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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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JOHN J.
RAMPE. The Rampe family
came to Putnam county, Ohio, in 1872, and for the
past forty years have been connected with the
advancement of this county along agricultural,
commercial and educational lines. John J.
Rampe was fourteen years of age when his parents
moved to this county, and for the past thirty-five
years he has been engaged in business for himself at
Ottawa. Starting to learn the shoe trade, as a
shoemaker, when he was twelve years of age, he
opened a shoe shop of his own, at the age of
twenty-one, and sold shoes, which he himself made
for a few years. He then put in stock of
factory-made shoes, and gradually added other
furnishing goods, until he now has the largest store
in Ottawa.
John J. Rampe, the son of Barney and Mary
(Miller) Rampe, was born in Covington, Kentucky,
September 12, 1859. His father was born in
Glandorf, Germany, and his mother, in Haagen,
Germany. His parents were married in
Covington, Kentucky, and to them were born eight
children, seven sons and one daughter, of whom four
died in infancy. The other four, are as
follows: Louis, who died at Edaville, Iowa,
about ten years ago; Fred, who learned the
shoemaking trade with his brother, John J.,
and followed it until his death, on March 9, 1896,
at the age of thirty-three; Lizzie, the wife
of Joseph Roof, living at Glandorf,
and John J., of Ottawa. Fred, the
brother of John J., married Mary
Smith, of Glandorf, and was the father of five
daughters and one son, who, with his widow, are
still living.
Barney Rampe was a contractor and lived
in Covington, Kentucky, until about 1875, and laid
many of the sidewalks in that city. In that year he
moved to Glandorf, Putnam county, Ohio, his son,
John J., having preceded the family, coming to
this county, when he was twelve years of age, to
learn the shoemaker's trade with his uncle,
William Rampe, Sr. William Rampe, Sr., had come
here in the early history of the county, and was in
the shoe business at Glandorf for about fifty years,
or until his death, on November 28, 1893. Barney
Rampe died in Putnam county, December 6,
1893, and his widow died on October 31, 1899. Barney
Rampe and his wife lived in Glandorf, Putnam
county, after moving here, and he continued making
sidewalks.
John J. Rampe lived in Covington, Kentucky,
until he was twelve years of age and obtained all of
his schooling in that city. He then came to Putnam
county, Ohio, and worked with his uncle, William
Rampe, learning the shoemaker's trade. He
remained with his uncle until September 17, 1880,
when he started in business in Ottawa for himself.
On that day his son, the first child, was born. He
started a shoe shop at Ottawa and sold only shoes at
first, which he made in his own shop. As his trade
increased, he added a line of factory-made shoes and
gradually increased his business. A few years
later he added a stock of clothing, hats and men's
furnishing goods of all kinds, and still later put
in a line of ladies' clothing, millinery and dry
goods. He now has a jewelry department, as well as a
full line of groceries. In fact, he now sells
everything to wear, from head to foot, for men,
women and children. He has the two main floors and
part of the upstairs in the McCracken block,
to which he moved about ten years ago. He
bought back the small building in which he first
started on the south side of Main street on June 25,
1912, and in this building he has placed a large
stock of carpets, rugs, and linoleums: In the main
store he has a large number of departments, and
among the conveniences for customers he has a rest
room with a sign above the door saying, "Welcome to
our rest room. A cup of coffee free."
The Rampe stores are easily the largest in
Ottawa and it is safe to say that he does the
largest retail business of any man in the village.
He
is the only practical shoe man in the business in
Ottawa, his training at the trade making him an
expert in judging stock. He has killed and
skinned the steer, tanned the hide and made the
shoes from the leather. Accordingly, he knows
the business of shoemaking thoroughly, and this fact
has undoubtedly had much to do with his success as a
dealer in shoes. Mr. Rampe was
married at the age of twenty to Anna Leopold, the
daughter of Barney and Elizabeth Leopold,
pioneer settlers of Glandorf, in this county. Mr.
Leopold came from Glandorf, Germany, in the
early history of the county, and was a storekeeper
and stockbuyer at Glandorf. Two children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Rampe, Harry B. and
Emma L. Harry B. has charge of the men's
department of his father's store, and Emma
has charge of the ladies' department. Harry
married Lucile Jennings, of Carrs,
Kentucky. The first wife of Mr. Rampe
died, February 16, 1910, and on January 17, 1914, he
married Martha Kerner, who was born in
Ottawa, and is the, daughter of Philip and
Agnes (Maag) Kerner.
Mr. Rampe, with his wife and children, are loyal
and devout members of the Catholic church, and are
generous contributors to its support. He is a member
of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at
Lima, Ohio. Mr. Rampe is a
thorough business man, and by industry and
unexcelled business judgment has become one of the
most substantial men of the county.
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 387 |
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WILLIAM
RAMPE. When Dean Swift gave utterance
to that immortal passage in his Gulliver's Travels :
"And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could
make
two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow
where only one grew .before, would deserve better of
mankind, and do more essential service to his
country than the whole race of politicians put
together," he paid the highest possible compliment
to that large class of intelligent tillers of the
soil whose most earnest endeavors are directed
toward the effective cultivation of the lands under
their charge and care. Under the scientific
direction of the government's department of
agriculture and the state's equally well-directed
efforts along the same line, the farmers of Putnam
county, in the present generation, are literally
performing wonders in the way of intelligent,
effective agriculture and the public benefactor whom
Swift foreshadowed in his imaginative way, has been
outdone by many, the crop records of the past in
this county not only having been doubled—two ears of
corn growing where one grew before—but have been
trebled, and more, by the careful tillage which the
modern farmer has found so essential to the
successful cultivation of his acres. Among these
signally successful farmers of this section of the
state, none have secured better results than many of
those of German birth or ancestry in this county,
who not only have brought to their important task
the best lessons of intensive farming so carefully
followed in the old country, but have applied to all
their doings those equally valuable traditions of
thrift and prudence, so characteristic of the people
of the Fatherland. And among this latter class, few
in Putnam county are better known or more popular
among his large circle of acquaintances than is
William Rampe, a progressive and
successful farmer of Ottawa township, to a brief
sketch of whose career the biographer is glad to
call attention at this point in this interesting
review of the lives of the leading citizens of
Putnam county.
