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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 725 Today's Topics: #1 Fw: OBIT: Ellinger, 1920, Hocking ["Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <006401bf169d$f3e968e0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: OBIT: Ellinger, 1920, Hocking Co, OH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: jill wiseman To: Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 4:56 PM Subject: (no subject) OBIT: Ellinger, 1920, Hocking Co, OH Debbie Wiseman wpooh@iapdatacom.net OBITUARY OF CHARLES (CARL) WILLIAM ELLINGER Carl William Ellinger, son of Philip and Carolina Ellinger, was born in Marion Township, Hocking County, April 18, 1853. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith in his youth and has always been identified with this church. He has followed farming all his life and in the past 20 years has been a tenant on the Case farm east of Logan. Mr. Ellinger was first married to Magdalene Daubenmier. Eight children blessed this union, two having preceded their father to eternity. The surviving children are Elizabeth, wife of Edward Beougher of Rockbridge, Charles and Anthony residing in Springfield, Amos and Mary, now Mrs. Montgomery, of Logan, and Frederick of Nelsonville, also 18 grandchildren. His companion was taken from him in death in May 1905. Four years later he was joined in marriage to Mrs. Ella Tucker with whom he lived happily until death separated them. About two years ago the deceased suffered from a long siege of typhoid fever, his life was despaired of and his recovery was slow, he hadn't been himself since. On Wednesday noon,, he was seriously injured when attempting to lower the hammer of a shotgun, the gun accidentally discharged, the force of the recoil struck him with such force in the abdominal region, that despite all that science and loving care could do, he departed this life Tuesday, July 6th at about 8:00 am. His age was 67 years, 2 months, 18 days. Mr. Ellinger was a hardworking Christian man, always ready to lend a hand where help was needed, well spoken of wherever he was known. The communion record of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church shows a remarkable record in as much as he has missed but one communion service in ten years. If he was not at his place in church on Sunday, there was a good reason for it. Since his unfortunate accident he was strengthened by the sacrament of his Lord and put himself and his loved ones into his keeping. He is dead, yet he liveth, his spirit, his loyalty to the Lord and his church will bring fruits in you. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, yea saith the Spirit they rest from their labors but their works follow them. Funeral services were conducted from the Hunter St. Lutheran Church, Tuesday afternoon; the attendance was such that the church could not hold all that had come to pay their respects. Internment at Oak Grove Cemetery. Rev. C.F. Lauer officiated. Harden & Co., Funeral directors.. Attended the Funeral The following persons were called here by the death of Charles William Ellinger, in Green Township: Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Ellinger, Mrs. Clara Bowers, Mr. and Mrs. George Daubenmier, Andrew Ellinger, Charles and Elmer Ellinger, William Duttler, John Seimaca, all of Lancaster, Charles Ellinger and Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Ellinger, daughters Florence and Louise of Springfield: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ellinger of Nelsonville, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Beougher and children of Rockbridge, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Ellinger of Logan, John Lane of Columbus, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Tucker, Bert and Dallas Tucker of Haydenville, Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Tucker of Nelsonville and Miss Edith Tucker of Logan. This was taken from The Logan Republican Newspaper Logan, Oh, Thursday, July 15, 1920 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:43:21 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <01dc01bf16a6$48261220$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History -- Know your Ohio Ohio in the Civil War Pt 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: kathi kelley To: Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 1:55 AM Subject: Bio History -- Know your Ohio Ohio in the Civil War Pt 1 *********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Diaries of S. J. Kelly Plains Dealer Know Your Ohio by Dalene E. Kelley *********************************************** Ohio in the Civil War -- Part 1 The Civil war transformed Ohio from a commercial state to many cities dependant on manuacturing. Migrating settlers transplanted their religious, political and social ideals to the western reserve including the abhorrence of slavery. Not all Ohioians hated slavery, nor were they convinced that a civil war would resolve the deep-rooted ideological differences. As the country moved to the election of 1860, and closer toward war, the rhetoric and emotional appeal of partisian was being editorialized in newspapers and somewhat clouded the issues. President Lincoln was wont to ask on the eve of a battle, how many Ohio men would participate. When he was asked why, he remarked, " Because I know that if there are many Ohio soldiers to be engaged, it is probable, we will win the battle, for they can be relied upon in such an emergency." Ohio provided 315 organizations of military units in the civil war. There were 6,536 killed in action, 4,674 died in hospitals, and 13,354 died of deseases contracted while in service. Hundreds of others sacrificed arms and legs, or were partially disabled in other ways for the remainder of their lives. Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, the three generals commonly acknowledged as having possessed superior military talents and accredited with leading the Federal forces to some of the greatest victories, were all natives of Ohio. Besides these, Ohio produced 19 major generals and 53 brigadier generals, with a total enlistment of 340,000 soldiers. Newspapers-- Politics -- & activities Cleveland citizens consistantly supported the war policy of the Lincoln administration. This was expressed in 3 forms, election returns; positions of the editors of the Leader, the Herald and the Plain Dealer; and the support that local government gave to military establishments and military related activities, including the recruitment of volunteers. The republican party had solid support in all counties of Ohio, except Huron by 1855. In 1859, republican George B. Senter was elected mayor with a majority of republican council members. City elections were dominated by the Union party [Republican] ticket in the years 1863-65. The greatest threat to Ohio republicans and to the Lincoln administration occurred during the gubernational election of 1863. Copperhead or Peace democrate Clement L. Vallandigham of Dayton ran against Cleveland democrat John Brough, who ran on the statewide Union party ticket. Copperhead activity, although limited, found its major voice in Plain Dealer editorial policy, which supported Vallandigham's candidacy and a platform of a negotiated peace with the Confederacy. The Cuyahoga County Union Central Committee polled the county before the election. In Brooklyn Twp., 650 voters counted as potential Union Party Brough supporters, and 225 as Vallandigham " traitors and doubtful " supporters. The poll excluded convalesscent soldiers at the U.S. General Hospital, but the officers there assured the Central Committee that the 200-300 patients were Brough men. Soldiers particularly opposed Vallandigham's peace position. As early as July 1861, Clevelander's in an unidentified regiment threatened to ride him out of their camp on a rail, calling him "secessionist" and "traitor" as he visited troops near Washington D.C. Officers extricated him from the encampment and kept the peace. In March 1862, 75 men of the 2D Ohio Volunteer Calvalry. many of them Clevelanders, destroyed the office and presses of the anti-Lincoln newspaper, Crisis, while wintering in Columbus. Bough beat Vallandigham soundly in the Oct election, with a majority of votes in Cuyoga County, he carried Cleveland. Support of the Lincoln adminisration continued to the 1864 presidential race. Lincoln won against Democrat George B. McClellan in Ohio by overwelming vote. The Union party received support from Democrats who backed the Lincoln administration. It found voice in the Herald, a moderate newspaper, and the Leader, which took a radical stance but by the war's end supported the Lincoln administration rather then congressional control of reconstruction. The Plain Dealer, edited by Democrat Joseph W. Gray, supported Stephen Douglas's Presdential candidacy in 1860 and like Douglas, backed Lincoln during te secession crisis of 1861. Gray's death in 1862, led to the editorship of J.S. Stephenson, who turned the paper into an anti-Lincoln orgin that supported the latter. Stephenson was replaced by William W. Armstrong in March 1865, who again made the Plain Dealer, a responsible opposition publication of the Democratic party. The issue of emancipation proved to be one of the most emotional issues of the war in Cleveland. Of the proposed Jan1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, Herald editor Josiah A. Harris, wrote that emancipation was necessary to defeat the south. Leader editor Edwin Cowles held that the north was morally right in emancipating slaves and that Lincoln was to be commended " for the stalwart blow he struck for freedom and for peace and future tranquility of the Union." Democrats, however, condemned emancipation. The war they felt, was being fought to preserve the union, not abolitionism. Stephenson of the Plain Dealer was replaced by William W. Armstrong in March 1865, who again made the Plain Dealer a responsible opposition publication of the Democratic party. ********************************************* Ohio in the civil war continues in part 2 -- ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:47:38 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <01e301bf16a6$e1120520$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History -- Know Your Ohio Ohio in the Civil War Pt 2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: kathi kelley To: Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 3:45 PM Subject: Bio History -- Know Your Ohio Ohio in the Civil War Pt 2 *********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio From the diaries of S.J. Kelly Plain Dealer Know Your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley *********************************************** Ohio in the Civil War -- Part 2 Newspapers,Politics, and the Civil War activities. Joseph William Gray -- Plain Dealer Joseph William Gray was the founder of the Plain Dealer newspaper. He was born Aug. 5 1813 in Bridgeport, Vt to Urel and Betsey ( Case ) Gray, and emigrated with his brother, Admiral Nelson Gray, to Cleveland in 1836. After teaching in local schools, Gray read law under Henry B. Payne and Heram V. Wilson and was admited to the bar. In partnership with his brother, Gray purchased the Cleveland Advertiser, a faltering Democratic weekly.in Dec 1841. He resurrected it on Jan 7th 1842 as the Cleveland Plain Dealer. A.N. Gray was business manger until shortly after the weekly converted to daily in 1845, when he left the Plain Dealer solely in his brother's charge. Gray was personally involved in Democratic