USA > Ohio > Sandusky County > Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens > Part 43
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On March 6, 1856, Dr. George O. Har- lan was married to Miss Adline McGuire, of Cumberland county, Penn., who died January 7, 1865, leaving two children- Alice (now Mrs. O. E. Jones), and Serelda (now Mrs. H. Hale). On May 4, 1866, Dr. Harlan married Miss Harriet Hollis, of Monroeville, Ohio, and three children have been born to them, viz .: Hulda (now Mrs. J. H. Comstock, of New York
City), Nora (now Mrs. A. S. Close, of Toledo), and John M. (at home with his parents). Dr. Harlan is a member of the G. A. R., F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F.
OHN WENDLER. Among the prominent and substantial citizens of Madison township, Sandusky county, is found the gentleman whose name here appears, and who was born in Wurt- emberg, Germany, July 13, 1827.
His parents, John and Catherine (Sny- der) Wendler, had two children-Barbara and John. John Wendler, Sr., who was a blacksmith by trade, died when his son was a boy, after which his widow married Casper Freman, in Switzerland, and they had two daughters. John Wendler, Jr., was two years of age when his mother married Mr. Freman. He then went to Switzerland to live, remaining there until 1854, when, at the age of twenty-seven, he set out for the United States. Coming to Ohio, he located in Ballville township, Sandusky county, and was employed in a woolen-factory from 1854 till 1857, after which he worked on a farm by the month for four years. In 1861 he bought forty acres in Woodville township, Sandusky county, and commenced clearing. In 1872 he traded this forty-acre tract for eighty acres in Madison township, and in the same year bought eighty acres more, northwest of Gibsonburg, on which he lived until 1890, when he purchased the twenty-five acres whereon he now lives.
On November 27, 1854, John Wendler was united in marriage with Mary Brooker, who was born March 26, 1832, in Switzer- land, and they had six children, of whom Albert, born April 8, 1856, married Mary Walter, and has had five children; Mary, born July 29, 1858, married Fred Driftmey- er, and has had two children (they live in Washington township, Sandusky county); Amelia, born October 11, 1864, married John Callahan, and died July 18, 1890, at the age of twenty-five years; John W.,
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born November 28, 1866, lives at home; Emma L., born October 8, 1869, died September 15, 1891; Caroline Sophia, born July 10, 1875, died November 25, 1878. Mrs. Wendler's parents, Henry and Susan (Meddler) Brooker, were born in Switzerland. Mr. Wendler is a Re- publican in politics, has several times been honored with public office, and at present is serving his second term as township trustee. He is a member of the German Methodist Episcopal Church, and is much respected.
P ETER KENAN, a well - known farmer of Jackson township, San- dusky county, was born November 2, 1829, in Perry county, Ohio, a son of Silas and Barbara (Overmyer) Kenan.
Silas Kenan was born February 3, ISOI, near Wheeling, W. Va. His father was a native of County Derry, Ireland, and came to America when a small boy, settling in Virginia. James married Catherine Yost, by whom he had children -sixteen in number-as follows: Silas, Margaret, Phœbe, Samuel, John, Peter, Robert, Nancy, Emeline, James, Rebecca, Juliann, Sarah Ann, Melissa, Henry and Catherine. After marriage James Kenan moved to Perry county, Ohio, and thence to Tymochtee township, Wyandot county, later removing to Illinois, finally, how- ever, settling in Bettsville, Ohio, where he died in 1856. His wife died a year later at the home of a daughter in Mis- souri. The parents of Mrs. Silas Kenan were natives of Harrisburg, Penn., and their children were: Hugh, Margaret, Barbara, Polly, Eva, Lewis, Catherine, Elizabeth and Peter.
