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In politics Mr. France is an uncompromising supporter of the Republican party and he has been most liberal in his contributions to the development and progress of his home county. In a frater- nal way he is affiliated with Eden Lodge, No. 310, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and with De Molay Commandery. Knights Temp- lars, at Tiffin. Both he and his wife are members of the Order of the Eastern Star. They also hold membership in the Reformed church.
In June, 1888, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. France to Miss Luella Blackwell, who is a native of Ohio and who is a daugh- ter of George and Julia (Heilman) Blackwell, both of whom are now of Tiffin. Mr. and Mrs. France have two children, George A., who was born on the 24th of November. 1890; and Luella, whose birth occurred on the 5th of November, 1897.
OSCAR H. BERLEKAMP was born June 26. 1883. a son of H. B. and Caroline (Cook) Berlekamp. A biographical sketch of his father is given in these pages and should be referred to in con- nection with this. The parents of our subject were natives of Prussia. He lived with them till 1904. when he was about twenty- one years old. On November 16th that year he married Miss Sallie Light Mayer, at Fremont, Ohio. She was born June 2.
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1885, a daughter of Israel HI. and Sallie (Light) Mayer, natives of Thompson township. Her grandfather Mayer was born in Pennsylvania of an old and honored family there, and her grand- mother, Catharine (Shadley) Mayer, was a native of France. They were among the early settlers of Thompson township, taking up land and improving it into a fine farm. The churches and schools of their vicinity had in them friends firm, helpful and steadfast, who did all possible for their development and advancement. They were communicants of the Reformed church. Sallie Light Mayer was born February 3, 1869. Israel Mayer was born in 1860.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Mayer lived with grand- father Loose. They were members of the Reformed church and he was a Democrat. In the affairs of his township and of the county he was influential, as all good citizens should be. She died June 4, 1885, and he married Jennie Berkey and went to Elkhart, Indiana, to be a railroad engineer, leaving his daughter, Mrs. Berlekamp, with her grandparents, J. B. and Anna Light, who sent her to the Old Fort High School where she received her graduating diploma in 1899, and cared for her till she married. Before her marriage, however, she entered upon a successful career as a teacher, which continued five years, two years after she be- came Mrs. Berlekamp. It should be noted that she received a second diploma, of which she is justly proud. She will long be remembered as one of Pleasant township's most efficient educators. She has two brothers, Earl W. and Chester E. Mayer, and two sis- ters, Bessie I. and Edith B. Mayer, all of whom live at Elkhart, Indiana, with their father.
After his marriage, Mr. Berlekamp took up a residence on a farm owned by himself and two brothers, later selling his interest and buying his present farm, one of the best of its class in Pleasant township, on which he has lived since 1905 and which he has im- proved by ditching and tiling, by rebuilding barns and fences. by remodeling his house and in other ways known to thrifty farmers. Mr. and Mrs. Berlekamp are active and helpful members of the Reformed church. He is a Republican of local standing and in- fluence. His wife has borne him two children: Joseph B .. born June 21, 1906, died in infancy ; Windle K., was born May 26, 1909.
HELEN M. HEATH .- Americans are beginning to realize the moral as well as the historical significance of genealogical founda- tions. A nation which relies upon the record of its homes for its national character cannot afford to ignore the value of genealogi- cal investigation as one of the truest sources of patriotism. The love of home inspires the love of country. There is a wholesome influence in genealogical research which cannot be over estimated. Moreover, there is a deep human interest in it.
