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Following his return to Mansfield, Judge Jenner resumed the practice . of law with his brother, and the association was maintained until he was elevated to the circuit bench in October, 1884, except for the short period when Samuel E. Jenner was in Washington and John W. Jenner was on the common pleas bench. He served as circuit judge for eleven years, and his previous broad experience well qualified him for the onerous duties which came upon him in this connection. He has great respect for the dignity of judicial place and power and no man ever presided in a court with more respect for his environments than did Judge Jenner. As a result of that personal characteristic the proceedings were always orderly on the part of every one-audience, bar and the officers from the highest to the lowest. His opinions are fine specimens of judicial thought, always clear, logical, and as brief as the character of the case will permit. He never enlarged beyond the necessities of the legal thought in order to indulge in the drapery of literature. His mind during the entire period of his course at the bar and on the bench has been directed in the line of his profession and his duty. In the last word is the keynote of his professional career. He has ever felt it to be his duty to give his best service to his clients, or to the court as the case might be, and it was with a feeling of deepest regret on the part of the bar that he severed his relations with them as judge of the fifth Ohio circuit.
In 1868 Judge Jenner was married to Miss Emma A. Mack, the only daughter of Hon. John Mack, who in 1853 represented Richland and Ash- land counties in the state senate. Her grandfather, Harry Ayers, married Jane Hoy, whose family was of Scotch origin. They are descendants of William Hoy, who was a soldier with Argyle on Flodden Field in 1513. Three brothers, descendants of William Hoy, came to America in 1756, and one of them, Peter Hoy, fought for American independence in the Revolu- tionary War. William Hoy, the father of Mrs. Jacob Ayers, was commander
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of a company in the war of 1812. The mother of Adam Poe, whose fight with the Indian chief, Big Foot, on the banks of the Ohio, all school boys delight to read, was a daughter of one of these Hoy brothers. Judge and Mrs. Jenner became parents of five children: Mary J., who became the wife of C. C. Wagner, president of the Wagner Hardware Company, of Mans- field, and died in 1900; Mrs. Florence Dann, of Columbus; Grace, Gertrude and John M., all at home.
Judge Jenner is a director of the Richland Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany. He has ever been deeply interested in community affairs and has given the party helpful cooperation in many movements for the public good. The cause of public instruction is of deep interest to him, and for twelve years he served as president of the board of education in Mansfield. In professional lines he is connected with the Mansfield Bar Association and the State Bar Association. While undoubtedly he is not with that honor- able ambition which is so powerful and useful as an incentive to activity in public affairs, he regards the pursuits of private life as being in themselves abundantly worthy of his best efforts. Endowed by nature with high intel- lectual qualities to which are added the discipline and embellishments of culture, his is a most attractive personality. Well versed in the learning of his profession and with a deep knowledge of human nature and the springs of human conduct, with great sagacity and tact, he is in the courts an advo- cate of great power and influence and upon the bench was a judge "sans peur et sans reproche."
REV. JACOB F. KUEBLER.
Rev. Jacob F. Kuebler, pastor of the church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the largest Catholic church in Richland county, located in what is known as the Shelby settlement in Plymouth township, early prepared for the priesthood . and for thirty-three years has devoted his life to this holy calling. He was born in Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio, June 21, 1849, a son of Anthony and Frances (Schabacher) Kuebler, the former a native of Baden and the latter of Bavaria, Germany. The father came to the United States when eight years of age and the mother when a maiden of twelve summers. They were married in this county and Mrs. Kuebler now resides with her son, Rev. Jacob F. Kuebler, at the age of eighty years. Her husband, who was born June 20, 1822, died September 22, 1892, at the age of seventy years. Their family numbered thirteen children: Frances, who is living with Rev. Jacob F. Kuebler, who is the second in order of birth; Joseph, an insurance agent of Tiffin, Ohio; William, a dry-goods merchant of Decatur, Indiana; Louis, who is living in Mansfield; Charles, deceased; Alphonse, a dry-goods merchant of Durango, Colorado; Herman, a dentist of Toledo, Ohio; Rose, the wife of A. J. Henry, of Tiffin ; Emma, who is living with Father Kuebler, and three who died in childhood.
