Fulton Township (part 33 of 34)

His education was obtained in the public schools of his native place. His parents, who are of good standing in the county, were able to give him a good education, which reached to the last year in high school. William was eighteen years old when he left high school and took seriously to business occupations. He had resolved to become a baker, and with that object served an apprenticeship in the bakery of J. S. Fenstermacher at Archbold. One and onehalf vears later he took employment with a relative, Frank Ehrat, of Archbold, and in 1915 purchased the bakery of the latter. He has since been the sole owner of that business, which is now conducted under the trading name of the Home Bakery, and during the five years of independent business has added much to his good repute in his home town. He is a man of strong, self-reliant characteristics, optimistic and energetic, a good tradesman, and a responsible resident. Politically he is a democrat, and fraternally is connected with the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders, belonging to the West Unity Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, and to Archbold Lodge No. 731 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. _

In May, 1914, when he was twenty years old, he married Ber- - nice, daughter of Ira McClarren, of Toledo, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Kutzli are members of the Reformed Church, and have taken part in church and social activities of Archbold.

Tomas S. Dre Vrizs, who latterly has come somewhat prominently into the affairs of the borough of Archbold, Fulton county, Ohio, being the sole owner of the Archbold Electric Light and Power Company, and also the owner and organizer of the Archbold Electrie Company, which has a consequential business in supplies and electrical contracting, has had a somewhat varied life, having for fifteen years been employed in'the plant of a furniture manufacturing company, and having for a further fifteen years farmed a good acreage in Michigan, these thirty years of industrious effort having brought him into a satisfactory state of material wealth. Since he has lived in Archbold he has manifested many estimable qualities, is generally well-regarded, and has demonstrated that he is naturally of helpful public spirit.

He is of Dutch ancestry, and was born in the Netherlands, his native place being Schootrland, Friesland, and his parents S. T. and Jeltze (Hoogeboorn) De Vries. His father followed the historic calling of the Dutch people, and spent much of his early manhood in maritime occupations. He married in Holland, and there Thomas S. spent the first thirteen years of his life. His parents came to America in 1881, and the family settled in Michigan, his father renting a farm near Grand Rapids.

Thomas S. as a boy attended the schools of his native land, and after settling in Michigan with his parents he began to take up the serious occupations of life without any delay. He was thirteen years old, and comparatively well educated, and although he could not speak English, he found many of his own countrymen employed in the furniture factory to which he went for employment. For the first eight years he lived in America he worked steadily in the plant of the Grand Rapids Chair Company, for the greater part of that time in the capacity of finisher. He was an industrious, alert boy, and soon became proficient in his duties, and in course of time thoroughly mastered the English language. After having worked for eight vears in the furniture factory he spent some time in farm work, assisting his father in the work of the farm he had rented near Grand Rapids. Eventually, however, young De Vries again entered the factory, and altogether was connected with the furniture manufacturing industry of Grand Rapids for fifteen years. He married in 1889, being then twenty-one years old. After marriage he bought a farm in Michigan, and for the next fifteen years gave his time altogether to agriculture. He was generally successful in his farming, and had reached a satisfactory financial state by that time. In 1911 he saw an advantage in selling his Michigan farm and purchasing the Walters estate, which owned the electric lighting plant at Archbold, Fulton county, Ohio. That business interest brought the family into Fulton county, and into residence at Archbold. Mr. De Vries has conducted the public utility enterprise since 1911 under the name of the Archbold Electric Light and Power Company, and his direction of the plant has resulted in a good service to mutual advantage. He has been accommodating in his service, and has always endeavored to meet the wishess of the community, and to meet the people reciprocally in any matter concerning the general welfare in its relation to his plant. And he has also shown sound business enterprise in establishing the Archbold Electric Company, which enters somewhat extensively into electrical contracting, and in the sale of electrical supplies. It does most of the electrical fitting and wiring in that part of Fulton county, and has a wide scope of supplies, being agents for the Western Electric Company's electric-lighting systems. In ground storage batteries and in the charging of same, and in general repair work, the company has done a satisfactory degree of business during the last few years. Mr. De Vries has also other business interests, owns some real estate, and, generally, is well-regarded in the community as a man of affairs and one who has shown himself anxious to aid in the advancement of the town and the betterment of things generally within the community.

Politically Mr. De Vries is a republican, although he apparently has never been disposed to take public office. During the war he evinced a whole-hearted, helpful patriotism, co-operating well with the local committees in bringing to satisfactory consummation the subscription of the local quota toward the various funded issues made by the national administration to meet the extraordinary needs of the nation in war.

In 1889 Mr. De Vries married Jennie Rodenhuis, daughter of Vandermeer and Trytyl Rodenhuis, who were people of Dutch antecedents then resident in Grand Rapids. Mr. and Mrs. De Vries are the parents of six children, four sons and two daughters. They also have reared a stepson, the child of Mrs. De Vries by her first mar- | riage. Mr. De Vries is a member of the Missionary Church of Archbold, while Mrs. De Vries is a member of the German Reformed Church, and they are consistent Christians, helpful and earnest in church work.

Joun T. WesER, one of the leading and most successful farmers of German Township, Fulton county, Ohio, has had a notably successful life in agricultural activity. Without financial help, and by dint of hard work and skillful farming, he has gradually prospered until he today owns a total of 320 acres of-good agricultural land.

He was born in German Township, Fulton county, Ohio, November 12, 1859, the son of George and Barbara (Butch) Weber, who were both of Swiss birth. They were married in Switzerland, and lived at Schauffhausen, and there six of their children were born. George Weber was an agriculturist in his native land, and when he brought his family to America, and into Ohio, he settled down to farming occupations, at first living with his brother John in German Township, Fulton county. He died in 1865. John T. Weber, his son, attended the public school nearest to his home during the winter months, and during the growing summer season spent most of the time in farming tasks upon his father's property. He left school when he was about sixteen years old, and some time afterwards became connected with the Graff Sawmill in German Township. He continued in that work for twelve years, and although he did not earn very much, he was of economical habits and saved much of his earnings, so that when he married, in 1893, he was able to venture into independent work as a tenant farmer. He rented the Tedrow farm of 105 acres, and there lived for three years. For the next three years he worked a farm of 160 acres near Archbold, and did very well on that place. However, it was to his advantage to then move to the farm of 120 acres belonging to his father-in-law. This farm, in German Township, he rented at first, but eventually purchased it outright from his father-in-law, and since that time he has steadily tilled it, generally to very good advantage. He prospered by reason of skillful farming and persistent application to work, and eventually was able to purchase a further 200 acres, so that in all he has quite an extensive acreage in rich territory.

Tlis wife, Leah, whom he married in 1893, was a daughter of Peter F. and Salvina (Burkholder) Wyse, of German Township. And to the marriage have been born five children: Elda Rosselli, who married Louis Merillat, of Franklin Township, Fulton county, Ohio, and is the mother of four children; Arthur Daniel, now a successful farmer in German Township, married Meda Grime, and shey are the parents of six children: Clarence A., who married Cassie Grime, of German Township, and has two children; Albert John, who married Marie Leminger, to them has been born one child; Pearl Mary, who is at home with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Weber have very many sincere friends in Fulton county, and are especially respected by the older residents of German Township.

WiititiaM E. Hity. Through a chain of circumstances over which he had.no control, William E. Hill, of Delta, enlisted four different times as a soldier in the Civil war, although his birth occurred March 28, 1842, in the mother country - England. He is a son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Cullen) Hill. The father died in 1851, and with four small children the mother immigrated to the United States in 1858, locating in Delta. As bread winner of the family, W. E. Hill began working on a farm, but after one year he secured a position in a grist mill, where he remained for many years.

Mr. Hill enlisted in the Civil war at the first call for volunteers, and was one of the 100-day men in the service. It was thought 100 days' service would win the war, but not so, and in the summer of 1862 he enlisted again, this time in the Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In about four months he was taken prisoner and immediately after his release he was discharged and sent home with typhoid fever. He lay in a hospital at Delaware, Ohio finally reachaE anata in Delta.

Cavalry at Petersburg, Virginia, receiving his final discharge June 27, 1865, when the northern army was disbanded and the soldiers returned to their homes. In October of that year Mr. Hill went to Tuscola county, Michigan, and followed the lumber woods for a time. Jor twelve years he was stationary engineer in a saw and planing mill, and then for a time he worked in a butcher shop in Cass City, Michigan. In 1891, Mr. Hill returned to Delta, where he worked for several firms as a butcher.

Since 1915 Mr. Hill has lived retired from active business in the old homestead in Delta, where his mother located in 1859. In July, 1865, Mr. Hill married Salma Alwood, of Pike Township, a daughter of E. K. and Betsey (Saulsbury) Alwood, the father from Maryland and the mother from Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hill died May 20, 1891, in Michigan.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hill are: Charles, of Toledo; Ida, wife of Fred Sherwood, of Toledo; Mary, deceased, was the wife of William Wright; William, deceased, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Emma Hill, of Cleveland, Ohio; Minnie, wife of Elmer Royer; Edith, wife of Mr. McClure; Nellie, wife of Frank Pierce; all of Toledo. Eliza, a sister of Mr. Hill, lived with her mother in the family homestead in Delta, and now she is the homemaker for her brother there. i

With his military history Mr. Hill would not think of remaining out side the social influences of a Grand Army Post. While in Michigan he was a member of Milo Warner Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and now he 'is in the McQuillin Post, Grand Army of the eee of Delta. While in the Michigan post he was officer of the day.

ARTHUR G. SIEGEL, a successful and respected farmer of German Township, Fulton county, Ohio, comes of one of the pioneer families of the county, notwithstanding that he, himself, was born in Kansas. His grandfather settled in German Township almost seventy vears ago, the township at that time being in its first stage of development.

He was born in Larned, Kansas, in 1884, the son of Daniel W. and Anna (Roth) Siegel, a woman remarkable for her great memory and grandson of Jacob and Catherine (Nofzinger) Siegel. The family was originally from Bavaria, Jacob Siegel having been born in that countrv. He did not immigrate until some years after he had married; in fact some of his children were also born in Bavaria, although Daniel W., son of Jacob and Catherine (Nofzinger) Siegel, and father of Arthur G., was born in 1847 in Wayne county, Ohio. his parents having at that time been resident in Wayne county for three vears. In 1852 Jacob Siegel took his family through the wilderness from Wayne county into Fulton county, settling in German Township, where he acquired 160 acres of uncleared land, and in the clearing of that holding he spent the remainder of his life. Their son Daniel W. was given the best possible education, although facilities were somewhat primitive in the country schools of that section in his bovhood. He attended the country school nearest to his parents' farm during the winter term each year, and during the summers was wont to spend most of his time in the execution of various minor tasks upon the home farm. After passing through the grades of the elementary school he entered the high school at Wauseon, and he was twenty-one years old before he closed his schooling altogether and took wholly to farming occupations In association with his father. For three years he remained at home, and for the next five years farmed independently. Then he married, and soon afterward moved to Larned, Kansas, where he homesteaded 160 acres, and purchased a further like acreage from the Santa Fe Railway Company, owning in all 320 acres. There he lived for nine years, growing each year much wheat, but at the end of his ninth season in Kansas he sold his holding and brought his family back to Ohio and to Fulton county. He purchased a good farm of eighty-six acres, situated partly within the bounds of the borough of Archbold, in 1885, and later acquired a further forty acres that adjoined his property. He now owns 100 acres, and has had good success in general farming. He is a man of industrious inclination, has always been responsible, and is well-regarded in the township generally. Politically Mr. Daniel W. Siegel is a republican. He is a member of the Archbold Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a good churchman, a Methodist by conviction and a member and good supporter of the Archbold Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the five children born to Daniel W. and Anna (Roth) Siegel, four are still living. They are: Carrie C., who married John B. Theobald, of Bryan, Williams county, Ohio; Catherine, who married C. E. Hyatt, of Stryker, Williams county, Ohio and is the mother of one child, their daughter, Mae; Arthur Garfield, of whom more follows; and Mrs. E. A. Beuhrer.

Arthur Garfield, now thirty-five years old, was only a small child when his parents returned to Fulton county, Ohio, from Larned, Kansas, where he was born. His life has therefore been almost wholly lived in Fulton county and in the township with the early settlement of which his family was so closely associated. In due course he took good part with his father in the operation of the home farm. Both he and his wife are graduates of the local high school and both spent some time teaching, Mrs. Siegel in the village school. They both take an interest in educational matters, Mrs. Siegel at present serving the Woman's Reading Club of Archbold as its president, while Mr. Siegel is serving his second term on the village Board of Education. He is a stanch republican.

In 1912 he married, and has since that time continued to farm industriously, and generally with good success. He and his wife, who was Arvah Skeels, daughter of Silas and Adelaide (Gilbert) Skeels, are the parents of two children, James Arthur, born in 1913. and Anna Adelaide. now four vears old. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Siegel are members of the Archbold Methodist Episcopal Church, and both have taken active part in church work. Mr. Siegel especially has shown practical interest in the moral welfare and spiritual guidance of the young people of that church, and for some vears has been superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School. He has the reputation of being a man of high moral character, a man whose life is governed by high standards of Christian principle. Fraternallv he is a Mason, a member of the Blue Lodge, Free and Aecepted Masons, of West Unity.

Henry Breum, a respected resident of Franklin Township, and a successful farmer of that section of Fulton county, Ohio, was born in Whitehouse. Lucas county, Ohio, December 31, 1858. the son of Anthony and Rebecca (Fineauer) Brehm, who at that time owned a farming property in that place. Anthony Brehm was a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, but came to this country when a young man, settling in Toledo, Ohio. He was a mason and stone laver by trade, and he helped cut all the spiles that were driven in the water of the river for a foundation for the first depot at Toledo. He was in Toledo for four years, and then, having accumulated some capital and desiring to take up agricultural life, he rented a farm of forty acres in Whitehouse, Lucas county. There his son Henry was born, some time after which event the Brehm family removed to Franklin Township, Fulton county, Ohio, where Anthony took over as a tenant farmer the old Darby farm of 160 acres. Later he purchased a Franklin Township farm of forty acres, and upon it lived until his death.

Henry Brehm was educated in district school No. 7 of Fulton county, which was the country school nearest to his home in Frank- © lin Township. He attended school until he was fourteen years old. After leaving school he was associated with his father in the operation of his father's farm, but when seventeen years old hired out to neighboring farmers. In that way the next five vears passed. Then he married, and the farm on which they settled was a present from his father-in-law, Jacob Kibler, upon which he still lives. His life has thus been spent almost wholly in Franklin Township, and his record throughout life has been that of a good-hearted, sincere and industrious man, of consistent Christian character and unselfish public spirit. Politically he votes for the man irrespective of party ties. In local affairs he has been ready to take his portion of the duties of the public administration, and for a while was trustee of the township, but he has not interested himself actively in National politics. During the war he proved himself to be a whole-hearted patriot, ready and eager to co-operate in the plans the national administration made for the successful prosecution of the war. And upon many occasions he has manifested a commendable public spirit. ' In 1881 Henry Brehm married Emma Kibler, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Yost) Kibler. Jacob Kibler was one of the pioneers of Fulton county, one of the early settlers in German Township. He was twenty years old when he came to America from Schatiffhausen, Switzerland, accompanying his father and mother. They came down in an ox cart to Fulton county, through the wilderness from Wayne county, and settled in German Township. He was the eldest of seven children, and was more or less responsible for . the welfare of the family. He was born in Switzerland on January 5, 1818, and died in German Township, Fulton county, Ohio, on December 25, 1894, being then almost eighty-two years old. His wife Elizabeth Yost died four years later, August 19, 1898. She was born in Berne, Switzerland, on May 15, 1832. Their daughter Emma, who married Henry Brehm, was the youngest of the five children, three sons and two daughters, of Jacob and Elizabeth (Yost) Kibler, and all her brothers and sisters are now deceased. Jacob Kibler was a worthy pioneer, resolute and indefatigable. Latterly he owned 320 acres of good agricultural land, all of which he cleared himself.

L'Ngear Evcene Carter. The Carter family of which L'Near Eugene Carter of Amboy Township is a representative has migrated quite a little, having lived in Royalton, Amboy and Fulton Townships and in two different counties in Michigan, and now he is on

The Carter family homestead of Amboy, with mail service from Delta. His parents were George and Ruth (Sprague) Carter, and the paternal grandparents were Norval and Mary L._(Bird) Carter. The grandfather Carter was a Civil war soldier from Fulton county who did not return from the battle fields of the Southland. The maternal grandparents were Alonzo and Susannah (Chase) Sprague.

When George Carter married he first settled in Amboy, and later lived in Royalton and in 1892 he bought land in Fulton Township. There were fifty acres in the farm, with forty-five acres under cultivation. He died there July 21, 1914. Mrs. Carter died in Decem- _ ber 29, 1917, leaving their only son, L. E. Carter, the homestead.

In March, 1904, he married Effie Gardinier, of Royalton. She is a daughter of Watson and Alice (Snyder) Gardinier. For three years they lived on rented land in Fulton, then moved to Wauseon county, Michigan. Two years later they moved to Jackson county, Michigan, remaining there three years.

When Mr. Carter returned to Fulton county he bought land near the home of his father, and since the death of his parents he has lived at the old homestead. They have one son: Wade Norval. Mr. Carter casts his ballot with the republicans.

Frank McQuiuin, of "Popple Grove Farm" in Pike Township, has always lived at the old family homestead. He was born there April 14, 1877, a son of John W. and Elizabeth (Dunbar) McQuillin. When he bought forty acres and then added twenty acres by purchase it gave him sufficient land for one man to cultivate, and vet after the death of his father he bought out other heirs until he now owns a farm of eighty-four acres - Popple Grove Farm. Mr. MeQuillin follows general farming, dairying and the livestock business.

On November 24, 1903, Mr. McQuillin married Viola Johnson, a daughter of John and Lucinda (Boyer) Johnson, of York Township. The father is a native of Fulton county, while the mother came from New Baltimore, Ohio. The Boyer ancestry, Henry and Elizabeth (Otto) Boyer, were Pennsylvanians. They were early settlers in York. Mrs. Johnson died July 17, 1911, and Mr. Johnson lives with the McQuillins.

The McQuillin children are: Lillian May, born September 12, 1907, and died in infaney; Gerald Dale, born June 6, 1909: and Hazel Marie, born September 11, 1913. Mr. McQuillin attended Hoxie district school and his wife attended*the Bradley school and the Delta High School. She was a teacher at Tough Match in York Township and at the Brailey school in Swan Creek Township.

