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Peter Ziegler was the youngest of the five chil. dren of John and Magdalene (Fenniger) Ziegler, who were born, the former in Wier, on the River Rhine. in France, in 1811, and died February 24, 1882, aged seventy-one years, the latter born in Weiler, France, in 1817, died in 1859, aged forty- two years. The other children were Katie, John Jr. (deceased), Margaret, Robert (deceased). The two sisters remained in the old country. Peter Ziegler, the subject of this sketch, was born April 11, 1846, in Weisenburg, France, and attended the district school in his native town until he was thirteen years of age, then entered the high school at Strasbourg, where he remained two years, and at the age of fif- teen entered the hardware store of Mr. Victor Pol- pert as a clerk, with whom he remained until he was twenty years of age; was married, October 5, A. D. 1866, in Strasbourg, France, to Louisa, daughter of Philip and Barbara Altchuh, and soon thereafter set sail for America to seek their fortunes and to secure for themselves a home, arriving at New York on the 5th of November, and from there at Cincinnati, and thence to Fort Wayne, Ind., arriving there in the summer of 1867. Of this union six children have been born to them, four now living, viz .: Mary, Peter W , Edward and Sophia. In 1878, Mr. Ziegler moved to Defiance, purchasing the property where he now lives, and established an eating-house in connec- tion therewith at No. 93 Clinton street.
Michael Ziegler was one of a family of eleven children of Joseph and Marietta Ziegler, and was born in Grosswingheim, Bavaria, Germany, April 12, 1822. He was married to Miss Gertrude Smith in May, 1855. One son was born to them in their native land, Michael, Jr., who was born in 1856. Mr. Ziegler immigrated to this country with his wife and child, landing at Boston on the 1st day of May, 1857, and thence came to Defiance, arriving on the 6th of the same month, and working on the railroad thirteen years. He followed blacksmithing about three years, and ran a dray for nine years. Four children have been born to them since their arrival here, making five in all. Michael, Jr., was married to Miss Philipine Hahn, of Defiance; Barbara, the second child, was born in 1860, and married Michael Streit, of Defiance, January 18, 1881; Margaret was born June 12, 1861, died aged about three years; Mary was born in 1863, died in infancy; Josephine was born in 1865. Mr. Ziegler, by industry and economy, has been able to secure to himself and fam-
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ily a very comfortable home, and to his children the advantages of a good common school education, both English and German.
Harvey Wood was born March 18, 1840, in Union County, Ohio. His father, Samuel Wood, was born in Saratoga, Milton Co., N. Y., May 13, 1806. His mother, Abigail (Weaver) Wood, was born in Sara- toga County, N. Y., March 20, 1819. Their family consisted of six children, three boys and three girls. Mr. Wood immigrated to Union County, October 14, 1839; afterward to Putnam County, Ohio, where he died October 17, 1850. The family then came to Defiance County, April 15, 1851, where Harvey was married, July 4, 1868, to Sarah E. White, who was born in this county March 25, 1853. To them were born the following children, viz .: Cora E., born Sep- tember 21, 1869; Elisha B., born December 28, 1870, and died May 23, 1872; John S., born April 8, 1874, died April 13, 1875; Harvey W., born November 15, 1877. Mr. Wood sorved in the late war, 1861-65, in Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volun- teer Infantry. His grandparents (Asa Wood and John Weaver) were both in the war of 1812, Asa Wood as a Captain, John Weaver as Colonel. Mrs. Wood's father (John S. White) was born September 18, 1818, in Lancaster County, Penn .; came to Defi- ance June 10, 1837, and settled on the banks of the Auglaize River, about four miles south of Defiance. Her mother, Sarah A. (Wells) White, was born No- vomber 17, 1821, in Muskingum County, Ohio; came to this county September 17, 1835, and settled on the banks of the Auglaize about one mile south of Defi- ance.
