BIOGRAPHIES
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History of
Wayne Co., Ohio
Vol. I
Illustrated
Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
1910
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HENRY
A. HALLER. A member of an old and honored pioneer
family of Wayne county, Ohio, is Henry A. Haller, who has
spent half his life in his native community, where he has made a
success by reason of his close application to his chosen line of
work and has at the same time maintained the good reputation of his
ancestors. His birth occurred in Wooster on June 20, 1860.
His father was David Haller, a native of Wurtemburg, Germany,
born Dec. 15, 1829, who came to America when a young man and,
believing that the then new country of the Middle West held the best
opportunities for him, made his way to the interior, locating at
Wooster, Ohio. Here he engaged extensively in gardening,
having learned that occupation in his native land. He was a
hard worker and made a good living for his family, spending the
remainder of his life here, dying Oct. 9, 1889. In Germany he
married Dora Ebinger, also a native of Germany, who came to
America with him and here did her full share in getting a start in a
new country. She died Dec. 5, 1888. They were the
parents of five children, namely: Charles, of Chicago;
Henry A., of this review; Fred is in the employ of
John McSweeny; Albert, deceased; Robert, deceased.
Henry A. Haller received his education in the
common schools of Wooster, gaining a very serviceable education in
the primary branches. Early in life, while casting about for a
profession, he decided upon the baker's trade, which he accordingly
took up and followed very successfully for a period of twenty years.
He then launched in the grocery business, which he conducted at
intervals for ten years. He is now living in retirement,
having during his years of industry laid by a competency to insure
his old age free from want, having a comfortable and neatly kept
home on West Liberty street. He gives some attention to fine
driving horses, of which he is very fond and in which he deals.
Mr. Haller was married in 1889 to Clara
Brunter, a native of Wooster and the daughter of George
Brunter her people being well known here. To this union
one son was born, Glen, now sixteen years old, who graduated
from the local high school with the class of 1910.
Mr. and Mrs. Haller belong to the Christ
Evangelical church. In politics the former is a Democrat.
He has ably served his city as assistant superintendent of streets
and paving, during which time many important improvements were made.
He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, having been an active member
of the same for a period of twenty-five years, having passed all the
chairs in the local lodge. He is favorably known both in lodge
and church circles.
Source: History of
Wayne Co., Ohio - Vol. I - Illustrated - Publ. by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1910 - Page 674 |
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OHIO J. HARRISON.
As a representative of one of the pioneer families of Wayne county
and as one who has here passed his entire life, it is certainly
consistent that we enter in this work a review of the career of
Mr. Harrison, who has long been identified with the
agricultural and stock-growing interests of the county, having a
fine estate in Franklin township and being honored as one of its
representative men. He is a native of the township in which he
now maintains his home, having been born on the old pioneer
homestead on the 9th of January, 1852. He is a son of
William and Mariah (Criswell) Harrison.
His paternal grandfather was William Harrison, who was
born on the Harrison homestead in this township in
1823 and lived here all the days of his life, his death occurring on
the 9th of October, 1900, at the age of sixty-seven years. His
remains are buried in the Fairview cemetery at Fredericksburg.
William Harrison was a man of many excellent parts and
stood high in the estimation of the community. He was a farmer
all his life and was a practical and industrious man. His wife
died on Jan. 9, 1898. He was in religious faith a Presbyterian
and took an active part in the work of the society, having served
efficiently as trustee. In matters political he was affiliated
with the Republican party and took a commendable interest in local
public affairs, though he was never an aspirant for public office of
any nature. He was the owner of three hundred acres of fine
and fertile land and was very successful in his agricultural
operations, being energetic and progressive in his methods and a man
of excellent discrimination. He was the father of three
children, namely: Ohio, the immediate subject of this sketch;
Adeline, who died at the age of six years; Gerry S., who
resides at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Ohio J. Harrison was reared on the paternal
homestead and secured his education in the schools of the township.
He was reared to the vocation of a farmer and has always been a
tiller of the soil. He has always lived in the immediate
neighborhood where he now resides and has been considered one of the
leading men of the township. He is the owner of a splendid and
well improved farm of one hundred and ten acres, to which he devotes
his entire attention, with gratifying financial results. His
place is well improved with neat and substantial buildings and other
accessories of an up-to-date farm and here he carries on a
diversified system of agriculture, raising all the crops common to
this section of the country. In addition, he gives much
attention to the breeding and raising of livestock, in which also he
is successful.
