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SPENCER I. CLEAVELAND, miller, born May 10, 1823, in Onondaga County, N. Y., is the son of Asaph and Polly (Hawks) Cleaveland, who had a family of seven children. Asaph Cleaveland was born October 26, 1785, in Connecticut, and his wife August 23, 1787, in Massachusetts. The former served in the war of 1812, and followed farming throughout life. In 1838, he came to this county, settling in Greenfield Township, and removed to Steuben County, Ind., in 1840, where he died in January, 1847. Mrs. Polly Cleave- land was a Presbyterian ; died in April, 1846. Spencer Cleaveland received a fair education, and in 1840 went to Ontario County, N. Y .; was employed in farm work six years, then came to Steuben County, Ind., and bought eighty acres of land. He was married in New York August 29, 1847, to Miss Pau- lowna L. Wilmarth, whose birth occurred August 11, 1823, in Victor, Ontario Co., N. Y. Her parents were Otis and Sophronia (Boughton) Wilmarth, natives of New Jersey, the former born December 8, 1792, and the latter
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October 11, 1795. In 1853, Mr. Cleaveland came to this county and bought a farm of 120 acres, which he sold in 1854, and returned to Steuben County, and purchased 100 more acres there. In 1857, he bought a flouring-mill near there, which he operated until November, 1858, when it was destroyed by fire. Mr. Cleaveland exchanged his farm, in 1861, for the one upon which he now lives in this township. He was a member of the Regulator organization ; is a stanch Republican, and was elected Township Assessor and Real Estate Ap- praiser in 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Cleaveland have only one son living-Llewel- lyn S., who is a resident of Denver, Colo.
SAMUEL CLINE is a native of Richland County, Ohio, and next to the youngest of nine children born to William and Ellen (Gibbeney) Cline- the father a native of Pennsylvania, and the mother of Ohio. They died in this township, where they came in 1854, and purchased 320 acres of land ; his death occurred in 1871, and hers in September, 1881. December 22, 1858, Samuel Cline and Mary A. Olmstead were married, and the following two years he was engaged in farming for his father on shares. In the spring of 1861, he bought eighty acres of land in this township, where he lived four years, then bought the farm of eighty acres where he is living. Mrs. Cline is a native of this county, born February 9, 1843. Mr. Cline's birth occurred on the 4th of March, 1836. They have had five children-Calvin W., Harvey O., William, who died March 9, 1868, Perley M. and Mary E. Mr. Cline is an enterprising farmer and stock-dealer. Mrs. Cline is the daughter of Har- vey and Mary A. (Gage) Olmstead.
WILLIAM A. CLINE was born in Richland County, Ohio, August 8, 1830; is the son of William and Ellen (Gibney) Cline. His father was born in 1794, in Huntingdon County, Penn. ; was married in Richland County, Ohio, where he purchased a farm of 237 acres, improved the same and in June, 1854, emigrated to Indiana. In this township he bought 320 acres of land, and resided until his death, October 2, 1871. Mrs. Ellen Cline, a native of Washington County, Penn., was born July 22, 1799, and died August 26, 1881. William Cline, the subject, spent his youth at the home of his parents, and four years after attaining his majority farmed the old homestead on shares. January 14, 1856, he was united in marriage to Mary E. Spears, and the same year bought 80 acres of his present property, which now consists of 255 acres of land, under good cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Cline have four children living, Mary J., Frank B., Nellie E. and Rachael L. Mrs. Cline is the daughter of Tunice and Mary J. (Scoville) Spears, and was born in Springfield Township, this county, January 17, 1840. Her father's birth occurred in May, 1810, in Pennsylvania, and her mother's in Connecticut, in 1820. Mr. Cline is a sub- stantial, Republican citizen.
