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Centennial Biographical History
of Richland Co., Ohio
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By A. J. Baughman, Editor
Published Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Co.
1901
 
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  DAVID D SAMSEL.   David D. Samsel, a native of Ashland county, Ohio, was born on the 12th of June, 1845, one of the five children of Peter and Elizabeth (Dick) Samsel.  His father was a native of Bavaria, Germany, born in 1809, and in the land of his birth he was reared to manhood and learned the weaver's trade, following that pursuit in Germany until 1836, when, with his wife and two children he crossed the broad Atlantic to the new world, taking up his abode in Olivesburg, Richland county.  There he resided for some time, working at the looms, and afterward removed to a farm a half-mile east of the village, in Ashland county, where he had purchased twenty acres of land.  He continued weaving until the middle of the century and has since followed agriculture.  He moved to a farm of sixty acres west of Olivesburg, in Weller township, Richland county, and on disposing of that property became the owner of the quarter section of land upon which our subject now resides and where he lived until the time of his death, in 1883.  He was a member of the Reformed church, a Democrat in politics and was one of the well known and influential men of the county.  He married Miss Elizabeth Dick, and three of their children survive: Catherine. the wife of Reuben Zigler, of Willia1ns county, Ohio; Jacob, a farmer of Butler town ship; and David D., of this review.
     In taking up the personal history of David D. Samsel we present to our readers the life record of one who has a wide acquaintance in Richland county and whose many excellencies of character have gained him high regard.  As a schoolboy he learned the lessons taught in the common schools of the neighborhood and under his father's direction was trained to the work of the home farm.  After his marriage he began working the old homestead, which he supervised until his father's death, he then purchased the farm, comprising one hundred and fifteen acres, forty-five acres of the place having previously been given to his sister.
     In 1867 occurred the marriage of Mr. Samsel and Miss Margaret Huston, a native of Richland county, Ohio, and a daughter of Jesse Huston.  Five children graced their marriage, of whom four are yet living: Walter, who is now the proprietor of a meat market in Mansfield, Ohio; Etta. the wife of Henry Wolf, who is cultivating her father's farm: Mary, the wife of William Hirsch, a druggist of Mansfield; and Arthur, who is now a student in the State Normal, at Ada, Ohio.
     In his political faith Mr. Samsel is a Democrat.  He belongs to the Reformed church and is a progressive and public-spirited citizen, deeply interested in everything pertaining to the welfare of the community and with holding his support from no measure for the public good.  He is a broad minded man, and his sterling qualities are those which in every land and in every clime command respect.
 Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 631

Haven L. Sanborn		  
  AARON SCHAUCK.    The subject of this review, who is now deceased,  was for many years one of the leading farmers and highly respected citizens of Troy township, Richland county, Ohio.  He was born in Maryland on the 5th of February, 1812. but at an early day came to this county with his father, Henry Schauck. and remained with him on the home farm in Troy township until the latter's death, when he took charge of the place.
     On the 1st of March, 1855, Mr. Schauck was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth A. Eckert, a daughter of Daniel Eckert, and they became the parents of one child, Almira C. who was born July 2, 1856, and died Feb. 19, 1864.  After his marriage Mr. Schauck continued to live on the old homestead for six years. and then removed to the farm on which his widow now resides.  When be located thereon the land was covered with a heavy growth of timber, which he cleared away, soon placing acre after acre under the plow until he had one of the most highly cultivated farms in Troy township.  It consisted of eighty-nine acres of arable land, upon which he successfully engaged in general farming throughout the remainder of his life, dying there Oct. 30, 1883.
     Mr. Schauck contributed to the support of churches, and his influence was always found upon the side of right and order.  Politically he was a strong Republican and an ardent advocate of its principles.  He was a man of strong character and firm determination, and his upright, honorable course in life commended him to the esteem and respect of all with whom he came in contact.  His widow, who still resides upon the home farm, is a member of the United Evangelical church and is a most estimable lady, whose circle of friends and acquaintances is extensive.
 Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 351
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  WILLIAM SCOTT.   Among the farmers of Richland county who are now enjoying honorable retirement from labor is William Scott, who is living on his valuable farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Sandusky township, near Crestline.  He has advanced far on life's journey, having lived through each presidential administration from the time when James Madison occupied the executive chair at Washington.
     He was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, now Snyder county, Sept. 25, 1815.  His father, Thomas Scott, was a native of Scotland, born in 1775.  During his childhood he left the land of his nativity and became a resident of Pennsylvania, where he married one of the native daughters of the Keystone state.  He died in 1830, leaving to the care of his widow eight children.  All reached mature years and were married, and the eldest daughter died in Pennsylvania.  The widowed mother came to Ohio with her other children, save those who had preceded her to this state.  At the age of nineteen, in the year 1834, William Scott and his sister Elizabeth, with her husband, Mr. Keeler, sought a home in Richland county, locating south of Galion.  Eighteen months later the other members of the family also came to Ohio and resided here during the early period of the development of this section of the state.
