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Born 1838, Monroe township
From History of Richland County, Ohio, from 1808 to 1908 : also biographical sketches of prominent citizens of the county (1908), A centennial biographical history of Richland county, Ohio (1901)
ABRAHAM J. BAUGHMAN.
Abraham J. Baughman, the only son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Baughman, was born on section 22, Monroe township, Richland county, Ohio, September 5, 1838. Abraham Baughman, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born 011 the Atlantic ocean during the sail voyage of his parents from Germany to America. He married Mary Katherine Deeds and they were the parents of eight children, — five sons and three daughters. Jacob Baughman, the fourth son, was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1792, and came to Ohio with his parents about 1808, and the family settled in the Black Fork valley, near the old historic Indian village of Greentown, now in Ashland county. Jacob Baughman married Miss Elizabeth; the eldest daughter of Captain James Cunningham, in September, 1825. They were the parents of five children, — Mary K., Hannah L., Margaret A., Abraham J. and Sade Elizabeth. Jacob Baughman died February 21, 1855, and his widow survived him nearly forty years, being called away November 23, 1894, in the ninetieth year of her ag"e. The three older children having been married before the death of the husband and father, Mrs. Baughman and her two younger children — A. J. and Miss Sade — lived together during the remainder of her life. Four decades may seem long when counted by their forty several years, but all too short when blessed with the happiness of a mother's love, making the bereavement at the close the more heartfelt and severe. Soon after being left a widow Mrs. Baughman removed to Bellville, and later to Mansfield, where the son and youngest daughter still reside, at the old home on South Adams street.
A. J. Baughman taught school and read law in his 'teens, but upon the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion he volunteered in Captain Miller Moody's Company I, Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, in 1861, and later enlisted for three years in the Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but was discharged for physical disability before the expiration of his term of enlistment. Mr. Baughman and his sister are printers and have spent the greater part of their lives in the newspaper business. In 1885 Mr. Baughman was.appointed a clerk in the United States senate, and his sister, Miss Sade, was appointed to a clerkship in the treasury department at Washington, which positions they held for several years, Mr. Baughman during that time writing for New York and Chicago papers. Upon his return to Ohio Mr. Baughman devoted his time largely to historical work and the writing of feature articles for the press, and during a three-years engagement on the Mansfield News he wrote over two hundred feature articles for its Sunday edition, covering, perhaps, a hundred different topics.
Upon the unveiling of the Johnny Appleseed monument in the Sherman-Heineman park, Mr. Baughman delivered the address of the occasion, and the same was copied in whole or part by the leading magazines and in over a thousand newspapers. He has edited and published the Canal Fulton Herald, the Medina Democrat, the Mansfield Call and the Democrat, and the Xew Philadelphia Evening Xews; and of the papers upon which he has been engaged mention may be made of the Marion Star, the Steubenville Gazette and the Xew Philadelphia (Ohio) Democrat; and while the editor of the latter, during the Bryan campaign of 1896, he thinks he did his best political writing and editorial work, the Democracy regaining the county and electing its entire ticket by majorities ranging from five hundred to one thousand.. Mr. Baughman has written biographical histories and sketches of several counties, and is conceded to be the best informed man on local history in Richland county; and he knows its townships as a farmer knows his fields. Through the efforts and work of Mr. Baughman the Richland County Historical Society was organized in November, 1898, and he became its secretary, which position he continues to fill. He is also the secretary of the Mansfield Lyceum.
Although German in name Mr. Baughman. in sentiment, is inclined to his mother's (Irish) people, but is thoroughly American in thought, purpose and patriotism, and is a Buckeye, "to the mayor born." In his religious views he is a "churchman," believing in the apostolic succession, and was confirmed by the late Rt. Rev. G. T. Bedell, bishop of Ohio, in
Mr. Baughman is five feet, nine inches in height, with an average weight of one hundred and fifty-five pounds. He has blue-gray eyes, and the dark hair of his youth silvered before he had reached the age of fifty years.
As printed in A centennial biographical history of Richland county, Ohio (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
ABRAHAM J. BAUGHMAN.
Abraham J. Baughman, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Baughman, was born in Monroe township, Richland county, Ohio, September 5, 1838. Abraham Baughman, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born on the Atlantic ocean as his parents were coming from Wurtemberg, Germany, to America. Upon the arrival of the Baughman family in America they settled for a while in the Cumberland valley in Pennsylvania. In time, Abraham Baughman, the child that was born on the Atlantic ocean, arrived at manhood and was married to Mary Katharine Deeds, and to this union eight children were born, five sons and three daughters, namely: Adam, John, Abraham, Jacob and George. The daughters were Katharine, Lovace and Elizabeth. Adam ILaughman married a Miss Huffman, of Pittsburg; John married Betsy Weyant, of this state; Abraham married Susan MYyant, a sister of his brother John’s wife; Jacob married Elizabeth Cunningham, the eldest daughter of Captain James Cunningham, who was a Richland county pioneer; George Baughman never married. They are all now deceased. Of the daughters, Katharine married a Mr. Black, of Tuscarawas county; Lovace married a Mr. Gayman, of Pittsburg; and Elizabeth married a Mr. Zimmerman, of Tennessee.
