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Source:
History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder,
Publ. B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc.,
Indianapolis, Indiana
1915
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BENJAMIN F. ECK
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 968 |
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BENJAMIN
EDELBROCK, member of the well-known family of
that name, connected with the early history of
Putnam county, Ohio, was born on his father's farm
in Greensburg township on May 20, 1879. He is
a son of Henry and Theresa (Siebeneck) Edelbrock,
and Henry in his turn is a son of Peter
Edelbrock who, together with his wife, came from
their native home in the Province of Hanover, German
Empire, as members of the colony headed by Father
Horstman, which founded the city of Glandorf in
this county. This was about the year 1834, and
the Edelbrocks have een prominent in the life
of the county ever since.
Benjamin Edelbrock remained under the parental
roof until the time of his marriage. When a
boy he attended the district schools, near his home,
and during spare times was educated in the work
about the farm home. He chose as his bride
Miss Elnora Kracht, daughter of Frank and
Theresa Kracht, with whom he was united in
marriage on June 23, 1903.
Frank Kracht, present county commissioner of
Putnam county, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, on Dec.
25, 1851, and six years later was brought by his
parents to this county, where they located on a farm
near Glandorf. He married Theresa Hoffman
born in Glandorf, on Jan. 6, 1859, and to their
union was born a family of five daughters, namely:
Amelia, born on Aug. 22, 1878; Theresa J.,
born on Mar. 18, 1880; Laura A., born on Nov.
8, 1881; Elnora born on Apr. 24, 1883, and
Caroline, born on Jan. 27, 1886. The
mother of this family died on Aug. 29 1886, and
Mr. Kracht later united in marriage with
Anna Neidert, who bore him six children. Her
death occurred on June 12, 1901 and he was again
married, this time to Catherine Pund.
Mr. Kracht was for many years a farmer
and thresherman and in this way formed a wide
acquaintance. Being a man of pleasing manner,
when he entered the political arena, his success was
an assured thing from the start. He has been a
contractor, ahs served as clerk of Ottawa township
and also as its treasurer, and is at present filling
out his term as county commissioner.
Of Mrs. Edelbrock's sisters, Amelia
married Louis Welde and resides in Ottawa.
She is the mother of four children, one being dead.
Laura married Anthony Prusendorfer and
is now widowed. She makes her home in
Defiance, this state, where also Caroline who
has never married, resides. Theresa
married Henry Fembert and lives in Pleasant
township, Putnam county.
After marriage, Benjamin Edelbrock and his wife
took up their residence on the farm where they now
live. This contains forty acres, given to him
by his father at the time of his marriage, to which
he has added another twenty. The land has
since been well cleared and drained. All the
buildings have been erected by him and are in good
condition. Mr. Edelbrock conducts
general farming and also raises a few head of cattle
each year for the market. Into the home have
come four children, namely: Velma, born in
Mar. 16, 1904; Clarence, born on Apr. 10,
1905; Raymond, born on July 19, 1906, and
Mabel, born on Feb. 21, 1912. Mr.
Edelbrock is a most agreeable man to meet and is
able to number his friends by the score. He is
a Democrat in politics and his religious affiliation
is with St. Johns at Glandorf. He is an
active and ambitious young man, with the natural
history of his family.
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 719 |
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FRANK EDELBROCK
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 764 |
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JOHN B.
EDELBROCK, to a short sketch of whose career
the attention of the reader is directed, was born on
the- farm where he now lives on May 11, 1871, being
a son of Henry and Theresa Edelbrock.
Mr. Edelbrock is a descendant of some of
the oldest pioneers of this section, being a
grandson of Peter and Anna M. Edelbrock, who
were natives of Prussia, Germany, and were married
in that country about 1823 and remained in Germany
until about 1834, when they emigrated to America,
landing at Baltimore. They remained here for a short
time, then came and joined Father
Horstman's colony of German settlers in
Glandorf, Putnam county, and after a short time
settled on a farm near Glandorf, where they lived
until death. He died in 1844, and his wife in
1864. They located on a farm in Greensburg township,
containing eighty acres. This was government
land which they secured and virgin soil. They lived
the life of the pioneers to the day when they could
see their farm developed into a clean and productive
piece of land. Their children were, Frank,
William, Andrew, Henry, father of
our immediate subject; Clara and Christina,
Charles, Edward and Theodore, all of whom
are now deceased. Frank and William
served in the same Ohio regiment during the Civil
War, and Frank was killed during a battle. They
served in the Thirty-seventh Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry.
