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Peter Auer was reared in Germany and educated in his native land. where he learned the trade of a dyer. He came to America when he was about twenty years of age and was one of the first settlers in Marysville, where he spent the remainder of his life with the exception of a few years in Kansas. He learned the butcher business in Marysville and worked at that for more than a score of years. He died in 1893 at the age of sixty-four. His wife passed away May 20, 1914, at the age of seventy-three. Both were devout members of the Trinity Lutheran church.
The paternal grandparents of John Auer spent all of their days in Ger- many, where they reared a large family. Peter, Fred, John and Margaret. Margaret married J. P. Bauer, who came to America and died in Topeka, Kansas, where he had moved from Marysville. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Auer were Leonard Geer and wife, natives of Germany and pioneer settlers in Union county, Ohio, where they located on a farm in Paint town- ship, four miles from Marysville. They died in this county, he being more than seventy years of age and his wife being eighty-eight at the time of her death. Three sons and two daughters were born to Leonard Geer and wife, Margaret, Leonard, Barbara, Mary and John.
John Auer was reared in Marysville and has lived all of his life in this county, except the six years he spent with his parents in Kansas. He received his education in the public and parochial schools of Marysville and after leaving school began working on the farms in his immediate vicinity for eleven dollars a month. After working by day labor on the farm for five years, he returned to Marysville and became assistant agent and baggage master at the Big Four station, holding this position for twelve years. He then opened a grocery store in Marysville and conducted it for the next eighteen years with marked success. In September, 1913, he embarked in the laundry busi- ness, to which he has since added a dry cleaning department. He has already built up a large trade and has one of the best equipped laundries in the state for a town of this size.
Mr. Auer was married October 11, 1887, to Catherina M. Burns, the daughter of Emmanuel and Barbara Anna ( Bishop) Burns. To this union two children have been born, Dana and Philip. Dana died at the age of five and Philip is now in the employ of his father .in the laundry.
Mrs. Auer was born on a farm one-half mile south of Marysville and lived there until her marriage. Her parents were natives of Germany and early settlers in this county, where her father died in 1912 at the age of eighty-two. Her mother has been dead for several years. Twelve children
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were born to Mr. and Mrs. Burns: Margaret, George, John, Mary, Philip, Catherina, Anna. Martin, Lena, Carrie and two who died in infancy.
Mr. Auer and his family are devout members of the Trinity Lutheran church and he belongs to the Lutheran Benevolent Society. In politics, he has always given his support to the Democratic party and has served on the council for several terms. The family residence is at No. 130 South Walnut street, where he owns three houses on the same lot. Mr. Auer is a self- made man in every way, having started out to seek his own fortune when he was a lad of eleven years. He is a highly respected citizen and as a business man whose word has never been questioned.
CHARLES ASMAN.
A prosperous druggist of Marysville, Ohio, is Charles Asman, who has spent most of his career of forty years in the city of his nativity. He is a man of excellent education and is recognized as a skilled pharmacist. He has had his own drug store in Marysville for the past ten years and has con- ducted it in such a way as to merit the high esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens.
Charles Asman, the son of John C. and Barbara ( Emmert) Asman, was born in Marysville, Ohio, March 6, 1875. The history of John C. Asman, elsewhere in this volume, gives further information concerning the family.
Charles Asman was reared in Marysville and attended the parochial school of the Lutheran church as well as the public school of Marysville. He then spent two years at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where he took the classical course. At the age of seventeen he began clerking in the drug store of N. E. Liggett in Marysville and two years later decided to take a complete course in pharmacy and with this intention he enrolled as a student in the Northwestern University School of Pharmacy at Chicago, Illinois, and graduated in the spring of 1895. Ile then took a position in a drug store at Cincinnati, but a year later returned to his old position in Marysville and clerked for Mr. Liggett until 1905. In that year he bought the store of Mr. Liggett and has since been in business for himself.
Mr. Asman was married June 11, 1903, to Marie Linzinmiere. the daughter of Louis and Barbara ( Gunderman) Linzinmiere. To this union two sons have been born, William and Edwin.
