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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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George H. Waggoner
Residence |
GEORGE H. WAGGONER
Source: Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 536 |
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JOSEPH
A. WALDE, one of the foremost business men of Clyde,
Ohio, is manager of the Clyde Cooperage Company and
vice-president of Clyde Produce Company. He is a son of
Julius Walde, of Fremont, who, with his partners, J. W.
Worst and Jacob Sherrer, organized the former company
at Clyde in 1901.
Julius Walde was born and reared in Germany, w
here he learned and followed the trade of a cooper. Upon
coming to America he located at Fremont, Ohio, where he followed
his trade and later engaged in the brewing business. He
was married to Mary Commer, of Fremont, where they
now reside on Birchard Street. They became parents of four
children: Mamie, wife of F. C. Schmidt; Joseph
A.; Maude, wife of Dr. H. C. Scharple; and
Irene.
Joseph A. Walde was born at Fremont, Ohio, Aug.
1, 1877, and after completing a preliminary education in the
grade and high schools of that city, attended Notre Dame
University. Since 1902, he has had full charge of the
plant of the Clyde Cooperage Company, succeeding in that
capacity a son of Jacob Sherrer, one of the founders.
This industry covers three acres of land along the Wheeling and
Lake Erie and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railways and
gives employment to about fifty men. They manufacture
about 600 barrels per day, getting the timber from their own
forests in West Virginia, and make a specialty of oil, whisky
and lard barrels. They also furnish barrels for the
different kraut industries, for which Clyde is so well known.
Mr. Walde has been vice-president of the Clyde
Produce Company continuously since its organization.
On Apr. 18, 1901, the subject of this sketch was united
in marriage with Miss Margaret Arlin, a daughter
of W. H. Arlin, of Clyde, and they have one daughter,
Edwina. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of
Pythias at Clyde. In politics, he is a Democrat.
Mr. Walde resides with his family in a handsome
residence on Duane Street in Clyde.
Source: Twentieth
Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio & Representative
Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ. Co., Chicago. -
Page 690 |
Julius Walde |
JULIUS WALDE,
vice president of the Bill Sales Book Company, of Fremont, Ohio,
and associated with J. W. Worst in the ownership of the
Clyde Cooperage Works, has been a resident of Fremont since
1881. He was born in Germany, May 18, 1848, and is a son
of Mathias and Benedicta Walde, both of whom died in
Germany.
Julius Walde was reared and educated in his
native land and there learned the cooper's trade. He
performed his full term of military service, as had his father
before him. who was a lieutenant in the regular army.
Julius Walde has several valuable medals which were
presented to him for his
gallant services during the Franco-Prussian War, after the
termination of which, he came to America. Mr.
Walde located at La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he worked for
four months in a brewery, and from there found his way to
Chicago and was working in that city in a brewery, at the time
of the great Chicago fire, in 1871. A strike in the
brewery in which he was employed, led him to leave that city and
he traveled on to Norwalk, Ohio, where he had an uncle, and
there he worked as a cooper from November, 1871, until April,
1872, when he came to Fremont. Here he was employed for
two years as a cooper, after which he went to Tiffin, Ohio,
where he became foreman of a brewery and remained there for
three years. When he returned he bought an interest in the
Fremont Brewery and became its manager, and has been a resident
of this city ever since, subsequently buying the brewery, which
he operated himself until 1902. when he sold out to Cleveland
parties. Later he became identified with his present
business concerns and is numbered with the representative
citizens.
In 1874. Mr. Walde was married to Miss
Mary Kammer. who was born in Sandusky County,
Ohio, a daughter of Mathias Kninmer, and they have had six
children, namely: Mary, who married Frank Smith,
resides in Fremont; Joseph, who resides at Clyde;
Maude, who married Dr. Henry Sheffer, of Sandusky;
Irene; and Edward and Cletus, both of the
latter being now deceased. Mr. Walde and family
family enjoy a beautiful home, its situation being at No. 903
Birchard Avenue, one of the finest in Fremont. Mr.
Walde is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the
German Aid Society.
Source: Twentieth
Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio & Representative
Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ. Co., Chicago. -
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DAVID WALTER,
general farmer and representative citizen, owning a valuable
farm in Woodville Township, situated three miles mlies
from the village of Woodville, Ohio, is a son of LEWIS WALTER,
who entered eighty acres of land from the government.
