The historical review of Logan County, Ohio, Part 67

Author: Kennedy, Robert Patterson, 1840-1918
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1586

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In taking up the personal history of Richard Henry Ineledon Pearce Pengelly we present to our readers the life record of one who is widely and favorably known in Bellefontaine. He obtained his early education in Helston. England, at the Wesley Methodist day school, and after putting aside his text books he began farming upon his father's land. continuing in that occupation until 1889, when he

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came to America with the view of making this country his home. He had previously visited the United States, having remained for two years in this country and when he again came to the new world he located in Cincinnati, where he secured a position as commercial traveler for a cotton mann- facturing house. his connection therewith covering six years including the tivo years he was first in the United States and four years after his return. In 1891 he lo- cated in the city of Bellefontaine and two years later he purchased a farm of one hundred and fifteen acres. to which he has since added until he now owns a valuable tract of land of one hundred and twenty- nine acres. Mr. Pengelly operated his farm for two years and then. leasing his property, took up his abode in Bellefon- taine. Since that time he has been upon the road as traveling salesman for manu- facturing houses of Springfield and Cin- cinnati and is very successful in his chosen field of labor. He purchased his present home at No. 505 North Main street about two years ago and to it he has made some additions and improvements.

public schools of Cornwall and was very successful in her educational work. Our subject and his wife have one child, Wil- frid John, who was born in the county of Cornwall on the Ist of December. 1888, and is now a student in the public schools of Bellefontaine.

Mr. Pengelly belongs to the Masonic fraternity. to the Knights of Pythias lodge and to the National Union. The character of the man is indicated by his membership in the Methodist church. In politics he is a Republican and a citizen who is deeply interested in the general welfare and for this reason co-operates in many measures for the public good. . \n adopted son of America, there is, however, no more loyal citizen to her institutions and her republi- can form of government than Mr. Pen- gelly. Upon the road he wins friends wherever he goes because of his unfailing courtesy, his genial manner and his in- trinsic worth of character.

WILLIAM E. HARRIS.

On the 25th of April. 1887. Mr. Pen- gelly was united in marriage to Miss Phil- ippa Pascoe. also a native of Cornwall. England. in which place she was reared and educated. Her parents, Benjamin and Mary (Colman) Pascoe, were also natives of the merrie isle. and the father followed farming which had been the occupation of the family for generations previous. He also engaged in preaching, being one of the local ministers in Cornwall for over fifty years. His wife is still living. her home being at Newberry. Berkshire, Eng- land. For some years prior to her marriage Mrs. Pengelly engaged in teaching in the president of the institution at that time,

William E. Harris is a stockholder in and the cashier of the Citizens' Bank of DeGraff, which was established by I. S. Williams and B. F. Loofbouro in 1885. After about a year the latter withdrew and Mr. Williams continued as owner of the bank until 1889 when Mr. Harris became a stockholder and assistant cashier. In June, 1890, upon the death of Mr. Wil- liams. the bank was re-organized and the capital stock was increased from fifteen thousand to twenty thousand dollars. Dr. F. M. Galer became a stockholder and the

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with Mr. Harris as cashier, and under their control the Citizens' Bank has become a flourishing and reliable institution, doing a good general banking business and en- joying in a high degree the confidence of its many patrons and the public at large.

