HARMON HENRY TAULKER, one of the oldest and most esteemed citizens of Madison township, Sandusky county, was born in Hanover, Germany, Nov. 26, 1838, and is a son of Harmon and Angeline (Nieman) Taulker.
     Harmon Taulker was a tailor in the old country, and in the year 1841, sailed with his family for America.  They came direct to Sandusky, Ohio, Mr. Taulker buying thirty acres of timberland, in Woodville township, Sandusky county, where his death afterward occurred.  Mr. and Mrs. Taulker had four children, namely:  Eliza, who married Henry Borscherding, a farmer, of Woodville township; Frederick, a farmer in Madison township; Harmon Henry subject of this sketch; and Louisa, who came to America, but the family have not heard from here since her arrival, and it is not known by them what became of her.  Mr. Taulker's widow married Frederick Cook, and they have had three children, all living, as follows:  Angeline, married to Fred Brocksieker and they live in Toledo, Ohio, and John is a farmer in Woodville township.
     When his parents arrived in this country Harmon H. Taulker was but an infant.  When old enough to attend school he received such educational advantages as the country schools near his home afforded.  After his father's death he went to the home of John Cline, a farmer in the same township, and worked for him by the day until he was fourteen years of be, when he went to live again with his mother (who had in the meantime remarried), remaining there until he became of age.  On March 27, 1862, Harmon H. Taulker was united in marriage with Louisa Kuhlman, and they have had three children, namely: Sophia, born Oct. 30, 1863, wife of John Mauntler a farmer of Woodville township; Henry, born Jan. 12, 1873, lives at home, attending school at Gibsonburg; and August, born Jan. 30, 1875, also lives at home.  Mrs. Taulker's parents, William and Margaret (Turenhagen) Kuhlman lived and died in Hanover, Germany.
     Mr. Taulker owns 160 acres of choice land, on which are seven oil wells.  From these he derives an income of fifty dollars a month, getting every eighth barrel.  His home is in the heart of the oil district, and but one mile from the center of Gibsonburg, and he has a fine residence, with commodious and well-built barns and outbuildings.  Mr. Taulker is a Democrat in politics, has held the office of trustee for six years, was township assessor for two years, and was also school director and road supervisor.  He and his family are members of the Lutheran Church.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 340

CALEB TAYLOR (deceased) was born in Maryland, Oct. 20, 1800.  His parents moved to Virginia when he was a lad of seven years, and after living there two years located in Belmont county, Ohio, where they remained until 1828, in that year moving to Richland county, Ohio.
     In the spring of 1822 Caleb Taylor was united in marriage, in Belmont county, with Sarah Yost, who was born in that county, Oct. 21, 1802.  Her parents were of German ancestry.  For nine years, or until 1837, Caleb Taylor worked at his trade of blacksmithing and also at farming, and in that year located in Sandusky county, Ohio, on an eighty-acre tract of timberland, the greater part of which he had cleared by the time of his death.  He passed away on Jan. 12, 1871, at the age of seventy-one years.  Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Taylor had eleven children, as follows: John, a carpenter, who married Barbara Shrively, and had six children: Elizabeth, who married Eli Reeves, a retired carpenter of Gibsonburg, Ohio; Lydia, who lives in Oregon, married to Christian Rheinhart, by whom she had five children; Ben, who died in 1864 in the war of the Rebellion; William, who died at the age of seventeen; George, who died in Michigan June 12, 1893, at the age of sixty years; J. B., a resident of Gibsonburg, Madison township, who married Cynthia Campbell, and has had two children; Enoch, born Apr. 1, 1837; Hannah who married Eli Rheinhart, a farmer of Indiana; Mary J., who married James Wells, a weaver, and lives in Bradner, Wood Co., Ohio; and Aaron, who died in infancy.  Mrs. Taylor is still living, at the advanced age of ninety-two, having her home with her daughter at Gibsonburg part of the time, and on the old homestead.  She has for the greater part of her life been a devout member of the German Baptist Church.
