Fulton Township (part 23 of 34)

Arthur S. Blake was born at Tedrow. Ohio, on March 18, 1884. and is the son of Eugene and Sarah (Scott) Blake. who were of sterling English stock. He received his elementary education in the public schools, graduating from the high school, after which he was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University for one year. Then, having determined to devote his life to the dental profession, he matriculated in the Ohio College of Dental Surgerv at Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1905. with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. Immediately thereafter he came to Wauseon and opened an office in partnership with J. F. Outealt. the association continuing one year. Then for five years he was alone in the practice, at the end of which time he formed a partnership with Dr. Guy B. Tuthill, a relationship which existed for four years, since which time he has been alone in the practice. Doctor Blake's office is thoroughly equipped with the most up-to-date apparatus possible to obtain, and his success in his profession stamps him as thoroughly qualified in technique and practice. He enjoys a large and representative patronage over a wide radius of surrounding country and personally is well liked by all who have had dealings with him. He is a member of the Ohio State Dental Association, the Maumee Valley Dental Association and the National Dentists' Association.

In 1907 Doctor Blake was married to Winifred H. Dimke, the daughter of John F. and Mary (Probeck) Dimke, of Wauseon, and ea are the parents of two children, Mary Elizabeth and Eugene Scott.

Politically Doctor Blake is an earnest supporter of the republican party, while fraternally he is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and the Knights of Pythias. In his chosen field of endeavor he has achieved a splendid success, and his standing among the professional ranks of his community is widely recognized throughout the community honored by his citizenship.

CuarLEs E. Bennett, M.D. The marvelous advances made in medical science in the last decade give great encouragement as to future conquests over disease and disability, and it is to the older men of medicine that a large measure of credit is due. Many of these, with sadly inadequate help from available resources of research, nevertheless blazed the way, and through their experience and their experimentation theories were evolved that later hardened into scientific facts that in the course of time led to the adoption of the remedial methods that now mark modern medicine and surgery. One of the prominent older physicians of Wauseon, who is widely known over Fulton county, is Dr. Charles E. Bennett, who has been in practice here for forty-four years.

Charles E. Bennett was born at Evansport in Defiance county, Ohio, March 1, 1856. His parents were Dr. J. H. and Tryphena (Denman) Bennett, the remote ancestry being Scotch and English. The Bennett family has belonged to America since before the Revolutionarv war, in which its members took part and won distinction. Tn civil life a number of Doctor Bennett's forefathers belonged to the medical profession. He obtained his early schooling at Wauseon, Ohio, and later came under the instruction of tutors in English and Latin. In 1874 he entered the Detroit Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1876. In 1991 he took a post graduate course in the New York Polyclinic. While Doctor Bennett has a large and lucrative practice both in city and country, he has special duties as a member, since 1876, of the surgical staff of the New York Central Railroad, and for twenty years as surgeon for the Detroit & Ironton Railroad.

In 1878 Doctor Bennett was united in marriage to Miss Celia Brigham, who is a daughter of Joel and Betsy (Lyon) Brigham, early settlers in this section of Ohio. The father of Mrs. Bennett was the oldest merchant at Wauseon. Doctor and Mrs. Bennett have had three children, one daughter and two sons, the daughter, Florence H., alone surviving. She is a highly educated and accomplished lady and is a member of the high school faculty at Wauseon, an instructor in French, geometry and biology. Fred H., the elder son, died in 1895, when a schoolboy of thirteen years. The youngest of the family, J. Walter, was twenty-six years old when his death occurred in 1911. Doctor Bennett and family are members of the Congregational Church. He has always voted the republican ticket, and while political activity has never been a moving force, but like other men of intelligence and real public spirit, anxious for the general welfare, has accepted certain responsibilities as a part of good citizenship. In 1878 he was elected coroner of Fulton county, and continued in that office until 1882. Both personally and professionally Doctor Bennett is held in esteem at Wauseon, an able physician and worthy man.

Cares Frepertck Srotzer, who has been in business in Wauseon, Ohio, practically continuously for thirty-seven years, for the greater part of that period in independent business of lucrative character, has gained an enviable reputation during his long association with the business people and residents of the city. And he is widelyknown in all the surrounding country. He is sole owner of the C. F. Stotzer carriage and harness business in Wauseon, and as a saddler prospered so that of late years he has been financially interested in many other concerns. He is vice president of a Toledo company; is director of the Northwestern Ohio Telephone Company ; has part interest in a Montana ranch; and is a large stockholder of the Superior Malleable Iron Works Company. He has shown commendable public spirit; has been a city councilman; has served on the local library board, and also that of the city hospital; and during the war was especially active as a member and secretary of the Wauseon Draft Board. Altogether he has proved himself to be a worthy citizen, a man of initiative, financial reliability and moral integrity.

He was born in Toledo, Ohio, June 23, 1856, the son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Snyder) Stotzer. In the paternal line he is of Swiss ancestry, his father, Frederick Stotzer, having been born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, where he, the father, lived until he was sixteen years old and had learned the trade of harness making. He then came to the United States and settled in Toledo, where he had no difficulty in finding work at his trade. It was in Toledo that he in 1853 married, and in that city his son Charles Frederick was born in 1856. In 1857 Frederick Stotzer removed to Archbold, Fulton county, and there established himself in independent business as a harness maker and dealer in carriages. He did a very satisfactory ore in that place for the remainder of his life, which ended in

Charles Frederick Stotzer was the eldest of the four sons and four daughters born to Frederick and Elizabeth (Snyder) Stotzer. He spent practically the whole of his young days in Archbold, attended the public schools of that place, and worked with his father there until he was twenty-one years old. As a matter of fact, he began assiduously to learn the trade of harness making when he was only eleven years old, attending school in winter and working with his father through the long summer vacation. In 1872 he came to Wauseon to learn carriage trimming in the establishment of E. Ross, with whom he remained for three years, paying for his own board. As journeyman carriage trimmer, he was with the Schofield ' Carriage Company, and also as top-man trimmer for two years, Returning to Wauseon in March, 1883, he acquired a one-half interest in the business of J. L. Parks, harness and carriage maker, and the partners for eleven vears traded as Parks and Stotzer. In 1894 Mr. Stotzer purchased his partner's interest, and from that date has been sole owner, the business bringing Mr. Stotzer a very satisfactory competence. THe has many other interests, and with his public work his days have been well occupied. He has always been well-regarded in the city, and has always been ready to assist in any worthy city project. A democrat in politics, he has held loyally to the party and taken much interest in national politics, although he has never sought political office. He served one term as city councilman, and gave efficient service as such; and he has been a valuable member of the library and hospital boards. During the war he proved by his indefatigable national service, in connection with the work of the local draft board, that he was whole-heartedly an American.

Fraternally he is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, member of the Wauseon Blue Lodge, the Commandery, and also of a Toledo Mystic Shrine body.

On May 14, 1889, he married Pauline Kinbloe, of Wauseon. Two children were born to them: Clarice, who married C. A. Guilford, of Detroit, and is the mother of two children, Pauline and Charles Franklin; and Jeannette, who became Mrs. MacDonald, of Wauseon, but died early in her married life, in October, 1918. She Tenens sincere friends in Wauseon, who mourned her early

Water A. SpencieR. The desirability of cement for building purposes has been fully proven and a number of new uses for this material are being found with each year. The demand has grown so great that the handling of it in various forms affords opportunity for a number of progessive business men to develop growing concerns, the operation of which give employment to workmen and a liberal profit to the employers. One of these enterprising young men of Elmira is Walter A. Spengler, junior member of the firm operating under the name of the Cement, Tile and Builders Company of Elmira.

Walter A. Spengler was born in German Township, Fulton county, in 1888, a son of Daniel and Minnie (Ruffer) Spengler, and grandson of Herman Spengler, all of whom came from Germany to the United States and located in German Township, Fulton county, where they became interested in agricultural matters.

Growing up in his native township, Walter A. Spengler attended the country schools until he was fifteen years old, and after that until he was twenty-one he assisted his father in conducting the family farm. After he attained his majority his father turned considerable of the farm management over to him, and he remained on the farm for four years more, but being an ambitious young man concluded to seek his fortune in a more congested district, so came to Elmira, and in partnership with John A. Rupp established the Cement, Tile and Block Company at Elmira, and has been engaged in conducting it ever since, and his success has been exceedingly gratifying.

In 1916 Mr. Spengler was united in marriage with Miss Florence Thrulby, a daughter of John and Clara (Belcey) Thrulby, and they have one daughter, Arline, who was born on May 27, 1918. Preferring to cast his vote independently. Mr. Spengler has not definitely connected himself with any party, being more inclined to vote for the man rather than for his affiliations. Hard-working and dependable, Mr. Spengler is a young man deeply immersed in practical affairs, but he is never too much occupied to give intelligent attention to public matters, and renders his community efficient service by supporting those measures which in his Judgment will work out for the good of the majority.

