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History of Auglaize Co., Ohio -
Vol. II of 2 Volumes
Edited by William J. McMurray
Wapakoneta, Ohio
Historical Publishing Company
Indianapolis
1923
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ARTHUR S. BAILEY,
one of Clay township's well known and substantial farmers and
landowners, proprietor of the old Reuban Brackney farm
east of St. Johns, is a native "Buckeye" and has lived in this
state all of his life, a resident of Auglaize county since he
was sixteen years of age. Mr. Bailey was born on a
farm in Montgomery county, this state, Dec. 17, 1885, and is a
son of Napoleon B. and Amanda E. (Carver) Bailey, both of
whom also were born in that same county, members of pioneer
families there. The late Napoleon B. Bailey started
out as a stonecutter when he began to take an active part in the
affairs but later took up farming and became a substantial
landowner of Montgomery county, owner of a farm of 297 acres.
To him and his wife were born five children, al of whom are
still living, the subject of this sketch (the last in order of
birth) having a sister, Ada, and three brothers, Lewis
M., Wilbur H. and Walter E. Bailey. When
he was sixteen years of age Arthur S. Bailey left the
home farm in Montgomery county and came to Auglaize county with
his elder brother, Wilbur H. Bailey, who had married and
settled in this county. For three years he made his home
with his brother and then, at the age of nineteen, was married
and started farming on his own account, renting the farm of his
father-in-law, Reuben Brackney, along the highway
about two miles east of St. Johns. A year later he bought
a farm of sixty-four acres over the line in Union township and
began to farm that place, continuing to farm also a part of his
father-in-law's farm, and in 1914 bought an adjoining tract of
thirty-six acres in Clay township, this giving him 100 acres.
In 1916 Mr. Bailey sold this farm to his brother-in-law,
C. C. Emerson, and then bought his father-in-law's farm
of 183 acres and has since been operating the latter place, one
of the well improved farms in that neighborhood. In
addition to his general farming Mr. Bailey feeds off
about a car load of cattle and about fifty hogs a year and is
doing well. It was on Nov. 24, 1904, that Arthur S.
Bailey was united in marriage to Jennie Brackney, who
was born and reared on the farm on which she is now living,
daughter of Reuben and Samantha J. (Lusk) Brackney, both
members of pioneer families in Clay township, and to this union
three children have been born, Robert E., Howard E. and
Roger S., the first named of whom is attending high school
at Wapakoneta, a member of the class of 1925. Mr. and
Mrs. Bailey are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at
St. Johns and are Republicans. Their home is quite
pleasantly situated along the Wapakoneta-Bellefontaine paved
highway, rural mail route No. 1 out of Wapakoneta.
Source: History
of Auglaize Co., Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page 615 |
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JOSEPH BAKER
Source: History of
Auglaize Co., Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page 611 |
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CHRISTIAN BENNER
Source: History of
Auglaize Co., Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page 651 |
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BENJAMIN BOWSHER - See
WILLIAM N. BOWSHER
Source: History of
Auglaize Co., Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page 512 |
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ERNEST J. BOWSHER,
local agent for the American Railway Express at Wanakoneta and
one of the best known young business men of that city, is a
native son of Auglaize county and has lived here all his life.
Mr. Bowsher was born on a farm in Duchouquet township on
June 26, 1888, and is a son of JOHN G.
and Sarah (Nungester) Bowsher, the latter of whom also was
born in this county, a member of one of the old families
here. John G. Bowsher was born in Ross county,
Ohio, and died on July 20, 1922. To him and his wife were
born six children, all of whom are living, the subject of this
sketch having four sisters, Mrs. Marietta Mowery, Mrs.
Annabel Porter, Mrs. Gertrude Bowsher and Mrs. Ella
Miller, and a brother, Cloyd W. Bowsher. Reared
on the home farm, Ernest J. Bowsher received his
schooling in the district school in the neighborhood of his home
in the northwestern part of Duchouquet township and until after
his marriage at the age of twenty-six was variously employed.