JOSEPH W. CONNELLY was born in Ohio April 13, 1833. His father, Thomas Connelly, was born in Maryland and his mother, Sevilla Connelly, in Virginia. Since 1835, Joseph W. Connelly has lived in this county, with the exception of one year passed in Iowa. His schooling, there- fore, was acquired in this county, and when twenty years old began life for himself. October 18, 1854, he was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Gage, a native of La Grange, Ind. Her parents, Jacob and Anna Gage, were natives respectively of Vermont and Pennsylvania ; the former is a farmer and resides in Van Buren Township, this county ; the latter died in this county in August, 1871. Mr. Connelly first rented a farm, then went to Iowa and pur- chased 53 acres of land. Returning the next year he bought his present farm
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of 80 acres, and has cleared most of that which is now under cultivation. Mr. Connelly keeps the usual amount of stock on his farm and is a good citi- zen. He and wife belong to the M. E. Church and are parents of ten children-John B., Martha S., Joseph A., Mary R. (deceased), Thomas B., Hiram J., Sevilla A., Orpheus J., Orphy M. and Charles F.
JAMES D. CRANDELL, one of the pioneers of La Grange County, was born in Monroe County, N. Y., September 1, 1822. He is one of ten children born to Ivory and Hopey (Winslow) Crandall. The former, a native of Rhode Island, was a carpenter by trade, and a soldier in the war of 1812. The latter was born in Washington County, N. Y. In 1836, they removed from Monroe County, N. Y., to this township, where Mr. Crandall bought land and the same year laid out the town of Bloomfield, now known as Hill's Cor- ners. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Grannis, in Steuben County, Ind., March 4, 1872. When eighteen years old, James Crandall learned the cooper's trade, and in 1841 bought 40 acres of land in this towhship ; followed his trade one and one-half years at Union Mills, this county, and in 1843, bought 90 acres of his present farm of 156 acres, where he built a shop and has since lived, engaged at his trade and farming. October 5, 1851, he mar- ried Susan A. Faulkner, and to them five children have been born-Erin M., now Mrs. J. L. Chapman, Emeline A., Francis U., now Mrs. D. O. Chap- man, William S. and Frank H. Mrs. Crandall was born in Talbot County, Md., July 6, 1831. Her parents, William P. and Nancy (Pierson) Faulkner were natives of the same State, and parents of five children. Mr. Crandall is a leading Republican citizen.
JAMES A. DUNTEN is the son of Thomas and Margaret (Mattoon) Dunten of Vermont. Thomas Dunten was a pioneer of Allen County, Ind., where he entered land in 1833, built a cabin and commenced clearing. They had a family of seven children, and he was in the war of 1812, participating in the battle of Sackett's Harbor. James Dunten was born in Jefferson County, N. Y., November 25, 1819, and was married July 12, 1846, to Miss Cynthia J. Carr, a native of Genesee County, N. Y., and daughter of Nathan and Lydia (Foster) Carr. For a number of years, he was engaged in running a hotel, the " Mansion House," on East Columbia Street, Fort Wayne. in which enterprise he first engaged when about twenty-four years old, in partnership with his brother, F. H. Dunten. After living on a farm in Perry Township, Allen County, Ind., until the spring of 1855, the subject, with his family, took an overland route for California, going thither to benefit the health of his wife. They remained in California until the winter of 1856, and while there Mr. Dunten engaged in the hotel business at Diamond Springs, also made money by speculating in some mines in Sugar Loaf Mountain. He returned to Allen County via Panama, New York and Fort Wayne. After buying and selling farms in Allen and Steuben Counties, Mr. Dunten located on his farm in this township in 1869. Mrs. Dunten died March 11, 1857, and left two children- Mary J., now Mrs. Beech, and Hattie C. His second wife, to whom he was married April 8, 1858, was Margaret Bell, the daughter of James and Marga- ret (Gray) Bell, natives of Massachusetts, and pioneers of De Kalb County, Ind. Mr. Dunten and wife have three children-Ida, Lola M. and Alice.
