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unusually attractive young woman and her gracious personality makes her exceedingly popular in the best social activities of the community. She was afforded an excellent education in her girl- hood days and for a time was a decidedly successful student in the Art School at Cleveland, where she became very adept in landscape and china painting. She is a daughter of Henry and Minerva (Modie) Weaver, of Sparta. Henry Weaver was an eminently successful business man during his life time and in addition to a number of other important enterprises he was the owner of the Tile Works at Sparta. He was a member of the Ohio State bar and engaged in the practice of law and for many years was notary publie. Being of sterling character and a man of the strictest honor, he was frequently retained as counsel by those whose cause demanded justice; he never countenanced an unjust cause. He and his wife are residents of Fredericktown, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver had two children, Aleta, who is now Mrs. William Denman ; and Claude, who married Miss Emma Parker, a trained nurse in the eity of Philadelphia. They now reside in Westchester, Penn- sylvania. Mr. and Mrs. William Denman reside at the old Den- man homestead with the subject of this review.
Joseph S. Denman and his wife are devout members of the Pisgah old school Baptist church and they are also members of the Grange. They are substantial and popular citizens in this seetion of the state, where they are held in high regard by all with whom they have come in contact. They have ever en- deavored to instill into the minds of their children those principles of honor and those ideals which are so essential in this twentieth century citizenship.
SOLOMON P. STULL .- Clear-headed, enterprising and progres- sive, Solomon P. Stull is numbered among the prosperous business men of Troy township, and, with his keen conception of the needs of each community as regards road making and repairing, care of county buildings and property, and the thousand other matters pertaining to the public welfare of Morrow county, he is amply qualified for the responsible position, which he is now filling, as county commissioner of Morrow county.
He was born March 12, 1860, in Clarion county, Pennsylvania. His father, Frederick Stull, was born in the same state, in the year 1830. His mother, Mary (Sheckley) Stull, was also a native of the Keystone state.
In the year of 1866 the Stull family came to Ohio. After locating at Steam Corners, Frederick purchased a saw mill, which he operated successfully for many years. Solomon started to school, where he learned to be thoughtful and studions, his educa- tion being limited to the elementary subjects. After some years of schooling he became engaged in the lumber business. His father then bought a tile plant, and he and his son carried on a large
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business under the firm name of Stull & Company. After solomon became older his father sold his interest in the lumber and tile business to his son P. F. Stull. This changed the firm name to S. P. Stull & Brother.
On the 8th day of September, 1887, Mr. Stull was united in marriage to Anna E. Rummel, the oldest daughter of Peter Runt- mel. She was born on the 3rd of October, 1863. Her father was born in Germany, where he lived but four years when he and his parents came to the United States. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stull, namely : Rolly H., dying at the early age of one year and two months; Laura E., a graduate of the Troy town- ship high school, has taught one term of school; Belva E., who was also a graduate of the same school; Leland S., a schoolboy ; Bessie M. and Lucy L., who are still going to school. The father died shortly after his son's marriage, aged sixty years. Mr. and Mrs. Stull are among the active and faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is now a steward. IIe has served as superintendent of its Sunday school and also has been a teacher of the several junior classes. When the new church edifice was erected he was a member of its building committee.
Mr. Stull has acquired a considerable property in addition to his manufacturing interests. He owns a farm of forty-seven acres in Troy township. A straightforward Republican in politics, Mr. Stull is popular with all political parties, as was shown in the ycar 1908, when, after having served two terms as clerk of Troy township, he was elected county commissioner, being the only Republican commissioner elected in that year. As G. F. Stull then moved to Mansfield, Solomon bought his interest in the milling and tiling plants, and has since been sole proprietor of both industries. On the 20th day of September, 1909, assuming the responsibilities of his position, he labored so efficiently for the good of the general public as far as his office was concerned that at the expiration of his term, on November 8, 1910, he was reelected to the same office, and is serving with characteristic ability. He is energetic, industrious and honest, having a quick eye for business. He is a kind husband, a loving father, and a good neighbor.