Joseph Bauer, Jr., came from Baden, Germany, when he was a young man, with his parents, landing at Defiance A. D. 1850. His father, Joseph Bauer, Sr., was married twice, and had three children by his first wife-Mary, Magdalena and Joseph. By his second wife he had three children, viz., Leopold, Albin and Rosa. Leopold died at Defiance in 1853. Mr. Bauer, Sr., also died at Defiance, in 1863, aged about sixty-eight years. Mary is still living in Ger- many. Joseph, Jr., married Catharine Royal, of De- fiance, by whom he had six children, four girls and two boys. One of the girls (Mary) died in 1879. Mr. Bauer's wife died in 1877. Mr. Bauer worked about ten years at repairs on the canal, when he first came to this country. He kept saloon about seven years; then went into the brewery business, in part- nership with Lewis Coleman for two years, when Coleman died. Baner thon ran the business alone one year; then took in Christ. Diehl as partner in 1871, and they still continue the business together. Jacob Karst put up the brewery in 1866. Mr. Bauer has added extensively to the buildings since he pur-
chased, so that the cost of lot and buildings at present amount to about $26,000, turning out annually from 2,500 to 3,500 barrels of beer.
Daniel H. Killey was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., about twelve miles from the city of Auburn, Au- gust 24, 1826. His father, Heman Killey, was born in Barnstable County, Mass., and followed the sea for a number of years, in the whaling trade. In 1824, he left the sea and moved to New York. Ruth (Lap- ham) Killey, the mother of Daniel, was also born in Massachusetts, and was of the old Quaker stock. They had born unto them four sons and two daugh- ters, viz., Daniel H., Benjamin F., Oliver, Adeline, Susan E. and Joseph Killey. Susan E. died at Na- poleon, Ohio, December 15, 1856. Joseph died at Battle Creek, Mich., from injuries received in the service in the late rebellion, . after having served about one year in the Union army. Daniel's father removed from New York to Seneca County, Ohio, in the spring of 1835, and died in the fall of that year. Daniel H. Killey was married to Matilda Billings in 1848, at Attica, in Seneca County. They have had seven children-George W., Daniel H., Charles, Emma, Lafayette, Edgar E. and William T. Killey. Of this number all are dead except George W., they having died in infancy. The wife of Daniel H. Killey, Matilda A. (Billings) Killey, was born in New York, and was the daughter of Jollier and Aurilla (Ford) Billings. Her parents came from Cayuga County, N. Y., to Seneca County, Ohio, at an early day, her mother's brother, Johnson Ford, also com- ing with them, and is now a resident of Attica, Seneca Co., Ohio, at ninety years of age. The five brothers of Heman Killey (father of Daniel) were all engaged as seamen, in the whaling business, and were supposed to be lost at sea. Daniel. when about twenty years of age, enlisted in the Mexican war, and served about thirteen months, traveling while in the service about 8,000 miles. On his return home, he was married, and removed to near Bellevue, in Han- over County, where he remained for about three years; then came to Putnam County, Ohio, while it was still a wilderness, and abounded in bears and wolves and other wild animals, and located on a land warrant on 160 acres of land about twelve miles from Defiance. They had to ent roads for about four miles. Here he resided for about one year, and then removed with his family to the town of Defiance, and commenced to work in the Defiance Mills, for the firm of Semans & Stevens. In 1864, he enlisted in the Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and remained with the regiment till the close of the war, about seven months, being all of this time assigned to the hospital, nursing and caring for the sick. After the war, he came home and purchased a farm in Henry
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County, Ohio, and remained there about two years, when he removed to Defiance again. He has spent most of his time in the Defiance Mills, and has prob- ably worked here longer than any one person. At one time, he was the owner of one-half interest in what is now known as the Defiance Machine Shops, which was at that time a very small affair. He now owns one-half interest in the undertaking business, with H. B. Hall.
