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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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AUGUST
F. MACKENBACH, of the firm of Mackenbach Bros.,
lumber dealers at St. Marys and for years recognized as one of
the "live wires" in industrial circles in that city, was born at
St. Marys in 1876 and is a son of Frederick W. and Julia A.
(Wagner) Mackenbach, the latter of whom was born in St.
Mary's township, a member of one of the real pioneer families of
that township, and who is still living, making her home at St.
Marys, now in her eightieth year. The late Frederick W.
Mackenbach, who died at his home in St. Marys in the summer
of 1906 and of whom further and fitting mention is made
elsewhere in this work, was a native of Germany, born in the
vicinity of Cologne, in Rhenish Prussia, in 1826 and was
twenty-eight years of age when he came to this country in 1854,
and located in this county, establishing a mill east of St.
Marys which he operated for ten years, at the end of which time
he moved his plant into town and established the business in
lumber and builders supplies which since his death has been
carried on by his sons, the subject of this sketch being thus
associated in business with his brothers, William A. and
Edward Mackenbach was reared at St. Mary and there received
his schooling. From boyhood he was interested in the
operation of his father's saw mill and in the development of the
Mackenbach lumber interests there and upon attaining his
majority was taken into the business, which after his father's
death was re-organized and has since been carried on under the
firm name of Mackenbach Bros. and has been developed into
one of he leading concerns of the kind in this part of Ohio.
Mr. Mackenbach is a Freemason and he and his wife are
members of the Zion Lutheran church. In 1903 August F.
Mackenbach was united in marriage to Mary Sophia Dickman,
who was born in St. Marys township, daughter of Fred Dickman,
a substantial farmer and landowner of that township, and to this
union have been born six children, Albert, Lillian, Edgar,
Julia, Paul and Charles, all of whom are at home.
The Mackenbachs have a very pleasant home at 301 North
Chestnut street in St. Marys.
Source: History of Auglaize
Co., Ohio - Vol. II of 2 Volumes Edited by William J. McMurray,
Wapakoneta, Ohio - Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis -
1923 - Page 157SEE REFERENCE NOTE at bottom of William A.
Mackenbach's Biography ~ S.Wick |
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EDWARD MACKENBACH, of the
firm of Mackenbach Bros., dealers in lumber and builders
supplies, at St. Marys and one of the best known and most
energetic business men of that city, was born at St. Marys and
has lived there all his life, having literally "grown up" to the
business in which he is engaged and which he and his brothers
have been carrying on in succession to their father, who
established the Mackenbach lumber yard there and carried
on the business until his death more than fifteen years ago.
Edward Mackenbach was born on Oct. 26, 1881, and is a son
of William F. and Julia (Wagner) Mackenbach, who were
four years well known residents of that city. The late
William Frederick Mackenbach, who died at his home in St.
Marys in 1906, was a European by birth, born in the city
of Cologne, the capital of Rhenish Prussia, Mar. 22, 1826, but
had come to this country in the days of his youth and many
years ago had become a resident of St. Marys, where after his
marriage he had established his home. His wife was born in
St. Marys township, in what then was Mercer county, Dec. 8,
1843, that having been about five years before Auglaize county
was erected, and her parents were among the influential pioneers
of the St. Marys neighborhood. William F. Mackenbach
early became engaged in the lumber business at St. Marys and
continued thus engaged the rest of his life, his death occurring
on July 6, 1906, and the business which he established is still
being carried on in the family, the three sons of the founder,
William A., August F. and Edward Mackenbach,
having taken over the business following their father's death
and operating the same under the firm style of Mackenbach
Bros. Formerly and for many years the elder
Mackenbach operated a saw mill at St. Marys and continued
that until the big timber hereabout was pretty well gone, after
which he maintained a lumber yard, which in time was extended to
include mill lumber and general builders supplies and which
under the later management of his sons was further extended to
meet the growing demands of modern needs and has thus grown into
the considerable enterprise carried on by the present concern,
one of the leading industries of the town. On Apr. 13,
1911, Edward Mackenbach was united in marriage to
Caroline L. Stearns, who also was born in St. Marys, and to
this union two children have been born, Catherine Carmen,
born on Nov. 15, 1912, and Elizabeth Jean, Nov. 12, 1917.
