Commemorative historical and biographical record of Wood County, Ohio : its past and present : early settlement and development biographies and portraits of early settlers and representative citizens, etc. V. 1, Part 101

Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.) cn; J.H. Beers & Co. cn
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1060

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NORTON REED, a prominent capitalist and real-estate holder of Bowling Green, has been a conspicuous factor in the growth and develop- ment of the commercial interests of this region. Coming to this county in 1865 with ample means, his energy and financial ability soon made him an acknowledged power. In the removal of the county seat from Perrysburg, he gave noteworthy evidence of those qualities which insure success in the business world.

Mr. Reed is of Scotch descent, his grand- father, Samuel Reed, having come from Scot- land to America in the last century, locating in Connecticut. His son, Samuel (2). our subject's father, was born in Hartford, in that State. in 1791, and in 1814 came to Ohio, settling first m Erie county, but finally in Huron county, where he died in 1865. He married Miss Hannah

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Brown, who died in Milan, Erie county, in 1884. They had six children: Mary, the widow of the late Volney Beverstock, of Milan, Ohio; Edwin, a resident of Toledo, Ohio; Norton, our subject; Helen Jane, the wife of Thomas J. Butman, of Milan; Harriet, Mrs. Thomas Bradley, of Milan. Ohio, and Samuel, who lives at Carthage, Missouri.

Our subject first saw the light in Erie county, Ohio, January 18, 1821. and received his early education in the district schools there, and in Huron county. He was married in 1845 to Miss Ellen R. Wells, who was born September 4, ! 823, in New York. Their three daughters are al married: Julia, born October 14, 1848, is the wife of W. C. Martin of Bowling Green and the mother of four children-Martia, deceased, Norton, Jo., and Frank. Helen W., born May 18, 1850, married George Wooster, of Bowling Green, and has one daughter-Carrie. Luella G., born September 6, 185!, married M. P. Brewer, editor of the Sentinel, of Bowling Green, and has four children --- Charles R., John, Harry, and Dixie.

Mr. Rced followed farming as an occupation for some time after his marriage, first in Ridge- field township. Huron county, and then in Oxford township, Erie county. Since 1865 he has had his home in Bowling Green (with the exception of two years spent in Fulton county), and his fine brick residence is an ornament to the city. Mr. Reed takes a philosophic view of life, and en- joys the privileges which his wealth bestows. He spends a portion of each year in travel, and of the last nineteen winters, one has been spent in California and the rest in Florida, where he owns a large tract of wild land. His first vote was cast for James K. Polk, and he has remained a Democrat to the present time.

JOHN S. MAHONY. This gentleman, who spent his early manhood in active labor, and mainly in agricultural pursuits, is now living re- tired in Fostoria, Ohio, but still owns some valu- able oil land in Montgomery township. A man of great energy and more than ordinary business capacity, his success has been largely due to his own efforts and sound judgment, by which he has been enabled to make wise investments and take good advantage of his resources.

Mr. Mahony was born at Liverpool, Eng- land, December 31, 1828, and is one of the four children -two sons and two daughters-of Thomas and Ellen Mahony. His father, who was a successful grain merchant, died when our subject was only four years old, leaving his fam-

ily in comfortable circumstances, and they con- tinned to carry on the business. In the common schools John S. Mahony received a fair educa- tion, but at the age of thirteen years he formed the acquaintance of a sea captain who took a liking to him, and, despite the pleadings of his mother, he shipped on the "Mary Gray," where he was chore-boy. They sailed for Brazil, but the voyage ended with a shipwreck on the Falk- land Islands, while en route for Valparaiso, Chili. where they lived for a month on a desert island, but werc finally taken by a schooner to Port Egmont, and later were taken on board a New Zealand vessel, the "Bolena," which came to that port for water. He and another boy ap- pealed to the governor of the Falkland Islands for passage home, but were refused. Finally, however, by working his passage, he got back to London, and then, after an eighteen-months' absence, to his home in Liverpool, where he found the family mourning for his supposed death. Mr. Mahony then clerked in the Amer- ican wholesale house in Liverpool of James Mc- Henry & Co. until the hard times caused him to lose his position, and then he went as a sailor to New Orleans, whence he went to Havre, France, and on that trip returned to New York with im- migrants. For a time he sailed along the Atlantic coast and to the West Indics, but, on January 26. 1849, he left New York for San Francisco, hav- ing been taken with the gold fever, and arrived there the following August. He became part owner of a small boat engaged in rafting on San Francisco bay, and remaincd in California until June, 1854, engaged in rafting and mining. He returned to New York by way of the Panama route.