Henry Edelbrock received his education in
the district schools near his home, and also at
Glandorf. During his young manhood he worked
on his father's farm and, in 1857, was united in
marriage to Theresa Siebeneck and,
after their marriage, they went to live on the farm
which is now occupied by the subject.
Theresa was the daughter of Henry and Mary
Siebeneck, also of the Province of Hanover,
Germany, and members of the same colony above
referred to. They took up a tract of government
land, containing forty acres, and there they lived
until the end of their lives. There were two
daughters in the family, the other being Mary,
who became the wife of Barney Ellerbrock
and lives in Glandorf. She is widowed, her
husband having been dead for some time. Both Henry
and Theresa Edelbrock have passed from
this life, but they leave behind them the memory of
thrifty, honest lives, and both were of so genuinely
friendly natures that they were much liked and
esteemed by a large circle of friends and
acquaintances.
John B. Edelbrock is one of a family of eight
children, namely: Frank, William,
Mary, Kate, John, Joseph,
Benjamin and Minnie. Frank
is in Central America. William married
Theresa Huester and lives in
Greensburg township. He is the father of three
children, Hulda, Louis and Elnora.
Mary became the wife of Henry Fipp,
of Glandorf, and is the mother of two children,
Charles and Aug.. Kate is
Mrs. Frank Erhart, of
Greensburg township, and is the mother of six
children, Laura, Flora, Benjamin,
Harry, Edna and Minnie; both
boys, however, being deceased. Benjamin
married Elnora Kacht and lives in
Greensburg township. 'He has four children, Velma,
Clarence, Raymond and Mabel.
John, Joseph and Minnie remain
unmarried. The father of this family died in
1907 and the mother passed away in 1912.
John B. Edelbrock, with his sister, Minnie,
lives on the old homestead. This farm contains
one hundred and twenty acres, all under cultivation,
with good buildings. They are accounted among the
good and substantial people of the community and are
much liked. Both are members of St. John's,
Glandorf, the entire family being communicants of
the Roman Catholic church. The Edelbrock
family from the very earliest arrival in this
country have been, and are today, among that
substantial class of Germans who have done much for
Putnam county and its material prosperity.
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 708 |
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WILLIAM A. EDELBROCK
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 644 |
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WILLIAM H. EDELBROCK
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 662 |
JOHN EDWARDS |
JOHN EDWARDS. In the golden sayings of Epictetus there is no nobler utterance than this:
"What wouldst thou be doing when overtaken by Death?
If I might choose, I would be found doing some deed
of true humanity, of wide import, beneficent and
noble. But if I may not be found engaged in
aught so lofty, let me hope at least for this - what
none may hinder, what is surely in my power - that I
may be found raising up in myself that which had
fallen; learning to deal more wisely with the things
of sense; working out my own tranquility, and thus
rendering that which is due to every relation of
life.
:If death surprise me thus employed, it is enough if I
can stretch forth my hands to God and say, 'The
faculties which I received at Thy hands for
apprehending this Thine administration, I have not
neglected. As far as in me day, I have done
Thee no dishonor. Behold how I have used the
senses the primary conceptions which Thou gavest me.
Have I ever laid anything to Thy charge? Have
I ever murmured at aught that came to pass, or
wished it otherwise? Have I in anything
transgressed the relations of life? For that
Thou didst beget me, I thank Thee for that Thou hast
given; for the time during which I have used the
things that were Thine, it suffices me. Take
them back and place them wherever Thou wilt?
They were all Thine, and Thou gavest them me.
If a man depart thus minded, it is not enough?
