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L.
CABLE WAGNER, who not only belongs to a somewhat
noted family of Shelby Co., O., but in his own person is
a representative business man and citizen of Shelby Co.,
O., was born at Sidney and is a son of W. H. Wagner,
president of the Wagner Manufacturing Company.
L. Cable Wagner attended the public schools in
his native city and after graduating from the Sidney
High school became a student at Villa Nova College near
Philadelphia.. After he returned to Sidney he
assumed business responsibilities and is a director and
one of hte large stockholders in the Wagner
Manufacturing Company. He is one of the active and
dependable members of Sidney Commercial Club.
Mr. Wagner was married in 1908 to Miss Louise
Fitzgibbon, who was born at St. Louis, Mo., and they
have two children: Mary Jane and James. Mr.
Wagner was reared in the Catholic church and he is a
member of the fraternal order of Knights of Columbus.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
698 |
WILLIAM
H. WAGNER. In every community there is some one
family which stands out prominently among the other
inhabitants and in the history ,pf Sidney that family is
Wagner. They were originally French, born in
Alsace, then a northern province of France, and came to
this country in 1830, three sturdy brothers, Joseph,
Peter and Mathias. Mathias
Wagner first saw the light of day in Alsace, April
24, 1818, and in 1830 came to America and drove a team
through to Pittsburg, where he met his father who had
preceded him by stage from Baltimore. After working
there awhile he came to Ohio, to Columbiana county, and
there his father engaged in farming. Mathias came
on to Allen county in 1837 .and a year later to Sidney,
when he opened up a meat market and engaged in other
enterprises until he became one of the strongest
financial men of the town. In 1844 he married Miss
Mary Rauth. born in Germany, and became
the father of twelve children, eight of whom are living.
Two brothers of Mathias were born in Ohio,
John and George, and came to this county in
the fifties. Mr. Wagner died in June,
1888.
William H., the second child of this union, was
born in Sidney, May 24, 1855, attended parochial and
public schools in Sidney and supplemented this with a
course at St. Mary's Institute at Dayton. He married
Miss Sophia Cable, of Sandusky, in 1880, who died
leaving a son, Cable, who is now associated with the
Wagner brothers in the Wagner Manufacturing
Company. In 1887 he married Miss Ina
Graber, of Findlay, who became the mother of seven
children, one of whom died at the age of two years.
Mrs. Wagner died a year ago, January 26,
1912, Universally beloved. His oldest son, Mathias,
is now an interne at St. Frances hospital in Pittsburg,
an honor graduate of medicine from the St. Louis
University, in 1912. His second child, Marcelle,
graduated with the B. A. degree from St. Mary's
Institute three years ago, matriculated with the M. A.
degree from the Catholic University at Washington and is
now taking a theological course in Cincinnati.
William is now at St. Mary's and the daughter,
Rose Evelyn, the youngest, with two sons,
Richard and Alfred, are attending school in
Sidney.
Mr. Wagner lives next the old Wagner
homestead on North Miami avenue, and while a very busy
man, finds time to cultivate the higher side of his
nature in his love of music, pictures and books. He was
for many years the tenor soloist in Holy Angels church
and is now one of its wardens.
Mr. Wagner is now and has been president
of the First .National Exchange Bank since its
organization in 1899. President of the People's Savings
and Loan Association for the last ten years and for
twenty-four on its board of directors.
He has been president of the Wagner Manufacturing
Company since its organization twenty-two years ago.
This company makes high grade polish and nickel-plated
and aluminum kitchen utensils. Mr. Wagner
is also president of the Sidney Telephone Company and a
director in the Sidney Tool Company and the Monarch
Machine Company. He was president of the Commercial Club
in 1906 and has always taken an interest in civic
utilities and is foremost in advancing public spirited
enterprises. Proof of his business capacity is shown in
the success which has attended his efforts and which has
made his name a familiar one in marts of trade at many
points. |
THOMAS
WHEATON, who is a highly respected citizen and
retired farmer of Shelby county, O., has been a resident
of Sidney since December, 1911, when he removed from his
fine farm of 160 acres, which is situated in Orange
township. He was born on a farm in Montgomery county,
O., September 14, 1854, and is a son of William
and Jane (Williams) Wheaton.
William Wheaton, with his wife and son.
moved from Montgomery county to Miami county, when the
latter was two years old. Mr. Wheaton at
that time had little capital and the family home was a
log cabin near Lena,, but he was an industrious and
thrifty man and gradually accumulated substance until he
owned two farms and also became interested in a grain
business at Lena. He got to dickering in the board of
trade and lost heavily. His death occurred in advanced
age, a well-known and respected man.
Thomas Wheaton
was mainly reared near Lena, O., attended school in that
vicinity and remained on the home farm working for his
father until he was twenty-seven years of age. After
marriage he rented a farm for eight years, in Miami
county, and then bought 120 acres in Orange township,
Shelby county, to which he later added forty acres in
the spring of 1911. Several years after taking up his
residence on his farm his house was destroyed by fire
and after rebuilding he also replaced the barn and
gradually all the. other structures and now its
improvements equal those on any other place in the
township. He carried on the. usual farm activities until
he retired, since when his son has been in charge. Mr.
Wheaton purchased his handsome residence at No.
710 South Ohio street, Sidney, in 1911, where he and
wife live in great comfort. Mr. Wheaton
married Miss Ida Garbry, a daughter
of James and Mary Catherine
Garbry, of Shelby county, and they have three
children and one grandchild: Ora, who is engaged
in business at Dayton, O.; Lucy, who is the wife
of James Wiley, of Orange township, and
they have one son, Darwin; and Albert, who
ably carries on the farm industries for his father. He
married Iona Redinbo. Mr.
