WILLIAM J. LANGDON. ––Among the native sons of Morrow county who have shown full appreciation of its attractions and advantages and have here found ample scope for productive effort in connection with the great industry of agriculture is Mr. Langdon, who is one of the progressive farmers and stock-growers of Gilead township, where he owns ninety acres of the old homestead farm on which he was born and where he occupies the residence in which he was ushered into the world on the 2d of August, 1876.
     William J. Langdon is a son of Samuel and Hattie (Jaggers) Langdon, the former of whom was born in St. Joseph county Michigan, where his parents settled in the early pioneer days, and the latter of whom was born and reared in Licking county, Ohio, their marriage having been solemnized on the 23d of March, 1865.  Of the three children it may be recorded that Robert, the eldest of the number, is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Morrow county; Nellie died at the age of ten months; and William J., of this sketch, is the youngest.  The father is a resident of Morrow county and an agriculturalist.  His wife died April 4, 1910.  Both were earnest and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  Samuel Langdon is numbered among the prosperous farmers and representative citizens of Gilead township and is influential in local affairs of a public nature.  He was a child at the time of his father’s death and was reared to manhood in the home of Robert Stanley, of Morrow county, Ohio, whither he came in the year 1839.  He remained on the farm of his foster-father until he had attained to his legal majority, and in the meanwhile he attended the district schools during the winter terms, when his services were not in requisition in connection with the work of the farm.  When twenty-two years of age, in company with two other young men, he went to Iowa, making the overland trip with team and wagon, and in Mahaska county, that state, he secured a quarter section of government land.  He remained in Iowa five months and then returned to Ohio, where he finally purchased a farm, but at the age of twenty-eight years he returned to Michigan, his native state, where he remained four years, at the expiration of which he sold the farm which he had there acquired and came again to Ohio.  In 1874 he purchased the fine homestead farm in Gilead township, Morrow county, and this owes the major part of its excellent improvement to his well directed energies and good management.  He has had boundless capacity for work and he won success through the legitimate application of his excellent mental and physical forces, the while his life in all relations has been guided and governed by lofty principles of integrity and honor.  His name merits an enduring place on the roll of the sterling citizens who have lived and labored to goodly ends in Morrow county.
     William J. Langdon was reared to manhood on the homestead farm which he now owns and its discipline was most benignant, giving him an enduring appreciation of the dignity and value of honest toil and endeavor.  The public schools of his native township afforded him his early educational advantages, and he continued to attend school at intervals until he was twenty years of age, his training having included a partial course in the high school in Mount Gilead.  As a boy he began to assist in the work of the home farm and he has continued to be associated in its work and management.  He has been the owner of ninety acres of the old homestead since 1910, and in thrift and enterprise, as well as in personal integrity, he has well upheld the prestige of the name which he bears.  He gives his attention to diversified agriculture and the raising of excellent grades of live stock, and, as already stated, is one of the representative farmers of his native county, where his circle of friends coincides with that of his acquaintances.
     Liberal and public-spirited as a citizen but never ambitious for political office, Mr. Langdon gives his support to all measures advanced for the general good of the community.  He was originally a Democrat in his political proclivities but recently he transferred his allegiance to the Republican party, of whose cause he has since been a stanch supporter, in so far as national and state issues are involved, while in local affairs he votes for men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment.  Both he and his wife are earnest and zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Boundary, and he has served as class-leader in the same.  On the 26th of November, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Langdon to Miss Emma Fogle, who was born in Harmony township, this county, on the 6th of February, 1880, and who is a daughter of William Fogle, a representative farmer of that township.  Mr. and Mrs. Langdon have three children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here noted: Ralph, June 5, 1900; Bertha, June 13, 1902; and Nellie, May 19, 1904.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 752-754
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JAMES B. LANNING. ––Among the many worthy families of Morrow county, Ohio, whose genial manner and progressive spirit have won for them the confidence and esteem of the community and a conspicuous place on the record of Morrow county’s representative families, we find the name of Lanning.  Situated on a fine, rolling tract of land on the banks of Owl creek, southeast of Chesterville, is the Lanning homestead, which is recognized as one of the finest little farms in this section of the state.
     James B. Lanning, farmer and stockman, was born in Morrow county, Ohio, on the 16th of August, 1869, and he is a son of Steven E. and Hannah E. (Bebee) Lanning, the former of whom was born and reared in the state of New Jersey and the latter of whom claimed Ohio as the place of her nativity.  During the major portion of his active career Steven E. Lanning was engaged in agricultural pursuits and he and his wife were the parents of two children––James B., the immediate subject of this sketch; and Mary M., who is now Mrs. Lewis Caton.  Mr. Lanning, of this notice, was reared to maturity under the invigorating influences of the old homestead farm and his elementary educational training consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the public schools of Morrow county.  After his marriage, in 1900, he and his wife settled down on the old Lanning estate that has been in the possession of the Lanning family since 1854.  Through persistency and unusual industry Mr. and Mrs. Lanning have succeeded in modernizing their farm and in raising it to an exceedingly high state of cultivation.  He devotes his attention to general farming and to stock-growing and in both lines of enterprise has achieved noteworthy success.
     On the 30th of August, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lanning to Miss Minerva Black, who was reared and educated in the fine old Buckeye state of the Union and who is a daughter of Frederick and Rebecca J. (McQuistian) Black.  Mr. Black was born in the state of Pennsylvania and his wife is a native of Ohio.  Mrs. Lanning had one brother and a sister and one half brother and two half sisters.  For a time after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lanning lived in Chesterville, where they gained prominence and popularity, making many new acquaintances and friends.  They are widely known as very courteous, sociable and whole-souled people, whose genial manners and deep human sympathy command to them the love and esteem of all with whom they have come in contact.  Mrs. Lanning is an energetic woman and like many of her country women is a great lover of horses and dogs.  In 1911 the Lannings returned to their farm from Chesterville and this beautiful place, comprised of seventy-five acres of most arable land, has since represented their home.  The finely cultivated fields and substantial buildings afford ample proof of Mr. Lanning’s ability as a practical farmer and his fat, sleek horses and well fed stock show that he is a kind and considerate master.
     In his political convictions Mr. Lanning accords a stanch allegiance to the cause of the Democratic party and while he is no office seeker he is ever on the qui rive to do all in his power to advance the best interests of the community in which he has long maintained his home.  He and his wife are affiliated with social organizations of a local character and in their religious faith they are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Chesterville, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. Lanning, by virtue of their exemplary lives and genial kindliness, have won for themselves a high place in the hearts of their fellow citizens and they are every where accorded the unalloyed regard which is so indicative of sterling worth and integrity.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 683-684
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Chester Twp. –
SYLVESTER LANNING, farmer; P. O. Chesterville. This enterprising farmer was born Oct. 31, 1844, in Morrow Co., where he has always remained. His father, Richard, was a native of New Jersey, as was also his, mother, Elizabeth Struble. His parents came to Ohio early, and purchased a portion of land, where Sylvester now resides; here they passed away, having blessed the world with four children -- Sylvester, Delphina, Mary and Electa. They were both Methodists.  Sylvester passed his young days pleasantly on the farm and in the school-room, and on Oct 10, 1875, he married Florence, daughter of Richard and Rachel (Stilley) Laycox, by whom he has two children -- Nancy M. and Stephen H. They now own 100 acres of well improved land, being well watered by springs. Mr. Lanning has been district supervisor, and has belonged to the Order of Good Templars, and once a Patron of Husbandry. He has always voted the Democratic ticket, and takes interest in all county enterprises. His estimable wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 606
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Chester Twp. –
ALPHEUS LAYCOX, farmer; P. O. Chesterville; is a son of Henry and Catharine Struble Laycox; his father was born in Sussex Co., New Jersey, and came to Ohio in 1819, settling on the place now owned by Irab Struble. His mother was also born in New Jersey, and came with her husband to Ohio by team; the father died in 1865; the mother in 1845. They had ten children: Amanda; Caroline married Squire Ogden; Lucy, Catharine, Juliet, Henry, Sarah A., Alpheus, Richard and Harrison. His mother belonged to the Old School Baptists; the father was once constable, and also a Democrat, and was born Feb. 1, 1829, in Chester Tp.; he lived with his parents and engaged in farming and threshing wheat until 24 years old; he was married, in 1853, to Nancy, a daughter of John and Mary Stilley, who are prominently mentioned in the Tp. history. She was born in 1828, in this county, on the farm where she now resides. They have seventy-nine acres, finely improved and well watered by springs. This property was obtained by buying out the heirs of her father. They have had two children -- Emma, at home; John S., deceased in 1865. They are active members of the M. E. Church; he has been trustee and class-leader in the same. He votes the Republican ticket, having always been an active member of that party. Mr. Laycox is one of our best substantial farmers, upright and honest.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 605-606
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ORSON A. LEE. ––A man of keen intellect and excellent judgment, far-sighted and sagacious, Orson A. Lee has been preeminently successful in life, his name being synonyomous [sic] with thrift, enterprise and prosperity not only in Peru township, his home, but throughout Morrow county.  He was born November 17, 1830, in Peru township, which was then a part of Delaware county, but is now included within the limits of Morrow county, a son of Asa Lee, a pioneer settler of this part of the state.
     Asa Lee, a son of Benjamin Lee, was born in New York state, of English ancestry, being descended from a family that settled in New England on coming to the United states from England.  Soon after assuming the responsibilities of married life, he came with his bride to Ohio, locating about 1823 in Peru township, Morrow county, where he took up heavily timbered land and begun the pioneer labor of reclaiming a farm from the wilderness.  He subsequently lived for a comparatively brief time in Columbus, Ohio, from there moving to Blendon township, Franklin county, where he was engaged in tilling the soil until his death.  Prior to coming to Ohio he was a cloth-dresser, following the fuller’s trade, at which he had served an apprenticeship.
     Asa Lee married Sarah Meacham, a daughter of Paul and Roxanna Meacham, who were also of New England stock, and of English ancestry.  Five children were born of their marriage, namely: Newton D., M. D., was engaged in the practice of medicine in Saginaw, Michigan, until his death; George A., M. D., deceased, settled as a physician in Bowling Green, Missouri, and there spent his last days; Charles B., deceased, was for many years a farmer in Peru township, and died in Ashley, Ohio; Harriet A. married Amasa Grant, and both died on their home farm in Peru township; and Orson A., the subject of this sketch.
    The son of a farmer, Orson A. Lee was educated in the common schools of Morrow county, and at an early age began life as a farmer, assisting in the management of the home estate.  At the age of twenty-four years he bought out the interests of the remaining heirs in the parental homestead, which contained eighty-four acres of good land, and began enlarging his operations.  In addition to general farming he made a specialty of stock raising and dealing, and as his money accumulated he wisely invested in land, owning at the present time between seven hundred and eight hundred acres of as fine agricultural land as can be found in this part of Ohio.  Mr. Lee lived for a number of years in Ashley, Ohio, where he loaned money, carrying on a banking business on a small scale, his financial ability winning him success in his venture.  Of recent years Mr. Lee has spent his winters in Florida, renewing his youth and vigor beneath its sunny skies.  Politically he has always been a zealous champion of the principles which have guided the Republican party’s members.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 906-907
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WILLIAM S. LEFEVER. ––As one of the representative farmers of the younger generation in his native county and as a citizen whose popularity is of the most unequivocal type, Mr. Lefever well merits consideration in this volume.  His well improved farm of eighty-five acres is located one mile north of the village of Edison, in his native township of Canaan, and here he is successfully engaged in general farming and stock growing, which are lines of industry with which the family name has here been long identified.
     William S. Lefever was born in Cannaan [sic] township, this county, on the 29th of October, 1882, and is a son of Frank and Mary (Lyon) Lefever, who are well known and highly esteemed citizens of this township, where the father was actively engaged in agricultural pursuits.  He is a native of Morrow county, Ohio, born May, 20, 1852.  He was educated in the schools of his native county and his whole life has been devoted to agriculture and stock raising.  His wife was born in the little state of New Jersey, in October, 1855, and both are still living.  Under the vitalizing influences and labors of the home farm William S. Lefever was reared to manhood, and he has had the good judgment not to waver in his allegiance to the great basic industry with which he thus became familiar in his boyhood days.  He is indebted to the excellent public schools of Morrow county for his early educational training, which was effectively supplemented by a course in a business college in the city of Mansfield, this state.  He continued to be associated in the work and management of his father’s farm until he had attained to the age of twenty-seven years, and in 1910 he purchased his present farm, whose location is most attractive, as it is situated on the well improved thoroughfare known as the Boundary road and is only a mile distant from the thriving village of Edison.  Mr. Lefever is enthusiastic and progressive in his chosen vocation and his farm is a model of thrift and prosperity.  He raises the various agricultural products best suited to this section and also raises live stock of excellent grades.  His attitude in connection with civic affairs is marked by liberality and distinctive loyalty, and he is now serving as constable and also as health officer of his township.  The principles and policies of the Democratic party enlist his hearty support and he takes a lively interest in public affairs, especially those of local import.  Mr. Lefever is a member of the United Brethren church in Climax and his wife holds membership in the Universalist church.  In a fraternal way he is identified with Iberia Lodge, No. 64, Knights of Pythias, in the village of Iberia, and he is active in its work.
     On the 22nd of June, 1903, Mr. Lefever was united in marriage to Miss Lucille Coe, who was born in the village of Edison, this county, on the 15th of May, 1886, and who is a daughter of Samuel Allen Coe, a representative business man and sterling citizen of that place.  Mr. and Mrs. Lefever have three children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here indicated: Dorothy E., January 11, 1905; Harold E., November 4, 1906; and Esther L., February 8, 1908.  The attractive country homestead of Mr. and Mrs. Lefever is known as “Idlewild Farm,” and the doors of the hospitable home are ever open to their friends.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 788-789
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WILSON G. LEFEVER, manager of the Van Scoy Chemical Company, Mt. Gilead, Ohio, was born on his father’s farm in Canaan township, Morrow county, Ohio, in November, 1860, and is still the owner of the old home place.
