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General Statistics .- The assessment roll of Liberty Township, in 1841, gives 19,833 acres, valued at $45,946; value of town lots, $391; horses, 240, valued at $9,600; cattle, 487, valued at $3.896; mercantile capital and moneys at. interest, $800; total value, $60,633; total tax, $803.38; delinquencies, $103.81.
The valuation and taxation of Liberty Township and Bettsville Village present the following statistics: acres of land in township. 22,558, valued at $765,490, and personal property valued at $355, 770; acres of land in Betts- ville, 150, valued at $73,830, and personal property valued at $45,380, aggre- gating $1,240,470 or $575.08 per capita (population of 1880, 2,157). The total tax is $15,553. 72, and dog tax $190.
The statistics of Liberty Township for 1884 are acres of wheat, 4, 454, product 35,327 bushels; acres of rye, 42; of buckwheat, 9; of oats, 943, product 30,260 bushels; of barley, 57; of corn, 3,367, product 80,070 bushels; of meadow, 910 acres, product 1.082 tons of hay: clover. 821 acres, producing
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844 tons of hay and 589 bushels of seed; potatoes, 110 acres, 15,256 bushels; butter, 59, 130 pounds; sorghum, 11 acres, 420 gallons syrup; maple syrup. 679 gallons; 188 hives, 4,451 pounds of honey; 27,773 dozens of eggs; 4 acres of vineyards, 400 pounds of grapes and 65 gallons of wine; 373 acres of orchards, 5,886 bushels of apples, 14 of peaches, 34 of pears; 11,822 acres of cultivated lands. 668 acres of pasture land. 4,359 of woodland, 27 of waste land. total acreage owned, 16,876; wool shorn in 1883, 7.883 pounds; milch cows, 645; dogs. 190; sheep killed and injured by dogs, 46; animals died of disease, 148 hogs, 88 sheep, 22 cattle and 15 horses.
School Statistics .-- The school land question was brought before the electors of Liberty Township April 7. 1851. J. Abbott, P. Lewman and John Berkey were judges, and Dennis Maloy and Joseph Cessna, clerks of election in the case of the sale of school lands. October 25, 1851, the sale of Section 16, Town- ship 3, Range 14, and the north part of fractional Section 16, Township 1, Range 13, took place. Section 16 was disposed of to the following named buyers: Miles Barber, west half of northwest quarter; Warren P. Noble, east half of north- west quarter and east half and west half of northeast quarter; Jacob Feasel, east half of southeast quarter; James Lott, west half of southeast quarter; David Martin. east half of southwest quarter: Daniel Lynch, west half of southwest quarter; all realizing $7, 705, together with $540 realized from 58 14 acres in Section 16, Township 1. Range 13, being the west half of east half and west half of west half fractional, referred to in Big Spring Township.
The first meeting of the board of education was held at Feasel's schoolhouse April 18, 1853, with Jonathan Abbott, presiding, and James Lot, township clerk; J. Cessna, secretary: Dicken, Feasel and M. Edwards, trustees.
The condition of Liberty Township schools in August, 1884. is as follows: local tax. $3,198.84; receipts. $4.961.67; expenditures, $3,118.69; school- houses, 10; number of teachers. 22; average salaries, $52, $38 and $27; male pupils, 334; female pupils, 258; total number in high school. 73.
CHAPTER XXII.
LOUDON TOWNSHIP AND FOSTORIA CITY.
THIS is one of the western tier of townships of Seneca County. Its eastern line is within six miles of the county seat, and it comprises within itself one of the most enterprising and progressive cities in this portion of Ohio. The township was surveyed in 1820; but, for some years after settlers refused to seek a home in the Wolf Creek wilderness, although the sale of lands there was begun in 1821. A very small area presents a broken surface; but rolling lands are common. In general it is a slightly undulating plain, possessing a soil well adapted to the growth of cereals and esculent roots.
Wolf Creek and its tributaries appear to beg for supply sources through- out the township. These streams are found rambling around everywhere within its bound, if we except the immediate neighborhood of the Fostoria divide. All the heads of the west fork of this meandering creek may be said to find a home here in Sections 7, 18 and 29, forming a stream at the northeast corner of Section 17, and flowing thence northeast, entering Jackson Township,
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in Section 35. Harrison Creek heads in two creeks on Sections 33 and 34. which flow north to Section 14, where they form one stream. This flows north by east, leaving the township just east of the west line of Section 1. One of the principal tributaries of the main stream of Wolf Creek rises near the south line of the township in its southeast quarter, flows through Sections 35, 36, 25 and 24, and enters Hopewell in Section 19 of that township.
