The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, Part 77

Author: Warner, Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1884
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OLIVER H. HOOVER, attorney at law and County Surveyor, New Philadel- phia, was born in Goshen Township November 14, 1837, the son of Solomon Hoover. He was reared in this county, and received his early education at Gna- denhutten. For four winters he taught school at Lockport, his native town. He was then a route mail agent on the Tuscarawas branch of the C. & P. R. R., and was among the last to fill this position under a Democratic administration. He served as Deputy Auditor for six years under B. F. Helwig and Jesse D.

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Elliott, and became the successor of the latter, by election, in 1866, his second term expiring in November, 1871. Having previously learned surveying while teaching school, and serving under his father and Isaac Angel (having been Deputy County Surveyor in 1859), he commenced and has since followed survey- ing. In the fall of 1875, he was elected County Surveyor, and is now serving his third consecutive term of three years. He was admitted to the bar in January, 1874, but his official duties have prevented active practive. Mr. Hoover has been a Mason for many years. and is politically a Democrat, casting his first vote for Stephen A. Douglas. He was married, March 29, 1863, to Anna B. Emerson, a native of Calcutta, Columbiana County, Ohio. She is a member of the English Lutheran Church. Bessie is the only living child of a family of seven.

JOHN HUPFELD, merchant tailor, No. 7 W. High street, New Philadelphia, born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, April 9, 1831. His parents, John and Eliza- beth (Schriber) Hupfeld, were natives of the same place, and there resided till their deaths. Our subject is the seventh of nine children. seven of whom are in the United States. He was reared in Germany, and first learned the blacksmith's trade. Nine months later. he learned the tailor trade, being apprenticed for three and one-half years. He then worked as a "jour " in Berlin for five years ; at Hamburg two and a half years, two years in Rushtock and one year in Brem- stock. In 1857, he came to Gloversville, N. Y., and nine months later went to St. Louis, Mo., where he worked for one year. He was at New Orleans three years (and there suffered from a severe attack of yellow fever), New London, Conn., for three months, and Hartford, Conn., six years .. In April, 1867, he came to New Philadelphia and was a cutter for T. K. Williams for five years. Since then he has been in business for himself, and at present enjoys the largest merchant tailor trade in both city and county. Mr. Hupfeld is connected with Shoenbrun Lodge, No. 430, I. O. O. F., also New Philadelphia Lodge, No. 73, K. of P. He is Re- publican in politics. He was married, April 9, 1864, to Elizabeth Beier, a native of Bavaria. They have had five children given them, two sons and three daugh- ters. The latter are living, namely, Odele Phebe, Louisa Lena and Stephana Maudie. Mr. Hupfeld and family are members of the German Reformed Church.

REV. E. P. JACOB, superannuated minister of the Methodist Episcopal de- nomination, and a prominent farmer of this township, was born in Oneida County, N. Y., May 8, 1813. His father, Udney H. Jacob, was a native of Massachusetts, and a carpenter and joiner by trade. He finally removed bis family from New York to Illinois, locating on a farm near Pilot Grove, Hancock County, where he died many years ago. He married Eliza Hubbard. a native of Connecticut. They had eight children, six of whom survive, but our subject is the only one in this county. Mrs. Jacob is also deceased. Rev. Jacob removed to Indiana with his parents when but four years of age, and lived there ten years. Growing discour- aged, the family moved back to Chautauqua County. N. Y., by wagon, and lived there till the subject of this sketch was twenty years of age. In 1838, he came to Ohio and entered Athens College, then under Presbyterian supervision, where he received a good education. He taught school several years; then commenced to study for the ministry. In 1840, he joined the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a traveling preacher for twelve years, his la- bors extending over parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. In 1850, he located at New Philadelphia, Ohio, and the next year bought 190 acres of his present farm, to which he has since added thirty acres. He also owns another tract of fifty acres in this township. Mr. Jacob was superannuated in 1852, and since then has served simply as a local preacher. He was married, June 18, 1846, to Mary L. Ricketts, a native of Coshocton, Ohio. Of the ten children given them, eight are living-Benjamin M., residing in Wisconsin; Elisha P. and Robert R. are merchants of Waynesburg, Ohio ; Joseph R., recently graduated . from Gamet Biblical Institute, of Evanston. Ill .; Mary E., wife of H. S. Norton, of Lemont, Cook Co., Ill .; Hattie A .. Cora Eda and Thomas H.

