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Harvey J. Hill was born April 5, 1818, in Orleans County, N. Y., and remained there until he was about sixteen years of age. From there he went to Pennsyl. vania with his parents, Thomas S. and Olive (Cole) Hill, at which place his mother died. His father died in New York. Mr. Hill then left Pennsylvania for Cleve- land, Ohio, and from there came to Defiance County, arriving here in 1836. At the time of the building of the State dam across the Maumee at Independence, he assisted in getting ont the timber, and helped to build the same, having had some experience in that kind of business, as he had previously helped in the construc- tion of a dam at Providence, in Wood County, Ohio. He settled on the farm on which he now resides, in Sec- tion 10, of Highland Township, in 1849, where he had previously made a clearing and erected a log cabin. Mr. Hill was married January 1, 1840, to Miss Jane Peterson, of Highland Township. To them were born six children, viz., Mary L., Harvey J., William L., David, Nancy D. and Hannah E. Of these, Mary L., Harvey J. and Hannah E. are dead. Mrs. Hill died January 27, 1852. Mr. Hill married, for his second wife, Miss Matilda Ann Smith ; of this marriage, two daughters were born-Clara A. and Hattie F., both deceased. Those who survive of the first are all grown up, mar- ried, and live in Highland Township. Mr. Hill had two sons in the army of the late war, 1861-65. William L. was wounded in the left hand at the battle of Win- chester, Va. Harvey J. enlisted in Company B, Sixty- eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in October, 1861, and died in hospital, Rome, Ga., June 16, 1864. Mr. Hill's father was in the war of 1812. William L. married Libbie J. Moon. Their children are Clara J., James F., Ida, Charlotte, Henry and an infant son. At the time when Mr. Hill came to the township land was worth from 75 cents to $2.50 per acre. His neighbors were Samuel Case, Jacob Peterson, Henry Brechbill, Charles Gardner Ames, John M. Sanford, David Skiver, P. G. Hoeltzel, John Boucher, Jacob Kraft and Joshna Kaler Cramer. There were but few Indians here at the time Mr. Hill came to the town- ship, they having taken their departure for their West- ern home in 1839. Mr. Hill speaks of an old Indian doctor by the name of Konkeyfoot, who remained bere until his death in 1862. He was an herb doctor, and gave as his reason for staying, that it was the best sec- tion of country he had ever seen, to supply himself with his favorite herbs. He was quite successful in his prac- tice, and especially in curing the bite of poisonous snakes, etc., and treated that loathsome disease, catarrh, very successfully, performing many permanent cures. He could read and write, and during his life-time dis- tributed many of his receipts among his friends, which are yet used throughout the country with great success. He died at the Widow Egler's, on the Maumee. Mr. Hill does not claim any notoriety as a hunter, but thinks he killed the largest wildcat ever killed in
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this county, which measured about six feet in length. We have an account of one other killed by an old hunter and pioneer of Milford Township, J. J. Green, about the same time, its weight being ciglity pounds, and its length Mr. Green gave us in this wise, that when held up so as to give its full length, was as long as he (Green) was tall, and Mr. Green is fully a six-footer ; but as we have not the weight of Mr. Hill's we are unable to say which was the " boss."
