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duce. His energy and industry in this direction brought on, by exposure, the disease that closed his life. In the accumula- tion of property he was fairly successful, but all through life his generous nature made large draughts on his accumulations. In his death the county lost a good and useful man; one who was respected by all, and highly esteemed for his many virtues." Five or six years before he died, perhaps more, Mr. Fussel- man removed to Newville where he opened a store and carried on an active business while he lived. He died Feb. 27, 1863, of congestion of the lungs. When the news of his serious ill- ness went abroad his friends came from many miles distant, anxious to see him, to help, if possible, but at least to testify in some manner to their affectionate sympathy. The peace of God which passeth all understanding went with him through the valley and shadow of death. For him it had no sting, and a visible joy shone on his dead face, as if even the lifeless clay were witness to his happiness. His widow survived him nearly twelve years, dying Jan. 29, 1875. To her whose life had been maimed by the loss of her husband, to whom the in- tervening years had been a period of waiting, death came as a welcome friend. Let us humbly hope that it reunited in para- dise those whom it had separated here.
Isaac Gunsenhouser, section 4, Newville Township, was born in Stafford Township, De Kalb County, Ind., on the old home- stead, on the southeast quarter of section 6, March 8, 1838. In 1836 his father, John J. Gunsenhouser, came to this county and settled in Stafford Township. At that time the county was all heavily timbered and the inhabitants were principally Indians and wild animals. Isaac Gunsenhouser was reared a farmer and has followed that vocation the most of his life, with the ex- ception of the decade from 1872 to 1882, when he ran a steam saw-mill on the St. Joseph River at Newville. He received a common-school education, attending the schools of his native township. He moved to Newville Township in 1872 and set- tled on section 4, where he owns seventy-six acres of choice land, under a good state of cultivation. He served as Justice of the Peace three years in Stafford Township, and has held the same office eight years in Newville. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. He was married in 1860 to Rosanna, daughter of Jacob Dickerhoff. They have had two children -- Inez (deceased) and Mary E.
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H. H. Hull, M. D., was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, Feb. 4, 1815, a son of Henry and Christiana (Cox) Hull, natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania. He lived on his father's farm till twenty-one years of age, receiving his education in the public schools of Knox County, Ohio. When nineteen years of age he began the study of medicine, and when twenty-one began his practice. In 1851 he moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and located at Newville, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice. He was married April 24, 1856, to Melissa Rex, daugh- ter of Joshua and Martha (Watson) Rex, natives of Vermont and New York. To them have been born six children, four of whom are living-Lorinda, C. O., Inez and T. M. Dr. Hull became a member of the Masonic fraternity in the fall of 1857, and is a member of William Hacker Lodge, No. 326, Newville.
Wilson S. Headley was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, June 26, 1843, a son of James Headley, who was born Jan. 10, 1810, in Greene County, Pa., and a grandson of Maurice Head- ley. In 1845 James Headley brought his family to De Kalb County, Ind., and entered eighty acres of land on section 8, Newville Township, where he has since lived. Wilson S. re- ceived a good common-school education, completing it at the Newville select school. He remained at home till after the breaking out of the Rebellion, and in 1863 enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, and served nearly two years. He participated in the battles of Kenesaw Mountain, Burnt Hickory, Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville, Ben- tonville, and others of less importance. After his return home he worked on the homestead three years and then spent two years on Bear Creek, Concord Township. In 1877 he moved to Newville where he has since lived. He has been promi- nently identified with all the interests of the town since living here, and in 1884 was elected Justice of the Peace, and makes an efficient and reliable officer. He was married Jan. 5, 1867, to Sarah E. Bradley, daughter of Joseph Bradley. To them have been born six children-Vernon D., James, Maud, Lee, Dott and an infant son.
Rev. Oscar B. Jewell, pastor of the Newville Christian church, was born in Washington Township, Licking County, Ohio, April 12, 1845, a son of William Jewell, now of Ottawa Lake, Mich., a native of Elizabeth City, N. J. He was reared on a
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farm but received a good education in the schools of Utica Ohio, and after leaving school taught fourteen years. April 12, 1878, he was ordained a minister in the Disciples church, and has since given his time to the pastoral work of the church. He came to Newville in February, 1884, and now has charge of the churches at Newville and Coburn Corners. He is a gen- tleman of pleasing address, a fine orator, and a ready expounder of the doctrines of the Bible, and has many friends both in and out of the church. He was married Nov. 14, 1867, to Melissa Cullison, daughter of John M. Cullison. They have one child -Frank, aged sixteen years.
