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Commemorative Biographical Record of the
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Sandusky & Ottawa, Ohio
J. B. Beers & Co. 1896
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DR. W. CALDWELL,
son of Judge William Caldwell, of Ottawa County, a short
sketch of whom will be found elsewhere, attended the public
schools of his neighborhood and Oberlin College. During
the winter of 1860-61 he attended medical lectures at Ann Arbor,
and in 1861 enlisted as hospital steward in the Seventy-second
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted to assistant
surgeon in April, 1863, and mustered out of service Jan. 4,
1865. After the war he located in Michigan for the
practice of his profession. He graduated from Cleveland
Medical College in the class of 1869. During the winter of
1879-80 he took a special course in New York. In June,
1880, he located at Fremont, where he has since been
meeting with flattering success.
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WILLIAM CALDWELL
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JAMES
CAMPBELL. One does not have to
be very old to recall the time when the greater part of the
magnificent State of Ohio was a "howling wilderness," nor even
to have been a participant in the work of the pioneer settlers,
clearing away the mighty forests, cultivating the virgin soil,
building roads and bridges, and subduing Nature until she became
the obedient servant of her masters. Then, as the years
rolled by, these same pioneers have seen the results of their
labors in busy hamlets, towns and cities, in schoolhouses and
churches, and, best of all, in their children grown to be strong
and noble men and women, who take their places among the wisest
and best of the land. Happy the people who have watched
the steady progress of the glorious Buckeye State in her march
to prosperity and honor.
Among the early settlers of Sandusky county were the
parents of our subject, James and Nancy (Mickmin)
Campbell, who came hither Dec. 2, 1835, from Beaver
county, Penn., and settled on eighty acres of land in Madison
township. The father was born Mar. 17, 1796, in Beaver
county, Penn, of Scotch and Irish descent, his paternal
grandparents being natives of Ireland, those on his mother's
side coming from Scotland. The mother was born in 1794, in
Pennsylvania, and died in Nov., 1878, in Sandusky county.
When this worthy couple came west and took up their abode in
Sandusky county, they settled in the midst of a forest.
With the assistance of their sturdy boys a space was soon
cleared, a log cabin erected, and the almost incessant stroke of
the axes told daily of fallen trees, whose space was speedily
converted into fruitful fields, smiling with golden harvests.
On this land, wrested from the wilderness, the brave pioneer
passed the remainder of his peaceful life, closing his eyes in
death March 17, 1861, at the age of seventy-three years.
His wife survived until Nov. 20, 1878.
A family of nine children composed the parental
household, of which our subject was the youngest. The
others in order of birth were as follows: Robert,
born June 19, 1823, lives in Madison township, where he carries
on farming; Elisan, born July 17, 1825, died May 10,
1848; Mary, born Mar. 15, 1827, is the wife of Adam
Ickes, a farmer in Steuben county, Ind., Daniel,
born Sept. 16, 1828, lives in Indiana; Louise Jane,
Born April 3, 1830, died Aug. 8, 1832; Beisilve born Dec.
19, 1831, died July 16, 1862; George, born Dec. 11, 1833,
is a farmer of Madison township; Sinthiann, born Sept. 8,
1836, is the wife of Jonathan Taylor, and lives in
Madison township.
James Campbell, the subject of this sketch, was
born in Madison township, Aug. 16, 1839, on the home farm one
half mile from Gibsonburg. His early days were spent in
the hard work which falls to the lot of a pioneer's son, and he
chopped timber and cleared away brush with his father and
brothers, the only break in the steady labor being the few weeks
in the depth of winter, when he attended the primitive schools
of those days and gained what meager stock of information could
be imparted in that short space of time. He grew up,
however, to be a strong and sturdy young man, and in 1862, at
the age of twenty-three, fired with the patriotism which is
inborn in a native American, he laid aside his axe and plough
and donned the Union blue, enlisting in Company H, One Hundred
and Sixty-ninth Regiment O. N. G. They were sent to
Virginia to guard the Capital from the advancing Rebel army, and
were on duty for 115 days. He then returned to the farm
and resumed his peaceful occupations.
On April 11, 1878, Mr. Campbell was
married to Miss Caroline Zorn, daughter of
Christian and Catherine (Snyder)
Zorn, her parents being natives of Germany. Mrs.
