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HENRY
McCARTNEY, Margaretta, Venice p. o., was born in
Margaretta September 28, 1832, and was a son of William and
Eliza (Cooper) McCartney, who were married in Knox county.
Eliza was born in Trenton, N. J., and William in
Kentucky, and settled in Margaretta before the year 1812.
He served in the War of 1812, and soon after its close, about
1815, purchased by article 700 acres, and also purchased the
first flouring custom mill erected at Venice. He was born in
1791, and died in January, 1877. They had a family of six
children, four of whom are now living: Mrs. Catharine Dwelley,
Mrs. Gertrude Chapman, Henry and Harvey C. At the
time of his death William C. owned over 1,300 acres.
Henry was reared to farm work and is now engaged in that
business. He was married in 1863 to Anna Neill,
who was born in Margaretta in 1845. They have had a family of
four children: Charles, born May 3, 1864; William,
born February 23, 1866; Thomas, born August 19,. 1868;
and^Catharine, born April 23, 1875. Ann was a daughter of
Thomas and Rebecca Neill, who came
from Maryland to Margaretta in 1832. Thomas was educated
at Ada, O., and Catharine is now a student at Toledo.
Mr. McCartney now owns a farm of 100 acres, of the
purchase made by his father, and 300 acres purchased since.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page 600 |
THOMAS
L. McEWEN, Sandusky, the wholesale and retail dealer in
flour and feed at Sandusky, was born in Huron, Erie county, in
1841. He was a son of T. C. and Huldah (Stevens)
McEwen. Huldah was born in Milan, Erie county, and her
husband, T. C, was born at Bellefonte, Centre county,
Pa., and settled in Erie county, O, in 1835. He was married in
1837, and had a family of three children : C. L., Thomas L.
and a sister, S. E. T. C. was engaged in the hardware
business, and in 1853 became a conductor on the S. M. and N.
Railroad. He was postmaster at Sandusky from 1861 to 1869.
Thomas L. McEwen was married in 1870 to Kate Ball,
of Newark. They have one son: Fred C, Thomas L. enlisted
in Company E, 3d Ohio Regiment, in 1861, and served to the close
of the war. He was discharged in August, 1865, at Columbus. He
has been engaged in the flour and feed business since 1882.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page 601 |
JOHN
McKELVEY, was born in Plymouth, Huron county, O., Feb. 8,
1835, being the youngest of ten children. His parents,
Matthew McKelvey and Nancy Adams, were married March 27,
1818, in Greenfield township, Huron Co., O. His father,
Matthew McKelvey, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa.,
January 30, 1794. His father was William McKelvey,
who had lost a leg in the Revolutionary War. The family
moved from Pennsylvania to Portage county, O., in 1804, and from
there to Trumbull county, in 1806, and from there to Huron
county, in 1815.
His mother Nancy Adams, was born in Windham
county, Vt., July 30, 1798, and with her parents moved to
Greenfield township, Huron county, O., in the spring of 1815.
Her father, Bildad Adams, was one of the first three
county commissioners of Huron county, and she taught the first
school in Peru township. Soon after their marriage his
parents moved to Sandusky, where his father engaged in the
mercantile business. In 1825 they changed their residence
to Plymouth, Huron county, where his father completed the third
frame building erected in that locality. He opened the
first general store, and continued to advance the growth of the
village by erecting more houses. In 1830 he erected a
building for that purpose, and established a seminary for young
ladies. The family continued to reside in Plymouth until
the fall of 1840, when they moved to Hardin county, where a
large quantity of land had been purchased, and commodious
buildings for those times had been erected. But the
misfortune of sickness, resulting in the deaths of the mother
and three sisters, caused the return of the father and the
remaining four children to Plymouth, in the spring of 1842,
where another sister soon died, leaving only the younger three
living of the family of ten children. Those three are
still living at this date (1888) and reside: Martha, Mrs. E.
C. Lovell, in Greenfield township, Huron county, O.;
Matthew, in Tiffin, O., and John, the subject of this
sketch, in Sandusky. Soon after the death of his father,
which occurred in March 18, 1853, in Greenfield township, Huron
county, John first secured a situation in the general
store of W. T. & A. K. West, in Sandusky, where he
remained during the summer, but desiring to obtain a better
education, he decided in the fall to teach school during the
winter months, and attend school at Oberlin College during the
remaining nine months of each year, and he pursued that course
for three years, until ill health compelled him to discontinue
it. He thereafter settled in Sandusky, and engaged in the
commission business. In 1861 he set out one of the first
vineyards in the vicinity of Sandusky, and thereafter set out
several more. In 1867 he became engaged in the real estate
and insurance business. He discontinued the insurance
branch in 1874, but has continued the real estate business to
the present time, and has, during the past twenty years, made
ten additions to the city of Sandusky. He became
interested in the wholesale ice business in 1876, and has
continued his interest therein to the present time. In
1865, he added materially in effecting a reorganization of the
Erie County Agricultural Society, and in securing the permanent
location of the fair grounds at Sandusky. It was
principally through his efforts that the Sandusky Tool Company
came into existence. He was married June 26, 1861, to
Jennie R. Huntington. They have had six children, four
of whom are living: Janet H., born April 2, 1862; John
Jay, born May 24, 1863; Alice R., born April 25, 1867;
Ralph H., born December 7, 1877. Janet, John Jay
and Alice are graduates of the Sandusky High School, and
Janet and John Jay are graduates of Oberlin
College; the former of the class of 1883, and the latter of the
class of 1884. John Jay also graduated from Harvard
College Law School, receiving the degrees of A. M. and L. L.
