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gent people. Mr. Vandegrift is an uncom- promising Democrat.
On April 4, 1866, near Port Penn, Chris- topher John Vandegrift was married to Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Diehl, well-known citizens of Saint George's hun- dred. They had one child, Minnie C. (Mrs. Abram Fox), of New Castle hundred. Mrz. Sarah Vandegrift died in 1880, and was buried at Drawyer's church. In 1883, Mr. Vande- grift married Elizabeth Dichl, a nicce of his former wife, and a daughter of William B. and Lydia Dichl. Mr. Vandegrift is a Pres- byterian.
LEONARD V. ASPRIL, Sr., Odessa, Del., son of John and Ann (Vandegrift) Aspril, was born at Odessa (then Cantwell Bridge ) New Castle county, Del., July 7, 1820.
The Asprils came from Sweden and were among the oldest settlers of Delaware. Joseph Aspril, grandfather of Leonard V., was born in Delaware, February 2, 1742, and was a farmer and landowner near Port Penn, New Castle county. He stood well in his community. Joseph Aspril married Mary Skeer, born in Delaware March 17, 1755. They had eleven children: I. Mary, born December 21, 1775, married first to Thomas Craven, then to John Addison; II. Lydia, born February 21, 1778, married first to Joseph Walraven, her second husband be- ing Captain Christopher Vandegrift; III. Grace, born April 11, 1780, died young; IV. Eleanor, born April 7, 1781, died December 29, 1862, was the wife of William King of Western Pennsylvania; V. Joseph, born De- cember 20, 1783; VI. Lawrence, born Febru- ary 14, 1786, father of Rev. Joseph Aspril, a M. E. minister; VII. John, born May 7, 1788; VIII. Gracey (or Grace), born Septem- ber 8, 1790; IX. Ann, born January 19, 1794; X. Elizabeth (or Eliza), born March 29, 1796, wife of James Clover, who went to the west; XI. Hannah, born January 2, 1799, wife of William Pippin. Mr. and Mrs. Aspril were members of the Presbyterian church. The former died in 1802 and his wife, who was a most estimable woman, in 1824 on their home farm. Both were buried in the Drawyer's churchyard near Odessa.
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in his boyhood days in St. George's hundred where he lived. He worked for his father on the farm and afterward obtained a position as clerk in a Philadelphia store. He remained a short time in the city and returned home to enter the store of William Gordon (known as Captain Gordon) of Port Penn, where he was for several years a clerk. During the war of 1812 he was a non-commissioned officer but did not take part in any engagements. When yet a young man he came to Odessa and there learned blacksmithing, obtaining, after a few years, a position at his trade on the Chesa- peake and Delaware Canal. Later he went back to Odessa and continued blacksmithing there until 1842, when he rented a farm in St. George's hundred and gave the last twenty- five years of his life to the management of it. He died in 1867 and was buried in Drawyer church graveyard. He was a Whig in the days of that party's existence and afterward a faithful Republican. Although never an office-seeker, he was elected assessor of St. George's hundred and, also, constable. He was known by everybody as a man of the ut- most honesty of character and purpose, who was never lacking in good deeds to his neigh- bors. John Aspril married, first Letitia Tit- termary (born in Philadelphia); they had one child, David. Mrs. Aspril died and was buried in Drawyer church graveyard. John Aspril's second wife was Ann, daughter of Leonard K. Vandegrift, of near Port Penn. Mr. Vandegrift was born in Holland. By his second marriage John Aspril had chil- dren: I. Leonard V .; II. Mary (Mrs. Wil- liam A. Baker), of Baltimore, Md .; III. John A., of Wilmington; IV. Joseph, died in youth; V. Letitia, died in youth; VI. Ann Eliza, deceased, and VII. Hester Lena, twins, the former was the wife of George Vande- grift ; VIII. Charles, of Crisfield, Md. Mrs. Aspril died in 1886 and was buried in the family lot in the Drawyer church graveyard. John Aspril was a member of and elder for thirty years in Drawyer church. Hc was an active and exemplary Christian man.
Leonard V. Aspril, Sr., attended the dis- triet schools of Odessa and at an early age became an assistant to his father in his black- smith shop. Upon his father's retirement he continued the business there. In 1846 he purchased the building. In 1856 a fire de- stroyed the property. Mr. Aspril imme-
diately replaced it with a fine structure and began the manufacture and sale of agricultur- al implements, wagons, etc. In 1876 he took his son, Leonard V., Jr., into the firm and the business has since been carried on very successfully under the firm name of L. V. Aspril & Son. A large carriage trade especially has been built up throughout the county. Mr. Aspril is a stockholder of the Odessa Building and Loan Association and of the Odessa creamery. Ile is an out-spoken supporter of the Republican party, into which he gravitated from the Whig element. The Prohibitionists nominated him once for the Legislature but he was defeated. Mr. Aspril has served as a member of the town Council. He is a consistent advocate of temperance, be- ing temperate in all his habits, and never drank a glass of whiskey in a saloon nor smoked a cigar.
