OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS - Seneca Co., Ohio

Source:
History of Seneca County, Ohio
containing a History of the County, It's Townships, Towns,
Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, etc.;
Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;
Biographies; History of the Northwest Territory;
History of Ohio; Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.
- Illustrated -
Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co.
1886.

Adams Twp. -
G W. EARHART, proprietor of the city bakery and fancy grocery, choice cigars, tobacco and confectionery, Green Spring, was born in Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, Apr. 16, 1845, where he obtained a common school education and learned the trade of baker and confectioner. In 1866 he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he resided ten years. In 1876 he came to Green Spring and started in the bakery and confectionery business, and by close attention to business he was soon enabled to enlarge the same, and in 1881 he erected, as a monument to his industry and enterprise, a two-story brick block containing two store-rooms, both of which he now occupies; he is now considered one of the leading business men of the town in which he resides. He has been elected and served two terms as treasurer of Adams Township, this county; served two terms in the village council; served six years as a member of the school board, two years as the treasurer, and one year as the president of the board. He was a charter member of Clyde Lodge No. 126, K. of P.; he is member of Clyde Lodge No. 989, K. of H.; he was a charter member of Potter Post No. 105, G. A. R., of Green Spring, and served as commander of same in 1883. He enlisted during the Rebellion in Company C, One Hundred and Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for a term of one year, and was discharged from the service, May 8, 1865, by reason of close of the war. Politically he is a Republican. He was married, in 1866, to Mary C. Hill, of Lancaster, Ohio. She was born in 1841, and is the mother of five children: Falenia T., Lulu, Martin D., May E. and George W.
SOURCE: History of Seneca County, Ohio containing a History of the County, Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. - Page 703

Jackson Twp. -
PETER EATON, farmer, P. O. Fostoria, born in Chenango Co., N. Y., Nov. 15, 1842, is a son of William and Ann (Stricker) Eaton, the former a farmer of Scotch descent, and the latter German. William Eaton reared a family of twelve children, Peter and his twin brother who resides in Cuyahoga, Ohio, being the sixth birth in the family: both grew to manhood and followed farming in Jackson Township, this county. The subject of our sketch received a limited education in the old log schoolhouse, and has been engaged in farming all his life. In 1840 he entered land in Jackson Township, this county. He has been twice married, first in 1834 to Miss Louise Torry, who died without issue in 1835. In 1839 Mr. Eaton married for his second wife, Rebecca, daughter of Reuben adn Elanore (Benschotter) Brooks, of German descent, and by her he has five children: Flavilla, wife of J. W. Deacon, and Reuben E., a farmer in Jackson Township.
SOURCE: History of Seneca County, Ohio containing a History of the County, Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. - Page 870

Clinton Twp. & Tiffin City -
ISAAC R. EGBERT, P. O. Tiffin, the subject of this sketch, an industrious young farmer, was born Feb. 10, 1858, on the farm where he and his family now reside, in Clinton Township, this county. His parents, Jeremiah W. and Lucy A. Egbert, were born in Ohio and settled in this county, where they still reside. Our subject was united in marriage, April 15, 1880, with Emma Courtney, who was born near Green Spring, Ohio, Dec. 2, 1861. Her parents, William and Margaret Courtney, natives of Ireland, were married in the State of New York, and settled in Seneca County, Ohio, where they now reside. To Mr. and Mrs. Egbert have been born three children: Lulu M., Edith and Berton.
SOURCE: History of Seneca County, Ohio containing a History of the County, Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. - Page 870