He then, in 1915, became employed at Wapakoneta as driver of the
wagon for the Wells-Fargo Express Company and was thus engaged
for six months, at the end of which time he was promoted to act
as messenger on the local division of the Western Ohio lines
between Wapakoneta and Celina and from St. Marys to Ft. Loramie,
and the continued in this service until the consolidation of the
local service of the Wells Fargo Company and the American
Express Company was effected at Wapakoneta in 1916, when he was
appointed agent for these joint interests at that place.
When in 918, under the stress of war activity, the express
interests of the country were merged into the American Railway
Express, Mr. Bowsher was retained as agent of the latter
interest at Wapakoneta and has since been serving in that
important and responsible capacity. Mr. Bowsher is
a Republican. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the local
lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose at Wapakoneta and he and his
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. On
Dec. 31, 1914, Ernest J. Bowsher was united in marriage
to Grace Chiles, who was born and reared in Union
township, this county, and is a member of one of the pioneer
families of the county. Mrs. Bowsher s a daughter
of Seabury
and Belle (Roney) Chiles, both of whom also were born in
this county and the former of whom is a well-to-do farmer of
Union township.
Source: History of Auglaize Co.,
Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page 75 |
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OLIVER BOWSHER - See
CHARLES
McCLINTOCK
Source: History of
Auglaize Co., Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page 625 |
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WILLIAM N. BOWSHER,
a well-known farmer of Duchouquet township, is a member of one
of the real pioneer families of this part of the state, his
grandfather having settled in this region shortly after the
Indians left here back in the '30s of the past century.
Mr. Bowsher was born on a farm in Duchouquet township on
Apr. 7, 1861, and is a son of William and Sarah (Shappell)
Bowsher, the latter of whom was a member of the pioneer
Shappell family which settled in the upper part of
Duchouquet township in the early days of the settlement of that
region. William Bowsher was born in Pickaway
county, Ohio, and was but three years of age when his parents.
BENJAMIN
and Elizabeth (Delong)
BOWSHER, came with their
family up into this part of the state and settled in Shawnee
township, Allen county. That was about the year 1835,
thirteen years before Auglaize county was organized, and but
three years after the Indians had left their old reservations at
Wapakoneta and on Hog creek, so that Benjamin Bowsher may
be accounted as one of the real pioneers of this section of the
state. He and his wife were the parents of thirteen
children, two of whom, Elizabeth and Matilda, are still
living, the venerable aunts of the subject of this sketch.
William Bowsher was the fifth in order of birth of these
children and he grew to manhood on the pioneer farm as father
had undertaken to clear and develop. He remained on that
farm, a valued aid in this development work, until he attained
his majority, when he bought a "forty" down over the line in the
east half of the northwest quarter of section 32 of Duchouquet
township, this county, east of Two Mile creek and adjoining the
Shappelll farm, and there established his home. He
later added to this farm an adjoining "forty" and on that
eighty-acre farm there along the county line he spent the
remainder of his life, his death occurring on May 1, 1903.
To him and his wife were born nine children, all of whom are
living save two (Daniel and Benjamin), the
subject of this sketch having three sisters, Missouri, Mollie
and Emma, and three brothers, George, Solomon and
Rufus Bowsher. Reared on the home farm in the upper
part of Duchouquet township, William N. Bowsher received
his schooling in the school house of district No. 9, right at a
corner of his father's farm, and remained at home until he was
twenty-one when he took up the carpenter's trade and became a
thorough carpenter and builder. For twenty-two years Mr.
Bowsher continued working at this vocation, three years
of which time he made his home at Hume, over the line in Allen
county, and then, in 1888, he retired from that business and
established his home on a 100-acre farm owned by his wife in
Duchouquet township, and has since made that place his home,
actively engaged in farming, and has done well, he and his
family having a pleasant home there on rural mail route No. 4
out of Wapakoneta. On Mar. 12, 1886, William N. Bowsher
was united in marriage to Susan J. Culp, also a member of
one of the old families in this county, who was born in Logan
township, daughter of James A. and Anna (Krauss) Culp,
and to this union have been born three sons, Russell A.,
Merrill and Osborne, the latter of whom died at the
age of seventeen years. Russell A. Bowsher married
Delia Hoverman and is living in Duchouquet
township. Merrill Bowsher, who also
continues to make his home in this county, married Ethel Gross
and has three children, Waldo, Eleanor and
Winifred. Mr. and Mrs. Bowsher are members of
the Lutheran church and they and their sons are Republicans.