Soromon FE. Laver, of Pike, is the son of a German immigrant, John Laver. The father was born April 12, 1833, at Hesse-Darmstadt. He married Marv A. Alwood, of Pike Township, in February, 1857, her people having come in 1835. She died in 1859, and John Laver married her sister, Pauline Alwood. They were daughters of Peola Alwood. ;

John Vaver came to the United States before he was fifteen years of age, and he located at Stamford, Connecticut, where he worked for three vears in a pump factory. In 1850 he came to Fulton county and began working at the carpenter trade. He became a skilled workman and in 1865 he bought an eighty-acre farm, mostly

In June, 1863, Mr. Laver enlisted in Company F, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. For six months he served as commissary sergeant, and was then promoted to captain, serving as such until the end of the war. He was in a number of minor engagements, and was discharged in July, 1865, and is today a member of Mc- Quillin Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Delta. Mr. Laver is a republican, and has served the community as township assessor, and for eighteen years as justice of the peace.

In 1880 and again in 1890 Mr. Laver was a United States census enumerator. By his first marriage Mr. Laver has one daughter, Mary, and by the second marriage the following children: Grant S., of Fulton; Solomon E., who relates the family history; Philip, of Pettysville; John, of Pike; and Ura, who resides with Solomon and the sister Mary at the old homestead. On June 28, 1918, their father died there.

Solomon E. Laver has always lived on the farm where he was born except for short periods when he has had employment away from there. He never called any other spot his home. When he was a young man he sometimes worked out by the month. For many vears he has conducted the farm, and he operates a Holstein dairy along with general farming and the livestock business. On October 23, 1908, he had the misfortune to lose his right hand in a corn shredder.

Mr. Laver has served the township as assessor nine consecutive terms, being the republican party representative. He has filled several of the chairs in Delta Knights of Pythias Lodge. He was a bond salesman in the different Liberty and Victory loans, and is a member of the American Patriotic League.

Solomon E. Laver, who was born in Pike Township December 21, 1866, is widely known not only as a successful dairy farmer, but for his usefulness in public affairs. His good citizenship in times of peace supplements the honorable record of his father as a soldier of the Civil war. His own sterling patriotism received abundant proof in the World war.

Wriiram Barpwin. While the life time home of William Baldwin has been in Fulton county, his parents came from Pennsylvania. He is ason of John and Lucy Ann (Clingerman) Baldwin, - and was born in August, 1855, in Fulton Township, where the Baldwin were early settlers. However, in 1863 they removed to Amboy, where they purchased eighty acres in the timber and made it their home the remainder of their days. Their children are: Joseph, of Toledo; Levi, of Toledo; William; Mrs. Mary Ann Techworth; and John, of Amboy.

On May 26, 1885, William Baldwin married Marie Celeste Higley. She is a daughter of Darius and Sabina (Johnson) Higley and was born in Huron county. They began on twenty acres in the timber, and they have cleared and added land until they now have 114 acres of well improved farm land, and there are good buildings on it.

The Baldwin children are: Jesse Earl, of Toledo; Milford Ray, of York; Gertrude Pearl, wife of William Krieger, of Fulton; Tressa May, wife of Perry F. Churchill, of Swan Creek; Ruby Etta,

As the facts above related show he began life with an exceedingly modest capital, and while he was born in the pioneer era, he repeated many of the pioneer's experiences in his own manhood by developing a tract of heavy timber, clearing away the woods, putting the land under cultivation, and creating a farm that bears favorable comparison with any in its vicinity. It is appropriate to speak of him therefore as one of the useful men of Fulton county, and only good influences have emanated from his home.

Wiruiam Srrayer. One year after the organization of Fulton county the Strayer family story began in it with the coming of William and Elizabeth (Kring) Strayer from Pennsylvania. Their son Wiliam Strayer of Pike Township, was born April 13, 1855, and all of his life has been spent in Fulton county. There were thirteen children, ten of them living today.

In 1886 William Strayer married Augusta Dunbar, of the same community in Pike Township. She is a daughter of Boyd and Rachel Dunbar, the parents from Pennsylvania - the Strayers and Dunbars both from the Keystone state. For one year they lived on the Dunbar farm, then bought forty acres of partly improved land and remodeled the buildings on it. He added thirty acres, and aside from three acres of timber it is all under cultivation. Mr. Strayer has a Holstein dairy.

Mr. and Mrs. Strayer have one son, Arby Clay Strayer, born July 4, 1894. He married Gladys G. Bittikofer, and they have three children: Geneva May, Lola Audrey and Frances Mildred. They all live as one family at the family homestead. They are member of the Disciples Church in the community. The family vote is with the republican partv.

One of the older native sons of the county, and member of one of its worthy pioneer families, William Strayer has so ordered his own life that it has been productive in the material sense, has served to create and build up one of the farms of which the county is proud, and in all the relations of a busy life has proved true to the standards of manhood and good citizenship.

Guy Harvey Bocrr. While Guy Harvey Boger lives in Royalton he was born August 9, 1890, in Chesterfield. He is a son of George Alvin and Edith (Todd) Boger, the father a Pennsylvanian by birth and the mother a native of Chesterfield. His grandfather, David Boger, lived in Pennsylvania, while Oliver and Lucinda (Devereaux) Todd, lived in Chesterfield.

Guy Harvey Boger supplemented his common school education by graduating from the Fayette High School and from the Ohio State University at Columbus. He is a member and a deacon in the Church of Christ. He votes with the republican party and holds membership in Chesterfield Grange. ;

On April 15, 1914, Mr. Boger married Erma N. Dennis, a daughter of Charles and Mary (Leininger) Dennis, of Franklin Township. He at once took up his residence on a quarter section farm owned by his father in Royalton. His father died March 29, 1919, and his mother lives in Lyons. Mr. Boger operates a Holstein dairy having twenty-five head of thoroughbred cattle.

Peter Myers. While Peter Mvers of Amboy is a native of Ohio, his parents immigrated in 1848 from Germany. He was born in September, 1854, in Lorain county. He is a son of John and Mary Ann (Gries) Myers. They were married in Germany, and when they came to America they located at first in Cleveland. He was a blacksmith i in Germany and worked at his trade for the government in some of the wars engaging that country. He crossed the ocean to escape militarism in Germany. They were six months on their bridal journey to the United States.

The Myers family soon moved from Cleveland to Lorain county, where they secured twenty acres of land, adding to it until they had doubled the size of the farm, and in June, 1862, they sold it. Their next investment was a forty acre tract in Lenawee county, Michigan, mostly in timber, and a year later, September 17, 1863, while "working on this farm, the father was struck by lightning. The wife and children remained there another year, when they sold out and bought land in Fulton county. Peter Myers grew into manhood on this farm in Amboy.

On July 4, 1875, Mr. Myers married Mary Ann Hall, who was born in Amboy, although her parents, George O. and Catharine (Cory) Hall, had come from New York to Ohio. For a time he lived in Metamora, and beginning in 1869 he carried United States mail for twelve years from Metamora to Swanton. He began farming on a seven-acre tract adjoining Metamora, but some years later he sold it and bought thirty-six acres of partly improved land farther from town. He lived there from 1891 until 1908, when he sold it and bought 100 acres where he lived a short time, and then removed to Metamora.

Since retiring from farm activities Mr. Myers has engaged in house moving and general contracting work. He has served the community as constable, and for seventeen years he was a member of the board of education. He has also served as road superintendent in Amboy. In politics he is a democrat. He is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees No. 421, Metamora, Sanders Tent, and Mrs. Myers is a member of the Lady Maccabees.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Myers are: Catharine Amelia, wife of Melvin Luke, of Metamora; Nellie, wife of Ernest Brewer, of Monroe county, Michigan; Jennie, wife of Fred Setzler, of Monroe county, Michigan; Rosa, wife of Freeman Bird, of Terre Haute, Indiana; 'and Clara, wife of Prof. E. W. Smith, of 'Columbus, Ohio.

Left fatherless at the age of nine years, Peter' Myers had to do a man's work in the tender years of boyhood. He has performed his task well, as his neighbors and friends abundantly testify. Along with sound industry he has always exercised a high degree of business ability, and his record shows an increasing degree of prosperity with successive years. No one is more deeply interested and more © willing to do his share in work that is connected with the welfare of the entire community.

EuaGeENneE Carpenter. While his ancestry came from Michigan and New Jersey, Eugene Carpenter, of Royalton, is a native of Fulton county, having been born June 11, 1853 - three years after the family came to Fulton county. His father, Andrew Jackson Carpeter came from Michigan. His mother, Anna E. (Stretch) Carpenter, was a New Jersey woman. The Michigan home of the Carpenters was at Carpenter Hill, near Adrian, and Eugene Carpenter's parents married there. Samuel Carpenter was his grandfather. The maternal grandparents, John and Elizabeth (Lippincott) Stretch, were later residents of Adrian.

When Eugene Carpenter was a young boy he worked on a farm, and has always been a farmer. At the age of sixteen he hired out by the month, and later he started farming on his own account, and for many years he was a breeder of race horse stock. That was before there were any Fords in Fulton county. Mr. Carpenter raised beef cattle and butchered and sold the product on the Toledo market and on other markets. He was well known as a butcher and livestock dealer.

Mr. Carpenter owned property in Lyons, and in 1878 he bought an eighty-acre farm-in Pike Township. Five years later he sold it and bought forty acres one mile north of Lyons, some of the land across the line in Michigan. He owned this land ten years and sold it, buying 130 acres of partly cleared and improved land one mile east from Lyons. In 1905 he changed his investment again, this time taking over a farm of 210 acres in Royalton. He has cleared all of it, and it is all under cultivation. Twice Mr. Carpenter has suffered loss by fire, and the result has been modern farm barns replacing those destroyed, and splendid farm buildings are the result.

