History of Ashland County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 97

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

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mained in Orange township until 1865, when he moved to Ashland and engaged in the lumber business. In 1874 he went into the milling business with partiets, the firm name being H. K. Myers & Co. The partners were Christian Cabel and J. T. Engel. The partner- ship still continues, the lumber business being conducted under the firm name of Cabel, Myers & Co., the third partner being Jesse Cabel, son of Christian Cabel. Mr. Myers is also interested with J. J. Shoemaker in the grocery business in Ashland.

FRANK E. MYERS, son of George and Elizabeth Myers, was born March 16, 1848. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, whence he came with his parents when a youth, and settled on the homestead in Perry township, and his mother was born in Wayne county, Ohio. There they were married, and raised a family of nine children : Frank E., Celena, P. A., Mary M., Eliz- abeth S., Alvah N., George D., Minnie V., and Effic. Frank E. Myers, the subject of this sketch, lived at home working on the farm, and attending school during the winter months, until he arrived at maturity, when he left home and entered the dry goods store of M. B. Parmely, at Ashland, with whom he remained about a year, when he returned to the farm. He again came to Ashland and worked for the Ashland Machine company, where he continued four years, until 1875, when he opened a local agency for agricultural implements, and in 1879 associated with himself his brother, P. A. Myers, who had until then been employed by him. In 1878 the in- creasing demand of his business required him to move to the large building now occupied by himself and his brother. During all the time since 1875, he has been general traveling agent for Bucher, Gibbs & Co., of Can- ton, Ohio, for Ohio and the eastern States. January 18, 1872, he married Alvesta, daugliter of S. Hohenshil, of Rowsburgh. They have had five children: Mamie E., George J., Charley, John C., and Laura E.

MEIGS S. CAMPBELL was born June 8, 1825, in Dan- ville, Knox county, Ohio. His father, Silas Campbell, was a native of Virginia (now West Virginia), and his mother was born in Maryland. They raised four children --- Meigs S., Thornton W., James M., and D. R. Mvigs S. Campbell, the subject of this sketch, learned the hatter's trade, at Coshocton and Mt. Vernon, living in the latter place from 1846 to I851, when he removed to Ashland. While living in Ashland he has been engaged in the livery business and the hat and cap trade, the most of his time being devoted to the latter, in which he is still engaged December 25, 1850, he was married to Clara Hall, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, by whom he has had three children, as follows: W. Fletcher, born in IS51, married and living in Lmamie City, Wyoming territory: Mary B., born about :853, married Maurice Vallant, and lives in Cleveland ; Clara, born about 1856, married Harry Stevens, and lives in Ashland.

E. T. DRAYTON was born at Cantor, Ohio, September 30. 1825, his parents being Thomas A. Drayton, a Ba tive of Massachusetts, and Margaret Drayton, at parve of Pennsylvania. They had six children, two of whom died in infancy. Those living are Elizabeth, Sarah Jut. .

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, Amanda M., and E. T., the subject of this sketch, who caine to Asbland in 1842. He spent three years in learn- ing the harness trade, after which he was engaged in various mercantile pursuits until 1877, when the firm of Damp & Drayton was formed, for the purpose of carry- ing on the milling business, at which they still continue in Ashland: " He was six years clerk of the county court, from 1862 to 1868, and was elected as a Republican in a county which is strongly Democratic. He has been twice married, his first wife being Sophia Sloan (daughter of Rev. John Sloan, of Orange township), by whom he had one child, Mary S., who lives at home in Ashland. His second wife was Emma Bean, niece of Judge Wick, of Greenville, Pennsylvania, to whom he was married June 5, 1860. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and has been superintendent in the Sunday- school of that church for the past eight years. In poli- tics be is a Republican.

DIEBOLD GUTH was born in Uhrweiler, Alsace, Ger- inany, October 17, 1824. His father, Jacob Guth, a native of Alsace, came to the United States in 1849, and remained in New York until his death in 1875. His mother, Catharine Guth, was born in Alsace in 1810, and died there in 1829. Their children were Diebold and Margaret. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Guth was again married and had two children, Jacob and John. The latter is in the commission business in New York. Diebold Goth emigrated to the United States in 1841, and settled in Knox county, Ohio, where he remained until 1843, when he removed to Loudon- ville, Ashland county. In the fall of 1847 he returned to his native land, and in the fall of , 848 came back to this country, bringing with him; his parents. In . October, 1848, he was married in Mohicanville, to Margaret Wolf, also a native of Alsace. She died March 17, 1851, leaving one son, John Jacob, who was born December 24, 1850. Mr. Guth was again married in 1857, to Adeline Craig, who died without issue. For his third wife he married Augusta Long, February 10, 1870. She was born August 21, 1841, in Wurtemberg, Germany. By this union there were five children --- Amelia J., born August 17, 1871, and died November 28, 1873; August Diebold, boin February 18, 1873, died Feb aary es, 1873: Henry W., born January 14, 1874; Frederick G., bom May 20, 1875, died August 15, 1875; and Augasta M., born June 28, 1876. Mr. Guth is at present engaged in the grocery business in Ashland, in which he has been engaged since he removed from Loudonville in 1863.

