Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - S. M. Blake
S. M. BLAKE
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Prominent among the enterprising business men of Union County figures
the subject of this sketch, who is a member of the firm of S. M. &
A. J. Blake, bankers, lumber dealers and proprietors of Richwood
Planing Mills, and also senior member of the firm of S. M. Blake &
Co., druggists. He was born in Portage County, Ohio, April 3,
1831, and is a son of James and Betsey (Avery) Blake. His father
was a farmer, and emigrating to Ohio in 1826, located in Portage
County. Our subject was raised on a farm, receiving a common
school education and followed farming until 1874, when he moved to
Richwood and engaged in the lumber trade and banking, both of which he
has since followed with more than ordinary success. He
subsequently embarked in the drug business and in 1881, associated
himself in this business with C. E. Hill, under the firm name given
above. He is a thorough business man, and takes an active
interest in everything that pertains to the best interest of
Richwood. He is a Republican in politics, and though he has no
aspirations for official honors, he has been called upon to fill
several of the town and township offices. He was married in 1857
to Harriet Parsons, by whom he has had seven children, four now living,
viz.: Bessie, wife of J. E. Robinson, who has charge of the lumber yard
of the firm of S. M. & A. J. Blake; Gracie, Harry and Sylvia.