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JAMES A. MILES. The ancestry of this gentleman is traced back to New York, Vermont Ireland and to Spain, 1,300 years B. C., and of the name there are about 2,000 in the United States. His parents, Jason and Betsey (Downing) Miles, were reared in Randolph, Vt., and moved to Wilmington, N. Y., in 1812. They had seven children, five boys and two girls. The only living member of the parent family is a brother, Joseph, who still resides at Wilmington. James came to Ohio in 1849; resided in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, and finally settled in Stryker in 1858. He has engaged in teaching, trading and hotel-keeping since he left the stony farm of his brothers on Quaker Hill, near the township of " Old John Brown," whose "soul is marching on." For the last quarter of his life, he has been engaged in hotel-keeping, assisted by his dutiful wife, Phebe M. Miles, and daughters, Lucy A. and Mysta B., and sons, John F. and Berdelwin Miles. Grandma Wood, ninety years old, has lived with his family the past fifteen years. He was previously married to Miss Weltha Butler, who died in 1862. Milly W. Miles, his second daughter, was taken by her grandparents to Lorain County on the death of her mother, and has since lived in Wellington and Belden,
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Ohio ; Etta died at Carlisle, Ohio, in childhood; and James B. died in infancy at Wawaka, Ind. James A. Miles is a plain, matter-of-fact type of character, as were his ancestors. They were positive, conscientious, of the motive temperament, and for two generations their longevity aver- ages about sixty years. James A. is the youngest of a family whose father also was the youngest son. While subject to a tendency to conges- tion of the circulatory or respiratory organs, he has, by watchful care, checked the numerous attacks of sickness, and performs his arduous duties as host to the traveling public, morning, noon and night, with many improvements, resulting from resolute will and fourteen years' labor, when he issued his first hotel card, inviting boarders to the Miles House. He has been schooled in the low and high grades of poverty and affluence. His occupation has introduced him to the most enterprising business men of the country, selected for their tact, and trained for their profession as experts in reading character, amateurs at making sales, and detectives against bargains with irresponsible dealers. This varied experience with poverty, sickness, and orphanage in childhood, educated him to use his time, his money and his promises to meet obligation alike valuable and serviceable, needed every day in his business life. He is not only & self- made man, but his working the life problem has been against great odds, weak mental and physical constitution being his stock upon which to build a name and character for time and history. He suggests to his sons and every young man or young woman whose leisure may read his life sketch, that the certain road to success is traveled by the comparative few in number, in all the countless multitude taking on the forms of human life, that set their foundation on the bedrock of unyielding self-respect in every associate matter, and a due regard for the claims of society calling for co-operation in all relations of pleasure and business, not unmindful that it is by the grace of God that we live in time and in eternity, and that the world is made better for our privilege of being a probationer for awhile in it.
JOSEPH MILLS, JR., was born March 31, 1822, in Morgan County, Ohio, being one of six children born to Joseph and Ruth (Plummer) Mills. Joseph Mills was a soldier of 1812; came to Morgan County and married. He owned and managed a farm until 1824, when he lost a large portion of his property by acting as surety for his neighbors. He then moved to Shelby County, where Mrs. Mills died in 1827. In 1832, he married Mary Harmon. In 1833, he removed to Pickaway County, and thence to Sandusky County, again moving, in 1838, to Springfield Township, and settling on land previously entered by him. He died in Pickaway County in 1854, having returned there to settle his father-in- law's estate. Joseph Mills, Jr., worked at home until his majority, after-
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ward as a woodman, and earned sufficient to purchase eighty acres, which he improved. He was married, June 8, 1845, to Mary A. Wilbur. Mr. and Mrs. Mills have had nine children, seven of whom survive. In 1854, Mr. Mills sold his old and bought a new farm of one hundred and forty- six acres, on which he now lives. Mr. Mills is a great horseman, and has done much to improve this stock. Since 1869, he has brought several Norman horses to the township, the last two costing $1,700. Mr. and Mrs. Mills are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he of Grange 499; he is in politics a Republican.
