HANCOCK COUNTY, OHIO - Biography: Tobias Barnhill ***************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ***************************************************************************** Submitted to the Ohio USGenWeb Archives by: Jane Hunter Hodgson Tucson, Arizona hodgson@azstarnet.com http://208.199.40.215/genealogy/index.html January 12, 1998 ***************************************************************************** Tobias Barnhill ________________________________________________________ _________________ 1851 May 9 Born Mount Eaton, Wayne County, Ohio to Joseph and Sarah (Funkhouser) Barnhill 1853 Moved with parents to Findlay, Ohio, age 2 1860 Census Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio, age 9 1868 Teacher in Findlay, age 17 1869 Nov 25 Married Elizabeth Ellen Schwab, age 18 1869 Studied with Dr. Osterlein and Dr. Detwiler, age 18 1873 Graduated Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital, age 22 1874 Jan 15 Married Mary Jane Reininger, age 23 1876 Jan 12 Joseph Conrad born Hancock County Board of Health 11 years Hancock county physician Hancock county coroner for three terms Findlay board of health one term 1880 Census, Hancock County, Liberty Twp, OH 1880 Introduced his medicated baths Started the Barnhill Sanitarium 1895 Inherited father's house in Findlay on W. Liberty St., age 43 1900 Census, Hancock County, OH, age 49 1910 Census, Hancock County, OH, age 59 1929 May 31 Died Findlay, OH, age 78 ________________________________________________________ _________________ Descendants of Tobias Gabriel BARNHILL Generation No. 1 1. TOBIAS GABRIEL4 BARNHILL (JOSEPH *3, GABRIEL *2, ROBERT *1) was born 05 May 1851 in Wayne County, Ohio, and died 31 May 1929 in Findlay, Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio. He married MARY JANE REININGER 15 January 1874 in Hancock County, Ohio, daughter of CONRAD REININGER and CHRISTINA. Child of TOBIAS BARNHILL and MARY REININGER is: i. JOSEPH CONRAD5 BARNHILL, b. 12 January 1876, Mount Eaton, Wayne County, Paint Township, Ohio; d. 17 July 1962, Hancock County, Liberty Township, Ohio; m. DOROTHY EDNA WETHERALD, 20 January 1897. ________________________________________________________ _________________ Odd Fellows Tribe of Ben Hur Coroner County physician Board of Education Board of Health APHA Democrat Barnhill Sanatarium ________________________________________________________ _________________ COUNTY HISTORY History of Hancock County, Ohio. by Jacob Spaythe. Tobias G. Barnhill, physician, Findlay, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, May 5, 1851; son of Joseph and Sarah (Frankhauser) Barnhill, the former a native of that county and of Pennsylvania pioneer ancestry, the latter born in Pickaway County, Ohio. In 1853 they removed to this county and settled in Liberty township, where they reared four sons and three daughters. Our subject, who is the third child, received a good common school education, and at seventeen engaged in teaching; at eighteen he began the study of medicine in the office of Drs. Oesterlin & Detwiler, and in his twenty second year graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital college, class of 1873. He immediately began the practice of his profession in Findlay, and has been successfully connected with it since, introducing in 1880 his valuable medicated baths. He married in 1874 Mary J., daughter of Conrad and Christina Renninger, pioneers of Liberty township, this county, and they have one son, Joseph C. The doctor is a public spirited citizen and contributes liberally to the advancement of Hancock county's interests. He is a worthy Odd Fellow, a member of the Legion of Honor, has served as coroner of the county three terms and has been an active member of the board of education of Findlay. He owns and operates a large sanitarium where patients can go and receive the best of care and treatment on very liberal terms. ________________________________________________________ _________________ FAMILY HISTORY History of the Descendants of John Hottel. Tobias Gabriel Barnhill, b. near Eaton, O., May 5, 1851; m. Jan. 15, 1874, Mary Jane Reininger, dau. of Conrad and Christina Reininger, b. near Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 28, 1851; d. at Findlay, O., Apr. 1, 1919. Mr. Barnhill came with his parents from near Eaton, O., to Findlay, O., where he was educated in the public schools. He later graduated in medicine from the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, Cleveland, O., and since 1873, has had