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1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio
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1882
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CHARLES
ROLLINS McCULLOCH. As a representative man in the
drug and book business of Fremont, as well as a conservator of
moral order in society, we make the following mention of
Charles Rollins McCulloch, now engaged actively in his
business.
Mr. McCulloch is the son of Jonathan
and Cynthia (Graves) McCulloch, and was born at
Sherburne, Chenango county, in the State of New York, on the 4th
day of April, 1825. He was removed by his parents with
them to Erie, Pennsylvania, in the year 1827, where they
settled. At Erie he received such education as was
afforded by the common schools of the State. About the age
of thirteen years, in 1838, he became an apprentice to C. C.
Bristol, in Buffalo, to learn the business of druggist.
Here he displayed remarkable industry and aptness in acquiring a
knowledge of the business, and remained with his employers about
three years and ahalf. Thence he came to Lower Sandusky,
and in June, 1842, went into business with his elder brother,
Carlton G. McCulloch, also a druggist, who had preceded him
to the place, and who has since located in the city of Chicago.
About six years afterwards, in the year 1848,
Charles R. McCulloch bought his brother's interest in their
business and set up a drug store for himself. He became
partner with his brother-in-law, Charles Burt, in
the purchase and selling of wheat, which they stored in J. K.
Glenn's warehouse, a wooden building then standing on the
site of Shomo's Block, on Front street, although the
warehouse was in fact on the back part of the lot. The
warehouse, with a large quantity of wheat, was destroyed by fire
in 1849, and Mr. McCulloch lost largely by the fire, so
much so that he was compelled to sell out his drug and book
business to S. Buckland & Co. After arranging his
business Mr. McCulloch, in 1851, became a partner
in the firm of S. Buckland & Co. in the drug and book
business at Fremont, and so remained in business until the year
1858, when he bought out the interests of his partners, namely,
Stephen Buckland and Ralph P. Buckland, in the business,
and became sole proprietor of the concern. Since that date
he has, through all the vicissitudes of business, continued
steadily on in the same place without check or failure, and is
now probably the head of the longest established drug store in
the county, doing business now for thirty-two years in
Buckland's old block, where he has remained since purchasing
out the Bucklands.
He married Miss Rhoda Gould in the month of
October, 1848, and about six months before the above-mentioned
fire. This marriage has produced seven children,
six of whom are now living, namely: Jessie (now Mrs. J. E.
Heffner), Fannie, Margaret, Rollin F., Josephine, and
Julia. One, Charles Rollin, died at the age of eight
months. The living children are all now residing in
Fremont. The surviving son, Rollin F., after
attending the high school of Fremont and graduating and also
assisting his father in the store, graduated at the School of
Pharmacy at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and having finished his course
there, became a partner in business with his father, in March,
1881, which position he now occupies, and is a highly
accomplished and popular druggist.
Charles Rollin McCulloch, the subject of this
notice, has been a consistent and worthy member of the
Presbyterian church for the forty-two years last past, all of
which time he was connected with the Sabbath-schools of that
denomination, and for thirty years has acted as Sabbath-school
superintendent. From his first connection with the church
he has been a member of the church choir, and has been leader of
it for the term of thirty-two years. He was by nature
gifted with a fine tenor voice and his practice and cultivation
of it has made him a desirable help, not only in church music,
but in all other proper musical entertainments. This taste
and talent for vocal music is manifested in his children, who
are quite talented in that direction. He has also been
ruling elder or deacon of the church in Fremont for about
sixteen years, and has greatly assisted his church in all its
enterprises. He has been chosen member of the city council
of Fremont three terms, in which he did honor to the place.
He was president of the council in 1877, when the corner-stone
of the City Hall was laid, and his name is commemorated, by that
long-to-be-remembered event in the engravings on the
cornerstone.
When Mr. McCulloch commenced business in
Fremont (Lower Sandusky), the drug business was comparatively
small and hardly supported one man. There are now,
however, six establishments, most of them employing numerous
clerks, engaged in that business in Fremont, and all seem to be
doing a flourishing business.
