BIOGRAPHIES

Source:
A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio
prepared under the Editorial Supervision of Hon. Charles A. Bowersox.
Volume II - Illustrated
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York
1920

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	FRANK WATERSTON - Examples that impress force of character on all who study them are worthy of record in the annals of history wherever they are found.  By a few general observations the biographer hopes to convey in the following paragraphs, succinctly and yet without fulsome encomium, some idea of the high standing of Frank L. Waterston, of Montpelier, as a business man and public spirited citizen, one of the representative men of Williams County.  Those who know him best will readily acquiesce in the statement that many elements of a solid and practical nature are united in his composition and which during a series of years have brought him into prominent notice in this county, his life and achievements earning for him a conspicuous place among his compeers.      Frank L. Waterston, who is the present representative from Williams County in the lower house of the Ohio State Legislature, formerly county commissioner of Williams County for seven years, and four years a member of the Board of Public Affairs of Montpelier, is a native son of the county now honored by his citizenship, having been born in Bridgewater Township on May 5, 1860.  His parents were Simon and Cyrena (Lindsay) Waterston, both of whom are now deceased.  Simon Waterston was born and reared in Edinburgh, Scotland, his birth occurring on May 20, 1830, and in his youth he accompanied his parents on their emigration to the United States.  They first located in Belmont County, Ohio, later living for a time in Richland County, this state, and in 1851 they came to Williams County, locating in Bridgewater Township, where he grew to manhood. Cyrena Lindsay was born in Schenectady, New York, on Dec. 7, 1830, and was a daughter of Frank and Polly (Adams) Lindsay, being on the maternal side a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams.  In 1838, when but eight years of age, she was brought to Williams County, her parents locating in Bridgewater Township, where she met and married Simon Waterston.  They first located on a farm in section 28, Bridgewater Township, where they lived until 1889, when they moved to Montpelier, where they spent the remainder of their lives.  They were active and faithful members of the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Waterston was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic.  The latter membership was particularly consonant from the fact that during the dark days of the Civil war Mr. Waterston offered his services to his country, serving from 1861 to 1865, being discharged in July of the latter year, with the rank of captain.  He was a republican in his political views and took an active part in local public affairs, having held several township offices.  To him and his wife were born four children, namely: George T., of Pioneer, Ohio; Anna C., the wife of Samuel Hays, of Montpelier; Frank L., the immediate subject of this review; and Jennie, the wife of Fred Bauer.      Frank L. Waterston spent his boyhood days on the home farm in Bridgewater Township and secured a good practical education in the district schools of that locality.  He remained at home until he had attained his majority, when he was married, and started farming on his own account.  He first bought eighty acres of land, for which he went into debt, but by hard work and good management he was able to pay for it in two years.  Thereafter as he prospered, he added to his original purchase until he is now the owner of 120 acres of excellent land, all of which he has gained by his own efforts.  In 1904 Mr. Waterston went to Montpelier and engaged in the hardware business, which he conducted for about eight years, at the end of which time he sold the business, though he still owns the building in which the store is located.  Since then he has given his attention to his farming interests, which have proven profitable under his direction.  His farm is well improved in every respect and, in addition to the raising of general crops, Mr. Waterston also gives some attention to the raising of live stock.      On Oct. 3, 1882, Mr. Waterston was married to Mary A. Ansley, who was born in Richland County, Ohio, but in babyhood was brought to Alvordton, Williams County, where she lived until twelve years of age, when the family moved to Bridgewater Township, where she was reared and attended the district schools.  To this union has been born one son, Lynn S., who completed his studies in the Montpelier High School, after which he was engaged in teaching school for two years.  He was married to Mary Shammel and they have three children: Naomi, Carmie and Fred L.      Politically, Mr. Waterston has been a lifelong supporter of the republican party and has taken an active part in local public affairs.  In 1903 he was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Williams County, serving until 1910.  For four years he rendered effective service as a member of the Board of Public Affairs of the Town of Montpelier.  