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History of Preble County, Ohio
H. Z.
Williams & Bro., Publishers
1881
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Abraham T. Sayler Residence
Mr. & Mrs. Abraham T. Sayler
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sayler
Mary Sayler |
THE SAYLER FAMILY.
The Sayler homestead, located at the northwest
corner of section thirty-six, in Gasper township, a view of
which is herewith given, was purchased by Christian Sayler
in 1814. Christian Sayler was born of Swiss
parentage, in Maryland, in 1785. When he was twelve years
old, the father having died, the family moved to Franklin
county, Virginia, and remained there unbroken till 1806, when
Christian, with his brother John, came to Ohio and
settled in Lanier township, on the east side of Twin creek.
In 1811 Christian married Mary Teal,
daughter of Samuel Teal, born in Frederick county,
Maryland, Sept. 11, 1789. While yet in childhood, her
father moved to Franklin county, Virginia, and remained there
until 1805, when he emigrated to Ohio, and settled at the mouth
of Aukerman’s creek, on land previously entered by
relatives. At the time, therefore, of the marriage of
Christian and Mary both were well accustomed to the
hardships of the forest and the toils of pioneer life.
Three years after their marriage and two years after the birth
of their oldest son, Abraham, who is the principal
subject of this sketch, the young couple purchased the farm,
which is now known as the Sayler homestead, and began to
battle against an unbroken forest. The day time was
occupied in the clearing by the husband and at the wheel by the
wife, and night was made hideous by the horrid howl of wolves in
the surrounding thickets.
The family of Christian and Mary Sayler
consisted of nine children, four of whom are living - Abraham
T., Elizabeth Shewman, Joseph, and Marie Allen.
Christian Sayler was a hard-working, through-going man, who,
with the assistance of his sons, improved the farm, and at the
time of death, in 1852, left the family in good circumstances.
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Sayler made her home
with Abraham, who purchased the homestead. It is
now pleasant to see this old lady, enfeebled by ninety-two years
of toilsome life, sitting at a window of her son's comfortable
home, contemplating with pleasure the changes which her eyes
have seen and her hands helped to bring about.
Abraham T., the oldest son of Christian and
Mary Sayler, and present owner of the homestead, a pictorial
sketch of which appears in this volume, was born Mar. 5, 1812.
In early boyhood he became expert with the axe, and was a
valuable assistant in reducing the farm to a state of
cultivation. He never was strongly inclined to sports, as
is proved by the fact that he never owned a gun, although the
howl of the wolf was yet heard, and the extensive woodlands were
filled with deer. Log rollings were the fashionable
parties of those days, and Mr. Sayler says he once
attended frolics of this kind seventeen days in succession,
except Sundays. There was a distillery on the farm, which
Abraham assisted to operate. He was always closely
attached to home, and like other young men of his time, knew
what hard work meant. He was married to Elizabeth
Rinehart, third child of Abraham Rinehart, Aug. 12,
1838. She was born May 25, 1817, her parents being among
the early settlers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Sayler
have had nine children, three of whom are living. Mary
Magdalene, born Feb. 8, 1843, is married to N. S. Bennet,
and living in Camden; Minerva, born Nov. 2, 1847, is
married to Patrick Guckain, and living on a farm in
Gasper township, and Martin S., born July 19, 1850, is
living on the homestead. He is married to Sarah A.
Swihart, who was born June 26, 1857. Martin S. and
Sarah have had three children: Charles A. and Hugh
J., born Jan. 8, 1875, and Theodore, born Mar. 21,
1878. Charley A. died July 24, 1876.
The remaining children of Abraham and Elizabeth
Sayler were: William H. Harrison, born May 27,
1840, died Nov. 10, 1840; Benjamin F., born Oct. 22,
1852, died Jan. 11, 1864; Selinna, born Apr. 1, 1855,
died Mar. 1, 1856; Cicero born Feb. 3, 1857, died Feb.
13, 1864; Adrian, born Feb. 13, 1861, died Dec. 28, 1864.
