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ADAM BAUN was born in Vork county, Pennsylvania. February 25, 1819, and came to Ohio before he was married, about the year 1839, and worked in the grist. . miill for Mr. Daniel Smith, by the year; bere he worked UN years and a half, and purchased a tract of land of Hugh Finley: he then worked for Andrew New namn and Joseph Boyd a period of ten years, in the mill still owned by Mr. Boyd, but not now in operation. In the fall of 1843 he returned to Pennsylvania and married Miss Rebecca Lechinan, of York county. She died June 28, 1857. They had two children, one son and one daughter. The son. Adam, ir., wis a soldier in the late war, in the One Hundred and Second Ohio yolun. teer infantry, company B, and after a service as a soldier almost three years, and a prisoner six months at Candle
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Thunder, at Cahoba, Alabama, while on his way home at the close of the war, April 25th he was lost on the boat Sultana, near Memphis, Tennessee. This came with crushing weight on father and sister, and many who knew him well in the neighborhood where he was raised. February 25, 1859 Mr. Baun was married again, this time to Miss Ruby Ann Snyder, whose parents lived in Crawford county, Ohio. She died April 7, 1878. By
this union there were three sons --- Allen C., the oldest, is in the west; Lewis A. and Edward I. are at home; they are all single. Sarah J., born April 14, 1845, is at home, filling the place that only daughter and sister can. She takes entire management of the household cares and duties. Mr. Baun has a fine farm and manages it to good advantage, as the appearance about his farm is proof. He has bought and sold stock for many years, having many times driven over the mountains. When he first came to Ohio he had but twenty dollars, since which, by hard work and good management, with a small amount be received from his father's estate, he has a competence, In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Baun is not a member of any church, but is a liberal supporter of all such institutions.
WILLIAM GLENN was born, in 1822, in Mohican town- ship, Ashland county, Ohio: His father Joshua Glenn emigrated from Harford county, Maryland, in 1818. He was one of the pioneers of Ashland county. His home was a log cabin, and was surrounded on all sides by for- est. Here the subject of this sketch was born. He re- mained and labored on the farm until he was over thirty years of age, and many an old oak fell beneath the heavy blows of his axe. The forest gradually gave way and in its place waving fields of grain were to be seen. On September 23, 1852, Mr. Glenn married Miss Caroline Ewing, daughter of William Ewing, of Vermillion town- ship, another of Ashland county's pioneers, having come from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1813 and located in Mohican township on the 17th day of March, 1853. William and his wife moved to Green township, on a farm owned by his father. Here they remained four years, when he purchased a farm in Milton township, and moved there. He sold this farm some two years later and returned to his mother's fim in Mohican township. After a year's stay there he bought a farm in Mohican township and lived there five years, at the end of which time he sold and moved to a farin owned by his father-in-law, in Montgomery township. At the end of one year he bought and moved where he now lives. This, in all probability, will be his future home. They have four children. One daughter and three sons. One son is married and lives on his father's farm. Mr. Glenn has never sought public office. He is a Republican in politics. His wife and daughter are members of the
English Lutheran church at Jeromeville. Mr. Glenn does not belong to any church, but is in hearty sympa- thy with the truths of the Bible. The son is a member of the Presbyterian church at Hayesville.
MR. SAMUEL, ECHALBARGER was born in Vermillion' township, October 23: 1543. His parents enigrated from: Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, about the year
1823 with their parents. His father was then a boy about fifteen years old, and his mother a girl of thirteen sum- mers. They were married on the seventeenth day of May, 1829. They moved at once to a farm in Vermillion township owned by his father, and which is now owned by Mr. William Goard. This farm fell into his posses- sion at the death of his parents for the care he had of them in their old age. This farm, which consisted of forty acres, he traded by giving some boot money for eighty acres known as the Ferry farm. About the year 1850 he sold this farm and purchased the farm on which Samuel and his mother now live. On July 9, 1877, Mr. Echelbarger died. Mrs. Echelbarger is still living . with her son Samuel, aged seventy years. On February 9, 1863, the subject of this sketch was married to Miss Eliza Ann Kyle. She died May 10, 1877. They had four children -three daughters .and one son. The son is all the child now living. One daughter died in infancy, one at the age of fifteen months and one at the age of four years. On December 3, 1878, Mr. Echel- barger married Miss Elizabeth Endinger, a sister of Mrs. N. D. Ryland. By this union there have been no chil- dren. Mr. Echelbarger is a Democrat in politics.
