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John Wise, father of Jacob E .. was born in Germany, June 16, 1809, and when a boy was brought to Ohio by his parents, who set- tled in Green township, Summit county, Ohio, where his father purchased the farm alluded to above. John here grew to manhood, and married Miss Catherine Semler, who was born in Germany, March 24, 1827, a daughter of Michael Semler, and to this union were born two children -- Charles, who married Mary
Stametz, and resides in Stark county, and Jacob E., whose name opens this biographical sketch. John Wise assisted in clearing up the original homestead, and on his father's death, succeeded to its possession.
John prospered greatly in his management of the place, and became a highly respected citizen. He served as a member of the school board, and was an active member of the Lutheran church, in the faith of which he died April 5, 1895. His widow is now seventy years of age, and makes her home with her son, Jacob E. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Wise were also natives of Germany, but carly settlers of Ohio, Michael Semiler being a stonemason. To his marriage were born six children, of whom five are still living; of these Mrs. Wise, mother of Jabob E .. is the eldest; Frederick is the next in order of birth; Caroline is the wife of Jona- than Snyder, and Godfrey and John are the other two survivors; Jacob was the name of the deceased child. Mr. and Mrs. Semler died in the faith of the Methodist church, and had been among the steady-going -and sub- stantial residents of the township.
Jacob E. Wise was reared a practical farmer, was educated in the common schools of his district, and has lived on the home- stead all his life, with the exception of five years, when he was employed in the sewer- pipe works of his neighborhood. He was united in marriage, September 25. 1892, with Miss Elizabeth Sloat, daughter of Monroe and Mary Ann (Oberlin) Sloat, and this union has been blessed with two daughters, Vernie C. and Mary Jrene. Mrs. Elizabeth Wise was born in Jackson township, Stark county, Ohio, December 5, 1874, of which county her par- ents were also natives, the father having been born in Lake, and the mother in Jackson township; they now reside in Green township, Summit county, and of their children six are
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still living, viz: Elizabeth (Mrs. Wise), Charles, Sarah, William, Mary and Bessie. Mr. Sloat has been a farmer from his youth upward, is a highly respected citizen and has served as school director for some years. Mr. and Mrs. Wise are consistent members of the Lutheran church:, and have so lived as to merit the re- spect of all who know them, and which is be- stowed upon them in a very marked degree.
ON. SIMON PERKINS WOLCOTT, of Kent, Portage county, was born in Summit county, Ohio, January 30, 1837, a son of Alfred and Mary Ann (Scovill) Wolcott, natives, respectively, of Ohio and New Haven, Conu., and paternally descends from Henry Wolcott, who came from England in 1633 and settled in New England.
Alfred Wolcott, grandfather of subject, was the first of the family to settle permanently in Ohio, was a school-teacher and surveyor, and founded his home in Summit county. To the parents of our subject were born eleven chil- dren, five dying in infancy and Andrew Au- gustus in the army; four are still living: Simon P., the subject of this memoir; John M., a resident of Grand Rapids, Mich .; Anna Al- gusta, wife of Rev. Lemuel C. Bissell, a Pres- byterian minister of Monroe, Mich. ; Alfred, an attorney of Grand Rapids, Mich .; Fremont C .. was a manufacturer in Canton, Ohio, and died in that city in the fall of 1895.
Simon P. Wolcott, the subject proper of this memoir, received his elementary education in the country schools of Summit county, and at the age of fourteen years entered Hiram institute (now Hiram college), which he at- tended three winters. He then taught school a few terms, re-entered Hiram institute and was prepared for college, partly under the pie- ceptorage of his former fellow-student, James A. Garfield --- a life-long friend. He next en-
tered the Western Reserve college at Hudson. Summit county, from which he was graduated in 1862, and then read law with Hon. H. B Forrester, of Hudson, and later read with Judge N. D. Tibbals, of Akron, and in the latter city was admitted to the bar in 1864. He at once settled in Kent for the practice of his profession, and is now the oldest lawyer in the city, and for ten years was, and now is, the attorney for the Erie Railway company.
