Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, Part 47

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Chicago, J.H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1040


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Godfrey F. Buchman, the subject proper of this memoir, grew up in Seneca county, where he received a good ele- mentary education in the public schools, after which he engaged in teaching for a


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few terms. His next employment was that of clerk in a store at Tiffin, where he remained about three years, and by strict attention and constant application gained a thorough knowledge of the busi- ness. At the close of his services as a clerk he, on August 20, 1867, married Miss Magdalena Bork, who was born in Seneca county, Ohio, September 14, 1845. This union has been blessed with seven children: (1) Theresa M., born October 17, 1869, now the wife of Charles Babione, Fremont, Ohio. (2) Marguerite M., born July 11, 1868, died September 22, 1868. (3) John M., born July 6, 1871, died August 23, 1872. (4) Joseph M., born October 3, 1873, at Fremont, Ohio, where he spent his childhood and youth, attended the schools of the St. Joseph Catholic Church, under the supervision of Dr. S. Baner; assisted his father in a store, took a course of study in a business college, and later served an apprentice- ship at the carpenter's trade with Chris- tian Vollmer, with whom he worked until March, 1892; since that time he has worked for other parties; he assisted in the building of the Hochenedel Block, on Croghan street, Fremont; the Lutheran Church at Gibsonburg, and other fine structures; he is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and of several of its so- cieties-the Young Men's Society of the B. V. M., the Catholic Knights of Ohio, Branch No. 8, and Uniformed Command- ery No. 2, C. K. O. (5) Mary E., born October 13, 1875, now attending Con- vent school at Chicago, Ill. (6) Stanis- laus F., born April 23, 1878; now at home. (7) Aloysius S., born April 4, 1883.


Immediately after marriage, Mr. Buch- man settled in Fremont, and opened his present mercantile business. As a grocer merchant he is now perhaps the oldest established of any in Fremont. After twenty-seven years of a business career, his hold upon the community is unrelaxed, and he is recognized with no small degree


of honor as a leading and successful mer- chant, and a respected citizen. After his long and active business career he still at- tends to business with the precision and vigor of his younger days. He has amassed a competency in his chosen pur- suit, and besides attending to his usual business he is president of the Lehr Agri- cultural Company, a leading manufactur- ing concern in Fremont. Mr. Buchman and his wife are practical Roman Catho- lics, and have reared and educated their children in that faith.


Mrs. Buchman is a daughter of Fred- erick and Margaret (Yung) Bork, natives of Alsace, Germany, who emigrated to America, and settled in Seneca county, Ohio. Frederick Bork was born June 14, 1808, near the city of Worms, and came to America when a young man. On Au- gust 27, 1838, he married Margaret Yung, in Seneca county, where he settled. She was born in France, of German parents, August 7, 1822, and after coming to America in childhood grew to maturity at Tiffin, Ohio. She died June 13, 1891; Frederick Bork, now a retired farmer, is liv- ing at Tiffin, Ohio. Their children were as follows: (1) Mary A., born October 17, 1839, died November 21, 1839. (2) Philip Henry, born January 18, 1841, married Miss Mary Fisher; they are farmers in Seneca county, Ohio. (3) Eve Catharine, born May 8, 1842; she is Mother Superior at Tiffin, Ohio, in a con- vent, under the title of "Sister Clara." (4) Frank Joseph, born December 25, 1843, married Miss Elizabeth Smith, of Seneca county. (5) Mary Magdalene, born September 14, 1845. (6) Mary Ann, born April 21, 1847, died August 29, 1884; she was a sister in a nunnery at Tiffin, Ohio, known as " Innocencia." (7) Louis Philip, born January 24, 1849; married Miss Margaret Kunce, and lives in Indi- ana. (S) John Peter, born October 14, 1850, is a farmer in Seneca county; he married Miss Emma Gas. (9) Louisa, born October 11, 1853, died January 7,


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1856. (10) M. J., born October 3, 1855, is a farmer of Seneca county; he married Miss Anna Reinhardt. (II) Philomena, born November 13, 1859, now keeping house for her father in Tiffin. (12) Eliza- beth, born October 1, 1861, living at home.


