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Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago & New York
1920
Transcribed by
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FRANK H. REIGHARD,
editor of the Wauseon "Republican," and of this historical
work, was born near Delta, in Swan Creek Township, Oct. 8,
1867.
In his youth, he attended the country schools of Swan
Creek Township, and when sixteen years old entered the
Fayette Normal University, at Fayette, Gorham Township.
He was only seventeen years old when he entered professional
life, in 1885, becoming a teacher in one of the district
schools of Swan Creek. The next ten years were busy
ones for him, but, withal, happily passed.
Notwithstanding that that decade of his life was probably
the most strenuous, in mental strain, and contained little
of what are generally looked upon as the pleasures of life,
Mr. Reighard looks back upon that period as among his
happiest. The years were filled with accomplishment;
were passed in the development of a definite purpose,
pursued to consummation. When at seventeen, he began
to teach, he had resolved to properly fit himself for his
profession by taking a college course, and had resolved to
do so upon his own resources. He could count upon only
one financial resource - his slender earnings as a school
teacher; but the fact that he graduated seven years later,
from the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio, and, later,
spent two years at the University of Wooster, Ohio, gives
some indication of his strength of purpose. His plan,
indeed his necessity, during these years was to keep
"digging in" at teaching (and incidentally when at home, to
give his father what help he could in the working of the
home farm), and with the proceeds of his term of teaching
cover the cost of a period at college. When funds were
exhausted, he would return home; would resume teaching again
for a while; and then, with replenished exchequer, would
again take up the college course. So, the years
passed, something being accomplished each year. Mr.
Reighard feels that to his good right-thinking and
simple-living mother he owes his ability to pursue the right
purpose through, despite discouragements and temptations, to
the end he and she had planned. Her love and care, in
moulding his thoughts through the period when a boy is most
susceptible to good or evil, developed in him the strength
he needed to successfully adhere to the, at times uninviting
purpose during greatest blessing a spirited boy could have.
In 1894, Mr. Reighard married Florence M.
Tischer, of Wauseon. Two children have been born
to them: Helen, in1898, she, however, dying in
infancy; and Frank, Jr., who was born in1907.
Mrs. Reighard was born in Medina county, Ohio,
in 1867. She came to Wauseon in 1876, with her
parents, William and Helen (Holb) Tischer, who were
quiet, careful, hard-working people, of German antecedents,
and at their decease, Mrs. Reighard inherited some
property they had acquired in Wauseon during their residence
in it. Mrs. Reighard received the greater part
of her education in Wauseon schools, eventually graduating
from the High School. She takes good part in many of
the public activities of Wauseon, and belongs to several
women's organizations, including the Eastern Star, of the
Masonic Order, and the Women's and Shakespeare Clubs, of
Wauseon. She is also secretary of the Women's
Republican Association of Wauseon.
In 1895 Mr. Reighard was prevailed upon to stand
for election to county office. He became county
surveyor in that year, and was re-elected, serving until
August, 1902. On Jan. 1, 1903, he entered the
newspaper field, becoming editor and publisher of the Fulton
County "Tribune." His service to the people of the
county, in this capacity, brought him election to the State
Legislature, in 1912. He was State Representative for
Fulton county for three successive terms, which by the way
is noteworthy, for no other Fulton county man ahs had three
successive terms, as representative. His legislative
record, also, has creditable place in state annals.
Especially as chairman of the House Finance Committee, were
his services of value to the state. In addition, while
a legislator, he was a member of the State Emergency and
Controlling Boards, in 1915 and 1917; and in the later year
was selected as Republican Floor Leader of the House of
Representatives, a clear indication of his standing and
popularity among his fellow legislators.
In 1917 he purchased the Wauseon "Republican," to the
building up of which he has since applied himself, with
marked success. As a circulation builder he seems
particularly gifted, that result coming mainly form his
instinctive, almost sub-conscious, realization that the
newspaper belongs to the people, and that it is his duty to
convey to the people all the news that assiduous attention
to its gathering and preparation will enable him to provide.
His writings have also carried the impression that he is
sincerely one of the people, and that he has, in particular,
a lasting respect for all those of the early residents who
have had part in the pioneer work within Fulton county.
During the World War, the pages of his newspaper were
ever at the disposal of all workers in the great national
effort; he endeavored to do justly by the boys who went
away, and, in their absence, to further all helpful war
purposes; he gave much of his time to executive work in
connection with the various war activities; was secretary of
the Y. M. C. A. Campaign Fund, in 1918; was member of the
county executive of the Liberty Loan Committee; and member
of the executive committees of the County War Chest and Red
Cross bodies.