A stanch republican in politics, Mr. Wol- cott has risen to prominence in his party and state. His first public office was that of men- ber of the school board of Kent, which he filled ten years; was also city solicitor of Kent two terms; was elected the second mayor of the city in 1866, and was re-elected, serving two terms, and has also served as a member of the committee of school examiners. In the fall of 1881 he was elected to the state senate to represent the senatorial district comprising the counties of Portage, Summit, Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula, and so satisfactorily did he perform the arduous duties of this office, he was re-elected to succeed himself in the fall of 1883. During these two terms he served on the railroad committee, the judiciary commit- tee, was chairman of the committee on sol- diers and sailors' orphans' homes, and of the committee on the school for feeble-minded youths, at Columbus. As a member of the railroad committee one grand speech made his name famous throughout the state, and this was an argument before the committee of the whole senate in opposition to the Brigham bill (senate bill, No. 10) for the regulation of transportation rates by railways, and this was so fair and convincing that the railway com- panies printed and circulated 5,000 copies of the argument in pamphlet form. For six years Mr. Wolcott has also served as deputy state supervisor of elections of Ohio for Por- tage county, having been appointed to the
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office by the secretary of state. April 28, 1884, he was appointed by Gov. Mckinley one of the board of managers of the reformatory at Mansfield, and under this administration there was erected one of the finest buildings of its kind in the country. Mr. Wolcott has also been appointed attorney for Ohio to represent the county of Portage and five or six adjoining counties, under Dr. B. F. McNeil, food com- missioner of Ohio, in 1894, and still holds this office.
Mr. Wolcott was happily married, July 17, . 1866, to Miss Mary Helen Brewster, daugh- ter of Anson A. and Sally P. (White) Brew- ster, the former a merchant of Hudson, Ohio, and a direct descendant of Elder Brewster, who came to America with the Puritans. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Wolcott has been blessed with three children, named as follows: Nellie B., who is a teacher in Kent; Jennie B., married to E. S. Parsons, of Kent, and Dancan B., who graduated from the Western Reserve college in June, 1896, was his class orator, and is now a law student.
Mr. Wolcott has not only won the reputa- tion of being one of the foremost lawyers and statesmen of the state of Ohio, but is recog- nized in his community, as being one of the most energetic citizens of Kent, the prosperity of which city has always been one of his chief aims and the promotion of the material in- terests of which has been his constant study.
IEUT. FRANCIS H. WRIGHT, of Tallmadge, Ohio, one of the old sol- diers of the Civil war, a respected citizen and descendant of one of the best families and first pioneers, was born July 7. 1834, at Talmadge, a son of Francis H. and Eliza (Fenn) Wright. He received an aca- demic education in the excellent academy at Tallmadge and was one winter at the agricult- 43
ural college in Cleveland, Ohio. He was reared to farming and enlisted in the Onio national guards in the winter of 1862-63 to serve five years, was elected first lieutenant and was called out with his company by Gov. Brough and mustered into the United States service May 11, 1864, at Cleveland, as first lieutenant of company D, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, for 100 days. He served out his time and was honorably discharged at Camp Cleveland, Ohio, August 27, 1864, having served about four months.
His service was at Arlington Heights, Va., opposite Washington, D. C., on guard duty. Mr. Wright was always an active and efficient officer and always on duty, and prompt and and cheerful in its discharge. He was not in hospital and was always well and hardy. After the war Mr. Wright returned to Tallmadge and has since been engaged on the farm. He married January 28, 1858, at Akron, Ohio, Harriet Eliza Killbourne, born January 29, 1838, in Akron, a daughter of Louis and Eliza (McCune) Killbourne, and to this union have been born four children, viz: Winnifred B., who died June 10, 1882; Elberta C., Fran- cis H. and lda L. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wright settled on their present home- stead, and for the last six years has been en- gaged in dairy farming. He is a member of Buckley post, G. A. R., at Akron. In politics he is a republican and has served as a member of the board of education several terms. He was a member of the board when the present high school was organized and clerk of the board for some years. Mr. Wright is a well known and respected citizen and stands high for integrity of character.
