Montour County PA Archives Biographies.....LOTIER, Victor A. 1842 - living in 1899
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  VICTOR A. LOTIER, publisher and editor of the Daily Record and Weekly Record of
  Danville, Pa., is one of the prominent journalists of Montour County, and a
  highly respected citizen. He was born in the city of New York, December 15,
  1842, and is a son of Benjamin and Anna (Ronk) Lotier.
  
    Benjamin Lotier was of French descent and was born in the city of New York,
  and during his early days was a silver engraver, which business he followed in
  New York City. Boston, and Philadelphia. He wedded Anna Ronk, a native of
  Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Our subject's father passed from this life at the age of
  sixty-nine years.
  
    Victor A. Lotier acquired a liberal education in the public schools of
  Philadelphia and in 1854 moved to Danville where he found employment in the
  rolling-mills of that town. In 1862 he was in the state of Rhode Island and
  shortly after his arrival there he enlisted in Company E, 3d Reg., R. I. Cav.,
  and served throughout the Civil War. He was first elected commissary-sergeant
  but was soon promoted to the rank of orderly sergeant. He received an honorable
  discharge at New Orleans, La., in 1865, and then spent one year in traveling
  through the western states. Returning to Danville. Pa., he assumed the duties of
  his former position in the rolling-mill, remaining until 1871, when he purchased
  the Danville Marble Works; he also became a stockholder in the Record Publishing
  Company of that town. April 1, 1878, James Foster, Harry Vincent, and our
  subject purchased the Danville Record, which was established by A. P. Fowler.
  The Danville Record was formerly edited by Mr. Brower, and was an independent
  paper, the first edition having been issued March 16, 1876. When these gentlemen
  took possession of the paper it was known as the Weekly National Record; later
  our subject became sole proprietor and the paper was then known as the Weekly
  Record. May 23, 1881, our subject started the Daily Record which has a good
  country from which to draw its patronage; it has a circulation of 700 and the
  weekly-paper about 900 circulation. Mr. Lotier has thoroughly mastered the
  newspaper business and understands how to conduct a paper. The reading matter of
  the Daily and Weekly Record is well selected, its editorials are good. and its
  local news is admirably presented.
  
    Mr. Lotier was united in marriage to Fanny Hughes, a daughter of Peter Hughes,
  and a family of two children blessed their home, namely: Homer H., a resident of
  Camden, N. J., who married Anna Murphy of Philadelphia; and Walter M., a printer
  on the Sporting Life of Philadelphia, who is married and has a son, Homer.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
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  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
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