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* Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of
City of Toledo and Lucas and Wood Counties, Ohio.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1895
† Source: History of Northwestern
Ohio - Vol. II _ 1917 As
Always, Biographies will be transcribed upon request ~
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| W. A. OGDEN |
| ISAAC ORDWAY |
| ELLIS PARKER |
| HENRY W. PARKER |
| HIRAM PARKER |
| JOHN PARKER |
| ELIJAH W. PECKHAM |
| DAVID H. PERRIN |
| MRS. ELIZABETH PETERSON |
| HENRY PHILLIPPS |
| JACOB D. PHISTER |
| FRANKLIN PIERCE |
| LOUIS H. PIKE |
| JAMES K. POLK |
JOEL POTTER is the proprietor of the
East Side Mills in Toledo, which manufacture a fine grade of rye and
buckwheat flour by the burr and roller system. The mill is
50x80 feet in dimensions and three stories and basement in height,
and is equipped with the latest and most modern machinery used in
the trade. The engine is one of eighty-horse power, and the
mill has a capacity of some twenty-five barrels of four per day, and
twenty tons of feed. an active adherent of the Democratic
party, Mr. Potter was a member of the Police Board
for four years, and was also a member of the Common Council four
years - two years on the Board of Aldermen and two years on the
Council Board.
The father of our
subject, Erastus B. Potter, whose birth occurred in
New York State, was a dealer in and manufacturer of lumber.
His father, John Potter, likewise of the Empire
State, was of English descent. Erastus B. Potter
married Elizabeth, daughter of Selah Root,
and to them were born five children, three sons and two daughters.
Joel Potter was born in Essex County, N. Y.,
in 1838, and passed his early years uneventfully under his father's
roof. His elementary education was obtained in the schools of
the neighborhood, and was supplemented by a course of training at
the Fairfax (Vt.) Academy, after which he went to Ft. Edward, N. Y.,
and attended the well known institute of that place. For
several years after leaving school he engaged in farming during the
summers, and in the winter time was employed at lumbering.
In the year 1875 Mr. Potter came to Toledo to look
after the Ward estate, and in the settlement of the
business connected therewith found his time occupied for the next
three years. In 1879 he started in the milling business on a
small scale, and it was not until 1891 that he moved into his
present large and modern quarters. He is now a Director in the
East Side Bank Company.
In 1862
Mr. Potter married Miss Julia Fowler, of
Essex County, N. Y., and a daughter of James Fowler.
Three children came to grace their union. The elder,
James, died in February, 1893; the second, Jennie,
wife of W. G. Weldon, of Toledo, died in February,
1893; and the youngest, Jay C., is his father's
assistant in the milling business, having been a member of the
company for the past four years.
Source: Portrait & Biological
History of Lucas Co., Ohio - 1895 ~ Page 237 |
| CHARLES PRATT |
JOHN A. PRINTUP is engaged in
agricultural pursuits on section 8, Sylvania Township, Lucas County.
His father was one of the pioneers of this section, having preceded
his family hither in 1834. He bought eighty acres of the farm
now owned by our subject, and then returned for his wife and
children, who reached their new home in the wilderness in 1835.
The father bore the Christian name of Andrew, and
by birth was an Empire State man. His wife, who was a
Miss Angelina Emmons before her marriage, was likewise a
native of New York. For a number of years Andrew
Printup was a merchant and Justice of the Peace in this
vicinity. In politics he was a Democrat, and was appointed
Postmaster of Sylvania under Buchanan's administration. He was
a member of the Masonic order, and was a faithful worker in the
Methodist Episcopal Church. In April, 1870, he was called to
his final rest, at the close of a useful and well spent life.
Andrew Printup lost his first wife in 1846, and
subsequently he married Sarah Guinn, who died in 1846. Three
years later Mr. Printup wedded Emeline Page.
By his first marriage he had nine children. Nancy
M., the eldest of these, born May 17, 1826, married
Darius Mills, and died May 18, 1882; Alida,
Mrs. Freeman, born Apr. 9, 1828, died Apr.
7, 1889, in Toledo; Cornelia, born July 27, 1830,
died Jan. 30, 1849; Joseph A., born Nov. 30, 1832,
is a retired farmer of Adrian, Mich.; our subject is the next in
order of birth; Catherine A., born June 25, 1837, is the wife of
Joseph Skeldon, of Toledo; Joshua E.,
born Apr. 30, 1840, died Oct. 15, 1858; Lavina,
born Apr. 9, 1843, died Aug. 23, 1853; and Penelope A.,
born May 27, 1846, died in infancy. Of the two children born
to the second marriage, Everett, born Sept. 12,
1847, died Jan. 5, 1849; and Thomas A., born Aug.
6, 1849, died in September following. Of the third marriage,
Caroline, born July 22, 1850, died Aug. 5, of the
same year; and Alice, born Sept. 21, 1851, also
died in infancy.
At the time of his
demise, Andrew Printup owned two hundred and
forty-six acres, eighty-six acres of which are now owned by
John A. Printup, our subject. Apr. 12, 1858, the
latter chose as a future companion in life Miss Caroline
Cassady, daughter of Asa and Sarah (Bliss) Cassady,
natives of New York and Massachusetts, respectively. At an
early day they moved to Michigan, where they reared a family of six
children, and resided until summoned to their final rest.
Their eldest son, Corydon, who died in August,
1893, served for three years in the late war. He was six
months a prisoner in Macon, Ga., and received a bullet-wound, from
the effects of which he suffered until his death.
Hiram, the second son, is a farmer in Michigan; and
Harvey, who participated in the last engagements of the
war, is now living in Kansas. Eveline married
Henry Moore, a Union soldier, who lost his life
while in a sailboat on Calumet Lake, near Chicago, Ill., he being at
the time in the employ of the Pullman Palace Car Company.
To Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Printup were born seven
children. John A. Jr., born Apr. 16, 1859,
was a man of superior education, and at the time of his death, which
occurred Dec. 7, 1893, he was Principal of the Hartonville (Wis.)
schools. A wife and three children survive him. Lillian
Latrop, of Swanton, Ohio; Eva A., born September 21, 1862,
married Alva A. Lathrop, a farmer of Berkey, this county;
Emmons, born June 10, 1864, is engaged with the Appleton
Publishing Company, of Chicago, as salesman; Carrie La
Verne, born Apr. 14, 1866, is the wife of Howard
Clark, a farmer of Richfield Township, this county;
Daisy Imogene, born July 27, 1871, died Mar. 28, 1889; and
Hayes, born June 11, 1876, died Aug. 26, 1877.
For several years, Mr. Printup has been township
Trustee and Assessor, and was also School Director for some time.
In politics he is a Republican, and in religious belief is a
Congregationalist. From the effects of rheumatism, which he
suffered from in boyhood, he has always been a cripple, but in spite
of this misfortune has been very active, and has accomplished a
great deal.
Source:
Portrait & Biological History of Lucas Co., Ohio - 1895 ~ Page 268 |
| JOHN H. PUCK |
| THOMAS C. PURNEY |
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