In November, 1918, he was elected a member of the General Assembly, representing Williams County in the eighty-third session of that body.  He has been eminently efficient and faithful in the performance of his public duties and has always stood stanchly for the best interest of the general public, his efforts being fully appreciated by his fellow citizens.  Fraternally he is member of Superior Lodge, No. 269, Knights of Pythias, and, with his wife, belongs also to the Pythian Sisters. In his record there is much that is commendable, his career forcibly illustrating what a life of energy can accomplish when plans are wisely laid and actions are governed by right principles and correct ideals.  In his public career, as well as his private life, no word of suspicion has ever been breathed against him.  His actions have been the result of careful and conscientious thought, and when once convinced that he is right no suggestion of policy or personal profit can swerve him from the course he has decided upon.  Because of his success, his ability and his sterling character, he enjoys to a marked degree the confidence, good will and esteem of all who know him. Source:  A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio - Vol. II - Illustrated - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - New York - 1920 - Page 162
	J. ARTER WEAVER - When, in 1917, Judge Weaver was elected to preside on the bench of the Probate Court of Williams County, he had the distinction of being the youngest man, with one exception, ever elected to this office in the State of Ohio, and in Williams County only one other candidate of equal youthfulness has been called to this office —Hon. Charles A. Bowersox.  Judge Weaver is a native son of this county and his eligibility for the important office of which he is now the incumbent was fortified by his having previously been graduated in the law department of the Ohio Northern University, and had been actively engaged in the work of his profession for a period of two years.      Judge Weaver was born at Montpelier, Williams County, Ohio, Apr. 20, 1885, and is a son of Jacob F. and Hattie L. (Arter) Weaver, he having been but six days old at the time of his mother's death, and having then been taken into the home of his paternal grandmother, with whom he remained until her death, when he was four years of age.  Again deprived of fostering care, the future probate judge was then taken in charge by his aunt, Mrs. Addie C. (Weaver) Gilcher, whose husband was a prosperous farmer southeast of Montpelier.  There he remained until he was thirteen years old, and in the meanwhile he had attended school and also begun to gain experience in connection with farm operations.  At the age noted he went to the home of his father, who had contracted a second marriage, and thus he was enabled to attend the public schools at Montpelier, where he was graduated in the high school as a member of the class of 1905.  In 1907 he was graduated in the law department of the Ohio Northern University, and in June, 1907, he was admitted to the bar of his native state.  For two years thereafter he was engaged in the practice of his profession at Montpelier, and he then assumed active management of his father's farm, in Bridgewater Township.  There he remained three years, at the expiration of which he became an exponent of agricultural industry in Center Township.  He proved an energetic, progressive and successful farmer, but in 1917 he became the republican candidate for the office of judge of the Probate Court of Williams County, the majority which he received at the ensuing election attesting the popular estimate placed upon him in his native county.  He assumed his official duties at the courthouse, in Bryan, and his administration of probate affairs has fully justified his selection for the office in which he is serving with marked efficiency and acceptability.  The position is no sinecure, as may readily be understood, but Judge Weaver has naught of the attributes of a slacker, as proved by his herculean labors during his career as a farmer, as well as by his punctilious and careful service in his present office.  He is influential in the local councils of the republican party, his Masonic affiliations include membership in the commandery of Knights Templar at Bryan, and both he and his wife are active members of the Church of God, at Ada, Hardin County.      Judge Weaver is of sterling German ancestry in both the paternal and maternal lines, but the respective families were early founded in Pennsylvania, the original representatives in Wayne County, Ohio, having come to this state from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  Jacob F. Weaver, father of the subject of this review, was most influential in the civic and material development and advancement of Montpelier, Williams County, where, as a successful real estate dealer, he platted and improved four additions to the village, many houses having been erected and sold by him and one of the handsome homes thus built by him having been a fine stone house which he erected for his own use and which he and his wife occupied during the last two years of his life, his death occurring in December, 1917.  This is one of the finest homes in Williams County.  Mr. Weaver is survived by his second wife, whose maiden name was Martha McCrea, and their only child, Lisle M., was a member of the class of 1920 in the law department of the Ohio Northern University, and now practicing law in Bryan. Source:  A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio - Vol. II - Illustrated - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - New York - 1920 - Page 3
