Andrew Jackson Lance
Andrew Jackson Lance was the seventh son of James and Mary Lance, and was born in Milton township,Wayne county,Ohio, October 29, 1846.. His boyhood days were spent on his father's farm. The most of his education was acquired in the old log schoolhouse on his father's farm. The means of acquiring an education in those days were meager, as all boys were in attendance at school but a very few months in the year, owing to the fact that they were required to help on the farm clearing the forests and tramping out grain with horses in winter when there was no school. He remained on the old farm until 1875, when he bought a farm in the northwest corner of Milton township, one mile east of Creston,and with his mother moved on the farm the first of April, 1875. His mother died May 17, 1875.
Mr. Lance was united in marriage to Katie R. Kostenbader, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Kostenbader. She was born in Pennsylvania, May 18, 1847, and came to Ohio with her parents when she was six years old. There were born to this union two children, Burr, born April 18, 1876, and Bonnie, born April 11, 1880. They are both at home at present, Burr being single and Bonnie married.
Mr. Lance sold his farm in Milton in 1887 and removed to Creston in the spring of 1888. He bought a farm the same year and put up all new buildings in 1889 in South Creston, where he now resides with his son and daughter, his wife having preceded him to the great beyond, February 10, 1905.
Mr. Lance is a man who is generous to a fault. To know him is to like him. "A. J.," as he is favorably known to a host of friends, is a man of sterling qualities, whose word is his bond. In politics he is a Democrat, having served his party two terms as trustee of Milton township, and could have had justice of the peace and trustee of Canaan township but refused. He never was an office-seeker. He was elected a member of the first council of the village of Creston in June, 1899, and is a member of the present council of 1910. He is trustee of the Cemetery Association, is a member of the Royal Arcanum and Knights of Pythias Lodge, No 268, of Seville, Medina county,Ohio.
Bonnie Lance daughter of Andrew Jackson Lance, was born in Milton township in 1880, and later moved to Creston, where she has since resided. She was married in 1897 to Lee H. Grunder, son of Henry Grunder. To this union were born four children: Ona Kathryn, born October 8, 1898; Reba Louise, born March 3, 1901; Henry Dale, born September 22, 1903, and Dorothy Fay, born June 21, 1906, all living at home at the present time.
From The History of Wayne County, Ohio, B. E. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, 1910