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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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Duchouque Twp. -
G. W. McCLINTOCK was born in Ireland Feb.
28, 1821, and at the age of ten years came with his parents to
New Brunswick. Here he lived several years, and married
Miss Margaret Steen, when in 1842 he came to Miami County,
Ohio. Here he remained until 1848, when he moved to his
county, and located on the farm he now occupies. Here he
built a cabin in the timber, and commenced clearing the land.
In 1851 his wife died, leaving six small children. Two
years later he married Mrs. Elizabeth Barr, by whom he
had eight children. Of the fourteen children ten are still
living, of whom all are married except two sons and one
daughter.
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 |
Union Twp. -
JOHN McCORMIC. Among those who came
to the county in 1836, was John McCormic, who settled in
Union township, built a cabin in the spring which was burned the
following autumn. His wife died Feb. 1879. He now
lives with his son-in-law, Robert Sproul. He is 73
years of age, and has retired from the active duties of life.
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 187 |
Moulton Twp. -
JAMES E. McFARLAND was born in
Pennsylvania in 1814, and moved to Logan County, Ohio, in 1835.
Five years later he came to this county, and settled in Moulton
Township on the St. Mary's Plank Road, three and a half miles
west of Wapakoneta. He married Nancy Lawhead.
They reared two children, one of whom was W. E. McFarland,
who died in 1879. After his wife's death he married
Rosanna Walker. They reared four children, viz.,
John I., S. Walker, Frank J., and Mary. The mother
died in August, 1854. He afterwards married Susan Ward,
with whom he reared two children Mollie and Celia.
Upon the death of this third wife he married Catharine
Whetstone, who still survives. When Mr. McFarland
came to the county he secured one hundred and sixty acres of
land, of which he still owns a portion. Soon after his
settlement here he had acquired that respect which elevated him
to the office of justice of the peace in 1844, which office he
held about thirty-one yeas; twenty-six years of this time he
held the office of township treasurer. He was one of a
family of six children, and was the third of these to pass away;
his next younger brother, Bishop McFarland, of
Providence, R. I., being the first, and Dr. McFarland, of
Cleveland, who died about 1874. Mr. McFarland died
July 21, 1875. There are still living W. H. McFarland,
of Edina, Mo., J. L. McFarland, present auditor of
Auglaize County, and Dr. J. A. McFarland, of Tiffin,
Ohio. The family was well educated, and highly qualified
for the professions or positions of trust which the different
members assumed.
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 199 |
Moulton Twp. -
RICHARD McGUFF was born in Galway County,
Ireland. He emigrated to the State in 1847, and moved to
Moulton township, Auglaize County, in 1862, where he still
lives.
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 200 |
THOMAS McKEE was born in
1801. He settled in St. Marys township about 1824-25, on
section 10. He married Anna Reynolds in 1827, and
died December, 1875, leaving a family of seven children, four by
the first, and three by the last marriage.
‡ 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. |
Goshen Twp. -
JUDGE JOHN McLEAN was born in Bedford
County, Pa., in 1809. He went to Richland County, Ohio, in
1833, and married Mary Cobean in 1837, moving immediately
afterward to Goshen township, Auglaize County. They raised
a family of four children, two boys and two girls, of whom are
still living John G., in New Hampshire, and Mellissa
Earl, who occupies the old homestead, with whom Mrs.
McLean now lives. Robert A. died in the
army in 1863. Sarah E. died in 1862. Mr.
McLean was one of the earliest settlers of this township.
He was elected associate judge for the county after its first
organization, which office he filled until the new constitution
abolished the office. He died May 5th, 1875.
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 178 |
Duchouquet Twp. -
HON. C. C. MARSHALL, one of hate early
pioneers of thsi county, but now of Delphos, Allen County, Ohio,
says: "The first mail route was established in the year 1827
from Piqua to Defiance, the service to commence an. 1, 1828.
Hon. Samuel Marshall late of Shelby County, Ohio, who was
the third settler in that county, was the contractor at the
commencement of the service. An elder brother, and father
of R. D. Marshall of Dayton, Ohio, carried the mail from
Jan. 1, 1828, to September, 1829, when I commenced and continued
until De. 31, 1831. That was before Allen County was
organized, and the mail route was by way of Fort Amanda, and
from there on the west side of the Auglaize River to Defiance,
with only three offices, viz., Hardin, Shelby County,
Waupaughkonnetta, then Allen County, and Sugar Grove, Putnam
County; to the latter two, the only offices in those counties,
the mail went one week and returned the next. Robert
Broderick was the first postmaster of Wapakoneta. HE
resigned in 1829, and Capt. John Elliott, the old
government blacksmith, was appointed his successor.