Aside from this Royalton farm Mr. Carpenter owns one in Fairfield Township, Lenawee county, Michigan. While he rents all of his farm land he does not lose track of what is going on there. He looks after crop rotation and management himself.

On January 21, 1877, Mr. Carpenter married Hattie Kennedy. She was a native of Roxbury, Scotland, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Renwick) Kennedy. Her father died in Scotland, and in 1869 she came to America with her mother. The children are: Lena, wife of Omer Metcalf, of Lenawee county, Michigan; Belle, wife of Jesse Peck, of Sylvania; Rose, wife of Glenn Ayres, of Royalton; Verna, wife of Floyd Cox, of Lenawee county; Peter T., of Camp Funston, Kansas; Blanchard, at the family homestead; Anna, wife of Clyde Durbin, of Sylvania; Robena, wife of Ray Gallup, of Morenci, Michigan; and Eugene.

Mr. Carpenter votes with the republican party. He is a member of Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 622 of Lyons, and has been through all of the chairs. He and Mrs. Carpenter are Rebekahs.

This is a brief outline of a very interesting and distinctive career. While a wage worker Mr. Carpenter saw and utilized the opportuntities to get into business for himself. A keen mind, abundant energy and sound business sense have kept him on the highway of prosperity in spite of losses and set backs, and a large part of what he has done for himself has also been a direct contribution to the development and welfare of Royalton Township. From what has been said above it is easy to account for the high degree of

Herpert Hayes Hinxiz. The name Hinkle belongs to the early history of Fulton county, although Herbert Hayes Hinkle, was born June 22, 1876, in Royalton. He is a son of Stephen and Hattie (Cass) Hinkle, the father of Fulton and the mother of Lucas county. The grandparents, Ephraim and Susan (Houghton) Hinkle, were early settlers in Fulton, while Joseph Cass came early to Adams Township, Lucas county.

When Stephen Hinkle was married he settled in Lyons, and still lives there. The children are: Ephraim, deceased; Lena, wife of Houghton J. Ferguson, of Toledo; Herbert Hayes; Eugene, of Royalton; and Homer, who lives with his parents.

On April 29, 1908, Herbert H. Hinkle married Ethel E. Camburn, of Royalton. She is a daughter of Frank and Charlotte (Standish) Camburn. The father came from Lenawee county, Michigan, while the mother always lived in Royalton. Mr. Hinkle had always farmed, and after his marriage he rented in Royalton until 1918, when he bought 100 acres on the Ohio-Michigan line, with ninety acres in Michigan, but the house in Ohio. He has a Holstein dairy on the farm.

The children are: Charles, Lloyd and Franklin. Mr. Hinkle had high school advantages in Toledo, and as a republican he received the appointment to an unexpired term as township trustee in 1916, and since then he has twice been re-elected trustee. He belongs to the Ancient Order of Gleaners, and is secretary of the Universalist Church. of which he is a member.

ALBERT Mark Roprtnson. While the Robinson family name has been in the annals of Fulton county for many years, Albert Mark Robinson, is as yet a young man. He was born February 28, 1891, and has always lived in Amboy Township. He is a son of John M. and Hannah (Phillips) Robinson, the father a native of Amboy while the mother is from the south of England.

The paternal grandparents, George and Rebecca (Davis) Robinson, came from the State of New York and were early residents of Amboy after having lived some vears in Indiana. When they came the land was so heavily timbered that space had to be cleared for their cabin. Years later Mr. Robinson built a brick house that was regarded as one of the finest homes in Fulton county. He owned and cleared 200 acres of Jand and was a prosperous pioneer farmer.

his father, securing the homestead part of it. He died there July 3. . 1904, and it is now the home of Albert Mark Robinson, in the third generation of the Robinson succession in Fulton county. His sister Edith is the wife of Clarence. Hagerman, of Lenawee county, Michigan, and Clarice died at the age of nineteen. The mother is now the wife of Alfred Viers, of Royalton. ' In addition to a high school education at Delta A. M. Robinson attended Ohio State Universitv at Columbus. He taught the home district school and he worked his father's farm on shares. On February 16, 1916, Mr. Robinson married Oneita McQuillan, of Pike Township. She is a daughter of James and Anna (McQuillan) McQuillan. Since his marriage Mr. Robinson has devoted his entire attention to agriculture. His children, Lowell, born January 26, 1917, and Clarice, January 18, 1919, are in the fourth generation of the Robinson family to live in one house in Amboy. He votes the republican ticket, and belongs to the Grange - the Patrons of Husbandry of Amboy Township.

Witu1am Tuomas Saxton, of Delta, Fulton county, Ohio, one . of the leading business men of that place, has lived most of his life in the county, and is well-regarded among the people of Delta, who have known him as a resident and as a tradesman for so many years. He was only two years old. when his parents came to live in the county. ,

He was born on October 15, 1850, the son of Nathaniel and Catherine (Nort) Saxton, the former a native of New York state and the latter of German birth. His paternal grandparent, Cyrus Saxton, was born in New York state, the Saxtons being among the colonial families of America. His maternal lineage is Teutonic, his mother and her parents having been born in Germany. Dr. John and Margaret Nort, his maternal grandparents, came to Trenton, Butler county, Ohio, in 1841, and there Doctor Nort practiced medicine until 1851, when he and his wife came into Fulton county, settling in Swanton of that county. During the remainder of his long professional life Doctor Nort practiced medicine throughout the eastern part of Fulton county and the western section of Lucas county. He died in Swanton in his ninetieth year, and was buried in Swanton Cemetery. _

Nathaniel and Catherine (Nort) Saxton, parents of William T., soon after marriage settled in Muskingum county, Ohio, where their first two children were born. About eighteen months after the birth of their second child, William T., they came to live in Fulton county, where Nathaniel Saxton farmed for one year, and having then contracted inflammatory rheumatism, and succumbed to that complaint on July 29, 1853. The widow had limited resources and three young children. Fortunately she was near her parents, and in the home of her parents, Dr. John and Margaret Nort, the Saxton children were reared. The three children born to Nathaniel and Catherine (Nort) Saxton were: Maggie E., who eventually married William Hollis, of Swanton, Ohio; William Thomas; and George E., who died in infancy. The mother spent the last years of eens in the home of William Thomas, where she died August 30, i

William Thomas, second child of Nathaniel and Catherine (Nort) Saxton, lived from the time of his father's death until he was seventeen years old in the home of his grandparents, Doctor and Mrs. Nort, in Swanton, Fulton county. He attended the old Centreville district school, about 4% mile south of Swanton, and when seventeen vears old began his business career, taking employment in a general store in Waterville, Lucas county, Ohio, where he remained for twelve years. In April, 1880, he came to Delta as clerk in the general store of J. M. Longnecker, with whom he was associated for eight years. Sargent Brothers & Saxton then bought the Longnecker store. At the end of fourteen years Mr. Saxton became the sole owner, having purchased the Sargent interest.

_ He is widely known throughout Fulton county, and has an enviable reputation as a man of honorable trading and good business and moral integrity. He has shown marked enterprise in his business, having expanded it in many lines, so that today he does a substantial volume of business in general merchandise, seeds and coal.

He has entered much into civic activities and community interests. By religious conviction he is Methodist Episcopal, and for six years has been trustee of the local church of that denomination. Politically he is a democrat. He has taken an intelligent interest in the general national affairs and a keen interest in local administrations, but he has never been an aspirant for public office. He is identified with the Masonic fraternity, a member of Fulton Lodge No. 240, and of the Octavius Waters Chapter of that order.

In June, 1886, he married Octavia A. Waters, who was born in Delta, Ohio, daughter of Octavius A. and Mary Ann (Hollington) Waters, well-known Delta residents of English antecedents. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Saxton: Mabel W., who married E. F. Pennywitt, of Cleveland, Ohio; and Helen Marie, who died when thirteen years old.

JoHN M. Becustrern. Having spent all his mature years in general farming and stockraising industries, John M. Bechstein of York Township is an authority on agricultural matters. His home is at 313 Wood street in Delta, and he has achieved his present comfortable circumstances through a life of earnest effort and industry.

He was born in his present township in February, 1869, a son of Jacob and Anna (Goodloch) Bechstein, natives of Germany, who came at different times to the United States and located in Erie county, Ohio, where they became acquainted and were married. In 1862 they came to Fulton county and bought eighty acres of unimproved timberland in Swan Creek Township, which they developed into a valuable farm, and also became the owners of another eighty-acre farm. Their children were as follows: Henry, who is a farmer of Swan Creek Township; Ida, who is Mrs. John Reiber, of Wood county, Ohio; Mary, who is Mrs. John Evans, of Swan Creek Township; John, whose name heads this review; Anna, who is Mrs. Henry Wenig, of Wood county, Ohio; Lucy, who is . Mrs. Edward Smith, of Wood county, Ohio; Jacob, a farmer of Swan Creek Township; and Altha, who is Mrs. Martin Andrews, of Swan Creek Township.

Growing up in his native township, John M. Bechstein learned to be a practical farmer while he was attending the district schools, in them securing a knowledge of the fundamentals of an education. He married at the age of twenty-five and for a quarter of a century has been. busy performing his duties as a provider of home and other advantages for his family and discharging the duties of good - citizenship. December 25, 1894, he married Martha Prentiss, daughter of Jacob and Melissa (Joy) Prentiss. Her parents were natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Bechstein have two children, Helene and Doris E.

