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ARMSTRONG LOGAN MARSHALL, who has been identified. with gas and fuel interests for a number of years and who has been connected with the Miami Valley Gas and Fuel Company since July, 1888, was born on a farm in Washington township, Shelby county, O., September 25, 1840, and is a son of Samuel and Jane McCord (Russell) Marshall.
     Samuel Marshall was born in Washington county, Pa., and was three years old when his parents, Samuel and Margaret Marshall, came to Shelby county, away back in 1802, they being the second settlers who had penetrated thus far and established a pioneer home. They entered land from the government which Grandfather Marshall cleared and cultivated in the primitive way. On that wild farm the younger Samuel Marshall grew to manhood and he, in turn, also entered land, his selection being a tract lying one-half mile east of the old Marshall place. There he followed farming and tanning, his old tan-yard being yet recalled by the older residents of that section, arid on that farm both he and wife passed away in advanced age.
     Armstrong Logan Marshall had much better educational advantages than were afforded his father and he remained at home until he was twenty-three years of age. He then taught school for about six years and later was in the grain business at Harden Station and about this time was first elected county recorder, to which office he was subsequently reelected. Mr. Marshall then became connected with several publishing houses and for eighteen years was engaged in delivering county histories and, atlases both in the United States and Canada. He came then to Sidney and shortly afterward entered into his present business connection. For the first three years he occupied a subordinate position and then succeeded Frank Hunter as agent for the Miami Valley Gas & Fuel Company, and both became agents for the Sidney Gas Light and the Sidney Electric Light Companies, and at present he also is agent for the. Miami Valley Gas & Fuel Co., the Sidney and Electric Light Company, The Sidney Gas Light Company having quit business.
     Mr. Marshall was first married in 1864, to Miss Mary Burness, and one daughter, Mary B., and one son, Samuel, were born to them. His second marriage was to Miss Margaret Walker and they have three sons: Robert, who is a land agent with the Pennsylvania Railroad offices in New York City; and Charles C. and Logan W., both of-whom are practicing attorneys. Mr. Marshall is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
HON. HUGH THOMPSON MATHERS, judge of the Third Common Pleas Judicial District of Ohio, is numbered with the eminent men of a state which has long been productive of distinguished citizens. He was born May 20, 1866, at Sidney, in Shelby county, O., and is a son of Hon. John H. and Elizabeth (Thompson) Mathers. For several generations the Mathers family has been prominent in Ohio and still farther back was also honorably connected with public affairs, in Pennsylvania. James Mathers, the paternal grandfather, was born in Pennsylvania and there became a leading member of the bar and served in the state senate, his death occurring on the old family estate in Juniata county. He married Jane Hutchinson, a daughter of John Hutchinson, who was a well known Presbyterian minister.
     Hon. John Mathers was born in 1830 in Juniata county, Pa., and he, as his father before him, became prominent in the law, and came to Sidney when this place was the head of navigation on the canal. He served as district attorney of Juniata county, Pa., and as prosecuting attorney of Shelby county. He was a man of brilliant talents but died in middle life, in 1875, when aged but forty-five years. He married Elizabeth Thompson, a daughter of Hugh Thompson, and she survives, having been born in 1845 and married in 1864. Her father was born at Upper Middletown, six miles from Uniontown, Pa., and came early to Sidney and established himself as a merchant. He was shortly after­ward elected associate judge of the court of common pleas and served two terms and then turned his attention to the study of law and for many years was a successful practitioner. He became prominent also in public life and served two terms as a member of the state legislature and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1851. His death occurred in 1889, when he was aged eighty-one years. He married Lucretia Bailey, who was born near Baltimore, Md., and died in her seventy-third year. To the parents of Judge Mathers three children were born: Hugh, Jane, who is the wife of E. S. Laughlin, a merchant and traveling salesman; and Lucretia, who is the wife of Dr. Henry Baldwin, who is superintendent of the Tuberculosis Hospital at Springfield, O.
