A centennial biographical history of Crawford County, Ohio, Part 1

Author: Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 886


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BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY


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"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote generations."-MACAULAY


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PREFACE.


THE REV. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, the rising star in the bril- liant firmament of the Presbyterian ministry and now the occupant of the pulpit of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, made famous by the great Henry Ward Beecher, said: "By universal consent biography is the most fasci- nating of literature. Its charm doubtless grows out of the fact that it is the story of life. At best only a secondary interest can attach to those dead things named stones and stars. But biography has at least three advantages: it concerns life, it concerns human life, and it concerns man in his best form, in the person of earth's best and bravest spirits. For these reasons the books that have ushered in new epochs for society have generally been biog- raphies. Indeed, the very heart of a nation's literature is the history of its heroes."


Crawford County, Ohio, has sustained within its confines men who have been prominent in public affairs and great industrial enterprises for half a century. The annals teem with the records of strong and noble manhood, and, as Sumner has said, "the true grandeur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual." The final causes which shape the fortunes of individuals and the destinies of States are often the same. They are usually remote and obscure, and their influence scarcely perceived until manifestly declared by results. That nation is the greatest which produces the greatest and most manly men and faithful women; and the intrinsic safety of a community depends not so much upon methods as upon that normal development from the deep resources of which proceeds all that is precious and perma- nent in life. But such a result may not consciously be contemplated by the actors in the great social drama. Pursuing each his personal good by exalted means, they work out as a logical result.


PREFACE


The elements of success in life consist in both innate capacity and deter- mination to excel. Where either is wanting, failure is almost certain in the outcome. The study of a successful life, therefore, serves both as a source of information and as a stimulus and encouragement to those who have the capacity. As an important lesson in this connection we may appropriately quote Longfellow, who said : " We judge ourselves by what we feel capa- ble of doing, while we judge others by what they have already done." A faithful personal history is an illustration of the truth of this observation.


In this biographical history the editorial staff, as well as the publishers, have fully realized the magnitude of the task. In the collection of the ma- terial there has been a constant aim to discriminate carefully in regard to the selection of subjects. Those who have been prominent factors in the public, social and industrial development of the county have been given due recog- nition as far as it has been possible to secure the requisite data. Names worthy of perpetuation here, it is true, have in several instances been omitted, either on account of the apathy of those concerned or the inability of the compilers to secure the information necessary for a symmetrical sketch; but even more pains have been taken to secure accuracy than were promised in . the prospectus. Works of this nature, therefore, are more reliable and com- plete than are the " standard " histories of a country.


THE PUBLISHERS.


INDEX.


Adams, Franklin, 230 Agnew, J., 864 Alexander, William L., 194 Allen, Benjamin F., 720 Altstaetter, Henry, 358 Arbuckle, William, 292 Ashcroft, Adam, 824 Auck, Michael, 184 Babst, Dan, Jr., 253 Babst, Daniel, 398 Babst, Jacob, 64


Banks, Obadiah, 819


Barney, J. G., 244 Battefeld, Lewis H., 69 Baumgartner, John, 660 Beal, John, 463 Beall, James P., 152 Beard, Joseph H., 246 Beck, Daniel, 822 Bender, Anthony, 77


Bender, Jacob, 860 Bender, John, 636 Bender, Philip, 613 Bender, William, 698


Bennett, Smith W., 853 Berg, Henry, 526 Birk, Christian F., 118 Birk, Emanuel R., 42 Black, Robert R., 327 Blair, George O., 476 Bland, Jerome, 6442 Blicke, William A., 91


Bliss, Julius J., 54


Brause, George A., 490 Breisinger, Charles, 163


. Bridgeman, William H., 764 Brine, James, 817 Brinkman, Daniel, 374 Broede, Jacob, 811 Broemel, August, 37 Brose, Daniel, 672 Brown, Catherine B., 7707


Brown, Charles A., 443 Brown, Jacob, 669 Brown, Jacob, 792 Brown, John, Sr., 728 Brown, John, Jr., 728 Brown, Joseph D., 494 Brown, Sebastian, 181 Brown, William, 791 Brown, William S., 862 Brown, Willis A., 486 Bucyrus Methodist Episcopal Church, 437 Burgbacher, John, 807


Burger, John, 705 Burt, G. W., 405 Cahill, John C., 838 Caldwell, Smith C., 237 Campbell, John B., 493 Carle, Frederick, 747 Carmean, Jonathan, 338


Carmean, Mathew L., 208


Carrick, Aaron, 696 Carrothers, James B., 467 Carson, Tarlington B., 121 Cary, Lewis, 17 Chance, Aaron, 784


