H. W. Richman
H. W. Richman, farmer, stock raiser and dealer, London, was born in Salem County, N. J., May 7, 1824. He is a son of David Richman, a native of New Jersey, and there reared. He was a farmer and merchant by occupation, and came to Ohio in 1827, locating in Dayton, where he resided till his death, about 1838. He married Ruth Johnson, also a native of New Jersey, who became the mother of four children, two living -- William Richman, of Montgomery County, Ohio, and our subject. Mrs. Richman subsequently married Robert Hutchison. They had one child -- Laura, wife of Augustus Prugh. Mrs. Hutchison died in July, 1879. Our subject was the eldest child, and as his mother was a widow during his early life, he received but a limited education. When twenty years of age, he took a drove of horses across the mountains to New Jersey. He returned to Somerford, in this county, where he sold general merchandise for three or four months. He then took another drove of horses to New Jersey, and finding that business profitable, engaged in it with his brother William for the succeeding thirty-five rears. His business having proven good financially, he purchased a farm of 475 acres in Somerford Township. He subsequently purchased eighty acres in Deer Creek, and two farms in Union Township (one of the latter is his present home residence, fifty-five acres of which is in the corporate limits of London), aggregating in all about 1.300 acres. Mr. Richman is still engaged in farming, stock-raising and dealing, although since the spring of 1870 he has resided in his beautiful residence on East High street, London. He is Democratic in politics, but never an officeseeker. Mr. Richman was married, September 23, 1856, to Emeline, daughter of Valentine Wilson, and a sister of Mrs. Robert Boyd. They have three children -- Alice, wife of Edward Armstrong, of Armstrong & Minshall, dealers in furniture and Queensware, London; Charles, engaged in same business as father; and Emma, the two latter being at home. Mrs. Richman and daughter are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]