The railroads which run through the township are the Baltimore & Ohio, the Ohio Central and the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo. The Lake Erie & Western runs northeasterly through Fostoria. leaving the township in the northwest quarter of Section 5. The "Nickel Plate " also runs through Fos- toria in a northeasterly direction. and leaves the township at Section 4.
The population of this township, outside of Rome Village. in 1835, was 200; five years later, in 1840, the population of the township, including Rome, was 763; and forty years later, in 1880. 4.315. exclusive of those parts of Fostoria. in Jackson Township, and in Hancock County.
Organic and Official .- The first town election for Loudon was held April 1, 1832, when Abner Wade was elected justice; Benjamin Stevens, Peter F. King and John Ricketts, trustees; John Tennis, clerk; Samuel Carbaugh, con- stable; Benjamin Hartley. supervisor; Abner Wade and Nathan Shippey, over- seers of the poor; Benjamin Stevens, treasurer: Nathan Shippey, John Kase and John Shellars. fence viewers.
In 1833 the trustees and clerk were re-elected, and Peter Eversole was chosen treasurer. The township was districted for school purposes this year.
In March, 1834, the township was set off into road districts. Charles W. Foster was elected clerk and justice of the peace, while the treasurer and trus- tees were re-elected. School trustees were elected for the first time this year. The trustees, clerks and justices of the peace. elected since 1834. are named as follows:
In 1835, Daniel Shively, W. Bennett and James Anderson, trustees: David Headley, clerk, and Abner Wade, justice of the peace. Same officers elected in 1836. and re-elected in 1837.
In 1837, C. W. Foster, Alonzo Lockwood, and William Peterson were elected school examiners, and C. W. Foster. justice of the peace.
In 1838. B. Stevens, James Anderson and Daniel Shively were elected trustees: John Tennis, clerk; Abner Wade, justice of the peace, and re-elected in 1839.
In 1840, Robert M. Ranney, Henry Ebersole and James Anderson were elected trustees; Alonzo Lockwood, justice of the peace, and John Tennis. clerk.
In 1841, Henry Ebersole. Robert Mckay and Alonzo Lockwood were trust- ees; C. W. Foster, treasurer: Thomas Chance, clerk.
The elections of 1842 resulted in the choice of Abner Wade. Henry Eber- sole and James Anderson, trustees; Thomas Chance, clerk, and Eli Weaver, justice of the peace.
In 1843 there were elected Abner Wade, David Headley and Thomas E. Belknap, trustees; Eli Weaver, clerk; C. W. Foster, treasurer: Alonzo Lock- wood, justice of the peace, and re-elected in 1844.
In 1845 Jacob Anton. David Young and Peter I. King. trustees; Eli Wea- ver, clerk, and C. W. Foster. treasurer, were elected.
The election of 1846 resulted in the choice of Joel Hales, Philip Hennessy and Eli Weaver, trustees; A. K. Needham, clerk, and C. W. Foster, treasurer. The trustees were re-elected in 1847, with clerk and treasurer: Joel Hales and and M. P. Skinner, justice of the peace.
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In April. 1847, Abner Wade, Thomas E. Belknap and Thomas Foughty, trustees of Section 16. rented to W. S. Sprales for seven years, and to others, parts of school section.
The trustees elected in 1848 were Abner Wade, Phillip Hennessy and Joel Hales; clerk and treasurer re-elected.
The trustees elected in 1849 were John Fritcher, John Cooper and Joseph Ames; Junius V. Jones was chosen clerk, and C. W. Foster, treasurer; Samuel Dewees, justice of the peace.
The elections of 1850 resulted as follows: John Fritcher. John Cooper and Joseph Ames, trustees: clerk and treasurer re-elected, and Peter Ebersole, justice of the peace. TRUSTEES. CLERKS. TREASURERS. JUSTICES.
1851-G.W.Patterson, P. Hennessy, D. Young. P. J. Kinnaman. C.W. Foster. J. Ames
1852-G.W.Patterson, P.Hennessy. D. Young. . P. J. Kinnaman. C.W. Foster. G. W. Patterson
1853-S. W. Ricketts, J. Fritcher, D. Young. . J. V. Jones .... C.W.Foster. J. V. Jones . 1854-S. Grove, J. Dillon, J. Fritcher. . .J. V. Jones . C.W.Foster. Joel Hales .. 1855-C. Grove, W. Braden, R. A. Kirkwood. . J. V. Jones
C.W. Foster. Joel Hales. 1855-J. C. Millhime and R. A. Patterson ..
were appointed vice Braden and Kirk- wood removed. .
