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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio
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Vol. II -
Under the Editorial Supervision of Judge H. J. Eckley
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Published by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York
1921
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ALBERT WAGNER.
In his character and his worthy achievement the late Albert Wagner
honored the county in which his entire life was spent and in which he
was a scion of a family there established in the pioneer days. He
became one of the substantial exponents of farm enterprise in Carroll
County, was for ten years the efficient and popular superintendent of the
Carroll County infirmary, and he passed the closing years of his life at
Carrollton, where he died on the 1st of March, 1917, in the attractive
residence which be erected on Prospect street, his widow having sold this
property in the following year and having then purchased her present fine
home place, at 378 South Lisbon Street.
Albert Wagner was born in Carroll County on the
18th of March, 1859, a son of Isaac and Mary Ann (Hidey) Wagner, who
here passed their entire lives, the father having been a carpenter by trade
but having been engaged in farming in Perry Township at the time of his
death, his political support having been given to the democratic party and
both he and his wife having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
They became the parents of four children - Albert, Nannie,
Ida and Lillie.
Henry and Susannah (Abel) Wagner, grand-parents
of the subject of this memoir, were sterling pioneers of Carroll County.
Reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and
afforded the advantages of the public schools of his native county,
Albert Wagner eventually became the owner of a well improved farm
in Center Township. one mile north of Carrollton, the county seat.
There he continued his successful enterprise as an agriculturist and
stock-grower until 1897, when he was chosen superintendent of the county
infirmary and farm, of which he continued the able executive head for ten
years. Upon his retirement from this position he returned to his farm,
where he remained ten years, at the expiration of which he retired and
established his home at Carrollton, where he passed the residue of his life,
as previously stated in this sketch. His political allegiance was
given unreservedly to the republican party, he was affiliated with the
Knights of the Maccabees. and his religious faith was that of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of which his widow likewise is a member, On the 13th of
November, 1884, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wagner to Miss Elsie
Smeltz, who was born in Union Township, Carroll County. Aug. 1,
1859, a daughter of Peter and Nancy (Norris) Smeltz, both likewise
natives of Union Township, where the former was born in 1832 and the latter
in 1834. Mr. Smeltz become one of the representative
farmers of his native township, where his well improved farm was about a
mile distant from that on which he was born, and his death occurred in 1808,
his first wife having passed away in 1876. Both were earnest members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his political views were in consonance
with the principles of the republican party. Peter and Nancy
(Norris) Smeltz became the parents of six children - Wiliam,
Catherine, Marion, Elsie, Electa and Grant.
The second marriage of Mr. Smeltz was with Margaret McCort,
and they became the parents of three children - Ross, Bessie and
James. Peter Smeltz was a son of Louis and Catherine (Harpel) Smeltz,
who came from Washington County, Pennsylvania, and became pioneer settlers
in Carroll County, Ohio. where they passed the remainder of their lives.
William and Martha (McCommas) Norris, maternal grandparents of
Mrs. Wagner, likewise came from Washington County,
Pennsylvania, to Carroll County, where they contributed their share to
pioneer development and progress and where they maintained their home until
the close of their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner became the
parents of two children, of whom the first, a son, died in infancy.
Isaac Ralph, the surviving son, was born in Perry Township, Oct.
18, 1889, and gained his early education in the public schools, including
the Carrollton High School. For a time he was employed in the freight
office of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad at Carrollton. He then
went to the city of Akron, where he was in the employ of the Goodyear Rubber
Company until be connected himself with the Timpkins Company, manufacturers
of vehicle springs. with which concern he is now traffic manager for one of
its manufacturing plants, in the city of Canton. Stark County. He is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. including the Knights Templar, is a
republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in the faith of which he was reared. On the 4th of
August. 1916, Mr. Wagner was united in marriage to
Miss Lois Moore. of Carrollton, she having been graduated
in the Carrollton High School and later in the Detroit Conservatory of
Music. Her father, the late Charles Moore, was a well
known citizen of Carrollton.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties,
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Chicago: Lewis Pub.
Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 831 |
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