     His father, George Lefever, a native of Ohio county, Virginia, born in 1816, came over into this state about 1828 and took up his residence here, and here he lived for many years, dealing in stock and carrying on farming operations until he acquired an estate of considerable proportions.  He died at Edison, Ohio, in 1886.  His wife, Catherine (Moody) Lefever, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, died in 1906.  Of the nine children born to them, six are living at this writing, namely: Wilson G., whose name introduces this sketch; Frank, of Edison, Ohio; M. Bruce, of Mt. Gilead, Ohio; Margaret, wife of M. W. Shaw, of Marion, Ohio; Clark, of Colorado; and Ella G., of Marion, Ohio.
     Wilson G. Lefever in his youth attended district school.  He remained on the farm until he was twenty years of age, when he took a course in the Ada Normal College, now the Northwestern University, at Ada, Ohio, after which he engaged in teaching in his native county.  From teaching he soon turned to a business life.  He spent between four and five years at Edison, Ohio, as bookkeeper and afterward assistant agent in the railroad office.  Then he resumed farming, and for fourteen years operated the old home place, a fine farm containing over two hundred acres, and which, as above stated, he still owns.  At the end of this time he rented the farm and returned to Edison.  There he helped to organize the Citizens Banking Company, of which he is still a stock holder.  He was assistant cashier of this bank for four years, after which, in the same capacity, he became identified with the Morrow County National Bank, and was connected with that institution until he resigned his position in order to accept the management of the Van Scoy Chemical Company, manufacturers of flavoring extracts, spices, perfumes, baking powder, etc.; and under his management the volume of business has doubled.
     Mr. Lefever married Miss Flora L. Haverstott, of Marion, Ohio, and they have three children: Earl W., an art student at Evanston; Illinois; Blanche L., a teacher in the public schools of Mt. Gilead; and Francis E.
     Politically Mr. Lefever is a Democrat, and fraternally, a Knight of Pythias, having membership in Charles H. Hull Lodge, K. of P.  He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – p. 635
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PROFESSOR MILTON C. LEHNER. ––A man of scholarly tastes and ambitions, Professor Milton C. Lehner has met with much success in his career as an educator, and as superintendent of the Blooming Grove school is filling the position with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned.  A son of C. F. Lehner, he was born November 19, 1889, in Cardington township, Morrow county, Ohio, of excellent German stock, his grandfather, Christian F. Lehner, having been born in Germany, near Heidelburg [sic].
     C. F. Lehner, a prosperous farmer of Cardington township, married Catherine D. Kuehner, a daughter of Joseph and Magdalena Kuehner, natives of Germany, and into their household five children were born, namely: George J., of Marion, Ohio; Emma, wife of Hollie Fate; Milton C., the special subject of this brief biographical sketch; Mary C., and Clara M.=
     Brought up on the home farm, Milton C. Lehner obtained his elementary education in the district schools of Cardington township, and was graduated from the Cardington high school with the class of 1907.  Entering upon a professional career, he taught in the district school for two years, and in 1909 and 1910 was principal of the Edison school.  Professor Lehner was then elected superintendent of the Blooming Grove school for the school year of 1910 and 1911, and is performing the duties resting upon him in this capacity most successfully.  This is a special district school and has two teachers and thirty-six pupils, all of whom are making good progress under the Professor’s instruction and superintendence.  Professor Lehner has continued his studies at the Wooster Summer school, in Wooster, Ohio, and now holds a high school certificate good for three years.  The school of which he has charge is a third grade chartered high shool [sic], and when a school of higher rank is needed here it will, without doubt, be raised to a first grade high school.  The Professor is independent in politics, voting as his conscience dictates, without regard to party prejudices.  He will enter school at Wooster in the summer of 1911.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 660-661
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Chester Twp. –
DANIEL S. LEONARD, farmer, P. O. Chesterville. He was born in Seneca Co., N. Y., July 15, 1811; his father, John, was born May 14, 1764, and mother, Mary (Pitny) Leonard, was born Sept. 5, 1768, both in New Jersey. The names of their children were: Josephus, born March 7, 1789; Susan, Dec. 23, 1790; Benjamin, Sept. 7, 1793; John, Dec. 1, 1795; Byram Apr. 12, 1798; Mary, April 28, 1800; Martha, Dec. 30, 1802; Eliza, March 10, 1806; Darwin, Sept. 15, 1808, and Daniel, as above stated. His parents were active Presbyterians; the father’s boyhood days were remarkably interesting, though unpleasant in some respects; he would go to school barefooted, and carry a heated board under his arm with which to warm his feet on the way to and from the old log cabin of “knowledge.”  Mr. Leonard remained with his parents until 21 years old; his younger days were spent in attending school and working on the farm; he celebrated a happy wedding Oct. 8, 1833, with Elizabeth, a daughter of William and Rhoda (Conger) Lewis; her parents were natives of New Jersey, and emigrated to Wayne Tp., Knox Co., in 1809, where they died; Mr. Leonard settled at their marriage on the present farm of 150 acres. A pleasant family of eight children have grown up to enliven their home -- Darwin, Elizabeth Ann E., Abigail, Wellington, Sarah E., Mary G. and Minerva.  Mr. and Mrs. Leonard have been members of the Old School Baptist Church for about forty years. He has always been identified with the Democratic party; his emigration was made by canal at the age of 22; his brother Byram came here early and served in the war of 1812, and was in the legislature three times, and keeper of the higher penitentiary two years. This old couple are the architects of their own fortune.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 606
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Franklin Twp. –
DARWIN LEONARD, farmer; P. O., Chesterville; Mr. Leonard is the representative of one of the early settlers of this county. His father, Daniel S. Leonard, came to Chester Tp. about 1820, from the State of New York; the roads were then marked by “blazing trees,” and the settlements were few and far between, and many were the hardships endured by the settlers of that day. The father was united in marriage to Elizabeth Lewis in 1833, and they settled on 150 acres of land one mile east of Chesterville, where they raised eight children -- Darwin, Lewis, Abigail, Willoughby, Sarah E., Mary, Minerva and Anna E.; six of these are living and two are dead -- Anna E. and Willoughby.  Darwin, the oldest son, was born Aug. 31, 1834, in Chester Tp.; he worked at home until 27 years old and received a fair education, then he married Jennie A. Bain, by whom he has two children -- Lizzie and Belle.  His wife, Jennie A. Leonard, died April 23, 1873, and he subsequently married Loretta Plum, of Mt. Gillead [sic]; he purchased 63 acres here in 1875, which he has farmed with success; he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and votes the Democrat ticket.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 787
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WILLIAM LEPP —Enterprising, energetic and self-reliant, William Lepp, of Canaan township, is a fine representative of the active and hardy men who are so ably assisting in the development and advancement of the agricultural interests of Morrow county. He has not only taken an important part in promoting the industrial prosperity of his community, but by his sagacity and foresight has at the same time been enabled to accumulate a fair share of this world's goods, his industry and thrift being well rewarded. A son of Henry Lepp, he was born November 15, 1866, in Marion county, Ohio, coming of substantial German ancestry.
     Born in Germany in 1830, Henry Lepp was brought up and educated in the Fatherland, where he lived until after his marriage. In the latter part of the year 1853, accompanied by his bride, he embarked on board the sailing vessel "The Atlantic," and after a rough voyage of forty-two days landed in New York city. Then, by way of Albany, Buffalo and Cleveland, he made his way to Galion, Ohio, where both he and his wife had many friends and relatives. Securing employment with Daniel Eichhorn, he attended to the stock during the winter and assisted on the farm during the summer, receiving for his labor six dollars a month the first twelve months. His employer dying soon after, Henry Lepp rented the Eichhorn estate on which he had formerly worked and was there engaged in general farming for nine years. Saving his money, he purchased in 1861 a tract of land situated a mile and a half from Three Locusts, now Martell, in Marion county, and there continued his operations most successfully for a period of eighteen years. In 1879 he bought seven hundred acres of land in Morrow county, on what is called the Boundary road, paying from forty dollars to sixty dollars an acre for the tract. Assuming its possession, he was there prosperously employed in general farming and stock raising for eighteen years, when he removed to the Beach settlement, four miles west of Galion, Ohio, where he lived for two years. Purchasing then a residence in Galion, Ohio, he has there lived retired from the active cares of business since 1899, being an esteemed and respected resident of that place.
     On October 14, 1853, in the Fatherland, Henry Lepp married one of his early schoolmates and playmates, Elizabeth Eichhorn. She was born April 15, 1830, in Baiertael, Baden, Germany, a daughter of Adam and Margareta Eichhorn, life-long residents of Germany. John Eichhorn, a brother of Adam Eichhorn and an uncle of Mrs. Henry Lepp, immigrated to the United States in 1835, and with his brother Philip, who crossed the ocean with him, located in Galion, Ohio. Philip Eichhorn subsequently migrated to Indiana, becoming a pioneer of Wells county. He settled in Rock Creek township, where numerous of his descendants now live, among them the Hon. William H. Eichhorn, a prominent attorney of Bluffton, Indiana, and Professor Lewis W. Eichhorn. Of the union of Henry and Elizabeth (Eichhorn) Lepp children were born as follows: Charles, who died at the age of twenty-seven years; John Henry; William, the special subject of this brief review; George; and Lizzie. The mother passed to the life beyond September 21, 1910, her death occurring at her home in Galion. Both she and her husband united with the German Reformed church in early life and were among its most faithful members.
     Brought up on his father's farm, which was located two miles east of Martel in Marion county; Ohio, William Lepp worked as a farm hand during the summer seasons, attending the winter terms of school at Bunker Hill. In 1881 he came with the family to Morrow county, locating east of Climax, where he assisted in the clearing and improving of a fine farm. Finding both pleasure and profit in tilling the soil, Mr. Lepp has continued his agricultural labors ever since, and has met with genuine success as a farmer and stock raiser. He now owns two hundred and forty acres of rich and fertile land in Canaan township on the Boundary road, his home being four miles north of Edison. It is well located, and in its improvements and appointments compares favorably with any in the community Mr. Lepp is a man of excellent financial ability, and in addition to his valuable real estate holdings is a stockholder in the National Bank of Morrow county and in the Morrow County Telephone Company. Politically he is a steadfast Democrat, active in the party and has served as township trustee.
     Mr. Lepp married, February 29, 1892, Mina Parks, of Canaan township, Morrow county. She was born in Sandusky, Ohio, February 14, 1870, a daughter of William and Rebecca (Rinehart) Parks, both of whom died when she was a child of twelve years from samllpox, leaving her to the care of relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Lepp have two children, namely: Harley D., born October 15, 1895, attending the Mount Gilead High School; and Forst, born June 20, 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Lepp are valued members of the German Reformed church, and have brought up their children in the same religious faith. Their beautiful farm is known as "Maple Lawn."
