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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 22 June 2005 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Clear Creek Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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NATHAN E. LUPTON, farmer; P. O. Ridgeville; born in Frederick Co., Va., Oct. 1, 1833; is a son of Amos and Hannah (Janney) Lupton, natives of Virginia. The grandparents, Joshua and Lydia (Reese) Lupton, were also natives of Virginia, and lived and died in that State. Joshua was a man of more than ordinary ability and education, and one who occupied. a high position, commanding the confidence and respect of his community; was an excellent penman, and was extensively employed in writing deeds and other legal papers throughout his circle of acquaintances. He resided upon the place where he was born, till his death, a period of eighty-eight years. He was a prominent and devoted member of the Society of Friends, of which he was the head Elder for many years. Amos Lupton grew to manhood, married, and settled upon the home place of his father, where he passed his entire life, and died in 1843, aged 52 years; his wife died a few weeks prior to his death, aged 47 years. They had five children, four grew to maturity, three now survive - Mary J., Nathan E. and Henry R.; the first resides in Virginia, the latter in Cambridge, Ohio. Mr. Lupton was an active, energetic man, social and jovial in his nature, and possessed quite an inventive genius. It was said that he was the inventor of the first "Spike Threshing Machine;" was a zealous advocate and promoter of improvements and progress in agriculture, and obtained several prizes from the Agricultural Society for raising the largest and best crops to the acre, and some of these prizes of fine silverware are still in possession of his children. The maternal grandparents were Joseph and Mary (Holmes) Janney, whose ancestral history is given in sketch of M. T. Janney. The subject of this sketch grew to manhood in Virginia. In the fall of 1856 he emigrated to Illinois, and located at Morris, and engaged in buying and shipping grain. In August, 1862, he entered the army as a sutler; a few months after his goods were captured by John Morgan; he, escaping capture, returned to Ohio a poorer, but perhaps a wiser man, and settled at Barnesville, |
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and engaged in the tanning business one year; thence removed to Stafford, Ohio, and carried on the same business three years. In the fall of 1867, he came to Warren County, and located on the farm where he now lives and has since resided, engaged in agricultural pursuits. On Oct. 1, 1861, he was united in marriage with Cornelia B., daughter of Dr. Moses H. and Juliet D. Keever, he a native of Warren County, and she of Loudoun Co., Va. The grandparents were George and Abigail Keever. George was born in Maryland, March 15, 1781; his wife, Abigail Bunnel, was a native of New Jersey, to whom he was married March 4, 1808. They had two children - Martha and Moses H. Mr. Keever died April 7, 1845; his death was caused by being thrown from a sulky; his wife died Oct. 25, 1852. He was quite a skillful performer upon the violin; he devoted his life to farming; was a man of kind, congenial nature, and a highly esteemed citizen. Martin Keever was the father of the above George Keever, and was born in Maryland in 1727, and came to Ohio and settled in Warren County, one among the first settlers of the county; was one of the first to purchase land in Clear Creek Township, settling on Sec. 30. He was married at 37 years of age, and died Aug. 10, 1824, aged 97 years. Christena was his faithful partner and companion through the numerous scenes of danger, suffering and privations, which she endured with the fortitude of a heroine. Upon one occasion she did not see the face of a human being for the period of three weeks, Mr. K. being absent on a hunting expedition. She died Nov. 24, 1837, aged 100 years. Mr. Keever, when 30 years of age, was taken prisoner by Indians, with whom he remained two years, and shortly after his marriage was shot in the side, near the falls of the Ohio River, by the Indians, from which he finally recovered. He retained wonderful vigor and strength to near the time of his death. Three months prior to his death he walked eight miles to Lebanon and back the same day, and carried a large clock, and five days before his death he walked three miles to a neighbor's and back again. He was a medium-sized man, and very straight and erect to the time of his death. Dr. Moses H. Keever was born in Warren County, April 28, 1810. At the age of 16 years he attended the Miami University at Oxford, and subsequently a College at Augusta, Ky. At 19 years of age he commenced reading medicine with Dr. Joshua Stevens, of Monroe, Butler Co., Ohio, where he continued three years, He graduated at the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, in the spring of 1834, and in the fall of the same year commenced practice near Ridgeville. On June 19, 1838, he married Miss Juliet D. Janney, who was born Sept. 22, 1817. They had ten children, two sons and eight daughters, seven now survive Cornelia B., Abbie E., Mary A., Juliet J., Hannah A., B. W. Dudley and Eloise J. For thirteen years Dr. Keever was associated in practice with Dr. W. H. Stokes. He had a number of medical students under his instruction, among them Dr: A. Patton, William Dickey, N. B. Kelsey, James R. B. Johns and William Stanton. From September, 1865, to January, 1873, he was associated with Dr. J. B. Hough, now a practicing physician in Waynesville. Dr. Keever located and remained on the old home place of his father till his death, a period of forty-four years. He died April 7, 1878, aged 68 years. He possessed a remarkably strong physical frame, six feet one inch high, and weighed 275 pounds. His death was sudden and unexpected, dying, as was supposed, of heart disease, while at the breakfast table. He was a man eminent in his profession, ever keeping pace with the improvements and progress of medical science, and was remarkably successful and commanded a large and extended practice. He was kind and considerate to the poor, his whole life being marked with a magnanimity and zeal rarely witnessed in the profession. He was a devoted member of the Universalist Church, and one of the main pillars in the church at Ridgeville, being one of the prime movers in the organizing and |
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building of that church. In his death his family lost a kind and loving father and husband, and the community and profession a reliable and worthy physician. Mr. Lupton and wife have had one child - Charles H. A., born Nov. 8, 1863, died Feb. 3, 1868. |
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