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Source:
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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ELI RAMGE,
a member of one of the pioneer families of Auglaize county and a
well-known farmer and landowner of Duchouquet township,
proprietor of a well-improved farm on rural mail route No. 4 out
of Wapakoneta, was born on a farm one and one-half miles west of
Wapakoneta on Mar. 20, 1866, and is a son of Henry and Mary
(Burke) Range, both of whom were members of pioneer families
in that neighborhood, the Ramges and the Burks
having been among the early settlers there. The late
HENRY RANGE was a son of
PHILIP RAMGE, a native of
Germany, who had come to this part of Ohio not long after his
arrival in this country and had taken up a forty-acre tract in
Duchouquet township, two miles east of Wapakoneta, where he
established his home and spent the remainder of his life.
On that pioneer farm Henry Ramge grew to manhood.
After his marriage to Mary Burk, one of the neighbor
girls, he began farming on his own account on a rented farm, but
a few years later bought a farm along the river across from
Greenlawn cemetery, west of Wapakoneta, where he continued
farming for forty-six years, at the end of which time he moved
to Wapakoneta, where he bought property and spent the remainder
of his life, his death occurring in 1916. Of the children
born to him and his wife six are still living, the subject of
this sketch having two sisters, Catherine and Anna,
and three brothers, Christian F., Charles and John
Ramge. Eli Ramge received his schooling in the
Wapakoneta schools, and as a young man gave his attention to the
home farm west of town. Twelve years after his marriage he
bought a tract of eighty acres in Duchouquet township, the place
on which he is now living, and has since resided there, he and
his family being very comfortably situated. Since taking
possession of that place, which was not wholly cleared.
Since taking possession of that place, which was not wholly
cleared when he bought it, Mr. Range has cleared about
twenty acres and has made numerous substantial improvements on
the place, including the erection of a new barn. He also
has increased his land holdings by the purchase of an adjoining
"eighty," and now has an excellent farm of 160 acres. In
addition to his general farming, he gives considerable attention
to the raising of live stock and is doing well. It was on
Mar. 6, 1895, that Eli Ramge was united in marriage to
Amanda Falker, who also was born in this county, daughter of
Henry and Mary (Stalder) Falker, and to this union three
children have been born, Edna, Harry and Edith.
Edna Ramge married Roy Shively and has three
children, Juanita, Marjory and Betty Lucile. Mr.
and Mrs. Ramge are members of Grace Lutheran church and are
Republicans.
Source: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - Vol. II -
Pub. 1923 - Page 532 |
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HENRY RAMGE
Source: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - Vol. II -
Pub. 1923 - Page 532 |
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PHILIP RAMGE
Source: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - Vol. II -
Pub. 1923 - Page 532 |
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