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THE BAUM FAMILY.
The immigrant ancestor of this family was
George Baum, Sr.,
who was born in Germany, Nov. 17, 1754, and who, when seventeen
years of age, sailed for
America
with a brother.
The latter died on ship-board and was buried at sea.
The ship must have met with tempestuous weather, or
have been a very slow sailor, as it is recorded that the
voyage lasted six months.
He landed at Philadelphia
in the year 1772, when public affairs were in more or less of
a ferment owing to the troubles with
England
which were in a few years to bring on the Revolutionary war.
In accordance with a not unfrequent custom in those
days, his services had been sold to a man for three years to
pay his passage.
In 1783 he was married to
Mary Higgin, a
native of Pennsylvania.
In 1801 he moved to Ohio,
settling in Columbiana County, where he purchased 160 acres of land of the
government, at $1.25 per acre, which land is now the site of
the city of Salem.
The nearest grist-mill was then at Marietta, about sixty-five
miles away, the route being through the woods, and it used to
take him from three to four days to make the trip, leading his
horse, which carried the grist.
On each occasion he was obliged to camp at least two
nights in the woods.
THOMAS BAUM, son of
George and Mary Baum
(and maternal grandfather of
William J. Powell,
of Northfield Township, Summit County,
Ohio), was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,
June 20, 1798. In
1801 he accompanied his parents to Salem, Columbiana Co.,
Ohio.
Here he subsequently married
Mary Perkey.
In 1821 he became a resident of Northfield Township,
Summit County, where he purchased a farm for
three dollars per acre.
This farm was located about eighteen miles from
Cleveland, and is now known as the
G. T. Bishop farm.
Here his death occurred, Dec. 24, 1862.
His wife had preceded him to the grave, dying on her
fifty-eighth birthday, June 28, 1855.
They reared a family of six children –
John, Sarah, Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, and
James M. The record of
these children is, in brief, as follows:
John enlisted in
the 111th Regiment Ohio, Volunteer Infantry, in Williams County,
Ohio, and served nearly three years.
He died in that county Nov. 16, 1865.
Sarah became
the wife of William
Powell, of Northfield Township,
wher she now resides.
Mary married
a Mr. White, of Jennings Co., Indiana.
Martha, who
is the widow of Mr.
Horner, resides in
Akron, Ohio.
Elizabeth
is the wife of
David Silver, of Jennings
County, Indiana.
JAMES M. BAUM, the remaining member of the
above-mentioned family, was born on Christmas Day, 1833.
He was educated in the district schools, and assisted
his father in clearing and developing his land.
In 1872 he located in Section 33, Ross Township, Wood
Co., Ohio,
where he is now engaged in general farming and gardening,
having a well improved farm of some forty acres.
He also devotes a part of his attention to fruit
raising. Being
located but a short distance from Toledo, he finds a ready
market for his produce, and has been quite successful.
He is numbered among the prosperous and representative
citizens of his locality.
(Source:
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens -
Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. -
Chicago, Ill - 1908 ~ Page 1067)
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O. W. BAUM, of the firm of
McIntosh & Baum,
leaders in the insurance line at Akron, dealing extensively
also in loans, investments and real estate, occupies a
prominent position in the business circles of this city and is
identified with numerous important concerns.
He was born at New Berlin, Stark Co., Ohio, in 1862, and has been a resident of Akron for fifteen years.
Mr. Baum completed
his education in the High School at Canal Fulton, and then
taught school for about three years in Stark County.
He then became connected with the retail department of
the George Washington
Company, of
Cleveland, Ohio, with which he remained associated for
three years. For
the following three years
Mr. Baum was
interested in a hardware business at Greenstown, Ohio, and
later became traveling salesman for the Standard Hardware
Company, of Akron, representing it for four or five years.
He then turned his attention to fire insurance, and
with a Mr. Graham,
bought out the insurance business of
App & Carr, later
purchasing Mr. Graham’s
interest. In 1900
he was elected secretary of the Summit County Building &
Savings Company, which, in 1903, was consolidated with the
German-American Building & Loan Association, assuming the name
of the latter, of which
Mr. Baum has been secretary ever since.
In 1905 Mr.
McIntosh purchased an interest in the business and the
firm of McIntosh and Baum was established.
This firm does an immense business and stands
deservedly high among similar concerns in
Summit
County.