William Rampe was born in Ottawa township,
Putnam county, Ohio, on a farm close to the town of
Ottawa, April 27, 1859, the son of Joseph and
Elizabeth (Nottingbrock) Rampe, both of whom
were natives of Germany.
Joseph Rampe was born in Glandorf,
Hanover, Germany, in 1825 and upon reaching
manhood's estate immigrated to America, having
become convinced that better opportunities awaited
him on this side than he might hope to find
presented in the old country. He landed in New York
and at once entered upon the exercise of his trade,
that of a tailor, in which he had become proficient
before leaving Germany. In New York he worked at
this trade until he had saved enough money to send
back to Germany to secure the passage of his mother
and three brothers to this country. Upon the
arrival of these other members of his family, the
Rampes continued for a time to remain in New
York, but presently pushed on further west, locating
at Covington, Kentucky, across the river from
Cincinnati, where Joseph Rampe
continued his trade as a tailor. After a sometime
residence there, he married Elizabeth
Nottingbrock, who was born in Germany, August
27, 1827, daughter of Henry Nottingbrock,
who came to America with her parents at the age of
seven years and who died on March 12, 1915, at the
ripe old age of eighty-seven years, six months and
thirteen days.
Shortly following this marriage in 1844 Joseph
Rampe and his wife joined the German colony
in this county, Mrs. Rampe's parents
having long been residents of the Glandorf
community, where she grew up, and Joseph put
in his lot with his father-in-law, with whom he and
his wife made their home, helping on the
Nottingbrock farm until the death of
Mr. Nottingbrock, after which Joseph
took charge, gradually paying off the obligations
which rested against the Nottingbrock farm,
eventually buying the same, which at that tune
consisted of fifty-three acres. To this he added, as
his circumstances grew better, until at the time of
his death, at the early age of thirty-seven, in
March, 1862, he was the owner of ninety-three acres
of well cultivated land. Joseph Rampe
was an industrious man whose ambition was centered
in his family and in the hope that their condition
in life might be easier than his had been and, at
his death, he was sincerely mourned by many in the
community in which he had so cheerfully put in his
lot Joseph and Elizabeth (Nottingbrock) Rampe
were the parents of five children, Frank,
Henry, two who died in infancy, and William,
the immediate subject of this biographical review.
William Rampe spent his boyhood days in
Ottawa township, growing up on the homestead farm
where he was born. Receiving such schooling as was
provided at that period, at the age of sixteen,
decided to try his fortunes further afield.
With this object in view, he went to Missouri, where
for four years he engaged in farming, "working out"
to such advantage as might accrue to his labors.
Not finding things in that state wholly to his
liking, young Rampe returned home and helped
on the farm until his marriage, on March 3, 1886, to
Anna Catherine Borgelt, daughter of
William and Anna (Threasey) Borgelt, who was
born on April 29, 1867, on the home place in Ottawa
township. An interesting review of the career of the
Borgelt family in this county is
presented on another page of this volume in the
biographical sketch relating to Herman
Borgelt, a brother of Mrs. Rampe.
Following his marriage, William Rampe
lived for four years in the home of his
father-in-law in Ottawa township, assisting in the
management of the farm, at the end of which time he
bought his present home farm of eighty acres in
Pleasant township. This land was all heavily
timbered when he bought it at an appraised value of
two thousand two hundred dollars. The farm at
that time was undrained, there being no outlets for
ditches and, in bringing his place to its present
excellent state of cultivation, Mr. Rampe
incurred an indebtedness of three thousand two
hundred dollars, which he has regarded as a good
investment. By hard work and close application he
has made a good farm of his timber tract, clearing,
ditching and otherwise improving the same, and has a
good house and all necessary outbuildings. He
is now regarded as one of the most prosperous
farmers in his neighborhood.
To William and Anna Catherine (Borgelt) Rampe
were born two children, Joseph Edward,
an ambitious young farmer of Sugar Creek township,
who married Emma Buckradd and has
three children, Raymond, Anna Louisa
Francisco and Ruth, and William
Sylvester, who died at the' age of ten
months.
The Rampes are members of the Catholic church at
Glandorf and are devoted to the best interests of
that parish, being also active in such other good
works as concern most intimately their immediate
neighborhood and are very properly held as among the
leading people of that section of the county. Mr.
Rampe is a Republican, having cast his first
vote for President Garfield, and takes an
intelligent interest in local politics, though he
never has been included among the office-seeking
class. He is a member of the Order of the Reindeer,
belonging to Ottawa Lodge No. 516, and takes an
active interest in the affairs of that fraternal
organization. He is a jolly companion, a kind and
loving husband and father, a lover of children,
essentially a "home man," and bears a high
reputation in his community because of his honesty,
frankness and sincerity in all his relations with
his fellow men.
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 413 |
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WILLIAM RAMPE.
There could be no more comprehensive history written
of a city, or county, or even of a state and its
people, than that which deals with the lifework of
those who, by their own endeavor and indomitable
energy, have placed themselves where they well
deserve the title of "progressive," and in this
review will be found the record of one who has
outstripped the less active and less able plodders
on the highway of life, one who has not been subdued
by the many obstacles and failures that come to
everyone, but who has made them stepping stones to
higher things, and, at the same time that he was
winning his way in the material affairs of life,
gained a reputation for uprightness
and honor.
William Rampe was born in Glandorf, Putnam
county, Ohio, on January 11, 1853, and is the son of
William and Theresa (Ellerbrock) Rampe,
the former a native of Germany and the latter of
Glandorf, Putnam county, Ohio. The father was born
on December 11, 1827, in the Province of Hanover,
Germany, where he attended school and learned the
shoemaker trade. When he was twenty years old, he
decided to immigrate to America, and was joined in
the trip by his two brothers. This was in the year
1847, and upon arrival in this country he decided to
make his home in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he followed his trade for the ensuing two years.
