Biographies
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Source:
 A Portrait and Biographical Record of
Mercer and Van Wert Counties, Ohio
Containing Biographical Sketches of Many Prominent and Representative Citizens,
together with Biographies and Portraits of all the
Presidents of the United States
and Biographies of the Governors of Ohio
CHICAGO: A. W. BOWEN & CO.
1896

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S. H. Clark Mrs. S. H. Clark	CAPT. SMITH HART CLARK, one of the pioneers of Mercer county, and one of its most prominent and highly esteemed citizens, was born at Point Pleasant, Mason county, Va., Dec. 11, 1817.  He is a son of William and Elizabeth (Beck) Clark, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania, Feb. 2, 1794, his parents being John and Elizabeth (Pierce) Clark.  John Clark was also a native of Pennsylvania and his father's name has been always supposed to be John.  The latter, it is believed, was a native of Scotland, and name Clark being a noted one in Scotland as well as in England.  When yet a young man JOHN CLARK, Sr., emigrated from his native country to America, locating in Pennsylvania, where he married and became the father of three children, as follows:  John, mentioned above, and to whom further reference will be made; a son who was assassinated in South Carolina during the Revolutionary war, because of his adherence to the cause of the colonies; and a sister who married a Col. Harris, an early settler in Kentucky and the founder of the Harris family of that state.  The mother of these three children married a second time, her second husband being a Mr. Owens and by him had one son, known as Col. Owens, who ultimately settled in Jackson, Ohio, where he reared a family and died.  His title of colonel was obtained through his Indian fighting, in which he was very successful and courageous.  Thus it will be seen that Col. Owens was half brother to the grandfather of the subject.      JOHN CLARK, Jr., son of the above, was about twenty-four years of age at the beginning of the Revolutionary war, through which he served.  He was with Washington when he crossed the Delaware, and was well acquainted with great men.  He was also at Valley Forge during the severe winter in which the American troops suffered so severely, and was also at the battle of the Brandywine.  He was also present at the execution of Maj. Andre, of which he could never speak without shedding tears, always remarking that the American troops would have been infinitely better satisfied if it had been Benedict Arnold that was executed instead of Maj. Andre.  After the close of the Revolutionary war he married  Elizabeth Pierce, a native of Pennsylvania, and by her had the following children:  WILLIAM, father of the subject of this sketch; John, a blacksmith of Charlestown, W. Va.,; James, a bachelor of Vinton county, Ohio; George, Isaac, Andrew and Owens, all farmers of Vinton county, and the latter a justice of the peace for years; and three daughters, the two older of whom married brothers, named Childers, living in Jackson county, the youngest being Irena Speekman, living in Hocking county, Ohio, now Vinton county.  John Clark emigrated with his family to Mason county, Va., where he was identified principally with the agricultural interests of the state, and where he lived until about 1825, when he removed to Vinton county, Ohio, whither his children had for the most part preceded him, and with whom he passed the remainder of his life.  He was a strong Andrew Jackson democrat, a good man, and died about 1835.      WILLIAM CLARK, father of the subject, was reared on a farm and received but a limited education.  He served in the war of 1812, first with the army of the northwest, and passed through Ohio on his way to the defense of Fort Meigs, now Deviance, which he helped to build, where he was discharged.  Returning to Point Pleasant, in Virginia, he re-enlisted in the cavalry and started on the way to Norfolk, but before reaching that point the war was over and peace declared.  Returning again to Point Pleasant, he was there married, Feb. 1, 1816, to Elizabeth Beck,  a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Peck) Beck, and to this marriage there were born the following children:  Mahala, deceased wife of Samuel Dodd, a farmer of Missouri, Smith Hart, the subject of this sketch; Eliza, who married Daniel Davidson, of Illinois, both of whom are now deceased; William, formerly a farmer of Mishawaka, Ind., now deceased; Mary, who died in young girlhood; Martha Frances, who lives with the subject, and Sarah, who died in infancy.      ELIZABETH BECK was born in Staunton, Va., in 1797, her father being of German ancestry, a farmer and a weaver by occupation, and finally an early  settler in Hocking county - that portion which is now included in Vinton county.  He was too much crippled to permit of his being a soldier, was a democrat, a member of the Lutheran church and died about 1833.  