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Biographies
Source:
HISTORY OF ERIE CO., OHIO
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
Edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich
Published, Syracuse, N. Y. - by D. Mason & Co., Publishers -
1889
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FREDERICK OHLEMACHER,
Sandusky, a manufacturer and shipper of lime, having his
quarries at Marblehead, was born in Nassau-on-the-Rhine,
Germany, in 1840, and settled in Sandusky in 1854, with his
parents Henry and Catharine was born in 1803.
Frederick enlisted in Company C, 7th Illinois
Regiment, in 1861, on three months call; he re-enlisted and
served as first lieutenant Company F, in the first cavalry
regiment of Arkansas, and resigned in 1863 on account of
disability. He served as corporal in the 7th Illinois
Regiment. He was married Jan. 1, 1862, to
Clementina Croch of Aurora, Ill. She was born in
Prussia, Germany. Mr. Ohlemacher became engaged
in the lime business in 1867 and purchased his quarries in
1872, and now employs about sixty men.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - Published,
Syracuse, N. Y. - by D. Mason & Co., Publishers -1889 - Page 612 |
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PHILIP OHLEMACHER,
Sandusky, was born at Nassau-on-the-Rhine, Germany, in 1830,
and left home to avoid a soldier's tax of three years
service. HE came to America in 1851 and settled in
Sandusky. In 1853 he went to Nyack-on-the-Hudson,
where he married Miss Lizzie Smith. They
settled in Cincinnati in 1854, and had a family of five
children: Henry John, Lizzie, Katie and
Annie. Philip enlisted in the three month's
call in the 9th Ohio Volunteers and was discharged. In
1870 he returned to Sandusky, where his wife died that same
year. In 1871 he was married to Margaret Zerbe,
of Sandusky. She was born in Germany. They have
had two children: Philip Z. and Clara.
Philip was a son of Henry and Catharine Ohlemacher.
Henry was born in 1797, and died in 1873; Catharine
was born in 1805, died 1888. They had a family of ten
children, nine of whom are now living: Dorothy, Lizzie,
Henry, jr., Philip, Minnie, Fred, Binnie, Christopher
and Willie. Charles is deceased. The parents
settled in Sandusky in 1864, where seven of their children
now reside.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - Published,
Syracuse, N. Y. - by D. Mason & Co., Publishers -1889 - Page 612 |
JOHN OSBORN, Sandusky, an
early settler of Huron, Erie county, was born in Amherst,
Erie County, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1816, and was a son of Arah
and Elizabeth (Tinker) Osborn. Elizabeth was born
in Aschem, England, and Arah in Bennington, Vt.
They were married in Erie county, N. Y., in 1815, and
settled in Huron, O., in 1836, where they died, Arah
in 1843, and his wife in April, 1854. They had a
family of six children, four of whom are now living:
John, Jane, now Mrs. Foster; Sally now Mrs.
Goodwin; and Elizabeth, now Mrs. Dildine.
Arah served during the War of 1812, and received a
land warrant of a tract of land consisting of 160 acres of
Indiana. John Osborn located in his present
homestead farm in 1836, and for which he paid $12.50 per
acre. He now owns in all 165 acres of fine land.
Mr. Osborn was married in 1839 to Elizabeth Dale.
They have had one son, Myron D. Osborn. Mrs. Osborn
was a daughter of Peter Dale, who settled here about
1826.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - Published,
Syracuse, N. Y. - by D. Mason & Co., Publishers -1889 - Page 612 |
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