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Source:
A Centennial
Biographical History
of
Crawford
County, Ohio
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"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote
ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride
by remote generations."
- MACAULAY
Publ. Chicago:
The Lewis Publishing Company
1902
H. N. OBERLANDER |
H. N. OBERLANDER.
The gentleman whose name is mentioned above and who is a
well-known farmer of Lykens township. Crawford County,
Ohio, is descended from old and honorable trans-Atlantic stock,
which was transplanted to one of our eastern colonies, whence
his father, Emanuel Oberlander, emigrated to Ohio at a
period early enough to be counted among the pioneers of this
great state. All those qualities of mind and heart, all
those characteristics which make for personal success and good
citizenship, have been conspicuous in nearly every generation of
his family.
Henry N. Oberland is a native of Lykens
township, Crawford county, and was born on the 14th day of
March, 1863. He received his early education in such crude
public schools near his home as were in vogue at that time and
was early initiated into the mysteries of practical farming.
According to hsi father what was his father's due, he remained
with him, assisting him in every way possible, until he was
twenty-one years old, then with willing hands and active brain
and a clean record he took up the battle of life on his own
account. He began his independent business career by
renting the farm which he now owns, which became his by
purchase in 1895. The farm consists of one hundred and
twenty acres of well improved and very productive land, in
connection with which for the past ten years he has cultivated
the Shalter farm. He has made many improvements on
his place and gives his attention to general farming, in which
he has been satisfactorily successful. Mr. Oberlander
also owns and operates the grain elevator at Lykens, and in
partnership with G. B. Quaintance owns and operates a
grain elevator at Ridgeton, Ohio.
July 10, 1884, Mr. Oberlander married Lily M.
Dillinger a daughter of David Dillinger, deceased,
and they have two children, named Wynona and Chalmers
who are now gaining an education. The daughter is
especially promising, having obtained a teacher's license at the
age of fifteen.
Politically Mr. Oberlander affiliates with the
Democratic party and he exerts a not uncertain influence on
local affairs. While he has never been an office seeker, a
considerable number of responsible offices have sought him and
in the interests of good government he has accepted them.
He has twice filled the office of assessor in his township, and
for five years has been a member of the board of education.
During this time he has done everything in his power to improve
the efficiency of the schools, and in the fall of 1900 was
elected to the office of county commissioner, which he is
filling with great ability and credit. It may be said of
him that he is a man of pronounced public spirit, and his
admiring fellow citizens bear testimony to the fact that he may
safely be depended upon to advance to the extent of his ability
any movement, which in his good judgement promises to benefit
the people of his township or county. HE is a member of
Lykens Lodge, No. 530, Knights of Pythias.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Crawford County,
Ohio - Chicago: 1902 - Page 600
NOTE:
CLICK HERE to view a building that bears the name H. N.
Oberlander 1924 on 125 S. Sandusky Ave., Bucyrus, Crawford Co.,
OH as of the year 2018. |
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OWEN OHL.
The man whose name is above is one of the old and honored
citizens of Texas township, Crawford county, Ohio, and is a
native of the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, having been born
in Luzerne county, February 28, 1833, a son of Philip and
Mary (Kless) Ohl, who had six children, named as follows:
Joshua, John, Owen, Abraham, Caroline
and Elizabeth, of whom the subject of this sketch is the
only one now living. Philip Ohl served his country
as a soldier in the war of 1812 and became a man of local
prominence at his old home in Pennsylvania. In 1851 he moved
with his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and located in Texas
township, Crawford county, on the farm now owned by his son
Owen. He bought eighty acres of land, on which was a small
clearing and a log house. He made improvements and remained
there continuously until 1876, when he died, at the age of
eighty-three years.
Owen Ohl lived on his father's home farm
until 1869, when he removed to Lykens township, where he bought
eighty acres of land, on which he lived seven years. After that
he lived for four years on a farm owned by his father-in-law,
Robert Dewalt, and then returned to his father's old
homestead. He has been successful in a material way and has
acquired two hundred acres of land, one hundred and twenty acres
of which he divided among his children in 1901, retaining only
his old homestead. In politics he is a Democrat and he and his
wife and children are communicants of the German Reformed
church.
Mr. Ohl was married May 11, 1861,
to Miss Isabelle Dewalt, daughter of
Robert Dewalt, of Lykens township, and they have
had seven children, the following data concerning whom will be
of interest in this connection. Their son Robert lives in
Wyandot county, Ohio. Their daughter Mary is the wife of
P. A. Frankenfield, of Texas township, Crawford county.
Their son
Richard E. is a farmer in Seneca county, Ohio. Their
daughter Laura E. is the wife of Albert Braldie,
of Seneca county, Ohio. Their son William is a well-known
citizen of Texas township. Their son Albert is a member
of their household. Their daughter Ida is the wife of
Willard Moore, of Texas township.
Mr. and Mrs. Ohl are passing the declining years of their
lives quietly and calmly, with few bitter memories and with many
pleasant thoughts of their past years, for their lives have been
blameless and their worldly success has been won by most worthy
means. Their charity has not been stinted and they have many
times proven themselves friends to those in need. Their example
has been a good one to their children and to all who know them
and they are justly held in high esteem by a wide circle of
acquaintances.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Crawford County,
Ohio - Chicago: 1902 - Page 818 |
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