BIOGRAPHIES

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Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago & New York
1920
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	WILLIAM H. MADDOX, M. D.    Considering how helpless and despairing the average individual is in case of serious illness or accident and how dependent he is on the scientific help of physician or surgeon, it would seem that the profession to which they belong could not be held in higher esteem than that very generally accorded.  But recent history has placed the medical men of the United States upon a yet higher pinnacle, for no previous record has shown greater personal sacrifices or more invaluable services than tells of many of those who hastened to the call of need when grim war involved the country.  The stupendous work of organizing sufficient army medical corps for the great conflict with a remorseless enemy was only made possible by the hearty response of physicians and surgeons who hurried to lay their scientific knowledge on the altar of patriotism.  Wauseon proudly cherishes the names of all her soldiers, and one who honored the medical profession in faithful service is Dr. William H. Maddox, who has been a valued resident of Wauseon for fifteen years and a leading general practitioner.      William H. Maddox was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1872, and is a son of A. H. and Elizabeth (Hedrick) Maddox.  The old family records show that four brothers of the name came to the American colonies in 1755, all being natives of England.  One of these was Nathan, the great-great-grandfather of Doctor Maddox, and he settled in Loudon county, Virginia.  From Virginia the great-grandfather, Michael Maddox, born in 1774, came to southern Ohio but later settled in Blackford county, Indiana, where he reared a family, marrying twice and having thirteen children.  One of these, Daniel Maddox, grandfather of Doctor Maddox, spent the greater part of his life in Highland county, Ohio, a saddler by trade and a merchant.  It was there that the father of Doctor Maddox was born.  He developed important business connections at Cincinnati, and in the interests of large commercial houses visited all parts of the United States.  His death occurred in February, 1918.      William H. Maddox completed the public school course at Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1889. and in 1890 entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated in 1895 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in the same year becoming a student in the medical department of the Ohio State University at Columbus, from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1898.  After a year as interne in the Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton he began medical practice at Tecumseh, Michigan, where he continued until 1905, when he located at Wauseon.  Here he built up a large and lucrative practice as the result of medical knowledge.  In answer to the call for trained medical men Doctor Maddox responded in June, 1917.  He was commissioned a first lieutenant in the medical corps and in August was ordered to Fort Benjamin Harrison, three months later being sent to Camp Grant, Illinois, and in August, 1918, to France with the medical corps of the Eighty-sixth Division, where he was assigned to the Three Hundred and Forty-first Infantry, and after the Armistice, to Camp Hospital No. 41 at Is-sur-Tille.  He was honorably discharged in July, 1919, having been promoted captain on November 16, 1917.      Doctor Maddox was married in 1899 to Miss Florence, a daughter of Cornelius M. and Sarah (Eldridge) Spring, of Tedrow, Ohio, and they have one son, William Rolland, who was born in 1901, and is a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University.  Doctor Maddox and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  His political opinions early led to his affiliation with the republican party, and he has known personally some of its most distinguished leaders in his native state.  He has never accepted any political office other than on the School Board on which he served six years, but the city has many times profited because of his disinterested services for her welfare.  He belongs to professional bodies in county and state, and is a thirty-second degree Mason.  ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 492
