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Under the parental roof Edward Glander was reared and accompanied his parents on their various removals. To the public school system of the state he is indebted for the educational privileges which he enjoyed and which fitted him for life's practical duties. On putting aside his text-books he became his father's assistant and under his direction received his business training. In 1881 he purchased the wholesale and retail beer business of Chris Jenney and also purchased a three-story brick block in which is located the J. P. Wolf tobacco works. Mr. Glander occupies a part of the first floor and base- ment, while the remainder of the building is rented, bringing to him a good income. His sales of the commodities which he han- dies are extensive and are constantly increas- ing, showing that the public have confidence in his business integrity. In 1890 he built extensive ice houses and leased the artificial ponds of D. L. Meeker for ten years, and in
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1900 he extended the lease for an additional ten years. From these he secures pure spring-water ice, with which he supplies his customers. In 1898 he was one of the in- corporators of the Greenville Lumber Com- pany. He was a director the first year and is now serving as vice-president. He is also a director in the Farmers' National Bank. His close application, capable management and marked energy have been important factors in winning him success.
In 1884 occurred the marriage of Mr. Glander and Miss Mary J. Frank, of Kirk- wood, Illinois, a daughter of Jacob Frank. Their children are: Sadie, Alice and Clar- ence. Mr. Glander is recognized as one of the enterprising citizens of Greenville, active, progressive and reliable in his business methods, and by his well directed efforts he has acquired a very desirable competence.
JONAS WELTY HARTZELL.
The subject of this sketch is one of the honored veterans of the Civil war and an enterprising and progressive agriculturist of Greenville township, Darke county, Ohio. His grandfather, Jonas Hartzell, was a na- tive of Germany, and as a young man came to the United States, locating in Adams county, Pennsylvania, where he spent the re- mainder of his life engaged in farming. The father, who also bore the name of Jonas, was born and reared in that county, and there married Eliza Welty. With his wife and three children he came to Darke county, Ohio, 1835, and entered forty acres of land and at the same time purchased eighty acres. In his native state lie had worked at the hatter's trade, but after coming to Ohio devoted the remainder of his life to agricultural pursuits, and at one time was
the owner of two hundred and forty acres of fine farming land. His first home here was a rude log cabin. He died on his farm in 1884, and his wife, who survived him several years, passed away in 1893. Both were members of the Jaysville Methodist church, and he was a Democrat in politics.
Concerning the children of this worthy couple we make the following remarks : Louisa married Stanley Gower and died in Darke county; Catherine married William Howe, who was a member of the One Hun- dred and Fifty-second Ohio Volunteer In- fantry during the civil war, and she died in Darke county, in 1897 : Elizabeth, twin sister of Catherine, is now the widow of William Townsend and a resident of Jaysville; Sa- rah Ann is the wife of Alfred Slade, of Jays- ville; Charles married Emily Sheppard and lives in this county; Edward married Lyra Burns and lives in this county; Jonas W., our subject, is next in order of birth; Han- nah is the wife of John Seabring, of North Star; Loretta is the wife of Abraham Long : and James married Phoebe Blakely and lives in New Weston.
Our subject was born on the home farm in Greenville township, May 2, 1841, and pursued his studies in the old log school house of that locality, but completed his edu- cation in the old church under the instruction of J. T. Martz. He manifested his patriot- ism during the civil war by enlisting at Greenville, in September, 1861, in Com- pany D, Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, commanded by Captain Hitchcock, Colonel Lewis Campbell and Colonel J. H. Brigham. He participated in twenty-one battles, and at the close of the war was hon- orably discharged, at Cincinnati, in June, 1865.
Returning to his home, Mr. Hartzell was
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married, May 2, 1867, to Miss Catherine Thomas, who was reared in Greenville, and they began their domestic life upon his pres- ent farm of eighty acres in Greenville town- ship. Throughout his active business life he has successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits, and his career has been such as to commend him to the confidence and respect of all with whom he has come in contact. Religiously he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and politically is a Repub- lican.
Mr. Hartzell's first wife died in 1890, leaving five children, namely: Anna C., the wife of James Thomas; Iona, the wife of Elmer Shields; Andrew, who married Alice Galbreth, and is now in Arizona ; Ira E., who was connected with the Darlington scouts under command of Roosevelt in the Cuban war, and now as a private in the First Ohio Volunteer Infantry is with the army in the Philippines ; and Jennie E., who is at home. In December, 1891, Mr. Hartzell was again inarried, his second union being with Mary Thomas, of Hollansburg, Darke county.
