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this section of Ohio and of one that sent forth from Massachusetts its (mota of patriot soldiers to render valiant service in the war of the Revolution. Mrs. Phoebe (Carr) Clock was summoned to the life eternal about the year 1873, at the age of seventy-nine years, and the older gen- eration in Huron County recall her as a woman of gentle and gracious personality, both she and her husband having been members of the Pres- byterian Church, though the original religious faith of the Clock family was that of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Reared to manhood in Huron County and afforded the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period, David Clock learned in his youth, at Monroeville, the trade of harnessmaker and saddler, at which he beeame a skilled workman. At Monroeville was solemnized his marriage to Miss Emma Bishop. who was born at Mayville, the judicial center of Chautauqua County, New York, near the head of the beautiful Chautauqua Lake, and who was reared to adult age in her native county, she having been a young woman at the time of the family removal to Ohio, She continued her residence in Erie County until the time of her death and was one of the gentle and revered pioneer women of the county at the time when she was summoned to the life eternal, her death having occurred in the Village of Huron, in November, 1812, and her age at the time having been seventy-seven years. Both she and her hus- band were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of three sons and one daughter and the third born, Vernon, died at the age of nine years; Tallien M., of this review, was the first in order of birth ; Ilarvey is a well known eitizen of Lorain County and his only child, Tallien M., was named in honor of the subject of this sketch ; Mary B. is the wife of Samuel Overhold and they now reside in the City of Seattle, Washington.
Tallien M. Clock was born at Monroeville, Huron County, on the 4th of October, 1857, and his early educational advantages were those afforded in the public schools of that village. In his youth he served a practical apprenticeship to the printer's trade, and after having followed the same for several years in his native county he went to the City of Chieago in 1882 and there found employment as a compositor in the office of the old Chicago Times, of which the erratic but celebrated Wilbur 1. Story was then the publisher. After remaining two years in the great western metropolis Mr. Clock returned to Erie County and became asso- ciated with his father, who had in the meanwhile retired from the work of his trade and become the founder of the Erie County Reporter, as intimated in a preceding paragraph of this article. In the practical management of the business of the Reporter Tallien M. Clock continued to be his father's valued coadjutor until the death of the latter, in 1905. when he assumed individual control and ownership of the plant and business. Ile has since continued his effective enterprise as editor and publisher of the Reporter, maintains his newspaper and job-printing plant at an excellent modern standard and has made the Reporter one of the model weekly journals of this section of the Bnekeye State, the Reporter being independent in its political policies, as previously inti- mated.
Though his paper is maintained as a non-partisan publication, this does not imply that Mr. Clock holds a neutral personal attitude in poli- ties, for he accords a staunch allegiance to the republican party and has been active and influential in its local councils and campaign manoeu- vers. He has served frequently as delegate to county, state and con- gressional conventions of his party, but has at no time manifested the proclivities of the so-called offensive partisan. Mr. Clock served six years as clerk of the village board of education, and held for some time the
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office of president of the village council of Huron. He succeeded Wil- liam C. Heyman as mayor, filling out the latter's unexpired term, and then being elected to the office for the regular term of two years, his administration having been signally progressive and having inured greatly to the benefit of Huron. Since 1900 Mr. Clock has held the Government office of collector of the Port of Huron. He is a charter member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and in the same has passed all of the official chairs.
The marriage of Mr. Clock was solemnized at Huron. Mr. Cloek's only child is Marian, who is a young woman of culture and marked executive ability. She was graduated in Oberlin College as a member of the class of 1907. and thereafter was an official of the Young Woman's Christian Association in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, for two years, after which she held for some time the position of assistant registrar of her alma mater, Oberlin College. She now has the distinetion, of being assistant manager of the Ajax-Grube Rubber Company, in the City of Cleveland.
