BIOGRAPHIES
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City of Toledo and Lucas and Wood Counties, Ohio.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company
1895
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MORRISON R. WAITE
was born at Lyme Conn. Nov. 29 1816. His father Henry
Matson Waite was also a native of Lyme Conn. Nov. 29 1816.
His father Henry Matson Waite was also a native of Lyme the
date of his birth being Feb. 9 1787. The father was graduated
at Yale College and after completing the study of his profession
entered upon the practice of law at Lyme in which he soon attained a
prominent position. He was chosen successively as
Representative and Senator in the State Legislature. In 1834
his qualities as a jurist were organized in his appointment as
Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut and
subsequently in his unanimous election by the Legislature to the
Chief Justiceship of the state from which position he was withdrawn
in 1857 by the constitutional age limit of seventy years for
incumbents of that office. The Waite family settled
before 1700 at Lyme where its members have for nearly two hundred
years held prominent positions in different spheres of active life.
These included Marvin Waite who as Presidential Elector cast
a vote for Washington at his first election in 1789. He
was one of the commissioners appointed to sell lands belonging to
Connecticut in the Connecticut Western Reserve Ohio the proceeds of
which sale now constitute the Connecticut School Fund. The
mother of our subject was a granddaughter of Col. Samuel Selden
commander of a Connecticut regiment in the Army of the Revolution
who was made prisoner September 17 1776 at the evacuation of New
York. He died Oct. 11 following in the "Old Provost" and was
buried in the old "Brick Church" yard where the New York Times
office now stands his fellow-prisoners by special permission being
allowed to attend his funeral in uniform.
Morrison R. Waite was graduated at Yale in 1837
his class including several men who subsequently achieved a national
reputation among whom were William M. Evarts Edwards Pierrepont
and Benjamin Silliman Jr. Samuel J. Tilden was
of the same class though from poor health was unable to graduate
with those here named. Selecting the profession of the law as
his life work Mr. Waite commenced reading in his father's
office; but accepting the view then so prevalent in the East as to
wider and more hopeful fields for activity in the then Far West he
left Lyme in October 1838 for the Maumee Valley settling at Maumee
City. Here he at once renewed his law reading in the office of
Samuel M. Young who had preceded him to that locality in
1835. Upon his admission to the Bar in 1839 the firm of
Young & Waite was formed the junior partner at once taking upon
himself the larger portion of detail in work. This included
much horseback travel and other severe labor in attendance at courts
in other counties in the collection of claims from scattered debtors
and other business. In 1850 Mr. Waite removed to Toledo where
the firm opened an office and continued in practice until January
1856 when upon the retirement of Mr. Young a brother
Richard Waite became a partner and the firm of M. R. & R.
Waite was formed which continued for a period of eighteen years
or until the senior brother was appointed Chief Justice when it was
succeeded by that of R. & E. T. Waite the junior member being
a son of the retiring partner.
Though never a partisan in any objectionable sense of
the term Mr. Waite from an early life had clear
convictions upon questions of public policy and took an active part
in support of the same. A Whig in sentiment he co-operated
with that party until it was merged into the Republican organization
in 1865 since which time he has acted with the latter. The
different public positions held by him were all conferred without
his seeking. As shown by the political record elsewhere given
he was early active in local political affairs. He was first a
candidate for public office in 1846 as the Whig nominee for Congress
in a strongly Democratic district his opponent, William
Sawyer, being elected. In 1849 Mr. Waite was chosen
as Representative to the State Legislature, serving in that body
with special credit. He was a candidate for delegate to the
State Constitutional Convention in 1850, failing of an election in
consequence of the strongly adverse political majority.
