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EDWARD DANIEL HLAHIN, owner of an iron and steel works in Wauseon, Ohio, since 1912, and well-regarded in the city as a respon- sible, successful man of business, was born within twelve miles of Gettysburg, Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1856, seven years before the locality became nationally famous. His parents were Andrew and Elizabeth (Wentroth) Hahn, the former a farmer well-regarded in that neighborhood, where he spent most of his life, and where
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he owned a good farming property. Edward D. was reared in the wholesome environment of the paternal farm, and attended school until he was about seventeen years old. After leaving school he began to work for his elder brother, who owned a grist mill in Adams county. For five years Edward D. was associated with his brother in the operation of the Adams County Grist Mill, and then both came into Ohio, settling at Lewisborough, Preble county, where they jointly operated a grist mill. Later Edward D. went to Eaton, Ohio, and there took up another calling, that of blacksmith, at which work he remained in Eaton for three years. For eight years following that experience he was an independent tobacco planter and farmer at West Baltimore, Ohio, having purchased a farm there of twenty-five acres. He was moderately successful at farming, but at the end of eight years sold the property, and for nine years there- after lived in Dayton, Ohio, where he had lucrative employment as builder of vestibule ends on passenger cars in the car works of Baring and Smith of that place. Then followed two years of less arduous work, as agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company in Dayton, but eventually Mr. Hahn returned to farming, purchasing a farm of eighty acres situated at Melrose, Ohio, where he lived and farmed continuously for the next twenty years, after which he was in independent business as a blacksmith for six years in Man- dale, Ohio. This brings his life story down to the year 1912, and he had succeeded moderately well during his thirty-nine years of business endeavor. He came to Wauseon in 1912 to purchase the smithing and buggy repairing and wagon building business at that placc. Since that year he has conducted the business with very good success, having, it is stated, the largest and best equipped works of that class in the county.
Since he has been in Wauseon Mr. Hahn, who is an independent in politics, has shown himself to be a man of commendable industry, thorough and reliable in his undertakings, and of good moral and material integrity. He has shown good public spirit, and is among the responsible business men of the city.
He married in 1879, at Lewisburg, Ohio, Dora Schorf, daughter of William and Mary Schorf, of that place. Two children, sons, were born to them: William H., of Middletown, Ohio; and Ray- mond G., of West Milton. Both sons have married, and each has two children.
FRED HARRISON MOYER, of Delta, is in the third generation of the name in the community. He was born at Swan Creek October 6, 1888, and his father before him, Edward Moyer, was born in Delta. The grandfather, Moses Moyer, came from Germany. He was one of the early settlers at Delta. . He was one of those who organized the town, and he conducted the first hotel.
Edward Moyer married Caroline Slater, and for two years they lived in Delta. They bought and moved to a farm in Swan Creek, and after his death, she remained on the farm and managed it and brought up her children there. In 1911 she moved to Delta. and she died June 28, 1915. The children are: Hattie, wife of William Dickens, of Orcston ; Frank, of New Glarus, Wisconsin; Ralph Foster, of Toledo; Hollie C., of Gallipolis; Jessie, wife of Norman Reighard. of Delta; George E., of Toledo; Fred Harrison, who relates the family history ; Arthur R., of Louisville, Kentucky ; and Joe Donald of the United States Army of Occupation stationed at Coblenz, Ger- many.
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Mr. Moyer was educated at the Raker School in Swan Creek and in the Delta High School, and until he was twenty he worked on farms, then joined a construction crew on the New York Central, but one year later he went to the Moyer farm for five years. He has done carpenter work and house painting, finally joining forces with Mr. Holloway and becoming foreman in schoolhouse building at Portage. Mr. Moyer worked at the Helvetio Condensary, begin- ning as a common laborer and finally becoming assistant engineer, remaining there two years.
On June 1, 1919, Mr. Moyer became city engineer in Delta. He is in charge of the waterworks extension and other public work within corporate limits. On November 18, 1908, Fred Harrison Moyer married Goldie Lutton. She is a daughter of Lincoln and Minnie (Force) Lutton, of York township. Their children are: Ray Archibald and Edward Lincoln.
