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 CHARLES ELIHU SLOCUM, M. D., PH. D.
Charles
Elihu Slocum, M. D.,
Ph. D., physician,
banker and philanthropist, of
Defiance
,
Ohio
, is of pure English
ancestry, the
ancient home of his
race being near
Taunton
,
Somersetshire
,
England
.
The
founder of the
branch in the United
States from which
our subject descends
was one Anthony
Slocombe, who came
to America with his
wife and family
at the time of the
absolute and
despotic reign of
King Charles L, and was
one of the first
purchasers in 1637
of several townships
of land around the
present site of
Taunton,
Massachusetts, which
town he helped to
found. It
was in the records
of this purchase
that the clerk gave
the present spelling
to the surname.
American marriages
have kept the blood
of the descendants of
this first American
ancestor in pure
English lines.
The direct ancestors of Doctor Slocum,
covering eight
generations in
America
,
are as follows:
Anthony's son Giles,
born in
England
, was a young married
man when he came
from his native
country, his wife's
given name being
Joann. He was
prominent in the
colony of
Rhode Island
, as a man of large possessions,
and was also a
leading member of
the Society of
Friends, the family
affiliating with
that religious body
on its first
appearance in
New England
in
1656. The
descendants
continued in that
relation until after
the Revolutionary
war, when removal to
eastern
New York
widely separated
them from the
Society. Giles and
Joann Slocum had a
family of nine
children, the youngest
of which was a son,
Eleazer, born the
25th day of
"10th
month," 1664, in
Portsmouth
,
Rhode Island. He became a
resident of
Dartmouth,Massachusetts,in1684. He married
Elephel Fitzgerald,
and one of their sons,
also named Eleazer,
born January 20,
1694, married
Deborah Smith,
and had a son, John, born August 4, 1717, who
became a yeoman
and trader. He married Deborah Almy, and had a son, Eleazer, born May
15, 1744, in
Dartmouth
,
Massachusetts
, who married
Anstace Viall, and
this couple, after the Revolutionary war, removed with
their family to
what is now known as Northville,
Fulton County,
New York, which remained
the family home for many years. Joseph, the eldest son of Eleazer and
Anstace Slocum, was born February 6, 1766, in
Dartmouth,
Massachusetts, and was married
in Cambridge,
New York, to Elizabeth
Wright in 1790.
Their second son, Caleb Wright Slocum, our subject's
father, was born
in
Northville,
New York,
October 22, 1797,
and died there in
1864. He was a man
of strong character and high standing, and was engaged in various
business
enterprises, being a farmer, merchant, tanner and manufacturer. His
wife, Elizabeth (Bass), was born at Northville, November 25, 1798, and died there in 1866.
Coming
now to the ninth
generation, we
return to our
subject, who is
also a
native of
Northville
,
New York, born December
30, 1841. His
early education
was obtained with
the aim of
preparing himself
for teaching and
general
business, his
studies being
pursued in the
schools of his
native town, and by
his own exertions
in Fort Edward
Collegiate
Institute, and at
Poughkeepsie
,
New York
. Several years of
his early manhood
were passed partly
in attending
school and partly
in teaching in
public and private
schools with ascending
grades. His
services were also
in demand as
instructor in
teachers
institutes.
While
teaching in
Albion
,
Michigan
, in 1865, he
began the study of
medicine with a late army surgeon, Doctor Willoughby
O'Donohue. He attended
the medical
department of the
University
of
Michigan, giving special
attention
to analytical and
applied chemistry,
and practical
microscopy. He
also attended the
Detroit
Medical
College, and in that city
registered under
the preceptorship
of the venerable
Professor Zina
Pitcher and Doctor
David O.
Farrand, who were
then in
partnership. There
he saw, and
participated in,
much of practical
medicine and
surgery. He
attended the
College
of
Physicians
and Surgeons,
Columbia
University
, in
New York City
, and was there graduated
Doctor in Medicine
in 1869, with
health somewhat
impaired. He at
once entered into
partnership with
his brother,
Doctor John Caleb
Slocum, who had
established a
large practice at
Shelbyville,
Indiana. In 1870 he
traveled
for his health
through the South
and along the
Atlantic coast,
and in July,1871, he settled
in Defiance,
Ohio, where he has
since remained,
excepting
some travels for
study and
recreation. Parts
of several years
have been passed in post-graduate studies, embracing literary studies, general
medicine, surgery
and the various
specialties, in
New York and in
Philadelphia,
where
he received a degree from
Jefferson
College
upon
examination. He
also passed two years in the University of Pennsylvania,
and there
received the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy in course, upon examination, with
the highest
grade of his class. In 1879, he visited Europe, giving attention to his
profession in
Vienna
and
London
specially, and
visiting other
medical centers.
Doctor
Slocum's
practice has
been general,
including
delicate work in
the specialties
as well as
capital surgical
operations, and
his careful
attention to details
has brought him
large patronage
and gratifying
success. He has
been president
of the Defiance
County Medical
Society,
vice-president
of the District
Society, and
member of the
Ohio State
Medical Society
since 1874. He was
chosen delegate
from the State
Society in 1875
to the American Medical
Association,
since which time
he has been a
permanent member
of the last named
body.
He
became a member
of the
Philadelphia
Academy of
Natural Sciences
in 1876; charter
member of the
American
Microscopical
Society in 1878;
member of the American Association for the
Advancement of
Science in 1885
member of the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical
Society; of the Ninth International Medical Congress in 1887; member of the
American Academy
of Political and
Social Science
from the first
year of its
organization
; and charter
member of the
Ohio State
Academy of
Science, of
which he has
been first
vice-president.
In 1896 he
organized the
Fort Defiance
Scientific
Association,
with a
membership of
thirty-five, and
he has since
been its president.
He is also a
member of
various other
important
societies of
both a
local and
general
character,
including the
American Public
Health Association.
He
served several
years as
United States
examining
surgeon for pensions, as railway surgeon, and as examiner for numerous
life insurance
companies. He has several times declined proffered professorships in medical colleges
in different
cities, but
since 1896 he
has been
professor of
psychology and
ethics in the
Cleveland
College of
Physicians and
Surgeons,
Cleveland
,
Ohio
.
His medical
writings have
been few, and
confined mainly
to reports of
cases in his
practice, which
were published
in different
medical
journals, and also
occasional
papers read
before medical,
scientific and
other societies,
by request.