Peter Kenan in his youth came from Perry county to Sandusky county, Ohio, where he engaged in the arduous labors of pioneer farming, and where, in Jack- son township, he owns 120 acres of land in a good state of cultivation. He is a
Republican in politics, and has held various civic offices. In the Civil war he was a volunteer in Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Regiment O. V. I., and was stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, Vir- ginia, in the summer of 1864. On May 4, 1856, he was married to Miss Sarah Ann Hodgson, born in Herkimer county, N. Y., November 19, 1835, daughter of Rev. William Hodgson, who was a sol- dier in the war of 1812. To this union was born, March II, 1857, one son- William Manville-who on October I, 1878, married Miss Sylvia Ann, a daughter of Rev. John W. Powell, of Fostoria, Ohio, and they have a son, John Peter Kenan, born February 24, 1887.
C HARLES DELBERT KENAN, a son of George W. and Eliza- beth (Posey) Kenan, was born in Jackson township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, January 15, 1858, and is of Ger- man and Irish lineage, his great-grand- father being a native of the Emerald Isle.
His father was born July 31, 1824, in Perry county, Ohio. His mother was born August 20, 1832, in Hartley town- ship, Wayne Co., Penn., and came with her parents to Ohio during her early girl- hood. His father and mother are now living a retired life. They became the parents of seven children, as follows: Barbara, who was born December IO, 1852, and died in infancy; Oran, who was born December 7, 1853, and lives in the city of Fremont, Ohio; Lodema, who was born November 1, 1856, and is the wife of Michael Maurer, a resident farmer of Jackson township, Sandusky county, by whom she has three children-Charles, Louis and Webb; Charles Delbert, sub- ject of sketch; Marshall A., a farmer of Jackson township, born May 17, 1860; Lorina, born October 27, 1862, now the wife of Elijah Voorhees; George, born on the old homestead, July 10, 1864, and yet living there.
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Charles Delbert Kenan was reared to manhood under the parental roof, spend- ing the days of his boyhood in a manner not unlike that of other farmer lads of that locality. After arriving at years of maturity, he was married, in 1880, to Miss Mary M. Cookson, a teacher in the com- mon schools, having taught seven terms, daughter of William and Rose (Metzger) Cookson, who were natives of Pennsyl- vania, and came to Ohio in its pioneer days. Mr. and Mrs. Kenan have no chil- dren of their own, but have an adopted daughter-Frances Fleeta Kenan-whom they are tenderly rearing.
Upon his marriage our subject re- moved with his bride to Scott township, Sandusky county, where he rented his father's farm, and remained for about two months. He then came to Washington township, and purchased sixty acres, carrying on agricultural pursuits there for nine years, when he sold his property, and purchased seventy-four acres of land, constituting his present farm. Upon this place are four good oil wells, with a fair flow, and these net him considerable profit, adding not a little to his income. His carefully managed business interests have brought him success, and his fair and honorable dealing have gained for him the confidence and good will of all with whom he has come in contact. In politics he is a Democrat, discharging all his duties of citizenship with promptness and fidelity.
E NOS J. GROVER, a well-known farmer of Sandusky county, was born in Green Creek township, that county, October 23, 1841, a son of Truman and Caroline (Swart) Grover.
Truman Grover was born in Genesee county, N. Y., March 13, 1810, a son of Silas and Sallie (Williams) Grover, the former of whom was born in 1782, in Cayuga county, N. Y., where he grew to
manhood. His father died in 1843, and his mother-who was of Welch descent, and who in her younger days lived on the banks of the Susquehanna river, in New York State-lived to be eighty-one years old. Silas Grover married at the age of twenty-five, built a log house, cleared up a farm, and reared a family of children. In 1826 he came by steamer with his fam- ily from Buffalo, N. Y., to Sandusky City, and thence overland through the woods to Sandusky county, where he set- tled on a farm of eighty acres, for which he had traded sixty acres in York State, and received $100 to boot, which paid his moving expenses. Here he followed farm- ing twelve years, and then moved to another farm farther from Hamer's Cor- ners (now Clyde). He was a member of the Universalist Church, and in politics a Democrat. The children of Silas and Sallie Grover were as follows: Messa, who died at Fremont February 28, 1894, at the age of ninety-four; Truman, father of our subject; John, who lives in Branch county, Mich., aged eighty-two; Orson, living at Hillsdale, Mich., aged seventy- seven; Samuel, living at the same place, aged seventy-three; Harriet, who died leaving several children; and Lydia, wife of Clark Cleveland.
