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Source:
History of Darke County, Ohio
From its earliest Settlement to the Present Time
Vols. I & II
Milford, Ohio - The Hobart Publ. Co.
1914.
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FRED CLINE.
Whenever a new firm is organized, the people of a community in which
it proposes to do business, are interested, but this is intensified
when the members of the new association are well known men in that
locality. Fred Cline and his partner,
O. S. Simpson, members of the drug and jewelry firm of
Simpson & Cine of Arcanum, Ohio, are native sons of
Arcanum, where the major portions of their lives have been spent,
and their success is a matter of gratulation to those who have
watched these young men develop from boyhood into responsible
business activities. Fred Cline was born at
Arcanum, Ohio, January 22, 1884, a son of Charles and Isola
(Harris) Cline, natives of Ohio. Michael
Cline, the paternal grandfather of Fred Cline,
married a Miss Miller, and both were natives of
Virginia. They became early settlers of Salem, Ohio, where he
became a trader of cattle, although a cooper by trade. They
died at Arcanum, he after passing into the seventies, and she when
sixty-eight years old. They had six children, namely:
Granville, who died when a child; Mary, Henry,
Charles, Edward and William. The
maternal grandfather married Martha Conner, both of
them being natives of Tennessee, who moved to Hamilton, Ohio, at an
early day. By profession the grandfather was a lawyer
who practiced at Cincinnati, and was killed in a railroad accident
when thirty-four years old. His widow survives and has been
married twice. The only child by her first marriage was
Isola. The second husband of Mrs.
Harris was a Mr. Brown and they had one
child, G. L. Brown. By her third husband, a Mr. Ludlum, she
had a daughter, Myrtle.
Charles Cline
was a tobacco merchant, who operated at Arcanum when the tobacco
business was in its infancy. He first started as a commission
man, handling tobacco for a New York house, and remained in this
line for twenty years. His death occurred at Arcanum in
August, 1900, when he was forty-six years old. His widow
survives him. In fraternal matters, he was an Odd Fellow.
Charles Cline and wife had two children, namely:
Fred and Charles, the latter being
a resident of Dayton, Ohio.
Fred
Cline grew to manhood's estate at Arcanum, where he
attended both the grammar and high schools. When he attended
both the grammar and high schools. When his father died he was
forced to earn his own living, and his first father died he was
forced to earn his own living, and his first employment was with a
tobacco House. Later he was on the road was a commercial
salesman for two years, but returning to Arcanum, he began his
connection with the jewelry business in the store of L. T.
Grubbs, and within two years, or in 1907, purchased the
business from his employer, and has continued it ever since.
Mr. Cline learned the watchmaking and jewelry trade
partly under the tuition of Mr. Grubbs, but took a
practical course in it at Detroit, Michigan, so that he is an expert
in his line. When he associated himself with Mr.
Simpson in 1912, he felt that he was broadening his field
of operation, and gaining from the experience of Mr. Simpson, as the
latter would profit from his own knowledge.
Fraternally, Mr. Cline belongs to Ithaca Lodge No.
295, F. & A. M., and he is a thirty-second degree Mason, according
to the Scottish Rite. He also belongs to International
Archaeological Association, and the American Indian Association.
These connections have been formed as the outcome of a taste he
formed in boyhood for collecting Indian relics to which he has added
until he now has one of the finest collections in the State, if not
in this country. Keeping in close touch with the authorities
at Washington, he receives the literature along the lines in which
he is interested, that is issued by the government, and is much
thought of by those who appreciate the value of his research work.
As is only natural, Mr. Cline is a great reader,
finding his enjoyment among his books, of which he has an excellent
library. He and his mother live on East George street,
Arcanum, where they have a pleasant home.
Source: History of
Darke Co., Ohio - Vols. II - Milford,
Ohio - The Hobart Publ. Co. - 1914. - Page 206 |
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GEORGE F.
CRAWFORD was reared on his father's farm in Twin
township, to the cultivation of which he gave his assistance as soon
as old enough. After attending the district schools, and the
Arcanum high school, he became a student in the National Normal
University, at Lebanon, Ohio, where he prepared himself for a
pedagogical career. For a number of years he was successfully
engaged in teaching school two years of the time in Texas, and he
won an enviable reputation as a educator. He then took up the
study of law and in 1901 he was admitted to the bar, and immediately
afterwards entered upon the practice at Greenville. He met
with a favorable reception on the part of both the legal fraternity
and the public and from the beginning of his professional career to
the present time he has had no reason to regret his choice of a life
work. He owns and lives on a cozy little farm, just outside of
the corporation, where his most enjoyable hours are spent.
Thorough training, natural aptitude and a love for his profession
have combined to give Mr. Crawford a standing in professional
circles in Greenville, which could not have been purchased by other
means. He has been connected with some of the most important
litigation tried in the local courts and has uniformly met with a
gratifying measure of success.
On Dec. 25, 1894, George F. Crawford was united
in marriage with Jane McClain, the daughter of Andrew and
Martha (Wieland) McClain, and to that union was born a son,
Leo C. Mrs. Crawford was born near Gordon, Monroe
township, this county. Her father, who was one of the early
settlers in that locality, died on Jan. 6, 1913, aged sixty-nine
years and nine months, and is survived by his widow. They were
the parents of three children, namely: Nelson, who died in
infancy; Jane, wife of the subject, and Myrta, who is
the wife of Orie O. Weisenbarger, a druggist in Greenville.
Mrs. Jane Crawford was a woman of excellent qualities of
character, beloved by all who knew her, and was an earnest member of
the Baptist Church. Her death occurred on April 11, 1910, at
the age of Thirty-six years and eleven months. Her paternal
and maternal grandparents were, respectively, Nelson and Amanda
(Gordon) McClain and Jacob and Olive Wieland.
Politically, Mr. Crawford has always given
his support to the Democratic party, in the success of which he is
deeply interested, though he is not in any sense a seeker after
public office. Fraternally, he is a member of the Greenville
Lodge, No. 161, Knights of Pythias, in the work of which he takes an
appreciative interest. Mr. Crawford is a man of high
intellectual attainments, being a close and critical reader, and
holds broad views of men and things. In him there are combined
to an unusual degree those qualities which inspire personal
friendships of uncommon strength, and all who know him have the
highest admiration for the excellent qualities of his head and
heart.
Source: History of
Darke Co., Ohio -
Vols. II - Milford, Ohio - The Hobart Publ. Co. -
1914. - Page 29 |
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