BIOGRAPHIES

Source: 
20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio
and representative citizens
Publ: Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., by James R. Lytle 
1908

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THE FARMERS SAVINGS BANK COMPANY, of Ashley, was established in business Feb. 9, 1905, with a capital stock of $25,000, Mr. F. E. Whipple being the first president of that institution and Mr. B. A. Durkee, cashier, serving as such until Jan. 1, 1907, when the following officers were elected: W. Slack, president; T. J. Cole, vice-president:; F. E. Whipple, cashier; and J. F. Riley, assistant cashier.  The directors of the bank are all well known business men, as follows:  W. Slack, T. J. Cole, J. F. Wilt, H. Blair, Isaac Clark, B. F. McMaster and R. D. McGonigle.      The Farmers Savings Bank Company erected a fine two-story brick building, the second floor being occupied by the Masonic Lodge, the main floor consisting of three store rooms and the bank. Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle~ Page 730

DR. D. C. FAY is and has been the leading physician of Ostrander since he located there.  He was born in Union County, Ohio, in 1843.  He attended the High school and the Academy at Marysville, Ohio.  After finishing his studies he read medicine with Dr. J. M. Southard, one of the leading practitioners in that county.  IN 1864 he attended the Starling Medical College, and in 1867 graduated from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, Ohio.  He returned home and located at Ostrander, Ohio, the same year.  He married in 1871 Miss Mary A. Liggett.  He belongs to the I. O. O. F., the F. & A. M. and K. P.  The forty years of professional labors in this community have made him one of the landmarks; for he is known and appreciated by all.  He has witnessed many changes in the profession, not only in his vicinity, but in the county as well. Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle~ Page 375

DR. ERASTUS FIELD.  The old and much respected Dr. Erastus Field began his work in Bellpoint, and after eight years moved to Ostrander, where he labored until about 1876, when, with his son, Dr. J. H. Field, who graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1870, and who was associated with his father, moved to Knoxville, Tennessee.  The old doctor was brought back to his old home for burial several years ago.  His son is still practicing in Knoxville, Tennessee. Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle~ Page 376

DR. GEORGE F. FOSTER, of Olive Green, bought out Dr. E. B. Mosher about 1874.  He is a graduate of the Starling Medical College. Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle - Page 371

DR. SILAS WILLIARD FOWLER is a son of Charles M. and Catherine Ann Fowler, who came to Delaware County, Ohio, in 1847.  The father was an oilcloth manufacturer in New York.  The doctor was the fourth child, and was born in Green County, New York, and when one year old came with his parents to Porter Township in the eastern part of the county.  He, like many others, was educated at first in the common schools.  At an early age he was sent to Central College in Franklin County, Ohio.  After two years in the College he began teaching.  By the consent of his father, in 1864 he enlisted in the army in the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, O. V. I.  After being mustered out of the service, he entered Oberlin College, where he remained until the fall of 1868, when he entered the office of that celebrated surgeon, Dr. J. W. Russell, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  He was one year at Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend the University.  In 1871 he graduated from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  While at Jefferson College he had the advantages of the lectures of the great authors, Gross, Dickson, Wallace, Rand, Keen and Pancost.  After his graduation he returned to Delaware and opened an office, his father and family having preceded him to Delaware in 1869.  For thirty-six years he has been on the main street, and is one of the six business men remaining, who were on the street at that time.  During all this time he has been in the forefront of the practice of his profession.  He has been a frequent contributor to medical journals, and newspapers, and for many years was the local correspondent of the Cleveland Leader.  He has always maintained high professional standing.      The Doctor has been an extensive traveler.  He has visited all parts of the United States, Mexico, Cuba, the Azores, Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Asia Minor, Turkey, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, France and England.      He was raised a Presbyterian, but now belongs to the Methodist Church.  He is a member of Hiram Lodge, F. and A. M., No. 18; Delaware Council, No. 84, R. and S. M.; Delaware Chapter, R. and A. M., and Marion Commandery, K. T., No. 36.  He is a member of the Delaware County, the Ohio State, and the American and the Tenth District Medical Associations.  He was twice made delegate to the International Medical Congress.  He prepared the history of the medical profession for the old county history from 1806 down to the present , 1907.  Thus the history of the medical profession is recorded to the present time.      Mr. Fowler has always stood for a high standard of medical education and professional ethics, always gave his services freely to the worthy poor, and has done more literary work than most members of the profession in the county.  The Doctor's natural bent towards literature, and his long familiarity with newspaper work, has made him one of the most interesting and profficient writers the county has ever produced, and it is to be hoped that he will yet put many of his interesting articles into the form of a book, so that the public may have the benefit of his experience as a traveler.  The Doctor's extended acquaintance throughout this county, his long professional career, and his close and intimate association with the older members of the profession who have passed to their reward, have enabled him to prepare this chapter on the medical profession with much more accuracy and proficiency than it could have been written by the author of this history, who has prepared this sketch of Dr. Fowler's life; and the writer hereby wishes to acknowledge his gratefulness to him for this full and complete chapter on the medical profession. Source: 20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle - Page 376

JUDGE BENJAMIN F. FRESHWATER was born November 24, 1852, on the "Hinton Farm" in Delaware Township, and grew to manhood on his father's farm in Berlin Township.  He is the son of Captain Archibald Freshwater, an honored veteran of the Civil War.  The subject of this sketch received his early education in the public schools.  At the age of nineteen he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, where he completed the classical course, and was graduated in the year 1877.  He began the study of law in the office of Carper and Van Deman, teaching school at times to help defray expenses.  He was admitted to the Bar on the second day of June, 1880, by the Supreme Court of Ohio, and on the first day of July, 1880, began the practice of his profession, having formed a partnership with F. B. DeWitt, of Paulding County, Ohio.  The style of the firm being DeWitt and Freshwater.  In the year 1881 the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Freshwater continuing the practice of Paulding County until the year 1885, when he returned to his old home and he opened an office in Delaware in the autumn of that year.      Mr. Freshwater is a Republican in politics, and he was chosen secretary of the Republican Central Committee in which he served the party for two years.  He was nominated for probate judge by the Republican party in the year 1893, and was elected and entered upon the duties of his office February 9, 1894.  He was re-nominated and re-elected in the year 1896, and served out his full term.  After his retirement from office he entered into a partnership for the practice of law, with Hon. F. M. Marriott, the style of the firm being Marriott & Freshwater.  This firm continued in the practice until February, 1902, when Judge Wickham retired from the Common Pleas Court judgeship, to which he had been elected in November, 1906, since which time Marriott and Freshwater have continued the practice under the style of the old firm of Marriott and Freshwater.      Mr. Freshwater belongs to the following named fraternal organizations, viz.:  Hiram Lodge, F. & A. M.; Lenape Lodge, No. 28, K. of P., and Delaware Lodge, B. P. O. E.  He is one of the Alumni Trustees of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and is one of the directors of The Delaware Savings Bank Company, and is the attorney for the People's Building and Loan Company, and is now in the midst of an active and lucrative practice of his profession.  Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle~ Page 742

GEORGE FRYMAN - See Thomas A. Fryman biography Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle~ Page  588

THOMAS A. FRYMAN Source:  20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle~ Page  588

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