The first election for township officers in Ames was held June 1, 1802 (nearly three years before the organization of the county), at the house of Silvanus Ames, and resulted as follows: Nathan Woodbury, George Ewing and Samuel Brown, trustees; Daniel Weethee, clerk; Josiah True and Samuel Brown, overseers of the poor; Nathan Woodbury, Joseph […]
Jewell Davis, M. D., physician and surgeon, Charleston; was born in Athens Co., Ohio, Oct. 27, 1811; he was raised on a farm, and followed that calling until about 1838, when he removed to Middleport, Meigs Co., Ohio, having a few years previously married Miss Cynthia Jones, of that place; they have three children –
(Loc. in Carthage twp., south of Lottridge, ¼ mile from Mud Sock Road, Orange Twp., Meigs County, Ohio) CALDWELL John, d. 7 July 1845, ae. 78 yrs. Isabell, d. 3 Oct. 1865, ae. 78 yrs. Wife of John. CHILD Ezbon, d. 23 Apr. 1850, ae. 37 yrs., 7 mos., 17 days. Seth, d. 25 Apr.
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A history of Athens county would be very incomplete without a biographical notice of the father and projector of the Ohio university-an institution that has done so much to shape and influence the history of this community. Though never a resident of the county, perhaps no one person has exerted a more deep and lasting
Burton, Theodore Elijah; U. S. senator to March 3, 1915; born, Jefferson, O., Dee. 20, 1851; son of Rev. William and Elizabeth ‘(Grant) Burton; A. B., Oberlin College, 1872, A. M. 1875; (LL. D., Oberlin, 1900, Dartmouth, 1907, Ohio University, 1907); unmarried; admitted to bar, 1875, and since in practice at Cleveland; member 51st (1889-1891),
LEVI L. MUNSELL. Among Shannon County’s younger business men are many whose interests in this section of the Ozark Region are going to make it a few years hence what it is today as compared with a generation ago. Many of these have already made their mark, but few have attained the distinction that Levi
David E. Ballard is living retired at Washington, Kansas, at the age of eighty-one. Most of his active contemporaries in the strenuous achievements of his earlier years have long since passed away. Mr. Ballard is one of the few survivors of the prominent Kansans who actually laid the foundation of the state. His name is
The early records of the township were destroyed by fire in the house of John McKee in 1827 or 1828, but as nearly as can be ascertained the first trustees were Caleb Merritt, John Brooks, and Thomas Sharp, and Caleb Merritt the first justice of the peace. Trustees 1829-1868. 1829 Ziba Lindley, Sen., Samuel McKee,
Postmasters of Athens. Established in 1804. Jehiel Gregory from 1804 1 quarter Eliphaz Perkins 1804 till 1821 John Perkins 1821 1839 Amos Crippen 1839 1841 John Perkins 1841 1845 Amos Crippen 1845 1849 Wm. Loring Brown 1849 1853 R. DeSteiguer 1853 1858 Lot L. Smith 1858 1861 David M. Clayton 1861 1865 E. C. Crippen
Troy Ohio 1820 Census Index Allen, Reuben 133 Allen, Samuel 133 Allen, Shadrick 133 Bagley, Stephen 134 Baily, John 134 Baker, Christian 133 Banvas, W. William 136 Barrows, Jacob 134 Barrows, William 134 Baylis, Elizabeth 134 Bingham, Silas 134 Blade, Harney 133 Blizard, Silas 134 Boanback, Lemuel 136 Bowen, Adam 134 Brookshirt, Abram 133 Burch,
One of the well known citizens of Moscow is Robert H. Barton, who is now capably serving as postmaster. He is true and faithful to this public trust and at all times has discharged his duties of citizenship with the same promptness and fidelity which marked his course when on the battlefields of the south
(Loc. off Route 50 in Canaan Twp., Athens Co., O.) MANSFIELD Susan, d. 5 Jan. 1859, ea. 73 yrs. Wife of Peter. _______, d. 1844, ae. 62 yrs. SIMMONS George, d. 21 July 1842, ae. 61 yrs. TUCKER Sarah Ann, d. 22 Feb. 1833, ae. 24 yrs., 1 mo., 29 days. Wife of Elijah. JORDAN
Rome Ohio 1820 Census Index Anderson, Daniel 130 Aryer, Daniel 130 Ballard, Jesse 130 Ballard, Jesse, Jr. 131 Barnabas, Eben 130 Barrows, George 131 Barrows, Henry 131 Batts, Joseph 131 Bebee, Charles 130 Bebee, James 130 Bebee, Peter 133 Bebic, Hopson 130 Bench, Benjamin 131 Bobo, Triplet 130 Bowman, Jaber 131 Brown, Hosea 131 Buckley,
The town was incorporated in 1844. At the first election for town officers John V. Brown was chosen mayor, and J. M. Gorsline recorder. For a number of years afterward there was no election, but since 1855 they have been held regularly. Town Officers of Albany since 1855. 1855.-Mayor, Albert Vorhes; Recorder, Henry Wells; Treasurer,
Mercer, George Wellington; florist and decorator; born, Toronto, Canada, 1872; son of Albert and Eliza Bye Mercer; educated in public schools of Ontario, Canada; come to United States in 1888; three years with J. F. Sullivan, florist, Detroit; two years with J. H. Rebstock, florist, Buffalo; then came to Cleveland; two years with J. M.
George Ewing, commonly called during his residence in the county Lieut. Ewing, was, it is believed, the first white settler within the bounds of what is now Ames township. A native of Salem, New Jersey, he entered the continental army at the beginning of the revolutionary war, and served with credit during its whole course.
J. G. Brown, son of Captain Benjamin Brown, was born April 16th, 1798, near Waterford, in Washington county, Ohio, and has lived in Athens county since he was one year old. His youth was passed in working on his father’s farm (in Ames township), and in assiduous study and preparation for college. In due time
Capt. Benjamin Brown, father of General John, and of Judge A. G. Brown, and one of the most prominent among the early settlers of Ames, was born October 17, 1745, at Leicester, Massachusetts. His grandfather, William Brown, came from England to America while a youth, was the first settler in the town of Hatfield, on
(Loc. abt. 2 ½ miles NW of the Troy-Bethany Cemetery, on route 144) BARROWS – FROST Susannah, d. 7 Oct. 1882, ae. 81 yrs., 9 mos., 10 days. Wife of Heman Frost. FROST Mary, d. 2 Mar. 1861, ae. 19 yrs., 1 mo., 21 days. Dau. of Charles & Emma Clynn. FROST Samaria, d. 14
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Treasurers. Clerks. 1807 Chauncey Perkins, John Corey. 1808 Alexander Stedman, John Corey 1809 Alexander Stedman, John Corey 1810 Alexander Stedman, John Corey 1811 Alexander Stedman, John Corey 1812 Alexander Stedman, John Corey 1813 Eliphaz Perkins, Nehemiah Gregory. 1814 William Weir, Alexander Proudfit. 1815 Charles Shipman, Alvan Bingham. 1816 Charles Shipman, James Gillmore. 1817 Ebenezer Blackstone,
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