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Five children have been born to Thomas N. Owen and wife, namely : Pearl, a son, who married Ella Saxby and is farming in Rush township, this county, and has three children, Thomas, Bart and William; Ida Belle, who married Oscar McAdams of Union township, and who died some time ago, leaving three children, James, Merton and Thomas; John, who is oper- ating the old home place in Rush township, married Carrie Bower, a native of Warren county, Illinois, and has four children, Wilford, Ben, Howard and Claire; Asa, who is farming in Rush township, married Josephine Cush- man, and has three sons, Clark, Ralph and Arthur; Jennie, who married Ben Rutan, of Marysville, Ohio, and has three children, Glen, Lucy and Milton.
On May 2, 1865, Mr. Owen enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Woodstock, and was sent with the troops to Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, remaining there until he was mustered out and honorably discharged. Mr. Owen is a Republican.
THOMAS MELANCTHON GAUMER.
The late Thomas M. Gaumer was born in Adamsville, Ohio, February 2, 1848, a son of Jonathan and Mahala (Barrett) Gaumer; a grandson of Daniel Gaumer and a great-grandson of Jacob Gaumer. The Gaumer family, which has numerous members in many parts of the United States, is of German origin; however, the coming of the founder of the family to the New World was at so early a period that the date of that immigration is not known. The known history of the Gaumer family in the United States begins with Jacob Gaumer. Sr., whose family lived at various times in Virginia. Maryland, and in Lehigh and Somerset counties, Pennsylvania; in which latter state he was born about the middle of the eighteenth century. Some (63a)
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time after the "embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world" at Concord bridge, Jacob Gaumer left his farm and those dear to him to follow the martial fortunes of Washington, from Ft. Du Quesne to Yorktown, as drum major. In 1806 Jacob Gaumer and his family pushed out of Ohio from Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and settled on a tract in the unbroken wilderness, eight miles north of Zanesville, in Muskingum county. Later, however, he moved to another tract in the woods near Adamsville, in the same county. At the latter place his death occurred in 1820, and that of his wife in 1814. Jacob Gaumer's son, Daniel, and his family remained back in the Keystone state when his father came out to Ohio in 1806; but in 1809 he, too, found the lure of the West irresistible and fol- lowed his father to Ohio with his family and settled near Adamsville, in Muskingum county. His death occurred there in 1859, and that of his wife, Hannah (Baughman) Gaumer, in 1874. All four of these pioneers, as well as Dr. Thomas M. Gaumer and many others of the family, are buried in the New Hope Lutheran cemetery, near Adamsville, Ohio, the land for which was given by Jacob Gaumer from his farm soon after he located at that place. Daniel Gaumer, too, heard the call of his country in the time of its need and went forth to do or die in the War of 1812. He was the father of fourteen children, the eleventh of whom was Jonathan Gaumer. the father of Dr. Thomas M. Gaumer.
Jonathan Gaumer was born in Ohio, in 1822, and died in 1895. His wife, Mahala Barrett, the mother of Doctor Gaumer, was born in 1823 and died, November 9, 1915, in the ninety-second year of her age. The father of Doctor Gaumer devoted his whole life to agriculture, but he was often called to fill local offices. He was the father of nine children, and among them are the following: Dr. Thomas M., the eldest; Charles N .. a prominent citizen and newspaper man of Mansfield, Ohio; Hannah J .: Rachel V .; Daniel H., who is deceased; Mary; Martha; and Cidda. The Gaumer family has been one of prominence and influence in Muskingum county. Two of Doctor Gaumer's brothers have been members of the Ohio Legislature, and Charles N. Gaumer, of Mansfield, was a member of the national House of Representatives from 1890 to 1894. Daniel H. Gaumer. of Zanesville, was a representative in 1888-89, a state senator in 1890-91. and was postmaster in Zanesville at the time of his death in 1898.
While still young in years, Thomas M. Gaumer removed with his parents to a farm in Muskingum county, which continued to be his home until 1876. He was educated in the public schools and at Denison Univer- sity at Granville, and subsequently taught school for a number of years ..
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Having determined to devote his life to the practice of medicine, he entered the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, and was graduated therefrom in 1876. The year previous he married Eliza M., daughter of Barton and Julia (Walker) Cone, and thus became allied with a family as meritorious as his own. Barton Cone was born in Monroe township, Muskingum county, Ohio, August 23, 1824, and was a son of Jared Cone, a pioneer of Mus- kingum county. Jared Cone was the son of Jared, the son of Mathew, the son of Jared, the son of Daniel, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1626, came to America with two brothers in 1660, and settled in Haddam, Connecticut, where he died in 1706.
