BIOGRAPHIES

A Standard History
of
Erie County, Ohio
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention
to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial,
Civic and Social Development.  A Chronicle of the People, with Family
Lineage and Memoirs.
By
HEWSON L. PEEKE
Assisted by the Board of Advisory Editors
Volume I.
ILLUSTRATED
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1916

	JAY J. TEMPLE.     Mention of this name introduces a number of well-known families in Erie County, where the Temples and their connections have lived since the middle of the nineteenth century.  Jay J. Temple is one of the prominent farmer citizens of Florence Township, living with his family on a farm estate and in a substantial home on Rural Route No. 1 out of Birmingham.      His birth occurred at Birmingham, in Florence Township, Nov. 11, 1856, and he is a son of Edgar and Sarah (Green) Temple.  His father was born in New York State Apr. 29, 1828, while his mother was born in Branch County, Michigan, Sept. 4, 1838.  Edgar Temple was a son of John and Mary (Austin) Temple.  John Temple was born in Vermont of New England stock, while his wife was a native of New York State, and they were married in the latter state and came into Erie County with their family in 1852, locating in Florence Township, where John and Mary Temple spent the rest of their days.  She died when past fifty-five, while John, who was born May 27, 1799, passed away in January, 1876, in his seventy-seventh year.  There are some things about the career of John Temple which should be given definite record.  By trade he was a cabinet maker and wagonmaker, and was one of the most efficient followers of those trades ever known in Erie County.  In the early days he constructed a number of hand-made coffins before such articles were carried in undertaking shops as is the custom in later times.  At his shop he also constructed wagons for farm and home use and some of these farm wagons and spring wagons are said to be still doing service, testifying to the substantial character of their maker.  He was not only a skilled worker, but a man of utmost honesty and stood high in the esteem of any community where he lived.  He had begun to learn his trade when only ten years of age.  After the death of his wife he went to live near Toledo, and followed his trade there until his death.  In politics he was first a whig and afterwards became a republican.      Sarah (Green) Temple, the mother of Jay J. Temple, was a daughter of Silas and Elizabeth (Howe) Green, both natives of New York State and of New England ancestry. After their marriage they moved out to Branch County, Michigan, where settlement had its first beginning in the decade of the '30s, and Mrs. Green died there.  Her husband later moved to Hastings, in Barry County, Michigan, and died there when a little past middle age.  When the Green family settled in Branch County there were only three other white families, and some Indians came to their were only three other white families, and some Indians came to their aid in raising the rough frame of their log cabin home.  They were members of the Methodist Church, and in politics Mr. Green was a whig and republican.      Edgar Temple and wife after their marriage started out as farmers in Florence Township, and three of their children were born there: Mary E.; Jay J., and Ida E., now deceased.  In the fall of 1861 the family removed to Henry County, Ohio, locating on an unimproved tract of land, where Mrs. Temple, the mother, died in 1875.  Edgar Temple later moved out to California, and died in 1904 at Bishop, in Inyo County.  He and his wife were Methodists, and in politics he was a republican.  Other children living outside of Erie County were: Altha J., who is a farmer in Huron County, and has a family of children;  Della is the wife of Louis Morgan, living in Toledo, and has one daughter; William lives in Fillmore, California, and is married, but has no children.      Jay J. Temple grew up in Ohio and other states, and in the course of his career has lived for varying lengths of time in five different states.  He finally located on the Florence and Vermilion Road in Florence Township, and since his marriage has operated the farm of 117 acres where his wife formerly lived before her marriage.  This is a farm of excellent improvement and has been most capably managed by Mr. Temple.      On the farm where he now lives Mr. Temple was married in 1887 to Miss Alice Jarrett.  She was born, reared and educated in Erie County, a daughter of George and Sarah (Mason) Jarrett.  Her father was born in the County of Kent, England, on the Isle of Sheppy, and was ten years of age when brought to the United States and to Erie County.  His father and two children, George and Richard, were the first of the family to come to America.  The mother, Sarah (Green) Jarrett, came one year later with the remainder of the family of six children.  