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Source: Commemorative Biographical Record
of the counties of
SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO
J. B. Beers & Co. 1896
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LAMBERSON,
SHARON C.
LAMBERT,
WILLIAM E. *
LAUNDY,
WILLIAM J., CAPT. *
LAY,
JOHN *
LAY,
WILLIAM E. *
LEFEVER, JOHN *
LEFEVER, WILLIAM C., COL. *
LEHRMAN,
GEORGE J. *
LEJEUNE,
JACOB *
LEJEUNE,
MICHAEL * |
LEMMON,
JOHN M., JUDGE *
LEONARD,
STERLING C. *
LEVISEE,
AARON *
LEVISEE,
A. B. *
LEVISSE,
JOHN L. *
LINKE,
LOUIS *
LIVINGSTINE,
CHARLES *
LIVINGSTINE,
JACOB *
LONG,
MICHAEL, REV. |
LOSLI,
CHRISTIAN *
LOUDENSLEGER,
DANIEL *
LOUDENSLEGER,
EDWARD*
LOVE,
DAVID B. *
LOVE,
NATHANIEL, REV. B.C., D.D. *
LOVELAND,
JOHN B. *
LOVELAND,
J. ELMER *
LOVELAND,
N. E. *
LUCKEY
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SHARON C.
LAMBERSON, editor and co-proprietor of the
Democratic Messenger, Fremont, Sandusky county, was born
in Seneca county, Ohio, Nov. 16, 1838, a son of William and
Ana Mary (Creaer) Lamberson.
William Lamberson was born at Easton, Penn., Mar. 23,
1813, and came with his parents to Ohio in 1830, locating in the
forests of Seneca county, where he helped to clear up a farm.
In politics he was a radical Democrat. He married, Jan.
4, 1838, and died Jan. 15, 1882. Ann Mary Lamberson was
born in Montgomery county, Ohio, June 12, 1815, and died
Feb. 6, 1887, and died a member of the Reformed Church, in
which faith she was reared. Their children were: (1)
Sharon C., our subject; (2) Eunice A., wife of
John Huston,
living near Dayton, Ohio; (3) Virgil D., a veteran of the Civil
War, living at Tiffin, Ohio; (4) Janett C., widow of Victor J. Zahm, and one of the proprietors of the Democratic Messenger;
(5) Havana, Huron Co., Ohio; (6) Curtis M., who lives in Wamego,
Kans.; (7) Dewitt C., who died August, 1875; (8)
M. Marcena, a
maiden lady, living at Tiffin, Ohio. Daniel Lamberson, our
subject's paternal grandfather, was born near Easton, Penn.,
served in the war of 1812, became a pioneer settler of Seneca
county, Ohio, and died at a good old age. Our subject's
maternal grandparents came from Maryland, and settled near Dayton,
Ohio. Both of S. C. Lamberson's parents were of German
descent.
Our subject was reared on a farm, and after receiving a
common-school education in Seneca county took a course of study
at Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, from which institution
he graduated in 1859, with the first honor of his class.
He followed school teaching and farming, alternating these
occupations until 1873, when he engaged in the mercantile
business at Tiffin for two years. He then became connected
with the county auditor's office at Tiffin, for six years.
On Apr. 7, 1885, in partnership with his brother-in-law, V. J. Zahm, he purchased the Democratic Messenger, the organ of
the Sandusky county Democracy. His partner died in August
of the same year, and Mr. Lamberson has continued to conduct the
paper since that time. Politically, he is a Jeffersonian
Democrat, and socially, has been a member of Seneca Lodge, No.
35, I. O. O. F., about thirty years. On Apr. 18, 1887, he
was married, at Tiffin, Ohio, to Miss Johanna C. Zahm, who was
born in Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1838. Mrs. Lamberson's parents were born in Germany and came to America,
her father in 1832, her mother in 1833.
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REV. MICHAEL LONG. Any pioneer record of the Black Swamp,
in northern Ohio, which does not give an account of the old-time
traveling preachers or circuit rider, who did so much to cheer
the homes of the early settlers, must be incomplete, and any
list of such itinerants which does not include the familiar name
of Rev. Michael Long is untrue to history. For more
than fifty years he traversed this region in every direction,
and thousands loved to listen to the voice of his unstudied
eloquence.
Rev. Michael Long was born May 3, 1814, in
Guernsey county, Ohio, son of Daniel and Margaret (Brill)
Long, natives of Pennsylvania. He was reared to
farm work, and was educated in the common schools. AT an
early age he joined the United Brethren Church, and at the age
of twenty-one years was licensed to preach the Gospel. In
1834 he migrated from Guernsey to Sandusky county, Ohio, where
he married, on April 20, 1837, Miss Sarah Gear, of same
county, and they lived at various places most convenient to his
fields of labor. On April 26, 1836, he joined the Sandusky
Conference, and was assigned to a circuit of twenty-eight
appointments, at which he preached regularly every four weeks,
requiring for each round a travel of four hundred miles, for the
most part through the forests, either on foot or on horseback.
For his services the first year of his ministry he received a
salary of forty dollars. His circuit the second year, and
indeed for quite a number of subsequent years, was much like the
first, with salary ranging from one hundred to one hundred and
seventy-five dollars.
He was an active itinerant, and for fifty years was
continuously employed by the Conference as missionary, pastor or
presiding elder, which, with one year's subsequent service as
supply, made fifty-one years of active itinerant life. He
was a member of the Conference and present at every session for
fifty-six years, never missing the opening prayer. For
many years he was almost constantly engaged in revival work, for
which he was naturally fitted. His voice was wonderfully
strong, clear and voluminous, his nature genial and his
deportment dignified. He was directly instrumental in the
conversion and addition to the Church of about five thousand
persons. He solemnized more marriages and preached more
funeral sermons than any other minister within the bound of his
acquaintance, and he no doubt traveled longer and suffered more
privations than any other minister in his Conference. His
unwritten stories of daring adventure and hair-breadth escapes
would fill a volume. When traveling in the Maumee Valley he
sometimes passed trains of Indians half a mile long. He was
endowed with remarkable physical powers, and could endure hunger
and fatigue with little apparent discomfort. He was a friend to
the so-called higher education, and encouraged it in his family,
the fruits of this being manifest in the honorable standing of
his three sons in the active ministry. He and his noble wife
were examples of economy after which it would be well for many
of our young people to pattern. Starting in life with scarcely
anything of this world's goods, they lived within their small
income, and so managed that a small per cent, was saved year
after year until they were able to provide a comfortable home
for themselves and family, near Fremont, and render aid in the
education of their children at college. Mrs. Long
died at the family residence on January 15, 1889, and his death
occurred at the home of his nephew, Rev. James Long, at
Weston, Ohio, November 17, 1891. Their children Were: Martha
Jane, deceased wife of John Ernsberger;
Desire Angeline, wife of Martin Maurer;
Rev. N. S. Long, of the U. B. Church; Rev. B. M.
Long, of the Presbyterian Church; Calista, wife of
J. W. Worst; and Rev. Milon De Witt Long, of the
Presbyterian Church.
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