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Whatever of success in life Mr. Peck- inpaugh has achieved, he says is attribu- table to his early parental training and his close application to business. He be- lieves in the old maxim that " whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well."
S OLOMON K. PLANK, farmer, liv- ing on Section 28, Greene Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, was born March 17, 1837, on the homestead, in that town- ship, now occupied by his mother and brother Samuel. His parents, Jephtha and Fanny ( Kurtz) Plank, were born in Pennsylvania, the former in Mifflin and the latter in Huntingdon County. Grand- l'ather Plank came to Wayne County,
the farm on Section 32, Greene Township. brought it into a fine state of cultivation. and lived thereon until his death. He was twice married, first to Barbara Zook, who died, leaving four children: Hannah, born May 1, 1829, is the wife of Chris- tian B. Brenneman, of Greene Township: Salome, born July 18, 1830, first married to Isaac Lautz, and now the wife of David Blough; Samuel and Barbara (twins ). born February 23, 1832, Samnel now liv- ing on the homestead. His second wife was Fanny Kurtz, who was born June 3. 1810, is living at the old home, and now. in her seventy-eighth year. is hale and hearty. She came to this county with her parents, Abraham and Magdalena Kurtz. when twenty years of age.
They settled in Wayne Township, and by hard labor made a comfortable home in the wilderness, in which the father died. After his decease the mother lived the rest of her life with her daughter Fanny. The latter was married to Jephtha Plauk ! in October, 1832, and bore him eight Ohio, while Jephtha was still a young man, . children, as follows: Joseph, a farmer of He located in Wayne Township, and being ; Milton, born March 3. 1SB1; an un- quite aged, thereafter lived a retired life. : named infant, deceased, born December Jephtha Plank, father of S. K .. learned
14. 1835: Solomon K., born March IT. the trade of cabinet-making, and being a : 1837; Jonas, born April 3, 1839. died natural mechanic became very expert, and also was equally skillful as a worker in iron. Later he was equally successful as a practical farmer, and having bought young; Gideon, born March 13, Istl. died in Missouri: Lydia, born Mareb 16. IS12, was the wife of Giden Hart, lor. and died in Greene Township: Jacob, bort.
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January 3, 1845, was killed when seven- teen years old by his team running away; and Jephtha, born April 25, 1847, died in Michigan, leaving a widow and chil- dren. The father of this family was a man of strong religious feeling, and conscien- tious and consistent member of the Amish Mennonite Church, who lived up to his professions and reared his children to follow his example. He was a man of probity, and bore an irreproachable char- acter. He was born May 12. 1803, and died October 3, 1846. The mother died May 15, 1889, after a lingering illness, but bore her suffering with great patience and Christian fortitude. She was buried in the Paradise Union Cemetery, May 17, in the presence of a large company of friends and relatives.
1824, with their two eldest children, who were born in Pennsylvania. The father was born in 1796, and died in 1870. The mother died in 1874. They had eleven children, of whom are now living, sons: Levi, in Greene Township; Enos. John and Solomon, in Davis County, lowa; Seth and Benjamin, in Cass County, Mo. : Gideon, in Greene Township. all farmers: daughters: Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Plank, of Milton Township, this county, and Nancy, wife of S. K. Plank, who was the youngest of the family : the two de- ceased were Sarah, who died at thirteen. and an infant unnamed. Joseph Hartzler was a plain, upright man, honest and con- scientions, who dealt with others as he would be dealt by. He and his wife were members of the Amish Mennonite Church. When they immigrated to Wayne County the land was mostly covered by a dense forest, and the immigrants often grew homesick when looking at the prospect.
Solomon K. Plank, the subject of this sketch, has made farming his life-long occupation. He was nine years old when his father died, and thereafter he made his home with his mother until his mar- ; For years their home was a log cabin. riage, on May 15, 1862, with Nancy, dangh- " around which at first was but a small patch ter of Joseph and Fanny ( Kauffman) , of cleared land. Years of unremitting Hartzler, who was born October 21. 1539, ; toil were passed, but under their hands on the place where she now lives, which , the farm grew, prosperity smiled upon had been the home of her parents, and was bought subsequently by her and her husband. The Hartzlers were among the borhood. At first their grain had to be early settlers of the county, were both na. tives of Mifflin County, Penn., and bad removed bore and settled on the farm in their efforts, and their farm gradually grew to be one of the best in the neigh- hanled to Cleveland, where it was either sold for a small price or, more frequently. exchanged for necessaries: but the hon-
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ored pioneer and his wife lived to see the fruition of the hopes which brought them from their Eastern home, and died sur- rounded by all the comforts which their toil had gained for them and their chil- dren.
Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Plank are the parents of five children, viz .: Malissa Ellen, born March 20, 1863, and Adam, born March 30, 1872, living with their parents; Leo, born June 6, 1864; Will- iam Joseph, born July 5, 1866, and John F., born October 16, 1878, are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Plank are members of the Oak Grove Amish Mennonite Church, of which he is a deacon, and for many years he was one of its superintendents and teachers in its Sunday-school. He is a man of sterling integrity, of strict principle, and highly esteemed in his community. Mr. Plank's great-grand- father, Melcher Plank, was a native of Rotterdam, Holland, and soon after his marriage he and his wife accompanied some friends, who were moving to Amer- iea, on board the ship. As the ship was not to leave until the next day tho captain G J. MILLER was born in Wayne County in 1515. He is the son of Jacob and Magdaline (Candles- berger) Miller. They were the parents of ten children, of whom (. J. was the sixth. The early life of C. J. Miller was spent at home on his father's farm, and prevailed on them to remain with their friends until morning, as they would probably not see each other again. Dur- ing the night. while they were asleep, !! ship sailed, and when they awoke in the morning they were out of sight of land. On arriving in America they were sold he was educated in the common schools
to a Mr. Morgan, of Berks County, Penn., to pay their passage. They had a family of six children: Jacob, Christian, John, Peter, Barbara and Margaret. The three first named married sisters named Yoder. Jacob and Mary (Yoder) Plank were the grandparents of Solomon K., our sub- ject, and were early settlers of Wayne County, Ohio. The former died Janu- ary 10, 1851, aged eighty-three years, two months and four days, and the latter March 28, 1850. aged seventy-nine years, one month and fifteen days. They had a family of twelve children: John. born July 31, 1792, died January 1, 1589; Christian, born November 8, 1793: Jacob, December 2, 1795; Barbara. September 26, 1797; David, Angust 3, 1799; Mary, July 15, 1801; Jephtha, May 12, 1503; Fanny, January 29, 1805; Abraham and Sarab (twins), April 28. 1807; Salome. March 24, 1809; Rebecca, June 5, 1511.
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of the county. He learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for five years. In 1862 he enlisted in the three-months service, in Company D, Eighty-sixth Reg- iment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and re- enlisted in the Ninth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry for three years.
After his career in the army he re- turned to Wayne County, and was mar- ried, in December, 1868, to Sarah Eberly, daughter of Peter Eberly, a very promi- nent citizen of Wayne County. Three children have been born of this marriage: Cora Elena, Ervin Alden and Roy Edwin. In 1875 Mr. Miller purchased eighty acres of his present farm, owning now some 130 acres. He has been a success- El farmer, and is among the progressive, ; intelligent men of Wayne County. He is a member of the United Brethren Church, a Republican in polities, and stands do- 1 servedly high in the estimation of the community.
A LBERT B. MACKEY was born in Maysville, Ohio, November 27, 1816, and is a son of John and Elizabeth ( Cunningham ) Mackey. William Mackey, the grandfather of Al- bert B., was born in Londonderry, Ire- land, and immigrated to America in ESOS. He was a cabinet-maker by trade, and
remained in New York City, working at the same until 1813 or 1514, when he came to Wayne County, and entered a tract of land on Section 1, in Salt Creek Township, where he lived until his death, in 1869. He was an energetic, prosper- ous man, and one of the leading men ol the township. During the War of 1512 he served in the New York militia. His family consisted of ten children, as fol- lows: Eve (now Mrs. John Chum, of De- fiance County, Ohio), Rosana. Elizabeth. Murabra. Margaret, Tamor and Sophronia ( all deceased), Ineinda ( now Mrs. Man- oah Franks, of Kendallville. Ind. ), John (deceased ) and Cyrus.
Of these, John was born in Salt Creek Township, Wayne County, in 1824, and was reared on the homestead. At an curly age he and one Daniel Reider laid ont the town of Maysville, Ohio. After his marriage he located on a tract of land adjoining that of his father, and lived there until his death, by accident, in a saw - mill, in 1550. His wife was a daughter of James Cunningham, a native of Fayette County, Penn., who entered a tract of land in Salt Creek Township in 1816, and in [819 located on the farm now owned by Albert B. and his brother, John, where he died May 6, 1565. John Mackey reared three children: Albert B. (our subject), Mary Jane (deceased) and John, residing on the homestead.
