A prominent man and early settler of Ross County, Ohio, was Abraham Claypool, who came from Randolph County, Virginia, (later Hardy Co., West Virginia) and settled on the "high bank prairie" in 1799. After the land sales of 1802, when he was disappointed in not being able to purchase the tract on which he had made some improvements, he entered section seventeen, on Walnut Creek, where he made a permanent location and passed the remainder of his life. He cleared much of the land, and died at his home at the age of eighty-three, leaving his property to his nine children, Solomon, Jacob, Newton, Wilson, Abel, Isaac, Ann, Sarah and Marie. The sons all settled in the west, where they died.
Abraham Claypool, when a young man, was elected to the Virginia legislature, in which he served four years. He was elected a member of the first general assembly of Ohio, and served some eight or ten years, and was once a candidate for congress against General McArthur, receiving a creditable support.
When a young man he served under "Mad" Anthony Wayne in his campaign against the Indians, and remained in the service until the close of the war by the treaty of Greenville.
