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EDWARD
R. GARVERICK, merchant; Whetstone; is the eighth of a
family of nine children, and was born Sept. 6, 1851, in Morrow
Co., Ohio. He is the youngest son of John F. Garverick,
and when fourteen years old commenced clerking in his fathers
store; at the death of his father in 1872, he obtained a half
interest in the business, to which he had become strongly
attached. He was married July 3, 1872, to Arminda E.,
daughter of Eli and Rebecca Bortner. She was born
repeat 26, 1851, in this county; three children have blessed this
happy union; Violet N., Walter E. and Morgan W.
He is a member of the German Reformed Church, and his wife
belongs to the Disciple Church. He owns an interest in two
farms, besides being the junior partner in the firm of J. R.
Garverick & Co., at West Point; being an energetic man in
business affairs, and although young in years, he is old in
experience. |
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JACOB
B. GARVERICK, school teacher; Whetstone; is the eldest
son of Peter H. Garverick, and was born Mar. 21, 1851, in
Morrow Co., Ohio; he commenced teaching school when 18 years
old, and has taught every winter and one summer since. Not
content with the education he received in the common district
schools, he attended several terms where be could secure all the
advantages offered by higher institutions. His
professional duties have been limited to the school at West
Point, with two exceptions, and, although other districts desire
him, he still clings to the village school. He was married
Oct. 2, 1873, to Rebecca M., daughter of John F. and
Rachel Garverick. This union has been blessed with
four children, three of whom are living. Charles W.,
Silva E. and Newton Z. Both are Christians, and
have may friends. He owns an interest in a farm, on which
he works during the summer, and his prospects of success in life
are quite flattering. |
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LEVI
F. GARVERICK, farmer; P. O. Whetstone; is the youngest of
the family of seven children, and was born in York Co., Pa.,
Aug. 22, 1820; his parents, George and Charlotte (Fraser)
Garverick, were natives of York Co., and of German
extraction; his father was a farmer, but worked some in a
still-house which he owned; at his father's death, in 1838,
Levi commenced doing for himself, having learned the
carpenters' trade, which he followed until his marriage, and
since that time has been a farmer. He worked at his trade
for two years in York Co., when he went to Center Co., in that
State, and remained for three years; in company with a friend,
he walked to what is now Morrow Co., Ohio, and after a short
residence, returned to Center Co., in order to complete
arrangements for making Ohio his future home, and while on this
errand he was married to Sophia, daughter of Nichoals
and Mary Vennathy; she was born Mar. 23, 1820, and they were
married June 27, 1848; they soon after came to this State,
moving in a one-horse wagon; he bought eighty acres of land,
which he has ever since been clearing and improving. By
their marriage seven children have been born, five of whom are
living - Emeline, William, George W., Elizabeth R.
and Amos. Mr. Garverick and wife are members of the
German Reformed church. |
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LEVI R. GARVERICK,
farmer; P. O. Whetstone; is the seventh child of John F. and
Rachel (Ruhl) Gaverick; and was born May 2, 1848, in Morrow
Co.; he commenced doing for himself when of age, and farmed on
the homestead for three years, when his father died, and then he
obtained 80 acres of land in Congress Twp., on which he lived
for six years, when he sold it and bought the property he now
owns. He was married Sept. 23, 1869, to Elizabeth,
daughter of Samuel and Margaret Brokaw; she was born July
18, 1848, in Crawford Co., Ohio. They have four children,
all of whom are living - Alice, John F., Elzie and
Maggie M. He is a consistent member of the German
Reformed Church; owns 100 acres of land, well improved, good
location; and has an attractive and beautiful home. |
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PETER
R. GARVERICK, farmer; P. O., Whetstone; stands prominent
among the many substantial farmers and reliable citizens of this
township; he was born in York Co., Penn., Feb. 19, 1822.
His father, Peter Garverick, was born and raised, in
Pennsylvania, as was also his mother, whose maiden name was
Catharine Hostler; his father was a farmer, although
he worked at the carpenter trade part of the time; emigrated to
what is now Morrow Co., Ohio, in 1834, and settled on heavily
wooded land, and now ahs the satisfaction of looking back over a
well spent and useful life. On arriving at his majority,
Mr. Garverick learned the blacksmith trade, and followed
it for ten years, when he abandoned it for the pursuit of
farming. He was married, repeat 8, 1849, to Caroline
Bowman, by whom he had two children, one, Jacob B.,
is living. His wife died Sept. 13, 1863, and he then
married Elizabeth Miller; two children were born -
Mary J. and Edward T.; his second wife died Dec. 15,
1867, and he was married the third time, uniting, Jan. 25,
1869, with Mrs. Cassy Tshuty, who had two children -
Henry J., and Elizabeth W. By this marriage,
four children have been born, three of whom are living -
William T., Franklin P., and Louisa M. Mr.
Garvarick is much respected and honored in this community;
he has been called upon to perform the duties of Assessor for
thirteen years, and Trustee for nearly twenty years besides
filling other local offices. He owns a good farm and has a
pleasant home, and is in the enjoyment of its comforts. |
J.
