John D. Sprankle was born on a farm near Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania on February 19, 1825. He married Susan Sauers (born May 1, 1831 in Summit County, Ohio) on September 27, 1849. They had three children: Mary Sprankle b. 1851, Josephine Sprankle b. 1854, John Charles Fremont Sprankle b. December 10, 1856.
John D. was a pioneer settler of Indiana. At the age of 22, he left his home in Pennsylvania and headed westward to Indiana where he was employed for a short while in DeKalb County. He returned to Pennsylvania. Then, in 1849, he and his father, Peter Sprankle, traveled westward in search of desirable land, traveling 700 miles by horse and buggy. They purchased 400 acres in Aboite Township, Indiana, just west of the city of Fort Wayne. His father returned to Pennsylvania, but John remained and settled on a farm near Roanoke, Indiana that he named "Homestead Farm." He farmed and raised cattle for most of his life.
Family legend has that Peter Sprankle furnished John the money to finance his start in Indiana. In a letter dated May 17, 1946, from his granddaughter, Myrtle Blanche, to her niece, Kate, we learn that, "At one time, Old Peter Sprankle sent John $500 in gold. He just wrapped it up in real heavy paper and sealed it with wax seals. It came out by canal boat from Pennsylvania to Indiana." Aunt Blanche also writes of discovering an old copper kettle while she was cleaning out the basement. It was the kettle that "Old Peter Sprankle sent Grandpa Sprankle out of PA on the Wabash Erie Canal. We found the bill of lading among Grandpa's old papers."
John took an active interest in growing Aboite Township and served for three sessions as township trustee. He was praised for his integrity and for his universal fair-dealing with his fellowman.
He married Susan Sauers from Summit County, Ohio whose family were also early settlers of Aboite Township. They raised three children. Their only son, John Charles Fremont Sprankle, continued his father's farming operations and expanded into the dredging business in the early 1900s. Dredging was a critical aspect of agribusiness, channeling the flood waters away from valuable crops and improving the land.
John D. Sprankle died on January 31, 1908 at the age of 82 in Fort Wayne and is buried in Lindenwood Cemetery. My son and I visited this cemetery in 1996. John and Susan are buried in unmarked graves, but a groundskeeper consulted a plot chart and showed us where their remains lay.
v/r Ken Sprankle 12/25/2015
Below is an excerpt from a history book written by Col. Robert S. Robertson and published in 1905. An interview with John D. Sprankle, one of Allen County, Indiana's earliest pioneers, is featured on pages 458-461.
"John D. Sprankle is a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he was born on the 19th of February, 1825, being a son of Peter and Frances (Bredenbaugh) Sprankle, the former having been bom in York county and the latter in Lancaster county; while the father became one of the successful and influential farmers of Huntingdon county, where both he and his devoted wife passed the closing years of their lives.
John D. Sprankle was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and early became inured to hard work, while his educational advantages in his youth were necessarily limited, owing to the exigencies of time and place, the only schools in the vicinity of his home having been those maintained on the subscription plan. He remained at the parental home until he had attained to the age of twenty-three years, and in the meanwhile he had been employed for a time in the rolling mills of his native county, the steel industry at the time having been practically in its infancy there. In 1840 he accompanied his father to Indiana and other western states, as the middle states were then designated, their object in making the trip being to search for a new location for the family. The father, however, continued to reside in Pennsylvania until his death, as before noted.
In 1850 Mr. Sprankle came to Allen county and took up his permanent location, securing a tract of heavily timbered land, in Aboite township, and erecting in a small clearing in the forest the little log cabin which was his original home here. He became the owner of a landed estate of two hundred and forty acres and developed one of the valuable farms of the county. While none can fail to appreciate the attractions and the capitalistic valuation of this fine homestead at the present day, it is difficult for the younger generation to realize the herculean labors performed in transforming the untrammeled wilderness into fertile fields and blossoming meadows.
Our subject labored with all of energy and well directed ambition, and the natural result was his attaining a position as one of the substantial men and influential citizens of the county. He retained possession of his old homestead until 1901, when he sold the property to his only son. with whom he now resides in Wayne township and in the immediate vicinity of the city of Fort Wayne. In appending paragraphs further mention is made of the son, who is one of the county's prominent citizens.
