PREFACE.
THE REV. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, the rising star in the brilliant firmament of the
Presbyterian ministry and now the occupant of the pulpit of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, made
famous by the great Henry Ward. Beecher, said: "By universal consent biography is the most
fascinating of literature. Its charm doubtless grows out of the fact that it is the story of life. At
best only a secondary interest can attach to those dead things named stones and stars. But
biography has at least three advantages: it concerns life, it concerns human life, and it concerns
man in his best form, in the person of earth's best and bravest spirits. For these reasons the books
that have ushered in new epochs for society have generally been biographies. Indeed, the very
heart of a nation's literature is the history of its heroes."
Crawford County, Ohio, has sustained within its, confines men who have been prominent in
public affairs and great industrial enterprises for half a century. The annals teem with the records
of strong and noble manhood, and, as Sumner has said, " the true grandeur of nations is in those
qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.", The final causes which shape the
fortunes of individuals and the destinies of States are often the same. They are usually remote
and obscure, and their influence scarcely perceived until manifestly declared by results. That
nation' is the greatest which produces the greatest and most' manly men. and faithful women; and
the intrinsic safety of a community depends not so much upon methods as upon that normal
development from the deep resources of which proceeds all that is precious and permanent in
life. But such a result may not consciously be contemplated by the actors in the great social
drama. Pursuing each his personal good by exalted means, they work out as a logical result.
PREFACE
The elements of success in life consist in both innate capacity and determination to excel. Where
either is wanting, failure is almost certain in the outcome.. The study of a successful life,
therefore, serves both as a source of information and as a. stimulus and encouragement to those
who have the capacity. As an important lesson in this connection we may appropriately quote
Longfellow, Who said : " We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while we judge
others by what they have already done." A faithful personal history is an illustration of the truth
of this observation.
In this biographical history the editorial staff, as well as the publishers, have fully realized the
magnitude of the task. In the collection of the material there has been a constant aim to
discriminate carefully in regard to the selection of subjects. Those who have been prominent
factors in the public, social and industrial development of the county have been given due
recognition as far as it has been possible to secure the requisite data. Names worthy of
perpetuation here, it is true, have in several instances been omitted, either on amount of the
apathy of those concerned or the inability of the compilers to secure the information necessary
for a symmetrical sketch; but even more pains have been taken to secure accuracy than were.
promised in the prospectus. Works of this nature, therefore, are more reliable and com-plete than
are the " standard " histories of a country.
THE PUBLISHERS.
INDEX.
Adams, Franklin, 230 Agnew, J., 864
Alexander, William. L., 194