After growing up, he secured the 117 acres where he has since lived, and also owns two improved farms of a fraction over fifty acres each in the same township.  He is now seventy-five years of age, and well preserved in all his faculties.  His wife passed away Apr. 6, 1914, and on the following day would have been seventy-three years of age.  She was of Massachusetts parents, but was reared and educated in Erie County.      Mr. and Mrs. Temple have two children: Sarah Etta, born July 3, 1888, is the wife of Edward N. Boone, of Erie County, and they now live on a farm near Florence Village; George E., born Feb. 25, 1891, after completing his education in the public schools took up farming and is still pursuing that vocation, being unmarried.  Mr. Temple is a republican in politics, but votes independently in local affairs. Source:  The Standard History of Erie County, Ohio - Published 1916 - Page 904
Martin J. Trinter Edna M. Trinter	MARTIN J. TRINTER.  A resident of Vermilion Township since his boyhood days, Mr. Trinter holds precedence as one of the substantial and representative agriculturists and stock-growers of this township, where his well improved farm stands a model in its admirable improvements and its general air of thrift and prosperity, as his ability as a man of affairs and his integrity in all of the relations of life have given to him special prominence and influence in the community which has so long represented his home.  His inviolable hold upon popular confidence and esteem is indicated by the prolonged service he has given in public offices of local trust and responsibility, and he is at the present time a member of the board of trustees of Vermilion Township.      Mr. Trinter claims Hassen-Cassel, Germany, as the place of his nativity and was there born on the 1st of May, 1853, his parents, George and Catherine (Minch) Trinter, likewise having been born in that same section of the great Empire of Germany, where they remained until 1863, when they immigrated with their children to America and established their home in Erie County, Ohio.  Here the father purchased land and improved an excellent farm, the same having become the family homestead in 1864 and having been made by him one of the productive farms of Vermilion Township.  On this homestead George Trinter continued to reside until his death, which occurred in 1887, and his widow passed to the life eternal in 1893, both having been devout members of the German Reformed Church and having commanded in the land of their adoption the respect and good will of all who knew them.  They were sturdy, industrious and God-fearing folk and their lives were guided and governed by the highest principles of integrity and honor.      Martin J. Trinter was a lad of ten years at the time of accompanying his parents on their immigration to America, and his rudimentary education had been received in his German Fatherland.  After the home had been established in Erie County he attended the schools of Vermilion Township when oportunity presented, and in the meanwhile he did arduous and effective service in connection with the development and cultivation of the home farm.  He has continued his residence in Vermilion Township during the long intervening years, has never severed his allegiance to the great industry of agriculture and through his association therewith has worked his way forward to independence and substantial prosperity, his excellent homestead farm comprising 154 acres and being improved with good buildings, includ- in the commodious and modern house, which is known for its generous hospitality and its pervading atmosphere of optimism and good cheer.      Mr. Trinter has always exemplified in his active career the true spirit of American loyalty and progressiveness, as well as the sturdy perseverance and mature judgment typical of the race of which he is a scion.  He has made his advancement along normal and legitimate lines of enterprise, has shown vital interest in community affairs and has stood forward as sponsor for the best civic ideals.  His service in public office had its inception when he was elected constable of Vermilion Township, and of this position he continued the incumbent two years.  For fifteen consecutive years, or five terms, he was retained in the office of justice of the peace, and his able administration made the position justify its title.  Twice after his retirement he was re-elected to this magisterial office, but on each of these occasions he refused to qualify and continue his service, as other interests demanded his attention nad he believed also that other citizens should be chosen for the position to which he had given so many years of service.  Save for an interim of two years he has served consecutively in the office of township trustee for a prolonged period, and his continuous incumbency of this position covers a period of fifteen years - a statement that gives the most effective voucher for the estimate placed upon him by the citizens of his home township.  