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 552-554
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Gilead Twp. –
HON. ALLEN LEVERING, Mt. Gilead, Ohio, the subject of this sketch and whose portrait appears in this work, was born in North Woodbury, Richland Co., Ohio (since 1849 Morrow Co.), Nov. 12, 1839. The name of Levering is traced through a long line of ancestors, back to France, which country they left about the time of the edict of Nantes, and went into Holland (they being Huguenots); they came to America with Wm. Penn, and settled at Roxborough and Germantown, near Philadelphia, Pa. His ancestors on his mother’s side came from England, and settled in Sussex Co., N. J. His great grandfather, Robert Bell, Sr., moved from New Jersey to Belmont Co., Ohio, in 1796, and to Richland Co., Ohio, in the year 1816, where he laid out the town of Belleville, now on the B. and O. R. R., where most of his mother’s family have since lived and died. Robert was uncle of John Bell, of Tennessee, a candidate for President in 1860, on the Constitutional Union Ticket.  Morgan Levering, his father, was born in Bedford Co., Pa., in 1808, and came with his father, Wm. Levering, to Knox Co., Ohio, in 1816.  In 1835 our subject’s farther started a general merchandise store in company with Mr. John Rule, Sr., under the firm name of Levering & Rule, in North Woodbury, and continued for sixteen years. Our subject was sent to common school in the winter terms and in summer was kept at work in his father’s store and on the farm.  At the time of his father’s death in 1860 (occasioned by the effect of a surgical operation in removing a wen from the side of the face), though but little over 20 years of age, he took charge of his father’s store in partnership with Dr. Amos Rule, a son of his father’s partner; the new firm, Levering & Rule, using the old sign of same name, and continued for three years -- after which he attended the Union schools at Belleville, Ohio, for two winters, and in the summer of 1865 he finished a course of study in Eastman’s Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; he then engaged as Bookkeeper and Teller in the 1st Natl. Bank of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and remained in that capacity nearly one year, when he purchased the dry goods business of R. P. Halliday, in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and conducted the business for ten years.  In Oct. 1873, he was elected one of the nine directors of the bank he formerly clerked in, and in January following he was elected Vice President of the same bank, which position he still holds. In 1875 he was one of the five who obtained a charter to organize the Mt. Gilead Building Association, and was elected Secretary and Treasurer, and still holds the same offices. In 1876, this Association, in connection with the Town Council, built the Van Horn Block, and in it a hall having a seating capacity of nearly 1,000 persons, which was named Levering Hall.  In Aug. 1877, on the second ballot, he was chosen by the County Democratic Convention, the nominee for the office of Representative, and, in October, elected by 90 majority, he being the first Democrat elected from his county in twenty-two years. By an examination of his record there, we find he was an active member of two important standing committees -- that of Finance and School and School Lands; he was also very successful in the business assigned to his care, having -- in a total of nineteen bills and five resolutions -- but two bills lost and two withdrawn. He says the bill that gave him most labor and anxiety, was the one to build the Mt. Gilead Short Line R. R. (which road afterward complimented him by favoring him with throwing the first dirt and driving the last spike on same).  On his return to Mt. Gilead he declined a re-nomination, and in company with N. Merwine and his brother, Robert B. Levering, bought his former store, and now does business in the old stand, under the firm name of Levering, Merwine & Co.  In social matters, we find Mr. Levering has also taken a prominent part; in 1868, as author of a society of young ladies, called Twelve Friends, which is yet in existence, and has its written history; also in 1875, ’6 and ’7, as President of the Plug Fraternity, a society of young men.  In Aug. 1878, when Governor Bishop accepted the then Co., I, of 12th Regt., now Co. E of 14th Regt., O. N. G., at the suggestion of Asst. Adjutant-General, and later, by the unanimous vote of the Company, it was christened “Levering Guard of Mt. Gilead, Ohio;” also, in April, 1880, when the C. C. C. & I. R. R. completed the leasing of the Mt. Gilead S. L. R. R., the name of Gilead Station, on suggestion of Mr. Pappleton, their attorney, was changed to Levering Station, as a compliment, he having fathered the bill in the Legislature for building the S. L. R. R.  In May, Mr. Levering was made an honorary member of the Philomathian Literary Society, of Otterbein University, at Westerville, Ohio. He is also an active member in the Masonic Fraternity, having filled the highest offices in his Lodge, and next highest in Chapter, and Junior Warden of his Commandery. In 1875, he received all the degrees in the Scottish Rite of Masonry to 33rd degree. He is Chairman of his County Central Democratic Committee, and a member of the Town Council of Mt. Gilead.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 542-543
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Chester Twp. –
MRS. AMANDA LEVERING; widow; Chesterville; was born Dec. 18, 1822, in Knox Co.; her father, Jacob Resley, was of French descent, born in Maryland, and her mother, whose maiden name was Ann Faber, was of German descent, and born in Virginia, in which state they were married, and came to Knox Co. at an early day, and finally bought a farm near Cardington, Morrow Co., where the father died in 1863 or ’64, and the mother in 1867. They had four children: Samuel W. (deceased), John W. married Sarah Brown, and is a physician at Legrande, Marshal Co, Iowa; Louisa married Chambers Ash; Amanda. Her parents were Presbyterians. Mrs. Levering was married in 1845 to Enoch, a son of Charles and Mary (Blair) Levering. His parents were from Pennsylvania, and settled in Knox Co. at an early day, and had the following children: Columbus, Enoch, Elizabeth, Drusilla, Daniel, Riley, Mary, Nancy, Lucy and Knox. His parents were also Presbyterians, and the father was justice of the peace for years. Mrs. Levering and her husband settled after marriage in Miller Tp., Knox Co., there buying 100 acres of land, which they sold in 1859, then bought 126½  acres of Jacob Struble -- where she now lives. They afterward bought thirty-five acres of Anna Struble, adjoining the same. The boys lately bought seventy-six acres of Joel Ball. This 161 acres is attained entirely by their own labors. Her husband is deceased. She has had, and by him, twelve children; seven only survive: Riley married Elizabeth Lewis; Judson married Ella Ball; Charles, Benton, Ella, Maggie and Chambers A.  Her husband once belonged to the A. F. and A, M.; he died June 17, 1877. The boys are dealing very extensively in fine sheep and Durham cattle, to which the farm is well adapted, being beautiful, rolling ground and well watered by Owl Creek. The family attend the Presbyterian church.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 606-607
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Perry Twp. –
BYRAM LEVERING, farmer; P. O., Woodview; son of Morgan and Mary (Bell) Levering; was born June 9, 1842, in North Woodbury.  He spent his youth attending the village school, and working on the farm, near by, during the vacations.  At 21 he had a good education, and began the struggle of life, for himself.  He purchased the quarter section of land here, and began farming, and stock raising quite extensively.  At 23 he wooed and won the hand of Leah Ruhl daughter of Henry H., and Catherine (Patterson) Ruhl.  She was born Dec. 15, 1840, in this township.  Their marriage was celebrated April 6, 1865.  Five children have been born to them; four are living, and one died in infancy.  Nora, Orpheus, Alfred H., and Hylas Allen.  After marriage he settled on his present home, where he erected an elegant brick Mansion of fifteen rooms, at a cost of $5000, in 1872.  By his energy and management he has added another farm of 160 acres to his estate, and now owns some 320 acres of fine farming lands, with, with handsome and substantial buildings on the same.  Mr. Levering has given close attention to the improvement of cattle, and has at present a herd of 27 fine grades of the short horn stock.  He was formerly interested largely in sheep.  Mr. Levering, wife and daughter, are all members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.  His father, Morgan Levering, was the second son of William and Ruth (Bryson) Levering, (See sketch of Milton Levering).  He passed his boyhood on the old homestead in Franklin Tp.  At 21 he became a clerk in the store of John Markey, at Belleville, Richland Co. O., where he remained about four years.  He then came to North Woodbury when there was only four houses in the village.  A partnership was formed for general merchandise and produce business about 1836, consisting of four partners -- Morgan Levering, John Rule, John Markey, and Elkanah Van Buskirk.  The two latter soon retired, and Rule and Levering continued in partnership until 1851.  They hauled away produce and goods with a six-horse team to the lakes, and across the mountains to Baltimore, and other eastern cities.  They raised three sons -- Allen, Byram and Robert; two died young. The father died Jan. 25, 1860.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 820
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BYRAM LEVERING, whose years have lengthened the thread to the golden time of life, is one of the prosperous and prominent citizens of Morrow county, Ohio.  He is now living virtually retired on his fine estate of one hundred and sixty acres in Perry township, Morrow county, where he is the owner of a beautiful residence.  He has the satisfaction of knowing that the farm, the improvements and the good buildings have all been wrought by his own plans and oversight and that the success in life attained by him is largely the outcome of his own well directed endeavors.  At one time he was the owner of some five hundred acres of most arable Buckeye lands but he has generously divided most of this land among his children.  He and his wife are recognized for their genial, hospitable ways and they command a high place in the confidence and esteem of their neighbors and friends.
     At Woodbury, Perry township, Morrow county, Ohio, on the 9th of June, 1842, occurred the birth of him to whom this sketch is dedicated and he is a son of Morgan Levering, who was born and reared in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, whence he accompanied his parents to Morrow county, Ohio, in the year 1816.  William Levering, grandfather of Byram Levering, was likewise born in the old Keystone state of the Union and after his immigration to Ohio he entered a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of government land in 1812.  He then returned to Pennsylvania, where he resided for the ensuing four years, at the expiration of which he removed, with his family and all portable goods to Ohio, settling on the land previously entered by him.  He was identified with farming operations during the remainder of his life and he lived to attain to the venerable age of eighty-five years.  Morgan Levering was a child of but eight years of age at the time of his arrival in Morrow county, Ohio, and he was reared to maturity under the invigorating influences of the home farm, his preliminary education having consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the public schools of the locality and period.  After reaching man’s estate he became a clerk in a store at Belleville [sic], Ohio, remaining at that place for some four years.  He then married and came to Woodbury, in Perry township, this county, where he began operations in general merchandising and where he continued to reside during the residue of his life.  He was summoned to eternal rest on the 25th of January, 1860, and at the time of his demise was worth as much as twenty-five thousand dollars, all of which he had acquired through his own thrift and industry.  At the time of his settlement in Perry township, in 1836, he was the owner of seventy-five dollars but as the result of his fine executive ability and admirable business instincts he made of success not an accident but a logical outcome.  He was the father of five children, two of whom are living in 1911, namely: Byram and Robert B., the latter of whom now maintains his home at Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
     Byram Levering was reared to adult age in his native place of Woodbury, where he attended the public schools and assisted his father in the work and management of the store.  He was a youth of but eighteen years of age at the time of his father’s death and he then purchased the farm on which he now resides.  With the passage of time he accumulated a landed estate amounting to five hundred acres of most arable land in Morrow county and when his children grew up he divided the land amongst them, retaining for himself only the original homestead of one hundred and sixty acres.  He constructed his present beautiful and substantial brick house in 1872 and everything about his place is indicative of that thrift and prosperity which characterizes the practical, well-to-do farmer of the modern day.  While he is now living retired from the active responsibilities connected with running the farm, he still gives to the same a general supervision.  Associated with him in the management of the homestead is one of his sons, who devotes considerable attention to general agriculture and the raising of high grade stock.
     On the 6th of April, 1865, Mr. Levering was united in marriage to Miss Leah Ruhl, who was born and reared in Perry township and who is a daughter of Henry Ruhl, long a prominent farmer and representative citizen in this county.  Mr. and Mrs. Levering became the parents of five children, concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated: Nora, is the wife of J. H. Webb and they maintain their home in Perry township; Orpheus D., is a machinist in Columbus, Ohio; Alfred H., remains at the parental home; Morgan is deceased; and Hylas A., is now a resident of Congress township, Morrow county.
     Mr. and Mrs. Levering are devout members of the Lutheran church, in the various departments of which they have ever been active and helpful workers and in which he has given most efficient service as deacon and elder.  He is a liberal contributor to all charitable and benevolent institutions and is widely renowned as a man whose charity knows only the bounds of his opportunities.  He is a man who takes a great interest in the advancement and welfare of the county and for nine years he served in the capacity of township trustee.  In his public record, as in his private life, one sees the same stanch [sic]  care for the interests of the people as he displayed for his own private business.  In his political convictions he endorses the cause of the Democratic party and in a fraternal way he is affiliated with various representative organizations of a local nature.  His wisdom and ability are commended by those who know him and as citizens he and his wife command the highest esteem of their fellow citizens.  They are known throughout the county for their affability, and their spacious, comfortable home is recognized as a center of most generous hospitality.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 779-781
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Chester Twp. –
CHARLES B. LEVERING, farmer; P. O. Chesterville; this well-to-do farmer was born Feb. 26, 1840. His father, Joseph, was born in 1805, in Belmont Co., Pa., and his mother, Elizabeth Blair, was born in the same Co. in 1806. They were married in Frederickstown [sic], Knox Co., the father moving to Waterford in 1813 and the mother to Franklin Tp., now in Morrow Co., in 1811. The former died May 26, 1871, and the latter in August, 1876, the result of their union being seven children: Edmond (deceased), Lurana married E. W. Brown, farmer, Knox Co.; Charlotte (deceased), Charles B., Sherman married Lydia Ogle; Edmond married Satira Lanning; Calvin. The father was elder of the Presbyterian church, to which the mother belonged. Charles B. attended school in an eight-sided school house during his younger days. He was married in 1868 to Mary J., daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Evans) Grove; her father was born in Licking Co., Ohio, and her mother in Virginia; they had: Jacob (deceased), Mary J., Milton, Victorine.  Mr. Levering’s wife was born in 1845; he settled at marriage on ninety acres in Franklin Tp.; in 1872 he bought the Corwin farm in said township, and in 1878 sold the same to Lydia Wait, and bought the present farm of T. C. Lord; he has in all 155 acres of well improved land; the home place is finely watered by spring; he makes a specialty of sheep and horses. He has two children: Milton, born 1869; Homer B., born Dec. 14, 1875. Member of Lodges No. 238 A. F. & A. M., at Chesterville; Mt. Gilead Chapter, No. 59; Clinton Commandery, No. 5, Mt. Vernon.  Mr. Levering paid out considerable money for the draft of the township; votes the Democratic ticket; cast his first vote for McClellan for president.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 607
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Perry Twp. –
DANIEL LEVERING, farmer; P. O., Levering; is the representative of one of the oldest and most highly respected families in the township of Perry.  A genealogical account of the Levering family, embracing 193 pages, was published in 1858, which gives an account of two brothers, Wigard and Gerhard Levering, who emigrated from Germany about 1685 and settled in Roxborough, Philadelphia Co., Pa.  It is thought that their father, Rosier Levering came from France, as the name has a French sound.  This account includes ten generations, and up to 1858 enumerates 2,091 descendants of that name.  Daniel Levering, son of Nathan and Mary (Kearney) Levering, was born May 9, 1833, on this farm, where he passed his boyhood and youth; attended school on the hill near by, about three months per year until he reached his majority, his first teacher being Charlotte Gregg.  He then worked for his father until 1857, when he took a three months’ tour through the West, visiting various places of interest in Iowa and other States.  He united in marriage with Sarah K. Iden, March 4, 1858.  She was born July 31, 1833; her parents were both natives of Loudoun Co., Virginia.  John Iden was born in 1806, and Dorcas Furr was born in 1812.  They were married April 22, 1830, and emigrated to Knox Co., in 1835, where they lived three years, settling permanently in Congress Tp. of this county, where they raised a family of nine children -- Martha J., Sarah K., George W., Francis M., John A., Susan E., Thomas T., Loyd D. and Melville M.  After marriage Mr. Levering settled on a quarter section of land in Congress Tp., where he tilled the soil for eight years; then moved to an eighty-acre lot which he purchased in the same township; remaining here six and a half years, he sold out and purchased 130 acres of the old homestead, to which he came in 1873.  He has cleared a portion of the place since then, realizing 100,000 feet of walnut lumber from the timber removed.  They have three children -- Martha I. was born May 8, 1859; Clint, Sept. 12, 1863; Addie M., April 9, 1872.  Daniel Levering, grandfather of our subject, came on horseback in 1812, and entered a half section of land, near the present site of Waterford, O.; he then went back to Pennsylvania.  In the spring of 1813, he and a family of seven children, together with William Rambo, who married his daughter Grace, in Pennsylvania.  The names of the family are as follows -- Grace, Henry, Charles Nathan, John, Noah and Joseph; they drove two five-horse teams and four head of cattle, on the old wagon road from Bedford Co., Pa., one hundred miles this side of Baltimore; they were twenty one days performing the journey; he purchased another half section of one of the Mitchells on his arrival, and built a grist and saw mill.  The town of Waterford was laid out on a part of his land, and the post office was named “Levering,” in honor of John Levering, his son, who was the first Postmaster.  The family settled in the woods, and lived on corn-bread at first; they sowed some buckwheat, probably the first raised in this vicinity, and it attracted large numbers of wild turkeys, which they killed; it was on his farm that the block house spoken of in the sketch of Stephen Cook, was built, and it was connected with the residence by a protected passage-way.  Daniel Levering was born Feb. 3, 1764, in New Jersey, and died Dec. 31, 1820, leaving Nathan, the third son and father of our subject, to settle up his large estate.  We will now trace the fortunes of Nathan Levering.  He was born Oct. 14, 1795; he was eighteen years old when he came to this State.  Possessing a fair education, obtained in the schools of Pennsylvania, he attended school two terms in the old log school house on his father’s farm, then began teaching, which he soon abandoned for the more congenial employment of farming.  He received 160 acres of the present site from his father’s estate, to which he added fifty acres more, clearing a large portion.  He united in marriage with Mary Kerney, April 17, 1827.  She was a daughter of William and Sarah (Mackey) Kerney, and was born Sept. 4, 1800.  They lived in a double hewed log house just east of this until 1845, when Mr. Levering burnt two hundred thousand brick and built the present substantial residence of nine large rooms and a hall, using one hundred thousand brick in its construction.  The building is therefore thirty-five years old, yet in a state of good preservation.  Nathan Levering raised a family of eight children -- Sarah A., deceased, was wife of John McAnall; Mary J., now Mrs. Robert Moffet, of Congress Tp.; Esther, died at the age of twenty; Daniel, William W., now in Philadelphia; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Jacob O. Talmage; Martha, now Mrs. T. McKee; Samuel, died at about twenty-five, leaving two children.  Nathan Levering died in December, 1872.  He was a man of sterling integrity and irreproachable character; he was justice of the peace in this township for a number of years.  He was delegated by this section to influence the legislature in behalf of the organization of the county at two different sessions of that body.  He and wife were members of the Harmony Presbyterian Church, and he assisted in building the old log and also the frame building which stands at present.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 819-820
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Congress Twp. –
NELSON LEVERING, farmer; P.O., Andrews; is a descendant of one of the early pioneers; Nelson was born April 21st, 1813, in Bedford Co., Pa., and is the fifth child of William and Ruth (Bryson) Levering, who emigrated to what is now Franklin Tp., Morrow Co., where they remained until their death -- his occurring Sept. 4, 1864, in his 84th year, and his wife died in 1856.  Nelson began business for himself at the age of 21, by renting land of his father (on the farm where he now lives); he formed a union with Hester Mettler, July 21, 1839, who was born in Northumberland Co., Pa., Dec. 3, 1815, daughter of Levi and Elizabeth (Campbell) Mettler, who came to this county in 1827, and had thirteen children, Mrs. Levering being the third; eleven are living.  Her father died June 20, 1862; her mother died June 8, 1854; the former was born March 7, 1788; the latter, Jan. 23, 1794, and were married Aug. 15, 1811. After several years of hard labor, he succeeded in saving enough means to enable him to buy the farm of his father, and since his first occupancy has been a constant resident thereon; he has an excellent farm of 151 acres; they have lived to themselves, and no children to disturb their quiet. Few people have lived a more quiet life than Mr. and Mrs. Levering -- attending to their own personal affairs, rarely ever leaving the farm unless upon the most urgent business; they were never in Mt. Vernon but once, and that was to get his license, and looking askant towards his wife, remarked, “and that was under protest!”
