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Source:
History of Auglaize County, Ohio
- with the Indian History of Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement
of the County. -
Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton, Publisher - 1880
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Union Twp. -
JOHN HARDEN was born in Somerset County,
Pa., and came to this county in 1836, and settled in Union
township. His family consisted of eight children.
Mr. Harden was married twice; his first wife died in 1833,
and the second in 1845. Seven sons and one daughter are
still living in the neighborhood, in the enjoyment of
prosperity. Joseph, the third son was noted as one
of the best deer hunters in the country. He was also a
famous bee hunter, as he and his brothers Mark and
Jesse supplied the family with meat and honey.
Source: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - with the Indian
History of Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement of the County. -
Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton, Publisher - 1880 - Page 186 |
Union Twp. -
ALEX. HARROD was born in Knox County in
1824, and came to this township in 1845. He married
Elizabeth Nauss in 1858. They have reared four
children.
Source: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - with the Indian
History of Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement of the County. -
Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton, Publisher - 1880 - Page 188 |
Duchouque Twp. -
AMBROSE HARVEY was born in Hamilton
County, Ohio, in 1779. He married Rebecca Highland
in 1829, and moved to St. Johns in 1830. There were no
white settlers near here at this time. The first Mrs.
Harvey remembers seeing was Mr. Richardson. Mr.
Harvey died in 1865. Mrs. Harvey is still
living with her son's widow, and is, perhaps, the only
person in the township who was married and living here as early
as 1830.
Source: History
of Auglaize County, Ohio - with the Indian History of
Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement of the County. -
Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton, Publisher - 1880 - Page 129 |
Duchouquet Twp. -
THOMAS HARVEY. There was a Quaker
mission four miles south on the Piqua road, Thomas Harvey
and wife in charge; they were from Warren County, Ohio.
There were generally about twenty-or thirty Shawnee children in
attendance.
I was present in the old council house at the signing
of the treaty by Blackhoof, Wayweleapy, Henry
Clay, and others of the Waupaughkonnetta and Hog Creek
Reservations, ceding all their rights to lands in Ohio, and
James B. Gardner, Commissioner for the United States;
and the next year I saw them bid adieu to their old homes in
Ohio and leave for their farm western homes."
Source: History of Auglaize
County, Ohio - with the Indian History of Wapakoneta, and the
First Settlement of the County. - Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton,
Publisher - 1880 - Page 137 |
German Twp. -
DR. WM. A. HAVEMANN was born in Saxony in
1811, and came to St. Louis in 1837, where he remained about a
year. He then started to Mexico, but only went as far as
Independence, where the caravan failed, and he came back to
Louisville, Ky. He remained here until 1840, when he came
to Bremen, where he still resides. In 1841 he married
Miss Mary Oberwitte, and has raised a family of six
children, all of whom are still living.
Source: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - with the Indian
History of Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement of the County. -
Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton, Publisher - 1880 - Page 159 |
HENRY
HENKE was born in Hanover, Germany, Sept. 26, 1812, where
he resided until his twenty-seventh year, when he came to St.
Marys township, this county, where he has since resided.
In July, 1843, he married Louisa Stroaffer. They
have reared a family of nine children, all of whom are still
living.
‡ Source: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - with the Indian
History of Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement of the County. -
Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton, Publisher - 1880 - Page 152 - St.
Marys Twp. |
Duchouque Twp. -
DR. G. W. HOLBROOK is justly considered
one of the pioneers and builders of Auglaize County and
Wapakoneta, having settled here early in the spring of 1834.
