See also
Husband:
Redden S. WEISEL (1849-aft1907)
Wife:
Martha J. PETTY ( -1895)
Marriage:
Feb 15, 1877
Marion County, Ohio1
http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Marion/Marriages/marr8wyz.htm [extracted on 12/5/2003]
MARION COUNTY, OHIO - MARRIAGES - VOLUME 8 (W-Y-Z)
(Feb1874-Dec 1882)
The age of consent for a male was 21 and a female 18
Extracted by Allen L. Potts - January 23, 1999
Name Name MARRIAGE DATE OFFICIATOR
Weisel, Belle
Gast, Noah C. - not 21 produced consent of father
8/9/1877
Rev. B. J. George
Weisel, Redden S.
Petty, Martha J.
2/15/1877 - License obtained by Samuel F.McNeal
Rev. A. D. Matthews - Methodist
Weisel, Sophia
Howison, Charles W.
8/6/1878
Rev. B. J. George
Name:
Redden S. WEISEL
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
Sep 9, 1849
New Jersey
DOB from the biographical sketch in "History of Marion County 1907"
Residence:
btw 1852 and 1883 (age 2-34)
Prospect Township, Marion County, Ohio, USA
http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Marion/History1883/mhw1883.htm [extracted on 12/5/2003]
THE HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY, OHIO
1883 - By Leggett, Conaway & Co.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
REDDEN S. WEISEL, (Prospect Township) steam saw mill, and lumber dealer,
Prospect Village. Mr. Weisel is a native of New Jersey, and born September
9, 1847, a son of Joseph and Mary (Smith) Weisel. He was brought by his
parents to Prospect Township when but two years of age. At twenty years of
age, he commenced business on his own account, and the fall he was
twenty-one he bought a steam saw mill in Pleasant Township, which he
operated for three years, when he took in a partner. The firm also
manufactured tile. ran a cider mill, etc. This partnership was closed out
in 1879, During these years they had bought a thirty-horse power engine and
saw mill, which Mr. Weisel now owns and operates at Prospect Village. The
mill averages about 4,000 feet of sawed lumber per day. Mr. W. ships mostly
to Columbus and Cleveland. Mr. Weisel was married, in 1877. to Miss Martha
Pettey, of Green Camp Township. They reside in Prospect Village,
Census:
1880 (age 30-31)
Prospect Township, Marion County, Ohio, USA2
Occupation:
Lumber dealer; Prospect Township, Marion County, Ohio, USA1
Death:
aft 1907 (age 57-58)
Name:
Martha J. PETTY
Sex:
Female
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Death:
Apr 27, 1895
Marion County, Ohio1
History of Marion County, Ohio and Representative Citizens Edited and Compiled by J. Wilbur Jacoby, A. M. , Marion, Ohio Publishers: Chicago, Ill., May, 1907. http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Marion/History1907/MHW.htm (Internet source on Dec 5, 2003).
CHAPTER XXI.
A RETROSPECT .....................................................................................................................260
BIOGRAPHICAL .....................................................................................................................265
THIS IS THE REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS SECTION OF 1907 MARION COUNTY, OHIO HISTORY.
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS
MARION COUNTY, OHIO
1907 HISTORY
REDDEN SMITH WEISEL. an extensive lumber dealer of the village of Prospect,
is one of the oldest lumbermen of the county having been engaged in the
business for 37 years past. He was born September 9, 1849, in New Jersey
and has been a resident of this county since a child of two years, when he
came here with his parents, Joseph and Mary (Smith) Weisel.
Joseph Weisel was a native of Pennsylvania and a cooper by trade. Before
coming to Ohio he worked at his trade all through the State of
Pennsylvania, making tight barrels. Later on, when a resident of the
Buckeye State, he made shingles, shaving them out of oak. He became blind
just previous to his death, which occurred July 4, 1897, at the age of 80
years. His wife, Mary Smith, who was of Pennsylvania German descent, died
April 14, 1860, aged 40 years. To them were born seven children, as
follows: Elias, deceased; Tobias; Redden Smith; Mary, who married J. M.
Greek; Sophia, who married William Howison and after his death became the
wife of William Lust; Isabel, who married Noah Gast, a merchant at
Prospect; and Thomas, deceased.
Redden S. Weisel was about two years old when his parents moved from New
Jersey to Ohio in a one-horse wagon and still has the little chair in which
he sat during the trip. His father settled on a 25-acre tract of land in
Prospect township, about two miles west of Prospect. This land was covered
with timber and was very swampy on it there was an old sawmill, run by a
Mr. Finley, from whom lumber was secured to erect a plank house, which is
still standing. They cleared this land and made a productive farm out of
it. Mr. Weisel's mother died on this farm and he, his father arid brother
Tobias kept house for three years subsequent to her death, when his father
sold the farm and moved to Prospect, where he worked at his trade for the
remainder of his life.
Mr. Weisel experienced many hardships during his boyhood days,
especially after the death of his mother when he had to shift for himself
often finding it very rough sailing. His education was obtained during the
winter months when not engaged in farm work. In 1870 he engaged in the
lumber business with Henry M. Barnhardt, founder of the Marion Steam Shovel
Works, who then ran a sawmill north of Prospect, equipped with one
muley-saw. In the fall of 1871 Mr. Weisel bought his partner's interest and
continued to conduct the business alone until 1877. In the meantime, in
1874, he and John DeTurk bought a circular sawmill in Green Camp township
which they operated in connection with a cidermill and tile-yard that they
also owned. In 1879 they dissolved partnership, Mr. Weisel retaining the
sawmill, which he has since continued to operate, and which he moved to
Prospect in 1880. Mr. Weisel purchased his present residence property on
Water street in 1881 and the following year erected a fine, large, 10-room
frame house. He also owns other residence property in the village.
Mr. Weisel was married February 15, 1877, to Martha Petty, who died April
27, 1895. Our subject is a Democrat in politics, and is at present township
trustee. He was a member of the Village Council for a period of seven years
and also filled the office of township trustee back in the '90's.
Religiously, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
fraternally, is a member of Prospect Lodge, No. 483, 1. 0. 0. F., and also
of the Encampment of the same order.
1880 United States Federal Census, Ohio.
Prospect, Marion, Ohio, NA Film Number T9-1046, p. 103B
Redden S. WEISEL Self M Male W 30 PA "Saw Miller" PA PA
Martha J. WEISEL Wife M Female W 22 OH Keeping House OH OH