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Susan and William John. Mrs. John Ernst is a member of the Reformed Church. Our subject is a member of the I. O. O. F. and encampment, and of the K. of P. He has always had an aversion to holding office, but has done his share in that sphere here, and is at present member of the board of alder- men, of Tiffin, from the Third Ward. The brothers, Charles and John Ernst are united in their business as well as society interests, and stand prominent among the self-made men of industrial notoriety of Tiffin.
J. F. E. FANNING, M. D., Tiffin, president of the Medical Association of Seneca County, was born in Tiffin, Ohio, October 1, 1844, and comes of pioneer people of Seneca County. His father, Francis Fanning, was a native of Longford, Ireland, among whose people were many prominent "men of let- ters." His mother, Nancy Ann (Woods) Fanning, was a native of Tyrone, Ireland. They were married in New York City and settled here in 1834, where three sons and four daughters were born, of whom one son and two daughters survive: Ann, married to Michael J. Reinbolt, a farmer of Sandusky County, Ohio; Mary, married to A. H. Arnold, deputy sheriff of this county, and J. F. E. Our subject received a good common school training in Tiffin and engaged in literary studies in Cleveland. At twenty he began the study of medicine at Tiffin, in the late Dr. N. V. Hovey's office, and attended lectures at Bellevue Hospital College, of New York City, completing his studies at the age of twenty-five, at Miami Medical College, of Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1869. The Doctor came to Tiffin, engaged in the practice of his profession, and has been creditably connected with same since, He is a close student of his profession and bids fair to rank well in it, in the near future. He is an excellent citizen, and clever, and, although unpretentious, is looked upon with respect as a master mind in his vocation. He has served with credit in the councils of the city. and is at present one of the board of pension examiners at Tiffin.
HENRY FIEGE, of the firm Fiege Bros., furniture dealers, Tiffin, is the eldest living son of John and Louisa (Von Blon) Fiege, Lutherans and worthy pioneers of Tiffin, who settled here in 1833-34, the former of whom, a native of Oedelsheim, electorate of Hesse, born July 3, 1811, lost his life, March 31, 1869, by drowning in his mill-race in Tiffin. Mrs. Fiege, born in Waldmohr, Bavarian Palatinate, December 8, 1813, died December 29, 1874. Of their ten children but three sons survive: Henry, John L. and George W .; the last named retired from the firm in 1879, and is married to Alice Stroliper, by whom he has one son-Charles. Henry Fiege was reared to his present industry in Tiffin, and has been prominently identified with it. He married, in 1864. Hannah M. Kaup, daughter of Benjamin Kaup, and niece of Solomon Kaup. and by her has one son and five daughters: Mary L., Carrie E., John B., Maud, Jennie and Cora. Mr. Fiege has always contributed liberally to the support of Tiffin's social and industrial interests, and has reared and educated his family well. He is a worthy F. & A. M., and is a member of Clinton Council No. 47, R. & S. M .; is also a member of the I. O. O. F. The family attend the services of the German Reformed Church. John L. Fiege, the junior member of the firm, is an excellent citizen and clever business man, and although of prepossessing appearance is still treading the rugged paths of single blessedness.
A. L. FLACK, manufacturer and merchant, Tiffin. was born at Mccutchen- ville, Ohio, February 8, 1849. His parents, Josiah and Sylvia Ann (Dailey) Flack, belong to very early settlers in this county, the former a son of George Flack, who settled here from Frederick County. Md., and the latter a daughter of Samuel Dailey. The subject of our sketch is the eldest of a family of five
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sons: A. L. : W. R .. a merchant salesman; E. G., a blacksmith; G. K .. min- ister of the Methodist Episcopal faith in Iowa, and George L. A. L. Flack completed a good literary training in the public schools, and at eighteen taught school, in which profession he excelled both as a student and teacher. At twenty-nine he embarked in the insurance business, which he carried on with vigor and ability, retiring in March, 1885. August 28, 1884, he joined the Oval Wood Dish Company, of Delta, Ohio, whose principal factory is at Mancelona. Mich., who also recently established a factory in Canada, and has vigorously prosecuted that industry since, his retirement from the insurance business being in a measure due to the latter investment. He is an able sales- man, an excellent judge of human nature and an energetic worker, and is char- acterized, in his different pursuits as a master mind. He is stockholder in the Tiffin Union Churn Company, and an active member; general manager of the Tiffin Stove Polish Company, and carries on an extensive business in jobbing in the wholesale cigar trade. Mr. Flack married, March 28, 1872, Amelia, daughter of Jeptha and Sarah (Holmes) Brown, early settlers of Wyandot County, Ohio. and of New York State ancestry. They have three sons living: Edgar, Ralph and Clifford, and buried their eldest-Clarence. Mr. and Mrs. Flack are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is an active Odd Fellow and member of the encampment, and a member of the K. of P., Tiffin Library Association and of Pickwick Division, U. R. K. of P., of Tiffin, and also member of the Travelers' Protection Association of the United States.
