A. G. EIDEMILLER, a well known resident of West Milton, Miami County, Ohio, is engaged in the real estate and insurance business and is also clerk of Union Township. He was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1862, and is a son of Martin and Elizabeth Eidemiller, his father a native of Germany and his mother of Pennsylvania. Martin Eidemiller was two years of age when the family came to the United States and located in Montgomery County, Ohio. There he was reared to maturity and followed farming until his death at the age of seventy-three years. His wife died at the age of fifty-six years.

A. G. Eidemiller attended the district schools of his home community, and thereafter taught school and farmed for a period of twenty years. In 1901 he located at West Milton and engaged in the buggy and farm implement business, also dealing extensively in livestock. He continued with good returns until January, 1908, when he sold his interests to Mr. E. L. Miller. He then moved into his present office and began dealing in local real estate and handling fire and accident insurance, representing some of the strongest companies operating in this country. He was elected to the office of township clerk in 1907, and has discharged the duties of his office in a most satisfactory manner.

Mr. Eidemiller was united in the bonds of matrimony with Miss Ella Fouts, a daughter of Aaron Fouts, who died in 1891. They have four children: Lester W., a railway postal clerk who married Miss Dorothy Becker of Dayton; Neva, who attended Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, completing a musical and literary course; Aaron Fouts; and Cuba Manila, who is attending school. Politically, the subject of this sketch is a Republican. In fraternal affiliation, he is a Mason and a Pythian Knight. Religiously, he is a member of the Christian Church.