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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. -
LEWIS Y. PERKINS came to the township from
Richland County, August, 1833, and settled on the farm where
Elias Perkins now 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 187 |
Douhouque Twp. -
PHILIP PFAFF was born in Prussia in 1804,
and came to the United States in 1832. After living at
Baltimore, Maryland, and Columbiana County, Ohio, about a year
each, he came to this township January, 1835, and entered the
land now owned by his daughter, Paulina Kohler.
Mr. and Mrs. P. are now residing in the old homestead where
they have lived during a period of forty-five years. They
have reared a family of three children, being Lewis Pfaff,
Mary Naumberg, and Paulina Kohler. Mr. P.
became a citizen of the United States as soon as the laws would
permit, and has ever taken pride in his adopted country, and
cherishes the convictions that a republic like our own is far
preferable to monarchy. He was engaged on the canal during
its construction at the rate of $12.00 per month, payable in
State script, the cash value of which was one-half its face
value. Those were days which perhaps more fully justified
complaint because of hard times and low wages, than the present
period. After a life of severe toil and privation, these
old folks deserve that their remaining years be one day of
sunshine whose lustre shall dissipate the clouds of a whole past
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 133 |
JUDGE
EDWARD M. PHELPS was born in Woodbury, Litchfield County,
Conn., Nov. 13, 1813. In 1833 he graduated at Kenyon
College, and in 1836 moved to St. Mary's Ohio. In 1838 he
was elected Treasurer of Mercer County, which office he retained
until 1844. From 1855 to 1859 he was a member of the Ohio
Senate from this district. In May, 1869, he became Judge
of the Common Pleas Court, which position he retained until May,
1879. He has thus been one of the most influential
citizens, as well as one of the earliest settlers of the county.
He still resides at St. Marys, and is engaged in the practice 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 153 - St.
Mary's Twp. - |
JAMES
PHILLIPS was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sept.
16, 1811. He came to Ohio and located at St. Marys in
1844, where he has since lived with the exception of two years,
he worked at silversmithing in Piqua, Ohio. He married
Sarah E. Helm. Their family consisted of six children,
two of whom are still living, viz., Josephine and
Sarah.
‡ 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. |
Union Twp. -
MOSES PORTER was born in Virginia in 1799,
and after various changes, came to this county in 1834, and
entered the piece of land on which he now lives. HE
married Allie Watt in 1825. They have raised a
family of five children. When Mr. P. first
came to the county he became discouraged, through disgust for
pioneer life, as he was a saddler by trade, and not inured to
the hardships of the frontier. On this account he left the
farm and went to Sidney, where he remained about eighteen
months. At the lapse of this period he returned to the
land in this township, where he has since remained.
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 |
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