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Thomas C. Murray has always lived on the farm where he was born, his father having decded the homestead to him. On September 2, 1907, Mr. Murray met with a heavy loss. He had a barn and granary in process of construction when they were struck by lightning and destroyed, as well as their contents, and one horse. This loss, while heavy, was not as great as that sustained by his parents during their pioneer days in York Township. His father was working in the timber and his wife went out to him to carry him some water, leaving her infant asleep in the cabin. She thought she had extinguished all the fire, but evidently did not, for while she was gone the house was burned to the ground and the infant lost its life.
Since assuming charge of the farm Mr. Murray has erected a fine, modern, thirteen-room residence, with good cellar, in which is a furnace. Natural gas is supplied from a well on the farm. Mr. Mur- ray carries on diversified farming and has been successful in attain- ing to a position where he gets substantial return from his property. Since he was fourteen years old Mr. Murray has not slept away from his own home more than fifty nights, and is very much attached to it and his community.
On May 15, 1888, Mr. Murray was united in marriage with Nora Free of Fulton county, Ohio, a daughter of George W. and Hannah Jane (Repp) Free. Mr. and Mrs. Murray became the parents of the following children: Mary Jane, who is Mrs. F. C. Brinkman of York Township; Lora Ella, who is Mrs. Arthur J. Orndorff, of York Township; Ruby Ethel, who married Ralph J. Segrist and lives with her father. Both Mr. and Mrs. Murray are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Murray is active in the work of the Ladies' Aid Society, in politics .Mr. Murray is a democrat, but he has no political record, his time being taken up with his farming interests. Both he and Mrs. Murray attended the rural schools and are friends of the public schools, desiring to see them further im- proved so as to give the children of the neighborhood the best pos- sible educational advantages. They also believe in good roads and arc willing to forward any movement having that end in view.
GEORGE IVAN TABER, a successful and representative farmer of York Township, Fulton county, Ohio, is a native of that township, and comes of one of the pioneer families of Fulton county. He has lived his whole life in the township, and has lived a commend- able, useful life, has prospered by his enterprise and industry, and has taken praiseworthy part in the public responsibilities of the district.
George Ivan Taber was born in York Township on October 4, 1871, the son of George W. and Mary E. (Wise) Taber. George W. Taber was born in Cayuga county, New York, but came in his early manhood into Ohio, settling on wild land in York Township, thus being among the early settlers of that section of Fulton county. He purchased a tract of land in the southern central part of the town- ship, and there lived for the rest of his life, which ended on De- cember 8, 1892. His wife, Mary E. Wise, lived for twenty-two years after his deccase, death not coming to her until December 27, 1914. Both Mr. and Mrs. Taber had many friends in the town- ship, and were generally esteemed as kind-hearted, public-spirited people, of responsibility and good life. They were the parents of five children: Harry I., of York Township; Althea Jenette, who married Thomas L. Aumond, of York Township; George Ivan, of whose life more in detail follows; Bertha, who died when only seven
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years old; and Arthur, who has also remained in his native town- ship.
George Ivan, third child of George W. and Mary E. (Wise) Taber, was educated in the public school, the Taylor school of his native township, receiving the education customary in country schools of his time. But long before he had closed his years of schooling he had become conversant with some of the major, and most of the minor, operations of farming life. As a boy he was accustomed to undertake the exccution of many minor duties on the home farm, and during the long summer vacations he gave most of his time to farm work at home. Eventually, after leaving school, he settled down steadily to agriculture, and has passed his whole life thus usefully and manfully employed. And with good return it must be added, for he is now in the possession of a good acreage which yields his family good return. That property of sixty acres to which he removed after marriage was at the time he purchased it only partly cleared, but resolute application to its improvement brought the land eventually into its present state. The farm is situ- ated in section seven of York Township, and the whole acreage is under cultivation. It is a well-balanced holding, with adequate buildings, most of which Mr. Taber himself remodelled and rebuilt. And the property is well adapted to the purpose to which it has been put, general farming, and in the raising of stock and in dairy- ing Mr. Taber has shown commendable enterprise and industry. During his years of industrious farming he has not shirked public duties. He has always been ready to give support to public move- ments that had bearing on some phase of the affairs of his own com- munity, and he has been especially interested in church work. And for many years he has been an active member of the local Grange. Politically Mr. Taber is an independent democrat, although he has never shown an inclination to participate actively in national politics. During the recent war he was intensely concerned in national af- fairs, and by his own actions during the period showed himself to be a whole-heartedly loyal citizen. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias order, being a member of Lodge No. 156 of Wauseon, Ohio. He is a member of the Christian Union Bethel Church, and he and his wife are active workers as well as good sup- porters thereof. Mr. Taber has been treasurer of the Sunday school of that church since 1916.