Mr. Sprankle has ever taken a loyal interest in public affairs of a local nature and has wielded much influence in the community in which he made his home for so many years. He cast his first presidential vote for Zachary Taylor, candidate of the Whig party, but ever since the organization of the Republican party he has given a stanch allegiance to the same, while he takes a lively interest in questions of public import at the present time, though he has reached the age of four score years. These years rest lightly on the head of this honored pioneer and he is well preserved in both mental and physical vigor.
During the war of the Rebellion Mr, Sprankle was a member of the Loyal League and did all in his power to further the advancement of the Union cause, while it may be said also that he was uncompromisingly an abolitionist in sentiment, having the courage of his convictions in this regard, as has he also in all other exigencies and relations in life. His memory remains unimpaired and his reminiscences of the early days are graphic and most interesting, while he has the affectionate regard of young and old and finds his lines cast in pleasant places as the shadows of life begin to lengthen from the golden west. His cherished and devoted wife, his companion for nearly a half century, remains by his side, and both have been zealous members of the Reformed church from their youth up.
In the year 1847 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sprankle to Miss Susan Soures, who was born in Summit county, Ohio, on the 1st of May, 1831, being a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hartman) Soures, who removed to Adams county, Ohio, while she was a child, while she there maintained her home up to the time of her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Sprankle have three children. Mary is the wife of Henry Smaltz, a prominent farmer of Aboite township; Josephine is the widow of Daniel Rousseau , and resides in the city of Chicago, Illinois. John C. F., the only son, was born on the old Homestead Farm, in Aboite township, this county, on the l0th of December, 1856, and was reared and educated in his native county, where he duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools. He is one of the successful and extensive contractors of the county and also has the general supervision of the old homestead farm, which he purchased in 1901, as has previously been stated, while he owns other property in the county and is one of the prominent, reliable and highly honored business men and loyal citizens of this section of the state, his pleasant home being located in section 8, Wayne township. He is a stalwart Republican in his political proclivities, is a prominent and appreciative member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and both he and his wife are members of the Christian church."
Source: History of the Maumee River Basin, Vol III, by Col. Robert S. Robertson. No publication date but Volume I, by Charles Elihu Slocum, was copyrighted in 1905.
John D. was a pioneer settler of Indiana. At the age of 22, he left his home in Pennsylvania and headed westward to Indiana where he was employed for a short while in DeKalb County. He returned to Pennsylvania. Then, in 1849, he and his father, Peter Sprankle, traveled westward in search of desirable land, traveling 700 miles by horse and buggy. They purchased 400 acres in Aboite Township, Indiana, just west of the city of Fort Wayne. His father returned to Pennsylvania, but John remained and settled on a farm near Roanoke, Indiana that he named "Homestead Farm." He farmed and raised cattle for most of his life.
Family legend has that Peter Sprankle furnished John the money to finance his start in Indiana. In a letter dated May 17, 1946, from his granddaughter, Myrtle Blanche, to her niece, Kate, we learn that, "At one time, Old Peter Sprankle sent John $500 in gold. He just wrapped it up in real heavy paper and sealed it with wax seals. It came out by canal boat from Pennsylvania to Indiana." Aunt Blanche also writes of discovering an old copper kettle while she was cleaning out the basement. It was the kettle that "Old Peter Sprankle sent Grandpa Sprankle out of PA on the Wabash Erie Canal. We found the bill of lading among Grandpa's old papers."
John took an active interest in growing Aboite Township and served for three sessions as township trustee. He was praised for his integrity and for his universal fair-dealing with his fellowman.
He married Susan Sauers from Summit County, Ohio whose family were also early settlers of Aboite Township. They raised three children. Their only son, John Charles Fremont Sprankle, continued his father's farming operations and expanded into the dredging business in the early 1900s. Dredging was a critical aspect of agribusiness, channeling the flood waters away from valuable crops and improving the land.
John D. Sprankle died on January 31, 1908 at the age of 82 in Fort Wayne and is buried in Lindenwood Cemetery. My son and I visited this cemetery in 1996. John and Susan are buried in unmarked graves, but a groundskeeper consulted a plot chart and showed us where their remains lay.
v/r Ken Sprankle 12/25/2015
Below is an excerpt from a history book written by Col. Robert S. Robertson and published in 1905. An interview with John D. Sprankle, one of Allen County, Indiana's earliest pioneers, is featured on pages 458-461.
