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he was highly respected. He was elected Treasurer of Williams County, then including Defiance, in 1841, which office he held two terms, serving with honor asd credit, after which he returned to his farm on Lick Creek, was immediately elected Justice of the Peace, serving fifteen years. In 1865, he moved to Evansport, Defiance County; was appointed Post- master, which position he held at the time of his death, August 4, 1875. In 1870, he was appointed Assistant Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio, and officiated in taking the census of that year. In politics, he was a Democrat, until the breaking-out of the rebellion, when he identified himself with the Re- publican party. He became a member of the Method- ist Episcopal Church at an early age, and continued therein an active and devoted member until his death. He was a kinsman of the Hon. Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania. The family of John and Lydia Cam- eron consisted of the following children: Nancy Jane, born May 11, 1831, in Perry Township, Wayne Co., Ohio; married to R. B. Olmstead May 25, 1852; again married on the 10th day of October, 1864, to Tunis Stirers; Harriet Bostater, born August 29, 1833, in Wayne County, died June 25, 1848; John Stenger, born January 30. 1836, in Tiffin, Ohio, married to Elizabeth Snider August 26, 1858; Lucretia Ann, born January 27, 1838, in Tiffin Town- ship, Ohio, married to Amos Snider November 5, 1857; Simon Mordecai, born in Tiffin Township, married to Miss Martha A. Lingle November 21, 1865, married to Miss Susan M. Bennett in 1882; William Wallace, born January 25, 1843, in Pulaski Township, Williams County, died at Lebanon, Ky., March 9, 1862; he was a private in Company D, Thirty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Robert Bruce, born in Bryan, Pulaski Township, December 13, 1845, mar- ried to Miss Isabella C. Christy October 15, 1876; Edwin Ruthvin, born October 3, 1848, in Tiffin Town- ship, died July 24, 1849; John P. Cameron, born March 29, 1851, in Tiffin Township.
Lydia (Stenger) Cameron was born in Lycoming County on the 18th day of September, 1810. Her parents, John and Nancy Ann Stenger, moved from Pennsylvania to Wayne County, Ohio in 1817, at which time she was but six years old. On the 19th of November, 1829, she was married to John Cameron. In the fall of 1834, in company with her husband and other members of his father's family, she came to Williams County (now Defiance County). She was just twenty-four years of age on the day of their arrival here. In a new and wilderness country, surrounded with the trials and burdened with the hardships incident to pioneer life, she and her husband commenced to make for themselves a home. With;the exception of four years, she lived on the farm until
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1865, a period of about twenty-seven years. But hard work, long continued toil, care and anxiety had done their work, and the once vigorous constitution had become impaired and broken. In 1865, she, with her husband, moved for the last time, to the country village of Evansport, to spend the evening of life within its quiot and peaceful limits. At the ear- ly age of seventeen years, she became a member of and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and re tained;therein an unbroken membership until the time of her death, a period of nearly fifty-four years. She died at the residence of her son, Simon M. Cameron, in Evansporr, on the 20th day of April, 1881, in the seventy-first year of her age. She was the mother of ten children, of whom mention is made in the sketch of the life of John Cameron herein.
