Fulton Township (part 25 of 34)

Mr. Hallauer was born at Wauseon in 1883, a son of Martin and Bena (Greser) Hallauer. He attended the public schools at Wauseon and one year in high school, and then went to work for the Home Telephone Company. He advanced rapidly in its service and for many years was night manager. He is now a stockholder in the telephone company. In 1919 he resigned his position to invest his savings and experience in association with Charles E. Mattison, under the firm name of Battery Service Company, and they had complete facilities for recharging, rebuilding electric batteries and had the agency in Fulton county for the Willard Battery Service of Cleveland. January 1, 1920, Mr. Hallauer sold his interest in the business to G. Scott Roos, and he then accepted the position of manager at Wauseon of the Northwestern Ohio Telephone Company.

In 1917 Mr. Hallauer married Mina Miller, daughter of Dr. Jay and Lilly (Adams) Miller, of Wauseon. They have one son, John William, born in 1918. Mr. Hallauer is independent in politics and is affiliated with Wauseon Lodge No. 347 of the Masons and with the Knights of Pythias.

GotTires Eckert. It was in 1884 that Gottlieb Eckert came to Ottawa county, Ohio. He was born in Germany May 15, 1865, and had not yet attained to his majority when he immigrated to America. He was a son of William and Rebecca Eckert, both of whom died in Germany.

Mr. Eckert always worked at farming in Ottawa county, and sometimes he would run an engine in a saw mill. In fact he was a man of all trades. In November, 1892, he married Margaret Schug, who was also a German. She was a daughter of Peter and Catharine (Morh) Schug, who were immigrants, although she was born in Amboy. The parents met and were married in Fulton county. The wife died in 1914, and Mr. Schug, who survives, is eighty-five years old.

Gottlieb Eckert worked as a farmer in several Ohio counties and in 1905 he bought eighty acres of partly improved farm land in Pike Township and finished making a farm of it. He cleared the brush and stumps, remodeled the buildings and feneed the fields. He put the farm into excellent condition. He died December 29, 1918, and Mrs. Eckert relates the family history. Their children are: William, deceased, who was a soldier in the war of the nations, and died October 25, 1918, at Camp Sheridan; Sherman, a discharged soldier from service in France; Lawrence, Fern, Ernest, Paul, Mary and John.

The late Mr. Eckert was in his fifty-fourth year when he died. He had come to America a poor boy, with only his ambition and the skill of his hands. He was the type of man that America readily and kindly adopts. He possessed the qualities of good citizenship. Fundamentally he relied upon his hard work and energy to gain the a he desired, and while he realized his modest ambitions, improved and developed a good farm for his family, his life was also an expression of worthy citizenship, and that' citizenship is also continued through his childeert two of whom earned the lasting honor of their country by service as soldiers.

Lewis G. Aton, of Swan Creek, is a native of Bradford county, Pennsylvania. He was born there January 18, 1842, being a son of Rufus and Usebia (Mead) Aton. The father was born in Pennsylvania, but the mother was a native of York state. They married and settled in Pennsylvania, but in 1848 they removed to Erie county, Ohio. In 1852 they moved again, this time locating in Swan Creek, Fulton county.

Mr. and Mrs. Aton came with her grandparents, Amos and Evizabeth (Garrison) Mead, to Fulton county. They had bought an eighty-acre tract of land and here they lived and died, and Mr. Aton's father also died in a short time, but his mother bought a twenty-acre tract and continued her residence in Swan Creek until 1913, when her death occurred, and Mr. and Mrs. Aton were left in the community.

Mr. Aton has brothers Levi D., of Calhoun county, Iowa, and David M. and Chauncey M., both of Swan Creek Township. In May, 1861, Mr. Aton enlisted in Company I, Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he served as a private in the Civil war under Generals Grant, Thomas and Sherman. He was in many of the hardfought battles and he was with General Sherman in the famous march from Atlanta to the sea, having covered the distance from Chattanooga and continued the march from Atlanta. Mr. Aton received his honorable discharge from the army July 21, 1865, escaping without injury and returned then to private citizenship in Fulton county. '

On September 9, 1867, Mr. Aton married Adelia D. Nicholas. She was born September 9, 1852, in Huron, Erie county. She was a girl wife, the daughter of Thomas and Roena (Fuller) Nicholas. The parents were from Vermont.

Soon after his marriage Mr. Aton invested in a twenty-acre tract of timber land in Swan Creek, but he farmed other land on the shares, working at odd times clearing his own land, and in 1871 he built the house and moved to his own home, and here he has lived since that time, engaged in general farming. His early education was in common school, and he has given his children the improved advantages of the present day. The children are: Thomas Edison, of Toledo, who married Nellie Inman. They have two daughters; Ada May is the wife of W. A. Harp of Toledo; Edna Belle is the youngest in the family. The first born, Millie Leola, died at the age of seven years.

Roiua E. Mitrer. Born and bred in York Township, Rolla E. Miller is still a resident of this portion of Fulton county and one of its successful farmers and enthusiastic boosters. He was born on February 25, 1872, a son of Warren T. and Henrietta P. (Dumaresq) Miller, natives of York Township and Cuyahoga county, Ohio, respectively. The grandparents, John S. and Rebecca (Wright) Miller, natives of Pennsylvania, were very early settlers in York Township. The maternal grandparents, John and Margaret (McKay) Dumaresq, were also among the early settlers of Fulton county.

Following their marriage Warren T. Miller and his wife located in York Township, and there he continued farming until his death, which occurred in February, 1915. His widow survives him and lives in Wauseon. Their children were as follows: John, who was drowned at the age of eighteen months; Martha, who was Mrs. Theodore Fonty, died in 1897; Rolla E., whose name heads this review; and Octavia, who is Mrs. Ira Free, of York Township.

On August 22, 1893, Rolla E. Miller was married to Lucy C. Seymour, born in York Township, a daughter of Gideon and Rosena B. (Slagel) Seymour, natives of Pennsylvania and Coshocton county, Ohio, respectively. Immediately thereafter he moved to his farm of eighty acres on section 27, York Township. At that time there were thirty-nine acres of it cleared, the remainder being in the timber. Since then Mr. Miller has put his place in fine order, all of it but ten acres being under cultivation, he preferring to keep that in timber, and he has erected a set of modern buildings. Here he carries on general farming according to the most approved methods, and is a man universally respected.

By his first marriage Mr. Miller had three children, namely: Cecil, who lives at Wauseon, married Laura Leitner and they have two children, June Christine and Ruth Arlene; Kenneth and Ford R., who died in infancy. The first Mrs. Miller died on May 1, 1911, and Mr. Miller was married on January 5, 1916, to Minnie A. Timbers, born in York Township, a daughter of Eli and Lucinda E. (Wise) Timbers, natives of Van Wert and Fulton counties, Ohio, respectively. Mrs. Miller was the widow of James P. Atwater at the time of her second marriage, and the mother of the following children: Maurice Burdett, who lives at Toledo, Ohio; Rosco, who died in infancy; Paul Edmund, who also lives at Toledo, Ohio; and Adelia May, who married Reville Regenold of Swanton, Ohio. Mr. Atwater died on December 14, 1914, at Milton Center, Wood county, Ohio, having been a harnessmaker by trade. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have one son, Ralph Herman.

While Mr. Miller's attendance at school was limited to the time he went to the Empire District School, his wife had the advantages offered by the Delta High School. In politics Mr. Miller is a republican, and fraternally he belongs to Wauseon Lodge No. 156, Knights of Pythias, and Mrs. Miller belongs to the Eastern Star. A member of the United Brethren Church, Mr. Miller is now serving the local congregation as trustee and treasurer.

Mrs. Miller's son, Paul E. Atwater, spent a year in the United States Navy during the World war, and her son-in-law, Reville Regenold, was in a machine gun corps and served in France for fifteen months during the same war. He was in the following offensives: Aisne-Marne, August 1 to 6, 1918; Somme, August 8 to 12, 1918: St. Mihiel, September 12 to 16, 1918; and Meurtha-Moselle, November 10 to 12, 1918.

Ezekret U. Hottanp. When it is remembered that the earliest permanent settlements were made in Fulton county during the '30s and that Ezekiel U. Holland was born here toward the close of that decade, it is evident that he is a connecting link between the real pioneer period and the present.

Mr. Holland, who lives on his farm in Amboy Township, was born in Fulton county December 18, 1839. He was eleven years of age when Fulton county was created and organized. His parents, Thomas R. and Deborah (Thompson) Holland, were natives of Buckingham, England. They came over on the same ship, were married after landing in America, and soon after settled in what is ad some unusual experience as a pioneer home maker in this wilderness. The land he entered was covered with timber, and there were no roads to connect his farm and home with the few towns in northern Ohio. As he could not raise a crop, in order to get the money for his necessary household supplies he secured employment in helping build the first dock in the Toledo harbor. It required a courage surpassing that of most modern women for his wife to remain alone © in the wilderness, in the little cabin home, surrounded by wolves and other wild animals, while her husband was away. At midnight on Sunday he would leave his wife at home, walk the entire distance within four miles of Toledo, do a day's work on Monday as well as every other day in the week, and after a full day on Saturday would walk home. He kept this up for two winter seasons. The summers he was busy in clearing and trying to get a modest crop of wheat or oats to grow among the stumps. At times the food supply in the house would get so low that members of the family would go into the fields, husk corn from the stalk, grate it and convert it into mush. Thomas Holland never hired work done on his farm, but by the device of changing work with his neighbors got forty acres cleared and thus did his part in the development of at least one farm in Fulton county. The children of Thomas R. Holland and wife were: Anna M., deceased; Ezekiel U.; Louisa, wife of Joseph Southworth, of Weston, Michigan; John P., of Toledo; and Esther Jane, deceased.