While living in Swan Creek, Mr. Moyer received the appoint- ment as constable, and while the United States was engaged in war against Germany he was a deputy marshal in Delta. His father before him, Edward Moyer, served as justice of the peace for a good many years. Mr. Moyer belongs to two fraternal orders, the Masons and Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Delta. In his sons the fourth generation of Moyers now lives in Delta.
MICHAEL E. LONG. The family to which Michael E. Long of Delta belongs was among the early settlers in Sandusky county. He was born there February 27, 1852, a son of John B. and Lydia E. (Fry) Long. They were from Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and moved to Sandusky county in an early day. John B. Long was a United Bretheren preacher, and lived in different communities. How- ever, Sandusky was in the nature of a permanent home to him. His wife died there in 1879, and he died in 1890, and many of their children died there. Those living are: Rebecca, wife of Adam Gurns. of Gibsonburg; Wesley, near Bowling Green ; and Michael E. of Delta. Those deceased are: Louisa, Samuel, Jacob, Daniel, William, Arcanus and Mattie.
Michael E. Long attended public school at Gibsonburg and until he was twenty he worked by the month on farms until his marriage. On December 23, 1876, he married Jennie N. Fish, of Wood county. She is a daughter of John and Margaret Ann (Teft) Fish. For three years Mr. Long rented land, and then he bought a farm in Wood county. After four years he sold it and removed to Sandusky county. He bought a quarter section of improved land and lived there eighteen years. When he left the farm he moved to Gibson- burg, and hired a man on the farm for five years, when he rented it.
In the spring of 1913 Mr. Long bought one of the best residences in Delta and has made it his home. He owns a farm of 120 acres in York, and Mrs. Long owns the same sized farm in Fulton, and both are rented and they have an income from them. Their son B. Milen Long married Ethel McMillen, and they have one daughter, Mildred. They live in Delta. Ethel Long is the wife of H. B. Klotz and they have one daughter, Ruth. They live on the Long farm in Fulton. John William Long enlisted in the World war and is field clerk at Camp Custer, Michigan.
While John B. Long was a United Brethren minister, Michael E. Long does not belong to any church, but affiliates with different churches. He served as Sunday school superintendent and as an elder in the Disciples Church for many years, and since living in
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Delta he has been active in United Brethren Church circles, and is teacher in the Sunday school at the present time. Mr. Long calls himself independent in a political way, and since he does not unite with any church he must be independent in his religious convic- tion. He affiliates with any Protestant denomination.
ROBERT FRANKLIN HANCOCK, enterprising manufacturer and respected resident of Delta. Fulton county, Ohio, comes of an old Vermont family, but his father came to Fulton county in 1860, and to Delta two years later. Since that time Robert Franklin Hancock has lived practically the whole of his life in or near Delta.
He was born at Brear, Ohio, February 1, 1858, the son of Daniel and Ann J. (Wallace) Hancock. Through his mother his genealogy connects with a Scotch-Irish family, she having been born in Ire- land. His parents were married in Cleveland, Ohio, where at that time his father, a carpenter by trade, was in business. Later his parents settled in Brear, Ohio, and in about 1860 came into Fulton county, having purchased a farm in the county, upon which they lived for two years, although Daniel Hancock continued to follow his trade. At the end of two years, however, he sold his farm and moved into the village of Delta, Fulton county, where subsequently for very many years he was in independent business as a contractor and builder, some of the principal residential and other buildings of that section of Fulton county having been erected by him. He died in 1893, and his widow ten years later, both being buried in Delta, where they had very many friends and were generally es- teemed as good neighbors and responsible, public-spirited residents. Their children were: John L., now of Harrison, Clare county, Michi- gan; William, deceased; Ellen, who married Esmond Kinyon, of Grand Rapids, Michigan: Sarah, who married George Dunham, of Elsa, Clinton county, Michigan; Robert Franklin; Daniel, who died at the age of three years; and Emma Jane, who died in in- fancy.
