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In 1865 Mr. Stiwald married Sarah Ann Jaycox. She was born in Lorain County, and died in 1869. In August, 1878, Mr. Stiwald mar- ried Maria White, who was born in England. To their union were born six children, all of whom are living but one: Florence E., who died in 1910; Earl C., a painter at Amherst; Maria G., wife of M. B. Schaf- fer, who lives at Amherst, but is employed in the steel plant at Lorain; Grace E., wife of Harry Nicholl, with the Guardian Savings & Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio; Allen G., a contractor at Amherst; and A. J. Stiwald, who is connected with an industry at Elyria but resides in Amherst.
FRANK D. WARREN. It was in pioneer times that the Warren family established its home within the wilds of the present County of Lorain. They were of the finest class of people, God-fearing, industrious, inde- pendent, and well fitted for the trials and privations of frontier life. Of such an ancestry honorable in all things is descended Frank D. Warren, long one of the prominent citizens of Wellington Township and for some years living retired in the village of that name. He made his success as a farmer and still has a share in the landed possessions of this county.
He was born on a farm in Wellington Township, November 28, 1848, a son of Luther D. and Laura (Wait) Warren. His father was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, March 2, 1813, a son of Benjamin Warren, Jr., who was born April 19, 1772, just four years before the first battle of the Revolutionary war. Benjamin Warren, Jr., married Lucy Burr of Norfolk, Connecticut. It was in 1831 that he brought his family out to Wellington Township, at a time when only thirteen fami- lies resided in the entire town. Benjamin Warren was an industrious farmer, and spent the rest of his days in Lorain County. The Warrens are old American stock and the first ancestor came to America as early as 1650. Luther D. Warren was eighteen years of age when he came to Lorain County, and being strong and vigorous he took his full share in those tasks and responsibilities which confronted the early settlers. He acquired and developed a good farm in Wellington Township, and died there in 1886. In matters of political interest he affiliated with the whigs in early life and afterwards as a republican. His wife, Laura Wait, was born in Fredonia, New York, February 6, 1814, and she also died in 1886. Of three children the two living are Frank D. and Walter D., the latter a hardware merchant at Wellington.
Frank D. Warren as a boy attended school district No. 4 in Well- ington Township, and for one winter was a student in a business college at Oberlin. After his marriage he spent thirty-three years on one farm, and in 1904 retired and has since lived in the Village of Wellington. However, he still owns a farm of 136 acres, and it is one of the leading dairy farms of the county.
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In December, 1870, Mr. Warren married Metta Sage, a daughter of Samuel Lewis and Elizabeth (Wolcott) Sage. Her father was born in Milford, Connecticut, April 20, 1827, and died in 1890, while her mother was born in New York State in 1830 and died in 1890. Her parents were married in Huntington Township. Mrs. Warren is a granddaugh- ter of Rev. H. P. Sage, a minister of the Universalist faith and prominent in the early history of Lorain County. She is a great-granddaughter of Joseph Sage, who at one time owned half of Huntington Township, but he lived only a short time in the county, returning to the East to spend his later years. Mr. and Mrs. Warren have one daughter, Ella E., now the wife of R. H. Clifford, a mechanical engineer at Tiffin, Ohio. Mrs. Warren is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is also identified with the work of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Mr. Warren is a member of the Grange and held all the offices in that order. Politically he is a republican, served as township trustee for a number of years, was secretary and treasurer of the Agricultural Society, and has been a member of the city council at Wellington.
WILLIAM LOVELAND. A Lorain County farm that represents many of the ideals in the way of cultivation, productiveness, arrangement and equipment is that of William Loveland of Wellington.
His farm contains seventy acres, and it exemplifies diversified agri- culture. He grows the standard crops of this section, and has always followed the plan of feeding his crops on his own land. In the fifteen years he has lived there Mr. Loveland has effected many improvements, both in the buildings and in the management of his fields, and he has found a great deal of profit in dairying. He keeps a herd of twenty, and twelve of them are thoroughbred Holsteins.