Mr. Harris was born in DeGraff on the 2d of May. 1861, and is a son of D. W. and Lydia (Boggs) Harris. The father was born in Licking county. Ohio, in 1818 and was there reared to manhood upon a farm, obtaining a common school education. About 1845 he went to Cham- paign county, Ohio. but remained there only a short time, removing thence to West Liberty. Logan county. He had studied dentistry at West Liberty, where he practiced until 1859 and in the mean- time he was married. It was on the 4th of July, 1855. that he was joined in wed- lock to Miss Lydia Boggs. a daughter of William Boggs, one of the honored pio- neers of Miami township and the founder of DeGraff. The Masonic lodge of De Graff was named in his honor, as were several other things of the neighborhood In Delaware. Ohio, on the 22d of Oc- tober, 1890, occurred the marriage of Mr. Harris and Miss Jessie Jones, of Radnor, Delaware county, of which place she was a native. She has a good education, being a graduate of the Delaware high school, while for a time she also pursued her studies at Ada, Ohio, and at Oberlin. For a few terms she engaged in teaching in Prospect, Ohio, and in other places. By her marriage she has, become the mother of but one child. Guy Boggs, who was born in DeGraff. June 4. 1893. for Mr. Boggs was a very prominent and highly respected citizen. In 1859 Mr. Harris purchased a farm near DeGraff and it was on that place that the birth of our subject occurred. In the year 1869 the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank was or- ganized by Messrs. Mitchel. Harris, Reynolds and Stuts and with this institu- tion the father of our subject was con- nected throughout his remaining days. As soon as one of the stockholders died he purchased the interest of the deceased until 1883. when the last one passed away and the bank was then closed. Mr. Har- ris, the subject of this review, is the vote was cast for James G. Blaine in youngest in his parents' family and his

only sister died in infancy. His brother. John B. Harris, was killed on the railroad at the age of sixteen years, so that Mr. Harris is the only one now living. The father died in 1876 and was buried under the auspices of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, to which organization he belonged. His wife survived him for a few years, passing away in 1800.

William E. Harris spent his boyhood days upon the home farm and obtained his education in the public schools of De Graff. When his school life was ended he then turned his energies to agricultural pursuits, working upon the old home place until he was twenty-eight years of age. He then became connected with the Citizens' Bank of DeGraff, with which he has since been associated. The new bank purchased the furniture of the old bank . in which his father had been a leading stockholder and to-day our subject is classed among the leading representatives of banking interests in this section of the country.

Mr. Harris is an earnest Republican, as was his father, and his first presidential 1884. He has served as township treas-

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urer and has been president of the school board and takes great pride in having good schools here and in this respect De Graff is unsurpassed by any city of the county. Recently a steam heating appara- tus has been placed in the school at a cost of twenty-eight hundred dollars. There are more pupils from the farm in DeGraff than in any other school of the county and in 1900 there was a graduating class of twenty-five; in Igor, of twenty- one; and in 1902. of nineteen. Mr. Har- ris has indeed been a warm friend of the cause of education and has taken an act- ive and helpful part in its work here. He is also progressive in other matters of citizenship and his worth in the community is widely acknowledged. Reared in the Presbyterian faith, he is one of its mem- bers, is a trustee, church treasurer and an active worker in the Sunday school. He now belongs to Boggs Lodge, No. 292, F. & A. M., in which he has filled all of the chairs and has been representative to the grand lodge. He also belongs to the chapter in Bellefontaine and the com- mandery in Sidney, and his social relations likewise connect him with the Knights of Pythias. He owns the old home farm of three hundred and seventy acres, upon which he was born, and his business career has been one of progress and prosperity.

DAVID MOURY.

More than a third of a century ago a well known educator said of Dr. Moury, "He will not undertake anything he can- not do and will do all that he undertakes." In that sentence is summed up the char-

acter and life work of him whose name in- troduces this review. Dr. Moury has been a benefactor of his race. As a teacher and physician he has labored for the welfare of his fellow men and. moreover, his earn- est Christian character has had marked in- fluence upon those with whom he has come in contact. His have been "massive deeds and great" in one sense and yet there has not been an esoteric phase in his whole career. He was surrounded by unfavor- able circumstances in his youth, but his determination, energy and honorable pur- pose enabled him to overcome those, to obtain broad knowledge and become a skilled physician and to so labor in the world that many people throughout the country acknowledge their indebtedness and their gratitude to him.