a very large and lucrative practice at Findlay, O. He became the owner and manager of a Sanitarium for his patients but it has been discontinued because of his advanced age. He still practices his profession as health and strength permit. Presbyterians. ________________________________________________________ ________________ FEDERAL CENSUS 1860 Federal Census Ohio, Hancock County, Liberty Township, p. 15 & 16 Joseph Barnhill 35 M OH Sarah 33 F OH Robert D. 17 M OH Tobias G. 9 M OH (age 9) Flora Ann 6 F OH Mary E. 4 F OH Sarah C. 2 F OH ________________________________________________________ _________________ 1870 Federal Census Ohio, Hancock County, Liberty Township, p. 13 Barnhill, Joseph 45 M Farmer OH Sarah 43 F Keeping house OH Robert D. 18 M Farm laborer OH Flora A. 16 F OH Mary I. 14 F OH Sarah C. 12 F OH William D. 10 M OH Jacob 3 M OH Barnhill, Tobias 23 M Farm laborer OH (age 23) (really 19) Ellen E. 18 F OH Funkhouser, Cath 74 F VA ________________________________________________________ ________________ 1880 Federal Census Ohio, Hancock County, Liberty Township Page 573B or C ________________________________________________________ _________________ 1900 Federal Census Ohio, Hancock County, Findlay Barnhill, Tobias May 1851 49 Ohio 208 South Main, age 49 ________________________________________________________ _________________ 1910 Federal Census Ohio, Hancock County, Liberty Township, p.28 Barnhill, Tobias 68 M Physician OH OH OH, age 68 Mary J. 59 F None PA PA PA ________________________________________________________ _________________ MARRIAGE age 23 Hancock County Marriage Records Barnhill, F.G. (Dr.) m Reminger, Mary J. 15 Jan 1874 ________________________________________________________ ________________ THE FUNKHOUSER FAMILY by Jacob Funkhouser Page 64 R.D. Barnhill resides near South Whitley, Ind. Dr. W.D. Barnhill lives in South Whitley, Ind. Dr. T.G. Barnhill, superintendent and manager of the Barnhill Sanatarium resides at 208 South Main St., Finley, Ohio. The youngest, Dr. J.W. Barnhill, is located in Napoleon, Ohio. They are all married. ________________________________________________________ _________________ COUNTY JOURNAL HANCOCK COUNTY OHIO HERITAGE SPRING 1992 PAGE 8 TOBIAS G. BARNHILL was born in Wayne County, OH on May 5, 1851, son of Joseph and Sarah (Frankhauser), Barnhill. She was from PA and he was born in Pickway County, OH. In 1853 they came to Hancock county and settled in Liberty township and had four sons and three daughters. Tobias studied medicine with Drs. Oesterlin and Detwiler and then graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College in 1873. He married in 1874 to Mary J., daughter of Conrad and Christiana Renninger, pioneers of Liberty township and they have one son, Joseph C. ________________________________________________________ _________________ INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX IGI b 5 May 1851 Tobias Gabriel to Joseph Barnhill and Sarah Funkhouser ________________________________________________________ _________________ HISTORY OF NORTHWEST OHIO. WINTERS. TOBIAS GABRIEL BARNHILL, M.D. Among the leading medical practitioners of Northwestern Ohio is Dr. Tobias Gabriel Barnhill, who has been a resident of Findlay for forty-six years and during forty-three of these has carried on a medical and surgical practice that has made him widely known and has established his reputation especially in the line of surgery. Very often, no doubt, the most earnest physician finds his best efforts baffled because of inability to have a constantly watchful eye, for a season, over a patient, and this situation, in part, explains the reason for able men like Doctor Barnhill establishing sanitariums of their own and subject to their own scientific management. Tobias Gabriel Barnhill was born on his father's farm in Holmes County, Ohio, May 5, 1851. His parents were Joseph and Sarah (Funkhouser) Barnhill. They moved to a farm in Liberty Township, Hancock County, when their son was eighteen months old. The boy grew to manhood on this farm, securing educational training in the district schools and appropriating it sufficiently to enable him to secure a teacher's certificate. He taught country schools in Hancock County for two years before coming to Findlay, in 1870, and for one year afterward read medicine in the office of Doctors Oesterlin and Detweiler. In 1871 he attended the Cleveland Homeopathic College and continued his studies there until he was graduated with the class of 1873, immediately entering into