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CHARLES KING CLARY. The important part played by the Clary family in Erie County, and particularly in Florence Township, during fully a century of residence, has been set forth at some length on other pages, in connection with the sketch of Mark E. Clary, a cousin of Charles King Clary. While the latter is now permanently settled in the quiet routine and profitable management of a fine farm in Florence Township, his earlier career was fraught with much excitement and adventure, and for three years he was a soldier in the regular United States army, part of his service having been coincident with the Spanish- American war, and he incurred all the dangers of battle, disease and inefficient management which characterized the operations of the Ameri- can forces in the Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico.
As a farmer Mr. Clary owns one of the happily situated and excel- lent homesteads found in Florence Township on the East River Road. The 1051% acres in his farm are on the west bank of the east fork of the Vermilion River. Eighty acres of this is under improvement of cultivation and since taking possession of his farm in 1907 Mr. Clary has shown all the qualities which have made the name noted among Erie County agriculturists for generations. He grows large crops of corn, wheat, oats and potatoes, and has a small orchard of eighty apple trees, now in bearing condition. His farm equipment is well arranged and represents a considerable investment, including a number of farm buildings, and a substantial eight-room house.
Charles King Clary was born at Birmingham in Erie County, January 21, 1876. He is the grandson of the late George W. Clary, who in his time was one of the most prominent and best known citizens
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of Erie County, and who died January 15, 1899. His parents were George C. and Ella (King) Clary. Charles K. Clary was only three years of age when his father died in 1879, and his mother subse- quently married Newton Andress, who is also deceased, and is still living in Erie County. References are made to both the Andress and Clary sketches on other pages.
Charles K. Clary while growing to manhood gained the equivalent of a liberal education, attended the local schools, the schools at Oberlin, and taking a business course in the Northern Ohio University at Ada. About the time he reached his majority he enlisted in the regular army as a private, and remained in the service for the full term of three years. Until he was called into active fighting during the Cuban war, his location was chiefly at Fort Snelling in Minnesota. where he was a member of Company E of the Third United States Infantry under Colonel Page. Ilis company was sent to Cuba at the beginning of the war, and was also engaged in the brief Porto Rico campaign. He was in nearly all the important engagements on those two islands, serving in the armies of Generals Shafter and Miles. When his regi- ment went South it had the full complement of 1,000 men, but less than 300 returned alive. The heavy losses were largely attributable to the fever and to starvation. Though only a private in the ranks, Mr. Clary gave a good account of himself as a soldier, was ready to accept all the hazards and tasks either on the firing line or in other duties to which he was assigned, and largely by virtue of his physical endurance and his hardihood came out of the service alive. While in the South he was stricken with the yellow fever, and when he was finally discharged at the end of three years he could best be described as more dead than alive. Ile received his honorable discharge August 1, 1898, and while still unable to walk eame back to the old home at Berlin Heights. After partially recovering, he went West and regained his health in the min- ing regions of California. He worked as a miner and in other occupa- tions, and in 1906 returned to Erie County and soon afterwards took up farming. Mr. Clary has owned his present fine estate since 1898, having inherited it from his grandfather, George W. Clary.
While living in California Mr. Clary married Helen E. Stone, who was born in Hastings, Minnesota, September 3, 1885. When eight years of age she went to California with her parents, Albert S. and Mary E. (Bates) Stone, who are now living retired at Chico, California. Mr. and Mrs. Clary have two children: Newton A., born JJune 29, 1907 ; and IIelen A., born August 12, 1908. Mr. Clary is a republican in politics, and he and his wife attend the Methodist Episcopal Church.
OSCAR B. ILMISE. Erie County is favored in claiming as one of its progressive citizens a man who is widely known as one of the most extensive and successful horticulturists in the state, and this eitizen further merits consideration in this publication by reason of his being a native of the county and a representative of one of its honored families of the pioneer stock. He is a recognized authority in connec- tion with the industry of apple-growing, and his fine orchards lie par- tially in Florence Township, this county, and partly in Henrietta Town- ship, Lorain County. Save for twenty years' residence in the State of Kansas Mr. Haise has maintained his home in Erie County from the time of his birth to the present, and he is a citizen who commands the unqualified esteem of all who know him.
