CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - BIO: H. M. DEAL (1881)

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CRAWFORD COUNTY
HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, p.731 
CHICAGO
BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS
186 DEARBORN STREET
1881

BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO

H. M. DEAL, P. O. Bucyrus, is the son of Martin and Sarah Lilley Deal, and was born Dec. 26, 1854 in Bucyrus.
He attended school here until his 18th year, and attended the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1875. He next became
assistant clerk in his fathers manufactory of smutters, remaining in this position two years. In 1878, he became
general manager of the establishment, which position he now holds. They have about six hundred local agencies in
the United States and Canada, also in South America and London, England. The annual shipping capacity is from
60,000 to 75,000. Then are making thirty-six different styles of machines for cleaning grain. Mr. Deal is a partner
in Deal's Improved Wheat Heater, which has proved lucrative, and is also the manufacturer and sole proprietor of
Deals Corundum Polisher a tool for cutting, leveling and polishing the furrows and face of millstones which has a
precedence among such inventions. He was married Sept. 12, 1876, to Emma Rowse, daughter of Horace Rowse,
of Bucyrus.