History of Ashland County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 72

Author: Hill, George William, b. 1823; Williams Bros
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: [Cleveland] Williams
Number of Pages: 896

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DANIEL SIGLER was born in Mifflin county, Pennsyl- vania ; came to Ohio in 1833 and settled on the farm now owned by Jacob Speidel, in Green township, Ash- land county. By occupation he is a fariner ; in politics, a. Republican; and is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Sigler married Elizabeth Mathews, who died January 2, 1856; he died September 30, 1865. Four of his seven children are living, viz: Clarissa, who became the wife of Williamh Hannawalt, and lives in Wisconsin; Edward, who married Sarah Campbell, and lives in Loudonville; Isaiah, who married Elleithier Campbell, and lives in Ashland ; Sarah A., wife of John Much, living in Williams county, Ohio.

EDWARD SIGLER was born in Pennsylvania in 1823: came to Ohio with his father and settled on the faint with him. By occupation he is a farmer. In 1848 he married Sarah Campbell, and is the father of four chil- dren : Margaret, wife of Randolph Barron, who lives i :: Ashland county; Clementine and Ida, deceased; ard Sherman, born June 13, 1864.

JAMES REDD, father of J. F. Kedd, was born in Penn sylvania, came to Ohio at an early day. and married Lydia Nettles, of Wayne county. By trade he was a carpen- ter, and in politics was an old-line Whig. He died in IS40, leaving but one child, a son, John F. Redd, whe was born in Wayne county, in 1836, came to Ashland county in iS.to, and lived there with George Ream for three years; then went to Holmes county and stayed three years, when he returned to Asbland comity and stayed until he was eighteen years old. He then settled in Loudonville, and learned harness making of J. T. Henderson : worked at the trade thirteen years, and, at the end of that time, went into business for himself, and worked three years more. In 1867 he bought the gro cery store of P. J. Black and has continued in the bus iness up to the present time. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1858 he married

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Louisa Reinhardt. Two children were born to them --- Charles M. and Cora B.

JACOL REINHARDT was born in Ellsos, France, .in 1799, came to America in 1833, and first settled in Green township, on the farm now owned by Calvin Peil. By trade he was a carpenter, but, after coming to Ohio, was engaged in farming ; was a member of the German Lutheran church. In 1822 he married Catharine Mill- hime, who died December 5, 1877. Mr. Reinhardt was the father of six children, viz .: John J., who married Alethea Wolf, and lives in Mt. Gilead, Morrow county, Ofrio ; Catharine, who became the wife of George Feit, and lives in Wayne county, Ohio; Margaret, wife of Philip Black, who lives in Loudonville; George, who married Sarah Hunter, and lives in Green township; Mary, wife of Peter Wygait, of Loudonville; Louisa, wife of J. F. Redd, of Loudonville.

CLAUDE PETOT was born in Venare, France, in 1827, came to America in 1854, and first settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he remained three years. In 1857 he removed to Loudonville, Ohio, where he has since been engaged in the boot and shoe business, having learned the shoemaker's trade in France. Twenty years ago he commenced to deal in ready-made boots and shoes. In 1852, in the city of Paris, he married Cath- arine Speack. He is a member of the English Lutheran church; in politics is a Democrat; holds the office of councilman, has been township trustee for two terms. and is also a member of the school board. He is the father of six children, viz .: Alfred, who married Mary Selix, and lives in Loudonville; Josephine, wife of Henry Stentz, of Loudonville; Mary L., Frank M., Liz- zie, and Charles E

N. H. BAILEY was born in Orange county, New Jersey, in 1823, and married Henrietta Meade in 1846. They came to Ohio in 1863, and in 1865 settled in Ashland county. At one time he lived in Crestline, Ohio, and while there had charge of the office of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad. In politics he is a Republican. He is an elder in the Presbyterian church, and the father of two children, both deceased, viz : Georgiana and Ida V.