Mrs. Mackenbach is a daughter of Charles N. and Ellen
C. (Fulkerson) Stearns, the latter of whom was born at
Newcastle, Pa. Charles Stearns was born at St.
Marys, a member of one of the old families there. To him
and his wife were born six children, all of whom are living,
Mrs. Mackenbach having one brother, Harry Stearns,
and four sisters, Mrs. Stella Lewis, Mrs. Charles Kraft, Miss
Bertha Stearns, who is now a teacher in the college at
Laramie, Wyo., and Miss Ethel Stearns, who is now
teaching in the West technical school at Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Mackenbach have a very pleasant home at the
corner of Walnut and North streets, St. Marys. They are
members of the Lutheran church, and Mr. Mackenbach is a
Freemason, attaining to both the chapter and council degrees of
that order, at St. Marys, and also is a member of the local
aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Source: History of Auglaize Co.,
Ohio - Vol. II of 2 Volumes Edited by William J. McMurray,
Wapakoneta, Ohio - Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis -
1923 - Page 168SEE REFERENCE NOTE at bottom of
William A. Mackenbach's Biography ~ S.Wick |
Frederick William Mackenbach and Family |
WILLIAM
A. MACKENBACH, head of the firm of Mackenbach Bros.,
lumber dealers of St. Marys, at one time a member of the common
council of that city and for years recognized as one of the
influential figures in the civic and industrial life of the
community, was born at St. Marys and has been a resident of that
city all his life. Mr. Mackenbach was born on Sept.
8, 1868, and is a son of Frederick W. and Julia A. (Wagner)
Mackenbach, the latter of whom was born in that same
township, Dec. 8, 1843, a member of one of the pioneer families
of that region, and is still living, making her home at St.
Marys, now in her eightieth year. The late Frederick W.
Mackenbach, founder of the business now being carried on by
his sons, was of European birth, born in the vicinity of the old
free port of Cologne, now a capital of Rhenish Prussia, Mar. 22,
1826, and was reared there, being trained as a miller.
Upon completing his service in the army he became a miller on
his own account and thus continued until he was twenty-eight
years of age, when he disposed of his interests there and in
1854 came to the United States, proceeding on out into Ohio and
locating at St. Marys, which at that time was just entering upon
a systematic development of the woodworking industries which had
sprung up there following the opening of the canal and to which
the then apparently inexhaustible stretches of hard timber
hereabout lent so great a value. Mr. Mackenbach
secured a tract of land a mile and a half east of St. Marys and
there erected a mill, with particular equipment for the
manufacture of lumber but also equipped for grinding grain.
On that site he operated his mill for about ten years, or until
the big timber in that vicinity was practically out of the way,
when he built a plant at St. Marys and erected a saw mill on
North Chestnut street at Columbia street, the present site of
the Mackenbach lumber yard, and there proceeded to
enlarge his operations to include a general lumber and
mill-finishing business. That was in 1863. The next
year he married and established his home at St. Marys and there
spent the remainder of his life, a helpful and influential
factor in the development of the industrial interests of the
town. In 1891, his sons meantime becoming associated with
him in the operation of the saw mill, Mr. Mackenbach
increased his plant to include general building supplies and he
continued active in business until his death on July 6, 1906, he
then being past eighty years of age. Frederick W.
Mackenbach took an active interest in local civic affairs
and for some time served as a representative of his ward in the
city common council. He and his wife were members of the
Zion Lutheran church and their children were reared in that
faith. It was in 1864 that Frederick W. Mackenbach
was united in marriage to Julia Wagner, whose parents had
settled in St. Marys township in early '40s and who survives
him. To that union were born four children, the subject of
this sketch having a sister, Matilda, wife of August
Grauer, and the two brothers, August F. and Edward
Mackenbach, who are associated in business with him and
concerning whom further mention is made elsewhere in this
volume. William A. Mackenbach was reared at St.
Marys, where he was born, and in the excellent schools of that
city received his schooling. From the days of his boyhood
he was an able assistant to his father in the task attending the
development of the Mackenbach milling interests at St.
