Philip Sheets, Jr.
Philip Sheets, Jr., son of Philip and Mary Sheets, was born in Texas December 16, 1850. He came to Shelby County with his parents in 1861, and located in Botkins. He received a common-school education; also attended the Miami Commercial College, at Dayton, Ohio. In 1870 he engaged as a clerk in the dry goods store of H. Smith &. Co., of Botkins. In 1871 he purchased a half interest in the store. The firm name then became Smith and Sheets, and remained as such one year, when he sold his share of the store to a Mr. Bushey, and moved to Berne, Adams County, Ind., where he engaged in the mercantile business, which he conducted about eight years. In 1879 he sold his stock of goods at Berne, and returned to his old home in Botkins, where he has since been conducting the business of dealing in general merchandise with success, keeping his storeroom filled to overflowing with everything in his line. He also owns the warehouse known as the People’s Elevator, where he is conducting the business of dealing in all kinds of grain and seeds, in connection with his dry goods trade. In 1871 he married Miss Susie Thurman, of Auglaize County, Ohio, by whom he had two children, viz., Philip and Elmer. His companion died June 10,1876. In 1879 he married Miss Catharine Thurman, of Auglaize County, Ohio.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883