John M. Sanford was born February 20, 1803, in New Jersey. His parents were John and Sarah Sanford. His father died about 1850, aged seventy years, and his mother died about 1865, aged about eighty-four years. Mr. Sanford married Miss Ella Cassiday, March, 1830, in Seneca County, Ohio, by whom he had eleven chil- dren-Jane, Rebecca, John, Eliza, Andrew, Samuel, Electa, Cass, Susannah, Volney and Franklin. Mrs. Sanford died, and he married Hannah Aderson, Decem- ber 25, 1853. His children were George, William H. and Hannah. John M. Sanford was the first Justice of the Peace, and Mr. Brazilla Hendricks the second. Mr. Sanford was the first settler in the township, and Mr. William Boucher, David Skiver, Henry Brechbill, B. Hendricks, William Mansfield, Jacob Kraft, Richard Vanskiver, William Hoyt and James Greer were the other earliest settlers. The Wyandots, Senecas and Ottawas hunted in the township about seven years after Mr. Sanford came. Powell Creek traverses the township from the south to the northeastern part, where it empties into the Auglaize. It was so called because a man named Powell lived on the stream, and traded with the Indians, and sold deer skins and coon skins. Mr. Sanford was often visited by the Indians in his cabin, and shot at mark with them, and traded with them for skins, etc. The most noted hunter in the town- ship was Mr. Skiver, of whom it was related that he could run a wolf track through leaves as readily as a trained hunting dog. He hunted wolves for their sealps, which commanded a good price He could get about $6.50 for a wolf scalp-$4 from State, and $2.50 from county. He killed a good many deer, and sold their pelts. The time to kill them was about October, November and December. The pelts were good during those months, which produced the "short blue hair." Mr. Sanford died recently.
Jacob Kraft was born September 3, 1824, in Lancaster County, Penn., and came to Highland Township. Henry County, in the fall of 1839, and settled on Section 18, ; The funeral services were held at the house of Isaac
and finally located on Section 1, in 1850, and now has 180 acres. He married Miss Catharine White of Defiance County, October, 1841. His children are John, Oliver, William A., Eliza J .. Jacob K .. Elizabeth A. Frank M., George, Allen and Charles S. All are liv- ing. John, Oliver and William were in the army of 1861 -65. Oliver was wounded twice-once at Chickamanga, and the second time at Jonesboro. This town- ship was organized in 1842. Jacob Kraft was First
Clerk, John M. Sanford, First Justice of the Peace P. G. Hoeltzel, Henry Brechbill, John M. Sanford, First Trustees. The first election was held at the house of Chancey Ames, on Section 9. There were twenty voters present ; their names were John M. Sanford, P. G. Hoeltzel, David Skiver, John Wiler, William Boucher Richard and Isaac Vanskiver, John White, Brazilla Hendricks, John White, Jr., Henry White, Jacob Kraft. Solomon McCullouch, Jefferson Warren, Augustus Skiver, Henry Brechbill, Jacob Peterson, Samnel Case, Isaac Peterson and Chancey Ames ; all of these except six are dead. The election seems to have been in 1842, One of the first, if not the first schools, was taught on Section 18, by " Grandpap Dunlap," about 1844 or 1845. Mr. Kraft says .J. M. Sanford was the first settler in the township. Mr. Kraft has been Clerk for about fifteen years and served as Treasurer for some time. He has been a hunter of some note. Has killed many deer and coons.
Augustus Skiver was born in Hocking County, Ohio, December 25, 1821, and came to Defiance County witli his parents, David and Nellie Skiver, in the winter of 1837. They had intended to go through to Iowa, but found this country to be alive with game, and, being great hunters, concluded to locate here and settled down on Section 19, of Highland Township, at which place the parents died-Mr. Skiver in 1870, age sixty -seven years, and Mrs. Skiver (being very much older than her husband, yet she outlived him about ten years) February 23, 1880, age nearly one hundred and eleven years. Mrs. Skiver, was a resident of Defiance County, for over forty years, and was the mother of eight children, six of whom are now living. Although the old family record has been lost, it appears from evidences gathered from her- self and others that she was born in Rockingham County, Va., on Easter Sunday, A. D. 1769. She was seven years old when the Declaration of Independence was made. She distinctly remembered many incidents of those early Revolutionary times. She removed to Ohio after the war of the Revolution, when it was an unbroken wil- (lerness, and, notwithstanding the many hardships of pioneer life, has never known what it was to be sick. She lost the use of her eyes about twenty years previous to her death from a cataract, but otherwise has enjoyed the use of her faculties, her mind being clear to the day of her death. IIer descendants, of whom there are a large number living, are residents of Defiance County. Skiver.