JACOB J. FLECK, druggist and manufacturer and proprietor of pro- prietary medicines, Tiffin. was born in Findlay, Ohio, May 6, 1853; son of Joseph and Barbara (Karst) Fleck. natives of Germany, and connected with grocery merchandising in Findlay. The subject of our sketch completed a good school training in his native town. and at seventeen entered the drug business there and studied pharmacy, attending lectures in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1873-74. In 1877 he embarked in the drug business, on his own account, at Findlay, and followed that industry there with success for several years, meanwhile buying other stores at Gilboa, Ohio (in 1880), and at Dunkirk and McComb. Ohio (in 1881). In 1883 he retired from his inter- ests in these places, and in June of that year came to Tiffin and bought his present business, and soon afterward added the manufacture of several im- portant medicines, among which may be mentioned "Fleck's Vegetable Liver and Blood Pills," "Fleck's Saponaceous Tooth Powder" and "Positive Corn Cure." Mr. Fleck is a member of the Ohio and American Pharmaceutical Associations, and, notwithstanding his active business interests. devotes a great deal of time to the study of his profession. He is a clever business man, a devoted student, and an amiable, public spirited citizen.
OLIVER PERRY FREES, photographic artist, Tiffin, was born in Tiffin. this county, February 4, 1852; son of Wesley Bowman and Catharine (Slos- ser) Frees, the former a son of Jacob Frees, who settled here in a very early period in the history of the county. Oliver P. Frees was one of two children; his sister married John M. Myers, of this city. Our subject completed a good common schooling, and at nineteen began an apprenticeship at his present business, which he completed, and, on April 1, 1874, embarked in business in his present studio, where he has continued in creditable professional work since. He was married in Tiffin, December 22, 1875, to Mary Sevilla, daughter of Uriah Wilcox, and by her he has one son -- Orva Melvin. Mr. Frees is a mem- ber of the K. of P., of the National Union Insurance Company, and of the American Photographers' Association. He and his wife are worthy members of the Methodist Protestant Church. in which faith he was reared.
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JOSIAH B. FROST, merchant tailor, Tiffin, was born near Danville, Knox Co., Ohio, July 13, 1843. His parents, Enoch C. and Isabella (Hobbs) Frost, were both of pioneer English ancestry in this country, the former of whom, a native of Maryland, was prominently identified with contracting and building interests in that State; the latter was a native of Knox County, Ohio, daugh- ter of James Hobbs, Esq. The subject of our sketch was reared to merchan- dising. In 1855 he came to Tiffin, this county, and in 1872 embarked in the merchant tailoring business, with which he has been successfully connected since. Mr. Frost was married here in 1868 to Isa B., daughter of Daniel and Laura (Perkins) Dildine. pioneers of this county, and by this union have been born three sons: Percy Beecher, Frank Lincoln and Evart C. Mr. and Mrs. Frost are esteemed members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. in which society she is a very active worker in connection with womens' mission work. etc. Mr. Frost is a member of the G. A. R., having done service in Company H, One Hundred and First Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from August 10, 1862, till the close of the war.