THOMAS H. MOORE, station and express agent at Stryker, is a native of the Hoosier State, and was born at Lima, La Grange County, November 26, 1842. His parents were natives of the " Green Isle," and emigrated to the United States in early life. John Moore was a man of ability, and filled many offices with marked success, being one of the first Sheriffs of La Grange County, and for many years Justice of the Peace of Lima Township, as well as Postmaster at Lima, holding the latter office at the time of his death, July 26, 1858. He was also for many years an active member of the Masonic Brotherhood. Thomas H. Moore was the recipient of a good common school education, and his life since has given him a practical knowledge of business. He first assisted his father in the Lima Post Office, until fifteen years of age, when he went to Sturgis, Mich., in the same capacity for three years ; he then removed to Constan- tine, Mich., clerking for Gov. Berry in a store and post office until 1863, when he accepted a position in the Provost Marshal's office in Chicago. After this, he took a clerkship at Hudson, Mich., in the freight office of the L. S. &. M. S. Railroad, where he remained until he received the appointment he now holds by the L. S. & M. S. Railroad, and United States Express Company, February 5, 1865, and in which capacity he has since been employed with satisfaction to all concerned. Mr. Moore and Miss Martha Jordan were united in marriage October 7, 1869. She is a native of Ohio, and her father, A. H. Jordan, of Vermont. . Mr. and Mrs. Moore are parents of two children, viz., Frederic and Harvey,
WALTER I. PEPPLE was born on December 13, 1839, in Stark County, Ohio, and is one of seven children born to William L. and Amelia (Irwin) Pepple. The elder Mr. Pepple was by trade a carver and fuller, and followed the same in Stark County for thirty years. In 1857, he came to Brady Township and purchased land, on which he lived until his death in June, 1875. Walter I. Pepple, until thirty-three years old, worked with his father, with whom, in 1868, he commenced the making of sand brick, and later, of drain tiles ; still later they began to manu- facture pressed brick. They had a hard struggle in the beginning, run- ning by horse-power, but now by steam, and it is the largest place of the
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kind in the county, and yet the demand for their wares is greater than their ability to supply it. Mr. Pepple was married, February 4, 1868, to Sarah J. Kelty, of Columbiana County ; six children have been the issue- William F., Ella, Lida, Nellie, Carrie and Birdie. Mr. Pepple is a meni- ber of the Town Council of Stryker, an Odd Fellow, and a Democrat.
LOUIS W. PRETTYMAN was born June 19, 1828, in Pickaway County, Ohio, and is one of five living children of Thomas J. and Lydia W. (Wyatt) Prettyman, from Delaware. The elder Prettyman was a soldier in the war of 1812, and by trade was a carpenter. He was mar- ried in Delaware, moved to Philadelphia, and then came to Pickaway County, this State, where he bought two farms, aggregating about 320 acres, and engaged in farming and stock-raising. In 1833, he brought his family to this township, where he had entered 200 acres of land two years before, and entered 600 additional acres. Here he built a cabin on Bean Creek, and began clearing up a farm, his nearest market being Defiance, which could be reached only by poling down the river. On this farm he died July 28, 1835. He was the first Treasurer of the township, and held that office at the time of his death. He was a local minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and preached probably the first sermon ever heard in Williams County, it being the discourse at the funeral of a Miss Knipe, whose death was the first on record in this township. Louis W. Prettyman received a fair common-school education, and after his father's death lived on the home farm with his brother-in-law, Jones P. Slusses, until he was thirteen years old ; he then went to live with an- other brother-in-law, Davis King, with whom he made his home until he was twenty-four. In 1849, he attended Otterbein University, Wester- ville, Ohio, several months, but was obliged to relinquish study on ac- count of ill health. After his recovery, he attended high school at Bryan and Evansport, about two years, and afterward taught several terms in this and Defiance Counties. April 15, 1852, he married Hannah R. Kintigh, of Westmoreland County, Penn., and daughter of John and Hannah (Evans) Kintigh, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and New Brunswick, and to their union were born thirteen children. In the fall of 1852, he moved upon his present farm of 158 acres, where he has ever since resided. Mr. Prettyman has served two terms as Township Trustee, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
