DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: HALLEY, WILLIAM ELMER (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Vol. III, Page 210

        WILLIAM ELMER HALLEY in recent years has become associated with
some of the most active groups of men and capital in Ohio, and beyond the
field of business his interest and influence have extended into politics.
He is a gifted political campaign manager and has conducted several
republican campaigns in the state.
        Mr. Halley was born in Darke County, Ohio, January 31, 1875, son of
Levi D. and Carrie L. (Vorhis) Halley. His mother is still living. As a boy
he attended a village school in his home county, and was graduated in 1895
from the Greenville High School. He also had several courses in a normal
school, and as a young man, in 1898, he volunteered and was with the Third
Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American war. For much of the
success he has achieved in later years, Mr. Halley is indebted to his early
training and experience as a newspaper man at Greenville, and he also
studied law, though he has never followed it as a profession. From 1907 to
1912 he served five years as postmaster of Greenville, receiving the
appointment from President Roosevelt.
        Since that year his home has been in Columbus. He was elected clerk
in 1914 of the Ohio State Senate, and filled that office for two years
during the Eighty-first General Assembly. In 1918 he was again elected for
the Eighty-third Session, and was reelected in 1920 for the Eighty-fourth
Session. At the close of the last term he retired, declining to be a
candidate in 1922.
        Mr. Halley was the campaign manager for Hon. Harry M. Daugherty in
the state wide primary campaign in 1916 for the republican nomination for
the United States Senate. In 1918 he managed the republican primary
campaign for Hon. Frank B. Willis for nomination for governor. In 1920 he
directed the primary campaign in Ohio for Senator Harding for the
presidential nomination.
        In the field of business Mr. Halley has organized some large and
industrial enterprises and is a member of an underwriters syndicate engaged
in purely financial enterprises. He had some valuable interests in
commercial and manufacturing organizations. January 2, 1910, Mr. Halley
married Miss D'Light Devor, of Greenville, and they have one son, William
E. Halley, Jr.


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