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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
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| G. ADOLPH TANNER |
ROMAIN A. TAYLOR has been engaged
in farming for many years on the old homestead where his birth
occurred, and which is situated on section 7, Spencer Township,
Lucas County. He comes from an old and honored pioneer family
of this section, and inherited the industrious and energetic
qualities which belonged to his ancestors.
The father of our subject, William Taylor, was born
Jan. 9, 1810, near Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pa. He
married a lady of the same county, Mary Coarson by
name, and to them were born six daughters and two sons, those beside
Romain A. being: Robert W., who was a
farmer of Fulton County, and died in 1881; Eliza, Mrs.
William R. Cole, whose death occurred in June 1873;
Harriet, who died in 1877, being then the wife of
James C. Vaughn; Mary J., wife of
M. T. Cole, a farmer of Palmyra, Mich.; Theresa,
Mrs. Harrison Farner, of Toledo; Lucretia,
wife of P. O. Van Fleet, of Palmyra, Mich.; and
Ada, who married Edward Wall, and lives on part of
the old homestead.
In 1834
William Taylor removed with his family to Lucas County, and
took up one hundred and sixty acres on section 6, Spencer Township.
He subsequently bought forty acres on the northeast quarter of the
same section, and about 1845 bought a farm of two hundred and sixty
acres on section 7, one hundred acres of the latter being afterward
purchased by Jonas Matzinger. Mr. Taylor
erected two sawmills and engaged in lumbering extensively. For
many years he was County Commissioner of this county, having been
elected on the Republican ticket, and from 1860 to 1872 was Township
Treasurer.
The subject of this sketch
was born Aug. 10, 1855, in Spencer Township, and received a common
school education. Going to Toledo in his early manhood, he was
interested in railroading for about four years, his father at that
time owning a large share of the stock of the Narrow Gauge (now
Clover Leaf) Railroad.
Feb. 3, 1883,
Romain A. Taylor and Amanda,
daughter of Anthony and Mary (Lord) Van Akin, of
Richfield, were united in marriage, and to them were born three
children, the eldest of whom, Clyde, died at the
age of four years and five months; Flossie, born in
January, 1888; and Hazel, born Oct. 21, 1891, are
bright and promising children. Mr. Taylor is
affiliated with the Republican party, and socially is a member of
Swanton Lodge No. 555, F. & A. M.
Source:
Portrait & Biological History of Lucas Co., Ohio - 1895 ~ Page 250 |
| ZACHARY TAYLOR |
| EDWIN THOMAS |
†WILLIAM
THOMAS. One of the fine old pioneer citizens of Lucas
County is William Thomas, now living on the old Thomas
farm in Sylvania Township with his daughter Mrs. Thomas E.
Bell. Mr. Thomas is in his eighty-eighth
year, but still hale and hearty and it has been his privilege to
witness practically every important transformation made by civilized
men in this section of Northwest Ohio.
His home is one that was developed completely out of
the heavy woods. Sixty-three years ago when he located in
Sylvania Township the progress of improvement had not been marked.
The land that he now occupies was slowly and laboriously put under
cultivation after clearing away the heavy woods and undergrowth and
the fact that it is now one of the best farms in the township stands
to the credit of his venerable resident. Among the
improvements he introduced from time to time is a fine home which he
built in 1863 and which still stands, with some slight alterations.
William Thomas should be reckoned among those
who introduced fruit culture into Lucas County. During his
early years he lived largely on the frontier where fruit was not
obtainable except such as grew wild in the woods or on the prairies.
He frequently said that when he secured a place of his own he would
take special pains to plant fruit trees, and thus when he settled on
his present farm he set out some fine orchards, and the Thomas
homestead has four years been celebrated for its fruit and
cider.
William Thomas was born August 29, 1929, near
the village of New Hope in Salisbury Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. He is of Quaker stock, and his father Moses
Thomas, in 1835 emigrated to Crawford County, Ohio, and in 1840
to Williams County, where he spent the rest of his days as honored
and useful citizen.
