Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 71

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
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Number of Pages: 1189

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colonel of a regiment, which was the advance guard of General William Hull's army on its march from the Scioto River to the Maumee. On this march he began the erection of Fort Findlay, named in his honor, and from which the city of Findlay derives its name. For meritorious conduct in the War of 1812 Colo- nel Findlay was afterwards promoted to the rank of brigadier-general of the state militia, in which capacity he served for a considerable period. Colonel Findlay was the member of congress from Hamilton County from 1825 to 1833. In 1834 he was the Whig and Anti- Masonic candidate for governor of Ohio, but was defeated by Robert Lucas, and died in the following year. Naturally reserved in his manner, he presented to strangers an air of austerity ; but to those who knew him he was the soul of kindness and geniality. Colonel Findlay possessed great decision of character, was just in all his dealings, and maintained through life an unsullied reputation.

JACOB H. BOGER, D. D. S., who is a lead- ing practitioner of dentistry and a prominent citizen of Findlay, Ohio, having served as postmaster, was born in Harrisburg, Penn., June 27, 1859, a son of John A. and Mary A. (Kuhnle) Boger. His parents were both of German stock, though John A. Boger, the father, was born in Pennsylvania and now re- sides in the city of Philadelphia, where he is well known as one of the local leaders of the Republican party and holds a responsible po- sition in the comptroller's office. He has been a resident of that city since about 1869. He and his wife reared a family of seven children, of whom there are now six survivors. His wife's grandfather on the maternal side, Samuel

Skeen, was a lieutenant in the Philadelphia County (Penn.) militia in the early days.

The subject of this sketch, Jacob Henry Boger, began his literary education in the schools of his native city, and afterward con- tinued it in those of Philadelphia, to which place he accompanied his parents at the age of ten years. In 1877 he began the study of den- tistry in the office of Dr. J. F. Fryer, of Potts- town, Penn., a very skilful practitioner. Un- der Dr. Fryer's direction he familiarized him- self with all the various methods of dental sci- ence, in both the operative and laboratory de- partments, after which, in order to obtain the most thorough preparation for the practice of his chosen profession, he matriculated at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, Phil- adelphia, where he was graduated in 1880 with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery and with class honors.

Beginning the practice of dentistry in Find- lay in March of the same year, he has since continued his professional labors in this city, having gained a high reputation for skilful and conscientious work. His office in the Adams Building, Main Street, is equipped with the most approved mechanical appliances made use of in his profession and he enjoys a large and select patronage.

Dr. Boger has also been quite active in pro- moting the growth and development of his adopted city, dealing extensively in real estate, which he has found a profitable source of in- come.

The Doctor is a stanch supporter of the Re- publican party and for a number of years has been quite active in county politics, having ren- dered valuable services to his party. He was formerly for seven consecutive years a member of the Board of Election Supervisors of Han-

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cock County, rendering very efficient service in cock County to Congress, and who was one of that capacity. In 1884 he was elected to the the most esteemed residents of Findlay. Dr. and Mrs. Boger are the parents of one child, Corinne. The family residence is at No. 1131 S. Main Street. office of city clerk of Findlay, which he filled capably for four years. In 1887 he assisted in the formation of the National League of Re- publican Clubs at New York City. Four years he was a delegate to the State Convention when Major William Mckinley was nominated by acclamation and he afterwards strongly sup- ported that distinguished statesman for the presidency. In 1898 he was chairman of the Congressional Committee of the Eighth Dis- trict, having previously served as a member of the Executive Committee of Ohio from Han- cock County.

Dr. Boger's exertions on behalf of his party were acknowledged by his appointment, June 22, 1898, by Pres. Mckinley, to the office of postmaster of Findlay, which met with the general approval of the citizens. He subse- quently justified the selection by the able man- ner in which he administered the affairs of the office. His administration was continued through two terms, as he was reappointed by President Roosevelt, June 27, 1902.