1856-C.Grove, J.H. Clay, A. R. Brandebery .. J. V. Jones ..... C.W.Foster.J. V. Jones 1857-M. Fruth, J. Cuthbertson. C. Grove. .. . J. V. Jones. . ... C. W. Foster. J. V. Jones
1858-C. Grove, M. Fruth, J. Anderson. .J. V. Jones. . .C.W. Foster. J. V. Jones
1859-G. Dillon; P. Byers, D. Young. . . . .J. V. Jones ... .. C.W. Foster. J. V. Jones 1860-W.D. Sherwood, P. Byers, J. G. AustienJ. V. Jones. . .C.W. Foster. J. W. Arnold
1861 -* J. Lewis, J. Cuthbertson, P. Byers . ... J. V. Jones. . .C.W.Foster.J. V. Jones
1862-P. Byers, P. Chance, J. Adelsperger. .. . J. V. Jones. .
.C.W. Foster. J. V. Jones
1863-J. Bick, P. Chance, N. Lower. .J. V. Jones. .C.W. Foster. J. V. Jones
1864-Joel Hales, P. Chance, C. C. Nestlerode. Ira Allerton.
1865-Joel Hales, P. Chance, C. C. Nestlerode. S. W. Clay.
1866-Joel Hales, P. Chance, C. C. Nestlerode.S. Stearns.
.C.W. Foster. P. Byers.
1869-J. V. Jones, S. Kiser, S. Good.
.N. P. Robbins. . C.W.Foster. J.A. Bradner
1870-J. V. Jones, L. Niebel. J. W. Arnold. . . N. P. Robbins.
1871-J. V. Jones, I. Stultz, Isaac Good ... . .. N. P. Robbins.
1872-J. V. Jones, I. Stultz, Isaac Good .. .N. P. Robbins. J.A. Bradner
1873-A. Emerine, J. A. Bonnell, H. W. Eyler. G. D. Acker .... M.P.SkinnerP. Byers
1874-A. Emerine, G. Dillon, P. Ricketts.
1875-A. Emerine, G. Dillon, I. Stultz.
1876-P. Duffy, I. Stultz. J. Hoffman.
1877-R. Adams, J. Andes, I. Stultz
.G. A. Knight ... A. Emerine. J. Heilman
1878-S. Kizer, D. Asire, I. Stultz. .
1879-G. D. Acker, I. Stultz, D. Asire.
G. A. Knight ... I.L. Mickey .. D. H. Everett
1880-D. Asire, G. D. Acker, John Andes.
G. A. Knight ... I.L. Mickey .. W. Cramer
1881-D. Asire, J. Andes, I. Stultz .. .
G. A. Knight ... I.L.Mickey .. G. A. Knight
1882-J. Andes, D. Peters, J. V. Jones. .G. A. Knight ... I.L. Mickey .. J.A. Bradner
1883-J. Andes, D. Peters, G. D. Acker. .Wm. O. Bulger. I.L. Mickey .. J.A. Bradner
1884-J. Andes, G. D. Acker, D. Peters. G. A. Knight ... I.L.Mickey .. C. W. Hughes
The elections of 1885 resulted in the choice of the following named officers: Trustees, David Asire, George W. Young and J. J. Worman; clerk, J. M. Schatzell; treasurer, James L. Mickey; assessors, W. H. H. Leech and John J. Peter; constables, Thomas Leedy and Philip Fox.
Pioneers and Pioneer Incidents .- When the pioneers first looked in upon the township, Indians inhabited the country all around, and made daily calls at the cabins of their new white neighbors. The bear and wolf were also frequent visitors, and following them came the ague --- the most unwelcome, troublesome and injurious visitor of pioneer days. Who the pioneers and old settlers of this township were is told in the following review of old residents and old events:
*J. Lewis and J. Cuthbertson were appointed.
