Samuel Wiest

As printed in 1913

SAMUEL WIEST.

Agricultural interests of Wyandot county are well represented by Samuel Wiest, who owns and operates a well improved and valuable tract of four hundred and ninety-three acres in Pitt township. He was born in Marion county, August 20, 1857, and is a son of Christopher and Mary (Wilt) Wiest, the former a native of Germany and the latter of France. The father was born in the town of Basel in 1824 and was nine years of age when he came to America. His family settled in Ohio and there he grew to manhood, following farming during his active career. He passed away in 1900, having survived his wife since December 18, 1889. In their family were twelve children: Samuel, of this review; Lena; Caroline, who died in infancy; Louisa, Barbara, John, Caroline, the second of the name; Christina; Christopher, who passed away at the age of twenty-four; Maggie, Charles, and one child, who died in infancy.

Samuel Wiest attended the public schools of Little Sandusky until he was eighteen years of age and after laying aside

his books spent three years upon his father's farm. At the end of that time he purchased land of his own, buying one hundred and twenty acres in Hardin county, upon which he resided for nine years, trading it finally for eighty acres in Antrim township, Wyandot county, a portion of the farm upon which he still resides. Since that time he has added to his holdings until they now comprise four hundred and ninety-three acres, lying in Pitt township. Upon this property he has made substantial improvements in buildings and equipment and each year fine harvests of hay, com, wheat and oats reward the care and labor he bestow upon the fields. Mr. Wiest gives much of his attention to stock-raising, keeping fourteen horses, one hundred and fifty hogs and five hundred sheep and making a specialty of breeding and raising high-grade Shorthorn cattle.

On the 24th of July, 1881, Mr. Wiest married, at Larue, Ohio, Miss Martha Alice Verden, a daughter of Henry H. and Mary (Ettecker) Verden. Mrs. Wiest passed away August 16, 1911, leaving one son, Floyd, who married Nellie Beers, of Marion county, by whom he has one child, Thelma M.

Mr. Wiest gives his allegiance to the democratic party and has served with ability and conscientiousness in various official positions, having been for twelve years township trustee, for seven years treasurer of the school board and for twelve years a school director. He belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees and is affiliated also with the Farmers Mutual Protective Association of Wyandot county. His strong and salient characteristics are such as under him to all who come within the close circle of his friendship and wherever he is known be is respected and honored.

As printed in Past and present of Wyandot County, Ohio; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement; (1913). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.