OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 128 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 128 Today's Topics: #1 Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Foster) [Archives ] #2 Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Frey) [Archives ] #3 Oh-Hancock-Seneca Co. Bios (Gassma [Archives ] #4 Oh-Hancock-Columbiana Co. Bios (Gl [Archives ] #5 Oh-Hancock-Delaware Co. Bios (Gles [Archives ] #6 Oh-Pickaway Co. Wills (Haller) [Archives ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: 19 Aug 2005 04:51:20 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050819045120.23472.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Foster) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Foster, Jacob ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 19, 2005, 12:51 am Author: Warner & Beers (1886) JACOB FOSTER, farmer, Findlay, settled in Findlay Township, this county, December 24, 1828, and cleared the farm on Section 6. He has lived in town twenty years. He was united in marriage with Adeline De Witt, and they have eight children now living: Sarah, wife of Sylvester Geyer; Ellen, wife of Walter Watson; Mary, wife of Samuel Fisher; John; Edson; Hester, wife of John Lynes; Charlie, and Luia, wife of William Sultner. Mr. and Mrs. Foster attend the services of. the Church of God. In politics he is a red hot Republican. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Findlay Township and Village File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/foster260bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: 19 Aug 2005 04:52:46 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050819045246.23820.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock Co. Bios (Frey) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Frey, Samuel Dunbar 1826 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 19, 2005, 12:52 am Author: Warner & Beers (1886) SAMUEL DUNBAR FREY, retired druggist, Findlay, was born in Somerset County. Penn., July 18. 1826, and comes of worthy German ancestry (on his father's side) in Maryland. His grandfather, Frey, settled in Baltimore, Md. (from Germany) where he was prominently connected with his profession of civil engineering and surveying, and did some important contracting and building, among which might be mentioned the National Road from Baltimore to Washington, D. C. He left a large family. Dr. William Frey, father of our subject, left a good practice in Pennsylvania and returned to Maryland, where he represented Alleghany County on different occasions in the Legislature of that State. He died in 1865, aged sixty-five years, leaving a family of seven sons and one daughter. Three of the sons have worthily represented the father's profession. Our subject completed a good education at Uniontown Academy, graduating in a classical and scientific course of study, and read medicine for a few years. He, however, disliked the practice of medicine, and turned his attention to other pursuits. In 1851 he came West, and was connected with railway building for some time with headquarters at Bellefontaine, Ohio. In 1857 he came to Findlay, and subsequently embarked in the drug business. He was married, in Somerset County, Penn., in 1851, to Priscilla B., daughter of John Slicer, and by her he has one son, William, who carries on the drug business. Mr. Frey has always been a liberal supporter of measures tending to the growth of his adopted city. He is a worthy Mason of over twenty-three years' standing, a liberal supporter of the Methodist Church, and socially is an excellent gentleman. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Findlay Township and Village File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/frey261bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: 19 Aug 2005 04:54:03 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050819045403.24331.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock-Seneca Co. Bios (Gassman) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock-Seneca County OhArchives Biographies.....Gassman, Jacob W. 1845 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 19, 2005, 12:54 am Author: Warner & Beers (1886) JACOB W. GASSMAN, clerk, Findlay, was born in Eppingen, Baden, March 7, 1845, son of William and Catherine Haasinger Gassman, who came to this country in 1848, the former of whom, a baker by trade, left his native country in consequence of the Revolution there, that he might enjoy his liberty in free America. William Gassman removed from Seneca County, Ohio, to Findlay, where he at present resides. Of his three sons and two daughters, Elizabeth is the wife of M. B. Weaver, of Valley Falls, Kas.; Emanuel and Daniel (twins) are invalids, and only Jacob W., who is the eldest, and Lena, the youngest, are now living at home. Upon the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion Jacob W. Gassman enlisted in Company A, Sixty-fifth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, and did active and honorable service for over three years. He was wounded at the battle near Petersburg, Va., and after receiving an honorable discharge returned home and enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving two months. Mr. Gassman is a worthy citizen and an exemplary son, and since his father's health failed has taken entire charge of the family's support, and has attended to the necessities of his invalid brothers. He is a member of Stoner Post, G. A. R. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Findlay Township and Village File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/gassman262bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: 19 Aug 2005 04:55:21 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050819045521.24682.