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Being thus thoroughly equipped in a theoretical way for the practice of his pro- fession, Dr. Klotz established himself at Allentown, where he opened an office and remained until September, 1893, when he came to Columbus, Ohio, and took a special post-graduate course of lectures at Starling Medical College, incidentally assisting in the work at Mt. Carmel hospital, and acquiring most valuable experience in clinical and surgical work.
In the latter part of November, 1893, he came to Marysville, opened an office and began the practice of his profession. Recog- nition of his professional ability has not been denied, and he has already secured a representative patronage and is building
up a very fine practice. The Doctor has marked ability, is enthusiastic in his work, a close and avidious student, and one des- tined to fill an important position, with the attainment of a high degree of incidental success. His office is located over Garrard's variety store, on the Square.
The Doctor is a member of the German Lutheran Church in Marysville. In his political adherency, he is identified with the Democratic party.
ON. RUFUS CARPENTER, ex- Probate Judge and prominent real- estate dealer, Delaware, Ohio, was born in Franklin county, this State, August 20, 1835.
His parents are Rodney C. and Ervilla (Tinkham) Carpenter, both natives of Ver- mont, who came to Ohio at an early day. Rodney C. Carpenter was a small boy when he landed in Franklin county with his parents, and here he has since resided, being now eighty-four years of age. His father, Moses Carpenter, also a native of the Green Mountain State, was of English descent and was a veteran of the war of 1812. Judge Carpenter's maternal grandfather, Isaac Tinkham, also dated his birth in Vermont. He was of English descent and by occupa- tion was a farmer. It was in 1814 that he and his family settled in Ohio.
The subject of our sketch is the oldest of a family of seven children. He grew up in his native place, receiving his early educa- tion in the district schools and afterward attending the academy at Worthington. He remained at home until he was twenty years of age. Then for some time he worked out on farms by the month, receiving $13 per month the first year, and afterward $15. In
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1859 his ambitious spirit led him to seek his fortune on the Pacific coast and in April of that year he landed in San Francisco, hav- ing made the journey from New York by the Vanderbilt line of steamers. His experience in California was not unlike that of many other young men of that period, prosperity and misfortune coming to him by turns. He was at first employed as shipping clerk for a mining company, buying gold dust, and later himself became a member of a company en- gaged in damming the American river. This enterprise proved a failure and in it he lost all he had. He then returned to his former employers and for a brief time was shipping clerk again. His next venture was in the dairy business, which was also unsuccessful, and after that, in company with others, he started a shingle mill, he furnishing the capital; but, although the mill was a suc- cess, it was destroyed by fire, and again he lost all he had. Then for two months he drove a 'bus in San Francisco, and with his earnings he purchased a half interest in a fruit and tobacco stand, his partner running the business while he returned to the mining company and again resumed his old place as shipping clerk. In September, 1863, he re- turned to New York and from there came to Ohio, where he has since remained. Upon his return home he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but on account of ill health was rejected.
March 13, 1864, Mr. Carpenter married Elizabeth Cornell, a native of New York, who came to Ohio when she was a child. After his marriage he located on the old farm near Worthington, where he remained two years, having poor health all this time. Then in 1866 he bought a small farm in Orange township, Delaware county, where he locat-
ed. The following year he was elected Justice of the Peace by the Republican party, and for fifteen successive years filled that office. In the meantime he read law in the office of James E. Wright, of Worthing- ton, and in 1881 he was elected Probate Judge. This office he held for six years. Upon the expiration of his term of service, he purchased a farm in Trenton township, which he still owns, and in May, 1890, he turned his attention to the real-estate busi- ness, having for his partner W. T. Watson. Mr. Watson was succeeded in 1891 by Rev. S. R. Squires, and in December of that same year Mr. Squires sold out to W. C. Nye. The firm is now Carpenter & Nye, and are doing a general real-estate, loan and insurance business.