     When twenty-one years of age our subject returned to Pennsylvania to bring a drove of five hundred and thirty-five cattle to Ohio.  For two years he was employed by Daniel Riblet, of Pennsylvania, who had formerly been his school-teacher, and in 1832 came to Richland county, where for twenty years he served as a justice of the peace.  After remaining in the service of Mr. Riblet for two years Mr. Scott wedded his daughter, Mary Ann.  They became the parents of twelve children, of whom seven are living.  The mother passed away about 1858, at the age of forty-one, and Mr. Scott was again married, in 1863, at which time Mrs. Eliza (Beckwith) Fried became his wife.  Of that marriage three of the children are still living.  Mrs. Scott died about 1871, at the age of fifty-four years, and for his third wife our subject chose Mrs. Charley (Sprow) Chambers. a widow, who was born in Germany and on coming to America located in Pennsylvania, whence she made her way to Ohio.  By a former marriage she had one son and one daughter, who still survive.  Mr. Scott's children are all now gone from home and are married with the exception of the youngest son, Simon, who is a bachelor farmer of Henry county, Ohio.  There are many grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.
     With the exception of John Castle, Mr. Scott is the oldest pioneer if his township.  His has been an honorable life, in which his fidelity to duty has commanded uniform confidence.  He has paid his debts promptly and has never been sued nor has he sued any one.  He received from his father's estate about one hundred and thirty dollars, and with this exception all of his possessions have been self-acquired.  He lost one thousand dollars through an act of kindness to a supposed friend.  He labored earnestly, following general farming, and has cleared two valuable tracts of land and is now clearing the third farm, upon which he settled about 1850.  He erected his residence in 1860 and his barn in 1862.  He raises wheat, corn, oats, barley and clover, and keeps on hand some excellent Durham cattle and fine horses, being engaged in the breeding and sale of these.
     His educational privileges were limited, but he possessed sound business judgment, and through experience in practical affairs of life he has become a well informed man.  His career exemplifies the power of integrity and industry in business, and his life should serve as a source of encouragement and inspiration to others who are forced to depend upon their own resources for prosperity.  In an honorable old age he is enjoying the friendship of many and is held in high regard by young and old, rich and poor.  As one of the pioneers of this portion of the state we are glad to present to our readers the record of his life, for the history of Richland county would be incomplete without it.
 Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 627

W. E. Sefton		  
  JOSEPH W. SHARP.   Joseph Walton Sharp, who has won a position of distinction in educational circles, is now conducting the Ohio Business College at Mansfield.  Realizing fully not only the need of education but also of systematic and thorough preparation for life's duties, he has made it his aim to fully prepare those who leave his school for the work which they will undertake in the larger school of experience.  Professor Sharp is a native of York county, Pennsylvania. his birth having occurred there in 1838.
     His great-grandfather, James Sharp, was born in Ireland, of English parentage, and he and his brother came to America prior to 1753, locating in York county, Pennsylvania, upon a farm in Fawn township.  He was married in that state, and on the old homestead his son John was born in 1753.  The latter spent his last days at Frederickstown, in Knox county, Ohio, where he died in 1840, having come to Ohio about 1839.  He was a surveyor and astronomer and made the calculations for the Philadelphia and Baltimore almanacs as early as 1797.  The religious faith of the family was that of the Society of Friends.  John Sharp married Mrs. Elizabeth Walton, nee Kinnard, and on the old family homestead their son John, the father of our subject, was born in 1801.  He married Hannah Benson, of Harford, Maryland, a daughter of Levi Benson, and they remained on the old home place in Pennsylvania until 1840, when they removed to Marion county, Ohio, where they lived upon a farm.  That section of the county afterward became a part of Morrow county.  John Sharp had a brother Thomas, who for many years was county surveyor of Morrow county.  The father of our subject died at Cardington, Ohio, in 1865, and his wife passed away in 1854.  They were the parents of five children: Elizabeth, who became the wife of Isaac C. Hall, of Guernsey county, this state, and died in 1858; Levi, a retired farmer, now living in Marshalltown, Iowa; Joseph W.; Oliver, a retired merchant of Ashley, Ohio; and Mary E., the wife of James R. Jeffreys, a farmer of Eureka, Michigan.
