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Source:
* Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County,
by Ex-Sheriff Samuel A. Lane.
Akron, Ohio: Beacon Job Department -
1892

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George Adam Falor

GEORGE ADAM FALOR - born July 17, 1798, in Lower Smithville, Northampton county, Pa.; removed with parents to Stark county, O., in 1809; five years later locating on what was later known as the Thornton farm, now a populous portion of the city of Akron; remained with father till 25, when he bought the well-known Falor farm, in Coventry, which, in addition to somewhat extensively plying his trade of stonemason, he successfully cultivated for many years.  Mr. Falor was three times married, his wives being sisters, respectively named Nancy McCoy, Rachael McCoy and Mrs. Jane (McCoy) Wilson.  Several years before his death Mr. Falor, retiring from the active management of his farm, took up his residence in Akron, where he died of dropsy, June 29, 1868, aged 69 years, 11 months 12 days.  Mr. Falor was the father of 17 children, 13 of whom survived him - Milo J., since deceased; James M., Lucinda R. (now Mrs. John Gottwalt); Hiram Silas, George W., now deceased; Oliver Perry, Mary Ann (now Mrs. J. A. Long); Thomas J., William Wallace, deceased; Henry Clay (died at Massillon, December 27, 1890); Martha Ellen (now Mrs. Henry Acker); Lilly Annette, (now Mrs. George L. Adkins); Perry Tod, now a resident of Michigan.
Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County, by Ex-Sheriff Samuel A. Lane - Akron, Ohio: Beacon Job Department - 1892 ~Page 714


Hiram Silas Falor

HIRAM SILAS FALOR, born in Coventry, Mar. 22, 1829; common school education; harness maker in Akron 15 years; in 1860, clerked in wholesale store in San Francisco, worked in mines and established pioneer harness shop in Virginia City, Nev.; in 1861, organized and as captain tendered Virginia City Guards to the government, but for lack of transportation facilities offer declined; 1863 returned to Akron, 5 years later removing to farm in Coventry, where he has since resided; was several years foreman of one of Akron's pioneer fire companies; deputy village marshal two years; secretary Summit County Agricultural Society two years and assistant secretary two years; messenger in office of State Treasurer Joseph Turney, at Columbus, 1880 - 84; member of police force, in charge of music hall during Ohio Centennial Exposition in 188; member of Masonic order 35 years; filling all the offices from the lowest to highest in Summit Lodge, No. 50, I. O. O. F.; was U. S. census enumerator for Coventry in 1890.  Mr. Farlor was married to Miss Bertha E. Agard, July 4, 1854, who bore him four children, two of whom, only, are now living - Claude Emerson, now in regular army, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and Minnie Florence, now Mrs. Elmer C. Ellsworth, of Coventry.  Mrs. Falor dying Jan. 4, 1873, Mr. F. was again married, to Mrs. Phœbe Fanny, born Mar. 6, 1881.
Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County, by Ex-Sheriff Samuel A. Lane - Akron, Ohio: Beacon Job Department - 1892 ~Page
715


Dr. Abner E. Foltz

 DR. ABNER E. FOLTZ, - born in Wayne township, Wayne county, Ohio, Jan. 29, 1840; educated in district schools and Sharon Academy; learned trade of carpenter; 1857 to 1862 taught school.  In Aug., 1862, enlisted in Company I, 102d O. V. I., (five brothers in same company serving till close of the war); read medicine with brother, Dr. W. K. Foltz, in Sharon, Medina county, graduating from Charity Hospital Medical College, Cleveland, (now Medical Department of Wooster University), in Spring of 1868; same Summer began practice at Ashland, one year later removing to Akron, where he has since been in continuous practice, giving especial attention to diseases of the eye and ear.  Dr. Foltz is a member of the Summit County Medical Society; of the Union Medical Society of Northeastern Ohio, and of the State Medical Society, and has for nearly twenty years, by appointment of county commissioners, been the official physician of the county jail, never having lost a patient form that unwholesome institution.  Oct. 6, 1870, Dr. Foltz was married to Miss Frances C. Bowen, daughter of the late Dr. William Bowen, whose portrait and biography appears elsewhere.  They have one son - Esgar Bowen Foltz, born June 7, 1873, a graduate of Akron High School, class of 1890, '91.  The entire Foltz family, brothers and sisters, eight in number, are all still living, and now residents of Akron.
Source: Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County, by Ex-Sheriff Samuel A. Lane - Publ. Akron, Ohio: Beacon Job Department - 1892~ Page 547

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