James Ashton settled in Section 9, Highland Town- ship, in 1851. At this date there were but few settlers between the Brechbill settlement and Powell Creek. There were two school districts in the township-one schoolhouse at what is now called Ayersville Cemetery, the other, a frame building, called the Hoeltzel School- honse, where the brick now stands, near Augustus Skiver's residence. In 1852, a third district was formed,
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and a log cabin built where J. B. Good now lives, David Edy. a settler from Tuscarawas County being the first teacher. Mr. Ashton's grandfather (William Ashton), came from Lancaster, England, with a Quaker colony to Pennsylvania, under the supervision of William Penn. Some time thereafter he married a Quakeress named Hutchinson ; from this marriage there were two children, a daughter and son. The son, Samuel, was raised by Dr. Edward Chatman, a maternal uncle by marriage. Samuel was born in February, 1771, and 1795 married a Quakeress named Hannah Johnson. They resided in Bucks County, Penn., until the fall of 1799, when they emigrated to Fayette County, Penn., and from thence to Washington County, Ohio, in 1807. There they remained until the spring of 1811, when they settled in Clermont County, Ohio, where the family underwent all the hardships, deprivations and incidents peculiar to and unavoidably encountered by the early settlers of Ohio. Their children were William T., Thomas H., Samnel, James, Zachariah, George, Jolin and Lucretia. In September, 1822, James Ashton married Casandra Sly. whose father, Jacob Sly, was a native of Virginia. His father, Jacob Sly, was born on board a vessel, during its passage from Holland to Virginia, of Dutch and Scotch parentage. They settled near Lexington, Va. Mrs. Ashton's father, with a party of young Virginians, emigrated to Fort Washing_ ton, Ohio, in 1791. He subsequently joined Gen. Wayne's army and was with it in the campaign against the Indians on the Maumce. Soon after Mr. Sly's father, with his family, left their home in Virginia, and went to Fort Washington, now Cincinnati. Here the Slys built a flouring mill, perhaps the first mill erected on Mill Creek. Jacob married the daughter of Mr. Prickett, who with his family had emigrated from Vir- ginia and settled on a stream in Clermont County called Stone Lick. Mrs. Sly had two brothers (older than her- self) stolen by the Indians, they were aged eight and four years. Their mother sent them to drive in their cows, the cow-bell being heard but a few rods from the house, when the boys were picked up by some skulking savages ; subsequently, the elder made his escape, and returned to his home. All efforts to recapture the younger boy were unsuccessful ; in fact nothing was ever known of his fate, until his voluntary return many years after. He stated that he had been carried away, and adopted by a chief, whose daughter he had married, had forgotten his name and never knew where his people lived, until the chief, upon his dying pallet, told him who he was, and where he would find his own people, whom he immediately visited, but was so thor- oughly inured to the life, habits and customs of the people of his adoption, that he preferred them to those of his birth, although after obtaining positive knowledge of his identity, he educated his children, namely, two sons, who became civilized and good citizens. The fruits of the marriage of Jacob Sly and Miss Prickett were | Helen ; Frederick W., who married Naoma Myers ; Jo-
eight children-George, Joseph, David, Mary, Eliza- beth, Casandra, Rebecca and Clara. The marriage of James Ashton and Casandra Sly was productive of nine children, as follows : Tolbert, Lucinda, Sarah Maria, Elizabeth, Mary, Clarinda, Isabella, Thomas H., James M. and William S. Thomas H. left the farm in 1860, went to select school, taught by B. F. Southward, and soon after commenced the study of medicine with his consin, Dr. B. D. Ashton, at Defiance. He attended lectures at the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, also at the University of Nash- ville. In March, 1864, he formed a partnership for the practice of medicine with Dr. W. K. Winton at Wabash, Ind. Soon thereafter he received an appointment on the medical staff of the United States Army. During July and August, 1864, he was on duty in the Cum- berland field hospital at Nashville. In consequence of the arduous duties, Dr. Ashton's health became impaired, when he was sent to Fort Rosecrans. Here he re- mained a short time, when he was ordered to report for duty in the hospitals of Murfreesboro, Tenn., where 'he remained until January, 1865. On the 1st of the fol- lowing May, Dr. Ashton was assigned Surgeon, in charge of United States Army General Hospital No. 4, with a capacity of two hundred and eighty-four beds. Here he remained until the following November, when he received orders to transfer the patients North, and to dispose of the hospital property by returning all un- damaged supplies to the United States Army Purveyor at Nashville, and to sell all damaged goods at public sale. Thus closed the last Government hospital in that part of Tennessee. Dr. Aslıton returned to Defiance and entered into the general practice of medicine and surgery, where he now resides. July 20, 1865, he married Miss Mary Elizabeth Kiser. They have two children, Merrill, born on the 31st day of May, 1866, and Ethel, born on the 14th day of February, 1870.