	JOSEPH A. WEITZ, M. D. - The physician who would succeed in his profession must possess many qualities of head and heart not included in the curriculum of the schools and colleges he may have attended.  The career of the successful practitioner shows that a broad minded sympathy with the sick and suffering and an honest, earnest desire to aid in affliction have gone hand in hand with skill and able judgment.  The gentleman to whom this brief tribute is given embodies these necessary qualifications to a marked degree and by energy and application to his professional duties through many years of practice built up an enviable reputation and drew to himself a large and remunerative patronage.      Doctor Weitz, for many years engaged in his professional labors at Montpelier, but widely known outside of his home locality for his scientific achievements and official honors conferred upon him by medical organizations, is a native of Williams County, having been born on his father's farm in St. Joseph Township on Nov. 30, 1849, and is the son of Adam and Elizabeth (Yeager) Weitz.  Adam Weitz was born in Wattenheim, Germany, in 1810, and was there reared and educated.  In 1837 he came to the United States, locating first in Portage County, Ohio, where his marriage occurred.  In 1846 he came to Williams County, locating in St. Joseph Township, where he lived until late in life when he moved to the Village of Edgerton, this county, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their days.  He was an enterprising citizen, being deeply interested in the development of St. Joseph Township, of which he was one of the early settlers.  In his native land he had learned the trade of a weaver, but after coming to the United States he applied himself to the trade of a stone cutter, in which he became an expert workman.  He laid the stone for the old courthouse in Williams County and also constructed the locks on the canal.  He was born a Catholic, but became an active and earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He also altered his political faith, having first supported the democratic party, but later identifying himself with the republican party.  He was active in public affairs and served as trustee of St. Joseph Township. To him and his wife were born eleven children, of which number two lost their lives by accident, the others being as follows: Frances, of West Unity, the widow of Charles F. Grisier; Harriet, the widow of John Casebere, of Edgerton, Ohio: Lucina, the widow of T. J. Stoops; Lavina, the wife of I. M. White, of Montpelier; Daniel W., of Butler, DeKalb County. Indiana; Charles W. and Thomas T., of Oklahoma; George H., of Fresno, California, and Joseph A.      Joseph A. Weitz spent his boyhood days on his father's farm in St. Joseph Township, and received his elemental education in the district schools and the high school at Butler.  He then entered Hillsdale College, at Hillsdale, Michigan, where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1876, and given the degree of A. M. in 1879.  He then engaged in teaching school, following that profession for eight years, during which time he was superintendent of schools at Edgerton and Sylvania, Ohio.  Having determined to devote his life to the medical profession he matriculated in the medical department of the University of Michigan where he was graduated in 1886 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.  He first located for the practice of his profession in Montpelier, remaining here until October, 1897, when he accepted the chair of neurology in the Michigan College of Medicine and Surgery at Detroit, having served as professor of pathology from 1894 to 1897. In 1899 Doctor Weitz returned to Montpelier and re-engaged in the active practice of his profession, which he has continued to the present time.  In 1913 Doctor Weitz went to Europe and took a post-graduate course in the medical department of Berlin University.  He has been successful in practice to a remarkable degree and is held in the highest esteem not only by the public but also by his professional colleagues.  Doctor Weitz in 1887-88 ran a drug store at Montpelier and is a registered pharmacist.  For a number of years he was local surgeon for the Wabash Railroad Company.      In 1880 Doctor Weitz married Helen Fay, who is a graduate of Hillsdale College, and who, prior to her marriage was a successful teacher, having taught in Michigan and in Plattsburg, New York.  To Dr. and Mrs. Weitz has been born a daughter, Florence, who after graduating from the Montpelier High School was a student in Oberlin College, where she was graduated in 1907, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.  