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The biographer has been favored with a view of a most interesting group picture which was photographed at the home of our esteemed subject on the 72nd anniversary of his birth -- September 3, 1905. It shows four generations of the family, the most prominent being Mr. Zurflüh himself. By his side is seated his eld- est daughter, Mary (Mrs. Benjamin Bas- inger), who was born June 28, 1853. By her side is her daughter, Josephine, (Mrs. John Moser), who was born April 7, 1882, while in the grand-grandfather's arms rests little Mary Elizabeth Moser, infant daughter of Mrs. John Moser, who was born April 4, 1905.
As we have noted above, Mr. Zurflüh is an educated man. He taught school in his own country in 1851 and up to the time of his com- ing to America, in 1852. He taught five win- ters in the public schools of Allen County and has taught in parochial and German schools.
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For many years he has served as a school officer and his clerical ability has been frequently rec- ognized.
In religious life Mr. Zurflüh has always been identified with the Mennonite Church, and he has always taken a very active part in its affairs here. For 12 years he was church secre- tary and for 28 years he served as a teacher in the Sunday-school. It is said that he is more conversant with the dates and history of the Mennonite bodies than any other instructor in his locality, and can trace its interesting history back to its beginning in 1492. As he is able to read and converse in French, English and German his services are frequently in demand as an interpreter.
In his political convictions, Mr. Zurflüh is a Democrat. His first presidential vote was cast for Stephen A. Douglas. From choice as well as from religious motives, he has never con- sented to accept any public office, except in the line of education. He is one of the best-known and most highly esteemed representatives of the German-Swiss element in Allen County, from which class has come so many of the State's most reliable citizens.
ENRY H. HEMAN. Among the good citizens of Lima, now living retired from business activity, is the subject of this sketch, who for many years was connected with one of the largest lumber firms of this city. Mr. Heman is also one of the heroic survivors of the great Civil War, in which he participated with honor and in the vicissitudes of which he almost lost his life. He was born at New Bremen, Auglaize County, Ohio, December 8, 1843, and is a son of Gerard Heman, who, with his wife, two daughters and one son died in the cholera epi- demic of 1848.
Mr. Heman was reared and educated by relatives in Auglaize County until the age of 17 years, when he enlisted in Company C, 37th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., and was mustered into the service at Cleveland, Ohio. A lad in years, he was of a man's statue. His regiment was sent first to Charlestown, West Virginia, and
took part in its initial engagement at Loop Creek. It was concerned in numerous light engagements and passed back and forth be- tween Ohio and West Virginia until January I, 1863, when it was ordered to Vicksburg. This regiment was the first detail of troops to reach the city, and it remained all through the siege until May 22, 1863, when our present interest in its movements pauses. It was upon this date that Mr. Heman was struck by a can- non-ball during the second charge on Fort Graveyard. During the charge the Confeder- ates began firing on the Union troops from Fort Hill, fully two and a half miles distant. Mr. Heman was struck in the third volley, the first having come between him and the fort, the second fell some 20 feet distant, but the mur- derous third took, with its swift passage, Mr. Heman's good right arm and killed his com- rade beside him. In the days of the Civil War, surgery had not yet attained its present perfec- tion and as anaesthetics were scarcely in use, the unhappy wounded were obliged to submit to the seemingly cruel treatment at the hospi- tal tents on the field, suffering tortures which would be nowhere permitted at the present day. From the field hospital he was transported to Webster Hospital at Memphis, Tennessee, and after two months of treatment was honorably discharged on September 17, 1863.
Mr. Heman was then but entering man- hood. He returned to Auglaize County and as soon as sufficiently convalescent began to look about for suitable employment. In October he came to Lima and went to work in a grocery store conducted by G. Steiner, with whom he remained one year. In order to fit himself for a more remunerative position he then entered a commercial school at Fort Wayne; after graduation, he returned to Lima and entered into a grocery business on North Main street under the firm name of Smith & Heman. Two years later Mr. Heman sold out his interest to Mr. Smith and in 1868 he was elected city clerk of Lima. Mr. Heman served with entire satisfaction for six years and in 1875 he was elected county recorder of Allen County, serv- ing also in this office for six years.