In October, 1843, Leonard V. Aspril mar- ried Mary, daughter of Andrew MeMurphey, of Scotch-Irish descent. Mrs. Aspril was born in Appoquinimink hundred, New Castle county. They had four children: I. John Alpheus, and II. L. Eugene Moore, twins, born August 11, 1845, both died in infancy; III. David Clarence, born 1848, died June 22, 1870; IV. Leonard V., Jr., born March 11, 1850. Mrs. Aspril died August 24, 1879. Mr. Aspril became a member of the M. E. church of Odessa in 1841, and has been one of its most helpful members, both by precept and by deeds. He has been a class-leader, Sabbath school teacher, superin- tendent of the school, and trustee and treas- urer of the church. A man of much force of character his name is a symbol of the hon- orable business man and the true Christian gentleman.
Leonard V. Aspril, Jr., was educated in the schools of Odessa and at Dickinson Col- lege, Carlisle, Penn'a. After completing his education he began business with his father and in 1876 was admitted to partnership. He is a member of the School Board of Odessa, secretary of the Odessa Building and Loan Association, and member of the I. O. H. Mr. Aspril is a Republican. A man of excellent moral character and a genial associate, he is highly popular in his home. On October 23, 1879, L.conard V. Aspril, Jr., was mar- ried to Lydia, daughter of Jonathan K. Williams, of St. George's hundred. They
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have five children: I. Jonathan W., born September 12, 1881, died July 29, 1897; IL. D. Clarence, born December 12, 1852; III. Frances, born February 3, 1886; IV. Mary, born October 12, 1889; V. Elizabeth W., born September 4, 1894, died May 31, 1896. The family attend the M. E. church.
LÉONARD G. VANDEGRIFT, Jr., P. O. MeDonough, Del., son of the late Leonard G. and Hester E. (Dilworth) Vandegrift, was born at Reedy Island Neck, St. George's hun- dred, New Castle county, Del., October 10, 1848.
Ile attended the public schools in St. George's hundred and was afterward for three terms a student in Brainard Institute at Cranbury, Middlesex county, N. J. Return- ing to his home he remained with his father on the farm until 1872, when he leased a tract of seventy-five acres from his father and began farming on his own account. In 1876 he purchased the old Higgins farm of 197 acres and on this he still resides. He improved it greatly and engaged extensively in grain raising. In 1893 Mr. Vandegrift established a creamery on his farm at MeDonough and has built up an extensive business. He keeps on his farm a herd of thirty-two cattle to help supply his creamery with milk and cream and he pays out to the farmers of the vi- cinity more than $10,000 per year for the product of their dairies, He ships his butter to the Philadelphia and Wilmington markets.
Mr. Vandegrift is a stanch Democrat and always active in his party's interests. He was a road commissioner in St. George's hundred for one term and a school commissioner for several years. He is a man of great industry and very progressive, while all his dealings are conducted in the.most honorable manner. Ilis creamery and the large amounts he pays out cach year are a great boon to the farmers in the vicinity of MeDonough.
Leonard G. Vandegrift was married, May 9, 1872, at Odessa, to Sarah Lockwood, daughter of James Bayard Alrichs and Rachel B. (Diehl) Alrichs, well-known and highly esteemed residents of St. George's hundred. Mrs. Vandegrift was born near Port Penn, Del. Mr. and Mrs. Vandegrift had children: I. Dilworth, educated in pub- lic schools of St. George's hundred and at Middletown academy, where he was gradu-
ated, is now manager and superintendent of his father's creamery at MeDonough; II. Agnes A., at home; III. Mary E., died in youth; IV. Bayard Alrichs, at school. Mr. Vandegrift and his family attend the Draw- yer Presbyterian church. Lewis C. Vande- grift, attorney-at-law, of Wilmington Del., is a brother of Leonard G. Vandegrift.
JOSEPHI ALDERMAN LORD, deceased, son of James Lord, was born in Port Penn, St. George's hundred, New Castle county, Del., in 1812.
