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STRAIT, [LeaAnn ] #6 DANIEL MATHENEY [LeaAnn ] #7 PHILIP WILLIAM CORZILIUS [LeaAnn ] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:03:41 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: HON. WILLIAM T. MARTIN History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub. by Williams Bros., 1880 HON. WILLIAM T. MARTIN, was born April 6, 1788, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania; was married in 1814, to Amelia Aschom; and in the spring of that year, migrated to Columbus, where he resided till his death, February 19, 1866. Like so many other Columbian pioneers who became prominent in business and politics, he cam to the city as a mechanic, his particular trade being that of carpenter and joiner. He also united with this occupation those of teacher and merchant. He held many public offices, which we have not time here to enumerate, the last being that of associate judge of the court of common pleas, in 1851. In 1858 he published his "History of Franklin County," a very valuable compendium of pioneer history, written in a plain and unpretentious, but often very pleasing style. He was remarkable for the evenness of his temper, his charity for the faults of others, and for his great liberality to the poor. He died greatly regretted by all the classes of citizens. His widow, who still survives, resides with a daughter, now Mrs. Smithson E. Wright, of Cincinnati. His son, B.F. Martin, well and favorably known as a lawyer and justice of the peace, resides in Columbus. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:36:33, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: GEORGE HENRY ELY - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 66-67 GEORGE HENRY ELY attended the public schools of Elyria, following which he pursued a course at Western Reserve College, and was graduated from Yale College, with the class of 1865. On January 1, 1866, he embarked in the business of manufacturing carriage hardware, a business with which he was identified until 1888. He then disposed of his holdings and became interested in a stone quarry, but following the death of his father took over the latter's large real estate interests, which he still supervises. For eighteen years Mr. Ely served as president of the National Bank of Elyria, and he also has numerous other large and important connections, being a director and official of a number of leading enterprises. A republican in his political sentiments, he has not been a professional politician, but has also been ready to discharge his obligations and responsibilities as a citizen, and from 1894 to 1898 served capably as a member of the Ohio State Senate. His religious connection is with the First Congregational Church, in which he is president of the Church Society. On December 11, 1867, Mr. Ely was united in marriage with Miss Annie E. Moody, who was born at Chicopee, Massachusetts, September 20, 1844, a daughter of Loman and Louisa (Patrick) Moody, the former born at Granby, Massachusetts, September 1, 1803, and the latter at Warren, Massachusetts, June 12, 1806. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ely: Malcolm Monteith, born, November 14, 1869, a resident of Elizabeth, New Jersey, Heman, born, June 9, 1873, a resident of Canton, Ohio; and Mary Louise, born, October 4, 1883, now the wife of Todd L. Moise, of Elyria. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:36:31, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: CHARLES EMBREE THORNE - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 217 CHARLES EMBREE THORNE. Not only Ohio but national agriculture owes a debt to the scientific and practical study and investigations continued over a period of more that half a century by Charles Embree Thorn, for many years director of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station at Wooster. Mr. Thorne, who is known as a teacher, lecturer and writer on agricultural topics, was born on a farm in Greene, County, Ohio, October 4, 1846, son of Elijah and Mary (Charles) Thorne. His father was also born in Greene County, Ohio. The grandparents were William and Rachel (Embree) Thorne. William Thorne was a descendant of the Thorne family that settled on Long Island, New York, about 1650. William Thorne, who was probably born in new Jersey, came to Ohio in pioneer times locating in Green County, where he married. Elijah Thorne devoted his entire life to agriculture, and lived in Green County. His wife, Mary Charles, was born in Wayne county, Indiana, daughter of Samuel Charles, of a family that moved from North Carolina to Indiana. The Charles, Embree and Thorne families were all of the Quaker religion. Charles Embree Thorne, only child of his parents, spent the first thirty-one years of his life in his native county. His early years made him acquainted with every practical detail of farming as then conducted, and from youth he displayed more that ordinary interest in the technical side of farming and the chemical processes involved in agriculture. He was educated in a good district school in his home locality, and during the summer of 1866 attended the Michigan Agricultural College. During 1868-69 and 1869-70 he was a student in Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio. He engaged in farming, and then moved to Columbus to prepare himself for a career of teaching in agriculture. For four and one-half years, from 1877 to 1881, he was farm manager for the Ohio State University farm. In 1890 the Ohio State