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CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
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HANCOCK COUNTY
OHIO
ILLUSTRATED
EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS OF MANY WELL KNOWN PEOPLE OF HANCOCK COUNTY WHO HAVE BEEN OR ARE PROMINENT IN ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1903
PREFACE.
UT of the depths of his mature wisdom Carlyle wrote, "History is the essence of innumerable biographies." Believing this to be a fact, there is no necessity of advancing any further reason for the compilation of such a work as this, if reliable history is to be the ultimate object.
The section of Ohio embraced by this volume has sustained within its confines men who have been prominent in the history of the State, and even the nation, for a century. The annals teem with the records of strong and noble manhood, and, as Sumner has said, "the true grand- eur 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.
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
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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 recognition 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 reli- able and complete than are the " standard " histories of a country.
THE PUBLISHERS.
INDEX.
Adams, James T., 321 Adams, M. A., 403 Adams, Newton M., 323 Adelsperger, W. H., 218 Alexander, Mathew M., 456 Alford, William C., 235 Alspach, Salathiel V., 199 Alspach, William, 487 Anderson, John D., 355 Arnold, John T., 44
Baker, John, 84 Baker, Joseph P., 480 Balsley, Alfred H., 522 Barnhill, Tobia G., 549 Barr, John M., 420 Bartoon, Joseph T., 438 Beamer, Charles, 576 Beard, John, 406 Beardsley, Herbert V., 591 Beck, David, 492 Bell, Marion, 501 Benner, J. H., 541
Bennett, Rufus W., 230 Bibler, B. F., 475 Bickelhaupt, Frederick J .. 213
Bigelow, Charles H., 211
Biggs, Samuel M., 338 Bish, Andrew, 500
Bish, William S., 500 Bishop, Henry, 48 Bishop, John S., 50 Black, William P., 4II Blymyer, Henry J., 302 Boger, Jacob H., 89 Bohn, Jacob, 227 Bolander, William, 30I Bolton, Elmer C., 332 Bond, Charles A., 491 Bope, James A., 82
Bowers, Jacob, 556 Bowlby, Salamis, 305 Boyd, Richard W., 27 Boyd, T. C., 282
Brenner, John, 545
Brenner, William, 590
Brickman, H. A., 114 Brickman, William F., 255
Bright, Charles, 28 Bright, Levi, 254
Bright, Major, 104
Brinker, Jesse I., 197
Broadwater, Luke H., 266
Brooks, C. W., 424
Brooks, Harrison, 318
Brown, Abraham, 72
Brown, Henry W., 553
Browneller, D. P., 310 Browneller, Frederick, 309
Burket, Harlan F., 520
Burket, Jacob F., 9
Byal, Absalom P., 162 Byal, Henry, 64
Carlin, Squire, 192 Carpenter. C. A., 335
Carrothers, George, 12
Casterline, Cyrus L., 550
Cathers, Preston B., 198
Chambers, Clinton A., 22I
Chambers, David U., 573 Chase, Justus, 24 Chase, J. Z., 172 Clark, Harvey G., 537 Clark, James R., 317 Clayton, Joseph B., 393
Clymer, A. H., Sr., 559 Clymer. Thomas H., 292 Cobb, Alden H., 268 Cobb, Marion A., 261
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Cole, Ralph D., 553 Cole, Raymond, 123 Cole, William W., 167 Coleman, Nelson, 279 Coontz, Warner, 298 Cooper, Isaac W., 443 Cooper, Robert A., 565 Corthell, Clinton S., 495 Corwin, Hezekiah, 161 Cowley, Millard C., 68 Cramer, Andrew, 149 Cramer, George F., 34 Cramer, Joseph, 139 Creighton, William J., 241 Cross, James, 12I Cross, John H., 560
Crowell, Frank R., 594
Cusac, James M., 85
Cusac, William, 85 Cusac, William J., 390
Dailey, Baker, 51I Daily Courier, The, 587 Daman, W. C., 348
Davis, Abner L., 424
Davis, David T., 225 Davis, Isaac, 341
Davy, Mrs. Rebecca N., 89
Davy, Robert, 88 Decker, James, 465 Deihlman, George A., 498 Demland, William A., 502
Dennison, James, 52
De Vore, George W., 538 De Wolf, Surrel P., 340 Dick, David, 96 Donnell, James C., 303
Dorsey, Wallace, 311 Doty, John N., 20 Doty, William C., 258
Dozer, Jesse L., 395
Dreisbach, David M., 112
Dreisbach, Gabriel M., 368 Dukes, Clark W., 362
Dukes, Lewis S., 16 Dunn, Elijah T., 525
Eckels, Joel, 22 Ellis, Asa, 91 Elsea, George W., 582 Elsea, Samuel H., 76
INDEX.