Mr. Baum is
also secretary of the Summit Real Estate Company, and is a
stockholder and director in the Dollar Savings Bank Company.
In 1887, Mr. Baum is married to Jennie
C. Spangler, of Manchester, Summit County,
Ohio.
Their only child,
Lucile, is now deceased.
Mr. Baum is
identified with a number of fraternal organizations.
He is a member of Nemo Lodge, of Odd Fellows; Akron
Tent, No. 126, Maccabees, and of the Uniform Rank of that
order; the Protected Home Circle; the Independent Order of
Heptasophs; and the Junior Order of American United Mechanics.
He takes a deep interest in and is a member of the
Young Men’s Christian Association.
He belongs to Grace Reformed Church.
(Source:
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens -
Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. -
Chicago, Ill - 1908 ~ Page 501)
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A. W. BENNAGE, a leading
business citizen of Akron, and a member of the firm of
George A. Botzum Company, dealers in dry goods and
ready-to-wear garments, has been a resident of this city for
a quarter of a century and belongs to an old pioneer family
of the county. He was born in Bath Township, Summit
County, Ohio, in 1861, and is a son of John and Mary (Whitted)
Bennage.
The late John Bennage was a son of Jacob
Bennage, who settled near Mogadore, about 1828.
During the early business life of John Bennage, he
was engaged in the manufacturing of stoneware, but after
settling in Bath Township, he engaged in farming. He
had ten children, and eight of these still survive.
A. W. Bennage was reared and educated in Bath
Township and remained on the home farm until he was twenty
years of age, when he went into the lumber business, and
bought and cut timber through Ohio and Michigan, and
manufactured lumber for twenty-three years. He was in
partnership with W. F. Averill, under the firm name
of Bennage & Averill for seventeen years.
In 1904 Mr. Bennage became associated with George
A. Botzum, in the establishing of the firm of the
George A. Botzum Company, which occupies a prominent
place in the commercial activities of Akron.
In 1880 Mr. Bennage was married to Sarah
Averill, who was born in Copley Township, Summit County,
Ohio, and is a daughter of William Averill.
Mr. Bennage is one of Akron's representative
citizens and has been identified with many of the movements
which have encouraged her growth and increased her prestige.
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens -
Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. -
Chicago, Ill - 1908~Page 822 |
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GENERAL LUCIUS V. BIERCE.
Another lawyer of great distinction was General
Lucius V. Bierce. He practiced law a great many
years. He came to Akron about the year 1836 and died in
1864, and during that time he was engaged in perhaps as many
suits in the courts of this county and Portage as any other
lawyer of that time. He was very skillful. Among
his partners during that time was Charles G. Ladd, and
subsequently Alvin C. Voris. General Bierce was
very efficient in aiding the government during the Civil War;
he raised several companies of men for the military and naval
service. He was elected to represent Portage and Summit
Counties in the Ohio Senate, and made an enviable record as a
Senator. And in later years, towards the close of life,
he was elected mayor of the city of Akron. He was an
able and vigorous writer, and in the intervals of his large
legal practice he prepared a number of lectures, which he
delivered in various parts of the country. But above all
General Bierce was a large practitioner, and very
successful in his business.
Source: Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County,
by Ex-Sheriff Samuel A. Lane. Publ.
Akron, Ohio: Beacon Job Department - 1892 - Page 414 |
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WILLIAM H. BLILER, who
operates a fine farm of eighty-one acres in Franklin
Township, is one of the prominent citizens of this section,
and a representative of an old pioneer family. He was
born in Franklin Township, Summit County, Ohio, April 3,
1849, and is a son of Joel and Mary (Hower) Bliler.
DANIEL BLILER, the
grandfather of William H., came by wagon from
Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled on the farm which is now
the property of the Stumps, clearing the land and
building two log houses. His life was spent in hard
and useful work, and his death occurred at the age of
seventy-seven years. Mr. Bliler had been twice
married, Joel being one of the children of the second
union.
Joel Bliler grew up in the woods of Summit
County, and spent his younger days on the home farm.
Here he was married to Mary Hower, who was a daughter
of Jesse Hower, whose father, Adam Hower, had
come from New Berlin, Ohio, and entered a section north of
Clinton. He died at New Berlin, Ohio, at the age of
ninety-three years, having given one quarter of his section
of land to Jesse, the other three-quarters having
been sold. Here Jesse Hower erected a sawmill,
where was furnished most of the timber used in the locks of
the canal. Jesse Hower died on this property
three years after locating on it, and forty years prior to
the death of his father, his daughter Mary being then
a child of four years.