Marys and when he had attained his majority was taken into the
business by his father and as his younger brothers reached their
majority they also were taken into the firm, which after the
death of Frederick W. Mackenbach, founder of the
business, was changed to Mackenbach Bros., with
William A. Mackenbach, the elder brother, head of the firm,
and has so continued, the business in the meantime having been
developed and expanded until new the Mackenbach lumber
yard is regarded as one of the largest and most completely
stocked concerns of the kind in this part of the state.
William A. Mackenbach is a Democrat and has ever given a
good citizen's attention to local civic affairs, a former member
of the city common council. He and his wife are members of
the Zion Lutheran church. On Nov. 25, 1897, William A.
Mackenbach was united in marriage to Emma C. Warner,
who was born in Salem township, this county, daughter of
Jacob and Anna Warner, both now deceased, and to this union
four children have been born, Frederick, Anna, William
and Edith, all of whom are at home. The
Mackenbachs have a very pleasant home at 326 North Chestnut
street.
Source: History of Auglaize
Co., Ohio - Vol. II of 2 Volumes Edited by William J. McMurray,
Wapakoneta, Ohio - Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis -
1923 - Page 156
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John McAvoy |
JOHN McAVOY,
formerly and for years a merchant of St. Marys, and who had
rendered public service in various official capacities,
including service as a member of the city council and as a
justice of the peace, was past eighty years of age at the time
of his death in 1916, and it is likely that he had as wide an
acquaintance in and about there as any man in the city, for he
had made his home there for more than sixty years, and thus had
witnessed the growth and development of the town from pioneer
days. Mr. McAvoy was born in New Jersey in 1832 and
was a son of PETER McAVOY
and wife, who came to Ohio with their family in the early '50s
and settled on a farm on the McKinley road out of St. Marys.
PETER McAVOY was
a native of Ireland, born in County Louth, Leinster, and was
trained to the trade of weaver, a grade he followed for years
after coming to this country, following that occupation in New
Jersey until he came here, after which he gave his attention to
the development of the tract of land he had bought here.
John McAvoy was twenty-one years of age when he came here
about 1853, and for two years thereafter, or until his parents
could get well settled in their new home on the farm, he
remained with them, helping to get things going. He then
started a lime kiln along the canal at St. Marys, and not long
afterward opened a grocery store on Spring Street, at the site
now occupied by the Montague store, and as his business
developed started a fleet of boats on the canal, having three
boats thus operating in the Piqua trade and in the Cincinnati
trade, and it wa snot long until he came to be recognized as one
of the influential factors in the development of the commercial
interests of the town. For thirty-two years Mr. McAvoy
carried on his grocery business at St. Marys, in the meantime
developing other interests in the town, and then in 1900 retired
from business, the remainder of his life being spent in quiet
retirement at the pleasant home he had established there after
his marriage, his death occurring in 1916, he then being
eighty-four years of age. Mr. McAvoy was a Democrat
and for years had given his attention to local civic affairs,
having served from time to time as a member of the local school
board, as a member of the city council and as a justice of the
peace in and for St. Marys township. He was an
earnest member of the Holy Rosary Catholic church, as is his
widow, and took a proper interest in parish affairs. It
was in 1895 that John McAvoy was united in marriage to
Sarah Riley, who survives him and who is comfortably
situated at her pleasant home at 202
North Walnut street.* Mr. McAvoy was
twice married. He had no children of his own, but in his
hospitable home reared nine orphans. With his first wife,
who was Alice Ennis he reared four children, three of
whom grew to maturity, and he and his second wife reared five
children, two of whom are still with their foster mother.
Mrs. McAvoy was born on a farm in the vicinity of Celina,
in the neighboring county of Mercer, and is a daughter of
John and Mary (Allen) Riley, both of whom were born in
County Louth, Leinster, Ireland, and who were acquaintances in
the old country of Peter McAvoy. Upon coming to
this country from Ireland, John Riley located at
Rochester, N. Y., where he presently married Mary Allen,
who had come from the neighborhood of his old home in Ireland.