Enfield, James A., 148 Eoff, Louis W., 504 Ernest, G. W., 205 Ernest, William W., 366
Ewing, Albert L., 106
Ewing, Cornelius, 119 Ewing, Erwin E., 17
Ewing, Melvin E., III
Ewing, Philip W., 457
Falk, Levi, 108
Finsel, John E., 260
Firmin, Francis W., 184
Firmin, Lorenzo, 448
Fisher, A. J., 79
Fisher, Gotlob D., 163
Fisher, John, 163
Fisher, William, 342
Fitch, D. W., 572
Fitzgerald, Robert H., 521
Flamion, Philip, 563 Flick, Thomas, 299 Fogler, William, 147
Ford, Clayton W., 493
Franks, Henry, 466
Frey, William J., 327
Fruth, Jacob, 412
Garber, Christopher, 398
George, Willard, 483
Gillespie, Thomas F., 345
Glathart, Aaron J., 100
Glauner, William F., 361
Gleckner, Adam, 593
Goeppele, George, 509
Goodman, George M., 580
Gray, William P., 460 Green, William, 383
Greene, Isaac M., 579
Gressly, Jacob, 295
Griffin, Frank A., 206
Grimm, John W., 286
Growden, Arthur M., 439
Grubb, Cyrus, 32
Grubb, John H .. 468 Guise, Perry O., 413
Haddox, Samuel, 435 Hale, E. W., 557 Hall, George W., 519 Hammond, George F., 36
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Hammond, M. R., 534 Harrop, William, 494 Hartman, Andrew, 135 Hartman, Jasper N., 216 Hause, Henry M., 459 Hawkins, Edgar A., 56 Hayward, Collin D., 186 Heck, Anderson C., 496 Heck, John, 397 Heckert, William, 154 Heimhofer, John B., 66
Heistand, Henry, 191 Herman, Joseph J., 569 Hershey, Isaac, 138 Heyn, Christian, 103 Higbie, J. L., 117 Hirschberger, John F., 281 Holliger, Frederick A., 372
Hooper, Isaac W., 168
Hosler, Morrison, 363 Hosler, William F., 55 Hostler, Lewis H., 385
Houck, William H., 40
Hoy, James T., 329
Hudson, J. E., 433 Hughes, Don C., 367
Ingold, Jacob, 533 Insley, Isaac, 62
Jacobs, John W., 306 Jameson, Cornelius S., 87 Johnston, Charles S., 575
Kagey, John C., 475 Kagy, Joseph R., 18 Karg, Frederick J., 476
Karg, Louis, 497 Karn, Theodore, 331
Karst, J. B., 447
Keeley, James, 187
Keenan, Hugh J., 486
Kelley, James W., 401 Kelley, J. B., 437
Kelly, Luther C., II Kempher, Rado, 568 Ketzenbarger, Jacob O., 42
Kibler, Jacob, 357
Kibler, R. J., 237
Kiefer, William I., 394 Kimmell, Jacob A., 200
Kinder, Walter H., 313 Kirkbride, James W., 19 Kisseberth, John L., 67 Kistler, Benjamin, Sr., 128 Krabill, Hiram D., 485 Krauss, Charles J., 419 Kuhlman, William, 462
Larkins, 'Sorely, 555 I.atshaw, A. B., 240 Lear, William A., 405 Lechner, Michael, 180 Lee, Noalı, 144
Lemott, Samuel, 150
Leonard, Robert L., 59 Lewis, Francis M., 544
Lichty, Benedict, 320
Linhart, Jacob A., 27
Linhart, John H., 26 Longbrake, Louis, 214
Maclachlan, Norman L., 478
Madsuse, William, 356
Mallen, Charles, 489
Martin, Jerome M., 252
Marvin, Isaac W., 536
Marvin, Otta B., 482
Mascho, Charles W., 499
Matthias, Albert C., 517
McAnelly, Moses, 115
McArthur, George, 276
McElwaine, William H., 523
McGee, Martin P., 446
McLeod, Joseph R., 349 ·
McManness, Lemuel, 181
McRill, Jefferson C., 296
Measel, Mrs. Harriet H., 192
Mellott, John H., 463 Metzler, W. M., 418
Miley, Harvey C., 51
Miller, Alexander, 264
Miller, Francis M., 39
Miller, Levi, 273
Miller, William B., 247
Mitchell, Parlee, 552
Mitchell, Thomas M., 352
Moffett, William R., 245
Montgomery, John, 109
Montgomery, John T., 43 Montgomery, William, 74 Moorhead, John M., 174
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INDEX.