     ENOCH TAYLOR, a son of Caleb Taylor, always lived at home, excepting the time he was in Steuben county, Ind., where he bought forty acres of land on which he lived two years.  On Dec. 1, 1864, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Rheinhart, who was born June 4, 1844, and they have had five children, namely: Martha A., who died young; L. C., a school teacher in Gibsonburg, Madison township, who received most of his schooling at the district school, attended school one term at Angola, Ind., and one at Fostoria, Ohio (he married Eliza Schneider); George W., born Jan. 29, 1875, who worked at home; Mary E., born Mar. 28, 1883.  Mrs. Taylor's parents, Christian and Barbara (Raymer) Rheinhart, were natives of Pennsylvania.
     In 1863 Enoch Taylor took his father to a railroad station, and on their return home the team became frightened and ran away, throwing him out and fracturing his right shoulder, which injury has caused him a great deal of inconvenience in later years.  In 1876, by a kick from a horse in the forehead, his skull was fractured, and he was picked up for dead, but after two months he was able to get around again.  Since then his eyesight has been impaired.  He has always worked hard from his youth, and since the death of his father has had charge of the old homestead.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 106

ENOCH TAYLOR - See Caleb Taylor biography
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 107

S. B. TAYLOR, M. D., physician and surgeon, Fremont, Sandusky county, has been enaged in the practice of medicine for thirty years.  He was born at Lower Sandusky, Ohio, Mar. 19, 1844, son of Austin B. and Delia A. (Pettibone) Taylor.  His father was born in Newfane, Vt., in 1814, and at the age of twenty-four came to Lower Sandusky, Ohio, to clerk for Sardis Birchard, of the firm of Birchard, Dickinson & Grant, whom he afterward succeeded in business, and was one of the pioneer merchants of the village.  He died Feb. 22, 1863.  Dr. Taylor's mother was born in Granby, Conn., in 1822, daughter of Hon. Hirma Pettibone, a native of Connecticut, who in 1836 came to Lower Sandusky, and was one of its first attorneys.  He died at Fond du Lac, Wis., in 1886; his wife died at Fremont in 1854.  Mrs. Taylor died in 1888, at Fremont, Ohio.
     The children of Austin B. and Delia A. Taylor were: Mary, who died in 1857 at the age of fourteen; Sardis B., our subject; Charles, who died in Dunlap, Iowa, in 891; George, who died at Attica, Harper Co., Kans., in 1891; Oscar W., who died in Dunlap, Iowa, in 1891; Austin B., who resides at Dunlap, Iowa; and Delia, who is a teacher of German in the Fremont public schools (Mrs. Taylor is a graduate of Wells College, N. Y.).
     Dr. S. B. Taylor was reared in Fremont, there receiving his primary education in the public schools, and subsequently passed through the Preparatory Department of Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio.  He then commenced the study of medicine at Cleveland, Ohio, under Dr. S. R. Beckwith, and later entered Cleveland Medical Institute, from which he graduated with the class of 1864.  He afterward attended Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, from which he graduated with the class of 1872.  He began the practice of his profession in 1864, in the capacity of assistant-surgeon of the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Regiment, O. V. I., at Fort Ethan Allen, Va., and since that time he has been in constant practice at Fremont, Ohio.  He was physician at the County Infirmary from 1868 to 1872, and he is now president of the Sandusky county Soldier's Relief Commission, and a member of the Sandusky County Medical Society, of which he was the first Librarian.  Dr. Taylor is a member of the Dickinson Tent No. 21, K. O. T. M., of which he has been physician, and a member of Eugene Rawson Post No. 32, G. A. R., numbering 170 members, of which he has been surgeon for twelve years.  He was aide-de-camp to the G. A. R. for Sandusky county in 1890.  He is a Democrat in politics.  Dr. Taylor is a lineal descendant, great-grandson, of Brig. Gen. Channcey Pettibone, who served in the Revolutionary war.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 81

ZACHARY TAYLOR. In the two worlds of Clyde, Sandusky county, its business and its social circles, the names of Zachary Taylor and his accomplished wife rank as leaders; and in the joyous and prosperous lives of these two people the two spheres are most happily blended. Mrs. Taylor, while possessing all the womanly graces of her sex, has a keen business sense, a rare taste and judgment, exercised in the selection of stock which attracts to her husband's dry-goods store the best trade from a wide region of country. The mercantile career of Mr. Taylor has not been one succession of successes. Sunlight has followed shadow, but through it all runs the gleam of mercantile ability. As a child of six years Zachary Taylor sold apples on the train and peddled molasses candy. At the age of thirteen years he went behind the counter for W. B. Clock, and for ten years he clerked for various firms before entering business for himself. He has become a prominent merchant of northern Ohio, and is distinctively a self-made man—one who realizes the talismanic powers of industry and business push.
