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HOFFMAN, G. W., jeweler and watchmaker, Plym- outh, was born Oct. 18, 1832, in Mansfield, Ohio. In 1844, the family moved to Plymouth, which then had a population of about four hundred. Soon after their arrival, Mr. Hoflman's father engaged in the jewelry and watch business, and for more than thirty-five years this business has been carried on by some member of the fiimily, and latterly by Mr. G. W. Hotfman, who now has one of the finest jeweh'y establishments to be found anywhere. His stock consists of watches, clocks, jewelry, in endless variety, guns and revolvers, also, watch repairing in all its branches. Store, south side of public square. Was married April, 1858, to Miss Frye ; they have two daughters — Bell, born in January, 1859; Maud, born in July, 1861.

HOLTZ, DR. SAMUEL S., homoeopathic physician, Plymouth, was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Oct. 24, 1850 ; was raised a farmer.,, In 1870, he attended the "Baldwin University," of Berea,.Ohio; graduated in pharmacy March 14, 1873 ; subsequent to graduating he began the study of medicine with Dr. J. M. Fackler, and received the degree of M. D. Jan. 17, 1877, at Pulte Homoeopathic Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio, after attending one term of lectures at Hahne- mann Homceopathic Medical College, of Chicago, 111., since which time he has been practicing with Dr. Fackler. Was married July 4, 1878, to Miss Mattie A. Flora; they have one child, born Aug. 8, 1879. The Doctor is a man of integrity, and an excellent physician. Office on Sandusky street.

KIEL, J. E., confectionery and grocery, was born in Philadelphia, Penn. In the spring of 1872, came to Plymouth and engaged in the manufacture of candies of all descriptions for the wholesale trade, which has proved to be a very profitable business. Mr. Kiel came from Mansfield to Plymouth ; the family came to Rich- land Co. thirty years ago, and they have seen old Rich- land when it was pretty wild, and are numbered aniong the early-settlers. His bakery and confectionery are on the north side of the square. Was married in March, 1872, to Miss Mary McCormick ; they have one child, Maud, born Feb. 1, 1876. Mr. Kiel is numbei'ed as one of Plymouth's reliable business men.

KIRKPATRICK, WILLIAM, farmer and stock-raiser; P. 0. Plymouth ; was born May 25, 1822, in Plymoutjh Township, where he has always lived ; he has traveled considerably, having visited most of the large cities of the United States ; his father came to Plymouth Town- ship in 1815 ; it was then almost an unbroken wilder- ness, there being only six families in the township, and but six little log cabins ; he entered his quarter-section of land from the Government, where his brother and mother now live ; after entering his land, he cleared ten acres and built a log cabin and then returned to Washington Co., N. Y., and was married in 1818, and moved, together with two or tl^ree other families, to Ohio ; they came by wagons ; they had two ox teams and two horse teams ; they came through part of Penn- sylvania, crossing the Alleghany Mountains ; were six weeks on the way from the time they started till they

��arrived in Richland Co. Mr, Kirkpatrick remembers hearing his father tell of the spring after they came here ; how and when he first got potatoes for seed, there being none in Plymouth Township, he and a neighbor concluded to go to Mansfield for some, and they started on foot, there being no roads, only a "trail" blazed through on the trees — by way of Truxville (now Ganges) then containing two or three houses ; they arrived in Mansfield, which then had only six houses, and a block-house for protection against the Indians, at that time very numerous in the county. They bought a bushel of potatoes, for which they paid $2, and shouldered their bushel of potatoes, and started for home, AVhen night overtook them, they lost their trail and had to lay out all night. They protected themselves from the wolves by building a fire of logs and brush, and laying by the side of the fire, the wolves would howl around them all night. But the worst of all was they had no supper, and nothing to eat but the potatoes, so. they roasted about a peck of them for their supper and breakfast. By hunting around for some lit- tle time, they succeeded in finding the trail for home, and arrived home in the evening. He remembers another incident of his father killing a big deer with a club. He was out hunting his cows as they ran in the ^oods with a bell on, as was the custom, and his dog started a deer which he chased till he got tired, when he turned to fight the dog, when Kirkpatrick came up and the buck came at him, and he told the dog to "take him," which he did, while Mr. K. killed him with a club, by a well-directed blow on the head. They used to go to church or to meetings held in an old log church, and would ride behind their ox teams. The first schoolhouse that was built in the township was on their old farm, it being built of logs, and the first teacher was Robert Mackelvey. Mr. Kirkpatrick attended his school, together with an older sister. In 1848, he moved to his present farm, three- quarters of a mile west of the old homestead. He has been Township Trustee two terms, and is now Land Appraiser for the township, and is perhaps one of the oldest citizens living in the township, who was born and raised in it, and is one of the best mfen in the county. Was married, in 1847, to Miss Elizabeth Emmerson, of Richland Co.; they have six children — Emaline, born Oct. 81, 1850 ; Harriet, March 30, 1853; John Albert, Dec. 8, 1856; Mary Elizabeth, Dec. 8, 1858 ; William Henry, Dec. 10, 1860 ; Franklin Ells- worth, Feb. 6, 1863.

LOCKWOOD, I. L., Agent B, & 0. R. R., Ply- mouth ; was born in Cincinnati in 1847 ; educated in Kentucky. He was connected with the general office of the B. & 0. R. R.; he commenced for the company in 1872, at Columbus, Ohio, where he remained about one year, when he went to Toledo, as Chief Clerk of the "Globe Line" offices, the B. & 0. R. R. Co. being at the head of the line, which position he held up to the time that he was appointed to the agency at Plymouth to take charge of their ofiBces, Dec. 1, 1874, the position he still holds to the satisfaction of the railroad company and the citizens generally. Mr. Lockwood is called one of the most gentlemanly agents on the railroad, and the company gave him credit for an increase of freight of over $14,000 in the last two

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