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Our subject's mother had five brothers, of whom John died in California; Alfred is engaged in ag- ricultural pursuits near Bradner; Vine is living in Bowling Green; and George is a resident of the state of Washington. Mrs. Rose Ladd died in 1882, since which time our subject's father has again married. Mr. Ladd has five sisters, three
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brothers, two half-brothers and one half-sister. The early years of the life of our subject were spent in Sandusky County, and the rudiments of his education were gaincd in the public schools. He attended Fostoria Academy during the fall of the years 1883, 1884 and 1885.
Upon starting out for himself, Mr. Ladd began to teach in the Johnson District in Portage Town- ship, Wood County, being thus engaged in the winter of 1883-84. In the spring he taught in his home district in Sandusky County, being precep- tor of the school for the five ensuing terms. In De- eember, 1886, he married Miss Addie, daughter of Capt. J. H. Jennings, of Sandusky County. For a short time after his marriage he engaged in farm- ing, but soon abandoned that occupation and be- came a student and instructor in the normal school at Fostoria, where he taught for some time. His next position was that of a teacher in the Cap- tain Jennings District, after which he returned to the normal at Fostoria, where he completed the course of study.
Accepting the position of Superintendent of the Bradner High School, Mr. Ladd came to this place in 1888, and for the five following years served in that capacity, his work proving highly satisfac- tory to the people. Meantime he filled the posi- tion of Corporation Clerk of Bradner. In 1889 he was elected Justice of the Peace on the Republican ticket without opposition. While Superintendent, his leisure hours were devoted to the insurance business, and finally he retired wholly from educa- tional work in order to give his attention to his other lines of labor. A's already stated, he is spe- cial agent of the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the old and solid companies of the country. In addition to other interests, he has been reading law and ex- pects soon to be admitted to the Bar.
The people of this community have the highest opinion of Mr. Ladd's ability, and his name has been presented by his friends as candidate for the Legislature. Should he be called to this responsible position in the near future, or should other places of honor be offered him, he will undoubtedly be as faithful in the discharge of their duties as he has been loyal to the other trusts reposed in him. So-
cially he is a Knight of Pythias and is now serving as Master of Pemberville Lodge, F. & A. M. In his religious belief he is a Baptist. , He and his wife have four sons: Jesse, Dale I., Raymond and Don- ald Mckinley.
A RTHUR T. BARNUM, M. D., has a fine office at No. 330 Erie Street, Toledo, and enjoys a large and paying practice, which he has built up in an incredibly short space of time. He has had both theoretical and practical training, and as he is one of Chicago's native sons hc possesses the energy and enterprise which are a common inheritance of her children.
William E. Barnum, the father of our subject, is now a resident of Englewood, a Chicago suburb, his home being at No. 6400 Wright Street. He is one of the pioneers of the Garden City, to which he removed about 1838, and is a manufacturer of the celebrated Acme Check Punch. His wife was before her marriage Miss Hawks, and their union has been blessed with seven children.
Dr. Arthur T. Barnum was born December 23, 1865, and received a good public-school education in his native city. On taking up the active duties of life he determined to adopt the medical profes- sion, and entered the Chicago Homeopathic Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1891. For eight- een months he practiced in Cook County Hospital, thus acquiring a practical experience, which he could have obtained in no other way.
February 1, 1894, Dr. Barnum married Miss Charlotte, daughter of the highly respected and widely known Judge Gary, of Chicago. The young couple are members of the Episcopal Church and move in the best society of Toledo and Chi- eago. They have hosts of friends and are popular in all circles.
From June, 1893, until October, 1894, Dr. Bar- num was in partnership with Dr. Rees, since which
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time he has conducted his practice alone. He be- longs to the West End Club, one of the best, al- though one of the youngest, in the city. In poli- tics he is an ally of the Republican party.
A LFRED LAPISH owns a good farm on section 24, Lake Township, Wood Coun- ty. This farm be purchased in November, 1879, but has since added to the original one hun- dred and sixty acres eighty acres morc. He is en- gaged in general farming, giving his special atten- tion to the raising of corn and hay, and he has been quite successful. He is a native of Yorkshire, England, his birth having occurred June 13, 1837, and when he was only four years of age his parents brought him to the United States. He grew to manhood in Allegheny County, Pa., and received a fair common-school education.