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 690
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Gilead Twp. –
R. B. LEVERING (of the firm of Levering, Merwine & Co., dry-goods) Mt. Gilead; was born in the village of Woodbury, Richland, now Morrow Co., Ohio, Sept. 21, 1846; his early life was spent in attending school and assisting in the store; at the age of 18 he attended the Bellville school for three terms; he also taught a number of terms; at the age of 22 he obtained an interest in the business of Merwine & Rule; the firm name changing to Levering & Rule, and continued for six years, when Mr. Levering sold his interest and managed the farm for the following three years; he then came to Mt. Gilead, and March 15, 1880, became a partner in the firm of Levering, Merwine & Co.  April 6, 1871, he married Miss Louisa Dillin, who was born in Knox Co., O.; they have four children: Hibbard, Keturah, Alexander and John.  Mr. Levering has taken no part in public affairs, having held no office except that of Justice of the Peace while at Woodbury.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 541
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ROBERT BELL LEVERING, who is recognized as one of the representative and most progressive business men of Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, is engaged in an enterprise which has an important bearing on the commercial prosperity of the community, ––that of dealing in grain, ––and in this line his transactions and operations are of extensive scope.  Mr. Levering is a native of Ohio, having been born at Woodview, Richland county, (since 1848, Morrow county), September 21, 1846, the son of Morgan Levering, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1808, and who came to Knox county, Ohio, when eight years of age.  This was in 1816, when his father, William Levering, who was a native of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, came to Knox county and took up his abode on a tract of Government land to which he had filed claim in 1810.  On this farm he passed the remainder of his life; dying at the advanced age of nearly eighty-five years.  He was the son of Henry Levering, a native of the old Keystone State, and of German and French Huguenot extraction.  Henry Levering’s great-grandfather, Rosier Levering, being a member of the Reformed Church of France, fled to Germany to escape religious persecution.  There he married Elizabeth Van De Wall, who was born in Wesel, province of Westphalia, Germany.  They then moved to Gamen, in the same province, and there they lived, reared their family and died.  In 1685 Henry’s grandfather, Gerhard, came with his older brother, Wigard Levering and family, to Germantown, Pennsylvania, where they lived and where both were naturalized in 1691.  Soon after they moved to Roxborough, Pennsylvania, now a part of Philadelphia, and bought farms.  About the year 1700 Gerhard was married.  He resided at Roxborough until 1730 and there reared his family.  He then moved to Whitpain township, now Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, where he died and was buried.  Henry’s father’s name was Daniel, and Henry was his second child.  Thus briefly is it shown that Robert Bell Levering, the subject of this sketch, is of the seventh generation from Rosier Levering and has a complete lineage back to 1648, when Wigard Levering was born.
     The mother of our subject was Mary (Bell) Levering, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1813.  Her father, Robert Bell, was a native of New Jersey, and his father, who was also named Robert, was born in Scotland or England in 1755.  Robert Bell, Sr., had two brothers.  One moved to South Carolina about 1790, and the other to the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee, about the same time.  The latter was the father of Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, a statesman and, in 1860, a candidate for the Presidency, on the Constitutional Union ticket, being associated with Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, the candidate for the Vice-Presidency.  In 1780 Robert, Sr. was married to Mary Yost, in Sussex county, New Jersey, where they lived until 1796.  He then moved his family to Belmont county, Ohio, and in 1816 to Richland county, Ohio.  Here he laid out, in 1820, the town of Bellville, which was named in his honor, and here he built a block house, which was a place of refuge for the settlers during the dangerous hours in the Indian uprisings.  He was a man of high intelligence and great courage and became one of the leading citizens of Richland county.
     The father of our subject was reared in Knox county, his paternal homestead having been located, in 1848, in that section which subsequently became a part of Morrow county.  She who became his wife was reared within three miles of Bellville.  After their marriage, in 1836, they located at Woodview, in Richland county, where he had the year previous become engaged in the mercantile business as an equal partner of John Rule, which connection continued for sixteen years, when by mutual consent it was dissolved, Mr. Levering continuing the business in the same building until his death, which occurred January 25, 1860, at the age of fifty-two years.  The mother’s demise occurred April 13, 1884, in Mount Gilead, and at the time she had attained the age of seventy-two years.  They were the parents of five children, two of whom died in infancy; Allen is a resident of Mount Gilead; Byron resides at Woodview, this county; and Robert B., subject of this review, is the youngest of the family.
     Robert B. Levering was reared in his native town, receiving his rudimentary educational discipline in the district schools and supplementing this instruction by a course of study in the public schools of Bellville, after which he taught school for three terms.
     In 1867 he entered into partnership with Dr. Amos Rule for the carrying on of a mercantile business at Woodview in the same store-room that was formerly occupied by his father, and as Mr. Rule was a son of his father’s old partner, they used the same old signs and style of firm name, ––Levering & Rule.  This association was maintained for six years, after which our subject disposed of his interests in the enterprise and assumed charge of his mother’s farm, where he remained until 1879, when he came to Mount Gilead, and here engaged once more in mercantile business, remaining thus concerned for six years, after which he sold out, and, in company with Mr. Upton J. Cover, began operations in that business in which he is still engaged.  The firm now conducts a very extensive business, as may be discerned when it is stated that between July 25 and August 24 of the present year (1894) they shipped thirty carloads of oats alone.  They handle all kinds of grain, ––wheat, corn, oats, barley, flax-seed, etc., ––besides conducting a large business in the buying and selling of hay and farm produce.
     Mr. Levering has other interests aside from that implied in the enterprise noted.  He is financially concerned in the Mount Gilead Dry Goods Company, and is a stockholder in the Hydraulic Press Company.  At one time he was a stockholder and director and was vice-president in the First National Bank of Mount Gilead, and in 1889 was cashier of the institution.
     Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, retaining a membership in Mount Gilead Lodge, No. 206, and Gilead Chapter, No. 59.  Religiously he is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is prominently identified with the same, being an Elder and a Trustee of the local organization.  At the time of the building of the short-line railroad from Edison to Mount Gilead, in 1879, he was appointed by the Judge of Court, Moses Dickey, as one of the trustees, and he still holds that position.
     On the 6th of April, 1871, Mr. Levering was united in the bonds of matrimony to Miss Louisa J. Dillon, daughter of Dr. Alexander Dillon, a prominent physician of Woodview, Morrow county, which is the native place of Mrs. Levering.
     Our subject and his wife are the parents of six children, namely: Hibbard B., Ruth K., Morgan Alexander, John Allen, Mary Blanch and Willis Robert.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 312-314
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Peru Twp. –
SAMUEL LEVERING, farmer; P. O. Ashley; the grandfather of Samuel Levering was Griffith Levering, a ship carpenter in Philadelphia; his grandmother was Hannah Griscom. His son, Thomas Levering, was born in Philadelphia in 1781, and Thomas’ wife, Rachel Ann Schofield, was born in North Carolina, in 1798; their marriage occurred in December, 1814, after which they resided in Washington City, D. C., engaged in the grocery business. In 1832 Thomas came to Ohio, and located on lands purchased from Jacob Van Deventer (a still earlier pioneer), near the site of West Liberty. The same year Thomas purchased five quarter sections, whose titles bore the signature of General Andrew Jackson. In 1839 he again went east, locating in Cecil Co., Md., until 1847, when he again came to Ohio. Thomas Levering had two sons, Griffith and Samuel.  Griffith born Aug. 10, 1818; Samuel born Sept. 22, 1828, in the City of Brotherly Love. Samuel, the subject of this sketch, settled on what was known as the Joseph Keane farm, in 1850, and the next year made additional purchases. On the 20th of Nov., 1852, he married Miss Ada R. Hathaway, born Jan. 13, 1830, near Milan, Erie Co., Ohio. Samuel has the following children -- Rachel Ella, Thomas Henry, a teacher in the Industrial Boarding School, Wyandotte Mission, Indian Territory; Mary Alice, Clara Maria, Laura Letitia, Susanna Matilda, Jennie Eva, Fanny Esther, Ralph Griffith and George Canby. Rachel Ella is the Principal in Alum Creek Academy. In 1856 Samuel erected the stately family mansion he now occupies, he himself being a carpenter by trade. He is an extensive farmer and stock breeder, especially of fine Durham cattle and fine wooled sheep, the latter of which he handles in large quantities. He has paid unusual attention to family education, several members of his family being graduates. He also, in connection with Dr. Townsend, has erected and put into successful operation Alum Creek Academy, which, however, will be treated of in the history of the township at large. He has bestowed great care and expense in beautifying his grounds and surroundings, rendering Sunny Slope, (the name of his home) one of the most attractive in the country. He is a devoted member of the Society of Friends, a church organization which has existed in his locality from the earliest settlement. 