Mr. Waite's most prominent relation to political
matters was that held in 1862, and was incident to the question then
arising in regard to the war policy of the Government. In
common with a large portion of the Republicans and many Democrats of
the Toledo Congressional District, he was in full sympathy with
President Lincoln's purpose to make the preservation of the
Union, through the suppression of the rebellion, the paramount end
of all war measures in that connection. Opposed to such policy
was a large portion of the Republican party in the district, who
held that abolition of slavery in the South should be made a
condition in any terms for peace. As a result of such
disagreement, two District Conventions were held, representing these
two adverse policies. The one composed of Republicans and what
were known as War Democrats nominated Mr. Waite for Congress,
and he, with much hesitation, accepted the position. The other
convention selected James M. Ashley, the Republican
incumbent, as it candidate. While the Democrats of Lucas, Wood
and Fulton Counties, with great unanimity supported Mr. Waite,
the members of that party in the other counties of the district,
from considerations of party strategy, voted for a third candidate,
the result being the re-election of Mr. Ashley. In
Toledo Mr. Waite then received eighteen hundred and six votes
out of twenty-four hundred and forty-seven votes cast, while his
plurality in the county was thirteen hundred and forty-six in a
total vote of forty-one hundred and sixty-three. No other
popular endorsement of equal emphasis had been given a citizen of
that county. Upon the refusal of Hocking H. Hunter to
accept the seat on the State Supreme Bench, to which he was elected
in 1863, Governor Brough tendered the position
to Mr. Waite, by whom it was declined. His
reputation as a sound and able lawyer and conservative citizen had
become so far national, that in December, 1871, President
Grant selected him as one of the counsel for the United
States in the arbitration at Geneva, involving the settlement of
what were known as "Alabama-Claims" of the Government against Great
Britain. For such position Mr. Waite possessed the
special qualities of great industry and ability in research and
argument, qualities which were made conspicuous and effective on
that memorable occasion, and secured for his labors historical
recognition. His presentation of the question of Great
Britain's liability in permitting the Confederate war steamers to
obtain in British ports supplies for hostilities against American
shipping commanded marked attention both from that tribunal and from
the world. Entering that service with a reputation more
limited than was that of either of his associate counsel, the close
of the trial found him in that respect second to none.
Returning to Toledo in 1872, Mr. Waite resumed
his practice. In 1873 he was elected without opposition as a
member of the convention called to revise the State Constitution,
and upon the assembling of that body he was chosen as its President.
It was during the session of this convention at Cincinnati, in
January, 1874, that the successive nominations of George H.
Williams and Caleb Cusing for Chief Justice, to succeed
Salmon P. Chase, deceased, were presented and withdrawn by
President Grant. The third name communicated to the Senate
was that of Mr. Waite, which was done without the knowledge
of that gentleman, who had positively withheld his approval of any
steps by his friends in that direction. The announcement of
the nomination was received by the Constitutional Convention with
special demonstration of pleasure, and a resolution strongly
approving the same was at once introduced to that body, and by him,
as its presiding officer, ruled out of order. The Senate, by a
unanimous vote, approved the nomination. It so happened that
only a year previous to his appointment as Chief Justice, Mr.
Waite was admitted to practice in the Superior Court, and upon
the motion of Mr. Cushing. His appointment was received
by the citizens of Toledo with marks of special gratification.
The Bar at once met and made expression both of approval and of its
high appreciation of Mr. Waite's personal and professional
worth. A proposition for a banquet was, at his request,
changed to an informal reception, held at the residence of William
Baker, Esq., Feb. 3, 1874, which was attended by a large numbers of
citizens, glad to congratulate the appointee on the high honor
conferred, and to assure him of their wish for success in his new
position. He left Toledo for Washington on the 13th of
February, and assumed the office of Chief Justice by taking the
prescribed oath, March 4, following.
In the administration of the position to which he had
been appointed the highest judicial position in the world, Mr.
Waite was eminently successful. His capacity of mind and
his endurance, which throughout had distinguished his professional
life, were only made more conspicuous and effective in his judicial
position. The excessive labor demanded for the research and
study of facts, authorities and principles of jurisprudence, and
their just application, could be properly met only with resources to
be supplied by long practice of energy and self-denying toil;
and it may be mentioned here, from the benefit of young men in all
departments of active life, that Chief Justice Waite recognizes in
his present capacity for labor the direct result and chief reward of
the years of severe work, without apparent return, spent in his
early practice. The result has been all that he or the country
could ask. During no equal period have adjudications of that
august tribunal been attended with more complete success, either in
the correctness of its decisions, or in their acceptance by parties
and the public. Its action ahs involved points of special
delicacy in connection with controverted political and
constitutional questions, with no instance in which the result was
not promptly accepted as final and just. In his connection
will be appropriate the testimony of a member of the Supreme Court,
given after he had retired from that Bench. Of Chief Justice
Waite he said: "From the day of his entrance into office as
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he has been indefatigable in his
discharge of its great duties - patient, industrious and able.