Before leaving the Golden State, Mr. Mahony had been told, by a fellow-worker, of the . . Black Swamp" in Wood county, Ohio, where he pro- ceeded after his arrival in New York, and pur- chased 120 acres of partially improved land in Sections 3 and 10, Montgomery township: but before he located thereon he made a visit to his mother in England, who died the following year. Farming was entirely a new business to our sub- ject, who, under many difficulties, secured a knowledge of the business, and his first attempts at plowing will never be forgotten. He also made several runs on the lakes in the fall after the farm work was done.

On February 21, 1855, in Montgomery town- ship, Mr. Mahony was married to Miss Lorinda F. McFerren, a native of Wood county, and a daughter of Ezekiel and Hannah MeFerren, and they have become the parents of five children

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Ellen A., now Mrs. R. C. Canfield, of Washing- ton; Kate E., wife of E. D. Tandy, of Colorado; Clara E., wife of Charles A. Whaley, of Wash- ington; Mattie G., at home; and John F., a hardware merchant of Fostoria, Ohio.

Resolving to aid his adopted country in her struggle to preserve the Union, Mr. Mahony en- listed in 1861, leaving his plow standing in the field, and became a member of Company K, 21st O. V. I. He was in all the battles in which his regiment participated until September, 1863, when, after the battle of Chickamauga, Ga., he, with his regiment, was taken prisoner, and for seventeen months he was confined at Richmond, and in other Confederate prisons. Was mustered out May 15, 1865. He has never regained his former health. From privatc he received one promotion after another until after the battle of Stone River, when he was given a commissioned office, and later received a first lieutenant's and captain's commission. He was mustered out May 15, 1865, when his services were no longer needed, and returned to his home with an honor- able war record.

Until 1893 Mr. Mahony continued the culti- vation and improvement of his excellent farm, and then removed to Fostoria, where two years later he built his elegant residence on West Fre- mont street. He comes from a good English family, and he has given to his children excellent advantages. In religious belief he is a Congrega- tionalist, while his estimable wife belongs to the Presbyterian Church. He is a charter member of Hamilton Fost, G. A. R., of Bradner, Ohio, in which he served as its first adjutant. He is a stanch Republican, a firm believer in high pro- tection, and is one of the most progressive and enterprising men of the county, who has here se- cured a comfortable competence and the regard of all with whom he comes in contact.

WV. M. TULLER, M. D. Among the physi- cians of Bowling Green none bears a higher po- sition in the respect and esteem of the commu- nity than does the subject of this sketch, who well merits the confidence the public reposes in him, and who has attained to success in his pro- fessional carcer by his force of character and de- votion to his work.

Dr. Tuller was born in Delaware county, Ohio, July 7, 1848. On the paternal side he is of Dutch descent, John Tuller, the original American ancestor, having come from Holland some two hundred years ago. Roswell Tuller, the grandfather of our subject, was born in 1794 in Connecticut, was a lifelong farmer, and died

in February, 1866, in Delaware county, Ohio, Hc married Nancy Thompson, who was born in 1797 in New York State, and died in 1876. Ros- well Tuller was a soldier in the war of IS12, in which his father, also named Roswell, served as captain.