FrankK WesstTEeR RANDELS, a well-known and successful farmer of Franklin Township, Fulton county, Ohio, has spent all his life on the farm upon which he was born, and which he now owns. During the years since his majority he has taken due part in the responsibilities of the community, and is known favorably as a reliable farmer, representative of the substantial agriculturists of that section of the county.

He was born in the Randels family homestead on February 3, 1870. the son of James and Sarah Ellen (Marfoot) Randels. He was given a good education, the ordinary education of the public school being supplemented by a course at the Fayette Normal School.

He assisted in the operation of the home farm of 160 acres until the death of his Echorsin 1912. His mother had died about twelve months anterior to the demise of his father, and thus, in 1912, he found himself in possession of the family estate. He has steadily continued to till it, being successful in his farming and in the raising of Percheron horses. }

He is a public-spirited man, and is well-regarded in the community. During the war he co-operated to the extent of his resources in the national effort to furnish the government with the sinews of war, with the funds wherewith to carry the purposes of the nation in the war through to complete success. And in local affairs he has manifested a worthy spirit of helpfulness. Politically he is a republican; fraternally he belongs to the Woodmen order, affiliated with a West Unity lodge and to the Ohio State Gleaners organization. Religiously he is a Methodist, a supporter of the Methodist Chureh of Franklin Township.

In 1897 Frank W. Randels married Sadie J., daughter of S. K. and Jane (Mahan) Hughes, of West Unity, Williams county, Ohio. She came of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Her great-grandfather was one of the early settlers in Kentucky, and her father, who was a Presbyterian minister, settled at West Unity in Williams county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Randels are the parents of three children: Florence Julia, who married Floyd Sayers, of Trinidad, California; Laurence Charles, who now is thirteen years old; and Ellen Jane, now seven years old.

Cart WatpeckK. The Waldeck family of which Carl Waldeck of Delta is a representative has been in Fulton county since 1859, nine vears after the organization of the county. He is a son of Arnold and Christina (Backbuse) Waldeck, and was born February _ 27, 1850, in Hanover, Germany. When the family immigrated to America in 1851 they came at once to Lucas county. Nine years later they located on a farm in Pike Township, and in 1860 they moved to Delta. After three years in Delta they rented another farm three miles east, and the next move was to a farm they bought in Pike Township. They bad 130 acres and bought forty. He died there in 1889, and she died nineteen years afterward - almost fifty years a resident of Fulton county.

The children in the Waldeck family are: Carl Waldeck; Arnold and Herman, of Delta; William, deceased; Amelia, deceased, was the wife of William McQuillan; and George, of Delta. On Christmas day, 1873, Carl Waldeck married Florence Sheffield, a native of Fulton county. Her parents, William and Mary Sheffield, came from Tuscarawas county. Mr Waldeck lived on the Sheffield farm in Swan Creek and later on the Gately farm. For six years he was a tenant and then bought eighty acres in timber and stumps in York Township. He improved and added to it until he now owns 100 acres of excellent farm land and all under cultivation but a small tract of timber and pasture land. Since November, 1918, a son has lived there and Mr. Waldeck has lived in Delta.

Mr. Waldeck bought a residence on Adrain street. The children in the family are: Frank, of Pike; Dora, who died in infancy; Mary, who died at the age of twelve; and Walter, who lives on the farm owned by Mr. Waldeck. Mrs. Waldeck died May 4, 1903, and he married Mrs. Ella (Gorsuch) Fink, widow of William Fink., She had two children who died in infaney. The family

The facts above stated concerning the Waldeck family in general and Carl Waldeck in particular place them among the most substantial citizenship of Fulton county. It is a matter worthy of' special notice that Mr. Waldeck has achieved his present position as a farm owner after starting his career as a tenant, and overcoming many obstacles in the path of success.

Lincotn E. Lurron, who has lived his whole life of fifty-five years in York Township, Fulton county, Ohio, and for forty years has industriously farmed, is now one of the substantial farmers of that section of- Fulton county, and is well-regarded in the township. He owns a good property of 120 acres, has a good record for personal integrity and industry, and has taken an active part in educational affairs in the community.

He was born in York Township, in the Lutton family homestead in section 15 of the township on September 20, 1864, the son of Matthew and Eliza (Moore) Lutton. His parents were both born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and soon after they had married they came into Ohio and settled on comparatively wild land in York Township, Fulton county, where they spent the remainder of their lives, respected as earnest, kind-hearted, industrious neighbors. Lincoln as a boy attended the district school nearest to his home, and when sixteen years old began manly labors. For some time after leaving school he worked for neighboring farmers at the monthly wage of eight dollars. He farmed for wages until he was twenty-six years old, when he married and bought a small farm in York Township, upon which he and his wife lived for three years. He then sold the farm, and they lived for eighteen months thereafter in Delta Village, eventually renting other farms for five years, after which they took over his father's farm in York Township. For nineteen years he successfully cultivated the property, and in 1918 purchased another farm of forty acres in section 9 of York Township. and in February of the following year, 1919, bought the old Force homestead of eighty acres in section 16 of York Township, where the Lutton family has since resided, although he also farms his other property. Altogether he has a rich farming property, and his returns in general farming, dairying, and stockraising are good.

Politically Mr. Lutton is a republican, and he has taken a close interest in local politics for many years, although he has never sought political office. He has been especially interested in educational matters, serving as school director.

On November 10, 1890, he married Minnie Force, who was born in York Township, daughter of Abraham Newton and Catherine (Boice) Force. Her father was born in Wayne county, Ohio, and her mother in New York state. Mr. and Mrs. Lutton are the parents of two children, daughters: Goldie, who married Fred Moyer, of Delta, York Township, Ohio; and Pearl, who has remained at home with her parents. Lincoln E. Lutton is a representative Fulton county agriculturist, and has succeeded in life by resolute application to manly labor, and by enterprising management of good acreages.

Harvey Barney Fator. The name Falor has long been known in Pike Township, it being the birthplace of Harvey Barney Haier of Delta. He was born November 4, 1882, and is a son of James W. and Adeline (Denius) Falor. The father was born and died on the farm in Pike Township, and Mrs. Falor and her son removed to Deltu. The grandfather, Barnabas Falor, was born in Ohio, but the grandmother, Margaret (McGinn) Falor, came from Ireland. Peter and Hulda (Kurtz) Denius, who came from Pennsylvania, were among the early settlers in Pike Township. They bought timber land, which they improved and here the Falors lived many years. ~~ James W. Falor met with an accidental death, and in 1916 Mrs. Falor left the farm and now lives in Delta. Harvey B. Falor is the only son, and in June, 1900, he married Elsie Elmira Fouty. She is a daughter of Park and Sarah (Eck) Fouty, and has always lived in Fulton county. Their children are Opal and Ralph.

On September 3, 1916, while riding from Toledo to Delta in an automobile, Mr. Falor was struck by a New York Central train and his left leg was crushed just below the knee, and he will always be a cripple from it. The Ialors have a nice home on Wood street in Delta.

Braptey E. Grover, one of the leading residents of York Township, Fulton county, Ohio, and for more than thirty years a wellknown farmer in that section, has accomplished more than one man's portion of pioneering work in Fulton county. He cleared the timber from eighty acres, converted it into rich tillable land, erected modern buildings on the place, added another forty acres to his holding, and generally by his industry added not only to his material wealth but to the productivity of the county to that extent. His farm, known as Maple Lawn Farm, is typical of the rich agricultural land won from the unprofitable state of wild timber land. And during his decades of manly labor Bradley E. Grover did not shirk public responsibilities; he manifested commendable public spirit and took part in the activities, civic, church and educational, of the community. He is a man of enviable personal repute in the township; has served cn the School Board; has held the judicial office of justice of the peace; and for several years had been an elder of his church.

He was born in Linn county, Towa, on December 27, 1854, the son of Arad end Sarah (Curtis) Grover, who were both natives of Ohio. and therefore among the early settlers in the state. After marriage the parents of Bradley FE. Grover settled in Iowa, where he was born, but in about 1860 the family came into Fulton county, settling in Swan Creek Township, where both resided for the remainder of their lives. Bradley BE. as a boy attended the district schools of Fulton county, and eventually became a student at the high school of Delta, Fulton county. He was early initiated into farm work, and knew most of the operations of general farming even before he had finished his academic schooling. And after leaving school he settled down steadily and industriously to farming pursuits, being of much assistance to his father in his early manhood. He was twenty-five years old when he married, and soon after taking that responsibility he rented a farm in Swan Creek Township for two years, after which, in 1882, he purchased eighty acres of timber land in section 8, north of York Township. This he gradually cleared of timber, and in course of time developed it into its present state of productivity. His industry brought him adequate return, and he eventually acquired an additional forty acres, and adequately equipped the acreage with outbuildings. All the substantial buildings upon the place were erected by Mr. Grover, and the land has been brought into a high state of cultivation. Mr. Grover for thirty-three years worked the farm, always confining himself to general farming and dairying, and in 1915 he thought he might take life less strenuously. In that year he rented the farm to his son-in-law, and since that time he has lived in comparative retirement.

Mr. Grover has a good public record; he has always been eager to support worthy local projects of community interest, and has been a stalwart supporter of the Christian Church of Delta, Ohio, of which he has been an elder for many vears. Politically he is a republican, and while he has never sought political office, he has been a factor of some consequence in his district. He has had a worthy record as justice of the peace, being a man of judicial bearing, impartial and honorable, and he has given the local School Board the benefit of his understanding of and interest in educational matters. He is also a member of the National Union of Delta.