Helen M. (Shaw) Heath is the daughter and the widow of American citizens who contributed in generous measure to the civic and material development of the communities which represented their homes during their long and useful lives. She was born in Seneca county, Ohio, on the 31st of August, 1846, and is a daugh- ter of Captain Joseph and Rachel Ogden (Price) Shaw. both of
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whom are now deceased. £ Captain Shaw was a native of the old Empire state of the Union, his birth having occurred in Scipio township, Cayuga county, New York, on the 20th of March, 1811. He was a son of Robert Shaw, born in New York in 1785, a farmer by occupation. After attaining to his legal majority, Robert Shaw wedded Miss Sarah Keller and in 1836 they came to Seneca county, Ohio, locating in Scipio township, on several hundred acres of land eligibly situated on Morrison creek. They became the parents of ten children, namely: Mary. Eliza, Joseph, Matilda, Sallie, Silas, George. Roxa, Jerome and Alfred, all of whom are deceased. Robert Shaw was summoned to the life eternal August 14, 1864, and his cherished and devoted wife passed away in 1868. Captain Shaw was reared and educated in his native county and as a young man he became captain of an Erie canal boat, continuing to be identified with that line of enterprise for a period of seven years. In 1841 he removed to Seipio township, Seneca county, and engaged in agricultural pursuits, owning a fine farm two and a half miles west of Republic. Just prior to his advent in Ohio he married Rachel Ogden Price, of Genoa, New York. To this union were born three children, namely : Jane E., who became the wife of Captain George Tubbs; Helen M., the immediate subject of this review ; and Annie E., who is the wife of G. R. Hemingway, traveling salesman for the Hess & Clark Company. with head- quarters at Ashland, Ohio.
In 1850 Captain Shaw, with his family, returned to New York and for twenty years thereafter he was actively engaged as hotel proprietor at various points in New York. He returned to his farm near Republic in 1870, but the closing years of his life were passed at Republic, where he died August 20, 1877. His widow long survived him, her death occurring on March 30, 1900, at Ash- land. Captan Shaw was a man of fine mentality and broad human sympathy and he is held in reverent memory by all who knew him.
Jane E. Shaw, the eldest daughter, was born November 27, 1843, in Scipio township. Seneca county, Ohio, and on the 26th of May, 1868. at Candor, New York, she was united in marriage to Captain George Tubbs, a native of Elmira. New York, where his birth occurred on the 19th of May. 1833. At the time of the in- ception of the Civil war he gave most effective aid in organizing the One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment of New York Infantry, in which he served as second lieutenant of Company I. Later he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and at the battle of Resaca he was wounded by a minie ball, which struck him in the right foot. After his recovery he was given charge of an invalid corps for a short time but later was detailed as topographical engineer on the staff of General Knipe, commanding a brigade of the First Division of the Twentieth Army Corps. Subsequent- ly, on the march from Savannah through the Carolinas. he was ap- pointed topographical engineer on the staff of General Jefferson C. Davis, of Indiana, who commanded the Fourteenth Army Corps. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea and on his staff in the Grand Review in the city of Washington, at the close of the war.
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Captain Tubbs returned to his home in the Empire state. when peace had again been established. and there he was married and at Candor. Tioga county, that state. conducted an iron foundry for four years. In 1872 he emigrated to Ohio and established his home at Republic. He ever retained a deep interest in his old comrades in arms and signified the same by membership in Robin-
son Post. Grand Army of the Republic, at Republic. He served as commander of Robinson Post and in his civic life he was mayor of Republic and was serving his second term as justice of the peace at the time of his death. on the 2nd of March, 1899. His wife survives him and she has long been an active factor in Relief Corps work. having filled the position of president of Robinson Women's Relief Corps for no less than five terms. She is also a member of the Reading Circle and the Daughters of Rebekah. Captain and Mrs. Tubbs became the parents of three children. Joseph K. who was born at Candor. New York, on the 27th of September. 1870. married Hattie L. Crapsey. of Bradner. Ohio, May 5. 1898. and they maintain their home at Velasco. Texas; Robert M .. who was born at Republic, Ohio. on the 22nd of June. 1873. is a resident of Ashland. Ohio, where was solemnized his mar- riage to Mary E. Brinton. of that city. the date of the ceremony being June 23. 1906 and they have two children : Florence E., born June 13. 1907; Robert Edward. born January 22, 1909; and Charles E .. born March 30. 1875. died August 1. 1907.