Mr. Harrison married Margaret
Moore, a daughter of William Moore, and to them
have been born two children, namely: George Clarence
married Ellen Hall, a daughter of Asa Hall,
of Holmes county, and they have three children, Margaret
Helen, Wayne Hall and Dorothy Fay.
George C. Harrison served five years as a private in Company
H, Eighth Regiment Ohio National Guard. William I., the
youngest son, lives at home with his parents. Politically,
Mr. Harrison is an enthusiastic Republican and is active
in the interest of his party, though not himself ambitious for the
honors or emoluments of office. Religiously, he is a member of
the Presbyterian church, to which he gives an earnest and liberal
support. He is a man of fine personal qualities and during his
lifetime spent in this community he has done nothing to forfeit the
unbounded regard in which he has been held by his friends and
neighbors. He is keenly alive to the best interests of the
community and gives a hearty support to every movement calculated to
advance the moral, educational, religious or material interests of
the township in which he lives.
Source: History of Wayne Co.,
Ohio - Vol. I - Illustrated - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana - 1910 - Page 786 |
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JOHN
V. HARTEL. The record
of John V. Hartel is that of a man who by his own unaided
efforts has worked his way from a modest beginning to a position of
influence and financial ease in his community of which he is native,
having been born in Milton township, Wayne county, Ohio, Nov. 4,
1859, the son of Jacob and Susanna (Will) Hartel, both
natives of Germany. The paternal grandparents of John V.
Hartel were Jacob and Susanna Hartel, who came from
Germany in an early day and settled in Milton township, this county,
there bought land, cleared it and remained there until their deaths.
The subject’s mother came to America alone in 1828. Her
parents were Mr. and Mrs. Will. Jacob Hartel,
father of John V., was educated mostly in Germany, and in
young manhood he accompanied his parents to America. He was a
shoemaker by trade, and is said to have been a very skilled workman.
In 1862 he moved from Milton township to Chippewa township, near
Easton, and there he bought a farm of eighty-four acres, on which he
carried on general farming until his death, making a good living for
his wife and five sons and one daughter, who were named as follows:
Peter, Jacob, John V. (of this review), Adam, George and
Susan.
John V. Hartel was educated in Chippewa township
in the common schools, and he remained on the home farm until he was
eighteen years of age, when he went to Smithville, Greene township,
and began learning the carriage trade, then learned the blacksmith
trade at Clinton, at which he soon became quite adept. Later
he went to Easton and purchased a carriage shop and remained there
for five years, building up a very good business and becoming known
as one of the best workmen in this line in the county. He
followed carriage and wagon making and general blacksmithing.
He then bought his brother’s shoe store at Easton, which he managed
successfully, and while there he was postmaster and justice of the
peace during Cleveland’s first administration. He next bought
out the William Peirce shoe store at Doylestown,
Chippewa township, which he conducted until 1896. In the
meantime he became postmaster, continuing in that position for
several terms. He was elected justice of the peace in
Doylestown in 1902, and has since retained that office to the
satisfaction of all concerned.
Mr. Hartel has been a singing teacher
since he was seventeen years of age and he has won a wide reputation
in this line. He has been supervisor of music in the
Doylestown public schools for the past nine years, holding a state
certificate for music teaching.
In 1888 Mr. Hartel entered the piano
business and he has been very successful in the same ever since,
still following that line at this writing, having built up an
expensive patronage throughout this part of the county. He is
a director in the Doylestown Banking Company.
Mr. Hartel was married in 1880 to
Amelia Frase, a woman of many praiseworthy traits, and to
this union one daughter was born. Pearl, now the wife
of George Hood, and they are the parents of the
following children: Rosetta, Amelia, George
Leslie and Ellwood.
Mr. Hartel was confirmed in the Lutheran
church when sixteen years of age. He belongs to the Knights
and Ladies of Security, and in politics he is a Democrat. He
has very ably served his fellow citizens as constable and has been a
member of the school board at Doylestown. He is always
interested in the progress of his community and does what he can to
aid in any worthy movement. He is regarded as a
public-spirited, honest and straightforward business man.