He is affiliated with several fraternal orders,
including the Masonic, York and Scottish rites, the Knights
of Pythias, and Odd-fellows. Mr. Reighard has a
host of friends, which possession testifies to his general
character. Friendship is short-lived if it is not
reciprocal; a selfish man, even though brilliant, will be
able to count few his genuine friends.
The writer has not known Mr. Reighard long, but
believes he has rightly read his character. In any
case, Mr. Reighard's public record is, in itself,
ample to indicate that he has served his home county well.
No laudatory remarks are necessary. As before stated,
his happiest recollection is of his ten years as teacher; he
is gratified to realize how successful in life many Fulton
county men, who once were his pupils, have been. And
he hopes, as the years pass, to be able to look back upon
this present county labor of his - the editing of this
historical work - as not the least worthy of his efforts for
the people of the county. He has given close attention
and care to the editing, and knows that he is placing into
permanent county record, in a medium readily accessible to
the people, much valuable and hitherto unrecorded data of
historical import to the present generation, and to the
posterity of Fulton county.
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Source: Standard
History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 555 |
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GEORGE REIGHARD, father
of Mr. Frank Reighard, supervising editor of the
Fulton County History, is a native son of Fulton county,
born here nearly seventy-five years ago, and is still doing
a day's work in season on his farm in Swan Creek Township.
He was born November 24, 1846, in York Township, son of
Jacob and Rebecca (Crile) Reighard. His parents
were Pennsylvanians and pioneer settlers of Fulton county.
George Reighard attended the district schools
and made good use of such advantages of learning as were
available to a boy in Fulton county sixty years ago.
He married when he was about twenty years of age and
thereafter lived for some years with his parents. The
first land he owned was forty acres, fifteen acres cleared
and improved. Eventually he bought other land until
his old homestead, known as the Maple Drive Farm, contains
ninety-six acres, all under cultivation. Mr. George
Reighard lived there until the spring of 1909, when he
turned the farm over to this daughter, Mrs. Roscoe Dunbar
and then moved to an adjoining place of twenty-five acres
where he and his wife enjoy the comforts of a good home and
the friendship and neighbors of their old community.
Apr. 9, 1866, Mr. Reighard married Elizabeth
Elton, who was born in England, Sept. 1, 1848. Her
parents, Thomas and Jane (Young) Elton, came to this
country in 1857, and for seven years lived on a farm in
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and then moved to Swan Creek Township
in Fulton county. Her father first bought forty acres
and later another forty acres, and died on the home farm in
1889. Mr. Reighard's mother died in 1862.
The oldest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. George
Reighard is Frank Reighard, of Wauseon.
Adelbert, who died in the fall of 1909, left a wife and
one daughter, Grace, of Delta. Sophia is
Mrs. Delmore Gill of Swan Creek Township, married
Sophia de LeMar, and their family consists of Alfred
and Orlyss. Bert, a resident of Swan Creek,
married Maud Gill, and has three children,
Clairmond, Mary and Marguerite. Florence is
the wife of Roscoe Dunbar, now living on the old
Reighard homestead, and their children are Adelbert,
Dale, Glenn and Amy.
George Reighard is a member of the Church of Come
and Church of Abrahamic Faith. He is now health
officer in his township and in former years held positions
of trustee and school director. He is a republican
voter. He has lived his whole life within a mile and a
half of his birthplace.
Source: Standard History
of Fulton County, Ohio - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York -
1920 - Page 555 |
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CARLOS ALEXANDER
ROBERTS
was born Mar. 28, 1861, in Wood county, Ohio.
He is a son of Cutler Fellows and Jeannette (Voss)
Roberts, who upon their marriage settled near Wallbridge
where the son grew up and was educated in the common
schools. Here he worked at farming many years.
Mr. C. F. Roberts first bought land in Wood
county, then he bought farm land in Lucas county that is now
within the city limits of Toledo. After disposing of
this property he owned another farm in Lucas county.
Whenever another man offered him his price the land was for
sale, and his next land investment was in Henry county where
he lived five years, sold the land and in 1878 he invested
in timber land in Swan Creek Township. Twenty years
later he sold it and removed to McClure, Ohio. He died
there Feb. 12, 1907, and his wife died two years later in
Wauseon.
