Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor; Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor, County of Williams, Ohio. Historical and biographical. With an outline sketch of the Northwest Territory of the State and Miscellaneous Matters, Illustrated (Chicago, F. A. Battey & Company Publishers, 1882), 632, 641. Page 632 SAMUEL E. FOUST, son of John and Christina (Ely) Foust, was born in Delaware County, Ohio, October 5, 1815. His boyhood was passed in Westfield Township, where he attended a district school until his eighteenth year, when he worked for and lived with his father until his marriage with Miss Cynthia Cutler, March 13, 1836, in Westfield Township. Mrs. Foust died in Montpelier in 1876, leaving eleven children-Andrew, Edwin, Electa, Belinda, Harry A., Ronat, James, Frank, John, Harriet and Lola. He married again, this time Mrs. Hannah Lewis, but without issue. Mr. Foust conducted asheries in Cardington and Westfield Townships for many years. He then sold and went to Michigan, locating on 160 acres in Hillsdale County, all of which was wood. This he cleared and lived upon until 1865. Later, he was in the dry goods trade at Montpelier for three years, which he sold to his partner, and bought a farm of 100 acres. He was elected Trustee in Morrow County for five years continuously. WILLIAM P. FOUST, son of John and Dorcas (Place) Foust, was born in Delaware, now Morrow County, Ohio, March 13, 1827. During the boyhood of our subject, he attended the usual schools at Westfield, Ohio, and remained on the home farm until grown to manhood. He was married, in Mount Gilead, Ohio, November 14, 1850, to Miss Amy Payne. Our subject followed farming and the huckstering business as well as carpentering for many years; he was also enrolling officer in Westfield Township during the war, having been, on account of ill-health, rejected for active service for which he volunteered. He now began the practice of dentistry, having extracted teeth with his father when but fourteen years old. After receiving instructions in plate work from Mr. Thomas, of Morrow County, he exercised his art at various points until, in the spring of 1882, he came to Montpelier and began business with his son, Morgan, in a very proper manner, and they are successful. Mr. and Mrs. Foust have had six children-Morgan, Milton, Mary, Minnie, Minerva (deceased) and Bird. Mrs. Foust is the daughter of Austin and Lucinda (Lyons) Payne, natives of Vermont and now residing in Sunbury, Delaware Co., this State, the father being about ninety-three years of age and still quite strong and active. Page 641 JACOB LEU is a native of Switzerland, where he was born near Baden May 24, 1832. His parents, George and Annie M. Leu, were Swiss natives, and ended their days in their Fatherland. Jacob received his education and fourteen years' business experience in the dry goods line before emigrating to America. He came, in 1860, to Waterville, Ohio, where he accepted a clerkship, and remained five years, when he began business for himself at Bryan, Ohio, in dry goods and general merchandise, which he has since followed, with some changes to Butler, Ind., Pettisville, and Wauseon, Ohio, removing from the latter place to Montpelier in 1873, which has since been his home. Here the partnership consists of Messrs. Jacob and Frank Leu, the last-named brother residing in Chicago. They carry a large stock valued at $20,000, and do an extensive business, which Mr. Leu's life-long experience and natural ability combine to make a success. Mr. Leu was married in Montpelier, in June, 1806, to Miss Mary A. Foust, a daughter of S. E. and Lucinda Foust, all natives of Ohio. Mrs. Foust passed away in Montpelier. Mr. Foust is s resident of Superior Township. Mr. and Mrs. Leu's family consists of seven children-Frank, William, Delbert, Ida, Elizabeth, Judson and Albert. Mr. Leu has served as Town Clerk for six years, and is at present Town Treasurer, and member of the Board of Education, for which his natural and acquired attainments eminently fit him. He speaks three languages, viz., German, English and French. Portrait and Biographical Album of Hillsdale County, Michigan, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representativec Citizens of the County, Together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. (Chicago, Chapman Brothers, 1888), Michigan County Histories and Atlases, Page 695. EDWIN FOUST came to his present farm of forty-eight acres, on section 19 in Jefferson Township, in 1870. Upon the theory of Horace Greeley, that a moderate amount of land well cultivated is more desirable than a large extent partially neglected, he has labored with most excellent results. In addition to the raising of the cereals and vegetables for his household use he has given considerable attention to the breeding of live stock, and has been finely prospered, besides having one of the neatest and most attractive homesteads in the township. As a member of the community he is held in high respect, having proved himself a first-class citizen, and without openly professing Christianity has endeavored to do unto others as he would that they should do unto him. Our subject, who is in the prime of life, was born in Morrow County, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1840. His parents, Samuel and Cynthia (Cutler) Foust, were natives respectively of Ohio and Vermont, the father having been born in Delaware County, Oct. 5, 1815. He also followed farming and merchandising to some extent, besides owning