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STREB - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:41:02, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908112041.QAA12810@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: CLETUS WEAVER - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 380-181 CLETUS WEAVER attained to membership at the Ohio bar more than thirty years ago, but much of his time was taken up with newspaper business and other affairs until the last decade,during which he has been one of the busy attorneys in practice at Dover. Mr. Weaver was born in Tuscarawas County, on a farm, April 26, 1868, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Cherryholmes) Weaver. His father, a native of Pennsylvania, early in life settled in Tuscarawas county, and volunteered and served as a Union soldier in the Civil war. After the war he divided his time between farming and the carpenter's trade. His first wife died, leaving him three young children, and he subsequently married Anna Meyer, and of their children three grew to mature years. He brought up his family on a farm, and proved most worthy in all the relationships of life. He held several township offices, was a republican and reached the age of sixty-eight. In boyhood and early manhood Cletus Weaver experienced much of the toil of the farm. He attended the short winter terms in the country schools, and there gained recognition for his apt scholarship and diligence. When still in his teens he secured a teacher's' certificate, and after that for some years he taught in the schools alternately. In that way he acquired a liberal education by taking summer courses in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and in 1893 was graduated in law at this institution. He continued teaching until 1895 and then for a year practiced at Ottawa, Ohio. In 1896 he established his home in Dover, and for twenty years in one capacity or another was actively identified with the newspaper business. In 1916 he engaged in the practice of law as his regular profession. For the past fifteen years he has held the office and performed the duties of justice of the peace. In 1902 he was elected mayor of Dover, was reelected in 1904, and then and since has given much time to the affairs of the community. He was for about twenty years a member of the Dover Chamber of Commerce, and its secretary for most of that time. Mr. Weaver is a republican, and fraternally is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the National Union. He married, in 1904, Miss Elizabeth Berndt. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:41:00, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908112041.QAA11770@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: TUSCARAWAS COUNTY PART 6 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe LL.D., 1898 TUSCARAWAS COUNTY PART 6 DAVID ZEISBERGER was born in Zauchtenthal, Moravia, April 11, 1721. In 1736 his parents emigrated with the second band of Moravians to Georgia, leaving their son in Europe to complete his education. Two years later he joined them, and in 1743 he became a student in the Indian school at Bethlehem, Pa., preparatory to engaging in the mission service. He became conversant with many of the Indian languages, including Delaware, Onondaga, Mohican and Chippewa. For sixty-two years he was zealously engaged in Indian mission work in various localities. In the spring of 1771 he visited Gekelemukpechunk, the capital of the Delawares in the Tuscarawas valley. He was received with great favor; was the guest of Netawotwes, the chief of the nation, who granted him land whereon to establish a mission. In May, 1772, with five Indian families from Pennsylvania, he laid out the town of Schonbrunn, or "Beautiful Spring." A chapel was dedicated Sept. 19, 1772, and before the end of the year the village contained more than sixty houses. (Later Schonbrunn was destroyed, and in December, 1779, new Schonbrunn built about a mile farther up the Tuscarawas river.) In October, 1772, Gnadenhutten (Tents of Grace) was laid out. In 1780 Salem was laid out and its chapel dedicated May 22 of the same year. In 1781, when the Moravian Indians were forcibly removed to Canada by the orders of the British government, Zeisberger and other missionaries were taken with them, and were finally settled on the Thames river. In 1798 Zeisberger with thirty-three Indians returned to Ohio and founded Goshen, seven miles northwest of the site of Gnadenhutten. Here Zeisberger died Nov. 17, 1808. He was the chief minister of the Tuscarawas missions. At the age of sixty he married Miss Susan Lecron, but they had no children. Heckewelder says of him: "He was blessed with a cool, active and intrepid spirit, not appalled by any dangers or difficulties, and a sound judgment to discern the best means of meeting and overcoming them. Having once devoted himself to the service of God among the Indians, he steadily, from the most voluntary choice and with the purest motives, pursued his object. He would never consent to receive a salary or become a 'hireling,' as he termed it, and sometimes suffered from the need of food rather than ask the church for the means to obtain it." Other Tuscarawas missionaries were: JOHN ROTH, born in Sarmund, Prussia, February 3, 1726, was educated a Catholic; joined the Moravian Church in 1748; emigrated to America in 1756, and entered the service of the Indian missions three years later; married Maria Agnes Pfingstag, August 16, 1770. In 1773 was stationed at the Indian missions in the Tuscarawas valley and