Hiram Fenner
HIRAM FENNER, P. O. Bucyrus, the son of Abraham and Eliza (Pickering) Fenner was born in Pike Co., Penn., July 13, 1821.He lived on a farm until his 19th year acquiring in the meantime but little education, one winter attending school but nine days. He left the farm at the age of 19, and went to learn the merchant and tailoring trade, serving his apprenticeship in Easton. Penn. and remaining until he was 24. In April, 1845, he came to Bucyrus, and at once engaged in tailoring, following that business for some ten years, and then commenced merchant and tailoring, beginning with a small stock. He soon took in Moses Simon as partner for ten years, when Mr. Fenner retired and at once started anew and continued for seven years, retiring in 1865 having been blessed with good success and all attained by his own efforts. He was married on April 21, 1846 to Elizabeth Myers, daughter of Gen. Samuel Myers. They have four children: Mary A., Lewis., Samuel L., who is a merchant at Terre Haute. Ind., Millie, the wife of Jacob Geiger of Bucyrus, and Hiram W., a physician at Terre Haute. Mr. Fenner has been and is at present secretary of the Cemetery Association and has held the office for fifteen years. He was one of the twenty-six persons who organized the association and he has been a Trustee since 1858. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and is a man of uprightness and integrity.
From History of Crawford County and Ohio, Baskin & Battey, Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1881