Davi Srottz is one of the enterprising men of Fulton county whose energies and capabilities have been centered upon the development and cultivation of his fine farm of 153 acres in Franklin Township, in this work not only gaining for himself a fair competence, but also doing his part in the production of foodstuffs for the country at large, and lately for the world. ,

David Stoltz was born on a farm in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, in 1848, a son of Jacob and Henrietta (Heishley) Stoltz. The paternal grandfather, also David Stoltz, came from Wurtemberg, Germany, to the United States and settled in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, bringing with him his son, Jacob, then a child of five years, and his two elder brothers. With the industry and thrift of his people, the elder David Stoltz went to work to acquire a farm and clear it of the natural timber which covered it, and there he passed away at the age of fifty-five years, leaving a family of four children. |

Jacob Stoltz remained on his father's homestead until 1868, when he sold his interests and came to Fulton county, buying the farm now owned by his son David in Franklin Township. Like his father he was a constructive citizen and a hard-working man, and after he had secured his property he went right to work to place it under the plow. At the time he came to the township the greater portion of it was covered with timber or stumps. The trees were chopped down by hand, and the stumps grubbed out, usually the latter being done after a crop of two had been raised on the land. Plowing, planting, cultivating and harvesting was then done in a very different manner from now, and the implements were few and crude when compared to the equipment of a modern farming plant. Yet on it Jacob Stoltz reared eight children and made a living for them and for himself and wife, and saved up a comfortable fortune.

David Stoltz attended the district schools during the winter months until he was sixteen years old, and then left his schooldays behind him and did a man's work on the farm. He has never left the homestead, and after the death of his father bought out the other heirs. Here he is carrying on a general farming business and making money, owing to his knowledge of the work and his conveniences and machinery.

In 1870 David Stoltz was married to Mary A. Waltz, a daughter of David and Mary (Ulmer) Waltz. Mr. and Mrs. Stoltz became the parents of the following children: Harrison A., who is engaged in teaching school at Pettisville, Ohio; William A., who is unmarried, lives at home; Arthur O., who married Iva Shetler and has six children ; Nelson L., of Franklin Township; and W. D., who married Lulu Andre, lives in Franklin Township and has two children, In politics Mr. Stoltz is largely influenced by his own judgment as to the fitness of the man for the office. For three terms he served Franklin Township as treasurer and administered the affairs of that office in a very efficient manner, and he has also been township trustee. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and is serving it as was to war, and consequently now more than ever must the farmer receive due credit for the work he is doing and the responsibilities under which he rests, for to him and his labor the whole world is looking for an adequate food supply. The farmers of Fulton county are measuring up well under present day requirements, and one of them who is doing good work with his fifty-acre farm is Leonard Stine of German township. _ Leonard Stine was born in Jefferson Township, Richland county, in 1849, a son of Daniel and Mary (Evarts) Stine, and grandson of Joel Stine, who came from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Richland county, Ohio, where he spent the remainder of his life. Daniel Stine moved from Richland county to Franklin Township, Fulton county, in 1858, and buying a farm spent the remainder of his years in cultivating it, and died on it in 1890. His wife died many years before him, passing away in 1878. Of their three children, Leonard Stine is the eldest.

After he had completed the country school courses at the age of nineteen years Leonard Stine worked on his father's homestead for a year. His next step was to engage by the month or day with farmers, and remembers distinctly wielding the cradle in a wheatfield for sixty-eight cents per day. Of course all wages in those times included board and lodging, but the hours in a day were many more than wouid be tolerated now, and the men were driven at top speed. After four years of working about the country Mr. Stine was married on September 6, 1873, to Mary Sine, a daughter of Joseph and Amanda Sine of German Township, both of whom were born in France and came to the United States in their youth. They had seven daughters and five sons born to their marriage. All of the Sine family belong to the French Catholic Church.

After Mr. and Mrs. Stine were married they began housekeeping in a log cabin, and Mr. Stine alternated farm work with carpentering until he had saved up enough to buy fifty acres of land, which property is still his homestead, and he has lived on it ever since, improving it in every way. Mr. and Mrs. Stine have two children, namely: Albert Jean, who lives at Walden, Michigan, married Ger- | trude Clark, and they have four children, Retta, Florence, George and Harold; and Myrtle, who married Francis Peters of West Unity, Ohio, and they have five children, Richard, Malcolm, Ralph, Mary and Allen.

Ever since he bought his farm Mr. Stine has carried on general farming, and believes his place is best adapted to the growing of diversified crops. A republican, he is serving as a trustee of German Township and as a director of the Edinburg, Ohio, School, haying held that office for nine years. He belongs to the State Grange, and for fifteen years has been president of the Patrons of Industry of the county association. Interested in the development of local enterprises, he has invested in stock of the Mutual Telephone Company, and has in many other ways proved his value as a citizen. In the creed of the Disciple Church he finds expression for his religious belief. and is active in the local congregation of that denomination. A yiolinist of marked talent, Mr. Stine is oftentimes asked to favor the different gatherings he attends, and with obliging good humor complies with these requests, There is no doubt that had he cared to devote himself to a musical career and in his youth possessed the means for continental study, he would be a well known figure in this art, but he has used it as a relaxation and finds in it a pleasure which increases as the years pass by.

Jonn Asnprook Strutter, who for more than thirty-five years has been an official of the New York Central Railway Company, Lake Shore Division, and for twenty-nine years has been freight and passenger agent at Pettisville, Fulton county, Ohio, has during that period been one of the leading residents of that place, active in public affairs and an able administrator of sincere public spirit and of alert attention to projects that have been consequential to the community. And during the recent war he proved himself to be a citizen of whole-hearted and useful patriotism, serving effectively and enthusiastically on all the local committees organized to effect the purposes of the national loan campaigns in his district. His interests in the various activities of Pettisville is demonstrated in his public record. For fifteen years he was a member of the. Pettisville Board of Education, for many years he has been a director of Pettisville Cemetery and president of the Cemetery Board of Trustees, and in church work his record is praiseworthy and includes seven vears as secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Pettisville Union Church and twenty years as treasurer of that board. It will therefore be recognized that Mr. Stuller has been a helpful resident of Pettisville.

He was born in Edon, Williams county, Ohio, January 29, 1863, the son of James and Phoebe (Foster) Stuller. The Stuller family is of German origin, but for many generations has been resident in America, members of the family having record in the early generations of Pennsylvania settlement. The grandfather of John A. Stuller drove along the blazed trail through the wilderness from Pennsylvania into Ohio and settled on a tract of wild land at Edon of that state and there for the rest of his life he lived, raising his family there, at the outset experiencing all the rigors and privations encountered by the average resolute pioneer, but latterly winning for himself and his family comparative comfort in the possession of good tillable land. His son James, father of John A., succeeded to the family property and farmed industriously throughout his life, his four children, two sons and two daughters, being born on the farm. John A. as a bov attended the Anspach country school during the winter months, and spent the long summer vacations chiefly in tasks upon the home farm. So passed the years until he was about seventeen vears old, the family then moving to Edgerton, Williams county, Ohio, where for the next two years he assisted his father in the management of the Cober Hotel, which his father had acquired. John was nineteen vears old when he entered the employ of the Lake Shore Railway Company as telegrapher at Archbold Station, Fulton county, Ohio. He had previously undergone a course in telegranhy at the Maguire School of Telegraphy, Edgerton, Ohio, and had become an efficient operator. For three months he was night operator at Archbold Station, and then was transferred in the same capacity to Chesterton, Indiana, where he remained as night operator for eleven nights. That brought his career to the time of his first introduction to Pettisville affairs. He was transferred as night operator to that station on September 11. 1883, and remained so employed at that place until June 6, 1888. On the 18th of that month he was appointed day operator at Swanton, Ohio, from which station he went to that of Corunna, Indiana, as day operator, and as such for a few weeks in 1889 was in Goshen, Indiana thence to Ligonier, Indiana, December 14, 1889, back again soon afterward to Corunna, where he remained until January 26, 1891, when he was ordered to Stryker, Ohio, as day operator. Next he was at Brimfield until June 15, 1891, when he was promoted to the Pettisville station as freight and passenger agent and day operator. As the responsible and canable agent of the New York Central Railway Company at Pettisville, Ohio, he has remained ever since, proving by his long service that he is a man of constancy and loyalty, and also of definite efficiency.

His energetic disposition and his interest in the community he served brought him much into public life. He was ever ready to cooperate personally in community movements, and throughout his residence in Pettisville has-been a helpful spirit among those public-spirited citizens who sought to promote the interests of the town. He interested himself particularly in educational matters, and for fifteen years was a valued member of the Pettisville Board of Education. He has been a director of the Pettisville Cemetery and president of the Cemetery Board of Trustees. He has always been a consistent ehurchman, and his record of church work in Pettisville is especially commendable. He is secretary-treasurer of the Pettisville Union Church. He was secretary of its board for seven years, 1893-1900, in the latter vear being elected treasurer of the board, which office he has held continuously until the present, a period of twenty vears. He is a member of the Christian Church at Wauseon. Politically Mr. Stuller is a republican of independent leaning, and while he has taken close interest in national politics of consequence he has not followed national political movements as closely as he has those affecting Pettisville. In local affairs he has for many vears been active, and might have secured election to local civic office had he so wished, for in the community he is held in high esteem. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In the former he is affiliated with and is a charter member of Lodge No. 248 at Corunna, Indiana, and has held membership in that branch since 1899. Of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows he is a member of Wauseon Lodge No. 362. He has since his early years of manhood been a citizen of loval, manful type, and during the recent war was whole-heartedly with the federal administration in the prosecution of the struggle. In Pettisville he co-operated in every movement which had for its object the betterment or strengthening of some phase of the national purpose, and was a valuable member of the local cornmittees responsible for the raising of the Pettisville quota of the various Liberty Loan issues, and of the other funds raised for auxiliary organizations engaged in war work. And he had the gratification of seeing Pettisville take good place among the loval communities that over-subscribed their quota.