     Hugh Thompson Mathers attended the public schools of Sidney and after graduating from the high school, became a student at Princeton University, and in the class graduated from the Albany Law School in 1888, was one of its four honor men, who delivered the class addresses. He came immediately to Sidney and in the same summer was admitted to the bar at Columbus, O., opening his law office at Sidney and shortly afterward was elected city solicitor. He served two terms' in that office, at the close of his second term accepting the position of general attorney . for the Ohio Southern Railroad, with office at Springfield. When the Ohio Southern became a part of the C.. A. & C. Railroad, Judge Mathers removed to Cleveland for one year, and when the above road became a .part .of the .L. E. & W. system Judge Mathers returned to Sidney. Here he was engaged in active practice until 1901, becoming the leader of the Sidney bar, when he was elected to fill a vacancy on the common pleas bench and served for three years, at the expiration of which period he was elected to the full term of five years and it was. extended one year to meet the requirements. of a constitutional provision. At the expiration of his six years of service in 1910 he was elected for six years more and continues honorably and faithfully to perform the judicial duties for which he seems so well qualified by nature. He possesses the well balanced and discerning mind so important to the jurist and the records of the court show the ability and patient and conscientious thoroughness with which he has administered the office.
     In 1889 Judge Mathers was married to Miss Louise Beeson, a daughter of Charles and Amanda (Baily) Beeson, and they have two children, 
he, as his father before him, became prominent in the law, and came to Sidney when this place was the head of navigation on the canal. He served as district attorney of Juniata county, Pa., and as prosecuting attorney of Shelby county. He was a man of brilliant talents but died in middle life, in 1875, when aged but forty-five years. He married Elizabeth Thompson, a daughter of Hugh Thompson, and she survives, having been born in 1845 and married in 1864. Her father was born at Upper Middletown, six miles from Uniontown, Pa., and came early to Sidney and established himself as a merchant. He was shortly after­ward elected associate judge of the court of common pleas and served two terms and then turned his attention to the study of law and for many years was a successful practitioner. He became prominent also in public life and served two terms as a member of the state legislature and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1851. His death occurred in 1889, when he was aged eighty-one years. He married Lucretia Bailey, who was born near Baltimore, Md., and died in her seventy-third year. To the parents of Judge Mathers three children were born: Hugh, Jane, who is the wife of E. S. Laughlin, a merchant and traveling salesman; and Lucretia, who is the wife of Dr. Henry Baldwin, who is superintendent of the Tuberculosis Hospital at Springfield, O.
     Hugh Thompson Mathers attended the public schools of Sidney and after graduating from the high school, became a student at Princeton University, and in the class graduated from the Albany Law School in 1888, was one of its four honor men, who delivered the class addresses. He came immediately to Sidney and in the same summer was admitted to the bar at Columbus, O., opening his law office at Sidney and shortly afterward was elected city solicitor. He served two terms' in that office, at the close of his second term accepting the position of general attorney . for the Ohio Southern Railroad, with office at Springfield. When the Ohio Southern became a part of the C.. A. & C. Railroad, Judge Mathers removed to Cleveland for one year, and when the above road became a .part .of the .L. E. & W. system Judge Mathers returned to Sidney. Here he was engaged in active practice until 1901, becoming the leader of the Sidney bar, when he was elected to fill a vacancy on the common pleas bench and served for three years, at the expiration of which period he was elected to the full term of five years and it was. extended one year to meet the requirements. of a constitutional provision. At the expiration of his six years of service in 1910 he was elected for six years more and continues honorably and faithfully to perform the judicial duties for which he seems so well qualified by nature. He possesses the well balanced and discerning mind so important to the jurist and the records of the court show- the ability and patient and conscientious thoroughness with which he has administered the office.
     In 1889 Judge Mathers was married to Miss Louise Beeson, a daughter of Charles and Amanda (Baily) Beeson, and they have two children: Hugh Beeson and Jeanette. Judge Mathers and family are members of the Presbyterian church. In politics he is a democrat and was nominated. in 1906, as candidate for judge of the supreme court of Ohio, and again in 1908. Fraternally he is a Mason, in which organization he has attained the thirty-second degree. No man in public life in Shelby county stands higher in the esteem of his fellow citizens
ALLEN MAUER, county surveyor of Shelby county, O., and a well known and valued citizen, has been a resident of Sidney, O., since 1909, coming from Van Buren township, where he was born Dec. 19, 1885.  His parents were Adam and Caroline (Sunderman) Maurer.  Adam Maurer was born also in Van Buren township, Shelby county, a son of Philip Mauer who had come to this section from Germany.  Adam Mauer followed an agricultural life and died on his farm in Van Buren  township in February, 1895.  He married Carol Sunderman, who was born in Auglaize county, O., and still survives.