Elizur Wright, grandfather of subject, was born at Westfield. Litchfield county, ( onn. He had a good education, probably acquired at Yale college. He married Rhoda Homer, in
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Connecticut, for his first wife, and their chil- dren were Polly, Harriet, Amelia, Francis 11. and Philo, all born in Connecticut. He mar- ried for his second wife, also in Connecticut, Clarissa Richards, and their children were Elizur, James R., Clarissa, Martha and Lucy. Two of these children were born in Tallmadge. Mr. Wright moved with his family to and settled in, Tallmadge, in 1810, on the farm where Daniel A. Upson now lives. He bought 3,000 acres of land and was one of the first teachers and founders of the Tallmadge acad- emy, which he taught six years. His home- stead consisted of 200 acres, on which he erected, in 1813 or 1814, the present substan- tiel residence in which Mr. Upson now lives. Elizur Wright was one of the founders of the Congregational church at Tallmadge and was a deacon many years. Politically he was first a whig, and next an abolitionist. He was a man of sterling character and lived to be seventy-seven years old.
Francis H. Wright, father of our subject, was born April 16, 1795, in Connecticut, and was a boy when he came to Ohio. He first married, in Tallmadge, Clarinda Fenn, and they had one child, Eliza. Mrs. Wright died, and Mr. Wright married Eliza Fenn, and their children were Clarinda, Harriet, Francis H. and Martha. Mr. Wright was a prominent pioneer and substantial farmer. He lived to the venerable age of ninety-three years and died in 1886. He was a man who was well known for his sturdy traits of character, and was respected by all.
OHN H. WUCHTER, of Norton town- ship, Summit county, Ohio, was born on the farm he now owns and occupies, April 1. 1860, and which. with the ex- ception of one year, has been his life-long residence.
John Wuchter, grandfather of the subject, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was the first of the family to come to Ohio, settling in Summit county in the pioneer days. Wuchter, son of John, and father of subject, was born in Lehigh county, Pa., January 12. 1827, and was but eight years of age winn brought to Ohio by his parents, who settled on the farm now owned by John H., the subject of this memoir. Eli was educated in the log school-house of his district in Norton town- ship, and in this township married Susan Betz, who was born August 19, 1833, a daugh- ter of John and Rebecca (Byers) Betz, the former of whom was born March 15, 1808. and died February 1, 1863, while his wife, who was born January 27, 1807, survived until December 17, 188 ;. Eli Wuchter, after
residing on the farm in Norton township for fifty-one years, removed to Johnson's post- office, in 1887, where he died April 29, 1896, and where his widow still resides. Eli was a strong republican in politics, and, with his wife, a strong adherent of the Lutheran church, in which he was an officer, and in which he was highly honored, as well as in the communi- ties in which he had lived.
John H. Wuchter received the usual con- mon-school education, and clung affectionately to the home farm until 1883, which year he passed in South Dakota. After his return to his farm in Ohio he married, May 20, 1886, Miss Ida May Souers, a native of New Port- age, Summit county, who was born November 8. 1865, and is a daughter of David and Cath- erine (Brown) Souers. The father, David Soners, was born in Summit county, Ohio, in November, 1839, and for twenty-four years was a blacksmith of New Portage; later le moved to the Reservoir in Franklin township where he followed his trade eighteen ve". and now owns a farm of seventy-seven acht :. but makes his residence in Akron. He and
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wife are parents of four children, viz: Ida M., Arthur C., Harvey and Albert R., who all attend the Disciples' church. In politics Mr. Soners i. a republican. David Souers, grand- father of Mrs. Wuchter, was a native of Penn- sylvania, and he and wife were early pioneers of Coventry township, Summit county, Ohio, where he died September 29. 1888. aged seventy-eight years, and where his widow died April 17, 1892, at the age of seventy-seven years, eight months and three days --- both members of Grace Reformed church. The three children born to Mr. and Mis. John H. Wuchter are named Charles II., Gertrude F. and Susie M.