She was a teacher of German in the Montpelier High School for two years, and subsequently took a post-graduate course in the University of Berlin, Germany. She became the wife of Charles A. Changnon, and they have three children, Richard E., Helen Fay and Robert A.      Politically Doctor Weitz has been a lifelong supporter of the republican party.  Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic Order and Knights of Pythias, and is an active member and one of the trustees of the Presbyterian Church of his home town.  It is safe to say that no man in Williams County enjoys to a greater extent the affection and confidence of the people than does Doctor Weitz, and this feeling has been demonstrated for him on more than one occasion.  His career has been that of a broad-minded, conscientious worker in the sphere to which his life and energies have been devoted.      Doctor Weitz is a former president and for several years past has been treasurer of the Northern Tri-State Medical Association.  He is a member of the Williams County Medical Society, Ohio State Medical Association and is a Fellow of the American Medical Association, and also of the American Academy of Medicine.  He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Association for Clinical Research, and with all his other duties is now carrying the responsibilities of Health Commissioner of Williams County.  He is the author of scientific articles that have attracted national attention and are published in various medical journals and in the Reference Hand Book of Medical Sciences.  As a writer he is known for his accuracy and conciseness. Source:  A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio - Vol. II - Illustrated - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - New York - 1920 - Page 200
	HARRY W. WERTZ, M. D. - It is not always easy to discover and define the hidden forces that move a life of ceaseless activity and large professional success; little more can be done than to note their manifestation in the career of the individual under consideration.  Doctor Wertz has long held distinctive prestige in a calling which requires for its basis sound mentality and rigid professional training and thorough mastery of technical knowledge with the skill to apply the same, without which one cannot hope to rise above the mediocre in administering to human ills.      Harry W. Wertz, a successful physician and surgeon and the founder and owner of the Wertz Hospital at Montpelier, is a native son of Williams County, having been born in Superior Township on June 6. 1869, the son of Henry and Alice (Lambertson) Wertz.  His parents are both natives of Ohio.  After their marriage they first engaged in farming and later engaged in the grocery business.  Doctor Wertz was reared on the home farm and attended the public schools, being a student in both the Bryan and Montpelier high schools.  Having determined to devote his life to the practice of medicine, he then matriculated in the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, where he was graduated, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1890, at the age of twenty-one.  Immediately thereafter he located in the practice at Montpelier, success attending him from the start.  Doctor Wertz made a specialty of surgery and enjoyed a large practice in that line.  In 1910 he opened a hospital, which filled a long-left want in this community, and in 1916 he made still further improvement in his hospital facilities by establishing himself in his present location, at No. 315 Empire Street, where he is prepared to care for any case that may be brought to him. In analyzing the career of the successful practitioner of the healing art, it will invariably be found to be true that a broad-minded sympathy with the sick and suffering and an honest, earnest desire to aid his afflicted fellow men, have gone hand in hand with skill and able judgment.  Doctor Wertz embodies these necessary qualifications in a marked degree and by energy and application to his professional duties has built up an enviable reputation and drawn to himself a large and representative patronage.      Doctor Wertz has one son, Selwyn, who is connected with the Foundation Company, which has done a great deal of big construction work in various parts of the country.  During the World war Doctor Wertz offered his services to the Government and was attached to the medical department, with the rank of captain, being assigned to duty at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.  He is at the present time surgeon for the Wabash Railroad Company, and is a member of the Williams County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, as well as the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.      Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic Order, in which he has taken all the degrees up to and including those of the commandery of Knights Templar, and he is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the American Legion.  Politically, he is a democrat. In addition to his long and creditable career in one of the most useful and exacting of professions, Doctor Wertz has also proved an honorable member of the body politic, rising in the confidence and esteem of the public and commanding respect by innate force as well as by superior ability.  Genial in disposition, Doctor Wertz is popular in the circles in which he moves and enjoys the sincere respect of the entire community. Source:  A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio - Vol. II - Illustrated - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - New York - 1920 - Page 86