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COL. ELISHA JANES, one of the oldest living citizens of New Philadelphia, was born in Columbia County, N. Y., June 19, 1802, son of Roger Janes, a farmer and native of Coventry, Conn., who accompanied his father, Elisha Janes, to New York, when twenty-four or twenty-five years old, and lived there till his death. He died December 1, 1829, aged about eighty-two years. Roger Janes was married to Elizabeth Warner, who died August 25, 1849, aged about seventy-nine years. Of their seven children Elisha is the sole survivor. He was raised on an exten- sive farm, and upon attaining his majority, resided one year in Livingston County, N. Y. He then came to Akron, Ohio, and took a contract to make the embank- ments for sixteen locks on the Ohio Canal, from Akron to the Cuyahoga River. About a year later, he removed to Zoar, and completed an unfin- ished contract on the canal ; he then took another half-mile contract on the canal in this county, and afterward three other small jobs, settling about 1827 in New Philadelphia. He was married here in October, 1830, to Elizabeth Cryder, a native of York County, Penn. He then removed to Trenton, this county, where he kept hotel, built a warehouse, and engaged in shipping grain for seven years, when he returned to New Philadelphia and purchased 122 acres of land, afterward adding about sixty acres, now within the city limits. Mr. Janes has been successful in life. In politics, he has been a Whig and a Republican, and in 1839 was elected Sheriff of the county, and served two terms. For over forty years he has been an Elder in the Presbyterian Church, of which he was one of the first members. Of his seven children, three, Le Roy, Ellen and Mary, survive. Le Roy attended school at West Point for four years, and served in the army during the war. He completed a fort at the mouth of Columbia River, between Oregon and Washington Territory, but ill health compelled him to re- sign his commission in the army. He married in San Francisco, and purchased an old plantation in Maryland, nine miles from Baltimore, and resided there three years. He then accepted an appointment to establish a military school in Japan, under a contract to remain three years. He stayed six and one-half years ; then returned to his farm, where he has since resided. Ellen, the widow of Louis Anderman, resides with her perents. Mary is the wife of Dr. Curry, of To. ledo.

JOHN KADERLY, dealer in dry goods, carpets and general merchandise, East High street, New Philadelphia, was born in Switzerland October 3, 1837. His parents, Benedict and Annie (Frey) Kaderly, came to this county and en- gaged in farming. They now reside near Trenton. They had six children, four living, John Kaderly was mostly reared in this county, and obtained but a lim- ited English education. He well remembers walking three miles and back to assist in cleaning out the Ohio Canal (in the spring of the year) for the munificent sum of 75 cents per day, the first money he ever earned. He remained on the farm, and helped to clear sixty acres of timber land, till twenty-two years of age. Then went to Will County, Ill., and clerked one year ; returned to this city and butchered for two years; then in the provision business ten years, and in 1872, with .Andrew Bippus, embarked in the dry goods trade. Has since been engaged in that business, and succeeded in building up a large and substantial trade. Mr. Kaderly has lately erected a fine brick block, 44x100 feet in size, two stories high, and occupies one of the store rooms. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity, an Elder in the German Reformed Church, and Democratic in politics (but voted for Lincoln in 1860). He has been three times married. His present wife was Katherine Newsdorfer, a native of Bavaria. Eight children have been given Mr. Kaderly, six of whom are living. His family are also members of the German Reformed Church.

JOHN KASERMAN (deceased) was born in Leuzigen Amt Buren, Canton of Berne, Switzerland, October 5, 1821, and was a son of Jacob Kaserman, also a native of Switzerland. He came to America at seven- teen years of age, and first worked on a steamboat near St. Louis, Mo.

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He then came to this county and operated a grist water mill on Stone Creek, for one year. He was a stone mason by trade, and followed that till his death, being mostly engaged in building foundations of bridges. He was a successful man in business, and during the war bought ninety-five acres of land in Goshen Township, lying between the Ridge and Beaver Dam roads. He died April 6, 1880, aged fifty-eight years six months and one day. He was a member of the New Philadelphia Masonic Lodge, the German Lutheran Church, and was a Democrat in politics. Mr. Kaserman married Anna M. Marty, also a native of Switzerland. There were ten children born to them, all living-Mary E .; John B., laborer, married Lizzie Ahman ; George A., married Saloma Rotacher, is a stone-mason of New Philadelphia ; Charles F., farmer and brick-maker ; Edward M., cigar-maker, with F. P. Brown & Co .; William T., a shoe-maker, of James- town, N. Y .; Daniel A., Otto, F. H., Emma S. and Minnie B. Mrs. Kaserman resides in a comfortable brick residence in New Philadelphia. Her son, Charles F., has the management of the farm, and has lately established a brick-yard, where he employs seven men and boys. They turn out about 5,000 brick per day.

