John
Grover Heyman
JOHN GROVER HEYMAN is engaged in the wholesale and retail trade
in Sandusky as a dealer in flour, feed, and coal, with a well equipped
establishment at 410 Reese Street.
Mr. Heyman was born at
Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio, in the year 1884, and is a son of Frank
William and Rose C. (Boehm) Heyman, both likewise natives of Huron County,
where the former was born at Hunts Corners and the latter at Standersburg. John
P. and Jeanette (Scheid) Heyman, paternal grandparents of the subject of this
sketch, were born in Germany and became early settlers in Huron County, Ohio,
where they passed the remainder of their lives. The maternal grandfather, John
Boehm likewise was born in Germany and became a pioneer settler in Huron
County. Frank W. Heyman succeeded his father-in-law, John Boehm, in the flour
milling business at Monroeville, and was one of the substantial citizens and
representative business men of that place at the time of his death, in 1902,
his widow passing away in June, 1911.
John G. Heyman
continued his studies in the public schools of his native place until his
graduation from high school in 1903, and thereafter he pursued a higher course
of study by attending fine old Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio. From June,
1905, until January, 1907, he was a traveling salesman for the Heyman Milling
Company, and he then assumed the management of the company's branch in the City
of Sandusky. He continued his effective service in this capacity until July 1,
1912, when he established his present independent business, as a wholesale and
retail dealer in flour, feed and coal, large and substantial success having
attended his vigorous and well directed activities in the management of this
enterprise. He is a democrat in political qualification and allegiance, and is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks.
Mr. Heyman has taken lively interest in the affairs of the Erie
County Agricultural Society, and served one term as a director of this
organization.
December 31, 1921,
recorded the marriage of Mr. Heyman and Miss Ella Amelia Lee, who was born and
reared in Sandusky and who is a daughter of Charles Frederick and Elizabeth
(Pfisterer) Lee, the former of whom was born at Birmingham, this state, and the
latter in Sandusky. John and Sarah (Brewer) Lee, paternal grandparents of Mrs.
Heyman, were born in the Birmingham district of Erie County, and her maternal
grandparents, Louis and Elizabeth (Buck) Pfisterer, were born near Massillon,
Stark County. Mr. and Mrs. Heyman have a daughter, Rose Elizabeth, born
February 3, 1923.
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HURON COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: HEYMAN, John Grover (published
1925)
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Contributed to the HURON Co., OH Biographies Project with
permission of the OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing list coordinator (Maggie
Stewart-Zimmerman<[email protected]>) and the submitter.
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Mrs. Gina M. Reasoner
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30 July 1999
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HISTORY OF OHIO
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 364
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