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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 161 Today's Topics: #1 ALLEN COUNTY - PART 5 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 EDWARD TALBOTT ["Hollis G. Best" <"hgb@inreach.com] #3 re: The Fuller Society web site [Don & Norma ] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:49:43, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: ALLEN COUNTY - PART 5 HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF OHIO, By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 DELPHOS, on the border line of Van Wert and Allen counties and on the T. St. L. and K. C.; P. Ft. W. and C.; D. Ft. W. and C.; C. and W.; P. and C. railroads, lies within the oil and gas belt of Northwestern Ohio, seventy-four miles southwest of Toledo, and in a country of great fertility. The Miami and Erie canal divides the town into two nearly equal parts. The post-office is in Van Wert county. NEWSPAPERS: Courant, E.B. Walkup, editor; Herald, Democratic, Tolan & Son, editors and proprietors. Churches: one Presbyterian, two Methodist, one United Brethren, one Catholic, one Christian, one Reformed, one Lutheran. Banks: Commercial, R. K. Lytle, president, W. H. Fuller, cashier; Delphos National, Theo. Wrocklage, president, Jos. Boehmer, cashier. MANUFACTURES AND EMPLOYEES. -The Ohio Wheel Company, 62 hands; Hartwell Bros. Handles, neck-yokes, etc., 14; Delphos Union Stave Company, 23; Pittsburg Hoop and Stave Company, 50; L. F. Werner, woolen yarns, flannels, etc., 8; Steinle & Co., lager beer, 60; Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City R. R., car repairs, 100; Weyer & Davis, hoops, etc., 17; Shenk & Lang, Miller & Morton, flour, etc.; Krift & Ricker, D. Moening, builders' wood-work. -State Report 1887. Also Empire Excelsior Works, Delphos Chemical Works, pearlash, etc. Population in 1880, 3,814. School census in 1886, 782; E. W. Greenslade, principal. Delphos was laid out in 1845, directly after the opening of the Miami and Erie canal. The different portions of it were originally known as Section 10, Howard and East and West Bredeick. Its general name for many years was Section 10. It is said that Delphos could not have been settled without the aid of quinine. The air was so poisoned with malarial effluvia from swamps and marshes, that not only the pioneers but also the very dogs of the settlement suffered intensely from fever and ague. Ferdinand Bredeick built the first cabin;; E. N. Morton the first saw __ and the first grist-mills; and Mrs. George Lang (maiden name, Amelia Bredeick) was the first child born here. The original settlers were German Catholics. In December, 1845, thirty-six male members met in a cabin and made arrangements to build a church. It was the first established at Delphos, and "its honored founder, Rev. John O. Bredeick, was the benevolent guardian of the spiritual and material interests of the German settlers, who were pioneers in the inhospitable forests of North America." It was a huge, ungainly structure. It was succeeded in 1880 by an elegant church, erected at an expense of over $100,000; it has a chime of bells, and its appointments are all in keeping - stained glass windows, paintings, statuary, altars, frescos, organ, etc. Samuel Ferrer, the civil-engineer, is regarded as the pioneer of this region, as he ultimately settled here in Delphos. He was connected with the Ohio canal surveys from July, 1825, to 1831, and located the Miami and Erie canal; in 1871, when he was seventy-eight years of age, he still held the position of consulting engineer of this work. Earlier he had been canal commissioner and member of the board of public works. Knapp's "History of the Maumee Valley," published in 1872, has these interesting items." "The great forests, once so hated because they formed a stumbling-block in the tedious struggles, to reduce the soil to a condition for tillage, have been converted into a source of wealth. Within a radius of five miles of Delphos, thirty-five saw-mills (now perhaps doubled) are constantly employed in the manufacture of lumber, and a value nearly equalling the product of these mills is annually exported in the form of lumber. Excepting in the manufacture of maple sugar, and for local building and fencing purposes, no use until recent years had been made of the timber, and its destruction from the face of the earth was the especial object of the pioneer farmers, and in this at that time supposed good work they had the sympathies of all others who were interested in the development of the country. The gathering of the ginseng crop once afforded employment to the families of the early settlers, but the supply was scanty and it soon became exhausted. Some eighteen years ago, when the business of the town was suffering from stagnation, Dr. J. W. Hunt, an enterprising druggist, and now a citizen of Delphos, bethought himself that he might aid the pioneers of the wilderness, and add to his own trade, by offering to