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 136 |
Clay Twp. - St. John's -
ASA MARTIN
was born in Clinton County, Ohio, Jan. 15, 1822, where he
remained until 1836, when he came to this township, where he has
since resided. In 1844 he married Miss Hannah Coleman.
They have reared a family of fifteen children, of whom thirteen
are still living. Mr. Martin, with other pioneers,
has carved from teh wilderness, by hard labor, a productive farm
and pleasant home. See illustration.
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 175 |
Goshen Twp. -
R. L. G. MEANS was born in Coshocton,
Ohio, in 1811; was taken to Virginia when less than two years of
age. His father and mother both died while he was very
young. He has no recollection of them. He returned
to Coshocton with his uncle, Ephraim Means, with
whom he lived until he was twenty-one years of age. He
then went to Newark, Licking County, Ohio, remained there about
two years, when he came to Champaign County, where he remained
up to the time of his removal to this county. He married
Sally North, May, 1834. After paying the minister
two dollars, his worldly possession only amounted to
seventy-five cents, besides owing for his wedding clothes.
Mr. Means now commenced the battle of life in earnest.
With liabilities of about twelve or fifteen dollars, and assets
seventy five cents, he took a contract of splitting rails at
thirty-three cents per hundred, and renting land until his debts
were paid, and he had a balance of sixty-five dollars left.
He then borrowed forty dollars and came to Allen now Auglaize
County, and entered eighty acres of land in the fall of 1835.
He moved on his land in the spring of 1836, without a dollar,
and an indebtedness of forty dollars on his land.
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 177 |
German Twp. -
HON. J. H. MESLOH was one of the earliest
settlers of the Bremen community, and came from Hanover in 1830.
His grandson, our subject, was born Nov. 17, 1841, one month
after the death of his father. At the death of his mother,
in his sixth year, he passed under the protection of his
grandparents. At the age of sixteen he entered school at
Springfield, Ohio, but on completion of his education returned
to Bremen. In 1864 he entered the hardware business, in
which he is still engaged. He was married Sept. 29, 1869,
to Miss Minnie Boesel, of Bremen. After holding
several local offices of trust he was elected to the House of
Representatives in 1873, and re-elected in 1875. Has been
one of the most enterprising citizens of Bremen, and has labored
in interest of all improvements. His family consists of
wife and five 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 159 |
Washington Twp. -
HENRY MILLER was born in Germany in 1805,
and came to the United States about 1834, locating first in
Miami County, Ohio, where he remained until 1836, when he came
to this county and located in section 12, Washington township,
on the farm now owned by his son William This farm
was secured of the government in 1835. Of course all was
wild in the new settlement, and their first shelter was a
canvas, under an oak tree, which served until the cabin was
erected. Under these circumstances it required energy of
the strongest character to face and overcome the difficulties of
the situation. Mr. Miller was equal to the demand,
and by toile and economy accrued about 900 acres of land.
He reared a family of ten children. His death occurred in
1807, and his wife died eight years taken.
‡ 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 |
Union Twp. -
LEVI MIX moved his family from Knox County
to this township in February, 1836, and settled on a piece of
land in Sec. 25. He died in 1875, at the age of 84 years.
His son, Uri Mix, now occupies the old homestead.
He was 21 years of age when his father came to the county.
He married Margaret Bayliff. The Bayliff family
came to the county in 1836.
‡ 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 187 |
German Twp. -
BARNHART H. MOHRMANN was born in Hanover,
Germany, in 1795. He came to Cincinnati in 1831, and
remained in that city about one year; he then moved to New
Bremen. when he came to America his family consisted of
his wife and one son, whose name is Harman Henry Mohrmann.
