Julius W. LUEDEKE a well known farmer and stockman of St. Marys township, proprietor of a farm on rural mail route No. 1 out of St. Marys was born on a farm in Van Buren township in the neighboring county of Shelby, January 8, 1886, and it the son of August and Anna (Kawel) Luedeke, both of whom also were born in Ohio, the former in Auglaize county and the latter in Mercer county. The late August Luedeke was reared in Auglaize county and was married in Mercer county. Following his marriage he established his home on a farm in Van Buren township in Shelby county and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1904. To him and his wife were born five children, all of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch having three sisters, Alice, Laura and Mahalia, and a brother Frank Luedeke. Reared on the home farm in Shelby county, Julius W. Luedeke received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. He married at the age of twenty-three years and after his marriage was engaged in farming as a tenant farmer for about six years, at the end of which time he bought the interests of the other heirs in the home place of seventy-five acres in Shelby county and was there engaged in farming until in Feburary, 1920, when he moved onto the farm of 135 acres in St. Marys township, this county, which he had bought the year before (in August 1919), and has since made his home there. Not long after buying his present farm he sold his Shelby county farm and has since given his whole attention to his farm in this county. He makes a specialty of raising pure bred Duroc Jersey  hogs. Mr. Ludeke and his wife are members of St. Paul's Reformed church at St. Marys and are Democrats. It was on August 25, 1909, that Mr. Ludeke was united in marriage to Amanda Bloomhorst, of Shelby county, and to this union have been born five children, Arnold, Lester, Elmer, Andrew and Henriette. Mrs. Luedeke was born in Van Buren township, Shelby county, and is the daughter of William and Henriette (Hirschfeld) Bloomhorst.

Daniel Landon Richardson, biography

Source; C.W.Williams 1903”History Of Western Ohio”

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Daniel Landon Richardson, a son of William Richardson whose biography appears in this work, was one of the oldest residents of Auglaize County, and one of  the largest property owners in Logan township, where he lived for many years before moving to Wapakoneta.  

He was born in Shelby County, Ohio, August 17,1816.

He Married Miss Agnes Francis in 1835, and commenced housekeeping in Franklin County, Ohio where he resided for eleven years.  

In 1846 he moved to Logan township, where he purchased a large tract of land on the Auglaize river and developed a farm. Here he resided until 1875,when he moved to Wapakoneta.  

In 1844 he entered the ministry of the Christian Church, and traveled for years on horseback through the wilds of this section of the State, preaching to the people whenever he could get them together, in the woods or in their cabins, there being no churches in those days.  

Elder Richardson died March 15,1891, and was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery.A handsome monument, erected by himself, marks his resting place.

Notes

Daniel is listed in the 1880 Atlas of Auglaize County as being a member of the public school board formed in June 1880,Page 25,96 & 97 for sections 2-34-35.125 in Wapakoneta. Marriage is recorded in the Franklin County Courthouse, Book 3,Page 130, by John D. Acton, Justice Of Peace.

Submitted by Ralph Richardson