History of Darke County, Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time, Volume II, Part 1

Author: Wilson, Frazer Ells, 1871- [from old catalog]; Hobart publishing company. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Milford, Ohio, The Hobart publishing company
Number of Pages: 611


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HISTORY


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From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time


IN TWO VOLUMES


VOLUME II


Also Biographical Sketches of Many Representative Citizens of the County.


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PREFACE


The present age is happily awake to the duty of writing its own records, setting down what is best worth remembering in the lives of the busy toilers of today, noting, not in vain glory, but with an honest pride and sense of fitness, things worthy of emulation, that thus the good, men do, may live after them. The accounts here rendered are not of buried talents, but of used ability and opportunity. The conquests recited are of mind over matter, of cheerful labor directed by thought, of honest, earnest endeavor, which subdues the earth in the divinely appointed way. "The great lesson of biography," it is said, "is to show what man can be and do at his best." A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration, and no more interesting and instructive matter could be presented to an intelligent public.


In this volume will be found a record of many whose lives are worthy the imitation of coming generations. It tells how some, commencing life in poverty, by industry and econ- omy, have accumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited advantages for securing an education, have become learned men and women, with an influence extending through- out the length and breadth of the land. It tells of men who have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence, as statesmen, and whose names have become famous. It tells of those in every walk of life who have striven to succeed and records how that success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells also of those who, not seeking the applause of the world, have pursued the "even tenor of their way," content to have it said of them, as Christ said of a woman performing a deed of mercy, they have done what they could. It tells how many, in the pride and strength of young manhood, left all, and at their country's call went forth valiantly "to do or die."


Coming generations will appreciate this volume and pre- serve it, as a sacred treasure, from the fact that it contains so much that would never find its way into public record, and


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which would otherwise be inaccessible. Great care has been taken in the compilation of the work, and every opportunity possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been written; and the publishers flatter them- selves that they give to their readers a work with few errors of importance.


For all the good things in volume I, of this work, credit is due to the local historian, Frazer E. Wilson, and those whom he credits as having aided him in various ways. For all the errors that have crept into volume II, unless the people who furnished the facts erred, all blame is to be laid at the door of the "proof readers" who serve,


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INDEX


A


Albright, W. D.


347


Albright, W. S.


355


Allread, James I


32


Ammon, E. G.


336


Amspaugh, D. F.


473


Anderson, J. M.


211


Appenzeller, C.


295


Armacost, Eli


387


Armbruster, J. A.


256


Arnett, Tobias


562


B


Baker, D. H


395


Baker, Ezra


560


Baker, Guy C.


126


Coppock, F. D.


131


Baker, Noah


358


Bascom, J. Linus


119


Baughman, George W.


262


Bausman, A. H


181


Bayman, N. R.


483


Beam, R. K.


471


Beanblossom, George


302


Beanblossom, J. R.


297


Beane, Samuel


469


Beck, Henry


502


Bickel, I. E


396


Bigler, Dr. L.


494


Billingsley, T. A.


168


Bishop, W. G.


276


Boli, Ed. L ..


386


Bowman, B. W.


43


Brandenburg, E. T.


440


Brandon, A. C.


84


Brandon, C. W.


547


Brawley, T. G.


204


Brown, Homer


444


Browne, Wm. A., Sr


105


Brumbaugh, C. L.


539


Brumbaugh Family


536


Brumbaugh, William D.


542


Bryson, D. V.


285


Burns, J. C.


40


Byers, P. W


202


C


Calderwood, A. R.


496


Calderwood, E. E


418


Chenoweth, W. A


432


Cline, Fred


206


Coblentz, J. C.


235


Collett, Henry


258


Conkling, F. T.


64


Coppess, Charles


244


Coppess, H. M.


144


Crawford, G. F


28


Culbertson, Charles


299


Cunningham, William


349


D


Davenport, Charles M


457


Davis, M. W.


367


Delk, Charles I.


428


Delaplane, Joshua


339


Delaplane, U. G.


328


Detamore, J. E.


403


Dershem, Harvey F.


505


Dininger, Jonas


269


Dininger, Lewis


279


Dininger, Riley


290


Dull, Samuel


437


Dull, W. J.


176


Dunham, J. H


174


E


Eidson, B. G.


399


Elliott, J. C.