politics. Appointed Cleveland postmaster by President Franklin Pierce in 1853, he was dismissed by Pres. Jas. Buchanan in 1858 for editorially supporting Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Gray lost the 1858 Congressional election in the normally Republican district to Edward Wade. He went to both the Charleston and Baltimore Democratic conventions in 1860 as a delegate pledged to Douglas, maintaining his support of Douglas even through defeat, endorsing the Senator's pledge of Union loyalty after the south's secession in 1861. For 20 years, Gray kept his Democratic paper alive in the heart of a Whig, later Republican stronghold. He died May 26, 1862, after a short illness at his home and was buried in the Erie St. Cemetary. William W. Armstrong -- Plain Dealer William W. Armstong was a local newspaper publisher and Democratic party political leader. He was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, and lived there until moving to Tiffin, Ohio in 1854, where he bought and published a local newspaper. After serving as a register in the State's treasurer's office in Columbus in 1865, he bought the Plain Dealer and edited it until 1883. In 1868 he testified at the impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson. Armstrong served as a delegate to the Democratic Natl. Convention's in 1868, 1880, and 1884. He also served on the Democratic Natl. Committee. In 1881, he declined the nomination to run for Gov of Ohio.. In 1891 the Democratic party adopted his rooster design as a party symbol. Often referred to as " major" or "general" Armstrong never served in the military. The titles dated from his youth, when he was a member of a military organization for young boys. The fact that his father, Gen. John Armstrong, had been a military officer, enhanced William's reputation of possing a military background. He died April 21, 1905 at his home in Cleveland and was buried in Tiffin, Ohio. Edwin W. Cowles-- Cleveland Leader Edwin W. Cowles, a prominent newspaper editor, was born Sept 19th, 1825, in Austinburg, Ohio, and came to Cleveland in 1839 as a printing apprentice. In 1844 Cowles and Timothy Smead formed a printing partnership. Cowles printed the Ohio American and True Democrat, acquiring an interest in the latter when it merged into the Forest City Democrat in 1853, making it the Cleveland Leader in 1854. Cowles led the Republican party in Cleveland, hosting, with his new partner, Joseph Medill, a meeting calling for the first Republican Natl. Convention, held n Pittsburgh in 1855. Cowles secured sole control of the Leader, became its editor, and made it the area's leading radical Republican voice. After the Republican victory in 1860, Cowles was rewarded with the Cleveland postmastership, where he pioneered free mail delivery. However, under Pres. Andrew Johnson, he was replaced as postmaster by Geo. A. Benedict, editor of the more moderate Herald. Cowles was an outspoken a nativist as he was a republican, heading the Cleveland Chapter of the anti-Catholic Order of the American Union, and carrying on an editorial war with Manly Tello, editor of the Catholic Universe. He was the city's last representative of the era of personal journalism and was eulogized even by rivals. When his two sons invented a new melting process for aluminum, Cowles devoted his declining energies to promoting a company to exploit their discovery. He died at home in Cleveland March 4th, 1890. Josiah A. Harris -- Cleveland Herald and Gazette. Josiah A. Harris, noted publisher and editor, son of Charity ( Messenger ) and Judge Josiah Harris, moved with his family from Becket, Mass, in 1818 to N. Amherst, Lorain County, in 1832. Harris settled in Elyria, was elected sheriff, and revived Elyria's first newspaper as the weekly Ohio Atlas & Elyria Advertiser. He sold the newspaper and traveled before coming to Cleveland in 1837 and purchasing the Cleveland Herald and Gazette with Judge Chas Whittlesey, who gave up his share after 1 year. Harris solidly established the Herald, paying its debts and providing its own printing office. He won local support by printing marriage, death, and meeting notices, and furnishing free papers to clergymen. He refused to print ads for the more notorious quack medicines, or notices for the return of run away slaves. Harris kept the Herald solidly behind the Whig Party. He was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1847. Joined by partners A.W. Fairbanks in 1849 and Geo A. Benedict in 1853, Harris began loosing his ties with the Herald. Benedict took over as editor in 1857, when Harris moved over to Edwin Cowles Leader, which he edited from Feb 1857-Nov. 1860. Although Harris briefly returned to the Herald, he quit journalism permanently after the civil war. His retirement was spent on a farm in Rocky River, where he raised grapes. After suffering a serious of strokes, he died at his daughter's home, on 21 Aug. 1876. He was buried in the Erie St Cemetary in Cleveland. ********************************************** As you can see many newspapers played many a role in politics as well as as a role of the people of Ohio. They reported what the people of Ohio wanted to know as to the daily and weekly happenings within the state as well as to the nation's politics and particularly the war news. There were a great number of newspapers in Ohio and many reported and responded to other outside newspapers in the nation. They kept the people informed as well as to keeping in touch with their loved ones elsewhere. The Newspapers played a great role in the civil war keeping Ohioians in the know and recording the events as they happened. ********************************************* Continued in part 3-- -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #725 *******************************************