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MITCHELL - ASHLAND COU [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #7 A.J. ROYER - STARK COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:18:41 -0700 From: LeaAnn Subject: Erie Co. History Part 4 Historical Collections of Ohio Henry Howe LL.D. Erie County Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home-- In the latter part of the year 1885 P.R. Brown, Commander of the Department of Ohio, G.A.R., learned that some old soldiers, survivors of the Civil war, were living in county infirmaries. He immediately set inquiries on foot and learned by the end of the year that there were 300 such; and that many others, equally destitute, were supported by private benevolence. Soon after Gov. Foraker's inauguration, in January 1886, Commander Brown conferred with him, and found his sympathies warmly enlisted. A bill was introduced in the legislature and met with such general favor, that on the 30th of January an act was passed to establish "The Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home," for all honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines who have served the United States government in any of its wars, and who are citizens of Ohio at the date of the passage of this act, and are not able to support themselves, etc., etc., and who cannot gain admission to the national military homes. The Governor appointed L.F. Mack, of Sandusky; R.B. Brown, of Zanesville; Durbin Ward, of Lebanon; W.P. Orr, of Piqua; and Thomas T. Dill, of Mansfield, trustees. Durbin Ward, dying, Thomas R. Paxton, of Cincinnati, was appointed in his place, and I.F. Mack was elected president, and R.B. Brown, secretary. The board, on the 31st of July, having previously examined many titles in various parts of the State, resolved to establish the home near Sandusky. On the 19th of August, they selected as the site ninety acres of breezy land, partly wooded, a mile outside the corporate limits of the city; the land being donated to the State, and guarantees being given for the construction of a large stone sewer from the grounds to the lake, of mains for water, gas, electricity, a railway switch to the grounds and two fine avenues 100 feet in width as outlets. The grounds will be beautifully ornamented, the attractive features including a chain of lakes and shelter house. The terms have been fulfilled by the county, the city and by citizens. The legislature has been liberal in making appropriations from time to time; the trustees have been earnest in the work and have enjoyed the hearty cooperation of the governor. Plans have been adopted for buildings to accommodate about 1,000 inmates, and are now in course of construction; they consist of thirteen cottages of four different designs, dining and kitchen building, power house, laundry and bathrooms, hospital, chapel, conservatory and the administration building, in which are located the offices of the commandant and his assistants and of the Board of Trustees. The buildings are of the best Ohio limestone and sandstone, and from an architectural point of view present a handsome appearance. The land lies between forty and fifty feet above the level of the lake, and no higher land is near. The buildings are admirably designed, and are thoroughly built, with exterior walls of stone and partitions of brick. No building is more than two stories high. They will be comfortable and healthful and the architectural effect of the mass will be handsome and imposing. The board is to be congratulated on its choice of gen. M.F. Force, of Cincinnati, for commandant, a gentleman of rare ability, singular modesty and worth, under whose management the Home will assuredly meet the best purposes for which it is designed. When the civil war of 1861 was fairly inaugurated Gen. Force was a practicing attorney in Cincinnati. He joined a military company, and was soon after promoted to the lieutenant-colonecy of the Twentieth Ohio, and at camp Chase proved to be an excellent drill officer. The history of the twentieth shows what efficiency he developed as a commanding officer of the regiment, the brigade, and eventually of the division. Stooping over his wounded friend, Adjutant Walker, in the terrible conflict at Atlanta, he received a bullet through his face just below the eye, and he now bears upon his frontlet the honored scar of battle for his country. When the army disbanded Gen. Force returned to civil life, and was elected a Judge of the Superior Court of Hamilton County, which office he held until his resignation in 1887. The late Col. Charles Whittlesey wrote of him: "From his father, the late Peter Force, of Washington, he inherits a taste for literature, especially for history and ethnology. His publications, especially those upon the theory of evolution, devised by Darwin, and upon the character of the Mound Builders, also upon his war memoranda, filling one volume of the Scribner Series, display calm and faithful investigation with a clear and facile mode of expression. His address delivered at the first reunion of the twentieth Regiment, on the anniversary of the battle of Shiloh Church, April 6, 1876, shows the finish of his style and the close personal relations that existed with his men." ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:07:30 -0400 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: Palatine's Quinn Lecture Series May 15th - ---------------------------------------------------------------- FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 13-May-99 16:50 Subject: Palatine's Quinn Lecture Series May 15th - ---------------------------------------------------------------- From: "John Cramer" From Jim Subject: Palatine's Quinn Lecture Series Palatine's Quinn Lecture Series is on May 15th (Saturday) from 9-11:30 at Whetstone Library. Topic: Photo identification, Preservation and Restoration. Presentation by Margaret Deringer and Jim Amaral . . JohnW Cramer ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:16:02, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: WILLIAM R. MINICK - STARK COUNTY 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 WILLIAM R. MINICK is a native of Stark County, Ohio, where his birth occurred October 24, 1837. His parents, John and Nancy (Poland) Minick, were natives of Pennsylvania, the former born in 1818 and the latter in 1812; they had a family of nine children. John Minick went to Ohio in the prime of early youth, and for several years followed his trade, that of a carder and fuller, at Canton, and subsequently at Akron. He was married in Ohio, and in 1851 went to Allen County, Ind., where his death occurred in 1856. His widow was afterward married to David Perky and moved to De Kalb County, Ind., where she died in 1878. William Minick, from fourteen until twenty-two years of age, worked out by the month, and in 1859 came to this township, where he managed a farm one year on shares. November 6, 1860, he voted for Abraham Lincoln, and was married the same day to Hannah L. Cain, who was born in Johnson Township, this county, November 1, 1842, and is one of eight in the family of Simeon and Ann (Oliver) Cain, the former of whom was born in New York, November 1, 1808, and the latter in Clark County, Ohio, October 6, 1813. In 1861, Mr. Minick bought a farm in Williams County, Ohio, and in 1868 traded the same for one in Defiance County, Ohio, where he resided until he located on his present farm in this township in 1874. He owns 120 acres, and in connection with farming is engaged in selling agricultural implements. He is a Republican, and a member of the Meridian Sun Lodge, No. 76, A.F. & A.M. He joined the Masonic Order at Edgerton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Minick have four children, William W., a school teacher, Anna M., Frank A. and Charles A. Three of the subject's brothers served in the late war, John L. in Company A, Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry; he died at Indianapolis in 1864; George W, in Company A, Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Joseph S. in Company A. Twenty-first Indiana Heavy Artillery. The two last named are residents of Muskegon, Mich. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:16:09, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: ZOPHER CASE - ASHTABULA COUNTY 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 ZOPHER CASE was born November 2, 1816, in Ashtabula County, Ohio, and is a son of Zopher and Annie (Randle) Case. He is a grandson of Capt. Charles Case, a native of Connecticut, and a member of the company that formed Washington's Body Guard in the Revolutionary war. Capt. Case left his native State in 1798, and came to Warren, Ohio. Zopher Case, Sr., was born in Connecticut, and during the war of 1812, enlisted and served with distinction as Major in Col. Haye's regiment. He died in Ohio, and the spring of 1833 the widow and family emigrated to Sturgis, Mich. The spring of 1836, the subject of this sketch and four others came to the neighborhood where Mr. Case now lives, and entered land. Mr. Case erected a cabin just across the line in Milford Township, and then returned to Michigan for his mother and the rest of the family. The same year they located on their land. Mr. Case's is among the best farms in Johnson Township. Mrs. Case, his mother died in April, 1870. Subject is of a limited education. He married Nancy Highbargin, in 1838, and to them were born five sons and five daughters -Leander, Leroy, Clinton, Orin, George, Lenora, Alice, Mary, Clara, and one that died in infancy. The mother died in 1866, and in 1868 Mr. Case married Annie Smith, who has borne him four children -Riley, Guy, Zopher and Gaylord. Mr. Case is representative of the self-made men. He began with nothing, at the age of twelve, working for $3.00 per month. By labor and economy, he has acquired one of the largest and finest stock farms in the county, and at present owns 800 acres,having given the remainder to his children. He is an enterprising citizen, a Democrat, and a member of the Masonic fraternity of Wolcottville. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:16:11, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JOSEPH ESHELMAN - STARK COUNTY 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 JOSEPH ESHELMAN, deceased, was born June 10, 1809, near Harrisburg, Penn; he was a son of Henry and Jane (Brady) Eshelman, who were natives of Germany and Scotland; they came to the Untied States when young and were here married. The husband was born in 1789, was a solider in the war of 1812, and a farmer: he died in 1854. The wife was born in 1785 and died in 1829. Joseph Eshelman, deceased, was a farmer, and had but an ordinary education. In Pennsylvania, in March, 1832, he married Mary Erford, who was born March 6, 1815. After their marriage, they lived in Stark County, Ohio, and Summit County, Ohio for a time, and are now at Johnson Township, La Grange County. Mr. Eshelman came to the county in 1849, and purchased eighty acres of land where his son Levi now lives. He died December 11, 1879; was a member of the Evangelical Church. His widow still survives him, and resides in Johnson Township. They were the parents of thirteen children, only eight of whom are now living. Levi Eshelman was the eldest, born in Stark County, Ohio, August 22, 1838; he received but a limited education, and came with his parents to Indiana, in 1850. He assisted in clearing his father's place and was married in 1861 to Nancy A. Newnam, daughter of Asbury Newnam. For seven years after his marriage Levi farmed in Orange Township, Noble County. In March, 1870, he came to his present place. He is a Republican, owns 200 acres of good land, and he and wife are the parents of six children, and members of the Evangelical Church. Their children's names are John J., George F., Leroy L., Mary E., Henry E. and Harvey G. ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:16:05, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: BENJAMIN S. MITCHELL - ASHLAND COUNTY 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 BENJAMIN S. MITCHELL, a native of Westmoreland County, Penn., born December 2, 1811, is one of eleven in the family of Hugh and Phoebe (McClure) Mitchell. The parents were natives of Trenton, N.J., and Chester County, Penn., respectively, and Hugh Mitchell was Quartermaster in the Revolutionary war, also a commissioned officer in the New Jersey militia during the whisky rebellion there; his father, Randall Mitchell, was a wealthy merchant of Trenton. Hugh Mitchell, when a young man, went to Westmoreland County, Penn., where he clerked, taught school and was married; subsequently removing to Ashland County, ohio, where he died at the home of his son Benjamin, October 4, 1834; his wife died on the 11th of the succeeding April. The subject, at the age of twelve, began working out by the month, and at seventeen rented land in Ashland County, Ohio, and moved to Huron County, Ohio, where he kept hotel six and a half years, next engaging in the drover business, then in mercantile pursuits, continuing the latter six years at Fitchville, Huron Co., Ohio. In 1861, he bought his farm in this township where he is living. He belongs to, and was a charter member of Floral Lodge, No. 160, A.F. & A.M., at Fitchville, Ohio, and is also a member of Huron Chapter, No. 7, R.A.M. His wife is a member of the M.E. Church, and is the daughter of Frederick and Martha (Angel) Draggoo, who had thirteen children, and were natives respectively of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mr. Draggoo was a soldier in the war of 1812; his daughter Eleanor was born May 26, 1815 in Mercer County, Penn., and was married to Benjamin Mitchell January 3, 1833. They have had six children, two of whom are living -Martha, now Mrs. Samuel E. Beans, and Dora M., now Mrs. William H. Biddle. ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:16:14, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: A.J. ROYER - STARK COUNTY 1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA F.A. Battey & Co., 1882 A.J. ROYER is a son of Jacob and Mary (Mitchell) Royer, and was born in Beaver Township, Union Co., Penn., February 5, 1824. With his parents, he moved to Stark County, Ohio, in 1825, and was there reared on a farm to manhood. His father was a farmer. Mrs. Royer died in about 1865, and Mr. Royer in 1878. At the age of nineteen, A.J. Royer commenced learning the carpenter's trade. December 3, 1849, he was married to Miss Martha Stall, and to them were born three children -only one son, Norman H., yet living. This son married Josie Cosper, and resides in Johnston Township. After his marriage, Mr. Royer continued at his trade in Seneca County, Ohio, where he and his wife had moved, but after two years, returned to their former home. The summer of 1852, Mr. Royer came West. Not having sufficient means to purchase the location he desired, he returned to Ohio; but again returned to this township in 1853, and purchased 60 acres of his present farm. The fall of 1854, he moved his family out to the then new county, and immediately began clearing his farm and working at his trade. His wife, unable to withstand the hardships, died February 22, 1856. Mr. Royer's second and present wife is Catharine (Wert) Royer, to whom he was married January 29, 1857. Mrs. Royer was born in Vernon Township, Crawford Co., Ohio, May 5, 1834, and is a daughter of William and Jane (Patten) Wert. To Mr. and Mrs. Royer were born ten children -Albert J., deceased, Mary M., Charles S., William A., one that died in infancy without a name, Ida M., Eliza J., Laura B., Ira B., deceased, and Luella. Mr. Royer came to La Grange County a poor man, but by economy and industry has acquired 165 acres of good land. He is a Republican, and he and wife are leading members of the Evangelical Church. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #304 *******************************************