Mrs. Asman was born in Marysville, Ohio, as was her mother. Her
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father came from Germany when a small boy. Mr. Linzinmiere and his wife are both living in Marysville, where he conducts a restaurant on North Main street. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Linzinmiere, Frank and Marie. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Asman were Frank and Mary ( Horst) Linzinmiere and to them were born four children: Mary, who died in Germany; Louisa, who died in Columbus, Ohio; Frank, who was killed in the Civil War; and Louis, the father of Mrs. Asman. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Asman were John and Elizabeth (Smith) Gunderman.
Mr. Asman and his wife are devout members of the Lutheran church and greatly interested in its welfare. Politically, he is a Democrat but has preferred to give all of his attention to his business interests rather than engage in political campaigns. He is a member of the Ohio State Pharma- ceutical Association and is interested in everything which pertains to the progress of his profession. He stands in the front rank as a man who honors his calling and because of his industry, integrity and genuine worth, he stands high in public estimation. As a citizen he ranks with the most influential in his community and is ever looking for the betterment of those about him.
PEARL O. ROBINSON.
The Robinson family has been identified with the history of Union county, Ohio, since the year 1800, when Samuel Robinson received a deed for six hundred acres in what is now Darby township, for the sum of seven hundred dollars. The patent for the land was signed by John Adams, then the President of the United States, and Timothy Pickering, the secretary of state. This large tract of land has been in the hands of the Robinson family since that time, and Pearl O. Robinson, whose history is here presented, owns. in partnership with his brother, Louis B., two hundred and forty-seven acres of the original homestead.
Samuel Robinson, the first member of the family to come to Union county, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1774, and came to Ohio as a surveyor with a man by the name of Sullivan in the latter part of the eighteenth century. They surveyed all of the land through this section of Ohio and subsequently Mr. Sullivan deeded Samuel Robinson six hundred acres in Darby township, although it was many years after this before Union county was created. Samuel Robinson and wife reared a family of six chil- dren, Dickson, James, Hunter, Margaret, Martha and Joseph. Margaret
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married Samuel Mccullough and Martha married Richard Beard. Martha is the only one of these six children now living and she makes her home in Cleveland, Ohio, with her daughter.
James Robinson, one of the sons of the first member of this family to come to Union county, is the grandfather of Pearl O. Robinson. James Robinson, familiarly known to his friends as "Groundhog Jim," was born in 1816 in Darby township on the same farm now owned by Pearl O. and Louis B. Robinson. James Robinson and wife were the parents of two children, Bruce and Fredonia, who died at the age of eighteen. James Robinson died in 1872.
Bruce Robinson, the father of Pearl O., was born in Union county, November 9, 1845, and died in July, 1909. His wife, Irene Baxter, was born in Champaign county, Ohio, January 18, 1845, and died in February, 1909. Bruce Robinson and Irene Baxter were married December 4, 1866, and to them were born four children, three of whom are living: Pearl O., of Darby township; Lacy M., a teacher in the Normal school at Plain City, Ohio; and Louis Baxter, who makes his home in Plain City.
Pearl O. Robinson was born in Darby township, Union county, Ohio, September 12, 1869, and has spent his whole life in Union county. He re- ceived a good common school education and later graduated from the Plain City high school. He then entered the University of Michigan and gradu- ated from that university. For the next sixteen years he was in the school- room as a teacher. He taught in the Dwight L. Moody School of Massa- chusetts, the high school at St. Louis and the High School of Commerce in New York City. He then resigned in order to take up the general agency of the G. & C. Merriam & Company, publishers, for the state of Ohio, and he and his brother now represent this company, who are the publishers of the Webster International Dictionary. He owns, in partnership with his brother, two hundred and forty-seven acres of the old homestead, although he now makes his home one and one-third miles north of Plain City in Jerome township. He has a beautiful country home surrounded by eight acres of land well laid out. He and his brother give their careful supervision to their farm and rank among the most extensive stock raisers in the township. They raise full-blooded Percheron horses and red Duroc Jersey hogs.
