BIOGRAPHIES

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Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago & New York
1920
Transcribed by Sharon Wick

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	JOHN S. HABLE.  The Hable family of which John S. Hable is a member had lived in Williams county before locating in Fulton county.  However, he was born at Dutch Ridge, Fulton Township, Mar. 10, 1877, a son of Jacob and Katherine (Ottgen) Hable.  When they were married they located on Dutch Ridge, where the father died in 1902, and the mother is now a resident of Bowling Green.  John S. Hable has one brother, Orson.      Mr. Hable married Louella Batdorff, daughter of Quimby Batdorff.  They have one son, Ronald R., born Mar. 16, 1903.  The father and son attended the same school - Dutch Ridge.  He votes with the democratic party.  The family are members of the Evangelical Church.  When Mr. Hable married he worked for awhile with his father and then they bought land together.  He now owns sixty acres of excellent land.      When Mr. Hable acquired the farm it had a good brick house on it, and he added some porches and many farm buildings.  He has pride in his farm surroundings.  Along with general farming he is engaged in the livestock business, and he operates a dairy.  Dairy farming is very general in Fulton county. Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 315
Frank S. Ham Residence of Frank S. Ham	FRANK S. HAM Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 44
	ROBERT FRANKLIN HANCOCK, enterprising manufacturer and respected resident of Delta, Fulton county, Ohio, comes of an old Vermont family, but his father came to Fulton county in 1860, and to Delta two years later.  Since that time Robert Franklin Hancock has lived practically the whole of his life in or near Delta.      He was born at Brear, Ohio, Feb. 1, 1858, the son of Daniel and Ann J. (Wallace) Hancock.  Through his mother his genealogy connects with a Scotch-Irish family, she having been born in Ireland.  His parents were married in Cleveland, Ohio, where at that time his father, a carpenter by trade, was in business.  Later his parents settled in Brear, Ohio, and in about 1860 came into Fulton county, having purchased a farm in the county, upon which they lived for two years, although Daniel Hancock continued to follow his trade.  At the end of two years, however, he sold his farm and moved into the village of Delta, Fulton county, where subsequently for very many years he was in independent business as a contractor and builder, some of the principal residential and other buildings of that section of Fulton county having been erected by him.  He died in 1893, and his widow ten years later, both being buried in Delta, where they had very many friends and were generally esteemed as good neighbors and responsible, public-spirited residents.  Their children were:  John L., now of Harrison, Clare county, Michigan; William, deceased; Ellen, who married Esmond Kinyon of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Sarah, who married George Dunham, of Elsa, Clinton county, Michigan; Robert Franklin; Daniel, who died at the age of three years; and Emma Jane who died in infancy.      Robert Franklin, fifth child of Daniel and Ann J. (Wallace) Hancock, was only two yeas old when his parents came to live in Fulton county, and only four years old when they moved into Delta, so that he may almost be considered a native of the county.  He grew to manhood in the county, attended the elementary and high schools of Delta, and when fifteen years old began to work for monthly wages on farms in the neighborhood of his home, continuing in such work until he was nineteen years old.  He married at the early age of twenty-one years, and for eight years thereafter was connected in business with his father-in-law, George Cottingham, who was a manufacturer of potash in Delta.  For the succeeding eighteen years, or until 1905, Robert F. Hancock followed farming on the old Cottingham homestead in homestead York township, Fulton county.  He was from his earliest years possessed of abundant energy, and has shown during his life much enterprise and business acumen.  In 1905 he established in Delta a plant for the making of cement blocks for building purposes, and was the pioneer of that industry in that section of Fulton county.  Much of the result of his enterprise is evident in buildings standing today in Delta and throughout the neighborhood.  Mr. Hancock is still in business, and has had good success in his business endeavors.  He is counted among the responsible business men of that part of Fulton county, and is of good personal repute.      In religious conviction he is a Presbyterian, a member and good supporter of the local church of that denomination, being influenced perhaps to some extent in affiliating himself with that denomination because of his Scotch-Irish origin.  His mother, probably, was a staunch Presbyterian, both in her native land and in this.  Politically Mr. Hancock is a republican, although he has not evinced any inclination to follow political movements actively and personally, having no desire for political office.  In local affairs and in community movements he has, however, always been ready to give substantial support to all that he has felt might prove an advantage to the community.  Fraternally he belongs to the Knight of Pythias Order.      On Sept. 3, 1879, he married Melissa Cottingham, who was born in Lincolnshire, England, but who early in life was brought to this country and to Delta, Fulton county, by her parents, George and Elizabeth (Larder) Cottingham.  Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Hancock reared from infancy to promising manhood Archie Rollin Hancock, their nephew, son of Mr. Hancock's brother J. L.  They afforded their nephew a good education, and he now is a successful bank official of the Northern Bank in Toledo, Ohio.  He is married, and the three children born to him and his wife, Gertrude Carpenter, are: Donna Berrill, Norman and Catherine. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 135