Mr. Wuchter is a strong republican in pol- itics and is very influential with his party. During the late campaign he was called by wire to Chicago by Major Charles Dick, of Akron, and for twelve weeks his influence and advice were felt and heeded at republican headquarters in that city. In religion he is a Lutheran, while his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has a neat farm of fifty-five acres, and is highly respected as a citizen and gentleman.
H USTIN T. WOODS, M. D., of Loyal Oak, Norton township, Summit coun- ty, Ohio, was born in Union Town, Stark county, April 6, 1856, and is of English extraction, his paternal grandfather, John B. Woods, having come from England; he first located in Pennsylvania, whence he came to Ohio and made his home in Summit county and later in Stark.
J. B. Woods, father of the doctor, was born in Springfield township, this county, Decem- ber 17. 1823, and was two years of age when taken by his parents to Union Town, Stark county, where he was reared on a farm, and
he returned to Summit county and engaged in business at Altron, forging rapidly to the front as a business man and financier, realizing wealth and influence. He married Miss Susan Willis, who was born March 28, 1848, and who died June 26, 1897, the marriage result- ing in the birth of the following children: Mrs. Emily J. Andrew, Perry, John B., Dr. Austin T., and Mary, the wife of John H. Hil- bish. Mr. Woods died August 14, 1896, a member of the Universalist church, and hon- ored by all who knew him.
Dr. Austin T. Woods graduated from the Akron high school, and later graduated fromn the Akron Business college, and then entered Cleveland Medical college in the fall of 1876, from which he graduated in 1879, since which time he has been in active and lucrative prac- tice in Loyal Oak.
June 15, 1880, Dr. Woods was joined in wedlock to Miss Ella O. Harrier, who was born in Norton township, Summit county, a daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Santee) Harrier, and his only child, Lillie B., born November 25, 1882, is now attending Norton Centre high school. In politics the doctor is strongly republican, but his professional duties are too engrossing and extended to permit him to de- vote much time to political matters. He has been very successful and has won a high posi- tion as a physician and surgeon.
J OHN VOSLER WYCKOFF, a substan- tial and well-known farmer of Bath township, Summit county, Ohio, was born in New Jersey, August 16, 1821, and is a son of Tunis and Ann (Vosler) Wyck- off, also natives of New Jersey, and the for- mer of whom descended from an old colonial family
Peter Claus Wyckoff, the founder of this later cletked in a store in Union Town. In 1860 | family in America, came from the Netherlands
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in 1665, bringing with him his wife. whose maiden name was Grictye Hendrick. To this couple were born seven sons, named Claus, Hendrick, Cornelius, John, Gerritt, Martin and Peter. To the third named of this fam- ily, Cornelius, was born Simon; to Simon was born Deanis, and to Dennis was born Tunis, the father of our subject.
Tunis Wyckoff was born January 25, 1797; his wife, Aun Vosler, July 7, 1797. To their marriage were born seven children, in the fol- lowing order: Margaret Melick, May 17, 1819; John Vosler (subject), August 16, 1821; Ann Eliza, March 6, 1824; Dennis, September 21. 1826; Luke Vosler, March 23, 1829; Sarah Ellen, May 29, 1831, died March 31, 1897. and Mary, April 13, 1834. The mother of this family died May 23, 1847, and the father, May 4, 1871. Of their children, Dennis died in California May 5, 1876; Ann Eliza (Mrs. Munson), in Missouri, in October, 1884, and Luke V., in Bath township, Summit county, Ohio, in November, 1892.
