William C. Pusey Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: William C. Pusey: was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1818. He attended school at Westchester Academy. After leaving school he clerked in a store at Unionville in 1833, and in Philadelphia in 1834-35, and from Thence to Oak Hill, in Lancaster County, Pa. In the spring of 1837, he came to New Garden, Columbiana County, Ohio, remaining there until 1840; then moved to Wellsville, Ohio where he followed the commission business until 1843; then moved to Liverpool, Ohio, and engaged in the grocery business until 1844. He married Rachel A. Gardner, daughter of John Gardner, deceased, in 1844. They settled on her father's farm; remained two years and in 1846 they moved to Wellsville Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business and continued the business until 1852. Then they returned to the farm where they are now living. They reared two children, Elwood F. and Clara B. He served as justice of the peace in Wellsville, Ohio for four and one half years, and in the fall of 1876 he was elected to the office of Presiding Justice of Hancock County, and is holding that position at present.