Ezekiel U. Holland has many memories of the conditions above described and the hardships of the life of the earliest pioneers. In order to get some schooling he walked through the woods from his home to the schoolhouse more than a mile away, but attended school only two or three months each winter, the rest of his time being spent at work, and his education was practically ended by the time he was eighteen years of age. After that he was a working factor in the household, and at the age of twenty he left home and became dependent on his own resources. During the Civil war Mr. Holland enlisted, but after one month of training was released from, further duty. On January 7, 1862, he married Louisa Jane Driscoll, who was born in Medina county, Ohio, daughter of John and Susan (Myers) Driscoll, natives of the same county. After his marriage Mr. Holland bought fifty-two acres. Five acres had been cleared and seven acres were in "slashings." This land was in section 18 of Amboy Township. Some years later he had it cleared, and then bought fifty acres more in section 19. At the present time he has a farm with about forty acres in cultivated fields, while the rest is used for timber and pasture. Mr. Holland served one term as constable.

His first wife died May 23, 1890. She was the mother of two sons, Willis Edgar, deceased, and William Emery, of Amboy Township. Mr. Holland married for his second wife Sarah C. Moore, daughter of William Moore.

Watrer A. Tappan. The history of the Tappan family in Ohio begins in 1835, when the grandparents of Walter A. Tappan arrived at Toledo. These grandparents were Moses Q. and Hettie (Miller) Tappan, natives of New Jersey. From Hanover, New Jersey, they came west by way of the Erie Canal and Lake Erie to Toledo.

to own an Ohio farm, and in 1839 he bought 160 acres of timber in what later became Fulton county. Along with being a shoemaker and farmer Mr. Tappan was a great hunter and provided wild meat for his family. He improved his timber claim and spent his life there, dying June 27, 1858. His widow survived him more than forty years, passing away September 16,1899. 5

Their grandson, Walter A. Tappan, was born in Pike Township ' October 27, 1870, son of Herman M. and Harriet (Wood) Tappan. Herman M. Tappan was born in Fulton county, on the old homestead, and first saw the light of day and lived and died in a house that is still standing, an historic landmark, being the first frame house built in Pike Township. Herman Tappan died April 23, 1914, and his wife on April 11, 1917. Harriet Wood was born in Medina county, Ohio, a daughter of William H. and Laura (Fuller) Wood, natives of New York. Her parents were married in Cleveland and about 1860 they located in Fulton county.

Walter A. Tappan, the older of the two children of his parents, had a common school education and also attended the Wauseon Normal School one winter. On St. Valentine's Day, February 14, 1897, he married Edna E. Wright. She was born in Pike Township July 17, 1877, a daughter of Charles and Clarissa (Tappan) Wright. Her paternal grandparents, George and Ann (Harrison) Wright, came from England in 1826 and located in Fulton county in 1853. Her maternal grandparents, Whitfield and Amanda (Woodford) Tappan, were also pioneers of Fulton county, reaching here about 1835.

Mr. and Mrs. Tappan began farm activities on an eighty, and they have added to it from time to time until they have a farm of 190 acres under splendid cultivation. They have good farm buildings and besides general farming Mr. Tappan has thoroughbred Duroc Jersey hogs and a dairy of Holstein cows.

There are two children: Gertrude, born January 3, 1898, and Herman, born May 13,1903. Mr. Tappan votes with the republican party. He has served as township treasurer and township clerk for twenty-five years. He believes in the social uplift of the rural community and is active in the Grange.

When the roll of pioneers is called in Fulton county an interesting answer can always be made to the name of Tappan, since it represents a family that not only helped to clear the wilderness and establish homes and other evidences of community life, but through successive generations have maintained the same high standard of citizenship, and among those of the present generation Walter A. Tappan, as this brief outline shows, has many things to indicate the value of his material achievements as well as his public spirit and willing servica to the community. _

Amos Woo.ace, who has been a resident of Fulton county most of his life, began his career as an independent farmer nearly fortvfive years ago. He converted a comparatively raw tract of land in Gorham Township into a high class farm, built one of the finest country homes in that section, but for the past eighteen years has been a retired resident of Fayette. :

Mr. Woolace was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, April 13, 1853, son of William and Mary (Schlotman) Woolace, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of New York. William Woolace was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1816, son of Evan and Elizabeth Woolace. Mary Schlotman was born November 13, 1816, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Schlotman. William Woolace and wife were married January 30, 1840, and a year or so later moved to a farm in Fairfield county, Ohio, and after fourteen years of residence there moved to Gorham Township, Fulton county. William Woolace bought eighty acres of partly improved land, added 120 acres more, and eventually had the entire farm completely developed and improved. Late in life he sold this place to his sons, Frank and William, and after that he and his wife spent their last years in Fayette. A record of the children of William and Mary Woolace is as follows: Daniel Franklin, born January 3, 1841, a resident of Gorham Township; Perry, born November 16, 1842: James Jacob, born October 3, 1844, a resident of Fayette; Lovina Elizabeth, born October 8, 1848, died August 16, 1864; William A., born August 22, 1851, deceased; Amos, born April 13, 1853; and John Evan, born September 12, 1855. weg

Amos Woolace was educated in the district schools of Fulton county and at the age of twenty-three, on December 18, 1876, married Amanda Gambee. She was born in Seneca county, New York, July 18, 1847, daughter of Jacob and Susanna (Scheaffer) Gambee, the former of Seneca county, New York, and the latter of Northampton county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Woolace's paternal grandparents were Jacob and Catherine (Gamber) Gambee, of New York State, while her maternal grandparents, George and Elizabeth (Beaver) Scheaffer, came from Pennsylvania. Mrs. Woolace was one of the following children: Valeria, Mrs. George Bodley, of Fayette, Ohio; George, who died in childhood; Mrs. Woolace; Edward, of Fayette; and Frank, of Clayton, Michigan.

Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Woolace moved to eighty acres in section 30 of Gorham Township. Some of the land had been cleared and cropped, and the building improvements were an old house and equally old barn. Through the energy and progressiveness of Mr. Woolace the farm took on new life, and in the fall of 1889 he began the construction of a splendid fourteen-room modern brick home, his family moving into the new residence in the spring of 1890, After that he continued his work as a general farmer until 1902, when he bought a fine residence at Fayette, and has since thoroughly modernized it. Mr. Woolace is a democrat, has served as senior and junior warden of Fayette Lodge No. 387 of the Masons, is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias at Fayette, and his wife is a member of the Eastern Star and Rebekahs.

Of their children the older is William Dayton, who was born April 28, 1879, and is now living on the home farm. Earl Ganbee, born May 6, 1881, lives at Fayette. He married Gartha Garland, a native of Gorham Township and daughter of William and Ethel (Scott) Garland, of Lenawee county, Michigan.

Joun F. Wirmer, of Sunnyside Farm in Swan Creek Township, is a son of immigrant parents, although he was born, September 25, 1859, in the Swan Creek community. Rudolph and Maria (Kaiser) Witmer were born in Switzerland. The grandfather, John Witmer, came with his family to America, and in 1834 he located in Lucas county, Ohio. He afterward removed to York Township in Fulton county. = Soo after their marriage Rudoiph and Maria Witmer bought wild land and located in the timber in Swan Creek. He was born in Switzerland in 1815, and was a young man when he began the transformation of this timber country into cultivated farm lands. On June 21, 1834, while this pioneer family was living in a bark shanty in the woods, there was a terrible wind and rain storm, blowing down the forest trees in great numbers all about them, not a limb, however, striking this primitive dwelling, and they regarded their escape as little short of miraculous. There were two Witmer brothers in the Union Army, one of them being killed at the battle of Pittsburg Landing. Rudolph Witmer died August 3, 1882, while his wife died July 17, twenty years later. She had one daughter by a former marriage, Sophia, who became the wife of John Hall. 4

The children born to Rudolph and Maria Witmer are: Mary Ann, wife of Amos Raker, of Pike Township; John F.; and Elizabeth, who died in childhood. .

On February 5, 1900, John F. Witmer married Florence Bixler. She is a daughter of Balser and Sarah A. (Deck) Bixler, and she is a native of Swan Creek. Her father was born in Stark county and her mother is a native of Tuscarawas county, Ohio. The grandparents on both sides of the house, Samuel and Susan (Mock) Bixler, and Abraham and Sarah (Snyder) Deck, were all Pennsylvanians although early residents of Fulton county.

Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Witmer secured possession of Sunnyside Farm. It was partly improved, but they remodeled the farm buildings and added to them until they have an attractive farmstead today. He has always carried on general farming and specializes in the dairy business. He had a common school education, and has been road superintendent in Swan Creek. He affiliates with the Grange, votes the democratic ticket, and is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Witmer is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge in Delta.

Sunnyside Farm is the home of a very interesting family, and some of the names and facts brought out in this brief sketch of the proprietor suggest a wide range of historic circumstances and events in this part of northwest Ohio. The Witmers have lived here for over eighty-five years, and it seems appropriate and just that such a substantial citizen as the owner of Sunnyside Farm should be the grandson of one of the rugged pioneers who helped develop the wilderness.

Francis Epcar Guitp, superintendent of the light and power department of the Toledo & Indiana Railway Company, is an efficient engineer, and has shown himself to be an executive of definite capability since he has made his headquarters in Wauseon, Ohio.