Robert Franklin, fifth child of Daniel and Ann J. (Wallace) Hancock, was only two years old when his parents came to live in Fulton county, and only four years old when they moved into Delta, so that he may almost be considered a native of the county. He grew to manhood in the county, attended the elementary and high schools of Delta, and when fifteen years old began to work for monthly wages on farms in the neighborhood of his home, con- tinuing in such work until he was nineteen years old. He married at the early age of twenty-one years, and for eight years thereafter was connected in business with his father-in-law, George Cotting- ham, who was a manufacturer of potash in Delta. For the suc- ceeding eighteen years, or until 1905, Robert F. Hancock followed farming on the old Cottingham homestead in York township, Ful- ton county. He was from his earliest years possessed of abundant energy, and has shown during his life much enterprise and business acumen. In 1905 he established in Delta a plant for the making of cement blocks for building purposes, and was the pioneer of that industry in that section of Fulton county. Much of the result of his enterprise is evident in buildings standing today in Delta and throughout the neighborhood. Mr. Hancock is still in business, and has had good success in his business endeavors. He is counted among the responsible business men of that part of Fulton county, and is of good personal repute.
In religious conviction he is a Presbyterian, a member and good
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supporter of the local church of that denomination, being influenced perhaps to some extent in affiliating himself with that denomination because of his Scotch-Irish origin. His mother, probably, was a staunch Presbyterian, both in her native land and in this. Politi- cally Mr. Hancock is a republican, although he has not evinced any inclination to follow political movements actively and personally, having no desire for political office. In local affairs and in com- munity movements he has, however, always been ready to give sub- stantial support to all that he has felt might prove an advantage to the community. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias Order.
On September 3, 1879, he married Melissa Cottingham, who was born in Lincolnshire, England, but who early in life was brought to this country and to Delta, Fulton county, by her parents, George and Elizabeth (Larder) Cottingham. Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Hancock rcared from infancy to promising manhood Archie Rollin Hancock, their nephew, son of Mr. Hancock's brother J. L. They afforded their nephew a good education, and he now is a successful bank official of the Northern Bank in Toledo, Ohio. . He is married, and the three children born to him and his wife, Gertrude Carpenter, are: Donna Berrill, Norman and Catherine.
HIARVEY SHADLE. The autumnal equinox, A. D. 1919, marked an important milestone in the history of the pioncer Shadle family in Fulton county. On that day there was a family reunion and farewell dinner party at the old family homestead of almost three- quarters of a century-the home of Harvey Shadle. His father, Joseph Shadle, had obtained possession of the farmstead and family estate December 14, 1844, and had taken up his residence there November 15, 1845, two months lacking to round out three-quarters of a century at the time of this farewell dinner party given by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shadle.
Few Fulton county families have remained longer on one farm- stead. the transfer of the property from Joseph Shadle to his young- est son having been made December 13, 1884, and thus it has been the life time habitation of Harvey Shadle. Joseph Shadle and his wife, Jane (Burk) Shadle, were natives of Lebanon county, Penn- sylvania. She was the older, having been born February 29, 1812, having a birthday only every fourth vear, while he was born August 16. 1815, and they were married October 17, 1833, the year the stars fell, and twelve years later they took up their permanent resi- dence at the Shadle family homestead in Fulton county, where they became such an integral part of the Ottokee community.
There were six children in the Shadle family when they located in Dover: Hosea, Richard, Rebekah, Allen, Ferdinand and Ema- line, and here Mary, Luther, Harvey and Florence were added to the number surrounding their hearthstone. All but Rebekah and Ferdi- nand were living, and all the living but Florence were assembled at this family reunion and dinner party September 21, 1919, a sad goodbye to the old family homestead.
Hosea and Richard Shadle are octogenarians. At an Ottokee school reunion. which is an annual event in the community, on June 2, 1917, the Shadles were all present-a unique thing in family history. It was suggested by a member of their family, Mrs. Ann Whittaker Shadle, and was in honor of their old time teacher, Mrs. Julia Carter Aldrich, who always meets with them there. In
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the vicinity of Ottokee are many who meet annually in this old time school reunion.
All the Shadles married and reared families except Ferdinand, who married but he had no children. Harvey Shadle, born Decem- ber 19, 1854, married Ella Rawlins August 30, 1874, and they have always lived at the family homestead. While Mrs. Shadle is a native of New Jersey, the year before her marriage she came with her father and mother, John and Mary (Young) Rawlins, to Ohio. She is one of six children: Isabelle, Sarah, Hannah, Charles, Ella and Jacob. Only one sister, Mrs. Isabelle Gordon, is living today. Her home is in New Jersey.
