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Source:
1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio
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- Publ. Cleveland, Ohio: H. Z. William & Bro.
1882
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WILLIAM CALDWELL
was born near Chillicothe, Ross county, Ohio, Dec. 23,1808.
His parents were William and Mary Park Caldwell, with
whom he came to Port Clinton, Ottawa county in 1828, and four
years later, came to Fremont. Mr. Caldwell married in
Fremont in 1836, Jane A., daughter of Thomas and Eliza
Davis. She was a native of New York city, and was born
Dec. 17, 1808.
William Caldwell, sr., was a native of
Pennsylvania, and was one of a family of six sons and one
daughter, who emigrated to Kentucky in 1787. He removed to
Ross county in 1806, and in 1812 enlisted in the army, being in
the Northwestern division under Hull at Detroit. Through
that commander's cowardice the whole army became British
captives. After peace Mr. Caldwell located
at Columbus, then just made the State capital. He did the
blacksmith work on the Ohio penitentiary. He came to Lower
Sandusky in 1832, and subsequently removed to Elmore, where he
died in 1861.
William Caldwell, jr., has been justice of the
peace at Elmore for eighteen consecutive years. He was in
earlier years deputy sheriff of this county, and well known
among the early men of this city.
Dr. William Caldwell, son of William
Caldwell, jr., is a practicing physician at Fremont.
William and Jane Caldwell have had four
children: William, born May 27, 1837; Charles,
born Feb. 5, 1839, died in 1852; Robert H., born June
14, 1841, died Feb. 8, 1863, and Juliet, born Jan.
8, 1844.
William Caldwell, jr., was elected probate judge
of Ottawa county at the October election of 1881.
Source:
1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies -
Publ. Cleveland, Ohio: H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page
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AMOS R. CARVER
was one of the early settlers of York township, and one of its
most worthy citizens for many years. He was born in Cayuga
county, New York, July 23, 1802, and came to York township,
Sandusky county, Ohio, to live, in the fall of 1837. His
family then consisted of his wife and oldest daughter, now
Mrs. Johnson. Miss Hattie Hunt, who made
her home with the family for a number of years, now living in
Topeka, Kansas, came with them. The father of Amos,
Dyer Carver, moved out previous to his son, and located
on the place which was afterwards the home of Amos.
He died about the year 1866.
Amos Carver and Martha C. Hazletine were
married Mar. 6, 1834. She was born in Rutland, Vermont,
Sept. 15, 1816, but removed with her parents when five years old
to Cayuga county, New York. Mr. Carver died
July 6, 1874, and Mrs. Carver Jan. 9, 1879.
They had four daughters. Laura E., the oldest, was
born July 19, 1835, and became the wife of David Johnson
in 1857, who was killed by a railroad accident at Springfield,
Illinois, in 1865. His widow, until recently, had resided
in Oberlin, Ohio, for a number of years. Adelaide,
born Aug. 25, 1841, married, in 1869, Eugene S. Aldrich,
of Pleasant Lake, Indiana, where they now live. Julia
M., born October 30, 1844, married, in 1865, David H.
Foster, of Port Byron, New York, and now resides in
Hamilton, that State. Clara S., born Apr. 5, 1848,
was married to C. B. Greene, of Fremont, Ohio, in 1868,
and now resides in Toledo.
Source:
1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies -
Publ. Cleveland, Ohio: H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page
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FRANK CREAGER
was born in Bellevue, Ohio, July 25, 1849, and is of German
descent. He studied dentistry with Dr. B. S. Boswell,
of Rochester, New York, and S. M. Cummings of Elkhart,
Indiana and has practiced that profession twelve years, four
years in Indiana and the remainder of the time in Fremont.
In 1875 Mr. Creager married Miss Clara Moore,
oldest daughter of John and Eliza Moore, of Ballville,
this county. Mrs. Creager was born Nov. 9, 1851.
They have had three children, only one of whom is living.
Edna died Feb. 19, 1880, aged three years, six months,
and twenty-seven days. Volta died Feb. 29, 1880,
aged one year, nine months, and six days. Both of these
deaths resulted from membranous croup. Grace was
born Dec. 7, 1879.
