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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
CENTENNIAL HISTORY of ERIE COUNTY, OHIO
By H. L. Peeke
President of The Firelands Historical Society
Publ. 1925
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E. H. Mack
John D. Mack |
EGBERT H. MACK - See
JOHN
DAVENPORT
Source:
Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio - Publ. 1925 - Page
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HAROLD EVERETT MAPUS
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Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio - Publ. 1925 - Page
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EDWARD JAMES MARTIN
states that he was born at Crystal Rock. His father was
Christopher Quick Martin and his mother, Rosa Margaret
Martin.
He was educated in the schools of Margaretta
Township, and immediately after leaving school he engaged in
fruit growing.
He is a true financier and owner of Crystal Rock Park
and the allotments connected therewith. In addition to
these he owns a large fruit farm.
He was elected as a Republican for County Commissioner
serving from 1919 to 1925.
He is a member of the Elks, Eagles and the Maccabees.
On Jan. 29, 1914, in Sandusky he was married to
Jeanette Cassidy, daughter of Lewis J. and Margarete
Cassidy. She has been highly educated in music.
They have one son, Lewis Edward Martin.
Crystal Rock Park has been known a number of years
for its historical scenery, beautiful caves and underground
springs, which were known and used by Indians less than a
century ago.
Source: Centennial History of Erie
County, Ohio Vol. II - 1925 - Page
738 - Margaretta Twp. |
Fred A. Martin |
FRED MARTIN.
The leading confectioner of this city was born Jan. 27, 1882 in
Belgium. He came to America in early childhood with his
parents, Julius Martin and wife. He was the
youngest of the family of ten children. His father was a
glass worker, who first worked in Kent, Ohio, and for years this
was his trade in several other cities in Ohio and Indiana.
Julius Martin came to Sandusky in 1901 and
worked as glass worker until his death in 1912.
Fred received most of his education in the
public schools of Kokomo and Hartford City, Indiana. He
worked in a glass plant with his father until 1910, when he
entered the confectionery and ice cream business in Sandusky.
In this business he has had uninterrupted success and has a
large ice cream and candy factory and in which attention is
always given to purity and quality of the product.
Besides this factory, he conducts the largest ice-cream
and candy parlor in the city, with a complete cafeteria.
He also has a largest ice-cream and candy parlor in the city,
with a complete cafeteria. He also has a large wholesale
trade of high grade candies, which are of the highest standard.
He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, the
Eagles, the Sunyendeand Club, the United Commercial Travelers
and various Masonic bodies.
On Aug. 23, 1905, at Sandusky, he married Miss Alpha
H. Steen. They have two children: Harry T.
and J. Martin, Jr.
His friends agreed that Fred
has earned his business success. He has tried to please
his customers, has been honest with them, has worked hard, and
has shown a great deal of ingenuity in meeting all his problems.
Source:
Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio - Publ. 1925 - Page
404 |
John F. McCrystal |
JOHN FRANCIS McCRYSTAL. John Francis McCrystal, one
of the best known and most successful lawyers in northern Ohio,
is the son of Patrick and Bridget (McGory) McCrystal, and
was born June 22, 1863, on Kelleys Island, Ohio. His
parents, natives of County Tyrone, Ireland, came to America in
1858 and settled permanently in Sandusky in 1864. John
was the third of seven children. His early education
was received in the Catholic schools of Sandusky and from his
father, who had been a teacher in the National Schools in
Ireland and who devoted all his evenings to the teaching of his
older children, who left school at an early age to go to work.
John McCrystal was first employed in the
Sandusky Tool Company shop at eleven years of age. At the
age of thirteen he was promoted to the office of the same
company and remained there until twenty-one years old.
He was a member of the City Council in 1884-5 and in
1886 was appointed deputy Clerk of Courts of Erie County.
When he began work in the Court House he took up the study of
law at night admitted to the bar in 1889, and elected City
Solicitor of Sandusky in 1891. After holding that office
for two terms he continued the practice of law in both the state
and federal courts, and has built up a large practice and an
enviable reputation for ability and integrity in his profession.
He early became prominent in Catholic activities and at
the age of seventeen was state secretary of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union of Ohio, which position he held for five years.
