Mercer County OhArchives Biographies.....Grothjan, Anthony September 12, 1859 - December 22, 1939
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Source: History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, 1907
Author: S. S. Scranton

Anthony B. Grothjan, sheriff of Mercer County, is one of the leading business men 
of Celina, the proprietor of an extensive carriage and buggy-manufacturing 
concern, which stands as one of the old and reliable houses of this city. Mr. 
Grothjan was born in Auglaize County, Ohio, September 12, 1859, and is a son of 
John and Agnes (Vogelpole) Grothjan. 

Anthony B. Grothjan was reared in his native county and obtained a common-school 
education. His father was a farmer but his own inclinations led him to learn 
blacksmithing and he completed his apprenticeship to that trade and to the 
carriage-making trade, in 1875. In 1878 he settled in Mercer County and entered 
the employ of William Cron, with which manufacturer of wagons and carriages he 
remained seven years, at the expiration of which time Mr. Grothjan formed a 
partnership with John Hein, under the firm name of Grothjan & Hein, for the 
carrying on of a general blacksmithing and carriage-building business. This firm 
did an extensive business in the line above mentioned for a period covering 17 
years, at the close of which period Mr. Grothjan bought Mr. Hein's interest and 
has continued alone until the present. He gives employment to six competent 
workmen. 

Mr. Grothjan was married to Rose Leifeld, who is a daughter of William Leifeld, 
of Celina, and they have a family of six children: Agnes, Jerome, Eulalia, 
Lucile, Harold and Cletus. Mr. Grothjan is a consistant member of the Catholic 
Church. 

Politically Mr. Grothjan has always been a sound Democrat, and has been highly 
regarded by his party. He is well known all over the county as a man of business 
integrity and personal honor, and his election in November, 1906, to his present 
office was a public recognition of the same.

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