Horace P. Miller was born in Williams County, Ohio, September 24, 1848. His father, William Miller, was born in Tompkins County, N. Y., March . 17, 1808; came to Summit County, Ohio, and there married Miss Phebe Parker, by whom he had seven children, three boys and four girls; of these, four are living -- H. P. Miller, Alice J., Charity M. and Will- iam P. Horace P. Miller, the subject of this sketch, received his education mostly at Lockport, Ohio, and was married to Miss Jennie S. Beaty September 22, 1870. They have two children, Frank G. and Claud W. Mr. Miller started out in life at farming, and afterward went to work in the produce business for O. T. Letcher & Co., of Bryan, Ohio, carrying on the business at Defiance. In 1878, Mr. Miller bought out the business, and formed a copartnership with G. Morgan, of Fostoria, Ohio, and the firm name be- came Miller & Morgan, who are doing quite an ex- tensive produce business, handling during the past year about 250,000 pounds dressed hogs, 60,000 pounds poultry, 130,000 pounds butter, 60,000 pounds hides, 3,660 bushels clover seed, 280,000 dozen eggs.
Frank J. Shead was born on Court street, in the city of Defiance, Ohio, August 13, 1856. His grand- parents, Orson Shead and Lucy (Upham) Shead, were born in Stockbridge, Mass. ; the former September 4, 1797, the latter March 21, 1795. In 1821, they moved to New York, settling in DeKalb Township, St. Law- rence County. They had a family of five children- Oliver, Emeline, Celistie, Lorrin J. and Alonzo M. The boys are still living. Alonzo M. was a former resident of Defiance, but now a resident of New Mad- rid, Mo., Oliver was also a former resident of this town, and a contractor and builder, at an early day building what was known as the old Brown ware- house, located at the northwest corner of Clinton street bridge, on the north side of the Maumee River, and since destroyed by fire. In 1850, Mr. Oliver Shead left Defiance for East Troy, Wis .; from there he went to Washington Territory. He was a com- missioned officer in the Indian war, and a member of the Territorial Legislature. Lorrin J. came to De- fiance when a young man, A. D. 1853, and opened up a furniture store in the old Pierce Evans building, which had just been vacated by E. F. Lindenberger,
and which is still standing on Front street, in the rear of the Opera House Block. On November 13, 1855, he was married to Miss Martha Parkhurst Adams. of St. Lawrence County, N. Y. Mrs. Lorrin Shead was born in Royalton, Vt., A. D. 1833, and at the age of about three years her parents, David A. and Hannah (Parkhurst) Adams, moved from Royal- ton, Vt., to St. Lawrence County. In 1856, Mrs. Shead's parents moved to Beloit, Wis., at which place they died, her mother August, A. D. 1875, at the age of sixty-nine, her father in July, A. D. 1880, at the age of seventy-nine years. Five children survive them -- David A., Harry Adams, Mrs. C. Miller, Mrs. W. C. Dustin and Mrs. Shead. After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Shead, they returned to Defiance, and Mr. Shead resumed his old business at his old stand heretofore mentioned, and continued there un- til the spring of 1859, when he sold and moved to Beloit, Wis. At the breaking-out of the rebellion of 1861-65, he enlisted in the first call for three months' men and served his time, when he returned home and engaged in the manufacture of reapers and mowers at Beloit. In the early spring of 1863, he returned with his family to Defiance, to engage in the lumber business in the old mill at the second lock, and is now engaged in the grocery business. Their children were Frank J., born August 13, 1856; Lucy C., born February 23, 1858, and May, who died in in- fancy. Their eldest and only son, Frank J., received his education mostly in Defiance, his birthplace. In the summer of 1870, during his vacation, he clerked in the grocery store of Booth & Aldrich. In May, 1873, he entered the Defiance National Bank, of De- tiance, as collector and individual book-keeper. In 1876, he was made general book-keeper, and January 1, 1880, was made Assistant Cashier, which position he still holds. November 26, 1878, he was married to Miss Hattie D. Clarke, of Beloit, Wis. The fruit of this marriage has been two children-Frank Mills Shead, born November 20, 1879, died in infancy; Ralph Clarke Shead, born March 3, 1881.
