Sandusky County, Ohio - Chapter 25: Miscellanea, 1909 (part 11 of 18)

Mr. Rogers is of English-German extraction and of Revolutionary stock. Two of his great-grandfathers served under Gen. Washington in the War of Independence. The Rogers family has been noted for its longevity. It has produced some members who have particularly distinguished themselves, and many others whose quiet useful lives have, perhaps, contributed more to the well being of their fellow-citizens. One of the former class, admired and honored all over the world, is Randolph Rogers, the famous sculptor.

Joel Rogers, father of B. F., was born near Balltown Springs, New York. In 1830 he came to Ohio and settled in Huron County, east of Norwalk, where he engaged in farming, and also worked at his trade of carpentering and joining. He died in 1854, when aged sixty-one years. He married Betsey Ells, who was born in Connecticut, in 1798, and died in Ohio, July 4, 1888.

B. F. Rogers was educated in the public schools of Hartland, Huron County, and when seventeen years of age began to learn the shoemaking trade, remaining with his uncle, A. G. Ells, for nine years, at Fitchville. He then conducted a business of his own for one year at the village of Wakeman and then returned to his uncle for one more year. Shortly afterward he turned his attention to the study of drugs and medicine and in this connection worked in a drug store at Clarksfield, for a year, later continued his studies in Michigan and still later in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Rogers did not pursue his professional studies any farther, but returned to Clarksfield, during the Civil War resided at Norwalk, Ohio, and then removed to New London, Huron County. There he continued until 1869, when he settled permanently at Clyde, where he has carried on the manufacture and sale of shoes ever since, his being one of the pioneer shoe houses of the place. His business career has been a long and prosperous one and during these many years he has been one of Clyde's leading and solid citizens.

Mr. Rogers was married (first) at Clarksfield, to Miss Almira Buck, of Norwalk, Ohio, who died in 1876, leaving the following children: Emma, who married Alfred Barber; Belle, who married E. M. Keller; Hattie. who is the widow of I. Boone: and Grant C., deceased. Mr. Rogers was married (second) September 1, 1877, to Miss Belinda Malcom of Ruggles, Ashland County, Ohio, a lady of Scotch parentage.

In politics, Mr. Rogers is a zealous Republican and has long exerted influence, although unwilling to accept many political favors. He has been a justice of the peace for twenty years and can make the proud claim that none of his decisions has been reversed by the upper courts. He is still serving in that office and has also been a notary public for fifteen years. He is a member and liberal supporter of the Universalist Church. Fraternally, Mr. Rogers is both a Mason and an Odd Fellow, having united with the former order fifty-three years ago and with the latter thirty-eight vears ago. He is one of the oldest members in both organizations.

WILLIAM MYERS, one of Scott Township's representative men, lives in his comfortable residence standing on his farm of ninetysix acres, situated in Section 19, Scott Township, Sandusky County, Ohio. In this town-

The parents of Mr. Myers came to America from Germany, early in their married life, and after they reached Akron, Ohio, the father was eneaged as foreman in a brickyard for one year. He moved then to Wood County, where he resided for a year and then went on the Stahl farm, in Scott Township, Sandusky County, where his death occurred in October, 1870. His widow survived until March, 1go1, and they were both buried in Trinity Cemetery.

William Myers spent his school days in Scott and Jackson Townships, Sandusky County, and helped on the home farm until he was fifteen years old, after which he worked in a sawmill and on neighboring farms for about eight years. After his marriage, in 1884, he settled on the Jake Stahl farm of forty acres, in Jackson Township, which he rented for two years, then moved to the Charles Stahl farm of 180 acres, in Scott Township, and one and one-half years later purchased his present land and has occupied it ever since. He has cleared all except sixteen acres, still in wood and pasture, and has all but two acres well drained. His substantial buildings he erected and all the improving has been done by himself, including the setting out of his fine orchard. Mr. Myers has seven oil wells on his farm.

On September 18, 1884, Mr. Myers was married to Miss Ada Harley, a daughter of David and Lavina (Rinebold) Harley, and they have had six children born to them, namely: Alma, Margie, Marion, deceased; Raymond, and Edward and Edna, twins, now deceased. Mr. Myers and family are members of the United Brethren Church, in which he is a class leader and superintendent of the Sunday School. In politics he is a Republican and he was elected a trustee of the township in 1908 to serve until I9I0.

JAMES FULLER, one of the largest land owners of Townsend Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, has resided here all his life and is classed among the most progressive and public-spirited citizens. He was born on the farm

William Fuller was born in the town of Holly, Franklin County, Massachusetts, in 1799, and was a son of Jason and Filinda Fuller. In 1834, he moved west to Sandusky County, Ohio, and it is said drove the first team of oxen over the main public road in the southern part of Townsend Township. He took up the tract of land on which his son, James, resides, and there lived until his death on February 7, 1884. He was married to Miss Emma Levisee, a daughter of Aaron Levisee, who came to Sandusky County from New York State. Her death occurred January 14, 1902, at the age of eighty-four years.

James Fuller spent his boyhood on the home farm and received his educational training in the public schools of Townsend Township. During the Civil War he was in the one-hundred-day service, enlisting in 1864 as a member of Company H, 169th O. Vol. Inf. At the close of his enlistment, he returned to the home place, where he has since lived. He has made a success of farming 500 acres.

On January 7, 1873, Mr. Fuller was married to Betsy Richards, who was born in England and was about six years old when she accompanied her parents, Joseph and Matilda (Whitehead) Richards, to the United States. One son, Albon Bernard, was the issue of their union, the date of his birth being September 4, 1880. He was married to Sadie, daughter of John F. Meek, of Townsend Township, and they reside on the farm settled by his grandfather. They have two children: Bessie Mildred, born June 9, 1905; and James Merritt, born September 21, 1907. The wife of our subject passed away March 15, 1908. He is a member of the Universalist Church. He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

E. J. CARTER, president of the Simple Account Sales Book Company, a large business enterprise which has been founded and fostered at Fremont, Ohio, was born at Hudson, Summit County, Ohio, October 21, 1865. and is a son of Noah A.and Jennie R.( Herrick) Carter.

The father of Mr. Carter was a contractor and builder. In 1870 he moved with his family to Akron, Ohio, where he continued his work until his death, in 1896. His widow still survives.

E. J. Carter was reared at Akron and after completing the common school course, attended the High School for two years, then went to work for M. H. Crumrine as a monument-maker. In 1884 he entered the office of the Diamond Match Company and worked there until 1887, when he turned his attention to insurance and continued in that business until he came to Fremont, in 1889. Mr. Carter was the organizer of the business which was started under the name of the Single Account File Company and was made the first president, in 1892. The same name was retained until 1906," when the present one was assumed, Mr. Carter still continuing as president. A large force is employed, about seventy-five people, including men, boys and girls. The pay roll is no insignificant item and as it adds to the prosperity of Fremont people has its effect in increasing the comfort and welfare of home workers. He is also a director of the Yaryan Company of Fremont.

Mr. Carter was married to Miss Laura V. Stierwalt, a daughter of Jonathan Stierwalt, a member of an old county family, and they have three children: Russell J., Kathleen and Adeline. Mr. and Mrs. Carter attend the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he holds the offices of steward and treasurer. During the fall of 1908 when the temperance question was one of such moment in many State and city elections, Mr. Carter was chairman of the Sandusky Local Option Committee and it was largely due to his influence, together with other prominent citizens, that the county went "dry."

GEORGE ZIMMERMAN. who has now retired from active farm life, resides in Section 7. Scott Township, Sandusky County, owning 208 acres in Sections 7 and 18, comprising cultivated and under-drained land. timber tracts and thirty-two oil wells. Mr. Zimmerman was born in this township. March 29. 1846, and is a son of Jacob and Magdalena (Bowe) Zimmerman.

Jacob Zimmerman was born in Germany and was seventeen years old when he came to America and was at first employed on a farm in the State of New York, where he remained for some time after he was married. When he came to Scott Township, Sandusky County, he bought eighty acres of land, to which he added 120 acres and of this he cleared 140 acres. He then returned to New York and lived there for a few years and followed farming, but later came back to his farm in Scott Township and resided here until his death, which occurred in April, 1881. His burial was in Minkler Cemetery. He married Magdalena Bowe, a daughter of George Bowe. She survived until December, 1893. They were worthy members of the Evangelical Church. Jacob Zimmerman voted with the Republican party, but he was never willing to serve in office.

George Zimmerman obtained his education in the district schools of Scott Township and grew to manhood on his father's farm. He is a member of the lodge of Odd Fellows at that place and there has many friends of years' acquaintance. Mr. Zimmerman has two sets of buildings on his property and erected one of the dwellings and has repaired all the structures. He alse set out the orchard, which in season. gives a bountiful yield.

In September. 1873, Mr. Zimmerman was married to Miss Barbara Moser, who died in March, 1877. leaving two children: Minnie. who married W. H. Keller; and Minerva, who married James Horner and has three children, Bernice, Nellie and Clarence. Mr. Zimmerman was married (second) to Miss Sarah Jane Baird, a daughter of Shelman Baird, and the following children were born to them: Mertie, who married John Immel; May, who married Charles Fritz, has two children, Naomi and Laura: Blanche and George S., both of whom are at home; and Christie and

TAMES F. STARK. proprietor of a firstclass erocery store at Clyde, Ohio, has been engaged in this line of trade ever since he started out in business. He was born at

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His paternal grandfather, James B. Stark, was a native of Allegheny County, New York, and came to Sandusky County with his parents about 1840, settling on a farm at what is now Cooperstown. James B. Stark and his three brothers, Lorenzo D.. John and Albert, were coopers by trade and conducted a shop for a number of years, and the village derived its name from this shop. James B. moved to Clyde about 1852 and conducted a cooper shop for a number of years at this point. He and his brother, Lorenzo D., went into the grocery business and later into the live stock business. He died in March, 1905.

