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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 618 Today's Topics: #1 Fw: OBIT: EBLEN, Hancock County, 1 ["Magaret Stewart-Zimmerman" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000301bee7a1$82d1efe0$cc9139d1@local.net> Subject: Fw: OBIT: EBLEN, Hancock County, 1999 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 1:40 PM Subject: Obit Mildred Maxine Eblen Lived in Hancock County in Findlay, OH DOB: 12-10- 1908 DOD: Saturday, July 31, 1999 Parents: Charles Heminger Fannie (Brooks) Heminger Married to: Dake on July 10, 1929, (died November 1, 1981) Children: Eugene Dwight She is buried in the Weaver Cemetery, Bloom Township, Wood County She also was preceded in death by a brother, Merle Heminger. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 00:03:38, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908160403.AAA09582@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: ADAM J. KNAPP - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931 Volume V, page 179-180 ADAM J. KNAPP is a retired Evansville physician who has given more than thirty-seven years to the routine of his profession and has become one of the leaders in public health work in Southern Indiana. Doctor Knapp was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in October, 1853. His parents, Frederick and Adelaide (Paul) Knapp, came from Germany, his father at the age of sixteen and his mother when a young girl. Frederick Knapp was a merchant and banker in Ohio, and died in 1909, his wife passing away in 1911. Doctor Knapp was next to the oldest in a family of ten children. He attended public schools and graduated from the medical department of the University of Tennessee in 1893. He at once located in Evansville, where he has carried on the work of his profession ever since. Doctor Knapp was a teacher of successful experience before entering the medical profession, and while teaching he became interested in the problems of the children, particularly those who apparently from some physical or pathological cause had difficulty in making the grades. Shortly after getting established in his practice he accepted the opportunity to render some special service to the schools in the way of making free examinations of public school children for hearing and sight. In that work he had the cooperation of some other Evansville doctors. The chief result of their work was that many pupils with marked poor vision and poor hearing received special treatment. This paved the way for regular and permanent medical inspection and health work in the public schools, Evansville being one of the first progressive cities of the state to institute such a program. A number of years ago Doctor Knapp, while attending a medical convention in Iowa, was greatly impressed by the discussion and practical demonstration of tubercular cows as the source of human tuberculosis. At that time Evansville was infected with tuberculosis cases, and when he returned to the city he immediately took steps to arouse the medical profession and the public in general to the possibility of the white plague being carried through infected milk. A great deal of praise was given him for his stand in that matter, though the praise was also accompanied by a great deal of criticism. At a meeting held in the Walker Hospital by the county medical association the resolution was adopted asking for the testing of all dairy cows supplying milk to Evansville. The test showed that a great number of cows in the local dairies were tubercular, and in the course of years the campaign has gone on until Evansville was supplied only with milk from tested herds and today Evansville is comparatively free from the scourge of tuberculosis. Doctor Knapp is a successful physician with an interesting side-line and hobby as a floriculturist. About Twenty-seven years ago he began growing peonies, and his hobby has developed into something more than a pastime. He has contributed to making Southern Indiana the greatest center in the Untied States for the propagation and breeding of peonies and his own farm, comprising 200 acres, is one of the largest commercial peony growing plants in the United States. From his beds he ships thousand of roots annually and also does an immense business in cut flowers. He established his own markets in the principal cities and was a pioneer in the practice of shipping the flowers and buds. On last Mother's Day Doctor Knapp shipped from one of his farms 48,000 dozens of peony blossoms. Doctor Knapp married in October, 1876, Miss Barbara Wise of Ohio. They have two children, Bleeker J. and Eva. Bleeker, a physician and surgeon, a well-known Evansville specialist, married Eleanor D. and has two children, Mary E. and Eleanor Gordon. The daughter, Eva, is the wife of Doctor Dyer, of Evansville, and has a son, Wallace Knapp Dyer. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 00:03:26, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908160403.AAA14414@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HON. SAMUEL M. RALSTON - TUSCARAWAS CO. Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931 Volume III, page 496 HON. SAMUEL M. RALSTON, governor of Indiana from 1913 to 1917, was born December 1, 1857, on a farm near New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County. In 1865, when he was in his eighth year, his parents moved to Owen County, Indiana, where he lived until 1873. Financial reverses, resulting from the panic of that year, overtook his father, who had been a successful farmer and livestock dealer, and served to deprive the growing boy, then sixteen years old, of many advantages he otherwise would have enjoyed. Samuel knew trials and difficulties without number, on the farm in the butcher business and in the coal mine, but he bore them cheerfully and never ceased in his efforts to fit himself for a higher calling. For seven years he taught school during the winter months and attended school during the summer. He was graduated August 1, 1884, in the scientific course of the Central Indiana Normal College at Danville, Indiana. Mr. Ralston read law in the office of Robinson & Fowler at Spencer, Owen County, Indiana. He took up his legal studies in September, 1884, and was admitted to the bar in the Owen Circuit Court January 1, 1886. In the following June he entered upon the practice of his profession at Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana. Here he enjoyed a paying practice until he went to the governor's office. Politically Mr. Ralston was always identified with the Democratic party. He was his party's candidate for joint senator for Boone, Clinton and Montgomery counties in 1888. Twice he was a candidate for secretary of state, respectively in 1896 and 1898, and was defeated for the nomination for governor in 1908 by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. In 1912 there were expressions all over the state that now had come the time to nominate "Sam Ralston" for governor. When the convention assembled in Tomlinson Hall March 17, 1912, no other name than that of Samuel M. Ralston was presented for governor, and his nomination followed by acclamation. Mr. Ralston was elected governor by an unprecedented plurality. Governor Ralston's remarkable strength of body and mind, his quick and sure insight into the intricacies of civic machinery, his readiness for instant action, gave him a wonderful mastery over the details of his office and made him a most excellent judge of state and economic problems. Courage and determination marked his conduct while in office. During the great street car strike in Indianapolis in October and November, 1913, the governor called out the entire National Guard. He refused to put the troops into the streets to force the immediate action of the cars, but demanded that the street car company through him treat with the strikers. His firmness won the day. His services as arbitrator were effective and the City of Indianapolis returned to normal life. Under the leadership of Governor Ralston the Legislatures of 1913 and 1915 passed many acts for the protection of the working man and the betterment of his working and living conditions and the protection of society. Laws were passed providing for the prohibition of the sale of habit-forming drugs, for the conservation of our natural resources, development of livestock industry, prevention of tuberculosis, for industrial aid to the blind, for the regulation of hospital and tenement houses, and for securing a supply of pure water and the establishment of children's playgrounds. In 1915 there was passed, with the support of the governor, a law that effectually stamped out the social evil and abolished the redlight district. Two of the outstanding pieces of constructive legislation of his administration were the Public Utilities Law and the Vocational Educational Act. For many years Indiana carried a heavy debt. It had been an issue in every campaign of more or less consequence for forty years, but no party and no leader had been willing to take a stand for its early liquidation. Governor Ralston was, and before his administration closed the state paid the last cent it owed, and for the first time in eighty years was out of debt. Realizing the important part of good roads play in our civilization, Governor Ralston in 1914 appointed a non-partisan highway commission, composed of five distinguished citizens of the state. Great as were the services he rendered the state there was no bluster or pretense about the centennial governor. He pursued the even tenor of his way and his acts met with the approval, with but few exceptions, of the entire press of Indiana. He died October 14, 1925. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 00:03:34, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908160403.AAA14430@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: TUSCARAWAS COUNTY PART 10 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 TUSCARAWAS COUNTY PART 10 PLODDING INDUSTRY. -The sound of the horn at daybreak calls them to their labors. They mostly work in groups, in a plodding but systematic manner that accomplishes much. Their tools are usually coarse, among which is the German scythe, short and unwieldy as a bush-hook, sickles without teeth, and hoes clumsy and heavy as the mattock of the Southern slave. The females join in the labors of the field, hoe, reap, pitch hay, and even clean and wheel out in barrows the offal of the stables. Their costume and language are that of Germany. They are seen about the village going to the field with implements of labor across their shoulders, their faces shaded by immense circular rimmed hats of straw -or with their hair combed straight back from the foreheads and tied under a coarse blue cap of cotton, toting upon their heads baskets of apples or tubs of milk. Systematic division of labor is a prominent feature in their domestic economy, although here far from reaching its attainable perfection. Their clothing is washed together, and one bakery supplies them with bread. A general nursery shelters all the children over three years of age. There these little pocket editions of humanity are well cared for by kind dames in the sere and yellow leaf. AN ECONOMICAL BONIFACE. -The selfishness so prominent in the competitive avocations of society is here kept from its odious development by the interest each strikingly manifests in the general welfare, as only thus can their own be promoted. The closet economy is shown in all their operations -for as the good old man Kreutzner, the Boniface of the community, once observed in broken English, when starting on a bee line for a decaying apple cast by a heedless stranger into the street -"saving make rich!" Besides acting as host in the neat village inn, this man Kreutzner is the veterinary Aesculapius of this society, carrying out the universal economy still further by practicing on the homeopathic principles! Astonishing are the results of his skill on his quarto-limbed patients, who, from rolling an and snorting under acute pains of the abdominal viscera, are, by the melting on the lips of their tongues of a few pills of an infinitesimal size, lifted into a comfortable state of physical exaltation. With all the peculiarities of their religious faith and practice we are unacquainted; but, like most sects denominated Christian, there is sufficient in their creed, if followed, to make their lives here upright, and to justify the hope of a glorious future. Separatists is a term applied to them, because they separated from the he Lutheran and other denominations. They have no prayers, baptisms nor sacraments, and, like Jews, eschew pork. Their log church is often filled winter evenings, and twice on the Sabbath. The morning service consists of music, instrumental and vocal, in which a piano is used, together with the reading and explanation of the Scriptures by one of their number. The afternoon exercises differ from it in the substitution of catechizing from a German work for biblical instruction. A BELOVED LEADER. -They owe much of their prosperity to Bimeler, now an old man, and justly regarded as the patriarch of the community. He is their adviser in all temporal things, their physician to heal their bodily infirmities, and their spiritual guide to point to a purer world. Although but as one of them, his superior education and excellent moral qualities have given him a commanding influence, and gained their love and reverence. He returns the affection of the people, with whom he has toiled until near a generation has passed away, with his whole soul. He has few thoughts for his fatherland, and no desire to return thither to visit the home of his youth. The green hills of this beautiful valley enclose the dearest objects of his earthly affections and earthly hopes. The community are strict utilitarians, and there is but little mental development among them. Instruction is given in winter to the children in German and English. They are a very simple-minded, artless people, unacquainted with the outer world, and the great questions, oral and political, which agitate it. Of scarcely equalled morality, never has a member been convicted of going counter to the judicial regulations of the land. Thus they pass through their pilgrimage with but apparently few of the ills that fall to the common lot, presenting a reality delightful to behold, with contentment resting upon their countenances and hearts in which is enthroned peace. The condition of the Zoar community has not changed materially since the foregoing was written. Some of the former customs have been abandoned; they have become more prosperous; their log-houses have been largely replaced by spacious brick structures, and the larger part of the farm labor is done by hired help. German is still used in family and business discourse. Converts to their belief and mode of life are accepted into the society