WYANDOT CO. OH
Formed 1845 from Marion, Crawford, Hardin, Hancock
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1850-1880 Wyandot Co. OH Census
      No Duncan indexed
 

HISTORIES before 1923

"The History of Wyandot County, Ohio : containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, churches, schools, etc., general and local statistics, military record, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of the Northwest Territory, history of Ohio, miscellaneous matters, etc., etc." by John S Schenck, W Crawford, G Wilson, A W B, et al; pub. Chicago: Leggett, Conaway & Co., 1884, 1055 pgs. (LH10713, HeritageQuest images 5/2007; FHL book 977.126 H2h and film 1,000,351 item 2)
      Pg.699: JAMES P. CHANCE was born in Harrison County, Ohio, March 31, 1841. He is a son of Aaron and Jane (Beall) Chance, the former born in Jefferson County, Ohio, May 27, 1816, the latter in Washington County, Penn., January 6, 1817. They were married in Harrison County, Ohio, March 26, 1840, where they resided till 1852, when they moved to Crawford County, Ohio, where they still live. Their children were ... James P. ... was married October 27, 1870, to Elizabeth J. Pendry, a native of Richland County, Ohio, born November 3, 1848, daughter of James J. and Jane (Andrews) Pendry, the former born January 25, 1823, the latter June 16, 1820. Her parents were married in Richland County, December 3, 1846, and their children were ... Mrs. Chance's grandfather was born February 20, 1787, and her grandmother, Elizabeth (Duncan) Pendry, October 10, 1790, their children being Margaret A., Elmer J., James J. and Clarkson S. Mr. and Mrs. Chance have had six children ... (MAD: more on Chance ancestors, not copied)
 

1908 "A century and a half of Pittsburg [Pennsylvania] and her people" (Allegheny Co.) by John Newton Boucher, 1854-1933; pub. [New York] : The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908. (HeritageQuest image 3/2007, Local History Reel/Fiche Number 7645; FHL book 974.886 H2a v.1-4 and film 1,425,643 items 1-4; also University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library, Historic Pittsburgh Full-Text Collection)
      http://digital.library.pitt.edu:80/p/pitttext/
      Vol.4, pg.448-449: WILLIAM FRANKLYN STEVENS, who fills the responsible and important position of librarian of the Carnegie Library at Homestead, Allegheny ... (IV) William Franklyn Stevens, son of William and Caroline Amelia (Sherman) Stevens, was born in the village of Kirby, Wyandot county, Ohio, May 4, 1863. He was graduated from the Ohio Northern University of Ada, Ohio, with the class of 1887, and since that time ... He was librarian of the railroad branch of the Young Men's Christian Association of the city of New York from 1890 to 1901, this branch having been founded by Cornelius Vanderbilt, and has been librarian of the Carnegie Library at Homestead, Pennsylvania, founded and sustained by Andrew Carnegie, since 1901.
            Mr. Stevens married Matilda Elizabeth DeFord, born in 1867, the second child of Samuel Fletcher and Mary Vashti (Duncan) DeFord. Mrs. Stevens was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University in the class of 1887, ... She is a member of the Pittsburg Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, No. 53961. Samuel Fletcher DeFord, a banker of Ottawa, Ohio, was a son of John DeFord, whose earlier years were spent in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and his later life in Carroll County, Ohio, and who married Matilda Littell, a daughter of Alonzo Littell and a cousin of Eliakim Littell, founder of "Littell's Living Age." (MAD: more on Littell ancestry and wife Catherine Custis born in 1790)
 

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