24


Eyer, John


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Farra, Arthur


487


Fellers, Frank


447


Fellers, George F


455


Fellers, Harry A.


445


Fellers, P. C.


463


Feltman, J. H.


160


J


Finnarn, Theodore


524


Fogle, Orlando


397


Folkerth, C. D.


340


Folkerth, L. D.


342


Foureman, David C.


363


K


Karr, F. S.


292


Katzenberger, Charles A.


22


Katzenberger, George A.


224


Kelley, William V.


554


Kerlin, L. E.


35


Kerst, H. B.


378


Kipp, Conrad


78


Klinger, A. J.


182


Knupp, J. R.


368


Grubbs, E. A.


497


Kolp, James B


71


Krickenberger, O. R.


51


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Hageman, James F


233


Hageman, W. R.


231


Hall, C. C.


115


Layer, Henry


517


Halderman, R. H


268


Layer, W. A.


451


Hammel, Edward


266


Lecklider, John T.


17


Lecklider, T. A.


163


Lickel, A. J


475


Longfellow, F. G.


351


Lutz, F. B.


303


Lutz, John H


355


Helman, F. G. 412


Hoffman, C. O.


189


Hole, H. B.


222


Holland, John R.


305


Hollinger, I. K.


523


Horner, William H.


481


Hostetter, S. A.


61


Hostetter, T. J.


237


Humphreys, R. T


134


Hunt, Bert and Ralph


365


Hunt, Washington


513


Hunter, J. E.


196


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Mace, George W


46


Maher, M.


172


Marker, Leonard


192


Marley, J. R.


252


Martin, C. O.


466


Martin, Hugh


408


Martin, Ira H


550


Martin, M. R.


315


Irelan, N. T


453


Irwin, W. J.


155


Ivester, W. H


213


Jobes, George A.


38


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Ganger, W. H


477


Garber, H. C.


413


Gaskill, D. L.


178


Gilbert, A. H.


329


Gilfilan, J. B.


464


Groshans, George


110


Guntrum, W. E.


185


Lampe, Fred


191


Landis, J. Q.


282


Harrison, Orla E


80


Hartman, David M


362


Heck, J. F.


215


Harnish, Samuel


208


Harper, William M


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Martz, Adelbert


140


MeCabe, Samuel B.


345


Mcclellan, Ora O


527


McCurdy, William J.


533


McEowen, J. A.


288


McGriff, Eli


467


McGriff, Ira


425


McGriff, J. A.


420


McGriff, O. Price


531


McKhann, Charles F


48


McNutt, O. A.


352


Meeker, David L


30


Metzcar, S. F.


376


Metzger, Aaron


287


Meyers, E. E.


240


Meyers, S. A.


370


Miller, Harry C


546


Miller, Jacob


218


Miller, John


344


Miller, John W


515


Miller, M. H


264


Miller, Roll M


261


Millette, H. R.


242


Minnich, S. E.


220


Minton, W. A.


493


Moist, Oscar


507


Monger, John E


488


Moore, Rufus


383


Morgan, John L.


57


Mote, S. E.


152


Murphy, John


103


Musson, C. R.


187


Myers, Harry C


479


Myers, O. H.


492


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Nauss, L. A.


520


Netzley, D. A.


323


Neiswonger, James


385


Niswonger, C. O.


273


Niswonger, Eli


438


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O'Brien, C.


142


O'Brien, J. J.


391


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Passon, J. H.


416


Patty, W. O.


138


Perry, W. J.


500


Plessinger, Ezra


313


Porter, George W


91


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Rarick, Charles W


128


Rarick, H. G.


281


Rehmert, G. H


253


Rhoades, Stephen


291


Ries, J. A.


69


Rippetoe, Charles L.


311


Robeson, Alfred


325


Roland, Charles R.


124


Ross, David


381


Ross, I. M


371


Ruh, Dan D


312


Rush, W. D


73


Rush, A. W


87


Ryan, C. S.


93


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Schlechty, Charles A


333


Scholl, B. F


331


Schoop, Mrs. H. K.


375


Searle, A. E.


247


Selby, J. L.


170


Sellman, Charles


357


Sellman, William


326


Shafer, Ed


380


Shuffleton, Robert A.


155


Simon, John S.


552


Simpson, O. S.


229


Slade, Charles S


117


Smith, O. O.