after a probationary period; and while accessions are continually being received desertions are not uncommon. The two iron furnaces operated by them have been abandoned for some years, they having proved financial failures. Joseph M. Bimeler, to whom they were so much indebted, died August 27, 1853. They now number about seventy-five families, and their record as law-abiding citizens still stands without a blemish. They are a very hospitable people and entertain many visitors. DENNISON is ten miles southeast of New Philadelphia, on the P.C. & St. L. R.R., and was laid out for their use about the year 1864. City Officers, 1888; T.R. Woodborne, Mayor; D.A. Demuth, Clerk; W.M. Miser, marshal; John W. Hill, Treasurer; J.T. Watters, Street Commissioner; T.H. Loller, Solicitor; S.S. Demuth, Weighmaster. Newspaper: Paragraph, Independent, W. A. Pittenger, editor. Churches: 1 Episcopal, 1 Catholic and 1 Presbyterian. Here are the repair shops of the P.C. & St. L.R.R., with 686 hands. Population, 1880, 1,518. School census, 1888, 1,518. School census, 1888, 754. Chas. Haupert, superintendent of schools. Capital invested in manufacturing establishments, $12,000. Value of annual product, $40,000. -Ohio Labor Statistic, 1888. UHRICHSVILLE is ten miles southeast of New Philadelphia, at the junction of the P.C. & St. L. and C.L. & W. Railroads, and joins on to Dennison. City Officers, 1888: T.D. Healea, Mayor; W.D. Collier, Clerk; Wm. McCollam, Treasurer; J. Marshall, Marshal; James Parrish, Street Commissioner. Newspaper: Tuscarawas Chronicle, Republican, J.E. Graham, editor and publisher. Churches: 2 Methodist Episcopal, 1 Christian Union, 1 Disciples, 1 Moravian, 1 Presbyterian. Banks: Farmer's and Merchants', Wm. B. Thompson, president, T.J. Evans, cashier; Union (Geo. Johnston), I.E. Demuth, cashier. MANUFACTURES AND EMPLOYEES. -Everett & Thompson, doors, sash, etc., 8 hands; Diamond Fire Clay Co., sewer pipe, etc., 40. -State Report, 1887. Population, 1880, 2,790. School census, 1888, 1,345. R.B. Smith, superintendent of schools. Capital invested in manufacturing establishments, $48,000. Value of annual products, $83,000. -Ohio Labor Statistics, 1888. PORT WASHINGTON is twelve miles southwest of New Philadelphia, on the Tuscarawas river, the Ohio Canal and the P.C. & St. L.R.R. School census, 1888, 239. NEW COMERSTOWN is seventeen miles southwest of New Philadelphia, on the Tuscarawas river, the Ohio Canal and P.C. & St. L. and C. & M. Railroads. City Officers, 1888; S.F. Timmons, Mayor; J.D. Longshore, Clerk; R.F. Dent, Treasurer; Lewis Gardner, marshal; Thomas Knowls, Street Commissioner. Newspaper: Index, Independent, R.M. Taylor, editor and publisher. Churches: 1 Methodist Episcopal, 1 Methodist Protestant, 1 Baptist, 1 Lutheran. Bank: Oxford, George W. Mulvane, president; Theodore F. Crater, cashier. Population, 1880, 925. School census, 1888, 498. Capital invested in manufacturing establishments, $9,000. Value of annual product, $10,000. -Ohio Labor Statistics, 1888. MINERAL CITY, P.O. Mineral Point, is ten miles northeast of New Philadelphia, at the crossing of the Valley and C. & P. Railroads. newspaper: Mineral Pointer, Independent, W. Hosick, editor and publisher. Churches: 1 Methodist Episcopal, 1 United Brethren, 1 Lutheran, 1 Catholic, 1 German Reformed. School census, 1888, 420; S.R. Booner, superintendent of schools. It is a lively mining town, with extensive coal and fire-clay mines and extensive fire-brick works. Population about 1,000. BOLIVAR is twelve miles north of New Philadelphia, on the Tuscarawas river, the Ohio Canal and W. & L.E.R.R. Newspaper: News-Journal, Independent, M.H. Willard, editor and publisher. Churches: 1 Lutheran, 1 Methodist, 1 German Lutheran and 1 Catholic. Population about 800. WEST CHESTER, P.O. Cadwallader, is twenty miles southeast of new Philadelphia. Population, 1880, 216. ZOAR is on the Tuscarawas river and W. & L.E.R.R., eleven miles west of county seat; has about 300 inhabitants. SHANESVILLE is ont he C. & C. Railroad, about eleven miles west of county seat. It has churches, 1 Methodist, 1 Reformed and 1 Lutheran; 1 newspaper, News, Independent, John Doerschuk, editor; a bank and 500 inhabitants. School census, 1888, 139. BLAKE'S MILLS is one-half mile south of New Philadelphia, on the Ohio Canal. It has 1 Methodist Episcopal church. School census, 1888, 179. GNADENHUTTEN is eleven miles south of New Philadelphia, on the Tuscarawas river and on the P.C. & St. L.R.R. School census, 1888, 119. S.K. Mardis, superintendent of schools. This name is pronounced Noddenhiten. There is here a Moravian church, and it is the site of the Moravian massacre. Near the monument yet stand an apple tree, planted in 1774 by the Indians, and it has borne apples from that day to this. The apple is about two inches in diameter. Its skin is variegated in crimson and white, and the fruit pleasant in taste. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #618 *******************************************