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A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
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by G. Frederick Wright
1916
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V. ADAIR, M. D. It
is a very capable and skillful physician and surgeon
that Doctor Adair has contributed
his best known and most useful services to the City
of Lorain, where he established his home and office
after an unusually thorough training for his life
vocation.
A native of
Ohio, he was born at Winterset, Dec. 1, 1882, a son
of P. M. and Letitia A. (Johnston) Adair.
His father was a farmer and stock raiser, and the
son grew up on a farm, attended country schools,
finishing his literary training in the Muskingum
College, and soon afterward entering the Starling
Medical College at Columbus, where he was graduated
with a degree M. D. in 1906. Doctor
Adair before coming to Lorain had unusual
opportunity for experience by the four years passed
as assistant physician in the Massillon State
Hospital. From there he came to Lorain, Dec.
1, 1910, and has since enjoyed a very find practice,
and his capabilities were recognized in his
appointment in May, 1914, as health officer for the
City of Lorain. He is a member of the Lorain
County and Ohio State Medical societies and the
American Medical Association.
Fraternally Doctor Adair is
identified with the Masonic order and the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. On Oct. 8, 1913,
he married Miss Mabel MacRae of
West Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Source: A
Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio Vol.
II - Publ. 1916 - Page 674 |
Charles F. Adams |
CHARLES
F. ADAMS, lawyer and present prosecuting
attorney of Lorain County, has had his home in the
City of Lorain for the past eighteen years. No
attorney in Lorain County stands higher in the
estimation of his fellow lawyers than Charles F.
Adams, and it is noteworthy that while he has
conducted his office with utmost fearlessness and
with fidelity to duty, his popularity has nothing in
consequence of his official acts.
He represents a very old family in Northern Ohio.
He was born at Olmsted Falls in Cuyahoga County,
Sept. 9, 1872, a son of L. B. and Hulda B.
(Carpenter) Adams. His grandfather,
Ransom Adams, was a native of Connecticut, where
the family had lived for a number of generations.
Ransom Adams when a young man left his home
in Waterbury, Connecticut, and going west settled at
Olmsted Falls in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. He was
a useful factor in that early community, and
followed his trade of wood turner until advanced
years came upon him. He was also a licensed
preacher, and in the early days he filled many
pulpits as a supply Methodist minister.
Ransom Adams married Phoebe Underhill,
descended from an old New England family.
These was people met some years after Ransom
had come to Ohio. They had four children:
Lorenzo, Cynthia, Wilbur and James.
The two youngest sons were drowned while boys in
Rocky River. The daughter married Asel
Osborn.
Lorenzo B. Adams, father of the Lorain lawyer, was
born in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, in 1833. During
his youth he learned the trade of tinsmith, and he
followed that until his death, when still in the
prime of life, at the age of fifty-three.
Along with his work as a tinsmith he conducted a
small hardware store at Olmsted Falls and the
management of this store devolved upon his widow
after his death. Mr. Adams enlisted in
1861 in Company B, First Ohio Light Artillery.
Upon the expiration of his first enlistment he
enlisted in the Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry, serving until the close of the war.
He was a very public spirited man and did much to
help any worthy cause. He served eleven years
as mayor of Olmsted Falls. Mrs. Adams
showed much capacity in conducting the business for
about fourteen years, being assisted in the meantime
by her son, Lorenzo B., Jr., and also during
vacation terms by her son, Charles. Mrs. L.
B. Adams before her marriage was Hulda B.
Carpenter, a daughter of Caleb and Susan
(Haynes) Carpenter. Lorenzo B. Adams, Jr.,
who is now engaged in the real estate and brokerage
business on Long Island, New York, married Eva
Haight. After the death of her first
husband Mrs. Hulda Adams married, in 1900,
George Avery, who is now deceased. In
religious belief the Adams family has always
adhered to the doctrines of the Congregational
Church.
There was just enough of hardship and privation in the
early life of Charles F. Adams to keep his
energy and ambition at a high tension. As a
boy he attended the public schools of Olmsted Falls,
and he also continued his literary education at
Baldwin University at Berea and in the Ohio Northern
University at Ada. He was still a boy when he
set his ambition for the law, and he had done much
reading along that line before he entered law
school.
In 1892 Mr. Adams entered the law department of
the University of Michigan, where he was graduated
LL. B. in 1894. His first field of practice
was at Niles, Ohio, where he remained a year and a
half. It is interesting to recall the fact
that his first office was in the building where the
late President William McKinley was born.