WILLIAM GALLUP, jeweller. Tiffin, was born in Norwalk, Ohio, Febru- ary 22, 1820, and comes of pioneer English stock, who early came to our shores, and who in their turn were probably descended from the Kollops, of Lorraine. France, who followed the fortunes of William the Conqueror to En- gland in 1066. and whose nomenclature, like many other French and Norman names, became differently spelled. In 1636, or earlier in the seventeenth cen- tury, John and William Gallup, brothers, settled in Boston, Mass., from En- gland; the former of whom, after doing distinguished service in the earlier Indian warfare, died without issue in 1652; the latter repaired to New Lon- don, Conn .. where he reared two sons, William and Hallet. Hallet figured prominently in King Philip's war. in which he lost his life; and William reared a large family, of whom a son, William, reared two sons and ten daughters, the sons also being named William and Hallet. This William Gallup in 1774 removed to Kingston, Penn., where in his family two sons, William and Hal- let, were reared, and this William (the fifth in descent) married Freelove, daughter of Capt. Caleb Hathaway, of Philadelphia, by whom he had four sons: William, Hallet. James Divine and Caleb Hathaway. This William Gallup came to Norwalk, Ohio, in 1818, and in the following year married Sally Boalt, daughter of Capt. John Boalt, and to this union were born twelve children: William, Matilda, Mary (deceased), Francis, Ruth, Ann, George (deceased). Susan, Samuel C., James H., John and Rose. The eldest of this family (our subject), received a good literary training in Granville College (now Denison University), and learned the jeweler's trade. In 1841 he went to Covington, Ky., where he remained in professional work till 1851, when he came to Tiffin, Ohio. He was married at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1845, to Cassan- dria, daughter of John and Sally Whaley, of Kenton County, Ky., by which union they have reared three sons and five daughters: Adeline, wife of W. C. Jones, a civil engineer of Jamestown, Dak .; Sarah, wife of O. G. Meacham, banker of Carrington. Dak .; Mary; James William. a civil engineer in rail- way employ at Spanish Honduras; Julia, widow of the late Granville Jones (brother of W. C. Jones), a civil engineer with the Mexican National Company of Mexico, where he lost his life by assassination; Caroline; Francis, a ranch- man of Garden City, Kas. ; John Caldwell. at home. Mr. Gallup has always given a cordial support to the development of the social and industrial life of his adopted city, and stands prominent with Tiffin's public spirited citizens. He has been an active member of the Baptist Church. He is a member of De Molay Commandery, F. & A. M. Although averse to holding public office,
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he has served with efficiency on the school board, and held the postmastership of Tiffin from 1862 to 1866.
JOHN W. GEIGER, son of George and Margarett (Beerbower) Geiger, natives of Hancock, Washington Co., Md. (the former died March 17, 1844, the latter March 30. 1885, at Galion), was born January 23, 1842, at Marion, Ohio, to which place the parents moved about 1832. and there Mr. Geiger was educated, and resided until 1861, when he moved to Galion, Ohio, as book- keeper for that division of the Cleveland. Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad. then known as the "Bee Line." He was elected treasurer of Galion in 1872. In 1877 he was transferred to Indianapolis as book-keeper of the divis- ion. and remained until January, 1879, when he entered the Belt Railroad Company's employ as book-keeper, and was in that service until March, ISSO, when he moved to Upper Sandusky, and purchased a half interest in Thomas E. Beery's old established dry goods house. This partnership continued until March. 1882. when he purchased the entire interest, and conducted the store until the spring of ISS4, when he sold the stock to Beery. Best & Brandt, and. with Hon. L. A. Brunner, purchased an interest in the Tiffin Advertiser a most valuable property, of which journal he is the business manager. Mr. Geiger was married September 26, 1872. to Miss Mary J. Brunner. daughter of L. A. Brunner, at Upper Sandusky. They are the parents of two children: Alice M .. born September 14, 1873. and Benton R., born January 3. 1882. Mr. Geiger holds a deed made to his father, May 13. 1839, by old Eber Baker, of Marion.
CHARLES GEYER, SR., capitalist, Tiffin, was born near Leipsic, in the Kingdom of Saxony. October 13, 1827. His parents, Christian and Catharine Geyer, came to America, in 1839, and settled in Huron County, Ohio, where they reared five sons and four daughters. of whom three sons and four daughters married and became heads of families. The subject of this sketch was brought up to the tanning business in his father's tannery, and. in 1859, located in Caroline, this county. where he carried on a tannery. and followed farming for several years. removing his tannery business here in 1871. and which he retired from. after several years. to continue the purchase and sale of hides and pelts. He has been an important factor in many of Tiffin's industries, and owns a very valuable amount of property in the city. He is one of the board of directors of the Commercial Bank of Tiffin. Mr. Geyer was married in Chicago. Ill., in 1854, to Ida Caessmann, of same nativity, and they have five sons and three daughters living: Louisa, wife of the Hon. J. L. Kaley, of Red Cloud. Neb. : Charles. Jr., a merchant; Samuel; Emma; Frank; William: Artie; and Ida: and have buried one son, Oscar. Mr. and Mrs. Geyer are members of the English Lutheran Church. of which the former has been a member for many years. Mr. Geyer has been an active. energetic, public spirited citizen. and has contributed in no small degree to the support of many of Tiffin's social and industrial interests.
