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CHARLES VOGLESON, the son of Philip and Elizabeth Vogle- son, was born in Adams County, Penn., August 31, 1816. There he learned shoemaking, which trade he followed till 1870. At the age of twenty-two, he married Elizabeth P. Pettit, who was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, September 15, 1816, the daughter of Jacob and Jemima
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(Filler) Pettit, who were born in Pennsylvania in 1775. Her maternal grandfather, Philip Filler, served in the Revolutionary war. To Mr. Vogleson were born eight children, of whom five are still living. One of the deceased, Nelson D., was a Sergeant in Company F, Eighteenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and died in June, 1865, from disease con- tracted in Southern prisons. The names of the other two deceased were Jacob and Daniel. Mr. Vogleson came to Williams County from Hills- dale County, Mich., in 1866. While in Michigan, he was twice elected to the office of Township Clerk and three times elected as School In- spector. He has served two terms as Mayor of West Unity and also has served as a member of the School Board. He is a man of good educa- tion, excellent judgment and executive ability. In politics, he is a Re- publican, and a member of Superior Lodge, No. 179, F. & A. M. He is now carrying on the only bakery in West Unity, supplying this town as well as selling regularly in Stryker.
DAVID M. WEBB is the youngest of twelve children of Thomas and Naomi (Smith) Webb, and was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, July 20, 1829. Thomas Webb, a native of Virginia, came to Colum- biana County, Ohio, when quite a young man, and here married Miss Smith, a native of Maryland, and both died in Columbiana. David M. Webb left the homestead at the age of nineteen, and for two years hired out as a drover. In 1850, he started a general merchandise business at Fredom, now Alliance, and in 1852, came to West Unity, and built a steam saw-mill, in partnership with his cousin, John M. Webb, and ran it about five years ; then sold his interest and bought fifty-five acres of land, on part of which the town of West Unity now stands. From 1861 or 1862 till 1864, he clerked for George H. Pearce, in his dry goods store in West Unity, and was then employed, till the summer of 1865, in the Quartermaster's Department at Knoxville, Tenn. About 1866, he built, in company with George Rings and Isaac Grant, the grist-mill at West Unity. A year and a half later, he sold his interest, and went into partnership with W. E. Davidson in the live-stock business. In October, 1881, they went into the grocery business together, under the firm name of Webb & Davison, and are now carrying on trade in West Unity, making clover seed one of their main staples. Mr. Webb married, Oc- tober 15, 1853, Miss Nancy A. Grant, a distant relative of Gen. Grant, and daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Chance) Grant, the latter a sister of the famous temperance lecturer, " Broadax." Mr. Webb has no children of his own, but has reared two-a niece, Emma Webb, and Ida Loveless. He has held many public offices and is now a Trustee of Brady Town- ship. He is also a Mason and is quite a prominent business man.
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OSCAR S. WEBB, son of Thomas S. and Sarah (Pinnock) Webb, was born in Salem, Columbiana Co., Ohio, July 22, 1846, and came with his parents to this county about 1853, locating first in Jefferson Township, then moving to Fulton County, and thence coming to West Unity about 1858. Oscar was married, in the year 1864, to Miss Julia A. Royer, daughter of George and Susan Royer, and born in Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio, November 5, 1846. Their children number four, as follows: John C., born May 24, 1865; Naoma Della, March 9, 1868; Lida May, March 16, '1871; and Arthur Smith, August 12, 1878. Mr. Webb enlisted, September 12, 1864, in the One Hundred and Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was assigned to the engineer corps at Nashville, Tenn., and was there present at the defeat of Hood's army in December. At the close of the war, he received his discharge at Columbus, Ohio, July 11, 1865. On his return, he worked at harness-making about nine months; then farmed a year ; then worked four years in the Unity Mills. He then clerked four years in the dry goods store of E. S. Davis, and then returned to the mill, where he has ever since been employed. He is a member of Superior Lodge, No. 179, A., F. & A. M., and also of Royer Post, No. 109, G. A. R. A brother of Mr. Webb, John P., was captured at Limestone Station, August 8, 1863, and died a prisoner of war at Belle Island about February 10, 1864. John Royer, a brother of Mrs. Webb, was killed in a skirmish near De- catur, Ala., August 7, 1862. Mr. Webb's father, T. S. Webb, died near West Unity, November 9, 1880. His mother still survives.