     Allen Mauer grew to manhood on the home farm and secured his primary education in the country schools.  Developing an unusual mathematical talent he decided to study civil engineering and became a student in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, O., where he was graduated in 1909.  He immediately was appointed deputy county surveyor and the experience gained in that capacity prepared him for the office to which he was elected in 1912, on the democratic ticket, the duties of which he will assume on the first Monday in September, 1913.  He is a young man of enterprise and marked ability.
     In 1910 Mr. Mauer was married to Miss Gertrude Lucas, of Van Buren township, Shelby county.  They attend the Evangelical church.  He is identified with several fraternal organizations including the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and some social and political bodies.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page 698
CHARLES A. MAUER, county surveyor of Shelby county, O., and a well known and valued citizen, has been a resident of Sidney, O., since 1909, coming from Van Buren township, where he was born Dec. 19, 1885.  His parents were Adam and Caroline (Sunderman) Mauer.
     Adam Mauer was born also in Van Buren township, Shelby county, a son of Philip Mauer who had come to this section from Germany.  Adam Mauer followed an agricultural life and died on his farm in Van Buren township in February, 1895.  He married Caroline Sunderland, who was born in Auglaize county, O., and still survives.
     Charles A. Mauer grew to manhood on the home farm and secured his primary education in the country schools.  Developing an unusual mathematical talent he decided to study civil engineering and became a student in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, O., where he was graduated in 1909.  He immediately was appointed deputy county surveyor, and the experience gained in that capacity prepared him for the office he now fills so well, to which he was elected in 1912, on the Democratic ticket. . He is a young man of enterprise and marked ability.
     In 1910 Mr. Mauer was married to Miss Gertrude Lucas, of Van Buren township, Shelby county.  They attend the Evangelical church  He is identified with several fraternal organizations including:  the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and some social and political bodies.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page 862
CHARLES M. McCASHEN, whose many interests make him a widely known man is one of the leading citizens of Perry township, where is situated his well improved farm of eighty acres.  He was born in Shelby County, O., Oct. 5, 1867, and is a so of James and Mary (Stephenson) McCashen.  The parents of Mr. McCashen are now among the highly valued retired residents of Sidney, O.  For many years they resided on their farm and there their children were born, three in number namely: Charles M.; Leona, who is the widow of A. F. Pence; and Frank who is a resident of Cleveland.  Mr. and Mrs. McCashen are members of the Baptist church at Sidney.
     Charles M. McCashen attended the public schools and assisted his father and, with the exception of seven years, during which period he was a traveling salesman for a blank book firm, he has been continuously interested in agricultural pursuits.  He is a stockholder in a number of substantial business concerns, including: the Booker Gibbs Company of Canton, O.; Charles Harris Company, importers of fine wearing apparel at Canton; and The Geiger-Jones, Company, also of that city, an investment company.
     Mr. McCashen was married in September, 1890, to Miss Cora A. Woolley, a daughter of William and Jennie (Johnston) Woolley, and they have one daughter, Agnes, who is a student in the high school at Pemberton.  The father of Mrs. McCashen was a wagonmaker by trade and engaged in farming during the most of his life.  Mr. and Mrs. Woolley reared the following children:  Charles, Ora, wife of John Lorton; James; Daisy, now deceased, formerly the wife of Chester Staley; Frank; Harry; Grace, wife of Wallace Lochard; William; and Cora A., wife of Mr. McCashen. As an citizen Mr. McCashen stands high and is president of the board of education in Perry township.  He and family are active members of the Baptist church, of which he is financial secretary and is also a member of the board of deacons.    
~ Page 716 - History of Shelby County, Ohio - publ. 1913
FRANK B. MILLER, member of the board of education of Hopewell special school district, of which he has been clerk for the last ten years, is one of Cynthian township's most respected citizens. He is a retired farmer and lives on one of his three farms, which aggregate 250 acres, his home being in section 22 four miles southeast of Fort Loramie, O. Mr: Miller was born January 12, 1861, in Lancaster county, Pa., a son of Cyrus and Jane (Gingrich) Miller.
     Cyrus Miller was born in Dauphin county, Pa., and his wife in Lebanon county, in that state. When they came to Ohio they located on a farm west of Pleasant Hill, in Miami county, and from there in 1876 moved to a farm in Cynthian township, Shelby county, near Oran, O. They now reside with their daughter, Mrs. William Snow, who lives in Cynthian township. Of their family of six sons and two daughters, two sons are deceased.
