spouse: Eliz Markley 1829-1904 buried 385A d/o Horatio & Nancy (Link) Markley
parents: John C & Mary (Link) Teel
Railroad: from page 98 of the 1933 History of Sulphur Springs: "In 1868 the village became interested in a railroad that was to pass the north side of the village. Geo W Teel laid out a number of lots on the south side of his farm where the depot was to be located." The railroad did not materalize, losing out to New Washington and Tiro.
George W. Teel was born in Ashland, Ohio, on May 16, 1821, and he was a son of poor but honest and industrious parents. At teh age of ten years, having received but a limited education, he went to work in the brick-yard of John Moffit, where he remained for two summers, and during the two following seasons drove a team on the Ohio canal. Later he engaged in farm work at various places in Stark county, for several years. In the meantime his father, John C. Teel, had removed to Guernsey county and purchased a small farm. George managed this property for some two years, while his father worked at his trade of blacksmith. In his seventeenth year he taught school in Wayne county during one winter, and also followed the same occupation in his nineteenth year. After this he attended the Ashland Academy for one term of five months and then engaged in clerking for one year in a general store, in Benton, Holmes county. In 1842 he removed to Navarre, in Stark county, and from April to July engaged in the business of buying horses, which he took to Canada and sold to the British officers.
Mr. Teel removed to Crawford county in August, 1843, and purchased the George W. Galloway farm, on which he resided to the time of his death. For fifteen years he taught school in Sulphur Springs, and vicinity and conducted the first English school ever taught in the Broken Sword district. After this the residents never wished to support a German school in that locality. In 1844, for a period of six months, he was engaged in the mercantile business in Sulphur Springs, with a Mr. Allen, the establishment being known as The Great Western Shore. In 1862 he was appointed revenue assessor of Crawford county and served in this capacity for nine years, and during the fall of 1872 he was employed by the A. & L. E. R. R. as collecting agent for the corporation, continuing with the company in this capacity for three years.
In the spring of 1877 Mr. Teel removed his family to Bucyrus and was engaged one year as assignee in settling up the business of Osman & Woodside. The family removed to Crestline in the spring of 1878 and remained there some twelve months and then returned to the farm in Liberty township. During this time, however, Mr. Teel still continued in Bucyrus as a partner in a carriage establishment. He served some years as secretary of the Crawford County Farmers' Fire Insurance company, and was also purchasing agent for the Ohio Central Railroad Company, being agent for this corporation, and also for the old A. & L. E. R. R. He secured nearly all the right of way for the roadbed from the coal fields of Toledo, including the depot grounds, which were purchased in the '70s, in that city. Mr. Teel was also instrumental to a great extent in securing the guarantee fund for over one hundred thousand dollars subscribed, in 1880, by the company, along the route as a local aid to its completion. With Messrs. D. W. Swigart, C. Fenton, S. R. Harris and James B. Gormly, he succeeded in the enterprise of getting the machine-shops bill passed by the legislature and was a member of many organizations requiring a man of integrity.
Mr. Teel died on July 19, 1889. In 1882 he had had a premonition, being stricken then with paralysis and then gave up his position with the railroads and retired to live on his farm. He enjoyed seven years of quiet life before the end came. He was an active member of the Republican party, and had been connected with the English Lutheran church for many years. His death was widely lamented, as he had been one of the most public-spirited men that Crawford county ever possessed. Seven of his eight children still survive, viz: Leander; Jared, of Mansfield; Laura L., the wife of Milton Ebert, of Elyria, Ohio; Ellen, the wife of Ernest Michaelis, of Spokane, Washington; George, of North Robinson, Ohio; Horatio M., in the electric light business in Seattle, Washington; and Frances, the wife of Grant Zerbe, of Sandusky. Jennie, the second child, passed away.
parents: John C & Mary (Link) Teel
Railroad: from page 98 of the 1933 History of Sulphur Springs: "In 1868 the village became interested in a railroad that was to pass the north side of the village. Geo W Teel laid out a number of lots on the south side of his farm where the depot was to be located." The railroad did not materalize, losing out to New Washington and Tiro.
George W. Teel was born in Ashland, Ohio, on May 16, 1821, and he was a son of poor but honest and industrious parents. At teh age of ten years, having received but a limited education, he went to work in the brick-yard of John Moffit, where he remained for two summers, and during the two following seasons drove a team on the Ohio canal. Later he engaged in farm work at various places in Stark county, for several years. In the meantime his father, John C. Teel, had removed to Guernsey county and purchased a small farm. George managed this property for some two years, while his father worked at his trade of blacksmith. In his seventeenth year he taught school in Wayne county during one winter, and also followed the same occupation in his nineteenth year. After this he attended the Ashland Academy for one term of five months and then engaged in clerking for one year in a general store, in Benton, Holmes county. In 1842 he removed to Navarre, in Stark county, and from April to July engaged in the business of buying horses, which he took to Canada and sold to the British officers.
