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York Township; Helen, who died in infancy; David, who died in 1881, when twenty-five years of age; George, who was the fifth in order of birth; Mary, who is Mrs. F. M. Moyer, of Wauseon; and Lucy, who is Mrs. William Kline, of Wauscon.
On September 30, 1880, George Schamp was married to Amanda Hortense Barnes, of Clinton Township, a daughter of Leonard P. and Mary Ann (Bay) Barnes, natives of Pennsylvania, who became early settlers of Fulton county, Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Schamp lived for a year on his father's farm, and then moved on a rented farm, where he remained until 1889, in that year buying eighty acres of land in seetion 33 of York Township. There were log barns and an old frame house on this property, and about fifty acres of it was under cultivation, the remainder being in timber. Mr. Schamp went right to work improving his farm. All but eight acres are now under cultivation, and he has put up his present buildings, all of which are modern in character. He takes great pride in his place and strives to keep everything in first-class order. His operations are carried on in the line of general farming and stockraising.
Mr. and Mrs. Schamp became the parents of the following chil- dren: Stella D., who is keeping house for her father; Dola May, who is Mrs. Roland T. Holmes, of Lucas county, Ohio; and Roy T., who was a farmer of Swan Creek Township, passed away February 2, 1920. Mrs. Schamp died on September 24, 1916, leaving a deso- lated family and many warm personal friends to mourn her loss, for she was a charming lady of Christian character. Mr. Schamp be- longs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, which he has served as steward for many years. He is a republican, and for two terms was on the School Board. He maintains membership with the Wauseon Camp, Modern Woodmen of America. Having spent his entire life in York Township, his interests are centered here and he is ready and willing to give his support to measures which he believes will be beneficial to the majority.
GEORGE JACOB MOOG. A man of naturally sound judgment and shrewd perceptions, characteristics of the raee of which George J. Moog, superintendent of the waterworks plant at Wauseon, is a descendant, he has so ordered his career as to be eminently eligible to representation in a work of this kind. He has risen through his strictly moral habits, his attention to the work before him and his mastering of the details of the line of effort to which he has applied himself. Thus he has earned the sincere esteem of those who are conversant with his life work and today he stands as one of the use- ful and representative men of the community, honored by his citi- zenship.
George Jacob Moog was born in Noble Township, Defiance county, Ohio, on May 3, 1880, and is the son of Martin and Salome (Stuckey) Moog. The subject's paternal grandfather, David Moog, was a native of Alsace-Lorraine, where he was reared and lived until about thirty years of age, coming then to the United States and locating in Defiance county, Ohio, where the family is still liv- ing. He was a farmer by vocation and spent the remainder of his life on his first farm there. Martin Moog was reared to the life of a farmer, but subsequently turned his attention to the operation of a saw mill, and still later became connected with railroad operations.
George J. Moog attended the schools of Hicksville, Defiance county, until he was fifteen years of age. He then turned his atten- tion to well drilling and threshing, which occupied his attention
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for about nine years. He also operated a saw mill for 41/2 years in Defiance county. Then for a year he was employed as night fireman for the Defiance Gas and Electric Company, and dur- ing this period he took a course in engineering with the American. School of Correspondence at Chicago, so that at the end of the first year he was advanced to the position of chief engineer of the plant, remaining in that capacity for one year. He then went to Stryker, Henry county, as chief engineer for the Toledo & Indiana Railroad Company, with whom he remained for three months, going from there to LaPorte, Indiana, where he was prominently connected with the LaPorte Light, Gas and Heating Company for three months. His next employment was as chief engineer of the waterworks and electric light plant at Coldwater, Michigan, where he remained for seven years. During these years Mr. Moog had been gaining a high reputation as an expert in his special line of work, so that it was with confidence he was engaged on April 1, 1918, as superintendent of the waterworks plant at Wauseon, Fulton county, which posi- tion he is still filling. The confidence placed in his technical ability was not misplaced, as has been abundantly demonstrated by the efficient manner with which he has discharged the responsible duties devolving upon him here.
In 1901 Mr. Moog was married to Katherine Cox, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Mulby) Cox, of Evansport, Ohio, and to them seven children have been born.