	CHARLES OLIVER WINELAND - While there had been two or three generations of Wineland family in Blair County, Pennsylvania, its history began in 1853 in Williams County with the coming of Daniel Wineland from Knox County, Ohio.  The three brothers: James M., Samuel S. and Charles O. Wineland of Bryan are in the third generation of Winelands in Williams County.      Daniel Wineland, founder of the house of Wineland in Williams County, was born Nov. 9, 1806, in Blair County, Pennsylvania, and on Aug. 25, 1828, he married Elizabeth Lantz.  She was born Apr. 11, 1807, and they grew up together in Blair County.  In 1829, within one year from the time of their marriage, they took up their home in Knox County.  In 1829 the family history began in Ohio. and in 1853 it began in Williams County.  The children born to Daniel and Elizabeth Wineland were: Jacob, Hannah, John, William, Elizabeth, Susannah, Mary, Samuel, Daniel, Catherine, Nancy, Henry and Sarah Jane.  Their mother died Aug. 23, 1851, in Knox County.      After living twenty-four years in Knox County Daniel Wineland and his children came by wagon to Williams County.  On February 24, 1861, he married Sarah Musser, and to them were born the following children:  Eliza W., George B., David and Emma   Their mother died Mar. 6, 1886, and Daniel Wineland died May 31, 1893, almost seven years later.  When this sketch was written, A. D. 1920, only Samuel  of the older set of Wineland children was living, and the three Wineland brothers already mentioned as living in Bryan are sons of John L. Wineland, who was born Mar. 3, 1832, in Knox County.  He was twenty-one years old when he came with his father to Williams County.      While there were no railroads when the Winelands came to William County it was not long until they were able to leave the country by rail, and yet Daniel Wineland knew of all the hardships and privations of the pioneers.  The family lived in Jefferson Township and here on Feb. 14, 1857, John L. Wineland married Ellen Oliver, who belonged to one of the earliest families in Williams County.  She was born Nov. 7, 1835, at a time when there were but few white families in Jefferson Township, and her entire life was passed in one community.  She died at the Wineland family homestead in Jefferson Township, Jan. 24, 1903, while John L. Wineland died July 17, 1913, at the home of C. O. Wineland in Bryan.      In 1822 John Oliver, who was a bachelor living in Virginia, made a hunting trip through Kentucky and Ohio and he liked the wild lands of northwestern Ohio so well that when he returned to Virginia he induced a brother, Eli, who was married, to immigrate into the newer country, and from Virginia he came to Todd County, Kentucky, where he lived for a time, finally coming to Pickaway County, Ohio, and in 1833 he was among the early settlers in Williams County.  In 1834 Mr. Oliver invested in land in Jefferson Township where he lived the remainder of his days.  He first bought forty acres in the wilderness and later he bought another forty and then acquired title to an eighty-acre tract, and when he had a quarter section of land he had paid $200 for it.  This was government land and the old deeds are still in existence.      Eli Oliver married Lucinda Corder while yet a resident of Virginia.  Eleven children were born to them:  Virginia, James, John, Jackson, Frances, Ellen (Mrs. John L. Wineland), Mary, Isabel and Cynthia, and two who died in infancy.  It is said that the uncle, John Oliver, who induced Eli Oliver and his wife to leave Virginia and led them finally to Williams County, was a great hunter, and that he killed 150 deer in this time.  There were other hunters in the family and some of the old guns and other weapons are now treasured as heirlooms by the Wineland brothers living in Bryan today.  Williams County was full of Indians when Eli Oliver came, and Mrs. Lucinda Oliver would supply them cornmeal in exchange for wild honey.  One time she bought twenty-five pounds of honey brought to her door in a deer skin, not because she wanted the honey, but because she did not wish to get into disfavor with the Indians.  She had heard that Indians never harmed settlers who treated them well, and she bought the honey, giving cornmeal in exchange for it.      The Olivers had been in Williams County twenty years when the Winelands came, and Eli Oliver knew all about three or four days being consumed in a trip to the mill in Defiance or Maumee with corn to have it ground, or for any of the necessities they did not produce in the cabin manufacturing establishment operated by every family that long ago.  Mrs. Martha Fields, a sister to Mrs. Lucinda Oliver, also once lived in Williams County.  