Sandusky County, Ohio - Chapter 25: Miscellanea, 1909 (part 15 of 18)

Joseph Metcalf, father of Frank M., was. born in 1810, in Vermont, and died at Clyde, Ohio, in 1859. He accompanied his fatherwhen the latter moved to Monree County, Michigan, but in 1843 Joseph Metcalf came to Wyandot County, Ohio. There he served inthe office of justice of the peace, as he had formerly done in Monroe County. He married Sarah White, who was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, in 1820, and died at. the age of eighty years at Clyde. The family of Joseph Metcalf and wife numbered three children: Judge L. (an adopted son), Louisa and Frank M. The eldest son was born in Monroe County, Michigan, in 1839, and died in 1874, the cause of his death being the inhuman treatment to which he had been subjected while a prisoner of war at Belle Isle and Richmond, Virginia. The daughter, born in. 1842, died in 1862. She was the wife of Henry Miller, of Clyde. Mrs. Sarah Metcalf was one of the organizers of the Woman's Aid Society~ at Clyde, in 1861-2, and took a deep interest in. the work of this body.

Mr. Frank M. Metcalf had scarcely completed his school attendance when he entered the Union army as a soldier. He was but eigh-. teen years of age, when, in July, 1861, he enlisted in a regiment which was recruited in the neighborhood of Clyde, which subsequently became the 65th Regt., New York Vol. Inf. The annals of the Civil War record in detail the services that this regiment rendered to the Union cause, and in all their movements Mr. Metcalf remained with his comrades and bore himself with the courage of a veteran, although a stripline in years. He participated in the battles of Malvern Hill, Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettvs-- burg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg, and all the skirmishes and marches which this long list of widely separated points indicates.

When Mr. Metcalf recovered from the effects of his long and arduous service as a soldier in defense of his country, he went into the produce shipping business at Clyde, one that he carried on with success for many years. He had other interests, acquiring property at Clyde and other points, notably in Arizona, where he owned silver mines. He was a representative citizen of Clyde in public affairs and served for many years as a justice of the peace.

In February, 1886, Mr. Metcalf married Miss Emma Jane Miller, a member of one of Sandusky County's old families. In 1902 Mrs. Metcalf was married (second) to C. S. Price, a well known citizen of Clyde and a substantial retired farmer. Their attractive home is situated on West Cherry Street, Clyde.

EDWIN GARRISON, deceased, who was for many years one of the prominent. farmers of York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, was born March 21, 1826, in New Jersey, and died February 3, 1900, in York Township. He was a son of Christian and Sarah Garrison,

State, when he was a small child, and in 1833 came to Sandusky County, Ohio, locating on the farm in York Township, now owned by the daughter of our subject. Here he grew to manhood and later engaged in farming on thehome place, which consists of 105 acres and is considered one of the best farms in the township. Mr. Garrison married Harriet Turner, who was born at Clyde, Wayne County, New York, a daughter of Frederick Turner, and of their union was born one daughter, Clara, who married John S. Frish. They own and reside on the home farm, which Mrs. Frish inherited from her father. Mrs. Garrison died January

REV. J. J. EUGSTER, pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, of Jackson Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, which is situated near Millersville, was dedicated to the priesthood in his boyhood and has spent the whole of his life in zealous labors for the spiritual welfare of his fellow men. He was born September 18, 1846, in Appenzell, Switzerland. His parents were J. J. and Mary Anna (Bischoffberger) Eugster, the former of whom died when aged fifty-eight years and the latter in her eighty-third year. Of their family of fourteen children, J. J. Eugster is the fourth in order of birth. One other member of the family, John Eugster, came to America and now resides in the city of Philadelphia.

Father Eugster attended the parish schools in his native place in early boyhood and-was then placed in a school at Feldkirch, Austria, where his studies were continued for four years, and this was followed by two years at Friburg, French Switzerland, and two years more at Milano, Italy. He completed his preparatory studies with a three-year course at Innsbruck, Austria-Hungary, where he was ordained to the priesthood. His first charge was in his native land and he remained in Switzerland until 1897, when he came to America. His first charge here was St. Michael's Church, at Berwick, Seneca County, Ohio, where he labored for one vear, going then to Tiffin, Ohio, where he remained four years, in charge of St. Francis' Orphan Asylum. On October 12, 1903. Father Eugster was transferred to Sandusky County, Ohio, and took charge of St. Mary's Church. His congregation includes about eighty families and there are sixty pupils in the church school. In 1907, Father Eugster built a new schoolhouse and he has other improvements in contemplation. He is greatly beloved by his people and respected and esteemed by those outside his own religious body.

St. Mary's Catholic Church is one of the most important religious centers in this parochial district and it has a very interesting history, which may be briefly summed up as follows: After many years of identification with St. Joseph's parish. at Fremont, twenty-five German families sought and obtained permission, in 1851, from Bishop Rapp. to form a separate parish. Accordingly, on October 17, 1857, building operations were begun on a tract of two acres which had been donated by M.

Jung, for a church and school, and by 1859 a substantial but plain stone church edifice, with dimensions of 36 by 50 feet, had been completed, at a cost of $1,800. From 1859 until 1863 the mission was known as Greensburg and was attended by all good Catholics from St. Ann's parish, Fremont, and from St. Joseph's, the location being much more convenient for these families. Rev. Louis Hoffer was the first priest to visit the mission and he attended from April to September, 1859. The first pastoral residence, a frame structure, was built under the direction of Rev. S. Bauer, soon after the church was erected. The Rev. Aukly was appointed the first resident pastor and his successors were: Rev. H. Beheens, from November, 1865, to June, 1866; Rev. F. H. Volm, from June, 1866, to March, 1867, and after his departure the church was without a pastor for six months, when Rev. C. Barbier came but remained less than six months. In 1868 the church was again left without a pastor and was attended from Fostoria, as a mission again by Rev. M. Putz, who served from April, 1869, until the appointment of Rev. J. B. Jung, in August, 1870. He remained as resident pastor from that time until March, 1871, when the church came under the pastoral care of Rey. Litterst, who remained until April, 1873, and was followed by Rev. J. Sprall, until April, 1877; Rev. J. Blaser, until January, 1888; Rev. Dechart, until 1903, when Rev. J. J. Eugster, the present incumbent, took charge. During the pastorate of Rev. Jung a frame school building was put up, but it was not opened until 1873, and then was put in charge of a lay teacher. In September, 1877, Rev. Blaser transferred the school to the Sisters of Notre Dame, who had charge until 1890, when they resigned on account of small attendance and a lay teacher was again put in charge. Under the administration of the present pastor the school is one of the most encouraging features of the progress made by the parish. In 1880, Rev. Blaser considerably enlarged the church, Bishop Gilmour also brought about some improvements, and on 'May 6, 1884, Rev. Dechart secured the presentation of the fine altar and also a furnace.

I. P. HARNDEN, an oil operator and business man of Gibsonburg, is mayor of that village and is connected with the Hickory Oil Company. He is also an employee in the hardware establishment of J. H. Tibbe & Son.

Mr. Harnden was born at Clyde, Ohio, June 24, 1868, and passed his school days in Sandusky and Ottawa Counties. He then entered the oil fields as a driller and conttactor, working in Wood and Sandusky Counties. He was married in 1892 and then for two years was located at Bradner, in Wood County, during which time he was operating for himself in the oil fields. Still retaining his oil interests he moved to Gibsonburg, where he has since been prominently identified with affairs. He served six years as a member of the council, and in 1905 was elected mayor of the village, an office he has since filled in a very capable manner. He is a man of recognized ability and standing in the community and has a wide circle of friends. }

September 28, 1892, Mr. Harnden was married to Miss Mary E. Forriter, a daughter of J. C. and Lucretia Forriter, and they have one son, Leo V., born January 15, 1897, who is attending the Gibsonburg public schools. Religiously, they are members of the Methodist- Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Harnden was a trustee for three years. He is a member of

CHARLES N. DIEHL, who conducts a blacksmith business, wagon repair shop and deals in farm implements and engines, at the village of Colby, Sandusky County, is one of the enterprising and successful young business men of the place. He was born in Union County, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1876, and is a son of George W. and Rebecca (Kleckner) Diehl, farming people who still live in Union County.

Charles N. Diehl remained on the home farm in Union County until he was eighteen years old, but, finding himself better adapted for another line of industry, became an apprentice to the blacksmith and norse-shoeing trade and worked at the same for four years in Pennsylvania, He was then twenty-two years old and came to Bellevue, Ohio, where he worked for months after this he was fireman on an engine on the Nickel Plate Railroad, following which, in September, 1902, he came to Colby and two and a half years later, built his shop. Mr. Diehl has equipped his place of business with modern impfovements, putting in a gas engine, drills, saw, plane,and a forge with the latest 'pattern of hand blower. work and the promptness with which it is 'done, have brought his success.

In July, 1898, Mr. Diehl was married in Center County, Pennsylvania, to Miss Rose 'Corman, a daughter of James Corman, a farmer who still lives in Center County. Mr. and Mrs. Diehl have one son, Corman James, a bright school boy of fen years. Mr. Diehl is a member of the German Aid Association, of Bellevue.

GESSNER FAMILY - Louis Gessner, 'M. D., for many years of a long and useful life, was honored and esteemed through Sandusky County, and in many households his name is revered as a beloved member of the family. He was eminent in his profession and by Nature was, endowed with those qualities which endear human 'beings to each other. He was -

Although deprived of the protection and as- 'sistance of a father, Dr. Gessner had a noble, devoted mother, and after she had exerted every effort to advance her son, she unselfishly in' Vienna, who were willing to further him in his ambition to become a physician. great 'schools of that- city he completed his studies and determined to enter upon practice earn and therefore it. was. as a student on foot, with: his 'knapsack on. his shoulder, that the young doctor entered the Canton of Berne, in 1828. In the sameryear he married and in 1833, he cathe to America with his family and they lived mainly at Buffalo, New York, 'until

1837. In that year, with his family settled at Williamsville, he visited his old home in Switzerland, attending to some necessary business, and on his return in the following year, located in Lower Sandusky, Ohio. Thenceforward Dr. Gessner remained identified in his activities to Sandusky County, building up a large practice, acquiring property, rearing a most estimable family and finally passing away, leaving.an honored name behind. His death took place November 25, 1884.