CHARLES EBERT. Prominent among the stirring, wide-awake business men of Erie County, one who has been the architect of his own fortunes and has succeeded in the development of a large and paying business. is Charles Ebert, who is the proprietor of a wholesale butchering busi- ness. He entered upon his career as an agriculturist, gradually added the breeding of live stock to his activities, and finally entered, in a modest way, the butchering business. This latter he has developed to large proportions, and now is doing a very satisfying business within the corporation limits of Iluron, on the Bogart Road.
Charles Ebert was born in the City of Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1876, and is a son of Louis and Catherine (Herbell) Ebert. Ilis parents, natives of New York State and of German parentage, have spent the greater part of their lives in Erie County, where the father has been for some years a successful wholesale butcher and farmer. They now make their home in Oxford Township, where they are well known and highly respected among the people with whom they have lived and labored for many years. The public schools of Oxford Township furnished Charles Ebert with the foundation for his education, and since leaving them he has added to his learning by study, experience and observation. He was brought up on the home farm and seenred a knowledge of both farming and butch- ering, so that at the time of his marriage he was ready to embark upon a career of his own. In 1906 he came to his home farm, located in Huron Township, where he has thirty-eight acres, all under a high state of cultivation, on which he raises the various products of this section. Possessed of progressive ideas, he uses the most modern methods in his work and has demonstrated their value by the excellent results he has attained. In addition to this property, Mr. Ebert has a ninety-five-acre tract in Berlin Township. Erie County, which he purchased in 1914. and which he uses largely for a stock farm. While Mr. Ebert grows a large amount of grain, the greater part of this is fed to the stock that he butchers, for his wholesale trade has grown to large proportions, and he kills about fifty head of stock each week, including sheep and hogs. Both of his properties give evidence of the presence of good manage- ment and thrift, and both may boast of substantial and commodious buildings of all kinds. Mr. Ebert is known not only as a skilled agri- enlturist and excellent judge of cattle and other live stock, but as a business man whose straightforward dealings have won him the confi- dence of those who have been at various times associated with him. A
Chas Ebert.
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democrat in politics, he is known as one of the influential party men of his locality, and at the present time is rendering capable service as a member of the Town Council of Huron.
Mr. Ebert married Miss Rose Schwenk, who was born at Sandusky May 12, 1878, and was reared and well educated there in the public schools. Her father, Mathias Schwenk, died there some twenty years ago, but her mother still survives and is making her home with her children, aged past sixty years. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ebert: Dorothy E., aged thirteen years, in the eighth grade in the public schools, and a member of the Presbyterian Church; Cath- erine, who is twelve years old and a scholar in the seventh grade ; Virginia E., aged eight years, and attending school; Rosemary, aged six years; and Carl William, the baby, aged one year.
LEWIS KUNL. On the fine farm which is his present place of resi- dence. in IIuron Township, Lewis Kuhl was born and reared, and he is a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this county, where his father settled fully seventy years ago and became a factor in the civic and industrial development of this now favored and opulent section of the old Buckeye State. He whose name introduces this sketch has fully maintained the prestige of the name which he bears and is one of the progressive and representative agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county, where he stands exemplar of productive industry, of utmost civic loyalty and of that sterling integrity that ever begets objective confidence and good will. He is one of the honored and influen- tial farmers of Iluron Township and is a man who is specially entitled to specific recognition in this history.
On his present farm, which has always been his home and the stage of his well ordered activities, Lewis Kuhl was born on the 31st of March, 1860, and he is a son of Peter and Philipina (Meyer) Kuhl. Peter Kuhl was born in the Kingdom of Hesse-Cassel, Germany, in the year 1817, and his parents passed their entire lives in that section of the great Empire of Germany. In his native place Mr. Kuhl was reared to adult age and in the early '40s, as a young man, he came with his elder brother Henry to America, the two having embarked on a sailing vessel at Bre- men, and having landed in the port of New York City after a voyage of five weeks' duration. From the national metropolis they took passage up the Hudson River and finally proceeded by Erie Canal to Buffalo, from which port they crossed Lake Erie and landed at Cleveland, Ohio, which city was then a mere village, where they were importuned to take a farm in what is now the center of the city, but they decided that the land was too rough and too heavily timbered to meet their approval, and so missed an opportunity of which only supernatural prescience could have had recognition. From Cleveland the sturdy young Germans proceeded up Lake Erie to Erie County, and here Henry Kuhl pur- chased a tract of wild land in Vermilion Township, Erie County at that time having been still an integral part of IInron County. On this origi- nal homestead, which he reclaimed and placed under effective cultivation Henry Kuhl and his wife reared their children and there they continued to reside until their death, both having attained to measurably advanced age.