William Clark settled first in Point Pleasant, Va., and the, in 1826, removed to Hocking county, in 1832 to Union county, and in 1837 to Mercer county.  The next year he removed to Kosciusko county, Ind., purchased tract of woodland, began to clear it up and make a home.  His wife died there in 1843 and he died in 1846.  In politics he was a Jacksonian democrat until 1840, when he became a whig.  He was a Mason, and was buried in the faith of the Protestant Episcopal church.      Smith Hart Clark was educated in Virginia and Ohio, receiving in all fifteen months' schooling, three of which were received after he was twenty-one years of age, having to walk, in some instances, from three to four miles to school.  Realizing, however, the importance of an education, he applied himself to study at home, sitting beside his mother and pursuing his studies far into the night.  The captain states that it was his rule for a long time to continue his studies long after his mother had retired to rest, no matter what the character of the branch of knowledge he was pursuing.  By purchasing what books he could afford and by borrowing such as he could not buy, he acquired a thorough knowledge, not only of the rudimentary sciences, but also of civil engineering and the higher mathematics in general, this being his favorite study.  Civil engineering he practiced in connection with farming for many years, and in 1852 and 1853 he was deputy surveyor of Mercer county, to which county he had removed with his parents in 1837.  In 1838 he began teaching school, and in 1839 he taught in Deep Cut, now Kossuth, Auglaize county, where there had never before been a school.  He thought, at the close of his term of school there, that he would never teach again, and began teaming for a stream saw-mill where Celina now stands, but late in the fall of 1839 he began teaching in Mercer, this county, and in the spring of 1840 went to Pickaway county where he attended school three months, and the next fall taught again in Mercer county.  In the spring of 1841 he went to Kosciusko county, Ind., and taught a summer school in Leesburg, as well as the winter following.  In the winter of 1843-44 he taught a term of school at Warsaw, where the boys had tried to break up the school by drowning the teacher.  Returning to Mercer county in January, 1844, he was married, in the same month and year, to Nancy Archer Greer, a daughter of Judge JOSEPH and Catherine (Bird) GREER, and by his marriage became the father of ten children, as follows:  Francis Marion, died in infancy; Lemen Taylor, died at the age of thirty-two, his death occurring in Perrysburg, Wood county, Ohio, he being at the time a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church and his wife surviving him in Delaware county, where she is educating her two sons; two children deceased; Rosallus; Guynn, a farmer and teacher of Hopewell township; two children deceased; and Bertha Edna, wife of John S. Ketchum, living on the home place.      JUDGE GREER and his wife in 1821 emigrated from Clarke county and settled in Mercer county on the farm now occupied by the subject of this sketch.  On this farm their daughter Nancy was born Jan. 2, 1824, and on this farm she lived until Nov. 1, 1895, when she died after a three years' illness of paralysis.  She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, was a good woman, and exercised a wholesome influence not only in her home but also in the neighborhood.  After his marriage Capt. Clark located on the farm on which he still lives, and which Judge Greer entered in 1821.  He has long been a prominent man in many ways, served as justice of the peace one term, as postmaster from 1850 to 1860, the post-office being in his own house, and as enumerator for Dublin township in 1880.      In October, 1861, he enlisted in the cause of his country, and recruited company D.  Seventy-first Ohio volunteer infantry, of which he was elected captain.  This regiment at once took the field and participated in the battle at Shiloh.  At Clarksville, Tenn., Capt. Clark was captured, and, owning to some difficulty in his regiment over the question of his colonel's bravery, he taking sides with his colonel, he was dismissed; but afterward, when the charge against the colonel was more fully investigated, Capt. Clark was re-instated in his rank, but he refused again to take the field.  Returning to his home after thus serving his country he again engaged in farming and in surveying.  He is a stanch republican in politics and is a prominent and action Mason.  In 1852 he joined the Masonic lodge at Saint Mary's, Ohio, and assisted to establish a lodge in Celina, in 1855.  Of this lodge he was the first master, and remained a member until 1868.  He organized a lodge in Rockford, was the first master there, and served in that capacity as long as he would, and he has his membership in Rockford to the present time.  He was a regular attendant of the grand lodge for nearly thirty sessions, missing only two or three from 1856 to 1884.  