Lincoln Twp. –
GEORGE YAKE, farmer; P. O., Cardington; was born in Baden, Germany, Sept. 22, 1822; his parents, George and Magdalene Yake, were born in the same place. George Yake, Jr., came to America in 1834. His parents had come two years previous. They settled in Marion Co., Ohio, where they resided until their deaths; they had but one child, the subject of this sketch. After coming to America he resided with his parents in Marion Co., Ohio, until his marriage; he was reared on a farm and received a limited education; he was married Nov. 26, 1842, to Catharine Wick, who was also born in Germany, in 1823; she came to America in 1832, with her parents, Adam and Eve Wick. They also settled in Marion Co., where they lived until their death. From their marriage there were four children -- Catharine , George., Jacob and Michael, all of whom are now married. Mr. Yake came to Morrow Co., in 1875, where he purchased a farm of 150 acres. one mile east of Cardington. He and family are members of the Lutheran Church.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 771
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Lincoln Twp. –
ABRAHAM YANT, farmer; P. O., Cardington; was born in Pa., May 22, 1791; his parents, Valentine and Louisa Yant, were also born in Pa. Mr. Yant’s parents died in 1840; he was raised on a farm, and resided with his parents until of age, at which time he began business for himself. He came to Morrow Co., Ohio, from Pa., in 1855, where he has since resided. He was married to Catharine Snider, about the year 1811; her parents were also natives of Pa.; from their marriage their [sic] were five children, one of whom is now dead -- Rebecca, Hannah, Valentine, Jacob and William.  Mr. Yant began business for himself, with very limited means; and all he has, was made by himself. When he came to the county, he purchased 184 acres of land, which he has now well improved. His wife died about 1858; he is a member of the Presbyterian church, as was also his wife.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 771
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JOSEPH H. YEAGER. ––A representative agriculturist of Morrow county, Joseph H. Yeager is a well-known resident of North Bloomfield township, where his finely cultivated and well appointed farm gives substantial evidence of the excellent care and skill with which it is managed.  He was born October 12, 1844, in Lancaster, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, coming from sturdy German ancestry, his paternal grandparents having been born, reared and educated in Germany.
     William Yeager, his father, spent his earlier life in Pennsylvania.  In 1850 he came with his family to Ohio, making the journey through the forests with teams, bringing with him, all of his worldly possessions.  Locating in Troy township, Morrow county, he there rounded out a long life, passing away in the ninetieth year of his age.  To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Harriet Dase, seven children were born, five of whom grew to years of maturity and four are now, in the spring of 1911, living, as follows: Amanda, wife of Levi Texter; Belinda, wife of Wesley Texter; Mary, widow of Alonzo Carpenter; and Joseph H.
     Joseph H. Yeager, a lad of six years when he came with his parents to Morrow county, well remembers the long ride in the covered wagon and the camping and cooking by the wayside.  He obtained a practical education in the district schools, and soon after the breaking out of the Civil war ran away from home to join the army.  His father realized that he was not old enough or strong enough to endure the hardships of a soldier’s life and refused to allow him to enlist.  Beginning life then as a wage-earner, he worked by the day or month until twenty-five years old, when, having been wise in his savings and prudent in his expenditures, he found himself with a bank account amounting to eight hundred dollars.  Then, in partnership with his brother-in-law he bought eighty acres of land in North Bloomfield township, and was busily employed in its management for four years, when he sold his interest in the place.  He subsequently bought forty acres in the same township, and has since added to his landed possessions and now owns eighty acres of well tilled land, and has a half interest, besides, in ninety-one acres.  In his agricultural operations Mr. Yeager has met with uniform prosperity and is one of the leading men of his community.  Enterprising and active, he invested in a threshing outfit many years ago, being one of the first men in this part of the county to own a threshing machine, and each harvest season finds him one of the busiest of men, his services being in demand throughout the neighborhood.
     Mr. Yeager has been twice married.  He married first Mary E. Klinefelter, a daughter of Jacob and Catharine (Kiefer) Klinefelter.  She passed to the life beyond May 1, 1890, leaving six children, as follows: May, wife of Grant Haldeman, of Marion, Ohio; Daisy D., wife of Edwin Croft, of Mansfield, Ohio; Edith, wife of Charles Garverick, of Troy township; Clara, wife of Ira Garverick; Carlson J., living at home; and Bertha, living at home.  Mr. Yeager married for his second wife, January 26, 1893, Jennie F. Stull, who was born April 28, 1868, in Morrow county, a daughter of George Stull.  Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Yeager, namely: Cloyd, born November 2, 1896; Glenn, born May 3, 1899; Kenneth, born July 8, 1906; and Jennie M., born September 1, 1908.
