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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Centennial
History of Coshocton County,
Ohio
By Wm Bahmer
Vols. I & II
Illustrated
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Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
1909
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ARNOLD BABCOCK
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 117 |
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D. W. BABCOCK
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 119 |
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LEWIS E. BAHMER
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 346 |
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V. E. BAHMER
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 447 |
W. J. Bahmer |
WILLIAM J. BAHMER.
When the Centennial History of Coshocton County was
contemplated the publishes set forth those reasons governing
their selection of the man for the work: To tell the
story of Coshocton county in the spirit of its
swiftly-moving events, to bring before the readers the vivid
picture of the scenes and actors in the drama enacted here,
and to do it in smoothly-flowing, consecutive narrative, it
was deemed fitting to enlist one trained by long experience
and especially qualified by wide personal acquaintance with
the field. In selecting William J. Bahmer as
the writer of the historical chapters the publishers brought
to the work a pronounced believer in literature of intense
action, alive to the charm of the beautiful and to the humor
of situations, and quick to discern the incidents of
dramatic and picturesque interest.
He is a Coshocton county product, born in Bakersville,
Aug. 1, thirty-seven years ago. The name in its German
form is Böhmer
pronounced as though spelled Baymer. His
father, John Bahmer, was a son of Valentine Bahmer,
a pioneer in this region. John Bahmer was a
storekeeper in Bakersville and well liked. Later he
established produce commission houses in Pittsburg,
Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
From the Walnut street school in Coshocton the son went
to school in New York four years and Boston four years.
Early symptoms of writing had already become manifest in a
story of his published in Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls'
Weekly of New York. His father looked forward to
giving him a college education, but the boy had only started
in the English high school in Boston when his father died of
pneumonia and was brought from Boston to the churchyard near
Fiat, where his little daughters, Clara and Carrie,
rested.
Young Bahmer was the sole support of his
widowed mother. He began teaching school at
Bakersville, Fiat and Pleasant Hill. At eighteen he
was in newspaper work in Pittsburg, reporting the Johnstown
flood, and later writing headlines for the Pittsburg
Dispatch. He went to New York where newspaper and
magazine work engaged him. From the World he went to
the Tribune and afterward to the American.
His work ran the newspaper gamut; writing editorials,
reporting Wall street, politics, yacht races, prize fights,
titled weddings, Sing Sing's death chair, reviewing books
and plays, and interviewing presidents, statesmen and people
of note from all over the world. While Harvard had
been denied him he found a schooling in the world.
For four years his editorial work on the Coshocton
Bulletin was know to the county. Following the sale of
the paper he went to Pittsburg and was advertising writer
for the Pennsylvania lines when he lost his wife, who died
in Allegheny, Mar. 22, 1904, from typhoid fever and
pneumonia. She was his life. Hosts of friends
cherished the memory of her pure, sympathetic nature.
No daughter of Coshocton was held dearer in hearts than
Marguerite Voorhees. Mrs. Elizabeth V. Voorhees is
her mother. The father, Major George Voorhees
who served in the Civil war, rests at his daughter's side in
South Lawn.
A little son, William V. born in Brooklyn, New
York, Mar. 13, 1897, and baby Marguerite, born in
Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Jan. 6, 1904, were cared for by
Mother Bahmer, the dear heart broken by years of sorrow
over the graves in the country churchyard, now striving to
help her son bear his cross.
He went from Coshocton to his worrk in the
railroad office in Pittsburg each week, returning home
Sundays. After four years with the railroad he left
the service to live at home, and since the summer of 1907
has been in Coshocton.
At the last republican county convention his name came
up for the nomination for state representative to oppose the
reelection of J. B. Foraker to the United States
senate. With an unprecedented demonstration of
enthusiasm the convention nominated him on the first ballot
over E. L. Lybarger, candidate for renomination.
Hundreds of democratic friends supported Bahmer, but
the Foraker knife was out, The Foraker
postoffice henchmen stabbed as only those political
assassins could stab, and their knifing defeated the
republican nominee for the legislature.
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 114 |
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M. Q. BAKER
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 54 |
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GEORGE BALCH
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 307 |
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C. W. BALL
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 231 |
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JACOB C. BALO
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 328 |
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STEPHEN F. BALO
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 472 |
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C. J. BANTHAM
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 266 |
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B. F. BANTUM
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 69 |
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R. L .BARCROFT
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 482 |
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LEWIS BARRICK
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 322 |
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NICHOLAS BARRICK
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 333 |
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H. D. BEACH
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 64 |
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H. L. BEACH
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 103 |
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L. K. BEACH
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 144 |
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C. H. BEAL
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 439 |
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J. L. BECK
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 110 |
Mr. & Mrs.
