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ALLEN
BAKER, general farmer and stock raiser, residing
in Perry township, where he owns a farm of eighty-four
acres, was born Oct. 16, 1874, in Jackson township,
Shelby county, and is a son of William C. and Mary
(Thompson) Baker.
William C. Baker was a well known citizen of
Shelby county. After the death of his first wife,
when their one child, Allen, was eighteen months
old, William C. Baker married Miss Eureka
Schmidt, of Jackson township of German ancestry.
To the second union the following children were born:
Nora, wife of Clarence Steenrod; Milton,
who married Effie Clinhens; May; Leo and Lina,
twins, the former of whom married a Miss Fogt,
and the latter, S. Ailes; and Boston, Ida,
Bessie and Clara.
Allen Baker obtained a common school education and
remained with his father until he was twenty-one years
of age, moving then to his present property, which was
an inheritance. In November, 1896, he was married
to Miss Alice LeFevre, who is a daughter of
Jacob and Delcina (Line) LeFevre. The
LeFevre family is one well known in Shelby county,
substantial farming people, and it is connected by
marriage with a number of the other old families of this
section. Mrs. Baker had the following
brothers and sisters: Edward, who married
Gertie Pulmere; William; James, who married Edna
King; Warren, who is deceased, married
Callie Baker; Minnie, who is the wife of Lafe
Vester; Largurney, who is the wife of Elza A.
Baker; and Cora, who is the wife of Samuel
Retter. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have three
children: Leroy Allen, Velma Alice and Mary
Catherine. The family attends the Church of
Christ. In his political views, Mr. Baker
is a democrat. He is a well known and highly
respected citizen of this community and should he carry
out a plan he has under consideration, that of removing,
early in 1913, to Salem township, this neighborhood will
have lost a good resident and a reliable and dependable
man.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913
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E.
M. BAKER, a leading, citizen of Green township,
formerly a justice of the peace, resides on his valuable
farm of seventy-five acres, which lies ten miles
southeast of Sidney. He was born in Clark county, O., in
1863, and is a son of C. W. and Mary A. (Wells)
Baker.
C. W. Baker was born in Maryland and was four
years old when his parents brought him to Ohio. He was
reared in Clark county and followed farming there for
many years and continued to be an agriculturist after
moving to Shelby county, where he died in his
seventy-ninth year. He married Mary A. Wells, who
was born in Champaign county, O., and five children were
born to them, namely: N. H. and W. B.,
both of whom live in Green township; Forrest, who is
deceased; E. M.; and Mrs. Bertha A. Pence.
E. M. Baker was educated mainly in the public
schools of Shelby county, enjoying two terms also at
Lebanon, O., after which he became a school teacher and
more or less continuously devoted himself to educational
work for twenty-five years, practically in Shelby county
with three terms in Miami county. As a teacher he was
considered very efficient and his acquaintance extends
all over both counties and his friends are in every
section. In 1905 he moved on the farm on which he
resides and in retiring from educational work he turned,
his attention to the improvement and development of his
property. With the exception of the residence, all the
substantial buildings on the place have been put here by
Mr. Baker, and it has been so remodeled
that it has many desirable modern comforts and
conveniences. General farming and stock raising are
carried on and Mr. Baker is proving that
an educated man makes a very successful farmer.
Mr. Baker married Miss Clara
Moon and they have two children: O. H. and
C. L., both of whom reside at home. In politics
Mr. Baker is identified with the republican
party.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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ELZA A. BAKER,
residing on his valuable farm of 143 acres, which is
located in Perry township, Shelby county, O., was born
in this township, Oct. 31, 1883, and is a son of
Martin and Christena (Smith) Baker. Martin
Baker was a well known farmer in Perry township
for many years, his death occurring in February, 1909.
His widow and their three children all survive, she
being a resident of Jackson Center, O. The family
consisted of one daughter and two sons: Ida, who
is the wife of Cory Hoak; Orla A., a
farmer and business man at Port Jefferson; and Elza
A.
Elza A. Baker
secured a public school education and then assisted his
father until he was twenty-two years of age, when he
rented land in Logan county for one year. He then
returned to the home farm, which he inherited at his
father's death, and which had been the home of his
parents for twenty-four years. He carries on
general farming and does considerable business in the
way of buying and selling stock, and is generally looked
upon as one of the township's successful farmers and
progressive citizens.
On Dec. 29, 1905, Mr. Baker was married to
Miss Guernie LeFevre, a daughter of Jacob
and Dulcina (Line) LeFevre, who
formerly were prominent farming people of this county.
They had the following children: Edward,
William, and James; Warren, who is
deceased; Alice, who is the wife of Allen
Baker; Minnie, who is the wife of Lafe
Vester; Guernie, who is the wife of Elsa
A. Baker; and Cora, who is the wife of
Samuel Ritter. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have
two children: Ruth Estella and Pauline Edith.
Mr. and Mrs. Baker attend the Disciples church.
He is independent in his political attitude.
Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias
at Maplewood and the Knights of Khorasan at Sidney.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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EMORY E. BAKER,
whose successful operating of the home farm, consisting
of 235 acres, which is situated in Perry township,
Shelby county, O., places him among the competent young
agriculturists of this section, was born in Perry
township, Oct. 24, 1880. He is a son of Lewis
W. and Julia (Booze) Baker.
Lewis W. Baker is a son of William
Baker, one of the early settlers in Shelby county.
From early manhood until 1893 he engaged in general
farming, but in that year he went into the elevator
business at Maplewood, Shelby county, O., with M. D.
Burke of Pemberton, O., under the firm name of
Burke & Baker. In 1904 he bought out Mr.
Burke and continued in business by himself until 1909,
when he sold to Simmons, Faulkner &
Cook. In 1911, he and Mr. A. F. Rust
bought two elevators at Haviland, Paulding county, O.,
and are operating them under the name of the Haviland
Grain Company. He married Julia Booze,
a daughter of Hezekiah Booze, and they have two
children: Emory E. and Edna, who is the
wife of John J. Drewery, of Jackson township, and
they have one daughter, Beulah.
Emory E. Baker obtained his education in the
public schools and afterward was employed for five years
by the firm of Burke & Baker, elevator
operators. Mr. Baker
then took charge of his father's large farm and has
managed its various industries in a very satisfactory
manner ever since. He has progressive ideas and
follows the most modern methods with the assistance of
improved machinery, devoting the land mainly to crop
raising, growing only stock for his own use.
Mr. Baker was married November 15, 1900,
to Miss Lavina J. Young, who was born in Shelby
county and is a daughter of Adam P. and Mary J. (Allen)
Young, Mr. Young being a
substantial farmer in this county. Mrs.
Baker is the third in a family of five children:
Elza, Earl, Lavina J., Minnie
and Grover, Minnie being the wife of
William Cox.
Mr. and Mrs. Baker have four children: Wilda
L., Harold L., Carl E. and Ralph E. The
family attends the Disciples church. In politics
Mr. Baker is a democrat but has always been too
busy attending to his own affairs to feel at liberty to
accept public office, although well qualified for the
same. He takes an interest in several fraternal
organizations and belongs to the Knights of Pythias at
Maplewood and to the D. O. K. K., at Sidney.
Source: History of Shelby
County, Ohio and representative citizens - Evansville,
Ind. - 1913 - Page 674 |
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GEORGE M. BAKER,
who owns and operates the old Baker homestead of
eighty-eight acres, situated in Washington township,
Shelby county, O., was burn on this farm in 1875 and is
a son of Ephraim and Nancy (Cain) Baker.
Ephraim Baker was horn also in Shelby county and
spent forty-four years of his life on the above
mentioned farm, doing the larger part of the clearing.
In addition to farming and stock raising, he also worked
at the ice business for a time. His death occurred
here in his seventy-fourth year. He married
Nancy Cain, who came from West Virginia and they had
the following children: Junie, Mrs. Flora
Saunders, Albert, Leo, Franklin,
George M., Mrs. Peter Higgins and M. L.,
the last named being a resident of North Dakota.
The four survivors of the family include George M.
and M. L. and Mrs. Saunders and Mrs.
Higgins.
After his school days were over Mr. Baker
was engaged in a grocery business for some ten years.
In 1908 he decided to turn his attention to farming and
with this end in view bought the interests of the other
heirs in the homestead and since then has been
successfully carrying on general farming and stock
raising, cultivating his own land and an adjoining
eighty acres.
Mr. Baker married Miss Adelle Filler and
they have two children: William and Alfred.
Mr. Baker and family are members of the United
Brethren church at Lockington, O. Politically he is a
republican and fraternally he is identified with the Odd
Fellows at Kirkwood and belongs to the Encampment at
Sidney.
Source: History of Shelby
County, Ohio and representative citizens - Evansville,
Ind. - 1913 - Page 617 |
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LEWIS
W. BAKER, who for many years has been a prominent
citizen of Salem township, now lives in comfortable
retirement at Maplewood but retains possession of
several valuable tracts of land. He was born in
Perry township, Shelby county, O., Nov. 14, 1859, and is
a son of William and Elizabeth (Laudenback) Baker.
