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    WILEY G.TEETER

    Wiley G. Teeter, Into the busy and successful career of W.G. Teeter of Monroe township, three vocations have entered. First he took up plumbing, gas-fitting, well-drilling and electrical work, then worked as an engineer contractor, and finally settled down to the life of an agriculturist. In each of his vocations he has made his mark, and in each of the several communities in which he has lived he has occupied a position of recognized standing. He was born at Pleasant Hill, Miami county, October 13, 1869, a son of Elias and Susan (Moore) Teeter. His father, of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, followed teaching and farming throughout his life. There were twelve children in the family, of whom ten are living: Addie, Laura, Florence, Ella, Meda, Stella, Mazie, Carrie, Lloyd, W. G., Roy, now a minister, and Rolla. It is a somewhat remarkable fact that all of these children are, or have been, teachers, and that their father was an educator. W. G. Teeter received a practical public school education in his youth and engaged as an engineering contractor and farmer until reaching his majority, when he left the home place to follow his vocation as a plumber, well-driller, electric expert and engineering contractor. He is responsible for the work done on the Troy and Piqua water works, and later was manager of the Dayton local Young Men's Christian Association engineers for eight years. In 1913 he resumed farming, in Montgomery county, where he remained until 1918, then coming back to Miami county, where he is the owner and operator of eighty-three acres of good land in Monroe township, his pleasant home being located on Tippecanoe City R. F. D. No.3. He has substantial and attractive buildings and modern improvements of all kinds, and devotes his energies to general farming, in addition to which he raises some live stock of a good grade. Mr. Teeter married, September 2, 1894, Laura E., daughter of John P. and Katherine (Funderburg) Altic, of Darke county. Mr. Altic, a farmer by vocation, was a veteran of the Civil war, through which he fought as a corporal in the Seventy-first regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mrs. Teeter, who was a teacher in the public schools up to the time of her marriage, was one of six children, of whom five are living: William, formerly representative of Darke county in the state legislature, and Nannie, Elizabeth, Lola and Laura E. Four children have been born to Mr.and Mrs. Teeter: Harold, experimental engineer with the Delco Company, Dayton; Forrest, a college student, and Glenna and Ethel, who are attending the local schools. The family is highly cultured and its members have numerous friends in Monroe township. The family attends the First Brethren Church in Dayton, 0., and Mr. Teeter was for several years an elder.

     

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