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On the 13th of February, 1866. Major
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Piatt was united in marriage to Ellen Ger- trude Gallagher, a daughter of Charles and Mary Gallagher. of Cincinnati. She died June 22, 1882, in Washington, Kansas. The children of this marriage were Han- nah, deceased; Eleanor, wife of H. II. Pat- ton. of Cincinnati: Benjamin M .: Chiarles B .; Oak ; and Anna P. Of this family Ben- jamin M., true to the military record of his ancestors, enlisted in the Seventeenth Regiment of United States Regulars as a member of Company E. for three years' service in the Philippines, while Charles B. enlisted in the First Florida Infantry and served in the Spanish-American war. On the 2d of May, 1899. he joined the Fifth United States Cavalry, and was sent to Porto Rico, where he remained until No- vember, 1900, when he was ordered to Fort Myers, and was then sent to the Philippines for three years as corporal of Troop M.
From 1884 until 1891 Major Piatt, of this review was in the employ of the bag- gage department of the Queen and Cres- cent Railroad. He has since resided in West Liberty, where various business pur- suits have engaged his attention. In pol- itics he is a liberal Democrat, supporting the men rather than the party, and in 1902 he was elected mayor of West Liberty, so that he is now chief executive of the city. It was an honor well conferred and worthily merited. for no man has ever been more faithful in citizenship, or loyal to the good of his home locality or his country than Major Piatt. He maintains pleasant relationship with his old army comrades through membership in Poysell .Post, No. 103, in which he was elected commander in 1902, and installed as the leading officer of that organization in Jan- uary, 1903.
WILLIAM L. BLACK.
William L. Black. the efficient super- intendent of the Logan county infirmary. was born in Harrison township, Logan county, Ohio, October 5. 1847. a son of J. M. and Eleanor (Grafford) Black. The father was born in Mercer county, Penn- sylvania, a son of William and Jane Black. The grandfather was born in County Ty- rone. Ireland, and the grandmother was also a native of the Emerald Isle, but they did not become acquainted until after they emigrated to the new world. Becoming a resident of Ohio, the grandfather pur- chased a farm in Harrison township. Lo- gan county, and spent his last days in De Graff. Although he was a poor man when he came to the United States, having but seventy-five cents when he arrived in this country, he became the possessor of a valuable farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which he sold prior to his deathi. He was born and reared in the Protestant faith and he died when about eighty-three years of age.
J. M. Black, the father of our subject, was about twenty years of age when his parents removed from Pennsylvania to Ohio and through much of his life he fol- lowed farming, but in later years he be- came a traveling salesman for the Fort Wayne Plow Company. He served in the Civil war as a sergeant of Company I, Ninety-sixth Ohio Infantry and remained with the army for about a year when in 1863 he was discharged on account of poor health, but in 1864 he organized a com- pany in Harrison and Washington town- ships. which became Company E. One Hundred and Thirty-second Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, of which he was elected the captain. He served for four months at
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this time, being stationed in Washington, came with their respective parents to Ohio D. C., and at White House Landing on the Pamonkey river and at Bermuda Hun- dred. After the expiration of his term of service he returned to Bellefontaine, where he lived until his death in 1893. In his family were four children, of whom our subject is the eldest. the others being : Elizabeth, Allen E. and Eliza, all of Belle- fontaine.
William L. Black made his home with his father until 1864, and in the meantime acquired a fair common-school education. In May, 1864, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-second Ohio In- fantry under his father, and remained with the command until the regiment was dis- charged, taking part in a number of skir- mishes but in no regular engagement. He afterward continued with his father on the farm until he secured employment in a flouring mill in Champaign county.
Mr. Black was first married in De Graff, May 1, 1875. to Miss Fannie Wood, by whom he had five children, three of whom are still living. Allen Clifford, who married Etta Miller, died at the age of twenty-two years. Frank Wood, born August 17, 1878, in Pleasant township, this county, is an electrician in De Graff. Arthur Rush, born May 14, 1881, and Edith, born August 29, 1883. are at home. Goldy May, born in 1886, died in infancy. The wife and mother died March 28, 1900.