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At the place of his nativity Father Kuebler resided until seventeen years of age and during his early school days he learned the printer's trade. In 1866 he became a student of Mount St. Mary's Seminary at Cincinnati, which he entered in September, 1866, in preparation for the priesthood. He completed his course in 1875 and on the 4th of July of that year was ordained, since which time he has devoted his attention with unfaltering zeal to the work of the church. His first church was at Rockport, where he remained from the 16th of July, 1875, until February 22, 1891. He was then in charge of the church at Canal Fulton, Ohio, until 1898, and in June of the latter year went to Massillon as pastor of St. Joseph's church, where he continued until 1904. On the 5th of February, of that year, he was appointed to the Sacred Heart of Jesus church. This church is one of the largest in the county. The edifice. one hundred and thirty-six by forty feet, is built of cut stone in pure Gothic architecture and cost forty thousand dollars. This is the finest country church in the diocese, the main marble altar having been installed at a cost of nearly three thousand dollars. The work of building was begun May 29, 1892, and the church was dedicated on the 15th of September, 1895. There is now a membership of about four hundred and fifty and the work of the church is being carried steadily forward in its various departments under the able guid- ance of Father Kuebler, who is recognized as a most earnest and helpful leader of his people, not only in spiritual things but also as adviser to them in many temporal matters. He is a man of broad education, especially in theological lines, and his labors have been attended with much success in the promotion of Catholic interests in this locality.
W. O. SNYDER.
W. O. Snyder, who is engaged in farming and stock-raising on a well improved farm of one hundred and fourteen acres, eighty acres of which are located on section 33, Monroe township and thirty-four acres in Worthington township, is a native son of the county, his birth having occurred April 18, 1852. His parents, John D. and Barbara (Rummel) Snyder, were also natives of the Buckeye state, the father's birth occurring in Richland county, while the mother was a native of Wyandot county. Their family numbered seven children, namely: Louis, of Monroe township; James M., a resident of Rich- land county ; Amanda, the wife of Henry Mowery, who makes his home in Illinois; Dell and Peter, also of Richland county; Anna, the wife of Charles Berry, a resident of Monroe township; and W. O., of this review. The wife and mother was called to her final rest in 1880, while the death of the father occurred in 1904.
W. O. Snyder spent the days of his boyhood and youth in his parents' home, during which time he acquired his education in the common schools of this section of the county. He remained with his father until he had reached the age of twenty-three years, when he started out upon his own resources, operating rented land for a decade. During this time through his economy, energy and
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well directed labors he acquired a sum that enabled him at that time to pur- chase property and he thus became the owner of eighty acres, situated in Mon- roe township, on section 33, and thirty-four acres located in Worthington town- ship. He has here a well improved farm, made so through his own labor and here in addition to raising the various cereals best adapted to soil and climate he devotes much of his time to raising stock and both branches of his business are bringing him good financial returns. In former years he also did threshing, following that business for seventeen years and in this connection he became widely known throughout various sections of the county.
Mr. Snyder chose as a companion and helpmate Miss Adaline Snyder, who though of the same name was not a relative. Their wedding was celebrated June 10, 1876. She was born in Monroe township, July 3, 1850, and was one of a family of three children. By her marriage she has become the mother of three children : Ezra, a resident of Monroe township; Pearl, the wife of Don Yearnal, of Perryville, this state; and Zola, the wife of Lou McKarne, of Richland county.
Mr. Snyder's study of the political questions and issues of the day has led him to give stalwart support to the men and measures of democracy, although he has never been active as an office seeker. Mrs. Snyder is a member of the Lutheran church and is highly esteemed in the community in which she makes her home, while in his business dealings Mr. Snyder is known for his integrity and reliability.
JAMES WILLIAM GALBRAITH.