One daughter, Louella, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shadle. She was born June 16, 1875, and August 16, 1893, she became the wife of Frank H. Mattison. On July 7, 1896, one son, Milford Har- vey Mattison, was born to them. Her death occurred April 11, 1900, as a result of typhoid fever when it was epidemic in Wauseon and community. She was a graduate from the Wauseon Normal School, and her son, Milford H. Mattison, has had high school advan- tages and has become a practical printer. Since the death of his mother his home has been with the grandparents at the Shadle family homestead.
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Mr. and Mrs. Shadle have been successful in agriculture and animal husbandry, and after forty-five years of life together they left the home farm and went to live in Wauseon. The pioneer Shadle family contributed four sons to the Civil war: Hosea, Richard, Allen and Ferdinand, and in the Spanish American war the next generation contributed one soldier, James L. Verity, a grandson of Joseph Shadle. In all of its history the Shadle family has voted the republican ticket, and Joseph Shadle was one time a commis- sioner of Fulton county. He was one pioneer citizen whose memory is revered by all who knew him. His wife, too, was a useful woman in the community.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shadle united with the Ottokee Methodist Episcopal Church more than forty years ago. For many years he has been one of the trustees and both are stewards-regular in their attendance and faithful to its support. He is a member of the Wau- seon Lodge Knights of Pythias, No. 156, and she is a charter member of the Pythias Sisters. They enjoy the social relation thus afforded them.
While their immediate family has been small, limited to one daughter and one grandson, Mr. and Mrs. Shadle are foster parents to Carrie Butler, who came to them as a child four years old, and she remained with them until young womanhood. She is a niece of Mrs. Shadle. She became the wife of Jackson Vleit. She is the mother of one son, Jackson Vleit, Jr., and they regard the Vleits as members of their own household today.
Hosea, the senior member of the Shadle family, is a resident of Los Angeles, California, and two days after the farewell family din- ner he departed for his western home, and two months later Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Shadle took up their residence in Wauseon. It was changed economic conditions the scarcity of farm labor, that caused them to leave the old homestead in the Ottokee community. When the present commodious farmhouse was built it was with the expecta- tion that it would be their life time place of residence. There is every farmhouse convenience, but the time came when the labor re- quirements were too much and they changed their environment for their declining years.
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The name Shadle has always stood for industry and good citizen- ship in the history of Fulton county. In the period covered by the history of this pioneer Fulton county family the Indian trails, Ottokee, Wauseon, Winameg, the frontier byways, have given place to the hard surface highways; the rude log cabins of the pioneers have been supplanted by modern farm residences, and there are everywhere affluent conditions of environment. The Shadle family is intimately identified with the development and history of the Ottokee community.
ERVIN LANTZ, an enterprising and aggressive young man of Pettisville, Fulton county, is well-known in that section of the county, having been born in German township in 1894, the son of John and Elizabeth (Nobsinger) Lantz, of that place.
The Lantz family has had long residence in Fulton county, and have a good agricultural property in German township. Upon the home farm Ervin was reared, and upon that farm of eighty acres he has spent most of his life. He attended the country school near- est to his home for the elementary grades, and later was a student at the Archbold High School. After leaving school he remained at home until he was twenty-two years old. The next two or three vears were spent in many occupations in the vicinity, mainly in farming and merchandising. He appears to have done well during such enterprises, and being of a steady, thrifty nature saved some money, sufficient to purchase the interest held up to January 1, 1919, by Mr. Weber in the auto sales business of Weber and Rychener of Pettisville. Taking his place as partner with Mr. Rychener, Ervin Lantz entered into the new business with a will, and appreciably aided the firm of Rychener and Lantz in a satisfactory year of trading in 1919. The partners are agents for the Nash and Dort cars, for Goodrich tires, enter extensively into the auto repair busi- ness, and has a good service station, which was built on Main street, Pettisville, when the business first was organized by Mr. Rychener and his former partner, Mr. Weber. And they carry a comprehen- sive line of accessories.