Politically Mr. Moog is independent, voting for the men and measures which meet with his approval regardless of party lines. Fraternally he is a member of the Brotherhood of American Yeo- men. Though a man of unpretentious demeanor, he possesses those qualities which attract men, and because of his success and his com- mendable qualities he is deservedly popular among those who know him.
WALTER JAMES CLARK. Except for about a year when he was ' in the army service Walter James Clark was connected with the schools of Fayette from 1913, the greater part of the time as super- intendent, until April 1, 1920, when he resigned that position and is now representing the Henry Holt & Company, publishers of col- lege and high school text books.
Mr. Clark was born at St. Clairsville in Belmont county, Ohio, October 26, 1888, son of E. T. and Minerva (Gray) Clark. His parents were natives of Ohio and his father for many years was in the furniture and undertaking business at St. Clairsville, but since 1915 has lived retired at Columbus.
Walter James Clark graduated from the high school at St. Clairs- ville, and in the intervals of teaching and other work acquired a liberal education at Muskingum College, the Ohio State University, Western Reserve University and Columbia University at New York. He took the post of assistant principal of the Fayette High School January 1, 1913, and during the following regular school year was principal and in the fall of 1914 became superintendent of schools.
He left his post of local duty and entered the army service April 30, 1918, and was assigned to special duty as a psychologist at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, Camp Custer, Michigan, and Camp Merritt, New Jersey. He received his honorable discharge June 1, 1919, and then returned to his duties at Fayette. Mr. Clark is or- ganizer of the Fayette Post of the American Legion and is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, one of his ancestors
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having fought for American independence. He is affiliated with Fayette Lodge No. 387 of the Masons, Lyons Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Defiance Commandery No. 30, Knight Templars, the Wau- seon Council and Mecca Temple of the Mystic Shrine of New York City. He belongs to the college fraternities Phi Rho Sigma and Pi Rho Phi. Politically he is a democrat, a member of the Presby- terian Church, and served as a member of the Board of School Examiners of Fulton county.
October 16, 1913, he married Elizabeth Flanagan. Mrs. Clark was born at Steubenville, Ohio, a daughter of Charles E. and Kath- leen (Tanner) Flanagan. Her father, now deceased, was an ex- pert mathematician. The widowed mother lives at Wheeling, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have three children : Walter James, Jr., Elizabeth Jane, and Robert Charles.
F. L. S. DARBY. It is a long time to look back to the days when Pottawattamie Indians still wandered through what is now Fulton county, Ohio, but the memory of one of Wauseon's most highly respected citizens, Dr. F. L. S. Darby, goes back that far. He was born in 1844, in Franklin Township, Fulton county, the young- est of seven children born to Samuel B. and Sepharna (Guilford) Darby.
The Darbys came to the American colonies from Derbyshire, one of the most beautiful sections of England, settled first in Ver- mont and later became people of substantial worth in Alleghany county, New York. In 1835 the parents of F. L. S. Darby drove across the country with oxen, after reaching Ohio stopping first in Huron county, but later settled on Bean Creek in Franklin Town- ship, Fulton county, where they secured forty acres of government land. The country at that time was a practical wilderness, few settlers having ventured so far and the nearest mill was at Maumee. Deer were often seen and wild turkeys were plentiful. For several years Indians followed their trails near the little pioneer settlements, and Mr. Darby remembers one of the stories told him in childhood by his anxious mother, of an occasion when an Indian squaw, be- reaved of her pappoose, tried to steal him. His father cleared his forty acres and added to them, becoming a man of consequence in Franklin Township, was county recorder as well as teacher, farmer and merchant. His death occurred in 1884, the mother surviving until 1898, passing away in her ninety-eighth year.
F. L. S. Darby had such educational advantages as the district schools of his day provided. He applied himself closely to his stu- dies because he had become ambitious and wished to qualify as a teacher, which he subsequently did and afterward taught the Arch- bold, the Burlington and Franklin district schools, and in this way provided for a course in Oberlin College, after two years entering the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, having previously read medicine with his brother, Dr. A. B. Darby, at Waterloo, Indiana. He entered the above medical school in 1864 and was graduated from the same with his degree in 1866.