On November 13, 1879, he married Ella Carpenter, who was born in Waterville, Ohio, daughter of Miles and Hannah (Carr) Carpenter, the former a native of Copley, Ohio, and her mother of Pennsylvania. Her parents settled in Summit county, Ohio, early in their married life, and in 1852 came into Fulton county. He was a cabinet-maker and furniture dealer in Delta, where they both resided until their death. Although born out of the county, Mrs. Ella (Carpenter) Grover has lived practically the whole of her life in Fulton county. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley E. Grover are the parents of two children: Martha, who married P. 8. Nofsiger, who now rents the Maple Lawn Farm of her parents; and Mildred, who married Clarence Lutton, of York Township.

Joun M. CHAMBERLIN, a well-to-do farmer of York Township, and a leading resident of that section of Fulton county, has during his busy life farmed extensive acreages in Arkansas and Ohio. He has shown marked enterprise in his farming, and notwithstanding his business ties has maintained a close and active interest in public | affairs, taking part in the civic, religious and judicial responsibilities of the local administration. He has been a deacon of his church; served many years as justice of the peace; and is the township trustee. His interest in Fulton countv has no doubt to some extent been actuated by the association of his grandparents with the early settlement of the county, and of the adjoining Henry county, but of course his interest arises directly from the fact that he is a native of York Township, Fulton county. He was born in that township on August 24, 1867, the son of Thomas L. M. and Mary Ann (Raker) Chamberlain. His father was born in New York State, but his mother was born in Swan Creek Township, Fulton county. The Chamberlain family is originally of English extraction, Micah Chamberlain, grandfather of John M., having been born in England. He appears to have come to the United States when a young man, and to have married Elizabeth Howard in Vermont, where she was born. He and his wife came to Ohio between 1835 and

1840, and entered government land, a wild timber tract in Henry county, Ohio, where they settled, and there in time made for themselves a comfortable home. Their son Thomas L. M. was born in New York State, but spent almost all his early years in Henry county, Ohio, under the rigorous conditions that were the lot of the average pioneering families. He married Mary Ann Raker, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Bixler) Raker, who were both born in

Pennsylvania, and in about 1830 came into Fulton county and settled on Bad Creek, Swan Creek Township, where in course of time he became one of the largest landowners of the section, owning at one time 480 acres. Thomas L. M. and his wife, Mary Ann (Raker) a homestead of eighty acres near Abilene of that county. Six years later he purchased a further eighty adjoining acres, but later sold the whole property and returned to Fulton county, Ohio, where they remained for five years, then going to Craighead county, Arkansas, where Thomas L. M. Chamberlin bought 100 acres of partly improved land, which six years later he sold to his two sons Cary M.' and John M. Chamberlin. He returned to Fulton county, and has since that time resided in the county, latterly with his son John M.

John M. as a boy attended district school, but schooling ended when he was fifteen years old, and when he was in the year of his majority he married. From that time he has lived a responsible life of consequential farming. When his father returned from Arkansas he and his elder brother, Cary, now deceased, formed a partnership to purchase their father's Arkansas property, which they operated jointly for five years. They divided the property and after the division the share of John M. consisted of 440 acres of which, however, only about 100 acres had been cleared of timber. He cleared about thirty additional acres, and entered extensively into general farming, becoming a large raiser of hogs, cattle and horses. He also successfully grew corn and cotton. During his occupation of the Arkansas property he returned several times to Fulton county, making stays of various duration, between six and eighteen months. Eventually, in 1906, he sold the 440 acres he owned in Arkansas and bought another property of 179 acres, only twenty-five acres of which had been cleared. This acreage he rented out, and bought forty acres of the original Chamberlin homestead in Swan Creek Township, Fulton county. He has given his time to his Fulton county properties since, and altogether owns in the county within half an acre of 100 acres, in two tracts, one of sixty acres in extent. He follows general farming, stockraising and dairying, and has reached a satisfactory material competence as the result of his life of industriousness.

Politically he is a republican, and has to some extent entered into public life, although he has not concerned himself actively in national politics. He is of enviable repute in his own community, has served for six years as justice of the peace, has been township trustee since 1915, and in other ways has taken good part in the affairs of the community. Religiously he is a Baptist, and has been deacon of the local church of that denomination.

_ In November, 1888, he married Phoebe Ketring, who was born in Henry county, Ohio, daughter of Philip and Alida (North) Ketring, the former born in Henry county, Ohio, and her mother in Lucas county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Chamberlin have had eleven children born to them, all of whom, however, are not now living. The children, in the order of their coming, were: Mary, who married Joseph Cogan, of Swanton, Ohio; John, now deceased; Grace, who married Frank Elton, of Swanton; Ohio; Thomas, de ceased; Andrew, who married Mildred Dailey, of Delta, Ohio; Arthur N., who married Ethel Ywberg, of Lucas county, Ohio; George; Gertrude, deceased; Eva, deceased; Pansy; and Martha.

Rogert H. Barnes, of Royalton, is a graduate from the Tri- State College at Angola, Indiana, in 1911, having spent four years there. For six years he taught school, being a teacher both before and after his course in college. In politics he is a republican, and his crac affiliation is with the Christian Church, in which he is an elder.

Mr. Barnes was born December 31, 1882, in Coshocton county, Ohio. He is ason of Isaac and Louise (Chase) Barnes. His parents now reside in Holmes county. In April, 1915, Mr. Barnes located in Fulton county. In May, 1912, he had married Miss Babel Holt, of Lyons, a daughter of Charles C. Holt. The children are: Gladys, Chester and Genevieve. He owns 100 acres of improved land, except about fifteen acres in timber and _ pasture. Mr. Barnes has all modern improvements and he has a herd of registered Holstein dairy cattle.

Frank RicHarp HARPER, a native of Wauseon, and one of the most aggressive and enterprising of its younger men of business, is the owner of a substantial business in automobile repairs and supplies, and has shown much ingenuity and all-around ability during . his last fifteen years or so of business effort. He is well-regarded generally in the city, is a member of the Wauseon Water Board, and assistant engineer of that plant, and has taken an active interest in many affairs of public character and of community bearing.

He was born in Wauseon in 1875, the son of W. J. and Martha (Linfoot) Harper. The family is of English origin, and later. of Canadian connection. His father, W. J. Harper, was born in Canada, but for the greater part of his life was in independent business in Wauseon as a plumber and steamfitter. He married in Wauseon, and there his only child, Frank Richard, was born and reared.

Trank R. Harper attended the public schools of Wauseon, after passing through which he proceeded to Fayette College, from which he graduated in due course. Entering upon a business career, he associated with his father and learned the plumbing and heating trade. For two years he was foreman of plumbers and steamfitters for his father, after which, having resolved to enter separately into business, he opened for himself on Fulton street, Wauseon, building his own shop. As a plumbing and steamfitting contractor he continued in business in Wauseon for five years, with good success. But he was of enterprising and optimistic spirit, and saw better opportunities of success in the rapidly developing automobile industry. He had much mechanical ability, and soon was in good business in auto repairs and sales. He converted his old shop into a garage and repair shop in 1906, and it served his purpose until 1909, when the success that had come to him, and the indications of the future, influenced him in building the place he has since occupied, a build- ing 50 by 150 feet. He drew the plans and superintended the building, doing much of it himself. is present business embraces the sale and repair of automobiles, the sale of accessories, including Firestone tires, oil, gasoline, et cetera. He has an up-to-date soline and oil service station, his trade pgs sufficient to warrant him to buy oil in tank-car lots. Altogether he has had a very satisfactory return upon his investment. ;

He has for some years shown an active interest in public affairs. Politically he is a republican in national politics. In local affairs he is independent, giving his support to the men he considers most capable. He is a member of the Wauseon Water Board, and also assistant engineer for that undertaking. Fraternally he is a Mason, a member of Wauseon Blue Lodge, and of the local Council and Chapter of that order. He also is affiliated with the Maccabees organization.

In March, 1899, he married Ada, daughter of W.'T. S. and Ella (Dixon) Wilcox, of Wauseon. They have three children: Lowell, Clarence and Martella.

Cuartes NarHan Turpenine. After several different business adventures Charles Nathan Turpening, of "Felus Creek Farm' in Swan Creek has returned to his first love and he is a farmer again. Mr. Turpening is the first born child in the family of Elmer and Mary Delilah (Warren) Turpening, and he was born February 7, 1885, in Swan Creek. Fis brothers and sisters are: Lois, wife of 'Henry Menser, of Swan Creek; Beulah, wife of Watson Lewis, of Swan Creek; Florence, wife of O. D. McKinley, of Cleveland; Jay, of Swan Creek; Maud, wife of Ford Enterman, of Toledo; Ruth and Cecil. The parents have lived on a farm in Swan Creek since their marriage, and the grandparents on both sides were all pioneer residents of Fulton county.

On September 15, 1914, Charles Nathan Turpening married Opal Elton. She is a daughter of William and Minerva (Robbins) Elton. While she was born in Swan Creek, her father is from England. Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Turpening settled on a farm he already owned in Swan Creek, but one year later they removed to the Elton farm owned by William Elton. Mr. Turpening was a tenant here one year, when he removed to Delta and conducted a meat market, later engaging in the teaming business employed by the Turnbull-Wayne Company.