In the early days the entering of Government land was
even a greater undertaking than it is at present, for, while
there was no excess of population as at present, there was such
a scarcity of money that suffering was frequently caused by the
lack of a few dollars even when the land had been secured.
This was the case when LEWIS WALTER came first to Woodville
Township, the payment for his land leaving him with but a
sixpence in his pocket. At Wheeling, Virginia, however,
lived a man who owed him money and Mr. Walter traveled on
foot the whole distance in order to collect it. This man,
however, did not have the money at the time and Mr. Walter
had to return without it. Six years later he made a second
journey and received his money but lost it to a sharper, who
induced him to take a watch for the sum, and the timepiece
proved of no value. Mr. Walter was obliged to
borrow from his former debtor to enable him to get back to
Sandusky County. Being then but little better off than
before, Mr. Walter went to work at Perrysburg for 25
cents a day, his wife, in the meantime remaining alone in the
little cabin on the land, and this small wage was not even paid
in cash. Finally Mr. Walter succeeded in getting
enough of his land cleared to make a small crop and after that
his circumstances improved and he subsequently became a man of
ample means, and lived to be 84 years of age. His widow
was 79 years old at the time of her death.
David Walter helped his father on the home farm
and attended the district school in the winter time for some
years. He left home at length and spent five working at
various employments in Michigan and Indiana, but after marriage
he came back to Woodville Township, where he rented a farm of
H. Bruns, on which he lived for fifteen years. When
the father died, Mr. Walter and a brother, George
Walter, bought out the other heirs, and Mr. Walter
has eighty acres of this very valuable land. This he
devotes to general farming. He adopts modern methods of
agriculture and works along scientific lines. All his land
is tiled and his extensive operations that can be procured.
Mr. Walter has a fine residence, one of the most modern
rural homes in the county, equipped with a hot water system and
lighted and heated by gas, the improvements on his home alone
costing $3,000. He handles a large amount of the best
stock and has a reputation over the county for his fine cattle.
Undoubtedly Mr. Walter and his brother, George Walter,
are the best farmers in all this section and no better improved
or more productive land can be found in the county.
Mr. Walter married Miss Mary Brunthaver,
a daughter of John Brunthaver, and they have five
children, namely: Arthur, who married Lillian Katzmyer;
Gladys, who married Charles Myers, has two
children - Walter and Myrth; John L., who married
Mrs. Bessie (Walter) Reynolds, of Lansing, Michigan;
Henry, who resides at home; and Dale, who is yet in
school. Mr. Walter and family are members of the
United Brethren Church, to which he gives liberal support.
In politics he has always been a republican but has never been
willing to accept any but a township office. He has been
particularly interested in the condition of the public highways,
his attention being directed to this important public matter
while he was doing road contracting. He served in the
office of road supervisor for a number of years and it was
mainly through his efforts that the fine stone roads have been
established all through this section, adding thousands of
dollars of value to property with which they communicate.
Mr. Walter is a member of the School Board. His
fraternal connection is limited to the Independent Order of
Foresters, with lodge at Woodville.
Source: Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 423 |
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GEORGE WALTER,
one of the most progressive farmers of Sandusky County, Ohio,
and the owner of one of the best improved and finely cultivated
estates, owns 117 ¾
acres of land, a part of the old homestead, situated in
Woodville Township, three miles from the village of Woodville.
Mr. Walter was born on this farm, Feb. 3, 1855, and is a
son of Louis and Anna (Hennis) Walter.
The parents of Mr. Walter
were natives of Germany. Louis Walter came to
America when about twenty-eight yearsof age, locating at
Wheeling, Virginia, where he continued to live for about two
years. He came to Sandusky County when all Woodville
Township was yet Government land, entering a tract which has
never been out of the Walter name since that time.
He and wife saw many hardships b__ they lived to enjoy
prosperity in their old age. Louis Walter died when
nearly eighty-four years old and his wife when seventy-nine.
They had a family of ten children, namely: John, Louis,
Rosanna, Peter, Rebecca, David,
Wesley, George, Mary, and an infant that died
at birth.
George Walter obtained his education in the
township schools and then entered into the oil producing
business and also became a large farmer. For thirteen
years he cultivated a farm of 160 acres for his father and when
the latter died, in association with his brother, David
Walter, bought out the other heirs. In 1904, Mr.