Although he had his home with his parents, C. A.
Roberts worked out as a farm hand until he was thirty
four years old, when he was married to Fannie Carter,
of Amboy Township, Fulton county. She is a daughter of
Solomon Carter She had been married before to
Samuel Baldwin, and she has one son, Frank Baldwin,
of Swan Creek Township. Soon after his marriage Mr.
Roberts bought 120 acres of land, with about sixty acres
cleared, and he now has ninety acres under cultivation.
He is engaged in general farming and the livestock business,
giving special attention to thoroughbred Holstein dairy
cattle.
Mr. Roberts has modern farm improvements, having
built and rebuilt all the buildings himself. He is a
member of the Christian Union Church and in politics he is a
republican. The children born to Mr. and Mrs.
Roberts are: Esther Carter, wife of Jacob
Evans; and Nolan F. Roberts.
The business in which Mr. Roberts has been
engaged for many years is a truly constructive service.
He has developed farms, bringing them to a state of
profitable production, has built homes, and while he has
done this as a regular business, the agregate results have
brought substantial benefits to the several communities in
which he has lived. His business and his good
citizenship are facts that are thoroughly appreciated in his
home community of Swan Creek.
‡ Source: Standard
History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 331 |
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E. H. Rorick
Mary P. Acker Rorick |
DR.
ESTELL H. RORICK. It was Sept. 1, 1842, that
Dr. Estell H. Rorick of Fayette began his earthly career
in Seneca, Michigan. He is a son of William and
Phebe (Bress) Rorick, the father from New Jersey and the
mother from York state. The young man was reared on a
farm in Lenawee county, and in 1867 he entered the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as a student in the
medical department there.
The Rorick family history began in Michigan with
the coming of William Rorick in 1836, and he owned a
great deal of land in Lenawee county. He was in
position to give superior educational advantages to his
children, and when the Doctor was sixteen years old he
attended the Medina, Michigan, academy. He later attended
college at Kalamazoo, but lacking funds to continue at the
time he engaged in teaching for two years. At Medina
young Rorick formed the acquaintance of Doctor Weed,
and it was through his influence that the young man decided
to study medicine and surgery.
In 1864 the young man joined the staff of Doctor
Weed, who was then an army surgeon, and he assisted the
surgeon until the end of the Civil war. It was after
the close of the war that he entered the medical department
of the University of Michigan, and in 1869 he graduated with
honor from that institution. Doctor Rorick
began the practice of medicine at Spring Hill (Tedrow), but
three years later he sold the practice and located at
Fayette. He made a financial success of the practice
of medicine, and he contributed much to the success of the
Fayette College. A student of the college afterward
wrote: "Those school days in the Fayette Normal back
in the '80s are never to be forgotten," and Doctor Rorick
is mentioned with others who helped to establish a school
that would be worth while to those who attend it.
Doctor Rorick is identified with many of the
business interests of Fayette. Since 1896 he has
discontinued the practice of medicine, giving his entire
time to business enterprises. He is a stockholder and
director in the Farmers State Bank, and he owns considerable
real estate in the community.
On Aug. 20, 1868, Doctor Rorick married
Mary P. Acker.
She was a daughter of George and Minerva (Cottrell) Acker.
Like her mother, she is a native of Gorham, while her father
came from Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. The Ackers
and Cottrells were among the pioneers of Fulton
county. The grandparents were George and Lydia (Holbern)
Acker, and Rea and Harriet (Stevens) Cottrell.
The children born to Dr. and Mrs. Rorick
are: Clark Chappell, who died at the age of eight
years; Georgia Agnes, who died at the age of twenty;
and Mabel Acker, who is the wife of F. T.
Sullivan, of Fayette. While Doctor Rorick
has not been an active politician, when Governor Willis
was elected in Ohio he named him as a member of the state
board of administration with authority to manage
the state
institutions. For nine years he had been superintendent of
the Athens State Hospital, and it was here that he displayed
executive ability. It was at Athens that the Doctor has his
first personal knowledge of the institutional life in Ohio.
While serving as a member of the state board of
administration Dr. Rorick had opportunity of
observation, and at his behest wards of the state were
sometimes changed from one institution to another. Sometimes
a prisoner was transferred to a hospital, and a hospital
patient place in prison - the confinement best adapted to
the needs of the case. A newspaper clipping says: "Dr. E.
H. Rorick has been a friend to the young man, and many a
boy owes his success in life to some word of encouragement
or a start given him by Doctor Rorick."