     Mr. Taylor was born at Clyde September 16, 1849:, son of George W. and Abigail C. (Whitcher) Taylor. George W. Taylor was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y., in 1825, and comes from old Vermont stock of Scotch and Irish ancestry. He learned the saddler's trade in New York and followed it at Troy and at New York City. Coming west, he worked at his trade for a short time at Milan and Sandusky, and about 1845 came to Clyde. Here he conducted a dry-goods and grocery store for a time, but later returned to the saddlery business. He was a Republican in politics, and his blameless life was dominated by a spirit of practical Christianity. He died of paralysis in 1881. Abigail (Whitcher), wife of George W. Taylor, was born at Gasport, N. Y., February 3, 1828, and migrated with her brothers and her widowed mother to Milan, where she met her future husband. The Whitchers are of English extraction. Generations ago three unmarried brothers of the name came to America, two of whom returned to England, where they acquired wealth and died childless. The third married in America, and from him the present Whitchers in this country have descended. An absence of legal records prevents the representatives from obtaining the English inheritance. The Whitchers are hardy, frugal, honest people, of great industry, and it is from his mother that Zachary Taylor has inherited his push and executive business ability. To George W. and Abigail Taylor four children were born: Erastus, accidentally killed at the age of fifteen years, while hunting; Zachary; Emma A., wife of L. C. Carlin, a real-estate dealer of Findlay, and Ida L.
     At the age of twenty-three Zachary Taylor, in partnership with G. S. Richards, established at Clyde a dry-goods business, which they conducted seven years. In the latter years they did not prosper, and were compelled to make an assignment; investigation revealed that a confidential clerk had been a large embezzler. Left penniless at thirty by this betrayal of trust, Zachary Taylor went on the road; first traveling through Ohio and Indiana for E. M. McGillen & Co., of Cleveland, for three years, then for Mills & Gibb, a New York house. In 1888 Mr. Taylor was again on his feet financially. He re-established a business at Clyde in dry goods, carpets, furnishing goods, etc., which has grown rapidly. He now employs from six to seven clerks, and occupies two floors, 25 x 100 feet, centrally located. When he opened his business in 1888 most of the best trade of Clyde was going elsewhere, but he put in a line of goods that could not be excelled, and as a result Clyde not only holds her own in trade, but draws upon that of other neighboring cities.
     Mr. Taylor was married, October 2, 1877, to Miss Julia R. Klink, who was born December 24, 1861, daughter of Rev. Charles M. and Julia (Black) Klink. Rev. Klink was an English Lutheran minister. He was born at Newville, Cumberland Co., Penn., in 1824, son of John George and Elizabeth (Humes) Klink. John G. Klink was born in England of English and German parentage. He was a man of force and character, but without titled name. Elizabeth Humes, the girl he loved and married, was the daughter of an English lord, and for her plebeian marriage she was dis­inherited. The young couple emigrated to America, settling at Newville, Penn., and here Mr. Klink acquired wealth. He was a man of temperate habits, and was highly honored for his integrity and many other virtues. Charles M. Klink attended a theological seminary at Cincinnati, Ohio, expecting to become a Presbyterian minister, but at the earnest solicitation of his father he was ordained a minister of the English Lutheran Church. At Cincinnati he met his future wife, Miss Julia Black. She was born at College Hill, a suburb of Cincinnati, and was a cousin of Henry Ward Beecher. Mr. Klink was introduced to her by that afterward dis­tinguished divine, who was a fellow student at the seminary. Many years of his pastoral work were spent by Rev. Klink at Middletown, Md. He was there during the Civil war, and had just completed a new church when the battle occurred in that vicinity. His new church was converted into a hospital, and the wounded and disabled soldiers were the first beneficiaries of the new upholstered seats. His health failing, Rev. Klink came to Ohio. He purchased the Uriah Lemon farm, south of Sandusky, and sitting in a chair he preached on the last Sunday of his life; he died in 1862. To Rev. and Mrs. Klink six children were born: Mary Elizabeth, wife of Arthur G. Ellsworth, a farmer of Sandusky county; George A., in the oil business at Cleveland, Ohio; John W., a farmer of Eaton Rapids, Mich.; Jennie E., wife of W. E. Bunker, of Eaton Rapids, Mich.; Julia R.; and William E., an insurance agent of Richmond, Va. To Zachary and Julia Taylor one child, Z. Arthur, was born March 11, 1881.