Walter added thirty-nine acres more by purchase, bringing
his acreage to its present amount. This farm is
acknowledged to be one of the best in all this section, Mr.
Walter in his management adopting modern methods of
agriculture and making improvements along every line. Some
fourteen years since the old farm residence was destroyed by
fire at a great loss of property and causing the death of a
brother. In the building of his new home, Mr. Walter
introduced modern conveniences and appliances of all kinds
that are seldom found in rural homes. He has his own
heating and lighting plant, with a system of pipes through all
his buildings, and the motive power is supplied by three
windmills. The superstructure contains ten apartments, all
of which are fitted up suitably for comfortable and refined
living.
Mr. Walter married Miss Helen Nuhfer and
they have three children: Frank, Carl, and Emma.
Frank Walter married Edna Baker and they reside in
Fremont. Mr. Walter and family attend the German M.
F. Church at Woodville. In politics, he is a Republican.
He belongs to the fraternal order of Foresters, at Woodwill.
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 736 |
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LEWIS WALTER - See DAVID
WALTER
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 423 |
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REV. EPHRAIM WALTERS - See HENRY H. TUCKER
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 554 |
Prof. E. F. Warner |
PROF. E. F. WARNER
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 694 |
Adam Weiker |
ADAM WEIKER
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 530 |
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MRS. LOVINA
HITT WELCH, residing in her beautiful
residence, on her large estate in York Township, situated on the
Maumee and Western Reserve Turnpike Road, about one and one-half
miles west of the center of Bellevue, Ohio, was born on this
farm on Jan. 17, 1845. Her parents were Seneca and
Mahala (Stafford) Hitt.
Seneca Hitt and wife were both born in Rutland
County, Vermont. They were reared, educated and married
there and shortly after their wedding, in 1837, they took up
their residence in York Township, Sandusky County, Ohio.
Seneca Hitt came first to this section in 1836, and with
his cousin, Henry Nichols, purchased the present farm of
Mrs. Welch, which contained 126 acres. After
building a house on the land, Mr. Hitt returned to
Vermont and was married. Several years later, he bought
his cousin's interest and he and his wife passed the remainder
of their lives here. Seneca Hitt was a man of high
standing in his community and for many years he served as
township clerk. He had been born into a Quaker family and
never gave up his birthright. His death occurred Jan. 17,
1872, and he was survived by his widow until June 21, 1884.
To him and his wife were born four children, Mary E., Adelia,
Lovina and Seneca D. Mary E. for almost
twenty-five years was a teacher in the Fremont public schools.
In 1871 she married Silas Wood, but was left a
widow in the following year. Later she was married to
Hon. L. G. Ely, then of Fulton County, Ohio, but they are
now residents of West Unity, Williams County, Ohio.
Adelia, who died in 1883, at Dundee, Michigan, was the wife
of George H. Mugg, then of York Township, who later
passed away at Dundee, Michigan. The one son died in
infancy.
Lovina Hitt grew to attractive
young womanhood in the shelter of her father's home and attended
the country schools and later the schools of Bellevue, Ohio,
qualifying herself for teaching. Later she took up
educational work and for seven years enjoyed the duties of the
school room, teaching both the district schools and in the
graded schools of Bellevue and Milan. In October, 1867,
she was married to Charles H. Welch. He was born in
Lyme Township, Huron County, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1839, and was a son
of Ebenezer and Mary Lovina (Hubbell) Welch. Reared
and educated in Huron County, he became a prominent fruit grower
there. He was a member of the firm of Long &
Welch, which, in 1857, set out the first peach orchard in
this section. He was prospering in business when the
country was convulsed by the outbreak of the great Civil War.
At Bellevue, Ohio, in 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company
A, 55th O. Vol. Inf., and continued in the service until the
close of the war. He was a member of the regimental band.
His record as a soldier reflects honor on him and for a number
of years he was a leading member of the C. B. Gambee
Post, G. A. R., at Bellevue. After the close of his
military career, he returned to York Township and resided on the
Hitt farm, where he was engaged to attend to the fruit
orchards and later, as stated above, he was married to Miss
Lovina Hitt. To this marriage four children were born,
namely: Alice R., who died in 1895, aged twenty-seven
years; Mahala, who is the wife of Joseph L.