After retiring from public office Mr. He- man engaged for a time in an insurance busi-
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ness and then became bookkeeper for the firm of Dobbins & Ashton, lumber merchants, re- maining with them in that capacity until he re- tired, in 1903. Mr. Heman in public and in business life displayed the same qualities of de- votion to duty and fidelity to the trusts imposed in him that made him a fearless and efficient soldier.
In October, 1874, Mr. Heman was married to Malinda Opt, who is a daughter of the late Henry Opt, of Seneca County, Ohio. They have one child, Homer Dow, who is employed by the Ferrel Brick Manufacturing Company, of Zanesville, Ohio.
Mr. Heman is connected as appraiser with the South Side Building & Loan Association of Lima. He belongs to the Knights of Py- thias and also to Mart Armstrong Post, No. 202, G. A. R.
E R. CURTIN, vice-president of the Lima Trust Company and general manager of The Manhattan Oil Com- pany, of Lima, is one of the younger business men of this city who have achieved success through genuine ability and great personal enterprise. Mr. Curtin was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania, in 1868, and is a son of William W. Curtin, a well-known oil producer of this section who has been in the business since 1865.
After completing his education, which in- cluded the common and high school courses, Mr. Curtin entered into business as an employee of the Wells Supply Company, with whom he remained for six years. His next work was with his father and with oil companies in the Pennsylvania oil field, and for seven years he was interested with the Neely Brothers, the large operators of St. Marys. For the past 15 years he has been with The Manhattan Oil Company, of which for five years he has been manager. This company does a pipe-line busi- ness and owns a large refinery at Welker, Ohio. Mr. Curtin is identified with the city's interests in many ways, being vice-president of The Lima Trust Company and a member of many of the city's public organizations.
Mr. Curtin was married in 1892 to Effie
Allen, who was born in New York, and they have one son, Emmet L. For a number of years he has been prominent in Masonry, be- longing to Blue Lodge, Council and Com- mandery at Lima, and the Consistory, at To- ledo. He also belongs to the Elks.
For the past eight years Mr. Curtin has. filled a large place in the business life of the. city and has won the warm friendship and hearty esteem of the many who have had busi- ness and social relations with him.
ON. JOHN W. MANGES, Representa- tive in the Ohio State Legislature- from Allen County, was born near Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, March I, 1857, and is a son of Peter and Mary (Staats) Manges.
The grandparents of Mr. Manges were Pennsylvania Dutch. They came to Ohio about 1832-33, locating at Circleville, Picka- way County. Peter Manges was born in Penn- sylvania, January 1, 1830, and he was 15 years old before he had mastered the English lan- guage. He died at Bluffton, Ohio, in October, 1898, aged 68 years. He was a farmer and a veterinarian, and during the last 15 years of his life he practiced his profession to the exclu- sion of other occupations. He had three broth- ers and two sisters. He married Mary Staats, who was born in Perry County, Ohio, and died in Allen County in 1863. . They had these chil- dren : Harriet, who is the wife of T. L. Goble,. of Paulding County; Amanda, who married Rufus Parker, of Charlottesville, Virginia ; John W., of Allen County; Rachel, who died aged 16 years; and Charles J., of Bluffton.
In the spring of 1861, the parents of the subject of this biography came to Allen County and settled on a farm near West Cairo. He remained with his father on that and other farms in Northern Ohio until his marriage, when he located at Beaver Dam. His educa- tion had not been neglected in the meantime and after finishing school he taught for 15 terms in Allen County. In addition to his farm. interests he has engaged in the fire insurance business; but for so long a period has he-
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been a public official that much of his time has been consumed in attending to the various duties imposed upon him. For 20 years he has been clerk of the School Board of Beaver Dam, was village clerk for six years, mayor for four years, township clerk for two terms and for the same period was township trustee, and is now serving his fourth term as justice of the peace. In 1901 he was elected on the Demo- cratic ticket to represent Allen County in the State Legislature, and his course at Columbus met with public approval to such an extent that he was reelected in 1903. He has served on a number of important committees, at all times looking out for the interests of his community, and has done excellent work on the taxation committee, the dairy and food committee and on the committee which looks after the affairs of the sailors' and soldiers' orphans.