He made a trip to the town of Glandorf, Putnam
county, Ohio, in 1849, which was known to be largely
settled by natives of Germany, and remained there
until the following year, when he went to Dayton,
Ohio, for the purpose of establishing himself in
business. Six months later, however, he decided to
return to Glandorf, Putnam county, Ohio, where he
went into the business of manufacturing and
retailing shoes. In this business, he attained a
widespread reputation throughout the northwestern
portion of the state of Ohio, and many times found
it necessary to employ nearly fifteen shoemakers
to take care of the production and thus enable him
to supply the demand for his goods. Mr.
Rampe's shoe trade was handled through
established shoe dealers throughout this region, and
he maintained a retail business himself to supply
the local inhabitants.
In the year 1850, William Rampe was
married to Theresa Ellerbrock, a
daughter of William Ellerbrock and
wife, who were among the early settlers coming to
the town of Glandorf, Ohio, and to them were born
twelve children. The wife and mother of these
children was taken away by death on March 17, 1875.
At a later date is recorded the second marriage to
Wilhelmina Schmidt, and that he died
in Glandorf, Ohio, on November 28, 1893, after
having spent a noble and most useful life with his
family and the inhabitants of Putnam county.
William Rampe, Jr., went to school in the town
of Glandorf, Ohio, and in his youth plied his trade,
as a shoemaker, in the employ of his able father.
Under his father's direction, he became a master
workman in this line, and remained in the business
for a number of years. At a later date, Mr.
Rampe established himself in the retail shoe
business, in the town of Ottawa, Putnam county,
Ohio, where he was very successful, and after many
years of service to the public in the sale of shoes,
retired. Being a hustler and a man of sound
business judgment and sagacity, having an excellent
knowledge of actual real estate values throughout
this and other counties and states, Mr.
Rampe, could not content himself by leading the
life of a retired merchant, and, consequently,
decided to embark in the real estate business,
making a specialty of dealing in farm property in
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. In this line he
has been a great success, possessing himself with
large holdings
in the surrounding country, and being a
public-spirited man, is Always ready to give just
consideration to meritorious propositions for the
advancement of the community in which he lives. His
residence and chief place of business, is in the
town of Ottawa, Ohio, where he is reputably known to
have been associated with real estate transactions
for the past twenty-five years.
William Rampe was married three times,
first time to Agnes Nienberg now
deceased, and by which marriage two children were
born, Charies and Carrie; the second
time to Anna Dummeldinger, now
deceased, and by whom there were three children,
Elnora, Lillian and Alfred; the
third marriage was to Elizabeth McGeery,
to whom one child, Mary E., was born Mary
E is now attending school at the Ursuline
convent, Toledo, Ohio Charles W. is married to
Emma Fisher, formerly of Toledo, who now resides
in the city
married to Emma Fisher, formerly of
Toledo, who now resides in the city of Cleveland,
Ohio. To this union there were born four children,
John, Paul, William and Robert. The
father is the treasurer and one of the original
founders of the well-known Foster Nut & Bolt
Company, of Cleveland, Ohio; Carrie took a
course in the art of nursing and follows that
profession in the city of Cleveland, Ohio; Elnora
is the wife of J. J. Lynch, formerly
city auditor of Toledo, Ohio, and now engaged as a
solicitor for the Hocking Valley railroad, to whom
one child was born, Elnora; Lillian is
the wife of H. Stechschulte and they reside
in Lima, Ohio, where the husband is occupied as
manager of the clothing house of the B. R. Baker
Company, clothiers. Two children, William and
Mary, were born to this union; Alfred,
at present a bachelor, is secretary and treasurer of
the W. H. Coffee Company, of Toledo, Ohio, a
high-priced tailoring establishment, and in
which he is interested financially.
William Rampe, personally, is a man whom
it is a pleasure to know, being generous-hearted,
kind, helpful, honest in all his dealings with his
fellow men and eminently worthy of the trust and
respect- reposed in him, and he is today regarded as
one of the county's most representative men. He is a
member of Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic church, of
Ottawa, and an active member of the Knights of
Columbus.
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 942 |
W. F. Reed |
WARREN F. REED, M. D.
Source: History of Putnam
County, Ohio, by George D. Kinder,
Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page
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ALBERT
REESE. Few residents of Putnam county
are as well and favorablly known as the
enterprising farmer and representative citizen,
whose life story is briefly told in the following
lines, and none stands higher than he in the esteem
and confidence of the community in which he resides
and for the material advancement of which he has
devoted much of his. time and influence.
Albert Reese was born in Butler county,
Ohio, on Nov. 17, 1866, the son of Evan and
Margaret (Watkins) Reese. Evan
Reese is a native of North Wales, having been
born in the parish of Llangadfan on June 1, 1833.
The paternal grandfather of Albert Reese
was Robert Reese, who was a
schoolmaster and music teacher for about twenty-five
years. His first wife died when Evan
Reese was about four years of age, and about
five or six years later he was again married.
To the first union were born seven children,
Robert, Jr., Mary, John, David, Jane, Evan and
Thomas. By the second union there was
one child, Edward. All of these
children, excepting the last named, came to America,
settling first in Butler county, Ohio.
Robert and Mary came over first, being
followed a few years later by John, David,
Jane and Thomas, and eventually Ivan
came, being eighteen years of age at the time of his
immigration. After reaching this country, he
was employed on the farm of his brother, Robert,
for a few years but, in about 1860, he came to Gomer,
Allen county, Ohio, where he remained until the
outbreak of the Civil War, when, faithful to his
adopted country, he enlisted as a private in Company
F, One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. He served throughout the
war in the western army and, at the close of the
conflict, received an honorable discharge, when he
returned to Gomer, where he remained about one year
and then, after his marriage, moved to Butler
county, where, for about six years, he engaged in
agricultural pursuits. Some years later they
removed to Allen county and bought a farm of one
hundred and sixty acres, near Gomer, the only
improvement on the place being a log house, a frame
barn and about one-half of the land cleared.
To the clearing and the improvement of the remainder
of this land, Mr. Reese devoted
himself, and, eventually, found himself the owner of
a finely improved and productive farm. About a
year after locating on this place, he erected a
small frame house of four rooms and about 1885 he
bought eighty acres adjoining his farm on the west.