200


Starr, James O.


556


Steinmetz, W. V.


321


Stocker, H. P.


108


Stocker, John


307


Stocker, R. H.


408


Stutsman, Jesse


400


Stutz, Joseph


448


Swartz, William I


510


Swope, S. Howard.


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T


Taylor, C. C.


405


Taylor, George F.


76


Teaford, Ephriam


301


Teaford, Norman


511


Teegarden, George W.


484


Trainor, M. L.


316


Turpen, J. C.


147


V


Vail, D. B.


309


Vance, E. E. 249


Vance, Harry


136


Van Lue, J. W


486


Vietor, S.


334


Wagner, Madison 360


Wandle, John F.


427


Warner, A. J. 284


Warner, Henry 298


Weaver, J. C 319


Wehrley, W. E 461


Weisenberger, M. L. 112


Wert, C. G. 476


Williams, J. Ed. 55


Williams, W. H. 122


Wilson, A. N. 96


Wilson, Frazer E. 422


Wilson, T. B.


491


Winters, J. Oscar 529


Wise, D. J. 277


Witwer, D. F. 490


Woods, H. 159


Wright, E. C. 389


W


Y


Wade, C. E.


411


Wagner, H. A.


374


Young, William K.


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BIOGRAPHICAL


JOHN T. LECKLIDER.


Darke county has produced some men of distinctive liter- ary talent, among whom have been mentioned D. K. Swisher and Barney Collins, the former a writer on early historical and social topics, the latter a poet of recent years. In 1913 there appeared a book of over two hundred poems covering a wide range of topics, including religion, affection, travel, nature, home life, education and nearly everything else but war, all dedicated "to the good friends of my native state"-which in this case was Ohio and mostly Darke county. These poems possess distinctive literary merit and are destined, doubtless, to have a wide circulation. John T. Lecklider, the author of these poems, first saw the light of this world on the 18th day of July, 1840, from a farm house some three miles south of Dayton, Ohio, on the Lebanon pike. When about six weeks of age his father, Daniel C. Lecklider, with his family, removed to Adams township, Darke county, to carve from the then virgin wilderness a home and farm. He was the youngest of five brothers. His mother taught him to read and write. He did not attend school until he was past eight years of age, and from then until he was eighteen, his average yearly attendance at the district school was not above thirty-five days. He recalls among his teachers (who were called "mas- ter" in those days) John Spayd, a master mathematician of Greenville, Ohio. Willard Heath, from the state of New York, a man of fine mind, general education, and a lover of books; Samuel Hagar (afterward doctor), a student and kindly gentleman; there were others, whose chief merit was the ambition which called them from the counter, the work- shop and farm to be teachers. His first books in school were McGuffey's second reader, Talbott's arithmetic, Webster's speller. In 1858 he was reputed as so familiar with Ray's higher arithmetic, Stoddard's mental arithmetic, Kirkham and


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Pinneo's grammars and Mitchell's geography (in the language of those days with the "3 R's") that he was called to teach his first school in what was known as the Miller, Overhalser, Wright district at $1.35 per day. At the close of his school term, he was re-employed for the following winter at $1.50 per day. The winter of 1860-61 he taught the Beanblossom school, just west of Pikeville. It would be misleading and unjust to assume this was the sum of his education before he entered college. He had an educated mother, who early im- pressed upon his mind the value of high ideals and the great · benefit of reading good books. He informs us that to his home, as far back as he can remember, there came the New York Tribune, the New York Independent and the weekly Darke county paper. These were read, talked over and many times treasured for reference. Their weekly coming brought the news of the world, made the great cities and great men and events seem nearer, and filled the cleared spaces-as the clearing grew-with the thoughts of progress and deeds of men. Thus he became early in life interested in politics, the world's progress, invention, science and the government's duties and responsibilities. Thus, Mr. Lecklider was, so to speak, kept in touch with the great thinkers, reformers, scien- tists, preachers. and statesmen of the times. Such reading was needed then and is needed now to make passing events intelligble. The increment of knowledge thus acquired, who can compute? It requires little schooling to beget a habit of study. One's education is never completed, an education is more than a life work, it goes into the future.


"Man is a student, Forever at school, Either courting wisdom Or playing the fool."