Campbell is the eldest of four children, viz.: Caspar,
unmarried and living in Deuel county, Neb.; Philip, who
lives in the same county, married Miss Santa Hartman, and
has one child; Mary, who is the wife of John Blausley,
also living in Deuel county, Neb., and has three children.
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have had a family of six children,
of whom one is dead; their names and dates of birth are as
follows: Eda, August 3, 1879; Eli, August 1, 1881;
Nelia, Sept. 15, 1883; Ira, July 24, 1886 (died
June 28, 1891, aged four years, eleven months and four days);
Matilda, June 6, 1892; and Ray, July 11, 1894.
Mr. Campbell has always lived
upon the home farm, he buying the interests of his brothers and
sisters after the death of the father. He has upon this
property nine oil wells, which yield him an income of $50. per
month. He is a Democrat in politics, and a man of
integrity and good business ability. While he is not
connected with any religious body, he believes in Christianity,
is a reader of the Bible, and donates liberally to all goods
causes. He has filled the office of school director.
His wife is a member of the Lutheran Church.
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D. P. CAMPBELL, DR.
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WILLIAM CANTY
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A. J. CASTLE, one
of the substantial farmers of York township, Sandusky county,
has won admiration by his sure and steady rise to comfort,
possesses unquestioned integrity, and has acquired a modest
competency by his own unaided efforts. He was born in Erie
County, December 26, 1841, a son of John and Rhoda (McGill)
Castle.
John Castle, the father, was born in Lycoming
county, Penn., in 1800, the son of David Castle, of
Scotch-Irish extraction. When a young man John Castle
migrated to Groton township, Erie County. Here he married
Rhoda McGill, who was born in Groton township in 1813, of
New England parentage. John Castle in 1852 removed
to Thompson township, Seneca county, and four years later he
came to York township, Sandusky county, where he lived until his
death in 1867. He was a man of tall stature and hardy
constitution, and had been sick less than two days when he died.
He threshed the day he became ill and died during the following
night. In politics John Castle was a Republican.
In early life he was a member of the M. E. Church, but later he
became connected with the U. B. Society near his home. His
wife survived until 1881.
A. J. Castle, the subject of this sketch,
remained with his father, attending the common schools, until he
was eighteen. He then began farm work by the month until
August 22, 1862, when he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and
Twenty-third O. V. I. The regiment was assigned to the
Eighth Corps in West Virginia, and served three years.
Mr. Castle participated in the battles of Winchester (Va.),
Newmarket, Piedmont, Lynchburg, Snicker's Ford, Berryville,
Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, High Bridge and others. He saw
Gen. Sheridan on his famous ride to Winchester, Va.; was
mustered out in June, 1865, returned home and resumed farming,
working also in a sawmill. Including his military service,
Mr. Castle worked for sixteen years for monthly wages.
In 1880 he was married to Miss Alice Moyer, who
was born in Sandusky county October 14, 1856, daughter of
Samuel and Eve (Kline) Moyer, both natives of Union county,
Penn. The father, who was of German ancestry, was born in
1804, the mother in 1810. They married in Pennsylvania,
and about 1853 migrated in York township, Sandusky county.
Later Samuel Moyer removed to Michigan, where he died
in1876; his wife after lived in Kansas, whence she returned in
May, 1895; a few weeks later she was stricken with paralysis,
and died at the home of Albert Streeter August 2, 1895.
To Mr. and Mrs. Castle four children have been born:
Mabel, Carmi, John and Rhoda. After his
marriage Mr. Castle rented a farm and continued to till
the land of others until three years ago, when he purchased a
fertile farm of forty-three acres. He is engaged in
general farming and in raising vegetables, especially cabbages.
In politics he is a Republican. His wife is a member of
the U. B. Church. Mr. Castle was in 1894 elected
trustee of the township. He has many friends and bears the
reputation of being an unusually successful farmer.
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RUSS J. CHRISTY
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JACOB C. CLAPPER
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JOSEPH R. CLARK
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SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 358 |
GEORGE D. CLEVELAND,
though still in the prime of life, has witnessed a wonderful
transformation in the land about Clyde, Sandusky county, in the
village itself, and in the conditions under which the people
here live.
He is the son of honored pioneers, James and
Jeanette (Rathbun) Cleveland, and was born in Green Creek
township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, Sept. 9, 1838. In his youth
Clyde was known as Hamer's Corners, and only a few buildings
were then grouped here. The old stage-coach lumbered
lazily through the straggling village, stopping at the inn for
refreshments, while the passengers dreamed about the time when
they might hope to reach their destination. There were
then no railroads. The inhabitants had not the thrifty and
bustling metropolitan airs of the present citizens, but the
transposition has been made, swift, it seems, as the shifting
panorama. To one who has seen it all, as has George D.
