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JOEL D. KRIEBEL is a native of the Keystone State. He was born in Lehigh County September 29, 1830, and is a son of Jacob and Annie Kriebel, who were both natives of Pennsylvania, and who ended their days there. Mr. Kriebel's advantages for education were good, and, after attending the public schools, was a student of the Union School at Trappe, Montgomery County, Penn. ; he afterward taught school two terms, and learned the mason's trade when quite young. He came to Carrollton, Ohio, in 1851, where he remained ten years. Mr. Kriebel was united in marriage in May, 1855, to Miss Catherine Heincke, a daughter of Henry and Catherine Heincke, who were natives respectively of Ger- many and Pennsylvania, and who passed away in Montgomery County, Ohio. After his marriage, Mr. Kriebel came to Montpelier, which has since been his home. He farmed until 1871, when he purchased an in-
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terest in a foundry, operating the same for one and a half years, when he disposed of the business and took a contract for furnishing ties for the C., S. & C. R. R. The road not being built as expected caused this to be an unsuccessful venture. Mr. Kriebel then built a second foundry, working same for two years, when the financial depression caused a suspen- sion of business. He is now engaged in the interest of the W., P. & St. L. R. R. Co. Mr. Kriebel has always enjoyed the confidence of his fellow- citizens, has served as Clerk and Assessor of Superior Township, and was Montpelier's first Mayor. He resigned the office, but was re-elected in 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Kriebel have seven children, all living.
JEPHTHA LAMBERTSON, son of Daniel and Susanna Lambert- son, was born in Pennsylvania. His boyhood and school days were passed in Seneca County, Ohio. He began teaching when twenty-one years old, and taught during the winter for a period of twenty years, working on a farm in the summer. He was married in Seneca County, June 19, 1845, to Phebe Beard. He had entered 160 acres of land in Superior Township, about 1840, and had also purchased 130 acres in Indiana. In 1845, he came to Williams County, occupying his present farm. He was for nine years a Justice in Seneca County, and for two years Assessor. Selling his land in Indiana, he purchased 160 acres more, which he added to the home farm, making in all 320 acres. Mr. Lambertson died in 1854, but his wife and children reside on and manage said farm. Their two children were-Alice D. and Eugene S. (deceased). Mrs. Lambertson was born in Bucks County, Penn., and is the daughter of John and Hannah Beard.
NATHAN G. LASH was born in Ashland County, Ohio, August 7, 1848, and is a son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Kennedy) Lash, both natives of Ashland County, Ohio, where Mr. Solomon Lash closed his days. Mrs. Lash lives with her son in Montpelier. Mr. Nathan Lash received the ordinary educational advantages of the public schools, after which he learned the cabinet-maker's trade, which he has since followed with the exception of two years, when he was engaged in inventing a fruit-gatherer, which was patented March 30, 1875. This Mr. Lash sold through Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. After this successful speculation, he returned to his former profession, in which he has since been engaged. He has a workshop attached to his salesroom, where all business in his line is promptly attended to. Undertaking is made a special feature. and all orders receive personal supervision.
SAMUEL H. LEEK was born in Loudoun County, Va., October 1, 1829, and is one of the eight children born to Joseph and Elizabeth (Myers) Leek. The family came to Ohio in 1830, and to Williams County in 1855, where Mr. Leek died in 1856. The boyhood of our
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subject was passed on the farm, with a limited period of schooling. At eighteen years of age, he began the trade of a shoemaker. He worked at this trade a few years, when he began dealing in stock. In 1854, he en- tered 200 acres of land in Linn County, Iowa. He next purchased 160 acres in Williams County, Ohio, which he cleared by day, working at his trade by night. On May 6, 1857, he was married to Miss Jane Shafer, and began housekeeping on his farm. They have six children-Cassius C., Charley W., Joseph A., Nathan S., Perley E. and Lulu M .. From 1857 to 1878, he was a regular shipper of stock. From 1878 to 1882, he was in the agricultural implement business, establishing the only store of the kind in Montpelier. Mr. Leek is a member of the Bryan Lodge of Masons.