	CHARLES J. MALONE, assistant cashier of the Home Savings Bank, Metamora, Ohio, is a son of John and Mary (Brenner) Malone.  He was born Apr. 5, 1895, at Swanton, Ohio.  The family were residents later of Metamora.  His father, John Malone, was editor and publisher of the Metamora Record, and knew all about the business connected with issuing a weekly newspaper.  As he was growing up C. J. Malone assisted his father in the printing office, but in 1915 he came as assistant cashier to the Home Savings Bank of Metamora.      The Home Savings Bank was organized in 1901 as a private bank, with E. S. DaVoll, president; Horace Tredway, vice president, and H. H. Tredway, cashier.  Mr. Malone is now assistant cashier.  He was educated in the Metamora High School and belongs to the Catholic Church.  He is a member of the Knights of Columbus in Toledo and of the Knights of the Maccabees.  He was in military service from August, 1918, to February, 1919, stationed at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, Headquarters Company, One Hundred and Sixty-seventh Infantry, Ninth Division.  He was chairman of the Sales Committee through four Liberty Loan drives, chairman of the Returned Soldiers Committee, Amboy township, during the Victory Loan campaigns, assistant scout master of Troop No. 1, Metamora Boy Scouts, and clerk of the Village of Metamora.  Mr. Malone married Bernice Noble, of Lyons, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1919. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 347
	STEPHEN EPHRAIM MANN.  Some of the ancestry of Stephen Ephraim Mann of Royalton were very early settlers in Fulton county.  He was born Mar. 28, 1870, and has always lived in Royalton.  He is a son of Charles and Mary (Hinkle) Mann, the Hinkle family having been local pioneers.  Ephraim Hinkle founded the Hinkle family in Royalton.  Charles and Mary Mann lived on two different farms in Royalton, their son now living on one of them.  The father died there in 1896, while the mother died in 1918.  The children are:  Stephen E., who was the oldest; Mariam, wife of Albert Edger, of Delta; Eugene of Royalton; and Orpha, deceased, who was the wife of Roy Disbrow.      On June 10, 1900, Mr. Mann married Katie Flint, of Lyons.  She was born Feb. 16, 1881, and is a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Vaughn) Flint.  The father is a native of Massachusetts, while the mother was born in Missouri.  After the death of his father, Charles Mann, S. E. Mann bought out the other heirs and thus came into possession of the home farm in Royalton.  He has added many improvements.  He has one son, Thomas.  Mr. Mann votes the republican ticket.  The family holds membership in the Disciples Church. Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 487
	FRANK McQUILLEN, of "Popple Grove Farm" in Pike Township, has always lived at  the old family homestead.   He was born there Apr. 14, 1877, a son of John W. and Elizabeth (Dunbar) McQuillen.  When he bought forty acres and then added twenty acres by purchase it gave him sufficient  land for one man to cultivate, and yet after the death of his father he bought out other heirs until he now owns a farm of eighty-four acres - Popple Grove Farm.  Mr. McQuillen follows general farming, dairying and the livestock business.      On Nov. 24, 1903, Mr. McQuillen married Viola Johnson, a daughter of John and Lucinda (Boyer) Johnson, of York Township.  The father is a native of Fulton county, while the mother came from New Baltimore, Ohio.  The Boyer ancestry, Henry and Elizabeth (Otto) Boyer, were Pennsylvanians.  They were early settlers in York.  Mrs. Johnson died July 17, 1911, and Mr. Johnson lives with the McQuillins.      The McQuillin  children are:  Lillian May, born Sept. 12, 1907, and died in infancy; Gerald Dale, born June 6, 1909; and Hazel Marie, born Sept. 11, 1913.  Mr. McQuillin attended Hoxie district school and his wife attended the Bradley school and the Delta High School.  She was a teacher at Tough Match in York Township and at the Brailey school in Swan Creek Township.      Mr. McQuillin votes the republican ticket.  He belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America in Delta. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 512
	HERBERT E. McQUILLEN.    After a life devoted to general farming and stockraising, Herbert E. McQuillin has developed into one of the prosperous men of Fulton county, and owner of forty acres of his father's homestead in Pike Township.  His finely improved farm speaks for the ability and foresightedness of the owner, and his public acts show that he is one of the enterprising citizens of his section.  Herbert E. McQuillin was born in Pike Township, Fulton county, on Oct. 1, 1866, a son of John W. and Elizabeth (Dunbar) McQuillin, natives of Pennsylvania and Fulton county, Ohio, respectively, and grandson of David and Rachel McQuillin who came from Pennsylvania to Fulton county at an early day.      