William Baker was born in Clark County, O., in 1815
and his wife was born in Champaign county, O. In
1842 he moved on the farm in Perry township Shelby
county, which Lewis W. Baker now owns. He
and wife died at the home of his son, their burial being
at Port Jefferson. They had the following
children: Daniel; Jonas; Sarah J., wife of
Peter Hartman; Mary E., wife of Enos Wagner;
Margaret, wife of William Gilfillen; Martin A.;
Allen and Lewis W. The parents were
members of the Baptist church. The father was a
democrat in politics and his sons are of the same
political faith.
Lewis W. Baker secured a district school
education, attending regularly in the winter seasons
until he reached manhood. He then gave his father
assistance until 1893, remaining on the h9oestead until
then although as early as 1879 he had commenced to work
for himself. When his father first settled on the
farm in Perry township he had 120 acres but he continued
to invest in land until he had 235 acres, the extent of
the present farm which is now the property of Lewis
W. Baker, by inheritance. He owns also a farm
of 120 acres in Jackson township, which he bought from
William Hogan, and he the present farm which is
now the property of Lewis W. Baker, by
inheritance, owns a third tract, containing twenty
acres, which lies on the edge of Maplewood, on which he
resides.
In December, 1878, Mr. Baker was married to
Miss Julia E. Booze, who was born in Allen county,
O., and was eight years old when her parents,
Hezekiah and Mary Catherine (Hill) Booze, brought
her to Shelby county. They were natives of
Pennsylvania. The father of Mrs. Baker died
in Oklahoma and the mother in Shelby county, her burial
being in Pleasant Hill cemetery. They had the
following children: Jon and Uriah;
Maria E., wife of George Kirtley; Julia E.;
Martha, wife of William Warner; and Christian,
Hezekiah, Lewis and Thomas.
To Mr. and Mrs. Baker two children were
born: Emory E., who married Lavina
Young, and they have four children - Wildie,
Harold, Carl and Ralph; and Edna, who
is the wife of John J. Drury, and they have one
daughter, Beulah. Mr. Baker and family
belong to the Disciples church. Among his business
interests in his ownership of stock in the Haviland
Grain & Hay Company of Haviland, O., and he is also a
stockholder and director of the First National Bank of
Jackson Center. While never anxious to hold
political office, he consented to serve two terms as
township treasurer of Salem township and his interest in
the public schools caused him to remain on the school
board for twelve years. He has always been a man
of social instincts and qualities and enjoys his
membership with the Knights of Pythias, attending the
Maplewood lodge of this order.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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MILTON
BAKER, a general farmer in Salem township, Shelby
county, O., who is serving in his second year as
turnpike superintendent, operates a farm of eighty-six
acres, one-third of which he owns. He was born in
Shelby county, Nov. 15, 1881, and is a son of William
C. and Frederika (Schmidt) Baker.
The parents of Mr. Baker reside on their
farm in Jackson township, Shelby county, and Mr.
Baker is a well known man and prominent politician
and for six years served as a county commissioner.
He has been twice married, first to a Miss Thompson
who was survived by one son, Allen. To his
second marriage the following children were born:
Leo, Roscoe, Boston, Nora, Milton, May, Lina, Ida,
Bessie and Clara. Nora is the wife of
Clarence C. Steenrod.
Milton Baker obtained a good public school
education and since then has engaged continuously in
farming and stock raising. In February, 1903 he
was married to Miss Eva Clinehens, a daughter of
Conrad and Catherine Clinehens who have other
children, namely: Edith, wife of Ernest Wones;
and Elmer, Chester, Harry, Omer and
Roscoe. Mr. Clinhens' first wife was a
Miss Mead and they had one daughter, Emma
who is the wife of John Piper. To Mr.
and Mrs. Baker four children have been born:
Mabel, Alma, Chloe and Elmer, the older ones
attending school. Mr. Baker is identified
with the democratic party. He is a man of good
standing in his neighborhood and his fellow citizens
recognize the fact that when he is elected to an office
its duties will be performed honestly and efficiently.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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ORLA
A. BAKER, who is one of the substantial men of
Shelby county, O., the owner of two farms aggregating
204 acres, situated in Perry township, and a member of
the firm of Baker & Harris, implement dealers at
Port Jefferson, O., is one of the enterprising young
business men of this section. He was born on his
father's farm in Perry township, Aug. 31, 1881, and is a
son of Martin A. and Christena (Smith) Baker.
The father died in February, 1909, but the mother
survives and resides at Jackson Center. The family
consisted of three children: Ida, who is the wife
of Cory Hoak; Orla A., and Elza A.
In the public schools of Perry township Orla A.
Baker secured his education, after which he became
interested in agricultural pursuits and successfully
carried on farming and moderate stock raising, confining
himself to the same until 1910, when he became
interested additionally at Port Jefferson and since Mar.
1, 1912, he has been the senior member of the firm of
Baker & Harris. This firm carries a full line
of hardware and handles all kinds of agricultural
implements. While Mr. Baker cannot be
regarded as a politician, he is a stanch democrat and
gives loyal support to his party's candidates and
without asking for political preferment for himself.
On Dec. 31, 1903, Mr. Baker was married to
Miss Ella E. Zedeker, who was born in Shelby County
and is a daughter of Oliver and Margaret (Lawhead)
Zedeker Mr. Baker has one brother,
Clyde. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have one son,
Ralph Emerson, who was born May 3, 1906. They
are members of the Disciples church. He is
connected with the Knights of Pythias at Maplewood, and
with the Knights of Khorasan at Sidney, O.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 -
Page 720 |
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WILLIAM C. BAKER, who is one of the valued
citizens of Jackson township, is a general farmer and
lives one and one-half miles south of Montra, on the
west side of the Hussey turnpike road, where are located
his 200 acres of well improved land. He was born
on this farm, July 22, 1847, and is a son of
Jefferson Baker and a grandson of Philip Baker.
Grandfather Philip Baker
was born in Pennsylvania and when he came first to Ohio
he settled in Clark county, four miles from Springfield.
He married Mary Elizabeth Kessler whose parents
were natives of Germany, and their children were all
born and reared in Clark county, namely:
George, William, Jacob, Jefferson, James Elizabeth,
Sarah, Mary and Susan. Of the above
family, Sarah lived to the remarkable age of
ninety-three years. Philip Baker died a few
months before the birth of his son, Jefferson Baker.
His widow survived until 1860 and her burial was in the
old cemetery at Port Jefferson.
Jefferson Baker came into the world fatherless
but he was blessed with a careful mother and she gave
him every educational advantage in her power. He
became a scholar, for those days, and taught school and
penmanship, being an expert with the old-fashioned goose
quill, which has not been altogether succeeded by the
steel pen, there yet being found old fashioned
scriveners who prefer the flexible goose quill of long
ago. R. Baker became a farmer, acquiring
eighty acres of the large property above alluded to, and
subsequently he purchased forty more acres and partly
cleared his 120 acres but did not survive into advanced
age, his death occurring in his forty-fifth year.
His burial was in the Howell cemetery at Montra.
In politics a stanch democrat he was elected on the
democratic ticket to the office of township trustee and
also served as school director. His marriage was
with Margaret Critten who was born in Virginia, a
daughter of William Critten. She lived to
be fifty-four years of age and was the cherished mother
of the following children: William C.;
Mary Elizabeth, who married Marion Rhynard
and they live at Ashley, Mich.; F. M., who died
in May 1909, in Michigan; John H., who is a
resident of Lake View, O. The youngest born, a
son, died when aged three years.
William C. Baker attended the district schools
in Jackson township and also a select school at Port
Jefferson, and afterward followed farming on the
homestead during the summers and for thirteen terms
taught school in the winter seasons. During this
time he married and afterward lived for one winter on
his father-in-law's farm in Perry township and then came
on the homestead. The present residence and barn
were built by Mr. Baker's father in 1870 but he
has enlarged and improved them and completed the
clearing of the land and, as a business, carries on a
general agricultural line. Very often he has been
called to positions of public responsibility and on the
democratic ticket was elected county commissioner and
served six years; served two terms as land appraiser;
was township clerk and a trustee of Jackson township and
for twenty-five years has served on the school booard.
He is interested in the Farmers Telephone Company.
Mr. Baker was first married to Miss Mary C.
Thompson, a daughter of the late James
Thompson of Perry township. She is survived by
one son, Allen, who married Alice
Lefever. Mr. Baker's second
marriage was to Miss Eureka Schmidt,
and to this union the following children were born:
Nora, who is the wife of Clarence Steenrod,
residing at Maplewood, O.; Milton, who is a
resident of Maplewood, married Eva Clinehens;
May, who lives at home.
Leo and Lina, twins, the former of
whom married Lillie Fogt and the latter,
Sidney Ailes; Roscoe, who was a
student at Harvard University, Boston, who is a natural
mechanic, is in the well digging and pump repairing
business at Montra; Ida, who lives at home; and
Bessie and Clara who are yet in school.
The family belongs to the Disciples church. He is
identified with the local Grange and with the K. O. T.