Emmett E. Stark, son of James B. and father of the subject of this sketch, was reared to maturity in Clyde and began business life as a clerk in the grocery store. He was later engaged in the stave and heading business with his father, they having a factory in Clyde. Subsequently he operated the Clyde grist-mill, but since 1892 has been engaged in the fire, life and accident insurance business, having an office at the corner oi Church and Forrest Streets: "fe was married in 1869 to Louisa Copsey of Clyde, Ohio, whose parents were Peter and Sarah Copsey, both natives of England. Of this union there have been two children - James E., whose name appears at the head of this article, and a daughter, Blanche, who died at the age of six years.

James E, Stark attended the Clyde schools and then entered the emplov of the grocery firm of Hughes & Mann. Several years later he worked for Mr. Curtis, another grocer, leaving him to accept a position in the offices of the freight department of the Big Four and Lake Shore Railroads, but he remained for only a short time. He then bought out his former employer, Mr. Curtis, in 1900, and with F. R. Wilson as a partner, conducted the business for two vears under the firm name of Stark & Wilson. At the end of that time he bought Mr. \Vilson's interest and has contmued alone, keeping the same business site, on the cor- ner of Main and Duane Streets. Mr. Stark's long experience in the line has made him well qualified to conduct it successfully and profitably.

On January 5, 1898, Mr. Stark was married to Miss Luella B. Carr, a daughter of Leonard Carr, of Clyde, Ohio. Their pleasant home is situated on East Forest Street. Mr. Stark is a Republican in his political views, but he is an active politician only so far as the interests of good government demand. Fraternally, he is identified with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias.

COLONEL WEBB C. HAYES, second son of Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes, is the present owner of Spiegel Grove, which has been his residence and the summer home of the other members of the Hayes family, since the termination of his military service. He has not only achieved a high degree of success as a manufacturer at Cleveland, but has attained distinction as a soldier and a local historian. He has the honor of being the only soldier who served in battle in each of the four campaigns Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines and China. He was wounded and had his horse killed in the assault on San Juan at Santiago and was awarded a Congressional medal of honor for distinguished gallantry at Vigan, P. I.

Colonel Hayes was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 20, 1856, and for a few months attended school at Chillicothe and Cincinnati, before being sent with his older brother, Birchard, to live with his uncle, Sardis Birchard, at Spiegel Grove in 1866, where he attended the public schools until he entered Cornell University. He was personal secretary to his father, while the latter was serving his third term as Governor of Ohio, during his campaign for the presidency, and during his administration as President of the United States. In 1881 Colonel Hayes moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he began his business career as treasurer of the Whipple Manufacturing Company. Six years later, in association with Myron T. Herrick, James Parmelee and W. H. Lawrence, he organized the National Carbon Company, of which he is still vice president, a concern of great magnitude, which operates one of its branches at Fremont. While a small boy, he developed a fondness for the military, hunting, and an out-door life, and his patron saint from childhood, until the latter's death in 1890, was Major General George Crook, U. S. A., the foremost hunter and Indian fighter of the United States Army, who had caused him, while a child, to be uniformed as the junior second lieutenant of his father's regiment during the last year of the Civil War, and later taught him to hunt the big game of the Rocky Mountains; grizzlies, elk, and Rocky Mountain sheep, in his annual vacations from business during the last thirteen years of the general's life. Colonel Hayes always took an active interest in military affairs, and served as an active or veteran member of the First Cleveland Troop, later Troop A, Ohio National Guard, for seventeen years prior to the war with Spain. He served with Troop A, as the personal escort of all of the presidents of the United States from Hayes to Taft, and at the funeral obsequies of the three Ohio presidents, Hayes, Garfield, and McKinley. He was active in securing the acceptance of a regiment of voluntary cavalry, and the expansion of Troop A into the First Ohio Cayalry, for the War with Spain. This regiment had five graduates of the United States Military Academy among its officers, and every member of Troop A of Ohio became a commissioned or non-commissioned officer of the First Ohio Cavalry, in the war with Spain. Colonel Hayes was enrolled April 26, 18098, and commissioned major of the First Ohio Cavalry, and mustered into the United States service with his regiment at Columbus, May 9g, 1898. He was immediately ordered to report to Major General W. R. Shafter to accompany the First Expedition against Havana early in May, and on the change in plans, rejoined his regiment at Chickamauga Park, where he remained until he embarked with the Fifth Army Corps at Port Tampa, Florida, on June 6th for Santiago de Cuba. He reported to Brigadier General S. B. M. Young, commanding the Second Cavalry Brigade, to which the First Ohio Cavalry had been ordered assigned when equipped and was at- tached to the brigade staff when the Transport "Leona" No. 21 sailed before the arrival of his regiment. He served through the campaigns of Santiago de Cuba, and for the invasion of Porto Rico, participating in the first landing at Daiquiri, Cuba, June 22, the first engagement at Las Guasimas, June 24, the assault on San Juan July Ist, and the siege of Santiago de Cuba, terminating in the surren. der of July 17th. He was wounded through the muscles of the back, with contusion of the spine, by a mauser bullet, which killed his horse, at the crossing of the San Juan River, on the morning of July Ist, but participated in the assault on San Juan Hill later in the day, and served until July 8th as acting adjutant general, acting brigade commissary, and acting brigade quartermaster of the Second Cavalry Brigade, vice Captains Mills and Henry, wounded, and Lieutenant Shipp, killed, in the assault, by order of Colonel Leonard Wood, acting brigade commander. On the cessation of hostilities, July 14th, he was detached from the Second Cavalry Brigade, on his own application, and ordered to rejoin his regiment at Tampa to accompany it to Porto Rico, and on July 15th boarded the transport "Hudson," with other wounded, but remained in Santiago Harbor until the 19th. Sailed from Guantanamo Bay, on the Lampassas in Major General Miles' Expedition for Porto Rico and participated in the engagement at the First Landing at Guanica, Porto Rico, July 25th; temporarily attached to General Garretson's staff, and served with his brigade in the engagement on the Yauco Road July 26th. While scouting on July 27th he received the surrender of the town of Yauco, and was placed in command of an expedition to Talaboa, by General Guy V. Henry, commanding Provisional Division, en route to Ponce. Ordered to report to Major General Brooks at Arroyo, August 9th, and attached to his staff, and served in the advance against the Spanish forceson August 13th, which was stopped by the news of the signing of the Peace Protocol. He sailed August 20th from Ponce for New York and rejoined his regiment in camp at Huntsville, Ala., September 13th, left Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Ala., in command of the Cleveland Squadron, Troops A,

On the breaking out of the insurrection in the Philippines he was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-first U. S. Infantry, recruited in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee and organized at Fort Thomas, Ky., in July, 1899, by Colonel James S. Pettit of Ohio (Captain First U. S. Infantry) who with the remaining field officers were graduates of the Military Academy. This regiment was the first to reach San Francisco en route to the Philippines, but on the eve of sailing on the transport "Grant," an epidemic of small pox broke out and the entire regiment was transferred to the Small Pox Detention Camp on Angel Island, from which, six weeks later, on October 25, 1899, Ligget's Battalion Companies I, K, L and M, the "small pox battalion,' with a detachment of hospital corps men, all under command of Lieutenant Colonel Hayes, sailed on the U. S. Army transport, '""Manauense," for Honolulu and Manila, to be followed by Colonel Pettit with headquarters band, and the remaining companies of the regiment on the Pacific Mail Steamship '"'City of Peking." It later transpired that the Manauense, a British ship, whose last cargo, curiously enough, had been saltpetre, had been thrice condemned and refused for transport purposes at Seattle, but had been brought to San Francisco freshly painted and, in the great scarcity of merchant ships, owing to the British war in South Africa, had been accepted as a transport. Her boilers were patched up and many additional lights and electric fans added to the already overloaded electric plant. A new refrigerating plant and a water distilling plant were hurriedly installed just before sailing, but the water produced was too salty for use and the true condition of the ship became so apparent before Honolulu was reached, that many of the crew deserted at that point. The trip from Honolulu to Manila was a succession of horrors.

Small pox was again reported by the surgeons from the sick bay, the electric plant broke down, cutting off the lights and the electric fans in the quarters of the men and compelling them to sleep on the deck during the

The morphine-eating chief engineer opened a sea valve which could not be completely closed, shipping thirty tons of water, which flocded the fre room, putting out the fires, and causing the boilers to leak, clogging the pumps with coal dust, so that all the water had to be bailed out with pails by the soldiers, over one hundred of whom were on duty continually for twelve days bailing until the ship reached Manila. The distilling plant collapsed, cutting off the water supply and necessitating the use of salt sea water in preparing coffee. The ice plant failed, causing the loss of all fresh meats and vegetables, which had to be thrown overboard. The coal in the starboard bunker caught fire and had to be removed after the fire was drowned out and then after the soldiers had repaired or plugged the leaking boiler tubes, and gotten up steam by feeding coal to the fires by hand, the ship was struck by a typhoon and with no one on deck save the soldiers forming the bailing crew, who were securely lashed, she was driven a derelict without steam before the storm for three days until picked up by her consort and slowly made her

1899. The regiment was ordered to the Southern Islands and was the first permanent American garrison on the Islands of Mindanao and Isabella de Basiland, establishing regimental headquarters at Zamboanga early in December, 1899. Pending an investigation of the conduct of the engineers of the Manauense, Colonel Hayes was ordered to report to his old commander, General Young, then on an expedition through Northern Luzon, and sailed on the hospital ship "Relief," and the war ships "Wheeling" and "Princeton." arriving off the port of Vigan late in the afternoon of December 4th, 1899.

