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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Portrait &
Biographical Record of Stark County, Ohio
Containing Biographical Sketches of
Prominent and Representative Citizens,
Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the
Presidents of the United States.
Chicago - Chapman Bros. -
1892
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JACOB
WAGONER, foreman of the machine department of the
Massilon Bridge Wroks, and one of the finest machinists of
the city, is a native of Perry Township, this county, born
on the 18th September, 1841, two miles east of Massillon.
His father, Christian Wagoner was a native of the
Keystone State, born near Shippensburgh in 1806, and the
grandfather, John Wagoner was also a native of that
State, where he followed the occupation of a farmer.
About the year 1812, he brought his family to Ohio, and was
one of the first settlers of Perry Township, Stark County.
He entered land where the father of our subject now lives
and tilled the soil until death claimed him.
Christian Wagoner was but six years of age when
he came with his parents to Ohio, and nearly all his
recollections are of his adopted State. He assisted
his father in improving the wild land he had entered, and
now resides on one hundred acres of this land. In
politics, he is a Democrat, and in religion is a member of
the German Reformed Church. He assisted in building
the first Reformed Church in Massillon. His wife,
formerly Miss Susan Oberlin wa a native of
Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, and her father was a soldier
of the War of 1812. She passed away in 1866. Six
of the nine children born to this estimable couple are now
living.
At an early age our subject became familiar with the
duties of the farm, and when fourteen he began clerking for
his brother-in-law, Marks Joseph, in Uniontown, where
he remained one year. He then returned to the farm,
and remained there until twenty-two years of age, after
which he began working for Russell & Co. In the
fall of 1863, he went to Wooster, and was employed in
Barrett's machine shop, where he remained for eighteen
months, after which he returned to Massillon. He was
here employed in the Harmon Shriver Coal Banks
for six months, then with the Sablin Agricultural
Implement Works, and was with other firms for eight or nine
years. After this, he was in Willow Bank Coal Mines,
engaged in keeping the engine in repairs, and subsequently
was with Snyder Bros. In 1875, he was employed
by the Massillon Bridge Company, and first ran both an
engine and a lathe. Later, he operated the latter
alone, and in 1882 he became foreman of the machine shop.
He is one of the oldest and one of the very best machinists
in the city, and thoroughly understands his business.
Mr. Wagoner was first married in Brookfield,
Ohio, in the year 1863, to Miss Mary Snyder, daughter
of Fred H. Snyder (see sketch), and she died in
Massillon, leaving four children, as follows: Cora,
now Mrs. Austin of this city; Anna; Charles,
clerking for the Bee Hive in this city; and Ella, at
home, a graduate of the High School. Mr.
Wagoner's second marriage occurred on Dec. 20, 1883, to
Miss Florence Dangler, a native of
Massillon, and the daughter of Isaac Dangler,
who was a native of Reading, Pa. Her grandfather,
Samuel Dangler, was born in Berks County, Pa.,
and followed the pursuit of farming. He served in the
War of 1812 for a number of years, and in 1821 came to Stark
County, Ohio, where he entered and improved land. He
married Miss Sarah Bowen, also a native
of Berks County, Pa., and of Scotch descent. Isaac
Dangler was reared in Stark County, and has been
engaged in the dry-goods business here for years. He
is now employed as clerk for Humburger & Co.
His wife's maiden name was Burr. Mr.
Wagoner is a member of the Order of American Mechanics,
and in politics, is a Republican. In his religious
views, he is a Presbyterian, having been Trustee in that
church for some time.
Source: Portrait &
Biographical Record of Stark County, Ohio - Chicago -
Chapman Bros. - 1892 - Page 354 |
ALONZO
B. WALKER, one of the prominent and successful
physician and surgeons of Stark County, engaged in practice
in Canton, has the honor of being a native of the Buckeye
State. He was born in New Somerset, Jefferson County,
in 1851, and when a lad of twelve summers came with his
parents to Stark County. He acquired his literary
education in the districts schools, the Waynesburgh High
School and Mt. Union College, after which he taught school
one winter. From his childhood he has read medicine,
seeming to have a special aptitude for that science.