Benjamin F. was a volunteer in company E,
Eighty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, which entered the service
in 1862. Benjamin remained in the service till the
confederacy received its death blow at Appomattox. He was
in General Logan's corps and was color bearer while on
Sherman's famous march t9 the sea. While in the army
he contracted inflammatory rheumatism, with which he died.
His widow, whose maiden name was Mary Cosbey, is yet
living.
In politics Abraham Sayler was a Whig until the
disintegration of that party, when he became a Republican, and
since the war has supported the Democratic party. In
religion he holds to the Universalist faith, but has never
united himself with any religious society.
Socially Mr. Sayler is very genial and
hospitable. He makes his visitor feel perfectly
comfortable and at home.
His whole life has been one of busy toil, and his
accumulations are amply sufficient to support him during
declining years and start his children well on toward the goal
of wealth.
Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams &
Bro., Publishers - 1881 - Page 183 |
Christian Sayler |
DR. CHRISTIAN
SAYLER, of Winchester, Gratis township, was born in
Franklin county, Virginia, Jan. 4, 1804. His father,
Martin Sayler, was born in Fredrick county, Maryland,
about 1775. He moved to Virginia in 1800, and to Preble
county in 1809. He was a millwright by trade, and many of
the earliest mills in this part of the county were built by him.
He died June 21, 1852. Our subject began the study of
medicine at the age of twenty-three years, having first gained
as good an education in the common branches as was possible in
the early days of the settlement. He read first with
Dr. Samuel Nixon, and afterward attended the Ohio Medical
college at Cincinnati, from which he graduated, and began the
practice of his profession in the year 1830. He has now
been in practice fifty-one years, and although not as actively
engaged as he was a few years since, obeys all calls for his
services. He lives in a house which he built before he was
married, and has occupied no other during the long period that
has elapsed since that dwelling place was new. He was a
captain in the early day militia, and also the surgeon of a
regiment. Politically, he is a Republican. He has
voted for fifty-five years, and has never missed a single annual
election. The following presidential candidates have
received his ballot, viz: in 1828, Adams; in 1832,
Clay; in 1836, Harrison; in 1840, Harrison; in
1844, Clay; in 1848, Taylor; in 1852, Scott;
in 1856, Fremont; in 1860, Lincoln; in 1864,
Lincoln; in 1868, Grant; in 1872, Grant; in
1876, Hayes, and in 1880, Garfield. Dr.
Sayler has been twice married. His first wife,
Esther Lyning, of New Jersey, died Aug. 14, 1834,
after the birth of her second daughter. On Mar. 31, 1836,
he married his present wife, Catharine Bence. Six
children have been the offspring of this union. Dr. Sayler’s
eldest son, by his first marriage, James Sayler,
is a prominent politician of Ohio, having been four years in the
assembly, and two in the senate. His oldest son, by his
second marriage, William Sayler, studied medicine
with his father, graduated from the Ohio Medical college in
1871, and has since been actively engaged in the practice of
medicine in Preble county, with his home at Winchester.
The youngest son, Winfield Scott Sayler, is
also a graduate of the Ohio Medical college, the same
institution from which his brother and his father graduated, the
latter, more than half a century ago. He graduated in the
spring of 1880, and is now located at Winchester.
Dr. Christian Sayler is possessed of a strong
constitution; is still vigorous and sturdy, notwithstanding his
years and with the exception of one winter, has always enjoyed
excellent health. He is a man of remarkable mirthfulness,
which quality he inherits from his father. Although his
early educational facilities were very meagre, he has, by
extensive reading, accumulated a large amount of valuable
information, and has brought together, little by little, a large
library. He has led a very industrious, active, upright
life, and has long been one of the most influential and
respected citizens of Preble county.
Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z.
