L. B. Miller

As printed in 1906

B. MILLER, proprietor of the Harrod Creamery and the Harrod Stave and Hub Mills, was born August 23, 1864, in York County, Pennsylvania, which was the home of the

Millers for several generations. The great-grandfather of our subject came from Germany about the year 1802 and located in York

County. There Adam Miller, the grandfather, was born, lived and died. He was a school teacher and also handled insurance. The parents of L. B. Miller are David F. and Angelina (Bortner) Miller, both natives of Pennsyivania, where they now reside.

David F. Miller was born in York County, Pennsylvania, in April, 1831, and has always carried on farming. He owns a farm of 160 acres, upon which he resides; but a stroke of paralysis has left him in feeble health and less active than formerly. He is a Democrat and has held a number of local offices. He was drafted into the army but, owing to the bitter opposition of his parents, he remained at home and sent a substitute to whom he paid $1,000. He married Angelina Borther and to them were born nine children, only four of whom are living, namely: L. B., William B., of York County, Pennsylvania; Alice, who married A. B. Albright and lives in her native county; and Howard B., who lives with his parents and has charge of the farm. Both Mr. and Mrs. Miller are consistent members of the German Reformed Church.

L. B. Miller received his education in the schools of York County and later took a business course in a commercial school in Philadelphia. He engaged in teaching for a short time and after leaving college accepted a position as bookkeeper with John Wanamaker, with whom he remained two years until failing health caused him to retire and seek a change of occupation. Returning to York County, he worked in a produce and general merchandise store, and about this time also became interested in the creamery business. This he learned, becoming thoroughly familiar-with every phase of the industry. Embarking in the enterprise for himself, he conducted his creamery in York County for six years and then came to Allen County, and purchased the cooperative creamery at Harrod, which he has operated since the spring of 1898. In addition to this business which ‘he has made a profitable one, he bought a new engine, boiler, etc., and established the Harrod Stave and Hub Mills, which manufactures walnut gun-stocks, squares for ball bats, etc., sending its output to prominent manufacturers of those articles. He has not yet begun the manufacture of hubs but expects to start that industry soon.

On August 23, 1891, Mr. Miller celebrated his 27th birthday by marrying Annie Hoke, daughter of David M. Hoke, of York County, Pennsylvania. Three children have been born to them, viz: David, born February 15, 1892, and who died at the age of two weeks; Leroy, born February 1, 1894; and Diamond May, born May 19, 1905. Mrs. Miller is a member of the Lutheran Church while Mr. Miller belongs to the German Reformed. He supports the Democratic National ticket, but in local politics is independent. Fraternally, Mr. Miller is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.:

eee es ! nOEL G. HERSH, one of Lima’s lead- A) ing professional men, with law offices situated at No. 56% Public Square, has been a resident of this county for some 16 years. He is a native of Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, and a son of the late Newton and Lydia (Chew) Hersh, his early life being spent on a farm.

Newton Hersh was born in 1834, in Richland County, Ohio, dying there in 1901, on the old homestead which had been entered by his father, Joel Hersh. The latter, with his wife, Catherine (Berny) Hersh, was born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the couple settling in Richland County at an early day. Politically Joel Hersh was a strong Whig, and through life was a friend and coadjutor of John Sherman. He became one of the most prominent farmers in Richland County. He married Lydia Chew, a daughter of Samuel Chew, a substantial farmer of the county, who was killed in 1887 by burglars.

In 1889 Joel G. Hersh came to this county as a teacher, and subsequently entered the Ohio Normal University at Ada, from which he was graduated in the classical course, in 1894. Prior to this, however, he had been a teacher in Kansas for four years. After graduating from the university, he continued to teach in Allen County for nine years, a portion of the time at Gomer and West Cairo. Then he turned his attention to the legal profession, and in 1898 was graduated from the law department of the university at Ada. In the fall of the same year he passed the necessary bar examination and immediately opened an office in the Metropolitan Block at Lima, being associated with Mr. Kilgore under the firm name of Kilgore & Hersh. This partnership existed until Ig01, since which time Mr. Hersh has practiced alone. His practice covers all the courts of the State, and his ability is very generally recognized. He is a member of the Allen County Bar Association.

Mr. Hersh was married in November, 1g01, to Ora States, who is the eldest daughter of Aaron States, one of the most prominent citizens of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Hersh have two children, viz: Newton States and Mary Catherine. While a resident of Ada, Mr. Hersh united with the Presbyterian Church there. Mrs. Hersh is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Monroe town-

‘ship.

Mr. Hersh is identified with the Republican party, and in 1900, during McKinley’s second presidential campaign, was chairman of the

Republican executive committee of Allen County, since which time he has given his entire attention to the practice of his profession.

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.