Columbiana County Ohio Biographies and Biographical Sketches - Surnames T-Z

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Columbiana County Ohio biographies and biographical sketches - surnames T-Z, extracted from Columbiana County, Ohio history books.

J. J. THOMPSON Biographical Sketch

J. J. THOMPSON, was born in Washington township, Columbiana Co., Sept. 23, 1843. John Thompson was brought up on his father’s farm, where he remained until he was twenty-seven years old. During this time ho availed himself of such advantages of education as his neighboring school then provided; being desirous of having a good education, ho spent much time outside of school with his books, and by this application secured a fair English education.

J. J. Thompson was thoroughly trained in farm work, and. preferring this to any other business, he now owns and lives on the farm formerly owned by his father. A representation of this home, as also portraits of his father, mother, wife, and himself, may be seen in this work.

May 5, 1870, Mr. J. J. Thompson married Mary J., daughter of John and Phoebe Armstrong. They have two children, — John B. and Hallie O. Mr. Thompson and his amiable wife are now in possession of a pleasant home and many friends, which they fully appreciate and enjoy. They are in the full vigor of life, and we hope they may have many years of usefulness before them. [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

MRS. GEORGE W. VINCENT Biography

Louisa Lockard Vincent, youngest daughter of Sarah and William Lockard, was born in Hanover, Ohio, in the year 1845, and died April 12, 1905. Louisa Lockard was married to George Vincent, they spending most of their married life in Alliance. After Mr. Vincent’s death, Mrs. Vincent returned to her parent’s home in Hanoverton. There she resided at the time of her death. Mrs. W. S. Ramsey, of Hanoverton, Lorenzo Vincent, of Cleveland, and Mrs. George Hanford and Georgia Vincent, of Alliance, are her children. [ History of Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1804-1908, by Voglesong-Woods, Wessie. cn, 1908]

REV. GEORGE VOGLESONG Biography

Rev. George Voglesong, one of the landmarks in the early Methodism of Ohio, was a resident of Hanover for nearly half a century, being known in his time by nearly every man, woman and child throughout the community for miles around.

He was born January 3, 1818, at Oxford, Adams county, Pa., and removed with his widowed mother and her family of eleven children to Columbiana, Ohio, in 1838. In 1844 he was licensed to preach and in 1856 was ordained an elder by Bishop J. R. Ames at Salem, O.

Rev. Voglesong became useful in the church and active in its every department, especially in that of revival and camp meeting work, for which he became well known and popular throughout eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania.

Rev. Voglesong was married in 1840 to Mrs. Ann S. Kuntz, who proved a faithful companion and helpmeet through fifty-seven years of married and ministerial life. Mrs. Voglesong’s parents were Mr. and Mrs. William Hillerman, Puritan Quakers, who moved from Philadelphia, Pa., to New Lisbon, when she was quite young. Here her marriage with Rev. Voglesong took place.

After marriage the family home was taken up at Hanover and here they lived until 1889, when they moved to Elyria.

In May, 1890, Rev. and Mrs. Voglesong celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at Elyria, on which occasion were present all of their seven children, there having never occurred a death in the family to that date.

The decease of Mrs. Voglesong in April, 1897, was the first break in the family circle, this followed two years later by the death of Mrs. Mary Lawrence, a daughter, at Chanute, Kan. Rev. Voglesong died in 1901, and was the third - of the family to fall before the reaper, Death, his age being nearly eighty-four years. Mrs. Voglesong at the' time of her death was also nearly eighty-four years old. Both the parents and deceased daughter are buried at Elyria.

Of the family yet living (1908) are two sons and four daughters, these being C. E. and J. W. Voglesong, and the Mesdames Georgia L. Cauffman and Sarah E. Jackman, of Elyria; Mrs. Emma H. White, deceased, St. Louis, Mo., and Miss Ellen P. Vogelsong, Philadelphia, Pa.

Rev. Voglesong was an honored member of the Masonic fraternity, and knowing the ritual by heart, was depended upon by his lodge to officiate at the funerals of the order, as well as at other public ceremonies. He was also a member of the I. O. O. F., having attained rank of a past grand.

Mrs. Voglesong, as was her husband, was also a pioneer in Methodism, always active in the good word and work of the church, her zeal knowing no bounds and her influence for good among those of her acquaintance being most wonderful. [ History of Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1804-1908, by Voglesong-Woods, Wessie. cn, 1908]

DANIEL VOGLESONG Biography

Daniel Voglesong, born Oxford, Pa., November 19, 1808. Died, Hanover, O., February 25, 1859.

Catharine Christ, his wife, born Abbottstown, Pa., October 13, 1813. Died, Hanover, October 1, 1889.

Married June 30, 1830, practically all of their wedded lives passed in Hanover.

Mr. Voglesong was an ardent temperance advocate and foremost in anti-slavery movement, his home a noted station of the “Underground Railway.” Mrs. Voglesong was known as the Good Samaritan of Hanover, in sickness and trial of neighbor or friend, always there to comfort, help and cheer. Each Christian’s tide as long as life remained, each child of Hanover was remembered.

