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Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1899.
Transcribed by
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HON. W. A. SCOTT, JR.
The advancement of civilization is due, in no small
degree, to the individual lessons derived from the mistakes
and success of others. It is just as necessary that the
mariners know the rocks and the shoals to be avoided as it is
for them to know the safer and the surer way. It is in the
pages of history and biography that we trace the motives of
men, and find their effect in the progress of the world. Each
generation leaves a heritage of habits, good or ill, and happy
indeed is he who can point with pride to a long line of
honorable ancestry.
In the early days of this country, there settled in
Massachusetts one Scott, who lived a quiet, industrious life,
and there died. Joel Scott, one of his descendants, was born
October 20, 1751, and in 1774 was married to Miss Molly
Bacon,
who was born August 22, 1755, and died at Painesville, Lake
county, Ohio, August 30, 1821. Joel Scott enlisted as a
soldier in the Revolutionary war. In 1807 he removed to
Painesville, Ohio, and put in the first mills in northern
Ohio. As late as 1833 the mills at Painesville were still
running with its wooden cogs and gearing. In 1825 Mr.
Scott
went to Huron county, and located in Fairfield township. In
his religious belief he was a Presbyterian, and in politics a
Whig. He died November 8, 1835, in Swanton township, Lucas
county. In his family were the following children: (1) Joel,
Jr., born June, 1775, was married in 1801, to Laura
Matthews,
and died January 7, 1855, in New York. (2) Rufus (1), born
April, 1777, died the same year. (3) Pollie, born May 29,
1778, was married in August, 1801, to Abijah Merrill (who died
at Akron, Ohio, at the age of sixty-six), and died March 15,
1806. (4) Abigail, born September 12, 1780, was married
February 7, 1802, to David Harrott, who died, and she then,
May 3, 1807, wedded Abijah Merrill; she died August 28, 1872.
(5) Gad, born April 24, 1783, died October 30, 1805. (6)
Rufus
(2), born June 26, 1785, died in Swanton township, Lucas
county, September 2, 1835. (7) William, born May 8, 1788, was
married on June 15, 1840, to Liza A. Alexander, and died in
Vicksburg, Mississippi, October 31, 1841. His widow removed to
California, there remarried. (8) Chester, born September 7,
1790, died at Swanton August 4, 1868, at the age of
seventy-eight years. (9) Persis (1), born September, 1793,
died in August, 1797. (10) Persis (2), born April 15, 1798,
died January 27, 1861. (11) Philo B., born April 22, 1801, is
mentioned more fully below. Of these children—Rufus, William
and Chester were engaged in bridge building for many years on
the Western Reserve.
Philo B. Scott lived at Painesville, Ohio, and though
desirous of a college education, was unable to secure it. He
spent two or three years making a home in Huron county, which
at that time was still infested with bears, wolves, etc. For
nine years he lived in Thompson township, Seneca county, going
from there to Swanton township, Lucas county, in April, 1835.
In the spring of 1845, he was elected superintendent of the
Lucas County Infirmary. In politics he was first a Whig, and
then a Republican, having attended the convention held at
Maumee in 1854 when the principles of Republicanism were
adopted before the formal organization of the party. He also
served as justice of the peace, and held several township
offices. He helped to lay out the first road west of the
Maumee, known as the Old State road. In religion he was a
devout follower of John Wesley.
On December 27, 1821, Philo B. Scott was married to
Emelia Brown, who was born April 2, 1807, and died April 17,
1865. After her death he married Mrs. Anna Huftile. He was the
father of the following children, all by his first marriage:
(1) William Alfred, mentioned more fully below. (2)
Napoleon
B., born September, 1825, in Fairfield, Huron county, died in
Thompson township, Seneca county, Ohio, August 14, 1828. (3)
Charles J., born October 22, 1827, was married October 17,
1867, to Eliza A. Cowling. (4) Isabel S., born April 3, 1832,
died in Lucas county, April 6, 1853. (5) F. P., born in Lucas
county, December 19, 1837, died March 31, 1838. (6) Philo B.,
born June 1, 1839, died July 29, 1844. (7) Eliza E., born
December 12, 1841, was married August 25, 1870, to N. J.