After their marriage John W. McQuillin and his wife settled on a farm of 120 acres in Pike Township, which was covered with timber, and he cleared off many acres of it by his own efforts and improved his property, on which he lived until 1903, when he moved to Delta, Ohio, and there she died on Jan. 18, 1911, he surviving her until April 14 of that same year, when he, too, passed away.  They were most excellent people in every respect and held the confidence and respect of their neighbors.  Their children were as follows:  William and James, both of whom live at Delta, Ohio; John, who lives at Wauseon, Ohio; Herbert E., whose name heads this sketch; Eva, who is Mrs. Newton Ward, of Fayette, Ohio; and Frank, who occupies a portion of his father’s homestead.      For a time following his marriage, which occurred in 1892, Mr. McQuillin rented the Rupp farm in York Township, and then bought sixty-one acres in Pike Township.  The greater part of this property was then covered with timber, and the only house was a small one that he has replaced with a nice modern frame one.  Mr. McQuillin has also rebuilt the barn, put up fences and other buildings, and now has his place in splendid condition.  He cleared off the land and grubbed out the stumps of that portion of it he desired to put under cultivation.  The land is fitted for a diversity of crops and stockraising, and he is engaged in both lines, having always found them profitable.      On Nov. 23, 1892, Mr. McQuillin was united in marriage with Alice Rupp, born in Hancock county, Ohio, a daughter of Michael and Mary (Gassman) Rupp, also natives of Hancock county, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. McQuillin became the parents of the following children: Walter, who lives in Pike Township, married Effie Miller, and they have one son, Herbert; Bert and Mary, who are both at home; Clarence, who lives at Toledo, Ohio; and Roy, Howard and Glenn, all of whom are at home.      Mr. McQuillin is a friend of the public schools, all of his educational training having been obtained from them, but when they were in a far less satisfactory condition than today, and in order to secure for his own children and those of the neighborhood better educational facilities he has given his services to the School Board for a period of nine years.  In politics he is a stalwart republican, and one of the leaders of his party locally.  In 1915 he was appointed one of the township trustees to fill a vacancy, and so efficient did he prove that in December, 1915, he was elected to that office, and filled it with satisfaction to his constituents and credit to himself.  For some years he has been a faithful member of the United Brethren Church, and donates generously toward its support.  The watchword of Mr. McQuillin has been hard work.  He does not believe there is any royal road to honest success.  Prosperity in his estimation only lies at the end of the road of honorable endeavor, which must be trod, even though the way be steep and the going hard, in order to reach the ultimate goal.  His own experiences has taught him this, and he is proud of the fact that he has earned all he now possesses through his own efforts, which he has endeavored to direct in an intelligent manner. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 364
	JOHN B. McQUILLEN.   With the coming of David McQuillin to Fulton county in 1835 an element of strength and purpose was added to the upbuilding forces of a promising and prosperous community.  That the ideals of work and citizenship cherished by this early settler have been transmitted to those succeeding him in the race is not questioned by those familiar with the history of the family for the past three-quarters of a century.  One of the worthy descendants of this pioneer is found in John B. McQuillin, deputy sheriff of Fulton county, who served for a long period in the capacity of sheriff and has also been a successful farmer of this locality.      John B. McQuillin was born in Pike township, Fulton county, Ohio, Mar. 30, 1863, a son of John W. and Elizabeth (Dunbar) McQuillin, and is of Scotch-Irish descent.  His paternal grandfather, David McQuillin, was born in Pennsylvania, but in 1835 moved to Pike township, where he cleared a farm and spent the rest of his life in agricultural pursuits, dying in 1870.  He was the father of six sons and four daughters.  Of these, John W. McQuillin was born the year following the arrival of the family in Fulton county and spent his life as a farmer on his property near Delta until his retirement, his death occurring in April, 1911, while his wife passed away in January of the same year.      John B. McQuillin secured a country school education in the Hoxie school in Pike township, attending to his studies during the winter terms and assisting his father on the home farm during the summer months.  