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Source:
A Centennial Biographical History
of
Richland and Ashland County, Ohio
- ILLUSTRATED -
A. J. Baughman, Editor
Chicago
The Lewis Publishing Co.
1901
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
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JONATHAN
UHLICH. Faithfulness in
public office not only attracts public attention, but
also brings substantial reward in the way of continuance
of public favor. This s a latter-day development
of public affairs which has superseded the comparative
apathy with which the average voter regarded the manner
in which public trusts were administered a generation or
more ago, and it has been impressed on the mind of the
writer by the approbation with which the people of
Richland county regard the management of the Richland
County Children's Home by Superintendent Uhlich.
Jonathan Uhlich was born in Madison township,
Richland county, Ohio, May 14, 1857, a son of Joseph
Uhlich, a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, born
Dec. 27, 1818, who arrived in Richland county May 12,
1830, and located in Madison township on a farm just
north of the Mansfield corporation line, now consisting
of one hundred and thirty acres, on which the subject of
this sketch first saw the light of day and of which he
is at this time the owner. Joseph Uhlich
married Miss Catharine Fiddler, also a native of
Berks county, Pennsylvania, born Apr. 30, 1821, whose
parents settled in Madison township. Joseph
Uhlich died June 15, 1890, his wife having died in
1880, aged fifty-six years. Mrs. Ella Fay
is their daughter and Mr. Uhlichs sister.
Jonathan Uhlich obtained an education in the
district schools, and after he had gained some practical
knowledge of affairs he engaged in business in Mansfield
from the farm in 1873, and from 1873 until 1897 he
carried on business in this city.
Mr. Uhlich married Miss Hattie Caldwell,
a daughter of Samuel Caldwell, born in Washington
county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and died in Missouri in
1880. She is a granddaughter of Samuel
Caldwell, Sr., who died about 1830. Her mother
was Sarah, nee Chambers, of
Springfield township, whose father, James Chambers,
was a pioneer settler from Pennsylvania in 1810.
Both the Caldwells and the Chamberses were
of Scotch-Irish descent. Mrs. Uhlich was
born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Sept. 18, 1858,
and was brought to this county by her parents in 1859.
The consensus of opinion in Mansfield is to the effect
that too much cannot be said in praise of the management
of the Children's Home by Mr. and Mrs. Uhlich,
who have had the institution in charge, as
superintendent and matron, respectively, since Sept. 1,
1897. The farm consists of forty acres of
well-cultivated land, and the house contains about sixty
large and airy rooms. It has a spacious hall and
is in every way splendidly appointed, an ideal home with
an avenue a quarter of a mile long bordered by young
trees, by which it is approached from the street.
The average number of children accommodated at the home
from different parts of the county is about sixty,
ranging in age from one year to sixteen. At the
latter age the children are placed in desirable homes,
where they are cared for until fully able to take care
of themselves. Since Mr. Uhlich assumed the
superintendency of the home it has never had less than
forty-two children under its roof nor more than
eighty-three. Mr. Uhlich is in all ways an
ideal superintendent for an establishment of this kind,
for he loves children to such a degree that he stands to
those under his charge practically in the relation of a
father, and Mrs. Uhlich is a veritable mother to
them all from the oldest to the youngest. Under
Mr. Uhlich's supervision the farm is managed exactly
as if it were his own personal enterprise instead of a
public institution.
Source: A
Centennial Biographical History of Richland and Ashland
County, Ohio - Publ. 1901 - Page 303 |
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