Allen, Benjamin F.; 720
Altstaetter, Henry, 358
Arbuckle, William, 292
Ashcroft, Adam, 824
Auck, Michael, 184
Babst, Dan, Jr., 253
Babst, Daniel, 398
Babst, Jacob, 64
Banks, Obadiah, 819
Barney, J. G., 244
Battefeld, Lewis H., 69
Baumgartner, John, 660
Beal, John, 463
Beall, James P., 152
Beard, Joseph H., 246
Beck, Daniel, 822
Bender, Anthony, 775
Bender, Jacob, 860
Bender, John, 636
Bender, Philip, 613
Bender, William, 698
Bennett, Smith W., 853
Berg, Henry, 526
Birk, Christian F., 118
Birk, Emanuel R., 42
Black, Robert R., 327
Blair, George O., 476
Bland, Jerome, 642
Blicke, William A., 91
Bliss, Julius J., 54
Brause, George A., 490
Breisinger, Charles, 163
Bridgeman, William H., 764
Brine, James, 817
Brinkman, Daniel, 374
Broede, Jacob, 811
Broemel, August, 37
Brose, Daniel, 672
Brown, Catherine B., 707
Brown, Charles A., 443
Brown, Jacob, 669
Brown, Jacob, 792
Brown, John, Sr., 728
Brown, John, Jr., 728
Brown, Joseph D., 494
Brown, Sebastian, 481
Brown, William, 791
Brown, William S., 862
Brown, Willis A., 486
Bucyrus Methodist Episcopal Church, 437
Burgbacher, John, 807
Burger, John, 705
Burt, G. W., 405
Cahill, John C., 838
Caldwell, Smith C., 237
Campbell, John B., 493
Carle, Frederick, 747
Carmean, Jonathan, 338
Carmean, Mathew L., 208
Carrick, Aaron, 696
Carrothers, James B., 767
Carson, Tarlington B., 124
Cary, Lewis, 17
Chance, Aaron, 784
Chaney, Sylvanus C., 140
Charlton, Amos B., 856
Chesney, John A., 114
Cleland, Arthur, 772
Close, George, 459
Close, Harvey, 511
Close, Nelson, 459
Clutter, Thomas H. B., 76
Cory, Hugh M., 548
Coulter, James W., 383
Cover, Richard, 682
Cover, W. D., 757
Crawford, William, 12
Crissinger, Elias, 829
Critzer, William H., 412
Crowley, Robert E., 564
Crum, David, 578
Crum, Jacob, 806
Cupp, John W., 282
Dalzell, Emma J., 183
Davis, E. P., 239
Dawson, William, 738
Denzer, Jacob, 129
Denzer, Lewis I., 130
Dewalt, Samuel, 814
Dick, Frank, 101
Dick, Franklin P., 527
Dickson, James M., 469
Didie, George W., 201
Dillinger, John, 684
Donnenwirth, George, 164
Duncan, Arthur M., 188
Dunlap, James, 675
Durnwald, Peter, 668
Durr, John Jacob, 866
Burr, Ludwig, 473
Dwire, Emory Jay, 716
Eberhart, George J., 341
Edler, Charles, 641
Eckert, John R., 708
Eckert, William A., 123
6 - INDEX
Eckstein, Adam, 665
Eckstein, John, 771
Eichhorn, Samuel, 848
Eise, Christian F. 402
Endslow, Thomas B., 740
English, John, 298
Ensminger, Albert M., 172
Esterline, Samuel, 491
Fauser, Jacob, 788
Feick, Adam, 793
Fetter, Nicholas, 385
Finley, Ebenezer B., 275
Firstenberger, Jacob D., 403
Fisher, Cyrus W., 29
Fisher, John, 845
Flickinger, Edward, 375
Forrest, Wallace B., 144
Forum Printing Company, 372
Foster, F. M., 225
Fralick, Edward, 582
Frank, C. P., 408
Frankenfield, Andrew, 820
Franz, W. C., 335
Freese, E. M., 417
Freese, Samuel S. 823
French, John W., 652
Frost, Abraham, 180
Gearhart, J. J., 693
Gebhardt, John, 191
Gee, Samuel, 471
Geiger, William M., 585
Geissmann, S. William, 461
George, Tilghman, 110
Gledhill, Joseph, 440
Gledhill, William, 554
Gordon, John, 605
Gormly, James B., 134
Green, Daniel, 697
Green, Henry B., 756
Gregg, Robert, 694
Grubb, Wesley, 617
Guinther, Isaac C., 386
Guiss, John, 804
Gunder, James M., 233
Gundrum, Silas, 840
Haas, Abrahara, 812
Hadley, Nathaniel J., 80
Hall, Alexander, 367
Hall, Joseph E., 524
Hall, Lawrence W., 22
Hammond, Albert, 556
Harkenrider, John, 843
Harley, Solomon, 795
Harris, Stephen R., 302
Harrop, James E., 488
Hartman, Herman H., 300
Harvey, Andrew J., 111
Hassel, Conrad, 133