IIis father was a well known captain and stock-owner on the Delaware river. Joseph A. Lord attended the district schools of Port Penn and Odessa. When he was eleven years of age his father died. He then learned tailor- ing in Odessa but did not work at it. Having had a fondness for pomology, he determined to devote himelf to its practical study. In consequence of this purpose he established a nursery in Odessa and until his death was busily and profitably engaged in the cultiva- tion of small fruits, acquiring a deserved repu- tation throughout the state for his compre- hensive knowledge and success as a nursery- man. As a result of his active industry he became the owner of two farms in Blackbird hundred. Mr. Lord was popular and was elected to a number of local offices as a can- didate on the Democratic ticket.
Joseph Alderman Lord married Ann Eliza Derickson, who was born in Odessa. They had children: I. Virginia, of Odessa; II. Cordelia (Mrs. Colen Ferguson) of Appo- quinimink hundred; III. Albert, died when young; IV. Alphonso, of Odessa; V. Clara (Mrs. James K. Roberts) of Odessa; VI. Adelia (Mrs. E. T. Davis), deceased; VII. Theodore, deceased; VIII. Victor, killed in a phosphate factory in 1891; IX. Ellen, de- ceased; X. Anna, single, of Philadelphia; XI. Emma, of Reedy Island Neck, St. George's hundred; XII. Josephine, deceased. Mr. Lord died at Odessa, November 22, 1875; his widow died at Reedy Island Neck, October 4, 1897; both were buried in Draw- ver's churchyard. The members of Mr. Lord's family have always attended the M. E. church.
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Buehm, was born in MeDonough, New Cas- tle county, Del., July 28, 1859.
Ifis father was born in Wurtemburg, Ger- many, June 28, 1824. He received there the liberal education that is provided as a matter of course by all well-to-do German parents. Ilis studies completed he fell under the pro- visions of that German law which seeks to make of the emperor's subjects soldiers as well as scholars, and he was compelled to serve six years in the army. Upon the ex- piration of his term of service he acquired the trade of a wheelwright at his home and worked for four years as a journeyman in his native state. Then the longing to see America came upon him and he sailed, in 1855, for New York city. From that metropolis he went north to Albany and there obtained em- ployment at his trade. A year afterward he removed to Delaware and settled in MeDonough. For one year he worked for a Mr. Baker and in 1858 began business on his own account, erecting and thoroughly fitting up a workshop. He was a capable workman and in a short time had secured for his wheel- wright establishment an extensive patronage. He conducted this business for thirty-four years. During this time he had made many improvements to his property and in 1864 rebuilt his house. He was a well-read man and a close student. Mindful of his early educational advantages, he saw to it that all his children had opportunities of as much value. He was a master of the English lan- guage and kept abreast with the literature of the day. Mr. Buehm was a Democrat and held the office of school commissioner in St. George's hundred.
William Buehm married, in Delaware City, Del., on July 20, 1858, Catharine Droll, who was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, and came to this country when twelve years old. Their children were: I. Edward M .; II. John, wheelwright, of Chesapeake City, Md .; III. William, died when young; IV. Magdalene (Mrs. J. Carl Aker), of Dela- ware City, Del .; V. Almira, died when young; VI. Catharine, single; VII. George, at home; VIII. Caroline (Mrs. James T. Padley), of MeDonough; IX. William J .; X. May Louise, died in infancy; XI. Mary B., single; XII. Amelia, at school. Mr. Buchm died in Me- Donough, November 30, 1892, and was buried in the Catholic cemetery of Delaware
City. Mrs. Buehm is still living and makes her home with Edward M. Buehm in Me- Donough.
Edward M. Buehm was sent, first, to the public schools of MeDonough and then to a select school in Philadelphia. At an early ago he learned the trade of blacksmith in his father's shops and has continued there to the present. Ile is a skilled iron-worker. He has added to the educational training he re- ceived in school by diligent home study and is a careful reader and deep thinker. Es- pecially has he given attention to scientific problems and keeps pace with all the discov- eries in that wonderful world of exploration. He is a member of Perseverance Lodge, No. 17, Jr. O. U. A. M. of St. George's, and was formerly connected with the I. O. O. F. He is a Democrat but not an office seeker. He is unmarried.
William J. Buehm, ninth child of William Buehm, was born in MeDonough, February 19, 1878. He pursued the customary course in the public schools of the time and is now fitting himself for the profession of a teacher. IIe is a good scholar, a close student and a poet whose rhymes have found much favor with critics. He is a young man of exemplary character, of lively disposition and highly popular. He is a member of the Middletown Y. M. C. A.
