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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Defiance County, Ohio
containing a History of the County; Its Townships,
Towns, Etc.;
Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and
Prominent Men; Farm Views; Personal
Reminiscences, Etc.
Published at Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co.
1883
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Tiffin Twp. -
JOHN N. WALTER, born in Allegheny County,
Penn., Jan. 14, 1818, was the son of John and Catharine (Roup)
Walter. His grandfather was born in Wurtemburg,
Germany, Oct. 8, 1755, and immigrated to America, settling in
Lancaster County, Penn. Of their eight children, John
N., the subject of this sketch, was the third. They
moved to Stark County, Ohio, in 1836, and there John N.
was married, Apr. 20, 1843, to Anna Urseman who was
born near Berne, Switzerland. From Stark County, Mr.
Walter removed to Henry County in 1849, and settled in
Marion Township, when there were but thirteen families in the
township. In January, 1852, he removed to Evansport, where
he now resides. Mr. Walter is a maker of violins
and firearms. He has also engaged in house-painting.
His children are David Walter, born Nov. 20, 1845;
married Jennie Shaffer, June 5, 1873; residence, Toledo;
and John N. born July 9, 1852; married to Lida
Winecope in March, 1874; residence, Toledo.
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at
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Farmer Twp. -
GEORGE WALTZ, born Mar. 26, 1814, in
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and resided there until twenty-two
years of age, and then went to Carroll County, Ohio, where he
stayed eleven years, and from there removed to Farmer Township,
Defiance Co., Ohio, in September, 1848, and purchased 126 acres
acres of land and afterward added forty acres, making in all 160
acres in his homestead. He married Miss Mary Bowman
in January, 1836. She deceased Feb. 9, 1862, aged
forty-four years. She left six children - Mary Jane,
Henry B. (dead), Phoeba, Susan, William C., Henrietta
and Virgil. Mr. Waltz married Miss Sarah Crabb
March, 1867; has no family by this marriage. Mr.
Waltz has about one hundred acres cleared in his farm.
He states that he chopped many nights in clearing his land, by
moonlight. He has a good frame house and barn, but it was
struck by lightning in 1876.
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at Chicago:
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Milford Twp. -
ISAAC WARTENBEE was born in Brooke County,
Va., Jan. 24, 1794, and came to Morgan County, Ohio with his
parents when three years of age, and removed from there to
Muskingum County when twelve years old, and to Farmer Township,
Defiance County, in 1834. Was married to Miss
Mercy Robinson, of Brooke County, Va., in 1817.
He settled on Section 30 in Farmer Township, on lands now owned
by Miller Arrowsmith, and helped organize Farmer Township
in 1836, being one of the voters of the first election, and was
the third family who settled in the township. Mr.
Wartenbee died in March, 1860, aged sixty-six years. Mrs.
Wartenbee died October 20, 1838, aged forty-four years.
Their family were Angelina, Aaron R., Jane, Mercy, Mary,
Amanda and Mergeline. These children all grew
tip and married. Amanda married William Henry,
of Hicksville; Mergeline married Stephen Strong,
of Newville, Ind.; Mercy married Nathaniel
Crary, now of Hicksville; Angeline married Daniel
Coy, of Milford Township, who died June 22, 1857, aged
forty-three years. The family of Mr. Coy
consisted of Albert, Mercy, Flora, Frank,
Eunice, Daniel and Edith. These are
all living but the last named; Albert served fifteen
months in the late war and returned all right. He served
in Kentucky and Virginia, and was discharged at Alexandria Dec.
8, 1865. Mrs. Daniel Coy was the
first person married in Farmer Township, Sept. 6, 1838.
The death of Mrs. Wartenbee, as before stated, was
Oct. 20, 1838, and was the first death in the township.
Mr. Arrowsmith furnished the lumber for her coffin.
The first Methodist preaching was at the funeral of Mrs.
Wartenbee, by George W. Chapman. Mr.
Wartenbee served as Justice of the Peace in the township
of Hicksville. Was also a member of the Disciples Church.