THEO. TEEPLE was born November 29, 1835. His father, S. I'. Teeple, was born in New York State and died in lowa about 1840. His mother, Sarah Teeple, is also a native of New York State. After the death of her husband she was married to John Baker, and lives in Wooster, Ohio. To Mir, and Mrs. Teeple were born two children, Theo. and Ralph. Theo. Teeple, the - subject of this sketch, was born in Pennsylvania. When & young his parents removed to Iowa, where his father died in a few years, When about ten years of age his . mother removed to Ohio. In 1862 Mr. People was

married to Jennie S. Bingham. They have had three children, one of whom died in infancy. Those who are living are J., born in :863, and Albert, born about 1865. MI. Teeple learned photography in 1861, and bas since followed that business. In the fall of 1879 he removed to Ashland. Previous to that time he lived in Cincinnati from 1872 until 1876, and the remainder of the time until he removed to Ashland, was located at Wooster. He now has a photographic studio in both Wooster and Ashland.

J. A. Hisry, D. D. S., was born in 1849. His father and mother were natives of Columbiana county, in which his mother still lives. Their children were Wil- son, Clara, Hannah, Cyrus, Sylvanus, Jonathan A., Leon- ard, Joseph, Charles, Kate and Milton. Jonathan A. Hisey, the subject of this sketch, commenced the study of dentistry in Columbiana, Ohio, in 1867. After com- pleting "his studies he commenced practice in that town, where he remained until 1873. March 12, Sog, he was married to Lucretia Hinkle, of the same town, and in 1873 removed to Ashland, where he opened a dental office, and has since been in continuous practice. They have three children -- Walter IL, born June 19, 1870: Austin E., born August 4, 1872; and Nora M., born September 17, 1874.

JOSEPH B. CHARLES was born in Ashiand (then Rich- land) county, April 21, 1833. He lived on a farm until fifteen years of age, when he learned blacksmithing and edge-tool making. In the spring of 1853 he walked across the plains to California, and was there eight years. He returned from there in 1861 and volunteered in bat- tery D, First regiment of Ohio Light artillery, in which he served three years. In 1864 he was promoted by the War Department from sergeant in his regiment, to cap- tain in the First regiment of United States colored troops. In 1866 he was brevetted major ot artillery, and was inustered out in April of the same year He was married Jamiary 30, 1866, to Mary E. Stull, of Ashland, at that time being home on a furlough fo: thirty days. and, on his return was accompanied by his wife. Mrs. Charles returned to Ohio, leaving Chattanooga, Tennes see, March 3, 1866, and arrived at home three hours after the burial of her brother, of whose death she had not learned. From 1867 to IS71 he sold boots and shoes, and in April of the latter year he engaged in the hardware business, and has since been engaged in that and the shoe trade, associated with his father-in-law, Isaac Stull,

GEORGE A. VILMAN was born at Loudonville, Fis parents being Adam and Barbara Ullman, both of whom were born in Alsace, Germany. Each came to the United States when about two years of age, and were married in Holines county, Ohio. They raised a family of eight children, as follows: Caroline, who married Michael Scheff, and lives in Richland county ; George A .; Min- nie, who married W. S. Fisher, and lives in Loudonville: Maggie, who died aboat :964: Mary, who married F. Arn did, and lives in Loudonville: Adam, Adolph, and Amanda, who also live at Loudonville. George A Ullman clerked in his father's store in Londonville until

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August, 1878, when he took the office of county treas- urer, to which he had been elected the fall previous. He was married to Anna Rebecca Merklinger, of Loudon- ville. In 1870 he became associated with his father in his store, in which he still retains an interest. He is the father of two children: Joseph A., born January 2, 187c, and Anna A. B., born September 9, 1874.