' Dr. Gessner was associated as partner with the following named German physicians, who were located here for various periods at different times, viz.: Dr. Andrew Gross, a cousin

1838 and died in less than a year after his arrival. In 1839, after the death of Dr. Gross, Dr. John N. Beutler came to Lower Sandusky and entered into partnership with Dr. Gessner. Dr. Beutler removed to Kolida, Paulding County, Ohio, in 1841. Then came Dr. Christopher Castelhun, who formed a partnership with Dr. Gessner in 1846 and continued in practice here until 1848, when he removed to St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Otto Knause next located in Lower Sandusky and became a partner of Dr. Gessner in 1850 and continued until 1852. He married Louisa, the oldest daughter of Dr. Gessner, and in 1852 moved to Napoleon, Ohio. Then came Dr. F. Wilmer in 1852,. who became a partner of Dr. Gessner and remained such until 1855.

. Rubin, a physician of note, whose work on materia medica, issued in 1688, is still extant. In the wall of one of the oldest churches in Thun is a granite tablet erected to the memory of Dr. Samuel. Rubin, born 1648, and died 1720. She was a lady of education, refinement

To Dr. Louis Gessner and wife eleven children were born - Karl, Frederick, Louisa M., Emily, Matilda, Caroline, Gustavus A., Rudolph, and three that died in infancy. , Of the eight that reached

Gustavus A. Gessner

Louisa M., born at Thun, Switzerland, January 16, 1832, was twice married - first, to Dr. Otto Knause, who died young, leaving two little daughters. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Knause took her children to Germany to live with their grandfather Knause. After an absence of about two years, Mrs. Knause returned to Fremont and married Henry Dorr of 'Riley Township. Six children were born to the second union, none surviving. She died November 26, 1906.

Caroline, born March 22, 1841, died January 6, 1883. Of four sons born to her only two are living - Robert Beeler of Holgate, Ohio, and George Dorr of Fremont, Ohio.

Of the above family, Dr: Gustavus A. Gessner is a survivor. Dr. Gessner is serving as postmaster of the city of Fremont, Ohio, having retired from medical practice, after a long period in the profession. He has taken a very active part in political life and in 1899 was appointed postmaster, a public office which he has filled in the most efficient manner. Dr. Gessner resides at No. 803 Garrison Street, Fremont.

By a second marriage, to the widow of August Lahr, Dr. Louis Gessner had four children born to him, viz: Ida, wife of William Nickel; Laura (deceased), who was married to Louis Balsizer ; Minnie, who married Charles Mierke, and Moritz, who lives on the old homestead in Riley Township.

Louis S. J. GESSNER was born September 25, 1830. He came to Lower: Sandusky July 16, 1838, entered the common schools there and remained until 1846. He was then employed by George Brown until December 17, 1867, and later was sent to F. Runge, pharmacist, located on Hester Street, corner Eldrige, New York City. May 21, 1848, and taught school in the Mowry settlement for three months. In the spring of 1849 he worked on his father's farm until the summer of 1852, then entered the printing office of C. J. Orton and worked as a compos- itor until July 31, 1854, when he left for Europe. He studied medicine at Heidelberg and in Prague, Bohemia, and returned to Fremont on January 7, 1859, and commenced the practice of medicine.

He was commissioned assistant surgeon 37th Regt., O. Vol. Inf., July 8, 1862; served in West Virginia until December 29, 1862, when he resigned his commission and returned home, but could not long remain at home, while the war lasted. He served one month at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. In the fall of 1863 he went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he applied for a position as contract surgeon, and was assigned to Brown Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky, for duty, and on December 13, was assigned for duty to Hospital No.. 11, Nashville, Tennessee, and was discharged April 25, 1865.

He married Catherine Rust November 17, 1859. Two children were born of this union - Haidee, wife of Edward R. Young of Toledo, Ohio, and Mame, wife of George W. Lesher of Fremont. Ohio.

Gustavus A. GESSNER was born March II, 1844, in the house then owned and occupied by Dr. Louis Gessner on Arch Street, opposite the present residence of C. M. Fouke. He attended the public schools, was clerk in the drug store owned by Dr. Wilmer and afterwards by Dr. Gessner. He worked in "Courier" printing office with George Homan and Paul Knerr. He was appointed clerk in the post office while S. M. Ellenwood was postmaster. He took position in drug store of J. B. VanDoren at Fostoria, Ohio, and remained there until the outbreak of the Civil War. He then enlisted April 21, 1861, in Captain Blackman's Company H, of the 21st O. Vol. Inf., under Lincoln's first call for volunteers. He participated in the campaign under Cox in the Kanawha Valley, during the summer of 1861; was mustered out of three months' service August 25, 1861; reenlisted in Company H, 72nd O. Vol. Inf. (Buckland's Regiment), served as sergeant, color-bearer and hospital steward of the 72nd Regiment from December 9, 1861, to Septem= ber 10, 1865; was captured at Shiloh and severely wounded in a successful attempt to escape; was again captured in the unfortunate Guntown raid; and was held prisoner at Andersonville, Georgia, Charleston and Florence, South Carolina. After the close of the war he went to the Medical Department, University of Michigan, and practiced medicine for a short time with his brother, Dr. Louis S. J. Gessner. He was engaged in drug business with Dr. William Caldwell at Elmore for a short time, but returned to Fremont in 1869 and entered the employ of S. Buckland & Son, as pharmacist. With Drs. John B. and Robert H. Rice and Stephen and Ralph Buckland he founded the Trommer extract of malt business in 1875; was connected with the American Carbon Company of Noblesville, Indiana, for several years. He was appointed postmaster at Fremont, Ohio, by President McKinley, March 19, 1899, and reappointed by President Roosevelt in 1904 and again in 1909. ,

He was married in 1867 to Corolin E. Lawton, daughter of William H. and Betsey Ryder Lawton, born at Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York. Mrs. Gessner was a teacher in the public schools in Toledo, Genoa and Elmore.

Four children resulted from this union: Two sons - Dorr Lawton and Gustavus A., Jr., --and two daughters - Gertrude Lisette (married Dan A. Brown), and Bessie Hope (deceased). The eldest son, Dorr Lawton Gessner, is assistant postmaster at Fremont, Ohio, and the younger son, G. A. Gessner, Jr., is a civil engineer and resides in Toledo, Ohio.

RopoLteHus C. GESSNER was born at Lower Sandusky (now Fremont, Ohio,) December 5, 1845. He was educated in the public schools ; worked on the farm for some years, and also followed carpentering. He was married at Genoa, Ohio, to Mary Phillips, by whom he had one child, a daughter, Vadnor, born at Genoa, Ohio, August 28, 1872, who is now the wife of Wm. Kingdon, a well-to-do merchant of Edmunds, Washington. Mr. Gessner's first, wife died May 28, 1873, and shortly afterwards he returned to Fremont, Ohio, where he married his present wife, Lena (Dunning). The children of the second marriage are Corinne D., born December 17,:1877, married February 14, 1905, to Henry Glass, now engaged in farming at Fort Angeles, Washington; May M., bor: December 31, 1880, married June 30, 1900, to J. C. Farrell,.a prosperous merchant of Anacortes, Washington.

FREDERICK B. GESSNER, born at Buffalo, N. Y., August 20, 1834, was apprenticed at an early age to Isaac Sharp, a boss carpenter. He went to California in 1855, and has not been heard from directly since 1868, but is said to be living in the southeastern part of Washington or northwestern part of Idaho.

. AMELIA (GESSNER) Rust, born at Buffalo, N. Y., August 16, 1836, married Peter Rust, who died in 1895. Of the eleven children which resulted from this union but two survive, Theodore and Reginald, who, with their mother, are engaged in farming near Williston, Ohio.

HENRY WILBERT, proprietor of a fine farm of 137 acres in Townsend Township, is a prominent citizen of this section, of which he has been a resident for more than a quarter of a century. He was born March 15, 1860, in Rensselaer County, New York, and is a son of Nicholas and Catherine (Wyant) Wilbert.

Nicholas Wilbert was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1852, locating in Troy, New York, where in the following year he married. About 1864 he and his family removed to Erie County, Ohio, in which location they remained for a number of years, or until 1881, when they came to Sandusky County. Here he first rented a part of the John Whitmore farm in Townsend Township, but subsequently bought forty acres from Burton Beebe, which was known as the Holbrooks farm, and where he now resides. His wife, Catherine, who was a native of Rensselaer . County, New York, died in 1890. She had born her husband the following children: Anna, wife of Van Sutton, of Erie County, Ohio; Catherine, wife of John Bruckner, of Sandusky, Ohio; Henry, who is the subject of the present article; Edward, of Green Creek Township, and Jacob, who resides on the home farm.

business at Whitmore Station, and while thus occupied also acted as deputy postmaster and as station agent for the Lake Erie and Western Railroad. In the spring of 1889 he sold out his business to Christopher Wiedel and since then has been engaged in farming. In rgo1 he bought twenty acres of land in Townsend Township from Chauncey Levisee, and in the following year purchased 109 acres of the Joseph Bookmyer farm. In 1905 he bought the J. E. Beebe place of eight acres, on which he now resides. During the last ten years he has bought and sold a number of farms, and as already stated, his present holdings amount to 137 acres. Besides managing his own farm he superintends a farm which his wife inherited from the John Whitmore.and Walter Davlin estates.

