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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Combination atlas map of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio
Strasburg, Ohio: Gordon Print.,
1875
359 pgs. L. H. Everts
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T. Lanning & Co.
Men's Furnishing Department
Dress Goods & Notions Department
Carpet & Rug Dept
The Underwear and Shoe Department
Lanning House
(formerly Lanning & Co)
as of year 2020
228 Grant St. at
Corner of Grant St and N. 3rd Street
Dennison, OH
Marquis says:
1892 Lanning 1903 |
THEODORE
LANNING. Richard Lanning was born
Mar. 12, 1763, in New Jersey. After living for
some time in Allegany County, Maryland, he came about
1801, to Jefferson County, Ohio, where he died Feb. 26,
1844. His sons were Richard, Philip, Isaac,
Joseph, John, Jacob and Abraham, and his
daughters were Hannah, Mary, Nancy and Rachel.
One of these daughters married a Parkinson and
another a Meek. Of his sons, Joseph
was born in Allegany County, Nov. 30, 1794, and came
with his father to Ohio. He married Elizabeth
Holmes, a daughter of Samuel Holmes. In
1818 he moved to a farm on the old Coshocton road near
Newtown, where four of his sons were born:
Samuel, Philip, Isaac and Richard. In
1827 he moved to Perry Township on the Gilmore and West
Chester road, where his grandson, John H. Lanning,
now resides. At this place were born his other
children: Martin Van Buren, John, Sarah Annand
Mary Elizabeth. Philip, the second son,
born Jan. 24, 1821, helped his father in clearing the
farm till twenty-eight years old. ON May 9, 1847,
Philip married Senia, daughter of David
and Elizabeth Gardner, who came to Perry Township in
1830 from Western Pennsylvania. On the founding of
Gilmore in 1848, Philip Lanning bought the second
lot sold, and at once cleared the ground and dug the
cellar, during which he walked three and one-half miles
night and morning ot his father's house where he still
lived. He had sold a horse and buggy for $128.00
which was his entire capital. A one-story building
eighteen by thirty-six feet with a partition in the
center was his home and store until 1860, when he put up
a commodious two story building on the adjoining lot.
This was the beginning of the present extensive
mercantile business of the Lannings. At one
time in the strife for trade with two competitors,
butter was advanced from 8 cents to 28 cents per pound.
When his stock was sold at Wheeling Phillip Lanning
found that he was in debt $500.00 more than he was
worth. After walking the street nearly all night,
he decided to say nothing about his loss and go ahead.
It was five years before he even told his wife. In
the mean time his competitors were out of business and
he was safe and prospered until his death, Aug. 17,
1895. His children are Noramanda, Theodore,
John H. and David P. The eldest son,
Theodore, born Feb. 17, 1851, was required to help
his father from the time he was tall enough to look over
the counter, except when at school. When seventeen
he attended Hopedale College one term and then another
term at Scio College. In the fall of 1869 he went
with his sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. S. G.
Moore, to Robinson, Kansas, hoping to teach the
winter and return in the spring. On attending the
county examination for teachers the officials were
kindered by the flood so that but two hours were left in
which to answer the seventy questions. Theodore
was one of the few who decided to stay and try.
He gave his papers in with much doubt. But the
certificate came, the school was taught, and he returned
to Gilmore with his experience and a clear gain of
$60.00, which he gave to his father for an interest in
the business of the store which, from that time, was
known as P. Lanning and Son. In the fall of
1872 he visited his sister in Kansas and was persuaded
to teach the same school that winter. He returned
to Gilmore in the spring and that ended his work as a
teacher, although he attended two teachers' examinations
in Tuscarawas County and obtained certificates that are
carefully kept and highly prized. On June 4, 1874,
he was married to Miss Nancy, daughter of
William and Elizabeth Gamble Mears, retired form
farming and living in West Chester. Mrs. Mears
is a daughter of John and Elizabeth Mears. Mr.
and Mrs. Lanning have five children: A. Roy,
born May 8, 1881, and Hazell I., born Mar. 21,
1887.
In 1892 he sold his interest in the Gilmore store to
his father and his brother, David P. and bought a
half interest in the Bell and Penn store
at Dennison. Later on he bought the other half
from Mr. Bell. That business so increased
that he decided in 1902 to erect a building that would
be a credit to the city of Dennison and one that would
meet the demands of his rapidly increasing trade.
