The Estrich Family

Charles M. Estrich in Biographical Record of Williams County, Ohio

The full biographical sketch as printed, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.

CHARLES M. ESTRICH, a prosperous farmer and highly re- spected citizen of Florence township, Williams county, O., is the son of Peter Estrich, mention of whom will be found elsewhere in this work. He was born on the farm which he now owns, on December 1, 1854. Here he grew to manhood and attended the district schools, receiving a fair common school education. On his farm of one hun- dred and seventy-three acres he follows general farming and stock raising. Being a man of push and enterprise, he has met with un- usual success in his business. The land has been brought to a high state of cultivation and the buildings that have been erected on it are of a substantial character. His thorough knowledge of stock, enables him to conduct that part of his business in a profitable way. In politics he has always taken a deep interest, believing it to be the duty of every good citizen to interest himself in the management of public affairs. I11 religious matters he is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church. On March 24, 1878, he chose as his life partner Miss Sarah Allomong, the daughter of John and Rachel (King) Allomong, mentioned elsewhere in this work. To Charles M. Estrich and wife there have been born four children, two sons and two daugh- ters. Ella C., the eldest, was born on February 11, 1879. After com- pleting the common school course of study, she graduated from the Tri-State Normal, at Angola, Ind. She is the widow of George Stackhouse and has one child, Wave! bv name. Willis A., the second child, born October 23, 1880, is also a graduate of. the Angola Nor- mal. Although he has been teaching school, lie contemplates taking up the study of law in the near future. Clark M., born April n, 1883, and John L., born September 29, 1885, arc at present attending the Normal School at Angola. Both have taught school with marked

It is evident that Mr. Estrich is determined to give all of his children a liberal education, the better to fit them for the active duties of life.

JOHN ESTRICH has made his home in Williams county from the time of his birth, representing a period of more than three score years, and he is one of the representative farmers of Florence town- ship, where he has a well improved farmstead of seventy-nine acres. He was born in Brady township, this county, on the 30th of August, 1843, and is a son of Peter and Katherine Elizabeth (Limbert) Es- trich, both of whom were born in Germany, whence they immigrated to America in 1841, landing in the city of Baltimore, from which point they went to Pittsburg, whence they came to Columbiana county, O., where they remained about one year, at the expira- tion of which they came to Williams county, taking up their residence in Brady township. About a year later, in 1843, they removed to Florence township and settled on the farm now owned by their son, Charles M. The father here reclaimed a large amount of land from the virgin forest, bringing to bear much energy and judgment and in due time reaping the generous rewards of his efforts and stren- uous labors. He passed to his reward in March, 1881, and his cher- ished wife passed away in 1890. They became the parents of ten children, of whom seven are living. The eldest son, Jacob, met his death while serving as a soldier in the Civil war, having been a mem- ber of an Ohio regiment. Peter Estrich originally exercised his franchise in support of the Democratic party, but when Lincoln was nominated for the presidency he espoused the cause of the Republi- can party, in whose ranks he ever afterward remained. Both he and his wife were earnest and consistent members of the German Meth- odist Episcopal church. Reared on the pioneer farm, John Estrich, subject of this sketch, found no lack of steady occupation during the days of his boyhood and youth, while to the common schools of the period he is indebted for the educational advantages which were his in the meanwhile. He continued to be actively associated in the work of the home farm until the time of the Civil war. and when twenty years of age, on the 23d of January, 1864, he enlisted as a private in Company C, Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he was in active service thereafter until the close of the war, having taken part in the Atlanta campaign and having been with Sherman on the ever memorable “March to the Sea.” and he was mustered out July 12, 1865, duly receiving his honorable discharge. Ever since the termination of his military career Mr. Estrich has been found valiantly arrayed in the ranks of a noble army of yeomen, having been consecutively identified with agricultural pursuits in his native county. His attractive homestead, comprising seventy-nine acres, is well im- proved and under effective cultivation, being one of the fine farm properties of Florence township, lie is held in high regard person- ally, and also as a member of one of the sterling pioneer families of the county, and is a ciitzen of worth and reliability. In politics he

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gives his allegiance to the Republican party, and both he and his wife are members of the German Methodist Episcopal church. Feb- ruary 20, 1870, stands as the date of Mr. Estrich’s marriage to Miss Rachel Ann Mark, who was horn in Columbiana county, O., April 23, 1849, being a daughter of Christian and Catherine (Hess) Mark, both of whom were born and reared in Germany. After their im- migration to the United States they lived for an interval in the state of New York, then coming to Ohio and taking up their abode in Columbiana county, whence they came to Williams county in Sep- tember, 1849, settling in Florence township, where Mr. Mark con- tinued engaged in farming until his death, which occurred March 8, 1901, at which time he was eighty-nine years of age. His wife died September 2, 1890, at the age of seventy-one years, ten months and twenty-one days. Of their eleven children eight are living. Mr. and Mrs. Estrich became the parents, of three children, of whom the first died in infancy, as did also the second, Mary Matilda. Charles Henry, who was born February 26, 1876, completed the curriculum of the public schools, and thereafter continued his studies in the Tri-State Normal College, at Angola, Ind., and the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, O., in which latter institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900. He was employed four years as a teacher, in the Tri-State Normal College, having previously taught for a number of terms in the public schools, beginning his pedagogic career when but fifteen years of age. He graduated in the department of Literature, Science and Arts at the celebrated University of Mich- igan, at Ann Arbor, Mich., and is now teaching in the State Normal School at Mount Pleasant. Mich. He married Miss Florence Moore, of Angola, Ind., and- they have one son, Arthur Raymond, born Jan- uary 19, 1904.

Source: Biographical Record of Williams County, Ohio. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.