Helen M. (Shaw) Heath was a child of but four years at the time of her parents' removal to New York, in which state she was reared and educated. On the 1st of December. 1869. at Can- dor. New York. was celebrated her marriage to Edward E. Heath, who died June 18. 1905. Mr. Heath was born in Tompkins coun- tv, New York. February 12. 1843, and was a son of James Heath. who removed with his family to Hartford. New York, in 1849. to the public schools of which place Mr. Heath was indebted for his educational training. When seventeen years of age he entered upon an apprenticeship at the tinner's trade. at Homer. New York. and he was thus engaged until the 21st of August. 1862. when he manifested his intrinsic loyalty to the cause of the Union by en- listing as a private in Company II. One Hundred and Fifty- seventh New York Infantry. at Hamilton, where he was mustered into service. His term of enlistment was for three years. He participated in many engagements marking the progress of the · war, in the first of which, at Chancellorsville, he was severely wounded by a minnie ball, which passed through his left thigh and · lodged against the bone of his right leg. He was in the field hos- pital for three days. after which he was sent to a hospital in Washington. where he remained for seventeen days. during which time the ball was extracted. After his recovery he was sent to David's Island and on the 1st of September. 1863. he was trans- ferred to Fort Schuyler. Later he was at Bedloe's Island and at Alexandria. Virginia, where he was put on detached service. being thus engaged until his discharge. at the close of his term of three years. He had been a most faithful soldier and was mustered out
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of service on the 14th of July. 1865. as first sergeant. having been promoted to the rank of corporal before leaving New York.
At the close of the war Mr. Heath took up his abode at Homer. New York, where he followed his trade for two years. ITe then removed to Candor. Tioga county. where he was engaged in the hardware business until 1874. which year marked his advent in Republic. Ohio. This change was made on account of Mrs. Heath's impaired health. Being much benefited by the change. permanent location was made in Seneca county and Mr. Heath turned his at- tention to the buying and selling of walnut timber. Subsequently he engaged in the tinware and hardware business at Republic and prior to his death he was connected with the oil industry at Rollersville. Ohio. for a number of years. In politics, Mr. Heath was ever aligned as a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party and he held membership in Robin- son Post. Grand Army of the Republic. in which he gave most efficient service as commander. Mr. Heath was an influential factor in public affairs, showing a deep and intelligent interest in all enterprises tending to advance the general welfare. He was long a member of the town council of Republic and served on the fire and water committee. For more than a score of years he was correspondent for the Tiffin Tribune and he had various financial and real estate interests of broad scope and importance. He was a valued and appreciative member of Republic Lodge. No. 40. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. and at the time of his death. June 18. 1905. his funeral was in charge of this order. Many celebrated members from New York and various points in Ohio attended the services and his remains were interred in Fairwell Retreat Cemetery. at Republe. He was a man of quick perception and extraordinary executive ability. was modest and unassuming. a home lover who sought and found his chief pleasure by his own fire- side in the companionship of his family and devoted friends.
Mrs. Heath is a woman of most gracions personality and broad mental ken. She has traveled extensively thronghont the United States, visiting its many large cities and celebrated health resorts. She has considerable literary talent and devotes much of her time to writing. being a correspondent for and a contributor to several prominent periodicals. Though she is now past sixty years of age she scarcely looks forty. her clear vision and splendid . vigor being wonderfully preserved. Her sister. Mrs. Tubbs. re- sides with her. as already stated. and she accompanies Mrs. Heath on her extensive travels. She is an ardent worker in the Women's Relief Corps. in which she has served as treasurer. and is past noble grand in the Daughters of Rebekah. . She is also a member of the Eastern Star and secretary of the Daughters of America. She has taken a prominent part in the work of this latter organization and has been delegate to the state meetings of the order on various occasions. Her religious faith is in harmony with the tenets of the Presbyterian church. to whose charities and benevolences she has ever been a liberal contributor.
Anna E .. youngest daughter of Joseph and Rachel O. Shaw. was born at Sycamore. Wyandot- county. Ohio, February 22. 1849.
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She was united in marriage to George R. Hemingway, at Candor, New York, on the 30th of December. 1868. In 1870 Mr. and Mrs. Hemingway removed to Republic, Ohio, and to them were born three children : Rachel Blanche. Ella Maud and Amy Winona. Rachel Blanche was born at Republic. Ohio, July 26. 1871, and she is now the wife of Frank L. Heath. of Candor, New York. the date of her marriage being June 14, 1899. Ella Maud was likewise a native of Republic, the date of her birth being May 7. 1873. She was summoned to eternal rest on the 11th of September. 1873. at which time she was an infant of but four months of age. Amy Winona, born at Republic, on the 14th of June, 1877. married Emory E. Brown. of Ashland. on the 12th of September. 1900. They reside at Ashland and have one son. Joseph H. whose birth occurred April 23, 1908.
