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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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J. E. HAAS - See Hon.
William E. Haas biography |
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HON. WILLIAM E. HAAS, mayor
of Delaware. Ohio, was born December 17, 1874, at Bucyrus, Crawford
County, Ohio, and is a son of J. E. and Mary (Frank) Haas. The
parents of Mayor Plaas were born and reared on farms in
Crawford County. Ohio. In 1876 they came to Delaware, and J. E.
Haas has been employed in the blacksmith department of the shops
belonging to the Big Four Railroad, in this city, for the past 31
years. His family consists of four sons and three daughters, namely:
Anna, who married Frank Vining, who is a member of the
police force at Delaware; William E.; Charles O., who is in
business at Delaware; Matilda, who married Edward
Schweitzer, at Delaware; Vincent, residing at Moxahala, Ohio,
where he is serving as secretary of the Chapman Coal Mining Company;
Joseph, who died aged four months; and Frances, who is
the possessor of rare musical talents, which have been well
cultivated.
During his boyhood, William E. Haas attended the
parochial schools at Delaware, and when it became a family law that he
should become self-supporting, he went to work in a chair factory and
continued his studies at night, in the public schools. Very much as
many other ambitious youths, he tried one position after another in
the endeavor to make the most of his time and opportunities, going
from the chair factory to a grocery store and from there to a cigar
factory, and later reaching the firm of Downheimer & Crasser,
with which he learned the trade of cigar-making. On January 1, 1898,
he entered into partnership with J. P. Crasser, in the
manufacture of cigars, under the firm style of Grasser &
Haas. Mr. Haas attends to all the outside work of
the firm and writes all the advertising matter, which, on account of
the extent of the business, is very heavy. Employment is given to from
eight to 14 expert cigar-makers, and the firm has several exclusive
brands which have proved to be favorites with the public.
On June 29, 1896, Mr. Haas was married to
Catherine Hoch, who is a daughter of Joseph
Hoch, who resides at Lancaster, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Haas
have two children, Mary Catherine and Anna Josephine,
both of whom attend school. The family belong to the Catholic Church.
For the past two years, Mayor Haas has been the only
Democratic member of the Delaware City Council. He has been a leading
and influential member of his party for some years and his nomination
to the highest civic office, September 27, 1907, was a token of
harmony in the Democratic ranks. He was elected November 6, 1907,
receiving a majority of 12 electoral votes. Personally, Mr.
Haas is very popular in Delaware, where he has been for so long a
sterling and public-spirited citizen, and hence the satisfaction on
his election was wide spread. He is a member of the Commercial Club,
in the deliberations of which he takes an active and interested part,
and he belongs to the fraternal orders of the Knights of Columbus, the
Eagles, and the United Commercial Travelers.
Source:
20th century history of Delaware
County, Ohio and representative citizens -
Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle -
Page 616 |
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DR. EDWARD M. HALL had
been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery since 1871,
when he graduated from the Homeopathic Hospital College at
Cleveland, Ohio. After taking his degree in medicine, he
located in Fredericktown, Ohio, where he soon gained a satisfactory
practice and the good will and respect of the people of that
community, and was honored by them in being elected, for many years
in succession, a member of their Board of Education, which position
he held, as well as that of Pension Examiner for Knox County, when
he removed to this city in 1889. With the experience gained in
an active practice of nearly twenty years and, having taken a
post-graduate course in medicine previous to resuming practice here,
he from the first took rank with the leading physicians of the
county. He is a member of the American Medical Association,
the Ohio State Medical Society, and at the re-organization of the
Delaware County Medical Society he was chosen its vice-president,
and on the following year its president.
Source:
20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub.
Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle - Page 359 |
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EDWARD M. HALL, M. D.,
has been a resident of Delaware, Ohio, since 1889. In 1862,
when 16 years of age, he enlisted in the One Hundred and
Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but, being under age and size,
he was at first rejected by the mustering officer, who afterwards,
when assured by the Colonel of the regiment that he was competent to
perform the clerical duties to which he had already been assigned,
permitted his name to remain on the rolls.
He served with his regiment till shortly after the
battle of Chickamauga when, for special service rendered Gen.
James B. Stedman, he was appointed by him his division
postmaster.
On the Atlanta campaign, however, he took up the duties
of a soldier, and on the 6th day of August, when his division was
occupying an important and hazardous position, received a gunshot
fracture of his left thigh and was sent to the field hospital, where
he had careful attention from the late Dr. T. B. Williams of
this city, who was then division surgeon. A few weeks
afterwards, on being transferred from Chattanooga to Nashville,
Tennessee, the hospital train was thrown from the track and he was
so severely injured that he was compelled to remain in the hospital
many months.