JACOB LEU is a native of Switzerland, where he was born near Baden May 24, 1832. His parents, George and Annie M. Leu, were Swiss natives, and ended their days in their Fatherland. Jacob received his education and fourteen years' business experience in the dry goods line before emigrating to America. He came, in 1860, to Waterville, Ohio, where he accepted a clerkship, and remained five years, when he began business for himself at Bryan, Ohio, in dry goods and general merchandise, which he has since followed, with some changes to Butler, Ind., Pettisville, and Wauseon, Ohio, removing from the latter place to Montpelier in 1873, which has since been his home. Here the partner- ship consists of Messrs. Jacob and Frank Leu, the last-named brother residing in Chicago. They carry a large stock valued at $20,000, and do an extensive business, which Mr. Leu's life-long experience and natur- al ability combine to make a success. Mr. Leu was married in Mont- pelier, in June, 1806, to Miss Mary A. Foust, a daughter of S. E. and Lucinda Foust, all natives of Ohio. Mrs. Foust passed away in Mont- pelier. Mr. Foust is s resident of Superior Township. Mr. and Mrs. Leu's family consists of seven children-Frank, William, Delbert, Ida, Elizabeth, Judson and Albert. Mr. Leu has served as Town Clerk for six years, and is at present Town Treasurer, and member of the Board of Education, for which his natural and acquired attainments eminently fit him. He speaks three languages, viz., German, English and French.
H. LOUDEN was born in Crawford County, Ohio, September 28, 1843, being a son of M. H. and Emeline Louden. Our subject was brought to Montpelier by his parents in 1844, where he attended school until twenty years of age, laboring at times on the farm with his father. He served in the Twenty-fifth Ohio Regiment one year, fought at Gra- hamville, Pinefield and Branchville, and was discharged at Charleston, S. C., July 15, 1865. In November, 1867, in Williams County, he was married to Miss Mary Lattanner, and immediately engaged in farming,
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on rented property, for three years, but soon purchased 123 acres, sixty of which were improved. In 1881, he erected a two-story brick building, now occupied by Allen & Co. In 1882, he began dealing in lumber, and now makes this his principal business. Mr. and Mrs. Louden have three children-Willie, Charley and Nettie.
JOSEPH MARTIN, son of John and Susan (Shoemaker) Martin, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, October 18, 1836. The boyhood of our subject was passed in Ashland County, attending school at short in- tervals and helping his father on his farm. He commenced threshing at fifteen years of age, and continued the same for eighteen years. He was married in Ashland County, to Miss Sarah E. Tilton, October 28, 1856. To this union five children were born-Parvin M., John, Della, Charles and Minnie ; of these the first three are married. Mr. Martin still con- tinued farming and threshing, living on his father's farm, until he came to Williams County, in 1861, where he purchased fifty-one acres, partly improved. This he sold, and purchased eighty-two acres in Bridgewater Township; to this he added forty ; ninety-two acres of this are cleared. He also purchased 320 acres in Texas and seventy-two in Madison Town- ship, together with others. He has dealt largely in stock, and bought wool for years, having shipped the first stock from Montpelier. Mrs. Martin is a member of the Baptist Church. Her parents, Samuel and Elizabeth (Ramsey) Tilton, were natives respectively of Connecticut and Ireland.
SAMUEL W. MERCER, M. D., was born in Crawford County, Ind., October 15, 1832. His parents, Samuel and Sarah Mercer, were natives respectively of Maryland and Ohio. Samuel Mercer died at New Orleans, and Mrs. Mercer, in Indiana. The early days of Samuel W. Mercer were spent in Indiana and Ohio, acquiring an education and teaching. After the district school, he took an academic course at New- ville, Ind., and was in attendance at Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1859-60. Dr. Mercer is a graduate from Rush Medical College, Chicago, Class of 1873-74. He has since attended lectures there in 1879-80. He began the practice of his profession in De Kalb County, Ind., remaining there two years. He returned to Montpelier in 1863, and has since been a permanent resident. Dr. Mercer has a large and successful practice, both in medicine and surgery. His marriage with Miss Rebecca J. Bower, took place at Fairfield Centre, De Kalb County, Ind., October 7, 1862. Her parents are natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and are now living in Noble County, Ind. Dr. and Mrs. Mercer have three children, viz., Edwin, William and Pliny. Clara E., an adopted child, of French descent, died in November, 1881. Mrs. Mercer is a member
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of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Dr. Mercer belongs to the Brotherhood of A., F. & A. M., of West Unity, Ohio.
