HOMER J.
RICHARDS. For over twenty years Mr. Richards' activities
have made him a factor in the business affairs of Carrollton, where he is
looked upon as one of the men of enterprise and distinctive leadership.
For the past ten years he has been one of the partners and manager of the L.
& M. Rubber, now the Tuscan Rubber & Tire Company (see history of the
company).
Mr. Richards was born at Harlem Springs in
Carroll County Dec. 28, 1876. Three generations of the family have
lived in the county from pioneer times to date. His paternal
grandfather, Otho Richards, came to Carroll County at a very early
time and married Miss Elizabeth Little. He spent his life as a
farmer and died in this county. John Richards, father of
Homer J., was born in Carroll County in 1842 and soon after completing
his education in the common schools he enlisted in 1861 in the Eightieth
Ohio Infantry. He was in service until wounded at Corinth, after which
he was granted an honorable discharge, but subsequently reenlisted in the
One Hundred and Ninetieth Ohio Infantry and served to the end of the war.
He was also captain of a company of Home Guards. He was an active
republican, a member of the Masonic Order and he and his wife were
Methodists. John Richards married Mary Hayes, who was
born in Carroll County in 1843. Her father, Richard Hayes, and
wife were natives of Ireland, but spent their active lives in Carroll
County. Mrs. Mary Hayes Richards is still living in Carrollton.
In the old community where he was born at Harlem
Springs, Homer J. Richards spent his youth, and in addition to the
advantages of the local schools attended Scio College one year. As a
young man he received a good commercial training in his father's store, and
when the family moved to Carrollton in 1897 he engaged in the hardware
business and was an active merchant here for about ten years.
Following that he assisted in the organization of the Carrollton Savings
Company and remained with that institution as its cashier for a year and a
half. He and his brother Howard Richards and Doctor Williams
then bought out the L. & M. Rubber Company in 1910 and since that
date Mr. Richards has been the moving spirit in that well known
business.
Politically a republican, he has never sought the cares
and responsibilities of office. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a
member of the Methodist Church. In 1904 he married Miss Martha
Lawler, a daughter of J. V. Lawler. The Lawler family
is one of prominence in Carroll County and more is said of them on other
pages. To Mr. and Mrs. Richards were born six children:
John; Emma, who died at the age of seven years; Joseph; Mary; Thomas,
and Martha. |
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