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BIOGRAPHIES
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Commemorative Biographical Records
of the
Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio
Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1896
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JOHN A. NEIDECKER,
proprietor of an extensive furniture establishment, and
funeral director, Port Clinton, Ottawa county, was born
in Chicago, Ill., May 25, 1859, a son of Peter and
Anna A. (Struve) Neidecker.
Grandfather Neidecker was born in Germany in 1776,
and died in 1882; his wife was born in 1806, and died
Dec. 28, 1880. PETER NEIDECKER, father of
our subject, was born in Baden, Germany, Mar. 21, 1834,
and at the age of fourteen accompanied his parents to
the United States, they settling in Erie township,
Ottawa Co., Ohio, where they passed the rest of their
honored lives in agricultural pursuits. Their son,
Peter, received a portion of his education in the
Fatherland, and after coming to Ottawa county attended
the common schools for a time. Removing to
Chicago, Ill., he there made his home till 1865, in
which year he returned to Ohio, taking up his home in
Port Clinton, where in the following year he engaged in
a coopering business, which he conducted in that village
until 1872, when he opened out an undertaking and
furniture establishment. In this line he continued
until 1876, when he retired from active life. In
the city of Chicago, Sept. 25, 1856, he was united in
marriage with Miss Anna A. Struve, and children
as follows were born to them: Minnie wife of
George Smith, of Cleveland; George William
who for six years was a printer, and is now a physician
in Brooklyn; Frank, who was fourteen years of age
commenced in the drug business at Port Clinton, Ohio,
and is now a resident of Cleveland; Caroline, at
home; and John A., subject of sketch. The
father of this family is deceased; the mother is living
in Port Clinton with her daughter Caroline and
two little granddaughters - children of our subject.
John A. Neidecker received his educational
training at the schools of Port Clinton, learned the
furniture and undertaking business with his father, and
succeeded to the same at the latter's death. For a
time he was in the recorder's and probate judge's
office, and in 1876 he was appointed probate
judge, filling that position eight months. He is a
man of attractive appearance, well adapted for the
management of his lucrative and widely expanding
business, and enjoys an enviable popularity.
* Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
the Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J.
H. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 820 |
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PETER NEIDECKER
* Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
the Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J.
H. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 820 |
Mariar E. Nellis |
MRS. MARIAR E. NELLIS.
In a record devoted to the representative people of a
county the ladies who have borne their part in public
work are also deserving of mention, and prominent among
this class is the one whose name opens this sketch.
She is a most capable business woman, and is
successfully carrying on a farm of more than 200 acres,
superintending its cultivation and its management and
making it one of the neatest and most valuable country
homes in this section of the State.
Mrs. Nellis is a daughter of
ISAAC W. and LUCY ANN (LEWIS) INGRAHAM, and was
born in Harris township, Ottawa county, Mar. 26, 1853.
Her father was born July 22, 1827, in Connecticut, and
came with his parents to Ohio, where he is still living,
on a farm that belongs to Mrs. Nellis. His
wife was born June 23, 1836, in New York, and they were
married in the Buckeye State, Nov. 30, 1851.
Eleven children were born of this union, namely:
Mariar E.; Calista, wife of G. H. Damschroeder;
Flora, wife of David McGowan; Gleny, who died
at the age of one year; Theodore; Arnold W.; Ruth,
who died in infancy; Eunice, wife of George
Hotmer; and three that died in infancy unnamed.
Benjamin Ingraham, the paternal grandfather of
Mrs. Nellis, was born in 1779, and died in 1869.
He followed farming the greater part of his life, and
reared a family of thirteen children, eight of whom have
families of their own. Benjamin Ingraham, Sr.,
father of Benjamin Ingraham, came to America on
the "Mayflower." Sallie Maria Fuller, the
maternal grandmother of Mrs. Nellis, was born in
Bristol county, Mass., May 10, 1807, and was one of the
eight children of Joseph Fuller, who fought in
the war of 1812. His father was one of the
Revolutionary heroes, and was one of the famous band who
participated in the "Boston Tea Party," when the British
tea was thrown into the harbor. Miss Fuller
was married in 1828 to Lyman Lewis, and they
became the parents of eight children, four born in New
York and four in Ohio. The father died in 1845,
and in 1848 the mother became the wife of George
Fletcher, by whom she had one son. Mr.