N ICHOLAS EMCH was born in Switzerland December 27, 1823, and is a son of Urs and Isabel (Baumgartner) Emch, whose children were as follows: Benjamin, Jacob, John, Nicholas, Samuel, Urs, Frederick and Annie. Urs Emch was a native of Switzerland, never came to America, and died at the age of forty-five, of colic.


At the early age of thirteen Nicholas Emch left home, and had to work out for several years. He learned the shoe- maker's trade, which he followed for a number of years. In 1845 he came with his mother and brothers to America, and they first went to his brother at Perrys- burg, Wood Co., Ohio, who had been settled there about four years, but did not remain long. He and his brothers bought 128 acres, all timber land, cleared a por- tion and put up a log cabin. Mr. Emch worked at his trade, when he could get anything in that line to do; also helped on the farm, and followed agricultural pursuits, until 1891.


In 1849 he was united in marriage with Barbara Flickinger, who was born in Switzerland January 5, 1823, and they were the parents of children as follows: (1) Mary, born November 24, 1850, mar- ried Nelson Klink September 15, 1872, by whom she had three children-Bruce, Roy and Loyd, the last named dying in September, 1893, aged twelve years. (2) Gottfried, born December 10, 1851, is still single. (3) Solomon, born Jan- uary 19, 1854, married Caroline Shriner March 18, 1880, and they have three children-Bertha, Edward and Charley.


(4) Caroline, born May 10, 1855, married John Klink June 28, 1874, and they have four children-Orma, Lilly, Julia and Bessie. The mother of this family, Bar- bara (Flickinger) Emch, died June 18, 1856, aged thirty-three years, six months,


On November 1, 1858, Nicholas Emch was married to Rosanna Flickinger, who was born in Switzerland June 18, 1836, and children as follows were the result of their union: William, now a farmer of Woodville township, Sandusky county, born December 13, 1859, and married Josephine Snyder on November 27, 1881, by whom he had two children-August and Carrie; Sophia, born September 7, 1861, married Frank Miller, and they have four children-Bertha, Elmer, Clar- ence and Grace (they reside in Wood- ville, Sandusky county); Nicholas, Jr., born November 26, 1865, is single and lives at home; Joseph, born March 16, 1868; Ettie, born May 16, 1870, married John Kopp on May 3, 1894, and they live in Woodville, Sandusky county; Louisa, born May 17, 1876, and George, born December 4, 1877. Rosanna Flickinger, now Mrs. Nicholas Emch, came to America with her parents in 1847. They located in Ohio, rented land for several years, then bought forty acres and built themselves a home, where they passed their remaining days. Mr. Flickinger died October 17, 1854, at the age of sixty- five; and his wife April 16, 1863, at the age of seventy-one. In 1890, Mr. Emch leased his land to the Standard Oil Com- pany, and they have since put down wells, He retired from farming in 1891, and his sons now operate the place.


C OLONEL WILLIAM C. LEFE- VER is justly regarded as one of the leading citizens of Sandusky county, and in the vicinity of Clyde, where he owns one of the finest country residences in northwestern Ohio, a model of every comfort and lavish ele-


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gance, he socially and politically ranks pre-eminent.


He was born in Sandusky county May 14, 1836, son of John and Rachel (Swope) LeFever, the former of whom was born in Lancaster, Penn., December 4, 1813, son of John LeFever, Sr., who was of French extraction, migrating with his family to Fayette county, Ohio, early in the century. In 1832 John LeFever, Jr., moved to Fremont, Sandusky county, and two years later he entered govern- ment land in Green Creek township, cleared it and followed farming until 1865, when he moved to Clyde, and died there December 27, 1890. He was in politics a Republican, and in religious be- lief a Methodist. His wife died in the prime of life. She was of Pennsylvania birth and family. The children of John and Rachel LeFever were as follows: Louisa, who married J. S. Lee, of Chick- asaw county, Iowa; Rebecca, who mar- ried Henry Perin, and now lives, a wid- ow, at Kalamazoo, Mich .; John S., of Green Spring; William C., subject of this sketch; J. D., a resident of Sandusky county; Oscar T., of Marshall county, Iowa; Jane, wife of Monroe Lee, of Seneca county; May, who died in in- fancy; and Mary M., who died young.


