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Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1899.
Transcribed by
Sharon Wick
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LUTHER L. ORWIG. Mr.
Orwig is well-known as the editor of 'The Democratic
Northwest," of Napoleon, Henry county, his able and
judicious management having made it one of the most popular
papers in this section. Established in 1852, it was
purchased by Mr. Orwig in the fall of 1872, and since that
date he has been its proprietor as well as editor.
Although he is a native of Indiana, having been born at
Fort Wayne. February 12, 1844, Mr. Orwig was less than a
year old when he came to Ohio, and he has ever since resided
in this State. His father, John Orwig, a native of
Pennsylvania, was engaged for some years in early manhood in
mercantile business at Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, but
later removed to Fort Wayne, where he conducted a hotel
until his death, in 1844, from smallpox. Our subject's
mother, whose maiden name was Hannah Poorman, is still
living at an advanced age. She was born in Perry county,
Ohio, and soon after the death of her husband she returned
to this State and located at Tiffin with her three children:
J. B., Rebecca (now the wife of G. K. Brown, of Toledo,
Ohio), and Luther L.
Our subject was educated in the schools of Tiffin and when
about fifteen years old began to learn the printer's trade
in the office of "The Seneca Advertiser," which was then
owned by Hon. W. W. Armstrong, formerly Secretary of State
for Ohio. With the exception of a few months spent in
Cincinnati and Toledo, Mr. Orwig remained in that office
until his removal, in the fall of 1872, to Napoleon, where
he has since resided. He is thoroughly loyal to the
interests of his locality, his paper being ready to champion
any progressive movement, and as a citizen he is held in
high esteem. Socially, he and his family are prominent, and
he is actively interested in the work of Napoleon Lodge, No.
262, Royal Arcanum, of which he is a charter member.
On December 18, 1872, he was married in Kellogg, Jasper
county, Iowa, to Mrs. Mary E. Davis, nee Harriott, a native
of Marysville, Ohio, and a daughter of James E. and Sarah A.
Harriott, both of whom died at Lima, Ohio. Four children
have blessed this union: Gale B., a promising young man, who
was admitted to partnership with his father on January 1,
1895, as one of the proprietors of the "Northwest;"
Corrinne H.; Don C.; and Ralph L. By her first marriage, to
Isaac Davis, Mrs. Orwig had one daughter,
Ella, who died in her
sixteenth year from consumption.
Mrs. Orwig, since her residence in Napoleon, has taken
an active part in church and benevolent work, and she is now
serving her second term upon the Board of Education, of
which she is treasurer, the first lady ever serving in that
capacity in Napoleon.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
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