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WILLIAM
KING. This prominent agriculturist, who is
closely identified with the interests of Allen township,
Ottawa county, of which he has been a resident for the
past twenty-eight years, is a native of New York, having
been born in Niagara county, that State, January 11,
1837. His parents were Sherman and Rebecca
(Benedict) King, the former a native of Connecticut,
and the latter of Massachusetts, of English descent.
Mr. King was brought up on a farm in the State
of his birth, receiving his education in the district
schools. In 1856 he came to Ohio, and locating
near Fremont was for some time employed by Mr. Samuel
King, a farmer of Sandusky county. For ten
years he remained in that county, engaged in farm work,
and in 1867 came to Clay township, Ottawa county,
settling in that part which has since been set off and
named Allen township. Here he has continuously
carried on agricultural pursuits, and has done much
toward the improvement and upbuilding of his community.
Mr. King was married January 11, 1858, to Mary
daughter of George and Sarah (Lones) Roberts,
both of whom were natives of Perry county, Ohio, and of
German ancestry. The father was born Mar. 22,
1807, and passed away July 7, 1880; the mother was born
Feb. 1, 1810, near Rushville, Perry county, and died at
her home in Sandusky county, Aug. 10, 1887. Their
marriage took place in February, 1834, and for nearly
half a century they fought life's battle together.
They were among the very earliest settlers of Sandusky
county, having come there when that section of the
county was a vast wilderness. They cleared away
the forests and planted orchards, sowed the grains,
tilled the soil, made tor themselves and children a
comfortable home, and lived to see towns spring up
around them, churches and schoolhouses built, and all he
comforts and conveniences of civilization brought within
their reach. For forty-seven years they were
valued members of their community and they died honored
and respected by all.
Mrs. King, the wife of our subject, was born in
Sandusky county Aug. 24, 1840, and to her and her
husband seven children have come, namely: S. Ervin,
born Aug. 21, 1859, resides in Saunders county, Neb.;
Sarah P., born Jan. 17, 1861, is the wife of
Herman Bunte, and resides at Curtice, Allen
township, Ottawa county; Rosie E. married
William Gerkensmyer and also lives at Curtice;
Solomon P. resides in Allen township; Viola R.
is the wife of Robert Oberst, and lives in
Jackson township, Sandusky county; Mary M. and
Cynthia Edna live at home with their parents.
Mr. Kinghas always been a firm adherent of the
Democratic party, and is looked upon as one of the
intelligent, reliable men of the county. His
family are faithful attendants at the Methodist
Protestant Church in Curtice.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the
Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio: Chicago: J. H.
Beers & Co. 1896 - Page 658 |
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SAMUEL
KUESTHARDT, editor of the Ottawa County
Zeitung, published at Port Clinton, Ottawa county,
was born in Arnsburg, Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, February
6, 1855, and is one of the best known and most
highly-respected citizens of the county in which he now
resides.
He is the son of G. C. and Elizabeth (Wollenhaupt)
Kuesthardt. His father was born in Rambach, Hesse
Cassel, Germany, in 1804; was educated in the teachers'
seminary at Beuggen; followed the profession of a
teacher throughout his life, and for many years had
charge of a reform school. He died in April, 1875, a
consistent member of the Lutheran Church. His first wife
was Marie Wollenhaupt, by whom he had one
child, Marie, who lives in California. The second
wife of Mr. Kuesthardt, and the mother of
our subject, was born in Harle, Hesse Cassel, Germany,
in 1826, came to America in 1875, and died in California
April 5, 1894, the mother of seven children, all of whom
lived to manhood and womanhood: Christiana, died
at the age of twenty years; Magdalena, wife of
Rev. Julius Klopsteg, lives at
Henderson, Minn.; Tabitha was married in Germany
to Gustav Brobst; our subject comes next;
Anna is married to Julius Ulber, an
artist, now of California; Hermina is the wife of
Andrew Peterson, and lives in St. Paul,
Minn.; G. W. lives in California, where he
follows the trade of a carpenter, and is also engaged in
fruit raising.
Samuel Kuesthardt
attended school at the theological seminary in Melsungen,
Germany, from which he was a graduate in 1874. He then
came to America and took a practical course at the
schools of Mendota, Ill. He was the assistant minister
for one year in a church in Toledo, Ohio, and in the
fall of 1876 was ordained the pastor of a church at
Custer, Wood Co., this State. At this time he preached
to six different churches. He remained at Custer until
1881, in the fall of which year he received a call to
Fair Haven, Mich., where he remained until 1887. He was
then attacked with inflammatory rheumatism, from which
he suffered greatly, and, being obliged to seek a change
of climate, went to Louisiana and settled in Calcasieu
Parish, where he took up a homestead and timber claim,
325 acres in all. His health rapidly improved, and he
spent a couple of months in that place, while there
preaching at Lake Charles. He then returned to Toledo,
Ohio, and from there came to Rocky Ridge, in Ottawa
county, where he founded a congregation, and built the
first Lutheran church in the place. This was a frame
building, which soon after was burnt down, and they then
erected one of brick. He preached at Rocky Ridge for two
and a half years. In September, 1890, Mr.
