FREDERICK WAHL,
Flat Rock, Holgate p. o., was born in Wurtemburg, Germany,
in 1846 and was a son of George and Eve Wahl, who
emigrated to and settled in Medina county, O., in 1850 and
in 1855 settled in Pleasant, Henry county. They had a
family of six children: Jacob, Mena. Catharine (born
in America) and Frederick, Christopher and
Rosa, born in Germany. Frederick enlisted
in December, 1864, in Company B, 100th Ohio, under
Colonel Slevens. He was transferred to 183d
regiment and discharged July 17, 1865. He was married
in 1869 to Christina Frantz, who was born in
Germany. They have had a family of five children:
Charles A., Julia C., Henry A., Minnie and
William. Frederick purchased his homestead farm of
eighty acres in 1865, a part of which was a four mile tract
of timber adjoining Holgate. He erected his farm
buildings in 1882 and 1884.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Counties -
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 708 |
LEROY
WAIT, Flat Rock, Napoleon p. o., a pioneer settler of
Flat Rock, was born in Scioto county, O., June 23, 1820 and
was a son of Reuben and Mary Wait, of Chenango
county, N. Y., who settled in Flat Rock, Henry county, in
1833, where they died. They had a family of seven
children, four of whom are now living: Julia, Silas,
William, Louisa, Leroy, Carrie and Henry.
Louisa married Jefferson McCrackin of Batavia,
N. Y. They have had a family of five children.
Renben Wait was a prominent man of the county and was
appointed associate judge on the organization of the county,
which office he filled to the satisfaction of his many
friends. He was also justice of Scioto county, being a
pointed by the governor. He served in the war of 1812
by sending a substitute. Mr. Leroy Wait is a
gentleman of large personal qualities and has for several
years been in poor health, books and papers being his
constant companions.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Counties -
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 708 |
E. M. WARD,
Bartlow, Deshler p. o., was born in Putnam county, O., in
1842. He enlisted in 1862 in the 86th Ohio Infantry
and was married in 1865 to Frances Keller, of
Crawford county. They have had seven children:
George M., Alvah J., Thomas, Rebecca M., Guy, Clifford
and one who died in infancy. E. M. Ward was a
son of Joseph Ward who was born in 1809 and
was a pioneer settler in Wood county, O.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Counties -
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 708 |
E. P. WARDEN,
Bartlow, Deshler p. o., attorney and counsellor of law, was
born in Lorain county, in 1859. He fitted himself for and
entered Oberlin College in 1876 and was graduated from there
in December. He read law at Cleveland, O., and was
admitted to the bar at Columbus in 1883. He settled in
Norwalk in the practice of his profession and in October,
1883, settled in Deshler. He was married December 10,
1884, to Agnes L. Noble. Mr. Warden in early
life was engaged in teaching and is now active in all the
affairs of his town.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Counties -
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 708 |
HENRY S. WEAVER,
Flat Rock, Florida p. o., one of the leading farmers of
Henry county, was born in Butler county in 1833 and was a
son of John and Esther (Clark) Weaver. She was
born in New Jersey and John was born in Pennsylvania.
They settled in Wayne township, Butler county, where they
died. Henry S. Weaver was married in 1853 to
Catharine Jane Wolverton, of Butler
county. They have had a family of four children,
Eugene and David are the only two now living.
Henry S. settled in Flat Rock in 1854 and purchased
his homestead of 150 acres from the State, and now owns in
all 230 acres of highly cultivated land, 130 acres of which
are highly cultivated and tiled. His farm was heavily
timbered with black walnut, poplar and maple. David,
his son, married Elizabeth Elkins and
Eugene married Emma Osborn.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Counties -
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 708 |
JOHN P. WHITEMAN,
Liberty, Liberty Centre, p. o., a manufacturer of brick and
tile and engaged in general farming, was born in 1836 and
was a son of Jesse and Nancy (Myers) Whiteman, who
were born in Virginia and settled in Ohio where they died.
Mr. Wliiteman was born in Pennsylvania and his wife
in Virginia. They settled in Ohio where they resided
until the time of their deaths. They had a family of
eight children, three of whom are now living: William,
John P. and Matilda. One brother, George,
enlisted and served through the late war in the 68th
Illinois regiment. John P. Whiteman was married
in 1861 to Martha Petticord, of Seneca county.