     Professor J. W. Sharp, whose name introduces this review, also claims the old family homestead in Pennsylvania as the place of his birth, but when he was two years of age his parents removed to Ohio and he was reared upon the farm in this state.  He attended the common schools and in 1864 entered Oberlin College, and some twenty years later took a course in the Chicago University, in which he won the degrees of Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy.  In 1866 he established a business college in Delaware, Ohio, in partnership with R. R. Hinds, a connection which continued for three years, when Mr. Sharp purchased Mr. Hind's interest and conducted the school, with excellent success, for twenty years, during which time he instructed and graduated two thousand, four hundred and seventy-nine students, who are now widely scattered over the Union, many of them occupying leading positions in the business world.  In 1884 the Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware established a commercial department, and Professor Sharp then removed to Mansfield, where he opened the Ohio Business College, now an incorporated institution of learning, which he has since successfully conducted.  Here he has instructed and graduated over fourteen hundred students in all departments of commercial training.  His school has made steady advancement along progressive lines, for Professor Sharp realizes fully the need of business training as a preparation for business life, and that the young men and women of the day should be well trained so that they may be competent to fill any position in their special department of labor.  It has ever been the purpose of the Ohio Business College to impress upon the minds of the students the fact that success depends upon thoroughness of preparation; and hence those who go out from that school are well qualified.  The institution has a reputation second to no school of the kind in this part of the country and Professor Sharp has done an important work for those who have come under his care.  He is the chairman of the auditing committee of the Richland Savings Bank of Mansfield, and in that capacity twice each year he examines and reports upon all assets, liabilities and condition of the bank.  He also does much work as an expert accountant for local concerns.  In 1872 he won the first prize for penmanship at the Ohio State Fair, held in Mansfield.
     As a temperance worker Professor Sharp is widely known, and for three years, from 1873 until 1876, he was on the editorial staff of the Delaware Signal, the state Prohibition organ.  He has twice been a candidate for lieutenant-governor of Ohio on the Prohibition ticket, and between 1870 and 1896 he was very active in the ranks of the party, attending-all of its national conventions, with two exceptions, and also twenty-six state conventions.  He was the chairman of the state executive committee for about ten years, and his labors were most effective in promoting the cause of the party, increasing its support to thirty thousand votes in the state.  He was known as a vigorous writer and his editorials were copied largely in other temperance papers.  He is a personal friend of St. John, Neal Dow, James Black, John Russell and other leading Prohibitionists.
     In 1862 Professor Sharp married Miss Elizabeth A. Kelly, a daughter of Samuel and Lodemia (Pearson) Kelly, of Morrow county, Ohio.  She died in 1898, at the age of fifty-six years, and her loss was deeply mourned by her large circle of friends, for her many excellencies of character endeared her to all who made her acquaintance.  The children of Professor and Mrs. Sharp were: Hervey Elmer, who died at the age of sixteen months; W. Way; and Louella May. the latter dying in 1873, at the age of six and a half years.  W. Way Sharp married Miss Anna Ballard, of Magnetic Springs, Union county, Ohio, and they have three children: Hazel, Eugene Walton and Forest Holt, who are attending school.  Since the death of Mrs. Sharp the son and his family reside with the subject of this review. 
     Professor Sharp is a member of the Methodist church, is serving on the board of stewards and for many years was the treasurer of the church.  Socially he is connected with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has filled all of the chairs in the lodge and encampment of the latter fraternity.  In 1899 Professor Sharp made a trip to the Pacific ocean, traveling nearly seven thousand miles.  He visited the many points of interest in the western section of the country and along the coast, including Omaha, Denver, Manitou, Pike's Peak, Pueblo, Salt Lake City and the leading places of interest in California,—Santa Catalina island and the Yosemite valley.  He is a man of high scholarly attainment, of marked individuality and strong character, with broad humanitarian principles.  His life, ever honorable and upright, has commanded the respect and confidence of students, friends and business associates, and his influence for good is innneasurable.
 Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 427

John Sherman		  

W. W. Skiles		  
  AARON SMITH.   Among the pleasantest rural homes of Monroe township is that of Aaron Smith on section 5.  In all its appointments his well-improved and highly cultivated farm indicates the progressive spirit, enterprise and good business ability of the owner, who is justly numbered among the most skillful and thorough agriculturists of his native township.
     Mr. Smith was born on the farm where he now resides, May 23, 1836, a son of Jacob and Margaret (Barkheimer) Smith, natives of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, the former born in 1803, the latter in 1805.  The paternal grandfather, Henry Smith, was one of the prominent farmers of that county, where he spent his entire life, his father, a native of Germany, having located there at an early day.  In the county of his nativity Jacob Smith was reared and married, and about 1830 came to Ohio in company with Samuel and David Barr, who had first choice of the three quarter-sections of land bought by them, leaving to Mr. Smith the farm now owned by our subject.  Later it proved to be the one he would have selected, as it had plenty of water and other advantages.  To the improvement and cultivation of his place he devoted his energies until called from this life, and in his labors met with most excellent success.  Besides his property here he owned two quarter-sections of land in De Kalb county, Indiana, where some of his sons settled after attaining their majority.  Religiously he was a member of the Dunkard church, and died in that faith July 6, 1863, while his wife died Aug. 27, 1877.  In their family were nine children, those living being Fannie, the widow of Jonathan Smith, of Ashland county; Henry, a farmer of De Kalb county, Indiana; Mary, the wife of Jackson Balliet, a farmer of the same county; Levi, a resident of Madison township, this county; Aaron, our subject; John and Frederick, both farmers of De Kalb county, Indiana; and Susannah, the wife of Hiram McCreary, a gardener of Hudson, Michigan.