The parents of Alfred Lapish, likewise natives of Yorkshire, were William and Sarah ( Bottoms) Lapish. The former was born July 3, 1813, and on arriving ata suitable age learned the stone-ma- son's trade. About the 1st of June, 1841, he em- barked at Liverpool with his family in the sailing- vessel "Albert Gallatin," and arrived safely at New York City at the end of a twenty-eight-days voyage. Proceeding by canal to Pittsburg, as the railroad had only been completed for a short dis- tance, he reached the Smoky City on the 3d of July. A part of the journey, between the railroad and canal, was by means of a six-horse wagon, and the four-year-old Alfred rode with the driver on horseback. The canal-boats were then made in four sections, which were taken apart in order to go through the locks. For about a year William Lapisli was employed on the Pittsburg water- works building, and then removed to a farm near the eity, where he ran a dairy until 1854. He died in Ross Township, Allegheny County, February 10, 1855. He was a member of the Church of Eng- land, and was an Odd Fellow. His parents, John
and Jane Lapish, of Yorkshire, lived to be about fourscore years of age. His wife, Sarali, who was born December 15, 1813, died March 7, 1857. Her father, George P. Bottoms, who was a foreman of the Yorkshire Knitting Factory, lived to be over seventy years of age.
Alfred Lapish is one of ten children. His two eld- er sisters, Matilda and Maria, died in infancy in Eng- land; his brother George, next younger than him- self, died in childhood; Ann died in infancy; John, the first of the family born in America, the date of the event being October 27, 1842, is now a resi- dent of Lake Township; David died in Pennsyl- vania, aged forty years; James is a motorman in · Pittsburg; Sarah married Jacob Portman, now de- ceased, formerly a dairyman in Allegheny County, Pa .; and Jane married Enoch Siddle, also deceased.
His mother's death occurring when he was twen- ty years of age, our subject then engaged his serv- ices to neighboring farmers for two years, after which he went into partnership with John King, and conducted a dairy for two years. The follow- ing year he worked for Watson Bros., in a mine on the Monongahela River. From 1862 until 1866 he worked in different places and at various occupations in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Mary- land and Virginia. Settling down in 1866 in Al- legheny County, Pa., he followed carpentering for eleven years. We next find him in Virginia, as he had bought a farm in Powhatan County, and this he cultivated for some four years, then trading it for the one where he now resides, but giving $1,000 to boot.
November 26, 1867, Mr. Lapish was married, in Pittsburg, to Saralı, daughter of Jolin and Eliza- beth (Barton) Bottles, who were natives of Eng- land, but came to the United States about 1838. John Bottles had learned the puddler's trade in a rolling-mill in his native land, and was thus em- ployed in Pittsburg. He died in 1870, aged about eighty-five years, and his wife, who reached a simi- lar age, died in July, 1879, in Virginia. They had eight children: Jobn, of Pittsburg; Mary Ann, Mrs. Robert Caska, now deceased; Alfred, deceased, formerly in the Pittsburg Rolling-mills; Henry, who died in that city, and was also an operator in the rolling-mills, as is also the next younger son,
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William; Charlotte, who first married Robert Mc- Millan, and later wedded William Case, of Pitts- burg; George, who is employed in the rolling-mills; and Sarah, Mrs. Lapish.
The wife of our subject was born in Allegheny City, May 3, 1842, and there grew to womanhood. By her marriage with Mr. Lapish she has become the mother of six children, as follows: Mary, born October 20, 1868, and who died September 20, 1869; William, born in Allegheny City, Septem- ber 17, 1870; Jennie, August 10, 1872; George and Jolin, twins, June 12, 1875; and James, Marelı 10, 1879. With the exception of the last-named, who was born in Virginia, they are all natives of Allegheny City. William was married September 17, 1894, to Ella, daughter of Robert and Anna (Dawson) Avery. The lady was born February 6, 1874, in England. Jennie became the wife of Thomas Avery, a brother of Mrs. William Lapish, October 10, 1893.
In politics our subject is independent, but in- clines somewhat toward the People's party. Witli- out his knowledge he was elected to serve as Su- pervisor of Highways, and held the position for three terms, when he refused re-election. He was formerly a member of the Patrons of Industry.