He is a staunch supporter of the religion of his Irish Catholic
ancestors, and of all civic and patriotic movements. He
was a member of the Executive Committee of the Erie County War
League and chairman of the Legal Advisory Board.
On April 29, 1908, he was married at Sts. Peter and
Paul Catholic church to Elizabeth Hinchey, also a
descendant of pioneers in that parish, and the only child of
Patrick and Bridget Hinchey, both deceased.
Elizabeth McCrystal is a graduate of Sandusky High School
and of the University of Michigan, and at the time of her
marriage was teaching in the High School at Saginaw, Mich.
The McCrystals have three sons, John Francis,
Jr., born Apr. 6, 1909, and who seems to have inherited his
father's talent and has made creditable reputation as an orator
in High School; Robert William, born May 26, 1912, and
James Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1918.
Source:
Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio - Publ. 1925 - Page
376 |
Mr. & Mrs. John Mertz |
JOHN MERTZ.
John Mertz was born in Sandusky, Ohio, Oct. 23, 1859, and
is the son of Jacob Mertz, one of the substantial
citizens of the city. He was educated in the Sandusky
public schools and spent one year in the Sandusky High School,
and also attended the Buckeye Business College for three terms.
After leaving high school he started in the sheet metal business
with his father and in 1884, a partnership was formed with his
brothers under the firm name of J. Mertz & Sons. He
remained with this concern until the time of his father's death
- a period of thirty-five years. After the death of his
father, he severed his connection with the firm of J. Mertz'
Sons and went into business for himself, erecting a large
2-story building at the corner of Water and Decatur streets,
known as the John Mertz Manufacturing Co., the largest
sheet metal factory in this section of Ohio. Aside from
his sheet metal business, Mr. Mertz has been active in
other lines, especially in a real estate way. He has
erected many houses throughout the city and formed the A.
Feick Realty Co. which operates the Feick Flatts and
the Mertz Apartments. Politically, Mr. Mertz
is a Republican. He has been a member of various Chambers
of Commerce of Sandusky and served creditably on the Board of
Directors of that institution. He is a member of the
Plum Brook Country Club and the Sunyendeand Club, serving on the
membership committee of the last named. He is a vestryman
and treasurer of Grace Episcopal Church, in which he has been an
active worker for years; he is also chairman of the building
committee of Grace Church. During the World War, Mr.
Mertz gave much of his time to active work in the various
"drives," subscribing liberally to all the financial "drives."
On May 23, 1883, he was married to Ida Elizabeth
Feick, one of the daughters of Adam Feick for many
years a prominent architect of Sandusky. They have one
daughter, Alma Elizabeth, married to Dr. D. D. Smith,
one of the leading dentists of Sandusky, who have two daughters,
Elizabeth and Marjorie. Mrs. John Mertz has
been a prominent church and charity worker in Sandusky for many
years. She is a charter member of the United Ladies Sewing
Circle and of the Women's Rest Room Association. For two
years she was president of the Sadusky Federation of Women's
Clubs, attending many of the state conventions and holding many
state offices and committee memberships. During the World
War, she was especially active in Red Cross work. She has
served on the Board of the Emergency Hospital and together with
Mrs. Fanny Everett, deceased, she conducted for many
years a day nursery in Sandusky. She is a member of the
Fortnightly Club and has taken part in all civic activities that
called for the betterment of humanity. For the past
twenty-five years, Mr. and Mrs. Mertz have spent most of
their winters traveling extensively, spending a goodly portion
of the winter time in Florida and California.
Source:
Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio - Publ. 1925 - Page
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WELLS W. MILLER. Wells Waite
Miller
Source: Centennial History of Erie County,
Ohio Vol. II - 1925 - Page 738 |
Henry C. Millott |
HENRY C. MILLOTT.
This Sandusky architect was born Dec. 20, 1878 at Sandusky,
Ohio, and is the son of Martin Millott and Julia Tracey
Millott. He received his education at Sts. Peter and
Paul's Parochial school and the Sandusky Business College.
He is a member of Sts. Peter and Paul's Church and the Knights
of Columbus. Socially, he is affiliated with the Elks
Club. The Sunyendeand Club and The American Institute of
Architects. He was married Nov. 24, 1910, to Eleanor
Jane Hinde whose father James J. Hinde was one of the
founders of The Hinde & Dauch Paper Company. He is the
happy father of four children: James O'Bierne Millott,
Richard Hinde Millott, Mary Julia Millott, and Henry C.
