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Born 1883, Madison township
From History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909)
HOWARD R. KLEPINGER.
Howard R. Klepinger, county surveyor of Montgomery county, was born in Madison township, this county, May 25, 1883, and was reared amid rural surroundings, working in the fields through the summer months, while the winter season was devoted to the acquirement of an education. He graduated from the high school of his native township at the age of fifteen years, but ambitious to secure a more advanced education he pursued a preparatory course in a school at North Manchester, Indiana, and later entered the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio, there pursuing an engineering course, from which he was graduated in 1900 with the degree of civil engineer. His life has since been devoted to the practice of his profession, which he began in Dayton immediately following his graduation. He has been accorded a gratifying patronage and won public recognition of his ability in his election to the office of county surveyor, in November, 1906. He has made a very creditable record for one of his years and his ability argues well for substantial advance in the future. Aside from his profession he is to some extent connected with business interests, being vice president and director of the Montgomery County Building & Loan Association.
Mr. Klepinger is interested in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of the community and cooperates in all movements and measures for the city’s welfare that are instituted by the Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a member. In fraternal lines he is connected with the Knights of Pythias, the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken the degrees of the Scottish Rite. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he is one of the active workers in its ranks, belonging to the Garfield Club and otherwise promoting its interests as far as lies within his power. He years not that laborious attention to detail so necessary to success and in all that he does is actuated by a laudable ambition to perform his duties in such a way as will promote his business interests in both volume and importance.
As printed in History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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