He was born in Brighton Township of Lorain County, September 25, 1861, a son of Linas and Martha (Hogal) Loveland. His grand- father, Lorin Loveland, came to Lorain County in pioneer times, and spent his life in Brighton Township. The Lovelands in America are all descended from three brothers, Thomas, William and John, who came from England and located in the eastern states. Mr. Loveland's maternal grandfather, Henry Hogal, was born in New York State, where he married Eleanor Ann Woodward, and then came to Lorain County and spent the rest of his days in Brighton Township.
Linas Loveland was born in Watertown, New York, while his wife was born in Freedom, Ohio, and they were married at Ravenna. this state. Linas Loveland was brought to Lorain County when a hoy of nine years, and during his youth he helped clear up a farm out of the wilder. ness. At the time of his death he was the oldest resident of Brighton Township. He was a democrat in politics, served as a trustee a number of terms, and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Church. At the time of his death he left an estate of ninety acres. Of the ten children, seven are now living: Charles, a mechanic living in Columbus, Ohio; Jay, of Columbus, Mississippi; William; Welby, whose home is on a farm in Wellington Township; Addie, who is unmarried and lives at Wellington ; Leon, of Wellington ; and. Alda, who is a trained nurse.
William Loveland grew up on a farm. gained his education in the district schools, and has always applied his energies and labors to the vocation for which he was trained as a boy. He remained at home with his father until he was twenty-one, and then worked out by the month and afterwards rented land, and thus by degrees and by much self-denial and hard work put himself in a position to own and enjoy a place of his
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own. In 1901 he bought his present farm, and has since given all his time to its cultivation and management.
On March 14, 1891, Mr. Loveland married Grace H. West, daughter of Frank West, who is still living at Wellington, and has followed the trades of shoemaker and cheesemaker. Mr. and Mrs. Loveland have a daughter, Alice, who is now in school. Both are members of the Methodist Church and very active in its affairs, and Mr. Loveland is a republican.
TERRY C. WHITNEY. A scion of the third generation of the Whitney family in Lorain County, he whose name initiates this article is one of the substantial farmers of his native county, and as a citizen is well upholding the prestige of a name that has been closely and worthily linked with the history of this section of the Buckeye State for nearly eighty years. His well improved farm, comprising 150 acres, is an intregal portion of the valuable landed estate left by his father and is most eligibly situated in Pittsfield Township, about four miles from the city of Oberlin.
Mr. Whitney was born in Pittsfield Township, this county, on the 12th of October, 1864, and is a son of Augustine and Nancy (West) Whitney, the former of whom was born at Peru, Vermont, in 1820, and the latter of whom was born in Wellington Township, Lorain County, Ohio, in 1833, her father, Oliver West, having been a native of Massa- chusetts and having become one of the pioneer settlers of Lorain County, Ohio, where he continued to hold place as an honored and influential citizen until the time of his death. Augustine Whitney gained his early education in the old Green Mountain State and was about seventeen years of age when, in 1837, he accompanied his parents on their removal to Lorain County, Ohio. He was a son of Joseph Whitney, who was born in Massachusetts and who was a sterling pioneer of Lorain County, where he purchased a tract of land and reclaimed a productive farm; he continued his residence in this county until his death, at the patri- archal age of ninety-two years, and his name merits enduring place on the historical records which mark with due approbation the lives and labors of those who assisted greatly in the development and upbuilding of Lorain County in the formative period of its civic and industrial progress. Augustine Whitney was about eighty-three years of age at the time of his death, which occurred in 1903, his devoted wife having passed away in 1896. Of their three children the eldest is Ada, who is the wife of Arthur M. Sherburne, a substantial farmer of Lorain County ; Terry C., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; and Mrs. Luna True, who is a widow, maintains her home in the city of Massillon, Stark County, Ohio. Augustine Whitney was a man of broad mental ken, of high principles and of exceptional business acumen. He be- came one of the leading agriculturists and stock-growers of Lorain County, and at the time of his death was the owner of a valuable landed estate of about 400 acres in this county, besides which he had become the owner of land in various western states. He was a stalwart advo- cate of the principles of the republican party, was liberal and public- spirited as a citizen and was called upon to serve in various township offices, besides being otherwise influential in community affairs. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Congregational Church at Pittsfield. and their memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of their kindly influence.