Mr. Haise has been actively engaged in the growing of the finest grades of apples since 1902, and from a comparatively modest incep- tion he has developed an industrial enterprise in this line that places him among the foremost and most extensive exponents of apple-growers
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in his native state, the while his scientific methods and progressive policies have made his example well worthy of emulation. Ilis original orchard was of his own setting, and he now owns well developed orchards that utilize the major part of a tract of seventy acres, in Florence Township, Erie County, and Henrietta Township, Lorain County, his landed estate being situated not far distant from the Village of Birmingham, where he maintains his residence. The extent of the business developed by Mr. Ilaise may be understood when it is stated that in a single year he has gathered from his fine orchards as many as 24,000 bushels of fancy apples of the highest grade, the products of his orchards finding ready and appreciative demand in the markets of Cleveland and Indianapolis, to each of which cities he makes large shipments each year, as does he also to Cincinnati.
In 1882 Mr. Ilaise established his residence on a farm in Russell County, Kansas, where he was associated with his brother, George A., in the raising and feeding of cattle on an extensive scale, their operations having involved the handling of an average of about 1,000 head of cattle annually. Mr. Haise continued his residence in the Sunflower State until 1902, when he returned to his native county and established his present important industrial enterprise.
On the pioneer homestead farm of his father, in Florence Township, this county, Oscar B. Haise was born in the year 1842, and the environ- ment and influences of the farm compassed him until he had attained to his legal majority, when he left the parental roof to go forth as a valiant soldier of the I'nion in the Civil war, his educational advantages in the meanwhile having been those afforded in the common schools of the locality and period.
In the autumn of 1863, at the age of twenty-one years, Mr. Haise enlisted as a private in the First Regiment of United States Volunteer Engineers, and with this important and valiant command he continued in active service until he was transferred to the position of hospital steward in which he served till victory had crowned the Union arms and peace had heen re-established. In the hospital service, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mr. Ilaise was retained for about one-half of the entire period of his term in the army, and he received his honorable discharge in November, 1865. He perpetuates and vitalizes the more gracious memories and associations of his military career through his active affili- ation with the Grand Army of the Republic, the ranks of which are being rapidly thinned by the one implacable adversary, death.
After the elose of the war Mr. Haise returned to Erie County, where he continued to be actively identified with agricultural pursuits until his removal to Kansas, in 1882, as previously noted. After twenty years of successful business as a cattle grower in Kansas he returned to Erie County, where he has found ample opportunity for equally successful endeavor in the field of industry to which he is giving his attention.
Mr. Haise, who has never left the ranks of eligible bachelors, is a son of Edwin and Ann E. ( Klady) Haise, both of whom were born in the State of New York and both of whom were young at the time of the immigration of the respective families to the pioneer wilds of Erie County, Ohio, both families settling in Florence Township, where the marriage of the young couple was solemnized. After his marriage Edwin Haise established his residence on a farm in Florence Township, this having been a portion of the old homestead on which his parents had settled about the close of the second decade of the nineteenth century, the place being on the present Vermilion and Florence road. On this farm Edwin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Haise, passed the remainder of their lives, the original homestead having comprised 160 acres and the same having been reclaimed from the forest by John IIaise, an hon- 1nl II 31
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ored pioneer coneerning whom more specific mention is made on other pages of this volume, in the sketch of the career of George 1. Ilaise.