ROLAND H. CRUM, of Pleasant township, post office Tiffin, one of the leaders in his community. was born December 20. 1880. a son of William T. and Mary E. (Keller) Crum. The father was born in Dauphin county. Pennsylvania. May 30, 1853. and the mother's nativity was in the Buckeye state. her natal day being December 18. 1854. The mother is a native of this township and has the unusual experience of residing upon the very farm which was the scene of her birth. William T. Crum came to Ohio when a little lad of four years with his parents. John Frederick and Susan S. (Reeme) Crum. the farewell to the old home near Harris- burg, in the Keystone state, being made in the year 1857. They located on a good farm in Hopewell township, Seneca county. which comprised one hundred and sixty acres of excellent land, and en- gaged in general farming. The grandfather was a quiet. upright. dependable man, with a quick hand for a friend or for those in trouble, helpful in the community, a good all-round citizen, such as exerts an influence for progress and development. He was a German by descent. his parents. David and Mrs. (Stine) Crum. having been born in the fatherland and later crossed to America. where they located in Pennsylvania. John Frederick Crum sur- vived until January 5. 1899. his wife having preceded him to the great beyond on July 24, 1887. The name of the latter's father was Daniel Reeme. and he was a prominent man in his day and generation.
Mr. . Crum's mother's family. the Kellers. were Maryland people, who located in Pleasant township about the year 1852. The father's principal business was farming. but later he built two grist mills and managed them until he died. He was widely known as ".Joel Keller, the miller." and his wife's maiden name had been Martha Kemp. Her grandfather. Peter Kemp, was the founder of the family in America, he having selected the state of Maryland as an abiding place.
Roland HI. Crum, whose name initiates this sketch. was edu- cated in the public schools, finishing at the Tiffin High School and his early years were employed in assisting his father, he remaining under the home roof until 1904. He was married on May 15 of that year to Elvira T. Abbott, born May 16, 1880, a daughter of A. L.
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and Calena (Titus) Abbott. Mr. and Mrs. Crum have one child. named Roland Abbott Crum. who first saw the light of day August 11, 1905. After his marriage Mr. Crum settled on the old A. L. Abbott farm of two hundred and twenty-one aeres and took up general farming, in which he has been successful. He is a Repub- lican and influential in the township and county counsels of his party. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church of Tiffin and Mrs. Crum is a communicant of the Presbyterian church of that city. He supplemented his schooling by a commercial course at Heidelberg. The wife, too, was educated in the Old Fort High School and at Heidelberg. She is justly proud of the fact that some of her relatives saw a soldier's service in the Civil war, notably Lieutenant (afterwards captain) Moses Abbott and Captain Lyman Abbott. and she is also eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.
HERBERT A. GOODING was born in Adams township. Seneca county, Ohio. January 30. 1873. a son of Josiah and Mary A. (Petticord) Gooding. He was reared on his father's farm. in- structed in all that makes for successful cultivation of the soil, and educated in public schools near his home. Until he married. he made his home with his parents, helping his father in his farming operations. But he was at times otherwise employed. He early fitted himself for a teacher's work. In 1893 he visited the Colum- bian Exposition. Chicago's great world's fair, where he made a critical study of many interesting things. broadening his view by observation and comparison of many objects of educational quality from all parts of the earth. December 2. that year, he married Miss Hetty A. Fisher. After successfully taking a five year examination he devoted himself to teaching. and was for fourteen years in charge of leading schools in the country round about. making a record as an educator of which any man might be proud. Had he continued teaching he might have risen to still more promin- ence, but in the meantime. seven years ago. he had bought the old Petticord farm of ninety acres and it demanded his attention. He moved into the old Petticord house. one of the landmarks of the township, built as long ago as 1840. He has partially rebuilt it, and it affords him comfortable domicile and adorns one of the finest farms in his neighborhood. Mrs. Gooding was born May 16. 1874. and lived with her grandfather. J. Rule. until her marriage. Educated in district schools and having a thirst to gain and im- part knowledge. she was so thoroughly animated with the educa- tional spirit of the day that for ten years she gave herself to school teaching, a vocation in which she won the praise of many older educators. It is worthy of note as indicating the current of the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Gooding at the time of their courtship and in · the time leading to it that he was her last teacher before she left school to enter upon her labors in the world. She has borne her husband four children : Ruby F., born October 20. 1895 ; Rachel M .. October 17, 1900; Ward E .. September 12. 1906: and Norman D .. August 5, 1910. They are all members of their parents' house- hold. Mrs. Gooding is a daughter of Lewis F. and Sarah ( Rule)
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Fisher. They were born in Adams township. her father Novem- ber 18, 1850, and her mother September 8, 1845. Her father is Jiving there now. devoting himself to his trade, that of a carpenter. His father was Joseph Fisher. a native of Maryland, who married Barbara Smith, also born in that state. but of German extraction.