In
1882 he
published a
large octavo
volume, the
preparation of
which had been
his principal
diversion for
several years,
entitled "A
Short History of
the
Slocums,
Slocumbs and
Slocombs of
America,
Genealogical and
Biographical;
Embracing Eleven
Generations of
the First Named
Family, from
1637 to
1881:
With
their Alliances
and the
Descendants in
the Female Lines
so far as Ascertained. Also the Etymology
of those
Surnames, an
Account of some Researches in England Concerning their Ancestors who bore the
Parent Surname,
Slocombe,
etc." This
is styled a
model book by
the historical
journals
in their
reviews, and it
has had a good
circulation
among the
families and
their
affiliations,
and to
libraries.
Material has
been accumulated
for a second
volume on the
same subject.
These studies
have been
valuable to him
in their relation
to sociology,
heredity, etc.
In 1898 he began
writing the
History of Defiance,
Ohio, and its
Vicinity From
the Earliest
Times.
Doctor
Slocum has been
a constant hard
worker in his
profession, and
he believes
in systematic
diversion as a
recreation for
regular life
work. This
diversion from
professional
labors he has
found in
scientific and
literary studies,
and in business.
In the last, as
in other lines,
he has gained
success. He was
chosen a
director of the
Defiance
National Bank in
1874, and
continued to
serve in that
capacity until
the expiration
of its charter,
when the bank was
reorganized,
with largely
increased
capital, as the
First National
Bank, and
he was chosen
director and
vice-president,
which offices he
still holds. He
was one of the
principal
stockholders at
the organization
of the Defiance
Savings
Bank, which was
merged, in 1881,
into the
Merchants
National Bank, of
which
institution he
has been a
director, and
part of the time
vice-president
and acting
president. He
has also been
interested in
several of the
principal manufacturing
institutions of
his city, and is
now president of
two of those more
recently
organized.
Doctor
Slocum began his
business life
poor, and under
adverse physical
and
other
conditions, and
his professional
and financial
successes have
been the
result of
continued
painstaking and
laborious
application to
his profession, together
with economy and
judicious
investments of
the proceeds of
his toil. His
professional
motto has been
from the first,
"I desire
that it ever be
more to
the interest of
my patients to
employ me than
to my interest
to be employed by
them." His
tastes and
habits have been
formed from
reason and judgment,
keeping in mind
the most
desirable from a
social and
physical standpoint
avoiding
tobacco,
alcoholic
beverages and
excesses of all
kinds, from both
medical and
moral motives.
His health,
which was frail
in earlier life,
has under this
regime grown
better with the
years. He has
carried the
stamp of
integrity into
all his
professional and
business
relations, and
his methods are
referred to by
all who know him
best as examples
worthy of
imitation.
A true
philanthropist,
he has always
been liberal to
the poor, but
his many and
various
benefactions
have been
unheralded by
himself. His
largest single donation
was the gift, in
1894, of a
library building
to the
Ohio
Wesleyan
University
at
Delaware,
Ohio, of which
institution he
is a trustee.
He not only gave the funds for the erection of the
building, but he
entered with
characteristic enthusiasm upon the work of
visiting the
leading
libraries in
America, as he had done in Europe, studying their
good qualities
and their
defects, and working up, with the university's financial
secretary, Rev.
John M. Barker, Ph. D., plans that should produce a model
university
library building
in every respect, which this building was desired to be.
He also
superintended
its construction in a general way. All its outer walls
are of
Bedford
buff limestone, and its interior construction is of steel and other incombustible
material, thus being thoroughly fireproof throughout. It has a capacity of over two hundred
thousand
volumes, most of
which will be
stored in a wing
on the stack system.
Careful
attention was
given to the
lighting, to
ventilation, to
convenience,
and to the
heating by
indirect hot
water
radiation. The
grand reading
room has
sittings for
several hundred
students; rooms
for seminar work
with
departmental
libraries are
numerous, and in
all its
appointments it
is ample
in proportions,
and represents
modern ideas for
a large
university library.
This
building was
dedicated June
20, 1898.
Doctor
Slocum has been
a member of the
Methodist
Episcopal Church
for many
years, also of
the various
regular Masonic
orders,
including the
Knights Templars
and the Scottish
Rite. He was
formerly a
member of the
Ohio Consistory
at
Cincinnati
, but is now
connected with
the Lake Erie
Consistory,
Cleveland
,
Ohio
, of which he is
a charter
member.
During
his early
medical studies
Doctor Slocum
began the
nucleus around which
he has
accumulated a
valuable private
library,
numbering about
five thousand
volumes of
carefully
selected works.
Here medicine
and surgery, archaeology
and general
science are seen
to be
specialties with
him, although history,
general and
special
literature and
art are
represented
prominently on the
shelves. This
valuable
collection of
books he keeps
open for the use
of the
public, free of
charge. The
Doctor is still
a student,
keeping in touch
with
the world's
progress, and is
thoroughly
informed on the
current literature
of the day.
Politically he
affiliates with
the Republican
party. He remains
a bachelor.
EDWIN PHELPS.
For
more than three
score years
there dwelt in
Defiance county,
Ohio, Edwin
Phelps (now
deceased), a man
of sterling
integrity and
sound judgment, whose character in its stern simplicity
and upright
bearing stands
out plainly and distinctly, a type of that past generation
whose watchword
was Duty, whose characteristics were industry and honesty.
Edwin
Phelps was born
at Old De Kalb,
St. Lawrence
county,
New York
,
December 30,
1815. In 1834 he
emigrated from
New York
to what is
now
Defiance
county, Ohio
From an old
memorandum book
it is learned
that on leaving
New York
he had three
dollars in his
pocket, and that
he had borrowed
to come west;
when he reached
northern
Ohio
he
had seven cents
left. On August
20, 1834, he was
ferried across
the Maumee
river by the
father of Mrs.
Jonas Colby and
E. F.
Lindenberger. He
expended his
seven cents for
crackers to
appease his
hunger, and
then, through
the assistance
of an uncle, he
found employment
with the hotel-keeper
for eight
dollars a month
and board. Three
years later he
was appointed
clerk of the
courts of
Williams county,
eight years
before the organization
of
Defiance
county. His
active work in
the interests of
his town
and county and
his careful
attention to
whatever duties
fell to his lot,
made
him a
much-sought man
for public
office.
In
1839 he was
admitted to the
Bar before the
Supreme Court of
Ohio, and
the committee
that examined
him Peter
Hitchcock, Henry
Stanberry. P.
B. Wilcox, John
W. Andrews and
Judge George J.