Millott, Jr. Mr. Millott's first activities after
leaving business college were a few months spent with The Third
National Exchange Bank of this city. He then took a
position with The Bennett Brothers Lumber Company
just after their location here and continued with them for eight
years, partly in the office and partly as a traveling salesman.
While engaged in selling lumber, he became interested in
architecture. This led him to prepare for Cornell at the
Cleveland Central Institute. He finished the course in
Architecture at Cornell in 1906. This he supplemented in
1910 with travel in Europe and a course of study under
Professor Hebrard of Paris. Since then he has been
actively engaged in the general practice of architecture and
there are few men of his age who have erected as many handsome
buildings that stand as monuments to his architectural abilities
as Henry C. Millott. Among these may be mentioned
St. Mary's School, and Star-Journal Building, The Commercial
Bank Building, The Third National Bank Building, the Schade
Theatre, the Rieger Hotel, the Elks and Plum Brook Clubs
and the new building of Providence Hospital. In October,
1919, Harold Parker became associated in business with
Mr. Millott, under the firm name of Millott & Parker.
He has a high standing in his profession and a bright
prospect for many years of usefulness.
Source: Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio - Publ.
1925 - Page 398 |
Judge Claude J. Minor |
CLAUDE J. MINOR.
The present judge of the municipal court of Sandusky was born
Aug. 12th, 1883, in White County, Arkansas. At six years
of age his parents removed to Huron Township, Erie County, Ohio,
where he spent his youth. His father, John Henry Minor,
was born near Racine, Wisconsin, and followed the avocation of a
timber inspector for the Iron Mountain Railroad Company.
He was also a Justice of the Peace. When he came to Ohio
he engaged in farming and threshing and took great interest in
politics, holding several township offices. Judge Minor's
mother, Mary Jane Ray Minor, was born near Millbank,
Ontario, Canada, on Sept. 9th, 1852. She was the oldest
daughter of John and Mary Ray and was the mother of six
children - Clarence, Ina, Maud, Claude, Chloe and
Alva. Maud and Claude were twins.
Claude attended the Milan township district school and also
a Huron township schools. He graduated from the Huron High
School and then attended Ohio Northern University, The Tri-State
College at Angola, Indiana, Baldwin College at Berea, and for
his legal education he went to Ann Arbor and Western Reserve Law
School for six years in Huron and Perkins townships. He
was admitted to the bar in June, 1913, and opened the office he
still occupies in the Whitworth Block in 1914. He
was married Apr. 24th, 1915, to Ethel House, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Watson House of Perkins township.
Like her husband she was a school teacher. They have a
son, Stanton Claude Minor born Feb. 16th, 1916, and
a daughter, Murland Jane Minor, born June 12th, 1923.
Judge Minor was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Erie
County in November, 1918, and served one term. He was
appointed by Governor Harry Davis Municipal Judge of
Sandusky to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge
Carl Clark and was elected November, 1923, for a full term.
He is President of the Chappelle Creek Oil Company. He is
a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Congregational
Church. He is of Scotch Irish descent. With such
ancestry and associations he could not help making a great
improvement in the court over which he presides and there are
few who do not admit he has done so.
Source: Centennial History of Erie
County, Ohio Vol. II - 1925 - Page 372 |
Frank Montgomery
Mrs. Frank Montgomery |
MRS. F. R. MONTGOMERY. The County of Erie has always been
fortunate in its Humane Officers. Mrs. Fannie Everett
and Mrs. Olive Hart have had a worth while successor in
Mrs. Alice Amanda Montgomery. Her parents were
Jesse and Mary Elizabeth Beal Hetler.
Mrs. Montgomery was born on Oct. 13th, 1869 at
Belle Plain, Iowa. On this subject it is enough to say
that she does not appear as old as that. Her early life
was spent on a farm and her early education was received in
Rural Schools. Later she attended the Normal School at
Dixon, Illinois, for eighteen months, when ill health prevented
her graduation.
She was married to Frank Montgomery on
June 7th, 1896, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and her first venture
into business was with her husband, a jeweler. She stayed
in this business until she was appointed Humane Agent of Erie
County on the 15th of July, 1921, and at the same time was
appointed Superintendent of Charities of the City of Sandusky.
