BIOGRAPHIES

† Source:
A. History of Northwestern Ohio
A Narrative of Its Historical Progress and Development
from the First European Exploration of the Maumee and
Sandusky Valleys and the Adjacent Shores of
Lake Erie, down to the Present Time
by Nevin O. Winter, Litt. D.
Assisted by a Board of Advisory and Contributing Editors
Illustrated
Vol. II
Published by
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1917

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I. N. Poe

ISAAC N. POE was one of the very prominent business men of Toledo during the last century.  He was a native Ohioan, and was a factor in business affairs in Toledo from the year prior to the Civil war until the early part of the present century.      His death occurred in his apartment in the Dunscomb on Superior Street, Sunday, Sept. 10, 1911.  He was at that time seventy-seven years of age.  He was born February 6, 1834, near Phillipsburg, Ohio.  At the age of sixteen, having in the meantime secured a common school education, he moved with his father to Pittsburg in Darke County, Ohio, and grew to manhood there.  In 1856, at the age of twenty-two, he moved to Tippecanoe, Ohio, and was engaged in the boot and shoe business.      In 1860 Mr. Poe came to Toledo, having sold his interests at Tippecanoe, and was one of the early merchants of the city in the hollow-ware business.  His principal success came from his real estate dealings, and for many years he made that his regular business.  At the time of his death he owned a large amount of valuable property, including several buildings in the business district.  He was also for more than thirty years a director in the Toledo Savings Bank and Trust Company, having been associated with that financial institution practically from its beginning.  This is now the oldest savings bank in Toledo.  The late Mr. Poe was a cousin of the great American poet, Edgar Allen Poe. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Smith.  Mrs. Poe died at her residence in Toledo, September 3, 1890.  Through her great activity and public charitable work she was widely known.  She was an active and earnest member of the First Congregational Church, and the late Reverend Doctor Williams, the pastor of that church, officiated at her funeral held at the residence on Broadway.  At the time of her death she was president of the Protestant Hospital, and its board of directors delegated Mrs. J. J. Gould to draft resolutions of sympathy and the board also attended the funeral service in a body.  Mrs. Poe was one of the incorporators of this institution more than twenty years before her death, and she was indefatigable in giving her time and means to its welfare and upbuilding.  The hospital may be said to stand largely as a memorial to her efforts.  In many ways she was one of Toledo's useful women.  Both she and her husband now rest in a mausoleum in the beautiful Woodlawn Cemetery. She and Mr. Poe became the parents of two children, their only son, Edgar Allen, dying at the age of nine years. Their surviving daughter is Mrs. Nettie Poe Ketcham, who is a resident of New York City, but spends two of the summer months each year in Toledo looking after her real estate interests and renewing her many friendships here.  She also spends considerable time abroad in travel and has sojourned a number of years altogether in Switzerland. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II - 1917 - Page 1000

WILLIAM M. POE, who is now in the real estate and insurance business in the Empire Arcade at Toledo, spent many years in the service of Ohio railroads, and is a native of this state and represents an old family.      He was born near Arcanum in Darke County, Ohio, Feb. 23, 1871.  He is a son of D. A. and Mary Elizabeth (Wike) Poe.  His father was also born in Darke County, Ohio, the Poes having located there in early times.  He was born in 1845 and is now living at West Manchester, Ohio, at the age of seventy-one.  For over forty-five years he was active in the lumber business, having conducted a lumber yard at Arcanum, where his son William was born, and for about thirty-five years was in the same business at West Manchester, having both a lumber yard and factory.  He retired from active business in 1906.  His wife 's people came from Maryland, but she was born in Darke County, Ohio, and was married there.  She was born in 1846.  Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Poe are active workers in the Christian Church at West Manchester and the father was formerly active in the Sunday school.  They have two sons and two daughters, all living:  Mrs. W. H. Dunbar, of Toledo; Mrs. J. M. Neth, of Eaton, Ohio; William M. and Leroy R., a jeweler at Lewisburg, Ohio.  All the children were born in Darke County except Leroy, who was born in West Manchester.  They all received their education in the public schools at West Manchester.      William M. Poe as a young man learned telegraphy, became an operator and agent for the Pennsylvania Lines at West Manchester, and spent about eight years there.  In 1903 he came to Toledo, where he spent four years as bill clerk with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern.   He was then appointed an inspector with the Joint Kate and Inspection Bureau maintained by all the railroads of Ohio and served as inspector about five years with headquarters at Toledo and working under L. K. Tappan, who was then district manager of the bureau.      On leaving the railroad service Mr. Poe entered the real estate business with his uncle, the late Isaac N. Poe.  His uncle died in 1911, and since then the nephew has continued the business and looks after the large real estate holdings in Toledo and elsewhere belonging to Nettie Poe Ketcham, daughter of the late Isaac Poe.  Mr. Poe owns considerable Toledo real estate himself, and his time is taken up in looking after his interests and those of his cousin's, Mrs. Nettie Poe Ketcham.      Fraternally he is affiliated with Toledo Lodge No. 402, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a member of Toledo Commerce Club and of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. On Apr. 17, 1897, at Toledo, he married Miss Clara E. Trager, daughter of Curtis and Sarah A. (Niswonger) Trager.  Her father died in Preble County many years ago and her mother is still living in Toledo.  Mrs. Poe was born in Preble County, Ohio, and attended the public schools of West Manchester. Mr. Poe's home is Melwood, in a delightful suburban community in Washington Township of Lucas County.  His home site contains an acre of ground, and the house he has just built has an attractive situation in the midst of some large trees. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II - 1917 - Page 1001

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