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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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O. W. RICHARDSON, one of
the leading contractors and builders of Piqua, Ohio, has
been a resident of this city since July, 1889, and has
erected some of the prominent buildings here. Mr.
Richardson was born in Drake County, Ohio, Aug. 26,
1874, and there he attended the public schools. After
coming to Piqua, in 1889, he attended Piqua High School one
term. Upon leaving that institution he learned the
trade of a carpenter, serving a thorough apprenticeship, and
followed that occupation continuously until 1897. He
then engaged in general contracting in partnership with his
father, but during the past seven years he has conducted
operations alone. He has erected many fine buildings,
among which may be mentioned that of Piqua Central Fire
Department, the Boal Flats and the United Brethren Church.
He added the third story to the Glencoe Hotel and remodeled
the remainder of the building. He has taken an active
part in political affairs, being a Republican, and has
served as central committeeman and as delegate to
congressional and county conventions.
June 20, 1900, Mr. Richardson was united
in marriage with Miss Electa B. Davis, of Piqua.
Both are members of the Church of Christ and are
enthusiastic church workers. He has been
superintendent of the Sunday School for seven years, and has
seen its growth from ninety scholars, with an average
attendance of sixty, to an enrollment of 240, with an
average attendance of 150. Mrs. Richardson
also has been an active Sunday School worker and
teacher, and has seen many of her class of infants grow to
be useful members of the church congregation. Mr.
Richardson is a member of Warren Lodge, No. 24, F. &
A. M., of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also of
the Piqua Club.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 503 |
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DANIEL ROYER,
representative citizen and retired farmer of Newberry
Township, residing on his farm of sixty-two acres, which
lies just east of the Brethren Church, north of Bradford,
was born on a farm in Union County, Pennsylvania, June 3,
1840, and is a son of Jacob and Susanna (Myers) Royer,
both of whom died in Union County.
SAMUEL D. ROYER was reared in his native place
and obtained a good common school education. Both he
and his brother, J. G. Royer, a prominent retired
citizen of Mt. Morris, Illinois, engaged in teaching school
after their own school-days were over. Samuel D.
taught only four mouths and then came to Darke County,
reaching here in the spring of 1864, since which time until
he retired he engaged in farming. J. G. Royer
was a teacher for fifty years, following that profession in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and when he
finally retired from the educational field he was president
of Mt. Morris College at Mt. Morris, Illinois.
Samuel D. Royer was married in the year following his
settlement in Ohio and located first on the old Jerry
Katherman farm in Darke County, which he operated for
five years, when he moved on the Jacob Senseman farm,
southwest of Bradford, and lived there for two and one-half
years. In August, 1873, he moved to his farm in
Newberry Township that is now owned by his daughter and
husband, and came from there to his present place, Jan. 31,
1907. This farm he has greatly improved, all the
substantial buildings having been erected by himself.
Mr. Royer was married in Darke County, Ohio, in
1865, to Miss Mary Mummert, a daughter of Joseph
and sister of John Mummert, and they have one
child, Catherine. She married D. I. Hoover
and they have two children: Mary Etta and
Harley, both of whom are graduates of Mt. Morris College
of the class of 1909. Mr. Hoover was a
native of Darke County. He is a man of considerable
prominence in this section, being one of the directors of
the Bradford Home Telephone Company, a director in the
Bradford National Bank and one of the trustees of the
Brethren Cemetery. For twenty-four years Mr.
Royer has been a minister in the Brethren Church and few
men are better known or more highly esteemed through Miami
and Darke Counties.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 631 |
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SAMUEL
D. ROYER - See DANIEL ROYER Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 631 |
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