Mrs. Taylor is a member of the M. E. Church and a leader in Church work. She has been a member of the choir, and as a Sunday-school teacher her class grew in a short time from eighteen to fifty-six members. Both Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are members of the Chosen Friends, and he is now Regent of the Royal Arcanum. In politics he is a radical Republican. In business Mrs. Taylor is of great assistance to her husband. It would be difficult to find anywhere a woman of superior or even equal business abilities. In business and social relations they work as one individual. Mr. Taylor is a great '' home man," and perhaps carries more insurance than any other resident of Clyde. The city is indebted to this couple perhaps as to no other for the charms and refinements of its better life.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 175

STEPHEN D. TERRILL.  this well-known farmer of Green Creek township, Sandusky county, and for many years a successful business man of Clyde, has made the most of his opportunities.  Instead of yearning for the distant and unattainable, he has cheerfully and resolutely done the work that lay before him, and by diligence and steadiness of purpose he has demonstrated by his success in life the golden value of those sterling qualities.
     He was born in Chenango county, N. Y., June 26, 1818, son of Elias and Hannah (Hickox) Terrill, sterling Presbyterians.  Elias Terrill was born of Scotch parentage in Waterbury, Conn., Aug. 7, 1775, and was married May 6, 1798, to Hannah Hickox, born July 2, 1781.  He was a cooper, and followed his trade in his native town until about 1815, when with his family he moved to Pitcher, Chenango Co., N. Y., where he died Aug. 14, 1835, his wife surviving until Nov. 6, 1856.  They were the parents of the following twelve children:  Irene, who in 1817 married Solomon Ensign, and reared a family in New York, where she died; Julia M., who in 1819 married James Hinman, reared a family, and died in New York City; Beulah S., who married Harry Chandler, and died in Bellevue, Ohio; Susan H., who married Amos Leonard, and died in the West; Lenora, married in 1831 to J. R. Freeman, and died in Schenectady, N. Y.; Elias G., who married Penina Dimmick in 1834, and died in Pennsylvania; Shelby W., married to Mary Ann Ruddock in 1835, and died in Pitcher, N. Y.; Josiah R., who went to Ogdensburg, N. Y., and was never heard from afterward; Stephen D., subject of this sketch; Nancy Judson, married Asa Ensign, and died in New York; Samuel N., who died in California; and Eunice Celestia, who married Henry Warner, and lives in New York.  The mother lived to see all her twelve children married, and all were living when she died.