     Frank B. Miller was eight years old when he accompanied his parents to Miami county and was fifteen when they came to Shelby county. He had school advantages in both sections, attending the Oran special school district schools until he was seventeen years old. After putting aside his books, but not forgetting their contents, Mr. Miller went to work by the month with the determination of accumulating the capital that would enable him to buy a farm of his own and in the course of time his energy was rewarded. When he was twenty years of age he went to the west and prospered there, return­ing a year later with money that he had earned through his own industry. He invested first in the old Roan farm, later bought the farm on which he lives and still later bought the Brenner farm. For nine years he lived east of Piqua, O., on his father-in-law's farm and then moved to a farm in McLean township belonging to his mother-in-law, three years afterward coming to the farm he now occupies. All these farms are finely improved, Mr. Miller taking pride in his property and hence all of it is very valuable. In addition to general farming, which he continued until he retired, in 1907, he raised many horses, especially draft horses, cattle and stock. All the farm industries were intelligently carried on, new methods were adopted when they where found superior to old ways, and Mr. Miller became known as one of the best all-round agriculturists of Cynthian township. He still continues to be interested in raising stock to some extent, but has shifted his farming responsibilities to . younger shoulders.
     Mr. Miller married Miss Katie Grosvenor, who was born in Illinois, a daughter of Hiram and Araminta Grosvenor, once residents of McLean township, Shelby county. The father of Mrs. Miller died when she was six weeks old. To Mr. and Mrs. Miller six children have been born, Alva, Harry, Raymond and Blanche, in Miami county, and Olive and Glenn, in Shelby county. All survive except Alva and Raymond, who died in Miami county.
     Mr. and Mrs. Miller attend the Christian church at Oran, of which she is a member. He is a republican in his political views. Every year Mr. Miller takes a few weeks for recreation in travel and in this way has seen much of the country and doubtless in some measure owes his excellent health to this wise change of environment and pleasurable interest in other than everyday duties and surroundings.
SAMUEL MILLER, whose three tracts of land, all ying in Perry township, aggregate 170 acres, is one of the well known and representative men of this section and belongs to an old and respected Ohio family.  He was born in Perry township, Shelby county, Aug. 26, 1850, and is a son of Henry R. and Catherine (Beasley) Miller.  Henry R. Miller and wife came to Perry township, from near Springfield, O., where they had married.  During his early married life he followed the blacksmith trade but afterward became a farmer and both he and wife died here and their burial was at Cedar Point.  They had three children:  Samuel; John; and Mary, who is the wife of John Doren.
     Samuel Miller attended the district schools in boyhood and then gave his father assistance on the home farm until his own marriage at the age of twenty-two years.  After that event he rented farm land for over twelve years and then purchased the 100-tract on which his son Charles now resides.  He inherited sixty acres from his father and subsequently purchased twenty additional acres.  His land is devoted to general agriculture but Mr. Miller no longer is active in carrying on the farm industries, his son and a son-in-law very capably bearing the responsibilities.
     On June 27, 1872, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Nancy Jane Young, a daughter of Samuel and Jane (Johnston) Young.  Mr. and Mrs. Young's children were:  Lucinda, Ellen, Elizabeth, Margaret, Nancy Jane, Retta Jane, James and Frank.  To Mr. and Mrs. Miller three children have been born, namely: Charles, who was married first to Ola Jenkins and after her death to Macey Mennier; Grace, who married Harvey De Weese and they have tow children: Roy and Millard; and Jennie Catherine, who resides at home.  Mr. Miller and family are active members of the United Brethren Church.  In politics, Mr. Miller like his late father, is a republican and has served his township in local offices.  He has been particularly interested in the public schools and in forwarding the movement for good roads.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page 725
HON. EMERSON V. MOORE, former mayor of Sidney, O., and a fore­most member pf the Shelby county bar, belongs to an old Ohio family and was born on his father's farm in Green township, Shelby county, February 14, 1868, a son of Thomas B. and, Deborah (Griffis,) Moore. The father's death occurred in 1898, on his farm in Green township.
