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JOSEPH TATE, Liberty,
Napoleon p. o., a general farmer of Liberty, was born in
Warren county, O., in 1820, and was a son of John and
Susan (Whitehill) Tate, who were born in Virginia, and
married in Ohio, where they died. They had nine sons
and one daughter: Thomas, Joseph, John,
William, James, Andrew K., David M., Robert
and Susan, and also one son who died at an early
age. Seven of their sons enlisted and served in the
War of the Rebellion, one was wounded, but recovered and all
are now living. Joseph was married in 1850 to
Martha White, who was born in 1825. They have
had a family of six children: Ada, James, Anna E., John,
Susan, and Joseph W. They settled in Henry
county in 1875.
Source:
History of Henry & Fulton Counties
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 705 |
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JOHN THIESON, Napoleon,
Napoleon p. o., present mayor of Napoleon, and engaged in
the manufacture of sash, doors, blinds, and mouldings, and
dealing in laths, builder's supplies, and lumber. A
member of the firm of Theison, Hildred & Co.,
was born in Prussia, Germany,
in 1834, and settled in Toledo, O., in 1853, and became
engaged in the lumber business. In 1859 went to
Dayton, O., and in 1864 came to Napoleon, where he commenced
his present successful business. He was elected mayor
of Napoleon in 1886. He has also held several
other township offices.
Source:
History of Henry & Fulton Counties
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 705 |
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WILLIAM THRAPP, Napolean,
of Napoleon, was born in Licking county, 0., in 1829, and
married in 1847 to Martha Painter, of Licking county.
They have had two children, Isaac I. and Alice,
who married Dr. T. M. Gehrett. Isaac L.
was married in 1872 to Mary Ellen Gibson, who died
December 12, 1881, leaving three children: Earl H., J.
Raymond, Carrie Alice. He then married his second
wife, Nellie Jackway, February 1, 1882. They
have had one child. William was a son of
Rev. John and Jane (Van Derburgh) Thrapp. He was
born in Virginia, and his wife in New Jersey. They settled
in Henry county in 1854. They were married December 1,
1814. Four of their children are now living. Rev. John was a
Methodist minister, and died in 1880 at the age of 86 years.
William Thrapp enlisted in Co. B, 100th
Ohio Regiment, in August, 1862, and served to the close of
the war, being discharged July 5, 1865. He went out under
Colonel Groom.
Source:
History of Henry & Fulton Counties
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 705 |
L. Trobridge |
LYMAN TROWBRIDGE.
In the town of Pike, Wyoming county, State of New York, on
the 3d day of December, 1822, the subject of this sketch was
born. His parents were Asahel and Betsey (Murray)
Trowbridge. He is descended from a highly
respected family named Trowbridge, that have for more than a
century past lived in Connecticut, where the name is more
common than in the west. The father of our subject was
a farmer, and on the farm Lyman lived, attending
school in season, and working during other months until he
was about fifteen years Old when the family moved to Niagara
county. From this time until he was twenty-two years
old Lyman worked out by the month, except for a
period of about three years, during which time he was too
sick to perform ordinary farm work. But notwithstanding his
early sickness he managed to save some money while working,
most of which was sent to his parents, they being in modest
circumstances.
In 1845 on the 30th day of January, Lyman
Trowbridge married Olive Cushing, a daughter of
Charles Cushing, of Niagara county. This
devoted wife and most estimable woman shared the trials and
successes of her husband for nearly forty years, and died
surrounded with all of the comforts of life on the 29th day
of May, 1884. Two children were born of this marriage,
one of whom died in infancy, the other, Cora, became
the wife of Maximus Eugene Loose, a business
man now residing at Napoleon.
In the year next succeeding his marriage Mr.
Trowbridge became superintendent of the Niagara county
poor house and farm, which property is known in Ohio as the
Infirmary. After a year on the county farm he moved to
Lockport and engaged with his brother in the manufacture of
shingles by machinery, using horse power. This they
continued some three or four years, when they changed to the
manufacture of barrel staves, which was successfully
continued for twelve years, and then, in 1864, moved to
Toledo, O. In the fall of 1866, Mr. Trowbridge
came to Napoleon and erected a stave-mill, but did not make
that point his residence until 1867. The business relations
with his brother were continued until the latter part of
1870, when Lyman became sole proprietor of the Napoleon
factory, the brother taking that at Toledo.
The manufacture of staves and heading has been the
recognized business that has engaged the attention of
Trowbridge for many years, and in it he has been
remarkably successful. Incidental to the business, and
connected with it, he has handled large tracts of land,
clearing off the timber and making fine farming lands.
During his twenty years of residence in Henry county he has
here paid out for material and labor the gross sum of eight
hundred thousand dollars.