They have had seven children: Herbert S., Estella,
Charles C., Milton, Bertha, Fred and Bessie. Estella
married C. Graffice. Mr. Whiteman settled in
Liberty township in 1877, and purchased his present
residence of 120 acres, and then became engaged in the
manufacture of brick and tile by steam power, and now gives
employment to several men.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Counties -
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 709 |
JOHN WICKENHISER,
Marion, Hamler p. o., was born in Seneca county, July 31,
1856 and moved to Wood county, O., when a child where he was
brought up and educated at the public schools of that
county. He came to Henry county and located in Deshler
where he was engaged for two years in the mercantile
business. He removed to Hamler in 1882 and became engaged in
the mercantile business, and at the present time is the
representative merchant of this township. He was
married in 1885 to Ada Winter, of Detroit.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Counties -
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 709 |
JOHN B. WILSON,
Flat Rock, Black Ash p. o., a prominent pioneer of Southwest
Flat Rock was born in Harrison county, O., in 1824 and
settled in the woods on his present homestead farm of 160
acres in 1851, for which he paid one hundred dollars,
sixty-two and half cents per acre. He was married in
1849 to Isabella Karr, who was born in
Coshocton county, O., in 1830. They had a family of
nine children; James A. (born 1849), Thomas M.
(born 1851), Maria J. (born 1853), Martha E,
(born 1855), Robert W. (born 1862) and Rosa B.
(born 1868). John B. was a son of Andrew and
Jane Reed) Wilson who were born in Pennsylvania and
married in Harrison county, O., and settled in Flat Rock in
1851, and died in Defiance county in 1875 and his wife in
1876. They had a family of nine children, six of whom
are now living: John B., Andrew, Margaret J., William,
Martha E. and Sarah E. J. B. Wilson owns one of
the finest cultivated farms in the county.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Counties -
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 710 |
JOHN KENDALL WOODWARD,
Liberty, Liberty Center p. o. is a general blacksmith,
making horse shoeing a specialty. He was born in
Monroe county, N. Y., in 1836, and was married in 1859 to
Hannah E. Thompson, who was born in Williamson, Wayne
county, N. Y., and was a daughter of Anthony and
Elizabeth (Miller) Thompson. John K. and Hannah have had
a family of eight children, six of whom are now living:
Ella and Della (twins), Hattie, Frank, Mary,
Edwin, Kittie, and Willie. Frank died at the age of
eight years, and Kittie when ten months old, in 1871.
Mr. Woodward came west and settled in the
village of Clayton, Mich., November 18, 1862 and on
September 18, 1868, moved into the State of Ohio and settled
in Fulton county. In 1683 he removed from Fulton
county to Texas, Henry county, and in 1885 settled in
Liberty Center, where he purchased his present residence and
commenced business with his son, Edwin, as his
assistant. Mr. Woodward was a son of Levi and
Catherine (Johnson) Woodward, of Webster, Monroe county,
N. Y.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Counties -
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 711 |
WARD WOODWARD,
Liberty, Liberty Center p. o., was born in Cayuga county, N.
Y., in 1818, and was married in 1843 to Phydelia
Young, who was born in Cortland county in 1822.
They have had a family of fire daughters now living:
Malina, Mary, Amelia, Helen, and
Samantha. They settled in Seneca county, O., in April,
1845, and came to Liberty in 1846, where he be came engaged
as a carpenter and contract builder. He entered claim
for his farm of eighty acres in 1845 and erected a steam
saw-mill in 1860. Phydelia was a daughter of
Daniel and Hannah (Young)
Woodward, who settled in Henry county in 1849, coming
there from Cortland county, N. Y. They had two
daughters and two sons. Ward was a son of
Eleazer and Henrietta (Ingraham)
Woodward, who had a family of seven sons and two
daughters. Eleazer was born in Connecticut and
died in Cayuga county, N. Y. The mother and seven sons
settled in Henry county. They were Ward, Jason,
Timothy, Francis, Clement, Orestes, and Perry.
Malina married J. F. Brown; Mary married W.
H. Purchase; Amelia married John Dunovan;
Helen married A. D. Matthews; Samantha married
D. C. Brown.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Counties -
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 710 |
HERMANN WULFF,
Washington, Texas p. o., was born in the Grand Duchy of
Oldenburg, Germany, in 1841, and was a son of John and
Anna B. Wulff. Hermann emigrated to America
in 1859, and settled in Henry county, O., in 1862. He
returned to Germany and married Anna Cornelius in
1865, and in 1866 again returned to Henry county, and in
September of that year. purchased a homestead of
eighty acres, paying there or two thousand dollars He
now has seventy acres cleared. His wife died in
1880,1eaving a family of five children: Henry,
Hermann, Cornelius, Ann, and Sophia.
He then married his second wife, Mrs. Ann
Stueve, in 1883, who had by her first husband four sons:
William, Otto, Henry, and Fred.
Mr. Wulff has held the office of supervisor for
two terms, trustee for two terms, and also several other of
the district offices.
Source: History of Henry & Fulton Counties -
edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich - Syracuse NY - Publ. D. Mason
& Co. 1888. - Page 711 |
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