     Stephen D. Terrill, at the age of fifteen, left the home of his parents and came to Ridgeville, Lorain Co., Ohio, to live with his sister.  Two years later he went to Cleveland, and for two years engaged in teaming.  He then drove team at Vermilion for over two years, and engaged in the manufacture of potash at Republic for about the same period.  For a season he was second engineer on the old steamer "Columbus," on Lake Erie, and after making potash at Milan during the following winter he there purchased a blacksmith shop in the spring of 1842, hired a blacksmith and learned the trade.  He was married, June 4, 1843, to Martha Norton, born in Vermilion, Ohio, July 18, 1825, daughter of Leonard and Mary (Bartow) Norton.  Leonard Norton was born July 11, 1798, and died in July, 1845.  He was a Universalist in religious belief, and in politics a Democrat.  His father, David Norton, a member of the Church of England, came to America from Thruxton, England, and was twenty-four weeks on the voyage.  Mary Bartow, wife of Leonard Norton, was born in New York State in 1796, and died in 1860; she was a member of the Baptist Church.  Leonard and Mary Norton had nine children, as follows: A child who died in infancy; Mary Ann, who married Peter Chance, and is now deceased; Leonard, who died young; Lorin, who died at Milan, aged thirteen years; Martha, wife of Mr. Terrill; John G., engaged in real estate at Toledo; Alfred, who died in Pennsylvania, aged forty years; Adeline, wife of Myron Mills, of Milan; Eliza J., who married George W. Hayes, and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
     After his marriage Mr. Terrill remained in Milan until 1854, when he came to Clyde.  He here followed his trade for a while, then engaged in cabinet making, and later operated a sawmill.  About a year ago he removed to the farm in Green Creek township which he now occupies.  He had seven children, three of whom died young, and those who lived to adult age were (1) Stephen H., born Oct. 1, 1844, who enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth O. V. I., and died Mar. 5, 1865, after his return home.  (2) John G., born Jan. 6, 1847, a stationary engineer at Chicago, who is married to Mary Youman, and has three children - Gertrude, wife of Henry Denhart; Bessie A., a graduate of the Chicago Conservatory of Music, and Nellie, a graduate of a business college at Chicago.  (3) Alfred N., born Sept. 6, 1854, now in charge of an extensive sawmill at Portland, Oregon.  (4) Charles D., born Aug. 24, 1856, killed May 6, 1873, by accident, in a sawmill in Toledo.  Mr. Terrill has been a member of the Clyde board of education.  He has been a lifelong Democrat, first voting for Martin Van Buren and every Democrat candidate for Presidency since.  His wife is a member of the Universalist church.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 464

GEORGE THRAVES, farmer and dealer in live stock, son of William Thraves, was born in England, July 19, 1828. He attended school a few terms in Nottinghamshire, and at the age of sixteen came with his father's family to America, into the region of the Black Swamp, about four miles west of Lower Sandusky (now Fremont), Ohio. Here he endured some of the toils and privations incident to pioneer life, and attended a few terms of school in the country. After working on a farm for several years he served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith trade in Lower Sandusky with Mr. Lansing, afterward following his trade about two years in the shop of Samuel Moore, in Fremont, Ohio. On April 14, 1853, he was married to Miss Mary Jane Crowell, who was born in Sandusky township, in 1829, a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Link) Crowell. She had received a very liberal education, and had taught several terms of school in the country districts.
     In 1855 Mr. Thraves and his wife went to California by the Panama route, and located in Yuba county where he bought a mining claim and worked at gold min­ing about four months. He then sold his claim and bought a blacksmith shop in which he worked about one year, doing a thriving business. The society of the miners not being congenial to his wife, he returned with her to Ohio in 1858, and purchased a farm of eighty acres in Ballville township, Sandusky county. Here he followed mixed farming and stock raising for about thirty-five years with good success. Mr. Thraves has been an active friend of education in his neighborhood, having held the office of local director for twelve years, and taken a deep interest in the literary exercises of the young people. He also held the office of township trustee, and other positions of honor and trust in the community. He has been a member of Croghan Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Fremont, Ohio, since 1852, and held, at intervals, all the offices of the subordinate lodge. In politics he was a Whig until the Know-nothing agitation in 1856, ever since when he has been a Democrat. Mrs. Thraves became a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, near her old home, three miles west of Fremont. She proved a faithful and acceptable worker in Sunday school and society work, and maintained a high standard of Christian character. She died at her home August 5, 1885, and was buried in McGormley Cemetery. Mr. Thraves has continued to reside on the farm with his youngest daughter, Lillie. The children of George and Mary Jane Thraves were: (1) Samuel, who died in infancy. (2) Ann Marilla, born in Sandusky county, Ohio, July 2, 1855, married to Charles Young, September 25, 1878, and their children are: Justin Irving, born July 13, 1879, and Elsie Lois, born December 21, 1883. (3) Mark Eugene, born April 18, 1859, now residing in the vicinity of Los Angeles, Cal. (4) Ida Hortense, born July 4, 1861, married to George Sommer, of Green Creek township, October 18, 1882, and their children are Wilbur, born in September, 1883; Fred, born in October, 1885; Barbara, born in September, 1887; Robert, born in November 1891, and Corinne, in August, 1893. (5) Meade George, attorney at law, Fremont, Ohio, born February 15, 1863, who was married April 9, 1890, to Miss Mary M., daughter of Everett A. and Maria L. C. Bristol; she was born at Fremont, Ohio, November 2, 1868. (6) Lillie May, born September 13, 1865, who was married April 9, 1895, to Merritt Cornell Huber, of near Green Spring, Ohio.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 168

MARK THRAVES, farmer and dealer in live stock, Ballville township, Sandusky county, was born in Nottinghamshire, England, December 7, 1832, a son of William and Marilla (Graves) Thraves, whose history appears elsewhere.