Truman Grover came to Sandusky county at the age of sixteen. His oppor- tunities for getting even a common-school education were very meager. On March 12, 1835, he married Miss Caroline Swart, who was born in Herkimer coun- ty, N. Y., October 3, 1818, and to their union came eight children: Eunice, born December 10, 1835, who became the wife. of W. T. Perrin, and their children are Perry, William, Frank, Fannie and Burt; of these, Perry married Minerva Youngs, and has four children-Leo, Lestia, Le- Roy and another; William married, and has four children; Frank married, and has two children. Milo married Lucy Perrin, and has seven children-Addie, Ralph, Pearl (who is married and has two chil-
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dren), Grace, Chrisence, Myrtle and an- other; Frank married Jane Duesler, and has two children, Minnie and Charlie; he lives in Chicago, Ill. Enos J. is the sub- ject proper of these lines. Margaret is the wife of D. Clapp, of Fremont, Ohio, and has three children-Emmitt, Gertrude and Horace. Melvina is the wife of M. Hart, of Green Spring, Ohio, and has three children-Victory, Milo and another; Ella is the wife of James Raymond, and their children are Winfred and Jay. Ran- som died when twenty years of age.
Enos J. Grover was reared on a farm, and during his youth attended the coun- try and village schools. He lives in one of the garden spots of northern Ohio. He is a Democrat in politics, and socially is a member of the Royal Arcanum, at Clyde, Ohio. In 1860 he married Miss Angeline Adams, and five children have been born to them: Nora (wife of LeRoy Lee, whose children are Margaret and Davis), Ran- som, Claude, Byron and Truman.
Truman Grover, father of our subject, was an enthusiastic member of the San- dusky County Pioneer and Historical So- ciety, and on October II, 1890, at its an- nual meeting, held in Fremont, gave an interesting account of his pioneer experi- ences, a report of which was published in the Fremont Journal, from which we here give a few items. Mr. Grover, among other things, said:
I moved from the State of New York with my father, in 1826, at the age of sixteen. Our farming at first went very slow. We cut most of our grain with sickles, as we thought the cradles wasted too much. We preferred to cut and lay it down by handfuls. The sec- ond year my father fixed a cradle to a grass scythe that worked pretty well. We threshed our grain by tramping it out with oxen, or beating it out with flails or cudgels; we kept at it all winter and fed the straw to our live stock. We hanled the grain to town and exchanged it for goods, and the merchants sent the grain east by boat in exchange for goods. One of our first merchants was Mr. Olinstead, who carried on a large business with very little money, by his system of exchange. We could not get any money at that time. After a while things changed, and we got money, and threshing machines and railroads, so that we
did not need to wait for the lake to open up in the spring to market our grain. I feel pretty well to-day, for a man who is eighty years old, and has done an awful sight of hard work. We seemed to have more leisure time for hunting and fishing and sporting in the early days than we have now. We could shoot wild ducks, geese and turkeys, and wild hogs in abundance. We got $3 per hundred for wild pork in Lower Sandusky. I was not much of a deer hunter. The deer had such sharp eyes that I could not see them before they saw me. When the Twelve-inile Reservation was sold by the Indi- ans and they moved away, the white people came in and bought homes, and then we got money and all business brightened up. Those- Indians are now in the Indian Territory on No Man's Land. Our people here are now away ahead of the early times. I don't suppose that there is a depot between Cleveland and Toledo that ships as much of different kinds of fruit as Clyde. The pioneer price of corn used to be 18 cents, rye 20 cents, wheat 50 cents. In 1833-34 we got $2.10 for wheat.