remained one year. He died at York, Pa., July 22, 1791. JOHN JACOB SCHMICK, born at Konigsburg, Prussia, October 9, 1714; graduated at University of Konigsburg; was pastor of Lutheran church at Livonia; in 1748 united with the Moravians. In 1751 came to America and entered the mission service. In August, 1773, with his wife, he entered the Tuscarawas valley field, where he remained until 1777. He was pastor of the mission at Gnadenhutten. He died at Litiz, Pa., January 23, 1778. JOHN G. JUNGMAN, born in Hockenheim, Palatinate, April 19, 1720; emigrated to America in 1731, settling near Oley, Pa.; in 1745 married the widow of Gottlob Buttner. Went to Schonbrunn in 1772; remained here as assistant pastor until 1777, when he returned to Pennsylvania; again went to the Tuscarawas valley in 1780, and labored at New Schonbrunn. He was taken with the Christian Indians to Sandusky in 1782; retired from missionary work in 1784, and died at Bethlehem, Pa., July 17, 1808. WILLIAM EDWARDS was born in Wiltshire, England, April 24, 1724. In 1749 he joined the Moravians and emigrated to America. He took charge of the Gnadenhutten mission in 1777; was taken to Sandusky in 1782; in 1798 returned with Heckewelder to the Tuscarawas valley and died at Goshen, October 8, 1801. GOTTLOB SENSEMAN was the son of Joachim and Catharine Senseman; the latter was a victim of the massacre. His father afterward became a missionary among the slaves of Jamaica. In 1780 Gottlob was assigned to duty at New Schonbrunn; was carried into captivity with the Christian Indians, and died at Fairfield, Canada, January 4, 1800. MICHAEL JUNG was born in Engoldsheim, Alsace, Germany, January 5, 1743. His parents emigrated to America in 1751. Ten years later he joined the Moravians, and in 1780 was sent to the Indian mission at Salem. He remained a missionary among the Indians until 1813, when he retired to Litiz, Pa., and died there December 13, 1826. BENJAMIN MORTIMER, and Englishman, came as an assistant to Zeisberger, when he returned with the Indians in 1798, and remained at Goshen until 1809, when he became pastor of a Moravian church in New York City, where he died November 10, 1834. JOHN JOACHIM HAGAN became one of the missionaries at Goshen in 1804. Heckewelder's "Narrative of the manners and Customs of the Indians" has preserved much of the value and some things quite amusing. Of the latter may be classed the speech of an aged Indian, in his article on marriage and Treatment of their Wives. An aged Indian, who for many years had spent much time among the white people, observed that the Indians had not only much easier way of getting a wife than the whites, but were also much more certain of getting a good one. "For," said he, in his broken English, "white man court -court -may be one whole year -may be two year, before he marry. Well may be, then he get a very good wife -may be not, may be very cross. Well, now suppose cross; scold as soon as get awake in the morning! Scold all day! Scold until sleep -all one, he must keep him! (The pronoun in the Indian language has no feminine gender.) "White people have law against throwing away wife, be he ever so cross -must keep him always. "Well, how does Indian do? Indian, when he sees good squaw, which he likes, he goes to him, puts his forefingers close aside each other -make two look like one -look squaw in the face -see him smile -which is all one, he says yes. So he take him home -no danger he be cross! No! no! Squaw known very well what Indian do if he cross. Throw him away and take another. Squaw love to eat meat. No husband, no meat. Squaw do everything to please husband. He do the same to please squaw. Live happy! Go to Heaven!" Half a mile below Bolivar, near the north line of the county, are the remains of Fort Laurens, erected in the war of the revolution, and named from the president of the revolutionary Congress. It was the scene of border warfare and bloodshed. The canal passes through its earthen walls. The parapet walls are now (1846) a few feet in height, and were once crowned with pickets made of the split trunks of trees. The walls enclose about an acre of land, and stand on the west bank of the Tuscarawas. Dr. S.P. Hildreth gives the annexed history of this work in "Silliman's Journal:" ERECTION OF FORT LAURENS. -Fort Laurens was erected in the fall of the year 1778 by a detachment of 1,000 men from Fort Pitt, under the command of Gen. McIntosh. After its completion a garrison of 150 men was placed in it, and left in charge of Col. John Gibson, while the rest of the army returned to Fort Pitt. It was established at this early day in the country of the Indians, seventy miles west of Fort McIntosh, with an expectation that it would act as a salutary check on their incursions into the white settlements south of the Ohio river. The usual approach to it from fort McIntosh, the nearest military station, was from the mouth of Yellow creek, and down the Sandy, which latter stream heads with the former, and puts off into the Tuscarawas just above the fort. So unexpected and rapid were the movements of Gen. McIntosh, that the Indians were not aware of his presence in their country until the fort was completed. Early in January, 1779, the Indians mustered their warriors with such secrecy that the fort was invested before the garrison had notice of their approach. From the manuscript notes of Henry Jolly, Esq., who was an actor in this, as well as in many other scenes on the frontier, I have copied the following historical facts: "AN INDIAN AMBUSCADE. -When the main army left the fort to return to