Smith was composed
of men whose
fame was
national. In
1845, when the
county seat of Williams
county was
changed from
Defiance to
Bryan, the
people determined
on the
organization of
Defiance county.
As Mr. Phelps
was well known
as a stanch
Democrat in his
political faith,
he was selected
to go to
Columbus
and to use his
influence to
secure the
erection of
Defiance
county;
that his efforts
were crowned
with success is
shown in the history
of the State. He
was appointed
the first
auditor of the
new county, and
was also a
member of its
first board of
school
examiners. Was
elected clerk
of the courts in
1857, and served
for seventeen
years. He was
actively interested
in politics for
almost his
entire life,
attended all the
State
conventions as
well as those of
the county, and
some of the
National conventions.
The last
National
convention to
which he was a
delegate was in 1864,
when General
George B.
McClellan was
nominated for
the Presidency at
Chicago
. Chief Justice
White of the
Supreme Court of
Ohio, after
years of
personal
experience with
the work of Mr.
Phelps as clerk
of the courts, said
that "Mr.
Phelps was the
best and most
accurate clerk
of the courts in
Ohio
." He
was not only
prominent in
politics, but
also in every
interest that seemed
to tend to the
improvement and
progression of
his community.
He spent much
time and money
in securing the
location of the
Toledo
and
Illinois
(now the Wabash)
railroad through
Defiance. Prior to this he
was actively
engaged in the
construction of
the 'Miami &
Erie canal, on
which for a time
he was employed.
It was
through his
influence and work
that the
Baltimore &
Ohio road
secured the
right of way
through
Defiance
,
and again he
labored almost
unceasingly when
the projected
Columbus,
Lima
&
Milwaukee
road was first
talked of. Mr.
Phelps was a man
of fine
physique, and
his wonderful
constitution
enabled him to
perform tasks
that an ordinary
man could not
conceive of.
Long hours of
work, physical
or mental,
seemed to leave
no trace.
In
1840 Mr. Phelps
was married to
Mary A.
Woodward, who
survived but one
year; in 1843
he married Emily
Eaton, and to
this union three
children were
born: Adelaide
Victoria; Emily
J., who married Charles
Seymour, of
Defiance; and
Ida R., who
married Mr.
Gensheimer, and
now lives in
Erie,
Pennsylvania.
For his third
wife Mr. Phelps,
on September
25, 1862,
married Evaline
Richardson, and
to this union
were born: Mary
Alice, who
married J. W.
Ackley, of
Granville,
Ohio; Helen Dorothy;
Julia,
who died in
1863; Grace, who
died in 1870;
Abbie, who
married F. P. Weisenburger;
and Edwin J. The
father of this
family was found
ever kind and
liberal in his
home, true to
his friends,
honorable in his
business
relations, faithful
to every trust.
After four score
years of toil,
sustained by the
love and
respect of all
who knew him,
this grand old
man passed
quietly to his
last rest,
September 28,
1897.
JOHN HAMMON.
This
deceased
gentleman was
for many years
actively
identified
with the
farming
interests of
Richland
township.
Defiance
county, and
was one of the representative and honored citizens of his
community. He
was born December 3, 1825, in
Wurtemberg
,
Germany
, but when
quite young
was brought
to
America
by his mother
and
stepfather,
being reared
principally in
Independence
,
Ohio
. When about
twenty-four
years of age
he went to Woodville,
Sandusky
county, where
he was
employed as
clerk for his brother-in-law some four years.
While
living at that
place Mr.
Hammon was
married
February 3,
1858, to Miss Catherine Myers, a native of
Hanover,
Germany, born April
9, 1831. When three years old she came to America
with her
parents. After
their
marriage Mr.
and Mrs.
Hammon
continued to
live in
Woodville for one year, and then removed to Richland
township,
Defiance
county, locating on a farm in Section 1, North Richland
precinct,
where he
successfully engaged in farming until called from this
life on
October 30,
1891. He left to his family a good farm of one hundred
and sixty
acres, its
well-tilled fields and neat and thrifty appearance
manifesting
the enterprise
and industry of the owner. He took quite an active part
in all local
affairs, most efficiently served his fellow citizens as township
treasurer, and
at the time of his death was holding the office of justice of the
peace with
credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents.
Religiously he was connected with the
Lutheran
Church, of which his
wife is also a
faithful
member.
In the family of this worthy
couple were
ten children,
as follows: Mary C; Eva L., now the wife of Henry Feindle;
John H., who
wedded Mary
E. Fisher;
George P., who
married Mary
Curns; Flora,
who died at the age of nineteen years;
Henry M., who
married Lizzie
Clemens; Lewis
F., who
married Sadie
Champion;
William, who
wedded Martha
Koust; Philip E.; and August Alonzo. The family is one
of the highest
respectability
and worth.
 HON. WILLIAM HUMPHREYS HUBBARD.
The
family
history of
Judge
Hubbard is a
most
interesting
one. His descent
is traced in
an unbroken
line from
the Danish
Sea King,
Hubba, who,
with his
brother,
Hingua, and
a numerous
following of
their
people,
invaded England
in the year
866, and
after
conquering
and
devastating
the country
from
Nottingham
north to the
Tyne,
crossed the
Humber and
carried
death and
destruction
as far south
as Excesdune
(Aston),
where, after
a terrific battle
with the
Saxon army,
under King
Ethelred and
Prince
Alfred the
Great, they
were
defeated and
driven back
to Reading.
They,
however,
maintained
themselves
in England,
and in 878,
with a fleet
of
twenty-three
ships,
ravaged the
coast of
South Wales
and
Devonshire,"
where they
landed and
remained until
they were at
last
defeated and
driven back
to their
ships, with
the death of
Hubba, by
Odun the
Saxon. After
the final
subjection
of the Danes
by King
Alfred, the
descendants and
followers of
Hubba and
the other
Danish
leaders took
the names of
their respective
kings, the
termination
"ard,"
which in the
old Danish
signified both
"descended
from"
and
"belonging
to,"
being added
to the name
Hubba, and
in the
course of
time the
name Hubbard
was
indiscriminately
applied as well
to all those
who had
fought under
"Hubba's
Raven
Banner"
as to his direct
descendants.
As is said
in a work
published at
New York
, in 1895, entitled
"1,000
years of
Hubbard
History,"
from which
we quote:
"The
name
Hubba is
not only
very
ancient in
British
history,
but is
probably
of great
antiquity
in
Asia
. The
remote
ancestors
of Hubba
the Dane
came from
Asia
,
and it is
more than
probable
from the
very
valley
where the
ruins
beneath
the mounds
of Abu
Hubba—were
discovered."