Peter Schlosser was born in New Bavaria, Ger- many, in 1840; immigrated to this country, landing at New York August 10, 1861; thence going to Wy. oming County, N. Y., stopping at the little town of Sheldon, where he married Miss Catharine Felker, August 20, 1861, who had immigrated at the same time from the same place, coming over on the same vessel with Mr. Schlosser. They had one child, John, who is carrying on business with his father at Defiance. Mr. Schlosser, being a wagon-maker by trade, worked for his brother-in-law, Christopher Felser, who was carrying on business at that time at Sheldon, N. Y., and worked for him one year, when he bought him out and carried on the business him-
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self from 1863 to 1869; then he sold and came to Defianco, arriving hero December 7, 1869. His wife died here August 12, 1870. He was again mar- ried, January 28, 1871, to Catharine Shafer, of this place, by whom he had four children-Frederick A., Franklin M., George and Lenhart P. In 1872, Mr. Schlosser bought the property where he is now carry- ing on business, it being the pro, orty formerly owned by C. D. Romky, who made the purchase while a wood lot, in 1852. Mr. Romky built the frame house now owned by Mr. Goodman. In 1854, he built a dry- dock and a limekiln. About the same time. he built the frame dwelling in which Schlosser now lives. In 1859 or 1860, he built another dry-dock. In the spring of 1865, Mr. Romky sold out to Ramus & King, who continued the business about three years. About this time, Ramus built quite a large black- smith shop, 20x50. Mr. Ramus carried on the wagon and blacksmithing business till 1872, when Mr. Schlosser bought him out and continued the business. In 1874, Mr. S. put up another building, 24x34, two- story, using same for a wood work shop. In 1879, Mr. Schlosser found it necessary to increase the shops; accordingly, he put up his present comnio- dious two-story brick, 32x72; adjoining this, in the rear, a frame of 40x60, for a warehouse and for stor- age of wagon material, etc. The upper story of the brick is used as a paint and trimming shop, the lower for blacksmith and wagon shop, giving fifteen to twenty men employment, turning out heavy lumber wagons, heavy and light spring wagons and buggies; lumber sleighs a specialty in their season; about one hundred set of bob-sleighs sold this winter, 1880-81.
Lay Whitney Richardson, born December 25, 1830, in Canton, St Lawrence Co., N. Y., was the son of J. L. and Delia (McCulloch) Richardson, and was raised on a farm, and resided with his parents in St. Lawrence County until about eighteen years of age, when he came to Defiance County with his parents, in the spring of 1848, having received the usual common school education allowed to boys of his age at that time, by attending school at the old stone schoolhouse in South Canton, N. Y., in the winter season, with an addition of one term at the academy at Canton Village. After coming to Defiance, he re- mained at home with his father and assisted in clearing up a farm, purchased by his father, of 160 acres of wild land (situated about two miles west from Brunersburg, on what was then known as the Bellefontaine pike, near where Lyman Langdon now lives), working on the farm in summer and teaching a winter school in the winter season till the fall of 1852, when he came to Defiance and attended school during that winter, boarding with William Langdon, then Sheriff of Defiauce County. In the spring of
1853, he clerked for John M. Stilwill, who then kept a general store, about opposite where the Russell House now stands, remaining with him about one yoar, when he went into the store of J. M. Boyd, who opened a store and bank in the same block, and soon after sold his stock to J. P. Rowen, of Napoleon, Ohio, and the subject of this sketch was transferred with the goods to Napoleon, to put up the goods and open the trade for the new proprietor. Napoleon then was but a small town and only contained but one othor small store. This was just at the time the Toledo & Wabash Railroad was being built from To- ledo to Fort Wayne, in the year A. D. 1855, and the greater portion of the trade consisted in supplies to contractors and hands then working on the railroad, and business was good. Mr. Richardson remained in the employ of Mr. J. P. Rowen, as salesman and gen- eral manager of the store, for about one year, when he purchased a stock of goods from Abner L. Backus and went into business for himself at Napoleon in A. D. 1856, and remained in trade there until 1860. In April, 1861, Mr. R. enlisted under the first call for 75,000 troops, on the 22d day of April, 1861, and enrolled, in less than three days' time, over one hun- dred of the best young men in Henry County. Mr. R. was tendered a commission on the