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BIOGRAPHIES
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A Portrait and biographical record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio :
containing biographical sketches of many prominent and representative
citizens : together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents
of the United States, and biographies of the governors of Ohio.
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JOHN IKIRT CABLE,
of Van Wert, Ohio, is a native of the Buckeye state, was born in
Columbiana county, June 21, 1835, and is a son of Joseph and
Susannah ( Stallcup ) Cable. The Hon. Joseph Cable,
father of our subject, was probably one of the most remarkable men
ever produced within the territorial limits of the present great state
of Ohio. His birth took place April 17, 1801, on Ohio soil,
before the territory was admitted to the Union as a state, and October
25, 1827, in Columbiana county, he married Miss Sussannah Stallcup,
who was born in Pennsylvania May 1, 1811. Ignoring the events
which occurred during the early live of Joseph Cable, we must
content ourselves with a brief narrative of his varied and phenomenal
experience after marriage. Just after that event he located at
New Lisbon and engaged in editing the Ohio Patriot until 1837, giving
tangible evidence of his ability as a political and general writer;
thence he went to Steubenville, and there published the Gazette until
1839, when he moved to Carrollton and published the Jeffersonian until
1842, when he sold the plant, and, for the nonce, relinquished
editorial work and devoted his attention and talents to politics,
which latter led to his election to the United States house of
representatives from the Seventeenth Ohio congressional district for
two successive terms; he next located in Sandusky city, and for two
years edited the Bay City Mirror; thence he went to Paulding, and for
two years held the position of collector at the junction of the
Wabash & Erie canals, and when that office was vacated, or abolished,
on account of the abandoning of the Wabash extension of the Miami &
Erie canal, he came to Van Wert, and the influence of his trenchant
pen was felt though his editorship of the American from the spring of
1857 until 1860, at which time the Bulletin was established, which
journal, in conjunction with Capt. Scott, he edited until 1862,
in the spring of which year he engaged in the work of securing
pensions for the three month soldiers, at which task he assiduously
labored for about twelve months; he then went to Wauseon, Ohio, where
he edited the Wauseon Republican four years, and next returned to
Paulding, where, in partnership with his son Fielding, he
founded the Gazette, which they controlled until 1870; he also for a
short time managed a newspaper at Antwerp, in the same county, but
finally returned to Paulding City, retired from active life, and
passed the remainder of his days in peace until his death, which
occurred May 1, 1880, honored by the citizens of the state and
lamented by hosts of admiring friends. His wife, Miss
Susannah (Stallcup) Cable, was called away November 1, 1842,
having borne her husband five children, viz: Fielding and
Elizabeth, deceased; John I., our subject, and two infants
that died unnamed. Mr. Cable's second marriage took place
in Carrollton, Ohio, November 16, 1843 to Jane Watt, who was
born in Mercer county, Pa., March 22, 1811, and who died August 7,
1887, the mother of two children - Mary, deceased, and
Martha A., wife of Homer Meacham, superintendent of the
Miami extension of the Erie. The names of the children of
Joseph Cable are thus grouped together, that the progeny of this
great man may be found at a glance. In religion, Mr. Cable
was a Presbyterian and fraternally he was a Mason, having been
grand master of Ohio in 1840.
John Ikirt Cable, whose name opens this
biographical record, was reared in Carroll county, Ohio, but learned
that the art of printing in the office of the Ohio Picayune and that
of the Bay City Mirror, at Sandusky; he then entered the office of the
Paulding Gazette, which his father and brother had established for
Judge Latta, and of which he had charge until 1855; then went to
Steubenville, worked in a job office for a short time, then returned
to Paulding and for a year acted as deputy sheriff under John
Crawson; in 1857 he came to Van Wert and worked for Col.
Alexander on the American for three months, then, in partnership
with Lewis Evers, bought the office in the fall and operated
the same until the spring of 1859, when he married and moved to a farm
in Willshire township and located on a piece of land owned by his
wife, of whom further mention will be made below. Here he
resided until August 4, 1862, when he enlisted in company E,
Fifty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years, and was
assigned to the army of the Cumberland; he reached Lexington August
22, 1862, was made wagon-master, and filled the position fourteen
months, when, in front of Chattanooga, he was placed in the ranks and
served with his company until the fall of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, when
he was withdrawn from the ranks and detailed to duty in the
quartermaster's department, where he remained until December, 1864,
when he rejoined his company, with which he did duty until after the
grand review at Washington, D. C., where he was honorably discharged
June 3, 1865. On his return home he engaged in teaming for a
year, then for a year and a half worked in the Bulletin office; next
he farmed a short time, and then again returned to Van Wert, where he
now owns a delivery line.
