A History of Adams County, Ohio: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth ... |
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A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present ... Nelson Wiley Evans No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 837 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled ; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
Page 387 - Yeoman, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 805 - He served for a number of years as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wilson Children's Home, at West Union, and was selected by the late Hon.
Page 471 - Moore personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid...
Page 322 - Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1872 in the classical course; was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio in 1874...
Page 441 - Masonry, containing the Degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and Royal Arch...
Page 387 - Township, aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, in and upon one John Lightfoot, in the peace of God and of the said state, then and there being, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought did make an assault...
Page 744 - He and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he is a trustee of the church of this denomination in his home city.
Page 370 - That we do respectfully, but at the same time earnestly and insistently, urge the President of the United States, the Congress of the United States...
Page 573 - She According to the Custom of Marriage Assuming the Name of her Husband, as a further Confirmation thereof: Did then and there to these Presents Set their Hands, and we whose Names are here under also subscribed, being present, at the Solemnization of the said Marriage and Subscription, have as Witnesses thereunto set our Hands the Day and Year above Written 1754.