Mrs. Gaumer's paternal grandmother, Eliza (Schoff) Cone, was the daughter of Philip Schoff, one of the heroes of the Revolution, and Eliza- beth (Ramsey) Schoff. Through these Mrs. Gaumer is descended from a long line of ancestors who were numbered among the founders of this great country, and who sprang from the ancient families of Europe, now celebrated in song and story. Philip Schoff, Sr., a pioneer of Guernsey county, Ohio, was a hero of three wars, and was probably the youngest soldier whose name appears upon the official records of the War of the American Revolution. When a lad of scarcely nine years, in 1778, he car- ried a gun in helping to defend a little frontier settlement in Pennsylvania (where he was born), from an attack by British and Indians. During the "Whiskey Insurrection" in 1794, he, as a young man, made the memorable march over the mountains to western Pennsylvania where anarchy was quelled and peace and order restored. During the War of 1812 he served, front Guernsey county, in the Ohio militia.
In Indianapolis, Indiana, there is a patriotic organization, a chapter of the United States Daughters of the War of 1812, which has been named in honor of this hero of three wars, the Philip Schoff Chapter of Marion County. The Indiana state society, as well as the Marion county chapter of the United States Daughters of 1812, was organized by Philip Schoff's great-granddaughter, Mrs. Fanny R. W. Winchester; and both organiza- tions have done much valuable patriotic and historical research work, recog- nized powers for all that is uplifting and beneficial in the life of the com- munity. Philip Schoff's father was also a Revolutionary War patriot, and he laid down his life for the cause of American independence. He crossed the Delaware with General Washington and fought at Trenton and Princeton in that dark winter of 1776-77 when the patriot cause was at its lowest ebb.
The Schoffs of Ohio are descendants of one of the ancient families of German nobility. They were among the earliest crusaders to the Holy Land, and later the family took a lively part in the Protestant Reforma-
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tion which followed Luther's nailing of the ninety-five theses to the door of the Wittenberg church. Mrs. Charles Peabody Wilder, a granddaughter of Philip Schoff, born in Muskingum county, Ohio, and who died in Indian- apolis, Indiana, began the compilation of the Schoff family history. She died long before the necessary data had been gathered for the work, but her daughter, Mrs. Fanny R. W. Winchester, has resumed the work where her mother left off and will soon have ready for publication a valuable contribution to Ohio's genealogical lore.
Through Elizabeth Ramsey, the wife of Philip Schoff, Sr., Mrs. Eliza M. Gaumer is descended from one of the most ancient and illustrious fami- lies of Scotland, which dates from the time of David I, of Scotland, in 1140. Sir Walter Scott, who had a high regard for the Ramsey family, makes honorable mention of their valiant services in Scotland's cause in one of his historical novels, "Fortunes of Nigel." Fordoun, the historian, and many other writers have eulogized the members of this famous family of Scotland's nobility. Through her Schoff ancestry Mrs. Gaumer has three Revolution- ary sires, for Elizabeth (Ramsey) Schoff's father was an officer in the patriot army. Moreover, Mrs. Gaumer's father served in the Civil War.
After his marriage and graduation, Thomas M. Gaumer located in Wyandot county, Ohio, and after practicing medicine for a time removed to Adamsville, which continued to be his home until 1882. In the meantime his aspirations had undergone a change, and he seems to have found less enjoyment in his profession than he expected. At any rate, after weighing the chances, he decided in favor of journalism, and thereafter medical science knew him only as an erstwhile practitioner. After purchasing the Champaign Democrat at Urbana, he edited and published the same for about a year. and then, in partnership with his brother, D. H. Gaumer, published the Zanesville Signal, a daily paper. After disposing of his interests in the Signal in 1887, he repurchased the Champaign Democrat, and from then until the time of his death, September 30, 1893, his energies were devoted to making this sheet a practical and interesting news dispenser. He was a stanch Democrat, a keen observer of men and events, and had the faculty of find- ing out what the public wanted to know. His editorials evinced a world of common sense, and an intelligent understanding of all sides of prevailing public conditions. He was a member of the Lutheran church, and was fraternally associated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife. who survives him, is the mother of three sons: Charles Edmund, Frank Cone, and Bruce Barton. Mrs. Gaumer is a member of the Independent Bible Students Association, of which the late Pastor Russell was president.
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HARVEY S. RECK.