N. D. RYLAND was born in Knox county, Ohio, Feb- ruary 19, 18.46. His parents came to Ashland county about the year 1850, and bought a farm about a mile and a half south of Hayesville, where they remained until the fall of 1857, when they sold the farm and emigrated to Randolph county, Missouri. In the fall of :861 they returned to Ohio, and bought a farm one inile south of Hayesville. The next spring he sold his faim and re- moved to the farm of James Ewing, and, at the end of two years, bought a farm adjoining the one owned by N. D. Ryland, where they lived some ten years, when they concluded they would leave the farm, and try town life. They rented the farm and moved to Hayesville, where they now reside. The subject of this sketch, N. D. Ry- land was married April 6, 1871, to Eliza, daughter of John and Barbara Endinger, of Mohican township. In 1874 they purchased the farm on which they now live. They have two children, one son and one daughter --- Willis Howard, eight years old, and Effie Blanche, four years old. In politics Mr. Ryland is a Democrat, but is a man who does not allow politics to interfere with his business affairs of his association with neighbors. With the exception of running a threshing-machine four years, his whole time has been given to his farm. Mr. and Mrs. Ryland are members of the Presbyterian church in Hayesville. They have bright prospects before them, as bothi are young and bard workers, and are highly re- spected by the community in which they live.
SAMUEL CRAIG was born in Allegheny county, Penn- sylvania, December 25, 1814. In r$34 he came to Ohio with his parents, and located where William Craig now lives. Samuel was twenty years of age at the time. On November 22, 1837, he was miatried to Miss Jemima, daughter of James and Rebecca Stafford, of Vermillion township. They moved into a house en Mr. Chang's faur, where they rememed most of the time until ISAAC. Mr. Craig then bought the farm in section
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sixteen, Vermillion township, on which they now live, and which has been their home ever since, and is likely to be the remainder of their lives. They have had nine children, seven of whom are living; two died when quite young --- a boy and a girl; two sons and one daughter are married: James S., who married Miss Barbara Mosser, of Vermillion township; Daniel, who married Miss Lydia Youngling, of Vermil- lion township; Rebecca Jane, who married William Sites, and now lives in Mifflin township, Richland county; Albon, Mary Ann, Elizabeth and Ella are at home. Mr. Craig has a fine farm, and gives it his undivided atten- tion. He has been assessor and trustce a number of years, and has been elected to other township offices, which he declined to fill, as his farm required his whole time. He is a man with many friends in the community that has been his home so many years. He is a hard worker and a good manager. Mr. Craig is a Democrat in politics, though at honie clections leaves politics out of the question, and votes for the man he considers best fitted to do credit to the trust conferred by the people. He belongs to no church, but is a liberal supporter of re- ligious and educational institutions, and considers them necessary for the well being of any community.
THOMAS CRONE was born in Mifflin county, Pennsyl- vania, October 27, ISoo; and married Fannie Starkey February 18, 1823. In IS440, with his wife and seven> children, he came to Ohio, and located in Mohican township; where he remained one year, when he moved to Perry township and remained three years. Then he moved to Chester township, Wayne county, remained four years, and returned to a farm adjoining the one he first located on. There he remained until the spring of 1877, when he moved to the farm on which he now re- sides. All his life he has been a farmer, and has now one of the best farms in this section of the county. Mrs. Crone died April 16, 1865. One son, James, was a sol- dier in the One Hundred and Second Ohio volunteer infantry, and served till the close of the war, a term of nearly three years; he is now married, and lives in Green township. The children, with the exception of three daughters, are married and live in Ashland county. One married daughter lives in Clinton county, Indiana. Mr. Crone is yet bright in mind, and as active as men of his age can expect to be. In politics he is a Demo- crat; and he has been township trustee. He is a mou- ber of the United Presbyterian church, at Hayesville, Ohio.