LEONARD MERRY was born in Maine August 6, 1814. His parents, Leonard and Dolly (Bradford) Merry, were natives of Maine, and came to Williams County, Ohio, in 1846. Mr. Merry, Sr., died at Coldwater, Mich., and Mrs. Merry in New York. Leonard Merry's youth was spent in Wayne County, N. Y., where he was educated and served a three years' apprenticeship at blacksmithing, when he came to Wayne County, Ohio, where he was married June 2, 1833, to Miss Jane Silver, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Price) Silver, all natives of New York State. Mrs. Silver's death occurred in her native State, and that of Mr. Silver in Stryker, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Merry are the par- ents of seven children. For a number of years, Mr. Merry worked alternately at blacksmithing and farming, being located at Alton, South Lodus, Bryan and Montpelier. He built the first blacksmith shop and hotel in Montpelier, conducting the latter for fifteen years, when he ex- changed the property for 120 acres of land in Madison Township, where he lived for two years ; again sold, and purchased a hotel in Stryker, of which he was proprietor for two years, when he sold, and engaged in hardware business, and afterward in the dry. goods and grocery trade ; and while in the latter business, lost everything by fire, upon which he received $1,000 insurance, and with characteristic energy made another beginning at the foot of the ladder. Mr. Merry has been engaged in hardware business in Montpelier, in partnership with his son, but has now retired from active life to enjoy the fruits of his well-earned labors.
JOHN MICK was born in Jefferson Township, Ohio, and, when young, was taken by his parents to Carroll County, Ohio. Our subject has a very limited education-that only obtained from snatches of school- ing at odd times, and by going long distances. He remained with his parents until mature age, when he was married in Carroll County to Miss Nancy Martin. Mr. Mick commenced farming on 100 acres, most of which he cleared. This he sold, and then removed to Williams County, in 1846, locating in Superior Township, on his present farm of 80 acres, to which he added, until 200 acres were numbered ; it is now a hand- some farm. Mr. and Mrs. Mick have ten children-Nancy I., John, Henry, Margaret, Jane, Mary A., Levi, Ada, Nellie and James, and are members of the Presbyterian Church, with which they united in 1839.
M. C. MOORES, son of Robert B. and Caroline (Ball) Moores, was born in Licking County, Ohio, June 21, 1838. The boyhood of our subject was passed in Licking County, on the farm of his father, until his sixteenth year, when he learned the trade of carriage building at Newark, Ohio, at which he served four and a half years. He worked as a jour-
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neyman at different points in the State until the war, for which he volun- teered for three months, but was not accepted, the company being already full; he then engaged in the livery business in Belleville. On the 12th of July, 1862, he was married to Miss Elmira Olin, by whom he has had four children-Nellie, Carrie, Howard and Gertie. In 1864, he entered for one year in Company H, One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio Regiment, as First Lieutenant, and after serving in many battles he was discharged at Columbus, Ohio. In 1866, he bought a saw-mill in Bryan, Ohio. In 1874, he went to Titusville, Penn., and engaged in barrel-making. In 1880, he built a stave factory at Montpelier costing 84,000, and in 1881, a fine brick business room ; he also has a half-interest in an elevator, and shipped the first car load of lumber to Montpelier. Mr. Moores is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church ; Mrs. Moores is a Universalist.
.BENANUEL OGDEN, a retired farmer and stone mason, was born in Chester County, Penn., March 23, 1812, and came with his parents when quite young to Columbiana County, Ohio. Here he married, July 3, 1848, Charlotte Detchon, a native of Columbiana County, and born April 12, 1821. In the fall of 1852, he came to Williams County and purchased the farm of 160 acres upon which he still resides. Mrs. Ogden died November 10, 1881. She was the mother of four children-Oswald J., Joseph, Martha J. and Rachel A., of whom only Joseph is a survivor. The last named was married February 23, 1873, to Lucinda Neihardt, and he and wife reside with Mr. Ogden, Joseph superintending the farm work. The family is highly respectable, and at the age of seventy Mr. Ogden is enjoying the fruits of his early industry and well-spent life.
ROBERT OGLE, son of Thomas and Jerusha Ogle, was born in Superior Township, Ohio, July 22, 1846. Our subject's education is limited, he having occasionally gone to school until his fourteenth year, when he attended a school at Bryan. He was married in Superior Town- ship, May 19, 1868, to Miss Margaret Hoverstock. Our subject enlisted July, 1863, in the Ninth Ohio Cavalry, serving until August, 1865, hav- ing been in twenty-six engagements. Since that time he has been en- gaged in farming, except perhaps six months, when he was in the livery business. He has been Township Trustee two terms. Mr. Ogle's pres- ent farm consists of 200 acres, with considerable stock; he has also 100 acres one and a half miles south. Mr. and Mrs. Ogle are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and have four children-George, Alma, Blanche and Ray. Mr. Ogle's parents were pioneers of Williams County, having come here in 1835. Mrs. Ogle is a native of Superior Township, and her parents, George and Mary Hoverstock, also residents of this township, were born respectively in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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THOMAS PENNINGTON, son of Paul and Ruth (Cunningham) Pennington, was born in Huntingdon County, Penn., August 6, 1801. Our subject passed his boyhood in Pennsylvania, attending a district school a portion of the time. When sixteen years old, he came to Ohio with his parents. On January 20. 1825, he was married to Analiha Holloway, in Clark County, Ohio. To this union twelve children were born-Phebe, Amanda, Serilda, William F., Joel, John, Rebecca, Marion, Isaac, Merilla, Cynthia and Mary A. Mr. Pennington farmed on rented lend for about ten years, when he purchased 100 acres in Champaign County, which he cleared. This he sold and purchased 160 acres in Williams County about 1837. This he exchanged for the present farm, in 1854, on which he lived until his death, in 1864. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having united there- with in 1817. Mrs. Pennington, since his death, has managed the farm. She was born in Ross County, Ohio, the daughter of William and Phoebe Holloway, who were born in New Jersey, and who died in Clark County, Ohio.
