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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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FRANK H. REIGHARD,
editor and proprietor of the Fulton County Tribune, was born
in Swan Creek township, Fulton county, O., Oct. 8, 1867.
He is the son of George and Elizabeth Reighard.
George Reighard, also a native of Swan township, was
born Nov. 24, 1846. He has always resided on a farm in
that township. For many years he served as township
trustee and for twenty years has been a member of the
school-board. The brothers and sisters of the subject
of the sketch are Dell C., Sophia, Royal, Bert and
Florence, all living at Delta, O., and all are married
except Florence. George Reighard is the son of
Jacob Reighard, who settled in Swan Creek township in
1839, having come there from Holmes county, O. He was
an active citizen and died at the age of sixty-four years.
Elizabeth Reighard was the daughter of Thomas
Elton, a native of Wiltshire, England, who came to
Medina county, O., in 1854, and seven years later to Swan
Creek township, Fulton county, where he located on a farm.
The maternal grandparents were both natives of Wiltshire
county, England. The subject of this sketch received
his elementary education in the public schools of his home
township. He then attended the Fayette Normal, the
Ohio Normal University at Ada and the University of Wooster.
After leaving Wooster he was with the Baltimore and Ohio
railway for a time as civil engineer. For ten years he
followed the profession of teaching and was then elected
township superintendent in 1893, serving two years.
Prior to his election to the office of county 1893, serving
two years. Prior to his election to the office of
county surveyor (1895), in which capacity he served two
terms, he taught school in his own township two years.
The paper of which Mr. Reighard is now the editor and
proprietor and which was started in 1883 by "Al" Smith,
deceased, was purchased by him Jan. 1, 1893. Under the
successful management of Mr. Reighard the circulation
of the paper has been largely increased, not only in Fulton
county but also in the adjoining counties. The paper
is now the official county organ of the Republican party.
Mr. Reighard is as a Knight Templar prominent in
Masonic circles, having held various offices in the Council
and Chapter degrees. He is also a Knight of Pythias.
He married Miss Florence Tischer of Wauseon, a
daughter of William and Sophronia Tischer, of German
descent, who came from Medina county to this county in 1861.
They have had only one child, Helen by name, who died
in infancy.
Source:
The County of Fulton - A History of Fulton County, Ohio -
Publ.: Madison, Wis. Northwestern Historical Association -
1905 - Page 515 |
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