ALBERT M. WILBER, M. D., was born in Scottsville, Monroe Co., N. Y., October 9, 1836, the son of David S. and Sophronia (Eaton) Wilber, of New York and Vermont, the mother being a descendant of Gen. Eaton, of Revolutionary fame. The elder Mr. Eaton was a cooper and farmer, and is now living retired, at the age of eighty-three. Albert M. Wilber was well educated in his youth, and while a student at Hills- dale College, quit in the middle of the course, in June, 1861, to enlist in Company E, Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and was with his regiment in all its engagements till the fight at Antietam, where he was wounded in the right leg. He received his discharge December 2, 1862, went to Adrian, Mich., and began the study of medicine with Dr. Charles Rynd. He graduated from the Michigan University in 1865, and in April of that year came to West Unity, where he has been ever since engaged in practice, and has met with excellent success. In February, 1867, he married Miss Susan Orton, a native of Richland County, Ohio, and daughter of Treat and Rosetta (Du Bois) Orton, and to this marriage have been born four children-Laura, Orton E., Inez and Edith. The Doctor is a member of Superior Lodge, No. 179, A., F. & A. M., of
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Royer Post, No. 109, G. A. R., and of Brady Lodge, No. 1,786, K. of H., of which last he is and has been several years medical examiner. In politics, he is a Republican.
JAMES WIRICK is a native of Richland County, Ohio; was born April 3, 1817, and is the eldest of sixteen children born to Peter and Deborah (Huntsman) Wirick, natives of Pennsylvania. Peter Wirick went to Richland County when a young man, and was there married. The country was a wilderness and full of Indians, and during the war of 1812 Mr. Wirick and the other settlers were compelled to build and occupy a block-house for self-protection. Mrs. Wirick died in Richland in 1880, and Mr. Wirick in 1882. James Wirick attended school and worked on his father's farm until twenty-one; then worked out for ten years, and afterward farmed on rented land until 1849, when he came with his wife and family to Brady Township, bought eighty acres of unimproved land, built a cabin and cleared up his farm, which is now well improved. He was married, in 1841, to Miss Mary Shafer, a native of Bedford County, Penn., and daughter of Henry and Catherine Shafer, natives of the same State. James Wirick and wife became the parents of ten children, of whom seven are still living. Mr. Wirick is not a church member, but sympathizes with the Universalists. He is a Repub- lican in politics, and is one of the old settlers of Brady Township.
ADAM YESBERA, a native of Mentz, Province of Darmstadt, Germany, was born August 18, 1829. He received a fair education in his native land, learned the tailor's trade, and after his father's death, in 1848, came to West Unity, where he worked at his trade from 1853 to 1865, when he started a dry goods store, which he conducted in con- junction with tailoring. In 1868, he moved his stock to Edgerton, and there, under the firm name of Yesbera & Rolland, did business till 1869, when he sold his interest in the business and returned to West Unity and opened a clothing store. He was married, May 3, 1851, to Susan Rol- land, a native of France, and daughter of George Rolland. She became the mother of four boys and two girls, and died at West Unity December 16, 1862, a member of the Lutheran Church. In 1872, Mr. Yesbera married Mrs. Elizabeth, widow of John Sprague.
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J. W. BARGER was born in Jefferson Township, this county, Janu- ary 4, 1844, and is a son of William and Elmira (Whitney) Barger, the former a native of Portage County, Ohio, and the latter of New York. They were the parents of six children, of whom five are living, vis. : Thomas, George L., J. W., Phebe and Martha S. They are among the oldest settlers in the township, having come here in 1888. J. W. Barger was reared to a farmer's life, but at present he is the proprietor of a livery stable at Pioneer. In the spring of 1865, he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the close of the war was mustered out, December, 1865. February 4, 1864, he married Miss Hannah A. Thompson, who is a native of Pennsylvania. To this union there were born two children, one only now living-Della E.
C. J. DEWITT, editor of the Tri-State Alliance, is a native of Steu- ben County, N. Y., and came to Medina County, Ohio, with his parents in 1847. He attended Hillsdale College, Michigan, in 1858, 1859 and 1860, when, his health failing, he left college and traveled for a time, taught school, and was ordained a Baptist minister. Returning in 1864, he engaged in Sunday school work, as agent and organizer. In the same year, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National Guard, and after the war came again to the West as teacher, Sunday school worker and preacher until 1869, when he commenced mercantile life in Illinois, in which he continued three years, afterward moving to Kansas and opening a cattle ranch. On the death of his mother and sister, he returned to Williams County and began the work of an Evan- gelist, traveling through many States. In June, 1879, he started the Pioneer Alliance. On July 8, 1869, he married Miss Anna Baker, of Illinois; their family consists of four children-Percy G., Lena M., Clara L. and Iva Belle. He is a member of the Masonic and G. A. R. orders.
