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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                    Volume 99 : Issue 273

Today's Topics:
  #1 REV. ISAAC TEETERS - DARKE COUNTY    [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #2 WILLIAM ELMER HALLEY - DARKE COUNT   [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #3 BAYARD GRAY - DARKE COUNTY           [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #4 LAFAYETTE RAPE - DARKE COUNTY        [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #5 J.B. JAQUA - DARKE COUNTY            [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #6 L.C. WARING - DARKE COUNTY           [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #7 HOMER SHANK                          ["Hollis G. Best" <"hgb@inreach.com]

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X-Message: #1
Date: Mon,  3 May 1999 14:46:23, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: REV. ISAAC TEETERS - DARKE COUNTY


BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887. Page 552

        REV. ISAAC TEETERS, of Adams County, Indiana, is a native of Ohio,
born in Darke County, January 21, 1855. When fourteen years old he came
with his parents to Adams County, and here he was reared and educated.
After completing his education he began teaching school, which he followed
successfully for several terms. At the age of eighteen years he experienced
religion and united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and in 1877 he
entered the ministry, which calling he has since followed. He is now a
minister of the Disciple church, having united with that denomination in
1882. He was married January 1, 1880, to Miss Lydia A. Glancy, a daughter
of William G. Glancy, of Adams County, and to this union have been born two
children -Olive O., born June 12, 1881 and Mary Viola Gracie, born January
15, 1883.

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X-Message: #2
Date: Mon,  3 May 1999 14:46:29, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: WILLIAM ELMER HALLEY - DARKE COUNTY


HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Vol. III, Page 210

        WILLIAM ELMER HALLEY in recent years has become associated with
some of the most active groups of men and capital in Ohio, and beyond the
field of business his interest and influence have extended into politics.
He is a gifted political campaign manager and has conducted several
republican campaigns in the state.
        Mr. Halley was born in Darke County, Ohio, January 31, 1875, son of
Levi D. and Carrie L. (Vorhis) Halley. His mother is still living. As a boy
he attended a village school in his home county, and was graduated in 1895
from the Greenville High School. He also had several courses in a normal
school, and as a young man, in 1898, he volunteered and was with the Third
Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American war. For much of the
success he has achieved in later years, Mr. Halley is indebted to his early
training and experience as a newspaper man at Greenville, and he also
studied law, though he has never followed it as a profession. From 1907 to
1912 he served five years as postmaster of Greenville, receiving the
appointment from President Roosevelt.
        Since that year his home has been in Columbus. He was elected clerk
in 1914 of the Ohio State Senate, and filled that office for two years
during the Eighty-first General Assembly. In 1918 he was again elected for
the Eighty-third Session, and was reelected in 1920 for the Eighty-fourth
Session. At the close of the last term he retired, declining to be a
candidate in 1922.
        Mr. Halley was the campaign manager for Hon. Harry M. Daugherty in
the state wide primary campaign in 1916 for the republican nomination for
the United States Senate. In 1918 he managed the republican primary
campaign for Hon. Frank B. Willis for nomination for governor. In 1920 he
directed the primary campaign in Ohio for Senator Harding for the
presidential nomination.
        In the field of business Mr. Halley has organized some large and
industrial enterprises and is a member of an underwriters syndicate engaged
in purely financial enterprises. He had some valuable interests in
commercial and manufacturing organizations. January 2, 1910, Mr. Halley
married Miss D'Light Devor, of Greenville, and they have one son, William
E. Halley, Jr.

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X-Message: #3
Date: Mon,  3 May 1999 14:46:31, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: BAYARD GRAY - DARKE COUNTY


BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887  - Page 547-548

        BAYARD GRAY, the present efficient postmaster of Portland, is a
native of Darke County, Ohio, born July 8, 1855, and is a son of Hon. Isaac
P. Gray, the resent Governor of the State of Indiana. In the year of his
birth his parents settled in Union City, Randolph County, Indiana, and here
he passed his youth. His father is a native of Chester County,
Pennsylvania, and followed banking and merchandising until 1869, when he
adopted the profession of law. Bayard Gray attended the schools of Union
City, preparing himself for college, and in 1870 he entered the Freshmen
class of the State University at Bloomington, Indiana, but did not complete
his course at that institution. Later he attended Asbury College, now De
Pauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana, from which he graduated in the
class of 1876. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the bar
in 1878, when he engaged in the practice of law at Union City. He followed
his law practice at that place until coming to Portland, September 3, 1881,
at which time he purchased the Portland Sun and assumed control of that
paper. Under the management of Mr. Gray the paper was highly prosperous,
its circulation being greatly increased, and its influence widely extended.
Though not a practical printer he possesses a natural adaptation to the
publishing business, which with his fine literary attainments, renders him
a successful editor. April 2, 1885, he was appointed postmaster of Portland
to succeed Nimrod Headington, his commission bearing the date April 23,
1885, and December 14, 1885, he sold the Sun, and has since devoted his
time to the duties of his office, becoming a popular postmaster. Mr. Gray
is an active politician. His name is frequently mentioned in connection
with the Democratic Congressional nomination to be made the ensuing year.
September 1, 1887, Emerson McGriff, of Winchester, Indiana, ex-prosecuting
attorney, and the subject of this sketch formed a partnership at Portland
for the practice of law. The firm has admirable prospects.

