G. W. EARHART, proprietor of the city bakery and fancy grocery, choice cigars, tobacco and confectionery, Green Spring, was born in Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, April 16, 1845, where he obtained a common school education, and learned the trade of baker and confectioner. In 1866 he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he resided ten years. In 1876 he came to Green Spring and started in the bakery and confectionery business, and by close attention to business he was soon enabled to enlarge the same, and in 1881 he erected, as a monument. to his industry and enterprise, a two-story brick block containing two store-rooms, both of which he now occupies; he is now considered one of the leading business men of the town in which he resides. He has been elected, and served two terms as treasurer of Adams Township, this county; served two terms in the village council; served six years as a member of the school board, two years as the treasurer, and one year as the president of the board. He was a charter member of Clyde Lodge No. 126, K. of P.; he is a member of Clyde Lodge No. 989, K. of H. ; he was a charter member of Potter Post No. 105, G. A. R., of Green Spring, and served as commander of same in 1883. He enlisted during the Rebellion in Company C, One Hundred and Ninetyeighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for a term of one year, and was discharged from the service, May 8, 1865, by reason of close of the war. Politically he is a Republican. He was married, in 1866, to Mary C. Hill, of Lancaster, Ohio. She was born in 1841, and is the mother of five children: Falenia T., Lulu, Martin D., May E. and George W.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.703-704
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