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 654-655
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Perry Twp. –
SHANNON LEVERING, farmer; P. O., Levering; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Blair) Levering, was born near Waterford, O., March 25, 1842.  He received a good education in the Waterford schools, and at 21 rented his father’s farm, where he continued to farm some five years.  He began farming on the present place in 1868, where he owned a one-half interest.  In the fall of 1871 he purchased the remaining one half interest of his brother Charles.  He now owns 107 acres of fertile land, known as the Old Van Buskirk Property.  The old brick house, yet in good preservation, was built about 1825, and is a marvel of endurance against the “tooth of time.”  Mr. Levering united in marriage with Lydia Ogle, Nov. 11, 1869.  She is a daughter of John Ogle, born in this township Nov. 29, 1850.  (See township history for Ogle family.)  Mr. Levering and wife are both members of the Disciple Church, and he is a Democrat in politics.  His father, Joseph Levering was born in Bedford Co., Pa., Nov., 1805; he was eight years old when the family moved to Ohio, and the youngest one, by the name of William, having died in Pennsylvania.  They came in 1813, when the Indian troubles were most appalling, and the settlers rushed together and built a block-house, and connected it with the residence which is still standing on the hill near the village, but the blockhouse has been removed long since.  Joseph grew amid these stirring scenes of pioneer life, and went to the first schools of the settlement.  According to an ancient custom, he being the youngest son living, he received the homestead of 168 acres at the death of his father.  This he cleared up and improved.  He married Elizabeth Blair, May 21, 1833.  She was a daughter of William Blair, born in Bedford Co., Pa., May 7, 1806, and came with her family to Ohio in 1811.  (See sketch of Calvin Blair.)  He and his faithful wife were members of the Presbyterian Church; he held the office of Elder.  He died a triumphant death May 26, 1871, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, exclaiming in his death-bed: “I feel that I am dead, and my life is hid with Christ in God.”  His wife soon followed him, passing away Aug. 26, 1877.  They leave five children living and two dead -- Edwin, at the age of three; Lurane, now Mrs. E. W. Brown, near Waterford; Charlotte died in youth; Charles, farmer, near Chesterville, O.; Shannon, subject; Edward and Calvin, both farming on the old homestead near Waterford, O.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 820-821
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BRYANT B. LEWIS. -- The specific and distinctive office of biography is not to give voice to a man's modest estimate of himself and his accomplishments, but rather to leave the perpetual record establishing his character by the consensus of opinion on the part of his fellow men. In addition to his varied interests as stockman and banker, Bryant B. Lewis is the owner of a fine farm of some three hundred acres of most arable land in Bennington township, Morrow county, Ohio, which he rents out to tenants. Mr. Lewis is a native son of Morrow county, his birth having occurred on the parental homestead in Westfield township on the 28th of August, 1860. He is a son of John C. and Hariett (Brundage) Lewis, both of whom are deceased, the former having been summoned to eternal rest in 1911, and the latter having passed away about 1898. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Lewis became the parents of four children, two of whom are now living, and of whom Bryant B. was the first in order of birth.
     Bryant B. Lewis was reared to maturity on the old homestead farm in Harmony township, to the district schools of which place he is indebted for an excellent common school education. He continued to attend school until he had attained to the age of twenty years, at which time he turned his attention to the great basic industry of agriculture. As a youth he had become quite adept in the handling of cattle and all kinds of live stock and shortly after assuming the responsibilities of life he devoted some time to the stock business: Finding that line of enterprise decidedly lucrative he eventually devoted all his time to it. He made money rapidly and was engaged in the buying and selling of live stock for fully twenty years, during which time he rose to affluence. At the present time, in 1911, he is president of the Marengo Banking Company, which popular monetary institution does an extensive business at Marengo, Ohio. This bank was organized on the 15th of March, 1904, and was incorporated as a state bank with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars. Its official corps is as follows: Bryant B. Lewis, president; J. D. Vail, vice president; and J. W. Nelson, cashier. Its board of directors consists of J. D. Vail, S. F. Mosier, C. H. Wood, Mell B. Talmage, George Thomas, Dr. F. E. Thompson, William L. West, B. B. Lewis and Dr. J. W. Pratt. The bank is one of the most substantial financial concerns in Morrow county and one of its best assets is the sterling integrity and reliable character of its officers. Mr. Lewis' varied business interests in this section of the state are of broad scope and importance. He is the owner of considerable valuable real estate in Marengo and holds a tract of three hundred acres of splendidly improved farming lands in Morrow county.
     Mr. Lewis wedded Miss Clara Allen, who was born and reared in Licking county, Ohio, and who is a daughter of Frank Allen, long a representative farmer in that section. He is yet living, a resident of Licking county, Ohio. Mrs. Lewis received her early educational training in the public schools of her native place and she is a woman of most pleasing personality, commanding the love and admiration of scores of warm and sincere friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have three children: Virgil, who was born on the 26th of April, 1892; Howard, whose birth occurred in the year 1897; and Madeline, born in June, 1906. The elder son, Virgil, after a good public school education, entered the Marengo Bank in the capacity of teller, in which connection he is displaying marked business ability and an extraordinary grasp of financial affairs, which augurs well for his future as a prominent and successful banking and business man. The younger son, Howard, is a student in the high school at Marengo.
     In politics Mr. Lewis is aligned as a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies of the Democratic party and while he has never had any aspiration for public office of any description he is deeply interested in all matters tending to advance the general welfare, giving liberally of his aid and influence in behalf of all such projects. Fraternally he is affiliated with Ashley Lodge, No. 407, Free and Accepted Masons, and with Marengo Lodge, No. 216, Knights of Pythias, in which he is past chancellor. He greatly enjoys home life and takes keen pleasure in the society of his family and friends. He is always courteous, kindly and affable, and those who know him personally have for him a warm regard.  A man of great ability, his success in business in Morrow county has been uniform and rapid. His life is exemplary in all respects, and he has ever supported those interests which are calculated to uplift and benefit humanity, while his own high moral worth is deserving of the highest commendation. He is yet living, a resident of Licking county, Ohio.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The
Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 746-747
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JOSEPH LEWIS is a son of Morgan Lewis, who was born in Onondaga county, New York, July 15, 1806. His parents were Jonathan and Mabel (Hoyt) Lewis. Jonathan Lewis was born in New York, of English descent, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. He removed from New York to Vermont in 1800, and in 1834 located in Morrow county, Ohio. His death occurred June 26, 1860, and his wife departed this life September 27, 1849.
     When seventeen years of age Morgan Lewis built and operated a large sawmill, in New York, which he afterward lost by a flood. He came with his family and parents to Ohio, locating in an old log house just north of Westfield village, Delaware county. He built and for a number of years operated the mill on the Whetstone, north of Westfield, and afterward erected mills for Lester Bartlett and others. He subsequently sold his Westfield property and located in Cardington, where he died in 1889. It is said that Mr. Lewis built and operated more saw and grist mills than any other man in central Ohio.
     He was married in New York State to Miss Cyrene Schofield, and they had eleven children, four of whom are now living, namely: Charlotte, wife of Ralph Perry, of Michigan; Jerome married Elizabeth Shoemaker, and lives in Delaware county; Harriet is the wife of George Mooney, of Delaware, and she has two children by her former husband, William Trindle; and Joseph, the subject of this sketch. Four of the sons served in the civil war. Orson was a member of Company D, Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died February 19, 1863, at Nashville, Tennessee, while still in service. Jonathan, a member of the same company and regiment, was killed December 16, 1864, in the battle of Nashville. Jerome was a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mrs. Lewis died in 1862, and the father afterward married Laura Turner.
     Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which the former was Steward, Trustee and Class-leader, and for a number of years was Superintendent of the Sunday-school. He was identified with the Republican party, and served as Treasurer and Justice of the Peace.
     Joseph Lewis, our subject, was born in Westfield township, Morrow county, December 21, 1839. He learned and followed the miller's trade, owning a steam mill six miles north of Delaware. He has 118 acres of well-improved land, and is engaged in general farming. In August, 1862, he enlisted for service in the late war, entering Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was sent into Kentucky, and took part in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Rome (Georgia), Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta campaign, Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro, Georgia, and Bentonville, North Carolina, and went with Sherman on his march to the sea; was present at the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston, and took part in the grand review at Washington, District of Columbia. Returning to Columbus, he was discharged in June, 1865, never having been absent from his post, Mr. Lewis had a close call from a bullet at the battle of Perryville, and at Atlanta campaign they made three charges, and he was knocked about twenty feet by the explosion of a shell in the last charge.
     Our subject was united in marriage, in 1860, to Phoebe Hinton, a native of Delaware county, and a daughter of William Hinton. She died while her husband was at the front in North Carolina, in 1865, leaving two children, -- Frank and Loretta. The latter is the widow of Ethan Williams, and has two daughters, Pearl and May. For his second wife Mr. Lewis married Augusta Boger, née Martin, a sister of Mrs. A. H. Shaw. After her death our subject married Lucinda Aldrich, a native of Delaware county, and a daughter of Smith Aldrich. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a charter member of James St. John Post, G. A. R., at Cardington. He has served as Trustee, Road Supervisor and School Director of Westfield township, has frequently been a delegate to county conventions, and is an active worker in the Republican party.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 306-307
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JAMES B. LEWIS, D. D. S. —For thirty-six years Dr. James B. Lewis was engaged in the practice of dental surgery at Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, and during that time he gained and retained the friendship and esteem of the best citizens of the place. He was born in Ohio, on the 22nd of May, 1853, a son of John and Melinda (Boner) Lewis, the former of whom was a Baptist minister and a farmer during the major portion of his active business career. Reverend John Lewis was born and reared at Ohio and his wife was also reared in this state. Both are now deceased. Reverend and Mrs. Lewis became the parents of seven children, and of the number four are now living.
     Dr. James B. Lewis was reared to adult age on the home farm and as a youth he attended the district schools and the high school at Fredericktown, Ohio. In 1872 he turned his attention to the study of dentistry, and was graduated from his college as a member of the class of 1874, with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. In the fall of 1874 he located at Mount Gilead, where he was engaged in the active practice of his profession during the long intervening years. He controlled a large patronage among the most influential people of Mount Gilead and the territory normally tributary thereto. In politics Dr. Lewis accorded an unswerving support to the cause of the Republican party and for years gave the most efficient service as city councilman. In a fraternal way he affiliated with the Independent Order or Odd Fellows, in which he was a past grand master and in the encampment of which he was at one time patriarch. He represented the above order in the Grand Lodge of the state as a member from the Thirty-second district for a period of seven years and was honored with that distinction at the time of his death. His religious faith was in harmony with the tenets of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which his family are devout members and in which they are active workers.
     Dr. Lewis married Miss Anna Barton, of Mount Gilead. To this union have been born two children: Mabel and Charles B.  Mabel Lewis was graduated in the local high school and she is now librarian of the free library at Mount Gilead. Charles B. Lewis is a turner by trade and resides at Mt. Gilead, Ohio. He wedded Miss Edna Shaffer.  Dr. Lewis was a man of broad learing and sterling integrity. He stood as one of the strong men of Morrow county, strong in his honor and his good name, in the extent of his influence and in the result of his accomplishments. He passed to the higher life in November, 1910.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – p. 567
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Cardington Twp. -
MORGAN LEWIS, retired farmer; P. O., Cardington; was born in Onondaga Co. N. Y., July 15, 1806. His parents, Jonathan and Mabel (Hoyt) Lewis, were born, raised and married in Vermont, to which State they removed in 1800 from their residence in New York. They were the parents of five children, Morgan and his sister, Mrs. Mahala Wood, being the only ones now living; the parents removed Westfield Tp. in 1834, where, on the 26th of June, 1860, the father died. His wife died Sept. 27, 1849. Morgan Lewis was married in the State of New York to Miss Syrena Scofield. He had been raised to hard work, receiving no education whatever, having attended but three months term of school previous to his marriage. When seventeen years of age he built a large saw mill in New York State which he ran for some time with great success. Some years after his mill and a large stock of lumber were washed away by a flood. When his parents came to Ohio, he, with his family, came with them; he at once began erecting mills, at which he found steady employment for a number of years; it is said that he has built and owned more saw and grist mills than any other man in Central Ohio; in 1840 he built the Meredith Grist Mill, which he run a great many years. From his marriage with Miss Scofield there were eleven children -- seven of whom are now living, viz: Morgan S., Charlotte, George, Jerome, Caroline, Harriet and Joseph. During the late war Mr. Lewis sent four of his sons to battle for the Union. Two of them -- Orson and Jonathan -- died in their country's service. Mr. Lewis came to Cardington some ten years ago, where he has since remained, and owns a nicely improved property of 11 acres within the city limits, also 160 acres of land in Iowa. Mr. Lewis has held in his life-time, many positions of honor and trust, he was a Justice of Peace in Westfield Tp. a great many years. He began life a poor boy, and has made what he has by close attention to business. He is a staunch Republican and a consistent Christian.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 576-577
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D. H. LINCOLN, Clerk of the Courts, Mount Gilead, Ohio, is a native of Grant county, Wisconsin, born April 28, 1855. 
     Thomas Lincoln, his father, is a son of Azariah Lincoln, they being near relatives of the distinguished Abraham Lincoln.  Thomas Lincoln was one of the pioneer farmers of Wisconsin.  About 1849 he crossed the plains to California, making the long and tedious journey on foot.  For eighteen months he worked in the gold mines of California, and at the end of that time returned home via the isthmus of Panama and New York city, bringing with him $1,000 and joining his family in Wisconsin.  In 1862 he moved to Boscobel, Wisconsin, and engaged in the hotel business, which he continued for a year and a half.  About this time he traded his farm in Wisconsin for one in Congress township, Morrow county, Ohio, to which he moved in 1863.  In the fall of that same year he traded this farm of 100 acres for one of 135 acres in Franklin township, and from that time until 1880 made his home on it.  In 1880 he again traded, this time for a farm in Gilead township, where he resided until 1889, when he retired from active life and moved to a home he had bought on Cherry street in Mount Gilead.  Here he passed away in June, 1890.  He was a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a Steward in the same, and was honored and respected for his many sterling traits of character.  Politically he is a Republican.
     Of our subject’s mother, we record that her maiden name was Rachel Kay, and that she was born in Ohio and reared near Luddingville, this State.  She is still living and is a resident of Mount Gilead.  Her father, William Kay, was one of the pioneers of Ohio.  Mrs. Lincoln is the mother of seven children: three sons and four daughters, namely: Judge A. W., a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, was a teacher for several years, was admitted to the bar in 1887, and is now Probate Judge of Greene county, Missouri; Joel K., engaged in farming in Morrow county; and D. H., the subject of this sketch, the youngest son and fifth born.  Of the daughters, Mary E. is the widow of Thomas Coles; Sarah A. is the wife of Lee Dakan, a farmer of Harrison county, Iowa; L. Augusta is the wife of John Hull, of Morrow county, Ohio; and Belle is the wife of J. C. Lerch, of Pulaski, this county.
