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April, 1904 |
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Source: Mansfield News |
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This was a FUN series of articles published by the Mansfield News in 1904. Clues would be given in one issue of the paper, and the next issue would contain the identities of the men described. Scroll to the bottom of the page for the answers.
Who is He?
No. 68: He was born in this county, March 22, 1835. He enlisted as a member of the 7th Indiana battery and was later for a time lieutenant of Co. E 2d O.V.I. After the war he located in this city where he has since resided and engaged in the selling of farming implements. Do you know him? [April 1, 1904]
No. 69: He was born at Olivesburg, this county, July 19, 1837. He received his elementary education in this city and was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware in 1858. Later he took professional courses at Cleveland and Cincinnati. He served in the army from 1862 until the close of the war. He located in Mansfield permanently in 1865 where he has since resided and in addition to professional duties has served on the board of several colleges and state institutions. Do you know him? [April 2, 1904]
No. 70: He was born in this city June 19, 1846, and has lived here the greater part of his life, his father also having lived here for 55 years of his life. The subject of this sketch enlisted when was fifteen years old, in company F. 82d Ohio Infantry, and served from Dec. 18, 1861 to May 26, 1865, participating in many campaigns and battles during the war. After the war he lived in Cincinnati a short time where he was married Dec. 24, 1872, but since 1879 he has resided continuously in this city. Do you know him? [April 4, 1904]
No. 71: He was born in Weller township in 1839 on a farm. At 22 years he entered the service as a soldier, served 41/2 years, was married in 1869 to a Weller township girl. He served by appointment a county office and in 1892, was appointed to a state institution in which he served four years. He is a property owner and has made Mansfield his home since 1896. Do you know him? [April 5, 1904]
No. 72: Born in Germany, July 13, 1844, he came with his parents to this county in 1850, locating in Mansfield where he has lived for over half a century. He attended the local schools as a lad. When the war came he enlisted in the 32d Ohio Infantry and served two years and seven months. After returning from the army he continued the work in which he has remained until the present. He as married in 1876 to the daughter of Mansfield parents. Do you know him? [April 6, 1904]
No. 73: He as born in Tiffin about fifty years ago, but with good judgment abandoned his birth place in early manhood and came to this city in 1876 where he has since resided and has prospered both in business and politics, his success in the former having contributed to his advancement in the latter. In politics he is a Democrat and has hosts of friends regardless of politics. He married a Mansfield girl and they have two children. Do you know him? [April 7, 1904]
No. 74: He was born in this county in 1847 and obtained his elementary education in the county schools, later taking a course at Savannah academy and Oberlin. For thirty years he has practiced his profession in this city and is regarded as an able practitioner. He was married in 1880 to the daughter of a pioneer of this county. Do you know him? [April 8, 1904]
No. 75: Born April 1, 1844, at the confluence of the Whetstone and the Blackfork, in Weller township, of pioneer parentage, he attended the neighborhood schools until fifteen. He studied at Hayesville for a short time and enlisted in Co. M 2d Ohio cavalry After serving four months he was taken out--being under aged--and placed in professional study. In the latter part of the ’60’s he was elected to a county office. Fifteen years later he was elected to a higher office by the suffrage of the voters of Richland. He is still in the practice of his profession in this city. Do you know him? [April 9, 1904]
No. 76: Born in this city, Jan. 9, 1830, parents both identified with the earlier families of Mansfield, he has resided here all his life and for a good portion of that time within a stone’s throw of his birthplace near Central park which still stands. He early entered commercial pursuits and nearly thirty years ago began in a line of business which he followed continuously until a short time ago. He has been twice married and has a numerous family. Do you know him? [April 11, 1904]
No. 77: Born in Ireland in 1836 he came to this city in 1859 where he has engaged continuously in business all these years, for over thirty years in one line and for over twenty-five years of that time in the same location--one of the best known in the city. In later years he has been identified with manufacturing interests. Do you know him? [April 12, 1904]
No. 78: A native of Holmes county, where he was born in 1842 he came to this city in 1857 to a clerkship which he filled--for nearly five years, enlisting Aug. 4, 1862, in the 102d Ohio Volunteers. During the war he was captured by the confederates and was held a prisoner for six months in Alabama. After the war he returned to Mansfield where he has since continuously resided and has been in business, now occupying a position under Uncle Sam. He was married to a lady of this city in 1868. Do you know him? [April 13, 1904]
No. 79: A native of Plymouth, this county, where he was born on St. Patrick’s day, 1846, his boyhood days between the ages of 6 and 19 were spent in Michigan where he has resided until 1872, when he came to this city as an employe of a large wholesale house which he later accompanied to another city, but returned here in 1877 and has since resided in this city and has been and is associated with its business interests. He was married in Plymouth, April 27, 1870. Do you know him? [April 14, 1904]
No. 80: He was born in Germany, July 9, 1826, where he learned the millers trade with his father. He was married in Germany in 1848 and came to this country with his wife in 1849, coming directly to Mansfield, where he has since permanently resided. In the early years of his residence in this city he worked in various capacities and for many firms. Later he engaged in business for himself and for many years ministered to the wants of the physical inner man. Do you know him? [April 15, 1904]