Royer, and occupies a residence on the west side of the home
farm (they have had five children - Lewis, Gladys, Lloyd,
Florence, and an infant, the last named and Gladys
being deceased); Adelia, who is the wife of John F.
Collins, and resides near Mrs. Welch while
he is in business at Bellevue, and who has had two children -
Robert W., who died in 1905, and Mary L.; and
Charles H., who manages his mother's property, and resides
with her with his family. He married Gertrude Neff,
of Bellevue, and they have two children - Raymond and
Helen. Mrs. Welch erected her imposing brick
residence in 1906. It is one of the fine rural homes of
York township.
In his political views, Mr. Welch was a
Republican. He was frequently urged to accept public
office, but consented only to serve as township clerk, a
position he filled for fifteen consecutive years. He was a
man of sterling character and when his death took place on Apr.
5, 1897, it was felt that York Township had lost one of her most
valuable citizens.
Source: Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 885 |
Rev. John B. Wendling |
REV. JOHN B. WENDLING
Source: Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 673 |
John Whitmore
Marcia S. Whitmore |
WHITMORE-DAVLIN FAMILIES
Source: Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 700 |
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DANIEL WIDMAN - See
PETER WIDMAN and
HENRY WIDMAN
Source: Twentieth
Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio & Representative
Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ. Co., Chicago. -
Page 823 |
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HENRY
WIDMAN, president of the school board of
Sandusky Township and a representative citizen and successful
agriculturist, resides on his valuable farm of eighty-eight
acres, which he devotes to general farming, dairying and stock
raising. He was born in Rice Township, Sandusky County,
Ohio, Sept. 16, 1864, and is a son of Daniel and Mary (Hafner)
Widman.
Both parents of Mr. Widman
were born in Baden, Germany. They came to America in 1849
and shortly afterward settled on a wild tract of land in Rice
Township, Sandusky County, building there a primitive log cabin
and settling down to pioneer life. After many yeas of
industry they found themselves in comfortable circumstances.
The aged mother still lives in Rice Township, but the father
died in 1890. They were members of St. Joseph's Catholic
Church at Fremont. They had eight children, namely:
Peter, residing in Rice Township; Joseph, pastor of
St. Mary's Catholic Church, at Sandusky, Ohio; George,
living in Sandusky Township; Henry; Frank X.,
farming in Rice Township on the old homestead; Charles A.,
living in Sandusky Township; Mary A., living at Sandusky
Township; Mary A., living at Sandusky; and Aloysis
residing in Rice Township.
Henry Widman has followed agricultural pursuits
from boyhood. His education was obtained in the public
schools and his religious training was carefully attended to by
his parents. He married Miss Susan
Sneider, who was born in Fremont, a daughter of John G.
Sneider, and to this union have been born ten children, all
but one of whom, (John) survive, as follows:
Mary Gertrude, Josephine Petronilla, Carl Alois, Elizabeth Mary,
Urban Francis, Sylvan Seraphine Edmond, Loretta Philamine,
Clemence Henry Joseph and Lucy Anna, a large, happy,
united and intelligent family. Mr. Widman has given
them every advantage in his power to become useful members of
society. He has always been interested in public school
system and after being elected a member of the school board was
made its president and is performing the duties of the office in
a most creditable manner. In politics he is a Democrat.
With his family he belongs to St. Joseph's Catholic in Fremont.
Source: Twentieth
Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio & Representative
Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ. Co., Chicago. -
Page 901 |
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PETER
WIDMAN, trustee and prominent citizen of
Rice Township, residing on his valuable farm of 110 acres,
situated in Section 11, was born in Rice Township, Sandusky
County, Ohio, June 28, 1859, and is a son of Daniel and Mary
(Hafner) Widman.
DANIEL WIDMAN
was born in Baden, Germany, in 1827, and came to America in 1849
and after a short residence at Fremont, came to Rice Township
and settled in the depth of the woods, building a comfortable
log house on his land and for many years devoted himself to
clearing up and developing a farm. He was an honest,
industrious man, one in whom his fellow citizens could put
confidence and among the pioneer of Rice Township he was held in
high esteem. He died Jan. 9, 1890. He married
Mary Hafner, who was born in Baden, Germany, in 1835, and
was twelve years of age when she accompanied her parents to
America. They settled in Huron County, Ohio, where she
resided until her marriage. She still survives and lives
with her son, Peter Widman. The family of Daniel
and Mary Widman contained eight children, namely: Peter;
Joseph, who is pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church at
Sandusky, Ohio; George, Henry and Charles A., all
of Sandusky Township; Frank X., of Rice Township;
Alois C., of Rice Township; and Anna M., residing at
Sandusky.