James William Galbraith, an attorney-at-law of Mansfield, Ohio, was born in this city on the 23d of January, 1874. The family is of Scotch-Irish ancestry and representatives of the name were among the early settlers and extensive landowners of the Cumberland valley in Pennsylvania. Members of the parent family were active in support of the government in Revolutionary times, notably Major Andrew Galbraith, of the American army, who is buried at Silver Springs cemetery near Mechanicsburg. (See Harrisburg Telegraph, August, 1898.) The family contributed largely of its property to help pay the expenses of the American army at Valley Forge. James G. Blaine's grandmother was a Galbraith, whose home was in the Cumberland valley before her removal to Brownsville, Pennsylvania. (See Conwell's Life of James G. Blaine.) Robert Galbraith, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was a constructor of water mills and canals in eastern Pennsylvania. His death occurred about 1835 or 1836. His wife belonged to the Quigley family. who were also early settlers and extensive landowners of the Cumberland valley. the parent stock locating there after emigrating from Ireland. The great- great-grandfather's will was probated April 5, 1781, while the great-grand- father's will was probated April 21, 1806. The Quigley family included Dr. John Quigley, who afterward located at Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and there died in September, 1884, at the age of eighty-two years. During the
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Civil war, although his interests suffered from it, he maintained his loyalty and, being in close touch with the president and others high in authority, he was enabled to render valuable assistance to those in trouble or persecuted for their principles. Dr. Samuel Quigley, who was born in 1796 and passed away in 1872, "was a public-spirited man and a member of the constitutional conven- tion of Ohio in 1851 and 1852. He is buried at Calcutta, Ohio, where he lived many years." (See issue of November 21, 1898, the Harrisburg Semi-Weekly Telegraph.)
James Oliver Galbraith, father of James William Galbraith, is still living at the age of seventy-eight years, his birth having occurred in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in May, 1830. In 1856 he located in Shenandoah, Richland county, Ohio, coming to Mansfield in 1858, where he has since resided. He was extensively and successfully engaged in the carriage and wagon manufacturing business from 1856 until 1876. In 1871 he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Hunt, a native of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where her birth occurred in November, 1837. The following year she was brought by her parents, William and Margaret Hunt, to Mansfield and has since made her home here. The Hunts had come to Chambersburg, Penn- sylvania, from Hagerstown, Maryland, and originally were of the earliest settlers of Virginia. The maternal grandmother was a representative of the Barr and McConnell families, active supporters of the government in the Revolutionary army.
It will thus be seen that James William Galbraith has back of him an ancestry honorable and distinguished. He is the only child of the union of J. O. and Margaret (Hunt) Galbraith, which was the father's second marriage. In the public schools of his native city he acquired his preliminary education but laid aside his text-books in 1890 and took a clerkship in the dry-goods store of Joseph Black. On the 25th of July, 1891, he commenced the study of law with the firm of Donnell Marriott, devoting his leisure hours to the study of jurisprudence and also to his uncompleted school studies while engaged in various employments. While pursuing his legal education he was likewise connected with the office of clerk of courts, John C. Burns, and of Probate Judge Lewis Brucker, as recording clerk and deputy. On the 7th of June. 1895, he was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio and immediately entered upon active practice as a member of the firm of Maguire & Galbraith, which partnership continued until March 27, 1905, the latter having practiced alone since its dissolution. In no profession is there a career more open to talent than in that of the law, and in no field of endeavor is there demanded a more careful preparation, a more thorough appreciation of the absolute ethics of life, or of the underlying principles which form the basis of all human rights and privileges. Unflagging application and intuitive wisdom and a determi- nation to fully utilize the means at hand, are the concomitants which insure personal success and prestige in this great profession, which stands as the stern conservator of justice; and it is one into which none should enter without a recognition of the obstacles to be overcome and the battles to be won, for success does not perch on the falchion of every person who enters the con- petitive fray, but comes only as the diametrical result of capacity and unmis-
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takable ability. Possessing all the requisite qualities of the able lawyer, Mr. Galbraith has gained an extensive and enviable patronage and is widely recog- nized as one of the prominent representatives of the legal profession in this city.