No. 81: A native of Cleveland where he was born Jan. 18, 1844, he early engaged in business in one of the southwestern territories of the United States being located there from 1859 to 1868. In the latter year he returned to Ohio and came to Mansfield where he has since resided with the exception of two years in the early ‘70’s. In 1872 he was married to a Mansfield young lady and they have two children. He has been in active business here for 32 years. Do you know him? [April 16, 1904]
No. 82: A native of Troy township he was educated in the district schools and from 1863 to 1865 attended Baldwin university at Berea. From 1862 to 1870 he taught school in the winter and worked on the farm of his father in the summer. In 1870 he engaged in business in this city and has continued the same ever since. He was married May 7, 1872, at Wheeling, W. Va. Do you know him? [April 18, 1904]
No. 83: He was born about 58 years ago within a short distance of where the News building stands. He early learned a trade and at the age of 18 entered the army as a member of Co. A, 63d Ohio. After the war he engaged in trade for himself and was later with a local manufacturing company for a number of years with several intermissions during which he was employed at work far distant from Mansfield. He has resided here continually since 1889 and has been engaged in an occupation for which he is specifically qualified and in which he is without peer here--and not many are in his class anywhere. Do you know him? [April 19, 1904]
No. 84: A native of Portage county, Ohio, he came to Mansfield in 1865 and has been engaged in business here continuously since that time; for twelve years in one line and for the last twenty-seven in another. He enlisted as a private in Co. I, 104 Regiment, O.V. I., but soon received a commission as its captain, serving until 1865 when he was disabled by a severe wound which has caused him more or less inconvenience and pain ever since. He is active in business and church circles and a typical citizen of the best class. Do you know him? [April 20, 1904]
No.85: Born near this city early in the ’60’s he began his business career in Mansfield about 20 years ago and is engaged in manufacturing a well known commodity. He was married in this city April 15, 1886. He is identified with other than business organizations and is specially interested in musical affairs in which he has always been prominent. Do you know him? [April 22, 1904]
No. 86: Born in Scotland in 1847, he came to this county in 1869 and to Mansfield in 1870, where he has since resided and is numbered among the substantial citizens. He has been largely identified with building operations here and elsewhere in the state and is interested in various local enterprises. Do you know him? [April 23, 1904]
No. 87: He was born in Lexington, but came to this city early in the ’60’s where he has since resided. About 40 years ago he established here a manufacturing industry which was operated for a number of years by himself and others. In later years he has been engaged as a traveling salesman. In 1862 he was married to a young lady of this city whose father lived for many years at the present site of the News building. Do you know him? [April 25, 1904]
No. 88: He was born in Troy township in 1829, receiving his elementary education in this county and graduating at Franklin college, Ohio, in 1856. In the following year he was licensed to preach and later engaged in the ministry in New York state where he remained until 1866, when failing health obliged him to give up his pastorate and retire from the ministerial work since which time he has resided in this city and has been engaged in business. Do you know him? [April 26, 1904]
No. 89: Born in Berks county, Pa., 81 years ago today, he came to Stark county with his parents in 1830. He began the trade of carpenter and joiner in Summit county in 1838 and continued it until 1848 when he was incapacitated by accident from following the occupation longer. He was married in 1843 in Cuyahoga Falls. He came to this city in 1855 where he has since resided and has served a good many years in an official capacity. Do you know him? [April 27, 1904]
No. 90: A native of Washington township where he was born a few years before the civil war commenced his boyhood days were passed in Bellville where he attended school and later went to Mt. Union college in Stark county. He located in Mansfield and has been here ever since in business. He is identified with a number of secret societies and has always been an enthusiast for outdoor sports and now that he is growing stout and a little less spry than twenty years ago he is a golf player for fair. Do you know him? [April 28, 1904]
No. 91: Born in this township more than three score and ten years ago he has been a resident and business man of this city for upwards of 55 years and his still active despite his years. He is a veritable walking encyclopedia in regard to the history of the city and its people and few men in the county are known better than the subject of this sketch whose business career is probably not equaled by that of any other in the state in the point of years. Do you know him? [April 29, 1904]
No. 92: A native of Stark county, where he was born in 1839, he came to this county with his parents in 1849, settling in Washington township. He was married Oct. 19, 1869, to a daughter of a well known resident of that township and they have two sons, both now of man’s estate. He has been a resident of this city for many years and in business here. Do you know him? [April 30, 1904]
Answers: No. 68: John Marshall; No. 69: Dr. George Mitchell; No. 70: George Ricketts; No. 71: H. G. Palmer; No. 72: Henry Beam; No. 73: L. S. Kuebler; No. 74: Samuel Marriott; No. 75: Andrew Stevenson; No. 76: John H. Todd; No. 77: Moses Black; No. 78: Joe L. Hott; No. 79: J. B. Ink; No. 80: Michael Ackerman; No. 81: A. B. Dittenhoefer; No. 82: E. M. Wolff; No. 83: Edward Wilkinson; No. 84: Capt. H. L. Reed; No. 85: B. J. Balliett; No. 86: William Dow; No. 87: A. C. Patterson; No. 88: F. M. Proctor; No. 89: William Longsdorf; No. 90: E. C. Marshall; No. 91: James A. Niman; No. 92: W. K. Oberlin; No. 93: S. B. Day
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