WILLIAM FISH, one of the oldest pioneers of La Grange County, was born in Madison County, N. Y., January 13, 1810, one of eight children born to Ebenezer and Hannah (Goodrich) Fish, natives of Connecticut and Massa- chusetts respectively. Ebenezer Fish served in the war of 1812 and was in
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the battle at Fort Erie, Canada. In 1830, he came to this county and settled on eighty acres of land on Pretty Prairie, in Greenfield Township. In 1844 or 1845, he came to the home of his daughter, Pedee Forker, where he died in December, 1863. Mrs. Hannah Fish died in January, 1861. Both were members of the Christian Church. William Fish had poor school advantages. In 1826, he went to Michigan, and in 1830 came to Greenfield Township, this county, and staked a claim for eighty acres of land, receiving a patent deed for the same signed by Gen. Jackson. In 1843, he sold this farm and forty acres he had purchased adjoining and went to Iowa, but soon returned and bought a farm in this township, which he traded, in 1851, for one in Branch County, Mich., which he sold the following year and resumed farming in this township, where he has lived since, with the exception of three years that he rented his farm and resided in La Grange. Mr. Fish was an active Regulator, and assisted in opening the wagon road from Lima to Fort Wayne by following an Indian trail. Mr. Fish's first wife died in February, 1846. She was a Miss Mary Leper, a native of Ohio and the daughter of James and Kesiah (Carter) Leper, the former born in Tennessee and the latter in Ohio. She was married to the subject November 28, 1833, and of five children born to them four are living, viz .: Hezekiah, Anna M. (now Mrs. Elliott), Isaiah and Mary J. (now Mrs. Harding). Mr. Fish was again married, in 1846, to Mrs. Margaret Wade, a native of Pennsylvania. Her parents were John and Sarah E. (Johnson) Hanes, natives of Pennsylvania and Canada respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Fish have had five children, three of whom are living-George M., Hannah M. (now Mrs. Orrin Gage) and William R.
JAMES H. GAGE is the son of Abram and Julia A. (Holley) Gage, who were natives respectively of Pennsylvania and New York and parents of five children. Abram Gage was one of the early pioneers of Springfield Township, this county, where the subject was born February 10, 1839. He received the common school advantages, and at the age of twenty began work- ing for $10 per month; afterward farmed on shares until 1863, at which time he invested in fifty-six acres of unimproved land in this township. By perse- vering labor he has acquired a farm well cultivated, consisting of 139 acres, and has become one of the valued citizens. October 1, 1863, he was married to Martha Foster, who was born in Ashland County, Ohio, November 13, 1847. Her parents, John H. and Mary (Weible) Foster, were natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Gage have united with the Evangelical denomination. He is a Republican. They have seven children-John A., George A., Mary E., Will- iam W., Martha A., Sarah R. and Harvey S.
WILLIAM GARDNER is a native of Ontario County, N. Y., and the only child of John and Betsey (Billings) Gardner. The former was born in Pennsylvania, was a member of the Quaker Society and a fisherman by occu- pation, casting his nets along the Atlantic coast. He died in 1826, and his wife, who was a native of New York, died in Michigan in 1855. William Gardner was born October 27, 1825, received a common education, and at the age of seventeen learned the cooper's trade, that he has followed most of the time since. About one-half the coopering in this county was done by him. In 1846, he moved to Centerville, St. Joseph's Co., Mich., pursuing his trade there until he came to this township and located in 1856. In 1859, he removed to Ontario, where Mrs. Sarah Gardner died March 27, 1860. She was born in New York August 11, 1827, and was one of five children born to Elihu and Adeline (Utter) Cross, natives also of New York. She was
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married to Mr. Gardner February 15, 1849, and bore him three children- Eugene W., Charles F. and Adeline. Mr. Gardner was married to his present wife-Mrs. Adelaide Meek-December 23, 1860. She was one of ten in the family of Simon and Mary (Gore) Cookingham, and was born January 15, 1830, in Dutchess County, N. Y. Her father was born in the same place and her mother was a native of New London, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner belong to the Congregational Church. He is a Democrat and an enterprising farmer and mechanic. Mrs. Gardner had one child by her first marriage, viz., Charles W. Meek.