·
... G. A. Knight. .. M.P.SkinnerJ. A. Hottel. . A. Weaver. .M.P.Skinner
.G. A. Knight .... M. P.Skinner. D. W. Wood
G. A. Knight ... I.L Mickey .. J.A. Bradner
J.A. Bradner
J.A. Bradner
1867-Joel Hales, P. Chance, C. C. Nestlerode. N. P. Robbins. . C.W. Foster. J. V. Jones 1868-J. W. Arnold, J. V. Jones, P. Byers. .. N. P. Robbins. . C.W.Foster. J.A. Bradner
.. C.W. Foster.J. V. Jones
.C.W. Foster. J. W. Arnold
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George D. Acker, born in Pennsylvania in 1834, moved to Fostoria in 1853. .. John and Violetta (Clark) Adams, natives of Ohio. came here at an early date .... John and Mary A. (Albert) Adelsperger, former of Maryland, latter of Pennsylvania, parents of Mrs. James V. Magers, of Tiffin, are numbered among the pioneers of Loudon. ... John Q. Albert, born in Pennsylvania in 1827. settled at Fostoria in 1843 .... Thomas and Nancy Adams are old resi- dents of this township. ... Jacob Alexy settled in Loudon Township about 1833, near the southeast corner. . .. John Anderson died January 24. 1872. . .. Mary Anderson, the oldest resident of Fostoria at time of her death, died June 22. 1882, aged over ninety-two years .... John W. Arnold, born in Philadelphia in 1818, came to London in 1851 .... John and Philebema (Reise) Andes, of Fos- toria, are referred to in other pages among the old settlers .... David Asire, a native of Ohio, settled here in 1858.
Samuel Baer, of Fostoria; Henry Bucher, of Loudon, and Charles Bohsein are old residents .... Dr. Simon Bricker died in 1856, and was the first adult buried in the city cemetery of Fostoria .... Horace S. Belknap died May 3, 1857 .... Godfrey Biles, a native of Germany, born in 1829, came to Seneca County in 1843, and after moving about from time to time settled finally in Loudon in 1865. ... C. Bonnell and B. W. Bonnell. natives of Ohio, came here in 1844. ... John L. Benson in 1848 .... Philip Byers in 1853 .... Dr. J. W. Bricker, referred to in the chapter on physicians, settled here in 1846 .... Ed- ward Burns. now living in Loudon. is among the old residents. ... The Braden family settled at Fostoria at an early date. Mathias Hollopeter, a local preacher, had the bodies of Mrs. Braden and members of his family transferred to the new cemetery in 1856.
Roswell Crocker, a native of New York State, born in 1806. father of Rawson Crocker, of Fostoria (who was born here in 1841), came to Fostoria in 1832, and built a saw-mill. the first in the place and in the western part of the county. He now resides in what is said to be the first frame house built in Fostoria .... The pioneer John Crocker died November 11. 1854 .... James Cahill was one of the pioneers and Moses Cadwallader one of the oldest resi- dents .... Robert F. and Charlotte L. Caples, natives of Maryland and Penn- sylvania, respectively, parents of Bartholomew L. and Philip D. Caples (both of Fostoria, natives of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, former born in 1812, latter in 1816), came to Jackson Township from Wayne County. Ohio, in 1832, where Mr. Caples died in 1834 .... John Cooper. still a resident of Fostoria, is one of the pioneers of the county. His daughter. Miss Mary Annie Cooper, married Roswell Crocker, one of the first settlers and founders of Fostoria .... A. Cramer, a native of Pennsylvania, one of the old postmasters of the township. settled here in 1842. ... Samuel Carbaugh, maternal grandfather of Mrs. John A. Peters, of Loudon Township, was a pioneer of Loudon Township. ... Aaron and Mary (Devilbiss) Cover. parents of Mrs. John C. Hartley. were among the early settlers here. .. . A. E. Civas resided a half mile south of the McDougal settlement, and to this place the Methodist class, known as Ebenezer Church. moved its quarters in 1847 .... John and Catherine (Slote) Cramer, parents of Daniel (born in Pennsylvania in 1818) and Adam Cramer (born in Pennsylvania in 1827), settled in London township in 1838. Here Mrs. Cramer died in 1854, aged sixty-two years, and Mr. Cramer in 1855, aged sixty-five years .. .. Jeremiah Crowley settled here at an early date, died at Tiffin .... Samuel Cur- ran, another pioneer. died March 10, 1843.
