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��HINES, PHILIP, deceased; he was born in Frederick Co., Md., Dec. 1, 1785 : he was a soldier in the war of 1812, and in this connection went through Richland Co. He settled near Fredericktown after the war, where he resided a few years, and then moved into .TetFevson Township and remained through life. He was married to Lydia Root in 1815. She was born Aug. 20, 1796 ; children; Daniel was born Oct. 30, 1817; William, June 6, 1820; Thomas, June 2, 1822; George W., Sept. 9, 1824; Phillip, March 26, 1827; Benjamin F., Sept.

26, 1829 ; Washington, June 25, 1831 ; Hezekiah, Aug.

27, 1833: Henry J., Feb. 18. 1836; Joshua, April 2, 1839 ; Mary Jane, Sept. 6, 1845.

HINES, BENJAMIN F., farmer and dealer in boots and shoes, Bellville, Ohio. He was born in Jefferson Township, and bi'ought up on a farm ; he commenced to work at the shoe trade in 1840, laboring on a farm in the summer and on the bench during the winter. He located in Bellville in 1844, where he remained several years; he then went to Mansfield and worked on the bench about one year, where the First National Bank is located ; he finished his trade. He then returned to Bellville, and has kept a shoe store a greater part of the time since. For years, when he was acquiring a competency, he would labor hard upon the farm and make boots and shoes about half of the night. He was unexcelled as a rapid workman, and could make three pairs of common boots in a day, and do it every day in the week. He is now doing an extensive business in the sale of boots and shoes, andconsiderable manufact- uring. Besides the shoe business, he continues to give his farm careful attention, and maintains his posi- tion as one of the progressive farmers of the commu- nity. He commenced life with an industrious hand and economical habits, and gathered here and there until his property valued many thousand dollars ; being economical, he was also generous, and wherever a united effort was made to do a charitable work, or a work depending upon donations, he was ready to ren- der valuable assistance. ^Nlr. Hines was born Sept. 26, 1829, and was married to Mary Jane Armstrong Aug. 6, 1850 ; they have one child, C. Burton, who was born Feb. 16, 1860.

HEINDEL, GEORGE MATHIAS, clergyman ; was brought up on a farm in York Co., Penn.; he attended a union school until the summer of 1869, when he entered the Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, and finished the classical course in 1874, and graduated in the theological department in 1876. In November, 1876, he came to Bellville and took the Salem Lutheran charge, which consists of three congregations, two of which are now in this county and one in Morrow. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1851, who settled near Springfield, Ohio. Mr. Heindel was born Feb. 28, 1851, and married June 21, 1877, to Mart hie Wise, who was born in Bucyrus, Ohio, and brought up there. They have two children, Mary Estella, born March 9, 1878, and one in 1879. Mr. Heindel is a lover of study, and applies himself diligently to the profession that he has chosen. He is logical and argumentaiive in his speak- ing, and reverence to the Supreme Being characterizes all his religious labor.

HISKEY, ENOCH, born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Sept. 30, 1814 ; he came with his parents to Perry

��Township in 1839, and settled. He was brought up on a farm, and gave his attention to agriculture. On June 25, 1840, he was united in matrimony to Nancy A. Shuler; she was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Aug. 28, 1820, and came to Ohio in 1840: they then moved on Sec. 11, Perry Township, where they resided until 1875, when they moved into a dwelling which he erected near the Salem Lutheran Church in Jefferson Township. Mr. Hiskey united with the Salem Lutheran Church in 1860, and his wife a few years after. Their children, in the order of their ages, are Margaret Ann, born April 9, 1841 ; George S., Dec. 8, 1842 ; Jeremiah, June 12, 1847 ; Sarah Samantha, Jan. 10, 1850; Mary A., March 13, 1853: Ann Eliza, Aug. 6, 1855 ; Oliver, Sept. 20, 1858. Jere- miah died Oct. 14, 1850; Sarah S., April 21, 1851. Mr. Hiskey owns 158 acres of land in Perry Township and 181 in Jefferson. In 1879, he erected another dwelling-house on his Perry Township farm.

HOOVER, SIMON, farmer; he owns 218 acres of land, which he has under the best cultivation, and is well improved. His farm is a part of Sec. 1. He was born in Maryland, where his father, Henry H., and mother were also born, and when he was 4 years of age they migrated to Ohio and settled first in Washington Township. They next moved on the land where the subject of this sketch now resides, which was then all under timber. In an early day, a tree fell upon one of his brothers and killed him, which his father had chopped off; it was near the present site of his res- idence. Mr. Hoover's father was born Sept. 29, 1790, and died on his birthday in 1856. Mr. Hoover was born Sept. 19, 1828. Louisa Timanus was born in Mansfield, Ohio, April 5, 1829. They were married March 20, 1851 ; their children are Emeline, who died in childhood ; Albert, born Nov. 7, 1852; Hulbert and Charles (twins), Sept. 23, 1854 ; Hulda, Aug. 5, 1857 ; Lincoln, April 10, 1860; William, May 8, 1862; Sher- iden, March 28, 1865; Cyrus, Nov. 22, 1867; Samuel, May 29, 1869; Jennie, Sept. 11,1872. Cyrus died .June 28, 1868 ; Samuel, Oct. 10, 1873. After marriage, Mr. Hoover lived upon his grandfather's farm six years, and then upon the farm he now owns. He, his wife and two children are members of the Lutheran Church, and he is an Elder. Two of his sons attended the Mans- field Normal School the winters of 1879-80, and the elder one is preparing to teach. Mr. Hooveris a mem- ber of a family of eleven children, six boys and five girls. His mother died June 20, 1879, aged 79 years and 17 days.

HOWARD, OTIS. Was born ia Walda, Me., March 23, 1817; he there learned the carpenter trade ; in the fall of 1838, he came to .Jefferson Township, and for some time worked at wagon-making and house carpen- try ; he then engaged in agriculture, and continued at it until 1860, when he commenced to manufacture churns, which received his attention about five years : in the year 1865, he came in possession of the saw-mill across the creek from the depot in Bellville, and in con- nection operated a planing-mill and turning machinery ; he gave this his attention till 1875, when his son suc- ceeded him, and lie again took to making churns, and doing a line of miscellaneous carpentering. Mr. How- ard entered into the matrimonial state with Rebecca

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