Peter Widman was reared in his native township.
In 1806 he settled on his present farm, which he has
brought to a high state of cultivation, and here he carries on
general farming and stock raising. Mr. Widman has
always been an active citizen in his township, under his
father's advice early identifying himself with the Democratic
party. He has served on the township school board and is
now serving in his fourth year as township trustee. He is
a faithful member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Fremont.
Source: Twentieth
Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio & Representative
Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ. Co., Chicago. -
Page 823 |
Alonzo J. Wilder |
ALONZO J. WILDER
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 686 |
Nathan T. Wilder |
NATHAN T. WILDER
Source: Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 858 |
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WILLIAM C. WILLIAMS,
one of York Township's substantial citizens, residing on his
farm of twenty-two and three-fourth acres at Mt. Pleasant, just
west of Bellevue, owns a second farm containing eight acres,
which lies two miles west of his home farm, both being valuable
and well improved properties. Mr. Williams was born
near Bellevue, in Lime Township, Huron County, Ohio, Apr. 2,
1852, and is a son of
ADAM
and Catherine (Henney)
WILLIAMS.
ADAM
WILLIAMS was born
in Wayne County, Ohio, and was a son of Daniel Williams,
and a grandson of David Williams, who came originally
from Wales. His wife, Margaret Lyons, was born in
Ireland. David Williams was one of General
Washington's body-guards and his wife was the great
commander's laundress while he was at Valley Forge. Her
last resting place was made in the woods three miles east of
Bellevue, her husband having died while the family tarried in
Wayne County. Daniel Williams and wife came from
Pennsylvania and were early settlers in Wayne County, later in
Huron County, and they died in East County. Adam
Williams was one of a family of fourteen children: he
died in September, 1908, at Bellevue, aged eighty-four years.
One of his brothers, John Williams, lives at Milan, Ohio,
and is in his ninety-third year. Adam Williams
married Catherine Henney, who was born in Wayne County,
one of a family of thirteen born to her parents. Adam
and Catherine (Rishel) Henney. She died in
Huron County, Ohio, when aged seventy-two years. After his
marriage, Adam Williams settled on a farm on which he
lived for fifty-six years.
William C. Williams was mainly reared in Huron
County. He was afforded good educational opportunities and
in 1872 he graduated from the Bellevue High School, and in the
fall of that year began to teach. For twenty-three
consecutive winters he taught school and devoted his summers, in
the main, to farming. In August, 1890, he moved to
Sandusky County, buying a farm of eighty acres, on which he
lived for seventeen years, when he sold it and bought his
present eighty-acre farm, on which his son resides.
Mr. Williams married Miss Mary E. Roush,
a member of a prominent county family and a sister of James
P. Roush, a leading citizen of York Township. They
have had four children: Warner F., who married Stella
Cregar, and has one child, Leona May; Joseph Edgar,
who died aged eighteen years; Bernice Catherine, who died
aged one year and seven months; and Lorena Isabella.
Mr. Williams and family are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Fraternally he is identified with the
Masons, the Woodmen of the World, being past council commander
of Bellevue Camp No. 40, of this organization, and he is also
president of the Lime Township Horse Protective Association.
Source: Twentieth Century History
of Sandusky County, Ohio & Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909
Richmond - Arnold Publ. Co., Chicago. - Page 880 |
James W. Wilson |
JAMES W. WILSON, M. D.
Source: Twentieth Century History
of Sandusky County, Ohio & Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909
Richmond - Arnold Publ. Co., Chicago. - Page 652 |
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FRANCIS M. WINTER,
is a representative farmer of Jackson Township, Sandusky County,
Ohio, and is the owner of the Forty-acre tract on which he
lives, and another farm of 108 acres on which his son lives.
He was born in this township, Apr. 18, 1845, and is a son of
Jacob and Elizabeth (Strayer) Winter, who were early
settlers of this county.
JACOB WINTER
was born in
York County, Pennsylvania, in 1806, and in 1830 moved with his
wife to Wayne County, Ohio, where they lived three years.