On this rented place was a good set of buildings and
the land was all cleared excepting about twenty-five
or thirty acres. Here Mr. Reese
remained until about 1890, when he moved to St.
Marys, Ohio, where he has continued to reside,
selling his former home in 1905.
Evan Reese was married three times.
First to Margaret Watkins, who died in
January, 1882. To this union were born seven
children, Albert, Thomas R., David
H., William E., Jennie Alice,
Samuel and Jessie, the two latter
children dying in infancy. About 1886, Evan
Reese married Mrs. Mary (Watkins)
Thomas, who died about three years later,
leaving no children. In 1894, Mr.
Reese married Addie Young, who is
his present wife. To this union no
children have been born.
Albert Reese spent his childhood and
early youth on his father's farm near Vaughnsville,
in Allen county, and received his education mainly
in the district schools. When about
twenty-three years of age, he took a course of music
in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware but,
aside from this, has been mainly self-educated,
being a close reader and keen observer of men and
events. He remained with his father on the old
homestead until about twenty-six years of age, when
he rented a farm near Vaughnsville and remained for
two years. In the spring of 1895, he moved to
the Bennett farm, to the cultivation
of which he devoted himself until 1911, when he
moved to Vaughnsville, where he now resides.
He has, during these years, devoted himself to a
general line of farming, raising all of the crops
peculiar to this section of the country and has been
very successful in all of his operations, being
numbered among the intelligent and progressive
farmers of his community. He has, for many
years, occupied the front rank among the
agriculturists of his locality and was one of the
organizers of the Vaughnsville Crop and Improvement
.Association, one of the most influential
organizations of its kind in this section of the
state. He believes, most emphatically,in
progress along his line and is interested in all
things which have to do with, the advancement of his
community.
On Feb. 17, 1893, Albert Reese was
married to Jennie Bennett, who was
born in Sugar Creek township, Putnam county, on Feb.
7, 1870, the daughter of John and Ann (Davis)
Bennett, natives of North Wales. John
Bennett came to America about 1868, settling
in Van Wert county, Ohio, for a short time and later
coming to Sugar Creek township, Putnam county, where
he met Mrs. Ann (Davis) Garner, to whom he
was married and to which union one child, Jennie,
was born. To Albert and Jennie (Bennett)
Reese have ben born three children,
Mabel, Marguerite and Mary.
Mr. Reese is an ardent exponent of
Republican principles and has taken an active part
in local political affairs. He was elected
trustee of his township and also served as school
director in his home district. In his party,
he has long been prominent and served as a member of
the county executive committee with efficiency and
to the advantage of his party. Mr. and Mrs.
Reese are faithful members of the Congregational
church. Mr. Reese is a member of
the official board and is active in the various
interests of the church. He is a man who, in
every respect, has merited the high esteem in which
he is universally held, for he is characterized by
public spirit, honest motives and a clean life.
Source: History of Putnam County,
Ohio, by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen
& Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page |
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JOSIRUS
R. REESE. An enterprising farmer of
Liberty township, Putnam county, Ohio, is Josirus
R. Reese, who has made this county his home
since 1865. He has been a life-long farmer,
and, although the farm which his father bought here
in 1872, was then a timbered swamp, today it is
largely under cultivation and producing excellent
crops. Most of this county was originally of a
swampy nature, but under the skillful management of
such farmers as Mr. Reese, it has been
drained and made to blossom as the rose.
Josirus R. Reese, the son of John Y. and
Lucinda (Handshy) Reese, was born in 1858, in
Hancock county, Ohio. His father was born in
Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1834, and was a son of
Joseph and Mary (Young) Reese, who came from
Washington county, Pennsylvania.
John Y. Reese was only about a year old when his
parents moved from Trumbull county, Ohio, to Putnam
county, and located along the county line northeast
of Bluffton. His parents bought government
land and were among the first settlers in Riley
township. John Y. Reese was reared to
manhood in, Putnam county, and later moved to
Hancock county and married Lucinda Handshy,
in 1857, who was born in this county, and is a
daughter of Sebastian and Sarah (Nickerson)
Handshy.
Sebastian Handshy was born in Germany and
came to America with his parents, Jacob
Handshy and wife, at the age of ten. The
Handshys made their home in Fairfield county,
Ohio, and Sebastian grew up in that county
and there married Sarah Nickerson.
Later, he moved to a farm near Columbus Grove, while
the county was just being settled, their nearest
neighbor being three miles away. The
Handshys moved to Hancock county in 1837, where
they lived the remainder of their lives.
Lucinda Handshy grew to womanhood in Hancock
county and was living there at the time of her
marriage to John Y. Reese, who, with his
family, moved to Putnam county in 1863, and located
in Liberty township. Mr. Reese
bought one hundred and twenty acres of land in 1872,
north of the Ridge road, in section 15, of this
township, and there made his permanent home.
Two children were born to John Y. Reese and
wife, Josirus R. and Martha Roselda. Martha
R. married Perry Alleman, and had
one son, Benjamin Harrison, who lives
at Lima, Ohio. He married Etta
Applegate, and has one son, Jesse Derrell.
Josirus R. Reese was about fourteen years of age
when his his parents moved to the farm on which he
is now living, and where he has since made his home.
He helped his father to clear the land and to bring
it under cultivation, which land was originally
heavily timbered and so swampy as to be almost
impassable. In fact, John Y. Reese
said, a few years before he bought it, that he would
not have it as a gift. The first house was a
rude log cabin which previously stood on the
Montouth farm on the southeast quarter of
section 15, on the north side of the Ridge road,
from whence it was moved to its present location,
where it is still standing, being one of the oldest
log cabins in the county. Josirus R.
helped his father clear and drain the land and
father and son worked together until the death of
the father, on June 20, 1908, who was a man of
strong character and was highly esteemed by his
neighbors.
Josirus R. Reese has never married and now lives
with his mother on the old home farm. About
eighty-five acres of the one hundred and twenty are
under cultivation, while the rest is still timber
land. The family are members of the United
Brethren church. Mr. Reese is a quiet
and unassuming man, a good neighbor and deserves the
respect which is accorded him by his fellow
citizens.