Mr. Teel removed to Crawford county in August, 1843, and purchased the George W. Galloway farm, on which he resided to the time of his death. For fifteen years he taught school in Sulphur Springs, and vicinity and conducted the first English school ever taught in the Broken Sword district. After this the residents never wished to support a German school in that locality. In 1844, for a period of six months, he was engaged in the mercantile business in Sulphur Springs, with a Mr. Allen, the establishment being known as The Great Western Shore. In 1862 he was appointed revenue assessor of Crawford county and served in this capacity for nine years, and during the fall of 1872 he was employed by the A. & L. E. R. R. as collecting agent for the corporation, continuing with the company in this capacity for three years.
In the spring of 1877 Mr. Teel removed his family to Bucyrus and was engaged one year as assignee in settling up the business of Osman & Woodside. The family removed to Crestline in the spring of 1878 and remained there some twelve months and then returned to the farm in Liberty township. During this time, however, Mr. Teel still continued in Bucyrus as a partner in a carriage establishment. He served some years as secretary of the Crawford County Farmers' Fire Insurance company, and was also purchasing agent for the Ohio Central Railroad Company, being agent for this corporation, and also for the old A. & L. E. R. R. He secured nearly all the right of way for the roadbed from the coal fields of Toledo, including the depot grounds, which were purchased in the '70s, in that city. Mr. Teel was also instrumental to a great extent in securing the guarantee fund for over one hundred thousand dollars subscribed, in 1880, by the company, along the route as a local aid to its completion. With Messrs. D. W. Swigart, C. Fenton, S. R. Harris and James B. Gormly, he succeeded in the enterprise of getting the machine-shops bill passed by the legislature and was a member of many organizations requiring a man of integrity.
Mr. Teel died on July 19, 1889. In 1882 he had had a premonition, being stricken then with paralysis and then gave up his position with the railroads and retired to live on his farm. He enjoyed seven years of quiet life before the end came. He was an active member of the Republican party, and had been connected with the English Lutheran church for many years. His death was widely lamented, as he had been one of the most public-spirited men that Crawford county ever possessed. Seven of his eight children still survive, viz: Leander; Jared, of Mansfield; Laura L., the wife of Milton Ebert, of Elyria, Ohio; Ellen, the wife of Ernest Michaelis, of Spokane, Washington; George, of North Robinson, Ohio; Horatio M., in the electric light business in Seattle, Washington; and Frances, the wife of Grant Zerbe, of Sandusky. Jennie, the second child, passed away.
spouse: Eliz Markley 1829-1904 buried 385A d/o Horatio & Nancy (Link) Markley
parents: John C & Mary (Link) Teel
Railroad: from page 98 of the 1933 History of Sulphur Springs: "In 1868 the village became interested in a railroad that was to pass the north side of the village. Geo W Teel laid out a number of lots on the south side of his farm where the depot was to be located." The railroad did not materalize, losing out to New Washington and Tiro.
George W. Teel was born in Ashland, Ohio, on May 16, 1821, and he was a son of poor but honest and industrious parents. At teh age of ten years, having received but a limited education, he went to work in the brick-yard of John Moffit, where he remained for two summers, and during the two following seasons drove a team on the Ohio canal. Later he engaged in farm work at various places in Stark county, for several years. In the meantime his father, John C. Teel, had removed to Guernsey county and purchased a small farm. George managed this property for some two years, while his father worked at his trade of blacksmith. In his seventeenth year he taught school in Wayne county during one winter, and also followed the same occupation in his nineteenth year. After this he attended the Ashland Academy for one term of five months and then engaged in clerking for one year in a general store, in Benton, Holmes county. In 1842 he removed to Navarre, in Stark county, and from April to July engaged in the business of buying horses, which he took to Canada and sold to the British officers.
Mr. Teel removed to Crawford county in August, 1843, and purchased the George W. Galloway farm, on which he resided to the time of his death. For fifteen years he taught school in Sulphur Springs, and vicinity and conducted the first English school ever taught in the Broken Sword district. After this the residents never wished to support a German school in that locality. In 1844, for a period of six months, he was engaged in the mercantile business in Sulphur Springs, with a Mr. Allen, the establishment being known as The Great Western Shore. In 1862 he was appointed revenue assessor of Crawford county and served in this capacity for nine years, and during the fall of 1872 he was employed by the A. & L. E. R. R. as collecting agent for the corporation, continuing with the company in this capacity for three years.
In the spring of 1877 Mr. Teel removed his family to Bucyrus and was engaged one year as assignee in settling up the business of Osman & Woodside. The family removed to Crestline in the spring of 1878 and remained there some twelve months and then returned to the farm in Liberty township. During this time, however, Mr. Teel still continued in Bucyrus as a partner in a carriage establishment. He served some years as secretary of the Crawford County Farmers' Fire Insurance company, and was also purchasing agent for the Ohio Central Railroad Company, being agent for this corporation, and also for the old A. & L. E. R. R. He secured nearly all the right of way for the roadbed from the coal fields of Toledo, including the depot grounds, which were purchased in the '70s, in that city. Mr. Teel was also instrumental to a great extent in securing the guarantee fund for over one hundred thousand dollars subscribed, in 1880, by the company, along the route as a local aid to its completion. With Messrs. D. W. Swigart, C. Fenton, S. R. Harris and James B. Gormly, he succeeded in the enterprise of getting the machine-shops bill passed by the legislature and was a member of many organizations requiring a man of integrity.