Mr. McCulloch has always been a firm and
steady supporter and conservator of morals and orderly conduct
in society, and as a man and citizen he has always been, in
honesty and purity of life, a bright example to all who have
been favored with his acquaintance. Of him it may be said
emphatically, he is a Christian gentleman, and a most worthy
citizen.
Source:
1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies -
Publ. Cleveland, Ohio: H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page
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BASIL MEEK was
born at New Castle, Henry county, Indiana, Apr. 20, 1829.
In 1832 he removed with his parents to Wayne county, Indiana.
In August, 1841, with his parents, he went to Owen county,
Indiana, and there resided until September, 1864, when he came
to Ohio and settled at Clyde. His school education was
that of the common schools. He was married to Cynthia
A. Brown, in December, 1849, who died Aug. 14, 1861, at
Spencer, Owen county, Indiana. By this marriage he had
four children, viz.: Minerva B., Mary E., Lenore Belle,
and Flora B. Mary E., who is the wife of B. R.
Dudrow, esq., and Lenore Belle, only, are now living.
He was married to Martha E. Anderson, Sept. 30, 1862, by
whom he has had two children, both living, viz.: Clara
C. and Robert C. He served as clerk of the
courts of Owen county, Indiana, continuously from Feb. 20, 1865,
to Feb. 20, 1862. At the November term, 1861, of the Owen
county circuit court, he was admitted to the Bar, and formed a
law partnership with Hon. Samuel H. Buskirk, practicing
at Spencer till his removal to Ohio. In 1871, at Clyde, he
resumed the practice of law, continuing in the practice until he
entered the clerk's office of Sandusky county, Feb. 10, 1879, to
which office he was elected in October, 1878. He is at
this time serving as such clerk, and was, at the October
election, 1881, re-elected to said office.
Source:
1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies -
Publ. Cleveland, Ohio: H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page
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JOHN P. MOORE AND
FAMILY. This enterprising and esteemed citizen of
Fremont was born on the 1st day of December, 1829, at Hampton,
Adams county, State of Pennsylvania. His father was
John Moore, who was born July 10, 1795. His mother,
Mary Picking, was born Feb. 19, 1794. Their
family consisted of twelve children, of whom John P. was
the ninth. Ten of the children are now living, the oldest
sixty-six and the youngest fifty years of age. In May,
1834, Mr. Moore moved his family from Hampton,
Pennsylvania, to Woodville township, in Sandusky county, about
eleven and a half miles west of Lower Sandusky, on the Maumee
and Western Reserve road. Here young John P. spent
his boyhood in hard work, with little .schooling and little
amusement, excepting hunting raccoon at night. He helped
to clear and. improve his father's farm, burn lime and haul
stone for the improvement and macadamizing of the road.
The great subject of anxious calculation during the
summer was to raise provisions to keep the family supplied
through the winter and until another crop could be produced, and
hurry the fall work and be ready for two or three months
attendance at school during the winter.
On the 3d of April, 1848, John P. Moore came to Fremont
and apprenticed himself to the blacksmithing trade, in a shop
established by Ira Camfield, who had died and left
the shop to be managed by his widow. That good and capable
lady is now living and keeping a boarding-house in Fremont.
In the fall of 1850 young Moore, having learned his
trade, returned to his former home in Woodville, and built a
small shop on the corner of his father's farm, adjoining the
Maumee and Western Reserve road, and engaged in general
blacksmithing. But in that day there were stage coaches,
and the young smith made a specialty of shoeing horses there for
the Ohio Stage Company, for whom Mr. John T. Simpkins,
now an aged and esteemed citizen of Fremont, was agent at the
time.
Mr. Moore worked in this shop about a
year, and then bought a lot on the corner of Water and Garrison
streets, in Fremont, where he built a shop, and where he has
since added a large carriage factory, which he is still carrying
on with marked success.
Source:
1812 History of Sandusky, Ohio with Portraits and Biographies -
Publ. Cleveland, Ohio: H. Z. William & Bro. - 1882 - Page
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