He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1842, and always taken an active part in the Sunday-school.  Everything designed to benefit the community at large has always found in him a ready and willing support.  To him is due the credit for securing graded schools in Rockford and also in Mercer, and these are to-day among the best schools in the county.  For forty years he served as member of the board of education, thus evincing in a striking manner his interest in the cause.      LEMEN TAYLOR CLARK, one of Capt. Clark's children, was born Sept. 21, 1846.  He served as commissary of the One Hundred and Ninety-third Ohio volunteer infantry, until the close of the war, graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, Ohio, in 1871, and took pastoral charge at Perrysburg station, where he died in 1878.  Mrs. Clark died on Nov. 1, 1895, and was buried in full communion with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which she had led a consistent membership for nearly fifty-years, beloved and respected by all who knew her. Source: A Portrait & Biographical Record of Mercer and Van Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co. - 1896 - Page 227
	ABITHA D. COATE, an enterprising and successful farmer of Mercer county, Ohio, is a native of the county in which he lives, and was born Mar. 10, 1851.  He was brought up to the honest and ennobling pursuit of agriculture, and has followed it all his life.  He is a son of BENJAMIN and Mary (Yaney) COATE, a full biographical sketch of whom appears on another page of this volume.      Abitha D. Coate spent his boyhood and youthful days upon the farm, in the meantime, however, securing a good common-school education, attending during the winter months for several years, being more studious than many other boys of his age.  When twenty-two years of age he began teaching school and taught for eleven successive winters, to the acceptance of the patrons of the schools.  In 1879 he was married, and for a few winters afterward continued to teach.  His father having assisted him to purchase eighty acres of heavily timbered land, he built, after his marriage, a two-room house and immediately thereafter begun improving his land.  Afterward he added forty acres to the eighty his father assisted him to buy, and he now has 120 acres of excellent farming land, ninety-five acres of which are cleared, ditched, under-drained with tile, highly cultivated, and thoroughly well improved in every way.  His buildings are good, including a fine house, a large barn and other out-buildings.  He has thus been in every way a success as a farmer and as a business man, for a farmer must be a business man if he would meet with the greatest measure of success.  He has given his attention mostly to general farming, but he has also given more or less attention to stock raising, always raising enough stock to keep up his farm, and besides this has bought and sold stock to some extent.  All, however, ahs not been smooth sailing with Mr. Coate.  In 1889 he bought some stock in a joint stock company, organized for the purpose of manufacturing fruit jars and bottles at Celina, but the venture was not a success, and to forward the enterprise he engaged with a gas company.  At length, however, he was obliged to abandon the entire scheme, and it cost him about $4,000 before he was entirely clear.  Some then he has been satisfied to give his whole attention to his farm.      Mr. Coate married Miss Harriet Barker, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1850.  She is a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Strait) Barker, the former of the state of New York, the latter of Pennsylvania.  Samuel Barker came to Ohio with his parents and was married in Perry county.  By occupation he was a farmer, and he became a prominent man.  In politics he was a republican, and served as justice of the peace.  He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and both died in Perry county, he in 1870, she in 1875.  After the death of her parents Miss Barker removed to Mercer county, and joined some brothers and sisters who had gone there before.  This was about 1879.  Samuel and Elizabeth Barker were the parents of eleven children, two of whom died young, and nine grew to mature years.  These nine are as follows:  Mary, who married Paul Randolph, and remained in Perry county; William, a prominent farmer of Mercer county; John, who died in Mercer county in 1892, leaving a wife and three children; Christopher, who died in Iowa in 1893, leaving three children; Sophia, who has been married twice - first to James Wyatt, who died, and then to Charles Byers, a farmer of Butler township; James, who enlisted in the army,  where he contracted disease from which he died six months after coming home; Joseph, who also served in the army of the Union and is now living in Illinois; Minerva, who married Leroy Cooper and is living in Iowa, and Harriet, wife of the subject of this sketch.      Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Coate have had four children born to them, viz: Maggie P. and Ida B., both at home; Otto J., who died when two years age, and Homer N., at home.  Beside these children of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Coate have reared two orphan children, one of whom, Morris Offenhauer, has been with them six years, and his brother a shorter time.  Mr. and Mrs. Coate are members of the German Baptist church, and Mr. Coate has been elected minister of his church.  In politics he is a democrat, and though he does not care for public position, yet he has been elected to fill some of the most important township offices, such as trustee and others of equal importance.  He and his wife are highly respected people, and are esteemed by the community for their kind and charitable dispositions.  One of the principal objects of Mr. Coate is to do good to his fellow-men, and all appreciate him for the integrity of his motives and his conduct. Source: A Portrait & Biographical Record of Mercer and Van Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co. - 1896 - Page  220
	BENJAMIN COATE, an ancient pioneer and a prominent farmer of Butler township, Mercer county, was born in Miami county, Ohio, May 23, 1828.  He is a son of JOSEPH and Lydia (Davis) COATE, both of whom were reared in Miami county.      MOSES COATE, the father of Joseph Coate, came to Ohio from South Carolina at a very early date, and being a Quaker in religion settled among those of his faith who had gone there before he arrived.  He was a man of activity and enterprise, and, beside carrying on farming after he reached Miami county, he built a grist-mill, and ran that as well as his farm.  There, on his father's farm and around the mill, Joseph Coate grew up and acquired habits of industry which served him well through life.  He learned the carpenter trade and followed that a portion of his time.  In 1837 he removed to Mercer county, entering a small tract of land, at a time when there no improved farms anywhere in that part of the country.  His first labor was to erect a log cabin for his family and himself to live in, and after that he began in earnest the task of subduing the forest.  Upon this first purchase , although he afterward bought other lands in the vicinity, he continued to live all through his life.  For many years after his arrival in Mercer county, life was anything but a pleasure.  Deprivations and hardships were numerous.  There was no mill nearer than Piqua, and to that place the pioneers had to go for their flour and corn meal; but there was a small store a few miles away, in which the principal stock was ammunition, that being in great demand among the settlers, for all kinds of game and wild beasts were abundant; and, beside, deer skins found ready sale and were thus a source of revenue.  ABITHA DAVIS, the father of Mrs. Lydia Coate, was also from South Carolina, and after reaching Ohio lived the rest of his life in Miami county.  In religion he was likewise a Quaker, and so settled in the immediate neighborhood of Mr. Coate.  The mother of the subject of this sketch died in 1851, and the father about 1855.  They reared a family of six children, viz:  Delilah who married George Black, who died, leaving his widow with three children, and she afterward married a Mr. Jones, and is now herself dead; Benjamin, the subject of this sketch; W. D., who died leaving a wife and nine children; Sarah J., who died young; Mary, who married Christian Platt, both of whom are dead and who left one child, and Elizabeth, who died single.      Benjamin Coate remained with his parents until he was twenty years of age, and he began working for himself as a boatman on the canal to Cincinnati.  He was thus engaged three seasons, and in this way he earned his first money.  With the money thus earned he entered the land upon which he yet lives, an eighty-acre tract.  He hewed the logs himself for his house, which he lived in until 1863.  As he prospered he purchased other lands, and has given each of his children eighty acres, still retaining the homestead of 162 acres.  Beside clearing up his own farm he has assisted others to do the same, and has done much to aid in the way of improving the country.  He has a fine, commodious house, where he lies, has good barns and a good orchard, and has ditched and drained his lands.  His farm is in a high state of cultivation, and he has everything about and around him that any farmer need wish for to make life worth living.  All of this property he has accumulated by his own exertion, good management and foresight.  Toward the latter part of their lives he supported both his father and moth, taking good care of them till they died.  In politics Mr. Coate has always been independent, and though he has been elected to township office he would never serve.      He and his wife are members of the German Baptist church.  Previous to their marriage, Mrs. Coate was Miss Mary Yaney, born in Pennsylvania, Dec. 17, 1826.  In 1836 she came to Ohio with her parents, George and Barbara (Shafer) Yaney, the former from Germany, the latter of Pennsylvania ancestry.  