Mr. Wilbert was married March 25, 1884, to 'Carrie, daughter of J. W. Ruliff, and granddaughter of John Whitmore of Townsend Township. They have two children, namely: Catherine, who is the wife of Archy Holloway, of Bucyrus, Ohio; and Joseph, who is residing at home. The family attend the North Ridge Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr. Wilbert is a Democrat and has taken an active interest in the affairs of his township. He was one of the organizers and is treasurer of the Vickery Telephone Company and is a wideawake and progressive citzien, a useful factor in the business life of the community and one who stands for a high plane of moral rectitude.

E. L. TRIFFIT, who has been a resident of Gibsonburg, Ohio, since October, 1908, is editor.and proprietor of the Gibsonburg Derrick, a newsy publication which is conducted on a high plane and makes its appearance weekly.

Mr. Triffit' was born in Lodi, Medina County, Ohio, and was graduated from the public schools and Lodi High School. He completed'a four years' classical course in the University of Wooster, graduating in 1904 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, aad while in that institution was for a time editor of the college paper. After graduating he spent two years in attendance at the Western Reserve Law School, at Cleveland, Ohio. Upon jeaving that city he engaged in newspaper and advertising work, being.at one time advertising manager of the Roderick Lean Manufacturing Company, of Mansfield, Ohio. October 1, 1908, he purchased the Gibsonburg Derrick and has since made his home in that village. In 1907 Mr. Triffit was married to Miss Eleanor Olive Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Wright, of Perth, Ontario, Canada.

JOHN CHARLES MOOK, manager of the Colby elevator, which is owned by the W. H. Gardner Grain and Mill Company, of Bellevue, is one of York Township's representative men. He was born on the farm of sixty-seven acres, on which he lives and of which he is part owner, in York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, April 14, 1882. His parents were John Henry and Catherine (Swartz) Mook, and he is an only child.

The late John Henry Mook was born on the county line in York Township, two miles southwest of Bellevue, and died August 28, 1906. His father, Conrad Mook, was born in Union County, Pennsylvania, and came to Sandusky County when a young man. He was a preacher of the Evangelical faith and was also a doctor. After coming to Ohio his life was spent in York Township. John Henry Mook married Catherine Swartz. She was born in Union County, Pennsylvania, as was also her father, John Swartz, who settled in York Township, on a farm two miles east of the Mook homestead, when she was six years old. Mrs. Mook still survives and is one of the well known and highly esteemed ladies of this section, being active in church work and having a wide social circle.

John Charles Mook grew to manhood in York Township, attended the country schools and assisted on the home farm until he became manager of the elevator at Colby, having filled that position for about two and a half years. On November 25, 1902, Mr. Mook was married to Miss Bessie Slater, a daughter of Lewis C. and Anna M. (Heath) Slater. She was born and reared in Huron County and her parents now reside in Seneca County. Mr. and Mrs. Mook have one son, Glenn Charles. Mr. Mook is a member of the United Brethren Church at

Colby and is president of the adult Bible Class in the Sunday school. He belongs also to the German Aid Society at Bellevwe. Mr. Mook has been somewhat active in politics and was first appointed ditch superintendent, and in 1907, on the Republican ticket, was elected to the office for a term of four years.

HON. J. L. DONNELS, formerly mayor of Gibsonburg and now one of the town's most highly esteemed retired citizens, still retains his valuable farm in Madison Township, which contains 120 acres Of well developed: land. Mr. Donnels was born March 30, 1842, in Scott Township, Sandusky County, Ohio.

The death of his father, when he was only thirteen years of age, made Mr. Donnels dependent upon his own efforts at an earlier period than would otherwise have been the case, and in boyhood he learned to work hard and 'continuously. He learned the science of farming and applied it successfully when he came into possession of property of his own, and also became a saw-mill worker and continued to be interested in the saw-mill industry until he retired from active labor. He cleared up his Madison Township farm, with the exception of fifteen acres, which is still timbered. This place he improved with excellent farm buildings and put in enough tiling to thoroughly drain. theland for cultivation. While engaged in this work, which Mr. Donnels denominates as his "rest''? work, his main business was in the sawmill and lumber industry. Mr. Donnels is one of the stockholders in the Home Banking Company and also in the Toledo Biscuit Company, of Toledo, Ohio. He has always been an active citizen and one whose character and attainments have inspired the confidence of his fellow citizens. For a period of nine years he was a justice of the peace in Madison Township, served as trustee and in other offices for years, and after taking up his permanent residence at Gibsonburg, was elected mayor and served most usefully in this office for two years. During the Civil War he. was a member of Company H, 169th Ohio Vol. Inf., and after the expiration of his term of enlistment, was honorably discharged on* September 13, 1864. -He was corporal of his company.

Mr.' Donnels was married (first) April 6, 1863, to Catherine Bowser, who died September 30, 1883. She was a daughter of George and Rosanna (Fickes) Bowser. Five children were born to that union, namely: Emma, who married John Vantine, and has one daughter, Winnie; Minnie A., who married David Blausey and has one son, William; Lewis, who married Susan Lattimore, daughter of Thomas Lattimore, and has two children, Clarence and Alta; Elma, who married David Biddle, and has one child, Elsie; and Mattie, who married Henry Blausey, and has two children, Harold and Neta. Mr. Donnels was married (second) October 11, 1888, to Mrs. Jennie Ridley, a daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Mowery)

NELSON R. TUCKER, one of Sandusky Township's well known and substantial citizens, who has resided on Dickinson Street, Fremont, since 1896, owns two finely cultivated farms, about one hundred and forty acres in Section 16, Sandusky Township, which land he developed from the wilderness by his own industry. Mr. Tucker was born April 16, 1823, in Jefferson County, New York, and is a son of Nathaniel B. and Mary A. (Ballard) Tucker.

The Tucker family is of English extraction and the record is that three brothers came to the American colonies in 1630 and settled in New England. Caleb Tucker, the grandfather of Nelson R. and Nathaniel B., the father, were both natives of Massachusetts and both were soldiers in the War of 1812. Caleb Tucker married Miss Kate Billins at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Nathaniel B. was the oldest son and was born October 29, 1797.

Nathaniel B. Tucker moved to Jefferson County, New York, where he married June 16, 1821, Mary A. Ballard. She was a daughter of Rufus and Mary (Swartwout) Ballard, and a granddaughter of Thomas Ballard, a soldier of the Revolution. Mrs. Tucker, mother of Nelson R., died September 19, 1892, aged ninety-one years, three months and nineteen days. Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel B. Tucker moved to St. Lawrence County, New York, when the subject of this sketch was two and a half years old. In 1839 the family moved to Sandusky County, Ohio, settling in what is now Rice Township, on the Port Clinton Road, about five miles north of what is now known as Fremont, but was then calied Lower Sandusky. They were pioneers there. Nathaniel B. Tucker had a good trade, being a tanner, currier and shoemaker. and the latter business he followed more or less all his life until advanced age prevented any further effort. He died at the home of his son, Nelson R., in Sandusky Township, July 15, 1884, when aged nearly eighty-eight years. In his early political life he was a Whig, but later became identified with the Republican party. Of his children there are two survivors: Nelson R. and Henry H.., the latter also a resident of 'Fremont.

Nelson R. Tucker was reared in St. Lawrence County and went to school through the woods, to the little log schoolhouse, a mile distant from his home. Those were the days when the teachers were "boarded 'rcund'"' and when it came his father's turn, the family felt quite elated, taking pleasure in entertaining the guest. Opportunities were rather meager, however, but Mr. Tucker laid the foundation of his education there and subsequently added all that proved needful. When he was seventeen years of age he helped hew the logs and construct what was the first real schoolhouse in what is now Rice Township, on land donated by his father for this purpose. He originalls had 240 acres in his farm on the Oak Harbor Road in Sandusky Township, of which he cleared and stumped 200 acres. He later sold off 100 acres of this farm to his brother-in-law, I. H. Burgoon. In addition to clearing his own land Mr. Tucker did much pioneer work for others and helped also to develop different parts of the township, road making and _ bridge building being necessary public improvements which increased the value of each farm. From the time he first settled in the woods of Sandusky Township he began the improvement of the road past his farm and his activity led to his repeated election as supervisor of his district, in which capacity he served nine successive terms. While the incumbent of that office he began hauling stone for the road, taking the initiative in the establishment of the Oak Harbor Pike, one of the the county. After making a start, he procured enough signatures of property owners to make a tax levy for the purpose of completing the pike, and although his ninth term as supervisor expired before its final completion, he continued active in its building until the end. When the people realized the benefits derived they gave him credit for it in large measure and many thought the road should be designated "the Tucker Pike." A

Mr. Tucker was married (first) March 16, 1843, to Miranda Burgoon, who died February 3. 1895. She was born in Maryland and in 1829, in her childhood, accompanied her parents to Sandusky Township, Sandusky County. They were very early settlers and her father, Peter Burgoon, was one of the well known men of his neighborhood. The children born to this marriage are: Martha, who lives in Sandusky Township; Rachel E., who is the wife of Peter Kleinhans, of Toledo, Ohio; julia J., who is the wife of Daniel Hartman, of Swanton, Ohio; Hattie, who is the wife of Charles Baker, of Fremont: Lillie V., who is the wife of George W. Strang, of Toledo; and Charles G. and John P., of Sandusky Township.

The children of Rachel E. (Kleinhans) are Nelson, Sadie, Rodney (deceased) and Bessie; those of Julia J. (Hartman) are Ralph, Rawley, Roscoe and Roswell (twins) and Mabel; Hattie (Baker) has a son Glenn; Lillie V. (Strang) has two children, Ray and Paul; Charles G. married Minnie Nowlan and they have the following children, Harry, Mae, FImer (who. was drowned) and Ada, John P. Tucker married Fannie Hartman and they have three children, Esther. Thelma and Nelson R. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson R. Tucker had five children who died, two of whom reached maturity and were married, Mary and Nellie. Mary Tucker married John Parrish and had four children, who were raised by the subject of this record, namely: Perry, Foster, Boswell and Goldie. Nellie Tucker married Robert Struble and they had a son, Carl Struble, who lives in Toledo.