The marriage of Mr. Cable took place July 7,
1858, to Miss Anges P. Johnson, who was born in Harrison
township, Van Wert county, October 31, 1839, a daughter of Davis
Johnson, of whom a sketch is given on another page. To this
happy union have been born six children, viz: Davis J.,
an attorney of Lima, Ohio; Minnie G., wife of Charles S.
Hough, of Van Wert; Anna Pearl, at home; Maj. Doyal C.,
deceased, and two deceased infants. Mr. and Mrs. Cable
are Methodists in religion, and in politics he is a republican, having
cast his first presidential vote for John C. Fremont; he has
served as trustee of Pleasant township for six years, and as
assessor for four years, and took the enumeration of the township in
1890; fraternally he is a member of the G. A. R., of which he is
present commander, and he is also master of exchequer of the K. of P.
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FRANKLIN
CARLO is a native of Ohio and was born in Champaign county,
October 5, 1842. His father, Dr. Morris Carlo, was born
December 18, 1801, in the city of Dresden, Saxony. At the age of
twenty-nine years he came to America, landing in New York city, whence
he came to Ohio and engaged in the practice of his profession, that of
physician, in the city of Cincinnati. He had a fine education
and was able to converse fluently in six different languages. He
was married in Cincinnati, in 1832, to Anna B. Sutter, who was
born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 5, 1813. Shortly after their
marriage they located in Saint Paris, Champaign county, Ohio, where
they were among the pioneer settlers of that place. In a few
years they moved on a farm near by. To them were born fifteen
children, of whom ten reached the years of maturity, viz:
Louisa, widow of A. Walborn, of Van Wert county, Ohio;
Edwin, of Champaign county, Ohio; Frances, wife of F.
Fromme, of Saint Paris, Ohio; Franklin, the subject of this
sketch; Anna, widow of J. N. Richison, of Yellow
Springs, Ohio; Mattie, wife of H. B. Davis, of Denver,
Colo.; Morris V., of Jay county, Ind.; John A.,
deceased; Ella, wife of J. B. Leonard, of Bucyrus, Ohio,
and Charles R., of Illinois. Dr. Carlo died August
4, 1864, and the mother died in September, 1878, at the home of her
daughter, Anna Richison, in DeGraff, Ohio, and was laid to rest
beside her husband in Spring Grove cemetery, near St. Paris, Ohio.
They were both faithful members of the Lutheran church.
Franklin Carlo, the subject proper of this
biography, was reared on the farm in Champaign county, Ohio, and when
he had attained his majority he enlisted as a soldier in company I,
One Hundred and Thirty-forth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, served
out the brief term of his enlistment and then re-enlisted in company
E, One Hundred and Eighty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and
did his duty as a gallant soldier until the close of the war, when he
was honorably discharged at Lexington, Ky. His description then
was: Five feet, eleven and a half inches high, light complexion, blue
eyes, light hair, and weight 180 pounds. In the spring of 1866, in
company with his brother Edwin, he crossed the plains overland
to Colorado and Montana in search of gold; the search was a failure
and he returned, via Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, on a small
Mackinaw rowboat, to Omaha, Neb., thence by stage to Des Moines, Iowa,
thence by rail to his old home in Champaign county, Ohio, where he
engaged in farming till his removal to Hoaglin township, Van Wert
county, Ohio, in September, 1869, where he had sometime previously
purchased a farm, on which he has since made his home and increased it
to 210 acres. With the exception of $750 of the capital
necessary to make the first payment on and to improve this farm, he
has earned the money with which to pay for it by his individual
exertions, thus showing himself to be practical in his vocation and
well deserving the success which has attended him throughout his life.
On ay 20, 1869, he was married to M. A. Hattery,
who was born in Van Wert county February 2, 1847, a daughter of
Edward and Mary Hattery, of whom mention is made elsewhere in
these pages as being among the prominent pioneer settlers of this
county. This union has been blessed by the birth of seven
children, viz: Edward F., present deputy county
treasurer; Bertha L., wife of Delbert McMillen;
Jennie Lind; Bessie; Chester Arthur; Earnest Rutherford and
Gladys Ruth; the latter two are twins, born September 23, 1892.