     D. L. Lincoln was eight years old when he removed with his parents from Boscobel, Wisconsin, to Morrow county, Ohio.  He attended the district schools and also the union school at Mount Gilead, and at the age of seventeen began teaching.  For sixteen years he followed the profession of teaching and all that time was in Congress township.  May 22, 1888, he moved to Mount Gilead and engaged in the livery business, in which, however, he continued only a short time, selling out in February of the following year.  April 23, 1889, he was appointed to a position in the railway mail service between Cleveland and Cincinnati, on the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad, by President Harrison.  This position he resigned July 20, 1894, in order to accept the office he now holds, that of Clerk of the Courts.  In 1891 he received special mention from the Superintendent of Railway Mail Service, and at the close of his service was the recipient of a letter of commendation from that official.
     In 1887 Mr. Lincoln made the canvass for the office of Clerk of Courts, the opposing candidates being J. E. McCracken, Thomas Riddle, John Bunker and a Mr. Lyon.  After a spirited contest of fifteen ballots, J. E. McCracken was nominated.  Mr. Lincoln lacked only three votes of securing the nomination.  In 1893 he was again candidate for the same office and was nominated on the first ballot, and at the ensuing election he received a majority of 730 votes.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F., No. 169, and Encampment No. 69, and he is also identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Royal Arch Masons.
     Mr. Lincoln was married in 1877 to Miss Silva Vanatta, a native of Morrow county, Ohio.  They have two children, Beryl, born in 1878, and Annie, in 1880.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 368-369
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Canaan Twp. –
JOHN LINDER, farmer; P. O., Marits; was born Dec. 14, 1826, in Muskingum Co., is a son of James and Catharine (Geyer) Linder; she is a native of Westmoreland Co., Pa., her husband was from Virginia. They came west, locating in Muskingum Co., and came to this county in 1833, and entered 280 acres of land in Canaan Tp., and cleared up the same, and lived on this purchase until his death, which took place October 8, 1867; his wife followed him Feb. 8, 1869. John was but a lad of seven when his parents moved to this Co. After attaining his 22d year he began business operations on his own account. November 2d, 1854, at the age of 28, he was joined in wedlock to Sarah Carnes, of Muskingum Co., a daughter of James Carnes, whose wife was Nancy Geyer. She died in Sept. 1870, leaving four children -- Harvey N., Joseph M. and George E., twins, John being the youngest. He was married to his present wife in June, 1871, whose name was Frances Clutler, born in Franklin Tp., in 1839, is a daughter of William Clutler; they have three children -- Minnie, Albertine and Sarah E.  Mr. Linder has 160 acres of land, and is among the township’s best farmers. His father was formerly a member of the Democratic party, but afterward voted with the Republicans. John has never deviated from the example laid down by his paternal ancestor; he is a member of the M. E. Church.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 732
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Washington Twp. –
J. P. LININGER, farmer; P. O., Galion; was born in Whetstone, Crawford Co., Ohio, 1833.  His father, Henry Lininger, came from Canton, Stark Co., Ohio, and entered land in Crawford Co. among the earliest settlers.  His mother, Mary Palmer was united in marriage to his father previous to their coming to Crawford Co., and endured with him all the hardships of pioneer life.  At the age of 25 years, Mr. Lininger married Miss Harriet Harding, whose early home was in Washington, Morrow Co.  During the eleven years immediately following their marriage, they lived in Galion, Crawford Co., two of which years Mr. Lininger spent traveling in Montana Territory.  They have two sons living -- William H., 17, and Horace H., 11 years of age; also Ida H., born in Galion March 22, 1860; and died Oct. 25, 1861.  They returned to Washington Tp. in 1870, and settled on the farm which had been the early home of Mrs. Lininger, where, blessed with prosperity, they still reside.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 747
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Gilead Twp. –
WM. LINN, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O., Mt. Gilead; was born on his father’s farm in Monroe Co., Ohio, Dec. 7, 1814; he lived there fifteen years, when his mother and family (his father having died in 1819), came west, and settled on a farm in Franklin Tp., Knox, now Morrow Co., Ohio, renting for one year; when her son, Levi, entered 160 acres of timber, which they moved on, and cleared. When William became 17 years of age, he was apprenticed to tailoring with Hugh Kearney, in Waterford, though in a few months they moved to Mt. Gilead, where he served four years. He then worked as journeyman, transient, here and in Indiana; and later, formed a partnership with Mr. Kearney, until the later [sic] went to Missouri. William continued in the business, and March 26, 1840, he married Miss Maria Thurston; she was born in Pennsylvania, and came here with her parents when young. He continued his residence in town until he was 37 years of age; he then sold out his business, and bought a farm about four miles southwest of Mt. Gilead, and lived on the same until about 1863; he then sold it and bought and occupied his present place, located one mile northwest of Mt. Gilead; since which time his wife died. They had three children, two of whom are living; Sylvester lives in Mt. Gilead, and Israel B., is R. R. Agent at Cannonsburg, Penn.  His present wife was Mrs. Dennis, formerly Rachel Lamb; she was born in Richland, now Morrow Co., Ohio. They had two children, one living -- Lewis M.  His parents, Caleb and Nancy (Morrison) Linn, were born in the same neighborhood, near the Pennsylvania and Maryland line. The married there, and about 1810 they moved to Monroe Co., O., and engaged in farming; while there, he died. The family then came to this locality.  Mrs. Linn is now living with her son Isaac, about two and a half miles northwest of Williamsport. She has passed 100 years of age. She speaks of seeing George Washington in early times. Five of their six children are living; Levi lives in Illinois; Mary, now Mrs. Chamberlain, of Williamsport, Ohio; Anna, now Mrs. Levering, Maysville, Mo.; William and Isaac live in Williamsport, Ohio.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 541-542
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Congress Twp. –
W. E. LOGAN, farmer; P. O., Andrews; is among the descendants of the early settlers in this country, and was born in Wayne Tp., Knox Co., Nov. 7, 1836, the eldest of a family of six children, whose parents were Thomas J. and Catharine (Iden) Logan; the former born May 13, 1811, in New Jersey, and emigrated to this State in 1812, locating in Knox Co., and was among the first settlers.  Mrs. Logan was born in Loudoun Co., Va., and came to Knox Co., with her parents, where she was married to Mr. Logan; they subsequently moved to this township in 1863.  Aug. 15, 1866, in his 56th year, Mr. Logan departed this life; he was a kind husband, an indulgent father, and exemplary citizen. Young Logan had but the advantages afforded by the common district school; he was raised on the farm and inured to agricultural pursuits.  March 1, 1866, he was joined in wedlock to Maria Taylor, born Feb. 11, 1845, daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth (Shade) Taylor.  Since his marriage he has been employed on his farm, which is composed of 167 acres, under excellent improvement, and ranks among the best in the township. He has three children -- Leonard, Katie and Faith.  Mr. Logan, like his father, has been identified with the interests of Democracy.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 690
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HUBERT C. LONG. —Among the representative citizens of Cardington, Morrow county, Ohio, who have contributed in generous measure to the progress and development of this section of the fine old Buckeye state is Hubert C. Long, who is a native son of this city, where he was born on the 6th of November, 1868. He is a son of Thomas W. and Sarah (Wolfe) Long, the former of whom was a native of the state of New York, and the latter of whom claimed Maryland as the place of her birth. Thomas W. Long was reared in the Empire state of the Union, whence he immigrated to Cardington, Ohio, about the year 1865. He first engaged in the milling business and subsequently he and his grandfather purchased a harness store at Cardington, being succeeded in this line of enterprise by Hubert C. Long, the immediate subject of this review, and which he still continues. The father was a Democrat in his political convictions and he was an active factor in the local councils of his party. He was elected probate judge of Morrow county and gave most efficient service in this connection for a number of years. He was postmaster at Cardington for a term of four years and as a citizen his loyalty and public spirit were of the most insistent order. In 1867 he married Miss Sarah Wolfe, who was a daughter of Henry* [see note below] Wolfe, of Cardington, Ohio, and they became the parents of two children, Hubert C., of this sketch; and Edith A., who became the wife of William Holden and who resides at Denver, Colorado. Mr. Long met death through injuries received from a bull at Mt. Gilead, in 1893, and his cherished and devoted wife was summoned to the life eternal in 1895.
     Hubert C. Long was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Cardington. After leaving school he became deputy in the post office under his father and in 1889 he became identified with his father in the harness business, which was thereafter conducted under the firm name of T. W Long & Son until the former's death. Prior to his demise Mr. Long had opened a branch store at Mt. Gilead but after his death Hubert C. moved the store to Cardington, combining the two. In politics Hubert C. Long is aligned as a stalwart in the ranks of the Democratic party. He has served as treasurer of Cardington on four different occasions and at the present time, in 1911, is serving as treasurer. He also served two terms as cemetery trustee. He is a stock holder in the Citizens' Bank at Cardington, besides which he owns and operates a saw mill and handle factory, manufacturing hay, rake and hoe handles. He also has extensive real estate holdings in and adjacent to Cardington. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 194, and he is a charter member of Cardington Lodge, No. 427, Knights of Pythias. He also holds membership in Aerie 738, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He and his wife are devout members of the Presbyterian church and they are popular factors in connection with the best social activities in their community.
     In the year 1892 Mr. Long was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Tennant, who was born and reared at Edison, Ohio, and who is a daughter of Samuel Tennant, a representative citizen of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Long have one son, Samuel W., who was born on the 15th of May, 1902.
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*Note: Penciled comment – Henry is underlined and Charles is written in the margin.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 596-597
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Cardington Twp. –
R. W. LONG, farmer; P. O., Cardington; was born on his father’s farm, then in Marion Co., O. and now located in Gilead Tp., of Morrow Co., O., March 27, 1837, and made his home with his parents until he was 30 years of age. Upon becoming of age he engaged as Ward attendant in the N. O. Lunatic Asylum, and worked there for three years; he then enlisted in the 65th Ohio Inf’try Reg., Co. D, and was in the service four years, serving as Sergeant; he was in the battles of Stone River, Pittsburg Landing and Chickamauga; at the latter place he was taken prisoner and held captive for seventeen months and seventeen days, serving in the Richmond, Danville and Andersonville prisons, being in the latter place eleven months; he was paroled in March, 1865, and in company with 2200 others was on the way home on board the ill-fated steamer, Sultana, which blew up on the Mississippi, and of the entire number but 500 were saved, our subject being among the number; he swam down the stream several miles, it being night and very dark; he finally found a log and held to it until rescued; he also assisted five others who were drowning to make the log. He returned home and worked in the county; March 28, 1867, he married Miss Sarah J. Smith; she was born in Pennsylvania, and came to this vicinity with her parents when young. After his marriage he rented one year and then came to his present place; he owns eighty acres, located two and a half miles north of Cardington. They have six children -- Frankie P., Stella A., Charlie H., Harry W., Maud M. and Nadie. His parents, Daniel and Mary (Fleming) Long, were natives of Northumberland Co., Pa.; they married there in 1835, and came to this vicinity about the same year in a lumber wagon, and settled in the timber, living in a log cabin and doing their own spinning and weaving, living there until their deaths, November, 1879, and January, 1876, respectively; of their eleven children but six are living -- Absalom and R. W., of this vicinity, Wm. H. in Nebraska, Mrs. Nancy J. Barter and Mrs. Catharine Peal, of this county, and Martha J., living with her brother, R. W.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 576
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Cardington Twp. –
T. W. LONG, dealer in saddles and harness; Cardington.  T. W. Long was born July 21, 1839, in Erie Co., New York; is son of Frederick and Sarah (Castleton) Long, both of whom were natives of England, where they were raised, married and resided until 1834, when they emigrated to the United States, and located in Erie Co., N. Y. The father was a baker by trade, a business, he followed in his native country, and for some time after coming to the United States; for a number of years past he has been a minister of the gospel in the Presbyterian Church; he is a man of very much more than ordinary ability, respected and loved by all who know him. His wife died in 1877; she was the mother of eleven children, eight of whom are now living. T. W. Long was raised upon a farm. He received the benefits of a common school education, and when twenty-one years of age, he came to Ohio, but on the breaking-out of the Rebellion, he returned to his native State, and enlisted in Co. I, 116 N. Y. V. I., and served with distinction for three years. After his return home he went to the oil regions of Western Pennsylvania, where he remained some eighteen months, and then came to Morrow Co., Ohio, where he has since resided. On first coming to the county, he had charge of a grist mill in Cardington, which he run some time, when he purchased the harness shop of W. C. Nichols, in which business he has since continued. He has the largest and most complete stock of saddles and harness in the county, and has built up a large trade by his honest dealings and the close attention he has paid to business. He also deals largely in hides, pelts, furs and tallow, the sale of which annually amount to more than $25,000. He was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Wolf, Apr. 18, 1867. From this union there are two children -- Hubert Clare and Edna Anna.  Mr. Long began as a poor boy, and is a self-made man. He is liberal in his political views, always voting for the man and measures, and not for party. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and Masonic Order, and has held a number of positions of honor and trust in the city and township government, with honor to himself and lasting benefit to those for whom he labored.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 576
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THOMAS E. LONG. ––That success is most worthy and most to be valued is won through personal endeavor, and the man who contends valiantly with opposing forces, overcomes obstacles and presses steadily and courageously forward toward the goal of independence and definite prosperity gains an incidental discipline that makes him stronger and better and that gives him a broader comprehension of the realities and responsibilities of life.  Among the sterling citizens of Morrow county who have been dependent upon their own resources in fighting the stern battle of life is Thomas E. Long, who is now numbered among the representative farmers and stock growers of Cardingtown [sic] township, where his finely improved farm of eighty acres stands in tangible evidence of his former years of earnest toil and endeavor.  He learned the lessons of practical industry while he was yet a mere boy, and the spur of necessity quickened the laudable ambition that prompted him to labor with all of earnestness and assiduity until he could realize its fulness, in becoming an independent farmer, a successful exponent of the great basic industry of agriculture.  With the aid of his cherished and devoted wife he has accomplished this worthy end, and he has so ordered his course as to gain and retain the inviolable confidence and esteem of his fellow men.  There have been no dramatic incidents in his career, but it has been marked by consecutive and productive industry and by personal integrity, so that he has contributed his quota to the well being of the world and has not been a parasitic influence, as are many whose early advantages and fortuitous circumstances should have enabled them to become worthy integers in connection with the activities of life.  Mr. Long’s standing in the county that has been his home from his boyhood days is such as to well entitle him to recognition in this publication.