From Niles he removed to Cleveland, where he
continued practice in the office of George Foster,
and had some experience that proved very valuable to
him during the two years he spent at Cleveland in
association with Mr. Foster.
In 1898 Mr. Adams established his office and
residence at Lorain, and since that time his
reputation as an able lawyer and high minded citizen
has spread over all the townships of Lorain County.
He has handled a number of very important cases
tried in the district courts. During 1905-06
he served as city solicitor of Lorain. In
November, 1912, Mr. Adams was elected to the
office of prosecuting attorney of Lorain County,
beginning his official duties Jan. 1, 1913. He
was re-elected in 1914, and is a candidate for
re-election in 1916. During his administration
he has shown great executive ability and it is well
understood that never before in the history of the
county has the office of prosecuting attorney
exhibited a cleaner record than that made by Mr.
Adams.
He takes much interest in fraternal affairs, and is
affiliated with the Patriotic Order Sons of America
at Lorain, the Woodland Lodge, Knights of Pythias at
Lorain, the Benevolent Order of Elks at Lorain, and
other fraternal bodies.
In 1895 Mr. Adams married Miss Florence
Terrell, who was born at North Ridgeville, Ohio,
a daughter of Clayton and Cyrene Terrell,
both members of old Lorain County families.
Mrs. Adams' great-grandmother was a sister of
General Halleck of the Revolutionary army.
Mr. and Mrs. Adams have two children.
Thelma is now a student in the New England
Conservatory of Music at Boston. The son,
L. Burton, is still in the public schools at
Lorain.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
Vol. II - Publ. 1916 - Page 728 |
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R. C. ADAMS.
For a man to have lived usefully and honorably for
more than three quarters of a century is itself a
distinction deserving of more than passing attention
in a community.
Now one of the oldest native sons of Lorain County,
R. C. Adams was born in Wellington Township Feb.
1, 1838, more than seventy-seven years ago For
considerably more than half a century he and his
devoted wife and companion have walked along life's
highway together.
On Sept. 29, 1859, R. C. Adams married Melva
A. Whitney, whose father, Seaver Whitney,
was an early settler of Pittsfield township.
In September, 1909, Mr. and Mrs. Adams
celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, and at
that time almost the entire village of Wellington
turned out to celebrate and congratulate the
venerable couple on the event. It is equally
noteworthy that every one of their four children
born to their union is still living. Evidently
it was of such people that the Scriptural writer
spoke when he said: "With their seed shall
continually remain a good inheritance and their
children are within the covenant. Their seed
shall remain forever and their glory shall not be
blotted out."
The parents of R. C. Adams were Calvin and
Eunice (Smith) Adams, both natives of
Connecticut. They came to Ohio in an early day
and located in Wellington Township, where they spent
their lives. Calvin Adams was twice
married. R. C. Adams is now the only
one living of the five children born to his mother.
His parents were both active members of the
Congregational Church and his father was first a
whig and afterwards a republican. When the
Adams family located in Wellington Township
there were only two other families residing there.
R. C. Adams acquired his early education in the
common schools, found plenty to do on the home
place, and afterwards turned to farming as a regular
vocation. He acquired and developed a good
place of 157 acres, but in 1880 he left the farm and
moved to Wellington, where after a year of work on
the public highways and one year spent as a
carpenter he engaged in the implement and feed
business, and he now gives all his time to the
latter work. He is a republican and Mrs.
Adams is a member of the Methodist Church.
A brief record of their four children is as follows:
Rosa M. is the widow of Mr. Delmar Beckley.
Edith is the wife of Edson L. Wilcox,
a farmer in Huntington Township. Grace
married Charles Rodell of Wellington and has
three children, Marian, Charles and Delmar.
Leon R., a banker at Willoughby, Ohio,
married Cora Oble.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
Vol. II - Publ. 1916 - Page 901 |
W. M. Adams |
WILLIAM
MILNE ADAMS. Of the class of men who
owe their success in business life solely to their
own efforts and abilities, William Milne Adams,
of Elyria, is an excellent example. Induced to
come to this country in his youth by stories of the
wonderful opportunities awaiting ambitious young men
here, he found that in America, as elsewhere, the
only road to prosperity and position was over the
highway of hard and persistent work. This road
he has traveled perseveringly, and at length has
reached the goal of success, occupying an honorable
position among Elyria's business men as the Elyria
and Lorain representative of the Citizen Gas and
Electric Company.
