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 HOMAS E. WYETH is the owner of one of the
largest and finest estates of Seven Hickory
Township, located on sections 22 and 23.
He is the descendant of an old New England family, and was born in Franklin County, Mass., June
21, 1833. His grandfather, Gad Wyeth, was a native of Massachusetts, and served in the Revolutionary War under Gen. Washington. He subsequently removed to Licking County, Ohio, where
his death occurred in 1849. The parents of our
subject, Nathan and Hannah (Kellog) Wyeth, were
also natives of the Bay State, where the former was
born May 16, 1801, and the latter in 1800. They
were married Nov. 15, 1824. and left Massachusetts and removed to Ohio about 1837, when their
son Thomas was four years of age, and remained
there twelve or fifteen years, engaged in fanning
in Licking County. In the autumn of 1850 Mr.
Wyeth visited Illinois and purchased land in Coles
County, whither he removed with his family in the
following spring. Mr. Wyeth’s death occurred in
Tuscola, Douglas Co., Ill., Aug. 11, 1864, at the
age of sixty-three years, and his wife died Feb. 6,
1866. Their family consisted of nine children, six
of whom are now living, namely: Leonard, a banker
residing in Tuscola, who is married and has a family of two children; Joseph, a resident of Douglas
County, is married and has a family of five children; Albert is a money loaner, and resides near
his brother Thomas in Seven Hickory Township;
he is married and has a family of two children.
Samuel (see sketch); Thomas E.; Ellen, deceased,
was the wife of Oliver Hacket; she died in 1869,
in Douglas County, leaving a large family of children; and Mary, the widow of John Coffer, who
has a family of six children. Thomas Wyeth has been twice married; his first wife was Miss Nancy Combs, of Clarke, Ind., and a family of three children was born to them; Maggie, who was born Dec. 9, 1861, married Stephen A. D. Harry, a Professor in Normal College, Covington, Ind.; she has one child, Allie, born Feb. 1, 1863, who was married to Emery Bradford in December, 1886; Charles, born Jan. 10, 1868, resides at home. Mrs. Wyeth, the mother of these children, was removed from her home and family by death, in September, 1872. May 12, 1875, Mr. Wyeth married Miss Julia Price, who was born Aug. 21, 1849, and educated in Meigs County, Ohio. They have one child, Percy, born May 29, 1878. Mr. Wyeth’s estate contains 906 acres of valuable, well-improved land, 320 of which formerly belonged to the homestead, and was a gift from his father. He is liberal and enterprising in all his dealings, and his farm is managed with perfect system and exactness, the results of which are apparent in all its appointments. His farm buildings are substantial and commodious, and the grounds around his tasteful residence are ornamented with a variety of shade trees, and offer a pleasing appearance. There is a walnut grove on the place containing 1,000 trees, and he has a fine orchard of excellent fruit-bearing trees planted twenty years ago. There is a well of natural gas on the place, which is eighty feet in depth, and will throw a stream of water to the height of twenty feet. He used the gas of this well a year for the purpose of lighting his house, and also for fuel, but the apparatus that belongs to it is now out of repair. His farm is supplied with 2,000 rods of tiling, and he owns about 250 head of high-grade cattle and twenty-five head of horses. Both in public and private life, Mr. Wyeth does honor to his New England ancestry. He is courteous and dignified, and although enjoying social recreation, always attends rigorously to business engagements. With his wife he is a member of the Christian Church, in which he is a Deacon. In politics he is a Republican. |
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