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SENECA COUNTY - Part 3 TIFFIN IN 1846. -Tiffin, the county seat, is a compactly built village, on a level site, on the line of the railroad connecting Cincinnati with Sandusky City, and on the east bank of Sandusky river. It is 86 miles north of Columbus and 34 from Sandusky City. It was laid out about the year 1821, by Josiah Hedges, and named from the Hon. Edward Tiffin, of Ross, president of the convention which formed the constitution of Ohio, and the first governor of the State of Ohio in 1803. The town is gradually increasing with the growth of the county. The view was taken in the principal street, and shows on the left the court house and in the distance the spire of a Catholic church. It contains 2 Lutheran, 2 Catholic, 1 Episcopal, 1 Methodist Episcopal, 1 Reformed Methodist and 1 German Reformed church, 5 grocery and 9 dry goods stores, 1 foundry, 2 newspaper printing offices and had in 1840, 728 inhabitants; it now contains with the suburbs, about 1200. Opposite Tiffin, on the west bank of the Sandusky, is the small village of Fort Ball, so named from a fort erected there in the war of 1812, so called from Lieut. Col. James V. Ball, the commander of a squadron of cavalry under Harrison, while at Fort Seneca in this county. The fort was a small stockade with a ditch, occupying perhaps one-third of an acre. It stood on the bank of the river, about fifty rods south of the present bridge, and was used principally as a military depot. Vestiges of this work yet remain. On the old Indian reservation, in a limestone soil, are two white sulphur springs, respectively ten and twelve miles from Tiffin and about two apart. The water is clear and petrifies all objects with which it comes in contact. The water furnishes power sufficient for two large merchant mills, flows in great quantities and nearly alike in all seasons. In the northeastern corner of the county, in the township of Thompson, is a subterranean stream, about eighty feet under ground. The water is pure and cold, runs uniformly and in a northern direction. It is entered by a hole in the top, into which the curious can descend on foot, by the aid of a light. -Old Edition. TIFFIN, county-seat of Seneca, is eighty miles northwest of Columbus, forty-two miles southeast from Toledo; is on the T.B. & W.B. & O., and N.W. Railroads. It is the seat of Heidelberg College and other educational institutions, is in the midst of a very productive agricultural region and has extensive manufacturing interests. County officers, 1888: Auditor, James A. Norton; Clerk, Lewis Ulrich; Commissioners, Henry F. Hedden, Truman H. Bagby, Nicholas Burtscher; Coroner, Edward Lepper; Infirmary Directors, Daniel Metzger, John Rinebolt, William King; Probate Judge, John Royer; Prosecuting Attorney, WilliamH. Dore; Recorder, George F. Wentz; Sheriff, George Homan; Surveyor, George McGormley; Treasurer, Benjamin F. Myers. City officers, 1888: Mayor, Dr. J.F.E. Fanning; Marshal, John Hummer; Street Commissioner, Scudder Chamberlin; Solicitor, H.C. Keppel; Clerk, William Dore; Chief of Fire Department, John Roller; Treasurer, B.F. Myers. Newspapers: Seneca Advertiser, Democratic, Myers Bros., editors and publishers; Tribune and Herold, Republican, Locke & Bro., editors and publishers; Die Presse, German, George Homan, editor and publisher; News, democratic, D.J. Stalter, editor and publisher; Heidelberg Journal, literary, E.R. Good & Bro, editors and publishers; Village Gardener and Poultry Breeder, Philo J. Keller, editor and publisher. Churches: 1 Presbyterian, 2 Catholic, 1 Episcopal, 3 Evangelical, 1 Methodist Protestant, 3 Reformed, 1 Methodist Episcopal, 1 Lutheran, 1 Baptist. Banks: Commercial, Warren P. Noble, president, Samuel B. Sneath, cashier; Tiffin National, John D. Loomis, president, J.N. Chamberlin, cashier. MANUFACTURES AND EMPLOYEES. -Tiffin Union Churn Co., churns, washboards, etc., 58 hands; Tiffin Agricultural Works, agricultural implements, 11; E.S. Rockwell & Co., woolen goods, 90; Schuman & Co., lager beer, 11; Enterprise Manufacturing Co., sash, doors, etc., 19; Tiffin Manufacturing Co., sash, doors, etc., 18; Glick & McCormick, wagon supplies, etc., 25; R.H. Whitlock, boxes, 18; Tiffin Glass Co., table ware, 90; National Machinery Co., bolt and nut machinery, 103; Loomis & Nyman, general machine work, 30; H. Hubach, lager beer, 7; Ohio Stove Co., stoves, 42. -State Report, 1887. Population, 1880, 7,889. School census, 1888, 2,836; J.W. Knott, school superintendent. Capital invested in industrial establishments, $637,227. Value of annual product, $966,310. -Ohio Labor Statistics, 1887. Census, 1890, 10,801. Tiffin is a substantial, well-built city, and occupies both sides of the Sandusky river, including the site of the old Fort Ball. It is in a very rich country and has a large local trade. It is