Not long after their marriage they came to Ohio and settled on a
farm which John Riley bought on the Celina Road, in
Mercer county, and there they spent the remainder of their
lives, both dying in 1903 within two months. They were
members of the church of the Immaculate Conception at Celina,
and their children were reared in the Catholic faith.
Mrs. McAvoy has ever taken an earnest interest in parish
affairs and is an active member of the women's societies of Holy
Rosary parish.
Source: History of Auglaize
Co., Ohio - Vol. II of 2 Volumes Edited by William J. McMurray,
Wapakoneta, Ohio - Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis -
1923 - Page 196
*SHARON WICK'S NOTE: The house at 202 North Walnut Street,
St. Marys, OH is still there as of 2004. |
Charles McClintock
and Family |
CHARLES McCLINTOCK,
a member of one of the pioneer families of Duchouquet township
and a well known and substantial farmer and landowner of that
township, was born on the place on which he is now living, in
the northwestern part of the township, and has lived there all
his life with the exception of some years during the time of the
height of the oil "boom" in this region when he was engaged in
oil production activities, making his home then at Lima,
Mr. McClintock was born on Nov. 11, 1856, and is a son of
Charles and Mary Jane (Steen) McClintock, who were among
the influential pioneers of that part of Auglaize county.
The senior Charles McClintock was born in County Donegal,
Ireland. As a young man, in 1836, he came to American
shores, making the acquaintance on the way over of a County
Donegal girl, Mary Jane Steen, whom he married not long
after their arrival at New Brunswick. Three years later,
in 1839, he and his wife came to Ohio with a view to making
their home in this state. At Columbus they secured the
service of a man with a one-horse wagon to convey their
household stuff to Springfield, paying him $20 for the trip.
There he decided to settle on a farm a mile and a half northeast
of Fletcher, over in the adjoining county of Miami and he paid
the wagoner another $20 to get his goods over there. On
that farm in the Fletcher neighborhood the McClintocks
remained for eight years, or until in 1847, the year before
Auglaize county was erected, when they came up here and settled
on a "forty" which Mr. McClintock had bought along Two
Mile creek in the northwest corner of Duchouquet township
(section 31), which then was included in Allen county, the
family home being established there on Oct. 16, 1847. The
hospitable neighbors rallied around and gave every assistance in
the labor of erecting a double log house for the newcomers and
during the two weeks while this constructive work was going on
Mr. and Mrs. McClintock and their children were
entertained in the home of John Hoop, storage for their
goods being provided in the Hopo barn. The family
moved into their new log house before it properly was completed
and then settled down to the arduous task of developing the
farm. Not long afterward Mr. McClintock broke one
of his ankles and was for some time laid up, a serious
interruption to his plans, but he presently got things under way
and in good time the family was well established. Mr.
McClintock cleared and improved that place and enlarged his
holdings by the purchase of an adjoining tract of something more
than 120 acres and there resided until the time of his
retirement from the farm and removal to Wapakoneta, where his
last days were spent. He and his wife were the parents of
nine children, two of whom are still living, the subject of this
sketch having a sister, Nancy. The deceased
children of this family were John, Andrew, William, Margaret,
Mary Elizabeth, Barbara Ann and Sarah Ellen, and the
McClintocks of this pioneer family in the present
generation form a considerable group. During the time of
the Civil war the three elder sons of this family, John,
Andrew and William McClintock, served as soldiers of
the Union, the latter having been but seventeen years of age
when he enlisted. Reared on the pioneer farm on which he
was born, the junior Charles McClntock received his
schooling in the neighborhood school (old district No. 9) and
from the days of his boyhood gave his attention to the affairs
of the farm. He married when in his twenty-first year and
continued farming until the oil "boom" came on in the latter
'80s, when he became interested in the activities attendant on
the development of the oil field in this region and moved to
Lima, where he resided for seven years, at the end of which time
he returned to the farm, bought that part of the old home place
on which he is now living, and has since resided there,
successfully engaged in farming. In addition to his farm
of 107 acres Mr. McClintock owns business property in
Lima and has other interests to engaged his attention. He
and his wife are members of the Lutheran church and are
Democrats. He is a member of the local camp of the Woodmen
at Wapakoneta. It was on October 18, 1875, that Charles
McClilntock was united in marriage to Mary Ann Bowsher
also a member of one of the pioneer families of that part of the
county, daughter of Oliver and Sarah (Bowers) Bowsher,
and to this union have been born five children, Maude,
Harley, Ferd, Harry and Lela, all of whom are
married. Maude McClintock married W. M. Boyshell
and has one child, a son, Donovan. Harry
McClintock married Nellie Rafferty and has two
children, Naomi and Virgil and Lela McClintock
married Joshua Winget and has one child, a son, Oliver
Mack. The McClintocks have a very pleasant home
on rural mail route No. 4 out of Wapakoneta. Since taking
possession of this place Mr. McClintock has made numerous
substantial improvements on the place and has a well equipped
farm plant. Mrs. McClintock's father,
OLIVER BOWSHER, was born in
Pickaway county, this state, a son of Benjamin Bowsher.