At this time the call to the farm was uppermost again, and for two years Mr. Turpening rented and then he bought the seventyseven-acre tract in Swan Creek known as "'Felus Creek Farm,'' which is his home today. The residence property in Delta was part of the consideration in this deal, and Mr. Turpening has remodeled the house and added the necessary farm buildings there. The land is all under cultivation but about five acres reserved for pasture. "Felus Creek Farm" is a well improved place, and general farming, with some attention given to thoroughbred livestock, is the order of the day there. Mr. Turpening has Holstein dairy cows and he has White Leghorn poultry.

_ Mr. Turpening holds membership in the Church of God. He is a republican and member of the County Republican Central Committee. He is trustee of Swan Creek. There are two children: Etta Vadys and Fern Louise.

Barney Oxprietp. Despite the weird limitations of fame, so that no single celebrity in history is known to all the people all the time, it is safe to say that the name Barney Oldfield is and has been for years inevitably linked with the word automobile, constituting a degree of fame upon which even the vaulting ambition of a Caesar could hardly aspire.

As a driver and pilot in speed racing Barney Oldfield has been before the public for over twenty years. His life covers something more than forty years, and it is appropriate to note some of the early milestones in his career.

He was born on a farm three miles from Wauseon, Ohio, January 29, 1878, and just eleven years later the family moved to Toledo, where during 1890-91 he sold newspapers on the streets. During 1892 he worked as waterboy with a railroad section gang, and from his savings of sixty-five dollars bought his first "Advance" bicycle. During the next year he was employed as bell boy in the Boody House, and was diligently practicing on his "wheel" and on Decoration Day of 1894 won second place in an eighteen-mile road race. During 1895 he was appearing in a number of events as a bicycle racer, otherwise doing duty as an elevator boy. In that year he won two medals and a gold watch in Ohio state championships at Canton, and soon afterward began selling bicycles. By 1896 he was recognized as the bicycle race champion of Ohio, and then turned professional, and covered Ohio and Michigan as traveling sales representative of bicycle manufacturers. The two years following he campaigned as a racing man in season, and during the winter was employed as salesman and factory worker.

It was in 1899 that Barney Oldfield had his first experience with a machine driven by motor power. This was a gasoline motorcycle, and as a pilot he was soon ranked as an expert. During 1900, 1901 and 1902 he was a participant in nearly all the national events as a rider of bicycles and motorcycles.

Probably the most significant event in his entire career came in 1902, when he became associated with Tom Cooper, a former national bicycle champion with Henry Ford, an obscure engineer, Oldfield being the mechanic and later driver of two racing automobiles built from Ford's designs and financed by Cooper's money. Oldfield was a driver in a historic race, over a five-mile course, with the Ford "999." The place and date was September 21, 1902, on the Grosse Pointe track at Detroit, and the time 5:20 set a world record. The next year, 1903, Barney Oldfield drove the "999" at Indianapolis in 0:59 3-5, the first time the minute mark was ever broken on a onemile circular course.

Since then on virtually every race course in the country Barney Oldfield has broken records and thrilled throngs, and with seventeen vears of race driving to his credit he well deserves the title of "Master Driver," being the dean of all racers. As one critic has written: "He has seen three generations of drivers come out. race, and either retire or come to grief by the accident of the terribly dangerous sport. Barney Oldfield was more than a daredevil. He was a thinker - a student."

He has cut record after record, including the world's non-stop race record of 301 miles at Corona, California, with an average of 8614 miles an hour. In 1917 he set a record, still unbroken, on a mile tract at St. Louis, and with a series of distances ranging from one to fifty miles.

been a successful business man, and was financially independent long before he retired from racing. In 1919 he became president of the Oldfield Tire Company at Cleveland. The history of automobile racing proves that the great majority of accidents have been due not to faulty mechanism but to tire troubles, and for years Barney Oldfield has been a student of the tire problem, and in order to get his exacting specifications and experience translated into concrete results, he is now head of a tire company making a tire according to his personal standards, under his personal supervision, and bearing his name as a personal guarantee.

"The unusual progress of the Oldfield Tire Company has been one of the miracles of the tire industry. The company has been in actual operation a little more than a year, and in this short time has passed more than eighty-five per cent of its competitors in volume of business. To cap the climax, on May 21, 1920, Oldfield tires equipped the cars finishing 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8 in the Indianapolis 500- mile speedway race. The winner of the race finished without a single tire change, the first time in history that any tire has been able to accomplish this wonderful feat. Mr. Oldfield considers this victory of his tire as even more significant than any of the recordbreaking performances in which he participated as a driver."

While he spends a great deal of time in Cleveland, he has made his residence in Los Angeles for ten years. He is a member of the Elks, and politically a republican. He married in Chicago, Ilinois, in November, 1904, Bessy Gooby, a native of Alameda, California. They have no children.

Orro E. FuNKHovusER, partner and manager of the Wauseon firm of Harrison and Funkhouser Brothers, clothiers, haberdashers and shoe dealers, the fine store of which company is probably the largest of its kind in Wauseon, has, because of the death of his partners, become. solely responsible for the continuance of the business. That he has shown himself to be a good business man is evident by the place the firm has among the more responsible of the retail merchants of Wauseon. He is quite a young man, with the best part of his business career still before him, and as he is conducting an extensive business with marked ability, it is reasonable to assume that he will for many years hold a high place among the business people of Wauseon and Fulton county.

He was born in German Township, Fulton county, Ohio, in 1888, the son of J. U. and Anna (Weber) Funkhouser. The family is of Swiss origin, his father having come to America from Berne Canton, Switzerland, when only thirteen years old. He must have been a boy of strong purpose and courageous spirit, for he came alone, and he applied himself resolutely to farm work in German Township, Fulton county, finally saving sufficient money to acquire a property for himself in that township. Tis farm was 115 acres in extent, and it yielded him and his family a comfortable living. He was well-known to many Wauseon and Fulton county families, and has a worthy reputation in his own township. He died on January 29, 1919, mourned by a large family and a host of friends. His wife, Anna (Weber) Funkhouser, is still living. She and her husband were the parents of fourteen children, ten sons and four daughters, and eleven of the children are living.

Otto E. was the thirteenth born of their fourteen children. He was reared under wholesome conditions and rugged environment. While still a young boy his summers were spent in farming occupa- tions, and in the winters he attended the country school. Having in his twentieth year resolved to give up farming and enter commercial life, where he thought better opportunities for advancement lay, young Funkhouser obtained a position in a dry goods store in Archbold. He was only a short while in that store, but as a clerk in Vanderbrock's clothing store in Napoleon, Ohio, he remained for four years, coming to Wauseon in 1912. He had been of steady habits, and had saved some money by his service of the previous four years, and was able in 1912 to purchase a one-third interest in the clothing and gent's furnishings business of E. H. Harrison of Wauseon. His brother, Fred Funkhouser, also acquired a like interest in the business, the firm under the reorganization taking the trading name of Harrison and Funkhouser Brothers, by 'which it has since been known. The three partners worked in the store for'a while, but in December, 1912, Mr. Harrison died, and the business was thereafter conducted by the two brothers Funkhouser, the Harrison family, however, holding their interest. So the business went on until January, 1918, when Fred Funkhouser also died, leaving Otto E. in control of and responsible for the business. But matters were much complicated by the fact that Otto was at that time in military service, having been drafted in the United States Army in the previous September, the first year of the war. His military record is briefly stated as follows: Drafted September 6, 1917; was sent to Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he remained for almost a year; thence to Camp Humphrey's, near Washington, District of Columbia, where he served until discharged on February 6, 1919. Returning to Wauseon soon after being honorably discharged from the army, he immediately took up the direction of the store business, and has since conducted it with marked success. Today the store draws a good portion of the city trade, and has an extensive country trade.

JoHn W. SHETLER. One of the men who has won the respect and approval of his fellow citizens for his uprightness and Christian courage under affliction is John W. Shetler, one of the farmers of German Township, well known throughout Fulton county as a local preacher of the Brethren Church. He was born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1848. His father, a native of Germany, came from that country when he was seventeen years old to the United States, and after some time spent at Chicago, Illinois, he located in Richland county, Ohio, where he worked at blacksmithing. Still later he moved to Franklin Township, Fulton county, where he spent the remainder of his useful life. He and his wife had nine children.

John W. Shetler attended the McLaughlin School during the winter months until he was twenty-two years of age. During the summer months he helped his father cultivate his farm of 100 acres. From the time he was twenty-two until he was twenty-five he hired out to farmers, and then, deciding to found a home of his own, he was married to Sarah Jane Bigbee, of German Township, the ceremony taking place in 1869. They became the parents of four children, three of whom survive, namely: Elva, who married Arthur Gunsalus, of Franklin Township, Fulton county, has two children; Frank, who married Emma Geesey, has three children, and lives in Fulton county; and Ora, who married Ernest Stine. The child who died. at the age of seventeen vears, was Ida May.

Mr. Shetler has been a great sufferer and lost his right arm as a result of an operation, at he has endured his affliction with a patience and fortitude which have proven that he has been supported by his religion, and this is a convincing argument in favor of Christianity, that he oftentimes uses in -his sermons with telling force. For many years he has been a member of the Brethren hurch, which he is now serving as trustee, and his work in its behalf as a local preacher cannot be over-estimated. In simple words and real eloquence he addresses his congregations, and his sincerity and deep conviction of the truth of his message bring many to a realization of their duty to their Maker and themselves, when, perhaps, a college-bred man who did not know them or their needs would receive scant attention.

