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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Portrait and Biographical Record
of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio.
containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and
Representative Citizens Together with
Biographies and Portraits of the Presidents of the
United States.
Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros.
1892
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DAVID HALL.
A prominent farmer of Bloomfield Township, Logan County,
Ohio, Mr. Hall is an intelligent, cultured
gentleman, with marked executive ability. He was
appointed by his State as one of the members of the
World's Fair Commission, and in this capacity has worked
both for the interests of his locality and the honor
anticipated in representing the nation at large.
Mr. Hall is a native of this State, having been
born in Stokes Township, Aug. 1, 1844.
Our subject is a son of Samuel Hall, a native of
Pennsylvania, who was born in 1810. He was of
German descent and was brought to Fairfield County,
Ohio, by his parents at a very early day, when he was
but an infant. The family was in very straightened
circumstances at that time, but Samuel Hall
contrived to buy forty acres of land, paying for it the
sum of $50, and the family settled thereon, their home
being a log cabin in the midst of the woods. To
such purpose did he work and so well did he manage, that
at one time he owned as much as one thousand acres of
land. In 1863, he moved, with his family, to Rush
Creek Township and there purchased a farm, upon which he
died in 1883, at the age of seventy-three years.
He was an active member of the German Reformed Church,
and in his political calling a stanch Democrat. He
served as Township Treasurer for twenty years and was
Trustee for a long time. Our subject's mother was,
in her maiden days, a Miss Magdalena
Dresbach, a native of Pennsylvania, who had come to
Ohio with her parents and settled in Fairfield County.
Our subject is one of eleven children that his parents
reared. They are named as follows: Irvin,
John, William H., Jacob H.,
Louisa J., Samuel J., David,
Magdalena, Sallie, William M. and
Lewis N. Our subject's mother, who was born in
1811, died in March, 1892. She, like her husband,
was a member of the German Reformed Church.
David Hall was reared to manhood in
Stokes Township. He worked on his father's farm
until twenty years of age, and received his education in
the pioneer schools of the day—a log schoolhouse with a
large open fireplace and puncheon benches held up by pin
legs. On completing his twentieth year, he began
teaching, and was thus employed for two years in Stokes
and Bloomfield Townships. Dec. 28, 1865, he was
united in marriage to Mary Greenawalt, a
native of Fairfield County. Two children have been
born of this marriage that are living. They are
Emma J. and Jennie L. One child,
Alberta, is deceased.
After marriage, the young couple purchased the farm
which they now occupy, and began the work of improving
it. It contains one hundred and sixty acres of
land, of which fifty acres were improved; now there are
one hundred and ten acres cleared and which bear the
best of improvements. Mr. Hall devotes
himself to mixed farming, paying special attention to
the growing of grain and the raising of stock. He
is now the owner of two hundred and forty acres, most of
which are improved. The neat and comfortable frame
residence which the family occupies was built in 1868,
and the capacious barn was erected in 1875.
Both our subject and his wife are members of the
Reformed Church, at Bloom Center. Mr. Hall
votes the Democratic ticket, and from boyhood has taken
an active interest in political matters. He has
served as Township Trustee, Assessor and Treasurer a
number of times. In some other elections in which
Mr. Hall ran, although his county is Republican
by a large majority, he received a most flattering vote
as an evidence of the influence which he has had in
political matters in his locality. It may also be
stated that, although the township was Republican when
our subject moved into it, it is now Democratic, the
change being entirely due to Mr. Hall's work.
The honor of World's Fair Commissioner from Ohio was
conferred upon our subject by Gov. Campbell in
March of 1891, and he is felt to be so telling a worker
that he has been made Chairman of the Committee on
Agriculture, which position he now fills. He is
also on the Committees on Live Stock, Forestry,
Agriculture and Engineering. His was the honor of
selecting trees that represent the forestry department
of the Ohio exhibit, and in making the selection he took
those from Stokes and Bloomfield Townships. Mr.
Hall has been for years more or less engaged in
the building of turnpikes, aggregating eight miles of
perfectly improved country way, and having as many as
seventy-five teams in his employ at one time, with a
pay-roll of from $300 to $400 per day.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 558 |
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WILLIAM W. HAMER,
M. D., a wide-awake and
progressive physician of Bellefontaine, was born in
Logan County, Mar. 9, 1851, and has been well
fitted for his life work. In the State of his
nativity he began his school life, and his early
training was supplemented by a regular collegiate
course. When it came time to make a choice of some
business which he would wish to make his life work, he
determined to engage in the practice of medicine, and
with this end in view, entered the medical department of
the Butler University at Indianapolis, Ind., from which
institution he was graduated in 1881, after having
pursued a thorough course.
