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BIOGRAPHIES
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Centennial
Biographical History of Hancock Co., Ohio
Pub: New York & Chicago by The Lewis Publishing Company
1903
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SAMUEL HADDOX
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E. W. HALE
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GEORGE W. HALL
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Mr. & Mrs.
George F. Hammond |
GEORGE F. HAMMOND
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M. R. HAMMOND
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ANDREW HARTMAN.
Among the contributions from Pennsylvania to the
citizenship of eastern Ohio was the family of
Hartmans, who have done their full share since
arriving in Hancock county as members of the
business community. Philip Hartman
was born in Pennsylvania in the first half of the
nineteenth century and came to Hancock county as
members of the business community.
Philip Hartman was born in Pennsylvania
in the first half of the nineteenth century and came
to Hancock county, Ohio, about the year 1842.
He located on a farm in Jackson township and spent
the remainder of his life in the peaceful pursuits
of agriculture and gaining the esteem of all his
neighbors by the probity of his character and
honesty of his dealings. At the time of his
death, which occurred July 27, 1883, he was
recognized as one of the successful farmers and most
blameless citizens of his community. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Moses and Merry A.
Elsea, the former of whom was born in Pickaway
county, Ohio, and moved to Eagle township in 1835,
where he spent his life as a farmer.
Andrew Hartman, son of Philip, was born
on his father's farm in Jackson township, Hancock
county, Ohio, Apr. 19, 1869, and grew to maturity in
the locality of his nativity. He worked in the
country for some years after becoming of age,
removed to Findlay, Oct. 11, 1898, clerked in a
grocery store for six months, and then bought a
grocery of his own, with which business he has made
a good success. Mr. Hartman is one of
the youngest business men of the city, and though
only there a short time has already shown an
aptitude that bids fair to place him among the
leading merchants.
Jan. 26, 1893, Mr. Hartman was married in
Hancock county to Miss Mary McClellan, by
whom he has three children: Cleo May, born
May 1, 1895; Hazel Lavern, born Jan. 29,
1897; and Everett McClellan, born Sept. 19,
1898. Mrs. Mary A. Hartman was born
Nov. 6, 1873, and is a daughter of Thomas and
Sophia McClellan, of Eagle township, Hancock
County. Mr. Hartman is a member of the
Lutheran church and is a welcome guest in the best
social circles of Findlay.
Source: Centennial Biographical
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JASPER N. HARTMAN.
A hardy representative of the agricultural class of
Hancock county, Ohio, is this gentleman, who lives
in Marion township, and is well known all over the
county for his upright and manly principles.
His residence, which is of modern construction and
suitable convenience, is situated on the original
site of the historic old Marvin Tavern, an
institution which saw very much of the early pioneer
life of the county. This tavern stood on its
original site for a long number of years, and was
regarded as one of the institutions of the country,
but it became necessary for it to give way for a
more modern structure, and in 1891 Mr. Hartman
desiring the site for a building, tore it down and
built his present commodious dwelling house.
Mr. Hartman is a practical and successful
farmer, owning one hundred and thirteen acres of
valuable land, on which there is one gas well,
supplying his home with light and fuel free, the
balance belonging to the Findlay Light & Coke
Company. He was born in Wayne county, Ohio,
Apr. 24, 1847, and is the son of Samuel and Eva
(Whonsetler) Hartman. He received his
education in the common schools in his native
county, where his uneventful but useful life was
spent up to 1870, at which time he removed to
Hancock county. During the period of his
residence in this county he has been engaged in
agricultural enterprises, and has evinced his
superiority above the average farmer who knows
nothing but to scratch the ground and plant the
seed. Mr. Hartman has twice tasted the
sweets of matrimony, first when he was joined to
Mary E. Skinner, on the 18th of September, 1866,
in his native county, and who bore him seven
children, six of these now living, Addie L.,
Franklin M., Rose J., Mary E., John V.