In religion Franklin Carlo and wife are Lutherans, and in
politics he is a republican, under the auspices of which party he has
served as township clerk one year, county commissioner three years,
and is now occupying the office of county treasurer, to which he was
first elected in November, 1893. In 1895, Mr. Carlo,
having filled the office to the great satisfaction of the public, was
re-elected county treasurer in one of the hottest contests that the
republicans ever entered upon in the county, but he was carried
through by a handsome majority, and this fact alone speaks volumes as
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MAJ. ISRAEL DILLE CLARK,
deceased. Such a work as the one in hand exercises its most
important function when it enters a memoir to one who has passed a
long and useful a life as did the honored subject whose name
initiates this review. The story of his career is one that
tells of long identification with the history of Ohio, of unstinted
and loyal service to his country in the crucial hour of civil
warfare, and of high position in professional ranks and as a man
among men. Probably the name of no one man in the city of Van
Wert recalls to those who knew him such mingled feelings of pride
and sorrow as that of Maj. Israel D. Clark - pride for his
sterling character and his exalted ability, and sorrow for the
deprivation which came when he was summoned into eternal rest.
He was prominently identified with the interests of the city and
county, and this compilation would be inconsistent with itself were
there failure to revert in detail to the history of the career of
this noble man.
Israel D. Clark was a native son of the Buckeye
state, having been born at Shelby, Richland county, on the 22d of
April, 1820, the son of Thomas and Nancy (Dille) Clark, both
of whom were natives of the same county, of which their respective
parents figured as among the earliest pioneer settlers. They
were identified with agricultural pursuits and were people of
sterling integrity. The father was one of the successful and
influential farmers of the pioneer locality and his life was
characterized by that ceaseless toil and endeavor which insure
success in temporal affairs. He was a republican in his
political adherency, and both he and his wife were Presbyterians in
their religious faith. They became the parents of six
daughters and two sons, all of whom are now deceased.
The subject of this review was the fourth child in
order of birth, and he was reared under the sturdy and invigorating
discipline of the parental farmstead, receiving his preliminary
educational discipline in the common schools. On the 24th of
September, 1840, he was united in marriage, in his native county, to
Abbie Cook, whose death occurred on the 3d day of January of
the succeeding year. September 26, 1841, at Mansfield, Ohio,
was consummated his marriage to Miss Rachel Scott, whose
demise occurred April 15, 1875. She left three children:
John Willis Clark and Rilla Clark, deceased, and Mrs.
C. M. Sutphen, whose death occurred in 1894. Tot eh third
marriage of our subject due reference will be made in succeeding
paragraphs.
Major Clark removed from Mansfield to Van
Wert county in the year 1842, and in 1848 he received the
appointment as postmaster of the city of Van Wert, proving a most
capable and discriminating executive. He had devoted his
attention to a careful course of reading in the law, and in 1854 he
secured admission to the bar. His personal popularity and
integrity, as taken in connection with his marked professional
ability, secured to him within the succeeding year the election to
the office of probate judge of the county, in which important and
exacting position he served with signal fidelity for a term of three
years. After his military career (which will be considered
later on) was terminated, he was accorded still further public
recognition, having been prosecuting attorney of the county from
1864 until 1868; justice of the peace from 1870 to 1873; and having
served the municipality of Van Wert both as a member of the common
council and in the highest office in the gift of the city, that of
mayor, his administration as chief executive of the city's affairs
having been one of marked honesty and one in which the best
interests of the community were carefully conserved. In 1858
he was associated with other representative men of the city in the
publication of the Ohio Weekly Bulletin, which was edited by the
late Capt. W. C. Scott and which wielded an unmistakable and
beneficial in this section of the state.