CLEMENT L. V. HARROD .- Belonging to a family whose name has long been known in the annals of Central Ohio, Clement L. V. Harrod is numbered among the enterprising and progressive agriculturists of Morrow county, his fine and well-tilled farm being pleasantly located in South Bloomfield township. He is a native and to the "manner born," his birth having here occurred September 29, 1863. His father, Jesse B. Harrod, was a son of Michael and Elizabeth (Ulrey) Harrod, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Knox county, Ohio, soon after their marriage, and took up three hundred acres of government land near Gambier, and there spent the remainder of their years. Michael Harrod
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was a man of much force of chareter, honest and upright, and was very prominent in the early history of that section of the state, being a leading Democrat.
Jesse B. Harrod was born Novembor 16, 1824, on the home farm in Knox county, being one of a family of sixteen children, fifteen of whom grew to years of maturity. He obtained a praeti- cal education in the pioneer schools, and as a boy and youth became familiar with the many branches of agriculture. Beginning his career at the age of twenty years, he taught school until the breaking out of the Mexican war, when he enlisted as a soldier and served in the army for two years. Returning home at the close of the conflict, he married and began housekeeping in a humble log cabin in Knox county. He met with such encouraging success in his labors that in 1850 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Morrow county, and was thereafter prosperously employed in general farming until his death, in 1892. True to the political faith in which he was reared, he was a sound Demoerat, and in addition to holding various township offices and serving on the school board, had the honor of being a member of the only Democratic board of Morrow county.
The maiden name of the wife of Jesse B. Harrod was Delilah Horn. She was born February 25, 1830, in Knox county, Ohio, a daughter of Peter Horn, who was born in Pennsylvania, of German ancestry, but was brought up in Knox county, Ohio, where he sub- sequently took up two hundred acres of government land, on which he lived until his death, at the venerable age of eighty-four years. Peter Horn married Nancy Porter, who was born in Vermont, of excellent New England stock, and came with her parents to Knox county, Ohio, when a girl. The union of Jesse B. and Delilah (Horn) Harrod was blessed by the birth of ten children, as fol- lows: Peter, Annie, deceased; Mitchell, Michael, deceased ; Emma, Mary, Eli, Clement L. V., Martha, and George. The mother, who was a devout member of the Primitive Baptist church, passed to the life beyond March 4, 1902.
After the death of his father, in 1892, Clement L. V. Harrod, who had always remained a member of the parental household, assumed the entire management of the home farm, and was there engaged in agricultural pursuits as long as his mother lived. At her death the farm was sold, and he moved to Sparta. Continuing, however, in his free and independent calling, Mr. Harrod has since been profitably engaged in farming and stoek-raising and dealing. An extensive and successful breeder of thorongh-bred stock, in- eluding registered horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, he is prominently identified with that branch of industry, and somewhat recently sold an eighteen-months old colt for four hundred dollars. Mr. Harrod has likewise for a number of years carried on a large and remunera- tive business as a dealer in produce, buying and shipping all farm productions.
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On December 22, 1904, Mr. Harrod married Mrs. Amy (Julian) Stith, who was born, August 30, 1869, a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Bump) Julian, her father, a native of Fair- field county, Ohio, having been one of a family of six children born to John and Margaret (Hedges) Julian, as follows : Aaron, Sarah, Washington, Maria, Samuel and Margaret. Samuel Julian during the Civil war served three years in Company G, Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His wife, the mother of Mrs. Harrod, died May 10, 1895, and the daughter Amy took her place in the home as housekeeper. Mrs. Harrod wedded Franklin B. Stith, and they were the parents of three children, one of whom, Frankie, the second-born, lived but five months. The other children are Laura H., born December 14, 1898, and Francis Julian, born Feb- ruary 5, 1901. Both of these children have remarkable musical talent, and began singing in publie when very young, Laura having been but six years old when she and her brother, two years younger, made their first appearance as vocalists, surprising and pleasing the large audience with their wonderfully sweet, rich tones of melody. Mr. and Mrs. Harrod and their daughter Laura are members of the Primitive Baptist church. In his political views Mr. Harrod is a Democrat, and has held numerous township offices, formerly serving as township assesor and trustee. In the care of his fine farm of two hundred and sixty-five aeres Mr. Harrod has the assistance of Mr. Marion IInghes, who has been with him for many years.