University conferred upon him the honorary Master of Agriculture degree. From 1882 to 1888 Mr. Thorne was associate editor of the Farm and Fireside, the nationally known agricultural paper published at Springfield, Ohio. In 1882 an agricultural experiment station had been established on the State Farm at Columbus, and in 1887 Mr. Thorne was called to the office of director. In 1892 the Agricultural Experiment Station was moved to Wooster in Wayne county, and he continued his duties as director of the station a period of thirty-four years, finally resigning in January, 1921, and has since been retained as chief of the staff of the department of soil fertility and now devotes most of his time to compiling a vast amount of accumulated statistics on various matters related to soil fertility. Mr. Thorne is author of the book on "Farm Manures," published in 1913, and of many bulletins on the maintenance of soil fertility, having addressed the farmers through such publications at intervals over a period of thirty-five years. He was honored with the office of president of the American Society of Agronomy in 1914-15, was president of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations in 1915-16, and of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science in 1915-16. For several years he has been president of the Wayne Building & Loan Company of Wooster. He is an independent voter. On May 10, 1871, Mr. Thorne married Miss Viola J. Hine, of Berlin Township, Erie County, Ohio. She died March 26, 1924. Their oldest child, Bertram H., died in 1911, at the age of thirty-six. The daughter, Bessie M., is the wife of Dr. George Brooks, a dentist at Greenfield, Iowa. Charles Brooks Thorne, a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, is now operator of a greenhouse business at Wooster. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:47:27 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: ISAAC S. BEEKEY History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub. by Williams Bros., 1880 ISAAC S. BEEKEY, county commissioner, was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1825. By the death of his father, which occurred five years later, Isaac was cast upon the world. He found a home with a farmer, and here he acquired such education as could be obtained by an attendance at district school two months in the year. At the age of seventeen, he began to learn the "art preservative," after serving one year, his employer closed out the establishment, and the boy was again left to his own resources. Believing that the West afforded superior advantages, to one without means, he started for Ohio, in April 1845, and on foot, in due time, reached Columbus, his present place of residence. Finding no employment, as a printer, he learned the carpenters trade, and has since followed the vocation of contractor and builder, by aid of which he has accumulated a comfortable competency. In politics, Mr. Beekey has always been a decided Democrat, and his fidelity to the party has been rewarded by frequent elections to important and responsible positions. His first appearance in public life was in April, 1866, when he was elected to the city council, from the fourth ward. Two years later he was re-elected, and at the expiration of this term he was made real estate appraiser for the fourth, fifth and sixth wards. In April 1873, he was again elected to the city council, from the fourth ward, and the following year was made president of the city council. In October 1874, he was elected to his present position, and re-elected in 1877. Mr. Beekey has always been an active and faithful official, whose acts are characterized by firmness and integrity, both in private and public transactions. He was united in marriage on April 23, 1857, to Miss Catharine, daughter of Charles and Catharine Obitz, by whom two children were born, Ida and Mary. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:01:56 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: DENNIS B. STRAIT History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub by Williams Bros., 1880 DENNIS B. STRAIT, county commissioner, was born in the State of New Jersey, on May 20, 1824. He is the second of a family of eleven, the children of Abraham A. and Dulcena Strait, who removed to Franklin County in 1839. They located in Plain township, and here the mother died, not long after. The father died in June, 1862. The education of the gentleman who is the subject of this sketch, was acquired at common-schools, and was quite limited, owing to the fact that his parents were in indigent circumstances, and his being obliged at an early age, to seek his own living. At the age of twenty years he struck out to battle with fortune, having rough but strong hands, and a brave heart to aid him. Accumulating some means he sought and obtained the hand of Miss Ann, daughter of Caleb and Eliza Farber, to whom he was married on November 20, 1851. Soon after he purchased one hundred acres of land in Plain township, this county; this, by industry and economy on the part of Mr. Strait, aided by his good wife, has been added to, until he now owns six hundred and twenty-five acres, the greater part of which is under a profitable state of cultivation. His life work has been that of a farmer and stock raiser. Of the public life of Mr. Strait, the writer learns that he was first elected county commissioner in the fall of 1860, and served two terms of three years each. Upon the expiration of the second term he was appointed auditor of Franklin County, and in this capacity he served two years. In the fall of 1876, he was a third time elected to the office of commissioner, his term expiring the fall of 1879. Politically, Mr. Strait is a firm adherent to the teachings of the Democratic party. For the past twenty years he has been a member of the society of Free and Accepted masons. His children are: Whitney, Cordelia (Mrs B. Ranney), Ann Eliza, and Dulcena and Edward L. who are deceased. ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:26:26 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: DANIEL MATHENEY History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub by Williams Bros., 1880 DANIEL MATHENEY The subject of this sketch has an ancestry of the old pioneer stock. He was born September 9, 1823, in Pickaway County, Ohio, and was left an orphan, at the age of eight years, by the death of his father, and about the only inheritance left him was a sound constitution and a strong physical development. The education he acquired was of the most practical and useful kind, and he soon became the mainstay of his widowed mother. His early life was spent in agricultural pursuits, with its variety of sunshine and shadow, from all of which he took his practical lessons. Subsequently he became engaged in dealing in stock, and it soon became apparent that "Uncle Dan" as he was familiarly called, was as good a judge of horses, cattle and hogs as any man in the country. After locating in Franklin County, he was connected with the blacksmithing business for about three years, at the town of dublin, but dealing in stock was his principle business, and many have been the droves of cattle he has taken over the mountains, when from sixty to sixty-five days were considered good time from here to New York City. He also shipped stock, by the more modern transportation, when five or six days are regarded as moderate time, over the same route. For many years during the war, he was engaged in furnishing horses and other supplies to the army, and in all his transactions he was regarded as a man of good judgment and strict integrity. During his life he has held many positions of trust, and has always discharged his duty with fidelity and credit to himself. In 1875, he was elected to the office of county commissioner, and at the expiration of his term of office, in 1878, he was re-elected to the same office for a second term, which was a public approval of his previous course in the office. He has been twice married, first to martha Hutcheson, May 12, 1843, who died February 14, 1873; he was again married to Ruth Hutcheson, March 25, 1875, with whom he is now living, at their comfortable home, near Columbus. During his whole life, good faith and fair dealing has been his guiding star, and he is so regarded in this community, that his word is as good as his bond. He never engaged in wild or visionary speculations, in which there was great risk, but preferred the natural growth and legitimate profits of his business; and thus, by perseverance and industry, he has accumulated, not great wealth, but a handsome competency. He is widely known in this and adjoining counties, and is highly esteemed as one of the substantial men of Franklin County. ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:08:09 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: PHILIP WILLIAM CORZILIUS History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub by Williams Bros., 1880 PHILIP WILLIAM CORZILIUS It is with pleasure that we present to the readers of this volume the following sketch of the life of one of the self-made men of Franklin County. Mr. Corzilius was born in Columbus, Ohio, on the first day of January, 1849. He is the eldest of a family of four, the children of Peter W. and Maria D. Corzilius, who were natives of Germany, who emigrated to America in the year 1841. They came direct to Columbus, and the mother still resides there. The father died July 10, 1866. The subject of this sketch owes much of his education to our grand system of common schools, so purely American. The father was in poor health, and Philip was obliged, at an early age, to aid in his support. He first engaged in selling newspapers. This he prosecuted some three years. Next he entered a mercantile establishment, and from this he became assistant secretary of the Franklin Insurance company. In September, 1868, he became a clerk in the office of the treasurer of Franklin county, and served under the respective administrations of Messrs. A.C. Headly, James E. Wright, and Lorenzo English, for a period of nine years, and rising from assistant to chief clerk of the treasury. This brings us forward to the fall of 1876, when he became a candidate for the office of treasurer, and so much confidence was reposed in his ability and integrity, that his name was placed upon both the Democratic and Republican tickets, and his election was unanimous. He is, however, a member of the first named party. He was re-elected in 1878. Mr. Corzilius is an eminent member of the order of Free and Accepted masons, having attained the thirty-second degree. He is also a member of the I.O.O.F., and Knights of Honor, and of the German Lutheran church, of Columbus, Ohio. On October 10, 1872, he was married to Miss Catherine E.J., daughter of George and Maria Stelzer, of Columbus, and by this union three children have come to shed sunshine about the cozy home: Alma, Flora, and Leo. -- -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #60 ******************************************