0 RION VAN DOREN, a progressive young farmer of York township, Sandusky county, is a son of Ed- win and Zeruiah Van Doren, and was born in Green Creek township, San- dusky county, September 3, 1858. He is of Dutch extraction on his father's. side, his ancestors having come from Holland more than one hundred and fifty years ago. His mother is of Scotch de- scent.
Abraham Van Doren, grandfather of the subject of these lines, was born about 1805, in a town in New Jersey, which then contained but few houses. Coming to Lower Sandusky (now Fremont), San- dusky Co., Ohio, he followed his vocation of shoemaker for many years, and then re- moved to a farm in Green Creek town- ship, where he passed the remainder of his life. Edwin Van Doren, who was a son of Abraham Van Doren, was born in Fremont, August 14, 1829, and in 1854 was united in marriage with Zeruiah Gray, who was born in Oswego, N. Y., August 13, 1832. They have had seven children, as follows: Allen, who is on a farm in Green Creek township; Orion, the subject of this sketch; Ida, now Mrs.
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John Hyatt, living west of Fremont; Sid- ney, in Green Creek township; Jennie, now Mrs. John Langton; Clara, now Mrs. William Pack, living at Centreville, Mich. ; and Lucy, now Mrs. H. G. Huff- man, living at Clyde, Green Creek town- ship, Sandusky, Co., Ohio. Mr. Van Doren has always been an active Republican since the founding of the party. He was in the hundred-day service in the war of the Rebellion, upon his discharge re-en- listing in the Fifty-fifth O. V. I., and was with Sherman on his famous march to the sea. He was mustered out at Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Van Doren are now living at Clyde, Sandusky Co., Ohio.
Orion Van Doren attended the Fre- mont school one term after leaving the district school, then went to the high school at Clyde one year, and the follow- ing year took a short course at Ada; but his father had need of his services, so he left school and remained at home until his marriage. On April 14, 1884, he wedded Miss Emma White, who was born March 8, 1868, and they have had two children, namely: Zeruiah, who was born March 25, 1886, and is at present at- tending the Clyde schools, and Mary Ruth, born December 16, 1893. Mrs. Van Doren's father, William White, a son of Lyton White, was born in New York State in 1827, and in 1855 married Mary Kettle, who was born in Townsend township in 1832. They had the follow- ing named children: Samuel; George, now deceased; Sarah, wife of Morris McGraw, of Albany, N. Y .; Lillian, wife of A. J. Smith, of Clyde; Marguerite, deceased; Mary, wife of Sidney Van- Doren; Emma, now Mrs. Orion Van- Doren; Lucinda, deceased; and Anna, wife of George Mason. In 1862 the family moved from Erie county, Ohio, where they had made their home for many years, to Townsend township, and froin there to York township, where Mrs. White died August 26, 1872. Mr.
White continued to manage his farm of 600 acres until March 26, 1887, when he, too, passed away. Mr. Van Doren votes the Republican ticket. For the past five years he has made an annual hunting excursion to northern Michigan, and his home is nicely decorated with antlers and other trophies that attest to his skill as a marksman.
H ON. GEORGE F. ALDRICH. Foremost among Sandusky coun- ty's representative men of to-day stands Hon. George F. Aldrich, a truly self-made man. He is the son of Hiram H. and Ellen (Donnell) Aldrich, and was born on a farm in Scott township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, February 26, 1857. Like many a farmer's boy he was obliged to work in the summer time, while during the winter seasons he was permitted to at- tend the district school. Determined to obtain an education, he diligently perse- vered, and finally attended for some time the Normal School at Fostoria, Ohio, afterward attending a Normal in Mans- field, Ohio.