WILLIAM MCCRARY was born in Ireland, and came to America in 1815. He settled in Ashland county in 1847 He was a farmer and stock raiser, and was a member of the Disciple church. In politics he was a Democrat. He was the father of eight children, all living except one: William, who married Margaret Gibbs, and lives in Ashland county; Thomas Y., who married Mary F. Barnhill, and lives in Ashland county ; Grace A., wife of Martin T. Fast; and John T., who married Minerva Craft-both are living in Ashland county; Henry L., who married Enrietta V. Shaw, and lives in Loudonville; Lewis J., who married Alinyra Fast, and lives in Ruggles; Joseph A., who married Miss Gates, and lives in New York city.

HENRY L. MCCRARY, son of William MeCrary, was born in Washington county. Pennsylvania, in 1845, and came to Ohio with his father. He studied law with T. Y. M.cCiary, of Wooster, Ohio, and was admitted to

the bar July 6, 1866, and began the practice of law the same year, in Wooster, with his brother. He remained there four years, going from there to Ashland, where he stayed two years. At the end of that time he settled in Loudonville, and was elected town clerk in 1874. He held the office of councilman one year, and in 1880 was elected mayor. He once run for State senator, but was defeated. In politics he is a Democrat. In 1869 he married Enrietta V. Shaw, and four children have been born to them, viz: Benjamin W., Maud M., Henry A., and Charter O.

P. A. REINHARD, was born in Neidernbergh, Bavaria, Germany, in 1827; came to Ohio with his father in 1832 and settled in Columbus, where he learned the trade of gun-smith with Cornelius Jacobs, and began that busi- ness in Columbus in 1872, following the same for seven years. In 1849 he came to Loudonville, and there opened a shop for the manufacture of target rifles, the first and only establishment of the kind in the county, and in order to perfect his trade and gain accuracy in making target guns, in 1856 he closed his place of busi- ness and went to Rochester, New York, and served an apprenticeship with William Billinghurst, the celebrated gun-maker of the world. At the close of his apprentice- ship he returned to Loudonville, where he again com- inenced business, and proved to his patrons that his rifles, with the Billinghurst improvement, were the best. His guns have been tested at the following ranges and carried off first money: At South Vernon, Vermont ; at the National shoot, when twenty-eight States were rep- resented; at Dayton, in 1877, he won the first prize, together with seventy-five dollars in gold; at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the same year, he won the first prize and fifty dollars in gold; at Tiffin, Ohio, in 1878, he won a lady's gold watch and three twenty doliar gold pieces, and in the same year at Warren, Ohio, in com- pany with L. W. Rodgers, of Tiffin, Ohio, won over one hundred dollars in gold. At a private match with John W. Adams, of West Virginia, for one hundred dollars, he won the money; shot forty rods, ten shots, string measure, measured from center to center; Reinhard's string measured eleven and one-fourth inches. At the National shoot, forty rods, ten shots, string measure, from center to center, Reinhard's string measured ten and one-fourth inches. At another, in Wheeling, West Virginia, with John W. Johnson, he wen one hundred dollars. In 1849 he married Catharine Clee, who was born in Minster Meiseldt, Prussia, in 1827; came to America with her father in 1840, and settled in Dela- ware county, Ohio. P. A. Reinhard was the father of eight children, only five of whom are living, viz: Jose- phine C., Martha A., William H., Mary T., and Frank A.

JOHN LFE BURWELL'S ancestors came from England as early as 1639 and were descendants of a toyal fam- ily. They first settled in what was then called New Eng- land, and were the first pioneers of America. They took an active pait in the organization of the goveili- ment of New England, and were faithful subjects to their mother country until the days of the Revolution, when they with one accord severed their ties with king

