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BIOGRAPHIES
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A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
- Vol. II -
by G. Frederick Wright
1916
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L. D. GIBSON.
From farming, a vocation to which he had applied the
best energies of his younger years, L. D. Gibson
turned his attention to merchandising at South
Amherst, and is now one of the progressive business
men and energetic citizens of that community.
While he was born in Russia Township of Lorain County,
Apr. 1, 1856, his family for many years had lived in
New York State, where both his father and mother and
his grandfather were born. His parents were
Silas and Diantha (Heath) Gibson. His
father was born in 1804 and died in 1894 and his
mother was in 1816 and died in 1864. They were
married in New York State where three of their
thirteen children were born. The four still
living are: Lindley, a retired resident
of Brownhelm Township; Ophelia, who first
married John Bender and later E. J.
Frederick, and now lives on a farm in Russia
Township; Barzilla, a resident of Camden
Township; and L. D. Gibson. Silas
Gibson on coming to Lorain County bought 200
acres of land in Russia Township, subsequently
selling half of it, and occupying and cultivating
the remainder until his death. He did much
clearing and development work, built a frame house,
which replaced the old log building which had been
the first habitation of the family in Lorain County.
He was a very successful man, and in politics was a
democrat, while his wife was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Reared on a farm, educated in district schools, L.
D. Gibson after some years of steadily continued
effort, bought the old homestead and managed it for
eight years. After selling he bought in March,
1906, the store at South Amherst, and has since
developed a large business around that trading
center.
In 1884 he married Elizabeth Ludwig.
Her father, John Ludwig, a native of
Germany, settled at Amherst in 1890, and was a
quarryman. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson have
five children, four of whom are still living:
Bertha married Jacob Muth, a
quarryman at Amherst, and they have one child,
Zelma, nine years old; Ferdinand is now
deceased; Carl, who is connected with a
manufacturing plant at Elyria, married Emma Harr,
and has two children named Vema Margaret and Carl
Elsworth, Jr.; Elmer is in the regular
United States army, with the Fourth Cavalry, now
located at Honolulu; Myrtle is the wife of
Henry J, Kolb, a partner with Mr.
Gibson in the store. Mrs. Gibson
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
Fraternally he is affiliated with the American Union
and politically is a democrat.
Source: A Standard History
of Lorain County, Ohio - Vol. II by G. Frederick
Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page 893 |
A. T. Grills, M. D. |
ALBERT THOMAS GRILLS, M. D.
In the ten years of his
work as a physician and surgeon in Lorain County,
Doctor Grills has enjoyed many of the
better distinctions and successes of professional
activity. While representing the new and modem
methods and learning in the science of medicine.
Doctor Grills also has that fine
character and conscientious devotion to duty which
were so signally exemplified in the old time
practitioner and family doctor.
His youth and early manhood were spent in Lorain
County, though he was born in Ashawa, Canada, June
9, 1877. His parents, Samuel and Elizabeth
(Grant) Grills, natives of England, came from
Canada to Ohio in 1882, and established their home
on a farm in Carlisle Township of Lorain County,
where they continued to reside until 1915, in which
year they moved to Lorain and are now making their
home with their son, Doctor Grills. The
father and mother are now old people, and for many
years have been worthy and esteemed citizens of the
county.
The first seventeen years of his life Doctor
Grills spent on the old homestead, and has much
of the strength and vigor which are a product of
rural environment. He attended the district
schools, went to school in Elyria, and in 1900
graduated from high school. He soon afterwards
entered the Western Reserve Medical College in
Cleveland, where he was graduated M. D. in 1904.
The following two years were spent as resident
physician at the Charity Hospital in Cleveland.
Doctor Grills' professional work has been
in the City of Lorain. During the first year
and a half of his residence there he was resident
physician in St. Joseph's Hospital, and is still a
member of the hospital staff, and also has served as
medical director of the Devonian Mineral Spring
Company of Lorain. His private practice makes
very extensive demands on all his time and energy
and he is regarded as one of the leaders in Lorain
County's medical circles today.
He is a member of the Lorain County Medical Society,
the Ohio State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association. He is also active in the
Lorain Chamber of Commerce. A prominent Mason,
he has affiliations with Lorain Lodge No. 552, Free
& Accepted Masons; Mystic Chapter No. 170, Royal
Arch Masons; Lorain Council, Royal & Select Masters;
Lorain Commandery No. 65, Knights Templar; and Lake
Erie Consistory of the thirty-second degree and Al
Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, of Cleveland. He is also a
member of the Knights of Pythias and of Lorain
Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
In July, 1905, Doctor Grills married
Miss Olive A. Mahany, of Cleveland. Mrs.
Grills, who before her marriage was a trained
nurse, passed away Oct. 5, 1915.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
- Vol. II by G. Frederick Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page
949 |
Wesley L. Grills |
WESLEY L. GRILLS.
Another of the native sons of Lorain County who is
doing much toward upholding the high standard of the
bar of the county and who is one of the
representative young members of his profession in
the City of Lorain, is he whose name introduces this
review and who has here built up an excellent
general practice. In numerous litigated cases
of important order, in both criminal and civil
departments of practice, he has tested and proved
his power as a resourceful and efficient, he has
tested and proved his power as a resourceful and
efficient trial lawyer, and as a counselor he has
shown himself well fortified. He subordinates
all other interests to the demands of his profession
and continues a close and appreciative student of
the involved science of jurisprudence.
On his father's well-improved homestead farm, in
Carlisle Township, Lorain County, Mr. Grills
was born on the 6th of February, 1885, a
son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Grant) Grills,
who still maintain their home on the farm and who
are well known and highly honored citizens of this
section of the state. In the public schools of
the City of Elyria Mr. Grills
pursued his youthful studies until he had completed
the curriculum of the high school, and thereafter he
attended the literary department of the great
University of Chicago for four years. In
preparation for the profession in which he was
achieved marked success and prestige, he entered the
law department of Western Reserve University, in the
City of Cleveland, where he completed the prescribed
course and was graduated as a member of the class in
1911, his admission to the bar of his native state
being virtually coincident with his reception of the
degree of Bachelor of Laws.
In June, 1911, he opened an office in the City of
Cleveland, Ohio, and there remained until June,
1913, where he opened an office in the City of
Lorain, where his ability, close application and
personal popularity caused his professional
novitiate to be of brief duration, as he soon
developed a substantial practice, to which he has
since continued to give his close attention, with a
clientage of representative order. He is a
member of the Lorain County Bar Association, is a
republican in his political allegiance, is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he
has received the chivalric degrees, a member of
Lorain Commandery, Knights Templars. He holds
membership also in the local organizations of the
Knights of Pythias and other fraternal
organizations, and is affiliated with the Phi Alpha
Delta college fraternity.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
- Vol. II by G. Frederick Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page
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