The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . -crat, with which he has been connected since 1877. He was a member of the Senateof the 73d General Assembly (1898-99) from his district (32d) and is not a strangerto his senatorial duties. He was born near Groveport, Franklin county, in 1858, andremoved to Henry county in 1872. Was educated in the public schools of Napo-leon and for ten years after his graduation was a teacher. He resigned the super-intendency of the Holgate schools in 1887, to enter upon newspaper work, in whichhe has been e
The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . -crat, with which he has been connected since 1877. He was a member of the Senateof the 73d General Assembly (1898-99) from his district (32d) and is not a strangerto his senatorial duties. He was born near Groveport, Franklin county, in 1858, andremoved to Henry county in 1872. Was educated in the public schools of Napo-leon and for ten years after his graduation was a teacher. He resigned the super-intendency of the Holgate schools in 1887, to enter upon newspaper work, in whichhe has been eminently successful. Mr. Decker is a member of the Knights of Pythias,Elks, Knights Templar and Syrian Temple Mystic Shriners of Cincinnati. He is a Democrat of pronounced type, and from his youth has been an activepartisan in the politics of Northwestern Ohio. He is a member of the standing com-mittees on Claims, Insurance, Municipal Corporation No. 2, Public Printing, Rail-roads and Telegraphs, Taxation and Soldiers and Sailors Home. (341) THJIETY-FOURTH DISTRICTComposed of the County of GEORGE C. DUNHAM, of of the Committees on Penitentiary, Banks, Building and Loan Associations. The Senator from Lucas county, who is serving his second term in the Senate,has the honor to be the first Senator to be elected from the new (34th) Senatorialdistrict. Senator Dunham is a native of Delaware county, having been born on afarm near Delaware, on the 18th day of February, 1857. His Republicanism is of thestalwart character, because, as he says, the Republican party and he grew up to-gether. He was educated in the public schools of Delaware, graduating from theDelaware High School in 1873, at which time he began teaching, and at the sametime attending the Ohio Wesleyan University. After leaving the University he wasengaged in the Hardwood Lumber trade at Sunbury, making his entry in politicalmatters as Township Clerk in his native township, an office to which he wa
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