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Scott Dicus was a native of Perry township, Putnam county, Ohio, and was born on September 2, 1847. He was the son of Jacob and Hannah (Carey) Dicus. Scott Dicus was educated in the Putnam county schools,
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and at the outbreak of the Civil War he and his brother, Harrison, enlisted in the Eighty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Allen. Scott served until the close of the war, but Harrison took a severe. cold, developed consumption and retired from the service. Scott Dicus mar- ried Mary Campnell on January 25, 1872, and to this union were born three children, Lillian, Ola and Russell. Scott Dicus is a prominent farmer, in Union township at the present time and is well known.
After his marriage, Mr. Rager moved to a farm of forty acres, and since this has acquired ninety acres in addition. The farm is located in sections 8 and 17, in Union township. Mr. Rager is a progressive farmer. He has erected splendid buildings on his farm and made many other im- provements, chief among which was a hollow tile silo, all of which show his advanced ideas in agriculture.
To Mr. and Mrs. Rager have been born four children, one of whom died in infancy. The other three are Frederick A., born on March 25, 1901; Mary H., born on January 15, 1905, and Elnora Lucille, born on February 9, 1908. Mrs. Rager died on February 6, 1915. She became ill. with typhoid fever in 1913, and suffered a general breakdown. She con- tinued on the decline until her death. During her illness she received all the care a loving husband could bestow. Her death was a sad event to her husband, who was very much devoted to her. She was buried in Ottawa. River cemetery. Mrs. Rager was a devout member of the Methodist church. She was a loving wife and mother. Mr. Rager had many sympa- thizing friends in his bereavement, and his loss was shared by many friends of Mrs. Rager, who loved her for her splendid qualities.
Alonzo Rager does general farming. He belongs to the Ottawa River- Christian church. At the present time he owns one hundred and thirty acres of land. He is a Republican, is popular with his neighbors, intelligent and progressive in his methods. All in all, he is a representative citizen of Putnam county.
FRANK HOFFMAN.
No more substantial and moral citizens have ever come to this country from foreign lands than the sons of Germany. Wherever they have settled, they have become respected citizens. As a race, they are characterized by industry and a patience which overcome all obstacles and which thus insure them success in whatever undertaking they choose to follow. Putnam county has been honored by having thousands of the sons of Germany as citizens,
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but no family of German descent has ever occupied a more prominent place in the material development of the county than that of the Hoffmans. .
Frank Hoffman was born in Glandorf on March 12, 1865, and is the son of William F. and Clara (Schroeder) Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman's pater- nal grandparents came from Germany from the Province of Hanover and settled near Glandorf in Putnam county. They arrived here about one year after the establishment of Professor Horstman's colony, where they secured a farm and lived until their death. William F. Hoffman and wife were mem- bers of the Catholic church. Mr. Hoffman's maternal grandparents also came from Germany and settled in Greensburg township, Putnam county, on a farm. They lived in Greensburg township until their death.
William F. Hoffman, the father of Frank Hoffman, attended school in Glandorf and remained at home during the early part of his life. He learned the carpenter's trade and worked at this trade in Glandorf. Later, he became a school teacher. He was the organist at St. John's Catholic church for fifteen years when he established a general dry goods store and, after his mar- riage, he lived in Glandorf and taught school for twenty-five years. He divided his attention between business, school teaching and farming about eighty acres of land. The children of William F. and Clara Hoffman were as follow: two. who died in infancy; John, who died at the age of two years; Mary, William, Theresa, Amelia, who died at the age of two; Frank, Henry, Anna, who died in 1908; and Charles. Mary married Xavier Wirth and lives in Sugar Creek township; William married Veronica Halker and lives in Glandorf; Theresa married Henry Kemper and lives in Dayton, Ohio; Henry married Elizabeth Herzog and lives in Jackson township; Charles married Elizabeth Osege and lives in Glandorf; William F. Hoff- man died on April 29, 1915, at the home of his son, Charles, who farms the home place. He was a state representative in the Ohio Legislature for two terms and was also justice of the peace for many years. Mrs. Hoffman died on February 6, 1898. They were members of St. John's Catholic church at Glandorf and devout in their religious duties and obligations.
Frank Hoffman attended school at Glandorf and worked in his father's store, and on the farm during vacations. He was married to Mary Ann Reckfelder, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth ( Nottbrock) Reckfelder, the former of whom was a native of Glandorf, Putnam county, and the latter of Glandorf, Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Reckfelder were married in Glan- dorf, Putnam county, and after their marriage, lived on a farm. They later moved to Glandorf in Putnam county and lived retired. Their children were Joseph, Bernard and Mary. Joseph married Elizabeth Kronbeger and
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lives in Dayton, Ohio. They have had four children; Bernard died in 1908; Henry Reckfelder died on June 20, 1908, and his wife died on March 12, 1915. Both are buried at Glandorf.