Alvin Tuller, the Doctor's father, was a na- tive of Delaware county, Ohio. born August 5. 1817, was married, and engaged in farming therc until after the birth of all his children, who were five in number, viz .: Adelbert D., a farmer in Wood county; Mary A., the widow of Isaac W. Yoakam, who was killed in Franklin county; one who died in infancy; W. M., and Milo A., living in Wood county, Ohio. Mr. Tuller subsequently removed to Franklin county, and in 1893 to Bowl- ing Green, where the family still reside. His wife, whose maiden name was Elvira Maynard, was born in Franklin county October 30, 1819, and was there married. Her parents, Stephen and Mary (Philips) Maynard. were both natives of Massachusetts, the father coming to Franklin county, Ohio, when he was nineteen years old. He was a farmer by occupation, and lived to be eighty-three years old. The mother died at the age of thirty nine years. They had four chil- dren-Matilda, Elvira, Darwin and Augustus. The Maynard family is of English and Scotch descent.

Until sixteen years of age our subject re- mained at home, attending the common school and assisting his father on the farm. He then entered Central College, in Franklin county. Ohio, and after completing the course taught school for six years, after which he began read- ing medicine with Dr. H. Hendrickson. of Co- luinbus, Ohio. He subsequently took a course in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Sur- gery, from which he was graduated in 1876, coming immediately thereafter to Bowling Green and beginning the practice of his profession, in which he has ever since been engaged. When Dr. Tuller first took up his residence in the place the town was composed of small wooden build- ings, and was primitive in all its surroundings. He has been a witness of its growth and pros- perity, and his practice has grown and prospered with it. For the past eight years he has been the physician and surgeon for both railroads passing through Bowling Green --- the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the Toledo & Ohio Central. Of late years Dr. Tuller has confined his practice more especially to consultation and office business, in which he has a large clientage. being known far and near as a man of deep learn- ing and great skill. He is a member of the

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Northwestern Ohio Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and also of the National Association of Railroad Physicians and surgeons. Socially he affiliates with the Subor- Imate Lodge and Encampment, I. O. O. F., with the K. O. T. M. and the Woodmen of the World, and although prevented by his arduous professional duties from attending as much as he would like to, he is an enthusiastic supporter of these fraternal organizations.

Financially Dr. Tuller has been very success- tul. He was one of the number who drilled the erst gas well in this locality, and has ever since been connected with the company as an organ- wer, it proving a very profitable business. He is a stockholder in the First National Bank at Dun- kirk, Ind. In politics he is a Republican, has held the offices of mayor and member of the city council, and has also been one of the board of city examiners of schools. In every relation of life he has borne his part well, and he is one of the representative men of the county.

On July 4, 1871, Dr. Tuller was married to Josephine Mott, who was born July 24, 1846, at Kockaway Beach, L. I., daughter of Henry Mott, who was a sea captain. Their union has been blessed with five children: Willis Ray and Lillie May, living, and Jessie, who died when five and a half years of age; Bertha, who died when two and a half years old, and one that died in in- fancy.

CHARLES J. SAGE. The subject of this sketch was born in Washington county Va., April II, 1836, and was one year old when his parents moved to Erie county, Ohio, He attended the common schools of his time, but his opportuni- ties were limited and much inferior to those of the present day. The death of our subject's father, when the former was a little over four years old, lost to him a valuable friend. Fortunately he had a good mother and older brothers-the lat- ter, though young, seemed competent to dis- charge the duties thus thrown upon them. When our subject was eleven years old his widowed mother and her family came to Wood county, and located a short distance west of Prairie Depot, where Charles attended school. In the summer · his sixteenth year he left home and was em- ployed as driver on the Wabash canal at a sal- wy of $12 per month. The following summer he again worked at that business and received $15 per month. When eighteen years old he began to learn the trade of a carpenter under his . Idest brother William, of Huron. He spent some time with him and then went to Coldwater,

Mich., where he worked with his brother-in-law, M. H. Parker.