The boyhood of William C. LeFever was spent in Green Creek township. He attended the common schools, and com- pleted his education at Republic, and by a two-years' course at Oberlin College. In 1857 he went to St. Joseph, Mo., where he taught school until the Civil war broke out. He was among the first in that dis- tracted country to espouse the Union cause, enlisting as a private in Company A, Fourth Missouri Cavalry, and doing valiant service throughout the war. In the earlier years he was fighting Gen. Price's forces. He was engaged at Wil- son's Creek, Mo., August 10, 1861, the second skirmish at Pea Ridge, Ark., in March, 1862, and Independence, Mo., later in that month. When Price was


driven from the country the Missouri Cavalry troops were chiefly engaged in frontier guard duties. Promotion came rapidly, and the impetuous young Ohioan was first sergeant, first lieutenant, cap- tain, major, and lieutenant-colonel, suc- cessively. After serving a year on the plains, watching Indians, he was mustered out at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1866, after service in the Fourth, Sixth and Thirteenth Missouri Cavalry, successively. He once held two commissions at one time, first lieutenant and adjutant.


After the war Col. LeFever returned home and has since resided in Green Creek township. In 1866 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Mackey, a native of Chillicothe, Ross county, and has two adopted children, Mabel and Arthur. The present handsome brick residence of Col. LeFever, located two and a half miles south of Clyde, was built in 1880. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Eaton Post No. 55, G. A. R., and in religious faith is a Methodist. Col. LeFever is a man of high intellectual at- tainments, and possesses unusually fine business and executive abilities. He commands the esteem and confidence of a wide acquaintanceship.


H ENRY W. MILLER, now an honored citizen of Clyde, is a descendant of perhaps the first family that settled permanently in Green Creek township, Sandusky county. Lyman F. Miller, his father, was born in Geneva, N. Y., November 22, 1813. When an infant his widowed mother migrated with her brother, William Smith, to Huron, Ohio, and here she remained several years, and married her second husband, Samuel Pogue. She had occu- pied a log cabin with her husband, distant about six miles from Huron. While here alone, hostilities still existing, Indians approached the cabin, so, hastily fastening the cabin door with a big wooden bar, she


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crept out the back window and fled to the blockhouse at Huron, six miles away. In 1816, after her second marriage, she came with her child and husband to the site of Clyde. Mr. Pogue had been quarter- master in Gen. Harrison's army, and while making a trip from Huron to Fort Seneca he had noticed the hard maple timber where Indians had made sugar, and also the fine springs, and resolved to settle there. He entered the land, and died there August 26, 1827. By her second marriage there was one child, Jane, who afterward married G. R. Brown, a Universalist minister, and the farm entered by Mr. Pogue descended to her and to Lyman F. Miller, the child by Mrs. Pogue's first marriage. Amos Fenn and Silas Dewey had each married a sis- ter of Mrs. Pogue, and came with her husband and settled in the vicinity of Clyde.


Lyman F. Miller grew to manhood on the site of Clyde, and had few educational advantages. In 1836 he married Melissa E. Harkness in a double log cabin which stood on the present cemetery grounds. She was born in 1819, of Scotch-Irish ex- traction, and had come with her parents to Clyde in 1834. After his marriage he began housekeeping on the old home- stead. He laid out that part of the town lying between Main street and George street, commencing at Maple and running south to Cherry street. Mr. Miller en- gaged in general farming, and was also a noted horticulturist and breeder of fine stock. He lived in what is now the Col. Rhodes residence until 1859, when he built on the pike where his widow now lives. He was a Whig, a Know-Nothing and a Republican in politics, a Mason socially, and a member of the Universalist Church. He died in February, 1878. To Lyman F. and Melissa Miller nine children were born, as follows: William G., born March 1, 1837, just commenc- ing a law practice in 1861, when he en- listed in Company A, Seventy-second O.