and Zella F., who is a student attending
medical college in Cleveland, and an infant
deceased. Mrs. Mary E. Hartman, who was
a woman of many noble traits of character and an
excellent mother to this family of children, died on
the 28th of September, 1885, and in1888, on the 6th
of May, Mr. Hartman was again married, this
time selecting Emma Smith, a daughter of
Isaac and Mary B. Smith, of Hancock county,
Ohio. To this second very felicitous and happy
union there have been born six children, namely:
Ethel M., Edison C. Rosetta B., Lella G., Ova F.,
and an unnamed deceased infant. Mrs. Emma
Hartman is a native of Hancock county, and was
born in Eagle township on Oct. 30, 1859. She
comes of one of the oldest and most respected
families in the county, who have been extensive
farmers in this section of the country for a long
period of years. He operated a farm of three
hundred and twenty acres, and in connection with
which was the conduct of an extensive sawmill.
In his younger days he was a shoemaker by trade, but
abandoned that for the more congenial vocation of an
agriculturist.
Mr. Hartman, the subject of this immediate
review, is a man of excellent character, and with a
reputation for honesty and uprightness of purpose
among his associates. While not particularly
given to taking part in public affairs, he has
always done his duty when called upon by his
neighbors, and has held the different township
offices with a great deal of credit to himself and
pride to his constituents. In religious faith
he cleaves to the principles promulgated by the old
regular Baptists, in which organization he is a
prominent worker. His parents were natives of
Washington county, Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in
the very early days, and settled in Wayne county,
where they passed their lives and are now deceased.
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HENRY M. HAUSE
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Edgar A. Hawkins |
EDGAR A. HAWKINS.
The visitor to Findlay who registers
at the Hotel Benton is sure of first-class
entertainment, but he will enjoy additional pleasure
if he cultivates the acquaintance of the gentlemanly
manager who, though of quiet manners and unobtrusive
demeanor, has seen much of the world and has some
interesting stories to tell growing out of his
personal experience. Mr. Hawkins
served all through the Civil war in one of the
fighting regiments, and many were the battles,
skirmishes and engagements in which he took part
during the long and bloody struggle between the
north and the south. In civil life Mr.
Hawkins has made a record as a telegraph
operator, which in point of time has probably not
been surpassed by any other manipulator of the keys
in this country. During those busy
thirty years he gained and long retained the
reputation of being one of the most rapid and
accurate of all the operators in the service of the
Western Union, and during this time he held
positions of great responsibility at important
railroad centers. The third stage in Mr.
Hawkins's career has been as a hotel man, in
which role he has been familiarly known for the last
twelve years in connection with a number of
prominent houses in various cities of Ohio and
Indiana. The foregoing summary will be ample
justification for the remark that Edgar A.
Hawkins is an interesting man to know, and for
the purpose of better introducing him to the
traveling public and the readers of this volume this
brief biographical sketch of his life and career has
been arranged.
The family of this name originated in New York state,
and from there Lafayette and Elizabeth (Smith)
Hawkins removed in early life to Michigan, where
they located in the county of Monroe.
Subsequently they went to Lucas county, Ohio, where
Mr. Hawkins was engaged for many years in the
sawmill business at Maumee. His wife died in
1844, and his own death occurred four years later,
both finding their final resting place in the
cemetery at Petersburg, Michigan. At this town
also their son, Edgar A. Hawkins, was born
May 26, 1843, but he received his education chiefly
in Ohio, and has been identified with this state
during the larger part of his life. After
attending school at Galion and Marion for some years
he was graduated in the high school of the last
mentioned city in 1858 and immediately centered into
the occupation which he has chosen as his life work.
As early as sixteen years of age he became
proficient as a telegraph operator, and in 1860 was
give charge of an office of the Bee Line Railway
Company at LaRue, Ohio. In April of the
following year he was busy with his keys when his
quick ear caught a message going over the wires
which was the most momentous ever transmitted since
Morse invented this wonderful means of
communicating intelligence. The news of great
moment which arrested the attention of the young
operator at LaRue and about the same time was
sending a thrill throughout the length and breadth
of this great nation was to the effect that the
rebels congregated at Charleston harbor, under
command of one P. T. Beauregard, had had the
audacity to fire upon the flag of the United States
as it floated over the battlements of Fort Sumter.
