FRANK H. ROUTSON

Frank H. Routson, who is successfully pursuing the vocation of a farmer and stock raiser in Newberry township, is the owner of seventy acres of well-cultivated and productive land and one of his community's highly respected citizens. He was born in Miami county, November 9, 1871, his parents being Josiah and Abbie (Swank) Routson, also natives of this county, who passed long and honorable careers here in the pursuits of agriculture and were greatly esteemed by those among whom their careers were spent. There were six children in the family, and of these three sons still survive. Frank H., of this notice; Wesley, who is the proprietor of a successful shoe business at Bradford, Ohio, and Calvin, who is living a retired life at Piqua. Frank H. Routson received his education in the public schools of Miami county and was reared to agricultural pursuits. He remained on the home farm until about the time that he attained his majority, and November 6, 1892, settled on his present farm in Newberry township. This consists of seventy acres of good land, which Mr. Routson has brought to a high state of productiveness, and on it has installed a number of attractive buildings, including his comfortable home located on Covington R. F. D. No. 2. In 1892 Mr. Routson was united in marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of William Stager, a Miami county farmer, and to this union there have been born five children: Emery E., who is engaged in farming on his own account a short distance west of the property owned and operated by his father; Manley, who saw fourteen months of service during the World war, as a motor truck driver in the Fifth Division, and is now a resident of Piqua, where he is identified with the Meteor Truck Works; Millard, who is employed by the Covington Lumber Company, at Covington, Ohio; Willard, who is engaged in farming with his father, and Paul, the baby, who was born in 1917. Mr. Routson has always shown himself worthy of the esteem in which he is held as a citizen, and was as liberal a contributor to war movements as he has been a generous supporter of civic enterprises.