V. V. I., was a corporal, and was killed at Ripley, Miss., June 11, 1864, on the dis- astrous Guntown expedition retreat; Henry W., subject of this sketch, born June 2, 1838; Mary E., born April 1, 1840, wife of Chester Persing, of Clyde; George N., born December 2, 1843, killed at the age of four by falling acci- dentally into a kettle of hot water; Oscar J., born June 15, 1845, a resident of Clyde; Isabel E., born May 22, 1848, wife of W. Bell, of Copley, Ohio; Fannie O., born July 15, 1853, a school-teacher for fifteen years, and now living with her mother; Emma J., born July 26, 1855, wife of F. J. Metcalf, of Clyde; Louisa J., born May 21, 1862, wife of Fremont Mears, of Clyde.


Henry W. Miller attended district school and helped to clear the farm. On Christmas Eve, 1860, he was married to Miss Louisa Metcalf, who died childless, April 2, 1862, aged twenty-one years and five days. Mr. Miller was for two years captain of a company of State militia, having in his command 130 men, most of whom subsequently enlisted in the army. The Captain enlisted in Company A, Seventy-second O. V. V. I., as a recruit, joining the regiment at Germantown, Tenn., January 5, 1864. He was with his ill-fated brother, William G., at Rip- ley, Miss., on June 11, until, while firing at the advancing Rebels, he was run over and stunned by a Union cavalryman on the retreat, soon after leaving Ripley. After being disabled thus, he fell in with five other Union soldiers and continued in the road until 4 P. M., having had several skirmishes with the enemy's ad- vance during the day. His amunition being exhausted he left the road, trying to escape through the woods, but was captured the next day at 6 P. M., stripped of everything but pants and shirt, and taken to Andersonville prison. When he arrived at the prison, in an address Capt. Wirz said: "Go in there, you Yankee s- b-'s, and I will prove we can kill


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more men in prison than at the front." This was verified by the death of 13,082 prisoners while Mr. Miller was confined at Andersonville. Of the mess of five to which Mr. Miller belonged he was one of two who went out alive. He had not a cup, nor even a cloth to bathe the fevered brow of a sick comrade. In December he was paroled at Savannah, and reached home just before Christmas, 1864.


After the war Mr. Miller taught music for several years, then settled on the farm, and engaged in farming and fruit-growing, his fruit having taken nearly a thousand premiums at the Sandusky, Erie and Huron county fairs. He has traveled somewhat as a vocal musician, and has sung in the various churches of Clyde for thirty-five years. Of his property seven acres are within the corporation of Clyde, and ninety-seven are situated north of the corporation.


Mr. Miller's second wife was Maria L. De Yo, to whom he was married Septem- ber 22, 1868. By this marriage he has three children: Jessie L., a graduate of the Clyde High School, and now one of its teachers; Esma M., also a graduate of the Clyde school; and Harkness J., at present a student. Mr. Miller is a mem- ber of the G. A. R. Post at Clyde, was its commander last year, and is now quartermaster. He has been a Mason since 1865, and in politics he is a Re- publican.


C ONRAD WOLFE, the ancestor from whom are descended the Wolfe families now (1894) resid- ing in Sandusky county, Ohio, and their descendants elsewhere emigrated to this country from Switzerland, and in the spring of 1804 came to Lancaster county, Penn. His children were: Peter, Jacob, George, Henry, Andrew and Mary; Peter being a child by a former marriage. Conrad Wolfe died shortly after his arrival in America.