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X-Message: #4
Date: Mon,  3 May 1999 14:46:26, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: LAFAYETTE RAPE - DARKE COUNTY


BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 - Page 390-391

        LAFAYETTE RAPE, farmer, residing on section 23, Wabash Township,
was born in Darke County, Ohio, February 7, 1845. His father, Lewis Rape,
was born in Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley, in 1796. His father, Jacob
Rape, was born in the northern part of France, and came to America as a
soldier under Marquis de Lafayette, serving in the Revolutionary war. After
the war he settled in Virginia and went to farming. He married a widow,
Mrs. Catherine Howels, who died, leaving four children, three sons and one
daughter. He removed to Ohio about 1808, and was one of the first settlers
of Preble County. He remained in that county until his death, which
occurred October 20, 1831. He was a member of the Presbyterian church.
Lewis Rape was married in Preble County, Ohio, July 2, 1835, to Miss Maria
Cummings, who was born in New Jersey in 1808, and went to Ohio with her
parents in 1818. Her father, William Cummings, was born in New York State,
and was also an early settler of Preble County. He was a descendant of the
Old Dutch families of New York. The mother was of Scotch-Irish descendant
of the Old Dutch families of New York. They had five children, two of whom
are living -Lafayette and Charlotte S. The father was a member of the
Presbyterian church. The mother was formerly a Presbyterian, but afterward
became a member of the United Brethren church. The subject of this sketch
was reared on his father's farm, and September 14, 1861, enlisted in
Company G, Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry, serving in West Virginia. He
participated in several small engagements; was severely wounded near the
Falls of Kanawha, in Virginia, and after leaving the hospital, returned to
his company. He remained with them until March, 1863, when, owing to the
effects of his wound, he was sent to the hospital at Louisville, Kentucky,
and served as clerk in the hospital during that summer. In October, 1863,
he was transformed to the Veteran Reserve Corps. being on duty at Detroit,
Jackson and Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received his final discharge at
Detroit, Michigan, October 14, 1864. He now draws a pension. Upon receiving
his discharge Mr. Rape returned to his home in Ohio, where he remained one
year, and spent the next year in traveling in the West. He visited Iowa,
Minnesota and Wisconsin, after which he returned home and engaged in
farming. He sold the old farm in 1872, and came, accompanied by his mother,
to Adams County, arriving at his present home December 1, 1872. His farm
contains 238 acres, 120 of which are under cultivation and 180 are fenced.
In addition to attending to his farm he is engaged in selling agricultural
implements and machinery in the town of Geneva. He was married in August,
1875, to Sarah E. Buckly, who was born in Shelby County, Ohio, February 17,
1857. They have had six children -Lewis E., Perry D. (deceased), Benjamin
F. W., Nelly, Jesse C. and Elmer F. Mr. Rape takes an active interest in
public affairs. He held the office of township clerk, in Ohio, which he
resigned to come to Indiana. In 1878 he was elected trustee of Wabash
Township and served three terms. In politics he is a Republican, and has
been a member of the Republican Central Committee about one year. He is a
member of John P. Porter Post, No. 83, G.A.R.

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X-Message: #5
Date: Mon,  3 May 1999 14:46:21, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: J.B. JAQUA - DARKE COUNTY


BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company 1887 - Page 691

        J.B. JAQUA, of Portland, a member of the bar, and one of the most
active and enterprising citizens of Jay County, was born in Darke County,
Ohio, in the year 1820, a son of Judson and Lucinda (Braffit) Jaqua,
natives of New York and Pennsylvania, respectively. His grandfather,
Gamaliel Jaqua, was born in the State of Connecticut, and his grandfather,
James Braffit, was a native of Massachusetts. Until attaining the age of
nineteen Mr. Jaqua was reared to agricultural pursuits. He was educated
principally at the academy at Centerville, Indiana, and for four or five
years followed school teaching, and during his leisure hours studied law.
After completing his legal course he was admitted to the bar in 1852, at
Hamilton, Ohio, and the following year came to Portland, where he has since
made his home, practicing law, farming and working for the material
interests of the community. Mr. Jaqua was married in 1848 to Miss Eliza J.
Avery, who was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1829, and died in Portland
in 1871. She was a daughter of Daniel Avery. Nine children were born to Mr.
and Mrs. Jaqua, six of whom are living -A.L. Genevra, wife of Nathan B.
Hawkins; J.A., M.Z., C.W. and F.B. Mr. Jaqua has done much toward building
up the town of which he is a citizen and is always interested in any
enterprise which tends toward the advancement of his county. He in company
with others built a large flouring mill at Portland; erected the Hawkins
House, and established the Citizen's Bank; also built two good business
rooms opposite the Citizens Bank, and has given his aid toward various
enterprises. He personally superintends the cultivation of about 300 acres
of land, and has an interest in 300 or 400 acres more. Between the years
1857 and 1860 he served two or three years as county school examiner, and
during the war of the Rebellion he was draft commissioner for Jay County.
He is at present a practitioner in law, and also cashier of the City Bank.