     In his political affiliations Mr. Yeager is a Democrat, and has filled various local offices, having been township trustee, assessor for eight years and land appraiser for North Bloomfield township.  He is a member and one of the directors of the Morrow County Agricultural Society, and both he and his wife belong to the Johnsville Grange, of which he has been master, while she is now lecturer for the local grange.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Yeager are members of the United Evangelical church of Troy township, and liberal contributors towards its support.  Fraternally Mr. Yeager belongs to Johnsville Lodge, No. 469, I. O. O. F., of which he is past noble grand.  The pretty homestead of Mr. and Mrs. Yeager is known as “The Maple Grove Farm.”
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 667-668
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Perry Twp. –
C. YOUNG, harness-maker and saddler; Shaucks.  Among the intelligent and public-spirited citizens of Johnsville, it is fitting and proper that we here make mention of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, as a man who has aided largely in building up the business interests and industries of the place.  He is a native of Auerbach, Germany, born Jan. 20, 1833; he was carefully educated in the schools of his native town until fourteen years of age, when his father, Peter Young, who was a harness-maker, placed him in his shop to learn the trade; he remained six years, becoming a skillful workman in every branch of the business.  As the “Fatherland” did not at that time furnish very remunerative employment for her mechanics, our subject being twenty-one years of age determined to come to America.  Accordingly, he embarked from Bremen, March 1, 1854, and after a stormy voyage of eighty-three days, in which he experienced severe sea-sickness of ten days’ duration, and on Easter Sunday a storm that threatened destruction to the good ship, they reached New York City May 24, 1854.  Mr. Young worked in a provision store in this metropolis of the New World for about four months; then came to Findlay, O., where he worked some three years in the harness-shop of Mr. Meffet, afterwards working for some time in his own shop.  He came to Johnsville about January, 1863, where he found employment one year in the shop of J. H. Shearer, after which he began business in his present shop.  At the call made for troops to guard the Nation’s capitol, he responded and served about four months in the 136 Regiment O. N. G., at the close of which he re-enlisted in the 179 O. V. I., and was honorably discharged at the close of the war, when he returned to Johnsville, where he has since done a prosperous business in the manufacture and sale of harness and saddles.  He now employs three skillful workmen who turn out every variety of most elegant and durable work, whose popularity is attested by his large sales and a constantly increasing demand.  He united his fortunes with Louisa Lieb of Findlay, O., Sept. 26, 1836; she is a native of Wurtemburg, Germany; she was born Jun 4, 1835, and came to Ohio in 1854 during the same month, but not in the same ship in which Mr. Young came.  Thirteen children have been born to them, all living but one -- August E. was born July 15, 1857; Sophia, Oct. 10, 1858; George J., June 21, 1860; Joseph P., March 14, 1862; Charley C. and Eliza L. (twins), January 30, 1864; Anna H., April 11, 1866; Mary H., April 9, 1868; Frank F., Oct. 14, 1870; Sarah J., Nov. 10, 1872, Maggie, Sept. 7, 1873; Elmore, Feb. 27, 1875, died Aug. 1875; William, born Sept. 30, 1876.  Mr. Young is a member of the School Board, and takes a deep interest in the education of the young.  He and wife are active members of the Baptist Church.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 834-835
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ALBAN YOEMANS.—One of the best known and most influential of the citizens of Cardington and Morrow county is Alban Yoemans, agriculturist, lumberman, dealer in horses, in short one of the most active men of affairs in the locality.  His various vocations have been such as to give him an unusually wide acquaintance; in his early days he was a sawyer, then an engineer; he has shipped horses for years, which has brought him into contact with many men; and he has that geniality and magnetism which makes a man not easily forgotten.  His strenuous life has agreed with him remarkably well and to-day he has the appearance of a man of not over forty-five years of age, when in reality he can lay claim to nearly twenty more.
