OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS - Marion Co., Ohio

Source:
A History of Northwest Ohio
A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress and Development
from the First European Exploration of the Maumee and
Sandusky Valleys and the Adjacent Shores of
Lake Erie, down to the Present Time
By Nevin O. Winter, Litt. D.
Assisted by a Board of Advisory and Contributing Editors
ILLUSTRATED
Vol. I & II
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1917

	HON. WARREN G. HARDING While long a distinguished figure in his own state, it was not until the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1916 that Senator Warren G. Harding really became nationally known in the full sense of the term. In that convention he was on the program to deliver the "Keynote Address" and while that was only one of his many influential activities in the convention and the subsequent campaign it definitely fixed his name in the minds and imagination of the American people. Senator Harding was born at Corsica, Morrow County, Ohio, November 2, 1865, a son of George Tryon and Phebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) Harding. His father was a successful physician, and in 1871 located at Caledonia in Marion County, where he engaged in the practice of his profession and finally removed to the City of Marion. Senator Harding was educated in the public schools of Caledonia and from 1879 to 1882 was a student of the old Ohio Central College at Iberia. He received the degree Bachelor of Science from that institution and while in college was editor of the Spectator, a college paper. His success in the management of this journal had much to do with fostering and encouraging his natural inclination in the direction of newspaper work. He taught school for a time, also read law, but abandoned the idea of that profession and thus the law lost a most promising disciple. Senator Harding is a veteran newspaper man and has long been regarded as one of the ablest writers, most logical thinkers and orators in Ohio. He actively entered the field of journalism at Marion in 1884 as local editor of the Marion Mirror. In November of the same year he bought the Clarion Daily Star, and in 1885 began the publication of a weekly edition. For a number of years he has been president of the Harding Publishing Company, the company that publishes the Marion Star. The Star is a great newspaper, one of the best in Northwest Ohio, and has long been regarded as one of the chief organs of the republican party. During his younger years as a newspaper man Mr. Harding became increasingly identified with the affairs of his political party but never sought honors for himself until his newspaper business was firmly established. In the summer of 1899 he was nominated for state senator from the Thirteenth District, including the counties of Logan, Union, Marion and Hardin. He was elected and reelected in 1901. and was the first person in the district to break the one term rule. He served through two full terms, from 1900 to 1904. In June, 1903, at the Republican State Convention at Columbus he was nominated by acclamation for the office of lieutenant governor, and was elected and proved a most capable and dignified presiding officer over the Senate during the Seventy-sixth General Assembly. In 1910 Mr. Harding was the republican nominee for governor of Ohio, but was defeated that year by Mr. Harmon. As a culmination of his political career came his election to the United States Senate from Ohio for the term beginning in 1915 and ending in 1921. "While one of the younger members of the Senate he is today easily one of the leaders in effective influence and work in the solution of the grave national problems before our Government and Nation. Senator Harding is a member of the Baptist Church and belongs to the Clarion Club at Marion. He married July 8. 1891. Florence Kling of Marion, only daughter of Amos H. Kling. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. III _ Publ. 1917 - Page 2265
	EDWARD HUBER. That Marion is now one of Ohio's chief manufacturing and industrial centers is due on the whole to many circumstances and individuals but perhaps no one man could have claimed a greater share for all these activities and the prosperity that followed them than the late Edward Huber, founder of the great Huber Manufacturing Company and some half dozen other local industries. In many ways his career is typical of American genius. He was born of poor but honest parents, lived the plain and simple annals of the poor during his youth, and perfected his genius by constant rubbing against adversity. He was born in Dearborn County, Indiana, September 1, 1837, and died in his sixty-eighth year at Marion, August 26, 1904. His parents were Philip and Mary (Hurm) Huber, both natives of Germany. The father came to the United States with three brothers when a young man. He was a cabinet maker by trade and his skill at tools was undoubtedly inherited by his son. He followed his trade in Philadelphia and later settled on a farm in Dearborn County, Indiana. His wife Mary Hurm came to the United States in 1834. Dearborn County, Indiana, is in the southern part of that state, and during the youth of Edward Huber was a remote and somewhat backwoods locality. He had little opportunity to attend school and his education was more technical and industrial than bookish. He learned to handle all the tools found in his father's blacksmith and cabinet shop on the farm and he early determined to become a blacksmith by trade. For eight years he worked at this vocation, and he put in many hours that would not be included in the union schedule of today. He used his spare time in giving bent to his genius for designing and inventing things. Many devices were hammered out on his anvil, and while many of them had no practical value, the entire' experience was at least as valuable as a source of training as a manual training course would be today. The first important achievement of his career as an inventor was the perfection of a hay rake. This implement had decided merits in advance of anything on the market at that time, and being convinced of its superiority he left no stone unturned to secure capital for its manufacture. Mr. Huber located at Marion in 1865, and in a short time had secured enough men and capital to organize a company. This company at first manufactured only the hay rake. They began under the name of Kowalke, Hammerle & Company, Mr. Huber being the junior partner. In 1870 the firm was changed to Huber, Gunn & Company, and that continued until the organization of the Huber Manufacturing Company, with a capital stock of $75,000. The Huber Manufacturing Company made not only the hay rake but many other agricultural implements and machinery that were the direct outgrowth and invention of Mr. Huber. By many years of constant use world wide fame has come to the Huber Threshing Machine and engines, and today the name of Huber is best known in connection with agricultural machinery. Having seen his primary industry grow to great proportions and success Mr. Huber lent his influence and enterprise to many other local industries, among the most notable of which was The Marion Steam Shovel Company. He was one of the founders of this company and its first president, serving for twenty years. During this period of service, foundations were laid and policies established which since have made this Marion's largest industry, and the world's largest producer of heavy excavating machinery. He was founder and president of the Marion Malleable Iron Works, was one of the founders and president of the Automatic Boiler Feeder Company, was president of the Marion Steam Shovel Company, president of the Marion Implement Company, president of the Marion National Bank and vice president of the Marion Milling and Grain Company. With all his success he remained to the last a man of plain and simple tastes and was generous of his means in behalf of charity of a practical nature, especially in the nature of assisting worthy men to acquire homes of their own. He was interested in the first building and loan association at Marion and very frequently used his influence to help men to acquire homes of their own. On October 30, 1865, Mr. Edward Huber married Miss Elizabeth Hammerle, who with two children survive him. These children are Frank A. and Catherine. Frank A. Huber, the only son, is today one of Marion's foremost business executives, being vice president and treasurer of the Marion Steam Shovel Company, a director in a number of the city's banks and industrial institutions, and prominent in many other organizations. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. III _ Publ. 1917 - Page 2260

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