During his stay of two years at Waterloo, while a student of medicine, Doctor Darby had formed many pleasant acquaintances in that city, and there he entered into practice and after two years opened a drug store there, which he conducted for two years, when he came to Wauseon. Here he bought an established drug business and continued the store for five years on the corner of Depot and Fulton streets, when he retired in order to give attention to other
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lines of business. In 1889 he was one of the organizers of the Ful- ton County Building & Loan Company, of which he was made secre- tary in 1896, and has continued ever since. The company deals in farm lands and city property, Mr. Darby having personal as well as company interests in real estate.
Mr. Darby was married to Minnie M. Waid, who is a daughter of William and Orpha (Canfield) Waid, a pioneer family of Fulton county, and three children were born to them, namely: Orpha, who is the wife of H. F. Dinske, of Wauseon; Roscoe B., who was born in 1878; and Florence, who died in 1896, at the age of four- teen years. In political sentiment Mr. Darby has always been a republican, and he has been a member of the county election board for more than twenty years. He has been active in Wauseon af- fairs, working always for the best interests of the city, and has served with great usefulness on the City Council and the School Board. He is one of the older members of the Knights of Pythias here.
Roscoe B. Darby was born on a farm in Fulton county, first attended the public schools of Wauseon, then Baldwin University, in 1897 entering the Ohio State University, and was graduated with his LL. D. degree in 1900. In June of the same year he was ad- mitted to the bar and since then has maintained his office at Wau- seon and practices in the state courts. He is a republican in politics, and served six terms as city solicitor. In 1896 he was married to Herma Winzeler, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Winzeler, and they have two children, John Franklin and Dudley Bryant. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias. He is recognized as one of the able members of the Fulton county bar.
ADOLPH WILLIAM HINDERER is senior partner in the F. Hinderer & Sons Company, proprietors of the big general mercantile estab- lishment at Burlington. Mr. Hinderer practically grew up in this store, and he and his brother Emil are among the most successful examples of enterprising country merchants, who have brought an immense volume of trade to them and have had no reason to fear the competition of large city storcs.
Adolph W. Hinderer was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1880, and was two years of age when he was brought to this country by his parents, Frederick and Catherine (Zwicker) Hinderer. His father, a blacksmith and wagonsmith by trade, followed that occu- pation in Defiance county one year, and then settled at Lauber Hill in Fulton county. Here he established a blacksmith shop, and made his trade a medium of good service to that community for fourteen years. From there he moved to Elmira and again resumed blacksmithing, but also opened a small grocery store, and his two sons took the latter branch of business and have developed it through subsequent years until it now supplies everything needed by the people living in a radius twenty miles around. They handle gro- ceries, dry goods, farm implements, hardware and furnaces.
Adolph W. Hinderer attended school at Lauber Hill to the age of thirteen, and ever since that time has been working and acquir- ing experience as a merchant. In 1903 he married Emma Herr, a daughter of Charles Herr, and they have one adopted child, Phyllis Catherine, now two years of age. Mr. Hinderer is an independent voter in politics.
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EMIL C. HINDERER is junior partner of the F. Hinderer & Sons at Burlington. This firm is one of the most stimulating examples of sueeessful merchandising in a country district found anywhere in northern Olio.
Emil C. Hinderer was born at Lauber Hill in German Town- ship, Fulton county, in 1887, a son of Frederick Ulrich and Cather- ine (Zwicker) Hinderer. His parents came from Germany, bring- ing with them their two sons. Frederiek Hinderer was then thirty- five years of age. He had learned the trade of wagon maker in his native land and followed that line of work for a number of years. For a short time his home was in Defianee county, Ohio, and from there he moved to Lauber Hill and opened a wagon shop and also did blacksmithing. After seven years he moved to Burlington, where he opened a small stoek of groeeries, that being the founda- tion and the nucleus of the present immense business conducted by his sons. He also continued work at the trade of blacksmithing, and lived and died there, highly honored and respected until 1915. His widow is still living.
Emil C. Hinderer attended the Barnett country sehool a mile east of Lauber Hill, and finished his education in the schools of Burlington at the age of fifteen. In the meantime, sinec the age of eleven, he had been helping his father about the store, and at the age of fifteen he was given practically entire charge. During the past fifteen years or so the business has enjoyed a steady inerease and growth. From the original line of groceries the stoek now in- eludes dry goods, shoes, hardware, implements and other supplies adequate for the demands of the surrounding agricultural distriet. The firm are also agents for the Pipeless Furnace, and they sold the first furnaces of that type in Fulton county, while Emil Hinderer installed the first Pipeless Furnace at Toledo. The firm are also agents for the International Traetor.
