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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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| CLARK WAGGONER |
| MORRISON R. WAITE |
| RICHARD WAITE |
| HORACE S. WALBRIDGE |
| JOHN W. WAMSHER |
| ISAAC WARD |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON |
| WILLIAM WATTS |
| WILLARD V. WAY |
| ELIAS B. WEAVER |
| LEWIS E. WEBB |
| WILLIAM WEBSTER |
| C. W. WEGMAN |
†EDWARD
B. WEST. Since pioneer times the West Family has
had an influential share in the activities of farming and other
lines of endeavor around the Sylvania community of Lucas County.
A fine farm just at the edge of Sylvania village is now owned and
occupied by Edward B. West, who has found in farming a
means of satisfying his ambitions in a business way and also of
providing for home and family.
He was born in the town of Whitford, Michigan, February
16, 1868. His father A. B. West was a native of New York State
and came west when a youth, the family locating in Monroe County,
Michigan, but close to the line which on account of the boundary
dispute between Michigan and Ohio was at one time in Michigan and
another in Ohio. A. B. West subsequently moved to
Toledo, taught school there, then returned to the old farm in Monroe
County, and afterwards, while still living on his farm, taught
school in Sylvania. He finally moved to Sylvania and made it
is permanent home until his death. While a farmer and the
owner of a farm for many years, he spent some fourteen or fifteen
years in the useful vocation of teaching. His death occurred
in 1896 at the age of seventy-one, while his wife passed away at
seventy-three in 1899.
The children of A. B. West and his wife were:
Emma, wife of O. S. Comstock, a farmer at teh edge of
Sylvania; Anna, wife of Earl Harroun, a farmer near
Sylvania; Henry T., who is now teaching in Kenyon College at
Gambier, Ohio, and married a Miss Ashley, whom he met while
attending Oberlin College; and Edward B. Their children
also included William, Alice and Nellie, who died in
childhood.
Edward B. West grew up in Lucas County, and
since starting out independently ahs been a substantial farmer.
He is a republican and is a member of the Congregational Church.
He married Georgia Randall, who is now deceased. His
three children are Walter, Ralph and Mary. |
| PETER F. WHALEN |
| RICHARD WHITEFORD |
| WILLIAM WICKHAM |
| SIMON J. WIECZOREK |
| MINOT I. WILCOX |
| HENRY W. WILHELM |
CHARLES W. WILKINSON was born
and grew to manhood on the homestead which he now owns and operates,
and which is situated on section 1, Washington Township, Lucas
County. In addition to general farming he has been quite
successful in running a dairy business, for which purpose his farm
is well adapted.
A son of William and Oleona (Flint) Wilkinson,
Charles W. was born Apr. 22, 1844, and up to the age of
twenty-one passed his time quietly in farm work and in attending the
district schools. At that age he enlisted as a private in
Company I, One Hundred and Thirtieth Ohio Infantry, and was mustered
into service at Johnston Island. He was later sent to
Washington, and then was stationed in Point Rock. He received
an honorable discharge Sept. 16, 1865, the same year he enlisted,
and at once returned home.
As soon as he was old enough the charge of the old
homestead fell upon the shoulders of our subject, who had been
trained as a practical farmer. He now owns eighty-three acres
in his home place and another tract of eighty acres in Michigan.
His education, while not of the best, was practical, and has been
amply sufficient for his needs, and he has further supplemented it
by private reading and observation.
Sept. 2, 1870, the marriage of Mr. Wilkinson and
Miss Sarah A. Van Wormer was celebrated. The lady
was born in Indiana, Feb. 10, 1848, and is a daughter of Aaron
and Philletta (Wagoner) Von Wormer. Two children, sons,
have come to bless the union of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson,
namely: Arden C., who was born Jan. 1, 1874; and J. Edwin,
whose birth occurred June 14, 1876. They are now attending
business college in Toledo, and are bright, promising young men.
In questions of politics Mr. Wilkinson is always
to be found on the side of the Republican party. Both he and
his worthy wife are members of the Congregational Church, to which
they are liberal contributors.
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of
City of Toledo and Lucas and Wood Counties, Ohio.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1895~ Page 410 |
SOLOMON WILKINSON is
one of the sturdy pioneers of Lucas County, to which he was brought
by his parents when he was seven days less than a year old, and in
this vicinity the balance of his life has been passed. Until
1882 he was engaged in farming and blacksmithing, but since that
time has carried on a general store at West Toledo. In his
boyhood days his nearest neighbor was three miles away from his
parents' humble home, and his education was, such as was afforded by
the old-time subscription schools, which were also about three miles
distant.
A son of William and Martha (Hitchcock) Wilkinson,
our subject was born in Linington, Canada, Oct. 7, 1822. His
father was a native of Pennsylvania and of Irish descent, and his
mother was born in Knox County, Ohio. They had a family of ten
children, named as follows: Martha, John J., William,
Solomon, Daniel, Samuel, Emanuel, Henry, Eliza and Elizabeth.
After the death of his first wife, William Wilkinson married
a Miss Flint, and by her had three children, Martha,
Charles and Francis. When about twenty-three years
of age our subject's father moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, and engaged
in farming there until 1817, when he went to Canada. After
several years spent in farming in that country he returned to Ohio,
the trip being made in an open log canoe, and this time he located
in Lucas County. Settling in Washington Township, he took up
forty-eight acres of Government land, for which he paid $1.25 per
acre. He erected a log cabin, which was a large one for that
time, and there led the toilsome life of a frontiersman. His
farm joined the Indian Reservation, and many a time he stood in his
cabin doorway and shot deer and other wild game. He helped to
lay out roads and organize schools, and was an active member of the
Methodist Church. He died in 1848, in his sixty-fifth year,
and was placed to rest in the Southard Cemetery.
Solomon Wilkinson remained with his father until
reaching his majority, when he began learning the blacksmith's
trade, and going to Monroe served an apprenticeship of three years.
Besides his board, he received $3 per month the first year, $5 the
second and $8 per month the third. He later started a shop on
Summit Street, which he conducted for five years, and then moved to
Monroe, Mich., and purchased a farm, which he operated until 1882.
Both as an agriculturist and as a merchant he has been quite
successful, as he is persevering and energetic. The first
Presidential ballot that he ever cast was in favor of the Whig
party, but since the organization of the Republican party he has
been one of its stanch defenders.
October 14, 1847, Mr. Wilkinson married
Caroline Colburn, who was born in Vermont, and who died Feb. 6,
1880. They became the parents of eight children, seven sons
and a daughter, namely: Lewis A., George, William, Joseph,
Francis, Nellie, Herbert and Walter. In 1882 Mr.
Wilkinson married the lady who now bears his name, and who prior
to that event was Miss Caroline Rymill.
Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of
City of Toledo and Lucas and Wood Counties, Ohio.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1895~ Page 225 |
| JOHN WILSON |
| LORENZO P. WING |
| FRED E. WITKER |
| JOSEPH T. WOODS |
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