Chaney, Sylvanus C., 110 Charlton, Amos B., 856 Chesney, John A., 114


Cleland, Arthur, 772


Close, George, 459 Close, Harvey, 511 Close, Nelson, 459 Clutter, Thomas H. B., 76


Cory, Hugh M., 548 Coulter, James W., 383


Cover, Richard, 682 Cover, W. D., 757


Crawford, William, 12 Crissinger, Elias, 829 Critzer, William H., 412 Crowley, Robert E., 564 Crum, David, 578 Crum, Jacob, 806 Cupp, John W., 282 Dalzell, Emma J., 183 Davis, E. P., 239 Dawson, William, 738


Denzer, Jacob, 129


Denzer, Lewis I., 130


Dewalt, Samuel, 814


Dick, Frank, 101 Dick, Franklin P., 527


Dickson, James M., 469 Didie, George W., 201 Dillinger, John, 684


Donnenwirth, George, 164


Duncan, Arthur M., 188 Dunlap, James, 675 Durnwald, Peter, 668 Durr, John Jacob, 866 Durr, Ludwig, 473 Dwire, Emory| Jay, 716 Eberhart, George J., 341 Edler, Charles, 641 Eckert, John R., 708 Eckert, William A., 123


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Helfrich, Peter, 103


Heller, Cassius C., 753 Herbold, John G., 198 Herman, Anthony, 500


Hilborn, Charles M., 825 Hilborn, John, 703


Hilborn, Samuel, 730 Hise, William H., 100 Hoffmann, John, 610


Holbrook, Franklin, 372


Holland, James O., 280


Hollinshead, Jesse, 830


Holmes, Joseph W., 392


Homer, James R., 84


Hood, George W., 478


Hopley, John, 156


Hoppel, Jeremiah J., 649


Hosford, Asa, 24


Hosler, David E., 260


Hosler, Isaac, 742


Hoss, P. Fred, 852


Hull, J. C. Fremont. 35


Humphrey, John W., 631


Jenner, George L., 725


Johnston, Henry D. E ., 676


Johnston, Robert T., 623


Frost, Abraham, 180


Gearhart, J. J., 693 Gebhardt, John, 191


Gee, Samuel, 471


Geiger, William M., 585


Geissmann, S. William, 461


George, Tilghman, 110


Gledhill, Joseph, 440 Gledhill, William, 554


Gordon, John, 605


Gormly, James B., 134


Green, Daniel, 697 Green, Henry B., 756


Gregg, Robert, 694


Grubb, Wesley, 617


Guinther, Isaac C., 386


Guiss, John, 804


Gunder, James M., 233


Gundrum, Silas, 840


Haas, Abraham, 812


Kibler, Samuel J., 284


Kiess, William C., 38


Kilbourne, James, 15 Kimerline, Charles E, 408


Kimerline, Jonathan F., 368


Kinninger, Charles, 44


Koons, Samuel B., 750


Kunnert, John P., 312


Kuntz, John W., 206


Laibbly, Abraham, 855 Lake, Charles, 93 Lambert, E., 821 Lantz, P. F., 433


Lash, Benjamin F., 630


Lash, Francis M., 734


Lash, Peter B., 780


Laubach, Charles A., 531 Lederer, Adam G., 277


Eckstein, Adam, 665 Eckstein, John, 771 Eichhorn, Samuel, 848 Eise, Christian F,, 402 Endslow, Thomas B., +10 English, John, 298 Ensminger, Albert M., 172 Esterline, Samuel, 491 Fauser, Jacob, 788


Feick, Adam, 793


Fetter, Nicholas, 385


Finley, Ebenezer B., 275 Firstenberger, Jacob D., 403


Fisher, Cyrus W., 29


- Fisher, John, 845


Flickinger, Edward, 375 Forrest, Wallace B., 144 Forum Printing Company, 372


Foster, F. M., 225


Fralick, Edward, 582 Frank, C. P., 408


Frankenfield, Andrew, 820


Franz, W. C., 335


Freese, E. M., 41% Freese, Samuel S., 823


French, John W., 652


Johnston, Robert W., 651


Jones, Alonzo M., 23


Kalb, David, 865


Kanzleiter, Daniel, 211


Kearsley, Edmund R,, 348


Keil, John, 433


Keller, Amos F., 797


Keller, George, 23


Keller, John, 555


Keller, Oliver J., 316


Keller, Philip, 319


Kelly, Webb J., 754


Kennedy, Thomas S., 168


Kerr, George T., 314


Kerr, James, 147


Kerr, Robert W., 113


Kessler, Gabriel, 322


Kibler, John W., 311


Kibler, Matthias, 284


Hadley, Nathaniel J., 80 Hall, Alexander, 367


Hall, Joseph E., 524


Hall, Lawrence W., 22


Hammond, Albert, 556 Harkenrider, John, 843 Harley, Solomon, 795 Harris, Stephen R., 302 Harrop, James E., ISS Hartman, Herman H., 300