M. Mr. Baker and family are among
the most representative people in this part of Shelby
county.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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ANTHONY BARHORST,
who is a very enterprising and successful farmer of
McLean township and a member of one of the old and
respected Catholic families here, was born in McLean
township, Shelby county, O., March 1, 1,884, and is a
son of Henry and Elizabeth (Grieshop)
Barhorst.
Henry Barhorst was born at Steinfeldt,
Oldenberg, Germany, September 30, 1828, and came to the
United States when sixteen years of age, settling on a
farm west of Loramie, O., and after his marriage he
followed farming there for ten years and later acquired
a large body of land, at the time of death, August 22,
1906, owning 240 acres. He was a man of high standing in
McLean township and for fifteen years served as a
township trustee. On June 5, 1855, he married
Elizabeth Grieshop, who was born at Denklage,
Germany, January 7, 1838, and was brought to America in
her ninth year. Her people settled in Mercer county, O.,
where she lived until her marriage took place at
Loramie. She died on the home farm in McLean township,
August 23, 1908. They were faithful members of St.
Michael's Catholic church at Fort Loramie and were known
all through the parish for their many fine qualities.
They had eleven children: Henry, Herman,
John, Bernard, Joseph, Anthony,
Mary, Catherine and Rose, being
those named, and of these, Herman, Joseph, Mary,
Catherine and Rose are deceased.
Anthony Barhorst was educated in the
Sherman Special School District and has followed farming
ever since reaching manhood. After marriage he settled
on his farm of 100 acres, which is situated in section
11, McLean township, four miles southeast of Fort
Loramie, which he bought of George Babylon.
He remodeled the residence and has added buildings as
his large agricultural operations have made necessary
and has all his land in tillable condition except twelve
acres of woodland.
Mr. Barhorst was married January 22, 1907, to
Miss Josephine Debrosse, who was born in Loramie
township, a daughter of Irenus and Margaret (Esthman)
Debrosse, and four children have been born to them:
an infant daughter who did not long survive; and
Irenus Henry, Agnes B. and
John Robert. Mr. Barhorst and
family belong to St. Michael's Catholic church. He is a
democrat in his political views and takes a good
citizen's interest in public matters.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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BERNARD
BARHORST, who is one of the substantial men of
McLean township, Shelby county, O., resides in section
4, two and one-half miles east of Fort Loramie, where he
owns 245 acres of fine land. He was born in this
township, one-half mile south of his present farm in the
Sherman special school district, September 24, 1866, and
is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Grieshop)
Barhorst.
The father of Mr. Barhorst spent his life in
McLean township, following. farming as his occupation,
and died here when aged seventy-seven years. The mother,
who was born in Germany, died when aged seventy-two
years, in Mercer county, O., and there were six sons and
two daughters in the family. The parents were members of
St. Michael's Catholic church.
The Barhorst children were not neglected, their
parents sending them to the Sherman district school
until all were well instructed. Bernard remained
on the home farm until his: marriage, when he moved to
his present property, all of which he has under
cultivation except thirty-six acres which is still in
woodland. He has put in many improvements here, erecting
and remodeling buildings, enriching and draining the
land, and, with the help of his sturdy sons, does a
large agricultural business.
Mr. Barhorst married Miss Magdalena
Ernst, who was born in McLean township, a
daughter of Joseph Ernst, and nine
children have been born to them, namely: Catherina,
Joseph, August, Edward, Leo,
Charles, Ursula, Urban and Paul.
Mr. Barhorst and family are members' of
St. Michael's Roman Catholic church. In politics he has
been a democrat since reaching man's estate, but has
never sought political office, although his party might
find in such men as Mr. Barhorst the
honest and careful officials that a community needs for
the practical carrying out of the laws.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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JOSEPH BARHORST,
one of the leading citizens and successful
agriculturists of Cynthian township, owner of a fine
farm of 120 acres, situated in section 34, three miles
southwest of Newport, O., is a member of the township
board of trustees and has also served on the board of
education. He was born in McLean township, Shelby
county, Jan. 20, 1872, and is a son of Joseph and
Mary (Schultze) Barhorst.
Joseph H. Barhorst was reared on his father's
farm and attended school in the Berlin special school
district. Since his marriage he has resided onhis
present farm, which he purchased from his father who had
bought the same from George Wishwitz, and
has done the most of the improving. He has a very
fine barn, 80x40 feet in dimensions and other
substantial buildings. In addition to carrying on
general farming, Mr. Barhorst keeps a herd
of high grade cattle for dairy purposes and sells his
milk to the New Bremen Creamery.
Mr. Barhorst was married to Miss Anna
Ungruhn, who was born and reared at St. Rose, a
daughter of Joseph and Catherine Ungruhn, and
they have had nine children: Magdalena.
Bernard, Veronica, Frank, Clara,
Freda, August, Joseph and Mary,
all of whom survive except August, the third youngest,
who died at the age of five months. All the other
children have attended school in the Turner special
school district, which is a tract of forty acres, on the
northwest corner of this farm, of which it was
originally a part. Mr. Barhorst and
family belong to the Catholic church at Newport, O.
In politics he has always been a democrat and personally
is looked upon as one of the solid and reliable men of
this section.
Source: History of Shelby
County, Ohio and representative citizens - Evansville,
Ind. - 1913 - Page 651 |
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JOSEPH DANIEL BARNES,
a leading member of the bar at Sidney, where he enjoys a
fine practice and is a representative and stable
citizen, was born in Adams township, Champaign county,
O., June 14, 1869, and is a son of John H. and Mary
(Hubbell) Barnes.
John H. Barnes was born at Hedgesville, W. Va.,
in 1845, and died April 13, 1907, in Ohio, to which
state his father, Michael Barnes, had brought him
when a motherless boy of two years. Michael Barnes
settled at what was known as Mosquito Lake, Champaign
county, where he acquired land and there John H.
Barnes was reared and a year after marriage moved to
Logan county, later returning to Champaign county and in
1884 moved to Sidney. He was a well-known, reputable
citizen, a member of the Episcopal church and a democrat
in his political connection. He married Mary
Hubbell, in 1867, a daughter of Hezekiah and
Sarah (Johnson) Hubbell, of Quincy, where
Mr. Hubbell was a merchant. Three children
were born to John H. Barnes and wife, two
of whom died in infancy.
Joseph Daniel Barnes attended the public schools
in Champaign county and later the Sidney high school,
subsequently entering the Cincinnati Law School, where
he was graduated in May, 1890, afterward spending one
year in the law office of Davies &
Hoskins, at Sidney. Mr. Barnes then opened a
law office in the Thompson building, at Sidney,
and continued alone in practice until July, 1909, when
he formed a partnership with D. F. Mills, which
association continues under the firm style of Barnes
& Mills. For twenty-two years Mr. Barnes
has been engaged honorably in the practice of his
profession in this city and at times has accepted public
office when tendered him, serving efficiently as city
solicitor from 1892 until 1895, and as prosecuting
attorney from 1895 until 1901. He has ever been an
active and interested citizen and an ardent supporter of
the principles of the democratic party, for a number of
years being entrusted with party management as chairman
of the Shelby County Democratic Central Committee. He
has four farms in his charge, but otherwise devotes
himself entirely to his profession.
In December, 1900, Mr. Barnes was married to
Miss Raeburn Eppler, a daughter of Thomas
W. and Mary (Miller) Eppler. His fraternal
connections include membership with the Masons, Odd
Fellows, and the Elks. He maintains his office in the
court house at Sidney, and owns an attractive and
comfortable residence.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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ROBERT K. BEAMAN, general farmer and reliable
and representative citizen of Orange township, resides
on and operates the J. N. Woodmancy farm of 140
acres, situated five miles south of Sidney, O.
Mr. Beaman was born in Orange township, in 1877, and
is a son of John and Anna (Pruden) Beaman.
John Beaman was born at Boston, Mass., was well
educated there and was about twenty years of age when he
came to Shelby county and has followed farming here ever
since and is well known and highly respected citizen.
The family of nine children all survive.
Robert K. Beaman obtained his education in the
public schools and learned the principles of farming
through assisting his father, remaining with him until
his own marriage, when he came to the farm of his
father-in-law, which he has successfully managed ever
since, developing its productive possibilities to the
highest extent and raising a sufficiency of good stock
for home use.
Mr. Beaman was married in 1905 to Miss Laura
Dale Woodmancy, who is a daughter of J. N.
Woodmancy, one of the well known men of this
section. They have three children: John Walter,
Bernice Irene and Dorothy Dale. He has
never been an office seeker but has taken an active
interest in all matters pertaining to section and
country at large and casts his vote with the republican
organization. For some years he has been
identified with the Odd Fellows at Kirkwood, O.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
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T. M. BEAMER, M. D., an experienced
medical practitioner now somewhat retired from
professional activity, resides on his well-kept farm of
sixty acres situated six and one-half miles southeast
of Sidney, O. He was born at Fletcher, O., in 1854, and
is a son of Dr. Thomas M. and Jane (Runkle) Bearrier.