Pearl O. Robinson was married June 26, 1901, to Elizabeth M. Lane. the daughter and only child of Doctor Milton and Sophronia ( McCloud) Lane, both of whom are deceased. Doctor Lane was born in Indiana and his wife was born in Amity, Ohio. Doctor Lane was a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia and his wife was a graduate of the Women's
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Medical College of Chicago. He died September 16, 1889. and his widow died September 10, 1904. Mr. Robinson and wife are the parents of four children, three of whom are living: James L., born September 30. 1903; Martha Ann, born September 23, 1906; and Jane Osborne, born February 7. 1909. Elizabeth May, a twin sister of Martha Ann, died at the age of five months.
Fraternally, Mr. Robinson is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, of Plain City. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church and he is serving as an elder in his denomination.
HENRY J. BROOKS.
The present treasurer of Union county, Ohio, is Henry J. Brooks, who has been a resident of this county since 1865. He has been one of the most influential citizens of the county for many years and for about twenty years was a teacher in the public schools of the county, serving as superintendent of the Claibourne township schools for nine years. During all of these years he has also devoted part of his time to farming as well as to various business interests in the county. He is a man of high ideals and strict integrity and is making one of the most capable officials ever elected to office in this county. He is a man of genial and pleasing personality and has a host of friends throughout all parts of the county.
Henry J. Brooks, the son of Joseph P. and Christina ( Dull) Brooks, was born May 7, 1854, in Licking county, Ohio. His parents, both of whom were natives of Ohio also, had two children, Henry J. and Ellis F., of North Yakima, Washington.
Joseph P. Brooks was reared in Licking county, Ohio, and lived there until the breaking out of the Civil War. He then enlisted in Company B, Seventy-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. At the battle of Ringgold, Georgia, he was one of thirteen men who fell while trying to carry the flag before his regiment. He and five others were wounded and seven others were killed outright. The flag was finally captured by the Confederates despite the heroic resistance put up by the courageous thirteen and was kept by the Southerners until 1914, when it was returned to Governor Cox of Ohio.
Immediately after the close of the war Joseph P. Brooks returned to Union county, Ohio, and located on a farm near Richwood and there he
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lived until a few years ago when he moved to Richwood to make his home. His wife died in 1893 at the age of sixty-three.
The paternal grandparents of Henry J. Brooks were Joseph Perkins and Phoebe ( Perkins) Brooks, natives of Maine. The Brooks came from Maine by ox-cart to Columbus, Ohio, and settled in Licking county. Subsequently, Joseph P. Brooks, Sr., engaged in pork trading and took numerous loads of pork on flat boats to New Orleans. He died in Licking county, Ohio, in 1907 and lacked only seven days of being ninety-eight years of age. His wife died in the same house at the age of eighty. The father of Joseph P. Brooks, Sr., was in the War of 1812. He was the first mayor of Columbus after its incorporation in 1834. Four sons and two daughters were born to Joseph and Phoebe ( Perkins) Brooks, Joseph P., Edward. Solomon, Rufus, Mary and Phoebe. The maternal grandparents of Henry J. Brooks were Joseph and Elizabeth (Dumball) Dull, natives of Pennsylvania, of Holland-Dutch descent. The Dulls were pioneers of Perry county, Ohio, and later moved to Licking county, where they died at an advanced age after rearing a large family of children, Phoebe, Christina, Joanna, Nancy, Uriah, John, Lottie, Elias and Lufinda.
Henry J. Brooks was reared in Union county from the time he was eleven years of age. He attended the district schools of his township and later was a student in the Richwood graded schools. Before reaching his majority he started to teach in the public schools of Union county and for twenty years taught nearly every winter, while he spent his summers on the farm or in the saw-mills. He accumulated a farm of ninety-six acres, but on account of declining health he sold his farm in 1910.
Mr. Brooks was married October 11, 1877, to Harriett Shisler, the daughter of Jolin and Lacy Ann ( Darling) Shisler. To this union two chil- dren have been born, Chauncey E. and John P. Chauncey E. is a dentist in Marysville. He married Lillian Wood and has one daughter. Doris Adelaide. John P., also a dentist of Richwood, married Mildred Cheney and has one daughter, Harriett.
Mrs. Brooks was born in Marion county. Ohio, but was reared to womanhood in Union county. Her parents were natives of Ohio, her father dying in 1879 at the age of fifty-four and her mother in 1903 at the age of eighty-two. Her father's death was the result of a kick received from a horse. John Shisler and wife were the parents of a large family of chil- dren, Ella. Jane, Eva, Harriett, Laura, Nancy, Mary, John and one who died in infancy.