A. GOBLE, merchant; Chesterville; is engaged in the
mercantile business in Chesterville; is a representative of the
thrift and enterprise of that village. He springs from a
family of early settlers, and was born Aug. 8, 1837. He
commands the esteem and admiration of his fellow associates and
others that are brought in contact with him. His father
and mother, Ebenezer and Anna (Lindley) Goble,
came to Ohio about the year 1833. They were the parents of
four children: Josephus and an infant, deceased,
Sarah E. and J. A. The family passed through
those experiences incident to life in a new country, and were
solid and influential in the community of which they were
members.
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Westfield Twp. - Page
639
DR. GEORGE GRANGER,
deceased; was born in Vermont, in July, 1815, and attended school
at Bethel Gilead, coming to Ohio via. Erie Canal and the lake; he
arrived at Huron, from which point he came on foot to this part of
the State, walking some days forty miles; he entered the
Worthington Medical Institute, and graduated in 1837, and located
at Westfield in the following year, where he began the practice of
medicine; he married Miss Mary Bishop, who died
in 1846; he married again, in 1847, Miss Adah Carpenter,
who was born in Galena, Jan. 15, 1825, and whose parents came from
Pennsylvania, and were among the very earliest settlers of
Berkshire Tp.; her grandfather, Gilbert Carpenter,
a Revolutionary soldier, was one of the most prominent men of
Delaware Co., and is remembered as Judge Carpenter.
Her parents moved to this township when she was 12 years of age;
she attended common school, and spent one term at Zanesville,
Ohio. About this time Dr. Granger bought an
interest in the fanning mill, pump factory and store business of
Adam Wolf, and afterward, with Henry
Keyser, established a clothing store and merchant
tailoring establishment, and finally bought out Wolf
and carried on business, managed his large farm and practiced
medicine until 1859, when, having been elected to the position of
County Treasurer, he moved to Mt. Gilead, where after a residence
of little more than a year, he died, in June, 1860. In the fall
following, Mrs. Granger, with her family,
returned to Westfield, where she manages her farm of 118 acres
successfully, and gives especial attention to raising sheep;
Mrs. Granger is the mother of three children-
S. Granger, whose sketch appears in this work;
Mary, married D. D. Booher, a
real estate and insurance agent of Mt. Gilead, and Emma,
married to Alfred Bishop, and now deceased.
Dr. Granger was one of the Charter members of the
Westfield Lodge of Odd Fellows; he began without a dollar, and by
his own labor amassed a great deal of property.
(Contributed by Judith Anne (Weeks) Ancell
jancell@spro.net from family Records) |
GEORGE
W. GUNSAULUS, Notary Public and dealer in marble
monuments, Chesterville; was born on the 15th of May, 1834, in
Angelica, N. Y.; he is the youngest son living in a family of
eight children. His father, Joseph Gunsaulus, is a
native of New York State, and united his fortunes with Nancy
Dempsey, also a native of that State. He farmed in the
"Empire State" up to 1842 when he emigrated to Franklin Twp.
(then Knox Co.) Ohio, with a family of six children, settling
near Pulaskiville; remaining here but a short time, they removed
to Chester Twp., where he remained four years, and then went to
Franklin Twp. He died in 1849, and his wife died in Putnam
Co., Ohio, in 1874. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.
They raised a family of eight children, six of whom are living -
William, Joseph, Catharine, Calvin, George W. and
Lodema. [For the history of Joseph and Calvin
see sketch in Chester and Gilead townships.] Peter and
John are dead; George W. worked on a farm until he
was 18; in the meantime, he attended school until he acquired a
good knowledge of the common school branches, and many of the
natural sciences. In 1852, being 18 years old, he began a
three years' apprenticeship at marble cutting, under the
direction of S. A. Crune; after this he worked two years
as journeyman in the marble shop at Chesterville. He was
married to Sarah Disman, Jan. 22, 1857; she was
the oldest daughter of Joseph and Anna (Mathews)
Disman; she was born in Chester Co., Pa., on the 27th day
of August, 1834. Her parents came to Ohio in 1852, and
settled near Franklin Center, where they lived until 1873, when
they removed to Lima, Ohio, where they now live, surrounded by a
large circle of friends, and esteemed by all. They raised
a family of nine children - George W., John, Joseph, Israel,
Sarah, Rachel, Hannah, Elizabeth J. and Anna.