Phillip George Hoeltzel was born May 3, 1803, in Alsace, France, and came to America in 1830, landing at New York, and proceeded from there to Penn Yan, Yates County, N. Y., where his parents had set- tled two years previous. Being a baker by trade, he settled down in Penn Yan at bis business, which he con- tinued for about nine years. October 27, 1833, he was married to Mrs. Margaret Wheeler (ure Moon), who had two children by her first husband, viz .: William and Mary Aun. She was born in Columbia County, N. Y.,' in 1807. By this union with Mrs. Wheeler, Mr. Hoeltzel hecame the father of eight children, as follows : George Phillip, who married Miss Eliza Porter, who was killed while crossing the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in East Defiance, in company with John Fullmer and his wife, Isabel. The engine striking the forward part of the wagon, separatirg the horses from the wagon and escaped unhurt, but killing the occupants instantly ; Maria Saloma, who married Jeremiah Hall; Legin
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sephine, married to Alvaro Van Skiver ; Hannah, mar- ried to George Burkstrazer, and now living in Yates County, N. Y .; Naoma, who died while young ; Jacob, the youngest, who enlisted in Capt. Gleason's company, Fourteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, taken prisoner and died in prison at Atlanta, Ga., A. D. 1864. In 1841, Mr. Iloeltzel came to Highland Township and purchased a farm of James Grear, on Section 19, a small portion of which was cleared, and on which there was a saw mill which had been built by Mr. Cummins, a former owner, from whom Grear purchased, where he has resided over since. Mr. Hoeltzel has been Township Trustee for a number of years, and Supervisor several times. When he first came to the township, he found the following persons in Powell Creek settlement, viz. : John M. San- ford, Richard Van Skiver, William Boucher, David Ski- ver, John Wiler and George Basett. Brazilla Hendrix came soon after. Of the children of Levi Wheeler (first husband of Mrs. Hoeltzel), William married Maria Gill, and Mary A. married Isaac Skiver, and are residents of the township. At the time Mr. H. came in no one was living between his place and Defiance, and on the Belle- fontaine road the other way, it was nine miles to the first settler, and five or six miles from there to the next. Mr. Hoeltzel was born a Lutheran in religious belief, and after his settlement here became a member of the United Brethren, and afterward united with the Christian Church, to which he now belongs. He owns 140 acres of well-improved land. He rented land four years ; then bought. He had very little capital at the start, but is now surrounded by all the comforts and necessaries of life.