Dr. Boger is a prominent Free Mason, hav -~ life's stream to the great ocean of Futurity, but ing attained the thirty-second degree of the one, rather, who seizing the oars in vigorous grasp propels his stout craft firmly and swiftly towards a definite goal-the harbor of Worthy Ambitions Honorably Attained. Scottish Rite and being also a noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is past eminent com- mander of Findlay Commandery, No. 49, Knights Templar. He is also a member of the Royal Arcanum and the Knights of Pythias. His professional associations include membership in the Ohio State Dental Associa- tion, the Dentists' Protective Association, and President Hancock County Dental Society.

Dr. Boger was married, on December 6, 1882, to Miss Jennie Mungen, a daughter of Hon. William Mungen, who was the only Democratic representative ever sent from Han-

It will be seen, even from this brief sketch, that its subject is one who may well be classed among the leading and representative citizens of Hancock County-representative of Twen- tieth Century progress and initiative. Most professional men are content to attain a respect- able standing in their profession and remain simple doctors or lawyers throughout their entire individual careers, but Dr. Boger, in seeking an outlet for his superfluous energy, has demonstrated that it is possible to render high service and gather honors on more than one field of activity, and that without losing ground in any direction or neglecting any per- sonal duties. As the Doctor has hardly yet passed the meridian of life, it is but fair to assume that the future has in store for him still greater successes than those he has already achieved, for he is not one of those who can rest on their oars and carelessly drift down

ELIJAH P. JONES, formerly president of the First National Bank at Findlay, O., of which he was one of the incorporators, for many years was prominently identified with Findlay enterprises, having settled in this town after years of business success in other places. He was born at Rochester, N. Y., in the year 1820, and died in his beautiful home at Findlay, July 19, 1894, being laid to rest

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in the peaceful quiet of Maple Grove Ceme- originators. The Indians suddenly became tery.

Mr. Jones came of New England ancestry and was of Revolutionary stock. His father, Elijah Jones, was a native of Connecticut, who removed to Pennsylvania for a time and was there interested in the lumber business. Later, however, the elder Jones located at Rochester, N. Y., where he was engaged in mercantile and other lines of business activity. In 1820-the year of the birth of our subject -he removed to Lake County, Ohio, and there in all probability his busy life closed.

Elijah P. Jones was evidently a youth of quick intelligence, for he was teaching a dis- trict school when only sixteen years of age. At the age of eighteen he accepted a position as clerk in the Cleveland post office, where he re- mained for three years, after which he at- tended Norwalk Academy, completing the course. For one year thereafter he served as agent of what. was then the Sandusky and Mansfield Railroad (now a part of the Balti- more & Ohio system), and later he was agent for the Mad River & Lake Erie Line, now the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. The discovery of gold in California at this time greatly stimulated railroad con- struction, and when the Carey & Findlay Rail- road was completed, Mr. Jones leased the same for two and a half years, renewing the lease on its expiration, and operating the line for about eight years.

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In 1852, with his brother, George Jones, and E. N. Cook, he went to Salem, Oregon-a move evincing characteristic business foresight -and for four years the partners did a large and prosperous business in general merchan- dising. In the end, however, the scheme failed, but from no want of judgment in its

hostile in the west and the troops quickly gathered to subdue them, not being provided with stores, seized whatever necessary supplies they could lay hold of, this entailing a loss upon Mr. Jones and his firm of some $60,000.

Dissolving partnership in 1857, Mr. Jones returned east, and became first a broker and then a banker, conducting business in New York City and later at Findlay, to which city he came in 1859, When the First National Bank of Findlay was organized, in 1863, he became its president and subsequently contin- ued in that office until his death. He became a man of very large estate, acquiring property in various localities and ably managing his many affairs to the end of his active life. Of varied experience and possessing an enlight- ened mind, he was well qualified for the polit- ical arena, had his ambition led him in that di- rection. His vote was cast with the Republican party, after its formation. In religious faith he was a Presbyterian. His charities were many, and the results of his benevolence have done much to relieve human suffering in Find- lay to which city he was very loyal after mak- ing it his home.