In addition to his business interests at Napoleon, in
the year 1878, Mr. Trowbridge established a
stave factory at North Baltimore, and another at Defiance,
which were run by him for several years, but subsequently
sold. After the sale of the North Baltimore factory,
he purchased a large tract of woodland at Jewell, Defiance
county, where he built extensive works and erected thirteen
dwellings for employees. Again, in 1882, in company with his
brother, he bought the stave works at Freeland, Mich., but
after about two years be came sole proprietor and still
conducts it. In 1886 the Napoleon factory was removed
to Henry township, Wood county, and its management given
over into the hands of Mr. Loose. It
will be seen from these facts that Lyman Trowbridge
has not been, in any sense, a public man; he has had neither
the disposition nor the time to indulge in the worry of
political life; he has sought no office nor station other
than that to which he was clearly entitled — that of a
leading business man of the community; nevertheless, any
enterprise, any public project that has seemed likely to
promote the general welfare, has found in him a generous and
efficient helper. For the erection and support of the
Presbyterian church at Napoleon, he appears as one of the
most liberal cash contributors, but his donations for
charitable and church purposes have been by no means limited
to these gifts alone, as many other similar institutions
have been the recipients of his bounty and his generosity.
While not a man claiming a finished education or exceptional
brilliance, his fund of general knowledge is shown to be
comprehensive and useful, and is underlaid by
sound common sense and excellent judgment of men and
affairs. Behind all of this a character noted wherever his
name is known for sterling integrity and worth.
Source:
History of Henry & Fulton Counties
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 635 |
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WILLIAM B. TUBBS,
Ridgeville, Tubbsville p. o., was born in Adams township,
Henry county, 0., November 6, 1837. He was married March 21,
1862, to Hannah Comstock. They have had four
children: Mary C., Charles H., Alfred S., and Arba
B., (twins). William B. has held the office of
justice of the peace two terms, trustee, township clerk,
assessor of the township, and real estate assessor, and was
school director for nineteen years, and was appointed
postmaster, January 14, 1887. He was drafted October
2, 1862, into the Union army for nine months, but furnished
a substitute who served to the close of the war, a term of
three years. He was a son of Charles and Lucy M.
(Stow) Tubbs, of N. Y. State. Charles was
born in Mexico, Oswego county, N. Y., in 1810. They
settled in Adams township, Henry county, O., in 1836, and
Lucy died in August, 1870, leaving two children:
William B. and Arba F. Charles
married for his second wife Mrs. Lottie (Newel) Robinson.
They have had one daughter, Alice. William
B‘s, brother, Alfred S., enlisted in Co. E, 111th
Ohio Vols. in 1862, and died at the hospital at Danville,
Ky., November 19, 1862, aged twenty-two years.
Source:
History of Henry & Fulton Counties
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 706 |
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ANDREW
TUTTLE, Flat Rock, Florida p. o., a merchant of the
firm of Messrs. Long and Tuttle, which firm was
formed in 1882. Mr. Tuttle was born in Defiance
county, in 1845, and was brought up in the mercantile
business. In 1863 he enlisted in the 47th Ohio
Regiment, under Colonel Perry, and was discharged at
the close of the war, at Fort Dennison. He was married
in 1870 to Elizabeth Long. They have had a
family of three children. He became engaged in the
mercantile business in 1882, and formed his present
partnership. They also do a large business in the
buying, shipping of grain and produce, in connection with
their mercantile trade.
Source:
History of Henry & Fulton Counties
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 706 |
J. H. Tyler |
HON. J. H. TYLER.
Justin Howard Tyler, the fourth child and third son of
Peter and Eunice (Hebard) Tyler, was a native of
Massachusetts, born at Leyden, in Franklin county, on the
15th day of November, in the year 1815. When Justin
was but one year old the family moved to Oswego county, N.
Y. Here our subject passed the days of boyhood and
youth, attending the common district schools and the
academy, laying the foundation for an education that stood
him in good stead in later years. After passing his
eighteenth year, Justin found employment on the farm during
the summer months, and in teaching during the winter.
In the year 1839, then being arrived at the age of
twenty-four years, young Tyler left Oswego county,
and came to Circleville, Pickaway county, O., where an elder
brother was engaged in teaching, and by whom he was induced
to come to that locality. For a period of about three
years he was employed in teaching school, devoting his
leisure time, however, to the study of the law under the
instruction of Daniel Lord Smith, a
leading lawyer of the place, and in the fall of 1841, at Mt.
Vernon, O., he was regularly admitted to the bar, but he
continued teaching. and was so engaged more or less of the
time until the year 1845.
Although Mr. Tyler had formed a
determination to, and did prepare himself for and enter the
legal profession, he was, however, prevented, for a time at
least, from engaging in active practice; his means were
limited, and the profession at that time gave but little
promise of abundant remuneration. In 1843 he was called back
to the home of his parents in Oswego county, by a serious
accident to his father. Here he remained for about one
year, when the property was sold, after which, accompanied
by his father and mother, he returned to Ohio, and made for
them a home at Huron, where he established his father in a
business which proved quite successful, and enabled them to
live comfortably during the remainder of their lives.