Frank Hoffman was married on November 1I, 1891, and after his marriage, moved to a farm in Union township. This farm consisted of eighty acres which Mr. Hoffman received from his father. The present owner has erected all of the buildings on the farm and made many improve- ments since he acquired possession of it. To Frank and Mary A. (Reck- felder) Hoffman several children have been born, Adelia, born on August 18, 1892; Harry, born on May 25, 1894, and died in September, 1894; Clara, born on February 15, 1896, and died in July, 1896; Alfred, born on June 8, 1897; Magdalena, born on June 28, 1899; Lawrence, born on June 26, 1901 ; Raymond, born on November 28, 1903, and died on June 17, 1904; Arnold, born on June 20, 1906; and Mary, born on April 1I, 1908.
Frank Hoffman is a general farmer and stock raiser. He makes a spe- cialty of Durham and Hereford cattle. He is secretary of St. Joseph's Benevolent Society. The family are all members of the Catholic church and prominent in the affairs of this denomination.
FREDERICK W. VERHOFF.
It was once remarked by a celebrated moralist and biographer that there has scarcely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not have been useful. Believing in the truth of this opinion, expressed by one of the greatest and best men, the writer of this review takes pleasure in presenting a few facts in the career of the gentleman, who, by perseverance, temperance and integrity, has worked himself from an humble station to a successful place in life and won an honorable position among the well-known and highly esteemed farmers of Greensburg township, Putnam county, Ohio.
Frederick W. Verhoff was born on June 18, 1887, on his father's farm in Ottawa township, Putnam county, Ohio. He is the son of William and Katherine (Kerner) Verhoff. William Verhoff was born in the house in which he now lives, in Ottawa township, and he was the son of Francis and Mary (Kramer) Verhoff, early settlers of Putnam county. William Ver- hoff is the brother of Theodore Verhoff, the life history of whom may be found in another part of this volume, gives the facts regarding the Verhoff family. It is sufficient, in this place, to say that Francis and Mary (Kramer)
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Verhoff were natives of Westphalia, Prussia, and the state of Pennsylvania, respectively. Mr. Verhoff was a well-known blacksmith in the community where he lived. He died in 1863 after having acquired six hundred and forty acres of land in Putnam county. Mary Kramer was the daughter of Theodore and Gertrude (Veraking) Kramer.
Katherine Kerner, the mother of Frederick W. Verhoff, was the daugh- ter of Mathias and Elizabeth (Kerner ), the former of whom was a native of Germany and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mathias Kerner came to this country early in life and settled in Putnam county. Prior to coming here, he spent three years in South Carolina. His wife came to Putnam county, from Pennsylvania, after the death of her parents. Here she met and married Mathias Kerner. They lived on a farm the entire time of their lives.
William Verhoff spent his early life on his father's farm and attended the schools at Glandorf, in Putnam county, and where on April 20, 1880, he was married to Katherine Kerner, the daughter of Mathias and Eliza- beth Kerner. They continued to live on the parental farm, which consisted of one hundred acres and which he, later, inherited from his father. Will- iam Verhoff and wife were the parents of the following children : J. Frank, Mathias, Mary, Elizabeth, Frederick, Cecelia, Leo, Dora, Hieronomous and Christopher. William Verhoff and family are all members of the Catholic church at Glandorf.
Frederick W. Verhoff, the subject of this sketch, attended school in Glandorf and lived on the homestead farm until his marriage. He was married on May 19, 19II, to Elizabeth Ellerbrock, the daughter of Henry and Theresa ( Borgelt) Ellerbrock, both of whose parents came from Ger- many and settled in Putnam county near Glandorf. After their marriage they lived on a farm near Glandorf, and eventually purchased ninety-nine acres in Union township near Kalida, where they now live. They have had eight children, Henry, Joseph, William, Mary, Agnes, Theresa, Elizabeth and William, deceased.
After their marirage, Frederick W. and Elizabeth (Ellerbrock) Ver- hoff lived in Jackson township for three months on a farm of eighty acres, which they rented. They then moved to a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Greensburg township, which belonged to Mr. Verhoff's father. It is here that they still live. Mr. Verhoff is engaged in general farming, but makes a specialty of cattle and hogs.