Mr. Hughes was born August 18, 1874, in Kent county, Dela- ware, a son of William IInghes, a native of Ireland. His grand- father Hughes, who was born in Ireland, was sent to London, England to complete his education, and while attending a banquet in that eity was made drunk on wine and placed by his companions aboard a sailing vessel bound for America. He subsequently mar- ried a Welsh lady, and having taken up one thousand aeres of land in Delaware resided there until his death. William Hughes mar- ried Amy Price, who was also a native of Wales. Marion IInghes was edneated in the district schools of Delaware, and was there trained to habits of industry and thrift. Coming to Ohio in 1893, he entered the employ of Mr. Harrod on January 2, 1894, and with the exception of one year spent in Illinois, one year in Iowa, and a few months in Oklahoma, has since been in his service, proving himself an able and faithful assistant.
THOMAS N. HICKMAN, who has been a resident of Morrow county, Ohio, since 1866, is a representative citizen of this section of the fine old Buckeye state and is a veteran of the Civil war, in which he sacrificed an arm in defense of the Union. He has been identified with various lines of enterprise during his active business career, but for the past fifteen years has been an invalid. Mr. Hickman traces his paternal lineage to the English, and the Hick-
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mans immigrated to the United States in 1862 with William Penn. The Nickols family came from Holland about the same time as the Hickmans. He was born at Mount Vernon, Ohio, on the 6th of August, 1842, and is a son of Robert F. and Harriet (Niekols) Hickman, the former of whom was a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of whom claimed Loudoun eounty, Virginia, as the place of her birth. The father was born in 1806 and was a child of seven years of age at the time of his parents' removal from the old Keystone state of the Union to Chester town- ship, Morrow county, Ohio. He was a Methodist minister from 1827 to 1839 and in the latter year he turned his attention to the legal profession. He was a lawyer of note in Ohio and praetieed his profession at Somerset and New Lexington, Perry county, for a number of years. He was the first probate judge of Perry eounty and in that office served with distinction for fully twelve years. Willis G. Hickman, brother of Thomas N., served two terms as eounty commissioner and two terms as treasurer of Athens eounty, Ohio. Robert F. Hickman became the father of seven children, three of whom are living at the present time, namely : Emma M .. who is the widow of Hector B. Keeler, and she resides in Seattle, Washington; Willis G., of Nelsonville, Ohio where he is a druggist ; and Thomas N., of this review. Mrs. Robert F. Hickman was summoned to the life eternal November 2, 1842, at which time Thomas N. was an infant of three months.
After the death of his mother Thomas N. Hiekman was taken into the home of his paternal grandparents, who resided at Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was reared and sehooled by them until he had attained to the age of ten years, when he returned to his father. As a youth he was apprentieed to the printer's trade and he was thus engaged until the fall of 1860, when he entered St. Joseph's College, at Somerset, Ohio, in which he was a student until the following April. He then, with Mike V. Sheridan and several others, enlisted as a private in the Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, in which he was enrolled until the 27th of April, 1861, at which time he reenlisted in the Eighteenth United States Infantry. He was a dashing and gallant soldier and participated in one of the important battles marking the progress of the war, that of Stone river. On the 31st of December, 1862, he was wounded at this engagement and was discharged for disability on the 16th of Mareh, 1863. As a result of his wound he lost his right arm, this representing one of the infinity of sacrifices made for the eause of the Union in the Civil war. After completing his military service, Mr. Hickman returned to Perry county, where he read law for a time under the able preceptorship of his father. Subse- quently he became a painter, traveling from town to town, painting signs and fences, he being a pioneer in that particular line of enterprise. In 1866 he came to Morrow county, where he devoted his time and attention to the trade of painting until 1895, when he
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was stricken down with anchoylosis, or disease of the joints, and has been an invalid for the past fifteen years.
In politics Mr. Hickman maintains an independent attitude, giving his support to the men and measures meeting with the approval of his judgment. For two years he was incumbent of the office of coroner of Morrow county and in all his dealings in public and private life he has been most honorable and straight- forward. As a reward for his loyal service to the Union in her time of need he now receives a pension of fifty-five dollars a month. Fraternally he is affiliated with Cardintgon Lodge, No. 194, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows.
