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Biographies
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky
County, Ohio & Representative Citizens -
by Basil Meek, Fremont, Ohio
Publ. Richmond - Arnold Publ. Co., Chicago.
1909
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W. T. BAKER, one of
Scott Township's representative and substantial citizens,
largely interested in farming and identified also with the oil
industry and livestock dealing, owns valuable property in this
township, consisting of one farm of 130 acres in Section 8, and
a second farm of thirty-two acres in Section 9. He was
born Sept. 30, 1872, at Buffalo, New York, and is a son of
Richard and Elizabeth (Plato) Baker.
The parents of Mr. Baker
settled in Lenawee County, Michigan, when he was young, and he
was reared on a farm and went to school at Palmyra. The
father still resides in Michigan, making his home at Deerfield,
where his wife died May 26, 1905.
W. T. Baker went from Michigan to Buffalo, New
York, where he worked for eighteen months at the carpenter
trade. After his marriage in 1893 he came to Scott
Township, Sandusky County, and went to work for D. J.
Winchell for $15 a month, but later rented the farm and
operated it satisfactorily for three years, after which he
rented a 330-acre farm one mile south, on which he remained for
seven years. Mr. Baker then bought his present
property. It has proved a good investment. He has
twenty-three producing oil wells, has three sets of substantial
farm buildings and two excellent orchards. He has done a
large among of improving and has almost all of the land
thoroughly tiled. He has modern ideas as to comfortable
living and his home has conveniences of all kinds, all of these
having been put in since he took possession. He is
financially independent, being a stockholder and a director in
the Colonial Bank of Fremont, and also of the Helena Bank and
was a charter member of the Bettsville Bank, the stock of which
he sold in order to buy his farm.
On Jan. 28, 1893, Mr. Baker was married to
Miss Emma Burnor, a daughter of William and Jennie Burnor,
and they have five children: William R.; Ruby and
Ruth, twin daughters: Florence Marie, and Lois
Theodora. Mr. Baker and wife attend the Methodist
Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republican and has
served on the township School Board and in 1904 was elected
township clerk, his term expiring in 1910. At the
solicitation of friends he is a candidate for a third term.
Mr. Baker is identified with the Masonic Lodge at Fremont
and belongs also to the order of Modern Woodmen of America and
to the County Agricultural Society.
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. Richmond - Arnold Publishing Co.
- Chicago - 1909 - Page 706 |
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ORVILLE BOWLUS - See
WILLIAM BOWLUS |
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RAY WILLIAM BOWLUS,
one of the enterprising and successful young agriculturists of
Washington Township, Sandusky County resides on and, in
association with his brother, Clyde H. Bowlus, operates
the large farm belonging to his father. He was born Aug. 18,
1885, and is a son of ORVILLE W. and
Ida Ann (Keefer) Bowlus.
Orville W. Bowlus was born in Sandusky County,
Ohio, carried on farming in Washington Township for many years
and now lives retired at Fremont. He married (first) Ida Ann
Keefer, who was born in Pennsylvania, and she is survived by
the following children: Ray William, born in 1885;
Clyde H., born July 20, 1888; Ralph Elmer,
born Nov. 2, 1890, who is a student in the Metropolitan
Business College at Toledo; Grace, born Nov. 4, 1892,
attends the Fremont High School and Rollo, born Jan. 1, 1894. Mr. Bowlus was married (second) to
Hattie Boyer.
Ray W. Bowlus attended the public schools in
Sandusky County, also those of Kansas, and completed his school
attendance by taking a business course in a commercial college
at Fremont, where he was a student for two years, when he
returned home he assisted his father and later served two years
as assistant station agent for the Lake Shore Electric Railroad,
Company, at Monroeville, Ohio. This position he gave up
when his father decided to retire and, in partnership with his
next younger brother, he entered the management of the home
farm. He has proved himself a capable agriculturist and
takes a large amount of interest in the development of his
property, making every part of the land produce to its fullest
extent.
In 1907 Mr. Bowlus was married to Miss Elda
Walker, the eldest daughter of James Perry and Anabel (Kieser)
Walker, of Gibsonburg, Ohio. Mrs. Bowlus
has two sisters and three brothers: Lydia, Florence,
Milo, Russel and Leigh. Mr. and
Mrs. Bowlus have a son, Ray William, Jr., named for
his father and born Sept. 19, 1908. Mrs.
Bowlus is a member of the Christian Church at Gibsonburg.
He is a Republican in politics.
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. Richmond - Arnold Publishing Co.
- Chicago - 1909 - Page 459 |
S. Brinkerhoff |
HON. SAMUEL
BRINKERHOFF, formerly probate judge of Sandusky County,
and for years up to the time of his death one of the highly
esteemed citizens in the county, was born at Phelps, Ontario
County, New York, May 13, 1856, son of Abraham C. and Eliza (Swartwout)
Brinkerhoff. Judge Brinkerhoff was
educated in the schools of his native state and at Hillsdale,
Michigan. Coming to Fremont in 1876, he was for some time
a teacher in the district, schools of the county. He then
entered the law office of Bartlett & Finefrock, of
Fremont, and after adequate preparation, was admitted to the bar
by the Supreme Court on Mar. 1, 1881. In the spring of
r88o, while yet a law student, he was elected a justice of the
peace for the city of Fremont, and held that office for a term
of three years. In 1888 he became associated in the
practice of his profession with the late Henry R. Finefrock,
the partnership being continued until the death of Mr.
Finefrock in 1894. In 1896 he was elected probate judge of
Sandusky County, and being subsequently re-elected, served in
that office until Feb. 9, 1903. A man of large
business capacity, he was interested in a number of important
business enterprises, achieving in this direction a marked
success, with appropriate financial reward. These triumphs
were the result, not merely of his natural ability for
commercial pursuits, but also, and in large measure, of his
unremitting industry, a quality which was ever one of the of his
foremost traits of character.
By his professional associates Judge
Brinkerhoff was held in high esteem, and his death, which
took place in Fremont, Aug. 5, 1906, brought forth from them
expressions warmly eulogistic of his memory, the County Bar
Association passing appropriate resolutions. His honesty
and impartiality on the bench were fully recognized; as were
also his sacred regard for his plighted word and his uniform
courtesy to all who came before him in his professional
capacity. Hon. James Hunt summed up
his leading characteristics when he said: "I have known Judge
Brinkerhoff for twenty years and during that time I was
in a position to realize his many good traits of character.
He had a high sense of personal responsibility* His promises
were fulfilled. He was one of the few who do more than they
agree. He was frank and open in his dealings and insistent in
pushing his own ideas, though always willing to change if in the
wrong. He was a hard worker and had a wonderful capacity
for business, and his mind had a wonderful grasp of details,
which gave him the power to see through propositions more
quickly than others. He is dead, but he has left us the
priceless treasure of a good and honest man." Others spoke
in a similar strain, and the resolutions, in the form of a
memorial of the Judge's life and character were then adopted,
addressed to the Court of Common Pleas of Sandusky County, and
ordered to be spread upon the journal of the Court.
The wife of Judge Brinkerhoff, who
survives him, was Miss Mary O. Miller, daughter of the
late Anson H. Miller.
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. Richmond - Arnold Publishing Co.
- Chicago - 1909 - Page 460 |
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