John P. Cameron, youngest son of John and Lydia Cameron, was born in Tiffin Township on the 29th of March, 1851. He remained with his parents on the farm until the fall of 1865, when he accom- panied them to their new home in Evansport. Here he attended the district school during the winter sessions, and worked on the farm during the summer vacations, until 1869, when he entered the Bryan Normal Academy, and received therein an academic education. In March, 1873, he began the study of law, and in the fall of the same year entered the law department of the university at Ann Arbor, Mich., where he remained two years, graduating therefrom in the spring of 1875. In the spring of 1876. he was admitted to practice law, and on the 5th day of July of the same year came to Defiance, and com- menced the practice of his profession, having his office with Hon. W. D. Hill and Gilbert D. Myers. On the 5th of November, 1877, he formed a partnership with the above-named firm, and continued a member there- of until about March 1, 1879, when the firm was dissolved by mutual consent. On the 9th day of March of the same year, he entered into copartner- ship, for the practice of law at Defiance, with Ben- jamin F. Enos, which partnership terminated on the ist of January, 1880 (Mr. Enos having been elected Prosecuting Attorney of Defiance County). Inmedi- ately thereafter, on the same day, he associated him- self with and became the partner of Henry B. Harris, in the practice of law in the same place, which part- nership continued until February 1, 1882, when, by mutual consent, it was dissolved. In the fall of 1881, he received the nomination for, and in October, of the same year was elected to, the office of Clerk of Courts of Defiance County. being the first Republican Clerk ever elected in Defiance County, and on the 9th of February, 1882. he entered npon the duties of his office, which he has faithfully discharged to the satisfaction of his numerous friends in both parties,
who united in electing him to his responsible position.
Robert B. Cameron, the fourth son of John and Lydia (Stenger) Cameron, was born in Bryan, Will- iams Co., Ohio, December 13, 1845. From thence he accompanied the family to his father's farm on Lick Creek, in Defiance County, where he remained, working on the farm, until the fall of 1865, at which time he and his brother, John P. Cameron, together with their father and mother, moved to the village of Evansport. In the winter of 1865-66, he attended school in the village, George W. Ury being teacher. In the spring following, he entered the Bryan Nor- mal Academy, at Bryan, Ohio, under the tutorship of Prof. C. W. Mykranz, where he remained four terms, of three months each. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Houston Russell, April 1, 1869, at Evansport, Ohio; attended medical lectures at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), in the class of 1870 and 1871, and of Starling Medical Col- lege, Columbus, Ohio, in the class of 1872 and 1873, graduating at the latter school February 22, 1873, since which time he has been practicing medicine in Evansport. He was married to Miss Isabella Christy, daughter of John and Fanny Christy, of Williams Connty, Ohio, October 15, 1876. Their family, by this union, is as follows : Lillian May, Robert Clay. ton and Roy Belt. Dr. Cameron was appointed Post- master at Evansport in 1875, serving in that capacity until 1881, when he resigned. He was once ap- pointed and twice elected Trustee of Tiffin Township, which office he now holds. He assisted his father . in preparing the census reports for the district com- prising the townships of Adams, Tiffin, Washington and Delaware, in 1870, and was himself appointed Enumerator of Census for the township of Tiffin in the year 1880. which position he filled with such noat- ness and accuracy as to receive the highest commen- dation from the Supervisor of Census for the Northern District of Ohio. He is a member of Northwest Chapter. No. 45, R. & A. M., Bryan, Ohio; of Evans- port Lodge, No. 511, F. & A. M., and of Evansport Lodge, No 489, I. O. O. F .; was elected W. M. of Lodge 511, and served in that office, by the unani- mous voice of said lodge, from 1876 to 1882. He has been thrice elected Secretary of Lodge 489, I. O. O. F., which position he now holds.
Christopher Kuhn was born in Germany June 8, 1808; immigrated to Tiffin Township in 1844, having been previously married (August, 1835) in Germany to Miss Ann Mary Barbara Borea. They had a fam ily of seven children -- Barbara (dead), Ann Mary. Henry, John, Peter, Christopher and one who died in infancy. Mrs. Kuhn departed this life September 14, 1875, and Mr. Kuhn still continues to reside on his farm in Section 33 of this township.
