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The doctor was most happily married. on the 6th day of September, 1874, in Van Wert, to Miss Elizabeth J. Hayes, a native of the state of New York, born April 22, 1857. and daugliter of James and Elmira (Down) Hayes, natives of N. Y., and to this union have been born two children, viz: Frank H., a gradu-
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ate in pharmacy of the Ada Normal school, and Mary Eva. Dr. and Mrs. Hines are de- voted members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and their daily walk in life proclaims the sincerity of their belief in the faith. Fra- ternally the doctor is a council member of the Masonic order and a member of the I. O. O. F., while in his professional sodality he is an honored member of the Ohio State Medical society and the American Medical association. His fine personal appearance makes him an ornament to the social circle in which he moves, and his intellectual mind sheds a luster on all subjects which he cares to discuss.
a HISTOPHER R. HILLER, a much respected farmer of York township, Van Wert county, is a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, was born May 10, 1847, a son of Frederick and Anna Mary (Smith) Hiller, Frederick Hiller being a weaver by trade. Frederick and his eldest son, also named Frederick, came to America in the spring of 1853, and stopped at Dayton, Ohio, where the father followed day labor for a number of years. In the fall of the same year Christopher and his mother and sister fol- lowed, and joined the father at Dayton. Frederick and Anna Mary were the parents of the following children: Frederick, who died in early manhood; Mary M., the deceased wife of John Berger; Christopher R., our subject, and Jane, who was born in Ohio, and is now the wife of Joseph Buxton. Until 1870, Fred- erick Hiller was a renter, living a part of the ENRY HIPSHER, a thriving farmer of York township, Van Wert county, is a native of Marion county, Ohio, was born July 27, 1834, and is a son of Asrom and and Mary (Myers) Hipsher, both natives of Pennsylvania. Asrom was born time in Indiana. In the year last named he came to the farm now owned by our subject, having previously purchased the same. The family rented a room of a neighbor, which they occupied for three months, while the building of the cabin was in progress. It is ; December 7, Iso7, and Mary, his wife, March necessary to add that this tract of land was | 8, 1812, and their marriage took place March
entirely in the woods, containing nearly 100 acres, and here Frederick Hiller dwelt until the time of his death, November 20, 1873; his widow then married John Kuhl, who was killed seven years later in a railroad accident. Mrs. Kuhl then married John Roberts and died August 13, 1895.
Christopher R. Hiller has given his entire life, since coming to Van Wert county, to farming, with the exception of four years passed in the manufacture of tile. September 25, 1875, he married Margaret Daut, a daugh- ter of Leanhart and Anna (Britting, Daut, both natives of Germany, who came to America in 1859, locating in Hamilton, Ohio, where the father was drowned in the canal in May, 1862. In 1864 Mrs. Daut wedded George Brill at Dayton, Ohio, and to this union were born the following children: George, a farmer of Van Wert county; John, of Paulding county, Ohio, and Anna, wife of James Miller, of Van Wert county. Mrs. Brill died February 17, 1896. To Mr. and Mrs. Hiller have been born nine children, viz: John, George, Martha Louise, Jacob, Margaret Carrie Victoria, Charles, Leanhart (deceased) Rudolph Richard, Frank- lin William Otto, and Frederick Lee. Since fourteen years of age Mrs. Hiller has been a true Christian woman, she and her husband being both devout Methodists. In politics Mr. Hiller is a democrat, and socially he and fam- ily are highly esteemed as kind neighbors, most desirable friends and are self-respecting citizens.
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24, 1832. Asrom Hipsher, who was a fariner, miller, carpenter and joiner, came to Ohio in 1831 and resided in Marion county until 1836, when he brought his wife and son (our subject) to Van Wert county. He first entered eighty acres of land in Pleasant township, but four years later removed to the village of Van Wert, where he resided until December, 1848, and then settled in York township, where his death occurred April 24, 1850, and that of his wife March 23, 1857. This couple were the parents of the following children: Henry; Eliza, wife of Peter Pixler; Martin, who mar- ried Sarah Traxler, and who enlisted in 1862 and died of measles in 1863; Rachel, deceased wife of the late Mr. Wappinger; Daniel, who for four years was a soldier, married Hester Tuttle, and is now a resident of Brown county, Kans. ; Nancy, wife of Joseph Tuttle, of York township, Van Wert county, Ohio, and James, who married a Miss Taylor and is a resident of Michigan.