WIELIASI DAVIS was born in Mifflin township, August 28, 1836. He is a son of Isaac and Francis Davis, who are among Ashland county's early settlers, a sketch of whose lives will be found eisewhere in this work. The subject of this sketch remained with his parents and worked on the farm until he was eighteen years of age, when he left home to learn the carriage making trade with Ames & beach in Ashland. Here he remained about two years and a half, when he, in company with Jolm Burnett, went to lowa and worked at his trade and on a farm, and in about eighteen months returned to i Ohio and worked at his trade some three years and a
half, when he enlisted Angust 14, 1862, as a private sol- dier in the First Ohio independent battery, and ie- mained and served his country until the close of the war, and was discharged on the twenty-sixth day of June, 1865. He was faithful in the discharge of a sol- dier's duties, as he was only excused from service about two weeks during the whole term. At Cloid mountain and many other places he saw hard fighting, and en- gaged on severe raids and hard marches, and with many others of his comrades withstood the necessary priva- tions and hardships of a private soldier. On October 5, 1865,, he was married to Miss Rebecca Sechrist, of Richland county, Ohio. He remained one year with his father, when they moved to Vermillion township and commenced life for themselves. They have ever since made this their home, his whole time being given to the steam saw-mill, at what is known as Steam Cor- ner, in the northwest corner of Vermillion township. They have three children-two daughters and one son. Mrs. Davis died May 14, 1874, and on the nineteenth day of November, 1874, he married Mrs. Barbara Cal- lin, widow of Hugh Callin, of Montgomery township. They have no children,
WILLIAM H. STRICKLAND was born December 8, 1824, 'on a tract of land located by his grandfather as early as 1815. The Stricklands are well known as a pioneer family of Ashland county, a sketch of whose lives will be found elsewhere in this work. William H., the subject of this sketch, when a babe, left his birthplace. his par- ents moving to a farin near the northeast corner of Ver- million township, where he remained until he was a man of twenty-two years of age, when he married Mary, daughter of Jacob Eichelbarger. Mrs. Strickland died March 21, 1848. They had one child, a daughter, now the wife of George Kelley, of Vermillion township. Feb- ruary 19, 1850, Mr. Strickland again married, Eliza- beth, daughter of Henry Hough, of Montgomery town- ship. They had two children, one son and one daugh- ter-the son is at home and is single, and the daughter married David Hostetter, of Richland county, Ohio. Mrs. Strickland died June 29, 1871. April 1, 1873, he married Catharine E., daughter of Jacob Smith, of Ver- millon township. They have one child, a son, now four years old. Mr. Strickland owns the farm on which he first saw the light, which he purchased about five years ago. It is a fine farm, and will, probably, be his home the remainder of his life. He has acted as supervisor and school director a number of years; is a good neigh- bor and a kind husband and father, and a hard, carnest worker. In politics he is a Democrat, and he and his wife are members of the English Lutheran church at Jeromeville, Ohio.
JOHN BELL was born in Wayne county, Ohio, Otto- ber 3, 1827, and settled in Ashland county in April. 1836. He was married June 12. 1849, to Elenor Me. Crary, daughter of J. D. S. MeCrary, of Ashland counts. Ohio. Their children were: Sarah An born March 10, 1850: Willimin EL., born January 17, 1852: 1. W., bom November 6, 1855; Mary 1, bora September 3. 1855 : G. W .. born July :2, 1857 : Nancy j., botn July 7. 1859 ;
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Enima 1 .. , born june 22, 1863; Elizabeth M., born July 4, 1865; Flora, born September 23, 1867; Hatty M., born August 18, 1869; Lilly, born August 22, 1874; an infant born june 27 186 !; an infant born May 8, 1862; two infants died, one on June 29, 1861, and one Sep- tember 11, 1862. In politics Mr. Bell is a Republican. Both himself and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian church.
BENJAMIN S. MCKINLEY was born in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, July 31. 1825. In 1835, he came to Ohio with his parents, and settled in what is now Mohi- can township, Ashland county. September 10, 18448, he was married to Sarah Ryland, daughter of William and Catharine Ryland, who were among Ashland county's early settiers. Mr. and Mrs. McKinley's parents are dead. They have four children, two sons and two daughters: Judson, Lillie Alice, Emer, and Sadie Agnes. Lillie Alice is the wife of Abraham Hossler, who owns a farm adjoining his father-in-law. Emer married Mary Brubaker, of Mohican township, and owns a farm ad. joining Mr. Hossler. Judson owns a farm adjoining isis father's place, but as he is yet living in single blessed- ness, he makes his home with his parents. Sadie Agnes is yet unmarried and lives at home. Mr. Mckinley is one of the most thorough, go-ahead farmers of Vermil- hon township, and is a neighbor highly respected by all who know him. Though a very hard worker for a man of his age, he is genial and companionable. He loves a good horse, and has the gratification of having some that he has raised on his own farm. In politics he is a Democrat. Both himself and wife are members of the Presbyterian church at ilayesville, Ohio.