On September 7, 1898, Mr. Tucker was married (second) to Mrs. Lydia P. Benedict, who was born in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, June 30, 1834, and is a daughter of William and Olive (Wiltsey) Patrick. Her father was born in Connecticut and her mother at~Auburn, New York. In 1835 she was brought to Huron County, Ohio, by her parents and was reared and educated there, when only fifteen years of age becoming a teacher. Mrs. Tucker taught school for three years and in the meanwhile developed her own literary talent, which has resulted in much creditable work, eSpecially in connection with the W. C. T. U. and also with the Sandusky County Pioneer and Historical Association, before which she has read several very interesting papers. Mrs. Tucker in 1909 inaugurated the idea of an Old Ladies Fair Society. The first meeting was held at the Sandusky County Fair grounds on August 18, 1909, and fifty names were registered as members. The object of the society is to have exhibits of ancient relics anc a display of old time coverlets and quilts. There were about fifty coverlets and quilts on exhibition and a good many highly prized relics - one coverlet owned by Mrs. Leroy Deemer, which is over one hundred years old and well preserved. drew first prize. The officers of the

Mrs. J. D. Alexander, secretary, and Mrs. Zoe A. Long, treasurer. The many quaint and beautiful treasures of a half century ago are as satisfying and refreshing as an old time garden of lavender and mignonette, and they bring to the rushing modern days the same suggestion with the same fragrant memories: Mrs. Tucker was the widow of Charles M. Benedict, to whom she was married on November 6, 1856. Their children were, Olive C., who is now deceased; and Milbrv E., a prominent business man of Green Springs, Ohio. For over forty years Mrs. Tucker has been a member of the First Baptist Church at Clyde. In politics Mr. Tucker is a Democrat but . has Prohibition leanings and encourages his wife in her active work in the W. C. T. U. He has never been eager to fill public offices, but accepted that of coroner and served acceptably for four years. When he was eighteen years old he was made captain of a local militia company and served as such as*long as the military organization existed, a matter of some years. The last time the company was called out at general muster was for enlistments for the Mexican War, in which several from his company served.

NATHAN T. WILDER. vice president of the Clyde Kraut Company, at Clyde. Ohio, is a retired farmer who still maintains his home on his farm of fifty-nine acres, situated in Green Creek Township, on the electric railroad. Mr. Wilder was born on his father's farm in Granger Township, Medina County, Ohio, April 17, 1843. His parents were William and Elsie T. (Hatehy Walder.

William Wilder was born in Connecticut and Was a young man when he left his native place to seek his fortune in what was then considered the far distant West. With his ax on his shoulder he walked to Ohio, his intention being to settle on land which he could cultivate and improve. This he found in Cranger Township, Medina County. where he secured sixty acres. It was then in the wilderness. practically an uncleared one, his only neighbors being Indians. Here he made his home the rest of his life, developing in the course of years, a valuable property. The bountiful apple orchards on the old homestead grew from seed that he had carried from the old Connecticut home. He lived to the age of seventy-seven years, dving in 1866, from the effects of a fall. Three years after coming to Medina County, he was married to Elsie T. Hatch. She was born near Number Nine. Canandaigua County. New York, and her father at one time owned all of North Bristol Township in that county. When the family migsated to Medina County she took her turn at walking, on the journey, as was the custom with the early settlers in their efforts to relieve the strain on the overtaxed teams. She survived her husband for many years, her death occurring at Clyde. Ohio, February &, 1891, when aged ninety-one vears and eleven months. The following children were born to Wilham and Elsie T. Wilder: Lucy. who was the wife of Homer Johnson; William H., who is deceased; Calvin H., now deceased, who was a Baptist preacher; Annis A., who was the wife of S. N. Welton; Charlotte E., who is the widow of S. H. Rhodes; Marlin Joseph, who is deceased; Saphronia L., who is the widow of D. H. Beeman; James Alonzo, who is president of the Clyde Kraut Company ; Nathan Thomas; and Janette, deceased. Nathan Thomas Wilder, who was named for his two grandfathers, spent his boyhood on the home farm and gained his first knowledge of books in the little old red schoolhouse near his home, but later had better advantages in the graded school at Painesville, Ohio. He remained on the farm until he was twenty-eight years of age, in 1871 coming to Clyde. Here he was engaged in a life and fire insurance business until 1882, after which he became interested in a grocery business with his older brother, Alonzo James Wilder, and was concerned in this enterprise for thirteen years. In 1890 the Wilders established the kraut business, which has developed into one of great importance. After retiring from the grocery firm, Mr. Wilder became manager of this new enterprise and continued in that position for eight years, retiring from active work in 1903. In the meanwhile, by 1900, the kraut business had assumed such large proportions that incorporation became advisable and the following officers were elected to carry on the Clyde Kraut Company: <A. J. Wilder, president; Nathan T. Wilder, vice president; and W. W. Wilder, secretary and treasurer. This plant is the largest in the United States for the manufacture of their specialty, the capacity being 1000 pounds a day, and employment being given to 100 men. Shipping facilities are excellent, the plant being situated on the L. S. & M.S. and the Big Four Railroads. A branch house for the manufacture of kraut and pickles has been established at Jackson, Michigan. Mr. Wilder enjoys country life, but he does not personally carry on farming, his fields being under rental. He purchased his land from the Limon Miller estate. The farmhouse stands somewhat back from the highway, and although built in 1858 it is yet exceedingly comfortable and its location, on the electric road, makes possible the combining of rural and town life.

On December 27, 1866, Mr. Wilder was married to Miss Sarah A. Nettleton,.a daughter of Samuel Clark Nettleton, and they have five children, as follows: Nettie A., who married Rev. H. C. Cunningham, has two children - Edna Louise and Nathan Wilder; they reside in Erie County; Edna C. married B.'E. Babeock, who is in the kraut business and is a resident of Phelps, New York; Martha E., who is the wife of D. E. Fuller, residing at Clyde, has two children - Karl and Annis; Clark N., who resides at Clyde, married Helen Snyder; Fannie E., who resides at Clyde, married John W. Becker. Mr. Wilder and family belong to the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Republican. He is also a Mason. and is identified with the Clyde lodge.

ADAM ROTH, who is engaged in general farming on a tract of eighty-five acres located in Section 12, Sandusky Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, was born March 18, 1848, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and is a son of John and Lena (Bash) Roth.

John Roth was born and reared in Germany, where he became a linen weaver by trade, and was married to Lena Bash, who was also born and reared in that country. He subsequently brought his family to America. After spending one year at Buffalo, New York, he came to Fremont, where for a time he rented land. This he cultivated until he purchased a tract of fifty acres in Ballville Township, where his death occurred when in his seventy-third year. His wife died at the age of sixty-four years. They were the parents of ten children, of whom but four are living, namely: Adam, the subject of this record; Elizabeth, the wife of William Truesdale, of Lima, Ohio; Peter and John, of Green Springs, Ohio. :

Adam Roth was five years of age when his parents came to the United States; the voyage was made in a sailing vessel occupying eleven weeks. Mr. Roth was reared on his father's farm in Sandusky County, Ohio, and obtained but a limited amount of schooling, the greater part of his time having been devoted to the work on the farm. He has always followed agriculture and purchased his present farm of eighty-five acres in 1908. He makes a spec- ialty of cabbage, and for the past two years has won first prize at the Bellevue Fair, the amount he raised on seven and one-fourth acres in 1908 having sold for $1,632.

November 19, 1878, Mr. Roth married Elizabeth Gadeger, who was born January 29, 1856, in Germany, and is a daughter of August and Mary (Johnson) Gadeger. Her father, with whom she came to this country at the age of thirteen, and who located in Fremont, Ohio, in August, 1869, was a blacksmith by trade. He died July 29, 1904, aged eighty-four years, his wife's death having occurred in Germany, when her daughter, Mrs. Roth, was but one year old.

Mr. and Mrs. Roth are the parents of the following children: Emma, who is the wife of William Dohms, and has one son, Howard; Lewis, who married Edith Dymond, and has two children, Richard and Russel; Henry, who married Maude Lyons, and has one child, William; Caroline, who married George Bower, and has a son, Walter; Carl; Hattie; Elizabeth; Adam; and three who died in infancy. In politics, Mr. Roth is identified with the Democratic party. He is a member of the German Lutheran Church and also of the German Aid Society.

and surgeon, who has been in active practice at Vickery, Ohio, for almost two decades and is a leading citizen of the village, was born January 3, 1859, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and is a dusky County in the fall of 1859, settling near Fremont, where the father engaged in agricultural pursuits. There were five sons in his family and four of these are practicing physicians, namely: David F., of Toledo, Ohio; Charles J., of Genoa, Ohio; A. L., of Martin, Ohio; and John H., of Vickery. The fifth son, William T., is a United States mail clerk, traveling ont of Toledo.

John H. Bowman attended the country schools and the Fremont High School and in 1878 he was graduated in the commercial department from the Fostoria Academy. For the five following years he taught school in Kansas and during a part of this time he read medicine in the office of his brother, Dr. David E. Bowman, who was then located in that state. About 1887, he returned to Ohio to complete his medical studies, entering the Columbus Medical College and graduating in the class of 1890. He came to Vickery in the fall of 1890, and after a few months of practice at Fairview, opened his office in this place and has built up a large and profitable clientele. Dr. Bowman is a member of the Sandusky County and the Ohio State Medical Associations and he keeps apace with the advancement in ideas and practice, made by his profession.

