Moses Hoskins, a North Carolinian who had served in the Revolution, came to Clinton County with his eldest son John, and both the 1882 history and the 1915 history say the move happened about 1810, though the 1915 history also dates the family's arrival in Green Township to 1813. John and Hannah (Hockett) Hoskins cleared a farm in the woods near New Vienna, three miles from the nearest settler at Snow Hill, and John died there December 13, 1846. Three of their sons are sketched: William, born in Guilford County in 1808, who cleared all seventy acres of his farm; Isaac, a farmer, merchant and Friends elder; and John, born on the home place in 1813, who spent his whole life on it. Isaac's son Josephus, born in 1841, became an acknowledged minister of the Friends at Dover and served thirteen years as evangelistic superintendent of the Wilmington yearly meeting, and Josephus's son Walter H. Hoskins, born in 1882, cleared seventy-four acres of the old General Denver farm in the Dover neighborhood. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Clinton County history.
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Pioneer farmer and blacksmith near New Vienna
Farmer near New Vienna
Farmer, merchant and Friends elder
Farmer on the home place
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Friends minister and farmer
REV. JOSEPHUS HOSKINS.
No fine type of virile and useful manhood can be found in all Clinton county than the person of the Rev. Josephus Hosklns, of Wilmington, Ohio, who is a well-known real estate dealer of Wilmington and an acknowledged minister of the Friends church at Dover. He has served as evangelistic superintendent of the Wilmington yearly meeting of the Friends church for thirteen years. In 1872, he was acknowledged minister of the Friends church at Dover and was a minister in Dover for thirty-two years. He is still a member of that meeting and has held about every office within the gift of the yearly and quarterly meeting. He stands now as the recognized head of the Wilmington yearly meeting of Friends and is pastor of the churches at Cuba and Beech Grove, where he preaches on alternate Sundays. The ancestry of the Hoskins family in Clinton county were characterized by their loyalty and patriotism at a time when loyalty and patriotism meant perhaps far more than they mean now. The paternal great-grandfather of Rev. Josephus Hoskins. Moses Hoskins, was a native of North Carolina and a soldier in the War of the Revolution. He Immigrated to Ohio. It Is believed, about 1810. and subsequently moved to Illinois, where he died.
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JOSEPHUS HOSKINS, minister and farmer, P. 0. Wilmington, was born in Clinton County, Ohio, April 26, 1841. His parents, Isaac and Rachel Hoskins, were natives of Guilford County, N. C., he of Welsh, and she of English descent. They emigrated to Ohio in 1811, and located in Clinton County. They had eight children, of whom seven grew to maturity and five, four daughters and one son, survive. The father was a farmer, and followed that occupation during his whole life, with the exception of ten years spent as a merchant, eight of them in Wilmington. His wife died in 1854, and in 1859 he married Anna Hunt, who died in 1879, without issue. The paternal grandfather of our subject was John Hoskins. The subject hereof is a farmer, and since 1874 an acknowledged minister in the Society of Friends, in which his father is an Elder. He owns 250 acres of land upon which he lives. He was married in 1864 to Emily J. Gallemore, of Clinton County. Her father, Elisha Gallemore, was born in Clinton County. He was a successful farmer, at one time owning 800 acres of land, acquired by his personal efforts. He was at one time worth 380,000. Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins have seven children, viz.: Alma, Luella, Minnie, Clinton, Dora, Clarence and Elvin.
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Farmer, Dover neighborhood, Union Township
WALTER H. HOSKINS.
Approximately one hundred million people come under the influence of the American educational system, and millions are yet to come under the influence of this system. A few realize their maximum potentialities as citizens of the republic, as workers in the home. In the fields and in the marts of trade. An almost unbelievable majority of the people never rise above the plane of superficial thinking and lackadaisical effort. Far too many fall to attain a higher state of culture because they are unwilling to take modest beginning. A few men have profited lu a large degree by our educational system, and Walter H. Ilosklus, a splendid young farmer of Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, owes his success lu a large measure, no doubt, to the careful and scientific training he received In the public schools of Clinton county and at Wilmington College.
Walter II. Hawkins was born on his fathers farm on the Tort William pike in the Dover neighborhood of Union township, November 28, 1882, a son of Rev. Josephus and Emily (Gallluiore) Ilosklus.
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Walter H. Hoskins attended the Dover district school near his home and later became a student at Wilmington College. He worked with his father ou the farm until his marriage, and then rented a farm for a few years, and In 1!H)7, purchased seventy-four acres of the old General Denver farm lu the Dover neighborhood of Union township. At the time he purchased the laud, it was nearly all covered with timber and there were no fetu-cs. Mr. Hoskins has built a new house and barn, and has since erected a garage. He cleared the land of Its timber and erected fences and Improved the place generally. Here he carries on general farming and makes a specialty of raising early lambs, which are dressed and shipped to New York for "baby mutton," and for which fancy prices are received. He also feeds a large number of hogs, being very successful in his live stock business. He bits been the local agent for the Regal Automobile Company for some time and has sold a large number of these machines. Mr. Hoskins Is considered a very successful young farmer, and has a beautiful farm with neat and attractive grounds.
On Septemtter 7. lfM>4. Walter H. Hoskins was married to Florence I'belle, a native of Wilson township. Clinton county. Ohio, a daughter of Ellas and Annetha (Creamer) I'belle, and lo Ibis union one child has Iveen born, Robert, who was born on February 11. 1!MK>.
Mrs. Hoskins' father. Ellas Hicks I'belle, was born April 5. 1S4.1. In Wilson township. Clinton county. Ohio, and Is a son of Reuben and Emily (Corcornn) Peelle. the former of whom was Inirn in Wilson township, and who gave each of his four sons one hundred acres of land, and each of his daughters uu equal value In money. The family were all members of the Friends church. Ellas Hicks Peelle married Armetba Creamer, who was born in 1847, in Fayette county, Ohio, and who died in 1909. She was a daughter of Simon and Anna (Johnson) Creamer, the former a native of Fayette county, Ohio, where he was a prominent farmer and an Influential member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Hoskins' father is a retired farmer, and for two years has been a resident of Whittier, California. He formerly lived near the corner of Fayette. Clinton and Green counties, Ohio, where he had a farm of one hundred and eighty-nve acres of land. He Is a member of the Friends church and retired from active farm life in 1904. removing at that time to Wilmington, and in 1913 to California. Mrs. Hoskins, who was the fourth child born to her parents, is one of five children, the others being: Dr. F. A. I'belle, of Wilmington; Delaware C, a farmer living in I'nlou township; May. who Is a trained nurse living with her father; and Pearl T.. who is the wife of Kurritt Hlatt. of Wilmington.
Mr. Hoskins has a birthright membership in the Dover meeting of the Friends church. He is a Republican and is well known nnd popular In Clinton county.
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