Source:
1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies -
Publ. Cleveland, Ohio: H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page
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J. W. CUMMINGS is
now a resident of Green Spring. He was born in Richland
county, Ohio, in 1836, and in 1838 removed with his parents to
Lagrange county, Indiana, where he resided until 1864. He
was educated in Ontario Academy, Indiana, and Michigan
University, at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mr. Cummings
studied law at Lagrange, Indiana, and was admitted to the Bar
there in the year 1860. He was elected to, and held the
office of district prosecuting attorney for the five
northeastern counties of the State; was afterwards a candidate
for circuit prosecuting attorney for the circuit composed of the
ten counties in the northwestern part of the State. This
candidacy was in 1864, and Mr. Cummings was not elected.
In 1864 he went to Washington, and there held a position in the
land office until 1866, when he left Washington and located at
Toledo, Ohio, and resumed there the practice of the law.
Here Mr. Cummings' merits and talents soon gave him
prominence, and he held public office several terms. He in
the meantime married a daughter of the late Robert Smith,
of Green Spring, and in 1876 retired from the practice of the
law and engaged in other business.
While Mr. Cummings was engaged in practice at
Toledo he was frequently seen attending to business in the
courts of Sandusky county. He always commanded the close
attention of Court and Bar wherever he appeared. He was
made administrator of his father-in-law's estate, and the large
amount of property and the widely extended business thus thrown
on Mr. Cummings' care and management, together with the
fact that he has a large share of this world's goods, will
probably prevent a good lawyer and admirable man from returning
to the drudgery of practice.
Source:
1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies -
Publ. Cleveland, Ohio: H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page 384 |
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THOMAS VINCENT
CURTIS. This worthy citizen of Lower Sandusky is
the representative man of the colored or African citizens of the
county. He was born in St. Mary's county, Maryland, in the
year 1798, and came to Chillicothe, Ohio, when a boy about
twelve years old, in the year 1810. He came with an uncle
and aunt, and was apprenticed to James V. Hill, a colored
man, then carrying on a small tannery in Chillicothe, and there
learned the tanning and currier business in an apprenticeship of
five years. While an apprentice he remembers making the
acquaintance of James Justice, deceased, late a
resident of Fremont. Mr. Hill failed in
business, and his property tannery, and residence, were sold at
sheriff’s sale. Young Justice was then learning
the same trade with a Mr. McLean, near
Circleville, Ohio, and was sent by McLean to attend the
sale of Hill's property, and did bid off a considerable
amount of the stock, and this transaction brought on an
acquaintance between Curtis and Justice.
After Hill's failure Curtis went to Cincinnati,
and there worked at his trade eighteen months for a man named
Henry Funk. He went back to Chillicothe and
helped Hill finish off his stock. Mr.
Curtis then went to Piketon, Pike county, Ohio, and worked
at his trade for Dennis Hill, a brother of his
former employer. He then returned to Chillicothe, worked
for Mr. Thomas Jacobs, and there married
Miss Jane Brison, who was raised by Mr.
Galbreath, a lawyer from the State of Pennsylvania.
His wife was full half white blood, and a very intelligent,
lady-like person. There the couple had two children—Sarah
and Orlando—and with these and his wife he moved to
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he remained working at his
trade about three years, and where his third child—Charles—was
born. He returned to Chillicothe and remained about six
months, thence went to Clarksburg, where he worked for a man
named George King, a tanner, for a time.
Mr. King then put Mr. Curtis in charge
of a large tannery at Columbus, Ohio, he not being a practical
tanner, himself. Here he remained for some time, and then,
with his family, removed to Tiffin, Ohio. After spending a
winter at Tiffin, he removed with his family to Lower Sandusky.
Here he met his old acquaintance, Judge Justice,
and although Curtis had letters to another tannery, that
of Isaac Van Doren, he prevailed on
Curtis to go into his tannery, where he worked for five or
six years, when they differed, and Curtis went to work
for Mr. Van Doren, where he worked a number of years at
the trade. Here his other children were born - Mary,
the wife of Thomas Rees; Ellen, who married
Samuel Jones, who died at Norwalk, Ohio, and who
afterwards married a Mr. Wethers, near Oberlin.
Another son, Alexander, was born at Chillicothe.
Mr. Curtis, though not rich in lands and
money, having suffered loss of property by fire, has always been
a well behaved, industrious citizen. Recently,
however, his infirmities and age have disqualified him from
manual labor.
He has never been known to violate the laws of the
land, nor has he failed at any time to observe the proprieties
of life, or to observe good manners in society.
Source:
1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies -
Publ. Cleveland, Ohio: H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page
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