H ENRY LONG, a well known farmer of Webster Township, Wood County, jour- neycd hither with his family and house- hold effects in 1854, making the trip by ox-team, and settling on the farm where he now resides. He has held several local offices, among others that of Township Trustee, School Director, etc. His first purchase in this neighborhood, over forty years ago, was eighty acres on section 17 .. This had not been improved, but was covered with heavy timber, and the price he paid for the tract was $4 per acre. Desiring to put up a log cabin, he first had to clear a space, and when his one-
room house was completed the family moved in. Though the building had a roof and a floor, the cracks between the logs had not yet been chinked up, and there were no window-panes in the space left for windows. Mr. Long was taken sick, and during the winter which followed, which was an extremely cold one, his family was obliged to live in this poor shelter. Game was very abundant, and helped to eke out the diet of the carly set- tlers.
Henry Long is a son of Noah and Mary E. (Berge) Long, natives of Pennsylvania. Their family numbered thirteen children, as follows: Adam, Simeon, John, Noah, Henry, Eunice, Becky, Lavina, Eliza, Maria, Margaret, Nancy and Theresa. The father was one of the pioneers of Ashland County, Ohio, where he settled at a very early day. He took up one hundred and sixty acres of Government land, about six miles from the coun- ty seat, and paid $1.25 per acre for the same.
Henry Long was born in his father's humble log cabin in January, 1826, and attended the old-time subscription schools of the neighborhood for three months, perhaps, during the year in his boyhood. Slab benches and seats were about the only fur- nishings of the poor little log schoolhouse, and pieces of wood served for writing-books. The nearest schoolhouse was about three quarters of a mile from his home, and, like country boys of the period, young Henry rarely wore shoes. He re- mained with his parents until reaching his majority, when he engaged in farming on some wild land in Sullivan Township, where his father had purchased three hundred acres at $3 per acre. For seven years Henry Long lived in the one-room cabin which he erected on the land, and during that period he worked industriously to improve the place, clearing about thirty acres of heavy forest land with ox-teams. In 1854 he came to this township, where he has ever since been one of the most respected residents.
In 1847 Mr. Long married Miss Mary A. Bow- erize, by whom he had ten children, only five of whom are living, namely: Simeon, Adam, Free- man, Henry and Sarah. Those who have passed away are George, John, Noah, Elmer and Eliza. Mrs. Long died in 1871, and February 5, 1872,
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Mr. Long married Mrs. Sarah Housholder, nee Pember.
In his carly manhood Henry Long was a Whig, and cast his first vote for William H. Harrison. On the formation of the Republican party he joined its ranks, and for over thirty years has been identi- fied with it. He is an active worker in the United Brethren Church, to which his wife also belongs.
ILLIAM ANDREWS is now living in the village of Lemoyne, Wood Coun- ty, where he has a pleasant home. He also owns a farm in Webster Township, this coun- ty, and is the proprietor of the only sawmill in this locality. He is somewhat of a pioneer in tlic latter business, as he became interested in it twen- ty-five years ago, and has since dealt more or less extensively in lumber.
Thomas Andrews, father of William, was a na- tive of Pennsylvania, born in 1818. He was a son of William Andrews, of Fayette County, Pa., who served as a Member of Congress from his district for one term, and who, after being re-nominated, died from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy while going to deliver a speech at a political meeting in Greensburg. About 1841 Thomas Andrews mar- ried Susan Schritchfield, also a native of the Key- stone State and of Holland-Dutch descent. She was born in 1825, and is now living in Shawnee- town, Kan., with her son Joseph. Thomas and Susan Andrews became the parents of the follow- ing children : Margaret, Mrs. Howenstein, of Okla- homa; Joseph, who has never married, and who lives in Silver Lake, Kan .; Mrs. Anna Lang, deceased; Sarah, Mrs. Hammat, of Waynesville, Ill .; Martha, wife of Perry Worthington, a farmer of Big Springs, Kan .; James, who is engaged in farming in Aslıland County, Ohio; Mrs. Joanna Rhinehart, of Sedgwick County, Kan .; Thomas, Jr., a farmer of Rossville, Kan., who raises stock extensively, and during the winter of 1894-95 fed some twelve
hundred head of cattle; Jemimah, Mrs. Ephraim Weltimer, of Mckay, Ohio; Mrs. Belle Wagnor, of Maple Hill, Kan .; and John, who is engaged in farming near Silver Lake, Kan.
William Andrews, of this sketch, was born De- cember 3, 1847, in Ashland County, Ohio, and there grew to manhood. He remained with his parents until-about eighteen years of age, when he received a certificate and engaged in teaching school for a time. He has been the architect of his own fortune, having mnade or saved every- thing of which he is now possessed. In his home district he has served as School Director, and is well known in political circles as a Republican of no uncertain stripe.