At an early age he was among the most successful teachers in Sandusky county, and has followed that profession for twenty years. The township of Scott, recognizing his ability, elected him jus- tice of the peace, which position he held for nine years; he was also census enumer- ator of the township in 1880, and served on the board of county examiners for four years. Having successfully filled every position to which he had been called, his fellow-citizens, being desirous of conferring still further honors upon him, in 1891 sent him as a representative of Sandusky county at the State Legisla- ture on the Democratic ticket, his oppo- nent being Mr. J. L. Hart. This in- cumbency he also filled with his well- known ability and customary success. On his return from the legislature he devoted
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the greater part of his time to teaching. During the summer months he conducted a normal school at Tinney, having some forty pupils, many of whom are teachers. In addition to his profession he also di- rected the work on the farm at Tinney. In the fall of 1893 Mr. Aldrich was again nominated for the Legislature on the Democratic ticket, his opponent being George F. Keefer, and by whom he was defeated in 1893. In the 1895 campaign Mr. Aldrich carried the county, defeating Mr. Keefer, his opponent of 1893, not- withstanding the fact that the political aspect of the county has materially changed since the 1891 election.
On March 7, 1878, Mr. Aldrich was married to Miss Eulalie Adelaide Tinney, of Tinney, Ohio, and to them have come three children: May Bordelle and Mabel, born December 10, 1878 (Mabel died in infancy); and Rufus Haven Scott, born December 22, 1886. Of these May re- ceived a teacher's certificate in Sandusky county when only fourteen years old, but poor health has prevented her from teaching; she has given the study of music considerable attention. Mrs. Aldrich, the estimable wife of our subject, was born at Tinney, Ohio, November 21, 1857, and received her education in the public schools of that place. Her mother died when she was young, which deprived her of the advantages that she otherwise might have obtained.
The father of our subject was born in Rhode Island, in 1836, and when he was six years old his parents came to Ohio, where, with the exception of six years spent in Kansas, he has since resided. On February 29, 1864, he enlisted in Com- pany D, Third O. V. C., and was mus- tered out of the service at the close of the war. In his family were five children: John, Mary (now Mrs. J. W. Hudson, of Tinney), George F. (our subject), Charles A., and Jackson. Our subject's mother was a native of Scott township, Sandusky county, where she spent her entire life ex- 19
cept a few years in Kansas, in which State she died, October 9, 1887, at the age of fifty-seven. Mr. Aldrich's paternal grand- father, Nero Aldrich, was born in Rhode Island, and spent the greater part of his life in Scott township, where he died. He was twice married, the grandmother of our subject being his second wife. The maternal grandmother was born in Noble county, Ohio, and died in Kansas in 1895. She was three times married, her last hus- band being Nero Aldrich.
Among the pioneers of Scott town- ship is the father of Mrs. Aldrich, Darwin Scott Tinney. He was born September 18, 1826, in New York State, where he lived until eight years of age, and then with his parents came to Lenawee county, Mich., thence to Ohio, where he after- ward lived. He died at Tinney, Ohio, November 16, 1893. He was one of Sandusky county's most prosperous farm- ers, a vocation he gave his entire attention to during a greater part of his life. For three years he was county commisioner of Sandusky county. About 1850 he was married to Sarah Wiggins, of Scott town- ship, who was born in Massachusetts in 1829, and to them were born three chil- dren: Almeda Ann; Frank J. Tinney, of Fostoria, principal of the public schools; and Eulalie Adelaide (now Mrs. Aldrich). He was the son of Stephen Tinney, who was born in December, 1799, in Massa- chusetts, and died February 10, 1848. When about sixteen years old he went to New York and there lived some fourteen years; thence moved to Michigan where he lived six years, and from there to Scott township, where he passed the rest of his days, dying on January 9, 1836. He was married to Julia Scott, of Niagara county, N. Y., born July 24, 1797, and died February 7, 1869. To them were born four children: Darwin S., Edwin C., Jackson and Julia Ann, Edwin C. being the only one now living. Stephen Tinney's mother, Sally Jonier, was born in Massachusetts, about the
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year 1770, and her husband, Stephen Tinney, Sr., was born about the same time. To them were born three children.
D AVID SMITH is a substantial farmer of York township, San- dusky county. In his early years he lived the life of a stalwart pioneer, and he has succeeded in gaining a competency which will suffice him for the remainder of his days. He is a son of Fred and Dorothea Smith, and was born in Lehigh county, Penn., Angust 7, 1820.