On the 26th of September, 1901, Mr. Black wedded Mrs. Enola M. Detrick, nee Tredway, who was born in Miami county, Ohio, July 28, 1852. Her parents were William and Ruth (Weirman) Tredway, the former a native of Scotland, the latter of Pennsylvania. During childhood they
and settled in New Carlisle, Clark county, where they were subsequently married. Later they removed to Brandt, Miami county, where Mr. Tredway died in the fall of 1852. In early life he engaged in the manufacture of fancy bedspreads and afterward turned his attention to the nursery business. His widow continued to reside in Miami county until her chil- dren were grown and then returned to her old home in New Carlisle. Her last days, however, were spent at the home of her son. J. D. Tredway in Dayton, Ohio, where she died June 24, 1902. Of her four chil- . dren only two are now living, these being Mrs. Black and J. D. Mr. Tredway was a supporter of the Democratic party, a member of the Odd Fellows society and attended the Methodist Episcopal church. By her first marriage Mrs. Black had seven children, of whom six are living : Ora mar- ried Lizzie Bussert. has two children and resides in Huntington, Indiana; Guy mar- ried Nettie Grafton and is engaged in teaching school in Union township, this county ; Roy is engaged in the saw mill business in De Graff, Ohio; Harry is an embalmer and undertaker of De Graff ; Frank is in the drygoods business in Belle- fontaine; and Esta is attending school and resides with her mother.
Until 1895 Mr. Black followed farm- ing in Logan county. He is a Republi- can in politics and cast his first vote for Grant in 1868. For one or two terms he has served as trustee of Pleasant town- ship and he was a member of the election board when the Australian ballot system was adopted in the state of Ohio. In 1895 he was appointed to his present posi- tion, which he has since filled and during
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this period there has been a vast improve- ment made in the management of the place, and although the infirmary was five thousand dollars in debt when he took charge and many improvements have been made and new buildings erected. the cost of the institution has been reduced owing to his business ability and careful control. The levy tax for its support has been reduced from six-tenths to one-tenth of a mill and there is now over ten thous- and dollars in the treasury. In 1896 Mr. Black erected a room and put in milling machinery to do the grinding of meal for feed. This is a steam plant with a capacity of fifty barrels per day. In 1900 a twenty- three horse power engine was put in. In 1901 Mr. Black built a fine barn. forty- four by ninety-six feet, with a basement. also a buggy shed, twenty by forty feet, a sheep shed. twenty by sixteen feet : a cat- tle shed, ten by twenty feet ; and in 1902 a poultry house, sixteen by seventy-two feet. That he has been retained in the po- sition for more than eight years is indica- tive of his faithful service and the con- fidence reposed in him throughout the county, and certainly no more capable of- ficial has ever had charge of the county in- firmary. He has recently made arrange- ments for his ninth year. In this work Mr. Black is ably assisted by his estimable wife, who acts as matron and is untiring in her efforts in behalf of the women under her care, now numbering thirty-three in two wards. There are also forty-four men who find a home here. Everything is kept in first class order, the beds clean and the kitchen and dining room always neat. Splendid discipline is maintained and in all departments the institution shows the supervision of a capable and conscientious manager.
Mr. Black and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and while in De Graff he served on the official board of his church and has also been class-leader and trustee, serving in the latter office when the house of worship was remodeled. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias Lodge of Huntsville and was formerly connected with the Knights of Honor and filled all the chairs of the local organization. He is also a comrade of Joseph Sailor Post. No. 440, G. A. R., in which he has filled all of the offices and has served as representative to the state encampment. In whatever rela- tion of life Mr. Black is found he is found true to the duties resting upon him, and over the record of his public career and his private life there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil.
CAPTAIN JOSIAH D. EMERSON.