Williams & Bro., Publishers - 1881 - Page 190 |
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SAMUEL SMITH
Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams &
Bro., Publishers - 1881 - Page (betw. 264 & 265) |
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ok - EDWARD S. STOTLER
Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams &
Bro., Publishers - 1881 - Page (betw. 272 & 273) |
D. C. Stubbs |
DeWITT
CLINTON STUBBS, of Gratis township, is the fourth son of
Jesse and Mary Stubbs, and was born
where his parents now live, on the seventeenth day of October,
in the year 1838. He received the rudiments of his
education at the schools in West Elkton and its vicinity, and
his more advanced instruction at Greenmount college, Richmond,
Indiana, and the Lebanon Normal school in Warren county, Ohio.
He then attended the Bryant and Stratum Commercial college at
Cleveland, Ohio, and after graduating from that institution,
returned to his home, and engaged for a time in teaching.
This occupation, however, he followed only for a short time,
giving it up to take the management of his father's farm while
he was in the Ohio legislature in the sessions of 1860—61.
This line of work, too, he was destined to follow but for a
brief period. He left the farm, as many thousands of the
young men of his time did, for the army. Entering the
service as a private of the Eleventh regiment, Ohio volunteer
infantry, he served until the close of the great struggle, and
came back to the quiet and peace of civil life, bearing an
enviable reputation and the rank of lieutenant colonel. He
was successively promoted to the rank of sergeant, sergeant
major, captain and lieutenant colonel, receiving his commission
as the latter Feb. 23, 1865. The regiment to which
Colonel Stubbs belonged, was mustered out of service
at Camp Dennison on the twenty-first of June, 1864, with the
exception of two companies of men whose time had not expired.
These two companies and the veterans of the regiment were
officially recognized as the Eleventh Ohio detachment, and
assigned to Baird's division of the Fourteenth corps.
They were commanded by Colonel Stuhbs, and did
excellent service during the remainder of the war, accompanying
Sherman in his splendid campaign, and marching from
Atlanta to the sea.
Upon returning home Colonel Stubbs
engaged in the pursuit of agriculture upon the fine farm of two
hundred and eighty acres, on which he now resides, just east of
the village of West Elkton. This calling received his
entire attention until he was called to public life, and its
duties imposed upon him. He had, ever since attaining his
majority, been an active political worker, and intensely devoted
to the principles of the Republican party. He had worked
merely from a desire for the success of the great organization,
which he believed to be the champion of right, and having no
personal political ambition, sought no preferment at the hands
of the party in whose cause he had exerted himself. It was
not through his seeking that he became, in 1877, the nominee of
the Republicans in Preble county for the legislature. He
had one hundred and thirty-five out of one hundred and
sixty-eight votes in the county convention, and was elected by a
majority of one hundred and sixteen in this then very close
county. The estimation in which he was held where best
known is effectively evidenced by the fact that in Gratis
township, which gave the Republican State ticket in 1877 only
forty-seven votes more than the Democratic, Colonel
Stubbs had a majority of one hundred and forty-four.
Mr. Stubbs was reelected after serving two years,
and is Preble county's present representative, his term expiring
with the term of 1881. In his second election he had a
majority in the county of three hundred and sixty-two, and in
his own township. as in the first election, ran far ahead of the
State ticket. During his two terms' service as
representative, Colonel Stubbs has been a member of the
committee on public buildings and land, on agriculture and on
public works—of the latter chairman. He is perhaps most
widely and well known as the man through whose instrumentality
the notorious O'Conner was exposed to the people, who,
ignorant of his antecedents, had elected him to a seat in the
legislature.
Colonel Stubbs has represented his county
with the best of credit to himself and the satisfaction of his
constituents. His substantial ability, capacity for hard
work and his shrewd practical judgment, together with his
earnestness of purpose and conscientious adherence to his
convictions while fitting him for the duties of public life,
also made him eminently worthy of its honors.
Mr. Stubbs was married Dec. 1, 1869, to
Samantha, daughter of John and Charlotte
Hankins, of Fayette county, Ohio, who was born Oct. 31,
1838. They have two children, Lenora and Harriet.
Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams &
Bro., Publishers - 1881 - Page (betw. 194-195) |
Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Stubbs |
ok - JESSE STUBBS
Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams &
Bro., Publishers - 1881 - Page (betw. 192-193) |
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