Mr. Teel died on July 19, 1889. In 1882 he had had a premonition, being stricken then with paralysis and then gave up his position with the railroads and retired to live on his farm. He enjoyed seven years of quiet life before the end came. He was an active member of the Republican party, and had been connected with the English Lutheran church for many years. His death was widely lamented, as he had been one of the most public-spirited men that Crawford county ever possessed. Seven of his eight children still survive, viz: Leander; Jared, of Mansfield; Laura L., the wife of Milton Ebert, of Elyria, Ohio; Ellen, the wife of Ernest Michaelis, of Spokane, Washington; George, of North Robinson, Ohio; Horatio M., in the electric light business in Seattle, Washington; and Frances, the wife of Grant Zerbe, of Sandusky. Jennie, the second child, passed away.
parents: John C & Mary (Link) Teel
Railroad: from page 98 of the 1933 History of Sulphur Springs: "In 1868 the village became interested in a railroad that was to pass the north side of the village. Geo W Teel laid out a number of lots on the south side of his farm where the depot was to be located." The railroad did not materalize, losing out to New Washington and Tiro.
George W. Teel was born in Ashland, Ohio, on May 16, 1821, and he was a son of poor but honest and industrious parents. At teh age of ten years, having received but a limited education, he went to work in the brick-yard of John Moffit, where he remained for two summers, and during the two following seasons drove a team on the Ohio canal. Later he engaged in farm work at various places in Stark county, for several years. In the meantime his father, John C. Teel, had removed to Guernsey county and purchased a small farm. George managed this property for some two years, while his father worked at his trade of blacksmith. In his seventeenth year he taught school in Wayne county during one winter, and also followed the same occupation in his nineteenth year. After this he attended the Ashland Academy for one term of five months and then engaged in clerking for one year in a general store, in Benton, Holmes county. In 1842 he removed to Navarre, in Stark county, and from April to July engaged in the business of buying horses, which he took to Canada and sold to the British officers.
Mr. Teel removed to Crawford county in August, 1843, and purchased the George W. Galloway farm, on which he resided to the time of his death. For fifteen years he taught school in Sulphur Springs, and vicinity and conducted the first English school ever taught in the Broken Sword district. After this the residents never wished to support a German school in that locality. In 1844, for a period of six months, he was engaged in the mercantile business in Sulphur Springs, with a Mr. Allen, the establishment being known as The Great Western Shore. In 1862 he was appointed revenue assessor of Crawford county and served in this capacity for nine years, and during the fall of 1872 he was employed by the A. & L. E. R. R. as collecting agent for the corporation, continuing with the company in this capacity for three years.
In the spring of 1877 Mr. Teel removed his family to Bucyrus and was engaged one year as assignee in settling up the business of Osman & Woodside. The family removed to Crestline in the spring of 1878 and remained there some twelve months and then returned to the farm in Liberty township. During this time, however, Mr. Teel still continued in Bucyrus as a partner in a carriage establishment. He served some years as secretary of the Crawford County Farmers' Fire Insurance company, and was also purchasing agent for the Ohio Central Railroad Company, being agent for this corporation, and also for the old A. & L. E. R. R. He secured nearly all the right of way for the roadbed from the coal fields of Toledo, including the depot grounds, which were purchased in the '70s, in that city. Mr. Teel was also instrumental to a great extent in securing the guarantee fund for over one hundred thousand dollars subscribed, in 1880, by the company, along the route as a local aid to its completion. With Messrs. D. W. Swigart, C. Fenton, S. R. Harris and James B. Gormly, he succeeded in the enterprise of getting the machine-shops bill passed by the legislature and was a member of many organizations requiring a man of integrity.
Mr. Teel died on July 19, 1889. In 1882 he had had a premonition, being stricken then with paralysis and then gave up his position with the railroads and retired to live on his farm. He enjoyed seven years of quiet life before the end came. He was an active member of the Republican party, and had been connected with the English Lutheran church for many years. His death was widely lamented, as he had been one of the most public-spirited men that Crawford county ever possessed. Seven of his eight children still survive, viz: Leander; Jared, of Mansfield; Laura L., the wife of Milton Ebert, of Elyria, Ohio; Ellen, the wife of Ernest Michaelis, of Spokane, Washington; George, of North Robinson, Ohio; Horatio M., in the electric light business in Seattle, Washington; and Frances, the wife of Grant Zerbe, of Sandusky. Jennie, the second child, passed away.
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