BENJAMIN KELLER, farmer, P. O. Tuscarawas, was born in 1817, in this county, and is a son of Henry and Maria R. Keller. The former was a native of Switzerland, and came to America about 1803 with his wife and two children. His first wife dying, Mr. Keller married Maria R. Frederick, of Pennsylvania. Ben- jamin, our subject, is a son by this union ; was brought up in this county, and received his education in the limited schools of those early days. He lived with his father until his marriage, which occurred March 23, 1842, with Rosanna Char- lotte Walton, of this county. Three children were born to them, of whom one is living-Martha, wife of Oliver Gray. Mrs. Keller departed this life in March, 1851, and Mr. Keller then married, June 8, 1852, Caroline Miksch, a native of Pennsylvania. Of their seven children, five are now living-Alice, wife of Barclay Wallace ; Morris N. ; Otillia, wife of Henry Rominger ; Ida, wife of Patrick Read ; and Sarah, still at home. In 1844, Mr. Keller purchased the property be now occupies on the plains between Goshen and Trenton. He has here a fine farm of eighty-four acres. Mr. and Mrs. Keller are members of the Moravian Church ; in politics, he is a Republican.

JACOB EMANUEL KELLER, farmer, P. O. New Philadelphia, was born March 26, 1841, in Goshen Township, this county, and is a son of Jacob and Eva Keller. The former was a native of Warwick Township, this county. Here he was reared and married to Eva Fredinck, a native of Virginia. They settled in this community and brought up their family, of whom five are now living-Sarah E., wife of Edward Fribley ; J. E., our subject, and Eva A. (twins), the latter wife of Cyrus Alter ; and the two youngest, Mary Ann M., wife of Charles Hummell, and Oliver P., now residing in Independence, Kan. The subject of this sketch was brought up on the farm, and received a common school education. On May 2, 1864, he joined the Federal army and found his service principally limited to the valley of the Shenandoah, Va. He took part in the engagement at Maryland Heights and other places of historic record, and received an honorable discharge at Columbus, Ohio. On returning home, he settled down to farming life. He was united in marriage, July 26, 1866, with Elmina Hensel, of this township, who bore him seven children-Eva Kate, Minnie S., William Upton, Edward, an infant (deceased), Maud and Mabel, twins. In 1874, after living in Marion County, Ohio, five years, Mr. and Mrs. Keller purchased the farm of fifty acres in the famous Goshen Valley, on which they settled and now reside. This farm is on the site of the last Indian village in this county. In politics, Mr. Keller is a Democrat.

JOHN L. KENNEDY, Treasurer of Tuscarawas County, was born in Warren Township, this county, February 22, 1841. His father, William R. Kennedy, is a native of Jefferson County, born in 1816. In 1828, he came with his mother to this county, locating on the farm where he still resides. He married Matilda

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Whitcraft, a native of Carroll County. She died July 5, 1881, aged sixty-four years. They had twelve children, six of whom survive, and four of them reside in this county. John L. was reared on the farm, and attended the academy at New Hagerstown for three terms. He enlisted August 18, 1862, in Company B, Fifty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Army of the Cumberland, and was honorably discharged in July, 1863, on account of rheumatism. He was married, October 6. 1863, to Miss Martha Jane, daughter of Joshua Leggett, of this town- ship. After marriage, he removed to Fairfield Township, where he purchased a farm of 200 acres, and resided until the autumn of 1882. He then purchased prop- erty and removed to New Philadelphia. He was elected Treasurer of the county in the fall of 1881, and took possession of the office September 6, 1882. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is an Elder in that body. He is also leader of the church choir. He has five children-William L., Edson J., Laura J., Mary B. and John V. His wife and three eldest children are also members of the Presbyterian denomination. Mr. Kennedy was a Justice of the Peace in Fair- field for six years. He also held various other township offices. As a farmer and stock dealer he has been successful. In 1864, he took an active part in furnish- ing the quota of men from his township for the army. Recently he became a member of Andrew Crawford Post, G. A. R. For five or six years, he has been a member of the Agricultural Society, and has filled the positions of Treasurer and Director of the association. He has also been Township Correspondent of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture for several years. In 1879, he was a candidate before the Democratic convention for the nomination of State Representative, and lacked only one and a half votes of securing the nomination, which in Tuscarawas County is considered equivalent to an election.