The thundering of rebel cannon on Fort Sumter raised a
responsive protest in the nature of our subject, who was thoroughly
patriotic and loyal to the cause of the Union, and whose patriotism
was one of decision and action. He was one of the first to
respond to President Lincoln's call for troops to assist in
suppressing the Rebellion, and he immediately organized and enlisted
a company, which was assigned to the Fifteenth Ohio volunteer
infantry and became company E. He was commissioned captain of
his company and proceeded with his command into Virginia. They
were engaged with the enemy at Phillipi and Laurel Hill, and
in the conflict at the latter place the Confederates lost their
first general, Garnett, who was killed in action. At
the close of their three-month term of enlistment, the regiment
returned home, and upon the subsequent call for 300,000 more men for
a three-years enlistment, Capt. Clark forthwith proceeded to
raise another company, his efforts meeting with ready response and
the organization becoming company A of the Fifty-second regiment,
which was assigned to the army of the Cumberland. Their
initial engagement was at Perryville, Ky., where the regiment lost
many of its brave men, and where Capt. Clark rendered such
valiant service as to secure to him a commission as major of the
regiment. His efforts in behalf of the union were zealous and
indefatigable, and he endured the dangers and vicissitudes of
military life with that fortitude which is begotten of full sympathy
with and determination to defend a righteous cause. Finally
the hardships and exposures of the service made such serious inroads
upon his health that he was compelled to resign his commission and
to bid a reluctant farewell to his comrades in arms, realizing that
his usefulness on the field of battle was thus ended by untoward
circumstance. He returned to his home, with shattered health,
and he never regained his constitutional vigor, but suffered from
heart disease and other incidental ills during the residue of his
days, bearing the sequelae of his military service with as great
patience as had he valiantly borne arms on the field where grim-visaged
war reared its horrid front. Such were the defenders of our
nation's honor, and to their memory should there be granted a
perpetual reverence and homage. Though thus afflicted by
disease and attendant suffering, Maj. Clark continued in the
practice of his profession, though the organic disorder of his heart
compelled him to abandon all active duty at irregular intervals.
For a year prior to his demise he was confined almost entirely to
his home, but was an heroic sufferer, and uncomplainingly awaited
that denouement which could along bring him relief. He entered
into eternal rest on the 9th of January, 1884, aged sixty-three
years, eight months and seventeen days, and the community mourned
the loss of an honored veteran of the late war and a man of innate
nobility of character.
In his political adherency he was a stalwart, supporter
of the republican party and its principles, and in addition to the
various other official positions he had held he also served as
United States marshal for some time after his return from the war.
He was prominently identified, in a fraternal way, with the Masonic
order, being one of the oldest members of the same in Van Wert, as
is shown in the fact that the records bear evidence that he was the
first man initiated into the mysteries of the order in this city,
the date of this ceremonial having been October, 1852. He
became a member of the First Presbyterian church at the time of its
organization, and continued to be a devoted adherent until the time
of his death. He was also one of the honored members of Scott
post, No. 100, Grand Army of the Republic.
In conclusion we revert to the domestic chapter in the
life history of Maj. Clark, finding that, on the 14th of
August, 1877, was consummated his marriage to Sarah M. Pearce,
of Willshire, this county. She was born in Champaign
county, Ohio, June 5, 1840, the daughter of Lorenzo and Catherine
(Bishop) Pearce. Her father came to Van Wert County and
settled in Willshire in 1847, and was there engaged in agricultural
operations until the time of his death, which occurred June 25,
1882. His wife was born in Champaign county, Ohio, June 29,
1816, and as the result of their union were born the following named
children: Anna E., wife of Dr. N. Croninger, of Kansas
City, Mo.; Cinderella, deceased; Sarah M., widow of
our subject; Mary C., deceased; Alfalander S.,
deceased; Thomas, deceased; John M., of Elwood, Ind.
They were all members of the Methodist Episcopal church. The
mother died Dec. 14, 1854. Major and Sarah M. Clark
became the parents of two children: Roscoe Dille, who
died at the age of eight months, and Fred P., who remains as
a comfort and solace to his mother. Mrs. Clark
and her son are members of the Presbyterian church, with which the
honored husband and father was so prominently identified.
Maj. Clark left to his widow and son a comfortable
competency, Mrs. Clark being the owner of valuable
property on South Washington street.
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REV.
JOSEPH J. CLARKE, the pious and scholarly pastor of Saint
Mary's Catholic church at Van Wert, Ohio, was born in Utica, N. Y.,
Dec. 22, 1853, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Ohara) Clarke.
Father Joseph Clarke received his preliminary education in
the Assumption academy in Utica, and after leaving this school was
employed in the same city for four and a half years in a dry-goods
store, he then, in 1872, entered Saint Charles College, near
Baltimore, Md., whence he went, in 1877, to Mount Saint Mary's
Emmetsburg, Md., where he took a three -year course in theology
under Bishop Watterson; he then came to Ohio, entered the
diocese of Cleveland, and was ordained Nov. 11, 1883. He was,
first, assistant priest at Cleveland; then at Hudson, Ohio; then at
Elmore, near Cleveland; then at South Thompson, Ohio; then came to
Van Wert, Ohio, in March, 1891, and here he has since remained, in
charge of Saint Mary's parish. The congregation was organized
in 1868, and the first mass was celebrated in an old frame
residence; the church edifice was erected by father Hoeffel
in 1874; the first pastor was Rev. James Leddy, who
had charge until 1878, when he was succeeded by Rev. John T.
