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Delaware Twp. - ASA M. LAKE, who first came to the county in 1822, resided here to the time of his death.  He was a fair specimen of the class of men who first emigrate to a new country, hardy, industrious and honest.  He succeeded in building up for himself and children a home in one of the richest sections of our county, and lived long enough to see a thriving village built up on the very lands he had redeemed from the wilderness, and peopled with an intelligent and energetic population, supplied with schools and churches and other appliances of civilization.      The red-man, who had been his early companion, had long since been removed westward, and herds of domestic animals taken the place of the wild. Source: History of Hancock County, Ohio By D. B. Beardsley, Findley, O. - Publ. Springfield, O. Republic Printing Company - 1881  - Page 238

Findley Twp. - HENRY LAMB.  Mr. Lamb's ancestors were of German descent, and he was born in Fairfield Co., O., Aug. 16th, 1807, and remained in that county until 1830.  He was the oldest of nine children, and was occupied as farm hand.  In 1830 he came to Findley, then but a very small village, and commenced clearing up the farm now owned by William Stevenson, just north of the Strother farm, in this township.  Just previous to his emigration to this town, and in the same year, he was married to Mary Pefler, who still lives to cheer his old age.  During the first seven years of Mr. Lamb's residence in the county, he lived north of town in the country.      In 1837 he moved into the village, and engaged in the dry goods business in which he continued for about five years.  In 1840 he bought of John McCurdy the frame hotel building on the south-west corner of Main and Sandusky streets, known as "White Hall," and kept "tavern" there until 1849, when the building was burned down.  Mr. Lamb then returned to farming, but subsequently engaged for a number of years with his son, Jacob, in the grocery business.      Mr. Lamb is the father of six children, five of whom are yet living, and all reside here except one.  No man in the town, perhaps, has experienced so many changes in business life, as has Mr. Lamb.  He has passed through all the ups and downs of pioneer life, and has seen many and great changes wrought in our county.  Nearly all his early associates are gone. Source: History of Hancock County, Ohio By D. B. Beardsley, Findley, O. - Publ. Springfield, O. Republic Printing Company - 1881  - Page 238