B. in 1887. He was married to Miss Mary C. Mattocks,
an Oberlin graduate of the class of 1885, of Cleveland, July 12,
1887, and is now engaged in the practice of the law in New York
City. Janet was married to the Rev. C. F. Swift,
an Oberlin College classmate, July 27, 1886, and he is at
present the pastor of the Congregational Church, Saratoga
Springs, N. Y.
Mrs. John McKelvey was the daughter of
Appollos and Deborah Huntington, and was born in Brownville,
Jefferson County, N. Y., August 8, 1837. She came with her
parents to Sandusky, in the spring of 1852. She is a
graduate of the Sandusky High School of the class of 1856.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page
601 |
JAMES
C. McKESSON, Groton, Sand Hill p. o., a pioneer of Erie
county, and a close observer of the many changes, was born in
Lycoming county, Pa., in 1814, and settled with his parents in
Perkins township in 1826. He was a son of Isaac and Betsey
(Colwell) McKesson. Isaac was a millwright, carpenter and
contract builder. They had a family of six children, three of
whom are now living: James C, Isaac, jr., and one
daughter. Isaac died in 1856, aged seventy-three years.
James C. was married in 1840 to Marietta Prout,
who was born in 1825. They have a family of four children:
Andrew D., Sarah E., Selina R. and Elmer Elsworth. Mrs.
McKesson was a daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Holt) Prout,
who settled in Erie county at an early date, coming-there from
Oneida county, N. Y. They had a family of ten children; three
sons and three daughters are now living. Andrew D. McKesson
was a student at Cleveland, and in 1861 he enlisted in the 8th
Ohio Regiment, re-enlisted in the 101st O. V. I., serving to the
close of the war. He was prominent in the construction of the
Mad River Railroad. His grandfather, John C. McKesson,
was the contractor. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary army,
and one of the wagon masters. At the close of the war he settled
in Pennsylvania.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page 601 |
THOMAS
McMAHON, Perkins, Sandusky p. o., was born in Ireland in
1812, and settled in Erie county, coming here from New York
State in 1846. He was married in 1850 to Margaret
Norton. They had a family of five children: Katie, Anna,
John, Thomas and George. Thomas died in 1873. His
wife, Margaret, was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1822,
and was a daughter of Michael and Katie
Fitzgerald, who settled in Sandusky in 1840, where Katie
died in 1847, leaving a family of eight children. Katie,
daughter of Thomas McMahon, is now the wife of
John Mulaney. John married Agnes
McGorey.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page 602 |
PETER
MAINZER, Perkins, Sandusky p. o., was born in Prussia in
1828, and was a son of Charles and Barbara
Mainzer, who emigrated to America in 1844, and settled in
Sandusky with two sons and one daughter. Charles died in
1864, and his wife, Barbara, in 1865. Peter learned the
carpenter trade and became an extensive builder and jobber, a
business in which he was engaged until 1885, when he became
engaged in farming, and now has a fine farm of 160 acres. He was
married in 1855 to Christina Smith, of Perkins.
They have had a family of eleven children: Mary C, Joseph
Peter, Rosa, Barbara C, Frances E., Johanna D., John A.,
Christina, Sarah K., Anthona F. and William C. Mr Mainzer
has served several years as town treasurer, and also held other
minor offices.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page 602 |
EDWARD
MANTEY, Margaretta. Sandusky p. o., was born in Russia in
1852, and was a son of Frederick A. and Dorothy (Pulaski)
Mantey. He came from Comientz, Russia, to America and
settled in Seneca county, O., in 1854, and in i860 came to Erie
county and settled in Margaretta township, where he purchased a
farm of twenty acres, which he converted into a vineyard. He has
a family of four children: Edward, Charles,
Albert and Sarah. Edward was married in
Sandusky in 1882 to Rosila M. Schonhardt, who was born in
Tiffin. They have had two children : Dorothy and Josephine.