The Bowsher family has been represented in Ohio
for nearly 129 years, for it was in 1804, the year following the
admission of this state to statehood, that the family of which
Benjamin Bowsher, grandfather of the subject of
this sketch, was a member, came to the state and took up their
location in Pickaway county.
Source: History of
Auglaize Co., Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page 512 |
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JOHN BRANDEWIE,
a well known and substantial retired manufacturer of Minster,
formerly and for years manager of the plant of the Minster
Cooperage Company and thus an active and forceful figure in
the industrial life of that community, was born at Minster and
has been a resident of that place all his life. Mr.
Brandewie was born on Dec. 15, 1856, and is a son of
BERNARD and Elizabeth (Bornhorst)
Brandewiiie, natives of Germany, who came up here from
Cincinnati in pioneer days and became useful and influential
members of the Minster community. Bernard Brandewie
was about seven years of age when he came to this country with
his parents, the family locating at Cincinnati, whence two or
three years later they came up into this part of the state and
settled on a farm in the "Egypt" neighborhood southwest of
Minster. It was on this pioneer farm that Bernard
Brandewie grew to manhood. He then returned to
Cincinnati and became employed there in a cooperage plant.
Some little time after his marriage in that city he returned to
Minster and opened a cooperage shop of his own at that place.
He found a ready outlet for the products of his shop at that
place. He found a ready outlet for the products of his
shop through the canal trade, operating his cooperage during the
winters and running canal boats during the open season, and was
thus engaged until the coming of the machine mills put the old
cooperage shops out of business, when he closed his shop and
began working for the Herkenhoff Company, with which
concern he remained until his retirement at a ripe old age.
To him and his wife were born nine children, eight of whom grew
to maturity, those besides the subject of this sketch being
Catherine, Louise (deceased), Anton, Joseph
(deceased), Henry, Frank and Benjamin, the
Brandewie connection in the present generation thus being a
considerable one. Reared at Minster, John Brandewie
received his schooling in the schools of that place and
early applied himself to his father's vocation as a cooper,
taking employment in the Herkenhoff plant, where he was
engaged for eight or ten years, at the end of which time he
became engaged, in association with his elder brother Anton,
in the retail meat business at Minster. For about ten
years Mr. Brandewie was engaged in this business and then
he sold his interest in the place to his brother and in 1890
became the manager of the extensive local plant of the Minster
Cooperage Company, in which he had a considerable financial
interest, and for thirty years he continued thus engaged or
until the concern sold out in 1920, when he retired from
business and has since been living retired, very comfortably
situated at his pleasant home in Minster. Mr. Brandewie
is a Republican, one of the real "veterans" of that party in
Jackson township, where it is said that in former days the
finding of a Republican ballot in the ballot box was regarded by
the election judges as an "accident" and not counted, and he has
for years taken an earnest interest in local civic affairs.
He and his family are members of St. Augustine's Catholic church
and he was for five years a member of the board of trustees of
the valuable property held by that parish at Minster. He
also is a member of the St. Augustine Orphan Society and has for
many years taken a warm interest in parish affairs. In
1885 John Brandewie was united in marriage to Nora
Manahan, daughter of Timothy and Mary (McNamara) Manahan,
and to this union seven children have been born, Bernardine,
Ida, Arthur, Blanche, STANLEY,
Hedwig, who completed her schooling at St. Vincents-on-the-Hudson,
and Oscar (deceased), the first four named of whom are
married. Bernardine Brandewie married L.