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George and took up arms for the defence of the land of their adoption. They withstood the trials and privations of the Revolution, and in the war of 18:2 they were among the first to answer to the call of the President for troops. Their voices have been heard in the halls of Congress and in several State legislatures, also many minor offices, the mention of which would only take up space in this work. Suffice it to say, that they have been an exemplary family, not one of the name ever bringing disgrace upon it. William Burwell, father of John Lec Burwell, was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in 1780, and came to Ohio and settled in Ashland county, on the form now'owned by A. J. Mumper, jr. In 1817 he married Elizabeth Weldy, daughter of George Thomas. On March 12, 1868, he died. He was the father of five children: Jacob, John Lee, Hannah, Lydia and Elizabeth Miller. John Lee Burwell was born in Hanover township, Richland county, March 23, 1820. In 1843 he married Louisa Greenlee, who died in 1866. In 1867 he married Clarinda Kemp. By trade he was a blacksmith, and served an apprenticeship with Mayor R. P. Fulkerson, and followed the business until 1868, when he began the business he is now en- gaged in, viz., a dealer in millinery and fancy goods, under the firm name of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Burwell. He is a consistent member of the regular Baptist church, a Republican in politics, and the father of six children, three living and three dead, viz .: Herbert, who married Eroma Kellog, John L. and William G., living; Minor S., Mack and George W., deceased.

JOHN STRONG was born in Onondaga county, New York, in 1814; came to Ohio in 1825, and settled in Loudonville, and in 1835 married Catharine A. Danner. He was the first clerk of Londonville, and held thie of- fice of constable two years, and in . 1865 was mayor of the village. In 1861 he was appointed postmaster by Abraham Lincoln, and has held the office ever since, with the exception of four months and a half, when it was held by George Honeybarger, who was appointed by Andrew Johnson. In politics he is a Republican. He was the father of twelve children, of whom ten are liv-

ing, viz .: Selah, who married Cynthia Bishop and lives in Loudonville; Henry, who married 31. F. Doty; Elmina, wife of A. C. Moore, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio; James, who married Annie E. Critchfield and lives in Richland county : Louisa, wife of J. S. Ramsey of Chicago, Ili- nois; Rhod., wife of William Geiselman, of Loudon- ville; Mary E., wife of W. A. Churchfield, of London- ville; John E., who married Margaret Rosensteel, of Loudonville; Harvey, and Anna. Martha and Laura died in infancy.

GEORGE C. HASKELL was born in the State of Ver- mont in 1836; came to Ohio in 1870 and settled in Lou- donville, and went into the bank with his uncle, Nathan- jel Haskell, where he continued until his death, which occurred Jannaty 15, 1876. He was a member of the Universalist church, and in politics was a Republican. In Sy: he married Lacy E. Hayes, of Holmes county, Ohio, and to them two children were born - Charles C., who died, and Mary 1.

JOHN G. HERZOG was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1854; cameto Obio and settled in Londonville in 1878. He served an apprenticeship in a printing office with Silas Fol- som in the Attica, New York, Atlas office, when only four. teen years old, and afterwards worked in the Attica Newes office with C. F. Malloy; he also worked in the Buffalo Notes office. When only twenty-one years old was elected to the office of sealer of weights and measures in Attica, New York, and held that office two years, and was publisher of the first directory of Attica. In February, I879, he started the first political paper in Loudonville, with a circulation of over nine hundred subscribers. At present he is a member of the school board, and a member of the German Lutheran church: in politics is a Democrat. He married Maggie Loienta of London- ville, August 27, 1874, and to them three children have been born, viz .: Cora C., William G., and Walter C.

SAMUSE HESS was born in Bucks county, Pennsyl vania, in 1817, and came to Ohio in 1837; settled in Ashland county in 1839. He was a cooper by trade, and carried on that business for some time. In :86g he began the grocery and provision business and in 1879 took W. C. Hamlin as partner, and is doing a thriving business, their sales amounting to about twenty thousand dollars per annum. He is a member of the English Lutheran church, and in politics is a Republican. Hc married Parmelia Johns of Ashland, Ohio, and is the father of eight children, viz .: Christopher C., who was taken prisoner at Chickamauga, and died in Anderson- ville prison; Mary J., wife of John H. Cutle, Allianse, Ohio; William H., who is deceased; Sarah E., wife of Jonathan Nebil of Londonville; Samuel E., who mar- ried "Miss Travirs, and lives in Mansfield; Jonathan F., who died; George A., who married Martha Honeybar- ger; Olive E., who married William C. Hamlin.