E. F. HANSON	ERNEST FRANK HANSON Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 94
	W. B HARRIS.  The banks of any community are the conservitors of the financial interests of the people, and the men connected with their operation are naturally important factors in their localities.  One of the men who is accepted as one of the sound financiers of Fulton county is W. B. Harris, cashier of the First National Bank of Wauseon.      W. B. Harris was born in Licking county, Ohio, 1890, a son of William B. and Laura (Woodruff) Harris.  The great-great-great-grandfather of W. B. Harris came from England to the American colonies and settled in New Jersey, and four of his sons served under General Washington during the American Revolution.  One of these sons was with the Colonial Army at Valley Forge.  In the period of expansion subsequent to the Revolutionary war representatives of the family migrated into Ohio and secured land in the central portion of the state, developing into prosperous agriculturists.  Both the grandfather and father of W. B. Harris were born in Licking county, Ohio.      William B. Harris was a school teacher and became superintendent of the Sylvania High School, but later went into the banking business, organizing the Farmers & Merchants Bank, of which he was cashier until 1907, when he became cashier of the Sylvania Savings Bank, and continued in that position until the time of his death in 1915.  His widow survives him and makes her home with her son.  She and her husband had a daughter, these two children constituting their family.      Before he completed his school-days W. B. Harris helped his father in the Farmers & Merchants Bank, and after the death of his father he went to Toledo, Ohio, and was in the Second National Bank of that city for a short time.  In 1910 Mr. Harris came to Wauseon as bookkeeper for the First National Bank, and after three years was made assistant cashier.  Three years later he was made cashier, and still holds that eminently responsible position.  He is also a stockholder in the bank, and is on its board of directors, and he is a director of the Pettisville Savings Bank and the Ridgeville Savings Bank at Ridgeville Corners.  Mr. Harris has also a quarter interest in the Blue Creek Stock Farm of 320 acres and is secretary and treasurer of the Arcola Building County.      During the late war Mr. Harris took a conspicuous part in the various drives, being chairman of the Fifth Liberty Loan Campaign of his neighborhood, and more than raised the quota, and he was secretary of the War Savings Stamp Campaign.  He is unmarried.  A. Mason, Mrs. Harris belongs to Wauseon Lodge No. 349, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and is a Knight Templar.  He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias.  The Congregational Church holds his membership.  Mr. Harris makes his home at Wauseon, his mother and sister living with him, the latter being a public school teacher.  She was prepared for her career in Oberlin University, from which she was graduated.  A young man of spirit, Mr. Harris has taken a constructive part in the public affairs of Wauseon since coming to the county seat, and can be depended upon to give an active support to those measures he believes will work out for the further betterment of existing conditions here.  Few men of his age have accomplished as much as he, and his fellow citizens are proud of his record. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 460
	GEORGE WILLIAM HARTMANN, M. D.  The work that any busy, conscientious physician and surgeon performs during an average lifetime fills an important chapter in the history of the medical profession, whether it becomes public or not.  In his own experience very such practitioner at some time or another comes upon emergencies for which no rule of practice has prepared him, when he must depend entirely upon his own judgment and medical skill, and from such conditions more than once have come discoveries that have had wide-reaching beneficial results.  One of the eminent medical men of Fulton county, who has devoted a long and busy life to the alleviation of the bodily ills that afflict humanity, is Dr. George William Hartmann, who is one of Wauseon's most highly valued citizens.      Doctor Hartmann was born in Clinton township, Fulton county, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1852, and is a son of John Conrad and Charlotte (Houghtby) Hartmann, who were early settlers and farming people of Fulton county.  He grew up on his father's farm, attended the district schools, and still later had advantages in the Wauseon High School and a normal school at Bryan, Ohio.  He then became a medical student under Dr. Philo E. Jones at Wauseon, with whom he remained one and a half years.  In the full of 1878 he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor from which great institution he was graduated as one of the ten best men at the head of his class, on July 1, 1881, with his coveted degree.      Dr. Hartmann entered into practice at Archbold, Ohio, where for seven years he had the advantage of working with the noted practitioner, Dr. A. J. Murbach.  In 1892 he came to Wauseon, and this city has been his home and his main field of practice ever since.  He is a valued member of numerous medical bodies, including the American Medical, the Ohio State, the Fulton County and the Northwestern Ohio Medical Associations.      At Archbold, Ohio, in 1881, Doctor Hartmann was united in marriage to Miss Emma E. Stotzer, who is a daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth (Miller) Stotzer.   Of six children born to Doctor and Mrs. Hartmann three survive, namely, Carl Floyd, Florence Edna and Helen Elizabeth.  Carl Floyd Hartman was graduated with the degree of A. B. from the University of Michigan in 1907, from Rush Medical College in 1909, with the degree of M. D., and afterward served as an interne in St. Vincent's Hospital.  