Hierholzer. Ida Brandewie married Harry Brinkmann
and has one child, a son, John, named in honor of his
maternal grandfather. Arthur Brandewie married
Loretta Hinken and Blanche Brandewie married Roy
Klipstein. Stanley Brandewie, the younger son, is
deputy recorder of Auglaize county and is one of the most
popular and accommodating young men connected with the
administration of county affairs in the court house today.|
Source: History
of Auglaize Co., Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page 257 |
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M. H. BRIGGS, D. C.,
of New Bremen, one of the best known chiropractic practitioners
in this part of the state, a veteran of the World war with an
overseas record and a member of the Ohio Chiropractic
Association, was born at Lima, this state, and is a son of
William R. and Lottie Briggs, who not long after his birth
moved from Lima to Spencerville. It was thus that M. H.
Briggs was reared at Spencerville, where he received his
schooling and grew to manhood. AT the time of the flurry
on the Mexican border in 1916 he was a member of the company at
that place of the Ohio National Guard, attached to the 2d
regiment, and with that command was federalized and sent to the
border, remaining there until the flurry was over. When in
the spring of the next year this county took a hand in the World
war this regiment again was federalized and attached to the
National army, Doctor Briggs entering the Federal service
in July, 1917, at Camp Sheridan, in Alabama, where the unit to
which he was assigned became attached to the 147th Infantry,
with which he went overseas in June, 1918. With his
command he saw much active service, including the Argonne drive
and the battle of St. Mihiel, his particular service having been
rendered in connection with the field hospital of the 147th in
France and Belgium. Following the armistice this command
was stationed in Belgium and an order to return did not come
until in March, 1919. The Doctor received his discharge in
April, 1919, and returned home, but not long afterward reentered
the National College of Chiropractic at Chicago and in October,
1920, was graduated from that institution. Upon receiving
his diploma, Doctor Briggs
returned to Ohio and in April, 1921, opened an office for the
practice of his profession at New Bremen and has since been
located there, where he is very pleasantly situated and where he
is doing well. The Doctor is a member of the Chiropractic
Research Society, a member of the Ohio Chiropractic Association
and is affiliated with the college fraternity Sigma Phi Kappa.
Doctor Briggs married Selma Speckman, daughter of
John Speckman. He purchased a building on South
Washington street and remodeled the same along modern lines,
this rearrangement giving him splendidly appointed reception
rooms and operating rooms.
Source: History of Auglaize Co., Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page
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WILLIAM R. BRIGGS,
a well-known teacher in the schools of Kossuth and the owner of
a pleasant home and a well-kept farm at the edge of that
village, one of the wide-awake and progressive citizens of Salem
township, where he has lived for nearly twenty years past, was
born on a farm just up over the line in the neighboring county
of Allen on April 29, 1870, and is a son of
Charles M. and Amanda (Vest) Briggs, whose last days were
spent there. The late Charles M. Briggs, an honored
veteran of the Civil war, was born in Allen county and was
living there when the Civil war broke out. He enlisted his
services in behalf of the cause of the Union and went to the
front with the 4th regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which
gallant command he served for four years, or until the close of
the war, and during this long term of service participated in
some of the important engagements of the war, for it will be
recalled that the 4th Ohio took a pretty active part in that
struggle between the states. Upon the completion of his
military service, Charles M. Briggs, returned to Allen
county, and after his marriage established his home on a farm of
sixty acres in that county, and there spent the remainder of his
life engaged in farming. To him and his wife were born
five children, three of whom are still living, the subject of
this sketch having a sister, Florence, and a brother,
Harry Briggs. Reared on the home farm in Allen county,
William R. Briggs received his early schooling in the
Spencerville schools and supplemented the course in the high
school there by a course in the normal schools at Ada and at
Defiance, and then began to teach school, a vocation he ever
since has followed, and in which he has become one of the best
known teachers in Auglaize county. Mr. Briggs'
first school was the Gower school, in Allen county, and his next
school was taught in Duchouquet township, in Auglaize county.