Mr. Lecklider left the farm in 1861, and became a student of Wittenberg college, at Springfield, Ohio, and after com- pleting the full collegiate course graduated in May, 1866, re- ceiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and later the A.M. He then became a resident of Greenville, placed his letter of mem- bership with the Presbyterian church. For two years he read law with the Hon. Wm. Allen, entering at once upon the drudgery that leads to professional life. The road seemed long. He tells us he was burdened with the fact that his


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wants were many and his pockets were empty. To replenish them he became principal and superintendent of the high school at Union City, Ind., for one year. At the same time continuing his law studies and reciting regularly to his pre- ceptor. On the 20th of May, 1868, he passed an examination and was admitted to the practice of law in the courts of Ohio. He at once entered into co-partnership with Judge Wharry, in front office over Schaible and Kipp drug store. He was ad- mitted to practice in the United States circuit and district courts of Ohio in 1870. During his residence in Greenville he was chairman of the board of examiners for teachers in the high school, was elected and served as president of the Darke County Sabbath School Association for two terms. Was elected and served as mayor of Greenville two terms. It was during his mayoralty that the fire department was or- ganized and equipped. In 1870 his name appeared on the republican ticket as candidate for prosecuting attorney. . He felt he had received in the nomination a generous but uncer- tain compliment, because the democratic majority was 1,400 or more at that time. He said to a friend on the day of elec- tion, "I feel like the Irishman, who said, 'Faith and its aisy to be beaten when you're almost there.'" The count showed his opponent won by a small majority.


He has always been an optimist, has a social, companion- able nature, though aggressive for what he deems right, yet courteously tolerant of views of others. He soon had the con- fidence of the people and enjoyed a profitable practice. He liked his profession, but early became convinced that a general practice was not to be coveted, that too often the criminal lawyer becomes a criminal. Deciding to limit his professional life to civil business, in August, 1874, he removed to Indian- apolis, Indiana, and was admitted to practice in the state, United States circuit and district courts there. Through abil- ity and energy he acquired a large and profitable practice from which he retired the 20th of August, 1910.


Mr. Lecklider was not only a successful lawyer, but a suc- cessful business man as well; his natural tastes drew him early to the fields of literature, especially poetry, a book of which he has published since retiring from the law. Many of the poems were written while he lived on the farm in Darke county. The book was in process of writing, covering a per- iod of many years.


He and his wife have traveled in the United States and Can-


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ada extensively, also have traveled in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Azore Islands, and in 1910 visited Ger- many, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, England and northern France. He esteems these trips abroad and the days spent in the great cities, art galleries and museums as equal to a liberal education. Men and nations are big or little, ac- cording to their creeds; they develop according to their in- dividual ideals. Every man is in servitude to his own or some other's physical need, and is great according to his mental and spiritual wisdom.


Many poems of merit, real gems of thought and rhyme might be quoted from Mr. Lecklider's excellent collection, but- we must be content to select three of the smaller ones :


She Told Her Love.


The night wind sweet and cool Is fanning my fevered brow, She has told her love To the roving wind And the wind is telling me now.


My heart is full of bliss, My thoughts are wild with joy,


She has told her love To the roving wind, Her love, so shy and coy.


The heavens are soft with light, Bright stars and great round moon,


Though sundered afar Her spirit is near, My soul's in a blissful swoon.


Sweet fragrance is on the air, The earth with bloom is bright, For love, sweet love's On the roving wind, Our souls have met tonight.


A voice is in my ear, That melts my heart; To scenes far off and dear It calls me and I start To tread the past again The paths sweet, simple, plain.


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Robin's Song-The Coming Spring.


Full of complaining and faulting the weather, Abusing the winter and dull skies together, I went forth at random oppressed by my mood And strayed down a path where naked trees stood; And there on the cold dead limb of a tree A robin sat carolling merrily ; His heart was so glad he was forced to sing And his song was hope in the coming spring, He recited his joys so delightfully clear The day grew brighter, spring seemed more near.


Then I mused on the wonderful song I had heard, I mused on the life of the timid bird,


And saw tho' he lived in the present like me, His song was a song of futurity.


Then my own roused soul was fain to sing Like a robin its song of eternal spring. A fairer world than this there lies Beyond earth's winter and gloomy skies. And man like robin if he would sing, Must borrow his song from the coming spring.


Pearls and Roses.