Harvey S. Reck, who has been connected with the Pennsylvania Lines for the past thirty years, was born near Gettysburg, Darke county, Ohio. October 8, 1866. He is a son of Wilkins and Eunice B. (Hoover) Reck, both of whom were natives of the same county. Wilkins Reck, a son of Michael and Mary (Warwick) Reck, was born on November 14, 1841, near Gettysburg, Ohio, and was married to Eunice B. Hoover on August TO, 1865, shortly after he was honorably discharged, with the rank of sergeant, from Company H, One Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Michael Reck was a son of John William and Ann (Hiner) Reck, and was born near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, being one of eleven children. John W. Reck was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, on a farm near Gettys- burg, in the year 1785. John W. was the first of the family to locate in Ohio, coming to Darke county with his wife and children in 1828. He entered nine hundred and twenty-eight acres of land in that county on November 14, 1828, and lived in the county until his death. He became one of the wealthiest men in the county and had the honor of laying out and nam- ing the town of Gettysburg in his adopted county. The family have been prominently identified with Darke county for the past ninety years.
It was there that Michael Reck, the grandfather of Harvey S. Reck, located with his parents when he was eighteen years of age. Michael was married on November 23, 1836, to Mary Warwick, his second wife, and to this union were born ten children. As stated above, Wilkins, the father of Harvey S., was one of these ten children. Wilkins and his wife became the parents of six children. Harvey S., the oldest of the six children, was reared on the old Reck homestead and received his elementary schooling in the district schools and completed his education in the high school at Covington, Ohio. Upon reaching his majority, in 1887, he decided to learn telegraphy, and with this end in view became a student in the telegraph office of the Pennsylvania Lines at Bradford, Ohio. Within a year he was fully qualified to take charge of a telegrapher's key and was given a tempo- rary position in the office at Bradford, for three months. In November, 1888, he was transferred to a telegraph office at Piqua, remaining there for four years.
In 1891 Mr. Reck was married and the same year was promoted to a responsible position in the Pennsylvania office at Piqua, where he was sta-
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tioned for the next nineteen years. In April, 1910, he was appointed agent of the Pennsylvania station at Covington, Ohio, being given full charge of the office. That his work was eminently satisfactory to the company is shown by the fact that two years later, February 1, 1912, he was placed in full charge of the office at Urbana, Ohio, where he is now stationed. It is not too much to say that the company does not have a more efficient and trustworthy employee than Mr. Reck. The responsibilities of the position in a city the size of Urbana are very exacting and demand a man of unusual executive ability. That Mr. Reck meets every requirement of such a position is evidenced by his retention in the office here where his administration of its manifold duties are equally satisfactory to the company and to the people of the community which he serves.
Mr. Reck was married on March 15, 1891, to Hattie G. Fall. She is a daughter of Joshua and Phoeba (Eirhart) Fall, and was born on September 2, 1871. They have two daughters: Hazel K., born on September 13. 1892, and Thelma E., born on April 13, 1894. Both daughters are gradu- ates of the Urbana high school, and make their home with their parents.
RAYMOND H. SMITH.
Raymond H. Smith, the son of Frank and Anna (Hewett) Smith. was born in Woodstock, Ohio, March 9, 1886. Mr. Smith spent his early years in the village of his birth, and it was there he received his common and high school education. The perspective acquired from his early train- ing, his own talents, and the opportunities for men of superior training filled him with the desire to acquire a higher education. Accordingly he entered Ohio State University at Columbus, and took the course in civil engi- neering. After he graduated from the university, he speedily found places where his training, coupled with his own natural ability, was in demand.
When an engineer was needed for the very important task of instal- ling the sewage-disposal plant at Urbana, the superior ability of Mr. Smith commended him to the city authorities for the task, and he was employed to take charge of that undertaking. The plant was completed in due time, and is now considered the best in the state, in a town the size of Urbana. Advancement followed Mr. Smith's completion of this engineering project, and he is now deputy county surveyor of Champaign county, and also serves most acceptably as highway superintendent. His very careful and expert
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administration of his duties in these capacities has met with such approval on the part of the voters of Champaign county, that it is quite probable the next election will find Mr. Smith elevated to the office of county surveyor. While in the university Mr. Smith was captain of Company B, Field Bat- talion, Ohio Signal Corps, and has seen considerable active service in the field.
On September 22, 1915, Mr. Smith married Mary Francis Robison, the daughter of James S. Robison and Lida (Hedges) Robison. Mr. Smith is a quiet, unostentatious man, who impresses one with the strength of his personality. He always attends strictly to business, which he trans- acts with dispatch, deliberation and exactitude. Whenever he has served the public, he has done so with his whole soul. His career, begun under such favorable portents, promises well for a life full of unstinted and valu- able service to his fellowmen.