Edward Mantey purchased a farm of thirty-two acres in
1880, ten acres of which he planted with Concord, Delaware,
Catawba and a number of other varieties of grapes. He is now
engaged in the manufacture of grape wines.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page 602 |
FREDERICK
MANTEY, JR., Margaretta, Sandusky p. o., was born in
Poland, Russia, in 1825. and was a son of Frederick and
Wilhelmina Mantey. Frederick learned the machinist and metal
working business. He was married in 1848 to Dorothy
Pulaski, and emigrated to America in 1854, settled in Green
Springs, O., and in i860 settled on Kelley's Island, where he
became engaged in the grape business. He purchased five acres of
land, which he converted into a vineyard. He purchased the land
for $600, and in 1864 sold it for $3,000. This same spring he
settled in Margaretta, where he purchased twenty acres at $100
per acre. He now has twenty-five acres, fifteen of which he has
converted into a vineyard. He was drafted, but furnished a
substitute. He had a family of six children. His wife,
Dorothy, died September 15, 1880, leaving a family of four
children: Edward, Charles, Albert, and Sarah, who
married John Schonhardt. Charles read medicine and
was graduated from the Cleveland Medical College in 1885, and
settled in Stark county in the practice of his profession.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page
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JOHN
P. MAYER, jr., Sandusky, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany,
in 1814, and settled in Tiffin, O., in 1840, and in 1846 settled
in Sandusky. In 1848 he became engaged in the manufacture of
furniture, in which business he is still engaged. He was married
in 1852 to Elizabeth Doerflinger, who was born in
Germany. They have had a family of eleven children, seven of
whom are now living: Frederica, Amelia, Julia, Lottie,
Esther, Clara and Cora. Mr. Mayer has been successful
in his real estate purchases as well as in his business.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page 602 |
AARON
WRIGHT MEEKER, Huron, one of the leading farmers of
Huron, was born in Berlin township January 14, 1816, and was a
son of Stephen and Polly (Platt) Meeker, who came from
Connecticut Stephen was born in 1780, and Polly in
1778. They settled in Ohio in 1810 with their children. They had
seven children in all: Barney, born in 1800; Hezekiah,
born in 1803; Hanford, born in 1808; Edward, born in
1804; Maria, born in 1811 ; Aaron W., born in 1816; and
George T., born in 1819. Two of the children are now living,
Maria and Aaron W. Stephen was a blacksmith by
trade, and built the steamers Eclipse and Lady of the Lake. He
was born in Hartford, Conn., and died in Huron, O. His wife died
in October, 1849. Aaron W. Meeker was married in 1838 to
Hannah Cuddeback, who was born in Vermillion in
1815. She died July 7, 1854, leaving five sons and one daughter:
Warren W., Polly M., Oscar, Barney, Frank and
Ernest. Mr. Meeker married his second wife, Cynthia Turner,
January 25, 1855. She was born November 7, 1831, in Victor,
Ontario county, N. Y. They have had two daughters, Hannah H.
and Martha. Stephen Meeker was judge of the
county, and postmaster for a number of years.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page 602 |
FRANK
MEEKER, Berlin, Ceylon p. o., was born in Huron in 1853,
and was a son of Aaron W. and Hannah (Cuddeback) Meeker,
who were married in Vermillion in 1838. Hannah was born
in 1815, and died July 7, 1854, leaving a family of six
children: Warren W., Polly M., Oscar, Barney, Frank and
Ernest. Aaron was born January 14, 1816, in Berlin township,
and was a son of Stephen and Polly (Platt) Meeker,
who came from Connecticut and settled here in 1810. Frank
Meeker was married January 12, 1876, to Viola
Griffin, a daughter of William and Lucy (Church) Griffin.
William Griffin was born in Connecticut in 1817.
They were married in 1848 and had two children: Viola,
and Eliza, who married George Barnes and
died in 1874, leaving two children, Charles and Lucy
Barnes. Mr. Griffin settled in Erie county with his parents,
his father, Nathaniel Griffin, being one of the
earliest settlers. William died in 1876. His widow,
Lucy, was a daughter of Theophilus and
Temperance D. Church, who came to this county from
Connecticut in 1820. They had a family of four children, of whom
Mrs. Griffin is now the only one surviving. She
now resides on the old homestead, which was purchased in 1855,
and which consists of 123 acres. At the time of purchasing they
paid $35 per acre.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page 603 |
JOHN
MEYER, Sandusky, a grocery and provision merchant of
Sandusky, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1834, and was a son of
Joseph and Bridget (Mellenn) Meyer, who were born and
married in Germany, where Joseph died, leaving a widow
and three sons, John, Andrew and Leo.