purchase the bark from the slippery elm trees, which were abundant in the adjacent swamps. For this new article of commerce he offered remunerative prices, and the supply soon appeared in quantities reaching hundreds of cords of the cured bark; and he has since controlled the trade in Northwestern Ohio and adjacent regions. The resources found in the lumber and timber and in this bark trade, trifling as the latter may appear, have contributed, and are yet contributing, almost as much to the prosperity of the town and country as the average of the cultivated acres, including the products of the orchard." BLUFFTON, on the L.E. and W. and C. and W. railroads, is seventy-five miles southwest of Sandusky, in the northeast corner of the county. It was laid out in 1837, under the name of Shannon, which it retained many years. Newspaper: News, Independent, N. W. Cunningham, editor. Churches: one Lutheran, one Methodist, one Catholic, one Reformed, one Presbyterian, and one Dissenters. Bank: People's, Daniel Russell, proprietor and cashier. MANUFACTURES AND EMPLOYEES. -Althaus & Bro., builders' wood-work, 10 hands; A. J. St. John, handles, lumber, etc. 10; A. Klay, machinery, 5; J.M. Townsend & Son, lumber, etc. 5; W.B. Richards, flour and feed, 3; State Report, 1886. Population in 1880, 1,290. School census 1886, 464; S.C. Patterson, superintendent. West of the town is a large Mennonite settlement. Large stone quarries in its vicinity. SPENCERVILLE, laid out in 1844-45, at the intersection of C.A. and D. Ft. W.C railroads, and on the Miami and Erie canal, is fourteen miles from Lima. Newspaper: Journal, Independent, S.L. Ashton, editor. Bank: Citizens', Post & Wasson; I.B. Post, cashier. Churches: one Methodist, one German Methodist, two Baptist, one Catholic, one German Reformed, and one Christian. MANUFACTURES AND EMPLOYEES. -J.S. Fogle, Sr., lumber, 5 hands; Richard Hanse, churns, 10; George Kephart, clothes-racks, etc., 10; Kolter & Kraft, flour and feed, 6; R.H. Harbison, builders' wood-work, and also staves and heading, 532. School census 1886, 468; C..R. Carlo, principal, Small villages, with census in 1880: Elida, 302; Lafayette, 333; Westminster, 225; Cairo, 316; Beaver Dam, 353. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:22:18 -0800 From: "Hollis G. Best" <"hgb@inreach.com"@inreach.com> Subject: EDWARD TALBOTT From page 824/825 - HISTORY OF MEDINA CO., OH - (Baskin & Battey - 1881) within a section of biographical sketches of citizens of Chatham Twp. EDWARD TALBOTT, EDWARD TALBOTT, retired farmer; P.O. Chatham Center; was born in Cazenovia Township, Madison Co., N.Y., son of SAMUEL and BETSEY (ARNOLD) TALBOTT. BETSEY was a daughter of PELEG, who was born in Providence, R.I., and of Scotch ancestry. EDWARD TALBOTT, grandfather of our subject, was a native of England, and emigrated to America during the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was a man of superior education and mental endowments, and was for may years in His Majesty's service as a Recording Officer and Surveyor. He was related to some of the noble families of England. His mother was a Countess, and resided in a fine mansion a short distance from London. SAMUEL TALBOTT, the father of our subject, was a farmer. To him were born nine children - HIRAM, LORENZO, EDWARD, ALPHEUS, GEORGE, MARIA, CAROLINE, ELIZA and SARAH. EDWARD was 22 when he began for himself. His first purchase of land was in Murray Township, Orleans Co., N.Y. Jan 22, 1839, he was married to CYNTHIA REYNOLDS, born in Madison Co. N.Y. in 1816, daughter of COL. and PHEBE (AVERY) REYNOLDS. After his marriage, he purchased a small farm near his father's, where he resided until 1846, when he sold out and came West, locating in this township, purchasing 121 acres where Mr. FROST now resides. In 1855, he bought out MARCUS LYON, south of the Center, purchasing 146 2/3 acres at $30 per acre, and kept the same until 1870, when he sold out to A.C. PACKARD at $70 per acre, and has since resided at the Center. Five daughters have been born him, who have since married and are residents of the township. EUPHEMIA married AMASA CLAPP; LUCY A., P.C.STOWELL; HENRIETTA, W.H.SHANE; MATTIE, A.R. CLAPP; IDA, B.O. McCONNELL. Mr. TALBOTT began life poor, but by good management has accumulated a comfortable fortune. He is not a church member, nor has he ever taken an active part in the politics of his township, further than to vote intelligently. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 06:00:21 -0700 From: Don & Norma Subject: re: The Fuller Society web site I would like to thank all of you that stopped by our new web site for The Fuller Society. http://redrock.sedona.net/fullersociety Our first week proved to be very exciting, with more visitors than expected. Plan to visit often, as changes will be made, and new information added. And be sure to sign our guest book! Norma ..... normah@sedona.net -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #161 *******************************************