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Obadiah Purtee, son of Lawrence and Rebecca (Webb) Purtee, was born July 29, 1833, in Tiffin Township. on the farm entered by his father on Sec- tion 32. His father was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1801, and the latter (he thinks) near Dayton, Ohio. They were married in 1827, and died on the farm they entored here. Their children were Rachel (dead), Hannah, Obadiah, Louisa, Lucretia, George, Joseph and Catharine (the latter died in in- fancy). Hannah and Louisa reside in Missouri, the rest are residents of this county. Obadiah married, September 26, 1860, Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick and Anna (Wissler) Engle, born June 26, 1839. Of this union the fruits are three children -- Anna, born February 9, 1862, died February 13, 1865; Horatio E., born September 21, 1864, and Esther J., born Octo- ber 24, 1866. The father of Mrs. Purtee was born in Pennsylvania, her mother in Pickaway County, Ohio, and was daughter of the old pioneers, John and Catharine Wissler, and she is still living on the old farm entered by Mr. Engle in 1835, after he came from Dayton, Ohio, whither he moved from Carlisle, Penn., in 1829.
Jacob Hall was born in Pennsylvania January 15, 1803, and married Susannah Coy in 1822. Mrs. Hall was born July 2, 1805, in Greene County, Ohio. They came to Defiance County in the fall of 1831, and settled in Section 15, Tiffin Township. Mr. Hall died April 5, 1851, and Mrs. Hall died October 23, 1870. Their family consisted of Rebecca, born Jan- ยท uary 11, 1823, aud married Thomas Robinson, she died February 15, 1848; John born January 8, 1825, died July 10, 1845; Sarah Ann, born in 1827, and married William Churchman October 22, 1847; George C., born June 23, 1830; Jacob, born August 30, 1832; Jesse Hall, born January 17, 1835; Oliver Hall was born February 7, 1838; Adam, born March 14, 1841; William, born April 10, 1843. George Hall, a brother of Jacob Hall, accompanied him when he moved to this township.
George C. Hall, the son of Jacob and Susannah (Coy) Hall, was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, June 23, 1830. The next year he was brought by his parents to Tiffin Township, where he has resided ever since. His parents were among the few earliest pioneers, who opened up the wilderness of Tiffin Township, and George was raised amidst the priva- tions and hardships of frontier life. He was married, October 13, 1852, to Mary Ann Bailor, who was born March 10, 1832, the daughter of John and Nancy (Lantz) Bailor. Her mother was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, May 6, 1813, and married John Bailor in the spring of 1831. Mrs. Hall was the only child by this marriage: John Bailor died in August, 1832, and his widow married, for a second husband, Solo-
mon Snider, by whom she had the following children: Amos, Samuel, Elizabeth and Louisa. They emi- grated to Defiance County in 1842, where Mrs. Snider died December 31, 1852. The children of George C. and Mary Ann Hall were Rosina A., born in 1854, married James M. Phillips June 14, 1876, and died September 5, 1881; Clarissa A., who married John Ermine June 14, 1878; Francis M., married to Phoebe Kellermire. January 12, 1881; Archibald A., Amos J., Wesley A. (deceased) and Elmer. Mr. Hall is a prosperous, successful farmer of Tiffin Town- ship, and owns the old homestead of his father in Section 15, which was wrested, with his assistance, from its primitive wilderness and converted into one of the best improved and finest farms of Tiffin Township.
Jacob Hall, son of Jacob and Susannah Hall, was born August 30, 1832, in the old log cabin in Tiffin Township, which his father built and removed to in 1831. He was reared in Tiffin, and married Margaret Christy January 5, 1854. She was born in Washing- ton County, Penn., April 12, 1832. Their family consisted of Emma (deceased), Cora (deceased), Robert C., who married Mary Fribley in February, 1881; John, married September 14, 1882, to Fannie May Russell; Freddie (deceased), Anna and Maggie. Mr. Hall volunteered in the service in 1861, but sickness prevented him from taking the field. June 21, 1863, he enrolled his name in Company E, Eighty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was dis- charged, by reason of expiration of term of enlist- ment, February 10, 1864. He resided in Williams County in 1855, and from 1860 to 1871 was Constable of Tiffin Township. He now owns and occupies a farm in Section 3, adjoining Evansport. He also owns a brick-yard, which was started in 1878, and is now supplying the village and surrounding country.
