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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
CENTENNIAL HISTORY
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Troy, Piqua and Miami County, Ohio
And Representative Citizens.
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Edited and Compiled By
Thomas C. Harbaugh
Casstown, Ohio
Literary Journalist, Secretary of Maryland association of Ohio.
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"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples."
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Published by
Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.
Chicago.
1909
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D. L. LEE,
United States storekeeper located at Troy, Ohio, was born in
this city in 1843, a son of the late A. J. Lee, who
was born in Virginia, of the celebrated family of that name,
and came as an early settler to Miami County.
D. L. Lee was educated in the district schools
of Miami County, and had scarcely left school when he
enlisted for service in the Civil War, in which he remained
from November, 1861, until its close. He entered
Company E, Seventy-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
as a private, and was mustered out with the rank of
sergeant. After taking part in the battle of Shiloh,
he participated in the arduous campaign through Tennessee
and Georgia and was on every noted battlefield where his
regiment was engaged until the battle of Nashville, when he
was so severely wounded that it was found necessary to
amputate his left leg, the operation being performed in a
field hospital. On one occasion he was captured by a
band of guerillas, six companies being forced to surrender
to Colonel Mason, at Clarksville, but he was
paroled forty hours later. There were few hardships of
war that Mr. Lee escaped, the entire record of
his service being one to reflect honor on his name as a
soldier.
After his honorable discharge in April, 1865, Mr.
Lee returned to Troy, where he learned the jewelry
trade and worked at it for two years. He then received
his appointment to the United States Revenue department and
served six years. In the fall of 1873 he was elected
sheriff of Miami County and served two terms, being
re-elected in 1875. After that he was engaged in
business for several years in Kansas City, and after he came
back to Troy conducted a grocery enterprise for six years.
Then, under the administration of President
Harrison, he was connected with the revenue service
again for four years. Following this came four years
as township clerk, when he was again appointed to the
revenue service and has been an efficient officer in the
same ever since.
In 1868 Mr. Lee was married to Miss Elizabeth
Clyde, a daughter of George C. Clyde, who was a
pioneer of Troy. Mrs. Lee died in 1905, leaving
two sons: Harry, who is connected with the C. U.
Telephone Company, at Indianapolis; and Fred, who is
with the firm of Long & Knight, of Troy.
Mr. Lee is a member of the Presbyterian
Church. He has been secretary and treasurer of the
Seventy-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Association, for a
number of years, belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic
and also is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of
Pythias, and has been treasurer of both these organizations
for a long time.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 550 |
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HON.
ALBERT F. LITTLE, mayor of Bradford, Ohio, and the
able editor of the Morning Sentinel, a journal which he
founded in 1884, is well known in fraternal circles all over
the country, and has been particularly identified for years
with the order of Red Men. He was born in Logan
County, Ohio, in the pleasant town of West Liberty, Feb. 10,
1864, and is a son of John M. and Mary (Jones) Little.
The late JOHN M. LITTLE was a
well known business man of Bradford for a number of years,
moving to this place in 1879, entering into the drug
business under his own name, and being associated for a time
with his son, Albert F. Later he moved to
Magnetic Springs, Ohio, and there his death occurred on Mar.
31, 1906. He was thrice married. His first wife,
Mary Jones, was accidentally killed in a
railway accident, in Logan County, in 1866, and he
subsequently married her sister, Eliza Jones,
and after the latter 's death, married another sister.
Albert F. Little was but eighteen months old
when accident deprived him of his mother, and he was reared
to the age of ten years by his aunt and step-mother.