Josiah Gooding. father of Herbert A. Gooding, was a son of Joseph and Amelia (Cooper) Gooding. Joseph Gooding was born at Playford near Ipswich. England, in 1803. His wife was born in the state of New York. They came to Seneca county in 1830. Their son Josiah was born in Adams township in 1835, was edu- cated in public schools and at the academy at Republic, taught school from 1850 to 1870, and was married April 21, 1859. He enlisted but before actual service the war was over. He is now living in Adams township. His wife bore him six children. The first in order of birth was Evira ; the others were Harry M .; Willie, deceased ; Emma J .. George E. and Herbert A. The latter is a Re- publican in his political alliances and as such was repeatedly elected justice of the peace, serving continuously in the office eleven years. He has in his possession several relics of past generations which he justly prizes very highly. Among them is a set of andirons, a shovel and a pair of tongs brought from England by his grand- father Cooper and long used by him. Another is a teapot prob- ably about a hundred years old once used by his grandmother, tea from which he often drank with her when he was young. An- other is a beautiful handpainted plate, on which is delicately en- graved the word "Guanasay." Still another is a pitcher of ancient pattern which was long in possession of the Petticord family.
JAENICE P. HARRINGTON .- Mrs. Harrington occupies a position of prominence in connection with educational affairs in Seneca county by reason of the fact that she is proprietor and manager of the Fostoria Business College. whose facilities and methods of in- struction are of the best modern standard so that the institution affords splendid advantages to its numerous students. Mrs. Harrington is a native of Seneca county and is a daughter of Dr. James M. Parker, who was one of the honored and successful sur- geons of this county for many years. Both he and his wife, whose maiden name was Hettie Gilmer, continued to reside in Ohio until his death. Mrs. Harrington was afforded the advantages of the public schools of the city of Findlay. Ohio, where she was grad- uated in the high school as a member of the class of 1902. There- after she completed a three years' course in the University of Ohio and in the spring of 1908 she came to Fostoria and assumed the position of manager of the Fostoria Business College. of which she became proprietor on April 4, 1909. £ The excellent institu- tion. which is conducted under the able administration of Mrs. Harrington, offers complete courses in stenography. typewriting. bookkeeping and business forms and is well equipped for fitting its students for all kinds of office positions. In connection with the college is maintained a business exchange. through which em- plovers are provided with capable office assistants. The college Vol. II-10
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is located in the Rosendale Building. at the corner of Main and North streets, and is constantly expanding in its usefulness and scope of operations.
Mrs. Harrington is known as a careful business woman and capable executive and occupies a somewhat unique position as administrative head of her college. She holds membership in the Presbyterian church.
ISAAC P. RULE .- This prominent Republican and citizen of Adams township was born October 31. 1865. a son of Byron and Matilda (Dodge) Rule. His grandfather, Daniel Rule. who was born October 28. 1801 came to Scipio township the year following the removal of his father to this section and he settled on eighty acres of land. He had formerly resided in Trumbull county and later he settled on one hundred and seventy-three acres in Seneca county.
Isaac P. Rule was educated at Greenspring and at Oberlin. he gained a practical knowledge of farming and was a member of his parents' home circle until he married and set up an independent rooftree. He married Miss Jennie Litler, and she bore him a son whom they named Byron L. He died in April. 1900 and the
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