Of Judge Carpenter's social life we record that he is a thirty-second degree Mason and has taken all the degrees in the I. O. O. F. He has also served as a representative to the Grand Encampment of the latter order. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and at this writing is President of the Board of Stewards of As- bury Church.
a LBERT CRANE, of Porter town- ship, Delaware county, was born in Putnam county, New York, April 27, 1830. His father, Amza Crane, was born in Connecticut, a son of Zebulon Crane, a native of England, and a soldier in the war of 1812. The mother of our sub- ject was formerly Adilla Hopkins, a native of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and a member of an old family of that place. In 1831 Mr. and Mrs. Amza Crane left New York for Bennington township, then Delaware county, but now Morrow county, where the
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mother died. The father died at the age of seventy-two years. He was a blacksmith and farmer by occupation, and was identi- fied with the Democratic party. Mrs. Crane was a member of the Baptist Church. They were the parents of eight children, viz .: Mary Ann, Alson B., George W., Albacinda, Sarah, Zebulon, Elizabeth and Rebecca Jane. Two of the sons, Alson and George W., were soldiers in the late war, the former a member of an Illinois regiment, and the latter of a Michigan regiment. Two sons of George W. also took part in that struggle.
Elbert Crane, the subject of this sketch, received his education in a Quaker school at Hesper Mount, Ohio. He was afterward employed as a traveling salesman and col- lector for ten years. In 1857 he located on his farm of eighty-seven acres in Porter township, and also owns the William Iler farm, which consists of 136 acres. Both places are under a fine state of cultivation. In his political relations Mr. Crane is identi- fied with the Democratic party, and has served as a member of the School Board for twenty-three consecutive years.
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Our subject was married at the age of twenty-four years, to Miss Ellen B. Iler, a daughter of William and Jane G. (Gray) Iler. The father, formerly a prominent cit- izen of this county, is now deceased, and the mother resides with Mr. Crane. Mr. and Mrs. Iler had two daughters, -Ellen B. Crane and Mary E. Chase, of this township. Mr. and Mrs. Crane have seven children, viz .: Alwyn Melville Crane, a graduate of Columbus Medical College, is a physician of good standing in Marion, Ohio; Florence May, at home with her parents; Thurston W., a farmer; H. Clifton, a graduate of Starling Medical College, is located at Eden, Ohio; William I., Superintendent of the
schools at Forgy, Ohio; Jennie Clare, a teacher in the A grammar room at Sparta, Ohio; and Nellie Marguerite, the youngest, who graduated at the Sparta high school at the age of fifteen, and is at home with her parents.
ILLIAM HOWARD .- A man who has lived from the hour of his na- tivity on the paternal homestead and who has waxed strong in mind and body until he has attained a position of unmistakable prominence among those to whom his life has been familiar, is assuredly deserving of mention in a work whose pur-
port is the considering of the life histories of those who have made that section or locality their home. Such an one is William Howard, who was born on the farm which he now occupies October 20, 1839, the son of William and Nancy (McDonald) Howard, who were pioneers of Union township, Union county, Ohio, where they located on the farm where our subject now re- sides and reclaimed the same from nature's wilds. William Howard, Senior, was born in Hampton, Connecticut, June 18, 1802, son of William and Phoebe (Fuller) How- ard. The father of our subject came to Ohio when a young man, and subsequently was united in marriage to Nancy McDonald, who was a native of Ross county, this State, and a daughter of Thomas and Charity (Teeters) McDonald. William Howard, Senior, and wife became the parents of three children. Those who lived to attain matur- ity were: Nathan, a prominent resident of Allen township, this county, concerning whom an individual sketch appears else- where in this volume; Harriet, deceased, became the wife of Edward Mann, of this
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county; and William, subject of this review. A more complete genealogical record of the Howard family may be found in connection with the sketch of Nathan Howard. The father of our subject died June 10, 1839, having been a successful farmer and stock- raiser, and a man of unblemished charac- ter. His widow survived him many years, her dernise occurring at her home in Irwin Station in the year 1876, her age being sixty-eight years.