John Mathews was born in one of the New England States Aug. 9, 1790, and died in Newville, Ind., Aug. 27, 1862. His father, John Mathews, was one of the pioneers of Shelby Coun- ty, Ohio. He was married in the fall of 1832 to Priscilla H. Clayton, daughter of Robert Clayton, and to them were born twelve children, eight of whom are living-Mrs. Eliza McCosh, Mrs. Elizabeth Fetterer, Mrs. Jane Stoughton, Mrs. Mary E. Moody, Mrs. Sophia Colburn, Mrs. Melissa Briggs, Aaron and Mrs. Alice McCabe. William H. was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, and was killed in the battle at Vicksburg: Aaron was also a soldier in the late war. Robert, Mrs. Rebecca Snook and Mrs. Ettie Sanders are also deceased. Mr. Mathews came to De Kalb County in December, 1833, and located on the present site of Spencerville, and from that time till his death was one of the prominent citizens of the county.
John Nelson, farmer and stock-raiser, section 28, Newville Township, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, Feb. 26, 1819, son of Hugh and Mary (Wilson) Nelson, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Virginia. He was reared in his native county, and in the fall of 1853 came to De Kalb County and settled on the farm where he now lives. The first year he lived in a small pole cabin, but in the fall of 1854 built a log house. He owns ninety-six acres of land, sixty acres of which he has cleared with his own hands. He enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, and served two years. He par- ticipated in the battles of Resaca, Nashville, Kingston, and others. At the battle of Nashville he was shot through the wind-pipe, when making a charge, the second day of the fight, Dec. 15, 1864. He enlisted as a private and was discharged as
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a Duty Sergeant. He was married Sept. 22, 1842, to Eliza Thornburg, daughter of Benjamin and Nancy (Underwood) Thornburg. To them have been born eight children, seven of whom are living-Benjamin F., Jennie, John W., William H., Hugh A., Samuel L., and Celia. All are married except Henry and Celia. Benjamin married Francinia Fuller and has three children-Inez L., Earl D., and Ivah F. Jennie married Edwin O. Harris, of Antwerp, Ohio, and has six children-Frank, Mabel, Elva, Myrtle, Ross and Ethel. John W. married Matil- da Clark and has one child-Ray. Hugh, of Cole City, Ill., married Dellia Pardee, of Grundy County, Ill., and has one child-Ralph. Samuel married Carrie Lupton, and lives in Springfield, Ill. Their eldest child, Thomas J., died at the age of six years. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson are members of the Meth- odist Episcopal church. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He has served his township as Constable two terms, and as Justice of the Peace the past nine years.
James W. Platter, the first white male child born in De Kalb County, Ind., was born in Concord Township, Oct 11, 1836, a son of Jacob and Jane (Weeks) Platter, his father a native of Miami County, Ohio, born Feb. 16, 1805, and his mother of Rockbridge County, W. Va., born Aug. 18, 1809. He was edu- cated in the pioneer log school-houses, and in his youth learned the blacksmith's trade, although the greater part of his life has been devoted to agricultural pursuits. He now owns a fine farm of 100 acres on section 18, Newville Township. He lived in Concord Township till twelve years of age, and then went with his parents to Defiance County, Ohio, where he lived four- teen years. Then moved to Allen County, Ind., and seven years later returned to De Kalb County, and in 1873 settled on the farm where he now lives. He was married Dec. 23, 1859, to Harriet Reaser, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Reaser, of Wayne County, Ohio. They have had four children-Cornelius, born Sept. 12, IS61 ; Ulysses, born July 26, 1863, died April 2, 1884 ; Arthur, born Aug. 13, 1866, and John, born March 21, 18734 Mr. and Mrs. Platter are members of the United Brethren church.
Captain Marquis L. Rhodes, deceased, was born in Piqua, Ohio, Feb. 15, 1835, a son of Jeremiah Rhodes, who settled in De Kalb County in 1836, and is now a resident of Spencerville." He re- mained at home on the farm till fourteen years of age, and then
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went to Fort Wayne, and for six years was employed as clerk in the store of Henry Orff. He then returned to Spencerville and established a general store, which he conducted till the fall of 1857, when he moved to Auburn and carried on his business there till August, 1862, when he raised Company A of the One Hundredth Indiana Infantry, and was appointed its Captain. He was a valiant soldier, serving till the following December, when he died at Memphis, Tenn., from the effects of measles. He was married Dec. 4, 1856, to Sarah E. Harmony, daughter of Jacob Harmony, of Decatur, Ind. To them were born three sons, but one of whom is living-Cecil, who lives in one of the Western States. One son, Leon, died in June, 1880, aged twen- ty-one years. Mrs. Rhodes is a resident of Newville, and one of the most esteemed ladies of the place. Captain Rhodes was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity.