The
great
Chancellor
of the
State of
New York,
Walworth,
whose
mother was
of the
same
strain of
Hubbard
blood with
our
subject,
for many
years of
his life
devoted a
large part
of
his
time and
attention
to
perfecting
the genealogical
records of
the
family;
going to
England
for that
purpose.
As might
be
supposed,
he found
that the
blood of
the other
royal
families
of
England
,
the Saxon
and the
Norman
, had
freely
mingled
with the
vigorous
blood of
the Viking
Hubba; and
was able
to trace
back these
other
lines of
ancestry to
their
sources.
His
labors are
in part
preserved
in a
massive
volume published
by him, a
copy of
which is
to be
found in
the rooms
of the
Long
Island
Historical
Society,
at
Brooklyn
,
New York
, in which
appears
the name
of our subject,
with a
full
account of
his
ancestry
along the
lines
followed
by the Chancellor.
His
earliest
ancestor
in this
country
was George
Hubbard,
who was
born in
England
in 1601,
and is
mentioned
among the
first
settlers
in
Hartford
,.
Connecticut
, as
having
taken a
party from
Boston
, to
settle
there. He
was given
six acres
of land
"by
courtesy
of the
Town, with
the
privilege
of wood
and
keeping
cows on
the
common."
In
1640 he
married
Elizabeth Watts,
daughter
of Richard
Watts, one
of the
original
proprietors
of
Hartford
,
and was
"assigned
a home lot
on the
east side
of the
great
river."
About
1650
he removed
to
Middletown
,
Connecticut
, and
there
established
his permanent
home, on
the east
side of
Main
street
.
His
real
estate
holdings
were very
extensive,
and
he
was
one
of the
leading
men
of the
locality,
being "highly
respected
and of
marked
integrity
and
fairness."
His
death
occurred March
18,
1664, his 'widow
surviving
him
until
1702.
They
had
eight children,
among whom
was a son,
Nathaniel,
who was
born at
Middletown
,
Connecticut,
December
10, 1652,
and died
May 20,
1728.
He
was
married May
29, 1682,
to Mary
Earle, who
was born
in 1663,
and died
April 6,
1732. Their
home was
at
"Long
Hill on
the
cross-roads,"
at
Middletown
, where they
reared a
family.
Their
son,
Nathaniel,
was born
at
Middletown,
September
14, 1690,
and died
at the old
home on
Long Hill,
October
14. 1765.
He was
married
April 12,
1716, to
Sarah
Johnson,
by
whom
he had
several children. A
son,
Nehemiah,
the next
in direct
line of
descent,
was born
at Middletown,
July 22,
1721, and
died in
Holland
Patent, New York, March
11, 1811. He
served for
many years
in the
French and
Indian
wars of
his time.
He was
married
October
12, 1748,
to Sarah
Sill, who
was born
January 2,
1728, and
died
August 10,
1814.
Thirteen
children
blessed
this
union, the
third, Nehemiah,
being the
great-grandfather
of the
subject of
this
sketch. He
was born
April 10,
1752, in
Middletown
,
Connecticut
, and was
thrice
married, first
in 1777 to
Cornelia
Willis,
who died
November
28,
1781.
On
February 12,
1785, he
married
Lucy
Starr, and
at her
death he
married
Widow
Hannah (Burnham)
Latimer.
He took a
leading
part in
the
stirring
events of
his day, and
at his
death left
what was
then
considered
a large
fortune.
At the age
of
fourteen
he entered
the store
of Matthew
Talcot as
a clerk,
and
remained until
he
attained
his
majority,
when he
engaged in
trade with
the
West
Indies
, first
as
supercargo
and later
as captain
and
merchant.
In 1776
Governor Trumbull,
of
Connecticut
,
appointed
him
paymaster
of Colonel
Burrell's
regiment
from the
colony,
and in
May, 1777,
General
Greene
appointed
him deputy
quartermaster-general
for
Connecticut. He was
present at
the siege
of Yorktown
and the
surrender
of
Cornwallis,
and
possessed
the warm
esteem of General
Washington,
Governor
Jonathan
Trumbull
and
Alexander
Hamilton, autograph
letters
from all
of whom,
expressing
friendship
and
confidence,
being
now in the
possession
of the
family.
Many of
his
accounts
while paymaster
were
audited by
General
Washington,
and these
have also
been preserved
by his
descendants.
He and
Colonel
David
Humphreys,
a relative
of
Judge
Hubbard on
the
maternal
side, held
memberships
countersigned
by General
Washington
and
General
John Knox
in the
"Society
of the
Cincinnati,"
composed
of
commissioned
officers
in the
Colonial
army. At
the close of
the
Revolution
he resumed
his
mercantile
business,
and later,
from 1808
to 1822,
was
president
of the
Middletown
Savings
bank. He
was active
in local affairs,
serving as
treasurer
and
justice of
the peace,
and his
memory is
indissolubly
connected
with the
progress
of the
city of
Middletown
, one of
his chief benefactions
being the
gift of
the land
for the
Wesleyan
College. As one of
the
original
members of
the
Western
Reserve
Land Co.,
he became
the owner
of nearly
eighteen
thousand
acres of
land in
this
State, and
the town of
Hubbard,
Ohio, was
named in
his honor.
He
died
February
6, 1837, By
his
marriage
with Lucy
Starr he
had
children,
one of
whom was a
son,
Richard,
the
Judge's
grandfather,
who was
born March
27,
1792,
and became
a
prominent
resident
of
Middletown
. In 1838
he was
elected
mayor of
the city,
and for
many years
he was
president
of the
Middlesex
Mutual Assurance
Co. A
graduate
of
Yale
College, he was a
man of
fine
culture, and,
like all
the
family, he
displayed
much
public
spirit and
liberality.
In September
1814, he
married
Mary Cone,
who was
born
February
27,1793,
the
daughter
of Salmon
and Mary
Pinneo
Cone, of
Colchester,
Connecticut
He
died
September
1, 1839,
and her
death
occurred
in
Ashtabula
,
Ohio, in 1850.
Their
son,
Edward
Cone
Hubbard,
our
subject's
father,
who was
born
September
27,
1824,
eventually
inherited
the
extensive
tract of
land in
the
Western
Reserve,
and in
1856 he
removed
to
Ashtabula, where
he made
his home
until
his
death,
in 1892,
at the
age of
sixty-nine
years.
His
widow,
Mrs.
Sarah M.