George Yaney was brought to the United States by his parents in 1818, when he was sixteen years old.  George Yaney married in Pennsylvania, and began life there as a farmer, but in 1836 he removed to Ohio, and located in Miami county.  In 1837 he moved to Shelby county, and in 1839 to Mercer county.  At first he leased a tract of land, and cleared forty acres for a title to another forty acres, and in this way secured his start.  Afterward he purchased an additional tract containing eighty acres, new land, which, with the assistance of this family, he partly cleared.  Beside his own clearing and improving he has done much to aid others, and thus has been a help to the country in many ways.  Politically he is a democrat and in religion a member of the United Brethren church.      George Yaney and his wife were the parents of eleven children, viz.:  Mary wife of the subject of this sketch; Jacob, John, George, Henry, Samuel, William, David, Christian, Elizabeth and Israel.  Six of the sons served in the war of the Rebellion, a remarkable record for any family.  The mother of these children died in 1862, and the father married a Mrs. Springer, by whom he had no children.  He died July 1, 1887, in his eighty-sixth year.      Benjamin Coate, by his marriage to Miss Yaney, became the father of seven children, viz: Abitha D., a farmer and teacher of Butler township; Noah, prominent farmer of the same township; John, who died young; George, who was a farmer until his death in 1886; Mary E., who married Frank Cordier, a minister of the German Baptist church; Joseph B., who died in 1863, and William, a farmer.  All the members of this family, but Joseph, are members of the German Baptist church, otherwise known as the Dunkard church.  All the members of this family, but Joseph, are members of the German Baptist church, otherwise known as the Dunkard church.  All are men and women of character, and are eminently respectable and highly respected by their friends and neighbors. Source: A Portrait & Biographical Record of Mercer and Van Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co. - 1896 - Page 222
	HENRY CRON - See JOHN CRON Source: A Portrait & Biographical Record of Mercer and Van Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co. - 1896 - Page  232
	JOHN CRON, deceased, was born in Germany, in the perilous times of the year 1813.  Born and reared on a farm, while still a young man he came to America, landing in New York city.  Being in good circumstances, financially, he came west at once, settling in Marion township at Cassella, Mercer county, Ohio, where he bought eighty acres of timber land, which he cleared with his own hands, and later bought ten acres, which he also cleared.  He lived always on the farm, and intermitted his farm labors with blacksmithing, which trade he learned after coming to Marion township.  His first wife was Theresa Mayer, and as a result of this union the following children were born:  John, Jacob, William, Adam and Mary, all married.  His wife died in 1855, and he was next married to Louisa Walter, a native of Germany, to whom the following children were born: Katie, who married and has since died; Lizzie; Henry; Minnie; and Ankella.  John Cron was a devout member of the Catholic church, an uncompromising democrat, a good, liberal-minded and public-spirited citizen.  He left his family in comfortable circumstances at his death.  His second wife is still living, and is now married to Charles Hamburger.      Henry Cron, the subject proper of our history, was born in Marion township, Mercer county, Ohio.  He received his education in the country schools of his locality, was reared on his father's farm, and when but six years of age his father died, but he continued to work on the farm until it was sold; when thirteen years old he began to work as a hired hand; then for two years he worked for his step-father in a store; afterward, for his brother-in-law for two years; afterward he managed business for his mother; then for a year he worked at carpentering.  In the year 1877 he began a general merchandise business, and has continued this line with unvarying success.  He was married in 1882 to Miss Lena Stelser, who was born Aug. 2, 1861; to this union were born six children, as follows:  Lula; Anna; Katie; Albert; John, deceased; August, deceased.  Mr. Cron is a leading member of the Catholic church of Cassella, and politically he is a democrat.  He was appointed postmaster of Cassella in 1886, and is still the incumbent of this office.  He is a progressive and liberal-minded citizen, greatly respected by his neighbors.      August Stelser, the father of Mrs. Cron, was a native of Germany, and came to this country while still a young man, landing in New York city, and thence going direct to Piqua, Ohio, where he worked for a time on the canal, later going into business on his own account in the same place; this business he sold and moved to Cassella, where he again went into business.  