Edwin Ilaise, a man of energy, integrity and mature judgment, held precedenee as one of the substantial agrieulturists and stock-growers of Erie County until his death, which occurred on the ancestral farmstead, in 1882, when he was seventy-five years of age. His widow thereafter accompanied her sons George A. and Oscar B. on their removal to Russell County, Kansas, and there she was summoned to the life eternal in 1892. at the venerable age of eighty-five years. This noble pioneer woman was a charter member of the Presbyterian Church in the Village of Florence, Erie County, and her entire life was guided and governed by her abiding Christian faith, which was manifested in kindliness, tolerance, abiding human sympathy and good deeds. IIer husband was originally a whig and later a republican in polities, and he likewise was an attendant of the Presbyterian Church. Of their children the eldest was George A., who was born in the year 1836, on the old homestead farm in Erie County, where he was reared and educated. In 1862 he enlisted in the First United States Regiment of Volunteer Engineers, shortly after his graduation from the Ohio Medieal College, at Cincinnati. He was made assistant surgeon of his regiment, and he continued in service in this eapaeity four years, or until the close of the war, his rank being that of first lieutenant. After the war he wedded Miss Martha J. Miles. of Platte County, Missouri, in which state he continned in the praetiee of his profession until 1874, when he engaged in the cattle business in Central Kansas, where he was joined by his brother Oscar, of this review. in 1882, as already noted in this article. Doctor IIaise continued his resi- denee in Kansas until his death, in the autumn of 1909, at the age of seventy-three years. He acenmulated in Kansas a valuable landed estate of 3,000 acres, and his widow and son now own 4,000 aeres in that state, the only son, Edwin M., being one of the representative agrieulturists and stock-growers of Kansas and he and his wife being the parents of three children-George, Mary and Oscar. Mary A., the only sister of the subject of this sketch, became the wife of Capt. Dennis Blanchard, of whom individual mention is made in this volume, and she died on the 2d of October, 1869, withont issue.
Oscar B. Ilaise has been a lifelong and stalwart supporter of the principles and policies of the republican party and though he has shown the utmost liberality and public spirit he has not been imbued with ambition for political office, his only serviee in sneh capacity having been as assessor of Florence Township, a position of which he was the incumbent for a number of terms. Ile is one of the substantial and honored citizens of his native township and county and is well np- holding the prestige of a name that has been long and worthily linked with the history of this favored section of the old Buckeye State.
LOUIS WEBBER. About twenty-five years ago Louis Webber brought his family to America, and has sinee lived either in Lorain or in Erie County. He was a thrifty and skilled German mechanic and in the old country had earned a livelihood for his family by work as a eabinet- maker. However, he was in exceedingly modest circumstances on com- ing to Ohio, and has made his comfortable little fortune by hard work. steady economy and good business management, both at home and in all his affairs. Ile followed mechanical trades while living in Lorain County, and finally, after aequiring some means, invested in his pres- ent attractive farm in Florence Township. His place is located on the Butler Road, and he owns seventy-six acres, lying along the Ver milion River. There he carries on a substantial and profitable industry as a farmer and stock raiser. Most of his land is well improved, and
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he pays considerable attention to the raising of good fruit, principally peaches and apples. His general field crops are corn, oats, wheat and potatoes. Since getting his land in 1908 Mr. Webber has invested a good deal of money in improvements. He put up a fine barn on a foundation 34 by 50 feet, has a number of other farm buildings, and his home is a substantial seven-room house.
For sixteen years Mr. Webber had his home in Lorain County. For nine years of that time he was connected with the large car shops at the City of Lorain, and subsequently for several years was a city em- ploye. Lonis Webber was born in Prussia, not more than thirty Ger- man miles from the City of Berlin, Angust 5, 1851. His parents and most of his ancestors had been substantial small farmers in that coun- try. He is a son of Lonis and Mary (Mau) Webber, who were born in the same loeality, and spent all their lives there. His father died in 1861, at the age of fifty-nine, and his mother passed away nine years later, in 1870, at the age of fifty-seven. They were members of the Lutheran Church.
In his native country Louis Webber grew to manhood, gaining an education in the public schools, performing the duties required as use- ful Prussian citizens, and serving a thorough apprenticeship at the cabinetmaking trade. Ile was a cabinetmaker at a time when very little work was done by machinery, and practically all furniture and wood- work was the product of careful and skillful hand labor.