(Humphreys)
Hubbard,
who was
born
June 5,
1830,
still resides
at that
place.
She was
a
daughter
of
William
and
Maria
Beach
Humphreys,
and a
grandniece
of
Colonel
David
Humphreys,
mentioned
above,
who
served
in the
war as
an aid
on the
staff of
General
Israel
Putnam,
and
later on
the
staff of
General
Washington.
A warm
personal
friendship
was thus
begun
between
him and
Washington,
which
continued
without
intermission
until
the
death of
the
latter.
At the
time
Washington
became
President,
Colonel
Humphreys,
at his
request,
assumed
the
duties
of Major
Domo of
his
official
residence,
and
after
his
retirement
passed
months
at a
time at
Mount
Vernon, as the
honored
companion
of his
former
chief. He
was also
minister
from
this
country
at
Madrid
and
Lisbon
, and
while acting
in that
capacity
succeeded
in
bringing
to this
country
one
hundred
of the
finest
Infantado
Merino
sheep,
in spite
of the
penalty
of death
provided
by
the laws
of Spain
for the
taking
of a
Merino
out of
that
country.
With the
flock
thus
acquired,
he
became
the
first
manufacturer
of fine
woolen
cloths in
this
country,
and
Thomas
Jefferson,
at his
inauguration
as
President,
wore a
suit
made of
broadcloth
manufactured
and
presented
to him
by
Colonel Humphreys.
In the
War of
1812 he
became a
general,
and he
was
prominent
in
the
settlement
of
Marietta
,
Ohio, where
he owned
a large
tract of
land. He
married
the
Countess
Walewski,
in France, where
he
afterwards
died.
Her
maternal
grandfather,
Captain
John
Beach,
was a
captain
in a
Connecticut
regiment
in the
same
struggle,
and the
silver-mounted
sword
that he
carried
is a
treasured
heirloom
in the
family. It
will be
seen
that
Judge
Hubbard
comes of
ancestry
with
whom
high purpose
and
courageous
achievement
was
"bred
in the
bone."
While
his life
has
happily
fallen
in
peaceful
times,
there
has been
no lack
of
opportunity
for the
exercise
in the
forum,
and in
the
world of
business,
for the
shrewdness
and valor
which
won
success
for his
forefathers
in other
fields.
He was
born in
Middletown
,
Connecticut
, April
15,
1850,
but his
education
was
begun in
the public
schools
of
Ashtabula
. At the
age of
nine
years he
was
placed
under the
care of
a
private
tutor,
Rev.
James
Bonner,
D.
D., a
graduate
of the
University of
Edinburgh,
Scotland,
eminent
for his
scholastic
attainments,
and
a
well-known
clergyman
of the
Episcopal
Church.
For
seven
years he
remained
under
this
gentleman's
instruction,
acquiring
a
thorough
knowledge
of
Latin
and
other
branches.
At
the age
of
nineteen
he
accepted
a
position as
civil
engineer
in the
construction
of
certain
railroads
in
Missouri
and
Kansas,
and
while
thus
employed
he began
the
study of
law.
Having
fully decided
to make
the
legal
profession
his life
work, he
returned
to
Ashtabula
in
1870,
and
continued
his
studies
while
holding
a
position
as
bookkeeper
and
paymaster
for
contractors
who were
engaged
in
building
railroads
in
Ohio. In
1871 he
was
admitted
to the
Bar at
Columbus,
Ohio
, on
motion before
the
Supreme
court,
and soon
afterward
he began
to
practice
his profession
at Ashtabula. In
1873, he
was
admitted
to
practice
in the
United States
District
and
Circuit
courts
for the
northern
district
of Ohio,
and
later, on
motion
of
Senator
Edmunds,
was
admitted
to the
Bar of
the
United States
Supreme
Court.
A
pleasing
incident,
credible
to both
parties
concerned,
is
connected
with
this
event.
It seems
that
Senator
Edmunds
made it
a rule
never to
make a
motion
of that
kind
unless
he knew
positively
that the
applicant
was
thoroughly
qualified,
and he
took a
most
ingenious
way to
test the
fitness of
Mr.
Hubbard,
with
whom he
was
acquainted
socially.
While
chatting
one day
the
Senator
began to
look up
some
records,
and
would
frequently
ask his young
friend's
opinions,
which
were
given,
of
course,
with
great
freedom,
and
with no
thought
of any
momentous
issue
depending
upon
their
accuracy.
This
unique
method
of
examination
proved
very
satisfactory,
and on
parting the
Senator
requested
Mr.
Hubbard
to be
present
at the
next
session
of the Supreme
court,
offering
to move
for his
admission.
Judge
Hubbard
attained
a high
standing
among
the
legal
fraternity
at
Ashtabula
,
and he
remained
there
until
February,
1881,
when he
removed to
Napoleon,
Ohio, where
his
abilities
were
likewise
appreciated.
In 1885 he
located
at
Defiance,
forming
a
partnership
with
Hon. W.
D. Hill,
then a member
of
Congress.
This
continued
until
1891,
when Mr.
Hill
moved to
the West,
and in
1893 Mr.
Hubbard
took
another
partner,
J. H.
Hockman,
under
the firm
name of
Hubbard
and
Hockman:
This
lasted
until
the fall
of 1896,
when
Mr.
Hubbard
was
elected
Judge of
the
Court of
Common
Pleas.
The
Judge is
a close
student,
keeping
well
abreast
of the
times, a
strong
and
accurate
logician,
and a
thoroughly
reliable
counsellor.
As a
trial
lawyer he
is
considered
one of
the
ablest
in
northwestern
Ohio, the
fact
being especially
worthy
of note
that he
never
lost a
case
among
all that
he
argued before
the
State
Supreme
Court.
He
accepted
the
position
of city
solicitor
of
Defiance
for two
terms,
and has
had some
very
important
cases
for the city.
One of
them,
The
Wabash
Railroad
Co. vs.
The City
of
Defiance,
lately decided
in favor
of the
latter
by the
Supreme
Court of
the
United
States
, is now
the
leading
case in
this
country,
on the
subject
of
municipal
control
of
the
occupation
and
crossing
of
streets
by
railroads.
Another,
involving
the
validity
of city
bonds to
the
amount
of
ninety
thousand
dollars,
is now
pending
in the
United
States
Circuit
Court,
and is
the only
case in
which he
is still
acting
as
counsel.
In this
case
many new
questions
of great
importance
are
to be
determined.