SIMON BortY was born in Beriniger, Switzerland, in 1827. and came to America in 1851. He remained in New York one year and a half, and in Pennsylvania one year; and came to Loudonville in 1853, and began working on the railroad and worked there one year and a half; at the end of that time he began work in Jefferson Bull's foundry and worked there seven years, and then went into partnership with Joseph Lyons in the foundry business. At the end of two years and a half he sold out and opened a grocery and restaurant, and continues in that business. He has held the office of township clerk two terms, and was at one time township treasurer and is now one of the councilmen. In 1954 he man ried Mary Young of Holines county, Ohio, and is the father of seven children; Mary, who married Ezra Swier of Loudonville; Maggie, Josephine. Amatala, Julia .A., Elizabeth, and Kmil.

JACOB BRECKEISER, SR., was born in Ellsos, France, and came to America in 1853, and settled in Ashland county, on the firm he now lives upon, situpred about one anis north of Loudonville. In polities he is a Democrat , and is a member of the German Lutheran church. In Falsos, France, he married Mary Woll, and to them ... of children were born, five of whom are bring. May who became the wife of George Lagend, and lives in

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Ashland county ; Margaret, who married Jacob Breck- ciser, of Ashland county; Jacob, who married Barbara Phiester, and lives in Ashland county; and John and George.

JACOB BRECKEISER, JR., born in France in 1847, came to Ohio with his father and settled in Ashland county. In 1869 he married Barbara Pfester, of Knox county, Ohio, and in 1873 erected the building in which he now carries on the grocery and provision business; he deals extensively in country produce. At present he is a member of the German Lutheran church, and is the father of five children: Mary E., Jacob E., Emma L., George F. and Charles.

ALEXANDER AKINS came from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1811, and first settled in Belmont county, Ohio, where he remained two years and a half. In 1814 he moved to Lake township, Ashland county, then a part of Wayne county, and settled on the farm now owned by Jacob Eckey and Jacob Horn. Mr. Akins married Elizabeth Sioam, and was the father of four children, but two of whom are living: Emer, who married Druselda Metcalf; and Alexander, who married Christina Shipp.

ALEXANDER AKINS, JR., was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1808; came with his father and settled in Ashland county, and married Christina Shipp; and is engaged in farming. In politics he is a Democrat. Three of his five children died in infancy; the other two are: William, who married Sarah Miller, and in 1847 went to Indiana; Albert, who married Sarah Shumaker in 1867, and lives in Londonville.

PETER HIGH STAUFFER was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania; and in 1875, at Milford, Becks county, Pennsylvania, he opened a printing office and began the publication of a paper called Our Home Friend, which he published there two years, and one year at Quaker- town, in connection with a job office. In 1878 he came to Loudonville and purchased the Advocate office, and began the publication of the Loudonville Advocate, in connection with Our Home Friend, the latter having a circulation of nine thousand and the former nine hun- dred. In 1875 he married Augusta, daughter of Jacob Milier, of Vermillion township. M :. Stauffer is a mem- ber of the Mennonite church, and is the father of two children: Cilman and Clara.

C. L. BUCKWALTER was born West Lebanon, Wayne county, Ohio, in 1845, and studied medicine with Drs. Fuller and Wirt. In 1872 he graduated from the Medi- cal Department of the University of Wooster, in Cleve- land, Ohio, and, in the same year, began the practice of medicine in New Washington, Crawford county, Ohio, where he remained six years. In 1878 he gave up the practice of medicine and engaged in dentistry, having studied with Dr. O. Buckwalter, of Millersburgh, Ohio. In 1 879 he opened an office in Loudonville, where he deals in all the modern improvements, and is steadily building np a large practice. In 1374 he married Maggie H. Stewart, daughter of Judge George H. Stewart, of Lom danville, and is the father of two children, viz: Neno- phon O. and Ware J.

