Brinkerhoff, Jores (George) R. (b. 19 FEB 1785, d. 7 NOV 1849)

Note: He served as quartermaster in the War of 1812. He was trained as a surveyor and worked at that profession as well as farming. He farmed first in Township of Sempronius [now Niles] and after seven years moved to Owasco Township. He was a Justice of the Peace and an Assessor there.

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Note: Resided in Plymouth, Ohio.

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Note: No issue of this marriage. They resided in Plymouth, Ohio

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Note: Her profession was teaching. Her husband, William, was an attorney. He served with the 64th Ohio Volunteer Regiment 1861-1865. He was also the Mayor of Plymouth, Ohio.

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Note: He was a physician and practiced in Santa Barbara, California.

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Note: At 16 years of age he was a teacher in Owasco, New York. At the age of 19 he was a tutor at the Hermitage in the family of Andrew Jackson, Jr. and remained there until 1850. He studied law under Hon. Jacob Brinkerhoff and was admitted to the bar in Mansfield, Ohio in 1852. He was also one of the editors and proprietors of the Mansfield Herald at that time. Roeliff joined the 64th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in September 1861 as a first Lt. He later was promoted to Captain, then became a Colonel and inspector in the quartermaster's department. Brevetted Brigadier General in September 1866, but declined a commission in the regular army. Mustered out of service 1 Oct 1866. He was the friend of seven or eight US Presidents. Gen. Brinkerhoff was sitting only a short distance from Abraham Lincoln the night he was assassinated at Ford's Theater in Washington.
He was president of the Mansfield Savings Bank and President of the Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society 1893-1907. This Society was founded in his home in Mansfield, Ohio. Was a leader in prison reform in Ohio. He built a fine home in Mansfield called Clover Hill. He was very interested in horticulture, and especially flowers.

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Note: From the History of Richland County: Caleb BeVier, the oldest of his family, was born in Owasco, Cayuga County, New York, June 12, 1820, and reared on the old home farm in Cass Township, near Shiloh, his father having there purchased one hundred and sixty acres of timberland on which
a small cabin had been previously built. He built a stick chimney to the cabin and made the little place as comfortable as he could for his family. As Caleb Bevier grew to manhood he assisted more and more largely in the work of the farm, bearing his full share in the arduous task of clearing away the forest, grubbing up the stumps and preparing the fields for the plow. After his marriage he came to his present farm, purchased eighty acres of timberland in Plymouth Township. His original home was a little one-room cabin. When the eighty acres had been cleared and brought under cultivation he afterward purchased the adjoining eighty acres, which had been partially cleared. It is upon the latter tract that his home now stands, the residence having been erected in 1863. He extended the boundaries of his farm by additional purchases and is now the owner of two hundred acres of land, on which are two sets of good farm buildings. Throughout his entire life Mr. Bevier carried on general agricultural pursuits and was one of the representative farmers of the community.
On the 8th of March 1845, Mr. Bevier was married to Miss Cornelia Brinkerhoff, who was born in Owasco, Cayuga County, New York, October 17, 1820. She died June 22, 1880, upon the old home farm in Plymouth Township. When sixteen years of age she had become a resident of Huron County in company with her parents, Henry R. and Sarah Swarthout Brinkerhoff who were natives of New York and New Jersey respectively. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Bevier were born nine children: Martha, Mary, Henry A. and Sarah, all of whom are yet living on the old home farm; Jackson, a resident of Plymouth Township; Roelif C., who is living near Tyrol in Crawford County; Abraham, who died at the age of five years; Helen, who died at the age of three years; and Isabelle, who is professor of domestic science in the State University at Urbana, Illinois.
The death of the husband and father occurred January 20, 1893, after a residence of almost seventy years in this county. He was active in the political and religious work of the community, was a stalwart advocate of the Republican party, voting for Fremont in 1856 and for each presidential candidate until called to his final rest. He served the township as treasurer and was also justice of the peace for many years, giving loyal support to the cause of law and order in the fair and impartial decisions which he rendered. In early life he held membership in the Presbyterian church, in which he was an elder, and later became a member of the Lutheran church, and at all times was an earnest and consistent Christian man. His children took the spelling of the family name as BeVier.

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Note: In 1850, he had assumed the title of head of household, probably as oldest son after his father's death. They lived in Richland County, Cass Twp., Ohio. During the census of 1870 and 1880 he and his family lived in Shelby, Cass Township, Richland County, Ohio

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Note: His family lived in Cass Township, Richland County, Ohio during the census of 1860, 1870, and 1880. He was listed as a farmer.
FROM BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CASS TOWNSHIP
BEVIER, LEWIS, farmer and stock-raiser; he was born in Richland Co., Ohio, Jan. 31 , 1825; his father, Andries Bevier, came from Cayuga Co., N. Y., town of Owasco, in the year 1824, and settled on the farm on which his son now lives; the farm at the time was but little improved, having about 10 acres cleared. The subject of this sketch spent his young days on the farm with his father, and, after his father's death, which was in February, 1846, he and his brother, Jeremiah E. Bevier, took the farm and kept the family together on the old homestead; he bought out the heirs as they became of age; he came in full possession of the farm in the fall of 1858, and has put the principal part of the buildings on the farm and has it under a good state of cultivation. His father came to Ohio with his family in a two-horse wagon, and endured all the hardships of a new country; had to go many miles to market, but by industry and economy he succeeded in making for himself and family a comfortable home. Lewis was married to Miss Amanda Cordon Jan. 18, 1859; they have had four children, three of whom are living and one dead; John P. was born Aug. 24, 1860; Annie Annette, June 21, 1862; Fredric Lewis, Oct. 2, 1864.

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Note: The History of Richland County indicates her death date was Sep 13, 1898.

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Note: In 1880, she lived with her sister Ruth Ann and nephew William Bevier in Plymouth, Ohio. Elizabeth lived with her sister-in-law Katherine in January 1920.

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Note: His tombstone indicated the date of his death as 1861.

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Note: She and her sister Elizabeth were servants in the home of Dirick Hornbeck in Richland County, Plymouth Twp., Ohio in 1900.

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