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TAYLOR - HURON COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:56:41, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907291656.MAA10812@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: LEO R. MEYER - HURON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC., 1925 Volume III, page 184, 185 LEO R. MEYER. A taste for mechanics has been a leading factor in the pronounced success that has rewarded the business endeavors of one of Elyria's substantial young business men, Leo R. Meyer, president and treasurer of the Leo R. Meyer Motor Company, successor of the Elyria Garage Company. In early manhood other and profitable vocations awaited him, but he fortunately recognized his natural talents and took the trouble to develop them, and now is at the head of one of the most prosperous enterprises in his line in this section of Ohio. Mr. Meyer comes of old Ohio families. He was born at Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, June 21, 1887, and is a son of John W. and Josephine (Lais) Meyer, the former of whom was born at Havana, Huron County, and the latter of Monroeville, Ohio. The father was in the meat business, and conducted a market at Norwalk until 1905, and then transferred his interests to Elyria, where he continued in business some years under the name of the Elyria Provision Company, but now lives retired and is one of Elyria's highly respected citizens. Leo R. Meyer attended the grade schools and the high school at Norwalk, Ohio, until he was sixteen years old, when, having finally secured his father's consent, he became a machinist apprentice in the shops of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company, where he continued for four years, emerging well qualified and well satisfied. A little before this time his father had removed to Elyria, and subsequently the father and son became associated in business and conducted the affairs of the Elyria Provision Company for about five years, of which company Leo R. Meyer became president. Mr. Meyer then moved to Detroit, Michigan, where for eight months he was identified with the mechanical department of the Fisher Body Company and investigated along other lines in which he was interested, but in August, 1910, he returned to Elyria, acquired stock in the Elyria Garage Company and became its general manager and treasurer. Under his able and intelligent management the business was greatly developed, and in March, 1921, upon its merging into the Leo R. Meyer Motor Company, he was elected president and treasurer of the company. The other officers of the company are J. Ogden Meyer, vice president; Lillian G. Meyer, secretary; Leo R. Meyer, Jr., J.M. Shibley, Alvin John Meyer. The company are distributors of the Dodge Brothers motor vehicles and have been identified with this manufacture since their inception into the manufacturing and the marketing of their product under their own name since 1914. The company conducts a sales and service station in addition to dealing in automobile parts and accessories, carrying the most complete line of parts and accessories available in this district. Mr. Meyer is not only the responsible head of this company, but is, as it were, its dynamic force, his energizing spirit being shown in every department. His interests penetrate the owning of valuable real estate in Elyria and the county, and he is also identified with the Perry-Fay Company and the Lorain County Savings and Trust Company and numerous other corporations. Mr. Meyer married, on November 7, 1916, Miss Lillian G. Graver, who was born at South Amherst, Ohio, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Graver, who are natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer have three children, J. Ogden, Leo R., Jr., and Alvin John. Mr. Meyer is a republican in politics, but has never consented to accept any public office, although he has many friends and is a popular and respected citizen well qualified in many ways. He belongs to the Elks Lodge, to the Elyria Automobile Club and to the Automobile Dealers' Association of America. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:56:33, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907291656.MAA10796@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: MARK C. HENDRICKSON - HURON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, 1925 Volume III, page 88 MARK C. HENDRICKSON, one of the American veterans of the World war, who saw service of nearly all the battle fronts in France and Belgium, has since his return from overseas been a prominent factor in the real estate business in Columbus. He is one of the leading young men in that field. He was born in Florence Township, Huron County, Ohio, in 1896, representing one of the old families of that county. He attended the public schools at Norwalk, the county seat, and in 1917 graduated from Ohio University at Athens. Early in the spring of 1917 Mr. Hendrickson left the university to enter the first training camp for officers at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis. He was commissioned first lieutenant of infantry, and he had the fortune to be assigned duty with the First Division of the Regular Army. He was one of the first Americans to go overseas, sailing with the First Division in August, 1917. He was attached to the Sixteenth Regiment of the First Division, and was with the American forces for more than a year before the signing of the armistice. He was given two wound stripes. He was wounded by shell, also was gassed. Returning home he received his honorable discharge in July, 1919. After leaving the army Mr. Hendrickson took post-graduate work in Ohio State University at Columbus, and from there entered the real estate business. He is a member of the Galbreath-Hendrickson Realty Company, doing a general business in real estate. It is a firm noted for its aggressiveness and enterprise, and dominated by youth, enthusiasm and hard headed practical business. Mr. Hendrickson is one of the organizers and is secretary of the Mercator Club of Columbus. It is composed chiefly of young men in the different lines of profession and business, and has a representative membership on the same order as the Rotary. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Aladdin Country Club, and the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hendrickson married Miss Helen Laylin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laylin, of Norwalk. They are related to the Gallup and other prominent pioneer families of Huron County. They have one daughter, Ruth Anne. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:56:37, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907291656.MAA11060@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: WILLIAM L. FLETCHER - HURON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc. 196 Volume III, page 96 WILLIAM L. FLETCHER, who for one year held the office of service director in connection with the municipal government of Lorain, the important lake port city and metropolis of Lorain County, was born at Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, May 13, 1869, a son of William D. and Rachel C. (Lockwood) Fletcher, the former of whom was born in Erie County, Ohio and the latter in Wexford County, Michigan. The Fletcher family is of English lineage and has been established in the United States for many generations. William D. Fletcher was only forty years of age at the time of his death, and had been a substantial agriculturist and stock-grower near Norwalk, Huron County. His widow remained on the old home farm, of eighty acres for a number of years after his death, and she too is now deceased. Of the two children the subject of this sketch is the elder, the younger son, Anson, having died in childhood. After his high-school course in Norwalk William L. Fletcher took a commercial course in Oberlin College. As a youth he became a skilled telegraph operator, and as such was employed four years by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company. He then rejoined his mother on the old home farm, to the management of which he continued to give his attention until his marriage, in 1889. He then purchased a farm near Norwalk, and after continuing successfully the enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower during an interval of six years he accepted a position as conductor on the line of the Lake Shore Electric Railroad, for which he later became the general agent at Norwalk. In 1915 he removed to Lorain and found employment as a machinist in the electrical department of the shipyards, with which he continued his connection until 1920, when he became a salesman for Lorain City Mills. In this capacity he continued his effective service until his appointment to municipal office, that of service director. Mr. Fletcher is independent in politics, and in a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum. On the 9th of March, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Fletcher and Miss Anna C. Dipple, who was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fenner) Dipple. Mr. Dipple was born in Germany, came to the United States when young and eventually became an extensive farmer and fruit-grower in Huron County, Ohio, where also he conducted a dairy enterprise and was a successful raiser of live stock. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher have one son and one daughter: Rachel is the wife of R.H. Slater, of Lorain, and they have one daughter, Joan; Homer, who likewise resides at Lorain, married Miss Frances Geiger, and they have one child, Rosamond. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:56:47, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907291656.MAA11084@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: ARTHUR B. TAYLOR - HURON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 228 ARTHUR B. TAYLOR. Among the men of large financial importance in Lorain County, Ohio, none stand higher in the confidence and esteem of the public than Arthur B. Taylor, president of the Lorain County Savings & Trust Company, of Elyria, and additionally identified with numerous other enterprises of substantial business value here. Mr. Taylor is a native of Ohio, and like many another of Ohio's representative men, he was born on a farm and has never lost interest in agricultural pursuits. His birth took place in New London Township, Huron County, Ohio, in April, 1874, a son of John B. and Clara (Crawford) Taylor, and a grandson of Conrad and Clara (Conklin) Taylor, and of Jacob and Lucy (Hull) Crawford. The Crawfords were early settlers near Wooster, Ohio, farming people and estimable in life and character. The grandparents on the Taylor side were New York State people, who came to Lorain County in 1845 and became prosperous and respected in the farming community in which their subsequent lives were spent. John B. Taylor, father of Arthur B., was born in New York and accompanied his parents to Lorain County and grew to manhood on the home farm. He served in the Federal army during the Civil war, as a member of the One Hundred Third Ohio Cavalry, and in the charge of Stony Ridge was so severely wounded that he never entirely recovered from his injuries, although he survived for many years afterward. His death occurred in September, 1921. He married Clara Crawford, who was born near Lodi, Ohio, and now resides at Elyria. They were married at Rochester, Ohio, and afterward, until 1883, Mr. Taylor engaged in farming and had other interests and in that year moved to New London, in order to give his children educational advantages. Arthur B. Taylor attended the public schools at New London and was graduated from the high school at the head of his class, and then, through his own efforts, took a course in the Ohio State University. In 1893 he went to Oberlin, Ohio, and accepted employment with the Oberlin Bank Company, serving first as collector, then as bookkeeper and finally as teller, building up a reputation for efficiency and trustworthiness that three years later brought him to Elyria as teller in the Lorain County banking Company, and three years later was elected cashier and executive officer of the bank. He so continued until 1914 when he was elected president of the Lorain County Savings & Trust Company. The other officers of the Lorain County Savings & Trust Company are: S.W. Squire, first vice president; W.H. Stark, secretary; H.A. Daniels, treasurer. The bank's capital stock is $500,000; surplus, $500,000; resources, $8,000,000. Mr. Taylor is a director in other solid enterprises here, including the Perry-Fay Company and the Thaw Shovel Company, has served as treasurer of the Ohio Bankers Association, and founded and has been president of the Lorain County Bankers Association. In October, 1906, Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Clara Smith, of Elyria, a daughter of Judge Larkin and Margaret Smith, the latter of whom was born in New York, but Judge Smith is a native of Elyria. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have three daughters; Gertrude Crawford, Elizabeth, and Helen Smith. Mrs. Taylor is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. In political life Mr. Taylor is a republican. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, belongs also to the Elks and to the Eagles, and is a member of the Elyria County Club, in which he has held all the offices. His favorite recreation is to personally look after his farm and orchards and for some years he has been president of the Home Garden Association. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #557 *******************************************