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LUTZ - STARK COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 22:30:32, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: EMORY MAY - STARK COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 Page 409 EMORY MAY, farmer, section 4, Union Township, was born in that township April 23, 1850. He has been reared in his native county and educated in the common schools. His father, William May, was born in Stark County, Ohio, July 24, 1817, where he was reared and lived until his marriage. He came to this county in August, 1846, with wife and two children. Moses died of typhoid fever February 22, 1863, at Memphis, Tennessee, aged nineteen years. He was a member of Company I, Eighty-ninth Indiana Infantry. Abaline is the wife of John Johnson, and is living in Decatur, this county. The children born in this county are -Emory, Jonathan C., who died in infancy; William Charles, Louisa, wife of James Crozier; Isaiah, living in Van Wert county, Ohio; Oliver, a resident of Fort Wayne, and Permelia, at home. Our subject was married December 21, 1873, to Miss Mary Heath, who was born in Van Wert County, Ohio, April 19, 1853, daughter of Benjamin and Harriet (Plummer) Heath. Her father was born in Harrison County, Ohio, and died November 11, 1878, aged about sixty-two years. Her mother was born in Pennsylvania and died April 6, 1869, aged forty-three years. There were seven children in her father's family - Maria and David are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. May have had five children, four of whom are living -Francis, born February 9, 1878; Eva V., born December 29, 1881, and Sophia Elsie, born August 19, 1884. An infant, unnamed, is deceased. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 22:30:50, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: STARK COUNTY PART 5 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO, By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1888 On my original visit to Canton I met Mr. John Saxton. He was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in 1792, came to Canton in 1815, when it was a village of three hundred inhabitants and not a newspaper west of it, and died here Sunday, April 16, 1871, at the age of 81. A late publication says of him: -"He was the oldest editor and morally one of the best men in the profession in the United States. He started the "Stark County Repository" in the year 1815, and continued it consecutively for fifty-six years. When the news came to him of the surrender of Napoleon III at Sedan, to the Germans, he copied from his files of fifty-five years preceding, the account of the surrender, June 18, 1815, of Napoleon I. after Waterloo, to the Germans and British, and wrote a very touching article upon the mutability of human affairs. Almost to the day of his death he continued to set type with his own hands. Major McKinley, M.C., married with his son's daughter. His paper was a pure, cleanly issue. He felt deeply the moral responsibility of an editor's position. His biographer says of him -He practiced religion in his daily life. He literally went about doing good. His every-day work was planned to that end. He began and ended it with a careful reading of the Scriptures and prayer. He ascertained who was sick and who was needy and had about as may patients for his daily visits as a physician in moderate practice. In his old age although too deaf to hear a word, he was ever present in his pew at church, feeling it was good to be there. His temper was so under control, that one who had worked by his side for over thirty years never knew him to lose it but on a single occasion. The children on the streets loved him for his genial smile and loving ways, and he knew them all by name. The people called him "Father Saxton." In politics he began as a Federalist and eventually became a Republican. A genial and obliging gentleman I find here in the editor of the Stark County Democrat, Mr. Archibald McGregor. He is a much older man than was Father Saxton when I knew him. They call him "Archie," in all this part of the State. He is every inch a Scotchman, was born in Lanarkshire, and takes a just pride in the fact. He presides at all gatherings of the Burns Club, in this region, and gives them original poems of patriotism in the dialect that warms the hearts in memories of the land of Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Gretna Green, Johnnie Groat's house, Hogg's Tales, etc. THE STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT was started jointly by his father and himself in 1848. His father, Mr. John McGregor, was a graduate of the university of Glasgow, and a teacher by profession. He was by nature an ardent Republican, and a leader of the Radical party of 1819, bent on establishing a British Republic. Their plans were betrayed, and he with his family first fled to the mountains and then to America, to escape capture and imprisonment. And his little clan of McGregor which he had brought, grew and helped to brighten the land, he taking them to the liberty-crowned hills of Vermont for their first nestling place. MASSILLON IN 1846. -Massillon is on the Ohio canal and Tuscarawas river, eighty miles from Canton and sixty-five miles from Cleveland. It was laid out in March, 1826, by James Duncan, and named from John Baptiste Massillon, a celebrated French divine, who died in 