Mr. Jones was married January 15, 1861, to Miss Mellie E. Johnston, a daughter of John S., and a granddaughter of William Johnston, her family being an old and prominent one of Piqua, Ohio. She was graduated from the Wesleyan Seminary at Delaware, Ohio, in 1860. Three children were born of this mar- riage, namely: Cornelia Frances, Mary Ger- trude, and George Pelton. Both daughters are now deceased, Cornelia Frances passing away in 1903 and Mary Gertrude in 1891. The lat- ter was the wife of William T. Ward. Both were ladies of high social standing in Findlay

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and both were graduates of Vassar College. Lola Cross, of Amanda Township, Hancock Mrs. Jones still occupies her beautiful home, which is situated at No. 313 So. Sandusky Street.

WILLIS M. METZLER, M. D., who has been engaged in the practice of medicine at Vanlue, Hancock County, O., for the past four- teen years and is professionally valued all through this section, was born in Liberty Township, Hancock County, September 21, 1866, and is a son of Henry H. and Caroline (Reed) Metzler.

Henry H. Metzler was born in Columbiana County, O., a son of Jacob Metzler, who was a native of Pennsylvania. In 1850, Henry H. Metzler moved to .Hancock County. His father Jacob bought a farm in Liberty Town- ship on which he resided until 1865. Henry H. Metzler died in 1892, at the age of fifty- one years. He married Caroline Reed, a na- tive of Hancock County, who died in 1899, aged fifty-seven years. To them were born the following children: Willis M., J. Reed, Harriet, Samuel, Blanche, Mary and Bessie.

Willis M. Metzler attended the township schools in boyhood and later the Findlay schools and graduated from the Findlay High School before entering upon the study of medi- cine, with a Findlay physician. He also of- ficiated for a time as a clerk in the Findlay post office. After a year of preparation he entered Starling Medical College, at Columbus, where he was graduated in 1895, and in the follow- ing year opened his office at Vanlue and enjoys a large and substantial practice. He is identi- fied with the leading medical organizations, in- cluding the Hancock County, the Ohio State and the American Medical Associations.

In 1902 Dr. Metzler was married to Miss

County. They are members of the United Brethren church. Dr. Metzler has been a very active and useful citizen. He served one term as township treasurer, one term as town treas- urer, and is village treasurer and treasurer of the school board at present. In his political views he is a Republican and fraternally he is a Mason and K. P.

DARIUS W. YATES, who is a general farmer in Jackson Township, Hancock County, Ohio, where he owns sixty-eight acres of fine land, was born in Jackson Township, May 11, 1886, and is a son of Newton and Samantha (Cooper) Yates.

Newton Yates was born in Hancock County, to which his father came at an early day, and for many years he has resided in Jackson Township and carried on farming and stock raising. His wife was also born in this county, her people being pioneers here.

Darius W. Yates was educated in the pub- lic schools of Jackson Township and had some excellent teachers. He was brought up to farm pursuits and in 1909 purchased his pres- ent property from John S. Bishop. He has a clear title and the owners can be traced back- ward from Mr. Bishop to Melvin Duke, to Adam Fulhart, to James Thomas and to Thomas Williamson, who entered the land. Although Mr. Yates is still a young man he has demonstrated his ability as a farmer and has the good health, energy and progressive ideas that will contribute much to his future success. He has three sisters, all older than himself, namely: Daisy May, who married Hally Treece and they live in Jackson Town- ship; Gale, who married James Elsea, lives at Findlay; and Edith, who married William

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Snyder, and has her home in Jackson Town- three professions, teaching, the law and medi- ship.

On September 29, 1907, Mr. Yates was mar- ried to Miss Carrie A. Bishop, who was born August 26, 1883, and is a daughter of John and Angeline (Woodruff) Bishop. The father of Mrs. Yates died January 23, 1909, in Eagle Township, but the mother still resides on the homestead there. Mrs. Yates was one of a family of three children: Charles, who died at the age of two years; Sadie, who married Henry Hartman of Eagle Township; and Car- rie A., who is Mrs. Yates. Mr. Yates belongs to the Republican party.