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock-Columbiana Co. Bios (Glessner) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock-Columbiana County OhArchives Biographies.....Glessner, Lewis 1845 - 1879 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 19, 2005, 12:55 am Author: Warner & Beers (1886) LEWIS GLESSNER (deceased) was born in Somerset County, Penn., September 1, 1811, and when six years of age removed to Columbiana County, Ohio, with his parents, who settled in the woods, where he remained at farm work (meantime learning a trade at New Lisbon) until 1833, when he located at Delaware, Ohio. In 1861 he came to Findlay, Ohio, and purchased the Hancock Courier, which, in company with his son, W. L. Glessner, he published till 1865. He then began publishing the Newark, Ohio, Advocate, which was continued by him for a year and a half, after which he returned to Findlay and again assumed control of the Hancock Courier, to which, from that time, he devoted his undivided energies. Thus for nearly eighteen years he was identified with the business interests of this section, as well as being the molder and expounder of the principles of the political party of his convictions and choice. He did not make the Hancock Courier "a stepping-stone to something else." He never sought nor claimed any other reward for his labor in behalf of his party, or in advocating the general good, than the approval of his own conscience and the knowledge that his efforts were appreciated. While at any time the people would gladly have called him to the councils of the State and Nation, they knew his ambition was to serve in the sphere he had chosen. Barely do we find such singleness of purpose as displayed by him. Acting from the highest motives the editor of the Hancock Courier was thus able to take a fearless, independent position, that gave his utterances weight in the councils of his party, and won for him the respect of those whose principles he opposed. Not a great while before his death, which occurred March 13, 1879, he constructed a handsome brick building, the "Courier Block," and at the dedication of the building a large gathering of friends of the paper and personal friends of Mr. Glessner took place, and congratulatory addresses were made, which gave evidence of the high esteem in which the publisher was held. In Mr. Glessner's reply to these addresses, he said, among other things: "In purchasing the Courier and locating here, I did so with the purpose of becoming identified with the interests, improvements, growth and prosperity of Findlay and Hancock County, and if the course pursued by the Courier has been such as to foster and encourage a spirit of substantial public improvement of streets, sewerage, public and private buildings, or otherwise improving and beautifying our thriving town, to the greater health and comfort of its people; if, by precept or example it has induced the planting of one more shade tree, or ornamental shrub, or bed of flowers, to cheer some weary mortal on life's journey, than would otherwise have been planted, its aim, as a local paper, has been partially accomplished and the labors of its editors have not been altogether in vain." Lewis Glessner was married, April 8, 1838, in Delaware, Ohio, to Georgiana Cowles, by whom he was blessed with a large family. A writer says, relative to Mr. Glessner's death, "he was well thought of and respected abroad, as well as in Hancock County, where he had hosts of friends. A life of integrity and purity, such as he lived, is an unspeakable blessing. It is something to live such a life, it is much for a community to lose it." Mr. Glessner was a kind husband, and was blessed in having a wife ready to sympathize with him in all his trials, and rejoice with him in all his successes. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Findlay Township and Village File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/glessner263bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: 19 Aug 2005 04:59:07 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050819045907.25518.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Hancock-Delaware Co. Bios (Glessner) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hancock-Delaware County OhArchives Biographies.....Glessner, F. H. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com August 19, 2005, 12:59 am Author: Warner & Beers (1886) F. H. GLESSNER, editor of the Hancock Courier, Findlay, was born in Delaware, Ohio; son of Lewis and Georgiana (Cowles) Glessner, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. In 1861 Lewis Glessner came to Findlay with his family from Delaware County and purchased the Hancock Courier, which he ably carried on till his death in 1879. He had learned the chair-making business, and later engaged in farming and stock raising in Delaware County, which he carried on till coming to Findlay. He reared a family of five sons and four daughters, of whom William L. is publisher of the Recorder at Americus, Ga.; Leonard C. is publisher of The Earth at Sedalia, Mo.; Douglas is publisher of the News at Griffin, Ga.; Fred H. is editor and publisher of the Hancock Courier. Edward, the second son, a member of the Fifty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infanty, died of wounds received at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain. The mother is living with her daughters and is proprietor of the Hancock Courier; she is a worthy woman and mother, and an ardent worker for the Ladies' Benevolent Society in Findlay. Fred H., our subject, was reared to the profession of journalism, and after his father's death took charge of the paper, which he has ably conducted since. He has always been a public spirited and progressive citizen, and has contributed in no small degree to the advancement of the social and industrial life of his locality. He assisted in the organization of the Findlay Natural Gas Company, and served as its secretary, and upon the second year of its existence as its president. Mr. Glessner is an active member and