start, but de- clined, and went out as an Orderly Sergeant in Com- pany F, of the Fourteenth Regiment, under Col. James B. Steadman, of Toledo; served in the cam- paigns of Western Virginia, participated in the battles of Phillipi, Va., Laurel Hill, Cheat River, capture of Gen. Garnett's command, and all the marches and campaigns of West Virginia till August, 1861. The term of enlistment having expired, the regiment returned to Toledo, and was mustered out, Company F, having had the singular misfortune to lose their Captain, A. Crawford, and First Lieu- tenant, J. D. Belnap, both having been accidentally shot by their own men. Mr. Richardson, after re- turning to Napoleon, re-enlisted again in October, 1861, for three years, in Company G, Sixty-eighth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, organized at Napoleon by Col. S. H. Steadman, Maj. R. K. Scott. James G. Haly and others, at Camp Latty, near Na- poleon. Mr. R. entered the service again as Orderly Sergeant, and was promoted to Second Lieutenant of the company at Vicksburg in A. D. 1863, and to First Lieutenant before Atlanta in A. D. 1864; was in all the campaigns, marches and battles in which the regiment was engaged, in the Seventeenth Army Corps of the Army of the Tennessee, under the com- mand of Gen. U. S. Grant, from the commencement of his campaigns at Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Land- ing, Shiloh, Corinth, Miss., and down the Mississippi to Vicksburg, during the siege and at the surrender
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of the same, and on to Jackson, through the Atlanta campaign and with Sherman to the sea, and to Savannah, and was mustered out of service at Savan- nah, Ga., January 8, 1865, never having missed a day's duty or a battle in which his regiment was engaged while in the service. Mr. Richardson, on the 10th of January, 1865, turned his face homeward, taking steamer at Hilton Head for New York, and from there by rail to Washington, D. C., where he iemained about ten days, settling his accounts at the Quarter- master General's office, for ordnance and other stores of Companies G, F and E, of the Sixty-eighth Regi- ment, of which he had been in command while in the regiment. He went to the capitol, and called on the President, Abraham Lincoln, shook hands with him, and said to him, " Mr. President, I have served under you, as Commander-in-Chief, for nearly four years, and am now honorably discharged, and on my way home am come to see you, and say good-bye, and God bless you." He said he was glad to meet the old veterans, and wished me "good luck." This was only a few weeks before he was shot. Mr. R. arrived home at Defiance in February, 1865, and in March, 1865, went into the store of E. F. Lindenberger, near the Maumee bridge, as salesman for five or six years. In 1866, March 28, Mr. Richardson married Miss Mary Metz, of Defiance, Ohio, who was born at Columbus, Ohio, February 8, 1839. Their family consists of four children-Florence M., born April 16, 1867; Hattie Pearl, April 29, 1868; Harry, born July 8, 1869, died March 21, 1871; Ralph Roswell, September 12, 1871, and Nellie, born at Findlay, Hancock Co., Ohio, April 15, 1878. His mother died March, 1875. at Pioneer, Muskingum Co., Ohio, aged sixty-nine years; his father, at the same place January 31, 1881, aged seventy-eight years. In the spring of 1869, Mr. R. was appointed as Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue for the counties of Defiance and Paulding, under Col. George E. Wells, then Assessor of the Tenth District, with headquarters at Toledo. About two years thereafter, a consolidation was made, and his territory increased by the addition of Henry, Williams and Putnam Counties. In A. D. 1873, the office of Assessor was abolished, and the business was done by the Collector and Deputy Collectors, when he was appointed Deputy for the above counties, which position he held till the spring of 1874, when he again went into the dry goods business with A. M. Shead and C. M. Thrall, under the firm name of Shead, Thrall & Co., in the new brick building then just completed by William D. Hill, in what is known as the Keystone Block, on Clinton street; another store was run at Cary, Wyandot Co., Ohio, at the same time. This firm continned about one year, when Mr. Richards purchased the store at Cary, withdrew
from the firm, and removed with his family from De- fiance to Cary and opened up business in his own name, and continued till the fall of 1877, when he sold and removed to Findlay, Hancock Co., Ohio, where he resided till the spring of 1879, when he returned to Defiance, his former home, where he now resides, and is now engaged in the real estate, insur- ance, collection and claim agency business, with office in the Eagle Block, corner of First and Clinton streets.
