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JOHN
ALLISON - A substantial and prosperous farmers, and a
respected citizen of Morrow county, John Allison is
eminently deserving of special mention in a work of this kind.
He has spent the larger part of his long life in this vicinity,
and has been actively identified with the advancement of its
agricultural prosperity, his farm of one hundred and twelve and
one-half acres being advantageously located in Bennington
township, its rich and arable land being well improved and
judiciously cultivated. A son of Obadiah Allison,
he was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, June 29, 1834.
Obidiah Allison was also born and reared in
Columbiana county, Ohio, being of pioneer stock. About
1844 he moved with his family to Morrow county, purchased land
in Bennington township, and was here engaged in tilling the soil
until his death. He was twice married, his first wife,
whose maiden name was Jemima Burt, having spent her
entire life in Columbiana county, her death occurring there in
1838, when their son John was but four years old.
Coming with his father and step-mother to Bennington
township when a boy, John Allison was brought up on the
home farm, and educated in the district schools. In 1861,
responding to President Lincoln's call for seventy-five
thousand troops, he enlisted in the Union army for a term of
three months, and at the expiration of his time returned home,
being unable to reenlist on account of rheumatism, which he had
contracted while serving as a soldier. Resuming work on
the parental homestead, he has since made farming and stock
raising his permanent occupation. For the past fifty years
Mr. Allison has been extensively engaged in the sheep
business, and has operated extensively in wool, handling all
kinds. At the present time, he is not actively engaged in
agriculture, having relinquished the management of his farm to
his son Fred, who is carrying it on with characteristic
ability and success.
Mr. Allison married, May 4, 1862, Mary A.
Vail, who died in 1897. Five children were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Allison, of whom but two are living, namely:
Fred V., born July 25, 1868, and Ralph H., born
September 16, 1879.
The eldest son, Fred V., was twice married, his
first wife being Nora Duncanson to which union was born
one son, Otto McKinley, graduating in the class of 1911.
His second marriage was with Addie Harrison, and one son
has also been born to this union. Howard William.
Mrs. Allison received a splendid education, having been
educated in the public schools, which education was supplemented
by a course at Ada Normal School. She afterward taught for
some time in the schools of Morrow and Delaware counties.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred. V. Allison now reside on the home farm
which Mr. Allison manages in a very able manner.
Mr. John Allison's second son, Ralph H.
was graduated from the Sparta High School, and from the Wesleyan
University at Delaware, Ohio, and is now superintendent of the
public schools of Chicago, Huron county, Ohio. He married
Mary Osborn, and they have two children, Hilan and
Richard Hamil.
A stanch Republican in politics, Mr. Allison
takes much interest in local affairs, and has served as land
appraiser in Bennington township. He belongs to the
Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has long been an active
worker, and has the distinction of being one of the oldest Free
Masons in Morrow county, having united with Chester Lodge. No.
34, Free and Accepted Masons, in 1859. He is also a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic. belonging to the Post
at Sparta, Ohio
Source:
History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - 1911 ~ Page
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HARRY S. ANDREWS.
––This in an age of bustle and energy and the man who succeeds
in any undertaking is the one who has initiative power and
general versatility. Harry S. Andrews is naturally a
hustler and as optician and jeweler at Mount Gilead he has
gained distinctive precedence as one of the most enterprising
business men of the younger generation in this city.
Harry S. Andrews was born at Hebron, Porter county,
Indiana, on the 7th of August, 1882, a son of Stillman F. and
Anchor C. (Deathe) Andrews, both of whom were born in the
state of Indiana. The father was a man who possessed business
acumen in several vocations and seemed to make a success in each
venture. He dealt in real estate and was an undertaker, as well
as a good mechanic. He was a veteran in the Civil war, member
of the Seventh Indiana Cavalry, and served four years. He was
severely wounded while in service, and he received his honorable
discharge at the close of the war. He was a devoted member of
the Christian church and was one of the elders as well as
organizer of the church at Hebron, Indiana. He died in 1883.
The mother was also a native of Indiana. She traced her lineage
to the English, although her early ancestors were of French
birth. The name Deathe was spelled “De Athe.” She was a
devout member of the Christian church and one of its charter
members. She died May 15, 1910.
To the public schools of his native town Mr. Andrews
of this review is indebted for his preliminary educational
training, the same including a course in the local high school,
in which he was a member of the class of 1900. After leaving
school he learned telegraphy and for a time was in the employ of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1905 he went to the city
of Chicago, where he worked for the Western Union Telegraph
Company for one year, at the expiration of which he learned the
baker’s trade, being identified with that line of enterprise at
Hebron, Indiana, for eighteen months. Thereafter he pursued a
course of study in ophthalmology in the McCormick College, in
Chicago, in which institution he was a student in the class of
1903. He initiated the active work of his profession at
Columbia, Tennessee, where he remained for two years and where
he began to learn the jewelry business. He came to Mount Gilead
in 1905 and purchased the bankrupt stock of A. T. Breese,
having as a partner in the business his brother, Burton W.