     Aaron Smith is indebted to the common schools of Richland county for his educational advantages.  He remained at home, aiding in the work of the farm until twenty-one years of age, when he apprenticed himself to the carpenter's trade, which he followed until 1874, when he purchased the old homestead and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits.  In 1884 he built his present substantial brick residence, and has made many other valuable and useful improvements upon the place, converting it into one of the model farms of the community.  He purchased the Willis Hunt farm of one hundred acres in Mifflin township, in 1899, and now owns both places.
     In 1864 Mr. Smith was united in marriage with Miss Lavinie Ohl, a native of Ashland county, Ohio, and a daughter of Stephen Ohl, who came to this state from Pennsylvania with his parents when a boy, and was one of the prominent farmers of Ashland county.  The five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith are Ursula, the wife of A. W. Darling, a farmer of Monroe township, this county; Givannah, a farmer of the same township; Dora, the wife of Van Peterson, a farmer of Ashland county; Stephen, who is conducting his father's farm in Mifflin township, this county; and Grover C., at home.
     Mr. Smith gives his allegiance to the men and measures of the Democratic party, and is connected with Madison Grange, P. of H.  Socially he is widely and favorable known and has a host of warm friends in the community where almost his entire life has been passed.
 Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 473
  DANIEL SMITH.   Daniel Smith owes his success in life to his own efforts: he had no inherited fortune nor influential friends to aid him, and all that he has acquired has come to him in return for his labor.  He now follows farming in Worthington township.  A native of Stark county, Ohio, he was born in September, 1834.  His father, Henry Smith, was probably a native of Pennsylvania, but was reared in Stark county, and about 1840 came to Richland county, where he purchased a farm of forty-one acres, located in Hanover township.  He afterward exchanged that property for eighty acres in Indiana, and upon the latter spent his remaining days, his death occurring when he had attained the age of eighty-three years.  His political belief was in harmony with Democratic principles.  His wife bore the maiden name of Susan Smith, and she, too, was a native of Stark county, where she was reared and married.  Her death occurred at the home of her son Daniel, when she was eighty-eight years of age.  She was a consistent Christian woman, holding membership in the Lutheran church and by her marriage she became the mother of eleven children, Daniel being the fourth in order of birth.
     He was only a small boy when his parents came to Richland county.  He assisted in the work of the home farm and remained with his parents until nineteen years of age, when his father gave him his time and he began to earn an independent livelihood.  He engaged in clearing land and in chopping wood for several years, after which he and his brother conducted a rented farm for several years.  In 1873 he bought his present home of eighty acres, contracting an indebtedness of three thousand dollars, and as the result of his industry he was enabled to meet the payments and now owns a good property.
     On the 12th of September, 1860, Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Charlotta, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Rutesville) Harter.  She was born in Worthington township June 10, 1836, but her parents were natives of Pennsylvania and became pioneer settlers of Richland county, entering land from the government.  Her mother died in early womanhood, but her father reached the ripe old age of seventy-seven years.  He was a stanch Democrat and he and his wife were members of the Lutheran church.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith have become the parents of three children: Sarah Alice, the wife of Louis Snyder, a farmer of Worthington, township; Jacob A., who died at the age of six years; and Anna A., the wife of William McCready, who is engaged in the implement business in Butler.  Mr. Smith exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democratic party, but his attention has been given exclusively to his business affairs, and he has gained the success which he well deserves.
 Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 597

H. R. Smith		 HIRAM R. SMITH.   Honored and respected by all, there is no man in Mansfield who occupies a more enviable position in financial circles than Hiram R. Smith, not alone on account of the brilliant success he has achieved ‘but also on account of the honorable, straightforward business policy he has ever followed. Though he is now practically living a retired life, as a capitalist, he is connected with a number of different enterprises which have been of material benefit to his town and county.
