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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
20th Century History of
Delaware County, Ohio
and
representative citizens
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Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., by James R. Lytle
1908
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DR. H. LATHROP.
Worthington in 1837 sent another of her arrivals to Delaware, Dr.
H. Lathrop. In 1838 he came to contest for business.
He first located in Liberty Township in the old case or Carpenter
District, and operated a mill, and looked after the health of
pioneers. He left Delaware for Columbus, where he died. ~
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THOMAS W. LEA Source:
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GENERAL JOHN CALVIN LEE
was born in Brown Township, Delaware Co., Ohio. He was the son
of Hugh Lee, one of the pioneer tanners of Brown
Township. The subject of this sketch received his early
education and began his career of usefulness in the city of
Delaware. He chose the profession of the law and studied his
profession here and was admitted to the Bar, but he never became an
active practitioner in this county. He removed to Tiffin,
Ohio, from which place he entered the army as colonel of the
Fifty-fifty Regiment, O. V. I., in the Civil War. He later
became colonel of the One Hundred and Sixty-fourth, O. V. I., and
was breveted brigadier-general. He was nominated for
lieutenant-governor of Ohio, on the ticket with General R. B. Hayes
in the year 1867, after the close of the Civil War.
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DR. L. S. LUPTON.
Dr. Seigle Lupton was a graduate of the Columbus Medical
College, 1887. He attended the "O. W. U." for a time. He
died in 1896.
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EDWIN G. LYBRAND was
born November 2, 1863, in Lafayette, Allen County, Ohio, and died in
Delaware, Ohio, August 8, 1906. He was the son of Samuel and
Isabella (Mowery) Lybrand. His parents came to Delaware while he
was quite young, and he was educated in the public schools of Delaware
and attended the Ohio Wesleyan University for a time. He began the
study of law with Franklin A. Owen about the year 1889, and was
admitted to the Bar in the year 1892. He only practiced his profession
for a few years, when, owing to the failing health of his father, he
quit the practice to take charge of his father's business.
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REV. AARON J. LYON, D. D.,
who since 1854. has been a member of the North Ohio Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, is one of the leading citizens of
Delaware, where he is identified with large and important interests.
Mr. Lyon was born on his father's farm in Knox County, Ohio.
June 6, 1828, and is one of a family of five children born to his
parents, who were Daniel and Hannah (Dalrymple) Lyon.
Mr. Lyon secured his elementary education in
the local schools and was later - in 1854 - graduated from the Ohio
Wesleyan University. Of this institution he is now the oldest
trustee, and is the treasurer of the institution. For many
years he was in the active ministry of the church. In 1905 he
became president of the Delaware Savings Bank Company, the other
officers being: C. B. Austin, vice-president; F. P. Hills,
cashier, and W. H. Bodurtha, assistant cashier. The
board oi directors include these well-known capitalists: A. J.
Lyon, C. B. Austin. B. E. Freshwater. Charles Brundige, W. Shawaker,
F. P. Hills, Colonel J. M. Crawford, J. E. McCullough and
T. C. Jones. The institution was chartered under the
laws of Ohio and does a general banking business, buying and selling
foreign exchange and acting as agent for ocean steamship lines.
Mr. Lyon is also president of the Electric Light and
Power Company of Delaware.
Mr. Lyon was first married to Olive
Weatherby, who died in 1876, and who was a daughter of Edmond
Weatherby. The four children of this marriage were:
Lena, now deceased, who married William P. Sturges;
Clotilda, who married Rev. W. F. McDowell, now a bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Edmund D., who was
graduated in 1882 from the Ohio Wesleyan University, and who is now
principal of the Woodward High School at Cincinnati; and Orrel,
deceased, who married Frank B. Gibson, residing at Denver,
Colorado. All of Mr. Lyon's children were graduates of
the Ohio Wesleyan University. Mr. Lyon was married,
secondly, in 1878, to Rachel Hoy. Politically he
is identified with the Republican party. Fraternally he is a
Knight Templar Mason. Mr. Lyon is hale and
hearty at the age of 80 years, and looks after his business
interests with the same caution and ability that he did when 25
years younger.
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JAMES ROBERT LYTLE, A. M.,
attorney and counsellor at law, of Delaware, Ohio, is a man of
prominence in his profession and is widely known throughout this
section of the State. He was born in Clear Creek Township, Fairfield
County. Ohio. April 9, 1841, and is a son of James and Catherine (Freymyer)
Lytle.
James Lytle, the father, was born in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and there received an educational
training in the public schools. He was a remarkably fine penman, and
became known as a broad and liberal-minded man. In 1837, he came west
to Ohio, and engaged in farming in Wayne County for one year, then
removed to Clear Creek Township in Fairfield County, where he
purchased a farm. He followed general farming. His wife died in 1855,
aged forty-two years, and he followed her to the grave in 1866. She
also was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was a daughter of
Jacob Freymyer. Four children were the issue of their
union, as follows: Catherine A., deceased, who first married
Dr. C. C. Bryson, and later John T. Evans, who at that time
was clerk of the court in Delaware County; John, who died at
the age of twenty-one years; James Robert, whose name
heads this sketch; and William F., who enlisted in Co. I,
Ninetieth Regiment, O. V. I., and was captured by guerrillas on
Strawberry Plains, just after the battle of Chickamauga, and was never
heard from afterwards. Mr. Lytle was of the Episcopal
faith, and his wife of the Lutheran. Pie was originally a Whig in
politics, and later joined the Know-Nothings, but became a Republican
upon the organization of that party. A strong Abolitionist, he was
connected with the Underground Railroad during the war.
James Robert Lytle was reared in
Fairfield County and received a rudimentary education in the common
schools. He entered Ohio Wesleyan University, but after attending that
institution one year, was obliged to return home and take charge of
the farm, his brother having enlisted in the service of the Union
Army. He continued at home until the spring of 1864, when he enlisted
in Co. I, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment, O. V. I., and went
with his regiment to Baltimore, where for one hundred days they
guarded railroads about that city. Immediately after his return home
from the war, he re-entered Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he
was graduated in June, 1868. During his vacations he had read law
under the direction of Jones & Hippie of Delaware, and
in June, 1869, he was admitted to the bar, just one year from the date
of his graduation. He went to Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, and
engaged in practice one year, then returned to Delaware and formed a
partnership with his former preceptor, Gen. John S. Jones,
under the name and style of Jones & Lytle. This
association of legal talent continued for a period of twenty-five
years, during which time the firm was identified with much of the
important litigation in the courts of Delaware County. Since April 1,
1895, Mr. Lytle has practiced alone and has
maintained the prestige established in earlier years. He has been
especially active in practice before the Bureau of Pensions, having
procured the grant of more than fifteen hundred pensions. He also
procured bounty for many of the veterans or their families, and his
familiarity with the bounty records of Delaware County resulted in the
exposure of the bounty frauds and the saving to Delaware County of
more than $20,000. Among the important cases with which Mr.
Lytle has been identified, was the prosecution through the United
States Circuit Court of two suits for the heirs of Leonard
Case, a multi-millionaire of Cleveland, in which he was opposed by
many lawyers, among the number being some of the most distinguished
practitioners before the bar in Ohio. The number of defendants in one
of these cases was 648, and the land involved was valued at many
millions, including the sites of Case Library and the City Hall in
Cleveland, about one mile of lake front, some 4,000 lots in all, and
1,900 acres of land adjoining Cleveland. Mr. Lytle is
attorney for the Fidelity Building Association and Loan Company, and
numbers among his clients many other of the important business
concerns of Delaware.
Mr. Lytle cast his first presidential
ballot for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and has ever since
been an active participant in political affairs. He was identified
with the Republican party until 1894, and during that time served two
years as chairman of the Republican County Central Committee. He has
since that date been a supporter of the Democratic party, and has
served two years as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee. In
1894, he was Democratic nominee for Probate judge and was honored with
a large vote, being defeated by 339 votes, while the head of the
ticket was defeated by McKinley, the Republican candidate for
governor, by 969 votes.
July 28, 1868, James R. Lytle was united in
marriage with Miss Cornelia Ann Chase, who was born in Porter
Township, Delaware County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Rev. Ira and
Jane (Wilcox) Chase, a record of whom appears on another
page of this work. Her paternal grandparents came from England and
were of noble birth, and Mrs. Lytle has in her
possession the Chase coat of arms. She is descended from
Aquilla Chase and one of the lines to the noted Chase-Townly
estate in England. Her father was a cousin of Salmon P. Chase,
one of Ohio's greatest governors, and also an uncle of Governor
Chase of Indiana. Mrs. Chase was a native of
Rhode Island and was a near relative of the two brothers. General
and Bishop Rosecrans, who were former residents of
Delaware County. She also was related to Livingstone, the noted
explorer. Mrs. Lytle attended Wesleyan University and
afterward studied art under a private tutor, being a great lover of
nature and fond of landscape paintings, she has quite a collection of
her own work. She continued her art work for several years after her
marriage. She has always been very much interested in the poor of the
city and was for a long time conference treasurer of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Quiet and retiring in her tastes, she has been found mostly in
that sphere of comparative seclusion which is bounded by the domestic
relations in life, her greatest interests centering in home and
family. Mr. and Mrs. Lytle have reared a family of three
children, one son and two daughters, whose honorable and useful lives
evidence the careful training of a devoted mother. The children are as
follows: William James, graduated from the public
schools of Delaware in 1886, from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1890,
and then took up the study of law. He served as assistant postmaster
in the city of Delaware for nearly three years, discharging every duty
to the satisfaction of his many friends. During this time he continued
the studies of his chosen profession and had almost completed his
legal course, when he was taken ill. and went to the far west hoping
to regain his health, but all in vain. After leaving California, he
went to Arizona where he died in November, 1898, in the prime of life.
Mr. Lytle was a young man of superior ability, of fine
character, and noble ambition. He was a member of the I. O. O. F.,
Knights of Pythias, and the Order of Elks. Baroness Viola
Lytle von Uchtritz was the second child born to
our subject and his wife; and Countess Nelly Lytle
Eulenburg was the youngest of the family. Mr. and Mrs. Lytle are
active members of St. Paul's M. E. Church, of which he is steward and
was treasurer for many years. Fraternally, he is a member of Hiram
Lodge. No. 18, F. & A. M.; Delaware Chapter No. 54, R. A. M.; Delaware
Council, No. 84. R. & S. M.; and George B. Torrence Post. G. A. R.
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William James Lytle |
WILLIAM JAMES LYTLE
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