Eleven years of age when his parents moved to the
wooded country of Williams County, William Thomas grew up
there and helped to make a tract of wild land a home and scene of
cultivation. He lived there until his marriage in 1853, when
he moved to Sylvania Township of Lucas county. He then settled
on the place where he has since hade his home and which is now
farmed by his son-in-law Thomas E. Bell. The father of
Mrs. William Thomas, Philo Holt, took up his land from the
Government as early ad 1833, but after making some improvements died
there within a year or so.
Cornelia Holt, who married William Thomas
in 1853, was born in Sylvania Township at what is now the Thomas
farm, when that was completely surrounded by the wilderness.
When she was about a year old, and after the death of Philo Holt,
her mother's people took her back to Connecticut, where she was
reared. A number of years later she came to Ohio and met and
married William Thomas. William Thomas by his
first wife had three children: Sarah Emmaline, wife of
Henry Bell, who is now farming part of the old Thomas
homestead; Mary Ellen, wife of Thomas E. Bell, a
brother of Henry Bell and farming the home place; and
Flora Jane, who died at the age of twenty years. The
mother of these children died in 1864. William Thomas
then married Mrs. Olive (Benton) Mallett, who died leaving
one son Moses. Mr. William Thomas afterwards
married Mrs. Mary G. (Townsend) Hoadley, who passed away
September 16, 1900. Mr. William Thomas is a republican,
and has been affiliated with that party since hits birth sixty years
ago. He has filled the office of justice of the peace but has
always tried to avoid official honors and responsibilities.
His church is the Methodist. |
| SAMUEL S. THORN |
ERNEST TORGLER, a well known
resident of Washington Township, Lucas County, was born in Germany,
but has lived in the United States since he was twelve years of age,
and, with the exception of the time when he was fighting the battles
of his adopted country, has lived since 1852 on the farm that he now
owns, which is located on section 8.
The parents of our subject of Ernest and Augusta (Ranfeldt)
Torgler. Their daughter Emily became the wife of
Robert Winters, since deceased, and Elizabeth, who has
passed from this life, was formerly the wife of Valentine Brown.
Ernest Torgler, Sr., was a painter and artist in the
Fatherland, but after coming to America, settled on a farm and
devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. The place which is
now owned by our subject was the old homestead, but it was then
unimproved, and the price which he paid for it was only $8 an acre.
His death occurred Forest Cemetery. He was a stanch Republican,
politically, as it is his son.
Ernest Torgler of this sketch was born March 29,
1840, and received his early education in the schools of Germany.
He was married Oct. 5, 1868, to Augusta Schacker, by whom he
has had eleven children, three of whom died in infancy. The
others are Ernest R., a bookkeeper; Lewis G.;
Augusta; Carl, a student at Davis College; Edith; Walter;
Arthur; and Herbert, who is also deceased.
August 22, 1862, Mr. Torgler enlisted as a
private in at Columbus. He is the proud possessor of a flag
that was presented to the Thirty-seventh Regiment by the ladies of
Toledo on starting away for the front in 1861. This flag was
presented by the ladies of Toledo to the regiment, and by the other
members was tendered as a mark of respect and good-will to Mr.
Torgler, who had carried it for a year in the war. His
first engagement was at the siege of Vicksburg, and soon after the
surrender of that place with his regiment he went into camp, and
while there was promoted to the rank of Corporal. After
participating in the battle of Jackson, he marched across the
country from Memphis to Chattanooga. At the battle of Mission
Ridge he was a color-bearer, and after that important engagement was
sent to Knoxville, whence he went on the Atlanta Campaign,
afterwards going with Sherman on his march to the sea. As
proof of the gallant part he took while in the army, it may be
mentioned that by an act of Congress he was presented with a badge
of honor for meritorious service at the battle of Ezra Chapel,
July 28, 1864. He was honorably discharged from the service in
October, 1865. Since the war he has been a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic. |
| DORIA TRACY |
| JOHN TYLER |
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