     Mr. Smith was born in Huron, Ohio, Jan. 7, 1813, and is the only survivor of a family of seven children, whose parents were Asa and Hannah (Richmond) Smith, the former a native of Long Island, New York, the latter of Rhode Island.  They were married in New York and made their home in Waterloo, that state, until their removal to Huron, Ohio, before steam navigation was used upon the lakes.  The father died when our subject was only two years old, after which the mother sold the farm and moved to Sandusky City, where her death occurred.  There the remains of all the family have been interred, the father's body being removed from Huron.  Hiram R. was the youngest of the children.  William B., who died in Sandusky at about the age of eighty-three years, built the first frame dwelling, also the first brick house in that city; the latter is still standing.  He also engaged in merchandising.  Sallie married Silas Dewey, a distant relative of the Admiral, and both died in Clyde, Ohio, near Toledo.  Nancy married Amos Fenn, a native of Massachusetts, as was also Silas Dewey, and a prominent early settler, manufacturer and farmer of Clyde, where he served as a justice of the peace for thirty years and where both he and his wife died.  Clarissa became the wife of Hugh McFall, one of the first merchants of Mansfield, where both died and where two of their sons recently died.  Frederick spent his life in Sandusky.  Susan married James P. Bowman and lived in Mansfield many years.  She died here, but her husband's death occurred at Bucyrus, Ohio.
     At the age of eleven years Hiram R. Smith came to Mansfield, which city has been his home for seventy-seven years.  In this he enjoys the distinction of having lived longer than any other of its citizens with one exception, and he has witnessed its growth from a country hamlet to a prosperous city of nearly nineteen thousand inhabitants.  He attended the pioneer schools of Mansfield, his principal instructor being Alexander Barr, a prominent educator of his day.  He finished his education under the tutorship of Judge  Stewart, the father of Mrs. John Sherman.
     Mr. Smith began life on his own account as a clerk in the mercantile establishment of his brother-in-law, Mr. McFall, and in 1839 he embarked in the same line of business for himself, carrying on merchandising very successfully until 1870.  In early days he shipped his goods from Philadelphia by teams and he has crossed the Alleghany mountains in a canal boat.  After his retirement from mercantile business he erected the Smith block on Main street, which is one of the most valuable properties in the city, as well as one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture.  In dimensions it is seventy by one hundred and eighty feet and four stories in height.  The entire ground floor is occupied by one mammoth mercantile establishment,— that of R. B. Maxwell & Company; the second story is used for offices, and the third is a public hall.  Mr. Smith purchased the lot in 1840 and for a period of sixty years it has produced regular annual rentals.  He was one of the first directors of the Richland Mutual Insurance Company, of which he is now the president, and he is the oldest director of the Farmers' National Bank and the vice president of the same. He is also a director of the Mansfield Cemetery Association.
     Mr. Smith has been twice married, first in 1839 to Miss Ann C. Leiter, a native of Leitersburg, Maryland, and to them were born four children, but all are now deceased, with the exception of Richmond, who is the secretary and manager of the Richland Mutual Insurance Company.  The wife and mother died in 1850, and four years later Mr. Smith married Miss Ann Ward, a native of Richland county and a daughter of Joseph and Mary Ward, early settlers of the county.  By this union two children were born: Ward*, who died in August, 1899, at the age of forty-three years, leaving a wife and two daughters; and Rena, the wife of E. B. Caldwell, a druggist of Mansfield, by whom she has two sons.
     Mr. Smith has been a lifelong Democrat, but he has never sought public office, though he has been called upon to serve his city in various official positions.  Among other things he has done much for Mansfield, having been instrumental in securing the reformatory here.  He and his family are all members of the Congregational church.  Having never inherited a dollar, his success in life is due to his own unaided efforts.  As a business man he is energetic, prompt and notably reliable, and carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.  His career proves that the only true success in life is that which is accomplished by personal effort and continued industry.
 Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 600
* For Ward Smith, see  Memorial No. 112790338 at www.findagrave.com
  JOSEPH E. SMITH.   Joseph Edward Smith, the foreman of the paint department of the Aultman-Taylor Machinery Company, of Mansfield, Ohio, is a man well known in this city, where he has lived for many years and where his thorough-going, honest, upright life has won for him the respect of all who know him.  A brief record of his life is herewith given.
     Joseph E. Smith was born in Canton, Ohio, in 1846, a son of Anthony Smith, who was a native of Alsace, Germany.  In 1868 our subject moved from Canton to Bucyrus, and in 1869 he became connected with the Aultman-Taylor Machinery Company, of Mansfield.  Since 1871, for a period of thirty years, he has occupied his present position of foreman.  From time to time the factory has increased its capacity and labor, in 1868 employing two hundred hands and in 1900 eight hundred hands.  With this large increase in business Mr. Smith's duties and responsibilities have increased.  At this writing he has under his immediate charge thirty men.  During the long time Mr. Smith has been identified with this concern he has been almost as steady and regular as clock work.  Only one week in thirty years has he been absent from business on account of sickness.
     Mr. Smith has lived in the same house, No. 396 Spring Mill street, since 1874.  That year he was married to Miss Minnie R. Alonas, of Mansfield, who was born in his own native town, Canton.  They have four children, namely: Rose P., Lester, Anna Blanche and Eva Maria.—all at home.  The son is a graduate of the Mansfield high school, with the class of 1899; and the youngest daughter is still in school.