WiritAM A. Lernrncer, who is one of the representative and well-to-do agriculturists of Fulton county, is the owner of one of the largest farming properties in the vicinity of German Township. Furthermore, the Leininger family is placed among the pioneer families of that township. Mr. Leininger is a native of the township, has lived practically sixty years therein and is of the third generation of the family to have had residence within the borders of Fulton county. The family record through three generations of residence in German Township is an estimable one, and the personal record of William A. Leininger is all that could be desired of a scion of one of the pioneer families of the county. He' has followed manly occupations and useful production since early manhood, has shown much skill and forethought as a farmer, and his farming has been extensive and consequential. Throughout his life he has maintained a helpful public spirit, has undertaken the duties of several of the local offices, and has been a consistent and earnest church worker. He owns 325 acres of good agricultural land, the result of commendable enterprise and of persistent well-directed industry.

William A. Leininger was born in German Township, Fulton county, Ohio, on April 5, 1861, the son of Frederick and Eva (Lenhardt) Leininger. Frederick Leininger, father of William A., was born in the canton of Monchhofen unter Elsass, although he was only six years old when he came with his parents to America. His father soon after landing came into Fulton county and bought government land in German Township. It was wild timber land. Grandfather Leininger, the pioneer and progenitor of the Leininger family in America, gave most of his life to the hard, rigorous pioneering work necessary to bring that timber land into good cultivation. And as his son Fredrick grew, so his work became more effective, for the son ably aided his father in the bringing of the land into good tillage. Frederick Leininger married Eva Lenhardt, from Munnichberg, Bairen.

Their son William A. in his boyhood was afforded the customary education then possible in the sparsely settled parts of the county. The instruction was necessarily limited, and as he passed through life he supplemented his early instruction in academies considerably. However, a comprehensive education was not in those days considered of such vital importance as it is deemed nowadays, and William entered upon the serious occupations of life moderately satisfied with what schooling he had been able to obtain and confident that he could succeed in life. From the time he ieft school until he was twenty-two years old he assisted his father in the work of the home farm, and then, having married and wishing to become established in a home of his own, he rented the farm of 120 acres, the property he now owns in German Township. 'Three years later he removed to Ridgeville Township, Henry county, where he bought a farm of forty acres, which he still owns. After three years of somewhat successful farming at Ridgeville Township he returned to Fulton county, taking up the farm he had formerly. Then followed another move into Henry county, and another return to German Township, in each case to the same farm that he had formerly occupied. Then he bought the Leininger family homestead and also the farm he had been renting, thus becoming the owner of quite an extensive farm holding in these days of highly paid labor. He has been ably assisted by his sons, four of whom have now passed their twenty-first vear. Still Mr. Leininger has always been known to be a hard worker, and his success in life has been mainly due to his indefatigable application to whatever task has come to him for execution. Latterly he has taken life less strenuously, his sons taking over the burden of the farm management.

Mr. Leininger is an independent democrat in politics, and he has followed local affairs quite closely. He was township trustee in Henry county for more than seven years, until he resigned the office and for eight years he has held like capacity in German Township in Fulton county. Religiously he is a Lutheran, member of the local German Lutheran Church and a good supporter thereof.

In 1883 William A. Leininger married Katherine Broadbeck, daughter of John and Barbry Broadbeck, who owned a farm adjoining that of his father in German Township. They have had six children, all of whom they have reared to manhood and womanhood. Five of their children are sons, the six children in order of birth being: Emile J. F., who is now thirty-four years old; Edward A., now thirty-two years old; Joseph G., thirty years of age; Gustave Franklin, twenty-two years of age, who is now a veteran of the World war, having remained in active service for eight months. He was not destined to see service overseas, but rendered loyal service under the less attractive home conditions. From Wauseon he was. sent to Camp Sherman, where for eight months he remained as a member of the Thirtieth Company, Eighth Training Battalion, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade, subsequently being transferred, in the grade of corporal, to the Motor Transport Corps, which branch of the service was kept constantly at work after the demobilization of the greater part of the troops in home camps. However, on May 5, 1919, Corp. Gustave Franklin Leininger received honorable discharge from service. William A., Jr., is the youngest son of Mr. Leininger. The daughter, Clara, twenty, married Clarence Rice, of Ridgeville Township, Henry county, Ohio.

Jacos C. Lev. Although now living retired at Elmira, Jacob C. Leu has been very prominently identified with agricultural activities in Fulton county, and still retains valuable farm lands in this region. He was born on a farm three miles east of Elmira on April 99, 1867, a son of Bernhardt and Anna (Wanner) Leu.

While still a voung man Bernhardt Leu left Switzerland, where he was born and reared, and came to the United States, arriving here in 1854 and locating in German Township, Fulton county, Qhio, found employment working at his trade of a carpenter. Marrving in 1865, he decided to found a permanent home and bought eighty acres of land in German Township, on which he spent the remainder of his life, which was terminated by death in 1900. He returned to Switzerland twice for the purpose of visiting his parents, but both times came back to his American interests. His widow survived him until 1910, when she too passed away. They had two children, namely: Jacob C. and George A., the latter of whom lives at Archbold, Ohio. ,

Until he was sixteen years old Jacob C. Leu attended King School, District No. 1, although only a few months each year during the winter season, for he had to work on the farm the rest of the time. Farming was different in those days from what it 1s now, when machinery does so much of the work that then had to be carried on by hand, and the farmer boys could not be spared during the months when the crops had to be planted, cultivated and harvested, and so the majority of them received but scant educational training, but they made the most of their opportunities.

' Mr. Leu was united in marriage with Katy Baumgardner, a daughter of Samuel and Barbara Baumgardner, and she died in 1898, leaving two daughters and one son. After her death in 1900, Mr. Leu was married to Rebecca Leininger, a daughter of John J. and Katie (Krauss) Leininger, of Archbold, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Leu have three children, namely: Ruth Leuetta and Lillian Irene, who are living, and Cora Edith, who died in May, 1905, when twenty months old.

After his first marriage Mr. Leu conducted the home farm for two years, and then spent five years on the Baumgardner farm. In 1898 Mr. Leu returned to his family homestead and farmed it for two years. when he went back to the Baumgardner farm and conducted it for eleven vears. He then retired from farm life, but still owns 125 acres of valuable land. Moving to Elmira, he conducted a grocery in that village for a year, when he decided to give up all business interests and enjoy the fruits of his labors. His handsome meg at Elmira is owned by him and is one of the best in the place.

Strong in his support of the democratic party, he was elected on its ticket a trustee of German Township and was re-elected twice, serving in all for nine years. He was also on the School Board of that same township for four years, and for the same length of time was chairman of the Farmers' Institute of German Township. During the late war he was a member of the War Chest Committee of German Township; of the Fourth and Victory Loan Committees and also the War Savings Committee, and rendered his government valuable service through his patriotic endeavors. Mr. Leu, in addition to his farm, owns stock in the Mutual Telephone Company, and has served on some of its committees. A man of unusual ability, he has directed his efforts toward securing for his community the benefits of new ideas in civie reform and government, and is proud

James O'Nrat. While James O'Neal, of Metamora, seems to be one generation ahead of William O'Neal. whose early family story dates back to the same beginning, the William O'Neal story happened to be copied first, and thus it is a "Twice Told Tale" in the end. The name O'Neal at once suggests Ireland, and while James O'Neal was born in Toledo in 1856, he is ason of Thomas and. Mary (Brady)

_ In the way of resume, Thomas O'Neal, the immigrant, was married in Buffalo to a young woman from the Emerald Isle, the same as himself, and in 1851 he came as a laborer to Delta. Fulton county was organized in 1850, and thus the O'Neals were pioneers in the community. This young settler helped to build the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroads, finally investing in a farm in Amboy. Here they ended their days. Thomas O'Neal, who relates the story, was their oldest son. His brothers are: John, deceased; Michael and William of Amboy; and Martin, of Royalton.

It was on St. Valentine's Day, 1882, that Lucy M. Houghton became the bride of James O'Neal. She was born in Amboy, a daughter of Daniel and Minerva (Gale) Houghton. The parents were from New York State. Mr. O'Neal began farm activities on a quarter section of land in Amboy. It was all in timber and he cleared and improved it. He erected a modern brick farm house with other buildings in keeping with it. He added to the farm from time to time until he had 240 acres under cultivation. Later he sold an eighty from it.

Mr. O'Neal continued in active farm management until 1917, when his mantle descended to the shoulders of a son, and he now lives in retirement in Metamora. After leaving common school as a young man Mr. O'Neal attended Wauseon High School one year, and he has given two terms to the service of Amboy Township as a school trustee. Since 1899 he has filled the office of justice of the peace, elected by the democratic party.

Mr. O'Neal was a teacher in public school from the time he was twenty until he was forty - twenty years of continuous service, "Teaching the young idea how to shoot." The children born to Mr. and Mrs. O'Neal are: Minerva, wife of Eugene Miller, Jasper, Michigan; William, who operates the farm; and Nina Belle, wife of Samuel Ottgen. The family belongs to the Catholic Church in Carrigan, Ohio.

His comfortable surroundings at Metamora today are an appropriate environment for a man whose life has been one of so much activity as Mr. O'Neal. Clearing up the timber, cultivating the fields, extending his possessions and his work as a farmer, and in the intervals of this busy employment teaching school, Mr. O'Neal has indeed discharged well his debt to the world and has earned the honors that accompany him into old age.

Crayton Henry HurrMay, a saddler by trade, and possessing a good business in harness in the City of Wauseon, Ohio, is also conducting an up-to-date and profitable business in auto supplies, accessories and tires, having acquired the business formerly conducted at the J. R. Blizzard Harness Shop, 224 South Fulton Street, Wauseon.