While in his young manhood Doctor Rorick
stood ready to do anything necessary to help himself along,
and when he needed money he worked in a brickyard for it.
There were frequent jumping contests and his strong physique
enabled him to win, having one time covered 41 feet and 8
inches in two hops and a jump and he won thirty dollars in
cash that way. Many honors have been awarded Doctor
Rorick in connection with the institutional life of
Ohio, but a friend sums it all up by saying, "The Doctor
Rorick that will be longest remembered is that
smiling, cheerful, kind physician who gave lectures on
physiology and anatomy to the classes of the old Normal
School, who cured the boys and girls of their aches and
pains, and broke up some of the worst cases of homesickness.
Who inspired them to be something and do something in the
world. Who with friendly help and kind words piloted the
boys and girls who came under his influence through the dark
clouds of discouragement."
Doctor Rorick and his wife came in much
contact with the students of Fayette College and since "the
thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts," they will be
remembered for many years to come by those in whom they
manifested a friendly interest.
In
contrasting present day conditions with the time when he
began the practice of medicine, Doctor Rorick
says, "You have only to remember that within this time the
fever thermometer came into use. The temperature used to be
estimated by the rapidity of the pulse and the touch of the
skin. The appearance of the tongue in those days was a great
indicator of what was going on internally. A hypodermic
syringe was not in use for many years, and the antitoxin and
serum treatments had not been thought of in those days.
Bleeding for pneumonia and typhoid fever was still in vogue,
but this method of treatment was becoming obsolete, and the
fever patient was allowed water and milk to drink. Pneumonia
was supposed to originate from taking cold. Malaria was a
poison floating about causing fever and ague. The mosquito
had not yet been discovered as an agency for the
distribution of malaria and fever." The review of such a
life is indeed a revelation.
Someone writing of the man says: "The great secret of
Doctor Rorick's success lies in the fact that he
makes no distinction between individuals. He has the same
hearty hand-shake, the same warm smile, the same cheerful
word for all alike," and when one has spent more than half a
century in one community the people know all about him.
Quoting again: "There are none who know Doctor
Rorick as well as Fayette people. He has never sought
other residence and has not often left the town since he
first came among us."
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Source: Standard History of
Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company -
Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 1 |
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GEORGE K. RUSSELL.
Fully impressed with the importance of his calling of a
farmer, George K. Russell, owner of a fine farm of
158 acres in Franklin township, is contentedly operating it
and giving to the affairs of his community an intelligent
interest as a good citizen should. He was born in
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1861, a son of
William J. and Harriet (Anderson) Russell, who came to
Fulton county, Ohio, when George K. Russell was four
years of age, and bought a farm in Franklin township.
Growing up on the parental farm, George K. Russell
attended the country schools and the Normal School of
Fayette until he was twenty-one years old, although during a
number of these years he assisted his father during the
summer seasons, and remained on the farm until 1881.
Mr. Russell then moved to the William Duneburger's
farm and then to his present farm, where he is carrying on
general agriculture. His farm is one of the highly
cultivated on general agriculture. His farm is one of
the highly cultivated ones of the township, and he has made
many substantial improvements upon it, taking a pride in his
premises and doing all he can to keep everything up-to-date
in every particular.
In 1882, when he was twenty-one years old, Mr.
Russell was united in marriage with Angeline
Duneburger, a daughter of William Duneburger, and
they became the parents of three children, namely:
Hattie May, who is now Mrs. Charles Shipman lives
in German township; William Grover, who is
thirty-four years old; and Mahlon John, who is
thirty-two years old. Mr. Russell is a democrat
and was elected constable of Franklin township for one term,
township trustee for three yeas and was appointed township
assessor for two years by Governor Cox, and is now
township clerk. He is a stockholder of the
Northwestern Mutual Telephone Company, of which he is
now secretary, and he has held all of the offices in it
except that of treasurer, is a director of the Farmers State
Bank of Fayette, and of the Farmers Elevator Company of
Fayette, and is president of the Franklin Cemetery
Association, which office he has held for ten years.
His fraternal affiliations are with the Maccabees of
Fayette. A man of more than ordinary ability, he has
been able to give expression to his ideas in, several lines,
and has made good in everything he has undertaken, for he is
a man who, once he starts in to accomplish anything, does
not stop until he has completed it, and in a manner
satisfactory to him.
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Source: Standard History of
Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company -
Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 116 |
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