"John D. Sprankle is a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he was born on the 19th of February, 1825, being a son of Peter and Frances (Bredenbaugh) Sprankle, the former having been bom in York county and the latter in Lancaster county; while the father became one of the successful and influential farmers of Huntingdon county, where both he and his devoted wife passed the closing years of their lives.
John D. Sprankle was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and early became inured to hard work, while his educational advantages in his youth were necessarily limited, owing to the exigencies of time and place, the only schools in the vicinity of his home having been those maintained on the subscription plan. He remained at the parental home until he had attained to the age of twenty-three years, and in the meanwhile he had been employed for a time in the rolling mills of his native county, the steel industry at the time having been practically in its infancy there. In 1840 he accompanied his father to Indiana and other western states, as the middle states were then designated, their object in making the trip being to search for a new location for the family. The father, however, continued to reside in Pennsylvania until his death, as before noted.
In 1850 Mr. Sprankle came to Allen county and took up his permanent location, securing a tract of heavily timbered land, in Aboite township, and erecting in a small clearing in the forest the little log cabin which was his original home here. He became the owner of a landed estate of two hundred and forty acres and developed one of the valuable farms of the county. While none can fail to appreciate the attractions and the capitalistic valuation of this fine homestead at the present day, it is difficult for the younger generation to realize the herculean labors performed in transforming the untrammeled wilderness into fertile fields and blossoming meadows.
Our subject labored with all of energy and well directed ambition, and the natural result was his attaining a position as one of the substantial men and influential citizens of the county. He retained possession of his old homestead until 1901, when he sold the property to his only son. with whom he now resides in Wayne township and in the immediate vicinity of the city of Fort Wayne. In appending paragraphs further mention is made of the son, who is one of the county's prominent citizens.
Mr. Sprankle has ever taken a loyal interest in public affairs of a local nature and has wielded much influence in the community in which he made his home for so many years. He cast his first presidential vote for Zachary Taylor, candidate of the Whig party, but ever since the organization of the Republican party he has given a stanch allegiance to the same, while he takes a lively interest in questions of public import at the present time, though he has reached the age of four score years. These years rest lightly on the head of this honored pioneer and he is well preserved in both mental and physical vigor.
During the war of the Rebellion Mr, Sprankle was a member of the Loyal League and did all in his power to further the advancement of the Union cause, while it may be said also that he was uncompromisingly an abolitionist in sentiment, having the courage of his convictions in this regard, as has he also in all other exigencies and relations in life. His memory remains unimpaired and his reminiscences of the early days are graphic and most interesting, while he has the affectionate regard of young and old and finds his lines cast in pleasant places as the shadows of life begin to lengthen from the golden west. His cherished and devoted wife, his companion for nearly a half century, remains by his side, and both have been zealous members of the Reformed church from their youth up.
In the year 1847 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sprankle to Miss Susan Soures, who was born in Summit county, Ohio, on the 1st of May, 1831, being a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hartman) Soures, who removed to Adams county, Ohio, while she was a child, while she there maintained her home up to the time of her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Sprankle have three children. Mary is the wife of Henry Smaltz, a prominent farmer of Aboite township; Josephine is the widow of Daniel Rousseau , and resides in the city of Chicago, Illinois. John C. F., the only son, was born on the old Homestead Farm, in Aboite township, this county, on the l0th of December, 1856, and was reared and educated in his native county, where he duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools. He is one of the successful and extensive contractors of the county and also has the general supervision of the old homestead farm, which he purchased in 1901, as has previously been stated, while he owns other property in the county and is one of the prominent, reliable and highly honored business men and loyal citizens of this section of the state, his pleasant home being located in section 8, Wayne township. He is a stalwart Republican in his political proclivities, is a prominent and appreciative member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and both he and his wife are members of the Christian church."
Source: History of the Maumee River Basin, Vol III, by Col. Robert S. Robertson. No publication date but Volume I, by Charles Elihu Slocum, was copyrighted in 1905.