     Emerson V. Moore was reared in his native township and secured his early schooling there, afterward attending the Sidney high school for two years and then entered the National Normal University at Lebanon, O., and while there began the study of law. For one year afterward Mr. Moore taught school in Brown township, Miami county, and during the following year was superintendent of the schools of Green township, Shelby county, having had much to do with establishing the grade system. He had already been admitted to the bar and then came to Sidney and has since been engaged in the practice of law in this city. When the Spanish-American war became. a fact, Mr. Moore was one of that band of patriotic young men who put aside their most pressing personal interests and ambitions and with a patriotism that was commendable, was ready to accept service, dangerous or otherwise, in his country's defense. At that time he was second lieutenant of Co. L, Third O. N. G., which became a part of the Third O. Vol. Inf., which was hastened to Tampa, Fla.
     Lieutenant Moore was detailed in June, 1898, as .recruiting officer and recruited the first-battalion of the regiment to war strength. He was later detailed as aide-de-camp. on the staff of Brig. Gen. Rush T. Lincoln and served as such until the regiment returned to Ohio for mustering out. The war closed before this regiment was called into active service and they returned to their homes ready for future calls.  Mr. Moore is a member of the Spanish-American War Veterans and in 1911 served as judge advocate of the state of. Ohio in this body.
     Mr. Moore married Miss Blanche Stafford, a daughter of Joseph Stafford, of Sidney, O. Aside from his law practice, Mr. Moore has been active in political and fraternal life. He is a democrat in politics and on the democratic ticket was city solicitor and twice elected mayor of Sidney; his administrations proving beneficial to the city in every way.  He belongs to the Order of Ben Hur and to the Knights of Pythias but is particularly prominent in the Order of the Knights of the Golden Eagle and for six years was state secretary of the organization, state president and for one year was national president of the order and probably is one of the best known members of this flourishing society in Ohio.
NATHAN MOORE. Sometime during the twenty-four hours of January 30, 1823, Nathan Moore, in faint, yet unmistakable tones announced that he had come from the mysterious realm of the unknown to stay in the household of his parents, board and lodge with them without the formality of a previous contract.
     Curious as it may seem the expectant was made welcome.  His food for a year or more had been prepared and like manna was fresh every morning and warm and ready at all hours.
     After some family consultation the good old Biblical name of Nathan was settled upon by which to designate him and he was so registered on the blank leaves between the Old and New testament. This was the custom in those, days when the bible comprised about all there was of the family library and which was perused much more than now. Though the account was not inspired, there was nothing apocryphal about it, for that he had appeared was as true as anything between the sacred lids and no one, not even higher criticism, has questioned its authenticity or attempted to give it a theoretical or twisted meaning.
     The bibles in those days were big affairs, probably so that the birth page should be ample to record the names, as it was a pioneer custom to endeavor to fill a page, a pocket edition would not serve the purpose. It seemed to be a Christian duty to multiply and replenish the earth and there was no shirking of that supposed duty, but that the command meant just what it said.
     The advent of Nathan was made in Springfield township, Portage county, now a part of Summit county, in the northeastern part of the state then known as New Connecticut, as the inhabitants of the Nutmeg state spiced the region. Here the sturdy little Buckeye took root and flourished in the native soil for nine years but was uprooted by his parents when they moved to Wood county, and transplanted him there. But the removal probably stunted him some, as the animate Buckeye never grew to a lofty height but it was compensated for by muscles and a frame of iron actuated and directed by a brain of pluck and energy that has characterized him for four score and five years and which has not abated in intensity.
     Such capital was necessary in those pioneer days when the rigor of mother nature had to be subdued. None were born with a gold spoon in their mouth.
Mr. Moore, senior, entered a section of land on which the thriving city of Bowling Green now stands. Transportation was not very direct in any way unless a person footed it or rode on horseback for there were no through lines nor even sides ones.  The Ohio canal to Cleveland was in operation for which place they embarked. Lake Erie was there and had been from time immemorial but no regular lines of navigation were in vogue, but they found a sailing smack for Detroit, procured passage and landed there. After a few days delay they took another sailing boat for Perrysburg, the head of navigation, . on :the Maumee. It was a brisk little place but Toledo had not been thought of outside of Spain. It did not have even a Blade nor a Bee.
     Bowling Green being on an undulating sand ridge was selected because it was above high water mark and had a surplus of gnarled scrubby oaks, stubborn to a provoking degree. The outlying prairie, now the garden spot of Ohio, was inhabited by frogs, turtles and such amphibious brutes and was a. paradise for mosquitoes.  The citizens were Indians principally and' the Moore family was about the first white people that settled in that section. Neither schoolhouses nor churches dotted the landscape on this outlying post of civilization. There were no idle hands, so Satan did not have to find them employment.