HENRY GILBERT was born in Cornwall county, En. gland, in 1825, came to America in 1843, and first set- tled in Coshocton county, Ohio, where he served an ap- prenticeship with Jacob Wagner, cabinet-inaker; came to Loudonville in June, 1849, and opened a furniture store on Spring street, where he still remains. Mr. Gilbert has been elected councilman, and member of the school board, for several terms, and is a member of the Baptist church. In 1851 he married Elizabeth Sprague, and is the father of ten children, of whom nine are living, viz .: Henry, who married Hattie Scott, of Loudonville, John F., William J., Clement G., Thomas B., Lew H., George, Jesse, and Joseph N.

JAMES P. BARRON was born in Center county, Penn- sylvania, in 1835, and settled in Ashland county in 1859. He attended the Vermillion institute, in Hayesville, four years, and went from there to Jefferson college, Pennsyl- vania, where he graduated in 1864, after which he taught in Canaan academy, Wayne county, Ohio, and, afterwards, in Buckhannon, West Virginia, and while there organized the first union school in that place, of which he was superintendent for three years. He first married Libbie Mullins, of Buckhannon, who died in 1869. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar at Harrison- ville, Missouri, and practiced in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, nine years. Mr. Barron came to Loudonville in 1878, where he is building up a good practice. In 1870 he married Mary A., daughter of Thomas H. Galloway, and is the father of one child -Francis J.

MICHAEL DERRENBERGER, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1847, and settled in Loudonville in 1872, where he bought a half interest in a restaurant with Simon Bolly, and remained three years. At the end of that time he sold his share to Bolly and formed a partnership with J. H. Burris in the same business. At the end of a year he sold to Burris, and at the end of another year he bought out Burris, and is still cn- gaged in the business of keeping a restaurant. He is a member of the German Lutheran church, In 1874 he married Lizzie Ullman, of Loudonville.

JOHN C. LARWILL, was born in Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio, in 1824. He first settled in Loudonvilic April 1, 1846, and engaged in milling. At the end of three years he sold to A. A. Taylor, and on the thir- teenth day of April, :8.48, bought out Nathaniel Has- kell's stock of dry goods in partnership with .1. 1. Taylor, with whom he continued in business twelve years, when he bought A. A. Taylor's share and contin- ued in business alone five years. He then took W. S. Fisher into partnership, and continued that partnership fifteen years, when the partnership was dissolved and J. C. Larwill has since continued the business alone. He is a dealer in dry goods and groceries, and has the largest and best selected stock of goods in Loudonville. When he began he had comparatively nothing, but by honesty and fit dealing has built up the largest trade of any merchant in the town, if not in the county, his sales averaging about fifty thousand dollars per year. In 1856 he married Norma Workman, who died in 1869. In 1876 he manied Susan L. Moore, of Newark, Ohio,

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and is now the father of one child, viz: Arthur Larwill.

SAMUEL GARRET, the father of William Garret, was born in New Jersey in 1782, and came to Ashland county, Ohio, in 1822. He first settled on the farm now owned by his son, William Garret, and was a manufac- turer of woollen goods. In 1830 he erected a factory on the Black fork, and continued in the business until his death, which occurred in 1868. His factory was the first woollen factory in the county. He also built a saw- mill on the farm now owned by the Yarnell heirs. He married Catharine Vaness in New Jersey, and was the father of two children, viz: Catharine, who lives in New Jersey, and William.

