Harry R. Kendig
Harry R. Kendig, proprietor of a dry-goods store at Osborn, former town clerk, town treasurer and member of the village council, was born on a farm in the vicinity of Byron, in this county, January 27, 1875, son of John and Sarah (Mitman) Kendig, both now deceased. John Kendig was born in Pennsylvania and was but a small boy when he came to Ohio with his parents, the family locating in Montgomery county. He became a farmer and after his marriage established his home on a farm in the neighborhood of Byron, in this county, where he resided for a number of years. They moved to Osborn where they spent the remainder of their lives, his death occurring in 1898 and hers, in 1913. They were the parents of nine children, six of whom are still living.
Upon completing his schooling in the Byron schools, Harry R. Kendig took a commercial course in a business college and then became engaged as a clerk in the store of J. C. Smith at Osborn and was thus engaged for twelve years, at the end of which time, in 1907, he bought the F. E. Glenn store in that village and has since been there engaged in business on his own account. His store is stocked with a general line of dry-goods and shoes, his present stock appraising twelve thousand dollars and upwards, and it is hardly necessary to say that he regards with deep concern the flood-prevention project which seems likely soon to relegate Osborn to that unhappy limbo of things that are done. Mr. Kendig is a Democrat and for six years served as town clerk, two years as village treasurer and four years as a member of the village council, in addition to which he also served for two years as treasurer of Bath township.
On October 7, 1903, Harry R. Kendig was united in marriage to Julia H. Sweeney, daughter of Z. T. and Rebecca (Cosier) Sweeney, the former of whom formerly was a carpenter, but is now living on a farm in Bath township, and to this union has been born one child, a son, John W., born on October 4. 1904. Mr. Kendig is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918