Mr. Manges was married in Wood County, Ohio, March 27, 1884, to Lizzie Plowright, who was born April 10, 1856, and died Jan- uary 18, 1905. She was a daughter of Henry and Mary (Cross) Plowright, natives of Eng- land, who came to Allen County, Ohio, moved to Monroeville, Huron County, and finally to Wood County. Mr. and Mrs. Manges have had five children, namely: Flora M .; Layton ; Charles, who died aged four and a half years; Byron and George.
For 30 years Mr. Manges has been a mem- ber of the Church of Christ, in which he has been an elder for a quarter of a century. His fraternal relations are with the Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America.
RANK L. MAIRE, a leading citizen of Lima, who, with his brother, Edward J. Maire, under the firm style of Maire Brothers, is extensively engaged in the production of oil, was reared and educated in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1871. When a young man he embarked in the mercantile business at Bolivar, New York, near the Allegany oil field in which he soon evinced great interest. Seeing the profits accruing from this industry, he dis- posed of his mercantile business and invested
the proceeds in the oil fields there, later extend- ing his operations to Pennsylvania and giving his entire time to the business. With his brother, Edward J. Maire, whose biography appears elsewhere in this work, he invested in the oil fields of Ohio, and became a stockholder in companies operating in New York, Penn- sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas and Indian Territory. Maire Brothers have well-equipped offices in the Opera House Block, a handsome structure, which they purchased of John D. Rockefeller, in November, 1905.
Mr. Maire has been a resident of Lima about nine years and has taken an active part in promoting the welfare of the city. He is one of the stockholders of The Lima Trust Company, and stands high in both social and business circles. He is affiliated with the Ma- sonic order.
S ILAS REED, one of the prominent farmers of Shawnee township, who resides on a well-improved farm of 60 acres in section 14, is also a veteran of the Civil War, having given over three years of his life to the services of his country. Mr. Reed was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, January 18, 1840, and is a son of Samuel and Mary M. (Aker) Reed.
Samuel Reed was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, and was a son of Noah Reed, who was born in Licking County, this State. Samuel Reed was a cooper by trade, working at his vocation during the winter and farming in the summer. He owned a farm in Shawnee town- ship, where he died in August, 1894, aged 79 years. He married Mary Aker, who was born July 30, 1814, and died in March, 1905, at the age of 91 years. Their children were: Clara, who married Josiah Snyder, and was left a widow six weeks later, her husband dying in the army; Silas; Salem, a farmer of Shawnee township; Isaac, a farmer of Shawnee town- ship; John W., deceased; Freeman, a resident of Lima ; Nelson, a resident of Cridersville ; Al- meda, deceased, formerly the wife of Cyrus Nye; Emma, the wife of Charles Andrews; and Laura ( Redmond), a resident of Lima.
Our subject was a lad of 13 years when he
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accompanied his parents to Shawnee township. He attended school and assisted his father until he was 19 years old, when he went to work for William U. Hover, with whom he remained until he enlisted, soon after Fort Sumter was fired on. His first enlistment was in Company A, 20th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., under Capt. Ma- thias H. Nichols, which was sent immediately to the front, and until August was engaged mainly in guarding the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road, during this period participating in num- erous skirmishes. In July, 1862, Mr. Reed reenlisted, in Company B, 99th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., for three years, or until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged at Cincinnati. The regiment participated in the battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta and Jonesboro; was with General Sherman's forces until the battle of Resaca and was placed under General Thomas at Nashville. Here Companies B and F were consolidated, or the former merged into Com- pany F, after which the command went to Washington and Wilmington, where it again came under General Sherman and moved on to Salisbury, Raleigh, City Point and Cincin- nati. During this long period Mr. Reed distin- guished himself as a loyal, cheerful, faithful soldier.
Upon his return from the army, Mr. Reed was married and located four miles west of his present farm, on which he lived for seven years and then, in 1873, bought his present property.
On August 8, 1865, Mr. Reed was married to Harriet B. Napier, who was born in Trum- bull County, Ohio, July 7, 1843, and is a daughter of the late William and Sarah (Huff) Napier. Mrs. Reed was a babe of three months when her parents came to Shawnee township. Her father was one of the prominent and es- teemed citizens here for many years, a man of substance and much valued in the church and the community at large. Her venerable mother, still survives and lives on the homestead in sec- tion 14. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have had the fol- lowing children, namely: Florence, who died aged five years; Alta, living at Lima; Della, also of Lima; William E., who died at Fosto- ria, Ohio, aged 24 years; Mamie, who died aged 17 years; Ethel, of Lima; LeRoy, who
died in infancy; Zelpha, who married Edwin Pryer, and is residing temporarily in Missouri; and Roy, aged 15 years, who lives at home.