John V. Wyckoff was a mere lad when he came to Ohio with his parents, who located on a farm in Wayne county. Being then the eldest boy in the family, he assisted on the home farm until 1841, when he came to Bath, Summit county, where he worked at various occupations for eight years, when he married Miss Sarah Tinkler, December 28, 1849. This lady was born in England January 4. 1829, and in 1834 was brought to America by her parents, who settled in Wayne county, Ohio, to which county Mr. Wyckoff removed after marriage and remained until 1850, when he went to California and worked in the mines two years. On his return to Summit county, in 1852, he purchased his present farm of 114 aries, in the northwestern part of Bath town- ship, about fifteen miles from Akron, which he has improved with fine buildings.
four children, viz: Ellen N., born April 14. 1853, is the wife of Webster Bowles, of Me- dina county; Luke, born October 21, 1854; Elizabeth, born July 28, 1860 -- died April 3, 1863; John Grant, born September 9, 1864 ---- died April 16, 1885. The mother of this fam- ily died Jane 22, 1891, a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal church, to which Mr. Wyckoff also adheres. In politics Mr. Wyckoff is a stanch republican. He cast his first presi- dential vote for William Henry Harrison; he has served as school director several terms, and also as assessor. He has been industrious, hardworking and prudent since the days of his youth, having assisted in clearing the Wayne county farm, as well as the one on which he now lives, and has always been respected.
Luke Wyckoff, the elder son of John V., was reared on the Bath township farm, which is now under his charge, the father having vir- tually retired from active labor. In March, 1878, Luke married Miss Omie Wise, who was born August 25, 1856, and died Novem- ber 7, 1895, leaving one daughter, Florence, born June 3, 1879. Florence is now house- keeper for her grandfather and father, and a very good housekeeper she is. She received her education in the common schools and also at the Richfield high school.
Luke Wyckoff is a stanch republican in politics. He is a member of Osborn's Corners grange, No. 1079, and is the present master. and his daughter, Flora, is organist and Ceres of the grange; she is also a member of the I. O. of G. T., No. 194, at Richfield, Ohio, at organization of about seventy-five members.
ENRY D. YOUNG, a thriving young farmer of Suffield township, wasley in Summit county, Ohio, March 11 1861, a son of David and Catherine
To the marriage of Mr. Wyckoff were born ! (Mishler) Young. He received his early edu-
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cation in the public school, which he attended until he reached the age of twenty, and here he passed his life on his father's farm, until his twenty-first year, when he commenced farming for himself. He was married, Octo- ber 4, 1881, to Miss Emma Schrantz, dangh- ter of Alfred and Fiana (Martin) Schirantz, and to their union was born a family of five children, viz: Ellen, January 5, 1883; Har- vey, November 12, 1886; Della, June 24, 1891; Bessie, April 16, 1894, and Lottie, October 1, 1896. In the spring of 1886, Mr. Young removed to the farm which he now occupies, and he and family are faithful members of the German Baptist church.
The parents of our subject were both na- tives of Lancaster county, Pa. In the days of his early manhood, the father learned the trade of a potter, and followed that trade for a number of years after coming to Summit county, Ohio. He afterward engaged in farm- ing, and in 1865, he came to Portage coun- ty, where he has since resided. He was mar- ried June 28, 1849, to Miss Catherine Mishler, daugliter of Henry and Nancy (Eberly) Mish- ler, and six children came to bless their union, of whom only three remain: Nancy, wife of Benjamin Mishier; Henry D,, and Lovina (wife of Samuel Royer); those passed away were Maria, who died in 1861, aged ten years, Louisa, who died in 1861, aged eight years, and Lizzie, who died in 1861, aged two years -these three all having died within a week of that dread disease, diphtheria. Mr. Young, father of our subject, was ordained as a minis- ter of the German Baptist church, in which he is still preaching, also being an elder of the church; both parents reside in Suffield township.