Dr. Thomas M. Beamer was born in Virginia and for
twenty-five years was a valued physician and surgeon at
Fletcher, O., and was prevented from becoming a soldier
in the Civil war on account of being the only medical
practitioner in the above town at that time. His death
occurred at the age of forty-five years, while living in
California. He married Jane Runkle, who was born in Mad
River township, Clark county, O., and eight children
were born to them.
T. M. Beamer was seven years old when he was sent to the
home of his grandparents in Illinois, where he remained
for three years, attending school in the meanwhile, then
returned to his father and afterward went to Iowa with
his brother, and again returned to Fletcher. While With
his brother he learned the principles of medical science
and about this time had one term of lectures in the
Cincinnati Medical College. During the next year he
practiced medicine in Missouri, after which he returned
to Ohio and completed his medical course and entered
into practice at Fletcher. On March 27, 1879, he located
at Plattsville, in Shelby county, and continued until
1902, when he accepted a position as manager of a
sanitarium at Springfield, O., for the cure of alcohol
and drug addictions, conducted by the Willowbark
Company, removing later with the same company, to St.
Paris, and after two years, to Piqua, but shortly
afterward decided to engage in agricultural pursuits and
moved to the Sarver farm in Green township, Shelby
county. After his many years of professional work and
during a number of years meeting with many distressing
cases, Dr. Reamer found the quiet country life most
beneficial, and in 1910 purchased the farm on which he
now resides and where agricultural industries greatly
interest him. He still continues to practice to a
certain extent, in his neighborhood, but no longer makes
his profession his main occupation.
Dr. Beamer was married in 1879 to
Miss Anna Elizabeth
Williams, of Plattsburg, and they had one son, born
October 13, 1880, who is deceased. In politics Dr.
Beamer is a republican and ever since he came to Green
township has been township treasurer and also is a
member of the school board. For many years he has been
identified fraternally with the Odd Fellows.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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HENRY
E. BEEBE, M.D., a leading physician of Shelby
county, and for the past five years president of the
Citizens National Bank, at Sidney, O., was born on his
father's farm, near Carey, Wyandot county, O., July 24,
1849, and is a son of Buell S. and Lucinda (Keir)
Beebe.
The father of Dr. Beebe was born in
Franklin county, N. Y., and in 1846 came to Ohio and
lived until he was sixty-two years old in Wyandot
county, when he came to Sidney on a visit arid here his
death occurred in 1883. His family consisted of one son
and two daughters: Henry E. and Mrs.
Anna Hoff and Mrs. Sarah
Millholland, both of Carey, O., the latter of whom
died in 1911..
Henry E. Beebe was educated, in the public
schools and Wittenberg College and pursued his medical
studies in the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, at
Cleveland, O., from which institution he was graduated
in 1873 and in the same year located at Sidney.
For forty years Dr. Beebe has been in
active practice and few members of his profession in
this section of Ohio are better known or more highly
valued. He is a member of the American Institute of
Homeopathy and was its vice president in 1904-05 at its
convention held at Niagara Falls. In 1886 he was
president of the Ohio State Homeopathic Society, and
from 1903 to 1904 was president of the state examining
board, of which he was vice president for seven years
and one of its organizers, and belongs also to the
Union Clinical Society. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason.
Dr. Beebe was
married in 1874 to Miss Ophelia
McDowell, of Carey, O., a daughter of Hugh
and Rebecca McDowell, and they have four
children: Rotiert Wallace, Laura,
Elise, Hugh McDowell and Henry
Edwin. Robert Wallace Beebe
is secretary and treasurer of the United Rim Co., of
Akron, O. He married Miss May Hardesty
of Cleveland. Laura Elise Beebe
married W. C. Horr, who is secretary and
treasurer of the Eclipse Folder Company, of Sidney, and.
they have one daughter, Rebecca. Hugh
McDowell Beebe is a physician. He married
Miss Ruth Peirson, of Troy. Henry
Edwin Beebe, who is a graduate of the law
department of the University of Michigan, of the class
of 1910, is connected with the law firm of Roettinger
& Roettinger, at Cincinnati. As a business man
aside from his profession, Doctor Beebe
has been an important factor in this section and was
interested in the founding of the Citizens National Bank
here, of which he is president and formerly for many
years was vice president. He has been closely identified
with the general development of Sidney and has not only
fostered its business and professional enterprises but
has, in every way possible, furthered all movements
which have contributed to the educational and social
uplift.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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J.
CLEMENS BENDER, residing two and one-half miles
southwest of Fort Loramie, O., where he rents an
improved farm of 120 acres, lying in section 11, McLean
township, is one of the representative citizens of this
section and* a member of an old Ohio family. He w^is
born in this farm, and is a son of John and Mary
(Heilers) Bender.
John Bender was born in Auglaize county, O., and grew to
manhood there and engaged in farm pursuits. He married
Mary Heilers, who was reared at Minster, O., and they
then came to this farm in McLean township and here Mrs.
Bender died when her son J. Clemens was only seven years
of age. There were five children, namely: John, who is
deceased; J. Clemens; and Mary and Katie, who live at
home; and Clara, who is deceased.
J. Clemens Bender obtained his education in the Walkup
Special School District and then assisted his father and
since the fall of 1911 has had entire charge of the home
place, carrying on general farming and raising stock for
home use. He married Miss Emma Seger, who is a daughter
of John Seger, of Fort Loramie, O. The whole family
belongs to St. Michael's Catholic church. Mr. Bender
votes with the democratic party.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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EVAN
W. BINGHAM, who is one of the enterprising
citizens and representative business men of Sidney, O.,
is proprietor of the E. W. Bingham Furniture Store,
which he has conducted here since August 15, 1895. He
was born at Alexandria, Va., December 25, 1858, and is a
son of Alfred H. and Rebecca (Evans) Bingham.
Alfred H. Bingham came from Virginia to Sidney,
May 4, 1871, and died here in November, 1879, the death
of his wife occurring in the following year. He was a
cotton-mill worker and also a pattern maker and was
employed in the machine shop of his brother-in-law,
George G. Haslup, a quiet, industrious man, with a
talent for his special line of work.
Evan W. Bingham had been a student in the
Alexandria Academy prior to the removal of the family to
Sidney, where he entered the high school. He early
developed mechanical skill and during his vacations and
on holidays had applied himself to learning the
machinist trade, and when he left school, at the age of
eighteen years, was able to prove to his employer that
he could earn a man's wages, industrial rules and
conditions being somewhat different then from the
present. For twelve years Mr. Bingham
worked satisfactorily as a machinist and then decided to
turn his attention in an entirely different direction
and for ten years afterward was a salesman in the
clothing house of Abe Herzsam, at Sidney. At the
termination of that engagement he embarked in his
present business, in which he has prospered. He has
always taken a good citizen's interest in civic matters
and is a valued member of the Sidney Commercial Club,
and one of its trustees.
Mr. Bingham married Miss Lizzie A. Fry, a daughter of
the late R. L. Fry, who was formerly prominent here in
the dry goods trade. Mr. and Mrs. Bingham have had two
children: Robert Fry and Jennie Mildred, the latter of
whom died at the age of four years. Robert Fry
Bingham
is a student at Oxford, O., a member of the graduating
class of 1913, Miami University.
In politics Mr. Bingham is a republican. While he has
never accepted other than local offices, he has
frequently proved valuable and useful in these and was a
member of the board of public service. He belongs to the
Masonic fraternity, to the Knights of Khorassan arid to
all branches of the Knights of Pythias, in which order
he is past chancellor. Mr. Bingham and family belong to
the Presbyterian church, of which he is treasurer and a
member of its board of trustees.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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R. O. BINGHAM,
superintendent of the Wagner Manufacturing Company of
Sidney, O., a member of the library board and a citizen
of sterling worth, was born at Baltimore, Md., Aug. 25,
1850, and is a son of Alfred Hugh and Rebecca (Evans)
Bingham, the former of whom, for some years, was
superintendent of cotton mills in Maryland.
In the infancy of Mr. Bingham, his
parents moved to Alexandria, Va., and there he attended
school. He afterward served an apprenticeship of
four years to the machinist trade and worked in cotton
mills until 1871, when he came to Sidney, O. Here
he entered the machine shop of G G. Haslup &
Brother, where he remained for seven years, in the
meanwhile being first made foreman and later
superintendent. During these seven years the
business name had been changed to the Sidney
Manufacturing Company. In 1888 he went to Marion,
Ind., with Mr. Gould and Mr. Fruchey, on
account of inducements offered by capitalists in that
city, and for three years the partners conducted works
for the manufacture of hollow ware and stoves, when
their plant was burned. Mr. Bingham then
came back to Sidney and ever since has been identified
with the Wagner Manufacturing Company as its
superintendent. This important business enterprise
of Sidney started with twenty men and at present 300 are
given employment, all of whom, in their industrial
activities, come under the careful superintendence of
Mr. Bingham.
In 1881 Mr. Bingham was married at Sidney
to Miss Alice Conklin, a daughter of the late
Judge Conklin, and they have two children,
Florence and Hugh, both of whom have been
afforded exceptional educational advantages.
