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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Shelby County, Ohio
and
representative citizens
Publ.
Evansville, Ind.
1913
947 pgs.
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JOHN
OLDHAM, attorney at law, a well-known and
representative citizen of Sidney, O., where he has
numerous business interests, was born here, Oct. 28,
1882, and is a son of David and Sarah E. (Everett)
Oldham. The father of Mr. Oldham was
born in 1854, in Miami county, O., and now resides on
his farm in Clinton township, Shelby county, while he
maintains his law office at Sidney. The mother of
Mr. Oldham was born at Sidney, a daughter
of Grosvenor Everett. The four
survivors of the family of six children are:
Harry, who is a law practitioner; John;
Robert, who is a resident of Dayton, O., and
Mary Ethel, who lives with her parents.
John Oldham was reared at Sidney and after his
graduation from the Sidney high school in 1900, entered
the Ohio State University at Columbus, where he passed
the year 1904-05 in the law department, having had two
years of previous study under his father, and was
admitted to the bar in 1905. For two years
afterward he was associated with his father in the
practice of law. For a short period he was in the
collection business but in February, 1907 he embarked,
with Harry Bennett, in the realty and loan
business. His present real state, and
official position with the Oldham- Bennett Realty
Company, as secretary and treasurer, indicate his high
commercial standing. In 1912 the Oldham-Bennett
Realty Company was incorporated with a capital of
$40,000, with Milton Bennett as president;
Elmer D. Kiser as vice-president; John Oldham
as secretary and treasurer; and H. E. Bennett as
general manager. The company handles both city and
country real estate; owns a ten-acre gravel pit; makes
its own building material, manufacturing cement blocks,
brick, etc.; erects its own houses and also deals in
gravel and sand, at the present time furnishing these
materials for the construction of a new high school
building in course of erection at Sidney. At a
business man in the full sense of the word, Mr.
Oldham has displayed energy and foresight, while in
a purely professional way he has met with flattering
success.
Mr. Oldham married Miss Rose Bretches, a
daughter of Samuel Bretches, a retired farmer of
Shelby county, and they have one son, Ralph.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and
representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page
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