Adam Hall, another son of Jacob Hall, was born March 14, 1841, on his father's homestead, where he remained till eighteen years of age, when he began doing for himself. He commenced working at his trade, carpentering, in the spring of 1861, and con - tinued till his enlistment in Company E, Fourteenth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, February 8, 1864. He remained in service till the close of July, 1865. He returned home and was married, September 14, 1865, to Elizabeth Dieden, daughter of Jacob and Hannah Dieden. She was born in Tiffin Township January 24, 1847. After marriage, they settled in Stryker, Williams County, and resided five years, then returned to Defiance County, eventually settling on the farm they now occupy, in Section 9. Their children are Henry H., born June 4, 1866; Otto A., born December 21, 1867; Ernest A., born May 24, 1871; Jennie M., born September 26, 1875, and Wes- tern M., born August 1, 1877.
JOHN
SNIDER.
MRS. JOHN SNIDER.
MRS MARY CONRAD.
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RESIDENCE OF JOHN SNIDER , TIFFIN TP. DEFIANCE CO. OHIO.
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William Hall was born in Tillin Township April 10, 1843 ; is the son of Jacob and Susanna Hall, pioneers of Tillin. Ile was raised in his native township, and learned the cooper trade. He was married, April 26, 1866, to Laura A. Ury, daughter of George W. Ury, of Washington Township. Their children are Flora C., born Angust 15, 1867 ; Edwin E., born March 10, 1869 ; Alice B., born September 27, 1870 ; George F., born July 31, 1872; Grace M., born December 30, 1876 ; and Franklin F., born January 9, 1880. Mr. Hall enlisted in Company E, Fourteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, February 23, 1864, and served to the close of the war, receiving his discharge at Camp Dennison May 29, 1865. After his marriage he moved to Stryker, Williams County, where he lived abont eight years, when he removed to this township. In February, 1873, he purchased 120 acres in the woods, which he has cleared and now occupies.
Jesse Hall, son of Jacob and Susanna (Coy) Hall, was born June 17, 1835, and married Mrs. Christiana B. Retlimel, in April, 1857. She had two children by her first husband ; Joseph Cullen (deceased) and John H., who married Maria Ackerman. Mr. Hall's children by this marriage were Leander, who married Sarah Jane Myers, in December, 1879 ; Willard (deceased), Clement L., Maude L., Kate B., Willie C. and Jesse G. Mr. Hall is a prominent farmer of Tittin, and his nearest post office is Evansport.
Oliver Ilall, son of Jacob and Susanna Hall, was horn February 7, 1838, at the old pioneer home. Ile received a common school education, and spent his time on a farm, and is still farming eighty acres in this township, which he took when covered with woods and cleared up. He married Ann Maria, daughter of John A. and Catharine (Winters) Garber, who was born December 14, 1842, in Tiffin Township. They have had six children, viz., Florence, born December 27, 1861, died January 9, 1865 ; Minnie A., born August 13, 1864 ; Thomas B., born August 13, 1866 ; Dora_A., born February 24, 1868 ; John H., born October 13, IS71 ; Melvin D., born August 25. 1876.
Frank Hall, youngest child of Jacob and Susanna Hall, was born November 16, 1845, on the old pioneer farm, and received a common school education. He learned the carpenter trade, but now has sixteen acres of the westerly part of the old home farm, on which he was raised. Ile was married, December 25, 1873, to Miss Sarah C., daughter of John and Catharine (Willi- man) Buck, of Williams County, Ohio, who was born January 10, 1854. They have one child, Charlie, born October 15. 187-4.
George Hall, Sr., son ot Peter and Catharine (Hars- bargar) Ilall, was born December 22, 1804, in Bradford County, Penn., and came with his parents to Dayton, Ohio, at the age of sixteen. His father died there aged about eighty-two years. His mother died in Indiana, aged eighty years. Mr. Hall was married, February 4,
1833, to Miss Catharine Carroll, who died in July, 1878. They had eleven children-Peter, Susan (dead), Jacob C., William C., Adam C., John S., Elizabeth, Solomon, Martin G., Sarah (dead) and Delilah A. Mr. Hall was among the first to settle in Tiffin Township, north of Tiffin River, coming in the fall of 1831, and being one of the seven families who came together, being Coys', Snider's and Hall's. Mr. Hall has been famous for building log cabins, having built sixteen in the town- ship of Tiffin, and lived in all of them ; some upon lands upon which he squatted, and others upon which he bought and had made a start, and then sold ont and built again. He built a frame house in Evansport, his present home, which he now occupies in his seventy- ninth year.
Adam C. Hall, son of George and Catharine (Car- roll) Hall, was born in Tiffin Township, Angust 16, 1842 ; grew up on farm, attending district schools in winter until he was seventeen years of age. He then went to to learn the coopering business, and continued at this until he was twenty-one years of age, when he enlisted in Company D, Thirty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, August 22. 1861 ; was engaged in skirmish- ing ; was at Wildeat Mountain and was victorious over Zollikoffer, and at the battle of Mill Springs, Ky. Was then taken sick, sent to the hospital, and from there discharged July, 1862, and sent home on account of disability. He was married, February 7, 1863, to Mary, daughter of John and Martha (Reed) Dunn, the former born in Dublin, Ireland, A. D. 1820, died in Medina County, Ohio ; the latter, born Medina County, Ohio, in 1826, died October 22, 1863, in Evansport, aged thirty- seven years. Mr. Dunn came to this county while a young man anl settled in Pennsylvania, and from there to this State to Medina County, where he married. His children were Sarah (dead), Mary, Maurice and Ella. Mr. Dunn died and Mrs. Dunn married a Mr. Murry, by whom she had several children, but one living, a daughter, Elsic. Mr. Hall resumed the coopering business after coming out of the army, and has continued ever since, and started in connection therewith the hotel business in Evansport, in the sum- mer of 1882, and continues both at the present time.
John Snider, born in Perry County, Ohio, March 12, 1807, is a son of Daniel and Mary (Harshburger) Snider, who were born and married in Pennsylvania, and came to Perry County in 1806. Their children were Rebecca, George, Jacob, Mary, Susan and Catha- rine (twins), Daniel and Betsy (twins), Solomon and Sam- tel (twins), John, Joseph, Sally and Fanny. Mr. Snider was married twice, chosing 'for his second wife Betsy Patterson, and by her has two children, David and Eli. The subject of this sketch labored on a farm until he was nineteen years of age, when he went to learn the carpenter and cabinet-making trades. He was married, December 29, 1830, to Miss Nancy Coy. They came to Defiance County in 1831,
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starting from Greene County September 6, and arriving in Tiffin Township September 18, 1831. He was one of the number who organized the township in 1832. On arriving in this township, they camped out at Ephraim Doty's, and again where Thomas Rethmel's house now stands. The Coys and the Halls accompanied them to this county. They were the first whites who crossed the Titlin River. North of Doty's the banks had to be cut down so they couldl cross. In April, 1831, Mr. Snider entered the land he now lives on in Section 3. They came to this county by way of Fort Amanda and St. Marys, and the country was mostly wilderness. Mr. and Mrs. Snider and eleven of their children are alive, and live near to each other. They are truly a remarkable family. Their children are Daniel C. Snider, born October 25, 1831 (married Sarah C. Bohn, daughter of George and Catharine -- Spangler-Bohn, April 9, 1857. Their children are George H., John W., Minnie C. and Hattie M. Mr. Snider was a school teacher from 1851 to 1859, and lives in Section 10, Tiffin Township) ; Mary - 4 Snider, born November 6, 1833 (married Tomas Yea- ger May 5, 1853) ; Sarah E. Snider, born January 7, 1836 (married William Kintigh, and lives in Stryker) ; Martha Snider, born June 27, 1838, and married Samuel Yeager ; Abigail Snider, born December 22, 1840, and married Samuel Shuter ; Solomon Snider, born Febru- ary 22, 1843 (killed at the siege of Atlanta Angust 1, 1864) ; Rebecca Snider, born February 6, 1845, and married Brice H. Garber ; Samantha Snider, born No- vember 28, 1847 ; Ruhama A. Snider, born May 19, 1850 (married James N. Replogle) ; Joseph Snider, born September 18, 1852 (dicd September 21, 1852) ; John W. Snider, born September 18, 1852 (married Se- repta Lingle, April 30, 1874 (they have oue child- Flora E., born June 15, 1875) ; Thomas C. Snider, born January 16, 1856, and married Clara Buck, November 28, 1878 (they have one child-Myrtie May, born April 14, 1882) ; Jacob Emery Snider, born May 8, 1858, and married Clara Spangler October 21, 1880 (they have one child-Nellie, born Angust 6, 1881).