In the year 1867 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Hickman to Miss Jane S. Mosher, a daughter of John and Deborah (An- drews) Mosher, both of whom are deceased. To this union were born six children, five of whom are living: Halwin is engaged as a stone mason in Morrow county; Lefa is the wife of James S. Randolph of Marion, Ohio; John W. is a minister in the Friends church and resides in the city of Cleveland, Ohio; Robert F. died at the age of thirty-two years; George is a farmer in Morrow county, Ohio; and Thomas S. is a student in the Cleveland Bible Institute, at Cleveland.
JAMES R. WYKER is recognized as one of the most progressive farmers of Franklin township, Morrow county, Ohio. He believes in up-to-date, scientific methods in farming as well as in other lines of business, and with his son is engaged in operations according to this plan.
Mr. Wyker was born in Knox county, Ohio, April 20, 1851, a son of William and Catherine (Struble) Wyker, both natives of New Jersey. William Wyker when a young man of twenty-one years came west to Ohio, and here married and reared his family After the death of his wife, which occurred in March, 1906, at the age of seventy-seven years, he went to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he now makes his home, at this writing being eighty-five years of age. Their family consisted of four sons and three daughters, namely : James R., John D., Kate L., Hattie, Hulda, Okey and Edward.
James R. Wyker passed his boyhood days not unlike those of other farmer boys in Knox county and reecived his education in the Luzerne schools. When he reached his majority he hired out to his father to work on the farm by the month, and continued thus occupied for years after his marriage, which event took place on October 9, 1878. His wife, formerly Miss Sylva Blair, is a daughter of John Blair and a granddaughter of William and Mary Blair, who were of Pennsylvania-German origin and who migrated to Ohio from Pennsylvania as early as 1810. John Blair was the first white child born west of Fredericktown, the date of his birth being 1812. He died in 1899. Mrs. Wyker's mother,
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Artemisa (Stevens) Blair, died in 1880, at the age of seventy-four years. As her inheritance, Mrs. Wyker received from her father's estate one hundred and fifty-five acres in the northeast corner of Franklin township. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Wyker, three in number, are as follows: Herbert (who died in infancy), Calvin Homer and John Blair. Calvin H. was born February 4, 1883; is a graduate of the Fredericktown high school, and took a course in the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, pre- paratory to fitting himself for the medieal profession. He pur- sued his medical studies at Starling Medical University, Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated in 1908. He is now engaged in the practice of his profession at Rushville, Ohio. The other son, John Blair, is engaged in farming with his father. He was born June 1, 1889. After his graduation, in 1908, from the Fredericktown high school he entered the State University and began an agricul- tural course which he expects to complete. A special feature of the John Blair farm is the maple orchard, a grove of four hundred and fifty trees, from which they manufacture maple syrup, for the purity and excellent quality of which they have made a reputa- tion, their average syrup yield being about one hundred and seventy-five gallons. Their brand is "Wyker's Pure Maple Syrup." While the majority of farmers in this locality are denuding their land, the Wykers take the opposite course, and have recently planted two hundred young maples, thus adding to the value of their grove.
Mr. Wyker and his family are members of the Waterford Presbyterian church, and politically he is a Demoerat.
DANIEL J. DONOVAN certainly deserves representation among the men who have been influential in publie affairs in Cardington, Morrow county, Ohio. He has done much to advance the wheels of progress, aiding materially in the development of business ac- tivity and energy, on which depend the prosperity and growth of this state. IIe has found in each transition stage opportunity for further effort and broader labor and his enterprise has not only contributed to his individual success but has also been of marked value to the community in which he makes his home.
Mr. Donovan was born in Cardington on the 15th of August, 1868, and is a son of Jerry and Anna (Bradley) Donovan, both of whom were born and reared in Ireland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they immigrated to the United States about the year 1851, locating at Cardington, where the father secured employment as a mechanic for the Big Four Railroad Com- pany. Later he opened a shop of his own and he continued to be identified with the work of his trade during the remainder of his life, his death having occurred in the year 1882. His cherished and devoted wife survives him and is now maintaining her home with her son, Daniel JJ., of this review in Cardington, Ohio. Mr.