Andrew Wolfe, son of Conrad Wolfe, was born January 9, 1796, in York county, Penn. At an early age he was bound out to work, by his widowed mother, to a farmer, and he served a part of the time with his guardian, Mr. Krouster, his un- expired time being bought by a Mr. Weaver, with whom he worked three years. His work was hard, but he was kindly treated, and he remained with Mr. Weaver until he was twenty-one years of age. He then went to learn the trade of a carpenter with the Gerber Brothers, who built houses and bank barns in Lan- caster and adjoining counties, and he usually made his home with them during the winter seasons when work was dull. Here he became acquainted with Miss Salome Gerber, to whom he was married in 1819. She was born in Switzerland, March 12, 1797, and became a member of the Lutheran Church. Her parents were Christian Gerber, of Saxon descent, born in 1750, and Elizabeth (Medary) Gerber, born in 1753. Her mother's maiden name was Biddle. Their chil- dren were: Anna, John, Christian, Jacob, Matthew, Mary, Elizabeth, Salome. When Salome was but a child her father moved with his family from his farm into a large stone house in the village of Basle, where in the basement he carried on cabinet- making. After he had learned the trade of a carpenter he traveled and worked at his trade away from home, as was the custom, before he was allowed to set up in business for himself. His wife, Elizabeth, was a seamstress, at which oc- cupation she wrought constantly as soon as her daughter Anna had learned to man- age the honsework. Salome attended school in the village of Basle, regularly, and learned to read and write, sew and knit. She also learned to sing, which was a source of great pleasure to herself and friends in later life. She never studied arithmetic, as it was deemed unnecessary for girls. Her brothers attended school ir- regularly, and in addition to school studies


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were set to learn various handicrafts, chiefly weaving, in a large manufacturing establishment. Her brother John lived with his uncle until he arrived at man- hood. The children were all brought up to habits of industry and thrift. During their residence in Basle, Napoleon Bona- parte's troops passed through their vil- lage to secure conscripts, and the male citizens secreted themselves to avoid being pressed into the army. Mrs. Gerber en- tertained some of the soldiers in her house, and was kindly treated by them. They stacked their arms behind her door, ate the meals prepared by her and departed in peace. Some men who had hid them- selves under piles of hay were thrust through with bayonets. Salome's broth- ers, in order to avoid further danger of be- ing forced into the military service, pre- vailed upon their parents to emigrate to America. Some Swiss emigration agents, who had just returned from America and given them a glowing account of the fine climate, fertile soil and cheap land, to be found here, easily induced them to sell their possessions in Basle and engage a passage to America. Accordingly, in the month of May, 1804, the Gerber family took passage in a boat, and sailed down the Rhine river toward Amsterdam. Sa- lome had just passed her seventh birth- day, and was delighted to view the grand scenery and the ruins of old castles and fortresses along those classic banks. She often spoke in later years of the famous "Mouse Tower," of Bishop Hatto, where an avaricious man was said to have been devoured by an army of rats in retribu- tion for his having caused the destruction of a multitude of hungry people who at his apparently kind invitation had crowded into his well-filled grain store-house On reaching Amsterdam the Gerber family and others who accompanied them learned to their sorrow that there was no ship in readiness to take them, and that they were at the mercy of unscrupulous agents who charged them exhorbitant prices for


extra services. While waiting many days. at the dock, weary of the long delay, the emigrants composed and sang in derision. a sarcastic song, in German, about the kindness of the agents and the "glorious land of liberty in North America." This was sung so often on their six-weeks' passage on the Atlantic ocean that it be- came indelibly impressed on Salome's memory, and she often sung it in later years to her grandchildren. Owing to the long voyage, and the resulting extra charges of the agents, many emigrants were unable to pay their passage money in full, and were obliged to bind them- selves to a term of service, to someone who could furnish money, or be cast into prison. After the Gerber family had landed in Philadelphia they lived for a time in the suburbs of that city, and then settled in Lancaster county, Penn., where the father and three sons found work as carpenters. They were known as " Zim- merman," the German name for carpen- ter. Here Anna Gerber married Jacob Mandewiler, and then moved to Knox county, Ohio; John Gerber came to America in 1806, and settled in York county, Penn. ; Christian Gerber, Jr., and Jacob Gerber also settled in that locality; Mary, the second daughter of Jacob Ger- ber, married Daniel March, after whom the second son of Salome was afterward named; Elizabeth Gerber died in Switzer- land. Christian Gerber, Sr., died in 1815. His elder children having gone froin home, Salome stayed with her widowed mother three years, until her death in 1818, after which she lived with a brother about two years. She wasmar- ried October 18, 1819, to Andrew S. P. Wolfe, in York county, Penn., and they soon after located in Adams county, Penn., where he worked as a carpenter and later as a farmer. In 1831, they took up their abode in Knox county, Ohio, where he followed farming. In 1844 they moved to Richland county. Ohio, where they farmed about nine years, after which