JOHN W. VOSIIELL, P. O. MeDonough, Del., son of John D. and Mary J. (Hubbard) Voshell, was born in West Dover hundred, Kent county, Del., November 12, 1850.
His ancestors on the paternal side were of French extraction and were among the earli- est settlers of Delaware. In the first part of the eighteenth century three Voshell brothers, Daniel, James and William, left France and came to America. They chose Kent county, Del., as their home and took up land there. Daniel elected to live in West Dover hundred, James began farming the tract on which the Kent county almshouse is now located and William went to Jones' Neck. They all fol- lowed farming and became extensive land owners. Daniel was the great-grandfather of John W. Voshell. He was a well-known citi- zen of the county. He married in Kent county and had several children, Daniel, 2, being one of his sons. He died on his farm
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and was buried there. IIe and his family were members of the M. E. church.
Daniel Voshell, 2, grandfather of John W. Voshell, was born on the homestead in West Dover. He labored on the farm when a youth and afterward learned milling. These two occupations, those of miller and farmer, he combined during his after years. He con- tinued his residence in West Dover until his death. He was a Democrat who believed sin- cerely in the party principles enunciated by Jefferson and was a vigilant promoter of his party's interests. He never sought nor held any office in his county or state. He married a Miss Delaney, a native of Ireland. Their children were: I. John D .; II. William; III. Daniel, 3; IV. Ann (Mrs. Samuel Carter); V. Rebecca (Mrs. John Kirsey); VI. Eliza- beth (Mrs. Charles White.) Other children born to Mr. and Mrs. Voshell died when young. Mr. Voshell died on his farm in 1824; his widow died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. White; both were buried in the family plot on the Voshell homestead. Mr. and Mrs. Voshell and their family were members of the M. E. church.
John D. Voshell, father of John W. Vosh- ell, was born on the homestead farm, June 16, 1816. He received a good education in the district schools of his neighborhood and as a boy learned milling from his father. He, how- ever, preferred the cultivation of the soil, and the greater part of his life was devoted to that occupation. He purchased the homestead farm and was the first to introduce peach culture on that tract. He made close study of all the conditions necessary to the profita- ble growing of his fruit and his orchards yielded him large returns. Mr. Voshell en- joyed in an unusual degree the esteem of his fellows. He was a man of honor in all his dealings and a popular, useful citizen. Ile was an uncompromising Democrat, a good adviser in party councils and an effective worker in the ranks, but never sought and would not accept an office. John D. Voshell married Mary J., daughter of Newton and Mary J. (Todd) Hubbard. She was born in Caroline county, Md. Her father was a well- known farmer of Kent county, of English de- scent. Mr. and Mrs. Voshell had chil- dren: I. Frank, farmer of Kent county; II. Elizabeth (Mrs. John Bowdell) of Kent con- ty; III. Rebecca (Mrs. --- Dodd) of Kent
county, a widow; IV. Emily (Mrs. Wesley Dill), of Wyoming, Del., a widow; V. John W .; VI. Margaret (Mrs. William F. Adams), of Philadelphia; VII. Daniel, died at age of nineteen; VIII. Charles T., of Wilmington; IX. Louisa (Mrs. George B. Reynolds), of Wyoming, Del .; X. Virginia, died when young. Mrs. Voshell died on the homestead in 1887 and was buried there. Mr. Voshell married, as his second wife, Anna, widow of Obadiah Voshell. He died on the homestead August 3, 1896, and was buried in the family graveyard. Mrs. Voshell resides in Kent county. All the members of Mr. Voshell's family have been active in the mem- bership of the M. E. church.
