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From Past and present of Knox County, Ohio (1912)
ERNEST C. TULLOSS.
A farmer can be dishonorable as well as any other business man or he can be as honorable; he can misrepresent his grain, his stock, his hay and his apples, and can secure a buyer by such misrepresentations, but when he is found out it is much harder for him to live down the odium than it is for the merchant or other business man to do the same. The latter can much more easily sell out and go where he is not known than the farmer, for it seems harder for the farmer to make changes without injuring himself financially. So the descendants of the farmer must remain, or at least usually do so, and take the results of their father's misdeeds, while on the other hand the second and third generations are often helped to a greater extent than they can realize by the prestige established in their communities in former days by their ancestors. One of the farmers of Morgan township, Knox county, who can see nothing but good results flowing from the life work of his parents is the subject of this sketch. They were persons of the highest respectability and of unusual intelligence, and their influence was very strong for upright living and steady industry while they lived.
Mr. Tulloss was born on January 29, 1865, on the farm where he has always lived, in the southern part of Knox county. Ohio. He is the son of Rodham and Elizabeth (Harris) Tulloss. He was reared on the home farm and when of proper age he assisted with the general work there, and in the winter time attended the public schools of his district. On January 2, 1894, he was united in marriage with Laura L. Martin, daughter of Calvin and Isabelle (Runyan) Martin, a highly respected family of Richland county, Ohio. To the subject two sons and one daughter have been born, namely: Raymond R., Dale M. and Laura Isabelle.
Ernest C. Tulloss lived with his uncle, R. S. Tulloss, from the age of ten to twenty-one. and after his marriage he came to the home farm and here he has resided ever since, owning one hundred and sixty acres of as good land as the township affords, which he has kept well improved and under a fine state of cultivation, carrying on general farming and stock raising of all kinds, handling only the best breeds, and he has been extensively engaged in the daily business, making a success of whatever he has turned his attention to. He has built an attractive, large modern home, equipped with furnace heat, gas light and running water. Everything about his place denotes good management.
Politically, Mr. Tulloss is a Democrat, and while he has long been active in public affairs he is not especially active, though he has served his community as justice of the peace for a period of nine years in an able and satisfactory manner, and for a number of years he has been a member of the local school board, and has done much for the improvement of the schools of the township. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias at Utica, and he and his family belong to the Disciples church, and he is an elder and trustee in the church and is active in church and Sunday school work.
As printed in Past and present of Knox County, Ohio (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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