WILLIS 1 .. EDWARDS was born June 27, 1843; near Bucyrus, Ohio, and at the early age of six months was adopted by Rev. William Hutchison, his mother dying July 3, 1843. His parents were Dr. L. M. Edwards, a native of Pennsylvania, who died near Kenton, Ohio, in 1876, and Susan Edwards, a native of Wales. They had a family of eight children, as follows: Wellington, Caroline, Rachel, Cortland, Valumnia, Adaline, Willie, and Willis B. Rev. William Hutchison went to Tennes- see with his family in 1846, and remained until the spring of 1860, when they returned to Bucyrus. Mr. Edwards commenced learning the art of photography in 1861, and in 1862 he enlisted in the Eighty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served four months. He then returned and again commenced the work of photog- raphy, which he has since followed. He worked one year at Mansfield, and in 186 ; came to Ashland as op- crator for Budtorf & McCormick. From 1864 until IS70 he followed this an in Ravenna, Wooster and Mt. Vernon, and in the latter year opened a studio in Ash- land, where he has since remained. In the fall of 1864 he was married to Mary J. Sauer, of Ashland, by whom he had three children -- Ida May, born in September, 1865; Charles F., born in September, 1867; and Milton L., born in September, 1869. Mrs. Edwards died August 25, 1873, and two years later he was married to Mrs. Mary A. Heifner, of Ashland county.

FRANK MONEYSMITH was born in Auburn, Indiana, in July, 1852. When a child his parents removed to Perrys- ville, Ashland county, where he was raised. His father, William H. Moneysmith, was a native of Pennsylvania, and died in Michigan in 1858. His mother, E. J. Moneysmith, was born in this State. She was the mother of four children --- Cordelia, who married H. Ridgeley, and, lives in Ashland; Dora, who married A. B. Comins, and lives in Mt. Gilead; W. H., who lives in Kansas ; and Frank, the subject of this sketch. When a youth he attended the Vermillion institute, from 1865 to 1868, and in the latter year he came to Ashland, where he learned the cigar business, at which he worked until 1875, when he went west. He returned early in 1880, and is now engaged in the cigar business in Ashland.

MRS. KNIE OTTA was the daughter of John and Bar- bara Mecael, natives of Germany, where he died, leaving two children: John, who still resides there, and Cath- arine, the subject of this sketch. who was born in Cer- many, February 26, 1823. Some time after the death of her husband, Mrs. Barbara Mecael was a second time married, to Niebolas Knoth, by whom she had three children: Charles, Frank, and Henry, Catharine Me. cael was married january 22, 1846, to John Haetbrond. wid in 1847 came to this country, locating in Ashiand. By this union were born six children, one of whom, a girl,

died in infancy. The others were John, born September S, 1847, who lives in Ashland; Charles, born July 17, 1849, who also lives in Ashland; Jacob, born April :3. 1852, who lives in Fremont; Frank P'., born August 1, 1854, who lives in Wyoming territory; Clara Catharine, born November 28, 1856, and died January 13. 1859; A. Cordelia, born November 2, 1866. Mr. Haelbrend died August 17, 1860. His widow was married October 22, 1862, to Frederick Otta, a native of Prussia. They have one child, Daniel William, born February 27, 1863, who lives at home in Ashland. Mr. Otta died January 17. 1874. He had been engaged in the brewery busi- ness until within some four years of his death, when he disposed of his brewery on account of ill bealth. After his death Mrs. Otta opened a restaurant and boarding house on Third street, where she still remains.

S. W. BLACK, son of S. M. and Rosanna Black, was born in Green township, Ashland county, Ohio, March 3, 1831. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and had the following children born to them : Catharine, who married Samuel Conkle, and died about 1865; Elizabeth, who married Sylvester Huff, and lives in Indiana; P. J., who lives in Loudonville, Ohio; John, who lives in Bur- goon, Ohio; Sarah, who married Henry Snyder, and lives in Ashland, Ohio; S. W., the subject of this sketch; Henry and Joseph, who live in Iowa ; William, who died in Missouri in 1878; Daniel; and Lewis, who lives in Ashland county. Mr. Black, sr., is now living in Grece township, Asbland county, his wife having died about (855. S. W. Black lived at home until the age of seven- teen, when he went to Loudonville to learn the bakery and confectionery business with his brother, P. J. After finishing his apprenticeship he worked at his trade in va- tous places for three years, and in the fall of 1856 re- turned to Loudonville, where he worked for his brother for several months, when he bought him out and contip- ued there in business for about four years. Mr. Black went to Ashland in the fall of 1861, remained there three years, and returned to Loudonville, where he stayed one year. In 1866 he again removed to Ashiand and opened a bakery and confectionery store, in which business he is now engaged. In 1357 Mr. Black was married to Caroline Ullman, of Loudonville, by whom he has had two children -- Henry, born February 15. 1858, and James A., born July 17, 1867.