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Albert B. was educated at Savannah Academy, in Ashland County, Smithville : and Fredericksburgh, Ohio, and studied the profession of a civil engineer, which he followed for three years on the Pacific coast, during two years of which he was employed by the Goverment. le read law with John P. Jefferies, of Wooster, Ohio, but was never admitted to practice. He lived on the farm until 1581, when he moved his family to Apple Creek. Janu- ary 1, 1874, Mr. Mackey married Clara E., daughter of Adam Henning, of Salt Creek Township, Wayne County, and by this union they have five children: Radie, Ed- win A., Florence M., John HI. and Bertha M. Mr. Mackey has served as county surveyor, and as justice of the peace of East Union and Salt Creek Townships for twelve years. He is a member of Apple Crock Lodge, No. 674, 1. O. O. F., Apple Creek Lodge, No. 321, K. of P., and votes with the Democratic party.
i two children: Ralph Waldo and Mand Ahna. Mr. Mackey is a Republican in politics, and has served as president of the school board of Salt Creek Township For four years. He is now serving his second term as township trustee.
ASPER L. SWART, son of Henry and Mary ( Langell) Swart, was born in Wayne County. Ohio, near Edinburgh, East Union Township. The parents moved in the year in which they were married from Jefferson County, Ohio, to Wayne County. They had a family of nine children, viz. : Mary, Simon, Andrew Jackson, Casper Ia. Margaret S. James. Sarah. Ellen Maria and Sosan. Of these, Casper L., whose mono heads this sketch, was educated at the local schools of his township, was brought up lowed the life of a husbandman. He moved on the fine farm where he now re- sides, in Plain Township. Wayne County. in 1836, and has greatly improved and beantified it.
JOHN MACKEY was born August 9, 1850, 'on a farm, and has all his days fol- at Maysville, Ohio. He was educated at the township schools and the academy at Savannah, and has always Followed farming. In 157F he married Miss Mary Grosjean, danghter of Engene Grosjean, ; of Salt Creek Township, Wayne County. Mr. Swart was married February 15, 1859, to Mary Jane Cormony, of Monut Vernon, Ohio, and to this union have She died October 26, 1879, leaving one child, Engenie. By his present wife, nee Mary Jane Brown, daughter of E. A. been born seven children, as follows: Brown, of Wooster, Ohio, Mr. Mackey has Heury, born February 7. 1800, died April
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19. 1864; Flavia, born April 7, 1862, died April 17, 1861; Adrian C., born February 20, 1861; Lelia M., born August 20, 1565: Ella M., born Decem- ber 1, 1867: Nora A., born Jannary 20, 1871, and Perry L., born August 28, 1577. The mother of these children died April 10, 1885. The family are members of the Christian Church, and are regarded among the most worthy and respected citizens of Plain Township.
W. KIPLINGER. son of Michael and Sarah ( Keen ) Kiplinger, was born in Jackson Township, Ashland Co., Ohio, August 1, 1556. Jacob Kiplinger, grandfather of J. W .. and who was a na- tive of Pennsylvania, married Barbara Bope, by whom he had thirteen children, mine sons and four daughters, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood; he died September 13, 1845, aged seventy- nine years, twenty-nine days, his widow. surviving until May 17. 1856, when she too died, aged eighty-two years and four months.
Michael Kiplinger, Father of J. W., was born April 11, 1801, in Contre County. Ponn., and came to Ashland County, Ohio, where he lived up to the time of his death, which occurred Novom-
ber 11, 1872. Hemarried, March 1, 1832, Sarah, daughter of John and Catherine Keen, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in an early day, being among the early pioneers of Ashland County. Mr. Keen died March S. 1862. aged eighty- five years, five months and fourteen days; his wife died May 6, 1862, aged eighty- one years, ten months and eighteen days. Michael and Sarah Kiplinger were the parents of ten children: Daniel, James 1., Michael, John J., Edward A., Joseph W .. Sarah. Hannah. Mary and Rebecca, seven of whom are living. The mother is now residing in Jackson Township. Ashland Co .. Ohio, in excellent health. in her seventy-sixth year.
J. W. Kiplinger, the subject of this biographical memoir, was married in March. 1982. to Miss Adella, daughter of Jacob and Mary A. Keen, former of whom was born May 18. 1835, and died September 14, 1575: latter was born De- cember S. 1537. To Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kiplinger has been born one child, Claude Clayton, born January 6. ESSI. Mr. Kip- linger came to West Salem. Wayne Co. Ohio, in 1553, and embarked in the drug business, in which he has been eminently successful. September 5, 1555, he re- ceived his commission as postmaster of West Salom, and as such his miform courtesy and strict attention to the duties of his office have earned for him the ad-
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miration and respect of the entire com- innity. In polities he is a Democrat.
