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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio
prepared under the Editorial Supervision of Hon. Charles A. Bowersox.
Volume II - Illustrated
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York
1920
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CHARLES E. BOYER - In no
part of Williams County will be found more intelligent or
enterprising people than in Bridgewater Township where for
years a deep interest has been maintained in agricultural
progress. This interest covers not only the developing
of the usual farm industries but goes farther, having in
view the amelioration of many desirables features of farm
life and the introduction of social conditions and
privileges that will serve to make life on a farm not only
the healthiest but the happiest and most independent in the
world. In carrying on such important work assistance
must be given by competent, earnest, farseeing men, and one
such who has long been identified here with the Grange and
other movements is Charles E. Boyer, who is a
substantial farmer of Bridgewater Township.
Charles E. Boyer was born in Tiffin, Ohio, Feb.
15, 1858, and is a son of Josiah and Lydia M. (Rainey)
Boyer, the former of whom was born in Seneca County,
Ohio, Dec. 25, 1831, and the latter in Brownwell Township,
Lorain County Nov. 30, 1834. Josiah Boyer was
left motherless in childhood. When thirteen yeas old
he was bound out to John Schlusser, who treated him
well, sending him to school at Tiffin and later to
Heidelberg College, and also taught him his own trade, that
of a plasterer. He worked at the trade and also taught
school and in the course of time was able to buy five acres
of land in Williams County. It was situated in the
deep woods in Northwest Township. Then the Civil war
came on and he enlisted in an Ohio regiment, Company I, One
Hundred and Thirty-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
served bravely through two years and ten months of that
great struggle. When he returned to Williams County he
completed clearing his land, on which he previously erected
a cabin, worked at his trade for some years, and gradually
acquired additional land and followed farming during the
rest of his life. He lived a busy, useful and
honorable life and performed every known duty to the best of
his ability. He united early with the republican party
and for many years was active in its ranks in Bridgewater
Township, frequently serving in such public capacities as
school director and township trustee.
In Seneca County, on March 15, 1855, Josiah
Boyer was married to Lydia M. Rainey, who, like
himself, was a member of the United Brethren Church. They
had the following children : Emma J., who is the wife
of William Holloway; Charles E.; Josiah N., who is a
farmer near Quincy, Michigan: William E., who
followed the trade of a barber at Toledo; and John G.,
who is a farmer in Bridgewater Township.
Charles E. Boyer attended the district schools
in boyhood and assisted his father until he was twenty-one
years old. He has always been a resident of Williams
County since coming here with his parents and farming has
been his chosen vocation. He resides on his valuable
farm of forty acres which is situated two and a quarter
miles west of Bridgewater Center, where twenty-five years
ago he began bee culture and at the Columbia Exposition he
received a medal and diploma for fine quality; he also grows
grain, fruit and stock. For many years Mr.
Boyer has been interested in farm organizations founded
on worthy principles. He has been active in the
Ancient Order of Gleaners and also in the Patrons of
Husbandry, and was a charter member and the first master of
Bridgewater Grange. On Dec. 21, 1882, Mr. Boyer
was united in marriage to Miss Ida M. Waterston, a
daughter of Thomas Waterston, and they have two children,
Earl F. and Edwin W. Earl F. Boyer
is a fanner in Bridgewater Township and has has three sons:
Harold, Robert and Lyle. Edwin
W. Boyer married Helen Ayers and they live
on a farm in Bridgewater Township and have one son,
Ronald. The entire family belongs to the United Brethren
Church, in which Mr. Boyer is very active as he also
is in local politics, from early voting days having been
identified with the republican party.
Source: A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio -
Vol. II - Illustrated - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Co.,
Chicago - New York - 1920 - Page 197 |
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AARON C. BROWN.
Aaron C. Brown has passed the psalmist's span of
threescore years and he has been a resident of Williams
County since he was a youth of twenty years. He long
held prestige as one of the vigorous and successful
exponents of farm enterprise in the county, and though he is
now living retired, he still remains on his well improved
homestead farm on the south line of Williams County in
Pulaski Township. He has not only contributed his
share to the industrial progress of Williams County but has
won the prosperity that is the fitting reward for year of
earnest and honest endeavor. He is a younger brother
of Eli Brown, another of the patriarchal citizens of
the county and of the latter personal mention is made
elsewhere in this volume.