Fletcher died in 1857. On May 10, 1889,
Grandma Fletcher celebrated her eighty-second
birthday, in which celebration twenty-one grandchildren
and twenty-five great-grandchildren participated.
Two of her sons and one son-in-law were in the war of
the Rebellion. The family has long been
prominently connected with this locality, and Mrs.
Nellis' father helped to grade the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern railroad. He has also cradled
wheat on the site of the depot at Elmore, and is
numbered among the honored pioneer settlers of Ottawa
county.
Mrs. Nellis obtained her education in a country
schoolhouse that stands on the farm which she now owns.
When sixteen years of age she began to earn her own
living, and displayed the remarkable business ability
which has always characterized her. She was
employed in a tailor shop until about nineteen years of
age, and then began doing housework. On May 5,
1874, she became the wife of Cyrus T. Nellis, of
Elmore, and the first six months of their married life
were passed in Elmore, during which time Mr. Nellis
erected buildings on their farm north of the village.
In the autumn they removed to the new home, where they
lived four years, in the meantime purchasing the farm
upon which Mrs. Nellis is now living, and still
retaining possession of the other. The present
home adjoins the corporation limits of Elmore, and on
the place stands a beautiful brick residence and barns
and outbuildings which are models of convenience.
All the improvements of a model farm may be found there,
and have been secured entirely through the efforts of
Mrs. Nellis. When Mr. Nellis had the
large barn well under construction he lost his mind and
insanity caused him to attempt his own life by trying to
hang himself in the new barn, which was unfinished.
He was then, on Oct. 28, 1878, taken to the hospital in
Columbus, where he remained one year. During that
time Mrs. Nellis completed the buildings which
were then in process of erection. On his return
Mr. Nellis began preparations for a fine brick
residence, and had the foundations laid when his mind
again became unsettled, and he was once more taken to
Columbus, remaining there six years, after which he was
transferred to Toledo. The work of completing the
home then fell to his wife, and with indomitable energy
and perseverance she has carried forward the enterprise,
and to-day has one of the most beautiful homes in Ottawa
county. [On Sept. 25, 1895, since the above was
written, by some cause unknown, Mrs. Nellis'
barns, three in number, caught fire and were totally
destroyed together with all the contents, her own
property as well as that of her father, including the
latter's two span of horses, the best in the county.
By Nov. 6, 1895, she had managed to have a new barn
erected.]
The family of Mrs. Nellis numbered three
children, the eldest of whom died in infancy; Dow L.,
born Mar. 20, 1878, has acquired a good literary
education in the public schools of Elmore, and now aids
his mother in the care of her property; the youngest,
Bede C., born Sept. 6, 1881, is attending school in
Elmore, and has also studied music. The family is
one of prominence in the community, having many warm
friends, and Mrs. Nellis commands the respect and
admiration of all by the masterly way in which she has
carried forward her business interests. A thorough
lady, she yet has the business ability which
characterizes usually the sterner sex.
*Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the
Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J. H.
Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 566 |
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REUBEN NICHOLS
*Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the
Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J. H.
Beers & Co. 1896 - Page763 |
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HENRY W. NIEMAN
*Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the
Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J. H.
Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 553 |
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NICOLAI NISSEN.
The success which almost invariably attends the young
emigrant from Germany, who comes to our shores armed with
good health and a knowledge of some trade, can not fail of
remark, and is indicative of the steady habits, economy,
thrift and industry of that people. It would be
well, perhaps, if the youth of America were to profit by
the example set them, and emulate their foreign brothers
in some of these traits of character. The cry of
"hard times" would surely be heard less frequently, and
fewer business failures would occur.
In the gentleman whose names opens this sketch, and who is
one of the leading merchants of Port Clinton, Ottawa
county, we see one of the men who from a small beginning
built up an enviable trade, and who from their merits take
a prominent place in the community. Mr.
Nissen's father, whose name was Nis
Thomas, was a farmer in Schleswig-Holstein,
Germany, born in 1809, and died in 1876, at the age of
sixty-seven years. His mother, born in 1806, died in
1853, at Stadium, Schleswig, Germany, at the age of
forty-seven years. Her maiden name was
Trinke Dorothea. The family of this worthy
couple comprised five children: Matthias, Carsten,
Marie, Catherina, and Nicolai.
