OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 629 Today's Topics: #1 Obit. - Biery - Stark Co. [Fldollfin@aol.com] #2 Obit. - Marshall - New Philadelphi [Fldollfin@aol.com] #3 Obit. - Mrs. Anna Moser Schneck - [Fldollfin@aol.com] #4 WILL LOOK UP MONTGOMERY COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 Garrettsville Journal [Fldollfin@aol.com] #6 THEODOR HALL - OTTAWA COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #7 OTTAWA COUNTY PART 4 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:30:39 EDT From: Fldollfin@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <5aba810c.24f0201f@aol.com> Subject: Obit. - Biery - Stark Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (note, no relation to me, just thought it might help someone) Canton Repository Sat. Oct. 10, 1953 Albert Biery, 71 Former Pro Ball Player, Succumbs Albert (Bert) Biery, 71, of 1819 Cleveland Ave. N., former professional baseball player and merchant, died early today at his home after a long illness. He played baseball in the old Ohio - Pennsylvania League and later with the Minneapolis of the American Association. For 26 years, he operated a drug and confectionery store at his home address, retiring in 1946. He was a member of Martin Luther Church and of all Masonic bodies in Canton. Survivors include a brother, Arthur L. Biery of Canton; a sister, Mrs frank Crawford of Congress Lake; and one grandchild. The body is at the Whitticar Funeral Home pending completion of funeral arrangements. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:39:37 EDT From: Fldollfin@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Obit. - Marshall - New Philadelphia OH. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (note.. no relation to me, just thought it might help someone) Obit. Canton Repository Sat. Oct. 10, 1953 Mrs. Robert Marshall New Philadelphia - Mrs. Bessie Horton Marshall 64, of 212 Allen Lane SW, died Friday in her home after a long illness. Born in New Philadelphia, she also had resided in Genoa and Sherrodsville before moving here four months ago. Mrs. Marshall was a member of Methodist Church here and Ladies Aid Society of Sherrodsville Calvary Methodist Church. Her only survivor is her husband, Robert Marshall. Services will be Monday at 2 p.m. in the Baxter Funeral Home at Sherrodsville Conducted by Rev. E. J. Mansfield. Interment will be in East Avenue Cemetery here. Calling hours at the parlors will be tonight from 7 to 9 and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:44:44 EDT From: Fldollfin@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Obit. - Mrs. Anna Moser Schneck - Kidron OH. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (note.. no relation to me, just thought it might help someone) Canton Repository , Sat. Oct. 10, 1953 Mrs. Anna Schneck Kidron - Mrs. Anna Moser Schneck, 91, died Friday night in the Mennonite Home for the Aged at Rittman where she had resided seven years. She formerly lived in Kidron. Mrs. Schneck was a member of Mennonite Church here. She leaves one brother, Daniel Moser of Massilon, and several nieces and nephews. Services at the church will be Monday at 2:30 p.m. Rev. Isaac Zuercher and Rev. Allen Bixler will officiate. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Desvoignes Funeral Home in Mount Eaton , Sunday from 6 to 9 p.m. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:56:26, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908211456.KAA15358@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: WILL LOOK UP MONTGOMERY COUNTY While looking for some papers I came across the following book and will do look ups. EARLY SETTLERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, OHIO it contains abastracts from land records, tax lists, and biographical sketches. Remember these are only abstracts but it does list the source for additional information. Please mention Montongomery county in your request since I am also doing other look ups. Gina ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:02:21 EDT From: Fldollfin@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4a11fb21.24f0278d@aol.com> Subject: Garrettsville Journal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Garrettsville Journal Dec 6, 1928 or 29, hard to read. Passing of Two Old Residents Recalls Quadruple Ceremony Four Couples Married in Old Garrettsville Baptist Church The passing of two old residents of Garrettsville within a few days of each other brings to mind a quadruple marriage in which each was a principal and which united a number of Garrettsville families. On Dec. 19, 1871, four young couples, all of Freedom , came to the Baptist parsonage in Garrettsville andwere united in marrage. Of the four young women, two were sisters, and a third was their cousin. Of the young men, three were cousins, but none married a relative of their own. They were: 1.Mr. George R. Dutter an dMiss Annette Sturdevant whose children are Herman O., of Elyria; Fred V. , of Coshocton, Mrs. Grace Moore of Los Angeles, and Arbie Dutter of this place. 2. Mr. George Phelps and Miss Emma Sturdevant whos children are Mrs. J.M. Martin and Bert H. Phelps both of this place. 