Morrison, Nelson H., 594 Morrison, Philemon B., 45I Motherwell, Robert B., 228 Moyer, Edwin R., 253 Moyer, M. M., 253 Moyer, Uriah B., 308
Nau, Jacob, 354 Neibling, William C., 488 Nelson, George, 209 Nelson, Jonathan, 169 Newcomer, Levi B., 454 Newhouse, William M., 422 Nichols, Allison H., 531 Norris, George W., 326 Nusser, J. A., 467
Oliver, Philip B., 514 Oman, Ephraim I., 153 Oman, George W., 535 Overholt, A. J., 371 Overholt, Christian, 232
Parker, Havilah L., 291 Parker, John, 212
Patterson, James L., 587
Patterson, Joseph S., 336 Pendleton, George F., 98
Pendleton, George S., 474 Pepple, Eli W., 554 Pepple, Jacob, 173 Pepple, William H., 15 Peterman, John, 140 Peters, George W., 105 Phelps, George H., 262 Phifer, George W., 450
Pilcher, Milton A., 226 Plotts, Andrew J., 384 Poe, Nelson, 365 Powell, Alexander B., 319 Powell, Jacob E., 512 Powell, Peter H., 256 Powell, Sullivan, 217
Powell, Valentine, 272
Presler, Napoleon B., 251
Priddy, S. N. E., 430 Purkey, Henry O., 244
Rainey, Harvey, 47 Ramsey, Hamilton L., 289 Ray, Frank C., 461
Redfern, Joseph P., 203 Reiter, Henry, 270 Reiter, Sebastian J., 271 Reynolds, George M., 589 Rial, Allfree H., 208 Ricketts, Jasper T., 428 Riegle, John W. S., 61 Roberts, Solomon N., 134
Roether, Abraham, 588 Roller, George W., 127
Roller, Jefferson, 539 Roller, W. C., 196
Ross, George W., 170
Routzon, David C., 31
Rummell, George B., 63
Rummell, William R., 38
Russell, Frank, 222
Russell, Robert B., 53
Sager, Andrew, 445
Saltsman, Norman, 402
Saltzman, Christopher A., 95
Sampson, John Z., 571
Sausser, David W., 130
Schoonover, John, 392 Schubert, Daniel N., 243 Schubert, John, 124
Schwinn, Philipp, 353
Scothorn, Abraham W., 408
Shafer, Morgan C., 506
Sharninghause, William, 564
Shea, James, 190 Sheets, Henry, 441
Sherick, David, 70
Sherman, Conrad, 548
Shilling, Jesse, 346
Shoe, John W., 189
Shull, Hermon T., 131
Shull, Isaac L., 570
Siddall, A. C., 423 Smith, A. H., 581 Smith, Augustus M., 516
Smith, Charles F., 324
Smith, Daniel L., 508
Smith, George H., 351 Smith, Henry C., 107
Snider, Isaac C., 143
Snider, Solomon, 410
Snider, William F., 54
Snyder, George W., 380 Snyder, Henry, 238
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Solether, John S., 176 Solt, David B., 333 Solt, Peter, 248 Stackhouse, Thomas J., 503
Stacy, Thomas, 210
Stahl, Levi, 546 Stall, John F., 382
Steinman, Benjamin C., 35
Stephenson, William, 426
Stephenson, William E., 31!
