Mahoning County OhArchives Biographies.....Neff, Calvin Carl July 14, 1878 - June 24, 1953
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Author: History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley Ohio

Calvin Carl Neff [1878-1953] 
[At age 43 in this bio sketch]
Calvin Neff, another representative of the fifth generation of the Neff family 
in Mahoning County, is a successful grocery merchant at Canfield, and has 
given nearly all his life to commercial lines.
He is one of the children mentioned in the story of his father, John E. Neff, 
on other pages of this publication. He was born on the old Neff farm east of 
Canfield, July 24, 1879, [sic 14 July 1879] and finished his education in the 
Northeast Ohio Normal School at Canfield. At the age of nineteen he went to 
work as clerk in the general store of Lynn, Brice & Company. His wages were 
five dollars a month. He remained with that concern seven years, and by that 
time his salary had been increased to twenty dollars a month. That was less 
than twenty years ago, and in the present dizzy era of high prices for 
everything in the Mahoning Valley it would appear that Calvin Neff was earning 
a great deal more than he was paid. Following that came a four year period 
which he spent on his father's old farm. March 14, 1911, he engaged in his 
present business at the old Huxson [sic Huxsaw] location. His father was his 
business associate at the beginning. In 1919 Mr. Neff bought the real estate, 
had the building thoroughly overhauled, and the value of the store property 
alone is now six thousand dollars. It occupies the choicest central location 
in the village. Mr. Neff carries a stock of goods valued at five thousand 
dollars, and each year has seen a steady and satisfactory increase of sales. 
Mr. Neff is a democrat in politics and is affiliated with the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows. For several winters past he and his wife have gone to 
Florida. In July, 1911, he married Alura [sic Aulurah] H. Harding, daughter of 
George and Lucretia (Musser) Harding. Her father, now deceased was a retired 
resident of Canfield.

Source:
History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley Ohio - Vol II p 85:2
By Jos. G. Butler Jr.
Vols. I, II and III
Publishers: American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1921
Repository:
Canfield Public Library, Canfield United Methodist Church



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