Mr. Stuller's many working interests and the esteem he enjoys in this community have sustained him through personal bereavements. He lost both his children, and recently was deprived of the companionship of his good wife after they had been married thirtyfour vears. He married in 1886 Minnie May Broughton, daughter of Amos and Marv (Blakeley) Broughton of Pettisville. Mrs. Stuller's death occurred March 31, 1920. The two children who for some years blessed and brightened their home were a son, J. Leroy, and a daughter, Vesta Mary.

Samuet K. Davis, of Shady Side Farm in Swan Creek Township, does general farming and conducts a dairy business. In early life he received a common school education, and later he has served as a school director and road supervisor in the community. Mr. Davis is republican in politics. He is a member of the Delta Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and has filled all the chairs. He is also an active member of the local Grange. He was born January 10, 1853, in Richland county. He is ason of Abner and Mary (Vance) Davis. The father was born in 1790, and died in 1864, the mother having died eight years earlier. Mr, Davis married a second time, and Samuel K. Davis was reared by the stepmother, continuing to live with her until manhood.

On March 18, 1874, he married Phoebe R. Wilson, of Ashland county, Ohio. She was born March 23, 1853, and is a daughter of Maxwell and Sarah (Van Valkenburg) Wilson, the mother born in 1815 and the father in 1817, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. In 1843 they drove through from Pennsylvania to Ashland county. They died in 1892, inside of twenty hours of each other, and they were laid in the same grave.

After his marriage S. K. Davis moved to a farm his father had left him in Richland county. In 1896 he sold it and returned to Fulton county, locating in Pike Township, where he bought eighty acres. In 1910 he sold his farm and bought forty acres in Swan Creek Township, remodeling the house and adding the necessary farm buildings, and now everything is modern and comfortable there. Wherever he has lived he has given attention to livestock and dairying along with general farming operations.

The children in the family are: Myrtle, wife of Elliott Griffin, of Toledo; Dora, wife of William Arnold, of Bellvue; Ruby, wife of Jay Turpening, of Swan Creek. Another child, Samuel Kirkwood Yarman, was "bound out" to Mr. Davis when he was four vears old, and he lived there as a son until he reached his majority. Mrs. Davis had the following brothers and sisters: Henry, who died in early life; George, who lives at Mansfield; Martha, wife of John Mapes, of Paris, Illinois; James, of Vermilion, Illinois; Lavenia, wife of Andrew Strickler, of Paris, Illinois; Walter, deceased ; Sarah Jane, wife of Joseph McCowen, of Paris, Illinois; Mary, wife of Ebert Cole, lives at Jefferson, Iowa. Mrs. Davis is the youngest in the Wilson family.

Evidently progress has been the keynote in Mr. Davis' career. He has made good use of the opportunities presented during the forty-five vears since he married, and while he has lived in two different counties and on several farms, each move has been made in order to give him larger effectiveness as a farmer and stockman. All of these communities have likewise known him as a very intelligent and public-spirited citizen.

Grorce Letntnaer. While George Leininger, of Swan Creek Township, is a native of German Township, having been born June 27, 1854, at Archbold, the family name was brought to the United States from Alsace-Lorraine. THis father, George Leininger, Sr., was an emigrant, although his mother, Nancy (Ditto) Leininger, was born in Seneca county. His grandfather, Jacob Leininger, came in an early day to German Township, where he owned forty acres of land near the City of Archbold.

was born in Pennsylvania, his father was born in Ireland. He lived for a time in Seneca county, and later moved with a yoke of oxen to Fulton county. He entered 320 acres of land where the west half of Archbold is now situated, and he owned it long enough to receive as much for one acre as he had paid for all of it. He entered this land at Archbcld when he was forty-two years old, and forty years iater he died there. George Leininger, Sr. and Nancy Ditto were married there. They lived on an eighty acre tract that is now within the town of Archbold. George Ditto died in 1915, aged eightyeight years. His wife died in 1895, aged sixty-four years.

The children born to George and Nancy Leininger are: Andrew, of Springdale, Arkansas; Aaron, of Archbold; John, who is deceased; George, who relates the family history; Amos, of Archbold; Susan, widow of Adolph Bergt, of Dodge county, Nebraska; Rebekah, wife of Emil Chulke, a Lutheran minister; Nancy, who married Charles Heupel of Toledo; Philip, of Stillwater, Oklahoma; and Henry, of Archbold.

When George Leininger was nineteen years old he began learning the wagon maker's trade in Defiance, Ohio. After six months he returned to Archbold and worked for two years with his brother in the wagon making business, when he moved to the Ditto farm owned by his grandmother. After her death he worked 31% years in a general store of the L. D. Gotschall Factory. He later worked in a stave factory and at the carpenter trade.

In 1886 Mr. Leininger purchased an eighty acre timber tract in Swan Creek Township, and two years later he removed to it. He cleared this land, and it is now all under cultivation but a five acre tract used for pasture land. The farm has modern buildings, and it is inclosed with excellent wire fences. It is all tiled and under high state of cultivation.

On August 27, 1879, Mr. Leininger married Jennie C. Spade, of Napoleon. She is a daughter of George and Eliza (Cunningham) Spade. Her father was an early settler and helped hew the logs used in building the first courthouse in Henry county. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Leininger are: Amanda, wife of William Osterhout, of Swan Creek; Myrtle, wife of Irvin Kurchner, of York Township; Edward, of Delta; Rudolph, of Pioneer, Ohio.

In his early life Mr. Leininger attended the public school and the parochial school in Archbold. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and has served as one of its trustees. In politics he is a republican. As an incident in the family history it is related that his maternal grandfather, George Ditto, owned and operated the first grist mill in Fulton county. -He brought it from Seneca county. The mill drew patronage from ten miles around, and it was of great advantage in the pioneer community. Those who had grist to grind brought it to the mill and others were enabled to purchase the products for less money than they could procure them from distant points. The Leininger-Ditto history is closely identified with the beginning of things in Fulton county. And, moreover, the work done by the earlier generation has been worthily continued in the person of Mr. George Leininger, who deserves especial credit for the excellent farm and fine country home he has developed in Swan Creek Township. While he has always been known as a man who has looked diligently after his own business, he has always been concerned in a public-spirited way with the welfare and advancement of his com-

Freperick A. Srcrist, a successful and respected farmer of Swan Creek Township, owner of a good agricultural property 1n that township and of another farm of eighty acres in York Township, Fulton county, has lived a worthy life of persistent but enterprising industry. The Segrist family has had association with the development of Fulton county since its early days, and the two farms of Frederick A. Segrist are those won practically from the wilderness by his father, John Segrist. The Segrist family has honorable place in the earliest records of York Township, Fulton county, and worthy place among the consequential pioneers of this section of the State of Ohio.

Frederick A. was born in York Township, Fulton county, Ohio, December 14, 1872, the son of John and Lucinda (Bowman) Segrist, and grandson of David Segrist. His father and grandfather were born in Wurtemburg, Germany, but John Segrist was in early infancy when brought by his father, David, grandfather of Frederick A., to this country. At the outset of their American residence the Segrist family lived in Pennsylvania, but early came into Ohio, and eventually entered government land in what is now Fulton county. John Segrist eventually married Lucinda Bowman, and for many years lived in York Township, where most of their children were born, but eventually he went into Swan Creek Township, acquiring a farm in section 17 of that township. Frederick A. was born in the old Segrist family homestead in York Township, and there spent most of his youth. He was twenty-two years old when he married, after which important event in his history he took up his residence on a farm belonging to his father, the property being situated in Swan Creek Township. There he and his wife passed the first six vears of their married life as tenants, but since 1910 the farm has belonged to them, being acquired by Frederick A. Segrist from his father with the proceeds of his fifteen vears of industrious work as a tenant farmer. He has since much improved the property, and has built a substantial modern dwelling of nine rooms, and has been able to fit it with most of the modern conveniences that add to the comforts of life. Furthermore, his success in farming the Swan Creek acreage gave him the means wherewith to purchase the old Segrist homestead in which he was born in York Township. That property, eighty acres in extent, he acquired more for sentimental reasons than any other, and he does not himself operate it, renting the farm to mutual satisfaction. He has been a close student of modern developments of farming, and has been apt in recognizing and in adapting to the conditions of his own farm many modern improvements. His farming has heen of the general order. and he has had substantial success in stockraising. His Swan Creek farm, known as Woodlawn Farm, is a well-balanced property, and he maintains it in a high state of fertility, knowing the real bases of good farming. .

Politically Mr. Segrist is a democrat, but has not closely followed national political movements. In local affairs, however, he has been interested. and might have been elected to office in the local administration had he so wished, for the Segrist family has an honorable record in the district, and he, personally, is of good repute for moral and material integrity. Formerly he and his wife were more active in the social life of the community, and they are very hospitable.

His wife, whom he married on March 28, 1895, was Emma Snvder, who was born in York Township, daughter of Samuel and Ellen (Frederick) Snyder, well-known York Township residents. Mrs. Segrist's parents were not, however, born in the township, her father being a native of Pennsylvania, and her mother having been born in Piqua, Miami county, Ohio.