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Mr. and Mrs. Brooks are members of the Methodist Protestant church. Fraternally, Mr. Brooks is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was reared as a Republican and voted the Republican ticket for many years, but for the past twenty years has been an independent voter, although generally casting his ballot for the candi- dates of the Democratic party. He was elected county treasurer in 1910 and in 1912 was re-elected by a greatly increased majority. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Richwood and has been presi- dent of that bank since its organization. He also owns stock in various other enterprises in the county and has made a reputation as one of the sterling business men of the county. He is a wide-awake and public spirited citizen who has long been regarded as one of the representative men of the county and it seems eminently fitting that his career should find a place in the annals of his county's history.
WADE G. McKITRICK.
Most of the life of Wade G. McKitrick has been spent on the farm in Jerome township, Union county, Ohio, where he was born. He has been engaged in the buying and selling of horses for many years, and has been living on his present farm since March, 1914, having spent the previous year in Columbus, Ohio.
Wade G. McKitrick, the son and only child of William and Susanna (Robinson) McKitrick, was born in Jerome township, on the farm where he is now living. His father was born in Licking county, Ohio, and his mother in Union county, although his father lived in this county from the age of six years. His parents were married in this county about 1868, and his father farmed in Jerome township until his death, December 24, 1902. His mother is now living with him on the old homestead.
Wade G. McKitrick was educated in the schools of Jerome township and after his marriage began to buy horses for the market. He has owned as many as three thousand horses and until March, 1914, gave practically all of his attention to the buying and selling of horses. From March, 1913, until March, 1914, Mr. McKitrick and his family lived in Columbus, but since that time he has retired from the horse market and is now devoting all of his attention to farming. He has a fine farm of eighty acres in Jerome town- ship, which is well improved and in a high state of cultivation.
Mr. McKitrick was married June 30, 1897, to Edith Vining, a daughter
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of Jonas and Melinda ( Bowen) Vining, natives of Union county. Mr. Vin- ing, who was an old soldier. is still living in Dover township, while Mrs. Vining died about 1890. Mr. McKitrick and his wife are the parents of six children : Walter, born May 2, 1898: Lillian, born May 30. 1901 ; Alice, born February I, 1904: Hazel, born May 8. 1905: William, born September 13, 1907; Beecher, born December 4, 1909.
Politically, Mr. McKitrick is a Democrat and has always been prominent in the councils of his party in Union county. He was appointed as a member of the school board of his township and was later elected for a four-year term, resigning his position when he moved to Columbus in 1913. The family are regular attendants of the Methodist Episcopal church at Watkins and are interested in all church and Sunday school work.
LOUIS LINZINMEIRE.
A resident of Marysville, Ohio, since 1874. Louis Linzinmeire has been connected with the business interests of the city for more than forty years. He comes from sturdy German ancestors and has inherited those qualities of thrift and industry which have made the people of his nation such welcome additions to the cosmopolitan population of this country.
Louis Linzinmeire, the son of Frank and Mary ( Horst) Linzinmeire, was born in Massachusetts, July 12, 1856. Both of his parents were born in Bavaria, Germany, and came to America after their marriage. They had four children: Mary, who died in Germany after her marriage; Louisa, who died single in Columbus, Ohio: Frank, who was killed in the Civil War, and Louis, of Marysville.
Frank Linzenmeire was reared and educated in Germany and when a young man learned the saddler's trade. Upon coming to America in 1866 he settled in Massachusetts and died there in August of the same year when his son Louis was only three weeks of age. His widow survived him many years and later moved to Columbus, Ohio, where she married Leonard Maegerlein. There were no children born to her second marriage and she and her second husband are both deceased, she dying in 1871.
Louis Linzinmeire lived in Columbus, Ohio, until he was thirteen years of age. He attended the parochial schools of the Lutheran church and was confirmed in that denomination when thirteen years of age. He then came to Milford Center, in Union county, Ohio, where he learned the carriage
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painter's trade and followed that until 1884. At eighteen years of age he came to Marysville, where he continued to follow the carriage painter's trade until he opened a saloon in 1884. following this line of business until 1908. In that year he opened his present pool room and tobacco store.