He was married in 1884 to Miss Clara B. Simpson, a daughter of William and Margaret (Taylor) Simpson, of Pike township, and to this union there were born children as follows:  Everett W., born in 1887, a ranchman of the State of Oregon, who is married and has two children: Donald and Jeannette, Pearl T., the wife of Floyd Watkins, of Fulton township, this county, where he is engaged in farming and has one child; Ronald, Bessie, the wife of Clarence Saeger, a. Fulton county farmer, has two children; Hazel, and Harold, and Donald, who was born in 1898 and died in 1911.      Following his marriage in 1884, Mr. McQuillin purchased forty acres of land in Pike township and there continued to follow agricultural pursuits until 1912.  He is still interested in agricultural matters as the owner of fifty acres of good land, and maintains his reputation as a skilled and well-informed tiller of the soil and breeder of a good grade of cattle.  In 1912 Mr. McQuillin was elected on the republican ticket as sheriff of Fulton county, over the democratic candidate Bailey, and after serving two years was re-elected by the largest vote secured by any man in the county.  Mr. McQuillin continued in that office until 1917, when his term expired, and he was then appointed deputy sheriff under Sheriff Boone.  During his official career Mr. McQuillin has been a participant in some important cases, among others being the rounding up, with Sheriff Boone, of the notorious wife murderer, Fred Leyman.      Mr. McQuillin is a staunch republican and has long been an influential member of his party in Fulton county, where he has served in a number of public positions, his record in office being an excellent one.  For a period of fourteen years he acted as constable of Pike township, for nine years was justice of the peace and for sixteen years was a member of the Pike township school board.  His fraternal connection is with the Knights of Pythias, in which lodge he has numerous friends. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 57
	HENRY MEINTZER, of Swan Creek, is an American by choice, having been born Jan. 13, 1849, in Alsace-Lorraine.  He is a son of George and Christina (Menlein) Meintzer.  When he first came to the United States Mr. Meintzer farmed for 2½ years in Cook county, Illinois.  From there he moved to Fremont, Ohio, where he worked for two years in a saw mill, and for nine years in an iron mill before he finally located in Fulton county.      Mr. Meintzer bought 106 acres of land in Swan Creek Township with about twenty acres cleared and the remainder in brush.  He finished clearing the land and added substantial farm buildings from time to time, although there were some buildings when he bought the land.  He remodeled the buildings and added forty acres to the farm, and he now has about 100 acres under cultivation.  While he is a general farmer he specializes in livestock and dairying.      In October, 1869, Mr. Meintzer married Sophia Holtzscherer, who was born Feb. 29, 1852, in Alsace-Lorraine.  She is a daughter of Frederick and Margaret (Nicholas) Holtzscherer.  They never lived in America.  The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Meintzer are: Albert, who died in infancy; Sophia, wife of Robert Reedy, of Toledo; Nellie Jane, wife of Henry Wales, of Wauseon; Regina, wife of Fred Kuhlman, of Toledo; Henry George, of Swan Creek; Arthur, of Toledo ; and twin brother, Harold, who passed away Feb. 17, 1920, and Arnold, who lives at the family homestead.  Arnold spent five months in training at Camp Zachary Taylor in preparation for service in the war of the nations.  The family is republican and members of the Lutheran Church.      While of foreign birth the substantial qualities of Mr. Meintzer and his family are just those needed in American life today, and while the story of his life is briefly told it is a record that will be cherished by his descendants and should also be noted as one of the contributory factors in the development of Fulton county’s farms and homes. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 244