Samuel and Elizabeth (Miller) Daly, formerly of Philadelphia, parents of Mrs. Isaac Stultz, came to Tiffin in 1822, and it is said erected one of the first log-houses there, near Drennon's .... Dennis Daugherty came to Tiffin in the
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"thirties," died prior to the war. . . . The Dana family is referred to in the history of Fostoria .... Jacob Dillon, a former resident of Loudon, died in April, 1885, at his home in Eaton County, Mich., aged seventy-five years. Mr. Dil- lon was an old pioneer of Seneca County, having located in Loudon Township in 1832. .... Thomas and Mary (Adams) Dillon. parents of Thomas and George Dillon, of London Township, both natives of Virginia (former born in 1818, latter in 1820), came to Loudon Township in 1835 and settled on the farm now owned by George Dillon, where they died. . . . John C. and Artemesia (Mason) De Witt, parents of Mrs. Francis R. Stewart, of Fostoria, set- tled here in 1835. Mrs. De Witt died in April, 1885; she was born in Connecticut June 28, 1808. She came to Ohio in 1834 and was married February 10, 1835, and resided in Seneca County over fifty years. Mrs. De Witt formerly lived near Mccutchenville .... John W. Dicken, of Fostoria, was appointed special United States marshal of Nashville, Tenn., District .... Julia M., wife of Evan Dorsey, died July 11, 1852, aged forty-three years, three months, eleven days . Patrick Duffy, of Loudon, is one of the old residents.
Andrew and Sarah (Baer) Emerine, have been residents of Fostoria for over forty years .... George and Ellen (O'Brien) Emerine, are also old set- tlers .... Peter Ebersole, grandfather of A. E. Ebersole, of Fostoria, and a native of Pennsylvania, settled in Loudon Township in 1831, and died here in 1857, and Peter Ebersole. his son (father of A. E. Ebersole, who was born in Loudon Township in 1843), resided here from 1831 to 1880.
Jacob and Sarah (Stevens) Fruth, former a native of Germany, latter of Pennsylvania, parents of Frederick M. Fruth (who was born here in 1848), came to this township about 1832, where Jacob died in 1861 .... George and Margaret (Shobach) Fruth, parents of Mrs. John Heilman, settled here in 1833 .... David Ferrier, one of the pioneers, erected a grist-mill in 1834, on Wolf Creek. Horse-power was used there for years. In June, 1874, the buhrs used in this primitive manufacturing concern, were presented to Mr. De Wolf, of the Review. .. . J. S. Farmun, a native of Pennsylvania, settled here in 1854 .... E. Fayes, a German, came in 1850 .... Mrs. M. L. Faux, a Penn- sylvanian, settled in the county in 1855. . . . Jacob and Elizabeth (Peter) Fruth, parents of Frederick Fruth (who was born in Germany in 1824), came to Seneca County about 1833, settling, where they died .... Jacob and Civilla (Shardon) Fruth, natives of Germany, parents of Abraham Fruth, of Fostoria (who was born in Germany in 1848). came to America in 1854, and in 1856 settled in Loudon Township, where Jacob Fruth died in 1872. ... Charles W. Foster was born in Brookfield, Worcester Co., Mass., on the 21st of November, 1800, and had therefore nearly reached his eighty-third year at date of his death, April 26. 1883. His father moved with his family to western New York, then sparsely settled, and located in Rochester in 1820. In 1826 Mr. Foster came to Seneca County to visit the family of Mr. Crocker, a New York gentleman, who settled in Seneca Township. Here he met the romance of his life in the person of Mr. Crocker's beautiful daughter Laura. The young people had met in New York previously, and a slight attachment had sprung up between them. Mr. Foster found Miss Laura in bad health and took her to Saratoga Springs, in New York, where she was restored to good health. On the 7th of June following, the young people were married and returned to Seneca, and lived with the Crocker family. Jointly with his father-in-law, John Crocker, and his brother-in-law, Roswell Crocker, he entered 2,000 acres of unimproved land in the town and neighborhood. Immediately after the arrival of the party, Rome was laid out, and in November, 1832, Mr. Foster and his father- in-law opened a stock of goods in a cabin in Rome on the same spot where the
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mammoth dry goods house of Foster & Co. now stands. The business con- tinued for ten years, when Mr. Crocker retired and Mr. Foster assumed con- trol. Simultaneously with the rise of Rome the neighboring town of Risdon sprang up, planted by John Gorsuch and named after its surveyor, David Risdon. The two towns began crowding each other, and in 1852 they were consolidated and called Fostoria, in honor of Mr. Foster. Seven years previ- ous to this Mr. Foster was joined in business by his son, Charles, and the then embryo country store rapidly developed into more pretentious proportions. From doing a business of a few thousands per year. the receipts of late years have been upward of $1,000,000. The foregoing sketch of one of the most useful · pioneers of northwestern Ohio is taken from the local press of April, 1883. A reference to the history of Fostoria, points out more minutely the part which he played in the drama of the settlement and progress of the city which bears his name .... Owen Fanning, an uncle of Dr. Fanning, of Tiffin, and father of John Fanning, was an old settler of Loudon even at the beginning of the fifth decade of this century. He died in this township some years ago .... James Fanning, father of Dr. Fanning. died during the winter of 1884-85, at Tiffin .... John Fanning dates his settlement back to 1839 .... James B. Fox. of Fostoria. was born in Eden Township in 1840, where his parents were pioneers.