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X-Message: #6
Date: Mon,  3 May 1999 14:46:18, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: L.C. WARING - DARKE COUNTY


BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887  - Page 884

        L.C. WARING, agent for the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati & Louisville
Railroad, at Hartford City, is one of the best and most trustworthy agents
in the employ of this company, and although a young man, has proved a
capable and practical manager of the interests entrusted to him. He holds
prominent positions in both railroad and business circles, and is one of
the popular young men in the social circles of Hartford City. He was born
in Darke County, Ohio, January 25, 1862, a son of J.L. and Patience (Clary)
Waring, who were of English ancestry. When he was five years of age his
parents moved to Columbus, Mississippi, where he was reared. He was
educated at home by a governess. When but a youth he entered the employ of
the railroad company as a checkman, and from this position was promoted to
a clerkship in the general freight offices of the company, and from here
was advanced to the control of the Hartford City office.

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X-Message: #7
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:45:57 -0700
From: "Hollis G. Best" <"hgb@inreach.com"@inreach.com>
Subject: HOMER SHANK


From Jean Best
hgb@inreach.com

     HISTORY OF MEDINA CO., OH., (Baskin & Battery - 1881) page 821

     HOMER SHANK, farmer and stock-raiser; P.O. Chatham Center; was born Feb
19, 1829, in Chippewa Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, the eldest of a family
of thirteen children born to his parents.  His father is Rev. MICHAEL
SHANK, whose wife was BETSEY HYDE.  He was born June 4, 1805, in
Lancaster Co., Penn.  She was a daughter of HENRY HYDE, whose wife's
maiden name was MARY ASHBAUGH - all of whom are of German ancestry.  Of
HOMER's grandfather's family, they were six in number, four living -
MICHAEL, BARBARA, now Mrs. HYDE, of Montville Township; NANCY, now Mrs.
GISH of Lancaster, Penn.; and FANNIE, now  Mrs. GISH of Wayne Co.,
Ohio.  Of MICHAEL's family, HOMER, of this township; VALENTINE, PETER
and VINCENT, in Litchfield; MARY E., now Mrs. WITTER, in Des Moines Co.,
Iowa; Mrs. MORGAN FRANKS of this township; NARCISSA, now Mrs. WILSON, of
Wayne Co., Ohio; and HAMPTON, at St. Louis, Mich.  MICHAEL, the father
of HOMER, emigrated West when a young man, locating in Wayne Co., in
1827, where he married and cleared up a farm; he remained here until
1854, when he moved to Medina; remained four years, then returned to
Wayne Co., where he lived until about the year 1875.  His wife died in
1872; he has since married MERCY CARTER.  For forty years Mr. SHANK has
been one of the leading Ministers in the Regular Baptist Church, and has
now a church in charge at Penfield, where he now resides.  HOMER
remained at home until 25 years of age.  He was first married, April 6,
1854 to MARY OTIS, born in Sugar Grove Township, Wayne Co., in 1836,
daughter of JESSE and CHARLOTTE DAVY, he being a native of Vermont, and
she of New Jersey; they were among the early settlers in Wayne Co.  Mrs.
SHANK died Nov. 7, 1864, leaving one child - BERT - who was but six days
old at his mother's death.  His second wife was HANNAH PANNY, daughter
of Mrs. MERENA DAMON; she died leaving one child - RAY - born of this
marriage.  In June, 1873, he was married to Mrs. JENNIE WARE, who was
born in Harrisville Township, April 22, 1846, daughter of DARIUS and
NANCY (ROSA) SANFORD, who were natives of New York.  By this marriage,
two children have been born to Mr. SHANK - TRESSIE and EDITH.  Mr. SHANK
has 145 acres of land; his wife 46.  As a breeder and handler of
thoroughbred horses, Mr. SHANK takes the lead in Chatham Township.  He
is a breeder and trainer, his horses always commanding the highest
market price.  He recently sold General Hayes (of Hiatoga stock) for
$3,000.  Being an excellent judge, and understanding thoroughly his
business, he is adknowledged as the leading dealer in this part of the
county.

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