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[Page 20] - [Picture of The Speidel Wholesale
Grocery Company, Uhrichsville]
[PICTURE of A Packing and Shipping Room]
[PICTURE of Office and County Room]
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A Mask is Thrown Off.
The Trial
The Verdict
[PICTURE of The Zeisberger Apple Tree -
The Last of the Orchard that Witnessed the Massacre]
The Night Before the Slaughter
The Executions
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MAURICE
MOODY
Maurice Moody,
son of Thomas and Rachel Moody, was born at Scio,
Harrison County, Ohio, July 20, 1847. His parents
moved to Uhrichsville, O., in 1852, where Mr. Moody
has since resided. He commenced his business career as
a school teacher before he was seventeen years old. He
was employed in the offices of the Pan Handle Railway
Company at Dennison, Ohio for thirty-seven years, but became
a partner in the business of the Union Bank, Uhrichsville,
Ohio, some years previous to the time he resigned his
position with the Railway Company.
On June 6, 1871, Mr. Moody was married to
Miss Clara Keepers, only daughter of
William V. and Sarah Keepers. They have two sons,
Edwin D. Moody, Cashier of The Dennison National
Bank, and William V. Moody, Cashier of the
Uhrichsville Union Bank. The family residence, shown
on this page, was built the same year that they were married
and they have occupied the house for over thirty-five years.
Every tree and bush on the premises has grown up since they
moved into the home in February 1872.
Mr. Moody while engaged in the railway work was
appointed Trustee of The Dennison Land Company in 1878, as
the successor of Colonel George W. McCook, of
Steubenville, Ohio. He has ever since handled the
affairs of this company in connection with his other
business.
The Dennison Land Company which founded the town of
Dennison, Ohio in 1864, was originally a co-partnership of
ten of some of the most prominent railway and financial
leaders of business affairs in the country at the close of
the Civil War in 1865, among whom were Thomas A. Scott,
President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Thomas L.
Jewett, President of the Pan Handle Railway.
Ex-Governor Dennison, then Postmaster General in
President Lincoln's Cabinet, and for whom the town was
named. Mr. Moody commenced purchasing the
remaining property of the Dennison National Bank, The
Dennison Water Supply Company, and The Dennison and
Uhrichsville Building & Loan Company. He is a director
and the largest owner of stock in The Dennison Realty and
Improvement Company, which is now erecting the new
postoffice block in Dennison. He is also a director of
the Uhrichsville Board of Trade, and has taken a keen
interest in the busines affairs of the Twin Cities of
Uhrichsville and Dennison for over forty years.
Residence of Maurice Moody, Uhrichsville
THE UNION BANK
This bank was
established by George Johnson in 1874, and operated
with the assistance of I. E. Demuth as Cashier, until
1893, when it was transferred to Thoams A. Latto and
Mr. Demuth. In 1895 Maurice Moody became
a member of the firm and the bank was operated under the
name of Moody, Latto & Demuth until the death of
Mr. Demuth in 1903, when the firm name was changed to
Moody & Latto.
The Union Bank is the largest
depository of bank funds in the Twin Cities of Uhrichsville
and Dennison, and is regarded as one of the most
conservative banks in Ohio. Messrs. Latto and
Moody have had a lifelong business experience, and
they are assisted in the management by their two sons, W.
V. Moody, Cashier and F. E. Latto, Assistant
Cashier.
Interior View Union Bank, Uhrichsville
THOMAS A. LATTO
William Latto,
Sr., and his wife whose maiden name was Margaret
Sproul came from Donegal, Ireland to Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1822. They had four children of whom
the eldest, William Latto, Jr., was born July 2,
1825, in Philadelphia, where the family lived until about
1834. Then they made another emigration by wagon
across the Alleghenies along the "Big Trail" that had then
become the famous "National Road" over which so many
travelled to people the "Great West." The trip over
that fine road through the mountains was often preferred to
the novelty of a newly opened canal, and it is again coming
into favor for touring with stage or automobile. The
Lattos settled in Mill Township, Tuscarawas County,
where William Jr. was married in 1850 to Rebecca
Houk who was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Houk.
Mrs. Houk's maiden name was Cahill.
Their son Thomas A. Latto was born Feb. 9, 1854, in
Rush Township, Tuscarawas County, on the farm, where he
remained until twenty-two years of age, when he entered the
mercantile business in Tippecanoe, Harrison County, Ohio,
until 1893, when he moved to Uhrichsville where he has since
resided. On Nov. 19, 1878, he was married to
Adaline Caldwell of Harrison County. They have
three children: Forrest E., Hallie Marie and
Ruth Elizabeth, all born in Tippecanoe. In some
way the family name Latto has been changed from the
ancient name which was Latta.
Mr. Latto came to Uhrichsville to become a partner
in the Union Bank of Latto & Demuth, which is now
owned by Moody & Latto and to which he gives his
attention.
Residence of Thomas A. Latto, Uhrichsville
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two from Schonbrunn with the message for Gnadenhutten found
the mangled form of Joseph Schebosh and read the
awful meaning of the iron shod hoof prints. They gave
their friend a hasty burial and ran back with the alarming
news that put them all to flight. Expecting instant
attack, they crossed the river intending to recross above
the mouth of Sugar Creek and so regain the trail to the west
if pursuit
MORE TO COME....
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