Henry Flesh. In the contemplation of such a character as was the late Henry Flesh realization comes as to the great loss sustained in his death. His was a life of signal usefulness and its influence was potent and beneficial. Fidelity to trust and conscientious discharge of every duty was part and parcel of his very nature. Highly gifted, he exercised his talents nobly. A natural leader, of high character, he possessed also that genuine kind of courtesy that is not the mere child of the tongue, but came from a warm nature that wished the world well. Mr. Flesh was born in the little town of Ellingen, Bavaria, June 99, 1837. At the age of fifteen years awakening ambition caused him to cross the seas to America. Almost immediately he came to Ohio, and after four years residence at Dayton and two years stay at Troy finally located at Piqua in 1858. Caroline Friedlich was born December 7, 1842, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Mose's and Emma (Abel) Friedlich. Shortly after her birth her father brought his family to Piqua, where he was engaged in business, was for many years actively identified with the growth of the city, and became one of its most substantial and influential citizens. His daughter, Caroline, in her sixteenth year, met Henry Flesh, and after a courtship of three years they were married, November 19, 1862, and for a span of fifty-seven years resided together at Piqua. This long period of activity in the maintenance of an ideal home and in the proper recognition of their obligations to the community at large, filled their lives with countless blessings. Mr. Flesh was inseparably connected with the growth and development of the town of his adoption. At first engaged in mercantile pursuits, he afterward, because of his peculiar equipment for the work, became identified with financial affairs. For more than a third of a century he was connected with the Citizens National Bank and at the time of his demise was its honored president. He was actively identified with the Piqua Electric Company and it was largely through his progressive spirit that electric lighting was first installed at Piqua. He was president of the Cron-Kilns Company and the Border City Building & Loan Association, and a director of the Piqua Savings Bank and of the Piqua & Troy branch of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Company. He organized and was for several years president of the Citizens National Bank of Covington, Ohio. But with all his important business and financial activities, Mr. Flesh found time to serve his city and his state. He was at various times president of the Ohio Bankers Association, president of the Miami and Erie Canal Association and a member of the Ohio Centennial Commission. For more than a quarter of a century he was a member of the city council of Piqua, serving for many years as its president. At the time of his death he was a life trustee of the Piqua Memorial Hospital and treasurer of the board. Sound in judgment and keen in perception, his services in an advisory capacity, freely given, were invaluable not only to his business associates but to numberless others who for years looked to him for counsel and advice. As a fraternalist, he was a past master of Warren Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. Loyal in his friendships, he had a wide acquaintance and enjoyed the sincere regard of his associates, whose companionship he cherished. Yet his social nature did not cause him to be other than a man who loved his home, and when he passed away, May 29, 1919, in his eighty-second year, his family lost a devoted husband, father and counselor.