GEORGE D. NEWBAUER.
Occupying a representative place among the leading citizens of Darke county, Ohio, is George D. Newbauer, who owns and oc- cupies a nice farm in Adams township and who for more than three decades has been identified with the educational work of this county, devoting a portion of each year to school teaching.
Mr. Newbaner is a native of Darke coun- ty. He was born on a farm March 15, 1852, and is of German descent, his parents having emigrated to this country some years previous to that time. Jacob Newbauer, his father, was a native of Alsace, Germany
(at the time of his birth a French posses- sion), and was there reared and married. In the year 1836, accompanied by his fam- ily, he came to America, landing in New York city, and shortly afterward coming west to Montgomery county, Ohio, via Buf- falo and Cleveland. After a brief sojourn in Montgomery county he removed to Darke county and took up his abode in Greenville township, where he spent the rest of his life and where he died at the age of sixty-eight years, respected by all who knew him. Both he and his wife were members of the Lutheran church, in which faith they reared their family. Mrs. Jacob Newbauer was by maiden name Miss Elizabeth Lorenz and she, too, was a native of Alsace, Ger- many. She was born December 5, 1813, and died January 29, 1900. They were the parents of ten children, seven of whom reached adult age, and of that number six are still living. namely: Lewis P .. a farmer of Greenville, Darke county ; Jacob, a retired farmer residing in Greenville, this county; Minnie, the wife of E. Williams, a farmer of Greenville township: Elizabeth, the widow of Jacob Robey, is a resident of Hartford City, Indiana; John A., also a resident of Hartford City; and George D., whose name introduces this sketch and who is the young- est member of the family living.
George D. Newbauer was reared in Greenville township and the first and only school he attended was the district school. There he laid the foundation of an education that has been broadened year by year by ob- servation, home study and a wide range of reading. So closely did he apply himself to his studies when a boy that he soon mas- tered the branches taught in the district schools, and at the early age of sixteen began his career as teacher, having success-
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fully passed an examination before the school board. His first school was in Van Buren township. The next year he was employed in District No. 6, Adams township, where he taught four successive winters. After- ward we find him in District No. 9, Green- ville township: District No. 9. Brown town- ship: Woodington, four years; the Detling District, two years: in Allen township, and for the past four years he has been teach- ing in Greenville township. Thus for over thirty years he has been connected with the township schools of this county, has come in close touch with many of the leading people of the county, both as pupil land patron, and is perhaps as well known as any teacher in Darke county. In connection with his school work he was also for some time interested in the publication of The School Visitor, an educational monthly, which he and John S. Royer established in 1879, and which was devoted to the study of mathe- matics and grammar.
Mr. Newbauer was married, September 9, 1875. to Miss Mary E. Clapper, a native of Adams township, Darke county. Ohio, and they are the parents of seven children, as follows: Lillie May, George Edward, Emma E., John Jacob, Mary E., Clarissa M. and Georgiana, all at home except the eldest. Lillie May, who is the wife of Charles Watters and resides in Greenville.
Mr. Newbauer has a valuable house and lot in Greenville, Ohio, a pleasant home and a nice farm of eighty acres on section 28 in Adams township, where he resides and carries on general farming, devoting his en- ergies to the care and management of his farm when not occupied in the school room. Politically Mr. Newbauer casts his vote and influence with the Democratic party.
We add the following from the pen of
J. T. Martz: "From a long personal ac- quaintance with George D. Newbauer, which gives me a good opportunity to know his in- tellectual qualifications, I wish to say that in science and literature he stands at the head of his profession, and I consider him a natural mathematician. In his youth, while engaged in his daily vocations on the farm, he would be computing numbers, making calculation and solving problems that many in advanced years and more experience than he could not master. He loved intellectual arithmetic for the mental solutions and train- ing it gave; and no matter how intricate or complex the problem his mind was never satisfied until a comprehensive solution was reached.
"He attended the district school until nearly sixteen years of age, when he went be- fore the Darke county board of school exam- iners and secured the highest grade certifi- cate that the examiners were allowed to grant to any one not having experience in teaching. I might further say that he never failed, nor secured the lowest grade certificate, in all his thirty years' teaching. At the age of sixteen he began to teach school, and gave entire satisfaction to his employers.
