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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 567 Today's Topics: #1 JACOB YAGER - HURON COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 JOHN GROVER HEYMAN - HURON COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 HURON COUNTY PART 3 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 Fw: More Ohio Roads [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:04:58, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907301904.PAA12334@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JACOB YAGER - HURON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 JACOB YAGER, was born in Huron County, Ohio, September 20, 1837. His parents, Jacob and Margaret (Wysup) Yager, came to Adams County in July, 1838. His grandfather, John Yager, came from Germany when seven years of age and settled in Pennsylvania. The grandmother Yager probably came from the old country. His ancestors on both sides were of the Protestant faith, and were generally farmers. About the year 1834 the grandfather came to this county and entered two sections of land, which he divided with his children, who were nine in number, six sons and three daughters -Francis, Henry, Peter, Samuel, Jacob, Sarah, Polly and Catherine. The parents were married in Ohio, and began their home life in the forest of Preble Township, Indiana. The land had no improvements whatever. Wolves, bears, etc., were uncomfortably plenty, and deer, and other wild game, had been almost entirely undisturbed. The tract of 100 acres which Jacob's father received cost about $125 at this time. The family went to work with a will; tree after tree was felled and acre after acre was cleared until this part of the wilderness became a productive farm, and the old log cabin, with its puncheon floor, after many years of faithful service was supplanted by modern buildings. When the parents came to this county there were very few settlers. There was no county seat, and papers and deeds were recorded at Fort Wayne. Mr. Yager's parents had five children -John, Jacob, George, Sarah and Polly Ann; Jacob, Sarah and George are living. After remaining on the homestead until he was twenty-five years of age, aiding in the improvement and cultivation of the farm, Jacob Yager and Mary Jane Archibald were untied in marriage October 24, 1861. They began domestic life in Preble Township, settling upon a forty-acre tract which Jacob received from his father. The land was partially cleared, but had no buildings or other improvements. After three or four years forty acres more were added to the original tract, and a frame barn and a hewed-log house were built. They lived on this place eleven years, then removed to Decatur, where they resided two and a half years, then moved to St. Mary's Township upon a beautiful tract of land, comprising 197 acres, situated about three quarters of a mile from Pleasant Mills Village. It is one of the finest farms in the township, having 150 acres of improved land, and being well watered by two creeks, or branches, which renders it valuable as a stock farm as well as for agricultural purposes. Mrs. Yager was born August 16, 1840, daughter of Thomas and Phebe (Balentine) Archibald, who were probably natives of Ohio and of Irish ancestry. In a very early day her paternal grandparents removed to the Territory of Indiana and entered 100 acres of land in Wells County, where they lived until their death. Her parents removed to the same county, probably in the year 1848, where the father purchased eighty acres of land. Her ancestors were all Protestants, and one of her uncles, John Nevett, was a minister. Her great-grandfather served in the War of 1812, and her mother's brother, William Valentine, served in the war with Mexico, during which he received an injury. Jacob Yager and his brother John were soldiers in the late war, John serving in Company C, Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry, and Jacob being a member of Company D, Fifty-first Indiana Infantry. Jacob was mustered into the service at Indianapolis in 1863, from which point his regiment was ordered to Nashville, thence to Pulaski, where the regiment was attacked by the rebel General Hood, about the first of December, 1864, and was forced to retreat, having only about half the force of the enemy. On this retreat many very bloody and hotly contested battles were fought -Spring Hill, Columbia, and others, until finally the historical stand was made at Nashville between Generals Thomas and Hood. Here every precaution was taken and every arrangement made for the desperate encounter soon to be made. The breast-works of the rebels and the federals were in close proximity, and the men could converse with one another. Many little trades were made by the pickets on both sides. The crisis finally came on the 15th of December, 1864, and on the 16th the battle had its full force. Mr. Yager's regiment was engaged almost the entire day, during which time he was wounded in the ear. This produced paralysis of the jaw. After about six months the ball was extracted. On the evening of that dreadful day the regiment, which in the morning had answered to 900 names, could muster only about 300 names, the remainder having been sacrificed in battle. The dead were literally