Kuesthardt gave up preaching, and the following New
Year (1891) took charge of the Ottawa County Zeitung,
then published at Oak Harbor, and in 1893 he removed the
paper and his family to Port Clinton. In politics he is
a Democrat, and his paper is printed in the German
language. It is a newsy, well-conducted journal, and is
popular with the German citizens.
Mr. Kuesthardt was married in Toledo, Ohio,
April 19, 1877, to Miss Marie Kuehn,
of that city, and they have had nine children (seven of
whom are living): Paul; Martha; Samuel;
Marie; Laura; Ernest, who died in
Louisiana; Lydia, who died when four years old;
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SIMON HENRY KINSTING
is numbered among the pioneer settlers of Ottawa County,
having located within its borders when it was almost an
unbroken wilderness, with few roads laid out and few
settlements made. With the work of development and
progress he has been identified, and has aided in the
improvement of the locality by faithfully performing his
duties of citizenship.
Mr. Kinsting was born in Prussia, December 25,
1832, and is a son of Frederick William Kinsting,
also a native of Prussia, born in 1800, a tailor by trade,
who died at the home of his son, July 28, 1871. In
1849 he emigrated with his wife and two children to
America, after which he followed the occupation of
farming. He was first employed for only fifty cents
per day, and was very well satisfied, but as years passed
his financial resources increased. In the Fatherland
he married Minnie Saack, who was born in
Prussia, April 4, 1804, and died December 13, 1885.
They had two children - Simon Henry, and
Henrietta, wife of William Budky, of
Woodville, Sandusky county. The parents spent their
last years at the home of their son, who tenderly carried
for them in their declining days. Our subject's
paternal grandfather and his wife, were both born in
Germany about October, 1766, and the former died in 1833.
The maternal grandfather was born in Prussia, in 1774, and
his wife's birth occurred there in 1775.
S. H. Kinsting, the subject proper of
this review, spent the first seventeen years of his life
in his native land, and was educated in the public
schools. He then came with his parents to the United
States, and here attended the English schools, so that he
now speaks both languages fluently. In 1858 he was
united in marriage to Miss Frederica Priesing,
a native of Hanover, Germany, born June 6, 1835. She
obtained her education there, and when twenty-two yeas of
age came to America, locating in Toledo, Ohio, where she
met her future husband. The wedding was celebrated
six months later at the old homestead, one mile from
Elmore, where our subject now resides. Her parents,
who were also natives of Hanover, Germany, had a family of
six children, five of whom are now living, one son, Henry,
having died in the hospital in Memphis Tenn., while
serving in the Civil war. The father was a
blacksmith by trade, and died at an early age, leaving a
widow to care for her family. Mrs.
Kinsting was a faithful wife and loving
mother, one who trained her children to habits of industry
and uprightness. A fall occasioned the loss of her
mental faculties to a degree, and on September 2, 1892,
she passed away.
Mr.
and Mrs. Kinstring were the parents of four
children, namely: (1) William, born Aug.
13, 1860, was married Mar. 23, 1881, to Rachel
Ernsthausen, of Elmore, and resides on a
farm one mile from the town; they have three children -
Mary, William and Clara.
(2) Fred, born Sept. 16, 1863, was
married in Aug., 1885, to Cora Netcher,
and lives on a farm in Monroe county, Mich.; their
children are - John and George.
(3) Henry, born Apr. 10, 1867, was
married in November, 1890, to Libbie Wainwright,
and they have one child - Naomi, born
June 25, 1894. (4) Minnie, born
Apr. 25, 1870, was married in October, 1890, to
Frank Dishinger, of Harris township, Ottawa
county, and they had two children - Henry
and Eddie; Mrs. Dishinger
died Aug. 10, 1895, and was buried at Elmore.
During his entire residence in America Mr.
Kinsting has lived on the farm which now belongs
to Frank Dishinger. The first forty
acres of land were purchased in 1849 for $375 and the
first home was a little log cabin. By diligence and
close attention to business our subject and his father and
son cleared and developed the farm, extending its
boundaries by the additional purchase of seventy-three
acres in Sandusky and Ottawa counties, erected good
buildings and secured a nice home. Since his
father's death our subject has purchased eighty acres, for
which he paid $100 per acre. He has succeeded in
business through his own well-directed efforts, and today
is the owner of a valuable property, and the possessor of
a comfortable competence. In March, 1895, he called
his children together, and after a very pleasant family
reunion, gave each of them five thousand dollars. He
has now reached the age of sixty-three years, has ben a
cripple for twenty-two years, but is one of the most
cheerful and happy men in the community, finding great
pleasure in visiting his children, who have for him the
warmest affection, and take great delight in his visits to
them. Since 1858 he has been a member of the German
Methodist Episcopal Church, a consistent and earnest
Christian, enjoying the respect and confidence of all who
known him.
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