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and Mrs. Donovan became the parents of eleven children, all of whom are now deecased except the immediate subject of this sketch. Daniel J. was reared in the town of Cardington, to whose public schools he is indebted for his educational training. At the age of fourteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship at the tele- grapher's trade in this city, and after completing it he had charge of an office in Dellington, Ohio. In 1884 he resigned his position and returned home where he entered into the grocery business with his brothers. In 1884 the brothers purchased the establish- ment of W. H. Marvin & Company and a few years later they purchased the building in which the business is now located, on the corner of Marion and Second streets. Mr. Donovan has the leading grocery establishment in Cardington and does a large busi- ness in retail and also some wholesale business. He has a large, clean, fresh stock of merchandise and his cordial and genial man- ner makes him a favorite with the people. All of his brothers are deceased. Aside from his other interests he is a stockholder and director in the First National Bank of Cardington and he owns a half interest in the Kries block, on Main street. He owns some valuable residence property in the city, one of his holdings being the Kries homestead.
In the year 1899 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Donovan to Miss Nellie Cleary, of Delaware, Ohio. She is a lady of pleasing address and personality, and ably fills her place as hostess in their comfortable and hospitable residence. To this union have been born three children, namely : Eustelle, Joseph and Robert.
In politics Mr. Donovan accords a stalwart allegiance to the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor and he and his wife are devout communicants of the Catholic church, St. Mary's, at Cardington, Ohio, in the various departments of whose work they have been most active factors. While undoubtedly he has not been without that honorable ambition which is so powerful and useful as an incentive to activity in public affairs, Mr. Donovan regards the pursuits of private life as being in themselves abundantly worthy of his best efforts. In the com- munity affairs he is active and influential and his support is readily and generously given to many measures projected for the general progress and improvement. IIis life history is certainly worthy of commendation and emulation, for along honorable and straight- forward lines he has won the success which crowns his efforts and makes him one of the substantial residents of Cardington.
ALPHEOUS L. PIPES .- Honored and respected by all, there is no man in Morrow county who occupies a more enviable position in commercial, industrial and financial circles than does Alpheous L. Pipes. not alone on account of the brilliant success he has achieved, but also on account of the honorable, straighforward business policy he has ever followed. He possesses untiring energy, is quick of
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perception, forms his plans readily and is determined in their execution, and his close application to business and his excellent management have brought to him the high degree of prosperity which is his to-day. He stands as one of the foremost merchants in this part of the state and in other lines his business has assumed large proportion, but while laboring for his own success he has also promoted the general prosperity by pushing forward the wheels of progress and advancing the commercial prestige of the county in which he makes his home.
Alpheous L. Pipes was born in Harmony township, Morrow county, Ohio, on the 7th of March. 1864, a son of Harod and Mary J. (Sellers) Pipes, both of whom were natives of Ohio. Harod Pipes was identified with agricultural pursuits during the major portion of his active business career and he was summoned to the life eternal on the 20th of June, 1903; his wife passed away on the 29th of September, 1909. They were the parents of six children : three sons and three daughters, concerning whom the following brief record is here inserted: Allie is the wife of Ed Vance and resides at Cardington, this county; Alpheous L. is the immediate subject of this review; Joseph HI. and Jeremiah are both prominent farmers in Harmony township; Cora is the wife of W. F. Hilde- brand, of Morrow county, and Mertie is now Mrs. Lyman P. Ulrey and maintains her home in Morrow county. Alpheous L. Pipes was reared to adult age on the home farm in Harmony township and after completing the curriculum of the district schools of his birth place he was for two years a student in the high school at Chesterville. After leaving school he devoted his entire time and attention to farming until 1891, in which year he engaged in the hotel business at Fulton, continuing to be identified with that line of enterprise for about one year, at the expiration of which he launched forth in the hardware business. In 1904 he added to his original concern a general stock of groceries, dry-goods, boots and shoes and notions. His establishment is practically a well equipped department store and it has been said concerning him that he handles everything from a needle to an automobile or threshing machine. His fine line of business and the large patron- age to which he caters are the result of his own well directed endeavors. In addition to his store enterprise he is a stockholder in the People's Savings Bank at Mount Gilead, and is also a stockholder in the Ohio State Life Insurance Company.
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