Wheaton and sons are identified with the democratic
party. Although never anxious for public office, Mr.
Wheaton is a conscientious citizen and proved his
value to his fellow citizens during three years of
service as .trustee of Orange township. He has been an
Odd Fellow for many years; still preserving his interest
in the principles and object of this fraternal
organization. |
COL. HARRISON WILSON
was born near Cadiz, Ohio, Mar. 15, 1841, the youngest
in a family of six sons and three daughters. When
a little boy his parents moved to Belmont county and
there he got a country school education which he
supplemented with a college course at the Ohio
University in Athens, by great effort and sacrifice.
At the outbreak of the war he was assigned to the 25th
O. V. I. and successively held commissions from second
lieutenant to colonel when, he was mustered out with the
regiment July 15, 1865.
He was in forty-two battles and skirmishes, at the
siege of Fort Donalson, Vicksburg, and Atlanta, and went
with Sherman 'to the sea." He came of a
family conspicuous for its bravery, his grandfather,
Thomas Wilson, having served in the Revolution and
his five brothers in the Civil war. Colonel
Wilson himself was awarded a medal by congress.
After the war he settled in Sidney for the study of
law, was admitted to the bar and went into partnership
with General Murray, which continued till
Murray's death in 1879. He took a keen
interest in politics and served thirteen years as
circuit judge in the 2d judicial district of Ohio from
1895 to 1909. For the next two years he was
identified with a prominent law firm in Columbus, but
left for Nordhoff, California, in the spring of 1912 to
spend the remainder of his days indulging his taste for
outdoor life. HE married Mary Caroline, a
daughter of J. T. Fry of Sidney, in 1867, and
raised a family of nine children, eight of whom are
living.
Wilson took high rank among the lawyers of Ohio.
He had a mind of choice legal capabilities. As a
judge his decisions were clear and comprehensive and he
now has the confidence of his associates on the bench
for his unswerving integrity. Dignified in manner, in
habits simple, and austerely temperate. |
L.
C. WILSON, who carries on general farming and
stock raising in Green township, has spent almost all
his life on the homestead, which he is operating for his
mother, who is a highly esteemed resident of Fletcher,
O. Mr. Wilson was born at Covington, Miami
county, O., and was two years old when his parents,
Joshua and Lydia (Blown) Wilson, came to this
property. The father was a native of Montgomery county,
O., and after coming to Green township placed all the
improvements on this farm, on which he continued to live
as long as active, moving then to Fletcher, where his
death occurred at the age of seventy years. Both his
sons, L. C. and Stanley, are farmers in
Green township.
L. C. Wilson and brother attended the district
schools in Green township and assisted on the home farm
of 126 acres, after which he operated the same for six
years and since his father's death has continued its
management in his mother's interest. He owns 137 acres
just north of this farm but he has rented it to a good
tenant and continues to live on the old homestead. Mr.
Wilson married Miss Anna Bennett
and they have four children: Foster, Ethel,
Lowell and Edith. Being an independent
thinker, Mr. Wilson has not identified
himself with any political faction and casts his vote as
a free American citizen, entirely according to his own
judgment after intelligent consideration of public
issues. All local matters of public concern receive his
attention and the public schools and their advancement
particularly interest him. |
JOSEPH
WINNER, a general farmer and highly respected
citizen of Cynthian township, who owns a carefully
cultivated farm of eighty acres, was born Jan. 14, 1867,
in McLean township, Shelby county, and is a son of
Anton and Caroline Winner.
Joseph Winner attended school in Dirksen district
and remained at home helping his father until his
marriage, when he located where he has remained ever
since, in section 17, Cynthian township. He has
made all the substantial improvements on the place, has
his land well drained and tiled and all of it under
cultivation with the exception of ten acres. It
has an excellent location being three-fourths of a mile
east of the St. Mary turnpike on the township line road,
with postoffice accommodations at Fort Loramie.
Mr. Winner married first Miss Josephine Bruns,
who, at death, left four children: Joseph A.,
Herman, Frances Elizabeth and William. Mr.
Winner's second marriage was to Mrs. Agnes (Brackman)
Richling, widow of August Richling. She
had one son, Henry Richling, born to her first
marriage. To Mr. and Mrs. Winner four
children have been born: Leona, Alexander,
Lucinda and Louetta, all surviving except
Lucinda. Mr. Winner and family are
members of St. Michael's Catholic church at Fort
Loramie. In politics he is a democrat but has
never accepted any office except one connected with the
public schools, for three years serving as a member of
the board of education of the Short Special School
District. |
GEORGE
M. WYATT,* general farmer and stock raiser,
who successfully carries on his industries on his
valuable tract of sixty-one acres, situated in section
33, Cynthian township, two miles north of Dawson, O.,
was born in Loramie township, Shelby county, O., Dec.
21, 1871, and is a son of J. M. and Mary
Catherine (Green) Wyatt.
George M. Wyatt obtained his education in the
public schools, attending mainly the West Jefferson
school in Loramie township, and afterward assisted his
father, who is now deceased. He has given almost
his entire attention ever since to farming and stock
raising and has proved that agriculture, properly
carried on, is a profitable business in Shelby county.
For ten years following his marriage he remained on the
old homestead in Loramie township and then came to his
present well-improved place.
George M. Wyatt married Miss Mary R. Huffman,
who was born in the western part of Loramie township, a
daughter of William W. and Harriet (Edwards) Huffman,
both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt have
one daughter, May Laura, who is a student in the
Oran special school district. Mr. Wyatt has
been treasurer of the board of education of this
district since Jan., 1912. He is a democrat in
politics and served three terms in the office of road
supervisor while living in Loramie township. He is
one of the solid and reliable citizens of this part of
Shelby county. |
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