Source:
History of Wayne Co., Ohio - Vol. II - Illustrated - Publ. by B. F.
Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1910 - Page 1332 |
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FRANK
HECKMAN. The Heckman family needs
no introduction to the readers of this history for members of the
same have figured prominently in the life of Wayne county for
several generations. Frank Heckman. to whose
career the reader's attention is especially directed in the
following paragraphs, was born in Clinton township, this county, in
1868, the son of Henry B. and Barbara (Jacobs) Heckman, the
former a native of Pennsylvania, the latter born in Knox county,
Ohio. The paternal grandparents of Frank Heckman were
Samuel and Catherine (Grafius) Heckman. To Henry B.
and Barbara A. Heckman were born six children, five boys and one
girl. The sister died Apr. 1, 1908.
The gentleman whose name introduces this sketch was
educated in the common schools of Clinton and Plain townships, and
early in life he decided to become a tiller of the soil and
consequently he has devoted his attention exclusively to
agricultural pursuits, his wife, now owning one hundred and
thirty-nine acres in Plain township, which is one of the best farms
in this vicinity and which yields its owner a very comfortable
income from year to year.
Mr. Heckman was married on Apr. 5, 1888, to
Lora Bunyan, a native of Macon township, Ashland county, Ohio,
where her people were well known. She is the daughter of
Elijah Bunyan, a leading farmer of Ashland county. Mr.
Bunyan was one of the men who made a successful trip to the gold
fields in California in 1849, and came back in 1851.
To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Heckman the following
children have been born: Howard Cuyler, Clarence Clark, Sherman
LeRoy, Ralph Richey and Earl Wayne.
Mr. Heckman has an attractively located and
comfortable home and excellent outbuildings on his place and he is
carrying on general farming in a manner that shows him to be fully
abreast of the times in this line. He takes considerable
interest in the affairs of his township and has been superintendent
of the township roads, discharging his duties in this connection in
a very able and conscientious manner. He is a member of the
United Brethren church.
Source: History of Wayne Co.,
Ohio - Vol. I - Illustrated - Publ. by B. F. Bowen & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana - 1910 - Page 791 |
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STEPHEN M. HENRY
Source: History of
Wayne Co., Ohio - Vol. I - Illustrated - Publ. by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1910 - Page 824 |
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PETER HOUSEL was born in Hunterdon
county, New Jersey, on the 14th day of May, 1845, and was reared to
the life of a farmer. In 1867 he came to Wayne county, Ohio,
and here he engaged in the carpenter and contracting business, in
which he was successful. He erected the Shreve high school
building and many of the largest and best residences in this part of
the county and was considered one of the leading men of his
profession in this community.
Mr. Housel was united in the holy bonds of
matrimony with Ella Robinson, the daughter of Charles
Robinson, of whose thirteen children she was the youngest.
To this union was born one child, Elizabeth Elleanor, who,
after completing a good education in the common schools, became
assistant postmaster at Shreve, which position she retained until
her marriage to Charles W. Keister. They now live at
Toledo, Ohio, and have one child, Housel. Mr. Housel is
an ardent Republican in politics and has rendered his party
effective service as a member of the county and township central
committees, in which positions he served many years. He also
served as clerk of the township. On May 16, 1889, under the
administration of President Benjamin Harrison, Mr. Housel was
appointed postmaster and served a full term, his tenure of office
running over into the Cleveland administration four months
and fifteen days. He was out of office three years and eleven
months and then was reappointed to the office on Sept. 1, 1897, and
retained the office continuously until Sept. 30, 1909, having served
altogether as postmaster sixteen years, five months and a half and
during all this long time Mr. Housel was never away from the
office for one whole day at a time. He is an accommodating and
obliging official and has given the patrons of the office a very
satisfactory administration. Fraternally he is a member of the
Royal Arcanum. He is public spirited and gives his support to
every movement that promises to be of benefit to the community,
having served two terms as a member of the school board and in other
local offices. He is a man of marked ability and integrity of
character and because of this and his genial manner towards his
acquaintances he occupies an enviable position in the community.
Source: History of
Wayne Co., Ohio - Vol. I - Illustrated - Publ. by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1910 - Page 770 |
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