	JOHN B. MEISTER, senior partner of the firm of J. B. Meister and Sons of Pettisville, Fulton county, Ohio, is one of the leading business and public men of that section of the county.  He has lived a commendable life, has been in substantial merchandising business for forty years, and has taken good and able part in public life.  He was one of the founders of the Pettisville Savings Bank, was probably the one most influential and active in its organization, and has been its president since its establishment.  He has been a justice of the peace for twenty-five years, and has interested himself actively with educational matters as a member of the local board of education.      John B. Meister was born in German township, Fulton county, Ohio, in 1858, and comes of one of the pioneer families of that district.  The family is of Swiss origin, George Meister, grandfather of John B., having been born in that country.  He came from the canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, to America in 1830, and his was one of the first nine families to settle in German township, Fulton county where they located in 1833.  The nine families came together with ox teams through the wilderness from Wayne the part of the trip after crossing the river at Napoleon taking nine days, and George Meister settled with his family at the ridge now known as Lauber Hill.  At that time Benedict, father of John B., was only three years old.  As he grew older he, with the others of the family, aided his father in clearing what proved to be a valuable property at Lauber Hill.  He spent his whole life there.      John B. was born in the Meister homestead, the son of Benedict and Anna (Allion) Meister, and in that township was reared, as was his father.  He attended the district school during the winter terms, but during the long summer months there was no school, and he followed the custom of other sons of farmers, and labored in the fields for his father until the harvest was practically over and the winter school term began.  So passed his boyhood.  After leaving school he gave all his time to affairs of the home farm of eighty acres until he was twenty-one years old.  Then he decided to enter commercial life, for which he felt himself to be better fitted than for farming.  He secured employment as clerk in the general store of J. E. Hall at Waterville, holding that connection for about twelve months.  He mastered the business during that period, and returned on Jan. 23, 1884, to Pettisville, to acquire with his brother the general store business of S. C. Brainard of that place.  The brothers traded as Meister Brothers, but at the outset John B. conducted the business alone, his brother coming into active participation in its operation after the business had become well organized and established.  For twenty-four years the partnership continued, the brothers prospering and giving good service to local people, and expanding the radius of outside business.  John B. then purchased his brother’s interest in the business, and having built a new store, soon afterward moved into it.  And there- the business has since been conducted, in the earlier years by himself alone, and latterly with the aid of his sons, Ralph W. and George E., who were admitted into partnership when old enough, and after they had demonstrated their capability.  Since the entry of the sons into the business the firm name has been J. B. Meister and Sons, and the trading has been of comprehensive scope, embracing a full line of reliable dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, and hardware.      To some extent, by reason of his ancestry, but mainly because of his own sterling character.  John B. Meister reached a high place in the regard of the people of Pettisville and of that vicinity.  He has always given good service, has always been ready to take a good share in the responsibilities of the community, and has been liberal in his support of local undertakings, in church and civic affaire.  During the last decade he has taken prominent part among the bankers of Fulton county, being the president of the Pettisville Savings Bank, of which he was one of the founders in 1909.  He has been elected term after term as justice of the peace, until his record in that office embraces a period of twenty-five years. He must therefore be a man of fair mind and impartial judgment.  He has also served for many years on the Pettisville board of education.  Politically he is a republican, although he has never followed national politics with a view to political office; in fact he has never sought office, being quite sufficiently occupied by local affairs, and by the multitudinous affairs of his private business.  Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias Order, a member of the Wauseon Lodge.       Thirty-five years ago, in 1885, he married Martha, the daughter of William and Nancy (Kritzer) Fraker, of Clinton township, Fulton county.  To them have been born three children.  Ralph W., who is now thirty-two years old, is a business partner with his father.  George E., now twenty-nine years old, and also a partner on the firm of J. B. Meister and Sons, although in 1917-1919 he had no part in the affairs of the company, for he was during that period in national service.  In fact he is now a veteran of the World war, and one with a creditable record of service.  He was one of the early volunteers for military service, and sought the branch upon which the brunt of the fighting fell.  He was a member of the Eighteenth Company, Fifth Regiment of Marines, Second Division, and was wounded at St. Mihiel.  Later, he was with the Army of Occupation in German territory.  The third child in the family is John B., Jr., who was born in 1900, and is attending Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 127