Her sister, Susan Crist, came to Hanover with their widowed mother, Elizabeth Crist, when she was ten years of age. In 1841 she was married to Matthias Johnson. To this union was born two sons and two daughters. Lizzie Johnson was united in marriage to Macajah Woolman and Addie to Slyvester Armstrong, both now r living near Beloit. Her sons, David and Charles, are both deceased. She died March 26, 1908, in her eighty-fourth year.

DANIEL VOGLESONG FAMILY Biography

Sanford Vogelsong died in 1874 at 40 years of age. [ History of Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1804-1908, by Voglesong-Woods, Wessie. cn, 1908]

Jennie V. Horn married to Joseph Horn of Tipton; she died in 1887 at 49 years of age.

Rebecca married Sylvanus Yates of Tipton, Iowa; died at the age of 63.

Melissa Vogelsong married William Davis, living near Beloit.

Wessie Vogelsong Woods married James Woods, of Alliance; they had two children — Kittie Allen, with whom she makes her home in Canton, Ohio, and Jesse Woods, married, living in Youngstown, Ohio. [ History of Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1804-1908, by Voglesong-Woods, Wessie. cn, 1908]

GEORGE VOGLESONG FAMILY Biography

Mrs. Mary T. (Vogelsang) Laurence — Born Hanover, 1845; teacher in early life. Wedded Sprague Laurence, and lived in Iowa and Kansas until her death, 1899. Burial at Elyria.

Mrs. Georgia L. (Vogelsong) Cauffman — was “school marm” many years. Married W. H. Cauffman, Salem, 1875. Resides in Cleveland.

Mrs. Sarah E. (Vogelsong) Jackman — Educated Hanover and Mt. Union; teacher for some years. Married Mr. John M. Jackman, 1870. Resides Cleveland.

Charles E. Vogelsong — Born Hanover, 1841. Spent some years in West. Resides Elyria. Has charge properties Lorain Agricultural Association.

Mrs. Emma H. (Voglesong) White — Born, Hanover, 1854. Married Lon C. White, Wellsville, 1874. Moved St. Louis and died March 12, 1904. Survived by husband, one son, two daughters.

Miss Ellen F. Vogelsong — Daughter George and Ann S. Vogelsong — Educated at Hanover and Mt. Union. Fifteen years in employ John Wannamaker Dry Goods Co., Philadelphia. [ History of Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1804-1908, by Voglesong-Woods, Wessie. cn, 1908]

JOHN W. VOGLESONG Biography

John W. Voglesong, of Elyria, Ohio, was born in Hanover in 1850. Attended Hanover Union schools and Mount Union College. Engaged in. business ara editorial pursuits up to 100, since then in manufacturing; now 'associated with a large Pittsburg manufacturing concern, as manager, with offices in St. Louis, Mo.

Married, in 1873, to Miss Emma Unkefer, of Minerva, Ohio, the couple with their only sen. Earl C. Voglesong, a student at Kenyon College, residing permrnently in Elyria, Ohio. [ History of Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1804-1908, by Voglesong-Woods, Wessie. cn, 1908]

PHILIP VOGLESONG Biography

Phillip Vogleson, son of David and Catherine Voglesong, married Mrs. Sarah Williams Black; to them were born three children, William G., Catherine and Dora.

Mrs. Voglesong was the daughter of Owen and Mary Williams, and was born in Hanover, July 19, 1832, and at present resides in Alliance, O. She was formerly married to Emery Black, and to them were born one daughter, Etta, who is the widow of Galen A. Sheets. [ History of Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1804-1908, by Voglesong-Woods, Wessie. cn, 1908]

JOHN WALTER Biographical Sketch

The subject of this sketch was born in Adams Co., Pa., near Gettysburg, in 1811. He was the oldest son of Jacob Walter.

Jacob Walter was married to Susannah, daughter of Jacob Rumble, in 1810 ; came from Pennsylvania about 1826, and settled in New Lisbon, Columbiana Co. ; he afterwards removed to Jay Co., Ind. Jacob Walter’s family consisted of John (who inserts this sketch), Henry, Elizabeth, Peter, David, William, Catharine, Mary, Daniel, Washington, and Sarah. Of this large family all are living.

John and Henry are living in West township, Columbiana Co., one in Kansas, and the other members of the family are in Jay Co., Ind. Jacob Walter is of German descent. John Walter married Rebecca Willet, Feb. 1, 1835. By this union were born four children, viz. : Mary Ann, Benezette, Harriet, and Elizabeth. All living except Elizabeth, who died in 1871.

Mrs. Rebecca Walter died April 23, 1844. John Walter married for his second wife Margaret, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Essick, Nov. 14, 1844. Their children were Sarah, Susan, John, William, Maria, Margaret, and Ella, all living. All married except two.