BENSON E. DOOLITTLE is a son of Ebenezer Doolittle, who was born 1791, in Connecticut, and taken to New York when young, and at the age of forty-two years removed to Michigan. He was a Methodist minister, having preached in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio. He came to Williams County in 1849, and was an early settler of Madison Township, devoting the latter part of his life to agriculture, oc- casionally preaching, but was without a regular charge; he died in 1865. He was married to Nancy Atwater, of New Haven County, Conn., who
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bore to him six children, three of whom are living-Mrs. Caroline Young, Mrs. Phebe E. Fulton and B. E. Doolittle. Mrs. Doolittle died March, 1845, after which he married Mrs. Dwite, who died a few months after, when he married Henrietta Norris, who also died, and finally he took to wife Mrs. Anna Burdick. Benson E. Doolittle was born July 29, 1832, in Madison County, N. Y., and came to Williams County, Ohio, in 1849, thence moving to Kansas, where he remained during the " Border Ruffian war." 'He returned to Williams County in 1859, being married to Miss Nancy Weaver, of Richland County, in the same year. They have had seven children-Ada, Carrie (deceased), Orrin J., Nellie, Arthur (de- ceased), Martin L. and Luther L. After his marriage he moved to Michi- gan, but returned to Williams County in 1865; he is a member of the United Brethren Church.
GEORGE W. DURBIN is the son of Scott Durbin, who was born in Maryland February 21, 1791, and married, in 1812, to Miss Margaret Davis. They had ten children, of whom seven are yet living ; he died in 1863. George W. Durbin was born July 18, 1818, in Richland County, Ohio, where he lived and worked on a farm until eighteen years of age, when he went to Knox County, Ohio, and thence came to Jefferson Town- ship August 20, 1838, where he had 100 acres of land, obtained from the Government. He brought the first cook stove into the county ; his wife paid $45 for it in Knox County, earning the money with her needle; he also brought the first two-horse plow into Jefferson Township, and ap- plied to the Post Office Department and obtained the first and only post office in the township, and was appointed the first Postmaster. It was called Durbin's Corners until recently, when it was changed to West Jefferson, and then to Karle. For years, he went miles to help his neigh- bors raise log cabins and barns. Their nearest markets were Toledo and Maumee (now South Toledo), sixty miles. He taught the first school in Jefferson Township, receiving 845 for three months; he was married, May 21, 1838, to Miss Mary Ann Roberts, in Knox County, Ohio ; she was born in 1806, in Bennington County, Vt. Five children were the result, of whom four survive-William H., Margaret M., Mary E. and Thomas C. Mr. Durbin moved to Pioneer in 1866; he was there for a time in the hardware business, but now superintends his farm in this township.
SAMUEL DURBIN was born in 1819, in Richland County, Ohio, where he resided until fifteen years of age, when he removed to Knox County, Ohio ; here he remained until he came to Williams County, in 1852; he was one of the earliest settlers of Madison Township, having bought a farm, clearing and improving it himself; he married Hannah Eliza Wing in Knox County, from which union resulted six children,
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three of whom are living-Mrs. Sadie Barnum, Thomas and Mrs. Ellen Smoot ; Mrs. Durbin died in 1853, when he married Catherine Kirk, by whom he had six children, of whom three survive-George, Wakefield and Minnie. His mother (now ninety years old) lives with him; she was born in Morgan County, Va., October, 1792.
WILLIAM H. DURBIN, son of George W. Durbin, was born April 20, 1839, in Williams County, Ohio. When a young man, he traveled through Missouri, Iowa and Kansas, being absent about two years, re- turning to Madison Township in 1861, where he possessed a farm, which he cleared and improved, it being now one of the best in the township. During the war, he served in the Ohio National Guard, also in the United States service four months, and re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio Regiment, being afterward discharged on account of disability. In 1860, he was married to Elvira Teeter, of Knox County, Ohio, and has two children-George F. and Carrie. Becoming divorced from this union, he married Emeretta Hersheiser. He belongs to the I. O. O. F., and has been in the Encampment seven years ; he is also a member of the Grange and the G. A. R. He is a Republican in politics.