Haworth, Albert, 240
Hays, William, 313
Hazlett, Andrew J., 218
Heinle, George W., 289
Heinlen, Franklin D., 712
Helfrich, Peter, 103
Heller, Cassius C., 753
Herbold, John G., 198
Herman, Anthony, 500
Hilborn, Charles M., 825
Hilborn, John, 703
Hilborn, Samuel, 730
Hise, William H., 100
Hoffmann, John, 610
Holbrook, Franklin, 372
Holland, James O., 280
Hollinshead, Jesse, 830
Holmes, Joseph W., 392
Homer, James R., 84
Hood, George W., 478
Hopley, John, 156
Hoppel, Jeremiah J., 649
Hosford, Asa, 24
Hosler, David E., 260
HosIer, Isaac, 742
Hoss, P. Fred, 852
Hull, J. C. Fremont. 35
Humphrey, John W., 631
Jenner, George L., 725
Johnston, Henry D. E. 676
Johnston,. Robert T., 623
Johnston, Robert W., 651
Jones, Alonzo M., 23
Kalb, David, 865
Kanzleiter, Daniel, 211
Kearsley, Edmund R. 348
Keil, John, 433
Keller, Athos F., 797
Keller, George, 23
Keller, John, 555
Keller, Oliver J., 316
Keller, Philip, 319
Kelly, Webb J., 754
Kennedy, Thomas S., 168
Kerr, George T., 314
Kerr, James, 147
Kerr, Robert W.., 113
Kessler, Gabriel, 322
Kibler, John W., 311
Kibler, Matthias, 284
Kibler, Samuel J., 284
Kiess, William C., 38
Kilbourne, James, 15
Kimerline, Charles E, 408
Esterline, Jonathan F., 368
Kinninger, Charles, 44
Koons, Samuel B., 750
Kunnert, John P., 312
Kuntz, John W., 206
Laibbly, Abraham, 855
Lake, Charles, 93
Lambert, E., 821
Lantz,. P. F., 433
Lash, Benjamin F., 630
Lash, Francis M., 734
Lash, Peter B., 780
Launch, Charles A., 531
Lederer, Adam G., 277
INDEX - 7
Leimenstoll, Henry, 346
Lemert, Wilson C., 566
Leonhart, Adam, 626
Leonhart, John, 446
Lichty, Adam J., 435
Liebich, Frank E., 182
Linn, Henry R., 557
Linn, William, 396
Locke, Daniel W., 94
Lucas, Arista O., 212
Ludwig, Samuel, 479
Lust, David, 510
Lust, Frederick, 445
Lust, Israel, 507
Lust, Jacob, 297
Lust, Nathan, 354
Lutz, David A., 671
Lutz, David E., 467
Lutz, Emanuel L., 667
Lutz, Michael, 464
Lyons, Elijah, 689
Mahon, Charles, 745
Malcolm, James H., 532
Malcolm, Gilbert F., 562
Margraff, Charles F., 539
Markley, Horatio W., 686
Marquart, August, 519
Marquart, Jefferson, 559
Marquart, Michael, 663
Martin, Louis C., 657
Mather, George, 290
Matthias, H. S. Z., 104
May, Frederick W., 456
May, Louis, 456
McCallum, D. D., 259
McCarrell, James S., 24
McConnell, William F., 727
McCracken, Charles W., 415
McGaughy, Frank C., 401
McKean, Alexander, 628
McKinstry, James, 248
McMahon, James F., 378
McManis, William, 765
McMichael, Daniel, 16
McNutt, Ezekiel C.. 691
Messner, Albert F., 62
Methodist Episcopal Church of Bucyrus, 437
Michelfelder, John, 362
Miller, Burton R., 422
Miller, Eli, 607
Miller, George W., .59
Miller, Henry D., 571
Miller, Jacob, 537
Miller, John R., 253
Miller, Louisa, 131
Miller, William H., 592
Miller, William H., 638
Millimiter, Jacob C., 455
Mollenkop, Joseph, 621
Monnett, Abraham, 572
Monnett, Family, The, 831
Monnett, Orwin B., 608
Monnett, Thomas J., 584
Monnett, Wallace L., 271
Moore, Andrew, 815
Moore, John, 580
Morgan, Reuben O., 300
Morrow, Charles, 733
Morrow, James, Sr., 475
Morrow, John, 462
Morrow, William, 731
Mueller, C. H., 199
Mulford, Allen B., 726
Mulford, John H., 637
Munch, Jacob, 858
Muth, August, 670
Myers, John G., 112
Myers, Samuel, 365
Neff, Aaron, 633
Neff, David E., 89
Neff, E. M., 622
Neff, Emanuel, 635
Neff, Joseph, 63
Ness, Charles, 863
Newman, Fred, 318
Nicholls, William S., 520
Norton, Fernando J., 331
Norton, Samuel, 13
Nye, Albert S., 655
Nye, William S., 841
Oberlander, Henry J., 810
Oberlander, Henry N., 600
Ohl, Owen, 818