secretary of the Findlay Improvement Company. He was united in marriage at Findlay, in 1872, with Ara A., daughter of Henry Isham, Esq., of Findlay. Additional Comments: Book Title: History Of Hancock County Findlay Township and Village File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hancock/bios/glessner264bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: 19 Aug 2005 05:18:25 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050819051825.30529.qmail@mail.best1-host.com> Subject: Oh-Pickaway Co. Wills (Haller) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Pickaway County OhArchives Wills.....Haller, Henry August 16, 1836 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Keyes bobkeyes@iwvisp.com August 19, 2005, 1:18 am Source: Will Book 2, P. 229-233 Written: August 16, 1836 Recorded: November 1, 1837 Transcribed by Robert W. Keyes March 3, 2004 Note: Original format was not maintained but content is as written. Source: FHL film#288397, Pickawy Co., OH Wills Vol 1-3; Old Will Book 1, p. 267-275 [Will was re-recorded in Will Book 2. Will Bk 1 illegible] Will Book 2, p. 229-233 Will of Henry Haller 0-614 I Henry Haller of the County of Pickaway in the State of Ohio do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say, 1st. First it is my will that my financial expenses and all my just debts be paid. 2nd. Second. I give divise and bequeath to my beloved wife Magdalina Haller in lieu of her dower, three hundred dollars per annum during her natural life to be paid to her semi annually by my Executors, and also so much of the household furniture in my house at the time of my death as she may choose to take and and I hereby declare it to be my intention expressly that the above legacy and bequest to my wife Magdalina is in lieu of her dower of me and to all or any part of my estate or estates. 3rd. Third. I give and bequeath to my brothers Isaac Haller, Lewis Haller, and Benjamin Haller, five hundred dollars each, and I direct that my Exectrix and Executor pay the same to them so soon as they can conveniently. 4th. Fourth. I give and bequeath to my brother Jacob Haller, one eighth of my whole remaining property, after the payment of the first, second and third bequests. 5th. Fifth. I give and bequeath to the children and heirs of my Brother John Haller Decd one eighth of my whole property after the payment of the first, second and third bequests, the said eighth to be divided equally between them share & share alike. 6th. Sixth. I give and bequeath to my brother William Haller, one eight of my property after the payment of the first, second and third bequests. 7th. Seventh. I give and bequeath to my sister Elizabeth Mears, one eighth of my property after the payment of the first, second and third bequests. 8th. Eighth. I give and bequeath to the children and heirs of my Sister Sarah Webb decd one eigth of my property after the payment of the first, second and third bequests the said eighth to be divided between them, share and share alike. 9th. Nineth. I give and bequesth to my brother in law George Rause one eigth of my property after the payment of the first, second and third bequests. 10th. I give and bequesth to my brother in law Jacob Hunzinger one eighth of my property after the payment of the first, second and third bequests. 11th. Eleventh. I order and direct that my Executrix and Executor after the payment of the first, second, and third bequests, take one eigth of my property, being the last eighth, and with the consent of my Sister in law Mary Kinnear (wife of David Kinnear) and her children and heirs, or the majority of the whole, and with the said eighth, to purchase stock in the Chillicothe or Lancaster Ohio Banks, or tht the same money be loaned upon mortgages, or invested in lands, to and for the use of the said Mary during her natural life, and the interest, dividends or rents accruing from the same, be paid annually to the said Mary during her natural life, and at the death of said Mary, to go to her heirs, share and share alike. And furtherit is my will that one of the three suggestions by me made, as to the investment of said gift to the said Mary, shall be made. x I also further direct that my Executrix and Executor pay to Jacob Haller and Elizabeth Mears five hundred dollars, part of their legacies as soon as the same can conveniently be done. I also further direct that my Executor and Executrix collect the notes which I hold against William Mears and _________ Margarom in Catewissa Pennsylvania for about one hundred and fifty dollars, due in about two years which notes are now in the hands of Huntzinger and Rouse above named. I further declare it to be my will and testament, that if my wife Magdalina shall accept the legacy and gift hereinmade made to her in lieu of her dower as aforementioned, that then every clause of the above, is to stand in full force and virtue as my will and testament, but if my wife Magdalina shall not consent to take and receive the same, and will not make her election to take under the will, but will take her dower, then and in that case I give and bequeath the bequests, gifts, and legacies, that I have herin made to George Rouse, Jacob Huntzinger and Mary Kinnear and her heirs, to my brothers Jacob Haller, William Haller, Lewis Haller, Benjamin Haller, Elizabeth Mears, the heirs of John Haller Decd and the heirs of Sarah Webb decd in the same manner of the former bequests herin to them respectively and to be divided and distributed between them, in the same proportion that their former bequest herein bear to each other. I direct that my executrix and Executor shall sell all my property, both real and personal, that I may die possessed of, and that I have not herin disposed of, on such terms and such credits as they may think most advantagous and I hereby authorize and empower them to execute any deed or other article of conveyance, necessary for any lands by them or myself sold