JOSEPH R. McLEOD, M. D.,* who has been successfully engaged in general practice at Findlay, Ohio, for a period covering twenty useful years, was born in 1833, in Delaware County, Ohio, and is a son of John and a grandson of Capt. John McLeod.

The grandfather of Dr. McLeod was of Scotch parentage but his birth took place in England, in 1780. He came to America and settled in the city of Philadelphia, and during the War of 1812, he served as an officer, thereby gaining his military title. His home remained in Philadelphia and there his son, John McLeod, was born in 1809. Prior to the birth of his son, Joseph R., the second John McLeod settled in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1865 removing to Missouri, where he died in 1898.

The parents of Dr. McLeod moved from Delaware to Hancock County, in his infancy, and there he completed his earlier school at- tendance, later enjoying some advantages at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. That he was a youth of more than ordinary mental equipment is proved by his success in

cine. When a boy of seventeen years, manag- ing his first school, he began to read medicine and also to study the principles of law, and in 1863 he was admitted to the bar, after grad- uating from the law department of the Cin- cinnati College. It was with the intention of making law his life profession that he then settled at Findlay and opened an office. In the following year he enlisted for service in the Civil War, becoming a corporal in Company I, 16Ist O. Vol. Inf., and serving four months. After his honorable discharge he went to Mis- souri, where his parents had located, and en- gaged in the practice of law at Shelbyville, un- til 1876, when failing health made him turn his attention to another professional field. In 1877 he was graduated in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Keokuk, Iowa, and settled first at Mt. Cory, in Hancock County, Ohio. He remained in active practice there for three years and later practiced at Benton Ridge for eight more years, coming then to Findlay, where his skill and medical knowledge have been abundantly recognized. In every section in which Dr. McLeod made his home he has impressed his personality upon the people. During six years of his residence at Shelbyville, Missouri, he filled the office of presiding judge of the county court and had many other substantial proofs of the appreciation of his fellow citizens.

In 1862 Dr. McLeod was married to Miss Mary E. Howard, who is a member of an old Findlay family, and three of their children survive: Charles D., who is engaged in the practice of medicine at Chatfield, Ohio; Samuel Howard, who is a resident of Findlay; and Bessie B., who married William P. Wisely. Dr. McLeod's place of residence is at No. 1112

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North Main Street, Findlay. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow.

RALPH W. MOORE, cashier of the Buck- eye National Bank, of Findlay, and a promi- nent and successful business man of that city, was born in Big Lick Township, Hancock County, Ohio, May 12, 1863, on the farm then owned by his father, Ross W. Moore, in Sec- tion 17, where the old log cabin is still stand- ing. Mr. Moore spent his early days with his father, mother and brother on the farm until he began teaching school in his home district, where he taught seven terms in succession. While thus engaged at home during the win- ters he served as deputy county auditor under W. T. Platt during the summer time and after- wards under Auditor C. B. Metcalf, serving nearly eleven years in this office. At tax pay- ing time he assisted in the county treasurer's office at times. In the spring of 1897 Wilson J. Edwards resigned his position as assistant cashier of the Farmers National Bank of Find- lay, Ohio, and Mr. Moore was elected to fill the vacancy, which position he filled until the resignation of Mr. J. G. Hull as cashier, when he was elected to fill this new vacancy, holding the position until the reorganization of the bank, January 28, 1904. The old Farmers National Bank was then merged into the Buck- eye National Bank and Mr. Moore elected its cashier and is still filling this position. Besides being interested in the banking business, he is a director and stockholder in the Buckeye Traction Ditcher Company, the Buckeye Ice & Coal Company and the Buckeye Hardware Company of Findlay, Ohio; The Buckeye Land & Development Company of Ft. Collins, Colo- rado, and the Roanoke Land & Development Company of Roanoke, Louisiana.

