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Source:
The County of Fulton
A History of Fulton County, Ohio
Publ.: Madison, Wis. Northwestern Historical Association
1905
Transcribed by
Sharon Wick
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ALBERT EDGAR is another of
the successful and popular farmers of Royalton township who
is deserving of specific representation in this historical
work. He was born in Royalton township, Sept. 28,
1869, and is a son of William S. and Susannah (Pontius)
Edgar, the former of whom was born in county Armagh,
Ireland, and the latter in Pike county, Ohio.
William S. Edgar is a son of Samuel and Mary (Parks)
Edgar, who came from Ireland to America in 1857,
settling in Henry county, Ohio, where the latter died.
Her husband later removed to Ingham county, Michigan, where
he passed the remainder of his life. Daniel
Elizabeth (Leist) Pontious, the maternal grandparents of
the subject of this sketch, were of stanch Pennsylvania
dutch stock, and were pioneers of both Henry and Fulton
counties, Ohio, in which latter both were residents at the
time of death, the former passing away at the age of
eighty-three and his wife at the age of eighty-one.
William S. Edgar was born in county Armagh, Ireland, on
the 10th of July, 1833, and came to America in 1854, about
three years earlier than did his parents. He took up
his residence in Henry county, Ohio, where he was employed
in a saw-mill for the ensuing three years, after which he
there engaged in farming, on the bottom-lands of the Maumee
river. In 1864 he came to Fulton county and located in
Clinton township, where he remained until 1868, when he
purchased a farm in Royalton township, becoming one of the
representative farmers of this section and continuing to
reside on the homestead until the autumn of 1904, when he
and his devoted wife removed to the village of Delta, where
he is now living retired. His children are five in
number, namely: William R., Alva, Elmer, Albert
and George. Albert Edgar, the immediate subject
of this review, was reared to manhood on the old homestead
farm, and has passed his entire life thus far in Royalton
township, in whose public schools he secured his educational
discipline. He is now the owner of a fine farm of one
hundred and twenty acres, improved with good buildings and
maintained under a high state of cultivation, while forty
acres of his land is a part of the old homestead on which
his father settled in 1868. In politics he is a stanch
Republican, and he is a loyal and public-spirited citizen,
being at the present time a member of the board of education
in his township. He and his wife hold membership in
the Christian church at Lyons and they enjoy marked
popularity in the social life of their home community.
Sept. 21, 1893, Mr. Edgar was united in marriage to
Miss Mamie E. Mann, daughter of Charles and Mary
(Hinkle) Mann, of Royalton township, and they have one
daughter, Ida May, Mable Irene, the oldest child,
being deceased.
Source: The County of Fulton - Publ: Madison, Wis.
Northwestern Historical Association - 1905 - Page 341 |
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