Harding, and died at Norwalk, Ohio, January 27, 1879.
Mr.
Harding died at Grindstone City, Michigan, August 11, 1885.
(8) Mary L., born April 12, 1844, died May 10, 1844. (9)
Rufus
C, born March 30, 1845, was married November 29, 1867, to
Harriet Rogers. (10) Winfield, born July 16, 1849, was married
March 21, 1869, to Frances E. Rogers, and died November 13,
1873, preceded by his wife, who passed away October 15, 1870.
The father of this family was called to his final rest April
11, 1874.
William Alfred Scott, Sr. the eldest son in the above
mentioned family, was born August 21, 1823, and was educated
in the schools near his home and in a select school in Maumee.
His life, when out of the schoolroom, was spent on the farm
until he was twenty-one. He began the study of medicine, and
worked for a time in a drug store in Toledo, where he acquired
some knowledge of pharmacy. He attended medical lectures in
Cleveland, and while still a student served as physician to
the county infirmary. In 1849 he went to Vienna, Michigan, and
in .the spring of 1850 returned to Ohio. He married, and
started for California the same day, leaving his wife in Ohio.
The trip going was made over the plains, and the only white
settlement worth mentioning was at Salt Lake. He settled on
Maxwell's creek, and the Merced river, and engaged in trading
and mining. In December, 1852, he returned home by the way of
the Isthmus of Panama, and located in Lucas county, Ohio,
where he has been practicing almost continuously ever since.
He is much the oldest practicing physician in this locality,
and in spite of his years keeps abreast with the advancement
of the medical science. His first vote was cast for Henry Clay
in 1844; on the organization of the Republican party he became
one of its stanchest adherents, but since 1885 he has cast his
ballot in support of the men and the measures of the
Prohibition party.
On April 8, 1850, occurred the marriage of William
Alfred Scott, Sr., and Miss Eleanor Johnson, parents of whom
both died in 1835, leaving their six children—three sons and
three daughters—orphans. To Doctor and Mrs. Scott were born
five children: Ann, born February 27, 1856, died in March,
1856; Isabel, born October 8, 1858, died February 13, 1881;
William Alfred, Jr., a sketch of whom follows; Eleanor, born
August 11, 1868, and died August 20, 1877; and Winfield L.,.
born March 18, 1874. On June 8, 1892, the happy home was
darkened by the death of the devoted wife and mother, thus
closing a life spent in kindly thoughtfulness for others, and
in the making of a true home "the only bliss of Paradise that
hath survived the fall."
Hon. W. A. Scott, Jr., was born July 3, 1861, and
received his education in part at Olivett College, and in part
at Michigan University. At the age of sixteen years he began
teaching, in which he continued, some twenty-three terms, and
for one year he was principal of the Swanton schools. In 1886
he embarked in the insurance and real-estate businesses in
Swanton, buying out F. K. Hogue. In 1888 he was appointed
mayor of Swanton, and on the expiration of that term was
unanimously elected to the office. He has been clerk of the
school board for several years.
In 1895 Mr. Scott was elected to the Ohio Legislature
to represent Fulton county on the Republican ticket, running
ahead of it. At the nomination of this he had three opposing
candidates. In 1897 he was re-elected to .the Legislature, his
present term expiring in 1899. He was chairman of the
committee on Taxation, and a member of the committee on
Dairying and Food, the committee on Elections, and the
committee on Insurance. In February, 1898, he was appointed as
one of the delegates to represent the Republican League held
at Omaha, Nebraska, in July, 1898. From the time he was
twenty-one years old till leaving Lucas county he was a member
of every Republican political convention held in that county,
and he has been a prominent political speaker in different
campaigns.
On May 5, 1887, Mr. Scott was married to Cora Vaughan,
a native of Fulton county, Ohio, born February 19, 1863, and
educated in the schools of Swanton. Her father, James
C.