Mr. Moore is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church known as Webster Chapel in Big Lick Township, having united with it in early manhood and retaining his membership there. On Christmas Day, 1893, he was united in marriage with Aura M. Ulsh, one of the pub- lic school teachers of Findlay at that time, and formerly a resident of Mr. Moore's home town- ship. From this union five children have been born: Ralph W. Moore, Jr., Ethel L. Moore, Helen G. Moore, one that died in infancy, and Alice Loreen Moore. Mr. Moore's mother re- sides with him at the present time in their new home on South Main Street, where he is always glad to meet his neighbors and friends.

JOHN A. NUSSER,* a much esteemed general farmer and breeder of fancy poultry, is a member of the Hancock County Fair Board, and resides on a farm of eighty acres located about one and three-quarter miles east of Van Buren, Ohio. He was born November 14, 1873, on a farm in Allen Township, Han- cock County, Ohio, and is a son of John and Mary (Taylor) Nusser. The family is of Ger- man extraction, the paternal grandfather hav- ing been a native of that country. The father of our subject was born in Findlay, Ohio, where he was reared and still lives, and the mother, who died in 1893, was a daughter of Charles Taylor, and was born and reared in Allen Township, Hancock County, Ohio.

John A. Nusser was reared on what is now known as the H. L. Taylor farm, which ad- joins our subject's farm on the north, and dur- ing his boyhood worked for a time in a store at Van Buren, Ohio. He has always followed farming and has resided on his present farm since 1903. Here he carries on general farm- ing. making a specialty of raising Hereford

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cattle, and is a breeder of about thirty kinds of fancy poultry. His poultry has won many prizes at various fairs and poultry exhibits of this locality, and Mr. Nusser has been a member of the Hancock County Fair board since 1905. He was elected a member of the Allen Township school board in 1909.

Mr. Nusser was married to Blanche Swab, who is a daughter of Samuel Swab, a promi- nent farmer of Cass Township, Hancock County, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Dorothy E. Nusser.

H. J. POWELL, M. D.,* who is success- fully engaged in the practice of medicine at Rawson, Ohio, is a native of Hancock County, born in Eagle Township, August 9, 1870. His parents are Irvin and Lucinda (Evans) Pow- ell, the former of whom was born in Fairfield County and the latter in Hancock County. They reside on their farm in Eagle Township.

H. J. Powell was reared in Eagle Town- ship and attended school there in boyhood and later was a student in the Findlay schools. He afterwards engaged in teaching, for fifteen years following this profession at North Balti- more, in Wood County, and during nine years being principal of the public schools there. For his educational work he was well prepared, hav- ing previously graduated from Angola Col- lege, at Angola, Ind., and in 1904, from Find- lay College, at Findlay, Ohio. From North Baltimore he entered the Western Reserve Col- lege and was graduated with his medical de- gree in 1908 and took a post-graduate course and received the degree of A. M., in 1909. He located for practice at Rawson, in 1908, and has identified himself thoroughly with the in- terests of this town. He is serving as a mem-

ber of the city council, having been elected on the Democratic ticket.

In 1894 Dr. Powell was married to Miss Lena Roberts, a daughter of Henry Roberts, of North Baltimore, Ohio, and they have three children : Rose, Doris and Maxine. Dr. Pow- ell and family are members of the United Brethren Church at Rawson. For twenty years he has been a member of the order of Maccabees and is medical examiner for the Rawson lodge, and since 1908 he has also been identified with the Odd Fellows.

ANDREW G. FULLER, a leading lawyer of the Hancock County bar, and a prominent citizen of Findlay, Ohio, was born in Barry County, Michigan, March 5, 1858. His par- ents were Geo. S. and Mercy A. (Hill) Ful- ler. Both were pioneers in Michigan when ox-teams were the generally recognized mode of travel. His father was of New England lineage, but a native of New York; his mother of English and German descent and Canadian birth. During Mr. Fuller's infancy his par- ents moved to Allegan, Michigan, and later, when he was about six years old, to Kalama- zoo, Michigan, at which place he was reared through childhood and youth.

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Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 71

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell Publication date: 1910 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1189

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1189