HARMON B. GIBBON. M. D., Tiffin, was born. March 12, 1852, in Wayne County, Ohio, of which locality his parents, Tobias M. and Ursula (Newkirk) Gibbon. were early settlers, coming from Pennsylvania. The sub- ject of this memoir is the third son and sixth child in a family of four sons and four daughters. Having received, in the common school of his native place. good preparatory instruction, he, at the age of fifteen, went to Shreve, Ohio, where, at a select school, he acquired a regular literary education, which he completed at an academy in Perrysville, Ohio. Mr. Gibbon afterward became principal of the high school at Perrysville. an incumbency he retired from in 1874, in order to attend to readings in medicine in the office
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of Dr. W. S. Battles, of Shreve. In 1975 he attended a course of lectures at the College of Medicine and Surgery of St. Louis, and in 1876- 77 the Erie Street Medical College of Cleveland, graduating in June, 1877, from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, at Cincinnati, Ohio. In August. 1877, Dr. Gibbon commenced the practice of his profession at Kan- sas. this county, continuing afterward in the same for a short time at Betts- ville. also this county, coming to Tiffin. October 10, 1SSO. The Doctor is an active member of the Seneca Medical Society. has served as its vice-president. is the secretary of the association at present, and is also a member of the North Central Ohio Medical Society. and of the Northwestern Society of Ohio. He was united in marriage at Wooster, Ohio, in 1878, with Emma M. Linn. a lady of estimable attainments, second daughter of William Linn, Esq .. of that place, and to this union has been born one daughter-Eva M. Dr. and Mrs. Gibbon are respected church people.
JAMES GOETSCHIUS, retired, P. O. Tiffin. is one of the old pioneers of Ohio. and was born on Alum Creek, near Columbus, September 24. 1807. His parents. Nicholas and Susan Goetschius, natives of Montgomery County, N. Y .. first settled. after they were married, near Columbus, Ohio. and there remained until 1825, when they came to this county, and settled on the Green- field road. five miles from Tiffin, and afterward moved to Tiffin, where Mrs. Goetschius died. Nicholas Goetschius departed this life near Green Spring. Ohio. Our subject was united in marriage, November 5. 1829, in Tiffin, with Parmelia Smith, who was born in Maryland, September 15, 1812. a daughter of Frederick Smith. who died in Maryland. Mr. Goetschius is the father of eleven children: Elizabeth. Nicholas, Dudley. Evaline, John, George and Evan, now living; and Raymos, Hugh. James and Henry, deceased. Our sub- ject is a retired farmer. owning sixty-nine and one quarter acres of good land.
REV. JEREMIAH H. GOOD, D. D .. professor in theological seminary at Tiffin, has been a resident of Tiffin since the year 1850, and is widely known throughout the county and city. He was born in a little village that nestles under the shadows of the Blue Mountains in Pennsylvania, named Rehrers- burg. Berks County. and comes of Palatinate German stock through both his parents. He is a son of Philip Augustus and Elizabeth (Haak) Good. His grandfather. John Adam Good. left the fatherland (now called Rhenish Bava- ria) as a young man and settled in the province of William Penn, where he was subsequently united in marriage with Miss Adam. He was a pious, well- educated young man, and devoted himself to instructing church schools, and as the church master he usually read a sermon on Sabbaths, when the pastor could not come. His children were Jacob. Elizabeth, Abraham, Philip, Augustus, Christina, Joseph and Daniel. Their descendants still live for the most part in Berks County, Penn. Philip Augustus Good, father of Dr. Good, and of Prof. R. Good. of Heidelberg College, was well educated. and filled many public positions. such as representative in the Legislature, justice of the peace, prothonotary of the county, etc. Dr. Good lived in Rehrersburg for about eight years, when the family removed to Reading, the county seat. Here, at the age of ten years, our subject lost his father, who was then pro- thonotary of the county, and became the adopted son of his uncle, Joseph Good, with whom he remained until the latter's death, receiving a good clas- sical education at the Reading Academy and in private lessons from Mr. Mid- dlemass. a somewhat celebrated local instructor from England. He was intended for the profession of the law, and when, at the age of fourteen. he resolved to obtain a complete college education. it was with the full intention of becoming an attorney. In September. 1836, he started for Marshall Col-