     This gentleman who has spent so many years within the borders of Morrow county is a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred not far from the city of Philadelphia, June 17, 1847, and he was the third in order of birth in a family of ten children, equally divided as to sons and daughters.  Of this number only three are living at the present day, and all are Morrow county residents.  Hannah Jane is the widow of Paul C. Wheeler, and Margaret is the wife of A. E. Criswell, an agriculturist.  The parents of Alban Yoemans were Thomas and Nancy (Goodman) Yoemans.  The former was born in Lincolnshire, England, about the year 1818 and died in 1900, at a very advanced age.  He sailed with his parents from Liverpool when he was but a child and the little party of immigrants to the freedom and opportunity of the new world were three weeks crossing the ocean.  They arrived at Baltimore, Maryland, and went thence to Chester county, Pennsylvania.  The head of the household was a stone mason by trade and soon found work to do.  Young Thomas was reared to manhood’s estate in Chester county and he followed the example set by so many of the easterners and came to Ohio, where he looked about him and finally located in Morrow, here purchasing a farm upon which he spent many years and reared his large family.  The family lived in a log cabin at first and although they came about the Civil war period, many conditions, compared with those of the present, were still rather primitive.  Politically Thomas Yoemans was an old line Whig.  He voted for the first Republican presidential candidate, General Fremont, and until his demise he continued to give unswerving allegiance to those principles.  He was everywhere known for his strictest integrity and honesty, these virtues being the keynote to his life.  He made a firm stand for right principles and he was of benevolent nature, with ever a kind word and a kinder deed for the poor and unfortunate.  He did the state the greatest service within his power by teaching his children to lead useful and honorable lives.  In the matter of religious conviction he was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a member for over fifty years and for a long period holding the office of deacon in the church.  It is indeed gratifying that so fine a citizen should have been granted so long a life.  His wife was born May 8, 1820, and died July 24, 1896.  She was a native of the Keystone state.
     Mr. Yoemans was a lad about fifteen years of age when the family located in Morrow county.  For such educational advantages as it was given to him to enjoy he is indebted to the public schools.  He is, however, to a great extent, self-educated and self-made and his success is owing to his extreme honesty and never-tiring energy.  As suggested in preceding paragraphs he has had varied experience in the world of affairs.  He began his struggle to gain foothold in the business world when about twenty years of age and he was empty handed, without a ten dollar bill to his name.  His first experience was in the lumber business.  Then the walnut trees stood thick upon the broad acres of Morrow county and he prepared for commerce hundreds of thousands of feet of beautiful walnut lumber, selling it for a pittance, compared to modern prices for this prized commodity.  He erected a saw-mill east of Cardington and for fifteen years was engaged in conducting that.  He has sold first-class walnut lumber for forty dollars per thousand, where the same commodity will now sell for one hundred and thirty dollars per thousand.
     It was about the year 1878, that Mr. Yoemans first engaged in the shipping of horses in which he has since conducted extensive operations.  He dealt in horses––driving, draft and streetcar––and his first large shipment was to Cincinnati.  His operations in this line steadily increased and he eventually became known as one of the most extensive, if not, indeed, entitled to the superlative term, of the shippers of the state of Ohio.  For fifteen years, his dealings with the people of Morrow and adjoining counties amounted annually to one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. He shipped extensively to Boston, New York City, Newark (New Jersey), Buffalo, and St. Louis.  He has had a wide experience and is rightfully accounted as one of the most successful men of his township.  He is and always has been an extensive property owner, having owned three farms in Morrow county, and to-day he owns one of the most beautiful and well improved agricultural properties hereabout, the same being situated not far from the corporate limits of Cardington.  Having so much to do with the equine species, he erected one of the finest and best equipped barns in all Morrow county.  It is a wonder in the excellence of its fittings and well repays inspection, for Mr. Yoemans is one of those who believe that “Order is Heaven’s first law,” and here everything has a place and is found in its place.
     Alban Yoemans, although very young when the first guns were fired at Sumter, was nevertheless one of the brave boys who went to the front at the time of his country’s danger.  He enlisted from Mt. Gilead, in May, 1863, in Company G, of the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his captain being John Baxter.  The regiment was sent to Fort Williams, south of Washington, D. C., to guard the forts and there a large portion of his term of service passed.  He received his honorable discharge August, 1864, and at once returned home to don civilian’s garb.
     In September, 1869, Mr. Yoemans was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Sipe and their union has been blessed by the birth of four children.  Ella is the wife of Ralph Shockley and resides in California; Cora, widow of Henry Hutchinson, makes her home with her father.  Edson Leroy died at the age of twenty-one years and in the fullness of his promise.  Ida, the youngest daughter is at home.  Mrs. Yoemans was a daughter of Jobe and Hannah Sipe, a native of Morrow county, educated in the public schools and reared upon her father’s farm.  She was a member of the United Brethren church and devout in her religious belief.  The demise of this worthy lady occurred in May, 1879.  Mr. Yoemans chose for his second wife, Huldah Ann Barge, daughter of Lewis and Susan Barge, and a native of Morrow county, Ohio, and their union, solemnized in the year 1882, resulted in the birth of three children, only one of whom is living at the present.  This is Lewis B., a blacksmith by trade.  The second Mrs. Yoemans was removed from those scenes in which she had passed a life of usefulness and honor, March 5, 1907.  The subject is a stanch adherent of the Republican party and cast his first vote for General Grant.  He has ever stood firmly for the cause of the Grand Old Party, but has never aspired to any official position.  He was once, however, prevailed upon to accept the duties of sheriff and his energy and diligence in carrying out its various duties was admirable, and his cleverness as a detective of wrong doing was widely heralded.
