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Source:
The
Biographical Record of Knox County, Ohio
To Which is Added an Elaborate Compendium of National Biography
Illustrated
Publ. Chicago : The Lewis Publishing Company
1902
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ISRAEL LANNING
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 363 |
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ISAAC P. LARIMORE
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 193 |
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EUGENE R. LEEDY
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 334 |
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ISAAC LEEDY
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 96 |
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JOSEPH LEEDY
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 139 |
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JOHN LEONARD
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 43 |
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MARVIN LEPLEY
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 106 |
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SIMON C. LEPLEY
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 103 |
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FRANK O. LEVERING.
The Levering family is so well
known in Knox county that its
representatives need no introduction to the
readers of this volume. When the
Buckeye state was almost an unbroken
wilderness and the greater part of the land
was still in possession of the government
the family was founded here, and those who
have borne the name since that time have
faithfully carried forward the work of
upbuilding and improvement begun by their
ancestors. It was in the latter part
of the seventeenth century that the family
was first planted on American soil by
Gerhard Levering and his brother
Wigard. They were sons of
Rosier Levering, who was born in
Holland of English or Anglo Saxon parentage,
his father and mother having been exiled
from England on account of their religious
belief. Rosier Levering
married Elizabeth Vandewalle,
of Westphalia, Germany, and their son,
Gerhard Levering, was born in
Gamen, Germany, in 1660. In 1685,
accompanied by his brother Wigard, he braved
the dangers incident to an ocean voyage at
that day and crossed the Atlantic to
America. He married, and among his
children was Daniel Levering,
who was born Dec. 2, 1704, and on the 12th
of May, 1735, was married, in Christ church,
in Philadelphia to Margaret Beane.
They resided upon a farm of one hundred
acres in Whiteplain township, Montgomery
county, New Jersey.
Upon that farm, on the l0th of June, 1738, there was
born unto them a son, to whom they gave the
name of Henry Levering and who was
the great-great-grandfather of our subject.
For many years he resided at the Durham Iron
Works in New Jersey, but in 1785 removed
from there to a large farm in Belfast
township, Bedford county, Pennsylvania.
He wedded Ann Wynn, and their son,
Daniel Levering, the great-grandfather
of our subject, was born in New Jersey, Feb.
3, 1764. In 1785 he accompanied his
parents on their removal to Bedford county,
Pennsylvania, where he married Mary
Karney. In 1811 he visited Knox
county, Ohio, and purchased a large tract of
land from the government in Owl Creek
valley, whereon he located with his family,
and there spent his remaining days, his
death occurring in 1820. His widow
died Oct. 24, 1846, at the advanced age of
eighty-four. They were prominent
members of the Presbyterian church and
leading citizens of the community.
Noah Levering, the grandfather of our
subject, was born in Bedford county,
Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, 1802, and in 1813 came
with his parents to Knox county. He
was married here, Mar. 25, 1828, to
Armanella Cook, daughter of John and
Ann Cook, who came to Ohio from
Washington county, Pennsylvania about 1805.
Their daughter was born in 1809 and died
June 13, 1879, while Noah Levering
passed away Mar. 4, 1881. They were
farming people, and the town of Levering was
laid out upon their land.
John Cook Levering, their son, and the father of
Frank O., was born on the old family
homestead, in Middlebury township, Sept. 11,
1829, and was the eldest son in a family of
ten children. His youth was spent in
the usual manner of farmer lads of that
period, and as the years passed he assisted
his father in the control and management of
the farm. When twenty-one years of age
he purchased eighty acres from, his father
and began farming on his own account.
As a companion and helpmate for the journey
of life he chose Miss Carrie Richardson,
and they were married in 1860. Her
parents were Daniel and Thankful (Camp)
Richardson, the former a well known
lumber merchant of New York for many years.
Mr. Levering and his wife began their
domestic life on the land which he had
purchased, and as the years passed their
financial resources increased so that he was
enabled to purchase other land and became
one of the wealthy farmers of the county.
He has been very prominent in agricultural
circles, and his influence has been felt
throughout the entire country in behalf of
the best interests of the farmer and stock
raiser. His stock has won many first
prizes in all parts of the country, and he
did much to improve the grade of domestic
animals raised in this part of the state.
In 1866 he became a member of the Knox
County Agricultural Society, of which he has
since been a representative, and for a
number of years he was honored with the
presidency. But other honors of a less
local character have been conferred upon
him. In 1881 he was elected a member
of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture.
He assisted in the purchase and improvement
of the now beautiful state fair grounds and
buildings at Columbus, Ohio. For six
years he was a member of the state board,
was treasurer in 1885 and president in 1886.
In 1883 he represented Ohio in the National
Agricultural Convention in Washington.
In 1887 the goveror
governor of Ohio appointed him a member of
the state centennial board, and he took an
active part in managing the Ohio Centennial
celebration held in Columbus in 1888.
In 1890, at the Ohio Annual Agricultural
Convention, at the request of the state
secretary of agriculture, he read a paper on
the Farmers Horse and Horse Breeding.
This led to the formation of the Ohio State
Draft and Coach Horse Association in 1891,
and of this Mr. Levering was
elected, president and served for three
successive years. In 1871 he was
elected county commissioner of Knox county,
and by re-election in 1874 filled the
position for six consecutive years. It was
in 1874 that iron bridges were built in the
county, an improvement to which he gave his
support. He was also instrumental in
building the county infirmary at a cost of
one hundred thousand dollars. In his
political views he has been a life-long
Democrat, and in 1886 was the nominee of his
party for congress in the ninth Ohio
congressional district. He has ever
been most painstaking and conscientious in
the discharge of all public duties devolving
upon him, regarding an office as a public
trust which must not be betrayed.
