1883 History of Hocking Valley, Appendix

HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY

APPENDIX.

 
months more, and then was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio Aug.
1, 1865.
     Charles Henry, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Canaan
Township, Athens County, April 20, 1842, a son of William and
Eunice (Carpenter) Henry.  He was reared on a farm and received
his education in the common-schools, living with his parents until
he was thirty years of age. He was married Oct. 17, 1865 to
Miss Katie Lindley, a daughter of Ziba Lindley, a resident of
Athens. By this union are four children---John L., born Oct. 25,
1866; Wm. H.and Ziba L., twins, born Oct. 25, 1872, and Francis
B., born July 3, 1830. Mr. Henry located on his present farm in
1872, which contains 150 acres of improved land. He also owns
seventy acres located in Canaan Township. He is at present one
of the Trustees of the Children's Home, to which office he was
appointed in 1882. Mrs. Henry is a member of the Presbyterian
church.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Athens Lodge,
No. 479.
     Joseph W. Warren, boot and shoe manufacturer, was born in
Canaan Township, Athens County, July 30, 1838, a son of N. O.
and Hannah (Dewey) Warren. In 1856 he took a trip through the
Western States and located for a time in Crawford County, Ill. At
the breaking out of the late war he was the third man in Athens
County to volunteer, enlisting for three months. After his time
was out he made a short visit home and then enlisted in Company
C, Third Ohio Infantry, for three years. He participated in the
battles of Rich Mountain and Perryville. At the latter he was
wounded in the left hip, which disabled him for active duty, and
from the effects of which he has never recovered. He was trans-
ferred to the invalid corps, and sent to Indianapolis, where he
remained till his discharge in June, 1864. After the war he went
to Atchison County, Mo., and remained two years; then went to
California and remained a year, returning again to Missouri, and a
short time after coming to his native State. For three years he
was in the employ of the Akron Iron Company, Buchtel, and then
became established in his present business. April 10, 1883, he
came to Amesville, where he is now doing a good business. He
was married, March 16, 1859, to his first wife, Helen Philips, daugh-
ter of Captain Ezra Philips of Ames .Township. One child was
born to them---Eugene. In 1873 he married Louisa Hunter. Mr.
Warren is a member of York Lodge, No. 75, K. of P.; Buchtel
Lodge, No; 712, I. O. O. F.; Columbus Golden Post, No. 89, G.
A. R., and K. of  L.

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     Daniel Bertine Stewart is one of the best known and has been
perhaps the most active and extensively engaged business man in
Athens County. Besides the business of milling, which he has
carried on throughout life, he has combined with it extensive farming
railroad projecting, merchandising, and been connected with a
number of large moneyed corporations operating at Athens and else-
where. His parents, Daniel and Ruth (Arnold) Stewart, were na-
tives of New England, having emigrated to Ohio from Litchfield,
Conn., in the year 1802. His father was born at Litchfield, Nov.
18, 1762. At the age of fifteen he enlisted in the Revolutionary
army, serving as teamster, and at eighteen be shouldered a musket
and served to the close of the war. He was paid for his service
in Government Continental scrip which he sold at five cents on
the dollar. Before coming to Ohio he moved to Sussex County
N. J., and lived five years, then to New York City, and from
there to Athens County (then Washington) in 1802. He was one
of the first Commissioners of Athens County and did much to
shape her politics. He was a supporter of Henry Clay, John
Quincy Adams and William Henry Harrison; was a member of
the Whig party and helped organize the Republican party. At
the time of his death, in 1859, he had been a member of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church for sixty years. His father's name was
Daniel, born of Scottish parents. Our subject's mother was Ruth
Fulford Arnold. They settled in Athens County while it was yet
a wilderness, where our subject was born, Sept. 26, 1812. His
father had purchased a large tract of land, and the early manhood
of the sons was occupied in the arduous work of preparing it for
cultivation. This duty curtailed the use of the very few educa-
tional advantages then to be had, and as a consequence our subject
had to be content with a limited education, however much his in-
clination might have been to the contrary. His innate ability,
however, has supplied the deficiency well in after life, making
him well and favorably known throughout this part of the State as
an enterprising and able business man. At an early age be formed
habits of economy, industry and perseverance which are prime
requisites to success and which have characterized his entire life.
When sixteen years of age he entered his father's flouring mill,
took charge of it at eighteen, and on attaining his majority pur-
chased the entire mill. In a short time he disposed of this mill
at a large profit and formed a partnership with his brother, Alex-
ander, at Rutland, Ohio, with whom he remained two years when
he removed to Coolville, in Athens County, and engaged in the

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