For several years Mr. Trinter has had the further distinction of being chairman of the Erie County Trustees Association, and his mature judgment and inviolable integrity have resulted in his being called upon to serve as administrator and trustee of various important estates in Erie County.  He has held the office of trustee of various important estates in Erie County.  He has held the office of township assessor and also has served with characteristic loyalty and ability as a member of the board of education of his township.  Mr. Trinter is a director of the Eric County Banking Company, at Vermilion, and is one of the substantial and highly honored citizens of the county in which he has found the means to achieve large and worthy success and to exemplify the best ideals of loyal citizenship.      Mr. Trinter's political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he is well fortified in his convictions concerning economic and governmental policies.  He is affiliated with Vermilion Tent, No. 19, Knights of the Macabees, and both he and his wife are earnest communicants of the First German Reformed Church of Vermilion Township, of which he is a trustee.      On the 23d of November, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Trinter to Miss Edna M. Hageman, who was born and reared in Lorain County and whose father, Conrad Hageman, for many years a prominent farmer of Black River Township, that county, is now living retired in the City of Lorain.  Mr. and Mrs. Trinter became the parents of eight children, namely:  Philip C., Elmer C., Lydia E., Edna M., William E., Catherine E., Anna M. and Nellie M.  All of these children are living and doing honor to the family name.  Elmer C., is his father's able manager of the homestead.  Lydia E., who is now the wife of Lloyd Bacon, was a successful teacher in the public schools of Vermilion Township for several years prior to his marriage, and she and her husband now reside in Brownhelm Township, Lorain County.  Edna M. is a popular teacher in the public schools at Berlin Heights, Erie County; and Catherine A. is employed as a skilled stenographer in the office of the Sandusky Foundry & Machine Co. of Sandusky, Ohio. Source:  The Standard History of Erie County, Ohio - Published 1916 - Page 1136
	VICTOR C. TURNER.  When a citizen of any community has lived to the age of more than three score and ten years, maintaining through all vicissitudes an unblemished character, faithfully meeting the obligations incident to his lot and discharging with manly fidelity the duties incumbent upon him in all the relations of life, it is eminently appropriate that the story of his career be placed in enduring form.  The foregoing lines apply with obvious pertinence to C. Victor Turner of Milan Township, who as soldier, citizen and agriculturist is entitled to the good will and esteem of the people of his community, among whom he has lived and labored for so many years.      Mr. Turner was born in a log cabin on the old Turner homestead in Milan Township, a part of which property he still occupies, Nov. 20, 1843, and is a son of Alvin and Sophia (Carpenter) Turner.  His grandfather was Peter Turner a native of Connecticut, who moved as a young man to Massachusetts, and later, as an early pioneer, to Victor, Ontario County, New York.  Alvin Turner was born at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and as a boy was taken to Victor, New York, where he resided until 1835.  In that year, deciding to seek his fortunes in the West, he mounted his horse and traveled across the country to Ohio, where, in company with his brother, Benjamin D., he purchased 344 acres of land, along each side of the Huron and Milan Road, in Milan Township, paying therefor at the rate of $12 per acre.  This land was but partly improved, but the brothers settled down to its cultivation and continued to operate it as partners until the death of Benjamin D. Turner.  At that time one-half of the property was deeded to his widow by Alvin Turner who took over the management of the other half and continued as its owner until his death in 1865.  He was an industrious, thrifty, painstaking and progressive farmer, practical in his views yet possessed of the courage to try new methods, and out of his labors won a satisfying success.  He improved his land in numerous ways, and his substantial farm buildings included a large and well equipped barn and a brick house of modern construction and attractive appearance.  When he came to Ohio it was as a bachelor, but in 1844 he was married in Milan Township to a young Quakeress, Sophia Carpenter, who was born in Westchester County, New York, who had been brought as a child to Ohio.  She was born 1807 and died in 1882, at the age of seventy-five years, in the faith of the Episcopal Church, which she and her husband had supported in their declining years.  