_ Orren Newton Detwiter. The Detwiler family story began in Fulton county in 1862, when Orrin Newton Detwiler came to Swan Creek Township with his parents. He was born August 26, 1855. in Marion county. He was a son of Jacob and Penelope (Miller) Detwiler. They belonged to the first quarter of the nineteenth century, he having been born November 14, 1816, while his wife was born August 28, 1824, eight vears later. They were married December 15, 1843, at Marion Ohio, and resided there until 1862, when they removed to Fulton county. She died June 5, 1888, while he died September 5, 1889, both being highly respected pioneer citizens.

After the death of the parents O. N. Detwiler decided to go west, and he located in Washington. He went in company with other voung men from Fulton county. They prospected for two vears, buying lots as an investment, but finally returning to Swan Creek Township, to the farm left him by his father. In 1900 he sold this farm to his brother Oliver. Detwiler and for one vear he lived on a rented farm, finally removing to Toledo, where he engaged in the meat business for a time, finding, however, that the farm suited him better and then he returned to Swan Creek Township.

When Mr. Detwiler bought his present farm it had improvements characteristic of the time, but he added necessary buildings, built fences and tiled the land and continued farming there until his death, March 3, 1909. On March 21, 1900, Mr. Detwiler married Mary Florence Miller, of York Township. She was born March 21, 1862, and was a daughter of John and Catherine (Hensel) Miller. The Miller family lived in Wavne county, the father dying there in September, 1908, while the mother died when Mrs. Detwiler was only two years old.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Detwiler are: Isa May, March 25, 1902, and Argvl Gilbert, November 30. 1904. They attended district schoo]. Mr. Detwiler voted with the democratic party. Mrs. Detwiler is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She continues her residence at the family homestead in Swan Creek Township.

Fifty-four years was the allotted span of life to Mr. Detwiler. He spent most of it in Fulton county, and by the close of his life he was able to see many of his cherished plans take shape and march toward fulfillment. The farm where Mrs. Detwiler and her children live is one of the valuable ones of Swan Creek Township, and it not only affords a good home but also means for the education of the children for the serious duties and responsibilities of life.

Puitre Henry Perer. One of the successful agriculturists of Fulton county who have to their credit a large amount of work done in the improvement of farm land in this region is Philip Henry Peter of Swan Creek Township. He was born at Florida, Henry county, Ohio, on September 18, 1877, a son of William and Eve (Yerges) Peter, both of whom were born in Ohio. They were early settlers of Henry county, Ohio, where they owned and developed a

Philip Henry Peter was reared by his parents to be a practical farmer and started out for himself in 1900, renting land for the first eight years, and then, in 1908, buying and improving an eightyacre farm in Swan Creek Township. On it he rebuilt the house, erected a fine large barn, and put in other valuable improvements, so that he was able to sell it at a handsome profit in 1919. Immediately thereafter he bought his present farm of eighty acres in the same township, one mile distant from his old one, and here is continuing his operations of general farming and dairying, which branches have received his attention ever since he began farming. _

On March 13, 1900, Mr. Peter was united in marriage with Mary Clemens, born in Defiance county, Ohio, a daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Clemens, of Bavaria, Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Peter have one daughter, Bessie, who is at home. Mrs. Peter is a consistent member of the Roman Catholic Church, but Mr. Peter is not connected with any religious organization. He maintains membership with the National Union at Florida, Ohio. ,

Mr. Peter belongs to the class of practical farmers who appreciate the value of their work and know how to make it yield them a fair profit. He does not undertake to carry on his operations without proper implements and appliances, and has learned how to make all of his efforts effective. Experience has taught him that it is more profitable to operate a farm of the size of his own well than to try to handle a big one that requires a large number of helpers. As a citizen Mr. Peter stands well in his neighborhood, and while he has not taken an active part in polities, he is dependable, reliable and enterprising and has at heart the welfare of the township in which he has made his home for so many useful years.

Joun H. Bratton. The men of Fulton county who have developed their farms from wild land have a satisfaction in their present comfortable surroundings not given those who have had their way prepared for them by others. John H. Bratton as he looks over his finely cultivated fields today can easily remember when they were covered with unsightly stumps, and the hard, back-breaking work required to dig them out. As he goes about his modern, comfortable house, barn and other buildings it is with the realization that thev were all erected through his instrumentality, and that to him and his ambitious efforts all of the improvements on his property are due. Mr. Bratton has lived on his present farm. in Swan Creek Township only since 1913, but he has owned a portion of it for a number of years, and was born in this same township on April 19, 1853.

The parents of John H. Bratton were Robert and Elizabeth (Deill) Bratton, natives of Ireland and England, respectively. About. 1845 Robert Bratton came to the United States and located in Wayne county, Ohio, of which region John and Elizabeth (Hartzel) Deill, the maternal grandparents of John H. Bratton, were early settlers, moving there from Pennsylvania. Robert Bratton and Elizabeth Feill were married in Wayne county, Ohio, and about 1850 came to Fulton county and bought eighty acres of land in the northern part of Swan Creek Township. This farm-was all wild land, and Robert Bratton cleared and developed it and erected the necessary buildings on it. Here he died in 1868, his widow surviving him until 1899. Their children were as follows: George, who is a resident of Swanton, Ohio; John H., whose name heads this review; Andrew, who is deceased; Mary, who is Mrs. Ezra Putnam, of Delta, Ohio; James, who lives on his parents' home place; and Anna Z., who is Mrs. Henry Zellers, of Swanton, Ohio.

_ John H. Bratton was reared in his native township, and attended its district schools. On March 25, 1879, he was united in marriage with Abigail Smont, born in Fulton Township, a daughter of James and Priscilla (Day) Smont, natives of England. After his mar: riage Mr. Bratton spent a year on his father's homestead, and two years in Pike Township, and then moved to Paulding county, Ohio, and spent four years there. With the death of his wife in 1889 Mr. Bratton terminated his residence in that county and returned to Fulton county, and was engaged in carpenter work. When he came back to Fulton county he bought thirty acres of his present farm, and when he located on it permanently he commenced those operations which have resulted in the development of one of the best small farms in this part of the state.

In 1905 Mr. Bratton was married to Alma McCullough, born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, a daughter of John and Alma (Sheldon) McCullough. There are no children by this second marriage, but by his first one Mr. Bratton had the following family born to him: Pearl, who is Mrs. Ezekiel Parker, of Fulton Township; Robert, who died at the age of four and one-half years; Wesley, who is a resident of Fulton Township, married Minnie Habel, and they have a daughter, Ollie.

Mr. Bratton is a democrat, but has not held any public offices, his time having been fully occupied with his own affairs. He is a member of Swanton Lodge No. 448, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Swanton, Ohio; and is a charter member of Swanton Lodge No. 490, Knights of Pythias. As an Odd Fellow Mr. Bratton has passed all of the chairs in the local lodge. During his long connection with Swan Creek Township Mr. Bratton has proved his worth as a man and citizen, and is held in high esteem by his ngighbors.

ALBERT V. GreEN. While Albert V. Green is now living in retirement in Swan Creek Township at the edge of Swanton, he has been _a busy man in his time. He is a son of James F. and Nancy (Pettibone) Green, and was born August 14, 1851, in Ottawa county. The father was born in Pennsylvania and the mother was a Connecticut woman. When he was a young man Mr. Green worked on a lake vessel, and he met his wife at Marblehead, Ohio.

Mrs. Green is a granddaughter of Governor Wolcott of Ohio. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Green lived in Ottawa county, where he was proprietor of a fishing outfit in Sandusky bay. In 1854 his wife died there. He later married Jane Shank, and they lived on an island in Sandusky bay until 1862, when they removed to Swan Creek Township near Brailey, where he had purchased eighty acres of timber land. He had three acres cleared in order to have a place to build a house, and he ended his days there, dying in 1877, where he had lived several years.

Albert Green had a sister, Artemicia, who was the wife of William H. Poorman, and he has one brother, William L., of Fremont. The children from his father's second marriage are: Josephine, deceased, who was the wife of Elvin Kessler; Delilah, wife of Samuel Kontz, of Sandusky; Luella. wife of James Shively, of Fremont; Henry, of Toledo; George, deceased, and Viola, of Toledo. paps county. On December 12, 1875, he married Pauline Huntley. She is a daughter of Lorenzo and Susan_ (Whitmore) Huntley, and their home was in the State of New York before moving to Ohio. For a while they lived on his father's farm, then moved to the Whit Manley farm, remaining there two years, when they removed to Swan Creek Township, where they lived until 1906, when they sold 'the place and moved to the vicinity of Swanton. For a time they lived in Swanton, where they owned property, but five years later they exchanged it for the 4% acres of suburban property where they live today.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Green are: Burton L., of Brailey; James A., who lives with his parents; Clarence J., who is proprietor of a general store at Brailey; and Arthur A., who has just returned from overseas service in the war of the nations. He was in the second depot of supplies division of the United States Expeditionary Forces in France.

It is nearly half a century since Mr. Green came to years of manhood, and those years until his practical retirement were characterized by well directed industry. As noted above, he began life with very little capital, and has made his prosperity by hard work and honorable means. He is one of the best known citizens of Swan Creek Township, and he can take pride in the record of his sons now beginning independent careers for themselves.

