BIOGRAPHIES

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Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago & New York
1920
Transcribed by Sharon Wick

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William Gamble	WILLIAM GAMBLE Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 173
	ALBERT V. GREEN.     While Albert V. Green is now living in retirement in Swan Creek Township at the edge of Swanton, he has been a busy man in his time.  He is a son of James F. and Nancy (Pettibone) Green, and was born Aug. 14, 1851, in Ottawa county.  The father was born in Pennsylvania and the mother was a Connecticut woman.  When he was a young man Mr. Green worked on a lake vessel, and he met his wife at Marblehead, Ohio.      Mrs. Green is a granddaughter of Governor Wolcott of Ohio.  After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Green lived in Ottawa county, where he was a proprietor of a fishing outfit in Sandusky bay.  In 1854 his wife died there.  He later married Jane Shank, and they lived on an island in Sandusky bay until 1862, when they removed to Swan Creek Township near Brailey, where he had purchased eighty acres of timber land.  He had three acres cleared in order to have a place to build a house, and he ended his days there, dying in 1877, where he had lived several years.      Albert Green had a sister, Artemicia, who was the wife of William H. Poorman, and he has one brother, William L., of Fremont.  The children from his father's second marriage are:  Josephine, deceased, who was the wife of Elvin Kessler; Delilah, wife of Samuel Kontz, of Sandusky; Luella, wife of James Shively, of Fremont; Henry, of Toledo; George, deceased, and Viola, of Toledo.      Until he was twenty-four years old Mr. Green lived at the home farm, and then rented land and farmed in Fulton county.  On Dec. 12, 1875, he married Pauline Huntley.  She iss a daughter of Lorenzo and Susan (Whitmore) Huntley, and their home was in the State of New York before moving to Ohio.  For a while they lived on his father's farm, then moved to the Whit Manley farm, remaining there two years, when they removed to Swan Creek Township, where they lived until 1906, when they sold the place and moved to the vicinity of Swanton  For a time they lived in Swanton where they owned property but five years later they exchanged it for the 4½ acres of suburban property where they live today.      The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Green are: Burton L., of Brailey, James A., who lives with his parents; Clarence J., who is proprietor of a general store at Brailey; and Arthur A., who has just returned from overseas service in the war of the nations.  HE was in the second depot of supplies division of the United States Expeditionary Forces in France.      It is nearly half a century since Mr. Green came to years of manhood, adn those years until his practical retirement were characterized by well directed industry.  As noted above, he began life with very little capital, and has made his prosperity by hard work and honorable means.  He is one of the best known citizens of Swan Creek Township, and he can take pride in the record of his sons now beginning independent careers for themselves. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 243
	GEORGE DAVIS GREEN, retired merchant and for more than fifty years a responsible citizen of Wauseon, Ohio, has for many years been prominent in business and financial circles of that place.  He was successful in business, and was mainly instrumental in founding the Peoples State Bank of Wauseon, of which he has been a director since its establishment.  He is well-regarded in the city and vicinity, having lived an estimable life, in which has been much unostentatious public work.      He was born in 1842, in Medina, Lenawee county, Michigan, the son of Noah and Eliza (Baldwin) Green.  The Green family is of Massachusetts American descent, and of English origin.  Many generations of the family lived in Massachusetts, but Noah Green, with the sturdy spirit of the typical American pioneer, took his few belongings with him in 1834 and drove his wagon into the wilderness, settling in that part of Michigan new cleared and valuable land, but at that time wild and undeveloped property.  He experienced the privations of the average pioneer, but eventually cleared a tract of land in Medina, where he settled his family and where his son George D. was born seven years later.  In the healthy but rigorous conditions of that part of the country in that early day the boy was reared, and, as he grew, George D. took good part in the laborious work of development.  Eventually the family possessed a good holding, and conditions were more comfortable.  In December, 1865, George D. came to Wauseon, and for four years thereafter was a clerk in the general store of Eager and Green.  In 1869 he went into independent business in Wauseon, and continued successfully in general merchandising business for many years.  In 1889 he was the prime mover in the organization of the People's Bank, of which he has been a director since its foundation, and which after a successful period of private banking was made a state bank in 1906  Much of the success the bank has gained has been due to the careful and conservative administration of its affairs by level-headed, reliable business men such as is Mr. Green.  He gave much of his time to the affairs of the bank, and has been steadfastly continued as a director year by year.  Excepting for his banking connection Mr. Green has practically retired from business associations.      He has been a loyal republican practically throughout his voting years.  His first presidential vote was cast in the election which gave President Lincoln his second term and in the subsequent political campaigns Mr. Green is able to recall many interesting experiences and incidents.  He has been prominent in the functioning of local branches of the Masonic Order, being a Mason of the thirty-second degree.  He belongs to the Warren Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons and to No. 7 Commandery.  Religiously he is a Congregationalist, for very many years having been a member of the Wauseon Congregational Church.      In 1880 he married Maria Louise Sheldon, of Litchfield, Hillsdale county, Michigan.  Mr. and Mrs. Green have very many sincere friends in Wauseon, in which they have lived for so many years. ‡ Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 43