While in general hospital at Jeffersonville, Indiana,
and still obliged to use crutches, eh was appointed executive clerk
to the board of surgeons of the hospital. At the time Gen.
Sherman's army was ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, to be
mustered out of service, many soldiers from the hospitals, he among
the number, were detailed to prepare the muster-out rolls. His
assignment was that of chief clerk in the office of Col. Flint
at Gen. Palmer's headquarters, where he remained from May
till August, 1865, when he was mustered out of service.
At Shelbyville, Tennessee, in 1863, he was taken sick
with the prevailing camp disease, from the effects of which he has
never fully recovered.
On returning home, broken in health and still suffering
from his wound, he was obliged to abandon the idea of a university
education, and spent such time as he was able during the next two or
three years in reading, preparatory to taking up the study of
medicine, which he did, later, graduating in 1871.
In 1874, Dr. Hall was married to Laura Beaver
Nevius, daughter of Aaron C. Nevius of Fredericktown,
Ohio. The Nevius family is of Dutch extraction,
Aaron C. Nevius being fifth in descent from Johannes Nevius,
who after being graduated from the University of Leyden, emigrated
to New Amsterdam, now New York, in 1651, and in 1653, at its
organization, became a member of the Court of Burgomasters and
Schepens, serving seven years as Schepen, and afterwards as city
secretary, which office he held when the city surrendered to the
English in 1664.
The wife of Aaron C. Nevius, Sarah Beaver Nevius,
was a daughter of Rev. Peter Beaver, of the Philadelphia
Conference, and a granddaughter of George Beaver, a
Revolutionary soldier. She, also, was an aunt of ex-Gov.
James A. Beaver of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Hall's maternal ancestors emigrated to New
England about the middle of the eighteenth century, David Brown
from Scotland, making his permanent home at Greenwich, Connecticut,
and Hardy Rundall from England, at the nearby town of
Norwalk.
During the Revolutionary war, when the English troops,
in 1779, raided Norwalk, Fairfield and New Haven, Hardy Rundall,
Jr., a colonel of light dragoons in the English army, took leave
of his family at Norwalk, after which he sailed for England, not to
return.
His paternal ancestors settled in New Jersey early in
the eighteenth century in the vicinity of Morristown, where his
grandfather, Caleb Hall, was born in 1780. His
grandmother, Sarah Anderson, was a daughter of Col.
Richard Clough Anderson, a well known Revolutionary soldier.
Three children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Hall;
Mary, who died in 1893, in her seventeenth year, while attending
the Ohio Wesleyan University; Aletheia, who married Philo
M. Buck, Jr., after their graduation from the O. W. U., and who
reside in St. Louis, Mo.; Edward M., Jr., who after
graduating from the Ohio Wesleyan University, took up the study of
law and graduated from the law department of Harvard College, and is
now practicing law in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Hall is a member of the American Medical
Association, the State Medical and County Medical Societies, and was
president of the County Society in 1905.
While not seeking political preferment, he has taken
great interest in political questions since his boyhood, and has
given ready support to such measures as have had for their object
improved conditions or better citizenship.
At the time of his removal to this city, he was serving
his fourth term as a member of the Board of Education of
Frederickstown, and was a member of the Board of Examining Surgeons
for Pensions for Knox County, Ohio.
For about twelve years he has been president of the
Board of Directors and Trustees of Oak Grove Cemetery Company, and
has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Delaware Young
Men's Christian Association since its organization.
Source:
20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub.
Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle - Page 668 |
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WILLIAM A. HALL is
the only son of John W. Hall and Susan A. Hall.
His parents settled in Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio, where
he was born on the first day of June, 1849. He received his
early education in the public schools of his native township, working
by turns on his father's farm and attending the district schools in
the winter seasons and later he attended the Ohio Wesleyan University
at Delaware, Ohio. In the year 1871 he began the study of law
with H. C. Carhart of Galion, Ohio. He completed his
studies at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he graduated from the law
department of the University of Michigan in the year 1873. He
was admitted to the Bar the same year. He immediately commenced
the practice of his chosen profession in Galion, Ohio, where he
continued to practice of gratifying success until the year 1876.
He parents having moved to Delaware, Mr. Hall came here
and opened an office in this city where he has ever since continued
the practice of his profession.
Mr. Hall has also engaged in other business
which he has prosecuted with success, having been a member of the
Board of Directors of the Deposit Banking Company of Delaware, Ohio.
He is now the secretary and treasurer of the Hotel Donavin Company and
he is the owner of lands in his native township, which he manages
successfully and profitably.
