OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS - Seneca Co., Ohio

MONROE KISTLER, farmer, P. O. Clyde, Sandusky County, is a native of Lancaster County, Penn., born Nov. 7, 1830, and is a son of John T. and Eve (Brish) Kistler, who came to this county in 1833 and settled in Adams Township, where they reared a family of three children: Polly, Saran and Monroe John T. Kistler died July 14, 1870, aged sixty-six years, and his widow, Jan. 8, 1878, at the age of seventy-two. Our subject was married, Sept. 11, 1849, to Catharine Setzler, of Adams Township, this county, a native of Germany, born Mar. 7, 1830, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Swan) Setzler, who came to America in 1834, settling first in Huron County, Ohio, where they remained fourteen years, and then moved to this county, where they died, former in 1861, aged sixty-six years, latter in 1866, aged seventy-one years. They were the parents of six children, of whom John, Lena, Elizabeth and Catharine are living, and George and Philip are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Kistler are the parents of ten children; those living are John M., Henry, Lena, George, Monroe, Nathan, Franklin, and Anna; Philip and Augustus are deceased. Mr. Kistler has improved many acres of land in this county, and has served his township in several of its offices. He and his wife are prominent members of the Lutheran Church, of which Church his entire family are also members. Mr. Kistler has given all his attention to general agriculture. He has owned several hundred acres of land, most of which he has distributed among his children, and still has 220 acres. In politics, Mr. Kistler is a Democrat.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Seneca County, Ohio - Publ. by Lewis Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 199

C. O. Knepper

C. O KNEPPER was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, on the 20th of October, 1836, the oldest son of Jonathan and Margaret Knepper. He graduated from Heidelburg college in the class of 1862, and from the seminary in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1864. He was superintendent of the schools of Waterloo, Iowa, and of Waverly, in the same state on the 24th day of June, 1868, he was married to S. Grace Dunnell, daughter of David Dunnell, of Massachusetts, the bride then living in Waterloo. This union was blessed with three children, one son and two daughters. In 1871 he was elected professor of the Alumni of Heidelberg and took charge of his position in 1872. In the spring of 1879 he was elected a member of the school board of Tiffin.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Seneca County, Ohio - Publ. by Lewis Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 615

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