	LEONARD MERIDEW, of Swan Lake Township, came as a child of six years with his father from England.  He was born there Nov. 7, 1879, and in Aug, 1885, he arrived in New York City.  The family came at once to York Township, Fulton county.  Mr. Meridew is a son of Thomas and Martha (Glass) Meridew.  His sister, Editha, became the wife of Carson Carston and lives in Frederick, Michigan.  In 1883 their mother died, and their father married Caroline Young, of England.  The children of this second married are: Alice, who is the wife of William Jackson of Toledo; Kate, wife of Bert Snyder of Delta; Ruby wife of Fritz Emch of Delta; Benjamin and Jesse, of the United States Navy; Fred of the United States Army; and Earl of Delta.  Mrs. Caroline Young Meridew also lives in Delta.      From the time he was eleven until he was twenty-four years old Leonard Meridew worked on farms by the month, and then for eight years he was employed in the Helveta Condensary.  In 1913 he bought the eighty-acre farm in Swan Creek Township that is now his home.  He has added many improvements and has about seventy acres of the land under cultivation, the remainder in timber and pasture.  He is engaged in general farming, stockraising and dairying.      May 5, 1908, Mr. Meridew married Pauline Crauss of Chesterfield.  She is a daughter of William and Maria (Baum) Krauss, who are natives of Germany.  Their children are: Dorothy, Grace and Ocie.  The family belong to the Disciples Church in Delta. Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 319
	SAMUEL ERASTUS MERRILL.    The late Samuel Erastus Merrill was closely associated with the agricultural interests of Fulton county, and during his lifetime became the owner of a fine farm in Swan Creek Township that is now operated by his widow and sons.  He was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, on June 24, 1851, a son of Joseph and Nancy (Mardis) Merrill, natives of New Hampshire, who moved to Ohio after their marriage, and all of their children were born in the latter state.  Not long after the close of the war between the states Joseph Merrill went to Franklin county, Ohio, and still later located in Putnam county, Ohio.      Samuel Erastus Merrill wras reared to be a farmer and attended the district schools during his boyhood.  On May 24, 1887, he was married to Mary F. Beavers, born in Franklin county, Ohio, on Jan. 6, 1867, a daughter of James and Sarah (Lane) Beavers, natives of Franklin county, Ohio.  The grandparents, Thomas and Sarah (Beavers) Beavers, were also natives of Ohio, and the maternal grandparents, William and Mary (Athy) Lane, were born in Fairfield county, Ohio.      Following his marriage Mr. Merrill moved to Henry county, Ohio, where he first leased a farm, but later bought one and conducted it until 1892, when he came to Fulton county, and spent two years in Swan Creek Township.  He then bought a farm in Putnam county, Ohio, and lived on it for two years, or until he sold it, at which time he came back to Swan Creek Township, buying the seventy-nine acre farm now owned by his heirs, and on it he passed away on Dec. 2, 1908.      Mr. and Mrs. Merrill became the parents of the following children: Jennie L., who is Mrs. Michael B. Smith, of Swan Creek Township; James Harrison, of Ottawa county, Ohio, married Grace Masters, and they have one daughter, Frances Emma; Bertha, who is Mrs. Otto Conklin, of Swan Creek Township, has one daughter, Erma; Francis C., who is now at home, is a veteran of the great war, having served as a member of Company M, Three Hundred and Fifty-sixth Infantry in France and also in the Army of Occupation in Germany; Goldie Vivian, who is Mrs. Ray Watkins, of Swan Creek Township; and Florie M. and Harlow R., who are assisting their mother in conducting the homestead.  Mr. Merrill had two children by a former marriage, namely: Emmit Le Roy, who married Mary Westcott, has three children, Orrin, Lenora and Harold; and Ira Elmo, who married Gertrude Haguewood, has two children, Hilbert and Maxine.  Mrs. Ray Watkins has two children, Eudora and an infant son.      In his religious views Mr. Merrill was a United Brethren, and his widow belongs to the radical branch of that society.  A strong republican, Mr. Merrill always gave an active support to the candidates and principles of his party, but did not care to hold office.  He wras an upright, honorable and conscientious man, who if he asked much of others was always willing to live up to his requirements himself.  A hard worker, he accumulated a nice property, and earned the respect of his fellow citizens to such an extent that his death was regarded as a distinct loss to his community. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 263