3. Mr. Timothy Robinson and Miss Alice Whitney, parents of Mrs. W. V. Alford of Garrettsville. 4. Mr. Lewis E. Curtiss and Miss Harriet Williams, parents of George, Mrs. Lynn Nichols and Mrs. Lulu Wagner of Cleveland, E.M. Curtis of Nelson, and Charles Curtiss of Streetsboro. The only survivor of the above eight is Mrs. Harriet Curtiss of Cleveland. The first to pass away was Mrs. G.R. Dutter in 1890. Then George W. Phelps died Dec. 19, 1894, that date being his birthday as well as his wedding day. He was fifty years old that day. T.M. Robinson died in 1906 and his wife in 1921. Lewis E. Curtis died Dec. 21, 1912 just two days after his wedding day. His widow fell and broke her hip about two years ago, but is able to get about with the use of crutches. She lives in Cleveland. On Nov. 29, Mrs. Emma Phelps passed away and two days later her brother in -law, George R. Dutter died , so the sole survivor of that merry wedding party of nearly 57 years ago, is Mrs. Harriet Curtiss of Cleveland. Note: I have further info. if anyone would want it. Carol (Dutter) ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 22:24:20, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908220224.WAA15114@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: THEODOR HALL - OTTAWA COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 199, 200 THEODOR HALL is doing a successful and substantial business in the manufacturing of cement blocks in the City of Sandusky, and his well equipped plant for this construction enterprise is established at 1913 South Campbell Street. Mr. Hall was born at Danbury, Ottawa County, Ohio, November 17, 1854, and is a son of Christian and Dorothy Maria Hall, who were born and reared in Germany, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to the Untied States in 1846 and established their home at Danbury, Ohio, on Sandusky Bay. Christian Hall moved with his family to Sandusky, and later he removed to the vicinity of Clairmont, Iowa, where he became a pioneer farmer and where his death occurred. His widow and children then returned to Sandusky and Mrs. Hall passed the remainder of her life in Ohio. Theodor Hall gained his early education in the schools of Ohio and Iowa, and as a youth he was employed by the month at farm work. He was thus engaged about two years, then after his marriage, in 1875, he was for a time engaged in farming on a rented place in Perkins Township, Erie County. He then purchased in Sandusky a city lot on which he erected a small house, and in this city he engaged in work as a mason, besides which he was for several years engaged in contracting and building. In the meanwhile he obtained a small farm near Bloomingville, this county, and there engaged in market gardening, besides continuing his work as a contractor and builder. In 1919 he sold his farm and purchased three lots on South Campbell Street, Sandusky, where he has since built up a prosperous business in the manufacturing of cement blocks for buildings and other structural work. He is a loyal supporter of the cause of the democratic party, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Christian Church. In October, 1875, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hall and Miss Mary Anna Ridman, who was born in Perkins Township, Erie County, August 2, 1855, a daughter of John and Barbara (Daniel) Ridman, the former a native of Switzerland and the latter of Hesse-Cassel, Germany, they having been for many years sterling and honored citizens of Erie County, Ohio. In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Hall: Minnie became the wife of John Paff and is now deceased, her one surviving child, Henrietta, being the wife of James Albert, of Sandusky; Walter died at Camp Sherman during the World war; Mary Anna died at the age of fifteen years; David was thirty-one years of age at the time of his death, he having married Miss Flossie Arheit, who survived him, as did also their one child, Norman Lee. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 22:24:17, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908220224.WAA09474@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: OTTAWA COUNTY PART 4 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Historical Collections of Ohio By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 OTTAWA COUNTY PART 4 THE WINE ISLANDS The group of Islands in the western part of Lake Erie, sometimes called "Wine Islands," lie principally whithin the State of Ohio, but the largest island -Point Pelee -and a few of the smallest are British possessions. They are as follows: AREA Rock Island, alias South Bass, alias Put-in-Bay 1,500 acres Floral Isle, alias Middle Bass 750 acres Isle St. George, alias North Bass 750 acres Rattlesnake Isle 60 acres Sugar Isle 30 acres Strontian, alias Green Island 20 acres Ballast 10 acres Gibraltar 8 acres Glacial, alias Starve Island about 2 acres Buckeye about 2 acres The above are the islands forming Put-in-Bay township, Ottawa county. Besides these are Mouse, a small island of Scott's Point, belonging to Ex-President