Aaron C. Brown was born in Hancock County, this
state, Jan. 7, 1844, and is a son of Henry and Catherine
(Keller) Brown, whose marriage occurred in Hancock
County and who passed the closing years of their lives in
Williams County, the father having been born in Richland
County, Ohio, and the mother, who was born in Europe, having
been young when she came to the United States. Both
were devout members of the Dunkard Church and ordered their
lives in accord with the simple and the noble faith which
they thus professed.
As previously stated, Aaron C. Brown was twenty
years of age when he came to Williams County, and here the
long intervening years have been marked by his successful
association with agricultural industry. He is loyal to
all civic duties and responsibilities and gives his
allegiance to the republican party. The maiden name of
his wife was Celestia Sherky, and they have four
children: Monford L. is a resident of Dallas, Texas;
F. M. resides in the state of Michigan; Bliss
maintains his home in California and Robert S.
resides in Texas.
Source:
A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio - Vol. II -
Illustrated - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - New
York - 1920 - Page 342 |
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ELI BROWN, who is living
retired on his fine farm in Pulaski Township, is one of the
venerable citizens of Williams County, which has been his
home from his farming operations, through the medium of
which he achieved independence and substantial prosperity.
His home place in Williams County comprises twenty acres,
and he also owns an additional eighty acres. He is a
stanch supporter of the cause of the republican party, has
been an upright, loyal and honored citizen of the county for
many years, and is well entitled to recognition in this
history. He is an earnest member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Eli Brown was born Sept. 20, 1837, and was
reared and educated in Hancock County, Ohio, his patents
having later come to Williams County, where they passed the
remainder of their lives. As a young man, Mr. Brown
became the owner of the threshing machine, he laid the
foundation for his later success as one of the substantial
exponents of farm industry in Williams County, where he has
maintained his residence since. As a young man he
married Miss Julia Weller, who was his devoted
companion and helpmate during the long intervening years.
She is now deceased, she having been born in Pennsylvania.
William A., the only child of this union, died at the
age of eighteen months. MR. Brown is a brother
of Aaron C. Brown, of whom individual mention is made
on other pages.
Source: A
Standard History of Williams County, Ohio - Vol. II -
Illustrated - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - New
York - 1920 - Page 373 |
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HARVEY F. BROWN is one of
the efficient and popular officials of Williams County and
his technical skill and discrimination come into effective
play in his activities and service as county surveyor.
He was born in Jefferson County, this state, July 28, 1883,
and is a son of Ledlie H. and Leanora (Foreman)
Brown, both natives of Hancock County, West Virginia,
where the former was born in 1851 and the latter about 1851.
The venerable father now maintains his home in Jefferson
County, Ohio, his loved wife having passed to the life
eternal in August, 1919, and the subject of this review
being the elder of the two surviving children, his brother,
Frederick R., being a resident of Toronto, Ohio.
The father is a republican in his political faith, is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and he
holds membership in the Methodist Protestant Church, as did
also his wife.
In his native county Harvey F. Brown was reared
in the fine little City of Toronto, and after having there
completed the curriculum of the public schools he continued
his studies in Bethany College and graduated, after which he
entered Ohio State University, in which he was graduated as
a member of the class of 1912, and from which he was
graduated as a member of the class of 1912, and from which
he received not only the degree of Bachelor of Arts but also
that of Civil Engineer, the latter degree having been
conferred upon him in 1912. After leaving the
university Mr. Brown brought his technical knowledge
into effective service by entering the employment of the
Government as inspector of locks and dams on the Ohio River.
He served also as village engineer of his home town of
Toronto, Jefferson County, and later became borough engineer
at Charleroi, Pennsylvania. In 1915 he established his
home at Bryan, judicial center of Williams County, Ohio, and
here he served as deputy county surveyor until Nov. 5, 1918,
when he was elected county surveyor, in which office he has
continued to give most able and efficient service, with
reputation as one of the representative civil engineers in
this part of his native state. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party, he is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife
hold membership in the Christian Church.
Sept. 15, 1909, was the day that marked the marriage of
Mr. Brown to Miss Elizabeth E. Carson, who is
a graduate not only of one of the state normal schools of
Pennsylvania but also of Bethany College in West Virginia,
and who had been a successful and popular teacher prior to
her marriage.
Source:
A Standard History of Williams County, Ohio - Vol. II -
Illustrated - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - New
York - 1920 - Page 39 |
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