Captain Josiah D. Emerson, who is now practically living retired in Bellefon- taine. was born in West Mansfield. Logan county, May 19, 1840, and is now the eld- est living white child, a native of that town. He is the eldest son of Moses Emerson, who was born in 1812, and who died No- vember 8. 1892. About 1835 he became a resident of Bokes Creek township. Born in Vermont, he came to the Buckeye state in his youth and acquired a good educa- tion, pursuing a partial collegiate course. Failing health, however, compelled him to abandon his studies and thinking that he might be benefited by out-door life of the farm he began the work of develop- ing a new farm in the midst of the wilderness of Logan county. In local affairs he was
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prominent and was well fitted for leader- May. 1864, at Spottsylvania he was again ship. his loyalty and progressiveness in public affairs being widely recognized. In 1844 he became a candidate for congress on the Abolition ticket. when the stand he took required much moral stamina. . His wife, who bore the maiden name of Caroline Webster, was a native of Connec- ticut. and their early home was in West Mansfield, when that city was but a mere crossroads, and when the entire surround- ing country was in its primitive condition, the forest trees standing in their primeval strength, while bushes thickly covered the surface of the ground, little farming hav- ing as yet been done. Mrs. Emerson died when her son, Josiah, was about two years of age.
Mr. Emerson, of this review, remained at his father's home until seventeen years of age and attended the schools of East Liberty through the period of his youth. Desirous to pursue a more advanced edu- cation he entered Hillsdale College of Hilldale, Michigan, in 1857, there continu- ing his studies until the outbreak of the Civil war, when, placing patriotism before all else, he offered his services to his
country, enlisting in Company E, Fourth Michigan Infantry, for three months. When the second call was made for troops to serve for three years his company went to Washington and reported for duty. Mr. Emerson participated in the battle of Yorktown and also of Gaines Mills. In the latter engagement he was wounded in the left shoulder and for four months lay ill in the West Philadelphia hospital. After convalescing he rejoined his regiment and was commissioned as a second lieutenant, while subsequently, promotion made him captain of his company. On the 8th of a few years the place had grown to an
wounded, this time in the right hip. the ball passing through the upper part of the leg. He was then sent to the hospital at Georgetown. D. C., and the injury was found to be so serious that he was unable to rejoin his regiment. During his entire period of service he participated in twenty- five or thirty battles and was connected with the Second Brigade, First Division and Fifth Army Corps. Captain Emer- son was identified with the Army of the Potomac in all of its engagements from the first battle of Bull Run until Spottsyl- vania was reached, with the exception of a few encounters with the enemy which oc- curred during the short time he was in the hospital. his service covering a period of over three years.
Preparing for admission to the bar the Captain spent the winter of 1865-6 as a student in the law school of Cincinnati, Ohio, and in the spring of the latter year he went to Michigan, where he was elected sheriff of Hillsdale county, holding that office for two years. After the close of his official duties in Michigan Captain Emer- son, who was suffering severely from rheu- matism due to the damp climate, decided to go to southeastern Kansas, and with a few others he located on an Indian reservation. The Captain and some other settlers then obtained a treaty from the Indians which was taken to Washington and, according to the terms of that treaty, the red men were removed to Indian Territory. The Town Site Company for the settlement of Independence, Kansas, was then formed with Captain Emerson as a member and its manager. The county was organized and he became its first probate judge. In
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enterprising village with a population of he has served as mayor of Bellefontaine three thousand people and the Captain and is regarded as one of the leading and representative citizens here, a man who in all life's relations is trustworthy and whose career has been most commendable. took a very active part in both public and private affairs of the community and con- tributed in a large measure to its substan- tial upbuilding and improvement. When five years had been passed there Mr. Emerson became connected with the mail service in Louisiana and Texas, and this JOHN HENRY KOOGLER. necessitated the removal of his family to Minden, Louisiana, where he remained from 1875 until 1882.
In January of the latter year Mr. Emerson came to Bellefontaine, where he has since made his home. In 1887 he be- gan taking contracts for furnishing timber to various railroad companies, securing his supply from the forests of Logan county and vicinity. In later years rheumatism has largely incapacitated him for active connection with business affairs. On his removal to Bellefontaine he purchased a fine residence and he also owns farming property in the county and is identified in a business way with both city and county affairs.
In December, 1864. was celebrated the marriage of Captain Emerson and Miss Mary Allen, and their union has been blessed with two children : Charles A., who is now engaged in the practice of dentistry in Toledo, and Mary Douglas, the wife of Fred C. Spittle, assistant cashier of the Commercial and Savings Bank of Belle- fontaine.