He then went to Darke County, where he lived on a farm,
about five miles north of Bradford, for five years, in the
meanwhile attending the public schools. He was fifteen
years old when he came to Bradford and entered the High
School, where he was graduated in 1882, one of a class of
three members, of which he is the only survivor. For
several years he was associated with his father in his drug
store before he really embarked in the printing business,
toward which his inclinations were directed from early
youth. He acquired his first press, a hand press
of ancient pattern, by trading an old overcoat, and he began
business on this little machine, and has been in the same
line of industry from that day to this. In 1884 he
purchased a printing plant and established his present
newspaper under the name of the Sentinel. Later
in the same year he bought out a little journal already in
existence, the Independent, and, combining the two,
issued the Independent-Sentinel for a number
of years. hen he found himself prepared to issue a
morning edition of his paper he changed the name to the
representative one of Morning Sentinel.
The encouragement he has received has made it possible for
him to provide the people of Bradford with a first-class
newspaper two mornings in the week, Wednesdays and
Saturdays, and a constantly increasing subscription list and
advertising support, indicates that ere long the issue will
be daily. Mr. Little does a large business in
the line of job printing, and makes a specialty, to some
extent, of printing for fraternal organizations and secret
societies all over the United States. He has built up
a reputation for journalistic enterprise, and on more than
one occasion has performed the feat, dear to every newspaper
man, of making a "scoop" and being ahead of his competitors
with the news of stirring events. This was exemplified
on the occasion of the death of the lamented President
McKinley, which occurred at Buffalo at 3:15 a. m., and
at 4 a. m. the Bradford Morning Sentinel was offered
on the streets with news and details of this calamity.
His was probably the first country newspaper in the United
States to announce this fact, and the enterprise would have
done credit to a metropolitan sheet.
In 1884 Mr. Little was married at Bradford to
Miss Rebecca Haley, who graduated from the
Bradford High School as valedictorian of the class of that
year. Five children have been born to them, Kenneth,
Faith, Carrol F., Russell and Edna.
Faith Little graduated from the Bradford High
School in 1902, subsequently took a course in music at
Otterbein University, after which she was married to H.
B. Eller, who is electrician for the Pennsylvania Rail
road at Bradford. They have three children, Keith
and Lucile and a babe. Kenneth Little
graduated from the Bradford High School in 1905, and in the
same fall entered the Ohio State University at Columbus,
where he was graduated in the spring of 1908. He is
engaged in the practice of law in Columbus. He married
Miss Cora McCune, a daughter of A. W. McCune,
postmaster at Bradford, and they have two children:
Delmas and Albert Bernard. Carrol F.
Little was graduated in 1907 from the Bradford High
School, and is a student at Wittenberg College, at
Springfield, Ohio. Russell Little is a member
of the class of 1909 at the Bradford High School.
Mr. Little is one of the eight representatives
of the order of Red Men, appointed on account of special
preparation for the honor, to the Great Council of the
United States: He organized the uniform rank of the
order in Ohio, and was the first major general of the
Department of Ohio, and is now a retired major-general.
At the time of the death of President McKinney
he was great sachem of the Ohio Lodge, and he issued the
first fraternal proclamation of sorrow over his death.
He is also very prominent in the Knights of Pythias, and is
past grand representative, and has organized the larger
number of lodges in this section. Mrs.
Little is past grand chief of the Pythian Sisters of
Ohio, and is past representative in the Supreme Temple,
which includes the whole of the United States in Pythian
work. He is also an Odd Fellow, and has filled all the
chairs in the Junior Order of American Mechanics in Ohio.
Mr. Little has always found time to be
interested in local matters of moment, and at all times has
proven himself a citizen in whose judgment and fidelity to
the best interests of Bradford all could rely. In 1894
he was first elected mayor of the town, and is serving in
that honorable office in his fourth term. In each
administration he has given his fellow citizens evidence of
his capacity and public spirit, and in each one great
strides have been made forward. With his sons, he is
an ardent advocate of the principles of the Republican
party, and in religious views all are members of the
Presbyterian Church. He is a ruling elder in the
church at Bradford, and is president of the Darke County
Sunday School Association, and is religious director of the
Bradford Y. M. C. A.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 829
Sharon Wick's Note: The following was found at
www.ancestry.com :
Eliza Jones, female, married on Oct. 11, 1882 at Miami Co.,
OH to J. M. Little. |
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