The history of the Smith family has been traced back to 1700 by Ray- mond H. Smith and shows a prodigious amount of research on his part. The family have been connected with Champaign county for nearly a cen- tury, being one of the first families to locate in the Woodstock community. It is probable that there are few families in the county whose genealogy has been more carefully worked out than this one of the Smith family. The genealogy as worked out by R. H. Smith is given in the succeeding paragraphs. It will be noticed that there are some names and dates which are missing, it being impossible in several cases to get exact information.
THE SMITH FAMILY IN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY.
Thomas Smith was born in England about 1700 and crossed the Atlan- tic, settling at Hadley, Massachusetts, between 1730 and 1740. He had four sons, Aaron, who was killed in the Revolutionary War; Stillman, Jesse and Sylvanus. His son, Sylvanus Smith, was a native of Connecticut, and was twice married, his second wife being Amy Sprague. Sylvanus served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, as ensign. His children were Sylvanus Jr., Justin, Aaron, Philip, Samuel, Jesse, Stillman, Lester and Dexter. Justin lived in Vermont and raised a large family, as did Aaron; Philip came to Ohio in 1835 (aged eighty years) ; Jesse served in the War of 1812 and afterward went to Michigan; Stillman was also in the War of 1812 and was killed by a cannon ball at Niagara; Lester married in Vermont and came to Ohio in 1828 (aged seventy years). He was the father of a large family ; Dexter, the youngest, came to Ohio in 1830, where he reared a large family.
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His children were Clark, Elias, Sylvanus, Dexter Pearl, Rosalvo and Alice. Dexter Pearl Smith's children were Byron, Henry, Cora, Harry, Ora, Lena, Ernest and Dolly. They have all been married and live in or near Wood- stock. Dexter Smith died in Ohio: Samuel Smith married Phoebe Mc- Cutcheon, who was of Scotch descent. They were natives of Vermont. coming to Woodstock in 1815. Samuel was born in 1792 and died at the age of thirty due to unhealthy conditions of the country. Phoebe died in 1878 at the age of eighty-seven. Their children were Cyrus, who was born in Vermont before 1820; Jesse, Lois, Stephen and Amy, all being born in Champaign county, with exception of Cyrus.
Sylvanus, Jr., came to Champaign county from Vermont in October, 1816, accompanied by his brother, Samuel. Sylvanus, Jr., was a Whig and later joined the Republican party. He served with the minute men from Vermont in the War of 1812 and was in the battle of Plattsburg on Lake Champlain. He married Thankful Kelsey (Dutch), April 2, 1812. Their son, Hiram, was born in Vermont, January 2, 1814, while Myron G .. Richard S., Lorena A., Samuel G .. Azro and Andrew J., were born in Ohio. They are all dead except Azro, who was born August 20, 1828. Sylvanus Smith, Jr., died on July 12, 1872, aged eighty-four years, eight months and twenty days. His wife, Thankful Kelsey, born on June 29. 1791, at Newport, Connecticut, died on December 24, 1876. She was the daughter of Giles and Elizabeth (Post) Kelsey, of New Hampshire. Giles was a Revolutionary soldier and lived with his son-in-law in Ohio until his death. He is buried at Treacles Creek cemetery. His three sons, Josiah, Nathan and Stephen live in Champaign county. Nathan and Stephen, who served in the War of 1812, died in Union county, Ohio.
Azro Smith attended common school and Antioch College. During the winter he taught school in Illinois and later taught in his home town. He was married to Mary Inskeep in March, 1859, she being the daughter of William and Kittura (Warner) Inskeep, and in 1890 moved to Humboldt county, Iowa, where he purchased two hundred and forty-five acres of land. After living there for five years he returned to Woodstock, Ohio. The seven children born to this union were: Lillian T., wife of A. J. Harlan, of Lincoln county, Kansas, who has one daughter, Mabel; Arthur, of Grant county, Minnesota ; Ora A., also of that county; Lucy, wife of E. C. Hudson, of Champaign county, now in the West; Kitty, wife of Charles Rice, of Bowling Green, Ohio; Edith, wife of Clay McClurg, of Tiffin, Ohio; Ethel, wife of A. J. Greenwald, also of Bowling Green. Azro was a member of the Universalist church and of Woodstock Lodge No. 167. Independent
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Order of Odd Fellows. He was a Republican and enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for the one hundred days service in the Civil War. He was in Virginia, at Petersburg, and was mustered out on August 29, 1864, as first lieutenant. serving twenty days over time. He afterwards received a captain's con- mission in the Fourth Regiment, Ohio National Guard.