J. N. SCHALL, son of William and Mary A. Schall, was born in Seneca County, Ohio, June 14, 1841. Our subject passed his youth in Superior Township, coming to said township in 1844. He attended school at short periods, and assisted his father to clear his farm until twenty-one years old, when he worked by the month for one year. He was married to Miss Nancy Smith on August 6, 1863, in Jefferson Town- ship, Williams County. Mr. Schall now rented land for a year, when his father gave him 113 acres of woodland in Superior Township, which now constitute his farm. He has sixty acres under cultivation, with very fine buildings and improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Schall have two children-John W. and James W.
JACOB SHELLY, son of Jacob and Mary Shelly, was born in Bucks County, Penn., December, 1813. The early years of our subject's existence were passed in Westmoreland County, Penn., where he learned the trade of a carpenter, beginning when seventeen years old. For a time attended the schools of that day. He was married, in 1835, to Miss Catherine Myers. After this circumstance, our subject continued to fol- low his trade. Afterward, on coming to Hancock County, Ohio, he pur- chased fifty acres of partly improved land. Mrs. Shelly died February 15, 1851. By her he had ten children. He was again married to Miss Susan Stuckslager. By her he had one child-Cyrus (deceased). In 1864, he removed to Williams County, Ohio, and purchased 165 acres, of which he improved 100 acres, adding good buildings. Here he remained until 1880, when he removed to West Unity, and thence to Montpelier. The last farm he sold, and purchased one of 120 acres. Mr. and Mrs.
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Shelly are members of the Church of Christ, and are now living in retirement. Mrs. Catherine Shelly was the daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Smith) Myers, and was born in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Susan Shelly is also a native of Pennsylvania, and daughter of Charles and Susan Stuckslager.
JOHN SIMPSON, son of John and Catherine Simpson, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, September 29, 1821. Until his sixteenth year, Mr. Simpson remained in said county, when he removed with his parents to Holmes County, Ohio; there he remained and worked on his father's farm until manhood. In 1841, he was married to Miss Charlotte Sluts. He now rented land and commenced farming for himself, thus continuing about five years. When he purchased his present farm-in 1846-it was a dense wood of 160 acres. Our subject died January 23, 1865. He was a member of the United Brethren Church, and left ten children-Lucinda, Mary A., Franklin, Charles, Catherine, Harriet, Anise D., John, Charlotte and Lydia ; four of them are deceased. His widow still survives, and is managing the farm. She was born in Stark County, Ohio, April 30, 1821; her parents, Charles and Catherine Sluts, were natives respectively of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and their final resting-place is Ashland County, Ohio.
ISAAC M. SNYDER, M. D., was born in Putnam County, Ohio, September 11, 1836, one of eleven children of Samuel and Lydia (Morris) Snyder, of whom but five are living. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder were of En- glish and Welsh descent, and ended their days at West Unity, Williams Co., Ohio. Isaac M. enjoyed good educational advantages in youth, and spent his time in study and teaching. He attended medical lectures at Ann Arbor, Mich., when eighteen, afterward graduated at Buffalo Medi- cal College in 1859, and began practice at West Unity, removing soon after to Montpelier, which has since been his permanent home, with the exception of one year at Stryker and Pettisville, Fulton Co., Ohio. He was associated for one year with another Dr. Snyder (not a relative), and since the dissolution of partnership has remained alone. He is one of the oldest and most successful practioners of medicine and surgery in Will- iams County, and is the owner of extensive town property. Mr. Snyder and Miss Eleanor Merry were united in marriage February 10, 1861, and are the parents of eight children, but four surviving. Mrs. Snyder is the daughter of Leonard and Jane P. Merry, all natives of the State of New York.