On being landed on the beach he found through a Spanish interpreter that the American garrison of eighty-three men with 150 sick and wounded, had been surrounded by 800 F'ilipino insurgents, who had them cooped up in the monastery buildings on the Plaza at Vigan. It being too near dark to land the sailors and marines that night, Colonel Hayes seized a Filipino pony and forced.its owner by the use of his revolver to accompany him through the Filipinos stationed along the trail, and in the darkness succeeded in reaching the garrison. General Young, with his cavalry, and Captain McCalla, U. S. N., with his sailors and marines, arrived at Vigan December 5th, in time to drive off the insurgents and relieve the garrison. Colonel Hayes was subsequently awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry at Vigan and accompanied General Young to his northern campaign. On being relieved from duty in Northern Luzon he reported at the regimental headquarters at Zamboanga, December 31, 1899, and served with detachments of his regiments at Parang-Parang, Pollok, Cotta-Batti, and Davao, and as senior officer of a joint army, navy and civil government expedition, at a conference with the Sultan of Sulu, the spiritual head of the savage Moro tribes of Mindanao and Jolo.

He returned to America via the Suez Canal on leave of absence just at the outbreak of the Boxer insurrection in China and, resigning, accompanied the American Relief Expedition to Peking, being appointed a volunteer aid on the staff of Major General Adna R. Chaffee, commanding. He participated in cavalry raids from Peking and on the disbandment of the China Relief Expedition, was relieved from duty and returned to America with the remains of Colonel E. H. Liscomb, Ninth Infantry.

On the outbreak of the war between Russia and Japan, with whose soldiers he had served in the Relief of Peking, he again visited the Orient and accompanied General Kuroki's Japanese army on its advance to the Yalu; and while en route to Chefoo from Korea was captured by Russian torpedo boats and taken a prisoner into Port Arthur, but released after a short detention and proceeded to Peking and then visited the Russian army near Mukden. On his return he witnessed one of Admiral YTogo's bombardments of Port .\rthur, the blowing up of Dalny by the Russians, and the landing of the Japanese army which effected the capture of Port Arthur.

to the unmarked battlefields of American soldiers in Cuba and China and securing Congressional aid, he, as president of the China Battlefield Commission, and secretary of the Santiago Battlefield Commission, has been instrumental in marking these battlefields, this necessitating numerous trips to each of them. He has taken an active interest in the local historical affairs pertaining both to his county and State - and secured the marking of historical sites and the reburial of Major Croghan's remains on Fort Stephenson. He has recently presented to the State nearly one-half of Spiegel Grove, including that portion through which runs for almost half a mile, the old French and Indian Trail of 1755. later known as the Harrison Military Trail of 1812, for a State park, in charge of the Ohio State Historical and Archaelogical Society, of which he is a life member. He is a trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland, and has recently been appointed by Governor Judson Harmon a member of the Perry Centennial Commission of 1913. He is a member of numerous patriotic societies by inheritance and is an active member by reason of his own military service of the campaign societies known as "'The Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba," "The Society of the Army for the Invasion of Porto Rico," '""The Military Order of the Caraboa," "The Military Order of Moro Wars," "The Military Order of the Dragon,' and "The Medal of Honor Legion." He is a member of the Union Club of Cleveland and of the Army and Navy Clubs of Washington, of New York and of Manila.

ISAAC A. EFISENHOUR, 'one of Sandusky Township's iespected and highly esteemed residents, has lived on his present well cultivated farm of seventy-four acres, situated in Section 7. for more than a half century, and his estimable wife has lived here all her life. Mr. Eisenhour was born in Stark County, Ohio. July 1, 1836, and is a son of Thomas and Jane (Weston) Eisenhour.

The father of Mr. Fisenhour was born in Pennsylvania and his wife came from England. Thev lived in Stark County until their son. Isane .\.. was four months old, and then re-

Isaac A. Eisenhour was left fatherless when eleven years of age and thus was deprived of a great deal that makes boyhood an easy and contented period of life. By the time he was fourteen years of age he was practically thrown upon his own resources. He found employment on farms in Sandusky Township, Sandusky County, and has made his home here ever since. In April, 1857, he was married to Miss Sarah Lay, who was born on the present home farm, July 11, 1837. Her par-. ents were John and Salome (Bowman) Lay, who came to Sandusky Township in early days. They redeemed all this land from its wild state and they became very well known people in this section, living long and useful lives. To Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhour have been born three children, namely: William A., who is now deceased; Mary A., who is the wife of Harmon Moellman, of Fremont; and Lawrence O., who resides in Sandusky Township. He married Mary E. Rafferty. a daughter of Felix Rafferty, who now resides on Franklin Street, Fremont. Lawrence O. Eisenhour and wife have one son, Clifford A.

MARION JONES, a representative business man of Vickery, where he has been engaged in the hay and grain business for fifteen years, owns a fine farm of 126 acres, which is situated in Riley Township, on which he resided until the fall of 1899. Mr. Tones was born in Riley Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, in 1858, and is a son of Rev. William and Rosanni (Dennis) Jones.

Rev. William Jones was of Scotch descent and was one of the best known early ministers of the United Brethren Church in Northern Ohio. In 1835 he came to Wyandot County, taking up the duties of a missionary to the Indians, and while residing there for a few years, lived on the Indian reservation. He then moved to San- dusky County and in the then prevailing wilderness of Riley Township, erected a log cabin. From this humble home he journeyed forth, traveling through the unbroken country for miles on horseback, carrying his words of cheer and comfort to the isolated settlers and performing the pious duties of his position. He died in the midst of his usefulness, at the age of sixtytwo years. He married Rosanna Dennis, who was born in Pennsylvania, and she survived him many years, dying in 1901, at the age of eighty-two years. They had ten children born to them, nine sons and one daughter, namely: John W., who is now deceased, was a soldier in the Civil War; James, residing at Port Clinton, served in the Civil War; Charles, residing in Pemberville, Wood County, Ohio, served in the Civil War, and was a prisoner at Andersonville; Henry, residing at Clyde, enlisted in the Civil War at the age of sixteen years and was with Sherman's army in the march to the sea; Edward, who resides in Riley Township; Nelson, who was accidentally killed at Martin, near Genoa; Louis, who resides in Riley Township; Marion; Benton, who is now deceased; and Maria, who is deceased, was formerly the wife of Joseph Pearson, of Riley Township.

Marion Jones grew to manhood on the homestead in Riley Township and prior to 1899, when he purchased property at Vickery, continued agricultural pursuits in that section. He is a member of the Vickery Grain Company, at Vickery, being in partnership with J. J. Pearson and William Wolf. They do a very large business in grain, feed, fuel and other commodities.

In 1879, Mr. Jones was married to Miss Mary A. Smith, a daughter of Wallace Smith, of Townsend Township, and they have two children: Alma, who is the wife of Ralph May, of Townsend Township; and Della, who is the wife of John Wright of Fremont. Mr. Jones and family attend the United Brethren Church at Vickery. In politics he is a Republican. He is identified with the fraternal order of Modern Woodmen of the World, at Vickery.

GEORGE D. EVANS, a retired farmer and highly respected citizen of Scott Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, residing on Section 5, in which he owns eighty-three acres of the old homestead farm, was born May 9, 1834, in Bristol County, Massachusetts. His parents were James and Hannah (Dean) Evans.

James Evans was born, reared and married in Massachusetts. From there he came to Sandusky County, Ohio, his family consisting of wife, six sons and one daughter. He took up 160 acres of Government land in Section 5, Scott Township, and before his death, in 1864, had cleared sixty acres of it. He was a man of intelligence and integrity and was active in the early civilizing movements in this section. He identified himself with the Republican party after its formation, but never was willing to accept political office. His widow survived until 1897. They were worthy members of the Presbyterian Church and both were interred at Sand Hill Cemetery.

George D. Evans went to school through boyhood and then became a valuable assistant on the home farm. After He married he located on eighty acres of the homestead and has resided here ever since. He has excellent buildings and a fine orchard and also has a. good income from twelve oil wells on his place. Mr. Evans has always been a loyal, law-abiding citizen and testified to his patriotism in the early part of the Civil War, when he enlisted on August 9, 1862, in Company A, 111th O. Vol. Inf., in which he served faithfully for three years. He was honorably discharged in June, 1865. He went through the campaign in Tennessee, and participated in a number of the hardest fought engagements of the war. He Was many times in great danger, but fortunately escaped both wounds and capture.

Mr. Evans was married to Malinda Botchwell, who died in 1894. She was the estimable and well beloved daughter of Henry Botchwell. One son survives her, Guy A., who has charge of his father's farming interests. He married Ida Spade and they have one son, Guy, Jr. Mr. Evans and

J. C. FISHER, one of: Scott Township's leading men, a capitalist and very large landowner, whose home is in Section 8, where he has 160 acres, has four other farms in the same township, aggregating 700 acres, together with producing oil wells, stock in many financial institutions and an improved farm of 320 acres in Monroe County, Michigan. Mr. Fisher was born May 1, 1848, in Scott Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, and is a son of George W. and Clarissa (Black) Fisher.

