 FABING, FREDERICK
FALER,
JONATHAN *
FANGBONER,
JOHN *
FARK,
HENRY *
FENN,
A. A. *
FENN,
AMOS *
FERGUSON,
ALICE B.
FERGUSON,
A. R., M.D. *
FETTERMAN,
GEORGE *
FETTERMAN,
JOHN *
FISHER,
JOHN C. * |
FISHER,
JOHN G. *
FITTERER,
THEOPHILUS *
FLUMERFELT,
CORNELIUS *
FLUMERFELT,
DANIEL V. *
FLUMERFELT,
MELINDA, MRS. *
FONCANNON,
JOSEPH *
FOOS,
CASPER *
FORGERSON,
GRANT *
FORGRAVE,
ROBERT A. *
FOSTER,
SAMUEL *
FOUCHE,
BYRON A. * |
FOUGHT,
SAMUEL *
FOUGHT,
SUSAN, MRS. *
FRABISH, HESTER,
MRS.
FRABISH, JOHN
FRENCH, A. B.
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FREY, GEORGE
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FRONIZER, FRED
R. *
FRY, HENRY
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FRY, JOHN H.
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FULLER, TAYLOR*
FULLER,
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FREDERICK
FABING, gas and steam-fitter and
plumber, Fremont, Sandusky county, is one of the oldest
established business men in the city. He is a native of
France, born in Lorraine June 14, 1832, a son of John and
Mary
Ann (Greiner) Fabing, who were also natives of Lorraine.
John Fabing in early life learned the trade of gunsmith
and jeweler, which he followed until he came to America.
In 1834 he emigrated, locating in Fayetteville, Onondaga Co., N.
Y., and there pursuing his trade until 1844, when with the
sweeping tide of emigration westward he came to the village of
Lower Sandusky, now Fremont, Sandusky Co., Ohio, and established
a home. His death occurred July 2, 1845, his wife
surviving until 1882, when she died, at Fremont, at the age of
seventy-nine years. Their children were: Catharine, wife
of John Young, of Pilot Hill, Cal.; John, a farmer of Jackson
township, Sandusky county, who died at the age of fifty-two
years; Lena, who married in 1845, and died in 1847, leaving two
children; one that died in infancy; Frederick, subject of this
sketch; and Barbara, wife of M. Hazeltine, of Baker City,
Oregon. Mr. Fabing was a Democrat and a member of the
Roman Catholic Church.
Frederick Fabing attended the common schools in
Fayetteville, N. Y., until twelve years of age, when he
came with his father's family to Sandusky county, Ohio. He
remembers distinctly the open winter of 1844, the voyage on
shipboard from Buffalo to Sandusky City, the subsequent trip to
Lower Sandusky, all the way by boat, and the landing at that
place on the 24th of Dec., 1844. The famous "Black
Swamp" was then a wilderness, and only ten or twelve families
had settled between here and Toledo. He used to engage in
the sports of the time, hunting deer and other wild game in the
deep forests. In 1850 Mr. Fabing joined a caravan to cross
the Western Plains to California. This caravan was in
charge of a Mr. McClure, who was familiar with the Indians and
believed in treating them kindly, adopting military rule for the
government of his men in order to prevent any mistreatment of
the Indians. On one occasion a man of his party shot at a
buck and squaw sitting on a long some distance away, but did not
hit them; McClure at once had the offender arrested and tried by
court-martial - by which the man was condemned to be tied across
a wagon wheel during a half-day's travel over the sandy plain,
so that his head and feet were alternately up and down.
Most of the party remonstrated, but McClure was firm in carrying
out the verdict, claiming that if the Indians had been shot or
even slightly wounded the whole caravan might have been
massacred. On being released the man was more dead than
alive, but he soon recovered, and it is needless to say that he
did not shoot at the Redmen again during the journey.
