Aaron LEININGER 6/3 (1850 - 1939)
(George Sr. 5/7, Johan Jacob II 4/1?, Johan Jacob 3/1?, Johan Frederic 2/1?, Johan George 1/1?)
MARRIED: Emma J. BASE (Feb. 27, 1853 in Jefferson Co., Ohio - June 27, 1914 in Archbold,
Futon Co., Ohio) on July 2, 1875.
CHILDREN:
George A. LEININGER, 7/1 (1876 - 1955)
MARRIED: Ida UNKNOWN (b. abt 1877 in Ohio
Laura Orpha LEININGER, 7/2 (1878 - 1947)
MARRIED: Vern B. BAILEY (b. Feb 1872 in Michigan)
Harvey Alvin Leininger, 7/3 (1880 - 1944)
Hulda Emile LEININGER, 7/4 (b. Jan 1887 in Ohio)
MARRIED: John F, SCHLAPFER (abt 1887 in Ohio - ?) about 1920.
Floyd F. LEININGER, 7/5 (May 1894 in Ohio - 1952)
Old guy with bow tie is Aaron Leininger Born Nov.1850, Died 1939. He lived on Defiance Street in Archbold, OH with his daughter Hulda and her husband, John Schlapfer.Aaron was married to Emma in 1876.
(The following 3 photos are on Harvey's page)
The man in the hat is Aaron's son Harvey Arthur Leininger. I think he was born in 1882 and died in 1944. There is some mystery surrounding Harvey as to who he was married to, and how many times he was married. I know Aaron considered Harvey to be a scoundrel and a very black sheep. From conversations I overheard as a child between my father and Great Aunt Hulda regarding why my father was adopted when he was a baby, I don't believe Harvey and Maybelle were married and Maybelle couldn't support herself and an infant. Hulda wanted to take the baby in and raise him but Aaron forbade it, saying the baby was from "bad seed". Aaron arrranged the adoption and banned Harvey from the family. The 1900 Census has Aaron, Emma, Hulda age 13, Floyd age 8 and
no mention of Harvey, who would have been 18 (?) then.
The young man in the long tie is my father , Kenneth Lee Martin, probably in his teens.
The woman is Maybelle. Last name Aummon or Aumond. The band around her neck in the photo was caused by damage to the photo that I found and had repaired. I have a letter Maybelle wrote to Mrs.Martin asking if she could come to visit the baby soon. She was working in a restaurant full time and also going to school. Unfortunately the letter wasn't dated. I've no idea how old she was or where she was from. One of my aunts told me Maybelle died in a restaurant fire.
Trying to find more information about Harvey is interesting- conflicting dates and places.
Regards, Marilyn J. Martin Nathanson
Email: [email protected]
Details of the life of Aaron LEININGER 6/3:
BIRTH; November 4, 1850 in Ohio
LIVING: 9 years old and born in Ohio on the 1860 Census in German Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio
29 years old & born in Ohio on the 1880 Census in German Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio.
49 years old & born in Ohio on the 1900 Census in German Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio.
58 years old & born in Ohio on the 1910 Census in German Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio.
69 years old & born in Ohio on the 1920 Census in German Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio.
79 years old & born in Ohio on the 1930 Census in German Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio.
MARRIAGE: Emma J. BASE (1853 in Ohio - 1914), on July 2, 1875.
OCCUPATION: Wagon Maker
DEATH: April 23, 1939 in Archbold, Fulton Co., Ohio.
BURIAL: Pettisville Lutheran Cemetery, German Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio.
A Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio
Volume II, 1920
http://books.google.com
Page 224 in the book.
Aaron Leininger, who for more than forty-five years has been in independent business in Archbold, Fulton county, Ohio, as a wagon
maker and repairer is widely known throughout that section of Fulton county. The family was among the earliest pioneer settlers in
Archbold, and Aaron Leininger was for more than twenty years connected with the public administration of the neighborhood, being
deputy sheriff for sixteen years and marshall for four years. He has been responsible, useful citizen, and his friendship is esteemed by
many of the older residents.
He is a native of Archbold, born in the old Leininger homestead, which was located in the borough of Archbold, in 1850. The
family was originally from Alsace, France, and with the children of Aaron Leininger four generations have had residence in America.
Jacob, his grandfather, was the American progenitor of the family. He brought his wife and chidren, including George, then only eleven
years old, to America, and soon afterward came into the wild territory of Ohio, entering government land in Fulton county, his holdings
being situated where eventually grew the borough of Archbold. At the time he acquired it the land was a wildness, and the purchase price
was $1.25 per acre. He purchased eighty acres, the goverment deed for which is still in the possession of his grandson, Aaron, and in the
course of time, by dint of hard work and cheerful endurance of the rigors of piooneering life he cleared his acreage, bringing it into good
cultivation. George Leininger, son of Jacob and father of Aaron, grew to manhood and hardihood in the rugged environment of frontier
life, and as he grew in strength and years gave increasingc assistance to his father in the work of the family holding. Eventually he
succeeded to the property, and there raised his own family, including Aaron. George Leininger was a man of worthy characteristics,
steady of purpose and honorable in his actions. He had a good reputation in Archbold, and is still respectfully remembered by many
Achbold residents. He lived to a good old age, death not coming to him until 1914. He survived his wife, Nancy, by eighteen years, her
decease being in 1896. Both were buried in Archbold.
Aaron, their son, attended the log school house on the border of Archbold borough until he had reached the age of thirteen
years, gaining what general academic knowledge was possible in the somewhat primitive facilities of the distric at that time. After leaving
school he took to farming occupations there being more than ample work to fully occupy his time on the home farm. He remained at home
assisting his father, until his Twenty-first year, when he went to Bremen, Indiana, in order to learn the trade of wagon-making under his
uncle, Louis Theobald. He remained with his uncle for three years, qualfying as a journeyman, and as such he worked in various places
during the succeeding two years, following which he spent about twelve months at his trade in his native place, and then for thirteen
months he was in Toledo, and for seven months in Ottawa Lake, Michigan, after which he returrned to and settled in Archbold, in which
borough he has ever since been in business, a period of forty-six years of industrious and generally profitable business. It may safely be
stated that the majority of the agriculturists that come into Archbold are acquainted with Aaron Leininger. Most of them at some time or
other have done business with him, and those that have not, know him quite well by reputation, for he has been prominent inthe vicinity
for very many years. He has always been staunchly republican in his political affiliations, and has entered much into the civic movements
in the borough that has grown around his parental homestead. He was the city marshal of Archbold for four years and city councilman for
three years. For sixteen years he was deputy sheriff, under Sheriffs Blair, Shimberger and Rittenhouse.
Religiously Mr. Leininger is a member of the English Lutheran Church, and throughout his life he has been earnest in church
support. Generally he has proved himself to be a man always ready to enter personally and enthusiastically into movements that have the
welfare of the community as an object, and he has amply demonstrated his capability in public office. During the World war he showed a
worthy patriotism, following the progress of the nation in the war with close interest, and co-operating with the efforts of war workers in
his own community to accomplish the aim of the national administration in the various war fund campaigns.
On July 1, 1875, Aaron Leininger married Emma Base, daughter of Andrew and Frederica Base, of Pettisville. To them have been
born five children, all of which have been raised to healthy, useful manhood and womanhod, and all are now established in life, and in
independent state in various parts of the country. He with his brother Philip are doing well in Oklahoma, having large landed interests, and
being connected with one tract of Oklahoma land 119,000 acres in extent.
The parents of Emma BASE were Andrew BASE and Fredrika KONIA according to her death certificate.
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