After marriage, Mr. Gunsaulus moved to Franklin Center,
where he has worked at marble cutting, for 21 years, in his
present shop. His long experience as a workman and dealer
in every style of tombstones and monuments, has enabled him to
furnish and erect over our beloved dead the most beautiful and
appropriate monuments to their memory at a very reasonable
expense. This is the earliest industry of its kind in
Franklin Twp., and is well worthy of the patronage of those who
would mark the last resting-place of their dead with a monument
of American or Italian marble or granite. Mr. Gunsaulus
has been chosen to fill the office of Justice of the Peace for
fifteen years, and now holds a commission of Notary Public; he
was selected, over several competitors, to act as Enumerator of
the Census of 1880; he was a member of the School Board for
fifteen years, and aided in the purchase of the M. E. Church,
now used as a school-house. Himself, wife, and four
children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
active workers in the Sabbath-school, in which he has been
Superintendent. He has a family of seven children -
William D. was born Nov. 2, 1857; Anna M., Feb. 7,
1859; Mary F., October, 1861; Joseph, Sept. 1,
1863; Addison, Mar. 12, 1865; Hattie I., Dec. 8,
1867; Katie July 23, 1869.
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JOSEPH
GUNSAULUS, Attorney at Law and Notary Public;
Chesterville; was born on his father's farm, in Cayuga Co., New
York, Apr. 29, 1825. When he was about 13 years old they
moved to this State and settled in Chester Twp., about
three-fourths of a mile northwest of Chesterville, Knox, now
Morrow Co., coming by wagons. The land was but partially
improved, and they occupied a log cabin for a time. When
18 he began to learn the carpenter's trade, which he followed
for eight years, and during this time he read law at home and
attended school during the winters. He next began a
general trading and speculating business, dealing in stock, real
estate, etc., and a considerable legal business before the
justice. In the fall of 1861 he was elected on the
Republican ticket as Representative from Morrow Co., in the
Legislature, taking his seat in January, 1862, and during the
same winter was admitted to the bar. He represented the
county for four years, spending his vacations in forwarding
military matters. While in Columbus he served on the
Military Committee, also as Chairman of the Committee on
Municipal Corporations. Returning from Columbus in 1865,
he came to Chesterville, and has since been engaged in the
practice of law and looking after his farming interests.
He has been Mayor of Chesterville, in all, about twenty years;
was one of its incorporators, and has always been a member of
its Council; has also been President of its School Board for
many years. In the fall of 1854 he was married to Miss
Mary J. Holley, who was born in Pennsylvania. They
have two children: Frank W. and Lillian C.
The former is now Rev. F. W. Gunsaulus, of Columbus.
Mr. Gunsaulus' parents were Joseph and Nancy (Dempsey)
Gunsaulus, of New York, who came to this part of the country
in the fall of 1837, and followed farming. The former died
in 1848, and the latter in 1876. They had nine children,
five of whom are now living: William, Joseph, Calvin, George
W. and Lodema Crane, now living in New York.
They are all married and have families.
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WILLIAM W.
GURLEY is now and has been for thirty-five years past a
member of the Chicago Bar. He was born at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, Jan.
27, 1851. His father, Judge John J. Gurley, was a
native of St. Lawrence county, state of New York, and located at
Mt. Gilead in the year 1850, and was an honored and prominent
member of the bar of Morrow county until his death Apr. 30, 1887.
When
Judge Gurley came to Mt. Gilead he formed a partnership
for two years with Thomas W. Bartley. who was
afterwards one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio, from
Feb. 9, 1852, until Feb. 9, 1859, and with Samuel J.
Kirkwood, both of Mansfield, Ohio, under the firm name of
Gurley, Bartley and Kirkwood. Mr. Kirkwood later removed to Iowa
and became governor, and in 1881-2 was secretary of the interior
in President Garfield's Cabinet. The mother of William W.
Gurley was Anseville Carr
Armentrout Gurley. She was one of the most poetic, gentle
and amiable wives and mothers that the writer of this sketch ever
knew. She was a native of Richland county, Ohio. She died Apr. 2,
1882, and she and husband lie side by side in River Cliff
cemetery, Mt. Gilead, Ohio. Our subject has the best reasons to
feel proud of his ancestry.
He attended the
Union School in Mt. Gilead, and at the age of sixteen years was
admitted at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, and was
graduated therefrom in 1870, shortly after he became nineteen
years of age. The degree of Bachelor of Arts has been conferred on
him by his Alma Mater. He was admitted to the bar by the district
court within and for Morrow county, Ohio, on June 19, 1873, and
in Illinois on the second day of Apr. 11, 1875. On May 1, 1876, he
became a member of the firm of Cooper, Packard and Gurley,
which firm continued for about two years, when the firm of
Cooper and Gurley was organized and which remained in
existence for about six years. Since the dissolution of the last
named firm he has practiced alone. Of later years he has been
chiefly occupied with the affairs of corporations. He has for many
years been general counsel of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated
Railway Company and of the Chicago Railways Company and its
predecessor companies.
On October 28,
1878, he was married to Miss Mary Eva Turney,
daughter of the late Joseph Turney, of Cleveland,
Ohio, late treasurer of the state of Ohio. Of this marriage there
were born three children, the eldest, William Turney
Gurley. dying in infancy. The second, a daughter,
Helen Kathryn, was born Sept. 15, 1890, and is still
living. The third, a son, John Turney Gurley, was
born December 15, 1893, and died October 26, 1903. The daughter is
a graduate of the class of 1909 of the Misses Masters
School at Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Source:
History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II -
Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 - Page 489 |
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