He was born in Amherst, Ohio, on April 9, 1884, the son of George and Mary (Claus) Guild, of that place. The Guild family is of Scottish origin, but for some generations has been in America, and scions of that family have generally followed merchandising and industrial occupations in this country. Francis E. spent his minority in Ambherst, attended the local elementary and high schools, and after leaving school worked for six months in the local railroad station as telegraph operator. Leaving the em loy of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where for eight months he was in the employ of A. J. Thrasher and Company, wholesale groceries. His next business connection was with a Cleveland, Ohio, machinery company, and shortly afterward he entered the employ of the Cleveland Electrical Company as switchboard operator. For three years he served as such, and then finished a course in the switchboard construction department. He had definitely taken up electrical work as a profession, and resolved to take all the theoretical training necessary to properly qualify as an expert. He started the electrical course at the Case School of Applied Science, and finished at Indiana State University at Bloomington, Indiana, showing commendable characteristics in so doing, as it was necessary for him to work his way through to the junior vear. For eighteen months after leaving the university he was in comparatively good employment, traveling as erection engineer for the National Meter Company of Chicago. Then he received a similar but more lucrative appointment with the Southern Indiana Power Company, which appointment he held for 2% years, when he resigned so that he might accept the position of superintendent of the Amherst Municipal Light Company. In that capacity he remained in his native town for five years, after which he was erecting engineer to the George E. Milligan Company at Elyria, Ohio, for nine months. Then followed fifteen months of good work as construction superintendent for the Gibsonburg, Ohio, Electric Light Company, which brings his professional record up to 1915, when he became connected with Wauseon in his capacity of superintendent of the light and power department of the Toledo and Indiana Traction Company, which responsibility he has since held to the general satisfaction. His territory covers a distance of forty-eight miles, from Stryker to Toledo, and he has proved to be a popular and efficient executive.

Politically Mr. Guild is an independent. He is a Mason, a member of the Blue Lodge of Amherst, and to the Eastern Star, and also belongs to the Amherst branch of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, and to the Wauseon Lodge of the Knights of Pythias Order. Religiously he is a Methodist. Mr. Guild, who is unmarried, has made very many friends since he has been in Wauseon, and has shown a good and generous public spirit.

Water WILLIAM CappELLt. Owing to his long and active connection with the amusement interests of Wauseon, the name of Walter W. Caddell needs no formal introduction to the readers of this work. In a straightforward manner he has sought to perform the duties of a progressive citizen of the community, and while advancing his own interests he has also in a very definite way contributed to the entertainment of the people in a wholesome and satisfactory manner, which has won for him the commendation of the people generally. Personally he is public-spirited and enterprising, and gives his support to every movement looking to the advancement of the best interests of the locality in which he lives.

Walter W. Gaddell, owner of the popular Princess Theater at Wauseon, was born in Buffalo, New York, on March 8, 1890, and is the son of W. W., Sr., and Ella (Franke) Caddell. On the paternal side he is descended from sterling old Scotch stock, his grandfather having immigrated to America, settling in Toronto, Canada, where he followed the business of contracting. He was married there and became the father of thirteen children, of which number the subject's father was one of the youngest. The latter was reared to manhood in Toronto, but subsequently moved to Buffalo, New York, where he became engaged in the lithographing business. In 1892 he returned to Toronto, where he spent the remainder of his days, having become superintendent of the McDonald Lithographing Company's plant and holding that position at the time of his death, which occurred in 1900. His widow is now making her home in Buffalo. .

The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of Buffalo and Toronto. When fifteen years of age he gained wide reputation as a boy soprano singer in the great spectacle, "The Life of Christ," which was shown during the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and he was afterward the leading boy soprano in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Cathedral at Buffalo for two years. During the following year he was employed as a singer of illustrated songs in Buffalo, after which he was connected for a time with various theaters in that city. He then produced a comedy sketch, "I Remember You," which he showed throughout New York state for seven months. He then was employed as a baritone singer at the opening of the Academy Theatre in Buffalo, following which he joined the staff of the Princess Theater at Detroit, Michigan. Later he went on the road in a black-face act, showing at various points over the country for four months, following which he organized the Lancaster & Small Comedy Company. With this company he came to Wauseon, and was so well pleased with this place that he decided to locate here and has made this his home ever since. ' He entered into a partnership with Harry Sinerick and they bought the Princess Theater, which they operated together for one year, at the end of which time, in 1913, Mr. Caddell bought his partner's interest and since that time has been the sole owner of the house. The theater, which has a seating capacity of 2,350, is one of the most popular amusement houses in this section of the state and draws its patronage from a radius of fifteen miles. It is now devoted exclusively to the silent drama, Mr. Caddell making it a point to exhibit none but the best films, and owing to this fact and the courteous treatment accorded the patrons of the theater it has become the favorite playhouse of the best people of the community.

On October 10, 1916, Mr. Caddell was married to Margaret - Payne, the daughter of Charles Payne, of Buffalo, New York, and they have one child, Walter William, Jr., born on September 23, 1917. In his political views Mr. Caddell is independent, fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, while his religious affiliation is with the Congregational Church. In all his relations with the community Mr. Caddell has been actuated by the highest motives, and his efforts to provide the cleanest and most wholesome amusement and entertainment has been duly appreciated. Genial and unassuming, he has earned and enjoys the respect and good will of all who know him.

Exivan R. Basyton. The men whose achievements have been of the greatest benefit to their communities are not those who, through exceptionally favorable opportunities, have in a comparatively short period of time gained both wealth and prominence, but the men_whose careers have shown a steady and gradual development. Elvan R. Babylon, manager of Baldwin's Tool Works of Wauseon, is eminently one who has risen gradually through his own efforts, and whose love of principle and strength of character

_ Elvan R. Babylon was born near Sidney in Shelby county, Ohio, in 1895, a son of Marion L. and Emma (Love) Babylon, solid and substantial people of German descent. After attending the common schools of Piqua, Ohio, and Parkersburg, West Virginia, Elvan R. Babylon took the high school course of the latter city and was graduated therefrom in 1914.

Resolving upon a practical career Mr. Babylon entered the Baldwin Tool Works at Parkersburg, West Virginia, and spent a year in the handle department. While there he found that better educational training would secure him advancement as nothing else, and so he entered the University of Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and took a three vears' course in electrical engineering, and upon the completion of it returned to his old employers, who sent him to their plant at Wauseon, of which they made him manager, for they recognized that his natural abilities had been so trained as to make him available timber for such a responsible position.

In 1919 Mr. Babylon was united in marriage with Mary Betty Martin, a daughter of Leo Martin of Parkersburg, West Virginia, whom he had known and admired for several years. Mr. Babvlon is a Mason and belongs to Wauseon Lodge No. 349, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He is a typical hustler and knows how to handle the many and intricate problems presented in his everyday work. Having been in the mechanical end of the business, he knows how to enter into the feelings of his men and give them a fair deal, and at the same time protect the interests of his company. Because of this understanding and a naturally sympathetic nature Mr. Babylon is a very valuable man to his concern, and has less labor troubles than many. Upright and honorable, he is a valued addition to the civic life of Wauseon, just as he is to other circles, and although as yet, aside from exercising his right of suffrage by voting the republican ticket, he has taken no decisive part in politics, he is regarded as one who has the best interests of the city at heart and is willing to exert himself to see that good men are elected to office. As he is both intelligent and progressive he naturally is in favor of improvements, but believes that they should be made after due consideration and not merely to afford grounds for foolish boosting and the creation of over-confidence. The future before Wauseon, in his mind, is a very promising one, and expansion is bound to come, but it must be brought about in a sane manner, along legitimate lines, and not through a misguided and extravagant expediture of public funds.

ALLEN Bertrand Carter, who for more than forty years has lived in Franklin Township, Fulton county, is among the representative successful farmers of that section of the county, industrious and enterprising in his farming, and generous in his personal and financial support of the public, church, and social responsibilities of the community.

He comes of a family which has place in the early records of Dover Township, his grandfather, Daniel Carter, having come into Fulton county and Dover Township from New England, where the Carter family had previously settled. It is therefore one of the old American families. Daniel Carter raised a family in Dover Township, among his sons being D. Lafayette, who when he grew to man- hood himself took to responsible farming in the county. He owned a farm east of Tedrow for some years, but later purchased a good estate in Franklin Township, where he died in September, 1906. He married Laodemia A. Minnick, and to them were born two sons, John Roscoe, now of Detroit, married, and the father of two children, and Allen Bertrand, who has remained on the home farm, which, since his father's death, he has managed and now owns. |

Allen Bertrand, son of D. Lafayette and Laodemia A. (Minnick) Carter, was born on the parental farm east of Tedrow, Fulton county, in 1886. When he was three years old his parents moved to Franklin Township, his father having sold the Tedrow property and purchased a good farm of eighty acres at Franklin Township, where the boy was raised, and where he has ever since lived. He attended District School No. 7, of Franklin Township until he was seventeen years old. From that year until the present he has steadily continued to apply himself to the working of the home farm, having been responsible for the affairs of the family and the farm for practically the whole period, as he was only three years out of school when his father died. He has shown a sturdy, steady character, and is of enviable repute in the district as one of its most reliable, responsible residents. Politically he is a republican, and upon many occasions he has taken active part in community affairs, but he has never been interested in political affairs to the extent of hoping for or seeking public office. He has preferred to apply himself steadily to matters of production upon his own farm than to legislative occupations. He has prospered well, and has some other business interests, among them a holding in the Tedrow Mutual Telephone Company, of which he was one of the organizers.

