Biography of W. C. Ward
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY
W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]
Page 950
W. C. WARD, freight agent Little Miami Railroad, and agent Adams and American Express Companies, London, was born in Range Township, this county, June 15,1841. His father, Cyrus Ward, was a native of Maryland, and came to Ohio when a young man. He was a farmer by occupation, and resided in Range Township until the date of his death. He married Maria Linton, a resident of this county, and daughter of William Linton, a native of England. They were the parents of three children, our subject being the last and only living member of the family. Mrs. Ward departed this life in 1852. W. C. Ward was reared in Range Township, and when still a lad was employed as a clerk for A. &. D. T. Johnston, merchants of Midway. He remained with them two years and then went to Cuba, Fulton County, where he was employed in a like capacity for one year. He then returned to Range Township, and alternately went to school and clerked until the commencement of the civil war. Ohio answered the President's call for 75,000 men in a very short time, and as her quota was filled, Mr. Ward went to Kentucky, and enlisted in the First Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, serving the three months' term. He then re-enlisted in Company C, of the same regiment, but impaired health caused him to be discharged while in West Virginia. He returned to Madison County, and subsequently re-enlisted again, this time in Company A, One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. Toland Jones, Col. William Jones, commanding. He remained with the regiment until the war closed. He then went to Missouri, and for a year was engaged in the stock trade. He returned to London, and for eleven years was engaged in the boot and shoe trade, eight years of the time with John Stahl. On March 1, 1877, he was made freight agent of the Little Miami Railroad; March 10, 1877, agent of the American, and November 1, 1881, of the Adams Express Company. Mr. Ward is well-known by everybody in Madison County, and equally well-liked for his genial manners, and good business qualifications. He is a member of Chandler Lodge, No. 138 (Masonic), and Democratic in politics. He was married February 14, 1867, to Laura Huston, a native of Fayette County, Ohio.
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