Stevenson, A. W., 452
Stevenson, Evan D., 178
Stewart, S. M., 93
Stockton, Charles A., 30 Stoffel, Joseph, 547
Stoker, Darius R., 472
Stoker, George M., 14
Stoker, Wilson C., 464
Storts, Francis M., 300
Stough, George S., 586
Stough, Henry, 71
Strother, Mrs. Sarah A., 414
Sutter, Fredrick, 477
Sutton, John A., 375
Swab, John W., 132
Swab, Samuel, 400
Swank, H. D., 561
Swartz, Nelsen R., 498 Switzer, Daniel E., 321
Tait, William M., 316 Tarbox, Harry L., 120
Taylor, Charles R., 532
Taylor, Edmund C., 46 Taylor, Rufus E., 157 Teatsorth, Isaac, 578 Thomas, Albert J., 283
Thomas, Charles H., 432 Thomas, David, 470 Thomas, Grant, 220 Thomas, John A., 389 Thomas, Samuel B., 574 Thomas, William, 469 Thompson, Isaac, 416 Trout, Ephraim, 374 Trout. Milton E., 379
Trout, Sylvanus W., 378 Trueslow, Wilbur F., 293
Van Eman, Josephus C., 234
Van Horn, Perry, 347
Van Lue, E. V., 151
Van Sant, Frank, 158
Van Sickle, John, 370
Vickers, Hilton A., 440
Waggoner, William G., 278
Walter, Daniel, 288
Wanamaker, Eliphes, 344
Watkins, George W., 275
Watson, Charles E., 207
Watson, Charles R., 269
Watson, Richard M., 360
Webster, W. C., 543
Weirough, Philip, 566
Whitman, George W., 515
Wilcox, Edgar, 455
Williamson, James, 81
Williamson, William A., 277
Wilson, James, 165
Winders, Henry F., 55I
Wineland, B. F., 387
Wise, Benjamin J., 364
Wise, Franklin, 126
Wise, W. A., 490
Wiseley, Martin L., 224
Wisely, William P., 136
Wiseman, Andrew, 528
Wiseman, Joseph, 530
Witmore, Henry E., 183
Wolf, Adam, 429
Wolf, Simon, 524
Wolfe, Mary A., 266
Wolff, Louis A., 510
Woodruff, Sheldon, 284
Woods, L. S., 376
Worden, Alvin L., 312
Worden, Robert B., 312
Young, M. C., 540
Zeller, John W., 583
INDEX.
A CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
OF
HANCOCK COUNTY, OHIO.
JACOB F. BURKET.
The subject of this sketch has been a familiar figure in Ohio for many years, owing to his prominent connection both with the bench and bar of the state. For over thirty years he was an attorney in active practice at Findlay, and since February 9, 1893, has been a member of the state supreme court, at present holding the position of chief justice of that tribunal. His family is of Swiss origin and it seems that the name was originally written Burkhardt. In 1758 the great-grandparents of our subject emigrated from Switzerland to America, accompanied by their son John, who was at that time an infant about four years old. On the voyage across the ocean the father died of a fatal illness, and his widow after arriving in the United States located at Reading, Pennsylvania. John Burkhardt grew to manhood at that place, and at the beginning of the Revolutionary war became a member of Von Heer's Cavalry, which was organized under a special act of the Continental congress for the purpose of acting as a body guard to Washington. He participated with his command in its subsequent service, and with them shared the horrors of the never to be forgotten winter at Valley Forge. He remained with the army until the surrender of Cornwallis, after which he returned to his home at Reading, where he married a Miss Fox and subsequently removed to Ohio. Locating first in Perry county, near the village of Somerset, he removed later with his family to Sandusky county, settling near Hessville, west of Fremont, where his death occurred in February, 1847. John Burket became the father of eighteen children, among the younger of whom was a son named Solomon,
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who was born in 1806. He married Mary, daughter of George Brehin, who was a soldier in the war of 1812, took part in the battles of Fort Meigs and Fallen Timbers, and died in Perry county at the age of ninety-three years. Solomon Burket resided in Perry county until 1838, when he removed to Hancock county, where he engaged in farming and followed that occupation until his death, which occurred March 6, 1847. He had a family of ten chil- dren, among whom was included the subject of this sketch.