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lege, in Franklin County, Penn., then under the presidency of Dr. F. A. Rauch, a celebrated and brilliant scholar from Germany. He spent two years in the preparatory department and four years in the college, and graduated with the highest honor of the class (the valedictory) on the last Wednesday of September. 1842. The class numbered nine, of whom four have been profes- sors in colleges and seminaries, and one a member of Congress. From 1842 to 1845 Dr. Good was sub-rector of the preparatory department, and at the same time a student in the theological seminary under Dr. J. W. Nevin. In the autumn of 1845 he was licensed to preach by the Mercersburgh Classis, and soon thereafter followed a call to Lancaster, Ohio. Here he labored as pastor from October, 1845. until October. 1847, and also founded and conducted a select school. In the latter year he was elected by the Ohio Synod of the Reformed Church to found and edit a religious paper. In pursuance of this appoint- ment he removed to Columbus, Ohio, in October, 1847, and started the West- ern Missionary, a semi-monthly (now known as the widely circulated Christian World, and published in Dayton, Ohio). At the reformed synod in Navarre, Ohio, in 1840, he was elected (in connection with his brother, Prof. Reuben Good) to start the projected college (now Heidelberg College at Tiffin), and in consequence of this call the two brothers removed to Tiffin, Seneca Co., Ohio, in October, 1849. They soon opened the new college in the third story of " Commercial Row." (For the history of this enterprise, and the theological seminary in connection with it, see page 507, this volume.) For twenty years (November, 1849, to September. 1869,) our subject filled the professorship of mathematics in the college. at the same time continuing to edit the Western Missionary for a period of three years. Besides this he has been a supply to various churches in the city and county (Reformed Church in Tiffin, twenty years; St. Jacobs, in Adams Township, thirty-four years; Salem, in Seneca Township, seven years; Bascom, nine years, and others for shorter terms). In the year 1869 he was elected by the synod at Shelby to the chair of dogmatic and practical theology in Heidelberg Theological Seminary (in connection with the college), which position he yet occupies. Dr. Good has participated in some public enterprises, such as the woolen-mills, the National Exchange Bank (being director for twenty years). etc. Dr. Good has published a number of works of a practical religious character: "The Reformed Church Hymnal," 1878; " The Heidelberg Catechism," newly arranged, 1879; "The Childrens' Cate- chism,"1881; "A Prayer Book," 1881; "The Church Member's Hand Book." 1882. Dr. Good was married. December 23, 1846, at Granville, Licking Co., Ohio, to Miss Susan Hubbard Root, with whom he has lived in a happy union for thirty-nine years to the present date. She was the daughter of Noble and Har- riet (Bushnell) Root, both of Granville, the father being originally from West- field, Mass .. the mother from Norwich., Conn. Her mother was the daughter of Ebenezer and Susan (Hubbard) Bushnell, of Norwich, Conn. Her grandfa- ther, Ebenezer Bushnell, was a graduate of Yale College, classmate of Noah Webster, assisting in the work of Webster's spelling book, a merchant, editor of the Weekly Register, of Norwich, a man of genius, who went to sea as pur- ser in the sloop of war "Warren," in the French war, and died August 3, 1800, off Matanzas, of yellow fever. On the Bushnell side Mrs. Good traces her descent back to Richard Bushnell, of Saybrook, Conn., who was married, October 11, 1648, to Mary Manin, of London, England. Through her grand- mother, Susan Hubbard, she stands connected with the widely-extended Hub- bard connection. Dr. Good has but one child, a son, John Chrysostom Good, who was born in Columbus, Ohio, June 20, 1849; he was graduated in Heidel- berg College, studied medicine and is now residing in Cleveland, Ohio, engaged
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in the drug business; in 1877 he was married, in Massillon, Ohio. to Miss Flor- ence Parsons, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Parsons, formerly of Phila- delphia, Penn.
JOHN M. GREINER. proprietor of restaurant, Tiffin, was born in Pitts- burg, Penn., November 22, 1848; son of John David and Magdalena (Rall) Greiner, natives of Eichelbron and Dettingen, Wurtemberg, Germany, respect- ively, and who settled in Tiffin in 1852, rearing a family of four sons and three daughters. (Three sons and two daughters are now residents of Hancock Coun- ty, Ohio, and one son and one daughter live here.) The subject of this sketch was reared in Tiffin, and December 31, 1869. embarked in his present business, in which he is well and favorably known. He was married. in 1870, to Mary Louisa, eldest daughter of Henry and Barbara (Schwarter) Heinz, the former a native of Ludringen. Alsace, France (now Germany ), and the latter of Walselda, Wurtemberg, and who reared six daughters and two sons: Mary Louisa, Regina Magdalena. John Henry, William Hartman. Henrietta Lucinda, Anna Matilda, Cora Ida and Fedena Evalina. To Mr. and Mrs. Greiner were born two sons and two daughters: Cora Elenora, Albert B., Mary Magdalena and Louis H., the latter of whom died August 15, 1885, aged one year, eight months and nineteen days. Mrs. Greiner is a member of the German Reformed Church, and Mr. Greiner of the German Lutheran denomination. He is a member of the K. of P., quartermaster of Division No. 17. of that society, and is a member of the Ancient Order of Druids. He has been a member of the Tiffin fire department for over twenty-two years, and is first assistant engineer of that organization. Mr. Greiner is a worthy citizen and an ardent partisan of the Democratic party.
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