What life is fairer or more noble, what end happier
than his?
The above impressive thoughts are suggested by a review
of the life of the late John Edwards, of this
county, whose passing in the year 1901 was the
occasion of such general and sincere mourning
throughout this whole region. In making up a
history of Putnam county it would be impossible to
disregard the great part which Mr. Edwards took
in the industrial and financial development of hte
commonwealth, a part the value of which to the
community the present historian hardly date
estimate, for the service which he gave was
cumulative in its value, its effects being still
widely apparent and growing in value, even as the
enterprises which he promoted in his life are
growing in extent. It therefore must be left
to the future historian to attempt a proper estimate
of the service which Mr. Edwards rendered to
his community, the present reviewer contenting
himself with the presentation here of those
interesting biographical facts in the career of the
late deceased which now have become a part of the
common interest of this people.
On other pages of this volume, in the biographical
sketches relating to his elder brother, William
W. Edwards. also deceased, and his surviving
brother, Joseph H. Edwards, the well-known
banker at Leipsic, the genealogy of the Edwards
family in this country is set out at informative
length and it being therefore will be sufficient to
say here that the late John Edwards was born
in Licking county, Ohio, Jan. 27, 1850, a son of
Thomas W. and Isabel Edwards, and when but eight
years of age moved with his parents to Morrow
county, in the same state, the family in the year
1861, coming to Putnam county, where they settled on
a farm in section 27, Van Buren township, and there
John Edwards grew to manhood, receiving the
training and acquiring the usual physical vigor
which later and during his life of active service
stood him in such good stead.
Mr. Edwards' early manhood was spent on his
father's farm, his larger business career not
beginning until he was twenty-eight years of age.
This was in 1878, in which year he purchased an
interest in the stave manufacturing business of
Henry and Jonas Lenhart. In 1886, the
great possibilities of this business having then
become apparent, the company was enlarged and Mr.
Edwards, in association with his brother,
William W. Edwards, I. N. Bushong, J. S. Lenhart
and D. L. Critten, organized the Buckeye
Stave Company, of which Joseph H. Edwards
soon after became a member. The growth of this
business was phenomenal, the energy and far sighted
business sagacity of the directors thereof soon
making it one of the most extensive enterprises in
this section of Ohio. Originally the company
owned mills only at Leipsic, Continental and
Columbus Grove, in this county, but in 1890 a mill
was added at Pleasant Bend; in 1891 mills were
located at Kalida and at Avis; in 1892 at Elm Center
and at Mancelona, Michigan, and in 1894 at
Gladstone, Michigan. This business grew by
leaps and bounds ad until, at the time of Mr.
Edwards' death in 1901, the company owned
twenty-three mills in Ohio and southern Michigan and
was interested in five more in the northern
peninsula of Michigan, the company at that time
employing more than a thousand men and being
recognized as the largest stave company in the
world. In addition to its great manufacturing
interests Buckeye Stave Company extensively engaged
in the banking business. In 1887 the company
purchased the bank at Leipsic and in 1891
established the bank at Continental, both in
this county, the same being operated as private
concerns, the stock controlled by the stockholders
of the stave company, the Edwards connection
later extending its banking interests to Toledo and
Findlay, Ohio. In all this large and growing
business activities Mr. Edwards gave
himself unsparingly. From the very inception
of this business he displayed an untiring
zeal in the extension of the company's affairs,
continually taking a most active and important part
in the development of the business. His
untimely death, on Sept. 30, 1901, was a great blow
to the company as well as a real shock to the
community. Taken at the age of fifty-one, in
the very prime of is life, it was difficult for many
to reconcile themselves to what they regarded as his
untimely departure, and he was sincerely mourned.