     Our subject came with his parents to America when he was eleven years of age, and grew up on a farm in Washington township, Sandusky Co., Ohio. In the latter part of 1859 he went to Fremont to learn the trade of blacksmith, serving an apprenticeship under Solomon Lansing, who afterward removed to Michigan, and after whom it is probable the city of Lansing was named. In December, 1851, Mr. Thraves started for California by way of the Panama route, taking passage on a steamer at New York bound for the town of Chagres, at the mouth of Chagres river, on the Isthmus of Panama. The trip was a most hazardous one, the steamer losing one of her side-wheels and being nearly wrecked, making it necessary to put in for repairs on the way. Upon reaching the Isthmus of Panama, the passengers were rowed and poled up the river Chagres, in small boats, by the natives, and were sometimes obliged to land and walk while the boats were carried around the rapids. After leaving this river the passengers had to make an overland trip of twenty-five miles before reaching the Pacific coast. The men walked, while the women rode mules furnished by the citizens. To the consternation of Mr. Thraves and his fellow travelers, upon reaching the port on the Pacific, they learned that the regular steamer was already so loaded with passengers that they could not get aboard, and that nothing remained for them but to take a sailing vessel for the voyage to San Francisco. The Vanderbilt Line, with whom they had shipped from New York, had no steam line on the Pacific, and so they took passage on the brig "Margaret." They put out to sea with a fair wind, but when within one degree of the equator struck a dead calm, in which they were obliged to lie helpless for two weeks, during which time twelve of the passengers took sick and died. They finally succeeded in pulling into the harbor of San Bias, Mexico, where the brig lay for a week, to the no small solicitude of the 250 passengers. The remainder of their voyage was tedious in the extreme. Perhaps apprehending further trouble, the captain of the brig put it in charge of the mate, and himself remained behind. Provisions ran short, and for the last three weeks each person had to live upon three spoonsful of cooked rice and a pint of coffee per day; and upon reaching San Francisco there was not a half bushel of rice left on board the brig, and no other article of food whatever. They had been thirteen weeks upon the sailing vessel, whereas only fourteen days were requisite to make the trip by steamer.
     Unlike most other men who went to California at that period, Mr. Thraves turned his attention at once to farming, the raising of wheat and other grains in Sacramento county, as on account of the high price of flour ($50 per sack) it was more profitable than gold mining to one who knew more about farming than about mining. In the month of June, 1856, Mr. Thraves returned home to Ohio, and remained among his friends until the fol­lowing April, when, with his brother William, he started back for California.
     On crossing the Isthmus of Panama they met with a sad accident. The train upon which they were riding was wrecked, and William Thraves, with sixty others, was crushed to death; more than 360 were injured. All those who were killed were buried on the Isthmus. Controlling his grief as best he could, our subject completed his journey to California, where he followed gold mining in Yuba county, on the American river. In 1858 he made a trip into British Columbia and Vancouver Island. In December, i860, he returned to Ohio, where he has since that time been engaged in his favorite pursuit of farming and stock raising, in which he has been remarkably successful.
     In politics our subject is a Democrat, and though not an office seeker has held various offices in his township, where he is justly recognized as one of the leading and most enterprising citizens. He has for many years been a member of the I. O. O. F., at Green Spring, Ohio.