Mr. Adams was born Mar. 20, 1851, in the City of
Forfar, County Forfar, Scotland, and is a son of
George and Emily (Tuck) Adams, both born at that
place, the father of Scotch and the mother of
Scotch-English descent. In his early life
George Adams was engaged in contracting, but
later took up gardening, and for over forty years
acted in that capacity for a number of wealthy
families in Scotland. He died in that country
in 1902, aged eighty-seven years, while the mother
passed away in 1898, aged eighty-three years.
They were the parents of three children:
William Milne; Betsy, who came to the United
States a number of years after her brother, married
John Taylor, and resided near Youngstown,
Ohio, where she died, and Rev. John C., a
graduate of the College of London, England, who
became a missionary to the Orkney Islands, and was
found frozen to death after his failure to return
from making calls, the supposition being that he had
suffered an attack of heart failure.
William Milne Adams received but scant
educational advantages in the public schools of his
native city, but was a young man of industry and
ambition, and when only sixteen years of age was
foreman in a linen manufacturing factory, with over
125 girls under his superintendency. It would
seem that a position of such responsibility would
have satisfied a youth of his age, but he had
repeatedly heard stories of the wealth to be easily
gained in the United States, and in 1869, when
between eighteen and nineteen years of age, he
resigned his position and set sail for New York,
determined to rapidly gain a fortune. When he
arrived in this country, he found that the
conditions pictured as so favorable had been greatly
exaggerated and he was glad to accept such honorable
employment as came his way. In a factory at
Ithaca, New York, he learned to make hubs and
spokes, and resided in that city until about 1871,
when he went to Ilion, New York, and secured a
position with the Remington Arms Company, where he
assisted in the manufacture ture of 350,000 guns
used in the Franco-Prussian war. Still later
he went to Paterson, New Jersey, where he worked in
a factory in the manufacture of machinery for the
making of silk ribbons, but in 1873 left that
position to come to Toledo, Ohio, where, and at
Delphos, Ohio, he was engaged in making hubs and
spokes. In 1884 Mr. Adams received his
introduction to matters electrical when he located
at Fremont, Ohio, and worked for the Central Union
Telephone, and after four years in that capacity
entered the service of the Fremont Gas, Electric
Light and Power Company, becoming one of its
stock-holders and remaining in that city until 1905,
although he sold his stock in the concern in 1902.
On Apr. 1, 1905, he came to Elyria, where he has
since been connected with the electric light and
natural and artificial gas business, having since
that year been representative of the Citizens Gas
and Electric Company for the cities of Lorain and
Elyria. He is a member of the Elyria Chamber
of Commerce and the Lorain Chamber of Commerce, and
has an excellent reputation in business circles of
both cities. In political matters he is a
republican and his first vote was cast for an old
friend, with whose family he had become acquainted
while a resident of Fremont, Rutherford B. Hayes,
who subsequently became President of the United
States. He has continued to be a stanch
supporter of republican candidates and principles,
although not a seeker for preferment at the hands of
his party. Fraternally, Mr. Adams
belongs to Brainard Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons,
of Fremont, Ohio, and Elyria Lodge No. 465,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in both of
which he has numerous friends. He attends and
supports St. Andrew's Episcopal Church of Elyria, of
which his wife is a member.
On Oct. 16, 1884, Mr. Adams was married at
Toledo, Ohio, to Miss Catherine Elizabeth
Botsford, daughter of Hiram and Eliza (Caton)
Botsford, natives of New York State, who died at
Toledo, where their daughter, Mrs. Adams, was
born and educated. Two children have been born
to Mr. and Mrs. Adams: Emily, born at
Fremont, Ohio, a graduate of the Fremont High
School, who also took a business course in that
city, married W. J. Derr, of Toledo, Ohio,
who is engaged in the musical instrument business,
and has two daughters, Mary Louise and Emily,
the latter of whom was born in the same hour of the
same day of the same month as her uncle, William
H. Adams; and William HIland, a graduate
of the Elyria High School, class of 1906, who
attended Gambria College, Mount Vernon, Ohio, now
agent of the Logan Natural Gas and Fuel Company, at
Ashland, Ohio, married Miss Fay Bankard of
Mount Vernon, and has one daughter, Lois.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
Vol. II - Publ. 1916 - Page 692 |
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ROBERT GEORGE
ANDERSON, M. D.
