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Of the many children of John Ashbaugh, the oldest was probably Andrew. The interesting record in the Old Bethel churchyard to the east of Bremen shows that Andrew died May 10, 1832 aged 72 years. Beside him lies his wife Hester (Esther) died July, 18, 1862; aged 69 years. Andrew was born in 1760 and was 39 years old when the family party went to Ohio. A record in Washington mentions that two daughters had been born in Pennsylvania from a former marriage and that the mother had died. Esther was born in 1793 at Huntington. Record in Columbus shows that Andrew and Esther were married in Fairfield County, Ohio on May 20, 1807. Andrew was then 47 years old. Their son John was born the following year, October 24, 1808. Andrew and Esther developed their farm to the east of Bremen. Later they sold it to brother Frederick, who was 24 years younger. Andrew and Esther then moved over into Pery County, just east of Fairfield
Mary Minehart and Jacob Ashbaugh moved to Kentucky and had five children.
Born in Huntingdon, Pa., March 22. 1799; son of James and Hannah (Ashbaugh) Saxton. He worked in his father's nail factory, learned the trade of watchmaking, made a printing press on which he printed a small newspaper, removed to Philadelphia in 1817, where he carried on the business of watch-making, and invented a machine for facilitating the making of the wheels for the works. With Isaiah Lukens he constructed an ingenious clock which gave the movements of the planets, and he also made the town clock placed in the belfry of Independence Hall, Philadelphia. About 1828 he went to London, where he became associated with the Adelaide Gallery of Practical Science, for which he constructed several mechanical toys. He there met Telford, Brunel, Whitwell, Hawkins and Faraday, through whose influence he was admitted to the meetings of the Royal institution.
In June, 1833, he demonstrated before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the workings of his magneto-electric machine, capable of decomposing water and of producing brilliant electrical sparks and steady light by bringing charcoal points near together. He also invented a pulley for measuring the velocity of vessels; an air-gun with metallic cartridge; an apparatus for obtaining an electrical spark from the magnetism of the earth; another for measuring the velocity of electricity, and several useful articles. He also perfected the medal-ruling machine, invented by Gobercht of the U.S. mint, and was awarded the Scott legacy medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, in 1834, for his reflecting pyrometer.
He declined the office of director of the printing machinery of the Bank of England, and on his return to the United States in 1837, he became curator of the standard weighing apparatus of the U.S. mint in Philadelphia, and superintended the construction of standard balances, weights and measures for the branch mints and assay offices of the government. He also invented an automatic machine for measuring the height of the tides; one for determining the temperature of the deep sea; an immersed hydrometer; and applied his reflecting pyrometer to the construction of measuring rods.
He was awarded a gold medal at the Crystal Palace fair, London, in 1851, for a nearly precise balance. He was a member of the Franklin Institute, and of the American Philosophical society, 1837-73, and a charter member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863, which society preserved his memoirs, written by Joseph Henry, 1877.
He was married in 1850 to Mary H. Abercrombie of Philadelphia, Pa. He died in Washington, D.C., Oct. 26, 1873.
(The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IX)Joseph and William Saxton:
Sons also of Elizabeth Saxton, settled at an early day in Washington City. Joseph was a fine scholar and a very brilliant mechanical genius. He was a silversmith by trade. Prof. Bache pronounced him the greatest mechanical genius the world ever saw.He was a member of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia and of the Royal Society of London, England. He made the city clock of Philadelphia, still to be seen and heard at Independence Hall.
He spent nine years in Paris and London and while there invented the first magnetic machine capable of producing a spark. He presented his machine in the presence of thousands of people in London and was honored by the presence of forty scientists.
He was received with great honor while abroad. He invented and made the machinery of the United States mint at Philadelphia. He invented the electric clock in the department of weights and measures in Washington, D.C. John Ashbaugh (John, Jr, son of John, son of Johann Heinrich Eschbach) once visited this cousin and was very cordially received."
This info is from "Pioneer Period and Pioneer People of Fairfield County, Ohio" by C.M.L. Wiseman.
He went out to Ohio in 1799, helping his brother and his brother-in-law clear a small plot of land to which the two families removed during that winter. Their planting was one of the first in the virgin area.
The settlement was on Rush Creek, in what became Rushcreek Township, Fairfield Co., Ohio. He and his children figured prominently in the development of that Co., and many of his descendants have been connected with that area to this day.
In 1825, John and Catherine were part of the first class (11 members) making up the Jerusalem (German Reformed) Church, at Bremen.
There are some who believe this Adam Ashbaugh to be John Adam Ashbaugh, a descendant of a Frederick Eschbach, different from our Johann Henrich Eschbach. If these are correct, Frederick would have been 50 years old when this child was born. Traditions that I have received from both descendants of Johann and descendants of the Steiner families list this Adam as a descendant of Johann Henrich and so he is included here with the realization that this information is in dispute and the listed descendants may not belong to the Johann Henrich Eschbach family. There are some however who claim the Frederick is the brother of Johann Heinrich and if so he may be related in some other fashion.
Adecima and Artemesia may be one and the same child.
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