Peter Kuhl, father of the subject of this review, purchased a tract of timbered land in the southern part of Huron Township, and on the present Iluron and Milan road, though when he obtained the property publie highways were noticeable chiefly for their absence or primitive condition. The zeal and energy which he brought to bear in the reelaim- ing and improving of his farm soon brought a definite transformation in
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the same, and success awarded his herculean labors and indefatigable perseverance. In the midst of a virtual forest wilderness Peter Kuhl felled the trees and made the clearing on which he erected his pioneer log cabin, which was the original domicile of the family,-a home of erude facilities but one of peace and happiness, its hospitality having fully justified the statement that its latehstring was always out. In 1867 Mr. Kuhl gave evidence of his prosperity by erecting on his farm the substantial frame house of seven rooms that is now occupied by his son Lewis and that is in an excellent state of preservation, as it was builded with the serupulous care that was more in evidence in the pioneer days than at the present time, when pretentiousness often supplants solidity. One of the steadfast and upright citizens and industrious farmers of Erie County, Mr. Kuhl continued to reside in this pleasant home until he was summoned to the life eternal, on the 17th of July, 1876, shortly before attaining to the age of sixty years.
In the year 1845 was here solemnized the marriage of Peter Kuhl to Miss Philipina Meyer, and they began their wedded life in the primitive log house of which mention has been made. Mrs. Kuhl survived her honored husband by a score of years and remained at the old home until she was summoned to eternal rest, on the Ist of May, 1907, at the venerable age of eighty-two years and eleven months. She was born and reared in Baden, Germany, and as a young woman of twenty-one years she came alone to the United States, her arrival in the port of New York City having occurred on her twenty-first birthday anniversary and the sailing vessel on which she had taken passage having consumed forty-nine days in crossing the Atlantie. Coming to Cleveland, Ohio, she was there employed in a domestie capacity for eight months, and she then came to Erie County, where her marriage was solemnized within a comparatively short period after she had formed the acquaintance of Peter Kuhl, to whom she proved a devoted wife and helpmeet,-a woman of gentle and kindly nature and one who was loved by all who came within the sphere of her influence. Mr. and Mrs. Kuhl were earnest members of the Reformed Church, always did their part in supporting those things that conserved the social and material welfare of the community, and in poli- ties Mr. Kuhl was always found aligned as a loyal advocate of the principles of the republican party. These honored pioneer citizens became the parents of three sons and five daughters, all of whom are living except one son and one danghter. Three of the daughters still reside in Erie County and the other daughter is the wife of George Kuhl, their home being at Covington, Kentucky. All of the sons and danghters are married and well established in life.
On his present farm, of which he has been the owner for a number of years, Lewis Kuhl passed the period of his childhood and youth under benignant influences, and he early began to contribute his aid in the work of the place. He has here continued his aetive association with the great fundamental industries of agriculture and stockgrowing without inter- ruption, and he has proved a specially progressive and successful expo- nent of these important lines of enterprise. His farm comprises 110 acres of most fertile and productive land and the same is devoted to diversified agriculture, the growing of potatoes and other vegetables and to the raising of excellent grades of livestock, serupulous care being given in the upkeep of all the farm buildings and thrift and prosperity being in evidence on every side.