Harvey, Andrew J., 111 Hassel, Conrad, 133 Haworth, Albert, 240 Hays, William, 313


Hazlett, Andrew J., 218 Heinle, George W., 289 Heinlen, Franklin D., 712


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Leimenstoll, Henry, 346 Lemert, Wilson C., 566 Leonhart, Adam, 626 Leonhart, John, 446 Lichty, Adam J., 435 Liebich, Frank E., 18? Linn, Henry R., 557 Linn, William, 396 Locke, Daniel W., 94 Lucas, Arista O., 212 Ludwig, Samuel, 479


Lust, David, 510 Lust, Frederick, 445 Lust, Israel, 507 Lust, Jacob, 297


Lust, Nathan, 354


Lutz, David A., 671 Lutz, David E., 467 Lutz, Emanuel L., 667 Lutz, Michael, 464


Lyons, Elijah, 689 Mahon, Charles, 745


Malcolm, James H., 532 Malcolm, Gilbert F., 562


Margraff, Charles F., 539 Markley, Horatio W., 686


Marquart, August, 519


Marquart, Jefferson, 559


Marquart, Michael, 663 Martin, Louis C., 657


Mather, George, 290


Matthias, H. S. Z., 104


May, FrederickW., 456


May, Louis, 456 McCallum, D. D., 259


McCarrell, James S., 21 McConnell, William F., 727


McCracken, Charles W., 415


McGaughy, Frank C., 401


McKean, Alexander, 628


Mckinstry, James, 248 McMahon, James F., 378


McManis, William, 765


McMichael, Daniel, 16


McNutt, Ezekiel C .. 691


Messner, Albert F., 62


Methodist Episcopal Church of Bucyrus, 437


Michelfelder, John, 362


Miller, Burton R., 422


Miller, Eli, 607


Miller, George W., 59


Miller, Henry D., 571


Miller, Jacob, 537


Miller, John R., 253


Miller, Louisa, 131


Miller, William H., 592


Miller, William H., 638


Millimiter, Jacob C .. 155


Mollenkop, Joseph, 621


Monnett, Abraham, 572


Mounett, Family, The, 831


Monnett, Orwin B., 608 Monnett, Thomas J., 584


Monnett, Wallace L., 271 Moore, Andrew, 815


Moore, John, 580 Morgan, Reuben O., 300


Morrow, Charles, 733


Morrow, James, Sr., 475


Morrow, John, 462


Morrow, William, 731 Mueller, C. H., 199


Mulford, Allen B., 726


Mulford, John H., 637


Munch, Jacob, 858


Muth, August, 670


Myers, John G., 112


Myers, Samuel, 365


Neff, Aaron, 633


Neff, David E., 89


Neff, E. M., 622


Neff, Emanuel, 635


Neff, Joseph, 63


Ness, Charles, 863 Newman, Fred, 318


Nicholls, William S., 520


Norton, Fernando J., 331


Norton, Samuel, 13


Nye, Albert S., 655


Nye, William S., 841


Oberlander, Henry J., 810


Oberlander, Henry N., 600


Ohl, Owen, 818


Outhwaite, John, 498


Patterson, Thomas N., 847


Peppard, David M., 4-11


Perrine, James H., 204


Petri, Jacob H., 395


Pfahler, Caleb, 799 Pfleiderer, Daniel, 178


Pfleiderer, Isaac, 749


Pfleiderer, Jacob J., 598


Pfleiderer, John, 604


Plants, Josiah S., 22


Pope, Theodore F., 450 Price, Madison, 522


Pry, Frederick, 709


Pry, Jacob, 799


Pry, John, 709


Pry, Lewis, 801


Pugh, Moses, 428


Quaintance, Aaron J .. 102


Quaintance, Joseph W., 356


Rader, Aaron, 482


Rader, James P., 485


Ranck, Jacob, 514


Raub, Henry A., 210


Reehl, William W., 174 Regula, Thomas, 787 Reichhard, Adam 627


Reisinger, Louis K .. 293


Rexroth, John, 118 Richards, Joseph M., 854


Riedie, Jacob, 789 Rininger, Eli, 778 Robinson, David C., 776


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Robinson, James H., 574 -Robison, Elmer D., 646 Rose, John, 13 Ross, Peter, 634 Ross, Royal R., 560 Rowse, Zalmon, 17