Henry Metnrzer, of Swan Creek, is an American by choice, having been born January 15, 1849, in Alsace-Lorraine. He is a son of George and Christina (Menlein) Meintzer. When he first came to the United States Mr. Meintzer farmed for 2% years in Cook county, Illinois. From there he moved to Fremont, Ohio, where he worked for two years in a saw mill, and for nine years in an iron mill before he finally located in Fulton county.

Mr. Mejntzer bought 106 acres of land in Swan Creek Township with about twenty acres cleared and the remainder in brush. He finished clearing the land and added substantial farm buildings from time to time, although there were some buildings when he bought the land. He remodeled the buildings and added forty acres to the farm, and he now has about 100 acres under cultivation. While he is a general farmer he specializes in livestock and dairving.

In October, 1869, Mr. Meintzer married Sophia Holtzscherer, who was born February 29, 1852, in Alsace-Lorraine. She is a daughter of Frederick and Margaret (Nicholas) Holtzscherer. They never lived in America. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Meintzer are: Albert, who died in infancy; Sophia, wife of Robert Reedy, of Toledo; Nellie Jane, wife of Henry Wales, of Wauseon; Regina, wife of Fred Kuhlman, of Toledo; Henry George, of Swan Creek; Arthur, of Toledo; and twin brother, Harold, who passed away February 17, 1920, and Arnold, who lives at the family homestead. Arnold spent five months in training at Camp Zachary Taylor in preparation for service in the war of the nations. The family is republican and members of the Lutheran Church,

While of foreign birth the substantial qualities of Mr. Meintzer and his family are just those needed in American life today, and while the story of his life is briefly told it is a record that will be cherished by his descendants and should also be noted as one of the

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Davin M. Aton, of Swan Creek, dates back to the days of the log schoolhouse in Ohio where he secured his education. In politics he is a republican, and he has an army record in the Civil war that is a source of pride to him. He enlisted August 28, 1861, in Company I, Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served his country until July 12, 1865, when he was mustered out, after having ziven four of the best years of his life to his country.. Mr. Aton is commander of the Grand Army of the Republic Post at Swanton, and is still interested in things military.

On May 29, 1866, Mr. Aton married Rebecca Overmeyer, of Sandusky county, although she was born in Perry county. She was a daughter of Jared and Jemima (Coe) Overmeyer. After his marriage Mr. Aton lived on a farm near Brailey, and here his wife died February 10, 1871, leaving the following children: William §., of Swan Creek; Amanda E., deceased; Cora E., wife of H. D. Camp, of Portage county; and Levi F., of Fulton county.

On November 1, 1885, Mr. Aton married Sarah Crosby. She was born in 1841 in Swan Creek. She is a daughter of John and Sarah Crosby, who came from New York to Ohio. When Mr. Aton married her she was the widow of Henry Coe, and she had three children: Charles E., of Toledo; Clara, wife of Frank Zerman, a bond printer of Toledo; and Viola, wife of Ashford Kent, of Isabelle county, Michigan. After his second marriage Mr. Aton located on an eighty acre farm in Swan Creek that has since been the family home. While there is some timber the land is under a high state of cultivation.

David M. Aton was born in Troy Township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1846, a son of Rufus M. and Euseba (Mead) Aton, natives of New York. At the age of seventy-four he has a long and interesting retrospect and may take especial pride in the four years he spent as a soldier in helping preserve the Union. His life since the war has been filled with activities, and the farm home in Swan Creek is largely the product of his energies and efforts.

W. F. Poorman. While agriculture is the oldest calling, it is only within recent years that the farmer has received proper appreciation, or that he has recognized the possibilities lying at his hand. The present farmer conducts his farm along systematic lines and through the use of improved machinery has been able to increase the volume of his production without the employment of much additional labor. Fulton county has long been the home of some of the most progressive farmers in Ohio, and one of them who has been able to live up to the reputation of this region is W. F. Poorman, of Franklin Township.

He was born in Perry Township, Richland county, Ohio, in 1856, a son of Peter W. and Caroline (Cornwall) Poorman, and grandson of Elias Cornwall. The Cornwall family is of German and English extraction, and was founded in the 'New Jersey colony many years ago. It was from the State of New Jersey that Elias Cornwall came to Ohio and located in Richland county, near Mansfield. Mrs. Poorman's father, Elias Cornwall, who went west in young manhood, but the family has since lost sight of his movements.

The Poorman family is of Scotch descent on one side and German on the other, but nine generations have lived in the United States. The paternal grandfather, Peter Poorman, came to Ohio from the vicinity of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and bought 160 acres of land in Perry Township, Richland county, on which farm his grandson was later born. All of the members of the Poorman family have been agriculturists with the exception of one, who is a machinist now living at Pennsville, Ohio. Peter W. Poorman inherited the homestead from his father and spent his life on it, passing away in 1895. He and his wife had two children, namely: W. F., whose name heads this review; and Samantha Almeda, who married Lloyd Bodley and lives in Hillsdale county, Michigan.

Like all farmer boys of his generation and neighborhood he attended the district school during the winter months and made himself useful on the home farm throughout the productive season, comleting his schooldays at the age of nineteen years. In the period havent his leaving school and his marriage Mr. Poorman was on the homestead, but at the time he was married he bought his present farm of 120 acres in Franklin Township, although when he made his initial purchase there were only eighty acres in it. With the exception of eight years he has continued to live on this farm, and has carried on the raising of diversified crops. His farm is well cultivated and nicely improved, and he takes a pride in having everything up-to-date.

On September 5, 1885, Mr. Poorman was united in marriage with Susie Merillat, a daughter of John M. and Susan Merillat of Franklin Township, both of whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Poorman became the parents of the following children: Oliver, who is married, has one child and lives near Swanton, Ohio; Edgar A., who is a veteran of the great war, served as an aviator in the army camps, is now at home; Carrie May, who married Jesse E. Ubank, lives at Toledo, Ohio, and has one son; Arthur H., who is a farmer of Franklin Township; Roy C. R., who lives at Wauseon, Ohio; Freeman Ivan, who is now at home, is also a veteran of the great war, served in France from June 26, 1917, until August 22, 1918, and also was in the campaign along the Mexican border, a member of Company A, Sixteenth Regiment, First Division, was wounded by a rifle ball at Chateau Thierry on July 18, 1918, was in a French hospital, recovered, and finally sent home, landing at Newport News, Virginia, from which port he was sent to Camp Sherman and there mustered out; and Hazel Frances, Flossie G., Lewis Dale, Ora and Verdie, all of whom are at home.

Rosert N. Murray, one of the substantial farmers of Swan Creek Township, is a man whose standing both as a citizen and agriculturist is unquestioned. He is a native of Fulton county, having been born in York Township May 26, 1848, a son of John and Mary (O'Brien) Murray, he born in County Down, Ireland, in 1804, and she in County Armagh, Ireland. They came to Albany, New York, prior to their marriage, and were there married, coming thence to Berea, Cuyahoga county, entering the tract of land from the government on which Berea now stands. When the prospectors for the railroad' came through to survey the land they managed to frighten the settlers away and secured their land at a nominal figure, and among them were the Murrays. They then came to Lucas county, in which the present York Township was included, entering in 1834 a tract of timber land. This they improved, made into a fine property, and it is now owned and occupied by their youngest son, Thomas C. Murray. The family did not settle on this property, however, until 1838, when they were brought here by boat to Toledo,

Ohio, and thence with oxen to their destination. The father died on this farm on January 18, 1872, the mother surviving him until March 14, 1888, when she, too, passed away. Their children were as follows: John, who was born March 13, 1835, died in November, 1883; Ellen, who died at the age of eighty years was Mrs. J. W. Wright; Mary, who died on June 25, 1900, was Mrs. Thomas Fraker; James W., who is deceased; Samuel, who lives at Delta, Ohio; Sarah, who was born on October 2, 1844, and died on June 24, 1900, was Mrs. ID. D. Donahue; Robert N., whose name heads this review; Hugh, who is a farmer of York Township; Mathew, who died in 1915; Thomas, who is a farmer of York Township, and his twin sister, Katie, is Mrs. Nathan Wright, of Wauseon, Ohio.

On December 138, 1876, Robert N. Murray was married to Alice A. Du Maresz, born in York Township, a daughter of John and Margaret (McKay) Du Maresz, he born in the parish of Saint Saviour, Island of Guernsey, and she at Big Tree, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. In 1834 Mr. Du Maresz came to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was married, and there he lived until four children were born to him and his wife, when he went to Michigan, spent five years, and then located in York Township, Fulton county, Ohio, where he died on September 15, 1892, being at that time eighty-three years of age, as he had been born on May 8, 1809. His wife died on April 11, 1889, aged seventy-four years, as she was born on July 1, 1814.