That meant Civil war, and this awful fact was
realized by every man and woman in the Union as soon
as the news of the transaction at Charleston was
floated over the wires. The young telegrapher
at LaRue was not one to stand back when his country
needed his services, and on the 12th of July, 1861,
we find him enlisting at Marion as a member of the
Fifth Regiment, Ohio Cavalry, in which he served
during the nine following months and then obtained a
transfer to Company G, Fifteenth Regiment Ohio
Infantry. He remained with the latter command
until June 8, 1865, his total service lacking one
month of four years, and those who are familiar with
the record of the old Fifteenth need not be told
that those who staid with it had all the hard
marching and fighting that could be desired by the
most ambitious campaigner. This remark will be
verified by an enumeration of the principal battles
and engagements in which Mr. Hawkins
took part with his regiment during the four years
that elapsed after he left his little office at
LaRue. This list includes Winchester, Fairfax
Court House, Cheat River, Maryland Heights, Bolivar
Heights, Martinsburg, all in Virginia; Bowling Green
and Cumberland Gap, Kentucky; Stone River,
Tullahoma, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge,
Chickamauga, Tennessee; Ringgold, Peach Tree Creek,
Dug Gap, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta and Resaca,
Georgia. Mr. Hawkins received a gun
shot wound in the left leg at the last mentioned
battle, but was ready for duty again after the
expiration of three weeks in hospital. Then
commenced that epoch-making military movement known
in history as the march to the sea, during which
Mr. Hawkins took part with his command in the
fights at Savannah, Fort Fisher and Goldsborough,
after which the conquering and united armies of the
north proceeded on and made their triumphant entry
into the national capital. The grand review,
so often described and so well rememberd by
every participant, closed the Civil war with a
spectacular exhibition of patriotic pride and
justifiable jubilation which made a fitting finale
to the greatest tragedy of history. While his
regiment was located at Savannah, Georgia, Mr.
Hawkins was given a commission which promoted
him to the rank of second lieutenant of his company,
an honor well deserved as a result of his long and
loyal service to the Union cause.
After the war Mr. Hawkins
resumed his calling as a telegraph operator, and
continued it for many years, during which time he
was traffic chief at Indianapolis, and in 1887 was
sent by the Western Union to Wichita, Kansas, and
remained there during the period of famous "boom" at
that place. At length, after terms of service
which in all amounted to thirty years, Mr.
Hawkins was compelled to drop his keys on
account of what is called telegrapher's paralysis
and seek other lines of employment. Entering
the Hotel Cambridge at Lima, Ohio, he remained in
the service of that popular hostelry for three
years, and went from there to Frankton, Indiana,
where he became an employe of the Altoona Hotel.
He was afterward with the Kerr House at
Marion, Ohio, the Grand Hotel at Indianapolis and
the Morscher House at Tiffin, until finally he took
charge as manager of the Benton at Findlay and has
since retained that position.
In 1867 Mr. Hawkins was married to Miss Katie
Rhodes, who died a year later, and in 1872 he
was united with his second wife, in the person of
Miss Ella Wood, who died July 23, 1889, after
becoming the mother of two children, Harry W.
and Edna N. The political affiliations
of Mr. Hawkins have always been republican,
and by virtue of his military service he is a member
of Mart Armstrong Post, No. 202, Grand Army of the
Republic, at Lima. The thousands who have come
in contact with Mr. Hawkins in a business
way, as telegrapher operator or hotel manager, have
always found him a courteous and obliging gentleman,
and this reputation he has fully maintained since
taking charge of the Benton.
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COLLIN D. HAYWARD
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ANDERSON C. HECK
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JOHN HECK
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WILLIAM HECKERT
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JOHN B. HEIMHOFER
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HENRY HEISTAND
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JOSEPH J. HERMAN
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ISAAC HERSHEY
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CHRISTIAN HEYN
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J. L. HIGBIE
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JOHN F. HIRSHBERGER
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FREDERICK A. HOLLIGER
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ISAAC W. HOOPER
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MORRISON HOSLER
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WILLIAM F. HOSLER
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LEWIS H. HOSTLER
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Wm. H. & Eliz.
