H. M. Deal
H. M. DEAL, P. O. Bucyrus, is the son of Martin and Sarah Lilley Deal, and was born Dec. 26, 1854 in Bucyrus. He attended school here until his 18th year, and attended the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1875. He next became assistant clerk in his fathers manufactory of smutters, remaining in this position two years. In 1878, he became general manager of the establishment, which position he now holds. They have about six hundred local agencies in the United States and Canada, also in South America and London, England. The annual shipping capacity is from 60,000 to 75,000. Then are making thirty-six different styles of machines for cleaning grain. Mr. Deal is a partner in Deal's Improved Wheat Heater, which has proved lucrative, and is also the manufacturer and sole proprietor of Deals Corundum Polisher a tool for cutting, leveling and polishing the furrows and face of millstones which has a precedence among such inventions. He was married Sept. 12, 1876, to Emma Rowse, daughter of Horace Rowse, of Bucyrus.
From History of Crawford County and Ohio, Baskin & Battey, Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1881