He and his wife have been the parents of two children, Cletus, born on March 9, 1912, and Amos Henry, born on May 26, 1914.
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Mr. and Mrs. Verhoff are members of St. Nicholas' Catholic church at Miller City. Frederick W. Verhoff is a pleasant young man of sturdy personal appearance and agreeable manner. He is ambitious in the better sense of the term and throughout his life has been an industrious and hard worker. She is an amiable woman and has in many ways helped her ambi- tious young husband.
HOMER EDWIN MCKENZIE.
One of the rising younger generation of farmers is Homer Edwin Mckenzie, a member of one of the old families of this section. Mr. Mc- Kenzie is a man of keen mentality and pronounced views on all questions of the day. He removed to his present farm home of one hundred and sixty acres the latter part of 1914, and inasmuch as he carries on the work. of his farm along lines most approved by modern scientific investigation, being well versed in all that pertains to the best development of his interests, he bids fair to win a gratifying degree of success in his chosen vocation. He has passed the greater part of his life on the farm where he now lives, having first seen the light of day in that home on April 9, 1878. It was at that time the home of his parents, Erwin and Matilda (Barkmeyer) Mc- Kenzie. His father was a native of this state and his mother was also a native of Ohio. When Homer's father, Erwin Mckenzie, was twenty-one years of age, he accompanied his mother to this county, the father having previously died in the old home. They settled in Greensburg township, where they bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres and partly cleared and drained the land, which farm is where our immediate subject lives at the present time. His father was one of a family of five children, the others being Homer, Susan, Lucinda and Mary. Being the eldest of the family, much of the heavier work and responsibility devolved upon Erwin, who proved a faithful son and of great assistance to the mother.
When Erwin Mckenzie married, he chose as his wife Matilda Bark- meyer, a daughter of Henry and Charlotte Barkmeyer, who was brought to this county by her parents when still a small girl. Other children of the family were Henry, Elizabeth, Nettie, Edith and Matilda. After their marriage, the parents of Homer Mckenzie continued to live on the mother's farm and remained there for many years, later removing to Lima, this state, where the mother died and Homer's father continues to make his home, at 220 South Collett street, that city.
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Special mention is due Erwin Mckenzie, owing to the fact that during the dark days of the sixties he proved himself one of the loyal sons of the nation and donned the blue to assist in protecting the integrity of our re- public. He enlisted with a regiment from his native state and served with great distinction throughout his enlistment. To Erwin Mckenzie and wife were born eight children. Orville married Winnie Brown and resides at Columbus Grove; they are the parents of two living children, one dead. Effie married Wilfred Stauffer and resides near Waterloo, Indiana; she is the mother of six children; Frank, deceased, and Bessie married David Bonecutter and lives in Butler, Indiana. Other children of the family were Cora, Mary Hazel and Gilson.
Homer Edward Mckenzie received his education in the district schools near his home and assisted his father in the work of the farm. He remained at home until the time of his marriage on December 7, 1913, when he was united in matrimony to Florence Wing of Continental, this county. She is a daughter of Henry and Mary (Gilbert) Wing, the former born in this county and the latter of Cleveland, this state. After marriage, Henry Wing and wife, moved to a farm in this county, where they have since resided. They were married on March 17, 1866, and to them have been born the following children: Martha, born on March 10, 1868; Albert, born on September 15, 1870; Frederick, born on September 4, 1872; Florence, born on September 7, 1873; Rufus Gilbert, born on December 16, 1877, deceased; Henry Franklin, born on August 24, 1880; Mary Ann, deceased, born on July 13, 1883, and Philip, deceased, born on June 9, 1893; Martha married Hamilton Hersh and lives in Continental, where she is the mother of seven children; Albert, who now lives in California, married Gertrude Andrews and later married Lavina Derbyshire, having five children. Henry F. mar- ried Gertrude Myers and is the father of four children.
To Homer Mckenzie and his wife has been born one child, Hazel Marie, who came to them on July 5, 1914. In addition to his general farming, Homer raises a special breed of Polled Durham cattle and Duroc hogs and is uniformly successful in whatever he undertakes. The farm contains one hundred and sixty acres of well-improved land and the buildings and resi- dence, which Homer's father erected, are in good condition. Homer Mc- Kenzie makes the third generation of the family to make his home on this site, the land having originally been purchased by his grandmother.
Homer Mckenzie's political preference is with the Democratic party, but he exercises his independence in such matters when he comes to the polls. His fraternal affiliation is with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
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the Modern Woodmen of America, while Mrs. Mckenzie is a member of the Pythian Sisters. Both are the finest kind of young people, genial, gener- ous and hospitable.