His administrative ability is remarkable. None of his
predecessors more steadily and wisely superintended the Court, or
more carefully observed all that is necessary to its working.
Nothing under his administration has been neglected or overlooked.
He has written many of the most important decisions of the Court -
too many to be particularized. Among the more recent of his
opinions may be mentioned those delivered in the cases of Antoni
vs. Greenhow, Louisiana vs. Jumel and Elliott
vs. Wiltz, each of them involving questions arising under the
Constitution of the United States."
In nothing has Chief Justice Waite more clearly
indicated fitness for the office he holds than in teh exalted
estimate which he has ever manifested of its grave responsibilities
and dignified character. Occasion for such manifestation was
furnished in 1875. He then had held the position of Chief
Justice long enough for his special fitness therefor to become
known. So high had this appreciation become at the date named
that the matter of his nomination for the Presidency came to be
earnestly canvassed in prominent and influential quarters.
This was especially true of many leading public journals. From
the first suggestion of that sort, however, those most familiar with
his real feelings and sentiments in regard to public life could see
no encouragement for yielding to, much less for co-operating with,
such movement. These knew too well as strong attachment to his
profession; his repugnance to the life of the political aspirant;
and his eminently conservative habit of mind, to find the slightest
warrant for such suggestion. His friends did not have long to
wait for the fullest justification of their assumption in the case.
The matter having, in November, 1875, been presented to him in such
form as to invite definite response, he addressed to a relative,
Hon. John T. Waite, then Member of Congress from Connecticut, a
private letter, which afterward, by request, he permitted to be
published. In that letter he said: "Of course, I am grateful
to my friends for any efforts on my behalf; and no one ever had
friends more faithful or more indulgent. But do you think it
quite right for one occupying the first judicial position in the
land to permit the use of his name for political position? The
office I hold came to me covered with honor; and when I accepted it
my chief duty was not to make it a stepping-stone to something else,
but to preserve its purity, and, if that might be, to make my name
as honorable as are those of my predecessors. No man ought to
accept of my predecessors. No man ought to accept this place
unless he take the vow to leave it as honorable as he found it.
There ought never to be a necessity for rebuilding from below, all
additions should be above. In my judgment, the Constitution
might wisely have prohibited the election of a Chief Justice to the
Presidency. Entertaining such view, could I properly or
consistently permit my name to be used for the promotion of a
political combination, as now suggested? If I should do so,
could I at all times and in all cases remain an unbiased judge in
the estimation of the people? There cannot be a doubt that in
these days of politico-judicial questions it would be specially
dangerous to have a judge who could look beyond the judiciary in his
personal ambition. The Supreme Court is now, I believe, justly
regarded as a sheet-anchor of the nation. Will it continue
such if its Chief Justice be placed in the political whirlpool?
My friend, consider these things, and tell me if you really think I
ought to permit my name to be used as suggested by you.
If you do, I do not."
This expression of the views and purposes of the Chief
Justice was conclusive in this case, utterly placing him then and
thereafter outside all political combinations. While it was no
surprise to those personally acquainted with him, the public use
then made of it was deemed due alike to him and to the country.
In view of previous events, then fresh in the public mind, it was
specially proper that such position of the incumbent of that high
office upon the important question raised should be made known, to
the end that it might aid in stimulating and making more clear and
fixed the sentiment, already so general, against political
aspirations among members of the National Judiciary. It was
justly regarded as no small thing for the American people to be
assured that the gentleman then recently called to the head of that
branch of their Government could not be tempted from his high
position of independence and eminent usefulness by the glitter of
political preferment, though never so attractive. Such timely
action will ever stand as a protest from the quarter most effective
for good against such prostitution of the National Judiciary.
Chief Justice Waite throughout his life has had clear
convictions on religious subjects, and for many years past has been
a communicant, and for forty years an active vestryman, in the
Protestant Episcopal Church. His interest in whatever
concerned the moral or material well-being of his fellow-men has
always been actively shown in such ways as occasions have offered.
During the War of the Rebellion no one in northwestern Ohio
contributed more toward the support of the Government in maintaining
a loyal sentiment, a raising recruits and in caring for soldiers and
their families, than did he.