Mr. Turner was active in the councils of the democratic party, although his only interest in public life was that taken by a public-spirited citizen.  There were three sons in the family, all of whom became soldiers during the Civil war: Martin V., C. Victor and George V.  Martin V. Turner was engaged in farming until the Civil war, when he enlisted and served for some months in Company C, Eighty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and when his services were completed returned to his agricultural pursuits.  He died at the Soldiers' Home at Sandusky, at the age of seventy-one years, leaving two sons.  George H. Turner was for two years a member of Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and while serving on the skirmish line in front of Atlanta, was shot through the lungs, two of his ribs being knocked loose from his spinal column.  Although apparently mortally wounded, he was taken to the hospital, made a quick recovery and was paroled to his home, and after a few months was sufficiently well to rejoin his regiment at the front.  He was honorably discharged at the close of the war and returned to his home where he carried on farming pursuits until his retirement, and since that time has been living at the Old Soldiers' Home, at Sandusky.  He has been the father of five children, of whom three are living.  One of the sons, Alvin Turner was a marine on the battleship Oregon, the flagship of the Pacific fleet, at the time of the Boxer troubles in China, in which he met his death, his body being returned to San Francisco, California, and interred in the National Cemetery.  Another of his sons, Frank Turner, has been in the United States Army for sixteen years, participated in the war with the Philippines, and now has headquarters at Pensacola, Florida.  On the Soldiers' Monument at Sandusky, on the roll of the heroes who fought in defense of liberty, are to be found the names of Martin V., C. Victor and George V. Turner.      C. Victor Turner was reared and educated in Erie County, attending the district and normal schools, and when but eighteen years of age, July 22, 1862, enlisted in Company M. First Ohio Heavy Artillery, as a private, Capt. H. J. Bly, Col. C. P. Hawley.  the regiment went first to Covington, Kentucky, where it was in defense of Cincinnati until February, 1864, when the command was transferred to Knoxville, Tennessee, in defense of the railroads in that state.  While Mr. Turner experienced numerous hardships during his army life, he never saw heavy fighting, and returned to his home safely after receiving his honorable discharge at the close of the war at Knoxville, being mustered out of service at Camp Dennison.  Since that time he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits, and at the present time is the owner of 100 acres of very desirable land, all under a high state of cultivation and improved with up-to-date buildings and other improvements.  His operations have been successful, for he has brought to his labor industry, intelligence and well-directed energy, and today he is considered one of the substantial men of his community.  Always a democrat in his political views, Mr. Turner has been active in his party's interests.  He has at various times been a delegate to county, judicial and congressional conventions, was elected a member of the board of commissioners for Erie County in 1883 and served in that capacity for three years.  His reputation among those with whom he has had transaction is that of an honorable and upright man, reliable in his dealings and faithful in all his engagements.      Mr. Turner  was married in 1873, in Huron Township, Erie County, Ohio, to Miss Rhoda A. Hardy, who was born in Lorain County, Ohio, Jan. 16, 1851, and was reared and educated in that county until she was sixteen years of age, since which time she has resided in Huron and Milan Townships, Erie County.  She is a daughter of Charles and Katherine (Whitney) Hardy, natives of Binghamton, New York, who had come as children with their respective parents to Lorain County, and lived in Camden Township as farmers all their lives.  Mr. and Mrs. Hardy spent some twelve years in Erie County and then returned to Lorain County, where their parents had died, and where they, too, passed away, both past sixty years and in the faith of the Christian Church.      To Mr. and Mrs. Turner there has been born one son:  Wade H., born in 1876, who was educated in the local schools and at Oberlin College, and since that time has been a farmer, at present operating the home farm and residing with his parents.  He married Miss Dora Moore, of Milan Township, and they have five children: Alvin M., eight years old and attending school; Ella M., who is six years old and also a pupil; Grace A. aged four years; and Claud and Clark, twins, aged eighteen months. Source:  The Standard History of Erie County, Ohio - Published 1916 - Page 1017