On the 9th of January, 1873, William Andrews married Nancy Stentz, who died January 19, 1882, leaving one son, Willis, whose birth occurred April 19, 1875. He has had fine educational advan- tages, and is now a student in the Westerville (Ohio) College. April 12, 1883, our subject mar- ried the lady who now bears his name, and who was formerly Miss Laura, daughter of Valentine Halin, whose history appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews are esteemed mem- bers of the United Brethren Church.
R OBERT DUNIPACE was for many years a prominent agriculturist of Webster Town- ship, Wood County. To this locality he came in 1832 and purchased eighty acres of Gov- ernment land, for which he paid the customary price of $1.25 per acre. In 1840 he moved to the farm where he continued to dwell the remainder of his days, and which comprised one hundred and sixty acres on sections 5 and 6. He literally hewed a farm out of the wilderness, for there were no improvements on the place when he became its proprietor. For years his home was in a log cabin of one room, but in time this was supplanted by a more modern and convenient dwelling.
The birth of Robert Dunipace occurred in Scot- land, May 20, 1809. He was the eldest of the
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nine children born to William and Margaret (Gill) Dunipace, likewise natives of Scotland. A history of his brother William appears elsewhere in this work. In 1832 our subject set sail for the United States, and soon after his arrival found himself in tliis county, where he decided to make a permanent settlement. After lie had made a good start, lie felt the need of a companion and helpmate, and therefore, June 11, 1840, he married Miss Jane Muir. The lady, who emigrated to America in 1832, was, like her husband, born in Scotland, tlie date of the event being January 11, 1820. Eleven children came to bless their home, as follows: Mary, who died in infancy; William W .; Margaret; John, who served in the War of the Rebellion, and is now deccased; Mary, also deceased; Robert; James, deceased; Jane; one who died before receiving a name; Samuel; and George, who has also passed away.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunipace for years werc members of the United Presbyterian Church, and active in all good works of religion and benevolence. In politics tlie former was a Republican. He was act- ive in organizing schools and in other factors of civilization, and for many years held the office of Township Trustee. He was called to his final rest January 24, 1882, and his remains were interred in Scotch Ridge Cemetery.
B ENJAMIN MALLETT, who departed this life October 16, 1893, was for sixty-three years one of the substantial business men of Toledo. He was a public-spirited citizen, and especially in the early days of Toledo's history was actively identified witli its growth and develop- ment. Through his own unassisted efforts he rose step by step in the financial world until lie suc- ceeded in accumulating a good fortune. In early manliood he began dealing in mortgages and notes
and in loaning money on good security, and con- dneted this branch of business up to the time of his death.
The father of our subject, Benjamin Mallett, Sr., a native of Canajoharie, Montgomery County, N. Y., was married to Miss Mary Jones, by whom he had three children. In 1830 he emigrated with his family to Toledo, and in this locality settled upon a farm and devoted himself to raising fine stock. He died in Toledo when he had reached the age of seventy-five years.
Benjamin Mallett, Jr., was born in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, N. Y., April 8, 1816, and passed inis boyhood up to fourteen in his native county, when he came with his father to Toledo. He received a fair common-school education, and carly learned habits of industry and perseverance on his father's farm, and those qualities became part of his nature. On attaining to years of man- hood he started forth in the business world to make his own livelihood, and succeeded in build- ing up a reputation for integrity and fairness in all his dealings which was worth eminently more than the fortune that he finally attained ..
June 4, 1842, Mr. Mallett married Miss Julia A. Mills, who was born in this city, March 2, 1823, and has been a resident liere all her life. Her parents were Mathew and Mary (Stahl) Mills, who were early settlers of this city. To Mr. and Mrs. Mallett were born four children, the first of whom died in infancy unnamed. Benjamin Frank- lin, the only surviving child, whose birth occurred in this city, married Ella Rattenberry, and has five children. He and his family reside in West To- ledo. Anna Louise, who died July 20, 1879, mar- ried Milton Dorr, and had one son, Chiarles A. Sherman Mallett died February 12, 1871, aged about six years.