Like his father, Mr. Reed is a Republican. He was at one time an active member of Mart Armstrong Post, No. 202, G. A. R., of Lima, but does not now attend the meetings because of the distance from home. For the past 48 years he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
ILLIAM ARCHIBALD CAMP- BELL, postmaster at Lima, whose portrait accompanies this sketch, belongs to one of the old Scotch families which left Scotland in 1700 and, to escape religious persecution, set- tled in Coleraine, County Derry, Ireland. The descendants of Dougald, Robert and John Campbell came to America between 1730 and 1840, settling in Pennsylvania; from there the descendants of Dougald removed to Rock- bridge County, Virginia, those of John to Washington County, Virginia, and three sons of Robert settled at Augusta, Virginia.
Mr. Campbell's ancestry dates to Robert Campbell. Samuel L. Campbell, grandson of Robert Campbell and grandfather of our sub- ject, became a distinguished physician in Rock- bridge County, Virginia, where he died in 1840. He was connected with Washington College and Washington and Lee University as rector of the board of trustees, was treas- urer of the college and was president of the faculty from 1796 to 1799. Two of his sons were graduates of the institution. He was married September 19, 1794, to Sarah Alexan- der, sister of Rev. Archibald Alexander, D. D., afterward president of Princeton College.
Charles Fenelon Campbell, son of Samuel L. Campbell and father of our subject, was born September 13, 1803, at Lexington, Virginia, and died at Georgetown, Ohio, September 2, 1864. He was graduated at Washington Col- lege in his 20th year and was admitted to the bar as attorney and solicitor in chancery for. the State of Virginia. In 1824 he went from Virginia to Brown County, Ohio, and prac-
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ticed his profession until his death, becoming eminent as a jurist throughout Southern Ohio. He published the Whig, and later the Bee, at Ripley, Ohio. He received a military educa- tion at the Virginia Military Institute, at Lex- ington, Virginia, and when the Rebellion broke out he was commissioned by the Governor of Ohio to organize the militia of his section of the State. His labors in this capacity brought on the disease which resulted in his death. He was an astute lawyer and an able and impartial judge. On September 12, 1833, he was mar- ried to Harriet E. Kephart, of Ripley, Ohio, and they had issue as follows: Angus K., Francis T., John Quincy Adams, Mary An- toinette, William Archibald and Charles De- levan.
William Archibald Campbell was born at Ripley, Brown County, Ohio, July 4, 1844, where he was reared and educated. In young manhood he became interested in newspaper work and in this he has continued to the pres- ent time. Mr. Campbell came to Lima in July, 1877, and with his brother, Charles D. Camp- bell, established the Allen County Republican, which was later consolidated with the Lima Gazette, under the name of the Lima Republi- can-Gazette, and is now one of the leading journals of the city. Mr. Campbell served in the War of 1861-65, in the Second Independ- ent Battery, O. N. G., Light Artillery. Since March 24, 1904, he has been postmaster at Lima.
Mr. Campbell married Sallie S. Shaw, a daughter of Rev. Joseph Shaw, of Bellefon- taine, Ohio, and they have five children,- Florence, Lillian, Donald D., Beatrice and Dud- ley A. The family home is a comfortable res- idence at No. 622 West North street.
EECH & LEECH, the leading firm of architects at Lima, is composed of two brothers, Charles M. and F. M. Leech, son of William F. Leech, of No. 1015 Rice avenue, Lima. Both were born in Allen County.
William F. Leech, the father, was born in Pennsylvania. For many years he has been a
leading contractor here, and his work is found all over the city, represented by handsome resi- dences and stately buildings. He built the First Congregational Church, and also the Boone Block, the latter a fine example of a well-planned business building. A soldier in the Civil War, he wore the Union blue all through that stormy time as a member of Com- pany F, 14th Reg., Pennsylvania Vol, Inf., with the rank of corporal. Immediately after the close of his honorable service, he came to Lima which has been his place of residence ever since.