William Seeley is a native of New York State, born in 1833, the eldest of three sons and one daughter of Amzi and Mercy Ann (Ray) Seeley. July 3, 1843, his parents moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and the following fall settled on the Richmond farm where they lived two years. In the fall of 1845 they moved to Orangeville where the father bought an interest in the flouring mill. In 1858 he sold his mill and moved to New- ville where he died in the spring of 1877. He was one of the prominent men of the county, and held the office of County Commissioner four terms. William Seeley lived with his par- ents till eighteen years of age and then learned the cabinet- maker's trade, at which he worked till the spring of 1872, when he bought the saw-mill which he has since run. He has built up a good trade, and is one of the prosperous citizens of the township. He was married in 1863 to Ellen Stager, a native of Ohio, born in 1836. They have a family of five children, all living at home. In 1882 Mr. Seeley was elected Township Trustee, and re-elected in 1884.
Alpha Warren Smith, farmer and stock-raiser, section 4, New- ville Township, was born in Erie County, Pa., March 17, 1827, a son of Daniel Smith, a native of Saratoga County, N. Y., and an early settler of Erie County. He was reared and educated in his native county, and when sixteen years of age, in 1843, left home and, after wandering in several States, in 1849 located in Putnam County, Ohio, where he remained till the fall of 1860, and then went to Lawrence County, Ill., and spent the winter,
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and the following spring came to De Kalb County, Ind., where he has since lived. He owns seventy-six acres of choice land all well improved, and in addition to his agricultural pursuits has worked at the shoemaker's trade. He was married in the fall of 1849 to Sarah Miller, daughter of Jacob and Anna (Robers) Miller. The father died about 1870, and the mother is living with Mrs. Smith, aged seventy-five years. To Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been born seven children; but two are living- Minerva and Paulina. Minerva married Willis Aten, of New- ville Township, and Paulina married William Countryman, and has one child-Carl. One son, Oscar, died at the age of twenty- two years. He married Dora Bailey, and left one child- Blanch.
Philander Smith, section 5, Newville Township, was born in Morrow County, Ohio, Dec. 4, 1825, a son of Elisha Smith, a native of New York and a pioneer of Delaware County. He was reared and educated in his native county, and in the early part of 1851 came to De Kalb County and spent several months in Newville making fanning-mills. He then returned to Ohio, but in 1852 came again to Newville, and in company with John S. Peck established the first cabinet shop in the place. A year later he sold his interest to Mr. Peck, who ran the shop till 1860, when he sold out to William Seeley, and in 1865 Mr. Smith bought an interest in the business and they ran it together five years. The latter then sold his interest, but in 1879 bought the entire business and ran it alone till 1882, when he sold out and moved to the farm where he now lives. He has forty acres of good land on his farm, and also owns forty acres in Henry County, Ohio. He enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in 1861 in Company E, Eleventh Indiana Infantry, and served a year, when he was discharged on account of disability. In 1863 he helped raise Company H, of the Eighty-eighth Indiana Infan- try, and was commissioned its First Lieutenant. The following winter he was wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro and re- signed. In 1864 he helped raise and enlisted as private in Com- pany F, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Indiana, but was soon after appointed Second Lieutenant and subsequently First Lieutenant. He participated in the battles of Pittsburg Land- ing, Burnt Hickory, Murfreesboro, Perryville, siege of Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville, Kingston, and others of less importance. He was married in the spring of 1846 to Lucy Lord, and to
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them were born two children-Elizabeth (deceased) and Philura. Mrs. Smith died in the spring of 1850, and in December, 1851, he married Caroline Griffith. To them have been born eight children, six of whom are living-Loretta, Corlistia, Effie, Alfred, Ellsworth, and Birdie. Mr. Smith is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He and his wife are members of the Dis- ciples church.
Ephraim B. Strong, section 7, Newville Township, was born in Geauga County, Ohio, Jan. 5, 1815, a son of Daniel and Eunice (Bundy) Strong, natives of Northampton, Hampshire Co., Mass., a grandson of Daniel Strong, a hero of the Revolu- tion. His grandfather's brother John was a Colonel in that war. His father was Captain of a military company in the early days of Ohio. His parents moved to Geauga County, Ohio, in 1813, and in 1836 to De Kalb County, Ind., landing in Newville Township, June 4. There were no roads through from Defiance County, Ohio, and they were obliged to cut their way through the woods. They settled on section 7, where our subject now lives, which at that time was heavily timbered. They cleared the timber from four acres that fall and sowed it to wheat, without plowing the ground, dragging it in, and har- vested a crop of 102 bushels. There was a family of twelve children, but five of whom are living-Ephraim B., Eunice, Stephen W., Nancy and Albert B. Two died in childhood and five, Daniel B., Lucy, Laura, Triphosa, and Israel, had reached maturity. Albert B. was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion. Ephraim B. Strong remained with his parents till manhood, assisting his father to clear and improve a frontier farm. He was married May 28, 1840, to Marietta E., daughter of Ralph F. Robison. To them have been born five children, three of whom are living-Henry B., William L., and Ida G. Lisbon E., and an infant are deceased. Henry married Anna L. Leitch, and has one child. He lives in Clay Center, Neb. Ida is the wife of Andrew C. Harrod, of Newville Township.