John Walter has held the office of assessor and township trustee in the township in which he resides. He is a member of the Disciples church, and for many years has maintained his Christian profession with uniform consistency. In politics he is a steadfast and earnest Republican. John Walter remained at home with his father until he was twenty-two, working on the farm, and received during that time a common-school education. His first purchase was a lot in New Lisbon, Columbiana Co., where he built a house and lived until 1841. He then removed to West township, where he purchased a farm of eighty acres of land ; to this he has added from time to time, until he now has a beautiful farm of one hundred and eighty-eight acres.

John Walter has spent the greater part of his life as a farmer ; for four or five years he worked at the weaving business. He is an industrious and economical farmer, fair and honest in his dealings with others, and one of whom it can be said he is a good citizen and neighbor. [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

HANNAH WHINNERY Biographical Sketch

Mrs. Hannah Whinnery, a worthy representative of that peoplo known as Friends, was born near Augusta, Columbiana Co., Ohio, May 5, 1824. Her father, James Hervey Dean, became a resident of Columbiana County in 1808, whence he accompanied his father, Jonathan, from New York State.

When Hannah was fifteen years of ago her father removed to Butler township, and three years later — being then eighteen — she was married to Mahlon Whinnery. They resided on his farm near Winona until 1845, when they removed to the place now occupied by Mrs. Whinnery, and there she has resided ever since.

Eight children were born to them, as follows: Charles, May 10, 1843 and died in infancy; Elwood D., Feb. 1, 1845, now living in Jefferson Co , Ohio; Edith P., Jan. 30, 1848, and Oliver J., Jan. 18, 1858, now living in Kansas; Phoebe Ellen, May 10, 1852, now residing with her mother, as are Rhoda, born April 24, 1855 ; Joseph H., born Nov. 21, 1860; and Anna, born Jan. 23, 1868.

As before indicated, Mrs. Whinnery comes of a Quaker family, and she, as well as her husband, was born in that faith. Her father and mother, each aged upwards of eighty, reside with Mrs. Whinnery, and they continue to be, despite the encroachments of old age, active and zealous members of the Society of Friends, in whose circle, as well as in the community, they and the members of their daughter’s family are regarded with much honor.

Mr. Whinnery met with an accidental death, Aug. 23, 1870, while at work at his threshing-machine, and since that time his widow has resided upon her farm, cheered by the loving companionship of her parents and her children. [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

JEREMIAH H. WHINNERY Biographical Sketch

Jeremiah H. Whinnery, one of Ohio’s hardiest and most industrious sons, was born in Butler township, Jan. 28, 1828, and there he continued to reside, a worthy citizen, until his death. He was one of eleven children, of whom the surviving ones are two daughters living in Columbiana Co., O., a son and daughter in Indiana, and a son in Colorado. His father, John, who was one of Ohio’s early settlers, was a sturdy pioneer in the days when a stout heart and a strong arm were the mainstays of existence.

Young Jeremiah was therefore trained in his early years to know the value of useful labor, and, although gaining occasional glimpses of book education at a district school, his most familiar school was that which taught him the rudiments of manual labor upon his father’s farm, and laid the foundation upon which he reared a substantial experience. Following naturally the footsteps of his father, and the bent, moreover, of his own inclination, he devoted himself to an agricultural life, and after him, in the same path likewise, his children have followed.

Nov. 21, 1850, he married Mary Ann Reeder, of Hanover township, in which her father’s father was one of the first settlers. Four children were born of the union, to wit: Samuel L., born May 1, 1852, and now living in Butler; John L., born Nov. 12, 1853, now residing in New Middleton; Sylvester R., of Butler, born Dec. 7, 1858; and Ella Ann, born Sept. 11, 1809, and died Sept. 18, 1870. Mr. Whinnery’s religious faith was that of a Quaker, in which he had been reared by his father ; and, although he was keenly watchful of current events, and observed from afar the political history of his time, he hold himself aloof from participation in politics, preferring to keep his mind untrammeled with the cares of office, and free from the distractions of a life eager for distinction.

So he maintained an humble existence, whose scope embraced the care of his farm and devotion to his domestic relations, passing away to his final rest, upon the old homestead near Winona, Oct. 18, 1870, whore his widow still resides with her son Sylvester. [History of Columbiana county, Ohio With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches, Some Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers., Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & Co., 1879.]

DR. JOHN J. YATES Biography

Dr. John J. Yates was son of George and Elizabeth Burns Yates, born at Tarrytown, Pa., January 18, 1813. Married Eliza Jane Alexander at Lisbon, March 26, 1835, taking up residence in Hanover. Studied medicine wiith Drs. James Robertson and Abel Cary, and began practice at Minerva. Returned to Hanover 1843. His wife died in 1844, and in 1850 he wedded again, his second wife being Margaret, daughter of Hugh King, of Franklin Township. Six children, four daughters by the first and two sons by latter marriage, were born of the unions. The second wife died in Hanover, February 11, 1896. Dr. Yates’ death occurred at the home of his son, John Newton Yates, at Salem, July 31, 1902. [ History of Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1804-1908, by Voglesong-Woods, Wessie. cn, 1908]

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