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On October 21, 1898, George Ivan Taber married Maude B., daughter of Andrew S. and Charity (Pontius) Hoffman, the former a prosperous farmer for many years in Liberty Township, Henry county, Ohio. Andrew S. Hoffman was born in Clear Creek Town- ship, Fairfield county, Ohio, March 15, 1831, and died on May 30, 1910, aged seventy-nine years. His wife, Charity (Pontius) Hoff- man, was born in Henry county, Ohio, June 15, 1848, and died on March 7, 1899, aged fifty years. The children of Andrew S. and Charity (Pontius) Hoffman werc: Stant, now of Napoleon, Ohio; Reuben, now of York Township, Fulton county; Addie, who mar- ried George Graner, of Liberty Centre, Ohio; Alfred and Harley, sons, who both died in infancy ; Maude B., now Mrs. Taber; Pearl. who married Roy Hardy, of Napoleon, Ohio: and Florence, who married Paul Bernicke, of Napoleon, Ohio. Mrs. Taber was born in Liberty Township, Henry county, Ohio, on January 27, 1878. Since she married George T. Taber she has entered much into com- munity life in York Township. She is a member of the Christian Union Bethel Church, and has had good part in church work. She
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is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society of the local Grange, and also of the Grange Thimble Club. She was president of the former or- ganization for one year, and has served as treasurer of the Thimble Club. During the war she took an earnest part in women's war work in her district. Mr. and Mrs. Taber have one child, a son, Lawrence Winford. who was born on January 21, 1910, and now attends the local school.
EDWARD G. DAILEY. One of the men of Fulton county who has done much to raise the standard of living among farmers and earn for himself a fair profit is Edward G. Dailey of York township. He was born in this township on August 31, 1867, a son of William and Rachel E. ( McQuillan) Dailey, also natives of York Township. The paternal grandparents were Peter and Rebecca (Shaffer) Dailey, natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania, respectively, and they were among the very early settlers of Fulton county. Jacob McQuillan, uncle of Mrs. Rachel E. Dailey, conducted the first store at Delta, Ohio. The maternal grandparents were David and Lydia Ann (Switzer) McQuillan, natives of Pennsylvania, who also came to Fulton county at a very early day.
Following their marriage William Dailey and his wife settled on a farm in York Township one mile north of Delta, and there he died on April 20, 1914, and there his widow continues to live. Their children were as follows: Edward G., who was the first born, and his brother, William A., who resides at Farmington, Michigan.
Growing up on the homestead of his father, Edward G. Dailey learned how to be a farmer and also attended the rural schools of his neighborhood. On December 12, 1889, he was united in marriage with Viola M. Fashbaugh, born in York Township, a daughter of Jacob and Maria (Batdorf) Fashbaugh, natives of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, and granddaughter of John and Elizabeth Fashbaugh, and William and Sarah (Cole) Batdorf. After his marriage Mr. Dai- ley lived on the homestead of his father-in-law for a year, when he moved to Royalton Township and rented a farm for three years. He then bought sixty acres of the Fashbaugh homestead, on whichi he has since erected a modern residence supplied with furnace heat, toilet, bathroom and other modern conveniences. Mr. Dailey has added to his original purchase until he now has 117 acres in all, and he is now carrying on general farming, that having been his choice of agricultural activity ever since he began working on his own account.
Mr. and Mrs. Dailey became the parents of the following chil- dren: Dessie L., who married Harry Whitmore of Pike Township, has one daughter, Reva May; Harold, who lives at Bryan, Ohio, married Ethel Porter and has a son, Gerald; Helen; Glenn, who married Ruth Guilford, has one son, Floyd; and Darel, and Mearle, Mildred, Vera, Fern and Donald, all of whom are at home. Mr. Dai- ley and his wife belong to the United Bretheren Church and he has held all of the offices in the church, now being a trustee of the church and parsonage property. A republican, he served for five terms as township assessor, and for three years he worked with the Fulton county surveyor as his deputy. A man of more than usual ability, he has directed the best of his efforts to his farming and has been very successful in it and has introduced some improvements which his experiments have proven to be of considerable value.