SOLOMON ROGERS was born in Bedford County, Penn., October 10, 1817, and was the youngest of the fourteen children of Eli and Mary Rogers, also natives of Pennsylvania. When a mere child, Solomon was left an orphan, and was reared until fifteen by a brother in Wayne Coun- ty, Ohio; two years more of his young life he spent with an uncle, and then began the conflict with the world unaided. His education was rather
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limited, but he had a natural aptitude for mechanics, and after a short time passed in farm labor he began work as a cooper, and followed the business for a number of years. May 27, 1841, he married Miss Cordelia Rogers in Morrow County, Ohio, she being a native of Richland County, and born January 17, 1827. They became the parents of six children, viz. : George W., Margaret E., Catharine, Jonathan, Samuel H. and Emily. Of these, Catharine is the only one now living. The eldest son, George W., lost his life in the late war. Mrs. Rogers died January 15, 1856, and February 24, 1856, Mr. Rogers married Mrs. Marilla Sulli- van, who was born in Canandaigua, N. Y., December 7, 1828. In 1843, Mr. Rogers moved to Fulton County, Ohio ; in 1864, he moved to But- ler, Ind., and in 1876 he came to Stryker, this township, where he has ever since resided, almost exclusively engaged in bee culture, and he is now probably the most successful and best posted apiarist in Northwestern Ohio. His hives are of his own invention, and he handles only Italian and Cyprian bees, of which he has about 200 colonies. Mr. Rogers is quite liberal in his religious views, and equally so in politics, although he always threw his influence against the pro-slavery party. He was Postmas- ter and express agent while living at Butler, and also carried on there a jewelry establishment. While residing in Fulton County, he worked at carpentering, and everywhere has been regarded with respect and esteem by his fellow-citizens.
THOMAS H. SABIN, M. D., was born in Lucas County, Ohio, June 15, 1843, and is the fourth in a family of six children born to Thomas S. and Maria (Browning) Sabin, natives respectively of New York and Connecticut. The father was a clothier ; was married in Lucas County, and in 1844 moved to Wood County, Ohio, and went to farming ; in 1867, he sold his farm and removed to Fulton County, where he still resides. In April, 1861, Thomas H. Sabin enlisted in Company B, Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for the three months' service, and in November of the same year re-enlisted for three years in Company H, Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with his regiment in all its marches and engagements until discharged, in October, 1862, on account of failing health. In September, 1864, he enlisted in Company K, Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Soon after his enrollment, he was appointed Commissary Sergeant of his company, and served as such until the close of the war, in June, 1865. In the September following, he came to Stryker, this county, and commenced the study of medicine with Dr. D. P. Aldrich, now of Defiance, Ohio. During the winter of 1872-73, he attended the Cleveland Medical College. Practiced in Noble and Whitley Counties, Ind., for about six years; moved to Archi- bald, Fulton County, Ohio, and engaged in the drug business in connec-
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tion with his professional practice; graduated from the Wooster Univer- sity in the spring of 1882, and returned to Stryker in July of . the same year, where he is now in partnership with Dr. N. B. Stubbs. Dr. Sabin was married, June 21, 1866, to Miss Isabel Norris, & native of Butler, DeKalb Co., Ind, and & daughter of Jerry and Mary A. (Casebeer) Norris. The fruit of this union is one boy and one girl. The Doctor has held the office of Township Clerk in Fulton County, and is a member of the I. O. O. F.