P. T. Bluck |
PROSSER T. BLUCK
Source: History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. I - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 336 |
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JACOB J. BOWEN
a well known and successful agriculturist residing in White
Eyes township, was born in Crawford township, Coshocton
county, Ohio, July 27, 1865. His parents, John and
Catharine (Limbacher) Bowen, natives of Switzerland and
Germany respectively, came to America at an early day.
The father passed away in August, 1905, having for a number
of years survived his wife, who was called to her final rest
in 1892. Their family numbered eleven children,
namely: Chris J., of Coshocton; Samuel;
a resident of Brown county, Kansas; Benjamin, living
in Coshocton county; Lizzie, the wife of Lewis
Baab, of Tuscarawas county; Jacob J., of this
review; H. E., of Coshocton; Emma R., who
makes her home in Cleveland; and four who are deceased.
Jacob J. Bowen acquired a common-school
education and remained at home until he had attained the age
of twenty-three years. Subsequently he was engaged in
the operation of a rented farm for seven years and on the
expiration of that period purchased the place of one hundred
and sixty acres in White Eyes township, where he has since
resided. In addition to the work of general farming he
makes a specialty of raising and breeding stock and owing to
his untiring industry and capable business management, both
branches of his business return to him a gratifying annual
income.
In 1889 Mr. Bowen was united in marriage to
Miss Sarah E. Croft, a native of Coshocton county and
the only child of Conrad and Catharine (Fisher) Croft,
who are now deceased, the father having passed away Jan. 1,
1906, and the mother on the 15th of August, 1894. Unto
our subject and his wife were born two children:
Iva E., both birth occurred Aug. 7, 1890; and John C.,
born Feb. 5, 1893.
Mr. Bowen gives his political allegiance to the
democracy and is at present serving as township trustee and
school director, being recognized by his fellow townsmen as
a faithful incumbent in these positions. He belongs to
the Modern Woodmen of America, No. 11688, at Fresno, and the
Grange at Oak Grove, while both he and his wife are
identified with White Eyes Camp of the Royal Neighbors.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bowen worship with the Methodist
Episcopal church and are highly esteemed throughout the
county in which they have spent their entire lives, having
won the kindly regard and friendship of all with whom they
have been associated.
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 485 |
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FRANCIS W. BOWER.
A well improved and highly developed farm of one hundred
acres, situated in Jefferson township, is the home of
Francis W. Bower. He was born in Wittenburg,
Germany, Dec. 9, 1851, and is the eldest in a family of nine
children, seven sons and two daughters, born of the marriage
of John G. and Catherine B. (Roth) Bower, who were
likewise natives of the fatherland. The father was a
blacksmith by trade and followed that occupation in his
native land until 1853, when with his family he emigrated to
the United States. He at once made his way to
Coshocton county, where for fourteen years he followed his
trade of a blacksmith. He then purchased land in
Monroe township, to which he removed and here in connection
with blacksmithing he carried on general farming until his
death, which occurred in 1887, his remains being interred in
the Lutheran Beaver Run cemetery of Jefferson township.
The mother, however, still survives and makes her home in
Monroe township. Their family consisting of nine
children is as follows: Francis W. of this
review; John, a farmer of Defiance, Ohio;
Frederick, who follows farming in Monroe township;
George, who is also a farmer, making his home in Henry
county, Ohio; Minnie, the wife of William Baesler,
a motorman on a street car line in Cleveland, Ohio; Jacob,
who is on the home place with his mother; William, a
farmer of Monroe township; Mary the wife of
William Fox, who follows farming in Clark township, this
county; and David, a resident farmer of Henry county,
this state.
Francis W. Bower acquired his education in the
district schools of Crawford township, but his advantages in
this direction were somewhat limited, for from an early age
it was necessary that he provide for his own support.
when but nine years old he began work as a farm hand, being
thus employed during the summer months and when he attained
his majority he left the parental home and was employed at
farm labor for two years. He then rented land and
engaged in farming on his own account. At the end of
one year he purchased forty acres in Monroe township, which
he cleared and developed and on which he erected a home.
He then disposed of that property and once more rented land,
operating one hundred acres in Monroe township for three
years, at the end of which time he purchased his present
place in Jefferson township, on which he has made his home
to the present time. On this place stands a fine
country home, surrounded by a well kept lawn, while in the
rear are found substantial barns and outbuildings, all of
which have been place here by Mr. Bower. He is
engaged in general agricultural pursuits and the success
which he today enjoys is well deserved, for it has come to
him through his own honorable effort, careful management and
well directed labor.
Mr. Bower established a home of his own by his
marriage in 1874 to Miss Pricilla Gamertsfelder, a
resident of Jefferson township and a representative of one
of the old and prominent families of this section of the
state. Their marriage has been blessed with six
children, namely: Harley William now deceased;
Bertha, the wife of Nicholas Fisher, a resident
farmer of Jefferson township; Jacob W., of Clark
township; and Emma, Roy and Albert, all at
home.