N. A. Boutell was born in New Salem, Franklin Co., Mass., August 7, 1818, and is a son of John and Han- nah (Winship) Boutell. The early life of our subject was passed upon the farm in Massachusetts until four- teen years old, and in the district schools he obtained the rudiments of his education. At the above age, he removed with his parents to Cattaraugus County, N. Y., where he continned to follow the fortunes of the farin, with the family, nntil twenty-five years of age. Septem- ber 15, 1840, he was united in marriage with Miss Annis daughter of Lewis J. and Mary Wheeler, of Cattaraugus County. For two years following this event, he re- mained with his parents, and then engaged in lumber- ing for two years, after which he removed to Clermont County, Ohio, where he rented a large farm, and in con- nection with it carried on a store business at Charleston, in the above county. In the fall of 1850, he settled one mile southeast of Ayersville in this township, on a farm of sixty acres, where he lived three years. He then soltt out and purchased eighty acres where he now resides, of which he at present owns thirty-nine acres. At the time he located here, he took up the carpenter's trade, and although he never served any regnlar appren- ticeship, his natural genius enabled him soon to become
a skillful workman and leading mechanic. For fifteen years he plied his trade successfully, and in the fall of 1865 he went to Atlanta, Ga., where he found employ- ment at his trade in the re-building of the above place, which had been battered down by the engines of war, and was followed by his family in 1866. Here his genius as a master workman soon became manifest, and it was not long until he was made foreman of other men, and given full supervision in the erection of some of the finest edifices in Atlanta, among which we mention the capitol building, the H. I. Kimble house, the Governor's inansion and the United States barracks. He was sub- sequently employed in a similar capacity at Savannalı, Ga., in the erection of a school building and boarding house for the children of freedimen, and at Americus, Ga., he erected a church building for the Colored Bap- tists. While at Atlanta, he was chosen President of the Carpenters' and Joiners' Association, an organization he assistedl to found. During the time Mr. B. was in the South, he received many testimonials from the people and press, which speak in glowing terms of his sterling integ- rity, his uncompromising honor as a man, and as an ingen- ions and intelligent workman. In the fall of 1870, he jour- neyed West through Missouri, visiting his children, and soon after took up his abode at his former Ohio home, and was joined by his family the ensning autumn, since when he has been engaged in carrying on his farm, hav- ing abandoned his trade in 1879. Politically, he has been identified with the Democratic party during his life, and was the second Township Clerk elected in Highland Township. He was appointed Postmaster at Ayersville under Buchanan's administration, and resigned during Hayes' tenure of office, when Mrs. Boutell was appointed Postmistress to fill the vacaucy. By his first wife, Mr. Bontell had five children, three of whom are living, viz. : Adeline (Mrs. Rover, Lima, Ohio), Harriet (Mrs. Myers, Defiance, Ohio, and Mary (Mrs. Runyan, Boston, Mass.)., The deceased were Lorency (Mrs. Kempf), who died in Goshen, Ohio, and Emma (Mrs. Gillespie), who died in Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Boutell died June 27, 1852. His sec- ond marriage was celebrated in Clermont County, Ohio, with Miss Rachel Osborne, daughter of Jesse and Jane (Leever) Osborne, who has borne him seven children" three of whom are living, viz. : Georgia E., Estella C. and Carrie L. The deceased are Alice, George W. (twin brother to Georgia E.), Nannie and an infant daughter. July 7, 1881, Mr. Boutell met with an acci- tlent, which for miraculous escape from instant death has few parallels in the history of casualties. While hauling hay from his field to the barn, the rack on which the hay was loaded gave way and precipitated wagon and contents into a ditch. To avoid going in the same direction as the hay, he flung himself in the op- posite tlirection, and fell, head foremost, against one of the wheels, and by the momentum of the fall, was car- ried to the hard ground. The shock dislocated the spinal column at the fourth joint, paralyzing his arms
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and shoulders, and totally depriving him of conscious- ness for a period of twelve minutes. When returning reason enabled him - to realize his fearful condition, he made an almost superhuman effort to relieve himself, and, strange as it appears, the dislocated joint was forced back into its natural position, with a report like the crack of a whip, which was distinctly heard by his attendants. From this shock he has never recovered, and is a constant sufferer from its effects. Mr. Boutell has probably. met with more accidents, and had more bones broken, than any other man in Defiance County. Since his fourth year, he has suffered twenty-one dislo- cations, embracing breaks in every part of his body. Of all, Mr. Boutell says, the last accident (breaking his neck) was the worst, and caps the climax of every ache and pain that he has endured during his long and peculiar life of continuous accidents.