The Doctor is a native of Ohio, his birth having occurred near Dayton, on the 30th of June. 1837. His parents, Felix and Lydia (Charpie) Moury (or Maurer). emigrated to America from that portion of Switzerland known as French Suisse. French being the language spoken there. This province was a part of France until in 1815 Switzerland acquired it by "Napoleon's Waterloo." The father served as a soldier boy under Napoleon Bonaparte. He was a well educated man and spoke fluently a number of the modern languages. He married Lydia Charpie. who was born in June. 1797. The little Huguenot church in the magnificent Jura Bernois valley where she worshiped. though erected in 1633, is still standing. When fourteen years of age Dr. Moury had to start out in life on his own account. He had no money and was in poor health. but he attributes much of his success in life to the answered prayers of a sainted

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mother. Between the ages of fourteen and twenty years he was largely employed at farm labor, spending the winter months as opportunity offered in attending the district schools, while later he pursued a course in the Collegiate Institute in Urbana. Ohio. He then became a teacher and in that profession, wherever he was employed. he won the commendation of all because of his earnest and effective ef- . Among these is a cure for catarrh and the forts. Writing in 1882, Professor Am- brose Blunt, superintendent of the city schools of Goshen. Indiana. said. "Pro- fessor David Moury of Goshen is an edu- cator of large. successful and varied ex- perience. He is a man of integrity and worthy of the confidence of the public in the highest sense of the term. I have worked with him in teachers' institutes and normal schools and have always found him sound on educational topics. Pro- fessor Moury was superintendent of pub- lie instructions of Elkhart county, Indiana, for over seven years and during his ad- ministration succeeded in raising the schools to a high standard of excellence."

In the year 1857 Dr. Moury took up the study of medicine and for several years thereafter his time was divided between teaching and the study and practice of medicine. He was graduated in the Van- derbilt University of Nashville, Tennessee. and since that time his energies have been largely devoted to the alleviation of hu- man suffering. Probably no representa- tive of the medical fraternity has done more in his line for the relief of the poor than has Dr. Moury. Every call made to him for his professional aid has found ready answer and to the best of his ability he has carried relief to the sick and suffer- ing until thousands all over the country

bear grateful recognition of what he has done for them. He has ever been an earnest and discriminating student and has continually broadened his knowledge and promoted his efficiency in practice by reading. observation and investigation. His original research has led to the pro- duetion of remedial agencies which have been of the greatest benefit to mankind. process of treatment recommended by him in this matter has been used successfully in many states. The Doctor has also gained distinction as a medical teacher. He was professor of anatomy for first course students in Meharry Medical de- partment of the Central Tennessee College in the session of 1884. was professor of physiology and director of the nurses' training department and college physician in Clark University and college physician in the Gammon School of Theology. He was formerly proprietor of a sanitarium in New Brighton. Pennsylvania, which was endorsed by the faculty of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia and he is a member of the Northwestern Ohio Medical Association, a member of the Medical Association of Bellefontaine and was clinician in the Hospital of Paris, France. and London, England, in the sum- mer of 1900. In 1884 he became associat- ed with Dr. Solomon Frease in the man- agement and ownership of a sanitarium at New Brighton. Pennsylvania, near Pitts- burg. In this connection he did much im- portant work. He has testimonial letters from all parts of the country, showing how far-reaching and beneficial have been his labors. \ specialty of the institution was the electric thermal baths. That institu- tion was fitted up with the various appli-

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ances for the successful care of the siek and everything was done for their comfort as well. In 1885 Dr. Moury became col- lege physician to Clark University. Wherever he has gone he has won the re- spect of the people with whom he has been associated. not only because of his broad learning, but also owing to his Christian character and genuine worth. That his services were greatly appreciated in Clark University is shown in the following reso- lutions which were unanimously passed by the board of trustees of the university at its annual meeting May 15, 1804:

"Whereas. We learn that it is the in- tention of Dr. David Moury to retire from our service as a physician and medical in- structor in the nurse training department. therefore.

"Resolved. I. That we express our regret at the withdrawal of such an able officer, who has so faithfully, efficiently and successfully served us through the long term of nine years.

"Resolved. 2. That as a board of trus- tees we commend him to the regard of the public and of the citizens of Atlanta as a Christian gentleman well worthy of their confidence."

WV. H. CROGMAN. Secretary Clark University. BISHOP I. W. JOYCE.

President of the Board.

The superintendent of the Thayer Home of Clark University said. "I know him to be a person of superior judgment, thorough and painstaking in his investiga- tions. As a physician he has had a unique practice, touching human life in all con- ditions, and he is always a friend to his patients."

