Wade H. Shilling, who has been prominently identified with the business interests of Troy for a number of years, and now the proprietor of one of the city's leading undertaking and funeral directing establishments, was born at Troy, March 2, 1876, a son of Townsend C. and Tennie (Hartzell) , Shilling. His brother, Eugene G. Shilling, is in charge of the furniture department of Elder & Johnston's department store, at Dayton. Townsend C. Shilling was during his day, one of the best known business men of Troy, having been en-aged in the furniture, and undertaken business in this city for nearly forty years. He was a man of high principles and the strictest integrity, and in his death, which occurred June 2, 1919, his community lost an upright man and a reliable, public-spirited citizen. Wade H. Shilling attended the public schools of Troy, and as a youth began to learn the undertaking business under the preceptorship of his father. Later, he pursued a course in the Cincinnati College of Embalming, and when he was graduated there from accepted employment in his father's business, which was then conducted as Shilling & Roberts, a concern with which he was identified for about fifteen years. In 1913 or 1914 he embarked in business on his own account at Troy and through honorable methods and fair representation has attracted public confidence and patronage. Mr. Shilling's establishment is fully equipped for the proper and reverent care of the dead, and includes a private chapel and automobile service. He is interested in fraternal affairs, belonging to the local lodges of the Masons and Improved Order of Red Men, in both of which he has numerous friends. During the period of the participation of the United States in the great World war, he contributed his full share to the local movements which assisted the country's fighting forces. He has not cared for politics, but takes a good citizen's interest in the welfare of his community and supports able men and good measures. Mr. Shilling married Gertrude, adopted daughter of John Wilson, of Troy, and they are the parents of one child, Joseph.