He was married in Allen county, his wife having moved there with
her parents who came from Stark county.
Source: History of Auglaize
Co., Ohio - Vol. II of 2 Volumes Edited by William J. McMurray,
Wapakoneta, Ohio - Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis -
1923 - Page 624 |
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J. Henry Meyer |
J. HENRY MEYER,
a well known architect and consulting engineer of Wapakoneta,
former surveyor of Auglaize county and of Auglaize county and
for years recognized as one of the real "live wires" in the
civic life of this county, particularly as a potent factor in
the development of the increasing demand for better homes and
for better streets and highways, has done a work in this county
that must be accounted as really remarkable when it is
considered as the accomplishment of a man still in his early
"thirties." When it is considered that he was just turning
into his majority when he was appointed city civil engineer, and
this at a time when the city of Wapakoneta was just beginning to
be aroused to the modern demand for paved streets and all the
essentials of improvements which accompany such a step, and that
in the next year he was elected county surveyor, at a time when
some of the county's most important drainage and highway
problems were being worked out, it will be realized that the boy
had frittered away no time while laying the foundations upon
which this communal recognition of his abilities thus laid upon
to compel continued retention in the important and responsible
branch of the public service for which he had so thoughtfully
qualified himself is its own logical commentary. He "made
good" form the out set and has so continued, so that now in the
ranks of the many eminent consulting engineers and architects
that are so deeply concerned in the practical "rebuilding" of
the proud state of Ohio there are not many names more widely
recognized than his, nor are there many whose counsels along
those lines receive more respectful consideration than do his.
By the standard of his work he has proved his right to speak and
by the rightness of his judgments have his counsels attained
weight. Henry Meyer has done much to emphasize the
suspicion that long has been dawning upon the consciousness of
the elders that this is an "ae of the young men" and his work
has been such as to reflect credit upon the judgment of those
who had decided, even when he was little more than a boy, that
he "had it in him" to go far along the line he had laid out for
himself and were willing that the opportunity for public service
should be his. That this confidence was not misplaced has
been demonstrated through the years since these responsibilities
were placed upon him and Auglaize county has profited by his
services. Perhaps more than any other person it was she
who "sold" the people Wapakoneta on the important proposition of
paved streets, and this sort of salesmanship is the kind from
which all the community profits. Henry Meyer is a
Wapakoneta product, born in that city on May 9, 1889, and is a
son of William H. and Minnie L. (Schmidt) Meyer, both of
whom are members of pioneer families hereabout, and who are
still living in that city where they have resided for many
years. Reared a Wapakoneta, Henry Meyer received
his early schooling in St. Joseph's parochial school,
supplementing this by a course in the city high school, from
which he was graduated, and then he entered Ohio State
University, where his studies were chiefly directed along the
lines upon which he had determined as a boy, architecture and
civil engineering. Upon thus qualifying himself for this
profession he returned to Wapakoneta and not long afterward was
elected city civil engineer. that was in 1910 and so
effective have been his services in this behalf that he ever
since has been retained in that position. About the same
time he also was elected county surveyor and by re-election
service in that office for four years (1911-15). In the
summer of 1911 he married and established his home Wapakoneta,
where he and his wife are very pleasantly situated. It
also was in that year that he became the general manager of the
B. H. M. Cement Products Company and embarked in business in
addition to hsi professional and public service duties; like all
busy men, finding time to "look after more than one iron in the
fire." In 1914, he added to his other activates the
management of the Brown theater and for some years carried on
that business until it was taken over by the present management
of the theater. In the meantime his business as an
architect constantly was growing and his field that line
expanding, so that for years past the demands upon his form of