Thomas Yeager was born November 9, 1828, in Butler County, Penn. His parents were John and Mary E. (Duke) Yeager, who had a family of fifteen children -Daniel, died at the age of two years ; Catharine; Jacob, died in 1857 ; Mary, died in 1865 ; Francis, was in the army in the late war and had his leg shot off, (amputated). and died from the wound at Alexandria. He had enlisted in a Michigan regiment ; Elizabeth, John, Rebecca J., Absalom, Thomas, Susan, Andrew, Amelia, Samuel, who married Martha, daughter of Jolin and Nancy Snider, who were old pioneers ; and Sarah. His father was of German descent, his mother Scotch. They moved from Butler County, Penn., when the sub- ject of this sketch was abont four years of age, and lo- cated in Stark County, in Union Township ; from there to Portage County, near the place now known as Kent; from there to Perrysburg, Wood County, in 1842; then
to Henry County, in 1844. His mother died there in 1845. aged fifty-four years. His father then moved to Prairie Duemasque, and married Widow Shasteen ; he then moved to La Grange County, Ind. The subject of this sketeli then left home at the age of nineteen years, coming to Evansport in October, 1847, penniless. He received his first schooling by working nights and morn- ings for board, thereafter he taught the district school six years, in which he has received his education ; mar- ried Mary T. Snider, oldest daughter of John and Nancy Snider, May 5, 1853, by whom he had five children, of whom the two following are living-Jolin A., born Decein- ber 25, 1856 ; Nancy E., born June 13, 1858. After marriage, he farmed for three years, then engaged in the mercantile business, at which he still continues at Evansport, keeping an excellent general store. He en- listed in the army in the late war ; in June, 1863, raised a company for the service (Company E, Eighty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry), and went out as Captain of said company on the six months' call. He served his time, then returned and resumed the mercan- tile business ; he has been very successful, having set up his son, John A., and his son-in-law, A. C. Cameron, in the same business in Evansport. Mr. Yeager taught the school in Evansport in which he received his educa- tion, also his son, J. A., and his wife, Ella M. Ashbrook, also his son-in-law, A. C. Cameron, and his wife, Nancy E., have all taught the same school in Evansport, in which they all attended school. Mr. Yeager's wife was a school teacher also, and has taught in this county, but not at Evansport.
John A. Yeager, the first child and eldest son of Thomas Yeager, was born December 25, 1856. He had the advantages of a common school education, and grad- uated at Valparaiso, Ind. He taught the district school in his native town (Evansport) several terms, then en- tered the store of his father as clerk for a time, and then entered into partnership in same business with bis brother-in law, A. C. Cameron, and still continues in the same. He was married, March 23, 1879, to Miss Ella M., daughter of Thomas and Susan (Demorest) Ash. brook,who was born March 16, 1858. They have one child-Mattie Belle, born January 15, 1881. Mrs. Yeager was born near Columbus, Ohio ; attended school at Delaware, Delaware County. Her father was in the 1 late war ; was wounded and died from the effects at Vicksburg. Her mother afterward came to Defiance County, and married S. P. Cameron in the fall of 1866, and died August 31, 1880.
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