In 1915 Doctor Anderson concluded his twentieth year
of consecutive practice as a physician and surgeon
at Elyria. There is abundant testimony of his
ability and standing as a physician in his large
private practice, his influential associations with
the local profession, and the general esteem paid
him as a man and citizen.
Through Elyria
has been the scene of all his work and experience as
a professional man, Doctor Anderson
was born on a farm in the Province of Ontario,
Canada, May 25, 1868, and lived in Canada until
coming to Elyria. His parents,
Archibald and Mary (Burns) Anderson were
Protestant people from the north of Ireland, came
with their respective families to America, and
Archibald Anderson cleared away the
forest from a tract of land and developed a good
farm home in Ontario, where he lived many years and
died at the age of seventy-eight in July, 1895.
It was on this farm that Doctor Anderson
spent his boyhood, acquiring the equivalent
of a high school education, and after some varied
experience in paying his own way finally entered
Trinity Medical College, now the Toronto Medical
College, where he was graduated in 1895. A few
months later he was in Elyria and began practice on
the West Side. For twenty years now he has
given his professional service to a widening circle
of patrons and has also been actively identified
with The Elyria Memorial Hospital as a member of its
medical staff since it was opened.
Doctor Anderson is a member of The
Lorain County Medical Society, The Ohio State
Medical Society and the American Medical
Association, and the Masonry is affiliated with King
Solomon Lodge No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons, and
Marshall Chapter No. 47, Royal Arch Masons. He
married Miss Laura E. Ferguson, who
was born in Toronto, Canada. Their children
are Eva Louise and George
Bertram.
Source: A Standard History
of Lorain County, Ohio Vol. II - Publ. 1916 -
Page 678 |
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GEORGE
H. ANDRESS. Among the
energetic young business men of Elyria, one who has
won prominence although a comparative newcomer to
commercial circles is Geoerge H. Andress,
"The Studebaker Man," representative here for the
famous Studebaker automobile. He was born in
this city, Sept. 28, 1892, and is a son of Henry
M. and Medora G. (Boynton) Andress. His
father, a business man of Elyria for forty years,
for half of this time conducted an establishment
within twenty rods of the location of the son's
store and garage, which is situated on the property
on which the old home stood for a long period.
A review of the career of Henry M. Andress
will be found elsewhere in this work.
George H. Andress received a public school
education and when ready to enter upon his
commercial career associated himself with his
father, under whom he received his business
training. From 1910 until 1913 he remained
with the elder man in the handling of automobiles,
and in the latter year, with this experience, took
over the agency of the Studebaker automobile and has
built up a large and important business.
Mr. Andress is a member of the Elyria Chamber of
Commerce, the Elyria Automobile Club and Lodge No
465, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
He is popular in business and social circles and is
justly accounted one of Elyria's leading young
business citizens.
Mr. Andress was married Jan. 21, 1913, to
Miss Lora J. Waite, who was born at Lorain,
Ohio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Waite,
who are living at Lorain. One daughter has
come to this union: Maude Augusta, born at
Elyria. Mr. Andress owns his own home
and place of business, the latter being located in a
desirable part of the business section of the city,
at No. 635 Broad Street.
Source: A
Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio Vol.
II - Publ. 1916 - Page 956 |
H. M. Andress |
HENRY M.
ANDRESS. One of the most
influential figures in the business community of
Elyria for nearly forty years has been Henry M.
Andress. He was one of the builders and is
still owner of a third interest in the Andwur Hotel,
the largest and finest hotel in Elyria and one of
the best in Northern Ohio. His associate in
establishing this hostelry was Henry W. Wurst,
and when it came to selecting a name they combined
the first three letters in each of their individual
names and thus evolved the present title by which
the hotel is known all over Lorain County and to
hosts of traveling men. Mr. Wurst
finally sold his third interest in the hotel to
Charles E. Wilson. Mr. Andress has
for many years been one of the leading authorities
on local real estate and has done much to improve a
large amount of property in and about the city.
