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Born 1873, Allen Township
From Twentieth century history of Findlay and Hancock County and representative citizens (1910), A Centennial biographical history of Hancock County, Ohio (1903)
J. A. NUSSER.
Wherever the stranger goes in Hancock county he finds a very large sprinkling of gray heads among the farming element, but there are a number of young and enterprising men who have resisted the miles of city life and are following nobly in the footsteps of their fathers. It is a mistaken idea that farming has become a lost art. There is just as much material prosperity to be had in the country as there is in the city. The only point necessary to remember is that the farmer of to-day must keep in mind the fact that he is living in a progressive age, that he cannot scratch the ground
Google with a formed stick and plant his corn by hand as was the custom in the early day. The use of modem machinery and the adoption of intensive methods of farming, coupled, of course, always, with hard work, will win in this day just as readily as the old methods won in their day, all of which is being realized by this enterprising and up-to-date young farmer whose worthy name heads this paragraph. Mr. Nusser was born in Findlay, Ohio, November 14, 1872, and was reared in Allen township, where he closely applied himself to his studies during his minority and laid the foundation of his education. His book learning has been the lesser part, for he is a man of observant mind and intelligent comprehension, and has thus added a later equipment that makes him a very useful and worthy citizen. From his boyhood he was inclined to the free and independent life of the farmer, and when he arrived at the years of maturity he entered upon agricultural pursuits. He bought his present home in 1899. consists of eighty acres, which he is gradually bringing into a high state of cultivation, rapidly adding new buildings and improvements of the kind suitable to a modem Ohio farm. Of him his biographer states: "Mr. Nusser is a young man who will not be satisfied to sit on the bottom round of the ladder. His motto is, Tlenty of room at the top.' "
Mr. Nusser is a son of J. J. and Mary Nusser, his father having been a native of Findlay, and his mother of Allen township. She died in 1880, having been the mother of seven children: Lucretia; Quinn; J. A., our subject; Caroline, deceased; Frederick; Mammie; and Edna.
Mr. Nusser had barely reached his majority when, on November 12, 1893, he led to the altar Miss Blanche, the accomplished daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Swab. Mrs. Nusser was born November 25, 1873. (See sketch of family on another page). Mr. and Mrs. Nusser have had two children, one who died in infancy, and Dorothy E., bom July 9, 1900. They are popular members of society in their immediate neighborhood, where the genial, pleasant manner of Mr. Nusser has made him popular among a hos* of friends.
As printed in A Centennial biographical history of Hancock County, Ohio (1903). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
JOHN A. NUSSER,* a much esteemed general farmer and breeder of fancy poultry, is a member of the Hancock County Fair Board, and resides on a farm of eighty acres located about one and three-quarter miles east of Van Buren, Ohio. He was born November 14, 1873, on a farm in Allen Township, Hancock County, Ohio, and is a son of John and Mary (Taylor) Nusser. The family is of German extraction, the paternal grandfather having been a native of that country. The father of our subject was born in Findlay, Ohio, where he was reared and still lives, and the mother, who died in 1893, was a daughter of Charles Taylor, and was born and reared in Allen Township, Hancock County, Ohio.
John A. Nusser was reared on what is now known as the H. L. Taylor farm, which adjoins our subject’s farm on the north, and during his boyhood worked for a time in a store at Van Buren, Ohio. He has always followed farming and has resided on his present farm since 1903. Here he carries on general farming. making a specialty of raising Hereford
RALPH W. MOORE cattle, and is a breeder of about thirty kinds of fancy poultry. His poultry has won many prizes at various fairs and poultry exhibits of this locality, and Mr. Nusser has been a member of the Hancock County Fair board since 1905. He was elected a member of the Allen Township school board in 1909.
Mr. Nusser was married to Blanche Swab, who is a daughter of Samuel Swab, a prominent farmer of Cass Township, Hancock County, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Dorothy E. Nusser.
As printed in Twentieth century history of Findlay and Hancock County and representative citizens (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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