Source:
20th century history of Delaware
County, Ohio and representative citizens -
Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle -
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EUGENE D. HAMILTON
was the son of John Hamilton and Jenette Hamilton.
He was born Jan. 15, 1854, in Concord Township, Delaware County, Ohio.
He received his early education in the public schools of that
township. He prepared himself for a teacher and taught his first
school when he was but seventeen years of age. He attended the
Ohio Wesleyan University for a time, but he finished his course and
took his degree from the Northwestern University of Chicago, Illinois,
about the year 1877. From the time he began to teach, he
supported himself in that way and that intervals attended college,
taught, and studied law, and he was admitted to the Bar in the year
1878. He immediately opened an office in the city of Delaware
and began the practice of his chosen profession. He was married
to Miss Alice E. Freshwater on the fifteenth day of January,
1880. He was elected solicitor of the city of Delaware, Ohio, in
April 1880, but he only lived abut two months after he had taken his
office, his death taking place June 14, 1880.
Source:
20th century history of Delaware
County, Ohio and representative citizens -
Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle -
Page 328 |
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DR. LEWIS HAMILTON
located in Ostrander after graduating from the Columbus Medical
College. After five years he moved to Marion, Ohio, where he
is engaged in a large practice.
Source:
20th century history of Delaware
County, Ohio and representative citizens -
Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle -
Page 376 |
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CALEB HARSH - See
James W. Harsh biography |
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JAMES W. HARSH, a
prominent agriculturist of Delaware County, Ohio, who owns and
operates a magnificent tract of 600 acres in Radnor Township, was born
December 22, 1851, in Marion County, Ohio, and is a son of Caleb
and Catherine (Gracley) Harsh, and a grandson of Jacob
Harsh, a native of Wurtemberg, Germany.
Caleb Harsh was born in Wurtemberg,
Germany, and in 1830, as a boy, came to America with his parents, and
settled in the woods of Marion County, Ohio. Here he followed the
trade of tanner until 1852, in which year he removed to Delaware
County, settling on a farm on the Scioto River in Radnor Township,
where the remainder of his life was spent. He was an industrious
farmer and able business man, and in his death Delaware County lost
one of its progressive, public-spirited citizens. During the latter
part of his life he was a Republican in politics, and his religious
belief was that of the Presbyterian Church. Of the children of
Caleb and Catherine (Gracley) Harsh, seven grew to maturity,
namely: James W.; Martha, who is the wife of Titus
Jones of Radnor Township; Mary E., who is the widow of
Finley Tyler, late of Scioto Township, where Mrs.
Tyler now resides; Sarah S., wife of Bertrand
Smith, of near Stratford, Delaware County; Emma L., who
married Dr. T. K. Jones, of Radnor, Ohio; Ella V., who
is the wife of Foster Evans of Scioto Township; and
Charles F., who lives in Radnor Township.
James W. Harsh was brought by his parents from
Marion County to Delaware Count) as a boy, and since that time he has
always resided in Radnor Township. He received his education in the
public schools, after leaving which he engaged in farming and
stock-raising. and his well-cultivated tract of 600 acres is one of
the finest farms in Radnor Township. Mr. Harsh is a
Democrat in politics, and he has always taken an active interest in
public matters, serving a number of years as a member of the Board of
Education of Radnor Township.
In March, 1880, Mr. Harsh was married to
Mary Criglar, who was born in Delaware Township,
Delaware County, Ohio, and is a daughter of the late James
Criglar, who was a well-known citizen of Delaware Township. There
were six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Harsh, two of whom died
in infancy, the survivors being: James W., Jr., Charles C, Margie
and Nellie, all residents of Radnor Township.
Source:
20th century history of Delaware
County, Ohio and representative citizens -
Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle
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BENJAMIN A. HAWES - See
Clinton O. Hawes herein |
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CLINTON O. HAWES, one of
Liberty Township's representative citizens, was born at Lewis Center,
in Orange Township, Delaware County, Ohio, March 22, i860, and is a
son of Orlando O. and Lucy (Searles) Hawes.
The paternal grandfather was BENJAMIN A. HAWES,
who was born in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and when he came to
Ohio, settled first at Euclid, near Cleveland, where he married
Mary Walton. She was a daughter of Davis Walton.
Benjamin A. Hawes was born January 24, 1799. and his wife was
born August 21, 1804. He died in 1885 at the age of 86 years and was
survived four years by his wife, who died aged 85 years. They had the
following children: Minerva, who married T. T. Wilcox,
had her home in Orange Township and died at Edison, Ohio; Fannie.
who resided in Orange Township, married John Hall and
died young; Orlando O.; Luva, who married James Slane,
died in Orange Township ; Elizabeth, who married John
Keller: and Mary, who married Philander Searles.