     In his views on religion Mr. Smith is broad and liberal. Politically he is what is known as a Union Reformer, and is one of the leaders of this party in Mansfield, having carried the party banner in several campaigns.
     An active, intelligent citizen, interested in public affairs, always striving to do what he believes to be right.  Joseph E. Smith is valued for his true worth and is held in high esteem by his fellow citizens.
 Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 347
  PETER SMITH, one of the prominent farmers of Sharon township, whose farm is a part of section 36, and whose postoffice is Crestline, was born in a log cabin standing on the identical spot where he now lives, December 25, 1842.  He is a son of Martin Smith, who was born in December, 1807, near Heidelberg, Germany, and who was a son of Jacob Smith, of the same place.  Jacob Smith was a man of wealth and when he entered the service of Napoleon furnished his own outfit was a member of a regiment of cavalry.  His family consisted of his wife and three sons, viz.:  Martin, the father of the subject of this sketch, and Jacob and Philip.  The later are still in Germany, if living.  The father of these three sons died at the age of eighty-four, surviving his wife, who was a daughter of minister of the gospel.
     Martin Smith was liberally educated in Germany, was reared to an agricultural life and was married in his native country to Catherine Weidner in 1836.  In 1838 they emigrated to the United States, landing in New York city in what was then considered a remarkably short or quick voyage, of thirty-six days.  At the time of coming across the sea he had considerable capital and made his first purchase of land in the fall of 1838 consisting of eighty acres of land, now a part of the farm of Peter Smith, the subject of this sketch.  Upon this first purchase he spent the remainder of his days, engaged in farming and enjoying the respect and confidence of his neighbors and friends.  His family consisted of seven children - four sons and three daughters - as follows:  A daughter that died in Germany; Martin now living at Vernon Junction, a merchant in business and the postmaster of the place; Phillip, living in New York city, carrying on the business of a commission merchant; a daughter that died in infancy; Julius, who died in Richland county, Ohio, at the age of fifty-two years; Peter, the subject of this sketch; and a daughter that died in infancy.  The father of these children died in September, 1871, and the mother in the autumn of 1878, at the age of sixty-three years.
     Peter Smith was educated in the common schools, receiving as thorough a course of instruction as they could then supply, being given his time at the age of eighteen, as were the other sons of the family.  For three years thereafter he managed the home farm on shares, and then for some time worked for Abraham Farrington in the egg-packing business.  In 1868 he went to Chicago, where he was employed by his two brothers in the commission business for four years.  For the four subsequent years he was located in Vernon county, Iowa, engaged in the business of packing eggs.  Next he returned to the old farm, in 1877, where, on December 30, 1878, he was married to Margaret Krishbaum, who was born March 16, 1864, in Sandusky City, Ohio.  She is a daughter of Jacob and Kate (Mathias) Krishbaum, the latter of whom died at the age of seventy-five, leaving five children, and the former of whom is now seventy-five years of age, a widower and following farming for a livelihood.
     Peter Smith and his wife lived on their present farm ever since their marriage, eighty acres of which he purchased in 1892, which added to the original eighty acres purchased by his father brings the total acreage up to one hundred and sixty acres.  For the eighty acres Mr. Smith paid three thousand, four hundred and seventy-five dollars.  The brick house in which he now lives was erected by his father in 1858.  Mr. Smith carries on a general farming business, raising mainly wheat and corn, - from seen to eight hundred bushels of wheat and about one thousand bushels of corn each year, besides keeping about twenty head of cattle and five or six horses.  He is one of the most industrious men of his part of the state, and one of the most practical and successful farmers.  Politically he is a Democrat, and has served on the school board for twelve consecutive  years.  He is a member of the local Grange, of which he has served as a director.  All the above items, taken together, are an indication of the confidence placed in him by his fellow citizens.
     Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children, viz: Katie, wife of William Klaun and the mother of a fine baby boy named Jacob Klaun; Amy Amanda, a young woman at home, sixteen years of age, well educated and with great practical common sense.  She is one of the industrious young woman of the neighborhood, devoid of false pride, willing to work wherever there is work for her to do, in the house or in the field, and has a fine musical education and tastes.  The other child is named Phillip Leroy, a fine, manly little fellow of eleven years.  The family of Mr. and Mrs. Smith have always stood high in the estimation of their neighbors and friends, and are most excellent people.