     Thomas E. Long claims the old Keystone state of the Union as the place of his nativity.  He was born near the village of Mapleton, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, on the 11th of March, 1862, and is a son of James and Catherine Long, both of whom were likewise natives of Pennsylvania, where they were reared to maturity and where they received the advantages of the common schools of the day.  James Long devoted his entire active career to agricultural pursuits and continued his residence in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, until his death, in 1865, at which time he was comparatively a young man.  He was a stalwart Republican in his political proclivities and was a man of sterling character.
     He whose name initiates this article was a child of two and one-half years at the time of his father’s death, and his widowed mother soon afterward removed to Morrow county, Ohio, where certain relatives had previously established their home.  She was in straitened financial circumstances, and under these conditions consulted expediency and made the best possible provision for her little son by placing him in the care of a farmer of Canaan township, in whose home he was reared to the age of twelve years.  His mother continued to maintain her home in this county until her death, and was summoned to the life eternal when about seventy-three years of age.  Thomas E. Long’s early educational advantages were limited to a somewhat irregular attendance in the district schools, and his fellowship with honest toil began when he was a mere boy.  He was reared to the work of the farm, and he has had the good judgment never to withdraw his allegiance to the great industry of agriculture, through the benignant medium of which he has gained to himself a position of independence and marked prosperity.  At the age of twelve years he found a home and employment on the farm of Jasper Bradford, of Canaan township, and he continued to be thus engaged until the time of his marriage, at the age of twenty-four years.  When twenty-one years of age he was granted wages of sixteen dollars a month, and for a short time after his marriage he worked by the day, for the stipend of one dollar a day.\
    In the spring of 1887, a few months after he had assumed connubial responsibilities and gained the encouragement of a devoted wife and helpmeet, Mr. Long rented a farm of one hundred acres, in Canaan township, and thus initiated his independent career, though his tangible assets aside from his stanch personal qualifications were exceedingly limited.  He was at the time the owner of a little driving mare, and this animal he traded for a heavy work horse, for which he paid an extra sum of seventy dollars, giving his note for the same and assuming the further obligation of interest at the rate of eight per cent.  In further necessary preparation for his new enterprise he negotiated a loan of one hundred and thirty dollars, and on this amount likewise he paid interest of eight per cent.  He purchased another work horse and set himself vigorously to the work of conducting active operations on the farm which he had rented of Frederick C. Gillson.  A cow which he owned, and which was valued at eighteen dollars, he traded for a second hand wagon, and his landlord kindly supplied him with a plow that had likewise seen former service.  In addition to these primitive equipments he purchased a harrow for two and one-half dollars and expended fifteen dollars for a corn plow.  It will thus be seen that conditions were none too propitious for the young husbandman, but he had strength and health and determination, and thus faced the situation fearlessly with ambition to make the best of the means at hand.  Encumbered with debt and working the farm “on shares,” meaning that his landlord was to receive one half of the products of the farm each year, he turned his energies into play and soon began the forward march to safe vantage ground of success.  The most scrupulous economy on the part of himself and his wife was coupled with their indefatigable industry, and they endured much to gain little in the earlier stages of their married life.  But there was an advance, and they never faltered in their efforts or courage.  For twenty long years Mr. Long continued to be engaged in farming on rented land, and at the expiration of this period, in March, 1904, he and his wife decided that they were justified in purchasing a home of their own, as they were now free from indebtedness and had a reserve fund of somewhat more than two thousand dollars.  After due investigation and consideration, they purchased their present farm of eighty acres, in Cardington township, and the same was secured for the sum of fifty-two hundred dollars, of which amount they paid two thousand dollars in cash and assumed a mortgage for the balance.  The land is of marked fertility and has been brought up to a fine state of productiveness under the able management of Mr. Long, who has made many improvements on the place, including the installation of tile drainage, and the expenditure of fully fourteen hundred dollars in the remodeling of the house and other buildings, all of which are now in fine order and indicate thrift and prosperity.  Within the six years that have intervened since he purchased this fine property Mr. Long has freed the same from the burden of the mortgage, and his wife has proved his efficient and valued adviser and coadjutor.  Prosperity of established order is now theirs, and none can doubt that it has been most worthily won.  It can be a matter of no slight gratification to them that they have thus gained independence and the prospect of the coming years stretches pleasing to their view, as they may well feel that at last their “lines are cast in pleasant places.”
     Working and planning with all earnestness, Mr. Long has had neither inclination or time to devote to the turbulence of practical politics, but he is a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party and ever ready to lend his aid and influence in support of measures and enterprises projected for the general good of the community.  He and his wife are appreciative of the value of educational advantages, have given their children excellent opportunities, and are earnest supporters of the public schools.  Their labors and accomplishment afford both lesson and incentive to other young couples who are compelled to work out their own salvation, and their success is the logical result of energy, industry, frugality and invincible determination.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Long are members of the Methodist Protestant church, in which he is identified with the South Canaan Society and she with a similar organization in Hardin county.  They have contributed their quota to the support of religious and benevolent work and have an abiding sympathy for all those in affliction and distress, so that they are ever ready to lend a helping hand to the unfortunate.  They have secure hold upon the confidence and regard of all who know them and are popular factors in the social activities of their home township.
     On the 18th of August, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Long to Miss Martha Thew Key, who was born in Marion county, Ohio, on the 31st of October, 1861, and who is the second in order of birth of the seven sons and two daughters born to Henry and Mary Thew (Wittred) Key.  All of the children are living but one who died in infancy and all reside in Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. Key were born and reared in Lincolnshire, England, and soon after their marriage they immigrated to America.  The voyage was a most tempestuous one and the sailing vessel on which the same was made felt to the full the warring forces of the “merciful, merciless, sea,” with the result that the jaded and weary passengers frequently felt that the stanch little craft would not weather the storms that assailed it.  After six weeks on the ocean Mr. and Mrs. Key landed in New York City, whence they came as soon as possible to Marion county, Ohio.  Upon their arrival their financial resources were summed up in the pitiful amount of two and one-half dollars.  Mr. Key secured work digging ditches in Marion county, and received in compensation for his arduous toil sixty-two and one-half cents a day.  At the opening of the year 1911 he is found as the owner of a finely improved farm of ninety-five acres, in Marion county, and he and his devoted wife have reared their large family of children to lives of usefulness and honor, while now they themselves are enjoying the gracious rewards of former years of toil and endeavor, secure in the esteem of all who know them.  Mrs. Long was educated in the public schools of her native country, and is a woman of genial personality ––a devoted wife and a loving mother, and has the affectionate regard of all who have come within the sphere of her kindly influence.  Mr. and Mrs. Long have two children, both of whom have been accorded the advantages of the excellent public schools of their native county.  Burton E. is associated with his father in the work and management of the home farm and proves an able and valuable coadjutor; and Zelda B., who likewise remains at the parental home, has much musical talent.  She is devoting careful attention to the study of the “divine art,” and her ambition is to become a teacher of both vocal and instrumental music.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 513-517
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Peru Twp. –
HARRY EATON LONGWELL, farmer; P. O., Ashley; represents the Longwell, the Eaton and Potter families. Ralph Longwell, his grandfather, a soldier of the war of 1812, emigrated from Kentucky shortly after the war. His grandfather, Joseph Eaton, (who was son of Isaac Eaton, who was son of David Eaton, who was son of John Eaton, who was son of Joseph Eaton, who was son of John Eaton, who came from Wales in 1686), was born in Newark, Delaware, Oct. 20, 1798; came to Ohio in the earlier settlement, and finally to Delaware Co., and on the 20th day of June 1824, was married to Ursula Potter, daughter of Asahel Potter, who came from Connecticut to Lancaster, Ohio, thence to Franklin Co., Ohio, and finally to Delaware Co., in 1821, dying at Leonardsburg, March 10, 1869, at the ripe old age of 93 years. His wife, Anne Benton, was a native of Litchfield, Conn.  Doctor Albert Longwell was the son of Ralph Longwell; his wife, Cordelia G. Eaton, daughter of Joseph Eaton, was born June 12, 1836. Fernando Cortez Eaton, brother of Mrs. Longwell, who was born April 11, 1830, was drowned at Stratford, in Delaware Co., June 17, 1851. Dr. Albert Longwell was a practicing physician in the city of Delaware, and during the civil war was appointed surgeon of the 88th Regt. O. V. I., and Post Surgeon at Camp Chase; he died after a very brief illness, on the 19th day of March, 1865, and in four days was followed by his devoted wife. Their marriage occurred Feb. 22, 1859. They had two children, viz: Charlie Eaton Longwell, born Nov. 23, 1860, and Harry Eaton Longwell, born April 3, 1862, who is the landlord of Fairview farm. Deprived of his cultured and intelligent parents, almost ere he bad learned to lisp their names, he was doomed to meet life’s cares and responsibilities almost unaided and alone. He enters into the breeding and handling of horses and fine sheep, with an ability betokening a more advanced age. His attention is being directed to the handling of sheep as a farm stock, and to this every energy is being directed.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 655
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Chester Twp. –
  [Portrait of Richard E. Lord, father of T. C. Lord]
T. C. LORD, insurance; P. O. Chesterville; is a native of Chesterville, where he was born Sept. 16, 1840; he received a good education, and taught school for four terms; in 1864 he entered the army as a member of Co. F, 136th Regt., O. N. G.; after this service he entered a drug store at McGregor, Iowa, as prescription clerk, being well qualified, having read medicine for one year; in about two years he returned, soon after buying a drug store at West Jefferson, Madison Co.; this he sold in about four months, and then engaged in the insurance business in Chesterville; a portion of his time, since entering upon this business, has been devoted to reading law with Joseph Gunsaulus. Mr. Lord was married July 7, 1870, to Ellen L,, a daughter of William J. and Margaret (Case) Struble. She was born Sept. 20, 1846. One child, William R., was born to them Aug. 28, 1874, and died Sept 21, 1875.  Mrs. Lord died May 15, 1875.  Mr. Lord is a member of Chester Lodge No. 204, I. O. O. F. His father, Richard E. Lord, was born May 2, 1803, at Marietta, Ohio; he engaged in school teaching when a young man; and came to Mt. Vernon at an early time, where he built a school house at his own expense, and taught a select school; he studied medicine with G. B. Maxfield, and graduated at Cincinnati Jan. 29, 1833, and practiced in Chesterville until quite advanced in years. He was married May 3, 1830, to Caroline L. Maxfield, by the Rev. W. B. Burgess. She was born in Vermont, Oct. 22, 1811. There were seven children in the family -- James M., who was born Jan. 23, 1822; Amelia, Oct. 28, 1833; Gilbert M., Oct. 22, 1835; Clarinda, June 5, 1838; Thos. C. as before given; Mary E., Oct. 21, 1842, and William O. July 14, 1847, Thomas C. being the only survivor. James M. was a medical graduate and died Aug 13, 1869; Mary E. was a teacher, and died June 27, 1865; the others died in early life. The Hon. Thomas Lord, paternal grandfather of these children, was a graduate of Yale College, and married a daughter of Gen. Robert Oliver. The maternal grandfather, G. B. Maxfield, was born July 12, 1785, in Vermont. He was a physician, and married Amelia Graves, May 17, 1810, and came to Fredericktown, this State, in 1813. In 1818 he moved to Mt. Vernon, where he practiced until his death, by cholera, Oct. 8, 1822. The children in this family were Caroline L., Emeline, Mary E., Abigail, and William E.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 605
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Gilead Twp. –
JOHN LOREN, farmer; P. O., Mt. Gilead; was born in Washington Co., Pa., Aug. 7, 1830, and lived there three years, when they came to Ohio, and settled on the present place, on which Mr. Loren has since lived; when he became of age, he bought his brother’s interest in the farm (his father having died in 1845), and farmed the place ever since.  Sept. 25, 1862, he married Miss P. W. Banker; she was born in Delaware (now Morrow) Co., Ohio; they have five children -- Doa Ann, Junietta, Willie, Mary and Margaret.  His parents, William and Annie (Tan) Loren, were natives of Washington Co., Pa.; they married there, and came to Ohio in 1833; Mrs. Loren is living here with her son. His wife’s parents, John and Deborah (Wells) Banker, were natives of New York and Pennsylvania; they married in Delaware, Ohio, whither they came at an early day, and he lived there most of his time until his death, April 16, 1862.  Mrs. Banker also lived here most of her time; she went to Missouri in 1879, and died there Apr. 6, 1880.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 543
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Perry Twp. –
A. A. LUCAS, dealer in boots and shoes; Shaucks (Johnsville); son of Adam and Maddalena (Emig) Lucas, was born in Perry Tp., Jan. 22, 1838; he lived at home on the farm until 22, when he was employed one year by Mr. Cover; he next formed a partnership with I. N. Lewis in the grocery business at North Woodbury, which lasted about one year, when Lewis retired, and Mr. Lucas continued for a number of years, keeping a post office and store; he worked for Levering & Rule five years, when he sold his property in North Woodbury, and moved his family to Johnsville; he then purchased the right of eight counties in Indiana for Owen’s patent fence, selling farm, township and county rights for one year; he traded one county for a lot in Indianapolis, which he still owns; he then acted as traveling salesman for H. M. Weaver & Company, selling boots and shoes, by sample, for one year.  He opened his present shop and store-room in the spring of 1878, where he keeps a full stock of boots and shoes of every variety of styles and prices.  He united in marriage with Susan N. Magill, of North Woodbury, Aug. 25, 1864.  Of this marriage one child was born -- Arita O.  His wife died June 8, 1865.  He married Mary A. Pittman, of Pulaskiville, Ohio, in December of 1866.  Two children were born to them -- Clement L., born Sept. 24, 1867, died Aug. 16, 1868; Alvicktus G., born June 14, 1869, died Sept. 14, 1870.  Mary A., his wife, died Sept. 28, 1870.  March 26, 1872, he united his fortunes with Lottie R. Edwards, of Homer, Ohio, with whom he has. two children -- Doda G., born Jan. 7, 1875, died April 14, 1875; Mamie J., born May 18, 1878.  In addition, to this record of sorrow, Mr. Lucas has had many accidents; when 4 years old he fell into a kettle of hot water; at 12 a horse on which he was riding, fell, throwing him beneath the feet of another horse, breaking his arm; at another time his arm was broken by falling from a sled, and his limb was broken by an accident, when riding in a sleigh.  He is a member of the Baptist Church, in which he has held the office of Clerk for a number of years.  Adam Lucas, father of our subject, was born in York Co., Pa., May 2, 1795; he was drafted in the army in the war of 1812, but being only 18, his father employed a substitute; he worked some six years in a still-house; he then married Elizabeth Evets in 1820, and in October of that year he came on horseback to Ohio, and entered a quarter section of land in this township.  In the spring of 1821 he drove through in a wagon, being on the road from April 9 to May 2.  They lived in the wagon in the woods until July 4, while the wolves howled around at night.  He reared a cabin and made a small clearing, when his wife died Dec. 30, 1821.  He remained in his lonely cabin until the following spring; he started back to Pennsylvania, Feb. 11, 1822, where he arrived March 30.  He united in marriage with Magdalena Emig, Nov. 9, 1823, and they started to Ohio in April, 1824; and again he settled in the little cabin where he lived for nearly half a century, replacing the rude domicile of 1821 with large and handsome buildings; in later years he purchased another 80-acre farm, on which he lived until his retirement from active life.  Thirteen children were born to them -- Rebecca, Levi, Isaac, Leah, Caroline, Elizabeth, Magdalena, Adam A., Susan, John, Abraham A., are living, while Jacob died in Missouri, at the age of 23, and Charles died at 13.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 821-822
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DR. E. LUELLEN, one of the representative and popular physicians and surgeons of Morrow county, Ohio, retains his residence and base of professional operations in Westfield township, and controls a large practice throughout this portion of the county.  His father, Philip Luellen, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was a farmer by occupation, being a son of Samuel Luellen, who was born in the same county, as was also his father, Philip.  The family is of pure Welsh descent, and was represented in the early pioneer history of the old Keystone State.  The mother of our subject was Hannah (Chase) Luellen, a native of the State of New York, and a daughter of Lewis Chase, who was born in the same State, being of English extraction, and a descendant of one of three brothers, who simultaneously emigrated to the New World.  The parents of our subject’s mother moved to Meigs county, Ohio, after their marriage, ––this being about eighty years ago.  They were the parents of three sons.  The mother of Dr. Luellen had been previously married to a Mr. Birch, and they had four children, namely: Electa, deceased, was the wife of Jonas Foust, and was the mother of five children; Herman is a resident of Delaware county, this State; Almira, deceased, was the wife of Jacob Van Brimmer, and left four children; Melinda is the wife of Elijah Bishop, of Delaware county, and they are the parents of three sons and three daughters.
