Walter H. Hoskins

As printed in 1915

WALTER H. HOSKINS.

Approximately one hundred million people come under the influence of the American educational system, and millions are yet to come under the influence of this system. A few realize their maximum potentialities as citizens of the republic, as workers in the home. In the fields and in the marts of trade. An almost unbelievable majority of the people never rise above the plane of superficial thinking and lackadaisical effort. Far too many fall to attain a higher state of culture because they are unwilling to take modest beginning. A few men have profited lu a large degree by our educational system, and Walter H. Ilosklus, a splendid young farmer of Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, owes his success lu a large measure, no doubt, to the careful and scientific training he received In the public schools of Clinton county and at Wilmington College.

Walter II. Hawkins was born on his fathers farm on the Tort William pike in the Dover neighborhood of Union township, November 28, 1882, a son of Rev. Josephus and Emily (Gallluiore) Ilosklus.

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Walter H. Hoskins attended the Dover district school near his home and later became a student at Wilmington College. He worked with his father ou the farm until his marriage, and then rented a farm for a few years, and In 1!H)7, purchased seventy-four acres of the old General Denver farm lu the Dover neighborhood of Union township. At the time he purchased the laud, it was nearly all covered with timber and there were no fetu-cs. Mr. Hoskins has built a new house and barn, and has since erected a garage. He cleared the land of Its timber and erected fences and Improved the place generally. Here he carries on general farming and makes a specialty of raising early lambs, which are dressed and shipped to New York for "baby mutton," and for which fancy prices are received. He also feeds a large number of hogs, being very successful in his live stock business. He bits been the local agent for the Regal Automobile Company for some time and has sold a large number of these machines. Mr. Hoskins Is considered a very successful young farmer, and has a beautiful farm with neat and attractive grounds.

On Septemtter 7. lfM>4. Walter H. Hoskins was married to Florence I'belle, a native of Wilson township. Clinton county. Ohio, a daughter of Ellas and Annetha (Creamer) I'belle, and lo Ibis union one child has Iveen born, Robert, who was born on February 11. 1!MK>.

Mrs. Hoskins' father. Ellas Hicks I'belle, was born April 5. 1S4.1. In Wilson township. Clinton county. Ohio, and Is a son of Reuben and Emily (Corcornn) Peelle. the former of whom was Inirn in Wilson township, and who gave each of his four sons one hundred acres of land, and each of his daughters uu equal value In money. The family were all members of the Friends church. Ellas Hicks Peelle married Armetba Creamer, who was born in 1847, in Fayette county, Ohio, and who died in 1909. She was a daughter of Simon and Anna (Johnson) Creamer, the former a native of Fayette county, Ohio, where he was a prominent farmer and an Influential member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Hoskins' father is a retired farmer, and for two years has been a resident of Whittier, California. He formerly lived near the corner of Fayette. Clinton and Green counties, Ohio, where he had a farm of one hundred and eighty-nve acres of land. He Is a member of the Friends church and retired from active farm life in 1904. removing at that time to Wilmington, and in 1913 to California. Mrs. Hoskins, who was the fourth child born to her parents, is one of five children, the others being: Dr. F. A. I'belle, of Wilmington; Delaware C, a farmer living in I'nlou township; May. who Is a trained nurse living with her father; and Pearl T.. who is the wife of Kurritt Hlatt. of Wilmington.

Mr. Hoskins has a birthright membership in the Dover meeting of the Friends church. He is a Republican and is well known nnd popular In Clinton county.

It may prove a bit of Interesting information to the many friends of Sullivan D. Chancellor, proprietor of the well-known Chancellor saw-mill at Wilmington, this county, to learn from the following biographical sketch of that popular manufacturer, that he Is a lineal descendant of William the Conqueror's first chancellor. Though Mr. Chancellor is not much given to vaunting his descent, his family having been so long established In this country as to lose that high measure of consideration for distinguished ancestry which marks social relations in Europe, the facr of this distinguished descent is so Interesting from a genealogical point of view that the biographer Is taking the lilierTy to make reference to the same here, regarding it as a very proper point to be brought out in a historical and biographical work of this character.

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Sullivan D. Chancellor was born on a farm in Chester township. Clinton county. Ohio, on September 10. lSr>5. the son of William and Abigail.1. (Colvim Chancellor, the former of whom was born In Virginia In the year and the latter of whom was born in Warren county, this state. In the year lv->7. William Cham-el lor was the son of Ilyrocelus and Rebecca (Rowel Chancellor, both natives of Virginia, who. In 1N43. emigrated from Virginia to Ohio, locating in this county, where for about twelve years Ilyrocelus Chancellor taught school, engaging in farming during the periods of the summer vacations. In the winter of 1:Vr> !" ', the Chancellor family moved from this county to Oxford, Indiana, where Ilyrocelus Chancellor and his wife spent the remainder of their days.

William Chancellor was eighteen years of age when his parents emigrated from Virginia to this county. He taught school for several years and was married in this county to Abigail J. Colvlu, daughter of John and Margaret (Neil) Colvtn. the former

As printed in History of Clinton County, Ohio: Its People, Industries and Institutions (1915). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.