All are dead except Elizabeth, who is a widow.
In 1826 Benjamin A. Hawes settled in Orange
Township, Delaware County, later moved to Liberty Township for a short
time and then returned to Orange Township. By trade he was a carpenter
and he assisted to put up some of the first buildings at Cleveland. He
worked on the frame jail which took the place of the old log calaboose
at Cleveland, it too having long since given way to the march of
progress, it being a fact that malefactors in modern times are much
better housed than were honest man in the days of our grandfathers.
ORLANDO HAWES, father of Clinton O., was born in
Liberty Township, Delaware County, Ohio, June 9, 1831, and died in
1862, aged 31 years. He married Lucy Searles, who was
born in 1840, and died in 1892, aged 52 years. Her father, Lewis
Searles, came to Lewis Center from Galena, where he engaged in
a mercantile business until his death. A family of five children was
born to Orlando O. Hawes and wife, namely: Alice,
Minerva and Willard, all died young; Lucy Luella,
who was reared at Akron, married Michael Birmingham, and
died at Akron, in September, 1894; and Clinton O. Mrs. Hawes
remained a widow for some years and then married Dempster
Gifford and became the mother of four more children: Horace,
Lelland, Minnie and Edward. Minnie is
deceased.
Clinton O. Hawes remained in Orange Township
until he was 25 years of age, attending school at Lewis Center and
keeping busy at various employments. He worked on farms in Orange and
Liberty Townships to some extent and then learned telegraphy, which he
followed for seven years. He was both operator and agent at Radnor and
later at Powell, working as night operator at the latter point until
he turned his attention to farming and dairying, when he gave up work
at the "keys." He owns a tidy little farm of 27 acres adjoining Powell
and its convenient location near the town, assists in making his dairy
industry a profitable one.
On March 7, 1887, Mr. Hawes was married
to Emma L. Bennett, who is a daughter of E. A. and
Mary (Clements) Bennett, of Orange Township. Mrs. Hawes
was born in Champaign County, Ohio, but her father was born in Orange
Township, Delaware County, where both he and wife reside, in
comfortable circumstances, his age being 70 and that of his wife 66
years.
In political sentiment, Mr. Hawes is in
accord with the Socialist party. He is a member of Powell Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, No. 684. He has been clerk of Liberty Township for
the past five years and served three years as notary public for the
township.
Source:
20th century history of Delaware
County, Ohio and representative citizens -
Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle -
Page 608 |
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ORLANDO HAWES - See
Clinton Hawes above here |
Mr. & Mrs. Wain Hazlton
and Daughter |
WAIN HAZLTON
Source:
20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and
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Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle - Page 815 |
Erem J. Healy |
EREM J. HEALY, a
leading citizen of Concord Township, residing on his well-improved
farm of 152 acres, was born where he now resides, on the old
Healy Homestead, in Delaware County, Ohio, Aug. 10, 1850, and is
a son of Ebenezer and Sophronia (Cotton) Healy, and a
grandson of EBENEZER and Eunice (Crossman) Healy. The
first member of the Healy family that is on record as
resident in America, came from England in 1630 and settled at
Roxbury, Massachusetts.
EBENEZER HEALY, paternal grandfather
of Erem J., was born at Newton Massachusetts, Feb. 3, 1768,
and died at Sennett, New York, Sept. 22, 1857, aged nearly ninety
years. In 1793 he settled in Cayuga County, New York, where he
bought an undivided half of lot 8, on which the town of Sennett now
stands, paying $2.50 per acre, which he added to an adjoining farm
he already owned. In the autumn of 1793 he returned to Newton,
Massachusetts, where he was married to Eunice Crossman.
In the following February, Mr. and Mrs. Healy
started for New York, reaching the new home in thirteen days,
Ebenezer Healy was a an of great enterprise and became prominent
in the section in which he settled. His farm lay on the line
of travel to the Western Reserve, and for a number of years he kept
a well-patronized tavern. He was a deacon in the Baptist
Church. His wife died Sept. 16, 1810. They had the
following children: Lyman W., John Mason, Nathaniel, Ebenezer
and Sallie, twins, Eliza H., and two who died in
infancy. Mr. Healy was married (second) to Anna
Leonard, Mar. 11, 1811, and they had one son, George.
Mr. Healy built his barn in 1796 and in it the first Baptist
Association in Cayuga County was formed in 1801.