service have not been confined to the local field, but have
called him to other fields covering a wide territory here about,
the substantial character of the Meyer architectural
designs, combined with the "classy" individuality Mr. Meyer
ever has been able to impart to these designs having long ago
brought him recognition as one of the leading architects in
Ohio. As county surveyor, Mr. Meyer did much to
advance the cause of better drainage and better highways in this
county, and in 1917 when the Auglaize county Good Roads
Federation was organized he was made a director of that
organization and secretary of the same. At the same time
he continually was pushing the cause of better streets in his
home town and in his official capacity of city engineer was
seeing to it that in the carrying out of the city's extensive
paving program the work done along that line should be fully up
to standard, with the result that now it is a matter of just
local pride that there are few , if any, cities of like
population in the Middle West that have better streets and
sidewalks than has Wapakoneta, and the same may be said of such
sewer and waterworks extensions as have been made during Mr.
Meyer's administration of that branch of the public service.
One of the initial services rendered by Mr. Meyer in
behalf of the public was that rendered in 1910, when, fresh from
college, he issued a comprehensive atlas of the county, his maps
and original surveys bringing down to date a service that long
had been neglected. In 1917 he recognized the need of a
further revision of the county atlas and meeting that need
revised his former atlas, bringing all surveys down to date and
compiling new maps and additional data, to which he added much
comprehensive information of an official historical character,
and published a new "Atlas and History of Auglaize County," a
work of 166 pages, carrying complete farm maps of every township
in the county and plats of all towns and villages, and settling
a new standard in local map publication. Unfortunately,
the great expense attendant on this publication was such that
there could be no hope of profit, and in fact Mr. Meyer
confronted a deficit when he came to balance his books and
"close the files" on that enterprise that revealed him stript of
the savings he had accumulated during the time of his other
activities. However, in compiling that atlas he rendered
an important public service and the book is a monument to his
enterprise that cannot now be detracted from. Pocketing
his losses with the ever ready smile with which he is able to
meet all situations that may arise, Mr. Meyer buckled
down to the continuing tasks that daily met him and has long ago
charged off to "experience" his unfortunate foray into the
publishing field. It was on June 21, 1911, that J.
Henry Meyer was united in marriage to Leo Mary Blair,
of Wapakoneta, daughter of Frank and Rosetta (Craig) Blair,
and a member of one of the pioneer families of this section of
Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer are members of St.
Joseph's Catholic church and take a proper interest in parish
affairs as well as in the general social and cultural affairs of
their home town. Mr. Meyer is a past grand knight
of the local council of the Knights of Columbus, is a director
and former secretary-treasurer of the Wapakoneta Outing Club, is
a member of the college fraternity, Kappa Sigma, and is
affiliated with the local lodges of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the
Modern Woodmen of America, the Improved Order of Red Men and the
Loyal Order of Moose. Mr. Meyer is a former member
(private) of old Company K, 2d Regiment (infantry) of the Ohio
National Guard, with which he served for eight months. It
was during this period of service that this company was called
into Federal service in connection with the flurry on the
Mexican border in 1916, being federalized at Camp Willis.
He received his discharge of Columbus on July 31, 1916.
Source: History of Auglaize
Co., Ohio - Vol. II of 2 Volumes Edited by William J. McMurray,
Wapakoneta, Ohio - Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis -
1923 - Pages 72-75 |
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JOSEPH J. MEYER,
one of the trustees of St. Joseph's Catholic church at Egypt and
a well known farmer and landowner of Jackson township,
proprietor of a well kept farm in the upper part of the "neck"
of that township, in section 6 of the township 8, was born on
that farm and has lived there all his life, now the third in
direct line of Meyers who have owned the place, the
original "forty" of which was entered from the government by his
grandfather, who settled there in pioneer days. Mr.