Jacob F. Burket was born on a farm in Perry county, three miles south of the village of Somerset, March 25, 1837, and wlien eighteen months old was brought to Hancock county by his parents, who located in Union township. He passed the earlier years of his life in the uneventful routine of farm work, in the meantime acquiring a fairly good education in the schools of the district and at Findlay. After finishing at this place, he completed his educated at the Seneca County Academy, then the best school in northwestern Ohio. When he had reached the eighteenth year of his age he became an instructor and taught his first term of school during the summer of 1855, in Blanchard town- ship. The subsequent seven years were occupied in teaching and attending school, with a view to entering the legal profession, of which he became a member by admission to the bar in 1861. In the fall of 1861 he located at Ottawa, Putnam county, but in April, 1862, returned to Findlay, where he continued the practice of law with marked success until 1893. During this period of more than thirty years Mr. Burket steadily rose in his profession and made a reputation as being one of the best lawyers of the Findlay bar. In 1892 he was nominated by the Republican party as candidate for judge of the supreme court of Ohio, was elected in the ensuing fall and took his seat Feb- ruary 9, 1893. In 1897 he was re-elected to this position for another term of six years and is now chief justice of the court. While throughout his life Judge Burket has always been a consistent and earnest Republican in politics, he has never taken an active part in the campaigns. In 1880, however, he was an elector on the Garfield and Arthur ticket and still retains the ticket cast for those candidates in the electoral college. In 1887 he assisted in organizing the American National Bank of Findlay, of which he was elected president.
Judge Burket was married near Adrian, Michigan, to Miss Pamy D. Walters, daughter of John and Eliza (Lowrey Walters, and to this union have been born six children, whose names are Harlan F., Charles O., William J., John F., Reginald and Lillie B., the latter being now the wife of Louis W. Eoff. Mrs. Burket died June 6, 1900. Judge Burket is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was grand master of the Ohio order in 1882 and 1883. He and his sons, Harlan F. and John F., are members of the society
MRS. JACOB F. BURKET.
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of the Sons of the American Revolution. He and his son, Harlan F., are members of the Ohio State Bar Association, also of the American Bar Asso- ciation, and usually attend the meetings of those organizations.
LUTHER C. KELLY.
The family of this name, so long and favorably known in Hancock county, had its Ohio origin in Pickaway county from emigrants who came west at what the pioneers called "an early day." We first hear of Joseph Kelly, who was born in Pickaway county, about the beginning of the last century, and he was married in Fairfield county to Sarah Shaw, an incomer from Pennsyl- vania. After marriage this couple located in Pickaway county, where they reared five children, and of these four came to Hancock county for residence at different times. Among the latter was George J. Kelly, whose birth occurred in Pickaway county, Ohio, in January, 1823, and who remained in his native locality until about thirty years old. In April, 1842, he married Caroline Fel- lers, and eleven years later left Pickaway to seek a home in Hancock county. He located on eighty acres of land in Union township, which embraced the present site of Rawson, and shortly after his arrival in 1852 this village was laid out. This made a demand for lots, and a considerable portion of George J. Kelly's purchase was thus disposed of. Subsequently he acquired additional land until his total holdings amount to two hundred and eighty acres, besides several houses and lots in Rawson. He suffered a loss of over seven thousand dollars by a destructive fire which swept over Rawson in 1887 and practically wiped the village from the map. Of the eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. George J. Kelly the six living are: Mrs. Jane Benedict, Luther C., John A., Mrs. Olive M. Zugschwert, Mrs. Mary A. Allion and Mrs. Ines A. Woods, Chester D., the deceased son, whose death occurred in 1894, was a lawyer of promise who resided at Kenton, where he served as prosecuting attorney for two terms. In addition to his own children Mr. Kelly reared and educated Scott H. Kelly, his nephew, who is now practicing law at Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Caroline Kelly passed away in 1898, and all accounts agree in representing her as a most affectionate wife and devoted mother.
Luther C. Kelly, eldest of his father's sons, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, November 10, 1847, and was consequently four years old when his pa- rents came to this county. He was reared at Rawson, and after attending the common schools there went to Findlay for the purpose of fitting himself as a teacher by a course in the high school at that place. After finishing the edu- cation prescribed for him he taught school awhile in Jackson township, but
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soon abandoned this occupation to engage in mercantile pursuits. Securing a clerkship in an establishment at Ada, he remained there a year and then re- turned to Rawson to go into business with J. C. Benham. This partnership, after lasting a year or so, was dissolved with mutual consent and Mr. Kelly determined to make agriculture a permanent employment. With this in view he made his first real estate investment in 1875, consisting of forty acres of land in Union township, which he increased in 1880 by an addition of twenty- one acres, and by subsequent deed from his father his total holdings were brought up to an even one hundred acres. On this place he has since resided, cultivating his fertile fields after modern methods, raising good stock and otherwise leading the life of a well-to-do Ohio farmer. Aside from his own business his public service has consisted of two terms as township trustee and several terms as member of the school board, in whose educational work he has taken an especial interest.