Our subject was reared on the farm where he now lives, and received his pre- liminary educational training in the district school, after which he entered Antioch Col- lege, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, and pursued a course of study. After leaving school he returned to the old homestead farm, and once more devoted his attention to those pursuits with which he had been familiar from his childhood days. The farm has ever since been his home, and to-day he owns 800 acres of the finest agricultural land in the county, his place being considered as a model one. The family residence is a frame structure of modern architecture, and is surrounded by handsome lawns dotted with magnificent shade trees. The barns and other outbuildings on the place give evi- dence of the care given to stock and to the storing of the products and machinery of the farm. The home is one in which there abides the unmistakable evidence of culture and refinement, there being innumerable signs of that effective touch and sympathy which can alone make a home worthy the name. The accessories about the place are of modern order, and show the proprietor to be progressive in his methods. There are three tenant houses on the farm, and these are used by the employes of our subject. The Howard homestead is a beautiful rural
home, and the family are surrounded by all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life.
Mr. Howard has for a number of years been quite extensively engaged in stock- raising, in which line his efforts have been attended with pronounced success. He was one of the first in this section of the State to introduce the popular and profitable Shropshire sheep, to whose propagation he has devoted much care and attention.
Mr. Howard's marriage was celebrated on New Year's day, 1866, on which glad- some holiday he was united to Miss Lucy McMullen, a lady of much intelligence and refinement. She was born in La Fayette, Madison county, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard are the parents of three sons and one daughter, namely: Will- iam F., born June 22, 1868, was married, October 2, 1891, to Venitia Garwood, and he now conducts a fine farm near Irwin Sta- tion, this county; John C., born July 13, 1870, is connected with a banking institu- tion at Allegheny City, Pennsylvania; Wal- ter W., born October 24, 1872, is at home; and M. Ancie, born October 20, 1877, is a student at St. Mary's, of the Springs, near Columbus. All of the children have been afforded exceptional educational advantages, by which they have duly profited.
In his political proclivities Mr. Howard is strongly arrayed with the Republican party. As a man he is above reproach, is genial and sympathetic in nature, and enjoys a marked personal popularity.
a RAVEN W. JENKINS, who is one of the well known and representa- tive farmers of Cardington town- ship, Morrow county, Ohio, has passed nearly his entire life in the Buckeye
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State and the greater portion in the locality where he now maintains his home. He was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, April 10, 1833, the son of George W. Jenkins, who was a native of the same county, where he was born August 13, 1805, being there rear- ed to maturity on the homestead farm of his father, Thomas Jenkins, whose place of nativity was in the same county of the Old Dominion State, the family being of Scotch lineage and of long residence in Virginia. The maiden name of our subject's mother was Eda I. Howell, and she was born in Virginia and there reared to mature years, being the daughter of Jesse and Hannah (James) Howell, the former of whom was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, and the latter in Loudoun county.
The parents of the subject of this review were married in Loudoun county and after this event they settled on a farm in the same county and there remained for a period of five years, after which they came, in 1838, to Knox county, Ohio, locating on a rented farm in Clinton township and there abiding for some two years, after which the father effected the purchase of town property in Fredericktown and took up his residence there. Subsequently he rented a farm in Chester township, Knox (now Morrow) county, and here the family remained about three years, when the father purchased a tract of wild land in Cardington township and settled thereon. The only improve- ments on the place comprised a log house and a barn of similar construction. He eventually built a good house and barn, thoroughly improved the farm and there re- mained until the hour of his death, in his sixty-first year, his death resulting from an accident in which he was kicked by a vicious horse. He was one of the early settlers of
the township and was well known in the county. In politics he was originally a Whig, but in later years he lent his influence and support to the Democratic party. The mother passed away in her fifty-eighth year.
Craven W. Jenkins, the immediate sub- ject of this review, was the only child of his parents and was five years of age when they emigrated . from Virginia to Knox county, Ohio, and about seven when they came to Chester township. His preliminary educa- tional training was such as was afforded in the log school-houses of the county, and he also attended the pioneer schools in Carding- ton township, the buildings being rude struct- ures of logs, with slab benches, puncheon floors and cavernous fireplaces.