In 1915 he married Edna Bessie Nifzinger, of German Township, Fulton county. They have one child, a son, Ivan Herbert, who was born in 1916.

Gren D. Srerren, an enterprising and alert young man, in independent business as an ornamental iron and steel worker and general blacksmith in Archbold, Fulton county, Ohio, in association with his father, is showing much steady manliness in his work and a business acumen of encouraging grade.

He was born in Morenci, Michigan, in 1897, the son of Peter B. and Retta (Fogelsong) Stetten. His father, Peter B. Stetten, was until quite recently in steady business as a blacksmith in Morenci, Michigan, and during the years of residence in that place the family became widely known and well-regarded, Peter B. Stetten having always been a responsible citizen, of commendable industry and worthy life. THe entered much into public affairs in the community, and held office in the local civic administration. And he also was prominently identified with the functioning of local branches of leading fraternal orders. He belongs to the Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Morenci, to the Morenci branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and to the local erie of the Order of Eagles. In connection with the local lodge of Odd Fellows he attended the Grand Lodge at Detroit. Politically Peter B. Stetten is a republican, and one of close and intelligent interest in national affairs. To Peter B. and Retta (Fogelsong) Stetten have been born five children, of whom their son Glen D. was the third born. He grew to manhood in his native place. Morenci, Michigan, attending the public schools of that place, and advancing in grade until he became a senior in the Morenci High School. Entering business life, he took apprenticeship with his father at blacksmithing and iron and steel working, and for the next three years worked steadily at that trade in Morenci under direction of his father. Eventually he became a journeyman blacksmith, and for about twelve months traveled as such, afterward returning to Morenci and again taking up work with his father. In August, 1919, both came to Archbold, Fulton county, Ohio, and established themselves in business as general blacksmiths and iron and steel workers. Both father and son are skifled workmen, and apt at most operations connected with the working of iron and steel.

In political allegiance Mr. Glen D. Stetten is a republican, and, like his father, shows indication that he will take an active interest in political movements. He is a young man of good Christian principle and clean manly life, and will in all probability prosper well, being a man of marked energy and good business instinct, and, withal, of good education.

JOEL YODER, who recently became independently established in business as a grocer and butcher in the town of Archbold, and is handling that business in a promising manner, is a native of Fulton county, and comes of a family which is placed among the early families of the county.

He was born in German Township, Fulton county, in 1889, the son of John and Anna (Yoder) Yoder. His parents, although having the same patronymic, are not blood relatives, but Joel Yoder certainly belongs to the Yoder family of Fulton county record. He was born on the Yoder family homestead in German Township. Joel's early experience was somewhat similar to that of other sons of farmers, in that he attended country school during the winter and spring period, but during the long summer vacations most of his days were spent in useful work upon the parental farm. He continued to attend school until he was sixteen years old, after which he took increasing part in the operation of the home farm. He remained with his parents, steadily working the family property, for fourteen years after leaving school, and it was only in the summer of 1919 that he resolved to enter commercial hfe. In September, 1919, he opened a grocery and meat market in Archbold, and although it is too early yet to state that the enterprise will succeed, he is a young man of good reputation, responsible, steady and aggressive; and, withal, of good honest purpose, so that in all probability he will as the years pass gain a reputation for reliability of product and fairness of price. He has shown a steadiness of purpose during his fourteen years of farming that augers . well for his future as a merchant.

Westry 8. Roprnson has always lived in Royalton, having been born February 26, 1860, in that township. He secured a common school education, and in later years he has served as a school director in Royalton. In political matters he is republican, and he holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Féllows Lodge of Lyons, fills the chair of noble grand, and also affiliates with the Rebekahs.

Mr. Robinson is a son of Marvin E. and Lavina (Onweller) Robinson, the father having been born in 1833 in Seneca county, _ New York. The mother is of German parentage. His grandfather,

On January 11, 1887, Mr. Robinson married Victoria McGurer, who was born in December, 1858, in Lake county. She isa daughter of Eli B. and Harriet (Dowin) McGurer, who lived at Willoughby, Lake county. The mother died in 1859, and in 1887 the father came to Fulton county. :

Mr. Robinson lived 2% years in Toledo after his marriage, then located on the forty acre farm he had purchased in Royalton. About fifteen acres had been cleared when he located on this farm, and he completed the clearing and the land is all under cultivation. Mr. Robinson gives attention to all branches of farming. He has one daughter, Myrtle May.

Estitt Lronarp SInDEL, who for many years has been secretary of the Fulton County Mutual Insurance & Aid Association, is a resident of Delta and is descended from two of the earliest pioneer families in the county.

He was born at Winameg May 21, 1865, son of Edward C. and Nancy A. (Tappan) Sindel. His paternal grandparents, John and Harriet N. (Dixon) Sindel, were natives of New Jersey and in 1854 traveled with wagon and team overland until they arrived in Pike Township of Pultén county. They settled on a tract of government land which the father of Harriet Dixon had entered from the government. Mrs. Harriet Sindel from that time until her death never moved from the farm, but through the accident of history it was her fortune to live in two states, four counties and several townships. The maternal grandparents, Moses and Hettie (Miller) Tappan, were also natives of New Jersey, and came to Fulton county about the same time as the Sindel family, occupying adjoining farms and being neighbors in the wilderness. Edward Sindel after his marriage located at Winameg, and for many years was a carpenter and builder, school teacher, merchant and postmaster. He died in 1907, and his widow, who was born in 1841, is still living at Winameg. Estill L. is the oldest of their children. Herman Elmer lives at Lyons, Bertha Harriet was born in 1872 and died at the age of two years, and Edward Everett lives with his mother, who is now Mrs. Philip Fetter.

Estill Leonard Sindel acquired a first class education, beginning in the district schools, attending the public and high schools at Wauseon and the Fayette Normal and the Valparaiso Business College in Indiana. He taught his first school before he was sixteen years of age. At the age of nineteen he began a career as an educator which continued until he had taught in district schools for twenty-seven years. In all that time it was his daily custom to eat a cold lunch, put up either by his mother or his wife, and his noon meal was of that character except for six months. While teaching Mr. Sindel also busied himself with managing a twenty acre farm in Pike Township. ee

He was elected secretary of the Fulton County Mutual Insurance & Aid Association and has held that office continuously since January 16, 1897. In August, 1913, he moved to Delta, buying a farm nearby, but in 1915 traded his country property for a modern frame residence in the village, and maintains his office in his residence.

Rebecca (Parker) Geer, the former a native of New York and the latter of New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Sindel have one son, Walter E., born June 8, 1907.

Mr. Sindel is an elder in the Christian Church. He has served as township clerk and justice of the peace in Pike Township and continuously since the age of twenty-one has held a commission as notary public.. He is a republican, is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Delta, and he and his wife are members of the Ancient Order of Gleaners. Mr. Sindel also owns an improved eighty acre farm in Pike Township.

Wiii1am H. Stranpisu, proprietor of the Royalton Stock Farm and an acknowledged expert and judge of livestock, is in the eighth generation of descent from the famous Capt. Miles Standish, one of the foremost figures in the Pilgrim colony that landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Mr. Standish's grandfather was Rial Standish, who came to Ohio from western New York in 1831 and settled in Huron county, but a few years later removed to what is now Fulton county, and was one of the pioneers in this vicinity. He had made the trip by ox team and wagon, and acquired his tract of government land in section 18.

William H. Standish was born in section 18 of Royalton Township May 17, 1864, son of Rial Clark and Harriet Adelia (Smith) Standish. His father was born in Cayuga county, New York, December 22, 1826, and was about five years of age when the family came to Ohio. Rial Clark Standish as a young man improved the land in section 18 of Royalton Township, cleared away much of the heavy timber and lived there until the spring of 1889, when he moved to Wauseon, and died December 18, 1898. His first wife died October 4, 1873. Later he married Minerva Camburn, who was born in Lenawee county, Michigan, and is now living at Toledo. The children of Rial Clark Standish were all by his first marriage: Fannie M., who died at the age of eight years; Phoebe, Mrs. Orin Ranger, of Newaygo, Michigan; Viola, Mrs. Andrew Disbrow, of Royalton Township; Miles T., of Royalton; Charlotte, Mrs. Frank Camburn, of Lyons; Rial C., of Royalton; William H.; and Orin C., of Wauseon.

William H. Standish acquired his education in the district schools, was married at the age of twenty-one, and for several years afterwards lived on his father's farm. He then spent one summer season on Seven Islands at Grand Lodge, Michigan, and on returning to Fulton county worked his father's farm on the shares for seven years. He then acquired eighty acres of the tract which his father had taken up from the government, and subsequently enlarged it by the purchase of ten acres more from his brother. The Royalton Stock Farm therefore comprises ninety acres. When Mr. Standish bought the land its improvements consisted of a house and some old buildings. The farm is now almost a village center, having a group of twenty-one buildings altogether. He has thoroughly modernized the house, has built numerous barns, a tenant house, and has his entire farm plant lighted by acetylene gas and has introduced from time to time every other equipment making for efficient and convenient management.