His
course
upon the
Bench
has
demonstrated
his eminent
ability
and
impartiality
as a
judge,
and
scarcely
any of
his
decisions
have
been
reversed
by the
higher
courts.
Outspoken,
fearless,
strictly
honorable
in his
dealings,
the
Judge
holds
the
admiration
and
respect
of all classes
in the
community,
while
his
genial
manners
and
sterling
qualities
of character
quickly
transform
acquaintances
into
fast
friends.
The
Judge
has
always
taken an
active
interest
in
politics,
and at
the age of
nineteen
began to
defend
the
principles
of the
Democratic
party
from the
rostrum.
Since
that
time,
each
campaign
has
found
him
among
the
leading champions
of that
cause
upon the
"stump."
In
1881,
Judge
Hubbard
was
united
in
marriage
with
Miss
Mary Moore,
daughter
of
Rev. Dr.
Moore
, an
Episcopal
minister
formerly
of
Baltimore,
Maryland, and
later of
Ohio. Under
the
administration
of the
late Bishops
Mcllvaine
and
Bedell,
he was
one of
the
examining
chaplains
of the Diocese
of Ohio,
and also
presiding
judge of
the
Ecclesiastical
court. The
Judge
and his
wife
have
three
children:
Lucy M.,
Edward
M. and Nannie
C, aged
respectively
(1898)
fifteen,
fourteen
and
eleven
years.
WILLIAM C.
HOLGATE.
For
many
years
Mr.
Holgate,
our
subject,
was a
leading
citizen
of
this section,
and
this
volume
would
not be
complete
without
an
account
of his
effective
work
in
developing
the
varied
activities
which
mark a
civilized
community
of the
highest
type.
To his
energy,
foresight,
and
public
spirit
many
beneficial
enterprises
owed
their
success,
and
his
career
demonstrated
that
a man
may
gain a
commanding
place
in
business
circles
through
methods
which
bring lasting
good
to the
people
at
large.
Mr.
Holgate
was of
English
descent
on the
paternal
side,
and
the
first ancestor
of
whom
we
have
record
was
Dr.
Holgate,
a
surgeon
in the
British
army,
who
came
to
America
in
Colonial
times,
and
died
while
in the
service,
his
remains
being
buried
at sea
between
Boston
and
Halifax. Dr.
Holgate
had
but
one
son,
Asa,
our
subject's
grandfather,
who
served
as a private
in the
British
army
during
the
French
and
Indian
wars,
and
afterward
settled
near
Brattleboro,
Vermont,
where
he
married
a
daughter
of Captain
Kathan,
a
Scotchman,
who
owned
lands
for
nine
miles
along
the
Connecticut
river
in
that
locality.
Curtis
Holgate,
the
father
of our
subject,
was
born
at
Dummerston,Vermont,
August
28,
1773,
the
youngest
in
a
large
family
of
children.
As the
real
estate
which
he
might
have
hoped to
inherit
became
lost
to the
family,
he
started
in
business
life
without
capital,
but
through
industry
and
economy
he
managed
to
save
from
his earnings
the
sum of
fifteen
hundred
dollars
by the
time
he was
thirty-six
years
old.
In the
meantime
his
first
wife
died,
and he
married
Miss Alvira
Prentice,
the
daughter
of a
physician
in
northern
Vermont
, and
soon afterward
he
located
at Burlington, in
the
same
state.There
he
invested
his
funds
in the
construction
of
extensive
wharves
and
docks,
his
enterprise
gaining
for
him
the
title
of
"the
Napoleon
of Burlington."
His
docks
were
completed
just
before
the
war of
1812,
and were
of
great
service
to
Commodore
McDonough
when
he
fitted
out
his forces
for
the
battle
of
Plattsburg.
During
this
war
Mr.
Holgate,
with others,
prepared
and
manned
a
gunboat
which
repulsed
a
British
vessel
that
had
cannonaded
the
city,
doing
special
damage
to Mr.
Holgate's
house.
At the
close
of the
war he
sold
his
docks
for
twenty-two
thousand
dollars
and
removed
to a
farm
two
miles
south
of
Burlington, his
real-estate
holdings
including
at
that
time
about
eight
hundred
acres,
a
portion
of
which
was on
the
other
side
of the
lake.
He
laid
out
the
town
of
Port Douglas,
where
he
built
a
wharf,
warehouse,
hotel,
store,
and
sawmill,
and
he
also
purchased
six or
eight
vessels
for
lake
traffic.
After
a year
he
sold
Port
Douglas
to a
steamboat
company,
receiving
all
his
expenditures,
with
six
per
cent
interest,
and
later
he
disposed
of his
other
property
in
the
vicinity
and
arranged
to
move
to the
West.
The
journey
was
made in
one of
his
own
boats
by way
of the
Northern
canal,
and he
stopped
at
Troy,
New
York,to
procure
a
stock
of
general
merchandise.
He
then proceeded
by way
of the
Erie
canal
to
Salina,
New
York,
now a
pare
of the
city
of
Syracuse,
where
he
spent
one
year
conducting
a
store
and
two salt
works
purchased
soon
after
his
arrival.
His
children
being
of an
age to
require
better
educational
facilities
than
the
locality
afforded,
he
removed
to
Utica,
New
York, for
a
time,
but in
1835
he
came
to
Ohio
and
located
at
Defiance. He
was
almost
the
first
man to
bring
any
capital
to the
town, and
with
characteristic
enterprise
he
engaged
in
real-estate
operations,
purchasing
one
half
of the
site
of
Defiance
and
one
third
of the
site
of Napoleon.
In
1836
he
removed
to
Buffalo,
New
York, but
in the
fall
of 1837
he
returned
to
Defiance,
where
his
death
occurred
January
15,
1840. He
was a
man of
strict
moral
principles,
and in
every
walk
of
life
was
governed
by a
high
sense
of
honor,
his
sterling
qualities
of
character
winning
for
him
the
esteem
of all
who
knew
him.
The
subject
of
our
sketch
was
born
November
23,
1814,
at
Burlington, Vermont
,
and
in
1835
was
graduated
from
Hamilton
College,
near
Syracuse, New
York, that institution six years later conferring upon him the additional
degree
of
A.
M.
He
studied
law
with
William
Crafts,
of
Utica,
New
York,
and
Horace
Sessions,
of
Defiance,
being
admitted
to
the
Bar of
the
Supreme
Court
of
Ohio
in
1838.
His
abilities
commanded
success
from
the
start,
and,
while
he
served
for
some
time
as
clerk
of
the
court
and
as
prosecuting
attorney,
his
most
notable
professional
achievements
were
in
the
line
of
general
practice.