Fred and Dorothea Smith were united in marriage in Germany in 1813, and in 1818 came to the United States, locating in Pennsylvania. Mr. Smith worked at the forge in that State, and also after coming to Ohio, whither he removed in 1837, settling first in Bellevue, Huron county, or rather Amsden's Corners, and the following year coming to York town- ship, where he resided the remainder of his life. He bought a farm, which he managed in connection with his black- smith shop. Of their children Marie (the eldest, who lived in Bellevue), Anna (of York township), and Fred (a farmer of York township, who was the oldest son), died in 1889, within six months of each other; David is the subject of this sketch; Catherine is living in Tennessee; Sallie died in California; John F. is a large land- owner of York township.
David Smith was the first of his parents' children born in America, his older brother and sister having been born before the family left Germany. Oppor- tunities for obtaining a good education, which are now so numerous and easy of access, were open to but few during his childhood, and his father's children were not numbered with the few. He came with his parents to York township at the age of ten, and later he learned the trade of carpenter and millwright, working in Bellevue and Toledo before marriage, and
a short time after. On October 22, 1846, David Smith was united in marriage with Julia Ann Knauss, who was born in Union county, Penn., April 3, 1825, and they have had six children, a brief record of whom is as follows: George, born March 9, 1848, is now a carpenter, residing in Bellevue; he married Anna Derr, and has two children-Julia Maude and Frank Elliston. Charles, born August 1, 1854, is a carpenter and lives in Michigan; he married Hattie Ent, and they have one child-Earl. Samuel, born November 24, 1859, is at home. Sarah Maria, born July 16, 1864, married David Barnard, of Groton township, Erie county, and they have three children-George, Ralph, and Charles. Mary Elizabeth, the youngest, born November 15, 1866, is at home. Mrs. Smith is the daughter of Solomon and Sarah Knauss.
Although suffering from a stroke of paralysis, Mr. Smith still superintends the farm, and tribute may well be offered to his perseverance and courage. He is prudent in his undertakings and never at- tempts to make large gains by corres- pondingly large risks. When he engages in an enterprise little doubt as to its sta- bility and character need be felt. Mr. Smith believes in the doctrines of protec- tion and sound money.
G EORGE MARTIN, a farmer of Ballville township, Sandusky county, was born near Buffalo, N. Y., March 21, 1832, a son of Michael and Catherine (Flory) Martin. Michael Martin was born in Baden, Ger- many, and married there. On immigra- ting to America he settled seven miles from Buffalo, N. Y., where he died at the age of thirty years, leaving a son Michael, Jr., by his first wife, and the following children by his second wife, a Miss Stuller: Joseph, Jacob, Abraham, Mary, Kate, and George, the subject of this.
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sketch. The mother of George Martin was born in Alsace, Germany.
George Martin grew to manhood in this country, but his education was entire- ly neglected, as he never learned to read or write. He worked on his father's farm in Sandusky county, Ohio, until Decem- ber, 1858, when he married Miss Mary M. Slaughter, who was born April 8, 1837, and settled on his present farm. A brief record of their children is as follows: Charles L., born October 18, 1859, is a farmer, living on an adjoining farm; he married Miss Caroline Bloom, and their children are Blanche, Vinnie, Ralph, Mabel and Iva. Frank S., born Septem- ber 16, 1861, is living with his parents; Albert, born September 29, 1863, is liv- ing with his parents; Clara C., born Sep- tember 27, 1865, married William Sachs, and their children are Fern, Carl and Lulu; Edwin, born July 5, 1868, is living with his parents; George T., born May 28, 1874, is living at home; Estella M. was born February 18, 1877. Mr. Mar- tin is a Democrat in politics, and in relig- ions connection is a member of the Lu- theran Church. He is an enterprising and well-to-do farmer, and an obliging neigh- bor. His half-brother Michael finds a comfortable home with him. His wife Mary was born April 8, 1837.
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