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at
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Defiance Twp. -
FRANCIS J. WEISENBURGER
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Defiance Twp. -
G. M. WEISENBURGER
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Farmer Twp. -
ETHAN R. WELDEN was
born Jan. 9, 1813,
in Clinton County, N. Y., near Plattsburg. Attended school
at Plattsburg, where he learned the wagonmaker's trade. He
resided at that time at Plattsburg, and remained there until
about 1841, when he removed to St. Lawrence County, N. Y, where
he resided until 1854. He married Miss Harriet
Spaulding, at Plattsburg, February 14, 1839. In
1854, he came to Farmer Township, where he has since resided.
As soon as he landed, he opened a wagon shop, and has worked at
his trade ever since, his family consists of Hiram O., Emily
E. , Gilbert M., Edna (dead), Eugenia (dead),
William S. Hiram and Gilbert, wagon-maker.
Mr W. served as Justice of the Peace in St. Lawrence County,
N. Y. . and was twice elected Trustee of Parmer Township. Mr.
W. was in the militia at Plattsburg during the war of 1812.
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at
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Defiance Twp. -
HON. ELMER WHITE, second
son of Lyman and Louisa White, the former of New York
State, the latter of New Hampshire, was born at West Lodi,
Seneca Co., Ohio, Apr. 16, 1847. His parents came to Ohio
in 1836 and located at Tiffin, Seneca County, where Elmer
passed most of his early life. He received his education
in the public schools of that place, graduating June 4, 1864,
with the highest honors of his class. Choosing the
printer's trade, he learned the business in the Tiffin
Advertiser office, under the preceptorship of Hon. W. W.
Armstrong, afterward Secretary of State, and now proprietor
of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mr. White was
united in marriage with Miss Celia A. Hoyt, of
Onondaga County, N. Y., on Jan. 22, 1868. The fruits of
this union were three children, two of whom are living -
Irving E., born July 26, 1870, at Tiffin, Ohio; Lyman,
Jr., born Oct. 30, 1875, at Defiance. A little
daughter, Mary, was born Feb. 26, 1874, and died Sept.
29, 1875. In 1869, Mr. White established the Tiffin
Star, and continued its publication until the fall of
1873, when he removed to Defiance and became editor and part
owner of the Defiance Democrat, succeeding Hon. J. J.
Greene, who had published the paper twenty-four years.
Is still connected with the Democrat and is also, in
connection with Frank J. Mains, proprietor of the
Weekly Herald , a German paper of influence. Mr.
White was elected City Clerk of Defiance in 1873, and held
the office for two terms. In 1881, he was elected a State
Senator, representing the Thirty-second District, comprising the
counties of Williams, Defiance, Paulding, Van Wert, Allen,
Auglaize and Mercer. Mr. White has the reputation
of being a zealous and active worker in the Democratic party of
Northwestern Ohio. He comes of good Democratic stock, his
father before him (who is still living), having always been a
strong worker in that party. In the State Senate he took a
leading part in legislation, and well merited the words of
praise frequently bestowed upon him by the press and public.
In the Legislature, he was one of the champions of the canal
interests of Ohio, and through his work and influence the State
made a large appropriation to rebuild the Wabash & Erie Canal
west of Junction in Paulding County. Local interests were
well cared for by him, and in public matters he was a defender
of the people against jobs and schemes of all kinds. Mr.
White is a fine speaker and able writer. His eulogy
of the late Senator O. Hogan, from the Thirtieth
District, delivered in the Senate Chamber Jan. 9, 1883, received
the highest encomiums of the press and his fellow-members.
Gov. Charles Foster doing him the honor of calling upon
him at his desk, to personally tender his congratulations, and
afterward, many distinguished citizens of the State publicly
expressed their admiration of this masterly and eloquent tribute
to the memory of their departed friend and colleague.
Mr. White is now in the prime of health and vigor,
and has still an eminent and useful career before him. A
brother of Mr. White, now Lieutenant
Commander Edwin White, United States Navy, is
Executive Officer in the flagship Hartford, of the Pacific
squadron, now stationed at the Society Islands. He entered
the naval service of the United States in 1861 and graduated at
the Naval Academy in June, 1861. His home is in Princeton,
N. J., his wife being a daughter of Rear Admiral
Emmons, of the United States Navy, and a niece of Rear
Admirals Thornton and Jenkins.