Mr. Kuhl has not hedged himself in with mere individual interests but has taken his share in the supporting of all things tending to foster the general welfare of the community. His political allegiance is given without reservation to the republican party and while he has had no ambi-
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tion for public office his civic loyalty has caused him to give effective service as school director of his district, a position of which he has been the incumbent since 1899. the while his service as a member of the school board of Iluron Township has covered a period of fully half this dura- tion. Ile and his wife are zealons members of the Presbyterian Church and both are actively identified with Milan Grange of the Patrons of Ilnsbandry. in the affairs of which they are specially influential, Mr. Knhl being steward of this grange in 1915 and his wife holding in the same the office of Pomona.
In Milan Township. this county, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kuhl to Miss Helen L. Wikel, who was born in that township on the 3d of Jannary, 1863, and who is a daughter of Charles and Ilelen ( Root ) Wikel. Mr. Wikel was born and reared in Baden, Germany, and was a young man when he came to America and established his home in Erie County. He became one of the successful farmers of Milan Township. where he passed the remainder of his life. His wife was born in Massa- chusetts and was reared in the State of New York. Both were consistent communicants of the Lutheran Church. In the concluding paragraph of this article is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Kuhl.
Lewis P., Jr., graduated from the ITuron High School, class of 1904. and is now his father's valued assistant in the operation of the home farm. lle married Winifred Kellar, and they have one child, Paul Edward. ('arl W., who is a carpenter by trade and vocation, married Miss Clara Maroney, and they reside in the Village of Iluron. They have one child, Jean Ruth. Frederick A., who is employed as a steam-crane operator in the Village of IIuron, married Miss Mary Thorne. Albert F., who, like the other children, received the advantages of the public schools of Erie County, was graduated in the Ohio State University, in the City of Columbus, in 1912, and he is now a member of the class of 1917 in the medical department of Western Reserve University, in the City of Cleve- land. Elmer, who was graduated in the Huron High School. class of 1912, is now employed in Youngstown, Ohio, as weighmaster and recorder for the Republic Iron and Steel Company's works. Ida R., the youngest of the children, was graduated in the Huron Iligh Sehool as a member of the class of 1915 and remains at the parental home, a popular factor in the social activities of the community.
AUGUST II. SCHEID. "Cedar Towers." the beautiful rural home of Mr. Scheid and his family, is most attractively situated on his fine landed estate in the southwestern part of Hurton Township, and with Mrs. Scheid as its gracious and popular chatelaine this idyllie home has he- come a center of most gracious and cultured hospitality, the family being one of special prominence in the representative social activities of this favored section of Erie County. Mr. Scheid is a seion of one of the old and honored German families of this county and has gained foremost rank among the substantial and progressive farmers and stock-growers of this section of the state, the while he is known for his civie loyalty and publie spirit and commands the high regard of the people of the county in which he has maintained his home from the time of his birth.
Anton Scheid, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review. was born in the old Duchy of Nassau. now a part of the Province of ITesse-Nassau, Germany, his birth having occurred in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the family having been for many generations one of prominence in that section of the great German Empire. Anton Scheid was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm in his fatherland and in the same province his wife was born and reared. There
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were born their children-Peter, Charles, William, Emma, Nettie and Celia. In 1852 the entire family immigrated to the United States, and the long period of sixty-five days elapsed ere the old-time sailing vessel on which they took passage arrived in the port of New York City. Within a short time after landing on American shores the family came to Omo, and their original location was at Monroeville, Huron County, in which vicinity the father and his sons were identified with farm opera- tions for the ensuing two years, at the expiration of which removal was made to Erie County. Here the son, Witham Scheid, purchased a traet of land in Oxford Township, placing it under cultivation. Anton Scheid and his wife passed the remainder of their lives at Pontiac, Huron County, and both attained to advanced age. They were devout commu- nicants of the German Lutheran Church and were folk of strong char- acter and sterling worth, their names meriting enduring place on the roster of the honored pioneers of Huron County. Of their children three are now living and all are residents of Huron County-Charles, Mrs. Janet Heiman, and Mrs. Emma Miller.