CURTIS HARDING was born in Pennsylvania September 4, 1798, and, when small, moved, with his parents, to the State of New York, where he was married, in Wayne County, to Miss Amy Cowan. In 1835, they emigrated to this township, entered and settled on the farm where Mrs. Harding is now living. By the assistance of his sons, Curtis Harding cleared the land and made many improvements. He died at his home February 10, 1864. He belonged to the Regular Baptist Church, of which Mrs. Harding is a member. They had seven children born to them, four of whom are yet living. Three sons-William, Daniel and Bishop-live with their mother and manage the homestead farm, which includes 139 acres of good land. They are all unmarried and are among the oldest citizens of the township, well known and respected. William Harding is a native of Ontario County, N. Y., and Daniel Harding was born in this township on the 15th of May, 1840.
WILLIAM C. HEALEY is one of eight children, now living, born to William and Jane (Hubbard) Healey, natives of England. William Healey and family emigrated to the United States in 1852, and came to Indiana and bought land in Lima Township, which he sold in 1861 and moved to Johnson Township, this county, where he purchased a farm and yet resides. William C. Healey was born in Lima Township, this county, June 13, 1852, received a common education and remained with his parents until sixteen, when he engaged in working out by the month. After five years, he returned and spent one year at home, then bought fifty acres in Johnson Township, that he exchanged, in 1880, for his present farm. He married Cordelia Hossinger in 1874, November 17, and they have four children-Adrian C., Almon R., Cora B. and an infant. Mrs. Healey is a native of this county, born May 3, 1856, and the daughter of Anthony and Mary M. (Groh) Hossinger, natives respect- ively of Pennsylvania and Germany and parents of seven children. Mr. and Mrs. Healey are members of the Lutheran Church. He is a Republican and one of the prosperous young farmers of Bloomfield Township.
EBENEZER HILL is a native of Rensselaer County, N. Y., as were also his parents, Aaron and Pamelia (Winston) Hill. In May, 1809, Aaron Hill removed to Monroe County, N. Y .; thence in 1840 to this county. In 1867, he moved to Iowa, where Mrs. Hill died October 20, 1868, and Aaron Hill February 5, 1870. The latter was a soldier in the war of 1812. Eben- zer Hill was born February 25, 1809, and spent his youth on the home farm and boating on the New York & Erie Canal. In 1842, he went to Oakland County, Mich., where he was engaged in farming about ten years; then came to this county, purchased and lived on a farm in Johnson Township until 1876, when he located in this township. Mr. Hill served actively as a Regulator in this and Noble County. In Michigan, he was Township Treasurer two years, and has twice been elected Justice of the Peace. He was first married, Janu- ary 8, 1827, to Hannah M. Barber, a native of New York. They had nine
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children-Andrew J .; Phoebe E., now Mrs. Barber; Benjamin B .; Mary M., now Mrs. Hall; Melvin E .; Joseph D .; John C .; Sarah J., now Mrs. Welch, and Julia A., now Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Hill's death occurred April 6, 1875; her parents were Benjamin and Hannah (Morse) Barber, natives respectively of New York and Massachusetts. Mr. Hill's second and present wife was born in New York February 28, 1820; her maiden name was Almira Crandell, and the subject is her fourth husband. They were married in August, 1877; she was married first to Newell Hill, a native of New York, and by him has left one child, Edwin W. By her second marriage, to Stephen Harris, a native of Ohio, she had a daughter, Augusta, now Mrs. Maxwell. Her third husband was Ephraim Jenning, a native of New York.
