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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Madison County, Ohio
Its People, Industries and Institutions
Chester E. Bryan, Supervising Editor
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families
- ILLUSTRATED -
Published by B. F. Bowden & Company, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana
1915
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SCOTT O'DAY.
In those things which make for self-reliance, business
integrity and honesty of purpose, Scott O'Day has
been generously endowed. A man of broad human sympathy
and marked ability he has brought himself to a place of the
highest esteem in the county in which he lives. Not
waiting for circumstances to mold or change his fate he has
seized upon every available opportunity to better his life
conditions, until now he is able to enjoy the fruits of
well-directed endeavor. His career has been
interesting both from the standpoint of the agriculturist
and the business man.
Scott O'Day was born on the 19th of June, 1872,
in Pleasant township, Madison county, and is the son of
James and Sophia (Bennett) O'Day.
The schools of Pleasant township furnished the
rudimentary education for Scott O'Day, later he
attended the Caton Business College, of Cleveland, Ohio,
from which he was graduated in 1892. After graduation
he returned home and worked on the farm, for awhile, with is
father. He then rented a tract of land from his father
and farmed independently until he was able to buy a farm of
his own. He now owns two hundred acres of valuable
farm land in Pleasant township. On this farm he has
made all modern improvements, including the building of two
large stock barns, one of which is one hundred and twelve by
forty feet and the other one hundred and twenty-four by
twenty-six feet. In 1892 he began to breed Shorthorn
cattle and met with such success in this field of endeavor
that he has bred them ever since. He finds a market
for these cattle in the West, and also ships a large part of
his stock to the South. He always has in the
neighborhood of seventy to ninety cattle. On his
smaller farm in Mt. Sterling, which consists of just fifteen
acres, Mr. O'Day has built another barn of large
size, and from this place he ships stock which he buys and
sells to the market.
At Sedalia, Ohio, on the 12th of January, 1892, the
marriage of Scott O'Day, and Nettie Core was
solemnized. She is the daughter of Andrew B. and
Clarinda (Clarridge) Core, and was born on the 17th of
December, 1869, in Range township, Madison county. Her
father was a native of Pennsylvania and her mother of
Fayette county, Ohio. The father, now deceased, was a
farmer, and the mother is now living in Sedalia, Ohio.
Mr. Core was a breeder and grower of sheep and also
cattle.
Mr. and Mrs. O'Day have one child, Freda,
born on Oct. 2, 1898, who is a graduate of the Mt. Sterling
high school, and is now at Western College, at Oxford, Ohio.
In politics Mr. O'Day is an independent voter.
In keeping with the tradition of the family to which he
belongs Mr. O'Day continues to take part in the
affairs of the Methodist church of which his wife and
daughter are members. Mr. O'Day is one of the
largest stock buyers and shippers in Madison county, Ohio.
Source: History of Madison County, Ohio
- Illustrated -
Published by B. F. Bowden & Company, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Indiana - 1915 - Page 846 |
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