Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio . e age of seventeen, in a young man, Eben Post boughtan eighty-acre lot in Twinsburgh town-ship. Summit county, a portion of whichhe cleared, and getting it well cultivated,and converted into pasture land, he com-menced keeping a dairy, and makingcheese. Prospering in this, he boughttwo more forty-acre lots, and in the springwould go west to purchase cows for dairypurposes, and then sell to the farmers, inwhich line he continued year after in the season he would buy cattlefor the Standard Pac
Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio . e age of seventeen, in a young man, Eben Post boughtan eighty-acre lot in Twinsburgh town-ship. Summit county, a portion of whichhe cleared, and getting it well cultivated,and converted into pasture land, he com-menced keeping a dairy, and makingcheese. Prospering in this, he boughttwo more forty-acre lots, and in the springwould go west to purchase cows for dairypurposes, and then sell to the farmers, inwhich line he continued year after in the season he would buy cattlefor the Standard Packing House Co., atCleveland. He then bought a farm, nearHudson, of 125 acres,to which he moved,and afterward he would buy cows bv thecar-load, in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsinand Missouri, shipping them by rail in-stead of driving them by road. Georg E. Post, the subject proper ofthese lines, remained at the place of hisbirth until he was seventeen years old,receiving all his education at the schoolsof the neighborhood, with the exceptionof two or three terms attendance at the. COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 647 schools of Hudson, Summit county,whither the family had removed in i860,when our subject was sixteen years first work was as a farmer boy uponhis fathers farm, and in 1866, whentwenty-two jears old he went south withhis uncle, Bradford Post, travelingthrough Kentucky, Tennessee and Geor-gia, the uncle buying a farm east ofChattanooga. Our subject remained withhim all winter, selling a few lots of cheesein Atlanta, Ga., then in the spring re-turned home, remaining there until hecame to Clay township, and took upwork in a lumber mill at Martin, whichwas then owned and operated by H. He worked in this mill fora year, learning all branches of the busi-ness, and the following year bought ahalf interest therein, the name and styleof the new firm being Salisbury & a man of good executive abilityand progressive ideas, Mr. Post soon suc-ceeded
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