Cleveland, the change has been almost magical.
Clark Cleveland, Sr., his grandfather,
migrated with his wife, Jemima (Butler), and family early
in the century, from Mount Morris, Livingston Co., N. Y., to
northern Ohio. He first settled in the forests of Huron
county, and had made improvements, when he learned that his
title to the land was not good. He then packed up his few
household effects, and penetrated deeper into the western
wilderness, entering eighty acres of government land in Green
Creek township, and there building his second pioneer cabin some
time prior to 1822. Here he remained until his death,
which occurred in 1831, in his seventy-first year. The
children of Clark and Jemima Cleveland were as follows:
Abigail, who married Oliver Hayden; Cozia, who
married William Hamer; Moses; Sally, whose first
husband was Benjamin Curtis, her second, Alpheus
McIntyre; Clark, Jr., who married Eliza Grover, and
left six children; Polly, who married Timothy Babcock;
Betsy, who married Samuel Baker, and James.
James Cleveland was born at Mount Morris, N. Y., March 14,
1806, and migrated with his father to the pioneer home in
northern Ohio. He remained with his father until his
marriage, March 3, 1831, to Jeannette Rathbun, who
was born in Genesee county, N. Y., May 9, 1815, daughter of
Chaplin and Lucinda (Sutliff) Rathbun, pioneers of
Green Creek township, Sandusky county. At the time of his
marriage James Cleveland had saved money enough to buy
forty acres of land in Green Creek township, a part of the old
Sawyer farm. For five years he was clearing and
cultivating the land. Then during one winter he rented,
with his father-in-law, a saw and grist mill on Green Creek,
several miles from the farm. He supported his family, and
accumulated enough lumber to build a barn on his farm, and in
the spring he returned to his farming operations, and purchased
some additional land.
In 1841 he took a contract to grade a half mile of the
Maumee and Western Reserve turnpike. He moved his family
near the scene of the operations, and upon its completion five
months later returned to the farm richer by $600, paid in
"State scrip." A part of this he traded for building
hardware, and erected a large frame dwelling in 1845.
Meanwhile he kept adding more acres to his now quite extensive
farm. He was a sagacious, tireless, thrifty pioneer, and
at the time of his death, which occurred Sept. 1, 1878, he owned
nearly 400 acres of land, containing some of the best and most
extensive improvements in the county. His wife, who
survived until August 8, 1891, was a woman of unusual energy,
and was in every sense worthy of his ambitious and plans for
advancement. She ably seconded his efforts to secure a
competence that might support them in their declining years.
In physique somewhat below the medium size, scarcely weighing
120 pounds in her best days, she left nothing undone to advance
the interests of her family. When her husband was clearing
up the farm she hauled the rails which he split and made the
fences with. Once, when help was scarce, she fastened her
child to her back by a shawl, and, thus burdened, she planted
and hoed corn in the field. Her first calico dress she
earned by picking ten quarts of wild strawberries, and walking
to Lower Sandusky, where she traded them at a shilling a quart
for five yards of calico worth two shillings a yard. Few
pioneer families in Sandusky county have left a worthier record
than that of the Clevelands. Ten children were born to
James and Jeanette Cleveland, as follows: James,
born December 3, 1831, who reared a family and died in 1890, a
farmer of Green Creek township; Eliza, born November 29,
1833, married A. J. Harris, of Clyde, and died in 1861,
leaving two children; Clark R., of Green Creek township,
born April 1, 1836; George D., of Green Creek township,
born September 9, 1838; Lucinda, born May 29, 1841,
married Horace Taylor; Chaplin S., born July 28,
1844, a resident of Green Creek township; John H.., born
November 21, 1847, died October 28, 1879, leaving one daughter;
Sarah, born September 22, 1851, married Charles Sackrider,
and now living on the old homestead; Mary, born February
25, 1854, married George Crosby, of Clyde; Charles,
born December 30, 1857, died December 14, 1879.
George D. Cleveland grew to manhood on his father's
farm near Clyde, and attended the schools in that village.