John W. Voshell attended the district schools of West Dover hundred. Until he was twenty-two years old he remained on the homestead farm with his father, when he left the paternal roof and began farming on his own account. He occupied a number of farms for various periods, his grandfather Hubbard's farm, 160 acres, for one year; the Howell farm, 100 acres, near Camden, Kent county, where he raised grain and fruits, one year; the Cooper farm, Kent county, one year; the Herlock farm, Kent county, Md., three years; the Z. Seenick farin, Kent coun- ty, Del., one year; the Lamb farm, one year; the Stockley farm, Blackbird hundred, New Castle county, three years; the Hayes farm, Appoquinimink hundred, two years; the Wat- kins farm, Blackbird hundred, four years; the IToffecker farm, St. George's hun- dred, three years; the George II. Houston farm, near Mt. Pleasant, St. George's hun- dred, four years; the Cochran farm, 416 acres, on which he resided from 1897 until recently. On this large Cochran farm he has 35 head of cattle, 22 head of horses and other live stock in proportion. In 1896 Mr. Voshell pur- chased the Higgins farm of 164 acres near MeDonough. This also he cultivates, and has very recently made it his home. The magnitude of his farming operations will con- vey the idea of Mr. Voshell's good judgment
and industry. His neighbors respect him and have confidence in him; this has been demon- strated by his election on the Democratic ticket to the office of school commissioner in Appoquinimink and St. George's hundreds, and to that of road commissioner, in 1595. Ile is a member of National Lodge, No. 32,
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On December 24, 1873, in West Dover hundred, John W. Voshell married Margaret Johnson, daughter of William and Margaret (Steele) Johnson, who was born near Camden, Kent county, Del. Her father is a farmer of Scotch descent. Mr. and Mrs. Voshell have two children: I. Irrilla ( Mrs. Ellwood Cleaver); II. Clarence, at home. Mr. Vosh- ell is a member of the M. E. church and has been a Sabbath school teacher.
RICHARD L. GRAY, P. O. Mount Pleasant, New Castle county, Del., son of James and Elizabeth (Sorden) Gray, was born in New Castle hundred, New Castle county, Del., October 26, 1836.
Ilis father was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1786. There he was educated and labored on a farm until he was a young man. The country was thiekly settled, the farms were small and the opportunities for acquiring a competence from agricultural pursuits were not enticing to an active and ambitious man. America promised much better reward for in- telligent labor and Mr. Gray sailed across the Atlantic ocean early in the nineteenth cen- tury and landed in Philadelphia. After spending a short time in the "Quaker City" he went to Delaware and secured employment as a farm laborer in New Castle county. He economized his earnings, and in a few years was able to lease and stock a farm in New Castle hundred. There he remained five years and then removed to the Johns farm on the State road in the same hundred. For thirty-six years he cultivated this tract and raised stock on it. Afterward he went to Pen- cader hundred and leased a farm there, on which he lived until he retired from active work, when he moved to Red Lion hundred and made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Charles Deputy. His first political affilia- tions were with the Whigs but in his later life he was a follower of the party of Jefferson and Jackson. James Gray was married, in New Castle hundred, to Elizabeth Sorden. She was born in England in 1794 and came to this country on the vessel in which Mr. Gray sailed. They had children: I. William, de- ceased; II. James, deceased; III. Isabelle (Mrs Charles Deputy), deceased; IV. Francis, of St. George's hundred; V. Mary Ann (Mrs.
Solomon Deputy), of Pencader hundred; VI. Elizabeth, deceased; VII. Richard L .; VIII. Ilenry, of Kent county, Md .; IX. Montgom- ery, of Red Lion hundred. Mr. Gray died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Solomon Deputy, Red Lion hundred, in 1868; his wife died in 1865; both were buried in the M. E. church graveyard in Red Lion hundred. All the members of their family were connected with the M. E. church.
Richard L. Gray did not enjoy the advan- tages of a liberal education. He attended the common schools of New Castle hundred and they had not then reached the high standard afterward attained. But he obtained the rudi- ments of an education and in after years made good use of them as a founda- tion for a comprehensive course of home read- ing and study. Ile remained on the farm with his father until he was twenty-two years old and then left his home to make a new one for himself by his own exertions. He worked for his brother in St. George's hundred, as a farm laborer, at wages of $10 per month, for one year, and then leased the Townsend farm in Pencader hundred. Two years later he re- moved to the Gemmenson farm in Red Lion hundred and spent ten years there, in grain and stock raising. In 1872 he crossed the state line into Cecil county, Md., and settled on the Dickey farm. He remained there thirteen years and then returned to St. George's hundred, to the farm owned by his former landlord. For the past thirteen years he has supervised the cultivation of 800 acres of land, 400 in St. George's hundred and 400 in Cecil county, Md. A large part of this land is devoted to stock raising, Mr. Gray keeping more than 70 head of cattle, many sheep, horses, etc. He is a busy man and prac- tical farmer, and his ventures are all suc- cessful. As a man he is very companionable, well informed on all publie questions of the day and a good friend. He is a school com- missioner in Distriet 58, of St. George's hun- dred. Mr. Gray is a Democrat of strong con- vietions and always ready to aid his party in its campaigns.
Richard L. Gray was married, in Red Lion hundred, January 31, 1860, to Esther, daugh- ter of Samuel and Sarah (Hillem) Boggs. Mrs. Gray was born in Red Lion hundred. Her father is a well-known farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Gray have children: 1. Ella, at home;
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