Ruhl, John, 25 Rupp, Charles G., 25


Schaber, Charles F., 49 Schaeffer, Jacob H., 528


Schafer, Jacob F., 427


Scheerer, Nicholas, 591


Schick, Lorenz, 235


Schieber, Henry, 108


Schieber, John C., 406


Schiefer, Christopher G., 761


Schifer, Frederick, 364


Schill, Joseph, 315


Schuler, Philip, 344


Schwemley, Albert H., 262


Schwenk, Henry L., 760


Scott, David A., 661


Scott, Josiah, 18


Scroggs, Charles J., 266 Scroggs, Jacob, 269


Sears, Benjamin, 51


Sears, Frank O., 544


Sears, Rufus V., 53


Seele, William C., 512


Seery, Jacob, 538 Seery, Peter, 544


Seery, Solomon, 809


Shade, Simon, 674


Shalter, Hiram, 699


Shalter, John, 563


Sharrock, Charles A., 243


Sharrock, Garrett, 229


Sheckler, Charles R., 576


Sheckler, John P., 474


Sheckler, William H., 404


Sheehand, J. P., 597 -Sheetz, Jacob, 73


-Sheetz, John H., 265 Sheibley, Albert, 256 Sheibley, Matthias, 589 Shell, Joseph M., 615


Sherer, Emanuel D., 22.1


Sherer, Jacob, 223 Sherer, John A., 48


Sherer, John C., 43


Shilling, Clyde D., 763


Shroll, George, 546


Shumaker, Charles B., 192


Shupp, Samuel, 540 Siefert, John E., 502


Siefert, Michael, 71


Sigler, George E., 786


Simmons, Benjamin F., 680 Sinn, Benjamin A., 826 Smith, Alexander, 802 Smith, Anthony, 542 Smith, Harrisou, 343 Smith, Hiram E., 347


Smith, Jefferson I., 328 Smith, John A., 587 -Smith, John F., 577 Smith, L. M., 388 Snavely, Isaac, 619 Snyder, Samuel, 552 Snyder, William, 381


Spahr, George A., 149 Sponseller, Samuel, 121 Sprankle, Allen G., 217 Springer, Matthias M., 451


Stahley, Reuben, 295


Staruer, George W., 281


Starner, Leonard, 785


Steinhilber, Ezekiel, 155 Stevens, Benjamin, 710 Stevens, Jacob H., 504 Stevens, Sherman H., 496 Stine, William A. 492, Stock, Samuel A., 737 Stuckey, George, 551 Stumpf, Frank, 790


Sturtz, Fremont F., 120


Swingley, Frederick, 139


Taylor, William S., 274


Teel, Elisabeth, 333


Tobias, James C., 32


Tobin, Charles, 700


Tobin, Thomas, 547


Tracht, R. C., 114


Trago, John H., 438


Tuttle, William S., 614


Uhl, Jacob, 658 Ulmer, Jacob, 849


Underwood, Valentine, 724


Valentine, Horace E., 26


Virtue, Frank M., 516


Vollrath, Charles, 84


Vollrath, Edward, 61


Walker, John A., 759


Waller, Lysander M., 518


Warner, Frank P., 611


Warner, Robert K., 170


Weaver, George, 735


Weaver, John J., 714


Wechter, Frank, 458


Wechter, George, 594


Wentz, John, 324


White, Leo, 827 Whitmyer, Charles L., 325


Wickham, George W., 722


Williams, G. Washington, 221


Williamson, David, 13


Wingert, Andrew, 782


Winkelfoos, Michael, 639


Wisman, Adam J., 15] Wisman, Frederick, 279


Wood, Martin V. B., 718


Woods, Thomas C., 202 Young, Bernard, 595 Youngblood, R. M., 846 Zimmerman, George D., 683


A CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY


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CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO.


INTRODUCTORY.


From the east and southeast came the pioneers who made the early white settlement in the state of Ohio. Hardy sons of toil were they, following closely upon the steps of the retreating savages. Broad and deep did they lay the foundations of civilization; wisely and well did the old residents build thereupon; and the magnificent results have been enlarged, beautified and enjoyed by their successors.