Another precaution of McClure for the safety of his party was
that of not allowing any Indians into his camp. He posted
his pickets outside, and when Indians came to beg food they were
given coffee, sugar, salt, etc., which was divided up amongst
them, and they went away peaceably. In this manner the
caravan passed through the most powerful tribes of the West
unmolested. The party fared well until near the end of
their journey, when rations became short. From the time
they reached the valley of the Humboldt river until they entered
the Humboldt river until they entered California each man got
only one cup of soup (made from a cow so poor that there was
nothing left upon her) and a handful of crackers per day.
Upon nearing points where supplies could be had a couple of men
were sent ahead on the best horses they had, and they purchased
flour, for which they had, and they purchased flour, for which
they were obliged to pay two dollars per pound, and eighteen
dollars worth of it was cooked into cakes for the crowd for one
dinner. The first appearance of whit men after crossing
the Missouri river was at Fort Laramie on the Upper Platte,
where one company of United States troops was located. Mr.
Fabing walked all the way across the plains, except one day in
each week, when he was obliged to drive a team.
On reaching California, in August, 1850, he engaged in
gold digging, at Cold Springs, near Placerville, remaining there
until fall, when he went to Shasto, on Clear creek, where he
continued digging with good success in 1854. He returned
home by way of the Panama rout and New York City, remaining a
short time to visit with Friends, returned to the gold field by
the Tehuantepec route, located on the upper branch of the
American river for a time, and then returned to Shasto.
Here he had fair success and secured enough gold to pay him for
all his time. Mr. Fabing in 1857 returned to Fremont, and
in 1862 became connected with the Fremont Gas Company, with
which he continued about twenty-eight years, most of the time in
the capacity of superintendent. He became interested and
skilled in the gas-fitting and plumbing business, which he
followed in connection with his other duties, so that on
retiring from the office of president he found himself
controlling the chief trade in that line in Fremont. In
1865 Mr. Fabing and Mr. Heim jointly built the block which bears
their names, Fabing & Heim, and the former still hold his
interest in it. He is also one of the heaviest
stockholders in the Opera House Company. In politics he is
a Republican. In 1865 he joined the Masons, being a member
of Fort Stephenson Lodge, No. 225, of Fremont, and advanced in
Masonry to Knight Templar, becoming a member of De Molay
Comandery, No. 9, K. T., Tiffin, Ohio. In 1858 Mr.
Fabing
married Miss Mary J. Webber, who was born in Alsace, Germany, in
1833.
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CASPER FOOS,
retired farmer and a resident of Millersville, Jackson township,
Sandusky county, was born Feb. 20, 1826, in Alsace, France (now
Germany), a son of Casper and Mary (Toeppe) Foos.
The parents of our subject came to America in 1842, and settled
near Rochester, N. Y., where the father's death occurred in
1882, when he was aged seventy-eight years; the mother died
seven years later at the age of eighty-four years. Mr.
Foos was a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and in
politics he was a Democrat.
Casper Foos, the subject proper of these lines,
who was one of a family of nine children, remained at home until
his nineteenth birthday, when he started out for himself.
He worked at different places, and at various employments for
two years, and then secured a paying position in a distillery,
where he was employed seven years, saving his earnings. In
1855 he moved to Jackson Township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, and there
and bought forty acres of land, and engaged in farming pursuits.
five years later he bought one hundred acres more, where he now
resides.
On April 25, 1849, Mr. Foos married Miss
Adeline Horchelar, of Rochester, now deceased, as is also
her mother. The children of Casper and Adeline Foos
were as follows: Martin (1), Mary,
Anthony, John, Louis and Martin (2).
In politics Mr. Foos is a Democrat, and has held
several offices, being popular and well-liked in the community.
In religious faith he is a member of the Catholic Church.
(Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of
Sandusky & Ottawa, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.,
1896 - Page 441)
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JOHN FRABISH
(deceased) belonged to that class of valued and progressive
citizens to whom any community owes its advancement and
prosperity, and his death was a loss to the entire county.
He was born in Saxony, Germany, August 16, 1814, and was a son
of Godlup Frabish, a farmer of Saxony. He acquired
his education in his native town, and then began learning the
shoemaker's trade. In 1838 he crossed the Atlantic to
America, locating in Wheeling, W. Va., where he followed
shoemaking for a short time, later coming to Ohio, where he
engaged in the same pursuit in Fremont.