WARREN T. MILLER. The late Warren T. Miller was one of the substantial men and prosperous agriculturists of York Township,
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and he was also a veteran of the Union Army. He was born in York Township, in a little log cabin, on August 15, 1841, a son of John S. and Rebecca (Wright) Miller, natives of Fairfield county, Ohio, who were married in Seneca county, Ohio, about 1835. Soon there- after they moved with oxen to what is now York Township, Fulton county, and became the owners of several hundred of acres of land in the timber. He died at Liberty Center, Ohio, in November, 1897, she surviving him until 1904. Their children were as follows: Charles, who died at the age of twenty years; George, who is de- ceased; Eineline, who married first Julius Leist and later married Ezra Sayers, both now deceased; Eli, who died while serving in the Union Army; and Warren T., whose name heads this review.
In October, 1861, Warren T. Miller enlisted in the Union Army as a member of Company D, Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably discharged in December, 1864, at the expiration of his period of enlistment. Although he participated in many of the major battles of the war, including General Sherman's March to the Sea, he was not wounded.
Returning home, he resumed the peaceful occupation of farm- ing, and on March 30, 1865, was united in marriage with Henrietta Fedora Dumaresq, born in North Royalton, Ohio, on August 30, 1841, a daughter of John and Margaret (Mckay) Dumaresq, he born on the Isle of Guernsey in the English Channel and she at Big Tree, Alleghany county, Pennsylvania. They married and set- tled in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, from whence they moved to Ogden Center, Michigan, and he became the owner of a farm now included in the southeastern part of that city. In 1852 Mr. Dumaresq sold his farm and came to Fulton county, Ohio.
After his marriage Mr. Miller rented land from his father for three years and then his father gave him eighty acres of timber- land in section 10, in the southern part of York Township. He at once began clearing off this place and improving it, and in 1875 hauled brick from Napoleon, Ohio, with which he erected a fine residence. Mr. Miller continued to conduct this farm until his death, which occurred on February 28, 1915, since which time his widow rents it to a tenant, and she now resides in Wauseon.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller became the parents of the following: John D., who died at the age of eighteen months; Martha D., who died at the age of twenty-eight years, was Mrs. Theodore Fonty, and left two children, Viola, who is Mrs. Tully Cameron of York Township, and Millis, who is Mrs. Wilmer Miller of York Township, has one son, Lawrence Herbert; the third child of Warren L. Miller and his wife is Rolla, of York Township, who first married Lucy Seymour and had two sons, Cecil and Kenneth, and after her death married Minnie Timbers, and they have one son, Ralph; and Octavia May, who is Mrs. Ira Free, of York Township, has one daughter, Iris.
Prior to her marriage Mrs. Miller taught school for nine terms in Fulton county and for three terms in Henry county and is a very well educated lady. She attends the Taylor Methodist Epis- copal Church. Mr. Miller was a republican and served for one term as township trustee. He belonged to the Grand Army of the Re- public. A quiet, hard-working man, Mr. Miller was held in high esteem in his neighborhood, and his death was recognized as a loss to the community.
GEORGE W. MYERS, now deceased, was highly respected in York Township, had long been a resident of Fulton county and earlier
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in life was prominent in agricultural circles. He was born at Mas- sillon, Stark county, Ohio, on April 30, 1831, a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Rogers) Myers. On December 31, 1860, George W. Myers was married at Napoleon, Ohio, to Rhena Farwell, born at Kecn. Ohio, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Thompson). Far- well, he was born near Keen, New Hampshire, and she in Maryland. At a very early day Mr. Farwell came to Fulton county, Ohio, mak- ing the trip overland and buying a farm not far from the farm owned by Henry and Elizabeth (Rogers) Myers, who had also come to Fulton county and located in York Township.
After his marriage George W. Myers located on a farm of 115 acres in York Township and proceeded to improve it. He hauled brick from Napoleon and erected a comfortable brick residence of ten rooms with closets, and a cellar under the whole house, which is still standing. When he took charge of the farm the land was nearly all in a wild state, but he put it under cultivation and made it a valuable property. Here he lived until his death on February 17, 1911. His widow survived him until December 18, 1917.