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at
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Defiance Twp. -
DANIEL WIDMER
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Defiance Twp. -
JOHN WIDMER
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Tiffin Twp. -
JOHN G. WIELAND, born Nov. 5, 1823, in
Wurtemberg, Germany; was son of Gottlieb and Frederica
Wieland also natives of Wurtemberg, who had a family of ten
children, of whom but two, our subject and his sister,
Barbara C., grew up to adult age, and the sister who married
Theobold Fisher died in New York March, 1873. The
father died in 1856, the mother in 1851. They immigrated
to America in 1831, settling in Erie County, N. Y. John
G., our subject, came to Tiffin Township in 1850, taking up
188 acres. His first marriage was with Rosina C. Kurtz,
on Apr. 9, 1849; she also came from Wurtemberg. She bore
him six children - John A., Emma L., Sophia, Barbara, Lucinda
and Wesley J. Mrs. W. died Dec. 9, 1861, and on
May 20, 1862, Mr. W. again married Sarah Moon, by
whom he has six children - Evaline, Christopher B., George
B., Harriet, Cora A. and Fannie. The present
Mrs. W. is the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Moon,
and was born in this township in July, 1838. Mr.
Wieland is a skilled carpenter as well as farmer.
Source: History of Defiance County,
Ohio - Published at Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page
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Milford Twp. -
A. W. WILCOX was born in Oneida County, N.
Y., June 4, 1817. His parents were from Connecticut.
In the fall of 1840, Mr. Wilcox came to Milford
Township and entered a farm of 200 acres. He was married,
Mar. 24, 1842, to Margaret, daughter of William and
Margret (Collins) Fee, who came to St. Joseph Township,
Williams County, in the fall of 1828, there being then but two
other families in the township, those of Dicas and
Avery. Mr. Fee had twelve children, who all
grew up and were married. But six of them now are living,
two in this county — Mrs. Wilcox and her brother
Samuel, both in Milford Township, Samuel on Section
21. Mr. Fee died the same year he came to
the county, in 1828, while from homo to enter land for a future
home, leaving Mrs. Fee to struggle through with a
large family. Mrs. Fee entered a farm near
what is known as Edgerton, in Williams County, where she raised
her family. She died at her daughter's, Mrs.
Wilcox, in Milford, Sept. 29, 1876, aged about eighty eight
years. Mrs. Wilcox was born in Gallia
County, Ohio, Nov. 11, 1824; was seven years old when she came
with her parents to Williams County. Her brothers,
Thomas and John, had to go to La Grange County, Ind.
, forty miles, for grain for the family, and on their arrival
there had to thresh the wheat and husk the corn in the fields in
the snow, as the people there were generally sick at that time,
of ague and bilious fever. After being gone three weeks,
on their return they got within ten miles from home and came to
a stream partially frozen, so the team could not cross, and
Thomas shouldered a sack of meal, arriving home on foot at
midnight, John remaining with the team. For their
trading they had to go to Defiance as their nearest point,
twenty-five miles distant.
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at Chicago:
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Farmer Twp. -
LEVI W. WILDER, so well known throughout this and adjoining
counties as farmer, drover and violinist, was born at Three
Rivers Canada, Dec. 27, 1830. Shortly after his birth, his
parents moved to New Hampshire. In 1839, they again
removed to Mantua, Portage Co., Ohio, where, at the age of
thirteen, Levi worked for William Skinner for $6 a
month, going to school winters, and doing chores for his board.
When sixteen, he came to this county, and when twenty he had
paid for his present farm $295, including interest. When
twenty-three, he married Olive A. Stone, and two children
- Lillie Clarina and Otis Lee - have added to
their married happiness. Mrs. Wilder is familiar
with farm life from childhood, and is eminently qualified to
adapt herself to every circumstance. Her practical good
sense and sound judgment have contributed, in no small degree,
to their financial prospects, while her home an attractive
center of a large circle of friends, who are always welcome to
their hospitable board. Mr. Wilder never took time
to hunt, except for a couple of times, when he was highly
successful, on the first day of shooting the only deer of the
party, who were old hunters. On the second time he hunted,
his bearship treed the valiant captain of the hunt, and after
allowing the bear to escape the party were marched home.