Ebenezer Healy (2d), father of Erem J.,
was born in Cayuga County, New York, Jan. 29, 1806. He grew up
on his father's farm and was married Nov. 5, 1838, to Sophronia
Cotton, who was born in 1809, and died Nov. 29, 1884, aged
seventy-five years. Immediately after marriage, Ebenezer
Healy and bride set out to find a western home. They
traveled to Buffalo, thence to Cleveland, and from there by way of
canal to Columbus, where Mrs. Healy remained, while her
husband started out prospecting, traveling over a large part of the
neighboring country on foot. Finally he found land to please
him - a farm well located and with fertile soil- 152 acres situated
in Concord Township, Delaware County, and this he bought. The
land at that time was largely covered with timber. By Dec. 5,
1838, Mr. and Mrs. Healy had established their household
goods which they had brought from New York, in a temporary dwelling
on the new farm and in this location Ebenezer Healy (2d)
remained until his death, which occurred Oct. 25, 1873, when he was
sixty-seven years old. His three children are: Erem
J. subject of this sketch; Eunice, who died at the age of
ten years; and Eliza, who married James T. Hutchinson,
residing at Delaware.
EREM J. HEALY grew to manhood on
the present farm and obtained his schooling in the district schools.
In 1870 he was married to Mary J. Freshwater, who died in
1890, aged thirty-six years. She was a daughter of George
and Sallie Freshwater, the former of whom was the first white
child born in Concord Township, where he died in 1906, at the age of
ninety-three years. His wife died in 1872. They had five
children. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Healy were
as follows: Sarah Sophronia, who married George
Berlet, who resides on a farm near Delaware, and has two
daughters - Helen and Florence; Eliza Rae, who married
Frank Loveless, a mail clerk on the Big Four Railroad,
residing at Cincinnati, and has one daughter - Violet; Alice,
who married H. o. Moore, a farmer of Concord Township, and
has two children - George and Harold; and Minnie, who married
W. C. McCloud, who is engaged in farming in Concord Township.
Mr. Healy was married (secondly) Oct. 16, 1893 to Estelle
Krohn, who is a daughter of H. S. and Anna Elizabeth
(Swisher) Krohn, and who was educated in the Galion High School
and Otterbein University, and for five years was a successful
teacher in various high schools. They have two bright boys -
Eldredge J., aged thirteen years, and Russell Krohn,
aged five years.
Mr. Healy is a director in the Deposit Bank at
Delaware. He is a member of the order of nights of Pythias,
being connected with Lodge No. 525 at Bellpoint. He has long
been a leading factor in local politics and has represented Concord
Township on the Republican Central Committee, for a number of years.
He has been very active in educational movements and largely through
his efforts the township high school was established here, it
being the first one in the county outside of Delaware. He is a
member of the United Brethren Church.
Source:
20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub.
Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle - Page 608 |
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DR.. W. B. HEDGES is a
native of McConnellsville, Morgan County, Ohio. He was born in
1835. He was educated in the High School of McConnellsville.
He possessed an active and studious mind, and at an early time,
after completing his school life, he began reading medicine in the
office of Dr. M. Edwards, May, 1858. He took up the
study of the drug trade, and prepared himself for the work in 1860.
After two years, in 1862, he resumed the study of medicine in the
old office, to prepare himself for the army, now needing doctors.
He graduated from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, Ohio,
July, 1863. He passed the examination of the State Board of
Examiners for the position of assistant surgeon for the volunteer
service. He was assigned to the Eighty-sixth O. V. I., a six
months organization, in September, 1863, and joined the regiment at
Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. He was at once put in charge of the
Medical Department of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, which position he
held until the muster out of the organization, at the expiration of
their term of service in February, 1864. He was appointed
assistant surgeon of the Eighty-second Regiment O. V. I., Third
Brigade, First Division, Twentieth Army Corps, April 27, 1864; and
joined the regiment in May, 1864, at Atlanta, Georgia. They
went on duty at once and were under fire of battle for one hundred
and twenty days. The doctor was the only surgeon with the
regiment from Atlanta, Georgia, to the sea, or Savannah, Georgia.
Then on to Goldsborough, North Carolina, and to Washington, D. C.
Here he was detailed to care for the sick and wounded at Richmond,
Virginia, and to arrange for transportation to the North those able
to go. In 1865, while waiting for the muster out at the close
of the war, he was at Louisville, Kentucky, and was in charge of the
hospital there. He was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, July 27
1865. He returned to his home and began the practice again.
In 1873 he located in Beverly, Washington County, Ohio, and in 1879
came to Delaware, Ohio. He is in active practice today.
He has been a member of the County Board of United States Pension
Examiners for fourteen years. He served two years as health
officer for Delaware. He was physician to the Girls'
Industrial Home for several years. He is a member of the
Delaware County Medical Association; Ohio State Medical Society, and
the American Medical Association. He was married to Mrs.