Mr. and Mrs. Myers became the parents of the following children : Estella B., who died at the age of four years; Nettie, who is on the home place ; May, who is Mrs. F. E. Skeels, of York Township.
George W. Myers was a veteran of the Union Army, having en- listed in the spring of 1861, in Company A, Sixty-eighth Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. After his honorable discharge he returned home and resumed his farming. A democrat, he was elected a justice of the peace and served as such for a number of years. When Losicr Post, Grand Army of the Republic, was organized at Wauseon, Mr. Myers became a member of it and continued as such until his death.
The home farm is now conducted by Mr. Myers' daughter, Mrs. Nettie Fields, a widow with one son, Kirk F. M. Fields, who is with his mother on the farm. She understands her work, and this farm is earning a good profit for the lieirs. Mr. Myers was one of the sound, reliable and dependable men of his township, and was recognized as one whose word was as good as another man's bond. While he never cared much for public life, he possessed ability and had he so chosen doubtless could have had many offices within the gift of his neighbors, for they knew that he could fill them. Mrs. Fields is recognized as inheriting many of her father's excel- lent qualities, and is highly respected in the township where she was born and where she has practically spent her life.
SANFORD J. LUTTON, one of the successful general farmers and dairymen of York Township, is a man who has earned his present prosperity through hard work and intelligent investment of time and money. He was born in York Township on March 22, 1855, a son of Mathew and Eliza ( Moore) Lutton. natives of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where the paternal grandparents died. About 1853 Mathew Lutton left Pennsylvania for Fulton county, Ohio, and about a year thereafter he was married and settled on a forty-acre tim- ber tract in York Township. Later, selling the original farm, he bought another one of eighty acres two miles west of Delta, Ohio, which was covered with heavy timber. On it he built a log cabin, in which the family lived during the period of clearing land and placing it under cultivation, although it was later replaced by a more commodious dwelling. In 1902 Mathew Lutton left the farm and moved to Delta, where he died. His widow survived him until August 10, 1918, when she passed away. Their children were as
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follows: Sanford J., who was the eldest; Atha, who is Mrs. Webb Bundy, of Delta, Ohio; Elmetta, who died at the age of fourteen years; Reasin, who died in childhood; Samuel, who is employed by the Wabash Railroad Company; Chauncey and Lincoln, who are farmers of York Township; Bertha, who lives at Delta, Ohio; Rosa, who is Mrs. Lewis Woodring, of Swan Creek Township; Alfred, who lives in Wauscon; Arthur, who lives in Chesterfield Township; and Victor E., who lives in York Township.
Sanford J. Lutton remained at home until he was eighteen years of age, during which time he attended the district schools. Leaving the parental roof, he worked for a time on Ohio farms, and then went to La Salle county, Illinois, and still later to Lee county, Illi- nois, continuing his farm work, and after two seasons returned to Fulton county. In 1884 he was married and then moved to a sixty- acre farm he had bought in Henry county, Ohio, and conducted it for twenty-one years, but then sold it and once more came back to York Township. Here he bought sixty-five acres, which was well improved, and he has since added twenty acres, having all but sixteen acres of his farm under cultivation, that being in timber and pasture. Mr. Lutton keeps a small herd for dairy purposes and carries on general farming, his efforts having always been directed along this line of agricultural work.
On February 7, 1884, Mr. Lutton was united in marriage with Mary Seymour, born in York Township, a daughter of Gideon and Effie (Markle) Seymour, natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lutton have three children, namely: Nettie, who is Mrs. Sherman Frederick, of Pike Township; May, who is Mrs. Carl Wade, of Wauseon, Ohio; and Rollie J., who is a veteran of the great war. In politics Mr. Lut- ton is a republican. A sound, dependable and upright man, Mr. Lutton has devoted himself to the one calling he chose at the beginning of his career, and his success proves the wisdom of that action, for his abilities have been afforded in it a fair chance for development, and he has acquired a competence and standing among his associates.