Our subject attended school in his youthful days, as all
children are required to do in Germany, and obtained a
good common-school education. He then learned the
trade of a shoemaker, and when twenty-four years old
emigrated to America, landing at New York, from there
coming to Sandusky, and later to Port Clinton. Here
he went to work at his trade, and after seven years was
enabled to commence business for himself. He lived for one
year (1866-67) in Michigan, then returned to Port Clinton.
For a couple of years he had partners in his business, but
since that time has carried on operations alone. He
began in a small way where Payne's drug store now stands.
He erected the brick block, that now occupies the place,
which he afterward sold, purchasing the building in which
his store is now located. Here he carries on a
extensive business, and is constantly increasing his
facilities for trade. Mr. Nissen
was married, Oct. 18, 1870, to Miss Theresa Eybsen,
who was born in New York City, Apr. 2, 1853. Seen
children were born to this union, four of whom are living
- August, Frank, Charles and Rosa
- and three are deceased - William (who
died when two years old), Julia and
Matilda. Of this interesting
family, August, the eldest, born Sept. 5, 1872, is now an
United States army officer. He was a cadet at West
Point, and after hard study succeeded in graduating on
June 12, 1895, standing No. 20 out of a class of
fifty-two. Immediately after graduating he
received a furlough of three months, which he spent at his
home in Port Clinton, and while there received his
commission as an officer, and was assigned to the Sixth U.
S. Cavalry, at Fort Myer, Virginia, near Washington, D.
C., where at the present time he is discharging his
duties. Frank, the next son, who is
at home, has assumed the management of his father's
business, and in time will, probably, become a partner,
and then successor to the present firm. Although at
present but twenty-one years of age, he has a thorough
knowledge of the shoe business, and has that energy which
tends to increase instead of decline.
Charles and Rosa, the two
younger children, are still attending school, and Charles
will graduate in '96, Rosa in '97.
In politics, Mr. Nissen is a good
Democrat, and is active in work for his party. In
religious faith, he is a Lutheran, a member of that
Church, and takes an interest in whatever tends to upbuild
the community in which he lives. He is the leading
boot and shoe dealer in Port Clinton, and is highly
respected for his integrity and excellent business
qualifications.
*Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records of the
Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J. H.
Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 705 |
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WILLIAM
NOBLE, a retired farmer of Salem township, Ottawa
county, and a highly-respected resident of Oak Harbor,
was born June 19, 1830, in Germany, on the line between
the Provinces of Hanover and Prussia, and is a son of
Frederick and Lena Noble, both of whom passed away
in their native land.
Our subject received his primary education in his
native land, and there apprenticed himself to the trade
of carpentering. In 1850 he emigrated to America,
and for two years was employed as salesman in a
provision store in New York City. In 1852 he
removed to the State of Ohio, locating in Danbury
township, Ottawa county, working at his trade during the
winter and sailing on Lake Erie, during the winter and
sailing on Lake Erie, during the summer months. In
1858 he purchased land in Salem township, and engaged in
agricultural pursuits; and although for the past four
years he has been living a retired life, enjoying the
rest he has so well earned, he still retains his farm,
which is in charge of his sons.
Mr. Noble was married in Danbury township Sept.
22, 1858, to Miss Mary Ott, a daughter of
Frederick and Fredericka (Grouman) Ott, both natives
of Germany, who located in Danbury township in 1855, and
moved to Salem township with their daughter and
son-in-law in 1858, passing away there in 1867 and 1875
respectively. Mrs. Noble was born in
Mecklenburg, Germany, Jan. 18, 1837. To this union
were born nine children, viz.: Dori, wife of
Sinese Bahnsen residing in Salem township;
William, born Apr. 14, 1861, a prominent farmer of
Salem township; Frederick, born November 22,
1863, a merchant of Azalia, Mich.; Matilda, born
Mar. 24, 1866, wife of Niss Paulsen, residing in
Bay township, Ottawa county; Charles, born Oct.
1, 1868, residing on the homestead; Rudolf, born
Sept. 28, 1870, now of Toledo, Ohio; Mary, born
July 15, 1873, died Mar. 4, 1876; August, born
Dec. 30, 1878; and one child who died in infancy.
Mr. Noble is a Democrat in his political views,
has filled a number of township offices, and by the
entire community in which he lives is looked up to and
admired and respected as a man of sterling qualities.
The family are members of the Lutheran Church.
(Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the
Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J. H.
Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 504) |
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