Mr. Linzinmeire was married January 24, 1878, to Barbara Gunderman, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Smith) Gunderman. To this union have been born two children, Frank and Marie. Frank, who is now clerking for his father, married Nettie Rausch and has three children, Louis, Charles and Elizabeth.
Mrs. Linzinmeire was born in Marysville and has spent her whole life here. Her parents were natives of Bavaria, Germany, and early settlers in Marysville, where they both died well advanced in years. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Gunderman, George, Barbara, Mary, Lena and John.
Politically, Mr. Linzinmeire gives his support to the Democratic party but has never been a candidate for office. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran church.
JOSEPH M. BAINER.
One of the many citizens of Union county, Ohio, who is a descendant from German ancestors, is Joseph M. Bainer, the secretary and treasurer of the Marysville Cabinet Company. Mr. Bainer followed the painter's trade for several years, then became interested in the cabinet-making business, and has been following this line of activity in Marysville for the past twenty- two years. He is a man of excellent business ability, good judgment and foresight, and by careful attention to his business has become one of the most successful men of Marysville.
Joseph M. Bainer, the son of John C. and Elizabeth ( Koettenmaier) Bainer, was born in Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio, February 19, 1859. His father was born in Germany and his mother in France. They came to America before their marriage, his father coming here when about fourteen years of age. They were married in Tiffin, Ohio, and there the seven chil- dren were born: John P., deceased; Catherine, wife of Peter F. Zink, of Los Angeles, California: Jacob H., of Chicago; Andrew, deceased: Joseph M., of Marysville; Frank, of Los Angeles, California; Caroline, deceased, wife of Henry Mollenkopf.
John C. Bainer was a weaver in early manhood and later learned the
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moulder's trade, and followed this until his health became impaired, after which he took up carpenter work. He died in Chicago in 1903 at the age of seventy-six and his wife died in the same city the following year at the same age. Both were loyal members of the Catholic church.
The paternal grandparents of Joseph M. Bainer were Christian and Eva (Bullinger ) Bainer, natives of Germany and early settlers in Tiffin, Ohio. Christian Bainer first worked on the old Erie canal at Akron for one year. He then operated an ashery at Tiffin and made the old-fashioned black lye which was so common in our grandfather's day. He was killed in the ashery accidentally when about fifty years of age. His widow lived to be eighty- six years of age. Five children were born to Christian Bainer and wife, John C., Mary, Andrew, Martin and Stephen. The maternal grandparents of Joseph M. Bainer were Jacob and Elizabeth ( Hirsch) Koettenmaier. They were born in Luxemburg, France, and were early settlers in Tiffin, Ohio. He died at New Riegal, Ohio, at the home of his daughter and his wife died in Tiffin. Jacob Koettenmaier and wife had two sons and five daughters, John, Catherine, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Susan, Peter and one who died in early childhood.
Joseph M. Bainer was reared in Tiffin, Ohio, until he was about thir- teen years of age. He attended the public and parochial schools in that place and when a mere lad began to learn the painter's trade. He worked in Cleveland for two years and for some time at Napoleon, Ohio. In 1882 he came to Marysville to assist on the painting contract of the court house. He fell from the court house and was so severely injured that he was laid up for over a year. He then went to Chicago and attended school for a year. after which he went back to painting and followed it for several years. In 1890 he came to Marysville and went to work for the John Rausch Manufac- turing Company, which later developed into the Marysville Cabinet Com- pany. This company was incorporated with a capital stock of seventy-five thousand dollars and now has the following officers: Charles Brown, presi- dent ; John M. Hamilton, of Bellefontaine, vice-president ; Joseph M. Bainer, secretary and treasurer, and N. V. Elliott, of Bellefontaine, general mana- ger. This company manufactures desks for banks and stores and all kinds of office fixtures.
Mr. Bainer was married July 8, 1886, to Mary Gundermann, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Smith) Gundermann. To this union two children have been born, John David and Elizabeth G. John D. is a state bank ex- aminer at Cleveland, Ohio. He married Otelia Fox and has one daughter, Mary, and a son, Joseph. Elizabeth G. is a graduate of the Marysville high school and is now attending college at Oxford, Ohio.
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