strewn over the ground and the scene of death was all that the imagination can picture. Mr. Yager was taken to the field hospital, thence to Nashville, thence to Jefferson Hospital, Indiana, and August 26, 1865, he received an honorable discharge for faithful and patriotic service. When he arrived home he continued the occupation of farming, which he has continued to the present time. He has been honored with various official positions, viz., constable, assessor of Preble Township six years, city marshal of Decatur, has also been guardian, and at present is commissioner of Adams County, serving his second term. His father died June 16, 1886, and his mother January 6, 1887, at the residence of her son Jacob, aged seventy-three years, eleven months and five days. She was a member of the Baptist church a great many years. Mr. and Mrs. Yager have had five children -Ida May, born September 8, 1876, died March 1, 1880; Charles William, born August 5, 1866; Margaret Jane, born January 16, 1863; Lydia Adaline, born November 26, 1868; Phebe Viola, born October 20, 1872. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:05:04, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907301905.PAA11358@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JOHN GROVER HEYMAN - HURON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 364 JOHN GROVER HEYMAN is engaged in the wholesale and retail trade in Sandusky as a dealer in flour, feed, and coal, with a well equipped establishment at 410 Reese Street. Mr. Heyman was born at Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio, in the year 1884, and is a son of Frank William and Rose C. (Boehm) Heyman, both likewise natives of Huron County, where the former was born at Hunts Corners and the latter at Standersburg. John P. and Jeanette (Scheid) Heyman, paternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch, were born in Germany and became early settlers in Huron County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The maternal grandfather, John Boehm likewise was born in Germany and became a pioneer settler in Huron County. Frank W. Heyman succeeded his father-in-law, John Boehm, in the flour milling business at Monroeville, and was one of the substantial citizens and representative business men of that place at the time of his death, in 1902, his widow passing away in June, 1911. John G. Heyman continued his studies in the public schools of his native place until his graduation from high school in 1903, and thereafter he pursued a higher course of study by attending fine old Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio. From June, 1905, until January, 1907, he was a traveling salesman for the Heyman Milling Company, and he then assumed the management of the company's branch in the City of Sandusky. He continued his effective service in this capacity until July 1, 1912, when he established his present independent business, as a wholesale and retail dealer in flour, feed and coal, large and substantial success having attended his vigorous and well directed activities in the management of this enterprise. He is a democrat in political qualification and allegiance, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Heyman has taken lively interest in the affairs of the Erie County Agricultural Society, and served one term as a director of this organization. December 31, 1921, recorded the marriage of Mr. Heyman and Miss Ella Amelia Lee, who was born and reared in Sandusky and who is a daughter of Charles Frederick and Elizabeth (Pfisterer) Lee, the former of whom was born at Birmingham, this state, and the latter in Sandusky. John and Sarah (Brewer) Lee, paternal grandparents of Mrs. Heyman, were born in the Birmingham district of Erie County, and her maternal grandparents, Louis and Elizabeth (Buck) Pfisterer, were born near Massillon, Stark County. Mr. and Mrs. Heyman have a daughter, Rose Elizabeth, born February 3, 1923. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:05:09, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907301905.PAA11382@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HURON COUNTY PART 3 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 HAMILTON COUNTY - PART 3 BIOGRAPHIES PLATT BENEDICT, the founder of the town, was born in Danbury, Conn., in 1775, and was a four-year old boy when the British red-coats came to his native town to do mischief, having burned Norwalk, Conn., on their way. Perhaps it was this incident that indirectly paved the way to his founding an Ohio Norwalk. When he came out here in 1817, he was seven weeks on the journey coming out, with his family and household goods, the latter stowed away in a wagon drawn by oxen. He was one of the most sturdy of that strong body of men -the Western pioneers; a man of many virtues. He lived to the grand old age of 91 years, 7 months and 7 days, which he reached October 25, 1866. GEORGE KENNAN, the Siberian traveller, was born in Norwalk, February 16, 1845. His father, now 87 years of age, is probably the oldest living telegrapher in the United States, and taught his son the profession. He was educated in the public schools at Norwalk, and at the Columbus High School while working as night operator in that city. In 1864, while working as assistant chief operator in the Western