Source: History of Putnam County,
Ohio, by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen
& Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 1230 |
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WILLIAM
E. REIGER. Dependent, very
largely, upon his own resources from his early
youth, William E. Reiger, of Sugar Creek
township, has attained no insignificant success.
And though he may have, like most men, encountered
obstacles and met with reverses, he has pushed
steadily forward, ever willing to work for the
success he has achieved. His tenacity and
fortitude are due, no doubt, in a large measure to
the worthy traits inherited from his sterling father
and ancestors. His high ideals and correct
principles he has ever sought to perpetuate in his
relations of life.
William E. Reiger was born on Mar. 31, 1876,
four miles north of Dayton, in Montgomery county,
Ohio. He is the son of Ephraim and
Christiana (Busche) Reiger. Ephraim
Reiger was born in November, 1841, at Baden,
Germany, and was the son of Leopold and Christine
(Sipe) Reiger. Leopold Reiger
was a farmer by occupation, who also conducted a
vineyard. He came to America in 1847 and
settled in Montgomery county, Ohio, near Dayton,
where he purchased a farm and remained for the
balance of his life. There were three children
born to Leopold and Christine (Sipe) Reiger,
Ephraim, the father of William E.;
Minnie, the wife of Valentine Henne,
who resided in Dayton, and Barbara, deceased.
Ephraim Reiger came to America with his
parents at the age of six years and spent his
childhood in Montgomery county, where he attended
the common schools and as a young man was employed
as a farmer in Montgomery and adjoining counties.
He also worked some time in Van Wert county.
At the age of twenty-seven he was married to
Christiana Busche, of Montgomery county,
who was born there in September, 1851. She was
a daughter of William and Christiana (Arrat)
Busche, both of whom were natives of Germany.
William Busche was a farmer by
occupation and spent practically all his life after
coming to America in Montgomery county.
William and Christiana (Arrat) Busche had eight
children, five daughters and three sons, William,
Jacob, Charles, Callie, Rosie, Matilda, Annie
and Christiana, the mother of Mr. Reiger.
Christiana spent her childhood in Montgomery
county and remained there until her marriage.
After the marriage of Ephraim Reiger
he remained in Montgomery county for sixteen years,
where he was engaged in farming. Subsequently
he moved to Putnam county, settling in Sugar Creek
township, where, five years previously, he had
purchased eighty-six and one-half acres two miles
east of Vaughnsville. It was known as the
Nichols farm. This farm had a
four-room log house and a log barn. The land
at this time had been about half cleared, Ephraim
Reiger clearing the remainder, excepting six
acres. He improved the farm by the erection of
a commodious nine-room residence, a large barn
(forty by one hundred and eleven feet), and other
buildings in keeping with home-like surroundings.
To his original holdings Ephraim Reiger
added forty acres on the north, making a total of
one hundred and twenty-six and one-half acres.
This farm comprises as fine land as is to be found
anywhere in Putnam county. Ephraim
Reiger continued to live on the farm until the
spring of 1904, when he retired and moved to
Columbus Grove, where he now resides. He and
his wife have had six children: Lorena is
unmarried
and lives at home; William E. is the subject
of this sketch; Lenora is unmarried and lives
at home; Arthur resides at Dayton, Ohio;
Myrtle is the wife of Benjamin Seitz, Jr.,
and they have three children, Emerson, Christine
and Mildred; Edna is unmarried and
lives at home.
William E. Reiger came with his parents to
Putnam county, at the age of eleven years, and
attended the district school, known as "Abe's
College." After finishing the common schools
he continued to help his father on the old home
place, where he has resided ever since. At the
age of twenty-seven, on Mar. 2, 1904, Mr.
Reiger was married to Ida Smith,
who was born one and three-fourth miles east of
Vaughnsville, in Sugar Creek township, Mar. 23,
1878. She is the daughter of James F and
Eliza (Slusser) Smith. James F. Smith
was born on the old Smith homestead, two miles
northeast of Vaughnsville, on Apr. 10, 1842.
He is the son of James and Mary (Stoner) Smith.
The complete history of the Smith family
is to be found in a sketch appearing elsewhere in
this volume, of C. R. Smith, whose father was
James F. Smith's brother. Eliza
Slusser was born in Shelby county, Ohio, Jan.
7, 1845, and died in Columbus Grove, Dec. 16, 1907.
James F. and Eliza Smith had eleven children,
as follow: Ira; James and Joseph,
twins; Ollie, the wife of Elias
Williams; Benjamin, who lives at
Vaughnsville; Emma, the wife of C. H.
Huffman; Ida A., the wife of Mr.
Reiger; Anna, who died at the age of
sixteen; Leuella, the wife of Alfred
Newton, of Bowling Green, Ohio; Jennie,
the wife of Gomer Williams, of
Cambridge, Ohio, and Jesse. Ida A.,
the wife of Mr. Reiger, spent her
childhood on the old home place and remained there
until her marriage.
William E. Reiger took charge of the home farm
after his marriage, and has lived upon it since that
time. He has always done general farming and
is an extensive breeder of thoroughbred
Polled-Durham cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs.
William E. Reiger is a member of the Christian
church at Vaughnsville. He has been a trustee
and chorister of this church for many years.
His wife is also a member. Mr.
Reiger is one of Sugar Creek townships most
substantial farmers. He is well and favorably
known and enjoys the confidence of all his
neighbors. He is a Democrat and is a member of
Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 711 at Vaughnsville.
Source: History of Putnam County,
Ohio, by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen
& Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 758 |
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FRANK
RIEMAN, JR. The biographer here
presents a short sketch of the career of one of the
younger agriculturists of Greensburg township,
Putnam county, and a member of one of the old
families of this section. The Rieman
family first came here in pioneer times and the
name has ever stood for all that is best.
Frank Rieman, Jr., the immediate subject of our
sketch, is a son of Frank, Sr., and Mary (Karhoff
) Rieman, and first saw the light of day on the
family homestead in Greensburg, township, on
November 14, 1871. Frank's father is
also a native of this county, having been born in
Ottawa township, of parents who were natives of the
German Empire, and the same is true of his mother,
who was Mary, daughter of Henry and
Adelaide Kerhoff.