JACOB HOAGLAND, JR., the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Veghte) Hoagland, was born in Steuben County, N. Y., August 20, 1817. His parents had twelve children, and were both natives of Somerset County, N. J., the former born in 1773, and the latter in 1778. The subject was married Feb- ruary 16, 1836, to Sarah Sherman, and, in April of the same year, came West to Michigan and Indiana with his father. They bought 200 acres of land in this township, on a portion of which the subject now resides, and during the summer were engaged in clearing and bringing settlers here, the tide of immi- gration having set in from Detroit. In August, they went back to New York, returning with their families the same fall, coming by steamer from Buffalo to Detroit, thence overland to their home in this township, where the two families lived together. Jacob Hoagland, Sr., died in 1848, and Mrs. Hoagland in 1858; both belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Jacob Hoagland, Jr., was the first mail contractor in the county, starting in 1851, the first line of stages from Sturgis, Mich., to La Grange, and also carrying mail between these two points. He afterward sold out and bought a half-interest in the Sturgis & Fort Wayne Stage Line, running as far as Kendallville, and traveling over the old Fort Wayne & Lima road. Mr. Hoagland was the first Consta- ble elected in this township, and served several years as Vice President of the La Grange County Agricultural Society ; he owns a fine farm of 160 acres, and him- self and wife are parents of eight children, four living-Charles E., Plympton A., Elizabeth P. (now Mrs. Price), and Rhoda R. Mrs. Hoagland was born April 11, 1817, in Oneida County, N. Y. ; her parents were Enoch and Rhoda (Douglass, Grant) Sherman, natives of Rhode Island and Scotland respectively.
HEZEKIAH HOARD is the eldest of ten in the family of Hezekiah and Lodema (Babcock) Hoard, natives of New York. The elder Hoard was a sol- dier in the war of 1812; he moved to Geauga County, Ohio, in 1832, thence to this county in the fall of 1835, where he died at the home of the subject in December, 1869, his wife having died three years before at the same place. The subject was born in Stephentown, N. Y., March 14, 1807 ; he removed to Geauga County, Ohio, where he bought a farm, sold it in 1835, and came to Lima Township, this county, where he farmed on shares until 1838, when he came to this township and invested in eighty acres of unimproved land; he yet lives on this farm, having added sixty acres more and largely improved it. Mr. Hoard was married January 1, 1832, to Rhoda Ingraham, a native of New York; she died November 9, 1838. Of two children born to them, one (My- ron) is yet living. February 28, 1841, Mr. Hoard was married to Miss Ann Wilcox, who was born December 19, 1814, and is one of four children born to William and Nancy (Cain) Wilcox, natives of Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Hoard are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and have had six chil-
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dren, three of whom are living-Mary, now Mrs. Randolph; William and George.
ISAAC HOGMIRE is the son of Samuel and Catherine (Raum) Hog- mire, natives of Washington County, Md., in which place Isaac was born on the 5th of April, 1812. He was educated at the common schools, and at the age of eighteen learned carpentering, which occupation he has since been en- gaged in, although not exclusively. He went to Richland County, Ohio, in 1837, and the following year, on the 12th of October, was united in marriage to Miss Sophia Ernsberger. They came to this county in 1853, where he bought and improved 80 acres of land in this township, removing in 1879 to his present improved farm of 120 acres. Mr. Hogmire continued to work at his trade after coming here, and has worked on some of the best buildings in the county. The first warehouse in the town of La Grange was built by him, and he assisted also in building the first storeroom there. Mrs. Hogmire is one of eleven children in the family of Michael and Phoebe (Poffenbarger) Ernsberger, and is of the same nativity as her husband, born April 6, 1815. They have had born to them six children; one died in infancy, and Henry in his thirty- fifth year, April 27, 1881; the others are all living-Mary A., now Mrs. Frank Rife ; Martin ; Sarah C., now Mrs. Carp, and Samuel.
HIRAM JACOBS, the son of Andrew and Sarah (Wing) Jacobs, was born in Ohio March 4, 1824. When thirteen years old, he came to this county, where he lived with a brother-in-law, from whom he received $100 for his serv- ices till he became of age. He then bought forty acres of unimproved land, has since made other purchases, and now owns a fine farm of 130 acres. October 18, 1854, he was married in La Grange to Miss Martha M. Connelly, the daughter of Thomas and Sevilla (Groves) Connelly, who were natives re- spectively of Maryland and Virginia, and came to this county in 1835, where they afterward died. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs settled on their present farm in December, 1854; they have one child, a daughter, Grace. Mrs. Jacobs united with the Methodist Episcopal Church when a little girl, and is yet a member. In addition to agriculture, Mr. Jacobs, since 1875, has devoted considerable attention to stock-raising, and ships large quantities. He feeds annually about one hundred head of sheep, fifteen to twenty head of cattle, and thirty to forty hogs.