In April, 1891, Dr. Bowman was married to Miss Emma L. Goodhart, daughter of Daniel Goodhart, of Batesville, Ohio, and they have two daughters: Mary C. and Willie Pauline. Dr. Bowman and wife attend the Methodist Episcopal Church at Vickery. Fraternally he is identified with the M. W. A,

JOHN H. VICKERY, residing on his valuable farm of 120 acres, which is situated one mile north of the village of Colby, in York Township, Sandusky County, was born on a farm in Erie County, Ohio, November 6, 1861, and is a son of John and Mary Jane (Parker) Vickery.

John Vickery was born near the birthplace of his wife, in England, and both came to America and were subsequently married at Bellevue, Ohio. To them were born the following children: Thomas, who is deceased; John Henry, of York Township; James P., who is a practicing lawyer at Bellevue, Ohio; and two who died in infancy.

John H. Vickery was nine years old when his mother died. The family had moved to York Township when he was about five years old and the father purchased the farm which he subsequently sold to his son, John H. The father was married a second time, the lady béing Marv

Vickery was educated in the country schools of York Township and he has made farming his main business in life. Ie married Miss Emma McKeen, who was born in Clinton County, Iowa, and was three years old when

;her parents moved to Seneca County, Ohio, where she was reared. She is a daughter of John and Mary (Shutts) McKeen, who now resides at Green Springs, Sandusky County. Mr. and Mrs. Vickery have two children, John Henry, Jr., and Bernice May. Mr. Vickery takes no active part in politics, but he is known as a good and useful citizen.

WILHELM MYERS, a general farmer ancl well known citizen of Scott Townslup, residing on a well improved farm of forty acres in Section 29, was born on this farm, which is a part of ithe old Myers homestead, on June 27, 1864. His parents were Christian and Magdalena (Schweitzer) Myers. There were four children born to the parents of our subject: Elizabeth (Stondinger) and they live near Rising Sun, in Wood County; the second was an infant who died while the family was enroute to this country and was buried at sea; the third also died at sea; and Wilhelm, the youngest. A half-brother, Albert S. Myers, lives on an adjoining farm.

Wilhelm Myers was educated in the local schools and in the university at Ada, Ohio, where he spent one term. His main business in life has been farming, and for a number of years past he has been very successful at this occupation. After his marriage, which occurred in 1895, he remained on the home place and looked after his parents as long as they lived. His mother died August 18, 1895, and his father on February 21, 1909. They were both buried in Trinity Cemetery.

The original Myers homestead contained 160 acres, but of this amount Wilhelm Myers has but forty. He first cleared twenty acres, located in Section 29, which he later sold to D. S. Loe. He then bought forty acres in Section 32, thirty of which were cleared, the renmainder being in timber. [le subsequently cleared this tract also and later ploughed all the forty acres. the newly cleared acres being, of course, virgin ground. This latter fortyacre tract he sold to Ed. Master. Woaile engaged in this work he resided on his present farm. He still has five acres in standing timber and also owns four oil wells. He raises principally corn, wheat and oats, and raises some stock for his own use and some for sale. He tile-drained the three farms in Scott Township above mentioned, about one hundred acres in all, a task representing years of the hardest toil. He is the owner of two separate farms, having one of ninety-nine acres in Jackson Township, Paulding County, which property he has improved with a fine set of farm buildings, but he has never lived on the place, his nephew operating it under lease. He is also a stockholder in the Prairie Depot Bank, of Prairie Depot.

On September 19, 1895, Mr. Myers was married to Miss Ida E. Freese, a daughter of Adam and Margaret (Beech) Freese (both deceased). Mrs. Myers was born in Vernon Township, Crawford County, Ohio. "Mr. and Mrs. Myers attend the Trinity Evangelical Church. In politics the former is a Democrat, as was his father. For a number of years he has been an Odd Fellow and has passed all the chairs in the lodge at Rising Sun. As a useful and enterprising: citizen of approved character, Mr. Myers has the full respect of his fellow townsmen.

CALVIN C. COLLIER, one of York Township's best known citizens, who has lived on his valuable farm of eighty acres, situated one mile east of Colby, for thirty-nihe years, was born July 18, 1866, at Bellevue, Ohio, and is a son of George and Mattie (Romig) Collier.

George Collier was born in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, and when thirty years old came to Ohio and located at Bellevue. There he was married to Mattie Romig, who was born in Thompson Township, Seneca County, Ohio. In 1870 the family moved to the farm on which his son still resides and resided here until his death, which occurred June 30, 1909. His widow still survives and is one of the township's esteemed and venerable ladies.

Calvin C. Collier was mainly reared in York Township, as he was four years old when his parents brought him here. Ue attended the country schools through boyhood and has made farming his business in life. He has made many improvements on his place and one of these is the fine frame house, roomy and comfortable, which he built in the summer of 1g05.

Mr. Collier married Miss Augusta Ladd, who was born in Christian County, Illinois, and who is a daughter of Noyes Ladd. They have four children: Alta, Lulu, Herbert and Irwin. Mr. and Mrs, Collier are members of the Reformed Church. He has never given himself many vacations, but the great exposition of 1909, at Seattle, Washington, attracted him and on July 28th of that year, he started on his journey to the Pacific coast, with the intention of making a visit of several weeks.

CHAREIES T. MOORE, owner of 160 acres of fine farming land in Ballville Township, on which he resides, conducting the Walnut Grove Dairy, also has valuable property in Fremont and is one of Sandusky County's substantial citizens. He was born on the farm on which he lives, March 24, 1846, and is a son of James and Harriet (Patterson) Moore.

The paternal ancestors of Mr. Moore came to America from Dalkeith, Scotland, the first settler being Samuel Moore, who lived in New Jersey as early as 1760. Evidence is given that the family later moved across the line to Pennsylvania, as family records show that in 1814, David Moore, son of Samuel, moved to Ross County, Ohio, from Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The Moores came to Sandusky County in 1818 and David Moore built a log cabin on the west side of the Sandusky River, about half a mile southwest of the village of Ballville. He was one of the enterprising men of the time and place, for he built a saw-mill and also a grist-null, both very necessary conveniences for the pioneers. His death was caused bv falling in his mill, December 24, 1829. He had married Flizabeth Davis, who died July 1, 1826. Their children were George, James, John, Mrs. Eliza Justice, and Mrs. Sarah Fields. All came to live in Sandusky County, but George «subsequently returned to Ross County, where he died in 1850. John Moore was a miller at Ballville for many years and died there in 1876.

James Moore, father of Charles T., was born in 1809, in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, and accompanied his father to Ross County and later to Sandusky County. He assisted in the mill and after his father's accidental death, he conducted it for a number of years. He was a man of sterling character and of great enterprise and public spirit. He contributed largely to the construction of the Fremont and Fostoria Plank Road, realizing the great importance of this highway, and also to the building of the Lake Erie & Louisville, now the Lake Erie & Western Railroad. During the Civil \War he was liberal in his contributions to assist in putting down the Rebellion aud was particularly interested in the noble charity which established permanent help for the widows and orphans of soldiers. James Moore died December 6, 1873, and was buried at Oakwood Cemetery. In 1832 he married Harriet Patterson, who was born May 17, 1810, at Syracuse, New York, and who was a daughter of Reuben and Eunice (Danforth) Patterson. The Pattersons came from New York to Sandusky County in 1816 and lived for a time in Fort Stepheson. f

Mrs. Harriet Patterson Moore's ancestors emigrated from Framington, England. in 1634, in the ship "Griffin" from London to Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Danforth genealogy gives an account of many heroic and charitable deeds of the early progenitors of the family, most of whom were professional men in high standing. The same work contains portraits of some of those now living in luxury in New England and California. Mrs. Harriet Patterson Moore was but six years old when her parents came from New York to Sandusky County in 1816. She was remarkably active in mind and body, a very intelligent, charitable and _ self-sacrificing wife and mother, and lived a long life of good deeds. She died in her eighty-niuth year.

To James Moore and wife were born the following children: Orvin, born January 1, i833. was drowned in the Sandusky River in IS38: Juliette, married William) Rice. a merchant of Fremont, in 1858; Leroy, born December 28, 1836, married Mary J. Dawley in 1869 and died July 29, 1888; Celiette. born January 16, 1838, died July 11, 1854; Manville, born ta 1842, was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg and died from the wounds received July 12, 1863; Charles T. is the subject of this sketch;

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Charles T. Moore was educated in the Ballville and Fremont schools and the University of Michigan, and assisted his father in the dairy business almost from boyhood, and witii this long experience, has developed an industry that is one of considerable importance in Ballville Township.

Mr. Moore married Miss Jennie M. Huber, daughter of Lewis and Mary Jane (Fleming) Huber, of Pleasant Plains, Illinois. The father of Mrs. Moore was born in 1810 at Lancaster, Ohio, and died December 17, 1883. Her mother was born in 1819 and married in 1838. The children born to the Huber family were the following: Henry and Ferguson, both deceased ; George and Martha, also deceased ; Lewis A.; Jennie M.; Addie, who married John M. Fleming; and. Margaret B., who married Newton Rawles.

Lewis Huber's ancestors emigrated from Zurich, Switzerland, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1749. He was a descendant of King Henry Huber of Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. His grandfather, Henry Huber, purchased a large body of land in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and was also engaged in the manufacture of wagons and carriages. In the struggle for his adopted country's liberty he was a zealous and active advocate for independence. He bore a militia captain's commission during colonial and revolutionary wars. His not being educated in the English language kept him from coming forward as a public character. He was a man of strict management of business and religious affairs.