Union office at Cincinnati, he made application for an appointment on the projected overland line from America to Europe, via Alaska, Behring's Straits and Siberia. One night a message came over the wires from General Stager, as follows: "Can you get ready to start fro Alaska in two weeks?" "Yes, I can get ready to start in two hours," was the reply. "You may go," replied General Stager. As a leader of one of the Russo-American Telegraph Company's exploring parties, he spent nearly three years in constant travel in the interior of northeastern Siberia. The manner in which in the summer of 1867, he received the first notice of the abandonment of the enterprise in which he was engaged, illustrates the complete isolation from civilization of his party. One day he with some others boarded a vessel in the Okhotsk Sea and approached the captain with the remark: "Good day, sir. What is the name of your vessel?" The astonished captain of the bark Sea Breeze, from New Bedford, Mass., replied: "Good Lord! Has the universal Yankee got up here? Where did you come from? How did you get here? What are you doing?" Having silenced his interrogation battery, the captain gave them a lot of old San Francisco newspapers, in which they learned that the enterprise upon which they were engaged had been abandoned, on account of the successful laying of the second Atlantic cable; but it was not until the following September that they received official notification and orders to return to America. In 1870 Mr. Kennan again went to Russia to explore the mountains of the Eastern Caucasus, returning to this county in 1871. In 1885 he was engaged by the publishers of the "Century Magazine" to visit Russia for the purpose of investigating the Russian exile system. He in company with Mr. Frost, the artist, spent sixteen months on this work, during which they suffered many hardships. Extreme cold, fatigue and sickness were but small trials when compared with the constant fear of discovery of their mission by the Russian government, and the heart sickness caused by sympathy for the horrible misery of the exiles. It required wonderful tact and skill to evade the watchfulness of the Russian emissaries. They travelled 1,500 miles through northern Russia and Siberia, visited all the convict prisons and mines between the Ural mountains and the head-waters of the Amur river, and explored the wildest part of the Russian Altai. The publication in the "Century Magazine" of the results of these investigations filled the whole civilized world with horror and indignation at the inhumanity of the Russian government in its treatment of political and other offenders. Mr. Kennan is the author of "Tent Life in Siberia and Adventures among the Koraka and other Tribes in Kamchatka and Northern Asia." (New York, 1870). Among the present citizens of Norwalk is JOHN GARDINER, who has the distinction of being the oldest banker in Northwest Ohio. He was born in New London county, Conn., September 15, 1816. In 1834 he entered as a clerk in the Bank of Norwalk, which was then the only bank in Northwestern Ohio, and its business embraced what is now all of twenty counties, extending as far south as Mount Vernon and Bucyrus. He has largely been identified with the railroads of this region, and other great public interests of a developing nature; has lately erected a beautiful business block in Norwalk. GIDEON T. STEWART, a lawyer here, born in Fulton County, N.Y., in 1824, has long been identified with journalism and the temperance reform; has been thrice the Prohibition candidate for Governor of Ohio. Throughout the war period he owned and edited the Dubuque Daily Times, then the only union daily in the north half of Wisconsin; later was half owner of the Daily Blade and Daily Commercial of Toledo. -continued in part 4 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:07:44 -0400 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <199907301824_MC2-7F2A-87D5@compuserve.com> Subject: Fw: More Ohio Roads Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline From: Merle Rummel INTERNET:cliffr@infocom.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Yes -I'm still working on the migration roads -- here are a couple you have identified already I think: The Shore Road -went from Buffalo (actually Fort Niagara on Lake Ontario) to Erie PA to Cleveland, to Toledo. There it connected with the Bullskin Trace and went to Fort Detroit. It continued west from Toledo across northern Indiana to Fort Dearbourn at Chicago. It seems to be followed very closely by US 20. This was a major migration road across northern Ohio. The Mahoning Trail went from the Ohio River at East Liverpool to Lake Erie at Cleveland. It follows the route of OH 41 and was a major migration road into northern Ohio. Another access road was the Shamokin Trail. It went from New York to Erie. It is followed by US 6 most of its way across the Pennsylvania Mountains, but it curved north to Erie PA (PA 97 and US 19). Both the Shamokin Trail and the Shore Road were later roads, not becoming available until the Iroquois Indians were subdued long after the Revolution, near the time of the War of 1812. Merle Rummel Church Historian -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #567 *******************************************