O, where are my pearls and roses, My jewels of long ago? So many and each one priceless ! In youth they charmed me so.


I know they have not perished, Tho' they vanished long ago; They still abound on happy shores, Where eyes with youth are aglow.


From these it will be seen that Mr. Lecklider has the soul of the true poet, and the art of the literateur. The fact that he has written these during the years of a busy life occupied with the cares incident to a success professional career ought to add luster to the unusual attainment and be a source of pride to friends and citizens of his old home. Mr. Lecklider is a brother of Dr. L. C. Lecklider, deceased, and of Frank and Mary Lecklider, now living on East Third street.


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CHARLES L. KATZENBERGER.


The student of contemporareous history will find much to interest and especially attract him in the narrative of the active achievements of Charles L. Katzenberger, philanthropist and valued resident of Greenville, Ohio. He is a man who has taken the initiative in many of the important events of his locality, notably those which led to the establishment of the Greenville Museum and its successful conduct, and a brief resume of the salient points in his biography will add interest to a work of this class. He was born at Rastatt, Granduchy of Baden, Germany, March 14, 1834, a son of Joseph C. and Mar- garetha (Becker) Katzenberger. Joseph C. Katzenberger was born at Rastatt, August 27, 1788, and died December 12, 1852, while his wife was born at Sulzbach, in the Black Forest moun- tains, Germany, in 1798 and lived to be seventy-three years old. In 1806 Joseph C. Katzenberger received from the guild of butchers a diploma printed in colors by pen upon parch- ment upon the occasion when he completed his apprenticeship to the butchering trade. This document is among the cher- ished possessions of his son. Another document, also in the possession of Charles L. Katzenberger, is a certificate of mastership given in 1776 to Franz Jacob Katzenberger, grand- father of the former, who was born in 1752 and died in 1830.


At the time of the birth of Charles L. Katzenberger, the father owned and operated a hotel known as the Zum Gil- denen Schwan, but as there were eleven children in the family, the parents could do little for any of them individually and the youngest of them, Charles L., was early apprenticed to a tanner at Offenburg, although he had been given the ad- vantages accruing from a few years' attendance at the public schools. The lad continued to work at his trade at Greensbach and Lorrach until summoned home by the death of his father, and as this disturbed his plans, he began to consider immi- gration. His brother Frank had come to America in 1847, and in 1849, Joseph and Anthony, who had been implicated with Sigel, Shurz and Hecker in their unsuccessful attempt to estabish a republic at Baden, also left for the "promised land across the esas." All of this led Charles L. Katzenberger away from his native land, and he went to Havre, and sailed from that seaport in May, 1854, crossing the Atlantic in sixty- three days on the Carolus Magnus. Locating at Greenville, Ohio, where his brother Anthony was already established in


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DARKE COUNTY


a grocery business in the Potter corner of the public square, he worked for himself as a salesman until 1861, when he entered into a partnership with his brother Joseph, the two conducting a brewery on Water street. This association lasted for seven years, Charles L. Katzenberger traveling Darke and surround- ing counties in the interest of the business, in addition to the duties necessary to perform in the brewery that required him to work often from 14 to 18 hours per day. After the dissolu- tion of the partnership by sale of the property, Mr. Katzen- berger was in a grocery business with Anthony Weitbrecht for three years. He then, in 1871, formed a partnership with his brother Anthony, and in 1894, when the latter died, he bought his interests and has since continued alone for about ten years.


In March, 1863, Charles L. Katzenberger was married to Elizabeth Ashman, a daughter of Peter Ashman, born in 1801, who became one of the pioneers of Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. Katzenberger became the parents of two children: Mary, who only survived her mother for four years; and George A. Katzenberger, who resides at Greenville. While loyal to his adopted country Mr. Katzenberger has never lost his love for his native land and has made many delightful trips back and forth, and has also visited other lands, his last trip abroad being in the summer of 1912, when he sailed July 4 on the steamer Cincinnati and visited his sister for the last time, as she died the following spring. He returned home on the steamer Cleveland in September, 1912. In all, he has crossed the Atlantic ocean seventeen times. Not only has he traveled extensively abroad, but he has also visited various points in this country, particularly the forests of the Northwestern States which reminded him of his beloved Black Forest mountains and those in the Vosges. While on these trips to western forests, he and his brother Joseph frequently took friends with them for hunting the game there abounding.




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