Chief Justice Waite was married September 21,
1840, to Miss Amelia C., daughter of Samuel Selden Warner,
of Lyme, a descendant of Colonel
Selden of Revolutionary record. Five children have been
born to them: Henry Selden, who died in Toledo, Apr.
10, 1873, leaving a wife and two sons; Christopher C., now
President and General Manager of the Columbus, Hocking Valley &
Toledo Railroad; Edward T., of the law firm of R. & E. T.
Waite, Toledo, who died Dec. 23, 1889; Miss Mary F., of
Washington, D. C.; and one who died in infancy.
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of City of Toledo and Lucas
and Wood Counties, Ohio. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1895 ~
Page 117 |
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RICHARD WAITE, a
prominent member of the Toledo Bar, is a brother of the late Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, whose history
appears elsewhere in this volume, and is a member of the firm of
Waite & Snider, which, in addition to managing a general law
practice, deals extensively in real estate.
The birth of Richard Waite occurred Sept. 26,
1831, his parents being Henry M. and Maria (Selden) Waite.
His paternal grandfather was Remick Waite, a farmer in
Connecticut. The father, Henry M., who was a graduate
of Yale, was a native of Lyme, Conn., born Feb. 9, 1787. For
years he was engaged in legal practice at the place of his birth,
and attained prominence, being chosen successively as Representative
and Senator in the State Legislature. In 1834 he was appointed
Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, and
later was Chief Justice of the state, a position he held until 1857,
when he retired on account of his age. The Waite
family settled at Lyme prior to 1700, and have had many
prominent and representative members in public life. Among
these was Marvin Waite, who was a Presidential Elector
and cast his vote for Washington at his first election, in
1789. The wife of Henry M. Waite was a granddaughter of
Col. Samuel Selden, who commanded a Connecticut regiment in
the Colonial army. He was made prisoner Sept. 17, 1776, and
died in the following October, being buried in the old brick
churchyard where the New York Times office now stands.
In the family of eight children, seven sons and a
daughter, Richard Waite is the youngest, and his
brother. Chief Justice Waite, was the
eldest. His early school days were quietly passed in Lyme,
Conn., after which he prepared for college at Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass. He then entered Yale College, from which he
was graduated in the Class of ’53. After his graduation he
came direct to Toledo, and began studying law with his brother,
Morrison R., being admitted to the Bar in 1855. He then
entered into partnership with his brother, the firm name becoming
M. R. & R. Waite. This connection continued until the
senior member of the firm was appointed Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court. Soon after that event Richard
Waite and his nephew, E. T. Waite, joined their
interests, under the style of R. & E. T. Waite. The
death of the junior member dissolved the partnership Dec. 23, 1889.
Soon after, Mr. Waite associated with him O. B.
Snider, under the present firm name. He is a
straightforward and unswerving Republican in political convictions.
May 21, 1857, Richard Waite was united in
marriage with Miss Alice J. Voris, of Newark, N. J., whose
father, William Voris, was a resident of Brooklyn, N.
Y. Of the nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Waite,
only five are now living. three sons and two daughters, namely:
Richard, Jr., who is a civil engineer; and Maria, Alice L.
William H. and John B. For many years the parents have
been leading members and active workers in Trinity Episcopal Church.
They move in the best social circles of the city, and are honored
and esteemed by all who know them.
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of
City of Toledo and Lucas and Wood Counties, Ohio. Chicago: Chapman
Publishing Company, 1895 ~ Page 378 |
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PETER
F. WHALEN, who is President of the Buckeye Paint and Varnish
Company, is a Democrat politically, and is now serving as Alderman
from the fourth Ward. The extensive business concern with
which he is associated has M. J. Malone, as Vice-President;
W. F. Maline as Treasurer; and Lewis Rubel Secretary.
In 1874 paint works were started by Marshall Benedict
& Co., and four years later Mr. Whalen embarked in the
business of manufacturing varnish. The two companies were
consolidated in 1881 under the present title, and the move proved to
be very beneficial, for their trade has rapidly increased, and they
find the resources of their factory taxed to the utmost in order to
supply the demand.
Peter F. Whalen was born in Normandy, Gray
County, Canada, in 1854, and is a son of Peter and Mary (Doran)
Whalen. The former died when our subject was only two
years of age. On reaching a suitable age young Peter
attended school, and when in his twelfth year went to Detroit,
Mich., where for a time he continued his studies. Later he
worked in a lumber-yard until he was sixteen years old, when he
began learning the trade of a moulder in the Detroit Steel Works.