Terry C. Whitney early gained familiarity with the various details of work incidental to the cultivation and other operations of the home farm and his preliminary education, acquired in the district schools
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of his native township, was supplemented by his attending the public schools of Oberlin and a commercial college in that city. He continued to be associated with the work and management of his father's farm until 1886, when, within a short time after attaining to his legal majority, he became associated with' the milling business in Oberlin, where he remained thus engaged for five years. For fifteen years thereafter he was identified with business activities in the city of Cleveland and at the time of his father's death, in 1903, he returned to Lorain County, where he has since been the owner of 150 acres of his father's estate, in Pittsfield Township. This homestead is one of the fine farms of the county, is improved with excellent buildings and is devoted to diversified agriculture, to the dairy business and to the raising of excellent grades of live stock.
Mr. Whitney is one of the active and influential members of the local Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, and both he and his wife are members of its auxiliary organization. He has served as a member of the school board but has manifested no predilection for public office and is independent in his political proclivities, giving his support to the men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, irre- spective of partisan dictates. He is prominently affiliated with the Royal Arcanum, and while a resident of Cleveland he was a repre- sentative to the Ohio Grand Council of that order. He and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church, and Mr. Whitney has been clerk of the Congregational Society in Pittsfield Township for the past six years. This is one of the oldest church societies in the county. The family is prominent and popular in connection with the repre- sentative social life of the community.
In September, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Whitney to Miss Margaret Turton, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Turton, of Cleveland. Her parents were born in England and her father became a leading painter and contractor in Cleveland, where he continued to re- side until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney have two sons and two daughters, all of whom remain at the parental home and all of whom were born in Cleveland except the youngest, who is a native of Lorain County, their names being here entered in respective order of birth: Lois, Clarence, Marion and Russell.
. LEWIS FISHER has occupied his present fine farm home near Well- ington since 1907, and in that time has brought to a fine state of per- fection his homestead. He has proved himself upright and honorable in citizenship and business dealings, and is one of the vigorous men who are now carrying the burdens of agricultural management in Lorain County.
A native of Michigan, he was born in Barry County, September 27, 1866, a son of O. L. and Sarah (Ledyard) Fisher. Both parents were natives of Lorain County, the father born in Brighton Township in 1841 and the mother in 1847, and both are still living. Of their two children, the daughter is Mrs. Erva Barnes of Norwalk, Ohio. Mrs. Sarah Fisher is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and her husband is a republican. He served in the First Ohio Light Artillery for three years during the Civil war, but without exception has spent practically all his life as a farmer and now owns and occupies a fine place of 127 acres in Huntington Township. His father, Danford Fisher, was a native of New England and came to Lorain County in the early days. The maternal grandfather, Hiram Ledyard, was a native of Pennsylvania, moved first to Portage County, Ohio, and afterwards to Lorain County,
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where he died at the advanced age of ninety-three, his last fifteen years having been spent in blindness.
Lewis Fisher grew up on a farm, had a practical education, and at an early day identified himself with farming pursuits. On November 1, 1899, he married Miss Mary Fay, who was born in Rochester Township of Lorain County, a daughter of John and Ann (Meach) Fay. The Fays were early settlers in Rochester Township, Lorain County, as were also the Meach family. One member of the Meach family, Jarvis Meach, gained considerable note by his heroic action by killing two robbers who tried to get his money. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher have three children : Ruth, Herbert and Marjorie, all of whom are in school. Mrs. Fisher is an active member of the Congregational Church.
Politically Mr. Fisher is a republican. Since leaving school he has gone continuously ahead working out his own salvation, and in 1907 he bought his present farm in order to settle up an estate. He has 142 acres, a fine brick house, does considerable dairying, and is enjoying the pros- perity which he so richly deserves.