Mr. Bower gives his political support to the
democratic party and has been called by his fellow townsmen
to fill some local offices, having for the past six years
served as trustee of Jefferson township, while he is also a
member of the school board. He is a member of the
Evangelical church, in the work of which he takes a deep and
active interest, having served as superintendent of the
Sunday school and as class leader of the church. In
the analyzation of his character and life work we note many
characteristics which have marked the German race for many
centuries - the perseverance, reliability and determination
to pursue a course that has been marked out. It is
these sterling qualities which have given to Francis W.
Bower success in life and made him one of the
substantial and valued citizens of Coshocton county.
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 183 |
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CHARLES DILLON BROOKE.
The success which Charles Dillon Brooke has achieved
in the jewelry business is proof that his choice of a life
work was a wise man. In this field of labor he has
made consecutive progress, nothing and improving his
opportunities and utilizing the modern business methods
which are revolutionizing trade interests and relations.
One of Ohio's native sons, he was born in Chatham, Licking
county, on the 25th of June 1862, his parents being Dr.
J. H. and Rebecca E. (Robison) Brooke.
His father was born in Gratiot, Ohio, in 1831, and was
a son of Dr. William H. Brooke, one of the successful
physicians of this state. Various representatives of
the name have gained distinction as members of the medical
profession, the son taking up his father's practice, and
thus from generation to generation the work has been carried
forward, each representative thereof displaying marked
ability in the following. Mr. Brooke, of this
review, was the first to enter another field of activity.
His father is a graduate of the Miami Medical College, at
Cincinnati, Ohio, and of the Starling Medical College at
Columbus. He has been a very successful physician,
practicing continuously for forty-six years. His wife
is a daughter of the Rev. William Robison, a Christian
minister, who for several years was pastor of a church of
that denomination at Mount Vernon. The daughter,
Mrs. Brooke, was born in Danville, Ohio, July 27, 1834,
and as both Dr. and Mrs. Brooke are still living
their married life has been of long duration and has been
one of mutual interest and happiness.
Charles Dillon Brooke is indebted to the public
school system of Newark, Ohio, for the early educational
privileges which he enjoyed. He mastered the branches
taught in the various grades until he became a high-school
student and when about seventeen years of age began the
study of medicine and surgery in his father's office.
His heart, however, was not in this work and after a year
Dr. Brooke was persuaded by Henry C. Bostwick,
who conducted a jewelry establishment under the Doctor's
office, to allow his son to take up the jewelry trade.
The boy was not interested in the medical science, and felt
that he could obtain a higher degree of success in other
lines if he could be permitted to utilize his energies in
other fields. He there readily availed himself of his
father's consent to abandon his medical studies and in
September, 1880, he came to Coshocton to serve an
apprenticeship under John A. Bostwick, a brother of
the Newark jeweler. Mr. Brooke continued in
this position for two years, or until the removal of his
employer to Cambridge, Ohio, when he entered the employ of a
third brother, W. W. Bostwick, who was also a jeweler
of Coshocton, and with whom he remained for three years.
In 1885 he availed himself of the opportunity to engage in
business on his own account by forming a partnership with
L. K. Anderson, under the firm name of Brooke &
Anderson. The new enterprise proved a profitable
venture and was continued under the original ownership and
management until 1891,when Mr. Brooke purchased his
partner's interest and has since been alone. He has
today one of the well appointed jewelry establishments of
Coshocton, carrying a large and well selected line of goods,
which in its neat and tasteful arrangement is proving most
attractive to the public.
While laboring earnestly and effectively for the
upbuilding of his individual interests Mr. Brooke has
also been a factor in the general progress of Coshocton
along commercial lines, doing much to further the interests
of the city in this regard as president of the Business
Men's Association in 1906-07. He is a member of the
board of Sinking Fund Trustees of the city and has served as
a member of the city council. In all of these connections he
has done for Coshocton whatever his hand has found to do and
has introduced many movements which have resulted
beneficially in promoting the city's welfare. He was
practically the founder of the Business Men's Association,
being untiring in his efforts during ten or twelve years to
organize this and place it upon a substantial basis,
realizing how much can be done through the united effort of
business men in promoting general commercial and industrial
activity. At length, with the assistance of George
M. Gray, he succeeded in organizing the association, and
all Coshocton acknowledges the city's indebtedness to them
because of what has been accomplished through the society.
On the 17th of September, 1884, Mr. Brooke was
married to Miss Anna M. Taylor of Coshocton county,
and a graduate of the Coshocton high school, class of 1882.