Mrs. Mallett, who with her husband witnessed the immense changes which have taken place since Toledo was a hamlet of three or four houses, is passing her declining years in a beautiful home with luxurious and refined surroundings, her residence being at No. 3348 Cherry Street. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Mallett, who was a stanch Republican politically, was intensely public-spirited, taking an active part in political,
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publie, school and church affairs, and when the Civil War broke out was one of the most aetive citizens in Toledo in aiding to get troops. For sixteen years he oeeupied the position of Treasurer of Washington Township, eity of Toledo, and for fifteen years that of Infirmary Director. In busi- ness life lie was ever prompt and capable, and his word was considered as good as his bond; in pri- vate and social life he was regarded with affection and respect for his genial, honorable qualities.
H ENRY D. GROVE, an insurance agent and Justice of the Peace of Millbury, Wood County, has been a member of the Village Council and a School Director for many years. He has served as Township Clerk, Corpo- ration Clerk and Justice of the Peace sinee 1876, and has represented the AEtna and Phoenix Insur- ance Companies since 1879.
Born near Hoosic Falls, Rensselaer County, N. Y., May 22, 1832, Mr. Grove is a son of Henry D., Sr., and Eliza (Winans) Grove, who were married in New York State. The former, a native of Saxony, Germany, was born in 1804, and received a fine college education. His father, Frederick, a wealthy man, died before Henry had arrived at manhood. The latter eame to the United States about 1825, and first located in Washington County, N. Y., after which he removed to Rensselaer County, and there lived until summoned by death, February 22, 1844. He made a specialty of sheep-raising, and was the first importer of fine-wool Saxony slicep. He returned three times to Germany for new stock, and on two oceasions brought over with him Ger- man shepherds, who understood the care of this partieular kind of sheep, and also brought over German shepherd dogs. He rented a farm in Me- dina County, Ohio, and there kept a flock of four
hundred sheep, but the land was low and not adapted to this purpose, and after one hundred or more of the sheep had died, three hundred were sold at publie auetion for $3,000, though the fleece was so fine that it sometimes sold for $1 per pound. He also owned a flock of three hundred and fifty sheep in New York State, where he had a farmn comprising one hundred and fifty acres. There he also raised Devonshire and Durham cattle. An energetie, progressive man, he was highly esteemed in his community. He was one of the founders of the State Agricultural Society, was an authority on matters pertaining to farming and stoek-raising, and wrote artieles for agricultural papers, among others the Albany Cultivator. His father was a wealthy man, and though an elder brother, Augustus, inherited the family estate by the law of entail, Henry, the youngest son, received a large sum of money and a number of sheep for his patrimony. Augustus, who lived and died in Saxony, and was never married, was famous as a broad-swordsman.
The mother of our subjeet, Eliza ( Winans) Grove, was born in the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., and died on the old homestead, April 12, 1866. Her par- ents having died when she was very young, she was reared by a distant relative, Paul Cornell. Little is known of her people, but a half-sister and brother by the name of Purdy moved to Canada, where the latter established Purdy's Mills. An- other half-brother was a farmer in the Catskills, and the sister became the wife of a Mr. Hiller and settled in Hudson, N. Y. Hiram and Eliza Grove had four children: Margaret, who married J. Osear Joslyn, who eonduets the old farm in Rensselaer County, where he raises fine horses, high-grade sheep and faney poultry; Henry D., Jr., our sub- ject; Ilse Maria, who became the wife of John Hunt, had a daughter, Harriet, and died when about twenty-four years of age; and Frederick Augustus, a commercial traveler of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Joslyn have two little sons, H. D. Grove and Whitman.
Until he arrived at manhood, Henry D. Grove, Jr., attended the distriet schools in his native eoun- ty, but in his nineteenth year went to Cambridge Academy, of Washington County, for two terms,
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For the next two years he kept books and clerked in a store at St. Catharines, Canada. In 1854 he went on a hunting and pleasure trip to Minnesota and the Northwest, and on returning home spent the winter. Then, with his brother Fred, he came to Ohio, in 1859. He worked on a farm and his first arrival in this county was on a hunting expe- dition. In the fall of 1863 he came here once more and worked in the timber. About this time he met with a great misfortune, as a tree fell upon his foot, and necessitated the amputation of that useful member, and for two years following he was unfit for work. Upon convalescing Mr. Grove clerked in a hotel at Rawsonville, Lorain County, and subsequently for a few years was a traveling salesman. In 1870 he came to Millbury, and for a couple of years clerked for Mr. Karchner and then kept books for a stave factory. For two or three years morc he clerked in a store, and in 1876 was elected Township Clerk, since which time he has acted in a public capacity. His father was a Whig, but since attaining his majority our subject has affiliated with the Democracy.
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