To the death of John Edwards the noble Epictetan
concept which introduces this biography seems
peculiarly applicable. He indeed had been true
in all the relations of life, diligent in business,
serving the Lord, and in his passing he left a
memory which long shall be honored in the community
which knew him so well. Though his life was
one of commonplace beginnings, in its entirety it
was far from commonplace. Endowed by nature
with an excellent physique and a most gracious and
engaging personality, he was a natural leader of men
and his great business success hardly could have
been otherwise. Greater, however, than his
mere outward endowments were those fine traits of
character which made him a strong and an upright
man. Possessed of exceptional executive
ability and far-sightedness in matters of business
policy, together with a native will-power and a
habit of constantly striving to do more and to do it
better, he was successful in business far beyond the
measure of the success of the average man.
This success was not achieved, however, at the
expense of character, but rather because of
character. Of his honesty and sincerity much
could be said, for they were essential
characteristics with him. His kindliness of
heart and generosity of nature were traits that
endeared him to all with whom he came in contact.
This generosity found expression, not only in
countless private benefactions of which the public
had no information, for Mr. Edwards was not
one to let his right hand know what his left was
doing in such matters, but colleges, churches and
many worthy institutions found him a liberal giver.
He, indeed, gave a good account "for the time during
which I have used the things that were Thine," and
it sufficed him. He regarded himself as a mere
steward of the great worldly wealth which was given
him and sought ever to govern his giving
accordingly. In a quiet way he also was
public-spirited and his influence was always exerted
in behalf of such measures of public concern as
promised the greatest advancement of the common
weal, the weight of his counsels ever being on the
side of the right. With quiet reticence, the
charming modesty of the truly great, Mr. Edwards
avoided all ostentation and, despite the power which
his wealth inevitably gave him, was kindly and
considerate to all, so that in his passing there was
sincere mourning among all classes. Working
out his own tranquillity, he thus had
rendered that which is due to every relation of
life.
On Aug. 21, 1873, John Edwards was united in
marriage to Mary E. Lenhart, who was born a
mile west of Leipsic, in this county, the daughter
of Henry S. and Adaline (Braucht) Lenhart,
the former of whom was a native of Pennsylvania who
moved to Hancock county, Ohio, in his young manhood
and there married Adaline Braucht, who was
born in that county, a member of one of the pioneer
families. In 1854 the Lenharts came to
this county and located on a farm west of the town
of Leipsic, where Mrs. Lenhart died in 1869.
Mr. Lenhart married a second time, taking as
his wife Mrs. Anna (McConnell) Reed, and
moved into Leipsic where his death occurred in 1904.
To John and Mary E. (Lenhart) Edwards were born
four sons, Henry Clyde, Thomas Charles, William
Earl and Oliver Pearl, the latter of whom
are twins. Henry C. Edwards, who lives
on the extensive ranch in Texas, married Bertha
Hadsell and has one son, Max Hadsell now
sixteen years of are. Thomas C. Edwards,
who represents his late father's interest in the
bank at Leipsic, married Blanche Patterson,
of Manchester, Ohio, to which union were born four
children, John Leon, Thomas Robert, Mary
Elizabeth and Janet Virginia. William
E. Edwards is a teacher in the high school at
Leipsic and Oliver P. Edwards, who is one of
the leading directors of the celebrated Temco
Electric Motor Company at Leipsic, married
Josephine Niblick, of Decatur, Indiana,
and has one daughter, Harriet.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards reared their children in the
faith of the Methodist church and were warmly
interested in all the various beneficences of that
organization. Mr. Edwards was one of
the church's most zealous supporters and took and
earnest part in its numerous lines of activity,
giving not only liberally of money, but unsparingly
of his time and the benefit of his great business
ability, and the local congregation felt a sense of
real bereavement upon his passage from this life.
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 280 |
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JOHN W. EDWARDS
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 667 |
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JOSEPH B. EDWARDS
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 795 |
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JOSEPH H. EDWARDS
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
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WILLIAM W. EDWARDS
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
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FRED H. ELLERBROCK
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 319 |
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JOHN FERDINAND ELLERBROCK
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 1293 |
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JOHN WILLIAM ELLERBROCK
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 338 |
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DANIEL EMANS
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 1356 |
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FRANK ERHART.