Mr. Wilder tells a good story of his hunting experience.
In 1880, he wrote out an address to the citizens of Hicksville,
the manuscript of which we have. He begin by referring to
thirty-live years'
residence in the county, and to the great changes that have
taken place in that time, from a dense forest to smiling
villages and farms. He describes early scenes. How
farmers, in some cases, had to dig up seed potatoes to save
themselves from starvation. Imagine, says he, a
spring-pole, a pestle, a string, a hollowed out stump, a few
grains of corn, and a woman pounding up that corn to get dinner
for the Hon. A. P. Edgerton! Young men roamed the
woods barefooted, hunting, until the soles of their feet were
impenetrable by thorns or briers. He goes on humorously to
relate how, owing to the refusal of his horse to carry two, he
had to walk while the girl (afterward
Mrs. Wilder) rode, and when crossing the stream
near Mr. Parmer's, the high-spirited steed
leaped across, throwing off the young lady, who hung the
stirrup. Wonderful to relate, the horse, usually a kicker,
stood still until Levi came up and released the lady.
The address goes on cleverly to contrast the warm manners of the
past with the formality of the present, "cold as the wiggle of a
dead dog's nose." But in the last forty years a mighty
change has taken place; carding and spinning by hand have gone,
and the girls are to-day pleading at the bar, preaching in the
pulpit, or editing newspapers. The sohoolhouse in which
Mr. Boyington taught was about sixteen feet square,
with holes bored in the logs and pins driven in, and boards
nailed on for a desk; basswood logs split for benches, and
puncheon floor. One day, Spencer Hopkins
came to the school, and wished Levi to help him catch a
wounded deer, and after going two miles, Hopkins
directed him to catch it by the horns while he cut its throat.
Levi did so, but let go without being told, The
deer, as Levi expresses it, was a careless cuss, and put
both hind feet on his shoulders, and Levi thought for a
minute or two that he had a dozen feet. The deer cut his
pants on the bias, and put some beautiful stripes on them.
This was the last deer he over caught. He never forgave
Hopkins until he got a chance to stumble with him on his
back (accidentally?) while carrying him across a mud-hole.
Hopkins was dressed for church, but when he came out of
that mud-hole be was hardly presentable. When Mr.
Wilder came to Farmer, there were living there then
Grandfather Rice and wife, Edward Lacost
and wife, John Rice and wife, Joseph
Barney and wife, William Reynolds and wife,
Josiah and James and Isaac Tharp and
wife, Amarilla Lord, Jacob Conkey,
Dr. O. Rice and Spencer Hopkins; none of
whom are here now. Mr. Wilder here pays a
eulogy to Mr. Hopkins, with whom he had spent many
happy days. "In the meridian of life he departed.
Peace be to thy ashes, thou sharer of my boyhood pastime.
May the flowers bloom sweetly over all the old settlers' graves.
May the journeying wind sigh sweetly,
as year after year they pass o'er their grassy beds. May
the solitary rain-clouds weep in darkness over the remains that
lie in that Parmer's Cemetery. But when shall human tears
cease to be shed? * * * What is death? Or what is
life? Of what does it consist, that we put such a
value upon it? Is it that frail breath that makes us weak,
and suffer so much? Why do we fear to lose it, more than
anything in this world? What is reserved for us after it,
that the thought of death makes us tremble? Man has been
talking about it for century after century. We all hink
about it, but no one can tell; it is a mystery, all. How
little we realize that we are so interwoven into the fabric of
society, that not one fiber can be influenced for good or for
evil without such influence extending to all in contact.
When brother "Wentworth sang his song here last year, it
had its influence
with me, and in a few weeks' time I had a song all cut and
dried, ready for the touch of the old settler's match. If
my time is not out, I will sing that song to-day; if it is, I
will sing it in some future time, providing that old invader,
Death, does not travel me over that road from which no traveler
was ever yet known to return. It speaks of the residences,
occupations, names and nicknames of quite a number of the first
settlers. For the benefit of late settlers and the young,
I will explain the nicknames: Edge is the Hon.