Lewis Huber's father, John Huber, came to Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1802: he bought land and was successful in agriculture and the live stock business. Lewis, the youngest of six sons, was a merchant for forty years of his life at Lancaster, Ohio, also at Lithopolis. After his marriage to Jane Fleming he was engaged in the live stock business and farming in Pickaway County in conrection with other enterprises. Naturally vizorous and elevated mind for a merchant, active and strict member of the Presbyterian Church, being elder for fifty years of his life and superintendent of Sabbath school ten years, loved and esteemed by all who knew him, generous and charitable to all, indulgent Christian husband and father.

Jane Fleming Huber was of sterling character, ready to help all in need, a loving, indulgent wife and mother, remarkable in her management of household and family.

Jennie Huber Moore has always been an active worker in the Presbyterian Church and a liberal contributor to charity; a hospitable home maker, and an indulgent, affectionate wife and mother, possessing a refined and artistic nature. Her mother's ancestors came from Flemington, Scotland. They were landlords and professional men. Many hold high political offices in Virginia and West Virginia, at_ the present time.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Moore were three in number, the two survivors being: Julia and Huber. The eldest, Mabel,. died when one year old. Mr. Moore takes no very active interest in politics, but all members of his family have been good citizens and promoters of all that tends to contribute to the general welfare.

ROBERT. A. FORGRAVE, a retired farmer and substantial citizen, of Scott Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, where he owns an excellent farm of sixty acres, is also an honored veteran of the Civil War 'and a member of the G. A. R. post at Bradner. He was born in Perry County, Ohio, November 27, 1842, and is a son of Robert W. and Mary (Kuhn) Forgrave, the latter of whom died in 1844, while the former survived until February I, 1881.

Robert A. Forgrave was educated at the Thornville school in Perry County, and had scarcely left there before he enlisted for service in the Civil War. He entered Company G, 8th O. Vol. Inf., under Capt. William Haynes, and during his long period of service he participated in twenty-seven important battles. He subsequently enlisted in Company K, 126th O. Vol. Inf., in which regiment he served until the close of the war. Mr. Forgrave escaped with only a slight wound, although during the

After the close of his military service, Mr. Forgrave returned to Scott Township and engaged in teaching school, after his marriage, at Oak Harbor. He ihen settled on the farm of sixty acres on which he has since lived, twenty of which he cleared. He put up all the buildings now standing and did some of the first under-draining that was ever done in the township. Mr. Forgrave has twelve oil wells on his farm. He is numbered with the township's men of ample means and is a stockholder in the Helena Bank.

Mr. Forgrave married Miss Emma A. Poorman, and they have had four children: John A., Robert William, Anna Belle and an infant. The only survivor is John A., who married Retta Wineland. The father of Mrs. Robert A. Forgrave was William Poorman, a well known farmer of Scott Township. In politics Mr. Forgrave is a Republican.

REGINALD C. ARLIN, the well known florist of Clyde, Ohio, who conducts an extensive business under the name of the Clvde Floral Company, has been a life-long resident of Sandusky County. He was born at Fremont, January 29, 1875, and is a son of Harvey

Harvey Arlin was for many years a resident of Fremont, and was traveling representative for the A. H. Jackson Manufacturing Company. He was first married to Miss Levica Woodford, by whom he had two children, Alfred and Elia, both of whom are deceased. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Arlin formed.a second union with Miss Eliza. Collins of Fremont, and they had the following children: Grace, wife of Harry Ellinger; Minnie, wife of Grant Lockwood; Reginald C. and Arthur.

Reginald C. Arlin was reared to manhood in Fremont and there received a public school education. He became interested in his present business when. a small boy, working for Joseph L. Wetsel of Fremont for four years, and next for J. M. Gasser, a florist of Cleveland, Ohio, for two years, and in 1902 came to Clyde. Here he purchased the greenhouse of

O. P. Horton, on Maple Street, and continued for five years. He had at that location six greenhouses, 60x15 feet, but the growth of his business was such as to require more commodious quarters. In 1907 he purchased thirteen and one-half acres along the electric railroad, from Mr. A. B. French, and has erected six greenhouses, four of them 21x100 feet in dimensions, and two of.them I1x100 feet. He conducts a general florist business and maintains two cut flower stores, one at Fremont and the other at Bellevue.

On Christmas Day, 1902, Mr. Arlin was married to Miss Lettie Griffin, and they have a daughter, Margaret. Fraternally, he is a member of Clyde Lodge, Knights of the Maccabees and Blue Lodge, F. & A. M., at Clyde.

JAMES PHILLIP ROUSH, assessor of York Township, where, for many years, he was a farmer and stock raiser and where he still owns sixty-eight acres of valuable land, resides in his comfortable home at No. 809 West Main Street, Bellevue, Ohio. He was born in Union County, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1843, and isa son of Joseph P. and Catherine (Kreisher) Roush.

Joseph P. Roush and wife were natives of Union County and they resided there until 1856, when they moved to Sandusky County, Ohio, settling on the farm in York Township, a part of which their son, James P., now owns. Joseph P. Roush purchased eighty acres when he came to York Township, adding a second eighty and still later a third farm of forty acres. During his active years he was a man of industry and excellent business perceptions, but toward the close of an unusually prolonged existence, his sight failed and for the last twelve years of life he was blind. He died aged ninety-three years, in June, 1907. He married Catherine Kreisher, who died.in 1893. They had seven children, namely: Charles F., and James P., both of whom are residents of Bellevue; John H., who lives at Lindsey, Ohio; George, who died aged thirteen years; Mary, who is the wife of William C. Williams, of York Township; and William A. and Alice, twins, the latter of whom died in infancy, and

James Phillip Roush was thirteen years old when he accompanied his parents to Sandusky County. He obtained his education in the schools of York Township and assisted on the home farm. On November 12, 1863, he was married to Miss Nancy Longfellow, a daughter of Joseph and Mary ( Pollock) Longfellow, the former of whom was a first cousin of Henry W. Longfellow, the poet. Joseph Longfellow was born in Delaware and was a son of Joseph Longfellow. He married Mary Pollock, who was born in Scotland and was one year old when her father, Layton Pollock, brought his family to America. Joseph Longfellow was a boy when his parents moved to Champaign County, Ohio, where his father lived to the age of 104 years. He engaged in trapping up to within three years of his death.

When the parents of Mrs. Roush were first married they went to housekeeping on a farm in Logan County. and there Mrs. Roush was born in 1844 and lived until her marriage and three years longer. Both her parents had been previously married and the father already had five children and the mother.three, and to their marriage with each other, eight children were born. As indicative of the quiet, peaceful domestic atmosphere, these children all grew to maturity in the greatest harmony. Joseph Longfellow died in Logan County, Ohio, aged seventy-four years and his wife survived to be ninety-one years, three months and twenty-one days. She was at that time the oldest person known in Logan County.

It was during the time that Mr. and Mrs. Roush lived in Logan County, that he served 135 days in the Civil War. enlisting May 2, 1864, in Company F, 132nd Ohio Vol. Inf., and being discharged at Camp Chase, September 10, 1864. This was one of the two regiments sent to the front, where it did garrison duty around Richmond. The unaccustomed exposure, however, caused Mr. Roush to fall sick and he was confined to a hospital during a sarge part of this period. TTe is a member of the B: Gambee Post. No. 33. G. A. R. at Bellevue. Jn 1867 Mr. and Mrs. Roush moved to York Township and here they have lived ever since. They have had three children, namely: a babe that died; Edward J., who manages and operates the farm for his father and has three children - Mary, Allen and Wilson Edward; and Arthur, who died at the age of three years. Mr. and Mrs. Roush are members and liberal supporters of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mrs. Roush having been united with this religious body since she was ten years old. In politics, Mr. Roush is a Republican and has always been more or less active in party matters, has served in local offices and at present is assessor of his township.

W. H. KELLER, general farmer, owning sixty-eight acres of valuable land situated in sections 5 and &, Scott Township, is a representative citizen and a useful member of the school board. He was born in Scott Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, June 15, 1869, and is a son of John A. and Rowenna (Plantz) Keller.

The father of Mr. Keller was a farmer in Scott Township, where he lived respected and esteemed for many years. His death occurred July 15. 1899, and his burial was at Chestnut Ridge Cemetery, in Wood County. He was a worthy member of the Reformed Church. He married Rowenna Plantz, a daughter of Jaccb and Rowenna (Rhodes) Plantz, who still survives and is a beloved member of the household of her son, William H., the subject of this sketch.

W. H. Keller was educated in the district school near his home and assisted his father on the farm until he went into a teaming business in the oil fields, for himself. He settled on the homestead after his marriage and has done a large amount of improving here. His father built the farm house and set out one orchard. The son has put up a substantial barn, has set out a new orchard and has underdrained the whole farm. He has five producing oil wells on his place. He is a prudent, industrious man and in looking out for the future has become a stockholder in the Bradner Bank.

On December 18, 1890, Mr. Keller was married to Miss Minnie I.. Zimmerman, a daughter of George and Anna Zimmerman, and they have five bright, .interesting children: Virgia, Guy, Gladys, George and Irene. Mr. Keller and family attend the Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Republican and fraternally he ts an Odd Fellow and has passed all the chairs of Lodge No. 676, at Bradner.

JOHN DALTON is a prosperous farmer residing on a farm of 120 acres in Townsend Township, Sandusky County, Ohio. He was born in Livingston County, New York, March 7, 1853, and is a son of Matthew and Margaret (Quirk) Dalton.