He continued to be an employe in the foundry until 1877.
In 1880 Mr. Whalen came to Toledo and started in
the varnish business on a very small scale in a frame building.
Afterward he took in Alfred Collier as a partner and
the firm continued to do business under the style of Whalen
& Collier for the following year. The present
concern manufacture all kinds of white and colored paints, umbers in
oil, putty, etc. There are two large brick buildings, with
numerous warehouses and storage rooms, used for oil and inflammable
materials, every precaution being taken against fire losses.
In the varnish department reliable kinds of japan, drying varnish,
etc., are manufactured. The most improved modern machinery is
in use, and employment is given to some forty hands. A number
of traveling men represent the firm on the road and make sales in
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Kansas and New Mexico.
June 15, 1880, Mr. Whalen married Miss
Mary F., daughter of John Riley, of Toledo.
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of City of Toledo and
Lucas and Wood Counties, Ohio. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company,
1895 ~ Page 490 |
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CHARLES W. WILKINSON
was born
and grew to manhood on the homestead which he now owns and operates,
and which is situated on section 1, Washington Township, Lucas
County. In addition to general farming he has been quite
successful in running a dairy business, for which purpose his farm
is well adapted.
A son of William and Oleona (Flint) Wilkinson,
Charles W. was born Apr. 22, 1844, and up to the age of
twenty-one passed his time quietly in farm work and in attending the
district schools. At that age he enlisted as a private in
Company I, One Hundred and Thirtieth Ohio Infantry, and was mustered
into service at Johnston Island. He was later sent to
Washington, and then was stationed in Point Rock. He received
an honorable discharge Sept. 16, 1865, the same year he enlisted,
and at once returned home.
As soon as he was old enough the charge of the old
homestead fell upon the shoulders of our subject, who had been
trained as a practical farmer. He now owns eighty-three acres
in his home place and another tract of eighty acres in Michigan.
His education, while not of the best, was practical, and has been
amply sufficient for his needs, and he has further supplemented it
by private reading and observation.
Sept. 2, 1870, the marriage of Mr. Wilkinson and
Miss Sarah A. Van Wormer was celebrated. The lady
was born in Indiana, Feb. 10, 1848, and is a daughter of Aaron
and Philletta (Wagoner) Von Wormer. Two children, sons,
have come to bless the union of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson,
namely: Arden C., who was born Jan. 1, 1874; and J. Edwin,
whose birth occurred June 14, 1876. They are now attending
business college in Toledo, and are bright, promising young men.
In questions of politics Mr. Wilkinson is always
to be found on the side of the Republican party. Both he and
his worthy wife are members of the Congregational Church, to which
they are liberal contributors.
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of City of Toledo and
Lucas and Wood Counties, Ohio. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company,
1895 ~ Page 410 |
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SOLOMON WILKINSON is
one of the sturdy pioneers of Lucas County, to which he was brought
by his parents when he was seven days less than a year old, and in
this vicinity the balance of his life has been passed. Until
1882 he was engaged in farming and blacksmithing, but since that
time has carried on a general store at West Toledo. In his
boyhood days his nearest neighbor was three miles away from his
parents' humble home, and his education was, such as was afforded by
the old-time subscription schools, which were also about three miles
distant.
A son of William and Martha (Hitchcock) Wilkinson,
our subject was born in Linington, Canada, Oct. 7, 1822. His
father was a native of Pennsylvania and of Irish descent, and his
mother was born in Knox County, Ohio. They had a family of ten
children, named as follows: Martha, John J., William,
Solomon, Daniel, Samuel, Emanuel, Henry, Eliza and Elizabeth.
After the death of his first wife, William Wilkinson married
a Miss Flint, and by her had three children, Martha,
Charles and Francis. When about twenty-three years
of age our subject's father moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, and engaged
in farming there until 1817, when he went to Canada. After
several years spent in farming in that country he returned to Ohio,
the trip being made in an open log canoe, and this time he located
in Lucas County. Settling in Washington Township, he took up
forty-eight acres of Government land, for which he paid $1.25 per
acre. He erected a log cabin, which was a large one for that
time, and there led the toilsome life of a frontiersman. His
farm joined the Indian Reservation, and many a time he stood in his
cabin doorway and shot deer and other wild game. He helped to
lay out roads and organize schools, and was an active member of the
Methodist Church. He died in 1848, in his sixty-fifth year,
and was placed to rest in the Southard Cemetery.
