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Source:
History of Northwestern Ohio
A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress and
Development
from the First European Exploration of the Maumee and
Sandusky Valleys and the Adjacent Shores of
Lake Erie, down to the Present Time.
By Nevin O. Winter, Litt. D.
Assisted by a Board of Advisory and Contributing Editors
Illustrated
Vol. II
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1917
BIOGRAPHIES
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J. A. LONG is one of
the veterans of the oil industry, with which he has been
connected in all its phases and details, from work in the fields
to employment in general offices and executive positions, since
1876.
In 1889 Mr. Long became connected with the Ohio
Oil Company and since the 16th of November of that year has
lived at St. Marys. He is superintendent for the company
of the field in and around St. Marys, and during his long
employment at this post has shown the ability to handle every
question and problem as they arose. While he gives the
best of his time and energies to this business he also owns a
good farm in Auglaize County.
For a man who started out to make his way in the world
at the age of seventeen, without money or influential friends,
Mr. Long has done exceedingly well. He was
born in Bel fast, New York, Sept. 8, 1859, a son of Patrick
and Mary (Greer) Long. Both parents were natives of
Ireland. Patrick Long, a son of Patrick who
spent his life in Ireland, was born in the City of Cork in 1814,
and came to America and located in New York State at the age of
seventeen. He spent his active career largely as a
laboring man. One special part of his record which will
always be cherished by his descendants was his four years'
service in the Civil war. He was wounded in the Battle of
the Wilderness, and spent several months in the hospital, and at
one time was captured, but made his escape. He was a
Catholic, a democrat, and a member of the Grand Army of the
Republic. His death occurred at Duke Center, Pennsylvania,
in 1893. He was married at Rochester, New York, to Miss
Mary Greer, who was born at Belfast, Ireland, in 1807, and
came to America at the age of twenty. She was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church and her death occurred at
Bluffton, Indiana, in 1899. There were four children, only
two now living. William is a retired horseman at
Bradford, Pennsylvania.
J. A. Long got all his education at Rockville in
Allegany County, New York, and was paying his own way by hard
work at the age of seventeen. His early experiences were
in the tanning industry, but he soon found employment in the oil
fields, and has been at that work steadily since 1876.
On Mar. 9, 1882, he married Miss Mary I. Dibble,
who was born at Scio Allegany County, New York, and died May 30,
1913. She was the mother of one daughter, Lucy Pearl,
now the wife of Wesley Milton Stoker, a bookkeeper at St.
Marys. Mr. and Mrs. Stoker have two children:
Milton K., born Sept. 30, 1912, and Mary Frances,
born Sept. 10, 1914. On May 15, 1915, Mr. Long
married Mrs. Harriet Thomas who was born at St. Marys.
She is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while
his first wife was a Presbyterian. Mr. Long is
affiliated with the various branches of Masonry, including the
Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter, the degrees of the Scottish Rite
and the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. Politically he is a
republican.
Source: History of
Northwest Ohio Vol. II - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, Chicago & New York - 1917 - Page 723 |
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EDWARD
S. LUSK. In the uncongested districts of America,
apart from the large cities, the honors and dignities of public
office are usually bestowed upon men who possess the
fundamentals of character as well as competence for the
particular duties to which they are chosen. For this
reason election to a county office is an enviable distinction,
and one that confers honor upon its possessor and shows the
confidence felt by his fellow citizens in his judgment and
integrity.
In 1915 the people of Auglaize County chose as county
clerk Mr. Edward S. Lusk, who has been an active figure
in that county for more than thirty years, and is known to many
hundreds of the people by his long service as a teacher in the
public schools. When elected county clerk and for some
years before Mr. Lusk had been a practical farmer, and he
still owns the old place where he was born and spent his early
years.
He was born in Auglaize county, June 14, 1865, a son of
William and Sarah Ann (Bennett) Lusk. His paternal
grandfather, William Lusk was one of the pioneers of
Auglaize County and spent his last years there. The
maternal grandfather, Amos Bennett, also came to this
county from Pennsylvania. Mr. Lusk's parents were
both born in Pennsylvania, his father in 1824 and his mother in
1827. They came to Ohio when young and were reared on
farms and were married in this county. The father died in
October, 1876, at the age of fifty-two and the mother in 1899.
William Lusk began his career a poor man. He went
into the woods and hewed out a home in the wilderness, and at
the time of his death possessed a good estate of 125 acres.
He was a well read and well posted man and stood high in his
community. He was elected justice of the peace, assessor
and some other local offices, was a democrat, a member of the
Masonic Order, and both he and his wife were active in the
Methodist Episcopal Church. To their marriage was born
twelve children, and the five new living are: Mary D.,
wife of Daniel Runkel, president of the bank at Anna,
Ohio; Sarah E., widow of A. W. McCally and living
near Bellefontaine, Ohio; Alice, wife of J. M.
Copeland, a prominent farmer in the eastern part of Auglaize
County; Ida M., wife of R. D. Van Tress, a
carpenter at Cleveland; and Edward S.
Edward S. Lusk grew up in a home of modest comforts
and though his opportunities were somewhat restricted he had
encouragement to make the best of his abilities and had the
usual opportunities of he Ohio farm boy. From the district
schools he continued his studies in the Ohio Northern University
at Ada, and in 1884 taught his first term of school. He
continued teaching for twenty-four years, and in the intervals
of that occupation was a practical farmer. Some years ago
he bought out the interests of his sisters in the old homestead,
and has been its owner and successful manager to the present
time.
For a member of years he has taken much interest in
politics and in public affairs, and is a worker in the
democratic ranks. For four years he was township clerk and
for five years township assessor. In 1915 he was elected
county clerk, and is now candidate for re-election.
In 1886 Mr. Lusk married Miss Ina Mertz.
She was born in Auglaize County, Ohio, a daughter of Arch
Mertz, one of the early settlers here.
Mr. and Mrs. Lusk have six children: Ava,
wife of B. R. Rausbottom, a railroad man at
Bellefontaine; Edna, wife of Arlie Burden, who is
employed at the wheel shops at Wapakoneta; Emmett D.,
deputy county clerk under his father and a well-educated young
man, having attended the high school and also the schools at
Defiance; Ralph, who lives on the homestead farm;
Edward Clay, also on the farm; and Don Copeland, who
lives with his parents in Wapakoneta and graduated from high
school in 1916.
The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and Mr. Lusk is affiliated with the Masonic Order,
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and
Protective order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World. He has
held all the chairs three different times in his lodge of Odd
Fellowship.
Source: History of Northwest Ohio Vol. II -
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York -
1917 - Page 719 |
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