Henry Hipsher, carpenter as well as farmer, in 1868 purchased his present farm in York township. The tract then included ninety acres only, but by additional purchases he has increased it to 154 acres, nearly all of which he has placed under cultivation. In 1854 Mr. Hipsher married Miss Mary Pixler, daughter of Henry and Mary Pixler, to which union have been born nine children in the following order: Eli, deceased husband of Emma Nash, who now resides near Ohio City; Josephine, who was first married to the late Henry Thomas, and is now the wife of Ismah Goodwin; Milly and Alexander H., both deceased; Elihu, at home; Amanda, wife of Richard Hughes; Willis, at home; Rosina, now Mrs. Edward H. Lamar, and one child who died in infancy.
August 2, 1862, Mr. Hipsher enlisted in company K, Forty-sixth Ohio volunteer in- fantry, and for three years did faithful and gallant service in defense of his country's flag.
He took part in the battles of Black River, Jackson and Missionary Ridge, being wounded in the groin, November 25, 1863, in the last- named fight, and being assisted off the field by his comrades, John W. Penn and Philip Siler. For fifteen months he was confined to the hospital, but was part of the time, during his convalescence, detailed as nurse, and was also part of the time in the commissary de- partment. July 14, 1865, he received an honorable discharge and returned to his family. In his politics Mr. Hipsher is an ardent repub- lican, and he and family, in religion, are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal church, which he aids substantially from his ample means. The social standing of Mr. Hipsher and family is with the best families of the township and county, by whom they are fully appreciated as good and useful members of the community.
'SAAC GRUBAUGH, a deceased farmer of Union township, Van Wert county, Ohio, and once a well-known citizen. was a son of Jonathan and Margaret Grubaugh, and was born in Morrow county. Ohio, April 6, 1845. Jonathan Grubaugh, the father, was born in Germany in 1780, and when a boy was brought to America by his parents, who settled among the hardy pioneers of Richland county, Ohio, and there Jonathan was reared to manliood on a farm, was twice married, and by the second marriage left as his only progeny the subject of this sketch- Isaac Grubaugh. His mature years were principally passed in Morrow county, where his death occurred in his ninety-sixth year. During his long and useful life he cleared up two wild farmis from the forests of Ohio, and was a factor in the redemption of the state from the wilderness.
Isaac Grubaugh received his literary educa-
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tion in the schools of Morrow county and was from his childhood till death a tiller of the soil. September 24, 1877, he was united in marriage with Miss Carrie Glover; in 1878 he came to Van Wert county, and purchased the farm in Union township where the family still resides, and here died April 10, 1894. Mrs. Carrie Gru- baugh was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1851, a daughter of Isaac and Nancy (Ends- ley) Glover, and bore her deceased husband five children, viz : Ora, wife of George Ben- nett; Olive M., deceased; William, Clark and Jessie. Isaac Glover, father of Mrs. Grubaugh, was also born in Coshocton county, Ohio, where he followed school-teaching and farming until 1853, when he moved to Paulding coun- ty, Ohio, and settled on a tract of wild land, which had previously been entered by his father. This land Isaac Glover cleared up and improved, and on it made a home for eighteen years, uniting his proiession as teacher with the calling of a farmer; he then came to Van Wert county and purchased a home in Hoag- lin township, where he died April 9, 1881, and where his widow still lives. He was a mem- ber of the Royal Arcanum of Van Wert, a member of the Presbyterian church, and as a republican served as township trustee and jus- tice of the peace in both Paulding and Van Wert counties, and was an upright and highly respected citizen.
Mrs. Nancy Glover was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1839, and was married at twenty years of age, bearing to her husband the following children: Mrs. Carrie Grubaugh, widow of our subject; Harriet, wife of Abra- ham Norris, of Union township; Jennie, mar- ried to Frank Bemer, of Hoaglin township; Joel, who married Anna Ludwig, now in New Mexico; Nancy, wife of Marcus Reed, of Union township, Van Wert county, Ohio: Cynthia, at home with her mother; Porter, of Van Wert; Bettie, at home; Jessie, at home,
and Sarah, deceased. Mrs. Glover is also a member of the Presbyterian church and now makes her home on the old farm in Hoaglin township, where she is highly esteemed by all her neighbors and others who have the happi- ness of knowing her. Mrs. Grubaugh, is not a member of any religious denomination, but is, as was her husband, a free contributor to the cause of religious as well as educational organizations, and to all worthy enterprises tending to the elevation of the moral and material improvement of the community in which he lives.