Mr. Lantz is an able and earnest young business man, and is making himself of appreciable value to the business, holding closely to his work, and manifesting alert, enterprising characteristics. He has very many friends in the neighborhood. Politically he is affili- ated with the independent party in local affairs, although he does not enter actively into political affairs. He is unmarried.
GIDEON DONALD WYSE, who was manager and partner of the Pettisville Grain Company of Pettisville, Fulton county, Ohio, is widely known throughout the county. In his township he is among the leading business men, is a director and stockholder of the Pettis- ville Bank, and he owns a good farming property. It is of interest to record that he comes of one of the pioneer families of the seetion, his grandfather, Peter Wyse, having come with a few others through the wilderness from Wayne county and settled on wild land in Ger- man township, where he lived to the venerable age of seventy-six years. The Wyse family was originally from Germany, but for three genrations have been United States citizens. Gideon Donald was born on a farm in Clinton township, Fulton county, Septem- ber 24, 1865, the son of Samuel and Christiana (Swartzen) Wyse. He received the limtied education customarily afforded in the country schools of his time, the education resolving itself into what could
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be gained during a winter term, for the school was closed for the greater part of the growing months, when the sons of farmers were generally expected to give what aid they could to their parents. He continued to pass the years in this manner until he was eighteen years old, when he left school and gave his whole time to the opera- tion of the home farm of 112 acres until he became twenty-one years old, in which year he joined others in a threshing machine enter- prise. At suchi work he passed the next seven years, doing a good thrashing business. He then again took actively to farming, hav- ing purchased the home farm from his father. He continued to cultivate the land for eight years, ultimately renting his farm so that he might be free to co-operate with a friend, W. J. Weber, in organizing and establishing the Pettisville Grain Company of Pettis- ville. The partners built a grain elevator of fifteen thousand bushels capacity, and jointly managed the business until 1909, when Mr. Wyse took over the whole management. Mr. Wyse has demon- strated his business capability, and by his enterprises has added very appreciably to his material wealth. He disposed of his business in the elevator and grain company December 1, 1919. He is one of the stockholders and a director of the Pettisville Savings Bank.
Politically a republican, Mr. Wyse has taken a somewhat active part in public affairs. He was elected trustee of German township in 1905, and for four years he has been a member of the board of education. By religious conviction he is a Congregationalist, and throughout his life has manifested a consistent attitude toward church duties. He is generally well-regarded in his home district.
In 1892 he married Katy, daughter of Christian and Elizabeth (Fryenberger) Rupp, of Clinton township, Fulton county. To them have been born three children: Flossie, who married Fred Neid- hardt, of German township, and has one child, a boy, Don Wyse, born in 1917; Herma May and Ruth.
Mr. Wyse is a splendid representative of the successful self-made business men of Fulton county.
ALLEN AND ANN SHADLE. All about the highways and byways of Fulton county where the name of Allen Shadle is heard, the name of his wife is always coupled with it-Allen and Ann Shadle. While the Shadle family history had already been detailed by Harvey Shadle at the old family homestead in Dover, Mrs. Ann Shadle of Wauscon, who has always gleaned in the field of family genealogy, has a fund of information that is added to it.
It was November 6, 1845, that Joseph Shadle and his family left their home in Wayne county for the wild land he had already pur- chased the previous year in Lucas, now Fulton, county, through so many subsequent years known as the Shadle family homestead in Dover. They were nine days en route, driving their livestock with them, and for seventy-five years the Shadle family story has been interwoven with the history of Fulton county. In its early history the Shadle family reverts back to Germany and Ireland. Philip Shadle was German and Mary (McGlade) Shadle was Irish, and it was they who planted the family tree in America. They located in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, and from there members of the family migrated to the different states. Joseph Shadle coming to Wayne county, Ohio.
There were eight children in this original Shadle family. in America-sons and daughters of Philip and Mary (McGlade) Shadle. They were: Cyrus, Joseph, Philip, Chambers, William, Jordan,,
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Mary Ann and Sarah. It is the deseent of the second son, Joseph, that lives in Fulton county today. Allen is the fourth child born to Joseph and Jane (Burke) Shadle, their names elsewhere enumer- ated, and August 9, 1862, he married. The records show that Wil- liam Allen Shadle married Catharine Ann Whitaker, but since that day they are Allen and Ann.
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