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BIOGRAPHIES Source:
History of North Central Ohio,
Embracing Richland, Ashland, Wayne,
Medina, Lorain, Huron & Knox Counties,
By William A. Duff
in Three Volumes
- ILLUSTRATED -
Publ. by Historical Publishing Co., Topeka-Indianapolis -
1931
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C. A. PAUL is a representative
and widely known business man of Norwalk, where he is president of the
Citizens National Bank. He was born on a farm in Erie County, Ohio,
Dec. 12, 1860, the son of James L. and Eliza A. (Delamater) Paul.
James L. Paul was born in Erie County and his wife
was a native of New York. He devoted his entire life to the pursuit of
general farming and stock raising, and was numbered among the most prominent
dairymen of Huron County, where he removed with his family in 1874.
The Paul homestead was located in Bronson Township.
Mr. Paul died in 1826 and his wife died in 1908. Both are buried
in Norwalk. Their only child was C. A., the subject of this
sketch.
C. A. Paul acquired his early
education in the district schools attended Norwalk High School, Spencerian
Business College in Cleveland and Ohio State University. He was a boy
of 14 years when his family removed to Huron County and at an early age he
turned his interest to manufacturing. Later, he entered the banking
business, and for many years Mr. Paul served as vice president of the
Citizens Banking Company, now the Citizens National Bank. He was
elected president of the institution in 1928. Mr. Paul is also
vice president of the Wilson Transit Company, of Cleveland, and a director
of the Central United National Bank of Cleveland.
In 1893 Mr. Paul married Miss Clara Cannon,
of Cleveland, the daughter of Capt. Thomas Wilson, a well known ship
owner. They have no children.
Mr. Paul is chairman of the board of trustees of
the Presbyterian Church, and holds membership in B. P. O. Elks, Norwalk,
Union Club of Cleveland, Norwalk Country Club, and Plum Brook Country Club,
of Sandusky. He also belongs to the Cleveland Country Club and Ohio
Society of New York.
As a business man and financier, Mr. Paul has
always ranked among the most prominent and forceful men in the community,
because of his ready recognition and utilization of opportunities, he has
made no backward step in his life, his course being continuous progress
toward the goal of Prosperity. His business affairs, although
extensive, have not hurt his active participation in movements relative to
public good, and throughout the community he is known as a public-spirited
citizen, whose interests in the general welfare has been manifest in many
tangible ways. He has always been capable of mature judgment of his
own capacities, and of the people and circumstances that make up his life
contacts and experiences. He is eminently a man of business sense and
easily avoids the mistakes and disasters that come to those who are liable
to erratic movements resulting is unwarranted risk and failure.
Loren Paul, grandfather of C. A. Paul,
settled in Erie County during the early days, having driven westward from
New York with a yoke of oxen. He established his home in the midst of
the wild forest and secured a large tract of land which he converted into
rich and productive fields as the years passed by.
Source: History of North Central Ohio, Embracing Richland,
Ashland, Wayne, Medina, Lorain, Huron & Knox Counties, By William A. Duff -
in Three Volumes ILLUSTRATED - Publ. by Historical Publishing Co.,
Topeka-Indianapolis - 1931 - Page 925 |
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