Henry Grady now residing at Tiffin. was one of the pioneers .... George Germond, a pioneer resident of Fostoria, was killed by the cars near Oberlin, Ohio. August 16. 1883. He had been to Kipton, five miles west, and when within two miles of Oberlin on his return home, sat down on the track, was struck by the train and instantly killed. Germond was for a num- ber of years an attorney at Toledo. Previous to his death he removed to Oberlin.
. Manuel Green, a native of Ohio, settled here in 1850. ... Adam Gwinner. a German, came to the township in 1833. ... John and Margaret (Lambright) Good, former a native of Ohio, latter of Maryland, parents of John Good (who was born in Richland County, Ohio, in 1833), came to Loudon Township in 1834, settling on the farm now owned by Samuel Good, where John Good, Sr .. died in 1872, at the age of sixty-five years. His widow survives him at the age of seventy-two.
John Harsh, maternal grandfather of Dr. Frank L. Myers, was a pioneer of Seneca County, coming here from Carroll County, Ohio .... Benjamin and Catherine (Rake) Hartley, former a native of Virginia, latter of Pennsylvania, parents of John C. Hartley, of Loudon Township (who was born in Pennsyl- vania in 1828), settled in this township in 1831 .... Maurice Hartnett, said to be the oldest person in the county. still resides at Tiffin. He was one of the early settlers of London. ... Marshall and Margaret (Musser) Hays, natives of Pennsylvania, parents of Frank Hays, of Fostoria (who was born here in 1853). were among the pioneers of Fostoria .... David Hays, a name so favorably known in connection with the city, came here in 1834 from Pennsylvania .... Thomas and Elizabeth (Mickey) Hays, parents of Charles Hays, of Fostoria (who was born here in 1851), located in Fostoria in an early day. Thomas Hays died in 1869. ... John F. Heilman, of Fostoria, born in Pennsylvania in 1817. settled in Bloom Township about 1843. and in 1873 moved to Fostoria. . . . . William and Margaret (Fruth) Heilman, natives of Bavaria, parents of John Heilman (who was born in Bavaria in 1842), came here in 1848 and died here .... William and Margaret (Schreck nee Smith) Heilman, stepfather and mother of George Schreck, of Fostoria (who was born in Germany in 1830), came with George Schreck to this county in 1848. settling in Loudon Town- ship, where Mr. and Mrs. Heilman died. George Schreck located in Fostoria in 1875. ... Jacob and Catherine (Smith) Helfrick, natives of Germany, parents of
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Adam Helfrick (who was born in Germany in 1826), came in 1839 from Car- roll County, whither they had emigrated in 1835, to Loudon Township. set- tling on Section 18. Mrs. Helfrick died in 1847; Mr. Helfrick in 186S .. Melchior Heisserman settled in London in 1833 .... George Heming, a native of Pennsylvania and a pioneer of the county, died July 16, 1864, in his sev- enty-sixth year. He was one of the pioneer surveyors of the county . ... Thomas Heming had a nursery at Fostoria as early as 1560. .. . The Hennessy family. viz. : Philip. Patrick. William, John, David, Thomas, James and Cornelius Hen- nessy, brothers, and Mary Hennessy, are children of James Hennessy. one of the pioneer settlers of Loudon, who died October 12. 1849. aged ninety-five years .... William Hickey, a resident of the county for over half a century. is now a resident of New Riegel .... Patrick Hickey came from Ireland in 1847. and for years has been one of the leading farmers of this part of the county. . . Washington and Mary Henry are old settlers of Fostoria, as are also Dan- iel R. and Anna (Simmons) Henry. of Loudon Township .... George and Sarah (Sawlaw) Histe, parents of William T. Histe (who was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1826). settled in Fostoria in 1844. Mr. Histe died Novem- ber 6, 1884, aged eighty-five; his widow is now eighty-three years of age. He voted at every presidential election, beginning with the third and ending with the election of November, 1884. ... Samuel and Laura (Robinson) Howell. natives of New York. parents of Edward B. Howell, of Fostoria, settled at Risdon in 1845. Mrs. Howell died in 1852. and Mr. Howell in 1871.
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