They have become the parents of five children: Harold,
now deceased; Helen, who completed the course in the
Coshocton high school with the class of 1907; Rodney,
Lorna and Charles.
In his fraternal relations
Mr. Brooke is connected with Coshocton Lodge No. 96 F. &
A. M.; Samaritan Chapter, No. 50, R. A. M.; Coshocton
Commandery, No. 63, K. T.; Coshocton Lodge, No. 376, B. P.
O. E.; and Fidelity Lodge, No. 135, K. P. His
political support is given to the republican party, but he
prefers that his public service shall be done in the
capacity of a private citizen rather than as an office
holder. He is an enterprising citizen, his work being
of a character that has largely promoted public progress. He
upholds all of those interests which are a matter of civic
virtue and civic pride, while through his work in connection
with the Business Men's Association he has greatly enhanced
the material development of this city.
Source: Centennial History of Coshocton
County, Ohio - Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Co. - 1909 - Page 108 |
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BENJAMIN
F. BURKLEW, who owns and operates a well
improved farm of eighty acres situated in Monroe
township is numbered among the substantial
farmers of this section of the state. He was
born on the farm on which he now resides, Oct.
15, 1848, a son of William
H. and Martha J. (McBride) Burklew. The
father was born in Monongalia county, Virginia,
and accompanied his parents to Ohio when a youth
of seventeen years. Following his marriage, he
settled on a farm in Monroe township and here
spent his remaining days. His family numbered
the following children: Ann
Jane, the
widow of John
Foster; Louis E., the widow of Rev.
James Williams, of Medina county, Ohio; F.
M., who is a postmaster at Killbuck; Sarah
E., the wife of W.
H. Sparr, of Oklahoma; William
M., a teacher in the Millersburg high
school; Benjamin
F., of this review; Catherine,
the widow of Thomas
E. Wollam, of Sebring, this state; and Hannah,
who died when sixteen months old.
Benjamin
F. Burklew acquired
his education in the district schools of Monroe
township and was reared on a farm to the age of
fifteen years, when he enlisted for service in
the Civil war, becoming a member of Company I,
Fifty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three
years' service. He participated in the battles
of Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville
and Chattanooga, and in May, 1864, went with the
company on the Georgia campaign, the opening
battle being at Tunnel Hill, after which he took
part in the battles of Rocky Face and Buzzards
Roost. He was in every battle on the campaign
and went back to Nashville with General
Thomas, where he was struck with a cannon
ball, the left arm being entirely torn away at
the elbow joint. After the accident he walked a
quarter of a mile to the hospital, where the arm
was amputated. He spent two months in the
hospital and then went home on a furlough, and
later reported for service at Columbus. Prior
to this he was, on the 27th of June, 1864,
overcome with the heat and lay on the open field
without food or shelter until the 3rd of July,
when he was found and he did not recover
consciousness until the following morning. He
received his discharge at Columbus, having made
a most creditable military record.
After his return from the war Mr.
Burklew returned
to his home in Coshocton county and entered the
schools of Spring Mountain, subsequent to which
time he pursued a course in the Danville schools
in Knox county. After completing his education
he engaged in teaching in the district schools,
following that vocation for about four years,
but on account of his health he had to do work
that would take him in the open air and it was
then he took up general agricultural pursuits.
He now owns and operates eighty acres of land in
Monroe township, on which he has placed many
improvements and has made it a valuable
property. He has ever followed the most
honorable and straightforward business methods
and therefore commands the high regard of his
fellow men.
Mr.
Berklew chose
as companion and helpmate for the journey of
life Miss
Sophronia Thomas, a resident of Columbiana
county, Ohio, their marriage being celebrated in
the year 1871. Their union has been blessed
with six children, as follows: Roy
T., a railroad man of Portland, Oregon; Howard
L., who owns a tinder claim near Portland
and makes his home at Butler, Oregon; William
H., who is a designer, cutter and
manufacturer of ladies' wearing apparel in
Montréal, Canada; Clyde
M., who is associated with our subject in
farming; Adella,
the wife of B.
C. Brillhart, a resident farmer of Monroe
township; and Dena who
has passed away. Mr.
Burklew has
given to his children good educational
advantages and for five years resided in
Millersburg that they might enjoy the privileges
of the schools at that place, and all the sons
have attended college, Clyde
M. having
been admitted to the bar.
Mr.
Barklew gives
his political support to the republican party
and takes a deep and active interest in
political affairs. He is a member of the Royal
Arcanum at Millersburg and of Grand Army Post at
that place, while his wife is a member of the
Disciples church. In everything Mr.
Burklew is
eminently practical and this has been manifest
not only in his business undertakings, but also
in social and private life.
Source: History of Coshocton County, Ohio -
Vol. II - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co. - 1909 - Page 201 |
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