Dr. Moury was married in 1862 to Sarah Forry who has since been to him a faithful and helpful companion on life's journey. She has been his assistant in much of his benevolent and charitable work and shares with him in the high re- gard which is uniformly tendered him. They lost their only child. Winnona, who died on the 12th of October. 1892, at the age of sixteen years, one month and thir- teen days. This was a great blow to the parents and there is no one left now to carry on the work begun by the Doctor and his good wife, but the world is cer- tainly better because they have lived. For more than forty years the Doctor has been connected with the Methodist Episcopal church, doing everything in his power for its advancement and growth. He has served as superintendent of various Sun- day schools, has acted as instructor in church and Sabbath school music, has been the leader of choral and song services and has also composed some of the Sun- day school hymns. Early in life he de- veloped considerable musical talent and this element in his career has been a most helpful one in churches with which he has been identified. The Doctor has also been a student of languages and speaks not less than three fluently. Prior to the Paris Exposition of 1900 he conducted a class in French in Bellefontaine. many of whom accompanied him abroad in order to visit Paris and other European points of inter- est. While in the old world the Doctor visited a number of prominent hospitals of Paris and London and was cordially re- ceived by the professors of the medical in- situations of those cities. He found it a great pleasure to visit the land of his an- cestors and his great appreciation of nat-

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ure and its beauties found ample scope among the Alps. His general intelligence is self evident to all who meet him and broad reading. earnest thought and deep study have stored his mind with compre- hensive knowledge on many subjects, making him a man of scholarly attain- ments whose conversation is always en- riched by his broad learning as well as gift of language. He has a wide acquaint- ance in Bellefontaine and the regard in which he is uniformly held here is ex- pressed in the letter of Judge T. Mitten- berger, who was at one time probate judge of Logan county and who said: "1 have been intimately acquainted with Professor D. Moury. M. D., for more than forty years and take pleasure in saying of him that his whole life during all those years has been devoted to the uplifting of poor humanity, and can and do most cheerfully recommend him as trustworthy and true ; a fine physician, a profound scholar, an accomplished Christian gentleman, a true humanitarian and fully competent to car- ry out faithfully every enterprise in which he may engage. Indeed, no words of mine can fully convey to others his true worth as a noble, highminded citizen and Christian gentleman, which includes all that can be said of any man."

The Doctor spends the months of sun- mer in Bellefontaine and in the winter seasons resides at Atlanta, Georgia. While in the south he has done much work in behalf of the poor, especially of the col- ored race, giving of his professional skill and of his medicines to aid the sick. He is a most benevolent man and the poor and needy never appeal to him in vain. Two distinguished physicians of Atlanta. in speaking of his work in that city. said,

"It has been our privilege to have known Dr. Moury intimately for some fifteen years as a physician rather than as an educator. In the beginning of his career in this city, his environments were pe- culiar, and adverse, professionally and so- cially, but by unswerving courtesy and de- votion to the interest of his patrons, un- tiring and persistent industry, keeping on the fire line in his studies and showing the same anxiety for the relief of the poor as for the well-to-do of his patients, he in the few years built up a large and renumer- ative practice. Indeed. his work grew to such an extent owing to his skill and suc- cess amongst his patrons that he found it necessary to take in an assistant, who later he made his partner, and his popu- larity was so great that both were kept closely engaged until Dr. Monry with- drew from the partnership to devote his at- tention to office practice, which had at this time become quite important."

It would be difficult to determine in what line of life Dr. Moury's best work has been done, for he has certainly ac- complished whatever he has undertaken and has won distinction as an educator, as a physician and in other lines of activity. Had he done nothing else save what he has accomplished for the poor he would be deserving of the gratitude of his fellow men, for though his practice has been of an important and varied character and brought to him a comfortable competence, perhaps his greatest work as a physician has been done in behalf of charity. Per- meating all that he has accomplished has been a Christian spirit in close harmony with the teachings of Him, who came not to be ministered unto but to minister to his fellow men.

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CLARENCE D. KAYLOR.

