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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Past & Present History of Wyandot County, Ohio -
Illustrated
Vol. II
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1913
Myron V. Case |
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GEORGE W. COON,
now living retired in Upper Sandusky, was for fifty years closely
associated with agricultural interests of Wyandot county. His
spirit of perseverance enabled him to carry forward to successful
completion whatever he undertook and therefore he developed a good
farm in Antrim township from which he annually derived a substantial
income as the result of his industry and determination. He was
born in that section of Wyandot county, May 21, 1846, and is a son
of Jacob and Susan (Harmon) Coon, the former born in 1809 and
the latter in Maryland in1810. The father came to Ohio when he
was nineteen years of age and followed farming in Wyandot county
until his death. His wife passed away in 1871.
George W. Coon attended the district schools of
Antrim township, pursuing his studies until he was ninteen
years of age. Throughout the period of his boyhood and
youth he assisted in the work of the fields and after attaining his
majority farmed on shares for five years. At the end of that
time he purchased eighty acres of land and after nine years
bought, with his sister, part of the old homestead which he improved
and developed along modern lines until his retirement in 1910.
In that year he moved to Upper Sandusky and has since made his home
in this city, where he is uniformly regarded with the highest
respect and esteem. He is a stockholder in the Morrel Elevator
Company and the Toledo Life Insurance Company.
On the 18th of January, 1872, Mr. Cook was
united in marriage in Antrim township to Miss Mary Alice Brown,
a daughter of Abraham and Jane (Eckelberry) Brown, the former
a prosperous farmer and an early settler in Wyandot county.
Mr. and Mrs. Coon had five children: Charles E.,
who lives with his father; Susanna, who resides at home;
Bertha A., who married Charles Weist, a farmer of Pitt
township, by whom she has two children, Laura and May A.;
Inez E., who is teaching school in Memphis, Texas; and Sarah
E., who is employed as a stenographer in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mrs. Coon passed away Aug. 28, 1889, and is buried in Grand
Prairie cemetery in Morrow county, Ohio.
Mr. Cook belongs to the Free Baptist
church and gives his political allegiance to the republican party.
Antrim township numbers him among her valued residents and the fact
that many of his stanchest friends are those who have known him from
boyhood is an indication that his life has been at all times
honorable and upright, worthy of the high esteem in which he is
uniformly held.
~ Page 321 - Source: Past & Present History of Wyandot County, Ohio -
Illustrated -
Vol. II -
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1913 |
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