James W. Wair, section 4, Newville Township, was born in Paulding County, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1839, a son of J. M. Wair, a native of New England, who moved West when our subject was small and died there. James W. was reared and educated in his native county. He was married June 22, 1871, to Mrs. Almeda S. Boland, widow of Edward Boland, and daughter of Samuel Swetland. She was born in the State of New York,
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January, 1834, and when eleven years old her parents moved to Lorain County, Ohio, and she was married there when nine- teen years old to Edward Boland, and came directly to this county. Mr. Wair has been a cripple since two and a half years of age. He and his wife are members of the United Brethern church.
CHAPTER XIX.
RICHLAND TOWNSHIP.
SITUATION .- GEOGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY .- ORGANIZATION. -EARLY TOWNSHIP OFFICERS .- FIRST SETTLER .- OTHER PIONEERS .- FIRST SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES .- POPULATION. -PROPERTY AND TAXATION .- CROP STATISTICS .- SEDAN .- CORUNNA .- BIOGRAPHICAL.
The township known as Richland is situated in the western tier, and is bounded on the north by Fairfield, on the east by Union, on the south by Keyser, and on the west by Allen Township, Noble County. Through the northern part the air- line of the Michigan Southern Railroad Company runs, having two villages within the limits of Richland, Corunna and Law- rence, or Sedan. It has several small streams, tributary to the Cedar and Little Cedar, and one or two small lakes. The sur- face is uneven and somewhat hilly. The soil is sandy, with oc- casional tracts of clay. This latter is of beautiful color and superior quality for the manufacture of tile or bricks. The prevailing timber is beech and maple, but there is interspersed a supply of ash, oak and poplar ; there is little walnut left.
Richland was organized as a civil township in September, 1837, as a whole Congressional township, and Jacob Weirick was appointed its first Supervisor. At the first election held, but six votes were cast, and William Showers was elected Jus- tice. On the formation of Keyser Township, in June, 1876, 12 sections were taken from its southen side, reducing it to 24 sections. Some of the early township officers were as fol- lows: Justices, besides William Showers, already mentioned, James Blake, D. Shaw and L. D. Britton ; Constables, Lyman Green, John Clay, Robert Williams, Leeman Fulson, J. Simons, D. Mallery, A. P. Bristol, John Palmer, L. Thomas, B. Sanders, David Swander and C. B. Kagey; Trustees, Peter Treesh, Joshua Brubaker, David Lawrence, A. J. Hunt, Jacob Palmer, Jefferson Wallace, Christian Fretz, Solomon Showers, H. Wil-
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lis, W. Connelly, J. C. Mead, Japhet Ingraham, James Blake, Lyman Green, W. Showers, L. D. Britton, H. Sherlock, H. Knapp and I. Kanaga; Assessors, William Welker, C. Knapp, John Shaw and Henry Sherlock.
The first settler was Joseph Miller, who, during August, 1836, cut his way in from his father's clearing in Jackson, and located on the farm later sold to and occupied by George Olinger, two miles west and one half mile south of Auburn. Previous to moving his family he had chosen a site for a cabin; then one day he cut logs ; the next he made the clapboards, having to chop off the timber (for want of a saw) two clapboard lengths, then split it into bolts, and chop them in two before riving. He and two others put up the house without any fur- ther assistance on the third day.
During October following, Jacob Weirick and Joshua Feag- ler moved in; the former occupied a log house built for him by Miller, Van Sickle and Obadiah Whitmore. Mr. Feagler passed his life upon this place, and his name is perpetuated by the name "Feagler's Corners " applied to the intersection of roads. Weirick's entry was the land which later became the property of Peter Raub. Calvin Calkins set out in the fall of 1839, trom Sandusky County, Ohio, on foot, with a knapsack upon his back to carry his provisions, and arriving in this township, selected a quarter-section, or two eighties, lying on the present road south of Corunna. He learned that another land-hunter had chosen part of the same lands, and made the best time pos- sible to the land office at Fort Wayne, and was scarcely half an hour in advance of his competitor. The family moved in during June, 1840. Neighbors were few and scattering ; Peter Kronkite, who had come during the previous fall, had a cabin in the woods on his entry of land, adjoining Calkins on the west, and Peter Moody had located previously on land about a mile east of Corunna, and had begun a small clearing about his cabin.
