The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . a district school for two years, enteringthe Normal College of Angola, Indiana, thereafter. In 1890 he was appointed asSuperintendent of New Knoxville public schools, and held this position for tenyears, resigning in the spring of 1901. In the same year he became a candidate forRepresentative on the Democratic primary ticket and was nominated with a largemajority over two competitors. In the election of 1901 he received the largest voteon the Democratic ticket, defeating his opponent, R. B. So
The biographical annals of Ohio, A handbook of the government and institutions of the state of Ohio . a district school for two years, enteringthe Normal College of Angola, Indiana, thereafter. In 1890 he was appointed asSuperintendent of New Knoxville public schools, and held this position for tenyears, resigning in the spring of 1901. In the same year he became a candidate forRepresentative on the Democratic primary ticket and was nominated with a largemajority over two competitors. In the election of 1901 he received the largest voteon the Democratic ticket, defeating his opponent, R. B. South, on the Republicanticket with a large majority, carrying his own township which is one of the only twoRepublican toAvnships in the county. Mr. Fledderjohann is secretary and bookkeeperof the Inland Telephone Co., and manager of the Fledderjohann Hardware store. Heis a member and earnest advocate of the German Reformed Church, and has takena prominent rank in the charitable work of that denomination. Mr. Fledderjohann is a member of the standing committees on Blind Asylums andTurnpikes. (420;. MR. FOSTER, op Ross County. James C. Foster, Republican, Representative from Ross county, was bom inthiat county May 3, 1842. He was inured to labor on his fathers farm, and securedas liberal an education as the public and private schools of his neighborhood couldfurnish, supplemented with a course at a private military school at Chillicothe, justprior to the Civil War. He enlisted as a private in Company F, 53d O. V. I., October17, 1861; was made first sergeant of his company January 1, 1862; promoted tosecond lieutenant in September, 1862. In the organization of colored troops for theUnion Army he recruited a company and was mustered in as Captain of Co. A, 59thU. S. C. T, June 6, 1863; promoted to Major June 11, 1864, mustered out of serviceJanuary 31, 1866. After a course in a commercial college at Cleveland Mr. Fostersettled down to a farmers life near his old home, where he still
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