Samuel Young, paternal grandfather of Mr. Young, was a native of Pennsylvania and in his early days was a teamster, driving a team between Pittsburg and Philadelphia, Pa He !
came to Ohio and settled in Summit county, where he lived all his life. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Rhoads, and to them were born eight children, seven of whom are still living, viz: John, Henry, Simon, Samuel, David, Lovina (wife of Henry Landis) and Frederick. The grandfather was the owner of a large pottery in Summit county and also engaged in farming. He passed away Novem- ber 20, 1880, at the ripe old age of eighty-four years, eight months and ten days.
Henry Mishler, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was also a native of Pennsyl- vania and emigrated to Ohio when a small boy. He afterward located in Portage county, where he engaged in farming. He was married to Miss Nancy Eberly, and eleven children blessed this union, eight of whom are living, viz: Annie (wife of Michael Rabenstine), Susan (wife of William Mills). Catherine (wife of David Young), Jacob, Elizabeth (wife of Dan- iel Merkley), Martha (wife of Emanuel B.11- inger), Emma (wife of Joseph Stevens), and Fiana (wife of Richard F. Adams). Those who have passed on before were Henry, Oli- ver, and Polly. Mrs. Young, wife of our sub- ject, was born April 13, 1863, in Stark county, Ohio, which was the birthplace of both her parents, her father having been born Septem- ber 4, 1841. He was principally engaged in farming and also engaged in threshing. Ile was married November 5, 1861, to Miss Fiana Martin, daughter of Jacob and Maria (Surbey) Martin, and to them were born two children, Mrs. Young being the elder, and Alvin, the younger, resides in Suffield. The father died September 21, 1866, at the carly age of twenty-five years, in the faith of the German Baptist church. His widow was next married to Jacob Mishler, to whom she has borne two children, but one of whom is living -Ellen (wife of Silvanus Fausnight); John died in infancy.
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Michael Schrantz, paternal grandfather of
land, but for some years lived in Glasgow. Mrs. Young, was born October 3, 1819, in ! He and wife came to the United States in Lititz, Lancaster county, Pa,, bis parents then residing near a place known as Shaffer's Mill. . In his carly boyhood days he attended the graded school under the tutorage of Prof. John Beck, at Lititz, wher his parents cmi- grated to Stark county, Ohio; he was then in his sixteenth year, and was instructed with the driving of one of the teams. He remained with his parents on their farm, two miles north of New Berlin, Stark county, until his marriage with Miss Sally Mohler, which occurred March 15, 1840. They began housekeeping on a small tract of land in Stark county, and in the spring of 1845 removed to a farm three miles north of Canton, Ohio, where they re- sided until the spring of 1851, when they re- moved to the old homestead in Stark county, which the family have ever since occupied. Mr. Schrantz was a member of the German Baptist church and died September 12, 1887. The fruit of this marriage with Miss Mohler was eight children, viz : Alfred, Mary, Cath- arine, Malinda, John, Mahala, Henry and Sarah. 1845 and settled in the Keystone state, where Mr. Young engaged in the grocery trade in Carbondale and also engaged in draying. Later still le removed to Scranton (then known as Slocum's Hollow) and was employed as foreman in the mines of the Pennsylvania Coal company; his death took place May 20, 1892, at the age of seventy-two years, and his widow is still a resident of Scranton. They were the parents of fourteen children -- seven sons and seven daughters -- of whom thirken grew to maturity and were reared in the re- ligious faith of their parents-that of the Pres- byterian church. Of these children, James D. is superintendent of the Pennsylvania Coal com- pany's mines and resides in Dunmore, Pa .. Andrew was a molder by trade and alo a miner, and died in Scranton, Pa., December 12, 1893; Maggie is married to james Bryder and resides in Carbondale, Ill. ; Alexander B is the subject of this biography; Mary is wife of James Meers, of Hyde Park, Pa .; Belle muar- ried Alexander Smith; David is a baker an! grocer of Newburg, Ohio; Katie, Jennie and Lizzie are living with their mother; Thonles, is a foreman in Gypsy Grove colliery and lives in Dunmore, Pa .; William died in Scranton; Robert is a locomotive engineer at Scranton.
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