Mr. Emerson is a loyal member of the Masonic fraternity and in his life shows . forth the beneficient spirit of the craft. He is also connected with the Grand Army of the Republic and has served as com- mander of Eugene Reynolds Post, No. 441, G. A. R. A Republican in politics
John Henry Koogler. a well-known citizen of DeGraff. is now living a retired life in the enjoyment of a rest which he has truly earned and richly deserves by reason of his industrious efforts of former years. In early life he was one of the act- ive and progressive farmers and business men of the county but has now laid aside all business cares.
Claiming Ohio as his native state, Mr. Koogler was born near Fairfield, in Greene county, March 11. 1841. and is a son of Mathias and Hannah (Buck) Koog- ler. His father was a carpenter by trade, but when our subject was ten years old he removed to a farm of one hundred and fifty acres in Miami township. Logan county, which he had purchased, and turned his attention to agricultural pur- suits, operating his land as long as he was able to work. He then removed to De Graff, where he spent his remaining days. dying there when about sixty-five years of age.
John H. Koogler was reared in much the usual manner of farmer boys of his day and is indebted to the common schools for the educational advantages he enjoyed. On reaching manhood he was married in Union township. this county, June 16. 1863, to Miss Catharine Wilson, whose birth occurred in Adams township, Cham-
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paign county, on the 16th of June 1846. To them were born five children, as fol- lows: Mathias L. and Elisha M., twins, were born in Miami township, this county, April 17, 1864. and the latter died in in- fancy. Mathias, who is now a dealer in pumps, tanks, etc., at DeGraff, wedded Mary Dachenbach and has one child, Catharine; Flora E., born in DeGraff, March 29. 1866, is the wife of Webster Pool, a resident of Miami township. and they have five children : John E .. Ross E., Florence J., Harry W. and Helen M; Joseph F., born in Miami township. Octo- ber 13, 1867, is living in DeGraff. He married Cora Black and they have four children : Byron W., Pauline E., Marian H. and Grace M .; Harry. born in Miami township, December 26. 1874. attended first the country schools and at the age of seventeen was graduated at the De Graff high school. He then took a course in Eastman Business College at Pougli- keepsie, New York. and after his return home was given the position of book- keeper in the Citizen's Bank of DeGraff, although only eighteen years of age, and is now acting as assistant cashier in that institution.
Soon after his marriage Mr. Koogler removed to DeGraff. where he spent two years, being in poor health at that time. The country was then involved in Civil war and he enlisted in Company F. One Hundred and Thirty-second Ohio Volun- teer Infantry for one hundred days. Being ill when his regiment was called out he was unable to go to the front and was honor- ably discharged with his regiment. He never asked for his wages. In 1865 he re- moved to his father's farm in Miami town- ship, where he lived two years and then
took up his residence on another farm in the same township which his father had purchased, making it his home for about seventeen years. In the meantime it had come into his possession on the death of his father. He received about four thous- and dollars from his father's estate. On selling the farm previously referred to, M. Koogler bought the Henderson farm in Pleasant township, consisting of two hundred and eleven acres, and after re- siding there for three years removed to DeGraff, where he embarked in the grain business, buying an elevator and operating it for two years. He also purchased what was known as the Boggs mill. built by William Boggs, and still owns the prop- erty on which it was located, the mill be- ing destroyed by fire in April, 1890. Mr. Koogler met with success in the grain business but was obliged to retire at the end of two years on account of ill health. Besides his town property ne still owns a good farm of one hundred and twelve acres in Miami township, known as the John Hamer farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Koogler hold member- ship in the Presbyterian church and he has served as deacon. Since casting his first presidential vote for Abraham Lin- coln in 1864, he has used his right of fran- chise in support of the men and measures of the Republican party. During the long years of his residence in Logan county, he has championed every movement designed to promote the general welfare, has sup- ported every.enterprise for the public good. and has materially aided in the advance- ment of all social, educational and moral interests. After a useful and honorable career he can well afford to lay aside busi- ness cares and live in ease and retirement.
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ABRAHAM HUBER MOORE.