John D. Sprankle was born on a farm near Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania on February 19, 1825. He married Susan Sauers (born May 1, 1831 in Summit County, Ohio) on September 27, 1849. They had three children: Mary Sprankle b. 1851, Josephine Sprankle b. 1854, John Charles Fremont Sprankle b. December 10, 1856.
John D. was a pioneer settler of Indiana. At the age of 22, he left his home in Pennsylvania and headed westward to Indiana where he was employed for a short while in DeKalb County. He returned to Pennsylvania. Then, in 1849, he and his father, Peter Sprankle, traveled westward in search of desirable land, traveling 700 miles by horse and buggy. They purchased 400 acres in Aboite Township, Indiana, just west of the city of Fort Wayne. His father returned to Pennsylvania, but John remained and settled on a farm near Roanoke, Indiana that he named "Homestead Farm." He farmed and raised cattle for most of his life.
Family legend has that Peter Sprankle furnished John the money to finance his start in Indiana. In a letter dated May 17, 1946, from his granddaughter, Myrtle Blanche, to her niece, Kate, we learn that, "At one time, Old Peter Sprankle sent John $500 in gold. He just wrapped it up in real heavy paper and sealed it with wax seals. It came out by canal boat from Pennsylvania to Indiana." Aunt Blanche also writes of discovering an old copper kettle while she was cleaning out the basement. It was the kettle that "Old Peter Sprankle sent Grandpa Sprankle out of PA on the Wabash Erie Canal. We found the bill of lading among Grandpa's old papers."
John took an active interest in growing Aboite Township and served for three sessions as township trustee. He was praised for his integrity and for his universal fair-dealing with his fellowman.
He married Susan Sauers from Summit County, Ohio whose family were also early settlers of Aboite Township. They raised three children. Their only son, John Charles Fremont Sprankle, continued his father's farming operations and expanded into the dredging business in the early 1900s. Dredging was a critical aspect of agribusiness, channeling the flood waters away from valuable crops and improving the land.
John D. Sprankle died on January 31, 1908 at the age of 82 in Fort Wayne and is buried in Lindenwood Cemetery. My son and I visited this cemetery in 1996. John and Susan are buried in unmarked graves, but a groundskeeper consulted a plot chart and showed us where their remains lay.
v/r Ken Sprankle 12/25/2015
Below is an excerpt from a history book written by Col. Robert S. Robertson and published in 1905. An interview with John D. Sprankle, one of Allen County, Indiana's earliest pioneers, is featured on pages 458-461.
"John D. Sprankle is a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he was born on the 19th of February, 1825, being a son of Peter and Frances (Bredenbaugh) Sprankle, the former having been bom in York county and the latter in Lancaster county; while the father became one of the successful and influential farmers of Huntingdon county, where both he and his devoted wife passed the closing years of their lives.
John D. Sprankle was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and early became inured to hard work, while his educational advantages in his youth were necessarily limited, owing to the exigencies of time and place, the only schools in the vicinity of his home having been those maintained on the subscription plan. He remained at the parental home until he had attained to the age of twenty-three years, and in the meanwhile he had been employed for a time in the rolling mills of his native county, the steel industry at the time having been practically in its infancy there. In 1840 he accompanied his father to Indiana and other western states, as the middle states were then designated, their object in making the trip being to search for a new location for the family. The father, however, continued to reside in Pennsylvania until his death, as before noted.
In 1850 Mr. Sprankle came to Allen county and took up his permanent location, securing a tract of heavily timbered land, in Aboite township, and erecting in a small clearing in the forest the little log cabin which was his original home here. He became the owner of a landed estate of two hundred and forty acres and developed one of the valuable farms of the county. While none can fail to appreciate the attractions and the capitalistic valuation of this fine homestead at the present day, it is difficult for the younger generation to realize the herculean labors performed in transforming the untrammeled wilderness into fertile fields and blossoming meadows.
Our subject labored with all of energy and well directed ambition, and the natural result was his attaining a position as one of the substantial men and influential citizens of the county. He retained possession of his old homestead until 1901, when he sold the property to his only son. with whom he now resides in Wayne township and in the immediate vicinity of the city of Fort Wayne. In appending paragraphs further mention is made of the son, who is one of the county's prominent citizens.
