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MARTIN
LICHTLE. Among the honored
and venerable citizens of Seneca county is the subject of this review,
who has here maintained his home for a period of half a century, winning
a definite success by means of the agricultural industry, to which he
devoted his attention during the long years of an active business life.
He is now retired and is enjoying that repose and rest which are due to
him now that the shadows of his life begin to lengthen in the golden
west. His career has been without shadow of wrong or
suspicion of evil, and thus he has ever commanded the confidence and
esteem of his fellow men, his more than four-scour years resting lightly
upon him and being crowned with honor.
Mr. Lichtle is a native of the province of
Alsace, Germany, which at the time of his birth, on the 1st of November,
1817, was still a part of France. There he was reared to years of
maturity and there he learned the trade of weaver, to which he devoted
his attention until 1852, when he emigrated to the United States, making
the voyage on a sailing vessel, Maria Teresa, and arriving in the port
of New York city forty-two days after embarking. From New York he
came to Tiffin, Ohio, and for three months after his arrival he was
employed in connection with the construction of the Big Four Railroad,
after which he purchased thirty acres of land in Loudon township and
here settled and began his career as a farmer. Success crowned his
energetic and well-directed efforts and he was enabled to add to his
original tract until he had accumulated a finely improved landed estate
of two hundred and sixty acres. He continued in agricultural
pursuits in an active way until his advanced age led him to lay aside
the cares involved, and he recently sold his farm property to his sons
John and Andrew and his son-in-law, Joseph Brickner,
and he now makes his home with the son first mentioned. In
politics he has ever given his allegiance to the Democratic party, and
his religious faith is that of the Catholic church, of which he has been
a communicant from his youth. At the age of twenty-seven Mr.
Lichtle was united in marriage to Miss Therese Murey, who
likewise was born in Alsace, France, and who accompanied him on his
removal to America. She died twenty-two years since, and his
second wife, who is still living, was Mrs. Christina Roth.
Of their nine children six survive, namely: Elizabeth, the wife
of Peter Caser, of Indiana; Rosa, the wife of Joseph
Brickner, of Loudon township; John, also of this township;
Andrew, who likewise operates a portion of the old homestead; and
Michael and Joseph, who reside in the city of Cleveland.
John Llichtle, son of the subject of this
sketch, still resides on the old homestead farm where he was reared,
having purchased one hundred acres of the same of his father, and he is
known as one of the energetic and progressive farmers and stock-growers
of this section, while his course has ever been such as to retain to him
uniform respect and esteem. Like his honored father, he is
Democratic in politics and a communicant of St. Patrick's Catholic
church. He was born on the 3d of July, 1857. John Lichtle
has been twice married, - first to Miss Sophia Sigman, who died
in August, 1897, leaving seven children, namely: Anna, Mary, Emma,
Dora, Frederick, Isabel and Henry. On the 25th of
January, 1899, Mr. Lichtle wedded Miss Catherine Myers,
who was born in this township, the daughter of Joseph Myers, and
of this union one child has been born - Florence.
Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Seneca County,
Ohio - Publ. by Lewis Publishing Company - 1902 - Page 485 |