One of the popular and well-known citizens of Putnam
county, Ohio, is Frank Erhart, whose
reputation for unfailing cheerfulness and optimism,
sincere friendliness and whole-souled generosity is
founded on fact and most justly deserved.
Mr. Erhart won many friends when twice candidate
for sheriff on the Democratic ticket, but
unfortunately failed of election. He has at
different times served as county assessor, justice
of the peace and township ditch commissioner, and
for twelve years was a member of the school board.
He is engaged in farming in Greensburg township,
where the family is well known.
Frank Erhart was born in Ottawa township, this
county, on Mar. 18, 1866, being a child of Henry
and Anna Bernadina (Barlager) Erhart, both
natives of this county, born of German parentage.
Henry Erhart was a son of Barney and
Elizabeth Erhart, the other children of the
family being Andrew, Mary, Elizabeth, Rosa, Anna
and John The parents left their
native land of Germany shortly after marriage,
coming direct to this county, where they had
friends. They settled on a farm three miles
west of Ottawa, this county, where they lived for
the balance of their lives and where their children
were born and reared. Anna Bernadina
Barlager, mother of Frank Erhart,
was the child of Henry and Gertrude
Barlager, both born in the German Empire.
They emigrated to America early in their married
life and located in this county on a farm some two
miles west of Glandorf, where all their children
were born and reared, and where they passed the
remainder of their days. They had five
children, namely: Katherine, Henry,
Elizabeth, Bernadina and Joseph.
They were devout members of the Catholic church and
in that faith their family was reared.
Henry Erhart, father of Frank,
passed his boyhood days on his father's farm,
attending the district schools whenever possible.
He early showed an aptitude for agricultural work
and immediately after his marriage on July 5, 1865,
he took his bride to the eighty-acre farm, where he
toiled and passed the remainder of his life.
His death occurred in Mar., 1914. His widow
still resides on the farm, which she operates.
In spite of her advanced years, she is in possession
of a mental alertness and physical strength that
would do credit to a woman scarce half her age.
She is the mother of seven children, Frank,
Caroline, William, Mollie,
Elizabeth, Mary and Frances.
The family are communicants of the Roman Catholic
church.
When a youth, Frank Erhart secured such
education as the district schools of his home
locality afforded and assisted his father in the
work of the farm home. He was united in
marriage on Sept. 20, 1888, to Catherine
Edelbrock, daughter of Henry and
Theresa Edelbrock, and soon after their
marriage the young couple removed for residence to
Jackson township, this county. For twenty-six
years they remained on the farm, which had been
their original home and, in Mar. of 1914, they
removed to their present home in Greensburg
township. This farm consists of one hundred
and twenty acres, and Mr. Erhart
devotes his time to general farming and the raising
of live stock.
Henry Edelbrock, father of Mrs.
Erhart, was a native of Germany, who came to
this country when a young man and, for many years,
was a well-known farmer of this county. His
death occurred in 1906. His wife was
Theresa Siebeneck, and she survived her
husband several years, her death occurring in 1913.
She was a native of this county, born of German
parentage, and was the mother of eight children,
Frank, William, Mary, Catherine,
John, Joseph, Benjamin and
Minnie, the entire family being communicants of
the Roman Catholic church.
To Frank Erhart and wife were born six
children, as follow: Laura, born on July 12,
1889, who is the wife of Aug. Myers of Glandorf,
this county, and is the mother of three children;
Flora, born on Apr. 26, 1891, is a graduate of
Ottawa business college; Edna, born on Aug.
16, 1899, attends the Glandorf high school;
Benjamin, born on Feb. 9, 1901, is deceased, as
is also Harry, born on Nov. 15, 1903, and
Minnie, born on Mar. 8, 1904, is still in the
grades. The various members of the family are
prominent in the life of their community, making
themselves agreeable to both friend and stranger
alike. All are communicants of the Roman
Catholic church.
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 729 |
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HENRY ERNST
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 1174 |
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JOHN W. ERNST
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 622 |
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WILLIAM T. ETTER
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 1204 |
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DAVID S. EVANS
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio,
by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 766 |
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