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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   FRANCIS W. FIRMIN, M. D., Findlay, was born in Richfield, Summit Co., Ohio,
July 15, 1842, and is a descendant of pioneers of that name in Massachusetts,
who came to our shores in 1630, in the fleet with Gov. Winthrop, and followed
literary and mercantile pursuits. He is a descendant of Solomon De Firmin, who
followed the fortunes of William the Conqueror from Normandy, and settled at
Ipswich, England, in the eleventh century. His descendants number among them
leading ecclesiastics and preserve the original crest and shield with the motto
Firmus in Christo (Steadfast in Christ). The first records in this country show
Giles, John, Josiah, Robert and Thomas Firmin, of whom Giles practiced medicine
and preached the gospel, and died in Ridgewell, England, in 1697; John settled
in Watertown, Mass., and Thomas, who was a merchant, settled in Haverhill,
Mass., and removed to Salisbury, Mass., in 1652. Josiah Firmin came to Boston in
1640, and lived with Gov. Winthrop; Robert settled in Newton, Long Island, in
1645. The subject of this sketch comes in all probability from John of
Watertown, Mass. His father was Francis B., born in 1809, son of John, born in
1773, and he of John, born in 1713, at Somers, Conn., where his father lived.
Here there occurs a break in the genealogy, but cotemporaneous genealogy of its
different branches traces the ancestry to John Firmin, of Watertown. Dr. Francis
W. Firmin, a son of Francis B. and Mary (Chapin) Firmin, received a good
education in Wilbraham, Mass, (whither his parents had removed), and at Oberlin,
Ohio, in 1862-63. In 1862 he came to Ohio and engaged in the study of medicine
with his uncle, Dr. Lorenzo Firmin, and in 1867 he graduated from the Cleveland
Medical College. He located in Findlay, this county, and has been in very
creditable professional work here since. He married here in 1869, Mary L. D.,
daughter of the Rev. John A. Meeks, a pioneer minister of the Presbyterian
Church. They have four sons and one daughter: Alfred Scott, John Meeks, Clara
H., Frank B. and Carl Giles. Dr. Firmin was made a Mason in 1868 and is a member
of Findlay Lodge, Chapter and Council, and of Shawnee Commandery, at Lima, Ohio;
is also a worthy Odd Fellow and a member of the Patriarchs Militant. The Doctor
is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical
Association, and of the Northwestern Ohio Medical Association, and has been
United States Examining Surgeon for pensions since 1872. During the late war of
the Rebellion, July 15, 1863, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after doing service for eight months,
was honorably discharged. He is a member of Stoker Post G. A. R. Dr. Firmin has
always held himself aloof from public office, but has served with credit in the
councils of the city. He holds high rank in his profession; is a liberal
contributor to all measures tending to the development of the social and
industrial life of this locality, and is a public-spirited citizen. In politics
he is a Republican.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Findlay Township and Village




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