They then moved to Sandusky County and purchased a farm of 160
acres in Jackson Township, on which he lived until his death in
1886. His wife, who also was born in York County,
Pennsylvania, died on the same farm on Mar. 23, 1864.
They were parents of the following children Harriet, widow of
John Bauman; Sarah Jane, wife of John M. Vorhies;
Jeremiah; William, who was, a member of the 21st New
York Vol. Inf. during the Civil War, was killed in the second
battle of Petersburg; Francis M., and Jerome, who
is deceased.
Francis M. Winter has never lived outside of
Sandusky County except the time he was in the service during the
Civil War. He attended the district schools and followed
farming from his early boyhood. On May 4, 1864, he
enlisted at Fremont as a member of Company H, 169th Ohio Vol.
Inf., and was stationed at Fort Ethan Allen. He was
discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1864. In that year
he purchased the farm of 108 acres on which his son now lives
and made his home there for a period of thirty-four years.
He made all the improvements on that place as well as sonic on
the place where he now lives, which he purchased of H.
Dundore in 1900. He has a gas well on each farm,
operating them for private use, and has also the many
conveniences and modern improvements so necessary for the
successful prosecution of farm work. He is located
one-half mile east of Burgoon.
On Mar. 24, 1866, Mr. Winter was united in
marriage with Miss Samantha Fry, who was born in Sandusky
County, and is a daughter of George and Mary (Gust) Fry.
Her father was born in Prussia in 1808, and died in Sandusky
County, Nov. 26, 1890. Her mother was born in
Pennsylvania, Mar. 14, 1821, and died in Sandusky County, Aug.
23, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Fry were parents of the
following children: Henry N., deceased; Samantha (Winter);
Catherine, deceased wife of Henry Bowe;
Thomas F., deceased; Mary M., deceased; Anna E.,
deceased wife of John F. Havens; and George S.
Francis M. and Samantha Winter have one son,
William F., who was born in Jackson Township, Mar, 6, 1869.
He was married Dec. 24, 1896, to Olive M. Corle, of
Pennsylvania, and they have three children: George F., Helen
E., and Eric N. In religious attachment the
subject of this record and his wife are members of the United
Brethren Church. He is affiliated with Rossen Post, G. A.
R., at Fremont.
Source: Twentieth
Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio & Representative
Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ. Co., Chicago. -
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JACOB WINTER -
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PETER WINTERS,
president of the Winters Hardware Company, doing business
on West State Street, Fremont, and also commander of Eugene
Rawson Post, No. 32, Grand Army of the Republic, is an
enterprising and progressive man whose efforts have been
effective in bringing about the success of his various
undertakings. He was born in Germany, Mar. 14, 1847, and
is a son of Peter and Mary Winters.
In 1855, when he was eight years
old, his parents came to America and brought their four sons
with them, settling on a farm near Hillsdale, Michigan.
The father was a brickmaker by trade. They lived on their
farm there until old age came upon them, when their son,
Peter Winters, brought them to Fremont in order that
he could more effectually care for them, and here the father
died when aged eighty-four years, and the mother when one year
younger.
When Peter Winters was sixteen years old
he was slight of stature, weighing not more than ninety-five
pounds. When fifteen years old he tried to enlist in the
army, he was refused on account of his youth, but in the fall of
1863 he was able to pass and was accepted as a member of Company
K, 27th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close
of the war, with all the bravery and courage that a veteran
could have shown. He was wounded first at Petersburg and
was confined in a hospital from the injury, for four weeks, and
contracted rheumatism at the capture of the Weldon Railroad.
This disease entailed months of suffering which he spent in
hastily arranged hospitals, one in the Methodist Church at
Alexandria, Virginia, and later he was taken to the Siegel
Barracks Hospital. When sufficiently recovered he returned
to his regiment and was honorably discharged and mustered out at
Washington City.
Mr. Winters then returned to his Michigan
home and worked for a short time in a grocery store and then
went to Leavenworth, Kansas, and there learned the tinner's
trade with Adam Andrews, on Choctaw Street.
For three years he worked at that trade in that city and then
lived one year longer at Hillsdale, Michigan. In 1872,
with his brother, John Winters, he came to Fremont
and they started first in the tinware business, having a small
shop, and as they prospered they added a line, of hardware and
continued together until 1906, under the firm name of Winters
Brothers. In that year, Peter Winters
purchased his brother's entire interest and then formed a stock
company under the style of the Winters Hardware Company,
which now does a very large business, carrying one of the most
complete stocks in Fremont. Of this organization, Peter
Winters is president, one son, E. F. Winters, is
vice president, another son, George Winters, is
manager, while the secretary and treasurer is Charles E.