A. P. Edgerton; Nat, Rev. N. Crary; Boots,
Mr. Elias Crary; Mullen, Mr.
Spencer Hopkins; K, Mr. Seneca Sanford; The
Miller of Lost Creek, Mr. Miller Arrowsmith;
Buckskin, the name of a creek where Mr. Lyman
Langdon resides.
PIONEER SONG.
(As sung by L. W.
Wilder at the old settlers' meeting in Hicksville, Ohio, A.
D. 1880. Tune, "O, carry me back to Old Virginia.")
There were Conkeys
in Farmer and Dillman in Center
And Thomas that lived in
Newville,
Doctor Rakestraw in Hicksville, and Nobles in
Clarksville,
And our miller of Lost Creek Mills.
T'was Edge, it was Nat, it was Boots, it
was Mullen, and another we used to call K.
O, carry me back to the days of my childhood, I'm
willing to go any day.
There was the spring
pole and pestle and hollowed out stump
Where Mrs. Osborn ground corn
for to bake.
Her cakes were so grand for she bolted by hand;
No toll but her own did she take.
T'was Edge, it was Nat, it was Boots, it
was Mullen and another we used to call K.
O, carry me back to the days of my childhood, no
stealing or tolling for pay.
There was Nobles,
an old fur-buyer, he has been Paulding Judge.
And another we used to call Chett
Blynn.
With four weeks' excursion all over this wild wood,
Would corner them up with coon skins.
T'was Edge, it was Nat, it was Boots, it
was Mullen, and another we used to call K.
Pins, needles and whisky they scarcely did deal in, but
always had money to pay.
The wolf and the bear
that roved over this wildwood,
The Mortimers chased them
away.
The beaver and otter was in Lost Creek water.
And the opossum have all gone astray.
T'was Edge, it was Nat, it was Boots, it
was Mullen, and another we used to call K.
O, carry me back to the place of my childhood, when
hunting was nothing but play.
There was Langdon
on Buckskin, and Haller on Lost Creek,
And Allen and Rices
them days.
Randall Lord, our shoemaker, at the
Junction Brubaker,
And Hinkle was honest they
say.
T'was Edge, it was Nat, it was Boots, it
was Mullen, and another we used to call K.
O, carry me back to the days of my childhood, they were
honest if not quite so gay.
There were the
Wentworths and Travis, the Evans and Curtis,
Oh, Sid Sprague don't
forget "by the way,"
For in building he was a giant, he built up Defiance
Without any money to pay.
T'was Edge, it was Nat, it was Boots, it
was Mullen, and another we used to call K.
O, carry me back to the days of my childhood, when
cities were built without pay.
The Farmer road to
Hicksville, the crooks are there still.
Surveyed by a man in our town.
His pants leg it was froze, and the story now goes.
That his dry leg kept running around.
T'was Edge, it was Nat, it was Boots, it was Mullen,
and another we used to call K.
O, carry me back to the days of my childhood, when dry
legs kept running away.
It has been truly
said, you might go and see Edge,
Without money, could buy you a farm;
You build you a cabin, and then move your wife in.
And work and he would do you no harm.
Now 'tis the honoralde A. P. for in Congress was he,
but I don't know what they call K.
O, carry me back to the days of ray boyhood, when farms
could be bought without pay.
A brave man in
Hicksville went out past the mill,
A deer lick to watch one day;
He heard an owl hoot and for Hicksville did scoot.
And seven-upon his coat tail you
could play.
It was the honorable A. P. running for Congress you
see, but his vote was all K.
O, carry me back, that coat tail to see, seven up aint
the game it used to be.
A farmer, a
thresher, a fiddler and a hunter.
On horseback rode out one day.
He hugged a school teacher, and turned out a preacher,
And nothing can beat him they say.
Now 'tis the Hon. A. P. and the Rev. N. C.,
but his doctoring ain't all K.
O, carry me back to the days of my boyhood, when
fiddlers made preachers that way.
On the banks of
St. Joe, the old settlers know.
Lived a man they called Tommy
Green.
When the country was new, of one gun he made two.
Before any game he had seen.
"Two pieces are handier than one," cried Tommy,
"I've now the best gun in the land."