Isaac Grubaugh was one of the most re- spected of the residents of Union township. He was a member of Scott lodge, I. O. O. F., by the members of which he was held in the highest esteem; in politics, he was a republi- can without guile; as a citizen, he was active and useful; as a father, gentle and indulgent, and as a farmer, was skillful, industrious and successful. His untimely death, in the prime of life, suddenly occurred April 10, 1894, and his loss was a deep affliction to his family as well as a cause of sincere sorrow to the com- munity in which he had so many years led an honorable life.
e SAAC HOAGLIN, an early pioneer of I Hoaglin township, Van Wert county, Ohio, and a prominent farmer, is of German-Irish extraction, but of descent from a long line of American ancestors. His grandfather, Aaron Hoaglin, was a native of Jefferson county, Ohio, was reared to farmning. later moved to Richland county, where he be- came quite prominent, and finally died in Wyandot county in the spring of 1849. He was a hero of the Revolutionary war, in which he served the unusually long term of eight years, or during the whole struggle, and in which conflict a brother sacrificed his life.
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Aaron Hoaglin, son of the Aaron mentioned above, and his wife, Sarah (Emery) Hoaglin, were born in Jefferson county, Ohio, his birth having occurred November 6, 1800; he, also, like his father, was reared a farmer. He moved to Richland county with his father, and was there married to Miss Sarah Emery, daughter of David and Mary (Fisher) Emery, the result- ing children being named Rosella (Mrs. Har- vey), Nicholas D., David E., Isaac. Edith L. (Mrs. Reese, now deceased), Elizabeth (Mrs. Snow), Enoch. and Melissa (Mrs. Yoh). The family came to Van Wert county in 1839 and settled on the land now owned by the sub- ject of this sketch. As Aaron was the first settler in the region, the township on its erec- tion was named Hoaglin in his honor. He felled the trees on his land for a space sufficiently large to put up a log cabin, but he was more of a hunter than farmer, and had killed as many as three deer before breakfast. Those were the days of Johnny cakes and ven- ison and bear, and wild game of all kinds abounded throughout the country. For the first thirteen months of their residence here, Mrs. Hoaglin never saw a white woman, and when one did make her appearance she was German, a langugge which Mrs. Hoaglin did not understand. The father of Isaac, Aaron Hoaglin, was a man of much endurance, and on one occasion carried on his shoulder a sack of flour weighing sixty pounds from Hog creek, in Allen county, to his cabin, a distance of forty miles. Aaron was trustee of his town- ship for many years; he and wife were charter members of the United Brethren church, and in the primitive days the congregation met at their houses, but, to attend quarterly meetings, rode a distance of forty miles on horseback. In later life, however, Mrs. Hoaglin transferred her membership to the Methodists, as their house of worship was nearer to her abode, and in this faith she died May 1, 1878.
Isaac Hoaglin, whose name opens this biography, was born in Richland county, Ohio, January 29, 1836, and was consequently but three years old when he was brought with the remainder of the family to Van Wert county and Hoaglin township. He was of course reared to all the hardships of pioneer farm life. He became a leading man in the community, financially and socially; has been steward of the Methodist church, and for many years a superintendent of the Sunday-school; he is a Patron of Husbandry and member of grange No. 400. October 4, 1860, Isaac Hoaglin was united in the bonds of matrimony with Miss Sabina E. Rank, of whose family further men- tion will be found in the sketch of W. L. Rank, her brother, of Van Wert city. The children that have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Hoaglin were born in the following order: William M., July 6, 1861; Sarah E. C., January 14, 1867; Joseph E., December 22, 1872-died February 26, 1873; Rozillah Cleona May, born May 20, 1877: Pearl N., August 6, 1879; Jeremiah C., June 24, 1881; Sabina O., April 10, 1884. Mr. Hoaglin's farm comprises eighty-six acres of fine arable land, improved with a new modern residence and barn, and other farm buildings containing every convenience. In politics Mr. Hoaglin is a strong democrat, but has never been a seeker after office, being content to enjoy in quiet the high esteem in which he is held by his neigh- bors and fellow-citizens throughout the county.
ICHOLAS D. HOAGLIN, deceased, and until late a prominent farmer of Hoaglin township, and one of the oldest of the pioneers of Van Wert county, was born in Richland county, Ohio, November 4, 1830. He was nine years old when his parents brought him to Van Wert
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county, and of this county he was a continu- ous resident until his lamented death, Decem- ber 21, 1895, at the age of sixty-five years. During his residence in this county of nearly sixty years, he saw it transformed from a place fit only for the abode of wild beasts into a beautiful and prosperous country, inhabited by a highly civilized people. His life was spent constantly on the farm, and farming was his sole and constant occupation.
