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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Hancock County, Ohio
From It's Earliest Settlement to the Present Time.
Together with Reminiscences of Pioneer Life,
Incidents, Statistical Tables, and
Biographical Sketches
By D. B. Beardsley
Findley, O.
Publ. Springfield, O.
Republic Printing Company
1881
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ASA
M. LAKE, who first came to the county in 1822, resided
here to the time of his death. He was a fair specimen of
the class of men who first emigrate to a new country, hardy,
industrious and honest. He succeeded in building up for
himself and children a home in one of the richest sections of
our county, and lived long enough to see a thriving village
built up on the very lands he had redeemed from the wilderness,
and peopled with an intelligent and energetic population,
supplied with schools and churches and other appliances of
civilization.
The red-man, who had been his early companion, had long
since been removed westward, and herds of domestic animals taken
the place of the wild.
Source: History of
Hancock County, Ohio By D. B. Beardsley, Findley, O. - Publ.
Springfield, O. Republic Printing Company - 1881 - Page
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Findley
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HENRY LAMB. Mr. Lamb's
ancestors were of German descent, and he was born in Fairfield
Co., O., Aug. 16th, 1807, and remained in that county until
1830. He was the oldest of nine children, and was occupied
as farm hand. In 1830 he came to Findley, then but a very
small village, and commenced clearing up the farm now owned by
William Stevenson, just north of the Strother farm,
in this township. Just previous to his emigration to
this town, and in the same year, he was married to Mary
Pefler, who still lives to cheer his old age. During
the first seven years of Mr. Lamb's residence in the
county, he lived north of town in the country.
In 1837 he moved into the village, and engaged in the
dry goods business in which he continued for about five years.
In 1840 he bought of John McCurdy the frame hotel
building on the south-west corner of Main and Sandusky streets,
known as "White Hall," and kept "tavern" there until 1849, when
the building was burned down. Mr. Lamb then
returned to farming, but subsequently engaged for a number of
years with his son, Jacob, in the grocery business.
Mr. Lamb is the father of six children, five of
whom are yet living, and all reside here except one. No
man in the town, perhaps, has experienced so many changes in
business life, as has Mr. Lamb. He has passed
through all the ups and downs of pioneer life, and has seen many
and great changes wrought in our county. Nearly all his
early associates are gone.
Source: History of
Hancock County, Ohio By D. B. Beardsley, Findley, O. - Publ.
Springfield, O. Republic Printing Company - 1881 - Page
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