In 1844 Justin moved to Huron, Erie county, and
continued to reside there until 1852, engaged in the
practice of law.
In 1847 Mr. Tyler returned to Oswego
county, and, on the 9th day of June, of that year, was
married to Miss Alice Olmsted. Of that
marriage seven children were born, five of whom died during
infancy. Romaine Tyler, one of the children
that survived, was well and popularly known in this
locality. He served four months in the army, and died
at Napoleon, in the year I879. Justin Arthur
Tyler, the other son, is now engaged in a successful
business at Fort Wayne. Mr. Tyler's
first visit to Napoleon was made in the year 1844, but was
of only a few days’ duration, and while on his way to
Indiana, where he intended to locate, and where he had some
property. He remained there but about two months, when in
deference to his wife's wishes, he returned to Huron, and
resumed his practice. Here he continued with moderate
success until the latter part of the year 1852, when he
determined to locate at the county seat of Henry county, to
which place, with his family, he immediately moved, and took
his place among the members of the Henry county bar.
Then being a young man, in the enjoyment of excellent
health, possessing a good understanding of the law, and
being, withal, an able advocate before the court and jury,
Mr. Tyler at once took a front rank among the
leading lawyers of Northwestern Ohio; a position to which he
was justly entitled by every professional consideration, and
one that he maintained so long as he was engaged in active
practice. As a lawyer he is cautious and methodical. It has
always been his policy to discountenance rather than to
promote litigation, and in his intercourse with his clients
mature deliberation always precedes counsel. In
presenting a case to the jury he addresses himself to the
understanding of his hearers, rather than appealing to their
passions, and approaches the subject in hand with dignity,
self-possession, and in the light of principle and common
sense. A noticeable feature in his professional life
has been the interest he has taken in fitting young men to
become lawyers, and it is a conceded fact that more
attorneys have obtained their early legal education in his,
than in the office of any other practitioner in the county;
and among the many who may be said to have been graduates
from the office of Justin H. Tyler, there may be
named some of the brightest legal minds in Henry county.
Naturally enough being possessed of much personal and
professional popularity, Mr. Tyler could not
well avoid being drawn somewhat into the arena of politics,
but he has by no means been an Office-seeker, as his nature
is directly the opposite of whatever constitutes that
character. In 18 54, after a residence of but two years in
the county, he was elected to the office of prosecuting
attorney, and re-elected at the expiration of his first
term. In 1881 he was chosen to represent the county in
the State Legislature, being nominated and elected by the
Republican party, and receiving a majority of six hundred
and sixty-five, while the standing majority of the
opposition party in the county reached about twelve hundred.
On all the political questions of the times Mr.
Tyler entertains clear and well settled convictions,
and is perfectly frank and open in the expression of them;
still he is inclined to adhere to the established order of
things, and not easily led by any of the isms of the day.
As the county’s prosecutor he was elected upon the
Democratic ticket, but, with the general disintegration of
parties, about the time of the organization of the
Republican party, and the dissolution of the old Whig party,
he found an acceptable candidate in Mr. Lincoln,
and has since been identified with the Republican party, and
was elected representative as the nominee of that party in
1881, being the only Republican ever elected to that office
from Henry county. Prior to that organization's coming into
existence he was a liberal Whig.
In every measure looking to the advancement and
progress of the village of Napoleon, and the county as well,
Mr. Tyler has taken an active interest, and
contributed of his means to every worthy cause. In the
proceedings that resulted in the incorporation of Napoleon
he engaged actively, and was elected the first mayor of the
village, and was subsequently re-elected to the same office.
For some years he was president of the local board of
education, and did his full share in advancing the schools
of the village to their present high standing. In matters
pertaining to the church, and to the erection of church
edifices generally throughout the entire county, he has
contributed liberally of his means, without regard to
denomination. The lot on which stands the Presbyterian
Church edifice at Napoleon, was his free gift to the
society, and added thereto was a goodly cash donation.
In connection with his extensive law practice he has
made many investments in real estate, and profited by the
gradual increase in values, until now, having passed the
seventieth year of his life, he has given his law practice
into the charge of his son, and devotes himself to the care
of his other business interests, still retaining, however,
an advisory position among his old clients.
While the professional and business life of our subject
have been entirely successful, his home and fireside have
been invaded by the destroyer, death. Of the seven
Children born of his first marriage, one only now survives.
His wife, Alice (Olmsted) Tyler, died on the 2d day
of January, 1860, leaving to the father the care of two
children. After living a widower for more than a year,
Mr. Tyler in February, 1861, married Hattie
M. Peck, of Franklin county, Mass. Of this
marriage four children have been born, viz.: Julian
Howard, a young and active attorney of Napoleon;
Willie Peck, now a law student in his brother's
office; Nathaniel Pickens, now living at home,
and George Hebard, now in Boston, Mass.
Source:
History of Henry & Fulton Counties
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 636 |
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