C. H. East

As printed in 1906

H. EAST, secretary and treasurer of The Lima Trust Company, is one of Lima’s prominent men. He was born March 21, 1869, near Lima, and was educated in the public schools of this city.

Mr. East’s easier business associations were with railroad work, for four years being connected with the freight department of the Pennsylvania Railroad. On July 16, 1889, he accepted a position as bookkeeper in The Ohio National Bank and on January 1, 1895, he became assistant cashier. He continued in this position until March, 1903, when he resigned in order to accept that of secretary and treasurer of The Lima Trust Company. He had other important business interests, having organized and founded, in association with his brother, William S, East, The East Iron & Machine Company, one of the leading industries of Lima.

The Lima Trust Company was organized and incorporated in February, 1903, with a capital stock of $200,000, fully paid up, and they began business with these officers: Davis J. Cable, president; J. D. S. Neely, Ist vice-president: J. Oscar Hover, 2nd vice-president;

and C. H. East, secretary and treasurer. Subsequently J. D. S. Neely was made president and E. R. Curtin, ist vice-president. A general banking business is carried on, also a savings department; they hold the largest deposits of any financial institution in the city. Mr. East is a charter member of the Y. M. C. A. of Lima. For years he has been a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church.

ma) A. BURKHARDT, joint agent of the ) Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the Lake Erie & Western railroads, at Lima, was born in Shawnee township, Allen County, Ohio, December 31, 1872, and is a son of George and Mary (Bowsher) Burkhardt.

George Burkhardt came to Allen County in 1865 and has since been identified with the agricultural interests and public affairs of Shawnee township. He married Mary Bowsher, a member of one of the old and prominent families of the State. She is a daughter of Benjamin Bowsher, who came from Pickaway County to Allen County in 1836. His father, William Bowsher, was a soldier in the War of 1812, coming to Ohio from Pennsylvania, in 1804. The father of William Bowsher was Daniel Bowsher, who lived in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1755, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The family has been very conspicuous in Allen County in political, business and social life. For the past 10 years our subject has been engaged in tracing its ancestral branches and this work, when completed, will possess interest for the family and make a valuable addition to local history.

F. A. Burkhardt has been a resident of Lima since he was 20 years old. He was afforded excellent educational advantages and attended the Ohio Normal University at Ada and Lima College, and then taught school for two years in Allen County. He was then made assistant agent for the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway, at Lima, in 1896, and on January I, 1900, became agent for the Lake Erie & Western Railroad; on June 16, 1901, he was made joint agent of both roads. This position of importance he has filled ever since. Its du- Eee — — ties require special talents and these Mr. Burkhardt is fortunate enough to possess.

On June 16, 1896, Mr. Burkhardt was married to Nannie Dearth, a daughter of Samuel Dearth, a prominent farmer of Warren County, Ohio. They have two children, E. Lucile and Lorene. The family belongs to the English Lutheran Church, in which Mr. Burkhardt is a member of the board of trustees. Mrs. Burkhardt is a graduate of the National Normal College, at Lebanon, Ohio. For some time prior to her marriage, she was a successful teacher in the public schools of Lima.

Mr. Burkhardt for eight years was a member of the board of trustee of Lima College. He is a member of the board of directors of the Lima Young Men’s Christian Association. He is treasurer of The Brunswick Bowling Company, at Lima and is also secretary of the organization known as the Ohio Checker. Association.

well-known citizen and_ substantial farmer of Sugar Creek township, resides on his well-improved farm of 80 acres, located in section 23, following farming and stock-raising. Mr. Morris was Lorn in Oneida County, New York, five miles north of Utica, February 16, 1848, and is a son of Edward and Sarah (Breese) Morris. Edward Morris was born in 1818 in North Wales and came to the United States in 1838 immediately following his marriage. He lived a short time in Licking County, Ohio, and then moved to Oneida County, New York, but in September, 1854, came to Sugar Creek township, Allen County, Ohio, and lived the remainder of his life on the farm now owned by our subject. Here he died in March, 1901, a man respected by all who knew him. He was for a number of years one of the leading members of the Welsh Congregational Church at Gomer. He married Sarah Breese, who was born in North Wales in 1820, and who died on the Sugar Creek township farm in 1872. They reared a large family, our subject being the fifth in order of birth. The family record is as follows: Jane, who died in infancy; Thomas

As printed in History of Allen county, Ohio and representative citizens (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.