Meyer was born on Feb. 14, 1872, and is a son of
BERNARD H. and Caroline
(Rolfes) MEYER,
both members of pioneer families in that neighborhood.
BERNARD H. MEYER,
who is now living retired in the home of his son, Joseph,
was born on that farm and is the son of
BERNARD MEYER and wife, who had
come to this country following their marriage in their native
Germany and had located in Cincinnati, later coming up into this
part of the state and settling on the place here referred
to, the pioneer, Bernard Meyer, entering there form the
Government a tract of forty acres, on which he established his
home and which has since remained in the family possession.
The pioneer increased his holdings there to ninety acres and on
that place spent the remainder of his life, the farm coming into
possession of his son, Bernard H. Meyer, who is still
living there, making his home with his son, Joseph, who
bought the place from his father upon the latter's retirement,
and his children constitute the fourth generation of the family
continuously resident on the place. Bernard H. Meyer
grew up on that farm and after his marriage to Caroline
Rolfes who also had grown up in the Egypt neighborhood,
established his home there and presently came into possession of
the place, which on his retirement he sold to his son, Joseph,
the only son of the family. To Bernard H. Meyer and
wife were born four children, the subject of this sketch having
three sisters, Catherine, Anna and Mary.
Reared on the home farm there in the 'neck" of Jackson township
Joseph J. Meyer received his schooling in the school at
Egypt and from the days of his boyhood was a valuable aid to his
father in the labors of developing and improving the farm.
After his marriage he rented the place and thus operated it as a
tenant farmer for about ten years, at the end of which time he
bought the farm of ninety acres and has since been farming on
his own account and is doing well in his operations.
Mr. Meyer is a Republican. He and his family are
members of St. Joseph's Catholic church at Egypt, and he is a
member of the board of trustees having in control the valuable
property held by that parish. He also is a member of the
St. Joseph Society, and has long given his earnest attention to
parish affairs. Joseph J. Meyer married
Catherine Hohne, daughter of Henry and Mary (Ankenbauer)
Hohne, and to this union have been born seven children,
Rose, Laurence, Justine, Edward, Alvina, Emma and Matilda.
The Meyers have a pleasant home on rural mail route No. 1
out of Ft. Loramie.
Source: History of Auglaize
Co., Ohio - Vol. II of 2 Volumes Edited by William J. McMurray,
Wapakoneta, Ohio - Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis -
1923 - Page 454 |
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WILLIAM MEYER,
a well known and substantial farmer and landowner of this
county, now living retired at St. Marys, where he has made his
home for the past ten years and more, is a native son of
Auglaize county and has lived here all his life, a period of
more than sixty years. Mr. Meyer was born on a farm
in Washington township on May 26, 1859, and is a son of
CORD and Margaret (Lamkuhl)
MEYER, who were
among the well known pioneers of that township. The late
CORD
MEYER was born in Germany
and was twenty-five years of age when he came to this country.
He made his way out into Ohio and settled in Auglaize county,
establishing his home on a tract of land he bought in the
southwest quarter of section 18 of Washington township.
His original purchase there was a tract of eighty acres, but as
his affairs prospered he added to his holdings until he became
the owner of an excellent farm of 220 acres and was accounted
one of the substantial men of that community. To him and
his wife were born twelve children, five of whom are still
living, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Adaline,
and three brothers, August, Fred and George Meyer.
Reared on the home farm in Washington township, William Meyer
received his schooling in the neighborhood district school and
from the days of his boyhood was a helpful factor in the labors
of developing the home farm. He married when twenty-seven
years of age and then began farming on his own account, renting
a portion of the home farm and upon the distribution of the
estate came into 106 acres of that farm, which he presently sold
and then bought a tract of 160 acres in St. Marys township and
in 1910 made his home on this latter place. In the
following year, however (1911), he retired from the farm and
moved to St. Marys, where he has since resided, he and his wife
having a very comfortable home at 214 North Perry street*.