When a boy, Frank Rieman attended the common
schools of Greensburg township and assisted the
father in the work about the farm, remaining under
the parental roof for a year and a half after his
marriage. This ceremony was solemnized on Oct.
17, 1900, in St. John's church, Glandorf, his bride
being Miss Helena Edelbrock, a daughter of
William and Mary (Herlage) Edelbrock.
William Edelbrock was born in Germany and came
to this country with his parents where they settled
on a farm in Greensburg township, the parents living
here until death. William Edelbrock
attended school in this county and worked at farming
during his early youth. He was one of the
following children of his parents: William,
Andrew, Henry, Charles, Christina, William
(father of Frank's wife) was married in St.
John's church at Glandorf. She was a native of
this county, having been born in Glandorf, where she
grew to maturity and was married, after which they
located on a farm of one hundred and twenty acres
where they passed the remainder of their lives.
Their children were: Mary, Minnie, Helena,
wife of our subject; Amelia, deceased;
Frank and Edward. Minnie became the wife of
Henry Wurst, who lived near Ottawa, and is now
widowed. She had five children, one of whom
has passed away. She belongs to Sts. Peter and
Paul's Catholic church at Ottawa. Frank
married Ida Doepker, who has died and since
which time he has resided in Glandorf. This
family are members of St. John's church at Glandorf.
When Frank Rieman and wife decided to go to
themselves, they took up their residence on a farm
adjoining the homestead, which farm contained one
hundred and three acres and was owned by his father.
This land he has since purchased and in addition has
bought twenty-six acres adjoining, from Ignatius
Kahle. Mr. Rieman carries on general
farming and also raises considerable cattle,
however, having no particular breed. He takes
pride in having good horses and many good animals
have come from his stables. Since taking up
his home on this farm, he has remodeled the
buildings and all are in good shape and well adapted
for the uses to which he puts them.
Frank and Ida (Doepker) Rieman are the parents of
four children; Alfred, born on Apr. 7, 1902;
Linus, born on Sept. 9, 1906; Edward,
died on Jan. 26, 1915, and Cornelia, born on
Nov. 19, 1914. Mr. Rieman's religious
membership is with St. John's Catholic church at
Glandorf, and in politics he espouses the cause of
the Democratic party. He is a man of marked
domestic traits, devoted to his family and their
best interests. She is an amiable woman, a
devoted mother and a loyal and helpful helpmate.
Source: History of Putnam County,
Ohio, by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen
& Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 702 |
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Rieman, Sr. |
FRANK RIEMAN, SR.
Source: History of Putnam
County, Ohio, by George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B.
F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page
648 |
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CLEMENT
C. RIMER, for many years, has been closely
identified with the history of Putnam county, Ohio.
He is one of the brilliant young attorneys of
Columbus Grove, and, throughout his life, has been
active in behalf of all worthy public enterprises.
He has already achieved a splendid measure of
professional success, his years of conscientious
work as a lawyer having brought him increasing
practice and reputation. By a straightforward,
honorable course, Mr. Rimer has built
up a large and lucrative legal business. His
life is a splendid example of what an American
youth, endowed with common sense, energy and
determination, can accomplish. He has achieved a
splendid record at the bar at an age when most men
are merely starting on their life work. He has been
intensely methodical and unswervingly persistent in
search of legal essentials. Success could not help
crowning his efforts and attracting to him public
recognition and appreciation.
Clement C. Rimer was born on December 12, 1874,
about one mile southwest of Columbus Grove, Pleasant
township. He is a son of James and Lucinda
(Nichols) Rimer. James Rimer was born on April
13, 1845, about three-quarters of a mile northwest
of Kalida, in Union township. He, in turn, is the
son of Jeremiah R. and Lucinda (Sarber) Rimer.
It is an interesting fact that the first court held in
Putnam county was held at the home of Abram
Sarber, a great uncle of Clement C. Rimer.
Here the organization was perfected for erecting the
first Putnam county court house, at Kalida. Abram
Sarber was also the first township clerk in
Putnam county. A brother, Adam Sarber,
was one of the three first
township trustees in this county.
Jeremiah Rimer, the grandfather of
Clement C. Rimer, was a native of Fairfield
county, Ohio, born on January 23, 1820. He was the
son of Daniel and Catherine (Vandemarke) Rimer,
the former of whom was born on September 11, 1789,
in Pennsylvania, and the latter of whom was a native
of Pennsylvania, born there on September 13, 1785.
Jeremiah Rimer came to Putnam county,
Ohio, in 1832, with his parents, who settled on a
farm in Union township. He was a life-long farmer.
Jeremiah was twice married, first to
Lucinda Sarber, September 19, 1841. She
was a native of Franklin county, Ohio, born there on
November 25, 1819, and a daughter of Adam and
Catherine (Ensden) Sarber. Her parents settled
in Putnam county in 1834. Two children were born by
this marriage, Catherine and James.
His wife died on April 26, 1845, when her son
James was only thirteen days old. Jeremiah
Rimer was again married on November 5, 1846,
to Eliza Jane, the daughter of
James and Millison (Watson)
Cunningham. Seven children were
born by this marriage, Albert was born on May
10, 1848, and served five months in the Civil War,
in the One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry; William was born on
December 2, 1850; John M. was born on October
9, 1852; Minor D. was born on August 6, 1855;
Lucinda J. was born on August 31, 1857;
Thomas C. was born on May 8, i860, and Mary
M. was born in January, 1867.
Shortly after his second marriage, Jeremiah came to
Columbus Grove, Ohio, and lived here two years when
he again moved to a farm in Sugar Creek township. He
farmed this until 1876, when he sold it and
purchased a forty-acre tract in Pleasant township,
where he farmed for some time. Subsequently,
he sold out and moved back to Columbus Grove, where
he spent his remaining days. Jeremiah was a
Democrat and, although not active, was called upon
to serve as trustee of Sugar Creek township for two
terms. He was also infirmary director for several
years and a member of the school board. In his
earlier days, he was a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, at Ottawa, Ohio. He was a
deacon and active at the time of his death in the
New School Baptist church. He died on February 2,
1894.
