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BIOGRAPHIES
(Source: History of Northwestern Ohio & Auglaize County
- by C. W. Williamson - Columbus, Ohio - Press of W. M. Linn &
Sons - 1905)
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JUDGE
LEVI HAMAKER was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania,
June 6th, 1813, and died Sept. 22d, 1885. The first
eighteen years of his life were spent on his father's farm.
At the end of his eighteenth year he left the farm to learn the
milling trade, and afterward settled in Dayton, Ohio. In
1839 he moved to Chambersburg, a village north of Dayton, where
he taught several terms of school. In 1840 he married
Miss Susan Randall of Butler township,
Montgomery county, Ohio. Of this union there were born one
son and two daughters. He was a candidate for auditor of
Montgomery county in 1850, when C. L. Valandingham was a
candidate for the Legislature from the same county. At the
election both were defeated. The next year Mr.
Hamaker moved to St. Marys this county, where he
taught school and became deputy collector on the canal. In
1866 he was elected probate judge, in which office he served
twelve years. At the April election in 1880 he was elected
justice of the peace for Duchouquet township and also mayor of
Wapakoneta. Judge Hamaker was a man of affable
manners and he had the faculty of pleasing the people. His
long tenure in office is an evidence of his popularity with the
people.
In the latter part of June 1885 he
was stricken with paralysis, of which he died, in September.
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JOHN HAWTHORN was born in Ireland in 1790, and came to
the United States in 1811, locating first in Pennsylvania, where
he engaged in farming until 1824, when he moved to St. Marys and
engaged in boating between St. Marys and Fort Wayne. He
continued in this business for a number of years when he purchased
a farm near St. Marys, on which he resided until his death, which
occurred in Jan. 1877. When he settled in St. Marys, the
county surrounding the place was an unbroken wilderness, filled
and wild animals of many varieties, and the savage Shawnee
Indians.
Boating on the St. Marys
river afforded the only means at that time of accumulating money.
The consequence was, that nearly all of the first settlers were
boatmen.
Mr. Hawthorn
raised a family of ten children of whom Mrs. William Barington is
the only survivor.
Source 1: History of Western Ohio &
Auglaize County - by C. W. Williamson - Columbus, Ohio -
Press of W. M. Linn & Sons - 1905 - Page 668 - St. Mary's Twp. |
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HENRY
M. HELM was born in Virginia in 1798. He married
Angelina Spanklin in 1819, and after residing in
Kentucky and southern Ohio, came to St. Mary's in the spring of
1827. He was elected justice of the peace in 1831, and
received his commission from Duncan McArthur.
He was commissioned captain of militia by Allen Trimble
in 1828. He was a carpenter by trade, and possessed great
genius. At that time Dayton was the nearest milling point,
but Mr. Helm one day went to the river, and
finding two very hard stones, took them home, dressed them, and
constructed a handmill, which served the purposes of himself and
neighbors. His family consisted of three children.
Mrs. Helm died in 1827, and Mr. Helm, Mar. 15th,
1875. (From Sutton's History of Auglaize County.)
Source 1: History of Western Ohio & Auglaize County - by C.
W. Williamson - Columbus, Ohio - Press of W. M. Linn & Sons - 1905
- Page 672 - St. Mary's Twp. |
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DR. GEORGE W. HOLBROOK was a
native of Palmyra, Ontario County, New York. He was born
September 12th, 1808, and died ____. At the age of eighteen
he left home to study medicine and surgery in the office of Dr.
William Robinson of Palmyra. After completing the usual
two years course of reading under Dr. Robinson, he spent
two years more in the medical department of the University of New
York, where he received a medical degree. In the autumn of
1832 he came to Ohio, and located at Lockbourne, Franklin county,
where he practiced his profession for two years, when he moved to
Wapakoneta in the summer of 1834. Here he continued the
practice of his profession until 1854, when he retired from
practice. He was succeeded by Dr. John H. Nichols,
who afterward became one of the leading physicians of the county.
Dr. Holbrook originated and drafted a map of Auglaize
county in 1846, which he submitted to Alexander Van Horn,
Robert J. Skinner and others. Van Horn pronounced
the project "visionary," but added, "there is no telling what this
Yankee doctor may accomplish." The doctor did accomplish
much, and the erection of the county may, perhaps, be considered
the most important achievement of his life. He attended the
sessions of the Ohio Legislature while the bill for the erection
of the county was under consideration. In the session of
1846 the bill passed the House, but failed in the Senate; it also
failed at the next session, but Feb. 13, 1848, the bill passed
both houses, and Auglaize county was enrolled with the other
counties of the state. The same Legislature gave him a
hearty indorsement by electing him to the office of Associate
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he retained until
the office was superseded by that of the Probate Court under the
new Constitution.
The Doctor worked hard to secure the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and it was even engrossed, to pass through Kenton,
Wapakoneta and St. Mary's, and thence toward Chicago; but the
citizens of St. Mary's opposed the road; it was thus defeated, and
running north of the county, passed through Lima. He also
labored diligently and contributed largely of his means to secure
the other agents, they raised $75,000 toward the construction of
the road.
Dr. Holbrook served as Representative from
Auglaize county in the State Legislature from 1881 to 1885.
He was elected township clerk of Duchouquet township in 1835, and
treasurer of the township in 1842.
Notwithstanding his personal peculiarities, the Doctor
was always willing to contribute his time and money to prosecute
any worthy public enterprise. Dr. Holbrook died June
1, 1890. |
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