JOHN DYE is a son of William Dye, who was born in Alleghany County, Md., and married Miss Martha Reynolds, of that place. They had seven children, four of whom are living-John, Isabella, Louisa and Jane. Mrs. Dye came to her death in 1859. William Dye was again married, and this time to Mrs. Hannah Flemming, having two children- Fidelia and Calista. He afterward married Mrs. Marietta Blathenrick, coming to Fulton County in 1842, and to Pioneer in 1871; he was en- gaged as farmer and stockman, dying September, 1874. John Dye was also born in Alleghany County, Md., March 5, 1829, from which place, at an early age, he was taken by his parents to Holmes County, Ohio, and afterward to Lucas (now Fulton) County, where he engaged in mer- cantile business at Pettisville. He was the original owner of this place, obtained the first post office, and was the first Postmaster. While in Fulton County, he engaged in the lumber trade, and had interests in the Pettisville Woolen Mills; he came to Williams County in 1864, where he has ever since resided. He married Miss Harriet A. Davison, of Ontario County, N. Y., who died April, 1875, leaving five children-J. Clayton, William Porter, Mary Martha, Richard H. and Lula M. He afterward married Miss Lydia N. Shafer, of Williams County ; he is a member of the Masons and of the Grange, also of the Christian Church ; he received a great part of his' education at Adrian, Mich., and taught during the years 1850-52 ; he is a Republican.
E. D. EGGLESTON is a son of Erastus Eggleston, who was born in Huron, Washington Co., N. Y .; moving thence to Geauga County,
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Ohio, of which he was one of the early settlers. He married Mary Good- win, of Ontario County, N. Y., whose father was a soldier of 1812, go- ing through the West with Anthony Wayne as an Aid-de-Camp to his brother, who was a Colonel under Gen. Wayne. He came to Williams County in 1853, locating in Madison Township; he died May, 1862; Mrs. Eggleston is still living. They had eleven children, eight of whom survive-Lucy Ann, Elmira S., Samuel G., Mary J., Eliab D., Elvira L., Susan L. and Oceana R. E. D. Eggleston was born in Geauga County, Ohio, September 11, 1828, living there and in Medina County until 1853, when he came to Williams County with his parents. He married Miss Elizabeth J. Fulton, with the issue of one daughter-Mrs. Helmes. Mrs. Eggleston was an early teacher in Madison Township. Mr. Eggleston cleared the farm on which they now reside, and assisted in clearing much land throughout the township. In 1865, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio Regiment, serving until the war was ended. He is a Republican in politics, an Odd Fellow, a Granger, member of the G. A. R., also s class leader in the M. E. Church.
RICHARD GAUDERN, JR., M. D., was born in Oneida County, N. Y., July 26, 1832, and came with his parents, when four years of age, to Coshocton, Ohio, where he lived seven years, thence moving to Will- iams County ; he has resided in Pioneer since 1856. After receiving a common school education, he began the study of medicine with Dr. J. H. Roe, in Hamilton, Ind., in 1852. In 1853, he attended the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, forming a partnership with Dr. Roe in 1854, which continued until he accepted a position in the Model Water Cure at Danville, N. Y., where he was very successful, but left said institution to return to Williams County and resume his profession ; he soon after located in Pioneer. In 1859, he returned to New York, and on December 24 was married to Miss Lucinda Pennell, daughter of Rev. A. Pennell, proprietor of the Model Water Cure. In 1862, he en- tered the army as a volunteer surgeon, serving under the Sanitary Com - mission and assisting in transporting the sick and wounded to Northern hospitals, thus continuing until smitten with camp fever, when he returned home. During this period, his wife and child became sick and died. After his restoration, he re-entered the service as a Captain of a company he had organized, known as the Sixty-eighth Battalion. After reporting at Camp Chase, this organization became a part of the One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteers, in 1864. They first proceeded to Alexandria, and thence to Bermuda Hundred, joining Gen. Butler's command, from which time the regiment was in constant service until discharged at Camp Chase in 1864, the term of service expiring. In Oc- tober, 1863, Dr. Gaudern was married to Miss Lucinda Pitts, daughter
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of Peter Pitts, who emigrated from New England to Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y., in company with the first settlers, where he remained till his death-a most respected citizen. Mrs. Lucinda (Pitts) Gaudern was reared and educated in Ontario County, and graduated at Genesee Col- lege. She died April 1, 1871; was a lady of much natural ability and acquirements, and had contributed to several leading periodicals. To this union succeeded three children, all of whom survive-Abbie, Edward and Bessie. After the war, Dr. Gaudern resumed the practic of medicine, and graduated with high honors at the Eclectic Medical College of New York. On January 21, 1875, he was united to Mrs. Jane Grose, of Pu- laski, Williams Co., Ohio; she was born in Wayne County, Ohio, March, 1841. Dr. Gaudern is eminent as a physican and surgeon, and enjoys a large reputation and a lucrative practice. He is a member of the M. E. Church ; is connected with the business interests of Pioneer, and is a large owner of real estate therein.