     The facilities for book education were few and slim, but Nature's volume lay open and Nathan took delight in reading it, for he found that the very trees had a language and that there were, sermons in stones and running brooks. Having a taste for arboreal culture and as trees take kindly and cheerfully respond to intelligent cultivation and are ready to surprise any one with results when they work in accord with the unwritten law which govern them, for the same development is possible in inanimate nature as there is in animal life, including man, he turned his attention to the cultivation of trees, fruit and ornamental and has made nursery business his life work with marked success and is at present, at the ripe age of four score and five years, engaged in raising ornamental trees and shrubs to beautify the lawns and parks of Toledo of which his son, Milton L. is superintendent, and has been for years. Few men in the state are better authority, if as good in the nursery line, as he, with his seventy years of experience with his eyes wide open.
     A volume of fiction is dull if there is not a thread of love romance running through it and the actual life of a person who has had no heart throbbing with the tender sentiment is barren of flowers, even though they did not fructify into any thing serious.   The environments around Bowling Green, at that early day, were by no means crowded with the softer sex, with the exception of Indian maidens, but Mr. St. John moved into that vicinity with his family with a daughter, Julia, who awakened the tender sentiment in the breast of Nathan and his thoughts were divided between arboreal study and Julia. He was very much in the condition of Adam in the Garden of Eden, it was Eve or nothing. He wanted something to round out his life and so on December 25, 1846, Miss Julia E. St. John, became Mrs. Nathan Moore, and it may be well to casually state right here that if Nathan had had a thousand females from which to make a selection the chances are he would not have got so companionable a help-meet as Julia who walked by his side and adorned his home for almost sixty years, but who left him for permanent rest in Graceland September 25, 1904, her seventy-eighth birthday. She was accustomed in her youth to the privations as well as the sweets of pioneer life and was unmurmuring, in their early struggles as she was in the ease and comfort of her closing days.
     Eight children, evenly divided, four boys and four girls, were born to gladden their household, Mrs. J. D. Geyer. wife of Dr. Geyer, of Sidney; Mrs. Frank Fruchey, of Marion, Ind.; Ida, who died in Sidney many years ago, little Carrie who died when two years old, Ezra in the nursery business at Toledo; Milton L., superintendent of all the parks in Toledo; Albert, chief teller in the Northern National Bank, and Charles on the free mail delivery force in the same city. All inherited the sturdy industry of their parents and are true to those high moral principles which make valuable citizens, and the world better for their having lived in it. It was and is a family flock with no black sheep in it, as none possessed moral obliquites to pain a parent's heart or cloud their lives with dismal apprehension.
     In the early fifties, having become acquainted with Philip Rauth, father of Mrs. Mary Wagner and Mrs. John E. Bush, and who was engaged in the nursery business in Sidney, he was induced to move to this town in 1855 as the Big Four railway was in process of construction and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railway was pushing its way northward-from Cincinnati to Toledo which had sprung into existence and was sapping the life out of Perrysburg and had already given promise of becoming a great commercial city, the emporium of northwestern O. and one of the chain of beautiful cities on the great lakes.
     Sidney being at the intersection of these trunk lines of railway, would afford good shipping facilities when finished and this fact, made plain by Mr. Rauth, was an additional incentive to Mr. Moore to pitch his tent in Sidney.
     He, with J. C. Coe, bought what was known for years as the nursery farm across the river of John Mills, agent for the Big Four that, owned it.
     The late George Hemm became a partner and subsequently Mr. Coe sold his interest to William McCullough and the profitable business was continued for many years. Mr. Moore is the only surviving member of the firm. The children of the Moore family were all educated here and the writer of this article had for a time Ezra and Albert for diligent pupils, and hence has a warm spot for them, especially in his heart, and is gratified to know of their marked success and sterling worth.
Nineteen years ago Mr. Moore sold out his business here and moved with his family to Toledo with the exception of Mrs. Geyer and Mrs. Frank Fruchey, and resumed the nursery business in which he is still engaged. Mr. Moore has been a life long republican, not offensive as a partisan, for that is contrary to his nature, but so strong in his political conviction as not to admit of variableness or shadow of turning.  While here he was with Mrs. Moore, a member of the Presbyterian church in this city, and will die in the faith. Such, in brief, is a sketch of his busy life and few can look back over an interval of a career, now verging on a century with fewer misgivings.

 

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