1742, at the age of 79. The Ohio canal was located only a short time before the town was laid out, at which period, on its site was a grist mill, a distillery and a few dwellings only. The view was taken near the American hotel, shown on the right, and within a few rods of the canal, the bridge over which is seen in front. The town is compactly built, and is remarkable for its substantial appearance. It is very thriving and is one of the greatest wheat markets in Ohio. At times, Main street is almost completely blocked by immense wagons of wheat and the place has generally the bustling air of business. It lies in the centre of a very rich wheat region. The old town of Kendall, laid out about the year 1810 by Thomas Roach, joins on the east. Massillon contains 1 German Evangelical, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Episcopal, 1 Lutheran, 1 Disciples, 1 Episcopal Methodist and 1 Catholic church; 2 hardware, 2 wholesale grocery and 11 dry goods stores; 6 forwarding houses, 3 foundries, 3 machine shops, 1 newspaper office, 1 bank, 1 woolen factory, and had in 1840, 1,420 inhabitants and now has about 2,000. "Just below the town commences a series of extensive plains, spreading over a space of ten or twelve miles in length from east to west and five or six in breadth. These were covered with a thin growth of oak timber and were denominated barrens, but, on cultivation, they produced fine crops of wheat. The Tuscarawas has cut across these plains on their western end, and runs in a valley sunk about thirty feet below their general surface. -Old Edition. MASSILLON is eight miles west of Canton, on the Tuscarawas river, the Ohio Canal, the P. Ft. W. & C.; C.L. & W.; W. & L. E. and M. & C. Railroads. City officers, 1888: Josiah Frantz, Mayor; Joseph R. White, Clerk; J.W. Foltz, Treasurer; Otto E. Young, Solicitor; Adam Wendling, Marshal. Newspapers: Independent, Republican, R.P. Skinner, editor; American, Independent, J.J. Hoover, editor and publisher; Gleaner, Newstetter & Co., editors and publishers. Churches: 1 Presbyterian, 1 United Brethren, 1 Lutheran, 1 Evangelical, 1 Disciples, 1 Episcopal, 2 Catholic, 1 Methodist Episcopal, 1 African. Banks: First National, S. Hunt, president, C. Steese, cashiers; German Deposit, McClymonds, Albright & Co., P.G. Albright, cashier; Union National, Joseph Coleman, president, James H. Hunt, cashier. MANUFACTURES AND EMPLOYEES. -The Massillon Bridge Co., 94 hands; Warwick & Justice, flour and feed, 16; Massillon Glass Works, 201; M.A. Brown, cigar boxes, etc., 15; S.R. Wells, window glass, 68; The Massillon Paper Co., 50; Hess, Snyder & Co., stoves, steam pumps, etc., 63; J.F. Pocock, flour and feed, 13; A.J. Humberger 7 Son, dry good store, 12; C. Seibold, dry goods store, 8; Ricks Brothers, dry goods store, 7; S. Oberlin's Sons, dry goods store, 6; Allman & Putman, dry goods store, 20; Frank Crone, dry goods store, 5; Joseph Corns & Son, rolling mill, 114; Peter Sailer, cigars, 170; Massillon Machine Co., 22; Conrad, Dangler & Brown, sash, doors and blinds, 11; Russell & Co., agricultural machinery. 665. -State Report, 1888. Population, 1880, 6,836. School census, 1888, 3,325, E.A. Jones, superintendent of schools. Capital invested in manufacturing establishments, $850,000. Value of annual product, $1,200,000. -Ohio Labor Statistics, 1888. Census, 1880, 10,063. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 22:30:38, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: WILLIAM BERGER - STARK COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, 1887 The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 Page 508 WILLIAM BERGER, farmer, residing on section 9, Kirkland Township, is a son of Nicholas and Susanna (Smith) Berger, who were early settlers of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. He was born at Bethlehem, Stark County, Ohio, April 18, 1851, where he passed his early life on the home farm, and when old enough began working out on neighboring farms. He was united in marriage September 18, 1879, to Miss Emelina Billman, who was born on her father's homestead in Kirkland Township, Adams County, May 17, 1857, and to them have been born two children -Catherine A., born September 23, 1881, and Elizabeth M., born December 7, 1885. They settled on their farm in Kirkland Township in January, 1884, which contains 120 acres of good land, and here he has since been engaged in general farming. He erected his present comfortable and commodious residence in the summer of 1886, at a cost of about $1,000. In his political views Mr. Berger is independent, voting for the man whom he deems best fitted for office. He is a prominent man in his township, and has filled several local offices. Henry Billman, father of Mrs. Berger, was one of the pioneers of Adams County, settling in Kirkland Township as early as 1855. He was born December 19, 1829, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and there he was reared to manhood, and was married November 13, 1853, to Mary Zimmerman, who was also a native of Pennsylvania, born in Berks county April 28, 1831. Seven children were born to this union, two sons and five daughters. Mr. Billman came to Adams County, Indiana, immediately after his marriage, and settled on his farm on section 13, Kirkland Township, where he lived till his death. His farm at that time was heavily covered with timber, with no roads leading to it. He first built a log cabin and commenced improving his land, and here he and his family experienced many hardships and privations incident to life in a newly-settled country. They lived in their pioneer log cabin several years, when they built a hewed-log house, in which they spent the rest of their days. He died February 26, 1880, much respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. His wife died November 9 of the same year. Both were members of the Dunkard church. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 22:30:36, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JOHN JUDD - STARK COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 Page 434 JOHN JUDD, farmer, section 21, Preble Township, was born in Shenandoah (now Page) County, Virginia, September 2, 1805. When ten years old he went with his parents to Stark County, Ohio, where the father bought eighty acres of land. There were two other children besides John. He was reared in Stark County, and lived there three years after his marriage. He settled upon his present farm in Preble Township in May, 1840, having purchased 160 acres of land of David Miller. The land was perfectly wild at that time. He built his log cabin, assisted by his two brothers-in-law and a cousin, who came with him to this county. The names of the former were William and Isaac Double, and of the latter, Abraham Summers. His father, William Judd, was born near Port Republic, Virginia, where he was reared and married. He died in Stark County, Ohio, at the age of eighty years. He served in the war of 1812. The mother, Nancy (Gander) Judd, was born in Pennsylvania, and was reared and married in Virginia, where she died when her son John was about a week old. In the father's family were ten children, of whom John was the oldest and the only child of the father's first marriage. His second wife was Nancy Welch, and they had nine children. April 12, 1836, our subject was married to Miss Anna M. Double, who was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1816, and when a child was taken by her parents to Stark County, Ohio, where she was reared and married. Her parents were Jacob and Winifred (Masters) Double. Her father was born in Germany and settled in Pennsylvania when he first came from the old country. They had nine children, four of whom were born in Pennsylvania and five in Stark County. They removed to Wells County, this State, in 1841, and both parents died in Jefferson Township, that county, the mother being past eighty years old, and the father still older. The mother was born in England. The Judds are of English ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Judd have had ten children, six of whom are living -Ellen, born February 13, 1837; Isabella, born January 22, 1839 died September 11, 1850; William, born February 17, 1841, died May 21, 1850; George, born January 7, 1843; Ezkiah, born May 26, 1857; Isaac, born December 16, 1848; Jacob, born February 27, 1851, died September 12, 1857; Henry F., born January 18, 1860. Politically Mr. Judd is a Democrat, and religiously is a member of the Presbyterian church. In May, 1879, he was injured by the falling of a tree, two ribs being broken, also the right leg. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 22:30:44, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: MARVIN W. LUTZ - STARK COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 69 MARVIN W. LUTZ. In insurance circles of Ashland and Richland counties few names are better known that that of Marvin W. Lutz. While he has been identified with the selling of insurance as a regular business for only about five years, in the capacity of district manager for these two counties of the Union Central Life Insurance Company, from his headquarters at Mansfield he has just about doubled the insurance in force. Mr. Lutz was born in Stark County, Ohio, where he received a public school education. He was variously employed until the establishment of the rural free delivery system from the Canton Postoffice during the Spanish-American war, and at that time was made superintendent of carriers. After eleven and one-half years in the Canton Postoffice, Mr. Lutz entered the Isaac Harter & Sons Bank at Canton, where he remained four and one-half years. In 1907 he came to Mansfield as secretary of the Aultman & Taylor Manufacturing Company, a concern with which he remained in the same capacity for ten years, and then entered the insurance field, a line in which he had become greatly interested. He is now one of the most successful men in his line in this part of Ohio, and not only represents the Union Central Life Insurance Company, but the National Liberty Fire Insurance Company of America, with offices in the Dickson Building. During 1918, up to the signing of the armistice, Mr. Lutz was i n charge of the seven counties included in the Mansfield district of the Cleveland division, investigating and tabulating for the United States Government the capacity of manufacturing plants and their ability to supply whatever demand should be made upon them in their special lines. Mr. Lutz married Miss Magdalene King, of Buffalo, New York, and they have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Lutz are members of the Lutheran Church, and Mr. Lutz occupies a place on the official board. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #210 *******************************************