WILLIAM GARRET was born in New Jersey in ISIo, came to Ashland county in 1836, and settled on the farm which he now owns. He is a blacksmith by trade, but since he came to Ohio, has been engaged in farming and in the lumber business. He is vice-president of the Loudonville Banking company, and has held the office of justice of the peace nine years; has been trustee and clerk of the township, and is highly respected. He mar- ried Dense Jennings, of New Jersey, and is the father of six children, two dead and four living, viz: Jane, wife of Daniel C. Priest, afterwards of Washington Hyatt, of Knox county; Charlotte, wife of Dr. Scott, of Loudon ville; Sophia, wife of J. M. Myhart, who lives in Knox county, Ohio; Anna, wife of James Ross, of Knox county ; and Virginia and William, deceased.

CHARLES OPENHEIMER was born in Steinbach, Ger- many, and came to America in 1852, and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained six years, when he came to Loudonville and opened a clothing store, bring- ing his stock of goods from Cincinnati. In 1873 his building was destroyed by fire, but he saved his stock, and in the same year erected the fine brick building which he now occupies. In politics he is a Democrat. In 1868 he married Carrie Hirsch, and is the father of five children, viz: Jennie, Blanche, Isadore, Emanuel and Elias.

WILLIAM BARRON was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1817. When eighteen years of age he went to Knox county, Ohio, and in 1863 went to Ashland county, Ohio, and settled on a farm near Loudonville, which he now owns. At present he is proprietor of the American house, in Londonville, Ohio, having bought out john Stockman in 1878 He is a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church, and is a Republican in politics. In 1844 he married Mary A. Hall and seven, children have been born to them, viz .: James, who was killed at the battle of Chickamauga in 1863; Kandolph, who married Margaret Sigler; Libbie, wife of Herman Bauscher ; Ella, Carrie and William.

NATHAN W. Surei was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in :835, and came to Ashland county in 1856 with his father, who settled on the farm now owned by John Richey, in Vermillion township. In 1866 be married Maggie E. Lair, of Wilmington, Clinton county, Ohio. He learned photography in Wooster, Ohio, with Walter jones, and has since been located in Hayesville, Mon- roeville, Fostoria and Upper Sandusky, and is now

located in Londonville. In politics he is a Republican, and is the father of three children, viz .: Lulu, Olive and Mitdred.

HUGH Scorr was born in Pennsylvania in, 1785; came to Ohio in 1827, and settled near Steubenville, where he died May 22, 1827. In 1807 he married Catharine Humphries. In the year of his death she removed to Ashland county, and settled on the farm now owned by William Humphrey, in Green township. In the follow- ing spring she moved into Vermillion township on the farm now owned by O. H. Scott. She died while on a visit to her old home in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, November 21, 1854. Mr. Scott was the father of eight children, of whom Thomas, Jane, James, Francis, and Winfield are dead. William married Margaret Sigler, . and lives in Ada, Hardin county, Ohio. Oliver H. mar- ried Eliza J. Tawney, and lives in Vermillion township.

ANDREW J. ScorT, the subject of this sketch, was born in Ashland county in 1827 ; attended school at the. Ash- land academy while Loren Andrews was proprietor, and also at Vermillion institute at Hayesville, under Lewis Granger, Rev. McClain, Rev. W. W. Colmery, and others. For two years he taught in the Loudonville academy, and studied medicine with E. B. Fuller and is also a graduate of Buffalo university. He is a doctor of the old school, and has the largest practice of any physican in Loudonville; has held the office of mayor of Loudon- ville for several years, and was at one time a member of the school board, and has always taken a deep interest in educational matters. In 1852 he married Miss S. M. Fuller, who died in 1851. in 1856 he married Anna Faller, who died in 1864. Then, in 1867, he married Charlotte Garret. In politic- be is a Democrat. He is the father of four children, viz .: L. Content, Charles B., S. Ilattie, wife of Henry W. Gilbert, of Londonville, and Idella A.

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History of Ashland County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 72

Author: Hill, George William, b. 1823; Williams Bros Publication date: 1880 Publisher: [Cleveland] Williams Number of Pages: 896

Author: Hill, George William, b. 1823; Williams Bros
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: [Cleveland] Williams
Number of Pages: 896