George W Fisher was born in Richland County, Ohio, October 27, 1820, but spent the larger part of his time at Lexington until his parents brought him to Sandusky County. In 1845 he married Clarissa Black, a daughter of William and Rhoda (Skinner) Black, and they had four children: Rhoda J., John Calvin, Melissa and William Franklin. After marriage, George W. Fisher settled in a log cabin on the line between Jackson and Washington Township, and during that time he worked for Michael Shawl, who paid him fifty cents a day during the summer seasons and in the winters, a sixpence for each large deadened oak tree he cut down. He then engaged in farming in Jackson Township, in 1848, moving into Scott Township and then to Washington Township. During 1857-58 he was engaged in the marble business at South Bend, Indiana, but this undertaking was not successful and he lost a large amount. From there he returned to Scott Township and settled on rented land until the spring of 1861, when he bought 160 acres in Jackson Township. This he sold and purchased 140 acres in Ballville Township, which he also sold, subsequently buying fifty-five acres and also selling that tract. About this time he closed out his business affairs and retired to a comfortable little place of ten acres, near Ballville, and there his death occurred in September, 1899. his burial being in the Ballville Cemetery. He was well known all through the county and while credit was given him as an astute man of business. he was universally regarded as honest and upright in all his opera- tions. He was a Republican in politics and in religion, he was identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. His widow survived until October 8, 1906, and she was laid to rest by his side in the Ballville Cemetery.

J. C. Fisher was educated in Jackson Township and at Oberlin College, spending two terms in the latter place, after which he became his father's helper on the farm. After he married he lived on the bank of the Sandusky River, in Ballville Township, until 1881, when he moved to his present farm in Section 8, Scott Township, on which he has resided ever since. His other land in Scott Township is thus distributed: eighty acres in Section 17; 160 acres in Section 10, 160 acres and 141 acres, both farms being in Section 3. Mr, Fisher has improved his property with excellent buildings and undertiling. Although he has such a large acreage, he raises no crops to sell except wheat, making use of all else he raises to feed to his live stock, the raising of which is a large feature of his work. Formerly he fed as many as 1,000 head of lambs annually, but later gave all his attention to horses and cattle, being the largest shipper in this section. He has thirty producing oii wells on his home farm. He is a stockholder in the Croghan Bank at Fremont, and one of the directors of the same; is a stockholder and director of the Helena Bank; a stockholder in the Mechanics' Bank at Bradner ; and a stockholder in the Livestock Yards at Fostoria. In large measure, Mr. Fisher has retired from business activity. In the management of his large properties he has shown great foresight and much progressiveness. In expending large sums to improve his land, he really displayed commendable frugality, for in this way the fertility of his fields was increased and the growing of finer live stock made possible. He has not been unmindful, while attending to so many personal interests, of the demands of good citizenship, taking an interest in everything that has promised to advance the prosperity of his township. He has been active in school matters and for several vears served on the School Board, served one term as township trustee and two terms as treasurer.

Township, Sandusky County, a daughter of James and Harriet (Patterson) Moore, and to them were born the following children: Claude, who married Anna Bowe, and has two daughters, Celia and Beatrice; Guy, who resides at home; Webb, who married Lottie Gschwindt; James M., who married Dottie Hartman, and they have a daughter, Naomi; Maude, who married R. A. Thompson, and has a son, Wilson Edward; Bianche, who married M. A. Hutson; Clara, who lives at home; Bruce and Brice, twins, the former of whom married Lena Halbeisen; Lester. who lives at home, and George, who is now deceased. Mr. Fisher and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics, Mr. Fisher and his sons are Republicans.

ETHAN ALLEN BEEBE. one of the oldest residents of Townsend Township and a member of one of the earliest pioneer families, was born March 17, 1826, in Townsend Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, and is a son of Azariah and Mary (Ryon) Beebe.

Azariah Beebe was a native of Ontario County, New York, and he came to Cleveland, Ohio, about 1810, and into Sandusky County in 1824. He purchased eighty acres of Government land, a tract now owned by his daughter Harriet, and subsequently added 160 acrés to his possessions. He died December 12, 1834, aged fiftv-one years. His widow survived until December 11, 1864, when she was seventy-three years old. They had the follow ing children: Amy, William, Almira, James, Harriet, Aaron, Enoch and Ethan A. There are but two survivors of this family of eight children - Harriet and Ethan Allen. The former has reached her ninety-first year and the latter, the youngest of the family, is hale and hearty at the age of eighty-three.

Ethan Allen Beebe had few educational advantages in his youth, as pioneer conditions prevailed during his boyhood in Townsend Township, but he was reared in a domestic atmosphere which was tinged with New England thrift and homely virtues. When he hegan life for himself, he bought the tract of 100 acres, on which he now lives. this beire in 1850, and to this purchase added the .\I- pheus Mack farm of ninety acres, then later the Crandall farm of eighty acres, making his present holdings aggregate 270 acres. Since his marriage, in 1867, Mr. Beebe has rented his farms and has spent all his time on the road as a salesman and collector for the Ambrose Ochs Carriage and Buggy Company. of Fremont. He is widely known all through this section of Ohio, his territory being a large one. He is identified with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Maccabees.

On January 2, 1867, Mr. Beebe was married to Miss Sylvia Savage, a daughter of Samuel S. Savage, at one time of Townsend Township. The father of Mrs. Beebe was born at Windsor, Vermont, February 20, 1790, and during the War ot 1812, served as a musician in a company from Waitsfield. He married Zilpha Gillett, in Genesee County, New York, and in the fall of 1844 they came to Sandusky County. In 1847 he removed to Fulton County, Ohio, where he died April 16, 1871. His widow survived until March, 1880. To Mr. and Mrs. Beebe was born one daughter, Ida, on August 31, 1870, but she scarcely survived childhood, dying in 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Beebe attend the services of the Universalist Church at Sand Hill. In his political sentiments, Mr. Beebe is a Republican.

GEORGE WALTER, one of the most progressive farmers of Sandusky County, Ohio, and the owner of one of the best improved and finely cultivated estates, owns 117 3-4 acres of land. a part of the old homestead, situated in Woodville Township, three miles from the village of \\Voodville. Mr. Walter was born on this farm, February 3, 1855, and is a son of Louis and Anna (Hennis) Walter.

The parents of Mr. Walter were natives of Germany. Louis Walter came to America when about twenty-eight years of age. locating at Wheeling, Virginia, where he continued to live for ahout two years. He came to Sandusky County when all Woodville Township was vet Government land. entering a tract which has never been out of the Walter name since that time. He and wife saw many hardships. but they lived to enjoy prosperity in their old age. Louis Walter died when nearly eighty-four years old and his wife when seventy-nine. They had a family of ten children, namely: John, Louis, Rosanna, Peter, Rebecca, David, Wesley, George, Mary, and an infant that died at birth.

George Walter obtained his education in the township schools and then entered into the oil producing business and also became a large farmer. For thirteen years he cultivated a farm of 160 acres for his father, and when the latter died, in association with his brother, David Walter, bought out the other heirs. In 1904, Mr. Walter added thirty-nine acres more by purchase, bringing his acreage to its present amount. This farm is acknowledged to be one of the best in all this section, Mr. Walter in his management adopting modern methods of agriculture and making improvements along every line. Some fourteen years since the old farm residence was destroyed by fire at a great loss of property and causing the death of a brother. In the building of his new home, Mr. Walter introduced modern conveniences and appliances of all kinds that are seldom found in rural homes. He has his own heating and lighting plant, with a system of pipes through all his buildings. and the motive power is supplied by three windmills. The cellar of his house was blasted out of solid rock, this giving many advantages. The superstructure contains ten apartments, all of which are fitted up suitably for comfortable and refined living.

Mr. Walter married Miss Helen Nuhfer and they have three children: Frank, Carl, and Emma. Frank Walter married Edna Baker and they reside in Fremont. Mr. Walter and family attend the German M. I. Church at Woodville. In politics, he is a Republican. He belongs to the fraternal order of Foresters, at Woodville.

EARL C. HUSS, a representative of one of the earliest families of Green Creek Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, and one of its leading citizens, resides on his valuable farm of eightyeight acres, situated about four and one-half miles southeast of Fremont. He was born August 28, 185g, in the old log house on his father's farm in Green Creek Township, and is a son of Christian and Catherine (Rathbun) Huss, and a grandson of Noah Huss, who was born in Germany.

Noah Huss, named for his father, accompanied the latter from Germany. The family lived at Little York, Pennsylvania, where the younger Noah was married, and in 1825 he moved, with his own family to Sandusky County, locating in Green Creek Township on what is now the Kernaham farm, then a wild and sparsely settled section of the county. They were true pioneers and Jived in their wagon until a log cabin could be put up in the clearing hastily made in the woods. As plenty of wild game could be secured they were able to exist until they could make the land productive. He married Mary Burkholder and both died on the place. They were parents of many children, all of whom have passed away with the exception of one son, Jacob Huss, who resides in Green Creek Township, with Chaplin Rathbun.