Robert Cary, born Jannary 1, 1842, is son of David and Nancy (Harter) Cary, in Putnam County, Ohio (then Williams County), on the Auglaize River, near the mouth of Hog Creek, on a farm entered by his grandfather, Rufus Cary. His father, David Cary, was about twelve years old when his parents moved from Shelby County, Ohio, to the farm where he resided for forty years. On this farm Robert Cary was born, and remained with his parents till he was twenty years of age, when he enlisted in Company I, Ninety-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served about two years, and was badly wounded while skirmishing near Chattanooga, Tenn. His grandparents, Cary and Harter, were both sol- diers in the Indian war, and were with Gen. Wayne at Fort Defiance. Mr. Cary was married, September 17, 1865, to Martha E. Williams, of Delaware County, Ohio, a daughter of John and Polly (Budd) Williams, and was born February 27, 1846. Her father died when she was about one year old; her mother lived to be sixty years of age, and died Jan- uary, 1881. Mr. Cary had two children, Alice V. and Eva May; the youngest, Eva May, died February 9, 1881, at the age of eleven years. Mr. Cary's father died at Charloe, Paulding Co., Ohio, May 12, 1878. His inother is now living in Defiance, where she was partly raised, and went to school in the block- house on the Fort Grounds, which was then used for a schoolhouse. Mr. Cary located in Defiance County in 1867; was elected as Justice of the Peace for two terms; studied law for two years with Hill & Myers, of this town, and afterward engaged in the business of collecting soldiers' claims for bounty, pensions, etc., being a badly crippled soldier himself, thus fit- ting him the better to look after the just claims of his comrades. Mr. Cary is now devoting his whole time to this business. Office in Eagle Block.
John A. Foust was born March 24, 1852, in Jef- ferson Township, Williams County, Ohio. His par- ents, Benjamin S. and Priscilla (Markle) Foust were . born, the former in Bucks County, Penn., the latter in Circleville, Ohio. They had a family of six chil- dren-Mary A., who died in infancy; George W., who also died in infancy; Lydia C., John A., Effie and Ella. John A., the subject of this sketch, spent
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his boyhood days working on his father's farm in summer and attending the district school in winter, until about seventeen, when he entered the Mykrantz College at Bryan, Ohio, where he remained about two years, when he entered the shop of A. B. Stoner, of West Unity, Ohio, to learn the blacksmith busi- ness, where he remained two and a half years, then started out as a tramping " jour," all over the coun- try, until July 14, 1872, at which time he was mar- riod to Miss Mary A. Crethers, only daughter of Lind- say Crethers, of Stark County, Ohio. The fruit of this marriage has been three children-Gracie, born July 12, 1873, deceased September 12, 1874; Fred- die L., born May 28, 1874; Maudie, born December 2, 1880. After his marriage, Mr. Foust settled down to his trade in Hicksville, in this county, where he did a very extensive and thriving business until the fall of 1880, when he was elected Sheriff of the coun- ty, and entered upon the duties of the office the first Monday of January, 1881. At the county convention held at Defiance, in June, 1882, he received the unanimous vote of the convention for a second term, and at the election held in October of the same year was re-elected by a handsome majority. Mr. Foust is a Democrat, a man of simple, sterling character, possessing many good qualities, and has the respect of a wide circle of friends, not simply in the party of which he is a member, but among his political op- ponents as well.
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