They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and are
Republicans. It was in 1886 that William Meyer was
united in marriage to Catherine Longwith, who was born in
St. Mary's township, a member of one of the pioneer families of
that part of the county, daughter of John and Ruth (Hockenberry)
Longwith, and to that union have been born five children,
Herbert, Vernon, Flossie, Howrd and Ruth, all of whom
are married. Herbert Meyer married Dessie
Arnett. Vernon Meyer married Mayme Sauers and
has one child, a daughter, Caroline. Flossie Meyer
married Carl Stroh and has five children, Anna,
Arabella, Everett, Mary and Eugene. Howard Meyer
married Hope Smith and has one child, a son,
Rodney, and Ruth Meyer married Ralph Hunter
and has one child, a son, William.
Source: History of Auglaize
Co., Ohio - Vol. II of 2 Volumes Edited by William J. McMurray,
Wapakoneta, Ohio - Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis -
1923 - Page 89
*SHARON WICK'S NOTE: The house appears to still be there
in 2024. |
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JOSEPH J. MILLER,
a well known farmer and landowner of Auglaize county, now living
retired at Uniopolis, is a member of one of the pioneer families
of this county, the Millers having been represented here
since the middle '30s of the past century. Mr. Miller
was born on a farm in Union township on July 4, 1855, and is a
son of Simeon and Jane (Lusk) Miller, the latter of whom
also was a member of one of the first families to settle in that
part of what is now Auglaize county, the Lusks having
been represented there, even as the Millers, since the
days of the opening of lands thereabout to entry. The late
Simeon Miller grew up in Union township and after his
marriage established his home on a "forty" he had bought in that
township. To this he presently added an adjoining forty
and continued farming there until he sold that place and moved
into Duchouquet township. Some time later be bought
another farm in Wayne township and on this latter place was
engaged in farming until his retirement, his last days having
been spent in the home of one of his sons in Perry township,
Allen county, where he died on Sept. 18, 1920, at a ripe old
age. Simeon Miller was twice married and by his
first wife, Jane Lusk, was the father of two sons and a
daughter, the subject of this sketch, Benjamin and Mary Ann.
Following the death of the mother of these children Mr.
Miller married Nancy Lusk, his deceased wife's
sister, and to this union were born three sons, Charles,
William and Manford (deceased), and a daughter,
Ida. Joseph J. Miller was seven years of age when his
mother died and he then was taken into the household of his
uncle, Joseph Hardin, of Union township, where he grew to
manhood, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools.
When twenty years of age he married and began farming thus
engaged on the Hardin farm and then he bought a tract of
sixty acres in Union township and began farming on his own
account. To this tract he presently added an adjoining
tract of forty-nine acres, this giving him a farm of 109 acres,
which he continued to operate for twenty years, or until his
retirement in 1914 and removal to Uniopolis, where he since has
made his home. In addition to the general farming which he
carried on during the years of his activity, Mr. Miller
also was extensively engaged in dealing in live stock and was
widely known as a stockman. He is a Democrat and has
rendered public service as supervisory of roads in his district.
He is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at
Uniopolis. On Sept. 13, 1874, Joseph J. Miller was
united in marriage to Martha Hardin, who also was born in
Union township, daughter of PERRY and Abigail (Ridley)
HARDIN, and he and his wife have two children, William E. and
Blanche, both of whom are married. William E.
Miller married Elvina Lemon and has five children,
Everett, Rosetta, Carrie, Ethel and Irvin.
Blanche Miller married Roy Shaw and has
three children, Milo, Myron and Chloe.
Mrs. Miller's father, PERRY HARDIN, also was born in
Auglaize county and her mother was born in Hocking county.
PERRY HARDIN was a well-to-do farmer of Union township and he
and his wife were the parents of seven children, three of whom
are still living, Mrs. Miller having a sister,
Catherine, and a brother, Herbert Hardin.
Source: History of Auglaize
Co., Ohio - Vol. II of 2 Volumes Edited by William J. McMurray,
Wapakoneta, Ohio - Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis -
1923 - Page 515-516 |
PHOTO of
AUGUST W. MUELLER
&
JOHN F. MUELLER |
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