His wife died in 1837, and in the same year he married Miss
Elizabeth Schrader, who only lived about one year. In
1840 Mr. Mohrmann married Magdalene Paul with whom
he lived for a period of thirty years, when both died, Dec. 22,
1870. Mr. Mohrmann was an honest, upright citizen,
and by his untiring industry and economy accumulated a
considerable amount of property. Harman H. Mohrmann
now lives in section 11, German township, on the farm formerly
owned by his father. His wife was born in Germany, and
came to American in 1853, their marriage occurring the same
year. They have two children, a son and a daughter, aged
respectively nineteen and sixteen. Mr. Mohrmann and
his family have won the respect of the people in the town near
which they have so long lived.
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 160 |
Clay Twp., St. John's -
ROBERT MOORE was
born in Champaign County, this State, Mar. 11, 1820. When
he had attained his tenth year his parents moved to Union
County, where he remained until Oct. 2, 1849, when he came to
Clay township, where he still resides. At that time the
land he occupied was a tract of wet timber land, considered
almost worthless, because of the apparent impossibility of
drainage; but by persistent application a quarter section has
been reclaimed, and by drainage has been transformed from a
marsh into a highly productive farm. Mr. Moore was
married in Union County to Miss Mary M. Castle in 1842.
They have reared a family of twelve children, named Isabella
E., Mary E., Malinda F., William J., Louisa J., Emeline C.,
Lydia A., John D., James W., Millie A., Maria A., and
Peter Lincoln. Of these one son and four daughters are
still living. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have attained a
fair age, and are still in enjoyment of health and strength.
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 174 |
Union Twp. -
JOHN MORRIS was born in Virginia in 1798.
He married Mary A. Clarkson in 1832, and came to Allen,
now Auglaize County in 1833. He entered one-quarter
section of land in Union township, one and one-half mile from
St. Johns, where he now lives.
When he came here there was not an
acre of land cleared in the township, except what had been
cleared by the Indians. The land having only come into the
market the year before. The most of the Indians had been
removed, but a part of them were still here.
He lived in an Indian cabin until he built one for
himself. At that time there was not a road laid out
in the township. Where St. Johns is now situated there
were about twelve or fifteen acres cleared, which had been done
by the Indians. The only persons living there were
William and Byrd Richardson and their families. Mr.
Morris was the first justice of the peace in the township.
He served two terms.
The first white child born in the township was John
Morris, a son of the above. All of the white settlers
that Mr. Morris can remember are William and Byrd
Richardson, Charles Lusk, and ____ Bolzill.
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 185 |
St. Mary's Twp. -
COLONEL
SAMUEL R. MOTT was born in Knox county, Ohio, Jan. 26,
1818, and was the fifth of a family of six children. The
Motts were French Huguenots, and came to America near the
commencement of the American Revolution. Major John
Mott, grandfather of Colonel Mott, was an
officer in the Continental army, and served during the war.
He received a severe wound in the left shoulder which disabled
him for active service. He was put on detached service,
after that serving as a recruiting officer. At the close
of the war he entered the Baptist ministry, and came to Knox
county, Ohio, where he died at the age of ninety-two years.
Gordon Mott, the father of
Colonel Mott, was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
He was a graduate of Yale College, and came to Ohio in 1806, and
settled in Knox county, where he remained until 1837, when he
came to Auglaize county. In 1837 he returned to Knox
county on business, and died at the home of his brother John,
at the age of sixty years. He served in the War of 1812,
and was taken prisoner at Detroit when General Hull surrendered,
and was held by the enemy until after peace was declared.
Colonel Mott's educational opportunities
were limited to about three months' attendance at a primitive
pioneer log school house that was furnished with slab seats, and
heated by means of an old fashioned fireplace, and lighted by
means of greased paper windows. He was, however, carefully
trained at home by wise and good parents, with whom he came to
Auglaize county when he was fifteen years old. At that age
he began life for himself by learning the trades of bricklayer
and plasterer. In May, 1836, he enlisted in Captain
Charles Colerick's company and went to Texas,
where he took part in the campaigns of that State when it
decided to secede from Mexico. He took part in a number of
skirmishes, but the decisive battle had been fought before he
reached there. In 1838 he returned and resumed his trade
at Dayton. In the fall of the same year he purchased a
farm in Dublin township, Mercer county, and taught school the
following year.
In 1840 he began the study of law in the office of his
brother Gordon N., at Piqua, and in March, 1842, was
admitted to the bar in Cincinnati. In 1846 he was elected
prosecuting attorney for Mercer county. In 1848, when
Auglaize county was organized as a separate county, he was
elected its first prosecuting attorney. He resigned in the
fall of the same year, as the Democratic party had elected him
to represent the district in the State Legislature. After
two terms in that body he was again elected prosecuting attorney
of the county.