The parents of our subject were John and Charlotte
(Spellman) Hamer, natives, respectively, of
Pennsylvania and Ohio. The family is of German
extraction, and the parents came to Ohio in an early
day. Three brothers emigrated from Pennsylvania to
this State in 1828, and were among the prominent
professional men of this section. The father of
our subject was a farmer by vocation, and died while
residing in Logan County.
Dr. Hamer of this sketch was the only son born
to his parents, and supplemented the knowledge gained in
the public schools by an attendance of one year at
Delaware, Ohio. After completing his studies, he
engaged in the drug business at Urbana and De Graff for
some time, and later on, removing to Fowler, Ind., also
purchased a stock of drubs, in the retailing of which he
was employed for three years. In the meantime,
having read medicine, he entered the Butler University
at Indianapolis, and was graduated therefrom in 1881.
After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine, our
subject practiced for two years at Quincy, this State,
and eight years at De Graff. In April of 1891, he
took up his abode in Bellefontaine, where he has built
up an extensive practice. He started out in life
on his own account, without a dollar in money, and
worked his own way through college. He is to-day
in comfortable circumstances, has an office fully
equipped with all the appliances necessary for the
practice of medicine, and also has a nice residence in
the city.
In 1875, Dr. Hamer and Miss Anna E. Henderson
were united in marriage. He takes an active part
in medical societies, being identified with the American
Medical Society. He also holds a certificate from
the Chicago Polyclinic School, which he attended for one
term. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and
the Knights of Pythias, and is a man of broad knowledge
and exceptional abilities, and among the many able
practitioners of this city occupies a very prominent
position.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 415 |
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GEORGE W. HAMILTON.
For more than seventeen years this gentleman has been
aiding in the spread of the Gospel, devoting himself
with assiduity and loving zeal to the work of the
ministry. The center of his present field of labor
is the United Presbyterian Church in the city of
Bellefontaine, where he has held pastorate for four
years. He is a man of broad intelligence, decided
literary ability, and the dignified, yet winning manners
so thoroughly in keeping with his profession.
Our subject was born in New Wilmington, Pa., Mar. 1,
1848, and is the son of George and Rebecca (Strain)
Hamilton, both natives of the Keystone State and of
Scotch-Irish descent. The grandfather, James
Hamilton, came to America in 1792, and located in
Beaver County, Pa., where he carried on his occupation
of a farmer. He had two sons who participated in
the War of 1812.
George Hamilton, Sr., was also a farmer and took
considerable interest in local affairs, being the
incumbent of many county offices. He emigrated to
Iowa in middle life, where his decease occurred.
He was the father of a family including seven sons and
three daughters, of whom our subject was the sixth in
order of birth. The latter completed his education
in the Monmouth, (Ill.) College, from which institution
he was graduated in 1872. Having decided to follow
the ministry, he pursued his theological studies at
Xenia, this State, and also took a course at the
Northwestern Theological Seminary at Chicago, under the
instruction of Dr. F. L. Patton, D. D.
Mr. Hamilton, of this sketch, was licensed to
preach in June, 1875, and was ordained and given a
charge at Elvira, Iowa, in March, 1877. Three
years later he became pastor of a church at Little
York, Ill., and in 1886 was engaged in organizing
missions in the Northwest, after which he acted as
representative and financial agent of the Monmouth
College for about eighteen months. Mr. Hamilton
next assumed the pastorate of the United Presbyterian
Church of this place, taking up his residence here in
December, 1888, just after the completion of the new and
elegant church edifice. The growth of the
congregation during his residence here has been
gratifying, and the good which the Rev. Mr. Hamilton
has accomplished in the uplifting of humanity can only
be measured when time shall be no more. The church
is one of the oldest organizations in the city, it
having been established with the settlement of the
country.
Mr. Hamilton of this sketch and Miss Anna C.
Young were united in marriage in 1878. His
wife dying, our subject in 1890 chose for his second
companion Mrs. Ella (Howenstine) Miller. Mrs.
Hamilton is the mother of three children by her
first marriage, and by her second marriage one child,
Helen. Our subject is a member of the College
Board of his Alma Mater, and is one of the
representative ministers of his denomination.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 413 |
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JOHN HARROD
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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WILLIAM T. HAVILAND
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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GEORGE A HENRY
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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JACOB HESS
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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JAMES S. HOOVER
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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WILLIAM McK. HOUSMAN
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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A. R. HOWBERT
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Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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THOMAS HUBBARD
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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JAMES HUBBELL
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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SAMPSON R. HUBBELL
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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ALLEN HUBER
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 404
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JOHN HUBER, SR.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 377
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