Vaughan, is still living in Swanton; her mother died June 20,
1878. To the marriage of our subject and his wife have come
two children, their names and dates of birth being as follows:
Ned, November 13, 1890, and Fred, January 9, 1893.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
Northwestern Ohio including the counties of Defiance, Henry,
Williams & Fulton. Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
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J. L. SHINABERGER. It
has been aptly stated that the latter half of the nineteenth
century is the "age of the young man." In looking over the
important events that have transpired in recent years, there
is found a greater number of young men taking prominent parts,
young men filling offices of greater responsibility, than ever
before. The practical but comprehensive educational system has
had a great deal to do toward opening the way for the young
man, whose energy, whose ambition urges him onward and upward. Such an one is
J. L. Shinaberger, sheriff of Fulton county,
Ohio, and the youngest man in the State holding that position.
He was born April 18, 1870, the son of Jacob and Hannah
(Kirkwood) Shinaberger.
James Shinaberger, his grandfather, was born in
Pennsylvania, and moved to Richland county, Ohio, later coming
to Fulton county. He married Margaret Holtz, of Pennsylvania,
by whom he had four children, all of whom are yet living: Lavina, wife of
Leonard Alleman, of Fulton county; Jacob,
mention of whom is made below; John, of Hillsdale county,
Michigan; and Sarah, wife of George Frederick, of this county.
Jacob Shinaberger was born in 1844, and followed
farming as an occupation all his life. During the Civil war
he enlisted, becoming a member of Company C, Sixty-fifth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and served until the time of his
enlistment had expired. He married Hannah Kirkwood, who was
born September 8, 1847, and died in 1879. Three children were
born of this union: James Lewis, our subject; one that died in
infancy; and Anna, now the wife of Henry Deckerson, a farmer
of Fulton county, by whom she has two children: Lewis and
Fern. Hannah (Kirkwood) Shinaberger was a daughter of
Lewis Kirkwood, a native of Ohio, who served in the Thirty-third
Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the war of the Rebellion. He
married Hannah Elizabeth Shreves, a native of New Jersey, born
December 28, 1828, and they became the parents of the
following children: Hannah, our subject's mother; Thomas (4),
born September 27, 1849; Anna, born January 25, 1853;
Charles,
born March 30, 1861; Elma, born October 5, 1863; Amos, born
August 21, 1866; and Jessie, born October 14, 1871. The
Kirkwood family in America is descended from Thomas (1)
Kirkwood, who was born in Ireland in 1750, and landed in
America November 30, 1784. He had a son Thomas (2) who was
born October 14, 1779, and died January 6, 1856.
Thomas (2) married Hannah , who was born July 5, 1784,
and died April 9, 1847. Their children were: Elizabeth, born
September 5, 1802; Thomas (3), September 24, 1804; Sarah, May
15, 1807; Charles, May 15, 1809; Hannah, June 16, 1811;
Mary,
April 19, 1816; Susanna, May 6, 1821; and Lewis, our subject's
grandfather.
J. L. Shinaberger was educated in the county schools of
Fulton county, and in the Northwestern Normal at Wauseon. From
the Scientific Department of the last named institution he was
graduated in 1893, and he then immediately began the practical
use of his acquirements by engaging in teaching, which he
continued with much success for thirteen terms. His close
application during the years he was a student, and his careful
observation of the methods of his own instructors, peculiarly
fitted him for the teacher's profession, while his pupils,
with that remarkable intuition of school children, soon
recognized in his a master mind, and quietly and quickly
accepted his control. In 1896 he was elected to the office of
sheriff of Fulton county on the Republican ticket, carrying
the county with a plurality of nine hundred and twenty-five,
and running fifty-two votes ahead of his ticket. He entered
upon the duties of his new position January 4, 1897, and since
that time has exceeded the expectations even of those who knew
him best. His work is accomplished with so little ostentation,
but with so great care that he has won the plaudits even of
his political enemies, and it is safe to predict that the
future holds much success in store for him. Quiet and
courteous in his manner, he has hosts of friends. His
position, so unusual for one of his years, has not been the
means of betraying any latent weakness in his character; he
upholds the dignity of his office with the modesty of
ingenuous youth, and the wisdom of maturer years.