Following his marriage Robert N. Murray moved to an eighty acre farm, of which only twenty-three acres were cleared. On it was an old log house and a log barn. Mr. Murray began at once to thoroughly improve his place, erecting a large barn and a modern residence and other outbuildings. After the death of his father-inlaw, Mr. Murray bought the Du Maresz homestead of eighty acres, which was 4% mile away from his own farm. This property was well improved, but he rebuilt the house, and conducted both farms until 1893, when he sold his original farm and went to Auburn Township, Rush county, Kansas, and bought 240 acres of land, all prairie. Mr. and Mrs. Murray spent ten months on this property, and then when he had things well started he left his son to conduct it and came back to Ohio, buying eighty acres of improved land in Swan Creek Township. In 1911 he bought thirty acres of improved land in the same township, and has made a number of improvements of all kinds on this property, rebuilding all of the structures and putting things in fine shape, although he continues to reside on his thirty-two acre farm. 4:

Mr. and Mrs. Murray have become the parents of the following children: John D., who was born April 1, 1878, married Adelpha Verne Taber, and they have one daughter, Ardys Ruth, born September 10, 1909; and Mary Margaret, who was born in October, 1879, who is now Mrs. Claude L. Sturtevant, of Toledo, Ohio. Both Mr. and Mrs. Murray attended the district schools of their neighborhood, but they have added to their store of knowledge and are very well informed persons. The Methodist Episcopal Church of Swanton, Ohio, claims them as members. Mr. Murray is heartily in accord with the principles of the democratic party, and supports its candidates at each election. He is a Mason and belongs to Delta Lodge No. 248, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Delta Chapter No. 254, Royal Arch Masons. He is also a believer in the work of the Grange, and belongs to that organization operating under the name of Brailey Grange No. 1974. Having had a long and varied experience in different neighborhoods, Mr. Murray is one of the

Grorce Henry. Haynes. While for many years a general farmer, Mr. Haynes lives on a place partly in the City of Swanton and partly on the outside, and therefore many of his interests and activities have been identified with that thriving commercial and industrial community. :

Mr. Haynes was born in Spencer Township of Lucas county, Ohio, September 14, 1850, a son of Jacob and Nancy (Berry) Haynes. His father was a native of Virginia and came with his parents at an early date to Maumee, Ohio. Nancy Berry was born in New York state, and her father and mother, Peter and Mary Berry, natives of Vermont, came west in 1838. They traveled by the Erie Canal, by lake boat as far as Toledo, and were identified with the pioneer development of northern Ohio.

Jacob Haynes after his marriage settled in Spencer Township of Lucas county, and for many years worked as a saw mill operator. Soon after the birth of his son George Henry he moved to the little community of Ai in Fulton Township of Fulton county. He was employed by the different owners of the ashery at Ai, and later bought land, his last home farm being on Dutch Ridge. He died there in 1901, after a long life of usefulness and at the age of eightysix. His widow passed away in 1913, aged eighty-five. They had a large family of children, a brief record of whom is as follows: Samantha, Mrs. Frank Beard, of Toledo; George Henry; Mary Jane, of Fulton Township; Eliza, deceased wife of William Stout; Nancy, * Mrs. Andrew Strong, of Amboy Township; Arabella, Mrs. Eli Layman, of Fulton Township; Edward, of Toledo; Dora, wife of Ira Thompson, of Centerville, Swan Creek Township; and Minnie, Mrs. S. W. Sipe, of Amboy Township.

The early life of George Henry Haynes began on his father's farm in Fulton county, and he acquired a good knowledge of the branches usually taught in district schools. On December 14, 1874, at the age of twenty-four, he married Oliva Koder. Mrs. Haynes was born in Fulton Township January 24, 1852, a daughter of George and Mary (Stout) Koder. Her parents were born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and were numbered among the early settlers of Fulton Township. Her father while tilling the soil of his farm also exercised his skill as a casket maker a number of years. George Koder died August 16, 1881, at the age of seventy-four, and his wife on May 26, 1888, at sixty-seven.

After his marriage Mr. Haynes lived with his parents two years and then moved to Swan Creek Township and bought fifty acres in section 12. Only half of this acreage had been improved, and for many years succeeding Mr. Haynes exercised his strength and toil in putting the land under cultivation and improving it with modern buildings. He has done well as a general farmer, and has contributed much of the value to his land by his own management and effort. Thirteen acres of the farm are within the city limits of Swanton, and much of this has been sold off in town lots. Mr. Haynes also owns a quantity of wild prairie land in Ward county, North Dakota.

Enjoying the confidence of his fellow citizens, he has been a capable local official and served ten years as township treasurer of Swan Creek and ten terms as township trustee. He is a democrat in politics, is a member of the National Union at Toledo and is actively affiliated with Lodge No. 526, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Swanton, having filled all the chairs in the Lodge, and also a member of the Encampment at Delta.

Mr. and Mrs. Haynes had four children: Edgar E., born September 5, 1875, is now foreman in the shops of the Pilliod Valve Gear Company at Swanton. He married Elsie Knight, and their seven living children are named Hilda, Clifford, Dorman, Charles, Howard, Gerold and Cleora. The second child, Myrtle, is the wife of Edward Brinley, of Swanton, and has a daughter, Londa. William, who died at the age of twenty-five, married Orpha Wales and left one son, Kenneth. Laona, the youngest of the family, is the wife of Thomas Pilliod, of Swanton, and the mother of two children, named Emma and George.

Cuartes L. ALLEN, who served as a member of the advisory board for this History of Fulton County, has been identified with the business and community life of Fayette since prior to the Civil Wak in which he took an honorable part as a soldier and Union officer.

Mr. Allen was born at Clarkson in Monroe county, New York, November 16, 1838, son of Isaac and Mary (Terry) Allen. His father was born at Enfield, Connecticut, April 26, 1794, where also his mother was born April 27, 1800. His father died in December, 1885, and his mother in 1876. Isaac Allen was a soldier of the War of 1812. In 1816 he located at Clarkson, New York. He was a hatter by trade, but seven years after his marriage, which was celebrated September 10, 1817, he became a farmer. He enjoyed the confidence of his fellow citizens and held many offices of trust and honor. The names of the children of Isaac and Mary Allen were: Chauncey, Isaac, Harriet, who married John Little, Mary, who became the wife of James S. Hobbie, Julia, who was Mrs. Gilbert Aldridge, Joseph O., Emily, who married Nathaniel Phillips, Henry, who served as captain of Company A of the One Hundred and Fortieth New York Infantry, Charles L. and Arthur. The only ones now living are Charles and Arthur, both residents of Fayette, Ohio.

Charles L. Allen acquired a very good education for his time. After the common schools he attended normal school at Brookport, New York, also an academy at Hawley, New York, and a business college at Rochester. He came to Fayette, Ohio, in 1859, at the age of twenty-one, and after one term as a teacher found a job clerking in a general store at eight dollars a month and board. The proprietor of that store was G. W. Thompson. He had not been enjoying this compensation and experience very long when the stern call of patriotic duty sounded, and in August, 1861, he left the counter to enlist in Company K of the Thirty-eighth Ohio Infantry. He was elected and mustered in as second lieutenant, and went with the Army of the Cumberland, participating in many campaigns through Kentucky, Tennessee and other states of the middle South. He was promoted to first lieutenant and quartermaster and finally to adjutant, serving as such until December, 1864, when he resigned his commission on account of disability and soon after his return to Fayette was commissioned captain and raised a company, but the war came to an end before it was ready for service. The war over, Captain Allen settled down at Fayette as a general merchant, and continued that business fifteen years. After that he bought and sold produce, but in 1880 closed out that business. In 1885 he became one of the associates in the organization of the Bank of Fayette, his artners being Col. E. L. Barber, Arthur Allen and Judson Trotage Captain Allen was manager and cashier of the institution, and continued at that post of duty until the bank went into voluntary liquidation in 1913. '

Captain Allen has long enjoyed the complete confidence of his community not only for his business ability but for his personal integrity. He served nine years as justice of the peace, as school examiner nine years, and was a member of the Sixty-fourth and Sixtyfifth General Assemblies, and again was elected to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth General Assemblies, serving the second time without opposition. He is a stanch republican, and is a charter member of Fayette Lodge No. 387 of the Masons, acting as secretary of the lodge many years. Only two charter members are now living, James Grisut and C. L. Allen. He is also a member of the Loyal Legion, and is a past commander and present quartermaster of Stout Post No. 108, Grand Army of the Republic. ,

In October, 1865, Captain Allen married Susan C. Gamber. She was born in Seneca county, New York, daughter of Henry and Mary. (Hartrenuft) Gamber. Her parents, natives of Pennsylvania, were settlers in Fulton county in 1847. Her father bought 160 acres of timbered land and set off part of this tract and founded the town of Fayette, which he named in honor of Fayette, New York. Captain Allen has two children: Carrie B., at home; and Elsie M., wife of Dr. Clair S. Campbell, a well known Wauseon physician. Dr. and Mrs. Campbell have one son, Charles Allen.

Frank Buck, of "Brookmead Stock Farm" in Amboy, is a native of Rovalton. He is the only son of Charles S. and Matilda (Clendenin) Buck. While the father is a native of Amboy, the mother was born in Springfield Township, Lucas county. The paternal grandparents, Abner and Lucy (Norton) Buck, came from Massachusetts to Portage county, Ohio, in the early history of the country. In 1838 they moved to Fulton county, settling on the Royalton-Amboy line in Royalton. The next two generations of the Buck family were born there, Frank Buck's birth occurring March 24, 1880, and aside from a few years as a traveling salesman he has always been a resident of Fulton county.

The maternal ancestry, John and Phoebe Ann (Hackett) Clendenin, were also in Fulton county in territorial days, coming in 1844 to Amboy. He was from Livingston and she was from Rochester county, New York. The marriage of Charles S. Buck and Matilda Clendenin was solemnized April 11, 1872, and they immediately settled on a farm in Royalton. In 1894 they removed to Fayette, remaining there to educate their son, Frank Buck, and in 1897 they returned to the farm in Royalton.