This does not sum up her activities. Politically
she is a Republican, and religiously a member of the
Congregational Church. She is a charter member of Eleanor
Chapter, O. E. S. and a member of the Women's Relief Corps, in
which she served four consecutive years as president. She
is Past Commander of Reeves Review and a member of the Women's
Benefit Association of the Maccabees. She is also a member
of the Zone Temple, the Pythian Sisters, the Twentieth Century
Club, and is serving as secretary of the Federation of Women's
Clubs for the years 1924 and 1925.
Source: Centennial History of Erie
County, Ohio Vol. II - 1925 - Page 420 |
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FRANK R. MONTGOMERY.
Frank Robinson Montgomery was born Sept. 7th, 1855, at
Columbus, Ohio. His father was Joseph Albert Montgomery,
and his mother, Columbia America Jones Montgomery.
In 1867 his parents came to Sandusky and his father became
superintendent of the Sandusky Tool Company, which position he
held until his death in March 1900.
Frank Montgomery attended the public schools of
Sandusky, and after leaving school went to work under his
father, becoming one of Sandusky's first class mechanics.
Before coming to Sandusky he attended the public schools of
Columbus. Later he was employed in the Elgin Watch Factory
for a number of years, and also in the Dueber Watch
Company at Canton, Ohio, for several years.
He has been engaged in the jewelry business in Sandusky
for many years, and has also been interested in music. At
the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, at Columbus, he played in
a little boy's Zouave Corps. He was member of the Great
Western Band from the time of his locating in Sandusky and is
now a member of Ackley's Band, playing a snare drum.
While he was employed at the Elgin Watch Factory, he was one of
the sixty soloists in the Famous Elgin Watch Factory Band.
Politically he is a Republican. He attends the
Congregational Church and is a member of Science Lodge No. 50.
F. & A. M.; Sandusky City Chapter, No. 12, R. A. M.; Sandusky
City Council No. 26, R. & S. M.; Erie Commandery No. 23, F. T.
and the A. A. S. R., Valley of Toledo.
On the 7th of June, 1896 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he
married his second wife, Amanda Hetler, daughter of
Jesse and Mary E. Beal Hetler. By his first wife he
had three children: Harry E. Montgomery; Hattie, married
to John F. Feltz; and Alice, wife of William H.
Arnold.
Source: Centennial History of
Erie County, Ohio - Publ. 1925 - Page 418 |
Dr. George R. Morton
Howard Hill Morton
Lawrence D. Morton |
DR. GEORGE R. MORTON.
George Rhodes Morton, son of Joseph and Mary (Rhodes)
Morton, was born at Willow Grove, near Philadelphia, Pa. on
the 13th of July, 1806. Years later his father moved to
Hatborough, Pa., the seat of Loller Academy, where
George and his brothers, William, Charles, Wellington,
John and Albanus received a collegiate education.
In 1825 George entered the Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, Pa., and was among the first to enroll
and graduate from that institution. In 1831 he went to
Coshocton, Ohio, where he began his practice of medicine.
On the 13th of November, 1834, he married at St.
Clairsville, Ohio, Miss Christiana Neiswanger of that
place, and the same month took up his residence in Sandusky,
Ohio, where for many years he was established in his profession.
Here were born unto him two daughters and three sons: Mary,
Isabel, Howard, Henry and Robert.
In addition to his medical
practice, Dr. Morton conducted a drug store on Water
Street near by to the Sandusky Register building. In this
place he also provided a circulating library.
During the cholera epidemic of 1854, Dr. Morton
in co-operation with Foster Follet, mayor of the city,
rendered heroic service to the community.
Dr. Morton was a Scottish Rite Mason and one of
the foremost promoters of the Sandusky Lodge.
In the spring of 1865, Dr. Morton moved to Isle
St. George, in Ottawa county, Ohio, and there undertook the
culture of grapes, which occupation he pursued successfully
until the fall of 1874. His health then failing him, he
went to the home of his daughter Isabel. Mrs.
Thomas S. Gates, in Columbus, Ohio, where he died on April
9th, 1875. His body was taken to Sandusky, Ohio, and
interred in Oakland Cemetery.