"His construction of a table giving the Easter Sundays from 1778 to 1878 was a mathematical achievement which placed him in the front rank with eminent mathemati- cians of academy and college, while his con- tributions to the various mathematical pub- lications gave him a world-wide reputation. Later he extended this table over four hun- dred years, giving ages of the moon and dates of movable feasts.
"His mathematical career began in 1870. by contributing problems and solutions to the mathematical department of the Greenville Times, which department was edited by that
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distinguished mathematician, Enoch B. Seitz. He next contributed to the School- day Magazine, published in Philadelphia, until the same was discontinued in 1875. He also contributed to the following periodicals : Yates County Chronicle. National Educator, Normal Monthly, Ohio Farmer and the Philadelphia Weekly Press, in which he en- couraged his daughter Lilly in securing the Twenty-Weeks prize; and in that paper, ciated May 8, 1891, occurs the following : 'Lilly Newbauer has captured the first prize awarded for the twenty consecutive weeks' correct work. From December 17. 1890, to April 29, 1891, inclusive, she has not missed a solution and has fairly won the promised prize, a handsome mapped and il- lustrated dictionary of the Bible, which will be forwarded at once.'
"He was the prime mover in starting the School Visitor, published at Ansonia, Ohio, and had charge as editor of the department of Practical Mathematics and Notes and Queries in the same. He also made many contributions to the Wittenberger. The An- alyst and the Educational Department of the Greenville Journal of 1900. In Mr. New- bauer's thirty years' experience as a teacher, he has ever been seeking to elevate the stand- ard of qualifications for teacher and pupil in the county, and is noted for the care and thoughtfulness of his work.
"He is especially distinguished for his unassuming manners, strict integrity and upright life. In his devotion to principle he is unyielding. A man of the most unim- peachable integrity and morality. he fully vindicates in his own personal character his consistent life. Accuracy is a leading char- acteristic of his mental as well as his moral nature, and having learned by experience what the duties of a teacher are he has be-
come a painstaking, indefatigable instructor. Far-seeking and thoughtful, his views of teaching are eminently practical and sensi- ble, and success has abundantly crowned his efforts."
THOMAS J. ROBESON.
Thomas J. Robeson, one of the highly respected citizens of Van Buren township. is a native of Darke county, his birth occurring in Butler township, February 2, 1841. His father, John Robeson, spent most of his life on a farm in Van Buren township, where he passed away September 15, 1872. He mar- ried a cousin, Margaret Robeson, and to them were born five children : Martin, who died in infancy; Thomas J., our subject ; Al- len, a resident of Gladwin, Michigan; Will- iam A., deceased ; and Mary E., the wife of Elias Bidwell.
Our subject was only a year old when the family located in Van Buren township, and eleven years of age when they moved to the farm near Jaysville, where he grew to manhood. His education was begun in an old log school house, and his early advan- tages were limited, as he was reared in a re- gion then wild and sparsely settled. He as- sisted his father in clearing and improving the farm, and experienced many of the hard- ships and privations incident to pioneer life. He remained upon the home farm until his father's death, and then located upon his present place, where he owns twenty-five acres of land, which he has improved and placed under excellent cultivation.
In 1864 Mr. Robeson married Miss Sa- rah Fry, a daughter of Thompson Fry, and they had four children, namely : Nancy A., the wife of Milo Perkins, of Arcanum : Dora, the wife of L. T. Grubb, of Arcanum ; Betsey
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Jane, who died in 1893; and Opal, at home. The mother died August 4, 1899.
While a boy Mr. Robeson broke his arm and this prevented him entering the service during the civil war. He has efficiently served as a constable in Van Buren town- ship one term, and is a stanch supporter of the Democratic party. Religiously he is an earnest member of the United Brethren church, and is now serving as a trustee of : the same.
ANDREW POE.
One of the old and much respected citi- zens of Monroe township, Darke county, Ohio, is Andrew Poe, who has carried on farming operations at his present place for forty years.
