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From A centennial biographical history of Crawford County, Ohio .. (1902)
JOHN A. SHERER.
Professor John A. Sherer, principal of the East End schools of Galion, is one of the most competent and successful educators in this portion of Ohio, a man of strong mentality, whose careful preparation has well qualified him for his work and who has a just comprehension of the importance of the duties devolving upon him.
Professor Sherer was born on a farm a few miles northwest of Galion and is of ancestry well known in Crawford and adjoining counties. His lather, John C. Sherer. is mentioned on another page of this volume. His mother belonged to the distinguished and numerous Helfrich family, so-civ allied with the history of this locality. Mr. Sherer was born in 1873, and in his early youth attended the district school near his home, while later he enjoyed the privilege of a course in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. On its completion he began teaching and had charge of a number of schools in Crawford county through a period of ten years. His success in a general way attracted the attention of the school board of Galion and lie was called here to take charge of the East Side schools in 1900. The able manner in which he discharged his duties in that scholastic year recommended him for the position for the succeeding year, and through his two years' service he has won the highest commendation.
In 1899 Professor Sherer was married to Miss Viola Kiess, the daughter of a prominent and well known family of Whetstone township. Professor Sherer is one of the county board of school examiners, and has the acquaintance and friendship of the majority of teachers in the county. He is also one cf the board of trustees of the Crawford County Historical Association, and his literary contributions to the history of Crawford county, in various newspaper articles, have attracted not only local attention but also that of the State Historical Association.
At this point it would be almost tautological to enter into any series of statements as showing the Professor to be a man of broad intelligence and genuine public spirit, for these have been shadowed forth between the lines of this review. Strong in his individuality, he never lacks the courage of his convictions, but there are as dominating elements in this individuality a lively human sympathy and an abiding charity, which, taken in connection with the sterling integrity and honor of his character, have naturally gained to him the respect and confidence of men.
As printed in A centennial biographical history of Crawford County, Ohio .. (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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