Matthew Dalton was born in County Longford, Ireland, in 1806, and there grew to manhood. He married a Miss Kinney, who died during an epidemic of cholera. After her death, Mr. Dalton moved to America and settled in Livingston County, New York, where he was married to Mrs. Margaret (Quirk) Welsh, widow of James Welsh. About the year 1855, he moved west with his family to Sandusky County, Ohio, and purchased eighty acres of land in Townsend Township, which he later increased to 240 acres. He died on this farm, January 24, 1883, at the age of seventyseven years, and was survived many years by his widow, who died August 25, 1907, at the age of eighty-five years. As a result of his first union, Matthew Dalton had six children, as follows: Richard, who was a member of Company I, ritth O. Vol. Inf., and died during the Civil War; Bridget, wife of Hi. B.-

Smith; Paul I, of Lemar, lowa; James, of Jessop, Jowa; Matthew, who died of fever in 1865 ; and Katherine, a teacher in the schools at Washington, District of Columbia. Matthew and Margaret (Quirk) Dalton had five children to grow to maturity, namely: John, William and Henry, who reside in Townsend Township; Mary, wife of Allen Sanford, of Riley Township, Sandusky County; and Anna, wife of James HH. Garvin, of Townsend Township. As a result of her first marriage, Mrs. Dalton had two sons: Patrick Welsh, who was killed in an accident on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad; and James Welsh, who died in California, from the effects of a sunstroke.

taught in the schools for eight terms and then gave his entire attention to agricultural pursuits, which he has since followed. At his father's death he took the home property of eighty acres as iis share of the estate, and has since added a tract of forty acres to it. He has a finely improved property and has followed general farming with good results.

On November 25, 1884, John Dalton was married to Mary Garvin, a daughter of James Garvin, of Riley Township, and they have four children: Katherine, born October 11, 1885; Matthew, born December 21, 8g; John, born October 4, 1894; and Helen, born October 11, 1&g5. They are members of the Catholic Church at Clyde. Mr. Dalton is a Democrat in politics, and has served efficiently as township assessor, trustee and school director, but is not now holding office.

REV. EDWARD M. O'HARE, pastor of St. Ann's Catholic Church at Fremont, Ohio, has been in charge of this important parish since 1906. He was born at Sarcoxie. Mo., May 3, 1877, and is one of a family of seven children born to his parents, who were James and Ellen (McDermott) O'Hare. His father was born in Ireland and came to America when a boy of fifteen years.

Father O'Hare attended the parochial schools in his native place through boyhood, took a college course at Cleveland, Ohio, and completed his theological studies at St. Mary's Seminary. He was ordained to the priesthood on May 24, 1902, by Bishop Horstmann of Cleveland, and his first pastoral work was done in that city, as assistant priest at St. Patrick's. In 1906 he was appointed priest of St. Ann's at Fremont, and entered upon his duties with an enthusiasm that has been reflected in both the material and spiritual advancement of this church, one of the oldest in this part of Ohio. He has 600 souls in his spiritual charge, seemingly a heavy one for a pastor of his comparative youth, and he directs a fine church school, which has 125 pupils. A new church building was completed prior to his coming to St. Ann's, and a beautiful parsonage was built by him at a cost of $8,000. The buildings are all substantial, of stone and brick construction.

HISTORY OF Father O'Hare is much beloved by his parishioners, and he has won many friends in this city outside of his congregation by his liberality of view, his interest in all that concerns the general welfare and his many acts of benevolence.

F. C. HORNUNG, one of Sandusky County's prominent business men, is identified with the leading interests of Gibsonburg, where he matnitains his home. He was born at Gibsonburg, Ohio, September 30, 1872.

Mr. Hornung was educated in his native place and when he entered into business he immediately became identified with the Zorn-Hornung Company. At present he is vice-president of this concern, that controls many of the leading enterprises of this section. It was founded in April, 1896, and the other officers are G. W. Hornung, president, and F. W. Zorn, secretary and treasurer. The company owns a general store, manufactures staves, operates a creamery that at one time was the largest in the county, and is prominent in oil production both in Sandusky and Wood Counties. An elevator is operated by the company at Gibsonburg, as a grain and feed exchange. The company formerly owned a lime plant, but subsequently disposed of it to the Ohio & Western Lime Company, which has its main office at Cleveland. In addition to his responsibilities in the above concern, Mr. Hornung has many important individual interests. He is president of the Madison Oil and Gas Company, is a stockholder and director in the Gibsonburg Banking Company, is a stockholder in the Gibsonburg Telephone and Electric Light Company, is interested in oil leases.

On October 24, 1806, Mr. Hornung was married to Miss Jessie Miller, a daughter of W. S. and Letha (Bond) Miller, and they have two children: Catherine, who is a student in the sixth grade in the Gibsonburg public school; and Robert M. Mr. and Mrs. Hornung are members of the Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Democrat, but he has accepted no public office except membership on the school board.

WILLIAM HENRY BLAIR is editor and proprietor of the Reporter, an interesting newspaper, Democratic in politics, which makes its appearance weekly in some fifteen hundred homes in Clyde and vicinity. Mr. Blair has always resided in Clyde, where he was born September 21, 1873, and is a son of Charles A. and Ellen (Smith) Blair.

Charles A. Blair was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, and was a boy of about eight years when he was brought to the United States by his parents. He grew to maturity at Sandusky, Ohio, where he was in business some years prior to his removal to Clyde: He, in partnership with a brother, operated a boat between that place and the islands, and during the Civil War carried bread to Johnson's Island, where the rebel prisoners were kept. He subsequently learned the trade of a painter, which occupation he still follows at Clyde. He was sixtyeight years of age in July, 1909, and his wife has passed her sixty-fourth milestone in life's journey. She was born near Elmore, Ohio, and of her marriage with Mr. Blair were born the following children: George, Charles, Ferdinand (deceased), Lillian (deceased), and William Henry.

William H. Blair attended the grade and high schools in Clyde, and when still a boy entered the printing office of the Clyde Enterprise. That paper was then owned and conducted by Mr. B. F. Jackson, and he continued in his employ for a period of thirteen years. He then, in 1899, bought the Reporter, its former proprietor, Burt Richards, having died. Mr. Blair is a practical printer, having risen from the position of "devil" to that of editor and proprietor, and gives special attention to high grade job printing.

September 9, 1895, W. H. Blair was married to Miss Carrie Bacon, daughter of William Bacon, the pioneer dry goods merchant of Clyde. They have one son, Homer, and the family home is on Cherry Street. Mr. Blair is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Royal Arcanum.

Street, Fremont, is serving in his second term of office. Mr. Wensinger is a native of Sandusky County, born November 10, 1875, and is a son of John H. and Anna (Bauer) Wensinger.

Mr. Wensinger was educated in the public schools. lis first experience in the line of surveying was when he went out as a rod man with the frm of Dickinson & Hughes, and in 1892 he decided to take up the study of surveying, with the idea of making it his business. He continued until 1896, when he became an assistant in the city engineer's office, at Fremont, and served as assistant deputy surveyor under two consecutive surveyors. In November, 1906, he was elected county surveyor and in 1908 was re-elected and still continues in office. He is considered one of the most accurate and best equipped officials of the county and devotes to the duties of this office all of his time, being the only surveyor since the office was created in Sandusky County, that has never demanded an assistant.

Mr, Wensinger married Miss Emma Stokes, a daughter of John Stokes, a prominent farmer of Riley Township, Sandusky County. = Mr. and Mrs. Wensinger are members of Grace Lutheran Church. He is identified with the order of Woodmen of the World and with the Eiks, being past grand exalted ruler of the latter organization.

_ FRANKLIN STULL, owner of sixty acres of rich farming land in Ballville Township, situated about two and a half miles southwest of Fremont, was born February 8, 1858, in Seneca County, Ohio. [lis parents, Soloman and Sarah (Spade) Stull. were early settlers in Seneca County, going there from Pennsylvania,

Franklin Stull grew to manhood 1 Seneca County and there obtained his education. In 1895 he came to Sandusky County and in tgo7 bought his present property fromy Christian Depp. Mr. Stull makes a specialty of truck gardening and supplies the Fremont market with carly vegetables and fruit.

On January 15, 1878, Mr. Stull was married in Seneca County to Miss Josephine Crawford, a daughter of William and Marv (Me- Cloy) Crawford, of Berkeley County, Virginia.

The father of Mrs. Stull was born there in 1816 and died May 2, 1897. Her mother died in 1867. Mrs. Stull was born in- Virginia, June 12, 1860, and was the seventh in a family of ten children.

Mr. and Mrs. Stull have been the parents of four children, namely: Myrtle, Blanche (deceased), Cedilla (deceased), and Willis. Mr. Stull and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They are among the respected residents of Ballville Township and are always found on the side of progress and active in supporting the moral and material advancement of the community.

FRANK A. PARKER, a representative citizen of York Township, where he owns a farm of 278 acres, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, September 25, 1859, and is a son of Milton B. and Harriet J. (Ward) Parker. Mr. Parker is a lineal descendant of Thomas Parker, who sailed from London, March 11, 1635, and landed at Boston or Lynn in the saine year. The Parker family was prominent in colonial affairs and many members of it took part in the Revolutionary War, one of the most distinguished being Capt. John Parker of Lexington fame.

Both parents of Mr. Parker died when he was quite small and after their death he came to Sandusky County and made his home with the family of Joseph Stevenson, in York Township. The Stevenson family was long one of great prominence in Sandusky County. |

Richard Boyd Stevenson was born at Frederick, Maryland, January 10, 1820, a son of Dr. Matthew and Jane (Gilson) Stevenson, and a grandson of James Stevenson, who came to Pennsylvania from Ireland. James Stevenson married a relative of Hon. James Buchanan, later President of the United States. Dr. Matthew Stevenson was born in 1777, in Frederick County,, Maryland, read medicine and practiced for a time at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and later in Westmoreland County. He married Jane Gilson, whose mother. belonged to the Boyd fanuly that was captured by the French and Indians in war time, Grandmother Boyd being killed by the savages. Dr. Stevenson returned to Frederick County after the death of his father, and in 1830 came to Ohio, locating first at Tiffin and subsequently in York Township, Sandusky County, purchasing the farm now owned by Mr. Parker, from a Mr. Birdseye, who had entered it in 1822. After this, Dr. Stevenson no longer practiced medicine, engaging in agricultural pursuits until his death, in 1849. He had eleven children. His widow survived until 1877. The homestead came into possession ot Richard B. Stevenson and was long known through the county under his name. He resided with his sisters, Lucinda and Mary E.. both now deceased, never having married. His death occurred November 25, 1898.