     The parents of our subject were married in Meigs county about 1822, and they soon removed to Delaware county, where they remained two years, after which they located in Marlborough township, which was later annexed to Marion county, and which now constitutes Waldo township, Marion county.  There the father died in 1833, his widow passing away, at a venerable age, in 1891.  Our subject was the only child of this marriage.  The parents were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but after the death of her husband, the mother united with the Baptist Church.  When they took up their residence in this section they settled in the woods, their abiding place being one of the little log houses common to the place and period, and their nearest neighbors being a mile distant.
     Dr. E. Luellen, the subject of this sketch, was born in Meigs county, Ohio, February 21, 1824.  He was three years of age when he came to Delaware county, where he was reared to farm life until sixteen years of age, and attended a log schoolhouse.  He then came to Westfield village to learn the tanners’ trade, which he followed for four years.  His health becoming impaired, Mr. Luellen began the study of medicine with Dr. George Granger, of Westfield, and later graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio.  For the following five years he practiced with Dr. Granger in this village, when the latter retired from the firm, and our subject has since continued the practice of medicine alone.  He has been a practitioner here for forty-two years, excepting an interval of four years, during which time he conducted a drug store in Delaware.  In addition to this practice, the Doctor has also operated a farm of 130 acres of well-improved land.
     He was married December 14, 1853, to Nancy Trindle, born April 2, 1824, in Westfield township, Morrow (then Delaware) county, a daughter of James and Anna (Brundage) Trindle.  Doctor and Mrs. Luellen became the parents of two children: Clara Estella, born April 1, 1857, died August 30, 1880, and James C., born in Westfield, August 11, 1858.  He received his education in this village and at Union Institute, Delaware.  He attends to the farm of 330 acres belonging to him and his father, 250 acres of which is general farming land, and is also extensively engaged in the raising of Aberdeen Angus thoroughbred cattle, which have taken premiums at the Delaware and Morrow county fairs.  He also has registered Jersey cows.  The Doctor and his son are stanch Republicans, and in an early day the former was a member of the Whig party.  Socially he is a member of the State Eclectic Medical Society.  The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which the Doctor is Steward, and the son Trustee.  The latter has also served as secretary and treasurer of the Sunday-school.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 238-240
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Westfield Twp. –
DR. EPHRAIM LUELLEN, physician; Westfield; was born in Meigs Co., Ohio, Feb. 21, 1824; his father, Philip Luellen, was born in Pennsylvania, his mother in New York State.  When he was 3 years of age his parents moved with him to lace near Delaware, and two years later to Waldo Tp., then in Delaware Co.  It was here the Doctor experienced the vicissitudes of frontier life, his parents moving into the woods, with not a neighbor within a mile.  Their home was of the most primitive style, built of round logs “chinked and daubed,” with puncheon floor and ceiling, and in fact without any sawed lumber.  Thus he began his youth, with few of the comforts of life, but amidst surroundings which tended to develop those sterling qualities for which our pioneers are noted.  When he was 9 years of age his father died, and about a year after, he was enabled to attend the first school opened in that vicinity, a subscription school, even the school-house being built by voluntary contributions of labor.  From this time until his 16th year he attended school, occasionally having to go two miles through an unbroken wood.  He went to learn the tanner’s trade in Westfield, at which he continued to work for about five years.  Owing to failing health he undertook the study of medicine with Dr. Granger, and subsequently attended the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, and then began to practice with his preceptor.  He married, Miss Nancy Trindle, Dec. 14, 1853, whose family history appears under the sketch of J. B. Trindle.  In 1873 he moved to Delaware, Ohio, to give their two children, Clara Estelle and James C., better advantages for an education.  While there he opened a drug store, in which he did a thriving business, and although not designing to practice, he was forced by his old friends, and many new ones, to do so.  Yielding to the urgent entreaties of the people of Westfield, among whom he had spent nearly forty years, he returned after an absence of four years.  He has a fine residence and 128 acres of most excellent land, and a residence in the city of Delaware.  He is a self-made man, and, although public-spirited, he has never aspired to public office.  In the practice of medicine he has associated with him Dr. C. L. Morgan, of Alliance, Ohio.  He is a Republican, and a prominent member of the M. E. Church.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 641-642
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Canaan Twp. –
JACOB R. LYON, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O., Iberia. Among the self-made men and successful farmers in Canaan Tp., we find J. R. Lyon, who is located, in the extreme north east corner of the township. His place of birth, was Sussex Co., N. J., Nov. 17, 1828. His parents were, Holsey and Harriet (Rose) Lyon, who were both natives of New Jersey, and had twelve children born unto them, Jacob being the third. At the age of sixteen he began for himself, and worked by the month until he was 23 years of age. Dec. 2, 1851, he was married to Esther Johnson, who was born Sept. 3, 1828, in Sussex Co., N. J., daughter of Elias and Mary (Kimber) Johnson. For three years after marriage, he was engaged in farming in N. J.  During the time he was engaged in working by the month, and while teaming across the mountains, noted the difference between products of the rough and mountainous part, and the valleys and rich bottom land, the difference being very perceptible; attributing the contrast to the character of the soil more than the climate, he determined, in as much as he had decided upon leading the life of a husbandman, to seek the country affording the best soil. Coming from New Jersey, he “struck” for the Buck Eye [sic] State, and landed in Canaan Tp., and settled near Denmark, on Shaw's Creek, purchasing 80 acres; subsequently, he went north of Denmark, and located in August 1862; he volunteered in Co “C” 96th, O. V. I., and served until the close of the war; upon his return from service, he lived three years on the eighty-acre tract on Shaw's Creek he then went north of Denmark where he purchased 160 acres, and remained on the same until 1872, when he sold his farm, and purchased the Dalrymple farm where he now resides. He has now 245 acres of choice land, most favorably located. Few men in the county have been more successful than Mr. Lyon. Beginning a poor boy he worked by the month, at low wages, and gave one-half of his earnings to his father, and saved every dollar he earned, and has at length become one of the staunch and affluent farmers in the locality, farming and stock-raising being his delight. Three girls have been born him, Mary, now Mrs. Frank La Fever; Hattie, Mrs. John Maiden; and Amy, born June 14, 1861. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 732-733
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STEPHEN B. LYON. —Industry and ability invariably win their way to prominence. No matter how small and insignificant the beginning may be, the industrious man who exerts his talents and has the tenacity of purpose to persist in the course good judgment dictates never fails of success. Stephen B. Lyon has been identified with agricultural pursuits in South Bloomfield township, Morrow county, Ohio, for fully three decades, and in the township has been incumbent of some important offices of public trust and responsibility.
     Mr. Lyon was born on the farm in Morrow county on the 11th of December, 1854, and is a son of Newton and Hannah (Lounsbury) Lyon, the former of whom was a native of the state of Ohio and the latter of whom was born in New York. The mother accompanied her parents to Ohio when a child of but three years of age, the journey having been made overland by wagon. Location was made in the woods in Knox county on a tract of land which the father reclaimed to cultivation. Newton Lyon was a son of Smith and Sallie (Marvin) Lyon, and the former was a son of Walker and Mary Lyon who came to Ohio from Connecticut when Smith was a lad of twelve years of age. The Lyon family settled on a tract of eighty acres of land east of Bloomfield and in the early pioneer days they were the only white family but one, that of Peter Kile, between that place and Mt. Liberty. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Lyon became the parents of three children, of whom Stephen B. was the second in order of birth, namely, Smith W., Stephen B. and John F. The father was identified with farming during the major portion of his active business career, and he and his wife are yet living.
     Stephen, B. Lyon was reared to the invigorating discipline of the home farm and he early availed himself of the advantages afforded in the public schools of his native place. He also attended school for a time at Delaware, Ohio, and as a young man he spent one year in the west in prospecting. When twenty-five years of age he was married and thereafter he, turned his attention to farming, location being made on an estate near his present fine farm. He is engaged in general farming and in late years has become much interested in the raising of Delaine sheep, in which line of enterprise he has been eminently successful. He takes care of flocks numbering up to two hundred head and averages some ten pounds of wool per animal. In politics Mr. Lyon accords an uncompromising allegiance to the cause of .the Republican party and in connection with public affairs he has served the county as deputy state supervisor of elections for some eight years. He has held other minor township offices and for a number of years has been a member of the school board. In their religious faith Mr. and Mrs. Lyon are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Sparta, Ohio, to whose charities and benevolences they have ever been most liberal contributors. As a citizen of sterling integrity of character and eminent reliability Mr. Lyon has frequently been called upon to settle the estates of his neighbors, among them being those of his grandfather, Colonel Brown, Joseph Conway and others. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at Centerburg, Ohio.
     On September 1, 1879, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Lyon to Miss Mary Gloyd, who was born in South Bloomfield township December 7, 1856, and who is a daughter of Morgan and Margaret (Jackson) Gloyd, the former of whom was born on the 25th of August, 1826, and the latter on the 5th of October, 1832, both having been natives of Connecticut, whence the respective families immigrated to Ohio in the early pioneer days, the Gloyds locating in the vicinity of Sparta, and the Jacksons in South Bloomfield township. Morgan Gloyd passed away on the 23rd of November, 1890, and his wife died on the 28th of August, 1892. They had two children, of whom Mrs. Lyon was the second in order of birth. To Mr. and Mrs. Lyon was born one child, Maud, whose birth occurred on the 27th of July, 1880, and who is now the wife of J. M. Wilson of Knox county; they have one child, Harold who is in school and bright in his studies. Maud was educated in the common and high schools at Centerburg, Knox county, Ohio, having been graduated in the latter institution at the early age of fifteen years. After leaving school she taught for two years in South Bloomfield township.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 584-586
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