JACOB SNYDER was born in Morrow County, Ohio, January 1, 1843, and is a son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Barkman) Snyder, who now reside in Fulton County, Ohio. Our subject attended a district school until his eighteenth year, when he learned the art of engineering,
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which he has since followed. He was married, August 15, 1872, in Williams County, Ohio, to Miss Elizabeth Dunlap (to which union two children were born-Ralph E. and Clarence B). In 1873, he engaged in milling and lumbering in Montpelier, and has the largest steam saw- mill in the place, also dealing largely in lumber. He was Clerk of Su- perior Township in 1880. In 1862, he enlisted for three years in Com- pany K, Eighty-first Ohio Regiment; was under Gen. Logan in the march to the sea, and was mustered out at Louisville, Ky., and discharged at Camp Dennison, July 13, 1865. He came out of the war unharmed, but never shrank from duty.
JOHN SNYDER was born in Williams County, Ohio, December 15, 1838. His parents came to Williams County in 1837. Our subject received about the usual schooling, remaining with his parents until he had reached twenty-three years of age, at which time he visited California, Oregon, Washington Territory and Idaho, returning from Fort Benton by boat down the Missouri. In 1868, he was married, in Michigan, to Miss Matilda Starr. Engaging in farming, he first rented land, and then twice purchased eighty acres near Montpelier. This he sold, and purchased 160 acres of his present farm, to which he removed in 1880; he has now a most excellent farm property, and deals largely in stock. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have two children-Eugene E. and Florence E. Mrs. Snyder was born in Superior Township, and is the daughter of James and Parmelia Starr.
JAMES STARR son of James and Hester Starr, was born in Hunt- ingdon County, Penn., January 15, 1811. The youth-time of our subject when not at school, was spent on the farm. Coming to Massillon, Stark Co., Ohio, he followed clerking for a time, and came to Williams County in 1839, where he entered eighty acres of land, on which he now lives. He went again to Massillon for a time, returning to Williams County in 1842, where he married Miss Parmelia Hoskinson. He began the first im- provement of his land in 1839, and occupied the same in 1842, at first living in a cabin. To this he added until he owned 456 acres ; he has dealt in stock for twenty-five years, and is now dealing lightly in cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Starr have six children-James F., Matilda A., M. Jane, William O., Arphema and Amos.
DAVID STAUFFER is one of the most substantial and experienced business men of Montpelier. Starting in life at fifteen years of age, he accepted a clerkship in a dry goods store at Mansfield, Ohio, where he remained three years, when his employer opened a branch store at Mont- pelier, of which Mr. Stauffer had charge until 1858, when, in connection with J. F. Prett, they purchased the stock, and managed the business until 1866, when Mr. Stauffer disposed of his interests and removed to
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Edgerton, engaging in dry goods and hardware until 1874, when he returned to Montpelier, purchasing the stock of Lattanner & Dunlap, hardware merchants, and, in 1880, Garver Bros. bought a half-interest, and they now rank foremost in their line. In January, 1880, the fire fiend destroyed nearly everything, upon which $2,500 insurance was recovered, but the business sprang Phoenix-like from the ashes, with additions and improvements. - Furniture was added, a tin and cabinet- shop, and the annual sales at present amount to $37,000. Mr. Stauffer is a Pennsylvanian, and was born in Lancaster County September 9, 1834, and is a son of John and Catherine (Rice) Stauffer, natives of Pennsyl- vania. They first came to Richland County, Ohio, later to Macon County, Ill., where Mr. Stauffer, Sr., ended his earthly life. Mrs. Stauffer is a resident of Franklin County, Kan. Mr. Stauffer and Miss Sarah Phillips were married June 22, 1854. Her parents, John and Catherine Phillips, were natives of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and came to Williams County, where the twain departed this life. Mrs. Stauffer was born in Wood County, Ohio, January 22, 1835. She is a member of the M. E. Church, and the mother of eight children. Mr. Stauffer has served as Mayor, Councilman and, for several terms, Justice of the Peace. He is also a member of Bryan Lodge, No. 215, A., F. & A. M.
WILLIAM TEATS, son of Lawrence and Elizabeth Teats, was born in Ross County, Ohio. His education embraced such scope as the district schools afforded. When sufficiently old he was apprenticed to a blacksmith ; he also learned carpentering, at which he labored most of his life. He was married in Defiance, Ohio, in 1843, to Elizabeth Raby, who died in 1856, leaving four children. He was again married, this time to Jerusha Letsher, of the State of New York. Mr. Teats was Township Trustee eight or ten terms, and Corporation Clerk of Defiance one term. He came first to Williams County in 1840, remaining part of one year; he then went back to Defiance, and came finally to Williams County in 1849, which is now his home. Both himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Teats is the father of six living children-David O., Adelaide, Jacob N., Luretta, William F. and Emma J.
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