On July 3, 1856, he was married to Mary Anderson, a daughter of Rugh and Catherine (Drake) Anderson, who removed from Carroll county to Allen county, Ohio, in 1840, where Mr. Anderson purchased a farm of 160 acres in Monroe township, upon which farm he spent the rest of his life. At first Mr. Anderson was a whig in politics, but later he became a re- publican. He and his wife had the following children: Andrew, Rachel, Jacob, John, Jennie, Abraham, W. T., Mary, David, Robert, and Joseph. The mother of these children died September 16, 1857, and the father died in October, 1873.
Mr. Hoaglin after his marriage settled down upon a farm in Hoaglin township of sixty-three acres, and he made it what it is to-day-a good farm. Afterward he purchased twenty-four acres in Ridge township, and upon this farm he erected good buildings, including house, barn, and such other out-buildings as were needed on a modern farm. In politics he was a domocrat and took an active interest in the success of his party. He served as township trustee, as clerk and as assessor, holding each of the last two offices six years. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he had been a class leader for thirty-one years. Toward the support of his church he contributed most liberally, in money and also through moral and social methods. He and his wife were parents of the following children: Isaac W .; Phoebe A. ; Joseph L., and John N.,
all well educated and all well known throughout the township and county.
J. N. Hoaglin, son of our subject, was born May 31, 1864. He spent his boyhood on the farm until he was twenty years old, when he went west, remaining one year. Mr. Hoaglin when a young man took a special course in penmanship and has taught several classes. February 4, 1894, Mr. Hoaglin married Orpha Lusk, daughter of R. G. and Louisa Lusk, prominent people of Adams county, Ind. Mrs. Hoaglin lived only nineteen months after mar- riage. She was born in Auglaize county, Ohio, May 22, 1873. No children were born. Mr. Hoaglin now makes his home with his mother, having succeeded, on the death of his father, to the management of the homestead. Mr. Hoaglin is a member of the Methodist Episco- pal church, and in politics is a democrat.
Turning now to the ancestry of the Hoag- lin family. The grandfather of Nicholas D. Hoaglin was Aaron Hoaglin. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and one of the first settlers of Jefferson county, Ohio. Later he removed to Richland county, and still later to Van Wert county. Here he entered 240 acres of land, which was afterward settled upon and improved by his sons. He died in Richland county in 1840, a highly respected citizen and one who enjoyed the confidence and esteem of a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
Aaron Hoaglin, his son, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Rich- land county, Ohio, and removed his family to Van Wert county, in 1839, in a wagon, mak- ing the journey almost wholly through a new country. His wife remained in Van Wert, then a hamlet of only five cabins and on the frontier, while Mr. Hoaglin erected a log cabin for the reception of his family. This cabin when completed stood in the primitive woods surrounded by frog swamps. Nevertheless, the family contrived to make themselves com-
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fortable, and to perinit therein the holding of religious services, both Mr. and Mrs. Hoaglin being ardent members of the Methodist Episco- pal church. Mr. Hoaglin aidcd his denomina- tion largely during those early days, not only in the way of erecting their first house of wor- ship, but he also sustained the society in every other way in his power. He was a democrat in politics and held the office of township trus- tee for several terms. He was also honored by his fellow-pioneers by being considered the most prominent early settler in the township, and in being recognized by them as a valuable citizen and kind neighbor, in such a manner as to perpetuate his memory by naming one of the townships of Van Wert county in his honor. His death occurred in 1864. His wife, Sarah Emery, was born in 1807. They were married in 1827 and she died May 1, 1878.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Hoaglin were as follows: Rosell A., wife of O. H. Harvey, of Monroeville, Ind. ; Nicholas D., the subject of this sketch; David E., a farmer of Union township; Isaac, a fariner of Hoaglin town- ship; Edith, dcceased wife of Henry Reese: Enoch M., a farmer of Union township; Melissa, wife of Benjamin Yoh, of Van Wert. The mother of these children was a inost devoted member of the Methodist Episco- pal church.
J OHN M. GARDNER, a farmer and ex- soldier of Hoaglin township, Van Wert county, Ohio. is of good old colonial stock, his ancestors having come from England in an early day. From these hardy colonists, descended Jesse Gardner, grandfather of our subject, who was for many years a citi- zen of New Jersey, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died in New Jersey.