WILLIAM G. MULLET.
The people who constitute the bone and sinew of this country are not. those who are unstable and unsettled, who fly from one occupation to an- other, who do not know how to vote until they are told, and who take no. active and intelligent interest in the civic affairs of their community. The backbone of this country is made up of the families who have made their homes, who are alive to the best interest of the community, who attend to. their own business in preference to the affairs of others, and who work on steadily from day to day, taking the sunshine with the storms, rearing fine- families to comfortable homes and honest lives. Such people are always. welcome in any community. They are the wealth producers. And Putnam county is fortunate in being blessed with many of them, among whom is- William G. Mullet, a prominent farmer of Greensburg township.
William G. Mullet was born in 1865 at Ottawa, Ohio. He is the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Crow) Mullet. Jacob Mullet was born in Switzer- land, in 1840, and was the son of John and Maria (Ratz) Mullet. They came to America about 1847. They were over three months in crossing the ocean in a sailing vessel, since the wind was very low during a part of the voyage. John Mullet spent about a year at Cincinnati, and a few years at Columbus, Ohio. They located near Elm Center about 1852, while the land was all covered with timber. The land was also swampy where it was cleared, and it was necessary to bank the soil in ridges to produce any crops. Later, when the Nickel Plate railroad grade was made it gave the people work. Now this land is part of the finest land in Putnam county. It was in this section that Jacob Mullet grew to manhood. He married Elizabeth Crow in 1864. Elizabeth Crow was born in the northeastern part of Greens- burg township in January, 1842, and was the daughter of W. R. and Ber- sheba (Brower) Crow.
W. R. Crow came from Columbiana county. He was born in Columbi- ana county, Ohio, April 12, 1821, and was the son of James and Elizabeth (Moreland) Crow, who settled here in 1835. James Crow was the son of Abraham and Rachael (Craven) Crow. Abraham Crow was born in 1748, and was among the early settlers of Pennsylvania. He was married in
MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM G. MULLET
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Berks county to Rachael Craven, and moved from Pennsylvania, in 1787, west to Washington county, and to Columbiana county, Ohio, about 1815. A brother of his was killed in the battle of Brandywine. He had eleven children, among whom was Abraham, who married Sarah Thompson, and who was a pioneer settler of Greensburg township, and another son was James Crow, also a pioneer of Greensburg township. He left numerous. progeny and died in his ninety-seventh year. W. R. Crow's wife, Bersheba Brower, was born in Randolph county, North Carolina, in 1819. She was the daughter of Frederick and Helena (Staley) Brower. Frederick Brower was born in North Carolina, a son of Adam Brower, a native of Pennsyl- vania. Adam's father was the founder of the family in America. Fred- erick Brower was born and reared in North Carolina, and there learned shoemaking and tanning. He married Nellie Staley in Randolph county, North Carolina. Her father was a cousin of the royal family of Germany. Frederick Brower moved to Florida, returned to Ohio, and thence to Ft. Wayne, Indiana. After several other moves, he came finally to Greensburg township, Ohio, and entered ninety-three acres of land. He was the fourth settler in Greensburg township. When he came from Allen county he brought with him a hand-mill in which he used to grind corn; otherwise he would have had to go forty miles to a water-mill. In time he became the owner of four hundred and ninety-three acres, and cultivated it until his death, in June, 1875. His wife died in 1889. He was the first justice of the peace in Greensburg township and the first trustee of that township.
After Jacob Mullet married he lived in Ottawa for four years, and there engaged in the butcher business. He then spent four years on the farm in Greensburg township, and then removed to Leipsic, where he en- gaged in the butcher business for about six years. He then returned to- Greensburg township and farmed until his death. He and his wife owned about one hundred and sixty acres of land. Mrs. Jacob Mullet died in 1887, and he died in 1900. They were the parents of eight children: William G., of Greensburg township; John A., of near Continental; Amelia B. the widow of John A. Simon, who lives in Palmer township, near Kiefersville; Anna Florence, the wife of William H. Wisterman, of Toledo; Mary Emma, the wife of Amos Ridenour, who lives near Wabash, Indiana; Lu- ther H., of Toledo; Frederick, of Three Rivers, Michigan, and Everett, who lives near Butler, Indiana.
After the mother of these children died, their father married Mrs. Sarah Shardeman. One child was born to this marriage, Jacob Mullet.
William G. Mullet lived with his parents until he grew to manhood ..
