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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
CENTENNIAL HISTORY of ERIE COUNTY, OHIO
By H. L. Peeke
President of The Firelands Historical Society
Publ. 1925
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Charles L. Wagner |
CHARLES L. WAGNER.
For more than a generation the name of Charles L. Wagner
has been connected with the ice business in Sandusky, and in
later years he was a prominent factor in the same business in
the city of Cleveland, where he was born Oct. 24, 1852, though
he resided in Sandusky practically all his life. His
father was born in Germany and came to Sandusky in 1849, where
he worked fifteen years for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company. He married Elizabeth Raymond, and of their
family of six children, two are still living. Charles
Wagner received his education in the public schools of
Sandusky. For six years he worked as clerk and then as
salesman in the drygoods house of Zerbe & Company and
then became senior partner of the drygoods firm of Wagner,
Power & Bredbeck. After this company ceased business
he conducted a carpet business until 1885, when he organized the
Wagner Brothers Wholesale & Retail Ice Company, which
later became the Wagner Lake Ice Company, of which he was
president and general manager. This company was
incorporated in 1888 and has behind it a record of sixty years
of successful business. In 1906, the company was
consolidated into The Interstate Ice Company and was later taken
over by the City Ice Delivery Company of Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. Wagner was manager of the wholesale department with
headquarters at Cleveland and also head of the City Ice & Fuel
Company at the time of his death August 5, 1921. In the
later years of his successful business career, he married
Carrie B. Traub, who still survives him.
Source: Centennial History of
Erie County, Ohio - Publ. 1925 - Page 398 |
Earl Webster |
EARL
LAYFAYETTE WEBSTER. The last lawyer to be admitted
to the Erie County bar, was born at Middle Bass Island, Ohio,
Dec. 14th, 1885. He is the son of La Omri and Julia A.
Webster. His Ancestors were from Scotland.
His father came to Put-in-Bay Island with his parents
in 1861 from a farm near Madison, Wisconsin.
His mother was the daughter of John Lutes
who settled on Middle Bass Island in 1854 and was the first
permanent settler on that island.
Mr. Webster had very little opportunity of an
education until he was 21 years of age, when he entered the Ohio
Northern University at Ada, Ohio, where he graduated from the
law school in 1916, and was admitted to the bar in 1917, but did
not begin the practice of law until the spring of 1923, when he
located at Sandusky, Ohio.
He enlisted in the army, at Sandusky, Ohio, in the
spring of 1918 and served until the spring of 1919. He
spent his entire enlistment period at Camp Hancock, Georgia,
which was a Machine Gun Training center.
Politically Mr. Webster is a Republican and a
member of the Masonic Bodies.
He is unmarried.
Source:
Centennial History of Erie County, Ohio - Publ. 1925 - Page
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J. P. White |
JESSE P. WHITE.
The gentlemanly and efficient manager of The Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. conferred fame on the city of Uhrichsville by
condescending to be born there July 29, 1874. His parents
were James Wilbur White and Mary Louise White,
both of whom, he tells us, were honest, hardworking people.
He was a delicate boy and his start in life wsa handicaped by
serious illness. He wanted to be a lawyer, but poverty
compelled him to dig coal to meet and demands of necessity.
He attended a country school and later spent about two years at
a high school. From 15 to 25 years of age, he was a coal
miner and then attended a normal school one winter after which
he taught school four years. At the age of 25, he married
and at the age of 30 started in the life insurance business.
In working for his company, he passed through the grades of
agent, assistant manager, and for the past 16 years has been
manager. He had traveled some to see the country, taking
"bumming trips", but on one occasion he fell from the top of a
box car in a moving train and took it as a hint, to quit.
He has always been independent on religion and politics and
claims he was never on the popular side of anything. He
has never had any military record, nor held office, nor made a
successful financial investment. He had to work for
everything he got. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias
and the Masons; also, to the Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis
Club, and the Auto Club. On Dec. 25, 1899, he made himself
a Christmas Gift of his present wife at Sherrodsville, Ohio.
Her maiden name being Chloe Olive Herron daughter of
John B. Herron, of whom he says always worked hard, life his
own parents. He has four children. The eldest,
Hazello being a teacher in the Columbus public schools; a
son, Brice is a student in the Osteopath College at
Kirksville, Missouri; the two youngest children, Beatrice
and J. P. Jr., being at home attending the Sandusky
schools. He says, "for further information, inquire of
neighbors, business and professional associates." This has
been done and they say, "White is a good fellow and a credit to
the town.
Source: Centennial History of
Erie County, Ohio - Publ. 1925 - Page 430 |
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