	FRANK R. GUILFORD, president of the well-known Wauseon, Ohio, firm of "Brigham, Guilford & Company, department store owners, and one of the leading business men of this city, has achieved substantial success as a merchant during the last decade.  He has also come prominently to the fore at a public worker, has held more than one public office, has been a member of the Wauseon City Council for three terms, and has in very many ways proved himself to be a good citizen and an able man of marked public spirit.      He is a native of Wauseon, born in the city in 1882, the son of Conley F. and Florence (McConnell) Guilford.  The Guilford family is of English origin, but for many generations has been resident in America, the progenitor of the "American branch of the old English family having settled near Cuba, in New York State.  Conley E. Guilford, father of Frank R., was for many years a prominent merchant in Wauseon, a pioneer druggist, and he was much esteemed in the city and county.  A man of strong character and definite capability, he took good part in the public affairs of the district, was for two terms county treasurer, and was a factor of much influence with the people of the city.      Frank R. Guilford attended the public schools of Wauseon and graduated from the Wauseon High School in 1900.  He then proceeded to Columbus, and too the course at the Ohio State University, graduating in arts and science, and thus gaining the Bachelor of Arts degree, with the class of 1905.  For a year thereafter he was in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was employed as an accountant.  He returned to Wauseon so that he might take the office of deputy county treasurer under his father, who has been elected to the office of county treasurer.  As a matter of fact his father was county treasurer for two terms, but it was only for his father's second term.  1905-06, that he acted as deputy.  In 1906 Frank R. Guilford became accountant for C. E. Rossman & Company, department store owners of Wauseon; and it was in all probability this connection that shaped materially his future business activities.  For three years he remained with that company.  In 1909, he took part in the organization of another company, the object of which was to establish a department store business in Wauseon, and this new organization took over the business of C. E. Rossman & Company.  The new company took the trading name of Brigham, Guilford & Company, the partners being Messrs. Guilford, Brigham, Scott, Dalrymple and Palmer, all good business men, favorably known in Wauseon and within a radius of twenty-five mile of that place, so that they started in business with good prospects of succeeding.  Mr. Guilford was appointed general manager and elected secretary and treasurer of the corporate body, which had been capitalized at $60,000.  He continued in such capacities until the death of Mr. Brigham in 1917, soon after which occurrence he was elected president of the company, which office, as well as that of general manager, he has since held.  The trading of the company has been very satisfactorily expanded, and today it holds an enviable place among the business institutions of Wauseon, and draws trade over a wide area.   The store is the largest retail establishment in Northwest Ohio outside of Toledo.      Mr. Guilford is now a man of substance, has a very good reputation, and his standing in the city has brought him into connection with the direction of other corporate concerns of public trust.  He is a director of the Fulton County Building, Loan and Savings Company, and is himself the owner of an agricultural property one hundred acres in extent.      He has for many years taken active interest in the public administration of the city and county, and his popularity in the city may be gauged by the fact that for three terms he was elected to the City Council, and for a like period sat on the Board of Public Affairs.  He has shown commendable sincerity in public work and much ability as an administrator, and while the war was in progress was indefatigable in his efforts to further the national cause in his home territory.  Politically he has been staunch in his allegiance to the republican party, and has been an active worker for the cause.  Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic Order and the Knights of Pythias.  Of the branches of the former he belongs to the lodge of F. and A. M., Wauseon, to the Wauseon Chapter, and to Defiance Commandery.  By religious conviction he is a Congregationalist, and a member and good supporter of the Wauseon Congregational Church.  His success in life in all the more commendable in that it has been attained entirely by his own efforts.  It of course had a very solid base in the superior education he was able to get, but education is not the only essential to success.      Frank R. Guilford married Dolly, daughter of William S. and Flora (Stuller) Boone, of Wauseon.  The marriage took place in 1907, and two children have been born to them:  Hortense Ruth and Conley Boone. Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page 22

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