MICHAEL W. SCHAEFFER was born September 26, 1832, in Montgomery County, Ohio. He is one of a family of ten born to John C. and Mary (Winters) Schaeffer. In 1840, John C. Schaeffer moved to Springfield Township, purchased eighty-six acres of unbroken land, erected a cabin and cleared a farm, now well improved and owned by the subject of this sketch. Mr. Schaeffer died in October, 1851. Mrs. Schaeffer is still living, in her eighty-third year, and a member of the Methodist Episco- pal Church. Mr. S. was a Township Trustee, and a member of the Ger- man Reformed Church. Michael W. Schaeffer has always lived on the farm. After his father's death, he purchased the interests of the other heirs and increased the tract to 206 acres. He was married, May 11, 1856, to Nancy Grimes, of Henry County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Schaef- fer have nine children, all living, and are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; he is also a member of Grange No. 499, and an old citizen and enterprising farmer.
WILLIAM SHERIDAN, JR., was born in Greensburg, Westmore- land Co., Penn., October 30, 1825. His parents, William and Hannah (McKinn) Sheridan, were also natives of Pennsylvania, and reared a fam- ily of eleven children. In 1826, William Sheridan, Sr., moved to Pitts- burgh, Penn., where he followed blacksmithing until 1833, when he removed to Stark County, Ohio. In 1840, he purchased a quarter-sec- tion of unimproved land in this county, moved his family into a log cabin built for the purpose, and this farm, improved and beautified by money, time and labor, has since been their home. Mr. Sheridan has also lent a helping hand to his neighbors. He assisted in the organization of the first Presbyterian Church at Bryan, and has filled the offices of Township Trustee and County Commissioner. The youth of William Sheridan, Jr., was spent on the farm, in the shop and in the schoolhouse-in the latter both as student and teacher. His life has been active and his business interests varied. In December, 1850, he engaged in mercantile business at Lockport, with the late Col. Miller, under the firm name of Miller & Sheridan. After four years, he disposed of his interest, and came to Stryker, where, from 1854 to 1865, he was employed alternately in mer- cantile trade, handling lumber, bridge building and farming, purchasing
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a farm near Stryker in 1860. In 1865, a company was organized in Boston, known as the Stryker Oil Well Company of Boston, Mass., with a capital stock of $40,000, of which Mr. Sheridan was a large stock- holder. Oil was found on his lands in paying quantities, at a depth of 860 feet, but the open formation of rock necessitated the abandonment of the enterprise. A more complete history of this company will be found in that of Springfield Township. In 1867, Mr. S. was admitted to the bar, and has since engaged in the practice of law. He was Stryker's first Postmaster, Justice of the Peace and Mayor, and in 1864 was chief Clerk in the Quartermaster's Department at Wheeling, W. Va. In his own county he received the nomination for Auditor and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and by the Ohio State Democratic Convention that of Comptroller of the State Treasury. He was twice elected State Senator from the Thirty-second Senatorial District, serving two terms, and in 1876 was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention, held at St. Louis. Mr. Sheridan is one of Stryker's most active and enterprising citizens. He was married, in 1851, to Miss Martha A. Stubbs, a daugh- ter of William M. Stubbs, and a native of New York. She passed away in 1875, leaving three children.
ALEX SHORT is a native of Stark County, Ohio, was born April 8, 1840, and is the youngest of five children born to Jacob and Frances Short, natives of France, where they were married in 1831 or 1832, and immediately emigrated to the United States, settling in Stark County, then an almost unbroken wilderness. Here he bought 100 acres of un- improved land, which he cleared and resided upon till 1854, when he sold out and came to this township, and bought a farm of 200 acres, on which he resided till his death. Alex Short received but a limited education in his youth, and worked for his father until twenty-one years old, when he commenced farming on his own account on the 100 acres where he now lives, and has lived, ever since its purchase, with the exception of eighteen months, when he rented it out, on account of his wife's ill health, and went to reside in Archibald, Fulton County. He married, April 26, 1860, Ellen J. Sloan, a native of Pennsylvania, and daughter of John and Rachel (Bower) Sloan, of the same State. Mr. and Mrs. Short have no children of their own, but have an adopted daughter (Cora A. Sloan). Mr. Short is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is an industrions and enterprising young farmer.