In 1852, Mr. Frabish became a resident of
Woodville township, Sandusky county, where he purchased one
hundred acres of land covered with timber. There were no
roads in the locality, and only two other settlers in teh
neighborhood. In true pioneer style he began life upon
this place, building a log cabin and continuing the work of
cultivation and improvement. His task was a hard one, for
his farm implements were crude; but undaunted he continued his
labors, cutting down the trees, removing the stumps and planting
crops which soon yielded to him good harvests. He had to
cut his grain with a sickle and thresh it with a flail, for the
improved machinery of to-day was then unknown. He hauled
his products to the mill at Green Springs with ox-teams, a
distance of twenty-four miles, and there had it ground into
flour that the family might have bread. He had to go to
Fremont to market, and went through all the experiences and
hardships of pioneer life; but time and his arduous labor
brought a change, and a substantial frame residence took the
place of the rude cabin, a fine orchard supplanted the wild
forest trees, ditches for drainage were dug, barns and
out-houses were built and all the improvements and accessories
of a model farm were added. Around the home is a well-kept
lawn, and in front is an ornamental hedge fence, making the
Frabish farm one of the finest in the township.
Mr. Frabish was married in Fremont, Ohio, in
1842, to Mrs. Rosenia (Walters) Bowers, a sister of
Lewis Walters, and a widow of John Bowers. For
more than a quarter of a century this happy couple lived
together in their cabin home, sharing in the trials of pioneer
life, the wife encouraging and aiding her husband in all
possible ways. She died in 1869, and in 1870 Mr. Fabish
married Mrs. Hester (Mohler) Tucker, widow of Thomas
Tucker, who was a native of New York, and a farmer by
occupation. Removing to Ohio, he (Mr. Tucker)
followed the same pursuit in Madison township, Sandusky county.
He was married in Fremont in 1856 to Hester Mohler, and
they became the parents of four children - Nelson
Tucker, a farmer of Woodville township, Sandusky County;
Addie, wife of Reuben Clink; Sebastian, who
died in childhood, and Franklin, who died in infancy.
Mrs. Frabish was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1833, and
came to this country in 1847.
Mr. Frabish was a well-known and highly-esteemed
citizen, and for a number of years held the office of township
supervisor, being elected on the Republican ticket. He was
also a director of schools for a number of years, taking a deep
interest in the cause of education. He was unfaltering in
his support of the Republican party and in his religious views
was a German Methodist. His life was that of an upright
and just man, whose kindness and generosity were manifest toward
all. He was a loving husband and good neighbor, his genial
disposition winning for him many friends, and making him very
popular with all classes of people. His integrity and
honor were above question, and his fidelity to the best
interests of his adopted county was shown in his devotion to
everything calculated to prove of public benefit - indeed, this
Biographical Record would be incomplete without a sketch of his
life. He passed away in 1892 at the advanced age of
seventy-seven years, five months, twelve days, mourned by all
who knew him. Mrs. Frabish, a most estimable lady,
still resides on the homestead, which is now operated by her
son, Nelson Tucker, who was married, in 1882, to Miss
Emma Rearick, of Woodville, Sandusky Co., Ohio, and resides
with his mother. She is now surrounded with the comforts
of life, and enjoys the esteem of a large circle of friends.
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HENRY FRY, farmer,
Ballville township, Sandusky county, was born in Prussia,
Germany, May 3, 1813, a son of Lambert and Mary (Shoetler)
Fry, natives of Germany. Lambert Fry, born in
1775, was a cabinet-maker by trade, and also kept a grocery
store; he died in 1859 at the age of eighty four. Their
children were: (1) Lambert, Jr., born September, 1803,
died in 1849; (2) Mary, deceased in infancy; (3) John,
born Feb. 28, 1810, retired farmer, Ballville township; (4) our
subject; (4) Mary, born Sept. 1, 1819, who married
Lambert Speller, in Germany, and whose children are:
John, Henry, Augustus, Fred, Lissette and Wilhelmine,
all of whom have died, except two, and are buried in Oak Wood
Cemetery.
Our subject grew to manhood in the German Fatherland.
HE emigrated to America Mar. 26, 1834, landing in Baltimore on
the 1st of July following, having been forty-two days at sea.
On the 11th of April their ship was wrecked on a sand-bar,
during a terrible storm, but Mr. Fry managed to keep on
the wreck, and with several others subsisted on the contents of
a keg of rum which they found in the wreck. They were out
in the sea from Thursday until Saturday before they were rescued
by small boats procured from shore by the efforts of the second
mate and two seamen. Mr. Fry was the only passenger
who saved all his clothes. Many died from the effects of
exposure, and thirty-one out of one hundred and fifty were
drowned. After reaching land Mr. Fry had the choice
of his passage money back or passage on another ship. He
chose the latter, and a few days later engaged passage on the
"Neptune," Capt. Williamson, with 164 passengers, in
which he made the voyage in safety. Mr. Fry made
friends with the captain, and received special favors from him
during the voyage. After landing in Baltimore he remained
there only three days, then walked to Cumberland, Md., where he
worked at his trade of cabinet-making, and then started on foot
to meet his cousin, Philip Fry, in Ohio, walking nearly
all the way. He subsequently came to Ballville township,
Sandusky county, and worked for Samuel Treat, and ten
assisted in building a gristmill for James Moore.
For the latter he worked five years at one dollar per day.
In 1837 he went to Logansport, Ind., remained there one year and
built canal locks. On his return to Ballville township he
married, Sept. 4, 1841, Miss Abigail RIDEOUT, daughter of
John and Sarah (Randall) RIDEOUT.
JOHN G. RIDEOUT was
born in Augusta, Maine, of English parents. Sarah
Randall was born in Connecticut, and after their marriage
they removed to Ross county, Ohio, and in 1825 to Ballville,
Sandusky Co., where they resided until their death. The
names and dates of birth of their children are as follows:
William, February 10, 1819; David, May 6, 1821;
Abigail, April 30, 1823; Ebenezer, April 1, 1825;
Margaret, March 6, 1827; Horace, December 22, 1829;
Elizabeth, Nov. 4, 1831; Alice, Jan. 28, 1833.
Abigail (Rideout) Fry was born in Ross county, Ohio, and
came with her parents to Ballville, Sandusky county, in 1825,
where she has resided for more than seventy years, and has seen
the country grow from a wilderness, inhabited by Indians and
infested with wolves, to its present beautiful and prosperous
condition.
Henry Fry and his brother John bought a
farm of 190 acres, where they lived together about eight years,
after which Henry moved to a piece of 160 acres, which he
had bought some years before, and which has been his place of
residence since 1850. He lives about five miles south of
Fremont, was a Whig and is now a Republican in politics, and is
much esteemed wherever known.
The children of Henry and Abigail Fry were:
John Lambert, who died in infancy; Cynthia J., born
Mar. 9, 1843; and Amelia S., born Apr. 18, 1846.
Cynthia attended school at Oberlin College about three
years, and was married June 14, 1865, to Dr. Robert H. Rice,
whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. Amelia
also attended school at Oberlin College, and was married Dec.
26, 1866, to Elias B., son of John and Eliza (Rutter)
Moore, of Ballville.
Elias B. Moore attended school at Oberlin
College, and at the outbreak of the Rebellion, enlisted in the
Seventy-second Regiment O.V.I., was appointed sergeant of
Company F, with many others was taken prisoner at the battle of
Guntown, Miss., and for many months suffered the horrors of
Andersonville and other Rebel prisons. After the close of
the war he was engaged in business in Fremont, was twice elected
treasurer of Sandusky county, and afterward with his family
removed to Fort Wayne, Ind., where they now reside. Their
children are Abbie, Mabel, Elias, Henry and Ruth.
(Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the
counties of Sandusky & Ottawa, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - J. H.
Beers & Co., 1896 - Page 460)
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