GUTEHUS I. VERICK was born in Mifflinburgh, Pent sylvania, August 11, 1834. When a small child he removed with his parents to the eastern part of Ashland county, then a part of Wayne county, Ohio, and when seven years of age went to live with Jacob Berry, on whose farm he worked for two years, and afterwards resided with Samuel Landis, doing farm work for about the same length of time, and for John Russell one year. At the age of twelve years he was apprenticed to Jolt Goodwin, to learn the wood turning and painting bas! ness, serving two and one half years, when be removed to Ashland and worked at his trade about three you's. About the year 1852 he went to western Olio and Indiana, where he continued to work at his trade Brut the spring of 1855, when he returned to Askland and

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engaged in the furniture business, which he carried on until the spring of 1860, when he sold his interest in the business to J. B. Stubbs. From 1860 to 1869 he was engaged in the real estate and collection business, and in the latter year was elected treasurer of Ashland county, in which office he served four years, when he again resumed the real estate and collection business. In 1874 he bought out the interest in the livery stable of Peter Fitzgar, of the firm of Thomas & Fitzgar, but gives his chief attention to the real estate and collection business, Mr. Thomas conducting the livcry business. Mr. Yerick's father, Peter Yerick, was born in Pennsyl- vania, in 1796. and his mother, Catharine Verick, was born in Mifflinburgh, Pennsylvania; both are still living. They had the following children born to them: Elvina, who married John Goodwin, and lives in Findlay, Ohio; Henry F., who lives in Washington, Towa; Elizabeth, who married. John Shott, and lives in Wayne county, Chio; Guielius I .: Caroline, who lives in Toledo, Ohio; Rebecca, who died when about sixteen years of age ; Catharine, who married John Switzer, and is a widow, living in Iowa City; Samuel W., who lives in Burlington, Towa; Mary Ann, who married John Lane, and lives in Crete, Nebraska; F. E., also in Crete, Nebraska; John, who lives at Atlantic, Iowa; Joseph, who lives at Toledo, Ohio; and Simon, who lives in Nebraska.

JAIZZIE WEISENSTINE was born in Germany March : 31, 1837, and came to this country with her mother when seventeen years old, and located at Mansfield, Ohio, where she lived until the age of twenty, when she was married to Jacob Weisenstine, of Ashland, where she then removed. Mrs. Weisenstine had the following children by this marriage: Lizzie, born March 30, 1859. and died January 9, 1802; Mary, born August 23, 1861, married E. W. Rogers, and lives in Missouri ; Jacob E., born October 28, 1863, and died August 29, 1865; Joseph F., born October 15, 1865; Louise, born Sep- tember 24, 1869; and Frank S., born June 27, 1873. Mrs. Weisenstine's parents, Jacob and Clara Houtz, were natives of Otterberg, Rhine Phaltz, Germany; her father died in Germany, and her mother died in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Houtz had children as follows': Trank, who died in Germany in 1877; Jacob, who lives in Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Catharine, who married David Miller, of Mansfield; Charlotte, who married Jacob Wentz, and Eves in Mansfield; Louise, who mar- ried Philip Lawrence; and Lizzie.

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Jacob Weisenstine was born in Weitemberg, Ger- many, June 12, 1833, and came to this country in 1853, stopping in New York. The following year he came to Ashland, and worked at his trade of shoe-making for Stubbs and Wasson for several years. In :858 he mar- ried Miss Lizzie Houtz. . Mr. Weisentine was engaged in the shoe, grocery, and restaurant business for some time previous to hi, death, which occurred January S, 1876. Mrs. Weisenstine now carries on the business.

BABAMIN MYERS was born in Perry township, De. cember 21, 1841, and is the son of Jacob and Mary Myers, natives of Pennsylvania. His father was born in. Center county, of that State, May 25, 1788, and died in

Ashland county, Ohio, August 4, 1857. His mother was born in the same county as his father, and died in Perry township, Ashland county, September 12, 1878. His brothers are Jonathan, George, Jacob, and Daniel, all residents of Perry township, except Jacob, who re- sides in Kansas; his sisters are Margaret, Eliza, Mary, and Catharine, all living in this county, except Mary, who is deceased. Benjamin Myers resided with his father in Perry township until 1860, doing farm work in the sum- mer time and attending district school in the winter time. In 1861-62 he attended the Vermillion institute at Hayesville, but, in 1862, offered his services in defence of his country, enlisting in company F, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry. In July, 1865, he returned home from the war and resumed his studies at the institute. In 1866 he began the study of medi- cine at Wooster, Ohio, in the office of Drs. Robinson & Weaver. In 1867 he attended upon a course of medi- cal instruction in the Jefferson Medical college of Phil- adelphia, graduating from that college in 1869. In June of the same year he formed a partnership with Dr. J. P. Cowan, and began the practice of medicine at Ashland, Ohio. November 29, 1879, he was united in marriage with Samantha Cowan, his partner's daughter. His chil- dren are: Rena M., born November 19. 1871, and Emma C., born September 14, 1873. Mrs. Myers died November 21, 1878. In 1873 Mr. Myers was ciected to the Ohio legislature, and re-elected in 1875, serving in all four years.