Reuben C. Gardner, son of Jesse and father of our subject, was born in Essex county. N.
J., February 28, 1811, but was reared in Orange county, in the same state, where he served an apprenticeship of three years at shoc- making. He was an unusually well-iuformed man, although self-taught chiefly, receiving, however, the meager advantage of the common schools of his early day. He first married Susan L. Myrick, who bore him the following children: Lydia A., Jesse H. (died young), Jesse W. (died while serving in the Thirty- second Ohio volunteer infantry). Valera (died young), Phebe I., John M. (our subject), Har- riet, Josephine and Susan. The inother of these children died August 1, 1848, a devout member of the Methodist church, and the second marriage of Mr. Gardner was to Lydia Roloson, daughter of Joseph Roloson, and to this union were born, Sarah (died in infancy), Seth, Joseph E. (died at twenty-one years), Eunice, Jane (died at eighteen), Ciers, Lem- uel J., Martin L., Helen, Rueben P., Walter and Ida M .- the four last named deceased. The second Mrs. Gardner died April 11, 1888, in the Presbyterian faith, and the third mar- riage of Mr. Gardner was with Lucy Baldwin. MI. Gardner has always been active and promi- nent in church work and was an elder and exhorter in the Methodist church for many years, but is now a member of the Presbyte- rian church, it being nearer his home. He has been living on his fertile farm of 125 acres in Delaware county, Ohio, since February 16, 1855, where he enjoys the respect of the sur- rounding community. In politics he is a strong prohibitionist.
John M. Gardner was born in Delaware county, Ohio, January 29, 1845, and has been a farmer from his youth. August 22, 1862. he enlisted in company K. One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry. and served in the campaigns of Kentucky, Tennes- see and Georgia, participating in the battle of Perrysville, Ky., and the skirmish at Triune,
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Tenn. ; and at Chickamauga, Ga., on the second day of the two-day fight, September 20, 1863, was struck by a fragment of shell (2 by } inches), which buried itself in the fleshy part of his hip, and so disabled him that he was unfitted for further service and was honorably discharged May 30, 1865. He still retains in his possession this fragment of shell and still limps from the injury it inflicted. The mar- riage of Mr. Gardner took place December IS, 1868, to Miss Olive Lewis, daughter of Mor- gan S. and Mary (Shoemaker) Lewis. The father, Morgan S. Lewis, was born in Onon- daga county, N. Y., August 10, 1826, and the mother, Mary Shoemaker, was born in Dela- ware county, Ohio, September 2, 1828; they were married in Delaware county, where the mother still resides. The father owned a grist and saw-mill in Morrow county, Ohio, which he successfully operated until a short time be fore his death, December 30, 1887, a member of the Methodist church, in which he had long been a steward and class leader. In pol- itics he was a prohibitionist. The grandfather of Mrs. Gardner, Morgan Lewis, also was born in Onondaga county, N. Y., July 10, 1808, was likewise a miller as well as mill- wright, and married Cyrena Schofield, in Onondaga county, N. Y. They both died in Morrow county, Ohio. The great-grandfather of Mrs. Gardner was Jonathan Lewis, who was born and reared in Onondaga county, N. Y., but passed his latter days in Morrow county, Ohio. The children born to Mrs. Gardner's parents were named. Josephine, Olive, Cynthia, Lester E., William J., Orrin J. and Cyrena, all still living.
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Gardner came to their present home of 125 acres soon after marriage, and have had born to them the fol- lowing family: Orson M., who has been a teacher for six years, and is now engaged in his profession in Mercer county, Ohio; Edith,
Jessie, Lewis, Ralph C., Mary and Agnes. Mr. Gardner's farm is improved with a mod- ern-built residence and a substantial harn and other suitable structures, and is excellently well cultivated. In politics he is a republican and has served in the position of township trustee; he has long been steward and class leader in the Methodist churche and a Sunday-school teacher; he is also a member of grange No. 1333, and is notable as an energetic and use- ful citizen. Subject's maternal great-grand- father was in the battle of Monmouth in the Revolution.
EORGE M. HOAGLIN, the popular superintendent of the public schools and civil engineer of Scott, Ohio, and a member of one of the oldest fam- ilies of Van Wert county, was born in Hoaglin township July 23, 1861, and is a son of David E. and Elizabeth (Snyder) Hoaglin, a bio- graphical record of whom will be found in the sketch of the Hoaglin family.
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