ANTHONY R. SIGLER was born in Jeromeville, Mo- hican township. Ashland county, February 14, 1821. At a very early day his parents came from Pennsylvania and may well be dassed among Ashland county's carly settlers. The subject of this sketch remained with his parents until he was married, July 4, 1848, to Miss Eliza Duncan, daughter of Joseph and Catharne Duncan, who came to Ashland county at an early day, and located in what is now Vermillion township. To this couple have been horn three children-all boys. The oldest, Willard Dexter, died at the age of eight months. Joseph II. and John Marion are still living, both married and doing for themselves. Joseph IL. married Miss Julia Ann Van- gilder, and John M. married Miss Zentippa A. Hunbert. John lives with his parents. and Joseph lives on an ad. joining farm. Mr. Sigler, the subject of this sketch, is a min of many friends. Having spent his whole life in Vermillion township, he may well be called one of its prominent farmers. He has many times served as a trustee of the township, and but for his positive refusa!, could! at the present time hold that office or a letter one. He is a Democrat in politics, bat in home elections gives his vote for the man he considers most worthy of the trust of the people, without regard in politics.
Come to Fox was born in Bavaria, Germany, Jane IS, 1Seg. and at the age of three years, in company with his parems, brothers, and sisters, he left the old world for a home in the new. Soon after the arrival of the Fox
family in America they came to what is now Vermillion township, Ashland county, and here the children have lived and prospered by their own good management and hard work. Conrad, the subject of this sketch, remained with his parents until he was married. April 16, 1852, he married Miss Gertrude Hirshler, daughter of Henry and Christena Hirshler, who died in Germany when she was about eight years old. When she was sixteen years old, in company with her brothers, John and Henry, she came to Ohio. Immediately after they were married they bought the farm on which they still live, nearly three miles northwest of the village of Hayesville. They have two children; Adolph, born April 16, 1854, and Amanda, born February 21, 1859. Adolph is married and lives on his father's farm. Amanda is single and remains at home with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fox are members of the German Lutheran church, near where they live. Mr. Fox is a Democrat in politics, and is a man highly esteemed by his neighbors. He has one hundred and forty-two acres of land in one of the most fertile sections of Vermillion township. He is a good farmer, and his family and farm have his whole time.
H. J. HOUGH was born in Ashland, Ohio, January 24, 1847. William Hough, his father, was an early settler in Ashland, and in 1848 removed to Crawford county, Ohio, where he died in 1862. H. J. remained with his parents until after the death of his father, when he went to different parts of the State to see how other people live, and in 186; enlisted in the service of his country, and served till the close of the war. In 1875 he re- turned to his native county, and located in the village of Hayesville. January 24. 1877, he married Miss Eliza- beth, daughter of Daniel Smith, of Vermillion township. They have one son, born September 4. 187S, and named Daniel Leslie. January 4, 1878. Mr. Hongh engaged in the hardware, tin and stove business, under the firm name of Hoagh & Boyd. December 31st the partner- ship changed to Hough & Mang, who are at present doing a thriving business, enjoying the respect of all who patronize them.
JOHN BECK, son of Jacob Beck, one of Ashiordi county's pioneers, and a sketch of whose life will be tound chewhere in this work, was born May 11, 1850. February 15, 1870, he inarried Miss Amanda Aby, of Mifflin towaship. They have four children, ail daugh. ters: Nottie Celesta. Rella May, Alice Arvilla, and Catharine, an infant. Mr. Beck is a Democrat in politics.
WILLIAM BECK, son of Jacob Beck, one of the promi. nent pioneers of Vermillion, was born November 9, 1846, and was brought up to hard work on the farm, where he learned industry and perseverance. August :S, 1870, he was married to Miss Mary Ann Tielbert, daugh- ter of Jacob and Catharine Helbert, of Vermillion township. They have four children, three sons and one daughter- William Sylvester, Lewis David, Arabella, and Jacob, who is but one year old. Mr. Beck is a Deme- crat in politics. He gives his whole time to farming.