Mary Pewthers in 1872. He is an elder of the Presbyterian
Church.
Source:
20th century history of Delaware
County, Ohio and representative citizens -
Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle
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EDWIN LUTHBEN
HEMSTEAD
for more than forty years was a well-known resident
of Sunbury. He was a native of Connecticut, where he was born
in 1826. The larger part of his life was passed in Ohio, his
father, Charles Hemstead, having brought his family to
Delaware County at an early period, and Mr. Hemstead died at
his home in Sunbury, July 2, 1901, aged 75 years.
The boyhood of Edwin L. Hemstead was spent on
his father's farm but as the latter was a school teacher as well as
farmer, the boy had excellent educational training and spent some
time at Central College. When he left home he went to
Columbus, where he learned the blacksmith's trade. He married
Eliza Williams, who was born Apr. 5, 1825, at Geneva,
Delaware County, Ohio, who was a daughter of Thomas and Phebe
(Seaburn) Williams. The Williams family came to
Delaware County from Pennsylvania. There were five children in
the family. Mr. Williams owned a farm in Geneva
Township.
After his marriage, Mr. Hemstead continued to
work at his trade at Columbus, and his capable wife started a
millinery business, having previously learned this trade, and they
prospered and accumulated enough capital to invest in various
properties after they came to Sunbury, in 1857. Mr.
Hemstead carried on his blacksmith business there for some
years, only giving it up after he had been seriously injured by a
vicious horse. He was subsequently appointed mail carrier and
served for a long time between Mt. "Vernon and Central College.
He was a man of much energy and enterprise and possessed excellent
business judgment. In all his dealings with his fellow
citizens he was honest and upright, while to his family he was kind
and thoughtful.
Mr. and Mrs. Hemstead had three children:
Martha Augusta, Smith Webb, and Charles Burr. Charles
Burr Hemstead is a prominent physician and surgeon who is
located at Croton, Morrow County, Ohio. He has been called for
consultation to Cincinnati and other points. Both of the older
children died of diphtheria. Martha Augusta aged
seven years and eight months and Smith Webb aged two years.
Mrs. Hemstead is very comfortably provided for. She
resides alone at Sunbury where she owns two valuable lots of three
acres each, seven acres of pasture land and other tracts, all being
land that is yearly increasing in value.
In politics, Mr. Hemstead was a stanch
Republican. He was a member of the Odd Fellows organization
and of the Masons, having been instrumental in organizing the first
Masonic Lodge at Sunbury.
Source:
20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and
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DR. ALEXANDER
HENDRIXSON was a strong competitor of Dr. Mercer in
Lewis Centre, during the seventies. He later removed to
Columbus, where he died in 1895. He was a graduate of the "O.
W. U." of Delaware. He married Miss Waldron, of
Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio.
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ALONZO FLEMING HOSKINS,
a prosperous and enterprising general farmer, of Thompson Township,
was born on the homestead where he now resides, April 8, 1855, son of
Jacob and Elizabeth (Fleming) Hoskins. His paternal
grandfather, John Hoskins, was a native of Wales, who
emigrated to America about 1807, landing in the city of Baltimore.
He was an early settler in Delaware County, locating first near
Millville, now Warrensburg, later settling on a farm adjoining that of
the subject of this sketch to the south. The farm was then
covered with heavy timber, no improvements having been made, and
should therefore be referred to in this connection as wild land rather
than a piece of agricultural property. He built a log cabin on
it and began the arduous work of clearing off the timber. In
course of time the improvements made by him completely changed the
aspect of the place. The log cabin gave way to a brick house,
and smiling fields appeared instead of the trackless forest.
There he and his wife spent the rest of their lives. Their
family included 12 children, several of whom died in infancy.
The following is their record in brief: Jane, married
John Randall. Rachel became the wife of
John Lenox. Betsy married Owen Avery.
Another daughter, Ann, married George Moyer.
Henry married a Miss Fields, Jacob (father
of the subject of this sketch) married Elizabeth Fleming.
Perry married Hannah Deck. Ebenezer
never married.
JACOB HOSKINS was born on the farm in
Thompson Township above referred to, March 21, 1822, and resided there
all his life. He married Elizabeth Fleming, who
was a daughter of Crozier Fleming, a native of Ireland,
who settled in Radnor Township, Delaware County, at an early day.
Jacob Hoskins settled on the farm now owned and occupied
by his son Alonzo, and made thereon some of the first
improvements, building the present residence about 1870. Soon
afterwards he erected the barn that stands on the farm. The
first house was a weather-boarded building, which was destroyed by
fire, after which Mr. Hoskins erected a long house.