In May, 1919, Mr. Hinderer married Elsie Shoch, daughter of Henry Shoeh, of Bryan, Ohio. Politically independent, while not a politieian he is always interested in every community project. He and his brother Adolph own together a 130-aere farm in Frank- lin Township of Fulton county. This farm is the home of some good livestock, including a dairy of Holstein cattle.
JOHN MILTON SINDEL. The Sindel family has played a worthy part in the history and affairs of Fulton county for nearly eighty years.
A successful farmer representative of the family, who has held many offiees of trust and responsibility in Pike Township, is John Milton Sindel. He was born in Pike Township January 4, 1846, son of John and Harriet Newell (Dixon) Sindel. His father was born in New York state and his mother in New Jersey, and they were married in the latter state. On September 28, 1834, they ar- rived in Fulton county and established a home one mile east of Winnemeg in Pike Township. They took possession of a tract of land that had been entered by her father, Lott Dixon, direct from the government. From that time John Sindel never left his home in Pike Township, but by the ineidents and fortunes of history he lived in Lenawec county, Michigan, Lucas county, Ohio, and Ful- ton eounty. The Sindel family came west by way of the Hudson River to Albany, Erie Canal to Buffalo, by lake boat to Toledo, and thenee overland to what is now Pike Township. John Sindel cleared and improved 160 aeres of timbered land. He died in 1877, having
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been born in 1810. His wife, who was born in 1814, was just twenty years of age when she came to Fulton county, and she died May 24, 1904, seventy years later. They had a large family of children : Edward C., Dixon, Theodore J., William Henry, Leonard, William Holland, John Milton, George, Elizabeth and James, twins, Helen Y., James Eugene and Mary Catherine. Only three are now living, John Milton, Helen Y., and James Engene, the latter in California.
John Milton Sindel has some early memories of Pike Township when the country was still only a few years removed from a virgin wilderness. He attended a log cabin school, and early learned the arts and discipline of farm life as practiced sixty or seventy years ago. On March 1, 1868, he married Elizabeth Elliott, who was born in Medina county, Ohio, a daughter of Simon and Susan (Scott) Elliott.
After their marriage they lived on the Elliott farm in Pike Township, later rented a farm for two years at Marseilles, Illinois, and then spent another four years on the Elliott farm in Pike Town- ship. April 6, 1874, Mr. Sindel bought an eighty acre brush farm in Pike Township, in section 3, clearing and improving the place. In March, 1905, he bought a partly improved place in the same section, and has cleared up all of this land, built a modern home, and for the past three years has hired all the farm labor. His son lives on his other farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Sindel have two children, M. Leonard and Ber- nice. Leonard, who lives on his father's farm in Pike Township, married Blanche Shaffer. They have five children: Elsie, wife of Paul Clough, who was a soldier in the National Army; Marian, who is Mrs. Clinton Miller, of Delta; Richard, Robert and Irene. The daughter Bernice is the wife of Erwin Tappin, of Pike Town- ship, and has two children, John and Mary.
Mr. Sindel is a member of the Christian Church and has been an elder since 1912. His official record comprises two terms as `township trustee, two years as assessor, one term as justice of the peace, and a number of years of service as school director, constable and road supervisor. He has held all the offices in the Etna Grange and is a republican in politics.
WALTER EARL DISBROW. While most midwest families are able to trace their lineage through two, three and sometimes four gen- erations, it is vouchsafed to Walter Earl Disbrow, a clerk in the Wauseon postoffice, to look backward through six generations to the Revolutionary period in American history to Henry Disbrow who carried the family name in that war. He also looks through three generations before that time, during the Colonial period; is in the tenth generation from the first Disbrow of whom he has any knowl- edge.
The Colonial record shows that Henry was a son of Caleb Dis- brow, whose wife was Sarah Davis, and he was one of nine children born to them. Caleb was a son of Thomas Disbrow, whose wife was Abagail Gooding, and he was one of seven children born to them. Thomas was in turn a son of another Thomas Disbrow, whose will was probated February 7, 1706-the earliest Disbrow of which there is any record, and the second Thomas Disbrow was his only child. The name of the wife was Mercy Jones, and thus ends the Colonial history of the Disbrow family.