When the United States became involved in the great war he entered the National Army as lieutenant in the medical corps, and in 1917 at Camp Grant was promoted to a captaincy, on May 18, 1918, being made major, and was placed in charge of the medical detachment of the Three Hundred and Forty-third United States Infantry.  On Aug. 27, 1918, he sailed for France, later was placed in command of the Medical Department of Air Service for the armies at Colombey-Les Belles, France.  In February, 1919, he became acting lieutenant-colonel in charge of the Medical Department of the American Air Forces connected with hospitals in the entire war zone in France, and continued so to serve until he was mustered out of the service May 29, 1919, with a marvelous record for executive efficiency.  In 1910 he was married to Miss Pearl Reynolds, who is a daughter of William Reynolds, a well known resident of Fulton county, and they have two children, Floyd Wellington and Ruth.  Florence Edna, the older daughter, is a graduate of the Wauseon High School and the Toledo Business College.  Helen Elizabeth, the youngest of the family, is a graduate of the Wauseon High School and the University of Michigan, also of the Detroit School of Music and Art, and teaches these sciences in the public schools at Wauseon and Delta.      Both as physician and public-spirited citizen Doctor Hartmann has many times proved his deep interest in the welfare of Wauseon and this section, always being ready to lend his influence to practical welfare movements.  In politics he has been a republican voter since early manhood.  Twice he has served as coroner of Fulton county, and for a number of years has been a member of the school board.  He is a Knight Templar Mason, and belongs also to the order of Modern Woodmen.  With his family he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 28
	HERBERT HAYES HINKLE.  The name Hinkle belongs to the early history of Fulton county, although Herbert Hayes Hinkle was born June 22, 1876, in Royalton.  He is the son of Stephen and Hattie (Cass) Hinkle, the father of Fulton and the mother of Lucas county.  The grandparents, Ephraim and Susan (Houghton) Hinkle, were early settlers in Fulton, while Joseph Cass came early to Adams Township, Lucas county.      When Stephen Hinkle was married he settled in Lyons, and still lives there.  The children are: Ephraim, deceased; Lena, wife of Houghton J. Ferguson, of Toledo; Herbert Hayes; Eugene, of Royalton; and Homer, who lives with his parents.      On Apr. 29, 1903, Herbert H. Hinkle married Ethel E. Camburn, of Royalton.  She is a daughter of Frank and Charlotte (Standish) Camburn.  The father came form Lenawee county, Michigan, while the mother always lived in Royalton.  Mr. Hinkle had always farmed, and after his marriage he rented in Royalton until 1913, when he bought 100 acres on the Ohio-Michigan line, with ninety acres in Michigan, but the house in Ohio.  He has a Holstein dairy on the farm.      The children are: Charles Lloyd and Franklin.  Mr. Hinkle had high school advantages in Toledo, and as a republican he received the appointment to an unexpired term as township trustee in 1916, and since then he has twice been re-elected trustee.  He belongs to the Ancient Order of Gleaners, and is secretary of the Universalist Church, of which he is a minister. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 517
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Hinkle	STEPHEN EDGAR HINKLE Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 262
	WILLIAM AUSTIN HOGUE, one of the progressive farmers of Swan Creek Township, has to his credit the development and improvement of his valuable farm in this region.  He was born at Delta, Ohio, on Mar. 15, 1872, a son of Austin and Martha (Mattingly) Hogue, of English descent.  They had three children, namely:  William Austin, who was the eldest; Hattie, who is Mrs. Oscar J. Wismen, of Delta, Ohio, where her husband is a dental surgeon; and Frank, who lives in Idaho.  The mother secured a divorce from the father, and was later married to Samuel Casson and now lives in Delta, Ohio.      William Austin Hogue lived with his mother until he was twenty-one years of age, at which time he rented her farm in the vicinity of Delta and conducted it for a few years.  He then worked for his step-father in a sawmill for about two years, and leaving him went to Chicago, Illinois, where he was engaged in teaming for a few months.  He then returned to Delta, resuming work for his stepfather in the mill, but in the spring went to Toledo, Ohio, where he was a street car conductor during the subsequent summer.  Once more Mr. Hogue returned home to resume work in the sawmill.       In May, 1899, he was married to Mattie Adams, of San Creek Township.  The year following his marriage Mr. Hogue located on the 120-acre homestead of the Adams family, and after the death of his father-in-law in 1901 he bought the property of his mother-in-law, who survived her husband until in June, 1918, when she, too, passed away.  Since becoming the owner of the property Mr. Hogue has rebuilt the house and barns, making them thoroughly modern, and he has otherwise greatly improved the place.  Mr. Hogue is carrying on general farming, stockraising and dairying, his herd a mixed breed of hogs and good quality, and is making a success of his several undertakings.      Mr. and Mrs. Hogue have one daughter, Helen Adams, who has been graduated from the Delta High School, and is a charming young lady.  In politics Mr. Hogue is a republican.  The Presbyterian Church of his neighborhood has him as an attendant, although he is not a member of any religious body.  Always a hard worker, Mr. Hogue has won his own way in the world and deserves the confidence he inspires among his neighbors. Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 318

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