Miss Florence was educated in Miami
University at Oxford, O. Hugh is a
graduate of the Wesleyan University at Delaware, O., and
during 1910-11 was an instructor in the Sidney high
school, and at present is a student of law in the
Western Reserve College. The mother of these
children died in March,1908.
Mr. Bingham has always taken a public
spirited interest in city improvements since he came to
Sidney and for thirteen years served as a member of the
school board, in 1910 being its secretary and its
president in the following year. He has held other
municipal offices and for many years served as a member
of the board of trustees of the city waterworks.
As a member of the Commercial Club, Mr.
Bingham has encouraged its aims and on many
occasions his sound business advice has been followed.
He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and a Knight
Templar in Masonry.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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JOHN
BLAKELEY - It is said that nothing will polish a
person and give him a careless and cosmopolitan air like
travel. Observing that my wonted luster was growing dim
and gaping curiosity, that unfailing indication of
rustic simplicity, was getting the better of me, I
resolved to take a day off or a day out and rub up
against the wicked world, thus becoming a tourist at
large, with the best of intentions.
In accordance with this rash resolution and being
sleepless over the prospect, the couch of repose was
abandoned earlier than usual, an affectionate good-bye
hurled at family and friends Monday morning, the trolley
station sought for a ticket to Botkins, twelve miles
distant toward the polar star that is always in its
place and around which Ursa Major, with his celestial
dipper, has been circling for ages.
The day was beautiful and although the Monday before was
resonant with the jingling of sleigh bells and the merry
laugh of children, youths and maidens crowded into
slipping vehicles or hanging to cutters, every vestige
of the beautiful had disappeared and the strident honk
of the automobile was heard, one of the most sudden
changes in this capricious climate.
This ascent to the classic suburb of Jimtown or
Bennettville was soon reached and a little more power
was applied as if the car was eager to get out of sight
of this burg nodule which has come to stay and can not
be avoided even if so desired on a northern trip.
What a change has been wrought in the country within
the last thirty or forty years around Sidney. The almost
impassable mud and corduroy roads with their adhesive or
jolting horrors have been supplanted by hundreds of
miles of graded and graveled free pikes, furnishing
drainage outlets and annihilating distance when compared
with what used to be. Dense native forests have been
cleared and unobstructed vistas miles in length opened
through the rich level country dotted here and there
with pretty farm houses and barns environed by
clustering orchards.
The butting in of an era of prosperity years ago and
its continuance with no prospect of abatement put
farmers on Easy street, doubled the value of their real
estate, fattened their bank accounts so that they are
beginning to know the luxury of living rather than
merely existing. With taste thus elevated and becoming
alive to the possibilities which can be achieved by
intelligently working with Mother Nature, what Shelby
county will be in half a century more is a picture that
can hardly be overdrawn.
The trolley line does not invade nor disturb
Swanders and one might go by without knowing it, so
unpretentious is it, but Anna, split into two precincts
and about evenly balanced by the boundary line between
Franklin and Dinsmore townships, has, in round numbers,
about one thousand people, good, bad and indifferent,
with a large preponderance of the good, as it is a
Lutheran stronghold and their magnificent new church
edifice close to the track challenges admiration for its
artistic beauty and the up-to-date homes erected largely
by rich, retired farmers, who have clustered there for
social, intellectual and religious privileges. But I
started for Botkins and will reserve Anna for future
reference. Remembering Botkins, graced by the rather
plebeian name of Stringtown forty years ago, I turned up
my trousers and wore rubbers, for at that time it did
not take more than a heavy dew to convert its rich,
undrained soil into a mortar bed where, Mrs.
Gutman said, her horse got stalled in the street,
though she' and a box of dog leg tobacco were the only
freight in the buggy bound for Fryburg. The foot gear
precaution based on ancient experience was entirely
unnecessary as the graded streets were comparatively dry
and the long lines of concrete pavement were white and
clean as a new pin. Being Monday, when wash tub
wrestling engages the attention of rural households and
which was an ideal day for drying purified linen, there
was not much business bustle in the growing village,
giving a pedestrian plenty of elbow room, and the first
familiar face which dawned on my optics was that of
Adam Blakeley, a friend in good and regular
standing for many years.
Adam, though a stalwart Republican in a strong
Democratic town, is no mere figure head, as he has been
mayor and was only defeated the last time by one vote by
Thomas Kennedy; is postmaster and editor
and proprietor of the Botkins Herald, a luminary which
sheds light in the community, suggests improvements,
records the happenings and molds public opinion.
As the objective point on this trip was to interview
John Blakeley, his father, a pioneer veteran
of eighty-four years, we together walked to the home of
this retired farmer and as good luck would have it there
sat Lorenzo Elliott, a relative and
veteran pioneer but a few months Mr.
Blakeley's junior and walked from his home two and a
half miles distant to make a morning visit. He is
wonderfully well preserved, while Mr. Blakeley
is physically infirm, using two canes to support his
bowed form, but mentally clear, is an omnivorous reader
with a fund of reminiscence and a voluble tongue that
enjoys a rehearsal of past events.
He was born in Franklin county, July n, 1825, and came
to Shelby county with his parents when three years old,
where he has since lived. July 1, 1852, he married,
Miss Elizabeth Elliott, the fifteenth
child of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius
Elliott, and became the father of eight children,
of whom Adam, Mary and Margaret,
now Mrs. Charles F. Snyder, of near Oran,
survive.
By industry, economy and judicious investments he
became a large land owner but becoming somewhat weary of
rural cares he moved to. Botkins in May, 1883, a few
days after the big snow storm. Not having a sportsman's
taste he has but few bear, wolf and deer stories to tell
in which he figured, as he never killed but one deer,
but he is rich in turkey and squirrel tales and once in
his life he shot into a flock of turkeys with his rifle,
the ball passing through the head of one and the body of
another, one of those chance shots which even a novice
might execute, like killing two birds with one stone. He
never got tainted with the miasma of' Democracy
prevalent in that section, so that sin is not on record
against him, and he is a Methodist with a clean title
and faith that strengthens with years.
Lorenzo Elliott
was born in Licking county in 1826 and came to Dinsmore
township in 1835, married Miss Mary
Bolin for his first wife and Mrs.
Chamberlain, born in England in 1831, for his second
wife, and who is still his helpmeet. He has plowed the
land on which Botkins now stands and cradled wheat from
its acres. He also laid a mile of ties on the C. H. & D.
railway. The station was named after Richard
Botkin, who graded three miles, of the railway but
never lived to see a1 train on the road.
Like Mr. Blakeley Mr. Elliott was not much of a
Nimrod, as he dispatched but one deer but he has scared
as many as twenty at one time from the corn field lest
there would be no provender left for the family. Mr.
Blakeley related a hog sale he once made to
William Marshall, of Hardin, soon after the
war which overtops all accounts of recent transactions.
He sold him seven Chester Whites that
weighed 3,006 pounds at nine cents gross, and drove them
to Anna,, realizing $270.54.
The fact that Botkins gave 124 wet votes to 24 dry
brings a blush to Mr. Blakeley's cheeks
and provokes stinging censure from the gray haired
veteran and that they have just as many saloons as
churches, three each, is a thorn in his side and the
breaking up of a temperance meeting by a bombardment of
eggs last fall rouses his indignation every time it
comes to his mind, which. is several times a day. It was
a shame, especially at the high price of eggs.
As soon as I arrived I looked for the historic house of
twelve gables built by James Niemann, but
learned that a few years ago it fell into the hands of
W. C. Zanglein and the enterprising merchant, not
thinking it worth preserving any longer as a curiosity,
razed it to the earth and erected his fine three story
brick department store 42 feet by 90, which is crowded
from basement to roof with a limitless store of
articles, including groceries.
Botkins now has three dry goods and one furniture
store, two warehouses, new bakery, four blacksmith
shops, a large implement house now being erected by
Mayor Kennedy which will be roofed this week,
and a large factory employing seventy-five men owned by
the Sheets brothers, and a bank. ' These brothers now
own and operate nine warehouses at different points and
by the means of the telephone do all their office work
in Botkins. Frank Gutman, who has spent
his forty-five years or more, his entire life, in
Botkins, succeeding his father in the store close to the
C. H. & D. track, has bought 3,000 bushels of clover
seed so far this season. The Catholics are strong here
and maintain a parochial school.
Botkins draws trade from a large section of the rich
farming country and the freight and express business at
the station is very large. Frank Hemmert,
the genial station agent who learned telegraphy
thirty-five years ago in the office and has been the
trusted agent for thirty-three years, said the creamery
at the thriving village of New Knoxville ships 4,000
pounds of butter a week from the station to Cincinnati
and says it is Worth one's while to visit that place and
see their dairies, where the cows are kept and cared for
with Holland-like neatness and gentleness. It is the
garden spot of Auglaize county. One thousand gallons of
cream now, and two thousand in summer, are shipped to
Dayton monthly from the creamery owned by the Dayton
Pure Milk & Butter Company at the edge of town. Fanners
take their fresh milk to the creamery, where the
unctuous richness is separated by the centrifugal
process and the impoverished milk taken back home. A
large amount of poultry comes to an untimely end here
and they have eggs to throw at the birds—-and others.