FRANK M. LEECH was reared and educated in Allen County and served an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade. For several years prior to 1896, when his present partnership was formed, he was in business as a contractor. In 1891 he married Mary T. Hursh, who is a daughter of John Hursh, a large contractor of Mansfield, Ohio. They have two children, Clara and Marjorie. The family belong to Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Leech has served as a member of the official board. Politically he is a Republican, and is a member of the Republican County Central Committee. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to the Royal Arcanum.
CHARLES M. LEECH was born in Allen County, June 2, 1866, where he was reared and educated. In 1890 he went to Columbus and while there he was acting superintendent for John Flynn, the architect. In 1893 he began in the architectural line himself, forming a partnership under the firm name of Leech & Thomas, which continued until he came to Lima in 1896 and, in association with his brother, formed the partnership of Leech & Leech. In 1892 he married Olive M. Sherrick, who is a daughter of the late Noah Sherrick, whose father was one of the old pioneers of Allen County. They have one son-Donald. Mr. Leech is an active member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a stock- holder in the American Manufacturing Com- pany, of Mattoon, Illinois. Both he and his brother are men of sterling character, depend- able in all business transactions and skilled in their profession.
Since the formation of their firm, the lead-
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ing one of the city, Leech & Leech have drawn the plans and superintended the erection of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Presbyterian Church at Portland, Ohio; Methodist Episcopal Church at Crestline, Methodist Episcopal Memorial Church at Van Wert, Mount Horeb Church in Van Wert County, South Lima Baptist Church, German Baptist Church at Lima, Wes- ley Methodist Episcopal Chapel near Lima, Disciples' Church at Mannington, West Vir- ginia, and numerous other churches at differ- ent points. Other buildings of various kinds have been erected all over the State, including a town hall at Beaver Dam and one at Lafay- ette. In Lima they have done a great deal of work, recently finishing Dr. Bennett's apart- ment house on West Market street, and have submitted plans for important work in 1906, which will include two or three blocks at Bluff- ton, the hospital for contagious diseases at Lima, and buildings in many of the neighbor- ing counties.
B ENJAMIN L. JAUMAN, senior mem- ber of the undertaking firm of Jauman & Weger, funeral directors and em- balmers, at Delphos, and one of the city's esteemed citizens, was born Au- gust 10, 1876, in Marion township, Allen County, Ohio, and is a son of Anthony and Cresencia (Graf) Jauman.
Anthony Jauman was born in August, 1837, in Germany, and died in Ohio on Thanks- giving Day, 1903, aged 66 years. He was a pioneer of the county and engaged in farming and dairying in Marion township. He came to America shortly after the close of the Civil War and settled in Marion township, Allen County, Ohio, where George Lang's mill and elevator now stand. For 25 years he followed dairying and was one of the best known resi- dents of Marion township, one who was re- garded with general esteem, on account of his honest and upright character. His widow, born in 1842, resides at Delphos. Their eight children are all living.
Benjamin L. Jauman was educated in the
German union schools at Delphos, and was 15 years old when he became a clerk for Joseph Krift in the furniture business, some years later going to Defiance, Ohio, where he was em -. ployed in the furniture and undertaking lines. He then lived at Lima for two years, engaged in the same business, and while there completed a course in the Cincinnati College of Embalm- ing. Mr. Jauman then came to Delphos and, in partnership with his brother, Joseph Jau- man, embarked in a furniture and undertaking; business, under the firm name of Jauman Brothers, our subject taking charge of the lat- ter branch of the business.
On September 21, 1905, in partnership with. Augustus E. Weger, Mr. Jauman purchased the business of H. J. Burgfelt. The style of the firm is now Jauman & Weger. They have well-equipped quarters on Main street, in the central part of the city. Mr. Weger is also in- terested in the photographic business and de- votes the greater portion of his time to that branch, while Mr. Jauman is the active mem- ber of the firm in the undertaking line.
Mr. Jauman is a member of the Church of St. John the Evangelist at Delphos. He is con- nected with the Elks and the Knights of Co- lumbus, at Lima, and with the Catholic Knights of Ohio, at Delphos. Both Mr. Jau- man and Mr. Weger are young men of irre- proachable character and are numbered with, the best citizens of Delphos.
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