ALBERT SILVERNAIL was born on March 28, 1824, in Yates County, N. Y., and one of thirteen children born to Conrad and Mary (Miller) Silvernail. In 1829, Mr. Conrad Silvernail moved to Geauga County, Ohio, where he purchased and improved 160 acres of land, but afterward lost this and all his personal property by indorsing for his
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neighbors. This caused him to remove to Michigan in 1835, and settle upon some land of his brother. In 1837, he purchased forty acres in Hillsdale County, Mich., residing thereon until his death, in 1862. Al- bert Silvernail was bred to the plow, and labored thereat until twenty- three years of age, when he married Susan Wilson. He then located on forty acres in Hillsdale County ; here Mrs. Silvernail died, May 27, 1849. Some time after, he worked on the L. S. & M. S. R. R., and, in 1854, came to Stryker, where he married, July 4, 1855, Emily Douglass. One daughter was born to them-Eliza J., now Mrs. James A. Grimes. In 1856, he bought forty acres of his present farm, which now includes 153 acres ; he has also 800 acres in Northern Texas. Mr. Silvernail is one of the Township Trustees ; he was once a Whig, but now a Repub- lican, a member of the Universalist Church and a prominent citizen. The present Mrs. Silvernail is a native of Steuben County, N. Y .; her father, Uriah Douglass, a pioneer of Springfield Township, was born in Orange County, and her mother, Mary (Carter) Douglass, in Tompkins County, N. Y.
JOHN SLOAN was born April 20, 1818, in Columbia County, Penn., and is one of eight children born to David and Mary A. (Vance) Sloan. John Sloan worked for his father on the farm until he was twenty-one years old, after which time he farmed on shares until 1845. In 1848, he moved with his family to Springfield Township, and bought eighty acres of wild land, which he improved, and on which he now re- sides. His hardships were many, but in time and by labor the " wilder- ness did blossom as the rose," having increased his domain to 392 acres. Mr. Sloan was married, in 1838, to Rachel Bower, and from this union nine children came to being, five of whom are dead. For the first ten years Mr. Sloan was a grand juryman almost constantly. He is a Bap- tist and Mrs. S. a Methodist. Mr. Sloan is also a member of A., F. & A. M., a Democrat in politics and a public-spirited citizen.
JOHN W. SLOAN was born in Springfield Township January 12, 1850, and is one of the nine children born to John and Rachel (Bower) Sloan (a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this volume). Our subject received but a limited education, working for his father until he was twenty-five years old. On July 4, 1875, he was married to Alice E. Clark, of this township, daughter of Louis and Catharine (Knipe) Clark. Three sons have blessed this union-John L., William L. and Otis C. In 1880, he bought a farm of 118 acres in Springfield Township, with fine improvements, on which he resides. Mr. and Mrs. Sloan are mem- bers of Springfield Grange, 499, and also of the M. E. Church, and Mr. Sloan is one of the rising young farmers of Springfield Township.
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FESTUS A. SNEAR, M. D., was graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in the class of 1871-72, previous to which he attended lectures at the Medical College at Ann Arbor, Mich., after studying for two years with Drs. Long and Riggs, of Bryan, Ohio. Since starting in the practice of his profession, Dr. Snear has been a resident of Stryker, and is also proprietor of a drug house, carrying & large and well-assorted stock of goods usually found in his line. He has an extensive practice, and is one of Stryker's most public-spirited citizens, one of the Trustees of Springfield Township, and an honored member of the A., F. & A. M. and the I. O. O. F. Dr. Snear was married Sep- tember 10, 1871, to Miss Josephine Rotsel, of Richland County, Ohio, & daughter of Dr. O. J. Rotsel, a native of Pennsylvana, and one child, Otho, is the fruit of this union. Dr. Snear was born in Richland County. Ohio, December 30, 1849, one of four children of his parents, Jacob and Mary (Hadix) Snear, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Vir- ginia. Jacob Snear came with his parents to Richland County when but a child; the country was new and almost uninhabited, and their nearest white neighbor was seven miles distant, and consequently they became familiarized with frontier life. Mr. S. was married and lived in Richland County until 1865, when he moved to Fulton County, where he purchased a farm, remaining until April, 1882, when he sold his property and be- came a resident of Stryker.
