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(Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Crawford County, Ohio -
Chicago: 1902)
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OWEN OHL.
The man whose name is above is one of the old and honored
citizens of Texas township, Crawford county, Ohio, and is a
native of the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, having been born
in Luzerne county, February 28, 1833, a son of Philip and
Mary (Kless) Ohl, who had six children, named as follows:
Joshua, John, Owen, Abraham, Caroline
and Elizabeth, of whom the subject of this sketch is the
only one now living. Philip Ohl served his country
as a soldier in the war of 1812 and became a man of local
prominence at his old home in Pennsylvania. In 1851 he moved
with his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and located in Texas
township, Crawford county, on the farm now owned by his son
Owen. He bought eighty acres of land, on which was a small
clearing and a log house. He made improvements and remained
there continuously until 1876, when he died, at the age of
eighty-three years.
Owen Ohl lived on his father's home farm
until 1869, when he removed to Lykens township, where he bought
eighty acres of land, on which he lived seven years. After that
he lived for four years on a farm owned by his father-in-law,
Robert Dewalt, and then returned to his father's old
homestead. He has been successful in a material way and has
acquired two hundred acres of land, one hundred and twenty acres
of which he divided among his children in 1901, retaining only
his old homestead. In politics he is a Democrat and he and his
wife and children are communicants of the German Reformed
church.
Mr. Ohl was married May 11, 1861,
to Miss Isabelle Dewalt, daughter of
Robert Dewalt,
of Lykens township, and they have had seven children, the
following data concerning whom will be of interest in this
connection. Their son Robert lives in Wyandot county,
Ohio. Their daughter Mary is the wife of P. A.
Frankenfield, of Texas township, Crawford county. Their son
Richard E. is a farmer in Seneca county, Ohio. Their
daughter Laura E. is the wife of Albert Braldie,
of Seneca county, Ohio. Their son William is a well-known
citizen of Texas township. Their son Albert is a member
of their household. Their daughter Ida is the wife of
Willard Moore, of Texas township.
Mr. and Mrs. Ohl are passing the declining years of their
lives quietly and calmly, with few bitter memories and with many
pleasant thoughts of their past years, for their lives have been
blameless and their worldly success has been won by most worthy
means. Their charity has not been stinted and they have many
times proven themselves friends to those in need. Their example
has been a good one to their children and to all who know them
and they are justly held in high esteem by a wide circle of
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