He early developed a taste for surgery, and after thorough
training was graduated from the University of Philadelphia,
Pa., in 1872.
Dr. Walker entered upon the practice of his
chosen profession in Canton in the spring of 1873, and since
that time has devoted his energies to his life work.
His labors have been eminently successful, and he has won an
enviable position among his professional brethren, and at
the same time has gained a large and lucrative practice,
which attests his skill and ability. In the winter of
1879-80, he attended a course of lectures in the Rush
Medical College of Chicago and the following winter entered
the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pa., from
which he was graduated in the spring of 1881. During
that time he took a special course of surgery under Prof.
J. Ewing Mears. He is a member of the Union
Medical Association of Northeastern Ohio, the Ohio State
Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the
Ninth International Medical Congress.
On the 6th of September, 1876, in Waynesburgh, Ohio,
the Doctor was married to Miss Mira Stull, and by
their union have been born two daughters, Helen and
Hazel, who are still with their parents. They
reside at No. 45 West Tuscarawas Street, where they have a
handsome home, beautifully and tastefully furnished.
Dr. Walker as a gentleman in the highest sense
of the word; affable and courteous in manner and of kindly
disposition, he wins friends wherever he goes and carries
away with him the good wishes and kindly regard of all with
whom he comes in contact. He is a skillful and
practical surgeon and physician and his tender and
thoughtful care and patience at the bedside of the sick and
suffering have won him the love of many. The Doctor is
well worthy the success which has already crowned his
efforts and his future will no doubt be a brilliant one.
Source: Portrait &
Biographical Record of Stark County, Ohio - Chicago -
Chapman Bros. - 1892 - Page 333 |
COLUMBUS
T. WALKER, M. D. The physicians of Canton,
Ohio, are men who compare favorably with those of any of the
older cities of the State in point of learning as well as in
skill and ability as practitioners; and to entitle their
successors to high rank among their professional brethren of
the country at large, it only remains for them to sustain
the character which already has been given to the profession
of this city. Among the busiest of this class of men,
who bore the burdens placed upon them by patrons whose
respect and confidence they won by their own efforts, is
Dr. Walker, who has been a successful general
practitioner. He was born in Frederick City, Md., June
28, 1826, the fourth of nine children born to Dr. John D.
and Catherine E. (Wiest) Walker, both of whom were born
in Maryland, in which State they grew to maturity and
married. In 1829, they removed to Tuscarawas County,
Ohio, where the father at once began practicing medicine, a
calling which he continued with success until his death.
The subject of this sketch was but three years of age
when brought to this State, and here he passed a rather
uneventful boyhood, but had the inestimable advantage of a
free, open-air life, with a sufficient amount of healthful
occupation. At the age of eighteen years, he returned
to Maryland, where he spent three years. In 1850, he
was married to Miss Mary J. Runyon, of Jefferson
County, Ohio, daughter of Louis Runyon, soon after
which he settled in Summit County, where he was engaged in
general farming, and at the same time practiced medicine and
dealt in real estate. In 1863, he removed to Stark
Count, where he followed the same occupations, was
successful and made money rapidly.
Since 1870, he has been a resident of the city of
Canton, where he is living a somewhat retired life, in the
enjoyment of the large means which he accumulated. He
has some valuable relics in his possession, one of which is
a compass used by Gen. Washington in surveying lands
in Virginia, and which was later used in surveying the line
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and some articles which
once belonged to Henry Clay. He is a pronounced
Democrat in politics, and supports the men and measures of
that party on all occasions. He always votes
intelligently, for he keeps thoroughly posted on all the
current topics of the day, and his reasons for his
convictions are always clear and well defined.
His career has been a useful and laborious one, and he
has the satisfaction of knowing that the property of which
he is now possessor has been accumulated through his own
shrewd, yet always honorable, business tactics. In the
various callings in which he has been engaged, he ahs
displayed an unusual amount of intelligence, and his
practical ideas on all subjects are to the admired.
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of Stark County, Ohio
- Chicago - Chapman Bros. - 1892 - Page 253 |
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