That unaccountable and mysterious milk sickness used to
prevail alarmingly here, destroying human lives and
whole herds of cattle but nothing has been heard of it
for years. Some claim that the virus in the poisonous
weed has been switched into the Democratic party, but
for one I do not believe it, as no fatalities have
occurred, though strange actions are sometimes obvious
up there.
It might look as if there was a methodical design in my
making the call so near noon, and perhaps there was, but
then there is no place where the tongue wags with such
freedom as around a dinner table. The layout indicated
that though it was Monday, they were fully prepared for
distinguished company. Gray seemed to be fashionable
color with one exception around the board and we did our
duty with veteran courage and fidelity. Bidding my old
friends good-bye I strolled quietly around as though I
were running a gum shoe campaign until the sun-down
trolley car arrived and reached Sidney when the light of
the new moon began to shimmer.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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L. E. BLAKELEY,
postmaster at Botkins, O., successor of his father, the
late A. E. Blakeley, in this office, and also
succeeding him as editor and owner of The Botkins
Herald, one of the leading weekly newspapers of Shelby
county, was born at Botkins, Mar. 10, 1882, a son of
A. E. and Emma (Cochlin) Blakeley.
A. E. Blakeley was born at Botkins when it was
little more than a village, June 25, 1856,, and was a
son of John and Elizabeth (Elliott) Blakeley, the
former of whom was from Pennsylvania and one of the
pioneer settlers in this part of Shelby county. John
Blakeley followed farming but later retired and
lives at Botkins, one of its oldest residents, being now
in his ninetieth year. A. E. Blakeley was
reared on a farm, later taught school, and then went
into the newspaper business, first at Sidney, in 1898
coming to Botkins, where he established The Botkins
Herald and had made it a leading organ of his party
before his death, which occurred in January, 1912.
L. E. Blakeley was reared and educated at
Botkins and after completing the high-school course
entered his father's newspaper office and continued in
this connection, succeeding to his father's interests
and responsibilities as above mentioned. In April,
1912, he became postmaster, having received the highest
grade at the civil service examination, thereby gaining
the office. Mr. Blakely married
Miss Ollie Giams, daughter of A. P.
Giams, of Botkins, and they have one child,
Geraldine. Mr. Blakeley is a
member of the Botkins school board, and fraternally is
identified with the Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the
World.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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FRANK BORNHORST, who
resides on his well-cultivated and improved farm of
eighty acres, which is situated in section 9, Dirksen
School District, McLean township, was born in May, 1856,
in Jackson township, Auglaize county, O., and is a son
of Joseph and Katie Bornhorst.
Frank Bornhorst attended school in Jackson township
and afterward worked as a farmer and after his marriage
purchased his present farm of his father-in-law,
Anthony Imholt. The land had been somewhat
improved but Mr. Bornhorst completed its
clearings, all but five acres, which he retains in
woods, and erected all the substantial and comfortable
buildings on the place. He carries on a general
farming line and raises enough stock for his own use and
at all times is a busy man. He is at the head of a
fine family, nine sturdy children having been born to
himself and wife and they all survive. He married
Miss Catherine Imholt, who was born at
Cincinnati, O., a daughter of Anthony and Mary Imholt,
both of whom died on this farm. Mr. and Mrs.
Bornhorst's children are as follows: Mary
and Frances, twins, Bernard, Herman, Bernadine,
Amelia, Elizabeth, Anthony and Leo. Mr.
Bornhorst and family are members of St. Michael's
Catholic church. He is a democrat in politics and
has served in local offices with honesty and efficiency,
board of education of the Dirksen Special School
District.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
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JOSEPH
BOWEN, owner and proprietor of a general store at
Hardin, O., where he has been established for
twenty-five years, is a representative citizen of Shelby
county and is a veteran of the great Civil war. He was
born in Clermont county, O., December 12, 1844, and is a
son of Clark and Elishaba (Godfrey) Bowen.
Clark Bowen came from New England, being a native of
Rhode Island, a farmer through life and a man of
sterling character. His wife was born in Ohio to which
state her people had come from New Jersey, where the
name of Godfrey is still borne by well-known people. To
Clark Bowen and his wife the following children were
born: Eliza Ann, who married John
Price; Joseph; and
Ella, who was married first to G. M. Meyers and after
his death to Samuel Lawyer.
Joseph Bowen attended the district schools in his
neighborhood during the winter seasons, until he was
fifteen years old, when he went to Sharonsville, in
Hamilton county, where he was a clerk in a general store
and was still there in 1862, when he decided to become a
soldier. He enlisted for service on August 16, 1862, in
Company E, Eighty-third Ohio Vol. Inf., and remained
until his honorable discharge in 1865. For about eight
months after the close of the war, Mr. Bowen visited
among his relatives, recuperating from his years of
hardships, and in that way came to Shelby county, where
he became interested in farming and continued until the
fall of 1871, when he started into the store and grain
business at Hardin Station, in partnership with Isaac
Betts. They continued for two years when Mr.
Bowen sold
his interest and went into the grocery business at Lockington, O. In 1887
he purchased his present store at
Hardin and the place thereby gained a valuable citizen
who has been active in promoting its advancement and
welfare ever since.
On September 8, 1868, Mr. Bowen was married to
Miss
Christina E. Strate, who was born in Germany, a daughter
of Adolphus Strate, who was a brickmaker by. trade. The
Strate family consisted of four children: Carrie, wife
of John Hick; Christina E., Mrs. Bowen; William.; and
Louisa, Mrs. Tyson. To Mr. and Mrs. Bowen the following
children were born: William H., who married Nancy
Malcolm; James; Mabel, who is the wife of
Frederick Cole; Bonnie, who married
Dan Ellsner; Maude; Mary, who
died in July, 1911, and Clark. The family of Mr.
Bowen
belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. Politically he
is a republican and he is identified with the G. A. R.
at Sidney, O.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
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WILLIAM H. BOWEN,
one of the substantial citizens and excellent farmers of
Turtle Creek township, where he owns 120 acres of fine
land, was born in Washington township, Shelby county,
July 24, 1869, and is a son of Joseph and Christina
E. (Strate) Bowen.
Joseph Bowen, who is a leading business
man at Hardin, O., where he has been a merchant for a
quarter of a century, was born in Clermont county, O.,
in 1844, a son of Clark and Elizabeth (Godfrey) Bowen.
Joseph Bowen served as a soldier in the
Civil war from 1861 until 1865, afterward engaged in
farming and then established himself at Hardin, and is
one of the representative men of that section. In
1868 he married Christina E. Strate, who was born
in Germany, and they have had seven children born to
them.
William H. Bowen, the eldest of his parents'
children, was afforded educational advantages and after
completing the public school course spent two summer
terms at the Ohio Normal School, at Ada, O., and for six
years thereafter taught school in his native county.
He then became associated with his father in business
but three years later sold his interest and since then
has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits
exclusively. He is a progressive farmer, adopting
new methods according to the latest scientific plans for
agricultural advancement and is a valued member of the
local Grange.
On Sept. 14, 1893, Mr. Bowen was married
to Miss Nancy M. Malcolm, who was born in Indiana
but was reared in Shelby county, being six months old
when her parents, James and Elizabeth (Davenport)
Malcolm brought her to this section. The
father was a farmer until his death. Mrs.
Bowen has three sisters and. one brother: Lucy,
wife of Wallace Gamble; Cora, the wife of
G. T. Patton; Clara, wife of J. D.
Price; and J. Harper, Mrs. Bowen
being the youngest of the family.
Mr. and Mrs. Bowen have seven children:
Helen, Elizabeth, Elsie, Hazel,Dorothy, Joseph and
William Kenneth. Mr. Bowen and family
are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he is
trustee of the parsonage. In politics a
republican, Mr. Bowen has served on the
township school board for the last twelve years.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
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BERNARD
BRANDEWIE, who is one of the leading citizens and
large land owners of McLean township, having 600 acres
and devoting a large portion of this to raising cattle
and hogs, was born in May, 1856, in Auglaize county, O.,
and is a son of Joseph and a grandson of Anton
Brandewie.
Anton Brandewie, the grandfather, was
born, reared and married in Hanover, Germany, the name
of his wife being Mary Wissman, and they
continued to live there for some years and when they
came to America they had three children: Joseph,
Barney and Catherine. They first made a
home in Cincinnati, O., where they lived for six months,
and then moved to Minster. At that time the land office
was at Piqua and the nearest neighbor was five miles
away. They bought a tract of land which is now the site
of Minster, O., 160 acres, all in one body and owned by
four people, Grandfather Brandewie
retaining forty acres for himself. On this tract he
spent his subsequent life, dying when aged seventy-two
years, his burial being in St. Joseph's cemetery, Egypt.
He helped to establish the Catholic church here and gave
liberally to its support. He was a strong democrat and
always cast his vote at elections even when he had to
ride for miles on horseback to do so. He was well known
among the early settlers in Shelby county but spent his
days in Auglaize county.