Cahill; in 1879, Rev. P. Barty followed Father Cahill
and remained until December 1881, when he was succeeded by
Rev. T. J. O'Neil, who performed the functions of a pastor until
March, 1886; he was followed by Rev. E. F. Rohan, and in
November, 1887, Father Rohan was relieved by Rev. M. J.
Clear; in March, 1891, Father Clear was withdrawn, and
our subject, Rev. Joseph J. Clarke, was placed in charge of
the flock, who hold him in the most reverential admiration for the
unfaltering faithfulness with which he has filled every function
pertaining to his sacred office. The present church building
is of brick, is 54 x 36 feet in the ground plan, and was erected at
a cost of $3,200. Father Clarke has also a mission at
Convoy, Van Wert county, also at Spencerville, Allen county, Ohio,
both of which receive his most tender care.
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JOHN CRAMER, of Van Wert, Ohio, was born in York Co., Pa.,
Oct. 9, 1822. His father, JOHN CRAMER, SR., also a
native of York county, Pa., was born in 1792, a son of Helfar
Cramer, who came from Germany and who took an active part in the
American Revolution, and after the war settled in York county, where
he died, leaving seven children. John Cramer, Sr., was
married in York county, Pa., in 1816, to Catherine Schlote,
by whom he had nine children, viz: Daniel, of Fostoria,
Ohio; Henry, also of Fostoria, Ohio; John, our
subject; Mary, deceased; Emanuel, of Ionia, Mich.;
Adam, deceased; Adam of Fostoria, Ohio; Sophia,
wife of P. Wickerham, of Seneca county, Ohio; Sarah,
wife of Augustus Elliott, of Ionia, Mich.; and Levi,
deceased. John Cramer, Sr., came to Ohio in 1840 and
settled on a farm in Seneca county, where he died June 29, 1856, his
wife having departed Sept. 16, 1854. They were members of the
German Lutheran church, and in politics Mr. Cramer was a
democrat. He had served in the war of 1812 as a captain, and
was an honored man in his community, where he left a fair fortune.
John Cramer, whose name introduces this
biography, was eighteen years of age when he accompanied his parents
to Seneca county, Ohio, and had then finished his education.
Until twenty-one years of age he remained on the home farm, and then
engaged as a laborer in a saw-mill in Seneca county for two years,
and then, in 1847, he married, and bought eighty acres of land, on
which he at once located and cultivated until 1864, when he came to
Van Wert and bought 120 acres in Pleasant township, where he now
resides and still owns seventy-five acres of finely improved land.
His marriage, alluded to above, took place in Seneca county, Ohio,
Dec. 29, 1847, to Ann E. Shaffner, who was born in Crawford
county, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1830, a daughter of Martin and Ann E.
(Wert) Shaffner. Martin Shaffner was born in Lebanon
county, Pa., Feb. 27, 1795. His father, Martin Shaffner,
Sr., married Frances Halderman, who was born Sept. 30,
1762; Martin, Sr., and his wife resided for some years in
Lebanon county and then moved to Dauphin county, where they both
died; they were the parents of nine children, viz: Jacob,
Nancy, Martin (father of Mrs. Cramer), Henry,
Frederick, John, Christian, Frances and Elizabeth.
Their son, Martin, Jr., was married Dauphin county, Pa., to
Anne E. Wert, and to this union were born three children, viz:
Levi, deceased; John F., of Willshire, Ohio, and Ann
E., wife of Mr. Cramer. The parents of the above
settled in Crawford county, Ohio, in 1829, where the mother died
Sep. 22, 1831, and the father, Sept. 17, 1870, both members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. To the marriage of our subject and
his wife have been born nine children, viz: John W. and
Willialm J., both deceased; Sarah C., wife of John W.
Balyeat, nurseryman of Ionia county, Mich.; Frank A. and
Ralph W., of Van Wert; Irene H., wife of J. W.
Kensler, of Ridge township, Van Wert county; Anna E., at
home; Martin S., M. D., of Ohio City, and Charles B.,
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church at Celina, Ohio.
The family all worship in the Methodist Episcopal faith, and in
politics Mr. Cramer is a prohibitionist; he is also a member
of grange No. 82, of which he was treasurer fourteen yeasr.
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