In
1844
he
was
chosen
to
present
a
petition
to
the
Legislature
for
the
separation
and
organization
of
Defiance
county,
and
during
the
following
winter
he
went
to
Columbus,
where
he
succeeded
in
securing
the
enactment
desired,
notwithstanding
strenuous
opposition
from
the
enemies
of
the
measure.
On
his
return
to
Defiance
he
received
a
royal
reception
from
the
citizens,
who
fully
appreciated
his
efforts
in
their
behalf.
He
was
instrumental
in
securing
for
his
town
the
Wabash
&
Pacific
railroad
and
the
Baltimore
&
Ohio
railroad
on
lines
surveyed
and
laid
out
by
himself
and
others,
and
for some
time
he
served
as a
director
in
the
latter.
The
town
of
Holgate
was named
for
him
by
the
citizens
in
recognition
of
his
efforts
in
securing
that
railroad
for
the
place.
He
was
the
prime
mover
in
the
organization
of
the
Defiance
County
Agricultural
Society,
and
for
years
he
took
upon
himself
all
the
business
cares
of
the
society,
while
for
many
years
previous
to
his death
he
was
president
of
the
Merchants
National
Bank,
and
of
the
Defiance
Manufacturing
Company.
His
energy
and
determination
were
irresistible
when
applied
to
the
prosecution
of a
definite
plan,
all
his
enterprises
proving
successful,
and
his
dealings
characterized
by
unwavering
integrity.
He
accumulated
a
large
fortune,
and
at
his
death,
which
occurred
August
13,
1888,
he
left
an
estate
valued
at
three
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars.
As
a
citizen
Mr.
Holgate
took
much
interest
in
public
questions,
being
first
a
Whig
and
later
a
Republican;
in
religious
faith
he
was
a
Presbyterian,
the
church
at
Defiance
receiving
from
him
substantial
support. In
1850
he
was
married
to
Miss
Mary
Hoelrich,
who
died
June
6,
1864.
He
had
two
children:
W.
Curtis
Holgate,
born
November
29,
1854,
and
Miss
Fannie
Maude
Holgate,
born
October
2,
1856.
W.
Curtis
Holgate
on
September
14,
1876,
was
married
to
Florence
Gleason,
and
to
them
were
born
two
children
William
C,
July
19, 1877,
and
Robert
Gleason,
October
1.1880.Mr.
Holgate
followed
farming,
also
was
interested
in
the
breeding
of
fine
trotting
horses,
and
was an
eminently
honored
and
respected
citizen.
He
spent
much
time
in
travel
throughout
the
country.
He
died
January
31,
1887.
His
widow,
Mrs.
Florence
(Gleason)
Holgate,
was
married
May
16,
1893,
to
Elmer
T.
Clark,
and
now
resides
in
Defiance.
ADAM
WILHELM.
This
well-known
business
man
of
Defiance,
although
now
past
the allotted
limit
of
three-score
and
ten
years,
is
still
vigorous
and
alert,
and is
active
in
the
management
of
his
large
estate,
and
also
in
public
affairs,
in
which
he
wields
wide
influence.
Like
many
of
our
leading
citizens,
he
is
of
German
birth,
having
been
born
June
23,
1823,
at
the
village
of
Oberkerchan
(
Upper
Church
),
near
St.
Wendel
and
Kuzell,
in
northern
Prussia
.
His
father,
Jacob
Wilhelm,
a
farmer,
came
to
the
United
States
in
1835,
with
his
wife,
Atilla
Smith,
and
their
family
of
children.
They
first
located
at
Bethlehem
,
Stark
county,
Ohio,
where
the
father
and
the
older
sons
were
employed
in
the
mines
for
two
years.
The
family
then
spent
one
year
at
Bolivar,
Stark
county,
and
three
years
in
Tuscarawas
county,
near
Canal
Dover.
At
the
latter
place
all
suffered
extremely
from
fever
and
ague,
even
the
dogs
being
afflicted,
one
falling
away
to
"skin
and
bone"
from
the
effects
of
the
disease.
The
bills
for
medical
attendance
amounted
to
fifteen
hundred
dollars,
and
on
one
visit
the
doctor
told
our
subject,
then
a
lad
of
twelve,
to
tell
his
parents
to
move
to
another
climate,
as
there
were
not
enough
drugs
in
his
drug
store
to
cure
them.
About
this
time
an
Indian
woman
came
to.
see
his
mother,
who
was
then
sick
in
bed
as
a
result
of
her
protracted
sufferings,
and
told
her
to
take
pure
pepper,
grind
it,
and
take
a
spoonful
in
vinegar
or
whisky.
This
simple
remedy
was
tried
and
proved
effective,
two
or
three
doses
all
around
banishing
the
ague
forever
from
the
household.
In
1840
the
family
moved
to
Brunersburg,
Defiance
county,
and
in
the
same
year
our
subject
bought
a
farm
in
Marion
township,
Henry
county,
where
both
his
parents
breathed
their
last,
the
mother
in
1844,
and
the
father
in
1876.
When
the
family
first
settled
there
their
only
neighbors
were
Indians,
who
were
most
amiable
and
friendly,
doing
them
many
favors,
even
bringing
occasionally
a
pail
of
wild
honey
or
a
saddle
of
venison.
The
father
was
an
old-fashioned
Democrat,
and
in
religious
faith
was
a
devout
Catholic,
his
remains
being
laid
to
rest
in
the
Catholic
cemetery
at
New
Bavaria.
As
Adam
Wilhelm
was
about
twelve
years
old
when
he
came
to
this
country,
he
had
already
had
some
education
in
the
schools
of
his
native
land.
He
attended
school
in
Tuscarawas
county
while
living
there,
and
for
two
years
he
and
a
little
girl
from
a
neighboring
family,
named
Hughes,
rode
three
miles
to
school
on
a
mule.
In
the
fall
of
1840
he
took
a
position
as
clerk
for
Sidney
&
Sprague
at
Defiance
,
and
six
months
later
he
was
asked
to
take
charge
of
a
toll
bridge
which
had
just
been
built
by
Mr.
Sprague
and
others.
The
offer
was
made
by
the
other
members
of
the
company,
but
Mr.
Sprague
objected
strongly,
saying
that
Mr.
Wilhelm
was
the
best
clerk
he
had
and
he
could
not
spare
him.
However,
his
partners
overcame
his
unwillingness
and
Mr.