	WILLIAM MOHR.  When the Mohr family of which William Mohr of Fulton Township is a representative first came from Germany to America they located near Milan, Michigan.  However, they were later residents of Amboy, and William Mohr was born there June 5, 1874, a son of Daniel and Ollie (Ottgen) Mohr.  They were from German.  The grandparents, Jacob and Elizabeth Mohr, and Simon and Louise Ottgen, all came from Germany.  They all came to the same community in the United States.  When Daniel Mohr married he located in Amboy, where he died in 1915, and the widow still lives at the family homestead there.      The children born to Daniel and Ollie Mohr are:  John, who died in childhood; William; Catherine, wife of Eli Kreiger of Amboy; Andrew, of Amboy; Louoise, who died at the age of ten; Fannie, wife of Robert Cook, of Amboy; Matilda, wife of Earl Dings, of Sylvania, Ohio; Hattie, wife of Eugene Lehmon, of Fulton; and there is a half sister, Mary, wife of Clarence Keller of Stark county.  she is a daughter of Mr. Mohr by a previous marriage.  Mrs. Mohr later married William Cook.      On Dec. 21, 1904, William Mohr married Ida May Myers.  She is a daughter of William and Mary Jane (Everett) Myers, of Amboy.  When Mr. Mohr married her she was the widow of William Kreiger.  They live on a farm that was hers when they were married.  The house has been remodeled, a barn has been built and he has tiled and inclosed the farm with wire fence.  The house is surrounded by ornamental shrubbery and shade trees and stands on a beautiful building site - a most attractive homestead.  It is their pride to have it in good condition.      Just one child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Mohr - a son named Howard Emerson, who died in infancy.  Four three years before his marriage Mr. Mohr clerked in a general store owned by Samuel Everett.  He votes the democratic ticket.  He is a member of Zion Reformed Church, while Mrs. Mohr belongs to the Evangelical Church in the community. Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 193
	ALEXANDER YOUNG MONTGOMERY, who for more than fifty years was a resident in Delta, Fulton county, Ohio, and for the greater part of the time one of its leading citizens, had a worthy life record in every way.  Denied the educational facilities possible to even the poorest boy in these days, he nevertheless acquired much learning, so much in fact that for many years he was himself a school teacher.  He saw valiant service as a soldier during the Civil war, was for many years in successful merchandising business in Delta, Fulton county, was postmaster for eight years, and throughout his long life of public activities and service in Delta gave some time to the execution of the duties of almsot every public office of the borough, including the responsibilities of the offices of mayor, councilman, treasurer, and chief of the fire department.  Generally, he was esteemed as one of the most helpful and public-spirited of the leading residents of Delta.      He was born in Belmont county, Ohio, Dec. 9, 1835, the son of James and Mary (Young) Montgomery.  The Montgomery family is of Scotch ancestry, although for some generations the branch to which Alexander Y. belonged had been a resident in the United States.  His father had been born in Washington, Pennsylvania.  His father had been born in Washington, Pennsylvania.  His mother, however, was of Swiss descent, although also born in America.  His parents were among the early settlers in Belmont county, Ohio, where James Montgomery bought a tract of wild land, clearing it of timber, and eventually developing it into a good agricultural property.  Upon it Alexander Y. grew to manhood, and there his parents died.  The conditions of life in the vicinity of his parents' property were somewhat primitive during his boyhood.  He had to content himself with very little schooling; as a matter of fact he was unable to attend school until he was nine years old, and even then the district school that had been established was only open for four months in the year, the boys of the settles being needed by their parents for many minor farming duties during the growing season.  Alexander Y. Montgomery, however, was a studious youth, was naturally of intellectual bent, and, like Abraham Lincoln, profited much by the reading of good books.  