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Source: History of Marion County, Ohio - 1883
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| RICHARD
H. HORN is a bright and talented young writer, who is
making of the Marion Deutsche Presse a wide-awake and
well managed newspaper. He was born in Leipsic, Saxony,
Aug. 21, 1858, to Gustavus Horn, who was also born in
Germany, and there resided until 1881, when he came to this
country and settled in Dolgeville, N. Y., where his death
occurred in 1894. Our subject received a splendid education in the model schools of Germany,, and after graduating, at the age of sixteen years, commenced to learn the printer's trade. After mastering this art he came to America and engaged to work in an office in Utica, and later in Syracuse, N. Y. Upon leaving the Empire State he came to Ohio and worked for a time on the leading German papers in Cleveland. In 1890 he came to Marion, and August 21, of that year published the first copy of the Deutsche Presse. He has displayed marked ability in the management of this sheet and is conducting a very successful business. Being a young man of energy and tenacity of purpose, he has each year increased his list of subscribers, and at the present time his paper has the largest circulation of any German publication outside of the large cities in Ohio. Richard H. Horn was married, Aug. 21, 1886, to Miss Louise, daughter of John Herig, of Cleveland, who has the honor of being the oldest furniture dealer in Cleveland. To our subject and his wife there was born one child, who died in infancy. The mother of Mr. Horn, Mrs. Theresa (Lehman) Horn, was born in Germany, but now makes her home in Dolgeville, N.Y. As an editor of a good newspaper our subject wields a marked influence in the public and political like of the community. He is a stanch Democrat in politics, and the tenor of the Presse is also Democratic. († Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Marion and Hardin Counties, Ohio - 1895 - Page 178) |
| Prospect Township - Page 927 JOHN H. HOWISON was born near Brentsville, Prince William Co., Va., Aug. 9, 1830; his parents were John and Louisa (Cornwall) Howison, who came to Muskingum County in 1838, remained two years and returned to Virginia; came to Ohio again in 1847, locating on land in Delaware County in 1850, where his youngest son - Stephen G. Howison - now lives. He died in April, 1865; his widow now resides with her son, John H. In 1853, John H. Howison, in partnership with his brother, Charles O., brought 212 acres of wild land on Survey 6,162 Prospect Township; the same year they divided this land, each taking 106 acres; here Mr. Howison has lived ever since. He has cleared sixty-five or seventy acres of this land and still owns seventy-seven acres of the original purchase. In addition to the home farm, he has cleared some forty acres of land once owned by him, but now by Simon Rogers, in Claibourne Township, Union County. He was married, Mar. 28, 1861, to Mary A. Adams born in Sussex County, near Brighton, England, Oct. 2, 1840, and was brought to the United States by her father, Robert Adams, when she was but two and a half years old. Robert Adams was an early settler in this neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Howison have had eight children - Amanda J., born Jan. 10, 1863; Henrietta L., Jan. 25, 1865; Thomas E., February 16, 1867; Angelina A., December 26, 1869; Walter G, Nov. 12, 1872; Sarah E., Mar. 1, 1875; Alfred H., May 19, 1877, and died July 31, 1877, and Ivy D., March 28, 1881, and died June 9, 1883. Mr. Howison is a Democrat, and has served the township was Trustees two years, Justice of the Peace six years, and is now serving his third term. Esquire Howison and wife are both members of the Methodist Church and are among the best respected citizens of Prospect Township. ~ Page 927 |
| Caledonia Twp. - WILLIAM E. HULL is the progressive and able editor of the Caledonia Enterprise, with which he has been connected as proprietary and publisher for only three years, but during this time has infused new life and energy into the journal, which is now considered one of the best issued in this section of the state. The Enterprise is devoted strictly to the local field, and is specially alive to the interests of this particular community. On political questions it is independent. The parents of William E. Hull were James H. and Mina (Campbell) Hull. The former was born in Pennsylvania, where he was reared to manhood and learned the shoemaker's trade. He later removed with his parents to Morrow County, Ohio, and continued to follow his chosen vocation in different towns of the Buckeye State until his marriage. He then purchased a farm in Morrow County, which he engaged in cultivating for several years. After a short residence in Williams County, he returned to Morrow County, bought a farm, and continued to dwell thereon until his death, which occurred at the age of fifty-six years. His parents were also born in the Keystone State, but were of Scotch extraction. Mrs. Mina Hull was born in Morrow County, Ohio, and is still living, her home now being in Denver, Colo. The birth of William E. Hull occurred on his father's farm in Franklin Township, Morrow County, July 26, 1868, and his boyhood was passed on the old homestead. In his fourteenth year he entered a printing-office at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, remaining there for some six years and acquiring a thorough knowledge of the business during that period. Later, going to Mt. Vernon, this state, he ran a job-printing office for about a year. From the latter city he removed to Columbus, and for two years was engaged upon the Ohio State Journal, and finally, in 1892, purchased the Caledonia Argus, which had been been started in 1875, but whose subscription list was small. When Mr. Hull assumed its management he changed the name and is now doing a good business. The subscribers to the sheet are constantly increasing in number, and about six hundred copies are issued weekly. On Christmas Day, 1889, a marriage ceremony was celebrated by which Miss Nellie E. Laycox, of Mt. Gilead, became the wife of W. E. Hull. The young couple have a pleasant home and are received in the best social circles of Caledonia, where they have many warm friends. ~ Page 207-8 |
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