John K. Hare

As printed in 1884

JOHN K. HARE, County Commissioner, was born in Center County. Penn., July 18, 1819. His parents, Conrad and Anna M. (Spangler) Hare, were both natives of Pennsylvania, as were also several previous generations of the Hare family. Conrad Hare, wife and five children came from Pennsylvania to "Wayne County, Ohio, in 1823, and ten years later moved to Crawford Township, this county. Seven more children were born to them in this State; ten grew to maturity — Solomon, Susanna, Mary A.. John K., Levi, Lucetta, Margaret, Jonathan S., Rebecca, Samuel S. and Christopher S. The father died in 1847, aged fifty-six years; his wife lived to an advanced age. At twenty-one years of age, Mr. John K. Hare began work at monthly wages. At twenty-three he took contracts on the I., B. & W. R. R., and continued in this kind of work at intervals for about ten years. After four years in dry goods and grocery store at Patterson, Hardin County, he returned to farming. In 1867, he removed to Southwestern Missouri, where he cleared up a fine farm, and eight years later he returned to Ohio and resumed work on the old homestead in this township. Four years after this Mr. Hare moved to Carey and in 1881, was elected Commissioner of the county on the Democratic ticket. He owns forty acres of land in this township, and is discharging his official duties with credit. March 2, 1848, Mr. Hare was married to Mary Warner, who was born in Allegany County, N. Y., August 30, 1826. Her parents, David and Elmira Robins, were both of New York, and with them she came to Hardin County, Ohio, in 1836. Mr. and Mrs. Hare have had nine children, six of whom are still living: Almon W., Wilfred C, Sarepta A., Etta M. and Ella M. (twins) and Anna B. The deceased are John A., David O. and Celestia, twin to Sarepta. The whole family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1853 and 1854, Mr. Hare had a contract for grading twenty-one miles on the Eel River & Detroit Railroad west from Auburn, Ind., and was employing 150 workmen, when the company failed, causing him a loss of 15,000, being unable to obtain even a settlement.

As printed in The history of Wyandot county, Ohio, containing a history of the county: its townships, towns, churches, schools, etc.; (1884). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.