He remained at the parental home until he assumed the responsibilities of life for himself, in 1855, when he was united in the bonds of matrimony to Hamutal Jackson, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of George and Polly (Hobbs) Jackson, who were among the early settlers in Knox county, Ohio. After marriage our subject located on his father's farm in Card . ington township, having been presented with twenty acres of land by his sire. He re- mained on the homestead until he purchased his present farm. At one time he was the owner of 150 acres, but of this total he has given his son eighty acres, presenting him with forty acres at one Christmas-tide and another forty as another Christmas offering, having also sold ten acres to his son. His present farm, which is under a most effective system of cultivation, comprises sixty acres.
Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have had two children: George W. and Martha Ellen, who died at the age of two years. George W., who was born in this township, and here reared to maturity, married Cora A.
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Curl, a daughter of Henry W. and Elizabeth (Johnson) Curl, and a native of the same township as her husband. They have one daughter, Loti Iva, and they reside upon the eighty-acre farm presented by the sub- ject of this sketch. George W. is one of the progressive and popular farmers of the county, and is a Republican in politics.
Politically our subject supports the Popu- list party, and in religious views he is a Universalist. He stands high in the estima- tion of his neighbors, is a stanch and upright citizen, and has passed through all the vicissitudes of pioneer life, enduring its hard- ships and partaking of its robust enjoyments.
ARTIN BENEDICT, one of the representative farmers of Peru township, Morrow county, Ohio, is a native of the old Empire State, having been born in Clinton county, New York, June 12, 1807. Though now attained of venerable age, our subject stands somewhat as an oracle in regard to the pio- neer history of Ohio, where he has main- tained his abode since the early part of the present century.
His father, Reuben Benedict, was also a native of New York, and was the son of Aaron and Elizabeth (Knowles) Benedict, who were natives of Connecticut. Aaron Benedict came to that part of Delaware county which is now included in the present county of Morrow, in 1812, and at that early period there were but three families living in Peru township, where he took up his res- idence. He was the first white person to be buried in the township, and the subject of this review is the only individual now living in the township that was present at said burial.
Reuben Benedict married Anna Stevens, who was a native of the State of New York, having been born near New Milford and having been the twin sister of Aden Stevens. Her parents were born in New York, and the family was long one of prominence in that State. The parents of our subject were married in their native State and there they continued to reside for a number of years, coming to what is now Morrow county, Ohio, in 1812, in company with a party of about sixty-seven people. They located in the woods of Peru township, taking up their abode in one of the little log cabins which figured as the domiciles of all these hardy and courageous pioneer settlers. They de- veloped a fine farm and lived to enjoy the fruits of their labor, the father dying at the age of eighty-six years and the mother at the age of eighty-three.
Reuben and Anna (Stevens) Benedict became the parents of twelve children, namely: Phoebe, Adin, Polly, John, Ira, Elisha (who died in New York prior to the removal of the family to Ohio), Ezra, Martin, Lucy, George, Annis, and Lucy (second). Of this number only two are living at the present time, -the subject of this review and George, who is a resident of Ida county, Iowa.
Martin Benedict was the seventh in or- der of the children and was but five years of age when his parents left their Eastern home to become pioneers in the Buckeye State. His educational advantages were such as were afforded in the primitive log school-houses of the place and period, and early in life he became . inured to the work incidental to clearing and improving the pioneer farm.
In 1827 he was united in marriage to Jane Brown, who was a native of Morrow
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county. She became the mother of four children: Artemas, Rudolph, Almon and Sophronia, and at the time of her death, in 1838, the youngest child was but two years of age. In 1839 Mr. Benedict was united in marriage to Hannah Watters, who was born in Pennsylvania, but who came with her parents to Ohio when a child of four years. She died in 1890, leaving two chil- dren: Richard and Adin.
Our subject has devoted his attention to general farming from his youth up, and by industry and good management has accumu- lated a fine property. He started in life with nothing in the way of financial re- sources, and the success attained has been the direct result of his own efforts. He has provided for his children with greater solici- tude than does the average father, having given each of them a good home. He re- tains in his own home place 150 acres of as fine land as can be found in this section of the State. He had personally cleared up and improved a farm, but subsequently traded the same for the one he now owns.
In politics Mr. Benedict is a stanch Re- publican, and in religion has been for many years prominently identified with the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. In his declining years he retains that honor and good will of his fellowmen that is due him after his long years of endeavor and right living.