J. F. HADLEY is the son of Horatio Hadley, who was born in Brattleboro, Vt., July 6, 1810. He was a farmer, and left Vermont for Oswego County, N. Y., and moved thence to Hillsdale, Mich. He was first married to Sarah Bullard, a native of Western New York, born June 14, 1818 ; by her he had one daughter-Elmira. By his second mar- riage, he had eight children, six of whom remain-J. F., Marcelia, Elvira, Dexter, Ella, Emma, Addie and Ruth. J. F. Hadley was born in Hills- dale County, Mich., June 14, 1842. He went first to the public schools, then to Hillsdale College, Albion College (Mich.), and, in 1864, to the Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He taught for a time when & young man, but settled in business at Osseo, Mich., and Hillsdale, Mich. In 1867, he came to Pioneer. He keeps dry goods, boots and shoes, clothing and gents' furnishing goods; he also deals in wool and groceries. The firm proper is now Hadley & Hilton, the later enter- ing in February, 1882. Mr. Hadley was married September 16, 1866, to Anna M. Johnson, of Hudson, Mich., daughter of Squire Johnson. Four children are so far the fruit-W. Irving, Jesse R., May and Fred W.
H. B. HALL was born March 13, 1844, in Richland County, 'Ohio; his father, Thomas Hall, was born October 5, 1814, in Perry County, Penn. In 1830, he removed to Richland County, Ohio, there engaging in weaving and farming. He was married, in 1838, to Margaret Kirkpatrick, daughter of Joseph Kirkpatrick ; he died in 1848. H. B. Hall followed farming until 1877, when he engaged in the mercantile business in Pioneer. In October, 1870, he was married to Miss Susan Uhlich, of Mansfield ; she died March 7, 1880.
T. B. HALL was born August 31, 1848, in Richland County, Ohio. When eighteen years of age he began teaching school in Richland and
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Williams Counties. In 1867 and 1868, he attended the graded school at Shelby, Ohio, and the academy at Ontario, Ohio, during the summers of 1869-70. In the fall of 1870, he came to Williams County, where his mother resided, and taught school until 1873. He commenced work as a salesman in the store of F. G. Fried, in Corunna, Ind., and con- tinued with him until August, 1876, when he purchased an interest in the firm of Perky & Doty, in Pioneer; this partnership continued till February, 1877, when his brother, H. B. Hall, bought the interest of Mr. Perky, thus making the firm Doty & Hall Bros. In the spring of 1879, Mr. Doty withdrew, the business being continued under the firm name of Hall Bros. They carry a full line of dry goods, boots and shoes, groceries, clothing and gents' furnishing goods. T. B. Hall was married August 31, 1875, to Miss Mary Orr, of Corunna, Ind., who was born October 19, 1855. To them have been born two children-Herbert E. and Bertha Hall. The firm purchase from 20,000 to 25,000 pounds of wool annually, employing a capital of from $11,000 to $12,000 annually, turning its stock about three times a year. It deals on fair business prin- ciples, one price to all.
C. F. HAVILAND is the son of Isaac Haviland, who was born February 6, 1806, in Patterson, Putnam Co., N. Y., where he has al- ways resided as a farmer. He was married to Laura Baldwin, of the same place, March 4, 1830; she was born May, 1807, and died Novem- ber, 1852. By this marriage sprang five children, two of whom, William W. and C. F., live in Williams County, Ohio. He was married to Jane Baldwin, of Putnam County, N. Y., who died September, 1868, leaving one child-James B., now living in New York. He was a third time married to Anna A. Northorp, of Kent, N. Y., from whom he was di- vorced the same year. His fourth marriage was with Cordelia Shaw. C. F. Haviland was born in Putnam County, N. Y., October 15, 1843, where he resided until 1862, when he removed to Michigan. In New York he had farmed and taught, having begun teaching when sixteen years old. While in Michigan, he was engaged in the lumber business with his brother. Leaving Michigan he came to Williams County, Ohio, engaging in lumber dealing here; then returned to his father in New York for ten years, coming thereafter to Pioneer, and establishing the dairy business and farming. On December 31, 1868, he married Miss Harriet Gordon, daughter of Cyrus Gordon, of New Jersey. He is & member of the Baptist Church, of the Masonic and Odd Fellow societies, and of the Grange. His property is the result of well-directed industry.
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