Edward N. Richman
Edward N. Richman, of Fairfield, was born on September 4, 1875, in Montgomery county, Ohio, the son of William and Caroline (Newcom) Richman, both of whom were natives of Ohio.
William Richman was born in Madison county on September 22, 1834, and was reared on a farm in that county, receiving his education in the district schools. In his young manhood he was a dealer in horses and other live stock, but later took up farming and made a specialty of stock raising. He moved to Montgomery county about 1872, the year of his marriage to Caroline Newcom, who was a native of that county, and there he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1910. His widow still survives him, living on the old homestead near Dayton. William Richman and wife were the parents of six children, of whom Edward N. is the eldest, the others being Laura, wife of B. E. Barney, living on the old home farm in Montgomery county; Dora, wife of Herbert Seitner, a farmer living near Centerville, Montgomery county; William E., who married Amber Selby and lives in Dayton; Ruth, wife of L. Horlecher, living in Belmont, and Carrie, unmarried, living at home with her mother.
Edward N. Richman received his elementary education in the Belmont school and later became a student at the Normal College at Lebanon, from which institution he was graduated on June 8, 1893. After leaving college, he worked as a bookkeeper in Buffalo, New York, remaining in that city for five years. In 1898 he returned to the home farm in Montgomery county, and engaged in farming, remaining there until 1901, when he moved to Madison county, where he continued his farming operations on a farm for his father. He remained there until after his father's death in 1910, when he purchased a farm near Fairfield, on which he and his family lived until the fall of 1917, when he disposed of his farm and moved to Fairfield, purchasing there a tract of nine acres close to the village, which he has platted and is selling out in lots.
In 1905 Edward N. Richman was united in marriage to Nellie Young, daughter of Ransom Young, who was a native of Greene county, born February 19, 1844, and whose death occurred in 1898. Mrs. Richman was born and reared in Fairfield, receiving her education in the village schools. Ransom Young and wife (Alice Helmer) were the parents of three children: Mrs. Jessie Whitson, who died January 27, 1893: Nellie, the wife of Mr. Richman, and Paul, who married Birdie Wider, and lives in Fairfield. Mr. and Mrs Richman are members of the Reformed church and Mr. Richman is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of Mad River lodge at Fairfield.
From Portrait and Biographical Album of Clark and Greene Counties, Chapman Bros., Chicago, published 1890