Christian Huss, father of Earl C., was born on an island in the Susquehanna River, opposite Little York, Pennsylvama, February 21, 1815, and was about ten years old when the family came to Sandusky County. He assisted his father to clear the Jand and remained ai home until his marriage, when he settled on a jarm of 240 acres on the west side ot Green Creek, where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1864. He married Catherine Rathbun, who survived until 1893... They had the following children: Chaplin R,; Eliza M., who married John Morrison; Noah B.; Wilson, who died in 1842; Frances, who died in 1844; Burr, who lives on the old home farm; Maurice L., who resides at Clyde; Mary Jane, who is deceased': 'Oliver: P. 7: Barbara df.. avho lives 'in Fremont, Indiana;. Saxton P... who lives in Yuma, .Arizona, and Earl C. The mother of the ahove family was born at'Avon, New York. and when she was three vears old her parents came to Lorain County. Ohio. settling ner Black River. Four vears later they moved to Sandusky County, finding more Indians than whites in this section. They proved friendly and she grew to womanhood among them

Earl C. Huss was four years old when his parents moved into the present family home and shortly afterward the father died. The whole family grew to maturity here and all attended the country schools. Mr. Huss, desiring to retain a part of the homestead for himself, bought out the other heirs, from time to time, and now has a well developed farm of convenient size and its well ordered condition proves him a capable agriculturist. In October, 1883, he married Miss Hattie Bax, a daughter of Alfred and Maria (Braund) Bax. Mrs. Huss was born in Brantford, Ontario, September 20, 1859, and was sixteen years old when she came to Ohio. Her parents were natives of England. Mr. and Mrs. Huss have six children: Alfred E., Clay L., Harry B., Lillian Mae, Floyd E., and Laura E. In politics, Mr. Huss is a Democrat. Fraternally, he is an Odd Fellow and also a Mason, belonging to the Blue Ridge Chapter, Council and Commandery at Fremont.

B. B. SMITH, who is engaged in a drug business at No. 110 South Front Street, Fremont, also conducts a store in the Elk Block, which is devoted mainly to cigars, tobacco, candies and soda water. Mr. Smith is a representative business man of this city. He was born here, January 9, 1877, and is a son of Olen Rozell and Linda (Burgoon) Smith.

Mr. Smith is the fourth born in a family of nine children, the others being as follows: Margaret; Clara, now the wife of John Walters, formerly principal of the State Street School, Fremont; Laura Gertrude, who also was a teacher, married George P. Hafford; Eva, who died aged sixteen years; Ralph P., who is in the U. S. Navy; Jessie, who died in 1908, was the wife of Walter T. Childs; Frank R., married, who assists his brother B. B.; and Eula, who lives at home.

B. B. Smith completed the common and High School course at Fremont and then entered the University of Michigan and was graduated there in chemistry and pharmacy, in the class of 1899. Previous to this he had been in the employ of the late R, P. Buckland, who, at that time owned the store Mr. Smith now conducts. Upon his return from college he had a year of experience at Elyria and one at Norwalk and then bought the present business from Mr. Buckland, and has brought it to a high state of efficiency, making it thoroughly reliable in every particular, and conducting it along modern lines.

Mr. Smith was married August 10, 1904, to Alice Norton, who is a daughter of Charles A. Norton. Mr. Smith is identified with the Masons, the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows.

J. W. BONAWIT, one of Scott Township's representative men and public officials, resides on his well improved farm of forty-six acres, which is situated in Section 19, Scott Township, Sandusky County, Ohio. Mr. Bonawit was born in this township, October 14, 1842, and is a son of Jacob and Hannah ( Chestnutwood) Bonawit.

Jacob Bonawit was born in Dauphin County, - Pennsylvania, April 30, 1796. He came to Stark County, Ohio, in early manhood and there married Hannah, a daughter of Abraham Chestnutwood. She was born March 6, 1806. They had a family of eleven children. Three

County and in 1837 moved into Wood County, Ohio, and from there to Sandusky County, in 1842. He settled on a tract of eighty acres, which is now owned by his son, J. J. Bonawit, and later he bought forty additional acres and - the old sheepskin deeds of the original owners came into his possession. The greater part of this land was cleared by Jacob Bonawit. He made no attempts to put up fine buildings, a log cabin and barn contenting him. At the time of his death he was a man of substance, owning 120 acres in Scott Township. He was a Democrat in politics and served one term as township trustee and during a large part of his life was a member of the School Board. In his early days he was fond of hunting and was so excellent a marksman that he could excel the Indian youths with whom he competed. His death occurred July 18, 1886, his wife having died August 29, 1884. They were

J. W. Bonawit went to school during boyhood and then settled down to farming. His father had worked both as a farmer and bricklayer and stone-mason and the sons gained from him a good working knowledge of both trades. After marriage, J. W. Bonawit engaged in farming, first on rented land in Scott

Wood County, but in a few years returned to Scott Township and settled on his present farm. Here he put up all the substantial farm buildings now standing, but has not destroyed the old farm-house that has weathered the storms of sixty years. It is in strong contrast with the present residence. Mr. Bonawit has his land all well drained and he has six oil wells on the place.

Mr. Bonawit married Miss Eva Blessing, a daughter of George and Margaret Blessing, and they have five children, namely: Anna May, Franklin, Mary, Minnie and Charles. In politics, Mr. Bonawit is a stanch Democrat and has served as a member of the School Board, as constable and as supervisor.

N. B. MASON, one of Clyde's representative citizens, for many years a justice of the peace and also concerned in agricultural and mercantile enterprises, is an honored veteran of the great Civil War, having given four years of his young manhood to the service of his country. Mr Mason was born April 9, 1839, at Canandaigua, New York, and is a son of Rey. John B. and Laura (Shaw) Mason.

The father of Mr. Mason was born in Massachusetts and died in advanced age, in Wisconsin, in July, 1888. He served as a soldier in the Mexican War, afterwards became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church, but later in life was similarly associated with the Baptist Church. He married Laura Shaw, who was born in New York and died at Clyde, Ohio, in 1885. In 1856 they visited Sandusky County, Ohio, where they remained only two years, going from here to Wisconsin. Their family consisted of six sons, three of whom served in the Federal Army, and two daugh-

Civil War. The family bore the following names: Van Rensselaer, Joseph, Eliza, N. B., John Colby, Mary, Brooks H., and Fred E. N. B. Mason attended school until he was fourteen years of age, and then, in spite of his youth, was given the contract to carry mail and passengers between Ontario and Rochester, New York. He must have been a youth of more than usual physical development and stability of character to have been entrusted with the mail coach, which frequently required four or more horses to transport passengers, mail and express, over a road not any too well constructed. He accompanied his parents to Sandusky County and remained after they and other members of the family had removed to Wisconsin. On October 12, 1861, Mr. Mason enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering Company A, 72nd O. Vol. Inf., with which he remained connected until his honorable discharge on July 21, 1865. He had a long and hard service, experiencing almost every vicissitude to which a soldier is exposed. He was captured twice by the Confederates, escaping once, and he visited every southern state with the exception of Texas. The 72nd Regiment of Ohio Infantry made a notable record. It lost heavily in many battles, especially at Shiloh, Vicksburg and Brice's Cross Roads; seventy-eight of its members succumbed to the inhumanities practiced at Andersonville, six were ruthlessly shot while prisoners of war, and nine perished in the explosion on the Sultana, on April 27, 1865. In every battle and every march, Mr. Mason was with his regiment until he was captured on June 11, 1864, after which he suffered every indignity and hardship that have made the names of those southern prison pens, Andersonville and Florence, remembered with horror after the graés has grown green over the graves of many of their victims, these many years. Mr. Mason was confined in Andersonville from June to September, when he was taken to Florence and was kept there until March 1, 1865, when he was paroled. Ile then returned to Clyde and after a necessary period of recuperation, he became engaged in various business enterprises which he continued for a number of years. He has been a very active citizen in all that per-

Mr. Mason was married February 22, 1859, to Miss Elizabeth L. Carleton, whose father was Rey. Thomas J. Carleton, a well known minister, and they have had the following children: Nellie, who married R. G. Tyler and has two children - Carl and Vira; Elizabeth, who is now deceased; Nathan H., who married Alice White; George A., who married Annie White; Maud A., who married O. C. Perrin, but died in September, 1904; and May.

Mr. Mason served as sheriff one term, 1902- 03, being elected on the Republican ticket. In 1878 he organized a militia company, of which he was the first captain. He is very prominently identified with the Grand Army of the Republic and was first commander of McPherson Post, which was organized August 15, 1877. He is also a member of the Union Veteran Union. With his comrades Mr. Mason often lives over again those years of strife, their recital of personal experiences recalling vividly to mind the scenes of those strenuous days of 1861-65 - the contending armies, the roar of cannon, the rattle of musketry, the pall of smoke, the shouts of victory and the groans of the dying. Also, as experienced by some, the sickness, starvation and misery endured in the war prisons of the South. Only the old veterans can understand these things in their _ full significance; the vounger generation pass them too lightly by; notwithstanding, despite an appearance of ingratitude sometimes indicated by state legislation. the veterans are still honored by all who understand the principies for which they fought and the priceless legacy they secured to their country in a restored and solidified union, Mr. Mason has fraternal connection with the order of Odd Fellows and for many years was very active both in the lodge and in the encampment.

JAMES L. PARKS. a venerable citizen and justice of the peace of Riley Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, owns and resides upon a farm of 100 acres. He comes of a family which has long been prominently identified with the affairs of Riley Township and of the county. He was born on a farm-in that township, December 13, 1836, and is a son of James and Mary (Boyer) Parks, and a grandson of James Parks, Sr., who is said to have come to this country from the North of Ireland and located in Pennsylvania.