Mr. Poe is of French origin. His grand- father, George Poe, was a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania ; his grandmother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Mater, was born in France, and in her girlhood came to America on a visit, while here meet- ing and marrying George Poe. They sub- sequently came to Ohio and located in Mont- gomery county, near Salem, where he died. his death being the result of injury received by falling from a barn. He was a captain in the Revolutionary war. His son George, the father of Andrew, was also a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and at the time the family removed to Ohio was eight or nine years old. He was married, near Germantown, Ohio, to Elizabeth Arnett, a daughter of Bartholomew Arnett. Mr. Ar- lett was a Hessian soldier in 1776, and de- serted and joined the American ranks to fight for independence. After his marriage the younger George Poe removed to Darke
county, where he spent the rest of his life, liis chief occupation being farming. He died at Arcanum, in 1890, at the age of eighty-eight years. His first wife's death occurred some years before his. His second wife survives him. She was Mrs. Polly Fry, ncc Townslee, and resides at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Besecer. Mr. Poe's children by his first wife, were named as fol- lows: Andrew, the direct subject of this sketch ; George and Bartholomew, deceased : Daniel, Isaac and John C., deceased.
Andrew Poe was born in Salein, Mont- goinery county, Ohio, June 14, 1826; re- ceived his education in one of the primitive log school houses of that period, and as he grew up learned all the details of pioneer farming. After his marriage, which event occurred in Phillipsburg, Ohio, Mr. Poe lo- cated near there and remained until 1840, when he moved to Monroe township, Darke county, where he has since lived. At the time of his settlement here he bought forty- two acres of land, thickly covered with forest, and the work of clearing and making a home at once occupied his energies. As soon as he cleared a little patch of ground he built a cabin. 18x22 feet, one room with a loft above it, and here hie established his family, has since lived and labored, carry- ing on general farming, and has been fairly prosperous in his undertakings.
Mr. Poe's wife was formerly Miss Sarah Eisenbarger, and they are the parents of five children, namely : Isaac, of Arcanum, Ohio; Lewis, of Beamsville, Ohio; Simon, of Mami county, Ohio; Lafayette, of Sa- lem, Ohio ; and Albert, a resident of the same township in which his father lives.
Politically Mr. Poe is a Democrat. He belongs to no church.
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GEORGE J. WELBOURN.
George Joshua Welbourn is one of the leading agriculturists and stock raisers of Darke county, his home being on section 19, Mississinawa township. He follows the most advanced and progressive methods, and has one of the most highly improved farms and most desirable homes in this section of the state. He is one of Ohio's native sons, his birth having occurred in Marion county, on the 29th of April, 1841. His father. George Welbourn, was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1793, and soon after attaining his majority came to America. He was a son of Benjamin Welbourn, who was a free- holder and was worth at least three hundred thousand dollars. His farm of one hundred and sixty acres was valued at three thousand dollars per acre. A man of democratic prin- ciples and spirit, he preferred to mingle with the yeomanry of his country rather than the aristocracy, and would often go to the mar- ket with his own farm produce, while his .servants remained at home in idleness. He wedded Miss Mary Miller, and they became the parents of nine children-William, George, Foren, Michael, Hannah, John, Benjamin, Mary and Joseph. All came to America with the exception of Benjamin, Foren, Hannah and Joseph.
Of the family William and Michael crossed the Atlantic in 1818 and took up their abode in Marion county, Ohio. They were free to take their choice of land lying between the old homestead in Marion county and Lower Sandusky. Each brother se- cured a quarter-section and became well-to- do farmers, and at their death left families. John Welbourn, of the same family, also ·came to Ohio, but later all trace of him was
lost. His sister Mary reared thirteen of her fifteen children in England, and in her widowhood came to America, living with her children in Kansas, where she died at an advanced age.
George Welbourn, the father of our sub- ject. crossed the Atlantic in 1820, landed in Philadelphia, and crossed the Alleghany mountains. He was obliged to pack his bag- gage over the mountains, for it was all his team could do to haul an empty wagon up the steep slopes. They were all day in crossing the ridge. He married Miss Jane Lawrence, who also was born in Lincoln- shire, England, March 16, 1808. She was present at the crowning of Queen Victoria. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Welbourn occurred in 1836. The lady crossed the Atlantic in 1835, with her parents, Edward and Martha (Steeper) Lawrence. Their sons, James and William, had crossed the Atlantic in 1832. In the family were eight children, of whom Mrs. Welbourn was the eldest. She was born March 16, 1808; James was born February 21, 1810; George March 31, 1814: Ann in 1822; Richard, a Methodist minister, who was born January 17, 1821, and died in Hardin county, Ohio, April 28, 1895; William Lawrence, the next of the family, was born February 19, 1812, and died in Illinois; Sarah, born February 12, 1819, died April 15, 1839; and Elizabeth, born December 27, 1816, is also deceased. The father died on the Ist of May, 1864, at the age of eighty-three years, and his wife passed away April 17, 1855, at the age of seventy-seven.