well named from Ohio's first governor -a gentleman of diversified attainments. TRAVELING NOTES. When any of us think of a place it is, I believe, the universal law to have spring into our mind its prominent personalities, and according to the characters that mentally rise, is that place pleasant or disagreeable. To multitudes of Ohio people, when they think of the city of Tiffin, comes into their minds Ohio's great orator for near two generations -GEN. WILLIAM H. GIBSON, born in Ohio in 1822, who, as he says, was "the first male infant carried into Seneca county." So well is he known that only as a matter of record is it necessary to mention him. I presume there is not a county in Ohio in which his voice has not been uplifted in patriotic utterance, and in many counties many times. I know not one living who has appeared so much in our State on public occasions as the orator of the day, especially at out-of-door meetings of farmers and at pioneer celebrations. And he gives so much gratification that even his own townsmen throng any public place when it is advertised he is to appear. So, in this case, the old saying about prophets not being honored at home, fails when he is to appear in Tiffin. Gen. Gibson is of the blonde order, with oval face, tall and graceful person; but his great peculiarity is the clearness and phenomenal powers of voice that enable him to send every word distinct to the ears of acres of people gathered around in the open fields. Seldom has been heard a voice like it since the days of Whitefield. Then he is such an entertaining, delight-giving speaker, that he will hold a miscellaneous audience of men, women and children for hours together. Capt. Henry Cromwell, an old citizen here in Tiffin, said to me, "I have been hearing Gibson for more than forty years, and I am amazed every time I hear him. In the Scott campaign of 1852 he introduced Gen. Scott to our people from the steps of the Shawhan House. A reporter of the New York Herald present said it was the best speech he had ever heard. In 1842, when a mere boy, I was present when he delivered the Independence Day oration at Melmore, then a spot well out in the woods. An old Revolutionary soldier sat by his side with long flowing white hair, done up in a queue. As he closed he made an eloquent apostrophe to the flag waving over them, and then turning round put both hands on the old man's head, saying 'Here is a man who fought for that flag.' Half of the audience were in tears. In the course of his life he has participated in twelve presidential campaigns as a campaign speaker, and seems good for more. In the Lincoln campaign Harriet Beecher Stowe happened to hear him, and wrote, 'I have heard many of the renowned orators of Europe and our own country, but I have never sat two and a half hours under such wonderful eloquence as that of Gen. William H. Gibson, of Ohio.'" Gen. Gibson as a youth began work on a farm, then learned the carpenter's trade, and finally was educated to the law; was elected to the office of state treasure in the year 1856, on the ticket with Salmon P. Chase as governor; served as colonel of the Forty-ninth Ohio, and was breveted brigadier-general on his retirement. Of late, having been duly qualified, he occasionally serves in the pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal Church. If, when we think of Tiffin, the graceful form and somewhat sad face of the eloquent Gibson rises to our mind; so, when we think of Fostoria, the genial face compact figure of another lights the scene. His is a phenomenal individuality -one that has illustrated that a man can be the governor of this great State and at the same moment "Charlie" to everybody in it. Born there, when all around was woods; growing up with the people, ever manifesting a cheerful, generous, helping spirit; his life illustrates the fraternal idea; so the humblest individuals of his home community rejoice that he is one of them. The Hon. Daniel Ryan, in his "History of Ohio," thus outlines his career: "The parents of CHARLES FOSTER were from Massachusetts. They moved West and settled in Seneca county, where he was born April 12, 1828. He received a common-school education and engaged in business pursuits for the early part of his life. In 1870 he was elected to Congress and served for eight years, although his district was politically very strong against him. While in Congress he was noted for the straightforward and businesslike view that he took of all measures. He was one of the Republican leaders of that body. The Republican party in 1879 nominated him for governor, and he was elected. He administered state affairs with success. He took advanced ground on taxing the liquor traffic, and his party -in fact, the entire people of Ohio -have indorsed his views. He is now in private life, devoting his attention to business affairs at Fostoria." Other