LEO WARTMAN, son of Simon and Abagail Weitman, from Columbia county, Pennsylvania, was born August 7, 1829, at the old homestead in Pennsylvania. He re- moved with his father's family to Ohio, and settled in the present county of Ashland, in the spring of 1839. Here he remained on his father's farm, comprising one hundred and fifty-nine acres, most of the time until eighteen years of age, when he started to learn the trade of cabinet-maker with Stubbs & Coffin, of Ashland. He completed his trade, and for some time carried on the business, when in the year 1859 he changed his busi- ness to the pursuits of agriculture, parebasing one hun- dred and five acres of the original tract purchased by his father. Here he has remained, continuing to im- prove and add to, until it can be said that he has one of the finest improved farms of Ashland county. Mir. Wertman was united in marriage in the year 1852 to Allada S. Simonton, daughter of Henry Simonton, of Pennsylvania. To this union were born two children, both of whom are living, viz: Abbie Belle and Simon Henry. Mrs. Wertman died in the spring of 1859. Mr. Wertman chose for his second partner Mary Ann, daughter of Henty Walburn, from Maryland. To them was born one child, viz: George Richard, now residing with his parents. In politics Mr. Wertman is a Demo- crat, casting his first presidential vote for Franklin Pierce.

BYRON M. SWINELOPD was born in this township (MMontgomery), this county, March 6, 1856, and this county has always been his home. His vocation through life has been that of a salesman in different stores, and

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he has been engaged in the furniture business, as also the bed spring bottom business. He has also paid some attention to farmning, in which business he is now en- gaged in. He was married April S, 1872, to Miss Libbie Gates, who was, also born in this county, August 27, 1856. They have one child, named Susie May, who was born May 3, 18So. She is still living.

ISAAC KILHEFNER was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, January 28, 1850, he being one of eleven children of Henty Kilhefner. In the year 1854, his parents, with their family of then three children, moved from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, to Ashland county, Ohio. They bought a small farm four miles east of Ashland, moved upon it, and lived there some twenty odd years. During this time Isaac remained with his parents upon the farm. In the winter of 1870 he was married to Miss Amanda Kahl. In the follow- ing spring (1876,) he moved upon the farm of Mr. Samuel Horn, taking charge of it. In the year 1872 he united with the German Baptist (or Dunkard) church. In the year 1875 he was elected to the ministry by the church, and in the year 1877 was daly licensed as a minister of the Gospel. He is the father of one child: Edwin L. Kilhefner.

J. P. DEVOR was born January 15, 1822, near . Rox. bury, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and was married to Mary A. Hassler, near Grindstone Hill, same county and State, February 1, 1849, and removed to Ashland. Ohio, April 25, 1849, where they have since resided. To them have been born ten children -- seven are still living. Their names are Charles A., Alice A., John R., Jacob F., jr., Horace L., Mary \., William J., Edgar J., Harry HI. and Samuel H. The last named, Samuel H., died at the age of fifteen years, five months and seven days, of typhoid fever, a bright and intelligent boy. The other two died young. John, at the age of two and one-half years, of scarlet fever; the other thirty-three days old, of cholera infantum. Mr. Devor is of Scotch- Irish descent. In the fall of 1856 he was elected justice of the peace, and continued in said office by re-election for three terms. By profession he is an attorney at law, and by applying himself strictly to his profession he has built up for himself a large practice.

JOSHUA L. DEVOR was born in Plymouth, Indiana, July 14, 1550. When he was four years of age he re- moved with his mother to Ashland county, Ohio, which has since been bis home. His father died in the army during the war of the Rebellion. Mr. Devor was mar- ried May 22, 1879; to Miss Leanette Rowland, a native of Ashland county, having been born in Montgomery township July 30, 1860. Mr. Devor, though he has had a brief experience as a school teacher, has given his chief attention to farming, in which pursuit he has been very successful.

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History of Ashland County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 97

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