     On April 3, 1862, Mark Thraves was married to Miss Sarah Hufford, who was born April 17, 1834, daughter of Cornelius and Mary Jane (Zook) Hufford, with whom she came to Sandusky county, Ohio, when two years old, and has since lived here. Her education was obtained in the district schools of Ballville township, and, with the exception of two years previous to her marriage, she resided with her parents. Her father was born in 1806 in Kentucky, became an early pioneer of Ohio, and died in Ballville township, Sandusky county, March 14, 1884, being buried in Washington Chapel Cemetery, Washington township, Sandusky county; he was a blacksmith by trade, and a model farmer. His wife was born in 1809 in Pennsylvania, died in 1882, and was also laid to rest in the above-named cemetery. Their children were: Sarah (Mrs. Thraves), Simon, Elizabeth (Mrs. N. Rathbun), Catharine (Mrs. J. Emerson), and Martha (Mrs. Ferrenberg), all of whom are living. Mrs. Thraves' paternal grandfather, Jacob Hufford, was born in Kentucky in 1770, and died in Ohio in 1850; his wife, Catharine Creager, was born in Ohio about the same date. Her maternal grandfather, Abram Zook, was born in Pennsylvania in 1765. The children of Mark and Sarah Thraves were Delphin, born February 28, 1863; William, born May 15, 1865, and married to Ida, daughter of Walter F. and Emma (Young) Huber; Mattie M., born October 30, 1869, and Ida F., born August 15, 1867.
The Thraves Family. Samuel Thraves, the great ancestor from whom are descended the Thraves families in Sandusky county, Ohio, lived and died in Nottinghamshire, England. He married Miss Ann Moult, and their children were: John, Elizabeth, William, Thomas, Grace, George, Faith, Robert and Mark. About the year 1830 Thomas came to New York city, where he died, leaving one son. George came to America in 1833, and settled in Virginia, where he died in 1882, leaving several sons, one of whom, Joseph, went to California.
     William Thraves, son of Samuel, was born December 27, 1799, in the town of Tythby, Nottinghamshire, England, of Anglo-Saxon descent. He was five feet ten inches in height, with blue eyes and flaxen hair, and when in the vigor of manhood weighed about 180 pounds. He was a member of the Church of England, and his occupation was that of butcher. In 1827 he married Miss Marilla Graves, who was born December 29, 1799, in the village of Austin, Nottinghamshire. She was also a member of the Church of England. The names and dates of birth of the children born to them in England were: George, July 19, 1828; Ann, July 19, 1828; Robert, May 14, 1830; Mark, December 7, 1832; Faith Elizabeth, March 20,1835; William, July 15, 1837; Thomas, September 6, 1839. In 1844 the entire family emigrated to America, and settled in Washington township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, where they followed farming and stock-raising, and here the youngest son, Levi, was born March 2, 1847. In 1854 they settled upon a farm of eighty acres, in Ballville township, which they had bought. This was their family home for many years, and here William Thraves and his sons followed farming and dealing in live stock with good success. In 1882 he retired from active life to a quiet home which he had bought, adjoining the farm of his son, Mark. William and Marilla Thraves celebrated their golden wedding in 1877. She died April 2, 1883, after which Mr. Thraves lived here and there among his children at his own pleasure until August 21, 1889, when he passed away at the home of his son, Mark. Both were buried in McGormley cemetery, Ballville township. Of their children, Ann M. Thraves married John Crowell, and subsequently moved to California, where they both died—she in 1867, he in 1882—leaving three children. Robert Thraves is in Camptonville, Yuba Co., Cal. Faith E. Thraves married Henry Bowman, and died in 1867. William Thraves (son of William, Sr.,) was killed in a railroad accident on the Isthmus of Panama in 1856, and buried there. George, Mark and Thomas are all farmers of Ballville township, Sandusky county.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 166

JACKSON TINNEY (deceased) was born in Niagara county, N. Y., June 15, 1832, and died at Greensburg, Ohio, June 24, 1891.  His father, Stephen Tinney, was a native of Massachusetts, and his mother, Julia Scott, was born in New York.  When Jackson was only one year old his parents moved to Lenawee county, Mich., where they remained six years, thence removing to Ohio, and settling in Scott township, Sandusky county, in the spring of 1839, where the family has since resided.  He was the third son in a family of four children.