Joseph Brandewie was twelve years old
when he came to the United States and had attended
school in Germany and later learned to read English
although it was difficult for him to spell in this
language. Probably the first money he ever earned was
when fourteen years of age he became a worker on the
canal as water boy. Later he drove ox teams and worked
in the stone quarries and afterward again worked on the
canal, with a Mr. Duncan, probably living
all that time in Auglaize county. He then went to
Michigan and during the six years he lived there bought
120 acres of land in that state. After he returned to
Ohio he married and then bought eighty acres on the
Shelby county line, all of it, at that time being
totally unimproved. He built a house and barn and
improved land as he; was able and there, comfortably
reared a large family and at the time of his death on
the original farm, he owned 252 acres, having cleared
this land by his .own industry. He was an enterprising
man and a great worker and lived to the age of
eighty-six years and during all this long life but once
called in a physician for himself. He was a lifelong
democrat and never missed voting and on several
occasions was elected to local offices.
Joseph Brandewie was married to
Catherine Prenger, who was also born in
Germany and was brought to the United States by her
parents, Herman and Kate Prenger,
when a child. To them the following children were born;
Mary, Tony, Bernard, Kate,
Agnes, Joseph, Henry, Herman,
Bernadine, Caroline, and Josephine.
The mother of the above family died at the age of
sixty-eight years and she was buried in the Catholic
cemetery at Egypt, and many years afterward her husband
was laid by her side, they having been among the
earliest members of the church and faithful to its
teachings, kind, good people.
Bernard Brandewie and his brothers and sisters
attended the district schools near their home. In 1880
at the time of marriage, Mr. Brandewie
came to Shelby county, and settled where he still lives.
He has the larger part of his estate well improved and
has two barns and three houses. He has always carried on
general farming and for the past thirteen years has been
in the livestock business, buying, selling and shipping
to all parts of the country. On the portion of his farm
on which he resides he put up all the substantial
buildings. It is situated four miles southwest of
Minster and three miles west of Fort Loramie.
In 1880 Mr. Brandewie was married to
Miss Mary Baumer, who was born at
Cincinnati, O., a daughter of Bernard and Mary
Baumer, and all of their children have been born
in Shelby county. Louis, the oldest, married
Elizabeth Severin and they live at Minster.
Fred married Dena Ernst and they
live in McLean township. Lottie married Barney
Artkamp and they live in McLean township. Albert
married Mary Ernst and lives in this
township. Katie, Cecelia, Edward,
Sophia and Lawrence, all live at home. The
family all belong to the Minster Catholic church. Mr.
Brandewie is a stanch democrat and is a member of
the board of education of the Dirksen special
school district.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
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J.
W. BROWN, who is one of the intelligent men and
successful farmers of Loramie township, Shelby county,
O., owning 130 acres of well developed land, ninety of
which lie in the Greenwood Special School District, of
which he is a valued official, was born near Gettysburg,
Darke county, O., June 24, 1877, and is a son of
Reuben and Anna Brown, who are highly
respected retired residents of Versailles, O.
J. W. Brown was nine
years old when his parents came to Loramie township,
Shelby county, and he completed his education in the
Greenwood Special School District. He entered into
business as a farm hand, working by the month, and then
for one year raised tobacco, and after this experiment
embarked in agricultural activities for himself and has
so continued. He devotes his land to general farming and
moderate stock raising and is numbered with the
prosperous and contented farmers of this part of Shelby
county.
On September 14, 1899, Mr. Brown was married to Miss
Hulda J. Apple who was born also in Loramie township
and is a daughter of Henry A. Apple, one of the old and
well known citizens and wealthy men of the township. On
.this farm the three children of Mr. and Mrs. Brown
were born: Erma Eleanor, Goldie
Irene and Mary Henrietta. Mr.
and Mrs. Brown are members of the
Lutheran church. In politics he has always been a
democrat but has never accepted any public office except
membership on the school board, his first .experience
being when he served for two years, filling put the
unexpired term of John Boyd, after which
he was elected for a period of four years, which ensures
his services on this body until 1916.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
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JOHN
BURKHART, one of the leading business men of
Sidney, conducting a first class shoe store, in the
Burkhart block, on North Main avenue, is an experienced
shoe and leather man, having been engaged in this line
since 1879, when he and his brother became partners with
their father, one of the pioneer business men of the
city. He was born at Spring Hill, Champaign county, O.,
September 13, 1857, and is a son of John and Mary Ann
(Berner) Burkhart. The parents were born and
reared in Germany and shortly after marriage, in 1850,
came to the United States and settled first at Quincy,
O., but later moved to Spring Hill, and in 1865 came to
Sidney. The father was an expert shoemaker, having
learned his trade in Germany and continued active in
business until his death in 1902. He was a successful
business man; not only erected the Burkhart
block on North Main avenue, but also owned the
two-story brick building directly north. He left three
sons: William, John and E. E., the last
named serving for eight years as mayor of the city of
Dayton, O.
John Burkhart was educated in the Sidney
schools and among his earliest recollections are events
connected with his father's shoe store in which he
assisted as he grew older, and in 1879 he and brother
William became partners with their father. In 1880
the firm erected the Burkhart block, a fine three-story
brick building with basement, which Mr.
Burkhart now owns. having purchased his brother's
interest in 1904. The other real estate owned by the
father is also retained in the family, being valuable
property and in the heart of the business district.
At Sidney, Mr. Burkhart was married to Miss
Mary Kraft, a daughter of George Kraft, and
they have one daughter, Stella, who is the wife
of Prof. L. J. Meyerholtz, a well-known teacher
of music here and the leader of the Sidney band. As a
citizen Mr. Burkhart has been public
spirited and enterprising, has served usefully in the
city council and was a member of Sidney's first board of
public service. He maintains fraternal relations with
the order of Eagles and belongs also to the Elks and is
a trustee of the local lodge of this organization.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
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JOHN
E. BUSH. - In 1849, the California gold fever
struck Sidney. It might be termed a species of yellow
fever and took off several of the residents of Sidney
and vicinity. There is no spot on earth, except it be
the north pole; that is now so remote from our city as
California was in those days.' At the present time a man
can go around the world in less time than it took to get
a fair start on the tedious journey across the plains,
and do it comparatively without peril and in luxurious
comfort. The fifty-nine years have been an era of
amazing world progress; and to the young generation the
story of the adventurers of three score years ago with
what the forty-niners endured and saw sounds like a
romance, and yet, instead of being an exaggeration,
falls far short of the reality.
The forty-niners' names, like those of the Mexican
veterans, are mostly carved on marble or granite in the
cemeteries as but few are left to relate their thrilling
experience.
The subject of this biographical effusion, John E.
Bush, of Orange township, one mile south of Sidney,
on Sulphur Heights, is a Pennsylvanian by birth, as the
little Bushwhacker put in an appearance in the home of
Henry Bush, in Monroe county, September
30, 1828, so he is now four score and four years. The
family came to this county near where John now resides
in 1838. He had just entered the legal status of a man
when the news came that our new possession of California
was just sparkling with gold and its streams rippling
over auriferous beds. The intelligence was enough to
give almost anyone' the yellow jaundice and John,
being of an adventurous spirit, had it violently. Giving
way to the impulse of feathering his nest in that far
off region, he, with his brother, Dr. C. W. Bush,
and Morris Jackson, got their possessions
together, rigged out a schooner on four wheels, canopied
for protection, with a propelling force of a team of
horses, and set sail, figuratively speaking, for St. Jo,
Missouri, April 19, 1849, and arrived there in about
four weeks. St. Jo was the outlying point of western
civilization where additional supplies were laid in for
the long journey, across the plains, the deserts and
over the Rockies and Sierras, from time immemorial the
undisturbed abode of the Indians, buffaloes, deer,
antelopes, wolves, bears, jack rabbits, prairie dogs,
and gophers. Bridges over perilous rivers were a
commodity and convenience not encountered, so .the
dangerous streams, many with bottoms of shifting sands,
had to be forded, and many were the fatal disasters in
the attempt. Twenty miles1 in a day was deemed rapid
progress through dust shoe top .deep and those in good
condition walked rather than rode, though there was no
likelihood of a head end collision as the trains were
all moving in the same direction. Even if they had been
going in an opposite way the impact of a collision would
not have been serious when the velocity was not over two
miles an hour, and rarely that. The jolt would have been
a good deal like rolling off a sheet onto the floor.
Water being scarce, the weather hot, and the dust thick,
'the Weary travelers were some distance from godliness,
if cleanliness is next to it. If the pores were closed
at night they opened the next day with exuding sweat.
The panorama did not change rapidly at the rate they
were" going so the journey would have been a trifle
monotonous if some episode did not happen almost daily
to relieve it. Buffaloes by the thousands and hundreds
of thousands were seen and one night their horses, which
were turned out to graze around the camp, were seized
with the idea that they would enjoy the freedom of the
plains better than pulling a wagon, even though in good
society, so they took after the buffaloes and were never
recovered. John started after them and pursued them for
about eight miles. Almost famished with thirst a little
lake of about twelve acres came into view but when he
got to the banks he found the buffalo and other animals
had converted it into a pool of filth and he could not
drink a mouthful He managed to get back to camp in a
most distressed condition but the recollection of that
day's experience may dissuade him from voting dry when
the question comes up.