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they moved to Sandusky county, Ohio. They were members of the Methodist Protestant Church in Knox county, but on coming into Richland they united with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, of which they remained faithful members during life. In politics Mr. Wolfe was first an Old-line Whig, then a Republican; all his sons are Republicans. The children of Andrew and Salome Wolfe were: Mary, who married John Jones, and died March 26, 1860; Jacob, a car- penter, who married in Richland county, Ohio, and then located in Bear county, Mich .; Elizabeth, who married Judge Barnett, and lives in Iowa; Caroline, who married William Galbraith, and lives in Seneca county, Ohio; Daniel M., sketch of whom follows; Sarah, who married Laird Ritchie, and lives in Iowa; Rosa A., who married Fred Gibson, lived in Adams county, Iowa, and died there Oc- tober 24, 1882; Jeremiah, who lives with his family in San Jose, Cal. Andrew Wolfe died at the home of his son, Daniel, in Ballville township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, April 21, 1873. aged seventy- seven. Mrs. Salome Wolfe died at the same place, November 3, 1884, aged eighty-seven years, and both were buried in Mt. Lebanon U. B. Cemetery.


DANIEL M. WOLFE, son of Andrew Wolfe, was born January 22, 1831, in Knox county, Ohio. His childhood and youth were spent on a farm, and in attend- ing district school, and at the age of thir- teen he moved with his father's family to Richland county, where he attended town and country schools, studying English grammar, algebra, natural philosophy and chemistry, in addition to common-school studies, and during summer months learn- ing the trade of a carpenter with his brother Jacob. About the year 1853 he came to Ballville township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, where he and his father bought a farm on the line of the old plank road leading from Tiffin to Sandusky City. Here he farmed, and also worked at his


trade in company with his brother Jere- miah in Green Spring and vicinity, build- ing the celebrated Water Cure establish- ment at that place. In 1879 he aban- doned carpentry and devoted himself ex- clusively to his farm of 123 acres, which he underdrained and otherwise improved, and on which he erected a large family mansion in 1878.


On December 24, 1855, Daniel M. Wolfe was married at Mansfield, Ohio, to Miss Eunice Jane Black, daughter of William and Hannah (Cook) Black. William Black was born May 10, 1810, son of James, and Mrs. Hannah Black was born September 23, 1814, both in Washington county, Penn. They both came when young to Richland county, Ohio, where, on April 5, 1832, they were married, and several years afterward moved to Jefferson county, Iowa, where Mr. Black died in April, 1882. Mrs. Black died March 1, 1879. Their chil- dren were: Eunice Jane, who married D. M. Wolfe; Martha, who married a Mr. Ramsey, of Iowa; Orlando, who lives in Kansas; Elbridge Gerry, who served as a soldier in the Civil war, being color bearer of Company I, Fiftieth Regiment, O. V. I., and Francis Julius Le Moyne, named after his uncle, the noted cremationist. of Washington county, Penn. The ma- ternal grandmother of this family, Eunice (Corwin), was born in the year 1796, and married William Cook, who was a soldier of the war of 1812. She afterward made a trip to Pennsylvania-two hundred miles-on horseback to visit her friends. She died in 1870, three years after her husband, who passed away in 1867. The paternal grandmother, Margaret (Fitz- williams), was born in 1789 in Ireland, and in 1807 married James Black, who was born about 1784.




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