Wilhelm
took
charge
of
the
bridge,
remaining
there
eighteen
months,
and
fully
justifying
the
confidence
of
his
employers
in
his
ability
and
integrity.
His
life
there
was
not
without
its
amusing
side.
One
day
John
and
William
Price
and
Elisha
Thorpe
came
to
the
bridge,
and
John
asked
what
the
toll
was.
Mr.
Wilhelm
said
that
it
was
not
much,
only
three
cents
apiece.
"Do
you
charge
extra
for
baggage?"
inquired
Mr.
Price.
"No,"
said
Mr.
Wilhelm,
"you
can
carry
all
you
want
to."
At
this
Mr.
Price
stooped
over,
and,
his
two
companions
climbing
up
on
his
back,
he
carried
them
across,
Mr.
Wilhelm
walking
by
his
side
to
see
that
he
"toted
fair."
In
the
fall
of
1844
he
became
a
clerk
in
the
dry-goods
store
of
C.
L.
Noble
&
Co.,
with
the
privilege
of
attending
school
in
winter.
This
arrangement
lasted
one
year,
but
for
two
years
following
he
was
paid
forty
dollars
per
month.
As
he
could
talk
both
English
and
German,
he
controlled
the
German
trade
from
a
wide
circuit,
and
he
thought
himself
entitled
to
higher
wages.
The
firm
refused
to
give
him
more,
so
Mr.
Wilhelm
entered
the
employ
of
Cyrus
Lyman
at
North
Defiance
for
fifty
dollars
a
month,
and
remained
until
the
store
was
sold.
In
1847
Mr.
Wilhelm
opened
a
grocery
on
his
own
account
in
a
building
belonging
to
Mr.
Lyman,
at
the
north
end
of
the
bridge,
Mr.
Lyman
endorsing
for
him
at
Toledo
for
his
stock.
After
four
months
at
that
location
Mr.
Wilhelm
moved
to
the
south
.end
of
the
bridge,
locating
on
the
west
side
of
the
road.
He
prospered,
and
in
1853
ne
removed
to
the
present
site
of
the
Wilhelm
block,
forming
a
partnership
with
G.
M.
Weisenberger
in
a
general
mercantile
business.
They
continued
four
years,
during
which
time
Mr.
Wilhelm
became
an
invalid
through
drinking
too
much
ice
water.
For
a
time
his
case
seemed
desperate,,
and
he
spent
six
thousand
dollars
in
cash
traveling
about
in
search
of
a
remedy,
but
finally
he
was
cured
by
three
weeks'
treatment
from
Dr.
Brooks,
a
young
physician
at
Gilboa
,
Ohio,
at
a
cost
of
one
dollar
and
a
half!
In
1857
Mr.
Wilhelm
went
to
Independence
and
bought
a
grocery,
which
he
carried
on
for
four
years.
He
also
purchased
one
hundred
and
twelve
acres
of
land
on
credit
from
George
Philips,
a
wholesale
grocer
of
Dayton,
Ohio,
who
supplied
him
also
with
twenty-two
hundred
dollars
worth
of
goods
on
time.
The
entire
indebtedness
amounted
to
six
thousand
dollars,
which
Mr.
Wilhelm
paid
off
in
six
years.
In
1861
he
returned
to
Defiance
and
formed
a
partnership
with
a
brother-in-law;
but
nine
months
later
he
purchased
his
partner's
interest.
He
continued
the
business
successfully
for
fifteen
years,
buying
his
groceries
by
the
carload,
and
also
engaged
extensively
in
the
lumber
trade. He
virtually
conducted
a
banking-
business
during
part
of
this
time,
as
he
cashed
lumbermen's
drafts
to
a
large
amount.
Real-estate
speculation
also
occupied
his
attention,
and
at
one
time
he
owned
three
thousand
acres
of
land,
much
of
it
being
heavily
wooded.
He
disposed
of
the
timber
to
lumbermen
at
a
handsome profit, and sold part of the land, but still has about two thousand acres.
His
wealth
is
largely
invested
in
Defiance.
He
owns
two
houses
and
lots,
two
hundred
vacant
lots,
the
Wilhelm
block,
containing
three
stores,
the
Defiance
mills,
purchased
in
1876;
the
Erie
mills,
and
the
Cement
mill,
two
miles
south
of
the
city.
The
first
two
mills
are
now
operated
by
a
stock
company,
known
as
the
Maumee
Valley
Milling
Co.,
of
which
Mr.
Wilhelm
is
president;
William
Ryan,
treasurer,
and
J.
R.
Wilhelm,
our
subject's
son,
general
manager.
Mr.
Wilhelm
is
one
of
the
promoters
of
the
village
of
Holgate,
and
contributed
his
share
to
the
building
of
schools
and
railroads.
He
is
still
actively
engaged
in
buying
and
selling
real
estate.
In
politics
he
is
a
Democrat,
and
his
abilities
have
given
him
prominence
in
this
line
also.
He
was
county
commissioner
for
two
terms,
city
councilman
three
terms,
and
city
treasurer
two
terms.
He
is
a
leading
member
of
the
Catholic
Church,
and
was
one
of
the
chief
workers
in
the
erection
of
the
first
church
of
that
faith
in
Defiance,
a
frame
building
on
the
site
of
St.
John's
.
He
also
assisted
in
building
the
first
M.
E.
church
ever
erected
in
Defiance.
■
Mr.
Wilhelm
was
married
April
5,
1847,
to
Miss
Mary
Rickert,
who
died
in
1875,
leaving
six
children:
John
R.;
Frank;
Catherine,
now
Mrs.
William
Jackson;
Amelia;
Clara;
and
Adam,
who
was
killed,
in
1891,
at
the
age
of
nineteen,
by
the
kick
of
a
horse.
In
1841-42
Mr.
Wilhelm
assisted
in the constructing of the
Miami
and
Erie
canal,
and
in
the
construction
of
the
dam
across
the
Maumee
river
at
Independence,
the
foundation
timbers
were
bolted
to
the
rock
of
the
river
bed,
and
Mr.
Wilhelm
carried
the
bolts
for
this
purpose
to
the
workmen
who
were
putting
in
the
foundation.
He
safely
passed
through
the
cholera
epidemic
which
raged
for
a
time
at
Independence
.
He
was
one
of
a
committee
of
three
Mr.
Abies,
Mr. Metts, and our subject for the burying of the dead from the disease. So
fast
were
the
people
carried
away
by
the
plague
that
the
members
of
this
committee
were
obliged
to
work
day
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