James Parks, father of the subject of this record, was born in Union County, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1799, and was educated and grew to manhood in his native State. His education, like that of Abraham Lincoln, was limited to six months in a common school; his manual training, however, was of wider scope. As a woodworker and tiller of the soil he proved himself equally proficient. Hunting and fishing were the diversions of that early day, and that he was an expert marksman he proved in after years. Desirous of preparing himself more thoroughly for life's duties, he apprenticed himself to a wool-carder, soon becoming an adept in his chosen profession, and while thus engaged he also acquired a fair knowledge of the German language which was a boon to him in later years. He was married September 17, 1824, to Miss Mary Boyer, his faithful companion through a long and eventful life. He came to Ohio in the fall of 1832, locating first in Seneca County, and to Riley Township in the spring of 1833. His team, wagon and what he was able to carry, together with a family of eight persons and 50 cents in cash, were all he had with which to begin life in the wilds of Ohio. The struggle for subsistence was a severe one, but heroic efforts. combined with skill and good management, soon overcame the greater difficulties and the dawn of prosperity began to glimmer. He was not long in gaining the confidence of the people, not only of his own township but of the county as well, which was attested by his election to various public offices. First he served as township clerk and superintendent of schools, closely followed by the office of justice of the peace. which he filled at variows times for nearly a quarter of a century. So ably were these offices looked after and cared for by the incumbent, in 1847 his name was placed upon the county ticket as a candidate for sheriff. He was rerdily elected, and inspired by the confidence the people reposed in him. filled that position as zealously as the former ones. At one time during his incumbency there was a jail delivery, and one of the fugitives, a colored man, who was shackled, could travel but slowly. The sheriff hearing of his whereabouts mounted his horse and started in pursuit. When he saw the sheriff, he attempted to escape by taking to the woods; when the words "Halt or I'll shoot" reached his ears, he stopped and started to return. On the way he said: "Massa, would you shot me if I hadn't stepped ?"' whereupon the sheriff replied, 'I certainly would if I had had anything to have shot you with." In relating the incident he said he had nothing but his riding whip. The prisoner replied, "If I know dat, you nebber catch me." Mr. Parks was not a soldier in the Civil War. as he had passed the age limit, but times at home were as strenuous to him as though he had been at the front. He was accused of _ disloyalty to the flag and was threatened with mob violence because he could not be coerced into disloyalty to his political party. If the confidence of the people of Sandusky County was shaken by these accusations, it was soon restored. In the autumn of 1866 he was chosen to represent Sandusky County in the legislature. After filling this office for two terms. he retired from active life to his home near Riley Center, where, with his aged companion, surrounded by their children and grandchildren, he spent his declining years. He departed this life October 4, 1872, at the age of seventytwo years, ten months and twenty days. Of the children born to James and Mary (Boyer) Parks, five survive, namely: Hannah M., who resides at Toledo, Ohio, and is the widow of James W. Hone; James L.; Oliver H., of Fremont, Ohio; William G., of Riley Township; and Marv E.. wife of George Doell, of Sandusky Township.

James L. Parks was reared in his native township. Although his educational advantages were limited to the public schools, he acquired a good education through reading and being brought in contact with those who had had better schooling than he. He is a broad and liberal minded man, who for many years has had an influence in the affairs of moment in his township. From his early days, his business transactions have been characterized by a high order of intelligence and good management, and he made steady advancement. He served as clerk of Riley Township two years, and has been justice of the peace six years, his commission running until January 1, 1912. He has been zealous and conscientious in the discharge of the duties of office, and well merits the esteem and confidence of the public which is accorded him.

Mr. Parks was united in marriage with Miss Mary A. Mooney, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, and was a daughter of Jacob Mooney. Five children were born of this union, of whom two are living: Nettie L. and Ray V. Those deceased were: Herbert B., James L. and Mervin C. On January 9, 1905, the subject of this record was bereft of his wife by death. She had been to him a faithful companion and a true helpmate.

PETER P. BULLINGER, one of Scott Township's seli-made men, successful farmers and respected citizens, owns forty acres of valuable land, one-half of which lies in Section 29 and the other half, on which he resides, in Section 28, his home being on the south side of the road. His parents were Francis P. and Mary F (Bumgardner) Bullinger. Both parents are now deceased, the father dying in 1884, and the mother in January, 1890, and both were buried in the Catholic Cemetery at \Millersville.

Peter P. Bullinger did not have many educational advantages in his youth, but all the schooling he obtained was secured at Kansas, in Seneca County. He remained at home helping his father until he was twenty-two years of age, when he married and then engaged in teaming, at Kansas, for several months. He then bought his first twenty acres in Scott Township. This land was timbered and swompy, so mich so that he had to cut down trees before he could build his cabin, which still stands as a landmark, and subsequently expend much time and labor in draining it. He still has five acres of land that has never been under the plough. All the substantial buildings now standing, Mr. Bullinger put up. He has been a hard and persevering worker and now has his land in fine condition, producing excellent crops and giving pasturage to his stock. There are five producing oil wells on his place, bringing in a comfortable income.

On August 18, 1874, Mr. Bullinger was married to Miss Mary Lehman, a daughter of Leudegar and Barbara (Staub) Lehman, and they have had the following children: Anna M., who is now deceased; Margaret E., who married Claude Ulsh, has two children - Thelma and Mary Pauline; Clara, who was formerly a successful teacher, but now is at home; Rosa, who married Vern Hull, has two children - Vendetta and Paul Vernon; Tena, who married Willis Fowler, has one son. Claude J.; and Ida A., who is a popular teacher in Scott Township and is teaching her second year. Miss Clara Bullinger passed the Boxwell examination in 1897, and Miss Ida A. in 1906. The latter is an accomplished musician, excelling as a pianist. Mr. Bullinger and family are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Millersville. In politics, he is a Democrat. He is one of the representative men of his neighborhood and has served six years as school director and two years as road supervisor. He is a stockholder in the Rising Sun Bank.

DR LA OUINIO" RAWSON. * Ia the chapter on the medical profession something of Dr. Rawson's professional career has been given to which the reader is referred, but Dr. Rawson's life was not confined to the medicai profession, though he was prominent in that, but was devoted to public affairs to an extent which makes his life a part of the history of Sandusky County. As to his medical practice, it is, however, proper further to state that the year 1834 was an epoch in the medical history of this county. The cholera scourge prevailed, and many of the frightened people of Lower Sandusky locked their doors and refused to leave their houses or to admit visitors. The village population at that time amounted to about three hundred, a large per cent. of whom were afflicted with the fatal disease, and the mortality was large. Four men, - it is a delight to record their names and preserve the memory of their disinterested charity - Dr.

Rawson, Mr. Brown, Mr. Birchard, and Judge Hulburd, went from house to house of the afflicted, performing the tender offices of physician and nurse, and, when sad necessity required, attended the rites of burial. This was the first visitation of the cholera on the Sandusky. It subsequently appeared several times, but never with such fatal results.

As the country developed, Dr. Rawson's practice grew more extensive and remunerative. His practice was laborious, but a physique capable of almost any endurance was his best inheritance. The rugged labor of his early life was a fit preparation for the toils of his professional career. In his case vigor of body was happily equalled by vigor of mind. Toa close and extensive knowledge of medical science he brought the aid of practical judgment.

Many were the regrets, in 1855, when he announced his intention to withdraw from professional life. His patients cherished toward him more than professional affection. He had been to them a prompt friend in every hour of physical distress and anxiety. Aside from his skill and sincere honesty in the treatment of diseases, Dr. Rawson had one characteristic as a practitioner worthy of imitation by members of his profession. He never failed to meet an engagement. Every summons to a bed of sickness was promptly answered by his cheerful presence, regardless of financial condition, or prospect of remuneration.. He thus endeared himself to the people whom he served.

He was successively appointed to the office of county clerk from 1836 to 1851, inclusive. His laborious professional business made it necessary that the charge of' the office should be confided to a deputy.

We have now briefly traced the career of Dr. Rawson as a practitioner of medicine during a period of nearly thirty years. But his career of usefulness by no means ended with his retirement from professional life. He had accumulated considerable property, and had for years been alive to every enterprise which promised to become a public benefit. In previous chapters of this volume are detailed the history of three of the most important public improvements in the history of the county, the plank-road from Tiffin to Fremont and Fostoria, the Cleveland, Toledo & Norwalk Railroad, and the Fremont & Indiana Railroad. In the plank-road enterprise Dr. Rawson worked actively and vigorously, and when money was wanted his hand went deep into his treasury.

To detail Dr. Rawson's connection with the other two enterprises would be to repeat what has already been said by one familiar with all the cireumstances. Dr. Rawson and others, when the Cleveland, Toledo & Norwalk Railroad was first inaugurated, obligated themselves to indemnify the county commissioners, who, without ample personal guarantee, refused to issue the bonds, as authorized by vote of the 'people of the county. When stock books were opened, Dr Rawson was among the heaviest subscribers. For the history of the Lake Erie & Western Railroad, with which the name of Dr. Rawson is so closely associated, we again refer to a preceding chapter. To the united energy of the incorporators - L. Q. Rawson, Sardis Birchard, James Justice, Charles W. Foster, and John R. Pease - the country benefited by this road is indebted. The leading spirit and advocate from the beginning was Dr. Rawson, who, at the first organization of the company in 1853, was elected president and director, and served in that capacity until 1875. For about twenty years he had the general management of all the interests of the road. His connection with the county agricultural society is duly mentioned under the proper head.