Of this family James Lawrence, the eld- est son, wedded Susanna Welbourn, who was not a relative of our subject. James Lawrence died June 29, 1883, leaving three
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hundred and eighty acres of very valuable land. The marriage of George Welbourn and Ann Mills was blessed with three daugh- ters-Susanna, Elizabeth and Mary. Su- sanna is the widow of James Lawrence, of Marion county, and six of her seven chil- dren are now living. Elizabeth became the wife of John Duncan, of Morrow county, Ohio, and died at the age of thirty years, leaving one child. Mary is the widow of Jonathan Denton, of Doniphan county, Kan- sas. The daughters were born in Ohio. The mother died in early life, and the father afterward married Miss Jane Lawrence, by whom he had five sons and a daughter. Will- iam, the eldest, died in 1853, at the age of twelve years; George is the second of the family; Edward is a well-known physician of Union City, Indiana; James, a practicing attorney, died in Union City, leaving four sons ; Jane also died in Union City ; and Ben- jamin died at the age of four years.
The parents were married May 31. 1837, and took up their abode on an eighty-acre farm which Mr. Welbourn had entered from the government office in Chillicothe, walk- ing from Marion county, that state, in order to secure the title for the traet. Later he purchased eighty acres of timber land. He died on the 8th of October, 1855, leaving a widow and four of their six children, also three children by a former marriage. He was then about sixty-three years of age. Mrs. Welbourn remained a widow for over forty years, and died at the home of her son, Dr. Welbourn, in Union City, at the age of eighty-four. She was a woman of great courage, strong intellect and of reso- lute purpose, and carefully reared her chil- dren. She carefully instilled into their minds lessons of practical industry, economy and unfaltering honesty. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Welbourn were members of the Meth- odist Episcopal church and were faithful Christian people.
George Welbourn, whose name intro- duces this record, received but limited edu- cational privileges. He was early inured to farm labor, beginning work in the fields al- most as soon as old enough to handle the plow. He is not only familiar with the most advanced methods of agriculture but also possesses much mechanical ability and is an architect and draughtsman. He has mod- eled all of the buildings upon his place. He was married April 29, 1863, to Sarah A. Lawrence, the wedding ceremony being per- formed by his uncle, Richard Lawrence. The lady was born in Indiana, near the Ohio line, and is a daughter of George and Anna (Clough) Lawrence, the former a native of Lincolnshire, England, and the latter of New Hampshire, but both are now deceased. Mrs. Welbourn is a child of the pioneer days, liv- ing in this section of the country when it was a border settlement, upon the very out- skirts of civilization. In order to attend school she had to follow a cow path through the woods for a mile. On one occasion she came upon a drove of deer in the path and the animals stood looking at her. For a few moments she hesitated, undecided whether to approach or retreat, but concluded to throw a stick at the animals, which she did, and they fled, so that she was enabled to proceed on her way to school. This occur- rence took place just over the Indiana line, near her present home. On another occa- sion when hunting the cows in the woods she followed the sound of the cow-bells and became lost upon a farm where there was a small clearing, now their present home, and to that the cows made their way instead of going home. She was accompanied by her
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mother, and they concluded to remain upon a log until morning, although they heard the weird hoot of the owls and the howling of the wolves. The husband and father, how- ever, returned to his home, and, finding the loved ones missing, he realized the situation and instituted a search. Soon they were found and very quickly returned to their little ·cabin. Mrs. Welbourn completed her edu- cation by a collegiate course at College Cor- ner, in Jay county, Indiana. By her marriage she has become the mother of six children : Jane, now the wife of Manford Aukerman, who resides in this locality, and by her mar- riage she has four children: George E., a farmer of the same neighborhood, who has a wife, three sons and two daughters ; Luella Horine, who resides near the old home and has one son and one daughter; Lillie, the wife of William Crumrine, a farmer of Mis- sissinawa township; Ollie Ida and Mattie Isolena. They have been provided with good. educational privileges, thus fitting them for the practical and responsible duties of life.
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