Clarence D. Kaylor, who is identified with farming interests in Washington township, was born September 6. 1879. a son of John D. and Mary ( Culp) Kaylor. The paternal grandparents were Samuel and Katherine Kaylor, the former a na- tive of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ger- many. Samuel Kaylor was a farmer by occupation and became the founder of the family in Ohio, removing to this state at an early day. He had seven children, of whom Henry and Daniel both died of typhoid fever while serving in the Union Army. Susan is the widow of Thomas Rathburn, who was a farmer, and she is now living in Clark county, Ohio; Barbara Ann became the wife of George Snyder and after his death married George Det- rick, a farmer of Hardin county, Ohio; John is the father of our subject: Eliza- beth is the wife of Mat Ridley, who is a resident of Sidney, Ohio.

John Kaylor was born in Harrison township. Logan county. September 7, 1852, and when he was about a year old was taken by his parents to Washington township. where he acquired a very limit- ed education in the country school. He was, however, a good student and he ac- quired much valuable and practical knowl- edge by reading at home at nights and on rainy days when it was impossible to work in the fields. When he was seventeen years of age his father died and his sister Barbara took charge of the farm. John Kaylor working for her until he was twenty-one years of age, when he started out in life for himself. Later he purchased the interest of the other heirs in the old homestead and carried on general farm-

ing with good success until 1899. when he retired from active connection with ag- ricultural interests. Ile then removed to MeArthur township. where he erected a handsome residence, and in it he expects to spend his remaining days. He is now resting in the enjoyment of the fruits of his former toil-a respected and honored resident of the community.

John Kaylor was united in marriage to Miss Mary Culp, a daughter of David and Catherine (Mohr) Culp, natives of Logan county, and unto them have been born two children, the daughter being Ida. now the wife of Andrew Neer, a farmer of Logan county, by whom she has three children. Esta. Glady and Ezra. Mr. and Mrs. Kaylor are active members of the Progressive church, a branch of the Dun- kard church, and they have a wide ac- quaintance, while the friendship of many who know them is cordially extended to them. In his political views Mr. Kaylor is an earnest Republican and has served on the school board, while for a number of terms he has been supervisor.

Clarence D. Kaylor is indebted to the common schools for the educational priv- ileges he enjoyed. In his youth his time was given to the work of the farm, to the duties of the school room and pleas- ures of the playground, and he received practical training in the labors of the fields. On the 27th of September, 1900, he was united in marriage to Miss Ada Young, a daughter of H. D. and Catherine Young, of Logan county, and a granddaughter of Henry and Julia Young, who were born in this state. Mrs. Kaylor is an estimable lady, holding membership with the Chris- tian church. Mr. Kaylor exercises his right of franchise in support of the men

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and measures of the Republican party, but does not seek office, his attention be- ing fully occupied by his business cares in the supervision of his farming interests. He is yet a young man, but he displays ex- cellent business capacity and is meeting with prosperity as the reward of his labors.

WILLIAM W. MCBETH.

There are few native sons of Logan county who have so long resided within its borders as William W. MeBeth, who at the age of eighty-two years is now liv- ing in honorable retirement from labor in Bellefontaine. He was born May 23, 1820, a mile northwest of West Liberty and is a son of William McBeth, who was of Pennsylvania birth and of Scotch de- scent. His paternal grandfather. John MeBeth, served as a soldier of the Revolu- tionary war, valiantly aiding in the struggle for American independence, and his death occurred at the extreme old age of one hundred years and six months. The father of our subject served his country as a sol- dier of the war of 1812. He was a hatter by trade and in 1811 emigrated westward to Logan county, Ohio, where he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, pur- chasing one hundred and sixty acres of land from the government. Here he car- cied on farming until his death, which oc- curred on the 17th of March. 1844. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Margar- et Shields, was a native of Cynthiana, Ken- tucky, and died in the year 1833. They were married in Champaign county, Ohio, north of the present boundary line between Logan and Champaign counties, althoughi

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The historical review of Logan County, Ohio, Part 67

Author: Kennedy, Robert Patterson, 1840-1918 Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1586

Author: Kennedy, Robert Patterson, 1840-1918
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1586