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Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1899.
Transcribed by
Sharon Wick
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ST.
AUGUSTINE'S CHURCH.
This Church, at Napoleon, Henry county, has been for nearly
half a century a center of spiritual inspiration and
helpfulness. In 1856 Bishop Rappe, finding
eight families of devout and faithful Catholics among the
settles at that point, encouraged them to build a small
church in which regular services might be held. The
people were all poor, most of them having emigrated but a
few years before from humble homes in Baden, Germany, and as
they had large families to support they could do but little
for the cause of religion.
However, there was among the settlers a liberal-hearted
Frenchman, Augustine Philliod by name, who was at
that time unmarried and, being successful in his business of
milling, he took the matter in hand and erected a small
frame building, 24x40, with the assistance of James
Brennan, together with such aid as could be obtained
from the other Catholics and some generous outsiders.
Owing to the scarcity of funds the church was not plastered
until 1858, and when completed it was found that the cost
had been about five hundred dollars. Augustine
Pilliod named the parish after his patron saint, and for
some time the services were conducted at stated periods by
priests form Defiance, Rev. F. Westerholt being the
first. From 1859 to 1861 Rev. A. G. Hoeffel
officiated, and then the care of the little parish was given
to the priests of Providence, Ohio, regular visits being
paid by Rev. James P. Molony until July, 1863, and by
Rev. John Martin Pütz
from that date until September, 1864. By this time the
congregation had so increased that Rev. J. P. Carroll
was appointed as resident pastor, and under his
administration in addition, 24x25 feet, was made to the
church, and a tower erected in front, the latter being paid
for by John H. Vocke. Later a small frame
school house, 26x36, was built, and in 1865 Father
Carroll organized a parochial school which he placed
under the care of his sister, Miss Ellen Carroll now
a member of a religious order. From that time to the
present the town has not been without a Catholic school.
In November, 1868, Father Carroll was succeeded by
Rev. N. A. Moes, under whose administration the
congregations of Napoleon and Providence, which had been
attended by one priest for nine years, were separated, each
receiving a resident pastor.
On Oct. 18, 1870, the present pastor, Rev. Michael Pütz,
took charge of Napoleon church, which has steadily grown in
usefulness and prosperity under his able and judicious
management. He found it encumbered with a debt of one
thousand one hundred dollars - about two-thirds of the real
value of all its property - but he succeeded in clearing off
all obligations and in raising about a thousand dollars more
for furniture for the church. Later he determined to
secure a better site for the church, and on December 21,
1875, a beautiful lot, 165 feet square, in the central part
of the town, was purchased for the sum of four thousand
dollars. It took the congregation three years to pay
for it, and, as by that time the school was in need of
better accommodations, it was decided to build a new school
house on the lot before erecting a new church edifice.
This was accordingly done in 1878, and at the same time the
school, which had been previously conducted by lay teachers,
was given into the charge of the Sisters of Notre Dame, at
Cleveland, Ohio, and a house was built for them upon the
same lot. As the congregation had still considerable
each on hand, a new church was begun in the following year,
the old building being sadly out of repair and in an
inconvenient location, which was the more noticeable after
the transfer of the school to the new lot. A handsome
Gothic structure, 50x117 feet, was erected at a cost of
twenty-two thousand dollars, and on June 19, 1883, was
dedicated to the service of God by Right Rev. Bishop R.
Gilmour of Cleveland. These outward signs of
prosperity are but an indication of a gratifying spiritual
growth under which many have been added to the church, the
congregation comprising about eighty-five families at the
present time.
Rev. Michael Pütz,
the beloved pastor whose labors have resulted in such signal
benefit to the church, is a native of Gilsdorf, Grand Duchy
of Luxemburg, Germany, where he first saw the light Dec. 29,
1845. He studied the classics in Luxemburg, and then,
coming to America, took a course in philosophy and theology
in St. Mary's Seminary, at Cleveland, Ohio. On Mar. 7,
1869, he was ordained by the Right Rev. Bishop A. Rappe,
of that city, and his first charge was at Fostoria, Ohio.