Houck |
WILLIAM H. HOUCK
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JAMES T. HOY.
The story, of Philip Hoy, founder of
the family of that name in Hancock county, is
interesting because so typical of the early pioneer
period. Born in Pennsyvania in 1793, he
made his way to Kentucky at a time when the " dark
and bloody ground " was still unsettled in its
government and not the most desirable place for
peaceful pursuits. About the end of the first
quarter of the ninteenth century Philip
Hoy crossed the river to Cincinnati, later
went to Columbus and from, there to Fairfield
county, finally "winding up '' in Hancock county in
1834. During all his wanderings Philip
was accompanied by his faithful wife, Tilitha,
who was born in 1798 and shared her husband's
fortunes for weal or woe for more than sixty years.
Philip Hoy entered one hundred and twenty
acres of land in what is now Amanda township,
erected a rude log cabin after the universal custom
of those times and moved in with his family.
At this stage of the game Philip made
aninventory of his resources and found he had just
fifty cents with which to begin life in the new
country. But, as a matter of fact, the lack of
money was little regarded by the pioneers, who lived
principally upon game and fish until they could
realize something from their crops. Thus,
though there might not be a cent in actual money
about the house for a year, there would be an
abundance of excellent food and comfortable though
coarse material for clothing. By dint of the
usual digging and hacking Philip Hoy
finally brought his farm into fair shape and
improved in circumstances as the years went by.
He was very religions in Ins temperament and became
a local
minister of the United Brethren church, in which
capacity he was instrumental in building; and
keeping alive several churches for use of pioneer
preachers. In other respects Philip Hoy
became a man of influence in his community, holding
some of the important township offices and enjoying
prestige as a soldier of the war of 1812. He
passed away in 1879, in the eighty-eighth year of
his age, and five years later was followed to the
grave by his faithful widow. This worthy
couple became the parents of eight children:
Caliste Ramsay, Mary A. Clapper, Daniel, Lewis,
Wilson, John, Lewis H. and James T.
Of the children above enumerated only four are now
living, and among these is James T. Hoy, who
was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, Apr. 19, 1829.
He was therefore an infant of tender years when
brought by his parents to Hancock county and
installed as one of the occupants of the log cabin
in Amanda township. Schools in those days were
as scarce as other comforts of civilization, and
pioneer children seldom secured much learning in
these crude academies of the wilderness. Young
Hoy got his share as he grew up, but depended
much more on the carpenter's trade he had learned
than on book knowledge as a means of making his way
in the world. Many years of the early part of
his life were devoted to carpenter work, which was
then much in demand and well remunerated, and from
his general work he finally saved up enough to buy a
farm. His first purchase of real estate was
made in 1872 and consisted of one hundred acres, to
which he added forty acres more three years later.
Since then his holdings have been greatly improved
as well as increased in value by the erection of
suitable buildings and other beautifying processes
which indicate the progressive farmer. In fact
everything on or about the Hoy home has an
appearance of prosperity and up-to-dateness that
prove better than words can the presence of a master
who understands his business.
In 1856 Mr. Hoy was united in marriage
with Euphemia, daughter of Rufus and
Harriet Bennett, old settlers of Hancock county.
They arrived from Pennsylvania in 1835, just one
year after the advent of the Hoys, and from
that time on the two families were intimately
connected in their social relations. The
Bennetts entered one hundred and twenty acres of
land in Jackson township, but subsequently increased
their estate to five hundred acres, which is now in
the hands of their seven surviving children.
Mrs. Hoy was born near Wilkesbarre,
Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 1, 1833. and was
consequently an infant in arms when her parents
reached their destination in Ohio. Mr.
and Mrs. Hoy have three children:
Bennett G., Serelda V. and Harriet T.
The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and Mr. Hoy is connected with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has served
as township trustee, and in 1875 was nominated as a
candidate for county commissioner.
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J. E. HUDSON
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DON C. HUGHES
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