He was fortunate also in having some contact with men of letters, so that eventually he had attained a sufficient degree of general learning to qualify as a school teacher.  He followed that profession until his twenty-sixth year, concurrently farming and he might have continued as an educator had not national conditions become such that all young men of patriotic heart felt prompted to cast aside all personal interests and place themselves at the disposal of the nation.  Alexander Y. Montgomery was not wanting or even halting when the call to arms came in 1861.  He enlisted in the Union forces in that eyar, and when the first brief term of enlistment had expired, re-enlisted in Company E of the West Virginia Infantry.  He served under Generals Siegel, Milroy, Fremont and Pope, his regiment being part of the Army of Virginia, which engaged in most of the battles of Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley, including Cedar Mountain, Bull Run (second) and Cross Keys.  In 1863 he entered the hazardous scouting arm of the Union Army, and continued as a scout until eventually mustered out of service, with a certificate of honorable discharge, on June 22, 1864.  What his movements were between that time and the spring of 1866 are not known to the present biographer, but from the spring of 1866 until his death in 1918 he lived in Delta, Fulton county, Ohio, and lived a life well filled with consequential activities, of business and public character.  For sixteen years he was in an established merchandising business in Delta, having appreciable success in that enterprise and later he was express agent at Delta.  He was a man of strong personality, and was a factor of much influence in Delta.  He had the confidence and good will of his fellow citizens, and was preferred by them for many public honors and offices of responsibility in civic affairs.  His record in public service includes a period as mayor of the borough, as borough treasurer and as chief of the fire department.  He was a member of the Cemetery Board, and all his public work, whether of minor or major importance, was marked by the painstaking, honorable attention and devotion to the interests of the community that stamped him as a public servant of the highest tape.  He was ever ready to give personal and financial support to any worthy local movement, and during the administration of United States President Hayes he was the efficient postmaster at Delta, being continued in the office for eight years.  Fraternally, he was for many years prominently identified with the functioning of local lodges of the Odd Fellows and Masonic Orders.  Of the former organization he belonged to Delta Lodge No. 400, and of the Masonic bodies he was a member of Fulton Lodge No. 248, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of the Octavius Waters Chapter No. 154, Royal Arch Masons; and of the Aurora Chapter.  In the order of the Eastern Star he belonged to Fulton encampment No. 197.  As a veteran of the Civil war he was of course of member of the Grand Army of the Republic, being affiliated with McQuillan Post.  Religiously he was a Methodist, member of the Delta Methodist Episcopal Church.  Politically he was a republican, and actively interested in national as well as local affairs.  He died on Apr. 15, 1919, his obsequies being attended by a very large number of Delta people, in which town he was esteemed for his commendable private life and notable helpful public work in the community.  He succeeded well in his business endeavors, and erected one of the finest residences in Delta, a substantial almost modern house of fourteen rooms.  He was buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Delta, Ohio, of which he was for so many years a director.       He was married on Nov. 4, 1867, at Lordstown, to Mary McCorkle, who was born in Lordstown, Trumbull county, Ohio, Aug. 22, 1843, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Slough) McCorkle of that place.  Her father was one of the early residents in Youngstown, Ohio, but his mother belonged to an Old Pennsylvania family, and was born in Carlisle, Cumberland county of that state.  In her girlhood Mrs. Montgomery attended the public schools of her native place, and eventually took the academic course at the seminary at Lordstown, Ohio.  In her younger days in Delta she entered much into the social movements of the place, and throughout her life has been interested in church work.  She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and she and her late husband have been good supporters of the local church of that denomination.  Mrs. Montgomery has many sincere friends in Delta, many of long standing. Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 265

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