     On July 4, 1863, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Inman, daughter of William Inman one of a pioneer settlers of Scott township; as a result of this union two children have been born - one son of one daughter.  His wife and children survive him.  His worth as a citizen was appreciated, as is shown by the fact that he was several times elected township clerk, while in 1890 he served as appraiser of the real estate of Scott township, to the great satisfaction of the public and with credit to himself.  He was a man of honesty and upright character.  On the day before his death he worked as usual in the field, but in the evening complained of feeling ill, and took some home remedies, thinking he would feel better in the morning.  About midnight he rapidly grew worse, and died early Wednesday morning of heart disease before a physician could be summoned.  His health failed  about one year before his death when he had an attack of the "grip," from which he never recovered.  He died June 24, 1891.  His funeral occurred on Friday following his death from the M. E. Church, of Greensburg, the services being preached by Rev. S. Kaiser, of Gibsonburg, the text selected being Matthew vi:25.  The interment was made in Metzger Cemetery.
     Mrs. Tinney, widow of our subject, was born at Fremont, Mar. 7, 1841.  When she was a child her parents came to Scott township, where her father cleared a farm and made a home for himself and family.  For fourteen years he was assessor of Scott township, and was an esteemed citizen of the community in which he lived.  Mrs. Tinney was educated in the public schools of Scott township.
     ALFRED W. TINNEY, the son of Jackson Tinney, was born May 7, 1864, on the farm where he now lives.  He was educated in the common schools of the township, in the Fremont High School, and Normal at Ada.  For several years he has been one of the most successful teachers of Sandusky county, and is pronounced by those who know him as one of the ablest young men of Scott township.  In addition to his school work he carries on the old farm of his father as well as a small farm of his own.  He is always found attending to his business, never having any time for the frivolous things of life.  Cora, his sister, now Mrs. Kleinhen was born Aug. 8, 1868, and acquired a common-school education at home.  She was married June 2, 1893, to Oscar Kleinhen, and they now live at Tinney they have one child, Ida Loree, born August, 1894
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 117-118

DARWIN S. TINNEY - See George Aldrich

EDWIN C. TINNEY, one of the pioneers of Scott township, is a son of Stephen Tinney, and was born in Niagara Co., New York State, June 6, 1828.  When five years old he moved with his parents to Lenawee county, Mich., where he lived six years; thence came to Scott township, Sandusky county, where he has since lived.  After the death of his father there was quite an indebtedness on the farm, but the boys remained at home and paid up the debt, during which time they added one hundred acres to the original purchase.  When all was paid the four children - three boys and one girl - divided the property among them, our subject taking the eighty acres where he now lives at Tinney.  On his farm is a very productive gas well, which supplies the home with fuel and light.
     On Nov. 25, 1858, Mr. Tinney was married to Miss Catherine Wiggins, of Tinney, and to them were born two children: Ida May, born Mar. 2, 1860; and Charlie, born Sept. 21, 1862, at Tinney.  Ida was educated in the district school, and the Normal at Fostoria and Fremont High School.  She made a specialty of music under Prof. Menkhous of Fremont, and for fourteen years has been a teacher of instrumental music, she finding this preferable to public-school teaching, in which she was engaged for a time.  The son Charlie was educated in the Mansfield Normal and in the district schools.  He was one of Sandusky county's most promising teachers, and had also acquired an enviable reputation as an editor, his first work in that line being on the  Daily Herald of Fremont; during the last years  of his life he was local and managing editor of the Fremont Messenger  He died in the prime of life Jan. 31, 1885.  Mrs. Tinney, wife of our subject, was born Jan. 22, 1837, in Scott township, Sandusky county, daughter of John and Jane (Kelly) Wiggins.  She was educated in the country schools, and was for a time a teacher in Sandusky county.  When she was a child her mother died, leaving her with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Swickard, by whom she was brought up and with whom she lived until she was sixteen years of age, after which she made her home with D. S. Tinney until her marriage.  Her father, John Wiggins, was one of Sandusky county's early settlers, coming hither when the country was new, and began the clearing of the forest and making a home for himself and family.  He died in 1841, at an early age, his wife dying in 1844.  Mrs. Tinney's parents are thought to have been born about the year 1808.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO - Publ. J. B. Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 129

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