Charles S. Buck was a Knight Templar and Thirty-second Degree Mason. He died March 18, 1915, and Mrs. Buck lives in Metamora. When he was seventeen Frank Buck graduated from the Fayette Normal School and the family returned to the farm, but in 1908 he became a general salesman through Ohio and part of Pennsylvania for the Kalamazoo Tank and Silo Company, continuing in this business five vears. At this time he bought "Brookmead Stock Farm," and settled down to agriculture again.

Mr. Buck remodeled and added to the farm buildings until "Brookmead" is an attractive homestead. He has thoroughbred livestock and keeps the best of everything. He has registered Hol- stein dairy cows, registered Spotted Poland-China hogs, pure bred Ancona and Mottled Java chickens, and carries on diversified farming, observing the proper crop rotation in order to maintain soil fertility.

On April 28, 1914, Mr. Buck married Anna Mary Carpenter. She is a daughter of James L. and Susan (Thompson) Carpenter, of Blissfield, Michigan. The father came from Pottsdam, New York, and the mother from Nashville, Tennessee. Mrs. Buck was educated in Blissfield and Adrian, taking a course in kindergarten at Adrian, and she taught in the Adrian public schools. Her father, James L. Carpenter, was a Civil war soldier, serving in the Seventh Michigan Cavalry. He enlisted as a lieutenant, was promoted to captain and came out of the service a major. The mother died January 27, 1902, and the father, September 29, 1909.

Mrs. Buck is a member of the Presbyterian Church. When she quit teaching she became a stenographer for the Continental Sugar Company of Blissfield. She was with the company four years, She is a member of the Eastern Star and of the Lucy Wolcott Barnum Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Adrian. There are two sons in the family at "Brookmead,'' Charles Carpenter Buck, born June 28, 1915, and James Clendenin Buck, born March 15, 1918. They are in the fourth generation of the Buck family in Fulton county.

Cuartes Buatnr. The Blaine family history began at Toledo as early as 1830, with the coming of Charles Blaine, Sr., from Onondago county, New York. Charles Blaine, Jr., of Amboy, was born November 1, 1847 - +erritorial days in Fulton county, and he has always lived in the same community. His mother, Rachel (Beaulth) Blaine, was born in Sylvania. When they located in Amboy the whole face of the earth in as far as their environment went was in timber and under water.

Mr. Blaine entered a quarter section of land, which he cleared and improved, and he and his wife both died there. The children in this pioneer family are: Robert and Benjamin, deceased; Sarah, wife of George Havens, of Swan Creek; Elmina, wife of William Driscoll, of Royalton; James, of Wichita, Kansas; Charles, of this sketch: Marion. of East Toledo; Esther, deceased wife of William Stillwell; and Emma, wife of Thomas Stedman, of Amboy.

Let the mathematician estimate the age of a young man born November 1, 1847, who enlisted in the Union Army March 1, 1864. Charles Blaine enlisted in Company I, Forty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and his regiment was assigned to duty at Chattanooga. He was in the Army of the Cumberland under Generals Sherman, Logan and Flagen, and he was in some of the hard fought engagements. He was at Missionary Ridge and Atlanta, and went with General Sherman "from Atlanta to the Sea while marching through Georgia."

Mr. Blaine was in different engagements in South Carolina and went with his regiment to Raleigh, North Carolina, being there when Johnston surrendered, and he also witnessed General Lee's surrender. He went to Petersburg, Richmond, and on to Washington. He was in Washington at the time of the Grand Review, as the soldiers were disbanding and being sent to their homes all about the country. He went from Washington to Parkersburg and down the Ohio River to Louisville. After camping five days in Louisville he went to Little Rock, where he remained four weeks, and from there

On February 3, 1867, Mr. Blaine married Esther Roop, a daughter of William and Lauretta (Gilson) Roop, of Amboy. The father was born in Toledo and the mother in Vermont. The paternal ancestry, John and Mary (Mills) Roop, came from Buffalo, New York, and Sandusky, Ohio. The maternal grandparents, Alfred and Jane (McAllister) Gilson, came from Vermont.

When Charles Blaine was married he settled on forty acres he had acquired, and remained there ten years clearing and improving it. When he sold it he bought fifty acres of his present farm, when it was all in timber and he had to clear the space for the first house built on it. He now has thirty-five acres under cultivation, the remainder in wood land and pasture.

In the way of business enterprise Mr. Blaine owned and operated a cane mill when people lived on sorghum molasses, and as the orchards came into bearing he added the cider mill. He made sorghum molasses and cider for the public until 1902, and he continued in the saw mill business until 1917, when he disposed of it. There was little demand for sorghum and with the destruction of the forest the orchards had more enemies and there were fewer apples for cider. However, the cane mill industry revived in war times in some communities. Sorghum molasses was often substituted for sugar.

Mr. Blaine has added to his landed possessions until he now has 213 acres in three different places, and he personally manages the 120 acres in the farmstead where he lives. He combines livestock production with farming and keeps a dairy. The dairy farmer maintains soil fertility and thereby increases the land production. His children are: Ina, wife of Frank Carter, of Amboy; Charles Ernest, of Delta; Van Harry, of Constantine, Michigan; and Myrtle, - wife of Emmet Wilcox, of Amboy.

For six years Mr. Blaine served as trustee of Amboy Township, and as path master fourteen years. Some of the family ancestry were among the earliest citizens of Fulton county. John p, William Blaine, Alfred Gilson and Aaron Stedman were pioneers of the community. The Blaines are members of Amboy Grange, and Mr. Blaine is a member of Baxter Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Lyons. He is vice commander and has held all of the chairs except treasurer of the Post.

A birthright pioneer of Fulton county, one of the youngest surviving veterans of the great Civil war, a farmer and promoter of home industry, these and other services have made Mr. Blaine one of the most interesting and useful citizens of the county, and he well deserves the respect and high esteem in which he is held by the members of his community.

Jacop W. Haste has a family story in common with others of the same name, being a son of Jacob and Mary Elizabeth (Mohr) Hable, the parents having come from Germany. The father died in 1916, and the mother became the wife of Jacob Leibler. The children of the first family are: Adam, Daniel and Jacob. The Leibler children are Peter and Meda.

In 1888 Jacob W. Hable married Mary Krieger. She died three years later. On November 4, 1915, he married Ermina Knecht who was born in Switzerland. She had come to America in 1913. and two years later she became the wife of Mr. Hable.

riage, and later he bought forty-three acres from the old homestead in Amboy where he was raised, and he has always farmed it. Since 1897 he has bought livestock and poultry, which he has butchered and marketed in Toledo.

Mr. Hable has two children, Walter Emerson and Leslie Paul. Mr. Hable is independent in politics, choosing to vote for the man. He is a member of Zion Reformed Church, and for several years he - has been one of its trustees.

KimMet Kyper Watkins. The Watkins family story embraces several Ohio counties, Kimmel Kyper Watkins, of Fulton Township, having been born June 16, 1859, in Lorain county. He is a son of James Holiday and Nancy (Kimmel) Watkins. The father was born in Wayne county and the mother in Somerset county. They married in Wayne and in 1850 they moved to Lorain, and three years later they removed to Fulton county, locating in Swan Creek Township. They cleared a farm, and a few years later they bought a timber tract in York Township. He died in 1893 and she died in 1903 - +ten years later.

There were ten children in the Watkins family: Milton, Oliver, John, Sarah, Mary, William, and Ella, deceased, Kimmel K. of this sketch, George, who lives in Swanton and Frank in Toledo. When Mr. Watkins was thirteen he began working by the month, doing for himself. On July 16, 1884, he married Tillie J. Richardson, of Swan Creek. She is a daughter of George H. and Laura (Blake) Richardson. After two years in Fulton Township Mr. Watkins removed to Kane county, Illinois, where he worked as a broom maker and by the month on farms for four years.

When Mr. Watkins returned to Fulton county he rented land from 1892 until 1910, when he bought sixty acres: where he has since lived, although since 1918 a son works the farm. The children are : Earl, who works the farm; Ethel, deceased; Opal, wife of George Mason, of Pike; Ross, of Pike, married Fern Sheffield; Orra, who was married February 7, 1920, to Florence Bruner; and Dorr, at home. The family are Methodists. Mr. Watkins is a republican, and he is a justice of the peace. He has been school director and township trustee. He belongs to Berry Grange at Ai.

This is a brief reference to one of the families and one of the individuals who have played an earnest and hard-working part in the affairs of Fulton county for many years. It is a well known fact that in America success can be achieved by men who begin life without capital, and a case in point is that of Mr. Watkins, who had no other assets than a trade and the qualifications of industry and skill as a farm worker, and raised himself through the successive stages of farm hand and farm tenant to independent ownership of a good country home and a place of influence in his community.