Later he officiated for same time in the parishes of Findlay
and Millersville, Ohio, until his transfer in 1870 to the
church at Napoleon, the appointment being made by the Very
Rev. Edward Hannim, then administrator of the diocese
of Cleveland.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton
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GENERAL ROBERT
KINGSTON SCOTT. Cooper declared that there was
"an instinctive tendency in men to look at any man who has
become distinguished.'' Two centuries before, the immortal
Bacon had said: "Men in great places are thrice servants—
servants of the sovereign, or state; servants of fame, and
servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in
their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times."
The Honorable Robert Kingston Scott was born July 8,
1828, a son of John Scott and his wife, Jane
Hamilton Scott.
John Scott was a son of Robert Scott, a colonel in the
Continental army during the Revolutionary war.
Doctor Scott, the father of the late Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison, and General Winfield Scott were also members of
this Scott family, all descending from the Scottish Clan Buch Cleuch.
On the first day of October, 1861, R. K. Scott was
commissioned to organize the Sixty-eighth Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, which duty was done and the regiment
mustered into the service on the 29th day of November the
same year. The first battle in which the Sixty-eighth
participated was the battle of Fort Donelson, and from that
time until the close of the war this regiment helped to make
the history of the Second Brigade, Third Division,
Seventeenth Army Corps. During the last three years of the
war Brigadier-General Scott commanded the Second Brigade;
was taken prisoner in front of Atlanta on the 22d day of
July, 1864, and was exchanged after sixty-five days of
imprisonment, two weeks of which time were spent in the
swamps and in Forsyth, Georgia, while attempting to escape.
After his command was mustered out of the service he
was ordered to South Carolina, by the Secretary of War, to
relieve General Saxon of the Regular Army in the capacity of
Commissioner of the United States to adjust matters in North
and South Carolina, with the rank of Major-General.
General Scott proved equal to the obligations imposed upon
him by his noble ancestry, and with the calm and stately
bearing of a man born to rule, conscious of his own power,
he took his place among the leaders of men, and rapidly rose
step by step, until offered the highest office in the gift
of his State, South Carolina. Twice he took the oath as
Governor of South Carolina, and twice that State enjoyed an
administration where the highest good of the people was ever
the first consideration. Wise measures wisely executed seems
but a just summing up of the two administrations when Robert
K. Scott sat in the Governor's chair. On December 3, 1872,
he retired to private life, and for the next five years
devoted himself to the management of his plantation, located
just a mile without the city of Columbia, South Carolina. He
was the owner of some four thousand acres of land in Henry
county, Ohio, and in 1877 he came north that he might the
better care for this vast estate. In 1880 he disposed of a
great portion of this land, and has since sold other
sections, yet owning, however, some two thousand acres.
Governor Scott is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a
Knight Templar; he is also an Odd Fellow, having been made a
member of that order in Stark county, Ohio, in 1849.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
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Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1899. - Page 169 |
ANSON B. SMITH.
The editor and proprietor of the "Deshler Flag," of Deshler,
Henry county, Anson B. Smith, was born December 6,
1853, in Bellefontaine, Ohio, where he was reared and
educated, and afterward learned the printer's trade, serving
a three-years' apprenticeship.
Mr. Smith then went to South Bend, Indiana,
where for three years he was employed on the "South Bend
Register," at the time Schuyler Colfax (the owner of
the paper) was vice-president. Subsequently going to
Nappanee, Indiana, he there established the "Nappanee News,"
which he conducted for a year, and on selling out that
journal he worked at different places until the fall of
1882, when he purchased the North Baltimore (Ohio) Gazette."
After publishing the paper at that place for two years, he
removed the plant to Bowling Green, Ohio, where he printed
the first daily paper ever published in the town. Two
years later he disposed of the plant, and went to
Knightstown, Indiana, to take charge of the printing
department of the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans' Home, with
which he was connected for two years. In January,
1894, he came to Deshler, and has since been editor and
proprietor of the "Deshler Flag," which now has a
circulation of some nine hundred copies. It is one of
the most popular journals of the county, and as it is ably
edited it well deserves its popularity and success.
In Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Smith was married in April,
1882, to Miss Anna C. Thomas, a native of Columbus,
this State.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton
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