Mr. Parker was reared in the home of Joseph Stevenson until he was of age, gaining his education in the country schools. He has always engaged in farming and now resides on the old R. B. Stevenson farm, which was once the property of Dr. Matthew Stevenson, the grandfather of his wife.

Mr. Parker was married December 19, 1883, to Miss F. Eva Stevenson, a daughter of Beverly Waugh and Elizabeth A. (Thompson) Stevenson, of Green Creek Township. The present handsome dwelling was erected by Mr. Parker in 1905 and it occupies the site of the first house which was erected by Dr. Stevenson in 1833. The stone spring-house standing in front of the residence and close to the highway, was built in 1870, by Richard Boyd Stevenson, who, with admirable public spirit, dedicated this spring of clear, cold water, to the use of the public. This spring, located on the North Ridge Road, was known in pioneer days as the Indian spring, from the fact that the Indian camping ground was near this flow of water.

Mr. Parker has Jong been much interested in archeology, in connection with and reference to this section, and has the finest private collection of Indian relics in the county.

WILLIAM FREDERICK, an experienced and successful farmer of York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, who resides on his well cultivated farm of 106 acrea, which is situated on the South Sand Ridge Road, abovt seven miles northeast of Clyde, was born in

Both William Frederick and wife were born in Pennsylvania. They were farming people of Union County before coming to Ohio, in 1854. They settled first in Erie County, on a place about three miles northeast of William Frederick's present farm, and lived there until 1859, when they moved to the farm in York Township, which is now the property of theit son, George W. Frederick. On that farm both William Frederick and wife died, the mother very suddenly, from a stroke of paralysis, when aged seventy years. The father survived into extreme old age, dying in November, 1892, when almost ninety-six years old. He had lived so long in the community that his death left a blank.

William Frederick was twelve years old when his parents brought him to Ohio. His whole life has been an agricultural one. He settled on his present farm in the spring of 1877 and has made many improvements here. He raises stock and his main crops are wheat, corn, oats and hay.

Mr. Frederick has been fortunate in his family relations, his wife and all of his children and grandchildren being still alive and all settled near enough to make frequent visiting possible. He married Miss Elizabeth Berman, who was born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of John and Anna (Showers) Berman. To this marriage three children were born, one daughter and two sons, namely: Cora, who is the wife of John Meyer, resides in Erie County and has three children - Naomi, Ray and Elmer; Samuel, who married Dora Dwight, lives near Riddles' Corners and has three children - Leroy, Ezra and Ida; and Ernest, who remains at home to assist' his father.

J. A. NIESET, president of the Home Banking Company, at Gibsonburg, Ohio, and also engaged in the oil industry as producer and contractor, is one of Washington Township's

Mr. Nieset received a common school education in Washington Township and remained at home with his parents until he was twentyone years of age. About that time he went into contracting and worked for two years digging public ditches through Sandusky County. He then bought an outfit of oil well drilling tools and went into oil weil contracting and worked for two years in Sandusky County. He then visited the oil fields of South Dakota and Indiana, working at different points for two more years, after which he returned to Sandusky County and went into the oil business, in addition to contracting. At the present writing, 1909, he is interested in eightythree producing wells in Sandusky Township, nine in Washington Township, 100 in Jackson Township and six in Wood County, Ohio. He has also invested in gold, silver and copper property in Arizona, Idaho and California, To these various interests he has given close attention, but still has found time to identify himself with the business and other interests of the place which he has selected as his chosen home. After his marriage in 1897 he located at Millersville, in Sandusky County, where he resided until 1907, since which time he has been a valued citizen of Gibsonburg.

Mr. Nieset was married September 21, 1897, to Miss Emma Andrews, a daughter of John and Mary (Coller) Andrews. They are members of St. Michael's Catholic Church at Gibsonburg. Mr. Nieset is not active enough in politics to be called a politician, but he is a rigid supporter of the law and never neglects any duty of good citizenship. He is a Democrat.

TILLMAN HORNUNG, general farmer, residing on his eighty acres of well improved land, which ts situated one and one-half miles west of Hessville, in Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, was born on a farm two and one-half miles northeast of his present one, January 22, 1840. His parents. were Jacob and [lizabeth (Siegenthaler) Hornung.

lived for six years in Pennsylvania and then came to Sandusky County and settled in Washington Township on the farm where their son Tillman Hornung was born, where they lived for fourteen years. They then moved to the one he now resides on and remained there during the rest of their lives. They had six children: Charlotte, Caroline, Mary, Tillman, Adam and Jacob.

Tillman Hornung has been engaged in farming ever since he finished attending the district school. He assisted his father during his minority and later farmed the place for him and in 1876 he purchased the farm for himself. He has all but twelve acres under cultivation and raises excellent crops of wheat, corn, oats and hay, and enough stock for his own use. He has excellent farm machinery ancl has made many improvements on the place since it became his own property, including the building of a comfortable two-story frame residence and a substantial barn.

In 1886, Mr. Hornung was married to Miss Margaret Strock, a native of Germany and a daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Strock, both of whom were born in Germany. Mrs. Hornung has three sisters and one brother: Elizabeth, Sophia, Mary and Philip. Mr. and Mrs. Hornung have had three children, namely: Catherine, who is deceased; Lydia, who married Henry Craft, lives at Hessville and they have three children - -Clara, Tillman and Ruth; and William. The latter resides at home and does the practical work on the farm, his father having more or less retired from farm labor. Mr. Hornung and family are members of the Lutheran Church. In polities he is a Democrat.

G. L. DONNELS, of Gibsonburg, Ohio, a retired farmer, merchant, and saw-mill operator, is a veteran of the Civil War, in which he served with credit. He was born in Madison Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, July 23, 1847, and is a son of Gilbreth S. and Nancy (Wolcott) Donnels.

Gilbreth S. Donnels was bern in Tlopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, in April, 1818, and was a son of James Donnels, who at an early date moved west to Scott Township, in Sandusky County, Ohio. Gil- breth S. Donnels was married to Nancy Wolcott, of Scott Township, Sandusky County, Ohio, and here he became the owner of a farm of 120 acres in Madison Township. He died in middle life at the age of thirty-six years, being killed by his team in a runaway, and was buried at Quimsham Cemetery. His wife survived him until 1889. Religiously, they were members of the Christian Church. He was a Whig in politics and later a Republican. The following children blessed their union: Louisa, who died at the age of nine years; John L.; William N.; G. L., subject of this record; G. F.; Stanley B.; James A.; and Jessie O., who died at the age of sixteen years.

G. L. Donnels attended the public schools in his native township and worked on the farm until he joined the army. August 11, 1862, he enlisted as a member of Company A, 111th Regiment, O. Vol. Inf., and served with credit throughout the remainder of the war. He was mustered out on July 19, 1865, and returned to Sandusky County, where he worked at the sawmill business for two years. In 1893 he bought a store at Helena, which he operated successfully for six years, then sold out and purchased a store at Gibsonburg. He conducted this establishment some six years, it being located west of the railroad, and then sold out to M. E. Long & Son. He has since that time devoted his attention to his home affairs. He also is a stockholder and director of the Gibsonburg Banking Company.

Mr. Donnels was first married August I, 1867, to Miss Mary M. Bowser, a daughter of George and Rosanna Bowser, and they had the following children born to them: Edwin M.; Elmer FE., who married Clara Laherman, a daughter of David and Mary Laherman, and has two children, Lucy and Lindon; Lester L., who married Ella Laherman, daughter of David and Mary Laherman, and has children - Leonard, Ossia, Elva, Bertha and Milburn; George H., who married Ella Hubbs, daughter of Charles and Jane Hubbs, and has ch.ldren - Clare, Gladys, Hazel, Verle and Harrold; and Bertha, who married Michael Murray. Edwin M. Donnels was married September 28,

1899, to Eva Hanline, daughter of Tobias and Ellen Hanline, and she died leaving two children, Brice and Dale, the latter being also deceased. He formed a second marriage with Nora Lafarre. The wife of the subject of this sketch died September 15, 1887, and was buried at Gibsonburg Cemetery. He formed a second union, February 23, 1893, with Mrs. Katura Olive James. The latter was first married in 1876 to R. J. James, by whom she had a son, William B. They reside in Gibsonburg. Mr. Donnels is past commander of Canfield Post, No. 124, G. A. R. He is a Republican in politics. Religiously, he and his wife are members of the Christian Church.

HARRY WATSON ROBINSON, president of the Robinson Kraut Company of Green Spring, Ohio, is also an extensive dealer in grain and hay. He came to this village in 1895, since which time he has been prominently identified with the business interests of the locality. He was born on a farm in Seneca County, Ohio, July 29, 1872, and is a son of Joseph T. and Mary (Watson) Robinson.

Joseph T. Robinson and his wife are both natives of Seneca County, Ohio, where they were reared and educated. Mr. Robinson has always been successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits and owns 600 acres- of valuable farm land at Rockaway, where he also operates a grain elevator. He was for four years a member of the Ohio State Agricultural Board, and for a period of eleven years served on the Ohio State Experiment Station Board. He has been prominently identified with the Republican party and has served in both state and county politics. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are the parents of the following children: Harry Watson, the subject of this record; C. Grier Robinson, a resident of Green Spring, who is secretary and treasurer of the Robinson Kraut Company and superintendent of the plant; Dr. Rush Robinson, who is engaged in the practice of his profession at Columbus, Ohio, and is a graduate of the Ohio State University, and of Heidelberg College of Tiffin, Ohio; and Alice, who is principal of one of the schools at Fostoria, Ohio.