TrHomas JEFFERSON Hatsey. In the days when there was plenty of land that was unoccupied which could be secured from the government at a nominal fee, no attention was paid to those portions which were without a good natural drainage, as it was thought they were worthless. As time went on, however, and there were less opportunities for obtaining cheap land, the more thoughtful turned their attention toward these hitherto neglected portions, and have found that when they are properly drained they are much more fertile and, therefore, valuable than the land located higher above the water line. One of the men of Fulton county who now owns a very valuable property and has redeemed a good part of it, having the satisfaction of knowing that he owes his present prosperity to his energy and far-sightedness, is Thomas Jefferson Halsey of Delta, owner of a farm in Swan Creek Township. ;

Thomas Jefferson Halsey was born in Holmes county, Ohio, on June 29, 1851, a son of Isaiah and Rebecca (Wells) Halsey, and grandson of Samuel and Abigail Halsey, natives of New Jersey, and William and Sarah Wells, natives of Holmes county, Ohio. Isaiah Halsey was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1808, and by a first marriage he had four children, namely: Jane, Catherine and Jonas, all of whom are deceased; and John, who is a resident of Wood county, Ohio. After the death of his first wife he was married to Rebecca. Wells, and they settled in Fulton Township, Fulton county, when Thomas Jefferson was six weeks old. In 1871 they went to York Township, which was their final home, both being seventyseven years old at the time of death. Their children were as follows: Henrietta, who is Mrs. Henry Gunn, of Toledo, Ohio; Lydia, who was Mrs. Austin Batdorf, is deceased; Thomas Jefferson, who was the third in order of birth; Marion and Harvey, both of whom died in Michigan; Sophronia, who is the widow of Alfred Harrison, of Toledo, Ohio; and Minnie, who was Mrs. William Pennington, is deceased.

Thomas Jefferson Halsey was reared in Fulton county and attended its district schools. He grew up on his father's farm, remaining at home until he attained his majority. He was married on June 28, 1871, to Sarah Norris, born in Hancock county, Ohio. After their marriage he and his wife rented land in York Township, one year farming on shares and the next paying a regular amount of rent. In 1873, Mrs. Halsey died, and Mr. Halsey was subsequently married to Ellen E. Carter, born in Swan Creek Township, a daughter of Solomon and Lucinda (Cass) Carter, he a native of Ravena, Ohio, and she of Canada. Following this second marriage Mr. Halsey bought forty acres of land in Amboy Township, which he cleared and made his home for nineteen years. Selling that farm, he bought 110 acres of land in Swan Creek Township. The greater part of this land was cutover timber, and he cleared it off, improved it, and has always been engaged in.farming with the exception of one year when he owned and operated a hotel at Swanton, Ohio, which was in 1889. In 1910 Mr. Halsey bought a residence at Delta, where he is now living. On his farm he has a ditch 114 rods long, 10 feet deep, and from 55 to 60 feet wide at the top, which was originally covered with brush, willows and other marshy growths. To open this channel he and his wife worked 114 days at the end of July and seventeen davs in August, and then had the assistance of Lee Richards in completing the work. This portion of Swan Creek is now as tlean as a city pavement, and by means of it much land otherwise worthless has been brought under cultivation.

The first Mrs. Halsey left one child at her death, George William. but he died in infancy. By his second marriage Mr. Halsey had the following children: Eben B., who died at the age of forty-two years; Lucinda, who was first married to Louis Meeker, and she is now Mrs. John Crow, of Detroit, Michigan; Lewis, who is on the home farm; William E., who is a resident of Delta; Rosa, who is Mrs. Christopher Smith of Delta, Ohio; Isaiah, who lives in Toledo. Ohio; and Esta and Sarah, both deceased.

is a strong republican, and has served as township trustee and road supervisor. A man of broad vision, Mr. Halsey has long recognized the desirability of having good roads in Fulton county, and has worked hard to secure them for his neighborhood. At first it was somewhat difficult to get some of his associates to agree with his views on the question, but of late years the "goods roads" movement has gained a popularity that is nationwide, and Fulton county 1s not backward in taking up the matter. In many ways Mr. Halsey has proven himself a public-spirited man, and he is recognized as one of the leading citizens of this part of the county.

_Wi11AM B. Pontious. The name of Pontious is a well known one in Fulton county, and several of its representatives have developed fine farms in different portions of it, and assisted in establishing the agricultural prestige of this part of the state. William B. Pontious, who is the father of McClellan Pontious of Pike Township, was born in his present township in 1857 and is now one of its leading farmers and dairymen. He is a son of David and Lucy Ann (Drake) Pontious, natives of Pennsylvania and Belmont county, Ohio, respectively, and grandson of Samuel Pontious, a native of Pennsylvania. Both the Pontious and Drake families came at an early day to Pickaway county, Ohio, where David Pontious and Lucy Ann Drake were married.

Soon after their marriage David Pontious and his wife moved to Fulton Township and bought unimproved land in the timber. There they worked hard to clear off their land and improve it, and there they lived for about thirty-five years, when they retired and spent their last years at Wauseon, where both passed away. During the war between the states David Pontious served as a soldier in the Union Army, belonging to the Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was in it for 3% years, after which he received his honorable discharge, and resumed his peaceful occupation of farming. He and his wife became the parents of the following children: William B., who was the eldest; Homer, who lives at Detroit, Michigan ; Dillie, who is Mrs. William Orndorf, of Toledo, Ohio; Lydia, who is Mrs. John Taner, of Napoleon, Ohio; Charles, who is a resident of Toledo, Ohio.

On March 25, 1879, William B. Pontious was united in marriage with Patience Snow, born in Holmes county, Ohio, a daughter of John and Cassander (Curtis) Snow. Mr. and Mrs. Pontious became the parents of children as follows: McClellan, who is a prosperous farmer of Pike Township, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work; Maude, who is the widow of Edward G. Hines, lives with her father; and Ernest, who died at the age of two years.

Following his marriage William B. Pontious rented land in different sections for twenty years, and then he bought fifty acres in section 7, York Township. on which there was standing an old log house and several outbuildings as the sole improvements. Since purchasing the place Mr. Pontious has made some very valuable improvements, having at present a modern residence, barn and other structures; his fields are well fenced and his land thoroughly drained. He has always been a general farmer, stockraiser and dairyman, and is carrying on these industries with marked success.

Having attended the little cross roads schoolhouse during his childhood and youth, Mr. Pontious has felt that the children of the present generation ought to be given better advantages than were accorded those of his day, and has supported measures looking to the improvement of the public schools in his county. He has been very active in the Evangelical Church in his neighborhood, serving it as a member of the choir and as superintendent of the Sunday school at different times. From the time he cast his first vote Mr. Pontious has been a republican, and is still a sym py eet of its principles and proud of its history. Both he and Mrs. Pontious are very highly respected and looked up to in their neighborhood, and their influence has always been cast in favor of those measures which have had for their object the general betterment of the moral standard and advancement of the people.

Amos Harmon. The late Amos Harmon is commemorated,in the Fulton County History by Mrs. Lucelia Tedrow Harmon of Delta. Mr. Harmon was born September 2, 1850, in Holmes county, and he died June 21, 1901, at the family homestead in Pike Township. He was a son of Samuel and Catharine Harmon, natives of Holmes county. However, they became early settlers in Pike Township, Fulton county.

"married May 6, 1876, Lucelia Tedrow, of York Township. She was born January 22, 1854, daughter of John and Mary (Coffman) Tedrow. They were also from Holmes county, and were early settlers in Fulton county.

Mr. and Mrs. Harmon took up their residence on the Harmon farm in Pike Township, and in time they became owners of part of it. They remained there as long as he lived, and in 1907 Mrs. Har-

' mon purchased an acre of ground on the north edge of Delta. Orla Clarence, the oldest child, died in infancy. Marion Le Roy, of Delta, married Flossie Donald. Their two sons are Donald and

While his life was comparatively brief as measured by his span of years, the late Amos Harmon accomplished most of those things that are properly found in a career of greater length. He lived industriously and honorably, by hard effort earned a competence, and provided well for his family, so that his children and descendants and his many friends can hold his memory in high esteem.

Joun A. Wirxkrns, M. D., well-regarded physician of Delta, Ohio, who for more than forty-five years has been in successful professional practice in that section of Fulton county, has a life record which is well worthy of good place in this edition of Fulton County History. He holds the baccalaureate degree of Denison University, and the medical degree of Starling Medical College; he enlisted as private, very soon after the outbreak of Civil war in 1861, was in many battles, was injured, and finally, in September, 1865, was discharged with the rank of staff colonel; he has been surgeongeneral of the Grand Army of the Republic; he has been a state senator; and his place among his professional confreres is clearely indicated by his election to the oftice of president of the Ohio State Medical Society, and also the Northwestern Ohio Medical Society.

Dr. John A, Wilkins was born in Licking county, Ohio, on May 1, 1844, the son of Archibald and Mary (Robinson) Wilkins, and is of Scottish origin, in the paternal line, and of Irish antecedents, in the maternal line, his father having been born in Scotland, and his mother in Ireland. Archibald Wilkins and Mary Robinson married in Ireland, and soon afterwards came to America, being of record in Licking county, Ohio, in about, 1840. Archibald Wil. kins was a weaver when he lived in Scotland, but after having emigrated he took up the customary occupations of the pioneer, clearing much land, and eventually owning a well improved and rich agricultural property in Licking county, Ohio, where he died in 1864. His wife, however, lived a widowhood of more than forty years, attaining the remarkable age of one hundred and seven years, and, more remarkable still, retaining her faculties comparatively lucid and unimpaired until the last years of her life. Mary (Robinson) Wilkins was born on September 29, 1799, and died in 1906, at Remington, Indiana.