MICHAEL RUPP. The late Michael Rupp was one of the substan- tial and highly respected farmers of Fulton county, owning and operating a valuable farm in York Township. He was born in Baden Baden, Germany, in September, 1818, and in 1836 came to the United States and was engaged in working on different farms and in the clearing of timber in various counties of Ohio. Then he entered Government land in Hancock county, Ohio, and lived on this until 1880, when he sold that farm and came to Fulton county, locating on a farm in York Township that he had previously bought. To this he kept on adding until he had 240 acres of land, and cleared it of timber and put it under cultivation, making of it one of the good farms of the township. Here he died on July 10, 1888.
Michael Rupp was first married to a lady who only lived a year or two after marriage, and their infant daughter also passed away. On April 23, 1850, Mr. Rupp was married to Mary Gassman, born in Seneca county, Ohio, on February 3, 1834, a daughter of Philip and Catherine (Ninemeyer) Gassman, of Hagerstown, Maryland. Mrs. Rupp survives her husband and still resides on the farm in York Township.
The children born to Michael Rupp and his second wife were as follows: Bina, who is Mrs. Charles Hess, of Blunt, South Dakota; Anna, who is Mrs. Jonas Culp, of Montrose, Colorado; Catherine, who is Mrs. Charles Reed, of Wauseon, Ohio; Charles, who died in
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1886, while a resident of South Dakota; Joseph, who lives at Delta, Ohio; Ella, who was Mrs. Henry Hoffman, is now deceased; Emma, who lives with her mother; Alice, who is Mrs. Ellis McQuillan, of Pike Township; Frank, who is on the home farm; and Louise, who is Mrs. Kensie Trobridge, of York Township.
Mr. Rupp's educational training was limited to the instruction given in the public schools of Germany, but he was a man who learned much from close observation. In his political faith he was a democrat, but aside from voting took no part in public affairs. A very religious man he lived up to the faith of the Dunkard Church and carried his belief into his everyday life. Industrious and thrifty, he never spared himself, but worked hard and saved his money and when he died left behind him a valuable property for his family. Although many years have passed sinee his death he is remembered by the older generation as a most worthy man and excellent eitizen.
EDWARD FAUBLE. Born and reared on a farm in Fulton county, Mr. Fauble during his aetive years has been actively identified with commercial lines, and has had an active part in the affairs of the Town of Swanton, where he is one of the officials of the Swanton Milling and Elevator Company and has also exercised the rights and prerogatives of a live and public spirited eitizen of that community.
Mr. Fauble was born in Fulton Township February 2, 1880, son of Robert and Clara (Manley) Fauble. His parents were born in Ohio, married in Fulton county, and for many years have been re- spected and substantial farming people of the county. Their family of children consists of the following: Ella, wife of A. B. Putnam, of Fulton Township; Nellie, twin sister of Ella, wife of W. J. Flem- ming, of Fulton Township; Roy, of Toledo; Edward; Clarence, of Toledo; Ralph, at home; and Florence, Mrs. John Clifton, of Lena- wee county, Michigan.
Edward Fauble lived at home for eighteen years, acquired his education in the common schools, and on leaving home worked out as a farm hand four years and also rented and put in several crops on his own responsibility. For three years he was employed by a business concern in Toledo, and in 1912 began his connection with Swanton. He located there, handling feed and other supplies, and in 1915 his enterprise was incorporated as the Swanton Milling and Ele- vator Company. J. E. Robasser is president; C. A. Vaughan, vice president; Mr. Fauble, seeretary, treasurer and manager, while the direetors are J. E. Robasser, A. D. Baker, C. A. Vaughan, J. F. Sun- day, A. F. Keener, Charles Neis and Mr. Fauble. The company was formed as a milling and grain elevator coneern, and during the past five years has transacted a large volume of business, not only furnishing a market to the farmers for their grain, but also distribut- ing the feed, seeds, eoal, hay and other products.
Mr. Fauble has been a member of the City Council of Swanton . continuously since he moved to the town in 1912. He is a republican voter and a member of the Methodist Church. In June, 1899, he married Myrtle Nobbs, a native of Fulton Township, and a daughter of J. H. and Anna (Fetterman) Nobbs. Her parents are still living in Fulton Township. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Fauble are: Helen, Rachel, Howard, Hubert and Leslie.
AQUILA PRICE. For a long period of years Aquila Priee was one of the leading business men, bankers and citizens of Swanton, and still manifests a keen interest in the welfare of the town and
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county, though now practically retired from business and publie life.
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