Hayes; Kelley's Island, belonging to Erie county (see Vol. I, page 585); Gull, a small island, just north of Kelley's and West Sister's Island, some eighteen miles west of North Bass. North of the National boundary are Point Pelee Island, Middle Island, the small group known as Hen and Chickens, and East Sister's and Middle Sister's Islands. Until 1854 these islands were sparsely settled. In that year Mr. J.D. Rivers, a Spanish merchant of New York, having been favorably impressed with their natural attractions purchased five entire islands, viz.: Put-in-Bay, Middle Bass, Ballast, Sugar and Gibraltar, at a cost of $44,000. He at first turned Put-in-Bay into a sheep ranch, having at one time a herd of 2,000, but gradually disposed of these and converted the island into a fruit farm. In 1858 Phillip Vroman, L. Harms, Lawrence Miller and J.D. Rivers commenced the cultivation of the vine. Their success was so great that others followed their example and now the principal industry is the growing of grapes. The quality of the soil, natural drainage and climatic influence surrounding the islands is specially favorable to the growing of fruits. The development of this industry is shown by the facts that in 1887 more than one-third of the grape product and nearly one-half of the wine product of the entire State is credited to Ottawa county, while nearly three times as many peaches were produced as in any other county in the State. The varieties of grapes grown are mainly Catawba, Delaware and Concord, with some Ives, Norton, Clinton, etc. At one time the wines from these islands had an extended reputation and were pronounced by the best judges "worthy of being compared to the most prized productions of France;" but the alarming extent of wine adulteration and competition of California wines has seriously affected the industry. Nevertheless, there are several companies that manufacture large quantities of wine of a high grade. One of these has in its cellars two of the largest casks in the United States, each capable of holding 16,000 gallons of wine. Some fifteen or twenty years ago Put-in-Bay was a famous summer resort, but the destruction by fire in 1878 of the principal hotel, and in recent years the influx of unwholesome characters on excursions from the cities of Cleveland, Toledo and Sandusky, who are encouraged to come here and patronize the numerous saloons that have sprung up, has done much to bring the place into disrepute. Happily, within the past year a project has been got under way which may once more bring this historic and picturesque isle again into popular favor as a summer resort. A large hotel and cottages are to be erected and efforts made to prevent the lawless element from monopolizing this, Nature's outing place, for the people of Ohio. The sanitary conditions of these islands are unsurpassed, and although there is nothing striking or grand in the scenery, yet taken altogether they form a sense of great beauty, while the morning and evening breezes that blow from the waters of Lake Erie are bracing and invigorating. Rock bass and perch abound in the water; better boating could not be desired. Propellers ply between the islands and steamers make several daily round trips to Sandusky. These islands are favorite places of resort for clubs from the larger cities. Ballast Isle is owned by the Cleveland Club; they have a fine club-house and numerous cottages are occupied in season by their Forest City owners. On Floral Isle the Toledo and Lake Erie Boating and Fishing Association have a fine club-house surrounded by the cottages of the club members. Near the centre of Put-in-Bay Island is a subterranean cavern that is quite an object of interest. It is 200 feet long, 150 feet wide and has an average height of 7 feet. At the farther end is a lake, whose pure, limpid waters are ice cold and said to be fifty-feet deep in one place and to extend under the rocks to regions and depths unknown. Early in this century these islands were overrun with rattlesnakes. The caves, crevices of the limestone rocks, afforded secure retreats at all times, and in the spring season they were wont to come out and lie upon the warm rocks and look in the sunshine. The name of this horrid reptile is perpetuated in Rattlesnake Island, so called because its line of rocky humps suggested to its christener the rattles of rattlesnakes. JAY COOKE was born in Sandusky, Ohio, August 10, 1821, and went in 1838 to Philadelphia, where he entered the banking-house of E.W. Clarke & Co. as a clerk, and when twenty-one years of age became a partner. In 1840 he wrote the first money article that appeared in Philadelphia, and for a year edited the financial column of the Daily Chronicle. In 1858 he retired from the firm of E.W. Clarke & Co., and in 1861 established a new firm of which he was the head. In the spring of 1861, when the Government called for subscription loans, the firm of Jay Cooke & Co. at once organized and carried into operation the machinery to obtain and forward to Washington large lists of subscribers. This was done without compensation. In 1862 Mr. Cooke was appointed by