and operating a potash and pearlash factory. He left the Buckeye State in 1853, and coming to Michigan purchased land, a part of which lay in Cambria and a part in Jefferson Township, and which now belongs to our subject. The parental household included twelve children, eight of whom are living, three in Michigan and five in Ohio. Samuel Foust endorsed Republican principles after the organization of that party, and in religious views was a Baptist. He cast his last vote in the fall of 1887, and died Jan. 14, 1888, in Williams County, Ohio, to which he had returned to live in 1873. The mother is also deceased. The boyhood and youth of Edwin Foust were spent mostly at his father's farm, and he received a common-school education. He commenced life for himself upon reaching his majority, and was married when past the thirty-third year of his age, Dec. 1, 1873, to Miss Elizabeth Cope, who was born April 30, 1840, in Marion County, Ohio, and is the daughter of Abram and Elizabeth Cope. After his marriage he worked his father's farm seven years, and in 1870 purchased twenty acres, and subsequently added to his real estate by the further purchase of twenty acres. Hie is the father of two children only: His daughter Etta, who was born Jan. 8, 1865, was married to John Watkins, a well-to-do farmer of Jefferson Township, and they have one child; the son, Judson, was born July 26, 1875, and is now taking a course of study in the Montpelier (Ohio) graded school. Mr. Foust, like his father, is a Republican, politically, and is one of those upright and straightforward citizens who universally command respect among their neighbors. History of Morrow County and Ohio: containing a brief history of the state from its earliest settlement. (186 Dearborn St., Chicago, O. L. Baskin and Co., Historical Publishers, 1880), 635 http://books.google.com/books?id=dQMwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 635 Westfield Towship FREDERICK CUTLER, deceased; Frederick Cutler was born Dec. 12, 1829, in Vermont, and came to Westfield Tp. when a small boy, receiving the customary advantages of that day. He went with the great tide to California in '49, and after a year's absence returned with about $1,200 in gold, which he immediately invested in the farm where his widow now resides. At his country's call he early joined the 65th O. V. I., remaining in the service three years; while in the army his first wife died, and he married first a sister of Mrs. Cutler, and after her death, the present Mrs. Cutler, then Miss Maria Peak, a native of Westfield Tp., whose parents, Daniel and Clarissa Peak, came to Ohio from Vermont in 1825, and settled about a mile and a half west of Westfield. Mrs. Cutler received the best education the schools of that day afforded; her parents, with the characteristics of New England people, exercised a pious care for the education of their children. Mr. Cutler, dying in Jan., 1879, left the management and care of the estate and family entirely in her hands, which she is ably conducting, and educating the four children of her own, and four of her sisters', on her fine farm of 200 acres. Union Historical Company, St. Joseph, Missouri, The History of Buchanan County, Missouri: containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens, Buchanan County in the late war, general and local statisics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of Missouri, map of Buchanan County, etc., etc, Illustrated (St. Joseph, Missouri, St. Joseph Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., 1881), 719, 720. Page 719 E. L. Cutler & Bro., dealers in staple and fancy groceries. This reliable house was established in the spring of 1881. Mr. E. L. Cutler, the senior member of the firm, was born in Delaware, now a portion of Morrow County, Ohio, October 8, 1842, and when twelve years of age migrated to Michigan, his father, S.B., locating with his family in Hillsdale County. There he engaged in farming, and the subject of the sketch made it his home until 1862, when he tendered his services to the Union cause, enlisting in Company F, Eighteenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Was in the Athens engagement, and other notable engagements of the war; was honorably discharged after serving three years and two months. In 1866, the family removed to Atchison County, Kansas, where the father, Mr. S.B. Cutler, resided until 1878, when he took up his abode in St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1870, E. L. engaged in the manufacture of brick, at Troy, Kansas, continuing until 1873, when he became an officer in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, in which capacity he acted seven years, and during three years he was yard master. He married, in 1866, Miss Mary Putnam, of Hillsdale County, Michigan. They have three children: Jennie M., Cora E. and Mabel May. He is a member of the I.O.O.F. Mr. C. W. Cutler, the junior member of the firm, was born in Morrow County, Ohio, February 18, 1854, and when quite young, removed to Hillsdale County, Michigan, with his parents, residing there until 1866. Then the Page 720 family migrated to Atchison County, Kansas, where our subject was raised to manhood, and educated. His early days were spent in tilling the soil. In 1874, Mr. Cutler received the appointment in the penitentiary, at Leavenworth, as an officer, the duties of which he discharged until embarking in mercantile pursuits, in St. Joseph. He is a member of the I.O.O.F. [Note: The father's name was Silas Borman Cutler. ja]