George F. Siemon
In the year 1873 a small lad of eleven years of age started out to seek his fortune in Pike county, Ohio, and that he has succeeded in a remarkable manner is shown by his farm of two hundred and twenty acres which he now owns in Marion township, Fayette county, Ohio. It was at this tender age that George F. Siemon began his struggle alone and today there is not a more highly respected citizen in Fayette county. He has not won his success without hard and consecutive work and well merits a place among the self made citizens of his county.
George F. Siemon, the son of John Adams and Anna C. (Bahn) Siemon, was born in Pike county, Ohio, in 1862. His father was a native of Germany and came to America when a young man. locating in Pike county near Waverly. Moses Siemon, the father of John A., never left his native land and lived all of his days in Germany. John A. Siemon was twice married. By his first marriage there were born five children, and to the second marriage were born seven children. The subject was the third son of the second marriage.
George F. Siemon was educated in the schools of Jackson township. Pike county, Ohio, although his education was necessarily very limited owing to the fact that he had to leave school at the age of eleven to work. At this early age he started to work for the farmers in his immediate vicinity. He grew up on the farm and was inured to the hardest kind of manual labor from a mere boy. He continued to work by the day until he was married and then rented land for twenty years near Chillicothe, Ohio. In, 1910 he came to Fayette county and bought two hundred and twenty acres in Marion township where he is now living. He has worked for everything he has and is deserving of great credit for his success so attained. He has paid some attention to stock raising, but made most of his money in grain farming.
Mr. Siemon was married to Anna Elizabeth Young, the daughter of John V. and Catherine (Steinhour) Young. To this union there have been born four children, all of whom are now in school, Rena E., Nora C, Edna M. and Elsie L.
Mr. and Mrs. Siemon are devoted members of the German Reformed church and the children are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Fraternally, Mr. Siemon is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics, he gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, although he has never been an aspirant for any public office. Mr. Siemon is strictly a self-made man. who has made his own way from the bottom of the ladder. His clean and wholesome life and his high reputation for honesty, and integrity have won for him the unqualified esteem of his fellow citizens.
From History of Fayette County Ohio - Her People, Industries and Institutions by Frank M. Allen (1914, R. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.)