	LIFE AND WORK OF HUDSON TUTTLE AND HIS WIFE EMMA ROOD TUTTLE.  The life work of Hudson Tuttle is not confined to Erie County but is world wide.  To a world view Erie County is but a small dot on the surface of the globe.  Yet from that point, through the genius of such men as Hudson Tuttle, has radiated an influence that has touched the minds and hearts of people living in the remotest bounds.  IT was because he passed his entire home life in Erie County and departed from it to the immortal life on Dec. 14, 1910, that a history of Erie County would be incomplete without an outline of his career.      His parents came to the town now known as Berlin in the early '30s, about 1831 or 1832, and bought the land, entirely uncleared, which is now known as Walnut Grove Farm, the old Tuttle homestead, where Hudson was born in 1836.  His father was a native of Long Island and  his mother of New Hampshire.  Both were excellent people and noted for Nathan Tuttle, lived to be eight-nine years of age, and his mother, Maria Monroe Tuttle, reached the age of ninety-two.  Hudson's prospects for length of years was apparently good but his ambition always overdrew on his strength, and his intense mental activity would not stop for a tired body.  So his body slept "the sleep which knows no waking" at the age of seventy-four.      His work is still carried on at the old place, the Hudson Tuttle Publishing Company, Berlin Heights, Ohio, from which go out books to all parts of the world.      Mr. Tuttle was married in 1857 to Miss Emma D. Rood of Braceville, Ohio, also a writer with whom he became acquainted by her contributions to a Cleveland periodical.  After their marriage they wrote, published and blended their literary labors, as well as home building and rearing of children, and in those beneficent activities their ideal marriage partnership endured for fifty-two years.  They celebrated their golden wedding by the publication of "A Golden Sheaf" which is still sold and form it is extracted the portion of what Mr. Tuttle says in "Ourselves" his introduction to the readers of the book.      "A journey of fifty years!  How interminable it seems looking ahead, how short looking pastward!  It would have been wearisome, objectless, selfish and disappointing, had it been taken alone.  With companionship, support, sympathy and mutual trust, its cares are lightened, the weary days shortened, the  flinty paths softened with the flowers of loving kindness.  Now we have reached the western slope of the Great Divide, and in quiet I ask my companion:  Had you known, that lovely morning we first met, all that fate had stored for our united lives, all the dark hours of pain, choking grief, disappointment, exacting tasks, would you have answered yes?      "I know you would affirm as unreservedly as would I, for, after all, the days of sunshine have been many and the dark days exceptional.  They have come into our lives, not by our own seeking, but by the force of circumstances, and we have mastered them, not have they made the waters of life bitter, or broken its current.  In the main they have been such as come to the lot of all, and we, standing together, have been stronger ot meet and dare, then we could have been alone.      "We thought our home, with the precious three children, ideal, and their going out into the world was hard to bear.  Yet we could not always have them in the next.  The fledgling bird must fly, for the air is its element and it can be happy only when exercising its freedom.  Nor could we hold our eldest with earthly ties, and must solace our aching hearts with the reflection that she gained a purer sphere by her emancipation from mortal life.      "They are all ours still, two on earth, one in heaven, and the heavenly one is nearer and visits us oftener; it the most intimately ours, though our mortal senses fail to reveal her shadowy form.      "The kindest manifestation of overbrooding love it the thick and impenetrable veil that shuts the future from us.  Our strength is not wasted in vain fear of the inevitable, and when we meet tomorrow's message, we can bravely respond.  Day by day it comes, and for the requirements made on us we have strength.      "All our children were born in the old farm homestead.  Here they were reared.  They have left souvenirs in the trees and shrubbery planted: the arbors they built, and pictures they sketched on the walls.  The great elm was planted by our boy, Carl when five years old.  It was a tiny seedling with only three leaves when he brought it from the woodland.  The tree with crimson foliage, our eldest daughter planted and Philosophy like everything she touched, responded with vigorous growth.  The wauhoo which all winter enlivens with its read fruitage, Clair, and our youngest, brought form the woods when in leaf and made it live and grow by constant attention.  The tall, ambitious lombardy which flaunts its aspiring coronal, like a gigantic plume, was set by Madge, our granddaughter, as she said, 'to keep my memory green.'      "And well do I remember, it is more than sixty years ago, my mother planted a walnut by the gate, saying that she wanted a shade three there.  Father gloomily said no one would live to see her tree cast a shadow.  Now it spreads out its great limbs and the first frost covers the ground with its fruitage.  The long row of beautiful maples, which flame in the autumn days, well do I remember when my father transplanted them, and I with childish strength held them up while he sighted them into line.      "Under the cedars is the grave of Trouper, our beloved St. Bernard, most human of all animals, most devoted and sympathetic.      "The rooms of the house which for half a century have been gathering bric-a-brac, books, pictures, and nameless gifts of friends, vibrate with influences which awaken a thousand memories - pleasing memories with influences which awaken a thousand memories - pleasing memories - with shadows here and there.      "Of the earliest guest that my memory recalls (of my parents) was Prof. O. S. Fowler, then in the floodtide of his efforts to bring phrenology before the world, and make it a factor of education.  He had utilized the theoretical teachings of Dr. Gall, and his lectures captivated a public which was just awakening form the lethargy of religious domination and craving to be led to new fields.  Phrenology did not prove itself a 'science' nor establish the great claims he made for it, but he carried with it a tide of common sense in hygiene, self-culture, social relations, and liberal thought, and represented the most advanced ideas of the time - and far ahead of the time.  Phrenology has passed, but the liberal ideas, religious, social and domestic, have displaced the old, and few there are who give this earthly pioneer the credit he deserves."      The broad scope to which Hudson Tuttle aspired even in childhood shows why his books are now in greater demand than ever before by educators, psychic students and even theologians.  When he was a little lad a traveling preacher went through the woods on horseback and stopped with his parents over night, when the conversation was mostly on religion and beliefs, to which Hudson listened eagerly, noticing his alertness, said: "I guess you'll make a preacher, my boy, when you are a man."  "If I do," said the lad, "1 shall preach what you dont!" and he did.  He wrote over a wide range of subjects, the best idea of which can be obtained by a brief quotation of the titles and some of the comments made on the standard works on Spiritualism published by the Tuttles.  This list is as follows:      The Arcana of Nature, by Hudson Tuttle, with an introduction by Emmett Densmore, M. D.  This book, first published nearly fifty years ago, and a long time out of print, has been republished in London.  That it has been translated into several languages, and a new edition demanded, indicates its value.      A Golden Sheaf, by Hudson and Emma Rood Tuttle.  Made of what the writers regard as among the most valuable of their inspirations in prose and poetry.  A souvenir of their golden wedding.      Mediumship and Its Laws.  Answering the question:  How can I become a Medium?  By Hudson Tuttle.      Religion of Man and Ethics of Science.  By Hudson Tuttle.      The Arcana of Spiritualism: a Manual of Spiritual Science and Philosophy.  By Hudson Tuttle.      Origin and Antiquity of Man.      Evolution of the God and Christ Ideas.  By Hudson Tuttle.      From Soul to Soul.  By Emma Rood Tuttle.  This volume contains the best poems of the author and her most popular songs, with the music by eminent composers.      Asphodel Blooms and Other Offerings.  By Emma Rood Tuttle.  This volume is dedicated "To those whose thoughts and longings reach into the Unseen Land of Souls this handful of Asphodels, mixed with common flowers, is ottered, hoping to give rest and pleasure while waiting at the way station on the journey thither."      Angell-Prize Contest Recitations.  By Emma Rood Tuttle.      The Lyceum Guide. By Emma Rood Tuttle.      Stories from Beyond the Borderland.  By Hudson and Emma Rood Tuttle.      Mr. Tuttle has left for publication much valuable matter the world may yet see.  His "Log Book of the Lucy Ann," a marine novel, is complete, and will some time appear.      He longed to stay and complete his work, and to establish mental freedom.  He said: "When the sun of knowledge shines from the zenith of the cloudless heavens, and there remains no dark shadow of ignorance behind which superstition may linger, then man will find restful peace in the certainty of law and order. Then will have perished the Religion of Pain, which has through past ages held mankind on its rack of torture, and will have dawned in the millennial day, which is not divine, but essentially human, the Religion of Joy. Source:  The Standard History of Erie County, Ohio - Published 1916 - Page 1048

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