     Although so long in the horse business, Mr. Yoemans was free from any of the habits which frequently accompany the vocation.  He never smoked a cigar, has never used tobacco in any form; has eschewed gambling and betting and was never intoxicated in all his life.  His influence is admirable and this is particularly well for Morrow county, that one so widely known and one so widely admired, especially by the young, should be of such exemplary life.
     The beautiful farm upon which the Yoemans home is made has changed hands but once since it was entered from the government so many years ago.  It is adorned with a commodious and modern home and is a favorite gathering place in Morrow county.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 925-928
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CHARLES C. YOUNG. ––The estimable citizen whose name forms the caption for this article is most successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits in Perry township, Morrow county, Ohio.  Mr. Young has been identified with various lines of enterprise during his eventful career and in all of them has proved his mettle as a man of worth and ability.  From his thrifty German ancestors he inherits that stern sense of duty and conscientious industry which have ever characterized natives of the old Fatherland.
    Charles C. Young was born in Johnsville, Morrow county, Ohio, the date of his nativity being the 30th of January, 1864, and he is a son of Caspar and Louisa(Lieb) Young, both of whom were born and reared in the great Empire of Germany, whence they immigrated to America about the year 1857.  They made the uneventful but wearying trip across the Atlantic in the same sailboat, and during the eighty-two days consumed by the journey their friendship waxed strong and gradually grew into love.  After disembarking at New York city they proceeded to Findley, Hancock county, Ohio, where was solemnized their marriage and where they maintained their home for a number of years.  He served as deputy sheriff of Hancock county, but he was a harness maker by trade and was engaged in that line of work during practically his entire lifetime.  Subsequently removal was made to Morrow county, where Casper Young became a man of influence in public affairs.  In 1861 the family home was established in Johnsville, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life.  At the time of the inception of the Civil war he gave evidence of his intrinsic loyalty and patriotism to the cause of his adopted country by tendering his services as a soldier in the Union army.  He enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he won renown as a faithful and gallant soldier.  After serving for some time with his company and regiment he joined Company F, One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he remained one year.  To Mr. and Mrs. Casper Young were born thirteen children, eight of whom are living in 1911, namely: August E. and George, both of Mount Gilead; Sophia, who is the wife of James Pinyard, of Mount Gilead; Charles C., the immediate subject of this review; Anna, who is the wife of George Fullhart, of Geneva, Ohio; Frank, who resides at Montpelier, Indiana; Sarah, who married Fred Renshaw and who now maintains her home in California; and William, of Los Angeles, California.  The children who are deceased are: Joseph, Eliza, Mary, Maggie and Elmore.  The father of the above children was summoned to the life eternal November 1, 1890, and the mother is a resident of Los Angeles, California, aged seventy-five years.
     After completing the curriculum of the common schools of Johnsville Charles C. Young entered upon an apprenticeship at the harness maker’s trade under the able preceptorship of his father, and for nineteen years he devoted his entire time and attention to the work of that line of enterprise.  Subsequently he worked at his trade in Galion, Ohio, for a period of two years, at the expiration of which he directed his energies to the transfer business at Galion.  In 1906 he returned to Johnsville, where he was employed on a farm for some three years.  In 1909 he rented the Jesse Stilwell farm in Perry township, Morrow county, on which he has continued to reside to the present time.  He has proved eminently successful as a farmer and his finely equipped estate, with its splendid buildings and well cultivated fields, show that he possesses considerable ability as an agriculturist and stock-raiser.
     On the 20th of June, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Young to Miss Laura B. Walters, who was reared and educated in Richland county, Ohio, the date of her birth being the 22nd of September, 1870.  To this union have been born four daughters: Ima, who was graduated in the Johnsville High School and who is now the wife of Edward Shier, of Morrow county; and Mary, Bertha and Maggie, all of whom remain at the parental home.  In their religious adherency the Young family are devout and zealous members of the United Brethren church, in the various departments of whose work they have long been active factors.  They are popular and prominent in connection with the best social activities of the community and their home is widely renowned as a center of genial and most gracious hospitality.
     In his political convictions Mr. Young is aligned as a stalwart supporter of the cause of the Democratic party and while he has never been ambitious for the honors or emoluments of public office he was at one time prevailed upon to serve as justice of the peace of Morrow county, in discharging the duties of which important office he acquitted himself most creditably.  He is a man of decided worth and undoubted integrity and as such commands the unalloyed confidence and high regard of his fellow citizens.  In the various enterprises with which he has been connected his conduct has ever been faultless and he is recognized as a true friend and strictly reliable business man.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 818-819
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