Samuel G. Smith, brother to Azro, was born in Rush township, Sep- tember 5, 1826. He was a surveyor and engineer. He married Hepsie J., daughter of William Inskeep, on December 29, 1853, but had no chil- dren. They raised True McIlroy, who belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 167. His brother. Andrew, was born near Woodstock in the year 1832. He married Delilah Inskeep, daughter of Wil- liam, in 1855. They had nine children: Jesse, Jossie, Lora, Fanny, Hattie. Mattie, Eunice, Dale and Maud. Mrs. Smith was born in Union county. December 31, 1836. Mr. Smith belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 167, and was a Universalist in faith.
Stephen A. Smith was a son of Cyrus and Lydia Smith and was born in 1840. Cyrus was the son of Samuel and Phoebe. He first married Lydia Hall in 1836. Their children were: George W., Stephen A., Sarah L., Williard H., Elisha D. and Howard. Mrs. Smith died in 1854 at the age of thirty-nine years. He then married Mrs. Fannie (Smith) Har- rington on April 6, 1856. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 167, and a Universalist. He was also a ment- ber of Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Na- tional Guard, of one hundred men. He died on June 25, 1880. Stephen A. enlisted in April, 1861, for the three months service in Company K. Second Ohio National Guard, and was in the battle of Bull Run. After his discharge he returned home and on October 15, 1862, enlisted in Com- pany F. Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Second Brigade. Second Division and Fifteenth Army Corps. He was in the battles of Shiloh. Arkansas Post, Siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Champion Hill, Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro and was with General Sherman on the march to the sea. He veteranized on January 1, 1864, at Bellefonte. Alabama, and was mustered in at Larkensville, Alabama, January 22, 1864. He was discharged on July 25. 1865, having served four years. He mar- ried Susan Epps, July 25, 1867, and two children were born to this union. Harvey J. H., and Laura E.
Erastus M. Smith was born at Woodstock in 1842, and was the son of Elias and Huldah (Swift) Smith. His father was born at Stowe, Ver-
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mont, in the year 1811. Huldah was born in Rochester, Massachusetts, in 1842. Erastus died on February 28, 1871. They had four children, two of whom are living, Philip and Erastus M. The others were: Curtis B., who died in 1863, aged twenty-eight, leaving a wife and two children, Frederick and Orvis E., one dying in infancy. His grandparents, Philip and Rosina Smith, came here in 1836. He died in 1866, aged eighty. She died in 1858, aged seventy-three. They had three children: Susan, Elias and Abel. They belonged to the Christian church. Erastus M. enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio National Guard, on May 2, 1864, and was discharged on September I of the same year. He married Mrs. Laura (Cranston) Marsh, daughter of Edward Cranston. They had one daughter, Nina H., born on June 14, 1880, who died in June, 1917, who married Rev. Harlan Glazier, a Universalist min- ister. By his wife's (Laura) previous marriage with Charles W. Marsh, she had the following children: Mattie. Charles D., Lucy and Hattie, deceased. Mr. Marsh died in February, 1869. His son, Jesse, married Mary M. (or Minerva) Thomas, daughter of Gardner and Thankful Thomas, from Stowe, Vermont. They came to Champaign county, Ohio, in 1834, and located in Rush township. He was in the War of 1812 and was at the battle of Plattsburg. He moved to Illinois and died there at the home of a son. Jesse and Mary had ten children. They moved to Indiana. Jesse died in 1800 and Mary in 1872. Their children were: Helen Harriet, Calvin, Phoebe T., Eliza A., Charles A., Ida L., Clarence M. J., Carrol and Solon H.
Harriet Smith married Joseph Chamberlin on January 16, 1859. Joseph Chamberlin was born in Livingston county, New York, on May 9, 1834, a son of John and Sarah (Bodine) Chamberlin, also of New York and descendants of old Colonial families. The founder of the family came from England with his wife and three children. He was drowned in a whirlpool off the coast of New Jersey. One of his sons located in New England, one in New Jersey and one in a Southern state. Joseph's great grandparents were Joseph and Amy Chamberlin. Their son, William, Joseph's grandfather, was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in Octo- ber, 1773, and married Elizabeth Duckworth, June 10, 1793. They had twelve children, eight sons and four daughters. He located at Vienna, Trum- bull county, Ohio, in 1834. He died on March 19, 1851, aged seventy-eight years. Joseph's father, John, was born in New Jersey, March 10, 1796, and married Sarah Bodine, March 3, 1817. They were the parents of twelve children: Matilda, Mary, Elizabeth, Ann, Sarah Jane, John V. R.,
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