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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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Duchouque Twp.
JOHN TAM was born in Virginia, and came to
Wapakoneta from Fairfield County in 1832. He purchased
forty acres of land on the present site of Wapakoneta, but
selling this he located on Blackhoof Creek in section 24.
He reared a family of seven children, of whom but two, Milton
and his sister Mary Klingerman, are still living.
The latter is now in Iowa. Milton, the only one
left in this county, was born in 1836. His father died in
1845, and was buried upon his own 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 132 |
Duchouquet Twp. -
J. H. TIMMERMEISTER, the son of Wilhelm
and Clara Timmermeister, was born in Hanover Province (near
Osnabrück), Germany, April
13, 1831.
He started to learn the tinning trade in the spring of
1845, and served an apprenticeship of four years from that date.
After the four years had expired, he worked at his trade until
July 9, 1851, when he started for the United States.
He arrived at New York in September, and remained in
that city for about four yeas. During that time he was
occupied a part of the time at his trade and a part of the time
in selling goods.
Mr. Timmermesiter came to Wapakoneta July 15,
1855, and was soon engaged as a clerk in the store of O. T.
Dieker, where he remained until the spring of 1859, when he
commenced business for himself under the name of J. H.
Timmermesiter & Co. He was married to Miss Caroline
Machetanz on the 22d of August of the same year (1859).
In 1862 the firm of J. H. Timmermester & Co. was
changed to J. H. Timmermeister, and he has been doing a
prosperous business up to the present time, his store being the
leading business house in this place.
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 |
Duchouquet
Twp. -
ALEXANDER HENDRY TRIMBLE was born in
Westmoreland Co., Pa., Oct. 22, 1817. His father died when
he was but six weeks old. He remained with his mother
until his fifteenth year, when he was engaged as a clerk in a
drygoods store by his cousin at Wooster, Ohio. In the
spring of 1841 he married Miss Charlotte E. Granger of
Rochester, New York; by this union six children were born, three
sons and three daughters. The first four years after his
marriage they lived in Wooster after which they moved to St.
Marys, Mercer County, Ohio, where Mr. Trimble engaged in
mercantile business. In 1849 he was elected Mayor of the
village, and two years later was elected Auditor of Auglaize
County, which office he held six years, and was elected Probate
Judge of the county in 1858, and was re-elected in '61 by an
increased majority, as he was favorably known to almost every
man in the county. He had occupied positions of
honor and trust, and was always found worthy.
Mr. Trimble became a member of the Presbyterian
Church of Wapakoneta in 1851, and continued to be a faithful
member during the remainder of his life. He was one of the
foremost in contributing money and time for the erection of the
Presbyterian Church of this place, as with all other good works.
He was a man of excellent judgment, and his opinion was widely
sought. But death called him early to rest on the 19th day
of September, 1864, in the forty-sixth year of his age, in the
prime of life; but such a life never ends as long as children
and grandchildren live to walk in its echoes. Such men can
walk fearlessly and confidingly down into the great future to
meet whatever awaits them there.
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 134 |
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