Mr. Sprankle has ever taken a loyal interest in public affairs of a local nature and has wielded much influence in the community in which he made his home for so many years. He cast his first presidential vote for Zachary Taylor, candidate of the Whig party, but ever since the organization of the Republican party he has given a stanch allegiance to the same, while he takes a lively interest in questions of public import at the present time, though he has reached the age of four score years. These years rest lightly on the head of this honored pioneer and he is well preserved in both mental and physical vigor.
During the war of the Rebellion Mr, Sprankle was a member of the Loyal League and did all in his power to further the advancement of the Union cause, while it may be said also that he was uncompromisingly an abolitionist in sentiment, having the courage of his convictions in this regard, as has he also in all other exigencies and relations in life. His memory remains unimpaired and his reminiscences of the early days are graphic and most interesting, while he has the affectionate regard of young and old and finds his lines cast in pleasant places as the shadows of life begin to lengthen from the golden west. His cherished and devoted wife, his companion for nearly a half century, remains by his side, and both have been zealous members of the Reformed church from their youth up.
In the year 1847 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sprankle to Miss Susan Soures, who was born in Summit county, Ohio, on the 1st of May, 1831, being a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hartman) Soures, who removed to Adams county, Ohio, while she was a child, while she there maintained her home up to the time of her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Sprankle have three children. Mary is the wife of Henry Smaltz, a prominent farmer of Aboite township; Josephine is the widow of Daniel Rousseau , and resides in the city of Chicago, Illinois. John C. F., the only son, was born on the old Homestead Farm, in Aboite township, this county, on the l0th of December, 1856, and was reared and educated in his native county, where he duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools. He is one of the successful and extensive contractors of the county and also has the general supervision of the old homestead farm, which he purchased in 1901, as has previously been stated, while he owns other property in the county and is one of the prominent, reliable and highly honored business men and loyal citizens of this section of the state, his pleasant home being located in section 8, Wayne township. He is a stalwart Republican in his political proclivities, is a prominent and appreciative member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and both he and his wife are members of the Christian church."
Source: History of the Maumee River Basin, Vol III, by Col. Robert S. Robertson. No publication date but Volume I, by Charles Elihu Slocum, was copyrighted in 1905.
John D. was a pioneer settler of Indiana. At the age of 22, he left his home in Pennsylvania and headed westward to Indiana where he was employed for a short while in DeKalb County. He returned to Pennsylvania. Then, in 1849, he and his father, Peter Sprankle, traveled westward in search of desirable land, traveling 700 miles by horse and buggy. They purchased 400 acres in Aboite Township, Indiana, just west of the city of Fort Wayne. His father returned to Pennsylvania, but John remained and settled on a farm near Roanoke, Indiana that he named "Homestead Farm." He farmed and raised cattle for most of his life.
Family legend has that Peter Sprankle furnished John the money to finance his start in Indiana. In a letter dated May 17, 1946, from his granddaughter, Myrtle Blanche, to her niece, Kate, we learn that, "At one time, Old Peter Sprankle sent John $500 in gold. He just wrapped it up in real heavy paper and sealed it with wax seals. It came out by canal boat from Pennsylvania to Indiana." Aunt Blanche also writes of discovering an old copper kettle while she was cleaning out the basement. It was the kettle that "Old Peter Sprankle sent Grandpa Sprankle out of PA on the Wabash Erie Canal. We found the bill of lading among Grandpa's old papers."
John took an active interest in growing Aboite Township and served for three sessions as township trustee. He was praised for his integrity and for his universal fair-dealing with his fellowman.
He married Susan Sauers from Summit County, Ohio whose family were also early settlers of Aboite Township. They raised three children. Their only son, John Charles Fremont Sprankle, continued his father's farming operations and expanded into the dredging business in the early 1900s. Dredging was a critical aspect of agribusiness, channeling the flood waters away from valuable crops and improving the land.
John D. Sprankle died on January 31, 1908 at the age of 82 in Fort Wayne and is buried in Lindenwood Cemetery. My son and I visited this cemetery in 1996. John and Susan are buried in unmarked graves, but a groundskeeper consulted a plot chart and showed us where their remains lay.
v/r Ken Sprankle 12/25/2015
Below is an excerpt from a history book written by Col. Robert S. Robertson and published in 1905. An interview with John D. Sprankle, one of Allen County, Indiana's earliest pioneers, is featured on pages 458-461.
