JACOB GABEL

   Source: 1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies - Publ. Cleveland, Ohio:  H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page 694

DAVID GALLAGHER

   Source: 1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies - Publ. Cleveland, Ohio:  H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page 547

DR. LOUIS S. J. GESSNER was born Sept. 25, 1830, in Thun, Switzerland, and emigrated to America with his parents during childhood.  He studied medicine with his father, and returning to Europe graduated in Heidelberg, in 1858.  He has practiced in Fremont since 1858.  He served as assistant surgeon of the Thirty-seventh regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in Virginia, and as a contract surgeon at Brown hospital, Louisville, Kentucky, and hospital number two, Nashville, Tennessee.
  Source:  1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies - Publ. Cleveland, Ohio:  H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page 458

LOUIS GESSNER

  Source:  1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies - Publ. Cleveland, Ohio:  H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page 454

FRANCIS JOSEPH GIEBEL, JR. was born in Fremont, Ohio, Mar. 14, 1851.  His parents were Francis J. Giebel and Maria S. (Duerr) Giebel.  The father was a native of Hesse Cassel, and the mother of Bavaria, Germany.  Mr. Giebel sr., emigrated i 1847; Mrs. Giebel, in 1839.
     The subject of this sketch was educated in Fremont, having attended both the parochial and common schools of the city.  He married Miss Clara Ochs, at Fremont, on the 27th of Jan., 1874.  He learned the shoemaker's trade with his father.  In December, 1868, at the age of seventeen years and a half, he, with several other citizens of Fremont, caught the gold fever, and started from home to seek gold in Montana.  In the month of October, 1869, he left Montana on his return, and reached home in the month of November following.  He immediately went into the treasurer's office as clerk, under J. P. Elderkin, then county treasurer.  Here he continued working through the collection of the December installment of taxes for 1869.  He was then employed as clerk in the county auditor's office, under George W. Gurst.  In this employment Mr. Giebel continued until this election to that office in the fall of 1874.  At this time Mr. Giebel was found to be the youngest county auditor in the State of Ohio, being then only twenty-three years old.  He was re-elected in 1876, and served until 1878, when Adam Hodes, present incumbent, was elected to succeed him.  But for the custom of is party to let no county officer remain more than two terms, Mr. Giebel would no doubt have been retained in that office.  Upon the election of Mr. Hodes, he retained Mr. Giebel as his clerk and deputy, on account of his thorough knowledge of the office and its duties, which position he still holds, and is by all acknowledged to be a man fit for the place.  Meantime, Mr. Giebel has been clerk of the city of Fremont, a member of the city council, in which he is now sitting a second term, and was for one year president of that body.  He is also a member and stockholder in the Fremont Brick and Tile Company.  As a business man in general, and as a county auditor he stands high in the estimation of the people of the county.  As a citizen of correct walk and deportment, he is highly esteemed.  His career thus far promises well for the future, and demonstrates what German emigrants may gain for their children by emigrating to free America.
  Source:  1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies - Publ. Cleveland, Ohio:  H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page 548

JOHN L. GREENE, SR., was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, July 16, 1806.  In August, 1815, he moved with his father's family to Ohio, and located at Newburg, on the Western Reserve.  He shortly after went to Plattsburg, New York, where he spent two years, and there began the study of the law, under the instruction of his uncle, John Lynde.  He spent some time in the University of Burlington, Vermont, but was compelled to relinquish his course on account of ill health.
     Returning to Ohio he was soon invited to take charge of an academy at Cleveland, which position he accepted for a short time.  While engaged in teaching he still pursued the study of the law, under the tuition of Leonard Case.
     After the termination of his engagement in the academy, he gave himself more exclusively to the study of law, and while giving his days to that purpose, employed his evenings in keeping the books of the mercantile house of Irad Kelley.
     On the 16th of July, 1828, he was married to Miss Julia L. Castle, of Cleveland.  In this year he also engaged in various speculations, by which he accumulated a handsome property.
     In 1833 he came to Sandusky county and purchased some fourteen hundred acres of land, and in the spring of the following year moved with his family here.  After a failure in mercantile business at Greensburg, a village named after him, in Scott township, which failure was caused by the financial crisis of 1836-37, Mr. Greene, in 1840, came to Lower Sandusky and commenced the practice of law.
     His earnings for the first year were forty-five dollars.  He had a wife and six children to provide for.  At this juncture he received aid from an old Samaritan named Riverius Bidwell.  The next year his earnings amounted to sixteen hundred and fifty dollars.  From this time he had a successful practice until 1855, when he was elected Representative in the General Assembly, by the people.  In 1861 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. Samuel T. Worcester which position he held until February, 1864, at which time he resumed the practice of the law.  He afterwards formed a partnership with his son, John L. Greene, Jr., in which relation he continued until the time of his death.
     He was the father of eight sons and four daughters.  One of his peculiarities was a fondness for horses, and, at the bar, wherever he practiced, he was king of all attorneys where the value, or quality, or disease of horses were drawn into litigation.  In social life, and as a citizen of good example, public spirit, and liberality, judge Greene had a few superiors in Fremont.  The fact that Mr. Greene was chosen as a judge and elected to that position by the people of the subdivision of the judicial district in which he resided, folly certifies his ability and standing as a lawyer and a man.
  Source:  1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies - Publ. Cleveland, Ohio:  H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page 382

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