noted persons come up with the thought of Seneca county. ANSON BURLINGAME in 1823 came with his father's family from the East -a child of three years. His father opened up a farm near Melmore, where he remained ten years. The family then removed to Michigan, but Anson soon returned and for a while taught school in Eden township. Eventually he settled in Massachusetts, after a course of law at Harvard. In 1856, while serving as a member of Congress from the Boston (Mass) district, he spoke in such terms of indignation of the brutal assault of Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina, upon the Massachusetts Senator, Charles Sumner, that Brooks challenged him. He promptly accepted, named rifles as the weapons,and Navy Island, just above Niagara Falls, as the place of meeting. Brooks demurred as to the place for the duel, alleging that to get there he should be obliged to go through an enemy's country. Burlingame was an adept with the rifle, learned in his youthful days by practice upon the wild beasts of Seneca county, and the public judgement was that Brooks, after his challenge, had learned that fact, and feared if the meeting took place, no matter where it might be, his fate would be that of some of those Seneca county bears. Burlingame's conduct was largely approved of by his party friends at the North, who on his return to Boston received him with distinguished honors. The crowning act of his life was when in 1858, as United States minister to China, he made that great treaty since known as the "Burlingame Treaty." This valuable and heroic man closed his half century of life while on a mission to St. Petersburg in 1870. Another mentionable fact connected with the personalities of this county, is that about a quarter of a century since, when that noted French divine, PERE HYACINTHE, left the bosom of mother church and advocated matrimony for priests, he proceeded to practice as he had preached and took for his bride a Seneca county lady. CONSUL WILLSHIRE BUTTERFIELD, the historian, born in New York, began his career of authorship in this county, wherein for many years was a teacher at one time head of its Public Schools. His first work was a small history of Seneca county. Of late removed to Madison, Wisconsin, he has for his carful study and work access to the superb collection of historical works in the Wisconsin State Library., an institution which confers lasting honor upon that young State. ALFRED H. WELCH, born at Fostoria, in 1850, died in 1888, when professor of English Literature in the Ohio State University,after a short but bright and useful career as teacher and author. Besides, a series of school books he published. "The Conflict of the Ages," "The Development of English Literature and Language," and "Man and his Relations." He started a youth of humble means and in the employment of Hon. Charles Foster, who observing his faithfulness and capacity assisted him to obtain a college education. He has been said in many respects to resemble Goldsmith. He was fond of flowers and children, and it was his delight to organize parties to hunt flowers in the wild woods or gather pond-lilies. -continued in part 4 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 06:37:41 -0500 From: "Linda Dietz" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000a01bf34dd$fe2ad560$8972bfa8@Linda> Subject: Pioneer Marriages in Allen County 1858 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Taken from Lima Democratic News Jan 1858 By Simon Whetstone, Noah COYE to Lydia WHITE By A. Conklin, Emanuel BOWERS to Maria BUNER By same, Joseph SHANK to Clarinda ARMSTRONG By Jno. Miller JP, Daniel EVERSOLE to Melvina TOMPKINS By Rev. Christian Suter, Abraham BASINGER to Catharine GRATZ By Geo. Overmyer JP, John RUPERT to Ann SIMPKINS By same, Adam DONHAISER to Catherine LEAS By same, John McMULLIN to Harriet HARTER By Michael Martz, Abram LONG to Louisa FORD By Jno. Shaffer JP, George LEEDOM to Rebecca ICE By J. Hughes JP, Karl ALBRIGHT to Mary BAKER By J. Klinger, Henry SHAFFER to Catharine BOWSHER By Rev. S. Slater. John McPHERRON to Jane BURDEN By Rev. A.R. Krebs, William PANGLE to Mary LIPSETT By same, Willet LEPLEY to Mary J. SHOCKEY Feb 1858 By Wm. Moorman, Matthew BABER to Mary BIRD By same, William FORD to Nancy CLARK By Jos. Griffith JP, Evan WATKINS to Ann MORGAN By same, David ROBINSON to Ellen EDWARDS By N. Hartshorn JP, Anthony LEMBIRD to Ermina CHAPEL By G. Stevens, William THAYER to Susan OSBORNE By same, Andrew CASEBEAR to Eliza FAULKNER By Rev. A.R. Krebs, A. KELLER to Minerva STUCKEY By same, Nicholas CUMMINS to Sylvina BURGLINE By J. Hughes JP, John ROOF to Mary STODART By John Shockey, Michael COOK to Matilda BERRY By Lewis Herring JP, William MILLER to Susanna SPANGLER By Jno. Shaffer JP, Henry BORAS to Priscilla HOFFMAN By J. Klinger, George SHAPPELL to Harriet BOWSHER