About 1870 he built the present residence. His wife Elizabeth
died in 1862. She had borne him six children as follows:
Oliver, who was a druggist residing in Prospect, married
Miss Ellen Greek; Jennie who died in 1862;
Alice, who is single, resides in Prospect; Alonzo F.
married Miss Jennie Fields, daughter of
Marshall Fields, of Delaware County, Ohio; Ida, who is
single, resides in Prospect; and one son who died in infancy.
Alonzo F. Hoskins was educated in the district
schools and was brought up to farm life and labor. He was
married in 1882 and subsequently resided in several different places,
being a resident of Union County for nine years. For the
past seven years he has occupied the old Hoskins homestead in Thompson
Township, the farm which he owns and cultivates successfully,
containing 103 acres. He is a highly esteemed citizen of the
township and is well versed in the science of farming. He is a
member of Prospect Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 144; Durwood Lodge, K. of
P., at Prospect (No. 153); and of the Prospect Lodge of Modern
Woodsmen. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Jennie Hoskins died February
15, 1903. She and her husband had been the parents of the
following children: Ethel, residing at home; Annie B.,
wife of Albert B. Keef, residing in Cleveland, Ohio; and
Leah, who married Dillon Howser, and has one son -
Robert Hoskins Howser. Mr. and
Mrs. Howser reside in Richwood.
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J. F. HOWALD, the owner
of an excellent farm of 103 acres in Marlborough Township, Delaware
County, Ohio, where he has been prominently identified with public
matters, was born November 10, 1849, m Licking County, Ohio, and is a
son of Andrew and Fannie (Lantz) Howald.
The parents of Mr. Howald, who were
natives of Canton Berne, Switzerland, came to America in 1848, and
settled at once in Licking County, Ohio, from whence they removed in
1850 to the woods of Marlborough Township, Delaware County, and here
the remainder of their lives was spent, the father dying in 1868 and
the mother some time later. J. F. Howald secured his education
in the district schools of Marlborough Township, whence he had been
brought as an infant, and here he has engaged in agricultural pursuits
all of his life, being now the owner of 103 acres of fine property, in
a good state of cultivation. Mr. Howald is one of
Delaware County's progressive citizens, and is a leader in any
movement calculated to be of benefit to his community. For nine years
he served as trustee of Marlborough Township, which he also
represented at county conventions held at Delaware, and he has been
much interested in educational matters in his section of the county.
He is a consistent member of the Reformed Church at Prospect, Ohio.
Mr. Howald was married to Hattie
Weiser, who is a daughter of the late Solomon B. Weiser,
of Delaware. Ohio, and to this union there were horn three children,
namely: William A., who is the popular proprietor of the well
known "Candy Kitchen" restaurant at Delaware; Nettie Irene,
who is the wife of Frank Detwiler of Marion, Ohio; and
Maud E., wife of J. O. Wilcox, who is a partner of his
father in the implement business at Ashley, Ohio.
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DR. D. W. HOWELL and
DR. W. HENDOM located here in 1845, but soon
moved away.
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DR. DORRANCE E. HUGHES,
brother of Dr. J. H. Hughes, read medicine with Dr. J. W.
N. Vogt. He was born in 1856, near Delaware, Ohio.
He graduated from the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in
1881. Upon his return home he married Miss Emma Newhouse,
and at once located at Hyattsville, where he remained five years,
when he came to Delaware to practice his profession. No kinder
physician ever administered to the afflicted. He never
recognized any cast; all afflicted were alike to him. His
large practice has made inroads upon his ruddy constitution, and all
see the time coming when he must begin to husband his strength.
He was elected president of the Delaware County Medical Society in
1907. He is also a member of the State Medical Society, and a
member of the City Council.
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DR. JAMES H. HUGHES
was a son of pioneer Presbyterian minister in this vicinity, whose
life work and faithfulness grow brighter as the years pass.
The son was born near Delaware in 1854. From the common
schools near the old farm, he entered the office of Dr. E. H.
Hyatt to read medicine. He graduated from the Columbus
Medical College in 1879. He married Miss Ada McCann,
youngest daughter of Dr. J. McCann of Delaware, and at once
located in the city to practice. He began at once upon an
eventful career. He had a large country practice; but overwork
soon broke down his health, and he went to California to rest.
He died in 1888, soon after reaching the health resort, and was
brought back for burial. He was associated for some time in
the practice with his preceptor.