Secretary Chase the special agent of the government to negotiate the five hundred million five-twenty loan. In this great transaction the government assumed no risks. If the loan failed the agent was to receive nothing, and with full success the remuneration was not one-twentieth of the amount which European bankers are accustomed to receive from a foreign power, in addition to absolute security from loss. The enormous negotiations of the great war loans of the Untied States were taken by the subscription agent, with the possible prospect of receiving no benefit therefrom, and the chance of ruining his own fortune and those of his partners. The loan was sold, but even its remarkable success did not save Mr. Chase and Mr. Cooke from the detractions and accusations of the political enemies of the Secretary, who sought to damage his Presidential aspirations by charges of favoritism. Whitelaw Reid, from whose Ohio in the War this sketch is abridged, says: The clamor of the opponents of Mr. Chase increased and finally succeeded. The treasury attempted to negotiate its own loans and failed. The consequence was that the Rebellion, which might have been suppressed in the later part of 1864, was defiant when the first of January, 1865, came. The force of financial success would have defeated the Richmond conspirators, but, familiar with the condition of National finances, the rebels waited confidently for the relapse of the Union effort to subdue them. The prospect was dark and dreary. The treasury was in debt for vouchers for the Quartermaster's department, the armies were unpaid and heavy arrearages due, and a debt of three hundred millions of dollars stared the new Secretary in the face, while the financial burden steadily accumulated at the rate of four millions of dollars a day. This was the condition of affairs when Mr. Fessenden was at the head of the Treasury Bureau. The government could only pay in vouchers and these were selling every part of the country at a discount of twenty-five to thirty per cent, and gravitating rapidly downward. This was known to the Confederate authorities and excited the hopes of the Rebel armies at home and their sympathizers abroad. Had this condition continue gold would have reached a much higher premium, the vouchers of the government became unsaleable and ruin resulted. The government then tried to obtain money without the aid of a special agent. The endeavor was made, backed by the assistance of the National banks, but proved entirely abortive. With all his powerful machinery the receipts of the treasury averaged but seven hundred thousand per day, one-sixth of the regular expenditure. Mr. Chase and the leading friends of the government earnestly advised Mr. Fessenden to employ Mr. Cooke as the special agent of the Treasury Department, and the Secretary sent for the banker. The interview was successful. Mr. Cooke asked the amount of the daily sales which would meet the urgent demands upon the treasury. The reply was "Two million five hundred thousand dollars; can you raise the money? "I can," was the ready reply. "When will you commence?" "On the first of February," and the conference ended. This was on the 24th of January, 1865. His commission was sent to Mr. Cooke; he organized his staff of agents and by the first of February was in full operation. Innumerable assistants were appointed; special and travelling agents were set at work; advertising was ordered by hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in a few days money began to flow into the depleted treasury and cash instead of vouchers paid the purchases for the maintenance of the government and the subsistence of the army. From the first organization of Mr. Cooke's machines for popularizing the loan the daily sales averaged from two to three millions of dollars, and steadily increased, until at the close of the loan the receipts averaged five millions of dollars per day. In about five months the last note was sold, fifteen or sixteen millions of dollars being sold occasionally in one day, and once forty-two millions. The result of these grand successes was the speedy collapse of the hopes of the Rebels. The vouchers of the government were paid at a saving of from thirty to fifty per cent on former prices. Since the close of the war Mr. Cooke has continued to act for the government in connection with other parties in many important matters. He was also the most efficient assistant in the establishment of the National banking system. It should be added that Mr. Cooke's' profits from the per centage allowed by the government were far less than has been generally supposed; they were three-eighths of one per cent. There are on file in the Treasury Department letters from him making repeated offers to give up the per centage and do the work for nothing, if the government would release him from his liabilities for loss through any of his thousands of agents -a risk which constantly threatened him with ruin. The department always refused this offer. -continued in part 5 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #629 *******************************************