After their marriage, Joel and Mary (Hower) Bliler
lived at the home of his father in Franklin Township, near
Manchester, but subsequently removed to the property on
which William H. Bliler was born, the home of
Nathaniel Stump, where the Brewster coal bank is
now situated, renting this place for five years. At
the end of this time he purchased the present Bliler
farm from a Mr. Miller, of Canton, Ohio, and here
Joel Bliler died in October, 1880, aged fifty-eight
years. His widow, who still survives makes her home
with her son, William H. Bliler.
William H. Bliler received but a scanty
education in his boyhood, most of which was spent in hard
work on the home farm. He was also employed for six
months in laying the tracks of the branch of the C. A. & C.
Railroad, when he removed to Norton Township, and three
operated two farms on shares for six years. He then
returned to Franklin Township, where he conducted a farm
near his own on shares for six years, and also the Cox
farm for seven years. In 1896 he bought out most
of the heirs to his present property, on which he has since
continued. Mr. Bliler's success tells its own
lesson of the value of perseverance and industry. He
is a man who commands the respect of his neighbors, and has
a wide circle of personal friends. In the best sense
of the word, Mr. Bliler is a self-made man, having
fought his way, almost unaided, from the bottom of the
ladder.
In August, 1870, Mr. Bliler was married to
Amanda Wilson, who is a daughter of Isaac Wilson.
Of this union there have been born twelve children, namely:
Charles, who died in 1902; Elsie, who
married M. High and died in 1892; Ellie, who
married John Summerman; Della, became
the wife of George Keplinger; Milton,
who married Lucy McCarty; Edward, who lost his life
in the Spanish-American War; William, who married
Flora Steinbaugh; Newton, Gertrude,
Lloyd and Irene, the last mentioned of whom
died at the age of seven years; and Dora, who died
when one year old.
(Source:
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative
Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago,
Ill - 1908 ~ Page 990) |
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GEORGE BLISS was a
native of Vermont. He was educated at Granville College
and came to Akron in 1832 and studied law with Hon. D. K.
Carter. He practiced law in Summit County and was
appointed in 1851 president Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
in this county, succeeding Benjamin F. Wade. He
held this position which he filled with distinguished ability,
until the taking effect of the new Constitution in 1852.
He was elected a member of Congress, from this district in
1854, and subsequently he removed to Wooster, in Wayne County,
where he practiced law in partnership with the Hon.
John McSwaney. It is safe to say that Judge
Bliss had few equals and no superiors as a lawyer. He
was learned in the law and his logic was most profound.
His command of language was such that his extempore arguments
to the court or jury would read like a page of Junius.
His eloquence was of the Websterian type, profound and
convincing, while in the art of examining and cross-examining
witnesses he has never been excelled. He married late in
life, and at his death a wife and five children survived him.
He was a most companionable man, very witty and interesting.
He never lost his temper, but exercised complete self control.
He took an active part in politics, and achieved a national
reputation as one of the leading statesmen of the country.
He was one of the leading counsel in the case of Ohio against
James Parks, which was the first and perhaps
the most important murder trial ever tried in Summit County.
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens -
Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. -
Chicago, Ill - 1908
~ Page 262 |
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 CARL
WILHELM BONSTEDT, son of Carl Frederic and
Augusta Wilhelmina (Peschau) Boustedt, was born at
Clausthal, on the Hartz, Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, Jan. 11,
1825; common school education; at 14 apprenticed to grocery
trade, serving four years; then superintendent of the large
cigar factory of Landsmith & Co., at Engter, near Osnabruck,
for several years, when he came to America, having charge of a
large tobacco business in Baltimore, Md., until 1855, when
he came to Akron, as clerk in the grocery store of
Ferdinand Schumacher, later being promoted to
book-keeper; in 1863 bought out Mr. S.,
continuing the business till 1875, when he sold out to his
book-keeper, Mr. John Terrass. After a
short engagement in the limestone business, near Sandusky,
again embarked in the grocery trade in Akron, with Mr.