Early in life he united with the
Presbyterian church, in which he has since
been an active and zealous member.
When a history of the Levering family was
being prepared in 1891 he acted as
corresponding secretary. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Levering now reside at
Levering, Knox county, Ohio. They have
the following children: Noah C., of
Richland county, Ohio; Lloyd D., of
Knox county; John Clifton, of Toledo;
Mrs. Nettie Barnhill, of Mansfield,
Ohio; and Frank O., of this review.
Frank O. Levering as born on the old family
homestead in Middlebury township, Knox
county, Sept. 29, 1862, and pursued his
early education in the district schools,
while through the period of vacations he
assisted his father in the work of fields
and meadows. He afterward engaged in
teaching, and later was graduated with
honors in Eastman's Commercial College,
Poughkeepsie, New York. Not desiring
to follow the pursuit to which he had been
reared, he determined to enter the
mercantile field, and in 1885 established a
store in the town of Levering, but this did
not prove entirely congenial, and in 1890 he
took up the study of law in Mount Vernon, in
the office of Hon. Frank V. Owen, who
directed his reading until his admission to
the bar in 1892. He has since engaged
in practice and has secured a very desirable
client age. In 1883 he was appointed a
member of the board of electors of the
county and was twice reappointed, while in
1896 he was elected probate judge for a term
of three years. Since his retirement
from that office he has given his attention
to his private practice, which often
partakes of a very important character, as
he is retained as counsel on many of the
prominent cases tried in the courts of the
district.
The Judge was united in marriage to Miss Byrdess E.
Leiter, of Shelby, Ohio, a daughter of
Captain C. P. Leiter, who was mayor
of that city for a number of years.
Their union has been blessed with six
children: Howard A., Russell Edgar, John
Collin, Nina May, Carlos and Ada.
In his political views Judge
Levering is a Democrat and attended the
national convention of his party as a
delegate in 1900. He is a valued
representative of several fraternal
organizations, belongs to the lodge,
chapter, council and commandery in the
Masonic fraternity, and of the last named
has served as eminent commander. He
also belongs to the Mystic Shrine. He
is a past chancellor of the Knights of
Pythias lodge; past grand of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and has filled many
other offices in these organizations.
Like his ancestors, he has ever taken a deep
interest in everything pertaining to the
progress and welfare of the county, and is
an honored representative of a worthy
pioneer family.
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page |
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HOMER B. LEVERING.
Homer B. Levering is now one of the
most extensive and prosperous dealers and
shippers in live stock, hay, grain and feed
in Knox county. It is always a
pleasure to see true merit suitably
rewarded, to behold the prosperity of those
who eminently deserve it, as does the
subject of this review. At an early
age he learned one of the great lessons of
life - that there is no royal road to
wealth, and as he was not above work he
toiled industriously until he won not only a
very comfortable competence but also the
esteem and confidence of the people with
whom he has been associated. Work, the
true friend of mankind, has developed his
latent resources and brought out the strong,
self-reliant force of his character.
Mr. Levering was born in Morrow county, Dec. 14,
1874, and he and his elder brother and
partner, Milton G. Levering, are the
only children of Charles B. and Mary J.
(Grove) Levering. The father was
born in Waterford, Knox county, in 1839, and
died in 1893. After arriving at years
of maturity he wedded Miss Grove, and
then located on a farm in Middlebury
township, where he made his home for a
number of years. He then removed to
Morrow county and resided in Franklin and
Chester townships until his death, his
efforts at farming and purchasing shipping
stock being crowned with prosperity.
Under the parental roof Homer B. Levering spent
the days of his childhood, and in the common
schools he attained his early education,
which was followed by a course in the Austin
high school. When only fifteen years
of age he began his career as a stockbuyer,
and as time passed his business in that
direction increased until he has long been
ranked among the leading stockbuyers and
shippers in this portion of the state.
After his father's death he and his brother
purchased the home farm and later bought an
adjoining tract of land of sixty-five acres.
In April, 1900, they bought the warehouse
and business so long conducted by M. J.
Simons, and they are now extensive
buyers and shippers of hay, grain and feed,
as well as of live stock, Milton G.
Levering, however, being interested only
since April, 1900.
On the 14th of October, 1896, was celebrated the
marriage of our subject and Miss Eva
Boone, a native of Fredericktown, and a
daughter of Charles Boone, a
prominent fanner of this county. They
now have an interesting little son,
Harold W. In his political views
Mr. Levering is a liberal Democrat,
voting for the party, but never seeking
office, for his attention is fully occupied
by his large business interests. His
keen perception of business possibilities
and his improvement of opportunity have led
to success, and his reputation for straight
forward dealing is unassailable.
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 273 |
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LEANDER H. LEWIS
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 12 |
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JOHN W. LINDLEY
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 335 |
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ELIAKIM E. LOCKWOOD
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 321 |
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J. CALVIN LONEY
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 160 |
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JOHN R. LONG
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 195 |
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JOHN J. LOSH
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 341 |
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MARVIN LYBARGER
Source: The Biographical Record of
Knox County, Ohio -
Publ. 1902 ~ Page 105 |
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