His interests are of wide variety and extent. He
is now serving as treasurer of the Lorain County
Agricultural Society. For a number of years he
has been one of the principal automobile dealers and
agents in Elyria. Up to November, 1913, he
handled the Studebaker car, but since that date his
son George H. has assumed the individual
management of the Studebaker agency. As
automobile dealers the business was formerly carried
on under the name of H. M. Andress & Son, but
Mr. Andress is now a dealer under his
individual name, and is handling the agency
exclusively for the Cadillac cars in Lorain and
Medina counties. It is a matter of interest to
automobile circles that Mr. Andress sold at
Elyria one of the first hundred cars ever turned out
by the Studebaker plant. Since 1909 he has
handled the Cadillac and has been very successful in
promoting the sale of that popular car. In
1914 he build the new garage on Broad Street, a
two-story building on a foundation 27x110 feet, the
type of construction being what is known as steel
girder. Two weeks from the time the first
brick was laid the roof was on complete, and this
made a record job in Lorain County. Mr.
Andress continued business in the old building
while the new was being constructed, and this one
location has been his headquarters for more than
twenty-five years. A slogan has been his
headquarters for more than twenty-five years.
A slogan by which his business is well advertised
throughout Lorain County and which is singularly
appropriate is "H. M. A. Here to Stay."
Born on a farm in Henrietta Township of Lorain County
June 19, 1855, Henry M. Andress is a son of
Carlo and Welthy (Smith) Andress. His
father was born in Essex County, New York, Nov. 6,
1804, and was one of the early settlers of Ohio,
going to that state at the age of fourteen. He
was one of the early farmers in Henrietta Township,
cleared and improved the land, and lived there until
1868, when he removed to Oberlin College to educate
his children. He died in that old college town
Nov. 8, 1870. His wife was born Aug. 16, 1815,
in Poughkeepsie, New York.
As a boy Henry M. Andress attended local
schools, completed his education in Oberlin College,
and after some experience as a teacher himself took
up a mercantile career. He ran a meat market
at Birmingham, but in 1876 was appointed bookkeeper
in the store of Hannan & Obitts, grocers and
hardware merchants at Elyria. Not long
afterwards he became associated with Henry W.
Wurst, who had also been an employe of Hannan
& Obitts. Mr. Andress laid the
foundation for his present enterprise as an
automobile dealer a great many years before the
automobiles were thought of. In 1877 he and
John T. Houghton entered the livery business,
but he bought out his partner in a year, and for
twenty-five years conducted one of the best equipped
barns in Northern Ohio. He also began dealing
in horse vehicles of all kinds, keeping a large
stock of carriages, and from that naturally turned
to dealing in automobiles. For a number of
years he has also been one of the leading dealers in
local real estate. He is a director in the
Elyria Savings & Banking Company, was formerly a
member of the Elyria Public Service Board, and for
two years its president, and his authoritative
knowledge for real estate values caused him in 1910
to be appointed a member of the board of appraisers
of real property for its quadrennial session in
Elyria.
Mr. Andress' only fraternal relations are with
Elyria Loge No. 465, Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks. He is also a member of the Elyria
Chamber of Commerce and of the Elyria Automobile
Club. Mr. Andress has three
children: Maude M., who completed her
education in the Maryland College at Lutherville,
Maryland, married Kenneth Duryea of El Paso,
Texas; Jean, wife of J. V. Dillman of
Cleveland, and they have two children, Harriet
and John; and George H., who for a
number of years has been his father's right hand man
in business affairs, married Laura Waite, and
has one child, Maude.
Source: A Standard
History of Lorain County, Ohio Vol. II - Publ.
1916 - Page 844 |
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F. E. ANDREWS
of Wellington has been a resident of Lorain County
more than thirty-five years, and has been
successfully engaged as a miller, farmer and
merchant. His own enterprise has been at the
foundation of the successful business which he now
manages, one of the best equipped furniture stores
and undertaking establishments in the county.
A native of Connecticut and of old New England stock,
he is a son of Almon and Esther Hart (Hall)
Andrews. His father was born in Meriden,
Connecticut, in 1818 and died there in 1901, while
his wife was born in Vermont in 1828 and died in
1911. They were married in Vermont and Miss
Hall was his third wife, and of their four children
the two now living are Emma C. Andrews
of Meriden and F. E. Andrews of Lorain
County. Almon Andrews spent many
years operating a flour mill and afterwards engaged
in the flour and feed business. He held the
position of street commissioner in Meriden, and in
the early part of his life was very successful, met
with reverses, but succeeded in re-establishing
himself financially before his death. He and
his third wife lived together for more than fifty
years. At one time Almon Andrews
came to Lorain County and spent three or tour years
in this county with his brother, part of the time
being engaged as a teacher. He married his
first wife in Penfield Township. He was reared
a member of the Episcopal faith, but afterwards went
with his wife into the Methodist Church, and both
were very active in church affairs. He was a
republican, and affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
F. E. Andrews attended the common schools in
Meriden, Connecticut, and also had the advantage of
private school instruction. After his
education he spent two years in Vermont, and in 1880
came to Lorain County to visit a cousin in Penfield
Township. He worked on farms, spent a year in
California and Washington, and then returned to
Wellington and was employed in a flour mill.
