David Archer
David Archer, member of the board of trustees of Beavercreek township, proprietor of a farm in that township and proprietor of an extensive stone quarry there, residing on rural mail route No. 8 out of Dayton, was born in Beavercreek township on January 1, 1847, a son of John and Mary J. (Boroff) Archer, the latter of whom was born in that same township. John Archer was born at Centerville in the neighboring county of Montgomery on August 8, 1823, and as a young man came over into Greene county, where he spent the rest of his life, farming and operating as a stone contractor and builder. On March 18, 1845, he married Mary J. Boroff, and to that union ten children were born, two of whom died in infancy and one in childhood, the others besides the subject of this sketch being William, deceased; Charles, now living at Troy, this state; Oliver F., a Beavercreek township farmer; Daniel, deceased; Mrs. Lida R. Helmer, of Beavercreek township, with whom her brother David makes his home, and John E., now a resident of Belmont, this state. John Archer died on November 21, 1884, and his widow survived him until February 24, 1903. She was born on April 24, 1823.
Reared on the home farm in Beavercreek township. David Archer received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and continued farming until he was twenty-three years of age, when, in the spring of 1870, he took up the operation of the stone quarry on his father's place and has ever since been operating the same, for years making a specialty of preparing stone slabs for the construction of grave vaults, a continuous resident of the place on which he is now living since 1869. Mr. Archer is a Republican and for the past nine or ten years has been serving as a member of the board of township trustees. He is affiliated with the Odd Fellows and with the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Archer's sister, Lida, with whom he makes his home, has been twice married, and by her first marriage is the mother of two children, a daughter, Miss Osee A. Burke, a teacher in the Beavercreek schools, and a son, John A. Burke, of Dayton, who operates a garage. She married, secondly. Edward Helmer, son of Squire Helmer, of Beavercreek township, and by that union is the mother of one child, a son, Wando Harold.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918