Bridget was born in 1814, and in 1852 came to America with
her three sons and settled in Sandusky. John and Andrew
enlisted in the army on the call for three months men, in the
107th Regiment, and were discharged at Camp Taylor, Cleveland.
John, after settling here, became engaged in the brewing
business, and in 1868 purchased a lot on which he erected his
store and dwelling, and became engaged in the grocery business.
He has been a member of the board of education for years.
He was married in Sandusky in 1857 to Elizabeth Denes,
who was born in Germany. They have had a family of five
children: Emma, Andrew, Frank, Anna, and John, jr.
Elizabeth was a daughter of John Denes.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 -
Page 604 |
AUGUST
MICHEL, Sandusky, a member of the firm of August and
Robert Michel, coopers of Sandusky. August was
born in Monroeville, Huron county, in 1856, and was a son of
John and Margaret (Smith) Michel. John was born
in Baden in 1822 and died in 1871; Margaret was born in
Bavaria, and died in 1884, leaving six children: August,
Robert, Henry, Lena, Mary and Paulina. August
was married in 1879 to Margaret Connors, of Sandusky.
They have had a family of five children, four of whom are now
living; George, born in 1881; Maggie, born
in 1883; Thomas, born in 1885; and Walter, born in
1887. Margaret was a daughter of Thomas Connors.
August learned the cooper's trade and settled in Sandusky
in 1879, as a journeyman cooper, and in 1882 became engaged in the manufacture of tanks, wine barrels, beer casks, etc.
The firm now employs fifteen men.
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page
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CHARLES
MILLER, Sandusky, the merchant tailor of Sandusky, was
born in Nassau, kingdom of Prussia, Germany, in 1829, and was a
son of William and Elizabeth Miller, who emigrated to
America in 1852, and settled in Sandusky, where they died
leaving a family of six children: Charles, William,
Elizabeth, Philapera, Wilhelmina and Anton.
Charles Miller came to America, in 1848, and worked in New
York and Ashland county, O., as a journeyman tailor, and in 1852
settled in Sandusky. In 1856 he commenced his merchant
tailoring business, and in 1857 formed a partnership with Julius
Robrhan,
Source: History of Erie County, Ohio - 1889 - Page
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HOWARD H.
MORTON, son of Dr. George R. and Christiana Morton,
was born in Sandusky, Ohio, on the 23rd of May, 1840. He
attended the Sandusky public schools to the completion of his
tuition, and then took courses in various other subjects.
When twelve years old, he and a companion of his age,
George Doll, acquired some old type and established
themselves in the printing business, at what was then, No. 14 E.
Adams St. With young Morton as editor, the two printed a
small leaflet bearing the ostensible title "The Sandusky
Gazette." This was their first adventure in the newspaper
business.
Mr. Morton continued in the job printing
business in Sandusky until about his twentieth year, when he
left of Washington, D. C. Here he established a job shop
and also edited and printed a periodical known as "The
Departments Journal", a publication devoted particularly to the
interest of clerks in the various governmental departments.
From 1862 to 1869 he clerked in the Treasury
Department, and was then transferred to the Department of
Internal Revenue.
On the 10th of July, 1864, he married at Cincinnati,
Ohio, Miss Annie Maria Morton of that city, and returned
with his bride to Washington. Here were born unto them
three sons: Alfred, Raleigh, and Horace.
During the Civil War, Mr. Morton was war
correspondent for the Cincinnati Enquirer and other leading
papers.
In May, 1875, following the death of his father in
April, Mr. Morton moved to Isle St. George in Ottawa
county, Ohio, where his father had a grape vineyard. Here
were born two sons and daughter: Clifford, Lawrence and
Kathryn.
Mr. Morton and his wife were accomplished scholars,
and also artists of exceptional ability. They devoted many
hours to portrait and landscape painting, which they pursued
together throughout their married life.
On September 30th, 1888, Mr. Morton passed away
at his island home after a short illness, and was buried in
Oakland Cemetery, Sandusky, Ohio.
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LAWRENCE
DYKINS MORTON, son of Howard H. and Annie M. Morton,
was born at Isle St. George in Ottawa county, Ohio on
December 5th, 1877. Here he diligently attended the
district school and was proficient in his studies.
At an early age he began work on the home farm in grape
growing and wine making.
In 1898 the Mortons left the island and took up
their residence in Sandusky, Ohio.
In 1900 Mr. Morton entered the employ of the
Hinde and Dauch Paper Company of this city, and for the past
fifteen years has been their sales manager.
On February 14th, 1914, Mr. Morton married at
Delaware, Ohio Miss Margaret Mendenhall Mead of that
city. He has two children: Mary and John.
Mr. Morton is a Mason and a member of the
Sunyendeand Club, the Elks, the Country Club, and the Sandusky
Yacht Club, in the latter he has been a member for the past
twenty years.
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