File:A twentieth century history of Hardin County, Ohio - a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and principal interests, (1910) (14576763198).jpg

Identifier: twentiethcentury02kohl (find matches)
Title: A twentieth century history of Hardin County, Ohio : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and principal interests,
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Kohler, Minnie Ichler
Subjects:
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
gaged infarming in Hardin county. His wife was before marriage Jennie Rarey,a great-granddaughter of Charles Rarey, a farmer, who came to this coun-try from Germany before the opening of the eighteenth century and wasone of the first frontiersmen in the vicinity of Columbus, Ohio. Herfather settled in Hardin county in 1854. Charles D. Kelley was born on his parents farm three miles westof Kenton on the 8th of July. 1882. During three years of his earlylife he attended school in district No. 10 of the Scioto Valley. On the1st of April, 1891, he accompanied the family on their removal to a farmadjoining South Kenton, and a year or two later they took up a perma-nent residence in Kenton, where the head of the household became thedeputy postmaster. All of the members of this family are livingexcepting the father, whose death occurred when Charles was a lad offourteen, and it was by dint of hard work, economy and perseverancethat the large family afterward held together. Young Charles con-
Text Appearing After Image:
¥£ojJL*ArfGMg/ HISTORY OF HARDIN COUNTY 811 tinued his attendance at school, working on farm, in factory and storebetween terms, and was graduated from the Kenton high school withdistinction on June 6. 1901. He afterward continued his educationalong special lines, but his specialty seemed the literary field, black andwhite drawing and mathematics. He was chosen by the Kenton schoolsto represent his city in an interurban oratorical contest at Upper San-dusky on May 10. 1901, and in his oration entitled Tin- Swing of thePendulum he demonstrated forensic superiority and won the chiefprize that was awarded to the male division in the contest, which em-braced all the important cities of northwestern Ohio. In 1901. in Kenton. Mr. Kelley engaged in the newspaper businessas a regular vocation, he having previously at various times held smallpositions, such as carrying papers, learning to set type. etc. Uponleaving school he accepted a regular position as reporter on the DailyDemocrat and tw

Note About Images