He was entirely dependent upon his own exertions to
put him ahead in the world, but quite early in life
be married and established a home of his own.
In 1885 he married Alena R. Starr, who was born
in Penfield Township of Lorain County, a daughter of
O. E. Starr, one of the early settlers there.
To their union have been born four children.
Georgia, who graduated from the Wellington
High School and from Oberlin College, taught a few
years, then took a course in the Dykeman School at
Cleveland, and is now private secretary to Mr.
Baker of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mamye, the second daughter, lives at home and
assists her father in the store. Keith S.
graduated from the Wellington High School in 1915
and is now pursuing special studies. Robert
is still in school. Mrs. Andrews
and two of her children are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Fraternally Mr. Andrews
is affiliated with the Masonic Order, he and his
wife are members of the Order of the Eastern Star,
and in politics he is a republican.
After leaving the flour mill at Wellington Mr.
Andrews spent twelve years on a farm in Penfield
Township, for a year was in a meat market at
LaGrange, and since 1901 has been in the furniture
and undertaking business at Wellington. He had
a very small capital when he started and his first
associate was James Damon under the
firm name of Damon & Andrews.
Six years later the firm became Andrews &
Vincent, and later Andrews & Estey.
As the prosperity increased Mr. Andrews
was able to buy out his partner and has since
conducted the business alone and has made a success
of it. He carried a large stock of furniture
and is also a licensed embalmer and has all the
equipment for proficient work in this line.
Source: A Standard History of
Lorain County, Ohio Vol. II - Publ. 1916 -
Page 906 |
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THOMAS HENRY
ARTRESS. Among the men who have been
most closely identified with the business life of
the City of Lorain during the last thirty or forty
years a place of special prominence belongs to
Thomas H. Artress, who now has many active
relations with business affairs and has held a
number of civic responsibilities. The success
of his career is accentuated by the fact that as a
boy he endured many privations, and depended upon
hard work and honest efficiency to win him a place
in the world.
A native of England, he was born in Gloucestershire,
April 21, 1859, a son of William and Mary Artress.
In 1868, when he was nine years of age, the family
emigrated to the Unites States and located on a farm
in Lorain County, where the parents spent the rest
of their days.
It was a limited education that was assigned to
Thomas Henry Artress as a preparation for life.
When only thirteen years of age he was regularly
employed at farm labor, and four years of age he was
regularly employed at farm labor, and four years
later began an apprenticeship at the black's trade.
Having completed this apprenticeship at the age of
twenty, he set up a shop in the little town of
Grafton, and from there in 1880 moved to Lorain,
where he was a workman in the shops of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad and also in the Brass Works.
Thus by means of a mechanical trade Mr. Artress
laid the foundation for his present substantial
means and influence.
In 1893 he engaged in the hardware business at Lorain,
and made that the object of his principal endeavors
for ten years. At the same time his
investments had been more widely directed. In
1912 he built at 2147 Broadway a large concrete
block garage and automobile sales barn, 30 by 75
feet in dimensions. He is the owner of this
garage, and acts as agent for the Paige car.
He is also a director of the Wood Lumber Company
and a director of the Central Bank of Lorain.
He has a number of other interests in real estate
and business affairs.
In a public way he has been closely identified with the
life of Lorain for the past quarter of a century.
For three years he was on the board of trustees for
public works in Lorain and in 1903 was appointed
trustee of Black River Township and held that office
for a number of years by election. Fraternally
he is identified with the Masonic order in the lodge
and council and Royal Arch Chapter, and is also a
Knight of Pythias. He is a member of the
Lorain Board of Commerce and also has membership in
the Elks Club. He married Miss Ida Ackley
who was born at Grafton, Lorain County, daughter of
Henry and Mary Ackley.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County,
Ohio Vol. II - Publ. 1916 - Page 601 |
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