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J.
F. RAKER. This retired educator, a veteran of the
Civil war, and now a progressive agriculturist residing on
Section 30, Swan Creek township, Fulton county, is a native of
Ohio, born in Fairfield county, October 10, 1843.
Martin Raker, Sr., grandfather of our subject,
was born in Pennsylvania, whence at an early day he came to
Fulton county, Ohio, where he followed farming, and died in
Swan Creek township in 1864. Of his children, Martin, Jr.,
the father of J. F., was also a native of Pennsylvania,
whence in 1846 he moved to Fulton county. He married
Elizabeth Dindore, and four children were born to
this union: (1) Mary J., deceased wife of George
Valentine, of Morenci, Michigan; she left four
children—Lela, George O., Elmer and John
C. (2) A. J., who lives in Swan Creek township,
Fulton county. (3) J. F., our subject. (4) Martin L.,
deceased.
J. F. Raker, the subject proper of this review,
received a liberal education, in part at the public schools of
Fulton county, and in part at Oberlin College, after which he
taught in the schools of Fulton county some seventeen terms.
In 1862 Mr. Raker enlisted for three years in
Company H, One Hundredth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which in
1864 was attached to the Twenty-third Army Corps, and during
its term of service participated in the battles of Limestone
Station, Knoxville, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, Etowah
Creek, Atlanta, Columbus, Franklin, Nashville, Town Creek and
Wilmington. Upon arriving at Knoxville, East Tennessee, a
portion of the regiment was sent up to the Virginia State line
to guard the railroad. This detachment, two hundred and forty
strong, our subject being one of the number, was captured by
the enemy, and was sent to Richmond, Virginia. Mr.
Raker was incarcerated in various prisons, including
Pemberton, Belle Isle, Libby and Scott. After about eight
months he was exchanged, and then returned to the army, and
participated in the remaining engagements in which his
regiment took part. In June, 1865, he received an honorable
discharge, returned north, and it was then that he pursued a
course of study at Oberlin College, afterward taking up
teaching, as already related. In 1887 he bought his present
farm in Swan Creek township, the old family homestead, whereon
his father had settled in 1846, at which time Fulton county
was all wild woodland, and our subject did his full share in
clearing it up.
Politically, Mr. Raker is a lifelong
Democrat, having cast his first Presidential vote for G. B.
McClellan, and in casting his ballot, as in all other
respects, he has been loyal to his party and to his country.
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GEORGE REIGHARD, father
of Mr. Frank Reighard, supervising editor of the
Fulton County History, is a native son of Fulton county,
born here nearly seventy-five years ago, and is still doing
a day's work in season on his farm in Swan Creek Township.
He was born November 24, 1846, in York Township, son of
Jacob and Rebecca (Crile) Reighard. His parents
were Pennsylvanians and pioneer settlers of Fulton county.
George Reighard attended the district schools
and made good use of such advantages of learning as were
available to a boy in Fulton county sixty years ago.
He married when he was about twenty years of age and
thereafter lived for some years with his parents. The
first land he owned was forty acres, fifteen acres cleared
and improved. Eventually he bought other land until
his old homestead, known as the Maple Drive Farm, contains
ninety-six acres, all under cultivation. Mr. George
Reighard lived there until the spring of 1909, when he
turned the farm over to this daughter, Mrs. Roscoe Dunbar
and then moved to an adjoining place of twenty-five acres
where he and his wife enjoy the comforts of a good home and
the friendship and neighbors of their old community.
Apr. 9, 1866, Mr. Reighard married Elizabeth
Elton, who was born in England, Sept. 1, 1848. Her
parents, Thomas and Jane (Young) Elton, came to this
country in 1857, and for seven years lived on a farm in
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and then moved to Swan Creek Township
in Fulton county. Her father first bought forty acres
and later another forty acres, and died on the home farm in
1889. Mr. Reighard's mother died in 1862.
The oldest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. George
Reighard is Frank Reighard, of Wauseon.
Adelbert, who died in the fall of 1909, left a wife and
one daughter, Grace, of Delta. Sophia is
Mrs. Delmore Gill of Swan Creek Township, married
Sophia de LeMar, and their family consists of Alfred
and Orlyss. Bert, a resident of Swan Creek,
married Maud Gill, and has three children,
Clairmond, Mary and Marguerite. Florence is
the wife of Roscoe Dunbar, now living on the old
Reighard homeastead, and their children are Adelbert,
Dale, Glenn and Amy.
George Reighard is a member of the Church of Come
and Church of Abrahamic Faith. He is now health
officer in his township and in former years held positions
of trustee and school director. He is a republican
voter. He has lived his whole life within a mile and a
half of his birthplace.
Source: Standard History
of Fulton County, Ohio - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York -
1920 - Page 555 |
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