. A standard history of Williams County, Ohio; an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial, industrial, educational, civic and social development; . has had dealings, but also in the building up of a good business andthe accumulation of a good property. J. E. Alspaugh, manager of the Stryker Lumber Company, atStryker, Ohio, is a native son of the Buckeye State, having been bornon his fathers farm, about sixteen miles southeast of Columbus,Franklin County, on July 14, 1867. He is a son of Jonathan andChristiana (Beartsch) Alspaugh, the forme
. A standard history of Williams County, Ohio; an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial, industrial, educational, civic and social development; . has had dealings, but also in the building up of a good business andthe accumulation of a good property. J. E. Alspaugh, manager of the Stryker Lumber Company, atStryker, Ohio, is a native son of the Buckeye State, having been bornon his fathers farm, about sixteen miles southeast of Columbus,Franklin County, on July 14, 1867. He is a son of Jonathan andChristiana (Beartsch) Alspaugh, the former a native of Van WertCounty, Ohio, and the latter born in Franklin County on the samefarm where the subject was born. Jonathan Alspaugh was rearedto manhood in Van Wert County, and at the outbreak of the Civilwar he offered his services in defense of the Union, enlisting in theForty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which heserved three years. After his return from the army, he moved toFranklin County and engaged in farming, becoming the owner ofsixty acres of land in Van Wert County, Ohio, on which he carriedon general farming operations. He was an earnest supporter of the ^flBfe. HISTORY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY 67 republican party and served as assessor of Wilshire Township. Hewas a member of the Presbyterian Church and was affiliated with theMasonic order. To him and his wife were born eight children, sixof whom are living, namely: J. E., the immediate subject of thissketch; Louisa, the wife of Elmer Coffman; O. A., of Cuyhoga Falls;E. H., a physician of Wilshire, Ohio; Bertha L., wife of Fred Heard-ering, of Anderson, Indiana, and Gracie, a stenographer in Chicago. J. E. Alspaugh was about one year of age when the family movedto Van Wert County, Ohio, and there he was reared and secured hiseducational training in the public schools. He spent his summers inworking on the home farm until he had attained his majority, whenhe engaged in farming for about seven years.
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