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RESIN M. PAINTER.
With the educational interests of Logan county Resin
M. Painter has long been identified and is still
successfully engaged in teaching. At times he has
been connected with different business enterprises and
is to-day a member of the firm of Wilgus & Painter,
liverymen of Bellefontaine, where he now makes his home.
A native of this county, Mr. Painter was born in
the village of West Mansfield, Bokes Creek township, on
the 14th of December, 1868, and is a son of Robert
and Lucetta (Keller) Painter. His father was
either born in Logan county or came here when quite
young. Learning the carriage-maker's trade in
early life, he subsequently followed that occupation in
West Mansfield and West Liberty. When the country
became involved in Civil war he enlisted in the spring
of 1862, becoming sergeant in the Thirteenth Ohio
Battery, which was disbanded soon after the battle of
Shiloh, which was the first engagement in which he took
part. Later he became a member of the One Hundred
and Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was with
this regiment in all the battles in which it
participated. For a time he was confined in the
hospital and was discharged for disability before the
close of the war.
The subject of this sketch is the youngest in a family of five
children, the others being as follows: Alfred
F. is also a teacher, now living in Middleburg,
Logan county. He married Sallie Crane and
has two children, William and Hazel.
Lillie M. is the wife of S. J. Southard, of
Bellefontaine, and they have three children, Agnes,
Goodwin and Lucile. Ernie
first married Benjamin Kirkpatrick, by whom she
had one child, Nellie, and for her second husband
married Samuel Wilgus. They have one child,
French. Sallie first married Isaac Pool
and second William Boon by whom she has one
child, Mary Lucetta. They also have an
adopted son, Floyd.
Resin M. Painter was reared in this county and
during his boyhood and youth worked in a brick-yard and
tile factory at West Mansfield during the summer months,
while through the winter season he attended the country
schools. At the age of twenty years he began
teaching and has since devoted his attention principally
to that pursuit, in which he has met with marked
success. For one term he was a student at the
Normal University in Ada, Ohio. He taught school
for six years in Union county and the remainder of the
time in Logan county, having charge of the grammar
department at West Mansfield for two years. After
his marriage he was also interested in the implement
business at that place for four years in partnership
with his brother, and in June, 1902, bought an interest
in the livery business at Bellefontaine, now conducted
under the firm name of Wilgus & Painter.
He is a man of good business and executive ability
and usually carries forward to successful completion
whatever he undertakes.
On the 26th of September, 1894, in Bokes Creek
township, this county, Mr. Painter was united in
marriage to Miss Alpha M. bell, who was born and
reared in that township and is a daughter of James
and Mary J. (Reed) Bell. In the spring of
1898, he accepted a temporary position as clerk in the
adjutant-general's office at Washington, D. C., and held
the same until June, 1899, when he returned to Logan
county. He has always taken an active interest in
political affairs in the Republican party, of which his
father was also a stanch supporter. For one term
he filled the office of justice of the peace, during
which time he was instrumental in getting many parties
to settle their difficulties without recourse to the law
and by these compromises the fees of the justice were
reduced to thirty dollars, although they had previously
amounted to several hundred dollars during a term.
He had the pleasure of marrying two couples and no case
tried by him was ever appealed to a higher court.
He was a charter member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge
at West Mansfield and was its first master of exchequer.
Source: The Historical Review of Logan Co., Ohio,
Publ. Chicago, by S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1903 -
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