John Krender, at 210 East Market Street, the
partnership continuing six years, on the withdrawal of
Mr. K., Mr. B. continuing on his own account, until
his death, Oct. 19, 1890, the business being still carried on
by his sons. Mr. Bonstedt was one of
the organizers and most active members of the Akron
Liedertafel; was first president of Retail Grocers'
Association, member of Akron Mercantile Association, Board of
Trade, and of City Council 1864-65. Mar. 15, 1857,
Mr. Bonstedt was married, in Akron, to
Miss Augusta F. Beyer, a native of Germany,
who bore him eight sons and one daughter Charles W.,
of Greentown; Adolph; Victor E.;
Ferdinand, of Lincoln, Neb.; Herman; William
H.; Frank; Louis, and Augusta F. Mrs.
Bonstedt still survives.
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens -
Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. -
Chicago, Ill - 1908 ~ Page 183 |
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DANIEL R.
BRAUCHER, the efficient superintendent of the
Children's Home, Akron, was born in Stark County, Ohio, Mar.
4, 1849, and is a son of Samuel and Mary (Lichtenwalter)
Braucher. The Braucher family is probably
of German extraction. The father of Superintendent
Braucher was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, but
the maternal grandfather was a resident of Stark County.
Samuel Braucher was a substantial farmer and reared
his son to agricultural pursuits. He and his wife had
seven children.
Prior to 1881, Daniel R. Braucher resided in his
native county, where he was educated in the district
schools. He then moved to Portage County, where he
purchased a large farm. He continued operating that
property until 1892, when he became assistant superintendent
of the Portage County Infirmary, where he remained five
years and nine months. He then traveled two years in
the interest of the Trumbull County Mutual Insurance
Company. All that time he again accepted his old
position at the Portage County Infirmary. Subsequently
appointed to his present position, he assumed its duties
Jan. 1, 1904. The Children's Home is a pet charity of
Akron and its needs have been responded to by many of the
capitalists of this section. For this very reason it
was the part of wisdom to select as superintendent a man of
reliable character, broad mind and executive ability,
qualities which are possessed in high degree by Mr.
Braucher. With the cheerful and hearty assistance
of his admirable wife, who is the matron of the home, the
twelve employes of the institution are kept faithfully
performing their duties and the safety, well-being and
happiness of the sixty-nine dependent children are assured.
Mr. Braucher was married (first) to Louisa
Humbert, who died Mar. 13, 1893, leaving four children.
He married (second) Geneva Folk, who is first cousin
to Governor Folk, Missouri's distinguished chief
magistrate. There were no children by the second
marriage. Mr. Braucher and family belong to the
Reformed Church. His children, all of the first
marriage, survive. Mr. E. Bunts lost her
husband, who died Feb. 18, 1907. The other are:
Mrs. William Metzger, of Akron; Mrs. Arthur Gillett,
of South Omaha; Clark L., of Toledo, who is division
manager there of the U. S. Telephone Company; and Harry
H., who died, aged four years.
Politically, Mr. Braucher is a Democrat.
Fraternally, he is connected with the Knights of Pythias,
and Mrs. Braucher with the order of Maccabees.
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens -
Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. -
Chicago, Ill - 1908 - Page 753 |
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JOHN BUCHTEL,
- born in Myers township, Center county, Pa., Nov. 6, 1797;
came with parents to Ohio 1816, settling in Coventry; a few
years later removing to Green township. Jan. 18, 1821,
he was married to Miss Catharine Richards, of Green
township, who bore him five children - three daughters and
two sons, the latter of whom only, John R. and
William, whose portraits appear elsewhere, are now
living. Mr. and Mrs. Buchtel pluckily began
their marital life in a log stable, until a more comfortable
dwelling could be provided. After 13 years residence
in Green, they sold their farm there and bought another in
Coventry, where they happily lived for 41 years. In
1875, Mr. and Mrs. B. removed to a small place just
north of Akron city limits, where Mrs. B. died July9,
1882, aged 85 years. Mr. B., now in his 95th
year , and still in possession of all his faculties, except
good eyesight, is kindly cared for by his youngest son,
William, at 807 East Market street. Mr. Buchtel
has been a consistent member of the Evangelical church for
nearly 50 years. In politics he was originally a
Jackson Democrat, but on the breaking out of the
slave-holders' rebellion, became an earnest Republican, to
the principles of which party he still gives a vigorous
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