In 1896 Mr. Shinaberger was married to Miss Ophelia
Smith, a daughter of Benjamin Smith, a farmer of Williams
county, Ohio. One child, John, born July 17, 1897, has come to
brighten their happy home. Mrs. Shinaberger is a refined and
intelligent lady. She was educated at Wauseon, and
successfully taught for several terms in Williams county.
Their charming home is all that intelligence and culture can
make it, and is often the meeting place for the brightest
lights in the educational world at Wauseon.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
Northwestern Ohio including the counties of Defiance, Henry,
Williams & Fulton. Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
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JACOB
SHINABERGER.
The well-known and progressive agriculturist of York
township, Fulton county, is a native of Ohio, born September
19, 1844, in Huron county, a son of James S., a pioneer of
Richmond township, Huron county, Ohio.
Nicholas Shinaberger, grandfather of our subject, was
born in Germany, whence at the age of seventeen he came to
America, locating first in Pennsylvania, thence moving to
Carroll county, Ohio. Here he followed farming, also
conducting a distillery, and passed the rest of his days
there, dying in August 1850. His wife was born about the
time of the Revolutionary war, and her mother concealed her
and a little brother in the bushes out of sight of the
Indians, who burned the home of the family to the ground.
To this worthy couple were born thirteen children, James, our
subject's father, being next to the youngest.
James Shinaberger was born in 1813 in Carroll county,
Ohio, and when a young man moved to Huron county, where he
took up farming. He was twice married, and by his first
wife had one daughter, Sarah, now living in Michigan. In
Huron county, for his second wife, he wedded Miss Margaret
Holtz, by whom he had six children: Matilda (deceased); one
that died in infancy; Lovina (Mrs. Leonard
Alleman); Jacob
(our subject); John in Michigan; and Sarah (Mrs.
George Frederick, of York township, Fulton county). The father
of these died in 1882, in York township, Fulton county, the
mother in 1884.
Jacob Holtz, our subject's maternal grandfather, was a
native of Pennsylvania, whence he moved to Richmond county,
Ohio. He was married in Pennsylvania, and to him and his
wife were born twelve children: Jacob, George,
Frederick,
David, Michael (deceased), Some, Margaret,
Nancy, William A.,
Sarah (deceased), Mary, and Hannah.
Jacob Shinaberger, whose name introduces these lines,
attended the common schools of Huron county, in an old log
house with slab seats and other primitive furnishings, the
same building that his father had at one time rented to live
in while he built a home. On August 4, 1861, prompted by
the spirit of patriotism, Jacob enlisted in Company C,
Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three years or during
the war, but was discharged July 30, 1862, on account of
disability. On March 28, 1864, he re-enlisted in the
same regiment and company, serving till the close of the war,
being honorably discharged Nov. 30, 1865. He was in the
army of the Cumberland, and participated in all the battles of
the Atlanta campaign, also those at Spring Hill, Franklin and
Nashville. Thence in July, 1865, his regiment proceeded
to Texas, where it remained till December, 1865. He was
neither wounded to the quiet pursuits of farm life.
In 1868 Mr. Shinaberger married Miss
Hannah E.
Kirkwood, who was born September 8, 1847. To them were
born three children: J. L., a sketch of whom appears
elsewhere; Elmer, who died in infancy; and Cora Anna, now the
wife of Henry Deckerson, a farmer of York township, Fulton
county (they have two children - Louis and Fern). The
mother of these died in 1878, and in April, 1880, our subject
wedded Adelia A. Andrews, a native of Fulton county,
born February 24, 1840, a daughter of Leonard Andrews (now
deceased). By this union there are no children.
In politics our subject is a stanch Republican, his
first Presidential vote being cast for Abraham Lincoln, and he
has cast his ballot for every Republican candidate since.
For three years he served as township trustee in York
township, and was also supervisor thereof. Socially he
is affiliated with the G. A. R. Losure Post, No. 35, of
Wauseon, Ohio, and in religious faith both he and his wife are
members of the Church of God at Liberty Center.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
Northwestern Ohio including the counties of Defiance, Henry,
Williams & Fulton. Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
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