The state of Ohio was organized and ushered into existence on the 3d day of March, 1803, with its present limits of territory,-two hundred and ten miles north and south, two hundred and twenty miles east and west, in length and breadth, embracing approximately 39.964 square miles. The closing days of the first century of existence of the state constitute a fitting occasion for the publication of a centennial biographical record of those whose civilizing influences wrought the great changes that have taken place in this. region since its reclamation from the savages and of those who are now car- rying forward the work thus inaugurated. To this end the succeeding pages of biography are devoted to the lives and deeds of many who have been prom- inent in the settlement, growth and development of Crawford county.


The origin of Crawford county as a distinct political division of the state dates back to February 20, 1820, when the general assembly of the state passed an act for the "erection of certain counties" out of the vast tract of wilderness known as the "New Purchase," and acquired by treaty on the 29th of September, 1817, made at the foot of the Maumee rapids with the Indians,


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who ceded to the United States the whole of the remaining portion of the state still under Indian domination.


By a treaty made at Greenville, August 3, 1795, the United States had acquired of the Indians the whole of the state of Ohio save that portion in- cluded within a line drawn from the mouth of the Cuyahoga river to Fort Laurens, the present site of Bolivar, in Tuscarawas county, and thence west with the line known as the "Greenville Treaty Line" or "Indian Boundary." In 1807 a further cession was made by the Indians, of that part of their ter- ritories which was included between the line of the Cuyahoga river and a new one, drawn from a point on the southern shore of Lake Erie, between the mouth of Sandusky Bay and Portage river, to a point due south on the "Boundary line," a point just a little east of the village of Cardington, in Morrow county. This line passed through what is now Crawford county, on the western bound- ary of the "Three-Mile Strip," represented in its width in this county by Sandusky township.


It is to be remembered that Richland county, then rapidly settling up. ex- tended to the eastern border of the "Three Mile Strip." and that the eastern tier of townships of Crawford county, namely, Auburn, Vernon, Jackson and Polk, originally belonged to Richland county.


By the act of the general assembly of Ohio. enacted February 20. 1820, the whole of the Maumee valley was opened to settlement, and was divided up into counties for judicial and governmental purposes. Townships 1, 2 and 3 south, in range 13. 14, 15, 16 and 17 east, and all the land east of these townships up to what was then the western limits of Richland county, was named Crawford county, in honor of the gallant soldier, Colonel William Crawford, who was captured by the Delaware Indians and burned by them at the stake, in 1782. on the plains within these boundaries. At first the di- vision of territory known as Crawford county did not have any political significance or power, but was attached to Delaware county. When Marion county was regularly organized. December 15, 1823. Crawford county was attached to it, as the act reads, "for judicial purposes." This association did not continue long. On the 17th of February, 1824, the increase of popula- tion having become so great as to make it inconvenient for the more remote settlers to go to Marion to transact their business, that portion of Crawford county which was situated north of the Wyandot reservation, "including one tier of townships lying east and west," was attached to Seneca county for judicial purposes. This continued until January 31, 1826, when, by act of the general assembly, Crawford county was organized into a separate and


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distinct county. This act declared "that those townships and fractional town- ships in Crawford county which have heretofore been attached to and formed a part of any township in Marion or Seneca counties, respectively, are hereby atached to and declared to be a part of Crawford township, in said Crawford county, till the same shall be otherwise provided for by the commissioners of said county."


Crawford county as thus organized embraced a scope of territory three congressional townships in width, and extended from the eastern boundary of Sandusky and Cranberry townships to the western boundary of Crawford, Salem, and Mifflin townships in Wyandot county. The Wyandot Indian Reservation covered the larger part of what is now Wyandot county and three miles of the western portion of what is now Bucyrus and Holmes townships, Crawford county. In 1835 the Indians sold to the government a strip seven miles off the east end of their reservation, which was sold by the government publicly in Marion, Ohio. February 3. 1845. Wyandot county was erected, and in the general reorganization of the counties that occurred Crawford lost all territory west of the middle line of townships in range 15 east, and gained from Marion county a strip of territory two miles wide extending to the Richland county line, and from the latter county on the east a tract four miles wide, extending the whole length of Crawford from north to south, some twenty miles. But in 1848 a tier of fractional sections were taken off in the erection of Morrow county, leaving Crawford in its present limits. On the 6th of March, 1845, the county commissioners organized the county into townships. A change was made in the following June, establishing Jackson township, and in March, 1873, Jefferson town- ship was erected, and since then no change has been made in boundary lines of townships. The county, as now arranged, is comprised of the following civil townships : Auburn, Vernon, Jackson, Polk, Jefferson, Sandusky, Cran- berry, Chatfield, Liberty, Whetstone. Dallas, Bucyrus, Holmes, Lykens, Texas and Todd.




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