DR. I. H. KURTZ, retired physician, New Philadelphia, was born in Washing- ton, Penn., December 6, 1812. His father, George Kurtz, was a blacksmith by trade, and married Esther Heylin, of Lebanon County, Penn. They had a family of ten children, of whom three are now living. George Kurtz died in 1818, aged about forty-five years. His wife survived until 1857. The subject of this sketch was reared in Washington County, Penn .; there studied medicine from 1829 to 1833, was then admitted to practice and settled at Freeport, Harrison Co., Ohio. Re- maining there till May, 1835, the Doctor removed to Westchester, and continued an extensive, lucrative practice till 1857, when he removed to a farm of 405 acres in Goshen Township. Thence he came to New Philadelphia in 1875, and has since led a retired life. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is President of the Tuscarawas County Bible Society, and is a Mason. Until 1856, he was a Democrat, and since that date has voted with the Republicans. He was married, in 1836, to Eliza Conwell, formerly of Piatt County, Penn. By this marriage there were seven children-John W., Hester A. and Isaac Heylin, de- ceased ; and Sarah L .; Loretta J., wife of Isaac R. Hendershott, of New Phila- delphia ; Mary E., wife of W. H. Willard, of Kirtland, Ohio ; and James Roland, who resides on the farm. Mrs. Kurtz died November 26, 1870, and in 1871 the Doctor was again united in marriage, with Mrs. Sarah J. Arnold, widow of Dr. Robert Arnold.

JESSE LANDES, Infirmary Keeper, was born in Goshen Township Septem- ber 30, 1817. His father, Felix Landes, was a native of Virginia, and emigrated to this county about 1812. He was a farmer by occupation, and bought 200 acres of land adjoining what is now the county farm, where he lived till his death. He died in 1838, aged sixty-five or sixty-eight years. He married Tina Thomas, also a native of Virginia, who was the mother of ten children. Only two of these are now liv- ing-our subject and a sister, Mrs. Huldah Wallick, also of this township. Mrs. Landes died about fifteen years ago. Mr. Landes was reared on a farm, and has followed that occupation through life with the exception of a few years. He was first appointed to his present position in 1854, and since that date has served as such for about twenty-four or twenty-five years, a conclusive proof as to his ability,

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and that his services are appreciated by the people of the county. He is a mem- ber of New Philadelphia Lodge, No. 107, I. O. O. F., and votes the Democratic ticket. He was married, in June, 1840, to Eliza Copeland, a native of New York, but a resident of this county. They have had four children, only two living- Elijah, married Cynthia Amsley, and resides in New Philadelphia, and Rachel, at home.

J. D. LOUTZENHEISER, retired druggist, New Philadelphia, was born in Stark County, Ohio, December 28, 1825, in one of the first cabins erected in that county, in 1806, by his grandfather, Jacob Loutzenheiser. Peter and Rebecca (Kimmell) Loutzenheiser, the parents of our subject, were natives of Pennsylva- nia. Peter, the father, was born in 1800, and died in June, 1882. He was an early Associate Judge of Stark County, and afterward Justice of the Peace. Mrs. Loutzenheiser is still living near Canton, at the age of eighty-three years. J. D. early learned the drug trade at Canton and in 1850 went to California, where he engaged in mining and carrying on a drug store until 1858. Returning to Canton, he was there a druggist from 1859 to 1861. For three years he was then engaged in the foundry business at Bryan, Ohio. In the spring of 1866, he opened a drug store at New Philadelphia, and remained in business until 1881. After a tour of six months in California, he returned to New Philadelphia, and has since led a retired life. During business, he was successful, and enjoyed a large trade. He is Democratic in politics. He was married, in 1863, to Maria Cuppels, a native of Pennsylvania. They have one child, Ida May.

JOHN MCCLELLAND, a well-known farmer of this township, residing on the Uhrichsville road, was born in Ireland November 18, 1818. His parents, Daniel and Jane (Hutton) MeClelland, were also natives of the Emerald Isle, and both died there. Our subject came to the United States in 1845, and the same year to Tuscarawas County. He worked on a farm for some time ; then on the Sandy & Beaver Canal, and subsequently in a brickyard at St. Louis, Mo. During the Mexican war, he was working on a steamboat that sunk in the Mis- souri River. He came back to this county, and five or six years later bought eighty-seven acres of his present farm. He subsequently added seventy-one acres, but has sold some, and the farm now comprises 138 acres, all under cultivation, with the exception of about thirty acres. Mr. McClelland is a mem- ber of the Plains Methodist Episcopal Church of this township, and was Class- Leader and Steward for many years. He is a Republican in politics, but never held office. He married Leah Barnhisel, a native of Navarre, Stark Co., Ohio. Seven children were given them, five living-Louis C., who married Nancy Skeels, and is a farmer of Carroll County, Ohio ; Jane, wife of Charles F. Grinnell, whose sketch appears elsewhere, Olive, John and Maggie. Mary and Ellen are deceased. Mrs. McClelland departed this life March 16, 1878, aged fifty-three years. She was a member of the Plains Church, as are also her children.