In 1868 Mr. Kelly was married to Sarah, daughter of W. C. and Mary A. Needles, by whom he had one child, Sarah Eva, now Mrs. M. A. Runkle. In 1883 he contracted a second marriage with Magdalena M., daughter of David and Julia A. Stallsmith, and the children by this union are Jasper F., who married Bessie Reed, of Ottumwa, Iowa; Florence M., now Mrs. A. B. DeWVese, Homer C., Julia A., Lucia E. and Zoda J. Mrs. Kelly, who is a native of Portage county, was a successful teacher in her earlier life and en- joyed a high reputation in the educational circles of Portage, Marion and Hancock counties. The Kellys were formerly members of the Methodist Protestant church, but that establishment not being regularly supplied with pastors the family joined the old Methodist church, in whose work they are actively interested. Mr. Kelly and his father have at different times held nearly every official position in the church except that of minister. Owing to their success in business, their exemplary lives and their value as citizens this family has long occupied a position of influence in the locality around Rawson.
GEORGE CARROTHERS.
As a veteran of the Civil war, farmer and later a real estate dealer of enterprise and prominence, the subject of this sketch has made so creditable a record as to enjoy high standing in Findlay. He comes of Scotch-Irish stock and at every crisis of his life has displayed the courage and persistence characteristic of that historic race. His grandfather, John Carrothers, was born in Scotland, went from there to the North of Ireland and about the year 1813 crossed the Atlantic to the United States, where he died when near his
Lucina. M. Carrothers
George Carrothers
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forty-fifth year. John Carrothers, son of the last mentioned, was born in North Ireland in 1807 and came to America with his parents in childhood, the vessel in which they sailed being wrecked and causing a loss of all the family belongings. They made their way to Guernsey county, Ohio, where the fa- ther of our subject grew up and later made his way to Crawford county, where he died in 1883. In 1833 he was married to Elizabeth Laird, by whom he liad eight children. John W., the eldest of these, was a non-commissioned officer in the First Regiment of Nebraska Volunteer Infantry and died some time after the war. Margaret E. and Robert are deceased; George was the fourth child, and James B., the next in order of birth, was a private in the One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from which he received an honorable discharge in 1863 for disability. William is dead and Dr. Moses M. served with the troops called out in 1864 to meet Morgan's raid. Mary J., the youngest child, has departed this life, as has also the mother, whose death occurred in 1891. George Carrothers was born in 1839 while his parents were living on their farm in Crawford county, Ohio, and he re- mained in that neighborhood until seventeen years of age. Having earned money enough to pay his own way, he entered Oberlin College and there obtained most of his literary education. In June, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served as a private for three months and then veteranized in the same command for the three years' service. He took part with his regiment in the battles at Cross Lane, West Virginia, the first engagement at Winchester and the bloody struggle at Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862. He was so badly wounded in the last mentioned battle as to necessitate his transference to a hospital, the one selected being Davids Island, New York. After confinement there until May, 1863, he was honorably discharged from the service for serious disability and returned to his home in Crawford county, Ohio. For three years he was incapacitated for labor, but in 1867 engaged in the fire insurance business, which constituted his employment until 1869. On March 9 of that year he was married in Richland county, Ohio, to Lucina M., daughter of Rev. Philo and Clarinda (Rogers) Blackman, by whom he has had five children : Clara E .; Minnie M., wife of George B. Landis; Lulu D., wife of R. B. Myers; Georgia M., and James G. The family of Mrs. Carrothers is of ancient origin and many of its members have made creditable records both in civic and military life. Rev. Adam Blackman, the founder of the family in America, was born in England in 1598 and came to this country as far back as 1639. He settled in Stratford, Connecticut, where he organized the first Congregational church, of which he was pastor for twenty-five years, and
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