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HARLAN
F. LARUE, one of the most successful educators of Harrison
Township, Van Wert county, is a son of Joseph LaRue.
Harlan was born Sept. 15, 1861, on his father's farm in Harrison
townships. He was educated in the district school and at
Worthington (Ohio) Central normal, and for two years, also, was an
attendant at Denison university, at Granville. In 1880 he
began the work pertaining to the profession in which he became so
prominently identified as the seasons passed by. The Center
school district, No. 5, Harrison township, was the second scene, for
four months, of his initiatory triumph, followed next by two terms
in his home district; and then the school in district No. 8,
Pleasant township, was under his charge one year; next, in the same
township, No. 6 was taught under him for a year; then he returned to
district No. 6, and devoted another year to that school, following
which he taught two years in his home district; for the period of
two years following he taught in the Central high school of Harrison
township, and then took a necessary rest for a year; the following
two years he had charge of district No. 2, thus making the longest
record of any other instructor in Harrison township. Mr.
LaRue has been an active member of the Van Wert Teacher's
institute. He is not a believer in corporal punishment, but
has never failed to maintain an effective discipline by other and
milder methods.
The marriage of Mr. LaRue was celebrated Mar.
31, 1887, with Miss Mary Louisa Bauserman, who was born Sept.
25, 1863, a daughter of Jacob and Jane (Harvey) Bauserman,
who were of Irish descent and the parents of four children: Ruth,
Eliza, Mary L., and Allie. Mr. Bauserman was
a farmer of considerable consequence, owned 120 acres of land, which
he pre-empted and died in July, 1865, a member of the Presbyterian
church. After his marriage, Harlan F. LaRue passed two
years in Pleasant township, and then settled in Harrison township,
where he now has a most pleasant home on a farm of forty acres
(belonging to his wife, being purchased with money she inherited),
which he has partly cleared from the woods. The children born
to Mr. and Mrs. LaRue were named according to birth, as
follows: Ethel Leora, Feb. 7, 1888; Vere Princess,
Nov. 6, 1890; Zora G., May 14, 1892, and Frank Irving,
Nov. 15, 1894. In their religious affiliations Mr. and Mrs.
LaRue are Baptists. Politically Mr. LaRue is a
republican. For one year he was a lecturer for the Patrons of
Husbandry.
JOSEPH LARUE, father of Harlan
F. LaRue, a substantial farmer of Harrison township, Van Wert
County, Ohio, is a son of Lambert and Jane (McBride) LaRue.
His paternal grandfather came from France, settled in Virginia, and
was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. Alexander
McBride, the maternal grandfather of Joseph RaRue,
was of Scotch-Irish descent and was also a patriot of the
Revolutionary war. Lambert La Rue, grandfather of our
subject, was born in Washington county, Va., was reared on a farm,
was a soldier in the war of 1812, was married in his native state,
and thence came to Ohio, where he located, first on Long Island,
some forty miles below Wheeling, then moved to Richland county,
where he cleared up a good farm, and finally came to Van Wert
county, in 1854, and settled on a farm of eighty acres in Pleasant
township, and here died in November of the same year, at the age of
about sixty-two years. To Lambert LaRue and wife
were born ten children, as follows: Alexander, Jane, John,
Abraham, Elizabeth, Margaret, Martha, Mary, Joseph, and another.
Mr. LaRue was for many years an elder in the Presbyterian
church, of which his wife was also a devout member; in politics he
was a whig.
Joseph LaRue was born in Richland
county, Ohio, July 24, 1836, received the ordinary education and was
reared to farming and also to the carpenter's trade. He came
to Van Wert county with his parents, and April 30, 1857, married
Miss Matilda Eller, who was born June 16, 1839, in Richland
county, a daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Hilburn) Eller, who
were of German and Irish descent respectively, and the parents of
nine children, viz: Polly, John, Frederick, Betsey, Sarah,
Jeremiah, Matilda, Miriam and Rachel. Jacob Eller,
was a son of Abraham Eller and came from Richland county to
Van Wert county in 1849, cleared up eighty acres of land in Pleasant
township, and here died. Two years after marriage Joseph
LaRue came to Harrison township, in the spring of 1860, settled
on a forty-acre farm, on which he lived about twelve years, and
later increased it to eighty acres.
May 2, 1864, Mr. LaRue enlisted, at Van Wert, in
the 100-day service and served until honorably discharged, at Camp
Chase, Ohio Aug. 28, 1864. He then veteranized, Sept. 1, 1864,
in company B, Seventy-eighth Ohio infantry, and in June, 1865, was
mustered out, on account of the close of the war, at Columbus, Ohio.