Mr. Standish is deserving of much credit for introducing the first herd of registered Holstein cattle to the township of Royalton. This is now probably the standard breed of dairy cattle in Fulton county, and Mr. Standish has been raising registered stock of this class since 1885. He also has Duroc hogs and barred Plymouth Rock poultry, and has been a constant exhibitor of his cattle, hogs and poultry. For a number of years he has been a judge of dairy cattle, His first work of that kind was done at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit. With the exception of one year he has been a judge ever since, and has officiated in that capacity at the Canadian National Fair three years at Toronto, in all the provincial fairs of Alberta, for two years was a judge in the Ohio State Fair, one year at the Western National Fair at Denver, judged the dairy exhibits at the Panama Pacific International Fair at San Francisco, and the Nashville, Tennessee, State Fair of 1919.

Mr. Standish has been. one of the prominent members of the Fulton County Agricultural Society, has served as director for sixteen years, and his personal influence has been constantly exerted in the direction of improved livestock for the farms of northern hio. ; July 12, 1885, Mr. Standish married Carrie A. Campbell, who was born in Richland county, Ohio, a daughter of George and Cora A..(Van Doren) Campbell, natives of the same county. Her maternal grandparents were Nathan and Mary Ann (Cornwall) Van Doren. Mrs. Standish's father is now deceased and her mother is the widow of Dr. G. H. Waddell and now spends winters with a daughter at Raleigh, North Carolina, and the rest of the year lives with Mr. and Mrs. Standish. Mrs. Standish was educated in the grammar and high schools of Wauseon. They have one son, George William, born September 5, 1904, served as a member of the Boy Scouts of Wauseon from the age of twelve, was a member of the Boy Scouts' Band, attended the Culver Military Academy in Indiana and is now a student in King's College at Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Standish for many years has served as a trustee of the Universalist Church at Lyons, for two terms he was township trustee, is a republican voter, has held most of the offices of Lyons Lodge No. 622 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are active in Rebekah Lodge No. 289 at Lyons.

ANDREW JAcKSON Hart is a citizen of more than half a century's standing in Fulton county and an old and honored resident of Swan Creek Township.

Mr. Hart was born in Holmes county, Ohio, June 17, 1844, son of Samuel and Eliza (Moore) Hart. His father was a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and as a young man lived in Steubenville, Ohio, and then moved to Holmes county. By his first marriage he had the following children: Jacob, Jane, Samuel, Julia, James Henry and John Wesley, all deceased. In Holmes county he married Eliza Moore, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio. She died in Fulton county in 1892. Samuel Hart died in Holmes county about 1866. Their children were Andrew Jackson; Joseph, deceased; John; Martin, deceased; and Martha, Mrs. Stanley Herrin of Michigan.

Andrew Jackson Hart received a common school education in Holmes county and lived there doing farm work to the age of twenty-one. He also learned the trade of wagonmaker, and in 1866 came to Fulton county, and after being employed a few weeks at Delta by Mike Carr he moved to the little community of Ai in Portage Township and opened a shop of his own. He conducted it about six years, and then sold out and bought forty acres of unimproved land. He was busy with its improvement and cultivation for two years and then resumed his trade at Swanton, establishing a wagon shop and conducting it two vears. The shop was then traded for twenty acres of land adjoining his forty acre place, and he went to work with a right good will building house and barn, clearing and improving, and cultivating the land for thirty years. After selling that farm Mr. Hart bought eight acres in Swan Creek Township. This land was improved. He also acquired a three-quarter acre tract at Brailey, Ohio, built a house and grocery store and was in business as a merchant there for 114 years. He then returned to his eight acre farm, bought an adjoining thirty-two acres of cleared land, but after five years sold twenty acres. His present home now consists of twenty acres, highly improved with good buildings, and he continues farming it and has also done much work as a carpenter in the neighborhood, building a number of houses and barns.

June 18, 1871, Mr. Hart married Mary Templeton, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, June 27, 1844, a daughter of John and Susan (Watkins) Templeton, the former a native of Middletown, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Steubenville, Ohio. Her grandparents were Nathaniel and Elizabeth Templeton, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mr. Hart has served as a school director, is a republican voter, and is affiliated with the Patrons of Husbandry, Good Templars, and the Grange.

Netson Fator. In the early '40s, not long after the Indians left northern Ohio, the Falor family came into Fulton county, pushing their way over rough and obscure roads and trails through the woods. Their wagons were drawn by ox teams. The family consisted of Andrew and Hannah (McConkey) Falor and several children, including their last born, Nelson.

Nelson Falor was born in Summit county, Ohio, June 1, 1842, and was just an infant when his parents came to Fulton county. His father entered forty acres of timbered land from the government and bought eighty acres more. He cleared it and made a farm and in order to frighten away the wolves from his sheep carried a torch at night. He would frequently work all day in the woods or in the fields, earning a wage of fifty cents, and then return home and split rails and do other necessary work around the house in the night hours. Nelson Falor was one of thirteen children and he grew up in the wilds of Fulton county and is one of the men still living who can speak from knowledge at first hand of the ways and customs of the pioneers. He attended a log cabin school and later the district school of Pike Center. As a youth he went to Summit county and worked at the cooper's trade. The Civil war was then on and in the spring of 1863 he enlisted in Company K of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry. Most of his service was guard duty at the Cumberland Gap. After his release from the army he returned to Summit county for a year and then back to Fulton county.

In 1867 Mr. Falor married Mary A. Salsbury, a native of Pike Township and a daughter of David and Serena Salsbury. Her parents were born in Pennsylvania.

improved farm land, subsequently trading this for eighty acres in section 32 of Pike Township. He has bought and sold several tracts of land, and has recently divided his estate among his children, retaining a life lease on a 126-acre farm in Pike Township.

Mrs. Falor died in 1914. Their children were: Minnie, Mrs. Frank LaSalle, of Pike Township; Roy, living with his father; Laura, Mrs. Dell Patterson, of Pike Township. Mr. Falor is a re- 2 sa and is affiliated with McQuillan Post, Grand Army of the

Joun Frepertck Herrincer, who with his family enjoys the comforts of a good farm and rural home in York Township, is a former county surveyor of Fulton county, a veteran schoolmaster, and altogether his career presents a stimulating record.

He was born near Fremont, Ohio, May 27, 1868, son of John and Louise Hettinger. His parents were natives of Germany. John Frederick Hettinger was about eight years old when he lost both his parents, who at that time were living near Perrysburg, Ohio. The township trustees then bound the boy out, but the family with which he lived were people of low ideals and slovenly habits, and the boy soon took it upon himself to run away. He found honest means of making a living, chiefly at farm work, and spent several years in the vicinity of Swanton. He had an ambition for an education and first satisfied this when at the age of sixteen he entered the Fayette Normal School. Without means he paid his tuition and his board by janitor work, sweeping floors, ringing bells, and remained there until he was qualified for a teacher's certificate.

First and last Mr. Hettinger taught about thirty terms of school. For two terms he was at Delta. In the meantime he was furthering his education and other aims in life. He attended the Northwestern Normal School at Wauseon, also the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and on August 16, 1901, he graduated from the Tri-State Normal College at Angola, Indiana. During those years he took several courses in civil engineering, and had his ambition set upon a career as an engineer. Failing eyesight compelled him to abandon his intentions as to a professional career of this nature.

In the fall of 1901, at the Republican County Convention, he was nominated on the second ballot for county surveyor, his nomination being made unanimous. He was elected, receiving 1,622 votes more than his opponent. He served three years and was then chosen for a second term without opposition. He also served an additional year, and was county surveyor from September, 1902, to September, 1909, seven years in all.

In the meantime Mr. Hettinger had acquired ten acres of land in York Township, and as his means increased he added from time to time until he now has a farm of ninety acres. The improvements on his original tract consisted of a house and barn.

Mr. Hettinger also made a successful record as a traveling salesman. Tor two years he represented the Lewis Corrugated Culvert Company of Elyria, Ohio, and then the Canton Culvert Company. In 1912 he became a traveling representative for the National Fire Proofing Company from the Huntington, Indiana, branch office. During 1914 he sold $40,000 worth of silos, and as a token of appreciation of the company for his services he received a present of a fifty dollar gold watch. He remained with the Fire Proofing Company until 1917, when he went with the Illinois Silo and Tractor

Company of Bloomington, Illinois, and was their representative a year. Since then he has lived on his farm and is well satisfied with the occupations and the profits of a farmer. His farm has been improved with a modern home. Mr. Hettinger is a member of the United Presbyterian Church and served as trustee of his congregation many years.

March 30, 1890, he married Abbie Mary Meeker, who was born at Cleveland, Ohio, a daughter of George O. and Hattie (McQuillin) Meeker, the former a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and the latter of Pike Township, Fulton county. The paternal grandparents were John O. and Mary (Hendershot) Meeker, and the former, a native of New Jersey, was taken by his parents to the present site of Cleveland at a very early time in the history of Ohio. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Hettinger were David and Lydia (Switzer) McQuillin, natives of Pennsylvania and early and prominent residents of Fulton county. Mr. and Mrs. Hettinger have one daughter, Hattie Louise, born July 14, 1892. She is now Mrs. Oliver A. Schnur, of York Township, and has two children, Frederick

ARTHUR GILL, of Swan Creek, was born in Lenawee county, Michigan, his parents had previously lived in Wood county, Ohio. He is a son of Jacob and Mary Ellen (Cost) Gill, the father a native of Pennsylvania and the mother of Maryland. The grandfather, William Gill, was an early settler in Wood county, bringing the family name to Bowing Green and vicinity. For nine years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Gill lived in Michigan, and some of their children were born there. It was in 1872 that they: left Ohio. They had lived in Wood county, but when they returned to Ohio they located in Swan Creek. Her death occurred February 2, 1915, while he lived three years afterward.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Gill are: Delmar, of Swan Creek; William, of Maumee; Ernest, of Detroit; Arthur, who commemorates the family; Maud, the wife of Bert Reighard, of Swan Creek: and Virginia, the wife of Charles Born, of Fulton Township. Two children died in early life, Irvin and Claud.

