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��BULL, JOHN W., Loudonville. The grandfather of Mr. Bull was born and educated in Dublin, Ireland. and his grandmother in Manchester, England. George W. Bull, the father of J. W., ran away from home when 11 years of age, and went to sea; in his roving, he visited America at the age of 17; came west to the then wilderness of Ohio and entered several quarter-sec- tions of land in what are now Greene and Lake Town- ships, Ashland Co., after which he returned to a sea- faring life, becoming a captain and vessel-owner. Be- coming tired of the sea, he came to America for the purpose of making it his permanent home, settling first in Hartford, Conn., in 1816, and removing, in 1817, to the southwest quarter of Sec. 1, in Greene Township. Here, in 1822, he married, and here he raised a family of seven children — George F., Sarah Jane, Mariah, Mary, Phebe, Emily and J. W. He was a man of much influence among the early pioneers, a large landholder, and, soon after his arrival, engaged in shipping pork, flour, whisky and other produce by flatboats to New

��Orleans ; after the sale of a cargo in that city, he would usually sell his boats and set out on foot for home, walking sometimes as far as Nashville, where he would purchase a horse on which to complete the journey. In 1839, he was elected Justice of the Peace, which of- fice he held fifteen years ; in 1848, he was elected to the General Assembly, serving two terms in the House and one in the Senate. He was of stoat build, a very forcible talker, a man of decision, good judgment, great energy and independence of character. His son, the subject of this sketch, was engaged in railroading thirteen years, first as route agent and then as con- ductor, after which he resided in Fort Wayne, Ind., a few years, engaged in the hotel business ; during this time, he was a member of the Council of that city. He subsequently returned to Greene Township to live, and was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he now holds. In 1877, he was elected to the Sixty-third Gen- eral Assembly, and is now (February, 1880) a member of the Sixty-fourth.

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��RICE, ALEXANDER, Perryville ; was born in Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 2, 1801 ; he was the eldest son of Capt. Ebenezer Rice, who moved from Willsboro, Essex Co., N. Y., to Ohio, in 1810, stopping from November until February, 1811, in Newark, Licking Co. ; then he came on to Green Township, Richland Co., and located on his land near Perryville. Capt. Rice died June, 182], and his widow became the second wife of Judge Thomas Coulter. Alexander owns the old farm ; he has been twice married, and has three daughters and three sons living. Of all the old pioneers who have lived to

��see the wilderness of the West bloom like unto a gar- den, none are more content, more happy, or freer from the ills of old age than he. Ebenezer Rice was boi-n in Marlboro, Mass., in 1773 ; was the eldest son of Samuel Rice, who was the son of Gershom, who was the son of Ephraim, who was the son of Thomas, who was the son of Edmund and Tamazine Rice, who came from Bark- hampstead, England, in 1638, and lived and died in Sud- bury, Mass. The old homestead, with its broad meadows and beautiful spring, is still in possession of the Rice family.

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��BAUGHMAN, DANIEL, Charlotte, Mich. He came with his brother John and his family to Lexington Richland Co., in May, 1827; Samuel Baughman had settled in Millersburg, in Springfield Township, three years before, where he was also followed the next year by Isaac and Joseph Baughman, and thus the other Baughmans found relatives near them on their arrival in this, then the " Far West." In 1828, Jacob, Henry and Adam Baughman came, with Daniel's mother, and settled at Lexington. The en- tire family of Baughmans were from Cumberland Co., Penn.; of those mentioned, Joseph now lives

��in Fairfield Co., Ohio ; Jacob in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and Henry in Chai-lotte, Mich.; Adam died at Lexing- ton in January, 1844 ; John, at the same place, in Au- gust, 1863. A son of Daniel Baughman, Adelbert D., is now a merchant in Charlotte, Mich.

BEELMAN, J. FRANK, editor and proprietor of .the Advertiser, Plymouth ; was born in Plymouth July 31, 1847 ; was raised and educated here and has grown up with the town ; when in 1869, he, together with Mr. Webber, opened up a book and notion stoi'e, under the firm name of Webber & Beelman, when, in August, 1872, he disposed of his interest in the book store and

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