In the summer of 1856 Mr. Sage went to Chicago, where he worked awhile, and then re- turned to Michigan, and Ohio, until 1859, when a desire to go west possessed him, and he went to Atchison, Kans., hired out as a teamster and drove an ox-team of six yoke through to Salt Lake City, Utah, from which place he went on to Sacramento, Cal., which he reached after a journey of four months. He hired out to a rancher, and later worked at his trade. In the spring of 1861 he went to Nevada, in the vicin- ity of Virginia City, where new mines had been discovered. Here he followed his trade and bought a blacksmith shop in the mountains; not being a blacksmith himself. he hired a smith, and he did the wood work. This proved to be a good business, and Mr. Sage stayed in the Far West until the fall of 1865. when he returned to Ohio and spent the winter of 1865-66, and in the spring of the latter year returned to his business in the mountains, which he subsequently sold out, and went to work for the government at Fort Churchill, Nev., as wheel wright, until the fall of 1867, when he again went back to Ohio.

Mr. Sage was married in Perrysburg Novem- ber 17, 1868, to Miss Marian C. Benjamin, of Montgomery township, a native of Summit county, Ohio, where she was born February 3. 1845. Her parents were Aaron and Laura (Markham) Benjamin, the former of whom was born in New York State and the latter in Massachusetts. They were married in New York, and went to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, losing their money on the way, by robbery. Mr. Benjamin bought a farm in Tuscarawas county, and from there moved to Summit county, and, when Marian was nine years old, they went to Scott township, San- dusky county, and finally to Montgomery town- ship, where Aaron died February 4, 1883, nearly eighty-four years old. His wife died March 22. 1895, over eighty-seven. Their family consisted of six children: Nelson lives in Florida: Aaron was a blacksmith and shoemaker by trade, but followed farming much of his later life; and all living but one.

At the time of our subject's marriage his fi- mances were reduced very low; but being a good mechanic, he could always find something to do. and eventually got a start. In 1872 he located on the lot where he now lives, and where, in 1889. he completed an elegant house, arranged after his own ideas and under his personal direction. To him and his wife two children have been born, namely: Celia, an educated young lady,

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is a teacher in the Prairie Depot schools; Charles B. is at home. Mr. Sage is a stanch Republican, and has served four years as town- ship clerk, six years as justice of the peace, councilman for one term, and mayor of Prairie Depot for one term. Mr. Sage is a well-known mechanic of considerable skill, he has a comfort- able home, an excellent family, and is highly re- spected and one of Prairie Depot's best citizens.

J. C. EBERLY. The subject of this sketch is a farmer of Portage township, and has the dis- tinction of being the first white child born in that locality, his birth taking place March 18, 1834.

Jacob Eberly, the father, was born in Hunt- ingdon county, Penn., July 14, 1804, and moved to Franklin county when but a child. He learned the blacksmith's trade, and when a young man came to Northern Ohio and worked at his trade in Upper Sandusky, Fremont and Toledo. He was married in Waterville, Lucas county, to Miss Elizabeth Cox, daughter of Benjamin Cox, who was born September 20, 1806. Mr. Eberly be- gan life as a poor boy, and early in the '3os he came to Portage township and took up eighty acres along the Portage river, in Section 6, which was then in a wild state, the forests being full of game, large and small. Mr. Eberly made a clearing, in which he built a cabin 16x 20 feet, and a blacksmith shop. It was strictly a pioneer settlement, and the earliest in the township. The farmers would come from a distance of eight and ten miles to have work done for them, which they would engage to be done for days ahead. In this way he became well known by the farmers for miles around. He was a Whig and later a Republican, and served a longer term as treas- urer of Portage township than any other incum- bent of the office. He died October 31, 1894, at the advanced age of ninety years, his wife fol- lowing him to the better land November 17, of the same year, and they both rest in the Portage cemetery. They were the parents of the follow- ing children: Jane, born October 6, 1828, died August 14, 1830; John, born June 3, 1830, died December 17, 1850; Mary, born June 2, 1832, married Elisha Prescott, and died November 24, 1858; Martha, married Allen Hampton, and is deceased; J. C., our subject; Matilda, born April 2, 1835, married John Johnson, of Toledo; Will- iam. December 19, 1836, is a merchant of Bowl- ing Green; Elliott, September 10, 1838, lives in Center township; Harriet B., March 17, 1841, became the wife of L. L. Dowd, of Norwalk. Ohio; Benjamin C., January 11, 1843, is a resi- dent of Bowling Green; Lucy, January 8, 1845.