On the 27th of June, 1900, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, Mr. Galbraith was united in marriage to Miss Isabelle E. Wright, of a family well and favorably known, and engaged for years in mercantile pursuits in Knox county. Their ancestors, the Wrights and Pattons, were among the carly settlers of Tuscarawas and Knox counties, Ohio. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith has been born one child, William Harold, aged seven years.
Our subject was a member and one of the organizers of the Richland Rifles, a private military company, which was afterward mustered into state service as Company M, Eighth Regiment Ohio National Guard, and was mustered into state service in the original muster, continuing therein for about four years and seeing active service during the mining strike of 1894.
In his political views Mr. Galbraith is a democrat and has always been active in the work of his party, though he never sought political office until the spring of 1908, when he was nominated by the democratic party of Richland county as its candidate for prosecuting attorney at the election to be held November 3, 1908. Fraternally he is connected with Madison Lodge, No. 26, K. P., which he joined in March, 1895, and of which he was chancellor com- mander during the first half of the year 1903. In July, 1897, he joined Mans- field Lodge, No. 35, F. & A. M., of which he was worshipful master in 1900, and during the years 1900, 1901 and 1902 he was worthy patron of Ruth Chapter, No. 17, Order of Eastern Star. His membership relations also connect him with Mansfield Tent, No. 130, K. O. T. M., the Knights & Ladies of Honor, Home Guards of America and Modern Brotherhood of America, all of Mansfield, Ohio. In religion he is a Methodist, being a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Mansfield. In the place of his nativity, where he has spent his entire life, he has gained distinction in legal, political and fraternal cireles and is recognized as a worthy scion of an honorable and honored ancestry.
JONATHAN UHLICH.
Jonathan Uhlich, who has been superintendent in charge of the Children's Home at Mansfield since 1897, was born in Madison township, Richland county, Ohio, May 14, 1857. He is a son of Joseph Uhlich, a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, born December 27, 1818. He arrived in this county on the 12th of May, 1830, when a youth of twelve years, and took up his abode in Madison township on a farm just north of the Mansfield corpora- tion line, now comprising one hundred and thirty acres. It was upon this place that Jonathan Uhlich was born and it is today his property. Having arrived at years of maturity, Joseph Uhlich was married to Miss Catherine Fiddler, also a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, born April 30, 1821. She too came to Richland county with her parents, and the family home was
MRS. HETTIE UHLICH
JONATHAN UHLICH.
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established in Madison township in pioneer days. With the work of early development and improvement Joseph Uhlich was connected, assisting materially in the progress of the county, especially along agricultural lines. His salient traits of character were such as won for him the highest regard and confidence, and throughout the period of his residence here he enjoyed the good will and respect of those who knew him. He died June 15, 1890, having for ten years survived his wife, who passed away in 1880 at the age of fifty-six years. There was one daughter in the family, Mrs. Ella Fay.
The son, Jonathan Uhlich, obtained his education in the district schools and was trained to habits of industry, economy and integrity on the home farm. After he had gained some practical knowledge of affairs and life he engaged in business in Mansfield and so continued his success until he relinquished his enterprise, assuming the superintendency of the Children's Home in September, 1897. The first sixteen years of his life were spent upon the home farm and then he came to Mansfield in 1873. He was thereafter identified with business interests of the city until 1897, and in his present position he has given eminent satisfaction by the capable businesslike way in which he conducts the home and also by reason of the humanitarian spirit which he displays in the care of the little ones entrusted to his charge.
Mr. Uhlich was married to Miss Hettie Caldwell, a daughter of Samuel Caldwell, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and died in Missouri in 1880. She was a granddaughter of Samuel Caldwell, Senior, who died about 1830. Her mother, Mrs. Sarah Caldwell, nee Chambers, is a resident of Springfield township. Her father, James Chambers, arrived in Ohio from Pennsylvania in 1810. Both the Caldwell and the Chambers families were of Scotch-Irish descent and were numbered among the carly residents of Richland county, where becoming identified with the work of public progress they assisted materially in the early develop- ment and upbuilding of this part of the state. Mrs. Uhlich was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1858, and was brought to this county by her parents in 1859. The consensus of public opinion award both Mr. and Mrs. Uhlich high praise for their management of the Children's Home, Mr. Uhlich acting as superintendent of the institution and his wife as matron since September 1, 1897.