At Salt Lake they paused for a while but not long, as
Prophet Brigham Young had preached
a sermon in which he counseled the saints to not furnish
any eatables or other necessities to the weary, worn
visitors for love or money. Not all the wives of the
much married Mormons were happy, as the party was
implored by two or three females to take them along to
California, a request that could not be granted. Before
they got to their destination their food supplies gave
out and with starvation staring them in the face John
fortunately shot a duck and a hawk with a squirrel in
its talons. These gave them a lease of life and John
devoured the squirrel. The duck and hawk were parceled
out among the others. In September the Sacramento valley
in all its native loveliness was seen from the mountain
summit, and Canaan could not have looked more,
entrancing to the manna surfeited Israelites than did
this valley to them. Their money was running low and as
flour was over a dollar a pound and other necessities on
the top shelf the emergency to "hurry up" and stir
themselves was strenuous. A cradle for rocking the
auriferous sands was quickly constructed from the wagon
bed and operations were commenced on Feather river with
reasonable success from the start, but living was so
high that their surplus or sinking fund did not
accumulate to the full measure of their hopes. Placer
mining was followed by Mr. Bush for four
years and then a vessel was taken at San Francisco for
the Isthmus of Darien, which he crossed, sailed for New
York and then he set his face for Ohio. His brother,
Dr. Bush, remained and eventually settled in
Los Angeles, where, with the practice of his profession
and read estate deals in that thriving city, he
accumulated a fortune, which he enjoyed singly, as he
never married and died there two of three . years ago.
Of all the forty-niners that went from this section
Mr. Bush and Mr. Jacob
Shanly are the only living. Returning to the home
farm on Sulphur Heights he dwelt in fancy free as a
bachelor until September 17, 1863, he joined fortunes
with Miss Christiana Rauth and ever since the old
homestead and the adjoining acres in the delightful spot
on the pike where he now lives has been his residing
place. A family of eight children were born in their
household, six of whom are living: Charles,
John, Will and Fred, of Sidney, and
George and Bertha; at home with their
parents. Edward died in a hospital in California
several years ago at the age of twenty-six years, and
Maud two or three years since at home, aged
eighteen.
Mr. Bush has crossed the continent to
California nine times, but the first in his Pullman
palace car propelled by oxen with no extra charge for a
sleeping birth left a taste in his mouth which the
others have not supplanted and a spot in his memory more
vivid than all the other trips combined. Being a natural
Nimrod there are but few animals native to this country
that have not succumbed to his unerring rifle. As a
taxidermist he is an expert, and having a taste for
curiosities, relics and rare specimens, his home is a
museum not equaled outside the cities' hi the state, for
he has gathered them from New Brunswick to the Pacific.
Last Sunday I accepted an invitation, without urging,
to take dinner at the Bush residence and a little
after n o'clock John, Jr., was at. the
front door with his Reo automobile which whisked us to
the homestead in ten minutes, where I was greeted by the
veteran, wife and family. Dinner was soon announced, for
outside the corporation sun time is in vogue, which puts
the country folks about half an hour ahead of the urban
population. After dinner a look was taken at three wild
geese in an enclosure that have one wing clipped to
prevent them from joining a flock should it happen to
fly over the farm in its migration. Two wild ducks with
a brood of sixteen, a day old, were sporting in a little
artificial pond. The little balls of animated feathers
do not have to go through a training process to teach
them to swim, but perform with all the grace of
connoisseurs from the very start. John, being
somewhat of a crude artist, painted on the white barn,
in jet black, some alleged bears, deer and other wild
animals and his son, Will, said that when the
horses first got a glimpse of these caricatures it was
with difficulty they could be got near the barn, but
eventually their timidity was overcome, for a horse can
get used to almost anything however frightful. Returning
to the house I was taken through the apartments and made
a note of some of the specimens. In the sitting room a
huge moose head, nine inches across the nose, and with
fan-like antlers, looked down from the wall. Mr.
Bush and son, Fred, killed the animal on
the north shore of Lake Superior a .few years ago. The
animal was six feet and six inches high and weighed
about 1,200 pounds; the horns have twenty-two points. To
the left was a magnificent pair of elk horns of twelve
'points, five feet and seven inches high with four feet
spread, a fine deer head and another of one killed in
Minnesota. A center table with legs of three elk horns,
another center table, three stories high, "with moose
and deer feet, a sideboard, hat rack with a split fawn
head and hooks of deer feet, a Columbus chair made by
Mr. Bush, who, is handy with carpenter's
tools, from sixty pieces of hickory and covered with the
skin of a bear he killed in Wisconsin. In the hall is
another hat rack with deer feet hooks, a score or so of
beautiful canes and a badger skin.
In the parlor is a diamond willow stand, the material
of which he got on the upper Missouri, a stool with deer
feet and elk horns for railing, corner parlor chair
which Mr. Bush fashioned from hickory and
ash, a much prized photograph of eight deer suspended
and killed in Maine with the hunters standing near,
Joseph and Jess Laughlin, James
Wilson, William Kingseed, Frank
Brewer and Mr. Bush. Four of the
deer he killed. There is also a photograph, of two wild
turkeys and one of himself taken in California in 1853.
Barbers being a scarce article there his black hair
covered his shoulders and a fringe of whiskers gave him
the solemn look of a Dunkard preacher. From the parlor
we went up stairs to a large front room devoted entirely
to specimens and relics which are there by the
thousands, collected in different parts of the country,
to which are added countless queer and beautiful shells
gathered by Mrs. Bush and daughter,
Bertha, on the shore of the Pacific. Gold
bearing quarts, curious stones, many of beautiful moss
agate with vegetable sprigs visible in the translucent
stones, onyx, chalcedony, etc., in almost endless
variety, condor quills, the head of a black wolf killed
by William Kingseed, twenty-seven birds,
many of the duck family, and a wild goose, a wild
turkey, a cormorant, a bald eagle, blue winged heron,
road runner, Jack rabbit, a porcupine which Mr.
Bush killed in Wisconsin with a club, a bass,
caught by him in the Lewistown reservoir with Joseph
Laughlin managing the boat This bass weighed
eight and one-half pounds when caught, the head of a
wolf killed by George Linder in Wisconsin,
thirteen deer heads on the walls, two of which got their
horns locked while fighting and were found dead in South
Dakota, three pair of buffalo horns and a host of other
curiosities fairly bewildering in number. When in
California he was attacked in the mountains by a grizzly
she bear that had cubs. From the fierce indications he
thought that this Bush better aspire to a tree
and ascended one as rapidly as possible and so did the
bear to the same one and caught. his hind leg near the
calf, making four holes in his boot leg. Both fell to
the ground, when the bear ran to her cubs, and he, to
avoid any disagreeable encounter, went somewhat
hurriedly in an opposite direction, which was a prudent
movement, for she returned with malicious intent but he
avoided the rush by starting early. He cut off the
boot leg and has it among his collection with the
autograph or mark of the bear. Mr. Bush
has killed over 200 deer, a moose, four bears, ducks and
geese without number, and does not have to draw on his
imagination for fish stories. In politics he is. a
Democrat though a great admirer of President
Roosevelt, has served two terms as county
commissioner but enjoys a deer hunters' picnic better
than a political convention and prefers an outing with
his gun or fish pole to a sojourn at a summer resort. In
shooting contests he rarely returns without winning a
prize. His philosophy in life is to enjoy the passing
moment and not depend too much on an uncertain future,
subscribing without mental reservation to the saying
that one bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush.
Mr. Bush has been honored by his party in being
elected infirmary director, serving nine years, and in
1881 was elected county commissioner for three years
and. re-elected in 1884, but is in no sense an offensive
partisan. The blankets, the knives, hatchets,
etc., he has won in shooting contests at the deer
hunters' picnics would give each of his children a good
setting out in articles of that line, and still have
enough for himself and his wife. No other marksman of
his age in this region has much show when he draws a
bead on the target and the younger ones find in him a
stubborn competitor.
* * *
P. S. One of the bears shot by Mr. Bush
was a grizzly, killed in the California mountains, near
Eureka lake. Another episode in his career was a fight
with the Indians. They had rifled a camp and he with
three others attacked about thirty braves and squaws as
they were eating breakfast and put them to flight.
John's gun was a flint lock. All the heads of the
deer, twenty-five in number, and other specimens, were
preserved and mounted by him and sons, John and
George, who were expert taxidermists. At Fort
Arthur all the hotels have saloons and there are many
others also which are well patronized by whole-souled
fellows, but he did not hear an oath. They were two days
and nights crossing the American desert without water
and many were so exhausted that they had to be loaded
into wagons and their tongues were so swollen they could
not talk, but their lives were saved by administering
much reviled whiskey, thus showing that it is a good
thing on a desert The nights were gorgeous with volcanic
fireworks, which, in the distance, roared and illumined
the sky and many of the springs were so hot anything
could be cooked in the water. A. B. C. H., 1908.
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