Fort Pitt, Capt. Clark remained behind with a small detachment of Untied States troops, for the purpose of marching in the invalids and artificers who had tarried to finish the fort, or were to unwell to march with the main army. He endeavored to take the advantage of very cold weather, and had marched three or four miles (for I travelled over the ground three or four times soon after), when he was fired upon by a small party of Indians very close at hand. I think twenty or thirty paces. The discharge wounded two of his men slightly. Knowing as he did that his men were unfit to fight the Indians in their own fashion, he ordered them to reserve their fire and to charge bayonet, which being promptly executed put the Indians to flight, and after pursuing a short distance he called off his men and retreated to the fort, bringing in the wounded." In other accounts I have read of this affair it is stated that ten of Capt. Clark's men were killed. "During the cold weather, while the Indians were lying about the fort, although none had been seen for a few days, a party of seventeen men went out for the purpose of carrying in firewood, which the army had cut before they left the place, about forty or fifty rods from the fort. Near the bank of the river was an ancient mound, behind which lay a quantity of wood. A party had been out for several preceding mornings and brought in wood, supposing the Indians would not be watching the fort in such very cold weather. But on that fatal morning, the Indians had concealed themselves behind the mound, and as the soldiers passed round on one side of the mound, a part of the Indians came round on the other, and enclosed the wood party so that not one escaped. I was personally acquainted with some of the men who were killed. -continued in part 7 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:41:06, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908112041.QAA11562@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HENRY W. STREB - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 381 HENRY W. STREB. The family name of Streb has been associated with many of the substantial business interests, professional life and public affairs of Tuscarawas County for several generations. A banker business man and public official was the late Henry W. Streb of Dover. His son, Joseph H. Streb, is the leading attorney of Dover. Henry W. Streb was born at Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, January 25, 1865. His grandfather was a native of Germany, and was one of the early pioneer Germans who settled in Tuscarawas County and to an important degree influenced its early development. The parents of Henry W. Streb were Joseph J. and Catherine (Krantz) Streb. His father was a native of Tuscarawas County, and one of the respected farmer citizens. Henry W. Streb grew up on a farm, acquired a good education, and as a youth took up school teaching as a vocation. He taught in the rural schools and then in the high school at Dover, in that way beginning his long connection with Dover as his home town. During President Cleveland's second term, in the '90's, Mr. Streb was appointed postmaster of Dover, holding the office four years. The unusual ability he showed in the administration of this office brought him many important business connections, and he was also a farmer. He served as a state bank examiner, and in 1915 was again appointed postmaster at Dover, by President Wilson, and was filling that office when death came to him on March 30, 1920. He was one of the leaders of the democratic party in his home county, and at one time was mayor of Dover. He was president of the First National Bank of Dover, was president of the Dover Chamber of Commerce, and during the World war a member of the War Chest Funds Board. He was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. As a young man he married Miss Ninah Sterling, daughter of Jacob Sailor and Margaret (Moffit) Sterling, her father of English and her mother of Scotch ancestry. Her grandfather, John Sterling, came to Ohio from Maryland and was a pioneer of the Tuscarawas County. Mrs. Henry W. Streb, a native of Tuscarawas County, was assistant postmaster at Dover under her husband, and at his death was chosen postmaster and filled out his unexpired term. She is the mother of two children, Joseph H. and Naomi. Joseph H. Streb was born at Dover, Ohio, November 13, 1894, and at the age of thirty has reached a promising place of success in his profession. He was reared at Dover, was a graduate of high school there, and took his advanced education in Western Reserve University at Cleveland, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1918, and with his law degree in 1920. In September, 1918, he enlisted for service at Cleveland, and was attending the Officers' Training School at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, when the armistice was assigned. He was granted an honorable discharge in December, 1918, and then resumed his law studies. He is a member of the American Legion Post. For two years he practiced law at New Philadelphia, and since then has built up a profitable practice at Dover. He is a democrat, a member of the Masonic Order, Elks, Knights of Pythias, the Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club. Joseph H. Streb married in 1921 Miss Mae Marshall, daughter of A.S. Marshall, the Pennsylvania Railway agent at Dover. They have two young children, Marcia Ann and Joseph Marshall Streb. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #609 *******************************************