0 R. GEORGE GRANGER, deceased .- It is eminently fitting that in this connection we incor- porate a memoir of the life of one who held a position of distinctive promi- nence in Morrow county, Ohio, and one who contributed much to the social and
substantial advancement of Westfield town- ship.
George Granger was born in the State of Vermont, July 10, 1814, and when a young man he came to Ohio, entering the Medical Institute at Worthington, where he remained until he had secured the coveted degree of Doctor of Medicine, graduating at the institution named in 1837. In the same year he located in Westfield township, Delaware (now Morrow) county, taking up his abode on the same place where his widow now retains her home.
Here he engaged in the practice of his profession, receiving a representative sup- port, and gaining the confidence and affec- tion of the people of the community. He was a man of much force of character, and was alert and progressive in his methods. Thus it came about that, in addition to his professional work, he became connected with other business enterprises. He carried on his farming industry, and was also en- gaged in the mercantile business at West- field, being associated in the latter with Adam Wolf. Professionally he was in part- nership for some time with Dr. E. Luellen, to whom he acted as preceptor.
Dr. Granger was a man whom the peo- ple delighted to honor, and such was the confidence reposed in him that he was fre- quently urged to accept official preferment. He was elected County Treasurer in 1859, and was the incumbent in the office at the time of his death, which occurred June 15, 1860. Fraternally he was prominently identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and had passed several of the chairs in the same. He also held office in the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a devoted adherent.
January 16, 1840, Dr. Granger was
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united in marriage to Miss Mary Bishop, who was born in Oxford township, Delaware county, Ohio. She died in 1846, leaving one son, Wilbert, who is now a resident of the city of Delaware, this State. Our sub- ject consummated a second marriage March 17, 1847, when he wedded Miss Adah Car- penter, who survives him. She was born at Galena, Delaware county, this State, January 15, 1824, the daughter of Lyman Carpenter, a native of Pennsylvania. He came to Ohio with his parents when a small boy, his father having been Gilbert Carpen- ter, who was likewise a native of the old Keystone State, and who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. Gilbert Car- penter was one of the earliest pioneer set- tlers in Delaware county, locating near the present hamlet of Berkshire, where he took up Government land, clearing and improv- ing the same, and there remaining for the residue of his days. The maiden name of Mrs. Granger's mother was Nancy Lewis, and she was a native of Pennsylvania, whence she came to Ohio with her parents when a child. Her father, Robert Lewis, was a native of Wales, and when a young man he emigrated to America and located in Delaware county, Ohio. Mrs. Granger's parents were reared in Delaware county, and after their marriage they continued their residence in the same, locating in Westfield township, which now comprises a portion of Morrow county. The mother died at the age of sixty-four years, and the father at the age of eighty-seven, both having lived to see the forest wilds displaced by culti- vated fields and modern improvements.
Lyman and Nancy Carpenter became the parents of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, namely: Adah, who is the widow of the subject of this memoir; Ches-
ter E., deceased; Robert L., of Delaware, Ohio; Lois Ann, deceased; Catharine, wife of D. D. Smith, of Waldo, Ohio; Gilbert, a resident of Delaware county; Henry, Jerome, and Bennett, all of whom are de- ceased; and Lafayette, a resident of West- field township, Morrow county.
Mrs. Granger was reared in Westfield township, and here received her educational training. By her marriage to Dr. Granger she became the mother of three children: Solon, born March 10, 1851, was married November 16, 1873, to Miss Lin Durkee, who was born in this township, February 14, 1855, the daughter of A. J. and M. R. Durkee, the former of whom was a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Penn- sylvania; Solon and Lin Granger are the parents of four children: George A., Emma A., Mamie R., and Griffith S .; Mrs. Gran- ger's second child, Mary, is the wife of Daniel D. Booher, of Mount Gilead, this county, and is the mother of six children: Raymond G., Edna D., Adah A., Emma C., Herbert S., and Helen J .; the third child, Emma N., was the wife of Albert Bishop. She died August 30, 1879.
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