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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
A Standard History of Allen County, Ohio
Vol. II
by Wm. Rusler - Publ.
1921
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N.
ELMER THOMAS. Beginning work as a boy with
responsibilities in advance of his age, through a long
apprenticeship serving and learning. N. Elmer Thomas
eventually reached a plane of independence in business, and as a
member of the firm of the Evans & Thomas Hardware Company
is identified with one of the leading concerns in Lima.
He was born in Lima Jan. 24, 1872, son of Louis and
Margaret (Jones) Thomas. Both his father and mother
were of Welsh parentage, and the families first settled in
Dayton. Louis Thomas and wife spent all their lives
in Lima, where he died in 1888 and his wife in 1908.
N. Elmer Thomas was the seventh in a family of
eight children. He was able to attend school regularly to
the age of sixteen, and then on account of his father's death
became a wage earner and worked for a time driving an express
wagon. Not long afterward he began an express wagon.
Not long afterward he began his apprenticeship at the hardware
trade as a handy man for Ewing & Emrick, hardware
merchants in the Holmes Block. He spent sixteen years with
that firm, and when he left them he was head salesman.
Another old time employe was E. A. Evans, who had been
with the firm of twenty-two years. In 1907 these two men
joined forces and established a hardware business of their own
in the Metropolitan Block under the name Evans & Thomas.
They have had the satisfaction of seeing their business grow and
prosper steadily through successive years, and now have a large
trade both in the city and over a country district twenty-five
miles around.
Mr. Thomas is also interested in many other
lines of business. He is a Republican and is affiliated
with Lima Lodge of Elks. In 1906 he married Miss Rowena
Knox, daughter of John and Margaret Knox, of Lima.
Source: A Standard History
of Allen County, Ohio - Vol. II - by Wm. Rusler - Publ. 1921 - Page 91 |
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