Andrews, whose interest he purchased in 1906. In connection
with his splendid jewelry establishment he has an optician’s
department and in both these lines of enterprise his success is
of most prominent order. He is also interested in a
moving-picture show at Mount Gilead, which is a source of
considerable revenue. Altogether he is a man of decided
business sagacity and extraordinary energy, one for whom the
future has bright promises.
At Mount Gilead, March 28, 1906, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Andrews to Miss Zella Livingston,
who was born and educated in this county and who is a woman of
intelligence and charm. She is a native daughter of Morrow
county, and was born near Marengo, where she was a student in
the Marengo High School and was also a student in the public
schools at Fostoria, Ohio. She graduated from the Oberlin
Business College in the class of 1901, and she is a valuable aid
to her husband in his business. Mrs. Andrews is a member
of the First Presbyterian church at Fostoria, Ohio. They are
most popular factors in connection with the best social
activities of Mount Gilead.
In politics Mr. Andrews is a stanch Republican
and he is a hard worker in connection with all matters tending
to advance the general welfare of the community. He was
secretary of the street fair in 1910. Fraternally he is
affiliated with and is secretary of Mount Gilead Lodge, No. 206,
Free and Accepted Masons.
Source: History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol.
II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp.
884-885
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WILLIAM E. AUKER.
––Among the essentially representative business men of
Johnsville, Morrow county, Ohio, William E. Auker holds
prestige as a man of considerable ability and as a citizen whose
loyalty and public spirit have ever been of the most insistent
order. He has been identified with various lines of enterprise
during his active career and since 1909 he has been eminently
successful in the management of his finely equipped hardware
store at Johnsville, the same being one of the best of its kind
in this section of the county.
A native son of Perry county, Ohio, William E. Auker
was born on the 1st of February, 1862, and he is a son of
Jacob and Sarah (Walker) Auker, both of whom claimed Ohio as
the place of their birth. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Auker
became the parents of six children, of whom the subject of this
review was the fifth in order of birth. The father was
identified with farming during the major portion of his life
time and he passed to eternal rest in 1896, his cherished and
devoted wife having died in 1867. William E. Auker was a
child of but five years of age at the time of his mother’s death
and at that time he was placed in the family of William
Richels, where he was reared to the age of fourteen years.
His preliminary educational training consisted of such
advantages as were afforded in the district schools of Perry
county and when fourteen years old Mr. Auker left the
Richel home and began to work as a farm hand. He continued
to be engaged for the ensuing five years and when nineteen years
of age he established his home in Lincoln township, Morrow
county, where he worked for different parties for a number of
years. After his marriage, in 1888, he located on a farm in
Lincoln township, which he rented for a time. Subsequently he
went to Wood county, Ohio, locating near Bowling Green, working
in the oil fields for a period of nine years, during the latter
two years of which he was foreman in the fields. Later he was
foreman of the Hartley Lumber Company for two years. In
1905, however, he decided to go into business for himself and
accordingly he went to Chesterville, in the vicinity of which
place he farmed for five years. He then, in November, 1909,
purchased a hardware store at Johnsville, which he has conducted
with noteworthy success to the present time.
In December, 1888, Mr. Auker was united in marriage
to Miss Stella Burns, who was born and reared in
Chesterville, Ohio, and who is a daughter of Ross and Ann
(Shaw) Burns, both of whom still maintain their home at
Chesterville. Mrs. Auker was educated in the common
schools of Chesterville and she is a woman of rare charm and
most gracious personality. In her religious faith she upholds
the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal church. To this union
have been born three sons, namely: Charles, educated in
the common and high school at Bradner, Ohio, married Miss Ola
Bosti and, they live at Johnsville, Ohio; Frank and
Hubert remain at the parental home, both deing [sic]
associated with their father in the hardware business.
Mr. Auker is a man of prominence and influence in
this part of Morrow county, where he holds a secure vantage
ground in popular confidence and esteem. He is affiliated with
Chesterville Lodge, No. 238, Free and Accepted Masons, Bradner
Lodge, No. 676, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in the latter
of which he is past grand master. Politically he accords a
stalwart allegiance to the principles and policies promulgated
by the Republican party and although he has never manifested
aught of ambition for the honors of public office, he is ever
ready to give his aid in support of all worthy measures
projected for the good of the general welfare. He is the owner
of a beautiful home in Johnsville and his business is in a most
flourishing condition. As an upright, honest, affable citizen
he is popular with all classes of people and he is decidedly
worthy of the unqualified regard accorded him by his fellow
men.
Source: History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol.
II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp.
833-834
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