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CALVIN CHENEY YOUNG.  No name in the beautiful little City of Liberty Center commands a more respectful memory than that of the late Calvin Cheney Young.  Mr. Young was the founder of this town, said to be the most attractive residential village between Toledo and St. Louis.  The village was laid out on his own land, but he did not stand idly by while others were doing the work of making the town.  It was through his influence that the Wabash Railway was constructed through that locality, and to induce them to locate there right of way he built at his own expense the station house which for many years was the depot of the village.  He also became the first telegraph operator and station agent, and held those positions for twenty years.  He was a man of great enterprise, always successful in handling business transactions, and acquired a large amount of property.  He owned two large farms, and he improved two of the best residence streets of Liberty Center.      Since his death his widow, Mrs. Young, has continued to make her home at Liberty Center, and has used her ample means on many t worthy causes.  Her active interest in foreign missions has caused her to maintain a Woman's Mission and a scholarship at Viearabad in India, and she also built at a cast of $700 a schoolhouse in Corea, and is now raising a fund of $3,000 for a mission house and institute in that same country.  Her charity at home has been not less extensive, though not so well known, and she is constantly devising plans for the benefit of public and educational institutions.      Calvin Cheney Young was born in New York State Mar. 31, 1825.  His people had lived in that state for several generations, and his parents grew up there and all their children were born in the state.  Calvin C. Young had a brother Charles, who spent his life in New York State, and of his children William became an attorney, Charles is a real estate man at Rochester, and Phidelia is unmarried and still lives in New York State.  Phidelia, a sister of Calvin C. Young, married Ward Woodard, and they spent their last years in Liberty Center, being survived by live daughters, named Minerva, Mary, Amelia, Helen and Martha.      Calvin C. Young grew up in New York State, spent many years there, and married his first two wives in that state.  By his first marriage there were two sons: Charles and George, both now deceased.  George had married before his death, while Charles died just as he was completing his studies for the medical profession.  By the second marriage Mr. Young had four sons and four daughters.  Of the daughters, Julia died after her marriage, Adelia lives in Washington Township of Henry County, and Lucy lives in Liberty Center and has one son.  Of the sons of the second marriage of Calvin C. Young, Jewett is a widower who lives with his son who is in the insurance business at Toledo, Ohio. Ward W. is a merchant at Liberty Center, and has a son Eldon, an attorney.      After coming to Ohio Calvin C. Young married Mrs. Sarah A. (Pinney) Geering.  Her first husband, J. W. Geering, whom she married in 1878, died in 1880, at the age of forty-seven, in Washington Township of Henry County.  He was a native of New York State, and was married to Miss Pinney in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she had been a popular teacher in the city schools for ten years and four months.  Since her first marriage Mrs. Young has lived in Henry County, where Mr. Young died on Mar. 1, 1911.  She occupies the fine ten-room house on Maple Avenue in Liberty Center, and is one of the most beloved women Mrs. Young of that community.     Mrs. Young was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, 1840, and though now seventy-six has all the activity and interests of a woman twenty years younger.  She grew up in her native town, was liberally educated, and, as already stated, was a teacher until marriage.  She is of Scotch and English ancestry.  The Pinneys located in Connecticut in Colonial times.  Her grandfather, Elijah, was a native of Connecticut and died near Erie, Pennsylvania.  He married Mahala Grant, who survived him and died in Connecticut, but she was interred beside her husband at Erie, Pennsylvania.  These worthy people were members of the Presbyterian Church, and Elijah Pinney was a democrat.      Elijah Orson Pinney, father of Mrs. Young, was born in Connecticut, and was a young man when his parents removed to Pennsylvania.  He was married at Erie in that state to Mary Esther Pendleton, a native of Connecticut and of a prominent family.  Her great-grandfather was a native of England came to the United States and settled in Connecticut, and spent the rest of his years there. Ethan Pendleton, father of Mary Esther Pendleton, was born in Connecticut and married a Miss Hinkley. They died in Connecticut when very old.  Miss Hinkley was a sister of State Senator Harry Hinkley.  Both the Pendletons and Hinkleys were members of the Methodist Church, and the Hinkleys in particular were identified with early Methodism in old Connecticut.      After their marriage Elijah Orson Pedleton and wife started to make a home in the wild woods around Erie, Pennsylvania, and in the early days they employed oxen and other primitive means in developing and cultivating their farm.  They were successful, and Mr. Pinney acquired three farms adn for a nuber of years occurred when he was nearly eighty-seven years of age.  He was driving a milk wagon when the horse ran away, and the injuries sustained in that accident so weakened his vitality that six months later he died of pneumonia.  His widow lived on to be nearly ninety-two years of age.  They were active members of the Presbyterian Church, and he was a democrat.      Mrs. Young is one of the devoted workers of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Liberty Center.  She belongs to the Grant Association and the Eastern Star, and from an early age she has been a woman of many resources and the cultivation of many interests have kept her young in spite of the advancing years. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. 1917 - Page 896