He saw service at Point Lookout, Md., was with Sherman on his
celebrated march to the sea, and at Milton, Ga., was injured by an
iron rail falling on him while tearing down a railroad water-tank;
but he continued on the march, although he could not always carry
his knapsack, and eventually reached Washington, D. C., with the
victorious troops and witnessed the grand review of May 23-24, 1865.
To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. LaRue have been
born seven children, in the following order: Sarah J.,
Harlan F., Col. Ellsworth, Orland Sherman, Almon V., Iona D. and
Viola M. Mr. and Mrs. LaRue are members of the Baptist
church, and in politics is a republican. He is also a member
of the G. A. R., Capper post, No. 231, at Convoy, and likewise a
member of the grange. His social standing, it is needless to
add, is among the most respectable families of Harrison township.
Source:
A Portrait and biographical
record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1896 - Pages 727-729 |
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EDMOND A. LEATHERS
Source: History of Van Wert County, Ohio - Publ.
1906 - Page 529 |
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HARRISON LEATHERS, a prominent
farmer and miller of Ridge township, Van Wert county, is a native of
Fairfield county, Ohio, and was born Oct. 31, 1834, a son of
Christian and Catherine (Shupe) Leathers, the
former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Maryland,
and each was about four years of age when brought by their parents
to Ohio. Christian Leathers became quite well to do,
through inheritance, and died in Van Wert county, honored and
respected by all who knew him, Sept. 17, 1864, a member of the
English Lutheran church. Mr. Leathers came to Van Wert county
in 1852, and of his family of eight children, brought with him, the
survivors are three sons and two daughters. The eight alluded
to were named, in order of birth, as follows: Noah, who
died in infancy; Louis, who grew to manhood and reared a
family, who are now all deceased; Eliza, deceased wife of
Job Fowler; Mary, wife of Asa Pollock; Harrison,
our subject; John F., who reared a family of his own, and
died in 1894; Abraham, a Lutheran clergyman, and Sarah,
wife of S. R. Moneysmith. The father of his family made
his first purchase of land in Van Wert county in section No. 34, of
Ridge township, part of which land is now in the possession of the
subject of this sketch.
Harrison Leathers was reared on his father's
farm and also enjoyed the usual school advantages. April 15,
1858, he was united in wedlock with Miss M. A. Cummings,
daughter of Emanuel and Mary (Redman) Cummings - the former a
native of Logan county, Va., and the latter of Ohio. Mr.
and Mrs. Cummings has born to them a family of ten children, as
follows: Mrs. Leathers, called Adeline by her friends;
Lucretia E., who died in childhood; May Margaret,
deceased wife of William Hill - also deceased, having been
killed in battle; James Wesley, who died at the age of eight
years; Rebecca Jane, widow of David Hart; Susannah,
who died when three years old; Sarah, who also died in
childhood; Nancy, died an infant; Malissa Ann, is the
wife of George Null, and William Jefferson, who lives
in Noble county, Ind. The mother of this family died Dec. 27,
1855, and Mr. Cummings next married the widow of Judge
Beard; this lady bore the maiden name of Eliza Jane Scott.
After the death of this lady, Mr. Cummings took for his third
wife Rachael Margaret Todd, who bore him two daughters -
Irene and Maggie - and she, too, was called away by
death. Mr. Cummings next married Susan Bell, who
also deceased, and he himself died Dec. 28, 1887. To the
marriage of Harrison Leathers and Miss Cummings have
been born four children, viz: E. A., residing on a farm near
his father's, and wedded to Jennie Bell; W. C., in the employ
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad company, and who first
married Ella Young and then Jennie Leslie; Delora Virginia
is the wife of W. C. Gilliland, and Florence Emma Bell,
the youngest child born to Mr. Leathers, is the wife of J.
G. Prill.
At the age of twenty-eight years, Harrison Leathers
enlisted in company A, Ninety-ninth Ohio infantry, in August, 1862;
he was in a number of raids and battles was on one occasion disabled
and confined some time in a hospital, but served until the close of
the war, receiving an honorable discharge, and on his return home
re-engaged in farming. Mr. and Mrs. Leathers are
members in farming. Mr. and Mrs. Leathers are members
of the Lutheran church, in which he has been an officer the past
thirty years, and also for many years has been superintendent of the
Sunday school. Politically, Mr. Leathers is a
republican, and has served as clerk, trustee and assessor of his
township. Mr. Leathers is the owner of 172 acres of
find farming land in Ridge township, beside some valuable lots in
Middlepoint, and is doing a large grain business. His social
standing is as excellent as his business relations, and his
integrity and strictly honest methods of dealing have won for him
the respect of all who knew him. He is also a member of the I.
O. O. F., No. 251, Van Wert, Ohio.
-Source: A Portrait and biographical record of Allen and Van Wert
Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1896 - Page 429 |
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HARRISON LEATHERS
Source: History of Van Wert County, Ohio - Publ.
1906 - Page 524 |
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