practice at Findlay. Subsequently he took a course in orifical surgery in the Pratt Medical School. In general practice and also along special lines Doctor Barnhill has been very successful. As his field of practice widened he found it desirable to establish a private hospital which has broadened into the widely known Barnhill Sanitarium at Findlay. This institution is fully equipped according to modern ideas and scientific methods are employed in the teatment of patients, a feature of which are the electric baths. Doctor Barnhill devotes the larger part of his time to his patients, many of whom come long ditances to benefit through his skill. Doctor Barnhill was married to Miss Mary Jane Reiminger, in 1874, who is a daughter of Conrad Reiminger. They have one child, Joseph C., who married Dorothy Wetherald, of Findlay, and their two children are Russell and Lillian J. In politics Doctor Barnhill has always been a democrat and is a supporter of the policies of President Wilson. He has never accepted any political office for himself except membership on the school board and one term as county coroner. He owns two valuable farms, one of 178 and the other of eighty acres, both of which are leased. He is a valued member of the Ohio State Homeopathic Association and Institute of Homeopathy. With his family Doctor Barnhill belongs to the First Presbyterian Church at Findlay. ________________________________________________________ __________________ OBITUARY DR. T.G. BARNHILL TAKEN BY DEATH Well Known Findlay Physician Expires ___ In Failing Health Some Time FUNERAL TO BE MONDAY Had Practiced Medicine Here Since 1873 ___ Born in Wayne County Dr. Tobias G. Barnhill, 78, well known Findlay physician, passed away at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his residence, 206 South Main Street. Myocarditis was the cause of death. Dr. Barnhill had been in failing health for the last six months. Rites Monday Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon from the Barnhart funeral home, South Main street. Rev. John David Lindsay, the pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will be the clergyman in charge of the last rites. Interment will be in Maple Grove cemetery. Dr. Barnhill was a public spirited citizen and contributed liberally in the advancement of the interests of Findlay and Hancock county. He was a member of the Findlay board of health at one time and had been county physician for 11 successive years. He had served as coroner of Hancock county for three terms and had also been appointed district physician by the Findlay board of health for a term. Dr. Barnhill was interested in city schools. He had served on the Findlay board of education for a term of years. He was an active member of the Public Health Association of the State Society of Ohio. The son of Joseph and Sarah (Funkhauser) Barnhill, he was born in Wayne county, O., on May 5, 1851. In 1853 he removed with his parents to Liberty township where he spent his earlier days. At the age of 17 he taught one term of school. The following year Dr. Barnhill began his study of medicine in the office of Drs. Oesterlin and Detwiler. He was graduated from the Cleveland Homopathic Hospital college with the class of 1873. Practiced Many Years Immediately after graduation from the Cleveland college Dr. Barnhill began the practice of his profession in Findlay. He continued with the practice of medicine until his health failed a short time ago. In 1880 Dr. Barnhill introduced his medicated baths. Soon after he started the Barnhill Sanitarium which existed for a number of years. He was married on Jan. 15, 1874 to Mary Jane Renninger, the daughter of Conrad and Christina Renninger, pioneers of Liberty township. She preceded him in death. To this union one son, Joseph C. Barnhill, 215 West Lincoln street, was born. Besides his son, Dr. Barnhill is survived by two grandchildren, Russell Barnhill and Mrs. Lillian Barnhill Baker, and a grand grandchild, Mary Jane Baker, all of 215 Lincoln street. Two brothers, Dr. William Barnhill, LaLauto, Ind., and Dr. J.W. Barnhill, Napoleon, O., and a sister Mrs. Mary Elliott, Toledo, are also living. Dr. Barnhill had been a member of the First Presbyterian Church for a number of years. The body was taken to the Barnhart funeral home where it will remain until after the services Monday afternoon. ________________________________________________________ _________________ Jane Hunter Hodgson Tucson, Arizona hodgson@azstarnet.com http://208.199.40.215/genealogy/index.html ----