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** Source:
A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio
 - Vol. I  & II -
Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
1910
898 pgs.

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GEORGE ELWOOD GEIGER, a prominent farmer and a successful breeder of hogs and poultry living in Taylor Creek township, Hardin county, Ohio, is a native of Seneca county, born June 7, 1861.  He is a son of Jacob and Hannah (Detwiler) Geiger.  Jacob C. Geiger was born in Stark county, Ohio, and died in January, 1878, at the age of fifty years; his widow survived him many years and died July 3, 1904, at the age of seventy-three.  They located in Hardin county in 1866 and Mr. Geiger engaged in the grocery business in Kenton, continuing the same until his death.  By trade he was a harness maker.  He was a son of Jacob and Elizabeth Geiger, who came to the United States from Germany, settling in Stark county.  Jacob Geiger, Jr., was a member of the first Methodist Episcopal church of Kenton.  He was a Republican and held several minor offices.  George E. Geiger has three brothers and two sisters living, namely: William Henry of Lost Angeles California; Ulysses Grant, a famer of Cessna township, Hardin Co.; Frank August, of North Dakota; Jennie Elizabeth, wife of A. Offfenbecker, of Urbana, Ohio; and Alice Ada wife of Charles W. Kissling, of Urbana.
    
The boyhood of George E. Geiger was spent with his parents, and he attended the public school until sixteen years of age, after which he turned his attention to farming.  At his father's death he began farming on his own account in Hardin county, spending nine years on the Jacob Sponceler farm.  He then farmed three years in Logan county and in 1901 located on his present farm, where he has been very successful as breeder and raiser of hogs and poultry.  He has a fine flock of pure bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, also an equally fine flock of Rhode Island Reds, which have attracted attention throughout his part of the state.  He also makes a success of raising Dew Rock Jersey hogs.  Mr. Geiger carries on general farming, raising grain to feed his stock.
     In 1886 Mr. Geiger married Ida Bell Nickell, who was born Nov. 2, 1868, daughter of James and Lida Jane (Crow) Nickell.  Mr. Nickell was a farmer and died at the age of forty years.  His widow survives him and lives at Huntsville, Ohio, now seventy-one years of age.  Mr. Geiger was reared in the family of John Pifer, ,of Kenton, after her father's death.  To Mr. and Mrs. Geiger children have been born as follows:  Verna E., now twenty-three years of age, teaching school in Lynn township; Vesta, wife of Reuben Koons, a farmer; and Florence G., aged fourteen, attending school.  Mr. Geiger and his wife are both members of the Methodist church of Silver Creek, and active in church work.  He is a Republican, and has for three years held the office of township assessor.  He was also a member of the school board.  He belongs to the local Grange.  Mr. Geiger has won his success in life through his own efforts and deserves great credit for the manner in which he has attained his present property and position.  He is naturally a man of keen perceptions and sound judgment, which coupled with his enterprise and ambition, have enabled him to forge ahead at a good pace.  He is well known and popular in the neighborhood.
Source:  A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 642

  J. EDSON GORDON. - During many years the name of J. Edson Gordon was interwoven with the history of the educational interests of Mt. Victory, an educator of well known ability.  He was born near West Mansfield in Logan county, Ohio, on Mar. 22, 1858, a son of John E. Mansfield in Logan county, Ohio, on Mar. 22, 1858, a son of John E. and Barbara E. (Keller) Gordon, and a grandson on the maternal side of Frederick and Rebecca Keller who came from Virginia to Ohio about the year 1820.  John E. Gordon was born in Loudon county, Virginia, in 1831, and he came with his parents John Woodford and Elizabeth Gordon, to Ohio in 1835, living successively in Adams and Highland counties, and later near West Mansfield in Logan county, his death occurring at the latter place in 1899, and his wife Barbara had died at their country home there in 1882.  John Woodford Gordon, born in their country home there in 1882.  John Woodford Gordon, born in Wales in 1797, died in Logan county, Ohio, in 1867.  J. Edson Gordon was the second of the ten children born to John E. and Barbara Gordon, two of his sisters dying in infancy and two after attaining the age of young womanhood, while six of the family, a sister and five brothers, are yet living, namely: J. Edson, of Mt. Victory; John E. living at West Mansfield; Ransom D. and Robert F. both of Bowling Green; Charles A., of Union county; and Mrs. Mary E. Barber who resides with her family on the old homestead near West Mansfield.
     J. Edson Gordon spent the first seventeen years of his life on the parental homestead, attending meanwhile the country schools, and at the age of seventeen he entered upon his career as an educator, teaching in the country schools of Logan and Union counties.  After a time he entered Ridgeville College at Ridgeville, Indiana, later passing to the Ohio Normal University at Ada, Ohio, and he completed his training at the Champion City Commercial College at Springfield.  Following this splendid college training Mr. Gordon served seven years as superintendent of the public schools of West Mansfield and thirteen years in the same capacity in the schools of Mt. Victory, where he yet resides.
     He was married in 1885 to Miss Nora A. Saylor, from New Carlisle, Ohio, and she is yet a primary teacher in the Mt. Victory public schools.  Their family consists of a daughter Imogene, a teacher in the public schools of Alger, Ohio; a son Chester S., a student in the Ohio State University at Columbus; and Louva E., who is with her parents at Mt. Victory.  Mr. Gordon during the past six years has been a member of the Hardin county board of school examiners, and he still retains his interest in educational affairs although he is not at present engaged in school work.
Source:  A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago - 1910. - Page 868

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