ORSEMUS L. FISHER is one of the oldest living native sons of Lorain County. His life career covers more than three-quarters of a century, and among the distinctive parts of his record which shed honor upon his own name and distinction to his family was three years in the service of the army that defended the integrity of the Union.
He was born in Brighton Township of Lorain County, June 11, 1839, a son of Danforth and Lucinda A. (Wilcox) Fisher. His grandfather, Eleazar Fisher, was born in Massachusetts, and was one of the pioneer settlers in Brighton Township, where he acquired a farm and spent the rest of his life. He was the father of fourteen children. The maternal grandfather was William Wilcox, a farmer, who died at Toledo. Dan- forth Fisher was born at Burlington, Otsego County, New York, July 9, 1807. He was married at Henderson, Jefferson County, New York, January 1, 1832, to Lucinda Wilcox, who was born in that county April 14, 1812. In 1836 they came West and located in Brighton Township, which was then comparatively a wilderness. After some years of pioneer farming they moved, in 1863, to Michigan, and made their permanent home at Johnstown in Barry County. There the mother died May 12, 1888, and the father on April 16, 1889. The mother was a member of the Disciples Church and politically he was a strong republican. They were the parents of eleven children. Those now living are: O. L. Fisher; Alma, widow of Hiram Wilson and living in California; George F., who is connected with the Lehigh Valley Coal Company in Chicago; Oren D., who was educated in Oberlin College, Olivet College in Mich- igan and Yale University and is a minister of the Congregational Church now living in Massachusetts; Peter A., a farmer in Michigan; and Wil- bur, who is in the lumber business in Lorain County.
O. L. Fisher gained his early training in the district schools of Wellington Township, along with a practical discipline in farming on his father's place. On August 29, 1862, he answered the call of patriot- ism and enlisted in Company I of the First Ohio Light Artillery, and served three years. He was sent to Eastern Virginia, participating in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and later the battery was sent to Eastern Tennessee, fought at Lookout Mountain and all the engagements from Chattanooga to the fall of Atlanta, including Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and other historic battles. After being in the hospital for five months he received his honorable discharge on June 13, 1865.
After the war he returned to Brighton Township, but soon moved to
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Michigan, where he bought a small farm and lived on it for six years. In 1872 he came to Huntington Township and bought the 127-acre place which has been his home now for forty-five years and where he has carried on a profitable business as a farmer and dairyman. He has made most of the improvements on the farm, has a good residence, and has earned the prosperity and comfort which he now enjoys. As a young man he worked out at wages, and he bought his present farm on credit, paying for it as a result of much self-denial and constant hard work.
On December 27, 1865, Mr. Fisher married Sarah A. Ledyard, who was born in Huntington Township July 11, 1846, a daughter of Hiram Ledyard, one of the early settlers of that township. To their marriage have been born two children: Lewis, now a farmer in Wellington Township; and Erva, wife of George W. Barnes, a music teacher at Norwalk. Mrs. Fisher is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Fisher has been loyal to the principles for which he fought as a soldier and has always been an active republican. He has done his part in public affairs, has served as road supervisor and school director and has lived a straightforward, honest career, useful alike to his own family and to the entire community.
W. T. TWINING. The Twining family has been represented in Lorain County for nearly sixty-five years. W. T. Twining is now living practically retired in Henrietta Township but for many years was en- gaged in the vigorous prosecution of his business as a general farmer, dairyman and stockman. The name is one that has always been asso- ciated with honorable citizenship and a substantial influence in behalf of community welfare.
A native of New York State, W. T. Twining was born September 4, 1847, a son of Charles A. and Nellie (Schermerhorn) Twining. The Twining family is of old American ancestry, and the first of the name was William Twining who came from England and settled on the Atlantic coast soon after 1630. Grandfather Samuel Twining was born February 22, 1796, and followed the business of farmer and miller, making his home in Broome County, New York. In that county he was married in 1813 to Elizabeth Stout.
Charles A. Twining was born in New York State April 23, 1821, and died - December 21, 1903. His wife was born in the same state October 8, 1824, and died in 1907. Charles A. Twining, so long known as one of the most successful men of Lorain County, started life with absolutely nothing, and for a number of years had to support not only his sisters but his mother and stepfather. At the time of his death his estate included over 500 acres of land. He first came to Ohio in 1849, but it was in 1852 that he made permanent settlement in Lorain County. He brought to this county $500 and with that as capital pur- chased his first land in Pittsfield Township. Later he bought a farm in Camden Township and still later in Henrietta Township, in which locality he lived until his death. He became a prominent stock raiser and also dealt extensively in lands, and at one time owned eight dif- ferent farms. Charles A. and Nellie Twining were married in 1842, and of their eight children seven are still living: Sarah Ann, widow of LeGrand Gibson, and living at Clarksfield, Ohio; W. T .; Gertrude Eliza- beth, now deceased; Alvah F. of Henrietta Township; Floyd Odell of Henrietta Township; Virgil Leroy, who has gained success in the hotel business and is now owner of four different hotels and lives at Maumee. Ohio: Perry Eugene, a farmer in Maryland; and Fred A .. who is a minister of the Regular Baptist Church at Coshocton, Ohio. The parents
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were members of the Free Will Baptist Church, and the father was a democrat in politics.
W. T. Twining gained his early education in the public schools. He worked for his father on the farm until gaining his majority, and was then married to Miss Drucilla Ann Bulkley. They have lived together and worked out their destinies for almost a half a century. Mrs. Twining was a daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Ann (Vincent) Bulkley. Her father was born in New York State September 12, 1824, and died October 20, 1908, and her mother was born in Canada August 8, 1825, and died December 7, 1905. The Bulkley family came to Lorain County in pioneer times and the grandfather and father of Mrs. Twining cleared up a large acreage of land in this section. The Vin- cents were also early settlers in Henrietta Township. Mr. and Mrs. Twining have three children : Estella Jane, wife of Lewis F. Peabody, a farmer in Camden Township, and they have one child living, Juva; George E., who occupies a farm adjoining that of his father, married Jessie Hales and their three children are Clarence, Harold and Edna ; and Minnie Ethel married Robert Wyler, a farmer in Henrietta Town- ship, and their seven children are Earl, Elsie, Harley, Ila, Florence, Doris and Mildred. Besides these three living children one son, Charles Tracy, is now deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Twining are members of the Regular Baptist Church, and while a democrat he is inclined to independence in his political activities. When he started in life he inherited some land from his father, but subsequently bought more land, and his farm now comprises eighty-three acres. At one time he conducted a large dairy, but has abandoned that feature of his business, and for a number of years he also raised and dealt extensively in live stock. He is now practically retired, and finds plenty to do in supervising his well improved farm.
FRANK ZIEGLER. Of that sturdy stock of Germans who have so numerously peopled Lorain County, perhaps none has won a better earned success and represents more of the thrifty, industrious virtues of the Fatherland than Frank Ziegler of Brighton Township. Begin- ning as a renter, he has steadily pursued his calling as a farmer and his lot has been one of steady improvement until he is now recognized as one of the best established and most prosperous citizens of his community.
He was born at Weingarten Baden, Germany, December 8, 1862, a son of Frank and Caroline (Langendorfer) Ziegler. Both parents spent all their lives in that section of Germany. His father was born in 1828 and died in 1904 and the mother was born in 1832 and died in 1892. They were married in 1857. His parents were members of the Lutheran Church, and they were thrifty farming people of Germany. Their seven children were: Frank; Henry, who lives in Germany on a farm; John, a farmer in Germany; Frederick, a farmer in Huron County, Ohio; Louis, a retired and well-to-do citizen of Cleveland; Catherine, wife of Carl Habel, a farmer in Germany; and Karl, who came to the United States, but went back to his native land, served in the army, and is now in the German army in the European war.
Frank Ziegler acquired the regular German training in schools and by practical experience, and was eighteen years old when in 1880 he came to America and reached Erie County, Ohio. The first eight years he worked for other farmers. In 1883 he returned to Germany for a short visit.
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