James Rimer, the father of Clement C,
spent his boyhood days on the homestead farm in
Sugar Creek township. He left home in 1864 to
learn the carpenter trade at Columbus Grove.
Aside from one year spent at his trade at
Bellefontaine, Ohio, he has been actively engaged in
his trade at Columbus Grove since that time. He was
married on November 23, 1865, to Lucinda
Nichols, daughter of Edward and
Margaret (Erwin) Nichols.
Edward Nichols was born in Licking
County, Ohio, July 4, 1824, and was a life-long
farmer. He came to Union township, Putnam county,
Ohio, with his parents, when he was twelve years
old. He died on May 3, 1863, at the age of
thirty-nine. His wife, Margaret (Erwin) Nichols,
was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, February
17, 1818, and died on the homestead farm in Union
township on October 2, 1893, at the age of
seventy-five. Edward Nichols and
wife had ten children: Mrs. Martha
Holt, of Columbus Grove; Lucinda, who was born
in Pleasant township, October 8, 1846, and who spent
her childhood days in Union township; Joseph lives
in Paulding county; Mrs. Anna Best
lives in Union township ; Amos also lives in Union
township; Mrs. Hetty Martin
lives at Dundee, Michigan; the seventh child died in
infancy; Mrs. Jane Anderson
lives at Marion, Indiana; Mrs. Hannah
Spratt lives in Wood county, Ohio; Edward
died at the age of four years.
To Mr. and Mrs. James
Rimer five children have been born. One died in
infancy; Mrs. Louis Miller lives in Columbus
Grove; Mrs. John Davis lives at
Lima, Ohio; Clement C. is the subject of this
sketch; Emory lives at Whitehouse, Ohio.
James Rimer is considered a master
mechanic at his trade. He has erected many edifices
in Putnam county which are still standing as an
evidence of his good work. Previous to his coming to
Columbus Grove in 1895, he farmed a small tract in
Union township, but followed his present trade,
likewise. He owns property in Columbus Grove
and is still active as a carpenter. He is a
member of Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No.
464, at Columbus Grove. He served six years as
trustee of Union township, from 1889 to 1895.
For several years he was a school director and was
for one term a member of the town council. He is not
active in politics at this time. He is a
member of the Presbyterian church where he is an
active elder. For many years he was a trustee
of the church, but' he has not been active for the
past six years. All the family are
Presbyterians.
Clement C. Rimer spent his boyhood days in
Columbus Grove and on the homestead farm. He
was educated in the township schools and in the
Columbus Grove high school. He spent one year,
1892- 1893, at Ada College and taught school in the
township for three years after leaving Ada,
attending the summer terms there while teaching.
He began reading law under W. C. Tingle and
completed the study in the law offices of S.
Sanders, of Columbus Grove. Mr. Rimer
was admitted to the bar in June, 1902, and
immediately opened a law office at Columbus Grove,
where he is now active and where he is one of the
leading attorneys of the town. He became solicitor
of the village, after passing the bar examination,
and holds this, office at the present time. He
was elected justice of the peace, at the age of
twenty-one, and served six years. He was also
township clerk for about eight years and filled both
offices with credit to himself and to the township
and the town. He is now legal adviser to the
school board and holds other important positions of
responsibility.
Mr. Rimer was married on June 24, 1897,
to Miss Ida Swanger, daughter of John and
Leah (Kissell) Swanger. To this union three
children have teen born, Gladys, Helen
and Ruth, who are all at home. Mr.
Rimer has always been an active Democrat. He
took a strenuous part during Bryan's first
campaign, having been called upon to take the stump
for that distinguished politician at the age of
twenty-one years. He has been a vital factor in all
the campaigns since that time and has always
responded to his party's call, working hard for
victory. He has stumped Putnam and other
counties, having been sent out by the state
committee.
Mr. Rimer is a member of the Knights of
Pythias, though not active at the present time.
He and his family are members of the Presbyterian
church. Clement C. Rimer is a pleasing young
man with a quiet, unassuming manner, frank in all
his business dealings and a man well liked in the
community for his tenacity of purpose and high
ideals.
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 549 |
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FRANCIS
M. RIMER. Not long ago there was a
period from the middle of November to the first of
March when very little work was done on the farm.
The business man cannot afford a four or five
months' vacation nor can the farmer afford it.
The business man at the head of any enterprise
hardly dares to quit work for two weeks. Not
that the farmer does not work hard enough, but his
work is poorly planed if he has nothing that he can
do during a third of each year. It were far
better for the farmer to quit work at noon on
Saturday every week in the year than to work long
hours during the spring and summer season and cease
work altogether during the winter months. The
farmer who loves his work and is bent on attacking
its problems systematically will not care to pass
long periods in absolute idleness. He will
find something possible to do no matter how bad the
weather may be, and he will work where he may be
comfortable. He will have carefully planned
his work for the next season, will have attended
carefully to the feeding of his stock, the long
evenings he will have spent reading the literature
of the farm and in studying farm problems.
This is the typical life of the present-day
progressive farmer, and one of the men who falls in
this class is Francis M. Rimer, of Sugar
Creek township. Mr. Rimer is a man of
more than average intelligence. He is a man
who has kept abreast of the times with the
application of the latest methods, and has kept
informed with regard to the latest developments i
agriculture, which is evidenced by the fact that he
employs all of his latest devices in his farm work.
Francis M. Rimer was born on July 19, 1857, in
Sugar Creek township, Putnam county, Ohio. He
is the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Rhodes) Rimer.
Jacob Rimer was born in Fairfield county, Ohio,
on Jan. 29, 1815. He was the son of Daniel
and Catherine (Vandemark) Rimer. Daniel
Rimer was a native of Pennsylvania and was born
near Rimersburg. He was of German parentage
and came to Fairfield county, Ohio, from
Pennsylvania, about 1812. Here he remained
until 1832, when his son Jacob, the father of
Francis M., was seventeen years of age.
In this year he located in Union township, Putnam
county, where he entered land from the government
south of Kalida. Here he spent the remainder
of his active life and spent his declining years
with his son, Jacob, in Sugar Creek township,
where he died on July 5, 1857. His wife
surviving him about seventeen years, died in 1874.