While in Germany Mr. Webber married Fredericka Schrader. She was born near the same village where her husband grew up, January 16, 1853, a daughter of Christian and Christianna (Forge) Schrader. Iler mother was twice married after the death of Christian Schrader, but her only children came from the first marriage. The Schraders were also Lutherans.
While living in Germany Mr. and Mrs. Webber became the parents of five children. Then, in 1889, as a family, they left Prussia, em- barking on the ship Bohemia, at Hamburg, and landing in New York City, March 26, 1889. From there they came on west to Elyria, Ohio, lived in that city two years, and thence moved to Lorain. The chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Webber are briefly mentioned as follows: Her- man, who was born in Germany, finished his education at Lorain, became a telegraph operator and later a railway brakeman, and about nine years ago lost his arm, and his since been employed as a watch- man for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company in Chicago; he is unmarried. Freda is the wife of Ralph Hunter, an iron worker at Lorain, and their children are Dorothy and Irving. Anna married Fern Wadsworth, who is foreman with the Dean Electrie Company at Elyria; they have no children. Martha, who was educated at Lorain. is now in the employ of a physician in that city. Clara is also employed in a physician's office at Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Webber were both confirmed as members of the Lutheran Church when children. In poli- ties he is a republican.
WARREN BRADWAY. One of the chief ends of life for a man is effi- cient service in some honorable department of the world's activities and proper provision for home and family. To accomplish this in a practical manner is in itself a high deeree of success. Warren Bradway of Florence Township has acquitted himself well in this performance and at the same time has found opportunity to serve his community. Mr. Brad- way has spent nearly all his life in this one locality, has gathered many snecessive harvests from his fields, has effeeted numerous improvements on his land, and is a eitizen who can look steadily and with courage into all the circumstances of the present and the future.
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Ilis birth occurred February 16, 1850, on the old farm which he now owns and occupies, situated on the Butler Road near the Huron County line. He is of English ancestry, but both his parents and grand- parents were natives of the eastern states. Mr. Bradway never knew his father, who died when Warren was a small child. Mr. Bradway's mother was, before her marriage, Anna Parker. She was a niece of William W. Parker, of the prominent Parker family of Florence Town- ship, referred to on other pages of this work. Anna Parker was born at Livonia, New York, February 15, 1827, and as a girl came to Erie County. She died at the home of ber only son and child. May 3, 1883. She was a member of the Methodist Church.
Warren Bradway was born in a log cabin on the old farm, and grew up in a more substantial home which is still occupied by him and his family as a place of residence. While one of the older houses in Flor- ence Township, it makes a cosy home, and the basement under the house rests upon the solid foundation of natural stone which underlies all his home farm. If quarried, this stone would make a most excellent building material. The house in which he now lives was built by his mother's father, Ormal Parker, about fifty years ago. With the excep- tion of about five years spent at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Mr. Bradway has lived all his life in this one home. His house is surrounded by fifteen acres of land, and he also owns a fine farm of 151 acres well improved with a good house and with other farm buildings, located two miles north- east of Wakeman in Huron County. This is a valuable and productive farm, well stocked, and with a twelve-acre bearing orchard.
On the farm in Huron County on March 7, 1866, Mr. Bradway was married to Miss Mary Crawford, who was born and reared there. Iler birthplace was also in a log house, and she first saw the light of day January 11, 1845. Mrs. Bradway's parents were Alexander and Sadilla (Kilburn) Crawford, her mother having been the last wife of Mr. Craw- ford. Both her parents were born in New York State and came to Wake- man Township when young, were married there, and started housekeep- ing on the farm now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Bradway. They spent the rest of their lives there and her father died at the age of eighty-four and her mother in 1899, when seventy-one years of age. Both were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics he was a democrat. Mrs. Bradway was one of a family of ten children, two sons and eight daughters, and of these five daughters and one son are still living, married and have families of their own. One son, Charles, enlisted as a soldier early in the Civil war, going out with a company organized at Wakeman, and was shot in one of the battles in which they were engaged, and died not long afterwards while in hospital, and is buried near the scene of his last battle.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradway have one child, Rosina B., who is now the wife of George A. Parker, reference to whose career will be found on other pages. Mr. and Mrs. Bradway are active supporters of churches and all moral influences in their community, he is a democrat in politics and has filled several of the local positions of trust and responsibility. Mr. Bradway is himself a splendid exemplar of a moral and upright life. Ile has never used tobacco in any form nor intoxicating liquors and his self-controlled and temperate living is well expressed in his perfect health. his clear eyes and fine complexion.
