John Grover Heyman
Biography
Biography
JOHN GROVER HEYMAN is engaged in the wholesale and retail trade in Sandusky as a dealer in flour, feed, and coal, with a well equipped establishment at 410 Reese Street.
Mr. Heyman was born at Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio, in the year 1884, and is a son of Frank William and Rose C. (Boehm) Heyman, both likewise natives of Huron County, where the former was born at Hunts Corners and the latter at Standersburg. John P. and Jeanette (Scheid) Heyman, paternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch, were born in Germany and became early settlers in Huron County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The maternal grandfather, John Boehm likewise was born in Germany and became a pioneer settler in Huron County. Frank W. Heyman succeeded his father-in-law, John Boehm, in the flour milling business at Monroeville, and was one of the substantial citizens and representative business men of that place at the time of his death, in 1902, his widow passing away in June, 1911.
John G. Heyman continued his studies in the public schools of his native place until his graduation from high school in 1903, and thereafter he pursued a higher course of study by attending fine old Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio. From June, 1905, until January, 1907, he was a traveling salesman for the Heyman Milling Company, and he then assumed the management of the company's branch in the City of Sandusky. He continued his effective service in this capacity until July 1, 1912, when he established his present independent business, as a wholesale and retail dealer in flour, feed and coal, large and substantial success having attended his vigorous and well directed activities in the management of this enterprise. He is a democrat in political qualification and allegiance, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Heyman has taken lively interest in the affairs of the Erie County Agricultural Society, and served one term as a director of this organization.
December 31, 1921, recorded the marriage of Mr. Heyman and Miss Ella Amelia Lee, who was born and reared in Sandusky and who is a daughter of Charles Frederick and Elizabeth (Pfisterer) Lee, the former of whom was born at Birmingham, this state, and the latter in Sandusky. John and Sarah (Brewer) Lee, paternal grandparents of Mrs. Heyman, were born in the Birmingham district of Erie County, and her maternal grandparents, Louis and Elizabeth (Buck) Pfisterer, were born near Massillon, Stark County. Mr. and Mrs. Heyman have a daughter, Rose Elizabeth, born February 3, 1923.
Source: History of Ohio, Historical and Biographical, The American Historical Society, 1925, vol. IV, p. 364
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Mr. Heyman was born at Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio, in the year 1884, and is a son of Frank William and Rose C. (Boehm) Heyman, both likewise natives of Huron County, where the former was born at Hunts Corners and the latter at Standersburg. John P. and Jeanette (Scheid) Heyman, paternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch, were born in Germany and became early settlers in Huron County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The maternal grandfather, John Boehm likewise was born in Germany and became a pioneer settler in Huron County. Frank W. Heyman succeeded his father-in-law, John Boehm, in the flour milling business at Monroeville, and was one of the substantial citizens and representative business men of that place at the time of his death, in 1902, his widow passing away in June, 1911.
John G. Heyman continued his studies in the public schools of his native place until his graduation from high school in 1903, and thereafter he pursued a higher course of study by attending fine old Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio. From June, 1905, until January, 1907, he was a traveling salesman for the Heyman Milling Company, and he then assumed the management of the company's branch in the City of Sandusky. He continued his effective service in this capacity until July 1, 1912, when he established his present independent business, as a wholesale and retail dealer in flour, feed and coal, large and substantial success having attended his vigorous and well directed activities in the management of this enterprise. He is a democrat in political qualification and allegiance, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Heyman has taken lively interest in the affairs of the Erie County Agricultural Society, and served one term as a director of this organization.
December 31, 1921, recorded the marriage of Mr. Heyman and Miss Ella Amelia Lee, who was born and reared in Sandusky and who is a daughter of Charles Frederick and Elizabeth (Pfisterer) Lee, the former of whom was born at Birmingham, this state, and the latter in Sandusky. John and Sarah (Brewer) Lee, paternal grandparents of Mrs. Heyman, were born in the Birmingham district of Erie County, and her maternal grandparents, Louis and Elizabeth (Buck) Pfisterer, were born near Massillon, Stark County. Mr. and Mrs. Heyman have a daughter, Rose Elizabeth, born February 3, 1923.
Source: History of Ohio, Historical and Biographical, The American Historical Society, 1925, vol. IV, p. 364
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