W WARREN AYLESWORTH, in his lifetime a progressive farmer, was a native of Wayne County, having been born in Clinton Township, January 5, 1820. His father, Ira H. Aylesworth, was a native of Vermont, and when about twelve years of age removed to Otsego County, N. Y., and thence, in 1816, to Ohio, traveling the entire distance by wagon. While residing in New York he was married to Esther, daughter of James Gray, and a native of Massachu- setts. Her ancestors for several genera- tions were residents of the latter State, being of English descent. Mrs. Ayles- worth's father was a soldier in the Revo- lutionary army, and bore his share of the hardships and privations of those "times that tried meu's souls," enlisting in the patriot army when ho was only sixteen years old. Afterward he became a Rey- olutionary prisoner. He now lies buried in Ashland County, Ohio. Ira II. Ayles- worth's ancestry were also of English descent. When Mr. Aylesworth and his young wife came to Wayne County they settled on a tract of wild land that had
ax or plow. They first lived in a log cabin, which Mr. Aylesworth created with his own hands. Here they lived and reared their family, enduring the hard- ships and privations incident to pioneer life, and here Mrs. Aylesworth died in 1813, at the age of forty-three years. She was the mother of nine children, six of whom grew to maturity, but of whom only three are now living. A number of years after his wife's death Fra H. Ayles- worth married Mrs. Olive Williams, who bore him one child. In 1861, just as the troops were leaving for the front in re- sponse to President Lincolni's call, Mr. Aylesworth died, in Wooster (where he had lived for several years), from the effect of injuries received through being thrown from a wagon. . He was then sev enty-five years old. He served for a time as justice of the peace, and bore an im- portant part in developing the resources of Wayne County. Ho led an exemplary life, and was universally esteemed.
Warren Aylesworth spent his early years on his father's farm, being born in the old log honse, and afterward attend- ing school in the pioneer log school-honse. On the Ist of May, 1S19, he was married to Miss Ann E. daughter of Robert and Mary (Thomas) Wilson, and a native of Huntingdon County, Pom., where she was born, October 11, 1827. Her paternal never known the touch of the while man's I ancestors, who were of Scotch-Irish
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descent, came to America prior to the Rev- olution, in which her grandfather, Thomas Wilson, was a soldier. His sword is now in Mrs. Aylesworth's possession. Her grandmother on ber mother's side, Agnes Seott, and her family were of Welsh de- scent. Robert and Mary Wilson came, in 1834, to what is now Ashland County, Ohio, where the father and mother died- the latter in 1843, at the age of forty-one, and the former, December 25, 1871, aged seventy-two. Mr. Wilson was an earnest Abolitionist, and attended the first free- soil convention, held at Buffalo in 1518. He was an active "conductor" ou the mysterious underground railroad, his house being one of the numerous " sta- tions." After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Aylesworth remained on the old homestead until 1874, when they removed to Wooster, and in 1876 purchased the present homestead. They had labored hard to improve and beautify their farm, and were successful in so doing. Only one child has blessed their union, and that was spared to them but a few months. Intent, however, upon doing good, they took and reared a son of Mrs. Aylesworth's brother, whose parents had died, and he remained with them until his marriage. Mr. Aylesworth always worked and voted with the Republican party until ISSS, when he cast his vote for the Prohibition candidates, desiring to see his countrymen
freed from the thralldom of strong drink. He was an esteemed member of the Pros- byterian Church of Wooster, as is his widow. She is also a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Warren Aylesworth died at his home in Wooster, June 24, 1559. of typhoid pneumonia, after an illness of six days, and his remains are interred in Oak Hill Cemetery, at Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio. The Aylesworth family is one of the best known and most highly respected in Wayne County. Its members have borne their share in the work of building up the county, and causing the wilderness to "blossom as the rose." They have their reward in being well-to-do and in possess- ing the esteem and affection of everyone who knows them.