The Olivers had their part in developing the wild land of Jefferson Township, and while they came from Harper's Ferry in Virginia, the older ones have long since gone the way of the world, and many of them lie buried in the Oliver cemetery on the old family homestead in Jefferson Township.  While this sacred spot is no longer used as a place of burial, they will sleep the sleep of the ages there.  Beside the three sons:  J. M., S. S. and C. O. Wineland, the children born to John Lantz and Ellen (Oliver) Wineland were:  Orlando J., John Seymour, Bertha E., and an infant who had not been given a name.      Orlando J. Wineland married Amy Harrington.  The others were unmarried.  James M. Wineland married Louella Richards, and to them Frances Beerbower.  Charles O. Wineland married Retta Brannon, and to them was born one daughter, Midgie.  Mrs.. Wineland and her daughter are lying side by side in Schiffler cemetery.  On Jan. 30, 1907, Mr. Wineland married Mary Mae Garver, a daughter of Amos C. Garver of Defiance County.  Through his father, Isaac Garver, the family is related to the Garvers of Wayne and Medina Counties.  None of the immediate Garver relatives live in Williams County.  Mr. and Mrs. Wineland have one daughter, Kathryn Arlene.  The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Bryan.  Mr. Wineland is a member and he has filled all of the chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge in Bryan.  He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge in Bryan.      The Wineland family vote has always been cast with the democratic party.  Samuel S. Wineland has served as sheriff of Williams County.  For many years C. O. Wineland has had his share of building contracts in Bryan, and his father and uncle Samuel Wineland were both carpenters for thirty years in Williams County.  Samuel Wineland, who is past four score years of age, spent four years of his life in the Civil war.  C. O. Wineland was not at the age to enlist in any of the wars that have drawn upon the soldier citizens of Williams County.      Since 1894 the Wineland family has met in annual reunions, and Samuel Wineland of West Unity is the honorary president.  There are Wineland relatives in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, and the annual meetings have been held in three states and sometimes at the homes and sometimes in parks, Garver park in Bryan sometimes being the meeting place in Williams County.  Sometimes relatives from Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio are in attendance at these Wineland family reunions.  As a carpenter Mr. Wineland has a well-equipped shop at his home in Bryan, and many families depend on him when they want improvements made about their homesteads.  He was the first man to construct an Aladdin house in Bryan. †Source:  A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio - Volume II - Illustrated - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1920  - Page 176
	H. J. WINELAND - The life of H. J. Wineland, farmer and stock raiser of Jefferson Township, Williams County, has been such as to elicit just priase from those who know him best, owing to the fact that he has always been true to the trusts reposed in him and has been upright in his dealings with his fellow men, at the same time lending his support to the advancement of any cause looking to the welfare of the community at large.      H. J. Wineland, whose splendid eighty-acre farm is located in section 23, Jefferson Township, about six and a half miles northeast of Bryan, was born in the township now honored by his citizenship on Oct. 13, 1873, and is the son of Daniel and Louisa (Fenimore) Wineland.  Daniel Wineland was born in Blair County, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 11, 1840, and went from there to Knox County, Ohio, in childhood, coming to Williams County when a young man.  His wife was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, on Jan. 22, 1843, and was taken from there to Logan County, this state, and thence to Williams County, where occurred her marriage to Daniel Wineland.  To their union were born four children, of whom three are living, namely: Jennie the wife of I. A. Geddings, of Jefferson Township; Mabel, the wife of John Green, of Jefferson Township, and H. J., the subject of this sketch.  Mr. and Mrs. Wineland were faithful members of the German Reformed Church and in politics Mr. Wineland gave his support to the democratic party.       H. J. Wineland was reared to manhood on the parental farmstead in Jefferson Township and secured a good practical education in the common schools.  He has never forsaken the vocation to which he was reared and has been successful as a farmer and stock raiser, being numbered among the progressive and up-to-date men of his township.  His farm in section 23 comprises eight acres of land, which is maintained at a high state of cultivation, producing all the crops common to this locality.  Mr. Wineland also gives some attention to the raising of live stock, in which he has met with success.  He is also a stockholder in the Pulaski Grain Elevator Company.      On June 16, 1894, Mr. Wineland was married to Cora Zigler, and to their union was born a daughter, Ruth, on Nov. 20, 1898, and who graduated from the West Unity High School with the class of 1918.  