Colonel Mott was busily engaged in the
practice of law when the Civil War commenced. In April,
1861, he was elected lieutenant of a company recruited at St.
Mary's Upon reaching Columbus he received a captain's
commission, and was attached to The Twentieth Ohio Regiment.
The company was enlisted for three months, and was mustered out
of service the following September. Upon his return he
recruited another company in October, and was assigned to the
Thirty-first Ohio as captain. In the same month he was
appointed colonel of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio
Regiment. His bravery and ability as a disciplinarian won
the promotion. The following is a list of the battles in
which the Colonel participated: Corinth (Miss), Mill
Springs, Kingston, Mossy Creek, Rocky-faced Ridge, Kenesaw
Mountain, Atlanta, Resaca, and Dallas. He was honorably
discharged from the army in March, 1864.
Upon retiring from the army he returned to St. Mary's
and resumed the practice of law.
Colonel Mott was a genial, jovial man,
possessed of a rare degree of wit and humor, which he was fond
of exercising. He was one of the most highly respected men
of the county.
Colonel Mott was married in 1843, the
Mrs. Caroline Kepner, of St. Mary's township.
Of this union twelve children were born, of whom six are still
living.
Colonel Mott died January 15, 1896.
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 |
HON. SAMUEL R. MOTT
was born in Knox County, Ohio, Jan. 26, 1818, and came to St.
Marys in 1833, learned the mason trade, at which he worked until
1836, when he volunteered with a company to go to Texas, where
he served until July, 1837. After his return he worked at
the trade until 1840, when he entered upon the study of law with
his brother, G. N. Mott, now of California. In 1842
opened a law office in St. Marys, was married the next year, and
at the annual election was chosen prosecuting attorney. In
1846 he entered the mercantile business, and at the organization
of this county in 1848, was elected to the Ohio Legislature from
Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer counties. In 1861 entered the
army as captain of Company E, twentieth regiment, in the three
months' service. Again he entered the thirty-first
regiment as captain of Company C, but after one year was
appointed colonel of the one hundred and eighteenth regiment, in
which capacity he served until February, 1864, when on the
advice of Surgeon W. H. Phillips, of Kenton, he resigned
on account of failing health. He is still engaged in the
profession of law.
‡ 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. -
SAMUEL MOYER was born in Pickaway County,
Ohio, in 1813, and came to this county in 1834. Two yeas
later he married Catharine Delong. Their family
consists of three sons and four daughters, all living in this
township. Thee is perhaps no other man in the county who
has cleared as much land, as he thinks he has cleared 200 acres
with his own hands.
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 131 |
Duchouquet Twp. -
N.
A. MURDOCK settled in 1823 in St. Marys township with his
parents, where he resided until 1863, when he went to
Cridersville where he is still in business.
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 130 |
Moulton Twp. -
JOHN MUSSER, Sr., was born in
Elizabethtown, Pa., Oct. 16, 1799, where he lived until his
maturity. In 1826 he was untied in marriage with lived
until his maturity. In 1826 he was united in marriage with
Miss Rachel McCollum, the result of their marriage with
Miss Rachel McCollum the result of their marriage being
ten children, of which four girls and two boys are yet living.
Passing over the years they resided in Fairfield County, Ohio,
where a number of their children were born - some died and
others married - we note that the 1852 Father Musser and
family came to Auglaize County, his present home, which was then
almost an unbroken forest. With their united efforts,
struggles, and sacrifices, common to the early settler, the
forests were felled, fields inclosed, bearing rich cereals,
orchards of golden fruit sprung up, in short, all the comforts
of life were soon secured to them.
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 199 |
Wayne Twp. -
DAVID MYERS was born in Belmont County,
Ohio, in 1805; went from there to Licking County, where he
married Susan Jordon, in 1841. He moved to Auglaize
County the same year, and settled in Wayne township. His
wife died in 1852. He married Elizabeth A. Stow in
1853, raising a family of nine children, five by the former, and
four by the later marriage. Mr. Myers's farm
consists of two hundred and forty acres, on which he first
settled. He has retired from business, leaving the farm in
charge of his 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 182 |
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