Hiram Oglesbee

As printed in 1882

HIRAM OGLESBEE, farmer, P. 0., Port William, is a son of Eli Oglesbee, who was born in Virginia October 5, 1806, and died in Clinton County, February 28, 1870. He came to Ohio when about eleven years old, with his father, Isaiah Oglesbee, mentioned in Joshua Oglesbee’s sketch. Eli grew to manhood in Liberty Township, Clinton Co., Ohio, and acquired a limited education in the pioneer days. He endured many privations that can only be told by those who passed through them, in clearing away the dense forest. He married Rebecca Mann, a native of Ohio, born in 1807, and died in 1831, with whom he had one child, Lydia, now Mrs. William Cornell, of Dayton, Ohio. Eli married for his second companion, Lucinda Fawcett, a native of Belmont County, Ohio, born July 4, 1810, and died in Clinton County, Ohio, September 14, 1877. She was the mother of three children, viz: Our subject, Rebecca (wife of A. J. Van Pelt), and Woodson. Eli, through his energy and wonderful endurance, acquired a fair amount of property, which is now in the hands of his children, the eldest of whose name, heads this article; he was born where he now resides, August 4, 1834. Here he matured on the farm, and being his father’s eldest son, there were many duties pressing themselves upon him that the younger did not undergo. He acquired a common school education and gave his father the benefit of his time until August 2, 1858, when he married Susan Buser, who is a native of Greene County, Ohio, and reared in Xenia; her birth occurred in 1835. To this union have been given six children — Louie B., Charles H., John W., Horace C., Edward F. and Amos L. In 1859, he located on his farm in Greene County, where he followed his childhood occupation (farming) a period of ten years, when he moved to Xenia, and in partnership with D. B. Dubois, engaged in the stove, tin-ware and agricultural implement trade. This received his attention until the death of his father, when he located on the “home” farm with his mother, and the following fall removed to the farm now owned by Joshua Brown, where he remained until 1874, when he returned to Xenia, and engaged in the furniture trade in which he was successful; but in the Centennial year, he purchased the home farm where he is now engaged in farming and is comfortably situated* He is of Scotch extraction and is of a worthy pioneer family.

As printed in The history of Clinton County, Ohio (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.