In the northeast part of the township was the Showers' set- tlement. Solomon Showers being the pioneer was called upon to give lodging to those who were moving in to become his neighbors. His cabin was small, but room was always found, and his garden and truck patch of two or three acres indicated to others the initial steps of early settlement. Lyman Green, for whom the corners south of Sedan were named, Daniel
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Webber, William Beck, William Showers and Daniel Showers were others who soon established themselves in this neighbor- hood. Japhet Ingraham settled where L. D. Britton afterward lived, having purchased it from Samuel Jones, by whom it had been entered as early as 1836, and Peter Treesh made the first clearing of the Amos Britton farm. Thomas Daily moved in from Michigan and setttled in the western part of Richland, and Dimick Harding came from Lima, Ind., and chose a tract for his life-long home. Other early settlers were: The Moodys, Peter, John and Harvey; the Connellys, Ezra, Will- iam and John; Samuel Haynes, James Blake, Heman Bangs and James McCrum. Henry Willis, afterward Sheriff, and who subsequently settled in Waterloo, came at an early date and located in the northeastern part of the township. He by chance or choice located on a sugar-timbered tract, and there he gathered the sap from the tall maple trees with neck-yoke and pails, manufactured sugar, and this was exchanged for breadstuffs, sometimes requiring a three-days' journey. This was a very common expedient with the first settlers, and was of invaluable service. Indeed, they would have fared very poorly had it not been for sugar and saw logs. It was well, indeed, that they had this means of "sweetening" their bitter experiences of pioneer life.
The first school-house was erected at Green's Corners prior to 1841. In 1849 a frame was put up by Charles Knapp on the old site. A year or two later L. D. Britton was a teacher in this building. In 1842 a log school-house was built a half a mile northeast of Calkin's Corners; Loretta Rawson was teacher, and she had fifteen pupils. Harvey Smith was the first male teacher. The Baptists were the first religious organization, and erected the pioneer log church on Calkin's Corners. Early ministers were : Elders Town, Spear and Blanchard. The first grist-mill was built at Corunna by Obadiah Bear, and the first water saw-mill on section 16, by John Weaver. Burgess and Green put up a steam saw-mill on the land belonging to Mr. Green.
The population of Richland Township is 1,598, or 66 to the square mile. The valuation per capita is $337.96. In 1884 the number of acres of land assessed was 14,787.70; value of same, $383,334 ; value of improvements, $49,010; value of lands and improvements, $432,344; value of lots, $6,999; value of im-
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provements, $16,690: value of lots and improvements, $23,689 ; value of personal property, $109,232 ; total taxables, $565,265 .; rate of taxation, $1.56; number of polls, 214; poll tax, $1.50.
The following figures of staple crops are for 1881 : Acres in wheat, 1,834 ; product of same at 5 bushels per acre, 9,170 bush- els; acres in corn, I,II3; product of same at 25 bushels, 27,- 825 bushels; in oats, 636 acres; product of same at 30 bushels per acre, 19,080 ; in meadow, 518 acres; product of same at two tons per acre, 1,036 tons of hay ; in Irish potatoes, 40 acres ; product of same at 15 bushels per acre, 600 bushels.
Sedan and Corunna are two stations on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, the latter being far more import- ant as a business point. At Corunna the following are the busi- ness firms: F. G. Fried, general store ; Helmer & Metz, general store; Mercer & Baughman, drugs; B. G. Cissle, drugs; John Lipsett, grocery; Wallace & Knapp, hardware; W. B. Adams, hardware; G. H. Miles, harness; J. Kirkpatrick, agricultural implements; J. Lanning, grocery ; John Baker, blacksmith; J. Kirkpatrick, blacksmith; Al. H. Williamson, wagon and repair shop; Dewitt Griffith, barber; James Gettings, saloon; John Finch, repair shop; Mel. Reynolds, meat market; Osborn & Kline, saw-mill; Miles Calkins, saw-mill, brick and tile yard; Charles Imus, Union Hotel. The medical profession is rep- resented by Drs. F. Snyder, W. M. Mercer and W. H. Nus- baum. Corunna has two churches, both brick. The M. E. church was built about fifteen years ago, and that of the United Brethren denomination was erected in 1875.
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