Henry Disbrow, the Revolutionary soldier through whom W. E.
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Disbrow is eligible to membership in the patriotic society of the Sons of the American Revolution, was born April 19, 1757, and he had not yet reached his majority when the colonists declared their independence from England. The records indicate that he lived in Connecticut. He married Hannah Merriam, April 1, 1819, at Harperfield, Delaware county New York, and May 15, 1838, he died at Medina, Ohio. His children were: James, Smith, Rachel, Caleb and Rebecca. The Fulton county Disbrows are de- scended from the oldest son, James. He married Polly Knapp and Orville Disbrow was one of five children born to them.
Orville and Fanny (Buck) Disbrow passed their early married life in Lorain eounty. Their life story began in Fulton county in 1859, when they located in Chesterfield. He died in 1882, aged sixty-five years, while his wife attained to more than ninety years. Their children were: David J., Caleb E., Francis, Betsey and Adeline. David J. Disbrow married Angeline Briggs August 6, 1865, and through this alliance Walter E. Disbrow is in the fourth generation from Col. Alanson Briggs, who was in command of a regi- ment of "Green Mountain Boys" in the second war with England. He treasures the sword carried by this ancestor in 1812, and few men anywhere have more direct military ancestry, beginning with the first war with England-the American Revolution.
The name Disbrow has been in America so long that "Blue- bellied Yankee," is a term applied to the pioneers. The name Briggs is also in the earliest annals of the community. In 1834 Colonel Briggs visited northwestern Ohio and the Michigan strip, and he invested in a large tract of unbroken wild land, and in 1835 he removed his family from Cleveland to what is now known as Chesterfield. He was a merchant, and brought a stock of goods to the Indian Trading post he established, and as he came to stay he brought livestock with him, coming through the Blaek Swamp to this wilderness country. Colonel Briggs was the kind of settler to build up any frontier community.
While Colonel Briggs thought he was the first white settler in that particular "Neek o' the woods," imagine his surprise when one day Chief Winameg came into the Trading Post with other In- dians and told him of Chesterfield Clemmons, a "white man with a wigwam," who had been there "many moons." While the late Col. D. W. H. Howard was an Indian trader who came through the territory sometimes, Colonel Briggs was unquestionably the first merchant in Fulton county. While he has posterity, the name is not perpetuated, as he had no son to reach manhood.
Colonel Briggs married Olive Sweet June 2, 1829, and one son, Roderick A., was born, but died sixteen days later. The wife died September 2, 1830, and on December 8, 1839, the colonel married Lucinda Rogers. They had four daughters: Betsey, Maria, Eliza and Angeline. Only two, Eliza and Angeline, lived to womanhood. It was the marriage of David J. Disbrow and Angeline Briggs that united these two pioneer Fulton county families. Their children are: Charles Eugene and Eva Emma. Through the son comes Walter E. Disbrow, of this sketch. The daughter, Eva Emma, is the wife of George W. Corlett, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and they have one son, Robert.
C. E. Disbrow, of Chesterfield, known to all as Gene, was born January 1, 1869, and on August 14, 1889, he married Reta Todd. She is a daughter of Henry M. and Alwilda (Newcomb) Todd. She
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had two brothers, Francis C. and Royal T. Todd, and a step-sister, Alta Terpenning Retan, and two half brothers, Merritt and Homer Stewart, and a half sister, Mamie Stewart. The brother Francis C., and the two sisters are gone the way of the world. Mrs. Disbrow was reared by her great-grandmother, Susannah K. Mclaughlin, near Delta, of whom she speaks in highest terms of praise as an excellent pioneer woman. Mrs. McLaughlin was a widow for many years.
The Disbrow children of today are: Walter Earl and Montral Mack. Three children are deceased: Eugene, born May 19, 1890, died the same day; Sybil, born December 13, 1896, died three days later. Fern Eva, whose untimely death occurred February 10, 1920, was married November 29, 1916, to Fred E. King, of Jasper, Michigan. She was in the bloom of a beautiful young womanhood, and is survived by her husband and one daughter, Evlyn Fern. Montral Mack Disbrow lives with his parents on the hilltop over- looking Oak Shade, and he is a pupil in the Chesterfield Centralized Schools.
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