BIOGRAPHIES

Source: 
History of Allen County, Ohio
Containing a History of the County, Its Townships, Towns,
Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, etc.; Portraits of
Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies;
History of the Northwest Territory;
History of Ohio; Statistical and
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.
- Illustrated -
Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co.
1885

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Ottawa Twp. - SAMUEL S. YODER, probate judge, Lima, was born Aug. 16, 1841, in Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio; son of Yost and Nancy (Hostetter) Yoder, and grandson of Abraham Yoder, natives of Lancaster County, Penn., and who came to Ohio in 1816.  Mr. and Mrs. Yost Yoder were married in Ohio, and had a family whose names appear below.  The father died in 1849, near Winesburg, Holmes County, Ohio, and his widow (who is now deceased) then married Tobias Miller having one son by her second husband, who is also deceased.  The children raised by Mr. and Mrs. Yost Yoder were Moses F., Jacob t., Joslyn Z., Noah W., Samuel S., Aaron Y. Miller, Rachael, Tina, Mary, Elizabeth, Catherine and Anna (two last named deceased).  Noah W. was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion.  He assisted in organizing Company G, Fifty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and bad command at the battle of Stone River, where he received seven wounds, losing a leg.  He afterward became a member of the veteran Reserve Corps, and served as such until the close of the war, but while on his way to visit a patient (he being a physician) was accidentally drowned.  Moses F. was also a soldier during the Rebellion, having enlisted in Company G, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, organized by his brother Noah W., and was mortally wounded at Kenesaw Mountain.  Jacob T. was a member of the Second Ohio Light Artillery, in Gen. Banks' Red River expedition, and died at Milliken's Bend, La.  Our subject was also a soldier in Company G, Hoffman's Independent Battalion, which afterward became a part of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was afterward commissioned second lieutenant.  At close of the war he returned to Holmes County, Ohio, and there finished the study of medicine, which he had begun before the war, took a course of lectures at the Kentucky institute of Medicine before the war, and after at Ann Arbor University, Michigan.  Mr. Yoder was married Oct. 6, 1870, to Minerva E., daughter of Abner Maxwell, of Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, and to this union were born four children: an infant (deceased), Leon (deceased in infancy), Early D. and Elfie A.  Our subject was member of the council and mayor, and practiced medicine at Bluffton, this county, to which place he came in 1877, and there continued until he was elected to fill the office of probate judge in 1881.  Judge Yoder is a member of Bluffton Masonic Lodge, No. 432, of which he was the first elected master, and was master for nine years.  He is now a member of Ottawa Chapter, Lima Council, Shawnee Commandery, No. 14, K. T., Lima, Ohio, and a member of Mi-a-Mi Grand Lodge of Perfection, Northern Light Council, P._ of J_, Fort Industry Chapter Rose-Croix, Valley of Toledo, also Ohio Consistory of S_ P_ R_ S_ 32°, Cincinnati, Ohio, a member of all the degrees in the I. O. O. F., and of Mart Armstrong Post, G. A. R. Source:  History of Allen County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Warner i.e. Warner, Beers & Co., 1885 - Page 733

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