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He was married, March 14, 1891, to Vela Ayers. She was born in Greens- burg township, along the Blanchard river, and is the daughter of Clark P. and Sarah E. (Dangler) Ayers. Clark P. Ayers was born in 1842 in Greensburg township, and was the son of William and Rachael (Crow) Ayers. Rachael Crow was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and came to Columbiana county, Ohio, with her parents, Abraham and Sarah (Thompson) Crow, of the Crow family above referred to, who moved to Greensburg township in 1832. William Ayers was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, a' son of John and Sarah (Wallahan) Ayers. They lived in several counties before they came finally to Greensburg township in 1836. Clark P. Ayers grew up here and married Sarah Dangler, June 22, 1869. She was born in Greensburg township in 1849, and was the daughter of Jacob and Susan (Guy) Dangler. Jacob Dangler was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, in 1814, and came in 1837 to Greensburg township, Putnam county, with his parents, John and Elizabeth (Kaler) Dangler. His wife, Susan Guy, whose parents, Jesse and Jane (Schurtz) Guy, came here in 1838, was born in 1821 in Columbiana county, Ohio, and was married in this county in 1842. C. P. Ayers was a life-long farmer in Greensburg township. He was also a justice of the peace. His great grandfather, James Ayers, was a soldier in the Revolutionary army. C. P. Ayers' grandfather, John, served in the War of 1812. C. P. Ayers died in December, 1889. His widow lives with her children. She still owns the farm in Greensburg township. She is the mother of six children: Vela, the wife of W G. Mullet, of Greensburg township; Alta, the wife of Charles Kirkendall, of Kalida; Odula, the wife of Caius Hemry, of McComb, Ohio; William W. Ayers, of Waterloo, Indiana; Rachael, the wife of J. R. Elkins, of Lacrosse, Indiana, and Merle, the wife of B. H. Stevenson, of McComb.
After the marriage of W. G. Mullet he and his wife lived about one year in Greensburg township and spent three years farming in Wabash county, Indiana. They came back to Greensburg township, in 1896, and have lived ever since where they now live, in the southwest quarter of sec- tion I. Mr. Mullet has been a life-long farmer and a raiser of thoroughbred stock. He makes a specialty of thoroughbred Aberdeen-Angus cattle. For the past six years he has served as a member of the county fair board. Mr. Mullet has two hundred and fifty-seven acres of land in Greensburg town- ship.
To Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Mullet five children have been born: Nora is the wife of Claude C. Stuber and lives near Miller City and has one child,
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Paul John, born on February 1, 1915; Paul P., Edith E., William A. and Mildred, all of whom are at home.
Mr. Mullet has a fine country home, heated by furnace and lighted from a private lighting plant. He has a water plant furnishing hot and cold water to every room. He is pleasant and agreeable, as is also his wife, and the hospitality of the Mullet home is well known. Their neat and well-ordered premises and residence impress one and bespeak the character of the owner.
EDWARD BERNARD STECHSCHULTE.
The attention of the reader is now directed to the following sketch of the career of the well-known and enterprising young farmer whose name forms the caption of this article. Mr. Stechschulte has passed his entire life in this community, and the high degree of esteem in which he is held, by friends and neighbors, is ample testimony to the fact that he is one of the worthy citizens of his community. Mr. Stechschulte is a member of one branch of the well-known Kahle family, who were pioneer settlers in this section and people of great influence, who did much in the early days to establish a high standard of living in this then new territory.
Edward Bernard Stechschulte was born in Greensburg township, Put- nam county, Ohio, on January 12, 1884, being a son of Ignatius and Mag- dalena (Niese) Stechschulte, both of whom were born in this same county. Ignatius Stechschulte was the eldest child of Henry and Bertha (Kahle) Stechschulte, the other children in the family being: Joseph, Frank, Gustav, Barney, Bertha, Theresa and Henry. He was born on his father's farm in Put- nam county on June 2, 1854, and when a youth attended the district schools of his home neighborhood. He was noted as a most intelligent and studious pupil, and when quite young engaged in teaching school in Pleasant town- ship. He was united in marriage on November 22, 1878, to Magdalena Niese. Shortly after marriage they took up their residence on a farm in Greensburg township, consisting of one hundred and ten acres, which farm he had at that time purchased, and upon which he proceeded to make valu- able improvements in the way of buildings, etc. There the family lived, until in 1912, when Mr. Stechschulte purchased a ninety-acre farm near Owosso, Michigan, where he intends to make his future home. He is suc- ceeding well in his chosen field of general and dairy farming, combined, and has recently disposed of forty acres of land of which he has long been
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