during my life time, the conveyances of which may not have been perfected, so soon as the conditions of sale shall be filled. And it is understood that all my property is to be reduced to money, and the money paid to the legatees. And lastly I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my wife Magdaline Executrix and George S. Brinkley of Tarleton Executor for this my last will and testament, revoking and annulling all former wills by me made and ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of August A.D. One thousand eight hundred and thiry six. Henry Haller (seal) Signed published and declared by the above named Henry Haller, as and for his last will and testament, in presence of us, who at his request, have signed the same as witnesses. H. N. Hedges Sr. P.K. Hull W.J. Wolfley The State of Ohio Pickaway County Personally appeared in open Court, Henry Hedges and William J. Wolfley of lawful age and made oath that they were present and saw Henry Haller decd sign his will now produced for probate, dated 16th August 1836 and that they believed him at the time, to be of lawful age and of sound and disposing mind and memory, and under no restraint and was by him declared to be his last will and testament, which was by us signed as witnesses. Special Court 1st november 1837 Wm J. Wolfley H. N. Jedges Sr. Sworn to in open Court 1st Nov 1837. Wm P. Darst Clk Codicil to Henry Halles'r Will I Henry Haller of sound mind and memory but frail in body, do publish this as a codicil to my last will and testament, which I executed on the sixteenth day of August 1836 in presence of P. K. Hull, W.J. Wolfley and Henry N. Hedges viz. 1st First It is my will that in addition to the bequest made to my beloved wife Magdalena in said will, that she have the use of the house, lot and appurtenances belonging thereto, which I purchased of William McArthur, situated in the Town of Circleville, during her natural life, if she chooses so long to ocupy the same, but if she chooses not to ocupy said house and lot and removes there from, or dies in possession of the same, then it is my will that the same be sold by my executors, on such terms and conditions as may be judged most advantageous by them or the ?????? and that the proceeds of such sale be distributed according to the provisions contained in my said last will and testament, and my said Executors, or the survivor of them is hereby empowered to convery said house and lot, to the purchasers, his heirs, or legal assigns, on the entire purchase money being paid, or well secured to them, or the survivor of them. 2nd. It is also my will that my Executors after paying my funeral expenses, costs of administration, and all just debts out of the first monies coming into their hands from my estate, pay to my beloved wife from the monies remaining, or that first comes into their hands thereafter, the three hundred dollars provided for her annual support, and that the same be paid to her each successive year, in preference to any other legacy named in said will, out of any monies, coming into the hands of my Executors. 3rd. It is also my will that inasmuch as I have advanced to my brother Jacob Haller, one hundred dollars recently, and also to my brother William same ???? since seven hundred and fifty dollars that the sums then? advanced them be deducted from their respective shares provided for in the fourth and sixth bequests made in my aforesaid will, thus reducing their one eighth portions of my estate that amount. 4th. Fourth. It is also my will that if my brothers Isaac and Benjamim should either of them die before their legacy is paid to them, that the money bequeathed to that one so dying shall not go to his heirs but to be distributed among the legatees named in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh bequests according to the provisions herein named. 5th. It is my will also that if any other Brothers, Lewis, Jacob, or William, or my sisters Elizabeth Mears and Mary Kinnear or my Brothers in law George Rouse and Jacob Huntzinger should either of them die before the bequest ?? their respective legacies; then ???? the children of the ones so dying and their personal representatives shall be entitled to the legacy that their Father or Mother would have been if living, share and share alike. 6th. Sixth. It is also my will that Guy H? Doan be substituted as an executor of this my last will in the place of George S. Binkley of Tarleton, hereby revoking so much of my said last will as named the said george S. Binkley as my executor, and ratifying and confirming all other things named in said will not re???gnant to this codicil. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal this 18th day of October 1837. Henry Haller (seal) The forgoing codicil was signed by the said Henry Haller and declared by him to be a codicil and part and parcel of his last will and tesament, in presence of us, who were called upon by him to witness the same this 18th day of October 1837. Mathew McCrea Lauriston Twining The State of Ohio Pickaway County Personally appeared in open Court Mathew McCrea and Lauriston Twining of lawful age and made oath that they were present and saw Henry Haller Decd sign his name to the codicil of his last will and testament which said Codicil is dated on the 18th day of October A.D. 1837 and that they believed him at the time to be of lawful age, and of sound mind and memory, and not under any restraint, which said Codicil was by him acknowledged, and that the same was by us signed as witnesses. Special Court November 1st 1837. Mathew McCrea Lauriston Twining Sworn to in open Court 1st Nov 1837 Wm P. Darst clk. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/pickaway/wills/haller57wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 11.9 Kb ______________________________ -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V05 Issue #128 *******************************************