logan County; Johnson Patrick, the maternal grandfather of our subject, came to Logan County shortly after the war of 1812. Mr. Dunson and his family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is now serving his second term of office as Justice of the Peace. Additional Comments: Bucks Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/photos/bios/dunson331bs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/dunson331bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: 21 Nov 2005 02:43:30 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20051121024330.11231.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hardin Co. Bios (Espy) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Espy, John 1811 - 1879 ************************************************ 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 November 20, 2005, 9:43 pm Author: Warner, Beers & Co. JOHN ESPY was born in Beaver County, Penn., March 2, 1811, there grew to manhood, and in August, 1836, was married to Miss Jane Anderson, a native of the same county. To this union one son, Thomas, was born, who for many years has been one of the leading business men of Kenton. From Beaver County, Penn., Mr. Espy and family removed to Taylor Creek Township, Hardin Co., Ohio, arriving at their destination September 1, 1838. Here he lived upon a farm until the autumn of 1840, when he removed to Kenton, and engaged in the manufacture and sale of wooden pumps until the year 1844, when he entered a distillery on the present site of the Slow Cloud Mills. During the ensuing year the grinding for the distillery was done by the old Ross horse mill. which was operated, as its name implies, by a horse tread-wheel. The insufficiency of this mill for the growing demands of the day was soon recognized fey Mr. Espy, and in 1846 he erected the present. Snow Cloud Flour Mill in connection with the distillery. The erection of this mill marked a new era in the milling operations of the community, for this was the first steam flour mill erected within the county. Mr. Espy continued the operation of this mill about eight years, when he sold it, and purchased a saw mill on the south side of the town. With this enterprise he was connected about twelve years. In 1865, the Marseilles Flouring Mill was purchased, but at the expiration of the first year Mr. Espy returned to Kenton, and at once erected the present Espy Mill, which went into operation March 30, 1867. To this enterprise he devoted his attention until 1872, when he withdrew from all connection with milling operation. From this date up to within about a month of his death, his whole time and attention were devoted to the improvement of the home farm on the south side of town. During the last month of his life, he had purchased the old woolen mills property, and planned the erection of another large flour mill which should supply the growing demands of the old mill, whose increased patronage had outrun its capacity. The death of Mr. Espy, November 28, 1878, brought this undertaking to a close for the present. Such were the leading events in the business affairs of Mr. Espy that he justly earned the title of "the pioneer miller of Hardin County." Beginning with empty hands, by persistent application to business, he was enabled to achieve some of the greatest milling operations of the county and period. In his capacity as a pioneer, he contributed to the development of the public interests of the community, always an advocate of all measures of advancement, and a champion of every project of improvement. Although deeply interested in public affairs, he would never allow his name to be used in connection with any office beyond those of his own township, always giving as a reason for his aversion to office--the urgent demands of his private affairs. Thus, while a partisan of strong convictions, and deeply devoted to the interests of the Democratic party, he would never sacrifice his personal interests "by attending to the business of others." His party received his sympathy and influence; his private affairs, his energy and time. In business he was a man of strict integrity, rigid in exaction of all obligations, and unswerving in his plans. Possessed of a high sense of justice, and an indomitable will, no question of expediency could allure him aside from what he considered the line of duty. In private life he was kind, forbearing and affable. With a plan unwavering, an energy untiring, and a will unflinching, he rose to affluence; but this success not only failed to produce pride or coldness, but rather served to enlarge its sphere of usefulness, as generosity and liberality were prominent traits of his character. Although having reached the advanced age of sixty-eight, his death came suddenly and unexpectedly and was deeply deplored by the whole community, for the public recognized in his demise an almost irreparable loss. Additional Comments: Bucks Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/photos/bios/espy332bs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/espy332bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V05 Issue #203 *******************************************