Mar 1858 By J. Stirewalt, C. BUTTERFIELD to Letta REICHENEKER By same, P. LEWIS to Kate McCLURE By Geo. Schooler JP, Henry MALLETT to Matilda VANSCHOIK By W. Mayenfield, Christoph GESNER to Austina MOSCEN By Jno. Tussing, Peter IMLER to Lonvis RIDENOUR By N. Hartshorn JP, Isaac HALL to Elizabeth BECKWITH By Jno. Miller JP, Parker BAKER to Harriet HAWK By J. Hall JP, Simon HERRING to Lydia PIPER By Freeman Bell JP, Willam POINT to Eliza FULK By (Blank), John MATTER to Anna HOWENSTEIN By Jno. Richards JP, Henry HUFFMAN to Louisa HIGHLAND Nov 22,1999 Submitted by Linda Dietz---Ohio Proud Rootsweb Sponsor VP Allen Co,Genealogy Soc ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 06:46:59 -0500 From: "Linda Dietz" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001301bf34df$49ff9060$8972bfa8@Linda> Subject: Allen County Probate Court Notices 1861 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Taken from Allen County Democrat The following accounts have been filed in the Probate Court of Allen Co., Ohio and will be for hearing on Jan. 7, 1861 Final account of Moses McCOY, admr. of Robert McCOY, dec'd Final account of Jacob EARLY, guardian of Eliza EARLY First account of Jacob SAKEMILLER, guardian of Clark and Sarah SAKEMILLER Final account of Henry TRENTMAN, Exc. of Matthias SHEMILLER, dec'd Final account of James WARD, guardian of Nancy Jane LEATHERMAN Second account of Abraham BOYD, Exc. of James McCULLOUGH, dec'd First account of William AKERMAN, guardian of Jacob GUTHRIE First account of Daniel WORLEY, admr. of P.J. STIREWALT, dec'd T.M. Robb Probate Judge Nov 22,1999 Submitted by Linda Dietz---Ohio Proud Rootsweb Sponsor VP Allen Co,Genealogy Soc ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:38:40 -0800 From: donaldsha@solarstop.net (Donald Shafer) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000901bf3522$55234c00$37b7f4ce@default> Subject: OBIT MOHLER ALLEN CO. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Taken from Auglaize Co. Democrat Thursday March 6, 1913, page 8 Section one ALLEN COUNTIAN DIES William Franklin Mohler, a prominent resident of Shawnee township, Allen county, passed away at his home, two and one- half miles north east of Cridersville, Monday evening, March 3rd, 1913, at nine o'clock. Mr. Mohlers's illness extended over a period of two days and death was caused by apoplexy. He was well known in the community in which he lived, well-liked, and esteemed by all with whom he came in contact. The many friends and acquaintances of the family extend their sympathy to the bereaved family. Mr Mohler was 69 years of age. He is survivied by his wife, Mrs Mary Mohler, and by two sons, Clarence Mohler of Wapakoneta and John Mohler who resides on the farm with his parents. The following step-children are also left to mourn the departure of the father: Shelby Meffley, groceryman of Cridersville; George Meffley, a merchant of Ottawa, Charles Miller of Cridersvi! lle, Fred H. Sharp, also of that town, and Mrs Charles Baker of Syracuse, Ind. The funeral will be held Thursday morning, March 6th, 1913 at 10 o'clock at the Methodist church in Cridersville, Interment in the Lutheran cemetery near there ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:24:40 -0800 From: donaldsha@solarstop.net (Donald Shafer) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000801bf3522$541e5f20$37b7f4ce@default> Subject: OBIT MOHLER ALLEN CO. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From the Allen County Democrat dated March 26 1878 Died. In Shawnee township, March 14th, Mrs Magdalene Mohler, wife of Henry Mohler, aged 67 years 3 months and 27 days The deceased was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. In her nineteenth year she was received as member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and died in the hope of everlasting life. Her remains were interred at St. Paul's Lutheran church south of this city. Rev. G. T. Cooperrrider, of Lima, conducted the funeral services. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:18:30 -0800 From: donaldsha@solarstop.net (Donald Shafer) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000701bf3522$532420a0$37b7f4ce@default> Subject: 0BITURARY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The Allen County Democrat March 26, 1878 Died. In Shawnee township, March 14th, Mrs. Magdalene Mohler, wife of Henry Mohler, age 57 years 3 months and 27 days. The deceased was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. In her nineteenth year she was received as a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and died in the hope of everlasting life. Her remains were interred at St. Paul's Lutheran church south of this city. Rev. G. T. Cooperrider, of Lima, conducted the funeral service. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #795 *******************************************