SAAC H. HAGUE. M. D., son of Isaac and Nancy ( Dougherty ) Hague, was born in Holmes County, Ohio, Novem- ber 9, 1840. His paternal grandparents emme from Holland, and located in Fay- ette County, Penn., removing to Holmes County in 1828, where the grandfather was an agriculturist. Isaac Hagno, father of the Doctor, was born in Fayette County. Penn., where he married Naney Dongh- erty, who was also born in Pennsylvania,
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and where their children-Ruth, Jane, William and Sarah-were born; and after their settlement in Ohio Aaron, Eliza- beth, Hannah and Isaac H. were born. Ruth and Jane are both residents of Holmes County, and married, the former to John Phillips, the latter to Steven R. Williams; William's residence is also there; Sarah married William McConkey, and their home is in Missouri; Elizabeth married James Miller, and their residence was in Porter County, Ind., where she lied: Hannah married Josiah Moreland, also of Porter County, Ind., where she also died.
Isaac H. received his elementary edu- cation in his native county, and his clas- sical education at Hiram College, Portage County, Ohio. He studied medicine with Dr. Joel Pomerene, of Millersburgh, Ohio. and attended a course of lectures in Clevo- land, at Wooster University, from which he graduated in 1868, and in 1876 he took a special course at Bellevue Hospital Med- ical College, New York. During the war, in Is62, the Doctor enlisted in Company (. One Hundred and Second Ohio Vol- unteer lufantry, returning home at its close, in 1865. In 1864, during the term of his enlistment. he married Rebecca, daugh- ter of James Williams, of Holmes Count- ty, Ohio, and upon his return from the army they located for a time in Villers- burgh ; then he began the practice of med-
icine in Nashville, removing to Shreve in 1877, where he has since been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession. To Dr. and Mrs. Hague five children have been born, viz .: Ellis B .; Jennie (now Mrs. I. C. Charles, of Lucas, Richland Co., Ohio) : Virga L .: Estella D., and James Harrison Garfield, named after ex-Presi- dent Garfield, who was president of firam College during the Doctor's attendance there.
The Doctor and his wife are members of the Disciples Church; in politics he is a Republican. It is almost superfluous to add that Dr. Hague as a professional man and as a citizen deservedly holds a high position in the estimation of the commu- nity where he resides, and that he enjoys an increasing aud remunerative practice.
OUN HINDMAN, one of Wayne County's earliest settlers, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, April 1. 1815, his parents being James and Ruth (Crunkilton) Hindman. The pa- ternal grandfather of our subject was also named James, and lived and died in Franklin County, Penn., his widow there. after making her home with her son James. The latter was all his life a farmer, and in his early manhood was
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united in marriage with Ruth, danghter of Robert Crankilton, and a native of Franklin County, Penn.
As early as 1809 our subject's father came to Wayne County, and settled on land where he proposed making his fut- ure home. After clearing a portion of it he returned to his native State, where he was married in the year 1812, and at once, with his bride, started for their new home in the then far West, in this connty. Owing to Indian troubles in this region, they stopped in Columbiana County, Ohio, where they rented land, and stayed there nutil 1816. Everything being now quiet in this region, they came to Wayne Coun- ty in that year, and here lived the re- mainder of their lives. They had to endure the hardships and privations of the life of the early pioneers, and for years pumpkin butter, as a substitute for apple butter, was an article of daily food. Little do the younger people of to-day realize the privations endured by the early pioneers, who lid the foundation of the prosperity Wayne County is to-day enjoying. About the year 155s death called the hardy pioneer from his labors, at the age of fifty-eight years. He was a man of great physical strength, but the arduous loil of pioneer life shortened his days. He had an inclination for military matters, and was captain of the first militia company organized in Wayne
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County. Later ho became major of the first regiment, and still later was elected colonel. In his political views he was a Jackson Democrat, and was active in pub- lic affairs, having filled various offices of trust in the county, as township trustee, county commissioner, etc. He was also a member of the Masonic fraternity. His wife survived him many years, dying in 1878, at the ripe old age of eighty-three years. Their union had been blessed by the birth of seven children, three of whom are yet surviving: John, James (on the old homestead) and Ruth (Mrs. Adam Eyman, of Wooster). The deceased were Maria, wife of George Vallandigham, of East Union Township; Crooks, who died in Wells County, Ind., and two who died in infancy.
Jolm Hindman remained on his Father's farm until he reached the years of man- hood, and in 1839 was united in marriage with Nancy, daughter of Theophilus and Mary Phillips, and a native of Fayette County. Poun .. who came with her parents to Wayne County, where she grew to womanhood. For two years the young couple remained npon the home farm, but in ISI they removed to Edinburgh, this county, where he engaged in mercantile business, in partnership with David Clark, the connection continuing until 1850, when they sold ont. He was also post- master from 1911 to 1550, when he re-
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