Clinton Twp. & Tiffin City -
JOHN B. EHRENFRIED, general manager and secretary of the Tiffin Manufacturing Company, Tiffin, was born in Bleifeld, kingdom of Bavaria, June 24, 1845. He is the only son and only surviving child of Zacharias and Ann Mary (Koeppel) Ehrenfried natives of Bavaria, who came to America in 1847, locating in Thompson Township, this county, where they passed the remainder of their lives, the former dying February 25, 1848, and the latter May 29, 1869; they are buried in the family cemetery in that township along with their daughter Barbara. (The other child of the family, Mary, who married Joseph Slanser, is buried in Kenton Cemetery, Hardin Co., Ohio.) The subject of our sketch at eighteen, engaged in lumbering and milling at Havana, Ohio, with which he was actively connected for several years. HE had in the meantime attended business college and completed a commercial course of study, graduating in 1870. Shortly after graduating he retired form business at Havana and located in a similar industry at Larue, Marion Co., Ohio, where he remained about three years when he sold out his interest there and came to Tiffin and took charge of his present business. He married, in Thompson Township, this county, Oct. 4, 1870, Miss Margaret Glassner eldest daughter of John and Catharine (Gies) Glassner of that township, and by her has three sons and two daughter living: Otto Joseph, George Jacob, Charles William, Ann Matilda and Gertrude Clara, and one daughter, their eldest child. Mary Louisa (deceased). Mr. and Mrs. Ehrenfried are communicants of the Roman Catholic Church. He is an active member of St. John's Benevolent Society; an energetic business man and a popular gentleman. Although averse to holding public office he has most creditably filled the chair of alderman of the Fourth Ward of Tiffin for two terms.
SOURCE: History of Seneca County, Ohio containing a History of the County, Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. - Page 770

Clinton Twp. & Tiffin City -
HENRY EINSEL, retired farmer, P. O. Tiffin, was born in York County, Penn., Feb. 16, 1805, son of Henry and Barbara Einsel, who both departed this life near Lancaster, Ohio. Our subject came to this county in 1828, and was united in marriage Feb. 26, 1835, with Sarah Keller, born in Fairfield County, Ohio, Apr. 29, 1813. Her parents, John and Elizabeth Keller, natives of York County, Penn., moved to Ohio and were among the first settlers of Clinton township, where they remained until their death. Our subject and wife are the parents of six children, of these four are living: Lewis, William, Sophia, (wife of Harrison Detterman) and Shubert. the deceased are Mary and Margaret. Mr. Einsel, who has been one of the prosperous farmers of the county, now owns 296 acres of land, all improved. He and his wife are members of the Evangelical Church.
SOURCE: History of Seneca County, Ohio containing a History of the County, Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. - Page 736

H. J. ERNSBERGER, Green Spring, was born in Richland County, Ohio, in 1832. He began active life as a school teacher, and afterward went into business at Mansfield. Subsequently he removed to a farm, where he remained until 1884, when he went into partnership with M. F. Van Buskirk, of Green Spring, in the publication of the Times (vide page 327).
SOURCE: History of Seneca County, Ohio containing a History of the County, Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. - Page 704

Big Spring Twp. -
JOHN H. EWING, carpenter, Adrian, was born in Adams County, Penn., Sept. 6, 1834; son of Anderson and Julia Ewing, natives of Pennsylvania, where they remained until 1840, then moved to Seneca County, Ohio, residing here until Mrs. Ewing's death, which occurred in 1847. Anderson Ewing was subsequently married to Lucretia Crooks and moved to Wyandot County, Ohio, where he died in 1875, and where his widow still resides. Our subject was united in marriage June 6, 1861, with Lavenia McCullough, born in Seneca County, Ohio, Jan. 23, 1844, daughter of Mack and Eliza McCullough, who first settled in Seneca County, Ohio, thence moved to Wyandot County, Ohio, where they died. Mr. and Mrs. Ewing are the parents of five children: Alva, Anna, Emmet and Omar, living, and an infant, deceased. Our subject owns nice town property; is a carpenter by trade, an occupation he has followed nearly all his life. During the late war of the Rebellion he enlisted in Company D, Forty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served from 1862 until August, 1865, participating in several serious engagements. He is a F. & A. M., and a member of the I. O. O. F.
SOURCE: History of Seneca County, Ohio containing a History of the County, Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. - Page 717

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