In April, 1901, Arthur Gill married Mildred Elton. She is a daughter of Allen and Ida (Bennett) Elton, the father from England while the mother was born in Ohio. Mr. Elton's parents were Thomas and Marv (Young) Elton of England. The Bennett ancestry had lived in New York before locating in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Elton were married in Toledo, and they afterward moved to a farm in Swan Creek Township, where he met an accidental death in 1883. The widow married Douglas Ottinger, and they lived on the farm until 1906, when they removed to Delta. She died four years later.

Mrs. Arthur Gill has two half brothers: Emerson, of Toledo, and Tracy, of Urbana, Illinois. After his marriage Mr. Gill lived on a rented farm for four years then bought Mrs. Gill's mother's share in the home farm in Swan Creek. While the house was built by her father, Mr. Gill finished clearing the land and added many substantial improvements. While he has always been a farmer, Mr. Gill has served Swan Creek Township as road supervisor. He has been a member of the school board, and in politics he is a republican. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gill are: Glen, Vaughn, Florence and Vern.

Mr. Gill was born February 9, 1879, and at the age of forty has the best part of his life still ahead of him. Nevertheless his work and his influence have been contributing factors in the affairs of Fulton county, and he has already shown the qualifications of an expert farmer, a public-spirited citizen and one who has handled his responsibilities well in connection with various items in the

Noau 8. Lersr. Among the citizens of Fulton county who won their prosperity from the soil long before the modern era of high prices and improved agricultural conditions is Noah S. Leist of Gorham Township, who still lives on his farm, but is able to take life at a leisurely pace and enjoy what his past labors have earned him.

Mr. Leist was born in Piqua county, Ohio, July 9, 1846, son of Samuel and Lovina (Schlotman) Leist, the former a native of Piqua county and a son.of Peter Leist, while the latter was born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Daniel Schlotman. Samuel Leist lived in Piqua county until 1849, when he moved to Seneca county, and died fifteen days after reaching there. His widow then returned to the home of her parents in Fairfield county. In May, 1859, the Schlotman family came to Gorham Township of Fulton county, where Daniel Schlotman died in May, 1864.

Noah S. Leist was thirteen years of age when he accompanied his mother and maternal grandparents to Fulton county. He acquired a common school education, and was married at the age of twenty-three and then lived for seven years in Piqua county, where he worked as a wage earner. Returning to Gorham Township, he bought eighty acres of partly improved land: He made that a high class farm, raised many successive crops from it, and improved it with a fine brick home. He continued to live there until November, 1916, when he sold the eighty acre farm, and then moved to a smaller place of eighty acres which he had bought in Gorham Township and had previously owned an improved forty acres in Franklin Township. On his forty acre farm in Gorham Township he resides in a comfortable modern bungalow, and though past seventy years of age is still farming, with some assistance. Mr. Leist is a democrat and a member of the Lutheran Evangelical Church.

September 12, 1867, in Fairfield county, he married Orpha Crites, who was born in Piqua county September 15, 1848, a daughter of John S. Crites. Mrs. Leist died June 23, 1910. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Leist were the following children: Minnie, Mrs. Oren Borton, of Lenawee county; Lucy, Mrs. Charles Warkentin, of Gorham - Township; Ollie, wife of Zale Borton, of Franklin Township; Wil- - liam of Wauseon, who married Eva Robinson; Mary,. Mrs. Charles Caulkins, of Williams county; and Denver, who was born September 27, 1881, and died December 26, 1882.

Joun KE. Searist, a capable, reliable and respected farmer of York Township, Fulton county, Ohio, is one of the representative agriculturists of that section of the county. And he comes into this historical record of Fulton county with special credentials, his family hate among the early residents of the township in which he was

He was born in section 33 of York Township, Fulton count Ohio, on February 14, 1859, the son of John B. and Christinned (Lautenschleger) Segrist. The Segrists are of German antecedents, although four generations of the family have had residence in America, including the children of John E. His grandfather, John Segrist, was a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, and there his father, John B., was also born, although the latter was only eight years old - when the family crossed the sea to America. Misfortune overtook them almost at the outset of their settling in America, for within ten days of their landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the head of the family, John Segrist, succumbed to an attack of yellow fever, contracted during the voyage. However, as is so often found to be the case with women of German rearing, the widow appears to have been capable of undertaking the responsibilities of farm management and the record shows that the Segrist family settled on a farming property in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and there lived for about twenty years, the widow, Agnes (Lautenschleger) Segrist, then removing to Coshocton, Ohio, where she died in about 1880. John B. Segrist, son of John and Agnes (Lautenschleger) Segrist, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1823, and came with his * parents to America in 1831. The death of his father soon after landing undoubtedly had important bearing upon the boy's prospects, and he appears to have spent much of his time as a youth with his uncle, who was a butcher in Philadelphia. It seems that he was indentured to his uncle, and consequently learned the butchering trade. When he was about eighteen years old, however, he left Philadelphia, and in company with another adventurous youth walked to Mansfield, Ohio, where both found work for a while, Segrist at his trade and his companion as a blacksmith. Mr. Segrist remained in Mansfield for three years, and for five years or more thereafter was in good employment as a butcher in Toledo, Ohio. Toward the latter part of his residence in Toledo he had acquired a tract of timber land in York Township, Fulton county, and ultimately he decided to give up his Toledo connection and take up pioneering work on his land. He may be considered to be among the pioneers of Fulton county, for he was in the county when much of it was a wilderness and he probably cleared much more forest than the average Fulton county farmer of his generation. On his eighty acre tract seventy-five acres consisted of virgin timber, only five acres having been cleared by the original settler, who had built a log cabin, which was the only structure on the place, and it was a very primitive hut. However, by the exercise of much ingenuity, and by the cheerful tolerance that comes with the pioneering spirit, the log cabin was made to serve passably as a habitation, and in it some of the children of John B. and Christianna (Lautenschleger) Segrist were born. John B. Segrist soon after taking up residence in York Township secured boards with which he floored the cabin, and bunks were made by boring holes into the logs of the walls, and then by some process of pegging constructed the bunk. And he had to take his team of horses into Maumee Village to procure a cook stove. Those were some of the early experiences of John B. Segrist and his wife in York Township, but he was a worthy piomeer, stalwart and capable, and in course of time he not only cleared that acreage but also much additional land. He purchased eighty acres adjoining, and subsequently another adjacent tract of like acreage, all of which he and his.sons brought into good bearing. He was a man of strong personality, and had an enviable reputation in York Township, wherein he lived for almost seven decades, and eventually was one of the largest landowners in the section. Death came to him in 1918, July 30, he being then in his ninety-fifth year. His wife, Christianna Lautenschleger, who was born in Pennsylvania, died in York Township, Fulton county, Ohio, in 1869, her husband surviving her for forty-nine years. They were the parents of nine children, who in order of birth were: Amanda, now deceased, married George Yaney; Mary, who married Jonas Seymour, and now lives in Turlock, California; William H., of York Township, whose life story is elsewhere recorded in this edition; George, who died at the age of forty years; John E., regarding whom more is written hereafter; Agnes, who married Samuel Ruppert, of Wauseon, Ohio, and died in 1907; Ellen, who married William Nye, of Liberty Centre, Ohio; Theodore, who has remained on the home farm; and Fred A., now of Swan Creek Township, hio.

John E. Segrist was educated in the country school of his native place, and while still at school gave much of his time to his father. And during the long summer vacations he devoted practically his whole time to such work. After leaving school he applied himself ° altogether to the hard work of the expanding acreage of his father's farm until he had reached the age of twenty-five years, when he married and set up an independent establishment. He rented a fifty-acre farm in York Township, and for seven years thereafter worked it under such conditions. He apparently prospered by his industry, for at the end of that time he was able to purchase the farm. Later, however, he traded the property for another of eighty acres, only partly cleared, owned by his father-in-law, and to that farm he took his wife, they occupying a log house thereon for two years, but eventually taking up their abode in an old schoolhouse which stood upon their property. In that building they lived for seven years, by which time Mr. Segrist was able to erect a modern house of nine rooms, and which he was able to fit with many modern improvements, including natural gas illumination from his own well. And upon the property he has also been able to build many substantial and spacious out-buildings. In 1907 he built a large double barn, and in 1914 a straw barn. In the former year he acquired an additional forty acres, practically all cleared land. So that he now owns a fine agricultural property, well balanced, and well adapted to general farming. Mr. Segrist has had much success in the breeding of Belgian horses, and has extensively raised Holstein cattle. He has a large dairy, and enters to appreciable extent into hog raising of good breeds.

Politically Mr. Segrist is a democrat, and while he has always taken an intelligent interest in politics, especially movements affecting his home district, he has never sought political office. He has lived a steady life of worth-while industry, and as a good Christian has consistently observed church responsibilities. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In March, 1884, he married Katherine, daughter of Adam and Belinda Katherine (Miller) Anspach. She was born in Perry county, Ohio.' Mr. and Mrs. Segrist are the parents of two children: Laura, who is married to Laurence Geringer, of York Township; and Clarence, who married Grace Williams in 1916, since which time he has been practically in full control of his father's farm, his father and mother having moved to a small portion of the original farm, leaving the management of the farm to the son, who has shown much reliability and earnestness of purpose.