 Source #4: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 668
  DANIEL SPAYDE is a retired farmer of Butler and a representative of one of the pioneer families of Richland county.  He was born in Jefferson township, this county, near Bellville, Sept. 11, 1836, and is of German lineage, his great-grandparents having been the founders of the family in America.  His grandfather, John Spayde, was born in the Keystone state and in early life followed coopering, but later he engaged in farming and also devoted a part of his time to the manufacture of potash in Richland county at an early day.  He was a member of the Lutheran church and died on the old homestead farm in this county, when about seventy years of age.  His son, William Spayde, the father of our subject, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and when a lad of fourteen years came to Richland county, where he spent his remaining days.  In early life he learned the cooper's trade and for about fourteen years conducted a shop in Bellville.  Politically he was a Republican and religiously was connected with the Evangelical church.  His death occurred in Bellville, when he had attained the age of seventy-seven.  His wife was in her maidenhood Catherine Huston, a daughter of William Huston, who was a native of the Emerald isle and came to the United States when a young man.  He was married in Pennsylvania and afterward removed to Richland county, Ohio, carrying on agricultural pursuits near Bellville, where he died at about the age of eighty-six years.  He, too, belonged the Evangelical church.  His daughter, Mrs. Spayde, was born in Pennsylvania, and during her girlhood came to Ohio.  She was a member of the Evangelical church and died in that faith in Bellville, at the age of sixty-three years.  In the family were eight children, six of whom are still living.
     Daniel Spayde, whose name introduces this record, was reared on the home farm and assisted in the work of the cooper's shop until twenty years of age, when he was married and entered upon an independent business career by renting a farm in Worthington township.  He operated that land until 1859, when he purchased his present farm and for many years he continued to cultivate his fields in connection with the stock-raising business; but since 880 he has lived retired.  He was at one time the owner of two hundred acres of valuable land, but a portion of this he has since divided among his children.
     Mr. Spayde was married Sept. 11, 1856, the lady of his choice being Miss Nancy J. Secrist, a daughter of Michael Secrist and a sister of Mrs. B. F. Oberlin.  The now have five children: Clayton, a farmer of Worthington township; Albina, the wife of Albert Mishey, a farmer and insurance agent; Alberta, the wife of Charles McGinley; Samuel C., a farmer of Worthington township; and Ethel M., at home.
     At the time of the Civil war Mr. Spayde was found a loyal citizen who valiantly espoused the cause of the Union and on the 25th of September, 1861, he joined the army, becoming a private of Company E, Third Ohio Cavalry, with which he served as transportation master for eighteen months.  He was discharged Oct. 11, 1864, after serving for three years, one month and ten days.  He had two horses shot from under him, but he escaped uninjured.  He participated in the battles of Nashville, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River and Chattanooga; and whenever the starry flag led the way into battle he faithfully followed, loyally defending his emblem of the Union.  He is now a member of Samuel Bell Post, No. 536, G. A. R., and also belongs to the Knights of the Golden Eagle, while his wife holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal church.  In 1880, on account of failing health, he rented his farm and came to Butler, where he has since made his home.  His business interests were carefully conducted and brought to him a comfortable competence.  He has been found worthy of trust in all of life's relations and enjoys the warm friendship of a large circle of acquaintances in his native county.  In politics he is a Republican, and for six years has served as a township trustee and at present is serving as deputy sheriff.
 Source #4: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 158
  DAVID N. STAMBAUGH.   David Nivens Stambaugh, who has been a trusted employe of the Anitman & Taylor Company, of Mansfield, Ohio, for over thirty years, was born in Shippensburg, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1833, a son of Michael and Catherine (Coppenhaver) Stambaugh.  His paternal grandfather was Peter Stambaugh, who was born on the ocean while his parents were emigrating from Germany to America, and his maternal grandfather was Benjamin Coppenhaver.  On first coming to Ohio, in 1841, the parents of our subject located in Wooster, from there removed to Massillon, and in 1843 became residents of Cleveland.  It was in 1847 that they came to Richland county, where the father, who was a carpenter by trade, died in 1876, at the age of seventy years, the mother in 1869, at the age of sixty-seven.  They left one daughter. who is still living.  Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson, of Mansfield.
     The subject of this sketch came with the family to Mansfield, where he attended school for a time, and about 1851 started out in life for himself, working at the carpenter's trade until the Civil war broke out.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company E, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. of which he was commissioned first lieutenant, while Judge Warden, of Mansfield, was made captain of the company.  They were under the command of Generals Milroy and Reynolds, and were on duty in West Virginia.  Mr. Stambaugh participated in the battle of Greenbrier, but after seven months' service was discharged on account of physical disability.  After his recovery he engaged in carpentering and building, and was connected with the Erie Railroad construction until 1865.  In 1869 he entered the service of the Aultman & Taylor Company, in whose employ he has since remained. being the foreman of the wood department of the factory during the absence of William Ackerman.  When he commenced working for the company their employes numbered only fifty, but to-day there are about eight hundred names on their pay roll.  Mr. Stambaugh has never missed a season since he entered their service, and in the meantime has built many fine houses in the city of Mansfield.  His own fine residence on Spring Mill street was erected by him in 1867.
