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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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CHARLES I. YORK.
This well-known attorney at law, who enjoys an honorable
and lucrative practice in his chosen profession, is
holding an enviable place in the front rank of that
distinguished army of talent which constitutes the bar
of Ottawa county.
He is a native of Ohio, born in Greenwich township,
Huron county, Feb. 18, 1856. When he was an
infant of two months his parents, Stephen and
Hannah York, moved to the adjoining
township of Ruggles, in Ashland county, where for some
thirty years they resided, at the end of that time
returning to Greenwich township, and finally settling in
the village of that name. Here the father died
Sept. 3, 1888, the mother on Oct. 7, 1892, leaving one
son and four daughters, as follows: Charles I., Mrs.
Harriet Washburn, Mrs. Cornelia Wright and Mrs.
Lena Stoner, of Greenwich, Ohio; and Mrs. Avetta
MaCumber, of Lorain, Ohio. The parents and all
the grandparents were born in the State of New York,
while the great-grandparents were of Irish, German and
French nativity.
When four years old our subject commenced attending
district school near his Ashland county home, his first
teacher being Alvin Griffin, who is now,
and has been for the past thirty years or so, a
practicing attorney at law at Norwalk, Ohio. At the age
of fifteen young Charles entered a private school
in the same vicinity, which he attended two years, and
in November, 1873, at the early age of seventeen, he
commenced teaching country school, the first step toward
beginning life for himself. During the springs and
summers of 1874 and three consecutive years Mr.
York was engaged by the month on a farm, shearing
sheep, and in other occupations, at intervals, when out
of work, canvassing for the sale of books, at the same
time attending private schools in the fall, his winters
being occupied in teaching. In 1878 he taught
select schools, his chief duties being to prepare the
student for the profession of school teaching. In
1879, 1880, and up to the fall of 1881 he was engaged as
traveling salesman for a church, school and hall
furniture industry, teaching school in the winter of
1879-80. In the fall of 1881 he entered the Law
Department of Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Mich.,
where, on March 28, 1883, he received the degree of
Bachelor of Laws. During vacation in his course,
and after graduation, he continued, until the fall of
1883, his former occupation of traveling salesman.
On Feb. 8, 1883, he was admitted to practice law in the
State of Michigan, and on June 5, 1883, while at
Columbus, Ohio, on business for the firm he was
traveling for he was admitted to the bar by the supreme
court of Ohio, and has since been admitted to practice
in the United States courts. In the fall of 1883
he entered the law office of H. C. Carhart, at
Gallon, Ohio, there making his debut into the arena of
law; but he remained there only two weeks, for during
the afternoon of December 2. he began to take into
favorable consideration the condition of affairs in Oak
Harbor, Ottawa county, which he had frequently visited
in his traveling days, and the result of his cogitations
was that on the following day he found himself located
in that thriving town and engaged in the trial of a case
before the mayor thereof. Here he remained in the
practice of his chosen profession until July 4, 1892, at
which date he removed to Port Clinton, the county seat
of Ottawa county, where he has continued to reside.
On October 18, 1887, at his own home in Oak Harbor,
which had been suitably prepared for a life of
domesticity, Mr. York was married to
Miss Anna Wilt, of that village, and they partook of
their marriage supper at their own table. Socially
our subject is a member in good standing of the F. & A.
M., the I. O. O. F. and the K. of P. Lodges. He
believes that men become characterized to, and a reflex
of, the objects which they worship, and holds that man's
supreme duty is to worship God, by reason of his
relation with his Creator, as it becomes revealed to
him, through the Sacred Scriptures, human reason and
natural laws, that he might become a susceptible
character to reflect sunshine and happiness in his home,
in the fraternities of men and the society of the world,
and become so spiritually related to his Creator as to
be enabled to await in perfect peace, consolation and
faith the eternal destiny of the immortal soul.
At the November election, in 1888, Mr. York
was elected prosecuting attorney of Ottawa county, on
the Democratic ticket, and at the November election in
1891 he was re-elected on the same ticket, holding that
office for two terms, beginning on the first Monday of
January, 1889, and ending on the first Monday of
January, 1895. He is possessed of excellent
judgment, gifted with enviable skill in handling a case,
and forcible in his arguments before a jury, while he is
regarded as a useful local counselor and office lawyer,
critical and accurate in the adjustment and preparation
of cases. Genial and popular, no man stands higher
in the estimation of the people of the county, and his
present leading position, both as a man and as a lawyer,
is a conclusive proof of what pluck, ambition and honest
endeavor will accomplish.
* Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
the Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J.
H. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 382 |
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REV. ERNEST WALTER YAECKER
* Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
the Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J.
H. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page |
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ANTON
YOUNG, one of the oldest pioneers, and also one
of the prominent agriculturists of Allen township,
Ottawa county, was born in Germany, Feb. 2, 1823, near
the banks of the beautiful river Rhine, his parents
being John and Kate (Diefenthaler) Young,
also natives of Germany.
The early years of our subject were spent in school in
his native province, and he assisted his father on the
farm until he was nineteen years of age. At that
time he was drafted into the army, being required to
learn the science of warfare, having to drill and
perform all military duties and receiving a furlough
every six months. In 1849, when the revolution
broke out in his native land, he was called upon to take
up arms in defense of the government, and served until
peace was restored i 1850, when he received his
discharge. He then returned home and worked on his
father's farm, and also far other parties until 1852.
In March of that year he emigrated to this country, and
came to Ohio, locating in Toledo, where he was married
and remained for a short time. In 1853,
Mr. Young came to Allen township, then a portion of
Clay township, Ottawa County, where he bought sixty-five
acres of land, most of which was covered with timber,
and on which he built a log cabin. He immediately
began clearing his land, planting, as fast as the trees
were removed, small patches of corn, potatoes, etc.,
with which to support his family. After several
years of hard toil he succeeded in converting the place
into a well-cultivated farm, and erected a commodious
dwelling house with large barn and other outbuildings,
the property now being considered among the finest in
Allen township. In 1863, Mr. Young was
drafted into the Union army, but not feeling willing to
leave his wife and young family, he paid $300 to be
exempted. He afterward had his money returned to
him, as the draft was not a legal one. In 1864 he
was again drafted, but did not have to answer the call.
In 1865, when the last call for volunteers was made,
Mr. Young enlisted in the One Hundred and
Eighty-ninth Ohio Infantry, and was sent to Nashville,
Tenn. It so happened that he was not in any
engagement, and on Oct. 9, of the same year, he received
his discharge and returned home. Since that time
he has lived upon his farm, where with his good wife he
is passing the evening of his days in peace and
happiness.
Mr. Young was married, Jan. 30, 1853, at Toledo,
to Mary Kohler, daughter of Philip Kohler,
a farmer, who was of German birth. To this union
nine children were born of whom eight are living, viz.:
John, born July 15, 1855, is a farmer in Allen
township; he was married in June, 1887, to Mary,
daughter of Hiram Overbeck, a farmer of Wood
county, and they have two children, Herman born
Sept. 1, 1888, and Eva K., born Nov. 1, 1891.
Christina Young was born Apr. 29, 1858, and is
living at home with her parents. George J.
was born Nov. 2, 1860. Philip, Feb. 17,
1863. Andrew, May 20, 1865. Edwin,
July 20, 1867. Katie, July 1, 1870, and
Henry, May 10, 1873. All of these were
educated in the public schools of Allen township, and
are at home with her parents. Mary, who was
born Feb. 2, 1854, died July 28, of the same year.
John Young, the father of our subject, was born
in Germany, where he was a farmer. He was married
in 1819 to Katie Diefenthaler, and five children
have blessed their union, viz.: Philip, George,
Anton, Jacob (who is a farmer in Wood county, this
State) and Susan (who died in Germany when a
child). Philip Kohler, farmer of Mrs.
Young, was born in Germany, where he was married,
and he became the father of four children, viz.:
John Philip, who died in Toledo; Barbara,
the wife of John Young, of Toledo; Kate,
who died when a child in Germany, and Mary, the
wife of our subject. The father died in Germany,
and the widow married Philip Diefenthaler, with
whom she came to this country, locating in Wood county,
Ohio. By his second marriage a family of four
children was born: Maggie, who died in
Germany; Christiana M., wife of John Bush
a farmer in Wood county; and Jacob and Anthona,
both of whom are farmer in Wood county. The mother
died in that county in 1864.
Our subject held the office of school director in Allen
township for several years. In politics he is a
Republican, and the family are members of the
Evangelical Church.
* Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
the Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J.
H. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 373 |
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GEORGE YOUNG - See
JOHN
WHEELER |
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JOHN
YOUNG, owner of a fine farm in Allen township,
Ottawa county, is one of the many German settlers who
came to Ohio in an early day, bringing with them the
habits of industry, thrift and perseverance acquired in
their native land, and which have enabled them to become
important factors in the growth and progress of the
State of their adoption.
