|
|
OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
|
Welcome to
Summit County,
Ohio
Biographies |
< BACK TO BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
>
Sources are on the biographical index page
J. B.
LOOKER, president of the Western Reserve Security
Company, of Akron, is one of the city's leading citizens,
participating largely in its business and social life, and
taking an interest in its development as well as in its good
government. Mr. Looker was born at Cincinnati,
Ohio, in 1873, and was reared and educated in his native
city. He came to Akron in 1897, for some eight years
previously having been in the rectifying business. For
five years he was in business at Akron as a representative
of Fleischman & Company, of Cincinnati, and then
opened a restaurant and was additionally interested in a
five and ten cent store at Columbus. Prior to
December, 1903, when Mr. Looker organized the Western
Reserve Security and Loan Company, he had been engaged in a
banking and loan business. He still operates two
restaurants, one in Canton and another in Akron, they being
the most select and high class places of the kind in the
respective cities.
In 1893, Mr. Looker was married to Leta Lake,
of Chicago, and they have three children: Adelaide,
Florence and Helene. Mr. Looker
is a thirty-second Degree Mason, and belonging to the Blue
Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandary at Akron and to Lake
Erie Consistory at Cleveland. He is also a member of
the Masonic and the Akron Lunch clubs.
† Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens -
Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. -
Chicago, Ill - 1908~Page 328 |
REV. WILLIAM H.
LOTHMAN, - eldest son of Ernest and Clara
Elizabeth Lothman, was born in the village of Buer,
Kingdom of Hanover, Jan. 31, 1845, at two and a half years
of age removing with parents to Cleveland, Ohio; attended
Cleveland parochial schools until confirmed, in 1858, when
he entered Concordia College, at Fort Wayne, Ind.,
graduating therefrom in 1862; then entered Concordia
University, at St. Louis, Mo., from which he was graduated
in June, 1866; August 19, of that year, ordained into the
ministry, preaching in the German Lutheran Church, of
Elyria, Lorain County and Liverpool, Medina County, on
alternate Sabbaths, six years; in August, 1872, became
pastor of Zion's Lutheran Church in Akron a fine new church
edifice, and a commodious parish school building having been
erected by the society during his pastorate. The
sketch of the church here given will show the success of his
nearly twenty years' pastorate in Akron. June 20,
1867, he was married to Miss Betty Husmann, daughter
of Rev. F. W. Husmann, of Euclid, Ohio, who has borne
him six children - Emma,. Lydia, Ida, Edwin, Gertrude,
and Clara, all still living at home. August
19, 1891, the silver anniversary of Mr. Lothman's
ministry was duly celebrated by his parishioners, a number
of his brother ministers from Cleveland and other points
participating. |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
CLICK HERE to RETURN to
SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO |
CLICK
HERE
to RETURN to
OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS |
|
This Webpage has
been created exclusively for Ohio Genealogy Express by Sharon Wick. ©2008
Submitters retain all copyrights |
|