Schepflin, who has been associated with Mr.
Winters as an employe, for twenty years.
Mr. Winters married Miss Josephine
Peffen, of Buffalo, New York, and they have five children,
namely: Mamie, Edward F., George P.,
Hadie and Leona. Mr. Winters and family
are members of St. Joseph Catholic Church at Fremont.
Source: Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 506 |
John W. Worst |
JOHN W. WORST
Source: Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. 1909 Richmond - Arnold Publ.
Co., Chicago. - Page 720 |
G.
Frederick Wright |
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GUSTAVUS A. WRIGHT,
a venerable and respected citizen of Riley Township, Sandusky
County, Ohio, is the owner of a farm of thirty acres in section
10. He was born in Townsend Township, Sandusky County,
Ohio. Oct. 22, 1837, and is a son of Gustavus and Julia
(Braley) Wright. The paternal grandfather Wright
was one of twelve brothers who came from Scotland and settled
near St. Albans, Vermont. He lived there as a boy when the
battle was fought at Plattsburg, and later he moved to that
place.
Gustavus Wright, father of the subject of this
record, was born near Plattsburg, New York, in 1813, and was
reared in that vicinity. In 1832 he emigrated to Sandusky
County, Ohio, and located in Townsend Township, where he
lived some years. He cleared land at ten dollars an acre,
and in that way got his start. About the year 1840 he
moved to Riley Township, where he lived on a farm in section 35
until his death, which occurred Feb. 14, 1849. He was
married to Julia Braley, who was born in Connecticut and
after her husband's death lived in Michigan, where she died in
1850. Of their children, two survive, namely: Gustavus
A. and Alpheus A., the latter being a resident of
Knox County, Nebraska.
Gustavus A. Wright was reared in Riley Township,
and there, in 1845, began attending school in an old log cabin,
which was taught by Frank Merriman, a well-known pioneer
teacher of this vicinity. He became an orphan at the early
age of thirteen years and thus was early thrown upon his own
resources. He is mainly a self educated and a self made
man, all that he possesses being the result of his own labor and
endeavor. For a time he was employed by James Woolworth
in the manufacture of ax and other handles from hickory, but
farming has been his principal occupation through life. He
is a Republican in politics, with independent tendencies, and
his first presidential vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln
in 1860.
On Oct. 25, 1860, Mr. Wright was joined in
marriage with Miss Mary A. Gibbs, a daughter of Jonas
Gibbs, a prominent early resident of the township. The
following children were their offspring:
Hosea V. of
Riley Township; Emma J., deceased; Lillie A., wife
of Ira Beck of Riley Township; Clara, wife of
Frank Lindsay of Riley Township; Martha, wife of
Clarence Jones of Riley Township; Mrs. Mella Daniels,
a widow residing in Riley Township; Ida M., of Riley
Township; Frank E., who lives near Adrian, Michigan;
John B. of Fremont; Ernest L. of Riley Township; and
Hazel, wife of Charles Miller of Riley Township.
Thus, Mr. Wright has ten children living and has
thirty-five grandchildren. The mother of this family died
in May, 1892. Mr. Wright formed a second marital
union Dec. 5, 1895, with Mrs. Margaret (Dailey) Cramer,
widow of J. E. Cramer, of Fostoria, Wood County, Ohio.
Religiously, he is a member of the United Brethren in Christ
Church.
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. Richmond - Arnold Publishing Co.
- Chicago - 1909 - Page 527 |
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HOSEA V. WRIGHT,
whose well improved farm of 130 acres is situated in Section 10,
Riley Township, is one of the representative men of this
neighborhood. He was born in Riley Township, Sandusky
County, Ohio, Mar. 23, 1862, and is a son of
Gustavus A. and Mary (Gibbs) Wright.
The Wright family is numbered with the old
and substantial ones of the county. Gustavus A. Wright,
father of Hosea V., has spent his whole life in Riley
Township, devoting himself through all his active years to
agricultural pursuits.