Source: Centennial History of
Erie County, Ohio - Publ. 1925 - Page 400 |
Dr. George R. Morton
Howard Hill Morton
Lawrence D. Morton |
HOWARD H.
MORTON, son of Dr. George R. and Christiana Morton,
was born in Sandusky, Ohio, on the 23rd of May, 1840. He
attended the Sandusky public schools to the completion of his
tuition, and then took courses in various other subjects.
When twelve years old, he and a companion of his age,
George Doll, acquired some old type and established
themselves in the printing business, at what was then, No. 14 E.
Adams St. With young Morton as editor, the two printed a
small leaflet bearing the ostensible title "The Sandusky
Gazette." This was their first adventure in the newspaper
business.
Mr. Morton continued in the job printing
business in Sandusky until about his twentieth year, when he
left of Washington, D. C. Here he established a job shop
and also edited and printed a periodical known as "The
Departments Journal", a publication devoted particularly to the
interest of clerks in the various governmental departments.
From 1862 to 1869 he clerked in the Treasury
Department, and was then transferred to the Department of
Internal Revenue.
On the 10th of July, 1864, he married at Cincinnati,
Ohio, Miss Annie Maria Morton of that city, and returned
with his bride to Washington. Here were born unto them
three sons: Alfred, Raleigh, and Horace.
During the Civil War, Mr. Morton was war
correspondent for the Cincinnati Enquirer and other leading
papers.
In May, 1875, following the death of his father in
April, Mr. Morton moved to Isle St. George in Ottawa
county, Ohio, where his father had a grape vineyard. Here
were born two sons and daughter: Clifford, Lawrence and
Kathryn.
Mr. Morton and his wife were accomplished scholars,
and also artists of exceptional ability. They devoted many
hours to portrait and landscape painting, which they pursued
together throughout their married life.
On September 30th, 1888, Mr. Morton passed away
at his island home after a short illness, and was buried in
Oakland Cemetery, Sandusky, Ohio.
(Picture provided upon request)
Source: Centennial History of Erie
County, Ohio Vol. II - 1925 - Page
402 |
Dr. George R. Morton
Howard Hill Morton
Lawrence D. Morton |
LAWRENCE
DYKINS MORTON, son of Howard H. and Annie M. Morton,
was born at Isle St. George in Ottawa county, Ohio on
December 5th, 1877. Here he diligently attended the
district school and was proficient in his studies.
At an early age he began work on the home farm in grape
growing and wine making.
In 1898 the Mortons left the island and took up
their residence in Sandusky, Ohio.
In 1900 Mr. Morton entered the employ of the
Hinde and Dauch Paper Company of this city, and for the past
fifteen years has been their sales manager.
On February 14th, 1914, Mr. Morton married at
Delaware, Ohio Miss Margaret Mendenhall Mead of that
city. He has two children: Mary and John.
Mr. Morton is a Mason and a member of the
Sunyendeand Club, the Elks, the Country Club, and the Sandusky
Yacht Club, in the latter he has been a member for the past
twenty years.
(Picture provided upon request)
Source: Centennial History of Erie
County, Ohio Vol. II - 1925 - Page
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C. E. Moyer |
CLARENCE E. MOYER. This promising young lawyer is the present
Prosecuting Attorney of Erie County. He was born Feb. 2,
1895, in Erie County, Ohio. His father, George Clinton
Moyer, was born in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, and his
mother, Alice Watkins Moyer, was born in Herefordshire,
England. He was graduated from the Castalia High School in
1913 and from the Law School at Ada in 1920. He began the
practice of law in September, 1920 at Akron, Ohio, and later, on
May 1, 1922, hung out his shingle in Sandusky where he has
continued to practice up to the present time. In the World
War he saw service and holds a creditable record. He was a
member of the 29th Ambulance Company of the Fifth Division of
the Medical Corps. He entered the service July 27, 1917,
and was discharged Sept. 1, 1919, after active service overseas
in the Army of Occupation for eighteen months. He received
his training at Gettysburg National Park and Camp Houston,
Texas. He belongs to no organization except the American
Legion. He is a Republican and unmarried. He brings
to the practice of his profession a clean and pleasant
personality, and a disposition to show himself an honest,
industrious lawyer.
Source: Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio Vol. II - 1925 -
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