Active work began in March 1903 with the removal of his
stock to rooms in another block. The transfer was
made mostly at night so that the business of the store
suffered little interruption. The construction of
the new building proceeded with such energy that it was
dedicated to trade on March 1, 1904, by a memorable
opening at which no goods were sold but to which the
public came from far and near to see the most completely
equipped store that experience demanded and that
ingenuity could supply. It was estimated by
competent observers that fully ten thousand people
streamed in a constant procession through the spacious
aisles during the entire day. A fore of nineteen
clerks welcomed and ushered the delighted guests who
were seemingly as well pleased as the proprietor with
the fine success of the occasion. The building of
fine brick fronting on Grant Street is fifty-five by one
hundred and twenty-five feet and three stories high with
a finished basement under the entire building which is
finished from basement floor to topmost ceiling with an
appropriate elegance and furnished throughout with a
discriminating tat that leaves little or nothing for the
critical to suggest for improvement. The
convenience of the salesman, the satisfaction of the
customer, and the comfort of both, while engaged in the
affairs of business necessary for all, have been studied
and answered in a manner that makes this store a model
for all general merchandizing establishments. The
abundance of light, the distribution of heat, and the
requirements of ventillation have each and all had ample
consideration. Approved devices for saving time
have been installed, and apparatus for quick and
accurate records of transactions is in use. There
is an impression of fitness in the arrangements that
answers expectation and makes it needless for one to go
far in searching for an up to date store. The
first floor is divided into six departments. The
first is for dress goods and domestics; the second holds
hosiery and notions; the third contains womens' and
children's underwear; the fourth is devoted to men's
furnishings; the fifth is given to men's, ladies' and
children's shoes; the sixth is a grocery. This
floor contains a ladies dressing room and the entrance
to the ware room. The rear is finished with a
balcony used for a counting room and private office.
This office balcony also leads to the second floor where
the right is for ladies' suits and coats and for lace
curtains and upholstery. The left is the carpet
and rug department. The rear contains a second
balcony for the display of children's clothing, of hats
and of men's working clothes. This floor also has
three sets of offices. The front basement is for
china, tin and granite ware and wall paper. The
rear is for storage. The building is heated by
steam. The third floor is arranged into six
dwelling flats each fitted with gas, electric light,
water and bath room. Mr. Lanning is also
President of the Twin City State Bank; Vice President of
the Dennison and Uhrichsville Building and Loan
Association, and of the Citizens' Building and Loan
Company. He is a stockholder in the Home Telephone
Company. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of
Pythias, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
of which he is a trustee at Dennison. Such is the
achievement of the man grown from the boy who gripped a
certificate with a two hours' chance on a six hours'
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REV. J. M.
LEVERING. This gentleman was born in
Hamburg, Harding County, Tennessee, Feb. 20, 1849.
His father was Lewis A. Levering, and his
mother, Sophia T. Houser. When a youth he
learned the carpenter's trade of his father, who
followed that business. His early educational
facilities having been those of the common school only,
he entered at the age of twenty the Moravian Theological
Seminary at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he spent some
four years, and where he graduated in July, 1874.
He at once engaged in teaching at Nazareth,
Pennsylvania, but soon received a call to take charge of
the First Moravian Church at Uhrichsville, and became
pastor of the same of Jan. 1, 1875. This is a new
interest, and work is in progress for the erection of a
house of worship.
Mr. Levering is a young gentleman of very
reticent manners, and of a peculiarly meditative cast of
mind. He is a close student, a clear, vigorous
thinker. Though not much given to conversation,
yet in his social relations he is very agreeable.
He is very decided in his opinions, and though he speaks
them with modesty, it is with a dignity and plainness
that commands respect. He is a quiet but earnest
worker, an efficient pastor, and a very acceptable
preacher.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of
Tuscarawas County, Ohio by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page 22 |
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DR. WILLIAM B.
LOLLER was born in Cumberland
County,
Pennsylvania, Dec. 7, 1824.
In 1832, his father having previously died, his mother with a family of
five children came to Ohio
and located in Harrison
County, where she died in 1845.
At the age of
seventeen, young Loller began the
study of medicine with Dr. J. H.
Stephenson, and continued four years.
In the spring of 1846 – when he was twenty-one years old – he commenced
the practice of medicine in Brownsville, Knox
County, where he remained twelve years. In the spring of 1858 he removed to
Nashville,
Holmes County, Ohio, where he practiced
twelve years. In the winter of 1858
he attended a course of dissections in the Ohio
Medical College
at Cincinnati, and in the winter of 1862-63 a
course of lectures in Jefferson
College, Philadelphia,
where he graduated in the spring of 1863.
In 1870 Dr. Loller came to
Uhrichsville, where he had had an extensive and successful practice.
In November,
1847, the doctor married Miss Lurinda
Duncan, of Brownsville, by whom he has had a family of four sons
and three daughters, - one son deceased.
Of these the eldest son, Robley P. Loller, is a physician in Shanesville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio;
Victoria, the oldest daughter, is
Mrs. W. Scott Bukey, of Uhrichsville;
and Mary F. is
Mrs. David Hunt, of the same place.
Dr. Loller is a member of the
Tuscarawas County Medical Society, also of the Ohio State Medical Society.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of
Tuscarawas County, Ohio by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page 23
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