Hosea V. Wright attended the township schools
and enjoyed one term in the Normal School at Ada, Ohio, after
which he taught school for three terms. He then embarked
in the mercantile business, in which he continued for several
years and then turned his attention to farming and stock
raising. His land is valuable for both purposes and he has
made many excellent improvements.
Mr. Wright was married Dec. 25, 1889, to Miss
Nellie G. Prentice, of Townsend Township, Sandusky
County, a daughter of Manassah and Wealthy Prentice.
The father of Mrs. Wright is deceased, but the venerable
mother, now in her eighty-fifth year, still resides in Townsend
Township. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have had nine
children, namely: Vernon P., Idella G., Clifford E., Roswell
G., Elslie M., Clarence, Leland H., Howard V. and Blanch,
all surviving except Elsie M. Mr. Wright
and family are members of the United Brethren Church, in which
he is serving as a trustee. In politics he is a Democrat
and on that ticket he was elected township trustee and served
three years. In all relations of life he is an honorable,
upright man and enjoys the confidence and respect of his fellow
citizens.
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. Richmond - Arnold Publishing Co.
- Chicago - 1909 - Page 583 |
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ORISON WRIGHT - See
PORTER W. WRIGHT
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. Richmond - Arnold Publishing Co.
- Chicago - 1909 - Page 539 |
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PORTER W. WRIGHT,
one of Riley Township's most substantial citizens, having about
800 acres of valuable land in his home community, devotes the
larger part of it to general agricultural and stock raising.
He was born May 7, 1834, in the State of New York, and is a son
of ORISON and
Esther (Sumner) Wright.
The parents of Mr. Wright
were natives of Vermont. The paternal grandfather and one
of his sons, Benoni Wright, were soldiers in the
Revolutionary War. From Vermont, the parents of Mr.
Wright moved to New York and later to Oakland County,
Michigan, and came from that section to Sandusky County when
Porter W. was in his fourth year. They settled first near
Clyde, Ohio, but later located permanently on section 1, Riley
Township. Their log shanty was situated in the dense woods
and many years went by before the place grew into the semblance
of a cultivated farm. In the early days oxen were used in
place of horses and Mr. Wright remembers well how
prodigious was their strength. The Wrights were
among the earliest settlers in Riley Township. The
surviving children of ORISON WRIGHT and wife are: Porter W.;
William, of Clyde, Ohio; Mrs. Nancy Gardner, of
Vickery, Ohio; Benjamin F., of Riley Township; Mary,
wife of Thomas McCreery, of Riley Township; and
those deceased are: Jonathan, Elhanon and
Permelia (Gibbs).
Porter W. Wright has spent almost the whole of his
long and busy life in Riley Township. His education was
secured in one of the pioneer school houses which was built of
logs and and slabs for seats. He has given close attention
to his agricultural industries for some years and his farm is
finely improved, the residence being of brick construction, and
all the buildings on the place are appropriate and substantial.
Hunting ducks for market and trapping was his principal business
until he was about fifty years old. Though ducks were
cheap he was able to make as high as ten dollars a day
frequently and always received a good price. He owned
close to 600 acres of marsh, a part of which he obtained from
the Government. This he bought at $1.25 per acre and sold
for $16,000. He then purchased his present farm from time,
to time. He has in his possession a deed signed by
Andrew Jackson, to a tract of forty acres which he formerly
owned.
On Mar. 22, 1886, Mr.
Wright was married to Miss Emma Bardus, who was born
in Prussia-Germany. She is a daughter of Frederick
and Johanna Bardus. Her father was born in Holland
and died about 1879, aged 60 years. Her mother was a
native of Prussia and died Dec. 30, 1908, when aged 76 years.
They came to Sandusky County when Mrs. Wright was 12
years old. She has one brother and one sister: Otto H.,
of Riley Township, and Ida, who is the wife of James
Neely, of Riley Township. To Mr. and Mrs. Wright
were born five children and of these three survive, namely:
Ida M., a popular teacher in Riley Township; and Porter
H. and Herbert L., both of this township. Those
deceased were Emma Cecil, who died at the age of
eight months; and Robert Lee, who died at the age of
three years and six months. In his political views Mr.
Wright is a Republican. Both he and wife are
members of grace Lutheran Church at Fremont.
Source:
Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio &
Representative Citizens - Publ. Richmond - Arnold Publishing Co.
- Chicago - 1909 - Page 539 |
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