Abraham Huber Moore, who is suc- cessfully engaged in agricultural pursuits on section 25, Union township, was born on the farm where he now resides. Febru- ary 2, 1861. and is a worthy representa- tive of an old and honored family of Logan county, his parents being Raphael R. and Margaret (Huber) Moore. His father was born on an adjoining farm in the same township in 1820, and was a son of Samuel and Nancy (Makemson) Moore. The grandfather claimed Pennsylvania as his native state, his birth having occurred near Uniontown in Fayette county. There he grew to manhood, but prior to his marriage he came to Ohio with his father, Rob- ert Moore, who located on the farm where Henry Huling now lives. Robert Moore and his brothers were the founders of the family in Logan county, where they settled about 1800. Although eighty years of age Robert's mother made the journey from Pennsylvania on horseback but she died only six weeks after her arrival here. her remains being the first interred in the Moore cemetery on the banks of the creek. Six generations of the family are now sleeping there. These include our sub- ject's grandfather and great-grandfather. as well as uncles and cousins. During the residence of the family in Pennsylvania the great-grandfather and grandfather both worked at the cabinet-maker's trade but after coming to Ohio they engaged in farming, which was also the occupation of the father.
ing the early 'thirties came to Logan county, Ohio, with her parents, Abraham and Mary (Groves) Huber. the family lo- cating in Pleasant township. After their marriage they resided on the Moore home- stead for a time and then removed to the farm where our subject now lives. In partnership with two brothers the father owned between four and five hundred acres of land, and they continued to carry on farming operations together until 1881. Raphael R. Moore erected all of the build- ings upon his place, the house being built in 1883 and the barn two years later. After a useful and well spent life he died September 3. 1885. In politics he was first a Whig, but being opposed to slavery. he joined the Abolition party and later be- came a Republican. In subsequent years when that issue had been satisfactorily settled he joined the Prohibition party, being a strong temperance man and be- lieving that the most important question before the people. He was the Prohibi- tion candidate for county commissioner and state representative and always took a deep interest in public affairs, support- ing every enterprise which he believed cal- culated to advance the moral, social and material welfare of the community. Fra- ternally he was a member of the Grange.
The subject of this sketch is the second in order of birth in a family of five chil- dren but the eldest died in infancy. Mary is now the wife of John Horn, a resident of Union township. Nancy first married James Detrich. who died leaving one child, Moore, and for her second husband she married William Dachenbach, of Union township. Anna, the youngest of the family, is the wife of Frederick Stabler,
In Pleasant township, this county, Raphael R. Moore married Miss Margaret Huber, who was born in Rockingham county, Virginia. April 11, 1827, and dur- whose home is in Harrison township.
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Abraham H. Moore spent his boyhood upon his father's farm and supplemented the education acquired in the country schools by three terms' attendance at the Northwestern Ohio University at Ada. It was the intention of his father that he should finish the course there but after the father became paralyzed in 1881 he was forced to remain at home and take charge of affairs, being the only son in the family. After the father's death he in- herited a part of the farm and purchasing the interests of the other heirs, he now
On the 29th of January, 1886. in Harri- son township. Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Carr. a native of that township and a daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Douglass) Carr. By this union eight children have been born, namely: Helen. Frances. Paul. Howard, Raphael R .. Mary, Eva and Dwight How- ard. Dwight Howard was a light-hearted. ambitious little fellow with blue eyes, was accidentally killed while at play at school. He was assisting his playmate to raise a pole into a tree, but it fell back, striking Howard across the back of the head, crushing him. Raphael R., another son, died at the age of two years.
Mr. Moore is independent in politics. He cast his first presidential ballot for James 1. Garfield in 1880, and being a strong temperance man has supported the Prohibition party, being at one time the candidate of the party for county com- missioner. He is now serving his second
term as township clerk and most accept- ably discharges the duties of that office. He is one of the leading members of the Presbyterian church at DeGraff and has been ruling elder for many years.
FRANK A. POOL, M. D.
Dr. Frank A. Pool is a young man who has attained to a position of distinction as a representative of the medical fraternity owns ninety-two acres, which is under a and in a profession where advancement high state of cultivation and well im- depends solely upon individual merit. upon proved. In his farming operations he has met with well deserved success and is to- day accounted one of the substantial citi- zens of his community.
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