Witrram L. Camppety. There is Canadian blood in the veins of William L. Campbell of Pike Township, although December 18, 1871, he was born in Fulton county. His father, John W. Campbell, came from Canada to Fulton county. His mother, Caroline (Miser) Campbell, was born in Coshocton county. When they were married they settled on this Pike Township farm in Fulton county.

John W. Campbell was a cheesemaker, and followed that business for many years in Ohio and Michigan. When he quit he bought the farm in Pike Township and lived there a few years. He retired to Wauseon, where he died January 14, 1902, and his wife died there two years later. William L. Campbell, was the oldest child, and a brother, Howard, works with him, and a sister, Allie, is the wife of Ernest Shadle, of Dover. .

When W. L. Campbell was eighteen years old he learned the cheesemaker's trade from his father, and worked in many different factories. He worked in Prattsville, Michigan, one year and later he made cheese for George D. Clark of Metamora one year, then he went to Winameg, where he made cheese for A. B. Thompson for five years. Then he formed a partnership with Frank Knoseo in a cheese factory at Winameg, and they continued six years in business together.

During that six vears the firm located a cheese factory at Ai, and Mr. Campbell: bought the Clinton cheese factory of H. J. Gelzer, and the East Gorham factory near Fayette. He started the Condensary Factory at Morenci, Michigan, and five years later he consolidated with the Fulton Dairy Company and the Ramer Dairy Company of Toledo, with the main offices at Morenci. From this center he operated twelve cheese factories, one milk condensary and one dairy distributing station in Toledo. He formed a stock company, of which he was secretary and general manager, with Frank Knoseo its president and H. A. Barber, treasurer.

In July, 1903, Mr. Campbell transferred his interests in the Ohio Dairy Company for a stock of general merchandise at Winameg. Five months later he sold the store in Winameg, and removed to Montpelier, where he conducted two cheese factories, one in Montpelier and one in Kunkle. Two years later he sold out and returned to Winameg, where he again went into a general store.

Beside being a manufacturer and business man, Mr. Campbell was a public school teacher for several years in the winter, teaching in both York and Pike, his education having been obtained in public school and at the Fayette Normal. He is independent in his political affiliation, and is a member of the Board of Education.

On December 27, 1893, Mr. Campbell married Dimma Stuller, daughter of John W. and Jennie (Lash) Stuller, of Eden, Williams county. They have one daughter, Donelda, wife of Harrison M. | Ives of Toledo. The family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Campbell is a Mason in Lyons, and a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Montpelier, Ohio. Few men have given their attention to a greater variety of business enterprises than Mr. Campbell. '

The efforts he has put forth at different times have in fact proved a powerful impulse to the development of the dairy industry in northwestern Ohio, and several communities can regard it as a piece of good fortune that Mr. Campbell learned the cheese maker's trade as a youth and for so many years operated factories for dairy product. His home community of Pike also knows and honors him for what he has done in behalf of the local schools, his kindly and interested part in other local affairs, and his standing and character as a home maker. '

He was born in Seneca Township, New York, January 3, 1840, son of William and Mary (Schlotman) Woolace. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania and in 1842 moved to Fairfield county, Ohio, and in 1857 settled in Gorham Township of Fulton county.

Franklin Woolace came to Fulton county at the age of seventeen, and acquired most of his education in Fairfield county. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H of the One Hundredth Ohio Infantry, and was on duty until the close of the war, receiving his honorable discharge in June, 1865. Part of the time he was detailed for guard and hospital duty in Kentucky. After his return home Mr. Woolace married Mary Hoffman, who was born in Gorham Township, a daughter of Charles and Nancy (Spaulding) Hoffman, who came from New York.

The first year after his marriage Mr. Woolace lived at Wauseon and worked in the sash and blind factory. He then bought 100 acres in Gorham Township from his father, a place that was already well improved, and has remained there ever since, sharing in the erowing prosperity of this agricultural section and in the fruits of

He was born in Fulton Township September 11, 1852, a son of Reuben S. and Katie Ann (Watkins) Woodring, his father a native of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and his mother of Wayne county, Ohio. The paternal grandparents were Cain and Mary (Saeger) Woodring, of Pennsylvania. Reuben Woodring after his marriage lived in Fulton Township, where he died in 1908. His first wife died in April, 1872, mother of the following children: William Henry; Malinda Ann, wife of E. S. Deval, of Metamora; Mary Matilda, deceased wife of Wesley Delano; Sarah Jane, deceased. who married Jacob Harger; Emma, Mrs. Del Delano, of Jasper, Michigan; and Ida, Mrs. Frank Seabring, of Lenawee county. For his second wife Reuben Woodring married Hannah Fisher and had a daughter, Laura, now Mrs. Elwood Hallett of Lyons, Ohio.

William Henry Woodring acquired his education in the district schools and at the age of twenty began work as a carpenter. He continued to follow that trade until 1890. In the meantime, in 1884, he bought forty acres of heavy timber in section 21 of Amboy Township. Only five acres had been cleared, and during several successive winters he put in all his time increasing the area of his fields, while in the summer he worked as a carpenter. After 1890 he gave all his time to farming. Later he bought forty acres in

August 26, 1876, he married Delila Higley, a native of Huron county, Ohio, and a daughter of George and Sarah Ann (Van Sickles) Higley. Their children are: Leroy, of Fulton Township; Raymond, of Amboy Township; Estella, wife of George Parker, of Adrian, Michigan; Luella, Mrs. J. Hollinger, of Fulton Township; and Herman, who now occupies the old homestead farm.

DanteL RycHENER. While Daniel Rychener, of Swan Creek Township, is a native of Fulton county, having been born December 21, 1848, in German Township, two years before Fulton was separated from Lucas county, he is of emigrant stock. He is a son of Christian and Magdalena (Grieser) Rychener, the father having come from Switzerland and the mother from Alsace-Lorraine.

It was in the year of 1836 that the Rychener family story began in Ohio, and the Grieser family followed within a short time. Mr. Rychener and his wife both grew up in German Township, although both had overseas childhood recollections. This young Swiss emigrant entered forty acres of government land and soon obtained employment on the construction of the Maumee Canal, thereby earning sufficient money to buy forty acres additional farm land - not farm land then, but heavily timbered, and in time he cleared and improved it. It was in 1898 that this pioneer Fulton county resident died on the farm he had made in the wilderness of Fulton county, and his wife also died in 1898.

The children born to this pioneer family were: Christian, of Swan Creek; Mary, widow of Jacob Nofsinger, of German Township; Joséph, of Pettisville; Daniel, subject of this sketch; Magdalena, wife of Jefferson Snuckers, of German Township; Barbara, wife of Joseph Nofsinger, of German Township; Henry of Pettysville; Anna, who resides with her sister, Mrs. Nofsinger; and Jacob, of Napoleon, Ohio.

In December, 1873, Daniel Rychener married Mary Eckley, of Henry county. Her home was four miles south of Pettysville. She was born there August 10, 1851, being a daughter of Jacob and Magdalena (Krieger) Eckley. The father was a native of Coshocton while the mother was from Holmes county, Ohio. Soon after his marriage Daniel Rychener bought a farm in German Township, but twenty years later he bought'eighty acres of partly improved land in section 22 of Swan Creek Township, where he lives at present.

Mr. Rychener has rebuilt the house and barn and added many substantial improvements, and he was an active farmer and stockman until 1909, whenxhe rented the place to his son, although he still maintains his residence there. Mr. Rychener obtained a common school education and is identified with the Mennonite Church of his native community.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Rychener are: Nancy, wife of John Rashley, of York Township; Esther, wife of Hyram Houser, ~ of Toledo; Louisa, wife of Jesse Richardson, of Pinckney, Michi-

In this brief review are mentioned a number of names that properly belong in the History of Fulton County beginning with pioneer times. While the son of a pioneer, Daniel Rychener himself performed many of the labors and much of the service for which the first settlers are remembered with affection, and the ease and comfort he now enjoys in retirement are rewards that properly come to the man of toil and one who for so many years has done his duty to himself and by his fellow-men.

CrarENce L. Rycuener, who has recently entered the employ of the Continental Sugar Company of Toledo, Ohio, and now resides at Cherry City, Ohio, was formerly one of the leading merchants of Pettisville, Fulton county, and from 1915 until April, 1920, was postmaster at that place. He comes of one of the pioneer families of the neighborhood. :

He was born in German Township November 14, 1886, in the old Rychener homestead, the son of Henry and Josephine (Raber) Rychener, and the family has had good part in the history-making of that section. Christian Rychener, grandfather of Clarence L., came from Berne, Switzerland, to America, and to Wayne county, Ohio, soon afterward joining a party of nine pioneer families in crossing from Wayne county through the wilderness to German Township, Fulton county, where they settled. Christian Rychener married there, the marriage being of historic interest in that it was the first wedding of white people solemnized in the township, the ceremony being performed by a Methodist clergyman. Henry Rychener, father of Clarence L., and son of Christian, was reared in German Township and married there, but some time later moved with his family to Holden, Johnstone county, Missouri, where they lived for eleven years, eventually returning to Ohio, and to Fulton county.