He was married in 1864 to Miss Rosa Metz, who was born in
Seneca county, near Green Spring, in 1842. She died in
1880, leaving three children: Clark, Minnie and
Olivia; Bertie died aged thirteen months. The second
and present wife of Mr. Cleveland was Miss Mattie
Stroup, who was born April 30, 1860, in Crawford county,
where she was raised. She was married June 29, 1882, to
George D. Cleveland. After living a few years
elsewhere Mr. Cleveland settled on his father's old
homestead. He has been buying out the heirs, and now owns
135 acres located just outside the corporation limits of Clyde.
He is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, and in later
years he has also devoted considerable attention to fruit.
He has built an excellent barn and his improvements are among
the best in the township. In politics Mr. Cleveland
is a Democrat, and as a thrifty progressive citizen he has few
equals.
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CHARLES
CLINK,
a practical and progressive agriculturist of Woodville township,
Sandusky county, was born Dec. 23, 1843, in the township which
is still his home, and is the second son of Caleb Clink.
The family is well-known throughout this locality and his
brothers - Jacob, Reuben and A. J. - are prominent farmers and
stock dealers. In the district schools he acquired a fair
education, while his father's farm afforded him physical
training, and he was there employed from an early age until he
had reached his twenty-fifty year. He then entered a
dry-goods store at Woodville, where he spent three years in the
capacity of clerk, after which he was for several years a
salesman in a similar house in Elmore. He was employed in
the same capacity for four years in Pemberville, and during all
that period gave general satisfaction, winning for himself the
good will of his employers, and the confidence of his customers.
On leaving Pemberville, Mr. Clink returned to Woodville
township, locating on an eighty-acre tract of timber land, on
which he built a small frame house and installed his family
therein. His next task was to remove the trees and
stumps upon the place, and transform it into fields of rich
fertility. Some of the timber was sold for manufacturing
purposes, and tree after tree fell beneath his sturdy strokes
until sixty acres had been cleared and highly cultivated, while
a fine orchard of five acres yields to hi its fruits in season.
Good fences divide the place into fields of convenient size, the
latest improved machinery is there seen, and the accessories and
conveniences of a model farm may there be found. Mr.
Clink
has worked early and late to accomplish this desired result, and
now has the satisfaction of being the owner of one of the finest
farms in his section. The small frame house into which he
first moved his family has been replaced by a large, substantial
and ornamental dwelling which was erected at a cost of $1,800.
The surrounding grounds present a picturesque appearance, and
the neatness and taste there displayed indicate the progressive
spirit of the owner.
Mr. Clink was married Feb. 28, 1869, in Pemberville,
Ohio, to Miss Caroline Pember, daughter of
Hiram Pember, in
whose honor the town of Pemberville was named. He was born
in New York, and there learned the trade of blacksmithing and
iron working. In the Empire State he married Matilda
Heath, and in 1832 he removed to Ohio with his family, locating
in Wood county, where, with others, he founded the town of
Pemberville. Eight children were born of that marriage,
three of whom are living: Adeline, the first white child
born in that section of Wood county, and now the wife of Charles
Stahler, a farmer of Pemberville; Stillwell, a retired farmer of
Kansas; and Caroline, wife of our subject. The father died
in 1878, the mother on Sept. 2, 1874. Three children bless
the union of Mr. and Mrs. Clink, viz.:
Maud, born in
Pemberville, Wood county, May 12, 1874, educated in Woodville
township, Sandusky county, and married Oct. 16, 1890, to B. I.
Ross, a resident of Mansfield, Ohio, employed as a railroad
engineer (he has been employed by the Pennsylvania Company
twelve years); Claude, born Sept. 5, 1876, in Woodville
township, attended the district schools and the Normal of Ada,
Ohio, and is now engaged in operating in the oil fields; the
third child died in infancy. In 1884 Mr. and Mrs.
Clink
adopted a nine-weeks-old baby boy by the name of Frank C.
Foster, who has since been one of the family.
For six terms, Mr. Clink has been elected and served as
supervisor, and has also been school director four years,
discharging his duties with a fidelity worthy of all
commendation. He is a member of the Foresters Association,
and of the Masonic Lodge of Pemberville, while the family attend
the Peoples Church of Woodville. Mrs. Clink is a member of
the Lady Maccabees, Harmon Hive No. 36, and the son of Claude,
is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, DeMolay Tent No.
211. In their pleasant home Mr. and Mrs. Clink are
enjoying the fruits of their former toil, and throughout the
community are held in the highest regard by a wide circle of
friends and acquaintances.
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