BENJAMIN J. ZWAYER.  One of the most conspicuous places of business in the Village of Malinta is the Zwayer Block.  Mr. Benjamin J. Zwayer built that some six or seven years ago.  It is a two-story brick building 60 by 70 feet in dimensions and is occupied by three of the town's leading firms.  The Farmers and Merchants Bank has its quarters in the building, the hardware house of W. H. Westrick is another tenant, while the third section of the building is occupied by Mr. Benjamin J. Swayer with his stock of pianos and other musical merchandise.      Mr. Zwayer has been a successful piano dealer at Malinta for a number of years.  He handles the standard Baldwin pianos and has the selling agency for these splendid makes over several adjacent counties.  Mr. Zwayer has made a specialty and has given thorough study of this line of business, and with sixteen years of experience is one of the most competent men in that field in Northwest Ohio.  When Mr. Zwayer first came to Malinta eighteen years ago he was in the soda and confectionery business for a time until he turned to the more congenial work which he now follows.      Benjamin J. Zwayer was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1860.  He grew to manhood there, attended the public schools, and was fitted by early training for the vocation of agriculture.  He has lived in the vicinity of Malinta about thirty years.      His paternal grandparents were Joseph and Mary Zwayer, both natives of Pennsylvania.  They came to Ohio and settled in Pickaway County during the early '50s, and as farmers they cleared up and developed a good home, and there Joseph Zwayer died at the age of seventy-four, while his wife Mary passed away at the age of eighty-four.  They were Reformed Church people.      The parents of the Malinta merchant were Benjamin and Loretta (Glick) Zwayer, also natives of Pennsylvania.  Benjamin Zwayer, Sr. grew up on his father's farm in Ohio, and lived with his parents until they died.  When the old homestead was sold he brought his family to Monroe Township of Henry County and lived on a farm there until his death.  He passed away ten years ago at the age of seventy-four.  Mrs. Benjamin Zwayer died in the spring of 1916 at the age of seventy-eight.  He was a democrat in politics.      Benjamin J. Zwayer is the fourth in a family of eight children.  There were three sons and five daughters; all of them grew to maturity, all married but two and all are now living except three daughters.      In Malinta Mr. Zwayer married Miss Mary Sprow, who represents one of the stanch old families of Henry County, and before her marriage she had received careful training in the public schools, and for nine years had been a successful teacher.  She was born near the village of Malinta, Sept. 8, 1868, and has spent practically all her life in this locality, which is endeared to her by many family and personal associations.  Her parents were Fred and Mary (Gunter) Sprow. Her father was born in Pennsylvania of German parents, and her mother was a native of New England and of Yankee ancestry.  The maternal grandfather, Mr. Gunter, came west to Ohio, and when in the prime of life was drowned in the Auglaize River in Putnam County.  His widow, whose maiden name was Lydia Holden Jones, married Michael Hill, and they located in Monroe Township of Henry County.  Michael Hill died at the age of eighty-two and his wife at seventy-eight.  He was a Christian minister, and while he lived on a farm, he gave most of his time to his church work.  Mrs. Zwayer's parents, after their marriage, started out as farmers in Monroe Township and spent their lives there.  Her father died in 1891 at the age of fifty-seven and her mother in the following year at the age of fifty-four.  Both were active in the Christian Church, and her father was a democrat.       Mr. and Mrs. Zwayer have three children, and have taken great pains in their home training and education.  The oldest, M. Flo, born Feb. 11, 1891, was educated in the public schools and is now successfully engaged as a teacher of music.  Maud, born Mar. 3, 1893, also had a public school training and a course in the Detroit Business College, and is now employed as a stenographer with a large manufacturing concern in Detroit.  Charles D., born Aug. 26, 1898, is a member of the high school class of 1918 at Malinta.  Mr. and Mrs. Zwayer are members of the United Brethren Church, and he is one of the charter members of Malinta Lodge No. 399, Knights of Pythias. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. 1917 - Page 950

 

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