WALLACE H. STOUGH was born in Portage County, Ohio, No- vember 26, 1840, the eldest of three children born to Lyman and Mary (Mercer) Stough, both natives of Portage County, Ohio. In 1843, Ly- man Stough removed with his family to Jefferson Township, in this county, where he purchased a farm, remaining until the death of Mrs. Stough, which occurred in 1846. He afterward disposed of this property and bought a farm in Superior Township, living here until 1860, when he sold the farm and removed to Stryker, where he resided until death called him away, December 26, 1869. Wallace H. attended school until four- teen years of age, when he went to West Unity, in this county, and served a three years' apprenticeship with Michael Pifer at the harness and saddler's trade; then removing to Bryan, working two summers at his trade and attending school during the winter seasons. In November, 1864, Mr. Stough and Miss Louisa Kitzmiller were wedded. She is the daughter of Adam and Mary (Butts) Kitzmiller, both natives of Pennsyl- vania. Mrs. Stough is a native of Richland County, Ohio, and the mother of four children-Leland I., Franklin, Frederick and Forence B. Mr. Stough came to Stryker in 1858 and established himself in the har- ness and saddlery business, where he has since remained, meeting with success and filling a sphere of popularity and usefulness. He is & mem-
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ber of the Town Council of Stryker, and shares the confidence of her citizens.
JOHN STUBBS, one of the early pioneers of Williams County, Ohio, was born in Orange County, N. Y., August 12, 1784. His father, William Stubbs, who was of Welsh descent, was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war, and assisted in the capture of the desperate and notorious tory, Claudius Smith, near Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y., where he was afterward hanged. In early life, John Stubbs removed to Tompkins County, N. Y., where he was married to Phebe Miller, a native of Broome County, N. Y., where she was born January 16, 1794. Mr. Stubbs was a Captain of a company of State Militia during the war of 1812. In 1832, Mr. Stubbs sold his farm in Tompkins County, N. Y., and entered nearly 1,000 acres of land in what afterward became Springfield Town- ship, in Williams County, Ohio, and came with his family, together with his sons-in-law, Judge J. B. Taylor, and H. Doolittle and their families, all settling in Springfield Township the following spring. Mr. Stubbs located on Tiffin River about three miles south from the present site of Stryker, built a cabin and commenced clearing. Here he remained but a year, when he removed to another tract of land in the same township, two and a half miles west from Stryker, and built another cabin. This farm of 130 acres he soon afterward sold to Dr. Kibbey, who contem- plated building a saw-mill, and surveyed a portion of the land for town lots, calling the new place Williamsport, but becoming badly involved and unable to execute his intentions, the land reverted to Mr. Stubbs, who, in the meantime, had returned to his former place, where he had begun a home, and where himself and family resided until 1861, when Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs went to live with their son, John H. Stubbs, with whom they remained until death called them home. Mr. Stubbs died January 26, 1864, and was followed by Mrs. Stubbs in 1871. Mr. Stubbs was for eighteen years Justice of the Peace in Tompkins County, N. Y., and after coming to Ohio filled continuously for many years some of the township offices, and was at one time one of the Commissioners of Williams County. Mr. Stubbs was a member of no church, but was for more than half a cen- tury a prominent and leading member of the Masonic fraternity, having advanced as far in the order as is possible in this country. He was for many years W. M. of Hiram Lodge in Tompkins County, N. Y., and after coming West helped to organize new lodges over Northwestern Ohio, believing Masonry to be the best organization ever instituted by man. He constantly practiced, through a long and useful life, the tenets of the order. Ever seeking to amelioriate the condition of humanity, he dispensed charities with a loving heart and a bounteous hand. " Requi- escat in pace."
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