John Boutell died at Atlanta, Ga., June 25, 1865, aged seventy-six years. Hannah Boutell is living with our subject, at the remarkable age of nine-two years, and although her frame is bent under the weight of long and eventful years, her mind is yet unimpared, and it is with ease that she recounts in a graphic way the stirring scenes and incidents that have transpired along her lengthy and remarkable journey through life. To Mr. and Mrs. Boutell, Sr., were born six children, three of whom are living-John, Nathan A. and Harriet ; deceased are Charles, Mary and Emily.
squirrel hunters. In 1849, he was married to Miss Loverna, daughter of J. Allen Randall, by whom he has had nine children, five of whom are living - Clarissa E., Sarah E., Allen and Levi (twins), the latter deceased, infant twins (deceased), Ella, Pearley, Ray and William (deceased).
A. Fullmer, farmer, P. O. Defiance, was born in Baden, Germany, in the year 1809, and is a son of Philip Fullmer, a native of Germany. The early life of our subject was passed upon the farm in his native land .- In 1832, he came to America, and after wander- ing awhile over various States, he finally settled in Washington County, Penn., in which he lived until 1836 or 1837, when he removed to Crawford County, Ohio, where he resided eleven years, and in 1849 bought 160 acres of land where he now lives, upon which he lo- cated at that time. At present he owns 200 acres of well-improved land. He was married in 1843 to Mar- garet Jenner, of Germany, who came to this county in childhood. Ten children have been born to them, eight of whom are living -Jane, Jacob, Isaac, David, Margaret, William, Caroline and Anna ; Mary and Sarah are deceased. Mr. F.'s first marriage was cele- brated in Pennsylvania, with Susanna Simons, who bore him two children-John and Abraham. The former was a member of the One Hundredth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, enlisted in 1862, and was wound- ed near Atlanta, Ga. He was accidentally killed by a train of cars on a crossing in Defiance. Abraham was a member of the Eighty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, enlisting at the first call for men. He was a Corporal of his company, and was killed at the battle of Corinth in 1862. Mr. F. is a gentleman well preserved for his age, and is one among the successful and respectable citizens of the county.
Enos B. Mix, farmer, P. O. Defiance, was born in Knox County, Ohio, October 14, 1826, and is a son of Levi Mix, of New York, who was a son of Amos Mix, a Revolutionary patriot, who fought in the struggle for independence. Levi Mix settled in Knox County, Olio, and when our subject was ten years old settled in Allen County, which is now Auglaize County, where he made a permanent home. Our subject obtained only a com- Hervey J. Hill, farmer, P. O. Ayersville, Ohio, was born in Orleans County, N. Y., April 5, 1818. His early life was passed in his native State, and when a man grown he removed to Erie County, Penn., where he lived until 1834 or 1835, at which time he came to Ohio and found employment on the canal, then in course of construction. On the public works of the State, he labored some years, and part of the time was foreman of a gang of men. He afterward lived seven years in Seneca County, Ohio, on a farm, and in 1849 located where he now lives. He entered 120 acres from the Government. He has been entirely successful, and since his coming into this county has owned and paid for 520 acres of land ; has given his children good homes, and now owns 200 acres on the old homestead. Officially, Mr. Hill has held many township offices, and very satisfactorily discharged his duties as an officer. He is one of our self-made men, having begun life without means, but with the aid of willing hands and a strong heart he has accomplished the great object in life-made a good home. He has been twice mar- mon education in the subscription schools of that day, and before becoming of age, he enlisted in the regular army, for service in the Mexican war, and was assigned to Capt. McGruder's Battery of Flying Artillery. He arrived in Mexico soon after the capitulation of the City of Mexico, and was on duty in that place four months, and saw service in the above country till the fall of 1848-being there nearly one year. He re- ceived from the United States Government eighty acres of appraised land as a bounty for his service in the war. On this land he located in 1849, and has since purchased eighty acres, all of which is well improved land. He has been identified with most of the offices of the town- ship, and by a careful discharge of the duties has proven himself possessed of good executive ability. He has also been the Republican nominee lor Probate Judge and Commissioner, and was defeated only by greatly reduced majority. He is a charter member of Highland Grange, No. 879; was elected first Master and is now serving his fourth term. During the war, he served a short time as Lieutenant of a company of , ried, first to Jane Petersen, January 1, 1840, who
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