WILLIAM JACOBS is a Canadian by birth, and one of eight in the family of Andrew and Sarah (Wing) Jacobs, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Pittsfield, Mass. Andrew Jacobs was a pioneer of Lucas County, Ohio, settling in 1817 in what is now a part of Toledo. The Indians became very troublesome, and on this account he removed to Canada in the spring of 1819, and William was born August 5 of that year. In 1820, they returned to Lucas County, and there Mrs. Sarah Jacobs died August 5, 1834. In 1836, Mr. Jacobs came to this township, where he re- sided with his daughter, Mrs. Orphelia Mattoon until his death, which occurred in 1838. The subject, after he was fourteen, resided with his uncle, William Sibley, who was also a pioneer of Lucas County, Ohio, until the latter's death in 1836. In the fall of that year, Mr. Jacobs came to this county, but re- turned again to Toledo, where he worked by the month, until he located in this township in 1840, when he purchased forty acres of his present farm. November 23, 1840, Mr. Jacobs was married to Charlotte M. Wing, who was born in Northampton County, Penn., June 28, 1820, and is the daughter of Thomas and Elinor (Hardy) Wing, of Massachusetts, and parents of thirteen
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children. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs have no children of their own, but have reared two, and partially reared two others. Mr. Jacobs, besides his farm of 140 acres, owns property in La Grange.
ISRAEL MARKS, son of John and Mary Marks, was born June 7, 1839, in Stark County, Ohio. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and. they removed to Stark County, Ohio, where John Marks died. After this sad occurrence, Mrs. Mary Marks came to Indiana, in which State she subsequently died. Israel Marks was reared and educated in Ohio, principally in Wyandot County, and came to Indiana when twenty years of age. He was married in this county, August 24, 1860, to Miss Amanda E. Sigler, a native of Ohio, and the daughter of Peter and Nancy Sigler. Her parents, natives of Maryland, are now residents of this county. Mr. Marks purchased sixty-five acres of his present farm in 1865; he now owns 112} acres, and most of the improvements he has made himself. The buildings are good, and the chief products of the- farm are wheat and corn. Mr. and Mrs. Marks have a family of four children -William W., Ira M., Emanuel E. and Mary E.
SAMUEL McCALLY was born August 3, 1827, in a house situated on, the line dividing Clark and Madison Counties, Ohio, and is one of eleven chil- dren born to Nicholas and Nancy (Judy) McCally, natives respectively of Vir- ginia and Kentucky. Nicholas McCally served in the war of 1812, first in. the cavalry, in Green Clay's Brigade under Gen. Hull, and was one of the. army surrendered to the British. He afterward re-enlisted under Gen. Harrison, and was wounded in an engagement with the Indians. He died in Logan> County, Ohio, in October, 1850. Samuel McCally received a common educa- tion, and at the age of eighteen went to work on a farm in Clark County, Ohio, where he remained three years, then for the same length of time was engaged in driving cattle to New York. In 1851, he purchased the old homestead in Lo- gan County, Ohio, and in 1854 came to this township and bought the farm of 180 acres, where he now lives. He married Mary A. Nichelson, February 15, 1849. She was born January 3, 1828, in Clark County, Ohio, and died at her" home in this township April 26, 1856. Her parents were John and Roxy (Hammond) Nichelson, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of" New York. To this union were born four children, John N., Almond, An- drew and Elias G .; the latter was killed May 10, 1865. Mr. McCally was- married to his present wife, Elizabeth J. Richards, July 3, 1856. She is the- daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Davidson) Richards, and was born in Clark. County, Ohio, November 23, 1827. They have five children -Charles A., Sarah H. (now Mrs. Rogers), Grace A., Manley and Roxy J. Mr. McCally ist a stanch Republican, and prominent farmer of the township.
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