He bought 160 acres of land, which he cleared with his own hands.  He was married to Elizabeth Doll, and to this union were born the following children: Caroline, deceased; Lena, wife of our subject; Anna, married; August, Lizzie and Katie.  Mr. Stelser left a considerable estate at his demise, which occurred in 1891.  Mrs. Stelser died in 1893, and both were devout believers in the Catholic religion.  Lena Cron, the wife of the subject of this memoir, lived at home with her mother until her marriage, and she learned the vocation of milliner while yet a young woman.  Mrs. Cron is a devout member of the Catholic church, and is greatly respected by her friends and neighbors. Source: A Portrait & Biographical Record of Mercer and Van Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co. - 1896 - Page 232
	WILLIAM CRON, a leading citizen of Celina and the largest manufacturer of wagons, buggies and carriages in Mercer county, with works on Fayette street, between Main and Ash streets, was born in Marion township, Mercer county, in December, 1848.  He is a son of John and Theresa (Mayer) Cron, both of whom were natives of Germany, but who were married in Mercer county.  When John Cron first came to the United States he located in Stark county, Ohio, and after some time removed to Mercer county.  After his marriage he returned Germany on a visit, and became back to his adopted country, where he died in 1863, his wife having died previously, in 1852, when the subject of this sketch was only four years of age.  John Cron was a farmer and a blacksmith, and an honest, industrious man.      William Cron remained on the farm until after his father's death, and then went to Cincinnati, in search of employment; but not being successful there he then went to Sidney, Ohio, where he remained six or seven months, working in a brewery and on a farm.  From Sidney he went to Indianapolis, where he served an apprenticeship to the trade of blacksmith, and to the trades of wagon and buggy-making.  He remained in Indianapolis until 1868, when he returned to Mercer county, and worked a year for his brother, John, who had a shop at Cassella.  In the fall of 1869 he located in Celina, and bought a shop from Frederick Schwaberon, and since that time has been permanently settled in Celina.  At the time of his purchase of this shop the business consisted merely of horseshoeing and repairing wagons, etc.  During the first year he built a few new wagons and also had his share of the horseshoeing business.  From year to year he increased his capacity for business as that business extended, enlarging his buildings as his necessities required.  In 1871 he erected his present workshop, which is a two-story, frame building, 28x54 feet in size.  A few year later he erected another large building, 34x50 feet in size.  This latter building Mr. Cron uses as his wareroom and paint shop.  His work consists of the building of wagon, buggies and carriages, and doing the repairing for all classes of vehicles.  In 1895 he erected a single-story frame store room 40x90 feet in size.  Beside all the above buildings he has one, 18x92 feet in size, for storing lumber, and still another one, 18x30 feet, for iron.  At the present time his business is larger than it has ever been before, and it is larger than that of any other man or firm in Mercer county.  He employs from fourteen to seventeen hands, and has the reputation of doing good, straightforward, honest work, and for dealing squarely with all men.  This reputation extends not only throughout Mercer county, but also into the surrounding counties, and is worth to him as much as a mine of gold.      In 1878 he erected a two story brick residence on the corner of Fayette and Ash streets, which he remodeled in 1895.  Now he has one of the finest and largest residences in the city of Celina, and this, together with its well kept lawn and grounds, is an ornament to the city.      Mr. Cron was married in 1871 to Miss Elizabeth Hierholtzer, sister of C. D. Hierholtzer, one of the leading merchants of Celina.  To this marriage there have been born nine children, seven of whom are still living, viz:  John A.; F. J.; Flora, Ada, H. F.; Carl C., and Hilda; Joseph E. and Hubert G. are deceased.  Mr. Cron and family are members of the Catholic church.      The history of Mr. Cron, thus briefly related, proves one thing beyond a doubt, and that is that he is  a self-made man.  Starting with only a few hundred dollars from his father's estate, he was without other assistance made his own way in life, and has met with unusual success only because he has attended strictly to his business and has done honest work.  As a reward for all this, he now is one of the most substantial business men of a prosperous city, and is highly respected and esteemed by all that know him. Source: A Portrait & Biographical Record of Mercer and Van Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co. - 1896 - Page 233

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