HENRY J. LATTEMAN. A life marked by unassuming reetitude and by resolute integrity of purpose was that of the late Henry JJ. Latteman. who for thirty years was numbered among the representative farmers and honored citizens of Florence Township, and to his career must be devoted a brief memorial tribute in this history.
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Born in Brownhelm Township of Lorain County June 29, 1857. Henry J. Latteman spent practically all his life either in Lorain or Erie County. and died on the homestead now occupied by Mrs. Latteman and her children May 5, 1910. The Latteman home is on the East River road, three miles south of Birmingham in Florence Township.
This is a family which has exhibited all the sterling qualities of the German-American type of citizen. Mr. Latteman was a son of Adam and Mary ( Engleberry) Latteman, both of whom were born in Kur- hessen, Germany, the former in 1828 and the latter in 1830. They grew np as neighbor children and came together as immigrants to the United States on a sailing vessel from Bremen to New York City in 1850. A week after their arrival in Brownhelm Township of Lorain County they were married and with an equipment of thrift and industry equal to all their necessities they started out to make a home. They acquired and developed a large farm in Henrietta Township of Lorain County, and spent their last days in peace and comfort there. The father died in September, 1907, at the age of seventy-nine, and the mother in May, 1898, aged sixty-five. For a number of years they attended and sup- ported the Methodist Church, but later became members of the German Reformed denomination. Their family of children comprised Adam. Mary, Henry J., Maggie, Conrad, Charles, Anna and Fred, all of whom are living except Henry and all married except the youngest.
Reared in Lorain County, Henry J. Latteman acquired an education in the district schools and learned also the lessons of industry and hon- esty in his home circle, and in prosecuting the various duties which were assigned him as a boy. Ile began farming in his native county. but in 1880 removed to Florence Township in Erie County, and there acquired 5616 aeres of land. That was his home the rest of his life, and all his children were born there. To his first farm he added more land as prosperity rewarded his efforts, buying ninety-two acres and later his wife inherited eighteen aeres of land adjacent and formerly a part of the old homestead of her father. The Latteman farm is on fine rolling land, highly productive, and its buildings are in a good state of repair. One feature of the place is a four-aere apple orchard. This farm Mr. Latteman conducted with characteristie thrift and energy, and Mrs. Latteman since his death has proved an efficient man- ager, being assisted in that task by her sons.
Since she was two and a half years of age Mrs. Latteman has lived on the farm where she married Mr. Latteman and which is still her home. Her maiden name was Barbara Gleim. She was born in Am- herst, Lorain County, November 23, 1856, a danghter of George and Anna Dora (Summer) Gleim. Both her parents were born at Christ Rosenberg, Kurhessen, Germany, were reared in that country and came to the United States on one of the old slow-going sailing vessels. They arrived in Lorain County sixty-four years ago, and after their marriage they started out as farmers in that county. In 1858 Mr. Gleim brought his wife and two daughters to Florence Township, and bought the land on the East River road where Mrs. Latteman still lives. His first pur- chase comprised forty acres, and to this he subsequently added another forty-two acres, and still later fifty-six acres. Mr. Gleim was a capable and methodical farmer, he and his wife were both good managers, and many of the improvements from their hands are still in evidence around the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Gleim worked very hard to acquire a compe- tenee, and after they reached a degree of comfortable circumstances they moved to another farm in Florence Township, where he passed away February 9, 1909. He was born Jannary 14, 1829. Mrs. Gleim was horn March 9, 1830, and died October 28, 1910. They had been reared and throughout their lives were faithful to the German Reformed
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