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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                    Volume 99 : Issue 286

Today's Topics:
  #1 WASHINGTON CORTNER - DARKE COUNTY    [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #2 WILLIAM VANCE - DARKE COUNTY         [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #3 LEVI V. FORD - DARKE COUNTY          [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #4 W.W. FOWLER - DARKE COUNTY           [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]

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X-Message: #1
Date: Sat,  8 May 1999 19:50:38, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: WASHINGTON CORTNER - DARKE COUNTY


A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND.
A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894  - Page 1097-1098

        WASHINGTON CORTNER, a successful farmer and stock raiser, of Monroe
township, Randolph county, Ind., comes from the Buckeye state, having been
born in Darke county, January 31, 1839. He was reared on his father's farm
and remained at home until his marriage, April 4, 1860, to Huldah, daughter
of William and Mary A. (Dungan) Bradrick, who were married February 28,
1836, and had born to them a family of ten children, named as follows:
Elizabeth, William R., Catherine, Huldah, Benjamin F., Amanda A., Mary,
Mahlon, Sylvester M. and John W. The mother of these bade farewell to earth
March 2, 1887, and her mortal remains lie interred in the Macksville
cemetery. The aged father survives, and, as did his deceased wife, enjoys
the consolation of an abiding faith in the tenets of the Methodist church.
        After his marriage, Washington Cortner resided on a farm in Darke
county, Ohio, for three years, and then came to Monroe township, where he
owned an eighty-acre farm, all wooded. Here he built his cabin, cleared off
the timber, and wrought out from the wilderness a model farm, and after a
residence of ten years in the original and primitive cabin erected a fine
frame dwelling and added to his farm 110 acres, and added again, until he
now owns 430 acres, all well improved, and all the result of his industry
and enterprise, he having had only $500 on the start. His education in
early life was somewhat limited, but he was quick to learn and was enabled,
in his early days, to teach two terms of school, and this disciplinarian
process has given him great aid in attaining his present comfortable
condition. In addition to his farming, he largely handles live stock,
making a specialty of thoroughbred cattle. He also is a stockholder in the
Elkhorn Gas & Oil company. He has been munificent in his contributions to
school and church enterprises, having contributed $100 to the Meriom
college, and equally large sums to the various church edifices of his
township and to the pikes. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cortner were
named as follows: Noah F., deceased; Ezra L.; Alice Jane, wife of Henry
Courtner; William H.; Rosella, wife of Wm. Bosworth; Jesse and Herbert.

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X-Message: #2
Date: Sat,  8 May 1999 19:50:36, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: WILLIAM VANCE - DARKE COUNTY


BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 - Page 498-499

        WILLIAM VANCE, deceased, who was one of the pioneers, as well as a
prominent man of Adams County, was born in Fayette County, Ohio, about
1793, a son of William Vance, an early settler of Darke County, Ohio, where
he lived till his death. His wife died in Wells County, Indiana. William,
our subject, was reared to agricultural pursuits, his father having been a
farmer by occupation, and in his youth he received a good common-school
education. He was twice married, first to a Miss Mills, by whom he had a
family of four sons and one daughter. For his second wife he married Miss
Sarah Miller, in Darke County, Ohio, where she was born in 1803. To this
union were born seven children, five sons and two daughters. Mr. Vance came
to Adams County, Indiana, in the spring of 1835, locating on section 17 of
what is now Wabash Township. He came to Indiana a poor man, giving his coat
to pay for moving his family. David Studabaker loaned him money to enter
his first land, which consisted of thirty-three acres. He afterward entered
160 acres more,and by persevering industry and strict economy he was able
to add to his original tract of land till at his death he owned 233 acres.
In connection with his general farming he was quite extensively engaged in
stock raising. In his political views he was a Whig and took an active
interest in the political affairs of his township, and believed in a
protective tariff. He was the first assessor of Adams County, and assessed
the whole county. He represented several counties in the State Legislature,
was also county commissioner for some time, and for many years served as
school trustee. In his religious views he was a Universalist. His death
occurred in 1848 or '49. His widow survived until January 4, 1864.

