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BIOGRAPHIES
** Source:
A Twentieth Century History of
Hardin County, Ohio
- Vol. I & II -
Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
1910
898 pgs.
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GEORGE ELWOOD GEIGER, a
prominent farmer and a successful breeder of hogs and poultry
living in Taylor Creek township, Hardin county, Ohio, is a
native of Seneca county, born June 7, 1861. He is a son of
Jacob and Hannah (Detwiler) Geiger. Jacob C.
Geiger was born in Stark county, Ohio, and died in January,
1878, at the age of fifty years; his widow survived him many
years and died July 3, 1904, at the age of seventy-three.
They located in Hardin county in 1866 and Mr. Geiger
engaged in the grocery business in Kenton, continuing the same
until his death. By trade he was a harness maker. He
was a son of Jacob and Elizabeth Geiger, who came to the
United States from Germany, settling in Stark county.
Jacob Geiger, Jr., was a member of the first Methodist
Episcopal church of Kenton. He was a Republican and held
several minor offices. George E. Geiger has three
brothers and two sisters living, namely: William Henry of
Lost Angeles California; Ulysses Grant, a famer of Cessna
township, Hardin Co.; Frank August, of North Dakota;
Jennie Elizabeth, wife of A. Offfenbecker, of Urbana,
Ohio; and Alice Ada wife of Charles W. Kissling, of
Urbana.
The boyhood of George E. Geiger was spent
with his parents, and he attended the public school until
sixteen years of age, after which he turned his attention to
farming. At his father's death he began farming on his own
account in Hardin county, spending nine years on the Jacob
Sponceler farm. He then farmed three years in Logan
county and in 1901 located on his present farm, where he has
been very successful as breeder and raiser of hogs and poultry.
He has a fine flock of pure bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, also an
equally fine flock of Rhode Island Reds, which have attracted
attention throughout his part of the state. He also makes
a success of raising Dew Rock Jersey hogs. Mr. Geiger
carries on general farming, raising grain to feed his stock.
In 1886 Mr. Geiger married Ida Bell Nickell,
who was born Nov. 2, 1868, daughter of James and Lida Jane
(Crow) Nickell. Mr. Nickell was a farmer and died at
the age of forty years. His widow survives him and lives
at Huntsville, Ohio, now seventy-one years of age. Mr.
Geiger was reared in the family of John Pifer, ,of
Kenton, after her father's death. To Mr. and Mrs.
Geiger children have been born as follows: Verna E.,
now twenty-three years of age, teaching school in Lynn township;
Vesta, wife of Reuben Koons, a farmer; and
Florence G., aged fourteen, attending school. Mr.
Geiger and his wife are both members of the Methodist church
of Silver Creek, and active in church work. He is a
Republican, and has for three years held the office of township
assessor. He was also a member of the school board.
He belongs to the local Grange. Mr. Geiger has won
his success in life through his own efforts and deserves great
credit for the manner in which he has attained his present
property and position. He is naturally a man of keen
perceptions and sound judgment, which coupled with his
enterprise and ambition, have enabled him to forge ahead at a
good pace. He is well known and popular in the
neighborhood.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio
- Vol. II - Publ. The Lewis Publishing
Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 642 |
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J. EDSON GORDON.
- During many years the name of J. Edson Gordon was
interwoven with the history of the educational interests of Mt.
Victory, an educator of well known ability. He was born
near West Mansfield in Logan county, Ohio, on Mar. 22, 1858, a
son of John E. Mansfield in Logan county, Ohio, on Mar.
22, 1858, a son of John E. and Barbara E. (Keller) Gordon,
and a grandson on the maternal side of Frederick and Rebecca
Keller who came from Virginia to Ohio about the year 1820.
John E. Gordon was born in Loudon county, Virginia, in
1831, and he came with his parents John Woodford and
Elizabeth Gordon, to Ohio in 1835, living successively in
Adams and Highland counties, and later near West Mansfield in
Logan county, his death occurring at the latter place in 1899,
and his wife Barbara had died at their country
home there in 1882. John Woodford Gordon, born in
their country home there in 1882. John Woodford Gordon,
born in Wales in 1797, died in Logan county, Ohio, in 1867.
J. Edson Gordon was the second of the ten children born
to John E. and Barbara Gordon, two of his sisters dying
in infancy and two after attaining the age of young womanhood,
while six of the family, a sister and five brothers, are yet
living, namely: J. Edson, of Mt. Victory; John E.
living at West Mansfield; Ransom D. and Robert F.
both of Bowling Green; Charles A., of Union county; and
Mrs. Mary E. Barber who resides with her family on the
old homestead near West Mansfield.
J. Edson Gordon spent the first seventeen years
of his life on the parental homestead, attending meanwhile the
country schools, and at the age of seventeen he entered upon his
career as an educator, teaching in the country schools of Logan
and Union counties. After a time he entered Ridgeville
College at Ridgeville, Indiana, later passing to the Ohio Normal
University at Ada, Ohio, and he completed his training at the
Champion City Commercial College at Springfield. Following
this splendid college training Mr. Gordon served seven
years as superintendent of the public schools of West Mansfield
and thirteen years in the same capacity in the schools of Mt.
Victory, where he yet resides.
He was married in 1885 to Miss Nora A. Saylor,
from New Carlisle, Ohio, and she is yet a primary teacher in the
Mt. Victory public schools. Their family consists of a
daughter Imogene, a teacher in the public schools of
Alger, Ohio; a son Chester S., a student in the Ohio
State University at Columbus; and Louva E., who is with
her parents at Mt. Victory. Mr. Gordon during the
past six years has been a member of the Hardin county board of
school examiners, and he still retains his interest in
educational affairs although he is not at present engaged in
school work.
Source: A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio
- Vol. II - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910.
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