William Scheid, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1828. was reared and educated in his native land and was a young man of twenty-four years at the time of the family immigration to America, his elder brothers likewise having been bachelors at the time and all of the sons and daughter having married in Ohio, where they reared large families of children. In Erie County, William Scheid wedded Miss Caroline Ohr, who was born in the German Fatherland and who was a young woman when she came with her parents and other members of the family to America, the family home having been established on a pioneer farm in Oxford Township, Erie County, Ohio, in 1855, where her parents died when venerable in years. Of the children only Mrs. Scheid and her sister, Mrs. Brown, are now living.
After their marriage William Scheid and his equally devoted and am- bitious young wife began their connubial life on a farm in Oxford Township, their original home having been a pioneer log house, but the passing years having brought to them large and well-merited prosperity, Mr. Scheid having been the owner of a valuable and well-improved landed estate and having been an honored and influential citizen at the time of his death, which occurred on his old homestead in Oxford Town- ship, in 1905, at which time he was seventy-seven years of age. Ile was a man of indomitable energy and mature judgment and his success was achieved by honest and earnest endeavor as one of the world's productive workers. His political support was given to the democratic party and none has entered more thoroughly into the spirit of American institutions and ideals. He was a consistent communicant of the Lutheran Church. of which his widow has been a devout adherent from the time of her girlhood, she still retaining her residence in Oxford Township and hav- ing celebrated her eightieth birthday anniversary in January. 1915. Though her physical powers have waned with the advancing years, she retains her mental alertness unimpaired, is fruitful in interesting remi- niseenees concerning the early days in Erie County and is one of the revered pioneer women of this section of the state. Of the children the eldest is William, who is one of the representative farmers of Huron Township. He married Miss Catherine Crecelius and they have two sons and two daughters. Emma, the next in order of birth, is the wife of Daniel Ileyman, a prosperous farmer in Huron County, and they have two sons and six daughters. August H., of this review, was the next in order of birth. Albert, who is a successful farmer in Oxford Township, married Miss Catherine Gastier, and they have three sons and one daughter. Adolph died in April, 1915. Ile was on the old homestead
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farm in Oxford Township, wedded Miss Ann Kaltenbach, and they had two sons and one daughter. Bertha is the wife of Frank Balduff, a farmer of Oxford Township, and they have one son.
At the old homestead in Oxford Township August H. Scheid was born on the 30th of October, 1866, and while early initiating his association with the practical work of the farm he did not fail to take proper advan- tages of the educational opportunities afforded him in the public schools, after completing the curriculum of which he took an effective course of study in the Ohio State Normal School at Wauseon and Milan, Ohio. Ilis active and independent career has been one of close and successful identification with the great fundamental industries of agriculture and stockgrowing, of which he has become one of the prominent and substan- tial representatives and exponents in his native county. In 1902 Mr. Scheid purchased 19212 acres of land in Huron Township, and this exceptionally fertile and productive tract constitutes his present fine homestead, upon which he has made many improvements-all of the best modern order. He erected his splendid farm residence of twelve rooms, modern in architectural design and in all appointments and equipments, and the other buildings on the place are of the best order, including a barn 38x68 feet in lateral dimensions. Everything about this fine rural domain indicates careful management, progressiveness and thrift, and Mr. Scheid and his family may consider themselves sigually favored in having for their home so admirable a rural demesne. Nearly the entire farm is available for cultivation. He is essentially a practical farmer, but is ever ready to adopt the most approved scientific methods and machinery in carrying forward the various operations of the farm, so that he makes of success not an accident but a logical result. ITis progressiveness has been infectious and he has not been self-centered, but rather has done all in his power to further the interests of the farming community, and the civic and industrial prestige of his native county. lle was foremost in promoting the organization of the lluron Farmers' Institute, was elected its first president and is now the valued incumbent of this position. Ife and his wife have been prominent and influential in the work of the Patrons of Husbandry and are numbered among the most active and zealous members of the Huron Grange of this organiza- tion, as are they also of the Erie County Farmers' Institute. They are wideawake, loyal and enterprising, and the atmosphere of their beautiful home is that of distinctive culture and refinement.
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