Clarence L. Rychener was an infant when his parents moved from German Township to Holden, Johnstone county, Missouri, and most of his schooling was obtained in the public schools of the latter place. When the family returned to Fulton county he attended the nearest school to their new home, which was the Braily School in Swan Creek Township. He was fifteen years old when he began to work for pay, his first experience being on a farm at Archbold during the summer of 1901. From that time until he was twenty-one years old he found employment on farms in the vicinity of his native place. In 1907 he entered the employ of the New York Central Railroad Company as section-man, continuing to be so employed for three years, after which time he spent one summer in independent business, endeavoring to establish a profitable milk route. That effort apparently was not productive of sufficiently good results to influence him to continue, and for the next year he was employed as a carpenter. He was a man of allround ability, and possessed distinct capability in commercial affairs. This has been evident since 1912, when he entered a business of merchandising character. He and his brother William Henry in 1912 purchased the established general store business of Jacob Krauss & Company at Pettisville, and the business from March 15th of that year was conducted under the firm-name of Rychener Brothers with advantage to themselves. The brothers established themselves very satisfactorily in that business, and secured a good share of the local trade, and also an extensive country connection. In 1915 Clarence L. Rychener was made postmaster at Pettisville, having been appointed by President Wilson, notwithstanding that he is a republican. He served in that office until April, 1920.

In 1913 Mr. Rychener married Emma Lantz, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Nofeiger) Lantz, of near Archbold, Fulton county. They have two children, sons, Lawrence Henry, who was born January 12,.1914, and Lowell John, born July 2, 1918.

Tuomas StepmMaAw for over forty years has been one of the capable farmers of Amboy Township, and owns part of the old Blaine homestead, one of the first tracts of land entered in Fulton county.

Mr. Stedman was born in Amboy Township January 9, 1855, son of Alva and Thankful (Rogers) Stedman. His parents were born and married near Syracuse, New York, and on coming to Amboy Township entered a tract of timbered land and lived there the rest of their lives, making a good farm. Their children were: Roswell, of Tiffin, Ohio; Orlina, widow of Marvin Robinson, living at Lyons; Clark, Horace, William, and Amelia, all deceased; Lewis, of Fulton Township; and Thomas. .

Thomas Stedman at the age of fifteen, after having acquired a common school education, hired out for monthly wages to neighboring farmers, and continued as a wage earner until his marriage. July 3, 1876, Emma Blaine became his wife. She was born in Amboy Township, daughter of Charles and Rachel (Bathalt) Blaine and member of the historic pioneer family of Blaines.

After his marriage Mr. Stedman worked the farm of his fatherin-law on the shares, and afterward cleared up and improved fifty acres inherited by Mrs. Stedman, and has lived there ever since.

He and his wife have two children, Robert, still at home, and Friend, in California. Mr. Stedman served two years as school director and is a republican voter.

CHARLES FREEMONT Dewey has handled and developed a great deal of farm property in Fulton county, also in adjoining counties, is a practical farmer by training and experience, and is now living practically retired at Metamora, though he still continues dealing in real estate. :

He was born at Metamora October 20, 1856, a son of David and Emily (Elliott) Dewey, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of Vermont. The maternal grandparents were Amos and Sally (George) Elliott, natives of Vermont and early settlers in Lorain county, Ohio. David Dewey was about eight years old when his parents died, and he was reared among strangers, accompanying one family, in whose home he was living, to Lorain county, - Ohio, where he lived until his marriage. He then moved to the vicinity of Metamora, where for a number of years he conducted a wagon making shop. He and his wife were laid to rest in the same grave on May 7, 1908. Their children were: Henry, of Toledo; Charles F.; Julia, Mrs. Samuel Hall, of Adrian, Michigan ; Alfred and Alma, twins, the former a resident of Pike Township and the latter wife of Charles Auble, of Morenci, Michigan; and. Ernest, of Jackson, Michigan.

On October 7, 1883, he married Mary Helen Potter, a native of Amboy Township and daughter of John Henry and Mary Lovina (Granger) Potter. Her parents were natives of Herkimer county, New York. Her father's brother, James Emory, and another brother, Caleb, married sisters at the same time. Mrs. Dewey's paternal grandparents were Mora S. and Minerva (Jones) Potter.

After his marriage Mr. Dewey lived in Metamora, continuing work in saw mills for three years. He then rented a farm in Michigan, soon afterward bought a farm in Amboy Township, but sold this after four years and bought another farm in Lucas county. On selling that he moved to Riga Township in Lenawee county, was there one year and the following year he spent at Blissfield, Michigan, after which he returned to his farm. On selling the farm he bought another place in Lucas county, Ohio, and remained there eight years. His next farm purchase was in Sylvania Township, where he remained three years before selling and then returned to Metamora and bought town property.

Mr. and Mrs. Dewey have two children: Donnah Ann, Mrs. James Dailey, of Adrian, Michigan; and Lloyd Millard, of Metamora. Mr. Dewey is a republican and his wife is a member of the Ladies of the Maccabees.

Wixuram F. Minuer is one of the men of Swan Creek Town. ship who is devoting his energies to agricultural pursuits with very gratifying results. He was born at Sandusky, Ohio, October 11, 1878, a son of Aaron and Susanna (Knight) Miller, natives of Pennsylvania and England, respectively. They were married at Sandusky, Ohio, and in 1889 came to Delta Township, Fulton county, Ohio, he trading a farm he owned in Sandusky county for the one in Fulton county on which his son William F. now resides. He is now a resident of Delta, having retired from active life. His wife died about 1895, having borne her husband the following children: Burdetta, who is Mrs. Sherman Coss, of Toledo; Clyde, of Delta, Ohio; William F., whose name heads this review; Grace, who is Mrs. Casey Quist of Cleveland, Ohio; and Gertrude, who is Mrs. William Merrilett of Swan Creek Township. After the death of the mother of these children the father was married to Dora Stensel, but there are no children by this marriage. By a first marriage Aaron Miller had two children, namely: George, who is a farmer of Swan Creek Township; and Katie, who is the widow of William Gowell, of Clyde, Ohio.

Until he was eighteen years old William F. Miller remained at home, attending the district schools and learning to be a practical farmer, but then went to Clyde, Ohio, and later to Toledo, Ohio, and was variously employed. After he was married in 1904 he settled on the homestead and has since lived on this place, doing general farming and stockraising and keeping ten cows.

On November 15, 1902, Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Iva Bixler, born in Swan Creek Township, a daughter of Baltzer and Sarah (Deck) Bixler. In politics Mr. Miller is a democrat, and he has never had any aspirations toward public office, so confines his participation in politics to exercising his right of suffrage. He belongs to Brailey Grange and to the Gleaners and is in sympathy with the work of these organizers. Having spent practically all of his life in Fulton county, Mr. Miller is essentially one of its products and deeply interested in its further progress.

_ Cuartes Sturtevant, of Swan Creek Township, is identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a republican. His birth occurred August 15, 1851, in Huron county. His parents, Russell and Annette (Sturtevant) Sturtevant, were second cousins. He lived in Rochester and she lived in Adams county, and they were married in Jefferson county, New York. Soon after their marriage they located in Huron county, Ohio. Later they lived again in York state, and in 1863 they removed to Bellevue, Ohio, where he died in 1891 and his wife died in 1909. Their children are: Warren, deceased; Ellen, widow of John Shoup, of Clyde, Ohio; Charles, of Swan Creek; Melissa, wife of Frank Clay, of Clyde; Mary and Manford, deceased; Clara, wife of Fred Warner, of Toledo, Alice, deceased; and Spencer, of Akron.

Charles Sturtevant lived with his parents until his father went to the Civil war in 1863, and from that time he worked by the month, giving his money to his parents until December 25, 1873, when he married Jennie McFarland of Sandusky county. She was born August 14, 1857, and was the daughter of Aaron and Clarinda (King) McFarland. They had come from New York and located in Sandusky county. Mr. and Mrs. Sturtevant lived for a time in Sandusky county, but in 1886 they removed to Fulton county.

After coming to Fulton county Mr. Sturtevant rented farm land until 1918, when he bought forty acres of partly improved land in Swan Creek Township. He is engaged in general farming, dairying and raising livestock for the market. The children are: Clarence, born September 28, 1874, of Toledo; Claude, born September 11, 1876, of Toledo; Estella, born December 18, 1878; Clara, born November 16, 1881, wife of Arthur Gingery, of Swan Creek; Russel, born March 1, 1889, died March 31, 1890; and Charles Laurel, born March 1, 1899, who lives at the family homestead.

SamurEL Kanter. In the death of Samuel Kahle on May 7, 1919, Fulton county lost one of its very capable farmers and business men. Mr. Kahle had done his share of the clearing and improving of land from a wilderness condition, and in later years was active in a prosperous lumber business at Metamora.

Mr. Kahle, whose wife and family still live in Fulton county, was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1856, son of James and Mary (Gates) Kahle. His father was a native of the City of Straussburg, France, while his mother was born in Pennsylvania. James Kahle settled in Pennsylvania at the age of nineteen and lived in that state some years after his marriage. On com- © ing to Fulton county, Ohio, he acquired several farms, and he and his wife spent their last years in Amboy Township. Their children were: Henry, deceased; William, of Bradford, Pennsylvania; Ann and George, deceased; Milton, of Fayette, Ohio; James, Rose and Daniel, all deceased; Miles, of Metamora; John and Daniel, deceased; and Samuel.

Samuel Kahle, the youngest of the children, grew up in Fulton county, and on January 1, 1880, married Mary Hackett. Mrs. Kahle was born in Amboy Township, daughter of Benjamin and Sebrina (Miller) Hackett. Her parents were natives of Herkimer county, New York, and were among the early settlers of Fulton county, where they bought a farm in Amboy Township about 1845. The children in the Hackett family were: Lewis, of Pittsford, Michigan; John, who died in 1919; Janette, Mrs. Daniel Miller,