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JOSEPH E. HUGHS, who
was for many years an esteemed member of the agricultural community
in Concord Township, was born in 1822, in Delaware, on the site of
the present Court House, and was a son of
Rev. JOSEPH
S. HUGHES,
who came to Delaware County from Pennsylvania in
1810, but was originally from Ireland. The latter was a
Presbyterian minister and organized the first Presbyterian Church in
Delaware, and also the first churches of that denomination in
Liberty and Radnor Townships. During the War of 1812 he had an
army appointment and was with General Hull when he
surrendered Detroit to the British. He was a man of unusual
oratorical ability, and was a Free Mason of high standing, being
chaplain of the grand Lodge of Masons of the State of Ohio.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the public
schools of Delaware. On coming of age he began farming in
Concord Township, being the owner of 163 acres. On this farm
he spent all the years of his life subsequent to his marriage dying
in 1890 at the age of sixty-eight years. His wife, whose name
in maidenhood was Harriet Amelia Day, to whom he was united
in 1850, died also on the old homestead, July 11, 1900, aged
seventy-four years. They were the parents of nine children, of
whom the following is a brief record: Girard R. is a
resident of Columbus. James H., who was a physician in
Delaware, died in California, to which State he had gone in the hope
of recovering his health. Dorence E. is a physician of
Delaware. William L., who is now deceased, was the wife
of Frederick Smith of Delaware. Amanda Ann is
the wife of Martin Freese of Jamestown, North Dakota.
Amy Catherine is the wife of John Kuhns of
Scioto Township. Charles died at the age of four years.
Harriet J. is the wife of O. P. Bird of Scioto
Township.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Hughs were members of the
United Brethren Church, as were all the children, and Mr. Hughs
was an ordained preacher in that denomination. In politics he
was a Republican, and he served acceptably as clerk of the township
for a number of years. He was a man the quality of whose
citizenship was never in doubt, and who stood for what was highest
and best in all that concerned either public duty or the private
relations of life. His wife was a worthy helpmeet, and their
home life was such that their children are now all prosperous and
esteemed members of the community in which they respectively reside.
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DAVID HUMPHREYS
was born in Radnor Township in Delaware County, Ohio. He was the
son of Hugh Humphreys, who came to Radnor from Wales at an
early date. The subject of this sketch was educated in the
public schools of his native township. He then entered the Ohio
Wesleyan University, from which he graduated in the year 1860.
He then studied law and was admitted to the Bar. He located at
Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he remained for several years and then returned
to Delaware, Ohio, where he opened an office about the year 1870 and
began the practice of his chosen profession. He planted and laid
out two additions to the city of Delaware, Ohio, in the winter of
1870-1871 and became well identified with the city but he only
remained a few years. He located in Cincinnati, Ohio where he
practice for a number of years and then removed to New York City,
where he pursued his profession up to the time of his death which
occurred several years ago in that city.
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DR. JOHN BINGHAM HUNT
was born in McConnellsville, Ohio, in 1829. His education was
received there and in Athens County, in the country schools.
He married Angeline Patterson in Delaware County, Ohio, in
1852. In 1862 he graduated in medicine in the Cleveland
Homeopathic Medical College, and began the practice of his
profession in Wellington, Ohio, Newark, Ohio, and Indianapolis,
Indiana. He moved to Delaware, Ohio, in 1881, where he
remained until 1887. From there he went to Worthington, Ohio,
where he successfully conducted a sanatorium. He later moved
to Westerville, Ohio, where his wife died in 1895. Dr. Hunt
died in 1906, at the age of seventy-six years.
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DR. MAURICE P. HUNT,
Columbus, Ohio, was born in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1853.
His father, Dr. J. B. Hunt, was directly descended, in the
maternal line, from Miles Standish. Dr. Hunt attended
private and public schools, and acquired his professional education
in the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, graduating with the
class of 1879. He practiced in Selma, Ohio, 1879-83; Delaware,
Ohio, 1883-93; Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1893-95; and in Columbus since
1895, where he is now engaged in a large practice. He pursued
a post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic in 1885. He
had charge of the Good Samaritan Dispensary, Cleveland, Ohio,
1878-79; Huron Street Hospital, Cleveland, 1878-79; was professor of
Gynecology in Cleveland Medical College, 1892-93; professor of
obstetrics and diseases of women in the University of Michigan,
1893-95, and has been surgeon to the Sixth Avenue Private Hospital,
Columbus, since 1896. He is a member of the American Institute
of Homeopathy; the Ohio State, (persident in 1897), the Miami
Valley, and the Northwestern Ohio Homeopathic Medical Societies; the
Round Table, and Magnolia Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Columbus.
While practicing in Delaware he was a member of the City Council
from 1888 to 1892. Dr. Hunt married Miss Luella
Kitchen, of Selma, Ohio, in 1881.
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