Solomon Wilkinson remained with his father until
reaching his majority, when he began learning the blacksmith's
trade, and going to Monroe served an apprenticeship of three years.
Besides his board, he received $3 per month the first year, $5 the
second and $8 per month the third. He later started a shop on
Summit Street, which he conducted for five years, and then moved to
Monroe, Mich., and purchased a farm, which he operated until 1882.
Both as an agriculturist and as a merchant he has been quite
successful, as he is persevering and energetic. The first
Presidential ballot that he ever cast was in favor of the Whig
party, but since the organization of the Republican party he has
been one of its stanch defenders.
October 14, 1847, Mr. Wilkinson married
Caroline Colburn, who was born in Vermont, and who died Feb. 6,
1880. They became the parents of eight children, seven sons
and a daughter, namely: Lewis A., George, William, Joseph,
Francis, Nellie, Herbert and Walter. In 1882 Mr.
Wilkinson married the lady who now bears his name, and who prior
to that event was Miss Caroline Rymill.
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of City of Toledo and
Lucas and Wood Counties, Ohio. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company,
1895 ~ Page 225 |
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LORENZO
P. WING. It is most fitting that a place be given to
this worthy old settler of Washington Township, Lucas County, among
other of the representative men and pioneers of this region.
In his early manhood he purchased one hundred acres of land on
section 21, in this township, and there he continued to dwell for
twenty-nine years, at the end of which time he removed to his
present homestead on section 6. This place comprises about
three hundred acres, which are under good cultivation and which are
equipped with well kept fences and neat farm buildings.
The father of Mr. Wing was Thomas Wing, a
native of Massachusetts, and of English descent. He was
married in the Bay State to Ellen Hardy, also a native
of Massachusetts, and their union was blessed with thirteen
children, only three of whom survive. Charlotte married
William Jacobs, and lives in Lagrange, Ind.; and
Lucetta, Mrs. Lyman Harrington, lives in
Bedford, Mich. After his marriage Thomas Wing moved to New York
State, and later to Canada, but finally returned to New York.
About 1822 he moved to Pennsylvania, two years later settled in
Wayne County, Ohio, and in 1836 became a resident of Lucas County.
At the time of his death he was living in Wayne County, Ohio, and
was then in his seventy-seventh year.
The birth of Lorenzo P. Wing occurred Mar. 20,
1817, in Genesee County, N. Y., and while he was yet an infant he
was taken by his parents to Pennsylvania, the journey being made by
team. In 1824 he accompanied them to Ohio, and remained under
the parental roof until nineteen years of age. At that age he
made the journey to this county by way of the Lakes, and since that
time has been engaged in farming in Washington Township. His
first homestead had only one acre of the one hundred acres cleared,
and a primitive log cabin was the only structure on the place.
Under his industrious management in a few years all this was changed
and the farm bore little resemblance to its former condition.
For forty years Mr. Wing has owned and
operated the farm where he now resides. The Indians had not
yet all departed for the West when he came to this section, and one
of their trails passed not far from his door. He has in his
possession a part of a deer horn, a memento of a noble animal which
was killed in the year 1837 where his house now stands. His
education was such as was afforded by the district schools of his
boyhood, which were conducted on the subscription plan, in a log
cabin about 12x16 feet in dimensions, and he has frequently walked a
distance of two and a-half miles to the nearest school. He has
held the offices of Township Supervisor, Trustee, Clerk, Real-estate
Assessor and School Director, and at all times has supported public
enterprises. His first vote was cast for William
Henry Harrison, and since the formation of the Republican
party he has lent it his support.
Nov. 15, 1836, Mr. Wing married Almira Walden,
by whom he has had seven children. A tragic occurrence was the
death of five of these children in one week, all falling victims to
virulent scarlet fever. Those living are: Thomas, who
assists his father on the farm, and Lorenzo, an enterprising
young farmer of this township.
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of City of Toledo and
Lucas and Wood Counties, Ohio. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company,
1895 ~ Page 356 |
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