married John Sargent, and later wedded Albert Goumont. She is now deceased.

Mr. Eberly was a great hunter, and had but one superior and he was "Squire" McMahan, in hunting deer in his section of the county. He was compelled to give up his trade when forty years old, and spent the remainder of his life upon the farm. His death had been predicted forty years before it occurred.

Our subject was reared as a farmer's boy, and attended the district schools in Portage town- ship, and for one term he went to the graded school at Waterville. He began to learn the carpenter trade, but gave it up and returned home where he remained until August 7, 1862, when he enlisted at Portage in Company A, 100th O. V. I., under Capt. John A. Shannon. They camped for a while at Toledo, and then went to Covington, Ky., where our subject was con- fined in the hospital for a time, and then rejoined his regiment at Lexington. During an engage- ment at Resaca he was struck by a fragment of a shell, and was sent to the hospital at Chatta- nooga, where he remained for several weeks. After the fall of Atlanta, he went there and again joined his regiment, with which he remained until it reached Newbern, N. C., when he was taken with typhoid fever and confined in the hospital at that place, and later was removed to Fort Schuy- ler, N. Y., where he recovered, and was finally discharged from the service there.

Mr. Eberly returned to Portage after the war, and went to work on a farm. December 2, 1866, he was married to Miss Martha L. McFerren. who was born in Montgomery township. March 21, 1842, and who was the daughter of Ezekiel and Hannah (Lloyd) McFerren, both of whom were born in New York. Mrs. Eberly was a school teacher in her younger days. Our subject located in Section 7, on eighty acres of land which was owned jointly by himself and his brother William, and only a few acres of which was cleared at that time. Our subject later bought out his brother's interest, and became sole owner. He now has ninety-five acres. Mr. and Mrs. Eberly had two children, Grace, boru August 20, 1880, died November 20, 1883: and Hazel, born November 3, 1883, now living at home. Mr. Eberly is a stanch member of the Republican party, and in former years was one of Portage's greatest workers in the cause. He never held office, being in politics not from selfish motives but to assist in the success of his party. In 1894, he built a fine home where he dispenses hospitality to all his friends, of whom he has a large number. His wife is a member

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of the United Brethren Church, and they con- tribute freely to its support.

HIRAM ADDISON CRAW is one of the carly pioneers of Wood county, and for many years one fits prominent agriculturists. He is now, after many years of active labor, spending the evening of his life in quiet and ease at his home in Bowl- mig Green. He was born in Fairfield, Franklin Co .. Vt., March 9, 1829.