The farm consists of forty acres of well cultivated land and the house contains about sixty large and airy rooms. It has spacious halls and is in every way splendidly appointed, being an ideal home of this character. The house is approached from the street by an avenue a quarter of a mile long bordered by grand old trees. The average number of children accommodated here from different parts of the county is about sixty and they range in age from one to sixteen years. On reaching the latter age they are placed in desirable homes where they are cared for until fully able to care for them- selves. Since Mr. Uhlich assumed the superintendency of the home it has never had less than forty-two children under its roof, while the highest number has been eighty-three. He is in all ways an ideal superintendent for an establishment of this kind, for he loves children in an intense degree, so that he stands to those under his charge practically in the relation of a father,
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and Mrs. Uhlich surrounds them with a mother's love and care. They are both much interested in the work, and the county is certainly fortunate in securing their services in this connection. Mr. Uhlich, too, manifests excel- lent business ability in the management of the farm and it partakes as little as possible of the nature of a public institution, but on the contrary has the real home spirit, so that the children largely enjoy the advantages which fate has denied them in homes of their own.
CHRISTIAN SCHINDLER.
Christian Schindler, who is living retired on his farm on section 20, Washington township, was born in Prussia, Germany, September 4, 1829, his parents being Christopher and Hannah (Onheiser) Schindler, also na- tives of the fatherland, the former born in 1801 and the latter in 1807. Christopher Schindler accompanied his parents on their emigration to America in 1847, the little party landing at Quebec, whence they went direct to Missouri, arriving there in August, 1847. In the spring of 1848 the father of our subject came to Richland county, Ohio, purchasing a small farm of twenty acres on section 4, Washington township. He was a tailor by trade and gave his attention largely to that vocation, leaving the work of the farm mostly to his sons. In the spring of 1868 he removed to a farm near Lexington, Ohio, but two years later he returned to Washington town- ship, where he lived some five years, and in the spring of 1875 he again removed to Troy township, where he died the same year. His wife survived him until 1888, when she, too, was called to her final rest. Unto this worthy couple were born five children, namely: Christian, of this review; Mrs. Laura Mengert, who is a widow residing in Mansfield, Ohio; William, who died while serving as a soldier in the army; Catherine, the wife of John Miller, of Mansfield, Ohio; and John, who makes his home in Lexington, Ohio.
Christian Schindler acquired a good common-school education in his native country, and was eighteen years of age when he came to the United States. He remained under the parental roof until he attained the age of twenty-three years and then began the operation of a rented farm, being thus engaged until 1861, when he purchased a tract of forty acres. In 1868, however, he sold this farm and bought his present place of seventy acres on section 20, Washington township, which he has brought under a high state of development and on which he has put many excellent improve- ments. He still resides on the farm, but is now renting the land, so that he is enabled to spend his remaining days in well earned ease, being widely recognized as one of the highly respected, prosperous and venerable citizens of the community.
On the 5th of October, 1854, occurred the marriage of Mr. Schindler and Miss Mary Touby, whose birth occurred in Germany, November 13, 1830, her parents being Jacob and Elizabeth Touby, the former born in
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1800 and the latter in 1802. Mrs. Schindler accompanied her parents on their removal to the new world in 1848, the family home being established in Washington township, Richland county, where the father purchased a farm. His demise occurred in this county in 1872, while his wife also passed away here, being called to her final rest on the 30th of November, 1885. Their family numbered seven children, three of whom still survive: Mrs. Mary Englehart, a widow residing in Lexington, Ohio; Mrs. Schindler ; and William, of Washington township. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Schindler has been born one daughter, Mary, the wife of Martin Touby, of Washington township.
Mr. Schindler is a democrat in his political views, and both he and his wife are lifelong members of the Evangelical church, in which he has served as elder. They are a highly esteemed and intelligent old couple, receiving the veneration and respect which should ever be accorded those who have traveled thus far on life's journey and whose careers have ever been upright and honorable.
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