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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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AUGUST LIEBER,
treasurer of "Sandusky County, Ohio, from 1901 until 1905, is at
the present time engaged in the real estate and insurance
business in Fremont. He has a wide, acquaintance through
the county and has twit up an extensive business. He was
born in Huron County, Ohio, near Bellevue, August 20, 1861, and
is a son of William, and Catherine (Heyman) Lieber, both
natives of Germany.
Although born on a farm, Mr. Lieber was reared in
Bellevue where he attended the grade schools and one year in
high school. He then worked at farming several years
before learning the trade of a blacksmith and carriage maker.
From the time he was twenty-one he spent ten years in traveling
about in the United States, working at his trade at various
places. He was at Van Wert, Ohio, several months, then
went to Michigan, and later to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From there
he went to Atlanta, Georgia, thence to New Orleans during the
exposition in the winter of 1884-1885. He crossed the Gulf
of Mexico to Tampa, Florida, and worked at his trade at
Jacksonville. After two years in the south, he visited at
his old home a short time, and from there went to Chicago,
Illinois. Returning to Ohio, he spent one season working in the
J. P. Moore Carriage Works at Fremont, and the following
spring, 1888, went to Tacoma, Washington. He was in the
west five years, working at his trade about the mines. He
returned to Bellevue, Ohio, in 1893, and, his father having died
in the meantime, took up the latter's real estate and insurance
business at that place. He became active in Democratic
politics and in 1898 was elected mayor of Bellevue. He was
re-elected to that office, and while serving his second term was
elected on the Democratic ticket to the office of treasurer of
Sandusky County, and moved to Fremont in August, 1901, to assume
the duties of said office, where he has lived ever since.
He served two terms as treasurer and his efficiency in office
gained him many friends in both parties and won the commendation
of the general public.
In 1897 Mr. Lieber was united in marriage with
Miss Emma Schwan a daughter of George Schwan of
Ballville Township, Sandusky County, and they have three
children: George Martin, Gertrude and Irene.
They reside in a fine new home on Birchard Avenue which he
recently built. Religiously, they are members of the Grace
Lutheran Church.
Source: Twentieth Century History of
Sandusky County, Ohio & Representative Citizens - Publ.
Richmond - Arnold Publishing Co. - Chicago - 1909 - Page 459 |
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JAMES
LONGANBACH, president of the board of trustees of
Sandusky Township and one of the county commissioners of
Sandusky County, resides on his valuable farm of seventy acres,
which is situated in section 32 and is devoted to general
agriculture. He was born May 15, 1870, in Rice Township,
Sandusky County, Ohio, and is a son of Martin and Rosa (Engler)
Longanback, natives of Baden, Germany.
Martin Longanbach was thirteen years old when
his parents brought him to America. After a short stay in
New York, they came to Sandusky County, and were among the early
settlers of Rice Township. Martin Longanbach was a
solid, reliable citizen of Rice Township, serving in many public
offices and for six years was a county commissioner, elected on
the Democratic ticket. He died in December, 1893. He
was married in Ohio to Rosa Engler and the following
members of their family survive: Elizabeth, wife of
John Otermat, of Rice Township; Caroline, wife of
Frederick Smith, of Los Angeles; Amelia, wife of
Obediah Kerns, of Washington Township; John M., of
Fremont; Irvin B., of Fremont; Clara wife of
Frederick Thurn, of Sandusky Township; and James.
James Longanbach was two years old when his parents
moved to Sandusky Township and his interests have been mainly
centered here ever since. He obtained a good, common
school education and ever since has devoted himself to
agricultural pursuits, but now, however, to the exclusion of
public matters, for he has been an unusually active citizen.
He enjoys to a large extent, the confidence of his fellow
citizens and has frequently been called on to accept offices of
trust and responsibility. He has served as township
assessor and for a number of hears has been trustee, as
mentioned above, being the president of the board, and in the
fall of 1908 was elected a county commissioner, an important
office for which he is well qualified.
On Jan. 18, 1893, Mr. Longanbach was married to
Miss Edith Schiemon, who was born in Germany, a daughter
of August Schiemon, later of Fremont.
Mr. and Mrs. Longanbach are members of Grace Lutheran Church
at Fremont, of which he has been a trustee for many years.
Source: Twentieth Century History of
Sandusky County, Ohio & Representative Citizens - Publ. Richmond
- Arnold Publishing Co. - Chicago - 1909 - Page 559 |
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JOHN
LYON, a representative citizen of Townsend Township,
residing on his farm of forty acres, on which he carries on a
general line of agriculture, was born June 15, 1848, in
Cambridgeshire, England, and is a son of William and Mary (Alcock)
Lyon.
The parents of Mr. Lyon came to
America in 1858. For two years thereafter William Lyon
engaged in farming three miles from Tonawanda, Erie County, New
York, later came to Erie County, Ohio, and subsequently to
Sandusky County, where he settled on the farm which is now owned
by Elisha Haff. In 1866 he bought forty
acres in Townsend Township, from James Temple, to
which he added eighty acres on the west, which he purchased at a
good price, and he continued to live on and develop his 160
acres during the remainder of his active life. His life
was prolonged far beyond the average, his death occurring in
June, 1906, when he was ninety-five years old. In England
he married Mary Ann Alcock, who died in
1901, aged eighty-seven years. They had a family of nine
children born to them, six sons and three daughters, namely:
William, residing at North Baltimore; Ann, wife of
Nelson Winters, residing at Clyde; John,
living in Townsend Township; Christopher, living in Riley
Township; Samuel, residing in Townsend Township;
Fanny, wife of Fred Mapes, of Ballville
Township; Robert, living near Sandusky; George,
residing at Sherwood, Defiance County, Ohio; and Alma,
wife of Charles Green Cleveland, of
Rosedale, Ohio. John Lyon was ten years old
when he accompanied his parents to America. He has devoted
himself to agricultural pursuits and resides on the forty-acre
tract which was his father's first
purchase of land in Townsend Township. Mr. Lyon
is a Democrat in politics. He is a director of the
Sandusky County Fair Association. His parents were members
of the United Brethren Church at Vickery, and in this faith he
was reared. Mr. Lyon has never married.
Source: Twentieth Century History of
Sandusky County, Ohio & Representative Citizens - Publ. Richmond
- Arnold Publishing Co. - Chicago - 1909 - Page 758 |
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