EPHRIAM GAVER was born February 5, 1820 in Frederick Cty, MD, and died June 21, 1899 in Wyandot Cty, OH. He married FELINDA MELISSA SMITH September 21, 1856 in Belevue, Calhoun Cty, MI, daughter of DENNIS SMITH and ABIGAIL JUNE. She was born January 20, 1840 in Cayhoga, OH, and died February 14, 1904 in Eden Twp, Wyandot, OH (LDS).
Notes for EPHRIAM GAVER:
Ephriam came to OH from MD when he was 12 yrs old and worked as a farm hand with a family near Tiffin, OH for year after he arrived. He stayed with them for 16 years but also educated himself. In fact he graduated from the Ohio Academy (later to become Heidelbery University in Tiffin). He even taught a couple of terms.
Later he became a lawyer and was admitted to the bar but never really practiced law-other than giving advice to friends and aquaintances. The reason, he felt he could not represent a guilty criminal or unjust civil client!
In 1845, Ephriam left Tiffin and settled in Wyandot Cty, OH where he bought 80 acres of land at $3.00 an acre. Years later he recieved a letter from a New York law firm informing him that he had inherited an estate in the Netherlands (from his mother's side) but would have to live in the Netherlands to claim it. He wrote back saying that "he wouldn't trade his 80 acres in Ohio for the whole blankety-blank country! and not to bother him any more with the matter".
He had the reputiation of being able to:
"do anything he set his hand to, making his tools to build his own and another mansion, compete with hand-carved woodwork.. he was a lawyer and had been a teacher of advanced mathematics, and a farmer whose wheat crop never failed.
Notes for EPHRIAM GAVER:
Ephriam came to OH from MD when he was 12 yrs old and worked as a farm hand with a family near Tiffin, OH for year after he arrived. He stayed with them for 16 years but also educated himself. In fact he graduated from the Ohio Academy (later to become Heidelbery University in Tiffin). He even taught a couple of terms.
Later he became a lawyer and was admitted to the bar but never really practiced law-other than giving advice to friends and aquaintances. The reason, he felt he could not represent a guilty criminal or unjust civil client!
In 1845, Ephriam left Tiffin and settled in Wyandot Cty, OH where he bought 80 acres of land at $3.00 an acre. Years later he recieved a letter from a New York law firm informing him that he had inherited an estate in the Netherlands (from his mother's side) but would have to live in the Netherlands to claim it. He wrote back saying that "he wouldn't trade his 80 acres in Ohio for the whole blankety-blank country! and not to bother him any more with the matter".
He had the reputiation of being able to:
"do anything he set his hand to, making his tools to build his own and another mansion, compete with hand-carved woodwork.. he was a lawyer and had been a teacher of advanced mathematics, and a farmer whose wheat crop never failed.
EPHRIAM GAVER was born February 5, 1820 in Frederick Cty, MD, and died June 21, 1899 in Wyandot Cty, OH. He married FELINDA MELISSA SMITH September 21, 1856 in Belevue, Calhoun Cty, MI, daughter of DENNIS SMITH and ABIGAIL JUNE. She was born January 20, 1840 in Cayhoga, OH, and died February 14, 1904 in Eden Twp, Wyandot, OH (LDS).
Notes for EPHRIAM GAVER:
Ephriam came to OH from MD when he was 12 yrs old and worked as a farm hand with a family near Tiffin, OH for year after he arrived. He stayed with them for 16 years but also educated himself. In fact he graduated from the Ohio Academy (later to become Heidelbery University in Tiffin). He even taught a couple of terms.
Later he became a lawyer and was admitted to the bar but never really practiced law-other than giving advice to friends and aquaintances. The reason, he felt he could not represent a guilty criminal or unjust civil client!
In 1845, Ephriam left Tiffin and settled in Wyandot Cty, OH where he bought 80 acres of land at $3.00 an acre. Years later he recieved a letter from a New York law firm informing him that he had inherited an estate in the Netherlands (from his mother's side) but would have to live in the Netherlands to claim it. He wrote back saying that "he wouldn't trade his 80 acres in Ohio for the whole blankety-blank country! and not to bother him any more with the matter".
He had the reputiation of being able to:
"do anything he set his hand to, making his tools to build his own and another mansion, compete with hand-carved woodwork.. he was a lawyer and had been a teacher of advanced mathematics, and a farmer whose wheat crop never failed.
Notes for EPHRIAM GAVER:
Ephriam came to OH from MD when he was 12 yrs old and worked as a farm hand with a family near Tiffin, OH for year after he arrived. He stayed with them for 16 years but also educated himself. In fact he graduated from the Ohio Academy (later to become Heidelbery University in Tiffin). He even taught a couple of terms.
Later he became a lawyer and was admitted to the bar but never really practiced law-other than giving advice to friends and aquaintances. The reason, he felt he could not represent a guilty criminal or unjust civil client!
In 1845, Ephriam left Tiffin and settled in Wyandot Cty, OH where he bought 80 acres of land at $3.00 an acre. Years later he recieved a letter from a New York law firm informing him that he had inherited an estate in the Netherlands (from his mother's side) but would have to live in the Netherlands to claim it. He wrote back saying that "he wouldn't trade his 80 acres in Ohio for the whole blankety-blank country! and not to bother him any more with the matter".
He had the reputiation of being able to:
"do anything he set his hand to, making his tools to build his own and another mansion, compete with hand-carved woodwork.. he was a lawyer and had been a teacher of advanced mathematics, and a farmer whose wheat crop never failed.
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