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��homestead. His father, Mr. David B. Webber, was born in the State of Maine in 1800 ; came to Plymouth Township in 1817 ; the family located south of Plym- outh about two miles ; the county was but thinly set- tled at that time, and they were numbered among the pioneers of Richland Co., and have passed through all the hardships, privations, etc., incident to pioneer life and a new and unimproved country ; he has always been a farmer and a highly respected citizen. He was married in 1824 to Miss Lucy Conkling, of Plymouth Township; in 1837, they moved to their present farm, now owned by their son, Fred H., about three miles southwest of Plymouth ; when they came on to it, it was a dense forest, and, by hard and faithful labor, he suc- ceeded in making one of the finest farms in the Town- ship, and a very pleasant home. There were thirteen children in their family, and they are scattered from Plymouth to California; one son, Mr. M. Webber, is Postmaster at Plymouth, and another, Mr. T. J. Web- ber, druggist, in the same building. Mr. Webber died Nov. 5, 1874. Mrs. Webber is living at home with her son as above mentioned ; they have everything around them to make home pleasant and comfortable.

WESTFALL, HANEY, was born in Beverly, W. Va. May 27, 1796 ; in his early youth, he came West to Lancaster, Ohio, to live with his uncle, David Pugh, and with him served an apprenticeship at the tanning business; upon the breaking-out of the war of 1812, he enlisted in Capt. Housker's company, Ohio militia, and served until the close of the war; after the close of the war, he came to Man-field and worked in the tan-yard of his uncle, John Pugh, which was locat- ed just north of where the European Hotel now stands. He afterward removed to Plymouth, then- known as Paris, and engaged in the tanning business there for a number of years. Pie was married there to Hannah Concklin, who now resides with her daughter, Mrs. D. W. Gibbs, at Toledo ; he died Aug. 25, 1869, on his farm, one-half mile west of Plymouth. Mr. Westfall was a man of sterling integrity and most exemplary habits, and honest and upright in all his business relations. Politically, he was a Democrat of the old .Jackson kind, but, during the late civil war, differed from his old party on the question of the conduct of the war, but returned to the party at the close of the war and died in the political faith in which he was reared ; at the time of his death, he was a member of the Lutheran Church at Plymouth : he was a warm and intimate friend all his life of Father John Wiler and very seldom came to

��Mansfield without calling on his old friend. He left one son, Jacob Westfall, who resides on the old farm, and four daughters, all of whom are married and now living and located as follows : Mrs. Starr and Mrs. D. W. Gibbs at Toledo; Mrs. Nimmons at Butler, Ind., and Mrs. Whitehead at Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Westfall always took great pride in the growth and prosperity of the city of Mansfiehl ; the following taken from the fly leaf of his family Bible was penned by him a few years before his death and just at the close of the war of the rebellion, viz.: "I love my family and this Holy Book first, and my beloved Government of the United States second ; I hope to stand by her as long as I live ; I hope she will come out of her present trouble in triumph, and the Stars and Stripes wave over every foot of her territory, and that this blamed and wicked rebelling shall be put down never to rise again. May

1, 1864. H. WE.STFALL."

WOLF, M. L., miller, Plymouth; he was born in Ashland Co., Ohio, near Haysville, in 1854 ; he learned the trade when a very small boy ; he commenced when he had to stand on a half-bushel measure to pack flour in a barrel ; he came to Plymouth with his father, something over four years ago, and he and his father are counted as good ^en at their business as there is in the country, and their large business shows them to be men who thoroughly understand milling in all its branches. He was married in 1873 to Miss Messamore, of Wyandot Co.; they have two children — Florence Lulu, born Sept. 2, 1874 ; Charley, Sept. 20, 1879.

WOLF, HENRY, proprietor flouring mills, Plymouth ; he was born in York Co., Penn., near Little York, in 1831 ; came to Ohio in the spring of 1849 ; he learned the trade of milling, near Haysville, Ashland Co., Nov. 1, 1875; became to Plymouth, and first purchased and con- ducted a hotel in town, and, in April, 1876, he bought the mill ; it has four run of stones, and his mills are known throughout the community as turning out the best of flour ; the mill has been built nearly fifty years, and is perhaps one of the oldest mills in the county ; it has been rebuilt and remodeled, and does not look like the same old mill. Mr. Wolf was married in 1851, to Miss Carpenter, of Ashland Co.; they have three chil- dren — M. L., born in 1854; Barbara, in 1856.

WOLF, WILLIAM H., engineer and miller, Plym- outh ; he was born in 1858, and has always been in the mill with his father, and has learned the business, from engineering to milling, and is a steady, industri- ous young man.

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��BAILEV, JAMES H., farmer; P.O.Corsica; was born near Shelby, in this county, on July 4, 1830 ; his father removed from Adams Co., Penn., to Hamilton Co., Ohio, in 1819, and thence to this county in 1826, and, with his sons and other pioneers, aided in clearing

��up the forest and making old Richland what it now is. James H., when quite young, had earned enough by hard labor to purchase 7G acres near his father's farm, which he improved, and after the death of his father, in 1869, bought the old homestead ; in 1871, he sold both farms

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