V. ADAIR, M. D. It
is a very capable and skillful physician and surgeon
that Doctor Adair has contributed
his best known and most useful services to the City
of Lorain, where he established his home and office
after an unusually thorough training for his life
vocation.
A native of
Ohio, he was born at Winterset, Dec. 1, 1882, a son
of P. M. and Letitia A. (Johnston) Adair.
His father was a farmer and stock raiser, and the
son grew up on a farm, attended country schools,
finishing his literary training in the Muskingum
College, and soon afterward entering the Starling
Medical College at Columbus, where he was graduated
with a degree M. D. in 1906. Doctor
Adair before coming to Lorain had unusual
opportunity for experience by the four years passed
as assistant physician in the Massillon State
Hospital. From there he came to Lorain, Dec.
1, 1910, and has since enjoyed a very find practice,
and his capabilities were recognized in his
appointment in May, 1914, as health officer for the
City of Lorain. He is a member of the Lorain
County and Ohio State Medical societies and the
American Medical Association.
Fraternally Doctor Adair is
identified with the Masonic order and the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. On Oct. 8, 1913,
he married Miss Mabel MacRae of
West Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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ROBERT GEORGE
ANDERSON, M. D. In 1915 Doctor Anderson
concluded his twentieth year of consecutive practice
as a physician and surgeon at Elyria. There is
abundant testimony of his ability and standing as a
physician in his large private practice, his
influential associations with the local profession,
and the general esteem paid him as a man and
citizen.
Through Elyria
has been the scene of all his work and experience as
a professional man, Doctor Anderson
was born on a farm in the Province of Ontario,
Canada, May 25, 1868, and lived in Canada until
coming to Elyria. His parents,
Archibald and Mary (Burns) Anderson were
Protestant people from the north of Ireland, came
with their respective families to America, and
Archibald Anderson cleared away the
forest from a tract of land and developed a good
farm home in Ontario, where he lived many years and
died at the age of seventy-eight in July, 1895.
It was on this farm that Doctor Anderson
spent his boyhood, acquiring the equivalent
of a high school education, and after some varied
experience in paying his own way finally entered
Trinity Medical College, now the Toronto Medical
College, where he was graduated in 1895. A few
months later he was in Elyria and began practice on
the West Side. For twenty years now he has
given his professional service to a widening circle
of patrons and has also been actively identified
with The Elyria Memorial Hospital as a member of its
medical staff since it was opened.
Doctor Anderson is a member of The
Lorain County Medical Society, The Ohio State
Medical Society and the American Medical
Association, and the Masonry is affiliated with King
Solomon Lodge No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons, and
Marshall Chapter No. 47, Royal Arch Masons. He
married Miss Laura E. Ferguson, who
was born in Toronto, Canada. Their children
are Eva Louise and George
Bertram.
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THOMAS HENRY
ARTRESS. Among the men who have been
most closely identified with the business life of
the City of Lorain during the last thirty or forty
years a place of special prominence belongs to
Thomas H. Artress, who now has many active
relations with business affairs and has held a
number of civic responsibilities. The success
of his career is accentuated by the fact that as a
boy he endured many privations, and depended upon
hard work and honest efficiency to win him a place
in the world.
A native of England, he was born in Gloucestershire,
April 21, 1859, a son of William and Mary Artress.
In 1868, when he was nine years of age, the family
emigrated to the Unites States and located on a farm
in Lorain County, where the parents spent the rest
of their days.
It was a limited education that was assigned to
Thomas Henry Artress as a preparation for life.
When only thirteen years of age he was regularly
employed at farm labor, and four years of age he was
regularly employed at farm labor, and four years
later began an apprenticeship at the black's trade.
Having completed this apprenticeship at the age of
twenty, he set up a shop in the little town of
Grafton, and from there in 1880 moved to Lorain,
where he was a workman in the shops of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad and also in the Brass Works.
Thus by means of a mechanical trade Mr. Artress
laid the foundation for his present substantial
means and influence.
In 1893 he engaged in the hardware business at Lorain,
and made that the object of his principal endeavors
for ten years. At the same time his
investments had been more widely directed. In
1912 he built at 2147 Broadway a large concrete
block garage and automobile sales barn, 30 by 75
feet in dimensions. He is the owner of this
garage, and acts as agent for the Paige car.
He is also a director of the Wood Lumber Company
and a director of the Central Bank of Lorain.
He has a number of other interests in real estate
and business affairs.
In a public way he has been closely identified with the
life of Lorain for the past quarter of a century.
For three years he was on the board of trustees for
public works in Lorain and in 1903 was appointed
trustee of Black River Township and held that office
for a number of years by election. Fraternally
he is identified with the Masonic order in the lodge
and council and Royal Arch Chapter, and is also a
Knight of Pythias. He is a member of the
Lorain Board of Commerce and also has membership in
the Elks Club. He married Miss Ida Ackley
who was born at Grafton, Lorain County, daughter of
Henry and Mary Ackley.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
Vol. II - Publ. 1916 - Page 601 |
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