In about 1803 Abraham Baughman and family removed from Cumberland to Washington county, in the same state, then to Ohio, where they became the first settlers in the valley of the Blackfork of the Mohican, near the old Indian village of Greentown. The exact date of their locating here is not known, but the early historians place it at not later than 1807, and ])possibly earlier.
Of grandfather Abraham ILaughman’s sons, after their marriage, Adam settled in Franklin county, near New Albany. John settled in Wayne county, east of Wooster, and the township where he located wiis named in his honor. Abraham came to Wayne county to visit his brother John, married Miss Weyant and later joined his father’s family in Monroe tOAvnship, Richland county. Jacob Raughiiian, after the death of his pareiitS; married and resided the greater i)art of his life in Monroe township. He died in 1855 and was buried in the Perrysville cemetery. George Baughman died in 1850 and is also buried at Perrysville.
The three older children having married before the death of their father, Jacob Baughman, his widow and her two younger children — Abraham J. and Sade Elizabetliy — lived together during the remainder of the mother’s life, a period of nearly forty years. Soon after being left a widow, Mrs. Baugliman removed to Bellville, and later to Mansfield, where the son and da:ughter still reside at the old home on South Adams street.
A. J. Baughman, the subject of this sketch, taught school and read law in his teens, and upon the breaking out of the Civil war, he volunteered at President Lincoln’s first call for troops, and was mustered into the service Ay)ril 22, 18G1, as a member of Captain Miller Moody’s Company I, Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, Army of the Tennessee, and after he was mustered out of the First-Call service he enlisted for three years in Company E, Thirty-second Ohio A'"volunteer Infantry, but was discharged for physical disability before the expiration of his term of enlistment. Mr. Baughman and his sister Sade are printers and have spent the greater part of their lives in the newspaper business. In 1885, Mr. Baughman was appointed to a clerkship in the Lbiited States senate, and his sister Sade to a clerkship in the treasury department at Washington, which positions they held for several years, Mr. Baughman during that time in addition to his clerical work was attached to the Washington bureau of the New York AVorld and the Chicago Inter- Ocean. Upon his return to Ohio, Mr. Ba.ughman devoted his time largely to historical work.
Upon the unveiling of the Johnny Appleseed monument in the Sherman- Heineman park, Mansfield, Mr. Baughman delivered the address of the occasion, which was copied in whole or in part by the leading magazines and newspapers of the country. He has edited and published the following newspapers: The Canal Fulton Herald, The Aledina Democrat, The Alansfield
Call, The Alansfield Democrat and the New Philadelphia Evening News, and the papers upon which he has been employed are the Alarion Star, the Steubenville Gazette, and the New Philadelphia Ohio Democrat, and while the editor of the latter, during the Bryan campaign of 1896, he did his best political editorial work, the democracy regaining control of the county and electing its entire county ticket, for which success Mr. Baughman was given the credit.
Mr. Baughman has written biographical and historical sketches of several counties and conceded to be the best informed man on local history in Richland county; he knows the townships of the county as a farmer knows his fields. Through the efforts and work of Mr. Baughman the Richland County Historical Society was organized in November, 1898, and he became its secretary, which position he continues to hold. He was also secretary of the Alansfield Centennial Commission through its two years of preparatory work, resulting in a celebration of the centennial founding of Alansfield, June 8, 1908 — a celebration of which every citizen of Richland county could well be proud.
Mr. Baughman did feature writing for the Mansfield Daily News for a number of years, to which paper he is still an occasional contributor. He was also employed on the Daily Shield for a number of years, with which paper he severed his connection in January, 1908, at which time the paper passed into the hands of a new management.
Mr. Baughman not content with confining his historical work to Richland county, became a life member of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, January 1, 1903. He was one of the two delegates from Ohio to the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held in Chicago, in December, 1904. Mr. Baughman, both by heredity, inclination and training, belongs to the historical class of literary workers. Ohio history has especially been his field of labor, and he has contributed many articles to the state publication. He is now a trustee of the state society and a member of its executive board. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, is a trustee of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial building at Mansfield, and is the secretary of its board of trustees.
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Mr. Baughman is five feet nine inches in height, with an average weight of about one hundred and sixty pounds. He has blue-grey eyes, and the dark hair of his youth silvered before he had reached the age of fifty years.
Part of the credit of the success of Mr. Baughman’s literary career is due to his sister. Miss Sade E. Baughman, who has been his co-worker in all of his newspaper, literary and historical work.
As printed in History of Richland County, Ohio, from 1808 to 1908 : also biographical sketches of prominent citizens of the county (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: James Cunningham Johnny Appleseed
Their biographies name Abraham Baughman: John W. Baughman (b. 1838) Verner Z. Reed (b. 1863)
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