He then became employed as head of the Kossuth schools and has
ever since been thus engaged, principal of the schools. In
1904 Mr. Briggs bought a tract of forty acres adjoining
the village, erected there a comfortable dwelling house, and he
and his family are quite pleasantly situated. He gives
attention to the direction of affairs on the farm and thus finds
ample outlet for his energies during the period of school
vacations. At the age of twenty-one years, in September
1891, William R. Briggs was united in marriage to
Charlotte Frech, daughter of Henry and Sophia Frech,
of Fort Wayne, Ind., and to this union six children have been
born, Leo, Leon, Dr. Marion H. Briggs,
Leroy, Lena and Dorothea, three of whom, Leo,
Leroy and Marion, are married. Leo Briggs,
who is a veteran of the World war, married Elizabeth Seibert,
and Leroy Briggs, also a veteran of the World war,
married Thelma Parent. Dr. Marion H. Briggs
married
Selma Speckman, of New Bremen, and is now practicing his
profession at that place. The Briggs home is on
rural mail route No. 5 out of Spencerville. Mr. Briggs
is one of the leaders of the Republican party in the
northwestern part of the county, is the present township
committeeman of that party for Salem township, and for six years
served as township assessor. He is a member of the local
lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Kossuth, and
both he and his wife are connected with the lodge of the
Daughters of Rebeka there.
Source: History of Auglaize Co., Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page
415
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NOTES FOR REFERENCE:
Found in 1870 Census Spencer Township, Allen Co., OH - P. O.
Spencerville on 30th day of June, 1870
Dwelling 50 Family 51
Briggs, Charles - 27 M W - Farmer - RE$1000 Pers$115 - b.
Ohio
Briggs, Amy E. - 21 F W - Keeping house - b. Ohio
Briggs, John - 74 M W - Unemployed - b. W. Virginia
Vest, Edith - 57 F W - Unemployed - b. Ohio
Briggs, William R. - 1/12 M W - b. Ohio - April
NOTE: Found in 1920 Census Auglaize Co., OH
William R. Briggs - Self - M 50y b. Ohio fath. b. Ohio
moth b. Ohio - Farmer - General Farm
Charlotte Briggs - wife - F 50y b. Germany fath b. Germany
moth. b. Germany
Leo R. Briggs - son - M 27y b. Ohio fath. b. Ohio
moth b. Germany
Marion H. Briggs - son - M 27y b. Ohio fath. b. Ohio
moth b. Germany
Leroy B. Briggs - son - M 23y b. Ohio fath. b. Ohio
moth b. Germany
Lena Briggs - dau - F 14y b. Ohio fath. b. Ohio moth b.
Germany
Dorthea Briggs - dau - F 4y1m b. Ohio fath. b. Ohio
moth b. Germany
Source:
www.familysearch.orgNOTE: 1940 Census Salem Twp., Auglaize Co., Ohio on Sep.
10-13, 1940
Household #81 Owned Valued $1500
Briggs, W. R. - Head - M W 70 M - b. Ohio - Farmer
Briggs, Charlotte - Wife - F W 70 M - b. Germany
- and -
Household #79 Owned Value $1000
Briggs, Leo - Head M W 47 M - b. Ohio - Farmer
Briggs, Anna E. - Wife F W 42 M - b. Ohio
Briggs, Charles - son M W 17 S - b. Ohio
Briggs, Richard - son M W 15 S - b. Ohio
Briggs, Raymond - son M W 13 S - b. Ohio
Briggs, Betty - dau - F W 11 S - b. Ohio
Briggs, Anna - dau - F W 8 S - b. Ohio
NOTICE OF DEATH:
Source: www.familysearch.org
Name: William Briggs
Death: 18 Apr. 1917
Death place: Monroe, Ohio
NOTE: The Briggs family is also of Allen County,
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BERNARD BRUNS,
a veteran farmer of Jackson township, was born in the
neighboring county of Mercer on Oct. 21, 1850, and is a son of
John and Elizabeth (Freling) Bruns both of whom were born
in Germany. John Bruns grew up in his native land,
trained to the trade of shoemaking. When twenty-two years
of age he came to this country and located at Cincinnati, where
he became engaged at his trade, and where he presently married.