Mrs. Wineland died on Feb. 24, 1903, and on June 16, 1904, Mr. Wineland married to Rose Lafferty, the daughter of John L. Lafferty, her birth having occurred in Richland County, Ohio, where she was reared and educated.  To them have been born three children, namely: Hugh, born on Jan. 17, 1906; Eva, born Dec. 15, 1907, and Evaline, born Feb. 14, 1914.      Politically, Mr. Wineland gives his earnest support to the democratic party and has taken an active interest in local public affairs.  He served one term as assessor of Jefferson Township, and by a life of public-spirited effort for the public welfare, he has earned the confidence and good will of all who know him.      John L. Lafferty, father of Mrs. Rose Wineland, was a veteran of the Civil war, having enlisted as a private in Company H, Fifty-Ninth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, with which command he took part in many of the most important battles of that great struggle, including Gettysburg, Kettle Run, Bristow Station, Mine Run, and others, and was so fortunate as to escape without a wound.  He was mustered out on Mar. 15, 1865, after exactly three years of service.  He died Oct. 16, 1918. †Source:  A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio - Volume II - Illustrated - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1920  - Page 89
	SAMUEL S. WINELAND - In all that constitutes true manhood and good citizenship Samuel S. Wineland, one of the best-known and most substantial of Williams County residents, is a notable example and none stands higher than he in the esteem and confidence of the community honored by his citizenship.  His career has been characterized by duty faithfully done, and by industry, thrift and wisely directed efforts he has acquired a fair share of this world's goods.  He is a man of good judgment and sterling qualities of character and his record while serving as sheriff of his county stamped him as a man of fearless courage and resourcefulness.      Samuel S. Wineland was born in Jefferson Township, Williams County, Ohio, on June 20, 1865, and is the son of John and Ellen (Oliver) Wineland, the former a native of Knox County, Ohio, and the latter born in Jefferson Township, this county.  John Wineland the latter born in Jefferson Township, this county.  John Wineland was reared and educated in his native county, but at the age of twenty years he came to Williams County and located in Jefferson Township, where he spent the remainder of his life.  He was a democrat in his political faith and was active in local public affairs, having served as treasurer of Jefferson Township.  He and his wife were members of the Reformed Church, of which he was a trustee.  These worthy parents had seven children, of whom three are living, namely: Charles O., of Bryan, Ohio; J. M., also of Bryan, and Samuel S.      Samuel S. Wineland was reared on the paternal farmstead in Jefferson Township and attended the district schools there.  After his marriage, which occurred in 1897, he moved to West Unity, where he engaged in carpentering and contracting until 1912, when he was nominated as the democratic candidate for sheriff of Williams County.  At the ensuing election he was successful, being elected by a plurality of 692, a splendid evidence of his popularity, when the fact is taken into consideration that the county was normally republican b 700 and that he was the first democratic sheriff elected in the county in twenty-seven years.  So satisfactory was his discharge of the duties of the office that in 1914 he was again chosen, this time by a plurality of 1,892, carrying every precinct in the county but two.  One contributing factor to his greatly increased vote in the second election was an incident that occurred near the close of his first term.  Three highwaymen had held up some parties, had taken their automobiles, and together with money, jewelry and other valuables, the outrage occurring near the town of Pulaski.  Sheriff Wineland promptly went after the bandits and, after a struggle, captured them and bought them to the jail.  During the struggle Mr. Wineland received two bullet wounds, but hung onto his men until he had them safely behind the bars.  After the expiration of his second term, Mr. Wineland served one term as deputy sheriff under Sheriff John Ruff, his official service ending on June 6, 1919.  Since then he has devoted his time to looking after his property in Bryan and farm of ninety acres in Jefferson Township.  He owns a comfortable and attractive home at No. 325 East Maple street, Bryan.      April 13, 1897, Mr. Wineland was married to Frances Beerhower, who was born and reared in Jefferson Township.  As a man of ability, sturdy integrity and usefulness, and as a citizen representatives of the utmost loyalty, Mr. Wineland has merited the consideration of his fellowmen, and his life record is deserving of a place in this publication, which touches those who have given to and sustained the civic and material prosperity of this favored section of the great Buckeye commonwealth. †Source:  A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio - Volume II - Illustrated - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1920  - Page 89

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