Mas. Kms, widow of Fatick Kelly, is a daughter of John and Rosa MeNaull, who were among Ashland county's pioneers. Her father has been dead about
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twelve years, and her mother is living with Mrs. Kelly, and is upwards of eighty years of age. Mr. Kelly came to Ohio trom Pennsylvania when he was a boy, and saw many of the privations of the early settlers. June 20, 1839, Mr. and Mrs. Kelly were married, and commenced life in earnest for themselves. They bought land in Vermillion township, and by perseverance, secured an elegant home in the northwest portion of the township. They have nine children-Rosa, Mary, Susan, John, James, Sarah, Emily, William, and Michael; of these eight are living; Susan, the third child, died at the age of eight years and nine months. Mary is the wife of John Harper, son of Thomas Harper, of Vermillion township ---- they live in Abilene, Kansas; Sarah is the wife of Henry Sheller, of Veniniltion township; the six unmarried children are at home, or at least recognize their mother's house a welcome home, when business does not call them elsewhere. Mr. Kelly died February 18, 1859. Since his death Mrs. Kelly has managed the farm, and as her children grew to an age to be of assist- ance, they cheerfully took their part. They certainly deserve much credit for good management. Mrs. Kelly now owns over two hundred and fifty acres of well im- proved land in Ashland county.
JOHN K. CRONE was born in Juniata county, Penn- sylvania, December 23, 1823, and at the age of sixteen years he came to Ohio with his parents and located in what is now Mohican township, Ashland county, Ohio. He remained at home until he was thirty-five years of age, with the exception of a few years in which he lived with his aunts, the Misses Starkey, sisters of his mother, and during which time he rented and worked the Danie! Pocock farm in Mohican township. In August, ISGS, he was married to Mrs. Greenlee, widow of John Green- lee, of Lake township, Ashland county. They have had four children, one of whom died at the age of two years. Mrs. Crone, after her marriage to Mr. Crone, had a daughter who died at the age of eleven. Three chil- dren are yet living -- John Alvie and Mary Alna, are twins. George Walter is six years old. Mr. Crone is a farmer and a man beld in high esteem as a neighbor and friend. He is a Democrat in politics, though in home elections he allows his judgment to decide as to the man most fitted to fill the trust conferred by the people, with little thought as to polities. He is one of the township trustees, and has enterprise sufficient to fill any offire creditably that may be entrusted to him.
ROBERT SIGLER was born in Vermillon township, Ashland county, Ohio, January 4, 1823. His father, Henry Sigler, was one of Ashland county's pioneers, having-emigrated from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, at an early day. Here the subject of this sketch was reared in pioneer style, and assisted in reducing the wil- derness to the lovely country we now find it. Robert was the fifth of a family of breve children. He re- mained at home until he was married in April, 1865. 10 Miss Catharine Graber, who was born in Germany. 'They have had four children, two of when are dead. One diedl in infancy, and one at the age of thirteen years. Willis and Maudy are living. Willis is seven
and Maudy two years old. Mr. Sigler is a good neigh- bor and a hard worker, giving his whole time to his farm and his family. He is a Democrat in politics. Mrs. Sigler is a member of the Church of God in Ver- million township, about one mile from Mr. Sigler's resi- dence. Mr. Sigler does not seek public office, but has the interests of his county at heart, and never fails to support any public improvements.
JACOB BECK was born in Germany. December 4, 1So8, and came to America in 1835, making the trip from Amsterdam to New York in a sailing vessel in seventy days. It was a discouraging voyage, and the hearts of the passengers would sometimes sink ; and when they were at last permitted to set foot ou land in this free America, their hearts went up in thankfulness to the good being for His preserving care. Mr. Beck remained about five years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and on the twenty-fourth day of January, 1841; he was married to Barbara Schilling, of that city, and in September of the same year, with all his earthly effects, consisting of a bed and what they could pack in two chests, they started for the west with a covered wagon and one horse; and soon after arriving in what is now Vermillion township, he purchased a tract of land, on which was a log cabin. and went to work in earnest to improve his land. Many a giant oak fell to the ground from the heavy strokes of the axe swung by his strong arm. Those were times that. tried men's souls, and Mr. Beck and his good wife en dured their hardships and privations as only the sturdy pioneers could. Mr. Beck has the satisfaction, in his old days, of seeing good improvements about him, wherc once was a howling wilderness, and his children in good circumstances. He is a man highly esteemed by his neighbors as a trustworthy Christian man, who has done well his part to make Vermillion township what it is- -- one of the finest townships in the State. He now owns over three hundred aeres of excellent land, in a good community, with excellent school and church privileges. Ever since he came to this county, he has been a men- ber of the German Lutheran church. On the ninth day of April, 1880, his wife died, and his three sons are all married, and he is alone in the home in which he has seen many pleasant days and some sorrows.
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