Not long after their marriage he and his wife came up into this
part of the state and he entered from the Government a tract of
eight acres of timber land in Mercer county, and on that place
established his home. Though trained as a shoemaker, he
found himself to be a good farmer, and before his death was the
owner of 500 acres of land. He and his wife were the
parents of seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch
was the fifth in order of birth, the others being Henry,
John, August, Charles, Herman and Marie. Reared
on the home farm in Mercer county, Bernard Bruns received
his schooling in the neighborhood schools and remained on the
farm, working for his father, until his marriage, when he moved
to the place on which he is now living in Jackson township, this
county, and has since lived here. He started there with
eighty acres and now has a well-improved farm of 200 acres, a
part of which lies in the adjoining township of German.
Mr. Bruns is a Democrat and has served as school. director
in his district. He and his family are members of St.
John's Catholic church at Maria Stein, and he has served as a
member of the board of trustees of that church, Bernard
Bruns married Mary Hagemann, and to this union have
been born nine children, all of whom are living save two (Berard
and Henry), the others being Elizabeth, Rosa, Frances,
Josephine, Regina, Charles and Louis all of whom are
married. Elizabeth Bruns married John Knapke
and has seven children, Lawrence, Helen, Eleanor, Jerome,
Norbert, Leo and Albert. Rosa Bruns married
John Heitkamp, of whom further mention is made elsewhere in
this volume, and has nine children, and Frances Bruns
married Joseph Heitkamp, of whom further mention also is
made, and has four children. Josephine Bruns
married Frank Albers and has two children, Clarence
and Lorena. Regina Bruns married Andrew
Osterloh and has one child, a son, Victor. Charles
Bruns married Anna Meier and has two children,
Richard and Hilda, and Louis Bruns married
Josephine Albers.
Source: History of
Auglaize Co., Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page 472 |
Elsworth Burden |
ELSWORTH BURDEN,
senior member of the firm of Burden Bros., proprietors of the
old Burden saw mill at Wapakoneta, this firm being
regarded as among the leading lumber concerns in this part of
the state, is a native son of Auglaize county and has lived here
all his life. Mr. Burden was born on a farm east of
Wapakoneta, in Duchoquet township, Mar. 23, 1866, and is a son
of John M. and Rachel (Bechdolt) Burden, natives of
Pennsylvania, who had come here with their respective parents in
pioneer days and had married here. John M. Burden
was a cabinet maker by trade and also farmed for some time.
He was a good lumberman and twenty-five years and more ago he
started a saw mill at Wapakoneta, the mill now being operated b
his sons, and continued actively engaged in this business until
his sons took over the plant six years ago. Elsworth
Burden completed his schooling in the old Third Ward school
building (Williamson school) at Wapakoneta and as a young man
began working as a farm hand, continuing thus engaged for about
four years, during which time he was married. He then
began farming for himself, as a renter, and was thus engaged for
ten years, at the end of which time he moved to Wapakoneta and
began working as a teamster at his father's mill. In 1908
he began buying timber on his own account, for shipping, and was
thus actively employed until in 1916, when he and his brother,
FRED BURDEN,
bought their father's mill and have since been operating the
same. In that same year Fred Burden established a
mill at New Bremen - the Burden & Salms mill - and
with both plants running practically full time since then have
been doing an extensive business, about forty persons all told
being employed in the two plants. The specialty of the
Wapakoneta mill is the manufacture of timber for heavy
construction work and there is a wide demand for the products of
the mill. Mr. Burden is a Republican and he and his
wife are members of the English Lutheran church. It was on
Mar. 27, 1886, when just past twenty years of age, that
Ellsworth Burden was united in marriage to Anna
Morris, who was born in Union township, this county,
daughter of Henry and Helena (Hartung) Morris, and to
this union ten children have been born, all of whom are living
save one, John Henry who died in infancy, the others
being Effie, Harry, Emma, Ferd, Della, Antoinette, Luther,
Marie and Helena, all of whom are married save
Della, Marie and Helena. The eldest daughter,
Effie Burden, married Vernon Kantner, of
Wapakoneta, and has one child, Aldo. Harry
Burden, who is a sawyer at the mill, married Frances
Fricke and has three children, Milford, Eugene and
Urban. Emma Burden married Anthony Eckensweiler,
who is employed at the wheel works, and has three children,
Alma, Leona and Ellen L. Ferd Burden, who is a
cigar maker at Wapakoneta, married Hazel Frey and has six
children, Vesta, Rowland, Marcella, Roger, Ned and
Paul, besides one, Harry D., who died in infancy.