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X-Message: #3
Date: Sat,  8 May 1999 22:42:42, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: LEVI V. FORD - DARKE COUNTY


A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND.
A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894  - Page 1105-1106

        LEVI V. FORD is a native of Randolph county, Ind.,having been born
here December 17, 1857. He is the only son of Mordecai and Sophia (Hoffman)
Ford. His father came from Darke county, Ohio; his grandfather from
Virginia; the great-grandfather from Scotland,and the great-grandfather
from Scotland, and the great-grandmother from Germany. The
great-grandparents were married in the old Dominion and then emigrated to
Darke county, Ohio, where they they engaged in farming, the
great-grandfather dying while there. The grandparents were born and reared
in Ohio, and were also farmers, and a successful people.
        Levi V. Ford's father was born in Darke county, January 5, 1830,
and grew to manhood there, and his mother also grew to womanhood in the
same place. The young people were united in marriage March 17, 1853, and
then moved to Farmland, where he engaged in the saw-mill business for a
period of five years. He purchased eighty acres of land, and then, after a
time, returned to his first vocation, saw-milling, which he engaged in for
three years more. He then returned to the farm, which was an unbroken tract
of timber. He was a good financier, and at the time of his death owned 240
acres of well improved land. Two children were the fruit of this union -Ida
Alice, wife of Saul O. Sumwalt, and Levi V. The father left his children
the legacy of a good education, both having been prepared for teachers. He
died January 15, 1879, and the mother passed away December 4, 1886, and
were both buried in the Hopewell cemetery. The father was a member of the
Masonic order, in which fraternity he
 took great pride, and was a good and efficient worker. In politics he was
a democrat, and was a stanch adherent to this time-honored party. The
mother was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a good woman in
every sense of the word. A beautiful monument, erected in loving memory of
them, marks the silent resting place of these two estimable people.
        Levi V. Ford passed his early life on the farm, but after his
father's death he was obliged to put up his books and assume the management
of the homestead place. He was married at the age of twenty-five years to
Miss Ella Bartmess, the accomplished daughter of Warren and Eliza (McCarty)
Bartmess. She was of Irish-German descent and one of five children, Ella
being the eldest. The others are named as follows: John, engaged in the
railroad service; William, in the same employment; Edgar, also the same;
Harry, deceased. After the marriage of our subject, he located on a farm of
10 acres, which had been given him by his father, on which he has made many
handsome improvements. Mr. Ford is a scientific farmer and a man fully
abreast of the times in his own peculiar employment, as well as otherwise.
He is a great reader, a close observer, and a good practical thinker. He is
a democrat, and in 1893 ran for sheriff on that ticket. No family in the
country stands higher in the estimati
on of the people than the Ford family, which is a model for any household.
Mr. Ford is business all the way through, and in connection with his
farming, handles farm implements and machinery. His marriage has been
blessed with two children, Lester and Edith.

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X-Message: #4
Date: Sat,  8 May 1999 22:42:39, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: W.W. FOWLER - DARKE COUNTY


A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND.
A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894  -  Page 1366

        W.W. FOWLER, a popular attorney at law of Union City, Randolph
county, Ind., and now in his mental and physical prime, was born in Darke
county, Ohio, November 5, 1851. His grandfather, Hezekiah Fowler, a native
of Frederick county, Md., and of English descent, located in Holmes county,
Ohio, prior to, and took part in, the war of 1812; moved to Darke county in
1818, settled on what is now the Winchester and Greenville pike, made an
improvement, and lived there until 1830. In November, 1831, he moved to the
state line of Indiana, entered 150 acres, forty of which are now within the
corporation of Union City, Ohio, but there was no village there at that
time, and Hanson T. Fowler (father of W. W.) then eight years of age, after
he had grown, killed a three-spike buck ont he site of Hon. N.
Cadwallader's present residence. Piqua, Ohio, was the nearest grain point,
and Greenville was a small trading post. Hezekiah traveled on horseback to
do his trading, never having owned a wag
on until he was a man grown. Hezekiah Fowler married Isabel Duval, of Darke
county, Ohio, and to the union were born nine children. Hanson T., the
eldest son, received eleven month's schooling, and with that exception was
self-taught; yet he taught in the common schools, both of Ohio and Indiana,
for many terms. He served in several township offices, and was a shrewd
business man withal. He and a brother made an addition of thirty-two lots
to Union City, which is now well built up with residences and factories,
and is known as Fowler Bros.' addition. Hanson T. first married, in 1830,
Sarah Livengood, daughter of John Livengood. She was then a resident of
Randolph county, Ind., but had been reared in Darke county, Ohio, and was
of Pennsylvania German parentage. Four children resulted from this union,
of whom three are living, viz: william W., Hezekiah and Jacob L. William W.
Fowler was educated in the common schools of country and city. In 1871 he
began teaching, and taught in Randolp
h and Jay counties, Ind., and in Darke county, Ohio, and at one time was
principal of Castine, Hillgrove and Dawn. He continued to teach until
February, 1889, and since 1890 has been engaged in the practice of the law,
having been admitted to the bar, in that year, at Columbus, Ohio. He had
been prepared for the profession by study at Greenville, Ohio, since 1885,
in the office of Allready & Bickel. In politics Mr. Fowler is a republican,
has been a delegate of his party to its state convention, and for two years
has served as corporation clerk of Union City. He was married, in 1879, to
Miss Ella Brambaugh, and is now the happy father of one son.

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