Jacob Rimer was born in Fairfield, Ohio, where
he spent his childhood and received his early
education. When sixteen years of age, in 1831,
he came to Putnam county, Ohio, one year ahead of
his parents. After they settled in Union
township he remained with them until his marriage on
Mar. 1, 1838, at which time he was twenty-three
years of age, and when he settled on a farm of
eighty acres in section 8 of Sugar Creek township.
This land was covered with virgin timber and partly
with water. Jacob Rimer built a
one-roomed log cabin and a barn and proceeded to
clear his land, in which latter undertaking he
nearly succeeded during his lifetime. A few
years later he built a frame house adjoining the log
cabin. This house was of five rooms and quite
pretentious for those times. In later years he
built a more commodious residence, which is still in
use today. Jacob Rimer's wife,
Elizabeth Rhodes, was born in Franklin county,
Ohio on July 21, 1816. She was the daughter of
Peter and Catherine (Hoffman) Rhodes, and
came to Putnam county with her parents when sixteen
years of age, in 1831, who settled on the west bank
of Hog creek, just below Rimer.
Elizabeth here grew to womanhood and was married
to Jacob Rimer on Mar. 1, 1838, at the age of
twenty-two. Jacob Rimer's
parents had five children, three sons and two
daughters, Eliza, Jacob, Jeremiah,
Daniel and Parmelia, all of whom are
deceased. Peter and Catherine
Rhodes had seven children, two daughters and
five sons. Jacob and Elizabeth Rimer
had nine children, seven sons and two daughters,
Joseph, born on Dec. 18, 1838, and died on Dec.
21, of the same year; George W., Feb. 5,
18740, and was killed in the Civil War on Dec. 11,
1863; Daniel P., Jan. 8, 1842; Elizabeth,
Oct. 23, 1843; James W., Mar. 26, 1846, and
died on Dec. 25, 1907; Mary L., May 30, 1848;
Leazure, Aug. 21, 1851; Lewis H., Sept.
7, 1853; Francis M., July 19, 1857.
Daniel P. was also a soldier in the Civil War.
Jacob Rimer spent a most active and useful life
and died on the old homestead, which was largely the
work of his hands, in December, 1901. He was a
Democrat and an active member of the Baptist church.
He was township trustee for several terms, was well
known and highly respected and was a man of high
ideals and sterling integrity. His wife
preceded him to the grave, having departed this life
on Dec. 22, 1893. Francis M. Rimer was
born on the old homestead of his father and here
spent his childhood. He attended the local
district school, known as Woods College. Here
he grew to manhood and helped his father on the old
home farm until he was twenty-eight years of age,
when he married.
Francis Rimer was married on Dec. 10, 1885, to
Margaret Elizabeth Oard, who was born in
Sugar Creek township, Allen county, on Jan. 28,
1866. She was a daughter of Noah and
Margaret (Oglevie) Oard. Both of them died
when Mrs. Rimer was only fourteen years of
age. Noah Oard was born in Allen county
in 1824 and was the son of Peter and Anna Oard,
the former a native of Pennsylvania.
Margaret Oglevie was the daughter of parents who
came from Virginia. Her father was a native of
Scotland and came to Virginia when nine years of
age, settling in Putnam county in pioneer times two
miles north of Vaughnsville. To Noah
and Margaret Oard, fifteen children were
born, fourteen of whom grew to maturity. They
were: James Henry, who died in 1912; Mary
Jane, deceased; Thomas Clinton; David
R. and Peter L., twins; Anna C.,
deceased; John A.; Amanda O.; Noah O.; Margaret
E., the wife of Mr. Rimer; Cynthia A.; Viola,
who died at the age of five years; Eva; Lottie
and an infant who died at birth.
After his marriage Francis Rimer settled on a
part of his father's farm of sixty-one acres, where
he built a twelve-room residence and a large barn
and other buildings. To his original farm
Mr. Rimer has added twelve acres, making
seventy-three acres in all. He has always done
general farming.
Francis M. and Margaret E. (Oard) Rimer have had
seven children: Lenore, born on Jan. 20,
1889; Ralph, Feb. 25, 1891; Helen, May
5, 1894; Russell, Sept. 26, 1897; Louis
Richard, July 24, 1899; Margaret, Sept.
24, 1905, and Elizabeth, Oct. 31, 1907.
Lenore, who was graduated from the
Vaughnsville high school, attended the Lebanon
Normal School, and is now teaching in Oregon.
Ralph, who is a graduate of the Vaughnsville
high school and the Lima Business College, is also
teaching in Oregon. Ralph, who is a
graduate of the Vaughnsville high school and the
Lima Business College, is also teaching in Oregon.
Helen, also a graduate of the Vaughnsville
high school, took the normal course at Ohio Northern
University and a special normal course at Ottawa.
Russell is also a graduate of the
Vaughnsville high school. Louis Richard
is now a student in the Vaughnsville high school.
Francis Rimer attends the Methodist Episcopal
church, of which Mr. Rimer is a member.
Mr. Rimer is a member of the Knights of
Pythias Lodge, No. 711, at Vaughnsville. He is
a Democrat, having served as a school director,
township supervisor and township trustee.
Francis M. Rimer is well known in Putnam county
and highly respected as an up-to-date, progressive
and intelligent farmer.
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 733 |
Daniel R. Risser |
DANIEL RICHARD RISSER
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 1432 |
Mr. & Mrs. Julius C. Risser
Residence of Julius C. Risser - Old
Residence of Julius C. Risser - New
Julius C. Risser's Barn |
JULIUS C. RISSER
Source: History of Putnam County, Ohio, by
George D. Kinder, Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page 640 |
Mr. & Mrs. William M. Risser
Wm. Risser Residence |
WILLIAM MARTIN RISSER
Source: History of Putnam
County, Ohio, by George D. Kinder,
Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page
360 |
Henry Clifton Ruhl |
HENRY CLIFTON RUHL, M. D.
Source: History of Putnam
County, Ohio, by George D. Kinder,
Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen & Co.,
Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana - Page
304 |
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