His parents, John and Laura ( Boardman ) ('raw, the former of whom was born in Suffield, Suffield Co., Conn., October 25, 1787, and the Matter in West Corinth. Orange Co., Vt., Novem- ber 14, 1789, were married December 14, 1809, s West Corinth, and lived in Fairfield, Frank- In Co., Vt. In the fall of 1835 they came to Ohio, settling in Ridgefield township, Huron county, where they bought a farm and lived until 1851, then removing to Wood county and locat- my in Plain township, four miles north of Bowl- wg Green. The father died in that city July 7, 1883. the mother having passed away March 13, 1871, while living on the farm. The mother early in life was a member of the Methodist Epis- ropal Church, but in February, 1858, with her husband and one of her daughters, Almira Gre- gory, and her husband and the subject of this sketch and his wife, all fully believed and in- dorsed the Seventh-Day Adventist faith, and com- tuenced to observe the Sabbath of the Lord ac- cording to the Scripture and Bible plan, and have observed it ever since. But the organization of the Church did not take place until October 6, 1861, at Battle Creek, Mich., by a conference, by the vote of which it was recommended that the Churches enter into organization, adopting the following as a Church covenant: " We, the un- bersigned, hereby associate ourselves together as & Church, taking the name Seventh-Day Advent- ists, covenanting to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ." All of the above-named family united with this body, and are still connected with it, except the father of the subject of this sketch. He was as firm a be- lever in the truth and practice of it as any one of the family to the day of his death, and felt as -. sured that he would have a part in the first resur- rection at the second coming and appearing of the Blessed Master. In accordance with the views of this sect the Sabbath begins at sun- Down on Friday evening, and ends at the same Your on Saturday evening. Mr. Craw, Sr., while teligions man and an earnest Bible student and Ilever in its doctrines, never united with any Church. He was originally an old-line Whig,

subsequently becoming a Republican, was a man of much intelligence, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him.

This worthy couple were the parents of six children, of whom the following record is given: Matilda, born October 14, 1810, married Addi- son Fay January 19, 1832. They settled in Fairfield township. Franklin Co., Vt .: in 1834 came to Ohio, and for a number of years lived in Huron county, and in IS50 came to Plain township, Wood county, adjoining Bowling Green, where Mrs. Fay died October 27, 1864. and her husband in 1892; Prudence D., born May 20. 1814, was married May 21, 1834, to Peter Hath- away (they lived in Milan township, Huron county, but after some years the county was divided, and Milan and where Mr. Hathaway lived on the Huron river became a part of Erie county, and they continued to live there until he died, when she sold out and moved to Adrian, Mich.); Almira, born June 26, 1817, was married in Fairfield township, Franklin Co., Vt., Decem- ber 29, 1834, to Levi S. Gregory, and they now reside in Bowling Green; Horace B., born Oc- tober 7, 1820, died in infancy: Boardman. born June 29, 1826, also died in infancy; Hiram A., our subject.

The paternal grandfather of the latter was Reuben Craw, one of the early settlers of New England, who died in Vermont. His maternal grandfather, Amos Boardinan, was born in Eng- land. November 17, 1764, and was married Feb- ruary 4, 1789, to Prudence Chapinan, who was born March 3, 1768, in Corinth, Vt. They were farmers, and lived in West Corinth, Orange Co .. Vt., where he died July 31, 1854. and his wife July 21, 1851. Their family comprised the fol- lowing children: Laura, the mother of our sub- ject, born November 14, 1789; Betsy, born Oc- tober 16, 1792, died August 15, 1802; Erastus, born August 3, 1795, died January 25. 1842; Almira, born December' 5, 1797, died july 4. 1876; Edna, born December 10, 1799, died No- vember 3, 1827; Direxa, born September 19, ISOI. died October 5, 1802; Electa, born March 17. 1 803, died in West Corinth, Vt., in 1892; Hiram. born October 3, 1805. died April 14, 1871: Direxa (2), born March 20, 1808, died January 6. 1812; Hatsel, born January 2, Isti. died April 13, 1851.

Hiram A. Craw lived in Huron county, Ohio. where he attended school and assisted his father upon the farm until the removal of the family in IS51 to Wood county. He was married June 2. 1853, to Miss Ann Hall, who was born in Olives- burg, Richland Co., Ohio, June 19, 1833, and is

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Commemorative historical and biographical record of Wood County, Ohio : its past and present : early settlement and development biographies and portraits of early settlers and representative citizens, etc. V. 1, Part 101

Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.) cn; J.H. Beers & Co. cn Publication date: 1897 Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1060

Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.) cn; J.H. Beers & Co. cn
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1060