Representatives of four generations.

On the picture, which accompanies this article, we bring [you] the representatives of four generations. The root is our old friend Felix Huber, who currently makes his home in Hicksville. His daughter Mrs. Seneca Wonderly in Mark Township represents the second generation, the third is his granddaughter Mrs. Simon Kissabeth and the fourth his great-grandson, Olin Kissabeth, ?so quietly looking on in the picture.

Friend Huber also belongs among the German pioneers of Defiance county. He was born on 8 May 1824 in the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. In his younger­ years he learned linen weaving, and along with that, farming. As an 18 year-old youth he came to this so apparently tempting land and settled first in Butler county in southern Ohio. There on 9 November 1848 he entered into holy matrimony with Miss Felicitas Fechter, and in late 1863 moved to a farm of 120 acres in Mark Township, which he bought from his brother Anton. Of this farm, which he worked up to the year 1896, Mr. Huber still owns 115 acres.

His long held wish to retire, Mr. Huber realized in 1896, when he moved to Hicksville. There, on 17 November 1899, died his companion of more than half a century, and since then his two daughters Helene & Emma Huber have managed the household. That he lives a ?contemplative [peaceful] life, the writer of these lines was able to witness on a visit, that he had with his old friend in his home last summer. Of his eight children, besides the two aforementioned daughters, still living: Mrs. Ludwig Klein [Maria Regina] in Hicksville, the Mrs's Seneca Wonderly and Henry Balser [Catherine] in Mark, Mrs. Joseph Miller [Agatha] in Hicksville Township, and Michael Huber in Mark. Additional descendants include 20 grandchildren and one great grandchild [Olin Kissabeth].

Father Huber has borne the burden and heat of the day, but has honored his name (Felix, the happy one) and remains in good humor up to today. Loved and honored by children and grandchildren, physically and mentally fairly hale as he is, his old age is a good one. May it remain so for many years.