Dr. Rawson married, July 8, 1829, Sophia Beaugrand, daughter of John B. Beaugrand, who was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1768. He was married in St. Anne's Church, Detroit, in 1802, to Margaret Chabert, daughter of Colonel Chabert de Joucaire, of the French army. Mr. Beaugrand was a merchant at Maumee from 1802 till 1812. He then went back to Detroit, where he remained till 1823, then came to Lower Sandusky.

Mrs. Rawson was born October 20, 1810. The family of Dr. and Mrs. Rawson consisted of seven children, four of whom survived childhood - Dr. Milton E., Joseph L., Eugene 7, and fstelle.S.

CHARLES E. MAY, deceased, for a period covering thirty-four years was a prominent citizen of Townsend Township, having interests of various kinds and so conducting his life and affairs as to leave behind him a fair and even record. Mr. May was born in Livingston County, New York, in 1840, and was a son of Hiram May, of old Empire State ancestry.

Charles E. May was reared in an agricultural district and remained at home until the second year of the Civil War, when he entered the Federal service as a musician in Company A, 58th N. Y. Inf. After his honorable discharge from the army, he engaged in farming, coming to Sandusky County, in 1865. He worked as a farmer and also in the oil fields until 1870, when he settled permanently in Townsend Township. He owned a farm of fifty acres and he managed his wife's property, which included forty acres in Townsend Township and eighty acres in Green Creek Township, which she inherited from the estate of her father, Franklin Richards. In addition to his farming and stockraising interests, Mr. May, for over thirty years conducted a sawmill and a sorghum and cider-mill on his farm. These mills were burned in 1902. Mr. May took an active interest in the affairs of his township and served as township trustee for six years previous to his death, which took place on May 13, 1904. He was a man of great kindness of heart, was charitable and neighborly, and in every way was held in high esteem by those who knew him best.

Mr. May was married March 1, 1870, to Miss Frances Richards, a daughter of the late Franklin Richards of Townsend Township, and they had three children: James H., Ralph E. and Blanche E. James H. May was born May 26, 1872. He married Carrie Lincolnback, of Sandusky, and they resided in Townsend Township. During the Spanish-American War he served as corporal in Company I, 6th O. Vol. Inf. Ralph E. May was born August 18, 1877. He married Alma Jones, of Riley Township, Sandusky County, and they live in Townsend Township. Blanche E. May was born April 20, 1889. She resides with her mother on the homestead in Townsend

CHARLES L. HEINEMAN, a prominent and substantial citizen of Madison Township, who carries on general farming on his 120 acres of valuable land, situated in Sections 25, 26, 11 and 12, was born May 5, 1867, in Madison Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, and is a son of Jacob and Mary (Kennel) Heineman.

The father of Mr. Heineman was born in Germany and came to America in early manhood, working for a time in New York as a plasterer, and was married there to Mary Kennel. They came to Sandusky County, Ohio, where Jacob Heineman bought fifty-six acres of land in Madison Township. He engaged in farming and also worked as a plasterer, and died on that place January 29, 1893. He was survived by his widow until May 3, 1905, and they both were buried in the Gibsonburg Cemetery. They were hard-working, thrifty, honest people and good Christians, worthy members of the Evangelical Church.

Charles L. Heineman attended the country schools through boyhood and then remained at home and helped his father until his own marriage, when he made arrangements by years. He then purchased forty acres of his present holdings, then a second forty acres and still later forty acres more. He has done considerable improving, putting in 10,000 tile for drainage and erecting new farm buildings or renovating those already standing. He has two fine orchards, one of which he set out himself and has an abundance of fruit, the old belle-flower and the wine-sap varieties doing well. Mr. Heineman owns also a house and lot on East Madison Street, Gibsonburg. He has always been interested in the good government of his community and has served as road supervisor of the township. Like his father, he is a Democrat.

On September i1, 1889, Mr. Heineman was married to Miss Mary I. Taylor, a daughter of J. B. and Cynthia (Campbell) Taylor, and they have six children, namely: Elsie, who married Emory Snyder, son of Noah Snyder, has two sons - Claude and Clyde; Cynthia, who is now deceased; and Roy E., Herbert, Verta Irene and Howard T., all residing at home. Mr. Heineman and family attend the Disciples Church. He is a member of the K. O. T. M., Tent No. 115, at Gibsonburg.

STEPHEN WOLF, who has been in the real estate business in Fremont since 1868, and has taken a very active and useful part in the development of the city, was born in Gueinelingen, Baden, Germany, November 22, 1851, a son of Gervas Wolf. When he was eleven years old, his mother having died, his father determined to come to the United States, and accordingly embarked, the subject of this sketch accompanying him. The vessel was burned at sea, but the crew and passengers were rescued by another vessel. This had the misfortune to be wrecked on the Cape Verde Islands, and Stephen Wolf and his father, after clinging all night to a rock at the imminent danger of being at any moment washed off and drowned, were picked up the next night by a British man-of-war and carried to Liverpool. From there they took ship for the United States, landing in New York City. In the New World metropolis Stephen Wolf found employment for some time in driving a bakery wagon. Subsequently, however, he went to Philadelphia, and from there a little later to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Sandusky and Fremont, Ohio, successively, arriving in this city in 1868. He soon became connected with the real estate business, in which he has since continued with such success, having been thus engaged longer than any other man in Sandusky County. He has erected more houses here than any other three men and Wolf Avenue was named in his honor. He resides in a very beautiful home on West State Street.

Mr. Wolf has two sons - Jerome Garfield and Scott Stephen. The former acts as/ius father's foreman in his building operations, having control of from twenty-five to thirty men. He married Cecelia Ronsky and they have three children - Stephen, Angela and Mildred. The other son, Scott S., is now a leading insurance man of Fremont. He married Adelaide M. Busold of this city and they have two sons - Carl Stephen George and Clarence Gervas. The subject of this sketch belongs to Croghan Lodge, No. 77, I. O. O. F., of which he has been an active member since April 19, 1873. He is widely respected for his qualities as a man and citizen and for the work he has done in the development of the city of Fremont. Mr. Wolf was an intimate friend of the late Ex-President R. B. Hayes and handled much of his real estate.

JOHN FOOS, residing on his valuable farm of 185 acres, situated in Section 1, Scott Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, was born September 30, 1833, in one of the provinces of France. He came to America in boyhood, landing in the port of New York on July 4, 1842.

Mr. Foos soon found work near Rochester, New York, and what few school advantages he had, he found at Rochester. When he was twenty-one years old he came to Ohio and worked for a time as a distiller in Butler and in Montgomery Counties, also south of Millersvillé in Sandusky County, subsequently returning to Montgomery County, where he lived six more years. After his marriage he bought a small farm near Hessville, from which La' came to his present place, buying sixty acres at that time. Just then the Civil War broke out and Mr. Foos became a member of the 32nd O. Vol. Inf., and while in the service marched over hundreds of miles of historic territory through many states and was finally taken sick and sent to Fort Shiloh, where he was later discharged. When he returned home he lived on a farm near Hessville for ten years, then bought eighty acres in Washington Township, on which he lived for five years, and later bought 145 acres, which he still owns and to this he still later added forty adjoining acres on the east side. He had no buildings to erect but has done a large amount of draining. The larger part of the land is under excellent cultivation, there being about twelve acres devoted to pasturage and timber.

On April 16, 1858, Mr. Foos was married to Miss Eva Buchman, a daughter of John Buchman, and to them were born the following children: Mary, George, John, Jr., Fran-

CITIZENS 747 ces, Caroline, Catherine, Theresa, Susanna, Albert and Edward. Of this family three are deceased: Mary, Catherine and Theresa. Mr. Foos and family are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Millersville. In politics he is a Democrat and served one year as township supervisor, making an excellent officer. Mr. Foos has practically retired from farm work. He is one of Scott Township's best known citizens.

DANIEL M. POTTER, is the active head of the D. M. Potter Drain Tile and Brick Company, a large and flourishing concern of Ballville Township. He is the owner of eighty acres of land on which he lives, and is one of the foremost men of the township, taking an active interest in all that pertains to its development and welfare. He was born in the viciuity of his present home, April 19, 1860, and 1s a sou of Henry Jarvis and Zeruiah Ann (Dawley) Potter, and a grandson of Merritt D. and Maria Potter.