Our subject was born in Spiesheim, Hesse-Darmstadt,
Germany, Apr. 10, 1838, and is the son of John and
Catherine (Young) Young, both natives of the same
province as their son. His boyhood days were spent
in school and upon his father's farm, and in 1856 he
came with the family to America. They settled in
Lake township, Wood Co., Ohio, and here, when old
enough, he carried on farming until Feb. 13, 1865, when
on the last call for men to take arms against the
Rebellion, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and
Eighty-ninth Ohio Infantry, under command of Col.
Henry Kingsbury. He served in this regiment
for eight months, and on Sept. 28, same year, received
his discharge at Nashville, Tenn. He then returned
to Wood county where he worked on his father's farm for
upward of twenty years, at the end of which time he went
to Hillsdale county, Mich., where he bought land and
farmed two years. In 1886 Mr. Young
returned to this State, and purchasing fifty-three acres
of partially-cleared land in Allen township, Ottawa
county, began the improvements, which have made it such
a valuable piece of property. He now has a
comfortable dwelling, etc., and is regarded as one of
the solid, thorough-going and intelligent men of the
county. Mr. Young was married July 30,
1871, at Genoa, Ohio, to Katie, daughter of
John and Susanna (Bihn) Young, who were farmers of
Ottawa county, and of this union there are seven
children, as follows: Matilda, born Aug. 20,
1872, was married Mar. 29, 1894, to John Vogelpohl,
a farmer of Lucas county, Ohio, and has one child -
Willie, born Apr. 15, 1895; Charles J., born
June 29, 1874, is farming in Ottawa county; while
Magdalena, born Apr. 26, 1876, Mary E., June
3, 1879, Lewis J., Nov. 25, 1882, and Katie E.,
Jul. 18, 1889, are all at home with their parents.
One child died in infancy.
John Young, the father of our subject, was born
in Germany in 1802, and was a farmer by occupation.
He was there married to Miss Catherine Young, who
was born in 1800, and they emigrated to this country
when their children were quite young. They at
first settled in New York State, near Niagara falls,
where they remained for three years, then came to Ohio
and made their home in Lake township, Wood county.
They were the parents of seven children, all born in
Germany, of whom the following record is given:
Philip, the eldest, is a farmer in Wood county;
Charles is a stone mason, and lives in Toledo;
Elizabeth married Joseph Kapp, a farmer of
Wood County, and both are deceased, the former dying
Sept. 2, 1891, the latter on Aug. 26, same year (they
left five children); John, our subject, is the
fourth in order of birth; Andrew is married,
lives at Toledo, and is the father of four children, two
of whom are living; two died in Germany. The
parents of this family died in Wood county, the father
in August, 1866, and the mother in September, 1862.
It is a curious coincidence that the names of the
fathers of both Mr. and Mrs. Young should be
John Young, and that those of our subject's mother
and his wife should both be Catherine Young.
The father of our subject's wife was also a native of
Germany, his birth taking place in Spiesheim, Hesse-Darmstadt,
Feb. 21, 1819. He followed farming in the old
country, until his emigration to America, in 1857.
He settled in Clay township, Ottawa Co., Ohio, where he
carried on farming for a number of years; he now resides
in Genoa, that county, where he is a mail carrier.
He was married in 1843, in Germany, to Susanna
Bihn, daughter of Peter Bihn, and to them
have been born six children: Mary E.,
born Jan. 22, 1844 now the widow of Jacob Long, a
farmer, and residing in Michigan; Katie, born
Aug. 6, 1848, now the wife of our subject; Jacob,
born Jan. 28, 1854, married, and living in New York
City; Phillipina M., born Dec. 31, 1856, now the
wife of John Ernst, a jeweler, residing in
Genoa; John, born Aug. 4, 1858, a butcher by
trade, and living in Huntington, Ind.; Matilda,
born Oct. 24, 1862, died at the age of eleven years, in
Ohio.
Mr. Young is
highly esteemed by his fellow citizens, and held the
office of school director in Lake township, Wood county,
for two years, and in Allen township, where he now
resides, and for same length of time. He is a
strong Republican, and has the best interests of his
community at heart. He and his family are regular
attendants at the Lutheran Church.
* Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
the Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J.
H. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 623 |
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