"John D. Sprankle is a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he was born on the 19th of February, 1825, being a son of Peter and Frances (Bredenbaugh) Sprankle, the former having been bom in York county and the latter in Lancaster county; while the father became one of the successful and influential farmers of Huntingdon county, where both he and his devoted wife passed the closing years of their lives.
John D. Sprankle was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and early became inured to hard work, while his educational advantages in his youth were necessarily limited, owing to the exigencies of time and place, the only schools in the vicinity of his home having been those maintained on the subscription plan. He remained at the parental home until he had attained to the age of twenty-three years, and in the meanwhile he had been employed for a time in the rolling mills of his native county, the steel industry at the time having been practically in its infancy there. In 1840 he accompanied his father to Indiana and other western states, as the middle states were then designated, their object in making the trip being to search for a new location for the family. The father, however, continued to reside in Pennsylvania until his death, as before noted.
In 1850 Mr. Sprankle came to Allen county and took up his permanent location, securing a tract of heavily timbered land, in Aboite township, and erecting in a small clearing in the forest the little log cabin which was his original home here. He became the owner of a landed estate of two hundred and forty acres and developed one of the valuable farms of the county. While none can fail to appreciate the attractions and the capitalistic valuation of this fine homestead at the present day, it is difficult for the younger generation to realize the herculean labors performed in transforming the untrammeled wilderness into fertile fields and blossoming meadows.
Our subject labored with all of energy and well directed ambition, and the natural result was his attaining a position as one of the substantial men and influential citizens of the county. He retained possession of his old homestead until 1901, when he sold the property to his only son. with whom he now resides in Wayne township and in the immediate vicinity of the city of Fort Wayne. In appending paragraphs further mention is made of the son, who is one of the county's prominent citizens.
Mr. Sprankle has ever taken a loyal interest in public affairs of a local nature and has wielded much influence in the community in which he made his home for so many years. He cast his first presidential vote for Zachary Taylor, candidate of the Whig party, but ever since the organization of the Republican party he has given a stanch allegiance to the same, while he takes a lively interest in questions of public import at the present time, though he has reached the age of four score years. These years rest lightly on the head of this honored pioneer and he is well preserved in both mental and physical vigor.
During the war of the Rebellion Mr, Sprankle was a member of the Loyal League and did all in his power to further the advancement of the Union cause, while it may be said also that he was uncompromisingly an abolitionist in sentiment, having the courage of his convictions in this regard, as has he also in all other exigencies and relations in life. His memory remains unimpaired and his reminiscences of the early days are graphic and most interesting, while he has the affectionate regard of young and old and finds his lines cast in pleasant places as the shadows of life begin to lengthen from the golden west. His cherished and devoted wife, his companion for nearly a half century, remains by his side, and both have been zealous members of the Reformed church from their youth up.
In the year 1847 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sprankle to Miss Susan Soures, who was born in Summit county, Ohio, on the 1st of May, 1831, being a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hartman) Soures, who removed to Adams county, Ohio, while she was a child, while she there maintained her home up to the time of her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Sprankle have three children. Mary is the wife of Henry Smaltz, a prominent farmer of Aboite township; Josephine is the widow of Daniel Rousseau , and resides in the city of Chicago, Illinois. John C. F., the only son, was born on the old Homestead Farm, in Aboite township, this county, on the l0th of December, 1856, and was reared and educated in his native county, where he duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools. He is one of the successful and extensive contractors of the county and also has the general supervision of the old homestead farm, which he purchased in 1901, as has previously been stated, while he owns other property in the county and is one of the prominent, reliable and highly honored business men and loyal citizens of this section of the state, his pleasant home being located in section 8, Wayne township. He is a stalwart Republican in his political proclivities, is a prominent and appreciative member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and both he and his wife are members of the Christian church."
Source: History of the Maumee River Basin, Vol III, by Col. Robert S. Robertson. No publication date but Volume I, by Charles Elihu Slocum, was copyrighted in 1905.
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