Henry J. Potter was born in Oswego County, New York, October 27, 1836, and was there reared on a farm until he was eighteen years old. In the spring of 1854 the family started west for Steuben County, Indiana, and got as far as the home of Daniel Dawley in Green Creek Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, when Mrs. Potter was taken sick. Mr. Dawley offered them the use of an unoccupied house on his place, in which they lived until fall before resuming their journey. Upon arriving in Steuben County, Indiana, Mr. Potter purchased a farm, on which he was assisted in the work by his son, Henry, who in the winter months engaged in teaching school. In 1857, Mrs. Potter died, and soon after Henry Potter returned to Sandusky County, Ohio. There he worked on the farm for Daniel Dawley, whose daughter, Zeruiah Ann Dawley, he married on Septernber 15, 1857. He soon after bought eight acres of timberland in Green Creek Township, on which he built a log cabin, which later was destroyed by fire. Mr. Potter picked up some lumps of clay which had been burned to a bright red color, and this was the first indication that the soil was excellent for brick and tile making. He had in his employ as farm hand, Daniel McNutt. In addition to farming he engaged in teaching at the old Powers schoolhouse, located about two miles west of his home. In 1863, he became a member of Company K, a volunteer military company organized for the defense of Ohio. Mr. Potter enlisted for three years' service as a member of the 72nd Ohio Vol. Inf., with which he served in numerous battles and skirmishes until he was taken prisoner, June 11, 1864. His experience was a terrible one. He was taken to Andersonville Prison, June 17, 1864, and was stripped of all clothing and valuables, being given for wear a pair of pants, a blouse and a cap. The record of the indignities of that prison life, the hardships and privations endured, forms one of the blackest pages in _ the history of the Rebellion. It rained steadily for two weeks after he was taken there, and with the others of the 32.000 Northern soldiers he received scarcely enough to eat to keep him alive, and the food given was served raw After a month of confinement, Mr. Potter became ill with the scurvy, but received no medical treatment except such as his comrades could give. He was mercifully relieved of his sufferings by death on August 23, 1864, and 108 other Union soldiers were laid to rest on the same day. When news of his death reached his was held at the Dawley schoolhouse, November I, 1864, Rev. James Long, who had united him and his wife seven years before, officiating. Potter Post, G. A. R., at Green Springs, was so named as a tribute to his memory. He was a devout member of the United Brethren Church, and was one of the trustees of Mt. Lebanon Church.

Daniel M. Potter has always lived in Sandusky County, and received his educational training in the district school located on the southeast corner of his farm, and in the schools at Green Springs, Fremont and Clyde. He was but four years of age at his father's death and it early became necessary for him to look after the management of affairs for his mother. He continued to do so until his marriage in 1881, when he started out for himself, locating on the farm on which he now lives. He continued farming for a couple of years, and then began the manuiacture of drain tile and brick on a small scale. He first did all the work himself, but as the demand for his products grew, his working force was increased proportionately until he now employs an average of eight men. His entire output is purchased by the farmers in the vicinity, and he does an annual business approximating $6,000. He has served as a member of the school board of Ballville Township for thirteen years, and is at the present time president of that body Politically, he is a Republican. . ;

On December 25, 1881, Mr. Potter was united in marriage with Miss Etta A. Huss, a daughter of Chaplin R. and Ellen ( Morrison) Huss of Green Creek Township, and they became parents of the following children: Mabel Ellen, who was born August 30, 1884; Henry, J., who was born May 30, 1886; James C., who was born August 31, 1891; Merritt P., who was born August 21, 1901; and Myron T., who was born June 4, 1903. Mabel Ellen Potter was united in marriage with Henry Sibbrel, of Green Springs, and they have a daughter, Mary Etta, who was born August 7, 1906. Henry J. Potter, who lives on a part of the home farm and assists his father, was united in marriage with Miss Maud Hawk.

Fraternally, the subject of this record is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Green Springs, in which he has filled all the chairs; and of the Masonic Lodge at Green Springs.

HARMON V. BECKER, who is prominently identified with the leading interests of Clyde, Ohio, is president of the Elmore Manufacturing Company, a concern which has more than 200 men on its pay roll and is engaged in the manufacture of the well known Elmore Automobile. Mr. Becker was born in Schoharie County, New York, September 24, 1826, and is a son of David H. and Hannah (Loucks) Becker, and a grandson of Harmon Becker. His paternal great-grandfather was the first of the family to arrive in the United States, coming from Germany and locating in New York State.

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agricultural pursuits. He and his wife both - died on the home farm in Wayne County at the age of eighty-four years. They were parents of the following children: Harmon V.; Mary, deceased wife of Thomas C. Heffner; Jerry, deceased, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Ann, wife of L. C. Wells; David D., who also served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Eliza, wife of John Palmer; and Murray, deceased.

Harmon V. Becker was reared on the home farm until he was seventeen years old, dividing his time in working on the farm and attending school during the winter. At that age he left home to learn the trade of a cooper, which he followed for six years. He then resumed farming operations, first on the home farm and later on a farm of fifty acres which he purchased. He continued on that place some four years after his marriage and then sold out. He purchased a hotel and livery at Red Creek, in Wayne County, New York, which he conducted for five years, and then for two years continued in the sarne business at Wolcott, in Wayne County. Meanwhile he was also for a time engaged in operating a stave and heading factory, and at different times served as deputy sheriff, constable and tax collector. About the year 1869 he moved his stave factory west to Elmore, Ohio, where he continued the business until 1893, also operating a sawmill during a part of the time. In 1892, he began the manufacture of bicycles and in a short time was employing from forty to fifty men, the Elmore Bicycle beconiing weil known and having a large sale. He was in the meantime elected township clerk of Harris Township, Ottawa County, and had the distinction of being the first Republican ever elected to that office. He also served nine years on the School Board and was treasurer of the township. In 1894, he moved his factory to Clyde, Ohio, and continued the manufacture of bicycles for two years, employing some sixty men. He then began the manufacture of the Elmore Automobile under the firm name of the Elmore Manufacturing Company, the plant being located on Amanda Street. between the L. S. & M. S. and the Wheeling railroads. There has been a steady increase in business from the starting of the factory, and from time to time it has become necessary to enlarge the plant to meet the demands of trade. Two hundred men are now employed and the company will manufacture approximately 1,000 machines during the year of 1909, the estimate being based upon the output during the first half of the year and the continued demand for the Elmore. Mr. Becker helped to organize and has since been president of the Clyde Telephone Company, and is stockholder and president of the Elmore Oil Company, of which he was one of the original promoters.

On December 3, 1856, Harmon V. Becker was married to Miss Lavina J. Johnson, a daughter of Ansel and Sarah (Hallet) Johnson of New York State, and they became parents of the following children: Della, Mary, James H., Burton A. and two who died in infancy. Della Becker was first married to Thomas FE. Baynes, deceased, and they had four children: Helen, who married Scott Crockett of Clyde and has two children, Thomas and James; Jessie, who is the wife of Harry Whittlesey and lives in Detroit; Bertha, who is the wife of Clarence Whittaker of Clyde and has two children, Robert and Gordon; and Harmon, who married Bea Rule and lives in Clyde. Mrs. Baynes formed a second union with Frank Austin of Green Springs. Mary Becker, second daughter born to our subject and his wife, was married to Dr. S. T. Drombold of Elmore, and they have two children: Dora, who married W. Dolph of Genoa, Ohio, and has two children, Laura and Mary; and John, who married Florence Witte and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. James H. Becker, formerly manager of the Elmore Manufacturing Company, was married to Metta Angell and lives at Clyde. Burton A. Becker is present manager of the Elmore Manufacturing Company. He married Bertha Damshroeder and has two children, Mildred and Howard.

Fraternally, the subject of this record became affiliated with the Masons while a resident of New York State, and is now a member of that order at Clyde. He resides in a comfortable home on West Buckeye Street in Clyde.

BASIL MEEK was born at New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, April 20, 1829. He came of Anglo-Saxon ancestry, his paternal great-grandfather having come from England to Virginia, whence later he moved to North Carolina, finally settling in Maryland. His maternal great-grandfather, James Stevenson, a native of Pennsylvania, but moving to North Carolina and finally settling in Tennessee, served as a soldier during the War of the Revolution and held a commission as captain in that war. His paternal grandfather, John Meek, moved from his native state of Maryland to Pennsylvania when the father of the subject of this sketch, whose name was also John, was a small boy, but after a few years' residence there, in 1788, emigrated with his family and all his effects to Kentucky, settling at New Castle, Henry County, in that state, where he died in 1803. He had been owner of slaves in that state, but in his will he manumitted the last one he owned.

John Meek, father of Basil, a farmer, was born in 1774, near Ellicott's Mills, now Ellcott City in the state of Maryland - going with his father first to Pennsylvania and thence to Kentucky, where he grew to manhood, and at New Castle, Kentucky, July_1, 1792. married his first wife, Miss Margaret Ervin, who bore him nine children - six sons and three daughters, their names and dates of birth being as follows: William, May 29, 1793; Joseph, March 3, 1795: Sarah, x 0707 3_ Marty, , 1800; Jeptha, November 3, 1803; Jesse, May 27, 1806; Elizabeth, August 9, 1808; John (date lost), and Lorenzo Dow, May 29, 1812. These all married and reared families. Of them Sarah, married at Richmond, Indiana, John Smith, son of one of the founders of that city; and Joseph married Gulielma, a sister of John Smith. Mary became the wife of Rev. Daniel Fraley, a pioneer Methodist preacher of Indiana. Elizabeth was the wife of Rev. John Davis, a local Methodist minister who died at Wabash, Indiana: she died at Stratford, Ontario, Canada, in 1893, aged eighty-six years. These have all died, after surviving to good old ages, respectively.

at Clear Creek on a farm now embraced within the limits of the city of Richmond. Here his first wife died while Lorenzo D. was a small boy. He continued to live there some years and then moved to New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, where in 1827 he married Miss Salina Stevenson, daughter of John Stevenson. She was only twenty, while he was fifty-three years old at the time. There were six children born to them of this marriage, four sons and two daughters, of whom are now living the subject of this sketch and Capt. James S. Meek, who was born August 17, 1834, now living in Indianapolis, Indiana; Laurinda Clement, born June 2, 1831, now the widow of Stephen Clement, Newton, Iowa, and Cynthia Clement, wife of Jesse Clement, of Scandia, Kansas. One of the sons died in infancy; the other son, Thomas J., born January 15, 1843, died in early manhood. The mother of these died at the home of her son, Capt. James S. Meek, at Spencer, Indiana, in May, 1883, aged seventyfive years.