J. T. MCCULLOUGH, attorney at law. New Philadelphia, is a native of Union Township, Tuscarawas County, and a son of Charles Mccullough, a native of Washington County, Penn. He came to this county in 1839, locating in Union Township, where he still resides in his seventy-second year. He married Mary M. Thompson, a native of Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio. Of the seven children given them, five are living. One son, Andrew, is a minister of the Methodist Episco- pal denomination, and resides in Coshocton, Ohio. The subject of this notice re- sided on the farm till eighteen years of age. He then attended school for two terms at the Hagerstown Academy, in Carroll County, and taught school during the summers. He then went to the One Study University, in Harrison County; became a member of the senior class, but left before graduating. He came to New Philadelphia, and commenced the study of law with Judge J. H. Barnhill; was admitted to practice June 17, 1874, and located at Uhrichsville. In the fall of 1882, he removed to New Philadelphia, where he has met with satisfactory success. Mr. Mccullough is Democratic in politics. He was married, May 1,

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1877, to Rachel McKee, a native of Mill Township, who departed this life in March, 1878.

JOSEPH MCELROY, dealer in furniture, New Philadelphia, was born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, August 8, 1823, son of John and Margaret (Zoll) McElroy. John McElroy was a merchant, civil engineer, Justice of the Peace and Treasurer of Belmont County, Ohio, and died in 1858, aged about seventy-two years; his wife died in 1833. Of their eight children, four are yet living. Joseph, when twelve years old, went to Warrenton, Jefferson County, and remained four years. He then served an apprenticeship of four years at Wheeling, W. Va., with James Robb, chair-maker, and worked with him a year afterward. In 1845, he came to New Philadelphia, but remained a few months only, and returned to Wheeling. In June, 1847, he again came to New Philadelphia, opened a shop, and carried on bis trade for about twenty years, gradually working into the furniture and under- taking business. His career has been successful, and he has now been in busi- ness longer than any one else in the city. In politics, he is Republican, and has served two terms as City Treasurer. Mr. McElroy was married in October, 1852, to Ellen I. Rinehart, a native of Greene County, Penn. Of their four chil- dren, three are living-Edwin J., a merchant of Fremont, Ohio; Anna H., and Kate. Mrs. McElroy is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

J. L. MCILVAINE, publisher and editor of the Tuscarawas Advocate, New Philadelphia, was born in Washington County, Penn., November 14, 1837. His grandfather was from the North of Ireland, and settled in Pennsylvania at an early day. His father, Garvin McIlvaine, was one of a family of sixteen children, and married Jane Brittain, of Eastern Pennsylvania. They were the parents of thirteen children, and both died years ago at an advanced age. The subject of this notice entered Jefferson College at the age of sixteen, and graduated five years later. In 1859, he conducted an academy at Hookstown, Beaver County, Penn., and a year and a half later took charge of a similar institution at New Cumberland, this county, which he carried on until November, 1861. He then entered the law office of J. C. Hance, now Common Pleas Judge, and prosecuted his studies till September, 1862. He then received and accepted the appointment of Superintendent of the Public Schools at Dover, Ohio, and labored in that ca- pacity faithfully and efficiently for two years. In September, 1864. he accepted a similar position in the New Philadelphia Schools. He established a course of study, put the schools on a well-graded basis, and graduated the first class. In 1865, be purchased of Andrew Patrick the office and good will of the Tusca- rawas Advocate, which paper he has since conducted with ability. He has always been a Republican, and represented this portion of Ohio in the National Repub- lican Convention at Philadelphia in 1872, and at Cincinnati in 1876. He has also served as delegate in State, Congressional and County Conventions, and for ten or twelve years Chairman of the County Executive Committee. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge of New Philadelphia, and the Massillon Commandery, Knights Templar. He was married, December 1, 1868, to Anna, daughter of John Coventry, an early settler of the county. Of three children, two are living.

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The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, Part 77

Author: Warner, Beers & Co. Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1017

Author: Warner, Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1884
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1017