Antoinette Burden married Dewey Harshbarger, now
an employe of the Studebaker Auto Company at South Bend, Ind.,
and is living in that city, and Luther Burden, who is
employed in his father's mill, married Evelyn Emerson.
Source: History of
Auglaize Co., Ohio - Vol. II - 1923 - Page 588 |
Fred Burden |
FRED BURDEN,
who is associated with his brother,
ELSWORTH BURDEN,
in the sawmilling business at Wapakoneta and who also is a
partner in the Burden & Salms saw mill at New Bremen, one
of the best known lumbermen hereabout, was born in Auglaize
county and has lived here pretty much all his life, the
exception being a period during which he was employed at Dayton
and later when for a time he operated a saw mill at Anna, down
over the line in Shelby county. Mr. Burden was born
at Wapakoneta on Mar. 23, 1876, and is a son of John M. and
Rachel (Bechdolt) Burden, natives of Pennsylvania and the
latter of whom died when he was a child. John M. Burden,
who was for years engaged in the sawmilling business at
Wapakoneta, founder of the mill now operated by his sons, was an
expert cabinet maker, a vocation he long followed. He also
was for some time engaged in farming, the proprietor of a farm
east of Wapakoneta. About the year 1894 he set up a saw
mill at Wapakoneta and continued operating that mill until his
sons Elsworth and Fred took it over in 1916, since which
time he has been living retired at Wapakoneta. He was
twice married. By his first wife, Rachel Bechdolt,
he had five children, all of whom are living save one who died
in infancy, the others (besides the subject of this sketch)
being Elsworth, William and Louella. By his
second marriage he had six children, all of whom are living save
Myrtle, who died at the age of nine years, the others
being Ancil, Stella, Pearl, Arley and Gerald.
Fred Burden completed his schooling at Wapakoneta and
after leaving school he was for a time engaged working as a farm
hand. He then, when nineteen years old, went to Dayton,
where he worked for two yeas, at the end of which time he
returned to Wapakoneta and began working in his father's mill
and not log afterward, at the age of twenty-three, was married.
For eight years he continued working at the saw mill and then he
moved out onto a truck farm and was for two years engaged in
truck gardening. He then went to Springfield, where he
spent seventeen months working in the handle factory and then
returned to Wapakoneta and resumed truck gardening, continuing
thus engaged for five years, at the end of which time he bought
a saw mill at Anna and was engaged in operating that plant for
four years, or until in 1916, when he sold that mill and
returned to Wapakoneta and in association with his elder brother,
Elsworth Burden, bought the old established mill of his
father and has since been engaged in business in that city.
Extensive improvements have been made to this plant since the
brothers took it over and it has built up a large trade,
particularly in the manufacture of timbers for heavy
construction work. It also was in 1916 that Mr. Burden
started the mill at New Bremen, operated under the firm name of
Burden & Salms, and in the two plants about forty persons
are employed. The Burden enterprises buy standing
timber and ship lumber all over the country. It was on
Nov. 6, 1898, that Fred Burden was united in marriage to
Adella Kinninger, who also was born in Wapakoneta, in the
house in which she and her husband are now living, daughter of
Anthony and Emma (Gibnos) Kinninger, and to this union
four children have been born, all of whom are living save one,
Louella who died in infancy, the others being Edwin,
Venard and Bernice, the two latter of whom are still
at home. Edwin Burden, now manager of the Auglaize
Granite Block Company of Wapakoneta, married Margaret McAtee
and has one child, a son, James, born on May 5, 1922.
Mr. and Mrs. Burden are members of St. Joseph's Catholic
church at Wapakoneta and are Republicans. Mr. Burden
is a member of the local council of the Knights of Columbus, of
the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
and of the local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose at Wapakoneta
and in the affairs of these several organizations takes an
active interest.
Source: History of
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