He was born in Palmyra, Ontario Co., New York, Sept. 12, 1808,
in that portion of said county bordering on Lake Ontario which
subsequently constituted Wayne County. At the age of
eighteen he abandoned home and commenced the study of medicine
and surgery in the office of Dr. Wm. Robinson, of
Palmyra, one of the most distinguished physicians and surgeons
in western New York. After pursuing the usual four years'
course of study, attending the lectures at the medical
department of the University, he graduated in 1831, receiving
the medical degree from the Regents of the University of New
York. In the autumn of 1832 he came to Ohio and commenced
the practice of his profession at Lockbourne, Franklin County,
where he remained a short time, but after traveling over most of
the Western States he finally located at Wapakoneta, where he
still resides. At that period there were but about 150
inhabitants in the town. The day after his arrival he
entered his professional career, having been called to visit the
family of John Tam, who owned and lived on the half
section of land of which a part now constitutes the land of
Milton Tam. Here he continued the practice of
his profession about twenty years, when he retired, and turned
over his office, library, instruments, and medicines to Dr.
J. H. Nichols, who he had adopted when a boy of fourteen,
and gave him his education, and finally his practice.
Dr. Holbrook has ever been public spirited and identified
himself with all improvements for the benefit of town or county.
He first suggested the erection of Auglaize County, having
originated and mapped it out in 1846, when he submitted the map
of Col. Van Horne, Robert J. Skinner, and others.
Col. Van Horne pronounced the project "visionary," but
added, "there is no telling what is Yankee Doctor may
accomplish!" The Doctor did accomplish much, and the
erection of the county may, perhaps, be considered the most
important achievement of his life. This work is a monument
to his energy and enterprise, as is shown by the effort he put
forth in this project. He attended the sessions of the
Ohio Legislature while the bill for the erection of the county
was under consideration. In the session of 1846 the bill
passed the House, but failed in the Senate; the next year it
failed, but Feb. 13, 1848, the bill passed and Auglaize County
took a place on the State map. The Doctor scarified his
personal and family interests by this expenditure of time and
money, for the journals of the Ohio Legislature show he was in
Columbus devoting his whole energy to this undertaking during
the sessions of 1846, 7, and 8. The journals also show
that at one time he was arrested on a charge of bribing a member
of the House, but at the trial by the House he was honorably
acquitted and fully vindicated. The same Legislature gave
him a hearty endorsement by electing him to the office of
Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which position he
retained until the office was superseded by that of the Probate
Court under the new Constitution. He has been an active
worker in behalf of all improvements, and especially has he
labored for railroads through the county. The Ohio and
Penna. R. R. bill was even engrossed, to pass through Kenton,
Wapakoneta, and St. Marys, and thence toward Chicago; but the
citizens of St. Mary's opposed the road; it was defeated, and
running north of the county, passed through Lima. In this
enterprise our subject was deeply interested. At that time
the Charger Act of the Dayton and Michigan R. R. was before the
Legislature. The charter only called for a road
terminating at Sidney, and the Doctor wrote to Senator Myers
and others of Toledo, to have it taken up and chartered through
to Toledo. Myers in his letter of thanks said the
reason he had not inserted in the charter the clause "passing
through to Toledo" was "that he thought the country too new to
undertake an enterprise of such magnitude." The Doctor
labored and contributed largely of his means to make this
enterprise a success, and acting with Col. Andrews as
agents, they raised about $75,000 toward the construction of the
road. The Company took property on stock subscription, and
he deeded several improved lots, for one of which he received
$800 in stock, while in a short time the same property sold for
$2000. The other property advanced in the same ratio.
The Doctor became one of the directors of the road, and at one
time held about $10,000 in stock, which he was afterward
compelled to sell at from fifteen to twenty cents on the dollar.
The success of this railroad project has been the cause of the
growth of the town. This untiring zeal in the advancement
of the county has caused our subject to be considered one of the
most, enterprising and public spirited of our citizens.
Source 4: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - with the
Indian History of Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement of the County. -
Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton, Publisher - 1880 - Page 124 |
Washington Twp. -
JOHN M. HOWELL was born in 1813, married in 1835, and died in
1878.
‡ Source: History of Auglaize
County, Ohio - with the Indian History of Wapakoneta, and the
First Settlement of the County. - Wapakoneta: Robert Sutton,
Publisher - 1880 - Page 168 |
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