LEE MINNER, cashier of the
Sharpsville National Bank, is a member of an old and prominent family
in Mercer county. He was born on a farm in Trumbull county, Ohio, near
Hubbard, May 2, 1868 a son of William and Caroline (Cole) Minner, and a
grandson on the paternal side of and Sarah (Finsthwaite) Minner. The
grandparents were both born in Delaware, but coming to Mercer county
during an early Period in its history they were numbered among the
early pioneers of Shenango township, where the mother died and the
husband and father subsequently returned to Delaware and spent the
remainder of his days there. Their son William, one of their six
children, was born in Shenango township, Mercer county, February 9,
1840 and he and his brother Gibson are the only members of their
father’s family living in Mercer county. He attained to years of
maturity on the old home farm here, and farming has continued his life
occupation. The wife of his choice, Caroline Cole, is also from Mercer
county, born in 1843. They began their married life in Shenango
township and lived there for three years, and then moving to Ohio lived
in that state until returning to Mercer county in 1884 and locating in
Hickory township, their present home. They have had four children,
namely: Alfred, farming in Hickory township; Lee, who is mentioned
below; Jennie O., the wife of E. M. Dunham, of Sharpsville; and Luella,
who died November 5, 1895, aged twenty-one years. In political matters
Mr. Minner, the father, has given a lifelong support to the principles
of the Democratic party. He began life for himself a poor boy, working
first on the tow path of the old canal, but with the passing years he
has become a successful agriculturist, one of the well known and
prominent residents of Hickory township.
Lee
Minner, a son of William and Caroline Minner spent the early years of
his life on his father’s farm, attending in the meantime the district
schools and the Grove City College, of which he is a graduate with its
class of 1893. On attaining the age of twenty-one he began teaching
school, and taught for four years in the township schools of Mercer and
Lawrence counties, and then for twelve years was an instructor in the
high school of Sharpsville, spending sixteen years in all as an
educator. In June of 1906 he was made the cashier of the Sharpsville
National Bank, his present position. He votes with the Democratic party
and is a member of the fraternal order of Odd Fellows and of the
Presbyterian church. He married on the 24th of July, 1895. Miss Ida
Glendenning, of Pymatuning township, and she died on the 2nd of
January, 1902, after a happy married life of seven years.
Source: (Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, 1909, pages 601 - 602)
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