Outhwaite, John, 498
Patterson, Thomas N., 847
Peppard, David M., 441
Perrine, James H., 204
Petri, Jacob H., 395
Pfahler, Caleb, 799
Pfleiderer, Daniel, 178
Pfleiderer, Isaac, 749
Pfleiderer, Jacob J., 598
Pfleiderer, John, 604
Plants, Josiah S., 22
Pope, Theodore F., 450
Price, Madison, 522
Pry, Frederick, 709
Pry, Jacob, 799
Pry, John, 709
Pry, Lewis, 801
Pugh; Moses, 428
Quaintance, Aaron J., 102
Quaintance, Joseph W. , 355
Rader, Aaron, 482
Rader, James P. 485
Ranck, Jacob, 514
Raub, Henry A., 210
Reehl, William W., 174
Regula, Thomas, 787
Reichhard, Adam 627
Reisinger, Louis K., 293
Rexroth, John, 418
Richards, Joseph M., 851
Riedle, Jacob, 789
Rininger, Eli, 778
Robinson, David C., 776
8 - INDEX
Robinson, James H., 574
Robison, Elmer D., 646
Rose, John, 13
Ross, Peter, 634
Ross, Royal R., 560
Rowse, Zalmon, 17
Ruhl, John, 25
Rupp, Charles G., 25
Schaber, Charles F., 49
Schaeffer, Jacob H., 528
Schafer, Jacob F., 427
Scheerer, Nicholas, 591
Schick, Lorenz, 235
Schieber, Henry, 108
Schieber, John C., 406
Schiefer, Christopher G. 761
Schifer, Frederick, 364
Schill, Joseph; 315
Schuler, Philip, 344
Schwemley, Albert H., 262
Schwenk, Henry L., 760
Scott, David A., 661
Scott, Josiah, 18
Scroggs, Charles J., 266
Scroggs, Jacob, 269
Sears, Benjamin, 51
Sears, Frank O., 544
Sears, Rufus V., 53
Seele, William C., 512
Seery, Jacob, 538
Seery, Peter, 544
Seery, Solomon, 809
Shade, Simon, 674
Shalter, Hiram, 699
Shalter, John, 563
Sharrock, Charles A:, 243
Sharrock, Garrett, 229.
Sheckler, Charles R., 576
Sheckler, John P., 474
Sheckler, William H., 404
Sheehand, J. P., 597
Sheetz, Jacob, 73
Sheetz, John H., 265
Sheibley, Albert, 256
Sheibley, Matthias, 589
Shell, Joseph M.; 615
Sherer, Emanuel D., 224
Sherer, Jacob, 223
Sherer, John A., 48
Sherer, John, C., 43
Shilling, Clyde D., 763
Shroll, George, 546
Shumaker, Charles B., 192
Shupp, Samuel, 540
Siefert, John E., 502
Siefert, Michael, 71
Sigler, George E., 786
Simmons, Benjamin F., 680
Sign, Benjamin A., 826
Smith, Alexander, 802
Smith, Anthony, 542
smith, Harrison, 343
Smith, Hiram E.., 347
Smith, Jefferson I., 328
Smith, John A., 587
Smith, John F., 577
Smith, L. M., 388
Snavely, Isaac, 619
Snyder, Samuel, 552
Snyder, William, 381
Spahr, George A., 149
Sponseller, Samuel, 121
Sprankle, Allen G., 217
Springer, Matthias M., 451
Stahley, Reuben, 295
Starner, George W., 281
Starner, Leonard, 785
Steinhilber, Ezekiel, 155
Stevens, Benjamin, 710
Stevens, Jacob H., 504
Stevens, Sherman H., 496
Stine, William A. 492,
Stock, Samuel A., 737
Stuckey, George, 551
Stumpf, Frank, 790
Sturtz, Fremont F., 120
Swingley, Frederick, 139
Taylor, William S., 274
Teel, Elisabeth, 333
Tobias, James C., 32
Tobin, Charles, 700
Tobin, Thomas, 547
Tracht, R. C., 414
Trago, John H., 438
Tuttle, William S., 614
Uhl, Jacob, 658
Ulmer, Jacob, 849
Underwood, Valentine, 724
Valentine, Horace E., 26
Virtue, Frank M., 516
Vollrath, Charles, 84
Vollrath, Edward, 61
Walker, John A., 759
Waller, Lysander M., 518
Warner, Frank P., 611
Warner, Robert K., 170
Weaver, George, 735
Weaver, John J., 714
Wechter, Frank, 458
Wechter, George, 594
Wentz, John, 324
White, Leo, 827
Whitmyer, Charles L., 325
Wickham, George W., 722
Williams, G. Washington, 221
Williamson, David, 13
Wingert, Andrew, 782
Winkelfoos, Michael, 639
Wisman, Adam J., 151
Wisman, Frederick, 279
Wood, Martin V. B., 718
Woods, Thomas C., 202
Young, Bernard, 595
Youngblood, R. M. , 846
Zimmerman; George D., 683
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