J. N. Wolford
J. N. Wolford. editor and proprietor of the Yellow Springs News, was born at Xenia on March 19, 1879. son of John Henry and America (Mills) Wolford, the latter of whom also was born in this county and is still living here, for many years a resident of Cedarville.
John Henry Wolford was born at Clear Springs. Maryland, in 1849, and was seventeen years of age when he came to Ohio in 1866 and became employed in the blacksmith shop and carriage factory of his uncle, John Lutz, at Xenia, becoming there thoroughly trained in the details of the carriage-making business. He later became engaged in this business on his own account and presently opened an establishment at Cedarville, where he remained engaged in the carriage-making line the rest of his life, his death occurring there in 1916. His widow is still living at Cedarville. John Henry Wolford and wife were the parents of five children, namely: Bernice, who is living with her mother at Cedarville; Mrs. Ida Turnbull, also of Cedarville; Mrs. Edna Dodds, of Cincinnati; J. N., the immediate subject of this biographical sketch, and Ralph, who is continuing to carry on his father's old-established business at Cedarville.
J. N. Wolford was but a child when his parents moved from Xenia to Cedarville and he was reared in the latter place. He was graduated from the Cedarville high school in 1898, meantime having become a carriage-painter, working in his father's shop, and after leaving high school entered Cedarville College, later taking a course in Ohio Northern University. Upon leaving college he bought the Yellow Springs News, a once-a-week newspaper that had been established at Yellow Springs in 1880, and has since then been engaged in the newspaper business. Mr. Wolford is a Republican and a Mason.
On August 11, 1910, Mr. Wolford was united in marriage to Lucy Birch, of Yellow Springs, and to this union two children have been bom, Leah, born in 1912, and Jane, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Wolford are members of the Presbyterian church.
From Portrait and Biographical Album of Clark and Greene Counties, Chapman Bros., Chicago, published 1890