     In 1856 Mr. Stambaugh married Miss Isabella Newbold Quigley, who was born in 1832.  Her father, Thomas Bunting Quigley, was a master mechanic for the Bellefontaine & Indianapolis Railroad at Galion, Ohio, many years ago, and was an expert engineer and machinist.  In 1860 he concluded to go to Arkansas and engage in lumbering.  He built a complete and duplicate outfit engine and machinery, and with his son-in-law, John Grabner, started south, but in a collision at Devil's Bend in the Mississippi river he was drowned and the machinery all lost.  Mr. Grabner escaped and is now living in Warsaw, Indiana.  Mr. Quigley was from New Jersey.  His brother, Philip Quigley, of Wilmington, Delaware, built many of the Centennial buildings at Philadelphia.  Of the five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Stambaugh, Alice Emily is at home; Georgiana died in childhood, aged six years; Belle is a graduate of the Normal College at Mansfield, and is now the wife of C. M. Eaton, of Omaha, Nebraska, who is manager of the Omaha Stove Repair Works; Tilletta is a graduate of the Mansfield high school and is at home; and D. Rizdon Thompson, also a graduate of that school, is now in the employ of the Omaha Loan & Trust Company, of Omaha, Nebraska.  All the members of the family belong to the Baptist church, and are highly respected and esteemed by all who know them.  Mrs. Stambaugh is now an invalid.
     Politically Mr. Stambaugh has always affiliated with the Republican party and has taken an active part in its work since its organization in 1856.  He was a member of the city council of Mansfield one term.  Fraternally he is a member of the Grand Army post of that place.
 Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 219
  MRS. SARAH A. SUTTER, who resides on section 2, Sharon township, Richland county, and whose postoffice is Shelby, is a widow of John Sutter, who was born in Canton Basle, Switzerland, in 1818, and came to the United States in 1840, landing in New York, after a voyage of six weeks on the Atlantic ocean.  Coming to this country with small means, he first began working on a farm, which he continued for some time.  Then taking up the business of peddling clocks, he worked his way west to Ohio about 1843, and was one of the first to volunteer in the Mexican war.  After serving in the ranks fifteen months he returned to this portion of the state of Ohio, where he had known the family of Adam Hockingsmith, whose daughter, Sarah, he married.  Adam Hockingsmith married Sarah Myers, she being of Pennsylvania and he of Maryland.  They settled in Ohio in 1830, when Mrs. Sutter was one year old, and when this entire section was one wild, wooded wilderness, filled with deer, wild turkey and many other kinds of game.  Mr. Hockingsmith took up forty acres of land, which he cleared of its timber and made for himself and family a good home.  After getting his farm well under way in the matter of improvements, he began working at his trade, that of weaver, weaving linen and woolen cloths and renting his fields.  He and his wife were the parents of four children: Sarah, the subject of this sketch; Margaret, who died at the age of two years; Henry Peter, who died at the age of three years, and Ervilla, the wife of William Smith, who lives in the same township with Mr. Sutter.  The father of these four children died at the age of seventy-eight, and the mother about three years later, at the age of seventy-seven.  They both quietly repose in the Myers churchyard, which was given for a burial place by Mrs. Sutter's maternal grandfather, Myers.
     Mrs. Sutter was married in 1847, on Nov. 9, and settled with her husband on his forty-acre farm, mentioned above, which he purchased with such improvements as had been made upon it, which were but few and crude.  Two years later Mr. Sutter rented a one-hundred-and-sixty-acre farm, which he purchased in 1876; but he died on his old farm in Plymouth township.  Mr. and Mrs. Sutter were the parents of seven children - four sons and three daughters, - as follows:  John A., who died at the age of two years; Sarah Ann Amanda, the wife of Butler Albertson, who is living on the old homestead farm; George F., who is living in West Unity, Williams county, Ohio, and has one daughter living; Alice, who died at the age of four years; Leona E., who died at the age of three years; Henry F., a farmer living some distance south of the old home farm; and William J., living on his sixty-acre farm.
     BUTLER ALBERTSON was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and is a son of William K. Albertson, whose biographical sketch appears following this.*  He married Sarah Valk, and they came to Ohio in 1856, locating in Richland county.  As stated in the brief sketch of William K. Albertson, who married Sarah Sutter, Jan. 4, 1872.  After living on a rented farm some time they removed, in 1876, to their present farm, containing sixty acres, of which Mrs. Albertson inherited forty acres, to which Mr. Albertson added twenty more acres.  To the marriage of Lewis Butler Albertson and his wife has been born one son - John William Albertson, - a musician and salesman of musical instruments, who received his education first at the home district school and later at a business college in Toledo.  He is an accomplished business man in his line, which he has followed for the past six years, and intends soon to locate in Shelby, where he will establish himself in business on his own account.  Mrs. Sutter is a woman of many fine qualities and is highly esteemed by all.
 Source: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio - Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901 - Page 114
* See William K. Albertson

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