By the eternal, he swore, "I wish I'd broke it before,
for I can now carry a piece in each hand."
My sisters took music
lessons once.
On mother's little wheel.
The scale they slid up and down on a tow thread.
And the notes they used to feel.
They made their own dresses of home-spun wool, my pants
were made of tow.
O, let me go back to my youthful days, o'er forty years
ago.
Soon after I first
landed on this earth,
A buckeye hat I wore.
Tow shirt and tow breeches my mother she made me,
And she paddled me when I swore.
My suit was made of daddy's tow frock, brass buttons on
my vest.
O, let me go back to my youthful days, it would tickle
me half to death.
I've had my ups and
downs in this world.
Barefooted I've been to school;
I have jumped out of bed with snow on my head.
You bet 'twas confounded cool.
But the future I don't know nothing about, the wicked
they say have no rest;
If Rev. Crary's doctrine, it would prove
true, it would tickle us all to death.
There has been a great
change, in people and names,
Some worse and some for the best.
Some kept plodding along, whether right or for wrong,
And some gone away out West.
But our fathers, our mothers, our sisters and brothers
have gone and left us alone
Their have left us the word, we must come that road no
traveler yet known to return.
Old settlers, see here,
to me you're so dear.
Your race is nearly run.
Then will there be rejoicing to see
A mother meet her son.
Your ambitious life's been a tedious one, its led some
to renown,
But your bodies soon they must decay, and fade and
totter down.
Kind people assist, some
name I have missed.
No malice or intention of mine.
If I've caused any pain. Its a lack in my brain.
But I'll try and do better next time.
But time goes marching swiftly on, and we are growing
old,
We can't go back to our youthful days, we can't for
love or gold.
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Defiance Twp. -
ADAM WILHELM
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Adams Twp. -
JOHN WISDA, son of John and Mary (Slagel)
Wisda, was born in Klatan, Bohemia, Mar. 23, 1844;
immigrated with his parents in August, 1854, arriving first at,
Baltimore, Md., thence to Sandusky County, Ohio. His
father's family consists of four sons and and two daughters—
John, Joseph, Albert, James, Mary
and Anna. Albert is engineer on a Texas
railway; James is a blacksmith residing in Fremont, Neb.;
the rest are residents of Defiance County. The father was
billed by a tree he was filling about eight years after he came
to Sandusky, in August, 1861. Mr. Wisda, our
subject was married Aug. 29, 1871, to Gertrude Lutz,
daughter of Michael and Catharine (Hasset)
Lutz. Their children are John G., born June
12, 1872; Anna C., born Feb. 24, 1874; Michael A.,
born July 20, 1875; Joseph A., born Aug. 9, 1877;
Frank J., born Nov. 14, 1879; Richard T., born Oct.
21, 1881. Mrs. Wisda's father was from Bavaria,
Germany, her mother from Ireland. They came to this
country in 1841, to Seneca County, and thence to Adams Township
in October, 1850. The subject of this sketch came with his
mother and family from Sandusky County to Tiffin Township April,
1871. His mother is living in this (Adams) township.
Mr. W. bought eighty acres in Section 8, resided there
about two years, then came to the farm of 140 acres, where he
now lives on Section 20, in fall of 1876. Defiance is his
present post office. Mrs. Wisda was born
Feb. 21, 1851, in Adams Township, where her father entered the
land in Section 28. His children were Catharine,
Mary M., Gertrude, John G., Michael J. , Helen, Joseph, Anna B.
Of these, Catharine and Michael are dead.
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EMANUEL WOLFORD, deceased, was born in
Columbiana County, Ohio, Sept. 12, 1827, and wa a son of
Henry and Elizabeth (Fox) Wolford of Pennsylvania. He
was married, Nov. 26, 1857, to Fanny, daughter of
Thomas J. Sweet To them were born four children, two
of whom are living, viz., Frank W. and Carrie E.; Ida
O. and Effie D. deceased. Mr. W. died
Oct. 10, 1872. His father, Samuel served in an Ohio
regiment during the late war.
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Defiance Twp. -
HARVEY WOOD
Source: History of Defiance County, Ohio - Published at
Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co. - 1883 - Page 223 |
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