W. W. BOSSERMAN, one of the leading business men of Bradford, Ohio, proprietor of a general store, is one of the town's best known citizens, having been a resident since he was sixteen years of age. Mr. Bosserman was born on a farm in Newberry Township, near Clayton, Miami County, Ohio, December 2, 1862, and is a son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Fink) Bosserman, the former of whom died in 1868.

W. W. Bosserman grew to the age of sixteen years on the home farm and attended the country schools. He then came to Bradford and for twenty years was in the employ of his uncle, Philip Fink, who conducted a general store. In this connection Mr. Bosserman had the very training essential to him in starting and maintaining a similar business of his own, which he embarked in 1903. He has one of the largest general stores in Bradford and carries a carefully selected stock of groceries, dry goods, shoes, etc., and has a trade that makes him need the services of three clerks. Mr. Bosserman is numbered with the most enterprising business men of the place.

Mr. Bosserman married Miss Almeda Zerbe, a daughter of Abraham Zerbe, and they have three children, Elsie, Mildred and Wilbur. Mr. Bosserman is not very active in politics, but is ever ready to support movements for good government and to advance efforts to further the prosperity of his town. He is identified with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias.